The Looking Glass of the Holy War, To the reader – Table of contents
TO THE TRVELY SINCERE READER.
IT is a common Apologie (Iudicious and Christian Reader) that men are Ioath to write becauſe ſo many write. It is true in deed that this is the firſt of the three main remoraes in way of writing: for there be too many bookes, either to no end, or to an evill end; the former blurreth paper, the latter blotteth the mind; the former cloyes, the latter corrupteth, like flies in hot weather. The other two letts are neglect of mens paines, & ſtorming at the trueth: yet for al theſe, the abuſe of a good thing or evill inter…animent, muſt not ſtop the uſe of it. Yea, foreign.becauſe ſo many ſpeake (as the Philoſopher ſaith) I was ashamed to be ſilent. Manie poyſons muſt hauehave many antidotes. As the Popes ſhop, wanteth no ſort of workmen; ſome to mine, and ſome to vndermine; ſome to coſen, ſome to cut; ſome to poyſon, ſome to diſpute; ſome to fight, and ſome to giuegive the Alarum: ſo with theſe ſouldierly Ignatians, or men-Serpents treatiſe doth incounter; not teaching treacheries and treaſons, or an Equivocall holy warre, but the true art of the holy warre indeed. Inſtances of ſuch flery and flying ſerpents wee hauehave had too many at home, as Morton for the Northerne rebellion, Saunders for Ireland; and to omit the treaſons againſt the perſon of the Queene, by Parrie, Balliard, Somerfield, Watſon, Lopes, and the reſt. Would not Garnet at one ſtroke hauehave cut the heads from vsus all? Theſe fellowes hauehave more cunning then Archimedes; they would move the whole earth, if they had but England to ſtand on. It is to be feared that they hauehave got too much footing, and that wee hauehave more Legions of thoſe evil Spirits amongſt vsus then wee are aware of. Paracelſus telleth vsus, when frogges heap together one upon another, it is a ſigne of a plague; ſo wee hauehave cauſe to feare thoſe plaguy froggs, whoſe doctrine and practice ſound nothing but treachery and Armes: Claſſaſicum belliſacri.witneſſe Shoppius in his Alarurn, & manie others of that graine. They tell us indeed that Englands feare of them, is like that of Alexanders eſpiall, who diſcovering Apes imitating a march from the mountaines tooke them to be ſouldiers indeed. M…derat. Anſw: Cap. 1.Apes they are, & indeed for counterfetting of Chriſt, for malice, miſcheife, ſubtilitie againſt his flocke: the Metempſuchoſis well beommeth them, but they march from the mountaines of Babel, like ſouldiours; and it is to be feated, that with Aelians-Ape they will kill our young ones in the cradle, if they be not lookt to. They mocke and diſgrace the Lyon, whoſe onelyonly cure and beſt ſecuritie conſiſteth in their ruine. Againſt their Apiſh flatteries and overtures of peace, …c non …the law of not beleeving is the beſt remedie: for an ape will ever be an ape. Simia ſemper erit ſimia.He that relieth upon the faith of the faithleſſe papiſt, may one day, with woefull experience, ſay as Bricidas the Lacedemonian ſaid, I was wounded, my ſhield betraying me. As for the matter, Prodente me clypio, vulneratus ſum.the generall ſubiect thereof hath been handled by divers; but in every particular as here, and with this Methode not by any that I read of. I hauehave made Gods word the ground and rule of my System. The application of the generall rules, exemplified to the particulars, is without partialitie. My freedome of ſpeech (I hope) ſhall (as Hierom of Sicil ſaid) be unſeaſonable to no good man, be he never ſo great: foreign.for I hate no mans perſon, no not the enemie, but his ſin. Herein you may perceiue, as Baſil ſaid of Hiſtorie, the vertues of the good, and the vices of the wicked. Here from the cunning of the enemie, wee may picke ſome points of diſcipline; and from their ſinnes againſt us, we may learn to mend our own. As for the frame of the worke; if the Art cannot commend the matter, yet let the matter commend the Art. I hauehave endeavoured rather with ſimplicitie of phraſe & aptneſse of dictiō (as becommeth the ſubiect) to expreſſe the truth, then to adorn with colours. As with Hierom, every mans writtings deceiveth himſelfe: Vnū quemque ſua ſcripta fallunt.and as Galen, It is hard for a man not to erre; ſo I ſay with Austin (cōcerning his books) what good thou ſhalt find, let it be thine, & mine in affection: but whatſoever is amiſse, let it neither be thine nor mine in protection, but rather in correction, which I ſhall willingly beare. I know I ſhall not pleaſe all (neyther would I) yet I hope I ſhal profit ſome. The cenſure, of the malevolēt Momus, & envious Zoilus without, I weigh not: for it is enough to me to ſatisfie conſcience if not calumnie; If within I ſhall meete with a Phalaris, Hostē apud me, & in meo penetrali reperire. Lipſ. de Conſt.I ſhall with Langius be content with my lot to hauehave a boſome enemie: but till I hauehave proofe I will neyther prejudge nor feare. And ſince my aime is neyther lucre nor applauſe, but the good of Gods Church; if I be not well taken, my good intent ſhall make good my private loſſe; the favourable acceptance of this, may incourage me to take paines in ſubiects of the like nature. If any be diſpoſed to quirke me for making ſo many gates to ſo poore an edifice; let the neceſſitie of action, and the opportunite of occaſion excuſe me: and had it not been to ſhun tediouſnes, I could out of this ſubiect hauehave made a large quarter to every gate. Let the largeneſs of the ſubiect, and varietie of aſpect excuſe my prolixitie, and leade you along to reade without wearying: adventure but your patience, as I hauehave done my paines; and I doubt not but you ſhall find the laſt wine the beſt. But without further Apologie I leave it to your liking, and your liking to Gods diſpoſing.
