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A03778	Great Brittaines resurrection: or the Parliaments passing bell By vvay of psalmodie, against the tryumphing of the Papists, in their seuen psalmes. And in imitation of the song of the three nobles of Israel, deliuered out of the fierie ouen of Babell. By VVilliam Hubbard, Chaplaine to the Kings Maiestie, in his Highness Tower of London. Seene and allowed.	Hubbock, William, b. 1560.	1606 (1606)	STC 13898.5; ESTC S118144	37,262	64

chests read clefts sec 33. li. 4. read trayne and 2. p. all dimensions sec 39. page 2. in fine read maruell Sec. 11. after the word practise also all the 〈◊〉 Academia schollers and children of the famous Kings schoole of Westminster who like the male children of Israel by this Italian Pharao had like to haue beene consumed in a deluge of fire and as the innocent Babes of Bethlehem to be slaine by the Romish Herod in despite of young Christ amongst vs. The Author is named Habbard for Hubbocke without direction indeede but not without prouidence as being the auncient and rightfull title of the family though he refuseth neither ❧ Great Brittaines Resurrection O Thou mighty Iames King of great Britane Fraunce and Ireland whom GOD hath aduaunced so peaceablie to so manie vnited Kingdomes vpon so variable a change without any sensible alteration to the admiration of all the world and seemed to haue rooted thine estate by blisfull and much royall issue by amitie of Forraine Princes by great loue loyaltie of subiects that it was thought not able to be remoued thou Lord of thy onely goodnes hadst made his rocke to stand so strong and yet in one moment GOD hiding his face all had like to haue beene dissolued with one blast of powder if the same mercifull God had not withhelde the breath of his wrath which is a riuer of brimstone to kindle this Topheth a pit prepared of olde a place deepe and large the burning thereof is fierce fire and much wood doe thou according to thy excellent and rare Princely learning iudgment whereof Kingdomes Vniuersites and Forraine Embassadours are witnesses with zeale as Iehu roote Baal out of Israel by one acte open the windowe of the Parliament as Ioash his windowe at the counsaile of Elizeus Smite the Syrians not twice or thrice but sixe times vntil thou hast vtterly consumed thē blesse thou the Lord with all princelie offices of pietie and iustice more and more to the sauing and comfort of all thy people Acknowledge that it is tree that giueth deliuerance to Kings rescueth the annointed his seruant praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou most gratious Queene Anne who hast forsaken thine owne Country natiue soyle and come into forraine parts to partake in all thy youth beauty the same lot with thy Regal Lord behold how when the daughter of England did homage vnto thee with all the rich before thy face with presents and thou wentest out in all honour and singlenes of heart to behold and reioyce in the solemnity of so great an estate which God had so miraculously cast into your lap without your hands when these vnmercifull bouchers of Rome hardning their hearts meant to haue buried thee in one graue with thy royall husband or rather torne in pieces I abhor to speake it without all buriall which was afforded to Kings daughters though neuer so euil euen then thy life was deare and precious in the eyes of the Lord and his tender care was ouer thee doe thou therefore blesse the Lord and serue him more more with one heart ioyntly with this thy princely Lord and husband praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou most noble Prince Henry the staffe of thy Fathers strength and the prime hope of these imperiall diadems whose innocent life these blood-thirstie Babilonians longed for equally with thy Princely Fathers to destroy roote and branch and fruite parent and childe in one day to kill damme and young in one nest to extinguish present and future as it were seething tender Kidds in mothers milke against Lawe of GOD and nature Doe thou still beare the yoake of the Lord in all steadines and stedfastnes as most comfortably thou doest to all our ioy in these first fruites of thy dayes Remember still thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth and neuer forget this Preseruer in all the dayes of thine age blesse thou the Lord in all thy princely family as holy and zealous young Iosias praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye Honourable Counsailers and Potentates who turne the wheele of estate vnder our Soueraigne against whom such wicked counsell was deuised to destroy you all before the mighty throne of our King to defeate vs of counsell not reparable in a long time which yet is the onely comfort in distresse so great was the indignation of the Lord towards vs at whose nostrills are kindled hailestones and coales of fire but that the Angell of the euerlasting counsell did interpose himselfe as you the Sonnes of the mighty haue giuen this glory to God do freely confesse that all this sauing health was from him alone that GOD did all as a friend that doth a pleasure which his friend knoweth not vntill he feele the comfort of it that it is done for notwithstanding the noble vertues and vigilancie of Abner and vndoubted fidelitie of all the Kings seruants round about him on the right hand on the left pot speare had been taken frō the Kings head Arke and