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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20681	Apollo Christian: or Helicon reformed		1617 (1617)	STC 708; ESTC S104423	21,858	50

were of them whom blessed Paul describes To bee the choysest glories of their Tribes Cloath'd in goat-skins without perfumes or dresse Wandring on mountaines and in wildernesse For-borne by wilde beasts but by Tyrants slaine Stoned in townes whom rockes let safe remaine And poore distrest from caue to caue did passe Of whom the wretched world vnworthy was And though that Henoch and Elias were Most eminent so that our Master here Vpon mount Thabor did the Thesbite see The Baptist was as great as hee or hee Therefore of him would Christ his baptisme take And was baptized for examples sake Jordan saw this and where our Sauiour stood Came trembling forward the abashed flood Vnworthy Christs most sacred limbs to touch Nor could the opening heauens admire too much This secret most profound that Mercies Sea In narrow riuer should contained bee Before this time Christ well declared had By arguing with the Doctors what was clad In scorned semblant Natures author hee How else cold fountaine water changed bee The first of his great wonders into wine Honouring marriage mystery diuine But who hath words sufficient to expresse The testimonies of his heauenlinesse Words are too weake seeing that other Iohn The Gospels Eagle Christs beloued One A flures vs nor is his assurance vaine That the wide world could not the Tomes containe Might written bee of miracles hee did Yet let vs touch some For enthronized Although hee bee right at his fathers hand This monument will to good purpose stand §. 5. OVt of pure nothing all the world was rais'd And beeing somewhat God the Sonne it pais'd God all powre gaue to him as hee was man Who wonders at it Hee who all things can May all things gouerne well and so doth hee Euangelists fowre of you such there bee Whom great Ezechiel poet most diuine In figures fowre exprest As Matthew thine And thine ô Marck Saint Peters scholler sworne And Luke and Iohn on Eagles wings high borne Matthew presented in a wing'd mans image Marck in a Lyons Luke CHRISTS mothers linage Describing by the winged Oxe is known Their harmony a perfect Vnison That what Iustinian of the Septuagint In Romes lawes most authentick instrument What Aristaas or the Fathers write Concerning Scriptures brought in Greeke to light At Ptolomees command t' enrich the store Of Alexandria's bookes the same much more Is certaine in the Gospels rare concent Those first Translatours of th' old Testament Diuinely did accord although apart They sat in seuerall cels that so to Art Their harmony could not imputed bee By the same Spirit did these fowre agree Their concord worthiest to bee most admir'd As most vndoubted and alike inspir'd Not in one place as were those seauentie two Nor at one time and what they had to do Was not deriuatiue but originall Vpon this Quadrate Euangelicall This rockie Basis truth her towre doth build Which spite of weather still hath stronger held Himselfe writ nothing nothing did commit Or did omit which the most captious wit Could charge for sinne or could be better done Enough enough this shewes he was Gods sonne Maiesty made him others pens to vse And Deity his spirit to infuse §. 5. MOst wondrous this that he should bee so poore As not to haue or couch or homely bowr In which to rest his venerable head Propriety by him vnpractised Such as are downe in meanes doe feele this state Most difficult of all to eleuate And that a weight of wonder lies therein O whither yet from hence did he not win Nothing to haue and yet all things to sway Apostles twelue Disciples do obay Thrice two times twelue to his magistrall will These he did cloath these he with food did fill Out of his doctrines force For Lordships hee And farmes had none though his the whole earth bee With whatsoeuer creatures are therein Th' Oeconomie of Hierarchie seene They begg'd not they lackt nothing nor tooke care For morrowes a felicity most rare Hee Primate among his and worthiest was Prouiding that no day should ouerpasse To bee repented as in wants dis-spent What of the Author of the firmament Durst men hope lesse The blinde the deafe the lame The dumbe sicke dead who to their senses came Through his immediate gift were infinite Hee grew authenticke in the peoples sight Angels who had beene chang'd from white to blacke From faire to fowle from such as no blisse lacke To such as all blisse want and others make To lacke alike hee did so throughly shake That among swine they gladly harbour sought Nor could obtaiue till leaue of him was got Thus was the Diuell trampled vnder foot As God had promis'd when in natures root Man blasted was by his infernall guile §. 