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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

temporall deliuerances and not the day of Mars or Mors any longer This is the day which the Lord hath made let vs reioyce and be glad in it And thou Nouember bee Queene of moneths and King too still sing the memorie of thy Queene still ring the presence of thy King let thy fift be the fift of fifts and beyond Elixirs and quintessences the first of all firsts Quantum inter stellas argentea luna minores yea as the Sunne aboue both Moone and Starres which was designed to the reuolution of that horrid Chaos when our Sunne Moone and Morning-starre King Queene and Prince our whole Firmament and Parliament of Starres the light of Israel and all our Israels lights had with a Hellish dampe a terrible lightning and thunder from the bellie of Hell beene at once extinct had not that terrible blow made it not terrible by the Spirit of vnderstanding in our King It was not his naturall Genius nor ingenious Arte how great soeuer it was the Towre of saluation that had deliuered him from the Lion and the Beare and would now deliuer from this Giant of treasons that reuealeth deepe and secret things and honoured the King with great deliuerance Hee was a Towre of saluation for his King and made him a Towre of saluation for his that now God hath made vs his by that Diuine instinct and reuelation aboue against Reason and Arte as himselfe confessed not his inheritance alone but as the Egyptians were Pharao's new purchase so God in another kinde hath made vs obliged for Life Libertie Religion All vnto the King For had not that Giantly progenie of the Earth the sonnes of the Whore drunken with bloud of Saints Contemtrix Superum saeuaeque auidissima caedis which now in printed Bookes denie any Papist to haue had a hand in it the very forehead of impudence blowne vp all had not our Phoebus with rayes more then humane dispersed the mists of that Python and opened Sphinx that Monsters Ridle penetrated the Labyrinthian Cauernes of that Minotaure cut that Gordian-knot which Art could not vnloose and so blew vp the terrible blowe and Blowers and ground the Powder-plot to powder To This which no age no deliuerance meerely temporall can parallel I might adde to vsher it those of Watson and Cobham and the rest and to follow it his deliuerances from his late sicknesse from water the ninth of Ianuary last and other perils wherein I might vse the words of the Prophet Haec dicit Dominus creans te IAACOB Meus es tu when thou passest through the waters I will bee with thee neither shall the flame kindle vpon thee Great deliuerances giueth he to his King euery day for what extraordinarie guard circumspection feare force retirednesse iealousies executions what within without him euen in this last and worst age when Treason hath filled Presse and Pulpit and rewards attend those which not onely neglect contemne resist but murther Kings a Theame fit for the Popes Holinesse to make a Panegyrike vpon which Xistus Quintus did for the Friar that murthered the French King with as good deuotion as their solemne Procession was made for the French bloudie Massacre Foelix scelus virtus vocatur But our GOD hath giuen hath magnified salutes hath giuen not stupendious deliueries alone but Iubilees of prosperitie Great prosperitie giueth he to his King in those deliueries in deliuering him from his Enemies in deliuering his Enemies to him Inciderunt in foueam quam fecerunt The Gowries this day preuayled not fayled of and died in their cursed attempt and so of the rest Escape with victorie and triumph too is great prosperitie And great prosperitie hath he giuen him in his owne Royall person in his Issue in his Kingdomes His personall prosperities as I know not best being the least of the thousands of Iuda yet wee all know so much as I had rather praise God for them who hath giuen such prosperities to his King then displease men some thinking I say too little others back-biting that I flatter Once Royall Ancestrie almost innumerable a Reigne almost as long as his life how seldome equalled since Brittaine had a King which O thou his saluation long and long continue● his first being immediat Heire and Possessor of this present Monarchie his more Subiects more Alliance and Confederates more Reuenues more complete Power his Fame further extended then any of his Predecessors are a trueth but those externall called bona fortunae by the Philosopher vix ea nostra voco His bodily prosperities in masculine Sexe in a strong constitution a constant health dum vires annique sinebant and that without Aesculapius his helpe his abilities for exercises disports discourse studies promising if our sinnes preuent not the hopes of many yeeres these also are great prosperities yet bodily But the minde of a man is the man and herein great and almost more then great prosperities giueth he to his King liberall in the liberall Arts but these are rudimenta non opera beyond Plato's King not a Philosopher alone but a Diuine in both these then exercising a Kingdome when like Apollo in the middest of the Muses the Schooles of both Vniuersities yea the Vniuersities of both Kingdomes saw him present and President whom the lawyers haue seen a King on the Tribunall in science and conscience of the law the Star-chamber admiring the shining of a present Sun For the Councell-table I am not worthie to gather the crummes and the Groomes will driue mee from Parliament Sessions I leaue them to higher conceits Yea but hee hath fraylties too may some say I answere it is frailty to make such obiection for these treasures are in an earthen Vessell such as must returne Serus ô redeas to earth againe Soles occidere redire possunt This Sunne must goe downe these Gods must die like men I answere herein this Sol is not solus wee see and ioy to see the Issue of his bodie and his Issues Issue in both Sexes hopefull and glorious in which respect we say and pray without a figure O King liue for euer and reigne for euer Let his Table bee compassed with these Oliue-branches and their heads be crowned with Laurell And now are wee come to the great prosperities of his Realmes in which behold first that Trinitie of England Scotland Ireland made an Vnitie Fecit eas in gentem vnam No forren Enemie creeping in at the Irish window as before or Irish Traytor starting into a Scottish couert no borderer at the threshold nor other leaping out of the Northerne back-side for France Wee need no wall as of old against the Picts the Ocean it selfe is our wall round about to guard vs stretcheth out his louely armes and creekes to enrich vs insinuateth his Sinus bayes bosomes and harbours to embrace vs melteth himselfe in liquid loues mustereth waues sands tides all his forces as becommeth the great