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A88419 Englands doxologie. Or rather The three kingdomes eucharisticall sacrifice at the altar of th' Almighty. For the manifold mercies, and miraculous deliverances vouchsafed at sundry times to the severall nations. To which is annexed a briefe relation of the memorable acts, and prosperous proceedings of the high, honourable, and happy assembly of Parliament, in this present year of grace, 1641. / Composed by J. L. in Art: Mag. Non nobis, domine, non nobis, sed tuo nomini fit gloria. J. L., in Art. Mag. 1641 (1641) Wing L28; Thomason E172_20; ESTC R17320 7,901 14

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which we have received innumerable privative mercies have we enjoyed He hath not onely confer'd good things on us but also kept evill things from us He hath delivered us out of the hands of our Enemies and those no little ones but great Mountaines potent proud impudent implacable secret subtle insulting dangerons and many Enemies corrupt in their judgments impious in their lives men the more witty the lesse wise and more wicked the more politike the more pestilent and the more great they have appear'd the lesse good they have prov'd What strange plots and horrid conspiracies which God in his mercy hath prevented have of late dayes bin attempted against us What undermining there hath bin of the professed Religion and government of the State how under the pretence of vindicating the Kings honour some malignant malevolent Statesmen who have bin too neare his Majesty have endeavoured to oppresse the just liberty of his free-borne subjects to suppresse the true Religion in his Kingdomes how imminent our dangers were how constant close and confederated these Traytors have bin in their designes against us the History of these times doth sufficiently testifie Looke into the Records of the ages past reade Annals search Chronicles examine Antiquities and you cannot parallell the like I am perswaded succeeding ages will hardly beleeve as we who have had the Science and Experience cannot but admire that such fowle birds should be hatcht in so faire a Land as this is so capitall have bin their crimes and so haynous their late offences that the generations to come will be astonisht at this generation of Vipers whose plots projects and practises have aym'd attempted and endeavour'd to involve all of us and all that can be neare and deare unto us our Religion the life of our soules our well being with our very being our Lawes and our Liberties in one universall desolation and generall destruction Praysed be the Lord who hath not given us a prey unto their teeth Psal 1.24.6 Still have we just cause to offer unto the Lord the calves of our lips that acceptable Sacrifice and Divin Oblation of Praise and Thanksgiving What though two Parliaments were dissolved and we were all then in that vacation and intermission thereof full of cares and feares yet it hath pleas'd God in much mercy to move the Kings heart to summon a third which is the last and I dare say the best and will prove the happiest that ever England enjoyed 'T is true God hath 3 shafts in the quiver of his Justice LIMOS LOIMOS Ki POLEMOS Famine Plague and Warre these sharpe Arrowes this great Archer usually shootes at a Nation in his anger and indignation being provoked thereunto by their grievous and crying sinnes And though these Arrowes of the Almighty have bin and are oftentimes abroad in the world amongst us as at this present he hath sent out his arrowes and scattered them Psal 18.14 yet it pleaseth him in h●s mercy to shoot beyond us beside us over us and short of us so that we abide under the shadow of the Almighty for the Lord is our refuge our fortresse in whom we trust Surely he shall deliver us from the snare of the fowler and from the noysome pestilence Wee shall not be afraid for the terrour by night nor for the arrow that flyeth by day nor for the pestilence that walketh in darknesse nor for thē destruction that wasteth at noone day Psal 91.3.5 6. v. What though the Visitation hath within these few years rode circuit through the whole Kingdome within these 3. moneths the. Contagion hath encreased and though of late dayes grimme Death hath gone in triumph through our streets and kept a dreadfull Sessions here within London and in the Suburbs thereof yet we have good cause to be thankfull For God preserves us both in the plague from the plague in taking it from them who are visited in keeping it from us who are not visited Thus in the midst of judgment the Lord remembers mercy And it is of his mercies that wee are not consumed because his compassions faile not 3. Lam. 22. To enumerate all Gods mercies to our English Nation 't is impossible yet forasmuch as the Parliament is the abstracted Quintessence and the Representative body of the whole Kingdome and the State of the Kingdome being united in that one great Councill the wellfare of the 3 Nations doth consist in the happinesse thereof Let us for the Honour of the two Houses in Parliament lately assembled but especially to the glory of God commemorate some famous and never to be forgotten matters and Edicts which those illustrious Worthies of the world and renowned Heroes of their Age whose Statues deserve to be set up in Gold have hoc Anno aureo this golden yeare concluded and enacted A BRIEFE RELATION OF The Memorable ACTS and prosperous Proceedings of the