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A03778 Great Brittaines resurrection: or the Parliaments passing bell By vvay of psalmodie, against the tryumphing of the Papists, in their seuen psalmes. And in imitation of the song of the three nobles of Israel, deliuered out of the fierie ouen of Babell. By VVilliam Hubbard, Chaplaine to the Kings Maiestie, in his Highness Tower of London. Seene and allowed. Hubbock, William, b. 1560. 1606 (1606) STC 13898.5; ESTC S118144 37,262 64

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wither and the flourish thereof to decay And yet as it were recomforting themselues thus they seeme to prophecie In a moment canst thou crush her bones and lay her pride in the dust And The earth is infected with the wickednes of the Inhabitants and crieth vnto thee for vengeance And possibly would swallow them as it did Ch●re and his company were it not for thine elect sake Reuenging fire of Sodome and Gomor might bee iustly feared And Confirme the heart of those thy labourers endue them with strength from aboue and giue successe vnto their endeuours Againe Embolden our hearts with courage to concurre with them freely in furthering thy seruice And in another place Confirme your hearts in hope for your redemption is not farre off The yeare of visitation draweth to an end and Iubilation is at hand And Ierusalem shall be built vp againe and the second glory thereof shall be greater then the first And Righteousnes shall prosper and infidelity shall be plucked vp by the rootes God will arise as from a long slumber establish againe the arke of his sanctification And The roote which hath waxen olde vnder ground man shoote vp againe as a fresh plant by the riuer side False errour shall vanish as smoake And they which sawe it shall say Where is it become Iust iudgment holy lawes shall be restored c. Againe His tabernacle he will spred againe and dwell amongst vs as in times past And Sacred songs shall break their long silence the lamp of our Lord shall be 〈◊〉 And The resemblance of heauen shall be renued the resemblance of hell shall be destroyed England shall be called a happy Realme a blessed Country a religious people Those which knewe the former glory of Religion shall lift vp their hands for ioy to see it returned againe Those that neuer saw it shall be strucken with admitation wishing that they had sooner knowne the truth condemning their fathers which forsooke it Men shall say of it one to another heere is indeede the house of God and the gate of heauen How great diuersitie is betweene truth and falsehood deuout solemnities and counterfet ceremonies From the East point to the West men shall confesse their errors They which thought themselues wisest shall say they knew nothing Gladly shall people walke in their auncient steps of truth and equitie c. The Prince of peace will breake the exactors rod. c. No longer will he dissemble the oppression of his people He is bent to reuenge their cause The daughters of Babylon shal be cast downe and in the dust lament their ruine Proud heresie shall strike her sayle and groane as a beast crushed vnder a cart wheele Againe The omnipotent hath sworne to make her stoupe and that he will abase her haughtines Againe The memorie of nouelties shall perish with a crack as a ruinous house falling to the groūd And Hee will come as a flame that bursteth out beyond the surnace His fury shall flie forth as thunder and pich on their tops that maligne him Againe A second Cyrus hath he stirred vp confirming his Scepter for the good of his people He shal likewise bring the Infants of Sion from all quarters of their banishment Ioyfully shall they returne from forraine lands And those Countries where now they harbour shall finde succour in this I le for their necessities Againe The tempestuous night being passed a perpetuall day shall be our comfort His truth his iustice his Priests his sacrifice shall be no more taken away I haue beene the larger that the reader might see obserue the Papists expectation out of their owne many words without equiuocation But Mutatis mutandis the prophecie shal be inuerted vpon themselues as is in part alreadie Magnified be the name of God therefore Now for this my methode as it were a letanie or procession and a kinde of spirituall preambulation thorough the whole England as men doe to keepe their bounds so we to see in particular and generall how much we are bound to God wee haue excellent presidents to omit Miriams song and Deborahs which both stand vpon the resolution into particulars but in Dauid himselfe more notably Dauid the sweet singer of Israel the king of singers first Psal 136. which vsed to be sung of the Leuites in the temple In which Psalme as it were by a logicall or theologicall predicament hee beginning with the great works of GOD in generall hee after diuideth his thoughts into the works of creation and administration hee goeth from the heauens to the earth hee particularizeth in the great lights the sunne and the moone In the works of administration he exemplifieth in the Lords destroying Aegipts first borne in bringing Israel out thence in cutting sea into two parts in bringing Israel thorough the midst and not at the shore and in some shallowe place In ouerthrowing Pharao and his hoast there In leading this people thorough the Desart In smiting great kings for their sakes particularly Sihon and Og