the Crew of damned Hue In all the World about He will much more his Power declare Ascended now on high Captivity he captive led In his triumphant Day This Hebrew Child tho meek and mild Made Devils loudly roar On Mountains steep in Vallies deep On all the Seas and Shore All Oracles dumb no hideous Hum No mighty Trance or Spell Apollo's Shrines no more Divine's Nor no Prophetick Cell The Flamins quaint at Altars faint In consecrated Grove Because no Sound doth there rebound From their-sweet Object Jove All Temples dumb Peor Baalim And mooned Ashtaroth No Tapers shine none can divine Hence Beelzebub is wroth Now Moloc's fled that Idol's dead Isis and Osiris From Judah's Land the Infant 's hand Laid low the Heathen Priests Each fetter'd Ghost slips to his Post To the Infernal Jail Who go in Troops their Malice shoots Back to the God of all Who comes who comes in glor'ous Blooms From Edom and Bozrath In whose Brow high is Majesty And treads untrodden Paths Glory surrounds his Body's Bounds There 's Terror in his Face Mr. Norris The Evening Sky the Scarlet Dye His Robes cannot debase They are so red with God-like Blood And Blood of Enemies They are much stain'd with Conquest gain'd And blessed Victories I mighty One 't is I do come That treads the Press alone Of Wrath Divine such Power is mine I will have help from none 'T is I can speak my Foes to death And that in Righteousness Almighty I can save most high From Hell to Heaven's Bliss 'T is I alone go conqu'ring on By my great Power and Strength And Blood runs o're my Garments pure My People might have Health 'T is I outvie the Scarlet Dye And make my Garments red Like those Men that do tread the Fat And Wine-press for the Blood I wear those Clothes red like the Rose To save some some destroy By shedding Blood I bruise one's Head And God do satisfy The Day is come that signal One And Death shall have its Doom The Kingdoms dark I will subvert And conquer every One No Sea of Blood but Christ's most good The Enemy could spoil And we are glad Christ's bloody Flag Doth flourish over all The Cher'bims Guard of the High Lord Stood by while Christ did fight His Father true forsook him too Yet he the Field did get My Fury strong supports me long And with my single Arm The Conquest 's won Salvation's come To mine that none can harm CHAP. XX. The ARGUMENT This Chapter contains an Account of a triumphant Song to the Lamb by the Saints of the Old and New Testament for Christ's most glorious Conquest over his and the Church's Enemies in his Resurrection and Ascension WITH Deborah we 'l sing to Jah Who hath avenged me And trod down Strength his Arm hath length To spoil his Enemy When he march'd on the Enemy strong Did tremble in the Earth And in the Field he made them yield As Holy Scripture saith Wake Deborah awake with Mirth A Song of Triumph sing Our Barak Head Captivity led A Captive tho a King Proud Sisera must stand in awe The Stars in Heaven fight The great Jael hath conquer'd Hell And put his Foes to flight Come to our King with Israel sing The Lord 's a Man of War He gloriously triumphs on high And leads his Enemies far Pharaoh of Hell that proud Rebel His Chariots overthrew His great Captains and chosen Ones Their Strength could not renew They proudly said Pursue the Head Fight not with Small or Great But Israel's King strike most at him Then we shall them defeat Come draw your Sword upon my Word My Lust I will fulfil I will divide the Spoil his Pride Shall not go conquering still The Sea arose upon his Foes And in it they did sink A Sea of Wrath wherein no Path Can find from it to shrink Who can compare with this most Fair Glorious in Holiness And fearful in the praise of Men His Wonders cannot cease Now Hannah sung we will prolong Our Honour he exalts Against our Foes his Power flows They may not proudly talk The mighty One is broken down And weak Ones girded are The Prince brought down from a high Throne The Poor exalted there Come Esa's Song we will prolong To our beloved King That us hath made his sweet Vineyard Who were but Lumps of Sin And fix'd it in a fruitful Hill Where Showers fall Divine A Tower great he made in it And on it Christ doth shine He doth it watch his Vineyard rich 'T is done both Night and Day A fiery