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A19887	A royall edict for military exercises published in a sermon preached to the captaines, and gentlemen that exercise armes in the artillery garden at their generall meeting. In Saint Andrewes vndershaft, in London, Iune 23. 1629. By Iohn Dauenporte, B. of Diuinity, and P. of Saint Stephans in Cole-man-street in London.	Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1629 (1629)	STC 6313; ESTC S118437	18,564	36

A ROYALL EDICT FOR MILITARY EXERCISES Published in a Sermon preached to the Captaines and Gentlemen that exercise Armes in the Artillery Garden at their generall meeting In Saint Andrewes Vndershaft in London Iune 23. 1629. By IOHN DAVENPORTE B. of Diuinity and P. of Saint Stephans in Cole-man-street in London ISA. 49.23 Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and Queenes thy Nurses LONDON Printed by ELIZABETH ALLDE for RALPH MAB and are to be sold by NICHOLAS BOVRNE at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange 1629. To The Right worshipfull St. Hugh Hammersly Knight Iustice of Peace and Alderman and one of the Colonels of the Citty of London and President of the Martiall Company exercising Armes in the Artillery Garden AND To all the rest of the famous Society Captaines Assistants and Gentlemen professing and exercising Armes Worthy President Captaines and Gentlemen THe same Persons and the same Argument that induced me to preach this Sermon in your eares haue preuailed with me to present it in this manner to your eyes not to submit it to your iudgements 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iames 3.1 cap. 4.11 as our masterly-censorious hearers expect who make themselues Iudges of that which should teach them to iudge themselues and shall one day iudge them 1. Cor. 11.31 Rom. 2.16 Heb. 4.12 Iude 11. Psal 91.4 2. Thes 2 10. nor to craue your patronage or protection of it for it is the Word of God mighty in operation and sharper then a two edged sword to cut off all that gainsay it and so able to defend it selfe yea it is the truth of God a shield and Buckler to those that receiue the loue of it and so able to defend them For my selfe who am I that I should hope to be exempted from the common condition of Preachers and Writers Ier. 18.18 that is to bee smitten with the tongues of those who account nothing worthy acceptance but the fruite of their owne braine There are principally three sorts of men Luke 22.50 that like Malchus hauing his right eare cut off heare all things sinisterly First Ambitious persons Secondly 3. sorts of persons iniurious in their censur s of Preache s Sermons Malicious persons Thirdly Vicious persons if this Sermon come into any of these persons hands I must expect that as men looking vpon any thing through a coloured glasse iudge that thing to be of the same colour with the glasse through which they looke so their opinions of the Preacher and of the Sermon will be conformed to the inward distemper of their owne hearts First Maleuoli velut Momi aruedut nos magis animi morbo quā iudicio Melanth Gul. Epis Hausmano 4 to 1. Ambitious persons Nihil est quod Ecclesiam ita diuellere qucat atque ambitio dominandi Chryst Hom 11. in cap. 4. ad Eph. 3. Ioh. 9. Iames 4.6 the Ambitious person seekes to raise himselfe in the fall and to honour himselfe in the disgrace of those who seeme to outshine him in true worth Thus Corah out of a desire of esteeme resisted Moses Diotrephes out of a Loue of Preeminence withstood Iohn the Diuine and those false Apostles that they might exault themselues vilified and traduced Saint Paul Those wee haue more cause to pitty because God resisteth them and to pray for them that God would make them more humble and lowly-minded then to bee disquieted at their insolencies which is a sure signe of their folly and emptinesse For wee see the boughs the more laden with fruite they are the more lowly but in a fanne we see the chaffe is aboue the Corne not because its better but because its lighter Secondly 2. Malicious persons the Malicious person out of an inward hatred against the person of another misiudgeth all his actions and intentions This you may see in the carriage of the Priests and Prophets against Ieremy Ier 26.11 Amos 7.10 of Amaziah against Amos and of those cruell and scornefull men concerning whom the Prophet Isay speaketh that would make a man an offendour for a word Isa 29.21 For these my prayer is that the Lord would destroy the workes of Satan that enuious man in their hearts and fill them with