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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75925	Devout rhapsodies: in vvhich, is treated, of the excellencie of divine Scriptures. Also, of God, his attributes. Plurality of persons. Absolute monarchie. Angels, Good, Bad, their power. How the bad fell. Tempt man. Man, his fall. Beatitude. / By J: A: Rivers.	Rivers, J. A. (John Abbot)	1647 (1647)	Wing A67; Thomason E413_16; ESTC R1117	46,163	91

experience try If it bring death or immortality With this maugre Jehovahs frownes and threats The bold Virago the Apple plucks and eates Shee scarce had gorgd it when the subtile Snake Tickling with laughter in such manner spake Are not your eyes now open sure you know What 's Good and Bad but be not envious go Present your husband with an Apple and Both good and ill alike shall understand Le ts to the Devill give what is his due Though he equivocate yet he speakes true But why did he assume the Serpents shape Are not there other beasts the Fox the Ape The Dog the Elephant so wise as is The Serpent but he takes this vermins hisse To cheat our Grandame Satan will declare How neare allyed he and the Serpent are All other creatures onely will defend Themselves not unprovoked man offend This venome still in ambush lyes like Dan To bite our heeles and not toucht poysons man What harme did we the Devill that he shou'd Envy our happinesse prevent our good Then in the turnes and windings that he makes How does he represent the circling snakes Observe this plot and by one wile guesse all As he made Eve so he makes others fall Knowing the woman of the two more frayle He will the weaker vessell first assayle Knowing the man of sounder judgment he Sends his Embassadors to Adam shee Must play the Orator command the meate Turne Crocodile peule weep unlesse he eate By such seducers Solomon al-wise Forsooke his God Sampson lost strength and eyes If we dare trust the Jewes their stories tell How Nathan saw before King David fell His ardent love to Bershabe and thought To stay the Prince from his adulterous fault He trudges to the Court but in the way The subtile Fiend as a dead carkasse lay The Prophet stops his course to interre the dead Meane while the King defiles Vriahs bed Shall we conceive Adam was so unwise To think an apple could make cleare his eyes Indude with grace and a strong Intellect He could not but on Gods command reflect Wherefore we must beleeve his chiefest end In the transgression was not to offend His cogging wife A precedent of those Who to please others their owne soules dare lose So Solomon his Queenes so much affects That for 'em to false Gods he Phanes erects But did the mischiefe end in Adams sin No sure I our misery must here begin A businesse of such consequence that all Involv'd in him with him must joyntly fall Had he been single there had staid the doome But he was Father of the World to come And in his sentence we were censur'd who Nere understood what appertained to Transgression I st ' not strange one single crime Should last and blast all progresses of time Let Epictetus let the Stagirit With Divine Plato who have amply writ Of vertues and of vices speak the cause Why man so easily transgresses Lawes When all are dumbe our sacred Volumes can Tell wherefore all these mischiefes lite on man Adam had all our wils in his and we Eate joyntly with him the forbidden Tree His onely act that one pestiferous bit Had many thousand Aconites in it It scarce is swallowed when infernall gates With violence slye open Iron grates Of Hell are burst anxieties cares feares Sorrow with all her dropping children teares Suspition jealousie lawlesse desire Unbridled lust pretensions to aspire Fond joyes sad discontent at present state Aversion from good anger envy hate Avarice still greedy griping penury Dogging at the heeles of Prodigality Darknesse of minde perversity of will And what in both can be suspected ill Beguiling error pervicatious schisme C●ab-creeping heresie impious atheisme Idolatry alwaies inventing where New Gods may be adorde for love or feare Egypt to Ibis Rome will sacrifice To th' fire and Cloaca a Goddesse is These monsters with their pale commander death Kept hitherto close prisoners beneath Nor should they ever have beheld the Sun Hearing what man against his God had done Scorne longer to obey prescribed Lawes But they will forth and vindicate Gods cause By the effects judge Adam of thy fault These mischiefes are the purchase thou hast bought Corruption is the house the land sad woes In which though with teares watred no good growes Making at houre of death