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A09517	Digitus Dei. Or, Good newes from Holland Sent to the wor. Iohn Treffry and Iohn Trefusis. Esquires: as allso to all that haue shot arrows agayst Babels brats, and wish well to Sion wheresouer.	Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1631 (1631)	STC 19798.3; ESTC S101483	10,887	14

ordinary successe that to this day Dunkerk a meane Dunghill hauen dare write her selfe a M rs The 2 o was this that they should not spend themselues thus yeare after yeare in the beseiging beleaguring taking in of any one towne which did spend them much treasure could not much disaduantage the enimy but that they should though with double cost attempt the diuiding of the Provinces especially Holland Zeeland which hee demonstrated to bee feasable And for the better understanding the way may it please you to take notice that about two or three houres sailing from Dort there lies a village calld the Plate with a conuenient hauen able to receiue many smal vessels this village with the whole Iland uppon which it stands is all together vnfortified soe are all places about it this hauen lookes right against Princeland a place of the same strenght with the Plate betwixt these two passe all our shipps to Zeland Bergen Ter Goose Tertoll Zeerikze● ect This yeare about the time of this attempt their army entred Princeland ●othing remained but that they might make themselves M r of the Plate soe 〈◊〉 once cut of the passage to Zeland the parts aboue said soone put Dort Roterdam the Hart of the land in feare from whence likewise they might haue an easie way to Dunkerk they recourse to them agayne This with the consequences being vnderstood I shall labor to show yow what faythfull ouerseers the Marquese had to his wil and how tender they are on the other side to follow the mind of the dead After the Prince of Orange had retreated out of fflaunders whether through the foreslowing of time or too many loope holes made in their counsails or unfaithfulnesse in men betrusted or correspondence by any false heart with the enimy he had lost his designe inquartered himselfe at Drunen neare Huisden little other tidings came to vs but the constant and extraordinary prouisions of the enimy by land water especially concerning certaine sloopes flat bottomed boates an engeneering Preist who should haue spent much oyle candle in the advancing of a strange designe The tidings whereof comming thicker the child being neere the birth the towne of Bergen petition the ayde who with that part of his army that lay at Drunen being about 12 or 14000. foot beside horse set forward for Bergen the 25. of August and within 3. or 4 dayes was inquartered on the North-side of the towne Sargeant Maior Cary being sent before with diuers companies for a safegard to those parts by which these shalloopes might passe as also 15. or 17. men of war that vsually waite uppon the In-land waters Vppon the 11. of Septem being thursday at 4. or 5 ' of the clock at night wee heard shooting from Falconesse and the Doel and there-abous and saw shipping but did generally conceiue that the enemy had made an attempt to come forth and was beaten back by our men when as it appeared otherwise t●e next day for the next morning being friday wee discerned vppon the wals of Bergen a fleete of 80. sayle or more comming towards the towne and farther off some greater shipps in an other fleete It is strange to see heare how hardly men were drawne to beleeve that the enemy was so neare nor was there much credit giuen to it till they were before the very towne of Bergen where my-selfe being a spectator amongst the rest could tell above 80. sayle who as it seemes came the day before from Antwerpe soe past by our shipping as wee saw over night onely changd a few shot without farther Danger Sargeant Maior Cary carefully attending vppon the chardge committed to him they bent their course toward Tertoll land about 8. or 9. in morning 22. saile of their Reregard comming on ground the rest stayed for them betwixt Rommers-wali Tertoll till the returning of the next tide which was at 3. in the afternoone and thus they lay this whole day in the sight not onely of Berghen but of the Princes whole army mee thought this time was alotted us from heaven as if a voice had cried and bid vs yet try what prayer will doe and if I should bee playner with you open you a window into my owne heart mee thought this stopp was the time wherein Iustice Mercy compeered before the great God of heaven earth as indeed it was a time for our saddest thoughts Take Vengeance cries Iustice Oh spare sayes Mercy Kill cries the one Saue the other There are no sins like theirs cries Iustice No God like theirs sayes Mercy Give successe to this designe cries the One Lord they are Thy enemies sayes the Other Holland is p●oud secure sayes Iustice But they may amend by this diliuerance They haue not improoued former kindnesses But they may bee tried by one more Reuenge thy Sabbaths let them haue noe rest that neglect this day of rest heere Mercye paused at lentgh charging their teachers with this excusing the poore people that knew noe better You shall see what followed and whic● preuayled The Prince perceiuing that it was now no time to aske what shall we doe ●ut to bee doing vnder command of Generall Morgan sent 3. Regements 〈…〉 oll to guard those parts from the incursion landing of the enemy who went to their worke with no ordinary resolution came close by those partes where the enemy lay onely gave them notice by some shot that they there attended them