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A08552	The Christian conflict a treatise, shewing the difficulties and duties of this conflict, with the armour, and speciall graces to be exercised by Christian souldiers. Particularly applied to magistrates, ministers, husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants. The case of vsury and depopulation, and the errours of antinomists occasionally also discussed. Preached in the lecture of Kettering in the county of Northampton, and with some enlargement published by Ioseph Bentham, rector of the Church of Broughton in the same county.	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1635 (1635)	STC 1887; ESTC S113626	266,437	390

their Lord Iehovah blessed for ever dread to repugne and resist much more to ruinate and represse the insolent and insupportable inordinate abominations of Belials base and hellish brood thereby unworthily betraying so farre as in them lieth through their pusillanimous timiditie propt and protected with pretences of moderation and discretion the inculpable causes and credits of good men and inraging and incouraging infatuated and infernall fooles in their extravagant and execrable disorders is it not for want of courage 3. Whence is it that many fearefull and formidable Christians are appaled and affrighted from the propagating and promoting of Christs cause and the practicall profession of Christianity like Salomons sluggard with the lyons in the way So that they dread to seeme more forward or to goe a step further in the duties of piety and religion then their negligent if not prophane neighbours Or if they follow Christ and his faithfull flocke yet it is as the Israelites followed Saul 1 Sam. 13. 7. trembling Surely from the cowardly pusillanimity and faint-hearted timidity predominant and prevailing in the faithlesse hearts of some and the soules of others who are but weake and wavering being babes in Christianity 1. Let me perswade and presse you forward Christian Magistrates which are as the generalls and chiefe Captaines in this Christian warfare to be couragious Deut. 31. 6. Doe you say with heroicall Nehemiah 6. 11. shall such a man as I am flee Do not you dread to confront and controle despisers and deriders of Gods people religion although they be such as Sanball●t Tobiah or Geshem Neh. 2. 19 20. Do you walke undauntedly in that pious and praise-worthy path wherein good King David continually exercised himselfe Ps 101. Do not you beare Gods sword in vaine but as the Ministers of God take vengeance on them that do evill Rom. 13. 4. As therfore you ought not indifferently to terrifie all good and evill or afflict well-doers this being an abuse of power it is equally abomination unto God to condemne an innocent or to justifie the wicked So neither must you through carelesnesse or feare neglect to convert your power of punishing to the hinderance of enormities for by impunity sinne will waxe impudent and fruitfull And with God it is much one whether one bee a doer of evill or no hinderer and so a consenter and fosterer Bee you therefore men of courage to suppresse evill deeds and doers who with their malice oft have might and potent friends 2. You Ministers of Gods Word which are the chariots and horsemen of Israel be you couragious like Christ our Master his Prophets Ier. 1. 17. Ezek. 2. 6. and Apostles Act. 4. 13. Preaching the sacred Word of God impartially without respect of persons sparing neither great nor small but telling all men of their duty Declaring the whole truth of God concealing no part therof for feare or favour darger or reward Act. 20. 27. reprooving sin with all authority so that stubborne and stiffe-necked sinners may be made to tremble Tit. 2. 15. not daunted with nor dreading but disregarding and despising all reviling reproaches and shamefull disgraces for the pious and profitable performance of your high and honourable calling That so you may not by your timerous faint-heartednes be quailed much lesse be trampled under by fierce impudent and violent people But that by our cariage in declaring our message from our Master freely we may daunt the stoutest hearts and dismay the proudest opposers 3. Let us all fellow-Christian souldiers be couragious in Christs cause in this our spirituall warfare And because I know it 's more than needfull to kindle quicken and increase in you what I can this true spirituall valour and magnanimity I will propose unto you these following incouragements to withstand couragiously and manfully our spirituall foes 1. Cowardise hath beene condemned as odious and opprobrious to all sorts of people in times past and gone The Scottish women of Annandale slew their owne husbands in the time of Corbreid Gald because they cowardly fled from the Romans The Persian women met their husbands and children running away from Astyages armies