course on thus To anger thee so good and iust a God Not once afrayd of thy reuenging Rod But in the day that thou didst early rise Of death and hell to get th' immortall prize In which we were partakers of thy blood And body both vnto our soueraigne good And when we should repent vs of our sins By true contrition which thy mercy wins Engrafted made the members of that head Whose precious bloud our soules but then hath fed Relieue the poore examine well our fall In meditation spend the day and all And when we should thy sacred prayses sing To make thy people all the while to ring Whilst we at Bowles shall sometimes curse and fret And all for threepence which we cannot get And shall maintaine our sinfull deedes in Churches And run our selues to gather vp the Lurches Those that behold vs with repentant eyes We call them fooles and Puritants precise And when the best our companie do shun Home to their house we send for them and run Pardon vs Lord forgiue our great misdeedes Cull out thy Wheate and pluck out all the weedes Which wrong thy people by their ill example The truth neglectin vgly vice to trample Though our Religion we may seeme to halue Like to the Iewes which made the golden calue simile Exod. 32. 4. 5 6 10. In Aarons time and on their holy day Did eate and drinke and rose againe to play If these men by their rude vnciuill sport Thy Maiesty did anger in such sort That had not Moses knowing of their fall In zeale besought them they had perish't all His great desire thy fury could not stay But that three thousand fell within one day Their guerdon iust no liuing man can tell But very like they had gone downe to hell All quick aliue amongst the damned bad The punishment which after Korah had Num. 16. 32. We see alas both grace and goodnesse lurkes scal li. 5. Within the hearts of fierce and crewell Turkes Of Sarazens and Pagan people rude Which with thy truth were neuer yet indude Before such time as their seducer nurst By Sergius helpe most dangerously at first A banefull poyson to infect their bloud O'reflowes the earth much like to Noahs floud Yet these alone by thy example led Or by the light of Nature in them bred Haue euer kept the Fryday in that worth Long time before the most vntimely birth Of Mahomet that Antechrist indeede Who found it so and left it to their seede Besides a world of other people more That heere I could produce in ample store Which euer kept a holy resting day Abstayning then from all rude workes and play The Indian people haue a rest alow'd Ind. Hist gasp Balb. guin dis 〈◊〉 â—d â—cot And those of Iaua that to Idols bowd The Negro black and rich Peguan left Haue each of them a seuerall Sabaoth kept The sacred Sibils with their frantike mother Haue still prefer'd one day before another We haue great God that which these neuer knew Thine owne example and the scriptures true Thy all diuine and holy morrall law Ex. 20. 8 9. 10 Cha. 31. 14 15 Cha. 34. 1. 21. Which these as yet haue neuer heard or saw Ingrost in Sinah writ twice by thy hand To shew the same for euermore should stand Both in the Law and in the Gospells light To come to Church and praise thy name aright Els how should we thy glorious worth extoll But like to Swine liue all at home and loll And neuer thinke how thou at first didst take A little earth and so our bodyes make Our soules infuse in Paradise vs plaste Till for our sins we soone from thence were cast ' Gau'st vs this world Christ Iesus sent besides Which wrought our life out from his bleeding sides But soft I heere that some vpon this clause Haue ventur'd farre to abbrogate the lawes The holy rest a Iewish Sabaoth call Haue vs liue free tide to no law at all But then alas what would become of vs That sift Gods actions tempt his highnesse thus Of all the lawes that to the Iewes he gaue But ten of them in all the world we haue And those reduc'st for feare they may be lost May be compil'd but into two at most These farre more weighty ponderous then the rest Were by his glorious sacred mouth exprest And Christ himselfe that death and hell did tame Hath not abolish't but confirm'd the same Else what meant he when oftentimes he said The heauens and earth the sea and all shall fade Before such time that Gods eternall Word One iot or tittle shall thereof be stird Did this his coming breede a doubt and flaw Still to destroy and not fullfill the law Haue not the Prophets told long since before Of this our Sabaoth which we now adore T is true that some euen in our christian Law Which haue the arts and learned Muses saw Yet haue alledg'd as their assertion Vpon this place anticipation Affirming Moses when those words were writ In Genesis and still are extant yet Gen. 2. 3. Then knew the rest and Sabaoth of the Iewes But this to me seemes rather vncouth newes For can we thinke that Moses did intend When first of all that Genesis was pend These should forgoe and be incerted best As an introduction to the Sabaoths rest That the command cannot be firme and strong Vnlesse these words did guide it all along Vpon this place still trained vp and nurst As grounding it on Gods example first What can they say to all the ancient men The Patriarkes and holy fathers then Before the law which liued long and blest Yet euer kept a sacred seemely rest To serue their God to giue him thanks and pray That late preseru'd them from that lowring day In which the world and all therein was found Besides the Arke were washt away and droun'd And to the Iewes that were with Manna fed Ouer the mountaines forty yeeres were led Which in the Arabian vasty desarts weare Tipe of our Church that God himselfe did reare Out of affliction hunger heate and cold O're hils and dales and highest mountaines rold Vntill at length with wandring hither thither Like sheepe dispearst fould all at last together When oft they murmur'd much repin'd and grieu'd Vntill their God their bodies had releeu'd By sending Quailes more thick then any haile Vpon their fields quite ouer hill and dale And showring downe a pearely dew at neede In shew much like to Coriander seede Sixe dayes together did this Manna fall And in the seauenth was sent them none at all But in the day before the Sabaoths Rest Full twice so much as other dayes at least They gathred vp and till the morrow kept In which they eat and prayd to God and wept To pardon those which on that sacred day Durst seeke the fields to finde the same and play But yet admit the holy Law be past And that in Christ the same
