his worship and that he should not be the appointer of it Hence it is that not onely the Hebrews but also all Greeks and Barbarians did rest from work on the seventh day witness Iosephus Clemens Alexandrinus and Eusebius lastly it afronteth Christs institution included in the very name of the day Why is it called the Lords day Rev. 1.10 1 Cor. 16.2 is it not because it was appointed by the Lord and to continue for the Lord as the Sacrament for the same reasons is called the Supper of the Lord. To make an end of the point let the Magistrates of London and other parts who haue kept back their authority from sanctifying of the Sabboth look to the end fire is broke out already but I fear if we will not â—earken to hallow the Sabboth of the Lord that the fire spoken of by Ieremy shall break forth in our Gares and not bee quenched till it haue devoured us I might say much in this point both by reason of the commonnesse of the sin and plenty of matter against it but I will onely say this Where there is no conscience of keeping of the Sabboth sincerely they haue no ground to expect any good As for Stage-plaies they are the devils chaire the seate of Scorners the plague of piety and the very pox to the Common-wealth but I haue a whole Treatise against them And as for the other sins mentioned it is counted but Puritanism to count them sins but so much the worse As our Nation is a field of crying sins so the cry of some sinns must not be discovered but countenanced in a searfull manner who knows but the things which we count trifles may be the speciall matter of our controversie with God A little other fire then God had ordained might seem a small matter in the eyes of indifferency yet it was such a sinne as made all Israel guilty as appeareth by the sacrifices offered for that sinne Levit. chap. 16 yea it brought such a fire from the presence of the Lord as could hardly be quenched These sinnes therefore must be taken by the poll and others of the like nature as contempt of the Word and hatred of Gods people and they must be beaten to powder with the Israelites Calfe Goe from a Tribe to a Family from a Family to a house and so to every man of the house till the golden wedge be found out We must not trust our wicked hearts with this work for corrupt nature is blind as a beetle in the finding out of sinne witnesse the Israelites even then when all the plagues of God were comming upon them they sayd What is our iniquity or sinne against God Ier. 16.10 Princes and people had need of good Seers whom they must suffer to shew them their sinne that either they cannot find or will not finde such was Nathan to David they must not count such men of contention and busie-fellows as the Iewes called Ieremiah but our evill age doth not onely hide sinn but maintaine sinne There is also too much propensitie both in the bade and also in the good to palliate sin to tranfer their troubles to other causes then to it I remember that Traian Generall to Valence the Emperour that mirror of impietie going against the Gothes he was defeated in the very first battle for which Valence upbrayded Trajan at a feast with cowardize and sloth as being the causes of the overthrow but noble Traian not enduring that indignitie with freedome of speech told enduring that indignitie with freedome of speech told the Emperour in plaine termes that he had lost the day for you do so war against God saith he meaning his persecuting of Christians that you abandon the victory and send it to your enemies Niceph. Calist lib. 11. Cap. 40 Eccle. Hist it is God saith he that overcommeth and he giveth the victory to those that obey him but such are your adversaries and therefore you haue God to fight against you how then can you overcome Here you may see a patterne of a wicked disposition well taken up and the saddle set upon the right horse And not onely doe such bloudy monsters as this shift off their calamities from their sinnes but also Gods people by falling in sin and lying in sin may be tainted with it witnesse David a man otherwise after Gods owne heart yet tainted with this Amongst the rest of his trickes of legerdemain when he spun the spiders webbe of his implicit sin this was one to cover the murther of Vriah he useth a principall experimentally knowen the sword devoureth one at well as another make thy battell more strong against the cittie and so overthrow it 2. Sam. 11.25 David spake the trueth but not truely for he knew that it was not common lot that had cut off Vriah but his owne heart and hand had caused him and others to fall yet he would daube over a filthy peece of business with a litle white plaistring but when once he was awaked