thy latest will Thou didst bequeath this Legacy of ill And for Ex●cutors the Devill trust Who though a Bankrupt yet in this is just And takes such care th●● jointly with our breath We doe rec●ive thy testament of death Hence issu● if we well ●●volve our Fate Those woes which follow mans accu●sed state Hence those afflictions which attend our wayes Those sad catastroph's of our wretched dayes Hence that unequall share of joy and paine A drop of pleasure but of woe a maine O hadst thou lov'd God more Eve not so well Thou wouldst have left us heires of Heaven not Hell Who can describe what 's sin Nothing at all And must the masse of man for nothing fall All things i th' world God made and God was glad That by his making hand they being had Onely thou misbegotten Monster sin As Bastards use stolest at the Window in Ashamed of thy birth God never put Least finger to thy Essence Hell was shut Thou wert ' the Key to open it day light Changde by thy birth into eternall night Curst be thy birth day let it not appeare Nor once be nam'd with th' other dayes o' th yeare Be long expected and as thou shalt faile Be curs'd of those who watch to chase the Whale On that black day let the Universe be sad And Furies onely at thy birth be glad For thou hast on us all these mischiefes ●urld And made a Pristine Chaos of the World And wee le be angry with thee Grandam Eve The Mother of this Child thou didst conceive The odious Monster Satan was his Sire But you adulterous Paramou●● conspire And with such slights juggle the businesse that Adam must father the mis-gotten brat God form'd thee of the mans selected bone To helpe him that he should not be alone This was your taske Have you not help'd him well And all his progeny to goe to Hell Eve must bring children forth in pangs and throes And make a joyfull father by her woes Which shee performes with a delight in paine One teeming past another hasts againe Eve must be subject to her Husband and A Vassaile alwayes be at his command Grounded on this some Common-weales ordaine A Salique Law the Distaffe shall not raigne Esteeming those God censured to obey Unfit for Government and Regall sway And this first fault all mankind so has vext That men take all the Nation for a text Of their invectives dip in gaule their quill And with Satyrick lines whole Volumes fill Against Eves sex who in much ignorance bred Unable are their proper cause to plead But had they pens as good as are their tongues

They amply would retaliate such great wrongs And we should read as well as loudly heare With how much patience they these scandals beare To my Honourable Friends Master EDWARD and Mistris RVTH PETRE Sermo Septimus The Argument We sing those Courtiers who attend the Throne And act commands of that most absolute One Who gives all takes from none but what before Issued from his never exhausted store We likewise treat with what despotike sway This Monarck governs Citizens obey PLATO fram'd a Republike and it cost Tullie much labour to write what is lost A Common-wealth so Aristotle writ His book of Politicks prooving in it How the best forme of Government is where One absolute Monarck shall the Scepter beare Be it so or not let slaine Cambyses Peres Dispute the Question jealousies and feares Arise on every side a Monarck may Turne tyrant Nero or Dionysius play Violently take your goods command your Wives And what more precious is then both your lives Bring in an arbitrary Government or feare or scorne to call a Parliament Forget himselfe and how one single clause Of his life more commands then all his Lawes He acts on a conspicuous stage and is Subject to all his subjects clap or hisse Thus Monarcks may decline and may not such Who to a state turne Kingdomes doe as much Suppose your Noblemen should beare the sway Even these may erre as well as tyrants may Consult combine to keep the people low And from the publike pressures potent grow A crafty party circumvent the rest Some few prevaile the bad oretop the best From reasons rule and square of Justice erre Before the generall private ends prefer Athens a slave by thirty tyrants made And Rome by the Decemviri betrayd These promis'd cures o' th body politick But made the same a hundreth times more sick Weary of Kings Rome ordains Consuls those Supprest shee ten chiefe Magistrates will choose Rods onely scourg'd her in the dayes of Kings And Consuls these few men with Scorpions stings Slash the poore Commons as none can be sure Of his owne goods nor in 's owne house secure The people grumble let 'em this base Yoake They brought upon themselves and till the' have broake Their