royall Empresse borne That all the World with glory didst adorne Vntill the second Habels deerest bloud Ran downe thy streetes like to a crimson floud Simile Titus in Iosep Adri. Aelius Then was thy fields with bloud and slaughter dide And made the Stage to all the World beside Whereon fierce Tyrants in their barbarous hearts With murdring minds haue acted all their parts So hath Damascus seldome beene at rest Whose fatall name bewrayes her bloudy brest When Benhadad Hazael Rezin fierce 2. King 16 9. The scarlet sinewes of her Heart did pierce There were the Titans murthered by the Blade Of Iupiter that all their army laid In such a sleepe as till the Earth be shak't By powre diuine will neuer more be wak't Great Babilon the Tyrant of the East The Sarazens and Aegypt in her pierst Braue Pompey wan it in sad mournefull sort And Tamberlaine he made them all amort Ierusalem which lou'd her deerely well Euen in her streetes hath tol'd her passing Bell. Haalon the Tartar in his lowring warre Ch. Adricom Theatrum â—ter sanct Within her bowels made a fearefull skarre The Persian Grecian Christian Romane last The cruell Turkes haue all their fortunes cast And fill'd the Ayre with pitteous shreikes and grones Piling vp heapes of dead mens Skuls and bones As if the place where Habels bloud was laid The buriall ground of all the World were made Euen as the bloud of deere Adonis slaine Simile By cruell Mars faire Venus loue to gaine Stain'd all the ground bedyde the crimson graue That powers diuine willing his worth to saue From darke Obliuions black forgetfull night Which smothers all in silence from the light With Nature ioyn'd to bring forth such a signe As shall for euer to all Ages shine In memory of that detested fact Which murthering Mars did in his fury act Vpon the body of that louely youth Though some perhaps will hardly thinke it truth But rarher by the ancient Poets fain'd Yet they I say haue to this day ordain'd That from the bloud of deere Adonis young The Safron flowers of all the Earth first sprung So may I say that from the scarlet blood Of Habel shed like to a crimson flood Within the midst of rich Damasco plains When Caine vnkindly pasht out all his braines It pleased God to his immortall Fame That still the Soyle should testifie the same With fragrant flowres adorning all the ground As no where else in all the world is found That some haue thought by this vile deed accurst The Damaske Rose sprang from his graue at first Ah dearest Muse here in this world of woes Mongst Tigres fell and cruell barbarous foes Prodigeous men Inhumain in their minds Deuouring Beasts that all to powlder grinds The Infants face the Innocent to hurt The Lambe to teare and throw him in the durt How blest are we which haue such wholesome lawes To keepe vs safe out from the murdring pawes Of rancorous men that in their deadly rage Would else no doubt straight shorten all our age By macerating blowes to wound and braine And spill our blood as did that damned Caine. But yet we cannot say that we liue free From as fowle sinnes and hatefull treacherie Now Murders Treasons enuious deeds begun Must close be kept and priuately be done We diue to Hell and sound the deepest pits Ransacke the Graues and vse our vtmost wits To find a Diuel or some small sugred Gall To witch a friend or poyson him withall Or else perchance if we do hap to faile As some there be will not set all to sale Yet that which curbes them from this damned vse I meane the Law how do they it abuse Making the same the poore mans feet to tye The instrument of all their villanie How are some men by greatnesse ouer swayd Their Liues Lands Goods and all they haue betrayd The Foote-ball made tost vp and downe by foes Turmoyld and vext plung'd in a world of woes Neuer at Peace forc't all their state to sell Vnfortunate by enuious men to dwell Clapt vp in Prison all their dayes to spend In wrangling Iangling brangling to noe end There is the Law where Purses well are linde To wrong the weake to satisfie their minde The louing Wise the selfe same course must run The Children small all vtterly vndone When once mans heart infected is with gall How doth it then to all foule vices fall Baines the whole house leauing them all forlone Much better farre if they were neuer borne Then here to liue subjected toyld with paine But neare the dore to some fell enuious Caine Yet sacred Muse euen in this mortall life The Iudgement iust of those delight in strife Thou often seest vpon their heads to fall Some breake their neckes off from their horse and all And some there be which wanting of their will Haue sought themselues their owne heart blood to spill With Poyson strong hastned their way to death Or with a Rope strangled their cruell breath Vsde all ill meanes to make away their liues To childrens griefe and terrour of their wiues Rauing inuoaking all the Damned fiends That all the world takes notice of their ends Others there be that toucht before their death With some remorse lye languishing in breath Out of this life cannot at all depart Till