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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08281	The mirror of honor wherein euerie professor of armes, from the generall, chieftaines and high commanders, to the priuate officer and inferiour souldier, may see the necessitie of the feare and seruice of God, and the vse of all diuine vertues, both in commanding and obeying, practising and proceeding in the most honorable affayres of warre. A treatise most necessarie ...	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1597 (1597)	STC 18614; ESTC S113322	96,790	104

THE MIRROR OF HONOR Wherein euerie professor of armes from the Generall Chieftaines and high Commanders to the priuate officer and inferiour souldier may see the necessitie of the feare and seruice of God and the vse of all diuine vertues both in commanding and obeying practising and proceeding in the most honorable affayres of warre A treatise most necessarie comfortable and expedient for all English subiects whereby their duties to God their Prince and countrie their assurance and safetie is liuely set foorth as in a glasse before them Exod. 14.14 The Lord shall fight for you therefore hold you your peace The Contents of the booke are in the next page Printed at London by the Widowe Orwin for Thomas Man 1597. The Contents of this Booke 1 A briefe motiue to the consideration of the necessitie of this worke and of the different effects of peace and warre 2 How necessarie the feare and true seruice of God and the vse of all diuine vertues are in euery chiefe gouernour in armes and wherein true honor consisteth 3 That all men should be readie to defend their Prince and Countrie and how inferiour officers in armes the common and priuate souldiers should behaue themselues as touching their obedience to God their Prince and superiour Commanders 4 That Prayer is necessarie among men of armes as a principall and chiefe meane both to defend themselues and to annoy the enemie and that after victorie they ought to praise God 5 A most necessarie motiue to stirre vp all men that continue at home to serue the liuing God and to seeke to winne his fauour aswell in regarde of the safetie and good successe of their brethren souldiers abroad as of their owne at home TO THE RIGHT HOnorable my singular good Lord and Master Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe Lord Ferrers of Chartley Bourcher and Louaine of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter ALbeit right Honorable the indeuours of best deseruers and of men qualified with highest gifts of all kinds of vertues be subiect to deprauing censures I the meanest of many other am moued by the loue I beare to my countrie in all reuerence and zeale according to my portion of knowledge sith the better able affoord it not to aduenture some thing to the incouragement of men trained and to be trained to the field in Militarie seruice not as teaching them the art of warre but inciting them to obedience to God their Prince and Commanders to vertuous and diuine exercises to the practise of profitable and of praise worthie actions and to the auoyding of things offensiue hurtfull and fruitles For if none should speake because they haue captious hearers if none should write because they haue deprauing readers what would become of the vse of the tongue or practise of the pen If none should vndertake but what they were assured should please all men there would follow speedie ruine of all vertuous indeuours in whatsoeuer kinde For none is so absolute by art or nature but that some being meere naturals without art or vertue will struggle to glorifie their own nothing by deprauing the something of others No good indeuour intended to Gods glorie can be so simple and fruitles but it will yeeld some profite to the well disposed and no worke is so excellent but is altogether fruitles to the euill affected Best things haue least grace among the worst and the prophanest workes best welcome to prophane men But such as sauour of diuine reason will imbrace the good fruites euen of poorest knowledge and will reiect the most absolute worke of a carnall conceit And if I had not hope grounded vpon mine owne as also vpon publique experience of your honorable clemencie to accept of vertuous indeuours at the hands of the meanest I could not at this time affoord scope vnto my sorrowing thoughts daunted dulled and dismaied at the dismall issue of former hope to expose vnto a generall gaze this sillie Mirror which vnder your Honorable protection I know may safely passe through the pikes with profit to many preiudiciall to none but behoofull to all And it craueth at my hands no safer shelter from the malice of the worst nor better warrant to passe currant among the best than your Lordships allowance which in discretion I cannot denie it though I cannot assure it Yet I am vrged to aduenture my selfe for it and it for me vnto your Honorable consideration And while I waite in hope I doe and will euer rest a dutifull petitioner to the God of hoasts to furnish your Honor with all happines and happie issue of all your Honorable enterprises Your Honors humble seruant Iohn Norden To the Reader NOthing is so rashly rudely or vnaduisedly vndertaken but that reason or discretion seemeth to direct the same and most of all Militarie attempts are to bee enterprised with high deuotion because they tend to peace the most precious end of warre For there seemeth as great difference betweene peace and warre as betweene a sober and a mad man the one plausible sweete and profitable to many the other terrible and troublesome to all and truly profi●able to none It is a pernicious euill as of it selfe but by circumstances it is both lawfull and expedient not that it openeth the way to heauen by slaughter and bloud as Scipio of Affricke boasted but that it is the way to redeeme most wished peace When the cause is iust no man may question whether the warre bee lawfull It is then iust when it seeketh to defend and preserue the publique quiet and Christian religion and it is then lawful when it is done by the authority of the Prince and rightly vndertaken when it is in the feare of God and truly executed when it is with vpright minds As touching the iustice and lawfulnes of the cause present it sufficeth vs to know it is to preserue our state the superiour Magistrate commandeth it and wee are to obey it in a treble dutie to God our Soueraigne and common-weale to the end we may possesse our owne in quiet vnder the protection of equitie and iustice which both are established by peace and peace maintained by suppressing warre Our present warre is a defence against hostile offence which as euery man seeth threatneth vnto vs the dreadfull deuouring sword or such wretched seruitude as was neuer shewed vnto the Iewes in Aegypt or Babylon For the experienced tyrannies of our aduersaries haue many wayes and in diuers places displaied their bloudie inclination to bee more than heathenish and therefore our estate aymed at by their cruell desires is neither to faint or flatter it selfe but in the name of the God of hoasts to goe foorth with our armies and with courage onely in Christ to witnes our Christian fortitude not as some great Martialists haue done that haue sought and gotten fame by bloud as Herod Hannibal Caesar Attila and infinite others who haue left behinde them nothing