Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	fortitude_n	justice_n	temperance_n	2,097	5	10.3230	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89159	The souldiers triumph and the preachers glory. In a sermon preached to the captains and souldiers exercising arms in the artillery garden, at their generall meeting in S. Michaels Church Cornhill in London, the 31. of August, 1641. / By Matthias Milvvard, B.D. Minister of S. Hellens.	Milward, Matthias, fl. 1603-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing M2186; Thomason E175_7; ESTC R5018	15,617	40

joy and honour of this City You have been taught by others the causes of undertaking a War to be three Necessary defence due revenge and reparation of dammage But that ye may conquer and triumph I shall commend unto you these three vertues Piety Iustice Fortitude 1. Piety saith the Apostle is profitable for all things it hath the promises of this life and that that is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 Other vertues without this are like force and agility in the body without eye-sight nature without grace like blind Sampson without a guide All that which we call Vertue if it be not directed by the feare of God and true godlinesse are names void of the things What is prudence without it but a childish dexterity by which every one resolves of his actions as hee is a Lawyer a Merchant a Scholar but not as he is a man so being wise in the retaile he may be a foole in grosse Valour without it degenerates into ambitious desperatenesse and hardens a mans courage to mischiefe And temperance without godlinesse is rather a Diet then a Vertue a meere abstinence for Healths sake not a profession for Religions sake Piety therefore is necessary for all men and for a Souldier not least of all for he that goes forth every day to hazard his life had need be prepared for a good passage Therefore saith God Deut. 23.9 When the Host goeth forth against the enemie take heed of every wicked thing A man must be at peace with God before he fight with his enemies When Iehoshaphat heard War proclaimed against him it is said that he feared and set himselfe to seek the Lord 2 Chron. 20.3 It was Cornelius the Centurions honour a brave Captaine that he was a just man and feared God It is he that must be sought in the first place for The horse is prepared for the day of battaile but safety or victory is of the Lord Prov. 21.31 When Ioshuah fought in the valley Moses prayed in the Mount When he held up his hand Israel prevailed and when he let fall his hand Amalek prevailed Exod. 17.9 He that will conquer must observe this rule Armanda mens fide manus prece vita castis moribus He must have his mind armed with faith his hand with prayer his life with chaste manners Would you triumph then Gentlemen with a faithfull confidence trust in God Some trust in Chariots and some in Horses but we will trust in the Name of the Lord said the best Warriour of the world Psal 20.8 for the Lord God is he that goeth to fight for you against your enemies to save you When Henry the second was at S. Davids in Wales and from the cliffes in a cleere day discovered the coast of Ireland said If it be no farther I with my Ships am able to make a bridge thither Which speech being realted to Murchard King of Lenister in Ireland he demanded if the King added not with the grace of God when it was answered that he made no mention of God then said he more cheerfully I feare him the lesse that trusteth more to himselfe then Gods help We cannot overcome unlesse we fight under Christs banner No conquering no triumphing without Piety 2. How can the War be religious if not just the Conquerours sword ought to be swayed with the arme of Iustice it is that which measures out right to men by equall proportion and to be exercised even towards our enemies it is that which guards vertue and combats vice When the Souldiers came to Iohn Baptist and demanded of him And what shall we doe Luke 3.13 he answered Doe violence to no man accuse not falsely be content with your wages I have read that the Romane warfare was a Schoole of Vertue Aurelianus the Emperour gave this charge to his Tribunus Militum Vpon thy life sayes he contain the hands of thy souldiers suffer them not so much as to kill a chicken or pull a grape of another mans oyle or salt or wood let none exact but be content annona sua with his allowance De praeda hostis non de lachrymis provincialium habeat Let them take of the spoils of the enemy but not live by the tears of their Countrymen See a passage to this purpose Num. 20.17 when Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the men of Edom he observed this order Let us passe I pray thee through thy Country we will not passe through the fields or through the vineyards neither will we drink of the water of the wells we will goe by the Kings high way we will not turne to the right hand or to the left That Iustice therefore may be preserved not onely violence and oppression but all beastly revenge must be avoided men must not fight against nature but against enemies Therefore God commanded his Souldiers not to cut downe trees bearing fruit because saith one lignum est non homo nec potest bellantium contra nos augere numerum They are wood not man and cannot encrease the number of enemies Deut. 20.19 It was a good answer of Anaxilaus a Spartan Captaine as Xenophon hath it who being accused for yeelding up the towne Bizantium committed to his charge he answered As long as he fought with men he defended it but when he saw he was to fight with nature and that they perisht with famine whom men spare in war he thought good to give it up Tully was an excellent man of Law and knowing what Iustice was would have the Sword give place to the Gowne It were indeed a note of excellent modesty and might be assumed but how as greater Hosts in their owne houses give precedencie to meaner guests or as we say of doting parents they are content to be made fooles by the wit of their children but to ascribe it as a due or right he thinks not right for the Gowne can but meditate and say In Iustice this ought to be done when the Sword saith For Iustice sake this is done Be just and triumph 3. You must have Fortitude else Iustice is weak it is not possible to triumph without that It is a Probleme in Aristotle why Fortitude should raise more admiration then Iustice Prudence or Temperance We are not so affected with wonder when we see these as when we behold a valiant Captain or brave Commander he answereth it thus Because the object of Temperance and exercise of it consists onely in the moderation of pleasure of Prudence in the ordering of Civill affaires of Iustice in giving suum cuique every man his owne but Fortitude the proper Vertue of a Souldier hath for its object Victory which cannot be had without blowes and wounds danger and dint of Sword A Souldier dares march against death and out face it which others tremble to think on This renowneth them above all other arts for they are attained with quiet study warme case and sound rest but the Souldier finds difficulty in his designes and danger in his