Scepter from vs in one houre doe you more and more consult with God in this and all other deliberations and not with flesh blood that his statutes may bee your Counsailours That he may establish all your thoughts by his counsell long may you liue in all grace and honour according to your great place and trust doe you as the 24. Elders fall downe and throwe downe your crownes of wisedome intelligence pollicie vigillancie gouernment before him that liueth for euer blesse ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye reuerend Bishops and Prelates the venerable Gouernours of the Church of Christ as the Angels and Presidents of the seauen Churches of England among vs the grauities and presence of Superiours in the Church haue beene regarded of the prophane barbarous tyrants of the earth and bloody Souldiours Alexander the great at the sight of Iaddus the high Priest spared Ierusalem and yet of these Sulphurous helhounds you were more eagerly sought after to the fire they rued if any of you should be away doe you honour this Lord the great Bishop of our soules with further care loue to all the sheepe and Lambes committed to your charge And with all your power doe ye exalt the standard of his glorious Gospell in all places of your Cōmissions haue in your fatherly wisedomes as much patience as you can to your inferiour brethren of the Ministrie notwithstāding some of their intemperate exulcerations for the common seruice of the Gospell sake their places and times cannot reach to the maturitie of experience which your wisedomes hath attained behold also they are keen against an enemie whom though difference haue diuided by names of discord yet the enemie would haue made no difference of slaughter of you both beare as you may with their improuidencie

wither and the flourish thereof to decay And yet as it were recomforting themselues thus they seeme to prophecie In a moment canst thou crush her bones and lay her pride in the dust And The earth is infected with the wickednes of the Inhabitants and crieth vnto thee for vengeance And possibly would swallow them as it did Ch●re and his company were it not for thine elect sake Reuenging fire of Sodome and Gomor might bee iustly feared And Confirme the heart of those thy labourers endue them with strength from aboue and giue successe vnto their endeuours Againe Embolden our hearts with courage to concurre with them freely in furthering thy seruice And in another place Confirme your hearts in hope for your redemption is not farre off The yeare of visitation draweth to an end and Iubilation is at hand And Ierusalem shall be built vp againe and the second glory thereof shall be greater then the first And Righteousnes shall prosper and infidelity shall be plucked vp by the rootes God will arise as from a long slumber establish againe the arke of his sanctification And The roote which hath waxen olde vnder ground man shoote vp againe as a fresh plant by the riuer side False errour shall vanish as smoake And they which sawe it shall say Where is it become Iust iudgment holy lawes shall be restored c. Againe His tabernacle he will spred againe and dwell amongst vs as in times past And Sacred songs shall break their long silence the lamp of our Lord shall be 〈◊〉 And The resemblance of heauen shall be renued the resemblance of hell shall be destroyed England shall be called a happy Realme a blessed Country a religious people Those which knewe the former glory of Religion shall lift vp their hands for ioy to see it returned againe Those that neuer saw it shall be strucken with admitation wishing that they had sooner knowne the truth condemning their fathers which forsooke it Men shall say of it one to another heere is indeede the house of God and the gate of heauen How great diuersitie is betweene truth and falsehood deuout solemnities and counterfet ceremonies From the East point to the West men shall confesse their errors They which thought themselues wisest shall say they knew nothing Gladly shall people walke in their auncient steps of truth and equitie c. The Prince of peace will breake the exactors rod. c. No longer will he dissemble the oppression of his people He is bent to reuenge their cause The daughters of Babylon shal be cast downe and in the dust lament their ruine Proud heresie shall strike her sayle and groane as a beast crushed vnder a cart wheele Againe The omnipotent hath sworne to make her stoupe and that he will abase her haughtines Againe The memorie of nouelties shall perish with a crack as a ruinous house falling to the groūd And Hee will come as a flame that bursteth out beyond the surnace His fury shall flie forth as thunder and pich on their tops that maligne him Againe A second Cyrus hath he stirred vp confirming his Scepter for the good of his people He shal likewise bring the Infants of Sion from all quarters of their banishment Ioyfully shall they returne from forraine lands And those Countries where now they harbour shall finde succour in this I le for their necessities Againe The tempestuous night being passed a perpetuall day shall be our comfort His truth his iustice his Priests his sacrifice shall be no more taken away I haue beene the larger that the reader might see obserue the Papists expectation out of their owne many words without equiuocation But Mutatis mutandis the prophecie shal be inuerted vpon themselues as is in part alreadie