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B07983	Meditations concerning praiers to almighty God, for the safety of England, when the Spaniards were come into the narrow seas, August 1588. As also other meditations concerning thanksgiuing, for deliuering Englande from the cruelty of the Spaniards, and for their meruailous confusion and ouerthrow. / By O.Pygge. ; With a spirituall song of praises by P. Turner Doctor of Physicke..	Pigg, Oliver, b. ca. 1551.; Turner, Peter, 1542-1614. Spirituall song to the praise of almightie God, for deliuering England from the Spaniards.	1589 (1589)	STC 19916.3; ESTC S94725	23,900	73

vpon this nation added to the rest of thy woonderful mercies towards vs may bée an occasion to lead all sorts and states to true repentance and to a through reformation of whatsoeuer is amisse least if we hold on in our euils thou make a chaunge and giue our enimies cause to reioyce ouer vs as we do now ouer them For notwithstanding they bee marueilouslie weakened yet such is thy power that thou art able to arme wounded and famished men to our destruction Iere. 37.10 if wee continue to sinne against thee as thou didst threaten the Iewes with the Chaldeans in Ieremies time We were deliuered that we should sinne no more Iohn 5.14 as our Lord Iesus saide to the man whom hee had made whole Our faithfull ministers when they were most earnest in suing for vs with fasting and praiers was it vpon any other condition but that being spared longer wee should yéelde better fruits according as the dresser of the vinyard intreateth for the figtrée Luk. 13.7.8 which the owner cōmanded to cut vp Now if spéedilie euen this present yéere this bee not done by vs who shall hereafter intreat any more or what is he that crieng for vs is like to be heard Nay wee may feare that thou wilt say to our most faithfull prophets Iere. 7.16 as sometime thou saidest to Ieremie Praie no more for this people neither lift vp crie or praier for them neither intreat me for I will not heare thée Or as in another place thou sayedst Though Moses Samuel stood before me yet mine affection could not bee toward this people Cast them out of my sight Iere. 15.1 let them depart such as are appointed to death to death and such as are for the sword to the sword and such as are for the famine to the famine such as are for captiuitie to captiuity And I wil appoint ouer them foure kinds saith the Lord the sword to slay the dogs to teare in peeces the foules of the heauen and the beasts of the earth to deuoure and destroy Or as it is in Ezekiel Ezek. 14.24 though these thrée mē Noah Daniel Iob were among them they shold deliuer but their own soules For although by thy singular goodnes we haue gotten this victorie yet are we not past al danger as if carelesly we might doe what we list Nay we sée that Asa the king of Iudah triumphing most gloriously ouer the ten hundred thousand Ethiopians that came foorth against him is notwithstanding met with by the Prophete Azariah and by him certified from the Lord that he might no otherwise looke for the continuance of his fauor to himselfe to his people but as they should continue to do their duetie and therfore saith vnto them after this maner 2. Cr● 15.2 O Asa and all Iudah and Beniamin heare ye me The Lord is with you while you be with him if you séeke him hée will be found of you but if you forsake him he will forsake you The same people of Israel for whom thou wroughtest so many great works in Egypt and after leaddest through the red sea destroying their enimies which assaied to follow thē were afterward fearfully destroied in the wildernes for their sins Exo. 12.37 Nu. 14.30 So as of six hundred thousand that were numbred onely two persons Caleb Iosua entered into the promised Canaan Thy seruant Iude putteth vs in remembrāce of this in these words For asmuch saith hee as ye once knew this Vers 5. how that the Lord after that he had deliuered the people out of Egypt destroied them that beleeued not And the same nation of the Iewes though oftentimes thou diddest marueilously fight for them and deliuer them so as among the heathen it might be iustly said God hath done great things for them they on the other side had iust cause to answer them as with an eccho He hath done great things for vs whereof we reioice as it is in the Psalme Euen these notwithstanding whē they neglected their dutie Psal 126 2.3 were most sharply punished and giuen ouer as a pray vnto their enimies as may appeare in the history of their Iudges and Kings And at length when nothing woulde reclaime them but that