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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

GOD In the Mount Or Englands Remembrancer Being a Panegyrick Piramides erected to the everlasting 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 the unworthie admirer of them JOHN VICARS Jehova-jireh Genes 22. 14. I will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart and wil shew forth all thy marvellous works Psal 9. 1. Commit thy cause to God which doth great things and unsearchable marvellous things without number Job 5. 8 9. Deut. 33. 29. Happie art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O People saved by the Lord the sheild of thy help and who is the sword of thine excellencie And thine enemies shall be found lyers unto thee and thou shalt tread on their high places Psal 111. 2 3 4. The works of the Lord are great sought-out of all them that have pleasure therin His works are honourable and glorious and his righteousnesse endureth for ever He hath made his wondrous works to be remembred the Lord is gracious and full of compassion LONDON Printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons for John Rothwell and Thomas Vnderhill 1642. TO THE ETERNALL ALMIGHTY AND MOST GLORIOUS WONDER-WORKING INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND INDIVISIBLETRINITIEIN UNITIE JEHOVAH-JIREH GODIN THE MOVNT J. V. HIS MOSTUNWORTHIE AND SINFULL SERVANT DOTH DEDICATE AND CONSECRATE BY CHRIST JESUS HIS ONLY MERITS AND MEDIATION HIM-SELF AND THESE HIS POOR LABOVRS TO HIS EVERLASTING PRAISE AND GLORY TO THE RIGHT Honourable thrice Noble and illustrious Senatours of the House of Peers in Parliament TO OUR Trulie Honourable and most renowned Patriots the House of Commons in Parliament RIght Noble Lords and Englands Commons rare For whom the Lord hath joyn'd disjoyn who dare Your humble Servant Vowed Votarie Hath to Heav'ns-Honour And your Memorie ☞ * Most humblie this Pyramides erected Hopefull by your just power to be protected From sturdiest Stormes which Mischiefs mightiest blast May dare on It or your blest actions cast By foule aspersions Causelesse Calumnies To rob-both us and you Of our fair prize ☞ * Even happy Halcyor daies Which God by you Begins to bring To blessed Britains view Whose eyes and heart late full of frights and tears Your untyr'd Prudence Providence re-chears Courage great Patriots God is on your side Whiles you do to his Gospel close abide ☞ * Go on like Davids Worthies valiantly To curb and crush Truths-foes-malignity Go on I say like Nehemiah's brave Like Ezra's and Zorobabels most grave To work a pure A perfect Reformation As men most famous In your generation ☞ * Yea most renowned To Posteritie As Faiths fast friends And props of Veritie As wise Repairers of those Breaches great Which did both Church and State so sorely threat Go on though you great obstacles endure Sol shines most clear though clouds It oft obscure Heav'n crown your Counsels still with good successe And you and yours for all your labours blesse So ever prayeth Your most humbly devoted John Vicars TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL HIS MOST WORTHY and ever most highly honoured good friends Sir RICHARD SPRIGNALL Sir IOHN WOLLASTONE Alderman PENNINGTON and Alderman WARNER Together with each of their most truly virtuous and pious Consorts my singular good friends All of them eminent Patrons and Patterns of Piety Vertue Religion and Learning J. V. unfainedly prayeth the most happie fair and full fruition of the glorious effects of the plenarie-Reformation intended by this pious Parliament here And of the Saints celestiall beatificallvision in Heaven hereafter HAving by Gods good hand of providence and direction Right Worshipfull and my most highly honoured good friends undertaken a subject of Gratitude to our holy God in this succeeding historicall narration of all his wonder-striking Parliamentarie-mercies to us of this English-Nation in generall I could not but reflect my serious thoughts on your Worships as most worthie objects also of my thankefull heart for many singular favours and courtesies toward me in particular And somuch the rather because of that which Chrysostome in his 51 Homilie on Genesis hath as sweetly as succinctly touched Nihil tam gratum Deo homini quam anima grata gratias agens Nothing in the world is so acceptable to God or man as a gratefull-heart and a thankefultongue The due and deep consideration whereof I say hath made me most desirous as most bounden to tender this ●umbl● and plain-sti●'d historie of Englands God in the Mount