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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
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 Battle.
The Battell.
Then was war in the gates. If Israel give God an Alarm of wickedness, God will give them a Battle ⟨p. 7⟩of wretchedness. If thou, O Israel, wilt peccare in extremo tuo, God will punire in extremo suo: if thou sin in thy extremity, God will punish in his extremity. Idolatry is an extreme impiety; therefore against it the gate of heaven is barred.1 Know ye not, that no Idolater shall inherit the Kingdom of God? The Idolater would thrust God out of his Throne, therefore good reason that God should thrust him out of his Kingdom. The punishment is also extreme: and hath in it a great portion of misery, though not a proportion answerable to the iniquity. For it deserves not only war and slaughter in the gates of earth, but eternal death in the gates of hell. But not to extend the punishment beyond the proposed limits; nor, where it offers the company a mile, to compel it to go with us twain: let us view it, as it is described. And we shall find it aggravated by three circumstances. A Natura. War; there's the Nature of it. A Tempore. Then; there's the Time of it. A Loco. In the gates; there's the Place of it. There is Quid, Quando, Ubi. What, When, and Where. War, that's the Quid. Then, that's the Quando. In the gates, that's the Ubi. Then was war in the gates.
Then was warre in the gates. If Israel giue God an Alarme of wickednesse, God will giue them a Battell ⟨p. 7⟩