Wall is round them all Against the Beasts of Prey May Zion say in a good Day Tho thou wast angry Lord With me for Sin through Christ our King Thy Favour is restor'd Behold my God doth Help afford He is Salvation Who shall I fear Jehovah's near My Trust my Strength my Song Therefore in Faith let 's draw with Mirth From God's Salvation-Wells Those living Streams Christ's bloody Veins Did purchase for Rebels In this good Day we all will say Praise praise the Lord alone Exalt his Name and spread his Fame For great 's the holy One. In Zion's Land his mighty Hand Is stretched out to save His Israel where he doth dwell Whom to his Son he gave Well is it said in God's sure Word Excellent Things doth he 'T is shewed forth in all the Earth God for his Church will be Sing and cry out come give a Shout Of Hallelujah's high To Jehovah begun on Earth But lasts Eternity The Prophet old when he foretold Death should be swallowed up In Victory by one on high Then he this Song did put Unto the Church to triumph much On that triumphant Day Eternal Gates stand ope in state That Saints then enter may This City strong they enter in Salvation is their Wall And Bullwarks too none can subdue And make this City fall As Mary's Song when Gabriel came The Angel her did tell And her salute and kindly greet With News that did excel That she should bear the glorious Heir Of Heaven and of Earth In her pure Womb should lie God's Son As holy Scripture saith Then she brake out with holy Shout Of Praise to magnify The Lord above who in much Love Had fill'd her Soul with Joy What Wonders here that I should bear A Saviour unto Man That I so poor God great in Power Should set his Love upon And me exalt with all my Faults Above all Women high No Queen he took this King to suck Or bear in her Body But me poor Maid he did regard To his eternal Praise I bore the King who had no Sin One of eternal Days With Zachary the Lord on high Let us ever extol For visiting and redeeming His People from all thrall A Horn of Power and a strong Tower Of great Salvation For us hath rais'd eternal Praise The Lord shall wait alone Now are made good the Prophet's words Spake since the World began God's Covenant stood
forlorn A Saviour God and Man The heavenly Host do join their Force And give Encomiums high To God above who in much Love Hath sent his Son to die Glory to God the highest Good Who sends Peace to the Earth Man hath that Bliss the Devils miss An Object for his Faith Those damned Ones none them bemoans Who lie in deep despair Of any Good from that just God They all revolted are From hence in rage they all engage To envy God and Man Glory to God from Man all Good They 'l hinder what they can Adam the First Paradise lost Where once he sweetly sang But was regain'd by Man's good Friend Christ the triumphant King He Satan fought and gain'd the Fort Yea won the Field and Day The Woman's Seed did break the Head Of Man's grand Enemy Satan in spite he rallies up His broken Troops dispers'd A Council calls of black Peers all That Man may be distrest With our grand Shield we 'l gain the Field The second Adam took Come lose no Ground come be profound That Man from God may look 'T is our Intent to circumvent Both Head and Body too If we can part Christ and Man's Heart That 's all we aim to do But he forgot what was Job's Lot And how he fail'd therein Yet is so mad to set on God Who made him of Nothing CHAP. X. The ARGUMENT Some Country Shepherds are giving an Account to the Nation of the Jews what an Angel had informed them and of their Journey to Bethlehem where they found Joseph and Mary with the Babe the Infant-God lying in a Manger TO Bethlehem those Shepherds come The Wonderful to see Isa 9.6 And found the Lamb the holy One Design'd for Calvary They told the Jews the Angels News Immanuel was come Now Admiration fills the Nation For this most glorious One. They found the Babe the Infant-God But in a low Degree His God-like Face was full of Grace To Man in Misery CHAP. XI The ARGUMENT A Man of God gives the Church Information of the Circumcision and presentation of Christ with his Mother Mary 's Purification in the Temple Also how a good old Man named Simeon and a gracious Matron called Anna believed that Child to be him of