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A88419	Englands doxologie. Or rather The three kingdomes eucharisticall sacrifice at the altar of th' Almighty. For the manifold mercies, and miraculous deliverances vouchsafed at sundry times to the severall nations. To which is annexed a briefe relation of the memorable acts, and prosperous proceedings of the high, honourable, and happy assembly of Parliament, in this present year of grace, 1641. / Composed by J. L. in Art: Mag. Non nobis, domine, non nobis, sed tuo nomini fit gloria.	J. L., in Art. Mag.	1641 (1641)	Wing L28; Thomason E172_20; ESTC R17320	7,901	14

what a havock desolation ha's the Sangninean hand of warre made there View our Neighbor Nation of France Behold that Grand-monarch of Spaine Take a survay of the Netherlands and those passages between the States and the House of Austria consider these premisses you will easily conclude the ruine devastation that direfull war hath bin the cause of in these latter times Other great Kingdomes have lamentably suffered only this little Island is secure And though many Pioners have bin at work many a time and often to undermine this Land yet the Lord God of Israel hath bin a wall of fire round about it Within these two years the last Summer save one the English Army consisting of 30000 horse and foot was marching toward Scotland at the same time the Spanish Fleet that formidable Armado was intended for England In an hostile Invasion they came upon our Coasts the incursion of the enemy then was so unexpected of us and at so seasonable a time for them that had the fire of that warre bin once throughly kindled which was so long smoaking there could not have bin wanting those that would have added fewell to the flame But happy was the houre wherein the happy Pacification was concluded For had that design of war gone on we had long before this time bin expos'd to the pitty of our friends the fury derision of our foes who could not wish for a better opportunity then to see this goodly and flourishing land to imbrue her hands in her own bowels bloud Had not our good God bin mercifull to us this Kingdome had bin desolate we of comfort destitute our streets full of bloud and our fields an Acheldama or Golgotha replenish't with dead Carkasses That fatall warre without Gods mercy might have prov'd the Trojan horse to bring in an Army of bloud-loving enemies to invade us in the mid it whereof we might have bin all surprized by a forrain Adversary This great mystery of iniquity is now discovered that which so long lay hid as a work of darknes is at length brought to light the prime Agents therein detected and I wish that all they in this Land who beare no good will to Syon care not for the peace of Ierusalem may according to their demerits receive condigne punishment for their treachery cruelty in desiting and endeavouring that two Nations should war with each other that by weakning both the Rrmish faction might grow the stronger and with more facility take advantage of us 'T is not long since the Axe was laid to the root of the Tree A warre was intended and that a civill war for otherwise I cannot term it two Armies were in the field ready to fight yet they did but looke one another in the face the sword was drawn and the battaile pitch'd desolation destruction menaced we had not then onely rumours of warres but effusion of bloud on both sides skirmishes were begun men were lost both English Scottish souldiers slain every hour they look't to destroy one another the subjects of one King and people of one faith members of the same mysticall body wherof Christ is the head professors of one the self-same Religion we of England our brethren of Scotland were banded one against another A sad Tragedy was begun the Sceane was the North the Actors were the subjects of both Kingdomes but magnified for ever be Gods mercy 't is inverted to a Comedy is come to a joyfull Catastrophe We were as fire-brands snatcht out of the sire as birds escap'd from the suare The God of peace hath blest us with a setled peace Ever blessed be our blessed God that we and they were not the ruine and confusion of each other The black storm in the North is now dissipated the dismall day is cleer'd up and the faire Sun of consolation hath shin'd upon us for the two Nations are united a blessed Pacification is confirmed this renowned Parliament hath made us all friends and those two late terrible Armies of both Kingdomes are quite disbanded and quietly departed Well may we say with the Princely Prophet Lord thou art become gracious unto thy Land The Lord hath spoke peace unto his people and to his Saints that they turne not againe for his salvation as nigh them that feare him that glory mar dwell in our Land 85. Psal 1.8 9. verses God is our hope and strength a very present helpe in trouble He maketh warres to cease in all the world he breaketh the bow and knappeth the speare in sunder The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Iacob is our refuge Psal 46.1.9 11. Who would have thought that such admirable things should have bin in so short a time effected and brought to passe which we now behold Certainly it is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes Let our right hand forget its cunning and let our tongues cleave to the roofe of our mouthes if we doe not acknowledg that the gracious hand of our