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A54509	Gods doings, and mans duty opened in a sermon preached before both Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, and the assembly of divines at the last thanksgiving day, April 2, for the recovering of the West, and disbanding 5000 of the Kings horse, &c., 1645 /1645 / by Hugh Peters ...	Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing P1704; ESTC R6885	39,929	55

but of two of the whole Army infected all the yeare 28 And mercy it is that in the Army there hath been no breath that through Grace Religion growes there and growes apacet yea this is your safety that what is desired in the Parliament by the most faithfull is there consulted and acted as God gives opportunity 29 The Lord hath made this Army often more then Conquerours the Roman conquerours rode boasting in their triumphant chariots here no boasters 30 God hath often extorted confessions from the Enemy that some have been forced with Juliun to cry out Vicisti Galil●● 31 Providence carried out Army the other side Exeter even by the sicknesse in it and barrennesse of our quarters and the Enemies advance toward us where how the Lord helpt at Dartmouth stormed without losse and in other places is fresh in memory 32 Their debau 〈…〉 ery in all places made way for our welcome that if the cause should be judged by their instruments a very stranger must passe a sad verdict upon it 33 Such horror possest them every where in pursuit of them at great distances that the Lord seemed to send a hornet before us and Magor●issabi● they were a terror to themselves and this is remarkable that after they had fel● our Horse or Foot they had no list to close with u● again though they took much time to recruit their spirits 34 The work of a Summer hath been done this Winter where I learned this lesson That faithfull honest English Christians assisted from Heaven can do and suffer more then the most gallant heathen Roman What mountains of Snow and Ice have been marcht over this winter what Rains and Winds have been gone through even to silence the Posting Hannibals or Cunctating Fabii 35 All the Enemies actions and counsels have turned to our advantage and we have been gainers by our losses generally As in the losse of Bristol we found the way to it by the losse at first view we saw it was not tenable with so little force which easily acquits that wise and valiant Gentleman that surrendred it Yea their idol Princes God hath made usefull to us many wayes by sleeping when they should fight and fighting when it had been better they had slept 36 That in all the harrased and plundered Countries God hath fed your Army and at Dartmouth fish brought in to us from the sea to miracle the Country acknowledging that generally we have been welcome where we came many with teares have parted with us at their doors 37 The influence the Justice of the Army hath had upon all forts most observable For instance when the Lieut. Generall had taken Langford house and promised safe convoy to the Enemy to Oxford six of our troopers brake the articles and in the convoy took four or five pound from some of them for which one was presently to be shot and the lot fell upon the first attempter who was put to death and I hope is in heaven being godly as farre as could be discerned the other five were sent to the Governour of Oxford to put to what death he pleased who entertained them nobly sent them back and desired their lives and profest in his letter which I read it was the highest peece of gallantry he had met with c. This very act with the many civilities of the Army hath been very conquering Justice exalteth a Nation Et Caesar in hoste probat Call to any County and ask what wrong your Army hath done them have you any scrols of complaints come up against them 38 And which is much to be remembred this day all Cornwall upon the matter is yours without blood and 5000 horse with their riders disbanded and as if this were not enough Ashley rai 〈…〉 ng a new force is crushed in the egge 39 And this is worth noting that the inhumanity our former Army met with in Cornwal was requited by the Turk fetching away many from Foy neer two hundred and divers taken away by sicknesse at Lestithiel that had abused our poor Souldiers 40 Nor is it a little that all the Nations round about us should be engaged in war and whilst they hoped this Civil combustion might so weaken us that it would not have been hard for them to fall upon the stronger party the Lord hath made us warlike awaked us throughly out of our effeminacie and we are become formidable to our neighbours Especially remember Denmark 41 Hereunto I adde what was not thought on in the appointment of this Day being the second of Aprill The second of April last yeare this Army advanced and was the first day of entertainment They say it is April ●b aperiendo from opening the Earth the Lord then opened a way to your deliverance the same hand open your hearts now to praises and thankfulnesse 42 Hereunto I might adde the Cities sweet compliance with the Parliament yea what oyle the footsteps of