MANY WONDERED AND VERY REMAKEABLE PASSAGES, WHICH HATH come to pass within the Memory of Man here in this our Nation.  
And also of the manifold deliverencies we have had by the power of God from the devowring Sword.  
Humbly presented to the consideration of the Honourable House of Commons, now assembled in PARLIAMENT, and to all the loving people of Great Britain.  I will prais the Lord with all my heart: I will declare all thy wonderful wo●ke●, Psal. 9 verse 1. 
By a well wisher both of Church and State.  
London, Printed for George Thompson. 1642.   

Wonderful Deliverances of England from the Sword since the memory of Man.  
By the Power of GOD only, to whom be Praise.  
THe first was in the year of our Lord Christ 1588. When the Pope & the King of Spain with his in vinsible Navy (so called by them) consisting of 160. great ships of War, with Men and Ammunition for 40000. land Soldiers, did attempt to invade this Land: with whom our Navy consisting of but 50. English ships and 30 Dutch under conduct of Charles Earl of Nottingham, Sir Francis Drake, and sir Martin Furbisher, did meet (not fare from the Coast of Plymouth) & fought with them valiantly (although they were much inferior in Number and strength unto them) for the space of two days and more, until they came over against Calais, where the Spaniard expected to meet an other fleet with 30000. more land forces from the Duke of Parma the General for the King of Spain in the Low-Countries, where at Calais the Spanish Fleet remained at Anchor, until it pleased God to put into the mind of Sir Frances Drake to set 3 old ships or Hoys stuffed with combustible matter, and set them on Sea in the Tide way, and they drove with the tide upon the Spanish Navy being at Anchor in form of a half Moon, upon the sudden view whereof, every Spanish ship did think himself in danger, and every one cut their Cables to give room to the burning ships, whereat the English ships taking advantage of the Southerly winds, did join most courageously, and followed them Northwards two days, when and where the LORD OF HOSTS by a stormy wind sent them beyond & among the Isles Orcades, where they perished to their great confusion, in so much as scarce 20. of 160. returned home to Spain: And thus by the mighty hand of the Lord England was delivered under the conduct of the aforesaid Commanders, and assistance of the Noble Seamen of England and Holland, such as is the Honourable Lord Sesscild Earl of Moltgrave, William Lord Harvie, and poor Matthew Dale now one of Suttons Hospital being yet living eye witnesses of that great deliverance of God, to whom be everlasting praise.  
The second was in the year of our Lord 1597. being the year after Cales voyage: at what time Robert Earl of Essex, Thomas Lord Howard, and Sir Walter Raghly had the command of 100 Ships English and D●tch, with all the valiant active Gentry of England, being put to Sea, for some great design against the professed enemy of Spain, in the Bay of Portugal meeting with a cross wind were driven bacl to Plymouth (as it were sent to secure Home) where being repaired of the Sea losses, they put to sea again; and casting by the land of Portugal, taking some Orange Carvills were advertised by them that there was an Hundred sail of great ships of war Spanish and Easterlings prepared at the Groynd, and lay close moored up under the Castle thereof, which the English Gentry hearing, they conceived that it was for fear of them, but it proved otherwise, for when the English were departed from the Coast of Spain westward to the Isle of Terceres, to wait for the West Indie fleet. Then did the King of Spain intent with the help of the Popish faction to invade and conquer England, and even at the time when the English Fleet was returning homeward, God Almighty sent a very great storm at Sea, which kept the English fleet bacl with a most tempestuous cross wind for 3 days, that they could not (though they had Sea Room) get one mile homewards, which wind & storm was by God apppointed to be a deliverance to the Realm of England, for even then were the 100 sail of Ships (that lay mored in the Harbour of the Groin) ready to land in Enland, and were entered into the narrow Sea called the Sleeve when the tempest did begin, and some of them were entered so fare into the Sleeve, as they could not play bacl again, but three of them were met by the Lord Thomas Howard and his squadron, and were taken prisoners, and were brought into England, among whom was taken the field Marshals Concubine and put into Bridewell London, where many resorted to see her, that be yet living, and were in the voyage and remember well that this was the merciful deliverance of God by the blast of his nostrils to scatter the enemies of his people of England, for which also let us praise the Lord our God for ever. At that time were the noble Soldier's Sir Nicolus Parker and sir Ferdinando Gorges made governor's of Plymouth and Falmouth Castles. We pray God as good men be in them now.  
The third was Anno Dom. 1605. and in the second year of King james, when that most execrable massacree of King, Nobles and Commons in Parliament, and the royal issue, (even his Majesty that now is, whom God preserve) should have been at one blow, blown up into the Aaire, if God had not been our deliverer by the discovery of a Letter sent unto the Lord Mounteagle, though darkly expressed, yet found out by the wise genius of that ever blessed peace lover King james, whose fame never die, whose race never fail, nor praise never cease to be given to God therefore. This cursed and hellish powder Treason, let it ever be abhorred in heart, but never departed out of the mouth and memory of them that love the Lord and his people, that God may have his due praise for ever.  
