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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.
Yea, if it had come but to the coasts, and invaded the borders: as the Philistines did often forage ⟨p. 12⟩the skirts of Israel; yet it had been somewhat tolerable: for then vidimus tantum; we have but seen it only. Ostendisti populo gravia. Psal. 60. Thou hast shown thy people grievous things: showed, but not inflicted: shaken the rod, but not scourged us. But here venit ad limina bellum; war is come to their thresholds, to the Zenith and heart of the land; to defy them in the very gates. And now they more then hear, or see it; sentiunt, they feel it.
Yea, if it had come but to the coasts, and inuaded the borders: as the Philistins did often forrage ⟨p. 12⟩the skirts of Israel; yet it had beene somewhat tollerable: for then vidimus tantum; we haue but seene it onely. Ostendisti populo grauia. Psal. 60. Thou hast shewne thy people grieuous things: shewed, but not inflicted: shaken the rodde, but not scourged vs. But here venit ad limina bellum; warre is come to their thresholds, to the Zenith and heart of the land; to defie them in the very gates. And now they more then heare, or see it; sentiunt, they feele it.
The Gates in Israel, were those places where they sate in Justice: as we may frequently read, they gave judgement in the Gates. 1They distributed the Corn in the Gates. They distributed the Corn in the Gates, where that unbelieving Prince was trodden to death. And Absalom sate in the Gates, and said to every man that had a Controversy:2 See thy matters are good and right; but here is no man deputed of the King to hear thee. So that Pacis loca bellum occupat; War possesseth the places of Peace, and thrusts her out of her wonted residence and presidence, the Gates. In the Gates? War is not then in the right Ubi: as they said of Pope Sixtus; because he delighted in bloody wars, that he ill became the Seat of Peace: according to that Epitaph on him.