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A12742	Loves revenge VVherein is briefly shewed from the historie of the holy scripture, the rising, grouth, and finall fall of the man of sinne; with the long and continuall strife betwixt the two seeds, how they have, from time to time, sought to disinherite each other: and how that Christ, by his righteous life, and long sufferings, in the end shall get the victory, and justly revenge himself upon his adversarie. Omnia vincit amor, & c. By Ios. Speed.	Speed, Joshua.	1631 (1631)	STC 23050; ESTC S101712	43,323	144

is broke the knot unknit The body parted from the head And fall'n into the stinking pit Of fleshly lust and foul desite Where she lies wallowing in the mire No man may part what God doth joyne Without transgressing of his law What God doth part none may combine And not himself to judgement draw Yet hath she rent what God had joyn'd What God did part she hath combin'd Dost thou not yet begin to frown She hath conceived Gyants seed Her children seek for worlds renown Such monsters doth this Harlot breed Thy lowly gesture they disdain For vertue dies and sinne doth reigne Thus ceast he not for to complain But calls for justice now afresh Then quoth the Lord I strive in vain With mortall man he is but flesh Yet will I crosse his wicked waies By shortning of his sinfull daies Oh now I see mans heart and minde And all his thoughts to mischief bent Oh love can be no longer blinde My soul doth grieve I do repent That I made man upon the earth His waies are evill from his birth Oh now I see they do disdain My loving counsell to embrace My bloud I see is spent in vain For they be destitute of grace They are by sinnes allurements led As seeing blinde and living dead Now wrath is seated in my breast I will with man no longer strive But will destroy both man and beast I le leave no fowl nor worm alive What on the earth doth creep and move Shall now my wrath vengeance prove All are corrupted in their waies The earth is full of cruelty Therefore I will cut off their daies All what doth live and breathe shall die One onely Noe just and upright Hath grace and favour in my sight He and his family shall live Eight souls in number will I save But to the rest strong vengeance give Sinne calls for justice sinne shall have Sinnes just reward sinne to confound When all the world for sin is drown'd And thus the Serpent which had slain Mankinde through sinne even at the first Who when he saw them live again Through faith in Christ and he was curst Was then to further malice bent That he Gods grace could not prevent For now he laid his plot more sure To strike the nail upon the head Man first from grace for to allure And there through sin to strike him dead Then hold him snared in this gyn Till justice had rewarded sinne And thus he wrought his vile intent Mans nature being weak and frail To hould him back for to repent Lest grace and mercy should prevail And keep him in sinnes fetters bound Till all the world for sin was drown'd Yet still he had a futher mark Man was not from his malice freed By stealth he crept into the Ark There to preserve his wicked seed Who comming forth was curst by name For laughing at his fathers shame The world again grown to his flower The people one all had one speech Did soon devise to build a tower Whose top unto the heav'ns should reach To keep them from the waters rage Which had destroy'd the former age The Lord awaking at this sound To crosse them in their proud intent Their language did forthwith confound One knew not what another meant And scattred them both far and near Vpon the earth as doth appear Then from Shems race he did make choise Of Abram to inherite all Who did give eare unto his voice And did attend upon his call His wife was Sarah meek and milde But she was barren had no childe His kindred and his fathers house He did forsake and God obey And with his dear and loving Spouse His countrey leave and took his way Vnto a land to seek his chance Where he had no inheritance With him God made a covenant Which Devill death nor hell could sever The Serpents malice to adant He gave by covenant for ever To him and to his seed alone That land where sin had plac't his throne When he was come at Gods command And did behold before his face A pleasant and a fruitfull land Which God had giv'n unto his race God did his promise then renue And he believe that God was true The Serpent then was full of grief For then he knew and did not doubt Gods promise Abrahams belief Did both conspire to root him out Therefore did ponder in his minde Some other issue for to finde To strive quoth he is all in vain No power can withstand Gods might To go to God and there complain Will not avail I have no right What God hath spoken will ensue Abram is just and God is true My land is gone my crown is lost And I almost driv'n to despair I will go haunt the womans ghost And be her sonne and Abrams heir So shall it stand what God decreed And I still reigne in Abrams seed Have I not Evah once deceiv'd Before her Adam she had known Which brought forth sin through lust conceiv'd And Adam took him for his own Why then not Sarah be beguilde By mothering of Hagars childe I le once again put