ENGLANDS Hallelu-jah. OR, GREAT BRITTAINES Gratefull Retribution, for Gods Gratious Benediction.
In our many and most famous Deliuerances, since the Halcyon-Dayes of euer-blessed Queene ELIZABETH, to these present Times.
Together, with diuers of Dauids Psalmes, according to the French Metre and Measures.
By I: V:
Psalme, 103.1.2.
Blesse the Lord (ô my Soule) and all that is within me, blesse his holy Name. Blesse the Lord (ô my Soule) and forget not All his Benefits.
Non est dignus dandis,
Qui non est gratus pro datis.
¶ Printed at London by The: Purfoot, for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at the Tygers Head in S. Paules Church-yard. 1631.
TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull his most worthy and highly honoured Friends, Sir Hugh Hamersley Knight, and Mr. Alderman Parkburst, Two of the principall Gouernours of Christs-Hospitall; I: V: wisheth the Kingdome of Grace heere, and the Kingdome of Glory hereafter.
THis Poeme (Right Wor:) being intended as a promoueing Spurre and incitemen [...] to that most excellent and amiable duty of Gratitude, of which, sweetly sayeth St. Augustine, Quid melius animo geramus, aut ore promamus, ant calamo pingamus, quam Graetias? Hoc, nil breuius dici, nil suauius andiri, nec fructuosius ab bominibus agi potest. What (sayes Hee) can wee better beare in our minde, or vtter with our tongue, or set-forth with our pen? than Thanksgiuing: a man can speake nothing more succinct, heare nothing more sweet, nor doe any thing more aduantageous, than This of Thankefulnesse. I, therefore (most worthy Sirs) knowing my Selfe deeply indebted to your Worships for many former Fauours and continued Courtesies towards [Page] me, was duly incited yea stimulated to apprehend this fit and faire oportunity to intimate my long obliged Gratitude, by an humble Dedication of this small Symboll of my sincere Thankfulnesse to your good Worships. Which (had not the malignity of the Times prohibited) was intended for the yeere of your, as pious as prudent honourable Maioralty of this Citty, whose Gates, at this day, doe blesse you (as Ierusalems did good Nehemiah; Nehem: the 13.22.) for your (then) honourable and godly care of the Lords sacred Sabboth. Accept (worthy Sirs) I humbly pray you, This poore Presentation of my obliged seruice (now) for, though it comes lately, yet it comes loyally; and from his heart, who, in all due and true obseruance desires most respectiuely to Rest.
Your good Worships, euer to bee commanded, Iohn Vicars.
To the Christian Reader.
SVch (good Reader) are the Crimes
Of these graceles, gratelesse Times,
Such, mans grosse Ingratitude,
For Gods mercies multitude:
So forgetfull of his Kindnesse,
So possest with carnall Blindnesse,
That we need, King Phillips-Boy,
Eu'ry morning to employ:
At the Doore of each mans Heart,
To performe th' Aduisers part,
Long, and loud, and oft to cry,
Man, Remember God on high.
I, considering This great Need,
And, how few, thereto proceed;
Haue (for want of One more fit,)
Bouldly vndertaken It:
Euen a Monitour to be
To the Soule of Thee and Mee,
Dayly, duly to repeate,
Past, and Present Mercies great;
Counting it the Queene of Labours
To re-count Gods boundlesse Fauours ▪
Wherein, if Thou giue consent,
I enioy my Hearts content,
I obtaine what I desire,
Which, thus, kindled, ô I pray
It may neuer dye, decay,
But, burne-forth, with Zeales bright Flame
To the Praise of Gods great Name:
This, This onely, seekes and prayes
Hee, that truly rests, alwayes.
Thine in the Lord Iesus, Iohn Vicars.
TO HIS SINGVLAR good Cousen MR. JOHN VICARS. The most Praise-worthie Authour OF Englands Hallelu-jah.
THese Lines and Layes, once, twice,
De [...] repetita placebunt▪
againe, o're-read,Refresht my Soule, and rauisht haue, my Heart;
So great Content and Comfort, in Mee, bred,
I could not choose, but to your-se [...]fe, impart:
They haue Mee chang'd, for once, & made mee Poet,
Your Muse, Nought-els, that I do know, could doe it.
I'll Say in Prose, what you doe Sing in Verse
Most Christianly; The Lord is to be praised;
And in a home-spunne Speach, I'll still reherse,
What you most sweetly, soundly, heere, haue phrased.
In this Angellike Song, a part I Loue;
And though I say't but Here, I'll Sing't
Reuel cap, 19. verse 1.
Aboue.Thomas Vicars. B: D:
Englands Hallelu-jah.
1.
MY thankefull heart and hand doe vndertake
To write, indite, some holy heauenly Song;
Some sacred Song of Loue and Land to make
Which may to Englands Lord alone belong:
O that my Pen were prompt as that sweet writers,
That sacred, sugred, Kingly Praise-Inditers!
2.
O, euerliuing, euerlouing, Lord,
Father of Mercies, Fountaine of all Grace;
Whose noble Name and Fame, Heauen, Earth, record
Glorious in Heauen, in Earth, in euery Place:
Who art farre fairer in thy beauteous praise,
Than is the Sun, in all his brightest rayes.
3.
Thou art most glorious in the Worlds Creation,
Wherein are various Workes of wonder showne;
But, much more glorious in Mans Restauration,
Gods Me [...] cies.
Wherein was Mercies-Miracle well knowne:
Thy workes (ô Lord) indeed are wondrous great,
But yet, thy Mercies must haue supreme seate.
4.
The Heauens declare thy handy-workes, ô Lord,
1. To Man.
The Earth is full of Creatures admirable;The Sea, a Sea of Wonders doth affoord,
Full fraught with Fishes, huge, innumerable;
But yet thy Loue to Man amongst them all,
I iustly most admire, and euer shall.
5.
Man, out of Dust (base dust) at first created,
Yet after thy blest Image, blestly made;
Man, Lord of all thy Creatures ordinated,
Man, by them all, in Earth, Aire, Sea, obay'd:
Yet, Man, by Pride and Hells malignity,
Deprau'd of Blisse, Depriu'd of's Royalty.
6.
To Man, much blest, in his pure Generation,
To Man, most curs'd, in his Degenerous-case;
2. To the elect in generall.
To Man, best blest, in his Re-generation,By Christ, Mans sole Peace-maker, Spring of Grace:
To Man (I say) and of all Men, to Those,
Whom, Hee, by Faith, to be his Flocke hath chose.
7.
And, of all These, to Vs his Little-flocke,
To Vs (I say) his English-Israelites;
3. To vs of England in particular.
To Vs, ingrafted, on, old Israels stocke,And to Our Land of Goshen; whom the frights
Of forreine Foes and home-bred Enemies,
By force and fraud, haue, oft, sought to surprise.
8.
Thy Loue (ô Lord) I say, to Our poore Nation,
Beside Spirituall-Graces, largely giuen;
Thy Word and Sacraments, Food of Saluation,
The best High-way for vs to walke to Heauen:
Thy many Temporall Protections great,
From all the dangers, which fell Foes did threat.
9.
From all the Terrours of our Foes without vs
From all the Horrours of our Foes within;
From all that rose against vs, round about vs,
From Truth, to Errour, vs to worke and win:
This thy great Loue, our great Deliuerance,
This, would my gratefull Voyce and Verse aduance,
10.
That (maugre all the might and spight of Spaine,
And Antichristian Balaam of Rome,)
Balaam of Rome.
Thou hast and wilt thy Churches right maintaine,
And turne Romes Curses to hir owne dire doome:
Blessing, whom he would Curse, crossing the hate,
Of Spaines proud Amalecke, that Scourge of State.
Amalecke of Spain [...] ▪
11.
And, as hard hearted Pharaoh and his Traine,
In Aegypt, by Gods fearefull Plagues, oft, smarted;
But, still his Goodnesse Goshen did sustaine:
And to his people Light and Loue imparted:
Propping, protecting These with sweet aspection,
Cropping, Correcting Those, with foule infection.
12.
Euen so proud-hearted Antichrist of Rome,
And [...]is Crowne-thirsting Paramour of Spaine,
Heauens, iust displeasure hath with heauy doome
Oft, foyled, spoyled, with their impious Traine:
Our English-Goshen being still protected,
Such was his Goodnesse, So, hee vs affected.
13.
Witnesse, ô euer witnesse, may those dayes,
Those Malcyon-Dayes of sweet Eliza's Raigne;
Eliza, worthy Englands endlesse praise,
Queen [...] [...]lizabeth▪
That Friend to Faith, That Scourge to Rome, & Spaine:
All present, past, and future Ages Glorie,
Worthy prime Place and Grace in datelesse Storie.
14.
By whom, the Lord so many wonders wrought,
To whom the Lord so great deliuerance gaue;
For whom in their owne Snares hir Foes he caught,
In whom his Church (poore Church) he oft did saue:
By wondrous, glorious, world-admir'd protection,
Such was to Hir and Hirs, Heauens firme affection.
15.
Witnesse (I say) the Treasons ofte contriued
Bishop of Chi [...]ester in his Thākfull Remē brance.
By Westmerland, Northumberland, and Poole;Stukely, and f [...]lse Mendoza; yet none thriued,
For Heauen did see, and smile, and Them befoole;
That impious person Parsons, Irish-Sanders,
Campian, Romes Champion, All full fraught with slaunder▪
16.
Troupes of Traitors.
Creitons Torne-Papers, Allines impudence,Englefields Plott, and Rosses enterprise,
Parries pernicious practis'd Jnsolence,
Sauages sauage plotted Villanies:
Babingtons barbarous Treason, Percies Spleene,
And Iewish Lopez, All to kill That Queene.
17.
Throgmorton, Stafford, Stanly, and Tyrone,
Implacable Conspiratours, were, All;
Like Sampsons Foxes tyde by th' Tailes in One,
All ranne like Fire-brands fierce to worke the fall
Of that rare Queene, Christs Church to ruinate,
As Reuerend Carleton sweetly doth relate.
18.
Some sought and wrought, with Poisons, Pistolls fierce,
Romes Rhetoricke.
With Daggers, Daggs, and such like Instruments;Hir harmelesse Heart iniuriously to pierce,
Some by Rebellions aym'd at foule Intents:
All aym'd, amisse, and All did misse the White,
And Law and Vengeance payd them All their right.
19.
But, if you'l see, Sisera's Pride at height
Against that English Deborah most sweet;
And how the Lords strong Arme did for Hir fight,
Spaines Armado. 1588.
Behold it in his Eighty-Eights great Fleet:
His great Armado, shipps most huge and tall,
Which, Hee, Inuincible did fondly call.
20.
This Fleete did floate vpon our English Seas,
With This, he had euen swallowed vp, in hope,
Our Albions Iland, Nothing, Les [...]e, could please
The hungry Appetites of Spaine and Pope:
And This fierce Force, and factious Parts within,
Promis'd, assu [...]'d, they should the Conquest win.
21.
Thus Phillip hauing with insulting Pride,
On euery part, beset vs with his power;
Gaping (but fondly gaping) euery tyde,
Our Liues and Lands like Quicke-sands to deuoure:
Euen then, the Wooden-walles of Jericho,
The breath and blast of Gods wrath downe did blow.
22.
Then did the Lord, arise a Lord of Hoasts,
And all our Foes disperse and dissipate,
Then did he drench and drowne their Spanish boasts,
Mr. Wardes Difflo, Dissipo.
And to vs did their Captaines captiuate:
The raging waues their ships did sinke and batter,
And all their formidable Forces scatter.
23.
Then was our Englands Deborah most deare,
(By Gods all-potent power, all-patent Grace)
Made most triumphant ouer foes and feare,
Heauen did from Hir, proud Sisera quite chace:
The starres in order, windes, waues, seem'd to fight,
To vindicate hir Innocence and Right.
24.
Thus, for that time, th' insatiate thirst of Spaine,
Was quenched, to his cost and high disgrace;
Most of his mighty shippes spoil'd, sunke and ta'ne,
Those that escap't, crept home in shamefull case:
But spight of Home-bred Traitors, forreine Foes,
Eliza liu'd and dy'd a fragrant Rose.
25.
This was the Lord; Let thankefull hearts declare it,
For, tis exceeding wondrous in our Eares;
That yeere of Eighty-Eight, ô neuer spare it,
To blaze the praise of That yeere, all thy yeeres:
Let English Isre'll, sing and say all wayes,
Not vnto vs, but to the Lord be prayse.
26.
But, what? had Romes inueterate spight and spleene
King Iames.
