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A88419 Englands doxologie. Or rather The three kingdomes eucharisticall sacrifice at the altar of th' Almighty. For the manifold mercies, and miraculous deliverances vouchsafed at sundry times to the severall nations. To which is annexed a briefe relation of the memorable acts, and prosperous proceedings of the high, honourable, and happy assembly of Parliament, in this present year of grace, 1641. / Composed by J. L. in Art: Mag. Non nobis, domine, non nobis, sed tuo nomini fit gloria. J. L., in Art. Mag. 1641 (1641) Wing L28; Thomason E172_20; ESTC R17320 7,901 14

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what a havock desolation ha's the Sangninean hand of warre made there View our Neighbor Nation of France Behold that Grand-monarch of Spaine Take a survay of the Netherlands and those passages between the States and the House of Austria consider these premisses you will easily conclude the ruine devastation that direfull war hath bin the cause of in these latter times Other great Kingdomes have lamentably suffered only this little Island is secure And though many Pioners have bin at work many a time and often to undermine this Land yet the Lord God of Israel hath bin a wall of fire round about it Within these two years the last Summer save one the English Army consisting of 30000 horse and foot was marching toward Scotland at the same time the Spanish Fleet that formidable Armado was intended for England In an hostile Invasion they came upon our Coasts the incursion of the enemy then was so unexpected of us and at so seasonable a time for them that had the fire of that warre bin once throughly kindled which was so long smoaking there could not have bin wanting those that would have added fewell to the flame But happy was the houre wherein the happy Pacification was concluded For had that design of war gone on we had long before this time bin expos'd to the pitty of our friends the fury derision of our foes who could not wish for a better opportunity then to see this goodly and flourishing land to imbrue her hands in her own bowels bloud Had not our good God bin mercifull to us this Kingdome had bin desolate we of comfort destitute our streets full of bloud and our fields an Acheldama or Golgotha replenish't with dead Carkasses That fatall warre without Gods mercy might have prov'd the Trojan horse to bring in an Army of bloud-loving enemies to invade us in the mid it whereof we might have bin all surprized by a forrain Adversary This great mystery of iniquity is now discovered that which so long lay hid as a work of darknes is at length brought to light the prime Agents therein detected and I wish that all they in this Land who beare no good will to Syon care not for the peace of Ierusalem may according to their demerits receive condigne punishment for their treachery cruelty in desiting and endeavouring that two Nations should war with each other that by weakning both the Rrmish faction might grow the stronger and with more facility take advantage of us 'T is not long since the Axe was laid to the root of the Tree A warre was intended and that a civill war for otherwise I cannot term it two Armies were in the field ready to fight yet they did but looke one another in the face the sword was drawn and the battaile pitch'd desolation destruction menaced we had not then onely rumours of warres but effusion of bloud on both sides skirmishes were begun men were lost both English Scottish souldiers slain every hour they look't to destroy one another the subjects of one King and people of one faith members of the same mysticall body wherof Christ is the head professors of one the self-same Religion we of England our brethren of Scotland were banded one against another A sad Tragedy was begun the Sceane was the North the Actors were the subjects of both Kingdomes but magnified for ever be Gods mercy 't is inverted to a Comedy is come to a joyfull Catastrophe We were as fire-brands snatcht out of the sire as birds escap'd from the suare The God of peace hath blest us with a setled peace Ever blessed be our blessed God that we and they were not the ruine and confusion of each other The black storm in the North is now dissipated the dismall day is cleer'd up and the faire Sun of consolation hath shin'd upon us for the two Nations are united a blessed Pacification is confirmed this renowned Parliament hath made us all friends and those two late terrible Armies of both Kingdomes are quite disbanded and quietly departed Well may we say with the Princely Prophet Lord thou art become gracious unto thy Land The Lord hath spoke