Lord wil now graunt to his swelling pride such a time of downe-fall that as swiftly he shall fal away as euer he mounted vp He pretendeth the Catholike faith to be the ground of all his warres but that is nothing but as the Italians speake Coprire con legiadro mantello iniquissimi dissegni with a fayre cloake to couer most filthy pretences Did the Earles of Eghmont and Horne finde any fauour in the Low countries for that they were Romish Catholikes Were they not put to death bearing crosses in their hands and shriuen of the Priest Haue the Portingales now any fauour for that they professe the same fayth with the King No truly they are made the miserablest slaues in al the whole world If the poorer sorte of them bee taken captiues abroad he wil not giue a half-penie for their ransome He will part with great summes for a Spaniard but with nothing at all for a Portingale As for the Nobler and richer sorte hee suffereth them to bee murdered and spoyled at home Hee is content to be king of them and to receiue the kingly reuenewes but he will in no case haue any kingly care of them He suffereth the Spaniards to come daylie amongst them to abuse their wiues and daughters that their children may be doubtfull and indeede doth seeke nothing else but to bring the same vpon them which hee hath brought vpon Naples and the Indies and other places where he hath set in foote that is vtterly to dispeople them to murder and make hauock both of Nobles and Commons and vtterly to make an ende of them that they shuld be no more a people vpon earth They pretend Religion till they can preuaile but as soone as they come to beare rule all their doings declare what was the marke that they chiefly aymed at I know the miscreants of the Popish crew doe terme the gouernmēt of our most gracious Soueraigne to be bloodie cruel for that sundry as they say Catholikes haue bin at seuerall times put to death since the continuance of her Maiesties raigne But there is none vnlesse he bee wilfully blind but must needs confesse that their absoluing of her Maiesties subiects from all loyalty and alleageance their practising of secret conspiracies against the whole Realm their withdrawing of the obediēce of the people frō their Prince whom God blood and the law hath set ouer thē to giue it to a forraine prelate a Priest of Rome were such dangerous treasons as might in no wise be spared And yet of the authors and procurers of such haynous trecheries to some her Grace hath giuen their lands to remaine to their posteritie to some also their liues when they haue deserued a thousand deaths with such mercy clemencie as was neuer heard of in Prince before Her lenitie in gouernement hath not only bin milde but euen mildenesse it selfe the Lord grant that her dayes may bee as the dayes of heauen and the Lord giue grace to those her rebellious subiects once duely and to their bettering to consider the kinde and bountiful mercies of so louing and gracious a Soueraigne The enemie may mutter what he will of tyrannie cruelty to obscure this her mildenes in gouernement but the beames of her glory in this vertue doe shine so bright that no cloud of euil speeches can ouerwhelme or darken them As the fame of Queene Elizabeth for wisedom is spred as far as with it she is worthy to gouern that is ouer the whole earth as also for knowledge in all the languages of Christians and good literature she is and may be a mirror to all Princes or euer so likewise for mercie and clemencie she is and maugre the despight of all slaunderous speeches must be renowmed so long as the worlde shall continue But the Spanish Inquisition which is drunken with the blood of GODS Saints doth not proceede against rebels but against those that doe most chiefly abhorre and derest all rebellion and treason for the obedient and dutifull Christians whom they torment doe beleeue and professe that euery soule ought to be subiect to the higher powers euen euery soule be hee Prophet be he Patriarke be hee Apostle bee hee of what condition or vocation soeuer that they ought to be subiect to Kings and Princes and they desire nothing more then that their King might bee deliuered from rebels I meane those Cardinals and Abbots c. which detaine the King in slauerie and bondage for the popish Clergie in Spaine haue all and do all they