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A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

the earth as Paulus Emilius that died in Cynna Titus Gracchus in Lucania Augustus Caesar in Nola Traian the good Emperour in the East part of the d De istis omnibus vide apud Fulgosum Brusonium Lycosthenem Textorem Zwingerum in Theatro world Secondly when I consider how many renowned yong Princes beauteous blossoms of excellent luster have been in their verdant spring as a tryall or punishment to their subjects cut off from the Tree of life cropt by that blatrant beast death their Sun setting on a suddaine even in the first rising or in their height solstitiü going backe againe by degrees as the Sun in Ahaz e 2. King 20.11 Diall 1. Sometimes eclypsed by the immediate hand of God as that zealous yong Prince Edward the VI. and the staffe of our hopes our so lamented Iosiah that so faire promising Heroes whom as one cals Iulius Scaliger Picus Mirandula we may truly call worthy wonderful spirit now translated to the God of spirits 2. some made away by the malice of man by treasonable plots and conspiracies as Britanicus the sonne of Claudius slain by Nero in the 14 yere of his age the nephews of Richard the 3 the Duke of Clarence his mate rooted out by the bloudy Celidonian Bore in their springing buddes 3. yea some exposed to death in their very infancie as Romulus Renus that Lamusius that was cast into a ditch young Cyrus by his grandsire Astyages c. Some by this meanes perishing though some againe as these nominated marvailously preserved 4. some cut off by the sword of the enemie as Iosiah by Pharaoh f 2. Chro. 35.23.24 Necho that loving Ionathan by the sword of the g 1. Sam. 31.2 Philistines Ladyslaus the yong King of Bohemia slaine by the Turke in a fatall battle together with Hippolitus h This Iulius perswaded the young king to breake his league and sworn truce with the Turke by which he perished Iulius Cardinals that held themselves in their pride as good as Princes in the 21. yeare of his age 5. others cut off by sicknesses incurable diseases or other dismall accidents from which the Diadems of Emperors the k Mors sceptra ligonibus aequās Crownes of Kings the Myters of Popes are not exempted as Hierome Vrsmus who died of a wound which hee received in Rome Henry Rauzovius crushed to death by a fall in the waters Medices the father to the great Duke of Hetruria slaine by the breach of a Gun as also Heraclas Constantine with moe that might be named all these yeelding the dew to death their debts to nature in the 28. yeare of their age some by one meanes some by another together with Lodowicke the yong king of Hungary that as he was eagerly pursuing the Turks was found dead in a quagmire in the 20 yeare of his age But in the third place when I seriously ponder paralelling histories with our present times not onely the perils and pikes that great Princes have past in their expeditions by land as many Princes and noble Peeres of Christendome cut off in their severall unwarrantable voyages which in their blinde zeale devious devotion they unitedly undertooke for the recoverie of Ierusalem the holy land from the Turke But horresco referens when I deepely ponder the perils by Sea so many so dangerous as the Psalmist l Psalm 65.7 reveales as experience knowes as holy Saints even m Act 27.14 15 Paul himselfe and the disciples of our n Math. 28. ●4 Saviour have tried from which even Kings and Princes have not beene exempted the pietie of that Troyan o Pius Aentas á pietate in Patrem in patriam Aeneas the greatnesse and power of Zerxes or Artaxerxes the felicitie and fortunes of p Caesarem veha● fortunas c. Caesar as hee cald them being but meane Orators and unprevailing pleaders to stay the rage of angrie Neptune when blustring Aeolus hath stird and exasperated him that he roars and fomes insomuch that the wise Byas held Sea-men to be neyther amongst the q Nec inter vivos nec inter mortuos living nor amongst the dead it 's fathered of Cato that he resolved amongst other things never to goe by sea when hee might goe by land to which perils if we credit r A little book newly extant of the Prince his returne Mendoza which now speakes English even his Highnesse was subjected in two or three particulars from which the divine providence mercifully preserved him Yea when I consider how many Princes Peeres great personages have perished in by the Sea in which they have bin intombed in their watry graves as the Egyptian Pharaoh Aegeus of Athens Aiax of Greece Leander of Abaddon yea in our owne Realmes a King a Queene that as that ſ Icarus icarij● nomina feci● aquis Ovid. Icarus before them from being drowned in the waters gave denomination to the waters commenting these many moe examples with that proverbiall adage verified daily by experience that quod cuiquam id cuivis what happens to any one may happen to every one and notwithstanding as I said before all these justly feared stormes which might have befalne us in the leaving or losing of our Prince at home or abroad by sea or by land laying to heart the perils that Kings t As Humber deviding Yorkshire and Lincolneshire and Queene Hive princes are subjected unto even whē they are at home amongst their friends favorites as they thinke even in their Castles their Courts their Pallaces secured by their guard as Eglon slaine by Ehud even in his owne parlour Iudg. 3. vers 22 23. Ishboseth murthered by Baanah and u 2. Sam. 4. vers 5.6 Rehab even in his own bedchamber as Plautinus in the like case thought to have dispatched Alexander Severus by the meanes of w The history is at large in Guevara in the life of Severus Secundus as Iudith dealt with Hollosernes in the w Iudith 13.7.8 Apocrypha as the two sonnes of Senacharib with their father whom they slaughtered as he was at his Idolatrous sacrifice much more subjected to more eminent immanent dangers abroad where they know not their friends from their foes yet notwithstanding all these doubts dangers these perils occasioning our perplexitie that good Angell that went out with him as with x Chap. 48 16. Iacob to Padam Aram with Abrahams servant to y Gen. 24.7 Mesopotamia and with that Tobiah in the Apocrypha being his fidus Achates by land his Palinurus best Pilot by Sea his bonus Genius if everie man as everie province much more every a This question Iustine Martyr expounded q. 30. and later our Master Calvine lib. 1. Instit cap. 14.7 The mayor part of all the Fathers the schoolemen affirme it as Clemens Alexandrinus lib. 6. stromat Orig hom 8. in Gen.

