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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

and beléeue that in these thinges standeth the blessednes safetie of our state and realme that that nation is onely happy Psa 144.15 whose God is the Lord and that thou art a God and sauior to such onlie as walke in thy waies and with all their hearts séeke to doe thy cōmandements If this course be thought vpon yéelded vnto by vs then we may assure our selues of thy protection for euer Then we shall still to our comfort inioy our gratious Prince and her highnes the comfort of the dutifull seruice and obedience of vs her subiectes Our wise counsailours shall bee able to giue aduise for our good our worthy valiāt countrimen with honour to execute that which is appointed for our safetie Thy Gospell shal shine among vs yet in more excellent beautie we shall haue our peace and our plentie still wée shall prosper in our affaires by sea and by land wée shall sée our desire vpon our bloodie enimies Deut. 26.7 they shall come foorth against vs one way and shal flie seuen waies Leuit. 26.8 One of vs shal chase an hundred of them and an hundred of vs shall put ten thousand to flight Psal 144.12.13 The voice of mirth and gladnesse shal be heard in our stréetes our sonnes shall bée as plants growing vp in their youth and our daughters as the corner stones grauen after the similitude of a pallace Our corners shall be full and abounding with diuers sortes our shéepe shall bring foorth thousandes euen ten thousandes in our stréetes Our oxen shal be strong to labor there shall be no inuasion or going out nor crieng in our Cities the murrain of beasts and the pestilence deuouring men shall not come néere vs. Thus shall wee then bee blessed Psa 144.15 for so is the people blessed whose God is the Lord. O Lord let our nation be thus blessed for euer we do pray thée euen for the honor of thine own name So wee thy peeple and shéepe of thy pasture shall praise thée for euer Psal 79.13 from generation to generation we will set foorth thy praise And for as much as this work of thine is such that it should not onelie mooue vs to whome the comfort thereof doth speciallie appertaine but euen they also should be touched with it that dissent from vs in religion and desired to haue séene our ruine as well the Papistes of our owne nation as those that be in forraigne countries because besides the other miracles recorded in thy woorde wrought by thy sonne Iesus Christ and his holy Apostles for the confirmation of thy truth thou hast also by this our woonderfull deliuerance and confusion of our enimies sealed this to be thy truth which wee haue learned from the same worde and whereof wee make profession We beséech thée euen for these that so manie of them as belong to thée may by this occasion the rather bee brought to sée howe detestable a thing in thy sight Romish and superstitious religion is how thou settest thy selfe against such as would vphold the same that so they may not stand a farre off gazing vpon this thy greate worke Apoc. 18.9.10.11 Apoc. 18 4. 19.20 and bewailing this fall of the whore but that indéede they may come forth of Babylon vtterly renouncing the worshippe of the beast and his image abhorring to carie the least of his markes in their hands or forheads Apoc 17.2 and no longer to bee drunke with the cup of her spirituall fornications Yea wee beséech thée that hauing the mistes and darkenesse of their minds chased away they may at length sée the cleare light of thy gospel so to ioine with vs in one holy profession grounded vpon thy word that together we may be glad of this fall of Babylon and ioyne all forces as it were into one to giue her according as shee hath done to thy Saints Apoc. 18.6 That in the end the may haue the iudgement of an harlot executed vpon her euen to bee rooted out for euer That to their further condemnation they bee not subiect to the reproofe which thy spirit giueth to such as they be that amended not by the vengeance powred vppon others according as it is saide in the Apocalips Apoc. 9.20.21 The remnant of the men which were not killed by these plagues repented not of the works of their hands that they shold not worship deuils Idols of golde and siluer and of brasse and of stone of wood which neither can sée neither can heare nor goe Also they repented not of their murthers and their sorceries neither of their fornication nor of their theft For their obstinacie shall be greater and their sinne the more hainous in thy sight if so sensible a iudgement as this is prouoke them not to giue thée glorie and to séeke after thy trueth If there be anie of them so desperatlie hardened that in stéed of repenting they shall presume more more to set themselues against thy holie ones and to blaspheme thy name Apoc. 16.9 which hast power ouer these plagues We beséech thée goe forwarde with this thy excellent worke persecute them so continually that they may know thēselues to be but men and the Idols whom they serue not to be God Turne all their deuises vpon their owne heads and bring them to such miseble confusion that they may for sorrowe gnash their téeth and at last be inforced to acknowledge thy power and iustice in their ruine to whome they will not now stoope to serue thée according to thy word that they might be saued Yea we beséech thee that all the nations of the heathen to whom the reportes of these thy great acts shall come may by this meanes bee mooued to inquire after thee and to seeke to knowe thee and thy good pleasure in Christ Iesus whome thou hast sent to their saluation if they beleeue That so departing from their superstitions and Idolatries wherein they doe dishonour thee they may honor thy name in the knowledge of thy trueth That wee our selues beholding these thinges and the vtter confusion of all such as rise vp against thee and thy Christ Apoc. 20.10 may be assured that that time approcheth apace when the deuill by whom they are led the beast whome his fauourers haue worshipped and the false Prophetes by whome they haue bene seduced not being able to hurte anie more because their time is expired shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone Apoc. 10.10.15 where also they shall bee tormented day and night world without end and with them euerie one not found in the booke of life When likewise the Church being fréed from all their tyranny shall come forth as a bride prepared for her husband Apoc. 21.2 to be ioined with the lambe Iesus Christ for euer Where shee shall hunger thirst nor sorrow any more but hauing all teares wiped from her eies Apoc. 7.16 shee shall enioy

