Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A19439
|
An armor of proofe brought from the tower of Dauid, to fight against Spannyardes, and all enimies of the trueth, by R.C.
|
Cotton, Roger.
|
1596
(1596)
|
STC 5865; ESTC S108854
|
18,101
|
34
|
AN Armor of Proofe brought from the Tower of Dauid to fight against Spannyardes and all enimies of the trueth By R. C. The name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous run vnto it and are exalted Pro. 18. 10. Imprinted at London by G. Simson and W. White 1596. To the right Honorable Gilbert Talbot Earle of Shrewesburie Lord Talbot Furniuall Strange of Blackmeare Verdon and Louetoft Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Roger Cotton wysheth grace and peace in Christ Iesus THe Lord our God Right Honorable who in great mercy hath caused by his spirit the holie Scriptures to be written for our learning hath also commanded that all men shoulde studdy therin both day night that so by the helpe of the same spirite men might write them in their hartes The ende hereof is that thereby they may recouer the Image of that new man which againe is created after the likenesse of God in knowledge and holinesse And while the people of Israel obserued this they inioyed peace throughout their borders and great plentie within their Pallaces And such feare God strocke into the harts of their enemies round about that none durst stirre against them But at what time they cast off this and chose new Gods and made no account of the knowledge of the true God nor of the learned that should to them the same God teach Then was there warre in the gate and no peace to any that went in or out but great troubles arose to all the inhabitantes of the earth For nation destroyed nation and Cittie destroyed Cittie and God troubled them with all maner of aduersities This standing thus and God remaining vnchangeable I assure my selfe of all kingdomes to whom the worde of God is sent this may be spoken That they Elias I meane the men like Elias Iosua Samuel Dauid Daniel and such whose delightes are in the law of the Lord are the Horses and Chariots of a kingdome O noble Sir I beseech you therefore consider well therof and let those gracious words of good king Asa when ten hundreth thousand came against him and those of King Abiah when eight hundreth thousand came against him and those of Ioab the Captayne when the Ammonites Aramites came against Dauid be writ most sure in your noble hart that so they may proceede from your lippes to the incouragement of the common sort whose hartes often fayle in rumors of troubles I know your Honor needeth not to be taught how Nobilitie giuen to the holy worde must be the strongest pillers of the Church Israel through all ages so stoode firme but otherwyse fell Iosua being equall to a Prophet conquered the land through his constancie and courage in diuinity But after him great contempt of Religion arose wherefore much of their land againe they lost and greatly troubled was that state vntill the dayes of Samuel For as they often fell away so the Lord often sould them into the handes of spoylers whereby in the ende that state became Ichabod no glory For the glory of God the space of seauen moneths departed from them yet by meanes of good Samuel faithful in religion was againe setled in Israel and so by him the state was well helde vp all his dayes who although he descended from rebellious Corah yet is he for Leuy a conquerer of better then Sichemites and as he so or more did that noble and valiant Dauid euen by diuinitie recouer wholy the land first conquered by Iosua and Dauids title is not so euident for a warryer as it is for the pleasant in songs to Israel For to this day most sweete is the voyce of that sweete singer to all that rightly vnderstand his tune But he that should vnderstand him to the full had need of the spirite of an Apostle A true patterne indeed Right honorable of true Nobilitie But yet full soone was this true patterne lost wherevpon ten partes of that stately kingdome became in short time not onely Izrael and Loruchama but Loammy also For full often did the Lord visit them with the sword aswell at home deuouring one an other as by the enemy abroad and in the ende suffered them to be carryed quite away by the Kings of Asshur And God tooke no pittie but euen as they had cast off him from being their Lord so he cast of them from being his people Now as Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat of the vertuous Ioseph is set forth as a patterne for discommendations to all that followed his wicked steps so noble Dauid of the house of Iuda is the patterne set forth for commendation to all that had care to walke his godly pathes Therefore no further in story for sample to true nobilitie need I here to seeke Yet in so much as the fame of one of your owne most noble progenatours soundeth in our eares to this day I trust it shall of none be thought amisse yf I lay him before your Honorable eyes as an other example That noble Earle IOHN TALBOT is the man who neither liued as languishing in idlenes riot or excesse nor died as hauing surfited with vaine pleasures and fonde delyghtes but of manly woundes receiued in open feelde after he had valiantly warred foure twentie yeeres in defence of his Princes right a death and life most honorable to them that are truely noble and valiant Euen so this worthy peere togeather with his valiant Sonne the Lord Lisle in that sore battle fought at Castilion in Fraunce their sweete lyues did ende where a monument of the Earle remayneth vnto this day and this inscription folowing ingrauen thervpon Heere lyeth the right noble Knight Iohn Talbot Earle of Shrewsburie Earle of Washford Waterforth and Valence Lorde Talbot of Goodritche and Vrchingfeilde Lorde Strange of Blackmeare Lord Verdon of Alton Lord Crumwell of Wingfeilde Lord Louetoft of Worsoppe Lord Furniuall of Sheffeilde and Lord Falconbridge Knight of the most noble orders of S. George S. Michael and the Golden Fleece Great Marshall to King Henrie the sixt of his Realme of Fraunce who dyed at the battle of Castilion neare Burdeaux Anno. 1453. Now as this and other your noble ancestors haue been alwayes at home most honorable for their faythfulnes towardes the Crowne of Englande and for their seruice both at home and abrode against the enemie in so much that euen the very name of the Talbot to them hath been tirrible so no doubt there is but that your selfe will shew your selfe in all nobilitie as descended from such A most noble warryer and faithfull subiect vnto his annoynted Prince was he whose example therein you follow Therefore one poynt more I beseech your honor learne of that noble Dauid your patterne And as you and your honorable fathers haue followed him in the other two most honorable quallities of true nobillitie so let your selfe surmount them all in the third The point desired is his great loue and zeale to the Church house of God which
