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Iesus præfigured, or, A poëme of the holy name of Iesus in five bookes. The first, and second booke
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Abbot, John, fl. 1623.
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HIEROBOAMS art From IVDAS royall progeny doe part And scorning to haue DAVIDS Sonne their King Scepter and Crovvne to IEROBOAM bring And though it vvas expresse IEHOVA'S vvill That in no place but holy Sions hill They should obserue their Neomenian Feasts And sacrifice their Hecatombes of beasts The tipick bloud of Paschal Lambe be spilt In that sole Church vvhich SALOMON had built In Salems streats so many times each yeare Dilated IACOBS of-spring must appeare And none but those vvho are of Leuis race Shall in the Temple haue a Church-mans place VVhen Israels sons amongst themselues contend By AARONS verdict must the question end Desire of sou'raigntie and Empires cause Makes Ieroboam breake these holy lavves Hee 'le haue high places and inuent a God VVhich hath free'd Israel from PHAROES rod BETHEL and DAN shall haue tvvo Calues of gold And many Idols shall Bethauen hold His Pursiuants such passengers shall staie VVho tovvards Ierusalem doe take their vvaie For Tyrant thinkes his Crovvne not to sit fast Should Ephraim and Iudas friendship last Hee makes vnvvorthie vvights the incense burne To plaie the Priest any shall serue the turne Diuided thus sin vpon sin they add And though afflictions often make them sad Yet no ELIAS no Assyrian rod Can make the stiffe-neck'd tribes returne to God Vntill at last great Salmanazar came VVhip of Gods furie guerdon of their shame VVho vvith vvars-svvord the Infants bloud doth spill Defloures their Virgins and their vvarriors kill And vvhere his murth'ring furie doth not range They death for greater miserie doe change Hauing the markes of slaues gyues on their hands They are led captiue vnto forreine lands VVherein eternall seruitude they spend Their vvofull daies in seruitude they end Their vvretched liues But Iuda shall be taught VVith short captiuitie to mend his fault Though Babels Monarcke lead to Memphis tovvne Subjects and King yet vvhen his Son fals dovvne From Empires top the Persian Kings shall giue Iudaea leaue home to returne and liue In Sions tovvnes but Ephraims vvicked race Shall ne're come backe vnto their dvvelling place VVho did refuse to honour DAVIDS throne Vnder Idolaters opprest shall grone Thinke Grecian Dame my verse of thee hast spoke VVho from thy hautie necke hath cast the yoke Of diuine Order and in Northern ayre Exalted hast vvith Lucifer thy Chaire Thinking to meane a Patriarchall seate Aboue thy merits graunted yet more great Thou striu'st to bee and casting PETER dovvne On thy ambitious head dar'st vveare his Crovvne Carried in emptie Clouds of a proud hart Thou leau'st Christs sheepfold from Church dost part IESVS our humble God doth from his throne VVith angrie eyes behold tvvo made of one Hee hateth schisme and hath this sentence fixt The proud shall drinke a Cup vvith much vvoe mixt Thinke the incursions of the Sarzen King VVeare gentle rods thee back againe to bring And knovv that as thy schisme and sin did grovv So likevvise did increase thy plagues thy vvoe Hovv oft didst thou thy heresies forsvveare Hovv oft didst thou returne to PETERS Chaire Hovv oft didst thou againe vvith the foule Hog VVallovv in myre hovv often vvith the Dog Returne to vomit but Gods patient hand Can hold no longer h'eele no longer stand VVaiting repentance lenitie must cease VVhen often vvrongs admit no speach of peace Barbarians shall be scourges of thy sin Fierce Mahomet shall proud Bizantium vvin Thy Caesar murd'red in the streats shall die VVhere heapes of vngrau'de Citizens shall lie At a high price some vvretches buy their liues VVith goods losse and dishonour in their vviues Thy Romane Eagles yealde to Turkish Moone In Churches rights of Mahomet are done In fine thou suff'rest vvhatsoeuer harmes Vse to attend a cruell conq'rours Armes And vvho aloft vvith Lucifer vvould'st dvvell VVith rebell Angel tumblest dovvne to Hell Thy shame confusion is lavvlesse desires In practice put are thy tormenting fires Thy Conscience is the vvorme the Diuels Turkes The fires fuell is schisme and euill vvorkes VVith enuie thy teeth gnash part of thy paine To see thy riuall in such glorie raigne Darknesse thy ignorance and vvant of grace Disordred Passions horror of the place Thoughts of despaire thy miseries attend To thinke this seruitude shall neuer end For vvho in schisme didst vvith Samaria fall VVith her must suffer an eternall thrall But Rome in DAVIDS house the Goth the Hun VVith Citties spoyle shall punish faults vvhich done Adaulphus leading his fierce Goths to Spaine CHRISTS Vice-roye to his Rome shall come againe VVhere hee shall sit on DAVIDS promis'd seate And giue just Lavves vvhilst Sun giues vvonted heat To decke the Church a cunning vvorkeman paints The liuely Images of diuers Saincts But vvhat doth make most glorious shevv of all Is IESVS name vvritten on euerie vvall There see vvee PAVLE the name of IESVS hold Diuinely stampt in characters of gold VVhich flying through the vvorld vvith Cherubs vvings Hee carries before Potentates and Kings I 'le not vvith Silius goe to Maroes graue And at his dust a holy fury craue To praise this vessell but I le aske to share A part of CHRYSOSTOMES Caelestiall ayre That svveetly guided by his serious sp'rite As they require I maie PAVLES praises vvrite Pythagoras savv no Troie yet vvish I His vvittie transmigrations vveare no lie That vvhil'st I treat of such renovvned men Some Heroes spirit might direct my pen. Let his deuotes commend him for his zeale Or that he hath spread IESVS common vveale Throughout the vvorld afflictions sorrovves bandes Yea vvhat not suffred both on sea and landes The loue and chiefest object of my muse Shall be because our IESVS did PAVLE chuse A speciall trumpet to sound out his fame And blazon through the vvorld great IESVS name Exalting him vvith this peculiar grace For IESVS name to suffer in each place O three-times happie man vvhom IESVS chose For IESVS royall name to suffer vvoes As others praise him for his vvritings sake A title of their eminence they take Because proud Ievves and Gentiles he makes knovv That vvho disguis'd in seruants shape did goe VVas the MESSIAS their Creatours Son VVho for transgression vvith mankinde had done A ransome pai'd strong reasons he doth frame To shevv that nature and the lavv are lame And neuer can tovvards heau'nly Sion tread If IESVS grace doe not them thether lead But his Epistles I aboue the rest Commend and saie that they are therefore best Because in e'ury leafe yea line is found Of IESVS name the eares vvell pleasing sound Triumphant Martirs are dravvne all in red Each hauing a Baye Garland on his head VVhich at the Lambes feete humblie casting dovvne They him acknovvledge giuer of their Crovvne In the first place as Captaine of the band Doth glorious STEPHEN promartir stand VVho vvhil'st the multitude stones at him throvves Prayeth to IESVS for his cruell foes No