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The three kingdomes case: or, Their sad calamities, together with their causes and cure. Laid down in a sermon preached at a publique fast at Kingston upon Hull. With some very remarkable passages of providence worthy of generall observation. /
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Shawe, John, 1608-1672.
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who came into the Town by the name of Sir John Savage but the town demurred upon their answer to him till they heard from the Parliament both these persons viz. Earl and Captain thus in the town upon a bare summons from Parliament left the Town and posted to Westminster a thing which I beleeve both of them have forethought an hundred times since Fifthly the day before the King came first to Hull to demand or command entrance Sir John Hotham being then Governour here the King sent the Duke of York the Prince Elector the Earl of Newport the Lord Willoughby Sir Thomas Glenham and others into Hull which caused some jealousies in the Governour and Towns-men whereas if the King had come suddenly to the gates without any warning when the Duke and the rest came I am confident none had then suspected his comming nor would any souldier have hindred his entry at the gates such a work was then rare Sixthly the next day after viz. about Apâ—â—â— 25. 1642. being saturday the King with some hundreds of attendants came to enter the Town of Hull the Governour being busied in entertaining the Duke of York the Prince Elector and their Company and had the King still come without any further warning suddenly to the gates I am confident no souldier would have hindred him but the King sent Sir Lewes Dives two hours before him to tell the Governour that the King was within four or five miles off and would dine with him and this time and warning had Sir John Hotham to advise and hearten himself and his souldiers to keep out that company that came with the King and to draw up their bridges c. Seventhly adde this for a wonder that Sir John Hotham should then so resolutely keep these persons out having such a numerous party of the contrary mind most active that day both within and without against him a work at that time not for every mans spirit himself as since it appears proving so unfaithfull of whom and which work I may this say that when he could have ruined the Town and endangered the Kingdom thereby he would not and after when he would have done it he could not Eighthly when the Kings Army came first against this Towne they thinking thereby to have compelled you to yeeld burnt your Mils but this did wonderfully set the hearts of all both rich and poor against them their food being endangered whereas some of them before were not so fully affected to the Parliament and that cause Ninthly the Earl of Newcastle after this having over-mastred all the North save Hull and Wresle Castle and having got so great and formidable an Army with which he might in probability have gone through most parts of England then and have ruined or endangered many a City Town and County yet were his old wisest and subtillest souldiers so far befooled that they perswaded him to bring this Army against Hull in August 1643. and lay a second siege here but partly by the shot and sallies out of the Town partly by lying in wet trenches the Country round about being drowned at spring-tides their whole Army was brought almost to nothing and those that were left of them now no way formidabe after six weeks and odde dayes siege went away with infinite shame and losse October 11. 1643. for which mercy you still keep on that day an aniversary thankfull commemoration Tenthly In all these six weeks siege though the enemy shot many fiery hot bullets into the Town night and day yet very few of you were hurt sometimes many wel-affected persons were met in a chamber to repeat sermons and pray as soon as ever they were departed and gone down the stairs and not till then came a red hot bullet through the place where they met so in another chamber where children went to school came another of those fiery messengers as soon as ever the children were gone from that place and none hurt Eleventhly on Thursday June 29. 1643. when Sir John Hotham was conceived trecherous he being alwayes very active and vigilant and especially then yet were the Magazine the severall guards and forts of the garrison seized on by the Towns-men and others no experienced souldiers within the compasse of lesse then an hour and that before Sir John Hotham was aware without the losse of any blood which great and hazardous attempt one would have thought and it was feared would have cost many a mans life Twelfthly that on the very day after this viz. Friday June 30. 1643. the right Honourable and Noble Lord General Fairfax had that great losse at Atherton More and when he was retired from the field into Leeds and was in danger yet more sad and troubled as his Lordship said for the losse of his men and the danger of the Country and not well knowing which way or what course to take the next day a Boy came just in that nick b Like the case of Mordecai or the Shunamite Est 5. 14. with 6. 1 4 6 10. 2 King 8. 5. of time with a Letter from the Major and Aldermen of Hull acquaitnting his Honour that Hull was open for him if he would come thither and that the town and ammunition were seized upon as aforesaid Sir Iohn Horham fled and in his flight apprehended in Beverley a joyfull message at that time though till then neither had his honour heard thereof nor the town when they sent of Lordships losse 13. Though it was generally said and thought that if the wars should continue and Armies should lye in Yorkshire but one yeer there could not possibly be any provision or food left yet have Armies been here almost six yeers already in Yorkshire sometimes six Generals and their Armies at once often above 20000d. souldiers abominable firing spoiling plundering c. yet seldom have we seen meat drink more cheap or plentifull here then still it is blessed be God This is the Lords own doing thus have you Seamen seen Gods wonders as much by Land c Psa 107. 23 24. as by Sea and this Town sometimes a poor Hamlet called Wyke after in Edward the second his time called the Kings Towne upon the River Hull which is a greater honour then if by the cowardize or trechery of any it had been turned to be in that sense that some badly mean it the Queens Town may now justly be called Gods Town because of the miracles God hath wrought for it Oh that it appeared to be so by our holy practice answerable Psal 116 12 13. to such mervailous mercies To conclude let me for the same end acquaint you the Inhabitants of Bradfield with another instance though of a lower ranke viz. the mervailous delivery of a Minister of Christs Gospel born in your Parish wherein you may still see Gods hand learn to trust and praise him more 't is this When the Earl of Newcastle besieged Rotherham in May 1643. at last the Towne wanting powder