God have dropt within the wals of the Parliament houses what providences and blessed hints in your Militia and Common-Councel what in your Assembly is better known to your selves then me and what in the North and other parts I might even tyre you with the repetitions of what you have felt and tasted from the hands of mercy You have done like your selves to constitute Chronologers and you need have good testimonies for Ages to come will look upon many passages a● incredible and I beleeve the yeare 45 will stand parallel with 88. In a word You have the Army you wished for and the Successes you desired Oh the blessed change we see that can travell now from Edenburgh to the lands end in Cornwal who not long since were blockt up at our doors To see the high-wayes occupied again to heare the Carter whistling to his toiling team to see the weekly Carrier attend his constant mart to see the hils rejoycing the vallies laughing Nay me thinks I see Germany lifting up her lumpish shoulder and the thin-cheekt Palatinate looking out a prisoner of hope Ireland breathing again that not only lay bedrid but the pulse beating deathward the over-awed French Peasant studying his long lost liberty the Netherlanders looking back upon their neighbouring England who cemented their wals with their blood and bought their freedome with many many thousands of good old Elizabeth shillings Indeed me thinks all Protestant Europe seems to get new colour in her cheeks Dumb Rhetorick is best I could even stand silent and give you time to wonder And this God is your God and I trust will be your guide for ever I could name men but cannot read one word that way in my Commission from the Army who like the covered stals in your chief street of this city are willing to beare the rich Plate but themselves must be vailed else I could tell you of Men yea such as if you had a Blank sent from Heaven and leave given to have written what names you would have had of men for your

patimur mala saevior armie Luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem We could never have suffered so much by a forraign enemy as by our home-bred luxury and wantonnesse Oh call these ill times when a base messenger from a proud Prelate could shut up these doors stop the mouths of the most godly Ministers that the best noble-man here could not enjoy the worship of God freely and hardly his Bible without reproach I am bold to say you have heard more of Christ within these last foure yeares then you have for forty before call such dayes good And more especially to improve what I have spoken in the doctrinall part truly the Lord hath rightly timed his favours even when he might most advance his own wisdom power and mercy when he might stir up his gifts and graces in you if the enemy ask after our Prayers Fasts Tears yea our God as they were wont to do we have all these this day from Edge-hill and before even to this very hoare yea all these preservations have been so seasonable that what time we our selves would have chosen hath been Gods time that we may say as David in this Psalm Our times have been in thy hands O Lord And I humbly beseech you give the Spirit of the Lord its praise who hath done the work The Lord is willing you should have the mercy so he may have the prayse Potiphar lets Joseph h●●e the use of all he hath onely keep● his wife to himself Pharaoh lets him have the Kingdom but he will keep the Throne Gods Spirit hath so appeared as we conclude means can do nothing without him but he can do all without meanes and what meanes doth is all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be it is that hath quickned and succeeded your counsels and executions he hath even gone against 〈◊〉 and beyond means for you he it is who hath spirited all your endeavours in Counsels and Armies raised help for you out of the very dust Externall motive he hath none from us who are not the loveliest people in the world he hath from himself over a w●d men powred contempt upon Princes taking away the occasions of many evils met the proud in their full career and wither'd their arm often kept them from us by strange diversions fill'd the world with tumults that you might not be a prey to strangers On the riches of his grace His own righteousnesse and holinesse have thus perswaded him to do the glory of his mercy hath been his argument his wisedom and faithfulnesse have been glorious in preserving crums and clusters The very Truths now profest have been rak'd up in contemptible ashes and now revealed to the world and they that are wise shall see the loving kindnesse of the Lord in all For the proud doer so called because a contemner of the faithful you see how the Lord hath resisted him and hath taken him in his moneth as the wilde Asse in Job you may remember how the Egyptian King out-lived many miracles but must perish in the Red-sea whether Red from the sand thereof or the blood of many he spilt I will not dispute You know how the Lord hath been provoked by the low price set upon his holinesse and his image in his Saints the peculiar sin of this Nation for travell where you