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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12742	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.	Speed, Joshua.	1631 (1631)	STC 23050; ESTC S101712	43,323	144

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

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

water for her childe And fil'd her bottle to the brink And gave her sonne thereof to drink But now when Jshmael did flout Abram's faith and Isaac's hope And Hagar did cast Isaac out The Serpent did provide a rope To strangle love and hatred send To bring true love unto his end Hate would not wait for a command And malice would be nothing slack For she did take him by the hand And lay a tree upon his back And made him bring it to the place Where hatred would true love disgrace She nailed him fast hand and foot Vnto the tree which he had born For to complain it was no boot Thus he was made an open skorn And gainst all nature law and grace She mock't her sonne ev'n to his face She thought he was the most accurst And at his torments she did wink When pangs of death did make him thirst She gave him Vineger to drink VVhich done he yeeled up his breath And dying he did vanquish death Herode and Pilate did consent They did agree upon one day Isaac and Jacob to prevent But guiltlesse Isaac first to slay Then scatter Iacob by their might To take away his lawfull right VVhen Jshmael had Isaac slain He thought to lock him in the grave But Isaac did come forth again And made proud Ishmael deaths slave And bound him fast in mortall bands Till he be slain by Isaac's hands VVhen Herode heard he rose again Edom his maliee did renue And Jsaac's males he would have slain For hopefull James this tyrant slue And faithfull Peter kept in bands To murder him by cruell hands VVhen he escaped Edom's rage And that Gods Angell set him free Then Jshmael came on the stage To act his cruell tragedie And faithfull Peter did deride For to cut off the Christian guide When faith and hope had lost their right The Serpent did through malice move These tyrants both with all their might To murder and to vanquish love That Ishm'el might for Isaac reigne And Esau Jacobs blessing gain Then John they catcht within their claws On him their tortures they did prove Love pluck't him out the Lyons jaws For malice could not murder love Love had before his life laid down For Jsaac's promise Iacob's crown VVhen Isaac shall come down again His childeren for to advance That they with him might live and reigne In Canaans inheritance Then Jshmael shall play his part That he may have his due desert For Pilate then shall work his will By his edicts and tyranny The Males in Galile to kill Or bring them into slavery That Jsaac comming there may see All boued again what he set free But then Rebecca shall complain To Herode of this open wrong This is the land where thou dost reigne VVhy dost thou suffer him so long My Males be slain by Pilate's hand Where thou dost rule bear command Herode shall give her good content And say I will thy Males set free And Pilate's malice will prevent If thou wilt vow and swear to me Never to injure me nor mine Then will I stand for thee and thine And thus Rebecca to get free And be releast from Jshm'els bands Shall enter into slaverie She and her Males in Edom's hands That when as Isaac comes in fight They all shall lose their lawfull right For when as Isaac shall appeare Her love and constancy to try She will not then of Isaac heare But flatly shall her man denye Then Bashemath and Edom stout Shall thrust both her and Iacob out When Edom hath by cruellty Got Iacobs birthright for to reigne He then shall think as subtlely His blessing likewise to obtayne But when this thing shall come about Jsaac will feel and smell him out For though he once deceived was And cast his first-born out the nest Yet God did bring it so to pas He blest him whom God would have blest Which Jsaac soone did understand To be the work of Gods own hand When Edom subtlely therefore Shall come unto his father first Isaac shall turn him out a dore And curse him whom God will have curst The blessing shall on Jacob rest He blessed him he must be blest But when as Edom bould and stout Hath by a strong and cruell hand Thrust Iacob and Rebecca out For to possesse their native land Then shall the Iew come in again Which hath so long liv'd in disdain For then the Lord he will awake And unto his remembrance call The covenante which he did make With Abraham and Sarah shall Conceive and beare that promis'd seed Which on the Serpents head shall tread His judgments shall be just and pure And he shall reigne from Sea to Sea So long as Sun and Moon endure In glory strength and majesty The Kings to him shall bring their store All Kings I say shall him adore Then Sarahs love shall not be vain Though she did offer up that Lambe For she shall then come in again Her constant love to Abraham In all her troubles then shall win The love of God to bring her in If then Rebecca do the same VVhen like temptations provoke She shall again come out of blame And Iacob cast off Esau's yoak So he do not his promise break Which unto Laban he did make VVhen Sarahs time is come to bear That she delivered shall be Then cruell Pharaoh shall appear He shall arise out of the sea And come again upon the earth To kill this childe ev'n at his birth But God attending to her cry VVhen she is ready for to bear Shall with his power stand her by And free her from the Dragon's fear And take her sonne up to his thronc For he must reigne and rule alone For her he shall prepare a way Into the wildernesse to flie Lest that the Dragon should her slay And shew on her his tyranny There shall she learn to know his waies Thousand two hundred threescore daies There shall she learn to live in aw And from her God no more depart For there the Lord will write his law Within the tables of her heart All shall his holy name confesse Ev'n from the greater to the lesse Then shall those witnesses appear Which were with Jesus in the mount To bring the world in servile fear And call them to their last account For murder theft adultery And all their other cruelty If any man will do them wrong Then fire out of their mouthes shall go They shall be powerfull and strong To work their adversaries wo And Moses Rod which once did bud Shall turn the waters into bloud And sundry plagues bring on the earth If they their prophesie disdain Eliah he shall bring a dearth Vpon the world for want of rain And so their enemies shall kill Till they their prophesie fulfill But when their prophesie is done Then Ishmael and Edom stout Their strength shall both combine in one To cast these holy Prophets out These witnesses shall then be slain And then the world shall laugh