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A10226	The kings tovvre and triumphant arch of London. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, August. 5. 1622. By Samuel Purchas, Bacheler of Diuinitie, and parson of Saint Martins Ludgate, in London.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 20502; ESTC S114343	37,106	105

Ditch of this Towre of saluation for his King and his Kingdomes Scotland according to Henry the Seuenth's Prophesie is now come into England and nearer the Sunne hath thawed those frozen inueterate hereritarie quarrels cannot find Frontiers or Marches hath lost the Barbarisme of Borderisme hath washed her face from ciuill vnciuill bloud and filth hath extinguished naturall vnnaturall feuds hath reformed her vnformed Rites hath ordered her Clergie in Orders hath allayed Laicke Distempers hath Doctorall Seats Episcopall Sees Graue Councellours Gallant Courtiers and hath gone ouer to Ireland to plant there Ciuilitie Whence all this our Text answereth Great prosperitie giueth hee to his King and hee to that Kingdome Ireland hath beene an Ire-land a Fire-land whose Wild-fire burned in their Bogges in the Mists and Fogges of Idle-busie Spirits wilde vntamed Inhabitants who had gotten the Monopoly of Venome from all other Irish Creatures But now she groweth euery day English and that Ire-land of Ireland those Northerne Hiberna the Boyling-pot of the North Omne malum ab Aquilone hath boyled out her Kerne froath with Oneale and Tyrone morsels ecte noua rerum facies there there may London be seene Derrie and Colrane like Rahell and Leah London's Two Daughters with twelue Townes the issue of the twelue Companies like Bilhah and Zilpah to do them seruice and bring forth loyall Posteritie to Iacob Where shee could spare no venome from her men where the Earth it selfe grew queasie with crude humours and the water sanke into Boggie swounds and trembling-quagmires as amazed at the sauage feritie of the Inhabitants the Whirle-pooles and Quick-sands of our brauest bloud the curse of our gentlest Mothers There maketh hee the hungry the needier English to dwell and prepare Townes and Cities for Habitations Ibi nunc Londonia cernes Moenia surgentes gentes mores res omnia Nostra Hence now as Constantine first Christian Emperour from Northerne Brittaine and as now our Constantine from the North of Brittaine so let hence from the North of Ireland flow Ciuilitie and Religion to that whole Iland Let the Sunne as in the longest Summer dayes rise out of the North and our Northerne London bee a happie Mother of Language Artes Subiection that the Irish Harpe may forget Romish and be tuned English and sing a new Song to God who hath beene a Towre of saluation to his King and made him the Towre of these great hopes and happinesse to that Kingdome and blesse O Lord hereto his Maiesties present Designes with great prosperitie And if wee ship our selues from Ireland for England and touch at Wales by the way how doth it now after so long a time glory in the title of our glorious hope a gracious Prince how hath it enlarged her bowels of loue and seruice and sympathised with His Candid Minde in siluer Mines the second of Metals correspondent to our second light and now first breaking forth to looke vpon the first of our hopes our Happie Prince For England We least can see things neerest wood for trees cannot by some be discerned It is spacious and wide I will apply me to my present Auditorie I haue the Map the Centre the Heart at least the beauteous Face of England before mee That which the Face is to the Bodie the Eye to the Face the Sight to the Eye that is London to England and as the Spirits to the Eye so should this holy place be to London HAile London aue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 salue Peace be within thy walls prosperitie within thy Palaces O nimiùm foelix bona si tua noris Great prosperitie giueth he to his King and where should he bestow it but in the Repositorium and Chamber of his Kingdome There hath he set the Thrones for Iudgement the Thrones of the house of Dauid The Towre of thy King is in the East for thy safetie the Bowre and Palace of thy King is in the West for light and Maiestie in the middest is thy Guild-hall for Iustice besides thee is Westminster-hall that bringeth the whole Kingdome to thee and maketh thy Termes and Vacations as another Thames ebbing and flowing Many people are compared to many waters How many Gentlemen and Noblemen walke with thee into the fields How many Lawyers sit on thy Skirts and Suburbs How many Countreymen and men of many Countries in thy Shops and Markets Keyes and Custome-house How many Companies combined into one