men He would have spar'd them all for ten But Cain which was through malice led Quite to renounce his chiefest good Did in his wicked collar shed His brother Abels guiltlesse bloud And wrath commixt with deadly hate Brought Cain to be a Runagate And boasting Lamech could not scape Which in his heart a man would slaie The wicked world for filthy rape Was drown'd and taken all away And Ham which in the Ark was nurst Was after for his sinne accurst And Nimrod was not quite forgot Which hunted sonnes of Shem away The wicked ones which vexed Lot The Lord at length did them repay They suffer for their foul desire The vengeance of eternall fire And Pharaoh with his hoast was drown'd The waters ouerwhelm'd them all When Israel did finde drie ground And passed through both great and small Thus can the Lord from Satans rage Preserve his own from age to age For Amalech was rooted out And Sihon was cast headlong down And mighty Og in battell stout Was dispossessed of his Crown And proud Goliah wicked bred Returned back without his head When Balaam came at Balacks call To bring his wickednesse to passe To work the means of Isr'els fall He was rebuked by his Asse And Ashurs king could not prevail Though Rabshecah ceas't not to rail Doeg Shemey Nabal and the rest Vilde instruments of Satans rage Whose mindes with malice be possest Quite to supplant Gods heritage With Dives shall in flaming fire Receive their due deserved hire And Israels anointed King Saul did himself of grace deprive Sinne struck him with a mortall sting For sparing Amalec alive His heart and hand was wholly bent To persecute the innocent And Ieroboam could not stand Because he was a wicked man God struck him with a with'red hand When he did sacrifice at Dan. For money he wrought many evills Made Priests which sacrific'd to Devills And Ahab wicked imp of hell Which built an altar unto Ball Was rooted out with Iesabel None left to pisse against a wall For in that place where Naboth stood The dogs lick't up the Tyrants bloud And Nebuchadnezar for pride Was metamorpos'd to a beast And Baltazar whom lust did guide Received judgement at his feast A hand prescribing on the wall His overthrow before them all And haughty Hamans sudden fall Whose thoughts all good men did deride May be a president to all Whose mindes be puffed up with pride That Gallows did his malice slay Which he set up for Mordecay Antiochus that wicked root Which did Ierusalem deface And trode Gods Temple under foot And set an idoll in the place God did him strange diseases send And brought him to a fearfull end And Sanballat must taste wraths cup For his proclaiming up and down That such as build Gods Temple up Be rebells to their King and Crown And Holofernes on his bed Must pay his ransome with his head And cruell Herod was accurst That he the tender Infants smote And Iudas for his trason burst Which never more shall be forgot And Christs dear bloud still vengeance cries Vpon the Scribes and Pharisees Behold and see what hath been past How sinne hath raged from his birth Such was the first such is the last There is no new thing on the earth Yet can no storm nor tempest move True Faith firm Hope and constant Love Ioshuah Speed Loves Revenge Wherein is briefly shewed from the history of the Holy Scripture the rising growth and finall fall of the man of sinne with the long and continuall strife betwixt the two Seeds THe Serpent which did first begin The powers of mans soul to draw To separate himself through sinne From God by breaking of his law Having by craft our Parents slain Did Tyrant-like begin to reigne For man did lose his first renown The world through justice to maintain Sinne swaies his scepter wears his crown And by injustice now doth reigne And will do still both far and near Vntill the righteous Iudge appear For man could now no man acquit Which was a breaker of Gods law Not any man condemne by right And not himself to judgement draw For man by sinne once overthrown Then judging sin condemnes his own This was the Serpents subtle bait Which did unto mans crown aspire To draw the woman by deceit To win her man to his desire That he might in his first-born Cain Begin and end his wicked reigne This Viper bred in Paradice No sooner born but instantly Drew Adam unto sinne and vice By changing truth into a lye And Adam caught in Satans gyn Became a bondslave under sinne By hearing Evah was deceiv'd By seeing Evah was beguilde By tasting Evah hath conceiv'd This man of sinne that cursed childe By taking in the Serpents breath Lust brought forth sin sin brought forth death Eare eye foot hand lips tongue and all