An End, with sweet Elizaes blessed End?Oh no: King Iames succeeding that faire Queene,
Against Him, they their Plotts againe did bend:
The Cause continuing workes the same Effect,
And Spayne and Rome their Dagon must erect.
27.
Then, for th' aduancement of their Cath'like-Cause,
Romes apish Popish Priests are firebrands, first,
Watson and Clarke.
VVatson and Clarke, encourage, with applause,A Romish-proiect, Treason most accurst:
But, if you'll see a Mapp of All, in One,
Looke on their Pouder-Plot, oh There tis showne.
28.
A Plott of Treason, hatched, first, in Hell,
The Papists Pouder-Plott. 1605 No. 5.
I meane the Hell of Romish He [...]rts most base;Bred and brought forth, by Men, like furies fell,
Incarnate Diuels, onely Men in face:
Nourisht, and cherisht, by Romes Man of Sinne,
By Whom, all Treasons End or else Begin.
29.
A Treason 'twas, transcending all compare,
Though True, yet Strange to all Posterity;
Such, as whose fulnesse, foulenesse to declare,
Would seeme t' exceed the bounds of Verity:
Yea, no true story from Earths first Creation,
Could ere relate so curs'd a Coniuration.
30.
A Priest was Prouost in this foule designe,
Hellish incarnate Garnet, this was He;
He prompts, prouokes, The Earth to vndermine,
Garnet the Jesuite.
And with Gun-Pouder, then, It, stuft must be:
Wherwith, King, Queene, Prince, Prophets, Peeres, & All,
Should with One Blow, haue had One fatall fall.
31.
The mixture of Nocents with Innocents,
Would nought availe; All should haue drunke One Cup;
High, Low, Rich, Poore, None were impediments,
Nocents & Innocents.
With Pouder, All, at Once had bin Blowne vp:
Hearts worse then Neroes, voide of mercy quite,
Whole Kingdomes Heades, at One stroake, off to smite.
32.
But our supernall Isre'ls Shepheard good,
Who neuer sleepes nor slumbers o're his flocke,
Close by vs (by his Prouidence) then, stood;
He sate, and saw, and smil'd, and them did mocke:
Turning the Counsell of Achitophell,
Into mad Folley, Folly fecht from Hell.
33.
And, in the Snare, which they for vs had made,
Perillus-like, Themselues were iustly snared;
Our Soules did by Gods goodnesse, safe euade,
Whilst They, amongst themselues, their mischiefe shared:
Haman, and all his Popish impious Fellowes,
Were hanged, All, vpon their owne high Gallowes.
34.
Oh here were Worke for endlesse Meditation,
To make the thankefull Heart breake forth in Praise;
With fire of zeale and holy exultation,
To liue, to loue, [...]nd laud the Lord alwayes:
His endlesse, boundlesse Goodnesse to proclaime,
And cause our Childrens Children doe the same.
35.
But yet, ô English heart, goe one with me,
And taste and see that God was yet more gracious;
His neuer-emptied Hands still forward, free,
To fill thy Soule, with blessings, specious, spacious:
Blacke-Fryers.
To leaue Blacke-Fryers fatall fearefull doome,A Type of Justice on the Rabble of Rome.
36.
Whose circumstances, (yet) considered right,
May iustly moue vs to admire the Lord,
In all his workes of wonder, grace and might,
And matter of much thankefulnesse afford:
To see Romes forward Pride and Impudence,
By Gods owne Hand, receiue due recompence.
37.
Nouembers 5t. with Vs, Their Pouder-Plott;
Memorable Notes.
Nouembers 5t. with Them, Their Fatall Fall:In This, or Plott or Pouder, there was not,
No Pouder. No Plott.
In This and That, GODS Finger seene to All:This to disgrace, That, to destroy our Church,
But in Them Both, Heauen left them in the Lurch.
38.
In That, They sought our guiltlesse blood to spill,
But Wee escapt and They were paid with Blood;
In This, Themselues were Authours of their ill,
Whiles They, our Gods and Nations Lawes withstood:
Their woefull Ends, I meddle not withall,
For, Both, did to their Mr. stand or fall.
39.
But, leauing Them (I say) to God most iust,
And yet most gracious, to true Penitents;
I, yet a little farther leade thee must,
To see Gods Loue, in yet more large extents:
That so thy, Heart, with Dauids may say well,
Truly the Lord is good to Israell.
40.
O whoso'ere had (not long since) but ey'd,
Of True Religion, the strange tottering state;
1623.
How Hollow Hearts ('mongst vs) swamme with the tyde,
How Popish Priests durst boldly to vs prate:
Romish Foxes came out of their Holes.
Out-beard, out-braue vs, yea and to our face
Contest, contend, Christs Gospell to disgrace.
41.
Who ere (I say) did This, then see, did say,
Or (at least) Feare, Religion was nigh dead;
That all hir Beauty, almost buried lay,
Romish Recusants had got such a Head:
And, quite (all most) to let Hopes Life-blood out,
See, what, it pleased the Lord to bring about.
42.
Our (then) Prince Charles, our staffe of future ioy,
Now, vnder God, the Crowne of our Content;
Prince Charles in Spaine.
Vnto our sodaine, All-suppos'd annoy,
From Albion faire, to blacke Iberia went:
Our Day was darkned with the Fogges of Spaine,
[...] quite disheartned, till it clear'd againe.
43.
Our Pearle of peerelesse price, was lockt vp fast,
In a polluted Cabinet, too-sure;
Ouer our Sunne, a Spanish Cloud was cast,
Which did our English Light, delight, obscure:
(Vnder pretext of a mis-matched Match)
Till Matchiuill of Rome and Spaine could hatch
44.
Could hatch (Isay) their Egges of Policie,
To winde and binde to Theirs, Our Church and State;
To weaue Their Webbe of Europes Monarchie,
Wherein, They (then) seem'd workemen fortunate,
So cunningly They had contriu'd each thing,
That Hope and Hap, seem'd Both, to Crowne them King.
45.
Spaines
As, one most wittily did Anagra matize on the Name of Gondamore
Romane Dog, that sly Fox-Populj,With Craft, lay closse, his Egges to heat and hatch;
His M•, on Ambitions Horse, did hie,
No lesse, than our Great Britaines Crowne to catch:
But, when This thought himselfe safe set i'th' Saddle,
His haste, made waste, Tothers Egges All, prou'd addle.
46.
Gods Goodnesse and Wisedome ouer-matched Machiuil of Spain.
Our God, (good God) Those Machiuillians great,In their owne Counsels, strangely did besot;
His loue to vs, made them, themselues to cheat,
What they had got, they stupidly forgot;
What they so long did long for, thirst, affect,
Then, put vpon them, they did slight, neglect.
47.
O, heere, I cannot, but admire, adore,
The wondrous Wisedome of the Lord, alone;
Oh, heere, I may not easily passe-ore,
The Contemplation of Gods mercy showne
To England, happy England, in This Act
Of Mercy, wherein, Many are compact.
48.
For, first, Had Spaine, like Saul, his Micholl wedded
Sauls Michol, Spains Infanta.
To our deere Dauid, We had wedded binTo many Woes, of All-Wisemen (then) dreaded,
By false fain'd Friends, meere Foes, without, within:
What might That Saul haue car'd t'haue spar'd a Daughter?
Whereby he thought t'hau [...] wrought good Dauids slaughter.
49.
Some Troian-Horse, by Spaines Pelasgan Art,
With sacred shew, our Kingdome might haue entred;
A Spanish Fleet (at least) t'vphold the part,
Of vrged Reformation had bin ventred:
A Fleet (I say) full fraught with arm'd protectio [...],
To bring the Puritans to due subiection.
50.
Againe, had Spaine ne're meant to make the Match,
(As that's most sure) yet, had they still protracted,
Protested, vow'd, aduantage (still) to watch,
(Which part they oft haue finely, falsely, acted)
With sly delayes, t'haue wyer-drawne their wiles;
What might they not haue wrought on vs, the whiles?
51.
Might they not, thus (at least) haue bound our hands,
From least assistance to our Neighbour-Friends;
Till they had ouer-run the Netherlands,
And euery where obtained their proud Ends:
Whilst we (alas) stood looking at all This,
And, in Them, saw, for Vs, Rods laid in pisse.
52.
Oh then, that royall King and Queene of Hearts,
Bohemiaes Princely Paire and pleasant Plants,
Had found Afflictions added to their smarts▪
Had then bin drown'd in helpelesse woes and wants:
Had bin a prey fit for those hungry Iawes,
[...]hich, long, had gap'd to gripe them in their Pawes.
53.
Then, oh then had Religion restlessely,
And helpelessely, yea hopelessely bin baited;
Venatio Catholica.
Then Edoms Sons had raisd a cruell Cry,
Like bloody Blood-Hounds vndefatigated:
'Downe with it, downe with it, euen to the ground,
Psalme 13 [...]
' [...]et no memoriall of it, ere, be found.
54.
But see, oh see, how our good God arose,
Like a most glorious Sun with gracious Rayes;
At whose vp-rise, that monstrous Cloud of woes,
Was quite dispel'd, disperst; And to Heauens praise,
Those threatned stormes of Spaines, Romes Raine & thunder,
Were turn'd into a Calme to our great wonder.
55.
For why, Gods Loue, led, yea pull'd-forth our Prince,
From Spaines foule Fogges: So that our Sun most faire
Hath clearely, cheerely, on vs, euer since
Shined, and shut-out all our deepe despaire:
Sodainely, sweetly, to our admiration,
He came to vs, to our Hearts exultation.
56.
He came, came safely, yea, he solely came,
Solely (I say) free from all Spanish voake;
Yea, which is most and best, (blest be Gods name)
He came vntainted of least smell of smoake,
Of Romish, Spanish Coales of Heresie,
Gods Grace did guide, guarde, his Sincerity.
57.
The Prince in Spaine. Ioseph in Egypt.
Yea, Hee (with Ioseph) seem'd to before-sent,Into That Egypt by his God and King;
Those many growing Mischiefes to preuent,
Which through all Europe, ranke began to s [...]ring:
To shield vs from a Famine, not of Bread,
But of Gods Word, which most men, most did dread.
58.
For why? Romes S [...]uen Lanke-Headed hungry Beast,
Hungring for Blood, yea Blood of Gods blest Saints;
Had his deuouring Rage, so much encreast,
And our faire Peace brought to so hard constraints,
That all our former Full-felicity,
Was nigh deuourd, throughout all Germany ▪
59.
But, as I sayd, What our false feares of strife,
Like Iosephs Brethren, did misterme, mistake;
And what Spaine, Rome, like Potiphars base Wife,
Spaine and Rome, Potipha [...]s Wife.
Wrought on good Joseph, spoile of him to make:
That did the Lord conuert to our great good,
And well he went, as then our Cases stood.
60.
Oh England, England, VVhat canst Thou repay?
VVhat Retribution hast Thou for thy God?
Thy God, who, Thus, hath bin thy staffe and stay,
And freed Thee, thus, from Spanish, Romish, Rod:
From cruell Men, which are Gods Sword, indeed,
VVhose Mercies are but Mischiefes bloody Seed.
61.
O what canst thou to God, thy God, repay?
VVhich wondrously, Life out of Death hath brought;
Light out of Darkenesse, from blacke Night, bright Day,
VVhich from such Bondage, hath such Freedome wrought:
VVhich hath thy stooping, drooping, Heart reuiued,
And of their impious Ends thy Foes depriued.
62.
A thankefull Heart, Gods mercies oft to minde,
A thankefull Tongue to preach abroad his praise;
A triple, true Tha [...]esgiuing.
A helpefull Hand, to his poore Members kinde,
This triple-Tye, is All; yea, This, a [...]waies,
He most expects, he best respects, requires,
This p [...]yes all Debts, This props all new de [...]ires.
63.
VVith holy Dauid, thankefully to take
The Cup of Sauing Health, to blesse the Lord;
Recitall, is Requitall thou must make,
His many Mercies, to recount, record:
Yea, All his Blessings, oft, to ruminate,
Is thy best meanes, Then to remunerate.
64.
But, how vnthankefull, England, hast Thou bin,
For These, all these, Gods Mercies vnto Thee?
Englands Ingratitude.
Amongst thy many others, This One Sin,Of grosse Ingratitude, may iustly be
A woefull witnesse, how thou hast neglected,
Thy God, and all his Goodnesse, disrespected.
65.
How bruitishlie, how like a sottish Swine.
Hast thou, the Akornes of Gods mercies free,
Simile.
Most rudelie rauen'd vp, Ne're cast thy Eyne,Vp to the Oke of Grace, Life-giuing Tree:
Of Gods meere Mercy, Bounty, whence alone
All these great Goods, like Floods, haue to thee flowne
66.
