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A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

o 2. King 2.11 Elias in the fiery chariot of zeale that we could strive even in this life to enter at least the suburbs of the heavenly Citie that we had our p Phil. 3.20 conversation even in Heaven our Heaven begun here on earth Sursum corda that being risen with q Collos 3.1.2 Christ we might seeke those things that are above placing and planting our affections not on things in earth but on things in heaven that we could send our hearts as the Disciples their hearts and r Act. 1.11.12 eyes after Christ that is ascended that ſ A man in his incarnation a Lambe in his passion a Lion in his resurrection an Eagle in his ascension Eagle high mounted at least that we could soare up to his Crosse in Golgotha in the meditation of his passion not to breede compassion towards him who now from suffrings is entred into t Luk. 24.26 glorie as the superstitious Fryers as may be seene in u In his mount Calvarie Guevara Lodowicke de w In his Soliloquies grounded from severall Gospels Ponte and x His meditations Granado c. make that the chiefe end of their mentall meditations of his sufferings and of their Idolatrous crucifixes but to resolve to suffer with him that we may be glorified with him to feele the power of his death to die to sin the power of his y Rom. 6.8.9.10 resurrection to rise againe to newnesse of life to blesse and prayse the z Apoc. 5.9 Lambe because he hath redeemed us from all the nations and kingdomes and kinreds of the earth If for this end we tract and trace our incarnate crucified saviour from Ierusalem to a Matth. 27 Luk. 23. Marke 15. Iohn 19. Golgotha with his sword pierced weeping mother the dolefull daughters of Ierusalem Ioseph of Arimathea and the Centurion and for this end looke upon him whom our sinnes have b Zach. 12.10 pierced with the Eagle eye of our faith as the Antitype of the Brazen Serpent whom Moses erected in the c Numb 21.9 Iohn 3.14.15 wildernesse looking on him also in the glasse of the Gospell where we may see him as the Apostle of the Gentiles tels the convert Corinthians even crucified amongst us if by this sight of him we can get unto him by saving d Iohn 1● 3 knowledge into him by e Epi●● 3.16 faith we grow up with him as planted in f Io●● 15.4 him by the sappe of the spirit we make a blessed speculation of his passion Oh that besides the fruite of his passion we could get here some glimpse of his transfiguration a true type of his glorification some glimmering and reflection of the heavenly Canaan as Moses a perfect view and Synopsis of the g Deut. 34.1.2.3 earthly here seeke some glimpse of heavenly light as the prisoner the gleames or beames of the Sunne through some crannie in the walle or doore or key-hole through the vaile of thy flesh as the spouse in the Canticles that had a glimpse of her h Cant. 5.4.5.6 welbeloved looking through the hole of the doore and her heart was affectioned to him Here in thy greatest pressures of bodie soule and spirit get some refection by reflection with that primitive Protomartyre i Act. 7.56 Stephen and the rapt k 2. Cor. 12.4 Apostle on Christ crucified and glorified and of the glorie of Christ prepared purchased layd up as revealed Here get some warmth and heate in your hearts as the Apostles and the two disciples that went to l Luk. 24.32 Emaus by oft talking communing with Christ by the word and m Oratio oris ratio vel colloquium cum Deo Isidore prayer by that meanes receiving from Christ that best new-yeares gift that love token promised by Christ to all his n Iohn 14.17.18.19 elect exhibited as once in the o Act. 2.3 forme ever in the effects of p The Spirit like fire c. 1. Illuminates with knowledg 2. Heates with zeale and love 3. Mollifies the heart 4. Causeth sparkes of praier 5. Purgeth drosse of sinne 6. Purifies the heart 7. Changeth with what it meetes with in to it owne nature Geminianus in summa exemplorii similit fire Oh that we could breake off companie and societie with man chiefly wicked men so much as our callings and charge to be discharged will permit that in our meditations and soule Soliloquies in innitiation of Saint Augustine Bernard Anselme and other heavenly minded men we might be more conversant with God Oh why doe wee not retire our selves as q Genes 24.63 Isaac into the fields as Augustine and Alixius into the r Libro Confessionum related fully and applied in Parsons Resolution orchard as Ioseph of Arimathea into our ſ Iohn 19 41. Garden or immure our selves according to Christs t Math. 6. vers 6. precept and his Virgin u Luk. 1.28 mothers practise into our private closet or chamber for some sequestrated time there to meditate of the mercies of God of the merits of Christ of the priviledges of grace of the Christians dignitie of the joyes of a better life c there to exhilerate our selves according to the Apostolicall counsell and command and according to the president set us in my Text by David and his nobles to rejoyce before the Lord and in the Lord more then the carnalists and the moralists of our times in their Corne and Wine and Oyle w Psal 4.7 increased more then Laban in his x Gen. 29.2 sheepe Naball in his y 1. Sam. 25.36 feast Balthezar in his z Dan. 5.2 drinke Herod in his a Mark 6.17 Herodias Saul in his b 1 Sam. 16.16 23. Harpe Nero in his c Suet●nius in Nerone qualis artifex pereo Musicke the carnall Iewes in their d Amos. 6. v. 6. Minstrelsie then the Philistines in their e Iudges 16.23 Dagon and madding mirth or any other licentious libertines in their luxurious and sabaritish delights Oh why doe wee not retire and sequestrate our soules our thoughts our actions our affections from all carnall delights desires more fully more freely to converse with God setting times a part even for the verie nonce to prayse God as did f Psal 55.17 David as Daniel did for g Daniel 6.10 prayer arising with that man after Gods owne heart even at midnight to give thankes unto the Lord Oh that my wordes like spurres and goads like the pricke under the Nightingals breast that is said to awaken her in the night from sleeping to singing might excite and stirre you to this neglected and too much pretermitted dutie And for this purpose I wish we might here use this world as though we used it not as the Marriner the Seas and his Ship as the Souldier his armes as the traveller his Inne as the Student his

