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_.

[Sidenote do: _See M. Foxe Martyr. in fine._]

[Sidenote dp: _2. Sam. 22. 41._]

[Sidenote dq: _Psalm. 118._]

More principally the Common-weale of England, and in it all men of all
factions, and all fashions whatsoeuer. _Atheists_ (if they think there
be a God) haue good cause to thanke God, acknowledging his mercie toward
them in sparing vs, and so sauing the bad for the [dr]righteous sake.
_Carnall Gospellers_ haue good cause to thanke God, confessing that so
long as [ds]_Lot_ is in _Sodome_, it can not be destroyed; and so long
as _Moses_ standeth in the [dt]gap, and [du]prayeth for his people, Gods
wrathfull indignation can not deuoure vs. Yea, let the _Gunpowder men_
themselues (if they haue any sparke of grace) confesse that God is to be
praised in this _noble act_; for suppose (God be thanked, we may suppose
and dispose thus of these matters vnto our comfort) I say suppose, their
diuelish plot had been acted, I assure my selfe our cause had been farre
better, and our number farre greater than theirs; and as for our sinnes
(which are indeede our greatest enemies) they would haue brought into
the field so many as we: so that hauing so much armour of light, and
more armour of proofe then they, [dx]_Causa iubet melior superos sperare
secundos_.

[Sidenote dr: _Gen. 18. 26._]

[Sidenote ds: _Gen. 19. 22._]

[Sidenote dt: _Psalm. 106. 23._]

[Sidenote du: _Exod. 32. 11._]

[Sidenote dx: _Lucan._]

But suppose the least and the worst part had ouercome the bigger and
the better, yet (if they bee not hewen out of hard rockes) if these
_Romanists_ haue not sucked the milke of wolues (as it is reported
of the first founder of Rome) they would haue relented to see their
natiue Country made nothing else but a verie shambles of _Italian_ and