he was so far from daubing as that he chargeth himselfe more deeply with every circumstance then any other could haue done I am the man And after the numbring of the people when his heart smote him grieving at the punishment of the people he taketh the whole sin upon him and vvould cleere the people both of the sin and punishment Loe I have sinned and I haue done wickedly but these sheepe what haue they done 2. Sam. 24.77 let thy hand I pray thee be against me and against my fathers house CHAP. XLIIII Of quitting God of all injustice A Third thing in the behaviour of the conquered is this since sin is the cause they must quit God of all injustice how heavy soever their burthen lye upon them David quitteth the Lord of all injustice if he should adjudge him to eternall death Lament 〈◊〉 18. so doth the people of God in the lamentations being under the verie rod of his wrath The Lord is righteous for I haue rebelled against his commandment By condemning of our selues to acquit God De summo bono lib. 3. is the readiest way to get an acquitance from God Yea as Isedor saith let a man learne not to murmur when he suffereth although he were ignorant for what he suffereth let this suffice to tell him that he suffereth justly because it is from him that cannot deale but justly Pompey was herein exceedingly mistaken who seeing all to goe on Caesars side doubted not to say that there was a great deale of miste over the eye of divine providence for with him that offered nothing but wrong to the commoÌ„ wealth all things went well but with him that defended the common-wealth nothing succeded But Pompey blamed the Sunne because of his sore eyes There be many in our age of Pompey his saucie humor yea arranter wranglers then he because of greater light and showes of profession who if their corruption be never so litle crossed or the Lord
you see I haue gone a long in these circumstances of â—â—uncell making a mixed application of them as occasion was given both to civill and martiall affaires CHAPT XXIIII Of the particularities of the Counsell of War NOW I come more close to my proper subject of war Of the obiect of war wherein I brieflie meane to shew what is the object of this counsell what is the ground of it and how 〈◊〉 should be carryed The object of the counsell of war is whatsoever maâ— accommodate themselves and incommodate the enemie Yea they are to be acquainted as much as may be with thâ— enemies affaires forces and counsell As what number they be what kind of forces they be vvhether horse or foote vvhat disposition they are of vvhat be their Armes defenfive and offensive Difficile vincitur qui vere potest de suis de adversarii copiis judicare Lib. 3. cap. 26. Stratag lib. 1. cap. 2. and vvhat Armes they are best at Vegetiâ— giveth a good reason for this he is hardly overcome that 〈◊〉 truely judge or discerne of his owne and his adversaries forceâ— For the discovery of the adversaries counsell as it is of greause so some Generals haue not onely been carefull in thâ— discovery but haue made great attempts for the effecting of it As Cato in the Spanish war being very defirous to discover the enemies counsell and seeing no ordinary meanes to effect it caused 300 souldiers breake in upon the enemies campe who brought one of the saide campe safe avvay to the Generall out of vvhom he extorted the secrets of the enemie The discovery of the King of Arams councell by the Prophet Elisha was great advantage to the King of Israel Beware saith the Prophet thou passe not suth a place King 6.29 for thither the Sirians are come dovvne Euen in this respect as for others the Lord is called an excellent man of war because he knovveth the forces the counsell and Armes of the adversary In this the diligence of the common enemie doth both blame us and shame us The devill is a busie Bishop They vvant no spies they spare no paines nor charges vvhereby they may discover and frustrate all the attempts of Gods forceâ— for his ovvne cause That serpentine brood of the devill oâ— rather devills themselves as one calleth them affoordeth alâ— kinds of counsellours some dormient some couchant some rampant some vvalking yea creeping flying abroad for discoveryes The Duke of Bavariaes letter to Richard Blond Vice-Provincial in England vvherein he thanks him for his paines and diligence for the Romish See and Catholique Cause doth directly discover what weekly intercourse is between the said Blond and the Pope notwithstanding of Romes distance from England As for Blonds interest in some of the Bedchamber mentioned in that letter I will not meddle with it It were good then they were encountred with the â—ike diligence and industry Paulus Aemilius discovered the ambushment of the Boians by the flying of Birds in the Truscan war For the fowles being affrighted from the wood the councell sent out a scout-watch and discovered ten thousand in ambushment So by the flying of these black-birds of Rome their subtilties in war and infidelity in peace vvith carefulneffe might be discovered The Doctors of Doway obserue from Nubrigensis Lib. 2. cap. 21. rer Anglic. 