Christians prayed in old time for their Kings yet heathens wishing them vitam prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes senatum fidelem as Tertullian writes A long life a quiet Empire a safe Court strong Armies a faithfull Counsell yea with Dauid that God would clothe all his enemies with shame but vpon him his Crowne to flourish Let the vnited voices of his Maiesties populous Kingdomes send vp to Heauen their cordiall and continuall acclamations God saue the King let the eccho resound in Heauen as seruently as the noyse of the Romanes did in applause of Flaminius generally calling him Sauiour Sauiour the noyse whereof was so violent and vehement that as Plutarch writes it made the fowles of the ayre fall downe dead or as the people of Israel did to Salomon when he was created King in Gihon and anointed there by Zadock with an horne of oyle taken out of the Sanctuary the people piped with pipes and reioyced with great ioy so that the earth rang with the sound of it blowing their trumpets and saying God saue King Salomon So let all the people within his Highnes Dominions lift vp their hearts and hands blow their trumpets ring their bels frequent their Churches saying and praying God saue the King Corporally Spiritually Politically CHAP. II. AND surely we are fallen vpon the times wherein by some rebellion is counted a spice of deuotion Traytors encalendred for Saints or Martyrs vis proditoria nomine vocatur nouâ— Romana virtus In the Iesuites Schoole nothing is so rife as the theoricke and practicke of Princes Murther Mariana prescribes to Traytors rules and cautions for poysoning Kings and highly commends King-killers praeclare cum rebus humanis ageretur si multi It were a merry world if there were many of that kinde so Sixâ—us Quintus makes a long oration to praise that Frier who killed Henry the third the French King stiling it rarum inanditum memorabile facinus Dolman Cymanea Rosseus Fewardentius Bellar. Becanus Suares and others hold the like traiterous assertions Subditos posse depriuare reges à Papa excommunicatos vita regno Subiects may depriue Kings of their liues and kingdomes thinking of Kings royall bloud as Maximinus said of Christians bloud Christianorum sanguinem dijs victimam esse omnium gratissimam the Christians bloud is the most acceptable sacrifice to God as Seneca falsly thought that there is no sacrifice more acceptable to God then a Tyrant offered in sacrifice and most wickedly Guignard called the murder of Henry the French King by poysoned kniues committed by two Iacobin Friers heroicumfactum donum spiritus sancti A most heroycall Act and the gift of the holy Ghost So that the vpstart Champions of the Church of Rome hauing contemned Gods precept Nolite tangere c. Touch not my annointed and both by pen and practise labouring to be the Deuils empericks to let out the bloud of Kings it is the duty of all good Subiects duely and daily to pray vnto God to reueale and reuenge all the mischiefes and machinations of the sonnes and seruants of the purple whore which is drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Christ Iesus Purpurati pontificij omnium matuum authores sunt c. The purple Romanists haue bin the prime instruments of most pernicious actions And therefore let all the people of great Britanie ioyne as their loyall obedience bindes them to their necessary seruice both in hearts and voyces to almighty God the protector of Kings to find out all his enemies and make them like a fiery ouen in the time of his anger to confound all their conspiracies making them like the grasse on the house tops which withereth before it come forth saying and praying God saue the King CHAP. III. THE causes and motiues to induce all good subiects to this Christian seruice and loyall duty to pray continually for the preseruation of the King be many and manifold I will but touch some of them and leaue the rest to Christian rememberance for Breuitas sermone tenexda The first is the Apostle Pauls precept ante omnia before all that Supplications Prayers and Intercessions and giuing of thankes bee made for Kings c and renders a powerfull motiue to perswade all consisting of three benefits arising from it 1. a quiet and peaceable life 2. in all godlinesse and honesty 3. this is good and acceptable in the sight of God The Kings preseruation is our preseruation his welfare is the weale of our Common-wealth reip foelicit as non potest esse absque Principis foelicitate saith Plinie A Country is vnhappy vnder an vnhappie King so that if people desire to liue a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty let them like dutifull members pray for the prosperity of