Did band themselves against Gods law To work mans ruine by his fall And man through sin to judgement draw Thus was man brought in Satans thrall Eare eye foot hand lips tongue all But God whose love doth far exceed The fraud and malice of the Devill Did then make known his truth decreed To raise man out this lake of evill To quicken him which then lay dead And break in twain the Serpents head But Adam which could not discerne Twixt good and evill but through sinne Must now another lesson learne By grace to seek by faith to win That crown of glory joy and blisse Which he had lost for him and his For he which once was lord of all Had sole command did rule and sway Must now attend an others call Another rule and he obey For he once lending sinne his eare Must now for sin sins burthen beare And with a sad and heavy heart No vows nor prayers might avail Out of the Paradice depart His sinfull act there to bewail His mother Earth to plow and furrow And sweating eat the bread of sorrow And with his poore distressed wife Our mother Evah first misled Excluded from the tree of life whereof before they might have fed Their first neglect of Gods free grace Lost them the freedome of that place For now the way was full of fear No entring in but by the sword The Cherubims stood Centre there That none might passe without the Word Which word is Christ who on the Crosse Must pay mans debt redeem his losse Then Adam having known his wife In time brought forth her first-born Cain Next Abel whose unspotted life Did shew his life which must be slain And by his death and bloud then spild Declare his death which since was kild But Cain who in the flower of youth The supream power did obtain To judge with equitie and truth And by true justice for to reigne And by the vertue of his birth To be sole ruler of the earth In time true justice did pervert And was to wickednesse inclinde The Serpent did possesse his heart And made his eyes through malice blinde He which by
What God hath promised in troth To Abrahams posterity And hath confirmed by an oath That cannot fail God cannot lie Then Isaac dead and Jacob slain No seed but Esau is to reigne Should I do this and Jsaac live In vain my labour would be spent God would him strength and courage give My wicked purpose to prevent And raise him seed in Iacob's stead Although Rebekahs wombe were dead Have I not once before been crost When I did think my self most sure Then Ishmael his birth-right lost God did old Abraham procure Another seed which then was bred In Sarahs wombe decaid and dead Revenge applauded this for good But hatred overcome with rage Could not contein her angry mood Nor could her passions asswage Her soul was ready to depart Vntill her tongue had eas'd her heart Thus was his project overthrown By trusting of his secret friend This rumour soon abroad was blown What mischief Esau did intend Which comming to Rebekahs eare The losse of both her sonnes did fear Wherefore she then without delay Call'd Iacob in her youngest sonne Sent him to Haran there to stay Vntill his brothers rage were done And Iacob willing to obey Receiv'd his charge and went his way As darknesse doth pursue the light And constantly his course doth run So doth the day expell the night At the arising of the Sunne Each one doth chase each one doth flie Till light at length gets victory Darknesse did claim the highest right Because he was the first in place But God did soon beget true light Proud darknesse from the earth to chase And that the day might bring to light What darknes had wrought in the night Darknesse betrothed was to lust Which did conceive beguiling sinne Who being born mans soul with rust Was cankred foul and eaten in Man scarcely had received breath But man was subject unto death But light took faith to be his wife Which did conceive unfained love Who being born abandon'd strife Did darknesse daunt and sinne reprove Bondage renounce and death affright And brought eternall life to light The Serpents craft his crown did gain By craft he made the woman fall The woman by her craft again Did thrust the Serpent out of all By craft he won by craft he lost Thus craft by craft was ever crost The Serpents seed by cruelty Did seek his crown for to maintain The womans seed as cruelly In time shall thrust him out again When bloud doth flow up to the brink Then bloud for bloud shall be his drink But once again for to return The Serpents malice to relate Who did through rage and fury burn To execute his deadly hate And did the shadow hunt and chase Vntill the substance came in place At him it was that he did aim At him which should