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<P>HVLS PILLAR OF Providence erected: OR The Providentiall Columne, &s;etting out Heavens care for Deliverance of that people, with extraordinary Power and Providence from the bloud-&s;ucking Cavaliers, who had for &s;ix weeks clo&s;ely be&s;ieged them.</P>
<P>By <HI>T. C.</HI> Mini&s;ter of Gods Word.</P>
<Q><BIBL>ISAIAH 26.1.</BIBL>
<P>In that day &s;hall this Song be &s;ung in the Land of <HI>Judah,</HI> we have a&s;trong Citie, Salvation &s;hall God appoint for wals and bulwarks.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>ZECH. 3.2.</BIBL>
<P>Is not this a brand pluck'd out of the fire.</P></Q>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>CHARLES HERLE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Ralph Rounthwait,</HI> 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_B&V;t where are the nine</HI> (&s;aith Chri&s;t.) The Lord longs much to &s;ee us after he hath freed us; in our di&s;tre&s;&s;e we long for deliverance, and being delivered he longs for acknowledgement. <HI>Deborah</HI> after her victorie a|wakened her &s;elfe with &s;o loud an in&s;tigation, on pur|po&s;e to awaken others, That &s;he might not returne with the leprous <HI>Samaritan</HI> alone in her acknowledgment. Thus this holy-man, Gods faithfull Mini&s;ter, and our deare brother, an eye-wit|ne&s;&s;e to the great and wonderfull worke done by our God for that be|leagured Towne, the deliverance, a mercy he had a &s;hare in, and thou|&s;ands, and our &s;elves: It was the place of refuge to many per&s;ecuted and plundered Families, and to ours and his; here were met in one from the two &s;poiled Counties of <HI>Yorke</HI> and <HI>Lincolne,</HI> of all &s;orts a great multitude. Here we comfortably enjoyed our peace; here publikely and privately we jointly &s;ought it's peace, of the fruit whereof it is now a partaker from the God of peace. And therfore in all places and ages, that it may be &s;aid for <HI>Hull,</HI> what God hath done, as we can do no more, &s;o no le&s;&s;e then clap our hands, and being of the number of the Lords redeemed ones, cry out and &s;ay, <HI>God hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad:</HI> And O let all places be filled with the &s;ame glorie.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Lords di&s;per&s;ed and &s;cattered ones, beloved of the Father in the Sonne, gathe|red together from divers Quarters and Countries into <HI>Hull,</HI> the Ne&s;t of Gods providence, Grace Divine, and greeting Chri&s;tian.</HEAD>
<P>_TO you beloved the faire and strong hand of heaven hath bin fully manife&s;ted, at first plucking you as a brand out of the fire of the enemies fury, that watched for you where you li|ved, and now again the &s;ame hand of heaven hath vi&s;ited you with new favour, putting the proud adver&s;arie by, and cut|ting his combe, when he was ready to chop you for the pot, in the place where you &s;ojourned. Remember now <HI>Salomons</HI> Scripture, <HI>The Lord was angry with him, becau&s;e his heart was turned from the Lord God of I&s;rael, which had appeared unto him twice.</HI> He has twice appeared marvellous in mercie to you, and look'd upon you as no stranger in the place where you were &s;trangers. Remember the day, wherin the&s;e thoughts tooke you up continually, what &s;hall we doe, whither &s;hall we goe, what way &s;hall we flie, what cour&s;e &s;hall we take, that may be plea&s;ing to God, &s;afe for us. And now let me tell you whither you &s;hall flie, even unto the Lord with thank|full hearts who hath &s;o wonderfully magnified his favour towards you. I have &s;eene a failing in the Towne hitherto, as &s;ecure as if never in danger, as proud as if no matter of humbling, as prophane as if great deliverances did not bring great engagements to holine&s;&s;e, as unthankefull, as if not beholding to God, as &s;uper&s;titious, as if the ma&s;ter of Ceremonies, and not the Father of mer|cies had &s;aved them. But doe not you faile too, let the Towne be beholding to you for your prayers and your prai&s;es, be you their Ma&s;ons to helpe to make up the breaches of their walls, their country husbands to amend their hedges, and make up gappes where Gods wrath might breake-in. The Lord give you patient hearts in the&s;e oppre&s;&s;ing times and hard charges, and abundance of thankfulne&s;&s;e to <HI>Jehovah Ni&s;&s;i</HI> the Lord your Banner, that both you and the Church of God may be cloathed with the garments of &s;alvation.</P>
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<HEAD>Divinae Providentiae Sacrum,</HEAD>
<P>_THat Indian Hand had &s;ome rea&s;on it &s;eemes, which put upon it that name of the <HI>Ile of Providence,</HI> the &s;peciall hand of heaven ruling and leading the &s;earching ad|venturers to this place; and bringing them through long labours and hard indeavours to pitch and plant on that ground. And before I have done with this narra|tive and di&s;cour&s;e; I &s;hall make it good, that there is ground for the naming of this <HI>King&s;ton</HI> or <HI>Hull, A Town of Providence.</HI></P>
<P>Where, as on a Stage of Mercy, Divine Providence has of late act|ed parts of love, care, power, kindne&s;&s;e gloriou&s;ly, before, and for un|worthie both Spectators and receivers: The Lord hath &s;o done his marvellous workes, that they ought to bee had in remembrance of all them that feare him.</P>
<P>If any be &s;uch a &s;tranger in <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> as has not heard nor knowne the things, that are come to pa&s;&s;e in the&s;e dayes, I will informe him, (to quicken my &s;elfe, and others to gratefullne&s;&s;e,) how the Lord has heated the furnace of his love, and care for <HI>Hull,</HI> &s;even times hotter then he has done for any towne in <HI>England.</HI> And gladly would I have the Land to take notice of it, becau&s;e though the Sun ri&s;e in one corner of the Heavens the Ea&s;t; yet the light, heat and influence of the Sun fills the whole Earth, and cheri&s;hes every creature. So, though the be&s;t part of the Kernell of this deliverance falls particularly into <HI>Hulls</HI> mouth, and the people there, both in-dwellers and the Lords &s;ojour|ners, yet doubtles it &s;ends much good influence, &amp; reviving beams into the Go&s;pells cau&s;e, now quarrelled for, into the Church, into this Kingdome, into the Parliament, into the armies on foote, for the re&s;|cuing of our Realme, from the pawes of the Lyon, and the beare: the Churches Lyon, that would oppre&s;&s;e it with <HI>Antichri&s;tiani&s;me,</HI> and popi&s;h prelacy, and the Common wealths &s;avage Beare, that would devoure Truth, ju&s;tice and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and leave neither law, nor liberty nor rights, for the Subject, but what mu&s;t come out of the bo|&s;ome of licentious Athei&s;me, where will and power &s;hall create Ma|gi&s;tracy and the acts of it. Now that the Lord hath bani&s;hed &s;uch blou|die