the fruites of the spirit especially loue Gal. 5.22 3. Vicious persons Isa 5.29 peace gentlenesse goodnesse faith Thirdly Vicious persons speake good of euill and euill of good these put darkenesse for light and light for darkenesse these put bitter for sweet and sweet for sowre Dauid out of much experience of such sayth They are licentious and speake wickedly they talke presumptuously they set their mouth against Heauen Psal 73.8 9. Male de me loqūtur sed mali Mouerer si de me M. Cato Si Lelius sapiēs si duo Sci●iones ista loquerentur nunc malis displicere laudari est Soen de rem fort and their tongue walketh thorow the earth To be dispraysed of such is a prayse as when an Enemy reuiles a Generall or Captaine or common Souldier for his faithfulnes to his King and Country But J must not make a Booke of an Epistle To you right worthy Cittizens with all due respect I dedicate these Meditations such as they are as belonging to you by right For your sakes they were preached at your request they are now published If heerein you shall finde any mo●iues to encourage you any rules to direct you in this laudable Exercise let God haue the Glory and J am abundantly satisfied whom nothing could haue drawne to this taske but my vnfeigned loue to your persons and my hearty desire of your incouragement in so worthy designes Yours in all Christian duties and seruices J. D. A ROYALL EDICT FOR MILITARY EXERCISES 2. SAM 1.18 Also hee bade them teach the children of Iudah the vse of the Bow Behold it is written in the Booke of Iasher THe occasion of these words as you may see in the last Chapter of the former Booke was the death of Saul and Ionathan 1. Sam. 31. with the flight and discomfiture of Israel before the Philistims reported to Dauid by a man who in the former part of this Chapter receiued condigne punishment 2. Sam. 1.2 to 16. for that which he pretended to haue done From the 17. verse to the end of this Chapter Verse 17. ad finem you haue Dauids lamentation for Saul and Ionathan and the state of Israel which as it respected Saul was asorrow arising from the sence of humane calamities and charges whereunto euen the greatest Princes are subiect as it respected Ionathan it arose from his deare loue to so true a friend as it respected the state of Israel it arose from the apprehension of Gods dishonour in the triumphs of the Philistims and seemes to answer that mournfull expression of Ioshua Iosh 7.8 Oh Lord what shall I say when Israel turne their backes before their enemies yet hee is not so swallowed vp with too much griefe 2. Cor.

the earth what may serue for his vse and benefit Reason 3 Religion and obedience to God binde men to vse all lawfull and possible meanes of safety Not that God is tied to the meanes so as not to worke without them for hee gaue light to the world without the Sunne and nourished Moses and Eliah 40. dayes without food nor so as alwayes to worke with them only wee are bound to vse the meanes with submission to his prouidence who as a free Agent workes with them or without them according to his good pleasure Excellent to this purpose was that resolution of Ioab Be strong and let vs be valiant for our people 2. Sam. 10.12 and for the Citties of our God and let the Lord doe that which is good in his eyes For neither Gods purpose nor his power nor his promise secures any man in the neglect of meanes 1. Not his purpose for in the greatest matter that concernes man 2. Tim. 2.19 2. Pet. 1.10 though The foundation of God remaineth sure in himselfe yet men must giue all diligence to make their calling and election sure to themselues Iosh 5.12 2. Nor his power he could feed Israel in Canaan as hee had done in the wildernesse but Manna ceased when they came to a land that would yeeld corne vpon mens ordinary labours at this day hee can feed men Mat. 6.26 28. as hee clothed Lillies which neither sowe nor reape nor carry into their barnes but it is his will that man should labour with his hands the thing that is good Eph. 4.28 if he would haue wherewith to feed himselfe or giue to others without theft Iudg. 6.14 Iudg 7. ● 8. Mat. 4.7 8. 