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War and its effects, laid out to the life being a seasonable advice to our Protestant brethren now ready to go against the Irish rebels usurping authority in the kingdom of Ireland / by Philopolites.
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Philopolites.
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1689
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allow his People sometimes and upon some occasions to make War Secondly You may read that many of Gods Faithful Servants have made War as Abraham Gen. 14.18 as Moses Exod. 17.8 Joshua Exod. 17.9 Josh 1.14 Judg. 1 3 4 5 7 8 and 11. Chapters Also the Kings have made War as David Asa Jehosaphat Hezekiah Luke 3.14 Thirdly St. John Baptist forbids not Souldiers to fight neither commands he them to give over War if they would be saved but to wrong none and to be content with their wages Rom. 13.4 Fourthly the Magistrate is said not to bear the Sword in vain but to be the Minister of God for our good and a revenger to execute wrath upon him who doth evil which plainly sheweth that the right of the Sword is allowed both against private faults and Offenders and also against publick who by Arms are to be resisted and opposed Fifthly Act. 10.1 Cornelius the Centurion is commended for his Faith and did not give over Warfare that we read of when he was baptized which undoubtedly the Apostles would have mentioned and not have suffered if War had been prohibited unto Christians and so likewise is the Faith of another Centurion commended highly Matt. 8.10 Sixthly it is most certain that the greatest part of the Magistrate's Duty is to protect and defend Innocents Orphans Widows and those that are oppressed such as our Brethren and Sisters yet in Ireland Rom. 13.4 and that have escaped Tyrconnil's Tyranny which sometimes without Arms cannot be done And therefore if the Case require it the godly Magistrates may flee unto this last remedy of War now it may fall out that not one or two or a few but a multitude may do evil and commit some outrage as our Irish Enemies who cannot be resisted but by force of Arms and then the Magistrates are to use this means of the Sword for the suppression of Evil and the vengeance of Evil-doers Seventhly Josh 1. Jud. 11. 13. Chap. 1 Sam. 15. 30. Chap. Psal 44. That which God perswades us unto and which is done by the inspiration and assistance of his Holy Spirit is Lawful but God often perswades and exhorts the Saints to make War and is said to be present with them by his Spirit and to give Victory unto them and therefore War is Lawful Eighthly That which the Saints do by Faith is Lawful unto them But by Faith they make War Heb. 11.34 therefore War is Lawful unto Christians Eccl. 3.8 Ninthly The Scripture saith There is a time to War and a time to make Peace Therefore War is Lawful Lastly Our great God himself is stiled The Lord of Hosts as a Man of War one who teacheth our hands to War and our fingers to Fight and who giveth Victory in Battle Therefore a Christian War for God's Word for the Truth and Religion is Lawful But others will perhaps startle you with this Query Whether you may Lawfully oppose Tyrconnil he having the late King's Commission for his Government there which is yet not delivered up The Answer is He had a Commission for being Lord Deputy of Ireland but the Query will be again How far his Commission will warrant his Actions For the Earl of Strafford who was formerly Lord Lieutenant of that Nation was questioned in one or two of the Articles against him for going beyond his Bounds and Commission Again are the Protestants of Ireland the King's Subjects as well as the Papists or has he this inserted in his Commission to oppress Protestants to Tyranize over them and to suppress the Religion of the Church of England no surely for to do that were not only contrary to the Laws of God and of England but to the Coronation Oath of the late King James the Second and to his promise Further note Ireland is an Island or Realm ever since Gorguntius's his time belonging to the Crown of England and thereby subject to the Laws and Powers thereof and depends on the Government and Laws of England under whom ye your selves do derive your Commissions and he the said Tyrconnil usurpeth that Government in not delivering up that Sword Let us now come to the remedies against War that are both for the preventing and removal of it Now the remedies are either Moral Martial or Theological First The Moral means are two to wit humble Suits and Supplications for Peace unto them from whom a War is feared and expressions of the Loyalty of our Actions and sincerity of our Intentions and Desires however they may be wrested or misconstrued The Military means are many namely First to follow close a Victory This was Hanibal's fault who could tell better how to win the Field than how to use his Victory And this Caesar blamed in Pompey that having once the better of him he did not follow his Fortune Secondly another Military means for removal of Wars is Prudence magnanimity and skill in Martial Discipline in the Captains Commanders and Officers Thirdly Another is for Captains and Commanders to observe and mark diligently all conveniences and advantages of time and place c. both for pitching their Tents and fighting their Battles Fourthly Another is for Souldiers strength Courage Resolution and Obedience to their Commanders Fifthly Another is for Captains and Souldiers in necessity when they cannot help one the other The last of our Martial means is for Captains and common Souldiers to be well armed for and against all Essays and Assaults The Theological or Religious remedies or means for the preventing of Wars are these To War upon our selves The Oracle of Apollo answered those of Cyrrha That if they would live in Peace at home they should make War with their Neighbours abroad but if we desire Peace with others we must wage continual War with our selves our own Sins and wickednesses within being the true cause of War without Secondly To humble our selves before God by fasting Joel 2.3 Jonah 3. Thirdly To enter into a Covenant and a Holy League with God Hos 2.18 Fourthly Seriously to repent and to turn truly unto God Lev. 26.40 Deut. 30.1.32.36 1 Sam. 7.3 Fifthly A promise of thankfulness and thanksgiving unto the Lord if he will be pleased to give Victory unto us or preserve and deliver us from War and the performance of this promise when he had answered our desires Sixthly A Prayer unto God and that both in general and particular First In general we must pray that the Lord would be our Captain in the time of War and take our part and fight for us there being nothing without him which will or can help us Neither strong and well instructed Armies Psal 33.16 Nor forced Cities Amos 5.9 Nor great and mighty Colleagues or Confederates Psal 60.13.62.10 Therefore let us not trust in any of these or the like but only in the Lord as our Forefathers have done formerly whom he delivered from their Enemies You are dear Brethren likewise to consider the work of the Lord