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The six secondary causes of the spinning out of this vnnaturall warre by D.P.P.
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D. P. P.
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1644
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where they were no sooner come but they were invironed with those Horse and Foot that seemed the day before to have gone out upon a designe and hereupon were extremely amazed for feare they should all be put to the sword But Scipio having commanded silence made an Oration to them and reprehended their rashnesse indiscretion and infidelity and that by the Lawes of warre he might make them all a publike example of Justice for the time to come but considering that they had been for the greater part seduced by some pernicious Agents of Albinus and Atrius he was contented upon Promise of Amendment to give them their pardon and would content himselfe with the death of thirty of the Chiefe Authors of this mutiny And so caused them to be brought forth fettered as they were and to be whipped with scourges before all the Army and afterwards to be beheaded This speedy and unpartiall Justice was very profitable to the Romanes to uphold their Military Discipline that began to be corrupted and Scipio obtained great honour by it and the love of all his Army having mingled Mercy with Justice This point deserves to be taken into consideration by them in Authoritie for our Generals are abused and their honour and reputation betrayd by the perfidious carriages and counsels of some of their Officers which deserve to be made an Example of Justice to others otherwise this warre is like to be spinned out till there be no more oyle in the Lampe to keep it burning 5. t Cambyses King of Persia notwithstanding that he was a Tyrant yet to winne the love of his Subjects he did administer speedy and unpartiall Justice for hearing of a Judge that took bribes to pervert Justice he caused him to be flead alive and his skin to be nailed upon the Chaire where the Judges sate to give Judgement for a memorandum to others to administer Justice speedily and unpartially 6. Absalom to withdraw the hearts of the people of Isreal from his Father and to win their love complained that Justice was neglected and used to utter this insinuating exclamation u O that I were made a Iudge in the land that any one that hath any suite or cause might come unto me And I would doe him Iustice c. 7. Charles the fifth and x Lewis the twelfth Kings of France were so beloved and honoured of their Subjects for their speedy and unpartiall administration of Justice that the first obtained the honourable attribute of a Wise King and the second of a Just Prince and the nursing Father of his People 8. y Henry the eighth King of England never obtained more honour nor more love of his Subjects then when he gave way that Sr Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley Esquire should be made publike Examples of Justice for the incredible oppressions they had committed upon his Subjects in his Father Henry the sevenths time 9. The speedy and unpartiall Justice of the Children of Levi in going out from gate to gate throughout the Camp slaying every man his z brother and every man his Companion and every man his neighbour according to the Commandement of Moses was so acceptable to God that it appeased his wrath 10. The speedy and unpartiall execution of justice by King David upon the a Amalekite that confessed before him that he had slain King Saul his mortall enemie was very acceptable unto God and was the cause that the Tribes of Iudah and Benjamine proclaimed him King with great joy 11. The speedy and unpartiall execution of Justice by the same King upon Rechab and b Baanah that had persidiously murdered Ishbosheth their Lord and Master hoping thereby to obtain some great reward of King David because he was his Competitor was acceptable unto God and the Cause that he won the love of all Israel and was suddainly after proclaimed King over all the twelve Tribes of Israel 12. It appeares in divers places of the second book of Samuel how much King David was discontented because he had not the power to administer speedy and unpartiall Justice upon Ioab Generall of his Army for his persidious Carriage toward Abner and Amasa whom he murdred under colour of love and courtly complements yet on his death bed he commanded King Salomon his sonne that he should not suffer the c hoary head of Ioab to goe down in peace to the grave by which command it appeares how much this good Kings heart was inclined to execute Justice and how just and wonderfull the judgements of the Lord are upon such murderers as Ioab was that could not escape at the end his avenging hand although it was deferred for a time Now I come to the third point to prove how acceptable the speedy and unpartiall execution of Justice is to God and how odious it is to him if it be delaid and omitted 1. The speedy execution of Justice by Phinehas upon Zimri and Cozbi was so acceptable unto the Lord that it turned away his wrath from his people of Israel and procured to d Phinehas this Promise Wherefore behold I give unto him my Covenant of Peace And he shall have it and his seed after him even the Covenant of an everlasting Priesthood because he was zealous for his God and made an atonement for the children of Israel c. 2. Moses the servant of God for an extraordinary blessing to the e Tribe of Dan saith And he came with the head of the people he executed the Iustice of the Lord c. meaning that this Tribe above all others should have Rulers that would administer Justice speedily and impartially which was in Moses opinion one of the greatest blessings that could befall men 3. f Bildad the Shuhite one of the three intimate friends of Iob to prove the incomprehensible Justice of God said to him Doth God pervert Iudgement or doth the Almighty pervert Iustice c. Now the more just and unpartiall Magistrates are in the administration of justice the neerer they approach in imitation to that incomprehensible perfection of Justice that is in God For by him g Princes doe raigne and doe decree Justice c. for they are indeed his Deputies to administer Justice 4. The Lord was so well pleased to see Justice unpartially administred by the Rulers that returned from the Captivitie of Babylon that he bestowed this blessing upon Jerusalem for it The Lord blesse thee O habitation of Iustice and Mountaine of h holinesse c. Justice being reputed here for a speciall degree of holinesse 5. To administer Justice unpartially it is to obey the Commandement of the Lord Keepe ye i Iudgement for my Salvation is at hand c. and again Defend the poore and fatherlesse doe k Iustice to the afflicted and to the needy c. 6. The Lords wrath is inflamed when Justice is delayed or omitted They aske of me saith he the l Ordinances of Iustice c. meaning to rebuke
