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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07983	Meditations concerning praiers to almighty God, for the safety of England, when the Spaniards were come into the narrow seas, August 1588. As also other meditations concerning thanksgiuing, for deliuering Englande from the cruelty of the Spaniards, and for their meruailous confusion and ouerthrow. / By O.Pygge. ; With a spirituall song of praises by P. Turner Doctor of Physicke..	Pigg, Oliver, b. ca. 1551.; Turner, Peter, 1542-1614. Spirituall song to the praise of almightie God, for deliuering England from the Spaniards.	1589 (1589)	STC 19916.3; ESTC S94725	23,900	73

wee came to more yeeres and haue béene instructed in the knowledge of thy blessed will O wée haue sinned wée haue sinned hainously in neglecting thy seruice and our duety to our brethren in our callinges Wée haue sinned openlie and secretelie alone and in companie yea oftentimes wilfullie and against our consciences when wée knew thy commandement was that wée should haue done otherwise Yea wee doe not onely thus confesse our owne sinnes but also after the example of thy worthy seruants Dan 9 1● Nehe. 1.6 9.34 Daniel Nehemiah we confesse the sins of our whole land acknowledging that we our forefathers our princes our gouernours our whole Ecclesiasticall state all the people of the Realme haue fearefully sinned against thee If wee were guilty of no other sins before thy maiestie the idolatry bloudshed in the former times yet not reuenged nor repented of as they ought were sufficient to bring vtter desolation vpon a lande wherein such abhominations were committed as thy seruant Ieremie in his time Jere. 15.4 threatened the Iewes for the sinnes of Manasse But O Lorde what haue béen the iniquities committed since our deliuerance from that yoke and thy bestowing vppon vs the light of thy Gospel O haue we not all from the highest to the lowest damnably sinned against thée yes verily If we would denie it our iniquities would testifie against vs. For which of thy commandementes haue wée not broken If we looke to those foure of the first table which teach vs our duetie towards thée or those six of the second table which teach vs howe to walke in our callinges towardes men O wee shall be found meruailously faulty before thy maiestie And that not only some of the people but euen euery sort state and condition not in some part of the lande alone but euery where in euery quarter and corner yea in euery house and familie For O Lorde wée haue loued the vaine things of the worlde more than thée and thy word we haue béene more loth to displease men than thy maiestie wee haue made flesh our arme putting our trust in man and withdrawen our heartes from thée Jere. 17.5 Howe seldome and colde haue our praiers bin And how sparing our thanks to thée for the innumerable benefites bestowed vpon vs and our nation What idolatry hath bin committed heere by Papists in corners and by strangers of other countries There hath wanted care to amend thinges throughly according to the rule of thy word Thy name hath infinitly bin blasphemed for where almost can we come in the house or in the stréete but wee shall heare this most shamefully by the greater and by the meaner by the elder and by the yonger sort which take thy glorious name in vaine speaking of thée rashly and vnreuerently yea swearing without cause forswearing cursing and such like O thy Sabothes there is scarce one among manie which maketh conscience according to thy law to dedicate thē wholie vnto thy seruice publikelie priuatelie but as if they were anie other daies so they bee bestowed yea manie thinke it lawfull to follow a riotous and prophane course then which vppon other daies they woulde thinke vnfit for them And how fearefull examples hereof haue we had from the great places and personages of the lande The superiours in the common wealth in the Church and in the house haue not done their duetie to their inferiours The inferiours likewise haue béene meruailous vndutifull to their Prince and the rest which thou in thy wisedome diddest set ouer them The lande hath abounded with murthers slaughters quarrels fightinges and contentions with incests adulteries whordomes dronkennes excessiue pride in apparrell filthie stage plaies haue béene suffered euen in our chiefest citie and vppon the Saboths Thefts be common oppressions deceits vsuries lying false witnes bearing and such like O we are not able to recken vp the innumerable sins of the which we and the whole land may iustlie be indited and araigned before thy maiestie They which haue béene in place to punish sin and to maintaine well dooing haue dealt too too fauorably with sinners on the other side not cherishing the godly as was their dutie The ministers which should boldly haue reproued these corruptions in all sorts and states haue for the most part béene vnable to doe this many of them corrupt in their conuersation they haue winked at disorders daubing with vntempered morter Ezec. 21.28 that will not hold as if nothing had béen amisse and no danger toward when as iniquitie mightily preuailed amongst vs and thou in thy high displeasure didst threaten war Iust is the complaint of thy seruant Ieremy in his time against such Ministers Lame 2.14 They haue looked out vaine and foolish thinges for vs they haue not discouered our iniquities to turne away our captiuity but haue lookt out for vs false prophesies and causes of banishment True it is we haue had some desirous to doe their dutie who also accordingly haue laboured but euen diuerse of them haue béene euill intreated by wicked and vngodly men which could not abide to heare their faultes reproued Whereas in the mean time they haue liked well of such which séeking themselues onely and their owne ease haue béene vnable to instruct them in thy waies by occasion whereof many of the people of the lande haue béene kept in ignorance of thy maiestie and suffred to goe on in their other sins And although thou O Lord our God in tender care of vs hast warned vs of these great sinnes by our Preachers in their Sermons and some of their bookes which haue béene grauelie and dutifullie written yea although thou hast sought to moue our hard harts by thy benefites so as we haue inioyd thy gospel outward peace and plentie when as the Nations about vs haue bene meruailously distressed euen as vntil this time their wounds bée bléeding newe and remaine vncured And further we haue had many wonderfull deliueraunces of our Prince to our great comfort and moreouer thou hast threatned vs by insurrection in our owne lande by vnseasonable times of too much drought or too much raine by destroying some fruites of the earth by scarsitie by the pestilence by signes in heauen and by a fearefull earthquake not many yeeres past yet haue not we of this nation profited by anie of these to bewaile our sins to turne vnto thée as it did become vs. But haue despised thy Prophets which spake to vs in thy name and haue still gone away from thee multiplying our transgressions against thy maiestie So as now most iustly there belongeth to vs to our Princes gouernors teachers and to all the people of the land Dan. 9.7 8. nothing but shame and confusion of face yea vtter destruction of our Nation and state wherof when wée looke into our great sinnes wée may feare that thou hast prepared the Spaniard and such as take his parte to be thy executioners Wherein also wée doe confesse