his seed advance At him which did by promise claim True Canaans inheritance Could he bring him unto his fall The Serpent then was lord of all In time the substance did appear This Isaac was Gods onely sonne Which came to shed his bloud most dear To lose the works which sinne had done His life eternall life did win His death destroy and vanquish sinne The Wisemen from the East did spring When they did see his starre appear For to be hold this blessed King And worship him in love and fear And did enquire of the Iews To know where they should finde this news But Herod taking it in scorn Perceiving it for to be true The star did shew a King was born He called all the learned crue This King which shall subdue the earth Quoth he where shall he have his birth At Beth-lehem they did reply In Davids house he must arise According to the prophesie This hearing he did call the wise And sent them there to seek about Vntill that they had found him out When you have found him come and tell Me where he is that I may go And worship him I know it well This King is borne it must be so His star will go before your face Vntill you come unto the place These men they went as Herod told They found the babe and did him greet They did present incense and gold And did fall down before his feet But being warned of this thing They went not back unto the king But did return another way Vnto the place where they did dwell Which Herod hearing left delay And calling murder out of hell This cruell bloudy Edomite Did seek to cut off David's right David quoth he did Ioab send To trample Edom under foot And slay his males ev'n to the end And leave him neither branch nor root He thought he would not leave him one For to uphold his fathers throne But Hadad being then a childe Escaped David's tyranny And Ioab also was beguild For Hadad did to Aegypt flie Where he did finde a dwelling place For to preserve our kingly race This Hadad did escape alone Of all the kings posterity But Herod will leave David none He now shall prove my tyranny I le lay his males all at my foot And leave him neither branch nor root With that he sent his Horsemen out To execute his full command At Beth-lehem and there about All males to murder out of hand Even all from two years old and under Must feel the rage of Herod's thunder But Ioseph warned in the night This Persecutor then beguil'd And into Aegypt took his flight With Mary and this tender Childe There to preserve this Infants breath Vntill this cruell Tyrants death This Childe escap't the Tyrants rage For he was manifest to none Till he was thirty years of age And then baptized was of Iohn For John was sent to make him known Though not received of his own When he out of the water went Then presently faith hope and love Which God from heav'n unto him sent Came down upon him like a Dove This Spirit kept him from all evill When he was tempted of the Devill Twise twenty daies and nights arow He then did fast no more nor lesse And did to extream hunger grow Who being in the wildernesse A desolate and barren place Began to wail his wofull case And to his father he did cry Oh help me out of this distresse And suffer not thy sonne to dye For hunger in this wildernesse Let not my soul be overthrown Father thou know'st I am thine own When Ishmael did heare this cry As he was shooting in that place He did imagine presently This sure is he for whose disgrace I and my mother heretofore Were both of us thrust out of dore I was deprived of my right And brought into this wildernesse Where hunger did my soul affright And I did lie in great distresse Which did augment my mothers grief Till God from heav'n did send relief Now he is come into my case Hunger doth make him now complain Now will I mock him to his face And get my birth-right once again With meat I will delude his eye But keep him fasting till he
Loves Revenge VVHEREIN IS BRIEFLY SHEWED FROM THE HISTORIE OF the holy Scripture the rising grouth and finall fall of the Man of Sinne with the long and continuall strife betwixt the two Seeds how they have from time to time sought to disinherite each other and how that Christ by his righteous life and long sufferings in the end shall get the victory and justly revenge himself upon his adversarie Omnia vincit amor c. By Ios Speed HABAK. 