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
imployments for so great an Armie who all are intended to keepe peace among Subiects among whom yet many it must needs be liue of the sinnes of the people as a cage is full of birds so are their chambers full of deceit Thereby they are become great and waxen rich they are waxen fat and shining and though they doe not iustly yet they prosper whose heate of contention to multiply strifes and Clyents pluralities and totquots of Cases and Causes that it seemeth to resemble the troublesome knots of the olde Popish school-men to make things more pletted perplexed and intricate and yet thereby they heape vp money and fees which deliuereth not in the day of wrath but inkindleth it rather now that you are all deliuered from destruction which was so neare vnto you also in the very tents and pitched fields of your variance and in that place that is witnesse of all your integritie whether you sought out the cause diligently as holy Iob did to buy the truth and sell it not or otherwise of your vntrustinesse wrest not the Law accustome not to speake against your conscience take heed it be not said of some of you as in another sense the Lawe is holy and iust and good but I am solde vnder sinne euen euery one that so often pleade at so many barres remember this great barre and tribunall seate to which you were to come not so prepared as else you would extoll this mightie GOD of your deliuerance let godlines bee your chiefest gaine and the right and peace your greatest ioy blesse you the Lord in all your takings and speakings endightings and counsailings complainings and defendings praise him and magnifie him for euer O You Gentrie and Yeomanrie the frie of this Nation and seede of succeeding ages ye Students at the Lawe and other nouices and punies vnder your graund Benchers and most graue Seniours that assemble to heare and obserue the experience and maturitie of the auncient and to furnish your selues for future time who had like to haue beene oppressed in your minorities and in the very great hall and common schoole of your practise and at the feet of them that teach you but that the Lord protested for sinfull England as for great Niniuie to saue sixe score thousand aliue that knew not the right hand from the left to preserue you as a cluster of Grapes hopefull of wine of which one saith destroy it not there is a blessing in it Doe you therfore laud this Lord who is your God from your youth and let him be your God vnto your age blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye Sutors and Clients and Sollicitors of the Law who are enraged in stomack and disquietnes in reuenge and couetousnes to eate vp one another and trauaile farre and oft to consume your times and families and blow the coales of Iuniper vpon one another facing and defacing your selues mutually to maintaine these fires behold the day of the Lord vpon you like Plaintife like Defendant like giuer like taker like Clients like pleader one Beasom of destruction to sweepe away all that hunt their brethren with a net and lay snares to catch men but that God is more patient to vs all then we are to one another who did suddainly blow the retreate from this great slaughter else a man of you had not beene left aliue therefore feare this Lord the God of peace and loue and comfort let your placabilitie bee knowne vnto all men the Lord is at hand blesse thou the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye seruants and followers of the Nobles and Gentrie and others in this great assemblie of Parliament and full Terme Consider your seruice to almightie God what it hath beene heeretofore and your faithfulnes to men let it not be in eye seruice but in singlenes of heart you are bought with a price hereafter be seruants not onely of men but of this God who hath deliuered you from this common lot of miserie blesse I say and curse not deliuer your selues from the common condemnation fashion not your selues according to the world in the prophanenes of too many Seruitors mispending time and life forgetting God and religion remember the iudgement of olde not a seruant of Noah or Lot saued in the watrish and fierie destruction of their times and yet you preserued at this time therfore blesse you the Lord your preseruer praise him and magnifie him for euer O You inhabitants and soiourners in the auncient Citie of Westminster with all the confines and skirts of the liberties thereof or in any reach whether this whirlewinde of Gods wrath should haue reached by land or by water Behold you also were the children of death and your houses appointed to desolation as the houses of Iobs children by a strong winde on a suddaine euen peraduenture whilst you were eating and drinking taking money therefore rise vp in your degrees and worship as the Israelites euery man at his tent doore blesse you also the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O All you open and secret Papists and Catholicks for so you will be called that were to bee assembled in and neare the Parliament whose heads and bodies if they had beene gathered together vpon this massacre and laid on heapes as all the seuentie sonnes of Achab at the Court gates of King Iehu it was cleare who had done it Dauid and his Kingdome had beene guiltlesse before the Lord for euer your brethren and fellowes had done it acknowledge them the schollers of Pope Hildebrand who when Henry the third the Emperour vsed to pray in S. Maries Church in mount Auentine hired one to lay great stones on the beames to let them fall on the Emperours head which he hasting to accomplish a huge stone drew him downe and crusht himselfe to pieces They also would haue caused you to haue passed through the fire as a sacrifice to Moloch and haue vsed you as Moabites They would haue made you their martyrs before your time you should haue beene lickt vp in the common flame Come you therefore out of Babylon Loe how shee rewardeth her children like the harlot mother who in Salomons dayes ouer-laid her owne child to death and yet would haue the liue children of the true and naturall mother in her keeping Touch no vncleane thing doe you trie the spirits heereby and iudge them to be rauening Woolfes know them by these ripe fruites of red and scarlet sinnes of horrible and vnnaturall and vniuersall murther and ioyne with vs now at last in the sincere profession of Gods word alone which God hath defended in your eyes and experience so oft of olde and now freshly do you nowe come out of the fire with feare and make a perfect vowe as Naaman to offer to no other God and to blesse the Lord God
of the Protestants euen the God of Paule for whose sake God spared two hundred seuentie and sixe in the same ship to praise him and magnifie him for euer O You stately buildings and Edifices of Antiquitie whose seates were set for iudgement whether all the heads of the tribes ascend and other nobles and elders of this Realme for common causes of olde together with the princely Oratories and Chappels and Churches of deuotion and for the inauguration and inuestiture of the Kings and Queenes of this Realme who haue long stoode in peace on your bases and beene vnmooueable in so many alterations of Princes Nations times and yet now one stone was not to be left vpon another if they might haue had their will Crying downe with it downe with it euen to the ground abhorring not the men onely but the place also as a leaporous house and vowing to make it waste as a wildernes doe you consider and bee not inanimate and altogether mute but as the creature that lifteth vp his head for the day of redemption spirited with a feeling of your preseruer that they which visite your monuments come to see your ornaments may go about you as of olde about Syon and tel her Towers marke well her bulwarks and consider her walls and see not a stone mooued or a piece of timber shaken GOD hath taken pleasure in the stones of your foundations and hath had pittie on the dust thereof as for your enemies hee hath trod downe their life in the earth and laid their honour in the dust Doe you stand and continue to tell posteritie as a stedfast and speaking pillar to admonish the members of that body all that come vnder your roofe hereafter there to intend him onely that deliuered them