<PB N="3" REF="3">and cruell Gaolers, which laid upon all that came under their pow|er, iron yoakes and fetters, how can we doe le&s;&s;e then &s;eeke out the au|thour of this deliverance, and give him the cordiall and reall acknow|ledgements of thankefull &s;pirits, which either &s;peaking, writing or printing may make knowne to our little world of <HI>England,</HI> lea&s;t the glory of God, which, of all other things &s;hould never know a funerall, and be buried in oblivion, be any way ob&s;cured or ecclip&s;ed. And &s;ure|ly if we enquire after the father, and mother, and nur&s;e of this amiable and comfortable child of &s;alvation, which we can never looke in the face, but it makes us &s;mile with joy: we can finde none to owne it, but only Providence divine, which has done all. This hath been &s;o clearly and manife&s;tly &s;tirring, from the <HI>Alpha</HI> to the <HI>Omega</HI> of the a|ction, that we &s;ilence all &s;ub&s;ervient Mini&s;ters, and mini&s;tred helpes, as &s;trength, guns, &s;words, munition, care and indu&s;trie, and onely write God with great letters and figures, and make all other great helpes, to be but as a great cipher without divine concurrence. When we name Providence, as the &s;uperintendent and &s;uperefficient of all, we under|&s;tand not chance or fortune, the Ethnickes providence, nor that of the Stoickes, who made providence a fortune or fate-telling old-woman, to admini&s;ter all things, as the univer&s;all &s;oule of the world. But by it we under&s;tand the &s;peciall care, and love of God towards his, which is at great co&s;t, and charges of infinite power, fore-&s;ight and wi&s;dome, to worke in all and every individuall thing for his people,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lilius. Cy|rald. de dijs Gent. Syntag.</HI> 76.</NOTE> and having wrought it, to make it again be directed to worke for their good. And if at <HI>Delos</HI> the blind Heathens for &s;ome conceived ble&s;&s;ing could erect a Temple and call it, <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>The Temple of Providence:</HI> Doe not Chri&s;tians owe as much to <HI>Jehovah,</HI> as they to their <HI>Jove?</HI> Shall not our <HI>Delos,</HI> our <HI>Hull</HI> be called, <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>The Temple of Providence,</HI> where it hath been mo&s;t admirably con&s;picuous, and efficacious for de|liverance. It is well knowne,
<MILESTONE N="1"> how heavenly care did at fir&s;t re&s;erve this Towne;
<MILESTONE N="2"> that at fir&s;t it fell not under the unruly rule of tho&s;e un|worthy Royali&s;ts, who never thinke they doe any thing royally,
<MILESTONE N="3"> but when they make <HI>Rome</HI> blu&s;h,
<MILESTONE N="4"> with being more &s;uper&s;titious and idola|trous then &s;he is: or when they make bea&s;ts blu&s;h, with being more &s;avage and cruell then they: or make <HI>Pagans</HI> and Heathens blu&s;h, in being more unju&s;t and unhone&s;t then they: or make the devill and bell blu&s;h, to &s;ee them more zealous and deepe bla&s;phemers, then they. In the&s;e actions all their royalty and cavaleri&s;me con&s;i&s;t. What a &s;peciall hand of heaven was that, prevented this Marque&s;&s;e (whom blood not in his owne veines, but bloud plenteou&s;ly &s;hed out of all the veines of
<PB N="4" REF="4">the North, hath rai&s;ed to this title of <HI>Marque&s;&s;e</HI>) from being governor of it at fir&s;t, when his Maje&s;tie &s;ent him and offered him for that pur|po&s;e to the Towne. The prevention of &s;uch a Hornet, that he was not &s;et over his Bee-hive, de&s;erves our tongues to &s;peake as loud as the <HI>E|gyptian Magitians,</HI> and to &s;ay, this was <HI>Digitus Dei,</HI> the finger of God. For &s;ay he had bin the re&s;ident ruler here; what an influence of mi&s;|chief would he have &s;ent hence again&s;t <HI>London,</HI> Parliament, and all the places under the rule of well ordered ju&s;tice and peace? How would this have been the <GAP DESC="foreign">, the &s;cumme-pot, into which would have been gathered all the living and working villanie or Athei&s;me of <HI>Dun|kirk, France, Holland, Flanders,</HI> &amp;c. And what Country &s;oever would have &s;ent men-bea&s;ts, that in a mercenary &s;ouldiarie are willing, to &s;ell their &s;oules in any warre, yea will take the pay of hell, to fight again&s;t heaven? But ble&s;&s;ed be the eye of heaven, that watcht, and the hand of heaven that wrought another way, and brought this key of the king|dome to hang at the Parliaments girdle, that they &s;hould not be in an hourely feare of this, as of a Northerne <HI>Algiers,</HI> or ne&s;t of Sea and land Pirates. Why is <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> and not <HI>Hull</HI> in their power, a continuall vexation to the good cau&s;e? There is no rea&s;on of it, but what lies in Gods brea&s;t and bo&s;ome, &s;o he liked, &s;o he would have it.</P>
<P>Under Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> the Lord began to put this Towne, as a &s;ig|net ring on his finger. How did the Lord animate the Governour and his &s;mall forces to &s;tand unappaled before his Maje&s;tie, when he comes in his owne per&s;on, and with all his power he could then make, to de|mand, nay to command the rendring of the Towne into his power, yet even then God made wormes &s;tronger then the Lion, when <HI>Hotham</HI> royally &s;tood and feared neither Herald, nor Proclamation, nor the voyce of a provoked King, which is the me&s;&s;enger of death O that this fine gold had never changed! But O the mi&s;ery of fooli&s;h man, made drunke with authority and power! <HI>Hotham</HI> honoured like a King, fea|red as an Emperour; &s;itting in peace, that might have had the Country for the good cau&s;e wait on his whi&s;tle; how has he degenerated and &s;oi|led all his fair burning light, in ending with a ducking down of the &s;oc|ket, breathing at la&s;t with a vaporous, &amp; ill &s;avoured exit. Time will try, and ju&s;tice will boult out (I fore-judge not, nor anticipate our Iudges of this cau&s;e.) Whether ju&s;tly father or &s;on <HI>Hotham,</HI> or both, be guil|ty of mi&s;carriages in the North, at <HI>Yorke,</HI> of the Queens entrance u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> in|terrupted, of <HI>Scarboroughs</HI> and <HI>Chomeleyes</HI> ba&s;e Apo&s;ta&s;ie, of the We&s;t crying out of the ri&s;ing Sun, and &s;aying, all her mi&s;erie came from the Ea&s;t, where Egyptian reeds did not only faile them, but pierce them,