whom the Prophets spake should descend from Abraham and David 's Loins when probably many great Persons who walked in the Temple looked upon this Infant-God only as the Son of a poor Carpenter AFTER eight Days they Circumcise Christ which presag'd much Good That came to pass upon the Cross Where he shed all his Blood The purest Maid Mother of God Above all Women blest Was presented and purified In God's Temple of Rest Then Simeon old being foretold Of this great Potentate With a sweet look of Faith him took And blest the Lord of State And at his Breast Jesus did rest Here 's Love in highest Passion He dies in peace and goes to rest On sight of God's Salvation Tho rich and great the Temple walk'd When Christ was Circumcis'd To be a King none did know him But Ann and Simeon wise None did him greet who was so great But on him meanly look'd Some poor Off-spring far from a King A Carpenter's Relique But holy Ann when she came in And saw the Babe of Grace She did proclaim to every one He came of David's Race O Israel you looked well In your Jerusalem This pretty Babe in your Arms laid Works your Redemption 'T is Shilo sure who will allure All Men by his free Grace This is the Root from David shot He hath a God-like Face The Sage and Wise then heard the Noise A Jewish King was born They brought sweet Scent from Orient Gold Frankincense and Balm Herod the Great now full of Heat The blest Messiah's Foe He calls the Scribes of several Tribes This Monarch down to throw The Wise and Sage he them did charge If they did find the King To signify it by and by That he might worship him But his vile Mind had then design'd A Fact most Tragical O Hypocrite God will thee smite Thou Son of Belial But those wise Men they worship him And Herod's Laws despise For by a Dream and Star they came Unto the only Wise In Bethlehem the Babes all then From two Years old and up Were Martyred all that Christ might fall This was a bitter Cup. Now Lamentation fills the Nation For this inhumame Act All Parents cry and like to die Because their Babes are not The Governour began to fear That Cesar's Time was short And Mary's Son would shortly reign Their Government subvert CHAP. XII The ARGUMENT A Church is dispatcht from the Celestial Canaan to inform Joseph and Mary in a Dream of their going to Egypt to avoid the Malice of Herod who sought the Death of the young Child and upon Herod 's Death signifies God would have them return again to their own Land NOW on a Time an Angel came Who Mary and Joseph tell Their Feet must stand on Egypt Land Until that Herod fell Who quickly dies so th' Angel flies With all celerity To Egypt Land and gives Command That Joseph go his way â—or they are dead all gone and fled Which sought the young Child's Life â—nd by a Dream informed them From the true God of Light CHAP. XIII The ARGUMENT A Messenger of the King of Kings gives Information how this young King of Nazareth disputed with and confuted the Doctors of the Law at 12 Years old Of his entring upon his Prophetical Office He sends John Baptist as his Harbinger authorizeth him to Baptize and about thirty Years of Age was baptized by him himself to fulâ—â—â— all Righteousness the Ordinance confirmed by the whole Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost WHEN Mary's Son twelve Years had run The Doctors of the Law He did dispute and them confute And made them stand in awe And now in fine sweet Jesus time Of working doth commence A Harbinger for to prepare His way he sendeth thence His Mission is for to baptize John Baptist 't is I mean He them immerst who Sins confest And true Repentance gain For to fulfil the Royal Will Christ came to Prophet John To be baptiz'd in any wise When thirty Years had run Then John him took to Jordan Brook And there did him immerse He did him dip because most meet To fulfil Righteousness This was not done to wash off Sin Because Messiah's pure To Man he 's sent a Precedent Let it all Men allure The glorious Trine did all combine To witness to this thing The Father Son and Spirit as one Did honour his Baptism CHAP. XIV The ARGUMENT One of Christ's Learned Disciples informs the Church that after Jesus was baptized he is led into the Wilderness where the Devil appeared unto him probably like some Antient Man in poor Habit. The Messiah discovered he knew him tho under a disguise to be the Head of the Apostate Angels Christ not answering his End in making Bread of Stones is
