lost O ur good God takes it in a foule scorne to speake and not be heard to be heard and not minded R eligion promiseth no worldly pleasures but contrary they shall whip and scourge you they shall binde and lead you whither you would not D oe as the most doe and fewest will finde fault with you but God chargeth us not to follow a multitude in evill E very mans hand is not an able instrument of mischiefe but whosoever the instrument be the consenter is as deep both in the sin and the penalty R ighteous men shall never be swept away for company yet the unrighteous are often spared for company F ew words to the wicked in the latter day but full of bitternesse depart word of separation ye cursed words of malediction into everlasting fire words of desolation prepared for the Devill and his angell words of exemplification I n many things familiarity breeds contempt but in these things strangenesse and ignorance hath made men prophanely insolent E very man hath his knowledge from nature but the Christian his from grace one is from earth the other from heaven L et no man cast with himselfe how old he may be before he returne from his sinnes lest he reckon without his host S inne is like Stibium it will tarry with no body up it must either here by an humble confession or hereafter by a wretched confusion T here can be no full satisfaction or consolation in the minde of any knowledge but of Ghrist O utward crosses and calamities may take from us our goods of this world but it can never take Christ Jesus from us T he contempt of the truth makes it not worse but thy selfe and the advancing of it makes it not better but thy self H ee that is alwaies for the time nothing for the truth is like a top that goes alwayes round never forwards unlesse it be whipt E very worldling is left-handed he will be doing though hee have no thanks for his paines R eligion derived from Christ preserves unity with Christians he that will not keep the peace of God shall not be kept by the peace of God I t is easie for the greatnesse of authority to beare out the smalnesse of piety and commonly the sins of the mighty are mighty sinnes therefore their destruction is answerable to their presnmption G ods children have three suits of apparrell blacke white and red here we are blacke with mourning red with parse cution and shall be white only glorified H ee that mournes for the cause of his punishment shall mourn but a while but he that mournes for the punishment and not for cause shall mourne for ever T he good man looks into himself not into another and therefore thinks best of another not of himself O bedience it selve would lose a reward by comming short but for perseverance for no vertue can expect eternall blessednes but that which holds out to the end R emember O man how short thy time in and be not weary of thy pains for what cause can be long in that which is so short of it selfe L ooke where the glory of this world ends the glory of heaven begins but riches are here to day and gone to morrow E very service in the end brings wages but the wages of sinne is without end F lattering up others in their sinnes is the very next way to make them our owne T he Word of God sets down the wages of sin and tyes punishment to it as an inseparable effect to the cause H ee that chose us when we were not called and called us when we were nought and hath justified us being sinners will glorifie us being Saints A man may partake of one nature of Christ and be cursed but if of his divine then most blessed N ature created and nature corrupted is the difference between Gods workmanship and ours D eath is fearfull wages when it is paid in the proper coine without the allay of Christs death to qualifie it O ne that will plead Christs cause without a fee or he that will say with Job Though he kill me yet I will trust in him shews the heart of a Saint R esolve with Hester If I perish I perish for nothing can be lost that wee piously trust God withall F aith goes along with Christ from his cradle to his crosse it sees him doing good and suffering ill R ecrant souldiers first forsake their courage and the last thing that forsakes them is their heels O ur backwardnesse requires continuall provocation to be good is a thing hardly gotten quickly forgotten M ans habitation pleaseth him his gold bewitcheth him a womans beauty tempteth him and yet all is but earth T ruth is never to be numbred by the pole for it is not numbers but weight that should carry it H e that mouths a Pater noster while his heart is in his coffer as if he would at once serve God and mammon in vaine thinks himselfe godly E arth will to earth an earthly desire to an earthly center so man lives till earth bee turned into earth so he dyes till earth be turned out of earth their earthly soule into hellish torments such a life is base and brutish C omplaine not though other men blanch thee so long as thou hast fellowship with Jesus Christ E very man be contented with his owne measure of good things vouchsafed him for God will not be prescribed N one but the King of Kings hath right to the stile Imperiall I will or I will not without limitation because his will and power are matches only T o obey well is as great as to governe well