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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61400	The history of the Babylonish cabal, or, The intrigues, progression, opposition, defeat, and destruction of the Daniel-Catchers in a poem / by Richard Steere.	Steere, Richard, 1643-1721.	1682 (1682)	Wing S5397; ESTC R21257	17,957	40

Inconsiderate These Men alone with Faith and Courage fill'd Against their God and Conscience scorn to yield They give a check to th'uncontroul'd Decree Shewing to God and King Fidelity That Impious Law which like a Torrent slows In honour to their God they dare oppose Though to the Face of Inrag'd Majesty Confiding in their God they dare defy The Fulness of a gen'rous Confidence In the Great Power of a God Immense Lifts their Resigning Souls so much the higher Before Idolatry to chuse the sire This did the Glorious Miracle Increase Honour to God and to Religion Peace Adds Credit here and future Happiness So little disadvantage doth attend On such as on their God and Truth depend Such as stand fast to what they do profess Wrap themselves up in future Happiness Such honour their Profession and their God Whose Faith on Kings unjust Commands have trod When in the face of Death the King of Terrors By owning God convince the World of Errors With Constancy and Courage such proclaim Triumphant Conquests of Eternal Fame With what Assurance do such Souls convince There 's none Infallible no not the Prince And he in Capitals may Read at large Such Men will certainly their Trust discharge And well conclude in such he may confide Who from their God refuse to turn aside What Service then did Daniel to the Crown By lifting such to Places of Renown Whose Noble Tempers and Heroick Souls Their Princes Laws when against God controuls How happy is that Prince whose Grand Affairs Are lodged in such Noble Breasts as theirs Who rather yield their Lives to Death than be Actors of Treason against Soveraignty These are no Pimping Sycophants that win Court-Favour by alluring Kings to sin No their Brave Minds Debauches will explode And all leud Pleasures that affront their God They 'l rather have their Lives before him laid Than yield his Interest should be betray'd Ere they 'l dishonour God or slatter Men Or stifle Conscience they 'l to Fire or Den Which Truth in time makes glorious agen Thus Richly cloath'd with Graces Daniel lives Belov'd of all those State-Superlatives Th' Eternal Being often doth Recite Daniel the Prophet is a Favourite What greater Honour can on Mortals be Than be Beloved of the Deity His Prince that Mighty Monarch also loves him For he a holy prudent States-man proves him In whose high Favour he securely dwells Wisdom and Piety in him excels In the whole Series of this Monarch's Reign What Great Esteem his Worthiness did gain Nebuchadnezzar's Honour did maintain Alas what 's this what sweet Repose can be Within the Arms of Earthly Majesty When some at Princes Favours do arrive In their Esteem they no where else can live Those warm Embraces of a Prince's Love Chills their Devotion that it cannot move To seek Repose Eternally above Not walking in those paths which Daniel trod Who thought his greatest Good was nigh his God For he consults an Earthly Prince must die Therefore seeks Peace with Divine Majesty And Piety can no Assurance give He shall secure in Princes Favours Live The least Affront of Royalty destroys All hope of comfort in Terrestrial Joys Or if by Death a Monarch be remov'd The next Successor hates the Man he lov'd Daniel Divinely may the World convince There 's no fixation on an earthly Prince When that Great King Nebuchadnezzar's gone Daniel forbears Attendance on the Throne But for what cause our Prophet did retire Whether his God his Service did require Or whether King Belshazzar disapprov'd Whom his Grandfather had in honour lov'd Or whether Time had Razed out the Fame Of his Memorials or obscur'd his Name Or whether by his distance from the Court The King had lost the Fame of his Report Or for what other cause to me unknown He seems a perfect stranger to the Throne Until a Hand without an Arm affords Strange characters both to the King and Lords For they carouzing were in fluvious Bouls Till the Almighty's Hand their Mirth controuls Which did with Terrour such Amazement bring To this so Potent but now Trembling King He straightway did to his Magicians send Who instantly on his Commands attend But all in vain for Mortals cannot see Th'Interpretation of the Heav'ns Decree No other Spirit can the thing declare But his whose Hand did write the Character The Aged Queen to the Young King doth tell Excelling Wisdom doth in Daniel dwell Send Messengers for him in him alone Is found Divine Interpretation He 's come Belshazzar highly doth adore him Honour and Dignity are laid before him Which of no worth he modestly refuses The King may give his Gifts to other uses Yet will he serve his God and King in this To let the King know what God's meaning is No Flattery from Daniel's Lips will flow But the King shall his Fatal Ruine know And who but Daniel dares to tell him so The clear Divine All seeing Eye behold That he the Scepter was unfit to weild When in the Heav'nly Ballance he was weigh'd He was too light the Scale turn'd Retrograde And though on Earth he was a Monarch Crown'd Fitter for Tomb than