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
NEWES FROM IERVSALEM 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 Tom pulchra es Amica mea non est macula in te Cant. 4. Written by AVGVSTIN TAYLOR Preacher at Hawarden LONDON Printed by Augustine Matthewes dwelling in the Parsonage house in Bride Lane neere Fleet-street 1623. TO THE RIGHT Honourable ANNE the Lady CARRE onely Daughter to the thrice Noble Lord WILLIAM Earle of DARBY c. IF it may please you to Suruey These Lines with th' eyes of Grace You 'll not repent for surely they Doe Ayme at Glories Place They are your Owne I did intend When I was great with yong Of these Conceptions some great Friend Should Patronage my Song And may with Honour Sacred things Can nere be lodg'd too well Gods holy Truth in brests of Kings Beseemeth best to dwell Most Vertuous Noble Lady I Haue from your Bounty wing And whilst my Muse hath power to fly Some holy Offering She will preferre The Body may Wi h all her parts agree To rule the minde but I dare say The Soule can neuer bee Contain'd in such base limits No! It aymes at better things And cannot rest vntill it know That Campe where 's none but Kings Great and Good Lady hold your Hand And to requite your paynes You shall more true Ioy vnderstand Then all the world containes Peruse this well and if it doth Your inward Thoughts aduance Giue God the Praise and Honour both And mee your Countenance Euer disposed to bee at your Honourable dispose Augustine Taylor THE GREAT KINGS CITIE 1 A Arise my soule from death and Hell Soare with the wings of Loue To see where Saints and Angels dwell with God in blisse aboue 2 Remember thou a stranger art and wand'ring Pilgrim here And shall be vntill thou depart to Saints thy fellowes there 3 An exile poore on earth opprest amongst professed Foes The World the Flesh the Diuels protest to multiply thy woes 4 Immortall Soule why is' t thou stayes to build thy House on Sand The Bridegroome comes the musicke plaies the Marriage is at hand 5 A wedding garment thou must haue I meane a vertuous life For other garments are not graue for such a Princ s wife 6 Therefore renounce all earthly pelfe a heauenly Race to runne Forsake the world and frame thy selfe To liue as Saints haue done 7 Ascend aboue the Azure skie and things that mortall be Beyond the starry Heauens hie if thou true ioyes would see 8 A Citie there prepared is for stately Order rare A Princely place adorn'd with blisse And sumptuous buildings faire 9 Ierusalem that place is call'd most glorious to behold The which with precious stones is wall'd whose streets are pau'd with gold 10 Amid the streets the well of Life with golden Streames doth flow Vpon whose Bankes the Tree of Life in seemely sort doth grow 11 With pleasant fruits of euery kind fit for immortall taste Vpon whose root there shalt thou sind the heauenly Manna plac'd 12 There Dauid sits with Harpe in hand as Master of the Quire Most happy those that vnderstand and may his Musicke heare 13 There Noah with all the Iust doth raigne There doe the Prophets land Patriarkes old doe there remaine with scepters in their hands 14 There all our good progenitors doe wish and wayt for thee And thousands of thine Ancestors which thou didst neuer see 15 There millions of bright Angels be and Saints in glory braue And euery one is glad to see the ioyes their fellowes haue 16 There Marryrs and Apostles liue there sacred Virgins stay There they doe wayt and duely giue attendance night and day 17 There blessed Mary sweetly sings with sweet melodious voyce The Saints and all Caelestiall things for Ioy with her reioyce 18 Sad Magdalen hath left her moane her sighes and sobbs doe cease Now all her teares and griefes are gone and shee 's in endlesse peace 19 Ten thousand tongues cannot expound nor Angels skill indite The passing pleasures there abound the Ioyes that there delight 20 There is combin'd the complete summe that loued to liue well There all the Kings in order come that honou'd Israel 21 There shalt thou see the Cherubins in glorious State excell The Angels and the Seraphins where soules of Saints doe dwell 22 O happy time to meet our Friends and louing Kinsfolke there To line in blisse that neuer ends with them we lou'd so deare 23 No blisse nor pleasure there doth want that man may wish to haue No Ioyes nor true delights are scant thou canst deuise to craue 24 If Wealth or Honour thou desire