Fayth it is both sound and good A Sworde for Spirit a Plate for Brest well tryde A Helmet for thy health not made of Wood but made of Right and Trueth which will abyde Which will abyde thy health still to procure yf to thy sydes thou wylt them fasten sure Thy Loynes must be still gyrt with Veritie thy Feete still shod the Gospels peace to seeke Thy shute to God in prayer each day let be that from thy foes he would thee safely keepe He would thee keepe from ghostly foes great store which thee to spoyle seeke dayly more and more Since then thou art each day my freende to fight agynst the Flesh the Worlde and Ghostly foe with armoure tryde thy selfe each day bedight so shalt thou from their harmes still safely goe still safely shalt thou goe gaynst fende so fell yf all Gods lawes within thy hart do dwell Thus to conclude deare friend be strong in God put on the armour whole which he hath made which is his worde from ende to ende each iod and so no foe thy strength shall then inuade inuade can none ne yet thy soule annoy yf euery part thereof thou wilt inioy Stande vp therefore and corrage to thee take Cast off thy sinne and cloath thy selfe with right and then no noyse of Spanniardes shall thee shake or yet once quayle thy wonted force and might Thy might say I no God thy might hath bin and still will be if turne thou wilt to him Returne thou then returne o Shulamyte returne to God and so thy foes shall see an armie great with men of might to smite all forces downe that shall rise vp gaynst thee gaynst thee nay gaynst thy Lord they shall then fight when thou from sinne returnest cleare in sight Awake therefore and to the Lord giue eare thy hart lykewyse vnto his Lawes incline print all therein that so they may appeare to giue thee light in darke estate of thine and so no plagues of Spayne or Egypt olde shall lyght on thee the Lord hath thee so tolde For what if Spayne and thousandes ten such more should hem thee in or cumpas thee about yet will the Lord as Captayne go before and fight thy feelde agaynst the proude and stoute Since then he hath this promise past to thee be not afrayde yf Spannyardes thou do see For what are they Are they of Anake sonnes Suppose they were yet be not thou afrayde for though with slaues such speach of terrour runnes yet come gaynst thee they are full soone dismayde For thou a noble people art of name thy valiant actes sound through the worlde with fame Thy God hath thee now almost fourtie yeeres as his olde folke in Wildernes safe kept A wonder through the worlde as it appeares When they at warre then quiet thou hast slept and yet much more in this time hast thou wonne for now to all thy terror is begunne We are the men not Spannyardes well I know to whom God sayth This day do I begin to sende thy feare through out the worlde to show what God it is whose seruice thou art in The Lord of Hostes is he whom we do sarue But Gods of Spayne are mettals which they carue What neede we then of them to be afrayde For when they call their gods are oft a sleepe or els abrode as one of olde hath sayd and can not heare wherefore they houle weepe For though their gods the like gods do subdue yet fight gaynst ours their cases thus they rue Wherefore yf they should aske to feare the weake what were become of Sepharvaims gods Or what of Indians which they dayly breake with many more all which haue felt their roddes Yet answere thou They had no Gods at all no maruell then though Spanyardes gaue the fall And what yf they should once demaund agayne and aske thee of Samarias gods likewyse and tell how Assors Rod is now in Spayne And as hee then so they shall now surpryse Yet answere thou agayne thou mayest full true Samarias Gods were then of Heathens hue Euen so are all the Gods quite rounde about where euer yet the Spanyardes bore the sway though Christians names yet are they none no dout for Christ by them is driuen quite away and Cakes of bred with them are Gods in deede as Calues of golde to ten Tribes as we reade Yet thou Ierusalem which we now are hast no such Gods for thine in heauen dwelleth who doth for thee all good thinges still prepare and woundes thy foes thy blood so deare that spilleth yet doth he thee by them sometimes correct but yf thou turne he doth thee not reiect Returne therefore returne thou Shulamyte returne to God and his pure worde imbrace Returne in time and he thy foes will smyte when teares of greefe shall trickell downe thy face and ioyfull then his holy ones will be to strike thy foes that would haue sore stroke thee For wilt thou see how God of olde did deale with all the foes of his owne folke that were now sure to hell he sent each common weale that bent their force his owne poore folke to teare no Rod there was which God for his did hier but if too sharpe he cast the Rod in fier For didst thou Babylon olde Rod scape free Or hadst thou Rome new Rod for this cause peace No Babylon thy blowes all men may see And thou O Rome thy plague shall neuer cease Two instrumentes too hard for wrathfull ire were for that cause well mollyfied with fire What Rome why she is vp a loft agayne But what for that Shall shee as chiefe raigne still No no her beawtie can not long remayne but low in dust with Babel must she dwell As she of ancient Babel beareth name so both a lyke for mischifes shall haue shame But what became of Assur Ephraims rod Did he escape for seruice done gaynst him No sure for he the whip would needes be God the axe be hee who did the helue put in But he that tooke this instrument to hier his worke once done set instrument on fier And what became of Egypt that hard rod that rod which did foure hundreth yeeres long last Would not the Lord then shew him selfe a God to burne the same which did his people wast He did not burne but it in Sea he dround because therewith his people they did wound And what of Edom and of Pallistine Of Tyer and Zoan of Vz and Buz withall Hath not the Lord to all these drunke in Wine Yes wrathfull Wine more bitter then was gall Which cup of gall to Elam kinges he sent yea Iauan dranke till all that wrath was spent So now O Lord cause all thy foes to drinke this bitter cup which thou of olde didst fill to