glorious God hath in these proceedings gone along with us Let us ever commemorate and never forget the mercies of th' almighty but let the voyce of rejoycing be heard in our Churches and Congregations for the great salvation that God hath wrought for us in putting to infamy all the enemies of our peace in-defeating their plots abating their pride asiwaging their malice and in confounding their devices Great cause and much matter have we of rejoycing and thansgiving Let us therefore in the name of God rejoyce in the Lord be thankfull to him and speak good of his name Let us turn unto him and turn from our wicked wayes by humiliation for them and reformation from them and let us not spend that bloud in Fornication and Adultery which he hath spar'd in his goodnesse and mercy Let every one say with David quid retribuam what shall I render u●to the Lord and with Iob quid faciam what shall I doe unto thee O thou Preserver of men we all partake of the mercy and therefore let us all betake our selves to the duty Let the 3. Kingdomes in generall and every one of us in particular offer according to our obliged duty this Eucharisticall Sacrifice at th' Altar of the Trinity saying unfainedly from the bottome of our hearts Glory be to the Pather to the Son and to the holy Ghost And that we may really expresse our thansgiving Let us give our Almes to the poor and our bodyes and soules unto God the former to his and the latter to him Rom. 12.1 Let us demonstrate our thankfullnesse cogitain dictu actu in the thoughts of our hearts in the words of our mouthes and in the actions of our lives For Gratitude is all the interest that God expects requires for his principall Many are the Arguments and Motives perswading us to give thankes unto the Lord for his Mercies and Deliverances afforded to us of this Kingdome Besides Gods positive favours

which we have received innumerable privative mercies have we enjoyed He hath not onely confer'd good things on us but also kept evill things from us He hath delivered us out of the hands of our Enemies and those no little ones but great Mountaines potent proud impudent implacable secret subtle insulting dangerons and many Enemies corrupt in their judgments impious in their lives men the more witty the lesse wise and more wicked the more politike the more pestilent and the more great they have appear'd the lesse good they have prov'd What strange plots and horrid conspiracies which God in his mercy hath prevented have of late dayes bin attempted against us What undermining there hath bin of the professed Religion and government of the State how under the pretence of vindicating the Kings honour some malignant malevolent Statesmen who have bin too neare his Majesty have endeavoured to oppresse the just liberty of his free-borne subjects to suppresse the true Religion in his Kingdomes how imminent our dangers were how constant close and confederated these Traytors have bin in their designes against us the History of these times doth sufficiently testifie Looke into the Records of the ages past reade Annals search Chronicles examine Antiquities and you cannot parallell the like I am perswaded succeeding ages will hardly beleeve as we who have had the Science and Experience cannot but admire that such fowle birds should be hatcht in so faire a Land as this is so capitall have bin their crimes and so haynous their late offences that the generations to come will be astonisht at this generation of Vipers whose plots projects and practises have aym'd attempted and endeavour'd to involve all of us and all that can be neare and deare unto us our Religion the life of our soules our well being with our very being our Lawes and our Liberties in one universall desolation and generall destruction Praysed be the Lord who hath not given us a prey unto their teeth Psal 1.24.6 Still have we just cause to offer unto the Lord the calves of our lips that acceptable Sacrifice and Divin Oblation of Praise and Thanksgiving What though two Parliaments were dissolved and we were all then in that vacation and intermission thereof full of cares and feares yet it hath pleas'd God in much mercy to move the Kings heart to summon a third which is the last and I dare say the best and will prove the happiest that ever England enjoyed 'T is true God hath 3 shafts in the quiver of his Justice LIMOS LOIMOS Ki POLEMOS Famine Plague and Warre these sharpe Arrowes this great Archer usually shootes at a Nation in his anger and indignation being provoked thereunto by their grievous and crying sinnes And though these Arrowes of the Almighty have bin and are oftentimes abroad in the world amongst us as at this present he hath sent out his arrowes and scattered them Psal 18.14 yet it pleaseth him in h●s mercy to shoot beyond us beside us over us and short of us so that we abide under the shadow of the Almighty for the Lord is our refuge our fortresse in whom we trust Surely he shall deliver us from the snare of the fowler and from the noysome pestilence Wee shall not be afraid for the terrour by night nor for the arrow that flyeth by day nor for the pestilence that walketh in darknesse nor for thē destruction that wasteth at noone day Psal 91.3.5 6. v. What though the Visitation hath within these few years rode circuit through the whole Kingdome within these 3. moneths the. Contagion hath encreased and though of