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<P>MEDITATIONS Concerning praiers to <HI>Al|mighty God, for the &s;afety of</HI> ENGLAND, when the Spaniards <HI>were come into the narrow</HI> Seas, Augu&s;t 1588.</P>
<P><HI>As al&s;o other meditations concerning</HI> thank&s;giuing, for deliuering Englande from the cruelty of the Spaniards, and for their <HI>meruailous confu&s;ion and ouerthrow.</HI></P>
<P>By O. Pygge.</P>
<P>With a &s;pirituall &s;ong of prai&s;es by P. Turner Doctor of phi&s;icke.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;alme, 145.18.</HI></BIBL>
<P>The Lord is neere to all that call vpon him: yea, to all that cal vpon him in truth.</P>
<BIBL><HI>P&s;alme, 126.2.3.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with ioy: then &s;aid they among the Heathen, the Lorde hath done great things for them.</P>
<P>The Lord hath done great things for vs, whereof we reioyce.</P></Q>
<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> by <HI>R. R.</HI> for Thomas Man. 1589.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<P>_MAnie are the waies, by the which our mo&s;t mercifull God, hath &s;ought to bring vs of <HI>England</HI> vn|to true repentaunce. Who is able to recken vp all the benefites, &s;pirituall and temporall, that we haue receiued at his handes? As, the light of the Go&s;pell &s;hining in the midde&s;t of vs, and the meruailous pre&s;eruation of our gratious Prince, to our &s;peciall comfort, notwithstanding the mani|fold
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wretched practi&s;es of the wic|ked again&s;t her Highne&s;&s;e per&s;on, &amp; the &s;tate, which he from time to time hath di&s;couered, and brought many of the principall authors to their de|&s;erued confu&s;ion. He hath al&s;o cha&s;ti|&s;ed vs &s;undrie times, and in diuer&s;e maners threatned vs more plagues, than as yet he hath brought vppon vs. Among other warninges, this ought &s;pecially to bee remembred for euer,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>J&s;a.</HI> 7.18.</NOTE> that this la&s;t Su~mer, hi&s;&s;ing for the Spaniards, he brought the~ &s;o far from their owne Country, &amp; &s;o nere vnto our coa&s;ts, with re&s;olute minds to haue made hauocke of vs. Jt was not without him, as bla&s;pheming <HI>Rab&s;ache</HI> &s;pake of his ma&s;ters for|ces comming again&s;t <HI>Hieru&s;alem,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>J&s;a.</HI> 36, 10.</NOTE>
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no doubt more truely then hee was ware of. True it is, their purpo&s;e was not to doe that which the Lorde meant, but rather in the pride of their hearts to haue made manife&s;t breaches of his commaundements, in &s;eeking the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of his truth here profe&s;&s;ed, and the conque&s;t of a lande, whereunto they can make no iu&s;t claime or title. Howbeit, wee ought to looke into the Lordes &s;ecrete purpo&s;e ouer-ruling all, and carrying men to that which they knowe not, yea, cleane contrarie to that which they purpo&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>J&s;a.</HI> 10.6.7.</NOTE> euen in the &s;elfe &s;ame action.</P>
<P>Therefore what&s;oeuer they inten|ded, the Lorde in them &s;hooke his rod ouer vs, to draw vs to repentance,
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that &s;o in deede hee might not &s;trike. He put vs in great feare, that &s;o hee might driue vs to flie to him, where onely comfort is, by earne&s;t praiers. At that time many praied and con|fe&s;&s;ed &s;innes: and ble&s;&s;ed bee his name, that for his owne honour, hearde the cries of his poore &s;eruants, &s;o bearing witnes, that it is no vain thing, in the time of di&s;tre&s;se, to humble our &s;elues before him. How ble&s;&s;ed the euent hi|therto hath bin, is generally knowen amongn&s;t vs, and the comfort thereof what true Engli&s;h heart is there, that doth not feele and reioyce there|in? Jt remaineth that the daunger then imminent beeing e&s;caped, wee of this Natian doe not onely with our mouthes, continually giue God prai|&s;es:
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but that al&s;o by the rodde thus &s;haken ouer vs, and as it were readie to haue bene laid vpon our &s;houl|ders, we learn to turne to him, for&s;a|king our euill waies, lea&s;t not profi|ting thus, as the Lorde calleth for at our handes, in the ende he bring vpon vs de&s;erued destruction. Again&s;t this destruction as it is my part alwaies to praie, &amp; by Gods a&s;&s;istance I hope to praie: &s;o I &s;hould haue great cau&s;e to be glad, if by any meanes the Lord would vouch&s;afe to v&s;e me as his in|&s;trument, to &s;tirre vp, though neuer &s;o few, to &s;uch a &s;erious con&s;ideration of the&s;e thinges as ought to bee in all. For the which purpo&s;e I pre&s;ent vnto thee (Christian Reader) this little treati&s;e heere following, containing
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certaine meditations of praiers and thanksgiuings. Tho&s;e that be of prai|ers, I wrote at &s;uch time as the Spa|niardes were come into the narrow &s;eas, and then there were &s;ome copies written to the v&s;e of &s;ome friendes. True it is, in the confe&s;&s;ion of &s;innes, vpon &s;ome occa&s;io~ there is &s;ome thing altered from that which was then written: but in the re&s;t, J remember little otherwi&s;e than was then &s;ette downe, as the copies then giuen forth can beare witne&s;&s;e. Since our won|derful deliuerance, I wrote the other meditations concerning thanke&s;gi|uing, Both ioyned together in &s;ome vritten bookes, I haue &s;ithence pre|&s;ented to &s;ome of good calling, to whome J was bounden to wi&s;he all
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good, as well for their profe&s;&s;ion of the truth, as for &s;peciall kinde|ne&s;&s;es towarde mee. And to more J had &s;ome purpo&s;e, that waie to haue made them common. How|beit beeing read ouer by &s;ome lear|ned and godlie men of good iudge|ment, which thought they might bee profitable if they were put in print: I was content in that be|halfe to yeelde vnto their iudge|ment, and accordinglie doe heere offer them to thy viewe. J hope thou maye&s;t make &s;ome v&s;e vnto thy &s;elfe of either of them, if thou reade them with a &s;anctified minde. For, although the Meditations concerning Praiers maye &s;eeme vnto &s;ome to no greate purpo&s;e,
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becau&s;e that occa&s;ion for that time is now remoued. Yet the &s;innes of <HI>Eng|land</HI> doe &s;til remaine, with which no doubt God is highly di&s;plea&s;ed. The&s;e thou mai&s;t there &s;ee in &s;ome &s;ort con|fe&s;sed, as al&s;o how by thy &s;elfe, from a feeling heart thou mai&s;t confe&s;&s;e both them and thine owne, and humbly craue pardon. Moreouer, the hatred and mallice of the Spaniard and his partakers, is not yet quenched, but rather we may be a&s;&s;ured, much more increa&s;ed, &s;o as they will but wait op|portunitie to &s;et vpon vs againe. Be|&s;ides, other Churches, as tho&s;e of <HI>France</HI> and of the lowe Countries, who&s;e ca&s;e wee ought to tender, haue many deadly enemies, which thir&s;te after bloude. So as &s;till nece&s;&s;arily
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there is required an imploying of our and their forces, again&s;t &s;uch commo~ aduer&s;aries. I hope that fro~ tho&s;e me|ditations, thou mai&s;t haue &s;ome help, to further thee with comforte in thy praiers for the one, and again&s;t the o|ther. The meditations for thanke&s;gi|uing, J tru&s;t to euery indifferent rea|der, will &s;eeme to be of &s;ome v&s;e. My purpo&s;e is not, to require that either of them bee v&s;ed, as an ordinarie forme of praier or thanke&s;giuing, but that by reading of them, and exerci|&s;ing thy &s;elfe &s;ometimes in them, thou &s;houlde&s;t helpe thy &s;elfe, towards a &s;e|rious accompli&s;hme~t of tho&s;e dueties, though thou do it more &s;hortly and in other words. Jf for the&s;e endes, this my poore trauaile, may any way fur|ther
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thee, I praie thee giue the prai&s;e to God, to whome alone it is due, and remember to praie mo&s;t earne&s;tly for me, and for all the re&s;t, whom it plea|&s;eth him to v&s;e in anie &s;ort for thy comfort. This one thing I de&s;ire to haue remembred, that many of the thinges &s;pecially mentioned in the praiers, haue bene gratiou&s;ly perfor|med of the Lord, &amp; accordingly they be acknowledged in the tha~ksgiuing: to a&s;&s;ure vs (as was &s;aid before) that praiers &s;pecially ioined with true fasting, be not in vaine, but to &s;ingu|lar purpo&s;e. And yet, J de&s;ire not to be &s;o mistaken, as if J arrogated any thing to my poore and weake prai|ers, made by me in my publike mini|&s;terie, or priuate exerci&s;e. No, I doe
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vnfainedly from my heart acknow|ledge mine owne vnworthine&s;&s;e, to bee hearde crying for my &s;elfe, much more for the Church and this &s;tate. J am per&s;uaded, that the things which I then meditated, and which the Lord directed me to write, were al&s;o thought vpon, and remembred with more feruencie of &s;pirite and &s;ingle|ne&s;&s;e of heart, by other the faithfull &s;eruants of God, Preachers and pro|fe&s;&s;ours, of our owne Nation, and of other Countries. They &s;toode vp in the gap, they cried to the Lorde,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exo.</HI> 17.11.</NOTE> they helde vp their handes, and <HI>Eng|land</HI> hath preuailed. They in deede were chariots, hor&s;emen, and forces by &s;ea and land, as to that purpo&s;e <HI>E|li&s;ha</HI> &s;pake of <HI>Elias,</HI> &amp; <HI>Ioa&s;h</HI> of him.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Reg.</HI> 2.12. <HI>&amp;</HI> 13.14.</NOTE>
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Their praiers made in the bitter mourning of their &s;oules, for their owne and our &s;innes, did the Lorde heare, ble&s;&s;ing the worthy &s;eruice of our valiant Countrimen imploide in tho&s;e affaires, and without meanes, doing wonderfully for vs: not for any worthine&s;&s;e in them&s;elues, or in their praiers, but for the worthine&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, and for the honor of his owne name.</P>
<P>Jt doth remaine that thou thy &s;elfe bee carefull, wi&s;elie to applie the fearefull warning of the Lord, in the enemies comming again&s;t vs, and his vn&s;peakable mercie in our wonder|full deliueraunce, to &s;tirre thee vp to vnfained con&s;cience of plea&s;ing him, in thy &s;elfe, and &s;uch as be of thy &s;pe|ciall
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charge. As al&s;o to praie, that what&s;oeuer is ami&s;&s;e in the land, and &s;o di&s;plea&s;eth our mo&s;t mercifull God, may bee amended. What&s;oeuer thou art, I exhort thee earne&s;tlie to call vpon the Lorde, that the controuer|&s;ies ri&s;en vp among&s;t our &s;elues, may christianlie and brotherlie bee com|pounded. That &s;o the peace of our worthie Church beeing procured: we may all, whether we be Preachers or profe&s;&s;ours, proceede one waie accor|ding to the truth, to bestowe what&s;o|euer gift wee haue, to the rooting out of all &s;inne, and to the establi&s;hment of the kingdome of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, in the hearts of all tho&s;e, that bee vnder any of our charges. Specially, becau&s;e the harue&s;t is great,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Math.</HI> 9.</NOTE> and the labou|rers
