be cut of as he that had made a long oration in the praise of Hercules with a Quis vnquam vituperauit who euer dispraised him I may not flatter although this Citie this honourable Citie who in this respect I hope will proue to all her sisters of this Empire as Iason to his fellowes of whome the Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As soone as hee had spoken and counselled he was the first that put it in execution and other were moued and swayed by his example haue in a short time brought forth not without labour and trauaile two so like nurceries of that noble profession as that of the Artillery garden and this of the Military yard yet certainely the building of these walles doth not want a Sanballat to maligne it a Tobiah to mocke at it The one suggesting that this warlike humour is an incentiue to Rebellion The other insulting ouer it with a Cui bono to what purpose But for the first it seemes they neuer read that of Cassiodore Viri fortes semper in pace modesti sunt iustitiam nimis diligunt qui arma frequenter tractârunt The more eminent valour that is in a man the greater modesty in time of peace and they are the most zealous louers of iustice that haue beene most frequent in dangers And for the latter though I might answer with Thucydides that Praestat se ex vano metu rumore aduersus pericula praeparare quam ex nimia securitate hostium contemptu imparatum ab ijs opprimi It is better out of a vaine feare and idle rumour to be praepared against dangers than out of too great securitie and contempt of an enemy to be by him ouertaken vnawares yet me thinks in this rotten and decrepit age I cannot truely confesse any feare to be vaine or any caution too much the spirit hauing spoken euidently that in these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perilous times men shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 truce-breakers and traytors that lay their hands vpon such as be at peace with them and breake their couenants Were it halfe eighty eight yeares sithence the yeare eighty eight that wee might the more easily forget those sodaine attempts Or were there none of his line left aliue that durst say he treated of agreement with Lewis the twelfth K. of France onely to be reuenged of the seuenteene iniuries he had receiued of the French whereas indeed they had done him no wrong at all Or were it not knowne among the Turkes that there is such a place as England accessible with ships and gallies the Diamond of the world and worth oh how many Rhodes and Malta'es Or had we not amongst vs men aetatis atramentum the inke of the times baptized Iewes as Bernard speaks whose bodies are with vs and their hearts many hundred leagues hence Or had we neuer heard of a Sicilian vespro or a Parisian massacre Or were we assured that the Romish Catholicks amongst vs who take the oath of Allegeance meane as they say or that such as refuse it meant not more than they say Were all these things so certainly our peace might be the more secure and our securitie lesse blame-worthy than it is And yet all this notwithstanding The arme of the Lord is not shortned but that as he could raise vp children to Abraham out of stones so he can stirre vs vp enemies from among our friends for Ego Dominus faciens pacem creans malum saith he Esa. 45.7 I am the Lord that make peace and create warre and therefore as he could whistle for a bird out of the East so he can call a Beast out of any other coast that shall make all the forrest tremble Whereunto there shall neede the lesse allectiues and inducements because Riches without meanes to defend them are of themselues invitations to spoyle and therefore where Salomon mentions the riches of his bed whose pillers were of siluer the bottom gold and the hangings purple there he also specifies a garde of threescore strong men that were about it of the valiant men of Israel they all handle the sword and are expert in warre euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night For when Merodach Baladan the King of Babel his Embassadors had seene Hezekiah his treasures of siluer and gold and spices and precious oyntments notwithstanding they were showen his armory and prouision for warre as well as these yet their hearts were so fired with the desire of them and their fingers did so itch at them that within lesse than an hundred yeares after all that masse of treasure and riches together with all his people were according to the word of the LORD carried by Nabuchadnezzar vnto Babel It concernes vs then vpon whom the Lord hath so showred downe temporall blessings that I may truly say of the Iewes and Englishmen as one of Demosthenes Tully Cicero effecit ne Demosthenes esset solus orator Demosthenes ne Cicero primus foret that they were the cause we could not be the first people whom God did so extraordinarily fauour but we are the cause that they cannot boast to be the only people interested in his loue It concernes vs I say to looke vpon our owne