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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.
If the fore-mentioned patterns of prudent Princes, and wise States-men, recorded & approved in Gods Word, for training up armies of men in warlike exercises, and that in times and places of peace: If the many great benefits which thereby arise and accrue to a Land and Kingdom, and the many great mischiefs which are like to follow, upon a careless neglect ⟨p. 40⟩thereof, be motives of force, motives of force are not wanting to prove, that, In peace to prepare for War, is a principal part of prudence.
If the fore-mentioned patternes of prudent Princes, and wise States-men, recorded & approued in Gods Word, for training vp armies of men in warlike exercises, and that in times and places of peace: If the many great benefits which thereby arise and acrue to a Land and Kingdome, and the many great mischiefes which are like to follow, vpon a carelesse neglect ⟨p. 40⟩thereof, bee motiues of force, motiues of force are not wanting to proue, that, In peace to prepare for Warre, is a principall part of prudence.
The Application of this point, 1doth as nearly concern this Artillery Company, as any of the former, both for justification, and also for approbation and commendation thereof. Were our days more halcyon, more quiet, and peaceable then they are, or were they more free from fear of danger then they are, yet were your Artillery exercises lawful, needful, useful. True it is, that they are not in pitched fields, pede pes, & cuspid cuspis, face to face, foot to foot, spear to spear against enemies. They are in a quiet City, in a time of peace among your selves. They are like the Olympian games (instituted by potent and prudent Hercules) and the Isthmian 2sports (ordained by Theseus in imitation of Hercules) as delightsome preparations for War. They are like to the Pyrrhic dancing which was invented