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A05463	The complaint of England Wherein it is clearely prooued that the practises of traitrous papists against the state of this realme, and the person of her Maiestie, are in diuinitie vnlawfull, odious in nature, and ridiculous in pollicie. In the which they are reprooued of wilfull blindnes, in that they see not the filthines of the Romish gouernment: and conuinced of desperate madnesse, in that they feare not the mischiefe of Spanish inuasion: the former whereof is exemplified by the Popes practises both here in England, and abroad in other countries: the later by the Spaniards outrages, in his exactions raised vpon Naples, and his tyrannies executed in the Indies. Lastly the necessitie, equitie, and benefits of the late proceeding in iustice are set downe; with a friendly warning to seditious papists for their amendment; and an effectuall consolation to faithfull subiectes for their incouragement. Seene and allowed.	[Lightfoot, William].	1587 (1587)	STC 15595; ESTC S108556	45,440	70

our back for the Pope sits in S. Peters Chaire forsooth Why so did the Scribes and Pharisies in Moses seate yet no into the holier men for that So that I maie iustly say of him as Themistocles said to a certain odde Seriphian who obiected to Themistocles that his renowne arose more through the glorie of his countrie then by the merite of his vertues Not so said Themistocles for if I were a Seriphian I woulde not liue without honour and though thou were an Athenian thou couldest not liue without shame So if Saint Peter were at Rome It is an odious comparison betwixt S. Peter and the Pope he liued not like the Pope and if the Pope sit in Saint Peters Chaire yet he liues not like Saint Peter Yet dare his blinde bold bayards make comparison and cast him their gauntlet that will auouch the contrarie For they affirme his integritie of life to be vnspotted and the sinceritie of his doctrine vncorrupted They wil say Saint Peter wrought miracles I cannot denie it and to counteruaile that the Pope speakes Oracles I dare not belieue it and they cannot proue it But I iump in opinion with him who answered when as the Pope vainely vaunted of his heapes of gold saying I cannot say as S. Peter did gold and siluer haue I none No said the other nor you cannot doo as S. Peter did cause the lame to arise and walke But as Neanthus hauing got Orpheus harpe went about iangling and iarring so long that wheras he expected the trées should haue dansed after his pipe he brought the dogs about his eares so the Pope hath so long bosted of Peters successiō that the simplest discern his doubling he that hath but halfe an eie may find out his grosse iugling legerdemain Yea God hath raised vp diuers of his owne part to publish his dealings who if they should all haue held their peace the verie stones would haue cried out for the displaying of the same I will not wade any farther in recounting the actions of holy Father Pope holy mother Church beeing matter so tedious for the length and for the beastlines so loathsome but will knit it vp with this conceited Pasquine Roma quid est amor est qualis praeposterus Vnde hoc Romamares Noli dicere plura scio And yet behold your restles and retchles desire longeth and laboureth to inthronize this bloodsucking Canniball this brocher of quarrelles this patrone of heresies this robber of churches this controller of Princes this enemy of Christ Both the meanes and the end of alteration are matters of exceeding mischiefe and extreme follie Neither are the meanes whereby ye would plant him any lesse pestilent then the ende wherfore Inuasion of the Spaniard is the meanes aduancing of Papistrie is the end It is a common saying He blames Neptune without cause that hauing once made shipwracke will to sea the second time You haue had alreadie some experience of the Spaniardes disposition among your selues and may elsewhere take perfitter notice So that in this your intent I cannot more aptly compare you then to a foole that laugheth and maketh semblance of mirth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished for his follie But if it be a point of wisedome for a man to looke to his owne house when he seeth his neighbours roofe on fire then first learne that point least in neglecting it ye ouersée the best point in your tables What the Spaniard hath attempted in the low countries is better knowne then I am able to report and what he had attained ere this may partly be coniectured if God had not mooued her Maiesties minde and strengthened her hand to bridle his tyrannies to succour their distresses and support his owne trueth Consider what he hath done in the kingdome of Naples and in the Indies and trust him accordingly When Naples came to his hands it had in it ten Princes nine chiefe Officers nineteene Dukes one twenty Marquises three thirty Earles besides of Barons and Lords a great number He obtained it by a pretensed title of marriage after it had bene defended a longe time against the Emperour by Francis the french king vnder whose regiment the people had retained theyr accustomed franchises liberties How the king of Spaine came to ●●●y the realme of