are the King they are the Merchant The trauailes and paynes as many of their mariners vpon their owne coast confessed vnto me often be indeed of the sea-faring men but the goods and wealth of this and that Cardinal and this and that Bishop They haue gotten al into their owne hand they make what lawes seemeth good vnto themselues in a word they doe both with King and people what them list These most certainly are rebels most dangerous and if any duetiful subiect doe but open his mouth against these they by and by prepare for him most exquisite torments Besides their tyrannicall crueltie in seeking to oppresse and dispeople all nations about them whome our gracious Prince in al pitie and mercy doth fauourably relieue and succour It may be sayd of the Spaniard setting all countries about him on fire as the Spanish song goeth of Nero Mira Nero de Tarpeia A Roma como se ardia Gritos dan ninnos y vieios Y el de nada se dolia From Tarpeia Nero doth behold Rome hard by burnes Though cries be made of young and olde He nothing mournes By dismissing of late many English men francke and free he would seeme now to make shew of some fauour vnto England that he doth not beare that bloodie minde against vs as commonly is surmized But I hope wee shall trust him neuer the better Hee was a blacke diuel before and now he is as white as that diuell that doth turne himselfe into an Angel of light With honie is often times conueied deadly poyson and vnder the greenest hearb may lurke a hissing serpent His imbruing his handes in the blood of those that professe the same fayth with him doth sufficiently admonish vs what we are to looke for at his hands The butcherly kniues which they brought with thē when they came in good earnest to inuade England with this poesie grauen vpon them An absolution for the heretikes of England doe tell vs plainly that the mercy which they pretend nowe is but in iest or rather in deepe dissimulation and that if wee come vnder their blessing wee must looke for no other absolution but cutting of throates The cause why he so earnestly seeketh the conquest of our neighbours about vs is that thereby hee may the better worke his purpose vpon vs wee are to assist them in respect of themselues or else were we verie vniust for as sayth the Orator
together for themselues which they may afterward lauish out on prodigall riot and filthinesse of life And it may be sayd of many of them as is in the Poet Nulla fides piet asque viris qui castra sequuntur Venalesque manus ibi â—as vbi manima merces No faith no godlinesse no good in those that follow Souldiers trayne They set their hands to sale for blood all's right with them that yeeldeth gayne Though I say many of them be thus prophane and wicked yet our hope is that as often heretofore so hereafter still for the good Princes sake the Lord will blesse the labours of Ioab Deus operatur per malos non in malis God worketh by the euill though not in the euill When wicked Pharao exalted godly Ioseph when Achab maintained that good Obadiah when Daniel was aduaunced by Nabuchadnezzar when many Saints were in the house of Nero GOD wrought by the hands of the wicked a benefite vnto his children he wrought by the euill but not in the euill Howsoeuer many Souldiers and Mariners haue not their affections sanctified yet those that truly feare God ought not to be discouraged but rather to striue by their godly exhortations and good examples to reforme the imperfections of them and to seeke by all meanes so to increase the number of the true repentant that for their sakes also some mercie may bee shewed to Sodome We may lawfully enioy the spoyles of the Lords enemies as did Dauid Asa and others we may also lawfully desire to maintaine our selues by our vocation as Paul sayth Who goeth at any time to warfare on his owne cost But our chiefest intent and purpose ought to be to promote the glorie of God to doe good and acceptable seruice to our gracious Soueraigne to procure peace vnto Sion to break or weaken the power of Antichrist to turne aside that course of the Indian fountaine of gold the nurse of all those warres and troubles that are now amongst our neighbours and confederates in France and Flanders to take the sworde out of the mad mans hand and to plucke downe that lustie Nimrod that so eagerly hunteth