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<P>THE SOULDIERS Pocket Bible: Containing the mo&s;t (if not all) tho&s;e places contained in holy Scripture, which doe &s;hew the qualifications of his inner man, that is a fit Souldier to fight the Lords Battels, both before he fight, in the fight, and after the fight; Which Scriptures are reduced to &s;e|verall heads, and fitly applyed to the Souldiers &s;everall occa&s;ions, and &s;o may &s;upply the want of the whole Bible, which a Souldier cannot conveniently carry about him: And may bee al&s;o u&s;efull for any Chri&s;tian to meditate upon, now in this mi&s;erable time of Warre.</P>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>Jo&s;.</HI> 18.</BIBL>
<P>This Book of the Law &s;hall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou &s;halt meditate therein day and night, that thou mai&s;t ob&s;erve to doe accor|ding to all that is written therein, for then thou &s;halt make thy way pro&s;perous, and have good &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</P></Q>
<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> by <HI>G. B.</HI> and <HI>R. W.</HI> for <HI>G. C.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>The Souldiers pocket Bible.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A Souldier mu&s;t not doe wickedly.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Deut. 23.9.</BIBL> _WHen thou goe&s;t out with the ho&s;t again&s;t thine enemies, keepe thee then from all wickedne&s;&s;e.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Luke 3.14</BIBL> The &s;ouldiers likewi&s;e de|manded of him, &s;aying, and what &s;hall we doe? And he &s;aid unto them, doe violence to no man, neither accu&s;e any fal&s;ly, and be content with your wages.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Levit. 26.27 37.</BIBL> And if you will not for this obey me, you &s;hall not be able to &s;tand before your ene|mies.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Deut. 28.25.</BIBL> And the Lord &s;hall cau&s;e thee to fall be|fore thine enemies, thou &s;halt come out one way again&s;t them, and fly &s;even wayes be|fore them.</Q>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A Souldier mu&s;t be valiant for Gods Cau&s;e.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>1 Sam. 18.17.</BIBL>Be valiant and fight the Lords bat|tells.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Sam. 10.12.</BIBL> Be &s;trong, and let us be valiant for our people, and for the Cities of our God,
<PB N="3" REF="2">and let the Lord doe that which is good in his eyes.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>1 Sam. 17.47.</BIBL> For the battell is the Lords, and hee will give you into our hands.</Q>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A Souldier mu&s;t denie his owne wi&s;edome, his own &s;trength, &amp; all provi&s;ion for war.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Prov. 3.5.</BIBL> Leane not to thine owne wi&s;edome.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>1 Sam. 2.9.</BIBL> In his own might &s;hall no man be &s;trong.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>1 P&s;al. 44.6.</BIBL>I doe not tru&s;t in my Bow, neither can my Sword &s;ave me.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;al. 33.16</BIBL> A King is not &s;aved by the multitude of an Ho&s;te, neither is the mighty man delivered by much &s;trength.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>17. Eccle. 8.8.</BIBL> A hor&s;e is a vaine helpe, and &s;hall not deliver in the day of battle. Man hath not power over death, nor deliverance in battel.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 20.12.</BIBL> There is no power in us to &s;tand again&s;t this great multitude, neither doe we know what to doe, but our eyes are towards thee.</Q>
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<HEAD>A Souldier mu&s;t put his confidence in Gods Wi&s;edome and &s;trength.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Ephe. 6.10</BIBL> Be &s;trong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Iob 12.13</BIBL> For with him is wi&s;edome and &s;trength, he hath Coun&s;ell and under&s;tanding.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;al 68.35.</BIBL> The God of I&s;rael is hee that giveth &s;trength and power unto his people.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;al. 46.4.</BIBL> God is our hope and &s;trength, and help, in trouble ready to be found.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 25 8.</BIBL> God hath power to helpe, and to ca&s;t downe.</Q>
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<Q><BIBL>P&s;al. 67.16</BIBL> I will goe forward in the &s;trength of the Lord.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>1 Sam. 17.45.</BIBL> Then <HI>David</HI> &s;aid unto the Phili&s;tine, thou comme&s;t to me with a &s;word, and with a &s;peare, and with a &s;hield, but I come unto thee in the name of the Lord of hoa&s;ts, the God of I&s;rael.</Q>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A Souldier mu&s;t pray before he goe to fight.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Neh. 4.9.</BIBL> Then we prayed unto our God, and &s;et Watch-men by them day and night becau&s;e of them.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Iudg. 16.28.</BIBL> Then <HI>Samp&s;on</HI> called unto the Lord, and &s;aid, O Lord God, I pray thee thinke upon me, O God, I be&s;eech thee &s;trengthen me at this time, &amp;c.