Empire he was found Esau his Birth right greedily devours So he prophanely drinks an Emperours No Cups so well could please his Impious mind As what for sacred uses were design'd Upbraiding Heaven daring to desy The Infinite All Ruling Deity Having forgot the Generation past When 's Grandfather with Beasts had his Repast Became a grater Brute in brutish sort Turning into a Bachanale his Court Forgetting he was Mortal and must dye And pass Account with Divine Majesty No wonder that the God Omnipotent This sudden Summons to Belshazzar sent No Variation in this firm Decree He who is all Immutability Signs with his Hand the King's Mortality Yet ere he goes to his Eternal Port He will Exalt Good Daniel in his Court Thereby to Bribe the Heavens to reprieve And to Revoke the Doom that he may Live Daniel a Friend of God's he did Esteem Was Policy to make God Friends with him Therefore proclaims him by his Great Command To be the Third Chief Ruler in his Land But then alas what sudden Change how soon Low Earthly Glory is from Mortals gone Honour and Riches make them Wings and fly As Streams do lessen when the Fountain's dry The King that night is summon'd to the dust Where his prophane Acts do his Glories Rust The Prophecy's fulfill'd the King must come Unto his Judgment and Eternal Doom When next Darius mounts the Losty Throne The Mede is now King of Great Babylon Fame to his Ears Daniel's great worth makes known In whom was found so Excellent a Soul Whose temperate mind his passions could controul The Aged King by his Grave Wisdom knows This weighty Crown will be too ponderous For his Gray Head his Age consults his Ease And therefore chuseth sixscore Deputies And over them he constituteth three The Best Beloved of his Monarchy To whom all those accountable must

satisfie at once his hopes and fears His hope that Daniel lives fills him with Joys His fear that he is dead the same destroys Darius's heart is in the Lions Den And new he moves to meet his heart agen How briskly I behold his Royal Feet With nimble motion hurry through the street His winged thoughts fly swifter than a Dove Yet cann't surpass the motion of his Love He values not the Complements of State Nor minds if his Retinue on him wait Nor for his Coach or Chariot will he stay Lest it should too much of his time delay If he can find his Daniel but alive 'T is satisfaction in superlative Might not Darius have a Faith which came By its Original from Abraham Who against hope firmly in hope believes And strongest Faith the most Assurance gives What though the Lions Beasts of Rapine are And though by hunger made the eagerer And what though human flesh and blood be sweet A novel Dish and not their usual Meat 'T is possible that Life from Death may spring Sure some such Faith as this possess the King He cryes aloud his voice the Air doth fill Ho! Daniel Daniel art thou living still Hold hold Darius cease thy hollow voice Lest thou awake the Lions with the noise Thy loud Allarms thy unexpected cryes May Rouse the savage Beasts to Sacrifice Thy Dearest Daniel who among them lyes If they have fasted all the night from Food May they not take their morning draught in blood And break their Fasts on that delicious Meat Which they last night set up and could not cat Brutes can no Reason give for their Delay Their savage Nature is for present prey They cannot trust but Run at all that lyes Within the prospect of their greedy Eyes Faith is a stranger to their Rav'nous Claws Sense only cloys or tires their greedy Jaws They think not of hereafter or before But gorge their Guts till they can eat no more The King well knew if Daniel mist their Jaws 'T was Providence not Project was the cause The King 's unchangeable Affections prove The greater Confirmation of his Love His Princely Favours pass beyond the Grave His Faith beyond his Sense what 's lost will save Through the Impenetrable Stones he calls His Soul wrapt up in sighs doth pierce the walls And safely doth arrive at Daniel's Ears Whose Joy doth swell when he his Master hears Daniel what greater honour can be shown Was ever Mottal Man so waited on Was ever Pris'ner when condemn'd by Fate Attended with such Majesty and State Thy God within thy King without the Gate Waits in his Person where he stayes till he The happy Prospect of his Daniel see And to Return Thanks to those savage Beasts For their Accommodations to their Guests For they contrary to their Nature now To the Beloved of their Master bow Now may you hear this worthy Porentate Express his Soul in Accents passionate O Daniel servant to the Living God Whose Habitation Dwelling and Abode Is in Eternal Everlasting Light Whose Eyes can penetrate the sable Night Is thy God able by his Pow'r to free From Death from Bondage and Captivity Such as depend on his Ability Darius Queries yet is far from doubt His Faith confirms what he is come about For he affirms thy God will set thee free His Confidence was in the Deity Experience past confirms his Faith the more That God can do what he has done before He the Effects of Faith doth now embrace For Living Daniel stands before his face Which through the Grates no sooner he esples The sudden Vision doth his Soul surprise As in an Extasie of Joy he stands And upwards elevates his Princely hands Being struck dumb with admiration hears His Daniels voice approach