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A13413	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.	Taylor, Augustine.	1623 (1623)	STC 23723; ESTC S111349	16,441	72

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

nothing to win worldy praise 3 Is any true felicitie to bee found in rich apparell No I haue read the King of Cypresse hauing put on princely and sumptuous attire and being set on his Royall throne demanded of Solon if hee euer saw a more glorious obiect Solon told him hee had seene cockes pheasants and peacockes and that hee thought those birds were more beautifull for because their colours were both faire and naturall It is most true that we are most wretched of all creatures and miseros facit populos peccatum sinne is the thing that makes men miserable and wee plucke from euery thing something to be couerings to our miseries one lends vs skinne another wooll another furre another feathers another pearle another gold another silke another precious stones and iewels yea euery creature and euery element affords some things to furnish vs and yet wee are as proud of this as if it were ours by nature when indeede ours is the least part for if euery creature should come and challenge his owne all our costly couerings would dissolue to nakednesse Therefore that of Dauid cannot bee told too often Psalm 39. Doubilesse man walketh in a shadow and disquieteth himselfe in vaine Howsoeuer wee drawe curtaines and couerings about vs to make vs appeare more seemely then wee are yet our ilnesse will be manifest Clouds that are ouercharged with water must needes droppe God is omniuident and the power of policie cannot preuaile so much as to conceale any thing from the Prince of piety It is not Art but grace must helpe the defects of nature we main taine our clothing against the Rule of God Our noblest fathers wore coates of skinnes Gen. 3. The Saints recorded in the booke of God Hebr. 11. were but clothed in camels haire and goats skinnes Christ said in Luk. 7. they that weare delicate and soft apparell are in Kings houses vnderstand this lest you take it for a prefermēt not fighting in the great Kings campe but flattering in pettie Princes Courts to checke vs for our carelesse wantonnesse in this kinde there is an example in Luke 16. The rich Glutton wa● clothed in fine linnen and curious silkes very sumptuously and fared very deliciously died very damnably and shall liue in torments eternally Now you that would auoid his portion damnation you must detest his proportion ambition for the command is in vestitu ne glorieris vnquam see thou now neuer take glory in thine habite To preuent the destruction which was threatned to Niniueh we find in Ionah 3. the king commanded to keepe a solemn feast to frame thēselues for mourning as the outward signe of inward repentance he himselfe forsooke his Throne put on sackecloth and sate in ashes but was it wisely done to put on so poore attire to stand in before the greatest king being to begge his owne and Nineuehs pardon Yes surely hee did wonderous well hee considered that although hee was a king since his power was perisht and that he could no longer continue except hee could begge his libertie at God because ambition and sawcinesse becomes not beggars hee laid aside his rich clothing and poorely went and purchased his owne and Niniuehs pardon O remember Lazarus was found in ragges when hee was taken and preferred into Abrahams bosome And we find Lu. 2. CHRIST was but poorely lapt in clouts when hee came to conquer sinne death and hell and yet left the earth with glory and victory Be aduised then it is not garish apparell that will preferre you obserue the holy direction Eccles 9. at all times let thy garments bee white Clothe your selues with innocencie and contemne this ambitious furniture all the gaine comes by it is this It makes Christians that should die like lambes to die like dogges their skinnes prooue better then their bodies O keepe your selues free from this pride and vaine-glory that you may without blushing disdaine such comparisons and shewe your selues guiltlesse and then seeke some other preferment for it wil profit vs nothing to practise proud attire 4 Next for worldly wisedome it is little worth there comes no lasting aduancement by it because 4. Cor. 3. The wisedome of the world is folly with God The wise men of the world Christ did seldome or neuer chuse to doe him any seruice for non multi sapientes secundum carnem When the Messias was promised to come to bee the king of the Iewes they expected a great earthly Prince a Royall Caesar and refused Christ because hee came in pouerty so hee was vnto them a stumbling blocke and the Gentiles sauouring of nought but earthly wisedome thought it was a thing vnlike and meere folly for the Sonne of God to leaue his Throne in heauen being so glorious to descend to earth to taste of mans miseries so hee was to them foolishnesse 1. Cor. 1. This is worldly wisedome and who can be happy in it this shall one day be the worldly-wise mans confession Nos insensati vitam i'lorum aes imabamus insaniam Wis 5. Wee foolish men esteemed the liues of Saints to be but madnesse this shall be many of our wise mens confession when their confession comes too late to haue a pardon the wisedom of the world is no more profitable and therfore none can be happie in it In times past the Apostles preached Christ crucified with the manner of his offering and the merite of his suffering and the Philosophers and wise men of the world accounted them fooles for their paines Indeed the time present doth not much alter from the time past when the ministers of God tooke or takes paines for the fooles they shall be accounted fooles for their paines for that ●itle is the best that the wisedome of the world allowes them but the Saints of God haue all his messengers in great regard for the good turnes done by the master and it becommeth well the iust to bee thankefull therefore be better aduised and seeke better treasure since there is no true profit in worldly wisedome 5 For riches I say to you as Aristippus said to his man that carried his treasure after him That which is too waighty cast out and that which thou canst well carrie So cast away such triflles as are needlesse keepe such treasures as you may with ease and without danger vndergoe as necessary These riches are but thornes they are but miseries and afflictions And we see quomodo suffocant how they do choake vs by swallowing them too greedy Paul esteemed all riches but as dung Phil. 3. They are indeed but vanity it selfe We find that Solomon was the most absolute paterne of worldly prosperitie 1. Kings 4. Gold and siluer was as plentifull with him as stones So much that the abundance of both made both little esteemed his iewels and plate were not to be valued his pretious apparell and armour was infinite his Throne of Maiestie was borne vp with twelue Lyons of gold farre exceeding all other kingly seats in the