<PB N="5" REF="4">and helpe them to be covered in that Chaos of tyranny, wherein that good and goodly Country now lies low and poor, only rich (be&s;ides Gods &s;ecret favour) in fulne&s;&s;e of oppre&s;&s;ions and cruelty. I leave the&s;e &s;ervants to the judgement of their ma&s;ter, who will make their &s;ins appeare as mid-night, or their righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e as mid-day in due time: I know it is indeed thought and &s;aid, in rela|tion to <HI>Hotham</HI> and <HI>Cholmley,</HI> that <HI>Scorborough</HI> and <HI>Scarborough</HI> are the &s;prings of mo&s;t of our mi&s;ery in the North. Let others &s;ay as they plea&s;e, Gods candle in fit &s;ea&s;on will &s;eeke out darke&s;t corners. Let the ju&s;t have his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e for cloathing, and let the unju&s;t be arrayed with his own confu&s;ion, and &s;hame as with a cloake. Proceed we to the change of Governours and &s;ee miracles, and great peeces of extraordinary providence in that. In one mor|ning gates, walles, block-hou&s;es, armes, men, commanders, guns, &s;hips, all that is called &s;trong, is ea&s;ily and quickly yeelded to the power of the Towne, no bloud-&s;hed, no &s;oule lies ga&s;ping, no &s;treets know &s;treames of bloud, but wa|ter, for all this, why, this is wonderfull, friends, kindred, deare ones, in places of tru&s;t, yet none re&s;i&s;ting, but yeelding up office and power, as being over|come with power and rea&s;on for it, or both. So great a thing, &s;o long and &s;trongly &s;etled, &s;o ea&s;ily altered and turn'd without combu&s;tion &amp; broil, would make an Athei&s;t, that &s;aw it, name God and Providence, for that very actions &s;ake. Be&s;ides, the enraged Towne, again&s;t their &s;u&s;pected Governour, being &s;o calmed into ju&s;tice, and prudently re&s;erving father and &s;on, to be weighed by the Parliaments ballance, and not precipitately cutting out for them&s;elves, was a &s;peciall favour of God, to honour them with &s;o well a carried bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Then loe again the Artifice, and rare working of Architectonicall providence; verily thou art a God that hide&s;t thy &s;elfe O God of I&s;rael the Saviour. At this pre&s;ent, things are thus carried at <HI>Hull,</HI> the noble <HI>Fairfax</HI> is in his We&s;tern de|clination, and <HI>Beverly</HI> is ready to be chopt for the pot, by the a&s;&s;aulting enemy. Marke how the wheele runs. From <HI>Beverly</HI> the enemy is repul&s;ed with &s;hame and lo&s;&s;e. But in the We&s;t, two or three dayes after, the &s;warmes of New Ca|&s;tles wa&s;pes &s;ting the Armie of the honoured <HI>Fairfax,</HI> there he and his heroick Sonne, after faire hopes loo&s;e the day, quit the field (though to the great co&s;t of the adver&s;ary) and leave that noble&s;t part of the Country in the hands of the ignoble&s;t men (if inhumanity be ignobility) where as they were bred and prin|cipled, &s;o they maintain it, there is no good play unle&s;&s;e &s;ome play the devill in it. How have they imitated that infernall paternity of theirs, by being as cru|ell and unmercifull to that worthy people, as hell could make them. Then tho|rough what dangerous pathes and parts of Countries did the Lord bring hono|red <HI>Fairfax,</HI> and his &s;on, and the remainders of his &s;cattered Army? How did the Lord hard before this fore defeat, make Hull ready for them, who&s;e pray|ers and longings waited for &s;uch a Governour at the gates of heaven? Com|pare
<PB N="6" REF="5">but the times of the&s;e things falling out, that Hul &s;hould be made fit to re|ceive a Governour, fit to &s;uccour a di&s;per&s;ed people, who fled from a bloudy &s;word and &s;peare. Let Hull and We&s;tern di&s;per&s;ed ones, and the whole king|dome contend about it, which of them has the large&s;t &s;hare of fatherly provi|dence in this thing. O the providence is much for us, may Hull &s;ay, that we &s;hould receive &s;o faithfull and right a Governour in our nece&s;&s;ity. It is provi|dence for us may We&s;t &s;ay, that we &s;hould get &s;uccour there. It is providence for us, may the whole kingdom &s;ay, that &s;o quickly the government was &s;etled there, and though there was &s;o great a wound, yet the Lord quickly prepared a good and great plai&s;ter. How deepe is the Lords wi&s;dom in his doings? How can hee &s;trangely, at one and the &s;ame time, win and lo&s;e, cut and cure, wound and heale, throw downe and rai&s;e up his people, and make one and the &s;ame cloud both darke and light&s;ome?</P>
<P>Let the people of God ob&s;erve it, they never have any notable fall or affliction, but God gives them &s;ome notable ri&s;e after it, to &s;tand on high ground againe, and to meet with &s;ome comfort and ble&s;&s;ing &s;ucceeding it, of &s;uch a depth and latitude, as entered not into their imaginations. And now <HI>Rab&s;hakeh</HI> railes and <HI>Thra&s;oes</HI> boa&s;t, and every <GAP DESC="foreign">, now opens his mouth, and laughs to &s;ee Chri&s;t lie loaden with a cro&s;&s;e in the &s;treets of <HI>Leedes</HI> and <HI>Bradford.</HI> Now the Iri&s;h Prelate, the bi&s;hop of <HI>Derry,</HI> mu&s;t turne the P&s;almes of <HI>David</HI> into a &s;cornfull Jigge, and mu&s;t not only abu&s;e the Saints of God, but the Scripture of God. The Mini&s;ters pulpit is his &s;tage, which hath bin commonly the: May-pole where &s;corners of Gods Saints have danced them&s;elvs giddy, and there he pre|tends he will &s;tir them up to give thanks to God, and to God alone, in the&s;e words of <HI>David: I will not tru&s;t in my bow, neither &s;hall my Sword &s;ave me, but thou ha&s;t &s;aved us from our enemies,</HI> &amp;c. P&s;. 44.6, 7. But he forgetting his theame, &s;o dotes on his Marque&s;&s;e,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Si perga~ ad acuta reru~, plus toge lae|&s;&ecirc;re rem|pub. qua~ toricae. Tertull de pallio.</NOTE> that he mu&s;t needs make him the bow and the &s;word, as though he by his care and wi&s;e carriage had freed now all York-&s;hire from oppre&s;&s;ion and from the cru&s;hing of the Parliaments friends, and now there was nothing but one poor corner of caitiffs, all &s;edition and faction now laid ga&s;ping within the wals of Hull. Let not Bi&s;hops &s;peak of oppre&s;&s;ion, for they have bin <HI>Pharaohs</HI> mo&s;t cur&s;t task|ma&s;ters, &s;et up to afflict the I&s;rael of God. Nor let Yorke be the tribu|nall at this time, to judge the di&s;per&s;ed of Chri&s;t, that are met in Hull. After that way, Sr Bi&s;hop, which you call &s;edition, there are &s;uch Saints &s;erve God, as the latchet of who&s;e &s;hooes (&s;aving the reverence of your bicorned mi|ter) you are not worthy to loo&s;e. Well &s;edition and faction lies ga&s;ping within the walls of Hull; what then? Why then New-ca&s;tle and his Army mu&s;t come hither to the funerall of it, if it lie ga&s;ping, it will die &s;hortly, and they will be &s;o officious, as to come and clo&s;e our eyes, and carry us to our grave; or if we
