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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90971	A spirituall snapsacke for the Parliament souldiers. Containing cordiall encouragements, effectuall perswasions, and hopefull directions, unto the successefull prosecution of this present cause. by J. P.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1643 (1643)	Wing P3348; Thomason E103_13; ESTC R17482	16,838	20

beginning of the World untill this day Secondly as you have a good Cause so consider WHAT A LIFE GUARD God hath set about you for your security First God himselfe is your Life guard 52. Esay 12. the Lord shall goe before you and the God of Israell shall be your Reereward there is God in Front and Reare he shall be unto you a munition of Rocks 33. Esay 15.16 He that walketh righteously c. he shall dwell en high his place of Defence shall be a munition of Rocks and the Church is said to dwell in the clefts of the Rocks 2 Canticles 14 and the name of the Lord is a strong Tower Prov. 18.10 a little Sauctuary will God be unto you 11. Ezekiell 16. He will be a shield a buckler a strong Tower a Refuge a Defence against the terrour of the night the arrow or bullet that flieth in the day Psal 91.5 what though Ammon and Geball Edom and Ishmaell Moaband the Agarims what though Amaleck and the Philistims Ashur and the Children of Lot though Papists and Atheists and all their Allyes though France and Spaine though Turke and Pope though all the World should compasse you about like Bees yet if the Lord be your strength and refuge he will become your song and your salvation Psal 118.12 was not God thus unto you at Keynem Battell to the amazement of your Enemies and the joy of your hearts when the instruments of death went over you and about you and scarce touch'd any of you that stood to the Cause and did not flye away when thousands fell on each side of you and you were preserved doe not your hearts leape at the remembrance of it did not the Lord appeare at that day glorious in holines fearefull in praises working wonders did not the Mountaines skip like Rams and the little Hills like young sheep at that day did you not hew downe mighty Cedars at that day did not God throw downe Mountaines and fill up Vallies for you at that day when hee brought you to Plahiroth the very mouth of straights as he did the Israelites Exod. 14.2 when your Enemies thought you were entangled and when they cryed wee will persue we will overtake we will devide the spoyle our lusts shall bee satisfied our Sword shall devoure c. Exod. 15.9 then did the Lord blow with his wind and the waters and waves of his wrath did overwhelme them and they lay weltering in the red Sea of their owne blood was not this a taken that your cause was good and your Enemies bad when those of you that fled were slaine and those that stood to it were preserved and those of your Enemies that stood to it perished and those that fled escaped how did GOD the Father protect you with his attributes how did God the Sonne surround you as it were with his merits and intrench you with his bloud how did God the Holy Ghost cheer you with his comforts working your hearts to a holy extasie of joy making you like David when he danced before the Arke to forget your selves and upon the discharge of your Muskets to cry out in holy and spirituall rapture now for Iesus Christ now for the Gospell now le ts see what prayer can d ee c. when you were in the vallies of the shadow of death yet did you not feare and hath not God gon all along with you ever since hath not God alwayes as before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses stird up his strength and came and holpen you from time to time as the Psalmist hath it 80. Psalm 2. alluding to these three Tribes which went immediately after the Arke 2 Numb 17. and 18. consider therefore God the Fountaine of life the great Preserver of men the upholder of all things by the word of his power is your Life-guard Secondly you have a guard of Angells to attend you 34. Psalm 7. the Angels of the Lord pitch their Tents round about them that feare him and delivereth them yea the Charets of God are twentie thousand thousands of Angells and God is amongst them for your security 68. Psalme 17. God shall give his Angells charge over you to keepe you in all your wayes 91. Psalme 11. little doe you know what Charets and Horsemen there are in the Mount readie to fight for you when you come to battell 2 Kings 6.15 16 17. God hath legions of Angells to come to fight for you when you call upon him in the day of Battell Matth. 26.53 tender is God over you to give his Angells for your guard and his Ministers a flame of fire round about you can you miscarry with such a Life guard Thirdly consider you have a guard of promises to attend you where ever you goe first the promises of military dexterity that God will teach your hands to warre and your fingers to fight and of protection that he will cover your heads in the day of Battell 144. Psalme 1. you have been looked upon as an unskilfull meeke pusillanimous Dove-like spirited people and indeed so you are but hath not God given you the skill courage and valour as of mighty Princes and made old Souldiers flie like hares and hide their heads from you to their terrour and your wonder that ever you should have such capacitie for such services so unsuitable to your genuine temper Secondly you have the promises of provision and plentie that though the Lions lack and suffer hunger yet you that feare the Lord shall want nothing that is good for you 34. Psalme 10. in your march towards Canaan to worship God for that is your case rather then you shall want if you bee upright and ingenuous in the cause purely for God he will smite Rocks for you spread Tables in the Wildernesse feed you with Angells food the delicates of Heaven the upper springs dulcius è fonte you shall have the very well of Life for your refreshment Thirdly you have the promises of victory that one shall chase a thousand and two shall put ten thousand to flight 32. Deutro 30 that if your Enemies come one way they shall flie from you seven waies that no Sword nor Weapon that is framed against you shall prosper 54. Esay 17. that God will make his Church and People his battell Axe and Weapons of Warfare to breake in pieces the Nations of the Earth 51. Ieremy 20 21. c. and that God will make his people a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth to thrash the Mountaines and to beate them small and to make the hills as chaffe Esay 41.15 that the Stone cut out without hands shall be that Kingdome viz. of Christ that shall never be destroyed but shall destroy all Kingdomes and people that shall rise up against it 2 Daniel 44.45 that God will binde Kings in chaines and Nobles in Fetters of Iron Psalme 149.8.9 and to execute upon them the judgement written this honour have all his Saints You may expect all these promises to be