with which troopes the Prince went in person In the meane time Count Ernest advised for the cutting off the Reregard that lay on ground to that purpose commanded such warlike shipping as lay at Bergen to be made ready 12 musketteres out of every companie of the army to bee imployed in the designe which came to 1200 or there abouts the commander in cheife of our nation was the noble valiant Earle of Oxford Lieutenant Collonel to my Lord Generall Vere to whōe were added Sergeant Maior Hollis Captaine Dudly Captaine Skippon S r Thomas Colpeper Captaine Iackson with some other officers and this I must say my hart wittnesseth I flatter not I never saw men hugg an enterprise so the common souldier even beseeching their captaines with teares that they might bee preferred to it nor were they without the company of diuers Noble volunteers amongst whom that Noble Gentle-man my Lord Crauen who hath much honored his nation abroad must not be forgotten who with the first presented him-felfe with his musket ready to share in the common condition whether good or bad But as great bodyes mooue slowely so these tfor they set not forth till the enemie floated who with the comming of the tide were soone at worke as before hauing a small boate with them sounding the way ouer the many sands they were to passe made toward Zerickzea hauing gotten their whole fleete together about 4. of the

spent in veiwing these liuely tokens of Gods fauor on the day following command was giuen that publike thanksgiuing should bee rendred both in the towne and army in which I blesse God I had a share and on Munday-night with 3. volleyes af●er the manner heere it was made knowne very cleerely to Antwerpe and the enemies army some of our cannon hauing very wide mouthes vppon the sabbath was brought in Dulken the once Gouernour of Grol a Iesuite with him so dayly diuers prisoners who had come on shore on diuers parts Nor did wee at this time thinke our labor ill bestowed to ride from place to place to looke on either their Punts sloopes or our men bringing in the spoyle som telling their freinds how hardly they had escaped and shewing their chayne gnawne bullets som with rapiers som scarfes one with Count Iohns leading stasse another with a buffcoate most laden with Antwerpes beere Amongst diuers other things there came to my hande a knife of the keur lings who are som of their company about Bridges that ne●her giue nor take quarter vpon which was engraven in Dutch Rithme Make hast from Bridges Prince of Aurania Honnor your M r the king of Hispania Let our flaunders alone come not heere to pillage For wee haue for you nor citty nor village vnder which was pictured the towne of Bridges the Prince running from it on horse-back Surely as the deliuerance was great so the purchase especially of amunition was not a little as wee shall shew by the particulars following And now mee thinkes by this time I saw the mother of Sisera looking out of a window crying through the lattesse why stay his chariot-wheeles so long Iudg 5. 28. etc. surely shee is much deceiued if she thinke they are deuiding the spoyle Thus the Lord ouerthrew Pharow his host in the red sea for his mercy indureth for ever The weeke following the Prince commanded most of the prisoners to bee set vppon ships without fayle or rudder by the head at Berghen till order should bee taken for ransome the poore women at Antwerpe who had their husbands in the Service with their heauy complaynts at Bergen gates made vs know how welcome those tidings were at Antwerpe the last weeke the Drossart of Breda treated for their deliuery and so they are departing home you may iudge with what ioy they shall bee intertained and presently vppon the miscarriage of the enterprise their army marcheth both from Prince-land and Rosendale whereof 32. companies of foote are gone for Breda and 10. of horse Vpon Thurs-day wee had generall thanksgiuing in our churches expressing our ioy by fires guns etc. The sum of the officers taken by vs. Colonels Lieuten Col Sargeant Maiors men of great note 19. Captaines 26. Lieutenants 10. Ensignes 28. Sargeants 23. Officers about the Canon 6. Som other officers Church men 11. Land souldiers 3151. Sea men Captaines 12. Lieutenants 15. Quarter Masters 7. Shippers 1. Sailors 820. Coming out of Antwerpe in all they were mustered aboue 6000. The number of the shipping come to our hands Shalloopes whose provision generally was 6. brasse Peeces 8. Murtherers 4. Dunder busses besides Lether Peeces 36. Punts with one halfe Canon and two three quarter Canon 10. Pleyts whose lading was Lope-staues Nayls Ice-spurs 10 Horses Hardles Beesbridges etc. ❧ ❧ 9. Other Amunition ships whose lading was Powder Beere Deales 7. That which I offer by way of observation cannot bee much Time wyll not afford it Yet these things briefly take notice of 1 That Reuenge is no Sluggard Malice is vnwearyed For wee vnderstand this worke practise haue bin vnder hand these 6 yeares 2. Reuolters from Religion prooue her sharpest enemyes witnes besides Iulian Count Iohn who will bee the Ring-leader in any designe that may make nothing of what hee formerly profest 3 To expect better then Stratagems tending to ruine from a popish enemy doth argue either ignorance of their courses or groundles Confidence 4 Security hauing lost the vse of reason will deny the Conclusion rather then beleeue the danger As wee saw when our people could hardly beleeue the enemy to be the enemy though he lay before the Ports 5. High men are Vanity Low men are a Lye which was playne when wee saw neither the great Commander