A
PROCLAMATION
OF
WARRE
,
From
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
DEVT.
28.
ver.
49
,
50
,
51.
49
The
Lord
shall
bring
a
Nation
vpon
thee
from
far
,
euen
from
the
ende
of
the
World
,
flying
swift
as
an
Eagle
;
a
Nation
whose
tongue
thou
shalt
not
vnderstand
.
50
A
Nation
of
a
fierce
countenance
,
which
will
not
regard
the
person
of
the
olde
,
nor
haue
compassion
of
the
young
.
51
The
same
shall
eate
the
fruit
of
thy
Cattle
,
and
the
fruit
of
thy
Land
vntill
thou
bee
destroyed
,
and
hee
shall
leaue
thee
neither
Wheate
,
Wine
,
nor
Oyle
,
neither
the
increase
of
thy
Kine
,
nor
the
stockes
of
thy
Sheepe
,
vntill
he
haue
brought
thee
to
nought
.
IT
was
the
opinion
of
Licurgus
that
wise
Law-giuer
of
the
Lecedemonians
,
that
there
was
no
better
way
to
keepe
men
in
good
order
,
then
to
vse
partly
threats
,
and
partly
promises
;
partly
rewards
,
and
partly
punishments
:
and
in
a
well-gouerned
Common-wealth
he
thought
the
one
as
needfull
as
the
other
.
GOD
Almightie
,
that
great
and
wise
Law-maker
of
heauen
and
earth
,
hath
appointed
by
these
two
meanes
,
Praemiis
&
Poenis
,
by
rewards
and
punishments
,
to
keepe
the
common-wealth
of
the
whole
world
in
good
gouernment
,
and
to
bring
men
to
obedience
to
his
holy
commandements
:
for
after
he
had
in
the
20
of
Exodus
giuen
his
most
sacred
Precepts
:
that
he
might
the
rather
stirre
men
vp
to
keepe
,
and
obserue
them
:
in
the
26.
Chap.
of
Leuiticus
,
and
also
in
this
Chapter
,
hee
propoundeth
certaine
blessings
,
and
cursings
,
menaces
and
promises
,
rewards
and
punishments
,
as
most
forcible
motiues
to
winne
them
to
obedience
.
From
the
third
verse
to
the
thirteenth
,
blessings
are
promised
to
the
obedient
;
from
the
fifteenth
to
the
ende
of
the
Chapter
cursings
are
denounced
against
the
disobedient
.
Wherein
we
may
note
,
what
a
gradation
God
doth
keepe
in
inflicting
punishments
on
stubborne
sinners
:
first
,
he
trieth
by
his
lesser
and
lighter
chastisments
,
to
make
them
turne
vnto
him
;
and
if
they
will
doe
no
good
,
then
hee
comes
with
the
Sword
to
consume
,
and
cut
them
off
from
the
face
of
the
earth
:
If
yee
will
not
for
these
things
be
reformed
by
me
(
meaning
the
Famine
and
Pestilence
)
but
walke
stubburnly
against
me
,
then
will
I
also
walke
stubbornely
in
mine
anger
against
you
,
and
I
will
chastise
you
seuen
times
more
according
to
your
sinnes
,
and
I
will
bring
a
Sword
vpon
you
that
shall
auenge
the
quarrell
of
my
couenant
,
and
ye
shall
be
deliuered
vp
into
the
hands
of
your
enemies
.
Beloued
,
God
hath
tryed
by
the
two
former
punishments
,
by
the
Famine
,
and
by
the
Pestilence
,
to
winne
vs
of
this
Land
vnto
his
obedience
:
we
haue
had
of
late
many
deare
yeares
,
wherein
a
number
,
especially
the
poorer
sort
haue
pinched
for
it
:
wee
haue
had
the
last
a
dying
yeare
,
Annum
mortalem
,
wherein
thousands
,
and
ten
thousands
haue
fallen
in
our
Streetes
.
Now
if
these
things
reforme
vs
not
,
(
as
GOD
knowes
there
is
yet
little
reformation
seene
)
wee
are
next
in
order
to
expect
the
Sword
,
Warre
,
and
the
calamities
thereof
to
descend
vpon
vs
;
our
Enemies
to
inuade
,
and
ouer-runne
vs
,
vnlesse
GOD
bee
the
more
mercifull
vnto
vs
.
So
the
Lord
here
menaceth
his
owne
chosen
people
,
deare
Israel
:
(
and
we
may
apply
it
to
our selues
,
if
we
walke
in
their
steps
;
)
if
they
will
not
amend
by
his
former
punishments
,
then
he
will
stirre
vp
a
forraigne
foe
to
inuade
them
.
The
Lord
shall
bring
a
Nation
vpon
thee
from
farre
,
euen
from
the
end
of
the
World
,
flying
swift
as
an
Eagle
,
&c.
Which
Text
is
a
Proclamation
of
Warre
,
or
a
Commination
of
a
fearefull
Inuasion
;
wherein
we
may
note
;
First
,
Who
proclaimes
this
Warre
?
It
is
Iehouah
the
Lord
.
Secondly
,
Against
whom
he
proclaimes
it
?
against
his
owne
people
,
his
beloued
Israell
:
Yet
if
they
offend
him
,
and
sinne
against
him
,
hee
will
raise
vp
Warre
against
them
.
Vpon
thee
.
Thirdly
,
Who
hee
imployes
in
the
execution
of
his
wrath
,
to
punish
his
disobedient
seruants
?
-
A
strange
Foe
.
-
A
strong
Foe
.
-
A
sterne
Foe
.
1
A
strange
or
forraigne
Foe
;
A
Nation
from
farre
,
from
the
end
of
the
World
,
whose
tongue
thou
vnderstandest
not
.
2
A
strong
Foe
:
compared
in
my
Text
to
an
Eagle
,
to
a
flying
Eagle
:
because
as
an
Eagle
is
the
strongest
of
all
Birds
,
so
this
Nation
:
secondly
,
to
a
flying
Eagle
,
because
as
an
Eagle
being
on
her
wings
is
able
to
ouer-top
any
other
fowle
,
so
this
Nation
being
in
Armes
,
is
able
to
ouer-match
any
other
Nation
.
3
A
sterne
Foe
:
Which
will
shew
no
respect
,
no
mercy
,
no
fauour
neither
to
olde
nor
young
:
A
Nation
of
a
fierce
,
or
cruell
,
or
barbarous
countenance
,
which
will
not
regard
the
person
of
the
old
,
nor
haue
compassion
of
the
young
.
Lastly
,
the
dreadfull
desolation
that
shall
follow
this
inuasion
,
the
calamity
that
shall
befall
the
Inhabitants
of
that
Land
,
then
Enemies
shall
leaue
them
nothing
,
they
shall
take
all
that
euer
they
haue
from
them
;
their
Goods
,
their
Cattell
,
their
Corne
,
their
Sheepe
;
and
shall
put
them
either
to
cruell
death
,
or
to
such
slauery
and
bondage
,
that
they
shall
haue
no
pleasure
in
their
life
,
but
shall
wish
rather
to
dye
then
Isue
;
as
it
is
vers.
66.
&
67.
Thy
life
shall
hang
before
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
feare
both
night
and
day
,
and
shalt
haue
no
assurance
of
thy
life
:
In
the
morning
thou
shalt
say
,
Would
God
it
were
euening
;
and
at
euening
thou
shalt
say
,
Would
God
it
were
morning
,
for
the
fear
of
thine
heart
which
thou
shalt
feare
,
and
for
the
sight
of
thine
eyes
which
thou
shalt
see
.
First
,
I
begin
with
him
,
who
is
α
and
ω
,
the
beginning
and
end
or
all
our
actions
,
yea
of
all
things
,
and
that
is
,
who
proclaimes
this
Warre
:
It
is
Iehouah
the
Lord
.
But
this
may
seeme
a
strange
Paradox
to
some
;
that
that
God
,
who
is
Deus
pacis
,
the
God
of
peace
,
should
stirre
vp
Warre
and
diuision
,
and
set
Nations
together
by
the
eares
vpon
the
face
of
the
earth
:
that
God
who
is
not
onely
Bonus
,
sed
ipsa
bonitas
,
good
,
but
goodnesse
it selfe
,
should
be
Author
mali
,
the
Author
of
euill
,
the
raiser
of
Warre
,
which
is
omnium
malorum
pessimum
,
of
all
euils
the
greatest
.
To
vnloose
this
knot
,
the
Schoole
affords
an
olde
distinction
of
malum
culpae
&
malum
paenae
:
or
as
Tertullian
speakes
,
lib.
2.
cont.
Marcionem
,
pag.
180.
Malum
delicti
,
et
malum
supplicij
:
or
as
Saint
Augustine
distinguiseth
in
other
words
,
but
to
the
same
effect
.
Tomo
sexto
.
Contra
Adimantum
,
cap.
26.
Malum
quod
facit
homo
,
et
malum
quod
patitur
homo
.
Euill
which
man
doth
which
is
sinne
,
and
euill
which
man
suffereth
,
which
is
the
punishment
of
sinne
:
Concerning
the
former
,
euill
as
it
is
sinne
,
God
is
by
no
meanes
the
Author
of
it
;
and
therefore
accursed
,
for
euer
cursed
to
the
pit
of
hell
be
that
abominable
doctrine
,
which
the
Church
of
Rome
doth
slanderously
,
and
blasphemously
cast
vpon
vs
,
that
wee
make
God
the
Author
of
sinne
;
for
wee
defie
and
renounce
it
from
the
bottome
of
our
hearts
as
a
most
sinfull
Doctrine
.
But
concerning
the
latter
,
euill
which
is
the
punishment
of
sinne
,
God
is
the
Author
of
that
:
All
afflictions
&
calamities
which
are
the
rewards
of
sinne
,
are
sent
vpon
man
by
the
mighty
hand
of
God
:
Famine
a
great
euill
;
yet
the
Prophet
tells
vs
God
sends
that
;
A
fruitfull
Land
he
maketh
barren
,
for
the
wickednesse
of
them
that
dwell
therein
.
The
Pestilence
a
great
euill
,
yet
God
sends
that
;
we
reade
2
Sam.
24.
He
sent
a
Plague
in
Israel
,
whereof
died
more
then
threescore
thousand
,
in
lesse
then
three
dayes
.
So
digitus
Dei
,
the
finger
of
God
hath
beene
lately
seene
in
our
Land
,
especially
in
this
Citie
,
scourging
vs
for
our
sinns
.
This
stroke
came
nor
by
chance
;
It
was
the
hand
of
heauen
that
smote
vs
;
and
it
is
none
but
his
omnipotent
hand
,
that
hath
healed
vs
:
Blessed
be
his
great
name
for
it
.
Warre
a
great
euill
;
yet
GOD
sendeth
that
vpon
a
sinfull
Nation
:
as'tis
hee
alone
that
giues
peace
to
his
children
,
and
causeth
Warres
to
cease
in
all
the
world
:
So
't
is
he
alone
that
raiseth
Warre
,
and
bringeth
a
reuenging
Sword
vpon
the
sinfull
sonnes
of
men
:
This
should
teach
to
prepare
,
and
arme
our selues
with
patience
to
endure
it
,
if
it
doe
come
,
because
a
Domino
est
,
it
is
from
the
Lord
,
it
is
the
Lords
doing
;
the
wicked
,
our
Enemies
are
but
his
instruments
:
the
rod
of
his
fury
,
a
sword
of
his
to
punish
sinners
:
he
sets
them
on
worke
;
O
Ashur
,
the
rod
of
my
wrath
!