happinesse with a careful and jealous eye which so many behold with enuious eyes not to suffer vpon our foreheads a brand of men nullo negotio vincibilium that are like figtrees with the first ripe fruit if they be shaken they shal euen fal into the mouth of the eater They that are in publique places of trust haue a more publique charge and a greater charge of the publique laid vpon them Det virtutem qui contulit dignitatem may he that gaue them the dignity endue them with abilitie to performe it But you beloued who to this purpose bring euery man his own selfe and that Willingly fitting offering your selues to stand in the gap when need shal require and like those 300. Laconians that made Xerxes his Army of 300000. make a stand to stop the Cataclysme and inundation of war whensoeuer it shall happen Good luck haue you with your honor you shal eate the Nations which are your foes you shal bruise their bones and shoot them through with your arrowes you shall neuer be ashamed when you speake with your enemies in the gate for Donabit certanti victoriam qui certandi dedit audaciam he shall giue victory to you when you fight that first taught your fingers to fight and your hands to make warre Thus we haue seene and stood a while vpon the highest step that in this respect Mans wisedome is able to climbe vnto namely to prepare the horse against the day of battell beyond this we cannot goe yet we may lift our eyes to the hill of Sion and there as our weake sight shall be enabled looke vpon that ouerbright darknesse
non timent in sereno patiuntur tempestatem who are sodainly wracked before they see any appearance of danger T is true it was once prophesied of the dayes that were then to come Conflabunt gladios suos in vomeres They shall breake their swords into plough-shares and their speares into sithes But take away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the couer of the letter and you shall finde there no prohibition of the vse of weapons and lawfull war much lesse of the due preparation thereunto But onely a sweet and gracious promise of vnity and spirituall concord betweene them who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the houshold of faith and know themselues to bee brethren by grace sonnes of the same father God children of the same mother the Church heires of the same hope happines and members of the same body wherof Christ Iesus is the head And indeede if all men were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like minded one towards another or as the same Apostle had fully expressed himselfe in the twelfth chapter and tenth verse of that Epistle to the Romans not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 louing as brethren but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 kindly affectioned one towards another in brotherly loue Certainely then The wolfe might dwell with the lamb and the leopard lie with the kid and the calfe and the young lyon and the fatling together and a little childe might lead them And the cow the Beare might feede their young ones might lie downe together and the lyon might eat straw like the oxe The sucking childe might play on the hole of the aspe and the weaned childe might put his hand on the cockatrice den But seeing that all men haue not faith and that the wicked are like the raging sea which cannot rest wanting all peace both externall internall and eternall Surely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that we may be deliuered from vnreasonable and euill men It is not onely lawfull but necessary to follow our Sauiours aduice Luc. 22.36 Let him that hath no sword sell his coat and buy him one lest it fall out with vs as it did with the many thousands of Israel When the day of battel came there was neither sword nor speare found in the hands of the people that were with Saul and Ionathan Nor doth this preparation to war argue an indisposition to peace Peace that blessing which as all other not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perfect gifts but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 good giuings is from aboue and commeth downe from the father of lights Peace qua nihil in rebus terrenis gratiosius solet audiri nihil desiderabilius concupisci nihil postremo potest melius inueniri than which there can be nothing named with more willingnes nothing wisht for with more heartinesse nothing found with more happinesse Pax optima rerum Quas homini nouisse datum est pax vna triumphis Innumeris potior Peace the best of earthly blessings giuen vnto mortality more safe then any warre more secure then any victory more glorious then all triumphs No no Ordinatio diuina non est peccatorum obstetrix we shall neuer find that any commandement of God doth either directly or indirectly imply a necessity of sinning Hee that professeth himselfe in his word to be Sequester pacis a Peace-maker enioyning vs to seeke peace ensue it cannot be lest he should be vnlike himselfe incentiuum belli a