and not to tempt this iealous God by any sinister decree whose wrath had like to haue vomited vs vp a luke warme nation neither hot nor colde out of his mouth and who had his fanne in his hand to haue burnt vs vp a people not worthie to be beloued as chaffe in one day so that all may with teares feares accusing iudging our selues get vs to our God right humbly and learne heere aboue all places especially of estate with voices suffrages and decrees of holines iustice to blesse this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye auncient monuments and Tombes of the dead the Sepulchers of the famous founders of this common wealth the noble Kings Queenes and Worthies of this Realme whom many haue visited with ioy and honour whose bones and bodies and sacred memories haue rested in peace a long time notwithstanding the vprores of Kingdoms mutinies of people turmoiles of ciuill warres and mightie earthquakes and yet should now haue beene digged out of your honourable graues and haue had your parts rend vp with this blast as malefactors in a newe execution and dislodged out of your honourable houses of rest your corpes disturbed and your ashes scattered by this Plutoes and hellish confusion of Babell and terrible earthquake ploughing vp all before them and making furrowes in the hard rockes doe you therefore lift vp your heads and rise vp as the bodies of the righteous out of the dust at the death of Christ and blesse this Lord who letteth you rest the rest of your time euen a little time expecting a ioyfull and speedie resurrection with all the Saints of God and all your people succeeding you together to praise him and magnifie him for euer O Yee Rolles and Charters and auncient Registers and Records of Courts of estate containing the decrees of the wisedome of the auncient and the rules of iustice and equitie betweene man and man which all should haue bene shriuelled together in the fire of the Lords iealousie like as at the dissolution of the whole world when the elements melt with heate and heauen it selfe vanisheth as a scrowle and the workes of the earth are to be burnt with fire doe you flourish and reuiue out of your places not to bee intanglements and incumbrances or tedious tarriers with dilatorie pleas respiting the cause or respecting the face of any that all men that haue to doe with you may more blesse God that loueth peace and equitie and is a God of order and not of confusion that there remaines euidence of truth and that the land markes are not remooued as the Diuell would haue had it and therefore bee the more inflamed in all honest and true dealing to praise God and magnifie him for euer O You Chariots of the mightie and Coaches and Caroches of the great men of our state together with the white Steeds and Palfreyes that runne as the horses of Iehu who had perished in the same deluge of fierie destruction or been stoned or pressed to death with your maisters and owners A horse had beene a vaine thing to saue a man the glory of outlandish Coursers the neighings of horses and the pride of the ratling of the wheele had vanished doe you who as creatures are subiect to vanitie vntill the reuelation of the sonnes of God be and your deliuerance from the bondage of corruption acknowledge in your degrees that the iudgement of the Lord is like a great deepe hee saueth man and beast Let man and beast therefore blesse this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou glorious and triple Court of great Brittaine and all you braue gallants of each of the princely housholds you high and tender Ladies honourable virgins see how God pittied your sex and softnes of education and all ye seruants of so great a Monarch Queene and Prince with all their traine and retinue Consider the danger to be past before you heard of it where had beene all your beautie honour grace approachment iolitie and brauerie if this plot had taken effect doe you all learne to loue the Courts of the Lords house counting one day better spent there then any in the tabernacles and chambers of vngodlines wish there rather to peepe in at the doore then otherwise to haue free ingresse into the priuie chambers of Princes Alas what could the bed chambers the withdrawing chambers and priuie chambers of Princes haue auailed you when you should haue runne from chamber to chamber to hide you your selues and yet no chamber could haue hid you when the foundations of the earth had beene discouered when as no barre could haue shut out destruction death would haue scaled euery wall and climde in at euery windowe Iudgement had beene laide to the rule and righteousnes to the ballance this thick haile pel mel would haue swept away euery vaine confidence and this breaking in of a fierie sea had ouerflowed the secret places euery couenant with death should haue beene disanulled the agreement with hell could not stand this scourge should haue runne ouer and haue passed thorough all should
is a spacious argument vrge that and walke in that and forbeare other impertinents See you not that the resolution of our state hateth Antichrist with a perfect hatred this 48. yeares and is therfore hated vnreconcilably as beeing in it selfe the most Euangelical monarchie in the world and a sanctuarie of refuge for all the professours in the earth vnder her shadowe let this whet your courages and set an edge on your zeale and teach you spirituall discretion to goe with one shoulder to ruinate Babel and not be diuided in your selues in your seuerall stations Cursed be he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently Let your voices and spirits declare in all the congregations that the Lord himselfe is a Champion for the house of Aaron a defender of the tribe of Leui and that he holdeth all the starres of all our Churches in his owne righthand and that his mercie to that function endureth for euer Celebrate you the Lord of the haruest so benigne and gratious vnto you and remember him that said Occupie till I come and so much the more because the enemie is so busie Let the house of Aaron then and all the tribe of Leni blesse this Lord their speciall Lord and Maister and patrone praise him and magnifie him for euer O All ye louers of the Gospell and faithfull professours of Christs holy religion in this Kingdome who next after magistracie and ministerie were most hated noted and obserued and appointed to cruel butcherie massacre your families to be singled out to pillage dishonour of whichsome of theÌ„ peraduenture they had surueyed taking notice of their number strength and to haue been sacrificed not as Isaac also but as Abraham also euen the father and children and the very seruants at the foot of the hill how would not Rome haue bragged ouer you as a Lady and Conqueresse who shall not feare the beast and worship his image or take his marke in his forehead or right hand But the Lord caused the knife to stay that was so neare the throat and made the Ramme that pushed at you to be taken in the thicket of his owne deuises and to be a ransome for the innocent Lambs of his flock be wise hereafter as serpents thinke not they haue done Beware the dogge that barketh not who said they shall not know nor see vntil we come into the midst of them and slay them doe you blesse and honour this God of your life and beliefe adorne his glorious Gospel in your selues and families so much the more praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye wealthie fat ones of the world who haue gathered siluer as dust and gold as stones that haue grace and place fauours and honours aboue others Mannors and demeanes and children and call the lands and houses by your names that haue ships and shops and store-houses and ware-houses and wealth laide vp for many yeares Loe in one moment your soule gone whose should all these haue beene how quickly should all haue been turned returned and ouerturned in an houre therefore let thi teach you not to trust in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God to treasure vp religion not pelfe to confesse all to bee transitorie learne hence the contempt of the world and to be prouided that the day of the Lord come not as a snare vpon you make friends of vnrighteous Maâ—â—â—â— in this life that you may be receiued into better tabernacles yeeld it to be true the world