they haue crau'd forgiuenesse from their heart To ease their soule their conscience ouer pang'd Haue sent for those whom they before haue wrong'd Confest the Truth desirde them all to pray To God aboue for to be pleasde to lay No further torments Iudgements full of feare Vpon their backes then they can welnigh beare Those that run on their current with the tide And all their life in enuious courses bide Deare Muse thou knowst their lowring daye is neere When pale fac't death shall to their eyes appeare Then shall the diuell take them within his powre With gastly lookes euen at that dismall howre Tortring their soules in euerlastling woes Heauens iust Reward for all damn'd enuious foes Meane while the Ioyes that are layd vp aboue For those delight in quiet Peace and Loue Which haue bin wrongd with Patience much enurde Earths stormy brunts haue to their paine endurde That yet do liue suffring the wofull smart Vexation griefe trouble of mind and hart And to their end like Christian Martyrs bold Holde on their Race as I before haue told How is there in the Heauens aboue the line A sacred Crowne of purest gold most fine Inlayd with Iems and orient Pearles of worth More richer farre then all vpon this Earth Iam. 1. 12. Reu. 2. 10. Preseru'd for those and layd vp safe in store When all theirfoes must stand without the dore In endlesse paines with all the Diuels of hell And they with God aboue the clouds shall dwell Possessing there this conquering crowne of life Free from all care vexation trouble strife To muster here vpon a Sacred stage The Murders Treasons Plots in euery age
In some I meane and not in all his worke For pleasant folly couch't therein may lurke Yet the allusion and the meaning sure May reference haue vnto the Scripture pure And though it shines as Tytans westerne rayes By some 't is held but wanton in our dayes But most of all the ripenesse of these times The heauenly works vp to the clouds that climes The enuious eye which ouerlookes our deeds When each mans taste on sundry dishes feedes The snarling cur at euery thing that bites The slandring Mome which no good worke endites The monster curst with his vile forked tongue That from Hels vault vp to the earth first sprung With Hidra heads and Ianus double face To fawne before then wound to our disgrace Hath made my Muse vnwilling heere to sing As loath her selfe vpon the stage to bring To each mans view and her owne painefull toyle But that the sight may many vices spoyle When sin we see vnmasked brought to light And damn'd offences naked to our sight Like lezabel that did the Clouds aspire 1. Kin. 4. 18 19 Chap. 19. 2 Cha. 21. 10 23 In rusling silks and glorious braue atire Vnder a holy outward forme and rite Gods chosen flock are fleec't and murthered quite But once vnmask't the Minions of her court Hurle heri'th durt pash out her braines in sport And as a foule mishapen painted monster 2. Kin 9. 30 33 35 37. Conceit of her as all the world doth conster Then is she seene disrob'd disrank't of all The map of folly in her sudden fall Her cup with poyson damned Enuy fills Her cursed eyes haue seene those seuen built hills Where all the Saints Apostles Martyrs stood With crimson colours all imbru'd in bloud O glorious God inspiror of my Muse Grant that thy Word my soule may dayly vse And that what learning painefully it got Still from the truth may neuer swerue a iot That in her spring beginning and her bud May sing thy glory to the Churches good And in foule folly none asleepe I rock Nor giue offence to any of thy flock But that my speech as generall to all May like a Sermon in the Pulpit fall And not to wade in curious questions deepe But feede thy flock and edifie thy sheepe That none at all may haue a iust excuse By such examples as I shall produce And all that see their faults their liues may mend That to thy glory I this Worke may end Then shall the world with admiration see Her face vnmask't to all eternitee The famous actions heeretofore lay dead Shall then be rouz'd out from obliuions bed And all the noblest kingdoms euer knowne Will be reuiu'd within my verse be showne Their manners customes nature and their state Their end beginning fortune and their fate From Adam first throughout in euery age Shall heere be mustred on this publike Stage In Rurall Robes to giue the earth content How heeretofore the ages past weee spent O that my Muse might once but rest in peace Then would she sing diuinely neuer cease But worke out Truth within her holy Rimes Glyding along descending to our times And deare Vrania Soueraigne of my verse Should heere the glory of this world rehearse Vnfoulding still to Gods immortall glory The heauenly sweetenesse of a sacred story What may we thinke of all the iudgements iust Of great Iehouah buried in the dust Beside all those in holy Scriptures pend Which humane wit as yet could neuer mend Nor all the Rabbies in their learned fame Could euer tell how to correct the same Shall we go on and still be bold to thinke Hee 'le punish them and on vs alwayes winke For some of them the earth it selfe did gape How can we know that we are sure to scape The Angels which against the Lord did swell He quite casheer'd and cast them downe to hell Where being bound eternally in chaines They feele the torments of ten thousand paines Farre more then can expressed be in inke And all the world and sinfull man can thinke Adam what made thee wilfully at first To leaue thy of-spring to this day accurst So wicked foule and ouer growne with Sinne And in thy person all of it beginne That hadst thou stood in Innocenie fram'd Death Sin and Hell the world and all thou hadst tam'd Then hadst thou beene a Monarch from thy birth Gods onely Darling both in heauen and earth The world and all at thy