companie and now heere one Congregation How many Store-houses of Prouision How many Ware-houses of Wealth How many Hospitals for Poore How many Hals for Rich How many Temples for Deuotion to omit thy Gresham-colledge within thee and that Chelsey-colledge in thy Borders a Towre of Sion intended against the Towre of Babylon and the Quarrie of these our building stones the very Place to our Arguments and these Meditations How hath London inlarged it selfe beyond the walls the butts and bounds of Art Beyond the Thames the bounds of Nature Beyond her selfe as it were sowing Londons in the Fields and Villages beautified by her retrying Palaces Pars minima est ipsa puella sui Thy Bridge is a multitude of Towres whose Ambition seemeth to scorne so base a Foundation as Earth and with a Miracle of Arte like the Babylonian Pensile Gardens not onely ioyneth Citie and Borough but is another Citie of Borough betwixt both aspireth into the Aire domineereth ouer the water and with a multitude of captiued subiect fires taketh reuenge on that fire which sometimes destroyed her Forrest that is turned her Timber into Stone which marrieth with a happie coniunction two Shires and is the Semicircled Marriage-ring with twentie Semicircled Arches embossed and with so many Piles as Iewels adorned How hath the Water conspired with Arte and Mans helpe to make a new iourney to London and with a new Riuer sweetned and cleansed thy Streets and Houses How are thy Moore-fields nor Moore nor Fields any more but pleasant Walkes and in comparison of the former a pettie Paradise Thy Smith-field hath washed her sootie muckie filthy face and is made louely Thine Exchange also hath multiplyed What shall I say Inopem te at least inopem me copia fecit When wert thou so long together deliuered from the deuouring Pestilence Hast thou not so many Liueries as the Liuerie of thy Freedome So many Scarlets as Banners and Ensignes of thy Power The Diligence of Officers Prudence of Counsellours Grauitie of Aldermen Hospitalitie of Magistrates Magnificence of Pompes Sanctitie of Courts to adorn thee I could adde thy varieties of Materials and Fashions of Attyre if thou didst not here by mis-fashion and deforme thee thy Buildings also now becomming Towres indeed And si Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter I could number the numberlesse deaths whence thou liuest and which herein is lawfull empanell a Iewrie not of Butchers but of Shambles enough to astonish the whole Westerne World thy Flesh-markets there besides

thy flesh in Markets and other scattered places not so conspicuous with Fowles Fish Fruits and other belly Prouision out-vying any Citie yea many whole Kingdomes of the World And if I would present a sensuall stranger with a sensible raritie of London not elsewhere to be paralleld no not to be elsewhere credited I would here begin But here it is time hereof to make an end The Kingdom of God is not meat drink Meates are for the Belly and the Belly for Meates but God shall destroy both it and them though this require thankfull acknowledgement to haue thy fed beasts except wee be fed beasts Milke and Honey Oyle and Wine are not the best gifts not giuen alway to the best How many Men-shambles Hell-shambles hath the Deuill made Yea made the Belly a God by Flesh-shambles and full feeding Wee will take Sanctuarie in thy Churches O thy Pulpits O their Diuinitie herein I am at amaze both Vniuersities Court and Country all come to This place to pay their holy Tribute and yet hadst thou none but thine owne store since the Apostles dayes thou art incomparable a very None-such I will not frowne I may not weepe and shew my selfe humane in thy Diuines plaints and complaints it is a Festiuall and wee must reioyce And oh that thy Paul might put on Festiuall Apparell and reioyce too his Brother Peter in the West may be more Royall as Princeps Apostolorum and chiefe of the twelue and hath met with an Honourable Lord keeper who hath sealed him a renewed Charter and made him first as first called to beginne the health of reparation But Paul is Doctor Gentium and I am sure hath laboured more abundantly then they all O Pauls what shall I say for thee Of thee I may say as Phranza of Saint Sophie a terrestriall Heauen a Cherubicall Chariot another Firmament beyond all names of Elegance Manasses addeth Which I thinke the very Seraphim doe admire with veneration thy spirituall part still thy Diuinitie Lectures thy Crosse Sermons the Oyle scarce sufficeth for thine Euening-Lampes but now alas thy stones But I forget my selfe it is a Festiuall bee of good cheere thou hast a King which hath visited and pittied thy ruines and is still loath to see thee in the dust