6. FRom hence let me conuert my mounting stile To the last act of his most wondrous life His sermons we omit in Gospell rife Rife and exact as the rein penned downe By God who spake them And in all the crowne Of auditors who did not rise admiring Or who doth read his words and more desiring And thinking more from roading doth not rise Witnesse those daily swelling Libraries Growne out of comments on his sermons made Into whose depths no mortall wit can wade Nor line can sound th'abysses of his lore We often know the lesse by knowing more Abysse begets abysse mysterie mysterie All schooles are blanckt all eloquence all hystorie Nor lies this hardnesse in th'Euangelists Who weaue their text with most transparent twists And on the precious ground-worke cause t' appeare The images of acts so perfect cleare And with proportion so exact and true As make no dainty of an open view Nor doth the Greeke with dialects vex the sense As th'Hebrew with their words equiualence To sundry vses th holy phrase is fit Aswell for loftiest as for lowest wit And as much as the largest tongue can bee To all intents of full capacitee Nor stints the maruell heere For who so dull That somewhat not conceiues and who so full Whose stores may not encrease ten thousand fold Gods wisdome in it doth the wonder hold Abstract from miracles for weake ones granted Who wholly build on them are often scanted His parables his sentences his speeches Are altogether such as no minde reaches The fulnesse of their Anagogicke sense Pole is from pole not so farre distant hence As Fathers Doctors Counsels are farre short Not of the truth but of th' entire purport Yet is it written and that writ is right That in his light wee faithfull should see light And from one cleerenesse passing to another Last times should open what the first did smother O had wee beene so happy from on high As to haue felt the force and energie And most victorious vtterance of Christs words Did Scripture as it substances affords The postures of his action shew to vs And gestures grace which th'artificious Are so much in ô had we beene so blest Rapture could onely serue to speake the rest Enough to constitute a proofe past

nor that Preist though what he sayd was true Of Greekes antiquities which as Greece did want So that Preist bragg'd making an idle vaunt Of Acts of ages and th' Atlanticke Ile To glorifie his Memphis and his Nile For that no nation this day vnder skie Nor euer could shew such antiquitie As Moses hath deliuered of the Iewes And in this faith bee confident my Muse Nor had the heathen onely thus the seed And roots of knowledge but euen skill to read Letters the inuention of the Hebrewes were Not theirs who dwelt at Sidon and at Tyre Two cities of Phaenicia most renown'd Whose colonies replenisht Carthage ground Though Europe at the second hand might haue Letters from thence which Iewes to them first gaue For th'Hebrewes letters had before the flood How proue wee that The proofe wee haue is good Iubal when th' earth her first fruit yet did beare Nor had or hills or Iles which after were So some conceiue as waters ouerswayd And an vneuenesse in the euen globe made Iubal as most authenticke rolls declare Iubal contriued how to tune the aër Apt notes inuenting and to them inuents The solemne harp and other instruments Which without letters how could men deuise Letters the stayes of notes and harmonies So idle those conceipts th' old heathen tell How the first gittarn was a Tortoyse-shell Whose sinewes dride and toucht did yeild a sound Or Cyclops hammers to bee musicks ground Againe before the flowd that Henoch spake Character'd was Tertullian proofe doth take Out of that Author as Canonicall And him defendeth So of right should all For Iude th'Apostle Henochs booke doth cite And bookes were not till learned Clarkes could write Of doomesday Henoch propheside before Heauens cataracts had drowned the earths shore Conceipt so impious no man entertaines As if the Bible were of humane braines The politicke or euphantasticke birth There can bee no such prodigie on earth Nor is there Atheist neither can there bee Sweare it who will death neuer shall it see Therefore no neede to busie mee to prooue That in the which 't is damn'd least doubt to mooue For who Gods Church contemne yet by the shine Of the workes selues must yeeld the workes diuine Yea they seeme