for the kingdomes of the whole earth which affections if we cary then no doubt the Lorde will so blesse our labours that liuing we shall be most profitable meÌ„bers of our Christian common wealth and if death doe take vs away we are assured that ending our liues either in or for the faith of Iesus Christ we shall be partakers of a farre more blessed estate in the world to come euen of that immortall crowne of glory which Christ Iesus hath prepared to al that loue him and to those that for his sake haue not loued their liues vnto death God saue and preserue our most noble Soueraigne Lady Queene ELIZABETH and grant vnto her many ioyfull and happy yeares GOD gouerne all her Maiesties most honourable priuie counsaile with the grace of his holy spirit God preserue amongst vs the ministerie of his holy worde and continue his Gospel and truth to vs and to our posteritie for euermore God defend the Realmes of England Ireland from all daungers of their enemies as well forraine as domesticall God blesse and prosper all her Maiesties forces and munitions as well by sea as by land God conuert the hearts or confound the practises of all her aduersaries God breake the power of Antichrist giue an vtter ouerthrow vnto all his sworn souldiers and namely the Spaniard euen GOD for his Sonne Christ Iesus sake happily and speedily confound him that he neuer may bee able to lift vp himselfe against the Lord and against his annointed and let all English hearts that doe feare GOD and loue his truth euen heartily and faithfully say Amen Amen Imperet viuat regnet vincatque triumphet Emineat vigeat floreat Elisabeth A Prayer for the Souldier and Saylour in time of seruice O Most mercifull God and gracious father we humbly praise thy glorious name for all thy vnspeakeable mercies which of thy bountifull goodnes thou hast hitherto vouchsafed to bestow vpon vs thy poore and vnworthie seruants as well on our soules as on our bodies and namely for that thou hast not onely allotted vnto vs thus to be daylie sustained by a lawfull vocation agreeable to thy blessed ordinance but also doest mercifully preserue vs in the same from all those dangers which in thy iudgement thou mightest iustly lay vpon vs and into which others of our brethren oftentimes haue fallen O Lord we haue heard of and partly seene and knowne of diuers whom thou hast suffered to be ouerwhelmed with tempestuous winds in the gulfes of the outragious seas others pinched with extreame famine and penurie others taken captiues led to most miserable thraldome others brought to their end by loathsome diseases and sundrie kindes of death We acknowledge O Lord that our sinnes are as huge as theirs and our iniquities as grieuous Those Galilaeans whose blood Pilate spilt and those eighteene on whom the tower of Silo fell were not greater sinners then the rest in Israel and those on whom in our time thou hast shewed thy heauie iudgements seeing that we haue followed them and ouertaken them in their sinnes we had deserued rather to haue been made examples vnto them then they vnto vs. But it is thy mercie good Lord thus to spare vs to giue vs a larger time of repentance We confesse our selues O blessed father to be vnworthie the least of all thy benefites if we consider our owne deseruings we haue so manifold waies transgressed thy most holy commandements by our vncleane thoughts by our vngodly words by our vnrighteous deedes that wee are not onely become worthie to be depriued of all thy gracious benefites and blessings but also we haue deserued to haue all thy iudgements in full measure to be powred vpon vs not onely in this world but also in the world to come But O Lord we appeale to thy throne of mercie beseeching thee to looke vpon vs not as we are in our selues polluted stayned with sinne and wickednesse but to behold vs in the face and person and obedience of thy deare sonne Iesus Christ accepting his death and passion as a full recompence for all our transgressions Good Lord clothe vs with his righteousnes ingraft vs truely as liuely members of his bodie and for his sake continue all thy mercies and louing kindnes which so many waies we haue tasted of from our tender youth vntil this present day O Lord increase our faith daylie more and more grant that we may be fully perswaded of thine eternal election that thou good Lord of thy infinite fauour goodnes hast elected and chosen vs to be saued before the foundation of the world was layd giue vs that applying faith whereby we may be assured that we are of the number of them for whom Christ dyed vpon the Crosse giue vs that iustifying faith whereby thy
