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let thy future passe thy former more And go-before those that haue gone-before Excell thy Self and braue graue godly Prince Confirme my Songs eternall Euidence FINIS THE SCHISME THE III. BOOK OF THE IIII. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT Reiecting Olde Yong-Counsail'd rash ROBOAM Loseth Ten Tribes which fall to IEROBOAM He Godding Calves makes Izrael to Sin His Scepter therefore shortly fails his Kin. BAAZ ZIMRI OMRI ACHAB worst of all With IEZABEL Elias conquers Baal Commands the Clouds rapt-vp to Heav'n aliue Elisha's Works his bones the dead reuiue SAMARIA'S tragik Siege A Storm at Sea For Ionas sake repentant NINIVE HEer sing I ISAAC'S ciuill Brauls and Broils The miserie of a State distracted by factions into Ciuil Wars Iacobs Revolt their Cities sack their Spoils Their cursed Wrack their Godded Calues the rent Of th' Hebrew Tribes from th' Isheans Regiment Ah! see we not som seek the like in France With rage-full swords of civill Variance To share the sacred Gaulian Diadem To strip the Lillies from their natiue stem Application And as it were to Cantonize the State Whose Law did aw Imperial Rhine of late Tiber and Iber too and vnder whom Even silver Iordan's captiue floods did foam But let not vs good Lord O let not vs Apprecation Serue servilely a hundred Kinglings thus In stead of one great Monarch never let The lawfull Heir from his owne Throne be beat This Scepter yearly to be new possest Nor every Town to be a Tyrants nest Keep all intire re-stablish prudent Raign Restore the Sword to Iustice hand again That blest with Peace thy blessed Prayse O Lord My thankfull Layes may more and more record THE GENERAL States of Israel gathered all A Parliament or Assembly of the Estates of Israel By thousands now within strong Sichem's Wall All iointly name ROBOAM for their King But strictly-stout his Powr thus limiting Command say they and Rule in Abram's Fold Not as a Wolf but as a Shepheard should Slacken the reans of our late Servitude The People capitulate with their new King Lighten our gall'd backs of those Burthens rude Those heavy Imposts of thy Father fierce Repress the rapin of thine Officers So we will serue thee life and goods at-once If other-wise thy Service we renounce Heer-with amaz'd the moody Prince in post Sends for those Ancients which had swayed most His Fathers Counsails and he seems to crave Their sage Advises in a case so graue God hath not made say they iumping together Subiects for Kings but Kings for Subiects rather Then let not thine already in distress The Counsaile of the ancient Nobles ●e gnaw'n by others by thy Self much less What boots a Head with-out the hand and foot What is a Scepter and no Subiects to 't The greater Milt the Body pines the more The Checker's fatting makes the People poor A Princes Wealth in Subiects Wealth is set The Bank of Thrift where gold doth gold beget Where the good Prince coms never but at need For he is prais'd for a good Heard indeed Whose Flock is fat and fair with frolik bounds Frisking and skipping vp and down the Douns Among the Beasts fullest of furious gall The Vulgar's fiercest wildest worst of all Hydra with thousand heads and thousand stings Yet soon agreed to war against their Kings If then you wish their barking rage to cease Cast them a bone by an Abatement ease Their wringing Yoak thy Pity let them proue And ground thy Greatness on thy Peoples loue Or if thou fell wilt needs feed on their ice Yet vse no threats nor giue them flat Denies But to establish thy yet-new Estate Give them som hope and let them feed on that And wisely minde thy Fathers Saying sage That A soft answer soon appeaseth rage ROBOAM scorning these olde Senators Roboam leaving their sound aduice leaneth rather to the young fury of his Minions Flatteries Leans to his Yonglings Minions Flatterers Birds of a feather that with one accord Cry-out importune and perswade their Lord Not sillily to be by such disturb'd Nor let him-self so simply to be curb'd But to repress press and oppress the more These Mal-contents but too-well vs'd before With iron teeth to bruise their idle bones To suck their Marrow out and for the nonce Their rebell Pride to fetter as it were And lock their Furie in the stocks of Fear And to shake-off on th' other side and shun Those Gray-beards olde and colde direction Their sawcie censures snibbing his Minority Where-by too-proud they trip at his Authority Vsurp his place and too-too-malapert Would teach a wiser then them-selues his part To knowe that he 's a King and that he took Even in the womb as th' outward limbs and look So th' inward graces the Discretion And deep Fore-fight of prudent SALOMON And in the Shop of Nature learn'd long since The Art of State the Office of a Prince Wisedom fond King her sacred Seaterects In hoarie brains and Day the Day directs Th' old-man-fore-sees a-far by past events He prudent ponders future accidents The Young-man