the aduersaries shée may stil be preserued to finish hir course in thy feare and in peace euen to the saluation of hir soule We beséech thee so direct her and such as vnder her highnes gouerne the state that in these euill and most dangerous times they may sée what is for thine honour and our common saftie accordingly to aduise command and take order Giue conscience to our Ministers now to stand in the gap Ezek. 22.30 Ioel. 2.17 earnestly to cry vnto thée to spare this thy people and stir them vp with all feruencie to call vs vnto repentance Giue all the subiects in the land grace to carry themselues dutifully and loyallie to her Maiestie the state to be readie to do seruice in their persons and by whatsoeuer els they haue that so they may be helping against the common aduersaries And as for our countrimen or any other that are now imploied or hereafter to be imploied in these seruices by sea or by land for our defence O Lord so passe by their sinnes that they may not hinder thy worke in these causes of so much importance O so guide them with thy spirite that repenting of their sinnes and being throughlie perswaded of thy fauour for a better life they may chéerfullie fight thy battailes without fearing the faces of the enemies Be thou vnto them a piller of a cloude by day and a piller of fire by night Exo. 13.21 22. as thou wert to the Israelites in their comming from Egypt Graunt that each of them may knowe their seuerall places in the same to carry themselues faithfully without enuy or murmuring O Lord be with them and so goe foorth with our armies that one of our fighting men may chase a thousand of theirs Deut. 31 3● and two may put ten thousand to flight Giue them such good successe by sea and by land that we may haue new occasions to praise thy name and to feare thée more than we haue done Yea that many other nations hearing of it may thereupon be mooued to séeke after thy trueth We knowe it is all one with thée to saue with many or with no power 2. Cro. 14.1 There were but thrée hundred of Israel with Gideon against the huge army of the Madianites Asa the King of Iudah Judg. 7.6 did ouercome the host of the Aethiopians being ten hundred thousand 2. Cro. 1.4 when as himselfe had not sixe hundred thousand Yea thou without any man diddest in one night destroie the mightie armie of the Assirians in the daies of Ezekiah Isa 37.36 We knowe that thine arme is not shortened but that thou art nowe also able to helpe vs in like manner if we had no meanes at all for our defence And although the forces of our aduersaries bee come something néere vnto vs yet as thou diddest drowne Pharao and the Egyptians when they were not farre off from thy people Israell Exod. 14. and ouerthrowedst the Aethiopians and Assirians 2. Cro. 14.9 32.1 beeing with their armies entered into the land of Canaan so do we assure our selues that thou art still able to preserue vs and to deliuer these our aduersaries into our hands although their powers were more than they are and néerer vnto vs than yet they be Psal 79.8 Help vs therefore we pray thée O God of our saluation remember not against vs nor against our nation the former iniquities but make hast and let thy tender mercies preuent vs. Suffer not thine enemies to raile vpon thy truth and thy children anie longer Let it appeare that thou onelie art God and that the Idols whome they haue serued bee vnable to helpe them Giue not ouer thy faithfull seruauntes of this nation and of other Countries fledde hither for thy truthes sake into the handes of these miserable men Psa 79.2.3 to spill their bloud in the stréets like water to giue their bodies to the beastes of the field and their flesh to the foules of heauen Thou that promisest to spare Sodome Gen. 18. if there might haue béene tenne righteous found there spare this Nation we pray thée where there be manie times ten that vnfainedlie desire to serue thée Thou that pitiedst Niniuie hauing in it sixe score thousand young children Jonah 4. pittie wee beséeche thée this populous Nation and giue it not ouer to bee laide wast and desolate O let not the Churches where thy faithfull seruauntes haue assembled to worshippe thée by praier fasting preaching and the vse of thy Sacramentes bee turned into cages of vncleane beastes and synagogues of Sathan to haue the masse and other damnable Idolatries in them againe For the glorie of thy name turne these great euils farre from vs although we be most worthie to tast of them all If thou wilt not be intreated to spare this sinful natiō which hath so much abused thy patience and so often and manie waies prouoked thée to wrath O correct vs yet thy selfe by some other of thy rods that we may be brought vnto repentance but leaue vs not as a praie to these merciles bloody men Whatsoeuer shal fall out grant we beséech thée that we may take al thy chastisments paciently acknowledge thy iustice therein and neuer depart from thy trueth but that wee may holde on in the profession of the same euen to the ende notwithstanding all the tormentes wée may be brought vnto Comforting our selues alwaies with the féeling of thy loue in Christ with looking for his blessed comming to iudgement Phil. 3.21 when he shall change our vile bodies and make them like his owne glorious body by his mightie power whereby he is able to doe all things O Lord heare vs thus calling vpon thée and for euerie other grace for thy Church in the world for this land for all sortes and states in the same and for all other for whome we ought to praie Receiue also we beseech thée our most humble thanks for all thy former benefites vppon our selues and vpon this nation for thy Gospell the safetie and preseruation of our Quéene hetherto the discouerie and ouerthrow of treasons and the doers of them thy patience to our realm our peace thus long and plentie of outward blessings as also for the good successe against our enemies giuen vnto vs by sea or by land of late or before times O wée doe most humblie praise thy holie name praieng thée to goe forward to doe vs good stil and so we cal vpon thée as we are taught Our Father which art in c. MEDITATIONS concerning thanksgiuing to Almighty God for deliuering England from the crueltie of the Spaniards and for their meruailous confusion and ouerthrow 1588. Psal 50.15 O Lorde most mercifull father thou dooest commaunde vs to call vppon thée in the time of our trouble thou promisest to heare and to deliuer vs requiring that we should then glorifie thée and offer thée sacrifice of praise How true thou art in this

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