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A66471	The valorous warrior's welfare, in God's victorious warfare A sermon preach'd in His Majesty's English camp, near the city of Ghendt in Flanders; before the battalion of His Royal Highness George Prince of Denmark, under the command of the right honourable Colonel Charles Churchill, major-general of His Majesty's forces in the Netherlands. By William Williams, minister of the Gospel, and a son of the Church of England.	Williams, William, Inferior Brother to the venerable and orthodox clergy.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2791; ESTC R219571	20,595	33

Interest appears so Interested in God that he lately Dethron'd a King that offended her and in his stead Enthron'd a King to defend her This is the Lord 's doing it is Marvellous in our Eyes as the Kingly Prophet expresseth it in Psal 118.23 For Promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor from the South But God is the Judge He putteth down one and setteth up another as appears Psal 75.6 7. That this Dethronement and Establishment was God's own Handy-work is Divinely Vindicated by the Prophet Daniel in the Unparallel'd Case and Preternatural Condition of King Nebuchadnezzar who for his unsufferable Arrogance was Exil'd from the Society of Rational Men to take his Abode and Food with the unreasonable Beasts of the Field touching whom the said Daniel in his second Chapter at the 20th and 21th Verses spake on this Wise Blessed be the Name of God for ever and ever for Wisdom and Might are his And he changeth the Times and the Seasons He removeth Kings and setteth up Kings He giveth Wisdom unto the Wise and Knowledge to them that know Vnderstanding Again we Read in the 37th Verse of the same Chapter that the Prophet said to the King on this manner Thou O King art a King of Kings for the God of Heaven hath given thee a Kingdom Power and Strength and Glory Moreover Daniel told him in the 4th Chapter of his Prophesie at the 25th Verse That the most High ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will Thus we see that the disposal of Earthly Kingdoms is a peculiar Prerogative absolutely pertaining to the King of Heaven for God being an Universal Monarch hath ageneral Title attributed unto him in Jer. 10.7 where he is stil'd by the Prophet The King of Nations And that because all Emperors Kings and Princes in their Enthronements wear their Crowns sway their Scepters govern their Kingdoms and Principalities by God's own special Authority This Truth bears the Badge of his warrantable and undoubted Testification in the 8th Chapter of Solomon's Proverbs Ver. 15. where he speaks these certain and significant Expressions By me Kings Reign and Princes Decree Justice This Assirmation hath sufficient Assertions of Scripture to assure it as in 2 Sam. 12 7. where God by the Mouth of his Prophet Nathan spake these words unto David I anointed thee King over Israel Solomon also acknowledg'd that the Lord had plac'd and establish'd him on the Throne of his Father David as you may Read in 1 Kings 2.24 Moreover it was the saying of Ahijah in the Person of God to Jeroboam I will give the Kingdom unto thee as it is observable in 1 Kings 11.35 By all these Scripture Instances it plainly and punctually appears that the removing and setling of Crown'd Heads relate to God's Dispensative Power and therefore we may say of God in such Cases as Job spake concerning the Life and Death of his Children in Job 1.21 The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the Name of the Lord. Having thus prov'd unto you that the Government of this Lower World is according to the Rule of God's undeniable and unlimitted Authority so neither the Kingdoms nor Power of Princes but all things else proper unto them are after a peculiar manner God's their Crowns their Anointing their Globes their Scepters their Thrones and the Government thereof are his and their Persons adorn'd with all these Endowments are so Sublime and Sacred that they are compar'd for Excellent Eminency or Eminent Excellency unto the Angels of God in 2 Sam. 14.17 and also stil'd Gods by a Deify'd kind of Dignity and call'd the Children of the most High in Psal 82.6 From these and such like Observations the sanctify'd Vessel St. Paul that great Apostle and Patron of the Gentiles compil'd an Excellent Lecture of Loyalty in order to oblige both Religious and Rebellious Subjects to bear true Allegiance and submissive Obedience unto their Supream and Lawful Superiors the which you may find Recorded in Rom. 13.1 2. where it is thus worded Let every Soul be subject unto the Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God The Powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation Hence it is observable that as every individual Person ought to be in subjection to his superior and inferior Rulers by reason