they continued in their disobedience mocking and il intreating the faithfull prophetes which called them to repentance then thou broughtest vpon them the Chaldeans who wasted their land tooke their chiefe city euen Hierusalem and their king put out his eies slue his children nobles before his face Ier. 39.6.7 and dishonorablie ledde him captiue vnto Babylon leauing that fruitful and populous countrie as it were a desolate forsaken wildernes and bringing scorne reproch confusion shame vpon that citie nation which sometimes were as a Quéen aboue al others admired for their prosperitie as if they had bene the onelie praise of the world 1. Cor. 10.6.7.8 Their example dost thou set before our eies as a glasse to looke into whereby we may sée what remaineth for such people as be like them in thy blessings and not vnlike them in their sinnes We therefore of this nation whom thou hast thus marueilouslie preserued and defended in peace prosperitie plentie and with the vse of thy holie religion vnder the reigne of our souereigne prince now these whole thirtie yeares and for whom of late thou hast done these great thinges what else may we looke for but the like destruction with the Iewes except with all spéed wée doe turne to thée and reforme our selues according to thy woorde Therefore O Lord our God we do most humbly craue of thée pardon for all our sinnes past committed by vs by our whole land either before this our deliuerance or since wee were deliuered beséeching thée in the blood and obedience of Christ Iesus and for the honor of thy name not to bring vpon vs the destruction which for our vnthankefulnes for this thy great mercie and for other our transgressions wee haue most iustlie deserued And graunt that for all the time to come all sortes and states ciuill and ecclesiasticall from the highest to the lowest may be carefull in all thinges to séeke thy will and to haue the same obeied as wel in matters for the Church as the common-weale and each of them for the direction of their seueral families and particular conuersations That they may all ioyne together in their callinges as one man for the reformation of the ministerie that so the preaching of the Gospell may bée established and setled in all the quarters of the lande whereby all the subiects may be subdued vnto thée and taught holie obedience to her Maieiestie and the rest that vnder her gouern the state That godlinesse and godlie men may more and more bee cherished and maintained and idolatrie papistrie blasphemie prophanation of the holie Saboths and all other wickednesse and wicked men may bee punished and suppressed O teach vs to knowe

wee came to more yeeres and haue béene instructed in the knowledge of thy blessed will O wée haue sinned wée haue sinned hainously in neglecting thy seruice and our duety to our brethren in our callinges Wée haue sinned openlie and secretelie alone and in companie yea oftentimes wilfullie and against our consciences when wée knew thy commandement was that wée should haue done otherwise Yea wee doe not onely thus confesse our owne sinnes but also after the example of thy worthy seruants Dan 9 1● Nehe. 1.6 9.34 Daniel Nehemiah we confesse the sins of our whole land acknowledging that we our forefathers our princes our gouernours our whole Ecclesiasticall state all the people of the Realme haue fearefully sinned against thee If wee were guilty of no other sins before thy maiestie the idolatry bloudshed in the former times yet not reuenged nor repented of as they ought were sufficient to bring vtter desolation vpon a lande wherein such abhominations were committed as thy seruant Ieremie in his time Jere. 15.4 threatened the Iewes for the sinnes of Manasse But O Lorde what haue béen the iniquities committed since our deliuerance from that yoke and thy bestowing vppon vs the light of thy Gospel O haue we not all from the highest to the lowest damnably sinned against thée yes verily If we would denie it our iniquities would testifie against vs. For which of thy commandementes haue wée not broken If we looke to those foure of the first table which teach vs our duetie towards thée or those six of the second table which teach vs howe to walke in our callinges towardes men O wee shall be found meruailously faulty before thy maiestie And that not only some of the people but euen euery sort state and condition not in some part of the lande alone but euery where in euery quarter and corner yea in euery house and familie For O Lorde wée haue loued the vaine things of the worlde more than thée and thy word we haue béene more