Great Britains Resurrection, To the reader – Errata
To the deuout and Chriſtian Reader.
A Foundation and direction of expreſſing my thoughts, by way of Pſalme, hath beene the Apoſtles holy canon and ſanction:Col. 3.1…. Let the word of Chriſt dwelt in you plenteouſly in all wiſedome▪ teaching and admoniſhing your owne ſelues in Pſalmes and Himnes, Why this treatiſe by way of Pſalme.and ſpirituall ſongs. And I finde that our Lord and Maiſter Ieſus Chriſt, after he had kept his paſſeouer with his diſciples, and waſhed their feet after ſupper:Ioh 13.2. Math. 26.30. and inſtituted & performed the ſacrament in an excellent ſermon or ſermocination reaching from Iohn, cha. 13 31. thorough the whole 14.15.16. chapters, with a prayer annexed, containing the whole 17. chap. he thought not this heauenly feaſt and banquer, ſufficiently furniſhed, vnleſſe hee cloſed vp their ſpirituall ſtomack with a Pſalme, as ſome precious marm…let… For ſo ſaith the ſcripture: When they had ſung a Pſalme, Math 26.2.they went out into the mount of Oliues. A moſt Chriſtian exerciſe, and too much neglected among profeſſours. Others in great varietie of inuention in verſe & proſe, in Latine and Engliſh, in ſermon & otherwiſe, hauehave trauelled in this argument laudably and fruitfully: ſome memorably euen by the voyce of a dolefull Pyramis demoliſhed in Fraunce, crauing reſtitution in noble great Brittaine: yea the Theater and Engliſh Roſcius himſelfe hath pourtrayed this work of God, and ſet it aloft, tanquam in arce Phidiae, as it were in the turret of the famous caruer Phidias, to the view of all men. But I tooke this courſe, the rather, becauſe I obſerue the friends of the Romiſh Pioners, to hauehave had a ſecret ſeauenfold Pſalmodie, as a claudeſtinarie oriſon frō hand to hand, in which they ſolace themſelues with ſtrange notes, and tunes, and ditties, and hopes of newes:Select ſentences out of the Popiſh newe Pſalter. In their 4. Pſalm. as in an inſolent Paean, triumphing before hand, for a Iubily & golden day at hand. I will ſet downe ſome of their words, becauſe the booke is not in manie hands. And I by a good friend came by the moſt of it. Of innocent King Edward, thus they ſpeake: England, ah vngratefull England, forgat the liuing God, and felt the curſe of hauing a child to her King.
Of our late Queene, of thrice bleſſed memory, thus they ſeeme to ſay: The nobility to their owne vtter extirpation ſhamefully forſooke their Biſhops, without aſſiſtance.
Of our noble Soueraigne they ſeeme thus: Alas, O Lord: that thou haſt ſuffered a parching winde to blow from the North:
Which made the boughes of thy planting to wither, and the flouriſh thereof to decay:
And yet as it were recomforting themſelues, thus they ſeeme to prophecie.
In a moment canſt thou cruſh her bones, and lay her pride in the duſt:
And: The earth is infected with the wickednes of the Inhabitants, and crieth vntounto thee for vengeance:
And poſſibly would ſwallow them as it did Ch…re and his company: were it not for thine elect ſake:
Reuenging fire of Sodome and Gomor might bee iuſtly feared:
And: Confirme the heart of thoſe thy labourers: endue them with ſtrength from aboue, and giuegive ſucceſſe vntounto their endeuours:
Againe: Embolden our hearts with courage, to concurre with them freely in furthering thy ſeruice.
And in another place: Confirme your hearts in hope, for your redemption is not farre off.In their ſecond Pſalme.
The yeare of viſitation draweth to an end: and Iubilation is at hand:
And: Ieruſalem ſhall be built vp againe: and the ſecond glory thereof, ſhall be greater then the firſt.
And: Righteouſnes ſhall proſper, and infidelity ſhall be plucked vp by the rootes.
God will ariſe as from a long ſlumber, & eſtabliſh againe the arke of his ſanctification.
And: The roote which hath waxen olde vnderunder ground, man ſhoote vp againe as a freſh plant by the riuer ſide:
Falſe errour ſhall vaniſh as ſmoake:
And they which ſawe it, ſhall ſay: Where is it become?
Iuſt iudgment & holy lawes ſhall be reſtored, &c.
Againe: His tabernacle he will ſpred againe; and dwell amongſt vsus as in times paſt.
And: Sacred ſongs ſhall break their long ſilence, the lamp of our Lord ſhall be ….
And: The reſemblance of heauen ſhall be renued, the reſemblance of hell ſhall be deſtroyed.
England ſhall be called a happy Realme, a bleſſed Country, a religious people.