prayer and spirituall u 1. Thes 5.16.17.18 rejoycing as the inseparable companions and adjuncts so as Hypocrates twins they live and die together as relatives they depēd one upon another as it is oft with some woman her conceived childe the death or life of the one is oft the death or the life of both And indeede as this is a true rule in the aggravation of anie sinne that the more unnaturall that anie sinne is the more odious horrible and unmeasurable sinfull it is as fratricide and brother butchering such as Cains against Abell Absalons against w 2. Sam. 13 3● Ammon Alphonsus his x A proctour in Rome that came very farr to performe a meritorious act the murther of his brother in bed with a hatcher because he was a protestant brother Diazius is worse then homicide or man-killing as incest such as y Gen. 35.22 Rubens with his mother in law Ammons with his sister * 2. Sam. 13.4 ● Thamar and that of the incestuous z 2. Cor. 2.5.6 Corinthian is worse then adulterie or simple fornication because more unnaturall so it is with ingratitude the hagg is more ugly and deformed in that shee is a monster-bred against the very light course and kinde of nature much more against the Sun-shine of grace Fiftly to illustrate this a little further as another motive to set an edge upon our affections towards this beautious Helena this excellent grace of true gratitude and to hate that foule Thirsites that Atae or hellish hagg ingratitude to make that positive which wee have made comparative Let it not passe our animadversion and consideration that to the shame and obloquie of ungratefull ungracious Christians even Pagans and Heathens have beene found thankefull yea by the erecting of Tropheys Images Statues a De istis flatuis imaginibus multa habemus apud Ciceronem Tranquillum Perseum Iuvenalem sic de Corona Murali Castrensi Nav. li ovali oleagnia Civica obfilionali populea c. Reliquisque honoribus datis bellic●sis lege apud Plin. lib. 10. c. 22 apud Guevat in monte Caivariae Cassaneum in Caetalogo part 1. pag. 8. Praecipuè apud Iosephum in 3. 4. antiq apud Cel●● Rhod. lect antiq lib. 13 cap. 6. Pictures they have expressed their gratitude to their Eupaters Patriots and Benefactors of their countries as the Romanes to their Sciptoes Decians Horatians Curtians the Athenians to their Codrus the Aegyptians to their Ptolomees for freeing their countries of enemies themselves of feares preserving their peace their goods wives children and such blessings received by their meanes Yea they have thankefully honoured the memoriall of those that by their prowesse valour have rid them of poysonous and noysome Serpents Lions Dragons fierce and ugly destroying monsters thus they gratefully honoured their Hercules for subduing Cacus the robber Sph●nx Cerberus Gerion Perseus for killing the snakie Medusa Bellerophon for conquerin that Chymera Regulus for destroying that great and terrible x Plin. nat hist lib. 4. cap. 14 serpent at the flood Bragada Capadox for quelling the Affrican snake Corebus for overthrowing that Grecian monster Alcon for shooting the Dragon of Creete Meleager and Acastius for killing the Calidonian Bore Cadmus and diverse others for subduing other Serpents Dragons Minotaures recorded in histories as much honoured by them as our S. George Bevis of South-hampton Guy of Warwicke and others amongst us whose fabulous stories in such exploits as these are received as Gospels truth by the credulous Popish I doubt too much too of the Protestant Laytie So these Pagans have honoured such living by erecting their pictures to living lasting glorie deified them dying amongst their gods placed them above the starres by whom Artes and Sciences for their experimented good have beene invented or perfected as Ceres Triptolemus Saturne the invention of Corne by tillage Bacchus for planting Vines others for other inventions particularized by Polidor * Libris de inventione rerum Virgil no lesse prodigall and profuse have they beene gratefully distributing large honours to those by whom Letters were first found and invented or good lawes have beene acted and established Thus to this day Lycurgus amongst the Lacedemonians Zele●chus amongst the ●ocrensians Mynos amongst the Cretians Philo amongst the Corinthians Zalmosis amongst the Scythians as once Romulus amongst the Romanes with other legifers and law-givers or interpreters of their Lawes in other nations as the Druides amongst the Gaules Mahumet to this day amongst his Saracens the Brachmans and Gymnosophists amongst the Indians the Magi amongst the Persians have their names praysed and perpetuated even to these times in which honours also Menno the first founder of Letters amongst the Egyptians Rhadamanthus amongst the Assyrians Nicostrata amongst the Romanes Phenices amongst the Grecians have deepely and deservedly shared Yea these heathens have beene in their kinde not onely thankefull to their best deserving men which they have counted their Heroës yea as semedians or halfe Gods but they have beene more thankefull to the multitude stultitude of their imaginarie gods whom in their blinded superstition they have acknowledged as authors of their good preservers of their safetie preventers of their evills or as appeares by their owne Authors their a Apud Poetas Virgil lib. 1. Georg li. 5.6 aneid Ovid. lib. 4. Fast li. 6. Metam H●mer lib. 22 in fine Tibul. eleg 1 5. libri primi Pro pertius li. 4. eleg 9. Juvenal Satyr 2. Poets b Cicero de Divinat Vat. li. 4. linguae Latinae Orators c Livius lib. 2.3 4. 22. Herod li. 7. Festus Pompeios li. 14. Halic li. 4. Cato rei rust li 41. Plin. li 35 cap 15 Cyprian li 5 belli Civilis Historians d Proclus de sacrificijs Plutarc in Brut. Mac. li. Saturn 1. 3 Philosophers e Gal. l. 1 de sanit tuend c. 7. Avice l. 1. fen 3. Alsar l. 2. pract tit 26. cap. 2. Physitians as they had diverse and different lustrations and purging sacrifices for their Cities Campes Fields Courts Houses Ships Families Functions after different wayes and ceremonies so had they Eucharisticall and gratulatorie sacrifices wherein to honour their Gods the more they caused their Priests to sing solemne Hymnes and Sonets to their prayses as Iō Pa●n to Apollo amorous songs to Venus martiall hymnes to Mars others to f Cereri Iulos Ceres g Diànae hipingo● Diana h Dionys Tythir Maiol de diebus canic part 2. col pag. ●6 Dionysius c. And as they placed and assigned them as our Popelings this day their deified adored Saints their severall functions as tutors and guardians over severall things as Ceres over fruites i Idem par 2. col 1. pag. 23. Triptolemus over Corne Bacchus over Vines Ch●orus over flowers Vertumnus over apples Aristaeus over hony their Lares and Paenates over their housholds c. as also over severall

that true aqua vitae the waters of life the promises of grace made to the i Esay 55.1 Matth. 5.6 thirstie It s more mercie as the object is more excellent to comfort a sicke soule as Christ did sorrowing k Ioh. 21 15 16 Peter weeping l Luke 7.50 Mary Magdalen Paul the penitent m 2. Cor. 2.6 7. Corinthian Ananiaes humbled n Acts 9.17 Paul Peter the heart-pricked o Act. 2.37 38. Iewes Paul and Silas the affrighted and afflicted p Act. 16.30 31 Iaylor then to helpe and heale a sicke bodie Seventhly pray for all men 1. chiefly for Kings and q 1. Tim. 2.2 Rulers as the Iewes did for the Princes of Chaldea in their captivitie Ier. 20. the primitive Christians for the Emperours 2. for Ministers and Preachers as the Churches of Colossia Thessalonica Rome Corinth r Rom 15. ●0 Coloss 4.3 1. Thess 5.25 2. Thess 3.1 others did for Paul 3. for thy wife children as Zachary for his ſ Luke 1.13 Elizabeth Isaac for his t Gen. 25.21 Rebeccha Abraham for his u Gen. 17.18 18.23 Ismael David for his sick * 2. Sam. 12.16 childe 4. for thy houshold servants as the Cēturion for his Matth 8.5 and Abraham for his x Gen. 24. Steward for thy enemies and persecutors as Stephen for those that stoned a Acts 7.60 him Christ for those that crucified b Luke 23.3 him Samuel for those that rejected c 1. Sam. 12.19 him Moses for d Exod. 8. so for rebelling Israel Numb 16 22. for Miriam Numb 12.13 Pharaoh that opposed and hated him lastly for all men even Iewes Turkes and Pagans except for those that sinne unto e 1. Iohn 5.16 death as did Iudas f See D. Deuisons Sermon of the sin against the holy Ghost Iulian and the wilfull malicious * Marke 3.28 Pharisees yea for our enemies as is a Matth. 