you may see vers 18.19.20 to the end of the chapter as one saith of the Epistles of Cyprian * Referunt pectus ardore plenum Erasmi cēsura everie word is emphaticall and shewes a wondrous ardent and inflamed affection But especially peruse all the Psalmes of David so denominated of him because he penned the greater better part of * Denominatio sequitur maiorem partem them though some were pen'd by Moses n Vide prafat Lorini ante Comment in psalmos Asaph and others and you shall see besides those that are doctrinall precatory deprecatory propheticall penitentiall as they are distinguished by the learned * Vide Musculum Mollerum Bellarm. praefationib ante Comment in psalmos David more then halfe of them are Eucharisticall or Psalmes of gratulations now for this mercie positive in good receaved or privative in evills prevented or removed yea throughout the whole Booke of Psalmes the whole Syntagma or body of it almost in every psalme in the beginning middle or end of it Davids thankefull heart runnes all along as the bloud within the veines the marrow within the bones and the waters within the Crannyes of the Earth Ponder and peruse with Davids heart and spirit for thine owne edification and consolation in the serious Soliloquies of thy Soule Psalme 9.18.23.31.33.34.40.57.66.81.89.95.96.103.104.105.106.107.108 113.116.118.135.144.145 146.147.148.149 150 together with manie moe which I purposely pretermitt and thou shalt finde by comfortable experience the veritie of that which I have observed SECTIO III. Still urging Davids thankefulnesse YEa indeed the whole life of David is nothing else but a practicall Comment of that which is prescribed by o Iames. 5.13 Saint Iames and which should be practised of every Christian namely Is any one afflicted let him pray Is any man merrie let him sing Psalmes For is David afflicted in his outward man by p 1. Sam. 24. v. 11.14 Saul pursuing as the Hauk the patridge by q 2. Sam. 15.30 Absalons rebelling r vers 31. Achitophels complotting or moved or grieved in his spirit by s 2 Sam. 6.20 Michols mocking t 2. Sam. 16.7.8 Semeis rayling v 1. King 2.5 Ioabs murthers w 2 Sam. 3.33 Abners death x 2. Sam. 1.23 Ionathans untimely fall his y 2. Sam. 13.21 daughters deflowring z vers 14. Ammons works wages incest a vers 29.30 death or by the like crosses Is hee in spirit perplexed b Ps 38.5.6.7.8 roaring as a Lion by his anxieties first for his filthie pollutions c Psal 51.3 secondly bloudie murther d vers 14. thirdly presumptuous pride in numbring his people e 2. Sam 24 10. fourthly his rash vowes against f 1. Sam. 25.22 Nabal fiftly his partialitie and injustice toward Miphishbosheth g 2. Sam. 16.4 syding with sycophantizing Ziba h 2. Sam. 19 29. sixtly dissembled madnesse in a heathenish Court i 1 Sam. 21.13 seventhly and for like transgressions slips frailties and infirmities to which Sathans temptations his owne corruptions and sinning condition subjected him In these exigents upon these causes and in these afflictions in the outward and inward man he powred out his Soule to the Lord as appeares in his penitentiall k Psa 6. psal 38. Psal 51.1 Vide Vegam in psalm Poenitentiales Psalmes in humble heartie faithfull fervent penitent Prayer hee supplicates intreats pleades for pardon as a guilty selfe-accusing fellon before his strict Iudge he takes that course which l Exod. 14.15 Exod. 17.11 Numb 16.22 Moses Aaron Iacob n 1 Sa. 1.13.14 Anna o 2. Chro. 1● 11 Asa p 2. King 19.15.16 Ezekiah q Da. 6.10 chap. 2.16 17. Daniel r Esth 4 16. Esther s Nehem 2.4 Nehemiah t 2. Cor. 12.8.9 Paul yea u Luk 22.41 42 Christ himselfe tooke with all his w vers 46. Saints namely to call vpon God in the time day of his trouble in the depths of his miseries he hath recourse to the throne of grace and of x Ps 5.1 ps 7.2 17.1 et 22.2 et 28.1 et 31.7 mercie as he y psal 32.5 professeth and prescribeth to z vers 6. others On the contrary as an excellent patterne of right imitation vertuous emulation to all great men to all good men doth the Lord loose his bonds a Ps 116. v. 16. free him from his troubles take him out of the Nett free him from the snares of these Fowlers the gins and traps of these bloudie hunters which pursue his soule envious bloud-thirstie b 1. Sam. 24. 1. sam 26. v. 21. 1. sam 23.27 Saul matchavillian c 2. sam 17.14 Achitophell dogged d 1 sa 22.9.10 Doegg the factions of the sonnes of e 2 sam 16.10 19.22 Zerviah the treachery of the f 1. sam 26. v 1 Ziphites c Doth the Lord rid him of his enemies domesticke and forreine bring under the g 2 sam 5. v. 20 25. Philistins cast out the h ibid. v. 6.7.8 Iebusites subdue the nations bring him backe to Ierusalem after he i 1. sam 19.13.14.15 was exiled by his owne unnaturall bowels that fayre foule viperous Absolon yea doth the Lord every way hedge and inviron him in with his mercies advance him from the dust bring him from the sheepe-hooke to the k 2. sam 12.8 Scepter set a Crowne of pure gold upon his head let him see his desire upon l psal 54.7 his enemies sweepe away their plots as Spiders m ps 58.6.7.8 webs confounding them that come about him like Bees and Hornets Doth he make his sword ever victorious against the Philistines Ammonites * 2. sam 8. per totum cap. 10 Amalekites c Doth he recover Ziglah with his wives and o 1. sam 30.17 18. children doth he blesse him with the rarest of Iewels so faithfull a friend as p 1. sam 20.42 Ionathan But especially Doth he ponder the mercies of God of adornation or preservation to his Church his Sion his people Israel over whom hee was Prince doth the Arke returne safe from the q 2. sam 6. Philistines is there a stone directed to the forehead of blaspemous r 1. sam 17.49 Goliab the terrour of s v. 24. Israel as Tamberlaine once to the Turke and Tawbut to the French doth hee see the Temple likely to go forward by the large contributions of the Peeres t 1. chro 29.8.9 people doth he see the willingnesse of his Subjects to goe up to the house of the Lord doth hee see with his owne eyes and as in my Text his sonne Salomon on whom were all the eyes hopes of all Israel sixt the second time u Hee was invested once before 1. King 38.39 more solemnely and publickely by the united hearts votes and desires of all invested into his owne

Vintner that keepes a better cup of wine for his owne tooth then that he drawes out to his customers they are so farre from being moved with our doctrine which they see crossed and contradicted by our doings that in their hearts ever somtimes with their tongues they bid us Physitians * Luke 4.13 Cure our selves and then they will follow our prescripts otherwise they wil neither be phlebotomized by such Quacksalvers nor be dyeted by such Empericks And indeed to looke more curiously into the point is it likely that we should draw others unro good when our selves are so bad is he probable to be a good steward to another that never knew how to thrive himselfe nemo dat quod non habet can he beare others on his back as Aeneas his father x Apud Virg. AEneid Anchises out of the Trojan flames that like Mephiboshe●h y 2. Sam. 9.3 or Asa is lame or z 1. King 15. gowtie himselfe can he guide others amongst Cole-pitts or Lime-pitts that 's blinde himselfe can he in whose affections there 's death to any good and in whose life dissolution kindle in others devotion can a dead coale kindle greene wood can any light his candle at a stinking candles snuffe that hath onely like hell fire heate without a See