command to bend And all heauens creatures on thee t' attend The sweetest life that euer man could liue What couldst thou aske but God to thee did giue Protected kept thee like a faithfull Warden As thy companion in that pleasant Garden No canckred mallice once thy heart did moue Free-will thou hadst endude from him aboue What couldst thou wish all worlds content and more The best Diuine that ere the Earth yet bore Gods onely Sonne the Prince of Peace except For thy sad fall how oft mine eyes haue wept Alas weakeman hadst thou in honour stood How heauenly blest thrice happy beene thy blood And all thy aged issue to this day Had liu'd secure as in the Month of May. What need had we that any should haue dy'd Vpon the Crosse our sinfull soules reuiu'd And that Messias God himselfe the Son Should here descend to put our nature on To liue deiected poore contemn'd forlorn'd Derided beate tost vpside downe and scorn'd And more to beare for this thy wofull fall Then euer man which liu'd vpon this ball Curst be that Diuell that first thy sence bely'd If thou hadst liu'd then we had neuer dy'd Oh God! to purchase with that bloody cost Our soules redeem'd when they were fully lost Here is a loue which farre surmounts the skies My sences rapts and dazles both mine eyes But tell me Adam what might be the cause That thou shouldst breake thy holy Makers lawes When of a thousand which might make vs weepe In all the world thou hadst but one to keepe And that but light Alas couldst thou not see But touch and taste that one forbidden tree Which in the midst of all the garden grew An ill knowne tree to make thy ofspring rew What pleasant tast or relish had the same How were thy senses dim'd and much to blame That had the Garden sole at thy command And all the fruits within thy sight to stand Farre better pure more daintier euery way Then such an Apple painted like a gay Fit for a woman or some lickorish foole A silly child or one that goes to schoole Thy wilfull foule absurd and grosse abuse Against thy God admits no iust excuse T is not the losse of one poore Apple mist That thou didst grapple in thy sinfull fist Could be the cause his anger to procure Fierce heauy wrath eternall to endure It was not that he did so much respect But thy foule error wilfull bad neglect Contempt of Him rebellion treason pride And all the sinnes within the world beside That linked
away be washt Yet the Apostles instituted sure A sacred day a holy Rest and pure The Church of God they planted well and watred And but the day they onely chang'd and altred In which the flocke they traind along and fed them As God aboue in 's holy Spirit led them And euer since the Christians kept that day To heare the word to come to Church and pray For God is good and wil be mockt of none His glorious face the Saints behold alone Paul the Apostle that was after cald When Iesus Christ was in th' heauens instald 1. Cor. 16. 13. Heb. 4. 9. Both with the word and holy Spirit annointed The Christian Sabaoth in Gods Church appointed To meete together heare his voyce diuine The Scriptures search to trace them line by line To preach and pray to lay vp for the poore For all the Saints to open wide the doore That sweete Disciple whom the Lord of life Ioh. 21. 7. 20. 33. More dearely loued then any faithfull wife Which euer yet vpon the earth was bred Could seeme to shew vnto her spouse and head The last of all more louing then the rest Which lean'd at suppervpon Christ his brest And stayd behind his holy Church to guide His fellowes thought he should haue neuer dide When by Domitians spightfull cruell word Vit. Sanct. Ore all the world hot persecution stir'd Though often times before he had scap'd the pawes Of barbarous Tyrants and their cursed Lawes Liu'd still secure as not afraid of fire Sword famine murder in their diuellish ire Yet at the length at his most damn'd command Againe he 's caught subiected to their hand And in a Tun of hot and scalding Oyle He hurles his body ore the fire to boyle But seeing that could do no good at all Worse then a Diuell most treacherously doth fall To stratagems inhumane actions vile To banish him in Pathmos wandring Ile Mongst sauage beasts which lurke in euery bowre With open mouth his body to deuoure Where solitary in that vnked place Christ Iesus shewd his glorious burnisht face Reu. 1. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14. Whose feete like Brasse and eyes as flames of fire Rauisht Iohns spirit made his soule admire To see the Lord which for our sins late dy'd His Christian Sabaoth from the Iewes diuide By that all powerfull sharpe two edged sword His glorious holy milde Maiesticke word His owne example to th' Apostles all That on this day was euer seene to call To come amongst them and to shew his face To distribute his goodnes and his grace This great Apostle to heauens potent Prince The Lords day he hath cald it euer since T is writ i' th' Hebrews if the law be ceast That to Gods people there remaines a Rest Heb. 4 9. From sin to cease his holy name to praise Together flocke our meditations raise Aboue the clouds to that commanding king Which out of darknes did our sences bring Disperst the Truth and by his sacred might Plac'd all our thoughts w'thin the Gospels light O let it neuer sinke within my brest That to Gods people should remaine no Rest But toyle and trauell painfull worke alway And Hoddy Loddy Topsie Turuy play T is true they say that Constantine the Great First Emperour of all the Christian Seate A learned wise religious Councell cald First Nicene Counsell Himselfe amongst them in his Robes instald An Order set abuses foule corrected Reform'd the Church which Arrians infected Establisht Peace ador'd the Royall Law Made Penalties to keepe them more in awe Iam. 2. 