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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54808	The Sad condition of a distracted kingdome, expressed, in a fable of Philo the Jew	Philo, of Alexandria.; Rivers, J. A. (John Abbot)	1645 (1645)	Wing P2130; ESTC R40672	16,919	35

THE SAD CONDITION OF A Distracted Kingdome Expressed IN A FABLE OF PHILO THE JEW Exempla credntur Quae socci superant risum luctumque Cothurni Claudian LONDON Printed by B. A. 1645. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE ALGERNON Earle of Northumberland PHILIP Earle of Pembroke and Montgomerie Right Honourable THE Authour of this Fable in his own Age and in succeeding times was ever by the ripest wits esteemed learned eloquent and ingenious I am confident your Honours impartiall Iudgements will censure my expressions upon Philoes invention ingenuous and harmlesse these are the issue of some spare houres in these miserable times exposed to the world under your Honours protection unto whom the Author professeth himself a Most humble servant A. RIVERS To the right Honourable Algernon Percie Earle of Northumberland c. MY LORD SO many glorious titles crowne Your Noble Stemme as easily they put down Great Romes Aemilians Scipio's Fabio's whose One single Tribe adventured to oppose Themselves their Cities Wall and with their bloud Preserve Rome from the innumerous Multitude Of Veia●s How oft have our Ancestours Seen and extold like Piety of Yours How many Victories have the PERCIES got What Trophies reard of the subdued SCOT How many of your Martiall Linage are In FAMES BOOK written Thunderbolts of VVAR Who with HEROICK Actions adde new Grace To Charlemain's MARTELLVS PEPINS race From whom you are discendants and we know How much GRADIVUS and the MVSES owe To your Progenitours and dare rehearse Our better VOVVES and SERVICES in verse Be Greatest FABIVS be great ALGERNON And emulate your PERCIES CRESCENT MOON Shewre down your influence make our clouded night By your wise Counsailes then the day more bright Your Honours humble Servant A RIVERS The Fable of PHILO the JEW Amplified TAE ARGUMENT PHILO the most learned and eloquent amongst the Jewes recites a very pleasant and witty Storie Namely that God after he had with singular art and wisedome created the Vniverse commanded the Angels to tell him what they thought of the Work and workmanship And that one of those blessed Spirits with much freedome answered that in his judgement there wanted as a complement to so exquisite an opifice a strong Voice very audible and penetrating which without intermission passing from one corner of the Earth to the other should be the continuall Trumpet of Gods praise and preach even to the most ignorant his supream wisedome and ineffable skill in the production of the very least and most contemptible Creatures This ingenious Fable of Philo is the Argument and gave occasion to the following Treatise And though there are those and not unlearned who judge it too much to savour of the Pedagogue when Authors are quoted yet we think we shall give authority to our lines if we expresse the grounds of our invention and from whence we fetch and to what direct our Allusions WHo gave himself existence gave us all The being that we have ordered this Ball We trample with a word and without sweat Gave essence and existence to the great And lesser Creatures and requir'd no more Materials pre-existent then a poore Nothing and thence with an all potent hand First made then perfected Fire Ayre Sea Land Nor is the worke by patterne but he takes Himselfe and of his worke th' Idea makes VVhen did God make those intellective Peeres Guardians of Mankind Guiders of the Spheres Le ts reckon every imaginarie Age Before they undertook the Pupillage Of Adams Orphans or shall we agree As parcels of large Natures Machin he Gave them Coevall being How e're wee 'l joyne In this the workmanship was most divine Did he suite Heaven with a more glorious Robe Then is the garment of our Earthly Globe Is the stuffe other then of things below Or an extracted Quintessence be 't so Or what it will we are sure with singular Art God finished and polisht every part And viewing all as in a maze he stood And with much Complacence pronounc't all 's Good VVhen Babels frantick Architects intend Their Tower should as Heavens Pallaces ascend God goes i' th sacred Triads Companie To view what this presumptuous work should bee And disallowing their transcendent Pride He stayes the work and workmen doth divide So many Ages past attended by His glorious Courtiers he Commands them eye And curiously observe the worlds vast frame Then tell him what was wanting in the same For he had heard although he let it passe How Momus had desir'd a looking glasse Should in the brest of man be plac't to show VVhat were his inward thoughts that all might know VVhose ends were crooked whose pretensions right Discern the just man from the Hypocrite A fond request and contrary to that VVhich when man formed was God leveld at For he created Men with libertie In will and action and if all should see VVhat are the deep designes at which they aime Both action and invention would be lame As Moyses from Mount Nebo viewd the soile Of Fertile Chanaan which by warlike toile The Tribes must gaine and with their weapons meet Those Regions which must make their warfare sweet So in a Moment helpt with glories light These Angels have presented to their sight The Universe the Heavens the Earth the Seas And whatsoever is containd in these In Heaven they see an immense Amplitude And spatious Tabernacles for the Good VVho imitating Angels and by Grace Vanquish the ill with good shall have a place The many Orbes are objects of their sight The fixt and wandring Tapers of the Night VVee 'l not believe but they both see and know VVhat distance is 'twixt Heaven and us below Should I tell you that some huge Milstone hurld From th' highest Heaven to th' Center of the world VVould aske twice threescore yeares 'fore it descend To the said Centre and his journie end And wee 'l allow for every hower the while It is in motion at least forty mile Then guesse what distance is 'twixt Heaven and us By the swift motion of this ponderous Descendant Spake I so you 'le laugh and say How know you this or who hath rid the way How many are the stages with the Sun VVho took post horse and through the Zodiack run The Angels know this truth yet in lesse time Then one short hour a soul that 's pure can climbe To th' top of the Empyrean Heavens such force And expedition hath a vertuous course Of life Our Angels with amazement viewd The flaming Sun still burning nere renewed Who by the lending of his glorious light Or the with-holding measures day and night 'T is strange so vast a Body every day And every night should travail so much way As from the East to West and then return To make another journey the next morn We daily see 't and therefore make it light Because it is so daily in our sight Whose hand but the Almighties can sustain Those Magazines of Snow of Hail of Rain i th'