passeth and the iolity thereof and all flesh is grasse and all the glory thereof is as the flower of the field onely the word of God and them that are begotten by it abide for euer doe you therefore hee reafter in all your graces and places countenance maintenance wealth and store for this so great patience towards you blesse this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Yee that take pleasure in pleasure though to Gods displeasure and in your owne voluptuousnes in drinking away the health of body and soule in gaine stealth and robberie in ambition iniustice oppression or any other wickednes and all the impenitent learne a parable of the figge tree you that write or speake parables let them take one from our Parliament and state therefore if it bee so much pleasure and honour to take pleasure to bee ioyned in affection with the creature know is farre greater honour and pleasure for the creature to bee ioyned with the Creator who is blesse for euer Learne in all your pleasures and contentments to remember this Lord who speaketh suddainly of a parliament a kingdome a nation a citie a towne a family a man a woman to pluck vp to roote out to destroy as suddainly as the Potter dasheth in pieces a vessell of clay despise not counsell refuse not instruction neglect not the riches of Gods bountifulnes and long suffering which loueth not to take you tardie and at aduantage to vndoe you in the Act of your sinnes but leadeth you to repentance harden not therefore your hearts nor heape not vp wrath against the day of wrath and the declaration of the iust iudgement of God who wil reward euery one according to his works put not off from day to day for you know not how nor when nor by what meanes he commeth and when he commeth hee commeth as a whirle-winde and laugheth at the destruction of the vngodly Be sober therefore and watch blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Yee desperate refractarie malecontents and irreligious Atheists that looked for a troublous time to fish in as in middle waters for a mist and smoakie time to goe vnespied as false thieues being readie and yawning to make hast to the pray Loe the pray is pluckt out of your teeth know that there is a God that iudgeth the earth and hath meanes to deliuer his from temptation in the very flames as he did Lot in Sodome that the wicked shall not haue their wills on them nor one of their bones be broken and that the stones are at league with them but vpon the vngodly he raigneth snares fire and brimstone stormes and tempests as thick as haile this shal be their portion euen hence learne to bende your selues to some lawfull calling and be content with your estate and thereby to blesse the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O You hard hearted Papists and indurate hypocrites whose consciences are seated with hote irons to make the commandement of God of none effect whereas hee strictly forbad murther to establish your owne traditions which you call the catholike religion you spare no blood where are your brags of â—8 of the late Queenes death of happy memorie and of this infernall tragedie where are your hallowed altars to be erected in Paules the threatnings against our bibles promising of
of Dagon fell downe vpoÌ„ Philistines 3000 the buildings of foure whole Cities of Sodome oppressed their owners one wall falleth vpon 27000. of Syrians Ierichoes walls come tumbling down but Englands are spared Thou art let goe as a scape got or liuing sparrow from the death in hand thou hast not lost not one man in all thy Tribes do thou therfore exalt set vp and blesse this thy God that loueth thee deerely by prolonging thy peace in thy borders and preuenting this crying and complaining in thy streetes else haddest thou beene yea and shalt be a wofull spectacle of miserie an incoÌ„parable example of calamitie to all the world should not thy times haue beene as in the dayes of Noah some taken eating some drinking some in marrying and knew nothing till the flood of vengeance came as in the dayes of Lot some building some planting some buying some selling and the fire disturbed all their works as in the day of Ierusalem some taken flying of two in the field one hit the other scaping some in the house not suffered to come downe others abroad not suffered to set any thing out of the house some taken in the Inne as Moses some neere the gardens as Balaam some in the tents of whoring as Zimri and Cost some as Abimelech hauing come neere the dore to haue his braine brokeÌ„ with a stone some taken lying in receiuing bribes as Gehezi some robbing the Church as Ananias and Zaphira some walking in the Tarasses as Nebuchadnezar some drinking with coÌ„cubines as Baltazar c. Lord how many hearts had beene discouered how many hypocrites dismaked faint and fraile men laid open some weak would haue proued strong some strong would haue proued weake the reputed faithfull might haue been vnfaithfull the trustie might haue become treacherous men taken to be quiet might haue beene outragious many that make faire weather would haue been glad of this storme they that seeme content with their owne would haue taken part in the common spoile how many priuate quarrels would haue beene reuenged vnder publike visors how many that seeme Protestants would haue appeared Papists how many wise would haue proued foolish and at their wits end how would the base haue presumed against the honourable the young against the aged who could haue beene sure of life or goods or wife or childe one houre what house not rifled what virgine not rauished what wife not defloured euery Towne and Country should haue beene filled with woe and lamentation and astonishment Winter houses Sommer houses had beene demolished the great houses smitten with breaches the little with chests as Amos speaketh It should haue beene a day of darknes and blacknes none like it from the beginning neither any more such to the yeares of many generations the land before it as the garden of Eden after it a deuouring wildernes And surely it parliament shall take all course for safety that possibly the highest reach and extent of mans wisedome can compasse yet if we be not reconciled to GOD and returne with all our heart It we be not zealous to amend loe hee standeth still at the doore and knocketh our safety is no safety and our resoâ—e is but a repriuall to a greater assises 〈◊〉 England therefore say vnto her God heretofore I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the care but nowe mine eye seeth neerer then euer therefore I abhorre my selfe in dust and ushes Let the enemie neuer haue his hope that the iniquitie of England is fulfild Let England seeing shee is new borne be a new creature Let England say the mercie of God to it indureth for euer and that her deliuerance surpasseth all the deliuerances of Gods first borne Israel let her proclaime to all people Come and see and heare what GOD hath done for me and my children helpe me all ye nations and ioyne with me to blesse this Lord to praise him to magnifie him for euer O You the right honorable Commissioners and other the worshipfull imployed in examining this triane and in digging vp this hidden graue like the Troian horse among the Gentiles of all villany you see ken further in this sed of mischiefe then any other eye you see the works of the Lord and his wonders in these deep deuices further then is fit for euery one to knowe and which time will more reueale and make bare and naked Heauen is high earth is deepe and the heart of the King who can finde out you see the dungeon of trayterous harts and haue pierced into the bottomlesse hell of Popish and Iesuiticall practise by their owne bookes writings and confessions you see the labyrinth of their windings turnings and all the false dores of equiuocating soules more intricate then their hiding chambers in their couerts and dens and secret lurking places you see the power of the Lord to confound them whilst we imagined no ill his wisedom to let them run on till they should be out of breath like a good Chirurgion not to launce the wound til it grew to a head and the botch ripe to breake with too much bily matter you see the iustice of the Lord who hath made himselfe knowne by executing iudgement they are sunken downe in the pit that