loth to displease men than thy maiestie wee haue made flesh our arme putting our trust in man and withdrawen our heartes from thée Jere. 17.5 Howe seldome and colde haue our praiers bin And how sparing our thanks to thée for the innumerable benefites bestowed vpon vs and our nation What idolatry hath bin committed heere by Papists in corners and by strangers of other countries There hath wanted care to amend thinges throughly according to the rule of thy word Thy name hath infinitly bin blasphemed for where almost can we come in the house or in the stréete but wee shall heare this most shamefully by the greater and by the meaner by the elder and by the yonger sort which take thy glorious name in vaine speaking of thée rashly and vnreuerently yea swearing without cause forswearing cursing and such like O thy Sabothes there is scarce one among manie which maketh conscience according to thy law to dedicate thē wholie vnto thy seruice publikelie priuatelie but as if they were anie other daies so they bee bestowed yea manie thinke it lawfull to follow a riotous and prophane course then which vppon other daies they woulde thinke vnfit for them And how fearefull examples hereof haue we had from the great places and personages of the lande The superiours in the common wealth in the Church and in the house haue not done their duetie to their inferiours The inferiours likewise haue béene meruailous vndutifull to their Prince and the rest which thou in thy wisedome diddest set ouer them The lande hath abounded with murthers slaughters quarrels fightinges and contentions with incests adulteries whordomes dronkennes excessiue pride in apparrell filthie stage plaies haue béene suffered euen in our chiefest citie and vppon the Saboths Thefts be common oppressions deceits vsuries lying false witnes bearing and such like O we are not able to recken vp the innumerable sins of the which we and the whole land may iustlie be indited and araigned before thy maiestie They which haue béene in place to punish sin and to maintaine well dooing haue dealt too too fauorably with sinners on the other side not cherishing the godly as was their dutie The ministers which should boldly haue reproued these corruptions in all sorts and states haue for the most part béene vnable to doe this many of them corrupt in their conuersation they haue winked at disorders daubing with vntempered morter Ezec. 21.28 that will not hold as if nothing had béen amisse and no danger toward when as iniquitie mightily preuailed amongst vs and thou in thy high displeasure didst threaten war Iust is the complaint of thy seruant Ieremy in his time against such Ministers Lame 2.14 They haue looked out vaine and foolish thinges for vs they haue not discouered our iniquities to turne away our captiuity but haue lookt out for vs false prophesies and causes of banishment True it is we haue had some desirous to doe their dutie who also accordingly haue laboured but euen diuerse of them haue béene euill intreated by wicked and vngodly men which could not abide to heare their faultes reproued Whereas in the mean time they haue liked well of such which séeking themselues onely and their owne ease haue béene vnable to instruct them in thy waies by occasion whereof many of the people of the lande haue béene kept in ignorance of thy maiestie and suffred to goe on in their other sins And although thou O Lord our God in tender care of vs hast warned vs of these great sinnes by our Preachers in their Sermons and some of their bookes which haue béene grauelie and dutifullie written yea although thou hast sought to moue our hard harts by thy benefites so as we haue inioyd thy gospel outward peace and plentie when as the Nations about vs haue bene meruailously distressed euen as vntil this time their wounds bée bléeding newe and remaine vncured And further we haue had many wonderfull deliueraunces of our Prince to our great comfort and moreouer thou hast threatned vs by insurrection in our owne lande by vnseasonable times of too much drought or too much raine by destroying some fruites of the earth by scarsitie by the pestilence by signes in heauen and by a fearefull earthquake not many yeeres past yet haue not we of this nation profited by anie of these to bewaile our sins to turne vnto thée as it did become vs. But haue despised thy Prophets which spake to vs in thy name and haue still gone away from thee multiplying our transgressions against thy maiestie So as now most iustly there belongeth to vs to our Princes gouernors teachers and to all the people of the land Dan. 9.7 8. nothing but shame and confusion of face yea vtter destruction of our Nation and state wherof when wée looke into our great sinnes wée may feare that thou hast prepared the Spaniard and such as take his parte to be thy executioners Wherein also wée doe confesse that thou shalt be most iust if thou giue vs and our kingdome ouer into their hands Notwithstanding because thou art a God ful of mercie and

