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A64897	God in the mount, or, Englands remembrancer being a panegyrich piramides, erected to the everlasitng high honour of Englands God, in the most gratefull commemoration of al the miraculous Parliamentarie, mercies wherein God hath been admirably seen in the mount of deliverance, in the extreme depth of Englands designed destruction, in her years of jubile, 1641 and 1642 / by ... John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing V308; ESTC R4132	108,833	120

Peers untill your Majestie shall further secure them from all affronts indignities and dangers in the premises Lastly whereas their fears are not built upon phantasies and conceits but upon such grounds and objects as may well terrifie men of good resolutions and much constancie They do in all dutie and humilitie protest before your Majestie and the Peers of that most honorable House of Parliament against all Laws Orders Votes resolutions and determinations as in themselves null and of none effect which in their absence since the 27 th of this instant moneth of December 1641. have already passed as likewise against all such as shall hereafter passe in that most honorable House during the time of this their forced and violent absence from the said most honorable House not denying but if their absenting of themselves were wilfull and voluntarie that most honourable House might proceed in all their premises their absence or this protestation notwithstanding And humbly beseeching your most excellent Majestie to command the Clerk of that House of Peers to enter this their petition and protestation among his Records They will ever pray to God to blesse c. Jo. Eborac Tho. Duresme Rob. Co. Lich. Jos Norw Jo. Asa Guli Ba. Wells Geo. Heref. Rob. Oxon. Ma. Ely Godfr Glouc. Jo. Peterburg Morris Landaff This petition and protestation being thus exhibited to his Majestie the King was pleased to send it immediately to the House of Peers who having seen and perused it were forthwith highly offended with it and so sent it immediately to the House of Commons whereupon both Houses met in the painted Chamber at a Conference there and after it accused those 12. Bishops of high treason for endeavouring to subvert the fundamentall Laws of the Realm and the very being of Parliaments whereupon they were by the Lords sequestred from the Parliament and imprisoned ten of them in the Tower and for their age sake two of them committed to custodie to the Black-Rod Thus was the Parliament most happily freed of 12. of them at one clap And thus I say ever blessed be the Lord our God for it that which the Parliament long desired and the well-affected people over the whole Kingdom so long and so unanimously petitioned for even the extirpation of the Bishops out of the Parliament but could not well tell how to accomplish it God hath made themselves agents and actors of to their own just shame and sorrow but to the high content and rejoycing of all Gods faithfull children and servants And certainly if ever here was a most visible print of Gods over-powring providence crossing these Prelates craft paying them in their own coyn and most clearly manifesting himself to behold all the high things of the earth and that he onely is King over all the children of pride And yet give me leave good Reader to give thee this one note by the way of no small consequence and concernment touching these our present Prelates of England notwithstanding all the most evident and undeniable manifestations of Gods arrows of wrath and high displeasure shot against them all partly for their craft and crueltie exercised against Gods faithfull-ones and partly for the Laodicean-temporizing coldnesse and security even of the very best and most moderate of them all without exception of any one who have rather chosen like the accursed yea bitterly accursed rulers of Meros to lie still to sleep in a whole skin enjoy quietly their fat Bishopricks and lordly dignities and ease therein than with noble and renowned Queen Hester who in the cause of her afflicted people the Jews resolved in a far more certain danger every way than they could have been liable to to hazard her life and honours with an If I perish I perish ah shame unexpressible shame to them all that a weak-woman should out-strip them all in a masculine heroick spirit for her religion and people than like her I say to expose their rich revenews much lesse their very lives as she did hers tell me I say of one among them all that did thus to danger or losse to adventure the safeguard and welfare of the Church and children of God which they saw daily so overtop't by rank over-growing poperie and atheisme Which lazinesse and coldnesse of theirs though they sleightly passe it over as a small sin or no sin at all yet Christ himself our blessed Saviour tells them they are no lesse than down right Antichrists even flat and false enemies of the Lord Christ as is clear Matth. 12. 