How-farre vnlike the little Chickin, gratefull,
Another.
VVhich, euery drop it drinkes, lookes vp to Heauen,As if, by Nature, taught to hold most hatefull,
Ingratitude, euen for least Blessings giuen:
But Thou, than any Creature, more vnkind,
Gods many, mighty Gifts, blot'st out of minde.
67.
For, whereas Hee hath Loaded Thee with Loue,
(VVitnesse those wondrous Mercies, pre-recited)
Plenteouslie poured, showred from Aboue,
Onely because his Loue in thee delighted:
Yet Thou, thy Lord hast Loadèd with thy Crimes,
VVith Sins transcending Those of elder Times.
68.
And, as himselfe, b [...]'s Prophet doth complaine,
Amos 2.13.
He, like a Cart, prest downe with she [...]ues of Corne:Long time, hath scarce bin able to sustaine
The waight of thy innumerous sins forborne;
Forborne (I say) with wondrous patience,
Not laying on thee Sins due recompence.
69.
VVith such paternall Longanimity,
Each day, weeke, moneth, yea Yeare by yeare expecting
Thy due Conuersion, with Sincerity,
Thy Soules saluation Fatherlike affecting:
But all in vaine his gracious expectation
VVas frustrate still, by thy ill prouocation.
70.
So that (as by another Prophet, Hee,
Protests) Hee is most wearie of Repenting;
[...]eremie 15.6.
And can, no longer, linger, patient be,
From strict, exact, iudiciall, Conuenting
Of England and hir Sonnes foule sinnes before him,
VVho thus forgat, for's Goodnesse to adore him.
71.
And since the Musicke, of his mercies sweet,
Could neither thy dull Heart, nor deafe Eares charme;
To cause thee with due Laud his Loue to greet,
And so preuent, th' euent of future harme:
Therefore the Thunder of his Iudgements fierce,
He now doth vow, thy Heart shall plague and pierce.
72.
His prudent Iustice therefore thought not fit,
To Cockney or to Cocker thee in Sinne;
VVith too indulgent Silence, still, to sit,
But now to iudge thee iustlie will begin:
For stroakes of Loue, to giue thee stripes of wo [...]',
To make thy Cup with bitternesse oreflow.
73.
VVhich, how effectually it came to passe,
Oh London, London, Thou canst witnesse be;
The las [...] great Plague.
VVhen thy incensed God did (late) alas,
VVith a fierce Plague, in iustice vifite thee:
Thy Beauty into Baldnesse quicklie turning,
Sweet tunes into sad tones; Mirth into mourning
74.
If euer Ieremies loud Lamentation,
For Captiuated Salems pitteous plight,
Londons lamentable Estate.
[...]id, in a Cittie, find equiparation,VVere personated, pattern'd-out, most right:
Oh then, who Salems sorrow heard or knew,
Might thereby Londons loud Lamentings view.
75.
London, I say, which (as Ierusalem)
VVas Queene and Lady of all other Citties;
Great Britaines Pride and precious Diadem,
A Subiect fit fot Panegyricke Ditties:
This faire Metropolis, obiect of Eyes,
Abiect, by sinne, fild with sad Elegies.
76.
How didst thou London, solitarie sit,
VVhi [...]h formerly with people full wast fild?
How didst thou London, sadly Widow it,
Who wast of Prouinces, the Princesse held?
How didst thou waile all day, weepe sore all night,
Both night and day thy Cheekes with teares bedight
77.
Yea, how wast thou, by thine owne Sonnes forsaken,
How were thy neighbouring Friends become thy Foes?
By frights and feares how wast thou ouertaken?
Oh hovv hadst thou want added to thy woes:
At home, by Epidemicke Plague, infected,
Abroad, b' vnhospitable Friends neglected.
78.
Thy Gates and Streets most desolately left,
Gods fierce Destroying Angell smiting dead;
Whereby were Thousands of their liues bereft,
Thy Priests and People from thee frighted, fled,
Thy Priests (I say) whose piety and Pittie
Should haue redrest, and drest thy wounded Cittie.
79.
But These and Those like heartlesse Harts were fled,
Spirituall Plastures, Pastures thee denying;
Nothing more heard than Knells of Bells for Dead,
And cryes of Watery-Eyes for friends a dying:
For Friends, yea Fathers, whom they durst not see,
Nor, as they would or should, assistant be.
80.
Oh, who is able rightly to relate,
Thy sad thy bad condition to condole;
When Death-Tryumphant sate in Chaire of State,
When his Dead-wounding Weapon, Sicke and whole;
Yea Poore and Rich did to the Graue annexe,
Without distinction of or Age or Sexe.
81.
When nought was heard, but loud alarm's for death,
When nought was seene but Trophies of his Spoiles
When nought was felt or found but stifled breath
To put a period to Liues restlesse Toyles:
VVhen all our Gallants-Coaches gaue large roome
For ghastly-Coarses passage to the Tombe.
82.
VVhen Tombes into wide-gaping Pitts were turned,
VVhen wearing-Cloathes were Coffins made for many;
Bishop Hall in his Sermon of Thankesgiuing.
VVhen Parents, Children, Youngmen, Maides, All mourned,
VVhen All were frighted, free from Feare not Any:
VVhenas, instead of Signes, each Houses doore
A Red-Crosse and a Mournefull-Motto wore.
83.
VVhen buried Bodies in their Beds of Clay,
VVere piled-vp on heapes, like Fagot-stackes;
VVhere All they mingle, None they single lay,
Yea, some Dead Corps due Dormitorie lackes:
VVhen None suruiu'd, but might with Dauid say
Thousands, Ten Thousands, Dead about him lay.
84.
VVhen thus (I say) thy Citty populous,
By that fierce Epidemicall destruction,
Wa [...] made, all most, a Desert ruinous;
A Golgotha, a Chaos o [...] Corruption:
When passions and Compassions reluctation,
Was tenter'd-vp to highest aggrauation.
85.
When these, all these, yea more than these mishaps
Came flocking, fl [...]wing, flying, round about thee;
Besides, worse feares, of yet-worse After claps,
When horrou [...]s, terrours, were within, without thee:
When [...]uery minute, euery Man did looke,
From hopelesse Life, to be soone snatch'd and tooke.
86.
The [...], oh, euen then, London, like Niniuie,
In [...]able Sack-cloth, sobbing, sighing, satt;
In Fasts and Prayers▪ a loud to Heauen did crie,
Wi [...]h conscio [...]s Co [...]sterna [...]ion falling flatt:
With [...]e Sub [...]ission, true Contrition bending,
And vp to Heauen, hir prest petitions sending.
87.
And Then, euen then, ô see, and to admire,
The wondrous mercie of our Lord of Loue;
[...] didst th [...]u supplicate, desire,
Me [...]y and gracious pardon from aboue;
Nay, sooner than thou calldst, Hee, answer gaue,
And while thouspak'st, Hee heard and did thee saue.
88.
Yea, He was found of Thee that sought'st Him not,
Hee ranne to thee, who from him fast didst flie;
Hee minded thee, though thou hadst him forgot,
And though thou wouldest not, cur'd thy Maladie:
Yea, though thou Him prouoked'st to his face,
Yet, He preuented Thee, with his good Grace.
89.
'Twas not thy Fasts (faint Fasts) that he respected,
'Twas not thy hollow, halfe-Humiliation;
To be, a day or two, in Soule, deiected,
Or, rather, seeming so, for oftentation:
In Sack-Cloth sadly, downe thy selfe to spread,
Or like a Bull-rush to hang-downe thy Head.
90.
Was This the Fast, which God of Thee would haue?
Was This the humble-contrite Heart he asked?
Was This the true Repentance God did craue?
Oh no: yet, vnder Onely-This, was masked
Thy seeming sorrow, weake Humiliation,
Yea, in the midst of This, much Prouocation.
91.
So, that the Lord, This iust complaint might make,
Of Vs, and our best Acts iniquity;
Oh England, what should I doe for thy sake?
Hosea 6.4.
Oh London, what could I doe more, for thee?
Thy Goodnesse being, but like Cloudes i'th day
Or Mornings-dew, which passeth soone away.
92.
Oh 'twas the Lords meere Mercy plenteous,
That Wee, all wee, were not consumed quite;
Because his sweet Compassions faile not Vs,
But, are renew'd, eued euery Morne and Night:
For, when we call, or Crie, he heares vs straite,
Yea, Hee on our Repentance (oft) doth waite.
93.
Oh Lord, though our peruerse Iniquities,
Our great Transgressions, 'gainst vs testifie;
Though our Back-slidings, foule deformities
Lamenta [...] 22.23.
Are growne vnto strange multiplicity;
Yet, for thy Names-sake thou hast mercie showne,
In time of trouble, We thy Truth haue knowne.
94.
Thou, that acceptedst Ahabs faind Submission,
Thou that e [...]en pittiedst Hypocrites false Feares;
Hast kindly taken our but meane Contrition,
And botled-vp our few, vnworthy Teares:
Thou, Israels-Keeper, stedfast Hope most kinde,
To doe vs good, hast had vs still in minde.
95.
If, what Benhadads Seruants said, was true,
1 Kings 20.31.
That Israells Kings, were kind and gracious Kings;Hovv much more sure, canst Thou both say and shevv,
That from Heauens-King, All Grace and Goodnesse springs,
Our Isr'ells King, That Hee's most kinde and sweet,
When Sinners, Him, vvith true Repentance meet.
96.
VVitnesse, and euer vvitnesse may That loue,
Th [...]t wondrous Loue of His, to Thee (late) knovvne
That most admired Mercie from aboue,
To London, latelie louelie, seene and shovvne:
To thee ô London, in thy wofull state,
VVhen Death and Dearth sought Thee to ruinate.
97.
VVhen sodainlie, beyond all expectation,
The Lord in Loue, did looke vpon thy woe;
And to his Glory and thy Admiration,
Th'ore flowing Flood-Gates of his Grace let-goe:
VVhereby full Streames of mercie issued out
And soone refresht thy Citie round about.
98.
The wonder full anasedaine ceasing of the Plague.
VVhereby (I say) thy weekelie Thousands wereBrought dovvne to Hundreds, Hundreds, brought to Ten;
Thy Ten, to One, thy One to None, thy Feare,
To safe Security vvas turn'd, and Then;
For Mourning, thou hadst Mirth, for sorrow, Joy,
For Sicknesse, Health, svveet Solace for Annoy.
99.
Thy Streets, vvere then re-peopled and replenisht,
And Girles and Boyes vvithin thy Walls re-sporting;
Z [...]cha. 8.5
Thy teares dry'd-vp, thy feares vvere from thee banisht,
Thy late fled-Sonnes and Daughters home resorting:
To their long-hoped Homes flocking amaine.
Thy Houses, yea Gods Houses, fild againe.
100.
Then thy sad Fasts into glad Feasts vvere turned,
Thy City fraught vvith Hir Inhabitants;
Then, Joy possest the Hearts of those that mourned,
Plenty supply'd the place of vvoefull wants:
This vvas the Lord, and tvvas most admirable,
This vvas our God, vvhose Mercies are most stable.
101.
Nay, yet a little stay and stand amazed,
In admiration of more Mercy, yet;
VVherein the Lord is, yet, more to be praised,
For (yet) another wondrous Benefit:
VVherein vve may most visiblie perceiue,
God leaues not giuing, till to aske wee leaue.
102.
But first, (oh and tis worst) consider vvell,
Hovv vvell, thou England didst requite thy God?
VVhose Grace, vvhose Goodnesse, thus did flovv, excell,
So soone, so sweetlie laying by his Rod:
Didst thou requite Him as he merited?
VVast thou made better, humbler-spirited?
103.
Nay didst thou not (Back-sliding England) rather
Rebelliouslie backe to thy Vomite hasten?
Didst thou not seeme to re-collect and gather,
More strength, thy selfe to Sinne more firme to fasten:
And like the Snake late f [...]stred at the fire,
Hast festred All, and re-incens'd Gods Ire.
104.
And since thy Heart grew so obdurate, hard,
That Pharao-like nought but the Rod could tame thee;
That thy late pricking Plague thoudst not regard,
That neither Words, nor Wounds would yet [...]e-clame [...]t
That nothing could thy hard heart mollifie,
But thou grewst worse and worse rebelliouslie.
105.
Since thou thy selfe, thy Sinnes wouldst not bewaile,
And we [...] thy Heart, and vveepe thy part in teares;
But would'st by Sinne, thy Selfe, thy Soule assaile,
And blocke it vp, with blacke affrighting Feares:
Such Feares therefore forthwith vpon thee came,
As able vvere a stoutest Heart to tame.
106.
Famine feared.