that the Power of their Government is derivative from God and the Governours now in being Established by his Ordinance whom to resist is plain opposition to God's own Order for which resistance they become liable to receive unto themselves the Reward or Stipend of Damnation Therefore to abandon Disloyalty being the Cause of this Damnable Alotment as Religious Servants to God Loyal Subjects to the King and Loving Sons of the Church Let us that are her Empal'd Children firmly stand in God's the King 's and the Church her Cause resolving that in case no other Kingdom or Nation should accommodate us with their Assistance neither to dread nor to be dismay'd at it although our present Enemies whomsoever they are may seem much more in number than our selves for the Race is not always to the swift nor the Battel still to the strong but to those that have God for their powerful Copartner for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few as it is observable in 1 Sam. 14.6 This Truth is farther confirm'd by the Divine Expressions of Asa who with an Army of Five Hundred and Fourscore Thousand Men waged War with Zerah the Ethiopian whose Host consisted of a Thousand Thousand in number as you may note in 2 Chron. 14.8 9 10. Moreover it is said in Verse 11. That Asa cryed unto the Lord his God and said Lord it is nothing with thee to help whether with many or with them that have no Power Help us O Lord our God for we rest on thee and in thy Name we go against this multitude so the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah as you may Read in Verse 12. of the same Chapter These Excellent Observations have their full and clear Evidence in Deut. 20.1 2 3 4. where God granted unto Israel a Warlike Commission Seal'd with his own Hand and deliver'd with his own Mouth in these Expressions Recorded by Moses When thou goest to Battel against thine Enemies and seest Horses and Chariots and a People more than thou be not afraid of them for the Lord thy God is with thee which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt And it shall be when ye are come nigh unto the Battel that the Priest shall approach and speak unto the People and shall say unto them Hear O Israel you approach this day unto Battel against your Enemies let not your Hearts faint fear not and do not tremble neither be ye terrified because of them for the Lord

Might and Manhood as it was his meer Mercy that saved them And this is very Conspicuous in the Couragious Resolutions and Admir'd Actions of the Religious Israelites who by their Military Affair and God's Favour overcame no less than Thirty One Considerable Kings and Kingdoms as you may Read in the 12th Chapter of Joshua where there is a perfect Catalogue of their Names and Number the first being the King of Jericho mention'd in the 9th Verse and the last the King of Tirza specify'd in the 24th Verse which consummates or concludes the same Chapter Thus you see according to the Words of my Text how the Israelites did valiantly for God did tread down their Enemies Israel above all the Nations in the World had the Honour of fighting the Lord's Battels and when they wanted Champions or Conducts for their Encouragement God was entreated by them that his Power might appear in the cause of their Warfare Who according to his own good pleasure sent several Rescuers that protected them from Multitudes of malicious Enemies one of whose Deliverers or Saviour's as his Name imports it was Joshua the Son of Nun Moses his Minister and Successor for he destroy'd the Anakims in the Land of Israel he also overcame many Prince's that resisted them and hang'd five noted King's on five several Trees that were their Adversaries namely Adoni-Zedeck King of Jerusalem Hoham King of Hebron Piram King of Jarmuth Japhia King of Lachish and Debir King of Eglon as you may read in the 9 10 11 and 12 Chapters of Joshua Thus Joshua did valiantly for God did tread down his Enemies Secondly The Israelites were delivered from the bold Attempts of the Aramites by Othniel the Son of Kenaz Caleb's younger Brother and the Land had rest forty years as it is observable Judg. 3.9 10 11. Thus Othniel did valiantly for God did tread down his Enemies Thirdly The Israelites were preserved from the Molestations of the Moabites by Ehud the Son of Gera a Benjamite a Man left-handed when they slew of the Children of Moab about Ten thousand Men all lusty all Men of Valour so that the Land had rest fourscore years as you may note in Judg. 3.15 29 30. Thus Ehud did valiantly for God did tread down his Enemies Fourthly The Israelites were succour'd from the Fury of Philistines by Shamgar the Son of Anath who slew Six hundred Philistines with an Ox-goad and he also delivered Israel as it is apparent in Judg. 3.31 Thus Shamgar did valiantly for God did tread down his Enemies Fifthly The Israelites were desended from