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

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.

Sixthly, The discovery of the secret underminers that have for these many yeares 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 doore in the wall to behold all the trecheries that are plotted in secret, & there is nothing devised against Church or State, but God raises up one E•isha or other to discover it; in so much as we may say of England, as Balaam of the Israelites, Surely there is no •nchantment 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 remarkeable 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 Clocke) so these circumstances are as glorious and as observable (if not more) than the mercies themselves; and these are likewise six.

First, for God to do all this for England, and to do it in a legal way, in a Parliamentary way. This is the first Circumstance. It was that which our enemies did much threaten that we should never see Parliament more, but blessed be God, we do see it to our great joy and comfort. It was the happiness of England that in her first reformation she was acted by authority: Our reformation began from the head, and not from the feet: And it is now no little blessing, That this second reformation begins from the heads of our Tribes in the old and good way of a Parliament, and not by a popular tumult.