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The dignity of chivalry set forth in a sermon preached before the Artillery Company…The dignitie of chiualrie set forth in a sermon preached before the Artillery Company…
The dignity of chivalry set forth in a sermon preached before the Artillery Company of London, June xiij. 1626. By William Gouge, B. of Divinity and preacher of Gods Word, in Black-friars London.The dignitie of chiualrie set forth in a sermon preached before the Artillery Company of London, Iune xiij. 1626. By William Gouge, B. of Diuinity and preacher of Gods Word, in Black-friers London.
London: printed by George for Ralph Mab, 1626
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE DIGNITY OF CHIVALRY; Set forth in a Sermon preached before the Artillery Company of London, 13. June 1626.
THE DIGNITIE OF CHIVALRY; Set forth in a Sermon preached before the Artillery Company of London, 13. Iune 1626.
2 CHRON. 8. 9. [Greek or Hebrew]. THEY were MEN of WAR.
2 CHRON. 8. 9. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. THEY were MEN of WARRE.
The Dignity of Chivalry 1(a point very pertinent for this present appointment) is the Pearl that is enclosed in the casket of my Text. Hereof that you may take the better view, I will set open this casket in your sight. Be pleased therefore to take notice of the general Scope whereat the holy Ghost aimeth in this Chapter: thereby you may discern that ⟨p. 2⟩the forenamed point, The dignity of Chivalry, is not violently wrested, but properly ariseth out of my Text. The Sum of this Chapter is A Declaration of the Magnificence of Solomon. Among other evidences thereof this is one, that his native Subjects, Children of Israel, THEY were MEN of WAR. The original expresseth none but words of weight: Circumstantial words, which are as bonds to knit word to word, it leaveth to be understood. There are therefore three only words in the original, all which set out the Dignity of Chivalry, and that by the Persons, their Property, and Part whereunto they were put,