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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

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

take tythes yet their Children forsooth must play the Vicars to say Grace and give thankes Not that I absolutely condemne it as unlawfull for Children to be by degrees trayned to this taske when by Catechizing in the groundes of Religion they come to exceede Parrats by understanding what they say or that I denie but that at their owne repasts and meales they are to be taught to give thankes even as to pray when they rise and lye downe as Abell from s gen 4.4 Adam Sem and Iaphet from t gen 8.20 Noah Isaac from u gen 22.7.8 Abraham were taught how to sacrifice Timothy taught from his Mother and w 2 tim 1.5 3. vers 15. grandmother as was Constantine x Apud Eusebium in vita Constantini of his mother Hellen Or I denie not but that they at the same time the same Table may give thanks when their parents or tutors precede and begin first then I praesequar they may well follow as the little Cock-boat swimes in the same streame after the great Ship and the little tantling Bell that rings sometimes after the great Bow-bels in some Church or Cathedrall But for the Father to take all the burthen from his owne shoulders and to lay it on the Childes as to take the Saddle ftom a strong Stallion and set it on a young Colt to make his Childe his Atturney for him in Gods service as though he were ashamed to doe what David our Saviour y Luke 9.16 Christ the z Vt antea ch 1 sect 1. Apostles did in their owne persons is not onely a breach of the a deut 8. v. 10. Commandement that the greater shall blesse the b hebr 7. v. 7. lesser as Melchisedech did c gen 14.19 Abraham and Iacob his d gen 49. Sonne but shewes a dead or a profane heart and a maine a vaine contempt of God So for another dutie family-Family-prayer singing of Psalmes praysing of God practised by the e 2 Sam. 6.20 Saints injoyned as the observation of some penall Statutes by the denuntion of a great and greivous f Ier. 10. v. 25. curse an Anathema as terrible as the Thunder or thunder-bolt which hangs over that house and family where God is not invocated even as the naked sword of Dyonisius did hang over the head of that flattering Damocles yea as the cloud of fire and brimstone over Sodom and Gomorrah as sure to fall one time or other unlesse prevented by practicall repentance as that flying booke of g Zaec 5. v. 1.2.3 vengeance shall fall and hath falne as histories and experience relate upon the h He that reads the Theater of Gods iudgmēts in 40. M Perk. of the Gouernmēt of the tongue in fine M. Knewstubs his abuses of Engl. M. Foxe in diverse passages his abridgemēt of the ends of blaspemous persecutors Minerius Ioh. de Roma Eccius Laton Bomel Card. Cres fol. 380. 382. 383 Lonicer in his examples in 3. praecep The histories of our time in 4. p. 319 320. 321. 322. 323. shall see gods heavy hād on blasphemers persons and places where God is blasphemed even as sure as the Chamber called Ierusalem fell on the head of that Nicromanticall Sylvester and as Dagons house hath now twice falne on the heads of Idolatrous Philistines I say even this dutie how many eyther wholly unholily pretermit it or post it off to their servants prentices Iourneymen deputies atturneys they must pray for them the inferior must be the mouth of the superior the man must be the tongue of his master by reading or praying or as they call it saying a few prayers Morning and Evening directly against that Apostolicall Canon Hebr. 7. vers 7. thus making an Historon proteron of all Religion Others againe are so proud or so profane that wanting the spirit of i zach 12.10 Rom. 8. v. 26. praier the Heart or Art to pray they onely desire others to pray for them some good man or Preacher as Pharaoh intreates Moses and k Exod. 8.8 c. 8 2● Aaron Simon Magus requests l Act. 8.24 Peter to pray for them but for themselves they have joynts unlike the m Elephāt enim Regē adorant genua submittunt ceronas porrigū test Plin. l. 8. c. 1 Arist lib. 9. c. 46. Albert. l. 8. tract 5. c. 2. et Aelian hist. l. 13. c. 22. Hi autē profani gennua non flectunt Psal 14. v. 4. An Ovidean or Virgilean fiction or Pythagorean dreame as Master Perkins drawes Purgatories pedegree in his Problemes Elephant that cannot bow hearts like Gaddes of steele that cannot bend tongues and speake not as Idols the mute or dumbe Divell is in them as in some unpreaching Ministers they pray not for themselves they will not they cannot Others againe more foolishly and preposterously trust all to the prayers dirges and suffrages of others when they are departed