<PB N="7" REF="5">be not &s;o neare death, they can think of &s;uch a thing as this, Come let us kill them that the inheritance may be ours.</P>
<P>About the 4th of September, that goodly Town of <HI>Beverley</HI> fals into the hands of a merciles adver&s;ary; ours beholding their great numbers, and con&s;idering the &s;tate of the Town to be &s;uch, as it could not be held again&s;t them, though our num|bers had bin trebled. Wherupon warning is given to retire and leave it, and &s;ome no doubt were to blame, that left &s;ome le&s;&s;er peeces of Ordnance there, and did not timely convey them away, which they might have done. <HI>Beverley</HI> &s;marted then on all &s;ides by enemies cruelty, by friends negligence, pre&s;ently is the Town made bare and &s;tript naked, and compelled to &s;peake largely of the little charity, &amp; mercy of the promoters of the Catholike cau&s;e, who are <HI>&s;emperide~,</HI> inhumane &amp; barbarous. Hard before their coming, one <HI>Bu&s;hell</HI> a kin&s;man of the infamous <HI>Bu&s;h|ell</HI> (who is filled with more then four pecks of an I&s;carioticall &s;pirit) came with a Tinker, him&s;elfe acting a bad mettall man with him, to view both Beverleyes and Huls works, having done it, were at length taken pri&s;oners, and found to be bad mettall. Having &s;wallowed Beverley they make Hull ready for the dre&s;&s;er, and their cur&s;ed Cooks made a great fire, hoping this Town &s;hould be their roa&s;t-meat. They begin their &s;iege, and have all kind of furies redre&s;&s;ed with &s;nakes to torment us. With them are come, as goads in their &s;ides, to &s;et them on, and as candles in the darke to guide them, the fox-heads, &s;ubtill, cunning, and bu&s;ie &s;pi|rits of Hull, which &s;he had vomited out, who&s;e names are in the booke of the ge|neration of vipers, which have watring teeth to eat thorough their mothers bow|els. The poor arayed and forced &s;ouls are made to tugg and worke wor&s;e then the &s;laves at Adrianople, day and night, to rai&s;e Mounts and Works with turves and baskets, to brew our ruine. It will not be ami&s;&s;e, to &s;ee how God works the deli|verance of his people with many cro&s;&s;e thrids, and makes a &s;mooth web in the end of that, which has many knots in the beginning. Wheras at their fir&s;t com|ming we had a &s;pring-tide that might have flown with &s;treams of mole&s;tation to them, and hindred their works, if ours could have agreed to cut the banks, and lend them &s;ome &s;alt water, yet &s;o it plea&s;ed God to divide the con&s;ults and con|clu&s;ions of men about it, that this is hindred, and therby they exceedingly furthe|red, in hopes to warme them&s;elves at our fire. Nay, when afterward there were found Propo&s;itions, upon rationall grounds, of daming up the fre&s;h water, &s;o as it &s;hould over-flow very much to the much annoying of them, it may be to lo&s;&s;e of all their peeces, and for much comfort to us, out of Town for ground and cattell, for helping them within Towne with &s;ufficiency of fre&s;h waters; yet it plea&s;ed the Lord to throw all the&s;e devices out. Divine providence bids this humane pro|vidence &s;tand by and &s;tep out of the way, that not <HI>Joab,</HI> but <HI>David</HI> might have the name of the day. Humane helpe and indu&s;trie is good, though oftentimes evil in the abu&s;e, when men make them vails and curtains to hide the divine face, that
<PB N="8" REF="6">we do not &s;o much &s;ee and admire the beauty of it. God thus in one and the &s;ame bu&s;ines weds together our comfort and his glory, even by tho&s;e things that &s;eem to forbid the banes. Ours had &s;oon after the beginning of the &s;iege, a &s;allie out with a good number of men upon them in their quarters at Anlabie, they had &s;ome intelligence, though it was early in the morning, ours had &s;ome prevalence, and our &s;ouldiers &s;ome were too bu&s;ie fingring their carriages, and looking after pocketings, &s;o as though we brought divers of theirs pri&s;oners, and &s;ome of them were &s;lain, yet we al&s;o had &s;ome of ours taken, that we might take our &s;elves for our &s;in, that mu&s;t needs pick the Lords day morning for &s;uch a work, as we being the a&s;&s;aulters, might have well found another day for it. Every night the enemy gets a fre&s;h worke, and with new incroaches and approaches, comes nigher us, &s;o that in the morning we &s;tand wondring, to &s;ee what is done that night. In the &s;pace of 6 weeks &s;iege, they &s;eem to have &s;o be&s;traitned us, as there is no hopes of deliverance; but that their hopes and ours are not alike. The Cater-pillars that follow the campe, are invited from York, and tho&s;e parts, to come, and carry a|way the plunder of the rich and goodly Town of Hull.</P>
<P>I &s;hall di&s;patch the particulars of Gods &s;ingular providence in the remaining part, to the happy up&s;hot of the bu&s;ines, by borrowing 15 branches of this &s;alva|tion, as I find them fitly &s;ummed upon a Sermon at the low-Church, on the &s;o|lemne day of thank&s;giving, and celebration of &s;o rare a peece of providence in the fore-noon, <HI>Octob.</HI> 18. being the &s;even-night after, only putting in &s;ome additions of inlargement, as quickning colours to make the picture looke more lively. The text di&s;cour&s;ed on, as the bellows to blow up the flame of prai&s;e was <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 25.9. <HI>And it &s;hall be &s;aid in that day, loe this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will &s;ave us. This is the Lord, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoyce in his &s;al|vation.</HI> In which, after many other things the Sermon proceeded to urge rejoy|cing in Gods &s;alvation after this manner. We &s;hould not only &s;peake of Gods acts, but as the Prophet <HI>David</HI> &s;aith, we &s;hould wi&s;ely con&s;ider of Gods doings, and gather up <HI>ramenta auri,</HI> all the filings and little &s;parks of gold, becau&s;e mercies are a &s;ingular and rare mettall.</P>
<P>From the 120. P&s;alm there are 15. P&s;alms, which are called <HI>P&s;almes of degrees,</HI> which it is thought by &s;ome are &s;o called, becau&s;e there were 15. &s;teps or degrees to that part of the Temple, where men were to wor&s;hip the Lord, on which the &s;acred Chori&s;ters of divine mu&s;ick &s;ung the&s;e 15. P&s;alms. How ever that were &s;o or no, our Temple of prai&s;e has 15. notable &s;teps or &s;tairs, on which we may &s;tand and &s;ing our P&s;alms of degrees, which have in them contained &s;o many <HI>Hallellu|jah's</HI> for &s;o many remarkable branches of our &s;alvation. That we may the better take notice of them, let us gather them together and make them faggots of juni|per or &s;weet-wood, to kindle our fire of thankfulne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="1">1. The fir&s;t branch of this &s;alvation, is the &s;peciall providence of God, in making