the supreame head for if he fall vpon the rockes they are like to come to ruine Vt ratis in scopulos errat peritura latentes Nullus vbi celsa puppe magister adest As a shippe whose Pilot perisheth is driuen vpon the rocks and so is cast away euen so how can the shippe of State sayle with a prosperous winde whose regall Pilot suffers ship wracke Regall aduersity is the harbenger of popular calamity wherefore if Subiects desire to be happy themselues let them continually pray for the happinesse of their Soueraign whose prosperity is the Axis or Cardo the very foundation of their temporall felicity 2 Motiue is the great difficultie in the right managing of the regall office and therefore had need to be assisted with the frequent and feruent prayers of the people imploring diuine wisedome to direct the heart of their Soueraigne for it is Ars artium the Art of Arts rightly to rule and gouerne common-wealths this many-headed multitude so diuided in Faction and action scarce two quibus vna vox aut votum of one minde or mould Peace pleaseth Cato Warre Pompey the Souldier cries Arma virumque cano The Merchant da pacem Domine Brutus desires a Common-wealth Caesar a Monarchy Ciceroes counsell is seruiendum tempori but Lentulus thinkes that the voice of a flatterer in the popular sort as many heads as hearts Scinditur incertum Studia in contrariavulgus So that to reconcile and to reclaime to vnitie and vnanimity this Babell of men had need of Iethroes head Be wise O yee Kings and learned yee that are Iudges of the earth saith Dauid they had need of great wisedome who are rulers of such popular flocks and therefore Salomon shewed himselfe wise who in the entrance into his regall throne craued of God wisedome and knowledge to iudge the great people that I may say with the son of wisedome If your delight be then in Thrones and Scepters O Kings of the people honor wisedome that you may reigne for euer Dauids
thy truths sake Be euer thankefull to God and then he will euer be mindfull of you to blesse you the Lord will increase his graces towards you euen toward you and your children therefore praise the Lord from henceforth and for euermore for he hath not dealt so with euery Nation and if our deseruing were put into the lottery of other people wee should bee rewarded with a blanke Gods loue and gracious fauour to vs is ignis accendens fire to set vs on fire Let our thankefulnesse to God be ignis accensus a fire flaming to God in all zeale loue duety thankes seruice and deuotion God hath set England as it were vpon an hill a spectacle to all Nations strengthened by sea and land ad miraculum vsque to the admiration of all people blessed it with an extraordinarie peace prosperity of long continuance we are the worlds enuie let vs not become their declamation Nothing but our vnthankefulnesse to God our licentiousnesse in life our disobedience to his Word our securitie in sin our contempt of good meanes and mercies offered can worke our ouerthrow and these if we doe not drowne them quickly in the riuers of repentance so one may breed and bring our wofull downefall The Lord hath blessed this land with great and gracious blessings in it the golden bels of Aaron are powerfully rung the word by faithfull teachers mouingly deliuered Oh let our perpetuall prayers praises and thanks ascend to heauen because Gods graces and mercies plentifully descend to earth Et si desint gratiae quia nos ingrati If any grace be wanting it is because we want grace to be thankefull for this our happy gouernment hauing a prosperous peace and that which is the procurer of peace with God and men that blessed passage of the Gospell Si totum me debeo pro me facto quid debeo pro me refecto saith a Father If wee owe God our selues for our creation what doe we owe vnto him for our regeneration preseruation and saluation We therefore that haue tasted of the great cup of Gods mercy let vs with Dauid take the cup of saluation giue thanks and praise the name of the Lord let vs praise God for these aboundant mercies and euer pray vnto him to preserue the happy instrument of manifold benefits and blessings to vs our most dread and deare Soueraigne duty bindeth vs to this taske our owne welfare mooues vs to this duety for his prosperity is our tranquillity his safety is our felicity the blessing redounds to vs and if he should miscarry which God forbid we should be partakers of his misfortunes Therefore be alwaies obedient and diligent to serue our royall Head golden in all vertues and princely perfections in all loyall and Christian dueties louing his Highnesse in our hearts which is the best earthly defence for a King Inexpugnabile munimentum est