late dayes grimme Death hath gone in triumph through our streets and kept a dreadfull Sessions here within London and in the Suburbs thereof yet we have good cause to be thankfull For God preserves us both in the plague from the plague in taking it from them who are visited in keeping it from us who are not visited Thus in the midst of judgment the Lord remembers mercy And it is of his mercies that wee are not consumed because his compassions faile not 3. Lam. 22. To enumerate all Gods mercies to our English Nation 't is impossible yet forasmuch as the Parliament is the abstracted Quintessence and the Representative body of the whole Kingdome and the State of the Kingdome being united in that one great Councill the wellfare of the 3 Nations doth consist in the happinesse thereof Let us for the Honour of the two Houses in Parliament lately assembled but especially to the glory of God commemorate some famous and never to be forgotten matters and Edicts which those illustrious Worthies of the world and renowned Heroes of their Age whose Statues deserve to be set up in Gold have hoc Anno aureo this golden yeare concluded and enacted A BRIEFE RELATION OF The Memorable ACTS and prosperous Proceedings of the high Honourable and happy Assembly of Parliament THey have recalled from Captivity and restituted to their Livings Liberty sundry godly Divines and Religious Christians as to instance three for all who are sufficiently knowne to all Burton Prinne and Bastwick They have discovered mulcted and silenced scandalous Priests profane Ministers and Popish Prelates They have questioned the Lord Finch once Lord Keeper his Fellow-fugitive Sir Francis Windebank late Secretary to the State and call'd to account divers corrupted Judges They have restrain'd of Liberry Sir George Ratcliffe Imprisoned in the Tower the Archbishop whom if I may call Worme as a farre better man then he term'd himselfe no better I am sure 't is an Epidemicall report both in the City Countrey that the little Arch-bishop was the greatest Adversary and Cankerworme to this Church and State that ever these latter times produc'd They have quelled all the Canter burian faction They have dismounted the Canons and damned that prodigious Oath in that strange Synod They have cut off by the Axe of Justice the late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland These noble Senators have enacted a Trienniall Parliament thereby to perpetuate the present happinesse of the King and Kingdome and to secure th●s Land from future miseries They have damned Ship-money that generall and insupportable grievance to his Majesties poore subjects They have taxed Monopolists and Pattentces who have bin humanarum calamitatum mercatores as an Author ingeniously stiles them the Horse-leeches und Caterpillers of these times They have voted against Non-reside and displaced Pluralists who are so far from being Pastors that indeed they are Impostors rather Wolves to devoure then Shep-heards to feed Christs flocke for they ayme at theirs more then at them and at their goods more then their good They have decided Controversies sentenced Romish Ceremonies Abolished Antichristian Superstitions extirpated Innovations and will shortly at their recesse by Gods gracious assistance set led the Reformed Religion in its primitive purity perfection banished Papists Priests and Lesuites supperessed the two Courts of Star-chamber and the high Commission damp● Doctors Commons Given an Order for the be●●e● sanctifying of the Lords Sabboths They made an Ordinance for Acapitation or Poll-money They ordained two dayes this yeare to be kept holy and set apart for Gods service and worship the one fora publick Fast to humble our selves before Almighty God the other the 7. of September for a generall Thanksgiving throughout his Majesties Dominions in England and Scotland They voted the 13. Bishops impeached by the Commons of England to be suspended from the upper House till the time that they shall come to their Tryall They have established and set up Lectures where they are wanting in all the Parishes of this Realme of England and the Dominion of Wales to maintain Orthodox Ministers They have riglited the wronged eased the oppressed and innocent punished the Nocent and Delinquents Denyed the late Requests of the French and Spanish Embassadors caused a Protestation first of both the Houses next of the whole Kingdome And last of all to omit many more which might be added they have confirmed a blessed Pacification between the two Nations To draw all these lines to their Center Forasmuch as in Gods speciall grace and effestuall goodnesse staends the safety of this and the two other Kingdomes and Gods glory by the Kingdomes safety Let the three Nations be tyed in the treble bond of Religion to God of Loyalty to the King and of unity to one another For all Gods Mercies and Deliverances afforded unto us Let us with Angels and with Arch-Angels sing in the quire of the Church Militant this heavenly Anthem Gloria Deo in Excelsis Glory be to God on high With these 24. Elders in the 5. Revel 8. and with the infinite thousands of Angels Let us fall down and with all the Creatures which are in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and in the Sea and all that are in them say Blessing Honour Glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lambe for evermore Amen FINIS