30. by our Saviours own words He that is not with me is against me Which being so let them all even the best and most moderate among them take heed of that fearfull sentence of the Apostle If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maran-atha Even accursed with a most bitter curse And how can these Prelates say truly that they love the Lord Christ when they either so palpably persecute him in his beloved members or at least egregiously slight and disrespect him in suffering his holy cause and faithfull servants to be so discountenanced and trampled upon as they have been these many yeers especially of late And yet I say in all this so dangerous and double-guilt and deep-die of grosse impietie in them which indeed is the note I aym at and is the wonder and admiration mixt with grief of my soul to see and consider that even the very best of them hath not to this very day given us the least print or expression of true repentance and godly remorse of soul and spirit for these so great and grievous sins of theirs of crueltie and security or carelesnesse of Gods people and their religion but even the best of them still I say suffering the Gospel of grace and truth to sink or swim what car'd they so they may be quiet and be thought great Clerks rare disputants against Popery in words and writings onely yet oft jugling with us therein too and the wise and moderate men forsooth of the world Yea I say so far are some of them from cordiall remorse and penitencie for those accursed abhominations aforesaid that one of their most moderate wise men of peace since his being in prison in the Tower hath not been asham'd with his accustomed rhetorically-glorious and smoothly painted phrases to daub over his great-guilt of conscience especially in point of security and carelesnesse of Gods truth forementioned by me O these men of peace forsooth how have they forgotten even hypocriticall Jehu's asseveration What peace so long as the whoredoms of that Romish Jezebel are so many and so mischievous amongst us Yea I say again to him in particular he should have had no peace with Rome as well as he wrote of the no peace of Rome But thus I say these our holy Fathers of our Church forsooth these our lordly Prelates who with Bishop White must be counted

of them most grievously abused by our fathers forsooth of the Church as they will be most falsely termed especially those three former most renowned suffering-worthies whom these persecuting Prelates had even most barbarously as it were buried alive in most remote and remorselesse as they entended it imprisonment from sight much lesse society of any friends yea utterly debarring their wives from coming to them clean contrary to the Laws of God and Man This I say to their everlasting shame and infamie being perpetrated by those right terrible-Ones indeed mentioned by the Prophet Yea those proud scorners who watched for iniquitie to make a man an offender for a word and laid snares for any that durst reprove in the gate and turned aside the iust for a thing of nought But whom now the Lord our God hath consumed and brought to nought and by their own pernicious and craftie counsels hath justly cut-off and left in their own snare which they had prepared for others just according to that of wise King Solomon The righteous is delivered out of troubles and the wicked cometh in his stead The Lord having most resplendently cleared the honour and integritie of all those his honourable suffering heroes restoring them to comfort credit and high reputation ever since their as it were princely and triumphant return to London and most sumptuous entertainment to all Gods people being brought home like three conquering Cesars on horsback Even so as that we may say and most justly declare before them as king Ahasueros caused to be proclaimed before good Mordecai when he so highly honoured him in the very sight and presence of wicked Haman Thus shall it be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour As it is most worthily and punctually related at large in their own most famous historie of all their magnanimous sufferings and even Princelike restauration and return from their captivity to former freedom penned by pious Mr Prinne himself my ever much honoured and most precious friend And did not the Lord here most strongly and strangely shew himself in the Mount for the redemption of all these his beloved Isaac's from their unparalell'd thraldom and threatned utter ruine and cause his wrath to lay hold on those Romish-Rams who were entangled in the bushes of their Bishoplyabuses to Gods children and so by his admirable wise providence to make them a prey to his just indignation instead of his innocent and tenderly affected Isaac's his beloved lambs As hereafter in its proper place we shall have more full and fit occasion yet farther to make manifest to the eyes and understanding of all wise and impartiall Judges We may therefore sing and say with holy David Be glad in the Lord therefore O ye righteous who thus taste and trie his great love and truth unto you and shout for ioy all ye ●hat are upright in heart Reioyce I say in the Lord O ye righteous for praises are comely for the godly Sing a new song to the Lord yea sing cheerfully and skilfully with a loud noise for the word of the Lord is right and all his works are done in truth Then also did our wise parliamentarie Gardiners stub and grub up those noysome trees and shamefull shrubs whose spreading spight and unprofitable power did mightily overtop and furiously infest the happie harvest and fair and full crop and encrease of Gods blessedly fruitfull Orchard-trees fruitfull I say in holinesse of life and painfull and profitable administration of the Word and Ordinances in their power and purity For about this time also our expert State-Engineers our Worthies in Parliament did most prudently countermine and by their parliamentarie power blow-up the out-works and Babel-batteries and mischievous-mounts of our Prelaticall Canoneers making their spureous