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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13966	An apologie, or defence of our dayes, against the vaine murmurings & complaints of manie wherein is plainly proued, that our dayes are more happie & blessed than the dayes of our forefathers.	Trigge, Francis, 1547?-1606.	1589 (1589)	STC 24276; ESTC S103280	42,588	50

being the sonne of King Phillip who was but the thirde sonne of Amintas and a pledge amongest the Thebanes of a verye boye almost in twelue yeares space the swiftest and moste famous conquerour that euer was in the worlde Euen so also be exalted that wicked Mahomet the Popes king fellowe as I maye terme him For their kingdomes begunne both in one yeare of a Merchauntes factoure to bee a greate and mightie Emperour The Sophye also of the Persians had for his Father a learned man not a Noble man as his name also doeth signifie And all these amongest all Nations in all ages til our times haue béene the greatest Princes and famous Monarches that euer were in the worlde Wherefore whosoeuer doeth carye at or finde fault withall the base parentage of anye that be in authoritie they doe playnly mislike accuse and condemne the verie hande of God himselfe For it is not our Kings but that King of Kinges which maketh Noble man Iudges and Potentates though some time the Lorde vse these as his instrumentes in 〈◊〉 them But they obiect the stormes and sturres of oure dayes the rage of the Anabaptistes the discention in Fraunce the warres in Flaunders our inuasions prepared concluded and vowed and this laste yeare attempted They dare be bolde to saye that all these plagues were layde vppon vs for the reformation of Religion But here also which is the chiefest point of Wisedome they neither looke behinde them they are carryed like bruite beastes headlong to that which is before their feete They doe not weye the olde wayes of the Lorde which grounde much of antiquitie Measuring their antiquitie not of the written trueth of God but of the vayne tryalles and reportes of men But such antiquitie is counterfait is deceiuable is like to that of the men of Gibea Not true sincere and Christian They doe not remember Moses that deliuered the people out of the handes of Pharaoh but not without great perils and daungers Pharaoh at his verie heeles pursuing him with a great armie The red Sea before his eyes almoste no waye lefte of deliuerance of escaping and yet hee the Lordes seruaunt This true libertie his cause good They doe not remember Ezechias purging the Temple refourming Religion vanishing superstition yet for all this inuaded of Senacherib His Cities manye of them sacked Ierusalem besieged yet Ezechias a good King his reformation iust his religion pure and vndefyled before God They doe not remember Iehosaphat which sent his Princes with the Priestes hauing the booke of the Lawe of God with them through all his Cities to teache and instruct them A notable parte of a King 2. Chro. 20. thus to countenance the Preachers of the worde of God and yet afterwarde besieged and in great perill of the Amonytes and Moabytes and manie other which were confederates against him Neither did all these inuade his kingdome onelye but they gote his Hauen townes and gote his lande and pitched their campes at Engaddi a Citie on the Sea coasts before his knowledge And yet Iosophat was a good King a godly King and one that feared God What shall I here remember Iosias who had the same desire and earnest endeuour of banishing idolatrie or reforming religion and of setting foorth of the lawd of God Who was also in the same case in the same peril of warre Nay who lost his life in the warre and yet all these Kings were most famous amongest the kings of Israel most religious best liked of of God himselfe And yet they all tasted these tumults these stormes these strange chaunces and euents in their adyes Shal we therefore saye their religion was nought their reformation against the lawe of God God forbid nay these tumults and troubles and hard happes as they terme them are the continuall companions of true religion and of true reformation And as we haue borne the burthen of these stormes so we haue tasted the pleasant cup of saluation deliuerance A cup of saluation and deliuerance I saye hath our most gratious God both more full and more easie and more pleasant offered vnto vs then vnto them That he might no doubte sturre vp our thankfulnes and kindle our obedience toward him For who is there I pray you in all the worlde that will not bee bound with benefits and moued with good turnes and euen as it were chayned with curtesies Surely he is sauage and fearce and euen flintie hearted whome these will not moue The Lorde did not suffer the enimies to come into our hauens but being now in great possibilitie to haue taken them he describe them He suffered them not to pursue vs at the verie héeles as he did his owne Israelites but not so much as to come into our fight not to besige vs as he did good Ezechias but he pinched them in their owne shippes with colde famine lacke of water euen as though they them selues had beene besieged This was the great goodnes of God to vs warde This was our deliuerance more mercifull more myraculous then was that of Ezechias then was that of Moses then was that of Iehosaphat And that which was of all other most wonderfull without the losse and destruction almost of anye of our men And not without the losse and captiuitie of many yea almost of the best of our enimies So the Lorde hath made wonderfull his goodnes towardes vs aboue the ancient dayes of those holye Saintes and seruaunts of God And yet manye here will not acknowledge the Lordes power that the Lorde fighteth for vs that the Lorde hath put to fight these our enimies And although perchaunce with their mouthes they doe confesse it yet with Pharaoh they will not leaue off from their set purpose of persecuting the people of God and of pursuing with all their maine and might the true Israell So great is the hardnes blindnes and obstinacie of their hearts But to let these olde examples passe they which complaine at the strange raines great flouds and wonderfull ouerflowings of waters drownings of their pastures of this last yeare They doe not remember the shippe of Christ wherein he himselfe was how it was tossed in the seas how it was beaten with waues how it was hoised with the whirlewinde and almost drowned Insomuch that the Apostles cried out Oh maister doest thou not care for vs we perish And yet in the middest of all these stormes this was the ship of Christ this was his Church here was he himselfe and his beloued here his Apostles and Disciples were present Therefore let not vs now in the Church of Christ in his ship where he is present onely by his grace and not in person as hee was there Meruaile at the like flouds the like storms the like tempests the like drownings not of our grounds but euen of our selues But rather with these stormes let vs be stirred vp with his Apostles to call vppon him These waues try our faith Let vs not distrust as they did