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A01524 An anniuersarie memoriall of Englands deliuery from the Spanish inuasion deliuered in a sermon on Psal. 48. 7,8. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith. Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654. 1626 (1626) STC 11648; ESTC S105720 23,965 38

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An Anniuersarie MEMORIALL OF ENGLANDS DELIVERY FROM The Spanish Inuasion DELIVERED IN A Sermon on Psal. 48.7.8 By THOMAS GATAKER B. of D. and Pastor of Rotherhith LONDON ¶ Printed by John Haviland for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith at the Golden Lion in Pauls Churchyard 1626. TO THE WORSHIPFVLL HIS VERY LOVING Friend M. Thomas Chapman Sonne and Heire to the Religious Founder of this Exercise Worthy Sir WHat your selfe and others with your selfe haue through your means formerly by word of mouth heard from me you shall now vpon your second request receiue here in writing I should not haue deemed it worthy the reseruation but that it pleased you who haue best right to it to require it In scatterd notes only like Absyrtus his limmes I had the summe and heads of it which I haue againe here recollected cast as neare as I could into that mould and frame that it was deliuered in at first If much seeme missing of that little grace that it then had it must be remembred that the liuelesse letter for viuacitie and efficacie commeth farre short of the liuing voice As it is you haue it and no more then your owne in it from him who for your pious building on your worthy Fathers foundation in this kinde doth deseruedly affect you and shall alwayes continue Yours to be commanded in the Lord THO. GATAKER TO THE READER BE pleased good Reader to vnderstand in few words the occasion whereupon this Sermon was preached and thou wilt iudge it to be a kinde of necessitie to make that publike to the common view which was first intended for the eare onely of a priuate Auditory There is we see too great and generall a want in these our dayes of monuments and memorials of that miraculous deliuerance which God wrought for this Land in 88. When Tongue and Pen Pulpit and Presse are silent for that we may expect the stones to cry out against vs and to celebrate that praise to God whereof we are neglectiue But mans memory being a table booke to register acts passed and not able to comprehend all that is to be recorded therein when new things of note come to be imprinted in it the old are wip't out so God affording vs a daily supplie of new preseruations those other which we haue formerly receiued grow quite out of date are rased out and buried in obliuion Therfore to reuiue this blessing which ought neuer to be forgotten amongst the rest in this Land and for it to eternize Gods praise amongst vs it hath beene religiously prouided by Mr. Thomas Chapman sometimes a worthy Citizen that yeerely three Sermons shall be preached in the Church of St. Pancrace in Soper-lane where he lately liued a well deseruing parishioner One of the Sermons to be preached Nouemb 17. in thankfull remembrance of the coronation of that Virgin Queene ELIZABETH of famous and neuer-dying memory with whose gracious gouernment accompanied much happinesse to our kingdome but this as chiefe of all scil the establishment of that truth of the Gospell discipline of the Church which we now enioy vnder our dread Soueraigne Lord King CHARLES whom God long preserue a religious Defender of this truth and peace amongst vs. Another Sermon to be preached August 12. for our deliuerance from that Spanish Armado in which course this Sermon was preached A third Nouemb. 5. for the preseruation of our King and State from that damnable powder-plot as yet vnparalleld in any age since the world began In each of these we may behold Gods goodnesse first in bringing vs to the glorious light of the Gospell by making that Queene a Mother ouer his Israel and a Nurse ouer his Church neither was it lesse goodnesse in him to preserue vs in this happy state then to conferre it vpon vs and this he hath done maugre the malice of our enemies who haue not wanted both power and policie in these their attempts yet when they were strong and many our God was mightier than they and there were more with vs than against vs when they had laid their plots and traines God confounded the wicked imaginations of those Achitophels and let them fall into the pit they had digged for others This good man famous in his generation in thankfull remembrance to God of these three blessings in his life time solemnly obserued three Sermons and hath left large Legacies at his death for their continuance vnto posteritie that in succeeding ages fathers may declare vnto their children how great things God hath done for vs in the old times before them By this godly care of his he hath built himselfe a monument of fame to remaine longer than those Aegyptian Pyramides or that Pillar which Absolom reared vp in the Kings dale for the perpetuitie of his name vpon earth Thus they that honour God God will honour them in seeking the glory of Gods name God hath made an honourable memoriall of his name to redound vpon his owne head He was second to none being the first Founder of late of this pious act but I hope he shall not stand alone but that there will be many found to second him hereafter in so good a worke worthy the imitation So now Reader I commit this Sermon to thy perusall whilest in it thou seest Gods wonderfull workes which he hath done for our Nation or what good soeuer thou shalt reape else in this Exercise be thankfull to God and pray for the Author PSALME 48.7 8. 7. As with an East wind thou breakest the Ships of Tarshish so were they destroyed 8. As we haue heard so haue we seene in the Citie of the Lord of Hoasts in the Citie of our God God will establish it for euer Selah AS in all well-gouerned States there are publike Registers and Records that the memory of Iudgements and Acts may not perish So hath God in mans Soule erected a Register to wit the facultie of Remembrance for the preseruation of such occurrents as are of weight and may be of vse for the direction of mans life But this Register is very much abused by the greatest part of those that haue the custody of it For if the Records that the most enter therein and keepe there were surueyed there would be found filed there large rolls fraught with friuolous and froathie stuffe of little weight and lesse vse yea it may be with much filthy and vnsauoury matter not once to be mentioned much lesse to be remembred scarce any script or scroll of ought that is ought worth or worthy to be entred in so royall a Register Now if any thing deserue to be there carefully recorded that it may by that meanes be transmitted to posteritie it should be Gods word and his works his extraordinary Acts especially either of Iudgement or of Mercy For the former the Prophet Ioel willeth the people of his time both to record them themselues and to cause their Children to record them and