and their store of Granado's which they had provided for us Ours as it did us some hurt so it did them no good at all Blest be the Lord for so speciall a branch of his salvation 4. When their great bullets of 35. lb. weight both roast and raw hot and cold came so fast and frequently into the Towne and all over it they having a great mark to shoot at and likely to speed where ever they fell yet though day and night they came into streets houses beds the Lord so charmed and charged them that but 3 were slain by them a man a woman and a child Heaven found strange means to conjure these bullets into quietnes and stop their force One quarrel'd with a poudring-tub another stuck in paste which was a providing for food and was choked in dough another drunk it self our friend in a barrell of wine another burnt the bed-clothes and spared a woman in the bed so as she slept still soundly and quietly having so hot a bed-fellow till she was by neighbours wakened and pulled out from the fiery danger They aimed at our Churches when we were met together for the word and prayer yet never hurt any in the Church going or returning But in their quarters and at York fame rang another peale of many hundreds slain in the town and divers coming to and going from the Church We allow those two Universities of lies the one of Oxford the other of York their poeticall and lying licence We have found those two Africaes alwaies bringing forth monstrous things and lies of a prime magnitude We are begun to thinke that it may almost gain the strength of a proverb that Yorks printer minter and minster when they print or preach of the Parliaments affairs seldom vent small lies The souldiers complain of their minter for minting too much false mony and for their minsters Sermons aiming at our cause they smell very little of truth or charitable divinity and their printed Pamphlets are notorious Pardon this digression and going out of the way to cudgell a liar 5. When they were so neare as within reach of Granado's as they trusted yet we heard but only of 3 or 4 of them and those were either short or over where they digged deep into guts of earth but touched not any man What would they have done if the Lord had given these hot officers of his anger leave to come into market Churches streets houses what terrible marks would they have left of their burning and tearing foot-steps 6. Our issuings out proved mostly succesfull to us though with small strength but alwaies hurtfull to the cost and losse of the enemy loosing men and having some worke pulled down by ours they flying as driven away 7. Our horse were happily preserved and safely conveyed into Lincolnshire when our fresh water fodder was so little as staying they should have had short commons and many of them would have perisht being foodles and all of them would have bin useles because of the enemies propinquity and nearnesse God reserved them for another place where they were serviceable in a glorious victory 8. When the state of the Town was very depressed and earthly hopes were at a low nepe our men being few and worne out with day labours and night-watchings and fightings from their works there being not sufficient for number to manage the works wel and clothe the wals if the enemy should approach nearer In that very nick of necessity God sent us a competent number of souldiers with that good Commander Sr John Meldram that did exceedingly animate and put fresh spirits into our wearied souldiers and very much conduce to our great help 9. When on a sudden a company of their pickt and resolute spirits with fury and strength had almost got one of our best works the west jutty and were in a manner possessors of it yet ours slew and discomfited them so as divers of them were slain some 15. and some taken prisoners The rest fled away with wounds shame as full of cold fear as they came full of strong water of which the slain and taken notably savoured having fired their spirits into a desperatenes with the spirits of hot waters In all the time God so wrought for us we held the works we had And this deserves a finger to point at it a tongue to praise for it 10. The Lord pared away from the strength of their numerous Army by a reigning sicknes among them by the running away of many and by diverting a part of their forces into Lincolnshire that they might be something weaker and more fit for us to deale with them though still their numbers did treble ours 11. Marvellous was the Lord in the prevention of their firing the Town shipping which they were mad to doe and confident would be done either by their wild-fire or wild bullets glowing hot they imitating the fiery darts of their father the wicked one yet the Lord kept them from lighting on combustible matter or easily fire-catching stuffe They were so confident of burning us that they caused country people divers times to stand on an hill promised thē with great oaths and damning language they should presently see Hull on a light fire but God sent no fire to consume their sacrifice in token of acceptation They are served with the Germane proverbe Deus non audit felium preces God hears not cats prayers to accept them that is curses and execrations more unwelcome to God then the harsh cries of cats No when their Apostle M. Thruscrosse who no doubt is wel-pleased that the crosse is found in his name speaks of winning Hull he tels them they must fast and pray or els never thinke to win it for saith he you fight against a praying people He fore-saw curses that come from a tongue and heart set on fire of hell could never set on fire Hull