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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

warrantable Hurtfull because sinfull to the petitioner Needlesse if in heaven Vnprofitable if in hell Impossible to doe good wheresoever therefore not of faith and utterly unlawfull 3. The desperate living capable of some earthly corporall temporall favours but of no heavenly spirituall or eternall grace we may not pray for any such in their behalfe but onely for those other whereof they are capable thus Moses for Pharaoh the Prophet for Ieroboam 1 King 13. 6. Moses was so farre from praying for that he prayed against the cursed conspiratours Numb 16. 15. The Lord forbids Samuel to mourne for Saul 1 Sam. 16. 1. David prayes against the wicked Psal 5. 10. 59. 5. And Saint Iohn telleth us there are sinners for whom we should not pray 1 Ioh. 5. 16. But it being Gods prerogative to know who are his 2 Tim. 2. 19. and although they doe oppose God may give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth and to recover themselves c. 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. Take wee heed that we pray not against no not wicked men 1. Pray we may against the cause of a wicked man not his person he being a brother 2. Pray we may against the plots of private enemies against us not against themselves 2 Sam. 15. 31. 3. Pray we may and must against the whole body of Satan Iudg. 5. 31. Psal 129. 5. 4. Pray we may against some notorious member of Satan namely 1. If not as our but Gods enemies shunning carnall desire of revenge 2. If they are knowne to be incurable 3. We aiming at Gods glory that it may shine his children bee bettered not simply wishing the destruction of the person 5. Pray we may against them conditionally namely rather that they may perish then any longer reproach God by malice and hinder the salvation of many But to returne and proceed Pray we for Kings Princes and all such who are in authority 1 Tim. 2. 2. 1. That they may have Gods gracious favour and needfull protection from all evill 2. That they may have his good guidance and divine direction in all their waies 3. That they may abound in knowledge prudence wisedome and discretion to know how to goe in and out before their people to understand how to judge them and to discerne betweene good and bad 1 King 3. 7 8. 9. 4. That they may be furnished and fitted to doe judgement and justice Deut. 1. 13. Psal 2. 10. 72. 1. Give the King thy judgements O God and thy righteousnesse unto the Kings Sonne 5. That they may have fortitude courage and upright severity to punish transgressours with fit penalties Psal 101. 8. Pro. 20 8. 6. That they may have temperance and not be given too much to pleasures nor to profits Deut. 17. 17. Pro. 31. 4. for these two have perverted many 1 King 12. 10. 7. That they may have disereet elemency to rule and reigne over their people as their head doing them good and behaving themselves humbly towards them 8. That they may be carefull of their subjects good ruling over them for God as deputies under another King and therefore according to the will of God that great King commanding good forbidding evill being carefull not onely of their bodies and estates Gen. 41. 49. but also and especially of their soules and salvation And therefore that they would 1. Pray to God for their subjects 2 Sam. 14. 17. 1 Chron. 29. 18. 2. As also exhort provoke and stirre them up to religion and pious performances Iosh 3 2 6 8 11. 9. That they may be zealous for Gods glory truth and word such who feare God practising it themselves and seeing that it be practised in their Courts and Countries For as well the knowledge as the practice of a righteous life is the speciall gift of God and therefore to be begged of and prayed for from him Likewise the knowledge and the practice of civill justice is a singular gift of God by prayer therefore to be obtained And all Christian people are bound to pray for their Princes and Governours that God would give them the fore-named kinds of judgement and righteousnesse celestiall and civill Psal 7● 1. For justice is so necessary in Governours supreame and subordinate that S. Augustine saith Iustice being August lib. 4. cap. 4. de Civit. Dei. removed what are kingdomes save great robberies A certaine Pirate being taken answered Alexander the great elegantly and truly For when the King had asked the man wherefore he was so noysome to the seas He with a bold stontnesse answered and why are you so dangerous to the world