peace unto his people and to his Saints that they turne not againe for his salvation as nigh them that feare him that glory mar dwell in our Land 85. Psal 1.8 9. verses God is our hope and strength a very present helpe in trouble He maketh warres to cease in all the world he breaketh the bow and knappeth the speare in sunder The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Iacob is our refuge Psal 46.1.9 11. Who would have thought that such admirable things should have bin in so short a time effected and brought to passe which we now behold Certainly it is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes Let our right hand forget its cunning and let our tongues cleave to the roofe of our mouthes if we doe not acknowledg that the gracious hand of our glorious God hath in these proceedings gone along with us Let us ever commemorate and never forget the mercies of th' almighty but let the voyce of rejoycing be heard in our Churches and Congregations for the great salvation that God hath wrought for us in putting to infamy all the enemies of our peace in-defeating their plots abating their pride asiwaging their malice and in confounding their devices Great cause and much matter have we of rejoycing and thansgiving Let us therefore in the name of God rejoyce in the Lord be thankfull to him and speak good of his name Let us turn unto him and turn from our wicked wayes by humiliation for them and reformation from them and let us not spend that bloud in Fornication and Adultery which he hath spar'd in his goodnesse and mercy Let every one say with David quid retribuam what shall I render u●to the Lord and with Iob quid faciam what shall I doe unto thee O thou Preserver of men we all partake of the mercy and therefore let us all betake our selves to the duty Let the 3. Kingdomes in generall and every one of us in particular offer according to our obliged duty this Eucharisticall Sacrifice at th' Altar of the Trinity saying unfainedly from the bottome of our hearts Glory be to the Pather to the Son and to the holy Ghost And that we may really expresse our thansgiving Let us give our Almes to the poor and our bodyes and soules unto God the former to his and the latter to him Rom. 12.1 Let us demonstrate our thankfullnesse cogitain dictu actu in the thoughts of our hearts in the words of our mouthes and in the actions of our lives For Gratitude is all the interest that God expects requires for his principall Many are the Arguments and Motives perswading us to give thankes unto the Lord for his Mercies and Deliverances afforded to us of this Kingdome Besides Gods positive favours
ENGLANDS DOXOLOGIE OR RATHER The three Kingdomes Eucharisticall Sacrifice at the Altar of th' Almighty For the manifold Mercies and miraculous Deliverances vouchsafed at sundry times to the severall Nations To which is annexed A BRIEFE RELATION OF The memorable Acts and prosperous proceedings of the High Honourable and happy Assembly of PARLIAMENT In this present yeare of Grace 1641. Composed by J. L. in Art Mag. Non nobis Domine non nobis Sed tuo nomini sit gloria C R Imprinted at London by Barnard Alsop dwelling in Grubstreet 1641. Englands Doxologie THere is no Nation under heaven that hath received more temporall spirituall favours from Almighty God then this Kingdome of England Wat Blessings can be nominated which we have not enjoyed We have fulnesse in our Granaries peace within our Wals and plenty within our Palaces Ther 's no leading into Captivity nor complaining in our streets the voyce of the Turtle hath bin heard in our Land we have swum in pleasures and had all the varieties of contentments that our curious fancies can imagine Our Oxen are strong to labour our sheepe prosper all things succeed well and we have a Land flowing with milk and honey And for spirituall Mercies no people under the Sun ever went beyond us Though our workes of darknesse might eclipse the Sunshine of Gods goodnesse yet the bright beames of the Gospell have gloriously shin'd upon us and the silver Bels of Aron have melodiously bin rung amongst us This Evangellicall and transcendent mercy hath bin inlarged to us Indeed this is the finest of the wheat with which God doth feed his people 56. Psal 11. By this he hath delivered us from the Aegypt of Rome from the house of Bondage and from Antichristian heresie and superstition And though there have bin amongst us and are still many dissolute idle and illiterate Ministers who are a staine and blemish to their sacred function and profession yet for the honour of the Church of England I speak it there were never more pious painfull and learned Pastors in other Countries