8. And by his power as head of all the Earth Christs gouernment was now but in her birth According to the word and Scriptures pure Confirm'd our Sabaoth euer to endure In euery Age since first the world was made God shew'd his iudgements on those men which wade Beyond the Truth prophanely still deuise To breake his Rest and publish wicked lies As for example though I could produce A multitude that none might plead excuse Before his Iustice at that dreadfull barre For leading others in a maze so farre And yet of them but three in all I le cite As fitting to the times wherein I write To shew how God hath euer hated curst The very place that Sabaoth breakers nurst The ancient Iewes which in Arabia walked Exod. 13. 16. Before the Law when God with Moses talked And bad him warne the people all that none Should dare to gather euery one alone More then a Omer of that blessed food Which fell from heauen vnto their soueraigne good And in the day before the Sabaoths rest Two Omers full as is before exprest Should then be gathered rosted bak'd and sod But in the rest minde nothing else but God How hath that food releeu'd the lingring mind Of those his people whom true loue did bind In awfull feare diuinely wondrous fed And onely in the light of nature led Those which abusde his sacred Rest and grace How did it then infect the aire and place With putrifaction loathsome deadly ranke In noy some manner ore the earth it stanke Vntill such time that God aboue did please To cleare the aire and send them better ease Causde all that was so lewd prophanely got To wast dissolue consume away and rot The next example of his iudgements great Was in those daies that Babylon did beate The chosen people and the holy Nation Ier. 17 21. to the last With such a scourge as since the worlds foundation Was neuer heard as yet in any land To feele the weight of his most heauy hand For prophanation of his sacred Day In carrying burdens toyling worke and play In reuell rout and such phantasticke sport Eu'n from the greater to the meaner sort All run from Church to damn'd offences foule Neglecting still the danger of their soule But God aboue although he often mand Their chosen Hoast by his victorious hand Brought them from Aegypt through the red seas waue When mighty Neptune fomes aloft and raues And in despight of enuious Fortunes fate Great powerfull riuals and their deadly hate Led them at length with al their ventrous hoast And plast their feete vpon the promist coast Yet for their foule abusing of his rest In all those things which are aboue exprest He sends the Plague pale Famine Sword and Fire Ier. 52. 67 Fowre furious foes to execute his Ire Raz'd downe their walls their temple desolated Their City sack't and Land depopulated That for the space of threescore yeeres and ten It lay vntild and had her rest as then O holy God was euer thing more plaine Then these thy iudgements on thy flock againe 2. Chr. 36. 21 Vpon thy land what stony heart but feares To giue them now a Sabbaoth iust of yeares For all their foule abuses wicked lewd As in my worke shall more at large be shew'd The third example of his wrathfull frowne Was lately shew'd vpon Geneua towne The Imperiall goodly
in their holy furious rage Aduentured forth with admiration grace But to behold thy ancient sacred face And none of them as yet haue euer found Or came in sight of thy most heauenly ground Which farre in Eden in the orient lies Vnfit for man to see with sinfull eyes Some men there be which are perswaded plaine Papistes Bellermine and others That reall place doth to this day remaine Where holy Enoch deare Elias pure And Iohn the Saint shall till doomes day endure In far more pleasures then can be exprest Their bodies liuing with their soules at rest Transported safe within that sacred wall But in what climate of this spacious Ball The same should be far in the aire haue gaz'd Their learning knowledge wits and all amaz'd The goodly Region in the Sirian land Esay 7 3. Iulian Tzet ad â—uo pag. 100 Hierâ—com in Eze. lib. 8 Is thought the place wherein the same did stand Where rich Damascus at this day is built And Habels bloud by Caine was after spilt The wondrous beauty of whose fruitfull ground The great content which some therein haue found The sweete encrease of that delightfull soile Yeelding a world with little care and toile The dammaske Roses and the fragrant flowers The louely fields and pleasant arbour'd bowers And euery thing that in aboundance breede Haue made some thinke this was the place indeede Where God at first did on the earth abide With holy Adam and his louely Bride And some there be that in the Orient waded Barbasa Which to this day are certainely perswaded The goodly land that farre in India lies Whose rich renowne through all the world now flyes Vnder the Line and famous Zeilan call'd On euery side with mighty Neptune wal'd May be the place where first our Parents stai'd The earth it selfe with all heauens gifts arai'd Besides the treasures of that pleasant land Linschotten An Corsali The fruitfull regions in the same which stand The goodly riuers and braue mounting hills Sweete temperate aire on euery side that fills The downy plaines with such a fragrant smell As winged fame vnto our eares doth tell The spicy Trees and braue delightfull flowers The dainty walkes and guilt aspiring towers And all things else that man can well desire Or discontent of nature may require Long life of dayes plenty of cates and cheere All which she powers as on her daling deere Within her lap hath plaste a wonder strange For euery man which to that place shall range Perswading all that euer saw the same That Eue and Adam forth from thence first came Iust the midst of this delicious land Within the center of the same