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A01472 Great Brittans little calendar: or, Triple diarie, in remembrance of three daies Diuided into three treatises. 1. Britanniæ vota: or God saue the King: for the 24. day of March, the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation. 2. Cæsaris hostes: or, the tragedy of traytors: for the fift of August: the day of the bloudy Gowries treason, and of his Highnes blessed preseruation. 3. Amphitheatrum scelerum: or, the transcendent of treason: the day of a most admirable deliuerance of our King ... from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from poperie. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff. Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646. 1618 (1618) STC 11597; ESTC S102859 234,099 298

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the politicke body of the Kingdome all cut off at one blow the kingdome left headlesse heartlesse hopelesse depriued of her directing Iethroes Dij quibus imperium hoc steterat Virg. The pillars and supporters of this Christian Monarchy and changed it to a confused Anarchy then preuailing as Garnet the Arch-Priest and Archtraytor praied Auferte gentem istam perfidam de finibus credentium Take away this perfidious nation meaning vs Protestants from the borders of true belieuers vnderstanding Romanists vt laudes Deo debitas alacriter persoluamus that we may praise God for the same ioyfully But such prayers of the wicked is an abhomination vnto the Lord and though they make many prayers the Lord will not heare them because their hands are full of blood the enemies to our King and Kingdome opened their mouthes against vs saying Let vs deuoure them Certainely this is the day that we looked for yea which they longed for wherein they hoped to haue swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs to haue ouerthrowne the temporall and politicke estate of our Kingdome by the ruine of the royall Head and the most noble members of the same but the Lords eyes were vpon the faithfull of the Land to shield them vnder the shadow of his wings when as the proud had laid a snare for them and spread a net with cords in their way and set grins for them then did the Lord deliuer them from those euill men and preserued them from those cruell men and recompenced them their wickednes and destroied them in their owne malice to moue all Gods people in great Britanny to say with Zachary That being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies we should serue him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of our liues Yea this pernicious proiect had not onely procured a fatall disturbance and destruction of the temporall and politicall welfare of the Kingdome but also aimed to alter the State of our Religion and to set vp the abhomination of desolation in the holy place to establish the corrupt profession of popish superstition this was the Helena for which these Greekes contended Then all of vs might with the children of Israel led captiue to Babilon cry like them By the riuers of Babilon we sate downe and wept when wee remembred thee O Sion for then wee should haue liued in captiuity to the Romish Babilon and haue sung the songs of Sion in a strange land and strange tongue Then England should haue beene againe as once one called it the Popes Asse to beare his burthens in a miserable bondage Those debosht and banished Popelings Iesuites Seminaries and Masse-Priests who can cry to their Images like Baals Priests O Baal heare vs lo then Hagar and Ismael not long since cast out with bagge and baggage reen tring againe insolently insulting ouer honourable Dame Sara and would driue her and Isaak out of the familie VVhat heart zealous of the glory of God and religious to the pure Gospell of Christ that would not with Dauid euery night water his couch with his teares to behold the Candlestickes of our Church who hold the light of the word broken in peeces I meane the spirituall labourers in the worde to be thrust out of the vineyard of the Church and the loyterers of Rome haruest-men for Antichrist to take the howses of God in possession So that with Dauid we might cry * O God thine enemies are come into thine inheritance thy holy Temple they haue defiled c. Romes wolues in sheepes cloathing worrying the Lambes of Christ Sathans Foxes running vpon the mountaines of Sion and stealing away the soules of the simple making them drunke with the dregs of the Romish grape enchanted with their Circes cup in which is the wine of infection spirituall fornication and abhomination The people then should haue beene depriued of the pure riuer of the water of life and for lacke of the bread of life compelled to complaine in the famine of their soules like the distressed Iewes in the famine of their bodies Where is bread and drinke where is the Manna which once was tasted the worde of grace wherewith wee once were feasted where are the painefull Pastors of our soules who once refreshed vs fedde our hearts with bread from heauen and filled our cares with comfortable tidings of peace who prayed for our soules with zealous spirits and spent themselues like vnwearied messengers in the worke of the Gospell Oh the Priests lippes which preserued knowledge they are silenced and sent to their graues expelled the Church or put in prison or turned to ashes in Popish flames their persecutors are swifter then the Eagles of heauen who pursue them vpon the mountaines and lay wait for them in the wildernesse they hunt their steppes that they cannot goe in the streetes their end is neere for their daies are fulfilled their end is come Oh this is come vpon vs for our cold loue and churlish entertainement of the Gospell when we had free liberty to call one another Come let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the God of Iacob and hee will teach vs his waies and we will walke in his paths but then wee stopped our eares like deafe Adders against the voice of those charmes most expert in charming they piped vnto vs but we would not dance we then regarded not those songs of Sion and now both harpes and harpers are hung vpon the willow trees our soules are starued with Latine Masses wee haue no English Bibles wodden blockes are called the Lay-mens bookes we cannot see the way we should walke in but must like blinde men be guided by the spectacles of purblinde guides we must beleeue as they beleeue and yet doe not know what they beleeue all ready to repeat that wishing voice of Iob Oh that wee were as in times past when God preserued vs when his light shined vpon our heads and when by his light we walked through darkenesse all saying with Valerius though not in the same case who when Caligula that monster was killed and it could not be found out who had done it Noble Valerius rose vp and said vtinam ego would to God I had killed that monster So will they cry vtinam ego would to God wee had killed that monster which whisome wee indulgently cherished in our bosomes Ingratitude and Contempt of the Gospell then while we had the same in plenty and purity without commixtion of drosse and darnell trash and tares we began with the Israelites to loath this Manna We can see nothing but this Manna our soule loatheth this light bread and now Verbum amissum quaerimus inuidi Wee wander from Sea to Sea and from the North to the East to seeke the worde of the Lord and cannot finde it Now the Lords