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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04597	A spiritual chaine, and armour of choice, for Sion souldiers Which, whosoeuer weareth graciously, shall be sure of the best honour, comfort and safetie (whether he liue or die in the battell) that can come to a Christian souldier. Very necessary for these times.	Jones, Anthony, fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 14717.5; ESTC S114423	39,266	114

A SPIRITVAL CHAINE AND ARMOVR OF CHOICE FOR SION SOVLDIERS Which whosoeuer weareth graciously shall be sure of the best honour comfort and safetie whether he liue or die in the battell that can come to a Christian souldier Very necessary for these times LONDON Printed by William Iones for Robert Mylbourne at the great South doore of Pauls 1622. TO MY ESPECIAL REVEREND LOVING AND BELOVED FRIENDS BOTH Magistrates Ministers and others who loue the Sion of our God and to such friends of theirs also as vnto whom they shall thinke good to impart this booke for the end here proposed and in conclusion to all them who intend to publish any Treatise Grace and peace be multiplied from God the Father and from our Lord Iesus Christ Amen REuerend louing beloued in the God of honor loue it so pleasing his diuine Maiestie to withhold me by much weaknesse a great while of late from preaching his holy word I searched my heart wherein I might do most seruice in these my old yeares and decaying dayes to my good God and most good to his Church by any other talent which he hath bestowed vpon me Hauing a small one in writing I resolued to vse it now as called thereunto Our glorious God saith by Solomons pen Without counsell Prou. 15.22 purposes are disappointed but in the multitude of counsellers they are established I desire therefore to haue my poore labours perused by many of my iudicious friends and theirs also thereby to obteine sound counsell Heartily then I beseech you in that gracious God of ours to shew me your loue in this action herein chiefly viz. if you finde any thing in this Treatise which might dishonour our good God or do any maner of hurt to his Sion that you will admonish me of it As I ought not so I will not be iudge of mine owne workes there being nothing wherein a man may sooner deceiue himselfe Bookes in my iudgement require a greater purifying then gold yea and a more excellent fire also to purge them No materiall fire purgeth gold so well as the spirits of Gods childoen a famous kind of fire do purge those bookes which are submitted to that most true and trustie triall So I call it because such spirits doe make their triall by the word that fire of fires though I be not of his minde for the time of impression who said Nonum premantur in annum publish your bookes the ninth yeare yet am I iust of the same man minde for taking a large time both to reuise and aduise yet I desire not to tie others vnto my maner of publishing bookes or to taxe any who take lesse time and counsell in penning spreading abroad of their works if they take so much as may shew that they be not of a priuate spirit and readier to offer vnto the world nimis praecocia quam satis praeparata things rather too hastily ripened then sufficiently prepared There will be wants when the longest and best care is takeÌ„ for who can say that his heart pen or tongue are perfect much more doth great haste make great waste You shall perceiue that I finde fault with such kinde of haste and here I aduise all writers to take good leisure This also I adde out of my experience from the present Treatise for inducing others the sooner and the more to rely on that old prouerb Plus vident oculi quam oculuâ— a great many of eies see more then one viz. that to my remembrance I neuer shewed this booke to any but I was moued necessarily to put in or take out somewhat so against the next impression if the godly experienced see cause I purpose to do And I most humbly thanke our gracious God for giuing mee the minde and the meanes to haue the iudgement of diuers godly and worthy men in this action which yet also I seeke more and more vsing the Presse as a helpe at this time to that end No more now but that I humbly beseech our blessed God to blesse you and yours and all your emploiments and studies and withall I desire your prayers for a blessing to me and my endeuours so as we all in all our purposes and actions may seeke his glorie To God our Father almightie and to his dearely beloued Sonne our blessed Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus and to the holy Spirit three Persons and one God most wise holy iust and mercifull be all honour praise and thankes for euer and euer Amen To those patterne Captaines so I call them who are Leaders by their godly example of the Artillerie and Militarie in the Citie of London that famous Citie of the kingdome his Maiesties most strong safe and trustie Chamber and to all others there who any way haue any speciall hand for vpholding the practise of Chiualrie in what offices soeuer they be setled