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The soldiers honour Wherein by divers inferences and gradations it is evinced, that the…The souldiers honour Wherein by diuers inferences and gradations it is euinced, that the…
The soldiers honour Wherein by divers inferences and gradations it is evinced, that the profession is just, necessary, and honourable: to be practised of some men, praised of all men. Together with a short admonition concerning munition, to this honoured city. Preached to the worthy company of gentlemen, that exercise in the artillery garden: and now on their second request, published to further use. By Tho. Adams.The souldiers honour Wherein by diuers inferences and gradations it is euinced, that the profession is iust, necessarie, and honourable: to be practised of some men, praised of all men. Together with a short admonition concerning munition, to this honour'd citie. Preached to the worthy companie of gentlemen, that exercise in the artillerie garden: and now on thier second request, published to further vse. By Tho. Adams.
London: printed by Adam Islip and Edward Blount, 1617
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3. New gods. Will any Nation change their gods? no: the Ekromites will keep their god, though it be Beelzebub: the Ammonites will keep their god, though it be Melchom: th• Syrians will stick to their god, though it be Rimmon: the Philistines will not part with their god, though it be Dagon. And shall Israel change Jehovah, viventem Deum, the living God? Pessimum; this is worst of all.
3. New gods. Will any Nation change their gods? no: the Ekromites will keepe their god, though it be Belzeebub: the Ammonites will keepe their god, though it be Melchom: th• Syrians will sticke to their god, though it be Rimmon: the Philistims will not part with their god, though it be Dagon. And shall Israel change Iehouah, viuentem Deum, the liuing God? Pessimum; this is worst of all.
These be the wretched degrees of Israels sin: God keep England from such Apostasy. We have one God: let the Romists choose them another: as the Canonists style their Pope, Dominus Deus noster Papa;1 our Lord God the Pope. But we have one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism; one God, and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all. We have one God in profession: this God grant, that we have but one in affection. But unum colimus ore, multos cord: we worship one with our mouths, many in our hearts. Tot sunt nostrae deitates, quot cupiditates: we have so many gods, as we have lusts. Honour is the ambitious mans god: Pleasure the voluptuous mans god: Riches the covetous mans god. Haec tria pro trino Numine mundus habet. This is the Trinity the world worships. These three Tyrants, like those three Romans, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, have shared the world between them; and left God least, that owes all.
These be the wretched degrees of Israels sinne: God keepe England from such Apostacie. We haue one God: let the Romists chuse them another: as the Canonists style their Pope, Dominus Deus noster Papa;