to sing and bring them out of their Europaean purgatory indeed reall hell as though they hoped a Physitians physicke should revive them after death These are as preposterous in theyr prayers as those that thinke to satisfie for all their usuries and extortions by almes and elymosinarie workes after their death by their executors I would not be mistaken I know its lawfull to desire the prayers of others as Paul did of all the n Col. 4.3 1. Thes 5.25 2. Thess 3.1 Churches as Ezeckiah did from o 2. King 19.2 Esaiah as Esther desired the prayers of p Est 4.10 Mardocheus and the Iewes Daniell of his three q Dan. 2.17.18 Companions and so Luther Calvin Grineus the Martyrs Ridley Latimer Bradley intreat the mutuall prayers of their friends in their zealous Letters I know also its lawfull laudable for noble men to have their Chaplaines for Preaching Praying in their families their Nathans their Levites may be imployed yet so as high and low great and small every Individuum that will be saved must with David personally worship God as the Scriptures injone duties particularly and r Act. 2.22 Heb. 3.12 4. 1. Esa 55.1 Psal 2.10 11. 148.10 11 12. personally CHAP. III. David prayseth God publickly THirdly let it not passe our animadversion that David doth not only praise his God religiously piously personally but also publickly before all the Congregation of Israel He is not ashamed to serve that God before all Israel that in the sight of Israel of the Sun had so served his turnes needs saved preserved him in his exigents dangers by so many severall meanes improving his power his justice his peculiar speciall providence so oft for Davids deliverances and his enemies destruction or at least distractions seeing God so marvellously so miraculously fight for David as oft before in the dayes of Moses and Deborah he fought for Israel against a Exod. 17.11 Amaleck Moab and b Iudg. 5.20 Iabin for Constantine

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

ENGLANDS IVBILEE OR IRELANDS IOYES IO-PAEAN 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 DVBLIN Printed by the Society of STATIONERS Anno Dom. M.DC.XXV TO THE VVORSHIPFVLL HENRY WRIGHT ESQVIRE Soveraigne of the Borough and Corporation of Tallaugh together with Master Recorder the Burgesses his brethren with the whole bodie of the Corporation of the English Plantation there adjoyning GEntlemen and my Christian friendes welwillers as this Text from which I extract this Gratulatorie Tractate as is well knowne to the best and most of you was sent me to preach upon the very day before our solemnities by Gods prouidence and the choosers prudence comming to my handes speedily without much seeking or searching like a Gen. 27 v. 20 Iacobs Venison so I have as I could on a suddaine like your running banquets catered and cooked it Rebecca like however not costly and curiously for time permitted not yet so cauteously though cursorily that if you have not left or lost your spirituall gust as b Numb 11.6 Israell was once cloyed even with Manna it selfe these my mentall dishes added to your corporeal shall be which is the Cookes chiefe commendation both wholesome and c Omne nilit p●nctum qui miscuit utile dulci toothsome And now as the chiefe of you in this place as the head and eye and mouth of the rest sent lent me this Scripture as that great Master in the d Math. 25.14 15. Gospell put forth his Tallents to his servants to occupie and trafficke withall till his comming so by labour and industrie vehement and violent perhaps for the time desirous to be found neither unfaithful nor unfruitefull at the great Auditory In the summoning of my best powers and spirits by paralelling uniting annexing other Scriptures as digging in those best Mines I haue regained this treasure as you see which as a cake from your owne meale as the flowre of your owne Corne grinded onely by my Milne I have sent you home as your owne bagged and wrapped up in these printed sheetes And indeede as these lucubrations were first hatched at your motion and by your meanes prest abroad thus publicke souldier-like to doe service to their Prince and Countrie so of whom should they have a spect and respect but from your selves from whom they have both their first trayning forth and their principall pay Besides as at my first planting in these parts by the minde and meanes of our ever Honourable Earle the very Nerves and Sinewes under God and his Majestie of these partes with the Eagled eye of his farre famoused wisedome ever vigilant as a noble Centinell for the spirituall aswell as temporall good of these Plantations I was at my first arrivall comming over with my Honourable