the Incursions of the Canaanites by Deborah a Prophetess the Wife of Lapidoth and Barak the Son of Abinoam of Kadesh-Nepthali who by the assistance of God prevailed against Jabin King of Canaan until they had destroy'd Jabin King of Canaan as is specified in Judg. 4.6 24. Thus Deborah and Barak did valiantly for God did tread down their Enemies Sixthly The Israelites were saved from the Mischiefs of the Midianites by Jerubaal that is Gideon the Son of Joash the Abi-ezraite who discomsited an Host of Men with broken Potsherds Lamps and Rams-horns together with the Noise of the People who cried earnestly before their Enemies until they were daunted routed and ruined The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon as it is recorded in Judges 7.20 21. His Messenger also took two Princes of the Midianites Oreb and Zeeb and they slew Oreb upon the Rock Oreb and Zeeb they slew at the Wine-press of Zeeb and they pursued Midian and brought the Heads of Oreb and Zeeb unto Gideon on the other side Jordan as it is remarkable in Judg. 7.24 25. Also Gideon arose and slew Zeba and Zalmunna two chief Kings of Midian as farther appears in Judg. 8.21 Thus Gideon did valiantly for God did tread down his Enemies Seventhly The Israelites were protected from the Arms of the Ammonites by Jepthah the Gileadite a mighty Man of Valour who smote the Children of Ammon from Aroer till thou come to Minnith even twenty Cities and unto the Plain of the Vineyards with a very great Slaughter Thus the Children of Ammon were subdu'd before the Children of Israel as you may find it written in Judg. 11.33 Thus Jephthah did valiantly for God did tread down his Enemies Eighthly The Israelites were freed from the Forces of the Philistines by Samson who slew a Lion He kill'd thirty Philistines for thirty Changes of Garments burnt their Corn with Firebrands tied to three hundred Foxes Tails carried away the Gates of Gaza destroyed a thousand Men with the Jaw-bone of an Ass and by pulling upon him the Theatre of the Philistines slew more at his death than he did in his life-time as the Histories thereof make mention in the 14th 15 and 16th Chapters of Judges Thus Samson did valiantly for God did tread down his Enemies Ninthly The Israelites were secur'd from the Onsets of the Ammonites Moabites and Inhabitants of Mount Seir thro' the gracious and seasonable Advice of good King Jehosaphat together with the Divine Assistance of Almighty God as it is penn'd 2 Chron. 20.20 21 22. where the Relation is thus worded Here me O Judah and ye Inhabitants of Jerusalem believe in the Lord your God so shall you be established believe his Prophets so shall ye prosper And when he had consulted with the People he appointed Singers unto the Lord and that should praise the Beauty of Holiness as they went out before the Army and to say Praise the Lord for his Mercy endureth for ever And when they began to sing and to praise the Lord set Ambushments against the Children of Ammon Moab and Mount Seir which were come against Judah and they were smitten Thus Jehosaphat did valiantly for God did tread down his Enemies In the Tenth place I shall thro' God's Providential permission demonstrate unto you some of the Noble Acts of Royal David who being the Man after God's own Heart always won the Field of the Lord's Battel under the Lord's Banner according to these expressions of my present Text Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies We read in the Acts of renowned David that when he was but a ruddy Youth he kill'd a Lion and a Bear as also slew the Chief Champion of the Philistines namely the Great Goliah of Gath as you may read in the 17th Chapter of the First Book of Samuel He smote two hundred Philistines for which Exploit he had the Honour of Majestical Assinity in being made the King's Son-in-Law as appears in 1 Sam. 18. He took a Spear and a Pot or Cruise of Water that stood at Saul's head as you may note in 1 Sam. 26. He warred the Lord's Warfare and slew Rechab and Baana his Brother the Sons of Rimmon the Beerothite as you have it observable in 2 Sam. 4. He overcame the Philistines twice he took the Fort Sion he restored the Ark he prepar'd for the Building of the Temple he