in giuing his people their land in remembring not their miserie onely but in feeding all flesh The burden of all which to euery verse is The mercy of the Lord endureth for euer That is to say Gods mercy appeared not then onely and in those particulars but for euer And that these particulars were stakings downe that they had had Gods mercy from time to time and might be sure of it for euer euen as Esay the Prophet saith Heare and your soule shall liue and I will make an euerlasting couenant with you the sure mercies of Dauid What is this else but you shall be as sure of my loue as euer Dauid was And in a neerer example Psal 148. hee rangeth and marshalleth the creatures in order with redoubling the same wordes praise him all ye his Angels praise him all his armies praise him sunne and moone praise him heauen of heauens and ye waters that be aboue the heauens let them praise c. praise ye the Lord frō the earth Dragons depthes fire hayle snow vapours winds mountaines hills beasts creeping thinges and feathered fowles Kings and all nations Princes and all Iudges of the earth young men and maydes olde men and children Let them praise the name of the Lord c and why all these For the particular mercie saith Dauid in exalting the horne of his people Euen as Esay on the other side in the impenitencie of the people contesteth heauen and earth attesteth Oxe and Asse against Israels ingratitude And hence no doubt was deduced the canticle of the three children though apocrypha yet very auncient and inserted for the worthines of it into the liturgie of the Church of England Where the three great noble men and rulers of thy Prouinces themselues personally stand forth and beginning from the generall workes of God discend to specials in heauen to Angels sunne moone and passe along the cloudes in their spirits to showers windes
is a spacious argument vrge that and walke in that and forbeare other impertinents See you not that the resolution of our state hateth Antichrist with a perfect hatred this 48. yeares and is therfore hated vnreconcilably as beeing in it selfe the most Euangelical monarchie in the world and a sanctuarie of refuge for all the professours in the earth vnder her shadowe let this whet your courages and set an edge on your zeale and teach you spirituall discretion to goe with one shoulder to ruinate Babel and not be diuided in your selues in your seuerall stations Cursed be he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently Let your voices and spirits declare in all the congregations that the Lord himselfe is a Champion for the house of Aaron a defender of the tribe of Leui and that he holdeth all the starres of all our Churches in his owne righthand and that his mercie to that function endureth for euer Celebrate you the Lord of the haruest so benigne and gratious vnto you and remember him that said Occupie till I come and so much the more because the enemie is so busie Let the house of Aaron then and all the tribe of Leni blesse this Lord their speciall Lord and Maister and patrone praise him and magnifie him for euer O All ye louers of the Gospell and faithfull professours of Christs holy religion in this Kingdome who next after magistracie and ministerie were most hated noted and obserued and appointed to cruel butcherie massacre your families to be singled out to pillage dishonour of whichsome of thē peraduenture they had surueyed taking notice of their number strength and to haue been sacrificed not as Isaac also but as Abraham also euen the father and children and the very seruants at the foot of the hill how would not Rome haue bragged ouer you as a Lady and Conqueresse who shall not feare the beast and worship his image or take his marke in his forehead or right hand But the Lord caused the knife to stay that was so neare the throat and made the Ramme that pushed at you to be taken in the thicket of his owne deuises and to be a ransome for the innocent Lambs of his flock be wise hereafter as serpents thinke not they haue done Beware the dogge that barketh not who said they shall not know nor see vntil we come into the midst of them and slay them doe you blesse and honour this God of your life and beliefe adorne his glorious Gospel in your selues and families so much the more praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye wealthie fat ones of the world who haue gathered siluer as dust and gold as stones that haue grace and place fauours and honours aboue others Mannors and demeanes and children and call the lands and houses by your names that haue ships and shops and store-houses and ware-houses and wealth laide vp for many yeares Loe in one moment your soule gone whose should all these haue beene how quickly should all haue been turned returned and ouerturned in an houre therefore let thi teach you not to trust in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God to treasure vp religion not pelfe to confesse all to bee transitorie learne hence the contempt of the world and to be prouided that the day of the Lord come not as a snare vpon you make friends of vnrighteous Ma●●●● in this life that you may be receiued into better tabernacles yeeld it to be true the world passeth and the iolity thereof and all flesh is grasse and all the glory thereof is as the flower of the field onely the word of God and them that are begotten by it abide for euer doe you therefore hee reafter