5.44 Luke 6.28 Rom. 12.14 1. Pet. 3.9 commanded and hath beene g Gen. 20.17 Num. 16.22 21.8 1. Reg. 13.6 Psal 109.4 Ier. 11.13 19. 1. Cor. 4.12 Exemplo Mosis Davidi● Ieremiae Pauli c. practised Lastly you must submit your selves even to performe these dueties morall and politicall that are prescribed you Masters to servants servants to masters Husbands to wives wives to husbands Parents to children children to parents Magistrates to subjects subjects to magistrates paying scott and lott taxes and subsidies homage and honour tribute to whom tribute belongeth All which because they are very manie and numerous in their particulars I referre you to such as have generally intreated of them onely in all these speciall and specificall duties I enjoine your submissive obedience this day As Davids people yeelded themselves to one so doe you to one and every one of them To day if you will heare the Lords voyce harden not your hearts as in the h Heb. 3.15 provocation Be not clay lest you be crusht asunder but melting waxe taking the seale and impression of grace draw like silver threeds in the furnace bow your neckes to God take on you the yoake of i Matth. 11.29 Christ that is easie and his burthen which is light which wee as his mouth and messengers impose upon you If you consent and obey you that are here planted shall eate the good things of the k Esay 1.19 land but if you refuse rebell you shall be devoured by the sword or famine or other plagues for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it you shall be spewed out and disgorged as the * Iudg. 1. 2. c. Cananites and wiped as a man wipeth a dish turning it topsi-turvie upside downe I set life and death before you this day chuse life l Deut. 30.19 chuse whether you will be Oakes stubbornly resisting God and his ordinances in the Magistracie and Ministrie as did the m Ier. 3.15 18.12 1. Sam. 8.19 Iewes or Reedes bowing bending flexible docible obedient to whatever the Lord in and by us shall enjoyne you as this people were here unto David Knowing that the despising and resisting of us is the despising yea despiting of God n Luke 10.16 1. Thess 4.8 himselfe as the contempt of Ezekiahs o 2. Chr. 30.10 Posts and of Davids Embassadors were p 2. Sam. 10.6 revenged as the contempt of these two Kings SECT IV. Obedience Civill Ecclesiasticall Theologicall the life and soule of Religion OH let us know that as disobedience is as the sinne of witchcraft yea plaine treason and rebellion against the q 1. Sam. 15.25 Lord so obedience is the very life and genius and soule of Religion 1. If a weeping eye did speake a man religious then r Heb. 12.16 Esau Israel at her worst had teares at ſ Deut. 1.43 44. command like the t Vincentius ex Physiologo nat hist. ii 17. c. 606. Crocodile or u De Astuia Hyena lachrymantu lege Arist lib. 8. c. 5. Vincent lib. 19. c. 61. Aelian l. 6. c. 13. Hyena even when bloodshed and fratricide was hatched in the heart of the one and flat rebellion purposed in the heart practised by the hand of the other 2. If a hearing eare did speake and proclaime a religious man we have Herod hearing * Mark 6.20.28 Iohn yet beheaded Iohn hearing him as a Saint living still in his lust as a beast butchering the Baptist as a Divell we have the Scribes the Pharisees Iohns auditors yet a generation of x Matth. 3.9 Vipers 3. If a confessing tongue did alwayes demonstrate a religious heart we have Cain bellowing out his y Gen. 3.13 murther Iudas roaring out his own treason z Matt. 27.3 in the languishing anguish of their soules Saul himselfe with much adoe bleating out I have a 1. Sam. 15.23.24 sinned yet the first branded for a b 1 Ioh. 3.12 Reprobate c Gen. 4 12. Runnagate the second for the sonne of d Ioh. 17 12. 6.70 perdition the third for a man ejected rejected of e 1. Sam. 15.26 28. God vexed by f 1. Sam. 16.14 Sathan in all probabilitie as certainly damned as Salomon was g De salute Saelonionis l●gatur Soto maior praef in Cantic Lorinus in Eccl. c. 1. allegantes Patres argumenta producentes saved though some Scepticques question both the one and the h Praecipue Bellarm. confut á Zanchio de preservatione Sanctorum nostrum Will●tt in fine Synopsis Papismi other as if they would finde a knot in a * 2. Sam. 7.13 Bul-rush 4. If praying did alwayes prognosticate piety we have the Pharisee i Luke 18.10 prayers preying upon the poor under pretext of Fasting and prayer devouring widdowes houses we have the worst of the Iewes like evening Wolves in their extremities howling upon their bedds yea the proudest Pharisee that ever shewed to the Lord all

thine own m Iude v. 13. shame and thy soules n Exod. 20 7. Psalm 25.3 Zach. 5.3 destruction Time may come that rather then thou shouldest blaspheme God with it as thou hast done in the least particular thou wouldst bite it off more freely then the hunted Beaver his o Apud Plinium stones thou wouldst spit it out of thy mouth as once a primitive Martyr upon an p Apud Osiandrum in Epitom Centuriatorum occasion spit his in the face of a Tyrant Yea thou wouldst suffer it to have more tortures here then that rich churles in q Luke 16.24 hell to be sod in bloud as Tomiris did the tongue head of r Apud Iustinum historicum Cyrus to be prickt through and through with Needles as ſ Vxor Anthon● inimica Ciceroni vt olim Eudoxia Chrysostomo Herodias Iohanni Iezabell Eliae Fulvia did Tullies tongue rather then it should pricke and stabb and torture the humanitie of thy once painefully crucified now glorified Saviour Nay with that good Hilarion were the choyce offered thee thou wouldest rather die the death againe and againe then once to blaspheme that God who hath beene so good so gracious and so propicious unto thee What shall I say more what stone shall I further roule what string shall I touch what arguments shall I further use to plant this blessed grace of blessing to supplant this accursed plant of the Devils owne planting in the ground of thy corruption of blaspheming the God of heaven which is so usuall in the mouthes of all sexes and sortes of men women and children from the heads to the tayle of our people to the shame of u Read Master Downam in his foure Treatises against this abhominable swearing sect 8 9. 10. 11. 12. c. pag. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. c. As also M. Phillip Knew-stubs his Abuses of England a Sermon of little M. Gibbins on this Text The land mournes because of Oaths Christianitie the just scandall to the Gentiles who more respect their feined Iupiter and Hercules then wee our Christ as the stumbling blocke before the Iewes who by our little respect of our Christ and by Popish Idolatrie which they daily see for which their forefathers so smarted are kept mainly from being Christians Oh that I may still harpe on this tongue string till it be in tune inure thy selfe to blesse God thou wilst by dissuetude then cease to blaspheme him learne to speake the language of Canaan thou wilst forget the language of Ashdod even as the children that are Spanish or of the Natives here our Irish if once they live amongst the English and are Anglified they forget for want of use their owne tongue as Pharaohs daughter forgot her fathers house and w Psal 45 10. people Oh as one nayle drives out another one passion drives out another one burning heats out another according to some surgery so the fire of the spirit were it once in thee would eate out all that hellish fire that Ignis fatuus in thy tongue all that filthy and