Master Green-woods tormenting Tophet but chiefly B Bilson of Christs descension into Hell in folio alledging the Fathers and scholemen cōcerning hell fire light stinke to offend no light to delight can one drinke pleasingly at a puddle can one bring that which is cleane from that which is uncleane can the poore people gather the b Math. 7.15 figges of nourishing edification or the pressed grapes of right application from the thornes and thistles of an unholy and vaine conversation or not rather the grapes of Sodome the gall of c Deut. 32.32 Gomorrah such unsavorie rotten d Ier. 24.2 figges as will surfet the soule and such sower grapes as will set the teeth on edge Therefore to conclude this point these premisses considered let all us whom God hath fixed in higher orbes move regularly that we may have a sweete and gracious influence upon these inferiours that our perswasions joyned with our practise may fall as the first and latter e Deut. 32.2 raine upon the tender hearbes yea as the dew of Hermon upon the fruitefull Vallie Oh we know that masters worke goes best forward which saith not onely to his servants Doe yee for so his trust and credulitie way bee abused but Doe wee such and such a businesse that sets his owne hand to the worke The wals of Ierusalem are like to bee reedified and their decayed houses rebuilt by the remainder of the captivitie when there is such a superintendent as f Nehem. 7. vers 1.2.3.4.5 Nehemiah and when the Princes and Peeres and Elders contribute so largely and * vers 70 71. liberally as here in this Chapter in Davids time the worke is likely to go forward so when the great Architects the maine master builders in the Church Common-wealth and familie set to their hands and hearts to the building of Gods spirituall Temple to the setting forward of Gods plough to the planting of Religion supplanting of profanesse and superstition then are wee likely to have many spirituall Temples erected Dagon and Baal dejected then may wee hope to see as in the dayes of David and Salomon a flourishing Church and weale-publike then may wee hope for Ioviall and Saturnall times a golden age not an age for gold Halcyon dayes expect a happie harvest of peace mixt with grace when we have such seeds-men When there is such light in the eyes the whole body is like to be g Math. 6 2● inlightned yea this triple bodie Oeconomicall Polliticall Ecclesiasticall inlightened inliv'ned chiefly we in the ministerie when our lights shine before men This tends to the glorie of the Father h Math. 5.16 of lights this shewes others the way out of the darkenesse of Poperie and profanesse Oh our light of holy life and learning like the piller of fire in the i Exod. 40.38 wildernesse leades many out of the desarts of Zin of sin to their celestiall Canaan as an adjunct to the light of Grace taking light from the word of k Verbum praedicatum light or that word l Verbum incarnatum Iohn 1. v. 1. Christ who is the m vers 4. light as the Moone from the n Haurit lucem a sole ut spongia aquam Melichius in lib. 2. ca. 9. Plinij ergo ab Arist. libr. 4. de gen anim c. 10. alter Sol dictus Sunne as the Starre did the Easterne o Math 2 10 11. Magi wee lead many to Christ Oh when such a man as Moses and Aaron goe p Exod 13 18 19. before what Israelite will not follow after and come cheerefully out of the Aegyptian bondage of sinne and the power of the spirituall Pharaoh the Devill to the constant resolved service of the true God in the wildernesse of the world When the generall is a Lion it will put valour into the Souldiers though but Harts and Hares The name of a Scipio or Cesar doth Romanize and Masculine the most effeminate spirit Oh when such an Angell or q Revel 2.1 3.1 Scarre is fixt in a setled Ministerie of whom the hearts of Gods people can give such testimonie as Saint Luke doth of r Act 11 24 Barnabas Paul of ſ Tit. 1 4. Titus and t 2. Tim 1 5 Timothy Augustine and Chrysostome of u De landibus Pauli hom Paul Possidonius of w In vita Augustini Augustine Basill of x In orat funebri Nazianzen Beza of y In vita Calvini Calvin Melancthon of Luther the Church of Geneva of Beza Virell Faius and Farrell Zunch of Zuinglius Tygare of Gualter many Churches and Common-wealths of that zealous Zanchy learned Peter Martyr solid Bullinger acute Bucer with other laureat z As that deep Whitakers learned Raynolds zealous Perkins eloquent Humfrey quicke Fulke melifluous Playfere holy Greenham deering Dent painefull Willet c. cum multis alijs English Germaine and Belgicke lights shining in illumination of knowledge and sanctification of life Such a man such a Phoenix such a messenger one of a Iob. 33.23 a thousand shall declare unto man his righteousnesse binde up the broken b Esay 61 v 1. hearted speake a word in due season to him that is wearie turne the hearts of the Fathers to the Children as was said of Iohn c Luke 1 v 17. Baptist Where such a one is his verie fame as an oyntment powred d Cant ch 1 2. out gives a sweete perfume drawes hearers to him as the Adamant Iron as the Caecian windes the e Plin. lib. 2. ca. 43. Aulus Gellius ex Arist noct Attic. lib. 2. cap. 22. clouds yea as Orpheus his

meanes be planted as where also they be unplanted or corrupted I know God had his Lot in g Genes 19.2 Pet 2. Sodom his Noah amongst the h Luke 17.26 Genes 6.8 worldlings his Elias and seven thousand moe unseene amongst the i 1. King 19 18. Baalites his Sydrach Mesach and Daniell in k Dan. 3.13 Babylon his Ezekiell amongst l Ezek. 2.6 Scorpions his Abraham in m Act. 7.2 Mesopotamia his Davids in the very Tents of Kedar and n in Psalmis Mesek his Ioseph in the Court of o Genes 41.45 Pharaoh his Israel in p Exod. 3.7 Egypt yea such as hated the Babylonian whoore and by their pennes tongues discovered her filthinesse even in the darkest times of q See them expressed and nominated by that learned worke of the B. of Meath De statu successu Ecclesiae out of all Records and authors ancient and Moderne Poperie I know as the Lord had a r Iohn 1.44 Philip in Bethaida a Nathaniel in ſ Iohn 21.2 Cana a Lazarus a Martha a Mary even in that little t Iohn 11.5.18 Bethania a Simeon a Ioseph a Zachary a Ioseph of Arimathea that looked for the Redemption and Consolation Israel even in the middest of a bloodie and sinfull Ierusalem a Cornelius a devoute u Act. 10.1 Centurion even amongst the bandes of Romane souldiers yea a thundering Christian Legion in the campe of a heathenish w Of this legiō who obtayned Raine to the saving of the Emperours armie and how from the power of prayer they were called Legio fulminatrix we read in Text ad Scapul in apol ca. 5. in Eus l. 5. c. 5. in Iustin apol 2. ad Auto. ad finem in Alsted Theol. ●●t sect 3. pag. 731. Emperour even a Church in the house of Nero himselfe so in the profanest Places Times Cities Townes Parishes yea sometimes Families there be some that feare God that keepe themselves free from the contagions of the times hate the garment x Iude 23. polluted by the flesh save themselves in the midst of a sinfull generation stand in the gappe as Moses and Aaron by y Numb 16.22 prayer to prevent deserved plagues yea I say even in the profanest housholdes there be sometimes some holy ones sometimes a z Gen. 39.1.2 Ioseph in the house of Putiphar a Iacob in the house of a Gen. 29. Laban a religious young mayde in the house of Naaman the b 2 King 5.1.2 Syrian I say there be even still some come amongst chaffe but alas these Godly ones