AN Armor of Proofe brought from the Tower of Dauid to fight against Spannyardes and all enimies of the trueth By R. C. The name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous run vnto it and are exalted Pro. 18. 10. Imprinted at London by G. Simson and W. White 1596. To the right Honorable Gilbert Talbot Earle of Shrewesburie Lord Talbot Furniuall Strange of Blackmeare Verdon and Louetoft Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Roger Cotton wysheth grace and peace in Christ Iesus THe Lord our God Right Honorable who in great mercy hath caused by his spirit the holie Scriptures to be written for our learning hath also commanded that all men shoulde studdy therin both day night that so by the helpe of the same spirite men might write them in their hartes The ende hereof is that thereby they may recouer the Image of that new man which againe is created after the likenesse of God in knowledge and holinesse And while the people of Israel obserued this they inioyed peace throughout their borders and great plentie within their Pallaces And such feare God strocke into the harts of their enemies round about that none durst stirre against them But at what time they cast off this and chose new Gods and made no account of the knowledge of the true God nor of the learned that should to them the same God teach Then was there warre in the gate and no peace to any that went in or out but great troubles arose to all the inhabitantes of the earth For nation destroyed nation and Cittie destroyed Cittie and God troubled them with all maner of aduersities This standing thus and God remaining vnchangeable I assure my selfe of all kingdomes to whom the worde of God is sent this may be spoken That they Elias I meane the men like Elias Iosua Samuel Dauid Daniel and such whose delightes are in the law of the Lord are the Horses and Chariots of a kingdome O noble Sir I beseech you therefore consider well therof and let those gracious words of good king Asa when ten hundreth thousand came against him and those of King Abiah when eight hundreth thousand came against him and those of Ioab the Captayne when the Ammonites Aramites came against Dauid be writ most sure in your noble hart that so they may proceede from your lippes to the incouragement of the common sort whose hartes often fayle in rumors of troubles I know your Honor needeth not to be taught how Nobilitie giuen to the holy worde must be the strongest pillers of the Church Israel through all ages so stoode firme but otherwyse fell Iosua being equall to a Prophet conquered the land through his constancie and courage in diuinity But after him great contempt of Religion arose wherefore much of their land againe they lost and greatly troubled was that state vntill the dayes of Samuel For as they often fell away so the Lord often sould them into the handes of spoylers whereby in the ende that state became Ichabod no glory For the glory of God the space of seauen moneths departed from them yet by meanes of good Samuel faithful in religion was againe setled in Israel and so by him the state was well helde vp all his dayes who although he descended from rebellious Corah yet is he for Leuy a conquerer of better then Sichemites and as he so or more did that noble and valiant Dauid euen by diuinitie recouer wholy the land first conquered by Iosua and Dauids title is not so euident for a warryer as it is for the pleasant in songs to Israel For to this day most sweete is the voyce of that sweete singer to all that rightly vnderstand his tune But he that should vnderstand him to the full had need of the spirite of an Apostle A true patterne indeed Right honorable of true Nobilitie But yet full soone was this true patterne lost wherevpon ten partes of that stately kingdome became in short time not onely Izrael and Loruchama but Loammy also For full often did the Lord visit them with the sword aswell at home deuouring one an other as by the enemy abroad and in the ende suffered them to be carryed quite away by the Kings of Asshur And God tooke no pittie but euen as they had cast off him from being their Lord so he cast of them from being his people Now as Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat of the vertuous Ioseph is set forth as a patterne for discommendations to all that followed his wicked steps so noble Dauid of the house of Iuda is the patterne set forth for commendation to all that had care to walke his godly pathes Therefore no further in story for sample to true nobilitie need I here to seeke Yet in so much as the fame of one of your owne most noble progenatours soundeth in our eares to this day I trust it shall of none be thought amisse yf I lay him before your Honorable eyes as an other example That noble Earle IOHN TALBOT is the man who neither liued as languishing in idlenes riot or excesse nor died as hauing surfited with vaine pleasures and fonde delyghtes but of manly woundes receiued in open feelde after he had valiantly warred foure twentie yeeres in defence of his