O Thou mighty Iames, King of great 1 Britane, Fraunce, and Ireland: whom GOD hath aduaunced so peaceablie to so manie vnited Kingdomes, vpon so variable a change, without any sensible alte­ration, to the admiration of all the world: and see­med to haue rooted thine estate, by blisfull and much royall issue: by amitie of Forraine Princes, by great loue & loyaltie of subiects: that it was thought not able to be remoued: (thou Lord of thy onely goodnes, Psal. 30, 7. hadst made his rocke to stand so strong) and yet in one moment GOD hiding his face, all had like to haue beene dissolued with one blast of powder, if the same mercifull God had not with­helde the breath of his wrath: Esa. 30.33. which is a riuer of brimstone, to kindle this Topheth, a pit prepared of olde, a place deepe and large, the burning thereof is fierce fire, and much wood: doe thou according to thy excellent and rare Princely learning & iudg­ment (whereof Kingdomes, Vniuersites, 2, King. 10.28 and For­raine Embassadours, are witnesses) with zeale as Iehu, roote Baal out of Israel by one acte: open the [Page] windowe of the Parliament as Ioash his windowe, at the counsaile of Elizeus: 2. King 13. in the end. Smite the Syrians not twice or thrice, but sixe times, vntil thou hast vtterly consumed thē: blesse thou the Lord with all prince­lie offices of pietie and iustice, more and more to the sauing and comfort of all thy people. Psal. 144.10. Acknow­ledge that it is tree that giueth deliuerance to Kings, rescueth the annointed his seruant: praise him and magnifie him for euer.

2 O Thou most gratious Queene Anne, who hast forsaken thine owne Country & natiue soyle, and come into forraine parts to partake in all thy youth & beauty, the same lot with thy Regal Lord: behold how when the daughter of England did ho­mage vnto thee, Psal. 45.14. with all the rich before thy face with presents: and thou wentest out in all honour and singlenes of heart, to behold and reioyce in the solemnity of so great an estate, which God had so miraculously cast into your lap without your hands: when these vnmercifull bouchers of Rome hardning their hearts, meant to haue buried thee in one graue with thy royall husband, or rather torne in pieces: (I abhor to speake it) without all buriall (which was afforded to Kings daughters, though neuer so euil:) euen then thy life was deare and precious in the eyes of the Lord, 2. King 9.34. and his tender care was ouer thee: doe thou therefore blesse the Lord, and serue him more & more with one heart ioyntly, with this thy princely Lord and husband: praise him and mag­nifie him for euer.

[Page]O Thou most noble Prince Henry, the staffe of 3 thy Fathers strength, and the prime hope of these imperiall diadems: whose innocent life these blood-thirstie Babilonians longed for, equally with thy Princely Fathers: to destroy roote, and branch: Deut. 22.6. and fruite, parent, and childe in one day: to kill damme and young in one nest: Exod. 23.9. to extinguish pre­sent and future: as it were seething tender Kidds in mothers milke, against Lawe of GOD and nature: Lam. 3.27. Doe thou still beare the yoake of the Lord in all steadines and stedfastnes as most comfortably thou doest to all our ioy: in these first fruites of thy dayes: Remember still thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth: Eccles. 12. [...] and neuer forget this Preseruer in all the dayes of thine age: blesse thou the Lord, in all thy princely family, as holy and zealous young Io­sias, praise him and magnifie him for euer.

O Ye Honourable Counsailers, and Potentates, 4 who turne the wheele of estate vnder our So­ueraigne: against whom such wicked counsell was deuised to destroy you all before the mighty throne of our King: & to defeate vs of counsell, not repara­ble in a long time: which yet is the onely comfort in distresse: (so great was the indignation of the Lord towards vs, Psal. 18.7. [...]. Psal. 29.1. at whose nostrills are kindled haile­stones and coales of fire: but that the Angell of the euerlasting counsell did interpose himselfe) In the booke of publique thanks: The K. 2. speech in Parliament. My L. of Salis. at the arraig [...] and in his an­swer to the Pamphlet. as you the Sonnes of the mighty, haue giuen this glory to God: & do freely confesse that all this sauing health was from him alone: that GOD did all as a friend [Page] that doth a pleasure, which his friend knoweth not, vntill he feele the comfort of it, that it is done: (for notwithstanding the noble vertues and vigilancie of Abner, and vndoubted fidelitie of all the Kings seruants, 1. Sam. 26.16. round about him, on the right hand & on the left, pot & speare had been taken frō the Kings head: Gal. 1.16. Pro. 20.18. Apoc. 4.10. Arke and Scepter from vs in one houre:) doe you more and more consult with God in this and all other deliberations, and not with flesh & blood: that his statutes may bee your Counsailours: That he may establish all your thoughts by his counsell: long may you liue in all grace and honour, accor­ding to your great place and trust: doe you as the 24. Elders, fall downe, and throwe downe your crownes, of wisedome, intelligence, pollicie, vigil­lancie, gouernment, before him that liueth for euer: blesse ye the Lord, praise him and magnifie him for euer.

5 O Ye reuerend Bishops and Prelates, the venera­ble Gouernours of the Church of Christ, Apoc. 1.20. as the Angels and Presidents of the seauen Churches of England among vs: the grauities and presence of Superiours in the Church, haue beene regarded of the prophane & barbarous tyrants of the earth, and bloody Souldiours: Alexander the great at the sight of Iaddus the high Priest, As Percie, vnderstanding the B. of Saint Dauids to be sicke. 1. Pet 2, 25. Iob. 21.16. spared Ierusalem: and yet of these Sulphurous helhounds, you were more eagerly sought after to the fire, & they rued if any of you should be away: doe you honour this Lord the great Bishop of our soules, with further care & loue to all the sheepe and Lambes committed to your charge: And with all your power doe ye exalt the [Page] standard of his glorious Gospell, in all places of your Cōmissions: haue in your fatherly wisedomes as much patience as you can to your inferiour bre­thren of the Ministrie (notwithstāding some of their intemperate exulcerations) for the common seruice of the Gospell sake: their places and times cannot reach to the maturitie of experience, which your wisedomes hath attained: behold also, they are keen against an enemie: Phil. 3.15.16. whom though difference haue diuided by names of discord, yet the enemie would haue made no difference of slaughter of you both: beare as you may with their improuidencie, till God reueale further vnto them: (which moderation time hath bred in many: & is not profiting in wise­dome and iudgement, a part of our growing to the ripe age and stature of Iesus Christ;) that wherunto we are come, wee may proceede by one rule, euen to minde one thing which is necessarie: Luk. 10.42. Doe you stand in the gap in your pastorall & sage wisedomes and zeale, to turne away the Lords wrath, which yet is not ceased: blesse you the Lord, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O Ye Nobles and Peeres of the Realme, the pil­lers 6 of our estate, and flowers of the Kings Co­ronet: Behold now the day of the Lord of Hostes, Esa. 2.12.13. Cant. 3.7. was to bee vpon euery thing that was exalted: vpon all the Cedars of Lebanon: vpon all the Oakes of Ba­shan: and vpon all the high mountaines: and vpon all the hills that are lifted vp: vpō euery high towne, euery strong wall, euen vpon all the strong men that are about the bed of Salomon, all the valiant of Israel, [Page] who handle the sword and are expert in warre, and vpon euery one, that hath his sword vpon his thigh for any feare: Esa. 2.12.13. Cantic, 3.7. these, euen your selues, the cruell in­struments of Nabuchadnazzer of Rome, would haue consumed as the three renowned rulers of the Pro­uinces, Dan. 3.19.21. Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, in one fierie Ouen, heated to the seauenth degree, in your ha­bites, Liuie dec. 1. l. 1. Senes tri­umphales cō ­sulates, qui cu­rules gesterant magistratus, [...]t in fortunae pri­stinae honorū. que aut virtu­tis insignibus morerētur, au­gustissima ve­ste vestiti in medio aediū in eburneis sellis sedere: Galli haud secus quā venerabundi intuebātur se­dentes viros praeter ornatū que habitū (que) humano augu­stiorem, ma­iestate etiā, quā vultus graui­tas (que) oris pre se ferebat dijs fimillimos: ad eo [...]luti simu­l [...]chra versi sta­bant, &c. roabes, coates, and shooes, as they were, as the Scripture noteth: and yet the Infidel galles vnder Brennus, reuerenced the faces and vestures of the Fathers of the Senate in the capitoll of heathen Rome: Beholde the Lords great deliuerance ouer you: his holy Angels among you, so that no smell of fire vpon your garments, nor a haire of your heads singed: doe you therefore and your posteri­tie, and all your retinue: Blesse the Lord, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O You graue Iudges and Fathers of the Law, and Sages of the Land, whose doome was so neare without all course of iudgement, and triall of Law: which you afford to the meanest creature, and most grieuous offender: doe you put on Iustice as a roabe: Let equity be a couering as a Crowne: breake the power of the oppressour, and let the innocent goe free: that Iustice may not be as Wormewood, nor iudgement as gall: but truth may runne down as a mighty streame euery where: Doe you blesse the Lord, the chiefe Iudge of the world, who hath deliuered you from so great & sodaine a iudgment: Blesse him, I say, in all your Courts, in all your ben­ches, 7 proceedings, Assises, and Sessions: praise him and magnifie him for euer.