are thinne sowne here one and there one as vnious here one of a Tribe and two of a c Ier. 3.14 Citie as pearles amongst pibbles compared with the multitude of blasphemous swearers Goatish adulterers Swinish drunkards biting usurers Theeves profane Sabboth-breakers and others given over like Ahab and Iezabell to commit all wickednesse with greedinesse Alas the true Nathaniels compared with these Nabals these sensuall sinfull * Ps 14.1 prov 7.7 Proverb 8.5 Luk. 12.20 fooles as God cals and accounts them which swarme as the Locusts and Grashoppers in everie place as Egyptian frogges in Court Countrey Citie they are so few that thus shine as Starrs in this our darke night of Poperie and profanesse so manie are carried away to all sinfull courses with the verie streame and torrent of the times that we may say as we see that all are not so much as seemingly religious as here in Davids Court and Campe But as David complaines in the d Psal 14.1.2 Rom. 3.10.11.12 Psalmes we may say our Congregations comment That all are gone out of the way all for the generalitie are corrupt and become abominable their throat is an open sepulcher their feete readie and swift to shed bloud So little doe our multitudes paralell these people so praysed in my Text for praysing God and other religious duties THE THIRD PART CHAP. I. Application of all to our English-Irish Israel HItherto wee have seene David act his part in his Gratulatorie prayse on the publicke stage Piously Personally Publickely Primarily The people theirs Innitiatorily Propensly Obsequiously Vniversally after their Prince his patterne jussion the severall points and passages have beene made ours by application but as the marrow and quintessence of all that may be extracted which concernes our meeting and the solemnization of these dayes take this for the conclusion of all as my aymes and ends in all that 's spoken without which there 's but a confusion of all That where God blesseth hee must bee blessed againe a dignitie requiring a e Beneficium postula● officium dutie a benefit from God a blessing of God all that hath beene sayd as the hand in the Dyall to the houre pointes to this point everie part opened alreadie and applied being commixed as severall drugs that in joynt operations they may purge our ingratitude Which because it is as a humour viscous and glutinous like f Duodecim filij superbia vide inobedientia ostentatio ●nri●fitas cum cateris ingratitudo lege apud Bernardinum de B●stis in concioribus Titulo de Superbia Pride the mother of it and like the Devill the father of it hauing once gott deepe possession in the hearts of our Nation is heard to be dispossessed pleading manie yeares prescription since also as a Rebell and Traytor against God being unconfronted and not incountred it daily waxeth stronger and stronger and gets head more and more to the ruine of Kingdomes and Realmes and supplanting of all where it gets dominion as the usurping Turke with his f Hee that raignes puts the rest to death as Amurath dispached his five brethrē Maho●●et had murthered Ze●●s had he not f●ed of which and many moe Hee that will bee satisfied let him reade the history of Scanderbeg the Turkish historie Pl●●thi●f● his Pilgrimage lib. 3. cap. 8. and Mi●ha●l ab Iss●l● Comment Anno 1555. brethren as Athalia with the Kings seed putting to death everie grace keeping out especially as a Tyrant in an usurped Throne the true King this Regall and Royall grace of gratitude therefore for the suppressing of this Hell-bred Tyrant and for the inthronozing this Tetrach this Heaven-bred Monarch into his true seate his legall Throne the heart of man chiefly to helpe it to regaine his Monarchie in the spirits of our Britanicall Nation and of us their off-springs here Hybernified I will not be wanting according to my tallent to cast this Cananite out of our borders to crush the head of this Serpent this viperous ingratitude and to bring backe againe joyfully as the Iewes their exiled David from Hebron to g 2. Sam. 5.2.3 Ierusalem this true grace of gratitude as the Athenians at last reduced their worthie Themistocles and the Romanes their Tully from their ostrocisme c. which that I may effect as my heart desirously affects I will use motives as

motions historically when I consider how the verie brute beasts have beene faithfull and loving to their Masters in their brutish kinde more then one man to another as those three famous Horses Alexanders o Plin. lib. 8 ca. 42. Solin cap. 46 Bucephalus Caesars horse and the horse of Antiochus King of Syria who as Emblemes of faithfull wives would suffer none to intermeddle with them but their owne Masters Yea the very dogges to the very shame of all temporizing sycophants treacherous Zibaes trencher Parasites false hearted Ioabs viperous Iudasses hollow-hearted friends that have the Ave of hony in their mouths but the gall of Cave in their p Multis annie iam transactis nulla fides est in pactis Mel in ore verba ●actis Felin corde fraus in factis Sphinx philosophica hearts that are unthankefull to their professed friends as many millions and my selfe amongst q Ionathan and Iudas ere long to be printed many can give a probatum est I say the very dogges that have beene faithfull to the very death to those Masters whom they have loved followed as the dogge of Vlysses that was to him in his kinde as firme as his Penelope knowing acknowledging him when he returned home from the Troyan warre The dozen dogges of Masinissa the Numidian King as safely guarding him as the French or Scottish Guard their King The Athenian dog Caparus that kept the treasurie in Aesculapius his r Aelian hist li. 7. cap. 13. Temple better then the gagling Centinels the Romane Capitoll The dogge of Lysimachus cald Druides that died with his Master ſ Plin. lib. 8. c. 40 Lysimachus as the dogge of Hiero that like an Indians best beloved t The beloved wives of the Indians burne themselves quicke in their husbands funerals Mazius Acosta in histor Iud. wife leapt into the same slame which burnt his Master The dogge of Titus Sabinius who never forsooke his Master no not in prison nay that brought meate to his Masters mouth when he was dead and fetcht the dead bodie of his Master out of Tyber into which it was u Plin. libr. 8. ca. 40. Zonaras in Tiberio cast The dogge of Darius who in his fight and flight from Alexander being murthered by his treacherous servant Blessus stayed with the dead corps of his slaughtered w Aelian lib. 6. cap. 24. Lord with other dogges which as wee know by histories and experience have eyther died with their Masters as Aelianus Instances in the dogges of Polus the tragedian and of Theodorus the Musitian who leapt into the funerall flames of their x Aelian libr. 7. cap. 33. 