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A01690	Christiana-Polemica, or A preparatiue to warre Shewing the lawfull vse thereof. The iust causes that may moue thereunto. The necessitie of preparation for it. The duties of those that wage it. Together with diuers instructions concerning it. A sermon preached at Wooll-Church in London, before the captaines and gentlemen that exercise in the artillerie-garden vpon occasion of their solemne and generall meeting. Aprill 14. 1618. By Abraham Gibson, Bachelour of Diuinity, and then preacher to the temples.	Gibson, Abraham, b. 1586 or 7.	1619 (1619)	STC 11828; ESTC S118766	14,920	48

Iudge Belli susceptio penes Principem executio penes Militem saith Augustine For the continuance of our fight we must take heed of relying more vpon Gideon then vpon God Take heed of trusting to the arme of flesh before the outstretched arme of God It is better to trust in the Lord then to put confidence in Princes saith the Princely Prophet And lastly in the end of the fight take we heede of ascribing more honour to Gideon then to God For Gideons power is from God Omne regnum sub regno est God is King among the Gods Reges in ipsos imperium est Iovis For euery King is the Minister of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and though they be Gods with men yet they are but men with God who is Rex regum Dominus dominantium King of kings and Lord of lords Reuel 19. Hence it was that King Henry the fifth of England that good and valiant Prince after his conquest in France would not suffer his Helmet which was full of blowes and dintes to bee brought ouer into England with him nor to be welcomed home with any songs of the successe but would haue all the glory ascribed to God Because the key of victorie God keepeth in his owne power It commeth neither from the east nor from the west nor from the north nor from the south Vnlesse God hold vp his hand Gideon cannot preuaile Not the people without Gideon nor Gideon without God For the Lord and for Gideon And now beloued brethren that I haue ripened my discourse and brought it as it were to a head in it selfe I come in a word to shew you how it fitteth and suiteth this present solemnitie And therefore for you Generous Gentlemen and Heroicke spirits that haue an exemplarie Campe in your companie and a Colledge of Souldiers in your societie it will serue both as a warrant for your profession and an acquittance against all discouragement in that ye know assuredly in whose name for what end to whose seruice you haue dedicated your selues and all your endeuours What though some goe about to slander your societie and discountenance your vndertakings speaking euill of all because some few miscarrie It will be your glory to contemne the cauill and forgiue the wrong remembring that he will neuer endure a blow who cannot concoct a word he is not likely to ouercome an enemie who cannot vanquish himselfe he is vnfit to fight for equitie that hath not learned to passe by an iniurie But if there be any such disordered persons crept in among you who are lead with the spirit not of fortitude but faction not of conscience but of insolence not of zeale but ambition milites non tam emerti quàm malè meriti expell them your lists let them not march vnder your colours that so you may stop the mouthes of your opposers and open the hearts of men in place and gouernment to aduance your intendments both with countenance and maintenance if neede so require In which dutie if they shall be backward wee may well account them as base and ignoble Caitiffes neither good seruants of God nor trustie subiects of our King seeing neither in conscience to the one nor allegeance to the other they will giue due respect nor lend assistance to you who by your continuall practise both for Gods sake and for Gideons sake doe preserue intemerate that honourable forme of militarie discipline which in times of peace vseth to grow obsolete and out of vse Howsoeuer goe ye on happily in your courses your memory shall suruiue in a second age and your names shall be had in euerlasting remembrance those that are yet vnborne shall blesse you and blesse God for you Yet withall be informed that this your daily exercise is but a medium to a further end a preparation to a greater performance You doe but now spend your paines and your purses time may require your persons You now vse rather fulgentibus armis quàm fortibus weapons defensiue then offensiue and fight gloriously without an enemie Time may make triall of your courage in hotter skirmishes and more bloodie opposition Indeed for the present it may be said of vs as of Israel and Iuda 1. Kings 4. euery man dwelleth safely vnder his owne vine and vnder his owne figtree there is no leading into captiuitie no complaining in our streets but peace within our walles and prosperitie within our palaces And long may it bee continued to vs to the glory of God and quiet of our Nation But wee cannot promise to our selues any perpetuitie of this felicitie the hideousnesse of our sinnes may giue vs good cause to expect a change Therefore it is your parts to reserue your selues chiefly for worse times whensoeuer God shall send them lest you bee thought like those doubtfull companions whom Diogenes is said to affect in Laertius that would still bee about to marry and yet did not marry and that would still be about to rule and yet did not rule I may adde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that would still be about to fight and yet did not fight Wherefore I say no more but as Saul to Dauid 1. Sam. 18. Be valiant for your King and fight the Lords battels And as Ioab to the people 2. Sam. 10. Be of good courage and play the men for the people and for the cities of your God In the meane time all true Subiects will pray to the God of peace to gird you with strength vnto the battell to teach your hands to warre and your fingers to fight that so being well appointed both with the spirituall armour of a Christian and the corporeall armour of a Souldier intus fide foris ferro muniti you may be able both to defend your selues against the siege of Sathan and your Country against all forraine inuasions and I doubt not but all true-hearted Subiects will say Amen Wherefore wee humbly beseech thee O Lord God of Hosts looke downe from heauen and behold and visit this vine and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted amongst vs. Let not the Bore out of the wood destroy it nor the wilde Beasts of the field eat it vp but forgiue the crying sinnes of the same remoue thy iudgements that hang ouer vs and teach vs to know the things which belong vnto our peace And because there is none other that fighteth for vs but only thou O God pleade our cause O Lord with them that striue with vs and fight against them that fight against vs. And thou that art a man of warre whose name is Ichonah oh teach our hands to warre and out fingers to fight that the Heathen may neuer come into thine inheritance and make this our Ierusalem an heape of stones but that thou maist still blesse vs with peace

