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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80084	Huls pillar of providence erected: or The providentiall columne, setting out heavens care for deliverance of that people, with extraordinary power and providence from the bloud-sucking Cavaliers, who had for six weeks closely besieged them. By T. C. minister of Gods Word. Imprimatur Charles Herle.	Coleman, Thomas, 1598-1647.	1644 (1644)	Wing C5055; Thomason E37_30; ESTC R12827	17,261	16

to the Omega of the action that we silence all subservient Ministers and ministred helpes as strength guns swords munition care and industrie and onely write God with great letters and figures and make all other great helpes to be but as a great cipher without divine concurrence When we name Providence as the superintendent and superefficient of all we understand not chance or fortune the Ethnickes providence nor that of the Stoickes who made providence a fortune or fate-telling old-woman to administer all things as the universall soule of the world But by it we understand the speciall care and love of God towards his which is at great cost and charges of infinite power fore-sight and wisdome to worke in all and every individuall thing for his people Lilius Cyrald de dijs Gent. Syntag. 76. and having wrought it to make it again be directed to worke for their good And if at Delos the blind Heathens for some conceived blessing could erect a Temple and call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Temple of Providence Doe not Christians owe as much to Jehovah as they to their Jove Shall not our Delos our Hull be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Temple of Providence where it hath been most admirably conspicuous and efficacious for deliverance It is well knowne how heavenly care did at first reserve this Towne that at first it fell not under the unruly rule of those unworthy Royalists who never thinke they doe any thing royally but when they make Rome blush with being more superstitious and idolatrous then she is or when they make beasts blush with being more savage and cruell then they or make Pagans and Heathens blush in being more unjust and unhonest then they or make the devill and bell blush to see them more zealous and deepe blasphemers then they In these actions all their royalty and cavalerisme consist What a speciall hand of heaven was that prevented this Marquesse whom blood not in his owne veines but bloud plenteously shed out of all the veines of the North hath raised to this title of Marquesse from being governor of it at first when his Majestie sent him and offered him for that purpose to the Towne The prevention of such a Hornet that he was not set over his Bee-hive deserves our tongues to speake as loud as the Egyptian Magitians and to say this was Digitus Dei the finger of God For say he had bin the resident ruler here what an influence of mischief would he have sent hence against London Parliament and all the places under the rule of well ordered justice and peace How would this have been the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the scumme-pot into which would have been gathered all the living and working villanie or Atheisme of Dunkirk France Holland Flanders c. And what Country soever would have sent men-beasts that in a mercenary souldiarie are willing to sell their soules in any warre yea will take the pay of hell to fight against heaven But blessed be the eye of heaven that watcht and the hand of heaven that wrought another way and brought this key of the kingdome to hang at the Parliaments girdle that they should not be in an hourely feare of this as of a Northerne Algiers or nest of Sea and land Pirates Why is Newcastle and not Hull in their power a continuall vexation to the good cause There is no reason of it but what lies in Gods breast and bosome so he liked so he would have it Under Sir John Hotham the Lord began to put this Towne as a signet ring on his finger How did the Lord animate the Governour and his small forces to stand unappaled before his Majestie when he comes in his owne person and with all his power he could then make to demand nay to command the rendring of the Towne into his power yet even then God made wormes stronger then the Lion when Hotham royally stood and feared neither Herald nor Proclamation nor the voyce of a provoked King which is the messenger of death O that this fine gold had never changed But O the misery of foolish man made drunke with authority and power Hotham honoured like a King feared as an Emperour sitting in peace that might have had the Country for the good cause wait on his whistle how has he degenerated and soiled all his fair burning light in ending with a ducking down of the socket breathing at last with a vaporous ill savoured exit Time will try and justice will boult out I fore-judge not nor anticipate our Iudges of this cause Whether justly father or son Hotham or both be guilty of miscarriages in the North at Yorke of the Queens entrance u● interrupted of Scarboroughs and Chomeleyes base Apostasie of the West crying out of the rising Sun and saying all her miserie came from the East where Egyptian reeds did not only faile them but pierce them and helpe them to be covered in that Chaos of tyranny wherein that good and goodly Country now lies low and poor only rich besides Gods secret favour in fulnesse of oppressions and cruelty I leave these servants to the judgement of their master who will make their sins appeare as mid-night or their righteousnesse as mid-day in due time I know it is indeed thought and said in relation to Hotham and Cholmley that Scorborough and Scarborough are the springs of most of our misery in the North. Let others say as they please Gods candle in fit season will seeke out darkest corners Let the just have his righteousnesse for cloathing and let the unjust be arrayed with his own confusion and shame as with a cloake Proceed we to the change of Governours and see miracles and great peeces of extraordinary providence in that In one morning gates walles block-houses armes men commanders guns ships all that is called strong is easily and quickly yeelded to the power of the Towne no bloud-shed no soule lies gasping no streets know streames of bloud but water for all this why this is wonderfull friends kindred deare ones in places of trust yet none resisting but yeelding up office and power as being overcome with power and reason for it or both So great a thing so long and strongly setled so easily altered and turn'd without combustion broil would make an Atheist that saw it name God and Providence for that very actions sake Besides the enraged Towne against their suspected Governour being so calmed into justice and prudently reserving father and son to be weighed by the Parliaments ballance and not precipitately cutting out for themselves was a speciall favour of God to honour them with so well a carried businesse Then loe again the Artifice and rare working of Architectonicall providence verily thou art a God that hidest thy selfe O God of Israel the Saviour At this present things are thus carried at Hull the noble Fairfax is in his Western declination and Beverly is ready to be chopt for the pot by

