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A COMFORT AGAINST THE Spaniard DEVT. 20. And when ye are come nigh vnto the battell the Priest shal come forth to speake vnto the peole And shall say vnto them Heare O Israell you are come this day vnto battell against your enemies let not your harts faint neither feare nor be amazed nor in dread of them For the Lord your God goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies and to saue you LONDON Printed by Iohn Windet for I. O. 1596. TO THE REVEREND FATHER IN God William Lord Bishoppe of Norwich and to the rest of her Maiesties Officers for the execution of Iustice in that Dioces T. N. wisheth grace and peace IS it true that the Spanyardes will com this spring And is it not as true that we are ready to receiue them Hath this land at any time had either better prouision or more Souldiers brauer Captaines to leade them or sounder Diuines to encourage them Yea but what for Armour on our backes if feare bee in our hearts can feare there remaine where our late victories are remēbered Is not our enemie the same our case nay our God the same But Pharao and Sisera their ouerthrow is now forgotten Miriam may sing alone and Barac and Debora can get no hearers O rather let this booke call to mind our dutie for why should we depriue either our GOD of his glorie or our selues of such a comfort Is it not an houres Sermon of that inuincible Nauie and a briefe Apologie of the Portugale voiage and doth it not set before our eyes how great thinges the Lord hath done for vs To this ende I haue published it to your Lordship and worships I doe Dedicate it Beseeching God so to blesse you in gouerning vs that still the Gospell may haue free passage among vs. So shal we stil eate the fruite of our vines in despite of Senacherib and good Ezechias shal not want Esaies to comfort her whē Rabsache shall be sent to rayle vpon her Your Lordships and worships in Christ Thomas Nun Minister of the word at Weston A Comfort against the Spaniarde Iud. 5. ver 19. 19 The Kings came they fought then fought the Kings of of Canaan at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo they got not the money they desired 20 From heauen they fought the starres in their courses fought against Sisera 21 The riuer Kishon swept them away the riuer of their meetings the riuer Kishon O my soule treade vnder foot what soeuer seemeth valiant 22 Then the horsehoofes were battered by the swift fleeing of their valiants 23 Curse ye Meroz saith the Angel of Iehoua curse ye the inhabitants thereof because they came not to helpe Iehouah to helpe Iehouah among the mighties 24 Let Iael the wife of Cheber the Kenite be blessed aboue women aboue women dwelling in tents let her be blessed 25 He asked water she gaue him milke she brought foorth creame in a lordly dish 26 She put her left hand to the nayle and her right hand to the workmans hammer and shee smote Sisera shee tooke away his head and battered brused his temples 27 Betweene her feete he bowed himselfe he fell lay still betweene her feete he bowed himselfe he fell and where he bowed himselfe there he fell depriued of his life 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window chatted through the lattesse why doth his chariot defer to returne why tarie the wheeles of his chariots 29 Her wise Ladies answered her yea she her selfe answered her owne wordes 30 Haue they not gotten doe they not deuide the spoyle A maide yea two maidens to euery one Sisera hath a pray of diuers colours a pray of diuers colours of colours of nelde worke of diuers colours of nedle worke on both sides for the neckes of the spoylers FAther Iacob in his last * Gen 49.21 wil foresheweth that Neptalie shoulde be a hind let go giuing goodly wordes The singer of the song beloued is the performer of this Prophecie euen Barack of a Iud 46. Cadesh the sonne of Abinoam for as his feet were swift in c Iud. 4 10. leauing his armie against Sisera so are his words sweete which for the victorie he here singeth with Deborah The whole song is longer then may now be handled this part as fittest for our purpose I haue red vnto you for wee are heere assembled not onely to sanctifie this Sabaoth as at other times but also to blesse God for the late Spaniards ouerthrow It containeth 12. verses and consisteth of two members In the one the battell is described in the other a curse to Meroz and a blessing to Iael is pronounced Three circumstances describe the battell the place wher it was fought the parties that fought it the euēt of it Two places are named Taanah and Megiddo neighbor townes in half e Iosua 17 11. Manasses At Megiddo good king Iosias was * 2. King 23.22 2. Chron. 