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<P>The Chri&s;tian Souldier.
<HI>OR,</HI>
PREPARATION
FOR <HI>BATTAILE.</HI></P>
<P>A Legend containing true Rules for
a Souldier, in whom at once is met
<HI>Religion</HI> and <HI>Re&s;olution.</HI></P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by a well-willer to the Gown and Sword, <HI>T. J.</HI></P>
<P>To the Regiments on Foot.</P>
<L>You who doe Li&s;t your &s;elves in numerous &s;warmes,</L>
<L>Who think your Pikes and Muskets are &s;afe charmes,</L>
<L>Ob&s;erve the&s;e Rules, you &s;hall be free from harmes,</L>
<L>And boldly give the word,&mdash;<HI>Stand to your Arms.</HI></L>
<P>To the Chevaleires, (in Engli&s;h) the Hor&s;emen.</P>
<L>A begger &s;et on hor&s;eback rides apace,</L>
<L>But he that wi&s;ely mounts, &s;its in full grace:</L>
<L>Receive the&s;e few in&s;tructions, and you &s;hall</L>
<L>Returne victoriou&s;ly,&mdash;<HI>Monte Chevall.</HI></L>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI>
Printed for <HI>Edward Chri&s;topher.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="2">
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<HEAD>To all Gent. Souldiers, of what gra|dation
&s;oever, of Hor&s;e or Foote, fom the
Colonel to the lowe&s;t Mu&s;quetier of
the la&s;t Ranke and Foile.</HEAD>
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<Q>Give the word for &s;ilence.</Q>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Noble Gent.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_ALthougb I am no Souldier, in that I ne|ver
bore Armes, yet I am &s;o exact an
admirer of your glorious profe&s;sion, I
could not but tender my &s;ervice to you in
this rough Legend, in which I have en|deavoured
to picture a compleat Souldier; and &s;cored
out in chalke and coale a well-&s;hewing coward, that the
excellencie of the one may the more glorious appeare, by
how much the other is &s;ordid (in condition I meane,
though not in forme) and I doubt not but &s;ome unexpe|rienced
men (if they doe not want gratitude as much as
knowledge) will give me thanks; if not, I &s;hall acknow|ledge
my &s;elfe enough requited if the&s;e rules bee onely
practi&s;ed, and it &s;hall hereafter encourage him that dai|ly
wi&s;hes peace and pro&s;perity to his King and Country,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>T. J.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="rules for battle">
<PB N="2" REF="3">
<HEAD>The Chri&s;tian Souldier:
OR,
Preparation for Battaile.</HEAD>
<P>_ARmes are altogether unlawfull,
but where their onely nece&s;&s;ary
u&s;e is for the protection of <HI>Reli|gion,</HI>
defence again&s;t <HI>Here&s;ie,</HI>
maintenance of a <HI>Kings Right,</HI> in
which con&s;i&s;teth the liberty of
the Subject, and (by that con&s;equence) the &s;afety
of a Kingdome: what ever is in oppo&s;ition to
this, mu&s;t needs be illegall I cannot find it from
the Creation of the fir&s;t <HI>Adam,</HI> to the Expiration
and A&s;cen&s;ion of the la&s;t, that ever any Nation
had command to teach their King to rule; and
hold it as unfit, as if the Sonne &s;hould en&s;truct the
Parent, or the Scholar exhort his Schoolma&s;ter.
This being allowed, Civill-warre is altogether
unlawfull, for they who have &s;o little authority
to en&s;truct, &s;ure have le&s;&s;e power to correct; let
his life be as wicked as <HI>Saul,</HI> or as divine as <HI>Solo|mon;</HI>
The unity betwixt a King and his people
are as the Gordian knot twixt man and wife, (<HI>for
better for wor&s;e.</HI>) Coronations and Marriages ad|mit
of no Conditions; to prove which, I have
<PB N="3" REF="3">
(with ea&s;e) collected from the many Texts of
Scripture to this purpo&s;e the&s;e following few:
<BIBL>Prov. 17. 26.</BIBL>
<Q>To puni&s;h the ju&s;t is not good, nor to
&s;trike Princes for equity.</Q>
<BIBL>Chap. 40. 31.</BIBL>
<Q>Again&s;t a King there is no ri&s;ing up.</Q>
<BIBL>Ver. 32.</BIBL>
<Q>If thou ha&s;t done fooli&s;hly in lifting up thy
&s;elfe, lay thy hands on thy mouth.</Q>
<BIBL>Chap. 20. 2.</BIBL>
<Q>The feare of a King is as the roring of a
Lion: who &s;o provoketh him to anger, &s;inneth again&s;t
his owne &s;oule.</Q></P>
<P>Fellow &s;ouldiers, in this point you &s;ee there is
no preparing for battaile, in re&s;pect it is unrighte|ous;
and you can receive no conque&s;t but mi&s;ery
and de&s;truction, as well of &s;oule as of body, if you
dare beleeve that eternall God that made you,
who &s;ayes thus in the P&s;alms of <HI>David:</HI>
<BIBL>P&s;al. 45. 5.</BIBL>
<Q>Thy arrows are &s;harp in the heart of the
Kings enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.</Q>
<BIBL>P&s;al. 89. 23.</BIBL>
<Q>I will beat downe his foes before his face,
and plague them that hate him.</Q>
<BIBL>P&s;al. 132. 18.</BIBL>
<Q>His enemies will I cloathe with &s;hame,
but upon him&s;elfe &s;hall his crowne flouri&s;h.</Q></P>
<P>This is legible in the Bible, and (beleeve it)
fellow-&s;ouldiers, our &s;ure&s;t way of fighting is by
the Booke; it is not onely &s;tore of coyne, high
&s;pirited hor&s;e, good Ammunition, &s;ound skill,