Naples But when the french king was taken prisoner at Pauia one condition of his deliuery was that he should from thence forward withdraw his forces out of the kingdome of Naples by which meanes it came to the king of Spaines possession The Spaniardes at their first comming shewed themselues most pliable in their behauiors promising golden moūtaines vowing all seruice to the Neapolitanes for the defense of their coūtry continuance of their fréedomes And thus by cloked amity they crept into credit so that diuers of the chiefe of them were imployed in the strongest fortresses best fensed castles in the country The king of Spaine to curry fauor with them and to rock suspition a sleepe appointed the Prince of Salerne their owne countriman to be his Lieutenant During the while he was sole gouernour they enioyed all benefits that they had afore time Not longe after he sent thither one Don Pietro a Spaniard whom he ioyned in cōmission with the Prince This fellow sought by raising false reports of the Prince to discredit him with the king and cōmons and by indirect practises to indaunger his life Which when the Prince sawe he willingly sequestred himselfe departing to his castle left all affaires to be ordred by Don Pietro The Spaniard not thus contented contriued matter of accusation against the Prince charging him with treason whereto he refused not to make his answere Which when he came to haue done the Spaniard had suborned a villayne pryuily to lurke in the mountaines to haue murthered him with a gunne who missing his body strake him in the leg The Prince séeing himselfe enuironed with manifest perill tooke his way to Venice vpon whose departure the Spaniard immediately proclaimed him traitor The prince framed his cōplaint to the king but founde no remedy Not onely was the offendor released from sentence of law but al inborne subiects of the realme were discharged from bearing rule or office whatsoeuer All Marchants and artificers were prohibited to kéepe any kinde of armour or weapon in their houses yea so much as sworde or dagger Only to gentlemen it was permitted to haue their swords targets none other If all paiments which al the kings the raigned before in Naples were laid togither they are not cōparable to th'extraordinary taxes the king of Spaine hath exacted of them The greuous exactions raised vpon the Neapolitans Euery fourth or fift yeare they paide sometime two hundred thousande sometime foure sometime a million of gold Al such as had lands were called to know by what title they kept thē if they had not euidence presently to show they

the Lorde vttered by the mouth of the Prophet Samuel was forsaken of God Gods holy spirite departed from him and an euil spirite tooke possession of him Dauid was by Samuel annointed king in his steade Yet would he not presume to dispossesse Saule of his kingdom but endured grieuous calamities which by the malice of Saule were inflicted vpon him He was distressed in the townes with doubt of trecheries vexed in the wildernesse with the scourge of penurie reproched by the churle Nabal with the infamous title of runnagate constrained in king Achis Court to counterfeit madnesse sustaining a burthen of miseries heauier then Aetna and almost ouerwhelmed with an Ocean of perplexities Yet did hée with all méekenesse and patience attend the Lordes leasure The application of the former example wholie relying vpon his promises which he knew should be performed at such time as God in his secrete counsell and foreknowledge had determined But you like wretches and of all other most wretched because wilfullie wretched liuing in a land wherein the heauens droppe downe fatnesse where honie distilleth from the stonie rocke a lande not much inferiour to the lande of Canaan a land much resembling the happinesse of Paradise as one of your owne complices lately confessed liuing vnder the regiment of a vertuous Princesse and renowmed Soueraigne a Princesse euerie waye superior to Saule and cannot by her greatest enemies be impeached with any crime common to her with Saule howbeit it was feared that Agag the Amalekite Because Saul spared Agag God reiected Saul the professed aduersarie of Gods people should haue béene spared but thanked be God her louing subiectes to their generall reioycing are now disburdened of that feare A Princesse whose sunbright honor dazeleth the eies of forraine Monarches whose zealous inclination like an inestimable Diamond enchased vpon a péereles Iewell bewtifieth all other vertues that attend vpon her person whose affectionate loue to her subiectes is wonderfull passing the loue of Dauid Ionathan and yet was their loue passing the loue of women who tempereth iustice with mercie extending mercie without partialitie and executing iustice without rigor yet you through aboundance and prosperitie are become wanton and insolent Fulnesse is the mother of forgetfulnes and wealth nurseth wantonnes through her too much grace and fauour ye are growne obdurate and rebellious indeuouring to supplant her who studieth to support you deuising her ouerthrowe whose welfare is the surest ankerhold to defend you from shipwracke Saule was reiected of God yet durst not Dauid