[Page]O You the learned and prudent Maisters of the 8 Lawe and Chauncerie: the Secretaries and Clarkes of estate, attendants in this honourable place by your offices, who were to bee in the same net of destruction: now that your soule is escaped, as a bird the net broken, Psal. 147.7. the fowlers taken and your soule deliuered: Doe you tremble and serue this great God, and King, and your Country, with all good care & sound conscience, as before the Court of conscience in heauen in greater degrees: Fulmen petit culmen. The thunder strikes the higher. (for if his wrath had beene kindled a little, what could great and high place & presence do good:) behold the thunder smiteth the tallest tops? Doe you there­fore feare this great GOD, breake out into voyces and vowes of laud and thanksgiuing: blesse you the Lord, praise him and magnifie him for euer.

O You worthie Knights and Burgesses, who re­present 9 the bodies of the seuerall Countries & Shires of our Nation: Sir Th. Smith de Rep. Aug. and were to be a short raun­some for a small Interim with your bodies, for the bodies of the Countries, who looked when their turne came to be deuoured also: As Vlisses of Polyphemus: when the rest were deuoured before h [...]m. Heb. 12.29. Bee you faithfull betweene them, who commit their welfare vnto you and this God: who though he be a consuming fire, and your house was as a burnt sacrifice, Leuit. 6.9. soking vpon the fire almost to the last night: yet hee hath not burnt it, nor touched our estate, as brittle and combustible as the fierie bush in the Desart: Exod. 3.2.3. but gloriously shewed himselfe in the midst of you for your safetie, as in the vision to Moses. Wherefore [Page] put off your shooes as hee did: lay aside all earthly treadings awry in loue of your selues, & your owne pelfe: Gal: 2.14. goe not with a splay foote to the Gospell of peace: and if indeede you seeke the Lord with all your hearts in the propagation of the Gospell, by a preaching Ministerie thorough the Land: as I am perswaded very many doe: then sticke not some of you to returne the impropriations in your owne power backe againe to the Church, as some honou­rably haue done heretofore: H.E. of Hunt. Sir Fr. K. M. Aldersey, &c. and others offered to doe the like in your very owne house of Parliament: and some with their money hath purchased some of thē to the Church: and were they not the auncient patrimonie of Christ? Did not Queene Mary in her darke dayes and wayes giue example? See Acts of Parlia. and by act of Parliament make restitution of the appropriations annexed to the Crowne? It well becommeth the zealous this day, some to stand forth, as Zaccheus af­ter so long detinue: Luc. 19.9. Seeing this day saluation is come vnto their whole and particular houses, and they be­come the sonnes of Abraham, Gen. 22.10.11 all of them as Isaac saued from the knife, by an angelicall hand, to deli­uer possession of the Lords inheritances: some to of­fer liberally, as Araunah the Iebusite, did like a King, as is recorded to the shame of Christians: 2 Sam. 24.23. Some as Nehemiah, Neh. 5.8.10.11 to depart from their owne for some time to redeeme the Churches portion back again, as he & his seruants did forbeare the purchasing of lands for themselues, to supply publique wants: Others not sticke to abolish diminutiue rates, and vnequall disproportionate compositions, whereof peraduen­ture many haue stollen vpon the Church: and to [Page] reduce the tythes to their primitiue vncorrupt kind, or among you to take some effectuall way in the va­rietie of your high and exercised wisedomes, for a liberal maintenance of a preaching Ministery (with­out which the discourses of it, are cloudes and claps of thunder, without the sweete dewes and drops of early and later raine:) and indeede a rich sacrifice of those sorts vpon this returne of you all, from the gulfe of such a death, would be an vndeniable con­stat of your zeale and pietie to all posterities, and an acceptable performance of a holy vow to him, who hath spared you all, & taken nothing frō you. And so in the name of God go on with all your courage, zeale, obedience, and fidelitie to GOD and man: blesse you the Lord, praise him, and magnifie him▪ for euer.

O Ye eloquent and skilfull Sergeants, and Coun­sailours 10 at the Lawe, the Professours and exer­cents in this facultie: pleaders and agents, and all the men of Lawe▪ whosoeuer in these adiacent Courts, together with all the Scribes. Notaries and Protonotaries Atturnies, and all other appendants and dependants, in so great a Muster in your rankes and Companies, that plaine and quiet men mer­uaile how there can be imployments for so great an Armie: who all are intended to keepe peace among Subiects; among whom yet many, Ose. 4.8. Ier. 5.27.2 [...]. it must needs be liue of the sinnes of the people: as a cage is full of birds, so are their chambers full of deceit. Thereby they are become great, and waxen rich: they are waxen fat and shining, and though they doe not [Page] iustly, yet they prosper: whose heate of contenti­on to multiply strifes and Clyents: pluralities and totquots of Cases and Causes: that it seemeth to re­semble the troublesome knots of the olde Popish school-men, to make things more pletted, perplex­ed, and intricate: and yet thereby they heape vp money and fees, which deliuereth not in the day of wrath, but inkindleth it rather: now that you are all deliuered from destruction, which was so neare vnto you also in the very tents and pitched fields of your variance, [...]ob. 29.16. and in that place, that is witnesse of all your integritie: whether you sought out the cause diligently as holy Iob did, Pro. to buy the truth, and sell it not; or otherwise of your vntrustinesse: wrest not the Law: accustome not to speake against your conscience: Rom. 7.12.14 take heed it be not said of some of you: as in another sense: the Lawe is holy, and iust, and good, but I am solde vnder sinne: euen euery one that so often pleade at so many barres: remember this great barre and tribunall seate to which you were to come, not so prepared, as else you would: extoll this mightie GOD of your deliuerance: let godlines bee your chiefest gaine, and the right and peace your greatest ioy: 1. Tim. 6.6. blesse you the Lord in all your takings and speakings: endightings and coun­sailings: complainings and defendings: praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

