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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

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 infinite in compassion Ezec. 18.23 and hast alwaies shewed thy selfe so to bée not delighting in the destruction of sinners but rather desiring their repentance that they might liue and inioy thy fauour Jere. 18.7.8 Who hast said by thy seruant Ieremie that when thou speakest against a nation threatning to root it vp and to destroie it yet thou wilt spare it if they turne from their wickednesse according as wée sée it in the example of the Niniuites Jonah Trusting vnto these and such other promises in thy worde that we doe iudge our selues and our nation woorthie of all misery do notwithstanding pray thée for our Lorde Iesus Christ his sake to haue mercie vpon vs to forgiue vs our land all the sins whereof we be guiltie before thée O pursue vs not with thy iudgements as wee haue giuen thée cause for then we must néedes perish eternally Among other plagues from the which we praie thée to bée deliuered preserue vs we beséech thée from the handes of the Spaniards other idolaters which haue conspired against our nation to root out thy religion from hence to place Papistry again and to dispossesse vs of that parte of the earth which it séemed good vnto thée to allowe vs to dwell in where also through thy goodnes we and our forefathers haue inhabited now many yeres We confesse that for our vnwoorthie walking of thy Gospell and ill behauing of our selues in this pleasant lande it may iustly spue vs out and thou maiest suffer the enemies to preuaile But remember O Lord that these men be not behind vs in sinnes for they be a most wicked generatiō neither is it our sinnes that they do so much looke vnto in comming against vs as thy religion among vs professed and our renouncing the man of sinne the Bishop of Rome thine enemie the enemie of thy Christ So as now whatsoeuer we be that do defend it or howsoeuer we do defend it the cause is thine owne therfore looke vnto it we desire thée for the glorie of thy name and for Iesus Christs sake O why should such wicked men as these blaspheme thy name Psal 79.10 saying where is their God and the religion they haue so long professed As though the religion were not good which we haue receiued from thy word or as if thou wouldest not defende those that professe the same O remember thy auncient mercies shewed to this Nation manie yéeres breake not off till thou hast finished them by giuing yet further helps to thy Church and religion here for the better subduing of all the people vnder thy gouernment Deliuer vs O Lorde wee pray thée at this time Trie vs yet once more that our magistrats and ministers may in their callinges reforme whatsoeuer is amisse and indeuour to bring the whole lande into better order that thou maiest delight to fauor vs for euer That these thy blessings may bee obtained O driue away from our hearts the meruailous securitie wherin we haue slept these many yéeres imagining that our waies did please thée and that no plague should come néere vnto vs when we liued verie sinfully in all sorts and states and so prouoked thée to displeasure Grant that by these thy fearefull warnings we may at length be moued to confesse our sinnes to lament them to humble our selues before thée in fasting and praier to turne from our wicked waies to enter into a newe course and to make a sure couenant for euer hereafter in our callinges to doe our dueties better that thou maiest spare vs and staie thy hande from our destruction And howsoeuer we haue meanes for our defence by sea and lande Psa 20.7 yet kéepe vs wée pray thée from trusting in them though others put their trust in their horses Psal 6.4 1. Sam. 17 45. in their ships and multitude of men O shew the light of thy countenance vpon vs and graunt that in thy name onely trusting to thy mercie in thy strength we may come forth against these our aduersaries And as for them that thus boile in malice against thy religion and vs thy most vnworthie seruants O turne their hearts if they belong to thée open their eies to sée thy trueth that they may with vs depart from that Antichrist of Roome loue thy Gospell our nation and all the professors of thy truth Or else Lord as thou hast begun for the which we do in most humble manner giue thanks vnto thée so we pray thée to goe forward to curse them in all their actions by sea and by lande Let their table be a snare before them Psal 69.22 23 their prosperitie their ruine Let their eies be blinded that they may not sée and make their loines alway to tremble Strike thē with such feare that the sound of a leafe shaken may make them to quake that as wicked men they may flie Leuit. 26.36 when no man pursueth them Pro. 28.1 Scatter their counsels ouerthrowe their forces turne their owne swords one against another and so prouide by thy mightie power that the things which they haue prepared for our destruction may be vsed in thy iustice for the execution of thy long deserued wrath vpon themselues And so bring them to naught that they may not anie longer trouble vs and other of thy Churches as a long time they haue done euen nowe doe Psal 79.10 O let the bloud of thy Saints which they haue cruelly shed come before thée to pull vengeance vppon them Heare the cries of the womē whom they haue made widowes and of the children whom they haue made fatherlesse Hearken to the pittifull complaintes of such as they kéepe in prison for thy truth and deliuer such as they haue appointed to death Let them bee vppon the seas Exo. 14. as was Pharao and his companie pursuing thy Israell let them bee vpon the lande Jud. cap. 4.7.8 as Sisera and Iabin as the Madianites Oreb Zeb Zebah and Zalmana the enemies of thy people whom thou destroyedst in the time of the Iudges O make them like a whéele Psal 83.13 and as the stubble before the wind as the fire burneth the forrests so persecute them with thy tempests and make them afraid with thy stormes Fill their faces with shame that they may séeke thée O Lord. Let them be confounded and troubled for euer Fight against them from heauen Jud. 5.20 and render into their bosome seuenfolde al the reproches and iniuries which they haue done to thy Church that they may knowe that thou art God and that it is thy truth which we haue learned from thy worde though we haue walked most vnworthy of the same Concerning our selues we doe first of all praie thée for our soueraigne Prince that notwithstanding all the trecheries of

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

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

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