annoye him your dread soueraigne being legitimate heire and rightfull successor was both established by God and allowed by men and is at this daie by his singular prouidence so miraculouslye preserued that your wicked imaginations had ere this béen her destruction and with her had manie thousandes perished and with them your selues howsoeuer you perswade your selues had not he ouerspread her with the resplendisant beames of his fatherly protection But you will saie shée was excommunicated by Pius Quintus more truly might he be termed Impius this obiection though it might verie well haue béene answered with silence béeing so weake lame and out of ioynt as it is yet hath it béene so throughly canuased and so plainelie confuted alreadie that it hath good cause as much to be ashamed of the patrones and defenders thereof as they haue iust reason had they anie reason at all to bee ashamed of it Onely of Pope Pius the thunderer of that excommunication and of his equalles the Popes I meane for of equalitie otherwise the Papacie is by all meanes impatient and can no more tolerate a compéere then the firmament can conteine two Sunnes as one of their owne side full learnedly squared out the comparison thus much will I saie Cui plus licet quàm par est plus vult quàm licet Hee that maie doo more then is méete wil doo more then he maie But to procéede did not opportunitie of reuenge with vnfolded armes present her selfe to Dauid at such time as Saule vnaccompanied entered into the caue where Dauid with his assistants were assembled Saule had often serued him with a crooked measure In reuenging no man may be his owne car●er might hee not now haue measured to him by the same list Saule had saluted him with manie crosse curtesies had he not now libertie to paie him home in his own coine and to returne vsurie besides the due debt Had hee not abilitie to doo this Naie had hee not reason if hee should haue reasoned with humane reason No doubt Dauid managed a dangerous conflict and like a Captaine most valiant gaue the repulse to assaults most violent wherein loyall duetie contended with lawlesse necessitie and fleshlie infirmitie combated with diuine ordinaunce Desire of a kingdome hauing a course to compasse it with such facilitie is a plausible Rhetorician cunning to perswade for Si ius Violandum est regni causa Violandum est if the limittes of lawe maie bee infringed then for a kingdomes cause maie they bee infringed but assurance of life beeing enuironed with manifest hazard of death is a mightie Orator able to conuince But as hee gaines a double conquest that in conquest can conquere him selfe so shall hee bee recompensed with treble punishment that is by anie carnall perswasions entised whether of benemous hatred or honourable aduancement or anie other thing whatsoeuer to accept of worldly benefite and to neglect heauenlie prescription If wee shall censure of the matter onlie according to ordinarie estimation without question the honour Dauid purchased by vanquishing the Heathenish Golias was not halfe so glorious as that hee deserued by subduing his owne thoughtes in refraining to proffer violence to an annointed king Which execrable offence if he had committed it had excéeded both the adulterous abusing of Barsabe and the wrongfull murthering of Vrias so much as a villanie practised against a Prince surpasseth an iniurie inferred to a priuate man I thinke it not requisite too much to insist vpon euerie particular circumstance of the comparison but I would wishe you to weigh this with your selues Dauid for feare withdrew himselfe from Saules presence some of you of malicious intent estrange your selues The practises of Iesuites S●●●tnarie pr●●●s cursetting ouer like fugitiues into other nations and there plant your selues in those Seminaries whose Gardener is Antichrist whose seedes are errors whose fruites are treasons Where when you haue perfectly learned your lesson to transforme Christian religion into prophane policie and to change policie into trecherie then like plantes of such a soile like pupilles of such a Tutor like Scollers of ripe wittes yet not so ripe as rotten yee turne ouer a new leafe and from contemplation ye fall to practise wherein ye so behaue your selues that as hee was reputed amongst the barbarous Scythians the brauest Gentleman that had committed the moste bloodie slaughters so is hée amongst you estéemed the notablest Catholicke that can