2 King 6.17 upon the opening of Elishaes servants eyes that a husbandman in Yorkâ—hire named Ketle had the gift to see evill spirits whereby he often detected and hindred their bad purposes As by this lye they vvould make footing for their feigned miracles so indeed the Lords Armies had need of scaled eyes wherewith to discern those Legionary spirits who are digging through the vvall to raze down the foundation But some vvith Gallio care not for these things ApplicatioÌ„ some see them but wil not see some underhand doe countenance them and some with the faint-hearted spies dare say little or nothing to them But it is to be feared that these evill spirits will proue like a Hecticke once openly discovered neâ—ver cured but by a miracle CHAP. XXV Gods word the ground of Counsell IT followeth in the next proper place to shew whenâ—â— this councell should come the ground whereof should bâ— the word of God For although the Scripture be not an Encyclopedia of all the particulars of every Science yet in it theâ—â— may be found a Systeme of all sciences it being the Mistressâ— to whom all Sciences are handmaids Yea this directs theâ— ordering of all true principles and conclusions No better Philosophy Logick or Metaphysick then in the book oâ— God No better counsel or direction for war or peace theâ— there is to be found Hence the Word is called by the namâ— of Councel Act. 20.27 I haue not shunned to declare unto you all the counsell of God Thy Testimonies are my delight saith the Propheâ— David my councellours Psa 119.24 or the men of my councell Thaâ— charge given to the King of Israel concerneth all Kingâ— in the world and they that will thriue in peace or war musâ— obey it namely that they haue Gods Law-book continually with them that they should reade it that they may learn to fear God to avoid sin yea by this rule all their doings should be so ordred that they should not decline from iâ— to the left hand Deu. 17.18 or to the right So the like direction was given to Ioshua who was to fight the battels of the Lords Thâ— book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth Ios 1.8 but thou shaâ—â— meditate therin day and night Both reason and experience confirmeth this position aâ— what work can teach a man so well to war as the book 〈◊〉 God who is the excellent man of War Again hath eveâ— any Warriours paralelled those who haue had their rules and directions from God Witnesse Moses Iosua David and the rest Haue all the Worthies come nigh one of these Adde to these reasons the nature of the Word vvhose proper encomy it is to make a man perfect to every good work Since lawfull war is a good vvork and that of a high nature the vvord must not onely fit men for the undertaking of it but also for the happy managing of it to Gods glory and the and ertakers good It is a sure Canon in Theologie That the word of God is not onely the Canon of our faith and life but also of our Calling whatsoever it be from the King to the Porter Would to God we would all obserue it This may very well be said to be that Tower of David built for an Armory vvherein a thousand shields doe hang Cant. 4.4 even all the Targets of the mighty men for whether vve understand thereby the Tropies of Christs triumph hung upon the neckes of the â—aithfull or that Panopli or compleat armour spoken of in â—he Ephesians yet all this we attain unto by the Word Alexander
It shall then be the part of euery wise warriour to looke well to his counsell and whom he maketh his counsellours Counsell concealed can doe no hurt buâ— once revealed it cannot be called backe againe I haue reaâ— of a man that was in the mouthes of many and of excellent parts if he could haue used them He had cunned by heart the lesson of Q. Metellus and had it often in his mouth That if his shirt were privy to his counsell and could speake he would burne it But like a bad hearer he said and did not for had his practice answered his theorick he might happily as yet haue knowen where to haue found his head all the cunning of the proiecting Spaniard had not served to picke the Elixir out of it It shall not be amisse for Gods people to learne this of their enemies Simeon and Levi diggs deeply and closely through the wall into whose secrets