of Mercies ●r Englands Remembrancer of gratitude to God for all the Parliamentarie precious blessings most fully and freely conferred or rather poured-down upon her within these 2 yeers last past as a ●estimonie of my most thankfull-heart to your good Worships for many both publike and private favours to me and mine Which historie though I ingenuously acknowledge it might well have befitted a far more fluent and high-soaring rhetori●all-Penman than my poor and plain unworthie-self yet since it hath pleased the Lord that my poor zeal for Gods glorie hath thus prevented them I most humbly hope and heartily desire candide and courteous acceptance of it and of my sincere desire and endeavour mainly to manifest my infinitely obliged gratefull-heart first to our ever-living and ever-loving wonder-working Lord God next to our most Pious Patriots his precious Agents and instruments in these great and glorious works and then to your worthie selves my much honoured friends Which my endeavour herein though short I say of your judicious exp●ctation and of the histories due desert yet hoping it may remain as a pledge of my plighted humble services and bounden gratitude and as the best Barthol'mew-faring which my poor abilitie was able to present to your good Worships with the humble tender also of m● heartiest poor prayers to the throne of grace for all sanctified sublunarie blessings and celestiall soul-cheering graces on you and a●l yours I ever rest Your good Worships in the Lord to be alwayes commanded JOHN VICARS GOD IN THE MOVNT OR ENGLANDS REMEMBRANCER THE omnipotent and omniprudent great God of heaven and earth having by his unsearchable wisdom unresistible power and most pure and inculpable righteousnesse from all eternitie both fore-seen and preordained the wayes and means of manifesting and declaring to the world his two especiall and most glorious attributes of Mercie and Justice Mercie on his elect and choice vessels of honour and justice on the forsaken vessels of wrath those devoted vassals of the devill and both these in that admirable Master-piece of his workmanship of the world Man Who as the Prophet David saies of himself was fearfully and wonderfully made And for this and and purpose having put this excellent creature Man into a most pure and perfectly holy condition placing him in Eden or Paradise a place of most wonderfull delight and admirable varietie of sense-affecting contentments and having also

of Fame shall most worthily sound out to posteritie and crown his temples with never withering-wreathes of laurell-branches who had no sooner espied them but most fiercely and furiously he set upon their whole formidable Spanish Fleet gave them such battering broad sides and such Canon-thundring and powder-roaring salutations as quickly puld down their so late so lofty Spanish pride and maugre all their espani●lized bravadoes the utmost strength of their strongest vessels was so batter'd and bruis'd their falsly suppos'd impenitrable ribs and big-swoln bellies so peir●'t and pestred that they quickly queld their courage fir'd sunk and took many of their greatest ships and dissipated and scatter'd the rest from our coasts few of them escaping the heroick Hollanders martiall violence to our great though unsensible yet unspeakable comfort and security we our selves not having strook one streak in our own defence nay t is well if we did not yeeld the Spaniards supplie of powder and other necessaries that time to our own destruction had not God thus strangely and strongly withstood it Say then O England did not Jehovah our great Lord and God most apparently appear now in the Mount for thy mightie deliverance did he not make good his word and promise by his holy Prophet That no weapon forged against thee shall prosper and every tongue that riseth against thee in judgement thou shalt condemne Certainly if ever at this time was this prophesie most exactly made good to England and to our faithfull brethren of Scotland For what sharp and death-wounding weapons have been forged against us both abroad and at home what slanderous tongues have risen up in judgement yea in most false iudgement against both us and them calling and counting Gods beloved ones among us factious and seditious and among our honest brethren of Scotland traitors and rebels as hath been formerly touched but now we have seen to the high honour of God and ioy of our hearts that none of their weapons have prosper'd against us yea their slanderous tongues which so falsely iudged us and our beloved brethren we have condemned to the clear eyes