stirrer vp of strife and sedition But if you will be pleased to remember that warre with Amalek is the condition of Israels peace that Ierusalem is built as a city that is at vnity in it selfe And that as we are commanded to haue peace with all men with a double condition First 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if it bee possible Secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for our part So there are some with whom we may vpon no condition either make couenant or peace For opus iustitiae pax True peace is the fruit the issue the daughter of Equity and Iustice Then shall you see how farre the Marcionites Tertullianists Anabaptists and whosoeuer else condemneth the vse of the sword if managed by the hand of the Magistrate are from that spirit which leads into all truth an endowment wherof though happily none of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gifts which are without repentance the Scripture hath alwayes acknowledged valour and fortitude in this kinde to be When Israel in their necessity cried vnto the Lord and the Lord in his mercy gaue them Othniel the son of Kenaz to saue them from the hands of their enemies The Text sayth that The spirit of the Lord came vpon him and hee iudged Israel and went out to warre Afterwards when Gedeon was appoynted to fight the Lords battells against the Midianites Amalekites The spirit of the Lord came vpon him and he blew a trumpet Abiezer was ioyned with him Againe when Iephthah was chosen Generall against the children of Ammon The spirit of the Lord came vpon him and hee smote them from Aroer till thou come to Minnith Moreouer when Sampson was assaulted by a Lyon in the vineyards as he was going downe to Timnath Irruit in eum spiritus Domini The spirit of the Lord came mightily vpon him and he tore him as one should haue rent a kid and had nothing in his hand And least it should be sayd that this was but in his own defence against a beast the same testimony is giuen as well when he slue the thirty men of Ashkelon as when he destroyed a thousand with the iaw-bone of an Asse In like manner when Saul had heard that Naash the Ammonite had besieged Iabesh Gilead and would not hearken to any composition without the thrusting out of all their right eyes it is sayd that The spirit of the Lord came vpon him and he was exceeding angry As then it is beyond all question that valour of this kinde is from the spirit of the Lord so it shall not want impiety to doubt whether the vse of so excellent a gift may be lawfull iust honourable or no Otherwise to what purpose was Iuda that victorious Tribe of Iuda epitomized in its Patriarch compared to a Lyon the Hieroglyphicke of all fortitude But because His hand was to bee in the necke of his enemies Iudah as a Lyons whelp shalt thou come vp from the spoyle my sonne hee shall lie downe and couch as a Lyon and as a Lyonesse who shall raise him vp To what purpose did Moses compare Gad to a Lyon but because hee should catch for his prey the arme with the head Yea to what purpose did Baalam in the spirit of prophesie say of all the children of Israel that they should rise vp as a Lyon and lift themselues vp as a young Lyon But because they should not lie downe till they
wonder at the strange and almost incredible victories atchieued by either of them the Iewes driuing out before them on euery side people that for their numbers were as the starres of heauen for their strength were as Giants the sonnes of Anak and for their fortifications had Cities with wals as high as Heauen and the Romanes in their period growing from a few sheophard-like Cottagers to be Lords and proud owners of almost all the inhabitable World which was knowne vnto them For certainly if leges arma fraternizant laws and armes be brothers as an Emperour hath told vs their neere alliance and equality nam doctor miles aequiperantur consists not only in those foure proportionals which the Glosse vpon that place points at but especially in that both in the one and the other there is no excellence attained but by exercise no perfection but by practise which induceth me to belieue neither without reason nor authority that as the Israelites had Schooles of Prophets at Naioth in Ramah So they had somewhere of Soldiours too for Non exercebuntur vltrà ad praelium saith Esay They shall not be exercised any longer to the battell non discent vltrà belligerare They shall not learne to make warre any more saith Micah By which different translations of the same originall phrase we may at least see this that discere belligerare est exerceri ad praelium to learne to make warre is to be exercised or prepared against the day of battell But supposing it vncertaine of the Iewes It cannot be denied of the Romanes whose Campus Martius was their Grammer Schoole and whose Campes were their Vniuersities In the one they were taught pugnare to fight in the other bellare to make warre In the one they were brought vp to runne to leape to strike to