on sinnes mask Wherein Gods handmaid I misled And Abrams wife I le take to task And her unto my fancy wed Thus like a stout and bold-fac't woer This wily Serpent went unto her Sarah quoth he prince Abrams wife Beauties prime flower lovely dame Whose vertues whose unspotted life Have merited eternall fame Shall beauty vertue chastitie In Sarah live with Sarah die Thy man a Prince of high renown Who with his bow his sword and spear Four Kings at once threw headlong down And holds the world in servile fear Shall vertue valour honours right Obscured lie in darksome night Thy wealth and substance hath no end Of corn and cattle thou hast store No servants wanting to attend Yet God doth still increase the more And yet alas this princely paire Live destitute still of an heire This pleasant land and fertile ground Which thou dost see before thy face With milk and hony to abound Which God hath giv'n to Abrams race Must stay with Chams posterity If blessed Abram seedlesse die Be thou no longer then misled By Abrams faith all is in vain Abram is old thy wombe is dead What hope is there a childe to gain Reason doth shew without dispute A barren womb can yeeld no fruit Then be not slack do not refuse Let not Gods promise be in vain For God doth give but man must use The means whereby for to attain Take counsell then and be not nice Be ruled once by my advice For thou art old thy womb decai'd And hast been barren all thy life Take Hagar thy Aegyptian maid Give her to Abram for a wife For she is young and fit to breed By her may Abram have a seed These words did sound well in her cares And she forthwith to end this strife And to avoid all further fears Gave Abram Hagar to a wife And herein Sarah was beguilde Thus coveting to have

Loves Revenge VVHEREIN IS BRIEFLY SHEWED FROM THE HISTORIE OF the holy Scripture the rising grouth and finall fall of the Man of Sinne with the long and continuall strife betwixt the two Seeds how they have from time to time sought to disinherite each other and how that Christ by his righteous life and long sufferings in the end shall get the victory and justly revenge himself upon his adversarie Omnia vincit amor c. By Ios Speed HABAK. 1.5 ACT. 13.41 Behold ye despisers and wonder and vanish away for I work a work in your daies a work which ye shall not believe if a man should declare it you At AMSTERDAM Printed by Richard Raven 1631. The Preface WHen darknesse is supprest by light That nights black shadows shun the day True faith doth give the soul clear sight To see and finde the living way Then must proud Death give place to Life In vain it is his strength to try For Hope will end that deadly strife And swallow Death in victory And Errour must acknowledge Truth For all his fierce and cruell rage For Loue hath threatned him in youth And will not spare him in his age When Faith hath light for to discerne And Hope can hold in storm and rain If Love be there to guid the stern The wished shore they shall attain No travell can unfruitfull prove When Faith Hope do work by Love When unbelief is beaten down And Faith hath got the upper hand Then light doth shew true faith her crown Which she shall have if she do stand And then despair of force must flie In vain it is if she contend For life will give Hope victory If she continue to the end And hatred must of force depart And give true Love free place to dwell For truth will give Love true desert And hatred due reward in hell Light is the glance of Faiths clear sight Life is the crown which Hope requires Truth is the guide which leads both right Through Love to finish their desires Where Light and Life and Truth agree Faith Hope and Love make unitie To the Reader LEt prejudice be laid aside Christian Reader in thy reading Let love unfained be thy guide Thy thoughts to equall judgement leading The labour and the charge is mine I wish the profit may be thine To think that I should all men please All men would think such thoughts were vain Esteeming it a fools disease Arising from an idle brain That labour which I here bestow Is but to pay the debt I owe Vnto my Countrey and my Friends And all which do professe Christs name In him our faith begins and ends By him we hope to purchase fame If then our love be like to his We all shall see him as he is If any thing displeaseth thee When thou my Faith and hope dost prove Yet fasten malice to that tree On which she once did murder love And break in twain that Serpents head For love shall reigne when hate is dead I seek to trouble no mans minde Nor yet to give offence to any Yet dare not hide nor leave behind That good which may redound to many Whereat if any kick or hinch Were he not gauld he should not winch The mark whereat I chiefly aim Is to unfould the fraud of sinne What rightes and titles he doth claim The evill daies that we live in Our present danger his desire To bring us to eternall fire If then by chance I hit the mark At which my bow is holy bent Or if I misse this subtle Clark T is but one headlesse arow spent Yet hit or misse thus much I know The blinde by chance may kill a Crow The Authors Faith I Do believe in God alone Whose love doth passe all breadth length And do relie on other none To make the arm of flesh my