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Sam. 15.31.</BIBL> And <HI>David</HI> &s;aid, O Lord I pray thee turne the Coun&s;ell of <HI>Abitophill</HI> into foo|li&s;hne&s;&s;e.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Iam. 1.5.</BIBL> If any of you lacke wi&s;edome let him aske it of God.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a. 119.34</BIBL> Give me under&s;tanding, and I &s;hall keepe thy Law: ye I &s;hall ob&s;erve it with my whole heart.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a. 86.12.</BIBL> Give &s;trength unto thy &s;ervant and &s;ave the &s;onne of thine hand-maide.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a. 35.12.</BIBL> <P>Plead thou my cau&s;e O Lord with them that &s;trive with me, fight thou again&s;t them, that fight again&s;t me.</P>
<P>Bring out the &s;peare and &s;top the way a|gain&s;t them.</P></Q>
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<Q><BIBL>Iudg. 10.15.</BIBL> And the children of I&s;rael &s;aid unto the Lord we have &s;inned do thou unto us what|&s;oever plea&s;e thee, only we pray thee deliver us this day.</Q>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A Souldier mu&s;t con&s;ider and beleeve Gods gracious promi&s;es.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Chro. 20.20.</BIBL> And when they aro&s;e early in the morning they went forth to the wildernes of Tekoa: and as they departed Jeho&s;haphat &s;tood and &s;aid, hear ye me O Judah, and ye inhabi|tants of Jeru&s;alem, put your tru&s;t in the Lord your God, and ye &s;hall be a&s;&s;ured; be|leeve his prophets and ye &s;hall pro&s;per.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Deut. 20.4</BIBL> For the Lord your God goeth with you, to fight for you again&s;t your enemies and to &s;ave you.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Exo. 14.14</BIBL>The Lord &s;hall fight for you.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Kin. 17.39. Dan. 3.17</BIBL> Fear the Lord your God and he &s;hall de|liver you out of the hands of al your enemies</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Dan. 3.17</BIBL>Behold our God whom we &s;erve is able to deliver us from the hot fiery furnice, and he will deliver us out of thine hand O King.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>1 Chro. 17 10.</BIBL> And I will &s;ubdue all thine enemies.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>I&s;a. 41.12.</BIBL>Thou &s;halt &s;eeke them and &s;halt not finde them, to wit the men of thy &s;trife; for they &s;hall be as nothing, and the men that warre again&s;t thee as a thing of naught.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>I&s;a. 54.17.</BIBL> No weapon made again&s;t thee &s;hal pro&s;per.</Q>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A Souldier mu&s;t not feare his enemies.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Dut. 20.1.</BIBL> When thou &s;halt go forth to War again&s;t thine enemies, and &s;halt &s;ee hor&s;es and Cha|riots
<PB N="6" REF="4">moe then thou, be not afraid of them for the Lord thy God is with thee.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Dut. 3.32</BIBL> Ye &s;hall not fear them, for the Lord your God &s;hall &s;ight for you fear them not for I heve given them into thine hand.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 32 78.</BIBL> Be &s;trong and couragious, fear not, nei|ther be afraid for the king of A&s;hur, neither for all the multitude that is with him, for there be moe with us then with him, with him is an arme of fle&s;h, but with us is the Lord our God for to helpe us and to fight our battells.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>I&s;a. 7.4.</BIBL> Feare not neither, be faint hearted, for the two tailes of the &s;moking fire brands.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Mat. 10.28</BIBL> And fear ye not them which kill the body.</Q>
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<HEAD>A Souldier mu&s;t love his enemies as they are his enemies, and hate them as they are gods enemies.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Mat. 5.44.</BIBL> But I &s;ay unto you love your enemies.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 19 2.</BIBL> Woulde&s;t thou help the wicked, and love them that hate the Lord.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a 139 21.22.</BIBL> Doe not I hate them O Lord that hate thee, and do not I earne&s;tly contend with them that ri&s;e up again&s;t thee? I hate them with an unfained hatred, as they were mine utter enemies.</Q>
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<HEAD>A Souldier mu&s;t crie unto God in his heart in the very in&s;tant of the battell.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 13.14.</BIBL> Then Judah looked, and behold the bat|tell
<PB N="7" REF="4">was before and behinde them, and they cryed unto the Lord.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 14 11.</BIBL> And A&s;a cryed unto the Lord his God, and &s;aid, Lord it is nothing with thee to help with many, or with no power.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 18.31.</BIBL> And when the Captaines of the Chariots &s;aw Jeho&s;haphat, they &s;aid, it is the King of I&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ael and they compa&s;&s;ed about him to fight but Jeho&s;haphat cryed, and the Lord helped him and moved them to depart from him.</Q>