bestowed this way to be frustrate he imparted the matter to his Lords assembled in Parlement discoursing what inconueniences must of necessitie ensue if they obeyed the Popes precept and in most earnest and discrete maner he debateth the cause seuerally with euerie particular Bishop willing them to weane their affection from straungers and not practise the vndoing of their natiue countrie for gratifying of the Pope But finding them peruerse he mingleth his intreatie with menaces denouncing openlie against them the penalties of the lawes and auncient statutes of his Realme charging them further vpon their allegeance to deliuer no money out of the Realme to the beggering of the State They as best became them yéelded at the last obedience to their Liege Lorde But Gregorie thus defeated of his purpose and crost with a contrarie cue cleane beside his expectation began to make batterie with his gunshot of excommunication directed to the Bishop of Worcester of whose inclinatiō he was best perswaded with cōmand to prosecute it in most vehement sort that no possible furtherance should be omitted for the effectuating thereof against a certaine day prescribed wherein the Audit of this sacred receipte must bee giuen vp The matter was so diligentlie trauersed what with the kinges Embassadors on the one side to appease the Pope what with the insatiable couetousnesse of the Pope on the otherside to impouerish the Realme that notwithstanding all importunitie submission and reasonable proffers that the king could make no spéeche of reconcilement would be harkened vnto vntill he had graunted the Pope a tenth of all goods moueable in England and Scotland The king in his owne Realme ouer-waighed by the vsurped authoritie of the Pope and then to vse Matthaeus Parisiensis his own words Our Lord the Pope being before inwardlie inflamed aboue all thinges to suppresse the hautinesse of the king recomforted with these promises was made to consent The which how pernicious it became to the state of this Realme can hardly by anie estimate be comprehended For irregular custome hauing once set in his foot would not for many yeares after take the repulse So that the Church of Rome hath to her shame approued the veritie of this saying Religio peperit Diuitias sed Filia deuorauit Matrem Religion brought forth Riches but the Daughter swalowed vp the Mother like the Vipers brood Such gourmandisers as praie vpon Princes whereas they ought of duetie to pray for them will be found to haue runne farre into arrerages when it shall be said vnto them Giue account of thy stewardship for thou maist be no longer Stewarde Of such it may bee saide as Alcibiades said to Pericles when he perceiued him very carefull to make vp his reckonings to the Athenians O how much better were it for thee if thou couldest deuise to giue no accounts at all The king of Englands Exchecquer disfurnished vnder pretence of ransoming the Pope It is not vnknowne howe the treasure of this realme was of late yeares transported when that ambitious Prelate Cardinall Woolsey conueied at one time out of the Kinges Exchecker two hundred and fourtie thousand poundes sterling for relieuing of Pope Clement whom the Duke of Bourbon after the sacking of Rome drew foorth of the Castle of Saint Angelo and detained him prisoner in the Emperours armie The which summes of monie he conuerted to furnish the french King with necessaries to make warre vpon the Emperour who was then in league with King Henrie of England What should I speake of pardons Peter-pence with a number such polling pedling deuises of oppression wheref the manifestation of the Gospel hath clearly disburdened you What should I declare how licentiously he hath presumed to cōtroll the mightie kings of England infringing their liberties abrogating their ordinances repealing their statutes and ingrating vpon their prerogatiues Wherein if hee were at any time gainsaid or ouerthwarted he then cast about to depose them As Henry the seconde was suspended from his Crowne by the space of foure daies went barefoote to Thomas Beckets Tombe dying the rough stones with his blood and most vnkingly deiecting himself to be discipled with the rod of the Monkes of Canterburie King Iohn was miserably vexed by Innocent the third forced at last to resigne his Crowne with all title of soueraintie both in England and Ireland into Pandulphus hand who detaining it fiue daies then restored it This infortunate King after a troublesome and litigious raigne was in the ende poisoned by a traitorous Moonke as also Henry the seuenth Emperour of Germany was by a Dominicane Frier who ministring the sacrament vnto him had before dipped the oste in poison I must néedes highly commend the courage of king Henry the first The magnanimity of king Henrie the first in withstanding the Hope who beeing in contention with Anselme about inuestitures pleaded the sufficiencie of his owne authoritie within his proper territories saying There is an ancient custome of my kingdome ordained by my Father that no person shal sue anie appeale from vs to the Pope whosoeuer will attempt to violate this custome doeth offend against our Maiestie and the Crowne of Englande hee that will seeke to despoile vs of our Crowne is an enemie and a Traitor to our person And againe when Anselme would haue had him follow the Popes Letters what haue I to doe with the Popes Letters I will not breake the lawes of my Realme for the pleasure of anie Pope As touching his market-making and whole sale of spirituall promotions to rawe and bankerout chapmen it was truely said that the state of Asses was much better then of Horses because the Horses were faine to post to Rome for benefices but the Asses obtained them Of his ordinarie absolution for mony without respect of crime he descanted pretily that said Friers were fed fat with mens sinnes Of the scismes in his Sea he spake rightly the being asked why in their suffrages they praied not for