doth stand A lofty mount whose top doth pierce the skies And round about on euery side there lies The goodliest plaine which euer man beheld That foure foote deepe with water fresh is fild And eighteene miles in bredth the same is ouer Simile Much like the Sea from Calis strand to Douer Vpon the top of this admired hill Maffrus lib. 5. Stands yet a Table fixed firmely still Of sollid stone that long time there hath beene In which the forme of Adams foote is seene The Mores beleeuing that that stamp and print Was first by him indented on the flint The mount it selfe Piramid like is built Vpon whose top are stately buildings guilt Plenty of wealth of rarest iewels store The height thereof full twenty miles and more The people all on euery side which dwell Haue still affirm'd and for a truth doe tell That this indeede was Paradise at first Whose fatall fruit made all of vs accurst And to this day hath superstition led Vertoman lib. 3. Chap. 4 A world of Pilgrims with blind errour fed By Mahomet that antechristian beast Which Paradise plaste in the radiant east Whose fond conceits of this religious place Made some men come three thousand miles apace With great deuotion extreme labour paine To wash their sins within this miry plaine Thinking the water in this vally lies Distil'd at first from Eue and Adams eyes When great with griefe and far surcharg'd with teares They shed so much as all the ground heere beares In woe bewayling of their wilfull sins The ioyfull end where true content begins From sin first wash't then vp the hill they clime With labours great in prayers spend their time And sacrifize to Mauors God their fill Which plaste their feete vpon this holy hill Though their mistakings may be wail'd and blam'd Yet Adams hill the lofty mount is nam'd And that which better may confirme their hope That this indeede vnder heauens starry cope Of all the earth may be the likeliest place Where Adam first receiu'd his great disgrace Not farre from hence is seene a flaming hill Of euery man cald Balananus still Which sends forth smoake and hideous brands of fire Threatning the clowds and elements to tire Much like the sword the tree of life did guard As if with heauen the earth and all it ward This makes them thinke confirmes their fancies more Then all the rest I told you of before But if in India on this famous mount Adam at first receiued his sacred count And so from thence his fruitfull spawne at last Vpon the face of all the earth are cast What may we thinke of that renowned hill Whose matchlesse fame full all the world doth fill Within the midst of Ethiopia fram'd In Africa and Amara still man'd Where all the Gods may sit them downe and dine Iust in the East and vnderneath the line Pomona Ceres Venus Iuno chast And all the rest their eyes haue euer cast Vpon this place so beautifull and neate Of all the earth to make it still their seate A christall riuer downe to Nilus purl'd Wonder of Nature Glory of this world Deere Amara thy amorous name doth cite My lowly pen thy lofty prayse to write If all the world and all therein were mine All were to weake to match themselues with thine In all the earth and all the rest to loose Thy seat to loue instead of all I de choose There are the Temples couered all with guilt The Pallaces and glorious buildings built A Library so famous rich and round As that the like on earth was neuer found There are the Muses and the learned Nymphes The royall issue and the best borne Imppes The seed of kings vpon thy body nurst The Preet himselfe kept long within the first Admired mount how hast thou in all ages Beene still renownde for rarest personages Thy treasures rich beyond compare that lyes Within thy wals may dazle both mine eyes Two famous Queenes in Maiesty and grace With Lawrell boughs haue much adornd thy face As if themselues with Nature did combine To wreath thy browes with sacred worke diuine The first of those was faire Magueda cald Braue gallant Queene within thy towre instald 1. King 10. to 11. That let the rest and wenther selfe to see 2. Chro. 9.
venom'd carkasse in thy pride shall barnish An vgly creature shalt thou be vncouth Thy teeth all blacke within thy lying mouth Out of that hollow irkesome vast abisse Vpon thy belly shalt thou crawle and hisse Dust shalt thou eate and canckred be thy skin Thy body swolne with poyson all within Thy viperous seed in vgly enuy borne To all the world shall be the hatefull scorne In euery path and out of euery hedge Their poyson fell in humane flesh shall wedge That when they time and place to purpose feele Their venom'd tongue shall bite them by the heele Thus till the earth shall mould away and fall Where men least thinke there shall they lie and crawle The Womans seed in iust reuenge againe Thy head shall breake and cursed actions baine When that sweet Babe shall to the world be borne That heauen and earth with glory shall adorne Then shall he trample on thy cursed hide And on the clowds with winged fame shall ride Before his face shall ratling cracks of thunder Amaze thy sense and reasons false bring vnder To see when he shall on the earth descend How thou in chaines and fetters shalt be pend Tormented in those paines no tongue can tell Scorcht all to cinders with dam'd diuels in hell Curst is thy life thrice cursed is thy race Voyde of all goodnes mercy loue and grace Here is thy doome vpon thy Snakie head That others with thee hast to sinne misse-lead Scarse these last words were spake by God himselfe Of his sad iudgement gainst this cursed Elfe And but beginning of Eues dismall speech When suddenly she gan to cry and screech When in the instant from the lofty skyes Miscricordia Mercy comes downe and into Eden hies Prostrated falls vpon her bended knees But God himselfe his