the soule of Israel doth not enter To these secret and deepe diggers that Hierogliph of counsell set out by the learned doth very well agree They picture Pluto with an helmet on his head and Proscerpiâ—na ravishing By which they would signifie the subterraneaâ— secrecie of counsel so their deep counsels are hellish indeed closely covered hauing Pluto and Proserpina for their President Yea the Cabala is kept no closer by the Iewes nor the Sibills by the Romans nor the Druides verses by the ancient Gaules then they keepe their secrets It is good to cast a counter-Mine against this counsell and though you worke not on the like subiect but rather on the contrarie yet labour to keepe as close as they doe When God will giue his people into the hands of their enemies he either taketh away the spirit of councell as he did from Israel when they grieved him or he discovereth it to the enemie as he did the counsell of the King of Siria Therefore as I haue shewed let his people consult with God and let him be president over all their counsels against whom there is no counsell and let them looke likewise to the sealing of their counsell that their enemies might not reade it Take heed of the Babylonish Spyes that convey themselues into your Courts Camps and Chambers in strange habits under the colour of travell traffique profession of Sciences or any such like These be the Hyenaes that lye by the walles with mens voyces but wolues hearts ready to discover every one that looketh out at dores These be like to that dissembling Romish hypocrite Aenobarbus with a brazen face indeed and a leaden heart These are trayned up and taught the Art of discovery so that all Cyphers and Hyerogliphs are familiar to them but if they be caught it is good to make them pay for their learning But to come neerer home into the inward society of secrets Kings and Generals in these daies especially had need not with Osiris King of Egipt to haue an eye onely in the top of the Scepter or Sword but they must haue their eyes in their own heads yea in their hearts ad discernenda regia pericula opus est oculo animi To discover the danger of great ones they had need of the eye of the minde As Achitophel is without giving counsell against David so Doeg is standing before the Lord when David asketh counsel of Achimelech whereof Saul being by him informed it costs the Priests their liues You see this hel-bound came to the place of Gods service as some it may be with us come to the Church to blow up the Church and made likewise a shew of Gods service 1 Sam. 21.7 an Edomite by Nation and Condition yet an Israelite by outward profession This shew without doubt made the Priests not mistrust him but like a bloudie Edomite or Esauite he seeks their bloud and hath it His heart was dyed in bloud for there he conceiveth the murther his tongue dipped in bloud he maketh the matter worse by relating his hand bathed in bloud with that he executeth the malice of his heart Secrecie if God had so so ordained might haue saved all this Such be the kanker wormes and fretting moaths that cat out the heart of good counsell ere ever it come to light Such be the picklocks of the Cabinat of counsell Yea such and so many close deceivers now there be of all sorts Quos fugiamus sei mus quibus credemus nesctmus Cic. ad Atti. Micah 7.5.6.7 that it may be too truely said as Tully said in another case Whom to shun wee know but whom to beleeue we know not Yea the book of God maketh it good of these evill daies Trust yee not in a friend put no confidence in a guide c. He sheweth a reason The son dishonoureth the father c. In a word a mans enemies are thâ— of his own house If Sampson be deceived by his own Heifer and Noah dishonoured by his own son Isaak mocked by his own brother and David finde no place to rest in for his own father-in-law Psal 12. what shall a man say then Surely this is his best refuge Help Iehovah for the gracious Saint is ended and the faithfull diminished from the sonnes of Adam And for the present till the world mend it shall not be amisse to follow the counsell of Epicharmus Sis prudeÌ„s memento diffidere Be wise remember to distrust But since counsell must be used quest and some must be trusted with counsell here a question may be moved what should be done in this I answer answ doe as Constantine did with his servants first try and then trust Yea here ariseth another question how should they be tryed To which I answer First just as he tryed his servants as I shewed in the qualification of a good Counsellour For he that consulteth with God can both giue counsell and keep counsell He that keepeth with God will keep with man but because these are