knowes not new-com as it were This wily World but as a passenger And more with courage then with Counsail's guide Barely beholds things on the outer side Yet to the last thou lean'st and frowning fel Checkst thus the Son 's of noble Israel Ah! rebel Slaues you you will Rule your King The Kings rashnes threatning rigour You 'll be his Carvers you will clip his wing You 'll hold the sacred helm controule the Crown You 'll rate his State and turn all vp-side-down But know you varlets whom you dally-with My little finger over-balanceth My Father's loigns he did but rub you light I 'll flay your backs he bow'd I 'll break yee quight He threatned Rods or gentle Whips of cord But I will haue your carrion shoulders goar'd With scourges tangd with rowels and my Name Shall make you quake if you but hear the same As rapid streams incountring in their way Simile With close-driv'n piles of som new bank or bay Or steady pillers of a Bridge built new Which last-past Sommer never saw nor knew Swell roar and rage far fiercer then they wont And with their foam defile the Welkins front So yerst griev'd Isaac now growen desperate With loud proud tearms doth thus expostulate Why what haue we to do what part what place With Böozian Ishay's avaricious race The Reuolt of the 10. Tribes Go Raign proud Iuda where thou wilt for we Nill bear the burthen of thy Tyranny Go vse els-where thy cruell threats and braues We are thy Brethren we and not thy Slaues Thus cry the People and th' ill-counsal'd King Vn-kingly yeelds to their rude Mutining And flies eft-soons with som few Beniamites The zealous Leuites and the ●●daïtes The rest revolt and chuse for Soveraign A shame-les faith-les bold and busie-brain An Ephraimite who double-false doth fall Ieroboam Both from his King and from his God

saue vs at thy throne of mercy great Forgiue vs Lord and holde farre from vs all These plagues that on our heads are like to fall Alas what helpeth vs thy heavy stroke To binde our necks to such a servile yoke Wherewith th' Assyrian tyrants long haue grieved Thine Izak till their bondage thou relieved If so this natiue ground that new is tild If so these Hostries new with folke refild If so alas our chaste and modest Dames Our infants young our Virgins good of fames Should be a pray to Ammon and to Perse To Calde and the mutine Parthian fierse If that we see this Altar made prophane And witches it abuse with Idols vain Yet Lord if thou no pittie on vs take At least great God do for thy glories sake Haue pitie on this holy building now Where not a God hath sacrifice but thou Where not a God but thou hast residence To feel the sauour sweet of frankensence Hold back O Lord the Caldean cressets bright From these rich Cedar vaults of stately hight Preserue these vessels ornaments of gold From sacrilegious hands of neighbours bolde And let the blood of beasts before thy face Thy Iustice stay and grant thy seruants grace This prayer done the people went their way Then Ioachim conuen'd that present day The princes all of Iuda and them praid Gainst this mischief for counsell and thus sayd Companions if your former zeal remain If ardent loue to God ye still retain If wife or childe may cause your care or loue Which should the Centers of your senses moue If in your brests a noble hart doth bide Let deed bear witnes at this wofull tide For sauing God and your foresight in deed T is done t is done with vs and all our seed And after this th' Immortall shall not see This altar fume before his maiestee When th' Air is calme and still as dead and deaf Comparison And vnder Heav'n quakes not an aspin leaf When Seas are calme and thousand vessels fleet Vpon the sleeping seas with passage sweet And when the variant winde is still and lowne The cunning Pylot never can be knowne But when the cruell storme doth threat the Bark To drowne in deeps of pits infernall dark While tossing tears both father mast and sail While mounting seems the Azur sky to skail While driues perforce vpon som deadly shore There is the Pylot knowen and not before Alas I pray you then what care and strifes Haue we to keep our honours goods and lifes Forget not then the care of this same place Your countreyes weale Gods glory and his grace But humbly giue your selues into the hand Of God most high and with a holy brand Repurge your spirits from euerie hatefull sinne Which causeth God his Iustice to begin And see what may to God be agreeable For Iacobs weal and for you profitable This said an ancient traytour from his youth Who fostred gall in hart with hony in mouth Enforcing from his eyes som fained tear To cloke his malice spacke as ye shall hear My tongue me fails my hair for dread vp-starts My heavy spirit from pensiue corps departs The oration of a subtill worldling When I be think me of yone tyrant stout Who hath bed round the world with bloud about Approching threats our townes with fiery flames Our selfs with death dishonour to our Dames Yet when I call to minde the curtsie