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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

of much gaming a thing that was not in vse in Gods host and good it were that it were lesse in vse in our Campe for God is dishonoured monyes wasted and many evills h●ppen thereupon our enemy the Spaniard in time of seruice doth banish al vnlawfull games In the siege of Poytiers the Admirall caused a certaine Ensigne to bee hanged for that he was found playing at Historia de troubl de Fra. li. 8. cards while his company did watch in some perill Manly exercises should be appointed them and such as can reade to get histories of warre and other good bookes to reade and discourse thereof thus the mind and body will be well employed It may be some souldiours would be so well exercised if there were Commanders like Caesar who read much and did write his owne warres or like Pyrrhus the famous Martialist in his time who wrote many books and as Hannibal in whose tents were found many books which he studied braue and generous spirits should be delighted either to reade or heare read the acts of valiant warriers and scorn base play and childish gaming V. The prophanation of the Sabboth Rev. 1. 10. the Lords day as now Saint Iohn calleth it God punisheth this in Num. 15. 32. 36. the campe of Israel the valiant Iudas Machabeus tooke speciall care to keepe the Sabboth with his host 2 Mach. 8. 27. when Nicanor King Demetrius Generall would in contempt of God fight with Iudas on the Sabboth day there were slaine of his men 35000. and he killed his head strucke off Ca 1● 1. 27. 28. his tongue cut out for his blasphemie and his right hand which hee had stretched out against the Temple with his head sent to Ierusalem Eccl. hist Cent. 12. to be hanged vp vpon a Tower One of the Kings of Denmarke contrary to the dissu●sions of Divines would needs ioyne battle with an enemy vpon the day of Pentecost but hee lost the field and his life withall All vaine sports on the Lords day are to be abandoned in a Christian host VI. Is Rebellion against lawfull authority this the Lord punished yea he extraordinarily plagued Rebells Num. 16. 31 11 32 33 41 ●2 49. making the earth to open and swallow vp some and fire to deuoure some others Rebells can looke for no good end see it in Absalom though he had most of Israel to take his part Let the end of him Bichri and Zimri make men take heed of r●be●lion VII Treasonable practises and conspiracies and secret working with the enemy are to be carefully looked vnto and to be prevented and the parties found ou● severely to bee punished Ier. 40. for good Gedaliah beeing warned and not making timely inquiry was by trayterous Ismael cruelly murthered So one Quintilius Varus for being too slacke to search out the Treachery of one Narminins of which he had intelligence was slaine with all his company Of such was Nehemiah in danger but his wisedome prevented them and Iudas Machabeus Neh. 6. 17. 10. 2 Mach. 13. 21. had a Rod●cus among them a discloser of secrets to the enemy but he was found out Cyrus the yonger executed one Or●ntes which went about to betray him to the ●my Marcellus executed many in the City N●la for treason having had secret talk and intelligence with Liv. 24. Hannibal For such worthily deserue death VIII Is Mutinie God punished the murmurings of his people and their malecontentednesse such as cause sedition and stirre vp others Num. 11. 1 9 21. 5 6 to grow rebellious are to be punished Scipio vpon a mutiny of his souldiours in Spaine put to death the chiefe moovers and so pacified Liv. 28. Tacit. 1. the rest so did Tiberius when his did mutinie in Pannouia but it is hard measure to poore starving souldiers for comming and demanding their pay in extreame need to be held mutinous and that onely for this Captaines should hang some to make others willing to dye rather for hunger then any more to complaine Oh vnchristian cruelty and mercilesse inhumanity IX Disobedience to command and to make attempts vpon the Enemie without warrant or when a charge is giuen to the contrary this God suffered not to goe unpunished in the presumptuous Israelites Manlius Num. 14. 41. 