Eben-ezer a memorial of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition…Eben-ezer a memoriall of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition…

3. In controlling mighty actions. I mean giving success to his people in all their undertakings. The Commander in chief of all the forces in this Kingdom since his sitting down before Colchester, was proffered a pass to go beyond the Seas for his security. Whence is it, that he hath now the necks of his enemies, and hath given any of them their lives at their entreaty? greater Armies then this, have bin buried under lesser walls; did not the number of the besieged at first, exceed the number of the besiegers? were not their Advantages great? their skill in war amongst men of their own persuasion, famous and renowned? so that the sitting down before it, was judged an action, meet only for them, who could believe they should see the Bow of God, made quite naked. It had bin possible doubtless to Reasons eye, that many of those fictions, wherewith a faction in the great City fed themselves of the many Routings, Slaughters, and Destructions of the Army, might have bin true. Some of them I say, for some were as childish as Hellish. In brief, they Associated themselves and were broken in pieces, they Associated themselves and were broken in pieces. High walls, Towering imaginations, lofty threats all brought down. So let all thine enemies perish O Lord, but let them that love him, be as the Sun when he goeth forth in his might, and let the Land have rest for many years, Judg. 5. 31.

3. In controlling mighty actions. I meane giving successe to his people in all their undertakings. The Commander in chief of all the forces in this Kingdome since his sitting down before Colchester, was proffered a passe to go beyond the Seas for his security. Whence is it, that he hath now the necks of his enemies, and hath given any of them their lives at their intreaty? greater Armies then this, have bin buried under lesser walles; did not the number of the besieged at first, exceed the number of the besiegers? were not their Advantages great? their skill in war amongst men of their own perswasion, famous and renowned? so that the sitting down before it, was judged an action, meete only for them, who could believe they should see the Bow of God, made quite naked. It had bin possible doubtlesse to Reasons eye, that many of those fictions, wherewith a faction in the great City fed themselves of the many Routings, Slaughters, and Destructions of the Army, might have bin true. Some of them I say, for some were as childish as Hellish. In briefe, they Associated themselves and were broken in peices, they Associated themselves and were broken in peices. High walls, Towring imaginations, lofty threats all brought down. So let all thine enemies perish O Lord, but let them that love him, be as the Sun when he goeth forth in his might, and let the Land have rest for many years,