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<HEAD>A Souldier mu&s;t con&s;ider that &s;ometimes Gods people have the wor&s;t in battell as well as Gods enemies.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>1 Sam 11.25.</BIBL> The &s;word devoureth one as well as another.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Ecles. 9.2.</BIBL> All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the cleane, and to the un|cleane, to him that &s;acrificeth, and to him that &s;acrificeth not: as is the good, &s;o is the &s;inner: and he that &s;weareth, as he that feareth an oath.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Io&s;. 7.4.</BIBL> So there went up thither of the people a|bout three thou&s;and men and they fled be|fore the men of Ai.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Iudg. 6.2.</BIBL> And the hand of Midian prevailed again&s;t I&s;rael.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>1 Sam. 4.10.</BIBL> And the Phili&s;tines fought, and I&s;rael was &s;mitten downe, and fled every man into his
<PB N="8" REF="5">Tent, and there was an exceeding great &s;laughter, for there fell of I&s;rael thirty thou|&s;and footmen.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Exo. 17.12.</BIBL> But when Mo&s;es let his hand go downe, Amalek prevailed.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Lam 1.16</BIBL>My children are de&s;olate becau&s;e the ene|my prevailed.</Q>
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<HEAD>Souldiers and all of us mu&s;t con&s;ider that though Gods people have the wor&s;t yet it cometh of the Lord.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>E&s;a. 42.24.</BIBL> Who gave Jacob to the &s;poile and I&s;rael to the Robbers did not I the Lord.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Amos, 3.6</BIBL> Shall there be evil in a City and the Lord hath not done it.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Iudg. 42.</BIBL> And the Lord &s;old them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Lam. 1.14</BIBL> The Lord hath delivered me into their hands neither am I able to ri&s;e up.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Lam. 2.7.</BIBL> The Lord hath for&s;aken his altar he hath abhorred his Sanctuary he hath given it into the hand of the enemy.</Q>
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<HEAD>For the iniquities of Gods people are delive|vered into the hands of their enemies.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Deut. 29.24.25.</BIBL>
<P>Then &s;hall all nations &s;ay, wherefore hath the Lord done this unto this land, how fierce is his great wrath.</P>
<P>And they &s;hall an&s;wer becau&s;e they have for&s;aken the Covenant of the Lord God of their fathers.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Io&s;. 7.10.11.</BIBL> And the Lord &s;aid unto Jo&s;hua get thee up; wherefore lie&s;t thou thus upon thy face?
<PB N="9" REF="5">I&s;rael hath &s;inned, and they have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed my Covenant which I commanded them.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Ier. 40.2.3</BIBL> The Lord thy God hath pronounced this plague upon this place now the Lord hath brought it and done according as he hath &s;aid, becau&s;e ye have &s;inned again&s;t the Lord.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Ier. 50.6.7</BIBL> My people have been as lo&s;t &s;heepe, all that found them have devoured them, and their enemies &s;aid we offend not, becau&s;e they have &s;inned again&s;t the Lord.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Lam 3.39</BIBL> Wherefore then is the living man &s;orrow|full; man &s;uffereth for his &s;inne.</Q>
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<HEAD>Therefore both Souldiers and all Gods peo|ple upon &s;uch occa&s;ions mu&s;t &s;earch out their &s;innes.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Lam. 3.40</BIBL> Let us &s;earch and try our woyes and turne againe unto the Lord.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jo&s;. 7.13.</BIBL> Up therefore Sanctifie your &s;elves a|gain&s;t to morrow, for thus &s;aith the Lord God of I&s;rael, there is an execrable thing among&s;t you therefore you cannot &s;tand again&s;t your enemies untill ye have put the execrable thing from among you.</Q>
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<HEAD>E&s;pecially let Souldiers and all of us upon &s;uch occa&s;ions &s;earch whether we have not put two little confidence in the Arme of the Lord, and too much in the arme of fle&s;h.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Jer. 2.13.</BIBL> For my people have committed two e|vils, they have for&s;aken me the fountaine of
<PB N="10" REF="6">living waters, to dig them pits, even broken pits that will hold no water.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jer. 2.37</BIBL>Therefore &s;aith the Lord they &s;hall goe forth from thence with their hands upon their heads, becau&s;e the Lord hath rejected their confidence they &s;hall not pro&s;per thereby.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jer. 17.5.</BIBL> Therefore thus &s;aith the Lord, cur&s;ed be the man that tru&s;teth in man, and maketh fle&s;h his Arme and withdraweth his heart from the Lord.</Q>
