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A80084	Huls pillar of providence erected: or The providentiall columne, setting out heavens care for deliverance of that people, with extraordinary power and providence from the bloud-sucking Cavaliers, who had for six weeks closely besieged them. By T. C. minister of Gods Word. Imprimatur Charles Herle.	Coleman, Thomas, 1598-1647.	1644 (1644)	Wing C5055; Thomason E37_30; ESTC R12827	17,261	16

Serj. maj Boyard Cap. Knight and many others which they conceale from us in the dark book of secrecy went to their last bed in the dark chambers of death before Hull Divers of their Captains that had compleat companies went back to York with ragged remains of some 9 or 6 of those they carried out thence and many in great numbers grievously wounded to make up their black triumph some went with them and after them others to adorne their glorious carriages 13. It was a notable favour of heaven that such a resolute and couragious spirit was raised in ours as that they went out and set upon the enemy the wednesday 7 night before being Oct. 4. and beat them out of two of their works slew and took some and brought in many of their muskets which they running away left One of those works they h●d newly raised behind our wind-mil which was a very hopefull one for them and was likely to be very damagefull to us had it bin let alone but that night But God was in some sort visible that day giving ours power to beat those wild and furious cocks on and off their own dung-hill And that Wednesday was a fairly ominous preface to the next Wednesday which was voluminous to us in big mercies 14. Further when this day of blessings Oct. 11. the day wheron the siege was raised was well gone on for us the other gathering much fresh force came on formidably against ours insomuch as our souldiers are body and soul for a retreat and shamefull retire See now how hoavenly providence comes in to succour Ours were basely timid and prophecied dangerous things to themselves from the enemies fresh and full appearance where one sudden cloud of feare was likely to be the blacke mantle or curtain to hide the light of a very hopefull day Some good spirits of Captains and souldiers were as much tormented with shame to see so sick a fit upon our armie as the retreaters were tormented with feare wherupon some Commanders and by-standing spectators did earnestly beg and beseech they would turn again and face the enemy and some of the horse couragiously leading the way and giving a f●esh on-set it animated the foot where the Spirit of the Lord set up a Standard in their spirits and they fell on bravely and out of weaknes were made strong Heb. 11.34 and turned the enemy into smoake which fled before them as driven by the wind shewing many backs but few faces against ours in which backs they see faire printed the adversaries defeat and their own victory God so blesses this new assault that they take from them their great guns 9. of them some greater some lesse beats them from their strong great works with very little and small losse of ours in which great pecces and works many of them trusted more then in the great God Our Cap. Rainsborow by a mistake was taken but for him we had many of theirs fell prisoners into our hands This 11. of Oct. was a great and glorious day that such multitudes of men out of many and strong works from many and great guns should be beaten and driven away by them that came to assault them in the open field is a rare example of successe to the Parlia battels and is as notable a peece of pure military valour as has faln out since the beginning of these wars The souldiers that went home by weeping and bleeding crosse doe cry out of our stratagem to retreat on purpose and then with renewed strength to come and ruine them Indeed it was a brave stratagem and a rare plot but it was Gods stratagem and a plot of providence which we never contrived nor thought on till his waking thoughts brought it about How comfortably did the whole Towne almost look over the walles that whole day and see this salvation of God 15. Lastly being thus breakfasted on wednesday that night they sup with fears and curses and hasty purposes of being gone from us The Lord on a sudden sweeps them away they steale away the remaining Ordnance in the night A spirit of fear lends them wings to fly they go away with shame losse and stinging consciences So that the siege is raised w h we expected not the enemy is gone suddenly we lookt not for it Many of them left their muskets and other weapons in the works and though it was a very sore day of rain yet away they must they dare not stay for fair weather Presently our state is marvellously changed we heare not of their guns we receive no more ridings of their fiery bullets we are deliver'd and yet doubt whether we do but dream of it How are our fears and foes suddenly vanisht we quickly restored to walking on fresh ground breathing in fresh air having enough of fresh water many comforts our enemies had straitned us in They gave out they raised the siege because of the wet weather I believe it for they had some case-shot among them with store of other bullets which made that a wet day though it was very fair in that it could not but rain good store of bad bloud God has overcome us and overflown us in our desires we looked but for a little and the sea of mercy has broke out and drowned us with a deluge and cataclysme of blessings The Country mourns yet God made us to laugh They are impoverished every way in their monies and goods and men their best tables trees timber are taken and laid in the ditches by the enemy to help the conveyance of carriages ordnance from work to work Only their hasty and Eagle-flighted fear has done some this kindnes not intended that they have filled the barns with corn and in an unkind kindnes as having no time to thresh it out to sell it or carry it away have left it for the owners who finde it at their repossession gathered to their hands by servants whom they never set on worke Nor is this all God when in his mercy he flows he overflowes On the same 11 h of Oct. he gives us a glorious victory in Lincolnshire as free fair and full as the most have bin got fince the unhappy hatching of these warrs so as that day hath given them an astonishing blow that they have staggered ever since know not on what ground to tread God following them with soul-stupifying terrours These are the full branches of the Lords saving providence the first fruits of our expected harvest in this miserable country of Yorkshire where some 80 not of the meanest Gentry have proved drunke with the Queens cup full of Roman intoxicating spice and have made a mad market-venture of their names families estates bodies souls only to preserve the Papists reliques and the Prelates micers and damaske cassocks among us Now these furious Salamanders and fansie-frantick spirits begin to see their busie action may come to end in miserable passion because they doted on their lady Mary have forsaken the Lord Iesus in his cause Take

