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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02675	Brittaines hallelujah or A sermon of thanksgiving for the happy pacification in Brittaine preached in the English church at Hamburch before his excellency the right honorable Sir Thomas Rovve Lord Ambassador Extraordinary for his Mayesty of Greate Brittaine in Germany, &c. And to the vvorshipfull & famous Society of Merchant Adventurers & some cavelliers of Scotland By Ma. Harris Batchelour in Divinity, fellovv of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge & chaplaine to his excellency.	Harris, Malachi, 1606 or 7-1684.	1639 (1639)	STC 12807; ESTC S119822	18,712	32

Was it your purpose to Trans-late the king his nobles and the vvhole state representative to translate them all into Heaven in an Instant by an Extemporary Martyrdome Was it your meaning presumptuously to prevent a Resurrection and to preferre Companions to Elias in fiery Charriots A Conspiracy vvherein all the Crueltys that have bin heard of or can be Imagined vvere mett to geather as our late Greate Good L. Bishop of Winchester vvell observed The Cruelty of Pharoh Herod murdering the harmeles Innocent harmeles Infants and yet they spared the mothers The Cruelty of Esau killing the mothers vvith the Children The cruelty of Nebuzaradan not sparing the King and his Nobles The Cruelty of Haman not sparing Esther her Ladys The Cruelty of Edom not sparing the Sanctuary and its vvalls Dovvne vvith them Dovvne vvith them to the very ground Or rather vp vvith them vp vvith them into the highest Region of the Aire The Cruelty of the Divel Himselfe hurling dovvne the foure corners of the House Shall I say or of the vvhole Citty vpon the most and best of the sonns of the Church State As if Lucifer Himselfe had not bin before this time either old vvitty enough to plott or mischeivous enough to attempt such a damnable desolation as this vvould have proved And vvas not the Deliverance from this a greate thing that so dismall a Calamity should be praevented by the vnridling of an aenigmaticall letter directed to a freind A Letter in deede vvich in the event did salutem plurimam dicere brought most happy salutations to the vvhole Church and state But vve must thanke next Allmighty God King JAMES Of vvhom it might be better said then once it vvas of a greate Orator Miserum esset eum tacuisse It had bin a miserable thing if He had held his peace Had there not bin Divinatio in labijs Regis a divine sentence in the lips of the king Prov. 16.10 As if King Salomon had purposely vvrit that saying to be verified in his Successor in Wisdome vpon this occasion Had there not bin I say a Divination in the kings Lips I may speake it after that Reverend Prelate vve had bin all in the Javves of death vvere not these greate things vvhich the Lord hath done for vs But this you vvill say is more pro per to a 5th of Novemb. Well then vve turne over the Calendar to the Moneth of June this 1639. and looke vpon King CHARLES his Flagg the just Trophy of this day But here I am vlterly at a losse and knovv not vvhich vvay to turne my selfe Yet you may must pardon me loquuntur leves as true of Joyes as of Greifes Light Joyes may be Rhetoricall vvhilest such as these knovv noe ether Figure then an Eckstaticall Aposiopesis It deservedly takes place of both the former The first vvas from a forraine Invasion The Second takes place of it as It vvas from a domestick Conspiracy This Third of them both both as it vvas from an Insurrection and so of an higher nature then a Conspiracy and as it vvas made by men of the same Church of the same Religion and so outstrips the second That being done by men though Brittaines by Nation yet Romans by Relegion vvith vvhom any thing is lavvfull Treasons Rebellions vvhat not in or dine ad Deum they say ad Diabolum they should say Here I might vvell take leave to make a Revisall of vvhat hath bin spoken concerning Sions Deliverance and compare this of ours vvith that of Theirs both for Matter Manner that so the Praeeminency of ours may more manifestly appeare We vvill be very breife 1. For the Matter You vvill say perhaps there vvas noe feare of a Babylonish Captivity Well vve let that passe novv But there vvas a greate feare of a most bloudy vvarre vvas there not And doe you knovv vvhat vvarre is Can you tell me vvhat horrid confusions there are in one pitched feild vvhat roaring thundering of Canons vvhat clashing of armor What svveating svvimming in bloud vvhat hideous outerys My leg is of my arme is of my gutts be out halfe dead halfe aliue vvorse then either because neither as one describes it pathetically Can you tell me the direfull Issues of a victory vvhat plunderings burnings vvhat killing and encouraging to kill vvhat amazed flights vvhat fearefull screichings Noe regard of Age or Place or Sexe The Grayheaded vvallovving in their goare vnder the hand of a fell-ruffian-souldier The tender Infants either dashed a gainst the stones or spravvling vpon the points of speares The screaming Mother the vvhiles bruitishly ravishedere she may have leave to be slayne Doe but looke out of your ovvne doores a little higher into these Countrys Hovv are those gardens of Eden become desolate vvildernesses Hovv many miles may you travell ere you finde a Dorpe Hovv many Dorpes may you passe thorough ere you meete vvith a man Meete vvith a man sayd I Nay rather one vvhom you vvill startle at as at a Ghost and runne avvay from as from a Lycanthropus Have you not heardl I am sure you have and that often and that by very good hands vvhat monstrous Metamorphoseis Famine hath vvrought among them vvhen the Host shall lodge his Guests in his Mavv vvhen freind shall bury freind in his belly vvhen the mother shall entombe her child in her vvombe vvhen the Living shall prey vpon the Carkasses of the dead Nay vvhen heare o Hell and be moved vvith pitty vvhen the dead shall be raked out of their graues to beburied a second time in the Stomack and a third time in the Draught O the calamitys of vvarre vvhilst the very relating of them can scarce secure you from teares And is a Deliverance from a vvarre then thinke you noe greate thing We doe not say as many have that it might have proved in the end a Captivity little better then Babylonish vvhiles either a vvhole Church should be vvith out Goverment or almost every private mā in the Church should become a Governour yet againe vvhiles a Paire of Turtle-doves it is but seldovvne I confesse shall in an angry cholerick manner make feircely one at another vvho knovves but some Eagle or Faulcon may be pearched not farre of delighting to see such a spectacle and feeding her selfe vvith hopes of preying vpon both But suppose this to be a groundles Suspicion yet a Captivity it vvould questionles have bin and for its kinde a very strange one Heare o Heavens and be amazed Hearken o Earth and be astonished Brittaine should have bin lead Captive by Brittaine Countryman by Countryman Brother by Brother the Sonne by the Father the Father by the Sonne Coeter a loquantur lachrymae Thus you see vve come not farre short of Sions Deliverance for the Matter Nor 2ly for the Manner I trust I knovv very vvell the Pulpit is noe place for Currantos and Gizets noe place to tell nevvs in It vvas my boldnes ere vvhile to phancy my