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totum, quod rede geritur, homini tamen dignatur idipfom aforibi, dumin hunc Modum reda nititur : dum {implicita- orat, rede confultat, & om-nia fortiter ac mature peragit. Initio dicendum, ficut fuerit Voluntas inCoelo, rie fiat : pori quod invidiffimi fub Deo Duces Mofes & Judas Ma-chabaus fecere, faciendum. Ait enim Mofes Jofue , Elige tibi Viros & pug-na ; - Judas autem Simoni , Elige tibi Viros & vade, libera fratres tuos. Libe-rat lolus Deus, fed & illi propugnant & liberant, qui fortiter agendo fobipfo foa Munera perficiunt. Neque Prudentia vel Vis hominum ibi pon-deranda, ubi Dei Virtus firmiter in hanc formam adefle {peratur. Cum fe-ceritis (ait) quod Vobis eri: præceptum a Domino Deo veltro, tunc in ipfoGloriofi eritis. Vos quod hominum eft agetis ; quod fopra, Deus ipfo fom-mus efficiet atque adimplebit. Vos fi pauci fitis, haud multis prevalere polleputabitis. Quis etenim iturus ad committendum Bellum, non fodens anteP. 8. cogitat, an poffit cum decem Millibus occurrere ei qui cum Viginti venitcontra fo i In Conlpedu certe Dei non eft differentia, liberet in Multifine an paucis, Dominus non focundum Armorum potentiam, fod proutipfi placet dat dignis Vidoriam. Principio nempe Clamitandum. Quomodo poterimus fobfiftere ante faciem Inimicorum, nifi tu Deus adjuves ?Deinde præmilfo Confilio eft mutuo Cohortandum, Accingimini & eftotefilii potentes, Impetum Inimicorum ne timueritis. Non in Multitudinequidem Exercitus Vidoria belli, fod de Coelo fortitudo eft. Igitur orandusDeus ut relpiciat, ut Adverforios foos Hoftes noftros, ipfo profternat vel

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with Courage and Celerity. We muß in the firß Place fay , as is thy Will in Heavenfo he it, and then are we to behave our felves as did thofe unconquerable Command-ers under God, Mofos and Judas Macchabeus. Says Mofos to Joftiua, Chufeto your felves Men and fight. But fays Judas to Simon, chufe thy felf Men,

and go forth, deliver thy Brethren. Goa alone delivers, but they alfo defendand deliver, who by aBing valiantly under him perform their Duties. Nor is any<weight to be laid upon the Wifdom or Strength of Man, when the Poncerof God is confidently hoped for in this Manner. When ye have done (fays he)what was commanded you by the Lord your God, then ß all ye be glorious inhim. Ye ßall do what is the Part of Man, what is above, that the highGod will bring about andfiniß himfelf. If ye be few, ye will not thinkyour felves able to prevail over many. For who going to wage War, doesnot fit down before-hand and confider, whether he can meet him with tenthoufand, who cometh againß him with twenty Thoufand. And with theGod of Heaven it is all one to deliver with a great Multitude or a fmallCompany. The Lord giveth not ViBory by Arms, but even as it feemethgood to him, he giveth it to fuch as are worthy. For we muß at firßcry out, how ßall we be able to ßand againß the Face of our Enemies, un-tefi thou, 0 God, be our Help. And then having firß taken Counfel, wemuß encourage one another. Arm your felves and be valiant Men, nei-ther fear ye the Attack of your Enemies. For the ViBory of Battle ßandethnot in the Multitude of an Hoß, but Strength cometh from Heaven. There-fore is God to be intreated, that . he would have Regard to us, that hewouldoverthrow, or put to Flight his Adverfaries, our Enemies , that he would

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