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A05280	The first step, towards heaven, or Anna the prophetesse sacred haunt, to the temple of God. Preached at Standish Church in the Countie of Lancaster. By VVilliam Leigh, Batchillor of Diuinity and paster there. With the second edition of great Brittaines deliuerance, newly corrected and enlarged by the author.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639. Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of popish powder.	1609 (1609)	STC 15424; ESTC S103610	66,134	240

❧ TO THE Right worshipfull Sir PETER LEIGH Knight grace be multiplied in this life and happinesse in the world to come AS Hanna dedicated her Samuel a Nazarite to her God at Shilo so am I bold at your intreaty to separate this mine Anna a Prophetesse to the Lord at Ierusalem and do pray 〈◊〉 may passe vnder the shelter of your worshipfull protection The Saint is but homely arrayed and not for these curious daies wherein wee liue and in which the Son though clad with glory yet cannot runne it course but with censure either of too high a pitch and then it burneth or of too lowe a being and so it heateth not Atheists Papists and Libertynes will censure my plainnesse both in matter of faith and fact I looke for no other but to feele their piercing eye and venomous tooth yet if I escape in some measure the sorrow of my Sauiour sighing and saying Thus was I wounded in the house of my friends I make lesse reckoning of those that are without Haply the Title of the booke may seeme strange and from the subiect therein handled but if you thinke vpon the Ladder Iacob saw in the way to Padan-aram whose first step was on earth and last step in heauen you will finde that none can attaine perfection aboue but first his feete must stand in the Lords presence belowe It was Anna her holy haunt she frequented the Church here that she might come to blessednesse there we may not leap out of our mothers wombe into our fathers ioy but wee must goe by staires from the Temple of grace to the Tower of glory In the meane time this is yours and so am I in all duty and deuotion obliged by many your respectiue fauours to me and mine from you and yours Nor doe I hope you will conceiue the length breadth and depth of the loue I beare you can euer bee contained within the circle of these fewe lines Epistles and papers may point at more loue then they can expresse but the heart is the closet that keepeth all how euer these papers speake And so I leaue you with my very good Lady your wife and all yours to the mercifull protection of the Almightie From London this 14. of December 1608. Your Worships euer in my loue W. LEIGH To my louing Countrymen but especially to the Parishioners of Standish in Lancashire MY deere brethren beloued and longed for these twenty yeares haue I wrastled with God as Iacob did in Bethel in teares and prayers to gaine a blessing to my selfe in the saluation of your soules and with what fruit he knoweth best who knoweth all as a father I haue trauailed in birth againe and againe that Christ might be formed or at least confirmed in you Many a Sabboth haue we sanctified with a double solemnity of prayer praise and prophesie Many a moneth haue we celebrated the Lords Table with the blessed memory of his death and passion Many a time as a Nurse haue I wiped and wrapped vp your stains and many a careful night haue I told in mourning after your defectiōs And for any wrong I euer did you heere I am beare record with me before the Lord before his anoynted whose Oxe haue I taken or whom haue I impleaded God will witnesse with me before whom I stand in the sight of men and Angels that I neuer sought yours but you that you might be moulded for a better life and that Christ might be formed in you Yet may I say in some sort as it is in the Prophet This day is a day of tribulation and rebuke for the children are come to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth I speake not of all for many of you hath the Lord chosen and you are my hope my ioy and reioycing in the presence of our Lord Iesus Christ at his comming but of many I may say I feare left I haue bestowed vpon them labour in vaine While some with Reuben abide among the sheepfolds to heare the bleatings of the flocke they are couetous Some with Gilead abide beyond ●orden in the greene fields and medowes of their delights and they are carelesse Some with Dan remaine in ships and are gone beyonde the seas they dote vpon their Romish Idols and they are faithlesse Some with Meroz sit at home in the cels of their superstition and they are resolute recusants who will not come to helpe the Lord to helpe the Lord against the mightie Well I say no more but this These diuisions of Tribes are great thoughts of heart yet may we not bee heartlesse but hold on our course with vnwearied diligence hoping that if we sowe in teares we shall reape in ioy as did they of whom it is sayd by the Psalmist Ibant flebant mittentes sua semina They went weeping and carried precious seede but they shall returne with ioy and bring their sheaues A glayning of which sheaffe formerly fallen into your eares but now I feare forgotten and gone out of your hearts I haue thought good againe to present vnto your carefull and christian viewe for it grieueth me not to rehearse the same things often and for you