thy promise as wée haue manie examples in the Scriptures so we of this land ought to know it in our owne experience For wee were in great trouble and not without feare when the Spaniards a bloudie and cruell nation in their rage came forth against vs with a purpose so to roote vs out that wee should no more be a people And indéede there was iust cause why we should haue béen much astonied For if we looke to our sins and the abhominations of our whole nation what coulde wee else in thy iustice haue looked for Hos 9.7 but that the daie of visitaon and the time of recompence was come wherein thy purpose was to haue done execution vpon vs for our transgressions And if we looke vpon our enemies they were manie in number and their forces great both by sea and lande so as they thought themselues as it were sure of the victorie as if they had béene able to haue swallowed vs vp quick and to haue runne ouer vs as the proude and swelling waters ouerflow the valleies of the fielde In that our perplexitie we did now and then sigh vnto thée for helpe we powred forth praiers though in great weakenesse Thy faithfull seruaunts in the ministerie were more earnest with thée in our behalfe humbling themselues in fasting and calling the people thereunto euen as it became them in a matter of so great waight So as the cries of them were manie which sued vnto thy maiestie to spare this Nation and not to giue ouer this part of thine inheritance into the handes of the wicked And now hast thou most graciously fulfilled thy promise For whatsoeuer want was in our praiers yet hast thou heard vs in that for which we cried For notwithstāding the enimie approched verie néere so as we might haue looked for an attempt of lāding in our coast yet so miraculously and in diuerse sorts diddest thou set thy selfe against them blessing our meanes without meanes pursuing thē with thine owne hand that their snare is broken wée be escaped Psal 124 euen as the bird out of the grin of the fouler The sword the sea famine haue deuoured a great parte of them others he returned with such dishonor as became them that would not learne to honor thée Manie of their fathers haue thus lost their children many childrē are made fatherles manie of their wiues are become widowes Thou hast in thy iustice rendred into their bosome a iust reward of their cruelty in other cuntries and hast serued them as they meant to do to vs thy people And now O Lord was this for our worthines or because wée had deserued any such thing at thy hands No verily for we be a most sinful people al sorts states had corrupted their waies hainously trespassed But for their vnworthines didst thou deny them the conquest ouer vs for their innumerable abhominations hast thou brought vpon them this deserued destruction For the glorie of thine own name mainteining thine own cause in defending such as professed thy true religion although in that behalfe we are far short of that we ought to be Whatsoeuer we be thou hast performed thy promise hearing vs in our feare doing more for vs than we could almost haue hoped for And now it remaineth that according to thy commandement we yéeld vnto thy Maiesty the dutie of continual thanks obedience which thou callest for at the hands of such whom thou deliuerest so wōderfully as we haue bin deliuered O that we could therfore confes before thée this thy louing kindnes speake of al these thy wōderful works before the sons of men as it doeth become vs. The least benefite that we receiue from thée deserueth infinite thanks from vs. For what are wée of England that thou shouldest consider vs or who were our forefathers that thou shouldest regard vs Surely we are excéedingly sinfull Gen. 32.10 and descended from such as had highlie prouoked thy displeasure We are not worthie of the least of thy mercies yea it is thy mercie that long ago we were not vtterlie confounded Lame 3.22 O then such rare and singular mercies as this wherein miraculouslie thou hast shewed thy self for our safetie and for the confusion of our aduersaries how much should they moue vs to magnify thy name and to sound forth continuallie thy euerlasting praises which hast vouchsafed