very rare birds as I haue shewed you and one of these is as a Lilie amongst thorns For the tryall of meer civill men let the practise of some great Warriours be insteed of a rule Rules of tryall They would first try their fidelity with things of seeming importance but in themselues of no moment Dionysius going by Sea to besiege a Citie gaue a sealed commission in shew to every ship-master but never a word written in it Withall he commanded so soon as ever a signe was given from a ship thereunto appointed they should open their Commissions and make their course whether they should direct them Withall he ships himselfe presently in one of the best Saylors and comming about before the sign was given he demandeth of every man his Commission those that had opened their Commission against the charge he executed as Traytors to the rest who had obeyed he gaue commission indeed whether to direct their course By which means he both discovered the perfidious from the faithfull Polyaen li. 5 and by
caused the wrath of the Lord to be kindled against him which never slaked till it consumed him for he ran from one evill to another while his own conspired against him and slew him Shebnah that great rich Treasurer who was hewing out his Sepulcher and scorned the Lords call to humiliation for idolatry and other sinns Esa 22.15 he is tossed by the Lord like a ball in a strange Countrey where he dyeth so that the chariot of his glory becoÌ„meth the shame of his Lords house If Diotrephes will not leaue his Lording it over Gods house and beating his servants till he cast them out of their own houses and Gods house forbidding others to receiv them 3 Ioh. 9. Wil not the Lord remember their deeds If the luke-warme Angell with people of this loathsome quality will not grow zealous and mend Will not the Lord spue them both out of his mouth In a word Rev. 3 16. if we doe not as one man humble our selues for partaking with Idols and suffering of Idols and every man in his place put to his hand to bring Iezabel from the window we may justly feare that neither peace nor warre nor Parliament nor Plantation nor Traffique shall prosper with us Yea to shut up the point if we will neither hearken to counsell nor threatning we may feare that be made good upon us which the Prophet threatned against Amaziah that God hath determined to destroy us 2 Chr. 25 1â— because we haue done evill and will not hearken to the counsell of God I hope I am no enemy because I tell you the truth the Lord in mercy make us hear the sound of the Trumpet that we may stand up in the breach and liue As all these things aforesaid are duely to be considered so in the eight place followeth a thing not immateriall to be thought on and very often helpfull to the victory being thought on namely that souldiers wearyed with a long March Multum virium labore itineris pugnaturus amittit lib. 3. cap. 11. Livi. lib. 2. should not imediatly or if they can that day ioyne battel Vegetius giveth a reason by a great March the souldier weakeneth his spirits and looseth his strength Instance of this may begiuen in the Volscians fighting against the RomaÌ„s after too great a March much crying they ioyned in fight and at the very first encounter were defeated and abandoned their Campes Sergius Galba with his wearyed souldiers set upon the Portugalls and routed them at the first and pursuing them unadvisedly with his over wearyed souldiers the Barbarians with their recollected forces returned upon them and slew 7000 Romans very able souldiers The neglect of this observation did the Aâ—ch-Duke no good at the battle of Newport Appianus de bello Hispan who after a long March as I am informed gaue battle to his adversary and that upon a sandy ground Had Spinola with an easie march brought his forces fresh before Bergan-up-Soom presently giuen an assault he had hazarded the taking of the Towne but with over marching they were so wearyed and weakened that fiue dayes past before they were able to assault by this they lost their best opportunitie He laid the blame on Velasco but it was well howsoever The ninth and the last thing to be remembred but not the least The necessitie of fervent prayer yea the chiefest thing of all is devout and servent prayer unto God for the victory If an eloquent and pithy speech from the mouth of a natural man prevail much as I shewed in provoking them to courage how much more couragioâ— shall these men be whose hearts God doth touch and whose hands God doth strengthen for the day of battel Now â—hese by prayer are obâ—ayned of God witnesse that instance of Moses praying and the people of God fighting when Moses held up his hand that is was strong in