<PB N="9" REF="6">&s;uch an union, as &s;ouldiers, town&s;-men, &s;ea-men, &s;trangers were all united clo&s;ely as one man, to &s;tand couragiou&s;ly again&s;t the common enemy; wheras they with|out did hope there would have bin a divi&s;ion within, and that divi&s;ion would have bin the mother and &s;ure &s;eminary of confu&s;ion and ruine. For dividing and de&s;troying commo~ly go together, as <HI>P&s;.</HI> 55.9. or are but a very little while parted a&s;under, <HI>A kingdome</HI> (a town) <HI>an hou&s;e divided again&s;t it &s;elf cannot &s;tand, Divide</HI> and <HI>Impera</HI> come from the braines of the old divident, who &s;et up a &s;choole of Arith|metick in paradi&s;e, and taught the unhappy rule of divi&s;ion betwixt God and man. Divi&s;ion commonly puts an enemy into the Imperative mood. But ble&s;&s;ed be the God of union, who is but one, and made this people of one heart, and one way in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, though a people as likely to fall into bad peeces as any.</P>
<P N="2">2. A &s;econd branch, with &s;weet berries growing on it, was the Lords care to give food to his people and pre&s;ervation of the mils, which in all probability they might have attempted to beat down, or fire at the fir&s;t, as well as they attempted it at the la&s;t, by rai&s;ing a work hard behind one of them. Yea though they had pin|ned us fa&s;t in 6 weeks together, yet the Lord provided better meat then Quailes, and though we had not <HI>Manna</HI> from heaven, yet we had rain from heaven, which &s;tood us in very good &s;tead, when our fre&s;h water was cut off. So many Beeves and &s;heep were pre&s;erved from tho&s;e great cattel &s;tealers, that meat a good while was cheaper in the &s;iege then out of it, and I believe the proud enemy in a great part of the Army, would have licked their lips at our fragments. <HI>David</HI> thinks we have good rea&s;on to prai&s;e the Lord with our whole heart, even for giving meat to them that feare him. <HI>P&s;.</HI> 111.1. &amp; 5. ver&s;es.</P>
<P N="3">3. A third branch of &s;aving mercy, was in the firing of the North block-hou&s;e blown up in a part, where the powder-barrels and hand Granado's, ill companions being together, and &s;ome fire coming to that A&s;&s;embly, it blew up with a terrible bla&s;t, a part of that &s;trong building, yet for all this Gods power and mercy orde|red it excellently, the Lord commanding the fire and fury to be within on our &s;ide and not to the enemies part, that they might have no advantage at all by it. The Lord if he had &s;o plea&s;ed might have made a fearefull rupture by it, and opened a gap for them, which they that were &s;o prodigall of mans bloud, would with fury have &s;et upon, though it had co&s;t them a thou&s;and men. Further when the bla&s;t in one room had beaten open the window into another, and the flame entered into it, where there were 12. barrels of powder more, and &s;ome with loo&s;e covers be|ing opened, it plea&s;ed the divine di&s;pen&s;er to &s;u&s;pend the flame, and it reverently held and drew back from &s;ea&s;ing upon that powder, which in al likelihood might have done far more harm, both to murthering of more men, and di&s;mounting the ordnance. Nor did the enemy &s;cape in this kind, for they had a magazin blown up and their &s;tore of Granado's, which they had provided for us. Ours, as it did us &s;ome hurt, &s;o it did them no good at all. Ble&s;t be the Lord, for &s;o &s;peciall a branch of his &s;alvation.</P>
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<P N="4">4. When their great bullets of 35. lb. weight, both roa&s;t and raw, hot and cold, came &s;o fa&s;t and frequently into the Towne, and all over it, they having a great mark to &s;hoot at, and likely to &s;peed where ever they fell; yet though day and night they came into &s;treets, hou&s;es, beds, the Lord &s;o charmed and charged them, that but 3 were &s;lain by them, a man, a woman, and a child. Heaven found &s;trange means, to conjure the&s;e bullets into quietnes, and &s;top their force. One quarrel'd with a poudring-tub, another &s;tuck in pa&s;te, which was a providing for food, and was choked in dough; another drunk it &s;elf our friend in a barrell of wine; another burnt the bed-clothes, and &s;pared a woman in the bed, &s;o as &s;he &s;lept &s;till &s;oundly and quietly, having &s;o hot a bed-fellow, till &s;he was by neighbours wakened and pulled out from the fiery danger. They aimed at our Churches, when we were met together for the word and prayer, yet never hurt any in the Church, going or returning. But in their quarters and at <HI>York</HI> fame rang another peale, of many hun|dreds &s;lain in the town, and divers coming to, and going from the Church. We al|low tho&s;e two Univer&s;ities of lies, the one of <HI>Oxford,</HI> the other of <HI>York</HI> their poe|ticall and lying licence. We have found tho&s;e two <HI>Africaes</HI> alwaies bringing forth mon&s;trous things, and lies of a prime magnitude. We are begun to thinke, that it may almo&s;t gain the &s;trength of a proverb, that <HI>Yorks</HI> printer, minter and min&s;ter, (when they print or preach of the Parliaments affairs) &s;eldom vent &s;mall lies. The &s;ouldiers complain of their minter, for minting too much fal&s;e mony, and for their min&s;ters Sermons, aiming at our cau&s;e, they &s;mell very little of truth or charitable divinity; and their printed Pamphlets are notorious. Pardon this digre&s;&s;ion and going out of the way to cudgell a liar.</P>
<P N="5">5. When they were &s;o neare, as within reach of Granado's as they tru&s;ted, yet we heard but only of 3 or 4 of them, and tho&s;e were either &s;hort or over: where they digged deep into guts of earth, but touched not any man. What would they have done, if the Lord had given the&s;e hot officers of his anger leave to come into market, Churches, &s;treets, hou&s;es, what terrible marks would they have left of their burning and tearing foot-&s;teps.</P>
<P N="6">6. Our i&s;&s;uings out proved mo&s;tly &s;uccesfull to us, though with &s;mall &s;trength, but alwaies hurtfull, to the co&s;t and lo&s;&s;e of the enemy, loo&s;ing men, and having &s;ome worke pulled down by ours, they flying as driven away.</P>
<P N="7">7. Our hor&s;e were happily pre&s;erved, and &s;afely conveyed into <HI>Lincoln&s;hire,</HI> when our fre&s;h water &amp; fodder was &s;o little, as &s;taying they &s;hould have had &s;hort com|mons, and many of them would have peri&s;ht being foodles, and all of them would have bin u&s;eles, becau&s;e of the enemies propinquity and nearne&s;&s;e. God re&s;erved them for another place, where they were &s;erviceable in a glorious victory.</P>