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in compari&s;on bee but few, praie the Lorde of the harue&s;t, that &s;uch men whome he hath &s;anctified in life &amp; learning, &s;o as it were, &s;eparating them,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gal.</HI> 1.15.</NOTE> from their mothers wombes, to the worke of the mini&s;terie, may bee thru&s;t out into his harue&s;t, and con|tinue in the &s;ame with much com|fort to doe their dutie. As al&s;o that &s;uch as bee altogether vnfit for &s;o great a burthen, may haue nothing to doe in the mo&s;t holie mini&s;terie of the Lord. Tho&s;e whome the&s;e cau&s;es doe anie waie concerne, mo&s;t humblie and with all reuerence, vppon the knees of heart, euen in the bowels of Chri&s;t Je&s;us I doe intreate, to &s;hewe their zeale to his honour, which &s;hed his mo&s;t precious bloud for their &s;ins,
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and their compa&s;&s;ion vpon their dere brethren &amp; Countrie men his mem|bers, in many places of the Realme yet wallowing in ignorance, &amp; other &s;ins, in doing what they can, that all the people of the land may be in&s;truc|ted in the euerla&s;ting truth of God, that &s;o they may walke in the obedi|ence of his ble&s;sed maie&s;tie, and in all dutie to our gratious Prince, and all &s;uch as vnder her gouerne the &s;tate. If the&s;e cau&s;es of &s;o great importance be not loked vnto as they ought, but that iniquitie be &s;till &s;uffered to grow and to abounde, notwith&s;tanding all that which the Lord hath &s;aid to vs from his worde, and wonderfullie done for vs; I will wi&s;h to weepe in &s;ecrete, and that mine eies may
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drop downe teares, for what els may we looke for, but the captiuitie of the Lordes flocke. And thus doe I com|mend thee (Christian Reader,) to the Lorde, and my &s;elfe to bee remem|bred of thee, in thy mo&s;t earne&s;t prai|ers. March. <HI>7. 1588.</HI> the meruai|lous yeere, in respect of the Lorde his wonderfull deliuerance of vs, and the confu&s;ion brought vpon our enemies, and the enemies of his Church, he make vs alwaies thank|full, Amen.</P>
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<HEAD>Meditations concerning <HI>Praiers to almightie God,</HI> for the &s;afetie of England, <HI>when the Spaniards were</HI> come into the narrow <HI>Seas, Augu&s;t.</HI> 1588.</HEAD>
<P>_O Lord God almightie, terrible, and fearefull God, thou Lorde of Ho&s;tes, iudge of the worlde, which hate&s;t &s;inne, and vi&s;ite&s;t the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions of the Fathers vpon the children, to the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate th&eacute;e; W&eacute;e mo&s;t mi&s;erable &s;inners doe in mo&s;t humble manner throwe our &s;elues downe before thy maie&s;tie: acknowledg|ing that wee are not worthy of the lea&s;t of thy mercies, no, not &s;o much as to goe vpon the ground, or to looke vp vnto hea|uen: much more vnworthy are w&eacute;e to
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haue this fauour, to call vpon thy name, with anie hope to be heard, and to find fa|uour in thine eies, for the obtaining of our reque&s;ts, for our &s;elues, and the re&s;t of thy people, for whom wee are bounde to pray.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;a.</HI> 50.15</NOTE> Yet, becau&s;e it is thy commaunde|ment, that we &s;hould call vpon th&eacute;e in our troubles,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;a.</HI> 145.18</NOTE> and further thou ha&s;t promi&s;ed to bee n&eacute;ere tho&s;e that call vppon th&eacute;e in truth: In &s;ome mea&s;ure of con&s;cience to obey thy commaundement, and tru&s;ting vnto thy great mercie, we do humble our &s;elues before th&eacute;e. Praying th&eacute;e, that w&eacute;e may not be of the number of them, who&s;e praiers bee abhominable in thy &s;ight (ac|cording as it is with them that regarde wickednes in their harts, and turne their eares from thy law:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;a.</HI> 66.18.</NOTE>) but that we may &s;o pray vnto th&eacute;e in &s;orrow for our &s;ins pa&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pro.</HI> 28.9.</NOTE> in vnfained de&s;ire to plea&s;e th&eacute;e for the time to come, in a true per&s;ua&s;ion of thy fauour to vs in Chri&s;t, and in &s;uch a loue of thy Church, that our &s;eruice may be al|lowed of th&eacute;e, and our &s;elues &amp; all they for whom we are to make &s;ute, may receiue much comfort, of our performing this du|tie, euen to the honour of thy name.</P>
<P><PB REF="11" MS="y">And becau&s;e it is our &s;innes onely,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>J&s;a.</HI> 59.2.</NOTE> that make &s;eparation betw&eacute;ene th&eacute;e and vs, k&eacute;eping away the good ble&s;&s;inges, which thou el&s;e woulde&s;t giue, and pulling vpon vs the plagues, which thou art not ea&s;ily drawne to powre vpon thy children; We doe fir&s;t of all in mo&s;t humble maner con|fe&s;&s;e, that as we were conceiued in &s;inne and brought forth in iniquity: &s;o we haue be&s;ides, y&eacute;elded mo&s;t cur&s;ed fruits of that our corrupt nature in rebellion again&s;t th&eacute;e, and breaking thy commandements, in our thoughts, words, and d&eacute;edes, in do|ing euil, and leauing good things vndone, and doing good things very weakely and imperfectlie. And that not onely in the daies of our youth, and in the time of our ignoraunce, but al&s;o &s;ince wee came to more yeeres, and haue b&eacute;ene in&s;tructed in the knowledge of thy ble&s;&s;ed will. O w&eacute;e haue &s;inned, w&eacute;e haue &s;inned hainou&s;ly, in neglecting thy &s;eruice, and our duety to our brethren in our callinges. W&eacute;e haue &s;inned openlie and &s;ecretelie, alone and in companie, yea, oftentimes wilfullie and again&s;t our con&s;ciences, when w&eacute;e knew thy commandement was, that w&eacute;e
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&s;hould haue done otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>Yea, wee doe not onely thus confe&s;&s;e our owne &s;innes, but al&s;o after the exam|ple of thy worthy &s;eruants,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Dan,</HI> 9.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Nehe.</HI> 1.6 <HI>&amp;</HI> 9.34.</NOTE> <HI>Daniel</HI> &amp; <HI>Ne|hemiah,</HI> we confe&s;&s;e the &s;ins of our whole land, acknowledging, that we, our forefa|thers, our princes, our gouernours, our whole Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall &s;tate, &amp; all the peo|ple of the Realme, haue fearefully &s;inned again&s;t thee. If wee were guilty of no o|ther &s;ins before thy maie&s;tie, the idolatry &amp; bloud&s;hed in the former times, yet not reuenged, nor repented of as they ought, were &s;ufficient to bring vtter de&s;olation vpon a lande, wherein &s;uch abhominati|ons were committed, as thy &s;eruant <HI>Ie|remie</HI> in his time,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jere.</HI> 15.4.</NOTE> threatened the Iewes for the &s;innes of <HI>Mana&s;&s;e.</HI> But (O Lorde) what haue b&eacute;en the iniquities committed &s;ince our deliuerance from that yoke, and thy be&s;towing vppon vs the light of thy Go&s;pel? O, haue we not all from the high|e&s;t to the lowe&s;t damnably &s;inned again&s;t th&eacute;e? yes verily. If we would denie it, our iniquities would te&s;tifie again&s;t vs. For, which of thy commandementes haue w&eacute;e not broken? If we looke to tho&s;e foure of
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the fir&s;t table, which teach vs our duetie towards th&eacute;e, or tho&s;e &s;ix of the &s;econd ta|ble, which teach vs howe to walke in our callinges towardes men: O wee &s;hall be found meruailou&s;ly faulty before thy ma|ie&s;tie. And that, not only &s;ome of the peo|ple, but euen euery &s;ort, &s;tate, and condi|tion: not in &s;ome part of the lande alone, but euery where, in euery quarter and corner, yea, in euery hou&s;e and familie. For (O Lorde) w&eacute;e haue loued the vaine things of the worlde, more than th&eacute;e and thy word: we haue b&eacute;ene more loth to di&s;|plea&s;e men than thy maie&s;tie: wee haue made fle&s;h our arme, putting our tru&s;t in man, and withdrawen our heartes from th&eacute;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jere.</HI> 17.5.</NOTE> Howe &s;eldome and colde haue our praiers bin? And how &s;paring our thanks to th&eacute;e for the innumerable benefites be|&s;towed vpon vs and our nation? What i|dolatry hath bin committed heere by Pa|pi&s;ts in corners, and by &s;trangers of other countries? There hath wanted care to a|mend thinges throughly, according to the rule of thy word. Thy name hath infinit|ly bin bla&s;phemed: for where almo&s;t can we come, in the hou&s;e or in the &s;tr&eacute;ete, but
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wee &s;hall heare this mo&s;t &s;hamefully, by the greater, and by the meaner, by the el|der and by the yonger &s;ort, which take thy glorious name in vaine, &s;peaking of th&eacute;e ra&s;hly and vnreuerently, yea, &s;wearing without cau&s;e, for&s;wearing, cur&s;ing, and &s;uch like. O thy Sabothes, there is &s;carce one among manie, which maketh con&s;ci|ence according to thy law, to dedicate the~ wholie vnto thy &s;eruice publikelie &amp; pri|uatelie, but as if they were anie other daies, &s;o they bee be&s;towed: yea, manie thinke it lawfull to follow a riotous and prophane cour&s;e then, which vppon other daies they woulde thinke vnfit for them. And how fearefull examples hereof, haue we had from the great places and per&s;o|nages of the lande? The &s;uperiours in the common wealth, in the Church, and in the hou&s;e, haue not done their duetie to their inferiours. The inferiours like|wi&s;e haue b&eacute;ene meruailous vndutifull to their Prince, and the re&s;t which thou in thy wi&s;edome didde&s;t &s;et ouer them. The lande hath abounded with murthers, &s;laughters, quarrels, fightinges and con|tentions, with ince&s;ts, adulteries, whor|domes,
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dronkennes, exce&s;&s;iue pride in ap|parrell: filthie &s;tage plaies haue b&eacute;ene &s;uf|fered euen in our chiefe&s;t citie, and vppon the Saboths. Thefts be common, oppre&s;|&s;ions, deceits, v&s;uries, lying, fal&s;e witnes bearing, and &s;uch like. O we are not able to recken vp the innumerable &s;ins, of the which we and the whole land may iu&s;tlie be indited and araigned before thy maie|&s;tie. They which haue b&eacute;ene in place to puni&s;h &s;in, and to maintaine well dooing, haue dealt too too fauorably with &s;inners, on the other &s;ide not cheri&s;hing the godly as was their dutie. The mini&s;ters which &s;hould boldly haue reproued the&s;e corrup|tions in all &s;orts and &s;tates, haue for the mo&s;t part b&eacute;ene vnable to doe this, &amp; ma|ny of them corrupt in their conuer&s;ation, they haue winked at di&s;orders, daubing with vntempered morter,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezec.</HI> 21.28</NOTE> that will not hold, as if nothing had b&eacute;en ami&s;&s;e, and no danger toward, when as iniquitie migh|tily preuailed among&s;t vs, and thou in thy high di&s;plea&s;ure did&s;t threaten war. Iu&s;t is the complaint of thy &s;eruant <HI>Ieremy</HI> in his time again&s;t &s;uch Mini&s;ters.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lame.</HI> 2.14.</NOTE> They haue looked out vaine and fooli&s;h thinges
