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A13221	The Svvedish discipline, religious, civile, and military The first part, in the formes of prayer daily used by those of the Swedish nation, in the armie. Together with two severall prayers, uttered upon severall occasions by that pious King; which God immediately heard and granted him. The second part, in the excellent orders observed in the armie; whereof we here present you the articles, by which the souldiery is governed. The third part, in the Kings commission for levying of a regiment: his order for drawing vp of a private company; of a squadron; and of a brigade: with his manner of enquartering a private regiment; and of an army royall: vnto which is added the best manner of building and fortifying of a towne of warre. All, in fiue severall figures expressed and explained. Last of all, is the famous Battell of Leipsich, in two fayre figures also set forth: and now this second time more fully and particularly described.	Watts, William, 1590?-1649, attributed name.; Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644, attributed name.; Abelin, Johann Philipp. Arma Suecica. English.; Sweden. Armén.	1632 (1632)	STC 23520; ESTC S118094	72,824	144

vnto Sisera and Iabin at the brooke Kison Make their Princes like Oreb and Zeb and their Leaders like vnto Zeba and Salmana Let the mischiefe which they prepare for others fall vpon their owne heads and their wickednesse vpon their owne pates So shall wee sing of thy power and prayse thy goodnesse betimes in the morning For thou God art our Protector our refuge in all our necessities Amen A Prayer of King Asa 2 Chron. 14. 11 c. AS A cryed vnto the Lord his God and said Lord it is nothing with thee to helpe whether with many or with them that haue no power Helpe vs O Lord our God for we rest on thee and in thy name w● goe against this multitude O Lord thou art our God let not man prevaile against vs. A Prayer of Iudas Macchabaeus vnto his Souldiers 1 Macchab 4. 8 THen sayd Iudas to the men that were with him Feare yee not their multitude neyther be yee afraid of their assault Remember how our Fathers were delivered in the red Sea when Pharaoh pursued them with an Army Now therefore let vs cry vnto Heaven if peradventure the Lord will haue mercy vpon vs and remember the Covenant of our Fathers and destro● this Host before our face this day That so all the Heathen may know that there is one who delivereth and saveth Israel A Prayer of Luther for Souldiers found in the 3. Tome of the Edition at Iena fol. 330. HEavenly Father here am I by thy divine will in this externall calling under the Command of my Generall first to serue thee as is fitting and then for thee to obey my Captaine I giue due thanks unto thy goodnesse and mercy that thou hast called me unto this condition and set me about that worke which I assuredly know to be no sinne but a right action and a service acceptable unto thy will And for that I haue learned out of thy saving Word that our owne good workes doe not profit us for the meriting of salvation and that no man is saved for that he is a Souldier but for that he is a Christian I will not therefore put my confidence in this worke and service of mine but what ever I doe I will doe it with a good will as to doe thee a service and I out of the bottom of my heart beleeue that I am redeemed and saved onely by the innocent bloud of thy beloved Sonne my Lord Iesus Christ which according to thy will he shed for me vpon the Altar of the Crosse In this beliefe I resolue to stand in this will I liue and dye for this doe I now fight and take paines O Lord God heavenly Father preserue and encrease this faith in me through thy Holy Spirit Amen Against the Plague and other noysome Diseases A Almightie God Lord and Father of all grace and consolation haue mercy vpon vs and vpon thy Christian people Consume vs not in thy fury by this contagious pestilence but as in the time of David thou commaundedst the destroying Angell to hold his hand and giue over killing so cause O most gracious Lord this terrible rod of thine anger to cease from vs and not to destroy thine afflicted people Strengthen vs with the wholsome power of thy Word that we may be healthy both in soule body that we may laud prayse thee here on earth for a time and for ever in the Heavens O Lord Iesus Christ succour vs in this sickly time for those bitter paines that for our sakes thou sometimes enduredst make intercession for vs with thy heavenly Father defend vs against the heavie wrath of God forgiue vs our trespasses giue thine innocency vnto vs. Call to minde in this grievous plague-time how much our Redemption cost thee and suffer not that thy bloud-shed for vs to be lost or become in vaine O Holy Ghost vouchsafe thou to descend sweetly into our languishing hearts refresh thou and recreate our soules And if it so fall out that this plague strike vs also then take thou the cure of our soules in that houre in which we must depart out of this life lay vs in the most sweete bosome of Christ our Redeemer that we may be there partakers of eternall joy and quietnesse Fulfill all thy most sweete promises in us which are in thy Word made unto vs. Take from us all unbeliefe doubting and impatience make us ever readie to obey the will of God even thou who with the Father and the Sonne