thrust to defend to shoote to cast darts to throw stones to swimme Atque omnes implere numeros But in the other they were instructed ad maius quiddam as Veget tells vs lib. 2. cap. 23. somewhat further namely to keepe their rankes to fight in array and in the greatest tumult and confusion not to forsake their Colours there likewise according to their deferts and the vacancie of the places they commenced and were preferred to be Serieants Ensignes Lieutenants Captaines or what other offices and places of Command in their discipline were sutable and correspondent to these And when they were thus acquainted with termes of Commaund when they were thus enured to hardnesse by watchings spare dyet and sleeping according to the French prouerbe à l'enseigne de l'estoille at the signe of the starre when they were thus accustomed to the vse of their weapons both defensiue and offensiue then did they hold themselues more assured with a few than with infinite millions of such as either had neuer seene or neuer learned any thing elementares senes Abecedary old men for It is not time but exercise makes a souldiour whose greatest numbers haue alwaies beene noted to be rather exposed to slaughter by disbanding and breaking their array than confident of victory by preseruing inviolable that discipline which they neuer learned or at least had not practised This Pompey though by the testimonie of his enemy one that knew better how to ouercome than how to vse the victory found too true by experience in the battel of Pharsalia where thogh he had double the numbers of Caesar primo gentes oriente coactae Innumeraeque vrbes quantas in praelia nunquam Exciuere manus toto simul vtimur orbe Quicquid signiferi comprensum limite Cycli Sub noton Borean hominum sumus arma mouemus yet knowing them to be not legionary souldiours as Caesars were but a mixture of barbarous nations rather relying vpon their multitude than their discipline and valour he wisely purposed to protract the warre and by robbing his enemies both of sea and land to haue wrested from them an vnbloody victory but when he saw it no longer possible to withhold the vntaught rage of inexperienced men from giuing battell to Caesar stat corde gelato Attonitus his heart forsooke him with feare and amazement knowing vpon how vnaequall termes they mette and praesaging that which accordingly ensued they who were so hasty to fight would be as headlong in their flight so loosing themselues and discouraging others And indeed what could a man expect at their hands who howsoeuer rich in clothes yet base and effaeminate in spirit are not able to sustaine thirst and heate and dust trembles to heare of an enemy are amazed at his presence swound at the sight of bloud and die before they come within the reach of their Artillery How much better that Maister of warre Tullus Hostilius who to set an edge vpon Courage that it might cut euen whetstones did ordaine which was with much eare and iealousie obserued during the flourishing estate of that Republicke that not onely there should be a generall suruey of all the foote and horse once in a yeare at what time they should be transported beyond Tyber and there mustered but that at home and abroad in the City and in hibernis castris in their garrisons and campes they should be daily exercised as well viritim man by man as in acie in aray of battell knowing that scientia rei bellicae dimicandi nutrit audaciam Nemo facere metuit quod se benè didicisse confidit knowledge how to do adds to the boldnesse and willingnesse of doing and by familiarity with danger the feare of it at length growes obsolete whereas on the contrary side Animos subitò ad arma non erigunt nisi qui se ad ipsa idoneos praemissa exercitatione confidunt there 's no man can with cheerefulnes and alacrity vndertake that whereunto he knowes himselfe vnfit for want of skill and practise I haue in mine owne intentions confined my selfe for forraine instances within the history of the Romanes or else I should with much difficultie forbeare to giue the ancient Graecians their due commendations in this respect especially the Lacedemonians whose very Children from seuen yeares old and vpward were distributed vnder such as were in stead of Captaines commanding and instructing them wherein they tooke so great pride and glory that Tully reports with wonder what he had there seene amongst them Adolescentiū greges Lacedaemone vidimus Ipsi incredibili contentione certabant pugnis calcibus vnguibus morsu denique vt exanimarentur priusquam se victos faterentur We saw saith he in Lacedaemon troupes of young men who with incredible fiercenes fought with fists heeles nayles nay with their teeth in so much that they had rather dye than confesse themselues vanquished And certainely where such sparkes were in boyes we must needs suppose bright flames in men of more ripe age But I dare as now wade no further in this argument least I should