Synod to be utterly illegall turning the mouthes of their accursed Canons on themselves making them indeed truly paper-Canons which could neither rend us nor roar against us but flash in their own faces and spoil themselves damming them up or rather damning them as most Antichristian and illegall by an unanimous Vote in Parliament And as for that monstrous Et-Caetera-Oath that hideous and prodigious Hydra that bottomlesse abysse I say and deep-devouring whirl-pool of Romish craft and subtiltie which should have supt and swallowed-up into its wide-yawning iaws both Church and Common-wealth this they also happily stifled in the Embrio of it ere it could come to its birth much lesse any of its intended Romish destroying growth and maturitie Then those most prudent Senators for the better purifying of the Churches channels and Conduit-pipes of the Gospel of grace and by Gods blessing to cause them to issue forth more wholesome and pure streams for Gods people to drink of discovered and discountenanced too a stinking heap of atheistical and Romane-rubbish a rotten-rabble of scandalous priests and spurious bastard-sons of Beliall who by their affected ignorance and lazieness● their false doctrines and idolatrous and superstitious practises in Gods worship as also by their most abhominable evill lives and conversation had like Hophni and Phincas made the Lords Ordinances to be even abborred by the people who to their hearts unexpressible grief having continually complained of their grosse misdemeanours to those who would be counted the grave pi●lars forsooth of the Church but were indeed but Rom●s rotten-posts in thus fostering such fostering henbane of the Church their functions infamie and the foulest stains of that holy calling yet could find no redresse of those evils but contrariwise scoffs and jeers and more hard encreased pressures heaped on them just like the children of Israel in their slavish brick kils yea and sometimes punished for complaining Till now those our most pious and prudent Reformers voted against them as most unfit to abide in the Ministerie Yea then those our parliamentarie Worthies the better to help forward the most blessed work of Church-reformation unanimously voted against and discountenanced all our too-rich and lazie Non-residents and soul-pining if not soul-plaguing Pluralists those spirituall Polygamists who were the law of man as firmly exact and strict for spirituall as it is for carnall Polygamie or having two wives we all know what their danger and just demerit should be With these also have they most worthily voted down a sweatlesse swarm of droanish Deans and unprofitable Prebends and such like Clergie-trash who lay lurking in the Bec-hives of the Church and lurching-away the sweet honey from the laborious Bees painfull Preachers yea infesting and molesting them with their waspish-stings of Antichristian tyrannie just like the mustie Munches and lazie-Abbeylubbers of Rome in times past and which base and blockish condition they certainly longed and laboured secretly to set up again but I trust their eyes and heart too shall fail them ere they effect it untill they had quite driven them out of their honey-combes and kill'd or starv'd-up them and theirs

we are fit for mercie certainly he must never be mercifull to us But here we see and Moses confirms it farther to us that oftentimes God shews not mercie to a people because they are greater in number or better in condition or fitter for his mercie than another people but because the Lord freely loved us above or before all others ou● neighbour Nations round about us and that he might keep his word and promise made of old to save his people when they called on him in the day of their trouble that so they might glorifie him And most undoubtedly for this very end the Lord hath poured on his people of England within these two or three yeers an extraordinarie spirit of grace and prayer or supplication in these dayes of their distresse and great calamitie yea and notably manifested by all these fore-mentioned returns of prayer even far beyond their hopes and desires that he is a God hearing prayers and so hath encouraged his people notwithstanding their sins to come unto him and hath clearly let them see that t is not in vain to call on our God and to wait till he have mercie Hence therefore I say let us learn to admire and adore the bounteous and open-hand and enlarged bowels of love and compassion of our good God and indulgent Father who hath done all these so great and so good things for us even of his own meer mercie and free favour and because mercie pleaseth him Since then it is most true and unquestionable that God hath not so dealt with every Nation nay I may justly say not with any Nation as he hath with us of England O let us all seriously endeavour to out-strip every Nation round about 〈◊〉 Thankfulnesse and Obedience which is the second Observation I desire to make of these remarkable parliamentarie mercies to us Thankfulnes I say first to our good and gracious God who hath been the onely author and fountain of all these full and fairly over-flowing mercies to us Who hath thus blessed where the enemie hath cursed Who hath thus made the plots and devises of our adversaries the main means of their own shame and smart of their own certain ruin and destruction Yea who hath thus firmly and faithfully performed all his good word and will unto us hitherto and therefore with holy David to cry out and say Not unto us Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give all the glory for thy mercie and for thy truths sake Yea to raise and rouze-up our souls to the highest peg and pitch of holy extasies of praise and thanksgiving to our God and to break-out as the same holy David did My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise even with my glorie Awake psalterie and harp yea awake soul and heart I my self will awake right early yea and right earnestly I will praise thee O Lord among the people and I will sing praises unto thee among the Nations For thy mercies are great above the heavens and thy glorie above all the earth Set up thy self therefore O our God more and more above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth And let not this our thankfulnesse be meerly a work of lip-labour but let it also yea especially produce an effectuall work of life-labour of true obedience which indeed is better than sacrifice Obedience I say to all Gods commandments universall-submission to the whole will of God Which is mainly seen in breaking-off from our sins those great blocks that stand in the way and hinder Gods good things from us accursed sin I say which locks up all the gates of Gods goodnesse and sweetnesse from us by true and cordiall repentance by hating and forsaking our closest and s●yliest insinuating darling sins our bosome-Dal●lahs which is the onely-golden-key to open the doores to lift-up the flood-gates of all Gods rich treasury of grace and over-flowing favours and mercies to us Objection But here I may demand and not impertinently I hope May we not also give thanks and due commendations to our noble and renowned Worthies in Parliament who have so cheerfully and so indefatigably spent themselves and their precious time for us and the Kingdoms good Answer Yes undoubtedly and that most duely but in the first and most and best place to the Lord our God who is the author and fountain of all our mercies and unto them in the next place as the channels or conduit-pipes by and through whom God is pleased to convey these comforts to us And as a grave godly and learned Divine of our Citie fitly observed It is not onely decent and comely to give them thanks even as we would if a Lord or great friend should send us some extraordinarie gift by his servant we would first give condign thanks to the Lord or friend that sends it and also gratifie the servant or messenger by whom t was sent with some reall expression both of our high esteem of the donor and also of our gratefull hearts to the messenger for his pains in bringing it to us So without all question it is not onely decent as I said before but due and equall that we should at least return most heartie thanks to these honourable and happie Messengers of our great Lord and gracious God who hath by them conferred upon us such and so many indelible monuments of mercies and admirable Deliverances especially when we consider I say with what invincible patience and pains what admired wisdom and untyred sweetnesse of spirit both Lords and Commons have for us and our good neglected their own lives and livelyhood their own private and personall affairs and just delights otherwise befitting such persons and personages even beyond the slender and lanck expression of my poore pen yea of the most eminent parallel of any by-past times And therefore worthie yea most worthie that we should praise and prize them and pray for them too that our God would repay into the bosomes of them and their posterity all the sweetnesse of their love and loyaltie to God their King and Countrey which we all have found and felt to our unspeakable joy and comfort Which being so as most certain so it is Ah foule shame for such as most injuriously endeavour to traduce and blemish as much as in their foule mouthes and false hearts is the most honourable name and unspotted reputation of so renowned prudent Peers and pious Patriots whose equals for pietie prudence patience and indefatigable pains for Church and State this Kingdom and Nation never since it had a being beheld Yet some I say have not blushed nor been asham'd to manifest such foule effects of black and ignominious ingratitude and therein most palpable impietie as cannot chuse but be most exceeding irksome and odious both to God and man Some saying they see little or nothing done as yet others convinc'd

and favourable reproof from the Lord himself of such false and faithlesse fears in his children Hearken unto me ye that know righteousnesse the people in whose heart is my Law Fear ye not the reproaches of men neither be ye afraid of their revilings For the moth shall eat them up like a garment and the worm shall eat them like wooll but my righteousnesse shall be for ever and my salvation from generation to generation And that especially in the 12 and 13 verses of the same chapter I even I am he that comforteth you who art thou that thou shouldst be afraid of a man that shall die and of the son of man which shall be made as grasse and forgettest the Lord thy maker that hath stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundation of the earth and hast feared continually every day because of the furie of the oppressour as if he were readie to destroy and where is the furie of the oppressour Certainly good Reader here 's a most exact description of the condition of very many of Gods children even at this very day O what fear of the force or fraud is there of men yea of wicked men who shall undoubtedly perish together with