Cardinals Bishops that is quoth he vnderstood where we say Oremus pro scismaticis haereticis let vs praie for scismatikes heretikes I omit his beastly gaine raked out of the sinkhole of brothel-houses I loth to think vpon his tolerating of the most stinking sin of abhominable Sodomitrie in commendation whereof Iohn Casus Archbishop of Beneuentane the Popes Legat to the Venetians wrote a booke O detestable impudencie to magnifie that in words yea in writing the onely thought wherof woundeth the heart with horror Indéed Sinesius wrote a pamphlet in praise of Baldnes Fauorinus commended the quartane ague Apuleus the Asse Erasmus not vnwittily blazed the praise of Follie one of late painted out the praise of nothing yet to some purpose but what age euer hatched such a forlorne monster as this Yet was he a deuout Catholike a Romish Prelate and one of speciall account with his holinesse therefore I mate well thinke like maister like man But roome now els shall we bring all Rome on

in his own Pallace O vnspeakeable grief all these valefull calamities to haue sprung from one Helena How much better had it bene that that Helena had neuer bene borne or being borne a thousand tymes better she should haue bene throwne into the middest of the sea with a milstone about her necke then to haue bin the subiect for so many tragedies When Iabin king of Canaan sought to oppresse Israel by the handes of Sisera his captaine ●udic 4. the Lord raised vp Deborah and Barak to ouerthrow his power But the mother of Sisera making iust reckoning of victorie looked out at the windowe and cried through the lattesse why is his Chariot so long a comming why tarrie the wheels of his Chariot haue they not gotten nowe they deuide the spoyle c. The mother sister cosin or friend of Sisera or howe soeuer she were allied vnto him looked long she looked but in stead of Sisera contrarie to her hope she saw Iehu come to doe iustice The Lord looked also downe from heauen hee saw your deuises hee liked them not but laughed because hee perceiued your day was comming yea hee looked long at last he sawe iustice done and it pleased him well For my part I will euer pray that I may rather beare the burthen of Deborahs song then the burthen of Phineas wiues sorrow The song of the one was So let all thine enemies perish O Lord Sic 〈…〉 di●●● 〈◊〉 bethae mal● v●lunt but they that loue him shal be as the sunne when he riseth in his might The sorrow of the other was The glorie is departed frō Israel for the Ark of the Lord is taken But because a liue dogge is more to be doubted then a dead Lion I wish that all theyr lurking holes may be narrowly searched and they ferretted out of theyr Conniburrowes Psalme 101. where priuily they lay wayt for innocent bloud I pray God her Maiestie may perfilly learn Dauids song Traytors presume upon her M●i●●●●●s mercie who said he would sing vnto the Lord of mercy and iudgement Her clemencie hath bene moste notoriously abused the musick had almost bene mard and all like to be brought into an vnpleasant discord while she harped so long vpon one string The seruauntes of Benhadad king of Syria 1. Reg. 2● what iniuries soeuer they had wrought Israel yet when they were fallen into the lapse they comforted themselues with these wordes Behold we haue heard saie that the kinges of the house of Israell are merciful kings let vs therefore put sackcloth about our loynes ropes about our heades and go to the king of Israel it may be that he will saue our liues They stood vpon what may be and what he wil do not vpon what must be what he ought to doe thus they made mercy the groundwork of their mischiefe But the king of Israel was reproued by the Prophet who tolde him because thou hast let goe out of thy handes a man whome I appointed to die thy life shal goe for his life thy people for his people No lesse are those runnagate ruffians to be regarded who practise to steale away the harts of the people crying out with the black mouth of Rabsakeh What say ye vnto me we trust in the Lord our God Esay 36. Is not that he whose high places whose altars Ezechias took down am I come vp without the Lord to this land therfore let not Ezechias deceiue you for he shall not be able to deliuer you And as Artabanus king of the Persians answered the letters of Alexander emperor of Rome saying In stead of paper J assigne him the field a lance for the pen bloud for inke wounds for words So these companions for disputations bring dispensations for reasons treasons arguing ab vtili and not ab honesto concluding neither honestum nor vtile arming their religion with atheisme and supporting theyr faith by faithlesse trecheries Yet when they are cut short by iustice Papistes make treason the truit of conscience they wouldimpudently face out the matter that they die for their conscience whereas God knoweth their conscience was dead long before But we may answere their great maister as king Richard the first did when the Pope sent to him commanding him to release the Bishop of Beauuois and his Archdeacon whome hee called his sonnes being taken by Earle Iohn the kinges brother in the field and by the king cōmitted to prison he sent to the Pope theyr complete armour with