her name be sowen Nahum 1.14 HOPE But God once spared this populous City wherein there are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discerne betweene the right hand and the left TRVTH The Lord indeed is slow to anger but great in power and will not surely cleare the wicked Cap. 1. ver 3. HOPE We heare no rumors of warre we are at rest and haue peace with the Nations round about vs. TRVTH Though they be quiet and also many yet thus shall they be cut off when he shall passe by Cap. 1.12 HOPE But if there be no remedy let vs not be beaten at home stop the passages man the frontiers keepe the munition watch the wayes let vs make our loynes strong and fortifie our powers mightily Cap. 2. ver 1. TRVTH Yea but The shields of the mighty men that come against thee are made red Their charets shall rage in the streets they shall runne to and fro in the high wayes they shall shoot like the lightning Cap. 2. v. 4. HOPE But Niniueh is of old like a poole of water the riuer Tigris is in stead of moates ditches trenches to her walles and besides shee will remember her strong men cap. 2.8 TRVTH But the gates of the riuers shall be opened and the palace shall melt they shall flee away stand stand shall they cry but none shall looke backe cap. 2.8 HOPE But Niniueh hath multiplied her merchants as the starres of heauen there is no end of the store and glory of all her pleasant furniture and therefore she can hire succours from forraine countries TRVTH Yea but The Chaldaeans shall take the spoile of the siluer and gold c. 2. v. 9. and for other Nations they shall be so farre from helping her that all they that looke vpon her shall fly from her and say Niniueh is laid waste who will bemoane her cap. 3. ver 7. HOPE But Niniueh is the seate of the Empire shee can command to her aide many Countries Prouinces and Cities that are vnder her dominion TRVTH Yea but Is shee better than No that was full of people and was situate among the riuers Aethiopia and Aegypt was her strength and it was infinite Put and Lubin were her helpers yet shee was carried away and went into captiuitie c. 3. v. 9. HOPE But Niniueh hath store of munition and is victualled for many yeares TRVTH I I draw thee waters for the siege fortifie thy strong holds goe into the clay and tread the morter make strong the brickill yet there the fire shall deuoure thee and the sword cut thee off c. 3. v. 14 15. HOPE But Niniueh hath her walles an hundred foote high so broad that three carts may goe on a row at the top of them furnished and fortified with fifteene hundred bulwarks and towers TRVTH Yet all her strong holds are but like fig-trees with the first ripe figs if they be shaken they shall euen fall into the mouth of the eater cap. 3. vers 12. HOPE But Niniueh hath in her the flower of the Princes the chiefe of the Nobility and the greatest Captaines and Commanders in the Empire TRVTH Alas Her crowned are as the Locusts and her Captaines are as the great grashoppers which campe in the hedges in the cold day but when the Sunne ariseth they flie away and the place is not knowne where they are cap. 13. ver 17. HOPE But Niniueh is full of ancient experienced braue Souldiours such as haue beene accustomed but to come and conquer TRVTH Yea but peace and plenty hath made them wanton effaeminate base drunken coward-like Carpet-Knights Behold thy people in the middest of thee are women cap. 3. v. 13. Thy people those that haue beene so renowmed in Armes those that haue atchieued such victories those that haue made such conquests Thy people those that haue beene the terror of the world able to affront Babylon and to giue her checke-mate in the height of her pride Those thy people thy strong martiall honoured feared people In the middest of thee not thy pondus in vtile thy dregs and off-scowring not thy paisants and husbandmen not thy Artisans and Mecaniques not they that are farre remote from the safety of thy walles and turrets not they that dwell in thy skirts and suburbs but thy people in the middest of thee in the place of greatest eminence securitie and defence Are women proud as women foolish and voide of counsell as women fantasticall and new-fangled as women delicate and tender as women fearefull and coward-like as women nice and effaeminate as women which neuer will venter to set the sole of their foote vpon the ground for their softnes and tendernes the heart melteth and the knees smite together much paine is in the loynes and the faces of them all gather blacknesse Nahum 2.10 Wee now come to our selues againe and demand whether after the light of so great euidence reflected vpon vs from the glasse of this example there can any man be so stupid as to doubt so impious as to deny that all power to worke with meanes without meanes against meanes belongeth to the Lord of Hostes who hath done doth and will do whatsoeuer he listeth in heauen on earth in the sea and all deep places And therefore as the Elders in the Reuelation throw downe their crownes before the throne so cast downe your armes