11 O You Gentrie and Yeomanrie, the frie of this Nation, and seede of succeeding ages: ye Stu­dents at the Lawe, and other nouices and punies vnder your graund Benchers, and most graue Seni­ours: [Page] that assemble to heare, and obserue the experi­ence and maturitie of the auncient, and to furnish your selues for future time: who had like to haue beene oppressed in your minorities, and in the very great hall and common schoole of your practise, and at the feet of them that teach you: but that the Lord protested for sinfull England as for great Niniuie: to saue sixe score thousand aliue, that knew not the right hand from the left; [...]onas, 4, 11. Esa, 65, 8. to preserue you as a cluster of Grapes, hopefull of wine: of which one saith, destroy it not: there is a blessing in it: Doe you therfore laud this Lord, who is your God from your youth, and let him be your God vnto your age: blesse you the Lord, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O Ye Sutors and Clients, and Sollicitors of the 12 Law, who are enraged in stomack and disqui­etnes: in reuenge and couetousnes, Gal. 5, 15. to eate vp one another: and trauaile farre, and oft to consume your times and families: Psal. 120.4. and blow the coales of Iuniper vpon one another, facing and defacing your selues mutually to maintaine these fires: behold the day of the Lord vpon you: like Plaintife, like Defen­dant: like giuer, like taker: like Clients like pleader: Esa. 24. [...]. one Beasom of destruction to sweepe away all that hunt their brethren with a net, and lay snares to catch men: but that God is more patient to vs all, Ier. 5.16. then we are to one another: who did suddainly blow the re­treate from this great slaughter: else a man of you had not beene left aliue: therefore feare this Lord, the God of peace, and loue, and comfort: Phil. 4.5. let your placabilitie bee knowne vnto all men: the Lord is at [Page] hand: blesse thou the Lord, praise him, and magni­fie him for euer.

13 O Ye seruants and followers of the Nobles and Gentrie, and others in this great assemblie of Parliament, and full Terme: Consider your seruice to almightie God, what it hath beene heeretofore: and your faithfulnes to men; Eph. 6.5.6. 1. Cor. 7.23. let it not be in eye ser­uice, but in singlenes of heart: you are bought with a price, hereafter be seruants not onely of men, but of this God; who hath deliuered you from this com­mon lot of miserie: blesse I say, and curse not: deli­uer your selues from the common condemnation: fashion not your selues according to the world, in the prophanenes of too many Seruitors, Rom. 12.2. mispending time and life: forgetting God and religion: remem­ber the iudgement of olde: not a seruant of Noah or Lot, saued in the watrish and fierie destruction of their times, Gen. 7.23. & 19.20. and yet you preserued at this time: ther­fore blesse you the Lord your preseruer, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

14 O You inhabitants and soiourners in the auncient Citie of Westminster, with all the confines and skirts of the liberties thereof, or in any reach, whe­ther this whirlewinde of Gods wrath should haue reached by land or by water: Behold you also were the children of death: Iob. 1.19, and your houses appointed to desolation, as the houses of Iobs children: by a strong winde, on a suddaine: euen peraduenture whilst you were eating and drinking, & taking mo­ney: Exod. 33.8. therefore rise vp in your degrees, and worship [Page] as the Israelites, euery man at his tent doore: blesse you also the Lord, praise him, and magnifie him for e­uer.

O All you open and secret Papists and Catho­licks 15 (for so you will be called) that were to bee assembled in and neare the Parliament, whose heads and bodies if they had beene gathered together vp­on this massacre, and laid on heapes, as all the seuen­tie sonnes of Achab at the Court gates of King Iehu: 2. King. 10 7▪9 2. Sam. 3, 28. it was cleare who had done it: Dauid and his King­dome had beene guiltlesse before the Lord for euer: your brethren and fellowes had done it: acknow­ledge them the schollers of Pope Hildebrand, who when Henry the third the Emperour, vsed to pray in S. Maries Church in mount Auentine, hired one to lay great stones on the beames to let them fall on the Emperours head, which he hasting to accomplish, a huge stone drew him downe, and crusht himselfe to pieces. They also would haue caused you to haue passed through the fire, as a sacrifice to Moloch: 2. King. 23.10. [...]enno card. in vit. and haue vsed you as Moabites. They would haue made you their martyrs, before your time: you should haue beene lickt vp in the common flame: Come you therefore out of Babylon; Loe how shee rewar­deth her children, like the harlot mother, 2. Cor. 6.17. 1. King. 3 19. who in Sa­lomons dayes ouer-laid her owne child to death, and yet would haue the liue children of the true and na­turall mother in her keeping. Touch no vncleane thing: doe you trie the spirits heereby, 1. Ioh. 4.1. and iudge them to be rauening Woolfes: Math. 7.15. know them by these ripe fruites of red and scarlet sinnes, of horrible, and [Page] vnnaturall, and vniuersall murther: and ioyne with vs now at last in the sincere profession of Gods word alone, which God hath defended in your eyes, and experience, so oft of olde, and now freshly: do you nowe come out of the fire with feare, and make a perfect vowe as Naaman, Iud. ver. 27. to offer to no other God, and to blesse the Lord God of the Protestants; euen the God of Paule, 2. King. 5.17. Act 27, 37. for whose sake God spared two hundred seuentie and sixe in the same ship, to praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