I
will
send
him
to
a
dissembling
Nation
,
and
I
will
giue
him
a
charge
against
the
people
of
my
wrath
to
take
the
spoile
,
and
to
take
the
prey
,
and
to
tread
them
vnder
feete
like
the
mire
in
the
streete
,
Isa.
10.5.6
.
And
in
my
Text
,
The
Lord
shall
bring
a
Nation
vpon
thee
.
What
?
Vpon
Israell
?
His
deare
Israell
?
his
beloued
Israell
?
his
chosen
people
?
his
inheritance
?
his
sanctified
ones
?
his
peculiars
?
his
fauorites
?
those
whom
he
pickt
and
cull'd
out
of
all
Nations
?
Those
on
whom
he
bestowed
more
pretious
tokens
of
his
loue
,
then
on
any
other
?
Will
hee
deale
so
hardly
with
them
?
Will
he
reiect
them
?
Will
he
destroy
them
?
forsake
them
?
Yes
,
if
they
forsake
and
reiect
him
,
he
will
:
God
is
not
tyed
to
any
Nation
,
or
to
any
people
,
longer
then
they
tye
themselues
to
his
obedience
,
and
to
his
seruice
:
strange
Foe
,
a
strong
Foe
,
and
a
sterne
Foe
,
(
first
vpon
Israel
,
because
they
first
fell
from
him
,
then
vpon
Iudah
)
euen
the
Babylonians
,
who
in●●ded
their
Land
,
wasted
their
Countrey
,
ruinated
their
Citie
,
burnt
their
Temple
,
destroyed
all
their
goodly
Buildings
,
slew
their
young
men
with
the
Sword
,
euen
in
the
middst
of
their
Sanctuary
,
and
spared
neither
yong
man
,
nor
virgin
,
ancient
,
nor
aged
,
led
many
thousands
of
them
into
most
miserable
slauery
and
captiuity
;
tooke
the
King
himselfe
prisoner
,
changed
his
chaines
of
gold
into
chaines
of
brasse
,
and
fetters
of
iron
;
kill'd
his
Princes
,
and
all
his
Nobles
,
slew
his
sonnes
before
his
eyes
,
put
out
his
owne
eyes
,
&
kept
him
in
most
pittifull
bondage
all
the
dayes
of
his
life
;
as
you
may
see
more
at
large
,
2
Chron.
and
the
last
Chap.
Ier.
Chap.
52.
And
if
you
enquire
after
the
cause
of
all
this
mischiefe
,
you
shall
finde
it
to
bee
their
sinnes
,
their
disobedience
to
Gods
commaundements
,
their
contempt
of
Gods
word
,
their
sleighting
of
Gods
Messengers
,
their
abusing
of
his
Prophets
.
GOD
(
whose
mercies
are
more
in
number
them
all
our
sinnes
)
out
of
his
infinite
compassion
was
loath
to
destroy
them
,
unwilling
to
see
their
subuersion
;
and
therefore
he
vsed
all
meanes
for
their
conuersion
:
hee
sent
vnto
them
by
his
messengers
the
Prophets
,
rising
early
,
and
sending
(
saith
the
Text
)
for
he
had
compassion
on
his
people
,
and
on
his
habitation
:
but
they
mocked
the
messengers
of
God
,
they
despised
his
words
,
they
misused
his
Prophets
,
vntill
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
arose
against
his
people
,
and
till
there
was
no
remedy
,
2
Chro.
last
Chap.
ver.
15.16
.
His
long
suffering
waited
for
their
conuersion
,
so
long
as
there
was
any
hope
,
as
a
Physitian
seeing
any
hope
of
life
in
his
〈◊〉
Patient
,
will
not
giue
him
ouer
;
but
finding
him
pa●●●ecouery
leaues
him
:
So
God
seeing
no
hope
of
reformation
,
seeing
there
was
no
other
remedy
,
so
seeke
them
,
giues
them
ouer
to
their
owne
●●st
〈…〉
,
bring
vpon
them
a
Nation
from
far
,
a
strong
Nation
,
●●e●ce
and
cruell
,
the
King
of
the
Caldeans
with
all
his
armed
troopes
,
who
brought
vpon
them
all
these
calamities
.
And
after
70
yeares
of
captiuity
being
expired
,
hee
brought
them
into
their
owne
Land
againe
,
and
restored
them
to
their
former
and
flourishing
state
:
but
because
they
continued
not
stedfast
in
his
couenant
,
but
rebelled
againg
him
,
reiected
his
word
,
crucified
the
Lord
of
life
,
refused
his
Gospell
;
he
brought
vpon
them
an
Enemy
more
cruell
then
the
former
:
euen
the
flying
Eagle
(
as
it
is
in
my
Text
)
the
Romane
Emperour
;
who
brought
vpon
them
all
the
curses
threatned
in
this
Chapter
;
Warre
,
Famine
,
(
in
so
much
that
the
tender
and
dainty
women
were
glad
to
eate
their
owne
children
(
as
Iosephus
relates
)
Quid
hoc
ad
nos
?
And
what
is
this
to
vs
will
some
say
?
Yet
it
neerely
concernes
Vbi
ingentia
beneficia
,
&
ingentia
is
peccata
,
ibi
ingentia
supplicia
:
If
partaking
with
them
in
Gods
benefits
,
wee
partake
of
their
sinnes
,
wee
may
iustly
feare
to
partake
of
their
punishments
:
Let
vs
a
little
paralell
our
estate
with
theirs
:
Gods
mercies
were
great
to
them
,
no
lesse
to
vs
.
His
louing
kindnesse
toward
them
appeared
in
foure
things
:
In
freeing
them
from
the
bondage
of
the
-
1.
soule
,
-
2.
body
.
In
giuing
them
blessings
for
the
-
3.
body
.
-
4.
soule
.
1
He
brought
them
out
of
the
Land
of
Aegypt
,
from
the
bondage
of
Pharaoh
:
Aegypt
was
a
Land
full
of
Idolatry
,
and
superstition
;
the
people
there
worshipped
Deuils
,
they
worshipped
men
,
they
worshipped
beasts
,
they
worshipped
plants
,
insteed
of
God
:
From
this
Idolatrous
Land
,
God
freed
them
,
which
was
a
great
mercy
:
but
he
hath
done
more
for
vs
;
though
he
hath
not
brought
vs
out
of
an
Idolatrous
Land
,
yet
he
hath
taken
Idolatry
out
of
our
Land
,
he
hath
cleansed
it
,
and
swept
superstition
from
it
.
2
He
deliuered
them
from
the
bondage
of
Pharaoh
,
who
did
but
tyrannize
ouer
the
body
onely
,
but
he
hath
released
vs
out
of
that
cruell
bondage
of
that
proud
Pharaoh
of
Rome
,
who
doth
tyrannize
both
ouer
the
bodies
and
soules
of
men
.
He
shewed
wonders
for
them
in
the
deepe
,
leading
thorow
on
foote
as
through
a
wildernesse
,
drowning
and
ouerwhelming
their
enemies
in
the
middest
of
the
Sea
:
The
like
he
did
for
vs
in
88.
confounding
the
inuincible
Armado
of
Spaine
,
which
came
with
open
mouth
to
make
a
prey
of
vs
all
:
neither
did
he
only
with
Israel
saue
vs
out
of
the
water
,
but
also
out
of
the
fire
;
when
a
tormenting
Tophet
was
prepared
,
with
Gun-powder
and
much
Wood
,
to
blowe
vp
and
consume
with
one
blast
,
both
our
King
and
Kingdome
;
and
wanted
but
fewe
howres
for
the
execution
of
it
;
then
did
he
most
mercifully
discouer
it
,
and
deliuer
vs
from
that
infernall
and
hellish
plott
:
so
that
we
may
say
of
this
Land
,
as
the
Prophet
of
Ierusalem
:
Is
not
this
a
brand
taken
out
of
the
fire
?
Zach.
3.2
.
3
GOD
seated
them
in
a
fruitfull
Land
,
a
most
pleasant
,
and
delightfull
Land
,
the
Land
of
Canaan
,
a
Land
flowing
with
milke
and
honey
:
so
hee
hath
planted
vs
in
a
most
plentifull
and
fertile
land
,
the
abundance
and
blessings
whereof
,
(
as
one
said
,
who
did
for
a
while
absent
himselfe
in
forraigne
parts
,
)
are
perceiued
magis
carendo
quam
fruendo
,
rather
by
wanting
,
then
by
enioying
them
:
no
Nation
vnder
the
cope
of
heauen
,
hauing
such
plenty
of
all
Gods
blessings
,
both
for
the
preseruation
,
and
sustentation
,
and
delectation
of
mans
life
,
as
our
land
affordeth
;
therefore
no
meruaile
,
if
the
Pope
and
his
adhaerents
,
compasse
sea
and
land
;
vse
all
the
trickes
,
and
plots
they
can
deuise
,
by
treason
and
treachery
,
by
open
hostility
and
priuy
conspiracie
,
to
gaine
this
Iland
into
their
tyrannie
,
out
of
which
that
triple
crown'd
Father
suck'd
so
much
sweetnesse
:
for
it
is
the
eye
of
Europe
,
and
store-house
of
Christendome
:
And
as
it
was
said
,
that
the
Prouince
of
Purgatory
did
yeeld
as
much
reuenue
to
the
Popes
treasury
,
as
heauen
and
hell
both
:
so
it
is
thought
,
that
that
man
of
sinne
,
and
his
generation
of
Vipers
,
Monkes
,
and
Friars
,
Abbots
and
Priors
,
in
our
fore-fathers
time
,
did
sucke
as
much
fatnesse
out
of
this
Kingdome
,
as
out
of
all
Christendome
:
no
wonder
then
,
if
they
bestirre
themselues
for
it
;
't
is
a
sweet
bit
;
terra
frugifera
,
a
fruitfull
land
,
fitly
resembling
the
land
of
Canaan
.
4
But
the
head
of
all
Gods
mercies
to
them
consisted
in
beneficio
animae
,
in
doing
the
soule
a
good
turne
:
in
reuealing
his
will
,
his
word
,
his
truth
,
his
lawes
and
ordinances
vnto
them
:
the
Prophet
reckons
it
an
vnspeakable
fauour
;
He
gaue
his
word
vnto
Iacob
,
his
statutes
and
ordinances
vnto
Israell
,
hee
hath
not
dealt
so
with
euery
Nation
,
Psal.
147.19
.
Such
is
Gods
goodnesse
vnto
vs
also
,
hee
hath
made
knowne
his
word
,
his
will
,
his
truth
,
his
Gospell
to
vs
in
most
plentifull
manner
:
he
hath
not
dealt
so
with
euery
Nation
;
no
not
with
any
Nation
:
no
Nation
in
the
world
hath
such
store
of
heauenly
Manna
,
so
much
knowledge
of
the
truth
,
so
much
preaching
of
the
Word
,
so
much
glorious
light
of
the
Gospell
of
peace
as
we
haue
.