amor ciuium saith Seneca The loue of the people is an inuincible munition and as that great Rabbi of pollicie Machiauel hath set it downe for a sure rule Contra regem quem omnes magnifaciunt difficilis coniuratio oppugnatio irruptio Against that King whom all highly esteem and reuerence conspiracy or treachery is very difficult or if attempted seldome succeedes Let vs bee in pace Lepores but in praelio Leones in peace like Hares timerous to offend his Grace in any way of disobedience but like Lions fight for him against all his enemies with an vnwearied courage vndanted magnanimity ioyning with our fighting hands our feruent prayers to God like faithfull Israelites against all rebelling Amalekites Oratio coelos penetrat hostes in terravincit saith Origen Prayers pierce heauen and ouercome enemies on earth plus precando quam praeliando more by praying then by fighting Dauids encountring with Goliah in the name of the Lord was more powerfull then his fling and fiue stones Let vs make it one part of our daily praiers to God to keepe our King as the apple of his eye and hide him vnder the shadow of his wings to saue him from all enemies bodily or ghostly to consume them in his wrath consume them that they bee no more let them know that God ruleth in Iacob euen vnto the ends of the world beseeching God of his great mercie euer to prosper this most peaceable and puissant Monarchie of great Brittaine Arise vnto it as vnto thy resting place Turne not away thy face from thine Anointed who hath now happily to our immeasurable ioy worne the imperiall Diadem of great Brittaine these 15. * yeares Many more happie and prosperous yeares wee pray to be continued prolong his daies O Lord as the daies of heauen and grant that his Highnesse and his Princely posterity may in these kingdomes reigne so long as the world endureth Enlarge and enrich his royall heart with all Regall gifts and Diuine graces sutable for his high calling Saue and defend him from the tyranny or treachery of all forraine and Antichristian power and from the plots and proiects of domestical aduersaries Let them couer themselues with their confusion as with a cloake Blesse his most gracious spouse and bedfellow Queene Anne let thy Angels O Lord encampe about her to guide guard her in a safe protection and euer continue thy most heauenly hand of benediction vpon the high mighty Prince Charles the famous Prince of Wales the second ioy of great Britaine Lord looke vpon him from heauen Giue thy iudgements vnto the King and thy righteousnesse vnto the Kings Sonne Teach him O Lord in his tender yeares like a good Iosias to learne and loue thy true religion the way to winne the eternall Crowne of life Be gracious O Lord to the County Palatine of Rhene Fredericke Prince Elector and to his most vertuous and gracious wife Princesse Elizabeth with their Princely progenie O Lord preserue them with thy mightie and out-stretched arme giue them a most happy peace and prosperity in a Princely honor felicity all the daies of their liues O Lord scatter the deuices of the crafty that their hands may not accomplish any wicked thing they do enterprise Confound all them that haue ill will at Sion that repine at the peace of the Church the welfare of great Britaine the prosperity of his Maiesty his royall progenie that howsoeuer they haue shift of faces and maske vnknowne yet let vs pray that that stone which is cut without hands may breake the Images of such Traitors in peeces giuing him victory ouer all his enemies Cloath them all with shame but vpon him let his Crowne flourish and grant him an happy multiplication of many prosperous yeares to renew with many returnes these our cordiall and annuall Ioyes long to sit vpon his Throne and make his foes his footstoole And let high and low rich and poore young and old yea let Heauen and earth
AND if euer Praiers needfull in this kinde now is the time Nolite tangere abhorred of Heathens is now applauded and defended of false Christians Religion and superstition now comes forth with her knife ready to cut Kings throats it beeing the generall rule of them Occide haereticum Kill an hereticke make away with him giue him an Italian posset poyson him though it be in the Sacrament as Henry the seuenth Emperour poysoned in Sacramentall bread Victor the third Pope in the Sacramentall cup and yet they say that Christs bloud is really in the wine how then comes that poyson of death mixed with that sacred substance of life The Patrons and Proctors to plead for King-killers I meane the Iesuites with their adherents make this for a conclusion That any priuate man may be an executioner of a King excommunicated and deposed by