A Feare (I say) of Famines scarefull Fangs,Of piercing Death, by pining Dearth made hast;
With macerating, fierce and pinching pangs,
Our Sins fat fullnesse, foulenesse, to lay waste:
Their Prouinder from pampered Colts to take,
More tame and tractable them th [...]s to make.
107.
Mighty & [...]n [...]essant Shewers of [...]ai [...]. [...].
God, to this End, did send vpon the Earth,Such sad, incessant Shewers vnseasonable,
Whose rainey Influence did menace Dearth,
And (for our Sins, vnkind, vnreasonable)
Did poure vpon our Corne-fields most faire,
Fierce frequent Floods their beautie to impaire.
108.
Wherewith they (waxing to the Harues [...] vvhite,
And almost ri [...]e and readie for the Sickle)
Were, all, so drencht, nigh drown'd (a pitteous sight)
With Heauen-shed-Teares, which did in streames downet [...]
That our glad Hope of Haruest iustlie left vs,
Sad Feare of Famine, thereof quite bereft vs.
109.
A dreaded Deluge, on vs therefore growing,
And vve with doubtfull Danger all-su [...]rounded;
Huge Shewers of Raine from th' angrie Heauens flowing,
And all our Graine vvith Raine like to be drownded:
Then, not till then our heart the Rods smart felt,
Our Rockey-hearts, then into teares gan melt.
110.
Then like stiffe-necked Israell we did stoope,
Then our distresse forc'd vs to crie and call;
Then sighes and sorrowes made vs drop and droope,
Then vvere vve humbled and did humblie fall
Before Gods Foot-stoole, at his Mercy-seate,
And vveepe and vvaile for our offences great.
111.
Yea, then (I say) our King religiouslie
Publisht, proclaim'd a Fast throughout the Land;
A general Publike Fast.
Then, All were ordered in Humilitie,
With broken-hearts before the Lord to stand:
Mercie to craue and Reconciliation,
On true Repentance and due Reformation.
112.
And see (oh see and neuer cease t' admire)
Gods infinite, ineffable compassion;
Readier to giue, than we are to desire,
Yea, euen vpon appearance, shape and fashion
Of Penitence, Humility, and Feare,
See, see how soone, He lends and bends his eare.
113.
No sooner did our Griefe, his Grace entreate,
No sooner did we, prostrate, promise make,
Sin to forsake, but Hee, in mercie great,
His Wrath forsooke, his Kindnesse did re-take:
And on bare-promise (oh twas bare indeed)
He did no farther in his vvrath proceed.
114.
August 2. 1626.
For why, Behold (tis worth an Ecce, trulie)That very-day on which that Fast vvas kept,
Whereon, the Kingdome vvas assembled dulie,
Mr Burton, in his Popes Bul-baiting
Wherein they All for Sinne sincerelie wept:God graciouslie, the Sluice of Heauen did stop,
Immediatelie it ceast to raine, one drop.
115.
When wee gan weepe, the Heauens began to smile
Whe wee were sad and sorrowfull for Sinne,
The Sunne began to laugh on vs the vvhile,
As if, with vs, it n'ere had angrie bin:
The Heauens grim cloudie Countenance grevv cleere,
And did our Hearts with happie Change re-cheere.
116.
A sweet & strange change.
From That day forward, euen That very day,Most extraordinarie cleare and faire,
It constantlie continued▪ to display,
(Without least intermission) Sun-shine rare:
Till, by Gods goodnesse and his fauour great,
It banisht Feare and made our Joy compleate.
117.
Vntill (I say) our Haruest happilie,
Not onelie in due season was possest;
But (ô the Lords boundlesse Benignity)
Our Rarnes were All vvith great aboundance blest:
A Copious Croppe of euery kind of Graine,
Did vnto All men, Euery where, remaine.
118.
And is thy God (ô England) so propitious?
So prone, so prest, vvith mercies to embrace thee?
Vnto thee still so louinglie auspicious,
With so sweet Fauours graciouslie to grace thee?
How gratefully shouldst thou such Grace repay?
How should thy Heart thy thankes expresse alway?
119.
O how much care and Conscience should be shew'd,
So many marchlesse mercies faire to write
In datelesse Rubrickes of pure Gratitude?
And there to keepe of them perpetuall sight.
And at so sweet a sight, amaz'd to stand,
Admiring Gods great Loue vnto thy Land,
120.
And in this contemplating Admiration,
To praise the Lord and promise faithfullie,
To walke more worthie of so great Saluation;
To hate, those Sins, with zealous feruencie,
Which are the cursed Cause of all this Ill,
Which force perforce Gods anger 'gainst thee still.
121.
But, oh, ô woe, I tremble to relate it!
O yet, not yet, doe All these Mercies moue thee;
And as for Iudgement, Thou euen seemest to hate it,
Nothing availeth to reclaime, reproue thee:
Thou neither wilt for Judgements or for Loue,
Forsake thy Sinnes or feare the Lord aboue.
122.
Well, if his Rod may not reforme thy Riot,
Take heed and tremble, for Hee hath an Axe;
Wherevvith he can thee quicklie quaile and quiet,
If thou in Sinne, vvilt worse and worser vvaxe.
And if his Axe be laid to th' Roote 'oth' Tree,
O then without redemption, vvoe is thee.
123.
Then, He, that vvith such Longanimitie,
Hath stood and knocked at thy hard-Hearts doore;
Will stay no longer, but most angrilie,
As thou hast grieu'd his Spr'it, Hee'l grieue thee more:
Then thou shalt crie but Hee will giue no care
Because when Hee did call, Thou wouldst not heare.
124.
Then, maist Thou feare, least in his high displeasu [...]
In stead of thy late dreaded Dearth of Bread,
He send a Famine fearefull, out of measure,
Euen of his Word, whereby the Soule is fed:
Without which Food the Soule will starue and die,
And be expos'd to vtmost Miserie.
125.
Oh then I say (but, ah, good Lord forbid)
Our Candlestickes being from vs ta'ne away,
Our Soules caelestiall Light would quite be hid,
Our Feet at euery step would slip and stray
Into the myre and Mudde of odious Errour,
And we made Subiects of all woe and Terrour.
126.
Then, since we did our Fathers stripes deride,
Hee'l giue vs ouer to his Seruants Rage;
A gap, a gate, He (then) will open wide,
To let in Foes, whose furie to asswage:
Nought shall suffice, till they Vs quite deuoure,
And Captiuate our Princes to their power.
127.
O England, England, call to mind these things,
Recant, repent, thy great Ingratitude;
Cease to incense Heauens glorious King of Kings,
B [...]times returne, before He thee exclude;
Oh yet tis time, now then returne with speed,
Before his wrath to This extent proceed.
128.
Returne, Returne, I say, Breake off thy Sinne,
Why wilt thou perish, English Israell?
Oh, now, to sue for Sauing Grace, begin▪
To cease from Ill, and trulie to doe well:
And which is most and best, obedient be,
To All, thy God, in Ought commandeth thee.
129.
And, what (ô England vvhat doth God require?
What speciall Thing doth Hee from Thee expect?
O He hath tould, and taught thee his desire
What Sacrifice his Soule doth most affect:
Iustly to deale, and Mercie to embrace,
Humbly to walke, before his sacred Face.
130.
Iustice (I say) to Loue and doe what's Right,
To doe to All, vvhat Thou'd'st haue done to thee;
To haue a pious and a pitteous Sprite,
Wrongs to forgiue, as thou'dst forgiuen be:
To walke before the Lord vvith Constancie,
And a pure Heart, in true Humilitie.
131.
To pay those Vowes vvhich Thou to God didst make,
In bitternesse and sorrow of thy Heart;
That thou wouldst Sin, yea All thy Sinnes forsake,
Yea, from Sinnes Least Appearance to depart:
Sinnes nauseous Vomite to euaporate,
And n'ere, with Dogges, It re-ingurgitate.
132.
To search thy Heart, to search and seeke, and finde
That traiterous Achan, Sin-bane of thy Soule
To pay and punish it, in Jts due kinde,
The pride thereof to pull-dovvne and controule:
Thy selfe, for Sin, to iudge, condemne, arraigne,
So, God, thy Iudge from iudgement vvill abstaine.
133.
That so, thou turning from thy Paths peruerse,
Thy God from thee may turne his Plagues away;
And his vindicatiue Verdict reuerse,
His heau'd-vp Hands from striking stroakes may stay:
That thou returning to his Courts of Grace,
He may returne to thee with Loues embrace.
134.
That, as thou yerst in Sin didst take delight,
So, now thy Loue may on the Lord be set;
That so thou mai'st be gracious in his sight,
Thy Sauiour hauing satisfi'd Thy Debt:
And by his Merits made Redintegration,
Twixt God and Thee for thy poore Soules saluation.
135.
Hee hath not dealt with euery Nation, thus,
Nor haue the Heathen knowledge of his Law;
He hath not lou'd them, as he loueth Vs,
Nor wrought or sought so many vvaies, to draw
Them from their Lusts vnto his Lo [...]e and Lure:
As vnto Vs, Vs to protect, secure.
136.
For vvhich, euen These, All these blest Arguments,
These good, these great, these gracious signes of Loue;
For these, All these vnpatternd Presidents,
Of boundles Bounty, Mercie from aboue:
A holy Life, an vpright Conuersation,
And thankefull Heart is best retaliation.
137.
These are the Twins that wins his Loue and fauour,
These onely make a Compleate Sacrifice;
This Franckincense and Myrrh hath sweetest sauour,
These make most aimable in Gods Eyes,
The Person and the Present, Abel-like,
And into God, new force of fauour strike.
138.
The 5 Senses.
This Mu [...]icke in Gods Eare doth sound most sweet,This Picture pleaseth most his sacred sight;
This sauourie Meate is for Gods Palate meet,
This fragrant Po [...]ie doth his smell delight:
This siluer-tuned-string to strike and touch.
God most affects, besides These, ther's none such,
139.
O then, that Wee had Hearts as full of Praise,
As God hath Hands full fraught with blessings store,
O that our Hearts and Hands would ioyne alwaies
Gods Goodnes, Greatnesse, duelie to a dore:
Like Jonathan and Dauid faithfullie,
Two indiuiduall Friends in Loyaltie.
140.
To publish and proclaime in Verse and Voyce,
In Words and Workes the Mercies of the Lord;
With gratefull Hearts (Gods, onelie louelie Choice)
His workes of wonder trulie to record:
O that our Tongues, our Hearts, Hands, Liues and All,
In Gratitude, could be reciprocall.
141.
That so the Lord might still more pleasure take,
Daylie to Loade vs vvith his Gifts of Grace;
To Crowne vs with new Comforts and to make
Our Nation, th'only Station and prime Place,
Wherein to shew the Sun-shine of his Loue,
Whereon to shewre his Blessings from aboue.
142.
To make our Land the Land-marke and example
Of Mercy, Plenty, Peace and Victorie;
Vnder our Feet our Foes to tread and trample,
VVhich at his Sion, haue an euill Eye:
Out of their Heads to make the Eye to fall,
That longs and lookes to see his Israells fall.
143.
Meane while, Let Vs and all the World accord,
Let Heauen and Earth, and Sea, vvith vs combin [...]
Let all our Fellow-Creatures, helpe afford,
Let Windes and Waters, with vs all conioyne;
To sing and sound, to preach and to proclaime,
The Lords victorious, euer-glorious Name.
144.
Let Kings, Peeres, Prophets, People sing his praise,
Let Old and Young, Let high and Low, Rich, Poore;
Let Fishes, Fowles, and Beasts his bounty blaze,
Let Wells, and Woods, let Hills and Dales, adore
The sacred Name of God our Lord supernall,
For All his Mercies, Temp'rall and eternall.
145.
Let Men, Let Saints and Angels, blesse the Lord,
And, Him, for euer praise and Magnifie;
Let All that is in Heauen and Earth record
The Name and Fame and matchlesse Memorie
Of our eternall-ternall heauenly Lord:
Let England, and All English-Hearted, then
VVith Mee, blesse God, and say, Amen, Amen.
FINIS.
Gloria in excelsis Trin-Vni Deo.
Diuers of DAVIDS Psalmes, According to the French Forme and Metre.
Psalme the 1.
1.
HAppie, thrice happie is that holy Saint,
Which doth Himselfe with no bad Course acquaint:
Nor in the wayes of wicked-workers walketh,
Nor Sits ith' Seate of Him that proudly talketh.
But in Gods Lawes, Gods Holy Word most bright,
His Soule doth choicely, chiefely, take delight;
Prizing This Pearle, aboue all Earthly Treasure,
And, Herein Night and Day, planting his Pleasure.