great That this great Lord doth vse who doth intreat Not onely those that beastiall are become And haue their hope in brutall Idols 〈…〉 But euen to zealous folke who do embrace The faith and law like vs of Abrams race Who being well aduisde did humbly sue His pardon and escap't his vengeance due Then thanke I God who sends vs such a foe As plagues the proude and lets the humble goe For we assoone shall vanquish him with teares As will be long to wrack him with our weares Then whil'st we may haue choise of eitherstate Of peace or warres his fauour or his hate Let vs not follow seeing skath at hand The follie of our fathers to gainstand But rather let vs beare another saile And serue his king as best for our availe But think not yet that I this counsell giue For craft or warrant forthy selfe to liue For I haue els my daies so neerely spent That for to dye I could be well content Th' Assyrian neede not in my brest to strike His fethred Dart nor yet his trembling pike Yea if my youth to me should eft returne And make my youthly bloode within me burne So honour I my God and country deare That for to dye for them I would not feare As Sampson did if so my death might yield The victory of the Uizroy and the field But most I feare least we with curious zeale Fight for the lawe yet fight against her weale Against our selfs to bring so great a wrack That proud and cruell tyrants shall vs sack And grow in pride suppressing Iudas strength For to contemne the glory of God at length For Israell being lost who shall ensue To render here to God deuotions due What people spars●d on this earthly ball From Indian shoare to where the Sunne doth fall Or from the Climate of the northren blast Vnto that place where sommer ay doth last Hath God elect save Israell for his owne Vpon this Hill to have his glory showne At this the valiant Cambris of renowne With righteous rage grew pale and gan to frowne And brake the silence with a vehement stile His courage mov'd the Princes all the while Nay rather where I stand let ope the ground Quoth he to swallow me in pit profound Yea rather righteous Heav'n let firy blast Light on my head that thou on Sodom cast Ere I my malice cloke or oversile In giving Izac such a counsell vile For if the Leader of this folk profane Vpon our bodies onely sought to raigne Although that we haue dearely bought alway Our freedom from our first maternall day Which dearer is then gold for to be kept I would assent the holy Church except But since more pride this tyrants heart enroules To lay a greater burden on our soules Who are the vassels of that onely King That Thunder sends and scepters down doth thring ' Should we forget him who made vs of nought ' More then all wondrous things that he hath wrought Who treats and loues vs like our Father King Still vnder shadowes of his wondrous wing Will he that we receiue a Prince ambitious For God a gods contemner Nemrode vitious Whose beastly life is of so vile a fame That of a man he merits not the name Goe to goe to let men for men assaye With sword and shot to deale it as we may The victory lies not in mortall hands Nor barded horse nor force of armed bands These are but second instruments of God Who as him list may send them euen or od But if our soueraigne God willes such annoy That

my self may learn And also graunt great Architect of Wonders The Trāslator knowing and acknowledging his owne insufficiēcy for so excellent a labor craueth also the ayde of the All sufficient God Whose mighty Voice speaks in the midst of Thunders Causing the Rocks to rock and Hills to tear Calling the things that Are not as they were Confounding Mighty things by means of Weak Teaching dumb Infants thy dread Praise to speak Inspiring Wisedom into those that want And giuing Knowledge to the Ignorant Graunt mee good Lord as thou hast giv'n me hart To vndertake so excellent a Part Graunt me such Iudgement Grace and Eloquence So correspondent to that Excellence That in some measure I may seem t' inherit Elisha-like my dear Elias Spirit CLEAR FIRE for euer hath not Ayre imbraç't The World was not from euerlasting Nor Ayre for-ay inuiron'd Waters vast Nor Waters always wrapt the Earth therein But all this All did once of nought begin Once All was made not by the hand of Fortune As fond Democritus did yerst importune With iarring Concords making Motes to meet Inuisible immortall infinite Th' immutable diuine Decree which shall Neither made by Chance But created together with Time by the almighty wisedome of God Cause the Worlds End caus'd his Originall Neither in Time nor yet before the same But in the instant when Time first became I mean a Time confused for the course Of years of months of weeks of daies of howrs Of Ages Times and Seasons is confin'd By th' ordred Daunce vnto the Stars assign'd Before all Time all Matter Form and Place God all in all and all in God it was God was before the World was Immutable immortall infinite Incomprehensible all spirit all light All