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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91728	Orders from the Lord of Hostes, for regulating the hostes of the Lord. Set down in a sermon preached at the leaguer before Newark, on Friday the 27th of March, 1646. By order from, and at the desire of the Committee of Lords and Commons, commissioners from the Parliament of England. Upon occasion of a publick fast and solemn humiliation, appointed to be kept that day throughout the English and Scotish armies before Newark, to seek a blessing from heaven upon the proceedings of the said forces in the present siege of that garrison. / By Edward Reyner preacher of the gospel in the city of Lincoln.	Reyner, Edward, 1600-1668.	1646 (1646)	Wing R1222; Thomason E337_1; ESTC R200816	27,994	40

ORDERS FROM THE LORD OF HOSTES FOR Regulating the Hostes of the LORD Set down in a SERMON Preached at the LEAGUER before NEWARK on Friday the 27th of March 1646. By order from and at the desire of the Committee of Lords and Commons Commissioners from the Parliament of England Upon occasion of a publick Fast and solemn Humiliation appointed to be kept that day throughout the English and Scotish Armies before Newark to seek a blessing from Heaven upon the proceedings of the said Forces in the present Siege of that Garrison By Edward Reyner Preacher of the Gospel in the City of Lincoln LONDON Printed by R. W. for Giles Calvert at the black Spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1646. I have perused this Sermon tending much to the advancement of Military Holinesse and Order and with these the successe of this present Warre and do therefore conceive it very usefull for the publick especiall the Armies IOSEPH CARYL April 16th 1646. To the Right Honourable IOHN Earl of Rutland EDWARD Lord Montague M. WIL. PIERREPONT Esq Sir WILL. ARMYNE Baronet Sir EDWARD AYSCOUGH Knight and THOMAS HATCHER Esq Commissioners from the Parliament of England residing with the Forces before Newarke Right Honourable THis Sermon for the substance of it was preached by your appointment and is drawn forth to publick view by your importunity I have been oft assayled by friends to publish some pieces which cost me more pains but could never be overcome till now I am sensible of the curiosity and criticalnesse of the Times and of my own tenuity and insufficiency I am able to bring nothing out of my poor Treasury which may seem new Those small abilities God hath given me to profit others lye another way rather through the Pulpit then the Presse therefore durst I never yet appear in the one though often in the other Concerning this Copy I may say here is not all and yet more then was there delivered Not all because my time for preparation was very small and my Notes so short that they cannot possibly give an account of my Sermon and my memory not so good as to recollect all that God was graciously pleased then to suggest Yet is here more because I have now added some things for amplification of particulars which God brought to my hand while I was writing as he did many things before to my minde while I was speaking Such were my straits of time for preparation to that exercise as one part of this Sermon was subitane thoughts in the morning of that day they were preached which I did not intend should have seen more light then came in at the chamber window where I quartered that night The Notes are not so warm to me now in writing as they were then in speaking nor will they I fear be to any in reading as they were I hope to some in hearing Speaking and Writing have their severall graces and glosses and take as God is pleased to set them on by his presence and influence which he usually sheds abroad more abundantly in the publick Ordinance The same things experience shews which while spoken seemed stirring passages afterwards when read move little Besides the subject of this discourse is now become very trite and worn I suppose almost out of request of which so much hath been already said as nothing can be added But your Honours acceptance of my poor pains then and earnest desire since to have a Copy thereof have forced me to put this into your hands do with it whatsoever God shall put into your hearts either to bury it in silence which would please me best or to give breath and life to it by the birth of the Presse if your wisdome judge it worthy and that it may be for publike use The Lord guide you with his councell that the publike affairs may still prosper in your hands and bring you to his glory when you have served your generation according to the will of God So prayes Your Honours humble servant in the Gospell of Christ EDW. REYNER TO THE Honourable Col. EDW. ROSSETER Commander in chief of the PARLIAMENTS Forces of the City and County of LINCOLN Noble Sir THe next interest to that the Committee of Lords and Commons now with us may challenge in this Sermon is deservedly yours because preached in your Quarters to you and your Souldiers and for your sakes especially to bring God and you near together even God into your Camp and your Camp unto God to direct and excite your duty to God to draw down and ingage Gods presence with you and that the Countries Cause and Cure in the great work you are now about may prosper in your hands For if you can say to our enemies as Abijah did to his 2 Chro. 13 12. Behold God himself is with us for our Captain and his Priests with sounding Trumpets to cry Alarm against you you may say on as he did O enemy fight not against the Lord for you shall not prosper If your Camp be reformed and you cannot bear them that are evill in it surely the Lord will pitch his Tents in the midst of yours and make you glorious by successes When poor Lincolnshire was in a low and sad condition making approaches daily nearer desolation God raised you up as Gideon a mighty man of valour to save us giving you not only Decertandi fortitudinem but Decernendi rationem Valour to fight and prudence to advise For courage without counsell is like a Hand drawing a Bow without an eye to set the Arrow right Sir the mixture of amiable clemency and insuperable valour of modesty and magnanimity of piety and souldiery of courteous condescentions and sublime resolutions which God hath made and tempered in you is very remarkable Me thinks I see those vertues which the Orator prescribes in an Emperour worn as Gold-rings on all your fingers Scil. Haesunt vittute● Imperatoria labor in neg●tin forticu●o in pericul● industria in agendo celeritas in conficiende consiltum in previdende Cicero pro lege Manil. Diligence in businesse courage in perils industry in acting celerity in effecting counsell in foreseeing This I speak not to flatter you in print for I remember Elihu's speech Job 32.21 22. but to give you as I apprehend your due and to provoke you to give God the glory of all you are have or do and to adde to all your excellencies habituall and practicall Humility and Self-deniall as the grace and ornament of them all Be often thinking that the Holy Ghost is putting these Queries to you which Paul did to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 4.7 Who makes thee to differ from another what hast thou that thou didst not receive God is the author of all discriminating gifts Graces States Successes Let the high praises of God be in your mouth because the high acts of God have been in your hand Go on worthy Leader in this your might Scil. in having God for your wisdome