2.
Hee, surely Hee, iustlie compar'd may be,
Vnto a faire, a fruitfull spreading Tree,
Planted by Springs of Grace, Fruite (timelie) bringing:
Euer in All-Things blest, in Goodnesse springing.
But for the rotten Roote and tainted Stemme,
Of wicked Workers, 'Tis not So with Them;
For, when with worldly Hopes, Themselues they flatter,
The Winde of Gods Wrath, Them, like Chaffe shall scatter.
3.
The Wicked, therefore, (oh most wretched case)
Shall ne're be able to approach the Face
Of God, in Iudgement, and iust indignation;
Nor Sinners come into Saints Congregation.
For, God doth like, allow-of, much respect,
The Wayes and Workes of All his Saints Elect;
But, Hee, the Paths of Peruerse-Men reiecteth:
Perish they shall, For, He, them All, neglecteth.
Psalme 2.
1.
VVHy did the godlesse, gracelesse Heathen Crew,
So rage and raue with furious Indignation?
Why did the faithlesse Pharisaicke Jew
Striue to make thriue his vaineimagination?
Why did Earths P [...]inces, Potentates, with Might,
So bend and band, Themselues, with wrath appointed?
So troupe together, arm'd with deadly spight,
Against the Lord and Christ, his deare Annoynted?
2.
Let vs say They, (ah fond and foolish choice)
With our strong Hands their Bands and shackling Fetters,
In pieces breake; And disobey their voice,
And shake their Yoke from Vs, and our Abettours.
But God, whose habitation is on High,
On his caelestiall Throne sits, sees, derideth
Them and their Counsailes: And (then) angrilie
To Them, Hee'l speake, when's Wrath on them resideth.
3.
Then, to their shame and sorrow, thus Hee'l say;
J, yea euen J, haue on My sacred Syon,
Set and Set fast my King, to rule, for Aye,
(On this blest Mount) All, which doe Him relie-on.
Novv I will shew Gods Counsaile and Decree,
Thou art my Son, I haue begotten Thee,
This Day and in my Kingdome interessed.
4.
Aske of Mee, then, and I'le on Thee bestow,
All Pagan-People, with their Pompe and Treasure ▪
All Crownes and Scepters of the Earth below,
To stoope and stand at thy Command and Pleasure.
Thou them shalt manage, master, curbe and crush,
As, with an I [...]on-Mace, with Princely-Power,
As, Potters Vessels, Those thy Vassalls, hush,
Thy Might shall make most meeke, or soone deuoure.
5.
Be wise, therefore, ye Potent Princes, All,
Yee Iudges graue, be prudent, prouident,
In awfull reuerence, at Gods Foot-stoole, fall,
Serue Him, with humble-Ioy, most diligent.
With kindly Kisses (signes of Homage true)
Salute the Sonne, Least his iust indignation,
Being soone enflam'd, yee meete Death as your Due:
Blest, then, are They, in Christ that seeke saluation,
Psalme the 3.
1.
O Lord, what Numbers rise
Of armed-Enemies,
With Wrath and rage incited,
How many furious Foes
Me compasse and enclose,
Against Mee, All Vnited.
How many say and sweare
My Soule to fright and feare
That God is from me parted,
And that I am (now) left
Of hope, of helpe bereft
And shall be soone subuert [...]d.
2.
But, They themselues deceiue
My God will me ne're leaue
But be my strong Defender:
My Sword and shield of might
My Glory and Delight
Thou, Lord, my Life dost tender.
Therefore with Heart and Voice
I made the Lord my Choice
And call'd vpon Him solely;
And Hee in wonted Loue
Did heare me from aboue
Out of his Mountaine holy.
3.
I, thus most safely kept,
Lay-downe and sweetly slept
And rose, much recreated;
For, God, my gracious Guarde
Did 'bout me watch and ward
And me in safety sta [...]ed.
Though, then, Ten-Thousand Foes
Should me surround, oppose,
With might and mischiefe armed:
I would not be affraid,
Nor any whit dismaide.
For I could not be harmed.
4.
Rise-vp, therefore, ô Lord,
Thy gracious helpe afford
For, Thou my Foes hast foiled;
And broke the Teeth and Cheeke
Of wicked men that seeke
My Life to haue quite spoiled.
Thee onely, Lord therefore,
My Soule doth prest adore
And praise for my Saluation:
Thou dost thy Folke defend
And all good Graces send
To thy blest Congregation.
Psalme the 4.
1.
O Lord my God my Rights defender,
O heare my call attentiuely
Thou of my Liberty art lender
And in disgrace my case didst tender,
Haue mercy (then) and heare my crie.
O Sons of mortall men why muse you?
To turne my Glory into shame;
Why, fondly, vaine deuises choose you?
Why, forged, fained, Lying vse-you?
And so your-selues deface, defame.
2.
Know this, and be thereof assured,
That God aboue in Loue doth choose
The man to Piety inured;
By his good Grace to be secured,
And will not his Request refuse.
To sin, therefore, oh shame, oh shake-you
To search your Hearts most seriouslie
Into your Clossets close betake you
In Bed to God, petition make-you
With silence and Sincerity.
3.
Then, giue to God a blest Oblation,
A Sacrifice of Righteousnesse
A [...]erfect-Hearts Humiliation,
And free from anxious Dubitation,
Trust in the Lord, in All distresse.
Most men, for, Wealth make inqui [...]itio [...],
And Goods, as Gods, doe most embrace;
But, as for Vs, our prest Petition,
Is, for a free and full fruition,
Of Gods blest Beames of heauenly Grace ▪
4.
For, This, This brings to Mee, more Pleasure,
My Heart, Herein, takes more delight,
Than They can find in all their Treasure
Their Oyle and Wine in wondrous measure
Whereon they plod to please their sight.
I being (therefore) safe secured,
Will rest in peace and sweetly sleepe
Because I know and am afsured
Gods Goodnesse hath me round-immured,
And Hee, Hee onely, will me kee [...]e.
Psalme 5.
1.
VNto my submisse Supplication
attend, Lord lend thy gracious Eare;
be pleas'd, be prest, my voice to heare,
Regard from Heauen, thy Habitation
My Meditation.
2.
O hearken to my poore Petition,
my sacred God, my soueraigne King,
for, onely vnto Thee I bring,
In humble, hearty, due submission,
My Soules Contrition.
3.
Lord, timely, let me be respected,
for, tim [...]ly, I to thee will call;
betimes, ô heare, and helpe withall:
On thee I waite to be protected,
And safe direct [...]
4.
For, Thou, ô God, all gods excellest,
in Goodnesse and in Faithfulnesse,
and louest not least Wickednesse,
With wicked-Workers, Thou n're dwellest,
But, Such repellest.
5.
Fond Fooles, Thou euermore reiectest,
they dare not stand in thy blest sight,
and all that doe in Sinne delight,
Thou, vtterly, ô Lord neglectest,
And dis-respectest.
6.
The smoothing Flatterer, soothing Lyer,
that calls Good, Euill; Euill, Good:
The Homicide that thirsts for Blood,
God will (in fine) confound with Fire,
In his fierce Ire.
7.
But, I will in thy Congregation,
in thy blest Temple, Thee adore;
and trusting on thy Mercies store,
Expresse my Hearts Gratification,
With due Prost [...]tion.
8.
Lord, guarde, and guide, and safe protect-mee,
in wonted Loue from all my Foes,
their Stratagems and Plots disclose,
In thy plaine Paths, ô Lord direct-mee,
And still affect-mee.
9.
For, in Them, lightnesse, lewdnesse raigneth,
their Hearts are fraught with fr [...]ud and guile
their Throate a gaping Graue most vile,
Theit lying Tongue no Truth retaineth▪
But falsely f [...]ineth.
10.
Lord, therefore, let them quite be quelled,
let all their Counsailes come to nought;
despise, disperse, their ill-workes wrought,
For, they against thee haue rebelled,
And proudly swelled.
11.
But, Let all those whose expectation,
is fixt on Thee, in Thee reioice,
and let thy Loue lift vp their voice,
In triumph and true admiration,
Of thy Saluation.
12.
For, Thou, thy Saints and Sons defendest,
and with thy Grace as with a shield;
to Them dost saf'ty, succour, yeeld,
On them, Thou all thy blessings sendest,
And kindly tendest.
Psalme the 6.
1.
LOrd, in thine Jndignation,
And iust exasperation,
Correct not mine offence:
And though, I blame doe merit,
Yet, let me not inherit,
My Sinnes iust Recompence.
2.
But, in thy Mercy rather,
Entreat me as a Father,
And mildly with me deale:
For, all my Bones doe quiuer,
My flesh for feare doth shiuer:
My so [...]es Lord (therefore) heale.
3.
My Soule is also troubled,
My sorrowes, thereby doubled,
With inward Griefe and Paine;
But, oh good God be speedy,
To helpe Mee, poore and needy,
Oh doe not, long, refraine.
4.
In wonted Grace be pleased,
To see my sorrowes eased;
Returne and pitty take:
No merit in me, count-I,
But, for thy boundles Bounty,
And thy meere mercies sake.
5.
For why? If Death once take-vs,
And vitall-Breath forsake-vs,
Thy fame we cannot blaze:
And in the Pitt infernall,
Who can extoll th' Externall,
And his due Glory praise.
6.
My Soule, with inward anguish,
In sighs and sobs doth languish,
And ready is to faint;
And, for sweete Rest and Sleeping,
My Bed euen swinnes with Weeping,
Salt-shewers in Singes complaint.
7.
Through my incessant crying,
My Heart is oft neere dying,
My sight growes dimme and old;
In high despight, displeasure,
To see, in such high measure,
My foes, so bad, so bold.
8.
But, now away ye wicked,
Which at Gods Grace haue kicked▪
Be packing euery one;
For, God is pleas'd in Pitty,
To heare the dolefull Ditty,
Of my deepe sighs and moane.
9.
The Lord, to my Petition,
Hath granted kinde admission,
And heard me from on high,
He did not onely heare me,
But graciously did cheare me,
And grant me full supply.
10.
An [...] now my Foes are frighted,
Wh [...] Mee so much despighted,
And causelesly did wrong:
[...]ey sodainely are wounded
And shamefully confounded
By God my Guardian strong.
Psalme the 8.
1.
Omnipotent Lord God, most great, most glorious
Whose noble Name and Fame is most victorious
Aboue the spacious, specious Heauens high,
Yea, all the World throughout thy praises flie.
2.
Yea, euen by the mouthes of Babes most tender
Thou hast made knowne thy might and glries splendour,
And by their, mouthes hast stopt the mouthes of those
Which were both Thine and Their reuengefull Foes.
3.
And when I see (as oft I see, admiring)
The Heau'ns most faire, in all their rare attyring,
The splendent Sun, the Moone and Stars most bright
Those twinckling-Spangles, ordered All aright.
4.
Lord, [...]nke I then (as well I may, amazed)
Oh what is Man, whom thou so high hast raised?
Or what's the silly Son of all man-kinde?
That thou art pleas'd to haue him so in minde.
5.
For, Thou, ô Lord, our good our great Superiour
To Angels, haste him made, not much Inferiour:
And hast him Crown'd with dignity and Grace
And in thy armes of Loue dost him embrace.
6.
He is made Lord of all thy Workes of wonder
Hee, solely, wholy, is to keepe them vnder;
As, their great-Master, Earths-Monopolite,
To crouch and creepe at his most awfull sight.
7.
Oxen and Flockes of Sheepe, on Mountaines straying▪
And Beasts in woods and Wildernesses preying;
Birds, Foules, and Fishes, which in th' Ocean play,
And All that there doe cut and keepe their way.
8.
Therefore (ô Lord) I must reiterate
Thy glorious Name, thy Fame perpetuat [...];
And sing and say; of how rare excellence?
Is thy due Praise, through Earths circumference.
Psalme the 10.
1.
VVHy standest thou (ò Lord) aloofefrom Thine ▪
Why art thou not more neere, propitious▪
Oh let thy louely Beauty on vs shine▪
Now at this time, a time so perillous:
Thy Presencath [...]r [...]s, thy Abse [...]ce troubles vs
But, let their Craft, be their confusion wholely.
2.
Of his lewd Lusts he hath a high conceit,
And thinkes his owne Inuentions, fine and faire
The Couetous accounts Himselfe most great
Hold himselfe blest and best, a man most rare:
But, Hee to leaue, neglect the Lord doth dare
His impious Pride, his Heart, so eleuateth,
God he forgets, on God, ne're meditateth.
3.