Mecenas the Lord Beamont Viscount of Swords here first desiredly entertayned and by some of you ever since till now lovingly and liberally retayned amongest you I see not but that both in reason and religion you should receive the first fruites of my publike paines since you have already payd for them aforehand by your pension Moreover since I am here a stranger amongest you why may I not challenge for these my mentall issues and legitimate of springs of my understanding part the priviledge of our England graunted to the corporeall issue of the poorest Parents to be cast on the charges of the Parish where they were borne Lastly you know it is our Irish fashion as indeede in manie things we are too much hybernified to expose our Children to foster-fathers in which streame of custome though corrupt I now swimming as carried with the time e Omnia secum ventus unda rapis tide as providing manie strings for one Bowe least some breake I have chosen manie fosterers to one Orphane though it be not so worthy that you should contend for it as some Cities were said to doe for Homer yet such is my judgement or opinion of you all that love me in truth for the truth that I thinke the meanest of my friends in the best bound in Town or countrey to whose strong loves to my person and profession I am indeared indebted worthie enough to cherish this fruite as they have demonstrated their affections to the Tree But to leave this descant which perhaps with some that can finde a knot in f Nondum in Scirpo quaerere a bulrush may subject me to construction as your desires mine sympathize and concurre with our best hearts affections powers and performances to congratulate with all true English hearts that un Iesuited unleavened from Rome are loyall to God to Caesar this double blessing as two streames meeting in one brooke to make our joyes brimfull from one Ocean and fountaine of mercie First the mercifull marvailous miraculous preservation of the breath of our nosthrils our Soveraigne King with the Peeres Nobles Prelates whole body of the Land together with the Gospell Religion from that hellish horrid barbarous bloudy had it beene effected as affected Popish powder plot as it 's christened cald Secondly his preservation hitherunto amongest us as the very Atlas pillar under the supreame Majestie of Heaven of our Church Common-wealth as also the safe reduction of our Illustrious Prince from Spaine anchored fixed here againe in his own countrey the English Court every way as sound as at his departure in his body soule spirit so calming baming our grieves for his absence in the midst of the fluctuations of our feares blessinges great unspeable in which we here dispersed in this land as the Christian Iewes once in Asia Pontus even from Vlster to Connaght as all in great Brittaine even from Dan to Beersheba from Barwicke to Dover from Edenbrough to the utmost Orcades have such interest as Israell had in their David Salomon 2. as you that were the heades imitating Limericke Yoghell other well governed places who set you a coppy gave you a perfect president were not vvanting by your cares costs your paines providence by feastings festivities discharging of Guns advancing of pikes for you cannot ring g The want of ●●ls one of our ●rish eye sores eare sores bloudy Bellona ●attering our ●els our bel●rayes our Townes our Tēples laying them as level in many places as Rome did Carthage the Greekes Troy Titus

authore● apud Maiol col 23. tit morabilia pag. 703. house and other proude and ambitious spirits erected monuments and memorials to the glorie of their owne names So in the fifteenth of Exodus wee have Moses Aron Miriam and all the Elders and people of Israell triunphing and gratulatorie rejoycing before the Lord as wee this day for the preservation reservation of our King and Prince for their safe eduction out of Egypt reduction from tyrannizing Phraoh production and protection thorow the red Sea which was to them a walking garden to their enemies a devouring grave In the 33. of Genesis we have the same Moses when he had received the gracious summons of his blessed dissolution as a second Simeon singing his Cygnean and Swan-like y Cantater Cygnus funeris ipse sui song blessing the Lord and the thousands of Israell in their severall Tribes the people of the Lord. To proceede in the first of Samuell Chap. 2. wee have that devout Annaes gratulatory song for her Samuell as Bathshebaes z Prove 31. v. 2. Lamuell the sonne of her desires yea in his corporeall birth as Augustine was to his mother Monica in his spirituall the sonne of her a Vt olim Ambr. Monica de Aug. Manicheo c. non potest perire filius tātarū praecum