Heth its Pheresits and Iebusits who were sayd to be like the sand of the sea shore innumerable yet whē he vsed his forces and policies in the feare of God the Lord grāted vnto him many most noble cōquests Zerah the Ethiopian came against Asa with a most huge armie euen ten hundred thousand three hundred chariots Asa in comparison had but a small power yet knowing on the one side the equitie of his cause and on the other side the power and mercie of God he cryed out and sayd O Lord it is nothing to thee to helpe with many or with no power helpe vs O Lord our God for we rest only vpon thee and in thy name are we come against this multitude O Lord thou art our God let not man preuaile against thee The Lord sent to Asa a most glorious victorie and his people droue away Sheepe and Camels and exceeding great spoyles The Lord ouerthrew that mightie Captaine Sisera by the hand of a weake woman Iael the wife of Heber Dauid with a sling brayned Goliah Samson with a iaw bone slew a thousand There is no power so small but the Lord is able to strengthen it sufficiently against the enemies of his truth and all helps whatsoeuer are nothing without the handie worke and blessing of the Lord almightie Policies are of great force in warre and therefore Dauid prayed especially Lord I pray thee turne to foolishnesse the counsaile of Achitophel This Achitophel was so wise so politike and so prudent that his counsailes were counted like the Oracles of God yet when he vsed his policies against the good Prince Dauid what became of him he was intrapped in his owne deuises and being miserably confounded at the last for want of a hangman became a hangman to himselfe There is no wisedome there is no policie there is no counsaile against the Lord. So likewise horses ships munitions ordinance and such like are good helpes and stayes for the Common wealth but there is no hope or confidence to be placed further in them then God shall follow them with his blessing The horse is prepared for battaile but the victorie commeth of God We should make the same vse of the power and mercie of God as Dauid did when he sayd Thou Lord hast bin my hope and strong tower agaynst the enemie I will dwell in thy tabernacle for euer and my trust shall be vnder the shadowe of thy wings As if he should haue sayd I haue had O Lord heretofore good experience of thy goodnesse and might I know thy loue is immutable and thy mercie endureth for euer therefore I will repose and rest my selfe wholly vpon thee who wilt neuer faile them that put their trust in thee If man doe helpe his neighbour he will sometimes vpbrayd and sometimes waxe wearie because man is inconstant and variable but with the Lord there is no change nor shadowe of change whom he loueth he loueth to the end And therefore whatsoeuer deliuerances and benefites we haue receiued at Gods hands we must make them so many arguments and proofes to confirme and strengthen our trust in God hereafter during life Hath the Lord so miraculously discouered and in a manner without any blood on our partes and preuented so many and so dangerous conspiracies and treasons which so treacherously haue been often deuised against her sacred Maiestie Did the Lord in his mercie to vs ward tumble downe the wicked headlong into the same pit that they digged for others when that cursed crew had fortified themselues to bereaue her Maiestie of her noble Realme of Ireland Did the Lord confound their diuelish purpose when they had as it were set downe their staffe and cast anker with their huge Armadoes as it were to raigne like Kinges and Lords on our English Seas driuing them that had so richly furnisht themselues into those bare and barren coasts where their golde and siluer could nothing benefit them when by sorceries and witcheries they haue attempted to annoy her Maiestie hath the Lorde so happily discouered them and so mightily confounded them that as the Rebels haue had no force so the Prince of rebels Lucifer himselfe hath had no power against her Hath