Thus
we
see
,
we
goe
hand
in
hand
with
them
in
the
first
step
,
wee
haue
receiued
Ingentia
beneficia
,
infinite
,
vnspeakable
benefits
and
mercies
as
well
as
they
.
Let
vs
now
see
if
wee
haue
not
Ingentia
peccata
,
as
great
sinnes
as
euer
they
had
:
would
I
could
say
wee
haue
not
.
Haue
wee
beene
more
thankfull
to
God
for
his
fauours
?
more
obedient
to
his
commandements
then
they
?
Would
I
could
say
we
haue
.
God
hath
beene
as
gracious
to
this
Vineyard
of
England
,
as
euer
hee
was
to
the
Vineyard
of
Israell
,
both
in
planting
,
in
pruning
,
in
watering
,
in
hedging
,
in
defending
it
:
but
we
haue
not
yeelded
the
fruites
,
the
Grapes
he
expected
:
I
feare
,
I
may
say
with
Moses
,
wee
haue
returned
to
him
,
the
fruits
of
Sodome
and
Gomorrah
,
our
Grapes
,
are
Grapes
of
gall
,
our
clusters
are
bitter
,
our
Wine
is
the
poyson
of
Dragons
,
and
the
cruell
gall
of
Aspes
,
Deut.
32.32
.
Sinne
and
wickednesse
,
vnthankfulnesse
,
iniquity
,
impiety
,
these
are
the
Grapes
,
these
the
fruites
:
neuer
so
much
knowledge
and
light
abounded
,
and
yet
neuer
so
many
workes
of
darknesse
:
neuer
so
much
Preaching
,
neuer
so
little
performing
;
neuer
did
men
know
the
will
of
God
more
perfectly
,
neuer
did
men
doe
the
will
of
God
more
carelesly
.
And
as
it
was
said
,
there
was
neuer
lesse
wisedome
in
Greece
,
then
when
the
seauen
wise
men
liued
there
;
so
it
is
thought
,
there
was
neuer
lesse
piety
,
neuer
lesse
charity
,
neuer
more
iniquity
in
our
Land
among
most
men
;
then
now
when
the
light
of
the
Gospell
shines
most
gloriously
amongst
vs
.
O
barren
,
vnfruitfull
,
vnprofitable
Vineyard
!
May
we
not
feare
that
God
will
now
indispleasure
forsake
it
,
breake
downe
the
hedge
thereof
,
and
let
in
the
wilde
Bore
to
roote
it
vp
,
and
the
wilde
beasts
to
deuoure
it
?
Hath
Israell
felt
his
rod
,
and
may
not
England
feare
his
scourge
?
Are
we
more
deare
to
him
then
they
were
?
Or
is
hee
more
tyed
to
vs
,
then
to
them
?
O
no
:
if
we
partake
of
their
sinnes
,
we
may
expect
their
plagues
.
The
time
would
bee
too
short
for
me
,
to
trace
all
the
sinfull
steps
wherein
we
haue
followed
them
:
onely
this
I
may
say
,
there
was
no
sinne
knowne
among
them
,
which
doth
not
abound
among
vs
.
Wherefore
as
the
Prophet
comparing
Iudah
with
Sodome
and
Samaria
,
affirmes
that
shee
was
corrupted
in
her
wayes
more
then
they
both
,
and
had
iustified
them
by
her
sinnes
,
so
if
we
looke
into
the
sinnes
of
our
Land
,
we
shall
finde
that
shee
hath
iustified
and
exceeded
both
Sodome
and
Samaria
,
and
Iudah
also
in
her
filthinesse
.
O
sinfull
England
!
Sodome
thy
sister
hath
not
done
,
Epilogue
:
Non
igitur
admirandum
est
degeneres
tales
,
patriam
illam
amittere
quam
praedicto
modo
maculabant
:
It
was
therefore
no
wonder
at
all
to
see
,
that
such
degenerate
and
wicked
men
did
lose
that
countrey
,
which
they
had
so
polluted
by
their
sinnes
.
And
in
another
ancient
History
(
written
as
the
Author
saith
,
ad
cautelam
futurorum
,
for
the
warning
of
future
ages
,
instanced
by
master
Fox
.
)
I
finde
the
inuasion
of
the
Danes
,
In
primitiua
quidem
Anglorum
Eclesia
,
&c.
In
the
primitiue
Church
of
the
Englishmen
,
Religion
did
most
clearely
shine
;
but
in
processe
of
time
,
all
vertue
so
decayed
,
that
in
fraud
,
in
treachery
none
seemed
like
vnto
them
,
piety
was
neglected
,
iniquity
respected
:
wherefore
Almighty
God
brought
vpon
them
(
Pagan
and
cruell
Nations
like
swarmes
of
bees
,
which
spared
neither
women
nor
children
;
as
Danes
,
Norwegians
,
Gothes
,
Suevians
,
Vandals
,
and
Frisians
,
who
destroyed
their
sinnefull
Land
from
one
side
of
the
Sea
to
the
another
,
from
man
also
vnto
beast
.
And
may
we
not
feare
the
like
scourge
now
?
haue
not
we
contaminated
,
and
polluted
this
Land
,
by
our
abominable
and
horrible
sins
,
more
then
euer
they
did
?
their
sins
were
ignorances
,
ours
presumption
:
theirs
omission
,
ours
rebellion
:
the
sins
of
our
Land
are
greater
now
,
then
euer
they
were
:
I
am
perswaded
if
our
Forefathers
were
now
aliue
,
they
would
be
ashamed
&
blush
to
see
such
a
degenerate
&
sinfull
posteritie
:
As
St.
Paul
told
the
Corinthians
,
there
was
fornication
,
&
such
found
among
them
,
as
was
not
named
among
the
Gentiles
;
so
there
is
such
&
so
much
wickednes
found
now
among
vs
in
our
land
,
as
was
scarce
euer
heard
or
named
among
our
ancestors
:
They
had
Plus
conscientiae
,
minus
scientiae
:
we
,
Plus
scientiae
,
minus
conscientiae
;
more
conscience
,
though
lesse
science
then
we
;
we
haue
more
science
,
but
lesse
conscience
then
they
.
We
haue
iustified
them
,
they
were
righteous
in
respect
of
vs
;
Their
hospitality
is
now
conuerted
into
riot
&
luxurie
;
their
frugality
,
into
pride
&
prodigalitie
;
their
simplicitie
,
into
subtilty
;
their
sincerity
,
into
hypocrisie
;
their
charity
,
into
cruelty
;
their
chastitie
,
into
chambring
;
their
modestie
,
into
wantonnes
;
their
sobrietie
into
drunkennes
;
their
Church
building
,
into
Church-robbing
;
their
plaine
dealing
,
into
dissembling
;
their
workes
of
compassion
and
mercy
,
into
workes
of
oppression
and
bribery
:
It
is
now
almost
growne
out
of
fashion
to
bee
an
honest
man
.
Mirandum
est
degeneres
nos
:
It
is
a
wonder
,
and
a
great
wonder
,
that
such
a
degenerate
generation
as
this
,
such
a
corrupt
and
sinfull
Nation
as
we
,
who
haue
so
farre
exceeded
our
forefathers
in
all
wickednesse
,
should
not
lose
this
Countrey
which
we
haue
so
defiled
with
our
sinnes
?
Miranda
Mi
,
cricordia
!
Gods
mercy
is
to
bee
wondred
at
,
that
he
hath
spared
vs
so
long
:
It
is
his
mercy
,
and
nothing
but
mercy
,
that
we
are
not
consumed
.
Sinne
is
now
in
vltimo
gradu
,
at
the
highest
pitch
that
may
be
:
Sathan
(
I
thinke
)
cannot
make
some
more
satanicall
,
more
sinfull
:
our
sinnes
cry
lowder
then
the
sinnes
of
Sodome
;
they
ascend
higher
then
the
sinnes
of
Niniueh
;
wee
may
expect
a
iudgement
at
hand
,
euen
that
iudgement
,
which
GOD
here
denounceth
against
Israell
:
for
when
his
two
other
rods
,
Famine
,
and
the
Pestilence
,
will
not
serue
the
turne
;
to
make
vs
turne
,
then
the
Sword
must
haue
his
turne
;
although
our
security
tell
vs
no
,
yet
our
sinnes
cry
,
it
will
be
so
.
The
bane
of
many
Nations
hath
beene
too
much
security
:
Ierusalem
flattered
her selfe
,
with
peace
,
peace
:
and
would
by
no
meanes
be
perswaded
the
Enemy
should
set
foot
there
,
till
the
Enemie
had
troden
her
vnder
foote
:
who
would
haue
beleeued
that
the
Enemie
and
Aduersarie
,
should
haue
entred
into
the
gates
of
Ierusalem
?
Lam.
4.12
.
God
graunt
the
same
be
not
the
ouerthrow
of
our
Kingdome
:
Ah
secure
people
that
we
are
!
wee
will
not
(
with
Thomas
)
beleeue
;
till
wee
feele
and
see
:
we
are
sicke
of
their
disease
,
we
thinke
our selues
as
safe
as
they
:
when
the
messengers
of
God
told
them
the
danger
was
neere
,
they
were
as
farre
from
beleeuing
it
,
as
you
are
now
in
London
:
as
though
wee
mocked
:
or
as
the
womens
to
the
Disciples
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
an
olde
wines
tale
,
Luke
24.11
.
They
make
but
a
mock
and
iesting
song
at
all
our
warnings
;
which
makes
mee
more
to
feare
,
and
tremble
to
think
,
that
the
iudgement
is
at
hand
,
because
men
are
so
insensible
of
it
;
God
(
I
feare
)
hath
blinded
the
eyes
,
and
fatted
the
heart
of
this
people
,
(
as
hee
dealt
with
Israell
)
that
we
might
haue
no
sence
,
nor
feeling
of
our
ensuing
misery
,
and
so
seeke
no
meanes
to
preuent
it
.
It
may
be
you
thinke
there
is
no
danger
this
Sommer
;
be
it
so
,
God
graunt
.
But
yet
if
wee
deferre
our
repentance
,
it
will
not
long
be
deferred
,
and
it
may
come
before
wee
looke
for
it
:
it
is
the
Spanish
policie
to
barke
least
,
when
they
bite
soonest
,
and
sorest
.
This
was
the
destruction
of
the
Amyclaeans
;
they
,
as
wee
,
stoode
in
feare
of
an
inuasion
;
diuers
times
it
was
noysed
abroad
,
that
the
Enemie
was
comming
,
and
nigh
at
hand
.
Whereupon
the
Citie
was
raysed
,
&
much
troubled
:
and
still
they
found
it
to
be
a
false
rumour
:
whereupon
the
Citizens
of
that
place
like
wise
men
,
made
a
prouident
law
,
that
no
man
vpon
paine
of
death
,
should
any
more
bring
such
newes
of
the
Enemies
comming
;
shortly
after
the
Enemy
came
indeede
:
and
then
all
being
secure
,
and
carelesse
,
and
vnprouided
,
&
no
man
daring
to
bring
tydings
for
feare
of
the
law
,
the
Citie
was
vnawares
surprised
,
the
Citizens
taken
,
and
all
cruelly
murthered
.