Because his wayes, alwayes, doe prosper well
He (therefore) Thee and all thy Lawes neglects;
Because thy Will, his Wit doth farre excell,
Therefore thy Hests hee hates and dis-affects:
Defies his foe which frendly Him corrects;
In Heart, he sayes, no change can ouerthrow-me▪
My state no fate can fell, no Feare o'reflow-me.
4.
His mouth with curses is both foul [...] and full,
His Tongue is tipt with fraud and flattery,
He is most prompt, Goodmen, with Guile to gull ▪
And in his Lips lyes mischiefe secretly:
And still he trauailes with Iniquity,
For guiltles blood, he waites in priuie places
The Poore to spoile, into his Toile, Hee chaces▪
5.
And like a Lyon lurking in his Den,
He secretly and slily spreads his nets;
To catch and crush, poore, silly, simple men
Whom, he by craft and couzenage to him gets,
And with his smoothing, soothing, on them sets
Thus, multitudes of Poore-men, he betrayeth,
A [...]d pittilesse, on them he proudly preyeth.
6.
And then He fondly, falsely, sayes in heart
Tush, God regards not, what we doe or say,
He hath forgotten or is gone a part,
Hee neither sees, nor knowes our worke, or way:
Arise, therefore (ô Lord) make no delay,
Lift vp thy hand, let Ill men be distressed,
Guarde and regard the Poore, by them oppressed.
7.
O why should bold blasphemous Imps, most vile,
Falselie affirme that thou regardest not?
Yet Thou dost sit and see and at them smile,
And pai'st their Vice with Vengeance, their iust Lot:
But friendlesse Orphans, thou hast not forgot;
And since, they solely, wholy, Thee rely-on,
Thou' [...]t be their Helper, from thy sacred Syon ▪
8.
Pernicious and malicious men conuince,
Their Armes and Harmes, their fraud and force destroy;
For, Thou art our eternall Lord and Prince,
Let not the Heathen, thy sweet Land enioy;
Lord beare the Poore and cleare them from annoy:
Yea, thou dost heare and helpe, at need dost render,
And right the wrong of Poore and Orphans tender.
Psalme the 15.
1.
O Lord of Loue what Man shall rest▪
Within thy Tabernacle?
Or, who (ô Lord) shall be so blest▪
Of Syon-Hill to be possest
For's happy Habitacle.
2.
The Man whose gracious Guide thou art,
In Paths of sure Sincerity;
Whose wordes and workes, whose Hand and Heart
In equall ballance beare a part,
Whose Tongue speakes all pure Verity.
3.
Who takes no pleasure or delight
In false Calumniations;
Who, in Himselfe, doth not backbite,
And suffers none, his friend to smite,
By forged Defamations.
4.
Who doth condemne, contemne, despise,
The proud, profane, malicious;
But, in his heart doth praise and prize
The, Godly, Gracious, Graue, and Wise,
And is, to These, propitious.
5.
Who Payes (though to his preiudice)
Things promis'd, or protested:
Who hates Vfurious-Auarice,
Who loues all Vertue, loathes all Vice;
Shall be in Heauen inuested.
Psalme the 23.
1.
Isr'ells great Shepheard is my Shepheard kinde,
In him (therefore) All needfull things I finde;
Corporall Comforts, aliment externall,
Spirituall Dainties, Manna, Food supernall:
In Fields Hee foulds Mee, full of tender Grasse,
Where siluer-streames doe smoothlie, sweetly passe.
2.
And, when my Soule with sorrow seemes deprest,
The Lord re-cheeres It,, with sweet Peace and Rest,
And me with Rules of Righteousnesse instructeth,
And me (in Goodensse, graciously conducteth:
So that in Deaths dire Dale I walke secure,
Thy Rod, thy Staffe, supporting Mee most sure.
3.
And, maugre all the malice of my foes,
My Cuppe, with All choice Blessings ouerflowes,
My Table is with Dainties well appointed,
My Head with Oyle of Gladnesse is annointed:
And, all my daies, Gods Grace shall me defend,
And in his holy-House, my Life I'le spend.
Psalme the 51.
1.
OH, Euerliuing, Euerlouing Lord,
Compassionate Mee wicked Wretch of Wretches,
And in thy Mercies boundles, endlesse Riches
Remit, remoue my Sin, thy Loue afford:
Oh wash and rench and drench and clense my Soule ▪
From this my crying Crime, my fact most bloody,
Which, in Sins slime, and puddle myrie, muddy,
My Soule with soyle, hath made both full and foule.
2.
Deserued shame and sorrow, me compell,
To make patheticall complaint, confession,
And, to recount, recant, my grosse transgression
Which in my presence, present, still doth dwell.
Against Thee Lord, against Thee most of might,
I, surely, [...]orely, solely, haue offended
If Thou (therefore) 'gainst Me, All-Plagues had'st bended,
Yet, had thy Doome bin duty, truly, right▪
3.
In Sin (alas) I was both Borne and Bred,
From Parents paps, the milke of sin, I sucked,
And from their Loines, the seeds of sin haue plucked,
And, still, on Weeds of Wickednesse haue fed.
But, Thou (ô Lord of Truth and Right,
Dost like and loue plaine Truth in pure affectirn,
And in me hast infus'd, for my direction,
Internall Wisedome, my best Light, Delight.
4.
With Mercyes-Hysop, purge and purifie,
My Sin-full, Sin-foule Heart, most blackly blotted,
Wash me, [...]h wash me, all with sinne bespotted;
So s [...]all I passe white Snow in Purity.
So shall I re-enioy a ioyfull Voice,
My Maladie, to Melodie be turned:
My broken Bones, which haue, with Groanes, euen burned,
For Tones of Moane, in Tunes of Mirth reioyce.
5.
Oh, no more chide, but hide thy frowning Face,
From This my hainous, hideous, horrid Errour;
One-smile re-cheeres, One-frowne renewes my Terrour ▪
My sinne from Thee' my shame from Mee (then) chace.
In me, create, oh re-create, I prays
A pure, a perfect Heart, an vpright Spirit;
From me transplant, what-ere thy Wrath may merit,
And in me plant, whatf'euer please thee may.
6.
Oh doe not, as an Abiect, Me reiect;
Nor Mee from thy Heart-Cheering Presence [...]euer,
Thy Grace-inspiring Spirit, from me, Neuer
O Lord remoue, which should mee (safe) protect▪
Restore, repaire in mee, such sacred Joy,
In mee, let thy free-Sp'rit finde Habitation,
Mee to instruct; Sin, in me, to destroy.
7.
Thus, I my-selfe hauing thy waies well knowne,
Shall, Others, well instruct, conduct, therein;
Sinners, to Thee Conform'd, reform'd from Sin,
Thy perfect Path-way, shall, by me, be showne.
Oh quit, oh quite remit my bloodie Crime,
O God, my Soules best Guide, my Guardian blessed,
My Hope, my Helpe, when I am most distressed,
So shall I sing thy Praise in sacred Rhyme.
8.
Vnlocke my Lips (ô Lord) my Tongue vntie,
(Thou keep'st the Key which opes and shuts, at pleasure)
So shall my Voice in most melodious measure,
[...]hy peereles Praise, make knowne and magnifie.
For, Thou hast no desire and lesse delight,
[...] burnt Oblations, outward Sacrifices;
In Hecatombes, of n'ere so precious-prices,
Though These, all-These, to Thee, I offer might.
9.
But, Thou dost tender, a most tender-Heart,
A broken-Spirit, full of true Contrition;
A Soule that sues, and shewes Its due submission,
With This, This offering, Thou best pleased art.
To Syon (therefore) Lord propitious be,
Jerusalems weake walls re-edifie;
Not for their Merit, but thy Mercies free,
So, we with Hearts most free, most thankefully,
Shall, our Oblations to thine Altar bring;
Peace-offerings due to Salems peacefull King.
Psalme the 52.
1.
OF wicked Workes, thy Heart intendeth,
Why vaunt'st thou, Tyrant vile?
Since Gods loue lasteth, neuer endeth:
Thy Tongue with mischiefes file,
Like Razor sharpe, doth deadly wound,
Fraud, in thy Facts, is found.
2.
Thy Minde all mischiefe meditateth,
Thou wilt not walke vpright;
Thy Tongue vntruth, still machinateth,
In Lyes is thy Delight:
With Wiles and Guiles, ô double-Tongue,
Thou, ready art, to wrong.
3.
Therefore shall God supplant, displace-thee
Out of his Holy-Land;
Finally, fearefully, deface thee,
Not suffer thee to stand:
The Righteous shall see thy decay,
And feare and scorne and say,
4.
This Man, his Goods as Gods adored
And on his owne strength stay'd,
Gods helpe and Ayde, he ne're implored,
See (now) his folly paide;
But I, who trusted God my King,
Shall like an Oliue spring.
5.
For euer (therefore) I will praise thee,
My Heart, my Verse, my Voice;
For These thy wondrous Workes shall raise thee,
In Thee now to reioice:
Yea, in thy Saints most sacred fight,
For, This is my delight.
Psalme the 53.
1.
THe faithlesse Foole in Heart his God denies,
Their Facts are sull of foule Abhomination;
Ill, is the end of all their Consultation,
None of them will good Actions exercise,
All are vnwise.
2.
On Man below, God look'd from Heauens high Throne,
To see, if Any wiselie Him affected;
But, All were nought, All had the Lord neglected,
Goodnesse was gone, Good men (alas) were None,
Oh no, not One,
3.
The wicked Workers of Iniquity,
Know not, that They, like Caniballs detested,
As Bread, My Peoples Flesh, haue eate, digested,
Not minding Me: And, when no-cause was nigh,
Feare made them flie
4.
The Lord hath broke thy bold Bestiegers bones,
And them destroied▪ which neuer God rely-on;
But, thy Saluation, out of sacred Syon,
Giue, to thine Ir'ell mitigate their moanes,
Their Sighs and Groanes.
When God in Goodnesse, and his owne free-Choice,
His People-Captiu'd, Captaines makes, victorious,
And with firme freedome makes them glad & glorious;
Then, Jacobs Heart and Isre'ls shall reioice,
With cheerfull Voice.
Psalme the 55.
1.
LOrd looke vpon my poore Petition,
Hide not thine Eyes at my Contrition;
But, grant my Suite, my Supplication;
Attend, ô bend thine Eares to me,
My dolefull cries, my sorrow, see,
Oh see and send me thy Saluation.
2.
For why, my furious foes take pleasure,
To vexe, perplexe me without measure;
The wicked worke me vile-vexation:
With most malicious madnesse, They
Foule blots and spots vpon me lay,
With much despight, much Molestation.
3.
My Soule with feare doth faint and tremble,
The paines and pangs of Death assemble,
And me (ô me) haue so surrounded;
That dreadfull, direfull shiuerings make;
My heart, each vitall Part, to quake;
In woe I am wound-vp and wounded.
4.
Then▪ thus I wisht, wi [...]h sorrow stinged,
Oh that I were with Doue-wings, winged;
Swi [...]tly [...]o flie, sweetly to ease mee;
Oh [...] I would fly farre away,
Then would I in some Desert stay,
This, in this case, would somewhat ease mee.
5.
Then from these Stormes and Blasts loud-blowing,
Fast would I flie, swiftlie be going;
Timelie to seeke some safe Protection;
Their Tongues (ô Lord) diuide, forth-pull,
For, I haue seene their Cities, full
Of Rage and Wrongs most foule Infection.
6.
VVith wickednesse, like Walls, tis closed,
Within, without, of Si [...]ne composed,
They, Day and Night are 'bout it walking:
All Guilt and Guile are in their streets,
Deceit, Debate, (There) slilie greets,
There, sinne, and shame are stoutlie staulking.
7.
Had open-Enemies thus vs'd-me,
Or had my foe, I know abus'd-mee;
I could, their wrong haue shun'd or shielded;
But it was Thou, my Bosome-friend,
VVhich friendship, fauour, didst ptetend,
Whose company much comforr yeelded.
8.
VVith whom in Publike, priuate talking,
Abroad, At-home I oft was walking,
And frequently Gods House frequented:
Since (therefore) craft and mischief [...] dwels,
VVithin their Citties and their Cels,
Let them be with Hells-plagues tormented.
9.
But I, with Hearts low consternation,
VVill call to God my Soules saluation,
For, He will soone succour and saue me:
At Morning, Euening, and Noone-tyde;
When instantlie to God I cride,
He heard, and what I crau'd, He gaue me▪
10.
Though, Warres and Jarres me sore assailed,
Yet, 'gainst me haue they not preuailed,
For Heauens Angellicke-Hoaste stood by me;
The Lord that raignes both first and last,
Shall Me lift-vp and Them Downe-cast,
His mercy he will nere denie-me.
11.