Thoſe which knewe the former glory of Religion, ſhall lift vp their hands for ioy, to ſee it returned againe.
Thoſe that neuer ſaw it ſhall be ſtrucken with admitation: wiſhing that they had ſooner knowne the truth: condemning their fathers which forſooke it.
Men ſhall ſay of it, one to another: heere is indeede the houſe of God, and the gate of heauen.
How great diuerſitie is betweene truth and falſehood, deuout ſolemnities, and counterfet ceremonies?
From the Eaſt point to the Weſt, men ſhall confeſſe their errors.
They which thought themſelues wiſeſt, ſhall ſay they knew nothing:
Gladly ſhall people walke in their auncient ſteps of truth and equitie, &c.
The Prince of peace will breake the exactors rod. &c.
No longer will he diſſemble the oppreſſion of his people▪
He is bent to reuenge their cauſe.
The daughters of Babylon ſhal be caſt downe: and in the duſt lament their ruine.
Proud hereſie ſhall ſtrike her ſayle: and groane as a beaſt cruſhed vnderunder a cart wheele.
Againe: The omnipotent hath ſworne to make her ſtoupe: and that he will abaſe her haughtines.
Againe: The memorie of nouelties ſhall periſh with a crack: as a ruinous houſe falling to the groūd.
And: Hee will come as a flame that burſteth out beyond the ſurnace.
His fury ſhall flie forth as thunder: and pich on their tops that maligne him.
Againe: A ſecond Cyrus hath he ſtirred vp: confirming his Scepter for the good of his people.
He ſhal likewiſe bring the Infants of Sion from all quarters of their baniſhment: Ioyfully ſhall they returne from forraine lands.
And thoſe Countries, where now they harbour, ſhall finde ſuccour in this Ile for their neceſſities.
Againe: The tempeſtuous night being paſſed: a perpetuall day ſhall be our comfort.
His truth, his iuſtice, his Prieſts, his ſacrifice ſhall be no more taken away.
I hauehave beene the larger: that the reader might ſee, & obſerue the Papiſts expectation out of their owne many words without equiuocation. But Mutatis mutandis the prophecie ſhal be inuerted vponupon themſelues: as is in part alreadie: Magnified be the name of God therefore.
Now for this my methode, as it were a letanie or proceſſion: and a kinde of ſpirituall preambulation thorough the whole England, as men doe to keepe their bounds: ſo we to ſee in particular and generall how much we are bound to God:Exod. 15. …ud. 5. wee hauehave excellent preſidents to omit Miriams ſong, and Deborahs, which both ſtand vponupon the reſolution into particulars: but in Dauid, himſelfe more notably: Dauid the ſweet ſinger of Iſrael, the king of ſingers, firſt Pſal. 136. which vſed to be ſung of the Leuites in the temple:1. Chro. 16.41. In which Pſalme as it were by a logicall or theologicall predicament, hee beginning with the great works of GOD in generall, hee after diuideth his thoughts into the works of creation, and adminiſtration:Odê Epae… ticos, ê antiſtrophos. Why repetition. Preſidentes of particular recapitulation, and a burdē of words in ſongs of thankſgiuing See alſo Pſalm. 118. in the beginning. hee goeth from the heauens to the earth: hee particularizeth in the great lights the ſunne and the moone. In the works of adminiſtration he exemplifieth in the Lords deſtroying Aegipts firſt borne: in bringing Iſrael out thence: in cutting ſea into two parts: in bringing Iſrael thorough the midſt: and not at the ſhore and in ſome ſhallowe place: In ouerthrowing Pharao and his hoaſt there: In leading this people thorough the Deſart: In ſmiting great kings for their ſakes: particularly Sihon and Og: in giuing his people their land: in remembring not their miſerie onelyonly, but in feeding all fleſh. The burden of all which to eueryevery verſe is: The mercy of the Lord endureth for euer.
That is to ſay: Gods mercy appeared not then onelyonly and in thoſe particulars, but for euer: And that theſe particulars were ſtakings downe, that they had had Gods mercy from time to time, and might be ſure of it for euer: euen as Eſay the Prophet ſaith: Heare,Eſay, 55. and your ſoule ſhall liue: and I will make an euerlaſting couenant with you: the ſure mercies of Dauid: What is this elſe, but you ſhall be as ſure of my louelove as euer Dauid was: And in a neerer example,A …. preſident. Pſal. 148. hee rangeth and marſhalleth the creatures in order, with redoubling the ſame wordes: praiſe him all ye his Angels: praiſe him all his armies: praiſe him ſunne and moone: praiſe him heauen of heauens, and ye waters that be aboue the heauens, let them praiſe, &c. praiſe ye the Lord frō the earth, Dragons, depthes, fire, hayle, ſnow, vapours, winds, mountaines, hills, beaſts, creeping thinges, and feathered fowles, Kings and all nations, Princes, and all Iudges of the earth: young men and maydes: olde men and children: Let them praiſe the name of the Lord, &c and why all theſe? For the particular merciemercy (ſaith Dauid) in exalting the horne of his people. Euen as Eſay on the other ſide in the impenitencie of the people conteſteth heauen and earth:Eſay. 1.2. atteſteth Oxe and Aſſe againſt Iſraels ingratitude.
