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A85350	Good nevves from all quarters of the kingdome; particularly from Gloucester. The more strange for the noveltie; first printed, and at that time when the adversary was storming that citie; and yet more strange, for its antiquitie, because assured us by a word, more stable than the earth or heaven; and by a letter of ancient date, sent to Hezekiah King of Judah. Wee have the same assurance also touching a strange destruction to the wicked, specially to those princes all, who have filled the land with bloud, that those shall not dye the common death, nor be visited after the visitation of all men, because they have done more wickedly then ever any princes before them. ... Published for the comfort of all the Godly, in all the quarters of the world, by speciall licence from their Court-booke, September 12. 1643.		1643 (1643)	Wing G1054; Thomason E250_9; Thomason E250_10; ESTC R212532	20,215	10

since there was a Citie upon the Earth by the fiercest Salvages and most cruell Myrmidons Indeed such villanies out-rages notorious violences are committed there that I am at a stand what to say But yet I will call this a Naptali a fruit of the Churches wrastling for we must note the Church does wrastle with her God intreats that Deliverance may come to his People But she does not limit the Holy One of Israel They doe not bind him to their time their instruments and manner of working They pray as men they leave Him to worke as a God still with submission to his will still resolving all thither And when they see what is the will and pleasure of their God who does all things well they are well content It is the Lord say they as Eli said Let him do what seemeth him good 1 Sam. 3.18 He has don it His people as Aaron in a sad Case hold their Peace Lev. 10.3 And yet they are confident God heares them alwayes and has heard them in all that they asked for they asked nothing but according to his will marke that Therefore they have a confidence that all even this taking and forcing of Bristoll shall be for the Churches weale greatly to advance the glory of their God and the rejoycing of his People Their losses shall be their advantages as to this time so till time shall be no more So the wise God will order it who made a Chaos a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 brings order out of the greatest confusion life from the grave and glory from the Crosse They will trust God who would suffer no evill to be but that out-thence He does produce good He will confound his Adversaries by all this the Adversaries lifting-up shall tend to his ruine God gives him scope le ts out the raines gives him rope he will strangle himselfe with it puts power into his hands which he does exercise now with a rage that reacheth up to heaven So high must his judgement reach even to the Skies Jer. 51.9 He has exercised proud wrath he has dealt treacherously Now he sees as the Ammonite did That he stinckes before all Israel There is a notable discovery of the Adversary at Bristoll his malice his rage his lust The Inhabitants there some of them are discovered too the treacherous Lawyer and the vile Priest with many more a great mercy all this and all this the fruit of Prayer The Lord will discover his own right hand also Surely He that does nothing in vaine has brought light out of the womb of darknesse will worke gloriously here for His manner is to make the most glorious light to appeare unto his Church in that very place the West where it seemed to set The Churches light must rise in obscuritie her darknesse must be as the noone day Isa 58.10 Doubtlesse the Lord will worke gloriously about Bristoll and those parts we have a word for it that so He will doe even a sure word of Prophecie where thus wee reade Wherefore should they say among the People Where is their God A cleare intimation that so an Heathen people will say when God delivers his people into their hands they will doe after their manner as the Heathen have done at all times and now at Bristoll reproach God and his People saying Where is their God Joel 2.17 What then Then it followes Then shall the Lord be jealous for his Land and pitie his People Vers 18. Then When When the enemy is so proud so lifted up that he dare reproach God aske where he is When they deale so proudly as the Heathen did at Bristoll How dealt they there I tremble to tell the manner how worse then the Heathen did before them or their Fathers who platted a Crowne of Thornes and put it upon the head of Christ These brutish men worse then those Souldiers have plotted a worse matter and cast a greater reproach upon the Lord in Glory When the Adversary is so proud Then will the Lord as we read before and as it followes He will no more make you a reproach amongst the Heathen And does not the Lord pitie his People Has he not begun to take away their reproach May it not be said and for Gloucester What has the Lord done The Adversary is proud for he is very confident he has an Arme like God as Pharaoh before him he said I will take that Citie my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword my hand shall destroy them Observe I pray you what the Adversary sayes I will and I will All shall be as he will he never asketh God leave No I warrant you God is not in all his thoughts Tell him of God and his will he puffeth at you Note it by the way that this is an infinite disadvantage to the Adversary He is upon a worke which he cannot commit to God he cannot advise with God about it all the counsell he takes is from the Devills Oracle and he digs deep to hide it even unto hell Therefore it is that their designe many times proves abortive like an untimely birth in the wild of Kent It dischargeth it selfe through haste like a poysoned Peice of Ordnance which flies off but breakes all to pieces and all about it But when the Adversary is successefull and prevailes it is by treachery hellish devices and contrivances the depths of Sathan and so prevailing by treachery they oppresse the poore who cannot resist them they exercise proud wrath upon them as Devills incarnate and as they did at * It is notorious how mischievous these spoilers were their cruelty there and every where is unutterable they burnt as much wheat belonging to one man as was worth 700 pound Cicester and Bristoll Reader I say againe this is of infinite use if thou wilt consider this with it the infinite advantage the Church has above her Adversaries Shee can Pray while her Adversaries do's Curse and Blaspheme that worthy Name by which shee is called shee can take Councell at Gods mouth enquire as David of the Lord at every turn strengthen stablish beare up her selfe upon an Almightie Arme still here is an advantage that cannot be expressed but take all the Church I meane still a poore People rich in Faith have no will of their owne but what they have denied and renounced they have resolved their wills into Gods will and they say still as they ought to say If the Lord will we shall live and doe this or that Jam. 4.15 Not ours but the will of the Lord be done Act. 21.14 So they cease evermore as their Brethren before them concluding all their matters and concernments under Gods will Here is an infinite advantage which the Reader may note by the way and pardon the digression I returne now to our Adversaries where we found them Blaspheming the worthy Name and speaking thus proudly as we reade Goe to now say

verse is an Earle so Murus in the fourth verse is some excellent Person sure precious in the eyes of God and men for this shall be spoken to the eternall reproach of Oxford the Persons there That they have vilified and reproached those whom God will honour and they have honoured those with degrees in Schooles and titles of honour whom God doth account as vile as they can esteeme their owne dung Had I heard no more but this That the man is blasphemed at Oxford I must conclude presently as every sober man will This is some excellent Person he hath done worthily he is become famous I know he is for he is infamous in Oxford There the drunkards make their songs of him and there they make a noice like a dog I proceed Leporis of a hare vado in a shallow water which you may ford-over put together it is in Hare-ford and the literall Interpretation That the wall and all about it was drowned in Hare-ford The Allegoricall is this and it is very witty in the Poets conceipt That Sir William Waller with all his Troopes were swallowed up quick in Hare-ford i. e. by the Earle of Hartford And so the Poet hath added a letter to Murus and that is ever an addition to a Blessing and hath taken away a letter from his Lordships title of honour which ever in sacred account makes an addition to a curse It followes Euri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bristonia Leporinos Horrescens vortices i. e. That shallow water fordable but now is now raised to such an height that Bristol is swallowed up by the proud swelling waters of Hare-ford This interpretation is literall too and Allegoricall one word onely is out of place and improper for it fits not the Allegory yet is it very emphaticall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bristonia Bristoll groanes under cruell bondage It does indeed such as Israel never felt under Pharaoh and his Task-masters nor the Christian under the Turke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bristonia That Citie knowes the sense of that word now Anglica claudij timet pares urbs Casus i. e. And Gloucester lyes now at the mouth of that devouring floud for Haerois Teutoni i Myrmidones The Myrmidons these were the most bloudy Salvages that any history makes mention of so hardened and brawned in villanies and bloudy executions that they became a Proverb a very fit word here to declare unto us what is cleare enough the more then barbarous usages and insolencies of those Rogues Theeves Robbers Murtherers Beasts in the shape of Men the Souldiers of the German Peer have begirt that Citie with their great Duke The Poet meanes those two Brethren in evill whom he dignifies as he thinkes fit but God knowes they who are highly esteemed in Oxford are an abomination in the sight of God Their sword hath made women childlesse It may be the