Princes right a death and life most honorable to them that are truely noble and valiant Euen so this worthy peere togeather with his valiant Sonne the Lord Lisle in that sore battle fought at Castilion in Fraunce their sweete lyues did ende where a monument of the Earle remayneth vnto this day and this inscription folowing ingrauen thervpon Heere lyeth the right noble Knight Iohn Talbot Earle of Shrewsburie Earle of Washford Waterforth and Valence Lorde Talbot of Goodritche and Vrchingfeilde Lorde Strange of Blackmeare Lord Verdon of Alton Lord Crumwell of Wingfeilde Lord Louetoft of Worsoppe Lord Furniuall of Sheffeilde and Lord Falconbridge Knight of the most noble orders of S. George S. Michael and the Golden Fleece Great Marshall to King Henrie the sixt of his Realme of Fraunce who dyed at the battle of Castilion neare Burdeaux Anno. 1453. Now as this and other your noble ancestors haue been alwayes at home most honorable for their faythfulnes towardes the Crowne of Englande and for their seruice both at home and abrode against the enemie in so much that euen the very name of the Talbot to them hath been tirrible so no doubt there is but that your selfe will shew your selfe in all nobilitie as descended from such A most noble warryer and faithfull subiect vnto his annoynted Prince was he whose example therein you follow Therefore one poynt more I beseech your honor learne of that noble Dauid your patterne And as you and your honorable fathers haue followed him in the other two most honorable quallities of true nobillitie so let your selfe surmount them all in the third The point desired is his great loue and zeale to the Church house of God which
Fayth it is both sound and good A Sworde for Spirit a Plate for Brest well tryde A Helmet for thy health not made of Wood but made of Right and Trueth which will abyde Which will abyde thy health still to procure yf to thy sydes thou wylt them fasten sure Thy Loynes must be still gyrt with Veritie thy Feete still shod the Gospels peace to seeke Thy shute to God in prayer each day let be that from thy foes he would thee safely keepe He would thee keepe from ghostly foes great store which thee to spoyle seeke dayly more and more Since then thou art each day my freende to fight agynst the Flesh the Worlde and Ghostly foe with armoure tryde thy selfe each day bedight so shalt thou from their harmes still safely goe still safely shalt thou goe gaynst fende so fell yf all Gods lawes within thy hart do dwell Thus to conclude deare friend be strong in God put on the armour whole which he hath made which is his worde from ende to ende each iod and so no foe thy strength shall then inuade inuade can none ne yet thy soule annoy yf euery part thereof thou wilt inioy Stande vp therefore and corrage to thee take Cast off thy sinne and cloath thy selfe with right and then no noyse of Spanniardes shall thee shake or yet once quayle thy wonted force and might Thy might say I no God thy might hath bin and still will be if turne thou wilt to him Returne thou then returne o Shulamyte returne to God and so thy foes shall see an armie great with men of might to smite all forces downe that shall rise vp gaynst thee gaynst thee nay gaynst thy Lord they shall then fight when thou from sinne returnest cleare in sight Awake therefore and to the Lord giue eare thy hart lykewyse vnto his Lawes incline print all therein that so they may appeare to giue thee light in darke estate of thine and so no plagues of Spayne or Egypt olde shall lyght on thee the Lord hath thee so tolde For what if Spayne and thousandes ten such more should hem thee in or cumpas thee about yet will the Lord as Captayne go before and fight thy feelde agaynst the proude and stoute Since then he hath this promise past to thee be not afrayde yf Spannyardes thou do see For what are they Are they of Anake sonnes Suppose they were yet be not thou afrayde for though with slaues such speach of terrour runnes yet come gaynst thee they are full soone dismayde For thou a noble people art of name thy valiant actes sound through the worlde with fame Thy God hath thee now almost fourtie yeeres as his olde folke in Wildernes safe kept A wonder through the worlde as it appeares When they at warre then quiet thou hast slept and yet much more in this time hast thou wonne for now to all thy terror is begunne We are the men not Spannyardes well I know to whom God sayth This day do I begin to sende thy feare through out the worlde to show what God it is whose seruice thou art in The Lord of Hostes is he whom we do sarue But Gods of Spayne are mettals which they carue What neede we then of them to be afrayde For when they call their gods are oft a sleepe or els abrode as one of olde hath sayd and can not heare wherefore they houle weepe For though their gods the like gods do subdue yet fight gaynst ours their cases thus they rue Wherefore yf they should aske to feare the weake what were become of Sepharvaims gods Or what of Indians which they dayly breake with many