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Iesus præfigured, or, A poëme of the holy name of Iesus in five bookes. The first, and second booke
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Abbot, John, fl. 1623.
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more sundrie nations tell Then sects contrarie in that Babell dvvell But that no matter is Ievv Atheist Turke So he defie the Pope is of their Kirke Moreouer can rebellions cause be just VVhen thieues true Lords out of possession thrust VVhat if a D' Alua bore a heauie hand Must they forth-vvith vp in rebellion band Against their King and take from him his ovvne If so vvhat Prince can sit safe in his throne Le ts praie that Princes may doe vvhat is right And not vvith trait'tous armes against them fight But you doe not examine much their cause Their friendship you into the action dravves VVhy should you take such tyrants for your freinds VVho affect none but for their priuare ends Let Massacres in remote Indies shevv If Holland be our ENGLANDS friend or no. Oh that our Seas could speake vve soone should heare VVhat good-vvill Hollanders to ENGLAND beare Let jestes let scoffes let mockes at King and state Make knovvne their litle loue if not great hate To Prince and vs as helpes haue bene deni'de To backe their Heresie their theft their pride Ill-nurturde svvaines not taught vvhat is a King A God on earth a Consecrated thing DAVID laments that he cut his Kings coate VVhen these vvith open mouth vvith open throate Gods Vice-roies bite their royall actions blame VVith frumpes vvith quips Monarchs expose to shame Let base Typhaeus brood vvhose pride is such That they the holie ones of God dare touch VVith slandring libels expiate such vvrongues VVith losse of hands and forfeiture of tongues Yea let such Caitiues for blaspheming die VVho touch Kings touch the apple of Gods eie Let eu'ry Simei eu'ry slandring Knaue The saucy Eupolis misfortune haue And here their often mention'd Tempel fayles T' is Satans Ghost vvhich against Princes rayles VVhen the vvhole vvorld is in combustuous fire Subjects against their Kings each vvhere conspire Base-borne Abimelech his brethren kills Mis-gotten Mansfield Realmes vvith rapine fills And all these mischiefes fram'd this vvorld of harmes In Hollands Aetna vvhere Cyclops make armes For Hells black Prince 'gainst God himselfe to fling And Sions Citie to destruction bring Let none it contrarie to reason thinke That I haue temper'd some gall vvith my incke VVhen I doe heare base Eupolis so bold To rayle at Kings my splene I cannot hold Though I at vices not at persons ayme I affect Holland but rebellion blame And let the Netherlanders once be good Let them cashire this their rebellious mood And as Religion teacheth againe bring VVonted obedience to Hesperias King Reasons and thousand arguments I 'le frame To eternise industrious Hollands name Meane vvhile vvill none inspir'd vvith heau'nly fire Fore-tel hovv Spaines great King shall sacke proud Tyres VVill no Ioues seed once-more in Lerna lake The many heads from this foule Hydra take No Iohn de Austria their cities vvin No Parma take reuolting Holland in No demi-god better then other men Grapple vvith theiuish Cacus in his den Cacus vvho hath his Father Vulcans shape Cacus vvho liues by Homicide and rape No no our God vvill not haue Iury land Set free alone by valiant Barachs hand But Iabins captaine pearced in the head By Iahels vvife shall at her feete fall dead Ambitious Ammon euer looking high By Esters Prayers hanged aloft shall die Great Princesse thou art Iudith by vvhose hands Proud Holofernes leader of Hells bands Shall vanquisht be thou art Abelas Dame VVhose Nuptiall rites shall Holland Rebells tame Seditious Sebas head shall buy a peace And vvith the Tribes submission vvars shall cease Thou hast Pulcherias birth her state her face In the attempt of great things haue her grace So let thy Actions crovvne thy life vvith praise That after-times thy Monuments may raise And as thy Ancestors their Nephevv Kings Excite to enterprise of vvorthie things So be thy deeds thy royall issues booke VVherein hovv they shall liue they alvvaies looke Antiquitie doth of an Atlas count On his backe bearing vp Olympus mount Our IESVS is vvise Atlas by his hands Sion vvas built and on his backe it standes Our Atlas dies vvho shall supplie his place Hath he left heires of this supporting grace Firme-pillars of best marble compos'd all Beare Sion on their backes that it not fall VVho in Gods Church vvill haue a Pillars part Must be vvell practiz'd in the bearing art Hath not truths selfe his promise giu'n that those VVho tryumph ouer their Infernall foes Shall in his Church