the Pope and Caesar Baronius alledges commends out of Iuo a breue of Pope Vrban the second wherein it is pronounced that they are no homicides who kill such as are excommunicate for wee doe not iudge them to bee murtherers who burning with the zeale of their Catholike mother against such as are excommunicate happen to haue killed any of them And so Suarez the Iesuite in his last booke against our King writes After sentence condemnatory is giuen of the King c. then hee that hath pronounced the sentence or he to whom it is committed may depriue the King of his kingdome euen by killing him if hee cannot doe it otherwise and the very Cannibals are not more thirsty of bloud then these false Catholickes commending commanding murther the murther of Gods Anointed Kings which any heart not stupified with Atheisme or reprobate sence would tremble at it and appropriate the doing of that deed onely to Papists for so Suarez saith If his lawfull successor be a Catholike and so that hee be a Catholike that succeedes in the right challenging the right of committing so execrable villany to appertaine to none but onely to Romish Catholikes disdaining that any should haue an hand in so horrible and hellish mischiefes against the King but onely a friend and follower of the Popes religion true-borne children of their bloudy Mother the whore of Babilon the mother of murder drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Christ Iesus If the Pope cries against any King with the Citizens in that parable Nolumus hunc regnare Wee will not haue this man to reigne presently pollicie villany mischiefe and murder fraud and deceit all shall conspire to accomplish the Popes desire If poyson and policie faile power shall â—reuaile like to him when intreaty could not moue laid his hand on his sword saying At hic faciet but this shall doe it if Mercurie be too weake Mars shall second him then leaue Apolloes harpe and take Hercules club both pens and pikes heads hearts and hands are too nimble to hurt Kings Sanguiuolenta est mens Sanguinolenta manus A bloudy heart must haue a bloudy hand How many Princes of Christendome hath that Sea of Rome swallowed and deuoured A Sea indeede nay a red Sea of bloud or Mare mortuum wherein that Leuiathan makes his Sea as the Lord tells Iob like a potte of oyntment Sed mors in illa ella Death is in the pot Out of this Sea creepe those Crocodiles I meane Iesuites Seminaries and men vsually troubled with the Kings euill Treason These Romish rats creepe into regall Pallaces at last take and taske their owne bane like the spirits of Deuils of whom S. Iohn worke myracles to goe vnto the Kings of the earth and those whom they cannot draw by their collusion they would deuoure by effusion I may say of them as Polymnestor speakes in the Tragedie of Hecuba Hastifera armata equestris Marti obnoxiagens They are well weaponed people dagges and daggers charmes poysons powder all tragicall and traiterous engines and instruments they haue to touch Gods Anointed the Kings of the earth corporally In olde time scarce any treason without a Priest in our time scarce any without a Iesuite As Iudas was the antesignanus of traytors chiefe Captain of the cursed crue so since him the false stiled Iesuits but the true Iudaites are the cheefe Shibas to blow aloud the trumpet of rebellion And there was a wicked man named Sheba the sonne of Bicri a man of Iemini and hee blew the Trumpet and said We haue no part in Dauid nor inheritance in the sonne of Ishai Euery man to his tents O Israel 2 Sam. 20. 1. And there are many of Israel that follow these Shebas but the men of Iudah claue fast vnto their King from Iordan euen to Ierusalem All good subiects will cleaue with the men of Iudah faithfully to their King and will goe with Ioab to pursue these Shebas vntill their heads be cut off and throwne to them ouer the wall These Shebas make Kings the markes of their murther saying with treacherous Achitophel I will smite the King onely or with the King of Aram Fight neyther against small or great saue onely against the King of Israel Feriunt summos fulmina montes The highest mountaines most exposed to Thunders And to perpetrate such crying and capitall murders they will hazard the perill of their liues and losse of their soules and but that the Lord hath giuen his Angels a charge ouer his Anointed to keepe them in all his waies the attempts of such desperate miscreants were deadly dangerous for as Seneca Vitae tuae dominus est quisquis suam contempsit He is Master of thy life who contemnes his owne Cato when hee had got a sword though therewith to kill himselfe cried out Now am I my owne man So these desperate villaines