Because they see no change, mischances,
Because their fate, their state aduances,
Therefore they haue the Lord neglected:
On friends they lay iniurious Hands,
Of f [...]iendship, they doe breake the Bands,
To be Peace-Breakers most affected.
12.
With smoothing, soothing, Honey-speeches,
With cr [...]oching, creeping slie beseeches,
Their Hearts of Gall, like swords haue wounded:
But, cast thy Care vpon the Lord,
For, Hee sweet succour will afford,
The Iust shall neuer be confounded.
13.
Blood-thirsty-Homicides pernicious
Deceitfull-Iuglers, sliely vicious,
Thou Lord wilt bring to dire Perdition;
They shall not liue-out halfe their Dayes,
But, thy sure Helpe, my Hope shall raise,
And I will trust in thy Tuition.
Psalme the 56.
1.
A Gracious Guardian, Lord, be thou to mee,
Least I by wicked men ingulfed be,
Who mee with Warre, incessantlie molest;
My furious foes each houre,
Addressed are me dailie to deuoure,
Huge hostile-Heapes, of foes most fearefull power,
(Oh supreme Lord, my strong defensiue Tower)
doe fight and me infest.
2.
When of my foes I was (at first) affraid,
To thee, ô Lord, alone, I look't for Ayde,
And on thy mercy, meerelie, did depend;
And did reioice in thee,
For, in thy Word, as in a Glasse to mee,
Thy promise of protection I did see;
Therefore, of flesh affraid I will not be,
For, God, will me defend.
3.
Mine owne aduise, hath dailie ill-successe,
My foes also, full fraught with wickednesse,
Set all their Thoughts a worke, to worke me ill;
With ioint consent they ioine,
And secretly, and slily they combine,
And priuatelie they prie to vndermine,
My wayes and workes, that so they may infine▪
My Soule ensnate and kill.
4.
They thinke (but falsely-thinke) they shall escape,
And though they swimme and swell in Sin, they gape,
And fondlie dreame, after Impunity;
[Page]But, oh my God arise,
In wrath confound thy foes, mine enemies,
Recount, record, my many miseries,
And bottle-vp the Teares of my sad Eyes,
In Records let them lie.
5.
When I the Lord my God doe inuocate,
My foes in flight from me doe properate,
This firme, I find, for, God is on my side;
In God, I ioyfull trust,
In him I ioy and in his promise iust,
Vpon his Word, my Selfe I therefore thrust;
And say and shall, I feare not Wormes and Dust,
For, such is Mans best Pride.
6.
My Vowes (therefore) which I ô Lord haue made,
Shall duly, truly, vnto Thee be paide;
Praise will I render, tender, in thy sight;
Especially because,
Thou hast my Soule redeemed from Deaths Iawes,
And staide my straying feete from Errours clawes;
That so I might, vpright, walke in thy Lawes,
With such as liue in Light.
Psalme the 101.
1.
OF Mercy and of Iudgement, I am writing,
Thy most due Praise, my Laies are now inditing;
For vnto thee (ô Lord) alone belongs,
Such Psalmes, such Song
2.
In prrfect wayes my feete shall walke precisely,
And I, at home, my workes will order wisely,
Vntill my Soule sincere, aproach thy sight,
All-blest, all-bright.
3.
By me, bad workes shall not be imitated,
By me, Back-sliders Actions, euer hated
These, All of these, my Heart shall quite disdaine,
refuse, refraine.
4.
My vpright Soule shall neuer be acquainted,
With Wicked men, whose workes with sin are tainted;
From me, a Peeuish and a peruerse heart,
Shall packe, shall part.
5.
Back-biters Tongues that with wickedly haue wounded
Neighbours Good name, by me shall be confounded;
I neuer could a supercilious looke,
Once b [...]are, once brooke
6.
Mine Eyes of Loue shall euer be reflected,
On faithfull-men, to be by me protected;
With me The man that liues religiouslie,
Shall Liue and Dye ▪
7.
A Fellow fraught with sly Dissimulation,
Shall neuer haue, with me, cohabitation;
A Lyer, from my Presence, presently,
Shall fall, shall fly.
8.
I will destroy (and that, with Expedition)
All wicked-wilfull-workers of Transgression;
Not one of These, in Gods most Holy-Land,
Shall stay, shall stand.
Psalme the 103.
1.
MY Soule, laud thou the Lord of thy saluation,
And be thou fill'd with humble exultation;
Praise him, my Heart, and euery part within:
O praise the Lord, for all his Guifts be gratefull,
Which hides and heales All thine offences hatefull,
Enormities, Deformities, of Sin.
2.
Whose Loue, my Life from dreadfull Death protecteth,
Who me with matchlesse mercie still affecteth,
Who hath me fill'd and fraught with All good things:
Whereby my youthfull yeares seeme fresh renewed,
Like Eagles, hauing their old Bills eschewed,
Gods iustice to th'oppressed, comfort brings.
3.
His Paths and Praecepts, Moses well hath learned,
His wondrous workes, his Isr'll cleere discerned;
The Lord, is like a Fountaine full of Grace;
Most slow to wrath, most swift to loue and fauour,
Most readie to remit remisse Behauiour,
He chides not long, nor to his Ire giues place.
4.
Our ill-wrought workes, he hath not ill-rewarded,
Nor with sins due our sinning-Soules regarded;
But, As Heauens bright starre-glorious Curtaine faire,
Is, in vnknowne, vnshowne, Sublimity,
Full distant from Earths deepe Profunditie,
So, to his Saints, much more his mercies are.
5.
God doth remit to vs, our foule offences,
God doth remoue from Him our negligences,
Euen full as farre as th'East is from the West;
And, as a Father, to his Child extendeth,
Paternall Pitty, though he Him offendeth;
Like Loue, the Lord, hath to his Saints exprest.
6.
For, God, the great Creator of each Creature,
Doth know our mould our fashion and our feature;
His All-seeing Eye doth spy-out euery part;
How fickle and how brittle is our Nature,
How soone cast downe in our most stable stature,
Once strooke with Deaths All chilling, killing Dart ▪
7.
Hee also knowes that Man is altogether,
Like Grasse or Hay, which instantlie doth wither;
Such is his Time, such his condition true:
And that the fragrant-flower which shewes most brightlie,
Our fading Person personateth, rightlie,
Now faire, now foule, dispell'd like mornings Dew.
8.
For, As when mightie stormes doe blow and bluster,
Vpon faire flowers and Blossomes in their cluster;
They fall and fade, and are not (after) seene:
So, is mans fairest forme transformed quicklie,
Assaulted, by distemp'ring Tumours sicklie,
And now He fades, who yerst was fresh and greene.
9.
But, as for God his Goodnesse, aye, remaineth,
And his deere Childrens Childrens state sustaineth,
Euen All that worship him Religiouslie:
Which in their Brests, his Hests and statutes treasure,
And trulie know and duly doe his pleasure,
With Hand's and Hart's intact Integrity.
10.
Within the azure starry-skye supernall,
The Lord hath plac'd his Regall-Throne eternall,
And rules the World by his Emperiall-might,
Yee potent Angels, who are most obedient,
To worke his will in All-Things, most expedient,
Publish, proclaime, his Honours glorious; Right.
11.
O ye his Hoasts, most valiant, most victorious,
Officious Seruants, Praise his Name all-glorious;
You, which are prest, addrest, to doe his will:
Let All his Workes, in Euery-place applaud-Him,
Yea, let my Heart, my Minde, my Spirit, La [...]d-Him,
And All, within me, prize and praise Him, still.
Psalme the 105.
1.
O Laud the Lord with Inuocation,
Amidst his holy Congregation;
Shew-forth his Workes, set-forth his Fame:
Sing praise, sing praise, vnto his Name,
And let the Heart, the Tongue and Voice,
Of Them that loue the Lord, reioyce.
2.
O seeke the Lord our God eternall,
O seeke and search his Power supernall;
O seeke and sue to come in sight,
Of his most louely Beauty bright;
Of his most aimable Face,
Full of refulgent heauenly Grace.
3.
Keepe still in due Commemoration,
Recount with true gratification,
The wondrous Workes which God had done:
By famous facts, His Honour wonne,
Let not his Iudgements iust depart,
From your most mindfull, thankfull Heart.
4.
Ye sacred Sonnes re-generated,
Ye Saint-like Seed, first propagated,
From Abraham, Gods Seruant deare:
Which, Him in Faith doth loue and feare,
Ye Sonnes of Jacob, his Delight,
Extoll the Lords maiesticke Might ▪
5.
For, Hee which safely Vs preserueth,
He onely, of Vs best deserueth,
To be our Lord and Soueraigne blest:
Haning apparently exprest,
His Iudgements iust, his Equity,
Which all the World can testifie.
6.
What he hath promis'd and protested,
To All that on his Promise rested,
Euen to his Saints, a Thousand-fold;
Which, on Him, with Faiths-Hand lay-hold,
Vnto his euerlasting Praise,
His Word he hath made good alwayes.
7.
Euen, That blest Promise once compacted,
That Cou'nant-good, once, prae-contracted,
To Abraham and Isaacs Seed;
And so to Iacob was decreed,
And vnto Jsr'ell stablisht sure,
To Times last period to endure.
8.
When, in these words the Lord affirmed,
And (thus) to Those, his Truth confirmed,
Behold, I Canaan, freely giue,
To you, and yours, therein to liue;
The Lot of your Inheritance
My Name and Fame (their) to aduance.
9.
And, though the number of that Nation,
Was, yet of slender valuation,
Did, yet, but very small appeare:
When (thus his Loue esteem'd Them deare,
And that, Beside their Number small,
They, in the Land were Strangers-All.
10.
Walking from Nation vnto Nation,
Without all settled Habitation,
Now Heere, now There; Conducted still,
By their all-prudent Pilots will;
Who suffered No-man wrong to take,
But plaug'd great Princes for their sake.
11.
And, where they came, Thus, charg'd, appointed.
Let None offend My deare-Annointed,
Nor vse my Prophets spightfullie!
For, These are precious in mine Eye;
Fierce Famine (then) the Land ore-laide,
Whereby Their Staffe of Bread decaide.
12.
But, God, good Ioseph, then ordained,
By whom (fore-sent) They were sustained,
Though thither, He a Slaue were sould:
Though Foes in fetters, Him did hold,
Vntill, in Heauens appointed time,
God heard his Cause, clear'd him of Crime.
13.
Pharao him found a faithfull Liuer,
And him from Prison did deliuer,
Th' Egyptian King was to him kinde:
And in him did such wisedome finde,
That of his Kingdome and whole state,
He made Him Lord, prime, Potentate.
14.
That All his Peeres might be instructed,
And to his Lore and Lure conducted,
His Senators by Joseph raught:
Then Jacob was to Egypt brought,
I'th' Land of Ham (then) Israell,
Did as a harbour'd stranger dwell.
15.
His flocke his stocke (there) fructified,
And to great Number multiplied?
And, thus their foes did farre transcend:
Which inly did their foes offend,
Which turn'd their Loue to Hatred great,
Their Smiles to Guiles and slie Deceipt.
16.
Milde Moses, then, the Lord elected,
And holy Aaron much respected,
Both-whom to Egypt soone he sent:
There to declare his great intent,
And in the Land of Ham, to showe,
His signes and wonders to their woe.
17.
Darkenesse, strange Darkenesse, his Commission,
Did, them, obey, with expedition,
And ouer-spread All Egypt Land:
And by Heauens All-ore-ruling Hand,
Their Waters-All, gore Blood became,
And slew all Fishes in the same.
18.
With croaking Frogs He them infested,
Their Land and Lodgings where they rested,
Not sparing Pharaoes Chamber neate:
He sent huge Swarmes noisome and great,
Of crawling Lice and stinging Flies,
'Mongst their hard-hearted Enemies.
19.
Instead of Raine, Haile-stones he rained,
And with fierce flames of fire, them bained,
And thereby totallie ore-threw:
Vines, Figtrees, yea, All Trees that grew
Then Caterpillers did abound,
Great Grashoppers their fruites confound.
20.
Their first-borne Babes he deadly wounded,
And strongest of their Land confounded,
Yea, euen the prime of all their strength;
And led his Seruants forth at length,
All, fraught with Gold, and Siluer, store,
Not One was feeble, faint or poore.
21.
Th' Egyptians Hearts were then reuiued,
Being of their Presence (thus) depriued,
Such feare of Them had broke their Heart;
And as they thus did thence depart,
A Cloud by Day, hid them from Heate,
Their Guide by Night, a Fire most great.
22.
At Their rebuest, He, Quailes downe-rained,
With Manna sweet, their state sustained,
Whiles, through the Wildernesse they went:
And then the rigid Rockes he rent,
From whence did Floods of Water flow,
To quench their thirst, as they did goe.