Maiesty all-self Omnipotent Inuisible impassiue excellent Pure wise iust good God raign'd alone at rest Himself alone selfs Palace host and guest Thou scoffing Atheist that enquirest what He consuteth the Atheists questioning what God did before he created the World Th' Almighty did before he framed that What waighty Work his minde was busied on Eternally before this World begun Sith so deep Wisedom and Omnipotence Nought worse beseems then sloath and negligence Knowe bold blasphemer that before he built A Hell to punish the presumptuous Guilt Of those vngodly whose proud sense dares cite And censure too his Wisedom infinite Can Carpenters Weauers and Potters passe And liue without their seuerall works a space And could not then th' Almighty All-Creator Th' all-prudent BEE without this frail Theater Shall valiant Scipio Thus himself esteem Neuer lesse sole then when he sole doth seem And could not God O Heav'ns what frantike folly Subsist alone but sink in melancholy Shall the Pryénian Princely Sage auerr That all his goods he doth about him bear And should the Lord whose Wealth exceeds all measure Should he be poor without this Worldly treasure God neuer seeks out of himself for ought He begs of none he buies or borrows nought But aye from th' Ocean of his liberall Bounty Hee poureth out a thousand Seas of Plenty What God did before he created the World Yer Eurus blew yer Moon did Wax or Wain Yer Sea had Fish yer Earth had grass or grain God was not void of sacred exercise He did admire his Glorie's Mysteries His Power his Iustice and his Prouidence His bountious Grace and great Beneficence Were th' holy obiect of his heav'nly thought Vpon the which eternally it wrought It may be also that he meditated The Worlds Idëa yer it was Created Alone he liv'd not for his Son and Spirit Of 3. Persons in one only Essence of God of the eternall generation of the Son Were with him ay Equall in might and merit For sans beginning seed and Mother tender This great Worlds Father he did first ingender To wit His Son Wisedom and Word eternal Equall in Essence to th' All-One Paternal Of the Holy-Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne The which three Persons are one onely and the same God Out of these Two their common Power proceeded Their Spirit their Loue in Essence vndiuided Onely distinct in Persons whose Diuinity All Three in One makes One eternall Trinitie Soft soft my Muse launch not into the Deep Sound not this Sea see that aloof thou keep From this Charybdis and Capharean Rock Where many a ship hath suffered wofull wrack While they haue fondly vent red forth too-far Following frail Reason for their only Star Who on this Gulf would safely venture fain How to think speak of God Must not too-boldly hale into the Main But longst the shoar with sails of Faith must coast Their Star the Bible Steers-man th' Holy-Ghost How many fine wits haue the World abus'd Because this Ghost they for their Guide refus'd The Heathen Philosophers lost themselues and others in their cur●osities weening to be wise became fooles And scorning of the loyall Virgins Thred Haue them and others in this Maze mis-led In sacred sheetes of either Testament 'T is hard to finde a higher Argument More deep to sound more busie to discuss More vse-full knowne vnknowne more dangerous So bright a Sun dazles my tender sight So deep discourse my sense confoundeth quite My Reason's edge is dull'd in this Dispute And in my mouth my fainting words be mute This TRINITY which rather I adore God the Father Sonne Holy-Ghost created of Nothing the Worlds goodly frame In humblenes then busily explore In th' infinit of Nothing builded all This artificiall great rich glorious Ball Wherein appears in grav'n on euery part The Builders beauty greatnes wealth and Art Art beauty wealth and greatnes that confounds The hellish barking of blaspheming Hounds Climb they that list the battlements of Heav'n Lea●ing curious speculations the Poet teacheth how to contemplate God in his Workes And with the Whirl-wind of Ambition driv'n Beyond the World's wals let those Eagles flie And gaze vpon the Sun of Maiestie Let other-some whose fainted spirits do droop Down to the ground their meditations stoop And so contemplate on these Workmanships That th' Authors praise they in Themselues eclipse My heedfull Muse trained in true Religion Diuinely-humane keeps the middle Region Least if she should too-high a pitch presume Heav'ns glowing flame should melt her waxen plume Or if too-lowe neer Earth or Sea she flag Laden with Mists her moisted wings should lag It glads me much to view this Frame wherein As in a Glasse God's glorious face is seen I loue to look on God but in this Robe Of his great Works this vniuersall Globe For if the Suns bright beams doo blear the sight Of such as fixtly gaze against his light Who can behold aboue th' Empyriall Skies The lightning splendor of God's gloriouseies O who alas can finde the Lord without His Works which bear his Image round about God of himself incapable to sense God makes himselfe as it were visible in his Workes In 's