proofe and are to march within two yards of the Musquetteers as it is here prickt downe Now these three reserves are to march within three yards one of another that if the first give ground the second may succeed and so the third but if it get ground they are to presse on Now the nineteene Musquetteers of every reserve having fired their Musquets are to wheele about to shelter themselves behinde the Pikemen for to charge their Musquets againe And the Pike-men are to advance in their place to second the f Rondachiers and to make good the breach untill the other reserve comes up to the breach if in case the Rondachiers were tired or some of them wounded Now on both sides of the breach there are fresh Regiments or Companies of Musquetteers to be placed for to second these reserves in case they loose ground or to enter furiously the breach if the enemies loose it for it is continuance and constancy that carries it away in assaults for the besiegers being foure to one will by continuance tire the defendants as it came to passe at the siege of Malte In a word if our breaches were made so broad and our men so well armed and this order observed I make no question but our men would go on like Lions but when they are to enter into Coney-holes in stead of breaches and have no armour of proofe to withstand the Musquet shot and the Pikes of the Defendants it is no marvell if they turne their backes and come off with dishonour now if there be two breaches or more made by Mines or by the storming of the Canon they are all to be entered at one instant for the greater diversion of the enemies forces and besides these breaches it is wisedome to have two hundred Ladders ready and commandement to be made they should be placed as farre distant from the breaches as they can that fresh souldiers may get up upon the rampier and so wheele about to fall upon the backes of the enemies while they defend the breaches for by this stratageme Scipio tooke the strong City of new g Carthage in one day notwithstanding it had a garrison of eight thousand men within it Now I returne to the seventh difference of our Method of warre 7. In our stratagemes of warre The stratagemes of warre increase according to the acute ingenuity of Commanders and are very usefull to reduce strong holds or to preserve an Army if it be over-powred or brought in narrow wayes or in necessity of Provisions Now of all the ancient Commanders Caesar Hannibal have exceeded all others in stratagemes of war 1. Caesar being constrained by a storme at Sea to land near to a garrison Towne of the enemies called h Adrumet seated upon the coast of Affrica with onely three hundred horse and three thousand foot used such admirable stratagemes of warre that he defended himselfe so valiantly against the potent Army of Juba of Scipio and of Labiennus that they could not force him in his Camp nor streighten him frō provisions but he continued there three moneths untill new supplies came to him from Sicilia and then he took the field and by stratagemes more then by valour defeated them although their Armies exceeded his foure for one 2. Hannibal being in Italy was led by the ignorance or the infidelity of his guides into a valley incompassed with high mountaines where he was presently invironed by Fabius i Maximus Army And there he had perished with his Army if he had not found out this stratageme of war to free himselfe He caused some dry Bavins of shreds of Vines to be fastned between the hornes of two thousand oxen that he led along with him for the provision of his Army and at the beginning of the night commanded his souldiers to set them all at an instant on fire and to drive the said oxen with violence up the narrow passages of the mountaines at which strange sight the Romanes that guarded them were so amazed that they all run away for feare and so opened a passage for him and his Army to passe without impediment 3. k Henry the fifth King of England being incompassed by an Army of the French near to Agincourt exceeding his Army foure for one commanded his souldiers to dig in the night great and deepe trenches round about his Camp and to stick in them long pointed stakes and then to fill them againe up as lightly as they could with the loose earth by which stratageme the French Army was utterly defeated for the French horse coming in the morning furiously to fall upon the English Camp they fell upō one anothers backs in these hallow grounded trenches where the English Archers slew them at their pleasure 4. Charles the eighth King of France at his returne from the Conquest of the Kingdome of Naples was incompassed by an Army of all the confederated Princes of Italy exceeding in number his Army three for one as he came downe the Mountaines of the Alpelins neare to l Farnone where he had perished and all his Army for want of provisions if he had not by a stratageme freed himselfe from the strait he was in by commanding over night that all his Ordnance carriages and baggage should be placed at the breake of day in the midst of his foot and that his horse should equally be divided into two Brigades the one for the Van and the other for the reare and himselfe riding in the front of his Van charged the enemies so furiously that he broke thorow their Army slew divers thousands of them and opened a passage for himselfe and all his Army to returne into France without impediment Now had we not beene so barren in stratagemes of war as we are our Army in Cornwall had as well as these come out of their straits with honour and reputation for it was inferiour to all these But as I have said heretofore It was Gods pleasure it should be so to humble us by that blow 2. Strong holds that would require long sieges may be reduced by a stratageme of warre in an houres time m Montluc having intelligence by his Scouts that the Governour of a strong Castle seated upon the lake of Canstance did usually goe to recreate himselfe at a farme house of his within two miles of his Castle placed an ambush to intrap him that tooke him and brought him before his Castle gate and by threatning to strike off his head from his shoulders the Castle was yeelded and surrendred up A good memorandum for some of our Governours that goe a hunting with five or six horse and indanger themselves and their garrison to be surprized by the enemies 2. The Governour of Dorlance took the strong City of Amiens with this stratageme he laid an Ambush in the night time within halfe a mile of the City of two thousand foot and of a thousand horse and sent sixe Waggons laden with Hay under