In all Deliverances spiritual and temporall, to give God the Glory. [ 1237]
THeodosius▪ being told of the wonderfull over-throw of the Usurper Iohn his Adversary,* 1.1 he, and all his followers, resorted to the Temple where they passed over the day with praise and thanksgiving,* 1.2 acknowledging that God by his arm had cast down that Tyrant: And Fl. Heraclius being delivered from Cos••oe, the King of the Persians, and Kingdom freed from Tyranny, did in the heighth of his Triumph at Bizantium,* 1.3 openly praise God for his delivery, And the more to shew his thankfulesse, did cause to be stamped on his coyn with his own Image, these words, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. Glory be to God in Heaven, because he hath broken the Iron doors, and hath delivered the holy Kingdom of Heraclius. And thus must all of us do, if we be freed from persecution, from a sword-power, from a Go∣vernment Tyrannicall;* 1.4 let us confesse with David, that Salvation is of the Lord; If we be brought from the jawes of death, and the gates of the grave, or recovered from some mortall disease, let us say with Hezekiah, The Lord was ready to save me;* 1.5 Or if, like so many brands suatch'd out of the fire, we be brought from the deep of destruction,* 1.6 the very gulf of Hell; let us acknowledge with Ionah, That Mercy and Salvation is of the Lord; In all deliverances spirituall and temporall, let God still have the glory.