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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02675	Brittaines hallelujah or A sermon of thanksgiving for the happy pacification in Brittaine preached in the English church at Hamburch before his excellency the right honorable Sir Thomas Rovve Lord Ambassador Extraordinary for his Mayesty of Greate Brittaine in Germany, &c. And to the vvorshipfull & famous Society of Merchant Adventurers & some cavelliers of Scotland By Ma. Harris Batchelour in Divinity, fellovv of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge & chaplaine to his excellency.	Harris, Malachi, 1606 or 7-1684.	1639 (1639)	STC 12807; ESTC S119822	18,712	32

vvhat Hierarchy hath the Romane chaire ever bin and is dayly so shaken as by ours So that if to be Anti-Romane be Anti-Christian men may speake their pleasures And to vvhom doth both Church State vnder God ovve for this happines but to our Theodosius our most Gracious king CHARLES I could vvish heartily that Flattery vvere counted Treason It is so in effect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Greeke for a Flatteror a Complementall murderer I vvould he had the punishment of such a Malefactor But our Saviour gives vs in charge to pay Caesar bis dues Nay made Himselfe a President Conditor Caesaris non cunctatus est Reddere Censum Caesari It is St. Bernards glosse vpon that place The God of Caesar stuck not to pay Tribute to Caesar to Heathenish Caesar to Tyrant Tiberius Caesar and may not vve to ours The Splendor of vvhose true Religion The brightnes of vvhose vvisdome The propitiousnes of vvhose Clemency The Candor of vvhose Justice Temperance Chastity have every vvhere rendered Him so truely glorious that He seemes to be sett farre above the reach either of a Courtiers flattery or of an Orators Hyperbole This vve all knovve and are not men vnles vve all acknovvledge it in all places vvith all thankfullnes And novv me thinkes I heare all the Poeple happily changing that Jevvish Rebellion into a Christian Religion He is novv noe freind to Christ that is not a freind to Caesar to such a Caesar By this time I beleeve your Affections are all on fire to be returning to your Hallelujah and Eccho Back to Sion vvhat she did to the Heathen The Lord hath done greate things for vs vvho hath given vs so happy a Prince by vvhose vvisdome svveetenes such a greate Deliverance hath bin nevvly vvrought for all Brittaine Goe to if you vvill and let the scale of your Divine musick reach as high and as deepe as ever any did or can Let the Counsellers of State prayse God and say The Lord hath done greate things for vs. Our Cares may novv be employed in more Publick Catholick Desighnes vvhich have bin of late taken vp in the composing of these private Tumults Let the Clergy prayse God say The Lord hath done c. for vs. Novv there is hope that the Preists vvho beare the Arke vvill turne their faces all one vvay in a decent vniformity Let the Gentry prayse God say The Lord hath c. for us We are novv secured that our Lands may be called after our ovvne names Let the Universitys prayse the Lord say The Lord c. for vs. Novv may vve enioy the Polutecnia Calotecnia the Number beauty of our sonns vvithout any feares of proving Abortive by the Affrightments of vvarlick Alarums Let the Merchants prayse the Lord say The Lord c. for vs. Novv Traffick vvill be open Novv our Burses vvare houses shall be thronged To conclude let all Persons high lovve youngmen maydens old men children Yea let vs call in our Fellovv Creatures the Elements the Meteors the Fovvles the Cattell let all that have any breath that have any being in our Island prayse the Lord and make a Joyfull noyse vnto our God vvho hath done so greate so very greate Lord hovv greate things for vs vvhereof ●ve novv reioyce Even so Greate Good God vve prayse Thee vve magnifie Thee c FINIS Good Reader I knovv you vvould be satisfied in these Demaunds vvhy vvas this thus raggedly Penned vvhy Printed vvhy so ill Printed To the first I confesse it is too poore yet pleasse to consider 1. That I am farre from my study have but a Portable I had allmost sayd a Pocket Library 2. Of those fevv dayes I had for 〈…〉 all but the tvvo last verbo Sacerdotis vvere runne out in Meditations another vvay But some considerations turned me out o● it Among the rest these 1. That my message vvas to a full Audience not to tvvo or three only 2. To my Countrymen and concerning our ovvne Country and therefore it vvas fit I sho●…d be vvell vnderstood of All. To t●…●econd I vvas commanded by Author 〈…〉 to print as neare as I could vvhat I 〈…〉 vvhich I have but obeyed To the last Knovv the Printer to be a meere stranger to language And notvvithstanding my diligence in over looking him did erre sometimes and vpon a mistake print the full nūber of the coppyes of one sheete ere it vvas corrected VVhich errours I must be beholding to your penne to Correct vide especially pag. 13. l. 9. 10.