this message Genes 37. Vide an tunica filij tui sit an non sée whether this be thy sonnes coate or not Let the pope looke whether his Iesuites iett in the garments of godly Churchmen or rather of roisting vagabondes let him saie if these be the doings of men that deale vpon zealous conscience or rather vpon traiterous intent These are they that by their whispering tales would put men in fear where there is no cause of feare giuing false fires and striking vp hote alarmes when there is neither shot nor souldier nigh hād Papistes indeuour to amaze men with causelesse feare thinking to make men afraid of skarcrowes of their own shadows or rather of nothing at al. These are they that construe euerie accident that befalles to the aduantage of their purpose speaking as they would fayne haue it These are they that vse wicked consultation in holie places prophaning temples by their lewd conference and making the house of prayer a den of theeues In a Church-yard in Paris shortly after the bloudie massacre sprong vp a Palme tree which the Papistes straight interpreted to be a signe that the Protestants were fullie vanquished and the lott of victorie falne to theyr part But it was indeede a true token and Time which is Truthes mother hath prooued it so to be that howsoeuer they practised by violence to extirpate true professors yet maugre their malice his seruants should florish like the Palme trée and that from their blood as from the ashes of the Phenix should reuiue a glorious of spring For the blood of Martyrs is the séede of the Church And therefore as Alexander the great couragiously answered when his souldiors would haue disswaded him from going vnto India because the image of Orpheus swet what quoth Alexander doth Orpheus sweat then I know we shall make worke for the Poets so we though not Orpheus image but Orpheus Ape Neanthus whom I touched before though I say the Pope sweat and sweare and take on as one of his predecessors did for his pie yet we know that in mainetaining Gods truth obeying our soueraigne we shall doe a worke acceptable to him but they and you which doe the contrarie will make worke daungerous to your soules damageable to your countrie onely profitable for the hangman I wish you better I would I might hope better of you and when I sée you begin to amend then shall you sée me leaue off to mistrust But though faintnes now inforce me to shut vp my complaint yet vntill that time neither can I be fréed from feare nor you cleared from suspicion O Louing God and most mercifull Father A prayer for the preseruation of her maiestie and continuance of the gospel who holdest in thy hand the harts of all Princes turnest them which way standeth best with thy diuine pleasure we beséech thée so to order the thoughts of thy seruant our dread soueraigne and so to dispose all her actions that as a faithfull handmaide she may studie to please thée and as a carefull nurse séeke to cherish thy Church And forasmuch as thy glorie is chiefly shewed by bringing to passe thy will through weake meanes féeble instruments assist her we pray thée with thy spirite that being weake in her selfe she may be strengthened by thy arme to confound all such as shall with Holofernes assault thy people And as thou hast hertofore oftentimes redéemed her out of the mouth of the lion so defend her still that neither open force nor secret villanie at anie time preuaile against her And séeing thesmall graine of thy Gospell which by her hand thou hast graciously sown amongst vs in the field of thy Church hath béene so watered with the heauenly dew of thy blessing that the birdes come now build in the branches thereof and the slender vine that thou broughtest out of Egypt and plantedst in this land hath through thy goodnesse taken such roote that the mountaines are now couered with the shadow of it the boughes therof spread abroad like the goodly Cedar trées we beséech thée to watch ouer it that neither the Caterpiller which lurketh in corners consume it nor the wilde Boare out of the wood destroy it but that being nourished by thée it may grow vp before thée bring forth fruite vnto thée Remember not our former iniquities but let thy tender mercies preuent our imminent miseries And as in the daies of Iosua thou didst stay the sunne in the firmament vntil thy people had cleane vanquished their thine enimies so now maintaine the throne of thine annointed that her daies may be as the daies of heauen for brightnes and as that day of Iosua for continuance that she may wéed out the aduersaries of thy truth that so the worke which thou hast mercifully begun may be prosperously perfited by her Let it neuer be tolde in Gath that the glorie of Iacob is darkened let it neuer be published in Ashkelon that the scepter of Iudah is falne lest the daughters of the Philistines reioice and the vncircumcised begin to triumph But let all the world know that thou carest for thy people and vpholdest thine heritage As for thine enimies they shall be as the smoke that vanisheth in the wind as the waxe that melteth at the fire and as the dust that is scattered before the tempest They shall perish yea they shall all perish at the rebuke of thy countenance