such fauour to those that be so vnworthie For the greater the vnworthinesse of the Nation is whereunto thou hast done this great good the more worthie art thou to be praised for euer If such a benefite as this had béene bestowed vpon the Churches of France Geneua Germanie or of the low Countries great had béene our sinne if wee had not offered to thée a bountifull sacrifice of the calues of our lippes Hos 14.2 for such a mercie shewed vnto them For as their miseries ought to bée to vs as our owne and therefore wée shoulde wéepe with them when they Rom. 12.15 wéepe So their deliuerance shoulde haue béene as if we our selues had béene deliuered in respect whereof wee ouhht to haue reioiced with them in their ioy The heauenlie spirites are carried with such a zeale to thine honour Apoc. 19.1.2.3 and inflamed with such loue to that part of thy Church which is héere vpon the earth that with a loud voice they sing praises to thée for iudging the whoore of Roome and reuenging the bloud of thy Saintes although shée coulde not haue hurt them or in anie sort haue diminished their glorie Howe much more therefore by their example are wée bounde to praise thée because in this our deliueraunce and confusion of our enemies thou hast not onelie shewed thy power mercie and iustice so getting thy selfe a glorious name in defending the vnworthie professours of thy truth and the straungers here banished for the same But also by this meanes wée our selues be preserued from great miseries and all the faithfull subiectes of the lande inioie their soueraigne Prince to their singular comforte and vnder hir gratious gouernement we haue the vse of the publike exercises of thy word and Sacraments things that shuld be vnto vs more déere than our owne liues Moreouer we may each of vs sit peaceablie vnder our owne vines and figge trées inioieng our wiues our children our friends our libertie many other blessinges yéelded to vs in this most fruitfull and pleasant lande If we do compare these benefites with the desolation brought vpon our enemies and with the calamities that wee shoulde haue tasted of in our soules and bodies if they had preuailed according as wee haue examples of their beastlie crueltie in the Indians and others whome trecherouslie they haue brought into their bondage O then our hearts must néeds be more hard than flint and wee our selues altogether without féeling except the consideration of these things fill our spirites with ioy our mouths with laughter and stirre vs vp to sing new

bene gratiously performed of the Lord accordingly they be acknowledged in the thāksgiuing to assure vs as was said before that praiers specially ioined with true fasting be not in vaine but to singular purpose And yet J desire not to be so mistaken as if J arrogated any thing to my poore and weake praiers made by me in my publike ministerie or priuate exercise No I doe vnfainedly from my heart acknowledge mine owne vnworthinesse to bee hearde crying for my selfe much more for the Church and this state J am persuaded that the things which I then meditated and which the Lord directed me to write were also thought vpon and remembred with more feruencie of spirite and singlenesse of heart by other the faithfull seruants of God Preachers and professours of our owne Nation and of other Countries They stoode vp in the gap they cried to the Lorde Exo. 17.11 they helde vp their handes and England hath preuailed They in deede were chariots horsemen and forces by sea and land as to that purpose Elisha spake of Elias Ioash of him 2. Reg. 2.12 13.14 Their praiers made in the bitter mourning of their soules for their owne and our sinnes did the Lorde heare blessing the worthy seruice of our valiant Countrimen imploide in those affaires and without meanes doing wonderfully for vs not for any worthinesse in themselues or in their praiers but for the worthinesse of Christ Iesus and for the honor of his owne name Jt doth remaine that thou thy selfe bee carefull wiselie to applie the fearefull warning of the Lord in the enemies comming against vs and his vnspeakable mercie in our wonderfull deliueraunce to stirre thee vp to vnfained conscience of pleasing him in thy selfe and such as be of thy speciall charge As also to praie that whatsoeuer is amisse in the land and so displeaseth our most mercifull God may bee amended Whatsoeuer thou art I exhort thee earnestlie to call vpon the Lorde that the controuersies risen vp amongst our selues may christianlie and brotherlie bee compounded That so the peace of our worthie Church beeing procured we may all