it is expedient Asaphs song was melodious though Israel sōg it oftē the Arks marching about Iericho seuen times was no shame in the siege sacking of Iericho As it is an office of the holy Ghost to leade vs into all truth so is it to bring all things to our remembrance which haue been told vs seldome told often forgotten and who is sufficient for these things You are nailes of the Sanctuary and it is not one stroke can fasten you to your hold but you must be often riuited with the same heart hand and hammer I hope to see you in the high feast of Christ his Natiuity towards yet for that I know not how the Lord may dispose of me and of mine occasions abrode I haue sent you this first step towards heauen as an exercise for the time It was Anna her holy haunt looking and longing for Israels cōsolation I pray God you may trace it on earth as she then did so shall you be sure to treade it in heauen as she now doth My good worshipfull friend required it I may not deny it your soules need it I may not withdraw it Take it then as a pledge of my deerest loue euer in my praier with you euer in my practise for you And now the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout so as both in soule spirit and body you may be kept blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ faithfull is he which calleth you which will also do it Brethren pray for vs and the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all Amen From London this 14. of December 1608. Yours in the Lord assured W. LEIGH ANNA HER HOLY HAVNT LVK. 2. 36 ANd there was a Prophetesse one Anna the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of

neuer be ended his name is Iohn When God had made Adam and brought him into paradise he suffered him to giue names to all his creatures and for two causes The first that he might distinguish one from another The second that he might haue a property in all and it is thought he gaue names according to the nature of the things Wouldest thou distinguish child from child let their names be significant so did the Iewes of old and it were not farre amisse for Christians to practise the same now that as the Lord hath made them thine by nature so thou should appropriate them his by grace naming them of some great mercy or speciall grace flowing from him That names should be significant it may appeare by the practise of all the godly Adam of red earth so called by God himselfe Eue is Isha which is of man for that she was framed of his rib Cain of a possession for that his father thought he had begotten the promised seed as a repossession of that Paradise which he had formerly lost But when he saw the crookednesse of Cain he called his second sonne Habel which is vanity condemning his owne vanity in his thoughts And it is of speciall note and obseruance that after that he tooke occasion by the names of his children to vnfold the misery of man Sheth a child begotten after his owne image and likenesse as well concerning his creation as corruption Sheth called his sonne Enoch which is desperation Enoch called his sonne Kenan which is dispossession Kenan called his son Mahalaleel which is perceiuing death Rahel yeelding vp the ghost in her painfull trauell called her child Bennoni which is the sonne of my sorrow Of such significant names of mans misery the Scripture is full one I cannot passe in silence to wit of Phinehas wife who whē she hard that the Arke of God was taken by the Philistines and that religion was gone she called the child Icabod which is the glory is gone from Israell The Lord grant that wee haue neuer cause so to say so to christen our children or so to sigh to the sorrowe of our sinfull soules when as for our vnthankfulnesse the glorie shall go from Englād The vse of all is this that as nere as we can wee should cleipe our children with significant names such as are no sooner heard but they should make an impression in vs them either of the Lords mercie or our owne miserie But and if we will take in the pride of our harts such names sauoring of flesh and bloud as Dauid did when he called his sonne Absalon which is the fathers peace let vs take heede it fall not out with vs as it did with him for hee became his fathers bane A good aduertisement to see to our names that wee bee not better called then qualified as Absalon was crossing a good name with a bad nature As for prophane names taken from the Gentiles and such as sauour of idolatry away with them as Iupiter Mercurie Venus c. Names we may take of our ancestors so wee follow their vertues as Dauid Abraham Isaac Iacob It is written of one that he was so obliuious that he had forgotten his owne name I feare there bee many such who little regard to follow the vertues of such as they would bee called after yea oftentimes wee heare the sound of our names but we forget the signification Thou shalt bee no more called Iacob but Israel as preuailing with God so said the angell and after Iacob had it he neuer lost it hee neuer forgot it and it was with him as with Scipio Africanus Qui nihil inde praeter cognomen accepisse dicitur he had nothing frō Carthage but the bare name so what had he or what haue we in this world but a wrastling with God for a blessing The daughter of Phanuel From her gracious name now come wee to the faithfull family whereof she was descended which is here said to be