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for vs, they haue not di&s;couered our ini|quities, to turne away our captiuity, but haue lookt out for vs fal&s;e prophe&s;ies and cau&s;es of bani&s;hment. True it is, we haue had &s;ome de&s;irous to doe their dutie, who al&s;o accordingly haue laboured, but euen diuer&s;e of them haue b&eacute;ene euill intrea|ted, by wicked and vngodly men, which could not abide to heare their faultes re|proued. Whereas in the mean time, they haue liked well of &s;uch, which &s;&eacute;eking them&s;elues onely and their owne ea&s;e, haue b&eacute;ene vnable to in&s;truct them in thy waies, by occa&s;ion whereof, many of the people of the lande haue b&eacute;ene kept in ig|norance of thy maie&s;tie, and &s;uffred to goe on in their other &s;ins.</P>
<P>And although thou (O Lord our God) in tender care of vs, ha&s;t warned vs of the&s;e great &s;innes, by our Preachers in their Sermons, and &s;ome of their bookes, which haue b&eacute;ene grauelie and dutifullie written: yea, although thou ha&s;t &s;ought to moue our hard harts by thy benefites, &s;o as we haue inioyd thy go&s;pel, outward peace and plentie, when as the Nations
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about vs haue bene meruailou&s;ly di&s;tre&s;|&s;ed, euen as vntil this time their wounds b&eacute;e bl&eacute;eding newe, and remaine vncured. And further, we haue had many wonder|full deliueraunces of our Prince, to our great comfort: and moreouer thou ha&s;t threatned vs by in&s;urrection in our owne lande, by vn&s;ea&s;onable times of too much drought, or too much raine, by de&s;troying &s;ome fruites of the earth, by &s;car&s;itie, by the pe&s;tilence, by &s;ignes in heauen, and by a fearefull earthquake, not many yeeres pa&s;t: yet haue not we of this nation pro|fited by anie of the&s;e, to bewaile our &s;ins, &amp; to turne vnto th&eacute;e, as it did become vs. But haue de&s;pi&s;ed thy Prophets, which &s;pake to vs in thy name, and haue &s;till gone away from thee, multiplying our tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions again&s;t thy maie&s;tie. So as now mo&s;t iu&s;tly there belongeth to vs, to our Princes, gouernors, teachers, and to all the people of the land,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Dan.</HI> 9.7:8.</NOTE> nothing but &s;hame and confu&s;ion of face, yea, vtter de|&s;truction of our Nation and &s;tate: wher|of, when w&eacute;e looke into our great &s;innes, w&eacute;e may feare, that thou ha&s;t prepared
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the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> and &s;uch as take his parte, to be thy executioners. Wherein al&s;o w&eacute;e doe confe&s;&s;e, that thou &s;halt be mo&s;t iu&s;t, if thou giue vs and our kingdome ouer into their hands.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding, becau&s;e thou art a God ful of mercie and infinite in compa&s;|&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezec.</HI> 18.23.</NOTE> and ha&s;t alwaies &s;hewed thy &s;elfe &s;o to b&eacute;e, not delighting in the de&s;truction of &s;inners, but rather de&s;iring their repen|tance, that they might liue and inioy thy fauour.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jere.</HI> 18.7.8</NOTE> Who ha&s;t &s;aid by thy &s;eruant <HI>Ie|remie,</HI> that when thou &s;peake&s;t again&s;t a nation, threatning to root it vp, and to de|&s;troie it, yet thou wilt &s;pare it, if they turne from their wickedne&s;&s;e, according as w&eacute;e &s;&eacute;e it in the example of the <HI>Nini|uites.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jonah.</NOTE> Tru&s;ting vnto the&s;e, and &s;uch other promi&s;es in thy worde, that we doe iudge our &s;elues and our nation woorthie of all mi&s;ery, do notwith&s;tanding pray th&eacute;e, for our Lorde Ie&s;us Chri&s;t his &s;ake, to haue mercie vpon vs, to forgiue vs &amp; our land, all the &s;ins, whereof we be guiltie before th&eacute;e. O pur&s;ue vs not with thy iudge|ments, as wee haue giuen th&eacute;e cau&s;e, for then we mu&s;t n&eacute;edes peri&s;h eternally. A|mong
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other plagues, from the which we praie th&eacute;e to b&eacute;e deliuered, pre&s;erue vs we be&s;&eacute;ech th&eacute;e from the handes of the <HI>Spani|ards</HI> &amp; other idolaters, which haue con&s;pi|red again&s;t our nation, to root out thy reli|gion from hence, to place Papi&s;try again, and to di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e vs of that parte of the earth, which it &s;&eacute;emed good vnto th&eacute;e to al|lowe vs to dwell in, &amp; where al&s;o through thy goodnes, we and our forefathers haue inhabited now many yeres. We confe&s;&s;e, that for our vnwoorthie walking of thy Go&s;pell, and ill behauing of our &s;elues in this plea&s;ant lande, it may iu&s;tly &s;pue vs out, and thou maie&s;t &s;uffer the enemies to preuaile. But remember (O Lord) that the&s;e men be not behind vs in &s;innes (for they be a mo&s;t wicked generatio~) neither is it our &s;innes that they do &s;o much looke vnto in comming again&s;t vs, as thy reli|gion among vs profe&s;&s;ed, and our renoun|cing the man of &s;inne, the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome</HI> thine enemie, &amp; the enemie of thy Chri&s;t. So as now what&s;oeuer we be that do de|fend it, or how&s;oeuer we do defend it, the cau&s;e is thine owne, therfore looke vnto it we de&s;ire th&eacute;e for the glorie of thy name, and for Ie&s;us Chri&s;ts &s;ake. O why &s;hould
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&s;uch wicked men as the&s;e bla&s;pheme thy name,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 79.10.</NOTE> &s;aying, where is their God, and the religion they haue &s;o long profe&s;&s;ed? As though the religion were not good, which we haue receiued from thy word, or as if thou woulde&s;t not defende tho&s;e that pro|fe&s;&s;e the &s;ame. O remember thy auncient mercies &s;hewed to this Nation manie y&eacute;eres, breake not off till thou ha&s;t fini|&s;hed them, by giuing yet further helps to thy Church and religion here, for the bet|ter &s;ubduing of all the people vnder thy gouernment. Deliuer vs (O Lorde) wee pray th&eacute;e at this time. Trie vs yet once more, that our magi&s;trats and mini&s;ters may in their callinges reforme what&s;oe|uer is ami&s;&s;e, and indeuour to bring the whole lande into better order, that thou maie&s;t delight to fauor vs for euer. That the&s;e thy ble&s;&s;ings may bee obtained, O driue away from our hearts the meruai|lous &s;ecuritie wherin we haue &s;lept the&s;e many y&eacute;eres, imagining that our waies did plea&s;e th&eacute;e, and that no plague &s;hould come n&eacute;ere vnto vs, when we liued verie &s;infully in all &s;orts and &s;tates, and &s;o pro|uoked th&eacute;e to di&s;plea&s;ure. Grant that by the&s;e thy fearefull warnings, we may at
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length be moued to confe&s;&s;e our &s;innes, to lament them, to humble our &s;elues before th&eacute;e in fa&s;ting and praier, to turne from our wicked waies, to enter into a newe cour&s;e, and to make a &s;ure couenant, for euer hereafter in our callinges to doe our dueties better, that thou maie&s;t &s;pare vs, and &s;taie thy hande from our de&s;truction. And how&s;oeuer we haue meanes for our defence by &s;ea and lande,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;a.</HI> 20.7.</NOTE> yet k&eacute;epe vs w&eacute;e pray th&eacute;e, from tru&s;ting in them: though others put their tru&s;t in their hor&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 6.4. 1. <HI>Sam.</HI> 17 45.</NOTE> in their &s;hips and multitude of men. O &s;hew the light of thy countenance vpon vs, and graunt that in thy name onely, tru&s;ting to thy mercie, &amp; in thy &s;trength, we may come forth again&s;t the&s;e our aduer&s;aries. And as for them that thus boile in malice again&s;t thy religion, and vs thy mo&s;t vn|worthie &s;eruants: O turne their hearts if they belong to th&eacute;e, open their eies to &s;&eacute;e thy trueth, that they may with vs depart from that Antichri&s;t of <HI>Roome,</HI> loue thy Go&s;pell, our nation, and all the profe&s;&s;ors of thy truth. Or el&s;e (Lord) as thou ha&s;t begun (for the which we do in mo&s;t hum|ble manner giue thanks vnto th&eacute;e) &s;o we pray th&eacute;e to goe forward, to cur&s;e them in
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all their actions by &s;ea and by lande. Let their table be a &s;nare before them,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al</HI> 69.22 23</NOTE> &amp; their pro&s;peritie their ruine. Let their eies be blinded that they may not &s;&eacute;e, and make their loines alway to tremble. Strike the~ with &s;uch feare, that the &s;ound of a leafe &s;haken may make them to quake, &amp; that as wicked men they may flie,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Leuit.</HI> 26.36</NOTE> when no man pur&s;ueth them.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pro.</HI> 28.1.</NOTE> Scatter their coun|&s;els, ouerthrowe their forces, turne their owne &s;words one again&s;t another, and &s;o prouide by thy mightie power, that the things which they haue prepared for our de&s;truction, may be v&s;ed in thy iu&s;tice, for the execution of thy long de&s;erued wrath vpon them&s;elues. And &s;o bring them to naught, that they may not anie longer trouble vs and other of thy Churches, as a long time they haue done, &amp; euen nowe doe.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 79.10.</NOTE> O let the bloud of thy Saints, which they haue cruelly &s;hed, come before th&eacute;e, to pull vengeance vppon them. Heare the cries of the wome~ whom they haue made widowes, and of the children whom they haue made fatherle&s;&s;e. Hearken to the pittifull complaintes of &s;uch as they k&eacute;epe in pri&s;on for thy truth, and deliuer &s;uch as they haue appointed to death. Let
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them bee vppon the &s;eas,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exo.</HI> 14.</NOTE> as was <HI>Pharao</HI> and his companie pur&s;uing thy <HI>I&s;raell:</HI> let them bee vpon the lande,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jud. cap.</HI> 4.7.8.</NOTE> as <HI>Si&s;era</HI> and <HI>Ia|bin,</HI> as the <HI>Madianites, Oreb, Zeb, Zebah,</HI> and <HI>Zalmana,</HI> the enemies of thy people, whom thou de&s;troyed&s;t in the time of the Iudges. O make them like a wh&eacute;ele,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 83.13</NOTE> and as the &s;tubble before the wind, as the fire burneth the forre&s;ts, &s;o per&s;ecute them with thy tempe&s;ts, and make them afraid with thy &s;tormes. Fill their faces with &s;hame, that they may &s;&eacute;eke th&eacute;e (O Lord.) Let them be confounded and troubled for euer. Fight again&s;t them from heauen,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jud.</HI> 5.20.</NOTE> and render into their bo&s;ome &s;euenfolde, al the reproches and iniuries, which they haue done to thy Church, that they may knowe that thou art God, and that it is thy truth, which we haue learned from thy worde, though we haue walked mo&s;t vnworthy of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Concerning our &s;elues, we doe fir&s;t of all praie th&eacute;e for our &s;oueraigne Prince, that notwith&s;tanding all the trecheries of the aduer&s;aries, &s;h&eacute;e may &s;til be pre&s;er|ued, to fini&s;h hir cour&s;e in thy feare and in peace, euen to the &s;aluation of hir &s;oule.