1.5 ACT. 13.41 Behold ye despisers and wonder and vanish away for I work a work in your daies a work which ye shall not believe if a man should declare it you At AMSTERDAM Printed by Richard Raven 1631. The Preface WHen darknesse is supprest by light That nights black shadows shun the day True faith doth give the soul clear sight To see and finde the living way Then must proud Death give place to Life In vain it is his strength to try For Hope will end that deadly strife And swallow Death in victory And Errour must acknowledge Truth For all his fierce and cruell rage For Loue hath threatned him in youth And will not spare him in his age When Faith hath light for to discerne And Hope can hold in storm and rain If Love be there to guid the stern The wished shore they shall attain No travell can unfruitfull prove When Faith Hope do work by Love When unbelief is beaten down And Faith hath got the upper hand Then light doth shew true faith her crown Which she shall have if she do stand And then despair of force must flie In vain it is if she contend For life will give Hope victory If she continue to the end And hatred must of force depart And give true Love free place to dwell For truth will give Love true desert And hatred due reward in hell Light is the glance of Faiths clear sight Life is the crown which Hope requires Truth is the guide which leads both right Through Love to finish their desires Where Light and Life and Truth agree Faith Hope and Love make unitie To the Reader LEt prejudice be laid aside Christian Reader in thy reading Let love unfained be thy guide Thy thoughts to equall judgement leading The labour and the charge is mine I wish the profit may be thine To think that I should all men please All men would think such thoughts were vain Esteeming it a fools disease Arising from an idle brain That labour which I here bestow Is but to pay the debt I owe Vnto my Countrey and my Friends And all which do professe Christs name In him our faith begins and ends By him we hope to purchase fame If then our love be like to his We all shall see him as he is If any thing displeaseth thee When thou my Faith and hope dost prove Yet fasten malice to that tree On which she once did murder love And break in twain that Serpents head For love shall reigne when hate is dead I seek to trouble no mans minde Nor yet to give offence to any Yet dare not hide nor leave behind That good which may redound to many Whereat if any kick or hinch Were he not gauld he should not winch The mark whereat I chiefly aim Is to unfould the fraud of sinne What rightes and titles he doth claim The evill daies that we live in Our present danger his desire To bring us to eternall fire If then by chance I hit the mark At which my bow is holy bent Or if I misse this subtle Clark T is but one headlesse arow spent Yet hit or misse thus much I know The blinde by chance may kill a Crow The Authors Faith I Do believe in God alone Whose love doth passe all breadth length And do relie on other none To make the arm of flesh my strength My faith is such not to remove Such is my Hope such is my Love He is the onely Lord of lords A King of mighty strength and fame His Majesty with truth accords And great Iehovah is his name The first the last the totall summe Which is which was which is to come He is the God of Israel Their root and generation The vanquisher of Death and Hell The horn of our salvation Before whole throne all flesh shall come The wicked to their finall doom Then why should I fear mortall man Whose breath within his nostrills lies His life for length is but a span Although his malice never dies My body he may keep in thrall But cannot hurt my soul at all Let cursed Cain then fret and rage And wicked Lamech boast his fill Let scoffing Ham come on the stage Let bloudy Nimrod work his will Let Babels Tow'r through Satans pride Be once again re-edifi'd Let pharaoh with his hoast pursue Let Amaleck stand in the way Let Og and Sihons hatefull crue Their bloudy banners still display Let proud Goliah's hellish cry The God of Israel defie Let Balaam lay a stumbling block Let Rabshecah come railing down Let dogged Doeg accuse Christs flock Let Shemey curse let Nabal frown Let Philistines their battells pitch Let Saul ask counsell of a Witch Let the ten tribes of Israel Give care to Ieraboam's call Let Ahab marry Iesabel And build an altar unto Baal Let Baals Priests cry till heare doth break Their God can neither hear nor speak Let Nebuchadnezar pour out His thundring threats rage and revile Let Baltazar his drunken rout The vessells of the Lord defile Let haughtie Hamans pride bewray His hatefull thoughts to Mordekay Antiochus that wicked root Let him run on his wretched race To waste and trample under foot Gods Temple and his dwelling place Let Holofernes rule and sway Till Iudith take his head away Let Samballat the Horonite With all his cursed crue accord To race to sack to vanquish