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, open,
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