also Can there be greater evills on this side Hell then these And may not a faire Deliverance out of all these be counted greate things That is the First greate for the Substance ● for its Circumst And 2ly as greate for the Circumstances and manner of bringing it about Had they bin able to have made any Head or Resistance themselvs the matter had not bin so greate A violent Revolt from vnder an Enemy is not so greately strange in the vvorld But vvhat could a company of poore forlorne vnarmed Captives doe a gainst so mighty a Potentate Or had they had some good able Freinds abroad to send them in succours for their rescue it had bin something Forraine supplies have done greate matters in this kinde But alas they vvere the object of contempt Derision to the vvhole vvorld Or had they els any good Freinds at Court vvho being sett vpon the vantage ground of greate favour might have ventured to sollicite the king in their b●halfe there had bin some shadovv of hope But alas vvhat freindes vvere such contemptible vvretches like to make Or vvhat Courtier durst vouchsafe an eare to such a motion vvhich seemed to classh against all lavves and rules of State-policy Or lastly had the king himselfe bin a vvorshiper of the true God Religion might have svvayed him tovvards a propitions Inclination But as for him He vvas an absolute Idolater and so not only a stranger but an enemy to their Religion Which vvay shall this desighne be compasse'd vvho shall roule avvay these so many and so greate stones thus vvedged one in another Noe Povver in themselves noe hopes from any Freind at home or abroad noe thinking of dealing vvith the king himselfe yet God vndertakes it and it shall not faile of taking effect Cyrus himself shall be moved to doe it and that voluntarily and spontaneously that peremptorily resolutely maugre all suggestions counsells to the contrary that magnificently and munificently He shall enable them vvith all the force of Diplomaticall letters and decrees furnish them vvith all accommodations vvhatsoever Verily such mighty things Ps 118. 16. could not have bin brought to passe but by the right Hand of the Lord vvhich hath the preeminence Doubtles it vvas the Lords doing 2. The Benefactor And this mindes me of the second Particular The Benefactor the Lord. The Lord hath done c. His name vvas vvritten vpon the Fact in such capital lettets that the blinde Heathen could see and reade it The Lord hath done greate things for them sayd they And it is not perhaps vnvvorthy your observation that in this their Doxologicall acknovvledgment they hit vpon the Tetragrammaton Jehovah for so the Hebrevv hath it in that their verse v. 2. They attributed nothing of this to Fortune or chance or any false God or to any second cause but expressly pronounce it done by the Lord Jehovah Digitus Dei It is the finger of the Lord cryed out the Heathenish Aegyptians and among them the most Divelish Magicians Yea and Brachiū Dei it vvas the out stretched arme of the Lord that all the nations felt vvhen Israel is to passe into Canaan And novv I have mentioned Israels passage into Canaan let that one Instance serve for a Demonstration in this matter For their removing out of Aegypt vvho must be their Spokesman but stammering Moses but obnoxious Moses for it vvere strange if the Eminency of the man a famous Courtier and his suddaine flight out of the Land should not recall that Fact into the mindes of some of his Cooetaneans yet this man must be the man I passe over the Categories of those vvonders done in Aegipt Looke vve upon the Transcendency of Gods povver and providence novv they are on their vvay Doe they vvant a Guide for their vvay God him selfe goeth before them in fire Doe they vvant a Shelter His cloude is spread over them for a covering Doe they vvant vvay the Sea it selfe shall make it and at once be a streete and a vvall vnto them Doe they vvant bread Heaven it selfe shall raine dovvne Angells foode Doe they vvant meate to their bread The very vvind shall become their Cater and bring them vvhole drifts of Quailes into their tents Doe they vvant drinke to both The Rock it selfe shall be their Sellar and yeild it them in abundance Doe they vvant Change of Apparrell Their cloaths shall not vveare olde on their backs Doe they vvant counsell and advise God Himselfe vvill be their oracle from bevveene the Cherubims Doe they vvant a Lavv Himselfe vvil sitt vpon the Bench on mount Sinai and give them their charge in Person and vvrite it vpon tables vvith his ovvne fingers Are they resisted by Enemys God himselfe dischargeth volleys of haile stones vpon their heads and braines them to their hands Are they to sitt before Jerico The Tovvnevvalls of themselvs shall fall dovvne flatt before them Is Joshuah to pitch a Battaile The Sun must stand still to see him have the Victory O the greate and mighty things the Lord did for Israel I cannot have vvhile so much as to vnclaspe any more volumnes vvherein are recorded Gods strange doings for his Church in all ages It susticeth that a Devoute Bishop hath folded you dovvne some fevv leaves B. Hall in that booke vvhich is most knovvne I hope to the most God doth use to appeare so for his Church that he sticks not to put it among his Titles Royall nay makes it his Cognomen sayth Petrarch the God of Abraham and of his seede vvhich in the Apostles exposition is the vvhole household of the faithfull the Church 3. The Beneficed And this calls me to the third and last Particular the Receiver of the Benefit the delivered The Church For vs sayth the Text. The Lord hath done greate things for vs. And vvhat vvere vve might Sion say vvho vvere glad to lick the dust of the feete of our Enemys that the Lord of Heaven Earth should looke so graciously vpon vs The meanenes of the Receiver argueth the magnificence of the Giver Who am I that the Mother of my Lord should visit me It vvas a true and religious complement of devout Elizabeth The best of men are but the children of dust and grand-children of nothing And yet for the Lord to doe greate things for vs this yet greatens those greate things Was it be cause vve vvere his Church It vvas his super-abounding grace to select vs out of others as it vvas our greater gracelesnes above all others so to provoke Him as to force him to throvve vs into Captivity Or vvas it because our Humiliation in that disconsolate condicion did move him to so greate compassion Alas there vvas choice of Nations vvhom he might have taken in our roome that might have proved farre more faithfull then vve had bin for the one halfe of those favours vve had enioyed Or vvas it for his Covenants sake vvith our Fore-fathers Alas vve had forfeited