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A64897	God in the mount, or, Englands remembrancer being a panegyrich piramides, erected to the everlasitng high honour of Englands God, in the most gratefull commemoration of al the miraculous Parliamentarie, mercies wherein God hath been admirably seen in the mount of deliverance, in the extreme depth of Englands designed destruction, in her years of jubile, 1641 and 1642 / by ... John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing V308; ESTC R4132	108,833	120

other Statestarving Monopolies whereof some as hath been seen in those fore-mentioned prejudiced the Kingdom above a Million of money yeerly all quite supprest by this renowned Parliament which formerly like so many greedily gaping graves or unsatiable horsleaches were continually crying-out Give Give and restlesly sucking-out the vitall spirits of the State and pitifully debilitating thereby the nerves and ligaments of the whole Common-wealth But that which was far more worth than all those fore-said great benefits which indeed was the very root and rice of all those and such like taxations and vexations is also by power of this Parliament quite taken away viz. the Arbitrarie power pretended to be in his Maiestie to tax his subiects and charge their estates at his pleasure without consent of his Parliament which great and grievous yoke which extremely wrung our wronged necks for the present and would have done much more for the future to our posteritie is now by this happie Parliament declared by Both-Hous s to be against Law and is also ratified by an Act of Parliament And was not Elohim our God all-sufficient most gloriously seen here in the Mount for our large deliverance from such and so many pinching straits and deep distresses as we were all brought yea plunged into as have been formerly most evidently and undeniably shewn And therefore have we great cause with that sweet singer of Israel to elevate his praises herein and to say I will magnifie thee O my God and my King and will blesse thy Name for ever and ever Yea every day will I blesse thee and praise thy Name for ever and ever For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatnesse is altogether unsearchable Yea and that which is very remarkable and no lesse extraordinarie comfortable to Gods children How did the Lord before this Parliament began and hitherto ever since stir-up and enflame the fire of supplicating faith or faithfull supplication and fervent zeal in private humiliation to seek the Lord in the face of Christ for mercie and reconcilement to our poor Land and Nation so as the like was never seen in this Kingdom before And O what faith-confirming and heart-cheering rich returns of prayers hath the Lord our good God cast into our blessed bosomes in both granting us the very things yea and much more than our hearts desired and crossing ours and the Churches enemies both Papists and Prelates in their plots which we feared yea and still making their own desperate devises to lite heaviest on their own heads and their own impious inventions occasions to make them still sit-down by weeping-crosse and bear the greatest damage and condigne detriment in themselves Whence we may very well conclude with Manoahs wife Sampsons mother against all false and faithlesse fears and jealousies whereunto I perceive even Gods own dear people are too-much addicted That if the Lord were pleased or had a purpose to kill or destroy us he would not have received an oblation or sacrifice from us neither would have shewed us all these things nor would as at this time have done all these great things and much more yet following for us But if God had had no delight in us but purposed to destroy us and to deliver-up our Land and lives into Papists hands and to make a prey of us and ours to them he would not surely have suffered us or given us hearts to seek him in prayer and importunate petitions and yet at last have frustrated all our hopes and expectations But contrariwise when God intended to destroy the children of Israel for their high provocations of the Lords irreconcilable wrath he flatly forbad the Prophet to pray for them whereas on the other side I say our gracious God hath freely poured on us the spirit of grace and supplication hath not onely received sacrifices from our though sinfull hands but in Christ Jesus his ever prevailing Blastus nay rather ever most meritorious blessed Son hath smelt a sweet savour in our sacrifices as hath been alreadie in part imparted to us and made clearly obvious to our eyes and understanding and comes now most copiously to be farther most fully demonstrated to us And here me thinks t is not improper or impertinent to put the Reader in mind of one remarkable mercie of the Lord unto us which though it be not I confesse on all parts absolutely concluded on yet for my part I confidently beleeve these plotting times and weightie circumstances considered and put together I may justly enroll it in one of the chief places and number of our most famous parliamentarie deliverances though I say it was and hath been covered and couched under fair machi●ilian vizards of other intentions when they saw God had miraculously crossed and defeated their former strong expectation For unquestionably the Popish and malignant partie had deeply perswaded if not assured themselves that long ere this especially about the time of this plot now to be mentioned their desperate projects should have been brought to a high pitch and that ere this time we and Scotland should have been deeply engaged in bloodie broils and been pell-mell together by the ears in the Northern parts of the Kingdom The sly Fox of Spain therefore must needs watch advantages on our home-bred and imbred distractions and uncivill-civill wars thus to purchase to himself the long lookt-for spoils and most precious prey of three fair Crowns at once To which purpose upon traiterous instigation and intelligence too no doubt from some of his pensioners in the Court of England he had made readie and set forth to Sea a mightie Fleet of ships a second great armado well fraught and furnished with men and ammunition and other instruments of wrath and furie for our certain perdition and designed destruction Thus unsuspected and unexpected they had smoothly and silently made their way into our narrow Seas and lay hovering within sight of Dover fearlesse it seem'd of least resistance from us if not hopefull of ample assistance to land their forces and make our Land feel the furie of Spaines conquering arm But behold as thus they lay about our coasts and we as it were lay fast a sleep in this great danger the God of our English-Israel who never slumbers nor sleeps in the protection of his people had his ever most vigilant and wakefull eye over us even then I say when we were most supine and carelesse or fearlesse of any imminent disaster so neer us the Lord our God fought for us yet without us stopt this otherwise over-flowing inundation of miserie and destruction crost and crusht their rotten-egge of windie hopes by sending our honest old neighbours of Holland to confront them though with but a very small Fleet at the first which afterward quickly encreased under the conduct and command of their heroicall and most magnanimous Admirall Martin Tromp whose honour and high renown the trump