they made in the net that they hid is their foot taken the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne hands HiggaioÌ„ Selah you see the mercy of God triumphing ouer all his works arguing and disputing in his loue concerning vs How shall I deliuer thee vp O little England How shal I deliuer thee O great Brittaine how shall I make thee as Admal how shall I set thee as Zeboim mine hart is turned within me my repentings are rolled together I will not execute the fiercenes of any wrath I will not returne to destroy I am God and not man the holy one in the midst of thee behold I would haue fined thee but not as siluer yea I haue saued thee out of this fierie furnace of affliction for mine owne sake for mine owne sake haue I done it for my names sake haue I deferred my wrath for my praise haue I refrained from thee that I cut thee not off you therefore that see more as the cunning eye in pictures the skillfull eare in musicke discerneth more then the vulgar sort you that see the length the bredth the depth the heigth at the dimeÌ„sions of Gods works here aboue others rise vp higher in your spirits by their subtilty right honourable be more and more wise as serpents for the state and to preserue honourable plainenes in the simplicity of Doues in holie conuersation for your soules health and for blessing of your pollicy so blesse you this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou noble Lord that high Montegle of honorable discent and auncient renowned house predestinate aboue all other
to be a most happy instrument of thy soueraigne and Countries safetie consider and ponder according to thy ingenuous honour and right loyal wisedom this great work of God in the very fingers of that mans hand that was author of the letter the writing prooued to be like the writing vpon the plaister of the wall in the Pallace of King Baltazar when he thought all sure and yet that night he lost kingdome and life Mene Tekel Vpharsin Mene God hath numbred and finished you Tekel thou art weighed in the ballance and found too light Pare◠thy kingdome and plot diuided and scattered and giuen to thine enemies the letter made loue and nature worke toward thee alone whose very fountaine and springs were stopped vp and shut close to all others and yet out of that ground their blinded harts infatuated minds might haue gathered that if blood or alliance or any other respect ought to haue moued them to haue bowels and feeling towards thee it might haue led others to haue had tendernes towards others also of their friends yea euen to all England the common parents of vs all and to euery sonne daughter of the same but that seeming to be wise they became fooles and the scripture must be true the mercies of the wicked are vnmercifull their bowels the seat of mercie are cruell if they that are euill can giue good thinges to their friends not stones but bread not scorpions but fishes how much more shall not our heauenly Father who made all euen pittie all and loue the images of his owne creation the works of his owne hands who hath better right to euery one of vs then any friend hath to his friend in any bond of nature for hee hath made of one blood euen all mankinde to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath assigned the bounds of their habitation wee are all the generation of God in him we liue wee moue and haue our being Doe thou wisely consider the Lords loue to thee and obserue prudently withall their leaden rule of their false loue for no good patriore can abide himselfe to be loued when his Country is hated obserue the wisedom of God to produce out of cōmon hatred particular loue out of particular loue generall safetie in his mighty power notwithstanding vowes oathes and sacraments of secrecie to set our sworne enemies to indight for our good to make their fingers write peace whose hearts hatched warre to order in his wise dispensation such a spirit of zeale and caution in you doe thou reuerence this great God in a true sense sound spirit of discerning spirits that hath honoured thee with so great seruice suggested and gaue grace to make the best vse of it as they prophecied in another meaning namely to be a great sauiour to Prince Country and yet remēbring what a holy father said Marie the great instrument of all Christians good she was more blessed by beleeuing Christ then by bearing him by receiuing him in her heart by faith then by conceiuing him in her wombe doe you my good Lord make this a meanes to increase your faith and resolution of conscience in the best maner blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou mighty King and Queene Prince and Duke Counsailers Prelates Peeres Iudges Lawyers and Gentrie and generally all the Subiects of this land and estate whose heads stood vpon one necke to be striken off at one blowe whose bodies were in one ship of venture within an inch bord of drowning and within a step of death or rather on the top of a mast a horrible and hideous tempest growing all our Pilats and Marriners and cunning sea men a sleepe and we saw it not recognize with me in Queene Maries dayes they burnt many but at many stakes but heere they meant to burne vs all at one stake amongst the Romanes they put the tenth man onely to death in a generall prouocation heere nothing would serue but a generall slaughter euen the abhomination of desolation ouer so many sacred persons and so holy a place Let all them then that thus should haue died together learne holy feruencie of their enemies to striue for the common faith to giue honour and obedience to whom it is due Care and defence to whom it appertaines let all them in vnion of spirit and the holy communion of Saints with an indissoluble knot of truth peace concord common comfort and societie liue and loue and die together in an holy association in the quarrell of the Gospell and defiance to Babylon in the maintenance of one God one Christ one spirit one faith one truth one baptisme one communion one King one people that so liuing and dying together we may with one heart and hand one faith and truth one minde and mouth euer blesse one Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O All you Churches of the Lord in any part of the world that call vpon the name of the Lord in truth for whose confirmation of your loue faith the Lord of hoasts hath so mightily pleaded among vs that maketh their pennes to write health who otherwise wished their launces to worke vs death to shew that hee walketh in the middest of the seauen golden candlesticks all whose territories and tents they hated deadly as vs professing their wills skill an eager desire to let some of them blood againe as they did heeretofore in Fraunce being cunning to destroy be you the more rooted in your holy faith resolued with all constancie in your religion and established in your spirits to serue so prouident a God in one vniforme profession of truth with vs for which God hath giuen so glorious a sentence that all variance set aside God may perswade Iapheth to dwell in the tents of Shem and Canaan to be seruant to them both and cast our selues into a perfect knot of loue to make defence against Gog and Magog that gather themselues frō the foure corners of the earth to compasse about the tents of the Saints and the beloued Citie that so as one flocke we may acknowledge one sheepheard and vncessantly blesse him praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye mightie Lords Emperours of the world euen all the ten hornes and ten Kings of the earth the Kings I say who are kinne and brothers to one another all you worthy Counsailers who haue fulfilled Gods will in vpholding the Citie on seauen hills so long better then her owne hills could vphold her and now God putteth in your hearts by this warning what you are to looke for if you please not this scarlet woman as some of your most ennobled aucestors progenitors haue tasted in all your quarters with the losse of their dearest liues best kingdomes shee sitteth in Vatican and with her vaticinies and prophecies sendeth you and yours from the Castle of S. Angelo to death as the Alastor