and more mens duties they that thinke otherwise know not the Christians part which is to suffer E nter not into a restlesse course of life for honour for a Princes breath blowes is up and the Peoples breath blowes it away R eady for honour ready for disgrace for poverty for riches for joy or sorrow for life or death for all such a Christian will hold out to the latter end O ur grace is Gods glory the more we are amended the more he is commended thus the truth appeares greater in us though it cannot bee made greater by us P erseverance is the queen of all vertues and the master of all temptations commands to sight against none but those that persevere in goodnesse E vill men may shew the good they have not but good men cannot hide the good they have N othing but grace can satisfie the soule of man give him grace and then be goes away springing like Joseph and singing like David T here cannot be a greater argument of a foule soule then the deriding of religious actions O ther sins have but three enemies to deale withall but a backslider hath a fourth a hard heart Y f we receive not the blessed Gospell with faith and feare Sodome and Gomerah never sinned as we sin nor were never so plagued as
MILITARY AND SPIRITUALL MOTIONS FOR Foot Companies VVith an Abridgement of the Exercise of a single Company as they now ought to be taught and no otherwise Composed in IRELAND and now published for the good of his fellow Soldiers in ENGLAND By Captaine Lazarus Haward of Ailsford in Kent London Printed by Tho. Harper and are to be sold in Little Britain 1645. To the Honorable Sir Anthony Weldon Knight and the rest of the Hon ble Deputy Lievtenants and Comittees of the County of Kent Honourable Gentlemen THE noble favours I daily receive from you since my arrivall out of Ireland into this County hath imboldned me to offer this poor tribute of mine experience not to teach your uncontrollable knowledges but humbly desire it may kisse your hands as a sacrifice offered from your servant or as a weaknesse that stands in need of your protections In your Honours I know is power to judge of my labour and in you also is power to exercise mercy I hope I have written nothing that is erring from sence or truth having not laboured mine own but the profit of my poore bleeding dying Country-men whom these miserable times have called out to this miserable unnaturall War desiring not only his temporall victory but above al his spirituall There may be many puny Scholars that from these briefe Rules may gather more abler judgements Your noble favours and allowance can only make it acceptable to those which need it especially in this Country which I wish to be served by it then let those graces fly from your noble natures that as now I live I may die your Honours poore Servant and Soldier L. H. To the Curteous Reader I Have not presumed to adde any thing to the uncontrollable knowledges of such as have formerly taken much pains in writing at large upon this Subject of drilling drayning or exercising of Foot Companies nor any new thing to catch covetous spirits but only what may ever be embraced of solid and substantiall judgements Innovations and divisions have stirred up such dismall distractions that it hath brought us neere to a fearefull desolation and that which by the blessing of God should be the principall means of our restoring being the Honourable art of War is with the times much of it become full of divisions and divisionall practises onely serving to delight curious spectators otherwise dangerous to the poore soldier if ever he be brought upon service the actors little regarding the old briefe rules from whence their new devised divisionall whimzies are fetcht But since peace it lost and the devouring sword strives to be conquerour of all and fearing that thou that art my fellow soldier who standst in need not only of military discipline but also in more need of spirituall so that not having put on S. Pauls spirituall armour nor beene exercised in any spirituall motions thou be in danger to lose both soule and body together Let me intreat thee to peruse these few briefe rules concerning the defence of thy soule and body both the brevity of the rules which thou art to use for defence of thy body will affoord thee sufficient time peruse and double over those good motions admonitions sentences and sayings as their letters have linkt them to their order which being well observed will bring thee to be a soldier of that great Captaine Christ Jesus under whose obedience is obtained ever lasting victory and a crowne of glory Thus uniformity in discipline spirituall and temporall will make us like the Israelites go up as one man with one heart and in one forme and so take away the evill from before our brethren and so once more enjoy a happy peace in Church and State this being the briefest way to give an end to our miserable troubles having comprehended the full and whole Exercise of a Foot Company in the last sheet of this Booke I commend thee to it and the rest which being construed according to my honest meaning I have got my desire and shall ever rest at thy service Lazarus Haward Military Motions for Exercising of Foot Companies S Ilence is the daughter of