And hence no doubt was deduced the canticle of the three children, though apocrypha,The ſong of the three children: O all ye works of the Lord, &c. yet very auncient, and inſerted for the worthines of it into the liturgie of the Church of England. Where the three great noble men and rulers of thy Prouinces themſelues perſonally ſtand forth, and beginning from the generall workes of God, diſcend to ſpecials: in heauen to Angels, ſunne & moone: and paſſe along the cloudes in their ſpirits, to ſhowers, windes, fire, heat, winter, ſommer, dewes, and froſts, yce & ſnow: and knock at the dore of eueryevery creature in the earth: mountaines, green things, wells, ſeas, floods, whales; fowles, beaſts, particularly ſummoning men: more particularly Iſrael: among them the Lords Prieſts and ſeruants: the ſoules of the righteous: and humble men that walke with God, and indure any thing or eueryevery thing for him:O'A…aria, Azaria & M…ael: doe you praiſe the … the Lord. and by name they call vponupon themſelues: As though all the creatures were obteſted to helpe them to praiſe God, & to acknowledge this Creator and preſeruer of them: and that they who had the chiefe deliuerance, though men of care, knowledge, and vnderſtanding in all learning and wiſedome, yet were vnſufficient without worlds of helpe.Dan. 1.17. & 2.17.18. Therefore as God preſented all the creatures before Adam their Lord & owner vnderunder God: and at another time all the creatures of the earth before Noah, Gen. 2, 19.20. & 7.14.their preſeruer vnderunder the ſame God: And as Landlords hauehave their tennants to ſhew their poll, and to pay head ſiluer to their Lords in their Courts yearely: And as ſea-men ſcaping ſhipwrack, offer vowes,Ionas 1, 16. and hang vp tables of deliuerance: ſo hauehave I endeuoured by theſe holy examples, and the like to preſent in all humble duty all degrees and eſtates before this Lord their preſeruer, with crownes of ſaluation on their heads, palmes of victorie in their hands, Pſalmes of thankſgiuing in their mouthes. For when the funerall men of Rome tolled our laſt knel among thēſelues:To the Parliaments paſsing Bell. ſo certainly that they thought all the Phyſitions of great Brittaine could doe her no good: and that God himſelfe had forſaken her: ſaying, now the Proteſtant ſhall die, & his name periſh: did not the Lord of life cauſe the bel to ſtay on a ſuddaine:Pſal. 41.5. and hath hee not ſpirited her againe with a freſh life,Great Brittaines Reſurrection. Heb. 11.19. and made her the daughter of a ioyfull reſurrection. As it is ſaid of Iſaac, that Abraham after a ſort receiued him frō the dead, when he was ſo neare vntounto death and yet deliuered. My meaning was to ſtirre vp all our ſpirits, mine owne and others, and to keepe vsus ſomewhat waking, leaſt ſecurity the bane of all ſhould creepe in. For if right vſe be made of this: what doth let but we may write: Aeterna Britannia magna: wherein no doubt a princely and honourable monument from this Senate in a feſtiuitie ordained for euer to be kept (which ſhall be like a marble piller, with a real,Parliament holy day. and compendious inſcription of the matter and occaſion ingrauen walled about, and a keeper of it as of other monuments for all to viſite) to Gods glory and increaſe of our faith and repentance, ſhal reuiue our anniuerſarie thankfulnes to all poſteritie. And me thinkes I obſerue a new edge vponupon many louers of religion ſince,Rom. 10.19. 1. Sam. 5.4. Vt ingulent homines ſargunt de nocte latrones: vt temet ſerues non expergiſcere? Theeues riſe by night to kill: and thou to ſaue thy ſelfe by waking haſt no will. when they ſee God hath ſo prouoked them by a fooliſh and idolatrous people deſperately zealous for the ſetting of Dagon, that thereby with greater inflamed hearts the friends of Sion labour to reſetle the arke of God vponupon our center for euer. In which for my part I cannot but praiſe God for the feruour and ardent ſpirit of the moſt honorable and zealous lower houſe, like the ſpirit of famous Martin Luther, and a fierie conglobation in their holy and deuout diſpoſitions in many notable propoſitions, and yet alſo giuegive God moſt hartie thanks for the graue, moderate, and mature conſiderations of the moſt honourable & high part of the vpper houſe, as