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We be&s;&eacute;ech thee &s;o direct her, and &s;uch as vnder her highnes gouerne the &s;tate, that in the&s;e euill and mo&s;t dangerous times, they may &s;&eacute;e what is for thine honour and our common &s;aftie, accordingly to adui&s;e, command, and take order. Giue con&s;ci|ence to our Mini&s;ters now to &s;tand in the gap,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 22.30 <HI>Ioel.</HI> 2.17.</NOTE> earne&s;tly to cry vnto th&eacute;e to &s;pare this thy people, and &s;tir them vp, with all fer|uencie to call vs vnto repentance. Giue all the &s;ubiects in the land grace, to carry them&s;elues dutifully and loyallie to her Maie&s;tie, &amp; the &s;tate, to be readie to do &s;er|uice in their per&s;ons, and by what&s;oeuer els they haue, that &s;o they may be helping again&s;t the common aduer&s;aries. And as for our countrimen, or any other that are now imploied, or hereafter to be imploied in the&s;e &s;eruices by &s;ea or by land for our defence: O Lord &s;o pa&s;&s;e by their &s;innes, that they may not hinder thy worke, in the&s;e cau&s;es of &s;o much importance. O &s;o guide them with thy &s;pirite, that repen|ting of their &s;innes, and being throughlie per&s;waded of thy fauour for a better life, they may ch&eacute;erfullie fight thy battailes, without fearing the faces of the enemies,
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Be thou vnto them a piller of a cloude by day and a piller of fire by night,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exo.</HI> 13.21 22.</NOTE> as thou wert to the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> in their comming from <HI>Egypt.</HI> Graunt that each of them may knowe their &s;euerall places, in the &s;ame to carry them&s;elues faithfully with|out enuy, or murmuring. O Lord be with them, and &s;o goe foorth with our armies, that one of our fighting men may cha&s;e a thou&s;and of theirs,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> 31.3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> and two may put ten thou&s;and to flight. Giue them &s;uch good &s;ucce&s;&s;e by &s;ea and by land, that we may haue new occa&s;ions to prai&s;e thy name, and to feare th&eacute;e more than we haue done. Yea, that many other nations hearing of it, may thereupon be mooued to &s;&eacute;eke after thy trueth. We knowe, it is all one with th&eacute;e, to &s;aue with many, or with no pow|er.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cro.</HI> 14.1.</NOTE> There were but thr&eacute;e hundred of <HI>I&s;|rael</HI> with <HI>Gideon,</HI> again&s;t the huge army of the <HI>Madianites. A&s;a</HI> the King of <HI>Iudah,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Judg.</HI> 7.6.</NOTE> did ouercome the ho&s;t of the <HI>Aethiopians,</HI> being ten hundred thou&s;and,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cro.</HI> 1.4</NOTE> when as him&s;elfe had not &s;ixe hundred thou&s;and. Yea, thou without any man, didde&s;t in one night de&s;troie the mightie armie of the <HI>A&s;&s;irians</HI> in the daies of <HI>Ezekiah.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 37.36.</NOTE> We
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knowe that thine arme is not &s;hortened, but that thou art nowe al&s;o able to helpe vs in like manner, if we had no meanes at all for our defence. And although the forces of our aduer&s;aries bee come &s;ome|thing n&eacute;ere vnto vs, yet as thou didde&s;t drowne <HI>Pharao</HI> and the <HI>Egyptians,</HI> when they were not farre off from thy people <HI>I&s;raell,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exod.</HI> 14.</NOTE> and ouerthrowed&s;t the <HI>Aethiopi|ans</HI> and <HI>A&s;&s;irians,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cro.</HI> 14.9. <HI>&amp;</HI> 32.1.</NOTE> beeing with their ar|mies entered into the land of <HI>Canaan:</HI> &s;o do we a&s;&s;ure our &s;elues, that thou art &s;till able to pre&s;erue vs, and to deliuer the&s;e our aduer&s;aries into our hands, although their powers were more than they are, and n&eacute;erer vnto vs than yet they be.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 79.8.</NOTE> Help vs therefore we pray th&eacute;e (O God of our &s;aluation:) remember not again&s;t vs, nor again&s;t our nation the former iniquities, but make ha&s;t, and let thy tender mer|cies preuent vs. Suffer not thine ene|mies to raile vpon thy truth and thy chil|dren anie longer. Let it appeare that thou onelie art God, and that the Idols whome they haue &s;erued, bee vnable to helpe them. Giue not ouer thy faithfull &s;eruauntes of this nation, and of other
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Countries fledde hither for thy truthes &s;ake, into the handes of the&s;e mi&s;erable men,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;a.</HI> 79.2.3</NOTE> to &s;pill their bloud in the &s;tr&eacute;ets like water, to giue their bodies to the bea&s;tes of the field, and their fle&s;h to the foules of heauen. Thou that promi&s;e&s;t to &s;pare <HI>Sodome,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 18.</NOTE> if there might haue b&eacute;ene tenne righteous found there, &s;pare this Nation we pray th&eacute;e, where there be manie times ten, that vnfainedlie de&s;ire to &s;erue th&eacute;e. Thou that pitied&s;t <HI>Niniuie</HI> hauing in it &s;ixe &s;core thou&s;and young children,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jonah.</HI> 4.</NOTE> pittie wee be&s;&eacute;eche th&eacute;e this populous Nation, and giue it not ouer to bee laide wa&s;t and de&s;olate. O let not the Churches, where thy faithfull &s;eruauntes haue a&s;|&s;embled to wor&s;hippe th&eacute;e, by praier, fa|&s;ting, preaching, and the v&s;e of thy Sa|cramentes, bee turned into cages of vn|cleane bea&s;tes, and &s;ynagogues of Sa|than, to haue the ma&s;&s;e and other dam|nable Idolatries in them againe. For the glorie of thy name, turne the&s;e great euils farre from vs, although we be mo&s;t worthie to ta&s;t of them all. If thou wilt not be intreated to &s;pare this &s;inful natio~, which hath &s;o much abu&s;ed thy patience,
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and &s;o often and manie waies prouoked th&eacute;e to wrath: O correct vs yet thy &s;elfe, by &s;ome other of thy rods, that we may be brought vnto repentance, but leaue vs not as a praie to the&s;e merciles &amp; bloody men. What&s;oeuer &s;hal fall out, grant (we be&s;&eacute;ech th&eacute;e) that we may take al thy cha|&s;ti&s;ments paciently, acknowledge thy iu|&s;tice therein, and neuer depart from thy trueth, but that wee may holde on in the profe&s;&s;ion of the &s;ame euen to y^e ende not|with&s;tanding all the tormentes w&eacute;e may be brought vnto. Comforting our &s;elues alwaies, with the f&eacute;eling of thy loue in Chri&s;t, &amp; with looking for his ble&s;&s;ed com|ming to iudgement,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Phil.</HI> 3.21.</NOTE> when he &s;hall change our vile bodies, and make them like his owne glorious body, by his mightie pow|er, whereby he is able to doe all things. O Lord heare vs thus calling vpon th&eacute;e, and for euerie other grace, for thy Church in the world, for this land, for all &s;ortes and &s;tates in the &s;ame, and for all other for whome we ought to praie. Receiue al&s;o (we be&s;eech th&eacute;e) our mo&s;t humble thanks for all thy former benefites vppon our &s;elues, and vpon this nation, for thy Go&s;|pell,
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the &s;afetie and pre&s;eruation of our Qu&eacute;ene hetherto, the di&s;couerie and ouer|throw of trea&s;ons, and the doers of them, thy patience to our realm, our peace thus long, and plentie of outward ble&s;&s;ings, as al&s;o for the good &s;ucce&s;&s;e again&s;t our e|nemies giuen vnto vs, by &s;ea or by land, of late or before times. O w&eacute;e doe mo&s;t humblie prai&s;e thy holie name, praieng th&eacute;e to goe forward to doe vs good &s;til, and &s;o we cal vpon th&eacute;e as we are taught.</P>
<Q>Our Father which art in, &amp;c.</Q>
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<HEAD>MEDITATIONS concerning thank&s;giuing to <HI>Al|mighty God, for deliuering England</HI> from the crueltie of the Spaniards, <HI>and for their meruailous</HI> con|fu&s;ion and ouerthrow. 1588.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 50.15</NOTE>_O Lorde mo&s;t mercifull fa|ther, thou dooe&s;t com|maunde vs to call vppon th&eacute;e in the time of our trouble, thou promi&s;e&s;t to heare and to deliuer vs, requiring that we &s;hould then glorifie th&eacute;e, and offer th&eacute;e &s;acrifice of prai&s;e. How true thou art in this thy promi&s;e, as w&eacute;e haue manie examples in the Scriptures, &s;o we of this land ought to know it in our owne experience. For wee were in great trouble and not without feare, when the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> a bloudie and cruell nation, in their rage came forth again&s;t vs, with a purpo&s;e &s;o to roote vs out, that wee &s;hould no more be a people. And ind&eacute;ede there was iu&s;t cau&s;e, why we &s;hould haue b&eacute;en