3. Not his promise Gideon had a promise of victory yet he vsed meanes Our Lord Christ had a promise of protection yet hee would not cast himselfe downe from the pinnacle Paul had a promise of safety Act. 27.22.31 yet he saith Except these abide in the ship we cannot be safe Wee conclude then that since Soueraigne power Common-wealths Lawes and Armes had the same originall the same end and since the common safety of King and people is procured by Militarie exercises and since Religion and obedience to God binds all men to vse all lawfull and possible meanes for their owne safety and good we conclude that it is a care well beseeming Kings to prouide that their subjects may by such meanes be trained vp to warres And so we haue as briefly as we could dispatched the Doctrinall part we now come to application wherein after we haue laid downe some consectaries which shall be clearely deduced from the Text we shall endeuour to speake to the present occasion 1 Vse or consectary 1. Vse or consectary is vpon this ground to iustifie warres lawfully vndertaken now in the times of the Gospell against the Manichees and Marcionites of old with the Anabaptists and Familists of latter times for how can it be said that the care of preparation for warrs beseemes Kings if warres themselues be vnlawfull or how shall that be recorded to Dauids praise which beseemes not other Kings Obiect But the difference of times alters the case That might be lawfull in Dauids time which is vnlawfull now For of these times of the Gospell it s said They shall breake their swords into Mattockes Isa 2.4 their speares into fithes Nation shall not lift vp a sword against Nation neither shall they learne to fight any more For Answere of this Answ we must oppose to it another text where the Lord calls vpon the people to breake their plow-shares into swords Ioel 3.10 and their fithes into speares That it may appeare there is no contradiction in the Spirit speaking by Isay to it selfe speaking by Ioel we must distinguish betweene the purpose and intent of Christ in comming into the world and in publishing the Gospell whereat Isay aimeth and the successe or euent which was accidentall in respect of mans malice which Ioel intendeth Respectiuely to the first Christ said to Peter Put vp thy sword Mat. 26.51 52 for hee that strikes with the sword shall perish with the sword As if he had said I came not to send the sword but peace Repectiuely to the second he saith to his Disciples He that hath no sword let him sell his coate Luke 21.36 and buy him a sword As if hee had said My comming sends not peace but a sword So that though the end of Christ his comming was to reconcile things in heauen and things on earth which end he now attaineth betweene God vs in our Iustification will accōplish betweene man and man in the day of Redemption yet so long as Satan workes in the children of disobedience and so long as any remnant of sinne is in the heart of any there will be a necessity and lawfulnesse of war and of this care to prepare for it 2 Vse or Consectary 2. Thes 2. 2. Vse or Consectary Is this care well beseeming Kings as that which belongs to them by right Then it ill beseemes that Man of sinne to vsurpe vpon this right of Kings God committed the Magisteriall power of appointing the times of sounding the siluer Trumpets Numb 10. vnto Moses But the ministerial power of sounding thē vpon cōmand to Aaron See the pride of this Vsurper who will snatch the Trumpets out of Moses hands and not the Trumpets only but the swords also nor the swords only but the Crownes and Scepters also I doubt not that in due time God will vnite the ten hornes against his pride who exalts himselfe aboue all that is called God 1. Thes 2. 3. Vse It remaineth that a word or two of incouragement 3 Vse Inc●uragements and Cautions and caution be added for the Iustification and Direction of your Noble designes in these Military exercises which are of so great consequence for the Common good as hath beene formerly declared If it be a course vvell-beseeming Kings to prouide that by these meanes their subjects be trained vp and fitted to vvarres certainely it vvell becomes subjects to offer themselues willingly to such exercises 1. Incouragements to 2. sorts 1. Such as are already mēbers of this Society Those to whom I am to addresse this part of my speech are of two sorts 1. Such as are already exercized members of this society 2. Such as may hereafter be added thereunto For the former I need not seeke farre for incouragements your workes praise you and the aboundant fruit Who are incouraged frō former successe In respect Iudges 5.8 1 Sam. 13.18 19. 1. Of Armes and successe of them may incourage you It was ill with Israel when there was not a shield or a speare to be found amongst forty thousand in Israel There was want of Armes And no lesse miserable was their estate when there was no Smith in the Land There was want of Armourers Little better was the condition of