shamefastnesse both which as they are excuses for mediocrity so they are prejudices to excellencies I t is a shame a godly mans zeal should not be as couragious to defend the truth as a wicked mans malice is violent to oppose it L et heaven thunder earth and hell roar speak for the truth for it is truth that preserves our lives and makes us blessed for ever E vill thoughts can seldome bring forth good words never good deeds for as corne is so will the flower be N othing more lewd then error the more false the matter the greater noise to hold it up C ursed is that speech that is either against the God of truth or against Gods truth or against the friend of both God and truth E very man that is Christs Souldier will fight for him S erve the time I wicked counsell we are made to serve God T hat minde can never be steady that stands upon anothers feet untill it will rather lead then follow A Commonwealth is a tent picht up to shelter men from wrong that they may live happily together Lawes are the cords of it breake the cords and the tent falls N othing that the Law allowes but the male-content censures what it forbids that he strives to justifie but that 's a treacherous hand that steals away from States-men their reputation D ivinity is a mistresse for the highest masters of men and the Scripture is the best counsellour for the greatest States-man in the World R ulers to be unrighteous are like blazing Stars with long tailes drawing traines of mischiefe after them and is ominous to a whole Kingdome but piety in a Prince blesseth all his Subjects I f Magistrates will uphold Gods Kingdome he will uphold theirs if they will have God to be mindfull of them in his mercie they must be mindefull of him in their businesse G od permits false teachers for mans ingratitude because Ahab will not beleeve Micha a lying spirit shall deceive his Prophets H ee that comes in Gods name and is sent yet delivers a false message when he is come is a falsifier of Gods Word T o intangle the soul with multitude of traditions ceremonies and unconcerning rites is to be condemned for it takes away liberty of conscience I t would coole the heart of the Devill if the Church had escaped the ingenious solicitations of our superstitious teachers who not only trouble the waters of our peace but poyson her very springs of life N o sooner was God worshipped and served but hatred and spight fell to the portion and lot of Religion Y f false teachers had not store of followers hereticall positions would fall to the ground and themselves slinke away with reproach and shame O ur wickednesse in these daies and dangerous times proceeds not from weake but from wilfull ignorance V iolent opposing the
like a pulley that keeps reason in the right wheel and cashiers mutinous affections or executes Marshall law upon them S uch as turne grace into wantonnesse deny Christ for he that calls himself Christian and teaches that in Christ is granted liberty of finning denies his Redeemer Y f thou buy honour thou callest it thine indeed thy friend thou calst him thine purchasest a house thou calst it thine but Christ hath bought thee with his blood yet thou deniest to be his O ur inward sincerity is not without externall profession but externall profession may be without inward sincerity V ertue is ever full of proselt enemies darknesse is not more contrary to light nor sicknesse to health nor death to life then vice to goodnesse W hat meanes the worldling in our birth we had but swadling clouts and cradle in our death we shall have but a winding sheet and a coffin E very man is a soole that forgets his owne name that are the sonnes of Adam the son of dust R iches are but for this world yet God is both Lord of this world and of that to come and where the glory of this ends the glory of that begins E very mans death is the punishment of his first birth if faithfull the glory of the second not a dying but a departing life with some sorrow laid off but with much joy said up R achel weeping for her children because they were not and shall not we can we see the Churches teares and not doe our utmost endeavours to comfort her A prayer made in confidence that God will hear us because he hath heard us may obtaine mercy then approach boldly to the Throne of Grace N o shame sorrow or misery should ever put any Christian to any desperate attempt for there is more valour to endure a miserable life then to imbrace a wretched death K eep thy shield of faith and thou shalt victoriously march with the Saints on earth and triumphantly sing with Angels in heaven S uch is the sincerity of Christian Religion that it not only imposeth upon us pure innocencie but also profitable honesty T he feare of God and the love of God are inseparable he doth neither that doth both he omits neither that doth one O fall the medicines administred to us by our spirituall Physitian love is the sweetest bitter pills will downe when they are made up in love T he rules of our faith and life are manifest if we would study enough study them and practise H ow poore soever thy cottage be set thy prayers as a guard without and thy faith as a locke within the sevenfold walls of Babylon cannot bee so strong E very man hath his owne faith yet