intreating them to returne to sight and to move them they uncovered their bodies and asked whether they would run into the wombes Iust in lib. 9. of their wives and mothers The women of Laconia their sonnes going to the warres received of them shields with this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inscription Either this or upon this either bring home this or be brought home upon it by no meanes run away That famous Captaine Tamerlane did punish nothing so severely as cowardise insomuch that if any turned from a wild beast in hunting or an enemy in fight he was sure to die for it Hercules saith Sir Walter Rawleigh liked not the sacrifice P●● 5. cap. 6. of a coward Annibal being to fight against the Romans in Afrique commanded his Captaines that if they saw any fleeing they should account them as enemies and kill them And the Romans which fled from the slaughter at Canna after they came home were rejected and banished as false-hearted cowards yea many famous Captaines have refused though offered for little or no ransome such souldiers which suffered themselves to bee taken captive It was an use among the Spartans that whosoever fled out of the battell were adjudged infamous they were to be distinguished from other citizens by their apparell and beards it was lawfull for any man to beate them passing by neither was it lawfull for them to marry wives c. saith Carron Car. Chron. l. 2. p. 117. Is cowardise and faint-heartednesse in these combates and conflicts betwixt men and men of no great consequence in comparison of this other so disdainefull and disgracefull how much more then in this fight and quarrell against such enemies we having a cause so comfortable a Captaine so couragious and conquering foes so feeble and often foiled armour so availeable and approoved and a reward propounded and promised which is incomparable and incomprehensible 2. Honourable death by valour hath beene more delightfull and acceptable to worthy warriours than a base life by cowardise They had this maxime amongst magnanimous martiall men That souldier is more glorious which is slaine in warre than he which is saved by flight Earle S●ward Holinsh p. 192. hearing his sonne to be slaine asked in what part Answer being made in the forehead I rejoyce saith he with all my heart I would not wish to my sonne or selfe a better death Solyman the Turke having taken Buda in Hungary flew those 700 perfidious cowardly souldiers who basely betrayed the city into his hands but he offered great honours to the valiant Captaine Hadastus whom he found bound by his souldiers because he would not yeeld to deliver up the city he choosing rather death with honour then life by cowardise Preferre we therefore losse of life and liberty losse of reputation and revenue with couragious Christian constancy

not like beadles of beggars Such men onely are furnished and fitted for marriage who are fit for government in a family SECT 5. Wives in their duty reveren●ing their husbands being subject unto and helpers to them after what manner and why WIves although you are not neither is it expected or expedient that you should be for martiall matters or warlike imployments like the ancient Amazones those valiant viragoes in Anatolia two of which women Hippolite and Heil pag. 538. Menalippe sisters to Antiopa their Queene challenged Hercules and Theseus to single combat A troupe and traine of which warlike women with their renowned Queene Penthesilea were present at the warres of Troy to the aid of Priamus against the Greeks whose vertue and valour is set forth and celebrated by the famous Historian Iustine with much honour Or like unto Camilla Queene of the Volscians who came to aid Turnus whose power prowesse and valour were Virg. lib. 7. Aenead to admiration described by Virgil in the close of the seventh Booke of his Aeneads Or like unto Tomyris Queene of the Massagetes whose invincible and unbroken fortitude and honourable conquest of so potent an enemy as Cyrus with whom full two hundred thousand souldiers are described by Herodotus at the latter end of his Clio. Or to Artemisia Herod Clio. Queene of Caria whose excellency of Spirit and undaunted courage to the admiration of Xerxes is set downe at large by In Vrania Herodotus Or to those stout and souldier-like women of Bohemia which under the leading of their brave and bold Valasca redeemed themselves and their sex from the tyranny of men Slaughtering their barbarous Lords and husbands possessing themselves of their horses armes treasure and places of strength Or like unto those ancient Scottish women who Holinsh would keep rank and files and be ranged in battell array with men or like Bunduica of Britaine a woman of noble birth Stow. who not onely with much honour ruled amongst the Britans but also was the Soveraigne in their warres and had indeed a stomacke more manly than woman-like Yet you being the souldiers of Christ Iesus doe you doe service to Christ your Cheiftaine stand you stable and stedfast and fight the Lords battels in your select and speciall stations and standings 1. In reverencing your husbands both in thought word and gesture This being the charge and commandement of our great and good of our gracious and glorious God Eph. 5. ●3 The wife see that she reverence her husband Psal 45. 