Magnified be the name of God therefore Now for this my methode as it were a letanie or procession and a kinde of spirituall preambulation thorough the whole England as men doe to keepe their bounds so we to see in particular and generall how much we are bound to God wee haue excellent presidents to omit Miriams song and Deborahs which both stand vpon the resolution into particulars but in Dauid himselfe more notably Dauid the sweet singer of Israel the king of singers first Psal 136. which vsed to be sung of the Leuites in the temple In which Psalme as it were by a logicall or theologicall predicament hee beginning with the great works of GOD in generall hee after diuideth his thoughts into the works of creation and administration hee goeth from the heauens to the earth hee particularizeth in the great lights the sunne and the moone In the works of administration he exemplifieth in the Lords destroying Aegipts first borne in bringing Israel out thence in cutting sea into two parts in bringing Israel thorough the midst and not at the shore and in some shallowe place In ouerthrowing Pharao and his hoast there In leading this people thorough the Desart In smiting great kings for their sakes particularly Sihon and Og in giuing his people their land in remembring not their miserie onely but in feeding all flesh The burden of all which to euery verse is The mercy of the Lord endureth for euer That is to say Gods mercy appeared not then onely and in those particulars but for euer And that these particulars were stakings downe that they had had Gods mercy from time to time and might be sure of it for euer euen as Esay the Prophet saith Heare and your soule shall liue and I will make an euerlasting couenant with you the sure mercies of Dauid What is this else but you shall be as sure of my loue as euer Dauid was And in a neerer example Psal 148. hee rangeth and marshalleth the creatures in order with redoubling the same wordes praise him all ye his Angels praise him all his armies praise him sunne and moone praise him heauen of heauens and ye waters that be aboue the heauens let them praise c. praise ye the Lord frō the earth Dragons depthes fire hayle snow vapours winds mountaines hills beasts creeping thinges and feathered fowles Kings and all nations Princes and all Iudges of the earth young men and maydes olde men and children Let them praise the name of the Lord c and why all these For the particular mercie saith Dauid in exalting the horne of his people Euen as Esay on the other side in the impenitencie of the people contesteth heauen and earth attesteth Oxe and Asse against Israels ingratitude And hence no doubt was deduced the canticle of the three children though apocrypha yet very auncient and inserted for the worthines of it into the liturgie of the Church of England Where the three great noble men and rulers of thy Prouinces themselues personally stand forth and beginning from the generall workes of God discend to specials in heauen to Angels sunne moone and passe along the cloudes in their spirits to showers windes

imployments for so great an Armie who all are intended to keepe peace among Subiects among whom yet many it must needs be liue of the sinnes of the people as a cage is full of birds so are their chambers full of deceit Thereby they are become great and waxen rich they are waxen fat and shining and though they doe not iustly yet they prosper whose heate of contention to multiply strifes and Clyents pluralities and totquots of Cases and Causes that it seemeth to resemble the troublesome knots of the olde Popish school-men to make things more pletted perplexed and intricate and yet thereby they heape vp money and fees which deliuereth not in the day of wrath but inkindleth it rather now that you are all deliuered from destruction which was so neare vnto you also in the very tents and pitched fields of your variance and in that place that is witnesse of all your integritie whether you sought out the cause diligently as holy Iob did to buy the truth and sell it not or otherwise of your vntrustinesse wrest not the Law accustome not to speake against your conscience take heed it be not said of some of you as in another sense the Lawe is holy and iust and good but I am solde vnder sinne euen euery one that so often pleade at so many barres remember this great barre and tribunall seate to which you were to come not so prepared as else you would extoll this mightie GOD of your deliuerance let godlines bee your chiefest gaine and the right and peace your greatest ioy blesse you the Lord in all your takings and speakings endightings and counsailings complainings and defendings praise him and magnifie him for euer O You Gentrie and Yeomanrie the frie of this Nation and seede of succeeding ages ye Students at the Lawe and other nouices and punies vnder your graund Benchers and most graue Seniours that assemble to heare and obserue the experience and maturitie of the auncient and to furnish your selues for future time who had like to haue beene oppressed in your minorities and in the very great hall and common schoole of your practise and at the feet of them that teach you but that the Lord protested for sinfull England as for great Niniuie to saue sixe score thousand aliue that knew not the right hand from the left to preserue you as a cluster of Grapes hopefull of wine of which one saith destroy it not there