quite The walls and building of the Lord. Let men conspire with malice fraught Yet shall their counsells come to nought Let cruell Herod still assail The tender infants for to stay Let Scribes and Pharisees prevail Give Iudas money to betray My faith is fixt on him above So is my hope so is my love His waies are right his judgements just His mercy alwaies firm and sure To such as on his goodnesse trust And stedfast to the end endure He giveth all men life and breath And grieveth at the sinners death He did admonish wretched Cain To leave his wicked enterprise Suffer said he not sinne to reigne Least Abels bloud for vengeance cries Abandon wrath ther 's grace in store If not lo sinne is at thy door And when he saw and well perceiv'd All flesh corrupting of their waies His spirit strove his soul was griev'd Contain'd his wrath yet many daies Had true repentance there been found The world had sur'ly not been drown'd When Sodom and Gomorahs cries Ascended up unto his throne Yet was there mercy in his eyes He would have saved them each one Could he have found some godly
is broke the knot unknit The body parted from the head And fall'n into the stinking pit Of fleshly lust and foul desite Where she lies wallowing in the mire No man may part what God doth joyne Without transgressing of his law What God doth part none may combine And not himself to judgement draw Yet hath she rent what God had joyn'd What God did part she hath combin'd Dost thou not yet begin to frown She hath conceived Gyants seed Her children seek for worlds renown Such monsters doth this Harlot breed Thy lowly gesture they disdain For vertue dies and sinne doth reigne Thus ceast he not for to complain But calls for justice now afresh Then quoth the Lord I strive in vain With mortall man he is but flesh Yet will I crosse his wicked waies By shortning of his sinfull daies Oh now I see mans heart and minde And all his thoughts to mischief bent Oh love can be no longer blinde My soul doth grieve I do repent That I made man upon the earth His waies are evill from his birth Oh now I see they do disdain My loving counsell to embrace My bloud I see is spent in vain For they be destitute of grace They are by sinnes allurements led As seeing blinde and living dead Now wrath is seated in my breast I will with man no longer strive But will destroy both man and beast I le leave no fowl nor worm alive What on the earth doth creep and move Shall now my wrath vengeance prove All are corrupted in their waies The earth is full of cruelty Therefore I will cut off their daies All what doth live and breathe shall die One onely Noe just and upright Hath grace and favour in my sight He and his family shall live Eight souls in number will I save But to the rest strong vengeance give Sinne calls for justice sinne shall have Sinnes just reward sinne to confound When all the world for sin is drown'd And thus the Serpent which had slain Mankinde through sinne even at the first Who when he saw them live again Through faith in Christ and he was curst Was then to further malice bent That he Gods grace could not prevent For now he laid his plot more sure To strike the nail upon the head Man first from grace for to allure And there through sin to strike him dead Then hold him snared in this gyn Till justice had rewarded sinne And thus he wrought his vile intent Mans nature being weak and frail To hould him back for to repent Lest grace and mercy should prevail And keep him in sinnes fetters bound Till all the world for sin was drown'd Yet still he had a futher mark Man was not from his malice freed By stealth he crept into the Ark There to preserve his wicked seed Who comming forth was curst by name For laughing at his fathers shame The world again grown to his flower The people one all had one speech Did soon devise to build a tower Whose top unto the heav'ns should reach To keep them from the waters rage Which had destroy'd the former age The Lord awaking at this sound To crosse them in their proud intent Their language did forthwith confound One knew not what another meant And scattred them both far and near Vpon the earth as doth appear Then from Shems race he did make choise Of Abram to inherite all Who did give eare unto his voice And did attend upon his call His wife was Sarah meek and milde But she was barren had no childe His kindred and his fathers house He did forsake and God obey And with his dear and loving Spouse His countrey leave and took his way Vnto a land to seek his chance Where he had no inheritance With him God made a covenant Which Devill death nor hell could sever The Serpents