and destroyer of the world She keepeth her latitat in her laterane liuing a shadowed life and setteth others to that worke to which shee putteth not her finger wherefore stir vp your heroicall spirits prepare your selues to fulfill the rest of Gods mysterie prophecied before that ten Kings should ioyne in one consent against this whore of Babel who committeth states together to kill one another for her Proclaime a sacred warre against her to shew your holy hatred of her that Sion may rise Babylon may fall and her smoake may rise vp more and more do you begin to blesse this Lord who hath shewed by this example to all the world that he specially loueth the liues of Kings Princes and Counsailers of estate and therefore do you your vttermost and what cannot Kings do to set forth the lawes of this King of Kings in all your Realmes shew your selues to be Kings and free men not in bondage to any but restorers of the world according to your great power can you haue a better time and occasion see the stirring and readie affections of many Kings Potentates and States to concurre with you blesse this Lord GOD of whom you hold your crownes praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye holy Angels and celestiall creatures that excell in strength whereas we are weake you that fulfill his commaundements and hearken perfectly vnto the voyce of his words whereas we vpon earth are all short you that pitched your tents about the parliament house and all our tabernacles that looked so faithfully and louingly to your charge so that no foote did stumble at any stone blesse you this Lord forvs and with vs in all your heauenly queers praise him and magnifie him for euer O All you people of the word Iewes and Christians Turks and Infidels ciuill and Barbarians Indians and Cannibals friends and enemies whatsoeuer consider I pray you in all your Countries generations whether any like horrible vnnaturall and execrable thing euer were where neither the dread of the God of life nor duty to a sacred King nor the tendernes of a gracious Queene nor the sweetnes and golden hope of a young Prince nor authority of Counsailers of estate nor reuerence of prelates nor honour of nobility nor grauity of Iudges nor respect of the flower of their owne Countrie nor consideration of the face of the aged nor any hope of the young ones nor pittie of the innocent nor compassion to the harmlesse multitude nor loue to their owne affectionate in the same religion nor bowels of nature to their owne Country nor rule of scripture to thinke of heauens Country nor relenting of conscience in themselues in so many moneths of leisure to worke any remorse but the more hardening nor pietie to the memories of the dead nor awe to any liuing what opinion the world should haue of such incendiaries nor feare of any to reuenge it nor care of posterity to confound mens estates and rights by destroying their deeds writings in the fire nor thought of iustice to let men haue a lawfull triall nor abhorring of cruelty in the multitudes of the slaine nor barbarousnes in the manner of death or rather in so many manners of death burning drowning stoning beheading quartering pressing nor touch to the rufull scriching and howling of the maymed bruised wounded not slaine outright nor charity to send men to hell as they thought without time to aske mercy nor fore-cast of perill to them and theirs if they should be discouered nor any thing in heauen earth or hell this world or the world to come could moue them some being of great birth and wealth some of zeale and professed religion some of the priesthood of the Romane faith and all naturally of this Countrie and nation but that they complotted contriued put in practise to their vttermost power the most diuellish murder butchery and massacre that euer Sathan hatched from the beginning of the world froÌ„ the shedding of the blood of Abel the righteous at which we that scaped admire and adore him that saued vs they that heare it are amazed astonished and can scarcely beleeue that any such thing was but that it is apparant as the sunne in the firmaments which all nations doe now ring of and is readie for euery Chronicle as the new manuell of the world both in attempt and deliuerance to shewe the odiousnes of bloudie and woluish Rome and the soueraignty and fatherly loue of God to mankinde and especially to the English nation protestant Churches there Doe you therefore O all you people tribes kindreds and nations of the world and all ye works of the Lord in all places of his dominion doe you I say speake good of the name of the Lord let euery one that hath faith let euery one that hath breath and common feeling and sence of humanitie and loueth the liues of men in the common affection to mankinde glorifie GOD that loueth to saue many people aliue and hence learne to abhor the Abadon the Apollyon and Romish destroyer and to honour this God of our life who holdeth all their soules in life let them blesse this Lord in their Countries and Regions praise him and magnifie him for euer O All you people that heare me this day or shall reade any part of this sacrifice of thanksgiuing be stirred vp heereby the more to lift vp your hearts vnto God to extoll his name exalt his glory and found out his praise in all places and vpon all óccasions especially to celebrate him for the riches of his mercie in the defence of the Gospell in our protestant Churches O my soule and all that is within me and all that belongeth vnto me blesse thou not only in word and writing but in deed and truth this holy name of the great defeÌ„der of our precious faith praise him magnifie him not now alone but continually and for euer euer Amen Amen Alleluiah FINIS Tower ministerie Zach 4.7.10 Noh 13.4.7.8 Pro. 3.9 Ezech 21.2 Conference with prisoners 2. Tim. 2.24.25.26 In veni lateritiam reliqui marmoream 2. Tim. 4.7.8 Col. 3 1â— Why this treatise by way of Psalme Ioh 13.2 Math. 26.30 Math 26.2 Select sentences out of the Popish newe Psalter In their 4. Psalm In their second Psalme Exod. 15. â—ud 5. 1. Chro. 16.41 Odê Epaeâ—â—ticos ê antistrophos Why repetition Presidentes of particular recapitulation and a burdeÌ„ of words in songs of thanksgiuing See also Psalm 118. in the beginning Esay 55. A â— president Esay 1.2 The song of the three children O all ye works of the Lord c. O'Aâ—aria Azaria Mâ—â—ael doe you praise the 〈…〉 the Lord. Dan. 1.17 2.17.18 Gen. 2 19.20 7.14 Ionas 1 16. To the Parliaments passing Bell. Psal 41.5 Great Brittaines Resurrection Heb. 11.19 Parliament holy day Rom. 10.19 1. Sam. 5.4 Vt ingulent homines sargunt de nocte latrones vt temet serues non
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 Châ—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 grouÌ„d 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 froÌ„ 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
chests read clefts sec 33. li. 4. read trayne and 2. p. all dimensions sec 39. page 2. in fine read maruell Sec. 11. after the word practise also all the 〈◊〉 Academia schollers and children of the famous Kings schoole of Westminster who like the male children of Israel by this Italian Pharao had like to haue beene consumed in a deluge of fire and as the innocent Babes of Bethlehem to be slaine by the Romish Herod in despite of young Christ amongst vs. The Author is named Habbard for Hubbocke without direction indeede but not without prouidence as being the auncient and rightfull title of the family though he refuseth neither ⧠Great Brittaines Resurrection O Thou mighty Iames King of great Britane Fraunce and Ireland whom GOD hath aduaunced so peaceablie to so manie vnited Kingdomes vpon so variable a change without any sensible alteration to the admiration of all the world and seemed to haue rooted thine estate by blisfull and much royall issue by amitie of Forraine Princes by great loue loyaltie of subiects that it was thought not able to be remoued thou Lord of thy onely goodnes hadst made his rocke to stand so strong and yet in one moment GOD hiding his face all had like to haue beene dissolued with one blast of powder if the same mercifull God had not withhelde the breath of his wrath which is a riuer of brimstone to kindle this Topheth a pit prepared of olde a place deepe and large the burning thereof is fierce fire and much wood doe thou according to thy excellent and rare Princely learning iudgment whereof Kingdomes Vniuersites and Forraine Embassadours are witnesses with zeale