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A59287 Absalom Senior, or, Achitophel transpros'd a poem. Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724. 1682 (1682) Wing S2653; ESTC R4134 24,352 82

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Israels Laws the dull Levitick Rolls At once a clog to Empire and to Souls Are the first Martyrs to the Fire they doom To make great Baals Triumphant Legends room But ere their hands this glorious work can Crown Their long-known Foe the Sanedrin must down Sanedrins the Free-born Israels Sacred Right That God-like Ballance of Imperial Might Where Subjects are from Tyrant-Lords set free From that wild Thing unbounded man would be Where Pow'r and Clemency are poys'd so even A Constitution that resembles Heav'n So in th' united great THREE-ONE we find A Saving with a Dooming Godhead joyn'd But why oh why if such restraining pow'r Can bind Omnipotence should Kings wish more A Constitution so Divinely mixt Not Natures bounded Elements more fixt Thus Earths vast Frame with firm and solid ground Stands in a foaming Ocean circled round Yet This not overflowing That not drown'd But to rebuild their Altars and enstal Their Moulten Gods the Sanedrin must fall That Constellation of the Jewish Pow'r All blotted from its Orb must shine no more Or stampt in Pharoahs darling Mould must quit Their Native Beams for a new-model'd Light Like Egypts Sanedrins their influence gone Flash but like empty Meteors round the Throne That that new Lord may Iudahs Scepter weild To whom th' old Brickill Taskmasters must yield Who to erect new Temples for his Gods Shall th'enslav'd Israel drive with Iron Rods If they want Bricks for his new Walls t' aspire To their sad cost he 'll find 'em Straw and Fire All this t' effect and their new Fabrick build Both close Cabals and Forreign Leagues are held To Babylon and Egypt they send o're And both their Conduct and their Gold implore By such Abettors the sly Game was plaid One of their Chiefs a Jewish Renegade High-born in Israel one Michals Priest But now in Babylons proud Scarlet drest 'T is to his Hands the Plotting Mandats come Subscrib'd by the Apostate Absolom Nay and to keep themselves all danger-proof That none might track the Belial by his Hoof Their-Correspondence veil'd from prying Eyes In Hieroglyphick Figures they disguise Husht as the Night in which their Plots combin'd And silent as the Graves they had design'd Their Ripening Mischiefs to perfection sprung But oh the much-loath'd David lives too long Their Vultures cannot mount but from his Tomb And with too hungry ravenous Gorges come To be by airy Expectation fed No Prey no Spoil before they see Him Dead Yes Dead the Royal Sands too slowly pass And therefore they 're resolved to break the Glass And to ensure Times tardy dubious Call Decree their Daggers should his Sythe forestall For th'execrable Deed a Hireling Crew Their Hell and They pick out whom to make true An Oath of Force so exquisite they frame Sworn in the Blood of Israels Paschal Lamb. If false the Vengeance of that Sword that slew Egypts First-born their perjur'd Heads pursue Strong was the Oath the Imprecation dire And for a Viand lest their Guilt should tire With promis'd Paradice they cheer their way And bold's the Souldier who has Heav'n his pay But the ne'r-sleeping Providence that stands With jealous Eyes o're Truths up-lifted Hands That still in its Lov'd Israel takes delight Their Cloud by Day and Guardian Fire by Night A Ray from out its Fiery Pillar cast That overlook'd their driving Iehu's hast All 's ruin'd and betray'd their own false Slaves Detect the Plot and dig their Masters Graves Not Oaths nor Bribes shall bind when great Iehovah saves The frighted Israelites take the Alarm Resolve the Traitors Sorceries t'uncharm Till cursing raving mad and drunk with Rage In Amnons Blood their frantick Hands engage Here let the Ghost of strangl'd Amnon come A Specter that will strike Amazement dumb Amnon the Proto-Martyr of the Plot The Murder'd Amnon their Eternal Blot Whos 's too bold zeal stood like a Pharos Light Israel to warn and track their Deeds of Night Till the sly Foe his unseen Game to play Put out the Beacon to secure his way Baals Cabinet-Intrigues he open spread The Ravisht Tamar for whose sake he bled T' unveil their Temple and expose their Gods Deserv'd their vengeances severest Rods Wrath he deserv'd and had the Vial full To lay those Devils had possest his Soul His silenc'd Fiends from his wrung Neck they twist Whilst his kind Murd'rer's but his Exorcist Here draw bold Painter if thy Pencil dare Unshaking write what Israel quak'd to hear A Royal Altar pregnant with a Load Of Humane Bones beneath a Breaden God Altars so rich not Molocks Temples show 'T was Heaven above and Golgotha below Yet are not all the Mystick Rites yet done Their pious Fury does not stop so soon But to pursue the loud-tongu'd Wounds they gave Resolves to stab his Fame beyond the Grave And in Eternal Infamy to brand With Amnons Murder Amnons righteous Hand Here with a Bloodless wound by Hellish Art With his own Sword they goar his Lifeless Heart Thus in a Ditch the butcher'd Amnon lay A Deed of Night enough to have kept back the Day Had not the Sun in Sacred vengeance rose Asham'd to see but prouder to disclose Warm'd with new Fires with all his posting speed Brought Heav'ns bright Lamp to shew th' Infernal Deed. What art thou Church when Faith to propagate And crush all Ba●s that stop thy growing state Thou break'st through Natures Gods and Humane Laws Whilst Murder 's Merit in a Churches Cause How much thy Ladder Iacobs does excel Whose Top's in Heaven like His but Foot in Hell Thy Causes bloody Champions to befriend For Fiends to Mount as Angels to Descend This was the stroke did th'alarm'd World surprize And even to infidelity lent Eyes Whilst sweating Absolon in Israel pent For fresher Air was to bleak Hebron sent Cold Hebron warm'd by his approaching sight Flusht with his Gold and glow'd with new delight Till Sacred all-converting Interest To Loyalty their almost unknown Guest Oped a broad Gate from whence forth-issuing come Decrees Tests Oaths for well-sooth'd Absolom Spight of that Guilt that made even Angels fall An unbarr'd Heir shall Reign In spight of all Apostacy from Heav'n or Natures tyes Though for his Throne a Cain-built Palace rise No wonder Hebron such Devotion bears T'Imperial Dignity and Royal Heirs For they whom Chronicle so high renowns For selling Kings should know the price of Crowns Here Glorious Hushai let me mourn thy Fate Thou once great Pillar of the Hebron State Yet now to Dungeons sent and doom'd t' a Grave But Chains are no new Sufferings to the Brave Witness thy pains in six years Bonds endur'd For Israels Faith and Davids Cause immur'd Death too thou oft for Iudahs Crown hast stood So bravely fac'd in several Fields of Blood But from Fames Pinnacle now headlong cast Life Honour all are ruin'd at a Blast For Absolons great LAW thou durst explain Where but to pry bold Lord was to prophane A Law that did his Mystick God-head couch Like