lâchrymarum prayers and of her b 1. Sam. 1.13 vers 26.27 teares So in the fifth of Iudges wee have Deborah and Baruch and all Israell tripudiating and triumphing before the Lord of Hostes the God of Battles for the overthrow of the Troupes of Iabin and Sisera whom the river Kishon swept away yea that ancient river the river c Iudg. 5.20.21 Kishon the starres also fighting from heaven as once the Sea for our English Eliza and for a Brittaine Drake that gave an overturne to a swelling Dragon as once also for Theodose the like as the Sunne too for Ioshuah So in the first of Kings Chap. 3. vers 6.7 when God appeared unto Salomon in Gibeon as he sacrificed before the Lord as a prologue to his fervent prayer for a wise and understanding heart he first thankefully acknowledgeth the unspeakeable mercie of God to his Father David as also by a corollary and consequence unto himselfe and not to enumerate all particulars which are infinite for this our David besides the Booke of the Psalmes which are in their golden chayned linckes continuated prayses as one cals the very lives of just men like the almes of d Act. 10.1.2 Cornelius if seasoned with grace and not soyled with sinnes perpetuall e Bona vita perpetuae preces prayers So in the second of Samuell Chap. 7. vers 18.19.20.21 c. omitting all other places to fixe on this when God sends to David by Nathan the acceptance as in Abrahams sacrificing of f Gen. 22.16 17 Isaac and in the desires of all his Saints and Servants of his will for the g 2. Cor. 8.12 worke his h Respicit Deus affectum cordis pro affectu operis August affection for the action in building of the Temple reiterating and renuing many large and loving promises concerning Salomon his sonne in what privacie and neerenesse he should be to God even as a sonne is to a father David upon this Embassage as a second Niobe melting and dissolving his heart wholly liquifying as waxe and Ice before the Sunne of these mercies in the most zealous and fervent expressions of his soule as fire breaking out long smothered in the soliloquies of his soule such as wee reade proceeding from Augustine Bernard Basill and other zealous spirits in imitation of David hee thus bespeakes his God Who am I Lord and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto and this was yet a small thing O Lord God but thou hast spoken also of thy servants house for a great while to come and is this the manner of man O Lord God and so goes forward to the end everie word having an emphasis every phrase as is said of the Epistles of i Referunt pectus ardore pleum Cyprian shewing a heart brimfull of grace of gratitude So come to the new Testament indited by the same spirit what ere the blaspemous Manichees blatter to the k Contra Manicheos praeter August Patres erudite scripsit Granatensis in suo symbolo Bernardinus de Bustis in concionibus postillis in quarto in Initio libri pen● contrary the Saints pertaking of the same grace have expressed the same in their gratulations To begin with Simeon he had no sooner Christ that expected incarnate Shiloh in his armes as his spirit in his heart but he breathes out his gratulatorie blessing blessed Nunc l Luke 2 28.29 dimittis So Zachary being long strucke m Luke 1.20 dumbe as the fruite of his incredulitie had no sooner his imprisoned tongue unjaled but he improves the first fruites of his speach to Gods n Luke 1.63.64 65. prayse darting out as a pellet out of a Gun in the suddaine flashes of the spirit the inward conceptions of his soule by the outward modulations of his mouth I might instance in that o Luke ● 36 Anna in the two best mothers of the two best sonnes that ever were borne of woman the Virgin mother Mary and her cousin Elizabeth who visiting one another in the most warrantable journyes not gadding to a trotters feast as our common Gossups and for the best ends not to tattle and talke and prattle and prate like Parrats and jangle like jayes and chatt like Dawes and Pyes on this subject and that abject not to calumniate and vilipend the absent but to comfort and corroborate one another in the mercies of God at first incounter as two instruments rightly tuned in the best key by the finger of the spirit in a holy and heavenly harmonious melodie resonate and resound the prayses of p Luke 1.42.45 46.47 God as did also all the rest which looked for and expected the now exhibited Patriarke-promised prefigured Messias the consolation of Israel which pretermitting without further inlarging view the Apostle Paul the inspired Doctor of the Gentiles and wee shall see that as hee had as holy and as sanctified a heart except his crucified Master as ever was inclosed and included in a body of flesh he hath as so many Epistles yea in some places as so many leaves and lines so many breathings yea breaking out and eructations in the prayses of God Yea in every q Rom. 1.8 Rom. 16.27 1. Cor. 1.4 2. Cor. 1.3 Ephes 1. v. 3 Phil. 3. v. 20. Col. 1.3 1. Thes 1.2 2. Thes 1 3. 2. Tim. 1.3 Epistle it 's observable that the Alpha and Omega the beginning and end of it is prayer and prayse oftimes both in the antecedent and concluding consequent the subject or matter of which petitions and thankesgivings being the happy successe of the Word the propagation of the