more all which haue felt their roddes Yet answere thou They had no Gods at all no maruell then though Spanyardes gaue the fall And what yf they should once demaund agayne and aske thee of Samarias gods likewyse and tell how Assors Rod is now in Spayne And as hee then so they shall now surpryse Yet answere thou agayne thou mayest full true Samarias Gods were then of Heathens hue Euen so are all the Gods quite rounde about where euer yet the Spanyardes bore the sway though Christians names yet are they none no dout for Christ by them is driuen quite away and Cakes of bred with them are Gods in deede as Calues of golde to ten Tribes as we reade Yet thou Ierusalem which we now are hast no such Gods for thine in heauen dwelleth who doth for thee all good thinges still prepare and woundes thy foes thy blood so deare that spilleth yet doth he thee by them sometimes correct but yf thou turne he doth thee not reiect Returne therefore returne thou Shulamyte returne to God and his pure worde imbrace Returne in time and he thy foes will smyte when teares of greefe shall trickell downe thy face and ioyfull then his holy ones will be to strike thy foes that would haue sore stroke thee For wilt thou see how God of olde did deale with all the foes of his owne folke that were now sure to hell he sent each common weale that bent their force his owne poore folke to teare no Rod there was which God for his did hier but if too sharpe he cast the Rod in fier For didst thou Babylon olde Rod scape free Or hadst thou Rome new Rod for this cause peace No Babylon thy blowes all men may see And thou O Rome thy plague shall neuer cease Two instrumentes too hard for wrathfull ire were for that cause well mollyfied with fire What Rome why she is vp a loft agayne But what for that Shall shee as chiefe raigne still No no her beawtie can not long remayne but low in dust with Babel must she dwell As she of ancient Babel beareth name so both a lyke for mischifes shall haue shame But what became of Assur Ephraims rod Did he escape for seruice done gaynst him No sure for he the whip would needes be God the axe be hee who did the helue put in But he that tooke this instrument to hier his worke once done set instrument on fier And what became of Egypt that hard rod that rod which did foure hundreth yeeres long last Would not the Lord then shew him selfe a God to burne the same which did his people wast He did not burne but it in Sea he dround because therewith his people they did wound And what of Edom and of Pallistine Of Tyer and Zoan of Vz and Buz withall Hath not the Lord to all these drunke in Wine Yes wrathfull Wine more bitter then was gall Which cup of gall to Elam kinges he sent yea Iauan dranke till all that wrath was spent So now O Lord cause all thy foes to drinke this bitter cup which thou of olde didst fill to
was such as no scoffes of wicked contemners could stay him from preferring of the same but by how much more he seemed as a foole and vaine in the sight of such for so doing by so much more cared not he to become more vile low in his owne eyes if by such meanes he might do good thereto Therefore if it might please your honor to follow him in this as you haue in the other you shall be sure that honour which he there speaketh off will follow you with great increase And moreouer then shall that speech which good Abygall vsed vnto him your noble patterne take full effect in you For the Lord hath not onely promised to make my Lord a sure house because he is ready to helpe his noble Deborah to fight the Lords battels and because he is so faithfull towards his annoynted that no euill can be found in him but also for the third point that which is much more euen the soule of my Lord shall be bound vp in the bundle of life with the Lord your God and the soule of your enemies shall God cast out as out of the middle of a Sling Thus being euery way ouer bould with your honorable patience I craue pardon I am no Scholler but a Draper therefore not able to contriue my speaches in such sort as willingly I would My trust is your honor will the rather pardon me and accept the affection of my hart and not weigh the rudenesse of my pen. I was borne in Whitchurch which as I thinke is one of your honors principall Lordships where my Ancestors haue of long time beene poore well willers vnto your noble Progenitors as at this present my eldest brother there and we the rest of his bretheren here in London are to your honorable selfe These things considered together with your honorable inclination towards good things made me bolde to make choise of you to be the patron of this my smal worke of meditation against the enemy I beseech your honor accept thereof according as the matter requireth and not as the skill of the writer deserueth The matter is good though rudely handeled That God who is able to do both for your Honorable selfe and that vertuous Lady the Countice your wife far exceeding abundantly aboue al that I can aske or thinke giue vnto you both all honour with increase thereof