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much a&s;tonied. For, if we looke to our &s;ins, and the abhominations of our whole na|tion, what coulde wee el&s;e in thy iu&s;tice haue looked for,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 9.7.</NOTE> but that the daie of vi&s;ita|on, and the time of recompence was come, wherein thy purpo&s;e was, to haue done execution vpon vs for our tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ions? And, if we looke vpon our enemies, they were manie in number, and their forces great both by &s;ea and lande, &s;o as they thought them&s;elues, as it were &s;ure of the victorie, as if they had b&eacute;ene able to haue &s;wallowed vs vp quick, and to haue runne ouer vs, as the proude and &s;wel|ling waters ouerflow the valleies of the fielde. In that our perplexitie, we did now and then &s;igh vnto th&eacute;e for helpe, we pow|red forth praiers, though in great weake|ne&s;&s;e. Thy faithfull &s;eruaunts in the mi|ni&s;terie, were more earne&s;t with th&eacute;e in our behalfe, humbling them&s;elues in fa|&s;ting, and calling the people thereunto, euen as it became them in a matter of &s;o great waight. So as the cries of them were manie, which &s;ued vnto thy maie&s;tie to &s;pare this Nation, and not to giue ouer this part of thine in|heritance,
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into the handes of the wicked. And now ha&s;t thou mo&s;t graciou&s;ly fulfil|led thy promi&s;e. For what&s;oeuer want was in our praiers, yet ha&s;t y^u heard vs in that for which we cried. For, notwith&s;ta~|ding the enimie approched verie n&eacute;ere, &s;o as we might haue looked for an attempt of la~ding in our coa&s;t: yet &s;o miraculou&s;ly and in diuer&s;e &s;orts, didde&s;t thou &s;et thy &s;elfe again&s;t them, ble&s;&s;ing our meanes, &amp; without meanes pur&s;uing the~ with thine owne hand, y^t their &s;nare is broken, &amp; w&eacute;e be e&s;caped,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 124</NOTE> euen as y^e bird out of the grin of the fouler. The &s;word, the &s;ea, &amp; famine, haue deuoured a great parte of them, o|thers he returned with &s;uch di&s;honor, as became them that would not learne to ho|nor th&eacute;e. Manie of their fathers haue thus lo&s;t their children, many childre~ are made fatherles, &amp; manie of their wiues are be|come widowes. Thou ha&s;t in thy iu&s;tice rendred into their bo&s;ome, a iu&s;t reward of their cruelty in other cuntries, and ha&s;t &s;erued them, as they meant to do to vs thy people. And now (O Lord) was this for our worthines, or becau&s;e w&eacute;e had de&s;er|ued any &s;uch thing at thy hands? No ve|rily,
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for we be a mo&s;t &s;inful people, al &s;orts &amp; &s;tates had corrupted their waies, &amp; hai|nou&s;ly tre&s;pa&s;&s;ed. But for their vnworthi|nes did&s;t thou deny them y^e conque&s;t ouer vs, &amp; for their innumerable abhominati|ons, ha&s;t thou brought vpon them this de|&s;erued de&s;truction. For the glorie of thine own name, mainteining thine own cau&s;e, in defending &s;uch as profe&s;&s;ed thy true re|ligion, although in that behalfe we are far &s;hort of that we ought to be. What&s;oeuer we be, thou ha&s;t performed thy promi&s;e, hearing vs in our feare, &amp; doing more for vs, than we could almo&s;t haue hoped for. And now it remaineth, y^t according to thy commandement we y&eacute;eld vnto thy Maie|&s;ty, the dutie of continual thanks &amp; obedi|ence, which thou calle&s;t for at y^e hands of &s;uch, whom thou deliuere&s;t &s;o wo~derfully as we haue bin deliuered, O that we could therfore confes before th&eacute;e, this thy louing kindnes, &amp; &s;peake of al the&s;e thy wo~derful works before the &s;ons of men, as it doeth become vs. The lea&s;t benefite that we re|ceiue from th&eacute;e, de&s;erueth infinite thanks from vs. For, what are w&eacute;e of <HI>England,</HI> that thou &s;houlde&s;t con&s;ider vs, or who
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were our forefathers, that thou &s;houlde&s;t regard vs? Surely we are exc&eacute;edingly &s;in|full,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 32.10.</NOTE> and de&s;cended from &s;uch as had high|lie prouoked thy di&s;plea&s;ure. We are not worthie of the lea&s;t of thy mercies, yea, it is thy mercie that long ago we were not vtterlie confounded.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lame.</HI> 3.22.</NOTE> O then &s;uch rare and &s;ingular mercies as this, wherein mira|culou&s;lie thou ha&s;t &s;hewed thy &s;elf for our &s;afetie, and for the confu&s;ion of our aduer|&s;aries, how much &s;hould they moue vs to magnify thy name, and to &s;ound forth con|tinuallie thy euerla&s;ting prai&s;es, which ha&s;t vouch&s;afed &s;uch fauour to tho&s;e that be &s;o vnworthie? For the greater the vn|worthine&s;&s;e of the Nation is, whereunto thou ha&s;t done this great good, the more worthie art thou to be prai&s;ed for euer. If &s;uch a benefite as this had b&eacute;ene be&s;towed vpon the Churches of <HI>France, Geneua, Germanie,</HI> or of the low Countries, great had b&eacute;ene our &s;inne, if wee had not offered to th&eacute;e a bountifull &s;acrifice of the calues of our lippes,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ho&s;,</HI> 14.2</NOTE> for &s;uch a mercie &s;hewed vn|to them. For as their mi&s;eries ought to b&eacute;e to vs as our owne, and therefore w&eacute;e &s;houlde w&eacute;epe with them when they<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 12.15.</NOTE>
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w&eacute;epe. So their deliuerance &s;houlde haue b&eacute;ene, as if we our &s;elues had b&eacute;ene deli|uered, in re&s;pect whereof, wee ouhht to haue reioiced with them in their ioy. The heauenlie &s;pirites are carried with &s;uch a zeale to thine honour,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 19.1.2.3.</NOTE> and inflamed with &s;uch loue to that part of thy Church which is h&eacute;ere vpon the earth, that with a loud voice, they &s;ing prai&s;es to th&eacute;e, for iudging the whoore of <HI>Roome,</HI> and reuen|ging the bloud of thy Saintes, although &s;h&eacute;e coulde not haue hurt them, or in anie &s;ort haue dimini&s;hed their glorie. Howe much more therefore by their example, are w&eacute;e bounde to prai&s;e th&eacute;e, becau&s;e in this our deliueraunce, and confu&s;ion of our enemies, thou ha&s;t not onelie &s;hewed thy power, mercie, and iu&s;tice, &s;o getting thy &s;elfe a glorious name, in defending the vnworthie profe&s;&s;ours of thy truth, and the &s;traungers here bani&s;hed for the &s;ame? But al&s;o by this meanes w&eacute;e our &s;elues be pre&s;erued from great mi&s;eries. and all the faithfull &s;ubiectes of the lande inioie their &s;oueraigne Prince, to their &s;ingular comforte, and vnder hir grati|ous gouernement, we haue the v&s;e of the
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publike exerci&s;es of thy word and Sacra|ments, things that &s;huld be vnto vs more d&eacute;ere than our owne liues: Moreouer, we may each of vs &s;it peaceablie vnder our owne vines and figge tr&eacute;es, inioieng our wiues, our children, our friends, our liber|tie, &amp; many other ble&s;&s;inges y&eacute;elded to vs, in this mo&s;t fruitfull and plea&s;ant lande: If we do compare the&s;e benefites, with the de&s;olation brought vpon our enemies, and with the calamities that wee &s;houlde haue ta&s;ted of in our &s;oules and bodies, if they had preuailed: (according as wee haue examples of their bea&s;tlie crueltie in the <HI>Indians,</HI> and others whome treche|rou&s;lie they haue brought into their bon|dage.) O then our hearts mu&s;t n&eacute;eds be more hard than flint, and wee our &s;elues altogether without f&eacute;eling, except the con|&s;ideration of the&s;e things, fill our &s;pirites with ioy, our mouths with laughter, and &s;tirre vs vp to &s;ing new &s;ongs of prai&s;es vnto th&eacute;e.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exo.</HI> 15.</NOTE><HI>Mo&s;es, Miriam,</HI> and the children of <HI>I&s;|rael</HI> hauing pa&s;&s;ed through the red &s;ea, and &s;&eacute;ene the de&s;truction of their enimies, pre&s;entlie doe acknowledge thy mercie,
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and &s;ing to the honor of thy name.</P>
<P><HI>Deborah</HI> and <HI>Barach</HI> doe the like,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iudg.</HI> 5</NOTE> the &s;elfe &s;ame day that thou gaue&s;t thy people that notable victorie ouer <HI>Si&s;era.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ieho&s;haphat</HI> &s;&eacute;eing the confu&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cro.</HI> 20.26</NOTE> which thou broughte&s;t vpon the <HI>Moabites,</HI> the <HI>Ammonites,</HI> &amp; them of mount <HI>Seir,</HI> whom before he feared, after that hee &amp; his com|panie had pur&s;ued them &amp; the &s;poile three daies, the fourth daie they giue thankes, with &s;uch feruencie and zeale, that the place it &s;elfe hath a name of their ble&s;|&s;ing God there, as it may appeare by the hi&s;torie.</P>
<P><HI>He&s;ter, Mordecay,</HI> &amp; other of the Iewes, in token of thankfulne&s;&s;e and ioy,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb.</HI> 9.</NOTE> k&eacute;epe a fea&s;t the next day, after the kings decr&eacute;e was fru&s;trated, which <HI>Haman</HI> had procu|red for their de&s;truction. Yea, they take order to haue that their deliuerance &s;o|lemnlie remembred euerie y&eacute;ere.</P>