prayer then Israel prevayled and when he let downe his hand that is when his spirit failed 〈◊〉 17.1 Amalec prevayled A man may thinke that Moses should rather haue gone into the field being the Lords Generall then got him up to the mountaine to pray but Moses knew well enough what he had to doe he appoints a man sufficient for the place he knew wherein the strength of Israel lay namely in their God and what would most prevaile with God namely fervent proyer One good man praying is worth an Army of men fighting and therefore Moses the man of God guided by the spirit tooke this as the best course for obtayning of the victory The prayer of the righteous saith S. Iames avayleth much if it be fervent Iam. 5.16 This is the key that openeth heauen and the steps of the ladder whereby we ascend This maketh the Lord to bow the heavenâ— and come downe By this wee wrastle with God that he may giue us strength to wrastle with the enemie This strengthneth the feeble knees and hanging downe hands of those that fight Gods battels Finally this blunteth the forces of the enemie and overturneth the horse and the rider Origen on that practize of Moses maketh this application lift thou up thy hands to heaven Eleva tu manus in coelum c. Homil. 11. in Fxod as Moses did and obey the Apostle his precept pray without intermisssion for Gods people did not so much fight with hand and weapon as they did with voyce and prayer This time of battle is the very pinch of extremitie and therefore the best opportunitie for prayer Deut. 33.7 Moses ioyneth these two together in the blessing of Iuda heare oh Lord the voice of Iudah or as the Chaldee well traÌ„slateth the prayer of Iuda when he goeth forth to war If wee be commanded to call on the Lord in the day of our trouble what greater trouble then this when the enemy is ready to devour us and to reproch the name of our God This you may see to be the ordinary practize of Gods people in the fighting of his battels Iudah cryed unto the Lord. 2. Chron. 13 14. Chap. 14.12 Notable is that prayer of Asa going against the Ethiopians he cryed unto the Lord. Heâ—pe us oh Lord our God for we rest on thee and in thy name wee goe against this multitude So that of Iehosaphat going against the Ammonites is a president at large for all Gods people how to behaue themselues in this particular First 2. Chron. 20 that good King discovereth the strayt wherein they were wee know not what to doe vers 12. Secondly his refuge but our eyes are up towards the ibidem Thirdly his pressing God with petition oh our God wilt thou not judge them ibidem Fourthly the arguments whereby he would moue God to heare his petition from the 6 vers to the 13. Fifâ—ly there is the preparation to this duetie that it may be the more effectuall and Iehosaphat feared the Lord and set himselfe to seeke the Lord proclaymed
are the very first in front so I wish and pray that all that put their hand to the worke and fight those battels would take courage to them I would that speech of God by Moses unto the people might prevaile with them Heare oh Israel you approch this day to battle against your enemies let not your heart be soft feare not and hasten not away neyther be you terrified because of them The Lord addeth a reason for Iehovah your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to saue you Euen so would he be with us if we would be with him if you will fight for God as David did that blessing that was pronounced upon David by Abigail shall be upon you and yours the Lord would certainly make you a sure house and honour you and your children for ever because you fight the battels of the Lord 1. Sam. 2â— 28 and he would bind up your soules in the bundle of life I will not herein play the Pope to assure life and reliefe of friends out of purgatorie for fighting of the Lords battles No if such a fight would serve the turne in vain did Christ fight that great battle on the crosse but thus much I will assure them that they that fight these battles they fight the battels of the Lord for the maintenance of which the Lord hath given his promise and surely such as dye in these they dye for the Lord and thrice happie they if they dye in the Lord. As for their enemies fighting against the Lord they haue none of this assurance and howsoever it goe with them they can haue no sound comfort One thing more in the fight to be observed is that beaten rule of much use and practize not onely to let the enemy fly but to make way for him to fly if he be so disposed for this there be both lawes and a multitude of examples Poâ—aen lib. 1. Licurgus gaue a written law to the Lacones not to stop the enemies flight It was the saying of