high Honourable and happy Assembly of Parliament THey have recalled from Captivity and restituted to their Livings Liberty sundry godly Divines and Religious Christians as to instance three for all who are sufficiently knowne to all Burton Prinne and Bastwick They have discovered mulcted and silenced scandalous Priests profane Ministers and Popish Prelates They have questioned the Lord Finch once Lord Keeper his Fellow-fugitive Sir Francis Windebank late Secretary to the State and call'd to account divers corrupted Judges They have restrain'd of Liberry Sir George Ratcliffe Imprisoned in the Tower the Archbishop whom if I may call Worme as a farre better man then he term'd himselfe no better I am sure 't is an Epidemicall report both in the City Countrey that the little Arch-bishop was the greatest Adversary and Cankerworme to this Church and State that ever these latter times produc'd They have quelled all the Canter burian faction They have dismounted the Canons and damned that prodigious Oath in that strange Synod They have cut off by the Axe of Justice the late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland These noble Senators have enacted a Trienniall Parliament thereby to perpetuate the present happinesse of the King and Kingdome and to secure th●s Land from future miseries They have damned Ship-money that generall and insupportable grievance to his Majesties poore subjects They have taxed Monopolists and Pattentces who have bin humanarum calamitatum mercatores as an Author ingeniously stiles them the Horse-leeches und Caterpillers of these times They have voted against Non-reside and displaced Pluralists who are so far from being Pastors that indeed they are Impostors rather Wolves to devoure then Shep-heards to feed Christs flocke for they ayme at theirs more then at them and at their goods more then their good They have decided Controversies sentenced Romish Ceremonies Abolished Antichristian Superstitions extirpated Innovations and will shortly at their recesse by Gods gracious assistance set led the Reformed Religion in its primitive purity perfection banished Papists Priests and Lesuites supperessed the two Courts of Star-chamber and the high Commission damp● Doctors Commons Given an Order for the be●●e● sanctifying of the Lords Sabboths They made an Ordinance for Acapitation or Poll-money They ordained two dayes this yeare to be kept holy and set apart for Gods service and worship the one fora publick Fast to humble our selves before Almighty God the other the 7. of September for a generall Thanksgiving throughout his Majesties Dominions in England and Scotland They voted the 13. Bishops impeached by the Commons of England to be suspended from the upper House till the time that they shall come to their Tryall They have established and set up Lectures where they are wanting in all the Parishes of this Realme of England and the Dominion of Wales to maintain Orthodox Ministers They have riglited the wronged eased the oppressed and innocent punished the Nocent and Delinquents Denyed the late Requests of the French and Spanish Embassadors caused a Protestation first of both the Houses next of the whole Kingdome And last of all to omit many more which might be added they have confirmed a blessed Pacification between the two Nations To draw all these lines to their Center Forasmuch as in Gods speciall grace and effestuall goodnesse staends the safety of this and the two other Kingdomes and Gods glory by the Kingdomes safety Let the three Nations be tyed in the treble bond of Religion to God of Loyalty to the King and of unity to one another For all Gods Mercies and Deliverances afforded unto us Let us with Angels and with Arch-Angels sing in the quire of the Church Militant this heavenly Anthem Gloria Deo in Excelsis Glory be to God on high With these 24. Elders in the 5. Revel 8. and with the infinite thousands of Angels Let us fall down and with all the Creatures which are in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and in the Sea and all that are in them say Blessing Honour Glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lambe for evermore Amen FINIS
ENGLANDS DOXOLOGIE OR RATHER The three Kingdomes Eucharisticall Sacrifice at the Altar of th' Almighty For the manifold Mercies and miraculous Deliverances vouchsafed at sundry times to the severall Nations To which is annexed A BRIEFE RELATION OF The memorable Acts and prosperous proceedings of the High Honourable and happy Assembly of PARLIAMENT In this present yeare of Grace 1641. Composed by J. L. in Art Mag. Non nobis Domine non nobis Sed tuo nomini sit gloria C R Imprinted at London by Barnard Alsop dwelling in Grubstreet 1641. Englands Doxologie THere is no Nation under heaven that hath received more temporall spirituall favours from Almighty God then this Kingdome of England Wat Blessings can be nominated which we have not enjoyed We have fulnesse in our Granaries peace within our Wals and plenty within our Palaces Ther 's no leading into Captivity nor complaining in our streets the voyce of the Turtle hath bin heard in our Land we have swum in pleasures and had all the varieties of contentments that our curious fancies can imagine Our Oxen are strong to labour our sheepe prosper all things succeed well and we have a Land flowing with milk and honey And for spirituall Mercies no people under the Sun ever went beyond us Though our workes