whether we be Preachers or professours proceede one waie according to the truth to bestowe whatsoeuer gift wee haue to the rooting out of all sinne and to the establishment of the kingdome of Christ Iesus in the hearts of all those that bee vnder any of our charges Specially because the haruest is great Math. 9. and the labourers in comparison bee but few praie the Lorde of the haruest that such men whome he hath sanctified in life learning so as it were separating them Gal. 1.15 from their mothers wombes to the worke of the ministerie may bee thrust out into his haruest and continue in the same with much comfort to doe their dutie As also that such as bee altogether vnfit for so great a burthen may haue nothing to doe in the most holie ministerie of the Lord. Those whome these causes doe anie waie concerne most humblie and with all reuerence vppon the knees of heart euen in the bowels of Christ Jesus I doe intreate to shewe their zeale to his honour which shed his most precious bloud for their sins and their compassion vpon their dere brethren Countrie men his members in many places of the Realme yet wallowing in ignorance other sins in doing what they can that all the people of the land may be instructed in the euerlasting truth of God that so they may walke in the obedience of his blessed maiestie and in all dutie to our gratious Prince and all such as vnder her gouerne the state If these causes of so great importance be not loked vnto as they ought but that iniquitie be still suffered to grow and to abounde notwithstanding all that which the Lord hath said to vs from his worde and wonderfullie done for vs I will wish to weepe in secrete and that mine eies may drop downe teares for what els may we looke for but the captiuitie of the Lordes flocke And thus doe I commend thee Christian Reader to the Lorde and my selfe to bee remembred of thee in thy most earnest praiers March 7. 1588. the meruailous yeere in respect of the Lorde his wonderfull deliuerance of vs and the confusion brought vpon our enemies and the enemies of his Church he make vs alwaies thankfull Amen Oliuer Pygge Meditations concerning Praiers to almightie God for the safetie of England when the Spaniards were come into the narrow Seas August 1588. O Lord God almightie terrible and fearefull God thou Lorde of Hostes iudge of the worlde which hatest sinne and visitest the transgressions of the Fathers vpon the children to the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate thée Wée most miserable sinners doe in most humble manner throwe our selues downe before thy maiestie acknowledging that wee are not worthy of the least of thy mercies no not so much as to goe vpon the ground or to looke vp vnto heauen much more vnworthy are wée to haue this fauour to call vpon thy name with anie hope to be heard and to find fauour in thine eies for the obtaining of our requests for our selues and the rest of thy people for whom wee are bounde to pray Psa 50.15 Yet because it is thy commaundement that we should call vpon thée in our troubles Psa 145.18 and further thou hast promised to bee néere those that call vppon thée in truth In some measure of conscience to obey thy commaundement and trusting vnto thy great mercie we do humble our selues before thée Praying thée that wée may not be of the number of them whose praiers bee abhominable in thy sight according as it is with them that regarde wickednes in their harts and turne their eares from thy law Psa 66.18 but that we may so pray vnto thée in sorrow for our sins past Pro. 28.9 in vnfained desire to please thée for the time to come in a true persuasion of thy fauour to vs in Christ and in such a loue of thy Church that our seruice may be allowed of thée and our selues all they for whom we are to make sute may receiue much comfort of our performing this dutie euen to the honour of thy name And because it is our sinnes onely Jsa 59.2 that make separation betwéene thée and vs kéeping away the good blessinges which thou else wouldest giue and pulling vpon vs the plagues which thou art not easily drawne to powre vpon thy children We doe first of all in most humble maner confesse that as we were conceiued in sinne and brought forth in iniquity so we haue besides yéelded most cursed fruits of that our corrupt nature in rebellion against thée and breaking thy commandements in our thoughts words and déedes in doing euil and leauing good things vndone and doing good things very weakely and imperfectlie And that not onely in the daies of our youth and in the time of our ignoraunce but also since