as Iehu roote Baal out of Israel by one acte open the windowe of the Parliament as Ioash his windowe at the counsaile of Elizeus Smite the Syrians not twice or thrice but sixe times vntil thou hast vtterly consumed thē blesse thou the Lord with all princelie offices of pietie and iustice more and more to the sauing and comfort of all thy people Acknowledge that it is tree that giueth deliuerance to Kings rescueth the annointed his seruant praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou most gratious Queene Anne who hast forsaken thine owne Country natiue soyle and come into forraine parts to partake in all thy youth beauty the same lot with thy Regal Lord behold how when the daughter of England did homage vnto thee with all the rich before thy face with presents and thou wentest out in all honour and singlenes of heart to behold and reioyce in the solemnity of so great an estate which God had so miraculously cast into your lap without your hands when these vnmercifull bouchers of Rome hardning their hearts meant to haue buried thee in one graue with thy royall husband or rather torne in pieces I abhor to speake it without all buriall which was afforded to Kings daughters though neuer so euil euen then thy life was deare and precious in the eyes of the Lord and his tender care was ouer thee doe thou therefore blesse the Lord and serue him more more with one heart ioyntly with this thy princely Lord and husband praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou most noble Prince Henry the staffe of thy Fathers strength and the prime hope of these imperiall diadems whose innocent life these blood-thirstie Babilonians longed for equally with thy Princely Fathers to destroy roote and branch and fruite parent and childe in one day to kill damme and young in one nest to extinguish present and future as it were seething tender Kidds in mothers milke against Lawe of GOD and nature Doe thou still beare the yoake of the Lord in all steadines and stedfastnes as most comfortably thou doest to all our ioy in these first fruites of thy dayes Remember still thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth and neuer forget this Preseruer in all the dayes of thine age blesse thou the Lord in all thy princely family as holy and zealous young Iosias praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye Honourable Counsailers and Potentates who turne the wheele of estate vnder our Soueraigne against whom such wicked counsell was deuised to destroy you all before the mighty throne of our King to defeate vs of counsell not reparable in a long time which yet is the onely comfort in distresse so great was the indignation of the Lord towards vs at whose nostrills are kindled hailestones and coales of fire but that the Angell of the euerlasting counsell did interpose himselfe as you the Sonnes of the mighty haue giuen this glory to God do freely confesse that all this sauing health was from him alone that GOD did all as a friend that doth a pleasure which his friend knoweth not vntill he feele the comfort of it that it is done for notwithstanding the noble vertues and vigilancie of Abner and vndoubted fidelitie of all the Kings seruants round about him on the right hand on the left pot speare had been taken frō the Kings head Arke and Scepter from vs in one houre doe you more and more consult with God in this and all other deliberations and not with flesh blood that his statutes may bee your Counsailours That he may establish all your thoughts by his counsell long may you liue in all grace and honour according to your great place and trust doe you as the 24. Elders fall downe and throwe downe your crownes of wisedome intelligence pollicie vigillancie gouernment before him that liueth for euer blesse ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye reuerend Bishops and Prelates the venerable Gouernours of the Church of Christ as the Angels and Presidents of the seauen Churches of England among vs the grauities and presence of Superiours in the Church haue beene regarded of the prophane barbarous tyrants of the earth and bloody Souldiours Alexander the great at the sight of Iaddus the high Priest spared Ierusalem and yet of these Sulphurous helhounds you were more eagerly sought after to the fire they rued if any of you should be away doe you honour this Lord the great Bishop of our soules with further care loue to all the sheepe and Lambes committed to your charge And with all your power doe ye exalt the standard of his glorious Gospell in all places of your Cōmissions haue in your fatherly wisedomes as much patience as you can to your inferiour brethren of the Ministrie notwithstāding some of their intemperate exulcerations for the common seruice of the Gospell sake their places and times cannot reach to the maturitie of experience which your wisedomes hath attained behold also they are keen against an enemie whom though difference haue diuided by names of discord yet the enemie would haue made no difference of slaughter of you both beare as you may with their improuidencie
haue beene trod downe by it when it passed ouer it should haue taken you away and it should haue passed euery morning and in the day and in the night and there should haue beene onely feare as Esay speaketh euery bed should haue beene too straite that it could not suffice and euery couering too narrowe that none could wrap himselfe but that this mantell of woe had infolded euerie one doe you therefore feare and tremble and worship with holy worship this GOD that hath made fast the barres of these gates and blessed all within them from this curse so neare vnto you let there be a new heauen and a new earth among you make a solemne vowe to haue cleane hands heereafter and to banish so deare corruption from the regall palace especially in Church matters be free spirited embrace ingenuitie and plainenes abandon shifts gloses and flatterie for the Lord is the auenger of these thinges Speake the truth euery man from his heart pittie the attendance of suitors with speedie dispatch that remedies bee not worse then diseases for a lingring sicknes is worse then a timely death finally promote Gods glory not your owne ambition with all your meanes and accesse make not sad the heart of the righteous but giue grace and honour to the Saints and them that excell in vertue so blesse you this Lord as you look for his blessing and feare his curse praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou famous Citie of London of olde called Augusta and Emperesse of the land and chamber of the Kings and Queenes of England the head and mother of the Cities of the land the nurserie of religion and fidelity the store-house of the good Subiects and the nest of the wealth of the realme and therefore the more maligned of the Enemie whose elders are as Barrons and Chapmen the nobles of the earth whose peace they so much enuied whose strength and loyaltie they feared whose wealth the fingers of many insatiable cormorants itched to be medling with intending no doubt all mercilesse rapine dishonour and villanies not to be named towards thee How should thy hidden and secret houres haue beene sought out and thy treasures searched at full Remember what Goteham a Priest and predecessour of these imagined against thee did he not towards his death wish fire brimstone vpon thee from heauen which these were setting from hell thou shouldest haue beene if not sacked yet so cumbred with feares fresh incounters at home and newes of slaughters abroad warres and rumours of warres that thou couldest scarce seeke out the bodies of the dead to gather the Princes and Nobles out of the dust and rubbish doe thou betime repent of thy prodigality deliciousnes and wantonnes thy couetousnes and hypocrisie and euery other sinne pray for sound iudgement to discerne true and wholesome doctrine and beware of humours learne to honour with a perfect heart with all thy peace plenty and strength this Lord that keepeth thee the onely watch-man of the Citie whose eye neuer winketh nor is wearie for he that keepeth Israel neither slumbreth nor sleepeth blesse thou the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou famous Cittadle the royall Castle of the Tower of London the first footing of Coronation of the Kings and