16 O You stately buildings and Edifices of Antiqui­tie, whose seates were set for iudgement: whe­ther all the heads of the tribes ascend, and other no­bles and elders of this Realme for common causes of olde: together with the princely Oratories and Chappels, and Churches of deuotion, and for the inauguration and inuestiture of the Kings and Queenes of this Realme: who haue long stoode in peace on your bases: and beene vnmooueable in so many alterations of Princes, Nations & times: and yet now one stone was not to be left vpon another, if they might haue had their will: Math: 24, 2. P [...]al. 137, 7. Leuit. 14.45. Crying downe with it, downe with it, euen to the ground: abhor­ring not the men onely, but the place also as a leapo­rous house, and vowing to make it waste as a wilder­nes: doe you consider, and bee not inanimate and altogether mute, Rom: 8.19, 20. but as the creature that lifteth vp his head for the day of redemption, spirited with a feeling of your preseruer: that they which visite your monuments, & come to see your ornaments; may go about you, Psal. 48.12. as of olde about Syon, and tel her [Page] Towers, marke well her bulwarks, and consider her walls: and see not a stone mooued, Psal. 102.14. Psal. 7. or a piece of timber shaken: GOD hath taken pleasure in the stones of your foundations, and hath had pittie on the dust thereof: as for your enemies hee hath trod downe their life in the earth, and laid their honour in the dust. Doe you stand and continue to tell po­steritie, as a stedfast and speaking pillar to admonish the members of that body, all that come vnder your roofe hereafter, there to intend him onely that de­liuered them: Esa. 10 1, 2, 3. and not to tempt this iealous God by any sinister decree: whose wrath had like to haue vomited vs vp, a luke warme nation, Apoc. 3, 15, 16. Math: 3, 12. Zeph. 2.2. neither hot nor colde out of his mouth: and who had his fanne in his hand, to haue burnt vs vp a people not worthie to be beloued, as chaffe in one day: so that all may with teares & feares, accusing & iudging our selues, get vs to our God right humbly: and learne heere aboue all places, especially of estate, with voices, suffrages, and decrees of holines & iustice, to blesse this Lord, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O Ye auncient monuments and Tombes of the 17 dead, the Sepulchers of the famous founders of this common wealth, the noble Kings, Queenes and Worthies of this Realme: whom many haue visited with ioy and honour: whose bones, and bo­dies, and sacred memories haue rested in peace a long time, notwithstanding the vprores of King­doms, mutinies of people, turmoiles of ciuill warres, and mightie earthquakes: and yet should now haue beene digged out of your honourable graues, and [Page] haue had your parts rend vp with this blast, as male­factors in a newe execution: and dislodged out of your honourable houses of rest: your corpes distur­bed, and your ashes scattered by this Plutoes and hellish confusion of Babell, and terrible earthquake ploughing vp all before them, and making furrowes in the hard rockes: doe you therefore lift vp your heads, Math 27.52.53 and rise vp as the bodies of the righteous out of the dust, at the death of Christ: and blesse this Lord, who letteth you rest the rest of your time, e­uen a little time, Apoc. 6.11: expecting a ioyfull and speedie re­surrection with all the Saints of God, and all your people succeeding you together, to praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

18 O Yee Rolles, and Charters, and auncient Regi­sters and Records of Courts of estate, contai­ning the decrees of the wisedome of the auncient, and the rules of iustice and equitie betweene man and man: which all should haue bene shriuelled to­gether in the fire of the Lords iealousie: like as at the dissolution of the whole world, when the ele­ments melt with heate, 2. Pet. 3.10. and heauen it selfe vanisheth as a scrowle: and the workes of the earth are to be burnt with fire: doe you flourish and reuiue out of your places, not to bee intanglements and incum­brances, or tedious tarriers, with dilatorie pleas, re­spiting the cause, or respecting the face of any: that all men that haue to doe with you, may more blesse God that loueth peace and equitie, and is a God of order, 1. Cor. 14.33. and not of confusion, that there remaines e­uidence of truth, and that the land markes are not [Page] remooued, as the Diuell would haue had it: Deut 27.17. and therefore bee the more inflamed, in all honest and true dealing to praise God, and magnifie him for euer.

O You Chariots of the mightie, and Coaches, 19 and Caroches of the great men of our state, Iud. 5.10. to­gether with the white Steeds and Palfreyes, 2 King. 9.2 [...]. Psal. 33.17. that runne as the horses of Iehu: who had perished in the same deluge of fierie destruction: or been stoned or pressed to death with your maisters and owners. A horse had beene a vaine thing to saue a man: the glory of outlandish Coursers: the neighings of hor­ses, and the pride of the ratling of the wheele had vanished: doe you who as creatures, are subiect to vanitie, Rom. 8.19.20. vntill the reuelation of the sonnes of God be; and your deliuerance from the bondage of cor­ruption: acknowledge in your degrees, that the iudgement of the Lord is like a great deepe: hee sa­ueth man and beast: Let man and beast therefore, Psal. 36.6. blesse this Lord, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O Thou glorious and triple Court of great Brit­taine, 20 and all you braue gallants of each of the princely housholds: you high and tender Ladies & honourable virgins: see how God pittied your sex and softnes of education: and all ye seruants of so great a Monarch, Queene, and Prince, with all their traine and retinue: Consider the danger to be past before you heard of it: where had beene all your beautie, honour, grace, approachment, iolitie, and [Page] brauerie, if this plot had taken effect: doe you all learne to loue the Courts of the Lords house, coun­ting one day better spent there, Psal. 84.10. then any in the ta­bernacles and chambers of vngodlines: wish there rather to peepe in at the doore, then otherwise to haue free ingresse into the priuie chambers of Prin­ces: Alas, what could the bed chambers, the with­drawing chambers, and priuie chambers of Prin­ces haue auailed you: 1. King. 22.25 Ier. 9.21.22. when you should haue runne from chamber to chamber, to hide you your selues: and yet no chamber could haue hid you, when the foundations of the earth had beene discouered: when as no barre could haue shut out destruction: death would haue scaled euery wall, and climde in at euery windowe: Isa. 28.17.18.19.20. Iudgement had beene laide to the rule, and righteousnes to the ballance: this thick haile, pel mel would haue swept away euery vaine confidence, and this breaking in of a fierie sea, had ouerflowed the secret places: euery couenant with death should haue beene disanulled: the agreement with hell could not stand: this scourge should haue runne ouer, and haue passed thorough: all should haue beene trod downe by it: when it passed ouer, it should haue taken you away: and it should haue passed euery morning, and in the day, and in the night: and there should haue beene onely feare, as Esay speaketh: euery bed should haue beene too straite, that it could not suffice, and euery couering too narrowe, that none could wrap himselfe, but that this mantell of woe had infolded eue­rie one: doe you therefore feare and tremble, and worship with holy worship, this GOD, that hath [Page] made fast the barres of these gates: and blessed all within them from this curse so neare vnto you: Psal. 147.13.14. let there be a new heauen and a new earth among you: Esa 65.17. & 66.22. Apoc. 21 1.2. make a solemne vowe to haue cleane hands heere­after, and to banish so deare corruption from the re­gall palace, especially in Church matters: be free spirited: embrace ingenuitie and plainenes: aban­don shifts, gloses, and flatterie: 1. Thes. 4.6. Psal. 15.2. (for the Lord is the auenger of these thinges:) Speake the truth euery man from his heart: pittie the attendance of suitors with speedie dispatch: that remedies bee not worse then diseases: (for a lingring sicknes is worse then a timely death:) finally, promote Gods glory, not your owne ambition, with all your meanes and ac­cesse: make not sad the heart of the righteous; Ezech. 13.22. Psal. 16.3. but giue grace and honour to the Saints, and them that excell in vertue: so blesse you this Lord, as you look for his blessing, and feare his curse: praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O Thou famous Citie of London, of olde called 21 Augusta, and Emperesse of the land, Holinshed. pa. 104. & 247. e [...] ▪ Polid. & pa. 731 and cham­ber of the Kings and Queenes of England, the head and mother of the Cities of the land: the nurserie of religion and fidelity: the store-house of the good Subiects: and the nest of the wealth of the realme: and therefore the more maligned of the Enemie, whose elders are as Barrons and Chapmen, Esa. 23.8. the no­bles of the earth, whose peace they so much enui­ed, whose strength and loyaltie they feared: whose wealth the fingers of many insatiable cormorants, itched to be medling with: intending no doubt all [Page] mercilesse rapine, dishonour, and villanies, not to be named, towards thee. How should thy hidden and secret houres haue beene sought out, Ob [...]d. [...].6. and thy trea­sures searched at full▪ Remember what Goteham a Priest, and predecessour of these imagined against thee: Simonides in Tullie. 2. de o­rat. cum obtri­tos humare vellent ne (que) possent inter noscere: ex eo quod memi­nisset quo [...]o [...]ū loco quisque cubuisset, de­mōstrator vn­iuscuiusque se­peliendi fuit. Simonides when as some would haue buried thē that were ouerlaide in the dust vpō the fall of a house, & could not discerne them: thereby that he had re­membred in what place e­uery man sat: he was able to giue direction for the buriall of euery one in his degree. did he not towards his death wish fire & brim­stone vpon thee from heauen, which these were set­ting from hell? thou shouldest haue beene (if not sacked) yet so cumbred with feares & fresh incoun­ters at home, and newes of slaughters abroad, warres and rumours of warres, that thou couldest scarce seeke out the bodies of the dead to gather the Prin­ces and Nobles out of the dust and rubbish: doe thou betime repent of thy prodigality, deliciousnes, and wantonnes, thy couetousnes, and hypocrisie, and euery other sinne: pray for sound iudgement, to discerne true and wholesome doctrine: and be­ware of humours: learne to honour with a perfect heart, with all thy peace, plenty, and strength, this Lord that keepeth thee (the onely watch-man of the Citie: whose eye neuer winketh nor is wearie, for he that keepeth Israel, neither slumbreth nor slee­peth) blesse thou the Lord: praise him, and magni­fie him for euer.