ô ye mighty your swords and shields ô yee valiant men of warre before his foote-stoole hang them vp as trophees in his Temple with this inscription Through God we will doe valiantly for he shall tread downe our enemies vnder our feete But if he be not our helpe in the day of battell what can these aduantage vs for victory ouer enemies as safety from enemies is of the Lord. But it may be that as a Philosopher dissuading the too much feare of death made men preposterously to cast away their liues and Physitians somtimes seeking to comfort the heart doe inflame the liuer so we by fastening our eyes thus long vpon the transcendent and imperiall power of God haue lost all sight of the necessity of meanes or second causes and beginne to perswade our selues that seeing it is all one with God as we haue heard to helpe with many or with few to giue victory to men armed or naked to saue with sword and shield or without them therefore all preparation against the day of battell all prouision munition numbers experience and practise are either needlesse or bootlesse If the Lord will help he can doe it without these and then they are needlesse or if he will strike there is neither security nor succour in any of these and then they are bootlesse For answer whereunto we are to consider that albeit the absolute power of God be infinite a matter much rather than a Kings royall prerogatiue not to be quaestioned nor disputed of for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Damascene things incomprehensible are likewise vnspeakable and to be
though not deadly yet dead except quickned and reuiued by the higher powers who haue command of the sword The contrary appeares by that which the Baptist enioynes the souldiours Luc. 3.14 not to leaue their profession but to do violence to no man nor accuse any falsly and to be content with their wages By that which Christ himselfe attests vnto the Centurion Mat. 8.10 who published his calling and from thence drew an argument to strengthen his faith Verily I say vnto you I haue not found so great faith no not in Israel And by that which afterwards his Apostle writes of Cornelius the Captaine of the Italian band that he was A deuout man and one that feared God with all his house c. which threefold argument we are thus taught to inforce by Chrysostome Tertullian Augustine Basil and because HosteÌ„ qui feriet mihi erit Carthaginiensis Bellarmine Alphonsus à Castro and Gregory de Valentia To all which doctrinalls I might adde the practise of the primitiue Church in the age next after Christ which was richly enameled with the bloud of infinite Martyrs of this profession as Sebastian Maurice Chrysogomus Victor Pantaleon Gorgonius and the whole legion of the Thebans with many more whose names and sufferings are euerie where obuious and vpon record in the Histories of the Church But me thinkes I haue beene alreadie too profuse in this argument especially to you and such as know that howsoeuer the name of a Souldier be at this time ridiculous among secure fooles and contemptible among such birds of peace as cannot abide the Drumme sauing in a Morris-dance nor the Trumpet but in Triumph yet euen in this generation Quae patitur long ae pacis mala There is neuer a Paris neuer a Carpet-Knight howsoeuer hee would thinke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a roaring friend lesse terrible than the face of an armed foe but with a greedie ambition snatcheth at those honors which were at first giuen to Souldiers to them onely and still retayne their Denomination and Titles from thence A Dukedome was a militarie honour giuen per vexilli traditionem by the deliuering of an ensigne banner or penon into his hands with intimation that hee should bee valiant wise and circumspect in the leading and commaund of the Souldiers committed vnto him for the defence of the borders and territories so was a Marquisate an Earledome a Baronie together with the honour of being made Knights and Esquires as their verie names of Duces Equites Armigeri c. doe sufficiently proue though now the sayling by that compasse bee much discredited in respect of a new-found passage a more compendious and lesse dangerous way lately discouered but where Aiax his reproach of Vlisses doth iustly meete with most of the Passengers Postulat vt capiat quae non intelligit arma The more our miserie that are fallen vpon this effeminate age and the greater iniury to that honourable profession which is not onely scorn'd but rob'd The time hath been when Warre was accounted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An exact triall of a braue spirit but now that touch-stone hath lost his propertie for cum Meretricibus conuersantur they keepe companie with Harlotts and sacrifice their dearest bloud to Whores but populus non intelligens vapulabit The people that doth not vnderstand shall fall The time hath beene when a well ordered campe was accounted a Schoole of Vertue where was profest and taught preparation