23.
For, as he euer was delighted,
With mindfulnesse of Promise plighted:
So (then) the Lord did mind the same:
And to his euerlasting fame,
He brought them fo [...]th with mirth and Joy,
Whence, they had liu'd in dire Annoy.
24.
Yea, such, to them was his good Pleasure,
That, all the Labours, Lands, and Treasure,
Of Heathen-folke, his flocke did take;
That they might not his Lawes forsake,
But faithfully obserue his Lore,
Oh let vs praise the Lord therefore.
Psalme 107.
1.
OVr good GOD euer-liuing,
O laud and magnifie;
For, Hee delights in giuing,
Good Guifts incessantly;
Let Those, preach and proclaime,
Gods powerfull Preseruation,
Whose fierce foes he did tame,
Freeing them from Vexation.
2.
Them, scattered, He collected,
From th'East vnto the West;
And brought them (thus affected)
From North and South All-blest:
Yeo, when in Wildernesse,
Bereft of House or Citty,
They wandred in distresse,
He shew'd Paternall Pitty.
3.
When fearefully they fainted,
All pin'd with Penurie;
With thirsty Drought euen tainted,
And ready for to die:
With sorrow, thus, o're-charg'd,
Heauens helpe they then implored,
Then God his Loue enlarg'd,
And them to Ioy restored.
4.
And from their Desolation,
He led them like a Guide;
[Page]Vnto a Habitation,
Where they might safe abide:
Let thankefull Persons, then,
The Lords great Loue be telling;
And to the Sonnes of Men,
His wondrous Workes excelling.
5.
For, He in bounteous measure,
The hungrie Soule hath fill'd;
And his caelestiall Treasure.
On thirstie Hearts hast still'd.
But Those that doe reside,
In Deaths darke Habitation,
Fast fetter'd-vp and tide,
With Chaines of Desolation.
6.
Because they had rebelled,
Against Gods Holy-writ;
And gainst his Counsailes swelled,
Esteeming them no whit:
Yet, when his heauie Hand,
Had brought them in Subiection;
When they in woe did stand,
Quite frustrate of Protection.
7.
Then with much Lamentation,
Gods helpe, they did implore;
Who, from deepe Desolation,
Did them to Ioy, restore.
And from the gloomey shade,
Of Death, where they were closed;
In Jron-fetters laide.
He powerfullie them losed.
8.
He snapt their Snares a sunder,
Their Bolts and Barres of Brasse;
To [...]et the People passe:
[...]e [...] thankfull Persons then,
The Lords great Loue be telling;
And to the Sons of Men,
His wondrous workes excelling.
9.
Fond Fooles hy their Transgression,
And foule Deformities,
Are forc'd to feele oppession,
And many Miseries:
Their Soule in Languishment,
Sweet Nutriment distasted,
In this sad Exigent,
Euen to Deaths doore, they hasted.
10.
Then, Ayde, they impetrated,
In this their deepe distresse;
And w [...]re commiserated,
And found a full redresse:
The Lord sent forth his Word,
With potent operation,
Which, did them Helpe afford,
Vnto their Soules Saluation.
11.
Let gratefull Men be telling,
The Lords great Goodnesse, then,
His wondrous Workes excelling,
Vnto the Sonnes of Men.
Let them with ioyfull Hearts,
Prepare a sweet Oblation,
And praise Gods glorious Parts,
And Workes of Admiration.
12.
Such as vse Nauigation,
In Ships to Sea being sent,
With indefatigation,
Their Marchandize to vent;
[Page] Those men see and behold,
The wonders of the Ocean;
Gods maruailes manifold,
In Sea's most mighty motion.
13.
For, at his Voice, like Thunder,
The Waters rise and rage;
Winds blow, Floods flow, with wonder,
Their Surges None can swage:
Alo [...]t, they lifted rise,
That Heauen they touch, They thinke;
Straite plund'g in woefull wise,
They seeme to Hell to sinke.
14.
Then, to and fro, they tumble,
Like men in drunken-fits;
They, Art-lesse, heart-lesse stumble,
Bereft of Sence and wits.
Then cry they to the Lord,
With loud eiaculation,
Who quicklie doth accord,
To send them Preseruation.
15.
For, at his Becke and Pleasure,
The sturdie Stormes lie still;
The Waues in wondrous measure,
Obey his Word and Will:
The Mariners thereby,
Are fill'd with Joy and Gladnes;
That their wisht Hauen they spie,
In safety free from Sadnes.
16.
Let gratefull Men be telling,
The Lords great Goodnesse then;
His wondrous Workes excelling,
Vnto the Sonnes of Men:
And let them laud his Might,
In the great Congregation;
And in great Princes sight,
Proclaime his sweet Saluation.
Huge Waters-Inundation,
He makes a Desert drie;
And with strange alteration,
Dries-vp Springs presentlie:
And, for the sinfull Band,
Of bad Inhabitants;
He makes a fruitfull Land,
Fruitlesse and full of Wants.
18.
Againe, dry Wildernesses,
Huge flowing Floods he makes;
And dry-Lands He redresses,
To Springs, and Pooles, and Lakes.
And, for Poore People, there,
Prouides an Habitation;
Where they may Citties reare,
With pleasant Situation.
19.
Where, they infruitfull measure,
May sow and Vineyards plant;
And so augment their Treasure,
That None need liue in want:
And God doth blesse them so,
In time of Peace or Battell;
That they most Wealthy grow,
In Coine, in Corne, in Cattell.
20.
But, when his Saints are wronged,
Diminisht and brought low;
And, what, to Them belonged,
Are forced to for-goe:
Then, their proud Enemies,
Though Princes, He distresses;
And doth so blind their Eyes,
To erre in VVildernesses.
21.
Yet, out of all their Troubles,
Poore Humble-Hearts he frees;
Their stockes and flockes he doubles,
Like Sheepe or Swarmes of Bees:
[Page]The Righteous this shall see,
And ioy with heartie Gladnesse;
But, Bad-mouthes stopt shall be,
With most malicious Madnesse.
22.
Oh, who is godly, wise,
And free from wilfull Blindnesse;
To marke and memorize,
The Lords great Loue and kindnes.
Psalme the 123. Paraphrased by way o [...] thankesgiuing for our great deliuerances from the Papists Pouder-Plot. King David against the Philistims; King Iames against the Antichristians.
1.
NOow may England
Confesse and say surely;
If that the Lord,
Had not our Cause maintain'd,
If that the Lord,
Had not our State sustain'd;
When Antichrist,
Against vs furiouslie,
Made his proud Brags,
And said, VVe should All die.
2.
Not long agoe,
They had deuoured vs All;
And swallowed quicke,
For ought that Wee could deeme:
Such was their Rage,
As We might well esteeme:
And as proud Floods,
With mighty force doe fall;
So their mad-Rage,
Our Liues had brought to Thrall.
3.
Our King and Que [...]ne,
The Prince and Princely-Race;
Their Counsell graue,
[Page]And chiefe Nobility;
The Iudges wise,
[...]nd prime Tribe of Leui;
[...]Vith all the prudent,
[...]tates-men of the Land,
B [...] Pouder fierce,
Had perished out of hand.
4.
Th [...] raging streames,
O [...] Rome with roaring noise,
Had with great Woe,
Ore-whelm'd vs in the Deepe:
[...] blessed Lord,
Thou didst vs safely Keepe,
[...]rom bloodie Teeth,
And Their deuouring Jawes;
VVhich as a Prey,
Had griped vs in their Clawes.
5.
[...], as a Bird,
Out of the Fowlers Grin,
Escapes away:
Right so it far'd with Vs;
Broke were their Nets,
And Wee haue scaped, Thus,
God that made Heauen
And Earth was our Helpe
His mercy saued vs (then)
From these wicked Men.
6.
O let vs therefore,
VVith all thanks and praise,
Sing, ioyfully,
To Christ our heauenly King;
VVhose Wisedome high,
This fact to light did bring:
Grant then ô Lord,
We doe thee humbly pray,
[...]e may accord,
[...] thy Name alway.
Amen.
[...] shall see, Gladness Theodorus Beza, In Hispanorum Classem, Diuinitus Ab Anglis prostigatam. Anno Domini. 1588.
STrauerat, innumeris Hispanus Classibus Aequor,
Regnis iuncturus Sceptra Britanna, Suis.
Tanti huius rogitas, Quae motus Causa? Superbos,
Impulit Ambitio, vexic A [...]aritia.
Quam benè, Te Ambitio mersit, Vanissima, Ventus,
Et tumidos tumida, Vos superastis Aquae!
Quam bene Raptores Orbis totius Iberos,
mersit inexhaustiiusta Vorago Maris!
At Tu, cui Venti, cui totum militat Aequor,
Regina, ô Mundi totius Vna Decus!
Sic, regnare Deo, perge, Ambiti [...]ne remota,
Prodiga, sic opibus, perge, iuuare Pios:
Vt Te, Angli longùm, longùm Anglis, Ipsa fruaris;
Quam dilecta Bonis, Tam metuenda Malis.
Thus Englished, by I. V.
PHillips huge Fleete did Floate vpon the Maine;
Lab'ring to linke faire Englands Crowne to Spaine:
Do'st aske, what Motiues, mou'd Him to This Ill?
Twas His Ambitious, Auaritious Will.
VVell, was His Puffe of Pride, by Windes, ore-blowne;
His swelling Will by swelling waues, ore-flowne:
VVell was His Hope of Earthes whole Monarchie,
Ingulf'd in Seas immense profundity.
But thou (ô Queene) Worlds-Wonder, sole Delight,
For Whom, the Heauens, Earth, Seas, Windes, Waues, doe [...]ight;
Still Rule, still Raigne, from foule Ambition, free,
Gratefull to God, Helpefull to Good-men, be.
That England Thee, Thou England, Long mai'st nourish
Foes to Confound▪ Friends graciously to Cherish.
De Strage, Classis Hispanicae Anno. 1588. Incerto Authore.
VNdè Haecatra Maris Facies? Tantae vndè Procellae?
Et pro caeruleo Spuma, colore tumens?
Hispanum vasto, Nune, gurgite, mergitur Agmen,
Quot vix submersos, aequoris Vnda capit.
Sie Tharao commissa petens sacra Agmina Mosi,
Factus Erythraei, Piscibus Esca, Maris.
Hostis vterque Dei, Sanctorum et Gentis vterque,
Curribus, Hic, multis, Nauibus, Ille, potens,
Exitio, Currus, Nauesque feruntur, eodem,
Sanguinis vt satiet purior Vnda, Sitim,
Et regredi vt posset (Quoniam est Aggressor vterque)
Neutri, commoti Numinis Ira dedit.
Sic, reliquas Auidus Mundi sibi subdere Gentes,
Subijcit Anglorum Colla superba Iugo.
Quique alios spreuit, Vulgi fit Fabula, Vt alta
Qui viuens perijt, mortuus ima petat.
Quinetiam ardenti medijs occurrit in Vndis,
Non minus ardescens et ferus Ille DRACO.
Iste, quidem Paetriae succensus amore tuendae,
Ille, Anglas, sitiens, totus Auarus, Opes.
Sic, Flammae Vltrices, Flammas supera' [...]tis auaras;
Et Deus est Flammis, est quoque Victor Aquis.
Thus Englished by I: V.
VVHat meanes the Maines Foule-face, strange stormy-state,
And foamy Floods, whose Hew was Blew, of Late▪
The Reason's ready: Phillips Fleet, of Spaine,
Is drown'd i' [...]' Deepe, whose like, ne're sunke, i'th Maine.
Thus Pharao following Moses Holy-Band,
Was swallowed-vp i'th Sea, by Heauens Command.
His Chariots, Pharao; Ships made Phillip proud,
But, Shippes and Chariots, in the Gulfe were drown'd;
Their Thirst of Blood, the Flood did quench, confound.
And, since, Those bould Assailants malice great,
Had Heauen incens'd, Neither, made safe Retreate.
For, Spaine, that would imperiously rule All,
Was forced vnder Englands yoke to fall.
And, This proud Scorner, was to All a Scorne,
His high-built Hopes, ith' Deepe were left forlorne.
For, dauntlesse Drake, with martiall-fire enflam'd,
Affronts the Fire of Spaines Rage, timely tam'd.
Hee full of zeale his Countries Foes to foile;
Spaine spurr'd with Heate of Hate, our State to spoile.
But, Flames of iust Reuenge, Prides Flames ore-came,
Thus, GOD was GOD both of the Floods and Flame.
FINIS.
Omnis, Trin-Vni Deo soli, sit Gloria.
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