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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10845	Vox ducis: or, An alarme from the trumpet of God to euery souldier in Iesus Christ. Calling them to fight the good fight of faith. In a sermon at Pauls Crosse, Sept. 11. 1631. by Iohn Robinson preacher of the word of God and Mr of Arts of Kings Coll. in Camb.	Robinson, John, preacher.	1631 (1631)	STC 21117; ESTC S114096	25,235	86

foole turne souldier it may well be feared that hee will either hold his weapon flat way and so wound himselfe or else mistake his friend instead of his aduersary But for such me thinks a Schoole of Defence were better wherein to learne skill then a field to put it in practise because wrath carries such to valor and not knowledge and therefore in fighting doe they seeke rather to perish then to vanquish But it is here demanded wherein this military wisdome of a Christian souldier doth consist In answer to which I will referre it to three chiefe members of the body 1 To the feet they must bee held in with order that so they doe not range out of their proper place according to that of Solomon A wise man will order his steps but the foolish hee goes out Pro. 19. 3. of his owne ranke and peruerts his way And so wee must fight orderly all of vs must set our feet in battell aray and continue there in our standing like the Northern army concerning whom wee read that they should runne like mighty men and climbe the wals Iocl 2. like men of warre that they should march euery one in his way and not breake their ranks The Philosopher could say that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Arist Polit. lib. 2. order was the mother and preseruer of all things for which cause the Apostle will haue all things to be done in order for God saies the same Apostle is the God of order and not of confusion As for 1 Co. 14. 40 disorder that dwels only in hell the place of all misery and therefore Babel is made a type of it which signifies nothing but confusion Gen. 11. 9. But order must bee on earth as in other things so more especially in fighting Nam cum miles Centurioni Centurio Tribuno obsequitur saies Tacitus facile fit aditus ad Annal l 1. victoriam But è contra nothing sooner loses the field then when men goe out of their orders and ranks out of their places and callings as when the master goes on foot and the seruant gets vp into the saddle which was one of Solomons Eccl 10. 7 euils that hee saw vnder the Sunne when one goes vp to the front that should come behinde in the reare Vsque adeo turbatur agris Virg Eclog By this meanes doth confusion march into the army and after it destruction And indeed all now will be Captaines to teach others when as the Apostle saies they haue more need to be taught themselues Heb. 5. 12. or else they will haue none of the Crowne no nor fight one stroke in the combat That as it was said of the Egyptians that all of them would be Priests so of these times Moses wish is now Aegypti Sacerdotos omnes Nu. 11 29 well nigh fulfilled Omnes erimus Caesares all of vs would faine bee Captains oh that I were a King saies Absolon 2 Sa. 15. 4. Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis Aut Caesar aut nullus But Absolon must first learne what it is to be a subiect for Non nosti longas Regibus esse manus For dost thou not know that Kings must haue long hands to guide the reines of gouernment And yet now will euery Cobler finde fault with the face of the picture when his art reaches no higher then the foot as Luther said Vnusquisque habet in se Pa●am But doth not hee take too much vpon him O ye sonnes of Levi datur vobis seire Nunquid enim Saul inter 1 Sa. 10. 11 Prophetas well if hee be Spiritus illum invasit malus prophetabat 1 Sa. 18. 10. an euill and disordered spirit hath put him into orders and behold he prophecies Quis autem 1 Sa. 10. 12 pater as they said of Saul for is hee not the sonne of Kish who went about to seeke his fathers Asses and how then doe wee heare these things of him Proh pudor Quis Cui as it was said of Arsacius an vnlearned Bishop that succeeded Origen Euery cursed bramble now will take vpon him to bee a Prince among Iudg. 9. 15 the trees as in Iothams parable and the sonne of the Thistle must needs match with the Cedars 2 Kin. 14. 9 daughter For will not this wood saies hee serue as well to make some throne for a king as some plash for a hedge Are not all the people holy sayes Corah Nu. 16 3. Are not Abanah and Pharphar riuers of Damascus saies Naaman 2 Reg 5 1● to Elisha as good to wash in as the riuer of Iordan So are not we say they as fit to bee made Captains as other men No saies Elisha it must be Iordan and no other riuer the virtue of healing is annexed by God only to that riuer and the King hee can only co●e this ouerflowing euill As for others nemo te conduxit ad hoc opus this is enough that no man hath hired them to this work M 〈…〉 Et nasci à principibus fortuitū est And euery one cannot bee borne to this dignity how then can yee expect wages for it since euery one shall receiue his wages 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to his work Rather bee ordered by your Captains quo in loco es constitutus ibi astes and fight in that part of the battell wherein they haue placed thee for as Christ said to his Disciples in another case non vestrum est scire mysteria regni so say I scire tuum nihil est Mat. 13. 11 Alas you are more brute then any men as Hagar said of himselfe neither is there any knowledge touching these affaires Pro 30 2 lodging in you Wherefore as Christ said to Peter so say I quid hoc ad te Aliud plectrum aliud Sceptrū Ioh. 21 23. as Stratonicus the Musician told Ptolemy or as Basil said to the Emperors Steward who laboured to peruert Scripture for the strengthning of the Arian heresy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is thy part saies he to looke to the Emperors kitchin stuffe and not to trouble thy head about the knotty places of Scripture Vobis hoc non datur for as the twelue Apostles said Is it meet to leaue the word of God and serue tables Acts 6. 2. so may wee say on the contrary is it meet thinke you to leaue tables and come presently to dispence the word no surely for there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great gulfe of difference betwixt these two Luc. 16. 26 so that those idle drones that would passe from hence to them cannot neither againe can those thredbare pragmaticall tradesmen that would from thence to vs indeed some Enthusiasts of late daies haue not been afraid to passe this latter gulfe but who so bold saies the prouerb as blinde Bayard Partus enim indicavit patrem for their vncouth births haue shew'd their breeding and