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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02675	Brittaines hallelujah or A sermon of thanksgiving for the happy pacification in Brittaine preached in the English church at Hamburch before his excellency the right honorable Sir Thomas Rovve Lord Ambassador Extraordinary for his Mayesty of Greate Brittaine in Germany, &c. And to the vvorshipfull & famous Society of Merchant Adventurers & some cavelliers of Scotland By Ma. Harris Batchelour in Divinity, fellovv of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge & chaplaine to his excellency.	Harris, Malachi, 1606 or 7-1684.	1639 (1639)	STC 12807; ESTC S119822	18,712	32

That long since againe againe vve knovv not hovv often Wherefore vvhen vve remember our selvs vve cannot but make this an Aggravation of Gods greate things that he should doe them for vs for vs so very very vnvvorthy The 2. Generall Magnific Eccl. And so much be spoken to the first Generall Magnalia Dei The next is Magnificat Ecclesiae The Church her solemne thanksgiving reioycing for those greate things the Lord had done for Her We can but glaunce at it novv least vve prae occupate our busines that is behind This Magnificat likevvise vvill beare 2. Parts 1. a Pious Commemoration Acknovvledgment 2. a Joy full Jubile or Exultation In the first the Churches Soule magnifies the Lord by her thankfull Acknovvledgment of the Benefit In the Second the Churches Spirit reioyoeth in God her Sauiour by her Panegyricall solemnization of the Benefit Ob. First she gratefully acknovvledgeth is Yea but this the Heathen did ' too vvhen they sayd among themselvs The Lord hath done c. Sol. True they acknovvledged it indeede The thing vvas so clearely and evidentsly done before their eyes that they could not but see it and say it But vvhether they did so greatefully acknovvledge it that is a Question or rather noe Question Probably some of them savv it vvith the Eye of Envy and vvhen they had sayd it bi tt their lips for anger that it vvas done Certainely none of them could speake of it vvith that Affection the Church did Whom alone it concerned as a Receiver They but meere spectators the vvhiles 2. Next she sölemnly reioyceth And this Joy you have 1. in the fountaine 2. in the Streames 1. In the fountaine It vvas a reioycing in the Heart v. 4. So much the vvord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seemes to import 2. This Joy streames forth and derives itselfe into these 3. channells 1. Into the Countenance that is filled vvith laughter 2. Into the Tongue that runns over vvith prayses 3. Into the Hand v. 2. For besides that it vvas their vsuall custome vpon such occasions to send gifts to their neighbours and largesses to to the poore besides this vvhich carrys some faire probability they did it novv the very penning of this psalme testifies their hands vvere not id idle vvhen they tooke order for such a durable memoriall to be transmitted to Posterity So then It vvas a Cordiall hearty joy It vvas a laughing visible joy it vvas a manuall legible durable joy that the poeple vnborne might for many ages pervse it And thrice happy vve vvho are a poeple novv in such case that vve may justly take vp the same vvords chaunt forth the same Hallelujah vpon an occasion not much lesse greate The Lord hath done greate things for vs too vvhereof vve reioyce also The Application of the Text to vs. This vvas our second promise in the beginning To sett this psalme to our selvs vvhich novv vve come to performe as the duty of the day bindes vs strongly But then vve must needes sett it in a farre higher cliffe Our notes if you please shall stand some in space some in Rule My meanning is vve vvill looke a little backvvard to former times but this shall be dispatched in a Sembreife or tvvo and then close vvith the Diapason of this Day Greate things may our Israel say the Lord hath done for vs. Greate things and a greate many greate things To single out only 3. remarkeables It is very vvell vvorthy your consideration hovv that since the Reformation of our Church Our 3. last Gracious Princes vnder vvhose blessed goverments She hath seeue such golden days hath had each ones severall Reighne erovvned vvith some notable singular Deliverance and every Deliverance a degree higher then its precedent You knovv vvhat I vvould That of 88 That of Novemb. 5. This late happy Pacification That learned holy Lord Bishop af Chichester Bp. Carleton hath published a Booke entituled A Thankfull Remembrance of the Church of England You are vvell acquainted vvith it Jam sure And in the Frontispice of that Booke as I remember he hath sett the Portraitures of Q. ELIZABETH of renovvned memory vvith a Flagg in her hand in vvhich is described the Spanish-Armado in 88. as also of King JAMES of ever famous blessed memory vvith his Flagg and in it the Parlayment house the vault c. Nov. 5. I verily beleiue if the Reverend Father had lived to see this day He vvould have a founde a roome for king CHARLES too our most Gracious soveraigne vvith his Flagg in His hand likevvise Wherein should have bin expressed those late vnhappy Preparations in Brittaine and this most happy Reconciliation concluded It vvill be too greate an Expence of Time to display the first of these Banners You cannot be ignorant of it It vvere only to be vvished It had somevvhat a fresher varnish It begins to grovv so old that it is too much vvorne out of our memorys But it must be acknovvledged to the vvorlds end That it vvas one of Gods greate things done for our Island When such a Navy named the Armado Sirnamed Invincible shall so suddainely so easily be dissipated be defeated I have much a doe to let it passe vvishout an Hallelujah Me thinks It runns vpon Eights of it selfe on purpose for a Song Lord vvhat greate things didst thon then doe for that thy blessed Servant and Her Realme vvhen Thou seemed'st to suffer the sea and Windes to obey Her as if they had taken Pay vnder her But there is a nevver fresher Flagg King JAMES His vvhich desireth rather to belooked vpon as it tells vs of a later greater Deliverance That of Novemb. 5. The former vvas from an Invasion of a forraine Enemy and if you vvill of a cruell proude one therefore noe lesse could be expected from Them I vvould allmost all Christendome and the Indys to boote did not svveate and bleede Under Their Insolency But This vve are novv to speake of vvas from a Domestick Conspirancy All the Actors our ovvne Coungion is Rebeltry-men our Fellovv Subjects till Treason Rome vvhose Relilion had dissolved that vinculum A Conspiracy it vvas vvhich noe Age can parallell and vvhich but for its Annuall Commemoration vvould be thought by Posterity to be all to geather incredible A Conspiracy vvherein Malice vvas armed vvith Fortitude Fortitude animated vvith Policy Policy masked vvith Secrecy Secrecy invested vvith Religion They counterfeited the Broade Seale of Heaven and vvould have it rati-fied vvith a Sacrament Lord vvhat Preparations vvere there vvhat a Brevving of death it is a BP s expression vvas tunned vp in those barrells Povvder Billets Barrs and I knovv not vvhat store of Hellish provision as if they had meaned to have made an Earth-quake throughout the vvhole Island What ayled ye O ye Sonns of the Cole What mean't ye O ye Fire-brands and Granados of Hell Pardon me I cannot be vncharitable vnles Repentance came after vvhat meant ye I say