11. Worship thou him He is thy head and governour therefore reverence him This having beene the custome and commendable cariage not onely of the most modest matrons but even of many of the most loose and licentious women amidst the prophane paynims and idolaters Witnesse the wife of Potiphar Gen. 37. 16. Who although audaciously adulterous yet respectively reverenced her husband as her Lord Gen. 37. 16. And witnesse amongst others the wives of Turkie who as Heilin affirmeth live in such great respect of their husbands that they never sit with them at the table but wait untill they have done and then withdraw themselves into some by-roome If their husbands have been abroad at their comming home they rise from the stooles whereon they sate kisse their husbands hands make obeysance and stand so long as they are in presence This having beene the pious and praise-worthy practice of chast and Christian of holy and heavenly-minded women in all ages Witnesse Abishag who ministred 1 King 1. 6. Bathsheba who bowed and did obeysance 1 King 1. 20. 31. and Sarah who obeyed and reverenced Abraham calling him Lord Gen. 18. 12. 1 Pet. 3. 2 6. Not like many domineering dames who are content to glad and gratifie their heads and husbands with some verball titles of reverence and respect in the meane time rustically ridiculously and rudely ruling over them hers being in heart and therefore unfained testified by her submissive humble and lowly speeches and dutifull observance This being not onely fitting and convenient profitable to man and pleasing to God but also of urgent and important necessity man being the wives head Eph 5. 23. 1 Cor. 11. 3. the woman being the glory of the man as he of God 1 Cor. 11. 7. She having her being from man Ver. 8. being the weaker vessell and therefore more imperfect And your husbands O you wives are to be in your eyes as the father in the daughters under which name you are comprised in the fift commandement and by which you are called Prov. 31. 29. Many daughters c. Your husbands must estimate prize and value you as helpers but you your selves must think and esteeme your selves as daughters and be willingly subject unto and respectively reverencing them Not that they should hide their love from you as from children for they are to shew it Not that they are to correct you with stripes as children this being unwarrantable Farre be it from you O you Christian women to walke in those cursed and crooked false and filthy sinfull and shamefull by-paths trac'd and troden in by many irreligious and unreverent wives denying or disdaining to give reverence unto their husbands or doing that which is contrary or repugnant hereunto disgracefully disdaining their husbands Disloyally discovering their shame Ridiculously reproaching them maliciously and immorigerously mocking them or currishly checking and controlling of them The carriage of such not onely odiously oppugning this fore-named duty but also tending and turning to their owne ignominy shame and disgrace for whereas and when they sawcily and peevishly befoole and nickname their husbands they reproach themselves acknowledging that they are the wives of such abject and disdainefull persons Ob. Say not beloved sisters that Abigail befooled her husband 1 Sam. 25. 25. Folly is with him and that for it she is commended An. 1. For neither was she praised or commended for her so doing but for her wittie pollicy and her wonderfull wisdome in finding out meanes to deliver her husband from inevitable dangers he had brought upon himselfe by his wicked and dogged answers to Davids servants 2. Neither doth shee call him foole but onely alledgeth his simplicity for his defence and therefore giveth no shew of favouring sawey speeches or contemptuous carriage But doe you reverence your owne husbands highly esteeming of them framing your affections unto their mind as to your superiours and being unto them as delightfull stars arising over them to calme and quiet them at all times and to refresh and renue their spirits Secondly In being subject unto your husbands Gen. 3. 16. thy desire shall be subject to thy husband Ephes 5 22. Wives submit your selves to your owne husbands as unto the Lord. 1 Tim. 2. 12. I suffer not a woman to usurpe authority over the man 1 Pet. 3. 1. Likewise ye wives be in subjection to your owne husbands This your subjection should be sincere holy and from the heart as unto the