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Nevves from Ierusalem containing, 1. The beauty of the citie of the great King. 2. The vanitie of the isles of the sonns of men. 3. The comming of the Kings sonne. VVritten by Augustin Taylor, preacher at Hawarden.
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Taylor, Augustine.
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STC 23723; ESTC S111349
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And purchac'd honour you should saue One Swan vpon your ford To sing you measures you before Haue march'd like Dauid King And since like him you conquest wore Now set you downe and sing Or hearken me my Lord I 'm free To sing and my song's true Ornated with Diuinitie And doth belong to you Your noble nature valour and Most Lordly bounty should Be writ by an Euangels hand In lines of perfect gold Mine are diuine although vnmeet Accept them I haue power To build another Lanthorne yet Vpon your stateli'st tower Thrice noble Lord make vse of this 'T will tell you of a sonne That shall shine in the dayes of blis When nights of woes are done At your Honours seruice in any Christian office Augustin Taylor THE COMMING OF THE KINGS SONNE 1 O Israel that thou would heare And vnderstand those things That God commands for loue or feare Of the great King of Kings Reforme thy selfe the dayes doth run And posteth fast away The time departs and th' euening sun Is finishing the day 2 The beames of mercy will grow dim Offences grow so great The times are now so sicke with sinne Moses dare scarce intreat Thy pardon any more of God Thy promise was to mend And he in mercy stayes the rod And doth thy time attend 3 The dayes of peace are almost past And nights of death ensue Vengeance black cloud will drop at last The newes are bad yet true The goulden bels at Aarons coat Haue almost lost their sound Dauids sweet Harpe and Cymbals note The thundring trump hath dround 4 Behold the Sonne of God doth come Not Lambe but Lyon-like With life to all the righteous some And with blacke death to strike The cursed brood of prophane Cham A dismall time comes on When God will grant the wicked man No place to rest vpon 5 The bondlesse sea with fire shall burne The Hils shall leape and daunce But not for ioy all flesh shall mourne And who presumes t' aduance His eyes to heauen there shall view The starres goe out and fall The Skies shall change their Azur blew To Crimsonred and all 6 The furniture of ayre and earth Shall perish and decay Mourning shall come in steed of mirth And night insteed of day The now bright sunne shall then appeare A cloud fild full of raine The moone that sometime lookt so cleare Before the starrie traine 7 Shall looke like blood and loose her pace Sad witnesses of ire Shall multiply in fearefull case And stormes and showers of fire Thicker then hayle did ere descend Shall fall as as Prophets cry Since for mans sinne God did intend And said all flesh shall die 8 After these stormes and fearefull signes The Kings sonne in a cloud Shall sit as Iudge to whom inclines The eares of all the crowd There shall be all that borrowed breath As well the great as small From the worlds birth day to it death And latest funerall 9 The Princes Kings and Monarchs great That once the world did sway Shall naked stand before the seat Of the high Iudge that day The nice and tender wanton crew That now doe scorne the ground And doe disdaine the sun should view Their faces shall be found 10 Bare face and foot without a coach No man no maid no knees T' adore their greatnesse but reproch For their proud qualities There Lazarus and Caesar meet And the spectators can Not censure by their equall greet Which is the greater man 11 The supreame Iudge aboue shall sit In glory strength and might The godly shall reioyce at it The righteous shall haue right No bribes nor friends nor flatters may Preuaile to hide offence For why God onely made that day To honour innocence 12 God is so gratious the condemn'd Can haue no cause to grudge Which doth all dayes in mercy spend And keepes but one to iudge But great and fearefull will it be The thoughts of euery heart Shall be reueil'd apparantly And after each desert 13 Rewards shall run it 's Gods decree All wickednesse shall faile And fall and perish vtterly And puritie preuaile Against this iudgement who prouides Or who with Iob demands What shall I doe life runs and slides Like vnto dyall sands 14 Falls to be lift againe might I Friendly perswasion vse And see it follow'd none should spie Sad passion in my muse Hate enuy murther blasphemie Detraction and all vice Contract your selues to puritie Or to his Paradice 15 This iudge admits you not beware That run not out of mind That he intends for to declare He showd himselfe so kind To publish it in dayes of peace Where by we know's intent Intends if sinne spring and increase Euen so shall punishment 16 You blessed come you cursed goe So hath the iudge decreed And that his blessings you may know Furnish your selues with speed For the right hand and let our foes Sinister passage trie That leads to torments death and woes God grant both you and I 17 May tread the path that leads to peace And when our dayes of grace Are finished let neuer cease Our dayes of Glory Place Vs all aboue with all our friends And from all woes beneath Assigne vs blesse that neuer ends Both free from dumbe and death FINIS