and therefore he gave them more ghostly counsell And they report from Pomfret which I annex that a man and they name the man came from that Town towards Hull big with expectation and hope to see it on fire and when he returned he found his own housing fired So wisely and justly doth God meet with men in unjust and cruell waies Besides firing they were by the same providence prevented of blocking up the river when on Lincolnshires side and Holdernesses they were begun to make forts but by some of our men landing were driven away and the fort was razed down 12. In compasse of six weeks all which time they begirt us with that strait and troublesome girdle of a siege by our sallyings out and all their bullets sallying in among us not 60. persons as 't is thought were slain in all of ours few or none of note when 't is certain of theirs above 2000 are perisht by sword bullet sicknesse and abundance of them fairly tryed their heels and deserted them Some of their Commanders of note Lieutenant-Col Levinston
HVLS PILLAR OF Providence erected OR The Providentiall Columne setting out Heavens care for Deliverance of that people with extraordinary Power and Providence from the bloud-sucking Cavaliers who had for six weeks closely besieged them By T. C. Minister of Gods Word ISAIAH 26.1 In that day shall this Song be sung in the Land of Judah we have astrong Citie Salvation shall God appoint for wals and bulwarks ZECH. 3.2 Is not this a brand pluck'd out of the fire Imprimatur CHARLES HERLE LONDON Printed for Ralph Rounthwait 1644. To the Reader BVt where are the nine saith Christ The Lord longs much to see us after he hath freed us in our distresse we long for deliverance and being delivered he longs for acknowledgement Deborah after her victorie awakened her selfe with so loud an instigation on purpose to awaken others That she might not returne with the leprous Samaritan alone in her acknowledgment Thus this holy-man Gods faithfull Minister and our deare brother an eye-witnesse to the great and wonderfull worke done by our God for that beleagured Towne the deliverance a mercy he had a share in and thousands and our selves It was the place of refuge to many persecuted and plundered Families and to ours and his here were met in one from the two spoiled Counties of Yorke and Lincolne of all sorts a great multitude Here we comfortably enjoyed our peace here publikely and privately we jointly sought it's peace of the fruit whereof it is now a partaker from the God of peace And therfore in all places and ages that it may be said for Hull what God hath done as we can do no more so no lesse then clap our hands and being of the number of the Lords redeemed ones cry out and say God hath done great things for us whereof we are glad And O let all places be filled with the same glorie Tho Micclethwait Philip Nye Th Coleman To the Lords dispersed and scattered ones beloved of the Father in the Sonne gathered together from divers Quarters and Countries into Hull the Nest of Gods providence Grace Divine and greeting Christian TO you beloved the faire and strong hand of heaven hath bin fully manifested at first plucking you as a brand out of the fire of the enemies fury that watched for you where you lived and now again the same hand of heaven hath visited you with new favour putting the proud adversarie by and cutting his combe when he was ready to chop you for the pot in the place where you sojourned Remember now Salomons Scripture The Lord was angry with him because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel which had appeared unto him twice He has twice appeared marvellous in mercie to you and look'd upon you as no stranger in the place where you were strangers Remember the day wherin these thoughts tooke you up continually what shall we doe whither shall we goe what way shall we flie what course shall we take that may be pleasing to God safe for us And now let me tell you whither you shall flie even unto the Lord with thankfull hearts who hath so wonderfully magnified his favour towards you I have seene a failing in the Towne hitherto as secure as if never in danger as proud as if no matter of humbling as prophane as if great deliverances did not bring great engagements to holinesse as unthankefull as if not beholding to God as superstitious as if the master of Ceremonies and not the Father of mercies had saved them But doe not you faile too let the Towne be beholding to you for your prayers and your praises be you their Masons to helpe to make up the breaches of their walls their country husbands to amend their hedges and make up gappes where Gods wrath might breake-in The Lord give you patient hearts in these oppressing times and hard charges and abundance of thankfulnesse to Jehovah Nissi the Lord your Banner that both you and the Church of God may be cloathed with the garments of salvation Divinae Providentiae Sacrum THat Indian Hand had some reason it seemes which put upon it that name of the I le of Providence the speciall hand of heaven ruling and leading the searching adventurers to this place and bringing them through long labours and hard indeavours to pitch and plant on that ground And before I have done with this narrative and discourse I shall make it good that there is ground for the naming of this Kingston or Hull A Town of Providence Where as on a Stage of Mercy Divine Providence has of late acted parts of love care power kindnesse gloriously before and for unworthie both Spectators and receivers The Lord hath so done his marvellous workes that they ought to bee had in remembrance