stincking matter that foames out at thy mouth as froath from a Boare as the sulphurious smell from Aetna or Vesuvius which steames and stinckes in the nosthrils of God and all good men as the stirring of Aiax or the raking of a buried carrion all this I say would be washed rensed and clensed as were once the uncircumcised Corinthians in their wordes and workes from this filthy and putrified matter as sore mouthes are washt by Allum and Sage by the waters which flow from the sanctuarie the healing waters of the word and x 1. Cor. 6. vers 10.11 spirit CHAP. X. To blesse God the onely way and meanes to be blessed of God AS Abraham said in another case to y Gen. 18. v. 32 God I say to man let me speake once more so have I done my motives to this Gratitude so prest and urg'd ayming my conclusion with some diss●vasives further against ingratitude this all positively I have to say in this point that by this blessing of God as did David and his Israelites in my Text for matter and manner thou takest the best way the most compendious course Gods owne prescribed method to blesse thy selfe to procure blessings to thy selfe and thy seede to perpetuate and intayle as did z Ge. 12.2 cha 15. vers 18. Abraham a Gen. 17.19 Isaac and Iacob even blessings to thy posteritie walking in thy holy wayes and steps even as wicked men cursed spirits propagate as some doe their frenzies their leprosies and hereditarie diseases corporeall this dangerous and damnable disease spirituall of lincked chayned curses even to their seede bloud families sympathizing with their cursed sinnes and accursing judgements Oh the blessed interest and happie usurie of blessing God! it brings blessings redoubled multiplied by Gods Arithmeticke upon our selves even as he that in the best imployment of his preaching tallēt in Divinitie or teaching tallent in Humanitie reading Arts Authors to others gets and gaines by Gods blessing more knowledge to b Qui docet indocto● c. Ipse brevi reliquis doctior esse queat Et scire tuum nihil est te scire hoc sciat alter himselfe both Theologicall and Morall by causing others to c Habenti dabitur Math. 25.29 know and as he that with d Iob. 29.15.16 17. Iob as a good Steward in the right dispensing of the unrighteous Mamon makes the backes and bellies of the poore to blesse him causeth also God to blesse him in the increase of his store as the Harvest to that seede that 's cast upon the e Eccles 11. v. 1 waters as the f 2. King 4.7 oyle and the g 1. King 17 16 meale of the two poore widdowes were multiplied that were so respective to the two good i Elisha Elias Prophets as Abedmelech the Ethyopian saved his owne life by saving Ieremies k Ier. 39.15.16.17 life as a rich man even in pietie and Christian pollicie increaseth his stocke of money when conscionably without any usurious contract or l It 's the compact this pactū this covenant to gaine how ever the other lose a certaine summe which makes the usury and that which bites too See D. Fentons Treatise on usurie compact of biting interest securing onely the principall he sets up or helpes the trafficke of honest and conscionable poore tradesmen participating in equitie some of their gaine as God gives a blessing to their getting thus in helping them not hindering but helping himselfe doing good to himselfe as experience hath shewed when he does good to others so in the fittest application according to my first proposition a man by blessing of God blesseth also himselfe by a necessarie consequence even as he that lookes upon the Sunne by the light sees light even as is veryfied in all histories which are the hostages of speach

that they which honour God God will honour them as he told m 1. Sam. 2. ●0 Samuel as hee honoured beleeving n Gen 12. Ge. 17 Gen. 18.17.18 Abraham in Chaldea and Mesopotamia Isaac amongst the o Ge. 26.12.28 Philistines Ioseph in p Genes 41.39.40.41 42. Egypt q Esth 6.10.11 Mordocheus r Esth 2 9 Esther ſ Dan. 2.46 48. Daniell Sydrach Mysaach and t Dan. 3.28 Abednego in Babylon u 1. Sa 18.7.16 David x 1. Sam. 3.19.20.21 Samuel and y 2. Chro. 35.18 24. Iosiah in Israell Boaz Ruth in z Ruth 4.11 Bethlem the beleeving a Math. 8.10 Centurion the Cananitish b Math. 15.28 woman the weeping c Luk. 7.44 45. Penitent the fluxe cured d Marke 5.34 Patient Devoute Mary e Ioh. 12.7 cha 20.16 Magdalen patient f Job 1.8 Iob. 42.16.17 Iob meeke g Numb 12.7.8 Iosuah 1.6 Moses publikely before the sonnes of men heraulding their prayses even in the face of their maligning or contesting enemies yea against even Sathan himselfe and his accusing sathanists On the contrarie shaming and dishonouring them that dishonour him as he veryfied as well as threatned against Hophney and h 1. Sam. 2.33 34. Phineas and the house of Israell against the Sodomites burning them with stincking i Gen. 19.24 sulphure as well as fire as their sinnes stuncke against the proud rebelling Nymrodians whose Tower he overthrew and confounded their k Ge. 11.7.8.9 language against wicked Haman all whose honours were in one houre strangled at the l Esth 7.10 Gallowes in his dogge-like death against rebelling m 2. Sam. 18.14.17 Absolon whose name now stinckes as foule as his face was once n 2 Sam. 14 25 faire against proude o Act 12.23 Herod whom the wormes eate proude Nabuchadnezar who usurping more then a man in his imagination for seven yeares was worse then a beast in state and p Dan 4 30 See how this transforming was in D Willes Hexapla in this place fate yea verifying this against his owne Israell who for their owne rebellions though they were the head yet were rhey made the tayle of other people as they were given over to the power of the q Iere. 39.9 Chaldeans r Iudges 6.2 Midianites ſ Iudges 3 14 Moabites t Iudg 13.1 Philistines at severall times but chiefly in Iehoiakim who as hee lived wickedly he died wretchedly and dishonourably having the verie buriall of an u Iere. 22.18.19 Asse none lamenting him As it was also with that blasphemous Arrius and other w Of Gods judgements against Arrius Nestorius and other heretickes and apostates See in the end of Zegedines tables in folio heretickes with Iulian and other accursed apostates with Cain x Act. 1.24.25 Iudas and other bloudie murtherers y 2. Sam. 20.22 Shebah z 1. King 2.31.32 Ioab and other Traytors with Iezabell Cleopatra Messalina a 2. King 11.16 Athalia our English Rosamond Iane Shore all other impenitent profane ones who as they lived without grace and holinesse died in disgrace without honour a debaushed life being usually accompanied with a dishonourable death even so that from this circumference I may conclude the point in the right center that soule that is active in truly blessing God is also passive in receiving blessings from God he is that truly blessed man which is described in the b Psal 1. ps 112. psalm 119 1. Math. 5.3.4.5 Psalmes and in other Scriptures all those blessings shall accrew unto him and come upon both him and his seede which Moses both c Deut. 28.1.2.3 Levit. 