all men have but one faith by which they must be saved L et thy thoughts examine thy thoughts for thy conscience must not only extend to deeds and words but even to secret thoughts E ndeavour to be thrifty husbands of time and meanes to bee spiritually rich for if man neglect the occasion will neglect him F eare God as Noah Noah beleeves he shall be saved why he above the rest because he beleeved with feare T he inseperable effect of justification is obedience then we follow Christ when we follow his H ee that preserves the truth from the malediction of men preserves himselfe from the malediction of God and he that vindicates the truth from present blasphemy tha truth shall preserve him from everlasting misery A threefold lot belongs to all faithfull men the lot of suffering the lot of happinesse and the lot of salvation N o man will hardly brooke wounds that cannot endure words for the cause of his Saviour David had a great company of Souldiers at his backe yet he slew Goliah alone thus Faith alone conquers the Devill D estruction is alwayes incident to opulent Cities and delightfull places Sodome abounded with all delights and pleasures O ur sinnes greedily heare that the mercies of God endureth for ever but they shall all sensibly heare that the wrath of God endureth for ever U nthankfulnes is the sole witch and sorcerer whose drousie inchantments have made man forget God himselfe B ee not such sinnes rather the image of hell then of heave neither measure the joyes of heaven by our owne corrupt and sensual pleasure on earth L et us appeale from mens lips to their lives he that obeyes not Christ knowes not Christ it is fruitfulnesse in good that setles him in our hearts E vill hearts have corrupt hands for if the hand grope for a bribe as Felix did of Paul there must be an unjust heart A wicked man thinks he may be out of danger of the Law if either he have agreat man to his friend or have not a great man to his enemy S inne with a voice is sinne in action sinne with a cry is a sinne in presumption Y fone act of filthinesse doe so distresse us that we would give all the World for a pardon what torture will the same sin bring being committed againe O ur dayes are evill whether we respect their troubles or that which troubles them our sinnes and not likely in either of them both to amend U ntill knowledge and goodnesse goe together we may be doubtfull for knowledge will fall from us when we fall from goodnesse W oe to those that call evill good woe indeed for refusing the right way for approving the wrong woe for they have erred woe because they will not be converted E rrors are infinite and but one truth God chargeth us to refuse all waies but one but the Devill bids us refuse that one R eason will memory imagination affection and sense by one act of rebellion put all their noble family into a shattered disorder E very corruption is so pleasing to the wicked that they thinke it health it selfe for every heart overruns with sinne is all sinne F orget all sinne in respect of continuance but remember them in respect of repentance I n the last dayes we live on the last dayes we doe not meditate so the last dayes falls upon us whilest our first and last and all our sinnes are found in us L et us be so kinde to our selves as to thinke doomes day is not past there is a day an evening and a morning we shall finde no peace unlesse wee provide for it in the day E ndeavour to run so much the faster as we run for the better prise S o far as holy joy is entred into us so far are we entred into the everlasting Kingdome of Christ T o begin in the spirit and end in the flesh is in Pauls sense folly but to begin with grace and end with wickednesse is malicious impiety O ur troubles are felt without but our peace of conscience is alwayes felt within T he right way to heaven is by the signified will of God revealed in his Word and whatsoever repugneth that is the wrong H appy repentance is sorry
no evill matters O nce God spake it another time performed it a third time redouled it therefore none can plead ignorance that they want instruction U ngodly men may taste of the waters of life by chance as a dog laps at Nilus but his voyage is bound for mischiefe W hile the Devill can busie men with ceremony and circumstance he hopes well and will let them alone about faith and manners E xternall prosperity is no good marke of our election the fairest beasts are kept for slaughter R emember alwayes the house of mourning is not for mirth Christ turned the Musitians out of doores E very judgement we see should make us wiser in the feare of God every mercy we feele wiser in the love of God H ee that thinks to asswage the anguish of one sin by doing another preseribes to himselfe a remedy far worse then the disease A faire carriage keeps temptation out at staves end but lightnesse of presence lets it into the graple and gives encouragement to lewd desires L ove is commended like water it neither makes a man in debt nor in drinke so love is neither hard to get nor costly to keep F alling from Christ can be incident to none but Christians for they that were never up can never be said to fall F or knowne diseases there be knowne medicines but hypocrisie prevents all