of all them that feare him If any be such a stranger in Ierusalem as has not heard nor knowne the things that are come to passe in these dayes I will informe him to quicken my selfe and others to gratefullnesse how the Lord has heated the furnace of his love and care for Hull seven times hotter then he has done for any towne in England And gladly would I have the Land to take notice of it because though the Sun rise in one corner of the Heavens the East yet the light heat and influence of the Sun fills the whole Earth and cherishes every creature So though the best part of the Kernell of this deliverance falls particularly into Hulls mouth and the people there both in-dwellers and the Lords sojourners yet doubtles it sends much good influence reviving beams into the Gospells cause now quarrelled for into the Church into this Kingdome into the Parliament into the armies on foote for the rescuing of our Realme from the pawes of the Lyon and the beare the Churches Lyon that would oppresse it with Antichristianisme and popish prelacy and the Common wealths savage Beare that would devoure Truth justice and righteousnesse and leave neither law nor liberty nor rights for the Subject but what must come out of the bosome of licentious Atheisme where will and power shall create Magistracy and the acts of it Now that the Lord hath banished such bloudie and cruell Gaolers which laid upon all that came under their power iron yoakes and fetters how can we doe lesse then seeke out the authour of this deliverance and give him the cordiall and reall acknowledgements of thankefull spirits which either speaking writing or printing may make knowne to our little world of England least the glory of God which of all other things should never know a funerall and be buried in oblivion be any way obscured or ecclipsed And surely if we enquire after the father and mother and nurse of this amiable and comfortable child of salvation which we can never looke in the face but it makes us smile with joy we can finde none to owne it but only Providence divine which has done all This hath been so clearly and manifestly stirring from the Alpha
Serj. maj Boyard Cap. Knight and many others which they conceale from us in the dark book of secrecy went to their last bed in the dark chambers of death before Hull Divers of their Captains that had compleat companies went back to York with ragged remains of some 9 or 6 of those they carried out thence and many in great numbers grievously wounded to make up their black triumph some went with them and after them others to adorne their glorious carriages 13. It was a notable favour of heaven that such a resolute and couragious spirit was raised in ours as that they went out and set upon the enemy the wednesday 7 night before being Oct. 4. and beat them out of two of their works slew and took some and brought in many of their muskets which they running away left One of those works they hâ—d newly raised behind our wind-mil which was a very hopefull one for them and was likely to be very damagefull to us had it bin let alone but that night But God was in some sort visible that day giving ours power to beat those wild and furious cocks on and off their own dung-hill And that Wednesday was a fairly ominous preface to the next Wednesday which was voluminous to us in big mercies 14. Further when this day of blessings Oct. 11. the day wheron the siege was raised was well gone on for us the other gathering much fresh force came on formidably against ours insomuch as our souldiers are body and soul for a retreat and shamefull retire See now how hoavenly providence comes in to succour Ours were basely timid and prophecied dangerous things to themselves from the enemies fresh and full appearance where one sudden cloud of feare was likely to be the blacke mantle or curtain to hide the light of a very hopefull day Some good spirits of Captains and souldiers were as much tormented with shame to see so sick a fit upon our armie as the retreaters were tormented with feare wherupon some Commanders and by-standing spectators did earnestly beg and beseech they would turn again and face the enemy and some of the horse couragiously leading the way and giving a fâ—esh on-set it animated the foot where the Spirit of the Lord set up a Standard in their spirits and they fell on bravely and out of weaknes were made strong Heb. 11.34 and turned the enemy into smoake which fled before them as driven by the wind shewing many backs but few faces against ours in which backs they see faire printed the adversaries defeat and their own victory God so blesses this new assault that they take from them their great guns 9. of them some greater some lesse beats them from their strong great works with very little and small losse of ours in which great pecces and works many of them trusted more then in the great God Our Cap. Rainsborow by a mistake was taken but for him we had many of theirs fell prisoners into our hands This 11. of Oct. was a great and glorious day that such multitudes of men out of many and strong works from many and great guns should be beaten and driven away by them that came to assault them in the open field is a rare example of successe to the Parlia battels and is as notable a peece of pure military valour as has faln out since the beginning of these wars The souldiers that went home by weeping and bleeding crosse doe cry out of our stratagem to retreat on purpose and then with renewed strength to come and ruine them Indeed it was a brave stratagem and a rare plot but it was Gods stratagem and a plot