be Pillars vvhilst no frovvne No Hellish violence can cast them dovvne VVhen vve see thee Great CHARLES vanquish each foe VVhich doth in battaile against virtue goe VVhen vvee behold in all thy actes such grace Shall not vvee promise thee a Pillars place Of IESVS Church a Pillar thou shalt be VVhilest IESVS Church shall be borne vp by thee VVith Hercules vvhere Sol his steedes doth vvet Thou shalt thy Monuments and Columnes set And vvrite non vltra to the after-daies Forbidding all to aequalize thy praise VVhilest no great Monarke nor great Monarkes Son Shall doe so much for Church as thou hast done In first place vvrought by IESVS cunning hand Most eminent doth SIMON PETER stand To PETER next vvhilst ' he supporteth all In IESVS Church a Pillars place hath PAVLE A cruell death vvhich did tvvo vvhole daies last Could not firme ANDREVV to the Earth dovvne cast Great IAMES IOHNS brother and ZEBEDIES child By HEROD kild and Spains Apostle stil'd VVhether he vvent and vvith victorious hand To IESVS faith subu'de that noble land IOHN of vvhite Marble made though his out-side VVas gold in fyerie flames refin'd and tride VVas not vvhite marble his Parthenian brest Of Golden loue vvas not made all the rest THOMAS eternall Monuments shall haue Amongst the Indians vvhere he hath his graue SIMON THADDEVS PHILIP holy IAMES VVhose vvondrous virtue either knee proclaimes Rough BARTHOLMEVV vvithout though faire vvithin for IESVS name Tyrant pul'd off his skin For IPHIGENIA HIRTAOVS may frovvne Yea kil blest MATTHEVV but not cast him dovvne MATTHIAS vvhom the holy Ghost did chose For that place vvhich Iscariot did lose Sermons of BBRNABE vvill teach vvhat can Persvvasions vvhich proceed from a good man Of the same matter of vvhich other men Th'Apostles vveare composde yet knovv that vvhen IESVS them Columnes in his Church did place Hee so them temp'red vvith caelestiall grace That mauger anie vvinde or aduerse blast They keepe their place yea rather stand more fast The last perfection and supremest forme VVas giuen them vvhen as the vvisht-for storme Of diuine grace and clouen tongues of fire Made the roome shake vvhere Christs friends did retire Before this storme a silly vvenches frovvne Did cast the chiefest of the Pillars dovvne CEPHAS as to him a poore Damzell calls Denies his IESVS miserably falls But once confirmed by this devv of grace No threats no vvhips can make him leaue his place
in Dioclesians daies Great Rome three hundreth thousand Martyrs shovves Expos'd to beasts burnt rackt by cruell foes And thirty glorious Popes in order stand VVho lost their liues by Persecutors hand Can all the sectes vvhich haue bene since Christs daies Together joyned such a number raise If it be chiefest loue our liues to spend Iesus saith so in seruice of our friend VVas not the charitie of Romaines much VVhose Massacres for Iesus sake vvere such No vvonder eake though Romaine ground be good A Nilus vvatred it of Martyrs bloud VVe lost our liues and yet vvee vvon the field And made our bloudie persecutors yeild Tvvo Kesars vanquisht in these bearing fights To CONSTANTINE resigne their Kingly rights And first a Christian killing hand doth vvant E're martyrs readie to be kiâ—d are scant IESVS ordaining that his friends shal gaine Not by resisting but by being slaine So he him selfe made Hell and diuels flie VVhen on the CROSSE on Golgoth he did die No armour must vvee bring into the field But a sole Buckler patience is this shield This is enough to gaine the promist Crovvne Sufficent eake to cast Hells povvers dovvne The rising vvaues vvhich drovvne each other barke Lift only from the ground just NOAHS Arke Though other Cocke-boates perish in the seas VVhilst no milde Neptune makes the billovves cease Yet vvhen the surges tosse Saint PETERS barge IESVS himselfe best Palinure hath charge IESVS himselfe great Neptune of the Sea IESVS vvhom VVindes and AeOLVS obey Hee calmes the vvaues vvith his all-potent hand And brings our Pinnace to desired land VVhere is Iouinians Hoie vvhere Arrius Boate Though furnished vvith seamen of such noate Eusebij and other learned men Rovved in Arrius Boate vvith tongue and pen Rotten vvith time their Pinnace vvater drinkes And to the bottome miserably sinckes Nor anie ship can long 'gainst billovves stand VVhich is not built and gouernd by Gods hand Of Aibigenses vvhat doth novv remaine But that they vvere by Simon Montford slaine VVho novv for vvicked Hus and Arrius lookes Must finde them in great IESVS Doctors bookes But PETERS ship vvherein did IESVS preach As he the multitude on shore did teach From IESVS daies vnto our present times Hath still made voyages to remote climes And carried Marchants vvho not for