the Lord made a speedy dispatch of all those Popes and cutte them off Pope after Pope which by their bloody bulles and ranging reconcilers haue sought her Graces ouerthrow and granted her still to remaine as many good yeares may shee continue a happy and triumphant Queene Hath the Lord made our ships of Englād such a terror to that mighty kingdome that on their owne coastes and in the mouthes of their own harbours they will not come out tenne to one vnlesse they may haue together their whole inuincible nauy Let vs then assure our selues that if we can be thankful vnto him and put our trust wholly in his goodnes louing his truth and liuing in his feare he will still so succour and defend vs hereafter that we shal be safe for euer vnder the shadowe of his wings Another thing that did greatly comfort Dauid in his battailes against his enemies was for that his enemies were also the enemies of God and therefore that the Lord would most certainly subuert ouerthrow them This made him say that as hee had slaine the Lyon and the Beare so the Philistine also should shortly be destroyed because he had railed vpō the hoast of the liuing God And afterward Thou sayth Dauid commest against me with a sworde and a speare and a shielde but I come against thee in the name of the Lord of hoasts the GOD of Israel whome thou hast blasphemed Surely GOD will wound the head of his enemies and the hayrie scalpe of euery one that continueth still in wickednesse Consider then I pray thee what enemie thou doest encounter with when thou goest against the Spaniard First he is as ye haue heard before an Idolater a pillar and prop of Antichrist an open enemie to the fayth of Christ and a professed patron of truce breaking falshood and disloyalty He is also a greedy tyrant of vnsatiable couetousnes that seeketh nothing else but to swallow vp euen the whole worlde When the Soueraigne dignity in the low countries was offered to our most Christian Prince franckly and freely her Grace refused it being contented with those kingdomes which God and blood and nature hath heaped vpon her but this monster of Spaine is neuer satisfied Nauarre Naples the Indies will not serue but he must gripe in also the Low countries and deuoure vp all their auncient liberties The Lowe countries will not content him but he must plucke in also Portugall Portugall is nothing to him vnles he may also obtaine France and then also he gapeth for England But I hope that as the Larke being mounted to the highest doth sodainly fall downe and as the tyde when the water is at the furthest hath his recourse backe againe So the
Iniustitiae duo sunt genera vnum eorum qui inferunt alterum eorum qui ab ijs quibus infertur non propulsant iniuriam Qui non obsistit sipotest iniurie tam est in vitio quam si parētes aut amicos aut patriam deserat There are two kindes of vniustice the one of them which doe iniurie the other of them which doe not defend from iniurie He which doth not withstand iniurie if he be able is in as great a fault as if he should forsake his parents his friends or his own countrey their houses can hardly burne but ours must be in danger to smoke and therefore especially we are to labour to preuent the ende that is the slauery and bondage which they intend to bring vpon our owne nation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is a noble thing saith Xenophon to fight for the auoyding of bondage And it cannot but be as noble to fight for the eschewing the Antichristian yoke of popish Idolatrie for howsoeuer the Spaniard would seem to be a defendour of the Catholike faith let his filthy Idolatry his pestiferous heresies his truce breaking his greedy couetousnes his swelling ambition and his bloody cruelty be sufficient testimonies to vs that his fayth is not true and Catholike but diuelish and Antichristian Well he may make a shew of deuotion and of the seruice of God and of liberall contribution to maintaine the Church of God But all their offerings as ye haue heard are of goods wrongfully possessed and therefore they doe but according to their owne prouerbe Hurtan el puer as darlos pies por amor de dios steale the swine and bestow the feete for the loue of God and all their outward glorious profession is but to haue as their owne by word goeth of them Vnnas de gato y habitas de