daughter deare that sees With weeping eyes before his face to craue That but on Eue he would compassion haue Began to stay his minde to alter cleane And to the woman now began to leane But that hard by stood Iustice in the place And vrg'd him much to prosecute the case When all the reason Mercy well could render Was that her selfe was of the female gender Whilest both of these each other do oppose Iustitia Misericordia Loath each of them their humble suite to lose Contending still as aduocates at Barre Or combatants in furious fearefull Warre And altogether iudgement speedy feares Natura Gods eldest daughter in the place appeares Nature diuine like to Aurora fac't A noble Lady beautifull and chast Simile Naturae descriptio Braue famous Queene a royall person borne Whom heauen and earth and all therein adorne Her haire disheueld trailing to the ground And in the same the rarest secrets bound Without all art in curious manner curld And in her hand the Globe of all the world Ten thousand colours in her gowne are seene Wrought by her selfe vpon a ground of greene In all her iewels of admired gaine With fower braue Ladies bearing vp her traine The Elements She sober enters in that sacred place And downe she fals before the Almighties face Father sayd she deare Father here behold Oratio Giue me but leaue to be a little bold Finding my sisters iarring neuer cease To reconcile and set them both at Peace A holy worke which thou hast euer loued My selfe thereto by charity first moued One of my deare affected sisters sweete That from this place to heauen did lately fleete Brought me such newes when at the first we met Till all dissolue I neuer shall forget And like it is this massie weighty ball Which hangs so euen iust in the midst of all Would soone returne to what it was at first If all thereon for this one fault were curst Behold this Fabricke here within my hand The mighty Gloabe of all the world doth stand What will become of all thy Noble workes This goodly frame and all that euer lurkes Within the compasse of the heauen and earth If now destroyd within their prime and birth All will consume and vnterly decay If Iustice once thy Mercy ouersway Iustice I know doth vrge thy sacred word Which from the Truth as yet hath neuer stird Thy penalty on Adam and his Race For foule offending in this holy place The execution of thy Law diuine In the least tittle of each Statute line Which hath ordaind that in that dismall day In which the woman did the diuell obay To taste the fruite and sucke it with her breath That both of them should die a fearefull death Mercy againe as being full of Loue Pittie compassion from thy throane aboue Presents her selfe before thy sacred face Imploring Goodnes Maiestie and Grace To be a meanes to mediate a peace And that for once all further iudgement cease When by the Enuie of a viperous tong Hatcht by the diuell this cursed malice sprung And their offence to take it at the worst By Iustice weigh'd will yet be found the first O then deare Father let me speake my minde Be lust and Louing Mercifull and Kinde Punish all sinne according to thy word The Truth preserue that none at Iustice gird But yet let Mercy at thy right hand sit Thy noble workes in sacred holy writ Shall then be blaz'd vnto their vtmost worth And thou be knowne a God vpon this earth Then shall large volumes with thy prayses swell Thy Mercy drop to infant soules in hell Which neuer haue offended much thy minde But borne in sinne and neuer knowne vnkinde Whose cursed parents crost thy heauenly will The sperme of those that liue in errour still Thy sentence past cannot againe be call'd And truth must stand before thy face instal'd That very day according to thy word In which the tree of Knowledge first was stird By Eue and Adams wilfull treachery Both of them then a cruell death should dye If mercy now had not come downe in hast And at thy feete her humble sute had cast Before this time that iudgement had beene giuen Both of their liues might well haue beene beriuen O then what would become of all this frame And all thereon too infinite to name The famous actions by thy spirit nurst All must returne to what it was at first One day with thee is as a thousand yeeres The hower of death Incertaine full of feares First saue the seede and let them liue in awe Then dye a death for breaking of thy Law So is thy word confirm'd my sisters pleaz'd The world remaine and iudgement somewhat eaz'd Then shall thy creatures in all ages stand The worke diuine of thy all powerfull hand And euery thing that on the earth is bred Shall shew thy glory both aliue and dead That all may stand to all eternity Thy only Son offers himselfe to dye But silenc'st once by Gods commanding Word The iarring sisters neuer after stird But satisfied and resting well content They spent the time in haplesse merriment And God aboue to iudgement doth
Iordans siluer sides From Libanon to Sodoms lake that glides Along the plaines where Iesus was baptiz'd The holy Ghost in shape of Doue disguiz'd Mat. 3. 