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The new policy of warThe new pollecye of warre
The new policy of war wherein is declared not only how [the]most cruel tyrant the great Turk may be over come, but also all other enemies of the Christen public weal, lately devised by Theodore Basil.The new pollecye of warre wherin is declared not only how [ye]mooste cruell tyraunt the great Turke may be ouer come, but also all other enemies of the Christen publique weale, lately deuised by Theodore Basille.
London: printed for John̄ Gough, 1542London: printed for Iohn̄ Gough, 1542
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Woe be to them that say, peace, peace, all is well, all is well, and consider not that a final destruction is at hand, if we correct not our sinful manners shortly, & amend our wicked lives. Cleanse your hands O ye sinners, saith S James,1 & purge your hearts O ye wavering minded. Suffer afflictions, sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning. Go to now ye rich men, weep & howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you. Ye priests ⟨image 19⟩and ministers of the Lord mourn,2 weep, lament, and cease not to cry both day & night unto God on this manner: Be favourable, O Lord, be favourable to thy people. Let not thine heritage be brought to confusion, leest the Heathen be Lords thereof.3 Wherefore should they say among y• Heathen, where is now their God. For surely surely we had never more occasion to mourn, lament & bewail our miserable living, & to pray to God for a redress of these miserable enormities, wherewith we are grievously oppressed than we have at this present day. As I may speak nothing of England, (whom I most humbly beseech God graciously to preserve in prosperous estate, and alway to give her a glorious and triumphant victory over her enemies) how are other foreign kingdoms miserably vexed with continual ⟨image 19⟩war? How are y• goods of y• faithful spoiled among them? This also ought to move any true English hart to have pity & compassion upon the Christen brothers, dwell they never so far from us, seeing that we be knit together in one faith, initiated with the same mysteries, profess one God and one kind of religion, hope to be saved by one means, that is to say by the most precious blood of our saviour Jesus christ &c While we have time,4 saith s. Paul let us work good toward all men, but chiefly toward them, that be of the household of faith.