they crie for the Lord so also for Gideon Gideon is added for further incouragement to them and further terrour to their enemies For we daily read how that the very name of some valiant Captaines Caesar Alexander and the like haue daunted the enemies without striking a blow That as it is said of the swords of Hazaell Iehu and Elisha 1. King 19. 17. Him that escapeth the sword of Hazaell shall Iehu slay and him that escapeth from the sword of Iehu shall Elisha slay So here of God and Gideon He that will not be affrighted at the name of God why yet that man shall tremble at the name of Gideon though he but Gods Liefetenant Now Gideon hath a twofold consideration First Gideon a meane man Secondly Gideon a single man First Gideon a meane man his Family by his owne confession was poore in Manasseh and he the least in his fathers house as it is in the former chapter He was not trained vp in feates of armes or facts of chiualrie more skilfull in tilling the ground then pitching a feild in handling a flaile then tossing a pike yet when God had made him their Prince appointed him their Captaine presently they follow his direction and forgetting all sinister respects they crie out for Gideon for Gideon Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo seruo tuo not for our selues our wiues our children or our estates but for Gideon A good Captaine is aequipollent to the whole Armie Plus in Duce repones quam in exercitu saith Probus of Epaminondas Me verò Ducem tuum pro quot nauibus aestimas saith Demetrius in Plutarch Whence it was said better haue an armie of Stagges and a Lyon Captaine then an Armie of Lyons and a Stagge the Leader The hazard of all standeth in the hazard of the Prince or Captaine And therefore neglecting both themselues and the meanesse of his beginning they crie for Gideon for Gideon To teach vs when we haue Gods warrant not to regard the weakenesse of the meanes the weaknesse of God being stronger then men 1. Cor. 1. for though Gideon was not a trained Souldier yet the Angell of the Lord calleth him a valiant man because the Lord was with him The Lord is with thee thou valiant man Iudg. 6. 12. As Christ cured so God saueth without meanes nay against meanes Howsoeuer therefore the instrument seeme weake which God setteth ouer vs yet wee must not intertaine distrust and diffidence but ioyne the respect of our Gouernours with our repose in God For the Lord and for Gideon Secondly for Gideon a single man and this confirmeth that Polemicall rule In bello magis expedit Principatus Monarchicus quam Aristocraticus better in warre to haue one Generall then many one singular then many good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 many Captaines lost the Citie Whence the Romanes in time of warre did alwaies chuse them a Dictator which was aboue their Consuls and Scipio in Iustine I had rather saith he take one Zopyrus then a hundred Babilonians A dangerous thing to haue Corriuals in warre as well as in loue-matters because that enuie and emulation will nourish discord and faction But I ●resse not this point because it is more Polemicall then Theologicall ●●tter to bee discoursed in Gideons●ent ●ent then in Moses chaire Onely for our instruction you ●ee the people here are content with the Captaine whom God set ouer them they labour not to set vp ●ny Anti-captaine They dispute ●ot his inexperience or insufficien●ie as did Nabal to Dauid 1. Sam. 25. Who is Dauid or who is the sonne ●f Iesse what portion haue wee in Gideon or what inheritance in the sonne of Ioash but in a holy submission whatsoeuer he commaunded them that they put in practise for the Lord and for Gideon For certainly where God is honoured there Gideon will be obeied where the feare of God is there will be reuerence of the Magistrate There is no Parenthesis betwixt God and Caesar in Christs speech no medium twixt the Lord and Gideon in the people crie For the Lord and for Gideon And from these two persons iointly ariseth a necessarie condition requisite to euery warre namely that the cause be iust groundes either on religion to God or loyaltie to our Prince For it is religion that maketh a man truely valiant the righteous are bold as a Lyon If they liue they know by whom they stand If they die they know for whose sake they fall Hence it is that Thomas requireth three things in the vndertaking of any warre Authoritas Principis causa insta intentio recto a lawfull commission a iust occasion an vpright intention Otherwise to wage warre where a man is not fully perswaded of the iustnesse of his cause be it iust or vniust he sinnes mortallie saith the Schoole Then what shall we thinke of all your Duellists who being priuate persons vpon euery triuiall occasion will be pointing field The taking of the wall or giuing of a disgracefull word is quarrell iust enough as though either of their honours were of more worth then both their soules Such men certainely know not what it is to liue and care not how they die If there were any feare of God or reuerence of man any respect of life or death they would neuer giue themselues ouer to this highest pitch of madnesse In which it is hard for a man to determine who scapes best he that killeth or he that is killed For a man is pressed with an vnanswerable Dilemma on both sides If he be killed he hazardeth with his body his soule because hee dieth in passion and distemper If he kill hee hazardeth with his soule his body because hee fighteth both against God and against Gideon Against God whose image he extinguisheth and against Gideon whose law he contemneth And therefore both the wrath of God followes him and the sword of Gideon ouertakes him hee must answere it both to the Lord and to Gideon And so much for the first thing the parts of the distribution both for the Lord and for Gideon Now a word or two of the second thing the order of the parts First for God and then for Gideon And because for God therefore for Gideon because Gideons authoritie is from God So then for the Lord and for Gideon that is simply and absolutely for God subordinately and dependantly for Gideon primarily for God and secondanlie for Gideon A good lesson for all Souldiers and militarie men to direct them both in the beginning continuance and end of their battels For the beginning wee must first looke to the cause of God Giue him the vpper hand giue his quarrell the preheminence Yet is not a subiect alwaies to dispute whether the cause be iust if his Prince commaund because he is a Minister of the law not a