The
people
of
our
Land
are
almost
of
this
condition
,
they
cannot
endure
to
bee
told
the
danger
they
are
in
;
it
is
vnpleasing
newes
:
GOD
graunt
when
wee
are
secure
,
and
thinke
our selues
most
safe
,
the
Enemie
be
not
vpon
vs
:
The
Lord
for
his
mercies
sake
(
as
he
hath
put
it
into
the
heart
of
his
faithfull
Seruant
,
our
most
gracious
Soueraigne
,
to
be
carefull
to
prouide
for
our
defence
and
safety
,
)
so
moue
the
hearts
of
the
people
to
furnish
him
with
supplies
sufficient
for
the
performance
of
it
,
before
it
be
too
late
;
better
part
with
somthing
,
nay
with
halfe
,
then
lose
all
,
liues
and
all
.
O
when
I
call
to
minde
the
raigning
,
and
crying
sinnes
of
our
Land
;
being
now
ripe
,
like
the
Haruest
of
the
earth
,
spoken
of
in
the
Reuelation
;
I
cannot
but
feare
that
God
will
ere
long
,
(
vnlesse
our
hearty
repentance
preuent
it
)
command
his
Angell
,
to
thrust
in
the
great
and
sharpe
sickle
to
cut
vs
downe
.
When
I
call
to
minde
,
how
little
we
haue
profited
by
his
former
punishments
;
especially
by
the
last
yeares
iudgement
,
and
by
his
mercy
,
in
taking
it
so
soone
away
;
I
cannot
but
tremble
to
thinke
,
that
hee
will
ere
long
(
vnlesse
our
generall
conuersion
turne
it
away
)
execute
this
curse
here
threatned
,
and
already
executed
on
Israell
;
bring
vpon
vs
a
Nation
from
farre
,
a
forraigne
inuasion
;
a
strange
foe
,
a
strong
foe
,
and
a
sterne
foe
:
Now
if
euer
,
the
Ignatians
cry
,
let
Spaine
set
foote
in
England
:
and
now
if
euer
,
we
haue
cause
to
feare
.
First
,
A
strange
foe
.
A
Nation
strange
vnto
vs
many
wayes
;
strange
by
scituation
,
farre
remote
;
strange
in
affection
,
bearing
an
innate
grudge
vnto
vs
;
strange
in
Religion
;
strange
in
condition
;
strange
in
language
;
strange
in
manners
;
euery
way
strange
vnto
vs
.
A
strange
and
forraigne
inuasion
,
a
thing
dreadfull
to
this
Kingdome
,
it
hauing
so
often
smarted
by
it
;
and
the
burnt
childe
feares
the
fire
.
But
it
may
be
more
dreadfull
to
vs
now
,
then
euer
;
because
we
haue
within
vs
,
many
home-bred
and
domesticall
enemies
,
who
will
betray
vs
;
who
(
as
we
may
iustly
feare
)
will
ioyne
hands
with
this
forraigne
foe
,
in
working
our
confusion
.
Wee
haue
especially
two
domesticall
foes
,
who
make
a
forraigne
foe
more
to
be
feared
:
—
-
Peccata
.
-
Papistae
.
First
,
our
sinnes
,
they
are
our
chiefe
,
capitall
Enemies
;
because
they
worke
God
to
be
our
enemie
:
Perditio
tua
ex
te
O
Israel
:
Thy
destruction
,
O
England
,
will
come
from
thy selfe
;
the
Snakes
which
we
breed
in
our
owne
bosomes
,
will
be
the
first
that
will
sting
vs
to
death
.
Solum
peccatum
homicida
;
Sin
alone
is
the
murthrer
,
the
bloud-sucker
that
(
I
feare
)
will
ouerthrowe
all
:
this
was
the
knife
that
cut
the
throate
of
Adam
and
all
his
posteritie
:
Sinne
it
was
,
and
nothing
but
sinne
,
that
caused
the
old
world
to
be
drowned
,
Sodome
to
be
burned
,
Pharaoh
to
be
plagued
,
Corah
to
be
swallowed
,
Achan
to
be
stoned
,
Haman
to
be
hanged
,
Iudah
to
be
captiuated
:
Sinne
,
and
nothing
but
sinne
,
thrust
Caine
out
of
mans
presence
,
man
out
of
Gods
presence
,
Adam
out
of
Paradise
,
Angels
out
of
Heauen
.
When
Nicephoras
Phocas
had
built
a
mighty
wall
about
his
Pallace
,
for
his
owne
securitie
,
in
the
night
hee
heard
a
voice
crying
vnto
him
;
The
second
domesticall
foe
,
that
makes
a
forraigne
foe
more
dreadfull
to
vs
,
are
the
Papists
;
false-hearted
,
Spanish-hearted
Papists
I
meane
;
who
haue
a
tongue
for
the
King
,
and
a
heart
for
his
enemies
;
Iacobs
voyce
,
Esaus
hands
:
who
if
the
day
should
come
,
would
bee
glad
to
set
their
helping
hand
to
cut
the
throat
of
their
natiue
Country
.
If
all
were
true
within
our selues
,
we
neede
nor
so
much
to
feare
a
forraigne
Enemy
;
but
what
a
weake
and
vnstable
thing
,
Regnum
diuisum
,
is
,
our
Sauiour
tells
vs
,
it
is
feeble
,
impotent
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
it
cannot
stand
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
it
comes
to
desolation
,
Math.
12.25
.
One
said
of
the
Thracians
,
that
they
were
the
strongest
Nation
of
the
world
;
and
yet
they
were
but
weake
:
Strong
and
weake
too
,
how
could
that
be
?
Yes
:
they
were
strong
,
so
long
as
they
were
true
among
themselues
,
and
ioyned
and
vnited
all
their
forces
together
:
they
were
weake
,
being
diuided
,
and
at
variance
one
against
another
.
Wee
are
like
the
Thracians
;
strong
and
weake
:
wee
haue
the
name
of
a
powerfull
,
and
strong
Nation
;
and
this
were
true
,
if
we
were
all
true
within
our selues
,
and
held
altogether
in
one
:
but
considering
the
faction
and
diuision
which
is
in
our
Land
;
considering
how
many
well-wishers
the
Spaniard
hath
,
and
what
a
potent
party
the
Pope
hath
in
this
Land
,
wee
are
but
weake
.
And
herein
lyes
all
our
feare
,
all
our
Enemies
hope
:
for
if
we
haue
false
brethren
amongst
vs
;
who
will
bee
ready
at
euery
turne
to
open
the
dore
,
and
let
the
Thiefe
in
:
if
we
haue
flye
Foxes
,
who
will
shew
the
way
,
for
the
wilde
Bore
to
destroy
,
and
wilde
Beasts
to
deuoure
:
If
we
haue
Vipers
,
who
will
reioyce
to
gnaw
out
the
bowels
of
their
owne
mother
:
If
there
be
Canaanites
in
the
Land
,
who
will
be
prickes
in
our
sides
,
and
thornes
in
our
eyes
;
a
snare
and
destruction
to
vs
;
who
,
if
the
time
should
come
,
would
rise
against
vs
,
and
help
our
Enemies
;
we
are
but
weake
,
we
haue
cause
to
feare
.
Ierusalem
had
not
so
soone
beene
wonne
by
Vespatians
sonne
,
had
it
not
beene
for
ciuill
discord
within
the
Citie
;
and
nothing
more
to
bee
feared
for
the
ruine
of
our
Nation
,
then
ciuill
dissention
,
domesticall
foes
.
Therfore
let
vs
vse
the
best
means
we
can
,
for
the
diminishing
,
&
suppressing
of
them
:
for
the
first
domesticall
foe
;
sinne
;
we
may
euery
one
set
a
helping
hand
,
to
the
suppression
of
it
:
euery
man
will
bee
ready
to
persecute
and
execute
a
Traytour
;
let
vs
make
speede
to
execute
this
arch-traytour
sinne
;
let
vs
hate
it
in
others
,
loathe
it
in
our selues
:
whatsoeuer
sins
we
find
ourselues
guilty
of
,
let
vs
now
at
last
forsake
them
;
kill
,
mortifie
,
&
crucifie
them
:
so
shall
we
not
neede
so
much
to
feare
a
forraign
foe
,
if
this
domesticall
foe
be
crush'd
vnder
.
And
though
it
lye
not
in
euery
mans
power
to
subuert
the
second
,
yet
let
vs
pray
vnto
God
to
conuert
them
:
as
for
those
which
will
not
be
conuerted
,
let
vs
beseech
God
to
continue
it
in
the
heart
of
his
Maiestie
,
and
the
Magistrates
,
whom
it
concernes
,
to
curb
them
and
keepe
them
vnder
:
not
to
let
them
haue
the
reines
too
much
at
liberty
,
lest
they
take
head
;
&
like
a
pampred
Palfry
throw
their
Rider
,
&
bring
a
ruine
to
their
King
and
Country
in
the
end
.
But
imagine
they
should
all
proue
true
Subiects
,
and
abhor
to
giue
any
ayde
to
a
forraigne
foe
:
(
yet
how
can
they
be
trusted
,
hauing
so
often
tript
?
)
but
imagine
the
Leopard
should
change
his
spots
,
and
the
black
More
his
skinne
;
imagine
they
should
become
new
men
,
and
refuse
to
ayde
the
Spaniard
in
the
Popes
quarrell
,
and
at
the
Popes
commaund
;
yet
we
haue
cause
still
to
feare
:
for
this
Enemie
is
of
sufficient
power
himselfe
alone
.
It
is
a
strong
foe
:
which
was
the
second
property
.
Compared
in
my
Text
to
an
Eagle
,
to
a
flying
Eagle
:
What
is
the
strength
of
Spaine
the
world
knowes
;
of
what
power
hee
is
ioyning
his
Forces
with
the
Eagle
,
(
I
meane
with
the
Emperour
whose
Armes
and
Ensigne
is
the
Eagle
,
)
Christendome
hath
felt
by
wofull
and
sorrowfull
experience
:
What
hath
Spaine
of
late
dayes
vndertaken
with
the
Eagle
,
or
for
the
Eagle
,
or
vnder
the
Ensigne
of
the
Eagle
,
but
they
haue
effected
it
,
and
gone
thorough
with
it
to
the
purpose
?
Bohaemia
is
subdued
,
Silesia
vanquished
,
Morauia
conquered
,
the
Pals
graue
oppressed
,
the
Laut-graue
distressed
,
Breda
sacked
,
and
all
by
the
combination
of
Spaine
with
the
Eagle
.
The
Spaniard
is
now
stronger
then
euer
hee
was
:
all
this
time
of
our
long
peace
,
wherein
wee
haue
slept
securely
,
in
vtramque
aurem
,
without
any
feare
,
without
any
care
,
neuer
thinking
of
a
wett
day
to
come
;
they
haue
done
all
they
can
to
strengthen
themselues
,
and
to
prepare
for
this
time
of
war
:
all
this
whil
that
we
haue
sought
&
sued
for
peace
,
they
haue
more
then
made
themselues
ready
for
battell
:
their
huge
Armado
in
88.
was
nothing
to
the
number
of
Ships
which
now
they
haue
.