<P>Did their deliuerance from mighty and cruel enimies prouoke them to this? Did the e&s;caping of pre&s;ent daungers, drawe fro~ them the&s;e prai&s;es of thy name? Did the ouerthrow of &s;uch as ro&s;e vp again&s;t them, moue them thus to honour th&eacute;e? O
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then wee haue cau&s;e to doe the like. Our enemies which thus thought in their hearts: Wee will pur&s;ue, wee will diuide the &s;poile, our lu&s;t &s;hall be &s;ati&s;fied vppon them, we will draw out our &s;wordes, our hands &s;hall de&s;troie them (according as it is recorded that <HI>Pharao</HI> &s;pake in his pride:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exo.</HI> 15.9.</NOTE>) euen the&s;e with him are &s;unke in the d&eacute;epe &s;eas like lead.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iudg.</HI> 4.21.</NOTE> <HI>Iael</HI> a woman hath &s;triken a naile into <HI>Si&s;eraes</HI> head,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iudg.</HI> 5.28.29.</NOTE> e|uen then when his mother and hir wi&s;e Ladies per&s;uaded them&s;elues that he had gotten the victorie, and was diuiding the &s;poiles. The &s;ubiects of thy &s;eruant <HI>Eliza|beth,</HI> (a woman) by thy good ble&s;&s;ing, haue &s;triken a terror into the harts of the mightie, yea, partlie by their meanes, as thine in&s;truments, &amp; partlie by thine own immediate power (y^e &s;tars in their cour&s;e, &amp; the &s;eas in their order fighting again&s;t them) they haue then fearefully peri&s;hed,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iudg.</HI> 5.20.</NOTE> when there was not onlie an a&s;&s;ured per|&s;ua&s;ion in them&s;elues, not to be ouercome (as may appeare, in that they called their Nauie inuincible) but al&s;o a certaine ex|pectation of the victorie, yea, reportes gi|uen &amp; written, as if they had preuailed.</P>
<P><PB REF="26" MS="y">Thou turned&s;t the &s;wordes of &s;uch as came foorth on their &s;ide as they thought,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jn one of their gallies.</NOTE> again&s;t them&s;elues:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;hip fi|red by one of their Gon|ners.</NOTE> And the fire which was kindled, to &s;end their &s;hotte again&s;t vs, was a mean of deliuering one of their &s;hips, and &s;ome of their company into our hands: euen as thou armed&s;t <HI>Moab,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cro.</HI> 20.22 23.</NOTE> <HI>Am|mon,</HI> and them of mount <HI>Seir</HI> one again&s;t another in <HI>Ieho&s;haphats</HI> time.</P>
<P>The cur&s;ed agr&eacute;ement &s;o many y&eacute;eres agoe at the councell of <HI>Trent,</HI> for rooting out the profe&s;&s;ors of thy trueth, (whereof this attempt of the <HI>Spaniardes</HI> may &s;&eacute;eme to be intended as an execution in re&s;pect of vs) is now turned to the de&s;truction of the&s;e that fauoured it: &s;o as we may not vnfitly &s;ay, that <HI>Haman</HI> and his be han|ged vpon the gallows, which he cau&s;ed to be &s;et vp for <HI>Mordecay</HI> the <HI>Iew.</HI> That is, thou ha&s;t rewarded the&s;e proud men, that which they thought to haue done to o|thers. Thou onely ind&eacute;ede we mu&s;t &s;ay. For notwith&s;tanding, thou wente&s;t forth with our &s;hips, pro&s;pering them &s;o long as they incountred, wherein &s;en&s;iblie it appeared to bee thy worke, in the great lo&s;&s;es of the aduer&s;aries both of men and Shippes, and &s;o little of ours, as it may
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worthily be reckoned among thy meruei|lous workes: yet &s;&eacute;eing &s;o great wrackes followed them, when we had left them, how els can we thinke it but thine owne hand? Therefore, not with&s;tanding w&eacute;e haue much cau&s;e to reioice in the wi&s;e care, fore&s;ight, &amp; proui&s;ion of our Prince, the honourable coun&s;ell and the &s;tate: as al&s;o in the faithfulnes of our countrimen, &s;o willingly &amp; couragiou&s;ly offring them|&s;elues, to &s;pend their goods, and to hazard their liues by &s;ea and land in this ca&s;e:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jude.</HI> 5.2.</NOTE> &s;o as we cur&s;e &s;uch, euen by the &s;entence of thine owne Angell, which were not wil|ling to helpe,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chap.</HI> 5.23.</NOTE> as it is in the Iudges: Yet (O Lord our God) fora&s;much as the one were giftes of thine, giuen to &s;uch as go|uerne vs, and the other were but thy in|&s;truments to worke by: To thee, yea to thee alone, O Father, Sonne, and holie &s;pirit, three per&s;ons and one God, do we a&s;cribe all the glorie, honour, prai&s;e, and thankes for euer. For thou onelie ha&s;t done this,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exod.</HI> 15.2.</NOTE> thou indeede ha&s;t &s;hewed thy &s;elfe to be a man of war, that &s;aluation is from thee, and that there is no tru&s;t in hor&s;es and chariots.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pro.</HI> 21.31.</NOTE> For, the hor&s;e and the rider ha&s;t thou ouerthrowen, the <HI>Spani|ards</HI>
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&s;hips ha&s;t thou ca&s;t into the &s;eas,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exo.</HI> 15.21.</NOTE> his cho&s;en captaines al&s;o bee drowned in the &s;ea, the depthes haue couered them,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exo.</HI> 15.6.7.</NOTE> they b&eacute;e &s;unke to the bottome as a &s;tone. Thy right ha~d (O Lord) is glorious in power, thy right hand (O Lord) hath bru&s;ed the enimie. And in thy great glorie, thou ha&s;t ouerthrowne them, that ro&s;e vp again&s;t th&eacute;e, thou &s;ente&s;t foorth thy wrath, which con&s;umed them as &s;tubble. Who can ex|pre&s;&s;e the&s;e thy noble actes? who can &s;hew foorth all thy prai&s;e?<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 106.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> 2.</NOTE> If we had the tongs of al men and Angels, we could not &s;uffi|ciently doe it: &s;uch prai&s;es as by thy grace we be able to offer, we pray thee in Chri&s;t to accept. O our &s;oules prai&s;e ye y^e Lord, &amp; what&s;oeuer is within vs prai&s;e yee his holie name, &amp; &s;&eacute;e that ye neuer forget this his benefit, prai&s;e the Lord ye his angels,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 103.12.</NOTE> that excel in &s;trength, that doe his co~man|dement, in obeieng the voice of his word. Prai&s;e the Lord all ye his ho&s;tes,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 103.20.22.23</NOTE> y&eacute;e his &s;eruants that doe his plea&s;ure, prai&s;e the Lord all ye his works in all places of his dominion.</P>
<P>Yea, we be&s;&eacute;ech th&eacute;e, that not onely we, but the whole land al&s;o may giue thy ma|ie&s;tie the whole glory of this, &s;o as it may
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neuer come into any of our mindes, to thinke that by our worthine&s;&s;e, or by our own &s;trength this is come to pa&s;&s;e. Grant that it be not onelie once euerie y&eacute;ere, publikely and &s;ollemnlie remembred, af|ter the worthie example, of that which was appointed to be done of the Iewes, for their deliuerance from the crueltie of <HI>Haman:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>He&s;t.</HI> 9.</NOTE> But that al&s;o daylie and con|tinuallie, wee may &s;tirre vp our &s;elues to thankfulne&s;&s;e, and to &s;peake of it to our children, and they to their childrens chil|dren, that &s;o the memory of this thy glori|ous fact, may be continued from genera|tion to generation euen for euer. But aboue all thinges be herein mercifull vn|to vs, that this marueilous benefite pow|red vpon this nation, added to the re&s;t of thy woonderful mercies towards vs, may b&eacute;e an occa&s;ion to lead all &s;orts and &s;tates to true repentance, and to a through re|formation of what&s;oeuer is ami&s;&s;e: lea&s;t if we hold on in our euils, thou make a chaunge, and giue our enimies cau&s;e to reioyce ouer vs, as we do now ouer them. For, notwith&s;tanding they bee maruei|lou&s;lie weakened, yet &s;uch is thy power, that thou art able to arme wounded and
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fami&s;hed men to our de&s;truction,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iere.</HI> 37.10</NOTE> if wee continue to &s;inne again&s;t thee, as thou did&s;t threaten the Iewes with the Chal|deans in <HI>Ieremies</HI> time. We were deliue|red that we &s;hould &s;inne no more,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn.</HI> 5.14.</NOTE> as our Lord Ie&s;us &s;aide to the man whom hee had made whole. Our faithfull mini&s;ters, when they were mo&s;t earne&s;t in &s;uing for vs with fa&s;ting and praiers, was it vpon any other condition, but that being &s;pared longer, wee &s;hould y&eacute;elde better fruits, according as the dre&s;&s;er of the vin|yard intreateth for the figtr&eacute;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luk.</HI> 13.7.8.</NOTE> which the owner co~manded to cut vp? Now if &s;p&eacute;e|dilie euen this pre&s;ent y&eacute;ere this bee not done by vs, who &s;hall hereafter intreat a|ny more, or what is he that crieng for vs is like to be heard? Nay, wee may feare that thou wilt &s;ay to our mo&s;t faithfull prophets,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iere.</HI> 7.16.</NOTE> as &s;ometime thou &s;aide&s;t to <HI>Ie|remie:</HI> Praie no more for this people, nei|ther lift vp crie or praier for them, nei|ther intreat me, for I will not heare th&eacute;e. Or as in another place thou &s;ayed&s;t: Though <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &amp; <HI>Samuel</HI> &s;tood before me, yet mine affection could not bee toward this people. Ca&s;t them out of my &s;ight,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iere.</HI> 15.1.</NOTE> &amp; let them depart, &s;uch as are appointed to
