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A04597	A spiritual chaine, and armour of choice, for Sion souldiers Which, whosoeuer weareth graciously, shall be sure of the best honour, comfort and safetie (whether he liue or die in the battell) that can come to a Christian souldier. Very necessary for these times.	Jones, Anthony, fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 14717.5; ESTC S114423	39,266	114

A SPIRITVAL CHAINE AND ARMOVR OF CHOICE FOR SION SOVLDIERS Which whosoeuer weareth graciously shall be sure of the best honour comfort and safetie whether he liue or die in the battell that can come to a Christian souldier Very necessary for these times LONDON Printed by William Iones for Robert Mylbourne at the great South doore of Pauls 1622. TO MY ESPECIAL REVEREND LOVING AND BELOVED FRIENDS BOTH Magistrates Ministers and others who loue the Sion of our God and to such friends of theirs also as vnto whom they shall thinke good to impart this booke for the end here proposed and in conclusion to all them who intend to publish any Treatise Grace and peace be multiplied from God the Father and from our Lord Iesus Christ Amen REuerend louing beloued in the God of honor loue it so pleasing his diuine Maiestie to withhold me by much weaknesse a great while of late from preaching his holy word I searched my heart wherein I might do most seruice in these my old yeares and decaying dayes to my good God and most good to his Church by any other talent which he hath bestowed vpon me Hauing a small one in writing I resolued to vse it now as called thereunto Our glorious God saith by Solomons pen Without counsell Prou. 15.22 purposes are disappointed but in the multitude of counsellers they are established I desire therefore to haue my poore labours perused by many of my iudicious friends and theirs also thereby to obteine sound counsell Heartily then I beseech you in that gracious God of ours to shew me your loue in this action herein chiefly viz. if you finde any thing in this Treatise which might dishonour our good God or do any maner of hurt to his Sion that you will admonish me of it As I ought not so I will not be iudge of mine owne workes there being nothing wherein a man may sooner deceiue himselfe Bookes in my iudgement require a greater purifying then gold yea and a more excellent fire also to purge them No materiall fire purgeth gold so well as the spirits of Gods childoen a famous kind of fire do purge those bookes which are submitted to that most true and trustie triall So I call it because such spirits doe make their triall by the word that fire of fires though I be not of his minde for the time of impression who said Nonum premantur in annum publish your bookes the ninth yeare yet am I iust of the same man minde for taking a large time both to reuise and aduise yet I desire not to tie others vnto my maner of publishing bookes or to taxe any who take lesse time and counsell in penning spreading abroad of their works if they take so much as may shew that they be not of a priuate spirit and readier to offer vnto the world nimis praecocia quam satis praeparata things rather too hastily ripened then sufficiently prepared There will be wants when the longest and best care is takē for who can say that his heart pen or tongue are perfect much more doth great haste make great waste You shall perceiue that I finde fault with such kinde of haste and here I aduise all writers to take good leisure This also I adde out of my experience from the present Treatise for inducing others the sooner and the more to rely on that old prouerb Plus vident oculi quam oculu● a great many of eies see more then one viz. that to my remembrance I neuer shewed this booke to any but I was moued necessarily to put in or take out somewhat so against the next impression if the godly experienced see cause I purpose to do And I most humbly thanke our gracious God for giuing mee the minde and the meanes to haue the iudgement of diuers godly and worthy men in this action which yet also I seeke more and more vsing the Presse as a helpe at this time to that end No more now but that I humbly beseech our blessed God to blesse you and yours and all your emploiments and studies and withall I desire your prayers for a blessing to me and my endeuours so as we all in all our purposes and actions may seeke his glorie To God our Father almightie and to his dearely beloued Sonne our blessed Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus and to the holy Spirit three Persons and one God most wise holy iust and mercifull be all honour praise and thankes for euer and euer Amen To those patterne Captaines so I call them who are Leaders by their godly example of the Artillerie and Militarie in the Citie of London that famous Citie of the kingdome his Maiesties most strong safe and trustie Chamber and to all others there who any way haue any speciall hand for vpholding the practise of Chiualrie in what offices soeuer they be setled I wish all maner of peace from the God of peace and all holy and prouident