35. Masters like loving curres as they were or else for their masters famishing themselves upon their Masters graves as did the dog of y Eupolide mortuo in aegina cauis media extinctus est Aelian lib. 9. cap. 42. Enpoldes and some in our z See some instances also in this kinde in M. Topsell our English Gesner de Quadrup in ●●l De Cunibus Also the booke called the Pilgrimage of Princes in quar●o pag. 103. times These and all these faithfull gratefull brutes to their breeders to their feeders crie shame upon ungratefull man that for all mercies hee hath received to his bodie to his soule is not so loving so loyall so thankefull to his maker his heavenly Master his Creator preserver Redeemer as horses and dogges for Grasse Hay Oates bones and crusts have beene to mortall man Againe when I consider how submissive and obedient not onely domesticke and house creatures but even these that have beene more sylvane and wilde have beene unto man once wonne and trayned and lured by meate or musicke or by teaching made docible and tractable as namely when I read how a Nightingall would ever sing at the command of a De his omni●●s apud Zwin●er●● in Thea●o vitae hu●ianae ●lin Anl. Gell. ●lexand ab A●●xandro Celium ●hodigin Camer 〈◊〉 Maiolum c. Stenchorus onely to pleasure him of Marthes his Crow if wee credit Celius Rhodiginus that would carrie letters which way soever the King directed * Sic de Columbis Hirundinibus literis portantibus lege plutima enempla apud ●i●ce●t l. 16. c. 54. Plin. l. 10. c. 37. c. 24. apud Fabium Pictorem in annalib Et ●rantium Vand. l c. 7 her Of the Dragon that attended Hera●lides the Philosopher Of a Serpent that wayted upon Aiax in Locresia a Thrush on Agrippina the Empresse a wilde Bull on Pythagoras at Tarentum Of another Bull as also a trayned Doue that would come at a call to that impostor Mabomet Of a Lion that as a Page followed that manumitted Androdius his whilom Physition up and downe the streetes of Rome Of a Seale fish that would come at a call from the Sea to the shoare and take meate of a man dwelling at the Shieldes as I credibly heard when I lived where my b As Queene Mary is said to say of Callis that if she were dead it would be found writ in her heart c. heart still lives at Newcastle on Tyne me thinkes man is more brutish as Esay himselfe or God in c Esai 1.4 Esay complaines on him then the most savage sylvane of brutes that 's disobedient to his God that 's more refractory then the wilde d Iob 39.6 Asse that snuffes up the winde then the wilde e Nec vult Panthera domari semel tamen cum Hoedo domestice fuit educatae Aelian li. 6. hist c. 2 Heyffer that will not admit the yoake then the wilde Panther that will not bee tamed Even as when I consider the mercies of some beastes to man more then of one man to another as of that shee f Bergomensis histor libr. 4. Coepella tractat de Imper. Milit. elig col 12. Cassaneu● Catalogo gloriae mundi parte prima pag. 45. Wolfe which fostered Romulus the first King of the Romanes that shee bitch which fed Cyrus when he was exposed by his cruell grandsire g Apud Zenophontem in paedag Astyages that shee Beare which sustayned Prince Alexander when destined to death by his father Priamus those Bees which fed Plato with hony those Ants which are said to feed Midas with graines when they were in their cradles those Ravens which fed Elias the persecuted h 1. King 17.6 This bite with the i De alijs per creaturas mirac● lose praeservatis lege apud Procopium de bello G●thorum lib. 2. apud Lugerum in epistola ad Ri●fridum cap. 10. apud Surium 10.2 like comparing these with the cruelties of a Nero a Domitian a Dionysius a Caligula and others such which Canniball-like feede upon man as birdes and beastes and fishes of pray the greater upon the lesse the stronger upon the weake I have thought that one man is a wolfe to k Homo homini Lupus another yea a Devill to l

that they which honour God God will honour them as he told m 1. Sam. 2. ●0 Samuel as hee honoured beleeving n Gen 12. Ge. 17 Gen. 18.17.18 Abraham in Chaldea and Mesopotamia Isaac amongst the o Ge. 26.12.28 Philistines Ioseph in p Genes 41.39.40.41 42. Egypt q Esth 6.10.11 Mordocheus r Esth 2 9 Esther ſ Dan. 2.46 48. Daniell Sydrach Mysaach and t Dan. 3.28 Abednego in Babylon u 1. Sa 18.7.16 David x 1. Sam. 3.19.20.21 Samuel and y 2. Chro. 35.18 24. Iosiah in Israell Boaz Ruth in z Ruth 4.11 Bethlem the beleeving a Math. 8.10 Centurion the Cananitish b Math. 15.28 woman the weeping c Luk. 7.44 45. Penitent the fluxe cured d Marke 5.34 Patient Devoute Mary e Ioh. 12.7 cha 20.16 Magdalen patient f Job 1.8 Iob. 42.16.17 Iob meeke g Numb 12.7.8 Iosuah 1.6 Moses publikely before the sonnes of men heraulding their prayses even in the face of their maligning or contesting enemies yea against even Sathan himselfe and his accusing sathanists On the contrarie shaming and dishonouring them that dishonour him as he veryfied as well as threatned against Hophney and h 1. Sam. 2.33 34. Phineas and the house of Israell against the Sodomites burning them with stincking i Gen. 19.24 sulphure as well as fire as their sinnes stuncke against the proud rebelling Nymrodians whose Tower he overthrew and confounded their k Ge. 11.7.8.9 language against wicked Haman all whose honours were in one houre strangled at the l Esth 7.10 Gallowes in his dogge-like death against rebelling m 2. Sam. 18.14.17 Absolon whose name now stinckes as foule as his face was once n 2 Sam. 14 25 faire against proude o Act 12.23 Herod whom the wormes eate proude Nabuchadnezar who usurping more then a man in his imagination for seven yeares was worse then a beast in state and p Dan 4 30 See how this transforming was in D Willes Hexapla in this place fate yea verifying this against his owne Israell who for their owne rebellions though they were the head yet were rhey made the tayle of other people as they were given over to the power of the q Iere. 39.9 Chaldeans r Iudges 6.2 Midianites ſ Iudges 3 14 Moabites t Iudg 13.1 Philistines at severall times but chiefly in Iehoiakim who as hee lived wickedly he died wretchedly and dishonourably having the verie buriall of an u Iere. 22.18.19 Asse none lamenting him As it was also with that blasphemous Arrius and other w Of Gods judgements against Arrius Nestorius and other heretickes and apostates See in the end of Zegedines tables in folio heretickes with Iulian and other accursed apostates with Cain x Act. 1.24.25 Iudas and other bloudie murtherers y 2. Sam. 20.22 Shebah z 1. King 2.31.32 Ioab and other Traytors with Iezabell Cleopatra Messalina a 2. King 11.16 Athalia our English Rosamond Iane Shore all other impenitent profane ones who as they lived without grace and holinesse died in disgrace without honour a debaushed life being usually accompanied with a dishonourable death even so that from this circumference I may conclude the point in the right center that soule that is active in truly blessing God is also passive in receiving blessings from God he is that truly blessed man which is described in the b Psal 1. ps 112. psalm 119 1. Math. 5.3.4.5 Psalmes and in other Scriptures all those blessings shall accrew unto him and come upon both him and his seede which Moses both c Deut. 28.1.2.3 Levit. 