Phanuel A gracious childe no doubt of gratious parents I meane a flourishing branch of a fruitfull tree for Phanuel is Peniel mentioned Gene. 32.30 which is the face of God being the place where Iacob wrastled with the Angell said I haue seene God face to face and my life is preserued In memorie whereof Phanuel learned 3. things notable presidents for fathers of families to follow in making holy their children and houshold 1 The sight of God in his word thus I haue seene God face to face 2 The wrastling with God for a blessing by powerfull prayer and practise of all piety thus I will not let thee go except thou blesse me 3 The assurance of Gods mercie and blessing after such fight contention in these words my life is preserued Let this bee a modell to frame your families by so shall ye bee blessed in all your habitations as was Abraham Cornelius Abed-Edō Lazarus at Bethania and Iosua when he resolued said If it seem euill vnto you to serue the Lord choose you this day whom you will serue but I and my house wil serue the Lord. Godlines is great gaine whereunto appertaineth not onely the things of this life but of the life to come Is it gaine you seeke for would you aduance your houses and preferre your children Then liue godlily bring them vp in his feare so shall ye not only honour them in this world but in the world to come I haue beene yong saith Dauid and now am old yet I neuer saw the righteous forsaken nor his seede begging his bread The remembrance of the iust is with praise but the name of the wicked is with rottennesse Let the rule of the Apostle guide you in the bringing vp of your children and familie in nurture holy discipline If there be any that prouideth not for his owne and namely for them of his houshould he denieth the faith and is worse then an infidell Which is true and may be verified not so much of temporall trash as of heauenly treasure euē of that which r●st cankereth not moth consumeth not nor theefe breaketh through and stealeth Men thinke it sufficient if they be godly themselues though their children bee riotous Let Ely his example answere that obiection punished for his impunity let Iobes care of his children banqueting increase thy diligēce in feare of their future fall The Senate people of Rome as Tullie recordeth sent euery yeare six of their Princes children to the land of Hetruria there to learne the art of diuination To credit the profession of diuinity then Princes children were sent to see into the entrals of beasts flight of birds our inspection now is deeper and we soare higher euen into the bloudy wounds of a sweete sauiour bleeding on earth pleading in heauen and yet woe is me therefore both meane men and mightie

must increase whereof reade the blessed Apostle Gal. 5.19 Rom. 12.1 c. Agiselaus in his common wealth tooke an account or reckoning both of the youth and aged how they liued and how they profited in the knowledge and practise of Philosophy we christiās are carelesse of both in diuinity And Tully told his sonne Marke that now hee must needes abound in the rules and precepts of Philosophy for that he had heard ●ratippus a whole yeare and that in Athens Forty nine yeares we haue heard the Lord from the mountaine of his holinesse and yet I feare we lesse abound in knowledge faith and feeling of true godlines then we did at the first We haue left our first loue our tree is blasted godlinesse is gone the child increased we decrease The Lord euen then put into our hands talēts of gold and bade vs occupy till he came Woe is me to tell we haue lapt thē in our napkins and returned him his owne with no aduantage The Israelites grew vnder the burthens of the Egyptians like palme trees when they are pressed our God hath deliuered vs from all both burthēs bōdage of the Egyptian Pharaoh yet we wither The grace of God is a continual currēt as Zachary saith euer emptying it selfe from pipe to pipe til it come to the poorest of his people we are as poore as euer the widdow was mentioned in the 2. Kings 4. and our Creditors are as cruell as euer hers were but how we feele our selues filled with the oile of Gods grace to keepe our soules from bondage as she did her son I leaue it to each good conscience to consider of And so for conclusion I say with the blessed Apostle my deere brethren beloued and longed for Seeing yee know these things before beware lest yee be also plucked away with the errour of the wicked fal frō your own stedfastnes but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ to him be glory both now and euermore Amen Amen GREAT BRITTAINES GREAT DELIVERANCE from the great danger of Popish Powder By way of meditation vpon the late intended treason against the Kings most excellent Maiesty the Queene the Prince and all their Royall Issue VVith the high Court of Parliament at VVestminster there to haue beene blowne vp by the Popish Faction the fift of Nouember 1605. If God of his great mercy had not preuented the mischiefe The second Edition corrected and enlarged by the Author Psal. 5. vers 11. Destroy thou them O God let them perish through their owne imaginations Cast them out in the multitude of their vngodlinesse for they haue rebelled against thee Printed at London for Arthur Iohnson 1609. TO THE HIGH AND Mightie Prince Henry by the grace of God Prince of VVales Duke of Cornewall Earle of Chester