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THE

WARRIOR'S

Looking-Glass:

WHEREIN IS SHEWN

FROM MANY HIGH AUTHORITIES,

THE

TRIVIAL CAUSES, CRUEL NATURE,
DIREFUL EFFECTS,

AND

ANTI-CHRISTIAN SPIRIT AND PRACTICE

OF

WAR.

BY G. BEAUMONT.

MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE.

Sheffield:

PRINTED BY J. CROME, and sold BY HIM;

AND BY

BAYNES, Pater-nofter-Row; OGLE, Holborn; MAXWELL WILSON, Skinnerstreet;

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Entered at Stationer's Hall.

PREFACE.

A. PREFACE to a book, is not always a mere

:

formality it is fometimes a neceffary preliminary, to give the Reader a general view, both of the defign and the execution of the whole work.

Of the defign of this flender effort to do good to mankind, I can speak not only with confidence, but with boldness alfo. For many years 1 have been extremely pained in my mind, to see the multiform and complicated evils, brought upon almost all the human race, by the devilish practice of war: and, I have been the more troubled, because I knew that thefe "wars and fightings" were not so much the difpenfations of heaven, (like Pestilence and Famine) as the effect of men's "own lufts:" the "luftings" of Ambition Avarice and Revenge. By thefe three "lufts," the offspring of Hell, the world has, almost from its foundation, been a Bedlam, an Hofpital and a Charnel houfe.

I can truly fay, that I have "groaned in the fpi rit" over the miferies of mankind, occafioned by the horrors of war; and, I have long wifhed to fee, fome laudable effort made by an able hand, towards throwing War and Warriors into that difgrace and

abhorrence