the assaulting enemy Marke how the wheele runs From Beverly the enemy is repulsed with shame and losse But in the West two or three dayes after the swarmes of New Castles waspes sting the Armie of the honoured Fairfax there he and his heroick Sonne after faire hopes loose the day quit the field though to the great cost of the adversary and leave that noblest part of the Country in the hands of the ignoblest men if inhumanity be ignobility where as they were bred and principled so they maintain it there is no good play unlesse some play the devill in it How have they imitated that infernall paternity of theirs by being as cruell and unmercifull to that worthy people as hell could make them Then thorough what dangerous pathes and parts of Countries did the Lord bring honored Fairfax and his son and the remainders of his scattered Army How did the Lord hard before this fore defeat make Hull ready for them whose prayers and longings waited for such a Governour at the gates of heaven Compare but the times of these things falling out that Hul should be made fit to receive a Governour fit to succour a dispersed people who fled from a bloudy sword and speare Let Hull and Western dispersed ones and the whole kingdome contend about it which of them has the largest share of fatherly providence in this thing O the providence is much for us may Hull say that we should receive so faithfull and right a Governour in our necessity It is providence for us may West say that we should get succour there It is providence for us may the whole kingdom say that so quickly the government was setled there and though there was so great a wound yet the Lord quickly prepared a good and great plaister How deepe is the Lords wisdom in his doings How can hee strangely at one and the same time win and lose cut and cure wound and heale throw downe and raise up his people and make one and the same cloud both darke and lightsome Let the people of God observe it they never have any notable fall or affliction but God gives them some notable rise after it to stand on high ground againe and to meet with some comfort and blessing succeeding it of such a depth and latitude as entered not into their imaginations And now Rabshakeh railes and Thrasoes boast and every 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now opens his mouth and laughs to see Christ lie loaden with a crosse in the streets of Leedes and Bradford Now the Irish Prelate the bishop of Derry must turne the Psalmes of David into a scornfull Jigge and must not only abuse the Saints of God but the Scripture of God The Ministers pulpit is his stage which hath bin commonly the May-pole where scorners of Gods Saints have danced themselvs giddy and there he pretends he will stir them up to give thanks to God and to God alone in these words of David I will not trust in my bow neither shall my Sword save me but thou hast saved us from our enemies c. Ps 44.6 7. But he forgetting his theame so dotes on his Marquesse Si pergā ad acuta rerū plus toge laesêre rempub quā toricae Tertull de pallio that he must needs make him the bow and the sword as though he by his care and wise carriage had freed now all York-shire from oppression and from the crushing of the Parliaments friends and now there was nothing but one poor corner of caitiffs all sedition and faction now laid gasping within the wals of Hull Let not Bishops speak of oppression for they have bin Pharaohs most curst task-masters set up to afflict the Israel of God Nor let Yorke be the tribunall at this time to judge the dispersed of Christ that are met in Hull After that way Sr Bishop which you call sedition there are such Saints serve God as the latchet of whose shooes saving the reverence of your bicorned miter you are not worthy to loose Well sedition and faction lies gasping within the walls of Hull what then Why then New-castle and his Army must come hither to the funerall of it if it lie gasping it will die shortly and they will be so officious as to come and close our eyes and carry us to our grave or if we be not so neare death they can think of such a thing as this Come let us kill them that the inheritance may be ours About the 4th of September that goodly Town of Beverley fals into the hands of a merciles adversary ours beholding their great numbers and considering the state of the Town to be such as it could not be held against them though our numbers had bin trebled Wherupon warning is given to retire and leave it and some no doubt were to blame that left some lesser peeces of Ordnance there and did not timely convey them away which they might have done Beverley smarted then on all sides by enemies cruelty by friends negligence presently is the Town made bare and stript naked and compelled to speake largely of the little charity mercy of the promoters of the Catholike cause who are semperidē inhumane barbarous Hard before their coming one Bushell a kinsman of the infamous Bushell who is filled with more then four pecks of an Iscarioticall spirit came with a Tinker himselfe acting a bad mettall man with him to view both Beverleyes and Huls works having done it were at length taken prisoners and found to be bad mettall Having swallowed Beverley they make Hull ready for the dresser and their cursed Cooks made a great fire hoping this Town should be their roast-meat They begin their siege and have all kind of furies redressed with snakes to torment us With them are come as goads in their sides to set them on and as candles in the darke to guide them the fox-heads subtill cunning and busie spirits of Hull which she had vomited out whose names are in the booke of the generation of vipers which have watring teeth to eat thorough their mothers bowels The poor arayed and forced souls are made to tugg and worke worse then the slaves at Adrianople day and night to raise Mounts and Works with turves and baskets to brew our ruine It will not be amisse to see how God works the deliverance of his people with many crosse thrids and makes a smooth web in the end of that which has many knots in the beginning Wheras at their first comming we had a spring-tide that might have flown with streams of molestation to them and hindred their works if ours could have agreed to cut the banks and lend them some salt water yet so it pleased God to divide the consults and conclusions of men about it that this is hindred and therby they exceedingly furthered in hopes to warme themselves at our fire Nay when afterward there were found Propositions upon rationall grounds of daming up the fresh water so as it