the ſage ſpirit of melancthon, and a refrigeratiue conſtellation: whoſe operations and influences ſhal by Gods grace hauehave heauenly and mighty effects very beneficiall to the publike good in due time, and their ſweet aſpect and louing reſpect vntounto one another, and to the whole by their happy and peaceable coniunction ſhall profit, vponupon further occaſions that which is behind of their faith, wiſedome, and zeale, which ſhall be the better effected, if we could all goe one way. For I perceiue in many caſes, as the Lamprey and ſerpent ingender, ſo ſome profeſſors ſo named (for I except the graue, humble, modeſt, and fatherly, whom I know many) and the Papiſt with diuerſe ends ioyne to debaſe him, that without reſpect of factions in his honeſt ſimplicity and plainenes, oppoſeth himſelfe to two extremes:Ariſtotle li. 1, eth. ca. 6. Great was the light of wiſedome, that ſhined in the Gentiles: He that wil preſerue truth, muſt not only confute other mens opinions, but his own. And would to God al ſides could learne of the fountaine of wiſedom, not to do any thing for diſpleaſure againſt any ſuppoſed tares,Math. 13. as to pluck vp wheat: and all ſides ſo to denie themſelues and their own name, that we might thinke it no diſgrace, but good deuotion to ſay in a common voyce: Thy name be ſanctified,Math. 6. O Lord, whatſoeuer become of our name. And heere I moſt humbly deſire as in this laſt paſſage, ſo in the whole proceſſe the friendly chriſtian and charitable conſtruction & indulgence of all men: wherin any thing by omiſſion or addition is miſtaken, which in ſuch variety of degrees to ſort eueryevery one with their proper attributes and offices is eaſie for a contemplatiue man, labouring according to this place & my function, to be a remembrancer among many: knowing that as in a race though men runne ſwiftly of themſelues, yet the clapping of hands of other obſeruers, & of them that blowe the trumpets, addeth a new courage and vigour to them. The ſum of my deſire is:Cantic. 4.2. that all our people of great Brittaine hereafter may be like one flocke of ſheepe, as the holy Ghoſt ſpeaketh: as in good order come vp from their waſhing: a peculiar people abundant and zealous of good works: eueryevery one bearing twins and none barren among them:Tit. 1.14. 2. Cor. 5.11. that our Church knowing, the terrour of the Lord, heereby as Chriſt ſpeaketh, may be purged, and bring forth more fruit; that it may grow as the Lily, and hauehave rootes of Lebanon:Ioſ. 15.2.3. that ſhe may looke forth from her ſleepe,Hoſ. 14.5, 6, 7.8.9. as the morning faire as the moone, pure as the ſunne, terrible as an armie with banners, that all the world may confeſſe: what nation is ſo great vntounto whom God commeth ſo neare in all that we neede,Cantic. 6.9. euen before wee call vponupon him: What nation ſo great,Deut 47. Eſa. 65.24. that hath ordinances and lawes ſo wiſe and ſo righteous, as they hauehave ſet out in this their day. Amen. April. 29. 1606.
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SEction 1, line laſt, for reſeueth. read, and reſerueth. ſec▪ 5, l. 9, read ſulphurous, ibid. li. 23, read hath for hauehave, ſec: 6, in margine, for ornatumque, read ornatum, 16, d, for a deo, read ad eos, ſec: 16, li, 14, read leprous, ſec. 19, li. 9, read wheeles, ſec: 21. li, 15, for houres, read hoardes, ſec▪ N. li. 16, Goteham, ſec: 22, li. 23, at this ſigne * left out: who ment to hauehave the incuſtodie: and 25. read volies, ſec: 25, li. 9, f. 1 Fſaac alſo, Iſaac alone, ſec. 29, li. 17, Parliaments petition, and li. 58.10, 11, &c. ſec▪ 30, li. 30. read praiſe, ſec. 32, third page, for cheſts, read clefts ſec. 33. li. 4. read trayne and 2. p. all dimenſions. ſec 39. page. 2. in fine: read maruell.
Sec. 11. after the word practiſe: alſo all the … ▪ Academia: ſchollers and children of the famous Kings ſchoole of Weſtminſter, who like the male children of Iſrael by this Italian Pharao, had like to hauehave beene conſumed in a deluge of fire, and as the innocent Babes of Bethlehem to be ſlaine by the Romiſh Herod, in deſpite of young Chriſt amongſt vsus.
The Author is named Habbard for Hubbocke, without direction indeede, but not without prouidence, as being the auncient and rightfull title of the family: though he refuſeth neither.