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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	duke_n	edward_n	york_n	2,225	5	9.6001	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68550	The Bible-battells. Or The sacred art military For the rightly wageing of warre according to Holy Writ. Compiled for the vse of all such valiant worthies, and vertuously valerous souldiers, as vpon all iust occasions be ready to affront the enemies of God, our king, and country. By Ric. Bernard rector of Batcombe Somersetshire.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1629 (1629)	STC 1926; ESTC S115391	93,945	409

Some are swearers some beastly drunkards some filthie whoremasters and not a few contemners of Religion and many of them the scumme and out casts of Parishes How can we expect God to be with them or for vs by them without reformation That worthy Scipio in going to give battle to the Numantines abandoned all Bawdes Whores Coufeners Coggers Diviners and Figure-flingers Should the Heathen cleanse their hosts of such wicked ones and shall Christians make no conscience hereof IV. They laboured for faith and confidence in God Iehosophat pressed 2 Ch. 20. 20. 14. 11. 13. 18. 1. Ch. 5. 20 this hard vpon the people when they went forward Asa had his eyes vpon God and it s said the victory was given to Abiiah and his armie because they relyed vpon the Lord. This confidence in God delighteth him and they shall prosper that trust in him To rest vpon any meanes is vaine though the best is to be vsed and not neglected For though a horse bee prepared for battle yet is he a vaine Pro. 21. 31 thing for safetie neither is a King saved by the multitude of an host nor Psa 33. 17 Psa 33 16. the mighty delivered by much strength Ieroboam with his 800 thousand lost the battle The Persian Xerxes who had his tenne hundred thousand by land and ten hundred thousand ships by sea an incredible host yet was vanquished and overthrown Amurah the Turke comming with sevenscore thousand against the poore Prince Scanderbeg was wearyed in warring dyed in the voyage and so the army returned with shame A great King saith Salomon may come Eccles 9. 14 15. against a little City and not be able to winne it though few be in it being governed by the wisedome of a wise man though but poore It s folly therfore to relye vpon strength and multitude of men but vpon God alone in the vse of all lawfull meanes Neither though their strength was small and their power weake did they faint when they had warrant from God to fight For the Lords people know that God can deliver and safety is from him It is nothing Pro. 21. 31 2 Ch. 14. 11. 1 Sa. 14. 6. 1 Ch. 25. 8. 3. 18. Lev. 26. 37. Psa 89 43 1 Sa 13. 5. 14 13 Iud. 14 15 Iud 7. 12. 8. 10. with him to helpe either with many or with few which haue no power He it is that hath power to helpe or to cast downe to make to stand in battle or to flye and runne away One Sampson shall beat downe a thousand sometime By two Ionathan and his Armour-bearer the Lord can dismay an host of 30 thousand Charets 6000 horsemen and innumerable foot By 300 Gideon that godly valiant man he can affright a huge multitude of which there were slaine on hundred twenty thousand with their Kings in one day By 318. men he gave Abraham and his confederates victory over Gen. 14. foure Kings and their Armies who before were conquerours over five other Kings and their hosts By 7000 conducted by a wicked Ahab he put to flight the host of Benhadad with 1 K 20. Num 2● 5. 49. 32. Kings By 12000 he made Israel to subdue the Midianites to ●ay five Kings to take prisoners 32000 persons the prey and spoyle of 72000 beeves 61000 Asses and of sheepe 675000 and all his glorious victory obtained without the losse of one Warres of the Iewes man The Iewes fighting with Cast●●us the Roman slew of his host 516 horse and 27. thousand foot and 〈◊〉 but 22 persons of their owne 〈◊〉 least men might thinke these to ●ell rare and extraordinary and not th● like helpe now from God to be expepected let such consider of after victories given of God For though some of these were miraculous yet other some of them were such as God in after times hath shewed the 2 Mach. 8. 20. like Iudas Machabeus with 8000 destroyed an hundred and twentie thousand at another time with tenne thousand men he vanquished one ●●sias with sixty thousand chosen foot and five thousand horse The like victories God by his ayde and providence hath given to the Heathen Milciades the Noble Captaine of 1 Mac. 4. 28. 29. the Athenians with 11 thousand overcame above an hundred thousand horse and foot sent by Darius son of Hisdaspis to invade Grecia Lernidas with an handfull of Lacedemonians slew twenty thousand Persians Great Alexander with an Army of thirtie two thousand conquered the world and subdued mighty Opposers Among Christians incredible victories have beene hotten by the lesser number Charles Martell father to King Pippin fought with a very few against foure hundred thousand Saracens of which hee slew three hundred and seuentie thousand Zissa that everlastingly renowned Bohemian in eleven set battles and blind in three of them went away victorer over all the powers that the Emperour ever made against him But to speake of our owne and almost vnmatchable victories in France King Henry the fift with 15000 men at Agencourt overcame the whole power of France an army of 52000 and slew one Archbishop eight Earles twenty sixe Barons fifteene thousand Knights and above ten thousand others with the losse of onely sixe hundred on our side and onely two of great note the Duke of Yorke and the Earle of Suffolke Great and glorious was the victory gotten at Poictyers by Edward the blake Prince Edward the third his sonne who with eight thousand wearied souldiers vanquished King Iohn of France whom he tooke prisoner and scattered his Armie of 40 thousand of which tenne thousand were slaine in which victory were taken prisoners besides the King Philip his sonne seventie Earles fifty Barons twelve thousand Gentlemen so they tooke and slew more then they were themselves The battle at Cresy was wonderfull for there were but of English commanded by King Edward himselfe one thousand one hundred and eightie yet preuailed they against the French King and the King of Bohemia who had an host of seventy thousand in which were slaine the King of Bohemia eleven Princes eightie Barons one hundred ane twenty Knights and thirty thousand common souldiers So as wee may see how that glorious victories haue beene obtained by handfulls of men in comparison of the conquered When God will have men to prevaile neither wisedome nor counsell nor vnderstanding can be against his will no nor power be it never so great For many are the devices Prov. 19. 21 of man but the councell of the Lord that shall stand as hee hath thought so shall it come to passe and as he hath purposed as the Prophet Esay 14. 24 speaketh so shall it be Therefore let all the care be to haue God on our side for if he be with vs who can be powerfull against vs Surely none Xenophon that worthy Xenoph. exp Cyr. 3. Philosopher and noble Captain being but a heathen when his men were in distresse encouraged them thus willing