15 16 17. Heauens windowes ope thus speaketh in their sight This is my Sonne in whom I take delight When all was finish't and to Heauen Christ went Then downe came he to giue vs all content As Iustice Mercy both with Loue are linck't Simile So God is one the Persons three distinck't These altogether as the heauens decree'd Iustitia Misrecordia Charitas Veritas The Tree of Life protect from Adams seede The World it selfe with wonderment they fill Their meate is knowne to do their fathers will Who all this while is with their sister sweete Natura His eldest daughter as 't was euer meete When Time had done discharged full his due Aboue the clouds vp to the Heauens God flew Where he remaines leauing the world and all Which euer yet was knowne vpon this ball To the protection of that noble Dame That to the earth with loue her sister came So well affected labouring what she can That all her care is but for sinfull man Let him his mind to goodnesse alwayes bend And Nature euer is his louing friend Great God of Heauen now is thy Iustice showne Thy Loue and Mercy with thy Nature knowne Time hath thy Face and glorious browes vnmask't And thus at first my Rurall Muse hath task't Heere brought forth Truth from her hath neuer sturd Reueal'd the same wrapt in thy holy Word Of Paradise the sacred curtaine drawne The Sabaoth shew'd on no mans vice doth fawne Of all the world hath sung the first beginning Told Adams faults and Eues offensiue sinning Their seede defac't in breaking of thy lawes And heere I le stay and sit me downe and pause The end of the first Age. THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE second Age. Diuinely handled By Thomas Peyton of Lincolnes Inne Gent. Seene and allowed LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his shop ouer against Staple Inne 1620. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Beati Pacifici THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE SECOND AGE The Argument The sacred Muse by envious Foes is crost Adam and Eue how each from other lost Their first borne sonne by cursed malice led Vnkindly wounds his dearest Brother dead Apostacy the cause of all this ill The totall World on euery side doth fill With Bloud Oppression Cruelty and Hate To waste consume and winde each others state The Church deriued from the third borne child Is staind polluted with Caines Race defilde So that the World and all there in was found Besides the Arke were wash't away and drown'd VRania Soueraigne of the Muses nine Inspire my thoughts with sacred worke diuine Come down from Heauen within my Temples Rest Inflame my heart and lodge within my Brest Grant me the story of this World to sing The Glasse of Time vpon the Stage to bring Be Aye within me by thy powerfull might Gouerne my Pen direct my speech aright Euen in the birth and infancy of Time To the last Age season my holy Rime Oh leade me on into my Soule infuse Diuinest Worke and still be thou my Muse That all the World may wonder and behold To see Times passe in Ages manifold And that their wonder may produce this end To liue in loue their future liues to mend Then shall thy lookes with sacred luster shine The Muses all within thy Browes combine Richly adorn'd with all the Nimphes and Graces Shall sound thy prayse with louely pleasing faces Ioying to see thy glorious heauenly hap The golden Ball cast downe into thy lap To thy delight and great contentment more Then if the World were only thine in store Though cursed Enuy on thy Fortune frowne Yet thy chast Browes shall weare heau'ns lawrel crowne In future Ages as the Muses Queene Thy Temples wreath'd shall euer flowrish greene And what if Hymen something doe annoy Thy tender Fruit yet shalt thou liue in ioy And when pale death shall close vp both thine eyes Thy fame shall mount aboue the lofty skyes And yet Vrania how canst thou be glad To see this Age wherein we liue so bad All ouergrowne far worse then at the first Bemir'd in sin as if it were accurst Nothing but bloud contention Brides and braules The Serpent still vpon his belly crawles And round about on enery side doth winde With cunning sleights the Infants face to grinde Nay thouthy selfe noble Vrania deere Since first thy landing and ariuall heere Hast thou not beene on euery side turmoyl'd Tost too and fro by Enuy ouertoyl'd Whose viprous tongue within a sacred place Hath belcht her venome aim'd at thy disgrace Like to the Diuell in Paradise at first Simile That banefull poyson in his Brest hath nurst To wrong thy person weaken much thy state Enrich himselfe to satisfie his hate Tooke all aduantage working on thy youth Suggested lies instead of naked truth Lock't thee vp close Immur'd within a Wall When not a Groate was due to him at all But by the order of this noble Land He in that place for debt to-thee should stand Great God of Heauen it makes me weepe and waile To see Iuiustice oftentimes preuaile To domineere and catch into her hand When Innocence must at her mercy stand Then doth she squeese wring wrest extort and lurch When seldome times oppression comes at Church Deare friends perswasion once can ne're preuaile To worke a peace till all be set to saile Then swallowes all into a griping purse Not satisfied continues ten times worse Vowing to wast and Ruine all thy state Oh cursed malice hatcht by enuious fate When thy false heart hath made the act thy worst What art thou then more then a beast accurst Nay farre more worse for thou must count at large For euery soule committed to thy charge If by thy fault the least of them be lost Thy soule in hell the price of it will cost But yet my Muse vnfold to me the cause Why thou didst fall into the trecherous pawes Of hatefull foes deuouring Tigers fierce False hearted friends which in thy state did pierce That thou shouldst thus be tost on euery side Compeld oft times to be from home and ride To see if Enuy with her viperous face Hath foysted lies in sacred Iustice place I know no cause nor could I euer tell Why she should thus against thee alwayes swell Winding her selfe her mallice best to smother Ier. 23. 12. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Into the habit of thine elder brother One thou hast lou'd inough to make me doate To see vice lurke vnder a formall coate And thou thy selfe that yet didst neuer hurt To harme a childe or throw a worme i'th'durt Or take delight to glory in the fall Of any one much lesle thy tongue to gall Bite scandall blurre to Iniury defame The worth of any in their goods or