meet Round large and long there of itselfe it thriues And Little-World into the World arriues But that becomes by Natures set direction From foul and dead to beauty life perfection But this dull Heap of vndigested stuf Had doubtlesse neuer come to shape or proof Had not th' Almighty with his quick'ning breath Of the secret power of God in quickning the matter whereof the World was made Blow'n life and spirit into this Lump of death The dreadfull Darknes of the Memphytists The sad black horror of Cimmerian Mists The sable fumes of Hell's infernall vault Or if ought darker in the World be thought Muffled the face of that profound Abyss Full of Disorder and fell Mutinies So that in fine this furious debate Euen in the birth this Ball had ruinate Saue that the Lord into the Pile did pour Some secret Mastik of his sacred Power To glew together and to gouern fair The Heav'n and Earth the Ocean and the Aire Who ioyntly iustling in their rude Disorder The new-born Nature went about to murder As a good Wit that on th' immortall Shrine The Spirit of God by an inconceiueable meane maintained and as it were brooding warmed the shape-lesse Masse Genes 1. Of Memory ingraues a Work Diuine Abroad a-bed at boord for euer vses To minde his Theam and on his Book still muses So did Gods Spirit delight itself a space To moue itself vpon the floating Masse No other care th' Almightie's minde possest If care can enter in his sacred brest Or as a Hen that fain would hatch a Brood Som of her own som of adoptiue blood Sits close thereon and with her liuely heat Of yellow-white balls doth lyue birds beget Euen in such sort seemed the Spirit Eternall To brood vpon this Gulf with care paternall Quickning the Parts inspiring power in each From so foul Lees so fair a World to fetch For 't's nought but All in 't self including All An vn-beginning midless endles Ball 'T is nothing but a World whose superfice Leaues nothing out but what meer nothingis Now though the great Duke that in dreadfullaw Vpon Mount Horeb learn'd th' eternall Law That there is but one World confuting the Error of Leucyppus his Disciples by two reasons Had not assur'd vs that Gods sacred Power In six Dayes built this Vniuersall Bower Reason itself doth ouer-throw the grounds Of those new Worlds that fond Leucyppus founds Sith if kind Nature many Worlds could * embrace clip Still th' vpper Worlds water and earth would slip Into the lower and so in conclusion All would return into the Old Confusion Besides we must imagin empty distance Between these Worlds wherein without resistance Their wheels may whirl not hindred in their courses By th' inter-iustling of each others forces But all things are so fast together fixt With so firm bonds that there 's no void betwixt Thence coms it that a Cask pearç't to be spent Though full yet runs not till we giue it vent Thence is' t that Bellowes while the s●out is stopt So hardly heaue and hardly can be op't Thence is' t that water doth not freez in Winter Stopt close in vessels where no ayre may enter Thence is' t that Garden-pots the mouth kept close Let fall no liquor at their siue-like nose And thence it is that the pure siluer source In leaden pipes running a captiue course Contrary to it's Nature spouteth high To all so odious is Vacuity God then not onely framed Nature one But also set it limitation Of Form and Time exempting euer solely From quantity his own self's Essence holy Confutation of another Error of such as make Nature and the Heauens infinita How can we call the Heav'ns vnmeasured Sith measur'd Time their Course hath measured How can we count this Vniuerse immortall Sith many-wayes the parts proue howerly mortall Sith his Commencement proues his Consummation And all things ay decline to Alteration Let bold Greek Sages fain the Firmament To be compos'd of a fift Element Let them deny in their profane profoundnes End and beginning to th' Heav'ns rowling roundnes And let them argue that Deaths lawes alone Reach but the Bodies vnder Cynthias Throne The sandy grounds of their Sophistick brawling Are all too-weak to keep the World from falling One Day the Rocks from top to toe shall quiuer A liuely description of the ende of the World The Mountains melt and all in sunder shiuer The Heav'ns shall rent for fear the lowely Fields Puft vp shall swell to huge and mighty Hills Riuers shall dry or if in any Flood Rest any liquor it shall all be blood The Sea shall all be fire and on the shoar The thirsty Whales with horrid noyse shall roar The Sun shall seize the black Coach of the Moon And make it midnight when it should be noon With rusty Mask the Heav'ns shall hide their face The Stars shall fall and All away shall pass Disorder Dread Horror and Death shall com Noise storms and darknes shall vsurp the room And then the Chief-Chief-Iustice venging Wrath Which heer already often threatned hath Shall