Lord will be so gracious to them that their Mother shall not be childlesse amongst women They have committed lewdnesse in Israels land Gods land It may be their land shall prosper and they shall live to eat the fruits thereof They have done their utmost to ruine those and their house who layed out themselves for the building up of the Palatine house This horrid ingratitude this requitall of kindnesse is no sin in Gods account He is mercifull It may be the Lord will build these men a sure house They shall live out all their dayes and when they dye they shall dye as other men and be buried as those who are precious in Gods account But there is no trusting to it we have not a word for it against it we have for this is the word and burden from the Lord against all those that have shed bloud to their power * Ps 55.23 Bloudy and deceitfull men shall not live out halfe their dayes Thou shalt not be joyned with them in buriall because thou hast destroyed * So we understād the Possessive Thy and not that he laid his own Land waste making it a Babel Israels kings did so and the most Christian in name as the Sacred French Chronicles tell us and as our children will reade more at large in after times These scriptures will add waight to the Burden terror of the Lord. Psal 5.6 Psal 11.5 Pro. 22.23 23.11 Isa 49.12 Zac. 14.12 thy land and slaine thy People Isa 14.20 against whom the Lord was a little displeased and Babylon helped forward the * Zech 1.15 affliction What the Poet sayes now is of small account Thus sayes the Lord as we have read and this the Burden from his mouth upon those great Captains their Myrmidones I proceed Pacata Thule est Scotland is quiet sayes Oxford Poet I shall say more to that anon Nec noto timor Popello aut Regi nor is there any feare from the North but that all there abouts will come forth to the Kings foot and be trod under as the mire in the streets for mark it nihil relictum est Britannicum domare Caesarem There is no let in the world whereby to keepe downe Caesar the King from ascending above the height of the Clouds and being like the most High an absolute Monarch whose Rule is his will it had need be an holy will but such is onely Gods will nothing can hinder this now now that New-Castle hath put out the starre in the North Hare-ford hath overflowed the wall in the South and the two Brothers are so prosperous in the West nothing can hinder now but Preces gregis the prayers of a poore flock of sheepe Armenta and Pecora are great Cattle ever * Amo. 4.1 The Bulls and kine of Bashan which oppresse the poore which crush the needy Gregis is of a flock of sheep 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 newly fallen mad he meanes a poore despicable helplesse I doe not say hopelesse destitute cast out fatherlesse People a People vile in their owne eyes but of high account with God These he meanes Then his meaning is nothing remaines now that New-Castle is so fortified and strong Hare-fords waters so risen swelled so high and storme-like swallowing-up and storming all before it and leaving no food behind it Now that the two Roaring Lyons the Lord calls them * Zeph. 3.3 so and I dare not thinke of a fitter expression have their mouths wide open to swallow-up Gloucester the Inhabitants there and all about nothing remaines now to save these poore flock from these Devourers Nisi but The prayers of the poore of the flock a poore destitute cast-out People Well blessed be God these people have But their Adversaries allowance and yet they have enough yes enough and enough for they have All God and * Gen. 33.11 All Enough then though which I will adde all the Adversaries Brethren the Kings good Subjects in Ireland these were called horrid Rebells an yeare and halfe agoe in a Court Complement though these are called over to doe their King

to Prayer as his manner was Lord sayes he I pray thee turn the Counsell of Ahitophel into foolishnes 2 Sam. 15.31 No sooner asked but it was done The Lord defeated the good Counsell of Ahitophel 2 Sam. 17.14 good to bring about the horrid designe against David the dethroning of him and when he saw his Councell was not followed wee know what followed He teareth h●mselfe in his anger saith Bildad but his application was wrong his own Counsell cast him downe c. Job 18 4.7.8 The Conclusion then stands firme Prayers are a godly Mans Confidence as before expounded he is assured fully these will wheel all about turn the Scene where now we see nothing but drawne swords bathed in bloud the end shall be gladsome a glorious deliverance at the last The poore People have put up Prayers to their Father they shall be delivered out sustained in or preserved by the Judgement For the Devourers mouth which seemed to swallow-up did carry Jonah safe to land I said preserved by the Iudgement delivered by that which seemes to the eye an ●…ter destruct●on A few were saved by water 1 Pet. 3.20 That water which drowned others saved a few I know it does relate to Baptisme but we may apply it to the waters of affliction wherein the wicked are drowned but the Righteous are saved The Lord will have respect to the Prayers