is a blessing in it Doe you therfore laud this Lord who is your God from your youth and let him be your God vnto your age blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye Sutors and Clients and Sollicitors of the Law who are enraged in stomack and disquietnes in reuenge and couetousnes to eate vp one another and trauaile farre and oft to consume your times and families and blow the coales of Iuniper vpon one another facing and defacing your selues mutually to maintaine these fires behold the day of the Lord vpon you like Plaintife like Defendant like giuer like taker like Clients like pleader one Beasom of destruction to sweepe away all that hunt their brethren with a net and lay snares to catch men but that God is more patient to vs all then we are to one another who did suddainly blow the retreate from this great slaughter else a man of you had not beene left aliue therefore feare this Lord the God of peace and loue and comfort let your placabilitie bee knowne vnto all men the Lord is at hand blesse thou the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye seruants and followers of the Nobles and Gentrie and others in this great assemblie of Parliament and full Terme Consider your seruice to almightie God what it hath beene heeretofore and your faithfulnes to men let it not be in eye seruice but in singlenes of heart you are bought with a price hereafter be seruants not onely of men but of this God who hath deliuered you from this common lot of miserie blesse I say and curse not deliuer your selues from the common condemnation fashion not your selues according to the world in the prophanenes of too many Seruitors mispending time and life forgetting God and religion remember the iudgement of olde not a seruant of Noah or Lot saued in the watrish and fierie destruction of their times and yet you preserued at this time therfore blesse you the Lord your preseruer praise him and magnifie him for euer O You inhabitants and soiourners in the auncient Citie of Westminster with all the confines and skirts of the liberties thereof or in any reach whether this whirlewinde of Gods wrath should haue reached by land or by water Behold you also were the children of death and your houses appointed to desolation as the houses of Iobs children by a strong winde on a suddaine euen peraduenture whilst you were eating and drinking taking money therefore rise vp in your degrees and worship as the Israelites euery man at his tent doore blesse you also the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O All you open and secret Papists and Catholicks for so you will be called that were to bee assembled in and neare the Parliament whose heads and bodies if they had beene gathered together vpon this massacre and laid on heapes as all the seuentie sonnes of Achab at the Court gates of King Iehu it was cleare who had done it Dauid and his Kingdome had beene guiltlesse before the Lord for euer your brethren and fellowes had done it acknowledge them the schollers of Pope Hildebrand who when Henry the third the Emperour vsed to pray in S. Maries Church in mount Auentine hired one to lay great stones on the beames to let them fall on the Emperours head which he hasting to accomplish a huge stone drew him downe and crusht himselfe to pieces They also would haue caused you to haue passed through the fire as a sacrifice to Moloch and haue vsed you as Moabites They would haue made you their martyrs before your time you should haue beene lickt vp in the common flame Come you therefore out of Babylon Loe how shee rewardeth her children like the harlot mother who in Salomons dayes ouer-laid her owne child to death and yet would haue the liue children of the true and naturall mother in her keeping Touch no vncleane thing doe you trie the spirits heereby and iudge them to be rauening Woolfes know them by these ripe fruites of red and scarlet sinnes of horrible and vnnaturall and vniuersall murther and ioyne with vs now at last in the sincere profession of Gods word alone which God hath defended in your eyes and experience so oft of olde and now freshly do you nowe come out of the fire with feare and make a perfect vowe as Naaman to offer to no other God and to blesse the Lord God

of Dagon fell downe vpō Philistines 3000 the buildings of foure whole Cities of Sodome oppressed their owners one wall falleth vpon 27000. of Syrians Ierichoes walls come tumbling down but Englands are spared Thou art let goe as a scape got or liuing sparrow from the death in hand thou hast not lost not one man in all thy Tribes do thou therfore exalt set vp and blesse this thy God that loueth thee deerely by prolonging thy peace in thy borders and preuenting this crying and complaining in thy streetes else haddest thou beene yea and shalt be a wofull spectacle of miserie an incōparable example of calamitie to all the world should not thy times haue beene as in the dayes of Noah some taken eating some drinking some in marrying and knew nothing till the flood of vengeance came as in the dayes of Lot some building some planting some buying some selling and the fire disturbed all their works as in the day of Ierusalem some taken flying of two in the field one hit the other scaping some in the house not suffered to come downe others abroad not suffered to set any thing out of the house some taken in the Inne as Moses some neere the gardens as Balaam some