So
that
comparing
our
weaknesse
,
with
their
strength
;
their
skilfulnesse
,
with
our
vnaptnesse
;
their
readinesse
,
with
our
want
of
experience
;
their
sedulity
,
with
our
securitie
;
our
danger
is
great
:
we
haue
no
better
refuge
,
then
to
fly
to
the
mercy
&
protection
of
the
Almighty
,
who
hath
hitherto
mightily
defended
vs
.
Arise
therefore
,
O
Lord
God
of
Hosts
,
maintaine
thine
owne
cause
,
and
fight
for
vs
;
bee
thou
assistant
to
the
Armies
of
our
Friends
and
Allies
;
prosper
thou
the
Worke
of
that
renowned
King
of
Denmarke
,
who
is
now
in
the
Field
,
to
fight
thy
bartell
,
ô
prosper
thou
his
handy
worke
:
for
if
they
should
miscarry
or
sit
still
for
want
of
supply
,
wo
be
to
vs
;
in
the
next
place
haue
at
England
,
looke
to
thy
house
Dauid
:
Tua
res
agitur
paries
cum
proximus
ardet
.
Gebal
,
and
Ammon
,
and
Amalek
;
Spaine
,
and
the
Pope
,
and
the
Eagle
,
would
all
flye
vpon
vs
;
combine
and
conioine
all
their
forces
to
deuoure
vs
.
GOD
therefore
in
mercy
looke
downe
from
heauen
vpon
vs
,
helpe
,
aide
,
defend
,
and
deliuer
his
poore
Church
;
For
if
they
should
get
the
Masterie
,
wee
must
expect
no
mercy
:
It
is
a
Sterne
Foe
:
which
was
the
third
property
.
A
Nation
of
a
fierce
,
cruell
,
or
barbarous
countenance
,
which
will
not
regard
the
person
of
the
olde
,
nor
haue
compassion
of
the
young
.
Fierce
and
cruell
they
are
,
as
being
Papists
;
more
cruell
as
they
are
Spaniards
:
The
rudiments
of
their
Religion
teach
them
to
bee
bloudy
and
cruell
towards
vs
;
Phil.
Morn
.
lib.
de
veritat
.
relig.
Christ
c.
33.
p.
608.
For
as
Mahomet
in
his
Alcharon
,
promiseth
the
highest
seat
in
heauen
,
to
him
that
kills
most
Christians
,
Interficite
disperdite
,
quo
maior
strages
,
eo
dignior
&
ins●gnior
in
Paradiso
locus
:
Kill
them
.
slay
them
,
spare
them
not
,
the
more
of
them
ye
destroy
,
the
more
worthy
and
eminent
place
shall
yee
haue
in
Paradise
.
So
the
Pope
and
Iesuits
make
it
a
matter
meritorious
to
kill
Protestants
,
(
Heretickes
as
they
please
despightfully
to
terme
vs
)
yea
the
more
of
vs
they
murther
,
the
more
glorious
reward
they
shall
haue
in
heauen
.
More
cruell
,
as
they
are
Spaniards
;
The
very
grimme
lookes
of
a
Spaniard
threatens
bloud
and
slaughter
;
like
the
Wolfe
they
sucke
cruelty
from
their
mothers
breasts
:
The
Spanish
Nation
(
saith
Quicchiardine
)
are
couetous
,
and
deceitfull
,
and
where
they
be
at
libertie
,
exceeding
outragious
,
tyrannous
,
and
very
proud
and
insolent
▪
Where
they
are
Conquerours
,
they
put
all
to
the
Sword
,
and
nothing
sufficeth
them
but
bloud
.
I
call
bleeding
India
to
witnesse
what
I
say
:
where
this
cruell
Nation
hath
exercised
such
barbarous
tyranny
,
and
made
such
infinite
effusion
of
humane
bloud
,
as
it
seemes
incredible
such
monsters
should
liue
in
the
shapes
of
men
:
Bartholomaeus
Casas
or
Casaus
,
a
Bishop
of
their
owne
,
who
liued
in
that
Countrey
,
and
was
(
as
he
saith
)
oculatus
testis
,
an
eye
witnesse
of
their
doings
,
hath
written
a
Booke
of
it
,
Dedicaring
it
to
the
King
of
Spaine
;
out
of
which
,
giue
mee
leaue
to
produce
some
instances
.
Hee
there
affirmes
that
neuer
since
the
beginning
of
the
World
,
was
such
an
hauocke
of
people
made
,
as
the
Spaniards
haue
made
in
the
Indies
.
[
a
](A02612-e3760-b)
a
Pag.
7.
That
more
then
ten
Realmes
greater
then
all
Spaine
,
with
Arragon
and
Portugall
,
and
those
replenished
with
multitudes
of
people
,
as
any
Countrey
in
the
world
,
are
all
turned
into
a
Desert
:
that
of
three
Millions
in
Hispaniola
,
they
left
scarce
three
hundred
aliue
.
[
b
](A02612-e3830-b)
b
Pag.
●
.
That
within
the
space
of
40
yeares
,
50
Millions
of
People
were
destroyed
.
[
c
](A02612-e3860-b)
c
Pag.
6.
So
soone
as
the
Nation
was
discouered
,
the
Spaniards
like
Wolues
,
and
Lions
,
and
Tygers
long
famished
,
entred
,
and
did
nothing
but
teare
them
in
peeces
,
and
murther
,
and
torment
them
by
cruelties
neuer
heard
or
scene
before
.
In
three
moneths
they
[
d
](A02612-e3900-b)
d
Pag.
25.
starued
to
death
7000.
children
:
[
e
](A02612-e3940-b)
e
Pag.
96.
they
threw
downe
from
the
top
of
a
mountaine
seauen
hundred
men
together
,
and
dash'd
them
all
to
peeces
.
[
f
](A02612-e3970-b)
f
Pag.
4.
At
one
time
they
murthered
2000
Gentlemen
who
were
Lords
sonnes
,
and
the
flowre
of
all
the
Nobilitie
.
[
g
](A02612-e4010-b)
g
Pag.
82.
They
cut
of
the
Noses
and
Lips
of
200
at
one
time
,
and
so
sent
them
to
their
fellowes
,
a
ruefull
spectacle
to
behold
.
[
h
](A02612-e4050-b)
h
Pag.
●●
.
They
would
lay
wagers
who
should
most
nimbly
,
and
with
most
dexterity
butcher
men
.
[
i
](A02612-e4080-b)
i
Pag.
67.
They
traced
the
miserable
people
like
horses
,
and
made
them
carrie
their
stuffe
;
who
dying
vpon
the
high-wayes
for
feeblenesse
,
when
they
were
layd
on
with
staues
,
and
had
their
teeth
broken
out
with
the
pommels
of
their
swords
,
to
make
them
rise
from
the
ground
where
they
lay
for
faintnesse
,
would
say
,
I
can
doe
no
more
,
kill
mee
here
out-right
,
I
desire
to
dye
.
[
k
](A02612-e4110-b)
k
Pag.
31.
&
78.
When
any
one
fainted
vpon
the
way
with
hunger
and
thirst
;
they
would
not
vouchsafe
to
bestowe
so
much
labour
as
to
vnchaine
him
;
but
strike
off
his
head
,
leauing
that
in
one
place
,
the
body
in
another
.
[
l
](A02612-e4150-b)
l
Pag.
20.
They
would
make
them
carrie
a
hundred
weight
,
one
hundred
or
two
hundred
miles
together
,
wherewith
their
backes
and
shoulders
were
wrung
,
and
galled
like
our
pack-horses
.
[
m
](A02612-e4180-b)
m
Pag.
8.
They
vsed
them
not
as
Beasts
,
but
as
the
dung
,
and
filth
of
the
earth
.
When
they
had
wrought
all
day
in
the
Mines
(
saith
Sequanus
)
at
night
if
they
missed
neuer
so
little
of
their
taske
,
they
were
stripped
starke
naked
,
bound
hand
and
foote
to
a
forme
,
scourged
all
ouer
with
whip-cord
,
or
a
Bulls
Pizzle
,
then
scalding
Pitch
was
powred
on
them
:
and
lastly
,
their
bodies
thus
rent
with
stripes
,
were
washed
ouer
with
Salt
and
Pepper
,
and
so
they
lay
.
The
fore-said
Bishop
protesteth
,
[
n
](A02612-e4280-b)
n
Pag.
35.
that
no
tong●e
,
skill
,
knowledge
,
or
industry
of
man
is
able
to
recount
the
dreadfull
doing
of
these
capitall
enemies
of
mankind
;
the
actions
which
they
committed
were
neither
of
Christians
,
nor
of
men
,
but
of
deuils
.
[
o
](A02612-e4310-b)
o
Pag.
9.
Any
Captaine
durst
aduenture
to
rauish
the
greatest
Queene
,
or
Lady
in
the
Country
.
Such
was
the
mercilesse
cruelty
of
this
blood-sucking
generation
,
that
they
tooke
none
to
mercy
:
[
p
](A02612-e4350-b)
p
Pag.
10.
They
spared
no
age
,
no
sexe
,
not
women
with
childe
,
nor
such
as
lay
in
Child
bed
,
but
would
rip
vp
their
bellies
,
and
choppe
them
in
peeces
.
[
q
](A02612-e4380-b)
q
Pag.
11.
They
would
plucke
sucking
Infants
from
their
Mothers
brests
,
and
taking
them
by
the
heeles
,
dash
cut
their
braines
against
the
Rockes
,
or
hurle
them
into
the
Riuers
.
[
r
](A02612-e4410-b)
r
Pag
99.
&
108.
They
trained
vp
Mastiue
dogs
,
of
purpose
to
rend
in
peeces
,
and
deuoure
the
people
,
and
for
that
end
,
fed
them
with
mans
flesh
,
hauing
a
waies
a
great
number
of
Indians
fetterd
in
chaines
whom
they
murthered
like
Swine
,
as
their
dogs
needed
,
to
feed
on
them
.
And
he
telleth
of
one
[
s
](A02612-e4450-b)
s
Pag.
60.
Who
wanting
dogs
meate
,
tooke
a
sucking
Babe
from
the
mother
,
and
chopping
off
the
armes
and
thighes
,
fed
his
Doggs
first
with
them
,
then
with
the
rest
of
the
body
before
her
face
.
Yea
they
did
not
onely
feed
their
doggs
but
also
themselues
with
mans
flesh
;
[
t
](A02612-e4490-b)
t
Pag.
50.
Whole
Armies
of
them
liuing
sometime
like
Cannibals
,
eating
nothing
but
the
flesh
of
the
Indians
;
For
prouision
whereof
an
ordinary
Shambles
was
kept
in
the
Campe
,
of
the
flesh
of
men
,
and
young
children
,
which
they
rosted
,
and
fed
vpon
;
yea
and
many
times
,
men
must
be
cruelly
butchered
onely
to
haue
their
hands
and
feet
,
which
the
Spaniard
counted
a
dainty
dash
.
These
are
the
relations
of
their
own
Bishop
.
[
u
](A02612-e4530-b)
u
Pag.
46.