strength My faith is such not to remove Such is my Hope such is my Love He is the onely Lord of lords A King of mighty strength and fame His Majesty with truth accords And great Iehovah is his name The first the last the totall summe Which is which was which is to come He is the God of Israel Their root and generation The vanquisher of Death and Hell The horn of our salvation Before whole throne all flesh shall come The wicked to their finall doom Then why should I fear mortall man Whose breath within his nostrills lies His life for length is but a span Although his malice never dies My body he may keep in thrall But cannot hurt my soul at all Let cursed Cain then fret and rage And wicked Lamech boast his fill Let scoffing Ham come on the stage Let bloudy Nimrod work his will Let Babels Tow'r through Satans pride Be once again re-edifi'd Let pharaoh with his hoast pursue Let Amaleck stand in the way Let Og and Sihons hatefull crue Their bloudy banners still display Let proud Goliah's hellish cry The God of Israel defie Let Balaam lay a stumbling block Let Rabshecah come railing down Let dogged Doeg accuse Christs flock Let Shemey curse let Nabal frown Let Philistines their battells pitch Let Saul ask counsell of a Witch Let the ten tribes of Israel Give care to Ieraboam's call Let Ahab marry Iesabel And build an altar unto Baal Let Baals Priests cry till heare doth break Their God can neither hear nor speak Let Nebuchadnezar pour out His thundring threats rage and revile Let Baltazar his drunken rout The vessells of the Lord defile Let haughtie Hamans pride bewray His hatefull thoughts to Mordekay Antiochus that wicked root Let him run on his wretched race To waste and trample under foot Gods Temple and his dwelling place Let Holofernes rule and sway Till Iudith take his head away Let Samballat the Horonite With all his cursed crue accord To race to sack to vanquish quite The walls and building of the Lord. Let men conspire with malice fraught Yet shall their counsells come to nought Let cruell Herod still assail The tender infants for to stay Let Scribes and Pharisees prevail Give Iudas money to betray My faith is fixt on him above So is my hope so is my love His waies are right his judgements just His mercy alwaies firm and sure To such as on his goodnesse trust And stedfast to the end endure He giveth all men life and breath And grieveth at the sinners death He did admonish wretched Cain To leave his wicked enterprise Suffer said he not sinne to reigne Least Abels bloud for vengeance cries Abandon wrath ther 's grace in store If not lo sinne is at thy door And when he saw and well perceiv'd All flesh corrupting of their waies His spirit strove his soul was griev'd Contain'd his wrath yet many daies Had true repentance there been found The world had sur'ly not been drown'd When Sodom and Gomorahs cries Ascended up unto his throne Yet was there mercy in his eyes He would have saved them each one Could he have found some godly

before thine eies The royall kingdomes of the earth For all that is under the skies Is mine inheritance by birth All glory majesty divine Honour and power all is mine Nebuchadnezar wore my crown And did my royall scepter sway He did maintain my high renown All men must his command obey Now will I give all this to thee If thou wilt bowe and worship me Satan avoid I am forbod And must obey if I will live To worship any other God Then him which doth the power give All honour majesty divine Belongs to him t is none of thine Nebuchadnezar did not love The God of heaven whom I adore Nor knew his power came from above But was his own my God therefore Did his ambition deride Even in the height of all his pride And made him like another beast Seven winters long in frost and snow Among the oxen for to feast That he at length might come to know And in this time might justly prove All power comming from above The Serpent then thought in his minde This must be sure that blessed Lambe For in my tempting I do finde That he is more then Abraham Then Isaac Iacob more is he Nay he is more then all these three For Abrams faith was weak and frail When God did promise him a seed And Isaac's hope began to fail When he lay ready for to bleed And Iacob's love that was not great When he refus'd his brother meat Yet Abraham when hope was past By faith did blessed Isaac gain Isaac also while hope did last Praid for a sonne God gave him twain But Jacob's love did win the crown When faith hope were both put down This man he is but one alone Yet with them all he doth agree So that I now see three in one And yet this one more then these three They were like shadows on a wall And this the substance of them all Moses and Aaron both did fail They were not perfect in Gods sight And Ioshuah could not prevail For he was put unto the flight And could not win nor conquer aie Till Achans sinne was put away What need I any more repeat All men have failed in their time Yea all have sinned small and great This man alone is void of crime His faith his hope his love will draw Sinnes strength power from the law Oh this is he which was foretold That of a Virgin should be born For thirty pence he should be sold And made a curse and open scorn Yet when