The fourth delivery was in the year 1639. When Noble Van Trump met with the Spanish Navy, consisting of 66. Huge Ships, besides a great many of Carvills, and small Ships going to Dunkirk, at which time our Gracious King was incensed against the Scotish nation, and through false & deceaveable incenduaries, was provoked to prepare an army royal able to distract and tear in pieces, if not to destroy that ancient and noble Nation, one of the beautiful flowers of his Diadem, at this time was prepared a great and impenetrable Navy, if it had met with the Navy of Dunkirk impenetrable, because many of their great Ships were made free from the shoot of the cannon bullet; but God derided their strength therein, and found means by the valiant Dutch Nation to dissipate them, and sink many of them by fire works, setting them on fire from above the water to burn downwards, to their confusion and the lasting memory of the Hollanders, and the memorable praise of their valiant Commanded Van Trump against the Spaniard and Dunkirk, whose intentions both by Sea and Land was by this fleet to effect a double feat. First if they had landed at Dunkirk being joined both fleets together, to have left those novice Soldiers that were aboard the Fleet at the fight with Van Trump in the Low Countries, and thereto have stuffed both their fleets with old Soldiers, and brought them over to England, to have joined with the power of the Papists in the South, when our army was in the North ready to encounter with the Scotish Nation, and so to have infested us with a double war, which being done this fleet was to departed to the Baltic Sea, to have made themselves Masters of that Sea; and to have commanded the Strait of Elsenver, which if they had effected by this means, they had kept both the Swedes in Germany from relief out of their own Country, and set such a combustion in England and Scotland, as would not have been soon nor easily quenched, and thereto Ireland would not have been idle, as this present revolt doth manifest, how dangerous a design would this have been, if the Almighty had not been our deliverer and Protector both by Sea and Land; by Sea, by the help of that blessed Nation the Hollanders; and by Land God himself inclined the heart of our Gracious King to forbear arms or blood in his own inheritance, to entertain a truce, and now to conclude a blessed peace with that our brother Nation, which the God of Heaven continue forever, and let both Nations yield continual thanks for this never to be forgotten mercy, and cursed be the wit of that Architophell which shall counsel, go about, or effect the division of these two Nations at any time hereafter.  
The fift & last, but not the least deliverance from bloodshead and slaughter of the Kings own Sacred person, amongst his dear beloved and most loving Subjects the house of Commons in Parliament assembled, was upon the 4th day of jannuary 1641. When the King was incensed by Sinister Practices of Sycophanting and detracting Earwigs to provoke him to go in person to the House of Commons, where never King was before him, to do that which never King did before, to require in his own person in a formidable manner ad terrorem Populi, the delivery of certain worthy members of the House of Commons, even against the Privilege of the House, as witnesseth the whole house of Parliament (since in a declaration of theirs) which if this had taken the intended purpose, and if any the parties required, had been there found, what direful effect might this have wrought, what lamentable issue would have followed, God alone knoweth. For put the case the House of Commons had refused to give up their fellow Members to Prison, or worse; which might be expected from them, and at that time have stood upon their Privilege, as at this time they do, what then had been the sequel but contention, Coercion, and slaughter, which if it had come to that, how should the sacred person of his Majesty have escaped violence, what slaughter of the House of Commons, who would have warranted the Nobles and Peers, and how fare this slaughter would have spread, or was intended secretly, God hath not yet revealed. But surely this may be presumed that whosoever advised his Majesty to put his person into such a hazard, would prove no better than Traitors, if they were put upon the trial of their Peers: but God of his wont mercy hath dealt better with us than our merits deserve, for he stirred up the hearts of some well willing Subjects to run in haste before his coming, to advertise them thereof, and God moved again the friends of the Gentlemen pursued, to persuade them that were there, to departed before the Kings coming; which falling out so, that the King found none of them there, his gentle Nature and unwilling disposition to that business did easily let fall this enterprise, and so returned in peace, for which, & also for the former deliverances, let us render everlasting thanksgiving, to that most great and good God which hath done all this for us, and also upon all our solemn fasts & feast days, let us in a special manner make it our business to put on another in mind how gracious God hath been to this Nation in our days, that we may love God for his goodness, and love one another truly for God's sake, that we all being united in the love of God, may be so strengthened thereby, that all the malice envy rage and conspiracies of the Devil and devilish people may not prevail against us, for the time to come, to the Glory of God throughout all the world, and through all ages, for evermore, Amen.   
FINIS.