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death to death, and &s;uch as are for the &s;word to the &s;word, and &s;uch as are for the famine to y^e famine, &amp; &s;uch as are for cap|tiuitie to captiuity. And I wil appoint o|uer them foure kinds, &s;aith the Lord: the &s;word to &s;lay, the dogs to teare in peeces, the foules of the heauen, and the bea&s;ts of the earth to deuoure and de&s;troy. Or as it is in <HI>Ezekiel:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 14.24</NOTE> though the&s;e thr&eacute;e me~, <HI>No|ah, Daniel,</HI> &amp; <HI>Iob,</HI> were among them, they &s;hold deliuer but their own &s;oules. For al|though by thy &s;ingular goodnes we haue gotten this victorie, yet are we not pa&s;t al danger, as if carele&s;ly we might doe what we li&s;t. Nay we &s;&eacute;e, that <HI>A&s;a</HI> the king of <HI>Iudah</HI> triumphing mo&s;t gloriou&s;ly, ouer the ten hundred thou&s;and <HI>Ethiopians</HI> that came foorth again&s;t him, is notwith&s;tan|ding met with by the Prophete <HI>Azariah,</HI> and by him certified from y^e Lord, that he might no otherwi&s;e looke for the continu|ance of his fauor, to him&s;elfe, &amp; to his peo|ple, but as they &s;hould continue to do their duetie, and therfore &s;aith vnto them after this maner.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> 15.2.</NOTE> O <HI>A&s;a</HI> and all <HI>Iudah</HI> and <HI>Ben|iamin</HI> heare ye me. The Lord is with you while you be with him, &amp; if you &s;&eacute;eke him,
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h&eacute;e will be found of you, but if you for&s;ake him, he will for&s;ake you. The &s;ame peo|ple of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> for whom thou wroughte&s;t &s;o many great works in <HI>Egypt,</HI> and after leadde&s;t through the red &s;ea, de&s;troying their enimies which a&s;&s;aied to follow the~, were afterward fearfully de&s;troied in y^e wildernes for their &s;ins.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exo.</HI> 12.37 <HI>Nu.</HI> 14.30</NOTE> So as of &s;ix hun|dred thou&s;and that were numbred, onely two per&s;ons <HI>Caleb</HI> &amp; <HI>Io&s;ua</HI> entered into the promi&s;ed <HI>Canaan.</HI> Thy &s;eruant <HI>Iude</HI> putteth vs in remembra~ce of this in the&s;e words: <HI>For a&s;much</HI> (&s;aith hee) <HI>as ye once knew this,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 5.</NOTE> <HI>how that the Lord after that he had deliuered the people out of Egypt, de&s;troied them that beleeued not.</HI> And the &s;ame nation of the Iewes, though often|times thou didde&s;t marueilou&s;ly fight for them and deliuer them, &s;o as among the heathen it might be iu&s;tly &s;aid: God hath done great things for them, &amp; they on the o|ther &s;ide had iu&s;t cau&s;e to an&s;wer them, as with an eccho: He hath done great things for vs, whereof we reioice, as it is in the P&s;alme. Euen the&s;e notwith&s;tanding whe~ they neglected their dutie,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 126 2.3.</NOTE> were mo&s;t &s;harply puni&s;hed, and giuen ouer as a pray vnto their enimies, as may appeare
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in the hi&s;tory of their Iudges and Kings. And at length when nothing woulde re|claime them, but that they continued in their di&s;obedience, mocking and il intrea|ting the faithfull prophetes which called them to repentance: then thou brough|te&s;t vpon them y^e <HI>Chaldeans,</HI> who wa&s;ted their land, tooke their chiefe city euen <HI>Hie|ru&s;alem</HI> and their king, put out his eies, &s;lue his children &amp; nobles before his face,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ier.</HI> 39.6.7.</NOTE> and di&s;honorablie ledde him captiue vnto <HI>Babylon,</HI> leauing that fruitful and popu|lous countrie, as it were a de&s;olate &amp; for|&s;aken wildernes, and bringing &s;corne, re|proch, confu&s;ion &amp; &s;hame vpon that citie &amp; nation, which &s;ometimes were (as a Qu&eacute;en aboue al others) admired for their pro&s;peritie, as if they had bene the onelie prai&s;e of the world.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.6.7.8.</NOTE>Their example do&s;t thou &s;et before our eies, as a gla&s;&s;e to looke into, whereby we may &s;&eacute;e, what remaineth for &s;uch people, as be like them in thy ble&s;&s;ings, and not vnlike them in their &s;innes. We there|fore of this nation, whom thou ha&s;t thus marueilou&s;lie pre&s;erued, and defended in peace, pro&s;peritie, plentie, and with the v&s;e of thy holie religion, vnder the reigne
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of our &s;ouereigne prince now the&s;e whole thirtie yeares, and for whom of late thou ha&s;t done the&s;e great thinges: what el&s;e may we looke for but the like de&s;truction with the Iewes, except with all &s;p&eacute;ed w&eacute;e doe turne to th&eacute;e, and reforme our &s;elues according to thy woorde? Therefore (O Lord our God) we do mo&s;t humbly craue of th&eacute;e, pardon for all our &s;innes pa&s;t, com|mitted by vs, &amp; by our whole land, either before this our deliuerance, or &s;ince wee were deliuered: be&s;&eacute;eching th&eacute;e in y^e blood and obedience of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us and for the honor of thy name, not to bring vpon vs the de&s;truction, which for our vnthanke|fulnes for this thy great mercie, and for other our tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions wee haue mo&s;t iu&s;tlie de&s;erued. And graunt, that for all the time to come, all &s;ortes and &s;tates, ci|uill and eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, from the highe&s;t to the lowe&s;t may be carefull in all thinges to &s;&eacute;eke thy will, and to haue the &s;ame o|beied, as wel in matters for the Church, as the common-weale, and each of them for the direction of their &s;eueral families, and particular conuer&s;ations. That they may all ioyne together in their callinges as one man, for the reformation of the
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mini&s;terie, that &s;o the preaching of the Go&s;pell may b&eacute;e e&s;tabli&s;hed, and &s;etled in all the quarters of the lande, whereby all the &s;ubiects may be &s;ubdued vnto th&eacute;e, and taught holie obedience to her Maie|ie&s;tie, and the re&s;t that vnder her gouern the &s;tate. That godline&s;&s;e and godlie men, may more and more bee cheri&s;hed and maintained, and idolatrie, papi&s;trie, bla&s;phemie, prophanation of the holie Saboths, and all other wickedne&s;&s;e and wicked men, may bee puni&s;hed and &s;up|pre&s;&s;ed. O teach vs to knowe and bel&eacute;eue, that in the&s;e thinges &s;tandeth the ble&s;&s;ed|nes &amp; &s;afetie of our &s;tate, and realme, that that nation is onely happy,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;a.</HI> 144.15</NOTE> who&s;e God is the Lord, and that thou art a God and &s;a|uior to &s;uch onlie as walke in thy waies, and with all their hearts, &s;&eacute;eke to doe thy co~mandements. If this cour&s;e be thought vpon, &amp; y&eacute;elded vnto by vs, then we may a&s;&s;ure our &s;elues of thy protection, for e|uer: Then we &s;hall &s;till to our comfort in|ioy our gratious Prince, and her highnes the comfort of the dutifull &s;eruice, and o|bedience of vs her &s;ubiectes. Our wi&s;e coun&s;ailours &s;hall bee able to giue adui&s;e for our good, &amp; our worthy valia~t countri|men
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with honour to execute that, which is appointed for our &s;afetie. Thy Go&s;pell &s;hal &s;hine among vs yet in more excellent beautie, we &s;hall haue our peace and our plentie &s;till, w&eacute;e &s;hall pro&s;per in our af|faires by &s;ea and by land, w&eacute;e &s;hall &s;&eacute;e our de&s;ire vpon our bloodie enimies,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> 26.7.</NOTE> they &s;hall come foorth again&s;t vs one way, and &s;hal flie &s;euen waies.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Leuit.</HI> 26.8.</NOTE> One of vs &s;hal cha&s;e an hundred of them, and an hundred of vs, &s;hall put ten thou&s;and to flight.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 144.12.13</NOTE> The voice of mirth and gladne&s;&s;e &s;hal be heard in our &s;tr&eacute;etes, our &s;onnes &s;hall b&eacute;e as plants growing vp in their youth, and our daughters as the corner &s;tones, grauen after the &s;imilitude of a pallace. Our cor|ners &s;hall be full and abounding with di|uers &s;ortes, our &s;h&eacute;epe &s;hall bring foorth thou&s;andes, euen ten thou&s;andes in our &s;tr&eacute;etes. Our oxen &s;hal be &s;trong to labor, there &s;hall be no inua&s;ion or going out, nor crieng in our Cities: the murrain of bea&s;ts and the pe&s;tilence deuouring men &s;hall not come n&eacute;ere vs. Thus &s;hall wee then bee ble&s;&s;ed,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;a.</HI> 144.15</NOTE> for &s;o is the people ble&s;|&s;ed, who&s;e God is y^e Lord. O Lord let our nation be thus ble&s;&s;ed for euer, we do pray th&eacute;e euen for y^e honor of thine own name.
