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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40818	A sermon preached at St. Hilary's in the Isle of Jersey before the garrison, April 10th, 1692 by Philip Falle ...	Falle, Philip, 1656-1742.	1692 (1692)	Wing F341; ESTC R9313	21,860	36

the Baptist bids the Soldiers in the Text to be content with The word in the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may indifferently be rendered a reward in Money or an Equivalent in Necessary Provisions And this word is not unfitly used by John the Baptist on this occasion because the Roman Soldiers were often wont to receive their Pay or part thereof in a certain Dimensum or quantity of Corn assigned them out of the common Stores or Granaries of the Empire which was a good expedient to keep them out of such vicious courses as having soon consumed their Money would put them afterwards on the necessity of doing any ill things for their Subsistence It seems the Soldiers in Judea were not content with this Allowance which way soever it was dispens'd to them for that we cannot particularly know at this distance of time Some few years before there had been a Mutiny among the Pannonian Legions about their Pay alledging as Tacitus tells us that their lives were held too cheap to be estimated only at ten Pence a day It doth not appear that the Soldiers in the Text complain'd of the smallness of their Pay but that which John the Baptist charges them with is the not being satisfi'd with so liberal a maintenance and Preying upon the Country as if they had no Pay at all It will be said that they wanted when they did this which yet can hardly be supposed considering the largeness of their Pay as hath been shew'd If they did it could proceed but from one of these two Causes either first from the Neglect or Fraud of those that were entrusted with the Payment of them who paid them not or substracted part of their Pay or secondly from their own lavish and improvident way of living 'T is like they squandered away in an Hour and in one Debauch what was intended and might have been enough to have kept them a Week When that was gone they were left to shift as they could and then the Country must be sure to suffer A good Man will be content even with little because allowing himself only the Necessities of Nature a very Moderate stipend will suffice for these But vice is a costly and chargeable thing and he that hath a large Stock of Lusts to provide for and is resolved to deny none of them needs a greater supply than for ought I know hath ever been allowed to Soldiers in the Nature of Pay Such Men must of necessity be a burden to any Country in the World that they come into Therefore these Words of John the Baptist bidding the Soldiers in the Text to be content with their Wages must be understood to contain a twofold Injunction First to the Officers to have an especial care to see their Soldiers well paid and not suffer them to be cheated of that which was the price of their Blood to look that they were supply'd with what was convenient and by no means to let them want Soldiers of all Men in the World must not want brave Men must not want It dejects their Spirit and abates that noble Ardour from which spring all generous Emotions and I am much deceiv'd if any great matters are to be expected from famished and naked Men. This care those Ancient Captains renown'd in History had of their Soldiers who have not disdained to inspect the the Arms Cloaths and other Accoutrements of the meanest of them to inter into their little Huts examine their Diet see how they were Accommodated have furnish'd them out of their own Stores nay have tore their very Linen and Cloaths to bind up their Wounds And this it was that reconciled them to their Love more effectually than the new Method that obtains now which is first to Prey upon them and then in recompense let them Prey upon others without fear of Punishment Not only to see that they receiv'd their Pay regularly but to dispense it them with Prudence and by such Proportions as not to leave it in their Power to want at any time by ill Management When that was done then not to permit them to ruin the Country where they were in GARRISON by Plunder and free Quarter not to wink at their Invasion of any Man's Property but to oblige them to live on their Pay and not on the Blood and Tears and Oppression of the People Secondly to the Soldiers to study to lead Vertuous and Sober Lives which they would find to be an excellent way to live Cheap Sobriety being a Frugal and Parsimonious Vertue whereas if they gave themselves up to that Beastly Vice of Drunkenness the common Bane of Men of their Profession it would bring on them this Inconvenience among many others that to have one good or merry Day as they call'd it in the Week it would force them to starve or steal all the rest But they were not to imagine that Theft was a less Sin in them than in other Men. There was not a particular Religion for Soldiers but the same common Law of God forbidding Wrong and Injustice concerned them equally with all Men. Therefore they were to be content with their Wages All this and much more is implied in these Words And the Soldiers likewise demanded of him saying And what shall we do And he said unto them Do Violence to no Man neither accuse any falsly but be content with your Wages I come now to the Application Gentlemen I shall make no Apology for this Discourse for though I am sensible that 't is not from the Pulpit that you are to learn what relates meerly to Military Order and Discipline yet as you are Christian Soldiers as your Profession is allow'd in the Gospel as there are peculiar Rules for it in the Book of God you fall under our Cognizance and since John the Baptist the first Evangelical Preacher has not doubted to admonish a GARRISON 't is evident any Minister of the Gospel may still do the same when he sees Occasion 'T is hard to find always Comparisons that are exactly adapted to each other but I could not find a braver Nation to compare you to than the Romans for whatever Difference there may be in Extent of Dominion I am sure that as to true Courage and Valour the English Nation is little inferior to them The French resemble the Parthians in this that they are your Neighbours your old Hereditary Enemies your Rivals in Empire and a Nation that is become terrible by its late Successes We like the Jews deserve to be pitied by our Situation which in two Hours time may bring that dreadful Enemy upon our Coasts and though it be indeed a very great Honour to the English Monarchy to have such a GARRISON like an advanc't Guard within view of the Enemy yet to us the Inhabitants of this Place it must be a great Inconvenience and must expose us to continual Alarms We are always the First and Greatest