O Thou famous Cittadle, the royall Castle of the Tower of London, the first footing of Corona­tion of the Kings and Queenes of this land, and the possession taking, and earnest of the rest of the Do­minions 22 belonging to this Kingdome: a faithfull and sufficient, and speedie seruant at hand, to thy soueraigne and Country, a friend to their friends: [Page] and an enemie to their enemies: a vowed compani­on, and comfortable neighbour to the honourable Citie of London, the sinewes and ioynts of our war­like prouision, and commaunder of peace: the feare of the rebellious: the ayme of the enemies eye: the expectation and care of all true subiects: how shoul­dest thou haue beene vsed sore against thy will a­gainst thy dearest friends? the mischieuous designes against thee, the most wise, prudent, Sir. W. Wade. and religious Gouernour within thee: The industrious and vigi­lant officers and attendants there: (whose surpri­sing they deuoured in their first hopes) he knoweth best who is thy Fort and Tower: Pro. 18.10. Psal. 61.3. Psal. 31.2.3. Psal. 63.19. whose name is a strong Tower, and deliuered vs before our dead hearts could runne vnto him: who brought the pray vnto thy lap, and tooke captiuitie captiue, and gaue them into thy custodie: Be thou like the Tower of Dauid, as it were the [...]eck o estate, built for defence with all thy thousand shields, and all the targets of the strong mē that hang ther­in: the Tower of Lebanon that looketh to Damasoo▪ doe thou and all thy Mi­nisters instruments store & furniture with triumphs and trophes, with voties and peales of ioy & thanks­giuing, blesse this great Lord thy keeper, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O Yee Townes and Countries, who tasted of the headlesse skirmishes, & suddainnes of the bru­tish furie of these enemies of Sion, and the haters of the peace of Ierusalem, the very same fatall time by their desperate insurrection among you, aboue all other shires and places: doe you (I say) as sonnes 23 likewise of the resurrection, Warwick sh. Worcester sh. Stafford shire. Ezech 16.6. vnto whom the Lord said, in your blood line: you sawe the enemie, but felt no harme: their letter prophesied safetie in the Country, but against their wils: doe you therefore [Page] blesse this great God, that blesseth you the more for Balaams cursing; Ios. [...]4.10. Graunt, Percie, Gates by, and the [...]. Wrights, Tressam, Gar [...]ts man. Oue [...]. who scattered their forces, dimi­nished their power: and so quickly quelled them in causing their owne power to brand them in the fa­ces, and all their purposes to be defeated without a­nie great pursuite, and some of them to perish in the very acte of their owne sinne; some to languish with griefe, others to kill themselues: and all their mis­chiefe to returne vpon their owne heads: blesse you againe and againe this Lord: praise him, and mag­nifie him for euer.

24 O Yee Ministers and speciall seruants of the Lord: the Prophets of Israel, and feeders of the sheepe of the Lords pasture; Apoc. 9.3. whom these smoakie locusts of the bottomlesse pit, these rauenous Wolfes gree­die of the prey, most abhorred: to place their owne Baals Priests, and all the sacrificers of the Groues and hill-altars in your roomes, and so to deuoure the Lords inheritance: your safety & ministration they enuied; your families they vowed to shame and mi­serie: Apoc. 15.3. your persons to certaine and more cruell de­struction aboue others, by a special marshal at armes, appointed vtterly to extirpate you: Let your Harpe be in your hand, and Psalmes of Moses and Dauid, and the lambe in your mouthes: reioice ouer her all you Prophets & Apostles: Apoc. 18.20. Deut. 33.8. for God hath done your iudgment on her: Let Vrim & Thummim be for euer with you: Exod. 32.27. gird the sword of the spirit about you, to destroy all spirituall and corporall Idolatrie: thinke it not now a time to striue for complements, and to inforce odious exasperations, & antichristian com­parisons [Page] against the reuerend Fathers, when as you lee your soules and their soules, & the soule of religi­on it selfe is sought after: making lesse of your liues, then of the least of their ceremonies, Rom. 8, 30. hauing as little conscience to kill you all, as to slay a sheepe: behold the scope of Diuinitie is a large field, Christ crucifi­ed 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: [...]er. 49 10. Let your voices and spirits declare in all the congregations, that the Lord himselfe is a Champi­on for the house of Aaron: Psal. 115.10. 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, Luk. 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.

[Page] 25 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, Apoc. 13. 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: Math. 10.16. 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, N [...]h▪ 4.11▪ 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.

26 O Ye wealthie & fat ones of the world, who haue gathered siluer as dust, and gold as stones: that haue grace and place, 2. King: 10.27 fauours and honours aboue others, Mannors, and demeanes, and children, and call the lands and houses by your names: that haue [Page] ships and shops, and store-houses, and ware-houses, Psal. 17.14. [...].49, 11. Luk. 12, 20. 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, Ezech. 25.27. in an houre there­fore let thi teach you not to trust in vncertaine ri­ches, but in the liuing God: to treasure vp religion, 1. Tim: 6, 17. Math. 6, 17. not pelfe: to confesse all to bee transitorie: learne hence the contempt of the world: Luk. 21.34 and to be proui­ded, that the day of the Lord come not as a snare vp­on you: Luk. 16.9. make friends of vnrighteous Ma [...] in this life, that you may be receiued into better taber­nacles: yeeld it to be true, the world passeth, 1, Pet. 1.23.24.25. 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, 1. Ioh. 2, 17. 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, 27 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 [Page] 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, Ier. 18.7. 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, Prou. 1, 25. Rom. 2.4.5. 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, 2, Pet. 3.9. 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: Pro. 1, 26, 27. Be sober therefore and watch: blesse you the Lord, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