or Happy dayes to see There nothing wants thou canst require for thou a Prince shalt bee 25 Thy Garments shall be all of blisse thou shalt a Scepter beare And Dyadem more precious is then earthly Princes weare 26 If thou desirest daintie Cheere and rich and costly Meat The Bread and Drinke of Life is there and food that Angels eat 27 In aged yeares if thou request to liue with faithfull friends With Saints and Angels thou shalt rest in blisse that neuer ends 28 If Learning Wisdome Wit or Health may satisfie thy mind A boundlesse endlesse Common-wealth is there for thee assign'd 29 Or if thou list in reuerend wise the will of God to doe There is the Church the Sacrifice the Priest and Altar too 30 There God himself doth heare our plaints and pities Christians case Our ancient friends now holy Saints beholds him face to face 31 There triumph ouer sinne is wonne the Deuil and Death defac'd The Kingdome of the Iust begunne and there in glory plac'd 32 There Tyrants nothing haue to doe nor Racke nor Rope is knowne Tormentors all and Sathan too are fully ouerthrowne 33 To liue vpon this Earth a King ten thousand yeares I say To thee such pleasure cannot bring as there to liue a day 34 No rude nor rayling Heretique that strange Religion make No temporizing Schismatique that Christ and Church forsake 35 Shall enter there or finde a place wherein to take repose Those that haue liu'd the life of grace the life of glory knowes 36 Nothing vncleane nothing impure can bee admitted there God loues what 's like himselfe be sure things spotlesse bright and cleare 37 For Enuy there 's no place to rest foule Blasphemy's debarr'd Slaunder presumes to be a Ghest but Heauen was prepar'd 38 For no such stuffe Ambition may suppose t' ascend on hye But that 's an errour there 's no stay for such Societie 39 Ioy Pietie Bountie Patience Faith are sure to soare aboue For Sion as the Ancients saith was built for Peace and Loue. 40 This place is free from Need and Night for Day and plentie lasts Christs is the Sunne of endlesse light not subiect t'ouer-casts 41 The bodies there of euery one exceeds the Chrystall cleare And shines farre brighter then the Sunne when it doth fair'st
need will do him least good for they shall not profit him in the day of indignation neuerthelesse the rich man is confident in the contrary I conceiue so much in his carriage for hee hath erected faire and sumptuous building deckt his habitation with richest furniture furnisht his lodgings with beds of down fil'd his possessions with store of cattle stuff'd his barnes with purest corne prouided for his diet the daintiest meat chosen for his backe the richest clothing prepared for his eares the sweetest musicke flatters himselfe with with a supposed content withdrawes himselfe into the roome of his plenty scats himselfe in the chaire of ingratitude and shuts vpon him the doore of couetousnesse numbers the angels in his chests and forgets the Articles of his Creed throwes himselfe vpon his bed of vanity and there fals into a golden dreame and wakening vtters this resolute speech Luke 12. Soule thou hast much goods laid vp for many yeeres liue at ease eate sleepe and take thy pleasure But this would not last his disolute resolution had a resolute disolution Foole this night they will take away thy soule and whose shall all these things be which thou hast prouided Thus it happens to those that trust in their riches The Prophet demaunds Baruch 3. Where are they now which hoarded vp siluer gold wherin they trusted and made no end of scraping together Hee answeres himselfe Exterminati sunt ad Inferos descenderunt They are now rooted out and gone downe into hell Therefore woe be vnto the rich for they haue receiued their consolation Luk. 6. Like vnto vnthrifty heires sold all and spent all to whom and for whom nothing remaines but misery Then since the wealth of the world is worthlesse and yeelds no perfit happinesse but for a time flatters fooles and leaues them vnsatisfied It shall be our care to finde out some better benefit for it will profit vs nothing to winne worldly riches 6 Shall wee account our selues happie to practise carnall pleasure no no yet God hath allowed a certaine measure of carnall recreations for the godly for the maintenance of their healths these I doe not intend to prooue but to reproue that excesse abundance in which worldly men vse them banqueting speaking laughing