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soul_n	body_n	eye_n	spirit_n	3,947	5	4.9174	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96070	A discourse and defence of arms and armory, shewing the nature and rises of arms and honour in England, from the camp, the court, the city: under the two later of which, are contained universities and inns of court. / By Edward Waterhous Esq;.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1044; Thomason E1839_1; ESTC R204049	70,136	238

libertine who takes what Arms he pleases since Arms are not in nudam notitiam but in honorem also And therefore it must come from the Fountain of Honour who is called Animata Lex and Terrestris Deus being as the Soul in the Common-wealths body the right eye in the Polyphemiz'd Statue of popularities which sweetens their visage and renders them of deformed Monsters amiable Objects This is the primum Mobile which carryes about all Orderly motions For this cause the Apostle commandeth by the spirit of God and his Apostolique Authority that Prayers and Supplications and giving of Thanks be made for all men for Kings and all that are in Authority under them that under them we may live peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty And when Holy David Sau's successor to the Kingdom not by inheritance for so Jonathan would have been nor by Usurpation for so he himself durst not have been For if his conscience smote him for cutting off the lap of Sauls Garment and He in a holy passion cryed out The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords anoynted to stretch forth mine hand against him seeing he is the anointed of the Lord as it is v. 6. what would have become of him If he had pull'd by sacrilegious hands the Crown from off his Masters head and put him to death to consolidate his title to his Throne But Holy David though a man of valour and victory was a man of Justice and Honour his right to be Saul's successor was of divine donation and especiall appointment of God whose all power is and who stated the Government in him as appeares 2 Sam. chap. 12. vers. ● and 8. And yet though God had determined his pleasure both as to Sauls life and Kingdom yet this blessed King who had entrance by his Oustre calls upon the most tender and pensive Instruments of passionate sadness to weep Weep saith he ye Daughters of Israel over Saul who cloathed you in Scarlet with other delights who put Ornaments of Gold upon your Apparel For surely he must be a very bad King who is not worthy peoples prayers when he is alive their teares when he is dead The supreme power was then firstly and chiefly one as in the elder Governments and as in the polity of God over the World For though he hath in the upper House of Glory Archangels and Angels who infinitely transcend us men in intellect power and dignity yet are they no participants in rule but ministring spirits to his Elect the members of this moveable House of Commons here on Earth or in the largest concession they are but tutelary of us Gloworms of ostentation and puffs of nullity the paramount power is Gods who termes himself a great King and who exercises his regality in ruling over the Kingdoms of men and giving them to whomsoever he will as the voyce from Heaven declared Dan. c. 4. v. 30. But though the supreme Power be one yet not onely one for there have been plures who like many figures in conjunction have made Numeralls of great duration and augustness Amongst the Graecians when of Aristocratique Constitution they gave honours and therefore were held lawful Judges of merits Nobilibus Athletis qui Olympia Pythia Isthmia Nemaea vicissent Graecorum majores ita Magnos instituerunt honores uti non modo in conventu stantes cum palma Corona ferunt laudes sed etiam cum revertantur in suas civitates cum victoria Triumphantes quadrigis in maenia in patrias invehebantur saith Budaeus so Lazius reports the Romans to do and so above this 1200 years have the Venetians and for a long time other later Governments But such Almanacks of Honour are not calculated for every Meridian There are Nations that will be dull Scholars to learn any lesson Antimonarchique for resolution like the Rock yields not to any stroke but the rod of Omnipotence and when God utters no voyce from Heaven against Nationall Lawes not diametrall to the revealed will his word There is a Maxime of the Law swayes much with many Neminem opportet esse legibus sapientiorem As then the Legitimus Judex in our case of honour is the Supreme so next to these Originals are the illustrious Copies drawn by their fair and magnified hands such as are Vice-royes Generalls Marshalls their civil and Military Representatives For there can be no doubt but that military rewards and honours as Arms and Knight-hood are included in their intended powers For there is no Argument more prevalent to elicit Souldiers valour then this of remuneration Thus I read in the fourth of Richard the second the Duke of Buckingham made many Knights when he entred France and again after battels well fought rewarded deserving gallants with Knighthood So the L. Admiral Howard in his voyage into Britany 4 H. 8. Anno 1512. and upon his winning Morleis 14 H. 8. Anno 1522. So the Duke of Suffolk 15 H. 8. when he gained Roy and the Earl of Hertford 36 H. 8. at Leith after the burning of Edenburgh The like 1 Ed. 6. was done by the Duke of Somerset protector of the young Kings person who Anno 1547 made above 50 Knights when he went for Scotland so did the Earl of Sussex 12 Eliz. and of Essex in Cadiz voyage And there is good reason for it for take away the power to give a badge of honour to a sonne of honour and the best rounds in the scalado of great attempts are removed si non pro fama pro nihilo est demicandum Good pay indeed and great plunder works most an end with the vulgar and ordinary stipendiary who having bruital ayms is satisfied with low and mean compensations but a spirit of elixerated mettle purely extracted from the Oare of avarice and quintessentially fixed upon the attainment of fame and the enamouring companions of Heroique vertue acquiesses in nothing but in the indubitate badges and testimonies of emeriting which his principall gives him For the courage which vehiculates his attempts and occasions his glory is Gods royal donative therefore the bravery of such a martial soul is of an immortal Origen and has no lesse Nobility then a Divine participation not essential but communicative The acceptation of the performance and the attestation of the gallantry of the subject acting it being made known by the notices and badges of conferred honour which are personal and Gentilicial For where actions performed by men do benefit posterity 't is fit the posterity of such actors should be dignified by their predecessors merit So St. Leo ad humanam pertinet laudem ut patrum decus in prole resplendeat So St. Ambrose writes of one Caepta patris dignitas in filio nobilitatur and Plyny for them all tells sonnes Magnum in Gloria patris Ornamentum Yea he is no man of honour who if worthies die issuless as often they

