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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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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
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