45. his dealing with his sonne is before noted and Papirius his purpose and intent towards the Generall of his horse Men vpon their owne heads without command of authority to fight with the enemy seldome Liv. 5. prooue successefull which the Romans found at the siege of Vey with losse of their souldiers yet Ionathan and his Armour-bearer secretly ●et vpon the enemy and prospered and was honoured for it But such an example is extraordinary as souldiers are not to presume upon their owne heads without command so being commanded they might readily obey els all Military order would decay and die We may reade in Livie that a Generall of the Romans Liv. 4. slew an Ensigne-bearer for refusing to advance himselfe forward towards the enemy as he was commanded yea the Is●aelites held him worthy death that would refuse to obey Ios 1. 18. the iust commands of their Generall Iosua X. Is enuy and pride and words of reproach the fruits thereof tending to provoke to the breach of peace this God punished in the Prophetesse Miriam this envie pride and Num. 12. ● 9 10. words of contempt are pestilent evils and cause much mischiefe Hence arose the bloudy civill discord and warre betweene Ieptah and the Ephramites of whom were slaine 42000. Hence the slaughtering and Iud. 12. Iud. 9. killing one another betweene Abimelech and the Sichemites caused by the reproachfull and disdainefull words of Gaal these things should be prohibited and sharpely punished XI Is murther and the killing of 1 Kin. 2. 30. 31. one another God gaue a very strait charge against bloud-shed Ioab the Generall being guiltie must die for it even at the Altar God never allowed Asyles for murtherers and men of bloud Captaines may not like rash brained and bloudy men disorderly kill souldiers hee that In l. 18 19. 3. 〈◊〉 rem●● shall so doe among the Spaniards dyeth for it the Romans put to death such as stroke their fellowes with a sword if they offered other violence as to throw stones at them such were displaced with shame Quarrels and Chalenges thereupon with acceptances thereof have beene the losse of many liues vnworthily hereby Princes loose their subiects the armie is wea●●ned the enemy hereby advantaged Souldiers lives should be precious one to another their bloud should be spilt in the publike cause against the enemy and not in private quarrels no not if a man put the lye vpon an other Iehu a right 2 K. 9. 12. valiant Captaine marching furiously did not quarrell with the Captaines in his companie when they said it was false which he spake so putting the lye vpon him neither held he

others And in these tents they lay by rankes by which they tyed their horses and Asses and in which they laid vp their victualls treasure and such things as they had For in them were found golde silver raiment blue silke purple and great riches Before they remooved there was Ios 1. 10 11. 3 2 3 4 Iud 7 19 1 Mach 12 27. warning given throughout the whole host and it was tolde them what they should doe Till they remooved they set diligent watch and carefully keepe it especially when they thought an enemie ready to set vpon them CHAPTER XXI Of ordering an host in drawing neere to the Enemie and what is else to bee done and considered of before the comming of the battell DAvid sending out an Army to subdue his proud rebellious son Absolom divided the whole host into 3. 2 Sa. 18. 2. parts and set principall Commanders over the same Ioab over one Abishai over the other and Ittai over the third So did Iudas divide his Army into three Companies 1 Mach 5. 33. 2 Mach 8. 21. and sometimes into foure parts Against Cendebeus he divided his men and set his horse in the midst of the foote because the Enemies horse were very many Bachides in his battell against Iudas divided his horse into two troupes and put his slingers Ca. 16. 7. and Archers before the host and in the foreward were all the mighty men and Bachides himselfe in the right wing Wise and experienced 1 Mach 9. 11 12. Commanders know how to order and embattaile their men The Enemy the place the occasion offered are in this matter seriously to bee weighed Hanuibal ordered his Army some time one way and sometime Liv 30. 31. 23. 29. another as reason led him And so did the Romanes Caesar and others Saul set his battaile in aray against the Philistims but the manner how is not ●et dovvne 1 Sa●● 7. 2. 