their most desperate designes and profoundest policie What startling is there at a base weak project of theirs though our eyes have seen them vanish like a vapour and come to nought What frights and fears are in the hearts of Gods people even every day as the Lord saies because of their seeming furie but certain frenzie and madnesse which yet our God hath crusht and confounded in its highest ruff and deepest danger-threatning bluster For shame therefore for shame let us labour against such groundlesse such causelesse fears and put on godly resolution and invincible courage since the Lord is our God and is good and does good and who hath done all this great good for us Which brings us to my fourth and last Observation on these fore-mentioned pa liamentarie mercies namely That the Lord onely is our salvation and hath engaged himself and his own great Name to deliver us by his faithfull word and promise and that therefore we should patiently wisely and zealously depend on him for deliverance Since I say the Lord onely is our strength and not the failing arm of flesh which we know is an accursed prop and will deceive like the broken reeds of Egypt let us therefore often remember that of good King Jehosaphat which indeed I desire may be a constant and cordiall memento to us all to stablish and strengthen our hearts piously and patiently to wait on the Lord namely Hear me saies that good King O Judah and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem beleeve the Lord your God so shall ye be established beleeve his Prophets and promises so shall ye prosper Even so I say to thee O England and ye noble and renowned inhabitants of London famous over the whole Christian world for the glory of God among you beleeve the many and most sweet and precious-promises which God in Christ hath made unto you so shall ye certainly prevail and prosper lay hold on the promises yea rest and roul your selves and even live upon the promises so shall it undoubtedly go well with thee Now we have a sure word of promise that Babylon shall fall yea saies the Lord by the Prophet in respect of the certainty of it Babylon is fallen is fallen with an ingemination which implies matter of moment and all the graven images of her gods the Lord hath broken to the ground Yea saies the Prophet Jeremie Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed Now then I say good Reader having such a sure word of promise even from the fountain of Truth yea Truth it self let us with Christian courage by faith lay fast hold on it and infallibly beleeve it for Truth hath spoken it and certainly heaven and earth shall sooner perish than one jot or tittle of his precious word and promise shall not be performed Hast thou I say as a reverend and learned Divine once sweetly delivered a sure word of promise abide close by it for certainly whatsoever the work of Gods providence may be which ofttimes I confesse seems even point-blank to crosse and contradict our hopes mainly for triall of our faith and patience yet stick-fast to the word of promise rest and relye on it wait with the patience of the Saints for the performing of it For as the Lord said to the Prophet Write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may run that readeth it For the vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and not lie though it tarrie wait for it because it will surely come and it will not tarry See here good Reader what sound and solid grounds of Christian courage comfort and confidence is here Who then would be afraid Who would not strongly and immoveably relie on the Lord his so mightie so sure foundation See I say what an abundant Cornucopia of sweet refection is here for the most drooping heart that may be who then would Tantalize in the midst of such so fair heart-upholding store Alas alas good Reader if under such props and supportations our hearts should flag and faint and sink by fear and infidelity which indeed is the bitter root of slavish fear might not the Lord too justly upbraid us as once he did the murmuring children of Israel the sinfull and rebellious Israelites Since the Lord onely is our fast and firmly-rooted Rock and his works are perfect and all his wayes judgement a God of truth and without iniquitie most just and right If we thus corrupt our selves with sinfull infidelity our spot is not then the spot of his children but we being thus a perverse and crooked generation may not the Lord then I say most justly upbraid us and say Do ye thus requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not God your Father that hath bought you and establisht you O remember the dayes of old of thy old slaverie and bondage of Romish-Egypt the black and palpable fogs of Popish idolatrie and superstition consider the yeers of many past generations ask your fathers and they can shew you your elders and they can tell you And certainly as good Ezra said in such a like case If after these great mercies and deliverances which God hath wrought for us and wherwith he hath so graciously crowned us we should yet again break our covenant with God we should violate his righteous commandments turn his so sweet and precious grace into wantonnesse and make this his patience and goodnesse to us a ground of our licentiousnesse and loosse living would not the Lord and that most justly be angrie with us untill he had utterly consumed us Yes certainly he would For though t is most true that the Lord hath proclaimed himself to the whole world and all generations