<P N="8">8. When the &s;tate of the Town was very depre&s;&s;ed, and earthly hopes were at a low nepe, our men being few, and worne out with day labours and night-watch|ings and fightings from their works, there being not &s;ufficient for number to ma|nage
<PB N="11" REF="7">the works wel, and clothe the wals, if the enemy &s;hould approach nearer. In that very nick of nece&s;&s;ity, God &s;ent us a competent number of &s;ouldiers, with that good Commander S^r <HI>John Meldram,</HI> that did exceedingly animate and put fre&s;h &s;pirits into our wearied &s;ouldiers, and very much conduce to our great help.</P>
<P N="9">9. When on a &s;udden, a company of their pickt and re&s;olute &s;pirits, with fury and &s;trength had almo&s;t got one of our be&s;t works, the we&s;t jutty, and were in a man|ner po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of it, yet ours &s;lew and di&s;comfited them, &s;o as divers of them were &s;lain, &s;ome 15. and &s;ome taken pri&s;oners. The re&s;t fled away with wounds &amp; &s;hame, as full of cold fear, as they came full of &s;trong water, of which the &s;lain and taken notably &s;avoured, having fired their &s;pirits into a de&s;peratenes with the &s;pirits of hot waters. In all the time God &s;o wrought for us, we held the works we had. And this de&s;erves a finger to point at it, a tongue to prai&s;e for it.</P>
<P N="10">10. The Lord pared away from the &s;trength of their numerous Army, by a reig|ning &s;icknes among them, by the running away of many, and by diverting a part of their forces into <HI>Lincoln&s;hire,</HI> that they might be &s;omething weaker, and more fit for us to deale with them, though &s;till their numbers did treble ours.</P>
<P N="11">11. Marvellous was the Lord in the prevention of their firing the Town &amp; &s;hip|ping, which they were mad to doe, and confident would be done, either by their wild-fire, or wild bullets glowing hot (they imitating the fiery darts of their fa|ther, the wicked one) yet the Lord kept them from lighting on combu&s;tible mat|ter, or ea&s;ily fire-catching &s;tuffe. They were &s;o confident of burning us, that they cau&s;ed country people divers times to &s;tand on an hill, &amp; promi&s;ed the~ with great oaths and damning language, they &s;hould pre&s;ently &s;ee <HI>Hull</HI> on a light fire, but God &s;ent no fire to con&s;ume their &s;acrifice in token of acceptation. They are &s;erved with the <HI>Germane</HI> proverbe, <HI>Deus non audit felium preces,</HI> God hears not cats pray|ers to accept them, that is cur&s;es and execrations, more unwelcome to God then the har&s;h cries of cats. No, when their Apo&s;tle M. <HI>Thru&s;cro&s;&s;e</HI> (who no doubt is wel-plea&s;ed that the cro&s;&s;e is found in his name) &s;peaks of winning <HI>Hull,</HI> he tels them they mu&s;t fa&s;t and pray, or els never thinke to win it: for, &s;aith he, you fight again&s;t a praying people. He fore-&s;aw cur&s;es, that come from a tongue and heart &s;et on fire of hell, could never &s;et on fire <HI>Hull,</HI> and therefore he gave them more gho&s;tly coun&s;ell. And they report from <HI>Pomfret,</HI> which I annex, that a man, and they name the man, came from that Town towards <HI>Hull,</HI> big with expectation and hope to &s;ee it on fire, and when he returned he found his own hou&s;ing fired. So wi&s;ely and ju&s;tly doth God meet with men in unju&s;t and cruell waies. Be&s;ides firing, they were by the &s;ame providence prevented of blocking up the river, when on <HI>Lincoln&s;hires</HI> &s;ide and <HI>Holderne&s;&s;es,</HI> they were begun to make forts, but by &s;ome of our men landing were driven away, and the fort was razed down.</P>
<P N="12">12. In compa&s;&s;e of &s;ix weeks, all which time they begirt us with that &s;trait and trouble&s;ome girdle of a &s;iege, by our &s;allyings out, and all their bullets &s;allying in
<PB N="12" REF="8">among us, not 60. per&s;ons as 'tis thought were &s;lain in all of ours, few or none of note, when 'tis certain of theirs above 2000 are peri&s;ht by &s;word, bullet, &s;ickne&s;&s;e and abundance of them fairly tryed their heels and de&s;erted them. Some of their Commanders of note, Lieutenant-Col. <HI>Levin&s;ton,</HI> Serj. maj. <HI>Boyard,</HI> Cap. <HI>Knight,</HI> and many others, which they conceale from us in the dark book of &s;ecrecy, went to their la&s;t bed in the dark chambers of death before <HI>Hull.</HI> Divers of their Captains that had compleat companies went back to <HI>York</HI> with ragged remains of &s;ome 9 or 6 of tho&s;e they carried out thence, and many in great numbers, grievou&s;ly wounded to make up their black triumph &s;ome went with them, and after them others, to adorne their glorious carriages.</P>
<P N="13">13. It was a notable favour of heaven, that &s;uch a re&s;olute and couragious &s;pirit was rai&s;ed in ours, as that they went out, and &s;et upon the enemy, the wedne&s;day 7 night before, being <HI>Oct.</HI> 4. and beat them out of two of their works, &s;lew and took &s;ome, and brought in many of their muskets, which they running away left. One of tho&s;e works they h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d newly rai&s;ed behind our wind-mil, which was a ve|ry hopefull one for them, and was likely to be very damagefull to us, had it bin let alone but that night. But God was in &s;ome &s;ort vi&s;ible that day, giving ours pow|er to beat tho&s;e wild and furious cocks on and off their own dung-hill. And that Wedne&s;day was a fairly ominous preface to the next Wedne&s;day, which was vo|luminous to us in big mercies.</P>
<P N="14">14. Further, when this day of ble&s;&s;ings, <HI>Oct.</HI> 11. the day wheron the &s;iege was rai|&s;ed, was well gone on for us, the other gathering much fre&s;h force, came on for|midably again&s;t ours, in&s;omuch as our &s;ouldiers are body and &s;oul for a retreat, and &s;hamefull retire. See now how hoavenly providence comes in to &s;uccour. Ours were ba&s;ely timid, and prophecied dangerous things to them&s;elves, from the ene|mies fre&s;h and full appearance, where one &s;udden cloud of feare, was likely to be the blacke mantle or curtain, to hide the light of a very hopefull day. Some good &s;pirits of Captains and &s;ouldiers were as much tormented with &s;hame, to &s;ee &s;o &s;ick a fit upon our armie, as the retreaters were tormented with feare; wherupon &s;ome Commanders, and by-&s;tanding &s;pectators did earne&s;tly beg and be&s;eech they would turn again and face the enemy, and &s;ome of the hor&s;e couragiou&s;ly leading the way, and giving a f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;h on-&s;et, it animated the foot, where the <HI>Spirit of the Lord</HI> &s;et up a Standard in their &s;pirits, and they fell on bravely, and out of <HI>weaknes</HI> were made <HI>&s;trong, Heb.</HI> 11.34. and turned the enemy into &s;moake, which fled before them as driven by the wind, &s;hewing many backs, but few faces again&s;t ours, in which backs they &s;ee faire printed the adver&s;aries defeat, and their own victory. God &s;o ble&s;&s;es this new a&s;&s;ault, that they take from them their great guns, 9. of them, &s;ome greater, &s;ome le&s;&s;e, beats them from their &s;trong &amp; great works with very little and &s;mall lo&s;&s;e of ours, in which great pecces and works many of them tru&s;ted, more then in the great God. Our Cap. <HI>Rainsborow</HI> by a mi&s;take was taken, but for him we had many of theirs fell pri&s;oners into our hands.</P>