Proclamation with holy David Psal 18.1 2 3. saying on this wise We will love thee O Lord our Strength The Lord is our Rock and our Fortress and our Deliverer Our God our Strength in whom we will trust our Buckler and the Horn of our Salvation and our high Tower We will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall we be saved from our Enemies Like to this cordial and cheerful Proclamation was that comfortable Speech which good Hezekiah made to enliven and encourage his Army who being but few in number as compared with their Enemies the great Host of Senacherib King of Assyria were nevertheless by a setled Dependence on God's Power both willing and ready to give them the Encounter as you may read in 2 Chron. 32.7 8. where it is thus related Be strong and couragious be not afraid nor dismayed for the King of Assyria nor for all the Multitude that is with him for there be more with us than with him With him is an Arm of Flesh but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to sight our Battels And the People rested themselves upon the Words of Hezekiah King of Judah And while the People rested on the Words of Hezekiah behold the Lord sent a destroying Angel that on the same night smote in the Camp of the Alliances an hundred and fourscore and five thousand And when the People rose up early in the Morning behold they were all dead Corpses as you may read 〈◊〉 in the 2d of the Kings Chap. 19. Vers 35. Hence we may observe that a King who had the best Cause never fail'd of the best Courage The same may be said of WILLIAM the Third King of Great Britain and Ireland for God hath given him a good Cause of War against his Enemies as namely the securing of pure Religion the procuring of lasting Peace the uniting of divided Kingdoms the composing of Peoples Differences the preserving of wholesom Laws the correcting of disloyal Servants and the protecting of Loyal Subjects These being the Causes of God the King and the Church do so enhance his Majesty's Spirit that he is not afraid to meet his Enemies in the Gate but seems to declare his Interest in the Lord with holy David Psal 118.6 7. where the Prophetical King speaks on this wise The Lord is on my side I will not fear what Man can do unto me The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me Hence we may find it observable that the Lord also taketh part with our King's Party in order to fulfil his Desire upon his Enemies This Truth visibly appears in the late Wars that were managed both in the Kingdom of Ireland and the Territories of Flanders where God wonderfully preserv'd his Majesty's Sacred Person from the violent and revenging Peril of the Sword as if no Weapon form'd against him should prosper like one interested in those Escapes of David mentioned Psal 18. v. 50. namely Great Deliverances giveth he to his King and sheweth Mercy to his Anointed to David and to his Seed and Religious Successors for evermore Many miraculous Deliverances hath his Majesty already experienc'd as if a Guardian or encamping Angel had a special Commission from Heaven at all times in all places and upon all occasions to protect or preserve his pious Person Such a Commissionated-Angel we read of in Psal 34. vers 7. where it is said That the Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them But of all the miraculous Deliverances and Preservations which Heaven decreed for his Safety the most capital and remarkable was his last Escape from a cursed Cabal of Assassinates who by mischievous Machinations hatch'd a Hellish Stratagem how to embrew their hateful and unhallow'd Hands in the scarlet and crimson Dyes of his Royal Blood had not God as the Anointed of Himself prevented the Martyrdom by a matchless Miracle of mysterious Mercy We have not besides what Divine Revelation affords a greater Argument to prove this World to be govern'd and all Things in it carried on and directed by the vigilant Eye and powerful Hand of Almighty GOD than the sudden and seasonable Discoveries of such damnable Enterprizes contriv'd with the utmost Caution and Secresie propagated with great Subtilty or Cunning and being just ripe for execution yet in an instant blasted in a trice broken all to pieces either by a surprizing dread seizing the Conspirators themselves or an unwary Word over-heard or an unaccountable Suspicion of ill Designs though founded upon no reason or a very trifling one yet hath proved true or God smote upon the Conscience of some one of them and for the ease of his tortur'd Mind he is forced to a Discovery Peradventure their Jealousie of being betray'd by others hath made some to give notice of it themselves A Letter miscarry'd a Fright Mistake Oversight or something happening otherwise than was expected hath brought the hidden Works of Darkness to light whereby the King and his Liege People or Loyal Subjects have been mercifully snatch'd from the Jaws of Ruin and the Conspirators themselves brought to condign Punishment according to that remarkable Observation of the Royal Prophet in his IX Psalm at the 16th Verse where he saith That the Lord is known by the Judgment which he executeth The Wicked is snared in the Work of his own Hands From these Diabolical and Inhumane Attempts may the Omniscient Omnipresent and Omnipotent God Protect His Majesties Gracious Person to improve that prepar'd Portion which we hope Divine Providence hath laid up for him in the Disposal of Sacred Providence as length of Days in her Right Hand and in her Left Hand Riches and Honour For her Ways are Ways of