in all your graces and places countenance maintenance wealth and store for this so great patience towards you blesse this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Yee that take pleasure in pleasure though to Gods displeasure and in your owne voluptuousnes in drinking away the health of body and soule in gaine stealth and robberie in ambition iniustice oppression or any other wickednes and all the impenitent learne a parable of the figge tree you that write or speake parables let them take one from our Parliament and state therefore if it bee so much pleasure and honour to take pleasure to bee ioyned in affection with the creature know is farre greater honour and pleasure for the creature to bee ioyned with the Creator who is blesse for euer Learne in all your pleasures and contentments to remember this Lord who speaketh suddainly of a parliament a kingdome a nation a citie a towne a family a man a woman to pluck vp to roote out to destroy as suddainly as the Potter dasheth in pieces a vessell of clay despise not counsell refuse not instruction neglect not the riches of Gods bountifulnes and long suffering which loueth not to take you tardie and at aduantage to vndoe you in the Act of your sinnes but leadeth you to repentance harden not therefore your hearts nor heape not vp wrath against the day of wrath and the declaration of the iust iudgement of God who wil reward euery one according to his works put not off from day to day for you know not how nor when nor by what meanes he commeth and when he commeth hee commeth as a whirle-winde and laugheth at the destruction of the vngodly Be sober therefore and watch blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Yee desperate refractarie malecontents and irreligious Atheists that looked for a troublous time to fish in as in middle waters for a mist and smoakie time to goe vnespied as false thieues being readie and yawning to make hast to the pray Loe the pray is pluckt out of your teeth know that there is a God that iudgeth the earth and hath meanes to deliuer his from temptation in the very flames as he did Lot in Sodome that the wicked shall not haue their wills on them nor one of their bones be broken and that the stones are at league with them but vpon the vngodly he raigneth snares fire and brimstone stormes and tempests as thick as haile this shal be their portion euen hence learne to bende your selues to some lawfull calling and be content with your estate and thereby to blesse the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O You hard hearted Papists and indurate hypocrites whose consciences are seated with hote irons to make the commandement of God of none effect whereas hee strictly forbad murther to establish your owne traditions which you call the catholike religion you spare no blood where are your brags of ●8 of the late Queenes death of happy memorie and of this infernall tragedie where are your hallowed altars to be erected in Paules the threatnings against our bibles promising of
of Dagon fell downe vpō Philistines 3000 the buildings of foure whole Cities of Sodome oppressed their owners one wall falleth vpon 27000. of Syrians Ierichoes walls come tumbling down but Englands are spared Thou art let goe as a scape got or liuing sparrow from the death in hand thou hast not lost not one man in all thy Tribes do thou therfore exalt set vp and blesse this thy God that loueth thee deerely by prolonging thy peace in thy borders and preuenting this crying and complaining in thy streetes else haddest thou beene yea and shalt be a wofull spectacle of miserie an incōparable example of calamitie to all the world should not thy times haue beene as in the dayes of Noah some taken eating some drinking some in marrying and knew nothing till the flood of vengeance came as in the dayes of Lot some building some planting some buying some selling and the fire disturbed all their works as in the day of Ierusalem some taken flying of two in the field one hit the other scaping some in the house not suffered to come downe others abroad not suffered to set any thing out of the house some taken in the Inne as Moses some neere the gardens as Balaam some in the tents of whoring as Zimri and Cost some as Abimelech hauing come neere the dore to haue his braine brokē with a stone some taken lying in receiuing bribes as Gehezi some robbing the Church as Ananias and Zaphira some walking in the Tarasses as Nebuchadnezar some drinking with cōcubines as Baltazar c. Lord how many hearts had beene discouered how many hypocrites dismaked faint and fraile men laid open some weak would haue proued strong some strong would haue proued weake the reputed faithfull might haue been vnfaithfull the trustie might haue become treacherous men taken to be quiet might haue beene outragious many that make faire weather would haue been glad of this storme they that seeme content with their owne would haue taken part in the common spoile how many priuate quarrels would haue beene reuenged vnder publike visors how many that seeme Protestants would haue appeared Papists how many wise would haue proued foolish and at their wits end how would the base haue presumed against the honourable the young against the aged who could haue beene sure of life or goods or wife or childe one houre what house not rifled what virgine not rauished what wife not defloured euery Towne and Country