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<P>This 11. of <HI>Oct.</HI> was a great and glorious day, that &s;uch multitudes of men out of many and &s;trong works, from many and great guns &s;hould be beaten and driven away by them, that came to a&s;&s;ault them in the open field, is a rare example of &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e to the Parlia. battels, and is as notable a peece of pure military valour, as has faln out &s;ince the beginning of the&s;e wars. The &s;ouldiers, that went home by wee|ping and bleeding cro&s;&s;e, doe cry out of our &s;tratagem to retreat on purpo&s;e, and then with renewed &s;trength to come and ruine them. Indeed it was a brave &s;tra|tagem and a rare plot, but it was Gods &s;tratagem and a plot of providence, which we never contrived nor thought on, till his waking thoughts brought it about. How comfortably did the whole Towne almo&s;t look over the walles that whole day, and &s;ee this &s;alvation of God?</P>
<P N="15">15. La&s;tly, being thus breakfa&s;ted on wedne&s;day, that night they &s;up with fears and cur&s;es, and ha&s;ty purpo&s;es of being gone from us. The Lord on a &s;udden &s;weeps them away, they &s;teale away the remaining Ordnance in the night. A <HI>&s;pirit of fear</HI> lends them wings to fly, they go away with &s;hame, lo&s;&s;e and &s;tinging con&s;ciences: So that the &s;iege is rai&s;ed, w^h we expected not; the enemy is gone &s;uddenly, we lookt not for it. Many of them left their muskets and other weapons in the works, and though it was a very &s;ore day of rain, yet away they mu&s;t, they dare not &s;tay for fair weather. Pre&s;ently our &s;tate is marvellou&s;ly changed, we heare not of their guns, we receive no more ridings of their fiery bullets, we are deliver'd and yet doubt whether we do but dream of it. How are our fears and foes &s;uddenly vani&s;ht, &amp; we quickly re&s;tored to walking on fre&s;h ground, breathing in fre&s;h air, having enough of fre&s;h water, &amp; many comforts our enemies had &s;traitned us in? They gave out they rai&s;ed the &s;iege, becau&s;e of the wet weather, &amp; I believe it; for they had &s;ome ca&s;e-&s;hot among them, with &s;tore of other bullets; which made that a wet day, though it was very fair, in that it could not but rain good &s;tore of bad bloud. God has overcome us and o|verflown us in our de&s;ires: we looked but for a little, and the &s;ea of mercy has broke out and drowned us with a deluge and <HI>catacly&s;me</HI> of ble&s;&s;ings.</P>
<P>The Country mourns, yet God made us to laugh. They are impoveri&s;hed every way in their mo|nies and goods and men: their be&s;t tables, trees, timber are taken and laid in the ditches by the enemy, to help the conveyance of carriages &amp; ordnance from work to work Only their ha&s;ty and Eagle-flighted fear has done &s;ome this kindnes not intended, that they have filled the barns with corn, and in an unkind kindnes (as having no time to thre&s;h it out, to &s;ell it, or carry it away) have left it for the owners, who finde it, at their repo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, gathered to their hands by &s;ervants whom they never &s;et on worke. Nor is this all, God when in his mercy he flows, he overflowes. On the &s;ame 11^h of <HI>Oct.</HI> he gives us a glorious victory in <HI>Lincoln&s;hire,</HI> as free, fair and full as the mo&s;t have bin got fince the unhappy hatching of the&s;e warrs, &s;o as that day hath given them an a&s;toni&s;hing blow, that they have &s;taggered ever &s;ince, &amp; know not on what ground to tread, God following them with &s;oul-&s;tupifying terrours. The&s;e are the full branches of the Lords &s;aving providence, the fir&s;t fruits of our expected harve&s;t in this mi&s;erable country of <HI>York|&s;hire,</HI> where &s;ome 80 not of the meane&s;t Gentry have proved drunke with the Queens cup, full of <HI>Roman</HI> intoxicating &s;pice, and have made a mad market-venture of their names, families, e&s;tates, bodies, &s;ouls, only to pre&s;erve the Papi&s;ts reliques, and the Prelates micers and damaske ca&s;&s;ocks a|mong us. Now the&s;e furious <HI>Salamanders</HI> and fan&s;ie-frantick &s;pirits, begin to &s;ee, their bu&s;ie acti|on may come to end in mi&s;erable pa&s;&s;ion, becau&s;e they doted on their lady <HI>Mary,</HI> &amp; have for&s;aken the Lord Ie&s;us in his cau&s;e. Take we but the&s;e 15. acts of grace, put we them together as &s;o many letters, &amp; &s;ee if they do not evidently compo&s;e the&s;e a words, <HI>Divine Providence,</HI> which ran in &amp; thorow the whole action, &amp; therfore all tongues &s;hould &s;ould <HI>the divine Prai&s;e.</HI> E&s;pecially &ocirc; <HI>Hull</HI> thou ha&s;t by this day faln into great debt to God, who has taken away thine Ala&s;tors and Furies
<PB N="14" REF="9">from thee. Let thy <HI>Motto</HI> be that of the L. <HI>Boyls</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> as I have heard, <HI>Gods Providence is mine Inheritance.</HI> Ble&s;&s;e God from the ground of thy heart, that though they were proudly &amp; audaciou&s;|ly di&s;po&s;ing of thy hou&s;es, &s;treets, &amp; great mens e&s;tates, thus &amp; thus, this to, that commander, that to this officer, &amp; gladding them&s;elves with the rich &s;poils of their pre&s;ently to be caught prey, yet there is not one of the to be found in thy town or hou&s;es as po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, but only as pri&s;oners. What a mercy is it, that thou art not filled with that lu&s;tfull and letcherous vermin, with that &s;pawn of cruelty, that to their power would de&s;troy &s;ouls as wel as bodies. Let a Mini&s;ter of ours of good credit witnes their vertues, who being late their pri&s;oner at <HI>Cottingham,</HI> was carried into a cham|ber, where an Officer of theirs lay in bed with 2 whors at once, and there was another bed at feet, where another lay with another whore.
