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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

till God reueale further vnto them which moderation time hath bred in many is not profiting in wisedome and iudgement a part of our growing to the ripe age and stature of Iesus Christ that wherunto we are come wee may proceede by one rule euen to minde one thing which is necessarie Doe you stand in the gap in your pastorall sage wisedomes and zeale to turne away the Lords wrath which yet is not ceased blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye Nobles and Peeres of the Realme the pillers of our estate and flowers of the Kings Coronet Behold now the day of the Lord of Hostes was to bee vpon euery thing that was exalted vpon all the Cedars of Lebanon vpon all the Oakes of Bashan and vpon all the high mountaines and vpon all the hills that are lifted vp vpō euery high towne euery strong wall euen vpon all the strong men that are about the bed of Salomon all the valiant of Israel who handle the sword and are expert in warre and vpon euery one that hath his sword vpon his thigh for any feare these euen your selues the cruell instruments of Nabuchadnazzer of Rome would haue consumed as the three renowned rulers of the Prouinces Sidrach Misach and Abednego in one fierie Ouen heated to the seauenth degree in your habites roabes coates and shooes as they were as the Scripture noteth and yet the Infidel galles vnder Brennus reuerenced the faces and vestures of the Fathers of the Senate in the capitoll of heathen Rome Beholde the Lords great deliuerance ouer you his holy Angels among you so that no smell of fire vpon your garments nor a haire of your heads singed doe you therefore and your posteritie and all your retinue Blesse the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O You graue Iudges and Fathers of the Law and Sages of the Land whose doome was so neare without all course of iudgement and triall of Law which you afford to the meanest creature and most grieuous offender doe you put on Iustice as a roabe Let equity be a couering as a Crowne breake the power of the oppressour and let the innocent goe free that Iustice may not be as Wormewood nor iudgement as gall but truth may runne down as a mighty streame euery where Doe you blesse the Lord the chiefe Iudge of the world who hath deliuered you from so great sodaine a iudgment Blesse him I say in all your Courts in all your benches proceedings Assises and Sessions praise him and magnifie him for euer O You the learned and prudent Maisters of the Lawe and Chauncerie the Secretaries and Clarkes of estate attendants in this honourable place by your offices who were to bee in the same net of destruction now that your soule is escaped as a bird the net broken the fowlers taken and your soule deliuered Doe you tremble and serue this great God and King and your Country with all good care sound conscience as before the Court of conscience in heauen in greater degrees for if his wrath had beene kindled a little what could great and high place presence do good behold the thunder smiteth the tallest tops Doe you therefore feare this great GOD breake out into voyces and vowes of laud and thanksgiuing blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O You worthie Knights and Burgesses who represent the bodies of the seuerall Countries Shires of our Nation and were to be a short raunsome for a small Interim with your bodies for the bodies of the Countries who looked when their turne came to be deuoured also Bee you faithfull betweene them who commit their welfare vnto you and this God who though he be a consuming fire and your house was as a burnt sacrifice soking vpon the fire almost to the last night yet hee hath not burnt it nor touched our estate as brittle and combustible as the fierie bush in the Desart but gloriously shewed himselfe in the midst of you for your safetie as in the vision to Moses Wherefore put off your shooes as hee did lay aside all earthly treadings awry in loue of your selues your owne pelfe goe not with a splay foote to the Gospell of peace and if indeede you seeke the Lord with all your hearts in the propagation of the Gospell by a preaching Ministerie thorough the Land as I am perswaded very many doe then sticke not some of you to returne the impropriations in your owne power backe againe to the Church as some honourably haue done heretofore and others offered to doe the like in your very owne house of Parliament and some with their money hath purchased some of thē to the Church and were they not the auncient patrimonie of Christ Did not Queene Mary in her darke dayes and wayes giue example and by act of Parliament make restitution of the appropriations annexed to the Crowne It well becommeth the zealous this day some to stand forth as Zaccheus after so long detinue Seeing this day saluation is come vnto their whole and particular houses and they become the sonnes of Abraham all of them as Isaac saued from the knife by an angelicall hand to deliuer possession of the Lords inheritances some to offer liberally as Araunah the Iebusite did like a King as is recorded to the shame of Christians Some as Nehemiah to depart from their owne for some time to redeeme the Churches portion back again as he his seruants did forbeare the purchasing of lands for themselues to supply publique wants Others not sticke to abolish diminutiue rates and vnequall disproportionate compositions whereof peraduenture many haue stollen vpon the Church and to reduce the tythes to their primitiue vncorrupt kind or among you to take some effectuall way in the varietie of your high and exercised wisedomes for a liberal maintenance of a preaching Ministery without which the discourses of it are cloudes and claps of thunder without the sweete dewes and drops of early and later raine and indeede a rich sacrifice of those sorts vpon this returne of you all from the gulfe of such a death would be an vndeniable constat of your zeale and pietie to all posterities and an acceptable performance of a holy vow to him who hath spared you all taken nothing frō you And so in the name of God go on with all your courage zeale obedience and fidelitie to GOD and man blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye eloquent and skilfull Sergeants and Counsailours at the Lawe the Professours and exercents in this facultie pleaders and agents and all the men of Lawe whosoeuer in these adiacent Courts together with all the Scribes Notaries and Protonotaries Atturnies and all other appendants and dependants in so great a Muster in your rankes and Companies that plaine and quiet men meruaile how there can be

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