will even from hence to the Garamants you shall never find but the Z●lots in other parts of the world are honored onely in England Ludibrium vulgo It hath long been a crime to be godly and he hath been a lost man that trades that way whilst a company of obsolete and beggerly rudiments and ceremonies have been billeted upon Gods ordinances and eat out the very heart of them double Service and no Preaching Nay you have lived to see Iniquitie in the fulnesse of it Oaths and blasphemies unparallel'd yea when one of our Troopers reproved one of theirs in Cornwal for swearing he was answered by that prophane mouth He would sweare as long as he was on horse-back he should have time enough to repent on foot nay they would serve the Devil now that he might use them kindly when they came to hell the very Sunne might even blush looking upon such mise●●ants Of this fulnesse you have seen the magnitude multitude measure strength age growth d 〈…〉 ity imp●dence and the good God grant we may see the period How the Lord hath paid them in their own coyn you have many witnesses They would have war they have it the sword must decide the controve●sie let God Angels and men give the verdict and let it be carried down to after-ages that God plenteously rewardeth the proud doer or that a Parliament and faithfull Councel to a State may live in the midst of the fury of an implacable Prince and his ●a●e wigs Adde this that you have been eare and eye witnesses of the pr●ud mens disappointments after all their labour and travels their inventions have been many for mischief which have been cherified by affection formed by consultations and Juncto● and made ready for birth by many resolutions which have held as high as Brainford what inland and forreign conceptions of this kind have we met with Plot upon Plot designe upon designe Speak London hath it not been so Let us now remember the time of travelling could not be prevented Petition sent after Petition Declaration after Declaration nothing must prevaile but the acceptance of such a remedy as would prove worse then the disease And then before the birth what throwes and pai 〈…〉 Send to Denmark run to Holland fly to France Curse Digby imprison Hamilton c. and then all help is called in for midwifery intreat friends here and there pawn jewels break and close with Irish even in a breath any thing for help hazard posterity ingagein marriage and as she did roare out Give me a childe or I●dle and that miscarriage we are this day to prayse God for and wonder at The summe totall of all these endeavours of the proud comes to nothing but vanity and emptinesse all these conclusions vanish into a li● the Parliament is not destroyed the City stands the Gospel is preached we do not yet heare the scretches of defloured damosels nor the cries of abused matrons we hear not the ratling of their arms nor the neighing of their horses in our streets Oh my Lords you are not at Oxford led up and down as Samps●n to be looked at by children nor are you crying as poore Belifalius Date obolum Belisario date obolum Nor you Gentlemen of the other House crying at a prison grate to some mercifull man for a penny Nor you my Lord Major and your Brethren under a great ransome for your freedome Nor You that your Teachers are forced from you but you can yet look upon them And you my reverend Brethren who have been part of the divided spoile you feele that mercy that gives them a loud lie But to raise the ground-work of our praises

Right honorable and beloved let us a little go back and suppose that some Messenger were come from Bristol when we lost it or suppose you had Jobs messengers one after another and every one crying Luxuriat Britano sanguine pinguis humus Suppose you were againe hearing the story of that sad March out of that City with the breach of all Articles which they are not used unto from us and think your selves sitting as old Eli in expectation of tidings from the Army and what befell us in Cornwal in 1644 were now brought unto you Or if not so far back say that now you were reading the Letters from poor Leicester taken plundered abused beyond president what do you now think of this dayes mercy Do you beleeve what you enjoy to be reall or are you in a dream Remember I beseech you it is not above a yeare since when we had thought to have hung our harps upon willow trees in some strange countries under some strange Printes and there might have been called unto for our-English song● Alas how would they have been mingled with teares sighs and grones They say he that in a dark night came over a high bridge onely upon a slight board lying crosse comming the next day to look upon his deliverance could not beare the weight of the mercy but died away in the contemplation The good God give us skill to manage what we do enjoy left our preservation be but a reservation of us to greater calamity But because Generals may either deceive or at least not reach Individuals I shall take leave to present unto you a List of some speciall prints of providence which like floodgates opened may turn every wheele about to the duty