The compleatest armed Man of War, naked without Gods protection [ 1141]
IT is said (Exod. 32. 25.) That Moses saw the People were naked after their great sin.* 1.1 How naked? Non veste sed gratia & praesidio Dei, they vvere naked not so much for want of cloathes, arms, and other furniture of War, as for want of Grace, favour and protection of God Almighty, and no doubt (as* 1.2 one very well observeth) Si tunc irruissent hostes, if their Enemies had then fallen upon them, they had most shamefully foyled them:* 1.3 Then let those that are Souldiers, and Men of War, if they desire that their warfare should prosper, and that God should cover their heads in the day of battel, let them be sure of the goodnesse of their cause, that their quarrell be proveris & licitis, for things true and lawful, that they seek to God, before they set upon their Enemies; For let a Man be never so well cloathed, never so well armed, and weaponed, if he be stripp'd of Gods protection, by sin, he lyes naked and open to all dysasters whatsoever.