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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 most prudent Prince that ever governed people, put in practise this point of policy: even Solomon, to whom God said, I have given thee a wise & an understanding heart, so that 1there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like thee. This Solomon enjoyed much peace, & had a promise to enjoy peace all his days, and had no cause to fear any assaults or invasions of enemies, all the nations round about being brought under by his Father David: Yet this Prince of Peace built fenced cities with walls, gates and bars, ⟨p. 33⟩2and chariot-cities, and cities of horsemen, and had his trained men of War, which are here noted in my Text; yea, to show his store of warlike provision, it is expressly noted, that he had forty thousand stalls of horses for 3his chariots, a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horse men. The first Father of that stock, wise Abraham, whose house was a 4place of peace, (for the fear of God fell upon all nations round about him, they honoured and reverenced him, they accounted him a Prince of God) yet had this Abraham his Artillery Garden, wherein were trained up and 5fitted for War, such as were borne and brought up in his house: the number of which Company, I suppose was greater then the number of your Company. For at once on a sudden he armed and led to the War more then three hundred trained men. And it is not likely that he left his house destitute of all defence. He had questionless many more of that his Artillery Company. Now note the benefit ⟨p. 34⟩hereof. On a sudden, in a time of necessity, and case of extremity, he had them ready to rescue five Kings, that were overthrown by their enemies. To press this pattern yet further for the point in hand, the holy Ghost noteth that Melchizedek, King of Salem, whose name declared him to be a King of Righteousness, whose nation showed him to be a Prince of Peace, this Melchizedek King of