I wish all maner of peace from the God of peace and all holy and prouident preparation for all kinds of godly warre THe Wife whoÌ„ Bethsheba described Prou. 31. hath bin is now and for euer shall be a peerlesse patterne to all vertuous wiues right so your worthy actions concerning matters of Chiualrie that the knowledge and exercise thereof may not decay in Citizens haue bin are now and I hope will be a notable example to the present age and to all posteritie Therefore as it is said of the vertuous wife A woman that feareth God Prou. 31.30 v 29. shall be praised Her children rise vp and call her blessed Her husband praiseth her her owne workes praise her So say I of you The training vp of the Cities valiant men yea youths nay very children in feates of armes being first taught to feare their God and to be armed against and fight against Satan causeth those children to rise vp and blesse both parents and Preachers and Captaines for their education yea and it maketh the whole land to reioyce in their good God for the worthie patterne which you giue to the kingdome in these right worthy actions both for bodie and soule Hereby you shew that you are not like the lazie people of Laish Iudg. 18.7 8 9. who by their carelesnesse were fit to be made a prey to any that would inuade them Go on good Citizens thus to ioyne religion and prowesse pietie by the peaceable word and policie by the preuenting sword so shall your workes continue to praise you in the gates and to cause the praise of our glorious God to sound both in earth and in heauen For your better progresse herein I haue sent you euen first of all a little Treatise touching the antiquitie and nobilitie of gracious Souldiers and concerning the holy behauiour which they ought to haue without which no science mysterie or art no not the seuen Liberall Arts no nor any other knowledge whatsoeuer are of any reckoning with our God The Lord our God blesse it to you and blesse you all and the whole Citie also

campe be holy that he see no vncleane thing in thee and turne away from thee This holdeth in spirituall things much more then in corporall Our God is a spirit and vieweth the spirit of man and requireth spirituall cleanlinesse inward cleanlinesse specially Math. 11.18 Is this commandement of God true and this presence of God true Yea they are most true O then let Sion souldiers be Cornelian souldiers such I meane as feare God and are deuout Acts 10.2,7 for this end and purpose I heartily with and pray and aduise that all Sion souldiers may now and for euer earnestly consider of and diligently labour to get and put on the spirituall Chaine and Armour which now I come to describe I shew it but God onely can bestow it This Chaine is made of eight heauenly linkes I haue here by Gods assistance collected eight worthy things from his owne word the mouth of the Lord hath declared them which they that make true vse of shall proue true souldiers of Iesus Christ their heauenly Captain Euery Christian must haue these eight linkes according to their seuerall places and occasions and weare them close together as in a chaine and put on this armour also but specially these double souldiers who fight both corporally and spiritually they must haue double care to enioy them graciously They that despise any one of these linkes or any part of this armour our God wil despise them and they shall be found vnworthy of the name of Christian souldiers God grant that such as make shew to fight on his side may in truth weare these eight worthies worthy links I meane graciously ioyned together as a spirituall chaine about their holy necks These they are 1. Person Gen. 4.1.4 5. First they must consider of their persons how they stand in Gods fauour As the sacrifice of a wicked man is not acceptable to our God no more is his person if not his person then no action which he performeth 2. Cause Ios 10.5.8 Deut. 23.4 Secondly they must looke to the cause for which they must fight that it be holy our iust God will maintaine no vniust cause Thirdly they who fight the Lords battels 3. Courage Ios 1.6 must see to their courage that it be valiant He sends not forth cowards to fight for him but valiant men and this valiantnesse is setled on a firme resolution at all assayes Fourthly they must consider of such mercie as belongs to Christian souldiers 4. Mercie Iam. 2.13 and that must be abundant for our God delights in mercie Fiftly they must obserue truth in all their leagues and promises and that must be vnfained and constant 5. Truth Psal 15.4 The God of truth loueth truth Sixtly they must haue consideration of their wages 6. Wages Luke 3.14 when to take it holily and when to be without it patiently Seuenthly they must haue care of their spirituall armour 7. Armour Ephes 6.13 this armour they must put on and keepe on for euer and not their corporall onely Eightly and lastly 8. Consultation Iudg. 20.18 they must alwayes consult with their good God in all plots enterprises and actions whatsoeuer Of these eight things briefly according to my little