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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08430	A comfort against the Spaniard	Nun, Thomas, 1556 or 7-1599.	1596 (1596)	STC 18748; ESTC S119504	10,455	22

A COMFORT AGAINST THE Spaniard DEVT. 20. And when ye are come nigh vnto the battell the Priest shal come forth to speake vnto the peole And shall say vnto them Heare O Israell you are come this day vnto battell against your enemies let not your harts faint neither feare nor be amazed nor in dread of them For the Lord your God goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies and to saue you LONDON Printed by Iohn Windet for I. O. 1596. TO THE REVEREND FATHER IN God William Lord Bishoppe of Norwich and to the rest of her Maiesties Officers for the execution of Iustice in that Dioces T. N. wisheth grace and peace IS it true that the Spanyardes will com this spring And is it not as true that we are ready to receiue them Hath this land at any time had either better prouision or more Souldiers brauer Captaines to leade them or sounder Diuines to encourage them Yea but what for Armour on our backes if feare bee in our hearts can feare there remaine where our late victories are remēbered Is not our enemie the same our case nay our God the same But Pharao and Sisera their ouerthrow is now forgotten Miriam may sing alone and Barac and Debora can get no hearers O rather let this booke call to mind our dutie for why should we depriue either our GOD of his glorie or our selues of such a comfort Is it not an houres Sermon of that inuincible Nauie and a briefe Apologie of the Portugale voiage and doth it not set before our eyes how great thinges the Lord hath done for vs To this ende I haue published it to your Lordship and worships I doe Dedicate it Beseeching God so to blesse you in gouerning vs that still the Gospell may haue free passage among vs. So shal we stil eate the fruite of our vines in despite of Senacherib and good Ezechias shal not want Esaies to comfort her whē Rabsache shall be sent to rayle vpon her Your Lordships and worships in Christ Thomas Nun Minister of the word at Weston A Comfort against the Spaniarde Iud. 5. ver 19. 19 The Kings came they fought then fought the Kings of of Canaan at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo they got not the money they desired 20 From heauen they fought the starres in their courses fought against Sisera 21 The riuer Kishon swept them away the riuer of their meetings the riuer Kishon O my soule treade vnder foot what soeuer seemeth valiant 22 Then the horsehoofes were battered by the swift fleeing of their valiants 23 Curse ye Meroz saith the Angel of Iehoua curse ye the inhabitants thereof because they came not to helpe Iehouah to helpe Iehouah among the mighties 24 Let Iael the wife of Cheber the Kenite be blessed aboue women aboue women dwelling in tents let her be blessed 25 He asked water she gaue him milke she brought foorth creame in a lordly dish 26 She put her left hand to the nayle and her right hand to the workmans hammer and shee smote Sisera shee tooke away his head and battered brused his temples 27 Betweene her feete he bowed himselfe he fell lay still betweene her feete he bowed himselfe he fell and where he bowed himselfe there he fell depriued of his life 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window chatted through the lattesse why doth his chariot defer to returne why tarie the wheeles of his chariots 29 Her wise Ladies answered her yea she her selfe answered her owne wordes 30 Haue they not gotten doe they not deuide the spoyle A maide yea two maidens to euery one Sisera hath a pray of diuers colours a pray of diuers colours of colours of nelde worke of diuers colours of nedle worke on both sides for the neckes of the spoylers FAther Iacob in his last * Gen 49.21 wil foresheweth that Neptalie shoulde be a hind let go giuing goodly wordes The singer of the song beloued is the performer of this Prophecie euen Barack of a Iud 46. Cadesh the sonne of Abinoam for as his feet were swift in c Iud. 4 10. leauing his armie against Sisera so are his words sweete which for the victorie he here singeth with Deborah The whole song is longer then may now be handled this part as fittest for our purpose I haue red vnto you for wee are heere assembled not onely to sanctifie this Sabaoth as at other times but also to blesse God for the late Spaniards ouerthrow It containeth 12. verses and consisteth of two members In the one the battell is described in the other a curse to Meroz and a blessing to Iael is pronounced Three circumstances describe the battell the place wher it was fought the parties that fought it the euēt of it Two places are named Taanah and Megiddo neighbor townes in half e Iosua 17 11. Manasses At Megiddo good king Iosias was * 2. King 23.22 2. Chron. 35.22.23 slaine in the battell to Megiddo the three spirits like Frogs in the a Reue. 16.13 Reuelation doe bring the kings of the earth to battel the allusion is vnto this text the mening is that pseudocatholikes should fight with no better successe against Christiās after the reuiuing of the gospel then did Sisera against Barack at the waters of Megiddo And in this sence well may our narrow Seas bee called the waters of Megiddo for thither their pride brought them and ther were they cutin peeces And thus much for the place the parties that fought are now to bee considered Sisera and his adherents is the one and Barack and his partakers the other Sisera his adherents are thus recorded The kings came they fought then fought the Kings of Canaan Iosua in conquering the land killed c Iosu 12.24 one thirtie of them Israel had expresse e Exod 23.33 and Deut. 7.2 commandement to roote out the rest a Iud. 1.21 But Beniamin a Iud. 1.28 Zabulon a Iud. 1.30 Asher and a Iud. 1.31 Neptalie thought it better pollicie to put thē to tribute they preferred gaine before godlines but what gained they by that pollicie They found them prickes in their eyes and thornes in their sides as God had c Numb 33.55 threatned they were brought to meere beggerie and extreame slauerie as well they deserued meere beggerie for their high e Iud. 5.6 waies were vnoccupied and traficke ceased extreame slauerie for the seruant of seruantes euen cursed Canaan became * Iud. 4.2 Lord ouer thē But what is not Canaan his curse vpō the Popes backe Is not he as rightly called the seruant of seruants as a Gen. 9.25 Canaā was If so Why is not his brood rooted out from among vs Or seeing England wil stil be pittying of them why are they not Lords ouer her as was Canaan ouer Israel The difference betweene them is the reason of it for Israel chose new Gods England hath