Pleasantness and all her Paths are Peace as appears in Prov. 3.16 17. Seeing therefore that the plain Paths of Wisdom are all of them both pleasant and peaceable let us learn of her to be so prudent as to make our Addresses unto God that he would be pleas'd to withdraw our Feet from the rugged Ways of War and Bloodshed that he may guide them into the smooth and pleasant Paths of Peace for in so doing both Church and State will famously slourish This was a Pious and a Primitive Observation among the Jews as appears in Psal 76.1 2 3. where holy David speaks these Expressions In Judah is God known his Name is great in Israel In Salem also is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling-place in Sion There brake he the Arrows of the Bow the Shield and the Sword and the Battel But now to the Praise and Glory of God we Christians may say That in Britain is God known his Name is great in England in the Salem of our British Dominion is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling-place in the Sion of our Three Kingdoms There also brake he the Arrows of the Bow the Shield and the Sword and

the Battel where the Church of God hath a sound Principled King to her Nursing-father Elected and Established by Divine Providence to Defend her from Wrong and Violence and tho' her furious Foes are many yet her Faithful Friend is Mighty for God is in the midst of her therefore she shall not be moved God shall help her and that right early as holy David well observes in Psal 46.5 Since therefore that God is a very present help in Trouble unto his Militant or Warfaring Church we are in that respect oblig'd to pray unto him for her good Success and Prosperity as that his Divine Pleasure might be intreated to adorn and continue her in the Beautiful Ornaments of Unity Peace and Concord for in her Peace we shall enjoy Peace It is a certain Truth that as War is the Producer of Mortality Poverty and Perplexity among Men in that Kingdom or Nation wherein it is seated so Peace is the Procurer of Safety Plenty and Prosperity both to Church and State for which cause the Sacred Psalmist exhorted and excited the People in his time to Pray for the Peace of the Jewish Church which Petitions are very suitable and useful for the Church of God under Christianity as appears in Psal 122.6 7 8 9. where the sweet Singer and Orator of Israel thus spake unto his Fellow-petitioners Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem They shall prosper that love thee Peace be within thy Walls and Prosperity within thy Palaces For my Brethren and Companions sakes I will now say Peace be within thee Because of the House of the Lord our God I will seek thy good Next to our Petitions for the Peace of the Church we ought to Pray for the Peace and Prosperity of the King that God would be pleas'd to endue him with a Long Life a Prosperous Reign a Secure State and Habitation Unbyass'd Representatives a Faithful Privy-Council and Parliament Judicious and Consciencious Lawyers Mild and Merciful Magistrates Able and Valuable Physicians a Plentiful and Painful Ministry a Victorious Fleet and Army and all sorts of his Subjects that are Professors of Arts Sciences or other National Occupations a Religious Loving and a Loyal People all which will very much tend to advance the Fame of His Majesties Grandure that as he is the Defender of our Catholical Apostolical Episcopal and Protestantial Faith he may say at the end or full Expiration of his Wars with the holy Apostle St. Paul in 2 Tim. 4.7 8 9. I have fought a good Fight I have finished my Course I have kept the Faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give at the last Day And may also all His Majesties Commanders and Soldiers both by Sea and Land Experience the Truth of my present Text where it is thus exprest by the Warlike Psalmist Through God we shall do valiantly For he it is that shall tread down our Enemies Which God the Father of his Multitudinous Mercies grant through the Marvellous Merits of God the Son and the Miraculous Manifestations of God the Holy Ghost to which Trinity in Vnity and Vnity in Trinity be ascrib'd as is most due all Honour Glory Power and Praise both Now and for Evermore Amen FINIS BOOKS Printed for J. Pero at the White Swan in Little Britain JEsus is God Or the Deity of Jesus Christ Vindicated being an Abstract of some Sermons Preach'd in the Parish-Church of St. James Clerkenwell By D. Pead The Abridgment of Christian Divinity or True Religion and Undefiled in all its Principal and most Useful Branches both as to Belief and Practice briefly Stated and Explained to the Meanest Capacities A Work Seasonable for these Times wherein so many Articles of our Faith are Questioned and so many Gross Errors daily Published A Persuasive from the Creatures to a Perfect Resignation of the Will to God's By B. Pratt of Merton Colledge Oxon.