fierce re&s;olution, nor a &s;trong Arme, but a &s;trong
Cau&s;e that makes a compleat &s;ouldier. There are
three generall Po&s;tures belonging to the Musket:
<HI>Make ready, Pre&s;ent,</HI> and <HI>Give fire,</HI> which ought
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to be joyned with the&s;e mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary con&s;ide|rations:</P>
<P>Ere you <HI>Make ready,</HI> remember your Cau&s;e;
when you <HI>Pre&s;ent,</HI> be not bloud-thir&s;ty; and when
you <HI>Give fire,</HI> con&s;ider again&s;t whom. The field is
a &s;ouldiers death-bed; and when he &s;tands &s;tou|te&s;t
in expectation of a ful victory, he is but draw|ing
on: were it not mo&s;t expedient then that his
la&s;t actions &s;hould be his be&s;t? Every fellow is
not a &s;ouldier that &s;truts, looks big, &s;wears much,
weares a broad blade, and takes Tobacco; a per|fect
&s;ouldier is a perfect man, and &s;hews mo&s;t glo|rious
in his civill valour: and &s;uch a one can kill
without cruelty, and gaine a conque&s;t without ty|rannie:
He holds it more victory to take one man
pri&s;oner, then put ten to the &s;word: You &s;hall
heare him &s;ay, that none but cowards feare to &s;ee
their foes living. A valiant man in the expre&s;&s;ion
of a battaile makes no noy&s;e, but di&s;cour&s;eth it
with civill &s;orrow; and when he comes to declare
the conflict, (though of his enemies) he doth not
glory in their confu&s;ion, but &s;ayes, It is pity there
&s;hould be &s;o much bloud &s;hed. You are &s;afer in
his armes, then at his &s;words point. If you be his
enemie, the onely meanes to protect your &s;elfe
is to weare no weapon, and that is the onely way
to conquer him, for he is angry becau&s;e you goe
without it.</P>
<P>Your Coward, whom nece&s;&s;ity and vain-glory
have drawn into the field, at his return from &s;illy
&s;ervice, in frighting language u&s;her'd in with
oathes, de&s;cribes how many townes they burnt,
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how many women great with child were &s;laine,
how many men blowne up at the &s;pringing of a
mine, how de&s;perately he returned their hand
Granadoes into the enemies worke after the fire
was given; that in a &s;et battaile he was forced to
march up to the knees in bloud, and &s;tumble over
carka&s;es; when (poore &s;cab) perhaps you might
have found him a&s;leep in the greazie armes of his
Sutlers wife, or drunke under the barrels; the&s;e
are the men that cry aloud in Taverns <HI>By the faith
of a &s;ouldier;</HI> draw their &s;words often, and &s;weare
it is that they get their living by; weare great
Belts, and hats cut on the brim; great &s;purs, and
uncompt haire, with a black taffety play&s;ter cro&s;&s;e
the no&s;e. I would have a compleat Engli&s;h Chri|&s;tian
&s;ouldier ob&s;erve &s;uch &s;ots, to loathe them,
and take the&s;e few in&s;tructions as true rules to
fight by:
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<ITEM>1. To examine the cau&s;e,</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. (If his cau&s;e be ju&s;t) to &s;pend a little griefe he
hath that cau&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. To come on boly and cheerfully without de&s;ire of
bloud.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Not to make gaine, or vain-glory his onely object.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. To be mercifull to a couchant enemie, and not to
kill where he may &s;ave with his owne &s;afety.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. And la&s;tly, to a&s;cribe the honour of the conque&s;t
not due to his valour, but the all providence of his Maker.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>If he can doe this, let him gird his &s;word about
his loynes, and fight couragiou&s;ly; <HI>Jehovah</HI> is his
Generall.</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="6">
I will conclude the re&s;t with the&s;e few lines, and
leave them to your practice, who&s;e lives and for|tunes
depend upon the &s;word, drawne for an ho|ne&s;t
cau&s;e.</P>
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<Q><L>COme hither Souldier, if thou can&s;t obey</L>
<L>God and the King, doubt not to have the day.</L>
<L>If thou can&s;t &s;weare 'tis for none other cau&s;e</L>
<L>Thou fighte&s;t but for Religion and the Laws,</L>
<L>Heaven protect thee; may thy dayes encrea&s;e,</L>
<L>He that doth ju&s;tly fight makes way for peace.</L>
<L>If thou can&s;t &s;ave thy friend, and &s;pare thy foe,</L>
<L>When thou art up, and he trod downe below;</L>
<L>If thou can&s;t grieve to &s;poile the plow-mans Village,</L>
<L>And make it not thy aime to fight for pillage;</L>
<L>If in the furious &s;acking of a Towne</L>
<L>Thou can&s;t avoid to ca&s;t their women downe</L>
<L>With their young new-born infants; if thou fly</L>
<L>From all ba&s;e actions of red cruelty;</L>
<L>The Lord will &s;ure protect thee from all harmes,</L>
<L>And I my &s;elfe will &s;ay,&mdash;<HI>Stand to your Arms.</HI></L></Q>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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