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A47781
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Israel's troubles and triumph, or, The history of their dangers in and deliverance out of Egypt as it is recorded by Moses in Exod. and turned into English verse by George Lesly.
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Lesly, George, d. 1701.
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1699
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Wing L1176; ESTC R30934
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these can be assign'd but me Up then and with undaunted courage go I will be always with thy mouth if so Thy Tongue shall like a ready Writers Pen Such reasons give all shall convince all men This burden Lord 's to heavy for my back And thou hast many stronger some one take This service to perform let me still keep The tender Flocks of Jethro Kids and Sheep As heretofore Look on this bush ungrateful fearful man Leprosie Serpent Blood then if you can Deny obedience to his just commands Who promiseth to guide thy mouth and hands It is thy Wisdom not thy Lisping Tongue I choose for this transaction one is sprung From the same stock with thee who shall declare With art Divine what my intentions are And how I think to order this affair He 's on the road and big with expectation Since I inform'd him how the Hebrew nation Should by my pow'r his word thy hand be freed And bloody measures broke that were decreed By Egypt for their ruin Give this in charge when he doth first appear That when to Goshen he doth back repair He may nor art nor words nor labour spare Both of you shall be strengthned from above To show that I afflicted Israel Love And shall have joynt commission he thy mouth Shall be and thou to him as God of truth This Rod's the instrument that you must use This Vengeance working Rod on those refuse T' ' bey my will that mighty Monarch shall By this dry Wand despised be and fall I say be gone ' Heav'n could not be nor in that Heav'n a Jove ' If Earth could scan the secrets of his Love ' How he contrives deliberates decrees ' The fates of private Men and Monarchies ' His wisdom is a Sea that hath no bottom ' His providence a depth that none can fathom ' His Wills a Law none ought to disobey ' In Heav'n and Earth he doth the Sceptre sway 'To Friends he is kind to enemies austere ' Yet Justice holds the ballance here and there ' He wants not agents to effect his will ' That Fishermen or Shepherds can fulfil ' If men were wanting Water Earth dry Rods ' Can force the stubborn to obey the Gods This new post doth not Moses elevate Above the thoughts of his late low estate Tho he be chose Heav'ns Envoy he doth go First unto Midian that his friends may know Their Shepherd must on Embassy be sent To Eyypt whence he came in Banishment His Kindreds burthen to condole and try Once more his Fate for their delivery The news when Jethro heard he sighing said My dearest Son I wish my feeble aid Could any way assist you in this task It should be giv'n before you could it ask My Prayers and Tears shall be that God direct And grant the success you from him expect ' The enemies of God and of his Laws ' Submit for secret not for open cause ' Jethro is willing with his Son to part ' The staff of 's Life the joy of 's Daughters heart ' Tho for that loss he afterward may smart Night had no sooner shut the Shepherds eye Than he a splendid Vision did espy Of form divine who thus itself exprest Sleep on my Friend sleep on and take thy rest Then up and haste to Egypt for its strife ' Gainst thee is ended with that Monarch's life ' When Angels guard and give the opiate ' Men rest secure nothing can hurt or hate Before next light gilded that Hemisphere The Shepherd wak'd said Zipporah my Dear I 've for thy love and for our livelihoods In Desarts liv'd in Mountains and in Woods These forty years where my integrity Was known to all my greatest love to thee Now Heav'n resolv'd to alter my condition Sends me to Egypt Dear let no suspicion Of fraud or hatred harbour in thy breast My God commands and his commands are best I 'm wholly yours said she Heav'ns will be done Tho Nature bids me grieve when left alone You know that Man and Wife are flesh and bone Life of my Soul nothing can us two part Thou know'st I ever had a tender heart Since first I saw and helpt thee at the Well True true my Dear I am content to dwell Where you think fit What must we take from hence Only the Boys the rest to Providence I will commit except this holy Wand Which I must always carry in my hand And wonders work with it in that curst land ' None but the Lover knows the grief to part ' With that is lov'd since both have but one heart Heav'n calls again and bids him when he sees The faithless King make fair discoveries Of his Intentions and the fearful end He for his stubbornness will on him send I know he 'll raging say think'st that I will Dismiss my Slaves thy humour to fulfill No they have sworn to be mine for ever In this opinion I will persevere To this reply when they came first 't is true They said their Lives and Fortunes were your due Ingratitude they scorn'd whilst you was kind Fresh obligations them anew did bind And they 're the same tho you have chang'd your mind But now their God commands who hath a right O'er them and you whose wisdom valour might None can oppose when he 's resolv'd to fight He saith that Israel was his first-born Son And must tho now your Slave in haste be gone If thou persist in disobedience Thy first born kill'd he 'll force his people hence ' Good Kings are Heav'ns beloved mankinds joy ' Whilst they their time and counsels do employ 'To rule with justice clemency and love ' In imitation of their King above ' Whilst they resolve their conduct to confine ' Within the limits of the Law Divine ' Which give them ease and firmly fix their Crown ' Procure mens favour bring new blessings down ' Upon their heads and hearts but when their will ' Is restless as the Sea that ne'er lyes still ' But beats th' adjacent Rocks and plows the Sands ' Threat'ning a Deluge o're the fertile Lands ' Smiting the great and blasting those below ' With subtle Lightning slighting friend and foe ' Such Jehu's curst are their own overthrow Away he goes not fearing ill success Since potent Heav'n espous'd his business And travels hard till mid-day's scorching Sun Be at on his head which forc'd him to sit down Under a shady Beech where angry J'ove Appear'd again not as before in love His aspect threat'ned death which had ensu'd If Zipp'rah had not softned the cloud Who run in haste unto her younger Son And cut his fore-skin with a flinty Stone Then took the same and threw 't at Moses feet With unbecoming words she did him greet Is your just God with human blood aton'd Must Kings for his displeasure be dethron'd Must Women to their darlings Tygers prove T' oblige a cruel God Is this his Love Hard hearted man hard hearted as thy God I cannot will