beat◠la cruz en los pechos yel diablo en los hechos The clawes of a catte and a Saints weede the crosse on their brest and the diuel in their deede It is but an outward shew to cloake and couer their couetousnes and hypocrisie and therefore going against him wee goe against the Lordes enemie and we may conclude to our owne heart with the confidence of Dauid Surely GOD will wounde the head of his enemie and the hayrie pate of him that continueth still in wickednesse The Frenchman that hath answered all the Maximaes gathered out of the workes of Machiauel is in this poynt too short who concludeth generally that there ought to be no warres against Gods enemies in cases of religion onely vpon this ground Puis que toute religion consiste en vne approbation de certains points qui concernent le seruice de dieu il est certain que telle approbation pend de la persuasion qui en est donnée aux hommes Or le moyen de persuader vne chose a vne personne ce n' est point de prendre les armes pour le batreny de le menasser ains de luy remonstrer par bonnes raisons allegations qui le puissent induire a persuasion Seeing that all religion doth consist in the allowing and yeelding to certaine poynts which concerne the worship of God it is certaine that that allowing doth depend vpon the perswading of men Now the meane sayth he to perswade any man is not to take vp weapons to beate him nor to menace and threaten him but to make demonstration to him by such reasons and good proofes as may leade him to perswasion What perswasion I pray you can be vsed with them which will not suffer a perswader to liue amongst them who if a teacher come to them doe put him straight to the fire or sword or if the holy scriptures or any godly instruction be brought vnto them they burne both the booke the bringer who are not content to liue vnder Antichrist but doe with al tyrannie and bloodshed vphold the kingdome of Antichrist which are not weake but wilfull not blind but obstinate which are not content themselues to beare the marke of the beast but doe fight for the beast and seeke to bring all nations vnder the yoke of his bondage If the Spanyards were no otherwise enemies to vs thē the Indians were to them who were most of them meeke and obedient and willing to be taught and gouerned if we should then haue spilt the blood of so many infinite thousands as they haue done then might the Papist iustly haue opened his mouth against vs and we should haue had great occasion to feare that which now hangeth ouer them euen the vengeance that the Prophet speaketh of one stone to crye against another and one beame to crye against another woe be to him that buildeth of blood As the blasphemie of the Philistine made Dauid more couragious so these huge iniquities of the enemie ought to make vs expect the vengeance at the last to light the more heauier vpon him Another comfort and solace had Dauid in all his troubles that euen for the Churches sake the Lord would destroy his enemies and for this cause he saith Arise O Lord in thy wrath and lift vp thy self against the rage of mine enemies so shall the congregation of the people compasse thee about for their sakes therefore lift vp thy selfe againe the Lord shall iudge the people c. We must needes confesse that in respect of the most part of our selues in the Realme of England both by our contempt of Gods holy word and by our vnthankfulnes for his manifold blessings we are so farre off from being worthie to haue out enemies subdued vnder vs that we haue deserued much rather to be long agoe deliuered as a pray vnto their teeth But we know the Lord hath his Church amongst vs he hath committed vnto vs his holy word and Sacraments he hath also his number of his elect and chosen and we may say with the Prophet Esay Except the Lord of hoasts had left a remnant to vs we had been as Sodome and Gomorrah For that little remnant that number of the elect which God hath amongst vs the Lord hath hitherto extended so many blessings vpon vs and we hope that for their sakes he will still lift vp himselfe againe God promiseth for ten good men to spare all Sodome Dauid had in his armie Ioab a most wicked manquellour who had most trecherously and wilfully murdered Abner the sonne of Ner Generall of the armie of Israel and Amasa the sonne of Iether Generall of the armie of Iuda men as the scripture sayth better then himselfe This wicked Ioab was Dauids Lieuetenant of all his armie and the Lord sent vnto him many noble victories for his good Prince Dauids sake We haue many English Souldiers and Mariners of most wicked and dissolute life and such as in their warres haue no respect to the glorie of God and the benefite of his Church but onely seeke to take somewhat