his guiltlesse bloud is shed The curse will light upon my head This is that Abel which was slain Whose bloud was poured on the ground And yet in Sheth did rise again Deaths fetters could not hold him bound This is that Henoch other none VVhich God did take up to his throne When all men fell this man did stand His faith alone did mercy crave He built an Ark at Gods command Him and his family to save Which being done he entred in And did condemn the world for sinne This is that blessed Abraham VVhich did not spare his onely sonne But went to offer up that lambe And said Oh Lord thy will be done This is that Isaac now I say Which was as ready to obey This is that Iacob which did flie His brothers malice to prevent And went to Haran speedily There where his father had him sent VVithin his mothers house to finde A wife unto his fathers minde This is that Iudah born to reign Levi to offer sacrifice That Ioseph which did gather grain Against a famine should arise His hatefull bretheren to feed When they did stand in extream need This is that Moses which did smite The proud Aegyptian to ground Seeing him with an Hebrew fight He gave him there a deadly wound He thought they would on him depend As one that should their right defend Coming again the other day He found two Hebrews at debate My bretheren then he did say VVhy do yee one another hate Love teacheth men to suffer long And not to do his brother wrong The wrongfull would not understand But in his heart began to grudge Thrust Moses from him with his hand Saying Who hath made thee a judge Or art thou come my bloud to spill As thou didst the Aegyptian kill This Moses fled but came again For to release them from their bands But then his coming was not vain He pluck't them out of Pharaoh's hands And by a strong and mighty hand He brought them out of Aegypt land This is that Ioshuah whose might Possest them in the holy Land Slue one and thirty kings in fight The Sunne and Moon both still did stand Vntill his enemies did flie And he return with victory This is that David which took care His fathers sheep from Wolves to hold He kild a Lyon and a Bear VVhich would have broke into his fold And after that Goliah slue The proudest Gyant of the crue He was a Shepheard so is this Yet chosen king while Saul did reigne This must be he how should it misse For Gods anointing is not vain The Crown doth hang over his head And he shall reigne when I am dead Saul's unbelief despair and hate Deprived him of his renown Faith hope and love did David's state Advance and brought him to the Crown The more I do the Shadow see The more I know that this is he I must of force now give him scope I can by no means him allure For Abram 's faith and Isaac's hope Have made his birth-right firm and sure And Iacob's love that perfect band Hath bound the blessing in his hand And thus he left him there he stood Through hunger fainting almost dead But then the Angels brought him food VVherewith his hungry soul was fed And then he went from coast to coast To seek the sheep which he had lost He brought glad tidings to the poor The broken hearted he did binde And opened the prison door That captives liberty might finde And shew'd them the reward of sinne To comfort those which strove to win He made the blinde receive their sight The Lepers he made whol and clean The lame and creple go upright The deaf to hear the dead were seen To rise again out of their grave He did help all that help did crave For all diseases he did cure He did the Divells dispossesse And sought all men for to allure To purchase life and happinesse Sinnes fetters he did break asunder That all men did behold and wonder While that the sunne did shine thus bright The Serpent overspread the skie With misty clouds to damp the light And make his beams reflect and flie That men could not by humane sight Know night from day nor day from night You look for a deliverer A King quoth he to set you free But Joseph's sonne the Carpenter You may be sure is none of he Will you on basenesse fix your eies And feed your eares with fantasies Suppose he were of David's race Yet can

in flaming fire But now again in brief to shew The subtle Serpents cruell spite How he did seek to overthrow Grace mercy justice truth and light And to maintain and nourish sinne That cruell murther still might win An eye I must have in the sayle Quoth he I will not let him rout For he beginneth to prevail And many men begin to doubt His wonders do amazement strike Because no man can do the like But if he now be come to reigne I le keep him out by open wrong I le put him to reproch and pain And make himsing another song I and the woman will combine To murder him then all is mine But yet the woman shall not know VVhat is my purpose and intent By striking of this deadly blow Although she be my instrument She shall accuse and I will judge That I may once revenge my grudge Fair Sarahs fancy once I fed When she was almost in despair She layed Hagar in her bed That Abraham might have an heir Now will I draw her unto mine That she may be my Concubine And now I must no longer stay It cometh now upon the knip Much danger lurketh in delay If I occasion let slip I le round the woman in the eare And set before