But because I do it with a little ship am called a theefe because you with a great fleet are called an Emperour And S. Ambrose Ambros de paradiso cap. 3. makes this equivalent to all other vertues saying Where wisdome is there oftentimes is malice Where fortitude there oft times is anger Where temperance there is envy Where upright dealing or justice is there are all vertues The reasons to inforce people thus to pray in the behalfe of Motives their Kings Princes and others in authority are of great variety and validity plentifull and prevalent many and of great moment 1. Thus to do is the prescript and command of our good A praecept● and gracious God our supreme and soveraigne Lord Jer. 29. 7. Seeke the peace of Babylon and pray unto the Lord for it 1 Tim. 2. 1. Pray for Kings and all in authority c. 2. Thus doing we imitate the pious practises of Gods holy Ab exemplo ones whom we ought to follow as they followed Christ We all saith Tertullian pray alwaies for all Emperours that they Tertul. Apol. cap. 30. p. 60 1. may have a long life a quiet government a safe family strong armies a faithfull counsell an honest people a quiet countrey and whatsoever are desired of men and Caesar Yet were Emperours in those times tyrannicall persecutours How unlike are the unchristian tenets and diabolicall damnable practises of our adversaries the Papists to these of the ancient Fathers and the Primitive Christians Heare one of them speake Ioannes Marian. de Rege Reganstat cap. 6. pag. 33 34. Mariana in a booke of his dedicated to Philip the third King of Spaine printed by authority He commends the fact of Iames Clement a Dominican Frier killing Henry the third King of France calling it a renowned constancy of heart a memorable noble act againe the King being slaine he raised to himselfe an excellent name againe speaking of the weaknesse of his body he saith a greater power did strengthen his forces and courage Before he saith that the Monk was resolved by their Divines with whom he consulted that a tyrant may lawfully be destroyed And he himselfe saith in the same Chapter that if Princes oppresse the common-wealth if they are intolerable with vices and filthinesse they may not onely lawfully but also with praise and honour be destroyed Excellently

their sallies surprisalls stands and stratagems in their fighting or forbearing in their marching Z●zom Hist Eccl. lib. 6. Chap. 6. and other military proceedings Answerable hereunto was the speech of valiant Valentinian It was O you souldiers saith he in your power to choose me to governe but n●w I am chosen of you it is in my power onely to elect not in yours to choose him partner of the Empire whom you desire Moreover it is meete that you who are now subject to my governement to be quiet and for me who am Emperour to consider what is to be done Aemilius the Romane Generall likewise Car. Chro● lib. 2. said publikely to the people that had they chosen a man more fit he would have obeyed but if they would have him to bee Captaine hee desired that the army would obey him and not take the office of the Generall to themselves nor hinder him with their curiosity and fables The souldiers of Tamerlane durst not turne their backes in fight it being contrary to his leave and liking The souldiers of the famous Romane Scipio were so obsequious and obedient to him their Generall that at his wish and willing charge and commanding they would adventure upon and attempt imminent yea unconceaveable difficulties and dangers so as not onely to encounter with much hazard and little hope upon uneven and unequall termes fierce and furious foes but also violently to throw and tumble themselves from of the tops of steepe and cragg● rockes and mountaines Atto 〈…〉 s actor 〈…〉 esse 〈…〉 Spem retulit 〈…〉 plures serva 〈…〉 The Persian souldiers were so faithfull to Zerxes that many of them speedily and voluntarily cast themselves into the sea to safeguard and preserve him Hector Mochint●s●h a Scottish rebell had two hundred such faithfull Captaines that life and liberty being offered to them after their apprehension and arraignement as they were going to the gallowes conditionally that they would declare and tell where Hector was they answered they could not tell and if they could yet they would not by any paine or terrour of death bee induced to breake their faith or betray their Marian Franc. de ●●ri master Those licentious Locusts and luxurious Loyalists the Iesuites at the will and command of their barbarous and bloudy unnaturall and irreligious Superiours murther Facinus 〈◊〉 Marian. lib. 1. c. ● and massacre the Lords annointed ones Kings and Princes as a most memorable enterprise The servants of Absolom and the soulders of Abimelech do as they are directed put in execution what by them as their commanders was enjoyned Iudg. 9 49. 