heere in this lyfe and in the life to come that crowne of glory which he hath prepared for all those that loue and honoure him in Christ Iesus Amen Your honors to command R. COTTON To the christian Reader FOr as much deare Christian as many weake ones are often terrified with rumors of troubles more then they should and many others lesse regarde them then they ought I thought good to put foorth a fewe rude verses of my poore Meditation therevpon partly to incourage the weake and feeble in faith towards God and partly to call the rashe hardy to learne better the cause thereof if any such befall vs. As some times God reuengeth sinnes where men little looke for punishment yea and full often and many wayes God striketh when sildome the strocken consider whose hand it is or for what cause it is Therefore my small worke tendeth to shew vnto such who it is that striketh and the cause why so many and sundry wayes we are strocken I trust none of right modestie can dispise my good meaning herein And as I would gladly accept the like incouragement from others so I trust this of mine shall be taken in good part and somewhat mooue some vnto meditation vpon Gods word which is an helpe ready to all that come with care to seeke saluation to which worde I pray God giue you grace to flie vnto in all distresse as vnto your chiefest hould and Tower Amen Yours in the Lord R. C. An Armour of proofe brought from the Tower of Dauid to fight agaynst Spannyardes WHen God of hosts in eighty eight had brought an host of men our Countrey to annoy in that distresse the Lord by vs was sought whereby our woes were turned then to ioy But yet full true to vs may this be sayde in your distresse you onely seeke my ayde For then in deede and only then we seeke when troubles great and greeuous plagues aryse But those once past no promise made we keepe nor yet by them can learne to be more wyse But as the Sow in fylth agayne doth wallow so we our sinnes of former tymes do swallow For great and small no sinnes of olde forbeare No rich no poore can say in hart I ioy For garment whyte which I now dayly weare but steede thereof we faigne and frame each toy each toy yea toyes and tayles such to behold with wyer and heare that monsters be we would Yet few there be whose hartes consider well what sinnes are wrought each day by men of might No one there is that thinkes how God doth tell his owne misdeedes he worketh day and nyght yet doth the Lord the least of them regarde and will in time giue each his full rewarde But how to whip by Spayne as some men deeme Not so be sure those Rods would proue to sore For neuer yet the Lord his solde I weene to sworde of foe vnles Gods they had store But rather with his owne most gentle hand he hath and will still beat a sinfull land But wilt thou know what is the sinne of sinnes It is contempt of Gods most holy worde for that cast off Idolatrie begins false Gods then sought God draweth out his sword his sword yea all his plagues therewith are sent when on false Gods the mindes of his are bent Alas how then can we escape his hand Haue not all sortes his holy worde off cast Not so for then nought els but plagues in land and it to ly both desolate and wast Wast nay worse for Ohim therein then should dwel yea Zim and Iem in stead of men to tell For wilt thou see for this what God once wrought on his owne seate Ierusalem of fame In dust she lyeth by Babel first so brought once buylt agayne yet Rome hath spoylde the same Too greeuous were her harmes all to be tolde she lyeth in dust that glittered so with golde Euen shee whose beautie shone so cleare and bryght that all the worlde Perfection did her call Yea shee the ioy of all that were vpright none such there was nor neuer like there shall yet downe she is and neuer shall be buylt thou mayest so see in Gods booke if thou wylt And so Aholah sister hers lykewyse before her long with Asshurs rod was whypt for that new goddes amongst them did aryse Gods worde cast off and Omries lawes well kept from Ahabs house their manners still they sought wherfore to dust their glorious crowne was brought And so
in dayes of Iudges long before the Lord his solde to spoylers rounde about because their goddes they dayly did adore and praysed them whom God had bid thrust out but quite forgot the Lord who did redeeme their neckes from thrall him did they not esteeme And hath not this of vs yet taken holde Not full I hope for though great store therebe who make them Gods of wealth and wedge of gold of lustes of flesh and pleasures of the eye All those who loue their wealth or pleasure more then they do God to them Gods they are sure But yet this sinne on all hath not layde holde For though on some yet many more there bee who neuer sought to Gods yet made of mould or Sunne or Starres for such ne heare nor see To one they call who can their sute well heare and doth to them by worde and workes appeare To God alone we seeke in hope to finde by meanes of Christ eternall sonne of his who did our sinnes and foes to tree fast