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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95610	The souldiers commission, charge, & revvard both of the deceitfull and negligent, and the faithfull & diligent in the Lords work. Opened in a sermon preached in Christ-Church Dublin, May 14. 1642. Before the state and chief of the Army, upon occasion of the interring of Sir Charles Coote knight, and one of the honourable Privy Council in Ireland. By Faithfull Teate D.D. then lecturer there, now preacher of the gospel in East-Greenwich in Kent.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1658 (1658)	Wing T616; ESTC R232310	29,273	35

Let us not then be troubled with the multitude of the Rebels nor their bloody threats and intentions if they prevail nor yet with the successe now and then attending their enterprizes but let us weigh their cause with our own in the ballance of the Sanctuary and then all may see whom God in fine will side with when he hath truly humbled and fitted his people for deliverance The just Causes of war in Scripture are such as these 1. Men may lawfully defend themselves and friends being unjustly assaulted having a Calling from God so to do Thus Abraham fought for his Nephew Lot and rescued him and his Allies having slain the invaders and is highly commended for it Gen. 14.14 18 19. and * Exod. 22.2 Multò magis licitum est defendere propriam vitam quā domum Aquin. 22. q. 64. he that defendeth not himself when he may is guilty of his own wrongs 2. The Children of Israel took up Arms against the Children of Reuben the Gadites and half Tribe of Manasseh and questionlesse they would have therewith pursued them if they had not given them good satisfaction for innovation in Religion and Gods Worship Josh 22.11 12. 3. God approves of the punishing of Capital offenders and such as protect them by force of Armes Judg. 20.13 4. David pursued the Amalekites by the Lords appointment and smote them for * Concil Lateran Sess 4. Publicas injurias usurpationes injustas princeps aequo animo ferre nō debet sed totis viribus quae sua sunt servare arrepta armis recipere plundring Ziglag and so recovered the goods and persons whom in a hostile manner they had taken away 1 Sam. 30.8 16. 5. God proclaimed an irreconcileable war between Israel and Amalek till they should blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven Here is an extirpation of Nation and name commanded if you demand for what fault The Lord giveth in their Inditement Deut. 25.17 18. Remember what Amalek did to thee by the way saith God to Israel how he met thee coming from Egypt and smote the hindmost of thee even all that were feeble behind thee when thou wast faint and weary and he feared not God Thou shalt never forget it v. 19. 6. Wherefore did David destroy the children of Ammon and besiege Rabbah but for the Villany of Hanun in taking Davids servants and shaving off one half of their beards and cutting off their garments in the middle even to their Buttocks and sending them away in this guise 1 Sam. 10.4 and 11.1 Did the Irish let the English of either sex escape so 7. King Ahab slew Naboth for his Vineyard and after his death tooke possession for which reason the Prophet Elijah told him from the Lord that in the place where dogs licked Naboths blood the dogs should also lick his blood even the Kings for murthering his honest Subject which accordingly came to passe for after he was slain in battel he was brought to Samaria where one washed his chariot in the pool and the dogs licked his blood according to the word of the Lord 1 King 21.19 Now all these grounds and other apparent causes have we of the English Nation to proceed in like sort against our Antichristian and bloody adversaries in Ireland who 1. Have been long mancipated to grosse Idolatry 2. Against the Law of the Land they took the sword 3. Committed at the first unheard of and prodigious massacres of men women and children without respect even of one hundred and fifty thousand Christians according to their own reckoning living inoffensively and securely among them 4. Having first entred into a Covenant written with their own blood to extirpate all the English with their memorial herein imitating that notorious conspirator of old cursed Cataline who first bound all his fellow-traytors with a curse and for confirmation gave them mans blood mingled with wine to drinke as Salust records Conjurat Catilinae But these miscreants surpassed them for the confirmation of this their covenant was the receiving of the Eucharist or Sacrament Some of their Articles were these That they would not leave in this Island one Brittish man alive either English Scotch or Welsh no so much as any footsteps of them but would utterly destroy all both Houses Cattel Orchards Hedg-rowes c. Item if any English man should be found who had married an Irish woman and had children of her both he and his children because they bore his name should perish but if an Irish man had married an English woman both she and her children should live 5. After all this blood-devouring ferity they grew more and more outragious daily and scornfully * See Sr. John Temple of the Irish rebellion rejected all terms of peace at any time tendred unto them while they had power to do mischief and therefore cannot expect any favour when the Lord shall deliver them into your hands see Deut. 20.10 13. 6. Since the righteous God hath evidently manifested oft-times from Heaven his great abhorrency of their most savage cruelties and hath shortned their hornes that they can do no more mischief as formerly they still continue Amalek-like to cut off such as they meet by the way sick faint weak and wounded persons that are cast behind our Camps 7. In stead of manifesting repentance for all their blasphemies and numberlesse wicked practises though they have made the land an Aceldama from one end thereof to another and in their skirts have been found the blood of the soules of poore innocents as the Prophet speaks Jer. 2.34 yet are they so far from repenting that they boast much till this day of what pranks they have committed and what tortures they inflicted on the Hereticks as they call us and repent themselves of nothing but for letting any at all escape alive from among them ratifying these and such like assertions with hideous oathes because they would have the world to believe them 8. What was Hanuns villany to theirs he cut off the garments of two or three men by the middle and so sent them away these hell-bred monsters ripped up the bowels of men and women and hung them up like slaughtered beeves searching their guts for gold compelled children to execute their parents and parents their children slew husbands and ravished the wives inticed some ignorant and unstable souls to go with them to their abominable Masses and then forthwith hanged them while they were as they said in a good mind and thus they endeavoured to destroy both their bodies and souls at once Obj. But they were not all alike will you condemn all for some Ans No indeed The men were more inhumane than salvages the women were far worse than the men and their children surpassed them both But what have I called them men and women they may fitly be compared to that beast which John saw in the Revelation c. 13.2 Like to a Leopard with the feet of a Bear and the mouth of