Thine in all louelove A. L.
A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS of the Chapters.
CHap. 1. The evill of War. page 1.
Chap. 2. The Good of War. page 6.
Chap. 3. The Guide of War. page 9.
Chap. 4. Of the Authority required in waging War. page 20.
Chap. 5. Of the Vertue of a Souldier. page 23.
Chap. 6. Of the Fitneſſe of the Souldier. page 31.
Chap. 7. Of Diſcipline in Generall. page 34.
Chap. 8. Of the Lawfull undertaking of War. page 38.
Chap. 9. Againſt whom to War. page 40.
Chap. 10. The orderly purſuit of War. page 41.
Chap. 11. Gods preſence firſt of all to be ſought. page 45.
Chap. 12. Of depriving the Enemy of all Means. page 49.
Chap. 13. War muſt be as well Offenſiue as Defenſiue. page 50.
Chap. 14. Of the ſafe leading of the Forces. page 52.
Chap. 15. The Manner of ſafe Incamping. page 53.
Chap. 16. The Fixing of the Coulours. page 56.
Chap. 17. The Matter of the Camp. page 59.
Chap. 18. Of Camp Diſcipline. page 66.
Chap. 19. The Motions and Actions of War. page 73.
Chap. 20. War eſpecially requireth Counſell. page 76.
Chap. 21. The evill of evill Counſell, or want of good Counſell. page 81.
Chap. 22. That great Ones muſt uſe Counſell. page 82.
Chap. 23. The Qualification of Counſellours. page 90.
Chap. 24. Of the particularities of the Counſell of War. page 97.
Chap. 25. Gods word the ground of Counſell. page. 100.
Chap. 26. Gods Ministers the diſpoſers of this ſacred Counſel. page. 104.
Chap. 27. The wiſe carriage of Counſell. page. 122.
Chap. 28. The execution of things conſulted on. page. 132.
Chap. 29. The true uſe of Stratagems, page. 133.
Chap. 30. The Oppugnation of an Hold. page. 139.
Chap. 31. The Carriage of the Beſieged. page. 148.
Chap. 32. The Exerciſing of Forces in the Field. page. 167.
Chap. 33. The ordering of the Battell. page. 174.
Chap. 34. The Ioyning of Battell. page. 177.
Chap. 35. The fight it ſelfe. page. 210.
Chap. 36. The duty of the Generall and Souldier in Fight. page. 211.
Chap. 37. Of the Iſſue of the battle in Generall. page. 224.
Chap. 38. Of the Carriage of the Conquerour. page. 225.
Chap. 39. Of the true Vſe of Victory. page. 227.
Chap. 40. Of the moderation of the Conquerours paſsions, and of his Temperance. page. 243.
Chap. 41. The carriage of the Conquered in Generall. page. 254.
Chap. 42. Of acknowledging the defeat to be from God. page. 257.
Chap. 43. The mooving cauſe of the defeate is to be obſerved. page. 162.
Chap. 44. Of quitting God of all iniustice. page. 271.
Chap. 45. Of humiliation for ſin, and forſaking of it. page. 272.
Chap. 46. Of the generous behaviour of the conquered in regard of his enemie. page. 282.
Chap. 47. Of the patience of the conquered. page. 287.
Chap. 48. Of the Hope of the Conquered. page. 297.
Chap. 49. Of the end of Warre. page. 313.