Jacobs ladder, or, The devout souls ascention to Heaven, in prayers, thanksgivings, and praises in four parts ... : with graces and thanksgivings : illustrated with sculptures / by Jo. Hall.

A Thanksgiving for the fifth of No∣vember for Gods miraculous deli∣verance of this Land, King, and people from that horrid Gunpow∣der Treason 1605.

O Our gracious Lord God, who is like unto thee, or who can strive beyond thy admittance? hath any thing been done or attempted but what thou knowest of? Yea, thou seest all things, savest all thine, and wilt not let a hair of their heads perish. O then who is like unto thee, for thou art ever gracious and merciful, slow to an∣ger and of great kindness? O come then let us worship, and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our ma∣ker; for never any people had more occasion ministred unto them than this people of great Britain and Ireland, yea, all that belong to

this Monarchy, to praise the great God of Majesty, Power, Might and Dominion, who did deliver us out of thraldome, when nothing was wanting for making this Sacrile∣gious Parracide a pattern of mis∣chief, and a crime without ex∣ample: they would have joyned the destruction of the body, to the head, so as all at one Thunderclap, should have been sent to Heaven together; the King our Head, the Queen our fertile Mother, and those young and hopeful Olive plants; yea, not only theirs, but also ours, our honourable and worthy Sena∣tors; yea, the whole representative body of the Land, without distin∣ction of degree, or Age; yea, even the stones, and walls, should have felt their fury, and the Hall of Ju∣stice, the house of Parliament, the Church, used for the Corronation of our Kings, the Monuments of our former Princes, the Crown, and o∣ther Royalties, all the Records as

well of Parliaments, as of every mans particular right, with a great num∣ber of Charters and such like, should all have been comprehended under that fearful Chaos, and the remain∣ing trophies of the eternal glory of our former Princes, should have all been cousumed together, and so not only we, but the memory of us and ours should have been ex∣tinguished in an instant: how can we therefore sufficiently magnify and praise thy great mercy, who didst thus preserve us when we were so near destruction? There∣fore consider our dangerous estate, we come unto thee, O thou great and mighty Judge, in trembling and in fear, humbly beseeching thee not to heap upon us thy de∣served vengeance, but let thy ten∣der kindness and love thou bearest to Christ, thy dear Son our graci∣ous Lord and Redeemer, cover our iniquities, for whose sake do thou pardon us, and have compassion

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The Martyrd••me of King Charles

on us; to whom with thy self and thy blessed Spirit, be given all prays honour and glory, of us and all our posterity after us, from this time forth and for evermore, Amen.