wife nasuted that he smelt out the danger of his t 1. King 2.22 drift so that by Gods over-ruling providence both those treasonable plots of Adoniah were prevented the one by the care and circumspection of David the other by the wisedome and prudencie of Salomon himselfe So if we doe not voluntarily shut our eyes do we not sensibly and at this day comfortably feelingly perceive that our Salomon our Soveraigne hath beene rescued out of the jawes of a double danger the one before he was invested with the Crowne of Albion the other since the one in Scotland the other in England the one as under God whose hand kept him ever as the apple of his eye by his prowesse the other by his prudencie pollicie for as he was lured trained to the house of Earle Gowry by the false lapwing cries of Alexander Ruthwen as he was a hunting inviting him in his intention to a bloudie breakefast and thereby a serpentine wile leading him from the rest of his Nobles as a sheepe to the slaughter the butchering executioner standing readie prepared for the fatall stroke the Lord cast such a punicke feare into the heart of him that was set to be a murtherer that that dogge stood trembling and quaking as an Espin leafe as he that once intended the murther of Darius as not being able to looke upon our * His Majestie is said to have the impression of a Lion on his breast the prophesie 2. Es● 11.27 is by some applied Lion gave withall such a strength and spirit to his Majestie that grapling hand to hand even with that Alexander though naked and the other armed he held him play the other standing by as a cypher or dumbe shew till by a speciall providence his Majestie was overhard and so speedily relieved by his valiant followers who in an unequall u Impar congressus c. combat foure to seaven as appeares in the particular passages thus epitomized with the losse of their owne bloud and the death of some of their enemies brought of his Majestie with honour and safetie But this danger was but as it were a Northerne prologue to a Sotherne Tragedie if it had beene acted and effected as it was penned and projected by these unfortunate Gentlemen as their friends call them Piercie Catsby Graunt Faukes Keyes Bates Rookwood Digby and the two Winters for ever sigmatized and branded as Cain with his w Gen. 4.15 marke as Ieroboan with his x 1. King 16.23 Ieroboam the son of Nebat that caused Israell to sinne title with the odious name of the Powder Traytors which plot being so deepe and infernall to blow up the Parliament house with powder in that one blast to turne Heaven as it were into Hell Religion into superstition peace into warre libertie into bondage safetie and securitie into bloudshed to eclypse our Sunne our Moone and our Stars all at once to turne the flowers of Christendome the worthiest King the sweetest Prince the most honourable Nobilitie the most reverent Iudges learned Cleargy loyal Commonaltie wisest Patriots there assembled into mummiamized earth even in a trice as it was thought to be first invented as powder and Gunnes by a conjuring Fryer even by a parliament of wicked spirits breathing and suggesting it into the heades and hearts of these male-contents drunke with blinde and bl●u●●e zeale as the Crow with Nux vomica So it was if comparisons be not odious as is well knowne by all circumstances as wisely and judiciously found out and discovered by his Majestie by rightly expounding past a humane reach the most intricate quiddities of a mysticall letter as ever Salomon found out the true mother of a controverted y 1. Reg. 3.27.28 childe or discovered the ambitious and bloudie plot of a false brother Adoniah But to draw at length together my sayles and to cast ancker in this large sea of mercies the Lord hath not onely given his judgments to the King but inlarged his mercies to the Kings Sonne we are to looke upon the Sunne rising or else alreadie risen chiefly to admire the luster of our Illustrious Prince after he hath beene so long hid from our Horizon as it were shining in another Climate yea in our feares onely and jealousies