Queenes of this land and the possession taking and earnest of the rest of the Dominions belonging to this Kingdome a faithfull and sufficient and speedie seruant at hand to thy soueraigne and Country a friend to their friends and an enemie to their enemies a vowed companion and comfortable neighbour to the honourable Citie of London the sinewes and ioynts of our warlike prouision and commaunder of peace the feare of the rebellious the ayme of the enemies eye the expectation and care of all true subiects how shouldest thou haue beene vsed sore against thy will against thy dearest friends the mischieuous designes against thee the most wise prudent and religious Gouernour within thee The industrious and vigilant officers and attendants there whose surprising they deuoured in their first hopes he knoweth best who is thy Fort and Tower whose name is a strong Tower and deliuered vs before our dead hearts could runne vnto him who brought the pray vnto thy lap and tooke captiuitie captiue and gaue them into thy custodie doe thou and all thy Ministers instruments store furniture with triumphs and trophes with voties and peales of ioy thanksgiuing blesse this great Lord thy keeper praise him and magnifie him for euer O Yee Townes and Countries who tasted of the headlesse skirmishes suddainnes of the brutish furie of these enemies of Sion and the haters of the peace of Ierusalem the very same fatall time by their desperate insurrection among you aboue all other shires and places doe you I say as sonnes likewise of the resurrection vnto whom the Lord said in your blood line you sawe the enemie but felt no harme their letter prophesied safetie in the Country but against their wils doe you therefore blesse this great God that blesseth you the more for Balaams cursing who scattered their forces diminished their power and so quickly quelled them in causing their owne power to brand them in the faces and all their purposes to be defeated without anie great pursuite and some of them to perish in the very acte of their owne sinne some to languish with griefe others to kill themselues and all their mischiefe to returne vpon their owne heads blesse you againe and againe this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Yee Ministers and speciall seruants of the Lord the Prophets of Israel and feeders of the sheepe of the Lords pasture whom these smoakie locusts of the bottomlesse pit these rauenous Wolfes greedie of the prey most abhorred to place their owne Baals Priests and all the sacrificers of the Groues and hill-altars in your roomes and so to deuoure the Lords inheritance your safety ministration they enuied your families they vowed to shame and miserie your persons to certaine and more cruell destruction aboue others by a special marshal at armes appointed vtterly to extirpate you Let your Harpe be in your hand and Psalmes of Moses and Dauid and the lambe in your mouthes reioice ouer her all you Prophets Apostles for God hath done your iudgment on her Let Vrim Thummim be for euer with you gird the sword of the spirit about you to destroy all spirituall and corporall Idolatrie thinke it not now a time to striue for complements and to inforce odious exasperations antichristian comparisons against the reuerend Fathers when as you lee your soules and their soules the soule of religion it selfe is sought after making lesse of your liues then of the least of their ceremonies hauing as little conscience to kill you all as to slay a sheepe behold the scope of Diuinitie is a large field Christ crucified
mariages to your friends and sharing offices and honours as you would Where are your seuen Psalmes to pray for prosperity when that crack should haue beene your letters exhortatory praying vntil that fatal Tuesday then totnam to be turnde French your publike prayers beyond seas in generall for successe to the catholike parliament petition of blood Shall not the angell of the fire protest against you Lord thou art iust which art which wast and is holy because thou hast iudged these thinges for they shed the blood of the Saints and Prophets and had still an vnsatiable dropsie vpō them thirsting after more and therefore hast thou giuen them blood to drink for they are worthy and another Angel answere by alternation euen so Lord God almighty true righteous are thy iudgments Be still once at length take Gamaliels wholesom counsell be no more fighters against God consider whether this counsell be of God take Christs own counsell Kick not against the pricke Remember S. Peters words Let none suffer as a murtherer testifie and beare witnes against vs you mislike our parliament and proceeding and what a manner of one should yours haue beene should not your parliament haue beene as a mighty strong winde rending mountaines tearing rockes or as a fearefull earthquake or flaming fire and yet the Lord not with you though you bragged as Rabsakeh are we come vp without the Lord who hath conducted vs and concurred with vs to this verie place to destroy it yea the Lord saide vnto vs Goe vp against this parliament and destroy the land whereas our parliaments haue beene in a still voyce vnto you onely to haue you still without any disposition to disquiet you without that very necessity of our liues God pardon vs for it by some new ouert action and restlesse practise of yours driue vs to make law afterlaw which yet were slackly executed by vs See O you seduced soules is this their almes prayers hospitality fasting good works who persecuteth now who is the Lambe and who the Wolfe the olde prouerbe shall cease Punica fides and Papistica fides shall come in place Carthage of olde was now Rome is broke forth Is this your petition catholike Is not this tolere non tolerare not toleration of religion but killing of the men See Gods hand against you be still at length and know that the blood thirstie shall not liue out halfe their dayes open your eyes to see the mysteries of Antichrist fulfilled and sore plagues in these dayes poured vpon them that worship the beast lay it to your hearts how as Pharaoh he oppresseth you with sore worke to vndoe you and yours how many families of Dukes Earles Lords Knights and Gentlemen he hath made desolate making some of them pioners and labouring men in storie and clay forsake him by so many warnings so many of you as belong to the Lord as for the rest he that is ignorant let him be ignorant still hee that is obstinate let him be obstinate still fulfill the measure of your condemnation let your profession be a snare a net and a stumbling blocke for a recompence vnto you let their eyes be darkned and bowe downe their backes alwaies If our Gospell be hid it is hid vnto them that are lost in whom the God of this world hath blinded their eyes least the light of the glorious Gospel which is the Image of God should shine vnto them and yet know that God who got honour of Pharao and all his hoast who hath foyled you so oft will raigne in the midst of his enemies he will ease himselfe of his aduersaries and be auenged of them that hate him the will be exalted in iustice ouer you and sanctified in iudgement euen Abimelech shall confesse that God is with Isaac whom he before driue a way yea the nations shal say there is a fruit for the righteous and a God that iudgeth the world the whole earth shall be filled with his glory he will be blessed and praised and magnified foreuer O Ye helplesse and succourlesse people women and children olde men Infants young men and maides Artificers and Tradesmen Farmers Husbandmen and feeders of cattell all that till the ground and all you that loue peace and honest fruition of your owne gather your selues blowe a Trumpet in Sion gather the elders assemble the children and sucklings let the Bridegroome come forth of his chamber and the Bride out of her closet and see the worke of the Lord how he hath deliuered you from ransacking rifeling and miserable impouerishment and destruction Behold was not the Angell come out of the temple of heauen alreadie with a sharpe sickle and had not the other Angell that had power ouer the fire called vnto him with a loud crie though wee as deafe Adders heard it not thrust in the sharpe sickle and gather the clusters of the Vineyards of great Brittaine for her grapes are ripe that they may be cast into