to heal Another Man a Syrenian At that time coming by Must bear the Cross most ponderous On which Christ was to die What Wit of Man can now define His Sorrow Grief and Shame Who can dilate and explicate His Misery and Pain At the same time the female Kind Compassion to him shew To see him thrust by Men unjust A base and fordid Crew Jerusalem the Lord said then Weep not for me from hence Peccavi cry your Sins are high Your Pride and Ignorance Condole be sad you were so mad As for to imprecate Innocent Blood upon your Head Will make you desolate He Calv'ry saw and Golgotha The Crosses situation Then Solltude he understood But for a sinful Nation Now being come Christ standeth bound Until the Cross be fixt With a strong Guard about the Lord A bitter Cup they mixt Now all the Crew Roman and Jew This blessed One do strip Unmantle bare and pluck'd the Hair From off his tender Lip He 's naked stript as well as whipt And all his Body bare That ours may be cover'd most free With Righteousness most fair Now all in haste they nail him fast And hang between two Thieves The Scripture's Will for to fulfil So Man from Hell he saves The Nails were great in Hands and Feet That fixt him to the Tree O who can tell what Christ did feel And there sustain'd for thee His Hands and Feet they penetrate And out the Blood did gush For they did tear him with a Spear And crown'd with thorny Bush That Christ was King the Inscription In Hebrew Latin Greek Did signify to all stood by For Pilate thought it meet Over his Head this Paper stood That all might read the same He was the King of Jewish Men Tho they did him defame Before he dies he opes the Eyes Of a most wretched Sinner Who own'd him King believ'd in him As the God-Man Redeemer Remember Lord to me be good When in thy Kingdom-State By my free Grace to Paradise This day I 'll thee translate They him exhaust and now do boast Our Grief he bore it all The weight of Sin was laid on him To save a precious Soul When he would ease his tortured Feet By hanging on his Hands They must be in prodigious pain This Reason understands And when he eas'd his tortur'd Hands By resting on his Feet His Body's weight where e're it met Must make the Patient sick God's holy Son tho God and Man Of Sorrow must be full On him did lie much Misery God's Wrath did fill his Soul The Lord at last cries out I thirst The Prophets to fulfil A Vin'gar spunge they gave his Lungs So he had not his Will Water was scant he must it want We might have plenitude Of living Streams come from his Reins O Love not understood Could Mary then of Magdalen Have had her own desire Her Tears should quench her Saviour's Thirst Whose Heart was on a fire A Flame of Love to him above To all Men did appear Where she did weep and wash his Feet And wip'd them with her Hair Now at this time the Souldiers game For Jesus seamless Coat For to fulfil the sacred Will That Will to consummate The direful Curse was ponderous The Malediction high Which made him cry Ely Ely Lama sabachthany I am content for to be empt Of all my Sacred Blood So I my Flock inoculate By Faith into their Head The Guilt of Man I 'll fasten on This cursed Cross and Tree Justice Divine shall have a Fine To set the Guilty free I 'll bury all their Guilt and Thrall Both in the Grave and deep Yea all the high Iniquity Of my free chosen Sheep Then some obscene said to the King Physician save thy self If that thou be God's Son most free Recover now thy Health The Mother stood nigh by the Wood I mean the wooden Cross On which did hang her precious Son Till all his Blood was lost What Tears of Blood could she have shed His Sorrow to prevent To see those Hands heal'd many Wounds So pierced torn and rent His glorious Head ran purple Blood His Feet and Side the same But his Free Grace that him debas'd Is his immortal Fame Those bloody Eyes they can't suffice Those Sluces are too small His Sorrow to give vent unto Hence from his Pores Blood falls He saw a Scrowl a dismal one Of Sins present and past And Sins to come he must atone For all from first to last