who runne with desire to their owne deaths are their owne men to act murder but God doth bring to nought their desires and deuices and raiseth vp for his seruants in extraordinary dangers extraordinary deliuerances The imminent danger of King Croesus yet a Heathen King opened the mouth of his dumbe sonne to tell it Bessus his parricide discouered by the chattering of Swallowes verifying Salomons wordes The fowles of the ayre carrie that voice God can cause euery fowle of heauen and euery creature on earth to finde a tongue to tell treason to deliuer his Anointed Our gracious King is a speaking mappe of many wonderfull deliuerances in extraordinary dangers still we cry and craue with Dauid Domine saluum fae Regem Lord saue the King cloath all his enemies with shame and breake them in peeces like a Potters vessell Let thy hands O Lord finde out all that hate him make them like a fiery ouen in the time of thine anger and destroy them in thy wrath Deliuer his soule from the sword and saue him from the Lions mouthes confound all Shebas that would stirre
done wrong to or whom haue I hurt c. And all the People of Britanny must answere with the people of Israel there Thou hast done vs no wrong nor hurt vs nor taken ought of any mans hand the Lord is witnesse His Highnesse speciall care and gracious desire is to haue Gods Religion sincerely imbraced Iustice executed Vertue promoted Vice punished Gods Lawes and the good Lawes of the Land generally maintained and obserued so that the Church finds him a true Defender of the Faith the Common-wealth a Father the proud a powerfull Prince the meeke and humble a mercifull Gouernour All find him a most religious and vertuous King carefull of the good of Church and Common-wealth that all the politicke members of this Princely Head may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty These Princely properties and sacred graces will procure his Maiesty an eternall Crowne of glory in Heauen as God hath promoted him to a soueraignety and supremacy here on Earth and may truely moue all sound members of this politicke body whereof his sacred Highnesse is supreame Head to pray with the Psalmist Giue thy Iudgements to the King O Lord and thy righteousnesse vnto the Kings sonne then shall he iudge the people with righteousnesse and thy poore with equity In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace shall be so long as the Moone endureth yea to pray like the Isralites for the life of our King and the life of his royall Queene his Princely Sonne the County Palatine of Rhene with the Princesse Elizabeth and their Progeny that all their dayes may be vpon the Earth as the dayes of Heauen and that God would giue vs strength and lighten our eyes that we may liue vnder their shadow and may long doe them seruice and find fauor in their sight That God would confound all their enemies and put them to a perpetuall shame That the Lord of Hosts may be euer with them and the God of Iacob may be their Refuge to protect and direct them to hide them from the conspiracy of the wicked and from the rage of the workers of iniquity that God may euer blesse them and preserue their going out and comming in from henceforth and for euermore So we thy people and sheep of thy Pasture the louing and loyall subiects and seruants of the Lords Annointed will praise thee for euer and pray vnto thee from generation to generation God saue our King Corporally Spiritually Politically Peroratio I will draw these lines to the maine Center of all making our conclusion short and gratulatory First to your Grace sacred Soueraigne the mighty Monarch of these flourishing Kingdomes shall I that am but dust and ashes prefume to speake vnto my Lord and King Let not my Lord be angry though I speake once and how happy shall this poore Embrio be if euer it be graced with the milde aspect of your Princely eyes and once but touched with your Regall hands which holds the Iacob staffe to measure the height of all learning Giue patient leaue and licence to your vnworthy and vnable vassall prostrated in all submissiue obedience at your Highnesse feete to celebrate and congratulate the happy day of your Maiesties entrance into this kingdome A day of good tidings and who can hold his peace A day which was the beginning to multiply and aduance our chiefest ioyes on earth making vs sing with the Psalmist This is the day which the Lord hath made let vs be glad and reioyce in it O Lord I pray thee saue now Lord preserue him whom thou hast giuen giue him O King of Kings good successe peace prosperity multiply these good daies grant him many of these happy yeares Annos vt annis addat è nostris Deus Eusebius the