35.22.23 slaine in the battell to Megiddo the three spirits like Frogs in the a Reue. 16.13 Reuelation doe bring the kings of the earth to battel the allusion is vnto this text the mening is that pseudocatholikes should fight with no better successe against Christiās after the reuiuing of the gospel then did Sisera against Barack at the waters of Megiddo And in this sence well may our narrow Seas bee called the waters of Megiddo for thither their pride brought them and ther were they cutin peeces And thus much for the place the parties that fought are now to bee considered Sisera and his adherents is the one and Barack and his partakers the other Sisera his adherents are thus recorded The kings came they fought then fought the Kings of Canaan Iosua in conquering the land killed c Iosu 12.24 one thirtie of them Israel had expresse e Exod 23.33 and Deut. 7.2 commandement to roote out the rest a Iud. 1.21 But Beniamin a Iud. 1.28 Zabulon a Iud. 1.30 Asher and a Iud. 1.31 Neptalie thought it better pollicie to put thē to tribute they preferred gaine before godlines but what gained they by that pollicie They found them prickes in their eyes and thornes in their sides as God had c Numb 33.55 threatned they were brought to meere beggerie and extreame slauerie as well they deserued meere beggerie for their high e Iud. 5.6 waies were vnoccupied and traficke ceased extreame slauerie for the seruant of seruantes euen cursed Canaan became * Iud. 4.2 Lord ouer thē But what is not Canaan his curse vpō the Popes backe Is not he as rightly called the seruant of seruants as a Gen. 9.25 Canaā was If so Why is not his brood rooted out from among vs Or seeing England wil stil be pittying of them why are they not Lords ouer her as was Canaan ouer Israel The difference betweene them is the reason of it for Israel chose new Gods England hath
from your enemies And this of Sisera his adherents Barack is the other partie * Iud. 4.10 10000. marched vnder his banner but who reuenged his quarrel From heauen they fought the starres in their courses fought against Sisera These were dumbe creatures yet such as Iehouah vseth to destroy his enemies At his commaundment the waters a Gen. 7.23 destroied the olde world fire from heauen c Gen. 19.24.25 Sodome and Gomorrath e Exod. 9.24.25 haile and * Exod 10 14 15. grashoppers the fruites and beasts of Egypt the red a Exod 14.28 Sea Pharao and all his host c Iosu 10 11. hay lestones more of Iosuas enemies then did all Iosuas armie the Lord of hostes is his name The hostes of heauen and earth are alwaies ready prest for his armies Had the Spaniard learned this lesson he would haue trembled to haue giuen the name of God to his Nauie for onely Iehouah is inuincible The Centurion sheweth by his answere how well he beleeued it I am not worthie * Mat 8.8 saith hee to our Sauiour that thou shouldest come vnder my roofe only speak the word and my seruant shall be healed for I haue souldiours vnder me I say to one come and he commeth and to another goe and he goeth As if he should say health and consequently all other creatures are so ready to goe come at thy word as are my souldiers at my cōmandement But to leaue this point and to come to the euent of the battell which thus followeth They got not the mony they desired The riuer Kishon swept them away the riuer of their meetings the riuer Kishon Ther were the horsehoofes battered with the swift fleeing of their valiants And was it any maruaile though Sisera his army was thus foyled who euer resisted God preuailed Daniels prophane kingdomes could not yet was Babel among people as a a Dan. ● 4 Lyon among beasts The Medes Persians ruled ouer 127. nations Alexander in sixe yeares well nigh ouerran the whole world and the kingdome erected by his Captaines was a fearefull and ougly c Ester 1.1 beast with ten hornes These in Nebuchadnezars eyes