of love clouded and vayled from our eyes but not from our hearts and now the fogges and mistes of our feares being dispelled and dispersed breaking againe upon us with more resplendent beautie to our eyes more sweete influence of comfort to our hearts then ever wee now receiving him as Abraham did his Isaac or Iacob his Ioseph with a redundant joy after wee had a while left him or rather hee us in his expedition from us which our longings thought too long And now to set a stronger edge upon our affections and to excite our hearts to a higher straine of thankefulnesse for the safe and prosperous returne of our Prince which wee with the whole Realme of England Scotland and that part of Ireland that is not Romanized yea Belgia and all Christendome our friendes in the same faith doe entertaine and welcome with joyfull Iubilees As those that have past the waves and quicksands and rockes and shelves and Pyrats of the Sea stand upon the shore and as joyfully as safely view and recount with glad and exhilerated hearts their forepast perils So let it be with us in this our Sunny calme let us reflect upon the stormes that might have falne upon us had not the hand of the Almightie withheld them in that hazard which we runne in the late absence of the Prince and as generals which may as fitly as the right Glove to the right hand be applied to our owne particular let us consider but these specials First how many great and famous Princes together with other famous personages for Armes and Arts have died out of their owne countrie farre absent from their friends and favorites except such as did accompanie them finding their owne countrie the place of their birth another of their buriall Thus Alexander was borne in z Q Cart. lib. 1 Macedonia but died was buried in a Euseb libr. 1. Babylon Cyrus borne in Persia yet slaine and dishonourably buried in b Iustin. hist. Scythia Hanniball of Affrica buried in c Plutarch in Pompeyo Bithinia Cleomenes borne in Lacedemonia intombed in Egypt Crassus and Pompey both borne in Rome but falne untimely the one in Assiria the other betrayed and butchered in Egypt So for learned men Pythagoras borne in Samos dead in Metapontus Virgill born in Mantua buried in Brundusium Terence borne in Carthage buried in Arcadia so these worthie Athenians Themistocles Thesius Solon were borne in Athens yet ended their dayes in Syria Cyprus Persia and elsewhere I might adde many moe as King Igurthu borne in Numidia buried in Rome these famoused worthies the Scipios Curtij Decij Cornelij borne in Rome but dissevered in their deaths over the superficies of

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

Manserium Bergemensem in supplemento Chronicetum Nicromancer Silvester the second drowned Pharaoh in the a Exod. 14.16 Sea smit proud Herod with b Act. 12.23 wormes devoured Hatto of Mentz with c Recitat historiam Sifridus prasbiter lib. 1. Epitomes anno Dom. 923. Et Maiolus de diebus Canic●l col 7. pag. 254. quanquam author Chronologia computationi sub Ann● Deut. 914. non M●●i●●s tribuit sed Damonibu● Rats that hand which oft as a shiriffe apprehends and as a generall by Martiall-law executes wrath on the wicked ipso actu in the verie act of sinne as on the blinded d Gen. 19.11 Sodomites presumptious e Dan. 4.30 Nabuchadnezzer the Gospels f Luke 12.20 carnalist that hand pulling down Dagons house upon the head of these Philistines these Dagonites in the very midst of their Idolatrous sacrifices by a visible sermon and as by an audible voice from heaven I say speaking to us how much hee honours that Arke of his truth fixed amongst us and to them how much he detests their abominations paying home at last their provocations by this fall also prolonging the fall of their Bell their Babell tutoring them also in their bloudie projects as once Saul what it is to kicke against the pricke to contest with the Lord Protector of Israell I say in all probabilitie leaving Gods secret justice or mercie wee are in a great part to attribute the continuation and succession of these mercies to our English Israel as partly even to the pietie constancie patience zealous prayers teares of our Queene Maryes * In that quinquenniū Maria as it is called Martyres so more specially and particularly to the gracious humiliations fasts and teares of the faithfull of the land in our distresses and dangers and feares in the absence of our Prince as also to their cordiall and heartie gratulations for his joyfull and triumphall reduction both the positive blessings we injoy and the privitive evils that have beene kept from us both the one and the other are to be ascribed more to the prayers and thankesgivings