The Protestant Wind

[VirginiaHuguenot]

This month marks the 420th anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada. This event was commemorated by medals, one of which bore the inscription Flavit Jehovah et Dissipati Sunt (with the word "Jehovah" in Hebrew letters), which translates as 'Jehovah blew with His wind and they were scattered'.

Spanish Armada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He blew with His winds, and they were scattered - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[TimV]

There were three different ships named after John the Baptist in the Armada, and all three ended up getting totally immersed rather than sprinkled.

 

[Backwoods Presbyterian]

 

[toddpedlar]

It is interesting to note that almost exactly 100 years later, when William of Orange came to England to take the crown, his ships benefitted from another "Protestant Wind"...

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

It is interesting to note that almost exactly 100 years later, when William of Orange came to England to take the crown, his ships benefitted from another "Protestant Wind"...

 

[Southern Presbyterian]

There were three different ships named after John the Baptist in the Armada, and all three ended up getting totally immersed rather than sprinkled.

It is interesting to note that almost exactly 100 years later, when William of Orange came to England to take the crown, his ships benefitted from another "Protestant Wind"...

Cool!

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

I have a little book published in 1988 by the Gospel Standard Trust to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the victory over the Spanish Armada and the 300th anniversary of the Glorious Revolution, while comparing them both to the 1988 Lambeth Conference attempt to reunite the Anglican Church with the Roman Catholic Church. It's called Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1588 - 1688 - 1988 by J.R. Broome.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

It is interesting to note that almost exactly 100 years later, when William of Orange came to England to take the crown, his ships benefitted from another "Protestant Wind"...

Initially, after Protesants invited William & Mary to come over to take the throne of James II, there was a westerly ('popish') wind which prevented William's armada from making landfall. Finally, the wind turned easterly ('protestant'), thus enabling William's armada to land, and the rest was history.

Hence, the phrase in "Lillibullero," the song that "sung James II out of three kingdoms":

O but why does he stay behind?
Lilli burlero, bullen a la
Ho, by my soul, 'tis a Protestant wind,
Lilli burlero, bullen a la

Lillibullero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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