spirit may speake comfortably to our spirits that all our sinnes are forgiuen vnto vs giue vs that sanctifyng faith which may bring forth all good fruites of amendement of life and true repentance O Lord pardon our huge grieuous sinnes which we haue heretofore cōmitted agaynst thy diuine Maiestie let our former wickednes be no hinderance to thy mercie Lord remember not the iniquities and offences of our youth but according to thy mercie think vpon vs in thy great goodnes Remember not how vnthankfull we haue been vnto thee for thy manifold preseruations and benefites all the course of our life Thou hast been rich in mercie towards vs but we haue been poore in thankfulnes to thee agayne Lord pardon all our former vnthankfulnes and make vs daylie more and more thankfull not onely in word but also in holines of life that we neuer be found to be of the number of those which confesse thee with their mouth but denie thee with their workes In all our affayres of our outward warfare Lord grant vs grace especially to be zelous in our inward combate agaynst sinne and wickednesse that we may mortifie the roote of our carnall and corrupt affections that we may haue the true strife of the spirit against the flesh wrastling agaynst all sinnes but especially agaynst those whereunto we finde our selues most inclined Ayd vs good Lord especially in our spiritual battaile against the world the flesh and the diuell put vpon vs the sword-girdle of truth the breastplate of righteousnes Arme vs with the shield of faith wherby we may quēch al the fierie darts of the wicked and so deliuer to vs and guide in vs the sword of thy spirit that we may ouercome and triumph by the blood of the Lambe and the word of his testament And for as much as the euents of our estate and vocation are sundrie and variable O Lord we pray thee so gouerne vs with thy good grace that in all our trauailes we may ioyfully say Thy will be done and not ours that neither our prosperitie doe cause vs to forget thee nor aduersitie doe prouoke vs to murmur agaynst thee that with contented mindes we may cast all our care on thee for thou carest for vs that in troubles we may assure our selues that thou doest not plague vs as a iudge but correct vs as a father and that in euery good successe we may humbly acknowledge thee the author and giuer thereof and neuer lift vp ourselues to accompt it the worke of our owne hands We that thus goe downe in shippes and occupie our busines in great waters doe daylie see thy manifold workes and thy wonders in the deepe how thou liftest vp the waues of the sea and hast made the Leuiathan to take his pastime in them with innumerable beasts as Dauid speaketh both small and great Lord graunt vs alwaies to make true vse of these thy creatures that wee may learne thereby to acknowledge thy Maiestie to reuerence thy power to feare thy iudgements and to trust in thy mercies Thou hast promised that those which crie vnto thee in their trouble thou wilt deliuer them from their distresse and bring them to the hauen where they would be Thou onely art he that commandeth both the windes and the seas Lord so gouerne them both in these our attempts against the professed enemies of thy truth as may be most for the glory of thy name for the benefit of thy Church for the good and welfare of our natiue soyle and for the sauegard and honour of our most gracious Soueraigne Blesse our labours prosper our voyage let thy enemies so fall before vs as that thou maist haue all the praise and we all the comfort Teach our hands to warre and our fingers to fight couer our head in the day of battaile giue vs thy holy angels to assist vs grant vs to be true and faithfull amongst our selues obedient to those whom thou hast placed ouer vs couragious against thy enemies hold thy holy hand ouer vs sanctifie our affections that we may not so much seeke our selues as endeuour to doe that seruice