28 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: Psal. 58.1. 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: 2. Pet. 2.9. that the wicked shall not haue [Page] their wills on them, nor one of their bones be bro­ken: and that the stones are at league with them; Psal. 34.20. Iob. 5, 2, 3. Psal. 11.6.7. 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: Luk. 3, 14. praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O You hard hearted Papists, and indurate hypo­crites, 29 1, Tim. 4.2. 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? Their words & confessions. the threat­nings against our bibles? promising of mariages to your friends, and sharing offices and honours as you would? Where are your seuen Psalmes to pray for prosperity, when that crack should haue beene? your letters exhortatory, praying vntil that fatal Tu­esday: then totnam to be turnde French? Apoc. 16, 5.14, 18. your pub­like prayers beyond seas in generall, for successe to the catholike parliament, petition of blood? Shall not the angell of the fire protest against you? Lord thou art iust, which art, which wast, and is holy, be­cause thou hast iudged these thinges: for they shed the blood of the Saints, and Prophets (and had still an vnsatiable dropsie vpō them, thirsting after more) and therefore hast thou giuen them blood to drink: [Page] for they are worthy: and another Angel answere by alternation: euen so Lord God almighty, true & righteous are thy iudgments: Be still once at length, take Gamaliels wholesom counsell: be no more figh­ters against God: Act. 5, 38. consider whether this counsell be of God: Act. 9, 5. take Christs own counsell: Kick not against the pricke: Remember S. Peters words: Let none suf­fer as a murtherer, testifie and beare witnes against vs: you mislike our parliament and proceeding, and what a manner of one should yours haue beene: should not your parliament haue beene as a mighty strong winde rending mountaines, & tearing rockes, or as a fearefull earthquake or flaming fire: and yet the Lord not with you: though you bragged as Rab­sakeh: are we come vp without the Lord, who hath conducted vs, 1, King, 19, 11. and concurred with vs to this verie place to destroy it? 2, King. 58, 25. 1, Pet. 4, 15. yea the Lord saide vnto vs: Goe vp against this parliament, and destroy the land: whereas our parliaments haue beene in a still voyce vnto you onely to haue you still: without any dis­position to disquiet you▪ without that very necessity of our liues (God pardon vs for it) by some new ouert action, and restlesse practise of yours, driue vs to make law afterlaw, which yet were slackly execu­ted by vs: See O you seduced soules: is this their almes, prayers, hospitality, fasting, good works: who persecuteth now? who is the Lambe, and who the Wolfe? the olde prouerbe shall cease: Punica fides: and Papistica fides shall come in place: Carthage of olde was: now Rome is broke forth: Is this your pe­tition, catholike? Is not this tolere, non tolerare: not toleration of religion, but killing of the men: See [Page] Gods hand against you, be still at length, and know that the blood thirstie shall not liue out halfe their dayes: Psal. open your eyes to see the mysteries of Anti­christ fulfilled, and sore plagues in these dayes pou­red vpon them that worship the beast; Apoc. 16.2. lay it to your hearts: how as Pharaoh he oppresseth you with sore worke to vndoe you and yours, how many families of Dukes, Earles, Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen, he hath made desolate, making some of them pio­ners, and labouring men in storie and clay: forsake him by so many warnings, so many of you as belong to the Lord▪ as for the rest, he that is ignorant, let him be ignorant still: hee that is obstinate, Apoc. 22.11. 1, Cor. 14, 3 [...]. let him be ob­stinate still: fulfill the measure of your condemnati­on: let your profession be a snare, a net, Rom. 2 [...], 8▪ and a stum­bling blocke, for a recompence vnto you: let their eyes be darkned, and bowe downe their backes al­waies▪ If our Gospell be hid, 2, Cor. 4.3. it is hid vnto them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blin­ded their eyes, least the light of the glorious Gospel, which is the Image of God, should shine vnto them: and yet know, Exod. 14, 17. Psal. 110.2. that God who got honour of Pharao and all his hoast, who hath foyled you so oft, will raigne in the midst of his enemies: Esa. 1, 24. he will ease him­selfe of his aduersaries, and be auenged of them that hate him the will be exalted in iustice ouer you, and sanctified in iudgement, euen Abimelech shall con­fesse that God is with Isaac, Gen. 26.27. Psal, 58.11. whom he before driue a way: yea the nations shal say: there is a fruit for the righteous, and a God that iudgeth the world: Esa, 6, 3: the whole earth shall be filled with his glory, he will be blessed, and praised, and magnified foreuer.