malice to adant He gave by covenant for ever To him and to his seed alone That land where sin had plac't his throne When he was come at Gods command And did behold before his face A pleasant and a fruitfull land Which God had giv'n unto his race God did his promise then renue And he believe that God was true The Serpent then was full of grief For then he knew and did not doubt Gods promise Abrahams belief Did both conspire to root him out Therefore did ponder in his minde Some other issue for to finde To strive quoth he is all in vain No power can withstand Gods might To go to God and there complain Will not avail I have no right What God hath spoken will ensue Abram is just and God is true My land is gone my crown is lost And I almost driv'n to despair I will go haunt the womans ghost And be her sonne and Abrams heir So shall it stand what God decreed And I still reigne in Abrams seed Have I not Evah once deceiv'd Before her Adam she had known Which brought forth sin through lust conceiv'd And Adam took him for his own Why then not Sarah be beguilde By mothering of Hagars childe I le once again put on sinnes mask Wherein Gods handmaid I misled And Abrams wife I le take to task And her unto my fancy wed Thus like a stout and bold-fac't woer This wily Serpent went unto her Sarah quoth he prince Abrams wife Beauties prime flower lovely dame Whose vertues whose unspotted life Have merited eternall fame Shall beauty vertue chastitie In Sarah live with Sarah die Thy man a Prince of high renown Who with his bow his sword and spear Four Kings at once threw headlong down And holds the world in servile fear Shall vertue valour honours right Obscured lie in darksome night Thy wealth and substance hath no end Of corn and cattle thou hast store No servants wanting to attend Yet God doth still increase the more And yet alas this princely paire Live destitute still of an heire This pleasant land and fertile ground Which thou dost see before thy face With milk and hony to abound Which God hath giv'n to Abrams race Must stay with Chams posterity If blessed Abram seedlesse die Be thou no longer then misled By Abrams faith all is in vain Abram is old thy wombe is dead What hope is there a childe to gain Reason doth shew without dispute A barren womb can yeeld no fruit Then be not slack do not refuse Let not Gods promise be in vain For God doth give but man must use The means whereby for to attain Take counsell then and be not nice Be ruled once by my advice For thou art old thy womb decai'd And hast been barren all thy life Take Hagar thy Aegyptian maid Give her to Abram for a wife For she is young and fit to breed By her may Abram have a seed These words did sound well in her cares And she forthwith to end this strife And to avoid all further fears Gave Abram Hagar to a wife And herein Sarah was beguilde Thus coveting to have
once again might live In Paradice to rule and reigne And cast the Serpent out again He did not seek to be made known But his Desciples daily prove To see how far that they were grown In stedfast faith in hope and love And trying them all one by one He pick't out Peter James and John These three forthwith along he led With him unto a mountain high Where he himself transfigured That they might see his majestie And in what glory he should reigne When he should come on earth again Behold quoth he and take a glance For all what is under the skies That is my sole inheritance Ev'n all what stands before your eies Faith hope and love my crown did gain Faith hope and love with me shall reigne As flesh and bloud cannot attain True faith to stand out constantly Ev'n so where flesh and bloud doth reign Faith hope and love of force must die Therefore he set before their eyes What flesh doth hate and bloud denyes Two witnesses he there did call That Peter Iames and Iohn might see It was no shadow on a wall No idle dream nor fantasie Then God from heav'n this being done Gave witnesse to his onely Sonne This pleased Peter passing well Master quoth he lot us here make Three Tabernacles here to dwell That Moses one of them may take Eliah one for making three There yet remaineth one for thee No Peter no here is no place The enemie will not permit I onely set before thy face A marke to aim at and to hit A royall kingdome for to win If thou by faith canst enter in And Iames can lay hopes ankor fast By casting it upon this rock Then Iohn shall by his love at last Preserve and keep my little flock And nourish them by love alone When faith is lost and hope is gone For faith and hope were born of man And therefore cannot long endure They both shall