Asses back i' th carriage must endure The burthen armed Cohorts shall secure The tyrants lives and military bands Force speedy execution of commands For the fond multitude they never knew Their proper good nor what belonged to Or worth or manners Peers and Monarcks know When they do injuries that they do so But the base Vulgars unrestrained wil Is model of their actions good or il A many headed monster yet not one Sconce stuft with Reason or Religion Fiery in prosecution of what 's new Which had they presently their wishes rue And you as easily may and even as soone Shape out and make a garment for the Moone Now crescent now i' th full now in the waine As satisfie the Vulgars fickle braine The Rable doated on this Parliament With clubs and staves for their protection went To Westminster gloryed to hear● themselves Cald Round-heads others Cavaliers new Guelphs And Gibelines what blood shed they what sights Adventur'd for the Parliamentall rights How bountifully did they give their store Of gold at Guildhall yea contribute more Then was requir'd City and Country cry T' have reverend Laud and active Strafford dye As enemies to'th Realme and Parliament And till their heads are off ne'r be content But now the case is altred they rayle on Both Houses cry downe for oppression Excises are so impudent they 'd thrust Them from their Voting whom themselves did trust With all their rights whisper expresse their spight In prose and verse most dangerous pamphlets write Yea some 't is strange so rash they dare proclaime Themselves the authors and subscribe a name Boldnesse and mercy these would spend their blood Most willingly our Senators are good And will not spil't knowing a Magistrate Should th' Emperour Nero yet young imitate Who wept when he should signe to th' deaths of men Condemn'd and wish'd he could not use a pen But howsoe're they hold a wolfe by th' eare Who court the multitude and still must feare Hee le byte 'em all their bones are broke in twaine Who seek the fickle Vulgars love to gaine So weak our providence so full of feare No state that 's perfect can be stablish'd here None formed yet a body politick That sundry noxious humours made not sick Eutopia fancied by our learned More Had faults and Platoes Common-wealth had more Let Genoa Jena Venice Amsterdam And my deare London a republike frame As they have fram'd some Constitutions are That erre from reason and with justice square Yet when Philolophers with all their wit Though some were States-men faile our sacred Writ Shall speak a Common-weale so sound so sure That for eternity it shall endure For lift your eyes up and contemplate them Who fill the Senate of Hierusalem There you shall see an ordered policy Establish'd a sure grounded Monarchy That on the Burgers has more blessings brought Then Common-weales have dream'd of or have sought A glorious City that surpasseth far Ninus vast Ninive or the grand Caire Though that could vaunt of threescore miles in length Wals of unmeasured magnitude and strength Almost two thousand towers as Babel high Threatning as Memphis Pyramids the skie Yet if with Sion you both these compare Both silie cottages both Sheep-coats are The pavement wals and roofe of gold are made With diamonds and precious stones inlaide That with their lustre give a constant light Although such need not for the sable night Is ever banish'd thence the fulgent rayes o th' slaughtered Lamb causing perpetuall dayes No watch no warding at the severall ports No military stations at the Forts Onely at every Gate an Angel stands And brandishes a Fauchion in his hands To keep Malignants ou● as heretofore Th' Angel kept watch and ward at Edens dore And when that shame of nature went about To break Lots house the angels kept 'em out Besides the Citizens al souldiers are Knights of St. Vincent for their fea●s of War They made their passage through a crimson flood As did the Israelites of Iesus blood And Satan mindfull he was vanqush'd here Scarce lifts his eyes to Heaven much lesse comes there The forme of Government is such one King To whom all homage owe and tribute bring His Court most glorious Myriads of those Peres Whose charge it is to volve the circling Spheres Assist his throne Cherubs who pierce and see The secret Orders of the Deity And those Seraphike Lords with firy love Inflam'd in and about the centre move o th' divine Essence Sedentary be The thrones and with a sweet tranquility Contemplate God Ore sublunary things The dominations sway and act their Kings Commands who uses to imploy the powers When he will curbe those enemies of ours Th' Acrian Potentates as