In
the
Prouince
of
Guatimala
,
the
Prince
accompanied
with
his
Nobles
,
welcomed
them
with
Musicke
,
and
the
richest
gifts
the
Countrey
affoorded
:
The
Spaniards
(
after
their
vsuall
custom
)
demanded
Gold
;
they
made
answere
,
they
had
it
not
:
(
for
indeed
their
Countrey
yeelded
little
,
or
none
:
)
and
for
no
other
offence
but
this
,
they
burnt
them
all
ali●e
.
[
x
](A02612-e4580-b)
x
Pag.
29.
Another
Prince
of
his
owne
accord
,
in
kindnesse
,
brought
them
a
great
present
of
Gold
,
and
they
in
requitall
ryed
him
bakward
fast
to
a
stake
,
with
his
feet
hanging
ouer
a
gentle
fire
,
to
make
him
confesse
more
:
he
sent
home
for
all
he
had
;
yet
they
were
not
satisfied
,
but
would
haue
more
:
the
poore
Prince
not
hauing
wherwith
to
content
those
vnsatiable
Horse-leaches
;
they
kept
him
in
that
vnmercifull
&
cruell
torture
,
till
the
marrow
dropped
from
his
bones
,
and
so
he
died
.
A
pittifull
reward
for
such
a
courtesie
.
To
auoide
such
like
cruelty
of
theirs
,
the
poore
people
would
hang
themselues
,
with
their
wiues
and
children
about
them
;
the
women
destroy
their
conceptions
,
and
in
griefe
and
despaire
dash
their
owne
childrens
braines
against
the
stones
,
lest
they
should
fall
into
the
Spaniards
hands
:
Some
of
them
profest
,
that
if
the
Spaniards
went
to
heauen
when
they
were
dead
,
they
would
neuer
desire
to
come
there
;
As
the
[
y
](A02612-e4650-b)
y
Pag.
28.
Prince
of
the
Isle
of
Cuba
,
who
being
tyed
to
a
stake
to
be
burnt
,
a
Franciscan
came
to
him
,
telling
him
of
God
,
and
of
the
Articles
of
our
faith
,
which
if
hee
would
beleeue
,
he
might
goe
to
heauen
to
eternall
happinesse
;
if
not
hee
must
goe
to
hell
to
euerlasting
torments
.
The
Prince
after
a
little
pause
,
asked
the
Friar
,
Vtrum
etiam
Hispanis
caelorum
ianua
pateret
,
If
the
Spaniards
went
to
heauen
?
Yea
,
quoth
the
Friar
;
O
said
the
Prince
,
(
without
any
further
deliberation
)
then
will
not
I
goe
to
heauen
,
but
rather
to
hell
,
where
I
may
once
be
free
from
that
cruell
Nation
.
These
are
the
words
of
their
owne
Bishop
,
who
writeth
ten
times
more
in
detestation
of
it
to
the
King
of
Spaine
,
[
z
](A02612-e4740-b)
z
Pag.
100.
protesting
oftentimes
that
hee
doth
not
set
downe
the
thousandth
part
of
the
cruelties
vsed
:
and
we
may
the
rather
beleeue
him
,
because
many
other
who
write
the
Indian
History
,
relate
the
like
cruelties
.
This
it
was
that
made
Benzo
,
who
liued
also
in
the
Countrey
,
and
was
an
eye-witnesse
of
their
actions
,
to
cry
out
;
O
quot
Nerones
,
quot
Domitiani
,
quot
Commodi
,
quot
Bassiani
,
quot
immites
Dionisij
,
eas
terras
peragrauere
?
O
how
many
Neroes
and
Domitians
,
and
such
like
vnmercifull
tyrants
haue
harrowed
those
Countries
?
Is
not
this
the
Nation
spoken
of
in
my
Text
,
of
a
fierce
and
cruell
countenance
,
not
respecting
the
olde
,
nor
pittying
the
young
?
Now
if
they
vsed
such
cruelty
against
those
poore
people
which
neuer
did
them
hurt
,
what
would
they
doe
with
vs
,
against
whom
they
beare
an
imbred
hatred
,
against
whom
they
are
so
inraged
?
Those
people
neuer
offended
them
,
the
foresaid
Bishop
affirmeth
[
a
](A02612-e4890-b)
a
Pag.
19.
&
101.
That
during
all
the
time
they
were
murdered
,
and
made
away
so
cruelly
,
they
neuer
committed
any
one
offence
against
the
Spaniards
,
that
deserued
punishment
by
the
Law
of
man
.
Now
if
they
vsed
such
Barbarous
tyranny
against
them
,
what
wil
they
doe
with
vs
,
by
whom
they
are
prouoked
and
stirred
vp
?
Assuredly
,
if
our
Land
should
fall
into
their
hands
,
(
which
GOD
for
his
mercy
,
and
compassion
sake
avert
)
they
would
not
onely
put
all
the
chiefe
Inhabitants
to
the
Sword
,
(
for
that
were
not
a
death
bad
enough
)
but
inuent
strange
,
exquisit
,
and
new
found
tortures
for
English-men
,
such
is
their
monstrous
spleene
toward
vs
.
Let
no
man
promise
better
to
himselfe
;
their
cruelty
extends
to
their
friends
,
as
well
as
to
their
foes
:
in
the
Powder-treason
Innocents
and
nocents
should
haue
beene
blowne
vp
both
together
:
the
Duke
Medina
profest
,
that
his
sword
knew
no
difference
,
betweene
Catholikes
and
Heretickes
:
and
howsoeuer
some
in
our
Land
flatter
themselues
,
and
repose
great
confidence
in
the
Spanish
Nation
;
yet
if
they
should
haue
the
day
,
themselues
may
chance
to
rue
it
:
their
hands
would
bee
heauy
vpon
them
also
,
neither
would
there
be
any
respect
of
persons
;
Papists
as
wel
as
Protestants
should
all
to
the
slaughter
:
they
would
speede
no
better
then
the
Catholickes
did
at
the
sack
of
Antwerpe
;
the
Spanish
sword
should
speede
and
hasten
their
iourney
to
the
other
world
:
or
than
those
false
hearted
Britaines
did
,
who
called
in
a
forraigne
Nation
,
the
Saxons
,
to
helpe
them
against
their
lawfull
Soueraigne
;
but
they
in
stead
of
ayding
,
destroyed
them
;
expulsed
them
out
of
their
Land
;
dispossessed
Vortigerne
the
vsurper
of
his
kingdome
;
slew
at
one
meeting
two
hundred
,
seauenty
one
,
of
the
chiefe
Barons
and
Nobles
:
the
Britaines
fearing
no
such
Treachery
;
for
they
had
past
promise
each
to
other
to
come
vnarmed
;
but
the
Saxons
brought
priuie
kniues
which
(
the
watch-word
being
giuen
)
they
sheathed
in
the
bodies
of
the
British
Lords
:
such
fidelity
would
these
men
finde
in
the
Spaniards
,
should
they
bee
Conquerers
,
who
now
wish
so
much
for
their
ayde
and
assistance
:
they
are
too
politicke
to
trust
them
,
that
were
vntrusty
to
their
naturall
Prince
:
Religion
then
would
make
no
difference
;
Religion
is
the
least
thing
they
care
for
;
Religion
is
but
a
cloake
for
their
couetousnesse
and
boundlesse
ambition
:
they
haue
a
deeper
reach
in
all
their
enterprises
.
Dominion
,
and
Soueraignety
.
Religion
was
pretended
in
their
West
Indian
voyage
,
the
glory
of
God
and
the
conuersion
of
Infidels
;
but
the
miserable
people
found
the
contrary
,
by
a
wofull
experience
of
many
their
houses
,
Cities
,
Countries
,
sacked
,
ransacked
,
turned
vpside
downe
,
and
the
dust
of
all
their
ground
most
narrowly
sifted
&
searched
,
that
a
wedge
of
gold
was
Deus
Christianorum
,
the
God
of
the
Christians
.
And
this
they
would
hold
aloft
,
and
make
proclamation
among
themselues
,
Eu
Deus
Christianorum
!
Behold
the
God
of
the
Christians
!
Propter
hoc
è
Castella
in
terras
nostras
venere
:
For
this
they
came
out
of
Castile
into
our
Land
;
for
this
they
are
at
warre
among
themselues
;
for
this
they
kill
and
destroy
one
another
.
This
it
is
,
or
some
such
matter
,
that
makes
their
teeth
so
water
at
our
Land
;
the
riches
,
the
plenty
,
the
fertility
thereof
:
their
poore
hungry
dyet
in
Spaine
,
feeding
for
the
most
part
vpon
colde
Sallets
,
and
sower
sawces
,
grasse
and
hearbs
,
fine
Oranges
and
Lymonds
,
sharpens
their
appetites
to
our
abundance
,
and
full
meales
.
O
,
if
wee
could
but
once
game
little
England
,
wee
might
feede
like
Farmers
;
the
world
were
all
our
owne
:
we
should
then
haue
such
a
Store-house
,
to
furnish
our
Armies
with
Munition
and
Prouision
,
that
wee
would
quickly
bee
Lords
of
all
Christendome
,
and
make
our
King
the
Catholicke
King
indeede
.
The
Lowe-Countries
would
be
but
a
breakefast
,
France
but
a
dinner
,
all
Christendome
beside
but
a
supper
,
for
these
rauenous
Harpies
.
And
this
is
the
best
can
be
expected
from
them
;
to
haue
all
that
euer
we
haue
taken
from
vs
:
if
the
Tyger
should
lose
his
fiercenesse
,
and
the
Wolfe
his
bloodinesse
;
if
they
should
extend
vnwonted
clemencie
,
and
take
some
to
mercy
;
yet
they
must
looke
to
lose
all
,
and
to
be
made
Slaues
and
Vassalls
:
for
this
is
the
calamity
that
followes
the
Inuasion
:
The
same
shall
eate
the
fruit
of
thy
Cattell
,
and
the
fruit
of
thy
Land
,
vntill
thou
be
destroyed
,
and
he
shall
leaue
thee
neither
corne
,
wine
,
nor
oyle
,
neither
the
encrease
of
thy
Kine
,
nor
the
flockes
of
thy
sheepe
,
vntill
he
haue
brought
thee
to
nought
.
A
calamity
incident
to
an
inuasion
,
to
a
conquest
:
the
natiues
of
a
vanquished
land
,
must
looke
for
no
better
,
then
to
lose
all
;
if
they
escape
with
life
,
it
is
the
mercy
of
the
Enemie
.
Henry
Huntington
affirmes
)
permitted
no
Natiue
to
beare
any
office
of
rule
or
honour
,
in
the
Church
or
Common-wealth
:
burthened
them
with
intollerable
exactions
;
yea
,
to
such
calamities
were
they
brought
,
that
for
many
years
after
,
it
was
counted
a
great
shame
to
be
called
an
English
man
.
But
all
this
was
mercy
,
in
respect
of
that
misery
,
which
these
men
would
bring
vpon
vs
,
should
they
be
Conquerours
:
they
would
not
only
take
all
from
vs
;
cast
vs
out
of
our
possessions
;
make
vs
their
slaues
and
vassalls
;
alter
the
lawes
and
customes
;
extirpate
all
the
Nobility
:
neither
should
it
onely
be
counted
a
shame
to
be
called
an
English-man
,
but
they
would
roote
out
the
very
name
of
an
English-man
,
from
vnder
heauen
;
and
bring
vs
euen
vnto
nought
,
(
as
it
is
in
my
Text
)
such
is
their
monstrous
and
implacable
malice
toward
our
Nation
.