preparation for all kinds of godly warre THe Wife whō Bethsheba described Prou. 31. hath bin is now and for euer shall be a peerlesse patterne to all vertuous wiues right so your worthy actions concerning matters of Chiualrie that the knowledge and exercise thereof may not decay in Citizens haue bin are now and I hope will be a notable example to the present age and to all posteritie Therefore as it is said of the vertuous wife A woman that feareth God Prou. 31.30 v 29. shall be praised Her children rise vp and call her blessed Her husband praiseth her her owne workes praise her So say I of you The training vp of the Cities valiant men yea youths nay very children in feates of armes being first taught to feare their God and to be armed against and fight against Satan causeth those children to rise vp and blesse both parents and Preachers and Captaines for their education yea and it maketh the whole land to reioyce in their good God for the worthie patterne which you giue to the kingdome in these right worthy actions both for bodie and soule Hereby you shew that you are not like the lazie people of Laish Iudg. 18.7 8 9. who by their carelesnesse were fit to be made a prey to any that would inuade them Go on good Citizens thus to ioyne religion and prowesse pietie by the peaceable word and policie by the preuenting sword so shall your workes continue to praise you in the gates and to cause the praise of our glorious God to sound both in earth and in heauen For your better progresse herein I haue sent you euen first of all a little Treatise touching the antiquitie and nobilitie of gracious Souldiers and concerning the holy behauiour which they ought to haue without which no science mysterie or art no not the seuen Liberall Arts no nor any other knowledge whatsoeuer are of any reckoning with our God The Lord our God blesse it to you and blesse you all and the whole Citie also

especially with continuance of that good word of our good God so powerfully preached and with your increase of loue and obedience thereunto together with all kinds of godly peace and with each good means to maintain them and all this in a most long quiet and blessed reigne of our gracious Soueraigne Lord King Iames. Amen To the worthie Captaines and to the whole Companies of the Artillerie in other Cities and Townes of our Nation who haue imitated this famous patterne of the Citie of the Kingdome and chiefly to Londons notable neighbours for imitation I meane them of the Artillerie at Westminster and to all other gracious helpers thereunto the selfe same peace in the selfe same sort that is to say all maner holy peace in the God of peace IT is one of the greatest honours that may be to follow the steps of good men in good actions The praise and benefit hereof you receiue to Gods glorie by imitating your renowned Mother-Citie of London in training vp your people for skill in warre The increase in this Skill is a meanes to strike a feare into inveterate foes who otherwise will watch opportunities to offer strokes Olde wilie foxes are venturous vpon lambes in places where they winde no foote nor baite nor grinne Olde kites will quickly spie where nets be prepared and where not Olde Rauens will soone smell both match and powder and olde robbers of houses will soone perceiue which houses are strong and which are weake Right so it is with old enemies to a nation Well you know by reason of many iourneys about your affaires that the verie sight of a sword makes a theefe stay his hand sometimes though not his heart yea and by Gods restraining power saues some throates from cutting Right so in peace a preparation for warre makes the enemies heart to faint and the hearts of good men to reioyce This holdeth in the spirituall warre also by preparing to haue that sword of the Spirit readie both in the greater and lesser Churches of our God yea and readie also in euerie heauenly hand of each new borne Christian considering the great subtiltie and strength of that old Serpent our irreconcileable aduersarie Imitate your honourable Mother in her so many holy prouisions and actions imitate her in the double by pietie I meane and by policie by prouiding both the heauenly and the earthly sword endeuour you also alwaies as she doth to vse all good meanes for defending your selues and your countrie amongst others practise effectually that laudable training prescribed by a prouident order Thus defend your selues yea and be you and let vs all be defenders euer offenders neuer Let not your vse in armes be out of your armes as a thing vnaccustomed Our prouerb is Vse legges and haue legges so I say Vse armes skilfully and haue skill in armes Be you then religious more and more and be you also valorous more and more continue to bring vp your youth in the trade of both these waies so shall they not depart from them both these be holy wayes to enter into and to walke in For your better treading in these peaceable yet preuenting defending paths and for your true vse of warre when you haue occasion which our good God keepe vs from if it be his blessed