of his servants 1 King 8.28 which they put up unto Him day and night I will make a short account of a rich Treasury I could say as much of Prayer as is said of Faith By prayer Abraham obtained as much as he desired So Isaac so Jacob Looke how wide Faith opened their mouths so they were filled By prayer Moses tyed Gods hand Let me alone Moses sayes God No but he would not A poore weake man overcomes the mightie God Moses did more then Ioshuah did Josh 10 12. he commanded the Sunne and the Moone which is very notable Moses commanded God He was pleased to be commanded so Isa 45.11 to tell his People how commanding a thing Prayer is It is the most efficacious of any thing in Heaven or Earth It has the quickest motion and as quick a returne I meane still the prayer of the destitute a people loose from and forsaken of all humane help for their prayer is powred forth now The eye is single towards God stedfastly set Heaven-wards The extremitie is great the Adversaries pride at the highest peg the people of God at the lowest eb in a perishing condition Refuge faileth they are importunate they will give God no rest then God hearkens and heares then the return is quick and speedy For there is no help on earth Now mark it evermore He shall send from Heaven and save me sayes David Psal 75.3 in his Mictham words worthy to be written in golden Letters when there is no help in earth He shall send from Heaven and save mee The Churches confidence for ever I will skip over a large Chronicle and observe onely one prayer there King Hezeckiah is greatly distressed A proud Adversary has begirt the Citie round And now There is but one thing remaines which the King can doe for his securitie and that he does he falls downe upon his knees Spreads the Letter the rebukes the blasphemies the great straights he and his people were in all this he spreads beford the Lord and he calls-in for help sends Messengers to Isaiah tells him there is but one way to take a sure way to goe to God by Prayer O let us not neglect that way Wherefore lift-up thy Prayer for the remnant that are left 2 King 19.4 Sith there is but one way left open let us presse-on in it and weary the Lord with importunitie Now what sayes the Lord That which thou hast prayed to Me against Senacherib King of Assyria I have heard 2 King 19.20 There was a quick Returne and the execution is as quick for the next Newes we reade is And when they arose early in the morning behold in the Camp of the Assyrians they were all dead corpses Vers 35. The time would faile me else I could tell you of a Thundering Legion That a whole Army was like to perish for want of water Nothing remained then but Prayer and to prayer they went Prayers reached Heaven presently opened the Clouds so as they powred downe raine in abundance Though the foole makes but a mock of Prayer as if it were like his an abomination a mock-Prayer yet I could tell you the Adversary has been so wise and knowing touching this matter that she has professed she feared the prevalency of Prayer above what a mighty Army could doe more the prevalency of one man of whom you might say Behold he prayeth then the power of an Army of many thousands To draw-up toward a conclusion Prayer does all at home and abroad in private affaires and in publique It keeps the house it locks the doores it makes two of one minde in an house it blesseth the children it makes all things thrive there it feeds the horse plowes the ground houses the corne makes all things prosper What Then the man may be lazy the while No that cannot be it makes a man most carefull and conscionable in the use of all meanes though he stayes and bottoms himselfe upon none his rest is upon God alone in Christ there his Prayer fixeth So for the Private For the Publique now see how prevailing and serviceable this Ordinance is it binds Gods hand when the sword is drawne it sheaths it againe it stops the mouth of that Devourer it binds Kings in chaines and Nobles in fetters of iron it makes warres to cease and lets the oppressed goe free it limits proud wrath it sets unto it its bounds as to the raging Seas So far and no farther But it never limits the Holy one of Israel It ingages God to every busines and ingageth the heart to trust in Him and so there is an omnipotency in Prayer c. The servant of the Lord writeth upon every thing Askt of God for what soever is not so Asked cannot come to him as a Blessing and the gift of God And if it be a Nationall Blessing for that his mouth is widest open he is no body for himselfe but as the Church may prosper this he calls Naptali Gen. 30.8 the child of my wrastling for with the wrastling of God fervent strong Prayers hath he gained this blessing And as it is in the purpose of his heart to seek God still so he knows God heares Prayers still i.e. gives gracious returnes unto them The Lord has spoken good words and comfortable and they keep-up the Spirit of prayer alwayes so that his servants cannot be discouraged and faint in their minds Aske what you will and it shall be done Joh. 14.13 15.7 O what unspeakable grace is this His servants aske nothing but according to their