were as a goodly image whose head was of gold breast arms of siluer belly of brasse and feete of yron yet for resisting God abusing his people in short time the Lord so powned them to a Dan. 2.34 pouder that at his comming in the flesh scarcely a remnant remained of them And as for Rome howsoeuer by Gods close prouidence it may remaine for a time for the holines of Pilats vicar to abide in yet seeing she hath c Mat 27.26 killed the Lord banished Iohn cōtinually e Reuel 17.6 18 24 shed the bloud of Gods saints her damnatiō is decreed she is that a Numb 24 24 Chittim that must in the ende perish In Iohns daies shee was called the c Reuel 17.18 great Cittie and rule ouer the Kings of the earth had she But that great Cittie shall e Reuel 16.19 drinke of the wine of the cup of Gods furie * Reuel 16.21 haile like talents shall fall vpon it the whore shall a Reuel 18.8 come to destruction her c Reuel 18.15 Marchants may bewaile her but none shal be able to helpe her But to returne to Sisera he had e Iud. 4.3 900. yron Chariots his Ladies were assured that he could not loose the victorie how therefore doe they comfort his mother concerning his long tarrying Haue they not gotten doe they not diuide the spoile a maid yea two maides to euery one Sisera hath a pray of diuers colours a pray of diuers colours of nedle worke of diuers colours of nedle worke on both sides for the necks of the spoylers But the a Pro. 10.28 fooles their hope quickly perished for Sisera is now dead the armie fled and drowned c Iere. 6 1● they said peace peace but sudaine destruction came vpon them And this for the former part of my text The other is Meroz curse Iaels blessing The cause of her curse thus followeth Curse ye Meroz saith the Angel of Iehouah curse ye the inhabitants therof because they came not to helpe Iehoua to helpe Iehouah against the mightie Meroz durst not venter a limme to get libertie she was situated so nigh the battel and so faint hearted that wel she might be some towne in Isaschar the only tribe which Deborah * Iud. 5.16 vpraideth of asselike sluggishnes and which father Iacob a Gen. 49.14 foretolde should bee an Asse couched vnder two burdens She onely regarded her commodities so shee kept them Sisera or Iehouah whome she serued she cared not Luke warme c Reuel 3 14. Laodicea was much like her in behauiour and almost the like punishment had shee for shee e Reue. 3.16 was spewed out of the Lords mouth and Meroz is here accursed from his mouth And this of Meroz curse Mels blessing thus followeth Let Iael the wife of Cheber the Leuite be blessed aboue women aboue women dwelling in the tents let her bee blessed He asked water she gaue him Milke she brought forth Creame in a lordly dish she put her lift hand to the nayle and her right hand to the workemans hammer and she smote Sisera she tooke away the head and battered and brused his temples Betweene her feete he bowed himselfe he fell and where he bowed himselfe there he fell depriued of his life Before wee come to Iaels blessing a word must bee spoken of her Country and exploit she was neither Israelite nor Canaanite but a Kenite a Iud. 4.4.11 descended from * Exod 3.1 Iethro king of Median Moses father in law the Kenite Lot and Iethro shewed the like obedience the one a Gen. 14.4 left his fathers house to goe with Abraham the other c Mat 11 5 left a kingdome to goe with Moses and almost the like reward founde they for Ruth the daughter of Lot was the Lords mother c and Iael the daughter of Iethro * Iud. 4.17 killed the Lords enemie But why should Iael therefore be blessed was hee not in league with her Did not hee * flie to her house for succour The league was but ciuill and priuate But now a a Iud. 4. publike cause is in hand the Lords battel in fighting she was to prefer the cause of religion before her couenant with Sisera Her blessing was the very same that Gabriel c Luk 1 28. bestowed vpon Mary for bearing the Lord this onely excepted that Mary is blessed among women but Iael aboue women I will not now dispute whose was the greast blessing but this I am sure of that they were both saued by belieuing and not by these workes howsoeuer they had a prerogatiue aboue women for them For this is a sealed truth that wee are saued by e Ephe. 2.8 9. faith and not by