Lancashires valley of Achor, is Englands doore of hope: set wide open, in a brief history, of the wise, good, and powerfull hand of divine providence, ordering and managing the militia of Lancashire; not onely to the preservation, but exaltation of a poor, and praying people, in two hundreds; against, and above a considerable armie, of popish, and ill-affected persons in foure hundreds: Wherein the strift [sic] of piety and providence, with impiety and humane strength, in the weaknesse of means, unto graduall, and compleate victory, is laid out; to advance gods praise, and advantage Englands faith. By a well-wisher to the peace of the land, and piety of the church.
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- Lancashires valley of Achor, is Englands doore of hope: set wide open, in a brief history, of the wise, good, and powerfull hand of divine providence, ordering and managing the militia of Lancashire; not onely to the preservation, but exaltation of a poor, and praying people, in two hundreds; against, and above a considerable armie, of popish, and ill-affected persons in foure hundreds: Wherein the strift [sic] of piety and providence, with impiety and humane strength, in the weaknesse of means, unto graduall, and compleate victory, is laid out; to advance gods praise, and advantage Englands faith. By a well-wisher to the peace of the land, and piety of the church.
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- Angier, John, 1605-1677.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Luke Fawne, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard, at the signe of the Parrot,
- 1643.
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- Subject terms
- Lancashire (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Campaigns -- Early works to 1800.
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"Lancashires valley of Achor, is Englands doore of hope: set wide open, in a brief history, of the wise, good, and powerfull hand of divine providence, ordering and managing the militia of Lancashire; not onely to the preservation, but exaltation of a poor, and praying people, in two hundreds; against, and above a considerable armie, of popish, and ill-affected persons in foure hundreds: Wherein the strift [sic] of piety and providence, with impiety and humane strength, in the weaknesse of means, unto graduall, and compleate victory, is laid out; to advance gods praise, and advantage Englands faith. By a well-wisher to the peace of the land, and piety of the church." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75350.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- THE EPISTLE To the Reader.
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LANCASHIRES Houre of sad Temptation, AND Joyfull Issue.- The severall Temptations that straightned this Siege, with their present and proper Issues, were,
- The remarkable Passages were these.
- Blackburne-Hundred.
- Haughton Tower.
- Boltons first assault.
- Lancaster.
- Boltons second Assault.
- Warringtons first Assault.
- The rise of Blackburne.
- Lancaster Voyage.
- Warrington Siege.
- Lancaster succoured.
- Thursland Castle.
- Having thus led the Reader over the severall Beds of Flowers in this Garden of Providence, I will gather and binde up a Posie of select and fra∣grant Flowers, and sweetly conclude this com∣fortable Historie.