of all men that wilfully look not a squint on all iust things For hath not this our most noble and renowned Parliament together with the Kings full content and consent therein proclaimed our brethren of Scotland the Kings most faithfull and loyall Subiects Confirmed a fair and full Pacification and union of firm love and mutuall defence twixt us and them and the Kingdom of Ireland with an Act of oblivion of all mistakes and misconceits on either side all these I say ratified by a blessed Act of Parliament Yea and that which adds no small lustre to it that it hath hereby freed us from civill-wars which of all warres are most uncivill from intestine wars wars that would have eaten-out our own bowels from wars I say of Christians with Christians yea of Protestants with Protestants which of all wars could not but have been most fell and fatall O who then can see these things these miracles of mercies without deep admiration and holy adoration of our great God Who can forbear to break-out into cordiall praises to raise-up trophies of everlasting fame and honour to our great and glorious Lord and King Who can chuse but ingenuously acknowledge with holy David That we got not these good things into our possession by our own sword neither did our own arm save us But thy right hand O Lord and thine arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a love unto us Thou art our King O command deliverance still to thy poor worm Jacob. For through thee alone shall we pull-down our enemies through thy Name onely shall we tread them under that rise up against us T●● thou O God that risest up in judgement to save all thy weak-ones on earth turning the rage and furie of man into thy praise and making the remainder of their wrath to obey thee A most remarkable mercie was it also that the Lord put into the hearts of the renowned Scaligers of our corrupted times for the better purifying not onely of the conduit-pipes of Justice to begin as about this time to put pious and noble Peers into places of honour trust and power that thus the stern of government may be the more happily steered with uprightnesse and impartialitie To which purpose as a main help thereto they have most happily taken away that State-staggering Star-Chamber-Court dissolved and dissipated into smoke the crushing-Courts of the President and Councell of the North and limited and co fined the unlimited bounds of businesses at the Councell-Table but also to scoure the muddie and even stinking channels of wrong and oppression by easing the Common-wealth of those living-grievances thereof a great advantage to the peace and tranquility of the State I mean those evill Counsellers and Officers of State who had been principall actors of all our foresaid miscries and mischiefs making thereby as it were a plaster to heal the deadly wounds of Church and State and most hopefully to recover the almost incureable diseases of the Kingdom by a plaister I say of the blood of that insulting arch-traitor the Earl of Straford who as he had well-nigh stabd the State to the heart by his deep and most dangerous plots both abroad and at home So the stroak of Justice retaliated with blood his most bold and bloodie designes maugre all his slyest shufflings and crafty jeerings of the Law to have eluded it and thereby hoping to have prevented the said just vengeance on him And here by the way I desire the Reader to take notice of Gods most equall and upright wayes and dealings with wicked ungodly and blood-thirstie men how exactly he repayes the bloody plots and purposes of all proud and ambitious Hamans in their own coyn as here is most perspicuously seen in this our English-Haman who in his heart had vow'd the wrack and ruine of all Gods faithfull ones in England Scotland and Ireland at the least But we have happily seen this proud Haman the first that felt the due stroke of justice to the honour of God and the terrour of all such daring traytors And as for the rest of that rabble I may here take-up that of the holy Prophet David How long will ye imagine mischief against men ye shall be slain all the pack of you for as a bowing or tottering-wall shall ye be and as a rotten fence Tremble therefore at this all ye perfidious conspiring Sh●ba's and fear in time such just retaliation Certainly There is none like unto thee O Lord thou art great and thy Name is great in might Who would not fear thee O King of Nations for to thee it doth indeed appertain to do justice and take revenge for as much as among all the wise men of the world and in all their Kingdoms there is none like unto thee