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<HEAD>And let Souldiers and all of us con&s;ider, that to prevent this &s;in, and for the committing of this &s;inne the Lord hath ever beene accu&s;tomed to give the victory to a few.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Jud. 7.2.</BIBL> And the Lord &s;aid unto Gideon the peo|ple that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midionites into their hands, le&s;t I&s;rael make their vaunt again&s;t me, and &s;ay, mine hand hath &s;aved me.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jud. 7.7</BIBL>Then the Lord &s;aid unto Gideon by the&s;e three hundred men that lapped will I &s;ave you and deliver the Midionites into thine handes.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jud. 20.15.</BIBL> And the children of Benjamin were num|bred at that time out of the Cities &s;ix and twenty thou&s;and men that drew &s;word.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jud. 20.17</BIBL>Al&s;o the men of I&s;rael be&s;ides Benjamin were numbred four hundred thou&s;and men that drew &s;word.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jud. 20.21</BIBL>And the children of Benjamin came out
<PB N="11" REF="6">of Gibeah and &s;lew downe to the ground of the I&s;raelites that day two and twenty thou&s;and men.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jud. 20.25</BIBL>And the &s;econd day Benjamin came forth to meet them out of Gibeah and &s;lew down to the ground of the children of I&s;rael again eighteeen thou&s;and men.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jud. 20.30</BIBL>And the children of I&s;rael went up again&s;t the Children of Benjamin the third day.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jud. 20.43</BIBL>And compa&s;&s;ed the Benjamits about, and cha&s;ed them at ea&s;e, and over ran them, and there were &s;laine of Benjamines eighteene thou&s;and men.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jud. 20.44</BIBL>And the I&s;raelites gleaned of them by the way five thou&s;and men, and per&s;ued after them unto Gidon and &s;lew two thou&s;and men of them.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jud. 20.45</BIBL>So that all that were &s;laine that day of Benjamin, were five and twenty thou&s;and men, that drew &s;word.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chron. 13.3.</BIBL> And Abijah &s;et the battell in aray with the Army of valiant men of War even four hundred thou&s;and cho&s;en men. J<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">roboam al&s;o &s;et the battell in aray again&s;t him with eight hundred thou&s;and cho&s;en men, which were &s;trong and valiant.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chron. 13.4</BIBL> And Abijah &s;tood upon the mount Zeme|raim, and &s;aid O Jereboam and all I&s;rael heare ye me.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chron. 13.8</BIBL> Ye thinke that ye be able to re&s;i&s;t again&s;t the Kingdome of the Lord which is in the
<PB N="12" REF="7">hands of the Sonnes of David;and ye &s;ee a great multitude, and the golden calves are with you, which Jeroboam hath made you for Gods.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chron. 13.10</BIBL>But, we belong to the Lord our God and have not for&s;aken him,</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chron. 13.12</BIBL>And behold this God is with us as a Cap|taine, O ye children of I&s;rael fight not a|gain&s;t the Lord God of your fathers, for ye &s;hall not pro&s;per.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chron. 13.13.</BIBL>But Jeroboam cau&s;ed an Ambu&s;hment to compa&s;&s;e and come behinde them.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chron. 13.14.</BIBL>Then Judah looked and behold the bat|tell was before and behinde them, and they cried unto the Lord.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chron. 13.15.</BIBL>And the men of Judah gave a &s;hout, and as the men of Judah &s;houted God &s;mote Jeroboam, and al&s;o I&s;rael before Abijah and Judah.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chron. 13.17.</BIBL>And Abijah and his people &s;lew a great &s;laughter of them, &s;o that there fell of them down wounded five hundred thou&s;and cho|&s;en men.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 14.8.</BIBL> And A&s;a had an Army of Judah that bare &s;hields and &s;peares, three hundred thou&s;and, and of Benjamin that bare &s;hields and drew bowes four hundred and four&s;core thou&s;and, all the&s;e were valiant men of war.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 14.9.</BIBL>And there came out again&s;t them Zerah of Ethiopia with an ho&s;te of ten hundred thou&s;and, and three hundred Chariots.</Q>
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<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 14.10.</BIBL>Then A&s;a went out before him and they &s;et the battell in aray in the valley of Zepha|thah be&s;ides Mare&s;hah.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 14.11.</BIBL>And A&s;a cryed unto the Lord his God, and &s;aid, Lord it is nothing with thee to help with many or with no power, helpe us O Lord our God for we re&s;t on thee, and in thy name are we come again&s;t this multitude O Lord thou art our God let not man pre|vaile again&s;t thee.</Q>