livest one God world without end Amen Of forgiuenesse of Sinnes and of the Lords Supper O Good Lord Iesus Christ I am no way able eyther in words or thought sufficiently to make expression of thy great loue which thou hast declared towards me at such time as thou receivedst me miserable sinner into grace and hast made me to eate and drinke of thy true body and bloud vnto euerlasting life Accept in the meane time this sacrifice of Thankesgiving of my heart and mouth which in this mortall bodie I am able to pay unto thee untill I come home unto thee where I shall for ever praise thee Giue thy Holy Spirit unto me who may teach me to know how much good thou hast alreadie wrought in me that so in faith charitie hope patience I may begin to leade a new life vnto thy prayse mine owne amendment and the good of my neighbour Grant this for the merit of thy precious bloud and the redemption which thou thereby hast made Amen And these be some of those devout prayers with which this most pious Prince teaches his Army to call vpon the Lord of Hosts and Victory Now vnto these good prayers let all religious Readers that wish well vnto this King adde this or the like for a close vnto the rest The Lord heare thee in the time of trouble and the name of the God of Iacob defend thee be vnto thee a Shield and Buckler against thine enemies arme thee with the sword of Gideon and the Lord of Hosts goe forth with thine Armies that the Victories which God shall giue thee may bring freedome and justice vnto the innocent and oppressed inlargement to Religion liberty to Germany and the benefits of a sweet and a lasting peace vnto all Christendome This grant vs for the Prince of Peace his sake Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ANd now that you may know that the King of Sweden doth not onely enjoyne others to pray but that in his owne person he practises these devotions by himselfe I will here subjoyne you two severall prayers conceived no doubt in his own● more private and premeditated consideration and uttered in publicke and extempore as it seemed The first was at his Majesties first landing upon the coasts of Germanie where so soone as ever he out of his long boate set his foote upon the dry Land he thus by prayer and thankesgiving in Gods Name tooke possession of the Countrey himselfe whilest his men were landing stepping a little

the same old Israelites may abundantly informe us How often hath victory and that almost visibly too I am sure sensibly come ryding downe upon the triumphant wings of devout prayer The Tabernacle carried about by that most Christian Emperour Constantine where ever his Campe went and where in stead of a Temple hee celebrated his daily devotions conquered more perchance for him than ten of his heathen Legions If Moses prayes whilest Iosuah fights Amalek must needes be dung downe This our most pious Conquerour now that he might as neerly as might be resemble that great Hebrew Generall that first of the nine Worthies●nd ●nd that ever-glorious Constantine that first of the Christian Emperours hath not courage enough it seemes to adventure himselfe into the field till he first be impregnably fortified with this holy Spell this whole armour of God Vpon the dayes of the Israelites March when their Camp in the Wildernesse removed and the Arke of God with it Moses had prayers then twice a day at the Rising namely and at the Setting downe of the Arke againe had Israel a set forme of prayer And that this religious King might not seeme to fight the Lords Battells without the Lords direction he hath taken order to haue it call'd for by most solemne and frequent prayers twice aday used throughout his whole Leaguer And that not onely when the Campe remoues but when it lyes still too not onely before a battell or a danger as if he were at Sea but even when no enemy is at hand even then he prayes too And not onely commands his Army twice a day but himselfe as I heare uses to set apart many whole dayes to his owne pious privacy and his closest devotions upon which may no man then speake to him because he then speakes with God Behold here are two swords Fighting and Praying and Praying Fighting thus hath the King of Sweden learn'd to conquer It is none of the unpolitikest parts of his Majesties new Discipline that I now present you with which the exemplary pietie of that religious Prince hath taught me to put in the first place of his Discipline seeing in the following Articles of his civill Discipline himselfe giues the first place unto those Articles which concerne God and his service To crosse that Proverbiall Verse therefore which sayes that Souldiers haue neyther Faith nor Religion in them I will here afford you some of those Formes of his daily prayer frequented in every Quarter of his Leaguer as I finde them in the Booke called Arma Suecica Pag 77. ¶ The Prayers In time of our Necessities and for the Christian Church O Almightie and eternall Lord God who delightest not in the death of a sinner but wouldest rather that all should liue and come to the knowledge of the truth we humbly intreate thee by thy Christ thine onely Sonne our Lord that thou wouldest please to bestow thy grace upon all faithfull Doctors and Teachers to the intent they may purely and clearely deliver thy Word and that all such as eyther hate it or with false doctrine