should haue beene filled with woe and lamentation and astonishment Winter houses Sommer houses had beene demolished the great houses smitten with breaches the little with chests as Amos speaketh It should haue beene a day of darknes and blacknes none like it from the beginning neither any more such to the yeares of many generations the land before it as the garden of Eden after it a deuouring wildernes And surely it parliament shall take all course for safety that possibly the highest reach and extent of mans wisedome can compasse yet if we be not reconciled to GOD and returne with all our heart It we be not zealous to amend loe hee standeth still at the doore and knocketh our safety is no safety and our reso●e is but a repriuall to a greater assises 〈◊〉 England therefore say vnto her God heretofore I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the care but nowe mine eye seeth neerer then euer therefore I abhorre my selfe in dust and ushes Let the enemie neuer haue his hope that the iniquitie of England is fulfild Let England seeing shee is new borne be a new creature Let England say the mercie of God to it indureth for euer and that her deliuerance surpasseth all the deliuerances of Gods first borne Israel let her proclaime to all people Come and see and heare what GOD hath done for me and my children helpe me all ye nations and ioyne with me to blesse this Lord to praise him to magnifie him for euer O You the right honorable Commissioners and other the worshipfull imployed in examining this triane and in digging vp this hidden graue like the Troian horse among the Gentiles of all villany you see ken further in this sed of mischiefe then any other eye you see the works of the Lord and his wonders in these deep deuices further then is fit for euery one to knowe and which time will more reueale and make bare and naked Heauen is high earth is deepe and the heart of the King who can finde out you see the dungeon of trayterous harts and haue pierced into the bottomlesse hell of Popish and Iesuiticall practise by their owne bookes writings and confessions you see the labyrinth of their windings turnings and all the false dores of equiuocating soules more intricate then their hiding chambers in their couerts and dens and secret lurking places you see the power of the Lord to confound them whilst we imagined no ill his wisedom to let them run on till they should be out of breath like a good Chirurgion not to launce the wound til it grew to a head and the botch ripe to breake with too much bily matter you see the iustice of the Lord who hath made himselfe knowne by executing iudgement they are sunken downe in the pit that they made in the net that they hid is their foot taken the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne hands Higgaiō Selah you see the mercy of God triumphing ouer all his works arguing and disputing in his loue concerning vs How shall I deliuer thee vp O little England How shal I deliuer thee O great Brittaine how shall I make thee as Admal how shall I set thee as Zeboim mine hart is turned within me my repentings are rolled together I will not execute the fiercenes of any wrath I will not returne to destroy I am God and not man the holy one in the midst of thee behold I would haue fined thee but not as siluer yea I haue saued thee out of this fierie furnace of affliction for mine owne sake for mine owne sake haue I done it for my names sake haue I deferred my wrath for my praise haue I refrained from thee that I cut thee not off you therefore that see more as the cunning eye in pictures the skillfull eare in musicke discerneth more then the vulgar sort you that see the length the bredth the depth the heigth at the dimēsions of Gods works here aboue others rise vp higher in your spirits by their subtilty right honourable be more and more wise as serpents for the state and to preserue honourable plainenes in the simplicity of Doues in holie conuersation for your soules health and for blessing of your pollicy so blesse you this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou noble Lord that high Montegle of honorable discent and auncient renowned house predestinate aboue all other
and destroyer of the world She keepeth her latitat in her laterane liuing a shadowed life and setteth others to that worke to which shee putteth not her finger wherefore stir vp your heroicall spirits prepare your selues to fulfill the rest of Gods mysterie prophecied before that ten Kings should ioyne in one consent against this whore of Babel who committeth states together to kill one another for her Proclaime a sacred warre against her to shew your holy hatred of her that Sion may rise Babylon may fall and her smoake may rise vp more and more do you begin to blesse this Lord who hath shewed by this example to all the world that he specially loueth the liues of Kings Princes and Counsailers of estate and therefore do you your vttermost and what cannot Kings do to set forth the lawes of this King of Kings in all your Realmes shew your selues to be Kings and free men not in bondage to any but restorers of the world according to your great power can you haue a better time and occasion see the stirring and readie affections of many Kings Potentates and States to concurre with you blesse this Lord GOD of whom you hold your crownes praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye holy Angels