Great Britains Resurrection, Title page – Dedication
GREAT BRITTAINES RESVRrection: Or the Parliaments paſſing Bell.
BY VVAY OF PSALMODIE, AGAINST the tryumphing of the Papiſts, in their ſeuen Pſalmes.
And in imitation of the ſong of the three Nobles of Iſrael, deliuered out of the fierie Ouen of Babell.
By VVilliam Hubbard, Chaplaine to the Kings Maieſtie, in his Highnes Tower of London.
Hoſ. 14.10.
Who is wiſe, and he ſhall vnderstand theſe things? and prudent, and he ſhall know them? for the waies of the Lord are righteous, and the iust ſhall walk … them: but the wicked ſhall fall therein.
Seene and allowed.
AT LONDON, Printed by T. C. for Arthur Iohnſon, and are to be ſold at his ſhop in Pauls Churchyard, at the ſigne of the white Horſe. 1606.
To the right Worſhipful, Sir VVilliam VVaade Knight, Lieutenant to his Maieſtie, in his Highnes Tower of London: Grace and fauour with God and man, be multiplied in Ieſus Chriſt.
I H… made bold (right Worſhipfull) to dedicate this Hymne and generall ſacrifice of compunction and thankſgiuing, to your name and memorie, both as a tendering of my particular office to you and yours principally: and becauſe God hath made you ſo generall a man for the common good, being ſo learned, religious, and habitually prudent from the chiefe ſchoole of high wiſedome in our eſtate, the bourd of his Maieſties moſt honourable priuie Counſell, and a moſt ſufficient ſeruant of King and Country in this place: whereupon I begin to conceiue ſtrong hope, that the Lord hath ſent you amongſt vsus, not onelyonly for theſe deare and preſent times of this new generation of gun▪ powder men in this place, in which your dexterity and ſeruice is apparant to all, but to be valued of them who are able to giuegive it his due weight & poiſe, without diminiſhing any graine of ſuch a mineral better then gold:Tower miniſterie. but for eſtabliſhing alſo the Church and gouernment here vntounto poſterity, which hath beene the ſinne of omiſsion in many before you: and now needeth ſome Zerubabel, or Nehemia, Zach▪ 4.7.10. Noh. 13.4.7.8.a reſtorer after ſo many exigents, as it hath beene driuen vntounto in the miniſteries of the ſame, being driuen out of their poſſeſsions, and olde indowments, in the midſt of gold and ſiluer, Iewels and Plate, as Tantalus in the miaſt of water, wanting water: where rather the ſupport ſhould be certaine and liberall for Gods honour, and the Kings, for the attendance of ſuch an one, as both may informe the officers and ſeruants there, and inhabitants beſides, to the number welnigh of 400. communicants (aggregated thither, and eſcaping ſcot and lot elſe where, who enioy all diuine rights for themſelues and their families at the Miniſters hands, and as though their ſoules were worth nothing, or free of heauen,Pro. 3.9. honour the Lord with no part of their ſubſtance) and may at times alſo by moderate dropping of his words vponupon the Priſoners,Ezech 21.2. rather then at or a little before their death (for their error came not in a moment,Conference with priſoners. nor is Chriſtian regeneration ripened but by degrees) inſtruct the contrarie minded with patience, as the ample ſaith: trying whether God will giuegive them repentance at any time to know the truth,2. Tim. 2.24.25.26. that they may come to amendment out of the ſnare of the diuel, of whom they are held to do his wil▪ which place of ſcripture I confeſſe I hauehave long time much made of. In which kind my poore labours hauehave not beene in vaine in the Lord, both to the reclaiming of diuers, and to the diſcouerie of matter beneficiall to the eſtate: which I think ſome of their honors hauehave not forgot, glorfied be the name of him that hath his chaire in heauen, and teacheth the heart. In all which ripe and ſweet fruites of your faith,In veni lateritiam: reliqui marmoream. that you may increaſe with the mighty increaſes of God, my harty prayer is, that ſo you may be eminent daily in this your whole ſo carefull a charge and employment, in this royall Caſtle, the key of the kingdome: that you make that marble, which you found brick: that that which was planted with wilde figs, you may eſtabliſh with Cedars: finally, ſo to wade thorough this whole cumberſome & vncertaine ſea full of many new monſters, as that you may hauehave an Oliue branch ſtill in your hand, & with an vncorrupt mind lift vp your head to the head of all with holy ouation, ſaying. I hauehave run my full race:2. Tim. 4.7.8. I hauehave fought a good fight: I hauehave kept my ſelfe in the faith, and others: Clavum et clipeū tenui. Amen.
Your Worſhips in his beſt offices and ſeruices …or the Church, William Hubbard.