binde when he on earth Gods statutes none did mis yet death he tooke the wages due for sinne and so by death spoyld him that death brought in Who after death all glorie was to haue which earst he had with God before all time and there doth sit in shape of man to craue the lyke for all that are of him true vine Wherefore by him our prayers we present which are to God a sweete and pleasing scent We maruell much what foolysh doults do meane to fall to blockes or call to Saincts on hie since none on earth or heauen yet doth raigne but God alone who can our thoughtes espie For Abram knoweth vs not doth Esai say and Iacob wanteth eares to heare vs pray That Virgin pure most blessed was in deede in wose small wombe the Lord of lyfe did dwell yet for to know what time we stand in neede she hath no skill the Scripture playne doth tell for God alone our prayers all doth heare wherefore to him by Christ we still draw neare We holde them fooles that labour so in vayne to call on Paul or Peter or on Pope for had they eyes saint Iohn hath tolde them playne that who now sinnes Christ now must be his hope for he now only mediator is cause Arons trade our sinnes could not dismis We haue Gods worde to teach vs fayth and feare we learne by it all secrets meete to know No writ of man to vs yet is so deare or like esteemd Gods councels vs to shew We are most sure that God by it must gayne such wanderyng soules as must with Christ heere raine We haue the Sacramentes in perfect sort as Christ him selfe at first did them ordayne Our foes are false who giue vs this report that we holde not that Christ doth there remayne But how not Really as they do teach but there by fayth as learned heere do preach Yf this be true that all Gods trueth we holde what neede we then of Spayne to be afrayde For God I say hath neuer yet such solde to sworde of foe but still hath sent them ayde The trueth we haue yet therein walke not wee wherefore oft times God hisseth for a bee In deede Then must we all looke for the same for few there be that will of God do seeke but all degrees contemne his holy name Few rich or poore one Saboth true do keepe and all are bent their owne willes to obey but will of God we seeke it no one day For whereas we should spend our lyues and time in Gods owne Booke his will to see therein great store there be that neuer sought one lyne to write in hart that so they might know him And so Gods will of vs not being knowne he castes vs off to follow wayes our owne O Englande then consider well thy state oft reade Gods worde and let it beare chiefe sway within thy hart or els thou canst not scape the wrath of God for he will surely pay Yea diuers rods the Lord of Hostes doth vse to chasten such as do his worde refuse His sworde thou knowest he threatened sore to draw in eightie eight but then he did thee spare yet since that time in thee great sinnes he saw wherefore for thee great plagues he did prepare The Pestilence through out thy coastes hath bin and now with sworde to threat he doth begin Thy land as hard as Brasse hath oft bin made Thy heauens haue as Iron bin likewyse they both conspier to stay their wonted trade whereby to thee great darthes and famines ryse Thy corne fayre growen with blasting hath bin spoyld well gotten in yet meldeaw hath it soyld Thy Trees thy Vines thy Cow and clothing Sheepe all fruitefull thinges to thee oft fruiteles are because with God thou promise none dost keepe thy feeldes and fayth through barrennes are bare In steade of rayne much dust abrode doth fly for want of deaw thy ground doth burned ly Thy Oxe and Cow with blaynes and murrens mad thy Sheepe with rot destroyed oft haue bin Thy house with fire thy goodes thy foes haue had thy land and right the vile oft tymes do win Thy troubles great by law do dayly ryse because Gods worde can not yet make thee wyse And for this cause opprest thou art with wrong yea pylde and polde by tythes by toules by rent by Landlordes bad who thinke thy Lease too long by neighbours ill to mischiefe that are bent Thy owne bad minde to law oft moueth thee and wilt not cease tyll all be spent on fee. Thy foes and aduersaries dayly do aryse God styrreth them thy troubles to increase And all for this yet art thou not so wyse to know that he doth make them breake thy peace But rather thou the like for like dost lend whereas by them thou shouldst thy selfe amend Thy Seruantes they rebellious be and nought they fyltch they steale they rob seeke thy spoyle in goodes and name thy hinderance they haue sought they run range they daunce and keepe a quoyle Thy neighbours tongues by them are set on talke for prate and heare they must as they by walke And when a tale to some of them is tolde they can well add to bring thee in disgrace for thy deare name for nought by them is solde to many more that dwell in further place And by and by as ware that rots with them they make great hast to sell it other men And thus the land with wicked tongues is fraught whereby one may in maner playne descrne that Gods pure law by them is iudged naught for els by it to speake well they would learne Wherefore as men from flesh do wysedome take so fleshly rods do often times