which was taken at Gainsborough as it was bringing to them and some bouses being on fire by the enemies Granadoes the Town was forced to entertaine a parley with the Earl who after some shamefull repulse and losse assured them under his hand that upon laying down their Arms they should have their estates lives and liberties safe but as soon as be entred fined imprisoned plundered many and as it seems had a speciall intent to ruine the Minister of that place aforesaid yet first that Minister went through the midst of the Town then so throng'd undiscerned by any secondly he hid himself in a vault of a bouse not inhabited after he heard of the enemies base unfaithfulnesse and cruelty which house the enemy pulling downe the Works about the Towne came into and kept as their main guard night and day and lay close by him which thing he neither did nor could suspect before-band thirdly the enemy proclaimed him traitor by a cryer throughout the Town yea and all others traitors also who knowing of him brought him not in to them within 24. hours in the aforesaid bouse the souldiers seeking him most diligently thrust their swords betwixt the Loards frequently yet neither found nor hurt him fourthly at last they looked up to a vault above their heads which lay visibly open to view by the space of three yards and more where himself and his man lay indeed and swore that he was there whereupon they instantly ran up their stairs which they kept broke open the door entring to the vault which they saw and where he was found it lockt and the key in the door on the in-side sought him five severall times the great windowes all open round about be and his man lying on their sides could have taken hold on them yet never found either of them no cause but that Jer. 36. 26 fifthly he having layen there on the stones most part of three days and nights viz. from Thursday May 4. 1643. when the Town was taken till Saturday evening May 6. could not stir scarce cough or spet left be should be heard and no friend meat drink or relief could come at him the enemy keeping the Town that house and stairs to the vault be resolved that night rather then starve to goe down and yeeld himself to their cruell mercies for be might hear them swear his death with many dammees presently that very afternoon they went away be cannot to this day learn any reason why for they came thither again the next day and staid there constantly long after as if they had meant as indeed the good and wise God did to give him just a fit time and space to get safe away for neither before nor after could be get away thence nor longer stay here sixthly when he was come down the stairs from the vault though the enemy be found removed yet were the doors lock but the enemy had caused a Carpenter to pull up two boards of the floor to seek for him in a hollow place underneath and left them unnailed down again through which space as if they had ment to have made him away forth be got out seventhly when he came forth Acts 12. 7 10. by that hollow aforesaid he came through the midst of the Town again to his house undiscerned and as he was stepping into the Hall not knowing now who lived there or in any other house there were seven Cavaliers billeted having formerly plundered him sufficiently amongst whom he was just stepping had not a friend of his pulled him by the shoulders into another Room next the Hall eighthly yet durst he not carry there but got to a vault in another house and lay upon an earthern floor the remainder of three weeks in the midst among them yet never got cold nor was the least sick no not so much as usually before ninthly after this he got safe to Manchester after some cumbers is safely returned to his nativeCountry for all which he entreats his friendly neighbours and readers that praises may be returned to the only wise God and sole and lively confidence put in him for ever and ever Which passages Christian Reader together with the ensuing notes bad I not been importuned to publish till I was in Elishah's case 2 Kin. 2. 17. nor thou nor I had had this trouble however if God may have glory his Cause any furtherance or any of his people profit by them I have all my aime and rest The unworthiest of the least of Gods mercies J. S. Hull Novemb. 17. 1645. The three Kingdomes CASE with their CAVSES and CVRE OR A SERMON Preached at Kingston upon HVLL ISA. 42. 24 25. Who gave Iacob for a spoile and Israel to the Robbers Did not the Lord he against whom we have sinned for they would not walk in his wayes neither were they obedient unto his Law Ver. 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his Anger and the strength of battell and it hath set him on fire round about yet he knew it not and it burned him yet he laid it not to heart I Need not right Honourable and beloved to use any other motive to bespeak your attentions then the words immediately foregoing my Text verse 23. Who among you will give eare unto this who will hearken and beare for the time to come Only give me leave for the cleering of the words to acquaint you and that very briefly first with the Prophet secondly the time when thirdly persons to whom he prophesied fourthly the substance of his prophesie Divines use to cast the sixteen Prophets whose prophesies are recorded in the old Testament into three ranks first some prophesied before the Jewes seventy yeers captivity in Babilon as Jonah Hosea Isaiah and some others Secondly some of them gave cordials in the time of the captivity as Ezâ—â—iel and Daniel Thirdly others quickned them after the captivity and their returne as Haggai Zechariah Malachi Amongst these our Prophet is of the first ranke yet though his prophesie be ranked in the first place it s not probable that he was the first of them in time that prophesied but rather Jonab who prophesied before or at least in the beginning of the raigne of Jeroboam the second 2 King 14. 25 whereas Hosea though you grant him to be a Preacher seventy yeers began but in the latter end of his raigne Hos 1. 1. so in the new Testament its thought by the History in the Acts of the Apostles that not the Epistle to the Romans though placed the first but that to the Thessalonians was first writ also not the book of Malachi but Nehemiah was the last book in order of time and story in the old Testament This Prophet Isaiah was nobly borne by both births of nature and grace being of the royall blood both of Heaven and earth let no man think himselfe too good by reason of his birth or estate to be Gods Prophet see David Solomon Isaiah