26.3.4 5. conditionally and d Deut. 33.6.7.8.9 absolutely pronounceth upon the Israell of God even as on the contrary he that loveth cursing the curse shall come upon him even as a stone or pellet of Lead that 's throwne up in the ayre may fall upon the head of the thrower and crush it as did that stone which an Eagle let fall upon the head of Eschylus the Poet or as a ball that 's throwne against an Iron-walle rebounds backe againe on the breast or face of the thrower as the curses of e 2. King 1● Rabsakah of f 2. Sam. 16.7.8 Semei of Balaake redounded on their owne heads not on the heads of Ezekias of David and of the Israelites as the Popes curses at this g See the book called Brutum ●ulmen day against the Orthodoxe Protestants whom he execrates under the names of Calvinists Lutherans Hugenotes Heretickes fall patt upon himselfe and the declining Sea of the Papall Hierarchie who begins to ebbe by the just revolting of Kings and Christian kingdomes from Babylon as fast as ever by the mysterious working of h Reade that noble French Morney now Englished in folio of the progresse of popery since it was first hatcht Sathan it had a time to flow the causelesse curse as an arrow shot to no purpose in the ayre ever returning in vaine So that to draw this point to a further head as the Lord is Iust lege Talionis by a just i Pana culpa protionata retaliation in other particulars to punish sin so to curse the cursers as most * See Gods hand upō those that used to curse and imprecate instanced by Kellay lib. 8. Guicardine lib. 17. in the death of Charles Duke of Burbon by Crantius libr. 6. chap. 45. by Wierus lib. 4. de Magia cap. 10. by Iohn le Gast in his Table-talke volum 2. pag. 131. by Benso in his historie of the new World lib. 2. cap. 17. by Philip Camerarius hist. Med. cap. 86. in the Tragicall ends accustomed cursers accursed according to that of the Psalmist As he loved cursing so let it come unto him as he delighted not in blessing so let it be farre from him as he clothed himselfe with cursing as with a garment so let it come into his bowels like water and like oyle into his bones let it bee unto him as the garment which covereth him and as a girdle wherewith he is girded k Psal 109. ver 17. ●8 continually so why may we not argue that by a retaliating proportionable mercie seeing both in mercie and justice the Lord keepes an Arithmeticall or Geometricall proportion in rewarding as revenging he blesseth those that blesse him and that blesse his for if he told Abraham that those who blessed him he would l Genes 12. v. 3. blesse and hath ever verified this promise in blessing and prospering the friends of the Church the spirituall seede and sonnes of Abraham as some of our m Gorlicius in axiomatibus theologicis ex Melācthone Sarigelli● alijs Neotoricis Modernes instance in the two Theodosij in Constantine in Gratian in Valentinian and other Christian Emperours who as they were nursing fathers and nursing mothers to the Church the Lord went out and in with

them and was present with them in all their affaires in warre and in peace as hee was present with o Ioshuah 1.5 Ioshuah p Iudg 6.12 Gideon q Gen 39.2.21 Ioseph r 1. Sam. 18.12 David ſ Dan. 4.5 chap. 5.12.14 Daniell and other his servāts ever also according to his threat cursing those that cursed Abraham and were malignant enemies and opposites to the true t Gene. 12. v. 3. Church his Israell veryfying and sealing all the curses in his flying booke of vengeance upon u Reade the curses threatned against Egypt Moab Ammon Edom Tyre Sidon Medea Arabia and all wicked Provinces and people in Ieremie th 25 vers 15.16.17.18.19 Moab Ammon Amalech Ieconiah Ahab Iezabell Haman Nero Caligula Iulian Antiochus Maximinus w Reade the Theater of Gods judgements in quarto written by D. Beard on which in the Titles of Apostates and bloudie persecuters these named with many moe are spectacles of vengeance Maxentius and of latter times on Iohannes de Roma Minerius Gerson Cassaneus Weston Bonner Story Gardiner and other bloudy butchering x See Master Foxe in his Booke of Martyres but especially in a booke epitomizing the Actes of the Church where you may see the ends of these named with many moe folio 377. 378. 379. 380. 382. 383. c. See also Andrew Husdore in his Theater of examples on the 3. and 4. Commandement in Latin in quarto persecutors ancient and moderne then sure as the argument holdes much more from the lesser to the greater affirmatively both Logically and Theologically the Lord will blesse those that blesse him as he will curse those that curse him If he will blesse those that blesse Abraham much more will he blesse those that blesse the God of Abraham since indeede none can blesse God cordially and sincerely but such as the Lord first inspires with his grace and spirit even as the instrument makes no sound till it first be tuned and touched with the hand of the Musitian as the Organ-pipe is not musicall but dead till it be filled with the windy bellowes from the Organist for none can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the spirit of God So that the blessing of the God of spirits with upright hearts and spirits as David and his Israelitish Elders did here being but as a sparke of the spirits fire as streames from that fountaine as reflecting beames from that Sunne it is an evident demonstration that such are truly actually really blessed already and as a preparative beaver to a greater Banquet at the supper of the y Revel 19.7 Lambe potentially to be further blessed of God in the highest heavens the throne of God the bosome of Abraham the prepared mansions and seates of the blessed All which affirmatives me thinkes have their corroboration from this Theologicall axiome that as the seale leaves the impression in the waxe be it gold or silver c. as the Sunne by reflection leaves his shaddow on the opposite cloude so what mercie soever the Lord bestowes on us as a dignitie hee workes in us the same grace demonstrating it selfe in some proportionable dutie as for instance 1. Hath the Lord elected me to life from eternitie He gives me grace to elect chuse him again to be my God 2. Hath he called me to the knowledge of his truth He gives me his spirit to call him Abba z Rom. 8.15.16 father in spirit and truth 3. Hath Christ died for me and my sinnes and risen againe for my a Rom. 5.6 justification He hath mutually given me power to die unto sinne and to rise againe to holinesse and righteousnesse of life mortification of my fleshly b Coloss 3.5 lusts and crucifying my affection by the power of his c Gal 5.24 death vivification and quickning of the spirit d Ephes 2 v. 1. by the power of his resurrection 4. Is he ascended into heaven really for me He virtually causeth me to ascend thither after him in my e Coloss 3. v. 1.2 heart affections 5. Is he my high Priest to pray for me He as his legacie to his Church bequeaths unto me the spirit of grace f Z●ch 12 10. Rom. 8.26 prayer to pray againe unto him 6. So for conclusion Doth hee blesse me with all blessing in heavenly things He gives me the heart by the same grace to blesse him againe as all his Saints have done such print and impression the seale of his spirit leaves in my heart as answerable to it selfe as face answeres face in a glasse Oh then as ever thou desires to be blessed blesse God here be not so ignorant on idle as to dreame of the kernell without breaking the g Qui vult nucem nucleum frangat shell of eating the meale without grinding in the milne of the h Beneficium postulat officium dignitie without the duetie of ever being blessed but cursed without blessing God Oh thinke on all these motives in generall everie one in particular and let them be as goades and spurres to excite thee to this pressed duetie At least let all and ever of them be so many Bittes and Bridles curbs and remoraes to restraine and keepe us from ingratitude the bane of every