them wake And what els more for this cause dost thou feele Thy body sicke with agues colde and hot with greeuous paynes from head downe to thy heele because of this doth fall vnto thy lot Yet were it well if bodyes payne were all but soule for this is still in bondes and thrall For it as blynde and lame doth range about and plundged is in pitts of crosses store and there doth lie when Gods worde helpes not out and so oft tymes with such floods is forlore but iustly then to helpe doth it refuse since oft it would but thou wouldst not it vse And what now wantes of all Gods plagues to thee now surely store there is yet more behinde But yet this one I would thee wysh to see the which to view I pray thee be not blinde the Spanyardes now with Armour braue them dight in hope to finde thy fayth but vayne and lyght Remember then thy former loue and zeale which thou to God and to his worde didst beare and let them now agayne with thee preuale and so no force of forrayne shalt thou feare None shall then moue thy Candlesticke from thee yf thou from it a lyght wilt take to see But is there nothing els for to be don Yes sure we are to haue both Shylde and Speare good Armour bright with Arrowes Bowes Gon. These being had we neede not Spayne to feare But if thou trust in these and strength of men then know as broken Reedes shall all proue then For woe to them that Egypts helpe do seeke or trust in store of Horse and Charrets strong or wit of man for none of these could keepe those anciant Townes or yet their peace prolong for noble peares of Zoan proued fooles yea so did all that wrought by such like tooles Samarias Oxe nor Bethels Calfe of golde nor Ieroboams fine deuice for wit could saue ten Tribes when God had them once solde to Asshurs Rod no helpe could saue from it For all such wysedome drunkennes became yea all deuice of man did then proue lame And so will now if these we make our ayde Wherefore agayne best helpe I will thee show To turne to God for so him selfe hath sayde and that well done will proue best fence I know But how to cast on mournyng for a day No no such fastes with God can beare no sway But this is it that shall thy Lord well please to reade his Booke with all delyght and care both nyght and day vntill thou know his wayes and that his lawes within thy hart writ are Which lawes well kept for weapons haue the name then for thy helpe I will bring foorth the same When Sinai hill and Horeb mount did burne and thunder clappes made Seir with them to shake When trumpet shrill did sound loude blew horne then Iacobs sonnes for feare thereof did quake they quakde for feare though God from Paran came with lawes to saue all those that keepe the same Yet thou deare frende needst not to feare or quake though Moses did and thousands more with feare for now no Sinai terror shall thee shake because a Lambe in Sion doth appeare On Sion hill there standes a Lambe most meeke who bids thee come in peace Gods lawes to seeke Ten thousand Sainctes did God attend when hee those glorious Lawes in sayinges ten proposed In which thy debts towardes God are all to see yea all thou owst towardes men are there inclosed inclosed are thy duties all therein the which to learne in time thou must begin First then the Lord requires of thee to heare that he alone from Egypts thrall thee brought None other Gods before thee must appeare nor none such serue as may be made of nought Of nought some Gods are made which men do serue as those of Wood and Stone which fine they carue But such the Lord commandes thee not to make nor any thing that may him represent in heauen or earth or yet from sea or lake one wyght to take whereon thy mynde is bent one wyght to take from none of these thou art to bow vnto or worshyp in thy hart For if thou doest the Lord thy God is hee a ielous God and therefore will not spare to punysh sinnes to third and fourth degree on those whose hartes on feigned gods set are Wherefore on him let all thy hart be set so mercies great to thousandes thou shalt get Thou must not take the name of God in vayne but thereof speake with trembling and with feare for if thou dost he hath in store great payne to power on thee and those that do him teare him teare by othes or speaches els prophane not meete to vse on his most holy name The Saboth day remember well to keepe both thou thy Man thy Mayde thy Oxe thy Asse Thy owne affayres in that day do not seeke ne from thy gate then let the Stranger passe for in sixe dayes thou labour mayest full free and God will cause thy blessignes store to bee Lyke as him selfe the heauens all did make the earth the sea and all that is therein within sixe dayes and seuenth rest did take so would he haue thee sample take by him by him the seuenth day was sanctified in which thy soule on him must be imployed Vnto thy Parentes honour thou must giue Thou must not kill nor whoredome once