the great winepresse of the wrath of God to be troden in euerie Towne Hamlet and Citie but that the Lord repented him and yet we doe not repent vs Seeke you the Lord therefore in all your labours trades grounds fields cattell callings and degrees preserue Gods feare promote his glory confesse him to be a Father to the fatherlesse husband to the widdowe and a deliuerer of the simple and harmelesse of the earth and set your selues hence-forth as Iob in his family so you in yours to offer sacrifices of prayers and psalmes to the Lord according to the number of you all least there be sinne found in your trades dealings some sinnes of lying cousoning swearing false measures or weights or some corruption of vice in you or your children seruants as fatherly Iob suspected and feared his owne house pray the Lord of the haruest to send forth labourers into his haruest pray and pay duly that God may haue his right and blesse you the Lord euery way praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou entire and whole Court of Parliament the highest hill of our land the open theater of all our actions the Senate house of grand estate the chiefest counsell of imperiall law and the sanctuarie of highest appeale and decision among subiects the marrowe of wisedome and christall confluence of cleargie nobilitie and gentrie the center of vnderstanding and riches of experience from all sides sing for euer a song of iudgement and mercy vnto our God as one man together they intended no place in the first place but this place of Parliament no persons but Parliament men to destruction in other iudgements as plague famine warre the meaner sort oftner goe to wracke but heere they shot at the fairest flocke together As Pilat mingled blood and sacrifices together so they O horrible indignitie meant to mingle blood and dust together and to make morter of the choisest blood
in our land to build their Babell with Babilon I say meant to make that worthie house as the mountaine set on fire and tumbled into the sea like an Aeâ—â—a spit-fire flaming gobbets of fire vpon her owne friends and children to make it as a pot as Ezechiel speaketh hauing cut you as flesh to the pot to seeth euery good morsell therein to make that reuerend place a very shambles hauing got as Herod all the nobles of Iurie into one Amphetheater to runne and streame with the finest purest blood to make it as a melting house as the same Prophet threatneth to new found our Church and Common-wealth to make our Princes and noble-men of Sion who weare fine gold to be esteemed as earthen potshards the founder and mettal men of Rome esteemed you all no better then lead yron brasse and put you all in one furnace ye the Lord himselfe seemed to haue barrelled vp wrath against you as they had barrelled pouder as though hee had directed them to begin at no place but there first as he said once begin at my sanctuarie and at my auncient men which were before the house so heere begin at my parliament as though the Lord meant to make that graue place like Kibrah-Hattanah the graues of lust that whilst the word was yet in your mouthes the wrath of God to come vpon them to slay the strongest of them to smite downe the chosen men in Israel as though the Lord had appointed a sacrifice in the place and a great slaughter as in Bozra of olde the earth to be drunken with blood and the dust to be made fat euen a sacrifice vpon the mountaines of Israel with many dishes of the blood of the valiant and blood of the great ones like the Lords great supper in the Reuelation for all the birds to come vnto it but the Lord hath spared his owne people and poured out the blood of our enemies and lifted vp their carcasses for euery bird to peck on and behold you all are as a brand not touched by the fire He threatned to take vp huge and mighty stones but would not let one of them be cast at you he laid fewell but would not let it kindle He filled the pot but would not let it seethe nor any morsell be diuided to put within it He brought the sacrifice to the hornes of the altar but would not slay it but gaue your enemies into your hand And in the same place diuided their heads and quarters where they meant to haue rend in pieces yours GOD hath scattered the bones of them that besieged thee he hath slaine Orob and Zeb in their owne rocke and wine presse and heerein is the Scripture fulfilled I will make thy enemies come to worship before thee and they shall knowe that I loue thee take full warning at such a caueat as one body why the Lord seemed to come to your pauilion and why hee knocked at your doore And in particular let euery soule among you looke to the reckoning that GOD hath with you cast about as Dauid with Nathan concerning the temple And at another time in the imperiall assembly for reducing the Arke when something had beene forgotten before followe on and proceede with the Lord that they may be Prophets against themselues God and man by your concurrence to punish the wickednes of this time and what wickednes hath any age or chronicle obserued greater that they may receiue a blow in parliament in deed and yet no stirring afore hand on our part and that they may see none hurt them but themselues Consider that these are noÌ„t olde outworne and ouergrowne Papists but bred in our time vnder our improuidence God impute it not vnto vs take full order that Iesabel be permitted to teach and seduce no more deale faithfully betweene GOD and his people least a worse thing come vnto vs behold God prouoketh you on paine of your liues the Countrie reposeth trust in you the Churches depend on you and the eyes of all the world are vpon you to see the fruite of your wisedom in thorough orders for your owne safeties Gods glory else we shall be as a reproach among all nations and as a ship of fooles in a calme sea and sound barke and no enemie to boord vs to miscarie in the hauen by not prouiding for a tempest aforehand with this inscription ouer vs Thy destruction is of thy selfe O England Be this spoken to no dishonour of so graue a Senate that hath made so worthie proceedings alreadie but to stirre vp all to pray that God may enspire effectually that neither friend may misse any comfort nor enemie haue hope or cause to ioy Surely GOD that offered to make a great nation of one Moses is able to raise vp parliament men of stones and indeed did not the beames and timber and stones of the parliament threaten wrath Seeke therefore the Lord with a perfect hart set vp a Pyramis to thy God and a pillar of memorie as Abraham did That God hath been seene on your mount erect a new monument where they would haue destroyed all the olde monuments as Nebuchadnezar make and publish generall decrees make the signes knowne abroade that the high God hath done vnto thee that there is no other God that can deliuer ye as our God as the dedication of a speciall holy day for this purpose declareth already haue warre with Amalech for euer remember the Lords charge forget not forget not And as another scripture directeth Reward Babylon double into her bosome remember him that saith Take vs the little Foxes And againe Blessed shall hee be that taketh the children of Babylon and dasheth them against the stones take order that all flesh in all our dominions by the preaching of his word may see the saluation of this God that children vnborne may seeke the God of their Fathers and all of vs in your behalfes for so wise zealous and prouident Counsell as the oracle of God may blesse the Lord God praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou whole Kingdome of England thou carelesse daughter that liuedst at ease and dwelt in securitie as Laish nowe this eight and forty yeares when thou saidest within thy selfe Peace peace strength strength amitie amitie vnitie vnity lenity lenity Loe a snare as suddaine as the trauell of a woman the Lord came against thee the true God stole vpon thee as a thiefe losse of children and widowhood should haue come vpon thee in one day the portioÌ„ of Babel in her perfection the morning thereof thou shouldest not haue knowne thou wast as neere to hauock as thy sister of France on the other side of the water vpon whom came an inundation of blood as it were to the horses bridles to destroy an hundreth thousand at one time the walls and roofe