grace yet the ulcer and spreading leprosie and Gangreene of every place yea of this Province and our English here planted if I might digresse by expostulations CHAP. XI The application of all by comparing as and our times with Israell in all times ANd now for speciall and specificall application of all that hath beene said unto our selves to reape the harvest of all this seede and to drinke the Wine from these pressed grapes that I may Bee-like bring all these rapsodicall collections home to the English-Irish Hive of our owne Church Common-wealth all these generall motives being but preparatives to prolong and prepare the way to my intended scope or as a foundation to a subsequent building If ever Nation and people under the cope of heaven had cause and occasion to act the part of David and his worthies since they left the stage of life in blessing the Lord as the very wordes of my Text are wee are the people for in the blessings and benefits we have received from God both of adornation and preservation Spirituall and Temporall externall and internall generall and speciall our mother Albion and wee here Hybernified layd in an equall scales I will not so undervalue us to say ballanced with all the inhabitants of the Christian Pagan Papall Octoman world compared with the famousest kingdomes European Asian Affrican and American not excepting the Cham of Cathy the great Mogull the Souldan of Egypt Prester-Iohn the Kingdomes of Fez and the most flourishing that are or ever were but equally poyzed with the best people in their prime in Davids and Salomons time that ever were taken even in their best as answering all their priviledges and

motive Bristow and f De visibili Monarcha lib. 7. pag. 730. he prayseth the attempts of these Noblemen pag. 744. Hee prayseth Felton for an honourable Martyr Sanders yea applauded and approved by many Seminarie Priests chiefly by Campian their chiefe g As appeares by his ten Reasons in his Oxford Oration confuted learnedly by Doctor Humfrey champion who for all his cunning h The Deane of Pauls and Windsor disputing with him found him verie subtile sophistrie was found to have a hand and a heart for treason and suppressed by these wise and Martiall worthies which her Majestie imployed in that behalfe as also to survey againe that other conspiracie intended Norfolke but discovered and crusht in the shell and the the chiefe agents executed as also the treason of the Duke of Norfolke and after of the Earle of Northumberland who as hee had a hand in the Northerne rebellion as well as his brother which by the Queenes mercie was remitted entred into a new plot of invading the land as an agent in Throgmortons treason a conspirator with Charles Paget an intended assistant to the Duke of Guize to bring in a forreine Catholicke Prince of which the Popes holinesse had a principall care as also si fas dicere not to be so unmindefull of Gods former mercies no more then David was of his preservation from a Lion and a i 1. Sam. 17.34.35 Beare or Moses for the overture of Israels Egyptian enemies in the red k Exod. 15. Sea or Deborah of Iabins drowning in the River l Iudg. 5. Kishon as to pretermit the discomfiture of that Catholicke m Anno 15●8 fleete which the pride of Popish Proselites called the invincible Armado by one onely n Sir Francis Drake Drake with some principall o As Charles Lord Howard high Admirall Lord Thomas Howard the Lord Sheffield with other brave spirits besides swiming amongst them with his woodden p So are Ships called walles with the helpe of the windes and waves of the Sea which from the God of the Sea fought against them as the Sunne once fought against the q Iosh 10.12 Amorites and the starres against r Iudg. 5.20 Sisera and for us as once for that good ſ Oh ●timium dilecte Deo ●ui militat aether coniurati vaniun● ad classica venti c. Theodosius with no lesse glorie to our English then that valourous Greeke had who with his handfull of a few hundreds overthrew that numerous river-drinking cloude-threatning Armie of the Persian Zerxes I say to pretermit these publike dangers with our deliverances managed by all the might and malice prowesse and pollicie of the arme of flesh as also these Priests and Romish Proselites that were deservedly cut off at Tyburne and their treacherous hearts cut out as denying the Queenes supremacie and so consenting unto if not contriving the most horrible treasons amongst the which were Iohnson Forde Shert Kirby Filby Cotton Richardson so to leave others as unworthie naming pestilent vermine or croaking frogges crawling out of the Romish Tyber or as Locusts from the bottomlesse pit to disturb our peace or indanger our Princesse how odious the naming as of a Iew or Iudas how horrid the remembrance as once of him that burned Dianas Temple of these men monsters inhumane Canibals yea generation of vipers that besides strangers and forreiners attempted as by the Devill and Priests first tempted to gnaw the very bowels that bred them yea to lay their bloudie hands on the Lords anoynted a Princesse the most free from vices the most famous for Artes partes and vertues that these moderne admiring times ever look't upon amongst the which that smooth Parasiticall Parry whose sparkes of treason being kindled by the words and writings of the carnall Cardinall Como and inflamed by a Booke of one Doctor Collins sent him out of France in which there were as many warrants for treasons as words and discovered partly by his owne tongue to an Esquire one Nevill and partly by the wisedome of some t The Earle of Leycester and Sir Christopher Hatton counsellours they were quenched smothered and strangled at Westminsters Pallace where hee was executed and another bird of the same feather Francis Throgmorton who by the encitement of one Ienny at the Spaw in the countrie of Leige and Sir Francis Englefield in the Low-Countries with thē confederacie of one Charles Paget alias Mope alias Spring was made an agent and instrument of discoverie of the most fit and convenient Havens for the landing of such forreine forces as if the great Lord Protectour of England had not prevented and restrained had supplanted us and planted themselves with all the tayle and traish of their Idolatrous worship In the third ranke as rancke Traytors as the rest were Anthonie Babington the head of his confederates as u Act. 1.16 Iudas was of those that apprehended Christ who with thirteene ungentle young Gentlemen moe bound themselves by Oath as those fortie Iewes that vowed the death of Saint w Act. 22.13.14 Paul that by murthering the Queenes Majestie they would eyther settle their Pope againe in his former estate in England or else as deservedly they did reckoning without their hoste even the God of hostes and swimming against the streame even die the death In the same predicament was our x Borne in Tonlerton neer Yorke Yorke-shire Weldon Sutton Hartley priests like Simeon and y Gen. 49.5.6 Levy brethren in bloud hearted like the rest for the invasion of the land the surprizing of the Tower of London the firing of the Citie the killing of some privie z Chiefly the Earle of Leicester was assigned to the pot Counsellors and other such like Catholicall meritorious deedes all drinking of that bloudie cup as freely as a Apud Instin Satiate sanguine quem sitists Tomiris caused Cyrus which they had brewed for us The same poysonous bloudie cup was attempted to be brewed mixed administred by Doctor Lopez the Queenes Physitian with his confederates Stephano de Ferrara de Gama Manuell Lewis Tivaco Portingals with his pension of fiftie thousand Crowne promised for poysoning the Queene by Count Fuentes Secretario Ibarra as Iudas was promised thirtie peeces of silver for betraying of Christ and Ecchius promised a Bishopricke or great b Of which missing he raved and died benefice for disputing at least rayling against Luther Neyther was the treason of Yorke and Williams lesse dangerous lesse monstrous lesse malicious who by the Consultation holden at Bruxels to murther the Queene whereof the Devill that murtherer from the beginning was president as these holy Fathers in the Councell of Trent consulted how to poyson soules and their forefathers the Pharisees how to murther Christ their holy brethren of the Inquisition how to murther his Protestant professed Christians these with one Owens an English rebell were thought the fittests agents of which bloudie purpose fayling with

