pen,
intestine) was another _noble act_: for after once the Bull of Pope
_Pius Quintus_ had roared, and his fat Calues had begunne to bellow in
this Island: there passed neuer a yeare, neuer a moneth, neuer a weeke
(I thinke I might say) neuer a day, neuer an houre, but some mischiefe
was intended either against her person or her people: the resisting of
the rebellion in the Northerne parts of England, was _a noble act_: the
discouering and so consequently the defeating of _Campians_ treason _a
noble act_: of _Parris_ treason _a noble act_: of the _Lupus Lopus_
his treason, _a noble act_: of _Squires_ treason, _a noble act_. Her
glorious victories against her fell and insolent enemies the _Spaniards_
in _Ireland_, in _Flanders_, in _France_, in their owne dominions of
_Portugal_, _Indies_, and _Spaine_ were _noble acts_. It was a wonder of
wonders, that a _Mayden Queene_ should at one time be both a staffe to
_Flanders_, and a stay to _France_, a terror to _Pope_, a mirror to
_Turke_, feared abroad, loued at home, Mistresse of the Sea, wonder of
the world. Shee might truely bee called a _Prince of Peace_, for shee
was Crowned in Peace, shee liued in Peace, she dyed in Peace, she was
buried in Peace: and when shee had slept with her Fathers, it was
another _noble act_ of the Lord to send vs in the midst of all our
feare so learned, so meeke, so pious a Prince as King _Iames_, in such
exceeding sweet peace, that neuer a sword was drawn, happily neuer a
word spoken against him. All these were _noble acts_, and ought to be
had in a perpetuall remembrance. But of all other noble preseruations,
_Our deliuerance from that intended mercilesse and matchlesse Massacre
both in fact and fiction, the fifth of Nouember, in the yeare 1605._ is
most _noblie noble_. King _Iames_ on this day might haue said with King
[dp]_Dauid_, _O Lord which art my rocke and my fortresse, thou hast
giuen me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate
me, that I might breake them as small as the dust of the earth, and
tread them flat as the clay of the streete_. [dq]_O giue thankes vnto
the Lord, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for euer. Let
Israel now confesse that he is gracious, and that his mercy endureth for
euer. Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for
euer. Yea let all such as feare the Lord now confesse that his mercy
endureth for euer._ All the Congregations of the Saints in the whole
world,