pay and Ranzovius their General was necessitated as he declared to bear with them more then he ought or otherwise would but it was thought He had a divident in the plunder of those merciless inquisitors and his fate was to be a sacrifice to their insolence 'T is an ill chosen thrift to meditate that an Opportunity of our own glory which God intrusts us with to inaugurate his if men promoted by God to purposes of universall good degenerate and interpret his providences to be Prefaces to their own advantage God either meets with such by his ●errors in their Conscience or by countermining their Councel and making their device of none effect Ferdinand King of Arragon was a wise and politique Prince making havock of his Conscience and Honour to make his Sonne the greatest Monarch in the World But vain Prince He lived to see his darling Sonne die before him and that in the flower of his age and his Wife great with child die together with her untimely birth and both buried together Gods Ulysses's must stop their eares against this worlds Syren notes for if once they lean to an earthly requiem and look upon the forbidden fruit with delight to and desire of it then farewel God Religion Honour Conscience all these are Physicians of no value to him that is thus distempered in his brains and so dementated that he may be ruined and that unlamented Cossi was a brave Commander in Ottoman the first his Army having for a time large rewards and quiet abidance given him but Ottoman knowing he was by profession a Christian though God knowes a loose one and in no sort valiant for the truth sent for him to come to the Court pretending he had some service for him but with intent when he had him there to make him turn Turk Or have him murthered Cossi understanding the Emperours drift to keep in his favour and preserve his own life turned Turk Men must have not so much Sauls Armour as Davids faith that would overcome Goliah like temptations No Coat of Mail like to confidence in God no Weapons of Offence like to those little smooth stones we gather out of the brook of self-distrust He that fears himself annihilates Satans plot and gives a call of faith which brings in comfortable ayd for the Lord is nigh unto them that call upon him And therefore Interest in God is the best Sanctuary in dubious and deceitful times 't is the noblest subterfuge that we can fly to and the safest harbour we can anchor in when the World as it were is on fire about our eares and we are burning in it and when storms and commotions menace overthrow and dissolution of all There is a famous story of a Sorceress in Scotland called the wise Wife of Keith who in Anno 1591. being apprehended as a Sorceress upon examination confessed that Bothwel a notable Traytor had moved her to enquire what should become of the then King how long he should-raign and what should happen after his death and that the evil spirit with whom she confederated having undertook to make away the King after failer of performance being challenged by her for so failing said it was not in his power speaking words which she apprehended to be Il est homme de Dieu He is a man of God for though God has given the Prince of the ayre a large Territory yet has he kept the Paramount soveraignty to himself that is the security we have from him that is our enemy whose enmity is ●ersans circa totum genus humanum that God sayes to his proud rage hitherto shalt thou come and no further Et in tuto haereditas ponitur quae Deo custode servatur And therefore if God have any delight in us he will draw our hearts off from worldly objects and intend them on his glory concerned highly in the welfare of Religion I say Religion such as St. James calls pure Re●igion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherless and the Widows in their affliction and to ●eep himself unspotted of the world For Religion thus qualited is a beauty meriting the best Jewels this world can purchase her 't is the Pearl worth all Merchants wealth the prize worth all combatants hazard a blessing compensating all devotion Though it be giving ones body to be burned 'T was Royal Divinity that a Noble mouth once in this Nation uttered That soul is not worthy of the Heavens Joyes whose body cannot endure one blow of the Hangman Next to Gods preservation of his own honour the Authour is an humble Orator to God for his merciful defence of this Nations honour which is in a great measure decayed and of ill report abroad it was once said of England Regnum Angliae Regnum Dei But how O thou Lucifer of our honour art thou fallen from Heaven and hast exchanged thy morning clarity for night-shades and dresses of dismal aspect jam non Lucifer sed noctiferet mortifer once O beloved Countrey thou wast like Capernaum the envy and glory of Nations now thy widow-hood and old age deformity make thee unacceptable Thou wast once as a City united within it self but now thy differences have begotten hostilities which spur and switch to ruine ecce in regione nostra Hipponensi quoniam eam Barbari non attigerunt clericorum Donatistarum Circumcellionum latrocinia sic vastavit Ecclesias ut Barbarorum Jortasse facta mitiora sunt was St. Augustines complaint to Victorian and I pray God England has not cause to say that what forraign enemies could not bring about to her ruine homebred enmity is like to do Discord is the Port at which in vasion and conquest enters the Goths came into Spain and Narbon ruina videlicet Romani status frequenti mutatione Principum animati and if England would escape those harasses she has formerly suffered by she must avoid division and adhere to wise worthy and legal settlements while the Egyptians kept to the constitutions of the Gods and their Heroes to speak after Diodorus they did well and were oracular to the world but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} when Macedonians were their Lords {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} then what was thought well setled became null and Egypt grew base and contemptible My prayer is that England may live in Gods sight that is in Job his words that it was with us as in times past in the dayes when God preserved us when his Candle shined upon our heads and when by his light we walked thorow darkness but I have no hope to see this till Religion be more our practice then prattle till meeknesse and moderation one of the most beauteous fruits of reformation be ingratiated with us O did men know the high notes of supernal Musick and superspherical harmony that are in the souls of peace makers they would never leave off prayers