[Page] 30 O Ye helplesse and succourlesse people, women and children, olde men & Infants, young men and maides: Artificers and Tradesmen, Farmers, Husbandmen, and feeders of cattell, all that till the ground: and all you that loue peace and honest fru­ition of your owne: gather your selues, blowe a Trumpet in Sion: Ioel. 2, 15, 16. gather the elders, assemble the children and sucklings: let the Bridegroome come forth of his chamber, and the Bride out of her clo­set: and see the worke of the Lord, how he hath de­liuered you from ransacking, rifeling, and miserable impouerishment, and destruction. Behold, was not the Angell come out of the temple of heauen alrea­die with a sharpe sickle: Apoc. 14, 17. and had not the other An­gell, that had power ouer the fire, called vnto him with a loud crie, though wee as deafe Adders heard it not: thrust in the sharpe sickle, and gather the clu­sters of the Vineyards, of great Brittaine (for her grapes are ripe, that they may be cast into the great winepresse of the wrath of God, to be troden in eue­rie Towne, Hamlet, and Citie:) but that the Lord repented him, and yet we doe not repent vs: Seeke you the Lord therefore, in all your labours, trades, grounds, fields, cattell, callings, and degrees: pre­serue Gods feare: promote his glory: confesse him to be a Father to the fatherlesse, husband to the wid­dowe, and a deliuerer of the simple and harmelesse of the earth: Iob. 1.5. and set your selues hence-forth (as Iob, in his family, so you in yours) to offer sacrifices of prayers and psalmes to the Lord, according to the number of you all, least there be sinne found in your [Page] trades & dealings: some sinnes of lying, cousoning, swearing, false measures, or weights: or some cor­ruption of vice in you, or your children, & seruants: as fatherly Iob suspected and feared his owne house: pray the Lord of the haruest to send forth labourers into his haruest: pray and pay duly, Math. 9, 3 [...]. that God may haue his right, and blesse you the Lord euery way, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O Thou entire and whole Court of Parliament, 31 the highest hill of our land: Lectis [...]erni­um institiae: caput publici consilij. The spred bed of Iustice: and head of pub­lick counsell. Psal. 101.1. the open theater of all our actions: the Senate house of grand estate: the chiefest counsell of imperiall law: and the sanctuarie of highest appeale, and decision among subiects: the marrowe of wisedome, and christall confluence of cleargie, nobilitie, and gentrie: the center of vnder­standing, and riches of experience from all sides: sing for euer a song of iudgement and mercy vnto our God, as one man together: they intended no place in the first place, but this place of Parliament: no persons but Parliament men to destruction: in other iudgements, as plague, famine, warre, the meaner sort oftner goe to wracke, but heere they shot at the fairest flocke together: Luk 13, 1. As Pilat mingled blood and sacrifices together, so they (O horrible indignitie) meant to mingle blood and dust together, and to make morter of the choisest blood in our land, Apoc. 8.8. to build their Babell with. Babilon I say, meant to make that worthie house as the mountaine set on fire and tumbled into the sea, like an Ae [...]a spit-fire, Ezech. 24.3.4. flaming gobbets of fire vpon her owne friends and children: to make it as a pot, as Ezechiel speaketh: hauing cut [Page] you as flesh to the pot, to seeth euery good morsell therein: to make that reuerend place, a very sham­bles, Iosephus. hauing got, as Herod all the nobles of Iurie into one Amphetheater, to runne and streame with the finest & purest blood: Ezech. 22.19. to make it as a melting house, as the same Prophet threatneth: to new found our Church and Common-wealth: to make our Prin­ces and noble-men of Sion, Lam. 4, 2. who weare fine gold, to be esteemed as earthen potshards: the founder and mettal men of Rome, esteemed you all no better then lead, yron, & brasse: and put you all in one furnace: ye the Lord himselfe seemed to haue barrelled vp wrath against you, Ezech. 22:19. as they had barrelled pouder: as though hee had directed them to begin at no place but there first, Ezech. 9, 6. as he said once, begin at my sanctuarie, and at my auncient men which were before the house; so heere begin at my parliament: as though the Lord meant to make that graue place, like Ki­brah-Hattanah, Psal. 78.31: Num. 11, 34. the graues of lust: that whilst the word was yet in your mouthes, the wrath of God to come vpon them: to slay the strongest of them, to smite downe the chosen men in Israel, as though the Lord had appointed a sacrifice in the place, and a great slaughter, Esa, 34, 5, 6, 7. as in Bozra of olde: the earth to be drunken with blood, and the dust to be made fat: euen a sacrifice vpon the mountaines of Israel, Ezech. 39.17, 18 with many dishes of the blood of the valiant, and blood of the great ones: like the Lords great supper in the Reuelation, Apoc. 19, 17, 18 for all the birds to come vnto it: but the Lord hath spared his owne people, and poured out the blood of our enemies, and lifted vp their carcas­ses for euery bird to peck on: and behold, you all are [Page] as a brand not touched by the fire: Ezech. 39. [...]. Zach. 3.2. He threatned to take vp huge and mighty stones, but would not let one of them be cast at you: he laid fewell, but would not let it kindle: He filled the pot, but would not let it seethe, nor any morsell be diuided to put within it: He brought the sacrifice to the hornes of the al­tar, but would not slay it: but gaue your enemies into your hand: And in the same place diuided their heads and quarters, where they meant to haue rend in pieces yours: GOD hath scattered the bones of them that besieged thee: Iud. 7, 25. Apoc. 3.9. he hath slaine Orob and Zeb in their owne rocke and wine presse: and heerein is the Scripture fulfilled: I will make thy enemies come to worship before thee, Psal. 33.5. and they shall knowe that I loue thee: take full warning at such a caueat, as one body, why the Lord seemed to come to your pauilion, and why hee knocked at your doore: And in particular, let euery soule among you looke to the reckoning that GOD hath with you: 3, Sam. 7, 9. 2, Sam. 6, 12: cast about as Dauid with Nathan concerning the temple: And at another time in the imperiall assembly for reducing the Arke, when something had beene forgotten be­fore: followe on and proceede with the Lord, In the letter. that they may be Prophets against themselues: God and man by your concurrence to punish the wickednes of this time: (and what wickednes hath any age or chronicle obserued greater?) that they may receiue a blow in parliament in deed, and yet no stirring a­fore hand on our part: Apoc. 2, 20. and that they may see none hurt them, but themselues: Consider that these are nōt olde, outworne, and ouergrowne Papists: but bred in our time, & vnder our improuidence (God [Page] impute it not vnto vs) take full order that Iesabel be permitted to teach and seduce no more: deale faith­fully betweene GOD and his people, least a worse thing come vnto vs: behold God prouoketh you on paine of your liues: the Countrie reposeth trust in you, the Churches depend on you: and the eyes of all the world are vpon you, to see the fruite of your wisedom in thorough orders for your owne safeties & Gods glory: else we shall be as a reproach among all nations, and as a ship of fooles in a calme sea and sound barke, and no enemie to boord vs, to miscarie in the hauen, by not prouiding for a tempest afore­hand, with this inscription ouer vs: Thy destruction is of thy selfe, O England. Be this spoken to no dis­honour of so graue a Senate, that hath made so wor­thie proceedings alreadie: but to stirre vp all to pray▪ that God may enspire effectually, that neither friend may misse any comfort, nor enemie haue hope, or cause to ioy: Surely GOD that offered to make a great nation of one Moses, Exod. 32.10. is able to raise vp parlia­ment men of stones: and indeed did not the beames, and timber, Abac. 2.11. and stones of the parliament threaten wrath: Seeke therefore the Lord with a perfect hart, set vp a Pyramis to thy God, and a pillar of memorie as Abraham did: That God hath been seene on your mount: Gen. [...]2.14. erect a new monument where they would haue destroyed all the olde monuments: as Nebu­chadnezar, make and publish generall decrees, make the signes knowne abroade, that the high God hath done vnto thee, Dan. 3.32. that there is no other God that can deliuer ye, as our God: as the dedication of a speciall holy day for this purpose declareth already: haue [Page] warre with Amalech for euer, remember the Lords charge: forget not: forget not. Deut. 25.19. Apoc. 18.6. And as another scrip­ture directeth: Reward Babylon double into her bo­some: remember him that saith: Take vs the little Foxes. And againe: Cant. 2.15. Psal. 137.8. Blessed shall hee be that taketh the children of Babylon and dasheth them against the stones: take order that all flesh in all our dominions, Luk. 3.6. by the preaching of his word, may see the saluation of this God: that children vnborne may seeke the God of their Fathers, and all of vs in your behalfes, for so wise, zealous, and prouident Counsell, Psal. as the oracle of God, may blesse the Lord God, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O Thou whole Kingdome of England, thou care­lesse 32 daughter, that liuedst at ease, and dwelt in securitie as Laish, nowe this eight and forty yeares: Iudg. 1 [...].7. 1. Thess. 5, 3. when thou saidest within thy selfe, Peace, peace, strength, strength, amitie, amitie, vnitie, vnity, lenity, lenity: Loe a snare as suddaine as the trauell of a wo­man: the Lord came against thee: the true God stole vpon thee as a thiefe: losse of children and widow­hood, should haue come vpon thee in one day: Apoc. 16, 15. the portiō of Babel in her perfection: the morning there­of thou shouldest not haue knowne: Apoc. 18.8. Esa. 47.9. In the Q. de­claration. 1662 Apoc. 14. thou wast as neere to hauock, as thy sister of France, on the other side of the water: vpon whom came an inundation of blood, as it were to the horses bridles, to destroy an hundreth thousand at one time: the walls and roofe of Dagon fell downe vpō Philistines 3000: Iud. 16.27. 1, King. 20.30. the buildings of foure whole Cities of Sodome oppressed their owners: one wall falleth vpon 27000. of Syri­ans: [Page] Ierichoes walls come tumbling down: but Eng­lands are spared. Thou art let goe as a scape got, or li­uing sparrow, Leuit. 14.52.53. from the death in hand: thou hast not lost not one man in all thy Tribes: do thou therfore exalt, Psal. 144.14. 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? Math. 24.58.61. ver. 40.16.17.18. Luk: 17, 28. 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, Exod. 4, 25. Num. 22.24. Num. 25.14. Iud. 9. 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: 2. King. 5.26. Act. 5. Dan. 4.52. 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 [Page] 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: Esa. 3.5. Amos, 3, 11. 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, Ioel. 2, 2. 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, Apoc▪, 19.29. 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: Iob. 42.5, 6. heretofore I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the care, but nowe mine eye seeth neerer then [Page] euer, therefore I abhorre my selfe in dust and ushes: Let the enemie neuer haue his hope, that the ini­quitie of England is fulfild. Porerierius in Gen. 15. 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, Psal. 66.6. 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.