in the tents of whoring as Zimri and Cost some as Abimelech hauing come neere the dore to haue his braine brokē with a stone some taken lying in receiuing bribes as Gehezi some robbing the Church as Ananias and Zaphira some walking in the Tarasses as Nebuchadnezar some drinking with cōcubines as Baltazar c. Lord how many hearts had beene discouered how many hypocrites dismaked faint and fraile men laid open some weak would haue proued strong some strong would haue proued weake the reputed faithfull might haue been vnfaithfull the trustie might haue become treacherous men taken to be quiet might haue beene outragious many that make faire weather would haue been glad of this storme they that seeme content with their owne would haue taken part in the common spoile how many priuate quarrels would haue beene reuenged vnder publike visors how many that seeme Protestants would haue appeared Papists how many wise would haue proued foolish and at their wits end how would the base haue presumed against the honourable the young against the aged who could haue beene sure of life or goods or wife or childe one houre what house not rifled what virgine not rauished what wife not defloured euery Towne and Country should haue beene filled with woe and lamentation and astonishment Winter houses Sommer houses had beene demolished the great houses smitten with breaches the little with chests as Amos speaketh It should haue beene a day of darknes and blacknes none like it from the beginning neither any more such to the yeares of many generations the land before it as the garden of Eden after it a deuouring wildernes And surely it parliament shall take all course for safety that possibly the highest reach and extent of mans wisedome can compasse yet if we be not reconciled to GOD and returne with all our heart It we be not zealous to amend loe hee standeth still at the doore and knocketh our safety is no safety and our reso●e is but a repriuall to a greater assises 〈◊〉 England therefore say vnto her God heretofore I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the care but nowe mine eye seeth neerer then euer therefore I abhorre my selfe in dust and ushes Let the enemie neuer haue his hope that the iniquitie of England is fulfild Let England seeing shee is new borne be a new creature Let England say the mercie of God to it indureth for euer and that her deliuerance surpasseth all the deliuerances of Gods first borne Israel let her proclaime to all people Come and see and heare what GOD hath done for me and my children helpe me all ye nations and ioyne with me to blesse this Lord to praise him to magnifie him for euer O You the right honorable Commissioners and other the worshipfull imployed in examining this triane and in digging vp this hidden graue like the Troian horse among the Gentiles of all villany you see ken further in this sed of mischiefe then any other eye you see the works of the Lord and his wonders in these deep deuices further then is fit for euery one to knowe and which time will more reueale and make bare and naked Heauen is high earth is deepe and the heart of the King who can finde out you see the dungeon of trayterous harts and haue pierced into the bottomlesse hell of Popish and Iesuiticall practise by their owne bookes writings and confessions you see the labyrinth of their windings turnings and all the false dores of equiuocating soules more intricate then their hiding chambers in their couerts and dens and secret lurking places you see the power of the Lord to confound them whilst we imagined no ill his wisedom to let them run on till they should be out of breath like a good Chirurgion not to launce the wound til it grew to a head and the botch ripe to breake with too much bily matter you see the iustice of the Lord who hath made himselfe knowne by executing iudgement they are sunken downe in the pit that they made in the net that they hid is their foot taken the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne hands Higgaiō Selah you see the mercy of God triumphing ouer all his works arguing and disputing in his loue concerning vs How shall I deliuer thee vp O little England How shal I deliuer thee O great Brittaine how shall I make thee as Admal how shall I set thee as Zeboim mine hart is turned within me my repentings are rolled together I will not execute the fiercenes of any wrath I will not returne to destroy I am God and not man the holy one in the midst of thee behold I would haue fined thee but not as siluer yea I haue saued thee out of this fierie furnace of affliction for mine owne sake for mine owne sake haue I done it for my names sake haue I deferred my wrath for my praise haue I refrained from thee that I cut thee not off you therefore that see more as the cunning eye in pictures the skillfull eare in musicke discerneth more then the vulgar sort you that see the length the bredth the depth the heigth at the dimēsions of Gods works here aboue others rise vp higher in your spirits by their subtilty right honourable be more and more wise as serpents for the state and to preserue honourable plainenes in the simplicity of Doues in holie conuersation for your soules health and for blessing of your pollicy so blesse you this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou noble Lord that high Montegle of honorable discent and auncient renowned house predestinate aboue all other