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B01731	A bottle of holy tears, or, Jeremies threnes and lamentaions for Israels misery and Ierusalems woefull desolation, metrically and metaphrastically laid out in verse, explaining plainely the meaning of the prophet in his lamenting phrases. Very suitable to these times, wherein we have a call every day to learne the lessons of Englands lamentation, warre and plague having made a strong entrance into divers parts of the land, and leane famine and desolation knocking at the doore for entrance.		1645 (1645)	Wing B3811A; ESTC R173018	29,429	53

Onely in mothers bosome they swoon and die And laid in street preach pity to each eye Verse 13. What shall I take or seek to earths utmost hem To witnesse for thee O Jerusalem Rhetorique is bankrupt thou hast begger'd th' Arts Ovirgin daughter of Zion all their parts Cannot similitudes coyne fit to expreile Thy dolours deluge all compares are lesse Inferiour much to thine Could I but fetch Example parallell from some dismall wretch Hence this small glimpse of comfort thou mighst see Thou we●● not singula● in misery Yet to the Sea thy sad estate compar'd Some part by that rude shadow is declar'd As those proud swelling waves the banks or'e reach Levelling high-crested earth with many a breach And fearfull ruptures thus tho waves of woe Broke in upon thee and ore run thee so As for thy breach small hopes of help remaine Nothing can stop when waves slow in amaine Verse 14. Fie (o) Dreaming prophets Ier. 23.23 Daubing prophets E●●k 22.28 cushion pillow prophets or elbow and armhole prophets Ez●●●● 18 Quam ration mchristo reddent ministri corum qui ipsorum culp● perierunt vel quia tacenda dixerunt vel quia dicenda tacuerunt Figveiro in Mal. Hicrosolymas de●●ruxerunt prophete titulis Italicis a Episc Landensis Episc Adulensis Episc placentinius on all oylie Serm●ns flattering tongues Of sweet-run'd Prophets that can sing no songs But peace and safety How could Zion stand When please-eare Preachers did infect her Land All 's well cry they thou hast some sins indeed Yet desolating vastations no●e we reade In all our visions Foolish things and vaine They see but see not sin bring captives chaine Had they set our Zions abhorred wayes And all her sins she had not seen these dayes Of sad captivity but their wi●s they spent To sift false causes of her banishment Verse 15. Behold the passengers that traveil by Doe wag their heads clap hands and hi●●ing cry Loe yonder ruin'd turrets piles of stone Was the worlds beauty and perfection Of all earths glorions Fabriches Can this be Jerusalems City we demolish●●ce Verse 16. See how thine enemies together flocke To vent the venome of their mouthes they mocke Some Serpent-like doe his●c some Dog-like grin Every one s●●ive the Scorners prize to win In acting best upon Derisions stage See see shee 's falne cry they in scornefull rage She 's swallowed up the day the day is come Of her woes and our wishes a sad doome Verse 17. This is the time wel●okt for long expested Gods purpose and dev●●e is now effected Long since he threatned he● for sinne of old His wrath sulfills what 's patience did with-hold She 's tumbled downe no piteous ●●n lo●t●●ngu● Draws ne●r heef●●s rej●ice their ho●n's made arong Verse 18. In the Lords c●rs their h●●rts aloud did cry O wall of Zion never more be dry Let slouds ve●ld ●o h●te ●●es nee● let sleeps key Look up ●li●●ne●●s w●●p●eill essenigh● and day Verse 19. Ri●e up and b●ak thy mi●night ●u●●ed●est In nightly watches powre ●ut he ●ta●d brest Before the Lord in Prayers h●ld hands on high Crying O save (p) Dent 28 53 T●ou thalt eat the sru't of thine own bod● the fl●h of thy sons and daughters in the sieg● and straitnesse wherewith thine enemies shall d'stred● d●●● 〈◊〉 babes which fainting lie Stab'd through with hu●ger at h●ad of every street Verse 20. O L●●d hehold a miserab●e s●g●t A spect cle of wee neverd d●eye Read sad ler Argument of Tragedy Shall (q) In the famine of Ierusalem Mary a rich wealthy gentlewoman of per● a boiled her own son to eat him Iosephus in 7 book of Iews wars Heressipp●s bring her in boldly inviting the Souldie●s that broke in i●ving smelt mea● saying to them I have male you a di●h of meat of my own● bowe 's come taste and ●ee how sweet my sons flesh is Be no● more maidealy and modest then ● mother what Souldiers more a e●ke and d●stardly them a woman But the Souldiers stayed their stomack● with ●●●ot of the fact Hegesip 5. ●ook chap 41 When Scipio took Numantia in Spaine so great was the famine that there were divers mothers s●und with the bodies of their children in their