her hope and fear Sarah quoth he Princesse divine The wife of heavenly Abraham All blisse in heaven and earth is thine For thou shalt bear that blessed Lambe VVhich shall subdue and conquer all And bring the world in servile thrall Thou shalt conceive when strength is spent And beare this sonne when hope is gone Then let not Hagars sonne prevent The right of Sarahs lawfull sonne You know how Abraham full well Did love his first-born Ishmael For Abram's love to his first-born Made Ishm'el Isaac to disdain But Sarah took it in great scorn And did to Abraham complain Quoth she to ease my heart of doubt The hand-maids sonne must be put out If Abraham yet once again Hath caused Hagar to conceive How should it misse it is most plain So Sarah constantly believe Her time of bearing will draw near And blessed Isaac shall appear This man he is thy hand-maids sonne VVho is his father no man knows If so this thing by God be done It still most plain and clearly shewes This is he which did Isaac flout And Hagars sonne must be put out When Abraham to Gerar went To dwell he did deal craftily For fearing of some ill event His loving spouse he did deny Least that the beauty of his wife Should cause the king to take his life And in that land was Isaac born That sonne of promise for to reigne Whom Jshmael did mock and scorn Yet Sarah did his right maintain And Ishmael thrust out of door Though Abraham did grieve therefore But when Abimelech did see That God for Abraham did stand And Abraham by Gods decree Grew rich and mighty in his land And that he had a lawfull heir Abimelech did half despair And he with his chief Captain stout In hast to Abraham did ride Saying Oh man I stand in doubt For God I see is on thy side That thou wilt turn me out of all And bring me and my house in thrall If thou wilt vow thou wilt refrain To injure either me or mine Then thou shalt deal with me again As I have dealt with thee and thine When as a stranger thou didst come To sojourn here I gave thee room Then Abraham without delay To put him out of servile fear Did covenant with him that day And to Abimelech did swear That love with love he would requite And not deprive him of his right And that Abimelech might see He sought not to possesse his land He did perceive his constancie When God did Abraham command To sacrifice that promis'd seed He would have made young Isaac bleed For Abraham was nothing slack He would not fail in any case But lai'd the wood on Isaac's back To carry it unto the place To which his father him then led Where he should have been offered An altar there he then did make While Isaac by amazed stood He bound his sonne and did him take And laid him up upon the wood Then took the knife into his hand To execute the Lords command An Angels voice then to him came Descending down out of the skie Which called unto Abraham Who said My Lord lo here am I Thy sonne quoth he thou shalt not slay I see thy love for to obey These things do clear and plainly shew If Sarah will but ope her eies This is the ground where truth doth grow From hence the substance must arise For Abraham did shew the way For thee to walk in and obey If thou the truth hereof wilt finde And bring an end unto this strife Then say thou hast thy right resign'd And art no longer Abram's wife Thou dost not sleep in Abram's bed The Emperour is now thy head Him now thou must obey and fear And bow unto his royall might And hold the oath which thou didst swear By seeking to maintain his right And not to injure him nor his Then nothing can be done amisse Then apprehend this stumbling stone This fellow which makes all this strife And bring him unto Cesars throne And let him there plead for his life Then shalt thou finde if thou do so Whether he be thy King or no. Bring him before the judgement seat Accuse him of some wickednesse That I with rods his back may beat Vntill he truly doth confesse What things that he hath done amisse And tell me true from whence he is If he be mocking Ishmael I le mock him with a thorny crown That will please Sarah passing well For she will lead him out of towne And make him there an open scorn When back and sides with rods be torn For if this fellow should prevail And all the people to him cleave The Roman forces will assail Your Towns and Cities and not leave Till they have thrown all under foot And leave you neither branch nor root If this be Isaac from above Most sure it is he shall not die No other way thou hast to prove The truth and know the certainty By life or death thou must it know Whether he be thy sonne or no. If this be Isaac which shall reigne To whom the promises were made He shall come from the crosse again The substance must be like the shade Yea in the last extremity He shall come down and shall not die If that he die upon the crosse Thou hast no cause at all to fear For Sarah can sustain no losse T is not the sonne which she should bear If that he be thy Hand-maids sonne Then there is but a mocker gone Suppose that he some Prophet were One that had done no wickednesse It needfull is that one should beare The peoples sinnes and trespasses Gods favour once again to win And to appease his wrath for sinne If he be Isaac understand A thing it is must come