Bishop of Caesarea thought himselfe much honoured that he was appointed to preach at the inauguration of Constantinus the Emperour so I take it as my great ioy that I the most weake of all our tribe am one of the first in this kinde to write the aniuersary of Englands happinesse by your Maiesties entrance to put them in a perpetuall remembrance to reioyce with thankefulnesse And if I should remember in your presence the innumerable benefits and blessings your subiects of great Brittaine enioy by your Princely comming to this Crowne I might be iudged a flatterer a creature most odious in your Graces eyes modesty compels me to be silent I will onely say that which I haue read the Painter Zeuxes did who being to make the portraiture of Iuno chose out certaine amiable Virgins put the seuerall beauty of them all into that picture so indeed the wise Creator of all hath made you such a King the liuing picture of all earthly perfections and as it was an old saying That in one Austen there was many Doctors in one Iulius Caesar many Captaines so in one and our King Iames many Kings the very perfection of most Kings But I will turne our praises into prayers remembring Antaloides saying to a certaine Orator making a long oration of Hercules praises cut him off thus Quis eum vnquam sanus vituperauerit VVho euer in his right wits discommended him So who dare nay who can except the seed of the serpent dispraise your Highnesse whose vertues finde fauour with God and men euery tongue pronounces your name with ioy and euery heart affects your Maiesty with content and comfort As God hath giuen you power in hand so haue you pittie in heart Clementia Regis est quasi imber serotinus saith Salomon The pitty or fauour of a King is like the latter raine and your princely delight is not in sono catenarum in the noyse of chaines but like the good Emperor rather desirous to call the dead to lise then put the liuing to death So that I may say to your Grace as Mecaenas saide of Octauius Caesar Omnes te tanquam parentem seruatorem suum intuentur te moderatum vita inculpata pacificum amant c. All people fixe their dutifull eyes vpon you as vpon the publike Father of the Common-wealth loyally louing you being milde and mercifull holy in life and peaceable in gouernment So that though at last there must be a translation to an incorruptible Crowne in Heauen yet all your Subiects pray the time of that transmigration may bee long dedeferred Horac Serus in coelum redeas diuque Laetus intersis populo Britanno I need not heere play the part of King Philips Page to cry at your Princely chamber dore Memento te esse mortalem Remember you are mortall or with the Artificers of the Emperors tombes at the day of the Emperors Coronation offer a lap full of stones with these verses Elige ab his Saxis ex quo Augustissime Caesar ipse tibi tumulum me fabricare velis Of these same stones most
Ioh O earth couer not thou my blood A murtherer is the very Image and picture of the Deuill who was a murtherer from the beginning as our Sauiour saith and they that practise or doe purpose to murder men poyson Princes destroy Countries blow vp Cities fire vp Parliaments are of their Father the Deuill and led by his Spirit And truly this practise as it was of extraordinary ascendencie so it had a rare discouery by a letter of their owne darke doubtfull and Sphinxian deliuered strangely and when accepted it might haue beene thought to haue beene an idle gull or pasquill and neuer further haue come to light or being further examined they might haue missed the marke in the interpretation of the mischiefe but God so ordered that this foolish letter as it might haue bin iudged was the meanes to discouer their treachery and confound their villanie And further though a Treason suspected yet nothing detected till the very night before the day of their intended slaughter they had almost brought it to this passe Paulominus in inferno habitasset anima nostra Our soule had almost dwelt in silence yea they had almost consumed vs vpon the earth we were in articulo mortis not onely as men appointed to dye but at the point to dye but God who is adiutor in opportunitatibus a refuge in due time of trouble did breake the snare and we were deliuered It pleased God to permit the Deuill to feede these his true seruants with false hopes let them go on freely without rub till they had fully wouen their Spiders web and come to the very point of execution and deliuery of that deuillish monster whereof they had so long trauailed and might say with those mourning messengers of King Ezechiah sent to Esay the children are come to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth when we were albicantes ad messem white for the haruest and ready to be cut downe and wanted nothing but thrusting in of Falx their sickle to cut vs downe or Fax the fire to burne vs vp or Faux euen Guido Faux or Faux Erebi hellish Faux to swallow vs vp when we might say with Dauid there is but a step betwixt vs and death being at the mouth of the pit then the Lord takes vs as brands out of the fire or as Amos like firebrands pluckt out of the burning When our enemies thought they had the prey in their hands and all had beene sure when the danger was most deadly and deliuery desperate then the Lord did fight against them in our cause Now will I arise saith the Lord now will I be exalted now will I lift vp my selfe Yee shall conceiue chaffe and bring forth stubble the fire of your breath shall deuoure you as you haue sowen iniquity so shall you reape affliction ye haue sowen the winde yee shall reape the whirle-winde Then did the Lord dash their deuices in peeces and made their Sun set at noone as Amos 8. 9. or rather caused their sinne to be discouered at midnight All the former part of the night their hellish factor Faux was about his worke of darkenesse in preparing all his Engines and snares of death ready for the morning and yet before the morning watch I say before the morning watch they were disappointed and discouered and their chiefe Agent Faux apprehended Sorrow might endure a night but ioy comes in the morning Redeunt spectaculâ— manâ— VVhen these Romish Idumeans enemies to our Israelites had said like them in their hearts Who shall bring vs downe to the ground then did the watchman of Israel who neyther stumbers noâ— sleeps bring the deuices of the wicked to light manifesting their mischiefe detecting their conspiracy saying to these sinners as to the seas Thus farre shall ye goâ— and no further Eâ—… Deus 〈…〉 When God arose his enemies were soone scattered they also that hate him shall flye before him to make all to say with Esay Heare ye that are a far off what I haue done and ye that are neâ—e know my power when the wicked had said in their hearts Let vs destroy them alltogether 〈…〉 Lord awake as one out of sleepe and as a Giant refreshed with wine and smote his enemies in the hinder parts and put them to a perpetuall shame praised be his blessed name for euer And that no heart of man should presume to detract or defalke any part of the glory from Gods entire and plenary praise in the work of this deliuerance or sing like them Saul hath slaine his thousand and Dauid his ten thousand Consider the gracious and wonderfull prouidence of God that the malefactor and Powder-Monster Faux was taken when hee was new come out of the vault from working his fire-worke hauing three matches and all other instruments ready in his pocket whereas if this Sinon had beene taken while hee was enclosed in his Troian Horse hee confessed hee would not haue failed to haue blowen vp the house himselfe and his takers all together for as the Poet well writes of such Nihil est audacius illis Depraensis iram ac animos à crimine sumunt Such wretches taken and their deeds once seene Harden theis hearts and doe increase their spleene Yet such was the ouer-ruling power and prouidence of God herein without any secondary causes that the party assigned for the deed should be then without who if hee had beene within had done the deed in part and in stead of touching the parties had ouerturned the place To moue all King and Subiects not to sacrifice to their owne nets as if any worldly policy could haue preuented this wretched impiety but that alone the sacred goodnes and prouidence of our most deare and blessed God might triumph in this deliuerance Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue the glory Thou art worthy O Lord to receiue all the glory honor and power and let all the Creatures in Heauen and Christians on earth fay Praise and honor and glory and power be vnto him that sitteth vpon the Throne and to the Lambe for euermore who hath deliuered vs from this ocean of misery this odious Massacre And should mooue all Head and members to cry with Ezra Seeing that thou our God hast stayed vs from being beneath and hast giuen vs such a deliuerance should we return to breake thy commandements and ioyne in affinity with the people of such abhominations Seeing the Lord in this extraordinary worke hath declared such liuely markes and expresse Characters of his diuine maiesty might and mercy towards vs shall we not magnifie the Lords mercy with Miriams melody Sing ye vnto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he ouerthrown in the Sea He hath confounded the barbarous immanity and inhumanity