Mr. Norris His Love most sweet and bloody Sweat Did wipe off all the Score Some moments Pain makes him to reign Eternal Ages sure And as he hung before the Sun His Virgin-Mother saw His Gore-blood Eyes and heard his Cries To God Abba Abba Into thy Hand my Spirit ascend My Work is finnished All Debts are paid Books cancelled Justice is satisfied Now Christ is dead they brake no Leg The Scripture may fulfil Yet by their Hate hangs dislocate Unjoint from Head to Heel Upon the same great Darkness came All o're the Hemisphere The Rocks did rent the Graves were empt Thus Wonders did appear The Temple-Vail was rent in twain Then soon they understood He was God's Son tho also Man From thence infer was God The Heathens all that Day condole And eloquently said Surely the God of Nature's dead Or final End hath made O this great World to Dust he 'l hurl For hanging on the Cross The Quintessence of all Goodness O Act preposterous CHAP. XIX The ARGUMENT A Friend of the Messiah 's signifies what happened after the Lord's Death A Counsellor at Law begs his Body and inters it with sweet Spices The great Council gives order for a strict Watch a Seal and Stone to be set on the Sepulchre Now Beelzebub triumphs to see Christ dead and in some hopes conquered for ever But the third Day he arose from the Grave to the Confusion of all the Devils And after forty Days upon the Earth ascends to Heaven from Mount Olivet in the view of his Apostles but first gave them his Benediction and on the Day of Pentecost sent down the Holy Ghost and from the Power of this Spirit his Disciples go on in the World conquering by preaching Jesus of Nazareth to be the Son of God OF Pilate Head Joseph did beg The Body of the Just And did inter the Lord with Myrrh As saith the Holy Ghost As Man at first did prove unjust In Eden Paradise The blessed King in a Garden Acquits the Man on wise The Watch was strong they sat upon The Grave where Christ did lie For to prevent the Lord's Intent Of rising the third Day The Sepulchre they made most sure With Watch a Stone and Seal For to prevent the Lord's Intent But they in all do fail When Christ was dead then Beelzebub Did triumph and thus speak I conquer'd have unto the Grave God's Christ of mighty State 'T is I am King and triumphing Who will my Subjects be And Christ deny whom I defy He
hurried by Satan out of the Wilderness through the Air who sets him upon a Pinacle of the Temple in Jerusalem and from thence carries him to a very high Mountain where he tempts his Lord to worship him THE Spirit of Bliss i' th' Wilderness And Desert Christ doth lead Among wild Beasts where are no Feasts Full forty Days no Bread To God's Son dear there did appear In this vast Wilderness A gray old Man with Clothing mean As if some Lamb did miss To Christ he spake Sir What sad Fate Hath brought you to this Place All that come here do die for Fear Or Want in a short space I speak the more upon this score Thou seem'st to be the Man That Man most wise who was baptiz'd By new baptizing John And that good Man baptizing John Call'd thee the Son of God Which if thou be come let me see And make of Stones some Bread Then spake the King unto the Swain Do'st think I know thee not Thou art that Head didst thousands lead When first thou didst revolt Then the arch Fiend who cannot mend Confest he was that Spirit Under sad Fate unfortunate Eternal Wrath t' inherit Then on a trice he hurries Christ Out of the Wilderness All through the Air God's Hemisphere To put him in distress Mr. Milton A Pinacle of the Temple He sate his Judg upon The Temple in Jerusalem And said Come cast thee down Thou shalt not fall the Angels all Procession forth will make From Heaven high the Air and Sky Death to anticipate Thus Beelzebub Prince of the Club King of the damned Crew Does tempt God's Son to worship him As if it were his due Proud Lucifer he did allure His God to worship him These Kingdoms fine shall all be thine Bow now before my Throne This was his Scope and his great hope Man's Saviour to destroy For if the King he made to sin No Saviour could he be Satan be gone Apollyon Worship the Lord thy God And do not tempt him God hath sent To bruise thy subtil Head The Lord of Bliss was tempted thus That simpathize might he