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<HEAD>And let Souldiers, and all of us know, that the very nicke of time that God hath pro|mi&s;ed us helpe, is when we &s;ee no helpe in man.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Gen. 22.14</BIBL>In the mount will the Lord be &s;eene.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Exo. 14.13</BIBL> Then Mo&s;es &s;aid unto the people, fear ye not &s;tand &s;till and behold the Salvation of the Lord, which he will &s;hew to you this day the Lord &s;hall fight for you therefore hold you your peace.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 20 11.</BIBL> O our God wilt thou not judge them, for there is no &s;trength in us to &s;tand again&s;t this great multitude, neither doe wee know what to doe, but our eyes are towards thee.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Chro. 20.17</BIBL>Ye &s;hall not need to fight in this battell, &s;tand &s;till, move not, and behold the &s;alva|tion of the Lord towards you.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Deut. 32.35, 36.</BIBL> Vengeance and recompence are mine, their feet &s;hall &s;lide in due time for the day of their calamities is at hand, and all things
<PB N="14" REF="8">that &s;hall come upon you make ha&s;te.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Deut. 32.36.</BIBL> For the Lord &s;hall judge his people, and repent towards his &s;ervants; when he &s;eeth that their power is gone and none &s;hut up in hold or left abroad.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Cor. 12.11.</BIBL> For my power is made perfect through weakne&s;&s;e.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Zack. 4.6.</BIBL> For neither by an Army, nor &s;trength but by my &s;pirit, &s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a 12.5.</BIBL> Now for the opre&s;&s;ion of the needy and for the &s;ighes of the poor, I will up &s;aith the Lord I will &s;et him in &s;afety from him that puffeth at him.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>E&s;a. 33.10.</BIBL> Now will I ari&s;e &s;aith the Lord, now will I be exalted, now will I lift up my &s;elfe.</Q>
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<HEAD>Wherefore if our Forces be weakned, and the enemy &s;trengthened, then let Souldiers and all of as know that now we have a pro|mi&s;e of Gods helpe which we had not when we were &s;trongers, and therefore let us pray more confidently.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>E&s;a. 33.2.</BIBL> O Lord have mercie on us, wee have waited for thee, be thou which was their arme in the morning, our helpe al&s;o in time of trouble.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Deut. 33.7</BIBL> Heare, O Lord the voyce of <HI>Judah,</HI> and bring him unto his people, his hands &s;hall be &s;ufficient for him if thou help him again&s;t his enemies.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a. 142.45.</BIBL> I looked upon my right hand and beheld, but there was none that would know me, all
<PB N="15" REF="8">refuge failed mee&punc; and none cared for my &s;oule, then cried I unto the Lord, and &s;aid, thou art my hope.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a. 22.11.</BIBL> Be no<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> farre from me, becau&s;e trouble is neare, and there is none to helpe.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a 97.8.</BIBL> Remember not again&s;t us our former iniquities, but make ha&s;t, and let thy tender mercies prevent us, for we are brought very low.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a 35.2.</BIBL> Lay hand upon the &s;word and bucklen, and &s;tand up for my helpe.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a. 79 9.</BIBL> Helpe us O God of our &s;alvation, for the glory of thy name.</Q>
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<HEAD>And let Souldiers, and all of us know, that if we obtaine any victory over our enemies, it is our dutie to give all the glory to the Lord, and &s;ay</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>Exo. 15.3.</BIBL> The Lord is a man of warre, his name is <HI>Jehovah.</HI></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Exo. 15.6.</BIBL>Thy right hand, O Lord is glorious in power, thy right hand O Lord hath brui&s;ed the enemies.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Exo. 15.7.</BIBL>And in thy great glory, thou ha&s;t over|throwne them that ro&s;e up again&s;t thee.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a. 118.23.</BIBL> This was the Lords doing; and it is mar|vellous in our eyes.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Io&s;ha. 10.14.</BIBL>For the Lord fought for I&s;rael.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Mica. 7.7</BIBL>Therefore will we looke unto the Lord.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>2 Cor. 1.10.</BIBL>Who delivered us from &s;o great a death.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>1 Cor. 29.15.</BIBL>Now therefore our God we thanke thee, and prai&s;e thy glorious name.</Q>
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<Q><BIBL>E&s;ra. 9.13.14.</BIBL> And &s;eeing that thou our God ha&s;t &s;tain us from being beneath for our iniquities, and ha&s;t given us &s;uch a deliverance, &s;hould wee returne to breake thy Commande|ments.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a 116.9.</BIBL> I will walke before the Lord in the Land of the living.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;a. 119 109.</BIBL> I have vowed, and I will performe it, that I will keepe thy righteous judge|ments.</Q>
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