playing c. These are the chiefe parts of carnall pleasures There is danger in banquetings Alexander the Great feasting in Babylon after he had conquered the whole world sitting there to reioyce and cast lots vpon the kingdoms the end of his banquet was the end of his life amongst all his dainties he died of poyson Holofernes after his banquet being full of wine fell into a heauy sleepe and paid his head for his pleasures Iudith 13. and so he found a heauy reckoning Yet this excesse in banqueting takes not away the blessing of feasting neuerthelesse make the banquet without excesse and see it vsed in a moderate kind and it is a good but the discontinuance of it makes it imperfect hunger so suddenly ensues the best feeding so that our best title I can giue this carnall pleasure is a troublesome custome that yeelds more profit then delight There is danger in speaking since Matth. 12. For euery idle word that men shall speake they shall giue an account thereof at the day of iudgement There is danger in laughing for Eccles 2. I haue said of laughter thou art mad and of ioy what is this that thou doest There is danger in playing and wantonnesse and so Sampson lost his strength Iudges 16. So did Dauid staine his honour 2. Sam. 11. There is danger in sleeping Two shal be lying in one bed the one shal be taken the other refused Luk. 17. Danger lies lurking vnder the fairest roofe the most sumptuous buildings are but shadowes for the time shall come that one stone shall not be left vpon another Marke 13. Therefore hee that hath eares to heare may heare he that hath eyes to see may see he that hath sence to leare may learne the world is worthlesse the purchace needlesse the plenties of it helplesse the louers of it haplesse the pleasures in it fruitlesse and the torments after it endlesse Nothing to bee found in the world but troubles miseries night need and plenty of discontent and no better treasure then is herein discouered vnto you is to be found in the quantity of the purchace Nowe the qualitie of the price is the soule and what shall it profit a man to win the whole world and to loose his owne soule The soule is an immorsall substance and the proper seat of the image of God and 't is the noblest part of man as the poore cottage of clay may lodge the mightiest Prince so our poore clods of soyle were but made to lodge the soule the body being the baser is made a chamber for the soule which is the better and vpon the soule God hath bestowed eternity it had a beginning but hath no ending which shall either vpon the forsaking of his earthly mansion find perpetuall ioy or lasting torments and who to win the world which is but a winters day feares not to send the soule to endlesse punishment into euerlasting night If there be any faith there is some feare but I feare aâ—grotat fides â—am proxima morti Faith is so sicke that it is ready to die and if it be so we haue lost our Anchour and are but in a broken Barke vpon the great seas of miserie all things to nothing sodainly to perish But to come to an end and I beseech God my now ending may be a numbers good beginning Since the quality of the price the immortall soule farre exceedes the quantitie of the purchace the worthles world my aduise is to forsake these Netherlands and lift your eyes vnto the heauens for from thence must come your helpe Colosâ— If you be then risen with Christ seeke those things that are aboue And as the spies did that fled from Iericho so saue your selues and escape by hils It is the diuels councell mitte deorsum throwe thy selfe downe set thy affections vpon earthly things delight in the world but doe not regard it aime at better ends nay aime at that which hath no ende and as you see God hath ordained the end so hee hath done the meanes then vse the world as the means to obtaine heauen vnto the hauen the heauen of gladnesse and glory he that is Lord of all bring vs all for his mercies and merits sake to him be all praise and glory now and for euer Amen FINIS THE COMMING OF THE KINGS SONNE Behold I come shortly and my reward is with me Reuel 22. Quisquis ad vitam editur ad mortem destinatur Composed By AVGVSTIN TAYLOR Preacher at Hawarden LONDON Printed by Augustine Matthewes dwelling in the Parsonage house in Bride Lane neere Fleet-street 1623. TO THE RIGHT HOnourable ARTHVR Lord Chichester Baron of Belfast c. IT cannot be but as you haue Worne death vpon your sword