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…

2. As there was choice made of ¹persons in regard of their outward privilege, Israelites, Natives, Citizens: so also in regard of their inward property. For the second word of my Text, [Greek or Hebrew] MEN, though it be oft used for mortal men, subject to many miseries, yet is it also put for [Greek or Hebrew] valorous men, and attributed to those choice men which were taken out of the twelve several Tribes of Israel, ²and sent to spy the Land of Canaan. ⟨p. 5⟩Yea, this very word is twice used in that exhortation which the Philistines use to encourage one another, when they heard that the Ark of the LORD was brought into the host of the Israelites: and it is used to set out valour and courage in men. For thus, word for word, it may be translated, ³Be Men: some translate it thus, Play the MEN: Others thus, Quit you like MEN. [Greek or Hebrew] by transposition of a letter, are [Greek or Hebrew] Men of place & power, Commanders, Captains. Thus the MEN here meant, may be distinguished from the vulgar, common sort of men. The Hebrew put such a difference betwixt [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] as the Grecians do betwixt [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], and the Latins betwixt Vir and Homo. [Greek or Hebrew] importeth such an one as hath in him [Greek or Hebrew] Fire, Life, and Spirit: but. [Greek or Hebrew] a man of the earth. Vir by the Latins is so called of virtue & prowess: but homo ab humo, as [Greek or Hebrew] ⁴of the earth. In Greek, they most properly are styled [Greek or Hebrew] who are [Greek or Hebrew], virtuous, valorous, magnanimous: ⟨p. 6⟩but all of all sorts [Greek or Hebrew]. Our English is herein penurious, it wanteth fit words to express this difference: we call all, whether mighty or mean, Men: yet sometimes this word MEN in our tongue hath his Emphasis, as in these and such like phrases, They have played the MEN. They have showed themselves MEN. They are MEN indeed. Thus in the english translation of the Scripture it is used,