of darknesse might eclipse the Sunshine of Gods goodnesse yet the bright beames of the Gospell have gloriously shin'd upon us and the silver Bels of Aron have melodiously bin rung amongst us This Evangellicall and transcendent mercy hath bin inlarged to us Indeed this is the finest of the wheat with which God doth feed his people 56. Psal 11. By this he hath delivered us from the Aegypt of Rome from the house of Bondage and from Antichristian heresie and superstition And though there have bin amongst us and are still many dissolute idle and illiterate Ministers who are a staine and blemish to their sacred function and profession yet for the honour of the Church of England I speak it there were never more pious painfull and learned Pastors in other Countries then are now here in this Kingdome God hath not dealt so with every Nation no not with any Nation We have with the peace of the Gospell enjoyed the Gospell of peace above these 80. years Thus the fountain of Gods goodnesse is inexhanlt and indeficient never ceasing in his gratious emanation but ever flowing in the sweet streams of his mercies And for wonderfull deliverances how hath God in them gone along with us From what horrid plots and hideous Conspiracies hath the Lord secur'd us From what monstrous machinations never the like heard of Combinations both forrain and domesticke even of those who have treacherously indeavour'd the demolition of the whole stare Did not God most graciously deliver this Kingdome from the very jawes of death in miraculously preserving us from that paire of matchlesse stratagems the Spanish Invasion in 88. and the Hellish Gun-powder Treason in 1605. O that wee would remember the dayes of old and consider so many generations O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 'T is the burthen of the song of the sweet singer of Israel in the 107. Psal no lesse then 4. sever all times Great stupendious things hath the Lord done for us And that which addes unto our happinesse is this that a Religious peace crownes all these Pax optima rerum Ther 's nothing so divine and acceptable to God and man as peace nothing more delightfull to be heard nothing more profitable to be desired nothing more happy to be enjoyed then poace Pacem te poscimus omnes we all desire peace Peace is the darling of heaven the delight of the Earth and joy of the Angels 'T is the Daughter of charity the Nurse of Piety the nerves sinues of Commor-welths and societies 'T is the firme knot strongest bond of all Corporations by which meanes Countries and Kingdomes like Salomons triple cord are inviolable and indissolubly joyn'd together We may see the happinesse of peace by the contrary in the misery of warre Many calamities are involv'd in this one vengeance of warre When thousands of men and horses shall set their feet upon a soyle how soone are they all cut off by the cruelty of war both men and horses wallowing in their own bloud so quickly is a fruitfull Land become barren or the wickednesse of the people that dwell therein Those were fearefull times when Gods Churches and mens houses were flaming over their heads when the barbarous souldier made it nothing to tosse tender Infants upon their Pikes when the impotent wife was bereav'd of her deare husband desiting to dye with him with whom she cou'd not live The Barons warres in this Kingdome for the time of their continuance were so deplorable that we have all cause to blesse his memory that united the red Rose and the white Happy was the union then between the two Houses of York and Lancaster and as happy is the Pacification now betwenee the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland So unfortunate is warre and so happy a thing is peace that ever let us pray to the God of peace with our Church in the Liturgy Give peace in our time O Lord And from Battell and Murther good Lord deliver us It is a generall received opinion amongst Physitians that in the cure of dangerous and violent Diseases of all things Rest is most helpfull and comfortable to the patient In like manner for the curing of those perilous wounds which have long since bin made and are still mortally infixed in the bowels vitall parts of Christendome the sole and soveraign Remedy that can be prescribed is Peace Warre is the scourge of the Almighty the event of it doubtfull and therefore it is never to be rashly undertaken when it may be wisely prevented for as Nature hath appointed no Phlebotomy no letting of bloud but in cases of extremity so Grace doth admit of no warre and allow no shedding of Mans bloud but in cases of necessity and when there is no other Remedy Warre is the Plagiary of Government the Incendiary and fire-brand of a Nation but Peace is a Sanctuary and Preserver of a People Speciosum nomen pacis I and preciosuni too The very name of peace is lovely The Iewes compirz'd all felicity under the name of Peace therefore their salutation was Pax vobis Peace be unto you Life Liberty Dignity Tranquillity safety and prosperity Arts Learning things Civill Politique Divine and Humane all are contained in peace This heavenly and admirable blessing do we now enjoy The thunder of the Canon the Language of warre is the best Rhetorick to commend this peace The noyse of that Thunder is dreadfull and hath bin often heard in other Countries to their terror and amazement but God be thanked it is not audible in our Eares Look upon the Empire of Germany