Gods free mercy to England presented as a precious and powerful motive to humiliationGods free mercy to England presented as a pretious and powerfull motive to humiliation

Fifthly, The many grievous yokes that God hath freed us from, so many, as that the day would hardly suffice to repeat them: God hath delivered us from Civill yokes, and from Spiritual; from Monopolies; from the late Canons mounted up against all good men, but now turned against themselves; from the Star-Chamber, and from the terrible High Commission, that wrack and torture of conscience, and conscientious men; which was appointed like the dogs in the Capitol, to scare away thieves, but hath for the most part barked only at honest men; from those two terrible Oaths, the Oath ex Officio, and the Oath of the late Canons, whereby the Prelatical party thought for ever to rivet themselves into the Kingdom, and to be above the hurt of the King and Parliament; this Oath is now made the great Canon to shoot them down.

Fifthly, The many grievous yoakes that God hath freed us from, so many, as that the day would hardly suffice to repeat them: God hath delivered us from Civill yoakes, and from Spirituall; from Monopolies; from the late Canons mounted up against all good men, but now turned against themselves; from the Star-Chamber, and from the terrible High Commission, that wrack and torture of conscience, and conscientious men; which was appointed like the dogs in the Capito•l, to scare away theeves, but hath for the most part barked onely at honest men; from those two terrible Oathes, the Oath ex Officio, and the Oath of the late Canons, whereby the Prelaticall party thought for ever to rivet themselves into the Kingdone, and to be above the hurt of the King and Parliament; this Oath is now made the great Canon to shoot them downe.

Sixthly, The discovery of the secret underminers that have for these many years laboured to blow up our Religion, and under the name of Puritan to scare all men from being Protestants: God hath done to us as he did to Ezekiel, he hath opened a door in the wall to behold all the treacheries that are plotted in secret, & there is nothing devised against Church or State, but God raises up one Elisha or other to discover it; in so much as we may say of England, as Balaam of the Israelites, Surely there is no enchantment against England, neither is there any divination against the Houses of Parliament. Here are six mercies: Now there are also divers circumstances with which these mercies are apparelled, that are as remarkable as the mercies themselves; as we say of some things, that the curious workmanship of them is more worth than the things themselves, (as in a Watch or Clock) so these circumstances are as glorious and as observable (if not more) than the mercies themselves; and these are likewise six.