26.3.4 5. conditionally and d Deut. 33.6.7.8.9 absolutely pronounceth upon the Israell of God even as on the contrary he that loveth cursing the curse shall come upon him even as a stone or pellet of Lead that 's throwne up in the ayre may fall upon the head of the thrower and crush it as did that stone which an Eagle let fall upon the head of Eschylus the Poet or as a ball that 's throwne against an Iron-walle rebounds backe againe on the breast or face of the thrower as the curses of e 2. King 1● Rabsakah of f 2. Sam. 16.7.8 Semei of Balaake redounded on their owne heads not on the heads of Ezekias of David and of the Israelites as the Popes curses at this g See the book called Brutum ●ulmen day against the Orthodoxe Protestants whom he execrates under the names of Calvinists Lutherans Hugenotes Heretickes fall patt upon himselfe and the declining Sea of the Papall Hierarchie who begins to ebbe by the just revolting of Kings and Christian kingdomes from Babylon as fast as ever by the mysterious working of h Reade that noble French Morney now Englished in folio of the progresse of popery since it was first hatcht Sathan it had a time to flow the causelesse curse as an arrow shot to no purpose in the ayre ever returning in vaine So that to draw this point to a further head as the Lord is Iust lege Talionis by a just i Pana culpa protionata retaliation in other particulars to punish sin so to curse the cursers as most * See Gods hand upō those that used to curse and imprecate instanced by Kellay lib. 8. Guicardine lib. 17. in the death of Charles Duke of Burbon by Crantius libr. 6. chap. 45. by Wierus lib. 4. de Magia cap. 10. by Iohn le Gast in his Table-talke volum 2. pag. 131. by Benso in his historie of the new World lib. 2. cap. 17. by Philip Camerarius hist. Med. cap. 86. in the Tragicall ends accustomed cursers accursed according to that of the Psalmist As he loved cursing so let it come unto him as he delighted not in blessing so let it be farre from him as he clothed himselfe with cursing as with a garment so let it come into his bowels like water and like oyle into his bones let it bee unto him as the garment which covereth him and as a girdle wherewith he is girded k Psal 109. ver 17. ●8 continually so why may we not argue that by a retaliating proportionable mercie seeing both in mercie and justice the Lord keepes an Arithmeticall or Geometricall proportion in rewarding as revenging he blesseth those that blesse him and that blesse his for if he told Abraham that those who blessed him he would l Genes 12. v. 3. blesse and hath ever verified this promise in blessing and prospering the friends of the Church the spirituall seede and sonnes of Abraham as some of our m Gorlicius in axiomatibus theologicis ex Melācthone Sarigelli● alijs Neotoricis Modernes instance in the two Theodosij in Constantine in Gratian in Valentinian and other Christian Emperours who as they were nursing fathers and nursing mothers to the Church the Lord went out and in with

delusions to believe m 2. Thes 2.9 lyes persecuting after the death of Christ the n Act. 5.18 chap. 7.58 Apostles chiefly Saint o Act. 9 23. cha 14.2 Paul throughout the Acts that preached the true Christ unto them with such virulencie that putting away the Gospell from them and judging themselves unworthy of eternall life Act. 13.46 their golden Candlesticke was removed their vineyeard let out to other husbandmen The halt and blind and lame wee sinners of the Gentiles were called in to that marriage feast of mercie by that Gospell which they p Math. 22.8.9.10 refused But when I consider againe as consequent upon the former Gods judgements upon their very bodies and outward man upon them and their seede and posteritie in all ages since the death of Christ and in all places where they are as the dust dispersed that curse and fearefull execration his bloud be upon us and our children so fully q Math. 27.25 verified that hee that reades their Tragedies by r Iosep de bell Iudaico antiq Iosephus and ſ Iosippus Heb. Iosippus both Englished in our tongue writ as it seemes not with inke but bloud and prosecuted since by Eusebius Nicephorus Dion Nicetus Caesar Baronius Ioseph Scalliger Peter Galatinus Damianus a Goes Iohn Renclin our Master Foxe in his Martyrologie and many moe Authenticke Authors that in all times since have observed Gods heavie hand upon them and his strict proceedings with them in all countries where they are scattered if he have not a heart of flint or marble hewen out of Caucasus hee cannot but relent But more particularly when I ponder and seriously consider those infinite slaughters and massacres that were made of them by Titus Vespasian after that by divine Oracle the Christians were warned to flie to t Euseb hist eccles lib. 3. cap. 5. Pella as Lot out of Sodom the Magi and Ioseph out of Iudea as first eleven hundred thousand of them perishing in the sacking of their Citie Secondly the rest eyther killing themselves or being sold for u Ioseph de bello Iud. reckons of slaves 97000. l. 7. cap. 17. Petrus Gal. de arcanis l. 4. ca. 21. recensit 200000. accounting all as slaves under 17 yeares slaves or after the Romane custome reserved for triumph Thirdly besides the murther of their Priests the ruination of their Temple like the wals of w Iosh 6.26 Iericho never to be reedified though attempted by cursed x Hist Tripart Greg. Nazia orat 4 in Julio Iulian in despight of Christs prophesie for which they had a Sect and Order of y Ioseph Scalig. Elench trihar ser cap. 13. Mourners Heraclitus his off-spring which solemnely did nothing else but weepe and lament it Fourthly and besides the spoyling of their sacred vessels or profanely as once before z Dan. 5.2 3 etc Balthazar imploying them to the adorning of the heathenish Temple of peace Fiftly besides the slaughters that at severall times Adrian the Emperour made of a Ioseph de bello Iud. lib. 7. cap. 24. them some eight and fortie yeares after their first overture by Vespasian for their rebellion under their impostor Benchochab or Barcosba cutting off by Severus his Lieutenant 580000. by the b Dion Nicei Adrianus sword besides those that perished by famine sickenesse and fire or as others number them killing at Alexandria in Egypt 700000. of them in such multitudes that if we may beleeve their owne c Lib. Echa rabbethi writers the bloud reached to the horses mouths and runne downe from the place of effusion foure miles to the Sea it coloured and made swell two d Lib. Massechith Ghittin Rivers yea served the Heathens seven yeares after to fatten their ground with it as their bones stood Adrian in good stead to hedge in a Vineyeard of manie miles compasse those that revived being prohibited from ever comming neere Ierusalem or looking towards it saith e Euseb Eccles hist libr. 4. cap. 6. Eusebius out of Ariston Pelleus with manie other f Plurima vide apud Niceph. lib. 3. cap. 24. punishments and vexations together with the wondrous massacres the Emperour Trajan made of thē Adrians predecessor who for their rebellions in g Egypt and Cyrene under their Captaine Luke or Andrew as Dion cals h him by the meanes of Martius Tubo cut off many thousands of them but moe by Lucius Quietus that made them ever quiet who destroyed them utterly in Mesopotamia And more when I consider how every way miserable they are at this day in their inward and their outward man their bodies and their soules how they are a mocke and derision to all Nations as they mockt and derided Christ how they have beene sold for slaves yea thirtie of them for one peece as they bought Christ of the traytor Iudas for thirty peeces how they are held under as slaves in every Nation without Vrim without Thummim without Temple or true Priesthood Ministerie or Magistracie Office place or Government as made the tayle and not the head where ere they come their names smelling as a fowmart or Foxe the name of a Iew being as odious as the name of a i At zante they are so hated that from Mōday Thursday till Saturday noone they come not abroad least the people stone them Purchase libr. 2. cap. 10. Iudas everie place in Europe Affricke and Asia being wearie of them excepting k They have built them in Rome five Synagogues See the Relation of Religion in the West partes Rome that makes use of their tollerated usurie as of their Stewes and curtizans meerely for gaines