his Royal Ears In the same stile in the same Loyal sound O King for ever live live ever Crown'd With the Celestial Diadem of Glory When thou hast perfected thy Earthly Story Praises ascend from me to God above That he the heart of my dread Lord did move Thus to bestow on me his princely Love From Prayer he to Preaching doth proceed Though from his Chappel yet he is not freed The King stands in the porch and doth not stir But is content to be his Auditer Into two Branches he his theam doth bring Leaving the Application to the King He first the goodness of his God declares Next his own innocency he avers And these two points doth he unite to prove The mighty God doth Innocency love His Duty he from hence doth justifie Both to Divine and Earthly Majesty Such cannot be unfaithful to their King Who to their God are just in ev'ry thing Darius ne're was satisfied more In any Sermon he e're heard before The Surly Lyons seem to understand And watch the motion of his Lip and Hand How mute and how demure they sit and hear As if his voice were musick to the Ear. And if his silence so much aw'd their sence How were they charmed with his Eloquence Experience worketh confidence for he Can the Beasts Love and his own safety see Well may he trust whom he hath found his Friends One Mercy on another still depends The same deliv'rance which first set him free Makes him still trust in its security That which the Lyon and the Bear subdue Was the same Faith which the Philistine slew The Israelites on th' other shore that stood Were sureties for such as pass the flood So the same saith as firmly doth ingage Still to preserve as first to stay the rage Of the fierce Lyons till the Charm be past Which clearly quits the Innocent and Chast Which by his faith is justifi'd at last The Sermon being done the Seals are tore And open flies the stony Chappel door The Captive issues forth where soon he spies His Royal Prince wrapt up in extasies He 's Heaven struck with Joy and admiration His Soul is rap't in Divine Contemplation He like a Statue stands fixt and unmov'd His Royal Eyes gaze on his best belov'd His ravisht thoughts are glutted with excess Of Heav'nly Raptures which he can't express After some pause deliberately he Doth reassume the thoughts of Majesty And thundering forth with terrour on his Brow Those dreadful mandates which must follow now Orders for Execution forth are sent In favour of his Lord High President Those who have his destruction thus design'd Must the revenge of great Darius find Those who his life have plotted to betray Shall their own lives instead of Daniels pay What they would take from him they down must lay This Day 's Deliverance is of high Esteem When Heav'n Beloved Daniel did Redeem And now the King Resolves to keep a Feast In Memory of his Reprieved Guest But the first Course he to the Lions sends To make their fasting Appetites amends They could not tast the Dish that first was drest Therefore the King supplies 'em with a ●east Varieties of Sexes choice of Meat ' Cause on a single Dish they cannot eat On which when serv'd their eager stomachs feed They have not patience till the Cloth be spread Daniel gave Thanks before they scorn the fashion But fall on boldly without Invitation They 're so impatient that they cannot stay But meet each Course while in the middle way Ere the Meat comes to Table they devour And drink Carouzes to the Emperour In the hearts-blood of these Man catching Feinds Those vile Trappaners of the King 's best Friends The crackling of whose Joynts their Musick is They find no sweeter Melody than this And having sup't betake themselves to Rest Well satisfi'd with this Delicious Feast Till they awake and Rouse themselves agen To overlook the Fragments in the Den They ready are for more if more there be Found acting Treason ' gainst his Majesty Thirsting with greedy Appetites for Blood As those Men did who lately were their food And 't is but Nat'ral that the Flesh of those Monsters of Nature whose Designs oppose Sov'regnity in Monarchs and contrive His Best of Subjects to Intomb alive 'T is natural I say that such should be Incorporate in Inhumanity To savage Nature they degenerate Savage they are and in that savage state They justly are condemn'd to savage fate No need of Process Summoning or Juries He who Infallibly both Just and Pure is Sits Judge in Court he who alone surveys Dark obscure thoughts untrodden crooked waies Of sinful Mortals he who sits on high Condemns and who shall dare to justifie 'T was he those Catifs to destruction hurld And by his Miracle convinc'd the world It is a Maxim Politick in State And the prime Lesson of a Potentate To fix the Crown on his own Temples sure And in his Royal Throne to sit secure Therefore at first remov's what may impede The Diadems fixation on his head And if Conspiracy hereafter moves So losty as to strike at what he loves Then Policy calls Majesty to rouse And his Beloved Subjects Cause espouse For such as venture at his Royal Breast To rend from thence what he doth value best Will the next onset ravenously fly To strike the very Heart of Majesty That insolence which dares attempt the one Dares undermine or overthrow the Throne The Great Darius will decree o●… more But not against the Heavens as before He will be God no longer but lay down His Divine Title for a mortal one