skill and strength For the first worthy that is to say a worthy person Sith our glorious God is the God of battell 1 A worthy person and ruleth all things therein both for beginning middle and end For of him and through him Rom. 11.36 and to him are all things How can a souldier haue any blessing in warre if his person be not loued but hated of this all-gouerning God Except his person be found worthy in that Worthy of worthies Christ Iesus whereby his conscience is more and more purified he is like an outlaw Tit. 1.15 depriued from all comfort in and protection from the high God As an earthly Courtier can haue no likelihood to be graced and preferred but rather to be disgraced and deiected if there be euident tokens that the King of that country abhors him so it is with euery souldier in Gods campe if his person be not gracious with that heauenly Captaine of Captains Michael whose great name declares his greatnesse Who like our God Faith with a gracious purpose of amendment of life if God lengthen the dayes are inward tokens of Gods fauour to a souldiers person The outward signes to be seene of men are A reall change of their old life for that sheweth the new birth Zeale for Gods glory with an vtter detestation of all leud companie and generally a holy cariage and behauiour in words and deeds gouerned by the word as in Gods presence Such sanctified souldiers may assure themselues that they are well accepted by the God of battell be it by life be it by death Therfore all wicked souldiers that are hardened in notorious vices are quite excluded whiles they so remaine from all hope that their persons please God and thereby haue iust cause to quake at euery sound of the Trumpet or Drum This being true as it is most true it behoueth Christian souldiers to consider deeply hereof and to labour by all meanes that their persons may be gracious in the eyes of their God yea and to know it and make it known by those tokens aboue named and such other before they put foote to warre lest they fall into horrible danger of soule and bodie state and name I write not this to discourage any sinner but rather to hearten them more by becoming holy I who write this do acknowledge that both my selfe and my fathers house and my owne house haue sinned and do sinne but I write it to stir vp my selfe and mine in our places and all Sion souldiers in their places to a gracious regard of holinesse more and more without which neither can we looke for any blessing in peace nor they in battell Therefore that you may prosper in war leaue off your grosse sinnes and come to the battell and stand in the battell graciously and holily that so your persons may be accepted in and by Christ Iesus our Lord. Thus much for the first consideration the first link the first worthy thing The second thing for Sion souldiers to consider of is the cause for which they fight 2. A worthy cause they must haue a worthy cause A souldier how valiant and vertuous soeuer who hath no consideration of this is in no better case then his horse the horse goeth willingly and fiercely to the battell as well as his master looke whither he rides him thither the horse hasteth against whom or for what cause the beast cares not because it is a beast it sufficeth the dumbe creature that his master sets him forward but this is not enough for a man especially for a Sion souldier he may not suffer himselfe to be drawn on to war by his owne vainglorie or couetousnes without due respect to the cause no nor to be

compelled to war in a cause apparently knowne to be vnholy and vniust Most true it is that he must go to war sometimes when wel he knoweth the cause nay more then that when he is vtterly ignorant thereof For souldiers may be iustly pressed by their gouernours to take weapon way and ship towards some exploit which as yet is hidden and vnfit to be opened for a season If it be hid continually then they must beware of suspition and iudge louingly of their Prince Loue is not suspitious 1. Cor. 13.5.6.7 but hopefull rather rest fully perswaded that the cause is good Their diligent search to know the goodnesse of the cause Proâ— 5.3 and their desire to fight in a holy cause when by any secrecie in the Princes heart which is deepe and vnsearchable or by any suddennesse of combat it cannot be reuealed is accepted by our good God who searcheth the herat Now if he cannot come to an euident truth of the iustnesse of the cause yet a Centurion souldier so I call the obedient at a becke must go with all speed Math 8.9 labouring to fight with as much courage as if he knew the cause to be euer so iust and then our gracious God who seeth his holy purpose will take this good hope conceiued of his Deputie in good part and take his due obedience giuen to his Deputie as done to himself Beware then of false whisperings which many times bring disobedient murmurings Gods Vicegerent must not be denied aide no nor so much as grudged at vpon surmises and rumors so they might haue no heartie vse at all of subiects for maintaining their wars Howbeit that