_]

[Sidenote di: _1. Cor. 4. 9._]

But _Dauid_ [dk]here meaneth especially the valiant acts of God in
gouerning & garding his people from their enemies, [dl]O come hither and
behold the workes of God, how wonderfull hee is in his doing toward the
Children of men, he turned the sea into drye land so that his people
went on foot thorough the middest of the sea, the [dm]waters were a wall
vnto them on the right hand and on their left; but the waues of the Sea
returned and couered the chariots and horsemen euen all the hoast of
_Pharaoh_ that pursued them. Almighty God raigned hailstones out of
heauen vpon the cursed Amorites at Bethoran, and they were more
([dn]saith the text) that dyed with the haile, then they whom the
Children of Israell slew with the sword. And when Duke _Iosua_ prayed,
_Sunne stay thou in Gibeon, & thou Moone in the valey of Aialon_:
_the Sunne abode and the Moone stood still vntill the people auenged
themselues vpon their enemies_. When _Zenacherib_ and his innumerous
hoast came to fight against _Hezekiah_ King of Iuda, Gods Angell in one
night slew an hundred eighty and fiue thousand Assyrians. 2. Kings 19.

[Sidenote dk: _Placid. Parmen and the english Com. dedicated to
M. Herlakinden._]

[Sidenote dl: _Psalm. 66. 4._]

[Sidenote dm: _Exod. 14. 29._]

[Sidenote dn: _Iosua 10._]

And vndoubtedly (beloued) there is no nation vnder the cope of Heauen
hath had greater occasion to praise God in this kind then England, the
preseruation of the most illustrious princesse the Lady _Elizabeth_
vnder the fiery triall of her vnkind sister Queene _Marie_ was a _noble
act_, and the seminary of much happinesse vnto this kingdome for many
yeares after, and so much the more noble because _Philip_ King of Spaine
hath often confessed that he spared her life (when wildy _Winchester_
and bloodie _Bonner_ had brought her into the snare) not out of any
pietie or pittie, but onely out of policie. Her exaltation to the Crowne
was another _noble act_, so noble that some [do]Popish Prelats in their
enuie burst a sunder and dyed for very griefe of heart. Well might that
good Lady sing and say with the blessed Virgine, _He that is mightie
hath magnified me, and holy is his name, he hath put downe the mightie
from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meeke_: her flourishing
in health, wealth, and godlinesse, more then 44. yeares (in despite
of all her foes abroad, at home, schismaticall, hereticall, o