which may be most agreeable to thy holy will and most for the prosperous estate of our Prince and Countrey whom we beseech thee O Lord to blesse and protect now and euer We know O Lord that the obtaining of victorie doth not consist in number of men it is all one with thee to saue with many or with no power in the defence of thy trueth we goe against the open vpholders and sworne vassals of Antichrist good Lord let not thy aduersaries preuaile against vs let not the wicked say where is now their God Strike a terror into the enemies let the shield depart from them confound that proud and haughtie power of that Haman that doth so insolently oppose it selfe against the Gospel of Iesus Christ Goe before our armie good Lord and be our buckler and shield to defend vs from all daungers both of bodie and soule Lord remember thy wonted mercies and louing kindnes which haue been euer of old and for thy Churches sake euen for that remnant which thou hast amongst vs let it be thy mercifull pleasure to blesse our endeuours grant vs to repose our trust and confidence stedfastly vpon the experience of thy power and goodnesse giue vs such assurance of faith and such continuance in true mortification that we being thy children and our lamps of repentance alwaies burning death may neuer be sodaine vnto vs and when it shall be thy good will to take vs out of this vale of miserie be it in or out of those battailes which to our profession doe appertaine we beseech thee O Lord that our soules may so fight a good fight and finish their course with ioy that they may be partakers of the crowne of euerlasting triumph in the world to come These and all other graces needful for vs and for thy whole Church and euery part and member of the same we craue at thy hand in the mediation of thy sonne Iesus Christ our onely Sauiour in that prayer which he hath taught vs in his holy Gospell Our Father c. FINIS Prou. 15.15 Prou. 28.1 Rom. 14.22 1. Ioh. 3.20 Lawfulnesse of Militarie profession Ioh. 8.39 Gen. 14.18 Deut. 23.18 Matth. 27.6 Iudg. 5.23 2 Chro. 20.15 Psal 144.1 Nehem. 4.14 vers 20. Deut. 20.2 Deut. 20.10 Warre the last remedie Luc. 3.14 1. Cor. 9.7 Luc. 7.9 Act. 10.2 and 48. Obiection against pietie in Souldiers Respons Reuel 12.12 Abuses of war ought not to abrogate the lawful vse thereof Rom. 13.2 Verse 4. 1. Tim. 2.2 Matth. 26. An. Dom. 1512 August lib. 22. contr Faustum Manichaeum cap. 70. Warre against the Spaniard how to be allowed 2. Chron. 19.2 2. Chron. 20. v. vlt. 2. Chron. 25.6 2. Chron. 22.5 2. Chron. 21.13 Exod. 32. Exod. 32.4 Psal 106.16 2. Thes 2.4 Apoc. 17 9. Apoc. 14.8 Iohn 15.21 Heb. 10 14. Heb. 7. v. vlt. 1. Tim. 2.5 Heb. 1.1 Rom. 1.16 Heb. 2.16 Heb. 4.15 1. Cor. 15.20 Col. 1.18 Rom. 8.33 Rom. 8.1 Psal 32.2 Psal 103.12 Mich. 7.19 1. Iohn 1.7 Iosua 9.15 2. Sam. 21.4 2. Reg. 25.7 Iere. 39.1 K of Spayne Luc. 4.6 Ioh. 8.48 Prou. 8.15 Matth. 8.28 K. of Spayne Reuel 19.15 Reu. 18.6 9 Of warre to be proclaimed 1. Cor. 3. vers vlt. Psal 105. vers 44. Psal 105.44 Rom. 12.19 Matth. 5.39 Rom. 13.4 Matth. 18. vers vlt. Deut. 25.17 Deut. 23.20 Matth. 10.16 1. Pet. 2.2 Iosua 8.4 2. Reg. 10. Hieron vt citatur decret causa 22. quaest 2. cap. vtilem Luc. 3.14 1. Sam. 30.26 Psal 24.1 Libr. 2. de bello vandalico Goods of Papists that liue with vs. Aug. lib. 22. contr Faustum Manichaeum cap. 70. Rom. 13.2 Ier. 27. v. 6 7.8 Gen. 14.4 Gen. 14.17 1. Pet. 3.9 Math. 5.44 Psal 83.14 Psal 52.11 Psal 28.3 Psal 10.4 Psal 35.5 Psal 59.6 Iosu 8 4. 2. Reg. 10. Exod. 18.8 Iob. 1.19 Numb 26.64 Titus Liuius in 28. ab vrbe condita Luc. 16.8 Iosua 11.4 2. Chron. 14.9 2. Chro. 14.14 1. Sam. 17. Iudg. 15.15 2. Sam. 15.31 Prou. 21.30 Prou. 21.31 Psal 61.3 Iam. 1.17 Iohn 13.1 Psal 7.15 2. Sam. 17.36 Verse 45. Psa 6◠ver 21 Rom. 13.1 The difference of the English gouernment as it is now from the Spanish In the English the rebel dieth and the subiect liueth In the Spanish the subiect dieth and the rebel liueth 2. Cor. 11.14 The reuerend father Master Nowel shewed one of these kniues to diuers Noblemen of England Tul. Offic. 1. Xenophon Psal 68.21 Par. 3. max. 1. pag. 346. Reuel 13.17 Abac. 2.11.6 1. Sam. 17.3 Psal 7.6 Gen. 18 32. 1. Reg. 2.29 2. Sam. 3.27 2. Sam. 10.7 Lucan Gen. 41.40 1. Reg. 18.3 Phil. 4. 1. Thess 5.11 Gen. 18.32 1. Sam. 30.26 2. Chro. 14.14 1. Cor. 9.7 Psal 107.30