And succour those against their Foes Who are in misery Full forty Days he fasts in praise Of Power Infinite That from our Head we might have Bread Of Life of Strength of Might If he God's Son thus set upon To bow and worship him Then wonder not at Satan's Plot That tempts Man to the same He tempted Man for to liken His God to Creatures vile Made very fine in glorious Shine And thus did him defile A Creature cold they ' dorn with Gold Who pompous Worship love Religion gay tempts Men to pray To Devils as God above Full well they 'r known to Heathen Men By various Names they gave Moloc Chemos and Ashtaroth Adonis Thammus brave He sets his Seat by God's most great Satan's Altar by Jah's That Men may moan at his black Throne And then at them he laughs CHAP. XV. The ARGUMENT An Elder and Witness of Christ informs the Church of the Messiah entring upon his Prophetical Office but is opposed by Men of the same Spirit which opposed St. Paul such as Barjesus and Elimas the Sorcerer who irrationally asserted that he wrought Miracles by the Power of the Prince of Devils Lucifer but by his Divine Reply he put them all to silence CHRIST rich in Grace began to preach And Man illuminate In Napthalim and Zebulun Commands them to repent He makes new Hearts and Men translates From Darkness into Light So that his Fame and fragrant Name Were spread both Day and Night But Envy rose among the Jews Against the Prince of Light They flout and jeer they domineer Over his Sovereign Right And many said he friendship had With Beelzebub the Great And in much spite call'd Nazarite The Carpenter's Relique That Pow'r cast out the Legions stout They say 't is Satan's all And thus in spite they ' ppose the Light Of Spirit Word and Soul A Kingdom said our Lord and Head Divided cannot stand Can Satan cast out Satan judg Come answer my Demand From sinful Lust the Holy Ghost Against it now they sin Which to remit here is not meet Nor in the World to come If that Men sin against the Son And Father of all Light He may forgive but not who live The Spirit to despite Who understand the Lord's good Mind And yet in Malice call The Holy Ghost and Blood of Christ The most unjust of all These are the Men who greatly sin Against the last Relief They can't repent whose Hearts are bent To Envy and Mischief CHAP. XVI The ARGUMENT A Man of God enters with an Antient Record called the Gospel which gives a Relation of Christ's sudden departure from Earth to Heaven Also of his bloody Sweat in Gethsemain and of his drinking a horrible Cup of Death in Obedience to his Father and for the Good of Man Moreover how one of his own Family betrayed him into their hands who belonged to the black Prince of the damned Crew and came with Swords and Staves to apprehend Christ whom they bound with Cords and carry him to the Judg as some grand Malefactor THE time draws on Christ must be gone From Earth to Heaven high A Lamb 's prepar'd we might regard That it did typify Pure Shilo's Fate did intimate That Lamb for us must die Who had no Spot yet takes his Lot To bleed at Calvary The Paschal Lamb's Supper be'ng done He blessed Bread did break Lest we forget Love Infinite He gave Command to eat And after supt he took the Cup Which also signified Blood must be shed for there is need Man's Soul be purified And gave Command that Act should stand Until he come again For every Church to practise much To shew his Death and Pain Then after Supper he did utter A Sign of humble Love In washing Feet Come it 's most meet We follow him above They sweetly sing a blessed Hymn Before he went to die With Heart and Tongue they sweetly sung The Praise of God most high The Lord goes out to Olive Mount And Gethsemain also Saith he my Soul is sorrowful My Griefs no Man doth know My People wait I 'll invocate My Father Lord of all If I this Cup of Death must sup Or pass this Draught of Gall. But Lord thy Will not mine fulfil I came no less to do My bloody Sweat and Sorrow great Gives Peace to Greek and Jew When he came back all were asleep What can't you watch one Hour Then said the Lord with one accord Watch pray with all your Power Yea every one no Temptat'on For you may be too high The Flesh is weak Satan's a Cheat Your Trial 's very nigh Then ushers in the most Obscene Upon the Lord of Bliss Judas that Cheat betrays in heat His Master with a Kiss With Staves and Sword they take the Lord As if a Barrabas A Guard most strong they set upon The Innocent alas Jesus did call Whom seek you