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So wee thy peeple and &s;h&eacute;epe of thy pa|&s;ture &s;hall prai&s;e th&eacute;e for euer,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 79.13.</NOTE> &amp; from ge|neration to generation we will &s;et foorth thy prai&s;e. And, for as much as this work of thine is &s;uch, that it &s;hould not onelie mooue vs, to whome the comfort thereof doth &s;peciallie appertaine, but euen they al&s;o &s;hould be touched with it, that di&s;&s;ent from vs in religion, and de&s;ired to haue &s;&eacute;ene our ruine (as well the Papi&s;tes of our owne nation, as tho&s;e that be in for|raigne countries:) becau&s;e, be&s;ides the o|ther miracles recorded in thy woorde, wrought by thy &s;onne Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and his holy Apo&s;tles, for the confirmation of thy truth, thou ha&s;t al&s;o by this our woon|derfull deliuerance, and confu&s;ion of our enimies, &s;ealed this to be thy truth, which wee haue learned from the &s;ame worde, and whereof wee make profe&s;&s;ion. We be&s;&eacute;ech th&eacute;e euen for the&s;e, that &s;o manie of them as belong to th&eacute;e, may by this oc|ca&s;ion the rather bee brought to &s;&eacute;e, howe dete&s;table a thing in thy &s;ight, Romi&s;h and &s;uper&s;titious religion is, &amp; how thou &s;ette&s;t thy &s;elfe again&s;t &s;uch as would vp|hold the &s;ame: that &s;o they may not &s;tand a farre off, gazing vpon this thy greate
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worke,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 18.9.10.11. <HI>Apoc.</HI> 18, 4. <HI>&amp;</HI> 19.20.</NOTE> and bewailing this fall of the whore, but that ind&eacute;ede they may come forth of Babylon, vtterly renouncing the wor&s;hippe of the bea&s;t and his image, ab|horring to carie the lea&s;t of his markes in their hands or forheads,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc,</HI> 17.2.</NOTE> and no longer to bee drunke, with the cup of her &s;pirituall fornications. Yea, wee be&s;&eacute;ech th&eacute;e that hauing the mi&s;tes and darkene&s;&s;e of their minds cha&s;ed away, they may at length, &s;&eacute;e the cleare light of thy go&s;pel, &s;o to ioine with vs in one holy profe&s;&s;ion grounded vpon thy word, that together we may be glad of this fall of <HI>Babylon,</HI> and ioyne all forces as it were into one, to giue her ac|cording as &s;hee hath done to thy Saints.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 18.6.</NOTE> That in the end, the may haue the iudge|ment of an harlot executed vpon her, e|uen to bee rooted out for euer. That to their further condemnation, they bee not &s;ubiect to the reproofe, which thy &s;pirit gi|ueth to &s;uch as they be, that amended not by the vengeance powred vppon others, according as it is &s;aide in the <HI>Apocalips,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 9.20.21.</NOTE> The remnant of the men which were not killed by the&s;e plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they &s;hold not wor&s;hip deuils, &amp; Idols of golde and
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&s;iluer, and of bra&s;&s;e, and of &s;tone, &amp; of wood, which neither can &s;&eacute;e, neither can heare, nor goe. Al&s;o they repented not of their murthers and their &s;orceries, neither of their fornication, nor of their theft. For their ob&s;tinacie &s;hall be greater, and their &s;inne the more hainous in thy &s;ight, if &s;o &s;en&s;ible a iudgement as this is, prouoke them not to giue th&eacute;e glorie and to &s;&eacute;eke after thy trueth. If there be anie of them &s;o de&s;peratlie hardened, that in &s;t&eacute;ed of re|penting, they &s;hall pre&s;ume more &amp; more, to &s;et them&s;elues again&s;t thy holie ones, and to bla&s;pheme thy name,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 16.9.</NOTE> which ha&s;t power ouer the&s;e plagues: We be&s;&eacute;ech th&eacute;e goe forwarde with this thy excellent worke per&s;ecute them &s;o continually, that they may know the~&s;elues to be but men, and the Idols whom they &s;erue, not to be God. Turne all their deui&s;es vpon their owne heads, and bring them to &s;uch mi&s;e|ble confu&s;ion, that they may for &s;orrowe gna&s;h their t&eacute;eth, and at la&s;t be inforced to acknowledge thy power and iu&s;tice in their ruine, to whome they will not now &s;toope, to &s;erue th&eacute;e according to thy word, that they might be &s;aued.</P>
<P>Yea, we be&s;&eacute;ech thee, that all the nati|ons
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of the heathen, to whom the reportes of the&s;e thy great acts &s;hall come, may by this meanes bee mooued to inquire after thee, and to &s;eeke to knowe thee, and thy good plea&s;ure in Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, whome thou ha&s;t &s;ent to their &s;aluation, if they be|leeue. That &s;o departing from their &s;uper&s;titions and Idolatries, wherein they doe di&s;honour thee, they may honor thy name in the knowledge of thy trueth. That wee our &s;elues beholding the&s;e thinges, and the vtter confu&s;ion of all &s;uch as ri&s;e vp again&s;t thee, and thy Chri&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 20.10</NOTE> may be a&s;&s;ured that that time ap|procheth apace, when the deuill by whom they are led, the bea&s;t whome his fauou|rers haue wor&s;hipped, and the fal&s;e Pro|phetes, by whome they haue bene &s;edu|ced, not being able to hurte anie more, becau&s;e their time is expired, &s;hall be ca&s;t into the lake of fire and brim&s;tone,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 10.10.15.</NOTE> where al&s;o they &s;hall bee tormented day and night world without end, and with them euerie one not found in the booke of life. When likewi&s;e the Church being fr&eacute;ed from all their tyranny, &s;hall come forth as a bride prepared for her hu&s;band,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 21.2.</NOTE> to be ioi|ned with y^e lambe Ie&s;us Chri&s;t for euer:
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Where &s;hee &s;hall hunger, thir&s;t, nor &s;or|row any more, but hauing all teares wi|ped from her eies,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 7.16.</NOTE> &s;hee &s;hall enioy perfect ble&s;&s;edne&s;&s;e, in that heauenlie citie who&s;e gates be of pearle,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 21.2. <HI>Apoc.</HI> 21.18</NOTE> who&s;e walles bee pre|cious &s;tones, and the citie it &s;elfe, with the &s;treat therof pure golde, like cleare or &s;hining gla&s;&s;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 22.1.2</NOTE> Wherein there is a riuer of water of life, cleare as chri&s;tall, procee|ding out of the throne of God and of the lamb, hauing of either &s;ide the tr&eacute;e of life, bearing twelue maner of fruites, and gi|uing fruit euerie moneth,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoc.</HI> 22.20</NOTE> who&s;e leaues are &s;auing medicines for the heathen. O Lord Ie&s;us which &s;o long ago &s;aid&s;t I come quickly, euen &s;o Lord Ie&s;us come, Amen. Amen.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
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<HEAD>TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<P>_THou ha&s;t (Chri&s;tian Reader) which thou hadde&s;t not in the fir&s;t impre&s;&s;ion, a godlie hymne or &s;onge of thank&s;giuing, concer|ning our deliuerance, penned by my reuerende and good friende in Chri&s;t M. Doctor Turner, who vnder&s;tan|ding of my poore trauaile in this ar|gument, wi&s;hed thou had&s;t al&s;o beene partaker of that his labour with mine, and hath beene &s;ince content, that I &s;hould publi&s;h it for thy profit. The benefite of our &s;afetie is &s;uch, and &s;o wonderfull, that it de&s;erueth an often and mo&s;t &s;erious remembrance. If my
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meditations &s;eeme too long or not &s;uch as content thee, I pray thee, v&s;e the helpe of this &s;ong, &s;horter, and commended vnto thee, in re&s;pect of the writer, and the &s;weete manner of deliuering that ta&s;te, the remem|brance whereof &s;houlde euery way be mo&s;t plea&s;ant to thee. Forget not the goodnes of God helping thee &s;o ma|ny waies, and offring thee one di&s;h of meate diuer&s;ly dre&s;&s;ed, that if it like thee not the one way, it may plea&s;e thine appetite the other. If thou and thy familie learne to &s;ing it (which I pray thee may bee oftentimes done) I hope thou wilt find it comfortable to thy &s;oule. And &s;o I pray thee to giue God prai&s;e, and helpe &s;uch with thy praiers, that de&s;ire to helpe thee.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="song">
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<HEAD>A &s;pirituall &s;ong to the prai&s;e of <HI>Almightie God, for deliuering</HI> ENGLAND from the Spani|ards.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>By <HI>P. Turner</HI> Doctor <HI>of Phi&s;icke.</HI></BYLINE>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="music"> Had&s;t y^u not watcht (&ocirc; lord) our coa&s;ts to keep,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music"> And had&s;t not thou wel warded al our bounds,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music"> Our cruell foes had caught vs all a &s;leep,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music"> And &s;onck our &s;hips &amp; &s;ackt our hauen towns.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>All laud therefore, from heart we yeeld to thee,</L>
<L>That hide&s;t not thy face from thine at neede,</L>
<L>But doe&s;t &s;till &s;tand by them as now we &s;ee,</L>
<L>When bloudy foes do think them out to weede.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Had&s;t thou not bin our Queene had bin no more,</L>
<L>And &s;laui&s;h yoke had all our necks oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>None &s;hould haue taught, or followed thy lore,</L>
<L>Had&s;t thou not bin who could haue this redre&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All laude therfore that heart can think or yeeld.</L>
<L>Be vnto thee O Father deere for aie,</L>
<L>That wa&s;t to vs &s;o &s;trong a fence and &s;hield,</L>
<L>And of thy goodnes kept vs from decaie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Had&s;t thou not bin, then had the man of &s;in,</L>
<L>Set vp him&s;elfe, thy Church to ouerthrow,</L>
<L>And then what ca&s;e had all thy &s;aints bin in?</L>
<L>But thou O Lord would&s;t not let it be &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O all the powers both of our &s;oule and minde,</L>
<L>Sing laude and prai&s;e both now and euermore,</L>
<L>To our good God that was and is &s;o kinde,</L>
<L>And hath repeld the Lion from our dore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Had&s;t thou not made thy windes for vs to fight,</L>
<L>Had&s;t thou not &s;tretched forth for vs thy hand,</L>
<L>Had&s;t thou not put our proud foes all to flight,</L>
<L>O what &s;hould then haue come to this our land.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L>All prai&s;e therefore to thee O Lord our God,</L>
<L>That lette&s;t thus thy mercies great appeare,</L>
<L>In &s;auing vs from cruell forraigne rod,</L>
<L>The Spani&s;h Fleete and force that was &s;o neare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Had&s;t thou not ouerwhelmde our foes with flouds,</L>
<L>Had&s;t thou not cau&s;de the &s;eas to be their graues,</L>
<L>Then had our &s;treetes bin died with our blouds,</L>
<L>And all our babes bin marked for their &s;laues.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Mo&s;t humble thankes therefore vnto thy grace,</L>
<L>With one accord we giue O God aboue,</L>
<L>Who thus ha&s;t kept vs from the Spani&s;h race,</L>
<L>And let vs ta&s;t thy mercies and thy loue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And had&s;t not thou vs &s;aued from our feares,</L>
<L>And heard the cries that &s;trangers made to thee,</L>
<L>In &s;teede of P&s;almes we had now offred teares,</L>
<L>And &s;laine at once had bin both they and wee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For &s;auing vs therefore from all the&s;e wrongs,</L>
<L>All laude to thee O our mo&s;t holy King,</L>
<L>Who thus did&s;t turne our fa&s;tings into &s;ongs,</L>
<L>With all our hearts we all vnto thee &s;ing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From high to lowe we mu&s;t and doe confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>If thou had&s;t let tho&s;e plagues on vs to light,</L>
<L>Such are our &s;innes, and &s;uch our wickedne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Thou had&s;t done well, and we had had but right.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L>But Lord what thankes can &s;infull man deui&s;e,</L>
<L>(who&s;e thoghts &amp; deeds ca~ &s;ta~d him in no &s;teed)</L>
<L>To offer thee, but thou mai&s;t them de&s;pi&s;e?</L>
<L>None none O God as of our &s;elues indeed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But therefore Lord, as at thy &s;onnes reque&s;t,</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t vs kept, and &s;aued from all woe,</L>
<L>So for his &s;ake whom thou accepte&s;t be&s;t,</L>
<L>Accept the thankes which we doe yeelde al&s;o.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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