Where
then
,
O
where
are
the
hearts
of
men
,
that
they
haue
no
sence
,
nor
feeling
of
this
?
Shall
wee
resemble
those
worldlings
of
whom
St.
Augustine
complaines
,
Fortius
diligentes
ressuas
,
quam
seipsos
:
Loue
our
wealth
more
then
our selues
,
more
then
our
liues
,
more
then
our
wiues
,
more
then
our
children
,
more
then
our
Country
,
more
then
the
Gospell
?
Shall
we
hazard
the
losse
of
all
,
houses
,
lands
,
liuings
,
liues
,
liberties
,
freedome
,
religion
,
rather
then
part
with
any
thing
?
Shall
we
chuse
rather
to
haue
it
all
,
our selues
and
all
,
fall
into
our
Enemies
hands
;
then
bestow
the
least
part
,
in
offending
our
Enemies
,
in
defending
our selues
?
O
no
:
God
forbid
:
Let
Constantinoples
misery
bee
our
warning
;
they
smarted
for
it
;
let
vs
take
heede
,
left
we
drink
'
of
the
same
bitter
cup.
When
that
Imperiall
Citie
was
besieged
by
Mahomet
the
great
;
the
good
Emperour
did
what
hee
could
to
the
vttermost
of
his
power
,
Ric.
Knowlles
his
Turkish
History
,
in
the
life
of
Mahomet
the
great
.
for
the
defence
thereof
:
solde
the
very
Church
Plate
,
and
all
his
Iewels
to
pay
the
Souldiers
:
and
hauing
no
more
left
of
his
owne
,
with
teares
in
his
eyes
,
he
besought
his
couetous
Subiects
to
lend
him
supplies
;
or
else
all
would
be
lost
,
there
was
no
remedy
:
They
all
pleaded
pouerty
,
and
still
protested
they
had
it
not
;
they
w●r●
growne
poore
for
want
of
Trading
:
and
thus
by
their
backwardnesse
in
not
supplying
their
Soueraigne
,
and
couetousnesse
in
keeping
in
their
money
was
that
famous
Citie
lost
.
For
when
the
Turkes
had
taken
it
,
they
found
it
to
be
the
richest
thing
of
the
world
;
for
Treasure
,
Money
,
Plate
,
Iewels
;
meeting
in
priuate
mens
houses
with
whole
Chests
full
of
gold
:
wherewith
they
were
so
enriched
,
that
't
is
a
Prouerbe
among
them
at
this
day
,
if
a
man
grow
suddenly
rich
,
Hee
hath
beene
at
the
sacking
of
Constantinople
.
They
became
a
wonderment
vnto
the
Turkes
,
that
men
hauing
such
abundance
,
would
part
with
nothing
for
their
owne
defence
:
for
if
they
had
in
time
bestowed
some
small
part
at
the
Emperours
request
,
they
might
haue
safely
enioyed
the
rest
,
and
not
beene
made
a
prey
vnto
their
Enemies
:
whereas
by
their
close-handednesse
they
lost
all
,
and
fell
into
most
lamentable
bondage
.
It
would
make
ones
heart
bleed
to
read
the
story
of
it
:
Those
that
were
not
slaine
,
were
at
the
Souldiers
dispose
;
what
,
of
whomsoeuer
he
could
lay
hands
on
,
was
his
owne
:
the
noble
Gentlewomen
and
great
Ladies
,
with
their
beautifull
Children
,
who
lately
flowed
with
all
worldly
wealth
,
and
pleasure
,
became
the
poore
and
miserable
bond-slaues
of
most
base
and
contemptible
Rascalls
,
who
made
no
more
reckoning
of
them
,
then
of
dogges
(
as
the
story
saith
.
)
There
might
the
Parents
see
the
wofull
misery
of
their
beloued
Children
,
the
Children
of
their
Parents
;
the
Husband
the
shamefull
abuse
of
his
Wife
,
the
Wife
of
her
Husband
.
The
great
Turke
feasting
his
Bassaes
and
chiefe
Captaines
for
many
dayes
together
,
caused
,
at
euery
Banquet
certaine
of
the
chiefe
Captiues
,
both
men
and
women
,
of
whom
many
were
of
the
Imperiall
stocke
,
to
be
in
his
presence
cruelly
put
to
death
,
as
he
and
his
Turkes
sate
banquetting
:
sawcing
his
meate
with
the
bloud
of
the
Christians
,
chearing
himselfe
with
their
misery
;
deeming
his
Feasts
much
more
magnificent
,
with
that
dolefull
musicke
of
the
dying
Captiues
:
which
cruelty
he
vsed
euery
day
,
till
hee
had
destroyed
all
the
Grecian
Nobility
,
and
all
the
chiefe
Citizens
.
A
pittifull
calamity
!
wee
condemne
them
of
folly
,
and
say
they
deserued
no
better
:
God
graunt
the
world
condemne
not
vs
of
the
like
folly
,
and
say
we
deserue
worse
;
because
we
are
armed
,
being
warned
:
their
mishap
should
be
our
caueat
:
If
we
doe
not
in
time
take
heede
,
it
is
like
to
fare
with
vs
,
as
it
did
with
them
.
I
feare
we
keepe
our
wealth
,
for
our
Enemies
to
make
merry
with
:
If
we
part
not
with
something
for
our
owne
defence
,
wee
are
in
danger
to
lose
all
,
as
wel
as
they
:
and
to
come
to
worse
bondage
and
misery
;
more
mercy
is
to
bee
expected
from
the
very
Turkes
,
then
from
the
bloudy
Spaniards
.
We
haue
a
most
gracious
King
,
(
whom
the
King
of
heauen
long
preserue
with
a
prosperous
and
happy
Raigne
;
and
let
all
good
Christians
say
,
Amen
)
who
is
more
carefull
and
desirous
of
our
safety
and
happines
,
then
we
our selues
:
his
wants
are
great
,
his
expenses
greater
for
the
common
good
:
what
charge
he
is
at
,
both
at
home
,
and
abroad
cannot
be
vnknowne
vnto
vs
:
he
hath
a
strong
and
powerfull
enemy
,
which
wants
neither
meanes
,
nor
malice
.
O
let
not
vs
discourage
him
by
our
backwardnesse
;
Vltraposse
,
non
est
esse
;
he
hath
,
he
doth
,
he
will
doe
what
he
may
,
more
he
cannot
.
There
is
a
thing
called
,
nervus
Belli
,
without
which
Warre
cannot
subsist
:
If
we
shrinke
in
these
sinewes
,
and
withdrawe
the
nourishment
,
will
not
the
whole
body
be
in
danger
to
come
to
ruine
?
And
verely
(
from
my
heart
I
speake
)
vnlesse
He
be
in
time
supplied
,
wee
shall
all
rue
it
:
the
Spaniard
will
reioyce
to
worke
vpon
such
an
aduantage
.
That
man
were
mad
,
that
would
not
part
with
a
penny
to
enioy
a
pound
;
and
al
the
world
will
condemne
our
Nation
,
if
we
lose
our
Countrey
for
lacke
of
defence
,
hauing
such
meanes
to
defend
it
.
It
is
euery
mans
case
,
let
vs
all
lay
it
to
heart
.
I
haue
heard
of
a
Marques
of
Brandenburge
,
who
was
wont
to
say
,
he
had
in
his
Countrie
,
three
Monasteries
which
were
three
Monsters
:
one
of
the
Dominicans
,
who
had
abundance
of
Corne
,
and
yet
had
no
Land
to
sow
;
another
of
the
Franciscans
,
who
were
full
of
Money
,
and
yet
receiued
no
Rents
:
the
third
of
Saint
Thomas
order
,
whose
monkes
had
a
great
many
Children
,
yet
had
no
wines
.
Wee
are
like
to
be
a
Monster
,
and
wonder
,
a
Prouerbe
,
and
a
common
talke
to
all
people
,
as
it
is
verse
37.
For
vnlesse
our
Soueraigne
be
supplied
,
that
some
course
may
speedily
be
taken
for
our
defence
,
wee
shall
haue
neither
Lands
,
nor
Rents
,
nor
Money
,
nor
Corne
,
nor
Wiues
,
nor
Children
,
nor
any
thing
else
in
safety
,
but
all
will
fall
into
our
enemies
hands
:
Lord
open
our
eyes
,
that
we
may
see
the
danger
we
are
in
,
and
in
time
prouide
for
it
,
lest
when
it
be
too
late
,
wee
wish
wee
had
.
When
you
see
this
strange
,
strong
,
and
sterne
Foe
at
your
gates
;
your
Countrey
wasted
,
your
Houses
fired
,
your
Citie
besieged
:
when
you
heare
the
clangor
of
the
Trumpet
,
the
clamor
of
the
wounded
,
the
clattering
of
the
harnesse
,
the
beating
of
the
Drumme
,
the
roaring
of
the
Ordnance
,
the
thundring
of
the
Cannon
:
when
you
see
your
wiues
rauished
before
your
faces
,
your
friends
slain
,
your
children
murdered
,
your
Infants
dashed
against
the
stones
,
or
broached
on
the
Pike
;
and
all
the
Land
made
nothing
but
the
Shambles
of
Castillian
and
Ignatian
Butchers
;
then
you
will
wish
(
but
alas
too
late
)
would
to
GOD
wee
had
in
time
beene
warned
;
would
we
had
parted
with
halfe
our
estates
,
rather
then
lose
all
,
and
come
to
this
lamentable
slauery
and
misery
.
God
in
mercy
put
it
into
all
our
hearts
to
consider
seriously
of
it
;
that
euery
man
according
to
his
ability
,
may
condescend
vnto
the
necessitie
of
the
time
.
Now
for
a
conclusion
:
All
that
hath
beene
spoken
,
may
serue
as
a
strong
motiue
,
to
stirre
vs
vp
with
speed
to
turne
vnto
God
,
that
hee
may
turne
vnto
vs
,
and
turne
from
vs
this
fearefull
calamitie
:
Let
vs
repent
heartily
,
and
cry
vnto
him
mightily
,
to
spare
vs
,
to
be
mercifull
vnto
vs
.
Vncessant
praiers
,
repentant
teares
are
most
powerfull
to
procure
Gods
mercy
,
to
diuert
his
iudgement
:
he
is
mercifull
and
will
receiue
our
Prayers
;
he
is
pittifull
and
will
regard
our
teares
.
His
Sword
was
once
drawn
against
Niniueh
,
a
fearefull
doome
pronounced
;
Yet
fourty
dayes
and
Niniueh
shall
be
destroyed
.
The
King
,
and
his
Nobles
,
and
all
the
people
fall
to
repentance
;
they
fast
,
they
pray
,
they
humble
themselues
to
sackcloath
and
ashes
:
their
sinnes
cry
for
iudgement
,
their
repentance
for
mercy
:
there
was
a
contention
betweene
them
,
which
should
out-cry
the
other
:
their
wickednesse
ascends
vp
on
high
,
knockes
at
heauen
gate
,
clamours
lowd
in
the
eares
of
God
;
Iustice
,
my
Lord
,
vengeance
,
vengeance
.