then are now here in this Kingdome God hath not dealt so with every Nation no not with any Nation We have with the peace of the Gospell enjoyed the Gospell of peace above these 80. years Thus the fountain of Gods goodnesse is inexhanlt and indeficient never ceasing in his gratious emanation but ever flowing in the sweet streams of his mercies And for wonderfull deliverances how hath God in them gone along with us From what horrid plots and hideous Conspiracies hath the Lord secur'd us From what monstrous machinations never the like heard of Combinations both forrain and domesticke even of those who have treacherously indeavour'd the demolition of the whole stare Did not God most graciously deliver this Kingdome from the very jawes of death in miraculously preserving us from that paire of matchlesse stratagems the Spanish Invasion in 88. and the Hellish Gun-powder Treason in 1605. O that wee would remember the dayes of old and consider so many generations O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 'T is the burthen of the song of the sweet singer of Israel in the 107. Psal no lesse then 4. sever all times Great stupendious things hath the Lord done for us And that which addes unto our happinesse is this that a Religious peace crownes all these Pax optima rerum Ther 's nothing so divine and acceptable to God and man as peace nothing more delightfull to be heard nothing more profitable to be desired nothing more happy to be enjoyed then poace Pacem te poscimus omnes we all desire peace Peace is the darling of heaven the delight of the Earth and joy of the Angels 'T is the Daughter of charity the Nurse of Piety the nerves sinues of Commor-welths and societies 'T is the firme knot strongest bond of all Corporations by which meanes Countries and Kingdomes like Salomons triple cord are inviolable and indissolubly joyn'd together We may see the happinesse of peace by the contrary in the misery of warre Many calamities are involv'd in this one vengeance of warre When thousands of men and horses shall set their feet upon a soyle how soone are they all cut off by the cruelty of war both men and horses wallowing in their own bloud so quickly is a fruitfull Land become barren or the wickednesse of the people that dwell therein Those were fearefull times when Gods Churches and mens houses were flaming over their heads when the barbarous souldier made it nothing to tosse tender Infants upon their Pikes when the impotent wife was bereav'd of her deare husband desiting to dye with him with whom she cou'd not live The Barons warres in this Kingdome for the time of their continuance were so deplorable that we have all cause to blesse his memory that united the red Rose and the white Happy was the union then between the two Houses of York and Lancaster and as happy is the Pacification now betwenee the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland So unfortunate is warre and so happy a thing is peace that ever let us pray to the God of peace with our Church in the Liturgy Give peace in our time O Lord And from Battell and Murther good Lord deliver us It is a generall received opinion amongst Physitians that in the cure of dangerous and violent Diseases of all things Rest is most helpfull and comfortable to the patient In like manner for the curing of those perilous wounds which have long since bin made and are still mortally infixed in the bowels vitall parts of Christendome the sole and soveraign Remedy that can be prescribed is Peace Warre is the scourge of the Almighty the event of it doubtfull and therefore it is never to be rashly undertaken when it may be wisely prevented for as Nature hath appointed no Phlebotomy no letting of bloud but in cases of extremity so Grace doth admit of no warre and allow no shedding of Mans bloud but in cases of necessity and when there is no other Remedy Warre is the Plagiary of Government the Incendiary and fire-brand of a Nation but Peace is a Sanctuary and Preserver of a People Speciosum nomen pacis I and preciosuni too The very name of peace is lovely The Iewes compirz'd all felicity under the name of Peace therefore their salutation was Pax vobis Peace be unto you Life Liberty Dignity Tranquillity safety and prosperity Arts Learning things Civill Politique Divine and Humane all are contained in peace This heavenly and admirable blessing do we now enjoy The thunder of the Canon the Language of warre is the best Rhetorick to commend this peace The noyse of that Thunder is dreadfull and hath bin often heard in other Countries to their terror and amazement but God be thanked it is not audible in our Eares Look upon the Empire of Germany