Scipio Africanus that he would not onely giue way but he would also make way for his enemy to fly A number of examples you haue in Frontine Caesar having inclosed the Germans standing to it desperatly made way for them to fly Haniball did so with the Romans at the battle of Thrasimena opening his orders he let them fly so defeated them So did Camillus with the Gauls The Grecians having got the victory at Salamis Polyaen lib. 1. they determined to cut the bridge over Hellespont to stop Xerxes his passage but Themistocles that old beaten souldier with danger counselled to let him passe for it stood with greater wit to rid the land of him then to force him to fight The reasons of this rule be two the first given by Vegetius necessitie is a desperat vertue which will effect as Themistecles well observeth that which neyther valour nor magnanimitie durst adventure to doe Secondly by this the victory is more easily obtayned they may kill and take at their pleasure routed forces without the losse of themselves Desperatio magnum est ad honeste moriendum incitamentuÌ„ Curtius lib. 9. where as by keeping them to it they may buy the victory to deare Despaire will incite some to dye with honour if dye they must that it may be never meant it G. Maulius the Roman Consull keeping the Hetruscians too strayt lost his life and had lost the field if his Legats had not opened their orders and let them passe and so they had them at their pleasure Yea this sometimes hath lost the victory witnesse King Iohn of France invironing Edward the blacke Prince not suffering him upon any conditions to passe put him and his handfull so to it that the French had shame and repentance for their paines To conclude the point I will shut it up with the saying of Count Poetiline If mine enemie saith he would fly I would make him a bridg of gold to fly upon yet all this must be taken with a graine of salt Not so to let the enemie fly as to loose the occasion of the victory or for feare to hold backe the sword from bloud that were to incourage the enemie to redintegrate the fight That wise speech of Kings Agis is worthy of observation who in the pursuit of his flying enemies Plutarch in Apotheg being counselled to make way for them answered thus If wee be not able to overcome our flying enemies how should wee overcome our fighting enemies intimating thereby that no occasion against the enemie should be lost CHAP. XXXVII Of the Issue of the hattle in Generall NOw I come to the Issue of the battle which giueth the one partie the victory and the other the overthrow for seldome they part on an even hand It is true indeed that the victory is so deare bought many times that as the Learned observe it scarse deserveth the name of victory Victoria magâ—o empta non est victoria sed calamitas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of that deare bought victory the Grecians haue a pretâ—ie proverbe The conqueror cryeth and the conquered is undonel Pyrrhus that Mirror of Generalls made this good out of his owne experience who having twice defeated the Romans but at so deare a rate that he was forced to say such another victory would undo us Yet since there is alwayes a better and a worse my taske putteâ—h me to it to discover as briefly perspicuously as I can how both the conquerour and he conquered should carry themselues Seneca layeth downe the generall Noscere hoc primum decet Quid facere victor debeat victus pati It first becomes the conqueror to know what he should doe the conquered also what he should suffer CHAP. XXXVIII Of the Carriage of the Conquerour TO begin then first with the victor Victoria est semper insolens for as Tully observeth victory is alwayes rash and insolent For the ordering of victory there be two sorts of directions the former for making of it up the latter for the right usage of it when it is fully aâ—â—ained In the former there be these two observatioÌ„s Be carefull to make up the victory First the conquerour must take heed of the rash and disordered pursuite of the enemie To this effect serveth well that counsell of Iphicrates ioyned with his practize This Commander following his flying enemie at his leasure in good order gaue order to his souldiers in the pursuite that they should beware of ambushment and that they should not follow too hard Lib. 3. nor neere to the Wals or forts planted with munition giving a good reason as Polyaenus well observeth that many by doing so haue lost the victory that they had obtayned Vegetius telleth us Frequenter jam fusi aeies disâ—ersoâ— ac passim sequentes reparatis viribus interimit lib. 3. cap. 25. that it often so falleth out that forces put to flight recollecting