23. Before the joyning of battell foresight and great vvisedome is required For 1. here lyeth at stake the precious liues of men 2. These ●●● errour may bring great damage 3. The due commendarions of all former preparations deliberations and wary proceedings is here reteined or lost 4. The victory procureth renowne and causeth triumph and ioy 5. But the overthrow bringeth sorrow disgrace and the prisoners taken captiue to be at their enemies will the very conceit whereof in some hath beene so contrary to their minds as they rather haue desired death then to fall into an enemies hand This made Saul to kill himselfe which he did saith Iosephus In the wars of the Iews because he was a faint-hearted coward Zi●ri did burne his pallace over his owne head And Razis acted 2 Mach 14. 42. 46. a desperate part vpon this ground In Numantia where 4000 souldiers who held out ●4 yeares against many thousand Romanes yet wearied at length they resolved vpon a strange and desperate end which was to gather all their Armes monies and goods together and to set them on fire and to burie themselues in the flame that so Scipio might not haue any of them captiues to triumph over This maketh many stout courages in battell desperate to fight like Lyons and will not yeeld till the fatall wound come and they be deprived of life Great consideration therefore must be had before a Generall put all to hazard 1. Of his owne number and strength and then of his Enemies 2. Of the quality and condition of his souldiers whether young and raw or old and experienced for it s not number but valour and skill which chiefly prevaileth 3. Of their fitnesse to fight if it be after travell when they be hungry thirst and Liv. 44. weary perhaps against fresh liuely and a well prepared Enemie Aemilius would not charge vpon Xen●ph in exped Cyr. Perseus in Macedonia because of his souldiers vnfitnes by travell though they desired to fight vntill the next day Clearchus would not set vpon his enemie because he perceived his souldiers to bee saint and hungry Therefore the Romanes before they Liv 28 21 entred battell refreshed well their men with victualls and rest as Vespatian did when he encamped about Warres of the Iewes Iorpata where in Iosephus was So Hannibal would haue his men dine well to lye warme and take rest before they fought with the Romanes at Trebia Such commonly as haue fought when their Army was wearied with travell for want of ●est or faint for food haue miserably perished As did Asdrubals army at Metaurus and so the Gaules Historia de troubl de Fra. l. 13. by the Romanes Puigall●re his men were cut off by La Nove when he would needes set vpon the Protestants after two dayes and nights continuall march 4. The Generall is to consi●er whether feare possesse the hearts of his souldiers It s Liv 26. 37. a great hinderance to the victory It s threatned as a punishment fainting of heart seized vpon the Canaanites Ios 2. 9. 24. and gaue courage and assurance of victory to Iosua A trembling through feare is a signe of destruction We never reade of Sauls daunt of spirit and fearfulnesse in 1 Sa 28. 5 all his many battells but onely before the last in which he and his were overthrowne then it s said that he was afraid and his heart greatly trembled Some feare may possesse the heart of a Commander sometime but a sodaine and vnwonted feare in a General as Saul is an ill token as it was in one of the Kings of Hungary when he put on his helmet to goe against the great Turk In which battell he lost his life and the chiefe City of the Kingdome A great feare over a whole host at the sight of the Enemy foretelleth their overthrow as it happened with the host of Timotheus consisting of 120000 foote and 2500 horse at the sight of Iudas 2 Mach 12 20 22. with a handfull and as it hapned to the Army of Sigismund vpon which fell a panick feare when Zisca was but comming neere Till feare was removed Caesar would not set forward against Ariovistus and the Germanes Iudas Machibeus would needs fight when many of his company was in feare and conveyed thēselues out of the host but it cost him his life 1 Mach 9. 6. 10 18. Therefore to prevent or remoue feare the Lord himselfe spake to his Generals exhorting them not to feare to Moses to Iosua to Gideon yea he sent his Prophet sometime to encourage Deut 3 2 Ios 1 8. 10 8 11 6. Iud 6 4 2 Cro 20 Deut 20 3 4 them and appointed a sermon or set speech for the Priests to deliver before the host went out Hence it was that Kings made Orations to their Captaines and Souldiers and so did other Generals Histories humane are full of them and very many sp●eches are recorded in the Bible the scope whereof was to remoue feare to encourage