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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 Forlorn Hope.
The Forlorne Hope.
Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? Was there? There was not: This question is a plain negative. Here is Defectus remedij, the want of help: great misery, but no remedy: not a Spear to offend; no, not a Shield to defend. War, and war in the Gates, and yet neither offensive nor defensive weapon? Miserrima privatio, quae omnem tollit ad habitum regressum. A miserable destitution, which admits of no restitution, that can never be restored to the former habit. It takes away all, both present possession, and future possibility; Rem & Spem, Help, and Hope.
Was there a shield or speare seene among fortie thousand in Israel? Was there? There was not: This question is a plaine negatiue. Here is Defectus remedij, the want of helpe: great miserie, but no remedie: not a Speare to offend; no, not a Shield to defend. Warre, and warre in the Gates, and yet neyther offensiue nor defensiue weapon? Miserrima priuatio, quae omnem tollit ad habitum regressum. A miserable destitution, which admits of no restitution, that can neuer be restored to the former habite. It takes away all, both present possession, and future possibilitie; Rem & Spem, Helpe, and Hope.
But suppose, that only some one company had wanted, yet if the rest of the forces had been armed, there were some comfort. No, not a shield nor spear among many, among a thousand, among many thousand, among forty thousand: An Host of men, and not a weapon? grievous exigent! If it had been any defect but of armour, or in any other time but the time of war, or only in one City of Israel, and not in all. But is there war, and war in the gates, and do many, even thousands, want? what, armour enough? so they might easily; nay, but one shield, one spear? miserable calamity!