corrupt it or by force persecute it thy teachers may be able manfully to resist and so enlighten them that they may bring them to the knowledge of thy selfe Grant mercifull Father thy Holy Spirit unto all Christian and lawfull Magistrates that they may well and peaceably rule their own Subjects and that under them we all leading a quiet and a blamelesse life may with a true faith celebrate the riches of thy grace and with a constant mind in all holinesse and righteousnesse as may be pleasing serue thee the true God and Lord of Lords thorough thy only beloved Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another Prayer to the same purpose ALmightie and everlasting God Creator of Heaven and Earth we thy poore children doe from the bottome of our hearts in the name of thy beloved Sonne Iesus Christ entreat thee that by the power of thy Spirit thou wouldst be pleased to direct thine owne Christian Church with all the true servants of it that with constancy they may cleaue unto thy Word so increasing in faith hope charitie and patience unto the end that they may be saved Vouchsafe thy divine grace also unto all Christian Kings Princes and Governours and especially the King our Soveraigne Lord and to all their Counsellours and chiefe Officers that they may so rule their Subjects thy people well and according to thy good pleasure as that peace good dealing and righteousnes may be cherished troubles injustice and all wickednesse may be banished and quite taken out of the way Looke mercifully upon our enemies and upon all those that persecute us cause that both they and we may seriously repent us of our sinnes grant them and us and all the whole Christian world such a minde to the loue of peace that we may serue thee O holy God in all pietie and honestie Comfort moreover all those that are afflicted poore sicke sorrowfull distressed captiues troubled in minde those that suffer persecution or temptation that they may beare the crosse patiently and obtaine at last a happie issue out of all their troubles Blesse the fruits of the earth also unto us for the necessary nourishment of our bodies and preserve them from all danger and ill weather And especially be thou present with us in this our expedition pardon our sinnes and mercifully turne away from us these punishments which we haue deserved Keepe safe moreover our Lord the King from all dangers both of soule and body preserue all his Captaines Commanders higher and lower together with his whole Army and our fellow-Souldiers Grant us O Lord our God unanimous and sincere minds wise direction happie proceedings and our desired end in all our actions and endevours So as may best make to the glory of thy holy Name the quietnesse peace comfort joy and happinesse finally both temporall and eternall of our selues Countrey and all these afflicted Christians which professe the Orthodox and true faith Shew us some token for good that they which hate us may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen us and comforted us These blessings that thou wouldest vouchsafe unto us we thy poore children entreate thee humbly by the death passion of thy onely Sonne Iesus Christ who liueth and reigneth with thee world without end Amen Another Prayer to the same purpose OMnipotent and eternall God Father of our Lord Iesus Christ Creator and preserver of all things most humbly we entreate thee together with thy beloved Sonne and holy Spirit that thou wouldest be pleased to be favourable unto us even for the merits of thy Sonne Iesus Christ whom in thy wonderfull counsell thou hast given us to be a Sacrifice for our sinnes and whom thou hast appoynted to be our Advocate and Mediator that by Him thou mightest expresse thy justly conceived anger against the sinnes of the world and thy mercies towards us Sanctifie Lord and guide

us by thy Holy Spirit gather governe and preserue thy Christian Church giue us thy grace that according unto what thou hast in thy holy Word prescribed us we may liue holily and unblamedly in this present world Preserve our Lord the King onr soveraigne Lady the Queene their royall Daughter and all the regall Family unto the glory of thy Name and the generall comfort and protection of us all Grant us a good government in the Common-wealth and whatsoever els is necessary for our wel-being Peace namely a happie government with a good and an honest neighbourhood Blesse finally our counsells our enterprises and that through Iesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy Spirit one God true and coequall Amen Another Prayer to the same purpose MOst mercifull God and heavenly Father wee giue unto thee all thankes for those thy benefits which untill this day thou out of thy Fatherly goodnesse hast bestowed upon us And first of all for that thou hast redeemed us by thy Sonne and hast in thy Word revealed him unto us in whom thou offerest remission of sinnes righteousnesse and everlasting life unto all men that with a penitent heart and true faith embrace it Preserue we beseech thee pure and uncorrupt thine owne holy Word Sacraments in these dangerous times against all Pereticks and false Teachers Especially against the Papists who at this present with many bloudy slaughters and inhumane tyranny doe like ravening Wolues roaring Lyons undeservedly scatter and devoure thy poore Christian flocke