serious enquirie that full purpose that heartie desire to fight in a good cause abhorring the contray should be in all Sion souldiers Therefore those souldiers shew themselues to haue ignorant blockish and wicked hearts who care nothing at all in what cause they venture lims and life much more they who hazard themselues when the cause is plainly discerned to be bad If hope of gaine be their principall motiue then haue they hearts possessed with the roote of all euill 1. Tim. 6.10 Here mercenarie souldiers are greatly to be reproued who runne to and fro like greedie wolues and flie hither and thither like hungrie Eagles where they may haue most wages whether they fight for God or for the Diuell they care not so they may haue mony and spoiles Such as these can looke for no good successe in the battell God forbid that any Protestant souldier should be of this mercenarie mind Hence it is that I aduise all godly souldiers to vse all good meanes to be throughly perswaded of the goodnes of their cause that so that good God and mightie defender of right may stand for them and that they may stand to him with true courage in the field And yet again I aduise a gracious souldier to iudge the best of the cause if by those occasions which I haue named or the like he can neuer find the depth of it for he must in no wise contest with his gouernours about the cause by standing vpon nice termes shifts and euasions Thus might vnwilling souldiers find store of starting holes to auoide all skirmishes To conclude a Sion soldier must be zealous for a good cause and not iealous of a good Prince he must vse all good inquisition and auoide all euill suspition And thus much for the second worthy sink namely a worthy cause Thirdly sith all men though vertuous 3. Worthy Courage godly and prudent are not endued with courage fit for war for courage is a speciall gift of God it behoueth a true Christian to consider how God hath stirred him vp that way and not offer himselfe to war vpon a sudden heate or mood in euer so good a cause but stay till he find that the God of battell hath bestowed a firme couragious heart vpon him without which he is able to do small good nay rather much harme Faint hearts may sooner discomfort others then performe any acceptable seruice at all Yet this I say in the case of courage when any goeth to warre voluntarily vpon a deceiued heart and then findeth his courage faint or when any that is pressed to war by his Prince is oppressed with feare of the enemie then let him do that to obtaine courage which men ought to doe for obtaining wisedome Iam. 1.17 both these descend from the Father of lights Iam. 1.5 Therefore as Saint Iames saith If a-man lacke wisedome let him aske it of God which giueth to all men liberally and reprocheth no man so say I if any Christian souldier want courage let him aske it of God in faith and for his glorie not for by and bad respects and if then our most wise God doth not vouchsafe vpon earnest petitions to bestow this gift vpon him surely he should do well to confesse his faintnesse and then such gracious Captaines as shall haue full notice thereof shall do well also to send him backe for some other emploiment at home I make no way here for dissemblers to wind out of their Princes seruice our God can giue holy Captaines discerning spirits to iudge of things in wisedome but I speake of such souldiers whose dastardly feare is apparently seene Here I suppose that old rule of our good God is to be remembred and practised for euer which saith Let the officers speake vnto the people Deut. 20.8 and say Whosoeuer is fearfull and fainthearted let him go and returne vnto his house lest his brethrens hearts faint as well as his heart yet I determine nothing hereof but leaue it to the godly wisedome of religious Captaines To go forward now in speaking more fully of courage I must put you in mind that this courage which here I write of hath alwayes a holy and noble resolution from the first houre to the last What resolution A Christian resolution full of magnanimitie A heart a soule a bodie fully resolued and prepared for all kinde of extremities yea death it selfe which endeth all a heart a soule which makes the will and testament at home in such sort as if the man were neuer to returne to his short home but to go as our phrase of speech is to his long home a heart a soule prepared to leaue all in all and to beare all brunts for Christ his sake When the person of a souldier is once accepted of his God in that most worthy Sonne of his that Lambe I say who is worthy to receiue power and riches and wisedome Reu. 5.12 and strength and glorie and praise then with this resolution which is vnseperable from that acceptance the Sion souldier defieth all Gods enemies despiseth all dangers and after a heauenly maner denieth all friends and himselfe also for Christs sake Then he saith Life I looke not for thy continuance Death I feare not thy sting Wife father mother sonne daughter brother sister friend

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