Their
repentance
ascends
higher
,
and
cries
lowder
in
the
eares
of
God
;
mercy
,
good
Lord
,
mercy
;
spare
vs
,
O
spare
vs
,
we
beseech
thee
.
Repentance
gets
the
victory
;
GOD
is
not
so
much
enclined
to
iudgement
,
as
to
mercy
:
he
regards
not
the
cry
of
sinne
,
if
he
once
heare
the
cry
of
sinners
:
he
accepts
their
sorrow
and
humiliation
;
he
puts
vp
his
sword
,
hee
holds
his
hand
;
hee
sees
them
turne
from
their
wicked
wayes
,
and
he
turnes
from
his
fierce
wrath
:
he
sees
them
repent
of
their
euill
deedes
,
and
he
also
repents
of
the
euill
hee
pronounced
against
them
.
The
sinnes
of
our
Land
like
the
sinns
of
Nintueh
,
are
ascended
vp
on
high
,
and
cry
alowde
for
reuenge
to
the
GOD
of
heauen
:
but
our
religious
King
hath
proclaim'd
a
Fast
;
hee
and
his
Nobles
haue
led
the
way
;
if
we
,
with
him
,
and
them
,
send
vp
repentance
,
and
prayers
,
and
teares
,
to
cry
alowd
in
Gods
eares
;
they
will
dull
the
cry
of
our
sinnes
,
that
he
shall
not
heare
it
;
and
dull
the
edge
of
his
sword
that
it
shall
not
wound
vs
.
Wicked
Ahab
had
grieuously
sinned
,
and
a
terrible
sentence
was
past
vpon
him
;
yet
vpon
his
repentance
though
it
were
but
superficiall
in
outward
shew
,
Seest
thou
not
(
sayes
God
to
Elijah
)
how
Ahab
is
humbled
before
me
?
because
he
submitteth
himselfe
before
mee
,
I
will
not
bring
that
euill
in
his
dayes
,
but
in
his
sonnes
dayes
will
I
bring
euill
vpon
is
house
.
If
God
were
so
mercifull
to
that
wicked
man
vpon
his
false
&
fained
repentance
,
how
much
more
if
we
turne
vnto
him
,
with
true
&
vnfained
repentance
will
he
be
mercifull
to
vs
,
&
not
bring
this
euill
in
our
daies
?
A
second
meanes
to
diuert
this
iudgement
,
is
vncessant
prayer
:
wonderfull
is
the
force
of
praier
with
the
God
of
heauen
:
when
the
Moabites
and
Ammonites
,
and
they
of
mount
Seir
,
came
vp
against
Ierusalem
with
an
huge
Army
;
the
people
were
amazed
,
not
knowing
what
to
doe
,
for
they
were
not
able
to
stand
before
such
a
multitude
in
battell
:
Iehosophat
proclaimes
a
Fast
,
the
people
all
fall
to
their
prayers
;
O
Lord
God
of
our
Fathers
,
art
not
thou
in
heauen
?
and
raignest
not
thou
ouer
all
the
Kingdomes
of
the
Heathen
?
and
in
thine
hand
is
power
and
strength
,
and
none
is
able
to
withstand
thee
:
O
our
God
,
wilt
not
,
thou
iudge
them
?
for
there
is
no
strength
in
vs
to
withstand
this
great
multitude
,
neither
doe
wee
know
what
to
doe
;
but
our
eyes
are
toward
thee
.
And
such
was
the
force
of
their
prayers
,
that
GOD
gaue
them
the
victory
without
fighting
any
stroke
:
the
Lord
himselfe
became
the
Warriour
,
and
laid
ambushments
for
their
Enemies
,
(
saith
the
Text
)
and
made
them
sheath
their
swords
in
one
anothers
bowels
,
till
they
were
all
destroyed
.
When
Senecharib
came
into
the
land
of
Iudah
with
a
mighty
Host
;
Feare
not
,
neither
bee
afraid
of
the
King
of
Ashur
;
nor
for
all
the
multitude
that
is
with
him
,
for
there
be
more
with
vs
,
then
with
him
;
with
him
is
an
arme
of
flesh
,
but
with
vs
is
the
Lord
our
GOD
,
for
to
helpe
vs
,
and
to
fight
our
battels
.
And
the
Lord
seeing
their
confidence
,
and
hearing
their
prayers
,
gaue
them
a
meruailous
deliuerance
;
sent
forth
a
Captaine
out
of
his
owne
Host
,
a
holy
Angell
which
in
one
night
slew
an
hundred
somescore
and
fiue
thousand
of
their
Enemies
.
So
through
this
strong
and
sterne
foe
should
come
against
vs
;
yet
let
vs
not
be
dismayed
,
if
we
repent
heartily
for
our
sinnes
,
pray
earnestly
vnto
God
,
trust
to
him
;
no
doubt
but
hee
will
in
mercy
looke
vpon
vs
,
and
worke
some
meanes
for
their
confusion
,
as
hee
did
in
88.
beyond
our
expectation
:
there
bee
more
with
vs
then
with
them
;
GOD
is
on
our
side
;
it
is
his
quarrell
;
he
will
defend
his
Church
,
if
we
continue
constant
in
his
seruice
,
feruent
in
prayer
.
One
Moses
by
prayer
,
saued
a
whole
Nation
,
from
a
fearefull
destruction
:
when
the
people
forgetting
Gods
commandement
,
made
them
a
God
of
gold
,
and
worshipped
it
,
and
so
prouoked
the
holy
one
of
Israell
,
that
hee
was
minded
to
make
a
cleane
riddance
,
and
consume
them
vtterly
for
it
.
Moses
stepping
into
the
gap
,
and
praying
for
them
,
stayed
his
hand
.
The
people
sinne
,
God
is
angry
,
drawes
his
sword
,
lifts
vp
his
hand
to
strike
;
and
Moses
lifts
vp
his
hands
in
prayer
:
and
so
long
as
he
prayes
,
God
cannot
strike
,
his
hands
were
held
by
Moses
prayers
:
Let
me
alone
,
Moses
,
(
saith
God
)
let
me
alone
,
that
my
wrath
may
waxe
hot
against
them
,
for
I
will
consume
them
at
once
,
but
I
will
make
of
thee
a
mighty
people
.
It
seemes
Moses
by
his
prayers
did
hinder
and
hold
God
backe
from
destroying
Israell
;
prayer
is
like
a
chaine
or
manacle
to
tye
the
hands
of
an
angry
Lord
:
Vincit
inuincibilem
,
It
ouercomes
him
,
that
ouercomes
all
things
.
And
therefore
Moses
he
still
prayes
,
O
Lord
turne
from
thy
fierce
wrath
,
and
change
thy
minde
from
this
euill
toward
thy
people
:
and
such
was
the
power
of
his
prayer
,
that
GOD
altered
his
sentence
,
turned
from
his
anger
,
destroyed
them
not
as
he
had
intended
.
Though
Gods
anger
bee
kindled
against
this
Land
for
our
sinnes
,
yet
if
some
Moses
doe
stand
in
the
gap
,
if
some
holy
,
deuout
,
and
faithfull
men
doe
intercede
for
it
,
no
doubt
but
God
will
bee
mercifull
:
And
herein
lyes
our
strongest
consolation
;
for
as
God
would
haue
spared
sinfull
Sodome
if
there
had
bin
but
fifty
,
but
fiue
and
forty
,
but
forty
,
but
thirty
,
but
twenty
,
nay
but
tenne
righteous
therein
:
So
,
vndoubtedly
,
it
is
for
some
good
peoples
sake
that
GOD
hath
spared
vs
so
long
:
for
though
many
are
sinfull
,
yet
it
is
to
be
hoped
,
there
is
here
and
there
a
Moses
that
holds
vp
his
hands
;
here
and
there
a
Lot
that
grieues
for
the
sinnes
of
the
time
;
here
and
there
an
Abraham
that
makes
request
for
Sodome
:
for
their
sakes
GOD
spares
the
whole
,
let
them
continue
constant
in
Gods
seruice
,
zealous
in
prayer
;
yea
,
let
vs
all
betake
our selues
to
earnest
,
and
hearty
prayer
,
for
now
it
is
time
and
more
then
time
so
to
doe
.
Spare
vs
good
Lord
,
spare
vs
wee
beseech
thee
:
O
remember
not
our
olde
sinnes
and
offences
,
but
haue
mercy
vpon
vs
,
and
that
soone
,
for
else
wee
are
like
to
come
to
great
misery
;
helpe
vs
O
God
,
of
and
saluation
for
the
glory
of
thy
name
,
O
deliuer
vs
and
be
mercifull
vnto
our
sins
for
thy
names
sake
.
Or
as
the
Prophet
Ioel
exhorts
,
Let
the
Priests
,
the
Ministers
of
the
Lord
,
(
yea
and
all
the
people
)
weepe
betweene
the
Porch
and
the
Altar
in
the
Lords
house
;
and
let
them
say
,
Spare
thy
people
,
O
Lord
,
spare
thy
people
,
and
giue
not
thine
heritage
into
reproach
,
that
the
Heathen
should
rule
ouer
them
.
Let
not
this
furious
,
bloud-thirsty
,
and
cruell
Nation
,
worse
then
the
Heathen
,
euer
set
footing
in
this
Kingdome
,
or
haue
dominion
ouer
vs
:
but
let
the
Crowne
flourish
vpon
his
head
,
on
whom
thou
hast
vouchsafed
in
mercy
to
place
it
;
the
man
of
thy
right
hand
whom
thou
hast
made
strong
for
thine
owne
selfe
:
cloath
his
Enemies
with
shame
and
confusion
:
be
as
a
wall
of
fire
to
him
and
his
Realmes
:
Let
those
that
rise
vp
against
him
,
be
like
Sisera
and
Iabin
,
who
perished
at
Endor
,
and
became
as
the
dung
of
the
earth
,
make
them
and
their
Princes
like
Oreb
and
Zeb
,
yea
make
all
their
Princes
like
as
Zeba
and
Zalmana
;
O
my
God
,
make
them
like
a
wheele
,
and
as
the
stubble
before
the
winde
.
Let
them
fall
vpon
the
edge
of
the
sword
,
that
they
may
be
a
portion
for
Foxes
:
so
shall
the
King
reioyce
in
thy
strength
,
exceeding
glad
shall
he
be
of
thy
saluation
.
For
why
he
putteth
his
trust
in
thee
;
and
in
thy
mercy
,
O
thou
most
high
,
let
him
not
miscary
.
So
we
that
be
thy
people
,
and
Sheepe
of
thy
Pasture
,
shall
giue
thee
thankers
for
euer
,
and
will
be
shewing
forth
thy
praise
from
one
generation
to
another
.
So
shall
thy
name
be
glorified
,
thy
Son
magnified
,
thy
truth
defended
,
thy
Gospell
propagated
,
thy
poore
Church
comforted
:
which
we
humbly
beseech
thee
to
graunt
,
(
O
Father
of
mercies
,
and
God
of
all
consolation
)
for
our
blessed
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
his
sake
;
to
whom
with
thee
and
thy
holy
Spirit
,
three
glorious
persons
,
one
eternall
,
omnipotent
God
,
be
giuen
all
honour
,
glory
,
praise
and
power
,
now
and
euermore
.
FINIS
.