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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15700	An armoure of proufe very profitable, as well for princes, noble men; and gentlemen, as all other in authoritie, shewing the firme fortresse of defence, and hauen of rest in these troublesome times and perilous dayes. Made by Iohn VVoolton minister of the Gospell.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1576 (1576)	STC 25974; ESTC S106615	49,980	114

see that good princes magistrates haue bin preserued from the furious hands of their enimies abroade and at home IT is a great cōfort for godly and Christian Magistrates to haue before theyr eyes the worthy examples of Kings Princes in the old Testament and to obserue their famous and renoumed or rather miraculous actes which they did not by their own power and policie but by the ayde and prouidence of god Whereby they may both confirme and settle their confidence and faith in him and also haue presente admonition in all their distresse by the example of others what wayes and meanes they may vse to auoyde perilles and dangers Abraham the father of the faithfull being driuen into many greeuous miseries and calamities and tost too and fro with great carke and care yet for that he perseuered firme in faith and hope he was neuer forsaken of God but always deliuerd out of distresse Ind moreouer God gaue him glory in y day of batel For whē Lot his brothers son was led away captiue frō Sodome he broght out of thē that were borne and bredde in his house three hundreth and eighteene persons and pursued diuers Kings sinit them destroyed them and recouered Lot his family and his substance and placed him in his house agayne Ioseph the Patriarche breyng solde into Egipt where he liued an alient and straunger and afterward was cast into Prison yet trusting in the liuing God he was not only set at libertie but also called to suche honor and dignitie that vnder Pharao he was chiefe ruler of the land of Egipt Carnal reason would thinke it vnpossible that a seelie poore Israelite being sold to straungers and loden with bolts of iron in prison shoulde aspire to suche authoritie But these are y wonderfull works of God who is nigh vnto all those that call vpon him faithfully And againe The Lorde restoreth my soule and leadeth me in the paths of righteousnesse for his names sake Yea though I should walke through the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no euill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe they comfort me Moses that notable Prophet was almost drowned in many greeuous calamities wherein mans reason coulde deuise no helpe nor fynde comforte especially when bee went before the children of Israel being preserued with a mightie armye hanyng before him the read Sea and the mountaynes on euery fyde but he both knew what God could doe and beleued also that God would cause the Sea to soake into the earth or to stand like a wall on both sydes whereby the Israelites might marche through on drye lande and that the same shoulde returne agayne to bys course and drowne all the Egiptians than in any one ●ote fayle in his promises or relinquish his elect and chosen people Gods word can not be false and therfore the Prophet saith Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lorde and whose helpe the Lord is and in an other place In an acceptable time haue I heard thee and in a day of saluation haue I helped thee and I wil preserue thee Iosua succeding Moses casted many bitter cuppes before hee was able to subdue and caste those seuen wicked nations but of the lād promised vnto the Iewes būt resting vppon that ioyful and sweete promise of God As I was with Moses so will I be with thee I will not leaue thee nor forsake thee be vanquished his enimyes and placed Gods people in the lande of Chanaan Gideon iudge of the Israelites accompanyed with three hundreth souldiers only went agaynst y mightie army of the Madianites Amelechites and other easterne people who came into the land of Israel with their Tentes as thicke as Greshoppers in multitude so that they and their Cammelles were without number hee vanquished them and put them to flight for the spirite of the Lorde came vpon him and he beleued the word of the Lord promising him victorye Daniel by the malice and ●ny of the Courtiers was cast into the Lyons denne yet through gods protection he was preserued safe and sound the reason is expressed in the Text Bicause he trusted in his God whereat the Kyng wonderyng and reioysing commaunded Daniell hys accusers their wyues and children to bee put in his place and the Lions had the maistery ouer them and brake all their bones in peeces or euer they came at the ground of their denne Dauid entyrely beloued of God elected accordyng to Gods owne hearte and thryce anoynted Kyng of Israell ledde yet a lyfe full of many miseries and calamities contemned of his wife Micholl for that hee seemed oue● precyse in the obseruyng of Ceremonies Saul conceyued deadly feude agaynst him and often sought to kill him Absolon his owne sonne defyleth his bedde and rebelleth against him Besides this what assaultes susteyned he the Phylistines the Moabites the Syrians the Idumites great and mightie nations yet hee is patiente in hys house constante in hys Kyngdome and victorious agaynst straūngers For the almightie was his refuge hys hope and hys Protectour and therfore it was vnpossible for hym to bee confounded and destroyed Which for that hee approued passyng all humayne expectation bee singeth after this manner In thee O Lorde haue I put my truste lette mee neuer bee confounded delyuer mee in thy righteousnesse I will bee gladde and reioyce in thy mercye for thou haste seene my trouble and thou baste knowne my soule in aduersityes And thou haste not shutte met vppe in the hande of the enimye but haste set my feete at large Asa Kyng of Iuda abrogated horrible Idolatrie and superstition and commaunded Iudah to seeke the Lord God of their fathers to do according to do according to his cōmaundemēt and be tooke away out of at the Cittes of Iuda the high places the images therefore the kingdome was quiet before him hee built stronge Cities in Iuda and hee had no warre many yeares bicause the Lord gaue him rest Afterward there came agaynst him Zerach of Ethiopia with an hoste of ten hundreth thousand men and three hundreth Chariots Then Asa went out before him and set the battayle in aray and cryed vnto the Lord his God saying Lorde it is nothing with thee to helpe with many or with no power helpe vs O lord our God for wee reste on thee and in thy name we come against this multitude O lord thou arte our God let not many preuayle agaynst thee So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Iudah and they fled and the men of Iudah caryed away a mightie great spoyle and returned to Ierusalem Iosaphat folowed his father Asa in clensing the temple and reforming true religion he set Leuites in Ierusalem for the iudgement of the cause of the lord and he appointed Iudges in the land through out the strong Cities sayd vnto them Take heed what ye do for