of the upright in the land then to all the powers and pollicies of man or the arme of flesh for as God blesseth even private families for the cause of some one as the house of Laban for Iacobs d Genes 30.27 cause the house of e Gen. 39.5 Putiphar the Iaylers f Ibid. vers 23. prison yea the Court of Pharaoh for Iosephs g Gen. 47. v. 25 cause preserved by raine h Antonius his army being ● daies without water on the mountaines of Germany by the prayers of a Legion of Christian souldiers was relived by Raine from heaven whereupon as we have already alledged from Iustin Martyr Tertul. Eusebio it was called the thundering legion sent in a wondrous drought the whole armie of an heathenish Emperour for the cause of one Christian Legion saved all that were in the Ship with Paul Acts 27.24 for Pauls cause how much more doth the Lord powre both precious mercies reprive a land from deserved plagues depending judgements for the cause of manie Noahs Davids and Daniels that are upright in the land who upon all occasions are both humbled for judgements thankfull for mercies herein God imitating man who is willing ever to doe most good where hee findes the recipient parties most thankefull casting like the husband-man ever his seede most willingly in that ground which hath recompenced his former laboures and paines in former yeares with the most gratefull interest thankefulnesse for one mercie ever drawing on another as one circle in the water makes another that a third and that a fourth as one lincke in a chaine drawes on another lincke after lincke as indeede why did Iehouah accumulate so manie mercies upon David one after another as one beame of the Sunne reflecting after another making his cup to overflow his lott to fall in a fayre ground giving him a goodly heritage Crowning him with long life spreading his Table leading him still into the greene * Psalm 23. per totum in alijs Psalmis pastures but because he was ever so thankefull to his Shepheard As for further instance David is preserved from a raging Beare a ramping i 1. Sam. 17.34.35.36 Lion he is thankefull for this deliverance after hee is rescued from k 1. Sam. 23. ch 24. chap. 26. Saul more raging roaring ramping then they * Homo homini Lupus Imo homo homini Daemon both After from the Iebusites after from Achitophell from Absalon after from Sheba hee is thankefull whilst hee raigned in Hebron as a pettie King therefore God inlargeth his Territories and plants him in l 2. Sam. 5.1.2.3 Ierusalem as Gods high Stewart now among us being found faithfull in governing the younger Scotland espoused him at last to the elder sister England as Iacob after his faithfull service prudence and patience at last injoyed joyed in his fairest m Gen. 29.28 Rachell as that good servant in the Gospell that was faithfull in a few Tallents was made ruler over many n Matth. 25. v. 20.21.22.23 Cities thus Ioseph also delivered out of a pitt by o Genes 37.28 Ruben no doubt being thankefull for that God delivered him out of a deepe p Prov. 23. v. 27 ditch a more dangerous pit the traynes of a whorish Mistresse the prison of an ungratefull Master So Moses being thankefull for his deliverance from q Exod. 15. per totum Pharaoh and the pursuing Aegyptian host God after takes his part against r Exod. 17.11 Amalek against Moab vindicates his cause against his sister ſ Numb 12.6.7 Miriam aeiuulating Aron being ever readie at all essayes as a friend at neede to bestead him in all his exigents Thirdly thankesgiving sanctifies unto us every blessing yea every creature every action every calling yea what ever wee set our hands too our meates our drinkes our exercise recreations studies mariages journeyes rests primacies companies yea what not as it is a speeies part of * Vide Sculteth de Oratione vel precatione pag. 2.3 prayer without which every thing we intermedle with is like our selves impure and t 1. Tim. 4.1.2.3 uncleane Wee handle them as Colliers or Smiths sometimes eate their meate illotis manibus with unwashen hands yea wee use abuse every blessing as usurpers incrochers yea purloyners where we have no right nor title more then a theefe to a true mans purse leave is light but without thankefulnesse we take leave wee aske none wee are not onely unmannerly but without question more bold with God then welcome CHAP. IIII. Ingratitude a sinne against grace and nature condemned by the very heathens FOurthly a thankelesse heart is an evident signall and demonstration of a gracelesse heart where ther 's no gratitude it 's certaine ther 's no grace for as thankefulnesse is conjoyned with other graces as with

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