of providence which we never contrived nor thought on till his waking thoughts brought it about How comfortably did the whole Towne almost look over the walles that whole day and see this salvation of God 15. Lastly being thus breakfasted on wednesday that night they sup with fears and curses and hasty purposes of being gone from us The Lord on a sudden sweeps them away they steale away the remaining Ordnance in the night A spirit of fear lends them wings to fly they go away with shame losse and stinging consciences So that the siege is raised w h we expected not the enemy is gone suddenly we lookt not for it Many of them left their muskets and other weapons in the works and though it was a very sore day of rain yet away they must they dare not stay for fair weather Presently our state is marvellously changed we heare not of their guns we receive no more ridings of their fiery bullets we are deliver'd and yet doubt whether we do but dream of it How are our fears and foes suddenly vanisht we quickly restored to walking on fresh ground breathing in fresh air having enough of fresh water many comforts our enemies had straitned us in They gave out they raised the siege because of the wet weather I believe it for they had some case-shot among them with store of other bullets which made that a wet day though it was very fair in that it could not but rain good store of bad bloud God has overcome us and overflown us in our desires we looked but for a little and the sea of mercy has broke out and drowned us with a deluge and cataclysme of blessings The Country mourns yet God made us to laugh They are impoverished every way in their monies and goods and men their best tables trees timber are taken and laid in the ditches by the enemy to help the conveyance of carriages ordnance from work to work Only their hasty and Eagle-flighted fear has done some this kindnes not intended that they have filled the barns with corn and in an unkind kindnes as having no time to thresh it out to sell it or carry it away have left it for the owners who finde it at their repossession gathered to their hands by servants whom they never set on worke Nor is this all God when in his mercy he flows he overflowes On the same 11 h of Oct. he gives us a glorious victory in Lincolnshire as free fair and full as the most have bin got fince the unhappy hatching of these warrs so as that day hath given them an astonishing blow that they have staggered ever since know not on what ground to tread God following them with soul-stupifying terrours These are the full branches of the Lords saving providence the first fruits of our expected harvest in this miserable country of Yorkshire where some 80 not of the meanest Gentry have proved drunke with the Queens cup full of Roman intoxicating spice and have made a mad market-venture of their names families estates bodies souls only to preserve the Papists reliques and the Prelates micers and damaske cassocks among us Now these furious Salamanders and fansie-frantick spirits begin to see their busie action may come to end in miserable passion because they doted on their lady Mary
the assaulting enemy Marke how the wheele runs From Beverly the enemy is repulsed with shame and losse But in the West two or three dayes after the swarmes of New Castles waspes sting the Armie of the honoured Fairfax there he and his heroick Sonne after faire hopes loose the day quit the field though to the great cost of the adversary and leave that noblest part of the Country in the hands of the ignoblest men if inhumanity be ignobility where as they were bred and principled so they maintain it there is no good play unlesse some play the devill in it How have they imitated that infernall paternity of theirs by being as cruell and unmercifull to that worthy people as hell could make them Then thorough what dangerous pathes and parts of Countries did the Lord bring honored Fairfax and his son and the remainders of his scattered Army How did the Lord hard before this fore defeat make Hull ready for them whose prayers and longings waited for such a Governour at the gates of heaven Compare but the times of these things falling out that Hul should be made fit to receive a Governour fit to succour a dispersed people who fled from a bloudy sword and speare Let Hull and Western dispersed ones and the whole kingdome contend about it which of them has the largest share of fatherly providence in this thing O the providence is much for us may Hull say that we should receive so faithfull and right a Governour in our necessity It is providence for us may West say that we should get succour there It is providence for us may the whole kingdom say that so quickly the government was setled there and though there was so great a wound yet the Lord quickly prepared a good and great plaister How deepe is the Lords wisdom in his doings How can hee strangely at one and the same time win and lose cut and cure wound and heale throw downe and raise up his people and make one and the same cloud both darke and lightsome Let the people of God observe it they never have any notable fall or affliction but God gives them some notable rise after it to stand on high ground againe and to meet with some comfort and blessing succeeding it of such a depth and latitude as entered not into their imaginations And now Rabshakeh railes and Thrasoes boast and every 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now opens his mouth and laughs to see Christ lie loaden with a crosse in the streets of Leedes and Bradford Now the Irish Prelate the bishop of