2 Sam. 13. 27. The young men of Ioab and Abner at their assigning and appointment arose and acted such sad and sorrowfull parts in that terrible and cruell tragedy where each man sheathed his sword in his fellowes side so that they fell downe dead together 2 Sam. 2. 16. Yea disobedience and unfaithfullnesse of souldiers to their Chiefetaines and Leaders is so odious and opprobrious so criminous and culpable that by the law of armes such are to suffer even death it selfe which hath beene executed upon delinquents not onely by renowned Commanders for faults oftentimes Knol T●rk Hist not many and meane Witnesse Charles Count Maunsfelt who in his wars against the Turkes hanged an Hungarian horseman because he refused to carry a faggot to damne up the trenches at Stragoniam a Flens Tamerlano queritur pauper●ula ma●no Vnum è militibus lac rapuisse sibi Innumer as jubet ille slatim consistere tu●mas Raptorem lactis qu crat ut illasui Intento at tetricus rescindit pectora ferro Qud justa an fuerit neone querela sciat Dick. Spec. Frag. Knols Turk Hist Moris Hist of Ireland Stowe And Tamerlane the great who put a souldier to death for stealing a little milke from a maid at her complaint contrary to his military precepts But also by enemies themselves who having made use of and taken advantage by the trecheries and treasons of such unfaithfull and fraudulent fellowes have rightly repayed them with losse of life as a condigne and convenient recompense for such false-hearted execrable and abhorred persons Witnesse the strange and dreadfull death of Nicholas Kereischen who by the commandement of Selimus was put into a hogshead of nailes with this inscription Heere receive the reward of thy avarice and treason Gynto thou hast sold for gold if thou be not faithfull to Maximilian thy Lord neither wilt thou be to me Witnesse the death of Parese Foster-brother to Kildare who having the custody of Mainoth in Ireland betrayed it to Breretan for reward which was faithfully paid and then presently the untrusty traytor beheaded Canute the Dane commanded the traytor Edrike of Stroton Earle of Mercia to be put to death who by flight had purposely betrayed Edmund the King with the English into his hands according to his treacherous promise In the Barons wars against King Iohn they sent into France for Lewis the son of the French King to whom they Stowe in King Iohn joyned against their Soveraigne c. The Vicount of Melin who came with the Prince into England before his death at London told the Barons that if Lewis did get the Kingdome he would banish out of the Realme for ever all those which now doe take his part and persecute King Iohn as Traytors to their King Thomas Gourney and Iohn Maltravers the more Stowe R. 3. then barbarous murderers of Edward the second had also a condigne reward for their trechery Banister who betrayed Stowe his master the Duke of Buckingham to Richard the third His son and heire waxed mad died in a boare-stie his eldest daughter was stricken with leprosie his second son made lame his youngest drowned in a small puddle himselfe in his old age arraigned for murder and for a thousand pound promised by King Richard received not one farthing the King telling him that hee which would be so untrue to so good a master would be false to all other Worthy to this purpose is the saying of Philip King of Macedon If any Athenian living in Athens doth say that he prefers me before his countrey him verily would I buy with much money but not thinke him worthy my friendship But if any for his countrey sake shall hate me him will I impugne as a castle a strong wall and bulwarke yet admire his vertue and reckon the city happy in having such a one Bee we therefore who are the servants and souldiers of the Lord Iesus dutifull and diligent observant and obedient firme and faithfull in our generall and particular stations and standings to the precepts and prescriptions the doctrines and directions the instructions and injunctions to the royall rules and divine commandements of our Supreme Soveraigne and chiefe Commander Christ Iesus Ephes 6. 14. Stand therefore The word there used is a word of conflict implying not one onely but many and divers