will I haue likewise sent you aforehand also my collections of those eight links and the chaine made of them together with a description of your Armour of choice and proofe No more at this time but the Lord our God so guide you still in holy actions as that you may do them cheerfully and constantly to your owne priuate and your countries publicke good and alwayes to his glorie in the first and highest place Amen A SPIRITVAL CHAINE AND ARMOVR OF CHOICE FOR SION SOVLDIERS HEaring of warres and of rumors of warres vnto which many souldiers of many countries in Christendome were like to be sent I haue written a plaine and short Treatise more and more to stirre vp so many of them now and others hereafter as by any meanes may haue vse of it vnto a gracious cariage in this high calling of theirs which so much concerneth not onely themselues but all Christian Churches and Common-wealths also yea and the glorie of God withall together with their owne particular safetie for the better setting forth of his glorie A short Treatise in comparison I write because I feare that if it were long there would be much want of fit time and much more of good will to reade it the multiplicitie of bookes considered A plaine Treatise I write because most souldiers are plaine men altogether vnlearned touching any skill in the Arts for whose sake it is that when I vse any illustration in Latin for more delight to the learned I omit not to translate it Now if there be a blessed peace in most places yea or in euery place before my booke cometh forth I shall much reioyce at it as he who wisheth that all Christian Kings and Princes would labour to make Halcyon neasts for breeding Sion birds and that none of them would nourish such Romish Rauens Hawkes and Harpies as delight in cruell preying vpon innocents Princes and all more then in true prayer to the true God Yet seeing warres are as like to continue in the world as diseases both being sent of our God as punishments for sinne my booke may stand in such stead as medicines printed long before for such and such maladies when people fall into them Weapons are prouided in peace against the time of warre and why not counsels Surely both these are necessary aforehand Now as the Apostle Paul said touching his brethren the Iewes My hearts desire and prayer for Israel Rom. 10.1 is that they may be saued so say I for Protestant souldiers my Christian brethren my hearts desire and prayer for them is that they may be holy and doe worthily like King Dauids Worthies 2. Sam. 23. yea so worthily as they that walk by the eye and word of their God this being the onely way to haue Gods Angels to protect them Num. 23.21 and the shout of a King amongst them yea and the King of Kings on their side Thus shall they shew themselues gracious souldiers and truly religious both by profession and practise No other sorts wil respect such Armour and such a Chaine as this whose linkes are found in the word and put together by the word These links this armour and this chaine I wish to all Sion souldiers By Sion souldiers I meane such as earnestly contend for the faith once giuen to the Saints Iude verse 3. shewing their good faith by good workes and vtterly abhorring that Whore of Babylon as well for her loose life as for her diuellish doctrine For this departures sake by beleeuing speaking and doing or at leastwise for the outward profession hereof I call them generally Sion souldiers If any of them doe not answer so worthy a departure and so

to be practised here by Christian souldiers doubtlesse there is For though no man goeth a warfare at his owne cost as the Apostle saith yet in dayes of necessitie sacred souldiers must take their God for their pay-master and rest quiet and stand couragious for a time without their pay Nay a degree further then this too Say that victuals wax scarce as well as wages yet Sion souldiers will make no mutinies for all these wants no though vnder officers should neglect or abuse them in all these things which God forbid and giue wisedome and care to superiour magistrates to looke narrowly to that point holy souldiers will not murmure as the wicked Israelites did in the wildernesse but rather submit themselues as meeke lambes vnder the mightie hand of their heauenly Father euen as Samson did when our good God quenched his thirst presently whereby he was refreshed in a time of great want and sooner giue comfort to their gouerners whom they see grieued for their sakes then adde afflictions and griefes vnto them by their discontentments It is one thing to keep backe the hirelings wages or foode out of a couetous or carelesse mind and another thing to be wounded in heart because the strait is so great that Kings Princes Generals and Captaines cannot do that for their souldiers which their soule desireth in such a case sanctified souldiers will rather cheere vp their valiant gouernours by their holy learning to abound and want then make tumults for lacke of cheere How far then will they be from such an vtter falling away as to forsake God and gouernours cause and campe