and Heire apparant of the Crowne and Diademe of this kingdome of great Brittaine France and Ireland PArdon me my gratious good Lord deare Prince if out of a loyall heart I present vnto your Princelie viewe what I conceiued vpon these late intended Treasons in solace of my soule after the Lord had made the land so glorious by deliuerance I say Deliuerance out of the hands of cruell enemies who strook at our fairest tree to haue cut it downe both roote bole and branches if the Lord had not beene propitious And because your excellency is the highest straine in all expectance and the Heire apparant to that crowne and dignitie whose vndoubted right they haue so wronged by sinister thought word and worke as in former ages the like was neuer deuised in any Nation nor by the grace of God euer shall I haue made bold in these fewe leaues and lines to lay open the danger with the deliuerance and the rather to your Highnesse for that in feeling sort you may iustly say Quorum pars magna fui I haue had my part of both for man hath endangered me but God hath deliuered mee If in the deliuerie and proiect of this my speech your highnesse shall finde lesse Method then Matter I hope your clemency will beare with my passionate heart more affected to grieue for them who deuised the mischiefe and to ioy for our selues that missed it then I can well expresse without a troubled stile One saith wel Vt luctus sic laetitiae loquūtur leues ingentes stupent As are our sorrowes so is our solace in their Mediocrities they speake but in their extremities they are silent and say nothing What maruell then if this our rauishment of so great ioy for the deliuery and deepe griefe of horror because of the danger either enioyne mee silence or if I speake make me to vtter my thoughts with such passion as little passeth of the Method so it meete with matter to expresse the meaning of a melting heart Nescit ordinem amor Loue is lawlesse and a loue thus boyling how can it but shed ouer and keepe no current other then in your Royal acceptance euer seasoned with such heauenly sufferance as is gracious both to GOD and man Digna prorsus rara virtus humilitas honorata It is a rare vertue when humility is honoured and honour is humbled the blaze whereof I saw in your Princely countenance when at your Highnesse Court at Saint Iames it pleased your excellency to licke vp the dust of the Sanctuarie there vpon the Lords day and after the Sermon ended to yeeld such grace in publike to the Preacher as that he might kisse your Princely hand which euer sithence hath strucke so great an impression of exceeding loue and loyaltie in my poore heart as by the grace of God I shal neuer leaue to pray for your highnesse as I am most bounden and also by all meanes studie how either my loue or life may expresse the seruice and duty I owe for so gracious an aspect Gold and siluer I haue none such as I haue I giue In the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth be you established Yet if it please your good grace to receiue this simple New-yeares gift with the least acceptance and as the first fruit of my labours in your Highnesse seruice It may be I shall with Ianus looke backward to the olde yeare and out of my small store offer a pearle of an higher price Till when and euer I pray God safely to keepe your Royall person to his glory your owne comfort and Englands ioy Your Graces Chaplaine most humble at command W. Leigh Great Brittaines great deliuerance from the great danger of Popish Powder THE Papists of these our dayes falsly called Catholickes vnlesse it be in this that they are vniuersally euill haue euer since the first yeare of Elizabeth our late Queene of famous memory euen to this day endeuoured the subuersion of their deare country to set vp their Babel of al cōfusion And haue sought by all possible and potent meanes to make this Church and Country the noblest of Nations an

Akeldema or fielde of bloud Witnesse all their Rebellions that haue beene raised since that time either in England Ireland or Scotland euer fed with the grosse Viands of Popish Buls and Indulgences fetched from Rome by Saūders Morton Felton Edmond Campion and Robert Parsons most or all factious Priests and Iesuits and since spred and divulged by the poysoned breath of thousands of their Sem●naries vermine of the Church and bane of Christendome These haue done much and deuised more against th●●tate then euer was thought vpon in elder times and not so much by open hostilitie as secret treasons excommunications and confi●ca●●ons against the liues soules and goods both of Prince and people who were not pleasing to their deuotions But of all that euer were this last deuice of gunpowder to blow vp all was most detestable diuellish and damnable as wherein hell was shaken with all it furies to haue effected their thrice bloudy practise with this fiery resolution of their angry Goddesse Iuno Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta mouebo If God will not the diuel shall Whereupon when I do thinke it is with me as it was with Elisha when he looked vpon Hazael his person and sawe in his countenance his intended crueltie toward the Israel of God hee looked vpon him stedfastly till Hazael was ashamed and the man of God wept and Hazael sayd Why weepeth my Lord Whereunto the Prophet answered Because I know the euill that