make a Bon-fire of this mighty Ball As once he made it a vast Ocean all Alas how faith-les and how modest-les Against iudicial Astrologers that presume to point the verie time thereof Are you that in your Ephomerides Mark th' yeer the month and day which euermore Gainst yeers months daies shal dam-vp Saturnes dore At thought whereof euen now my heart doth ake My flesh doth faint my very soule doth shake You haue mis-cast in your Arithmetike Mis-laid your Counters groapingly yee seek In nights blacke darknes for the secret things Seal'd in the Casket of the King of Kings 'T is hee that keeps th' eternall Clock of Time And holds the waights of that appointed Chime Hee in his hand the sacred book doth bear Of that close-clasped finall Calender Where in Red letters not with vs frequented The certaine Date of that Great Day is printed That dreadfull Day which doth so swiftly post That 't wil be seen before fore-seen of most Then then good Lord shall thy dear Son descend Though yet he seem in feeble flesh ypend In complete Glory from the glistering Sky Millions of Angels shall about him fly Mercy and Iustice marching cheek by ioule Shall his Diuine Triumphant Chariot roule Whose wheeles shall shine with Lightning round about And beames of Glory each-where blazing out Those that were laden with proud marble Toombs Those that were swallow'd in wilde Monsters woombs Those that the Sea hath swill'd those that the flashes Of ruddy Flames haue burned all to ashes Awaked all shall rise and all reuest The flesh and bones that they at first possest All shall appear and hear before the Throne Of God the Iudge without exception The finall Sentence sounding ioy and terror Of euer-lasting Happiness or Horror Som shall his Iustice som his Mercy taste Som call'd to ioy som into torment cast When from

otherwise Yea oldest Gangraens of blinde-burning Zeal As the Kings Evill a new KING can heal And those Scoene-servers that so loud haue crid Gainst Prelats sweeping in their silken Pride Their wilfull Dumbness forcing others dumb To Sion's grieuous Loss and Gain of Rome Their Courting Sporting and Non-residence Their Avarice their Sloath and Negligence Till som fat Morsels in their mouths do fall And then as choakt and sodain chang'd with-all Them-selues exceed in all of these much more Than the Right Reverend whom they taxt before And those Chamaeleons that con-sort their Crew In Turky Turks among the Iewes a Iew In Spain as Spain as Luther on the Rhine With Calvin heer and there with Bellarmine Loose with the Lewd among the gracious graue With Saints a Saint and among Knaues a Knaue But all such Neuters neither hot nor cold Such double Halters between GOD and GOLD Such Luke-warm Lovers will the Bride-groom spue Out of his mouth his mouth hath spoke it true O ISRAEL I pity much thy case This Sea of Mischiefs which in every place So over-flowes thee and so domineres It drowns my soule in griefs mine eyes in tears My heart's through-thrilled with your miseries Already past your Fathers Tragedies But O! I die when in the sacred stem Of royall IVDA in Ierusalem I see fell Discord from her loath som Cage To blowe her poyson with ambitious rage Sion to swim in bloud and Achab's Daughter Make David's House the Shambles of her Slaughter Cursed Atháliah she was called so Athaliah Knowing her Son by Mimshi's Son his so For Ioram's sake to be dispatcht disloyal On th' holy Mount vsurps the Sceptre Royall And fearing lest the Princes of the Bloud Would one-day rank her where of right she should She cuts their throats hangs drowns destroyes them all Not sparing any either great or small No not the infant in the Cradle lying Help-les alas and lamentably crying As if bewailing of his wrongs vn-knowen No O extream she spareth not her owne Like as a Lion that hath tatterd heer Simile A goodly Heifer there a lusty Steer There a strong Bull too-weak for him by half There a fair Cow and there a tender Calf Strouts in his rage and wallows in his Prey And proudly doth his Victory suruay The grass all goary and the Heard-groom vp Shivering for fear vpon a Pine-Trees top So swelleth she so growes her proud Despight Nor Aw nor Law nor Faith she reaks nor right Her Cities are so many Groues of Thieves Her Courta Stews where not a chaste-one lives Her greatest Lords given all to all excess In stead of Prophets in their Palaces Haue Lectures read of Lust and Surfaiting Of Murder Magik and Impoysoning While thus she builds her tottering Throne vpon Her childrens bones Iehosheba saves one One Royall Imp yong Ioash from the pile As when a Fier hath fiercely rag'd awhile Simile In som fair House the avaricious Dame Saues som choise Casquet from the furious flame Hides him prouides him and when as the Sun Iehoiada preserueth Ioash Six times about his larger Ring hath run Iehoiada her husband brings him forth To the chief Captains and the Men of worth Saying Behold O Chiefs of Iuda see See heer your Prince great Dauids Progeny Your rightfull King