and celestiall creatures that excell in strength whereas we are weake you that fulfill his commaundements and hearken perfectly vnto the voyce of his words whereas we vpon earth are all short you that pitched your tents about the parliament house and all our tabernacles that looked so faithfully and louingly to your charge so that no foote did stumble at any stone blesse you this Lord forvs and with vs in all your heauenly queers praise him and magnifie him for euer O All you people of the word Iewes and Christians Turks and Infidels ciuill and Barbarians Indians and Cannibals friends and enemies whatsoeuer consider I pray you in all your Countries generations whether any like horrible vnnaturall and execrable thing euer were where neither the dread of the God of life nor duty to a sacred King nor the tendernes of a gracious Queene nor the sweetnes and golden hope of a young Prince nor authority of Counsailers of estate nor reuerence of prelates nor honour of nobility nor grauity of Iudges nor respect of the flower of their owne Countrie nor consideration of the face of the aged nor any hope of the young ones nor pittie of the innocent nor compassion to the harmlesse multitude nor loue to their owne affectionate in the same religion nor bowels of nature to their owne Country nor rule of scripture to thinke of heauens Country nor relenting of conscience in themselues in so many moneths of leisure to worke any remorse but the more hardening nor pietie to the memories of the dead nor awe to any liuing what opinion the world should haue of such incendiaries nor feare of any to reuenge it nor care of posterity to confound mens estates and rights by destroying their deeds writings in the fire nor thought of iustice to let men haue a lawfull triall nor abhorring of cruelty in the multitudes of the slaine nor barbarousnes in the manner of death or rather in so many manners of death burning drowning stoning beheading quartering pressing nor touch to the rufull scriching and howling of the maymed bruised wounded not slaine outright nor charity to send men to hell as they thought without time to aske mercy nor fore-cast of perill to them and theirs if they should be discouered nor any thing in heauen earth or hell this world or the world to come could moue them some being of great birth and wealth some of zeale and professed religion some of the priesthood of the Romane faith and all naturally of this Countrie and nation but that they complotted contriued put in practise to their vttermost power the most diuellish murder butchery and massacre that euer Sathan hatched from the beginning of the world frō the shedding of the blood of Abel the righteous at which we that scaped admire and adore him that saued vs they that heare it are amazed astonished and can scarcely beleeue that any such thing was but that it is apparant as the sunne in the firmaments which all nations doe now ring of and is readie for euery Chronicle as the new manuell of the world both in attempt and deliuerance to shewe the odiousnes of bloudie and woluish Rome and the soueraignty and fatherly loue of God to mankinde and especially to the English nation protestant Churches there Doe you therefore O all you people tribes kindreds and nations of the world and all ye works of the Lord in all places of his dominion doe you I say speake good of the name of the Lord let euery one that hath faith let euery one that hath breath and common feeling and sence of humanitie and loueth the liues of men in the common affection to mankinde glorifie GOD that loueth to saue many people aliue and hence learne to abhor the Abadon the Apollyon and Romish destroyer and to honour this God of our life who holdeth all their soules in life let them blesse this Lord in their Countries and Regions praise him and magnifie him for euer O All you people that heare me this day or shall reade any part of this sacrifice of thanksgiuing be stirred vp heereby the more to lift vp your hearts vnto God to extoll his name exalt his glory and found out his praise in all places and vpon all óccasions especially to celebrate him for the riches of his mercie in the defence of the Gospell in our protestant Churches O my soule and all that is within me and all that belongeth vnto me blesse thou not only in word and writing but in deed and truth this holy name of the great defēder of our precious faith praise him magnifie him not now alone but continually and for euer euer Amen Amen Alleluiah FINIS Tower ministerie Zach 4.7.10 Noh 13.4.7.8 Pro. 3.9 Ezech 21.2 Conference with prisoners 2. Tim. 2.24.25.26 In veni lateritiam reliqui marmoream 2. Tim. 4.7.8 Col. 3 1● Why this treatise by way of Psalme Ioh 13.2 Math. 26.30 Math 26.2 Select sentences out of the Popish newe Psalter In their 4. Psalm In their second Psalme Exod. 15. ●ud 5. 1. Chro. 16.41 Odê Epae●●ticos ê antistrophos Why repetition Presidentes of particular recapitulation and a burdē of words in songs of thanksgiuing See also Psalm 118. in the beginning Esay 55. A ● president Esay 1.2 The song of the three children O all ye works of the Lord c. O'A●aria Azaria M●●ael doe you praise the 〈…〉 the Lord. Dan. 1.17 2.17.18 Gen. 2 19.20 7.14 Ionas 1 16. To the Parliaments passing Bell. Psal 41.5 Great Brittaines Resurrection Heb. 11.19 Parliament holy day Rom. 10.19 1. Sam. 5.4 Vt ingulent homines sargunt de nocte latrones vt temet serues non