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, haue good cause to thanke God our strength and deliuerer.
_Scotland_ hath good cause, for if _England_ had been but a _Tuesday
breakefast_, assuredly _Scotland_ should haue been but a _Fridaies
drinking_, one morsell as it were for the greedy deuourer. The Churches
in _France_ relieued often by vs, haue good cause to reioyce with vs.
Our neighbours of _Holland_ haue good cause to triumphe as they doe, for
if our house had been set on fire, their house being the next would haue
been quickly pulled downe. The Churches in _Germanie_, _Denmarke_,
_Hungarie_, _Geneua_ likewise haue good cause to _praise God in this
noble act according to his excellent greatnesse_.