commit to steale abhor but labour hard to liue And witnes false to beare let none thee get To couet house or wyfe or man or mayde or oxe or asse of neighbours be afrayde These are the sum of many more all pure of which poore store though none canst thou fulfil yet haue no feare for all are writ most sure in Christ his hart and he hath done Gods will The will of God that Lambe hath done for thee and bids not feare his preceptes all to see These Lawes so pure good freende do thou esteeme aboue the golde the pearle the precious stone all Iewels rare shall nothing then be seeme thy Necke lyke them yf thou wilt put them on Yf all Gods lawes within thy hart thou hould more strength will be then can with pen be tould Thy soule to God they will conuert and turne Thy sight so dim they will make cleare and bright Thy thoughtes so foule they will consume and burne This will they do yf thou with them thee dight yf dight thy selfe with armour this thou wilt thy soule gaynst sinne shall dayly strong be built The Tower of Dauid they will be to thee wherein a thousand shyldes and targets strong yea many weapons more therein will bee for thy defence gainst those that would thee wrong That would thee wrong in soule in goodes or name gaynst euery harme a weapon for the same A Shylde for
Nations all whom thine to spoyle did thinke but yet could not one straw breadth passe thy will Repay them Lord with thine eternall fier for thou hast sayd that such shall be their hier And cursse O Lord yea Meroz folke cursse still which now are slacke thy poore flocke to defend But blesse our QVEENE the hand-mayde of thy will who doth with Iael thy foes sound blowes stil lend Our gratious QVEENE aboue all let be blest because alone she fights against the beast Be thou O Lord her buckler and her shylde her strong defence agaynst all forren power yea gaynst all foes that forces now do yeelde to helpe that Beast thy people to deuoure Confounde them Lord their faces fill with shame And helpe our QVEENE for honour of thy name Be thou her peace her plentie and her myght Arme her with fayth thy Gospel to defende Cause thou her Crowne to shine long fresh bright yea Dauids dayes twise double do her lende Cause her in peace with Sallomon to raigne in spight of all that now are ioynd with Spayne Make her O Lord a mother olde and graue for she to vs true Deborah hath bin So keepe her still thy people long to saue from those new Gods which former dayes brought in and let them not such Gods agayne erect for fayne they would but Lord do them reiect For yf they should they would then brag and vaunt and say to vs Where now is hee your God Yea thus they will thy seruauntes mocke and taunt yf now at last they should be made thy rod. Wherefore O Lord thy glorious name regarde and burne these rods that so would thine rewarde So will we prayse and magnifie thy name thy glorius name to ages we will show which is that was and still will be the same to all that seeke thy face in Christ to know Christ is the ende of Law for righteousnesse Beleeue in him Gods kingdome then possesse FINIS Ier. 25. 8. 9. Esa. 10. 5. 6. Haba 1. 6. Esa. 26. 16. Iere. 2. 20. 5. 23. Esai 1. 5 2. Pet. 2. 22 Iere. 8. 6. Pro. 20. 9. Reue. 19. 8. 3. 5. Esai 3. 16. to the ende 1. Pet. 3. 3. 1. Tim. 2. 9. Psal. 56. 8. Hebr. 2. 2. Pro. 24. 12 Iudges 2. 11. to 15. Iosu. 23. 15. 24. 20. Iere. 25. 6. Deu. 4. 26. 27 Psal. 78. 58 to 63. Pro. 13. 13. Iere. 6. 10. to 21. 7. 23. 30. 8. 9. 11. chap. Rom 1. 28. Iudg. 2. Leui. 26. Deu. 28. Iere. 5. 7. Of Ohim Zim Iem reade Esai 13. 21. 34. 11. to ende 2. King 25. 2. Cho. 36. Ezra Nehemiah Aggay Math. 24. Luke 21. Lamen 2 15. Psal. 48. 2. Lamen 2. 15. Dan. 9. 27. Math. 24. Luk. 21. 20. to 34. Ezek. 23. 4. 2. King 17. Micha 6. 16. Esai 28. and Ezek. 23. and Ier. 3. Hos. Iudg. 2. Iob. 31. 24. 1. Tim. 6. 17. 2. 3. 4. Math. 6. 24. Luke 16. 13. Phelip 3. 19. Deut. 4. 19. Psal. 65. 2. Psal. 19. and Deut. 4. 10. Psal. 147. 19. 20. Psal 50. 15. Math. 18. 19 Colo. 2. 14. 15 Psal. 40. 6. 7. 8 Heb. 10. 5. to 11. Rom. 6. 23. Heb. 2. 14. Iohn 17. 5. Luke 24. 26. 1. Ioh. 2. 1. 2. Heb. 4. 14. 7. 24. 25. 9. 10. Iohn 17. Seeing God hath sworne that euery knee shal how to him Esai 45. 23. Esai 41. 26. Psal. 65. 2. 139. 2. Esai 63. 16. Yet she needed a sauiour reioyced in him euen in Christ her sonne Lord. Psal. 65. 2. Heb. 10. 21. 23. Seeing the lord hath coÌ„maunded to call on him psal 50. 15. 1. Ioh. 2. 1. 2. Heb. 10. 1. 2. We learne not from y e precepts of men as those in Esay and the Papistes do Math. 26. 26 27. 1. Cor. 11. 23. to 30. It is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profyteth nothing Iohn 6. 63. For the heauens contayne his body vntyl the end of the worlde Actes 1. Now froÌ„ south as of olde from north but not to haue the lyke successe Ier. 17. 21. to ende Esai 58. 13. 14. Iosh. 1. 8. Iohn 5. 39. Ephe. 5. 17. Deut. 6. 6. Iere. 6. 19. Rom. 1. 28. Be instructed o Ierusalem and let not the great thinges of the lawe which for thy sake are written be counted of thee as strange thinges Iere. 6. 