Derry must turne the Psalmes of David into a scornfull Jigge and must not only abuse the Saints of God but the Scripture of God The Ministers pulpit is his stage which hath bin commonly the May-pole where scorners of Gods Saints have danced themselvs giddy and there he pretends he will stir them up to give thanks to God and to God alone in these words of David I will not trust in my bow neither shall my Sword save me but thou hast saved us from our enemies c. Ps 44.6 7. But he forgetting his theame so dotes on his Marquesse Si pergā ad acuta rerū plus toge laesêre rempub quā toricae Tertull de pallio that he must needs make him the bow and the sword as though he by his care and wise carriage had freed now all York-shire from oppression and from the crushing of the Parliaments friends and now there was nothing but one poor corner of caitiffs all sedition and faction now laid gasping within the wals of Hull Let not Bishops speak of oppression for they have bin Pharaohs most curst task-masters set up to afflict the Israel of God Nor let Yorke be the tribunall at this time to judge the dispersed of Christ that are met in Hull After that way Sr Bishop which you call sedition there are such Saints serve God as the latchet of whose shooes saving the reverence of your bicorned miter you are not worthy to loose Well sedition and faction lies gasping within the walls of Hull what then Why then New-castle and his Army must come hither to the funerall of it if it lie gasping it will die shortly and they will be so officious as to come and close our eyes and carry us to our grave or if we be not so neare death they can think of such a thing as this Come let us kill them that the inheritance may be ours About the 4th of September that goodly Town of Beverley fals into the hands of a merciles adversary ours beholding their great numbers and considering the state of the Town to be such as it could not be held against them though our numbers had bin trebled Wherupon warning is given to retire and leave it and some no doubt were to blame that left some lesser peeces of Ordnance there and did not timely convey them away which they might have done Beverley smarted then on all sides by enemies cruelty by friends negligence presently is the Town made bare and stript naked and compelled to speake largely of the little charity mercy of the promoters of the Catholike cause who are semperidē inhumane barbarous Hard before their coming one Bushell a kinsman of the infamous Bushell who is filled with more then four pecks of an Iscarioticall spirit came with a Tinker himselfe acting a bad mettall man with him to view both Beverleyes and Huls works having done it were at length taken prisoners and found to be bad mettall Having swallowed Beverley they make Hull ready for the dresser and their cursed Cooks made a great fire hoping this Town should be their roast-meat They begin their siege and have all kind of furies redressed with snakes to torment us With them are come as goads in their sides to set them on and as candles in the darke to guide them the fox-heads subtill cunning and busie spirits of Hull which she had vomited out whose names are in the booke of the generation of vipers which have watring teeth to eat thorough their mothers bowels The poor arayed and forced souls are made to tugg and worke worse then the slaves at Adrianople day and night to raise Mounts and Works with turves and baskets to brew our ruine It will not be amisse to see how God works the deliverance of his people with many crosse thrids and makes a smooth web in the end of that which has many knots in the beginning Wheras at their first comming we had a spring-tide that might have flown with streams of molestation to them and hindred their works if ours could have agreed to cut the banks and lend them some salt water yet so it pleased God to divide the consults and conclusions of men about it that this is hindred and therby they exceedingly furthered in hopes to warme themselves at our fire Nay when afterward there were found Propositions upon rationall grounds of daming up the fresh water so as it
should over-flow very much to the much annoying of them it may be to losse of all their peeces and for much comfort to us out of Town for ground and cattell for helping them within Towne with sufficiency of fresh waters yet it pleased the Lord to throw all these devices out Divine providence bids this humane providence stand by and step out of the way that not Joab but David might have the name of the day Humane helpe and industrie is good though oftentimes evil in the abuse when men make them vails and curtains to hide the divine face that we do not so much see and admire the beauty of it God thus in one and the same busines weds together our comfort and his glory even by those things that seem to forbid the banes Ours had soon after the beginning of the siege a sallie out with a good number of men upon them in their quarters at Anlabie they had some intelligence though it was early in the morning ours had some prevalence and our souldiers some were too busie fingring their carriages and looking after pocketings so as though we brought divers of theirs prisoners and some of them were slain yet we also had some of ours taken that we might take our selves for our sin that must needs pick the Lords day morning for such a work as we being the assaulters might have well found another day for it Every night the enemy gets a fresh worke and with new incroaches and approaches comes nigher us so that in the morning we stand wondring to see what is done that night In the space of 6 weeks siege they seem to have so bestraitned us as there is no hopes of deliverance but that their hopes and ours are not alike The Cater-pillars that follow the campe are invited from York and those parts to come and carry away the plunder of the rich and goodly Town of Hull I shall dispatch the particulars of Gods singular providence in the remaining part to the happy upshot of the busines by borrowing 15 branches of this salvation as I find them fitly summed upon a Sermon at the low-Church on the solemne day of thanksgiving and celebration of so rare a peece of providence in the fore-noon Octob. 