the earth as Paulus Emilius that died in Cynna Titus Gracchus in Lucania Augustus Caesar in Nola Traian the good Emperour in the East part of the d De istis omnibus vide apud Fulgosum Brusonium Lycosthenem Textorem Zwingerum in Theatro world Secondly when I consider how many renowned yong Princes beauteous blossoms of excellent luster have been in their verdant spring as a tryall or punishment to their subjects cut off from the Tree of life cropt by that blatrant beast death their Sun setting on a suddaine even in the first rising or in their height solstitiü going backe againe by degrees as the Sun in Ahaz e 2. King 20.11 Diall 1. Sometimes eclypsed by the immediate hand of God as that zealous yong Prince Edward the VI. and the staffe of our hopes our so lamented Iosiah that so faire promising Heroes whom as one cals Iulius Scaliger Picus Mirandula we may truly call worthy wonderful spirit now translated to the God of spirits 2. some made away by the malice of man by treasonable plots and conspiracies as Britanicus the sonne of Claudius slain by Nero in the 14 yere of his age the nephews of Richard the 3 the Duke of Clarence his mate rooted out by the bloudy Celidonian Bore in their springing buddes 3. yea some exposed to death in their very infancie as Romulus Renus that Lamusius that was cast into a ditch young Cyrus by his grandsire Astyages c. Some by this meanes perishing though some againe as these nominated marvailously preserved 4. some cut off by the sword of the enemie as Iosiah by Pharaoh f 2. Chro. 35.23.24 Necho that loving Ionathan by the sword of the g 1. Sam. 31.2 Philistines Ladyslaus the yong King of Bohemia slaine by the Turke in a fatall battle together with Hippolitus h This Iulius perswaded the young king to breake his league and sworn truce with the Turke by which he perished Iulius Cardinals that held themselves in their pride as good as Princes in the 21. yeare of his age 5. others cut off by sicknesses incurable diseases or other dismall accidents from which the Diadems of Emperors the k Mors sceptra ligonibus aequās Crownes of Kings the Myters of Popes are not exempted as Hierome Vrsmus who died of a wound which hee received in Rome Henry Rauzovius crushed to death by a fall in the waters Medices the father to the great Duke of Hetruria slaine by the breach of a Gun as also Heraclas Constantine with moe that might be named all these yeelding the dew to death their debts to nature in the 28. yeare of their age some by one meanes some by another together with Lodowicke the yong king of Hungary that as he was eagerly pursuing the Turks was found dead in a quagmire in the 20 yeare of his age But in the third place when I seriously ponder paralelling histories with our present times not onely the perils and pikes that great Princes have past in their expeditions by land as many Princes and noble Peeres of Christendome cut off in their severall unwarrantable voyages which in their blinde zeale devious devotion they unitedly undertooke for the recoverie of Ierusalem the holy land from the Turke But horresco referens when I deepely ponder the perils by Sea so many so dangerous as the Psalmist l Psalm 65.7 reveales as experience knowes as holy Saints even m Act 27.14 15 Paul himselfe and the disciples of our n Math. 28. ●4 Saviour have tried from which even Kings and Princes have not beene exempted the pietie of that Troyan o Pius Aentas á pietate in Patrem in patriam Aeneas the greatnesse and power of Zerxes or Artaxerxes the felicitie and fortunes of p Caesarem veha● fortunas c. Caesar as hee cald them being but meane Orators and unprevailing pleaders to stay the rage of angrie Neptune when blustring Aeolus hath stird and exasperated him that he roars and fomes insomuch that the wise Byas held Sea-men to be neyther amongst the q Nec inter vivos nec inter mortuos living nor amongst the dead it 's fathered of Cato that he resolved amongst other things never to goe by sea when hee might goe by land to which perils if we credit r A little book newly extant of the Prince his returne Mendoza which now speakes English even his Highnesse was subjected in two or three particulars from which the divine providence mercifully preserved him Yea when I consider how many Princes Peeres great personages have perished in by the Sea in which they have bin intombed in their watry graves as the Egyptian Pharaoh Aegeus of Athens Aiax of Greece Leander of Abaddon yea in our owne Realmes a King a Queene that as that ſ Icarus icarij● nomina feci● aquis Ovid. Icarus before them from being drowned in the waters gave denomination to the waters commenting these many moe examples with that proverbiall adage verified daily by experience that quod cuiquam id cuivis what happens to any one may happen to every one and notwithstanding as I said before all these justly feared stormes which might have befalne us in the leaving or losing of our Prince at home or abroad by sea or by land laying to heart the perils that Kings t As Humber deviding Yorkshire and Lincolneshire and Queene Hive princes are subjected unto even whē they are at home amongst their friends favorites as they thinke even in their Castles their Courts their Pallaces secured by their guard as Eglon slaine by Ehud even in his owne parlour Iudg. 3. vers 22 23. Ishboseth murthered by Baanah and u 2. Sam. 4. vers 5.6 Rehab even in his own bedchamber as Plautinus in the like case thought to have dispatched Alexander Severus by the meanes of w The history is at large in Guevara in the life of Severus Secundus as Iudith dealt with Hollosernes in the w Iudith 13.7.8 Apocrypha as the two sonnes of Senacharib with their father whom they slaughtered as he was at his Idolatrous sacrifice much more subjected to more eminent immanent dangers abroad where they know not their friends from their foes yet notwithstanding all these doubts dangers these perils occasioning our perplexitie that good Angell that went out with him as with x Chap. 48 16. Iacob to Padam Aram with Abrahams servant to y Gen. 24.7 Mesopotamia and with that Tobiah in the Apocrypha being his fidus Achates by land his Palinurus best Pilot by Sea his bonus Genius if everie man as everie province much more every a This question Iustine Martyr expounded q. 30. and later our Master Calvine lib. 1. Instit cap. 14.7 The mayor part of all the Fathers the schoolemen affirme it as Clemens Alexandrinus lib. 6. stromat Orig hom 8. in Gen.