base gold But death and blovves their pretious vvares haue sold. Their vvares vveare charitie true-faith firme-hope VVhich they for sorrovves and contemptes did cope Saint PETERS ship made voyages to Chine To Iapons Ilands vvhich on Sinas joyne To the remote America vvhich shovves A flovvre vvhereon the name of IESVS grovves Yee gentle heau'ns smile svveetly on that earth So dignifi'd vvith name of IESVS birth Thrice happie they on vvhose vvell-vvatred ground The name of IESVS flourishing is found IESVS svveete odour our stout hattes did fill VVhen Tyrants vs for IESVS sake did kill To all these Regions PETERS Pinnace fraught VVith Merchandise celestiall virtues brought And though it labourd hath so many yeares Yet svvist it sailes and as nevv made appeares No dangerous syrts no ship-deuouring sands No billovves no perfidious Pyrats bandes Conspiring vvith damnd Ghoasts to Hell cast dovvne Are able Peters vvell-built Arke to drovvne Her Pilote IESVS in no tempests fayles The holy Ghost filleth vvith vvindes her sailes That mauger Satan and his stigian court Shee safe ariues at heau'ns desired porte VVherefore that ship vvhich through all ages hath Carried in her the Merchants of true Faith That ship vvhich of spoiles from Hell-gained brags And for her streamers hath blest Martyrs flags Is Iesus Church vvhich God like a ship formes For t' is exposde to Seas to vvindes to stormes Of this Boate Iesus himselfe hath the charge VVho seeke heau'ns Hauen come into this barge Virgins vvho Lavvrels vveare vpon their head Adorn'de vvith Lilies vvhite and Roses red Virginitie the Lilie vvhite bestovves A glorious death brings forth the ruddie Rose These Nymphs I saie Angelicallie sing And in this sorte a holy peale doe ring A peale vvherein all numbers friendly meete Virgins alone can sing a song so svveete These flovvres vvhich on our frontes make so faire shovv And smell so svveete in Iesus Garden grovv Thence Barbara thence Agnes did them take And a triumphant Garland of them make Iesus Church stands in an Elizian ground VVhere fragrant Roses are and Lilies found VVhere Vestal Virgins haue their deseru'd praise And Martyrs fronts adorn'de are vvith greene Baies VVhere good vvorkes euermore doe fragrant smell Is Iesus Garden Iesus there doth dvvell There îs his bovver there his Summer house There Iesus sporteth vvith his louely spouse Mongst these in English tone sings EBBA slaine For Chastities defence by the stearne Dane VVith many Nuns vvho vnder her charge vvere For of a Monasterie shee had care Offring their Laurels at feete of their King VVith Deboraeh of victories they sing Relate my Muse the subject of their song And speake their Crovvnes gaind by Barbarians vvrong In Collingham eight hundreth yeares agoe Or there-abouts as Chronicles doe shovv A holy Cloister stood is it not strange That after-times should cause so great a change Then Fathers joyd vvhen Cloistets had their sons Mothers rejoyc'd to see their daughters Nuns And thought their children bestovv'd vvondrous vvell VVhen they serud ' Iesus in a quiet Cell They thought vvhen daughter chose a Cloister life That shee vvas matcht vvith Iesus for his vvife But after-daies doe better ope their eies And then their Ancestors are grovvne more vvise Our times instructed in a deeper schole Haue learnde to call each age precedent foole And put on their Dads backes a Motlie coate Affirming superstition made them dote But le' ts goe on Ebba vvas Abbesse there Many faire Nymphs to her obedient vvere Many faire Nymphs though beautie vvas thought foule VVhich vvas not grast'e vvith beautie of the soule But vvhen our Fathers sin for knovv that sin Oft changeth scepters and brings strangers in So Roderigoes fault brought Mores to Spaine Had made God send to punish Crimes the Dane The Pagan soldier each vvhere spoyld the land No place vvas free from his all-burning hand No holy Church but vvas consum'de by fire No age no sexe could pacifie his ire Though no vvhere more the Deuill his part plaid Then vvhereas pietie had houses made For holy Nuns and consecrated vvights To spend in diuine praier their daies and nights Satan too conscious of the dailie maime By these he suffreth and hovv they proclaime VVarre 'gainst his Kingdome vvith peculiar spite Makes his infernall feinds gainst these to fighte Speake Alberstate and Mansfield as you brag Of Monasteries spoiles vnder vvhose flag Your vvarfare is Satan vvill paie you vvell And vvhat vvants here you shall receaue in Hell To Collingham the Mansion of our Nuns A troupe of Pagans came Satan these sons On Gentilisme begat The house they take For vvhat resistance could poore vvomen make The Vestments Chalices the holy things Surely my