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A44052	Sion and Parnassus, or, Epigrams on severall texts of the Old and New Testament to which are added [brace] A poem on the Passion, A hymn on the resurrection, ascention, and feast of Pentecost / by Iohn Hoddesdon.	Hoddesdon, John, fl. 1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2295; ESTC R35999	48,372	143

HIs cradle's made of rush he layes his head On Nile's proud backe that is his feather-bed Had he not bin so lost hee 'd nere been found If not cast out to drowning had been drown'd Blest Babel all things conspire thy good and chance Out of thy danger works deliverance 38. The burning bush ch 3. v. 3. 4. In midst of fire and unconsumed yet This doth a wonder in my minde beget A fire of zeale this was made by heavens-art Not to inflame the bush but Moses heart 39. PHARAOH ch 7. For Pharaoh's pride against the LORD of Hostes An universall darknesse shades his coastes A darknesse such as might be felt a night That long usurped baffled Phoebus right He yet continu'd obstinate wee finde The greatest darknesse then was in his minde THE TEN COMMANDEMENTS Command 1. 40. Heare O ISRAEL I am the LORD thy GOD c. Israel that GOD who gave requires thine eare He deignes to speake and shouldst not thou to heare So heare as after hearing to fulfill The holy tenour of his heav'nly will Who hopes that GOD should heare him when he praies Attend what GOD attend what justice sayes Should we so ill requitall to him make Who fore all other people did us take To take a god'fore him place him behind The fancy'd Idols of our idle minde We have created gods indeed below To whome obedience honour love we owe. Whome would we see rightly to serve O let Them fore our eyes but GOD fore them be set Command 2. 41. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Images c. Whilst to Bulls Dogs and Cats th' Egyptians bowe They an egregious Hieroglyphick showe Of vaine Idolatry but little more Of reason then those Animals they adore For why should Man into whose soule his maker Hath heavenly light infus'd and made partaker Of his own image worship things that are Inferiour to himself in worth so farre Or worship God by Proxy dare to sett Of what we never saw the counterfett If ' gainst this we a remedy would finde Conserve these precepts graven in our minde Command 3. 42. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine c. Thou hurtst God's name with vaine and idle chat But Foole thou hurt'st thy self far more then that Thy words are wind but when great God doth speak Thou 'lt find he silence can in thunder break 43. Aliud Is God thy fellow that thou still Dost take his holy name at will The word that fram'd thee thou dost mock And makest it thy laughing-stock Thou oft invokest God to heare Take heed too soon hee 'l lend an eare Command 4. 44. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day c. 'T is hard if out of seaven we can't afford One day to be kept holy to the Lord Rest then from Labour and blesse him that we In sixe dayes toyle of him may blessed be This Sabbath sanctifie an earnest 't is Of that eternall one of heav'nly blisse Bestow some hours in pious meditation Though we work not on Gods work the creation And if to that grand secret we would climbe Of our Redemption O redeeme this time What though the day be chang'd as 't was heaven's will Keep our devotion on 't unchanged still Command 5. 45. Honour they Father and thy Mother c. Honour thy parents and obey What they and what God here doth say To them observant if thou be And honour'st them others will thee Long life is promis'd a reward For those who this command regard A long life shall on earth be given A longer afterwards in heaven 46. Aliud Honour and love thy father naturall Politique and Ecclesiasticall For in so doing all may clearly know Whether thou truly honorest God or no. Nature's laws charge the first which who resists Is of the rank of rankest naturalists Thother's enjoyn'd us by civility And that imp'd with a smack of policy The third which teacheth why this should be showne T' all three's the summe of all religion Command 6. 47. Thou shalt doe no murther Murther 's so foul a crime 't may not be wrought By us indeed in deed in word or thought To boyle with anger is manslaughter nay We shall for grudgings be arraign'd one day Of murth'ring there be many peices mo Then death which comes by murth'ring piece's blow Command 7. 48. Thou shalt not Commit Adulterie O have a care and bridle each ill thought Which this command may violate let nought That is but unbeseeming be in thee Do thou avoyd all wanton company Let not thy love be firmly fixt upon Her that 's another mans and not thine owne Yet on Christ's spouse the Church fixe thy firme love Although her proper husband be above Command 8. 49. Thou shalt not steale We are forbid to steale and if we do In hell we shall be punisht and here too Whilst though we work in darknesse like the mole And steal another steals from us our soul Command 9. 