Iaps of which they had eaten the halfe Petion in sine Saryt Vnder the Emperour lustinian there was so great a famine in Italy that the greatest part of men and women died for hunger One saith fifty thousand died by famine in one part of Italy in selo piceno Two women of strangers that came and lodged at their houses in their journey had killed 17 at severall times whiles they slept and having killed them made them ready and eat them They attempted it on the 18 but he wakening ended both their famine and lives Divers mothers then did cooke their owne children for dishes of mout● Baronius 〈…〉 39 Alstedius in Thesau to chronol bowell-bleeding mothers take and eat Their span-long sucklings O abh●rred meat Alas their child-bed pangs were sport and mirth When travelling throwes fi●st brought these Infaats fo●th Compar'd with this when mothers they must feed Upon that flesh which their owne flesh did breed O heavy judgement of necessity Inventing food ' gainst Na●ures cookery ●no bit of such sad break-fast's worse then all Earths griefes that under imagination fall Shall Priests and Prophets slaine in Sanct●ary lie Finding no refuge nor no Sanctuary Verse 21. Both old and young in open streets lie slain My virgins and my young men drop like raine Falling by sword no pity doth thee stay From slaught●ing all in this thy wrathfull day Verse 22. As at some solemn time they are grathred all Girt round with terrours here and there they fall Nothing (r) I even I will teare and goe away I will take away and none shall rescue him Hosea 5.14 escapes for what can safe remaine When God a day of anger doth proclaime My babes the solace of my life which I Brought up with care and swadled these mine eye Why have I eyes to see it sees a prey Unto destroying enemies every day Verse 1. HOw hath the Lord covered the daughter of Ziom with a cloud in his anger and cast downe from heaven unto the earth the beanty of Israel and remembred no● his fcotstoole in the day of his anger Verse 2. The Lord swallowed up all the habitations of Iacob and hath not pitted he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong hold● of the daughter of Iuda● he hath brought them down to the ground hee hath polluted the kingdom and the Princes thereof Verse 3. He hath cut off in his fieres anger all the horn of Israel he hath drawn back his right band from before the enemy be burned against Iacob like a flaming fire whichd v●nreth round about Verse 4. He hath ●ent his bow like an enemy he stood with his right hand as an adversary slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the Ta●ernacle of the

extreme hunger Yea the dearth's so great As not one little loafe is left to eat Verse 5. They who before had all delicious fare Whose trencher rob'd the Earth the Sea the Aire Now in the streets become the beggers mates Wishing the fragments of their ancient cates The (i) Thus the great and glorious Bellisarius for whom in a triumph money was coynd and throwne among the people with this posie on it Bel●isarius the glory of the Romant yet afterwards he was cast so low as both his eyes were put out and he daily begged his bread in the temple of S. Sopbia often using this speach Give I pray one loaf of bread to Bellis rine whom vertue exalted hie and envie has throwne down as low Pezel Mellific Histor in Iustin●an 1. Thus Hormisda a Persian-Noble came from scarlet to the dung-hill for in that he would not deny Christ his Saviour the Son of God he was by the Persian tyrant Isdigerdes despoyled of all his riches and honour and clothing and turn'd naked save there was given him one peasants garment to cover him and cast into the base servitude of leading Camels and serving as some hostler Theodor in Hist Eccles Lib. 5. cap. 39. scarlet sirs which on beds downe-hils laid Poore wretches now their beds are dung-hils made Verse 6. For Sions punishment exceedeth far Sodoms destruction there is no compare Their sins were (k) Cito periisse beneficii est imago scourged with a fiery lash But yet that judgement passed in a flash Made quicke dispatch and swallowed them up all This spun in length like dripping raine doth fall Verse 7. Her Nazarites those sober votaries Whom neither snow nor milke could equalize For purest white whose faces did appeare Ruddier then Rubies polisht and more cleare Then any Saphires now that glorie 's gone Verse 8. Their faces bracke as coale not to be knowne Of knowne familiars Skin cleaves to the bone No flesh remaines to make partition Like age in others is juycie succulent These wither'd dry as sticks all moysture spent Verse 9. Death opes an easier gate for them by far Who