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This vertu|ous provo&s;t Mar&s;hall &s;hewed the whares to him, &amp; told him he did this to vex the round heads, not caring at all, or remem|bring that it vexes God more.</NOTE> Surely <HI>Rome</HI> has need to &s;end out a new Bull, for the comfort and pardon of the&s;e bea&s;ts. Without doubt this is the only way to maintain <HI>the Liberty of the Subject,</HI> &amp; the <HI>known Laws of the Land,</HI> &amp; the&s;e men go the direct way to &s;et up the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religior.</HI> It were well they had grace to purge their hearts, as well as the&s;e unholy waies to purge their reins But God hath given them over <HI>to act all wickednes with greedines and impudency,</HI> &s;o far as they have a <HI>famous whore,</HI> a <HI>minion</HI> to one of their. <HI>Lords,</HI> who goes openly among them with her pi&s;tols, &amp; bears the name of one that has a troop. Al the&s;e vertues <HI>Catholick</HI> &amp; <HI>Cardinal</HI> &s;hould have bin acted in thy &s;treets &amp; hou&s;es &ocirc; <HI>Hull,</HI> to make thee as mi&s;erable a &s;eene as unhappy <HI>York.</HI> Either &s;tudy <HI>Hallelujabs</HI> &amp; holines al thy daies, &amp; &s;et forward &s;ome new act of reformation for thy men &amp; manners, to the honour of God, or els thou art the unhappie&s;t Town, that this day &s;tands upon <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ground. Set up a royall pillar in the market-place, &amp; in golden letters engrave this delive|rance: or &s;et up an holy &s;tatue of heavenly purpo&s;es in your hearts, to be a more holy Town, le&s;&s;e proud, luxurious, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> or els by this I te&s;tifie to all the land, God has &s;ome other &s;courge for thee, to which he will re&s;erve thee, who has hither to pre&s;erved thee. O that you were wi&s;e, that as God has bin Al for you, &s;o you would be &s;omthing more then heretofore for him, or els this great mercy will undo you. Be per&s;waded to &s;ing the mercies of this day, &s;o long as you have a day. Call it not the &s;ouldiers, nor the &s;eamans work, but only the Lords, who only doth wondrous things. When God is found &s;o much a ble&s;&s;ed Dative,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Calv. in opu&s;c. in praefat. ad Bald. con.</NOTE> take heed thou be not a cur&s;ed and unju&s;t Ablative, as <HI>Cal|vin</HI> &s;aith, one <HI>Baldwin</HI> was named for lurching things from his fellow-&s;tudents.</P>
<P>By this I have endeavoured to lay out in plain colours this large &s;alvation, that the land may know it, and when they heare of extraordinary mercies, they may name <HI>Londons</HI> mercies, <HI>Gloce&s;ters</HI> deliverance, and <HI>Hills</HI> &s;alvation. By this, as a performance of my vows in part, I publi&s;h the goodnes of God to me and tho&s;e with me, that under the &s;ha|dow of <HI>Divine Feathers</HI> were pre&s;erved in the circumvallation of Athei&s;ticall and cruell &s;pirits. And by this let me ad|moni&s;h all the Lords &s;cattered ones,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">. 2 Pet. 2.4.</NOTE> who have found the &s;alutary and &s;aving breathings and bla&s;ts of the cele&s;tial <HI>Ze|phyrus</HI> of &s;pecial providence, to fal down &amp; &s;ay with <HI>Heze. The living, the living, he &s;hall prai&s;e thee,</HI> as I do this day: the fa|ther to the children &s;hal make known thy truth <HI>The Lord was ready to &s;ave me: ther fore we will &s;ing our &s;ongs to the &s;trin|ged in&s;truments all the daies of our life, I&s;a</HI> 38 19, 10 Henceforth let <HI>Cavendi&s;h</HI> reme~ber the &s;igns in <HI>Nottingham&s;hire,</HI> ar|med with his Armes and Motto, <HI>Cavendo Tutus.</HI> This will be as good a Monitor for &s;etting upon <HI>Hull,</HI> as for them that enter a Tavern or Ale hou&s;e: &amp; as it is his own, let him betime draw practicall Rules from it. For his &s;hattered and bullet-batter'd Army, let them flie to their old Letany, <HI>From Hell, Hull, Halifax deliver us,</HI> and leave out their <HI>God damne me,</HI> for their damnation in hell will be wor&s;e then their confu&s;ion at <HI>Hull.</HI> Nor need they wi&s;h it, and &s;o earne&s;t|ly de&s;ire it; for S <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aith, the damnation of &s;uch &s;leeps not, and if it did &s;leep, I am &s;ure this &s;ect of <HI>God damni&s;ts</HI> are likely to wake it, that it &s;hall have but a &s;hort &s;leep. I conclude with a Text for thee O <HI>Kingston</HI> upon <HI>Hull,</HI> com|ment upon this thy deliverance with <HI>Ezra's</HI> words, and with &s;utable works. <HI>Seeing thou our God hast given us &s;uch a deliverance as this,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> 9.13, 14.</NOTE> &s;hould we again break thy commandements, and ioyn in league with the people of the&s;e abominations? Would&s;t thou not be angry with us, till thou had&s;t con&s;umed us, &s;o that there &s;hould be no remnant, nor e&s;caping?</HI> Admiration was the mother of Philo&s;ophy, let it be the mother of your Divinity, in this thing to admire the Lords wonderfull mercy, wi&s;dome and power, that did &s;o act and worke for an handfull of his people, whom he might have thrown out of the way, and there could no Iudge or Iury have found him guilty of any thing for it, but iu&s;tice and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e in the action. Wherefore &s;ea&s;on all your hearts with &s;en&s;e of unworthine&s;&s;e on our part, and ample apprehen&s;ions of goodnes on his part, that the flame within and without, may alwaies keep you in heat with this fire, burning you up with admiration of &s;pirit, and exaltation of God, both in language and life, till you be ready to live and die in <HI>Da|vids</HI> temper, P&s; 72, 18.19. <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord God, the God of I&s;rael, who only doth wondroue things. And ble&s;&s;ed be his glori|ous Name for ever, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.</HI></P>
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