50. Thou shalt not bear false witnesse against thy neighbout God is the Father of all truth but lies Are onely wicked Satan's properties If thou then must bear wittnesse don't through fear Speak false God will not with a liar bear Command 10. 51. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house c. This last and least of Gods commandments lies In order next which we ought not despise Howe're if ought we would contemn begin With detestation to despise this sinne Of coveting what 's not our own yet still Covet what 's not our own to have like will With our Divine Creatour that were rather To keep then break the Law of him our Father What should I covet poor babe under age But Christ my elder brother's heritage That and his love I prize all things before And covet I may covet nothing more The third book of MOSES called LEVITICUS 52. The fire shall be ever burning c. ch 6. v. 13. THe Priest lest holy fire should decay Duly each morn did on it fuell lay So lest our fire of zeal should die 't is fit Our prayers each morning give new life to it Whilst we this flame foment we need not doubt But that the fire of Gods wrath will go out This on the Altar of our hearts being kept God us and our peace-offering will accept 53. NADAB and ABIHU burnt ch 10. Your minds were kindled with a strange desire Of offering incense with as strange a fire This 't was incens'd Gods anger made you wish You had been strangers to such deeds as this Fire sent from God your death and ruine was Made heavenly martyrs though not for heav'ns cause Whilst these unsanctified flames you bring Your selves are turn'd to a burnt-offering Sinne-offering you were none since no expence Of sacred fire could expiate your offence Yet a sinne-offering too you were for in Your offering there was nothing else but sinne Had you one spark of grace then had not heaven Needed ethereall fire thus to have

given God gave you what you offer'd him 't was fit For offering such a trespasse to commit 54. SHELOMITHS sonne blaspheming is stoned chap. 24. Thou' rt ston'd blasphemer and 't was thy desert Just punishment for such a stony heart That curse thou dartedst up at Heav'n fell down Heavy as is stones nature on thy crown Thy Sire was an Egyptian which made thee In th' holy language no more skil'd to be 55. The yeare of JUBILEE ch 25. Blest year of rest which was as we may say Through all its course a lasting holy-day Whose priviledge of rest did so abound That ' mongst the rest it priviledg'd the ground No crooked plough could now the leave obtain To make her furrow up her face for pain Now Lands revolve to their right Lord each skore Of debt and tears were wip'd off from the poor Blest yeare more blest if gratefull they had been And made this year their resting year from sinne 56. For unto me the children of ISRAEL c. ch 27. verse the last Lord 't is confest we are thy servants so Are glorious Angels farre our Betters too But might a servant say 't without offence We'd be thy servants in a stricter sence Wouldst thou us manumize from bondage then As Denizons of new Jerusalem Or by adoption make us thine this done Each shall thy servant be although thy sonne The fourth book of MOSES called NUMBERS 56. The ISRAELITE gathering sticks on the Sabbath day stoned ch 15. WHy didst thou break his precept who doth say Abstain from labour on the Sabbath day These sticks send thee to Styx fool make thy mone Thus looking for a stick thou 'st got the stone 58. The Rebellion of KORAH DATHAN and ABIRAM ch 16. Thus clog'd with sinne it was impossible But such a weight should sink them down to hell A crime so foul that lest it should be spide The earth did it within her entrails hide She could not sure but breed herself disquiet Clogging her stomach with such lothsome diet Thus they were taken in their proper gin They digg'd a pit and fell themselves therein When thus you op'd your mouths dire murmurers What marvell was 't the Earth so open'd hers 59. AARON'S rod budding ch 17. That Aaron's rod should blossome shews that God Would that the house of Levi still should bud And flourish what a wonder 's here O see A wither'd branch becomes a fruitfull tree But still a rod that if we bear no fruit The rod of chastisement may force us to 't Yet Almonds are poor fruit I wish that mine Were not of them but rather of the Vine 60. AARON'S death ch 20. Thou now great priest approching to thy death Dost first resigne thy office then thy breath Here thou ascend'st a mount whence thy soul will Take her ripe flight unto the heavenly hill Thou leav'st thy people now yet leav'st them so That thou art gather'd to thy people too 61. The brazen Serpent ch 21. That through Gods power virtue in this brasse lay None is so impudent that dare gain say No cordiall nor yet simple 't would appear To humane sense a simple med'cine here Wondrous yet wondrous easie to apply Such precious salve i th' twinkling of an eye 62. BALAAMS Asse ch 22. Heaven gives a tongue and mind the Asse 'gins break Her silence and hath now a mind to speak Her master and his pride no longer bears Though she his asse had been so many years She saw the Angell and with terrour led Fell down upon the ground and worshipped Had Balaam known in what a case he was And done like her he had not play'd the asse 63. Defile not the Land c. ch 35. Do not defile our land and mak 't an hell With sins wherein heavens God is pleas'd to dwell But when that is defil'd lest he depart Be sure keep one place pure and that 's thy heart The fifth book of MOSES called DEUTERONOMY 64. Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an asse together ch 22. v. 10. PReposterous sin what reason canst thou find That thou what nature would not wouldst have joyn'd Must the poor asse for all past pains at length Be match'd thus with a beast above his strength Although for humane cause desist thou wouldst not O joyn them not ' cause God enjoyns thou shouldst not 65. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn ch 25. v. 4. Before he took pains for thee at the plough And though he eat why yet he labours now 'T is fit that he with whose help thou dost sow Should eat the fruit of what he toild for too Thou 'lt say as he treads out he eats 't is true Yet as he eats he sweats and give him 's due Why dost thou muzzle up his mouth heav'n hears His dumbe complaints thou canst not stop heav'ns ears But wilt thou tie his chaps up yet accurst Tie up his legs withall and do thy worst 66. Joshua encouraged ch 31. Joshua in Moses stead by Gods command Was to guide Israel to the promis'd land Moses now ready to depart doth make him This promise that God never should forsake him God would go up before him were 't not so Both he and Israel down the wind would go He 'd be their Captains Captain can they misse To conquer Earth whose Captain Heaven is Beforehand God goes up the cause we see That Israel never might behind hand be 67. The Israelites freed by MOSES ch 34. He led Gods chosen from proud Pharaohs Land By miracles and an outstretched hand Through the red sea and Wildernesse of Sin To th' confines of the promis'd land did bring Where having left his charge with Joshua He went before hand to prepare their way 68. MOSES his death ch 34. Moses who whilst he liv'd a blessing still Had been leaves blessings as his dying will Whose corps lest Israel should prize too high And so fall into flat Idolatry God himself buried Where 's unknown to men In silence bury all such questions then The book of JOSHUAH 69. RAHABS preserving the two spies ch 2. v. 15. IN saving them she sav'd herself who by Her craft so hid the spies none could them spie And though an harlot yet in this did well Proving a common friend to Israel Down by a cord she let them which did move Their hearts and drew them with a cord of love 70. Bind this line of scarlet thread in the window ch 2. v. 18. Great Joshuah dare not siege'gainst this house lay Where Rahab doth her bloudy flagge display 71. Jordan dried up ch 3. Where Joshuah goes the Ark must go before An Ark must save part of mankind once more Jordan though he o'reflows his banks for fear Retires seeing the fiery pillar near The billows from above of leave debarr'd T' run down here rev'rently keep court of guard The waves below seeing no succour nigh Streight shrink away and leave their channel dry O wonder which who looks on sees

more clear Then Jordans chrystall waters do appear For they are troubled and yet glad that so Israel might o're them without trouble go 72. And JOSHUAH set up twelve stones in the midst of JORDAN ch 4. v. 9. Twelve stones are fix'd whereby at once are shew'd Gods mercy and their humble gratitude Those monuments may fail in my mind though The thought of this shall ever freshly flow 73. An Angel appears to JOSHUAH ch 5. v. 13. Now Angels meat 'gan cease though Manna fell No more yet Angels selves aid Israel And when they draw their swords there 's cause to fear Or rather hope that th' Heathens fall draws near 74. JOSHUAH ch 6. Kings conquer'd were by his victorious hand The dayes bright Carman staid at his command Ay 's lofty towers for aye to wrack did go He with an engine beat down Jericho No iron-horn'd-ram 't was but the meer sound Of rams-horns raz'd its walls unto the ground These ruines lift his name unto the skie Those horns resound his praise continually 75. ACHANS wedge ch 7. Accursed wretch who by th' accursed thing A generall curse on Israel didst bring And almost on its generall Ay could strike Isra'l when thou with hell hadst done the like Hadst struck a bargain wherein thou didst prove So fast wedg'd in with filthy lucres love Yet loose in thy desires burying thy pelf Ill got not getting buriall for thy self If buried yet alive a heap of stones Reward thine avarice not precious ones Two hundred shekles a sufficient bait But they 're not of the Sanctuary weight That thou for them shouldst hazard life