of those Egyptian croaking Froggs the Filthy Capuchin-Fryers and Priests who lay lurking there too long like so many muzled Wolves and Tygers all these or the most of them banished and transported over-Sea from us And the Queen-Mother of France the more to free our hearts from feares and discontents happily also transported beyond Sea from us About which time also to settle our hearts with yet more solid comfort and the more firmly to consolidate our future hoped happines it pleased the Lord to put into the hearts of our most noble Parliamentary Patriots to unite and knit all the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland in-a most firme League and Conjunction of perpetuall love and amitie and of mutuall defence against all malignant Adversaries either domestick or forrein and to confirm all this by a particular act of Parliament ratified by a full consent of the King and both Houses together with an act of absolute oblivion of all exceptions and differences whatsoever formerly intervening twixt Prince and people Upon which both Armies of English and Scottish Souldiers were shortly after most happily peaceably dismissed and disbanded to the high hononr of our wonder-working God and the unexpressible joy and comfort of both Nations thus most lovingly and sweetly shaking hands of true friendship at their peaceable departure And for the farther confirmation of this our happines and due retribution of praise and glory to the Lord our God the authour of it there was an Ordinance of Parliament for a day of publick and solemn thankesgiving for this peace so happily concluded between England and Scotland which for the glorie of God and honour of our King and Worthies in Parliament I have thought fit here to insert verbatîm as it was published An Ordinance of Parliament for a day of publick thanksgiving for the peace concluded between England and Scotland VVHereas it hath pleased almightie God to give a happie close to the treatie of peace between the two Nations of England and Scotland by his wise providence defeating the evill hopes of the subtill adversaries of both Kingdomes for which great mercy it was by the Kings most excellent Majestie the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament enacted that there should be a publick thanksgiving in all the Parish-Churches of his Majesties Dominions It is now ordered and declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament that the time for the celebration of that publick thanks to almightie God for so great and publick a blessing shall be on tuesday the 7 th of Sept. by prayers reading and preaching of the Word in all Churches and Chappels of this Kingdome whereof we require a carefull and due observance that we may joyne in giving thanks as we partake of the blessing with our brethren of Scotland who have designed the same day for that dutie According to the act of this present Parliament for confirmation of the Treatie of Pacification between the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland whereas it was desired by the Commissioners of Scotland that the loyaltie and faithfulness of his Majesties Subjects might be made known at the time of the publick thanksgiving in all places and particularly in all Parish-Churches of his Majesties Dominions Which request was graciously condescended unto by his Majestie and confirmed by the said Act. It is now ordered and commanded by both Houses of Parliament that the same be effectually done in all Parish-Churches throughout this Kingdome upon tuesday the 7 th day of Sept. next coming at the time of the publick thanksgiving by the severall and respective Ministers of each Parish-Church or by their Curates who are heerby required to reade this present Order in the Church And was not the Lord most gloriously heer seen in the Mount of admirable mercie and deliverance to England and Scotland after such a marveilous manner as never any Nation could produce the like parallell of gracious providence And may we not therefore with holy David Israels sweet singer confess we have found the Lord according to his word a sure defence for the oppressed even a refuge in time of trouble And therefore they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast not forsaken them that have seriously sought thee Yea he that is our God is the God of salvation and unto this God and mightie Lord belong the issues from death Heer also ere I have done with this mercie let me desire the Reader to take notice of the admirable wisdome and justice of God in thus clearing the innocencie and integritie of his children O what bitter aspersions did the Prelates Arminians and malignant partie cast on our brethren of Scotland at the first nothing but traytors and rebells could be heard out of their slanderous mouths But now see I say how Gods wisdome and justice ordered it that even those tongues that had so taunted them yea and in their pulpits too should now be forced even in the face of their Congregations to give themselves the lye That of Job being heerin most clearly ratified that The poore hath hope and iniquitie stoppeth her mouth and that also of the holy Prophet David which is full to our purpose That the King and all good men shall exceedingly rejoyce and glorie in God but the mouth of them that speake lyes shall be stopped And now also let me tell thee courteous Reader to make these mercies yet more glorious to the praise of our God that in the interim that those two Armies lay so together in the North the pestilent Spirits of the Malignant partie lay not still but were most maliciously working by their agents and instruments the Popish Lords and pernicious Prelates being also maine sticklers in all these mischievous designes to disaffect and discontent his Majesties Armie by scandalous and most false accusations and imputations on the Parliament thus to engage it for the maintenance of their most wicked designes of keeping-up the Bishops in their votes Lordly honours and functions and by force to compell the Parliament to order limit and dispose their parliamentarie proceedings in such a manner as might best concurre with the intentions of their dangerous and potent faction Now this plot of bringing the English Armie from the North Southward to London against the Parliament for the causes aforesaid having been particularly enquired into and examined both by that noble and vertuous Gentleman M r Fynes and Sir Philip Stapleton with others they made report thereof to the House of Commons about June 17. 1641. That they found that for the advancing of the said plott the Earl of Strafford had attempted his escape out of the Tower and to effect it the better had promised that worthy Gentleman Sir William Belfore then Leifetenant of the Towre 20000 li. and to marry his Sonne to his Daughter and to make it one of the greatest Matches in the Kingdome but Sir Williams loyaltie was