18. being the seven-night after only putting in some additions of inlargement as quickning colours to make the picture looke more lively The text discoursed on as the bellows to blow up the flame of praise was Isa 25.9 And it shall be said in that day loe this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us This is the Lord we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation In which after many other things the Sermon proceeded to urge rejoycing in Gods salvation after this manner We should not only speake of Gods acts but as the Prophet David saith we should wisely consider of Gods doings and gather up ramenta auri all the filings and little sparks of gold because mercies are a singular and rare mettall From the 120. Psalm there are 15. Psalms which are called Psalmes of degrees which it is thought by some are so called because there were 15. steps or degrees to that part of the Temple where men were to worship the Lord on which the sacred Choristers of divine musick sung these 15. Psalms How ever that were so or no our Temple of praise has 15. notable steps or stairs on which we may stand and sing our Psalms of degrees which have in them contained so many Hallellujah's for so many remarkable branches of our salvation That we may the better take notice of them let us gather them together and make them faggots of juniper or sweet-wood to kindle our fire of thankfulnesse 1. The first branch of this salvation is the speciall providence of God in making such an union as souldiers towns-men sea-men strangers were all united closely as one man to stand couragiously against the common enemy wheras they without did hope there would have bin a division within and that division would have bin the mother and sure seminary of confusion and ruine For dividing and destroying commōly go together as Ps 55.9 or are but a very little while parted asunder A kingdome a town an house divided against it self cannot stand Divide and Impera come from the braines of the old divident who set up a schoole of Arithmetick in paradise and taught the unhappy rule of division betwixt God and man Division commonly puts an enemy into the Imperative mood But blessed be the God of union who is but one and made this people of one heart and one way in this businesse though a people as likely to fall into bad peeces as any 2. A second branch with sweet berries growing on it was the Lords care to give food to his people and preservation of the mils which in all probability they might have attempted to beat down or fire at the first as well as they attempted it at the last by raising a work hard behind one of them Yea though they had pinned us fast in 6 weeks together yet the Lord provided better meat then Quailes and though we had not Manna from heaven yet we had rain from heaven which stood us in very good stead when our fresh water was cut off So many Beeves and sheep were preserved from those great cattel stealers that meat a good while was cheaper in the siege then out of it and I believe the proud enemy in a great part of the Army would have licked their lips at our fragments David thinks we have good reason to praise the Lord with our whole heart even for giving meat to them that feare him Ps 111.1 5. verses 3. A third branch of saving mercy was in the firing of the North block-house blown up in a part where the powder-barrels and hand Granado's ill companions being together and some fire coming to that Assembly it blew up with a terrible blast a part of that strong building yet for all this Gods power and mercy ordered it excellently the Lord commanding the fire and fury to be within on our side and not to the enemies part that they might have no advantage at all by it The Lord if he had so pleased might have made a fearefull rupture by it and opened a gap for them which they that were so prodigall of mans bloud would with fury have set upon though it had cost them a thousand men Further when the blast in one room had beaten open the window into another and the flame entered into it where there were 12. barrels of powder more and some with loose covers being opened it pleased the divine dispenser to suspend the flame and it reverently held and drew back from seasing upon that powder which in al likelihood might have done far more harm both to murthering of more men and dismounting the ordnance Nor did the enemy scape in this kind for they had a magazin blown up