because their purses and mouthes be not alwayes filled Many wicked souldiers are vtterly voide of this godly minde who vpon the least want of pay or prouision do shew all maner want of patience and contentednesse yea so far as to make insurrections Some in this case fall to cursing railing and rauing and othersome fall away to the enemie No longer plentie no longer dutie no longer pay no longer Prince Such souldiers as thus forsake God and gouernours for want of mony and meate do bewray great emptinesse of grace and do much disgrace the honourable profession of a souldier This sheweth that their grounds and resolutions in coming to war were sinister and quite voide of all godlinesse As betweene man and wife parents and children friend and friend there is a firm indissoluable bond of loue as well in aduersity as prosperitie so it is betweene gouernours and their souldiers nothing must part them but death vntill by a generall consent they giue ouer war If at any time the wants be so great as they cannot be endured then it will be the wisedome and mercie of supreme Leaders and Commanders to relinquish and breake vp for a time and to vse all good meanes for their souldiers safetie as for their owne but whiles hope of victorie remaineth and matters go in a tollerable sort no want of wages in any wise nor any sufferable want of any necessaries will cause souldiers that haue tasted of the new birth to abandon the campe or curse and ban their Rulers knowing that so much the more patience as they haue in extremities so much the more recompence they shall haue both with God man in victories As they that faithfully suffer other losses at home in lands houses goods or liberties with our most blessed Sauiour shall vndoubtedly reigne with him so they that in war suffer with their Leaders in hard straits shall vndoubtedly triumph with them at length if not in earth yet let them know that if they suffer Christianly in war for Christs sake I say this is also a right blessed meanes through Christs merits to reigne with him and with his Deputie-Captaines eternally Let not Christian souldiers then looke with the eye of flesh vpon present meanes but with the eye of faith vpon Gods power and promise and wholy commit themselues vnto this good Father of fathers esteeming his glory and his Deputies comfort and protection to be of more value then all the wages and victuals in the world Let it neuer be said that Sion souldiers are like couetous worldlings all for mony nothing for loue The ancient heathen shall condemne such selfe-louers yea weake women amongst the heathen shall condemne them euen a Moabite did Ruth leaue Naomi though greatly vrged because she was now become poore No sure she cleaued to her in a time of penurie much like a time of war and that in a most louing and constant maner Naomi you know was in very extraordinary griefe and distresse when she was to trauell alone for ought she knew from Moab to Iudea This tender mother in law was loth to haue her daughters in law with her lest they should come to dangers and wants At length the one of them was perswaded to returne but the other would by no meanes leaue her come what wants might come Ruth would not forsake Naomi Naomi did say nay rather Marah as she calls her selfe she would take part with her in bitternesse Ruth 1. Ponder well vpon her most kind words a rare daughter in law Intreate me not to leaue thee or to returne from following after thee for whither thou goest I will go and where thou lodgest I will lodge Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God where thou diest will I die and there will I be buried The Lord do so to me and more also if ought but death part thee and me Doubtlesse gracious souldiers wi●l say as much for the loue which they beare to their louing Kings Princes Gouernours and Captaines they will not leaue them nor forsake them for want of wages no nor for want of food so long as nature hath any strength to hold out Sion souldiers would think it great shame and disgrace that any woman specially a Moabite should go beyond them in close standing to a deare friend in time of aduersitie As Ruth then ventured to gleane for her mother in law and her selfe amongst strangers and some of them of strange and boisterous qualities so will they venture to roue and reape in the enemies countrie for their owne and their Captains sustenance yea to rush through multitudes 1 Sam 13.15 ●● like Dauids Worthies for the water of Bethlehem rather then exclame against their Leaders for such wants as lie not in their power to supply A low ebbe of earthly maintenance will not bring a Sion souldier to a low ebbe of heauēly loue Good King Dauid was brought to a low ebbe when hee and his men are the Shew-bread And what great store of prouision may wee suppose that hee had 1 Sam. 21.7 when hee sent to Nabal for some of his store or when King Achish asked him Where he had bin a rouing that day 1 Sam 15.6 Neither is it like that hee had much wages to giue his souldiers in the wildernesse Behold here a great Captaine in great wants yet his