falne from charitie too much Who can beleeue there can be any such For though in heart the foole sayd as he sayd And as a bruit would faine it so haue had Yet Dauid notes it onely for a thought And not a Thesis Thus letters are the worlds debt to the Iewes Which Moses most excell'd in best did vse His Pontateuchus or fiue Tomes diuine Antiquities treasures are and learnings shrine Tribonian therefore wrong'd Instinian much Heathens wrong'd Christians calling Homers such And should we grant that Moses did not passe Though farre he did what euer glorious was Learned and great in all the world beside Yet whatsoeuer was the cause of pride Of gloriation or of largest fame Among the noblest Heathens all the same Christians haue right to not as Israels Tribes To Aegypts iewels their departures bribes But because God was Natures Lord and shee Their Goddesse but our selues Gods children bee They are but bastards or as hirelings base To Moses they Moses to Christ giues place Moses the Hebrewes through red seas did guide Christ through hell-fires Moses dampt Pharaohs pride Christ Lucifers Moses did Manna giue Christ th' Eucharist which makes vs euer liue Moses led Iewes but vnto Palestine Himselfe not entring Christ to land diuine Himselfe first entring did conduct his flocke Salomons Temple whose braue worths did mocke All the worlds wonders a poore semblant was Of that Ierusalem to which they passe Who through the red seas of CHRISTS bloud do go Or through their owne as Martyrs great or so IERVSALEM in her most happy dayes Compared with that Citie whose heauens rayes Th' Apocalyps describeth was but base A petty village voyd of powr or grace Siluer was as street-stones in Salomons time But in Christs city precious stones the clime Doe paue throughout and decke the glittering gates More odds between their persons then their states §. 10. MOst wonderfu'l was that which doth remaine Who might haue reared to himselfe a reigne A Monarchy such as th' Assyrian neuer Nor Medes nor Persians Greekes nor Rome had euer Fled from the people would not bee a King Because hee infinitely was a greater thing Fled from the people neither would command But as a God maker of sea and land Because his errand was to beare heauens wrath Which God All-mighty to all sinners hath And pay the vtmost farthing of mans debt Hee who is owne death with one word could let And could as Gods Word haue refus'd to bee This wtetched thing call'd mortall man euen hee Contented was to fall into soes powre Suffring himselfe during the dismall howre To bee in body his owne vassalls thrall To Herods palace tost from Pilats hall And hurried to and fro from bad to worse Annas and Carphas both within Gods curse §. 11. ANd why my Gôd and why Redeemer deere Didst thou submit thy selfe to such things heere O and alas what was there in vile man Which should inuite thee to endure such pain Was all the world of creatures so much worth As that thou therefore should'st a man come forth Flow yee my teâres sighes open breake my brest O sorrowes ô let others tell the rest Verily Gôd all that this frame hath fair All it hath rich all that the earth or aer Water or fire are bubbles in respect Doe not ah doe not thine owne selfe neglect Goe backe to heauen let vs to hell sincke rather Then thou endure thus much But God our Father Would haue it so And could there bee in God So great regard of vs Let any rod Let and plague afflict old Adams seed Rather then Christ But God hath it decreed What God hath once decreed no powre can barre But is it possible that men so farre Should fall from grace as to reduce them home Thou must from heauens heigth like a stranger come And bee held prisiner buffeted abus'd Scorn'd spet vpon scourg'd and with cudgels bruiz'd From Gabatha be showne and Bar-abbas Thou to the crosse called vpon let passe O is it possible that this should bee And thou Gods Son or which more woundeth thee That after all this man should liue ingrate 'T is possible Ah what can eleuate The groueling soules of mortals what can reare Their down-cast minds Thou didst vouchsafe to beare And wee thee blesse for bearing Mên aspire Your center is not earth but some thing higher To make vs free thy selfe becam'st thus bound To make vs children heires of better ground Then Canaan or Fdens selfe had any Thou lay'dst aside thy robes and glories many Thy crowne of starres scepter of diamonds bright Thy chaire of state thy chambers floor'd with light Thy galleries of saphyr gardens greene Adorn'd with musiue works and flowrets sneene Through which pure chrystall flowes on whose