it was In my opinion too light a cause Wast thou an Isra'lite and couldst so dote To covet thus a Babylonish coat Thou hast what thou desir'st and more for see How Babels ruines wretch are fell on thee 76. The Sunne standing still ch 10. Why this unusuall Solstice made the Sunne That with his speed great Ioshuah might runne 77. Be ye the children of light chap. 10. Sunne stand thou still thus Ioshua said the Sunne Amaz'd forgot's diurnall race to runne He truly is a child of light whose faith So great an influence o're Lights emp'rour hath The book of JUDGES 78. JAEL killing SISERA ch 4. v. 21. THou woman Worthy who shall aye rehearse Thy act heroick in heroick verse For nailing that proud Pagan's temples down Thy temples do deserve a laurell crown 79. GIDEONS fliece ch 6. The fleece was wet and yet no dew was found Upon the ground The ground was wet and yet the fleece did lie Upon it dry Dry 't was a miracle but when dew fell O then it fatnesse drop'd on Israel 80. Aliud ch 6. Admire the golden sheep-skin youths of Greece I find more wonder farre in Gideons fleece 81. GIDEONS stratagem ch 7. How great how glorious a conquest came From sound of trumpets and of Gideons name Those lamps in Israels darkest gloomiest night Were those that shone and usher'd in the light The Midianites though ten and more to one By pitchers not pitcht fight were overthrown 82. A woman killeth ABIMELECH ch 9. Great warriour who so oft hast vanquished Strong men shall a weak woman break thy head Well I 'll excuse the matter as 't was done Thou diedst not of her hand but of the stone 83. JEPHTHAH ch 11. To vow methinks it was too rash a thing But more to offer such an offering With bloud thy vow and countrey thus to free For which thy daughter 's not much bound to thee 84. SAMSON ch 11. Samson o'recome by her whose arms entwine About thee not by th' arms o th' Philistine Shee blinded thee before no wonder then That they could bind and blind thee o're agen 85. Aliud chap. 11. Strong Samson dallying with his Dalilah Confessed to her where his power lay She treach'rously rob'd him of that and then He differr'd not an hair from other men 86. RUTH RUth with malignant fortune long opprest At last with honour wealth and husband blest Freed from her wandring troubles and annoy And yet she 's Ruth-full now I mean of joy 87. BOAZ his kindnesse to RUTH ch 2. Boaz to Ruth a stranger kind O know What kindnesse God to her in that did show So well she husbanded this kindnesse from Her seed the Prince of peace in time did come Springing from her in direct line yet is To us the centre of eternall blisse The first book of SAMUEL 88. SAMUEL ch 3. FRom 's infancy in Gods house made abode God called him ere he could call on God 89. SAUL ch 10. Fortune to thee O sonne of Kish was kind Who looking for an asse a crown didst find DAVID ch 16. Blest David blest abroad and blest at home Blest in the seed that from thy loyns did come But blest 'bove all in thy harps harmonie Which with thy minds rare temper did agree Whose tunes instruct the warbling orbs to sing Their Hallelujahs to their heavenly King 91. DAVID slaying GOLIAH ch 18. A bold attempt it was and venturous To offer to affront a Giant thus With a poor sling this act of valour when Thou didst thou tookst time by the foretop then 92. IONATHAN ch 18. Of all Sauls issue Ionathan alone Merits high praise and commendation Who did with all he had to 's girdle part And ti'd that zone of love 'bout Davids heart Which with a knot of friendship he did ty So fast as lasts unto eternity 93. SAUL enquireth of a witch at ENDOR ch 18. Had Saul live Samuels counsel followed He never would have sought him being dead The second book of SAMUEL 94. BATSHEBA ch IX THy bathing thee to cool thy self did prove The way to set David on fire in love 95. ABSALOM ch 14. Thy hair O Absolom the Scriptures said Two hundred shekells every year it weigh'd These locks young-man which now thou holdst so dear Will weigh no lesse then thy lifes price I fear 96. AHITHOPHEL ch 17. Too wise a statesman curst Achitophel Whose every word was thought an oracle 'T was not the wisest part thou ere didst play To rid thy self a traitour out o th' way 97. ABSALOM hangedon a tree ch 18. v. 9. Promotion on the throne Absalom that The chiefest thing was which thou aimedst at Promotion ' cause thou wilt thou shalt 't must be Not on thy fathers throne though but a tree Which tree of all the trees that ever were Then bore the basest fruit when thou hung'st there 98. DAVID weepeth for ABSALOM ch 18. the last v. What aileth holy Davids grief to rise Look how the tears runne trickling down his eyes 'T is for his sonne his dearest sonne alas Which lately ' gainst him in rebellion was His death so much he wails not as ' cause he Liv'd not t' repent him of his treachery 99. JOAB killeth AMAZA ch 20. What fiend foul Traitour thy fell heart did move To make thy malice in a seeming love O basenesse with a complement to do 't To