if me you credit light Beleeue this Face his Fathers Picture right Beleeue these Priests which saw him from the first Brought to my House there bred and fed and nurç't In so iust Quarrel holy Men-at-arms Imploy I pray your anger and your Arms Plant in the Royall Plot this Royall bud Venge Obed's bloud on Strangers guilty bloud Shake-off with showts with Fier and Sword together This Womans Yoak this Furie's Bondage rather Then showt the People with a common cry Long liue King Ioash long and happily Ioash God saue the King God saue the noble seed Of our true Kings and ay may They succeed This news now bruited in the wanton Court Quickly the Queen coms in a braving sort Towards the Troop and spying there anon The sweet yong Prince set on a royall Throne With Peers attending him on either hand And strongly guarded by a gallant Band Ah! Treason Treason then she cries aloud False I'oyada disloyall Priest and proud Thou shalt abie it O thou House profane I 'll lay thee levell with the ground again And thou yong Princox Puppet as thou art Shalt play no longer thy proud Kingling's Part Vpon so rich a stage but quickly stript With wyery Rods thou shalt to death be whipt And so go see thy Brethren which in Hell Will welcom thee that bad'st not them farwell But so dainly the Guard layes hold on her And drags her forth as 'twerea furious Cur Out of the sacred Temple and with scorn Her wretched corps is mangled tugg'd and torn Th' High-Priest inspired with a holy zeal In a new League authentikly doth seal Th' obedient People to their bountious Prince And both to God by ioint Obedience Now as a Bear-whelp taken from the Dam Simile Is in a while made gentle meek and tame By witty vsage but if once it hap He get som Grove or thorny Mountains top Then playes he Rex tears kills and all consumes And soon again his savage kinde assumes So Ioash while good Ioyada survives For Piety with holy Dauid strives But he once dead walking his Father's wayes Ingrately-false his Tutor's * Zachariah son he slayes Him therfore shortly his owne Servants slay His Son soon after doth Them like re-pay His People him again then Amaziah Uzziah follows Ioatham Vzziah As one same ground indifferently doth breed Simile Both food-fit Wheat and dizzie Darnell seed Baen-baening * Ar●emisia Mug-wort and cold Hemlock too The fragrant Rose and the strong-senting Rue So from the Noblest Howses oft ther springs Som monstrous Princes and som vertuous Kings And all fore-seeing God in the same Ligne Doth oft the god-les with the godly twine The more to grace his Saints and to disgrace Tyrants the more by their owne proper Race Ahaz betwixt his Son and Ioathan He bad they good seems a swart Mauritan Betwixt two Adons Ezekiah plaç't Between his Father and his Son is graç't He good they bad as twixt two Thorns a Rose Wher-by his Vertue the more vertuous showes For in this Prince great DAVID the divine Ezekiah Devout iust valiant seems again to shine And as we see from out the severall Seat Of th' ASIAN Princes self-surnamed Great Simile As the great Cham great Turk great Russian And if less Great more glorious Persian Araxis Chesel Uolga and many moe Renowned Rivers Brooks and Floods do flowe Falling at once into the Caspian Lake Withall their streams his streams so proud to make The true pattern of an excellent Prince So all the Vertues of the most and best Of Patriarchs meet in this Princes brest Pure in Religion Wise in Counsailing Stout in Exployting Iust in Governing

did that sprite that made the Prophet blesse Num. 23. The Israelites whom Balec did addresse To curse them all and wage his couetous toung Which spake contrarie that he would haue soung So please it you my Lord I shall descrie The storie of Izrell yet so doing I Am like the modest Bee that takes but small Of every flowr though she haue choise of all For where she list the sweetest off she crops These people that ye see on mountain tops A briefe discourse of the estate of the Iewes Encamped in these craggs are of the line Of Abraham who seruing God diuine That mighty God of Gods who creat all And firmely knit and built this mighty ball Came to this Land that then was tild and sowen Gen. 12. And by the name of wealthy Canaan knowen Where onely God his wealth did multiplie In goods and siluer gold and familie And when of age he was an hundred year His wife eake barren neuer child did ●ear God gaue them Isaac swearing that his seed Should many Scepters rule and Land bespreed But when that holy Abraham was old And hoped well the promise made should hold O pitious case Th' immortall voice him spake And bad him sacrifice his sonne Isaac Then like a ship between two windes beset Gen. 22. Vpon the raging sea on both sides bet In doubtsom fear ●e wots what way to keep Least one of them confound her in the deep Makes close her ports and slides on Neptunes back At pleasure of the hoisteous windes to wrack So felt this Hebrew in his heart to fight Both loue and duety reason faith and right