nor the comon souldier could helpe vs the enemy out-brauing vs the whole day 6. The Creature cannot bee sufficient for our succor for he is not allwayes a present helpe in trouble wee could neither command wind nor tide where as either of them might haue done vs much good 7. The Lord often layes the reine on the neck of his enemyes they goe long vncontrold these went all day in the face of our Army vntouched 8. Sudden Prosperity is no signe of lasting Happynesse These Spiders had no sooner framed their web but it was swept downe 9. The Lord brings his greatest workes about by Accident the tide not servng which wee longd for our ships could not come vp with them by day so escapt a scowring Their Admirall putting out a light when he was on ground brought the rest into the same net they seeking a neerer way by the Fosse-mere lost their way with many such like 10. A poore creature is many times made the Lords great host as Pharaohs Lice agaynst him and a hand full of mist throwne amongst these 11. Feare vnfits a man to know what hee should doe disinables him to doe what hee knowes otherwise they might haue made head vpon the water or the shore gotten good quarter for ought wee perceiue 12. Cruell men haue often their punishments giuen them out in proportion they devising new boates they shall perish in their boates they will bring haltars for others which may serue them selues the gallowes set up for Mordecay serues Haman 13. The Lord answers his servants some times in the very thing they aske in our fast before the Prince went into the field wee made vse of that text that petition of Dauids Psal 83. 15. So persecute them with they tempest make them afrayd with thy storme behold wee haue our answere 14. Outward strength humane policyes are no sufficient Bul warks agaynst Battryes from heauen it was easily seene here was no want of skill in this designe the preparations were not ordinary but what are Tifney-walls to a Canon-shot or their plots to Gods mist 15. Feare is an ill guide though a quick post many hundreds of them leauing their owne strength betaking them selves to the mercy of an enemy 16. God like an Indulgent Father striues to reforme by shewing a rod Dauid had the same measure when hee Confesseth Lord thou hast shewn me affliction we saw what might haue bin our portion wee felt not what the enemy intended wee deserued 17. Diuine Providence which fooles call Foutune will serve it selfe vpon Let vs sleepe the enemy wake let them attempt let vs study to prevent let them bee strong many wee weake few let them goe on wee looke on let them deuide the spoyle to euery one a damosell an office before they come where they are yet Prouidence will serue it selfe vpon all this 18. It is remarkable that the Lord doth sadly make the servants of Idolls to know that ther Maisters or Gods are nothing In this attempt they will set forth vpon Saint Crosses day it being by their Almanack the eleuation of the holy Crosse their Generall of all their Army being called by that name and Count Iohn the Leader of the Nauall troopes being free of that Company Such Crosses let the enemyes of God euer carry with them hee had one he wore on his brest before he hath now another for his back I wish i may doe him good at his hart 19 The Lord doth not bind himsele to any particular meanes that wee many times vse to often trust vnto either for our deliuerance or the confusion of our enemies wee iudged of one meane he vsed another in this great work as was playne to be seene 20. It is admirable to see what a man or people may receiue in poynt of Honor doe like wise in matter of Action if the Lord goe out with them as this is notable this Prince of Orange neuer yet since hee had the command went out but hee returued triumphing the Lord euer make him triumphing victorious in his cause The Vses wee may make in a word are these 1. Let vs euer heereafter learne to know the creature by their owne names not to call a horse or a man a God or a water or fort a Sauiour wee may take vp ●he words of the repenting church Hos 14. The more fatherles the more merry or the lesse wee Idolize vpon our selves the greater succor we may looke for from heauen 2. Since the Lord can rule guide dispatch ouercome workes of this nature so well since hee hath thus graciously appeared in 31. as formerly in 88. let both England Holland bee willing to giue him the helme into his owne hands for euer I wish his quarrell agaynst vs all bee not that wee haue vsed him too much like a Comon-man wee see though wee had never receiued his word that his place is at the sterne let not Religion lackquey to Policy Kisse the sonne least hee bee angry Psal 2. 3. Giue him who hath done all deserueth all all the glory Ioseph may haue any thing in Potiphars house but his wife in Pharaohs but his throne as tender is the Lord of his honor glory as they of either Shall wee euen greiue his good spirit more shall wee euer slight his sabbaths can it bee 4. See that prosperity s●ay not our foolish harts the skill will bee how to improoue the mercy Sisera is then vndone when hee his careles in Iaels tent who was a Neutrall such is outward prosperity good bad may share in it the wisdome is how to vse it hee need walke warily that goes on a glassy sea with iron shooes But the wind is fayre the sea-men call the Dutch printer is weary hee craues pardon for his faults I must end before I am halfe way the mayne This at least may saue the writing many letters You may trust the Intelligence for the Truth to the God of Truth I commend You. In whome I am your lo. kinsman H. P.