8. and Hose 8. 12. Reade Leuit. 26. Deut. 28. Leuit. 26. 25. Deut. 28. Leui. 26. 25. Deut. 28. 21. Leuit. 26. 19. Deut. 28. 23. Leuit. 26. 20. Deut. 28. Iere. 5. 25. Iere. 2. 19. 20 5. 23. 25. Deut. 28. 24. Deut. 28. 31. 1. Cor. 6. 5. 6. 7. 8. Deut. 28. 29. 33. 1. Cor. 6. 8. 1. King 11. 14 23. But good Dauid was so wyse 2. Sam. 16 10. 11. As would the sonnes of Èœeruiah haue had Dauid to done to Shemei The wicked giue heede to false lyps and a lyer harkeneth to the naughty tongue pro 17. What good comes of these praters tale bearers reade Pro. 26. 20. 21. 22. and 1. Tim. 5. 13. Iame. 4. 11. 12 When y e wicked can do no other harme then wyl they smyte with the tongue as they did good Ieremie ler. 18. 18. Leuit. 26. 16. deut 28. 22 Deut. 28. 35. They shal wander from sea to sea from north to south to seeke the worde but shall not finde it Amo. 8. 12. pro. 1. 20. to the ende Reade Leuit. 26. all and Deut. 28. all Reue. 2. 5. Esai 55. 7. â—eue 2. 5. Iere. 17. 5. Esai 31. 1. Iere. 17. 5. Esa. 19. 11. 13 1. Kin. 12. 26. to the ende Hose 8. 5. Ezek. 23. 5. 7. 9. Psal. 108. 12. Iere. 17. 5. Esai 55. 6. 7. Mala. 3. 7 to 13. Esai 58. Psal. 1. 1. 2. Iohn 5. 39. Ioshu 1. 8. 9. Deut. 6. 6. to 10. Exod. 19. 18. Deu. 4. 10 Deut. 33. 2. Exod. 19. 13. 19. Exod. 19. 16. 20. 18. Ebr. 12. 20. 21 Deut. 33. 2. Deut. 4. 5 30. 15. to ende Ebre 12. 21. Exo. 19. 16 20. 18. Ebre 12. 22. 23. 24. Reue. 14. Rom. 10. 4. Deut. 33. 2. Exod. 20. Math. 22. 37. to 41. Rom. 13. 8. to 11. Ephe. 6. 4. Pro. 22. 6. Exod. 20. What folly is in them that break this commandement reade Esai 44. and 46. Deut. 4. 15. to 25. To whom wyll ye make me like or equal or compare me that I shoulde be lyke vâ—to him Esay 46. Exod. 20. Blessed is y e man in whose hart are thy wayes plas 84. 5. Bring the blasphemer without the hoast and let all that heard him put their hands vpon his head and let all the congregatioÌ„ stone him Exod 24. 14. Thou shalt not folow thy
owne wayes nor seeke thy owne wyll nor speake a vayne worde on my Saboth Esai 58. 13. Exo. 20. 12. Ephe. 6. 1. 2. Pro. 25. 18. In burnt offering sinne offering haddest thou no pleasure Then said I lo I come a body hast thou ordayned me within my hart thy lawes are writ and of me it is written that I shoulde do thy wyll O God psal 40. and Heb. 10. The commaundementes of the Lord are pure and more to be desired theÌ„ gold yea then much fine golde psal 19. 8. The law of the Lord is perfect conuerting the soule it geueth lyght vnto the eyes wysedome vnto the simple sharpenes of wit vnto the dull of spirit Thy necke is as the tower of Dauid buylt for Defence a thouâ—and shyldes hang therein all the targettes of y â— strong men Can. 4. 4. Ephe. 6. 16. Ephe. 6. 17. Ephe. 6. 14. Ephe. 6. 15. 18 For this cause take vnto you the whole armor of God that so ye may be able to resist in the euyll day Ephâ— 6. 13. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers Ephe. 6. 12. Haue not I commaunded thee saying be strong and of a good corage feare not for I the Lord thy God wil be with thee where so euer thou goest losu 1. 9. Can. 6. 12. Whom hast thou rayled on against whom hast thou exalted thy voyce and lyfted vp thyne eyes euen agaynst the holy one of Israel 2. Kin. 19. 22. These wordes which I commandethes this day shall be in thy hart Deut. 6. 6. Deut. 7. 15. Psal. 3. 6. Deut. 31. 3. 4 Deut. 31. 6. Deut. 9. 2. Psal. 3. 5. 4. 8. Deut. 2. 25. 1. Kin. 18. 27. Esai 37. 18. 19 2. King 19. 13 Esai 37. 11 to 14. Esa. 37. 18. 19 As that proude beast Sanaherib did to good king Ezekiah 2. king 18. 13. to the ende 19. Esai 36. 37. 1. King 12. 28 â— King 12. 28 Eber. 12. 22. Apo. 3. 12. And will neyther slumber nor sleepe psal 121. 3. 4. Apo. 19. 2. Deut. 32. 43. Iere. 30. 11. Can. 6. 12. Zach. 1. 3. Mala. 3. 7. Esai 37. 16. to 21. Esai 37. 36. Esai 27. 7. Iere. 25. Ioel. 3. Esa. 13. 14 Ezekie 32. 17. to the end Esa. 13. 14 21. 46. 47. Ier. 25. 26. 27. 7. 50. 51 Dan. 5. 26 Iere. 50. 29. Apo. 14. 9. 10 11. 18. 19. Two proper speaches in the 17. of the Apocalips do so plainely Describe Rome that no man can Deny but that Rome is there meant as this The. 7. heades are 7. hilles they are also 7 kinges the woman is y e great citie that raigneth ouer y e kinges of the rarth Esai 10. and 37. 36. 37. 38. Reade the Prophet Naum Counting from the time that Ismael began to persecute Isaak vnto the last yeere of pharoh his rage Exod. 14. Exod. 1. 22. Reade more of Egypts plagues long after these dayes in Ezek. 30. Iere. 25. 15. to end Esai 14. 29. to end Obadyah and Ezek. 36. and 37. 38. Esai 34. 23. 19. Iere. 25. Esai 34. 2. 8. For it is a righteous thing with God to trouble theÌ„ that trouble vs. 2. Thes. 1. 6. Iudg. 5. 23. Iudg. 4. 21. to end and. 5. 24. to end Psal. 18. 1. Apo. 13. 17. cahpe 2. Thes. 3. 16. Ephe. 2. 14. Ephe. 6. 16. Psal 132. 18. 2. Sam. 5. 4. 1. Kin. 4. 21. 24. Iudg. 5. 7. Iudg. 5. 8. Psal. 79. 10. For the enemie is proude Lam. 1. 9. Psal. 79. 9. Psal. 79. 12. Psal. 79. 13. Reue. 1. 8. Rom. 10. 4. Iohn 6. 47. Actes 16. 30. 31.