to death continence vigilance obedience hardnesse and frugalitie both in meat and apparell But now that Whoredome and Wine and new-Wine haue taken away our hearts now that wee haue turned Memento mori the meditation of death into Viue hodie an Epicurean and sensuall life now that we are growne from absorbentes vinum swallowing of Wine to bee Absorpti a vino swallowed vp of Wine Surely now the neglect of the Lessons hath brought wrought the contempt and disgrace of the Schoole The time hath beene when amongst our selues wee haue beene so iealous of our honours that the Kentishmen would not haue sold their prerogatiue of beeing in the Vaunt-gard nor they of Wiltshire Cornewall and Deuonshire of beeing in the Arriere-gard at any reasonable price But now he is accounted the wisest that can keepe himselfe furthest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of daunger and he the most valiant that can take Iehoash his counsell to Amaziah euen to bragge of Victory and tarrie at home Let it therefore suffice and content vs as it will do any man who dares for truths sake stemme the tide of the multitude that howsoeuer these wanton and womanish times vndervalew the lawfull necessary honourable profession of Armes yet GOD himselfe hath graced it our Sauiour hath approued of it the Apostles haue commended it the Saints haue praâ—tised it the Fathers haue praised it our Ancestors haue gloried in it our Land hath beene renowmed by it and euen those crowned locusts and captaine-Grashoppers which campe in the hedges in the cold day but when the Sunne ariseth flee away and their place is not knowne where they are are glad and proude to feede vpon the leaues and titles knowing themselues vnable and vnworthy to reach the fruit and honor thereof Onely let me be your Remembrancer that whatsoeuer I haue said of the lawfulnesse necessitie and praise of warre is but so farre forth true as the warre it selfe shall be iust whereunto there are these three materiall circumstances required First vt recta sit intentio bellantium that both stocke and branch Commander and priuate Souldiour do euery one in their degree and order vndertake it with a right intention not that one warre may draw on another nor that bloud mâ—y touch bloud but in the middest of warre our intentions ought to be peaceable contrary to them who haue peace in their mouthes and warre in their hearts for when we haue warre in our hands we must haue peace in our hearts vt eos quos expugnamus ad pacis vtilitatem vincendo perducamus that by our victory we may inuest them whom wee ouercome with the benefit of it Secondly to a iust warre there is required Authoritas Principis the command of the Prince whosoeuer he be that hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that same transcendent power which Vlpian calls imperium merum of life and death let him be a Pagan an Haeretike or a Tyrant yet still though not modus potestatis the manner of the power potestas est à Deo the power is of God and therefore saith Augustine of the souldiours of Iulian the Apostata that though they would not sacrifice to Idols at his command yet when he diuided them into Companies and placed them vnder Captaines and led them against the enemy they most willingly and readily obeyed The lawfull commaund therefore of a lawfull Magistrate is the second
qualification of a iust warre without which by whomsoeuer vndertaken it is but a sedition conspiracy tumult commotion or a rebellion and accordingly shall receiue its iudgment Thirdly there is requisite vnto a iust warre causa iusta a iust cause of warre whereof hauing spoken somewhat already I will adde onely this that it doth not belong notwithstanding to euery priuate man to make too curious a disquisition into the causes and occasions of his Soueraignes command reasons of state and policie sometimes inioyning secrecy therein and the brest of the Prince sometimes more sensible than the heart of the subiect is capable For if a iust man saith Augustine do serue vnder a sacrilegious King he may well and safely goe to warre at his command and obey him in all ciuill affaires prouided that what is by the Prince commanded either be not against the commandement of God or that he the subiect know not whether it be or no that is doubt it not or call it not into question for why should he stretch his suspicion beyond his knowledge Ita vt fortasse Regem reum faciat iniquitas imperandi innocentem autem militem ostendat ordo seruiendi so that it may be the iniustice of the command may make the King guilty and yet the souldiours obedience may plead him innocent And thus farre haue I gone I hope not out of the way to shew the lawfulnes and necessitie of war because as all preparation to vnlawfull things is euill so to vnnecessary is vnprofitable And now we come to the preparation it selfe The horse is prepared for the day of battell So that the wisdome of man doth not only looke after equum a horse but equum paratum a horse prepared