end as they began For they were born but to allure Eternall love to be mans friend That man may live when they do end Faith did finde out the holy Land Hope led them in the wildernesse But love did bear the chief command For he our fathers did possesse In Canaan that mighty hoast When faith was gone and hope was lost Faith first doth bring man under awe Then hope attends upon Gods will But love alone must end the law Each royall precept to fulfill For Love he is that onely one Which makes a servant prove a sonne Moses my servant gave my law Eliah did attend my will And kept all men in servile aw Now I am come for to fulfill Each royall precept and to give True grace that man by faith may live These are my faithfull witnesses These men have overcome by love These men have seen my holinesse On earth beneath in heaven above Their witnesse doth in one agree To testifie that I am he Faithfull Moses stands me by Hopefull Eliah doth the same And love from heav'n doth testifie That I am he which bears his name Faith hope and love in one agree That you may know that I am he Moses was sent for to destroy Not sparing either man or beast Proud Pharaoh's kingdome to annoy With sundry plagues till he releast His bond-slave and did let him go Moses did daily work his wo. But I am sent for to preserve And call all men unto a feast From grace and truth I may not swerve Vntill that I have all releast Both Iew and Gentile in their kinde I may not leave one hoof behinde Moses obeyed my command And did the Passover ordain That Iacobs heritage might stand When Aegypts first-born all were slain And be preserved by that Lambe When the devouring Angell came Moses the red sea did divide An Angell went before his face Which did him through the waters guide When Pharaoh did pursue and chase A fiery pillar in a cloud Did this preserving Angell shrowd Now I am come for to fulfill I am that Lambe which shall be slain I must obey my fathers will My coming cannot be in vain I am that Angell which shall slay The Serpents first-born in one day Moses the Red-sea and the Cloud The fiery Pillar all am I That Angell which the Serpent proud Shall overthrow ev'n when I die My bloud shall Aegypts slave defend And bring the Serpent to his end In flaming fire I once came down And did desend upon the mount That men might fear when I did frown And Moses calling to account Both high low might trembling stand For breaking of my least command Eliah with consuming fire Did prosecute this fiery law To execute my wrath and ire On such as would not live in aw He made both high and low obey And in his zeal Ball 's prophets slay That law which I did once reveal In fire unto my servant true And after by Eliah's zeal With burning fire again renue Now love hath found a faithfull friend This law in fierie love to end All what by Moses was begun And never had been taught before Shall now by me be all undone Shall vanish and appear no more And circumcision shall fall And end in me for I am all This law is minister of death And sheweth the reward of sinne It must be ended with my breath My guiltlesse bloud the crown must win I must by death Gods wrath expell And overcome sinne death and hell This law I gave in flaming fire Thunder and lightning made men quake The trumpet did blow wrath and ire The burning mount did trembling shake Curse upon curse did there begin Thunder and fire did threaten sinne But now in love I did appear No thunder lightning smoak nor fire No trumpet blew the skie was clear All men might come which did desire Into the mount to heare what is Vertues reward blisse upon blisse That curse which I did then pronounce Is due to all men by desert Yet I will beare it ev'ry ounce No man shall beare with me a part All men be guilty and in thrall I guiltlesse free must pay for all That blessing which I now did give Is due to all men which deserve For love which would that all should live Gives food of life that none should sterve If men do come again in thrall The guilty then must pay for all In fiery love I gave this law That men might one another love And love hereafter might men draw To fix their eies on him above Who sitting at the righter hand Shall have the rule and sole command In fiery love I will proceed I will not banish scourge nor kill No tares nor cockles will I weed Out of my wheat they shall grow still Both shall have place both shall have room To grow untill the harvest come And then the wheat which love did sow By love shall reaped be again Hates cockles shall no longer grow For love will then in great disdain Burn and consume in wrath and ire Hate and his tares