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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.
Of those four hundred thousand men, that out of all the Tribes of Israel were chosen to fight against Benjamin and Gibeah, of every one of them it is said that he was [Greek or Hebrew] 1Uir belli, a true Man of War, a valiant, a mighty man. Of those many hundred thousands which Joab numbered in Davids time, it is said that they were valiant men that drew swords, even every one of them (as ⟨p. 23⟩the Hebrew phrase implieth.) And 2of those many hundred thousands also which out of Judah & Israel were gathered together in two armies to fight one against another in Abijah's, and Jeroboam's time, it is said that they 3were *valiant men of War, mighty men of valour: which commendation is also given to those many troops of trained soldiers which Jehoshaphat maintained in Jerusalem, 2 Chron. 17. 13. When David purposed to take vengeance of Ammon for the indignity and ignominy which was offered to his Ambassadors, he sent Joah and all the Host of the Mighty men against them. Before the good Spirit of God left Saul, when he saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him, namely to train him up in Martial discipline. Of David 5himself, and of such as followed him, it is said, that all Israel knew that he was a mighty man, and they valiant men. And of those that came to him in Ziklag it is said that they were 6Mighty Men, mighty men of valour, ⟨p. 24⟩that could use both the right hand and the left: men of might; men of War; fit for the battle: that could handle shield and buckler: whose faces were like the faces of Lyons, &c. Doth not this frequent mention of the might, and valour of such as were for War, show that they that take upon them to be Military men, must be of mighty minds: and that timorous, weak, and feeble persons are not fit for the Artillery profession? Where GOD first enacted the fore-named Law, that no fearful persons should go to War, he rendereth this Reason, Lest his brethren's heart faine like