or made ready and that cannot be except they be ready horse For take a horse out of the studde so the Irish call those equos gregales which the ancient Graecians called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of how generous and excellent a breede and stomacke soeuer yet it s knowne how fearefull and timorous he is at first afraid of euery noyse and at euery motion starting aside like a broken bow Afterward when he is in hand applied vnto the manger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though he be a creature of wonderfull docilitie yet he is vnruly ticklish and proud Namque ante domandum Ingentes tollent animos prensique negabunt Verbera lenta pati duris parere lupatis Nay when he hath admitted a rider because he cannot shake off his cariage still he leapes and bounds and kicks he hath no vnderstanding his mouth must be holden chamo fraeno with bitt and bridle least he come neere thee and for a long time hee continues disobedient vnready and vnseruiceable But lastly Carpere cum gyrum incepit gradibusque sonare Compositis sinuatque alterna volumina crurum when he is growne gentle willing strong vsefull and ready yet if he haue not beene accustomed as the same Poet speakes animos atque arma videre Bellantûm lituosque pati tractuque gementem Ferre rotam to the Drum and Trumpet to fire smoake dust noyse shoutes cryes blowes the lightning of the weapons and the thunder of the Captaines surely he may well be equus paratus a ready horse but not prepared against the day of battell No there is still more difference betweene them two than inter equum sagmarium Quemque coloratus Mazax deserta per arua Pauit assiduos docuit tolerare labores betweene a sumpter horse and a horse of seruice for euery battell is with confused noise and garments rolled in bloud There is rushing of charets rumbling of wheeles snorting of horses and neighing of strong ones which if custome and vse haue not softned sweetned and made familiar vnto a horse he will be strooken with amazement and his rider with madnesse and both together will flee as fast out of the battell as the Syrians ranne from their tents before Samaria at their supposed hearing a noyse of charets horses and a great Hoste Onely when The buckler and shield is ordered when men draw neere to battell when the horsemen get vpon the harnessed horses when they stand forth with their helmets fourbish the speares and put on the brigandine so that the horses are put in aray like men then are they prepared against the day of battell for then Their necks are clothed with thunder and the glory of their nosthrils is terrible They paw in the valleyes and reioyce in their strength They go on to meete the armed men They mocke at feare and are not affrighted neither turne they backe from the sword The quiuer ratleth against them the glittering speare and the shield They swallow the ground with fiercenes and rage neither beleeue they that it is the sound of the trumpet They say among the trumpets Ha ha They smell the battell a farre of and the noyse of the Captaines and the shouting By this time me thinks as S. Paul demanded of himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hath God any care of oxen so there are some of you ready to aske of me hath God so great care of horses But I told you before that vnder the name of horses was vnderstood totus belli apparatus all and all manner prouision of warre and so I hope their wisdome vnderstandeth it whom it especially concerneth to haue a generall and vniuersall care thereof for our parts since God hath likened strong men to horses and wisdome compared good men to horses and Origen hath affirmed that all men are horses Let it be lawfull for me to say that Souldiours are a principall part that your selues are a great part of the Cauallery here spoken of and consequently that vnto you there is commended a twofold praeparation against the day of battell The one is internall to qualifie the minde the other is externall to enable the body the one is valour and courage the other is practise and exercise Of these two and no more to this point But naming valour or fortitude I first protest against all these aequiuocall intruders and vsurpers vpon that noble title as vncapable whilest so of this qualification namely the lusty or rather lustfull adulterers that pretend to valour because they can tanquam equus emissarius vnusquisque hinnire ad vxorem proximi sui neigh like fed horses euery man after his neighbors wife Secondly the Drunkards that lay claime to it because they can drinke like horses they are mighty to drinke wine and men of strength to mingle strong drinke Thirdly the Thrasonicall Braggers Qui virtutem verba putant vt lucum ligna that thinke by great words to bragge themselues into an opinion of valour but whom experience shall finde to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Lions in their roaring so hares and not horses in the day of battell Fourthly and lastly all stabbing