thou hast a Prelate the Successor post tot secula of thy Founder who grieueth to see Pauls Faith not to produce Works and OVR FATHERS conscience behind the inscience of PATER NOSTER Behold now the stones themselues speake and are at hand to promise thy Reparations at hand and I hope God is raising children to Abraham of these stones who will thrust the stone out of their hearts and bestow it on These walles O London which art rich at home and needest none other World then Brittaine how hast thou extended thy Trade into all parts of Europe Coeli soli bonis omnibus donata thou hast twice with thy long Armes embraced the whole Globe art made delicate with Russian Furres fed when need is with Corne from Danske and Poland whom the Germanes present with rare Artifices Italians with Silks Stuffes Veluets the French and Spaniard with Wines and Oyle the Belgians with Wares for thy Peace and Warres for thy superfluous bloud the Mountaynes of Norway descend that thy houses may ascend Narue and the Easterlings are thy Calkers and Riggers for thy Ships Iseland New-found-land and the North-seas furnish thee with Fish Turkie with Carpets Barbarie and the Negroes with Gold and Creatures for thy pleasure the Northwest hath opened her various passages to thee and if Nature denyed not would giue the thorow-fare Greenland melteth her huge Whale-monsters to doe thee seruice the Ilands which Nature had almost lost in the Ocean are found out by thy Mariners the Red Sea hath been awed and the Turks afraid lest thou shouldst stop vp that mouth of Mahomet the Mogoll's Persian's Moscouite's large Dominions are thy thorow-fare thy Staples Thou hast strewed thy Factories alongst the East euen to Iapan and sowen and reaped Wealth and Honour in the Ocean How doe the most remote parts send in their Commodities both for thy profit and pleasure while by the way Saldania Saint Augustines Saint Helena and other places yeeld refreshing to thy Merchants and Mariners Siam sendeth the Lignum Aloes Beniamin rich Stones Socodanna Diamonds China Raw Silke Porcellane Taffata Veluets Damaske Muske Sewing-gold Embroydered Hangings Macassar and Patania Bezars Baly Slaues for thy Merchants Indian vses Timore White-sanders and Waxe Banda Nutmegs and Oyle the Molucca's Cloues Iapan Dyes Salt-peeter Siluer Guinnee dying-wood Oyster-trees Guinny-pepper Zocotora Ciuet-cats and Aloes Arabian Red-Sea-Moha Indian and Arabian Commodities Cambaya Cloth Carpets Quilts Spikenard Turbith Cinnamon Surat Indicoe's Callicoes Pintadoe's Chadois Shashes Girdles Cannakens Treckanees Senabafs Aleias Patolla's Sellas Greene-ginger Lignum Aloes Suckets Opium Sal-armoniacke and abundance of Drugges Balsora Pearles Zeilon Cinnamon Iambe great grain'd Pepper as Priaman Passaman best Pepper and Gold the East of Africa Gold and Amber-greese These with many more conspire to make thee Great Thou hast not as of old visited the New-world but hast made not Ireland alone but Bermuda's frequent and populous Virginia to multiply in Townes and Hundreths besides new-New-England New-found-land and other thy Plantations O magnae spes altera Brittaniae Virginia I will repeat of thee which I said before of thy Royall Godmother which named thee Virginia O quam te memorem virgo thy louely cheekes alas lately blushed with Virginian-English bloud but how soone and thy blush being turned to indignation thou shalt wash hast washed thy feet in the bloud of those natiue vnnaturall Traytors and now becommest a pure English Virgin a new other Brittaine in that new other World and let all English say and pray GOD BLESSE VIRGINIA But whence this London-greatnesse Great prosperities giueth he to his King and his Cares his Opportunities his Charters Commissions Confederacies his Peace which he hath receiued from his Predecessor and educated to maturitie his artes of ruling his ruling of our Arts whereby the Bees worke luckily and Waspes and Drones are expelled his Faith whereof he is Defender and which as a Shield hath defended him his Prosperitie which GOD magnificans salutes hath giuen him and he to London is the meane of all thy meanes O Melibaee Deus nobis haec otia fecit his GOD the Towre of his King hath enclosed thee in the Towre-liberties Goe about London and tell her Towres how many and great prosperities marke well her Bulwarks and consider her Palaces If any yet complayne are they not worse then those Murmurers who can finde no fault with Manna but because they haue it or good in Leekes or Cucumers so admirable but because they haue a minde to quarrell Want of sicknesse I said before is a wanton sicknesse and fulnesse breedeth surfet else would not the delicate Papist complaine of persecution if hee