how everie countrie after a time hath eyther held their nose to the grindstone miserably afflicting them as they were used here in England in the dayes King Richard the first Edward the first and King Iohn as our Chronicles mention or extreamely pilling and polling them by taxes l Iohn the second king of Portingall made thē pay 8. Crownes for a poll Emmanuel did the like Ann. Dom. 1497. with manie moe impositions and confiscations of goods as they pill and poll Christians by their biting yea bloudie usurie fleeting them as the Turke useth to doe with his Bashawes and phlebotomizing their full purses to prevent a plurisie or else banishing them and casting them out as the Sea casts her froth to the shore as they were used by the three Phil●pps but chiefly by Ferdinand and Isabella in m Anno Dom 1592. it's thought they were banished 120000. families of them or 420000 persons as are computed by Io●annes Re●clinus Cabal lib. 1. Spaine by some Popes also in n As Paul the fourth Pius or impious the fift though received againe as loth to forgoe such good customers by Pius the fourth and Si●ius the fift Rome by some of our Kings in England or else massacring them with the sword or stoning them to death by the rage of the people

wife nasuted that he smelt out the danger of his t 1. King 2.22 drift so that by Gods over-ruling providence both those treasonable plots of Adoniah were prevented the one by the care and circumspection of David the other by the wisedome and prudencie of Salomon himselfe So if we doe not voluntarily shut our eyes do we not sensibly and at this day comfortably feelingly perceive that our Salomon our Soveraigne hath beene rescued out of the jawes of a double danger the one before he was invested with the Crowne of Albion the other since the one in Scotland the other in England the one as under God whose hand kept him ever as the apple of his eye by his prowesse the other by his prudencie pollicie for as he was lured trained to the house of Earle Gowry by the false lapwing cries of Alexander Ruthwen as he was a hunting inviting him in his intention to a bloudie breakefast and thereby a serpentine wile leading him from the rest of his Nobles as a sheepe to the slaughter the butchering executioner standing readie prepared for the fatall stroke the Lord cast such a punicke feare into the heart of him that was set to be a murtherer that that dogge stood trembling and quaking as an Espin leafe as he that once intended the murther of Darius as not being able to looke upon our * His Majestie is said to have the impression of a Lion on his breast the prophesie 2. Es● 11.27 is by some applied Lion gave withall such a strength and spirit to his Majestie that grapling hand to hand even with that Alexander though naked and the other armed he held him play the other standing by as a cypher or dumbe shew till by a speciall providence his Majestie was overhard and so speedily relieved by his valiant followers who in an unequall u Impar congressus c. combat foure to seaven as appeares in the particular passages thus epitomized with the losse of their owne bloud and the death of some of their enemies brought of his Majestie with honour and safetie But this danger was but as it were a Northerne prologue to a Sotherne Tragedie if it had beene acted and effected as it was penned and projected by these unfortunate Gentlemen as their friends call them Piercie Catsby Graunt Faukes Keyes Bates Rookwood Digby and the two Winters for ever sigmatized and branded as Cain with his w Gen. 4.15 marke as Ieroboan with his x 1. King 16.23 Ieroboam the son of Nebat that caused Israell to sinne title with the odious name of the Powder Traytors which plot being so deepe and infernall to blow up the Parliament house with powder in that one blast to turne Heaven as it were into Hell Religion into superstition peace into warre libertie into bondage safetie and securitie into bloudshed to eclypse our Sunne our Moone and our Stars all at once to turne the flowers of Christendome the worthiest King the sweetest Prince the most honourable Nobilitie the most reverent Iudges learned Cleargy loyal Commonaltie wisest Patriots there assembled into mummiamized earth even in a trice as it was thought to be first invented as powder and Gunnes by a conjuring Fryer even by a parliament of wicked spirits breathing and suggesting it into the heades and hearts of these male-contents drunke with blinde and bl●u●●e zeale as the Crow with Nux vomica So it was if comparisons be not odious as is well knowne by all circumstances as wisely and judiciously found out and discovered by his Majestie by rightly expounding past a humane reach the most intricate quiddities of a mysticall letter as ever Salomon found out the true mother of a controverted y 1. Reg. 3.27.28 childe or discovered the ambitious and bloudie plot of a false brother Adoniah But to draw at length together my sayles and to cast ancker in this large sea of mercies the Lord hath not onely given his judgments to the King but inlarged his mercies to the Kings Sonne we are to looke upon the Sunne rising or else alreadie risen chiefly to admire the luster of our Illustrious Prince after he hath beene so long hid from our Horizon as it were shining in another Climate yea in our feares onely and jealousies of love clouded and vayled from our eyes but not from our hearts and now the fogges and mistes of our feares being dispelled and dispersed breaking againe upon us with more resplendent beautie to our eyes more sweete influence of comfort to our hearts then ever wee now receiving him as Abraham did his Isaac or Iacob his Ioseph with a redundant joy after wee had a while left him or rather hee us in his expedition from us which our longings thought too long And now to set a stronger edge upon our affections and to excite our hearts to a higher straine of thankefulnesse for the safe and prosperous returne of our Prince which wee with the whole Realme of England Scotland and that part of Ireland that is not Romanized yea Belgia and all Christendome our friendes in the same faith doe entertaine and welcome with joyfull Iubilees As those that have past the waves and quicksands and rockes and shelves and Pyrats of the Sea stand upon the shore and as joyfully as safely view and recount with glad and exhilerated hearts their forepast perils So let it be with us in this our Sunny calme let us reflect upon the stormes that might have falne upon us had not the hand of the Almightie withheld them in that hazard which we runne in the late absence of the Prince and as generals which may as fitly as the right Glove to the right hand be applied to our owne particular let us consider but these specials First how many great and famous Princes together with other famous personages for Armes and Arts have died out of their owne countrie farre absent from their friends and favorites except such as did accompanie them finding their owne countrie the place of their birth another of their buriall Thus Alexander was borne in z Q Cart. lib. 1 Macedonia but died was buried in a Euseb libr. 1. Babylon Cyrus borne in Persia yet slaine and dishonourably buried in b Iustin. hist. Scythia Hanniball of Affrica buried in c Plutarch in Pompeyo Bithinia Cleomenes borne in Lacedemonia intombed in Egypt Crassus and Pompey both borne in Rome but falne untimely the one in Assiria the other betrayed and butchered in Egypt So for learned men Pythagoras borne in Samos dead in Metapontus Virgill born in Mantua buried in Brundusium Terence borne in Carthage buried in Arcadia so these worthie Athenians Themistocles Thesius Solon were borne in Athens yet ended their dayes in Syria Cyprus Persia and elsewhere I might adde many moe as King Igurthu borne in Numidia buried in Rome these famoused worthies the Scipios Curtij Decij Cornelij borne in Rome but dissevered in their deaths over the superficies of