thou shalt doe to the children of Israel for their strong Cities shalt thou set on fire and their yong men shalt thou slay with the sword and shalt dash their Infants against the stones and rent in pieces their women with child Then Hazael said What is thy seruant a dog that I should doe this great thing And Elisha answered The Lord hath shewed mee that thou shalt be King of Aram. Wee haue stedfastly looked vpon you O yee Romish Aramites more cruell then Hazael and lesse compassionate then he wee haue wept ouer your tyrannie as Elisha did and yee are not ashamed as Hazael was the prints of your former cruelties haue pierced our hearts but this last impression hath euen wounded our soules wherein we see nothing but traces of bloud and as it were the black face and countenance of confused desolation King Queene Prince with all their Royall issue the onely remaine of our religious hope Councell Peeres and Prophets the next support of our happie estate graue Iudges and learned at Lawes with the Knights of the Parliament and Commons there assembled a third pillar bearing vp the kingdome all these our honors had gone in a day Woe vnto vs that euer wee sinned to deserue the hazard of so great a iudgment Which once accomplished to their full then had wee felt to our wofull experience how speedily the mischiefe would haue spred it selfe into the body and bowels of al the kingdome wherein nothing should haue bene heard but rumbling of shot and crashing of armour outcries of mothers yelling of children nothing seene but sacking of citties burning of townes razing of Towers and wasting of the land with destruction of parts and desolation of the whole Quorum animus meminisse horret luctuque refugit And yet as all this were nothing or not enough we should haue seene these miscreants neuer satisfied with the bloud of the Saints till they had changed our religion for superstition our knowledge for ignorance our preaching for massing our subiects for Rebels our Councellors for conspirators and so haue brought vpon vs and ours a most woefull Sabaoth when both the lawes of God and man which are the sinewes of a sanctified State had beene dissolued and silent Now if any shall say as Hazael did Am I a dog that I shall doe this great euill I answere with Elisha though in differing termes yet in equall sense The Lord hath tolde me and experience hath made it good that where Romish Hazael is King there is crueltie Fraterno primi maduerunt sanguine muri The first wals of Rome were laid in blood and euer since they haue beene scemented with such morter as is euident by the ten cruell persecutions of Emperours in the first 300. yeares after Christ by the cruelty of Popes euer sithence wherein Emperors haue beene Dogges to bite but Popes haue beene diuels to deuoure and make hauocke of Gods Saints nay worse then diuels and more audacious according to that Non audet Stygius Pluto tētare quod audet effrenis Monachus plenaque fraudis Anus Vnbrideled Monke dares vndergoe what diuell himselfe he dare not doe And here might I seasonably taxe the perpetuall hatred and intollerable cruelty of that Romane Antichrist toward the professors of Gods truth and Religion of whom I may truly say as the Prophet did of the Babilonians that they are and euer haue beene a people vile in name and sore in affliction Graues are pregnant and would bring foorth their dead to pleade their iust cause against their cruelties and Abels innocent blood crieth vengeance out of the earth against these cursed Cainites and from vnder the Altar me thinke I heare the soules of them that are killed for the worde of God and for the testimonie which they maintained cry with a loud voice saying How long Lord which art holy and true doest not thou iudge and auenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth Of many take these fewe for all Et leonem ex vnguibus Nor will I kallender any but moderne cruelties and such as are yet fresh bleeding in the memories of men liuing of this age and climate Mariana tempora Anglicana stigmata Maries times are English staines and who gaue the dye but that Romish red Dragon bloudy beast and whore of Babilon not satisfied with the blood of Martyrs then liuing but ransacked the bones of their dead and burned them to glut vp their crueltie Witnesseth the buried bones of Paulus Fagius and Martin Bucer Andwarpe and Naples can witnesse like crueltie vpon a mother Queene Prince of great hope whose Funerals as some say were solemnized both in one moneth at Naples with ioy and at Andwarpe with griefe done by that Sanguinarie Inquisition of Spaine Romish red Dragon and bloody beast of Babilon whose Horses mouthes fume nothing but fire smoke and brimstone Paris and France do yet streame with the blood of the innocent murthered and slaine in that cruel massacre on Bartholomew daye 1572. wherein the Shatilian was slaine and diuers others noble and excellent men with all the flower of the Gentry and Protestants in France to the number as is thought of 100. thousand all done and deuised by the two Cardinalls of Lorraine Peluey countenanced by the Queene mother of France aided with her Guis●an faction and executed by Mand●let with such crueltie that out of the Court of the Gaile called the Archbishops prison the bloud was seene in the broad day-light to the great abhorring and feare of many