the assaulting enemy Marke how the wheele runs From Beverly the enemy is repulsed with shame and losse But in the West two or three dayes after the swarmes of New Castles waspes sting the Armie of the honoured Fairfax there he and his heroick Sonne after faire hopes loose the day quit the field though to the great cost of the adversary and leave that noblest part of the Country in the hands of the ignoblest men if inhumanity be ignobility where as they were bred and principled so they maintain it there is no good play unlesse some play the devill in it How have they imitated that infernall paternity of theirs by being as cruell and unmercifull to that worthy people as hell could make them Then thorough what dangerous pathes and parts of Countries did the Lord bring honored Fairfax and his son and the remainders of his scattered Army How did the Lord hard before this fore defeat make Hull ready for them whose prayers and longings waited for such a Governour at the gates of heaven Compare but the times of these things falling out that Hul should be made fit to receive a Governour fit to succour a dispersed people who fled from a bloudy sword and speare Let Hull and Western dispersed ones and the whole kingdome contend about it which of them has the largest share of fatherly providence in this thing O the providence is much for us may Hull say that we should receive so faithfull and right a Governour in our necessity It is providence for us may West say that we should get succour there It is providence for us may the whole kingdom say that so quickly the government was setled there and though there was so great a wound yet the Lord quickly prepared a good and great plaister How deepe is the Lords wisdom in his doings How can hee strangely at one and the same time win and lose cut and cure wound and heale throw downe and raise up his people and make one and the same cloud both darke and lightsome Let the people of God observe it they never have any notable fall or affliction but God gives them some notable rise after it to stand on high ground againe and to meet with some comfort and blessing succeeding it of such a depth and latitude as entered not into their imaginations And now Rabshakeh railes and Thrasoes boast and every 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now opens his mouth and laughs to see Christ lie loaden with a crosse in the streets of Leedes and Bradford Now the Irish Prelate the bishop of Derry must turne the Psalmes of David into a scornfull Jigge and must not only abuse the Saints of God but the Scripture of God The Ministers pulpit is his stage which hath bin commonly the May-pole where scorners of Gods Saints have danced themselvs giddy and there he pretends he will stir them up to give thanks to God and to God alone in these words of David I will not trust in my bow neither shall my Sword save me but thou hast saved us from our enemies c. Ps 44.6 7. But he forgetting his theame so dotes on his Marquesse Si pergā ad acuta rerū plus toge laesêre rempub quā toricae Tertull de pallio that he must needs make him the bow and the sword as though he by his care and wise carriage had freed now all York-shire from oppression and from the crushing of the Parliaments friends and now there was nothing but one poor corner of caitiffs all sedition and faction now laid gasping within the wals of Hull Let not Bishops speak of oppression for they have bin Pharaohs most curst task-masters set up to afflict the Israel of God Nor let Yorke be the tribunall at this time to judge the dispersed of Christ that are met in Hull After that way Sr Bishop which you call sedition there are such Saints serve God as the latchet of whose shooes saving the reverence of your bicorned miter you are not worthy to loose Well sedition and faction lies gasping within the walls of Hull what then Why then New-castle and his Army must come hither to the funerall of it if it lie gasping it will die shortly and they will be so officious as to come and close our eyes and carry us to our grave or if we be not so neare death they can think of such a thing as this Come let us kill them that the inheritance may be ours About the 4th of September that goodly Town of Beverley fals into the hands of a merciles adversary ours beholding their great numbers and considering the state of the Town to be such as it could not be held against them though our numbers had bin trebled Wherupon warning is given to retire and leave it and some no doubt were to blame that left some lesser peeces of Ordnance there and did not timely convey them away which they might have done Beverley smarted then on all sides by enemies cruelty by friends negligence presently is the Town made bare and stript naked and compelled to speake largely of the little charity mercy of the promoters of the Catholike cause who are semperidē inhumane barbarous Hard before their coming one Bushell a kinsman of the infamous Bushell who is filled with more then four pecks of an Iscarioticall spirit came with a Tinker himselfe acting a bad mettall man with him to view both Beverleyes and Huls works having done it were at length taken prisoners and found to be bad mettall Having swallowed Beverley they make Hull ready for the dresser and their cursed Cooks made a great fire hoping this Town should be their roast-meat They begin their siege and have all kind of furies redressed with snakes to torment us With them are come as goads in their sides to set them on and as candles in the darke to guide them the fox-heads subtill cunning and busie spirits of Hull which she had vomited out whose names are in the booke of the generation of vipers which have watring teeth to eat thorough their mothers bowels The poor arayed and forced souls are made to tugg and worke worse then the slaves at Adrianople day and night to raise Mounts and Works with turves and baskets to brew our ruine It will not be amisse to see how God works the deliverance of his people with many crosse thrids and makes a smooth web in the end of that which has many knots in the beginning Wheras at their first comming we had a spring-tide that might have flown with streams of molestation to them and hindred their works if ours could have agreed to cut the banks and lend them some salt water yet so it pleased God to divide the consults and conclusions of men about it that this is hindred and therby they exceedingly furthered in hopes to warme themselves at our fire Nay when afterward there were found Propositions upon rationall grounds of daming up the fresh water so as it