Basil in Psal 33. Epiphan Mer. 51. Chrys ho. 3. ad c. 1. ad Coloss Cyril lib. 4. contra Iul. Procopius cum cateris grounding on Gen. 48.16 on Math. 18. vers 10. and on Act. 12.11.15 Prince have his bonus Genius his protecting Angel both by land and sea in every coast countrey where he came having reduced brought him backe again after this large circumference to the English Court his own center in health honour prosperitie and safetie both in bodie and soule not somuch as the least infected dust cleaving to his feete much lesse any corrupted Popish ayre infect his royall bloud such was the antydote preservative of grace of which his highnesse hath given more then Mathematicall demonstration even since his comming home Oh this is a mercie to his highnesse in particular to the land realme all us in generall interested in him past expression Chiefly whē I consider how unworthy we have walked of former mercies how like these nine clensed lepers we have beene b Luk. 17.16.17 unthankefull how there is at this day a controversie whether God is more mercifull to us or wee more sinfull against him we wounding the Lord with his own weapons abusing our peace plentie all other Tallents as Bawdes Panders to uncleanesse as fuell to the fire of our licentiousnesse as if a whorish woman should with these Iewels love tokens she receives from her husband mantaines an adulterous lover or a favorite with these lands revenues he hath received from his Prince assist animate a professed rebell wee imploying still Gods favours in the service of sinne sathan our sinnes like Ierusalems yea like c Ezeth 16.49 Sodoms pride idlenesse fulnesse of bread yea fulnesse foulnesse of drinke too extortion oppression increasing and springing with our blessings the sins of every countrey the German drunknesse Asian luxurie Cretian lying Carthaginian perfidiousnesse Italian wantonnesse Iewish usurie Turkish crueltie the French complementall formality with the vices vanities of every other Nation meeting in our land as in their Center entertained retained as Lawyers their Clients Physitians their Patients Noble-men their jeasters fooles because they bring sackes to our Milnes pleasures to our mindes or profites to our purse c. Yea withall when I ponder too how little use we have made of the Lords judgements plagues pestilence dearths inundations of waters sicknesses diseases deaths of the Honourable of the Martiall of the Senatour of the d Esai 3.1.2.3 Counsellour that have beene taken from us but chiefly the eclypsing of that bright sun that once shined so gloriously in our hemispher th' death of that our Illustrious farre famoused Prince Henry as greivous to our hearts as the death of that worthie e By the malice of Roxama cut off by his bloudy father Solyman in any great thing that happens the proverbe is Mustapha is dead Mustapha was once to his Martiall Ienisaries or the death of that noble Zisca to his zealous valerous Bohemians of whose death in not dying since to any sinne as humbled by this judgement we have made so little use that by our greivous provocations and as a just punishment of our former ungratious ingratitudes in the absence of our Prince the Lord having lately the Ball at his foote as hee hath ever to goale it to our griefe whereas hee might have brought on us now stouping plague indeede and have payed us home once for all by many meanes which I leave to all Christian hearts to excogitate yet when wee experimentally see that as in the first creation hee hath brought light out of darkenesse good out of our feared evill glory to himselfe prayses to his Majestie as before prayers for the preservation of our thrice honoured Prince Is not all this the Lords doings and it is marvailous in our eyes Oh if David and his Nobles were thankefull for the mercies towards their Salomon the instrumentall builder of their materiall let us be thankefull for our Salomon the builder of the spirituall Temple the propagator and continuer of true Religion the planter of Gods true worship the supplanter of Idolatrie If Cain bee avenged seven times then Lamech seventie times said that f Genes 4.24 Polygamist If the Iewes have cause of gratulation seaven times for Gods mercies towards their Church and Common-wealth Kings and people wee have occasion seventie times seven times If the undersong of Davids Psalmes much more of our spirituall Hymnes may well runne in this torrent to the God of mercies for his mercie endureth for g Psal 136. per totum ever Oh then let all of us this day this houre with our mother great Britaine by all meanes expresse our thankfulnesse by our rejoycings in the outward and inward man Blow with your Trumpets as in the new Moone strike your Drummes advance your pikes I wish I could say as in England ring your Bells make your bonfires sound your Cornets display your Banners charge and discharge your Guns apply your powder make good use of Match or as more certaine use your fire lockes march like Martialists daunce your measures as David did before the Arke Let the day of our preservation from the powder treason of the Coronation of our King the reduction of the Prince be to us as the Iewes h ●●●h 9.26 Purim let them be writ in red Letters inserted in our Calender but for ever these mercies with their memorials let them be as Moses commands i Deut. 6.6.7.8 Israell be ingraven better then in Brasse and Marble in the Tablets of our gratefull hearts perpetuated traditionarily to our Children children Let our Hearts Lives Loves Votes Voyces Tongues Soules Spirits joyne with all the blessed Quyre of Angels in Heaven and Saints in Earth for all his mercies to praise the father of mercies the God of spirits To whom bee honour and glorie of us and in all Churches for ever and ever Amen FINIS ERRATA Sic Correcta 1. Iaunnus for Janus pag. 9. post literam f. 2. optative for operative p. 12. initio pagina 3. God for good ibid. 4. Denuntion for denuntiation initio pag 20.5 Farnestius for Far●●sius initio pag. 24. 6. of for oft pag. 43. Sect. 6. lit c pag. 46. in fine sect 6. those words must headded post verbum Queene Mary with many moe doe sympath●●e one with another and hang together like burres 7. Zinick for Zurick p. 51. post lit y 8. wafted for wafted p. 53 post lit b 9. Menius for Mevius p. 59 post q 10 pag. ●6 in fine pawne they for they pawne 11 p. 97. prolonging for prolonging post f 12 p. 99 pri●●aces for privaces linea prima 13. p. 104. post u bewitching for butchering 14. p. 106. Zapirus for Zopir●s post f 15. p. 110. mike for milke post w pag. 111. in lit m it is for is it 16 pag. 136. chippe for chirpe post lit z 17 p. 138. initiation for imitation post lit p In the Margino also there be some maine defects which yet with your pen may be cured pag. 25. lit x Bols●ecus for Bolsecus p. 33. lit q Magnetis nigra for Mira pag. 120. lit f adde to intolerable pride deleatur where Caesar make it as Pelargus of the p. 9● lit s Hexapla in Lucadum for in Exodum with sodoe other of lesse moment