Looke downe O Lord upon the miserable condition of thy people refraine the insolency of their enemies hinder thou their bloudy purposes that so they may perceiue that thou thy selfe fightest for thy holy Church nor wilt giue it for a prey unto them Next O Lord pray we for all those Deputies of thine to whom thou hast committed the government of the Cōmon-wealth and the sword of justice For our own King first of all whom thou in mercy hast set over us to be our head and protector Preserue his Majestie from all perills as well secret as open grant prosperitie of successe unto him victory and deliverance against the enemies of his person and Kingdome Defend him Lord with the strength of thy right hand in this present and dangerous expedition which for the safetie of his owne Kingdome and for the obteyning of a good Peace he hath undertaken and graunt that the Warres being brought unto a happie end both himselfe and his whole Army may safely returne againe into their owne Countries Nor lesse earnestly doe wee recommend unto thee our Soveraigne Lady the Queenes Majestie with her royall Daughter Blesse Lord both him and her and keepe them both with thy Fatherly goodnesse and mercy Wee recommend unto thee in like manner the Right Honourable the privie Counsellours and chiefe Magistrates of his Kingdome so governe and direct them all with thy Holy Spirit that they may preferre thy glory before all and with an honest and a good heart study the prosperitie both of King and Kingdome Pray we also for his Majesties Army and Navy and for all his Mettall mynes and all things else which may be beneficiall unto the Cōmon-wealth and commodious unto the Subject Turne away for thy Christs sake what ever may eyther destroy or endanger them and giue a blessing unto any thing that may any wayes advance the truth of our Religion and our Country in generall Looke favourably O heavenly Father upon all the Professors of the same true religion with us who being sorely at this present oppressed by the Papists suffer the losse both of their liues and fortunes Succour them Lord that they may bee delivered from these troubles Keepe us in health from the noysome pestilence from sudden and unhappie death from dearth famine scar-fires mutinyes disagreements amongst our selues and from hayle and tempest Infuse into our hearts concord faithfulnesse and mutuall charitie Comfort all those that are afflicted sicke in prison or calamitie Succour and comfort all widowes and fatherlesse women with childe and that giue sucke Be thou guide unto all those that travell eyther by land or by water that they walking in thy right paths and having prosperously dispatched their owne businesse may safely returne at length unto their owne families Deliver us Lord God from all evill and when our fatall houre of death shall come mercifully receiue us into thy Kingdome translate our soules out of this vale of misery into thy heavenly Paradise where we may laud and prayse thee for it world without end Amen II. A Prayer for forgiuenesse of sinnes O Lord God heavenly Father who delightest not in the death of a sinner nor wouldest that he should perish but that he should be converted and liue we humbly entreate of thee mercifully to turne from us those punishments which our sinnes haue deserved and that thou wouldst be pleased in plentifull manner to bestow thy mercy upon us thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another Prayer to the same purpose O Wel-beloved Lord Iesus Christ haue mercy upon us miserable sinners and looke with the eyes of compassion upon us as thou sometimes diddest upō Mary Magdalene that penitent sinner when lying at thy feete shee from the bottome of her heart sincerely bewayled her owne transgressions and the Publican in the Temple when he smote upon his breast and implored thy favour and the Theefe upon the Crosse when he entreated and obteyned thy pardon Lord grant us to receiue the same this day from thee absolue thou us in Heaven forgiue us our sinnes O God thou author of all comfort Cast us not away from thy presence but cause us so to walke in thy feare that in faith and loue wee may serue and please thee thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen III. For Peace and Concord GIue peace in our time O Lord because there is no other that fighteth for us but onely thou O God Giue peace unto our King and all other Princes direct them rightly to govern the Cōmon-wealth and grant that under them wee may liue a quiet and a peaceable life in all pietie and honestie Amen Another O Lord God heavenly Father from whom all courage of minde good counsaylt and just workes doe proceede giue unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot giue that both our hearts may depend vpon thy Commandements and also that being safe under thy protection wee may passe our time in rest and quietnesse thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another O Almightie and eternall God King of glory and Lord of Heaven and Earth by whose Spirit all things are governed and by whose becke and providence all things are directed thou onely art the God of peace from whom all peace and concord doe proceede wee humbly beseech thee to forgiue us our sinnes and to giue us thy holy peace and true concord that in thy feare we may serue thee and for ever laud praise thee who