lose the●●● aime of life by sword of war Then those whom (l) Fames ultimum malorum omnium Am Marcellin Histor lib. 19. Quantum est in vobis fame misexima omnium morte confecistis Salust in fragment Epist Pompeii ad Senat. lingring famines sword doth slay And bear to th' grave a long and languid way When all the feeding flore of house barne field ●ieads emptinesse and can no succour yeeld Verse 10. Mother whose bowels boyl'd with passionate heat Sore hunger-smit their infants boyl'd for meat What mothers belly nine months had sod in bloud Is cookt and sod for that same beilies food So great a famine such a deep distresse The daughter of my people doth oppresse Verse 11. Now hath the Lord his fury brought to passe Powr'd out his wrath which long since threatned was When God kindles his fire it burnes up all Zions foundations into ashes fall Verse 12. Kings far remote which had receiv'd the fame And earths Inhabitants which had heard the name Of great Jerusalem how her forts and towers Scorned all feares of strongest adverse powers Never would these beleeve nor could devise How any foe or force should it surprise Amongst Impossibles this thing was thought That Sion should to ruine ere be brought Verse 13. Her (m) Animarum medici fuerunt animarum venefici Tarnovius Prophets most unprofitable were No sope no nitre can her Priests wash cleare From guiltinesse of sins which were the cause That all did end with such a bloudy clause By them the just were slaughter'd in the Land Whose bloud shall be required at their hand For their examples full of sinne and vice Fill'd others made sins measure fully rise To Idols these did innocent infants slay Verse 14. In the (n) This place in these two Verses is very hard to finde out the true sense of I have chosen out of severall expositors what I judged most simple and best because there are divers applying of the words streets full of bloud as blind they stray Legall pollutions no way can they avoid Where ere they touch their clothes are smeard with bloud Verse 15. Yet even as lepets as they walk they cry Uncleane Uncleane keep off O come not nye The very Gentiles said Sure God no more Will such curst wretches to their land restore Verse 16. God in his fury hath disperst them farre They have lost his guarding and regarding care The holy Priests with them had no respect The hoarie Elders honour was neglect Verse 17. Alas deceiving hopes our eyes with paine B●ate like our pulses whiles we looke in vaine Waiting for help from nations witherd hand As if whom heaven throwes down earth could make stand Verse 18. Our steps they trace and nets in every street Our hunting Nimrods laid to catch our feet Our (o) An evill an onely evill behold is come An end is come the end is come it watch●● for thee behold it is come Ezek. 7.5 6. and our end drawes neere heavens destin'd doom Our sins have ripened wrath the day is come Verse 19. Like Eagles aieric tyrants birds of prey So are our enemies swift-wing'd us to slay And us slow-flighted fowle pursuing o're-take On mountaines or entrap by lying waite In the wild desart Verse 20. (p) Some apply this Christus Domini as ●●ant of Christ Others will have it meant to be Iosias wounded and slaine by Pharaoh ●●ho Thus the Chaldee Hebrew Hierome Thomas Figueiro Varablus Others take ●o be meant of Zedekiah and that more truely Some Hebrewes Maldonat Tarno●s Di●dati Our anointed King Given by the Lord our soules next dearest thing Nostriss best breath their pits did him devoure Whose covering wings we counted refuge sure Looking his shadow would us safety give Amongst the Heathen in hopes againe to live Verse 21. Goe to O daughter of Edom laugh a while Mocke on Inhabitant of Uz and smile Fleering at our so sad so low estate 〈◊〉 shalt thou not Gods cup of wrath escape It 's comming towards thee thou shalt drunken lie Showing thy nakednesse to every eye Verse 22. Chaere up O Sion now the Lord hath done His taske of Justice all his wrath is gone What punishments on thee he did intend To inflict for sin are finisht at an end Never againe shalt thou so desolate be Transported carried in captivity But thou (q) Panae Sionis tandem fient Babylonis Judgement must begin at the house of God and if it first begin at us what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospell of God 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 4.17 O daughter of Edom that didst stand Laughing at Sion shalt sore feele the hand Of God for all thy sins correcting thee Laying on thine head thine owne iniquity God in his people will sinne scourge and hate Much lesse shall sinfull Edom scourging scape Verse 1 HOw is