wayes of remedy I t is better with Philosophers to have honesty without Religion then with wicked Christians to have Religion without honesty L et men turne from wickednesse to piety and God will turne judgement to mercy Solomon and Idolater Zacheus an extortioner Noah drunke yet all these went to heaven E xpectation is sometimes of feare so the timer ous traveller looks for the theef and so the conscious malefactor looks for the comming of the Judge Saul is tempted sinneth and sleepeth his last David is tempted sinneth and sleepeth not his last T he lesse space a man hath allowed for his businesse the more he should ply it the fewer dayes the fruitfuller lessons O h that my people would have heard these are royall and sweet speeches but to the wicked God changeth his speech into sharpnesse T he more a man fears God the lesse he fears any thing else for all the fear of Satan ariseth from the want of the due feare of God H ee that loves God only for temporall blessings and faile him when those blessing faile is like mutinous souldiers no longer pay no longer fight E ndeavour to keep thy shield of faith and thou shalt victoriously march with the Saints on earth and triumphantly with Angels in heaven L et Princes boast of their delicacies Christ liveth in me this be the food of our soules E ndeavour that your faith be encreased and grow still from faith to faith F aith is a fundamentall grace and should overcome the World yet it will prove a coward without servencie T here is no poverty of estate or consumption of body to a leane starved soule which neither knowes nor cares to know Christ H ee that loves God for himselfe and goodnesse because it is goodnesse can God A s God will crowne the faithfull above their deserts with glory so hee will load the wicked according to their deserts with eternall torments N ot to have no spots here but to have no spots imputed to us hereafter is the happinesse of Christian D arknesse of nature must have its due course by creation yet no darknesse shall afflict thy body while there is saving light in thy soule D esire more grace seeke more never thinke you have enough be still poore that you may be rich rich that you may be full full that you may be glorious O h that men could see how much better it is to be poore then evill and that there is no comparison between want and sin U se the world but enjoy the Lord be thankfull for outward blessings but rest thy heart on Jesus Christ B etter are the troubles and differences of righteousnesse then the peace of wickednesse L et nothing pierce your hearts deep either in griefe or feare but sin and unbeleefe E nvy not the gifts of God in any neither thinke hardly of their infirmities nor fret at the prosperity of the wicked Y f we be departed from Babylon let not a rag or relike of superstition abide with us for it is proore comfort to escape in Sodome and perish in the Playnes O ur conversation to God must be with a whole heart without exception without hypocrisie without delay without apostacie and without despaire U nstable men are in a wretched estate their Religion is yet to chuse they know they shall dye but know not what faith to dye in R ight holinesse is true nobility for without goodnesse there can be no true glory F aith working by love performes all duties to God and man but false faith is like sandy earth which never brings forth fruit R eligion and true Piety is the readiest way to the highest advancement therefore above all treasure set your hearts thereon O ne sparke of true Religion is far beyond a whole flame of secular wisdome N eeds must that vertue be fruitfull that is stirring and needs must that be stirring that is living and needs must that be living that is quickned by Jesus Christ T he neglect of resolution to enter the way of righteousnesse is the forlorne state of a sinner for what hopes can be had of him that hath not so much as a purpose to be holy A good man lives after death but the name of the wicked is rotten before their carcaste is cold S inne like a viper may hang upon Pauls hand and not poyson it it may bring a potentiall guilt not an actuall Y f mans heart be divided if sinks to confusion but keep it whole to the way of truth and it shall be saved O ur eyes be good we know our hands be good God grant our hearts be good that we may defend Christs cause U ntill a man seele his owne want and that feeling breed sorrow that sorrow desire that desire prayer that prayer increase of faith that prayer of his shall never bring downe Gods mercy W retched are they that flatter themselves but blessed are they that can prove themselves to be out of the ranke of the ungodly E xamine thy selfe whether thou hast suffered an heavenly holy violence or whether grace hath wrought upon thee if not thou livest the life of nature R emember to walk in a measure of holinesse answerable to Gods mercy for if we turne his grace into wantonnesse he will turne his mercy into judgement E very argument is shut up with an ergo and is the knowne note of a conclusion thus may the syllogisme be framed but whosoever would escape destruction must adhere to the truth T he greatest shew of sanctity that error puts on the more fuller of suspition therefore beware of the