Nor wist he way to take his troubled soule From this to that continually did roule Vntill the time his heav'nly fear and loue His naturall earthly pitie did remoue Then hauing built the fire and all anone His sonne he layd vpon the sacred stone And with a trembling hand the curtlasse drewe With heavied arme the stroke for to ensewe When lo th' Eternall staid the balefull knife And down it fell and spaird the guiltless life Then God content to haue so great assaye Of Abrams faith defended him alway Of Isaac Iacob came and Iacob than Of valiant sonnes had twelue in Canaan Who forç't by famine fled to Aegypt Land Where for a while their dwelling good they fand Exod. 1 And grew so great in number that they were A fear to those that had them harbourd there And though th' Egyptians dayly them opprest And burthens on their sweating backs were drest Yet like the valiant Palme they did sustaine Their peisant weight redressing vp againe This mov'd King Pharo to command through all Great Nilus Land where raine doth neuer fall He bad his folke should slay whereso they came All children males the seede of Abraham Assoone as they from mothers wombs were free Their day of birth should be their day to d ee O cruell Tiger thinks thou that this deede Of Izak may cut-off th' immortal seede Exclamatiō Well may it stay the sucklings for to liue And kill th' accustomde frute that heaven doth giue But spite of this men Iacobs seede shall see In flouring state to rule all Cananee The first of every house shall feele the hand And wrath of God against this law to stand It fortun'd Pharo's daughter with her traine Of Ladies faire to play them on the Plaine Vpon the shoare where Gossan floode doth slide Where after many pastimes they had tride She hears an enfant weepe amongst the reedes Then iudging it for one of Izaks seeds As so it was yet with Paternall feare Against his pitious plaint she clos'd her eare But after vewing in that infants face I know not what of fauour and of grace Which did presage his greatnes to ensew Loue vanquisht lawe and pittie dread withdrew So from the floode not onely she him caught But curiously she causde him to be taught As her owne sonne O sonne elect of God Admiration That once shall rule the people with thy rod Thou haste not found a seruant for thy mother But euen a Queene to nurse thee and none other Now see how God alwaies for his elect Note Of wicked things can draw a good effect His prouidence hath made a wicked thing Vnto his owne great profit for to bring When Iosephs brether sold him like a slaue Gen. 41 He after came a kingly place to haue Of Haman proude the darke enuious hate Brought Mardoche the iust to great estate For where his enemie sought his shamefull end Est. The same vnto the worker he did send This Hebrew Moses once as he did keepe On Horeb mount his father Iethro his sheepe Father in Law He saw a fearefull sight a flaming fire Enclose a thorny bush whole and entire From whence a mighty voice vnto him spake Which made the ground betweene the Poles to shake I am that One is was and ay shall bee Exod. 3. Who create all of nought as pleaseth mee I can destroie I am the great and iust The faire the good the Holy one to trust Whose strong right hand this world hath set in frame I am th' Almighty God of Abraham I plague my foes and grant my seruants grace All those that knowledge me and all their race Then follow thou my will and quickly go From me to that prophane King Pharao Who holds the towrs of Memphis and the field Of Nilus shore that rich encrease doth yeeld And bid him let my people freely goe But if with hardned hart he will not so Stretch out thy staffe for to confirme thy charge And it shall turne into a Serpent large And this he shortly did the thing to proue It quickned lo and on the ground gan moue O Miracle he saw without all ●aile It grew a Serpent fell with head and taile Which crangling crept and ranne from trod to trod In many a knot till time th' Almighty God Commanded him the same for to retaine Which to the former shape returnd againe Thus siling humain sight it changed form One while a Rod one while a creeping worm Then armed with this staffe the Lord him sent The proud idolatrous princes to torment He in the name of God full oft did pray The King to let the Hebrews go their way Vnto the desert where he did deuise To offer God a pleasant sacrifise But Pharo clos'd his eare against the Lord And to his holy word would not accord Then God th' Eternall wrought by Moses hand Exod. 4 To approue his word great wonders in that Land For he not only Riuers turnd to blood Exod. 7 But also all the heads of Nilus flood Which watreth wealthy Egypt with his sources Was turnd to blood amid their siluer courses So that the king himselfe his life to feede Was faine to vse such water for his neede This Moses made the froggs in millions creep Exod. 8 From floods and ponds and scrall from ditches deep Who cled all Misraim with their filthy frie Euen on the king