Basil in Psal 33. Epiphan Mer. 51. Chrys ho. 3. ad c. 1. ad Coloss Cyril lib. 4. contra Iul. Procopius cum cateris grounding on Gen. 48.16 on Math. 18. vers 10. and on Act. 12.11.15 Prince have his bonus Genius his protecting Angel both by land and sea in every coast countrey where he came having reduced brought him backe again after this large circumference to the English Court his own center in health honour prosperitie and safetie both in bodie and soule not somuch as the least infected dust cleaving to his feete much lesse any corrupted Popish ayre infect his royall bloud such was the antydote preservative of grace of which his highnesse hath given more then Mathematicall demonstration even since his comming home Oh this is a mercie to his highnesse in particular to the land realme all us in generall interested in him past expression Chiefly whē I consider how unworthy we have walked of former mercies how like these nine clensed lepers we have beene b Luk. 17.16.17 unthankefull how there is at this day a controversie whether God is more mercifull to us or wee more sinfull against him we wounding the Lord with his own weapons abusing our peace plentie all other Tallents as Bawdes Panders to uncleanesse as fuell to the fire of our licentiousnesse as if a whorish woman should with these Iewels love tokens she receives from her husband mantaines an adulterous lover or a favorite with these lands revenues he hath received from his Prince assist animate a professed rebell wee imploying still Gods favours in the service of sinne sathan our sinnes like Ierusalems yea like c Ezeth 16.49 Sodoms pride idlenesse fulnesse of bread yea fulnesse foulnesse of drinke too extortion oppression increasing and springing with our blessings the sins of every countrey the German drunknesse Asian luxurie Cretian lying Carthaginian perfidiousnesse Italian wantonnesse Iewish usurie Turkish crueltie the French complementall formality with the vices vanities of every other Nation meeting in our land as in their Center entertained retained as Lawyers their Clients Physitians their Patients Noble-men their jeasters fooles because they bring sackes to our Milnes pleasures to our mindes or profites to our purse c. Yea withall when I ponder too how little use we have made of the Lords judgements plagues pestilence dearths inundations of waters sicknesses diseases deaths of the Honourable of the Martiall of the Senatour of the d Esai 3.1.2.3 Counsellour that have beene taken from us but chiefly the eclypsing of that bright sun that once shined so gloriously in our hemispher th' death of that our Illustrious farre famoused Prince Henry as greivous to our hearts as the death of that worthie e By the malice of Roxama cut off by his bloudy father Solyman in any great thing that happens the proverbe is Mustapha is dead Mustapha was once to his Martiall Ienisaries or the death of that noble Zisca to his zealous valerous Bohemians of whose death in not dying since to any sinne as humbled by this judgement we have made so little use that by our greivous provocations and as a just punishment of our former ungratious ingratitudes in the absence of our Prince the Lord having lately the Ball at his foote as hee hath ever to goale it to our griefe whereas hee might have brought on us now stouping plague indeede and have payed us home once for all by many meanes which I leave to all Christian hearts to excogitate yet when wee experimentally see that as in the first creation hee hath brought light out of darkenesse good out of our feared evill glory to himselfe prayses to his Majestie as before prayers for the preservation of our thrice honoured Prince Is not all this the Lords doings and it is marvailous in our eyes Oh if David and his Nobles were thankefull for the mercies towards their Salomon the instrumentall builder of their materiall let us be thankefull for our Salomon the builder of the spirituall Temple the propagator and continuer of true Religion the planter of Gods true worship the supplanter of Idolatrie If Cain bee avenged seven times then Lamech seventie times said that f Genes 4.24 Polygamist If the Iewes have cause of gratulation seaven times for Gods mercies towards their Church and Common-wealth Kings and people wee have occasion seventie times seven times If the undersong of Davids Psalmes much more of our spirituall Hymnes may well runne in this torrent to the God of mercies for his mercie endureth for g Psal 136. per totum ever Oh then let all of us this day this houre with our mother great Britaine by all meanes expresse our thankfulnesse by our rejoycings in the outward and inward man Blow with your Trumpets as in the new Moone strike your Drummes advance your pikes I wish I could say as in England ring your Bells make your bonfires sound your Cornets display your Banners charge and discharge your Guns apply your powder make good use of Match or as more certaine use your fire lockes march like Martialists daunce your measures as David did before the Arke Let the day of our preservation from the powder treason of the Coronation of our King the reduction of the Prince be to us as the Iewes h ●●●h 9.26 Purim let them be writ in red Letters inserted in our Calender but for ever these mercies with their memorials let them be as Moses commands i Deut. 6.6.7.8 Israell be ingraven better then in Brasse and Marble in the Tablets of our gratefull hearts perpetuated traditionarily to our Children children Let our Hearts Lives Loves Votes Voyces Tongues Soules Spirits joyne with all the blessed Quyre of Angels in Heaven and Saints in Earth for all his mercies to praise the father of mercies the God of spirits To whom bee honour and glorie of us and in all Churches for ever and ever Amen FINIS ERRATA Sic Correcta 1. Iaunnus for Janus pag. 9. post literam f. 2. optative for operative p. 12. initio pagina 3. God for good ibid. 4. Denuntion for denuntiation initio pag 20.5 Farnestius for Far●●sius initio pag. 24. 6. of for oft pag. 43. Sect. 6. lit c pag. 46. in fine sect 6. those words must headded post verbum Queene Mary with many moe doe sympath●●e one with another and hang together like burres 7. Zinick for Zurick p. 51. post lit y 8. wafted for wafted p. 53 post lit b 9. Menius for Mevius p. 59 post q 10 pag. ●6 in fine pawne they for they pawne 11 p. 97. prolonging for prolonging post f 12 p. 99 pri●●aces for privaces linea prima 13. p. 104. post u bewitching for butchering 14. p. 106. Zapirus for Zopir●s post f 15. p. 110. mike for milke post w pag. 111. in lit m it is for is it 16 pag. 136. chippe for chirpe post lit z 17 p. 138. initiation for imitation post lit p In the Margino also there be some maine defects which yet with your pen may be cured pag. 25. lit x Bols●ecus for Bolsecus p. 33. lit q Magnetis nigra for Mira pag. 120. lit f adde to intolerable pride deleatur where Caesar make it as Pelargus of the p. 9● lit s Hexapla in Lucadum for in Exodum with sodoe other of lesse moment