of the day I shall but name some your own collection may swell these to a mountain of praises A List of speciall Providences since the breaking out of these Distempers which may provoke others to make up the Catalogue 1 THat this Nation proved so faithfull to our Brethren of Scotland in the time of their first trouble from the Prelates 〈◊〉 th●● the profanest 〈◊〉 souldi 〈…〉 had no heart to that service And to th 〈…〉 I might ●dd● their dis 〈…〉 t and honorable comming in and going out the same good Spirit of God direct them still 2 That a Parliament was procured which makes me remember the faithfulness● of● and the haz●rds run by our noble Lords Comment Citizens and Ministers 3 That even to wonder Justice was done upon that great man and carried through so many difficulties 4 That the Bishops thrust themselves out by their own Protestation or Remonstrance 5 That the six Members of Parliament were preserved 6 That this City stood in that firmnesse with so much freenesse that the Apprentices and their gallantry will be renowned to after ages 7 That the Sea 〈…〉 who have long been tertible to forreign natio 〈…〉 should close a● they did And that the ships Royall were 〈◊〉 in that nick of time for which the State owes much to that Noble man which did it to which I adde the Sea-mens cordiall appearing above the Bridge 8 A That 〈◊〉 Nobles 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ook the leading of your Armies and to look the first danger● in the face The good Lord requite it to them fully 9 Mony and Plat● the sin●wa of your work offered to admiration as if every one had been perswaded of the time when to part with 〈◊〉 10 The standing out of Hull which compared with some other passages might make some think we are delivered against ou● wills 11 The discovery of men and their spirits together with the departure of some from us 12 That in all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to this 〈◊〉 all sorts amongst u● have and must confesse they never saw more of God and lesse of man as if he resolved to own your cause 13 The maintaining and relieving Glocester and when there was little shew of an army yet marched in six dayes time when the other party could hardly expect them in six moneths and then it was when our hearts even melted away 14 C 〈…〉 cannot may not be forgotten it was a most seasonable mercy if you remember all circumstances about it 15 The enemy bewildred and divided in their counsels falling short of their hopes especially when they might have come to London they went to Glocester when they might have gone into the associated Counties they will fight at Marston Naseby and others the like 16 The businesse of that great Northern battell full of providences and rich ones 17 Their disappointments by Intelligence or rather the want of it many 18 The new Modelling of the Army and the filling up vacant places in the house of Commons two desperate designes drawing eyes round about us upon this Nation even to amazement by which work I would wish no chiefe Commander should think himself slighted or asperst but eye that change as the Product of unhappy mixtures of some inferiour Officers they that know the Low-Country warre may know how tender they are in mixing Nations and how Brigades are distinguished Civill warre is never soone ended by Souldiers of Fortune and I must here professe without flattery I know none of your Commanders in chiefe but have had their proper Excellencies 19 Lime and Plymouth deserve a story by themselves who so looks upon their works and remembers the power besieging them must say Digitus Dei hic hic it were pitie the instruments preserving them should be forgotten 20 The many things that rendred your last Army so contemptible the evill spirits about this town scorned them as poor skillesse helplesse beardlesse youths their friends trembled and feared to think what God would do by them hardly three strangers in place in the whole army home-bred new-bred souldiers like the choise of David from his sheep in comparison of Eliah A●inedab and Shammah 21 Poor burnt aflicted Taunion twice or thrice relieved and that the first work of the yeare 22 The Kings Letters from Goring taken by the great care of our honest and vigilant Scout Watson the night before Naseby battell whereby the King was wholly disswaded from sighting with us then 23 Lieu. Gen. Cromwell and Col. Roffiter comming in so seasonably to that battell I say seasonably 24 Providence gave us the Kings Cabinet and thereby opened many eyes that before were covered 25 Since which this Army was never foyled hardly a Guard beate up all this yeare no inchantment against Jacob c. 26 The counsell of God leading the Army to Bristoll when it was expected by most we should have gone to the West and the western line so well kept in that juncture it was glorious mercy 27 That all the last summer when Bristol had neer 200 a week died when we entred all the country about infected with the plague our principall Officers even the Lieu. Gen. himself and other● lying within the hearing of their gronts yet upon best inquisition we can heare