have forsaken the Lord Iesus in his cause Take we but these 15. acts of grace put we them together as so many letters see if they do not evidently compose these a words Divine Providence which ran in thorow the whole action therfore all tongues should sould the divine Praise Especially ô Hull thou hast by this day faln into great debt to God who has taken away thine Alastors and Furies from thee Let thy Motto be that of the L. Boyls in Ireland as I have heard Gods Providence is mine Inheritance Blesse God from the ground of thy heart that though they were proudly audaciously disposing of thy houses streets great mens estates thus thus this to that commander that to this officer gladding themselves with the rich spoils of their presently to be caught prey yet there is not one of the to be found in thy town or houses as possessors but only as prisoners What a mercy is it that thou art not filled with that lustfull and letcherous vermin with that spawn of cruelty that to their power would destroy souls as wel as bodies Let a Minister of ours of good credit witnes their vertues who being late their prisoner at Cottingham was carried into a chamber where an Officer of theirs lay in bed with 2 whors at once and there was another bed at feet where another lay with another whore * This vertuous provost Marshall shewed the whares to him told him he did this to vex the round heads not caring at all or remembring that it vexes God more Surely Rome has need to send out a new Bull for the comfort and pardon of these beasts Without doubt this is the only way to maintain the Liberty of the Subject the known Laws of the Land these men go the direct way to set up the Protestant Religior It were well they had grace to purge their hearts as well as these unholy waies to purge their reins But God hath given them over to act all wickednes with greedines and impudency so far as they have a famous whore a minion to one of their Lords who goes openly among them with her pistols bears the name of one that has a troop Al these vertues Catholick Cardinal should have bin acted in thy streets houses ô Hull to make thee as miserable a seene as unhappy York Either study Hallelujabs holines al thy daies set forward some new act of reformation for thy men manners to the honour of God or els thou art the unhappiest Town that this day stands upon English ground Set up a royall pillar in the market-place in golden letters engrave this deliverance or set up an holy statue of heavenly purposes in your hearts to be a more holy Town lesse proud luxurious c. or els by this I testifie to all the land God has some other scourge for thee to which he will reserve thee who has hither to preserved thee O that you were wise that as God has bin Al for you so you would be somthing more then heretofore for him or els this great mercy will undo you Be perswaded to sing the mercies of this day so long as you have a day Call it not the souldiers nor the seamans work but only the Lords who only doth wondrous things When God is found so much a blessed Dative Calv. in opusc in praefat ad Bald. con take heed thou be not a cursed and unjust Ablative as Calvin saith one Baldwin was named for lurching things from his fellow-students By this I have endeavoured to lay out in plain colours this large salvation that the land may know it and when they heare of extraordinary mercies they may name Londons mercies Glocesters deliverance and Hills salvation By this as a performance of my vows in part I publish the goodnes of God to me and those with me that under the shadow of Divine Feathers were preserved in the circumvallation of Atheisticall and cruell spirits And by this let me admonish all the Lords scattered ones 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 2.4 who have found the salutary and saving breathings and blasts of the celestial Zephyrus of special providence to fal down say with Heze The living the living he shall praise thee as I do this day the father to the children shal make known thy truth The Lord was ready to save me ther fore we will sing our songs to the stringed instruments all the daies of our life Isa 38 19 10 Henceforth let Cavendish remēber the signs in Nottinghamshire armed with his Armes and Motto Cavendo Tutus This will be as good a Monitor for setting upon Hull as for them that enter a Tavern or Ale house as it is his own let him betime draw practicall Rules from it For his shattered and bullet-batter'd Army let them flie to their old Letany From Hell Hull Halifax deliver us and leave out their God damne me for their damnation in hell will be worse then their confusion at Hull Nor need they wish it and so earnestly desire it for S Peter saith the damnation of such sleeps not and if it did sleep I am sure this sect of God damnists are likely to wake it that it shall have but a short sleep I conclude with a Text for thee O Kingston upon Hull comment upon this thy deliverance with Ezra's words and with sutable works Seeing thou our God hast given us such a deliverance as this 〈◊〉 9.13 14. should we again break thy commandements and ioyn in league with the people of these abominations Wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping Admiration was the mother of Philosophy let it be the mother of your Divinity in this thing to admire the Lords wonderfull mercy wisdome and power that did so act and worke for an handfull of his people whom he might have thrown out of the way and there could no Iudge or Iury have found him guilty of any thing for it but iustice and righteousnesse in the action Wherefore season all your hearts with sense of unworthinesse on our part and ample apprehensions of goodnes on his part that the flame within and without may alwaies keep you in heat with this fire burning you up with admiration of spirit and exaltation of God both in language and life till you be ready to live and die in Davids temper Ps 72 18.19 Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who only doth wondroue things And blessed be his glorious Name for ever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory Amen and Amen FINIS