33 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: Psal. 107.24. 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? Pro. 25.3. 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: [Page] 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: Psal. 9.15, 16. 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 O meditate and marke. 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, Ose. 11.8.9. 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, Esa. 48.8, 9.10. 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.

[Page]O Thou noble Lord, that high Montegle of ho­norable 34 discent, Dan. 5.5.25. and auncient renowned house, predestinate aboue all other, to be a most happy in­strument of thy soueraigne and Countries safetie: consider and ponder according to thy ingenuous honour and right loyal wisedom, this great work of God, in the very fingers of that mans hand, that was author of the letter: the writing prooued to be like the writing vpon the plaister of the wall, in the Pallace of King Baltazar, when he thought all sure: and yet that night he lost kingdome and life: Mene, Tekel, Vpharsin: Mene, God hath numbred and fini­shed you: Tekel, thou art weighed in the ballance, and found too light: Pare [...]: thy kingdome and plot diuided and scattered, and giuen to thine enemies: the letter, made loue and nature worke toward thee alone, whose very fountaine and springs were stop­ped vp, and shut close to all others: and yet out of that ground, their blinded harts & infatuated minds might haue gathered, that if blood or alliance, or any other respect ought to haue moued them to haue bowels and feeling towards thee, it might haue led others to haue had tendernes towards others al­so of their friends: yea, euen to all England the com­mon parents of vs all: and to euery sonne & daugh­ter of the same: Rom. 1.22. but that seeming to be wise, they be­came fooles: Prou. and the scripture must be true: the mer­cies of the wicked are vnmercifull: their bowels the seat of mercie, are cruell: if they that are euill, can giue good thinges to their friends, Math. 7.9 10.11 not stones but bread, not scorpions but fishes: how much more [Page] shall not our heauenly Father, who made all, euen pittie all, and loue the images of his owne creation, the works of his owne hands? who hath better right to euery one of vs, then any friend hath to his friend in any bond of nature: for hee hath made of one blood, euen all mankinde, Act. 17, 26. to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath assigned the bounds of their ha­bitation: wee are all the generation of God: in him we liue, wee moue, and haue our being: Doe thou wisely consider, the Lords loue to thee, and obserue prudently withall, their leaden rule of their false loue: for no good patriore can abide himselfe to be loued, when his Country is hated: obserue the wisedom of God, to produce out of cōmon hatred, particular loue: out of particular loue, generall safe­tie in his mighty power: notwithstanding, vowes, oathes, and sacraments of secrecie to set our sworne enemies to indight for our good: to make their fin­gers write peace, whose hearts hatched warre: to order in his wise dispensation, such a spirit of zeale and caution in you: doe thou reuerence this great God, in a true sense & sound spirit of discerning spi­rits, that hath honoured thee with so great seruice: suggested and gaue grace to make the best vse of it (as they prophecied in another meaning) namely, to be a great sauiour to Prince & Country: and yet re­mēbring what a holy father said: Marie the great in­strument of all Christians good: she was more blessed by beleeuing Christ, then by bearing him: by recei­uing him in her heart by faith, then by conceiuing him in her wombe: doe you my good Lord, make this a meanes to increase your faith, and resolution [Page] of conscience in the best maner: blesse you the Lord, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

35 O Thou mighty King and Queene, Prince, and Duke, Counsailers, Prelates, Peeres, Iudges, Lawyers, and Gentrie, and generally all the Subiects of this land and estate, whose heads stood vpon one necke, to be striken off at one blowe, whose bodies were in one ship of venture, within an inch bord of drowning, and within a step of death, or rather on the top of a mast, a horrible and hideous tempest growing, all our Pilats, and Marriners, and cunning sea men a sleepe, and we saw it not: recognize with me, in Queene Maries dayes they burnt many, but at many stakes, but heere they meant to burne vs all at one stake: Documare ad cadem. amongst the Romanes they put the tenth man onely to death in a generall prouocation, heere nothing would serue but a generall slaughter, euen the abhomination of desolation, ouer so many sa­cred persons, and so holy a place: Let all them then that thus should haue died together, learne holy feruencie of their enemies, to striue for the common faith, to giue honour and obedience to whom it is due: Care and defence, to whom it appertaines: let all them in vnion of spirit, and the holy communion of Saints, with an indissoluble knot of truth, peace, concord, common comfort and societie: liue, and loue, and die together in an holy association in the quarrell of the Gospell, and defiance to Babylon, in the maintenance of one God, one Christ, one spirit, one faith, one truth, one baptisme, one communion, one King, one people, that so liuing and dying toge­ther, [Page] we may with one heart and hand, one faith and truth, one minde and mouth, euer blesse one Lord, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O All you Churches of the Lord in any part of the 36 world, that call vpon the name of the Lord in truth, for whose confirmation of your loue & faith, the Lord of hoasts hath so mightily pleaded among vs, that maketh their pennes to write health, who o­therwise wished their launces to worke vs death, to shew that hee walketh in the middest of the seauen golden candlesticks, Apoc. 1.13. all whose territories and tents they hated deadly as vs, professing their wills & skill, an eager desire to let some of them blood againe, as they did heeretofore in Fraunce, being cunning to destroy: be you the more rooted in your holy faith: resolued with all constancie in your religion, and e­stablished in your spirits, to serue so prouident a God in one vniforme profession of truth with vs, for which God hath giuen so glorious a sentence, that all variance set aside, God may perswade Iapheth to dwell in the tents of Shem, Gen. 9.27. Apoc. 20. [...].9. and Canaan to be seruant to them both: and cast our selues into a perfect knot of loue, to make defence against Gog and Magog, that gather themselues frō the foure corners of the earth, to compasse about the tents of the Saints and the be­loued Citie, that so as one flocke we may acknow­ledge one sheepheard: and vncessantly blesse him, praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O Ye mightie Lords & Emperours of the world, 37 euen all the ten hornes and ten Kings of the earth, the Kings I say, who are kinne and brothers to one another, & all you worthy Counsailers, who [Page] haue fulfilled Gods will in vpholding the Citie on seauen hills so long, Apoc. 17.16.17 better then her owne hills could vphold her: and now, God putteth in your hearts by this warning what you are to looke for, if you please not this scarlet woman, as some of your most ennobled aucestors & progenitors, haue tasted in all your quarters, with the losse of their dearest liues & best kingdomes: shee sitteth in Vatican, and with her vaticinies and prophecies, sendeth you and yours from the Castle of S. Angelo to death, as the Alastor 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, Apoc. 1 [...], 11. 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 [Page] 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 38 in strength, whereas we are weake: Psal. 103, 20. 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, Psal. 34, 7. 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, Psal. 91, 11, 12. praise him, and magnifie him for euer.

O All you people of the word, Iewes, and Christi­ans, 39 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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, Psal. 103.22. Psal. 150.5. 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: Apoc. 9. 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 40 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, Psal. 203.1, 22. 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.