all The Man of Nazareth 'T is I am he let these go free Put none of them to death By Power Divine some were struck down When they him apprehend 'T was Mercy all they did not fall And into Hell descend Some Sages think they did not shrink His Skin to penetrate When with a Cord they tie the Lord His potent Arms about Peter by Sword as well as Word For Christ apologiz'd When Malchus Ear he cuts then fear Did all his Guard surprize Then Christ the Word would have the Sword Put up and Malchus nigh To heal his Wound most safe and sound Tho his grand Enemy Now to Annas they make him pass And hurry him away And out of hate interrogate The Lord about his way The Lord said then my Doctrin's known 'T is not obscure and hid The Temple nigh where I did pray And preach it open stood An Enemy a stander-by Said Durst thou answer so For thy false ways apologize The Judg dost thou not know This King of Grace they smote his Face With sordid Heart and Hand But this good Man was like a Lamb Tho all against him stand CHAP. XVII The ARGUMENT One of the King of Kings Messengers gives an impartial Relation of the Carriage of the Messiah before his Judges How he was adjur'd to confess he was a King Several false Witnesses swear point blank against him and he is sentenced to Death as guilty of Blasphemy and one that sought the Destruction of the Government and dethroning Cesar and that by a new Doctrine their old Religion was undermined But before they led him to Execution they whipt him till his sacred Blood ran down his Body FROM Annas Christ to Caiaphas Priest And Council they him lead An Officer calls one to swear Tho then there was need Yet up starts one against the King And swears that he should say He could pull down this Temple fine And perfect the third Day This Lying was for to dispraise The Lord of Dignity Who did not mean the Temple-Stone But his own dead Body His infinite Power could smite Down all the Gates of Hell If they had been Adamantine His Strength doth so excel Jesus stood mute did not dispute When they did him accuse The Brats of Hell in that Council Did greatly him abuse We thee abjure if thou be pure Make no Equivocation Art thou a King and without Sin Come make a Declaration I do not lie no verily You prophesied right I am your King and without Sin And have Eternal Might When you shall see my Majesty Sit at the Lord 's right Hand You 'l mourn full sore and me implore When I reign in the Land Upon the same a Voice forth came Says Blasphemy he spake Him crucify for he doth lie Lead him without the Gate Those Vipers spit upon his Lip As Men with Mischief rife They scoff and jeer and without fear Do strike the Lord of Life Come prophesy thou Prophet high Who smote thee on the Cheek Canst thou descry Physiognomy Thou wicked Heretick To this we 'l add he was made sad By Peter's flat denial Who then and there did curse and swear When Christ was near his Trial. But one sweet Look from Christ so took That Peter's Heart did break And bitterly then he did cry To see his Faith so weak They with him trudg to Pilate Judg No Accusations want They with their Lies and Calumnies Over the Lord do vaunt Thou Blasphemer and Conjurer Thou wicked Heretick Cesar can't rule thou call'st him Fool Our King dost contradict Then Pilate saith Who takes an Oath Rebellion he did make Who now can tell he 's culpable Of ought against the State I cannot see Enormity In this Man doth appear Preposterous it is for us To sentence one that 's clear If you 'l release one at the Feast The Feast of Paschal Lamb Determine ye who it shall be The Christ or sinful Man 'T is Barrabbas we will release The other crucify Let all his Blood be on our Head And on our Children lie Some did proclaim they must arraign The Lord at Herod's Bar The President was glad and sent The Galilean there Now tho of late Herod the Great And Pilate were at strife Yet when the Heir comes to their Bar They 'gree to take his Life Herod the Great said Operate Some Wonders in my sight My Humour please or else chastis'd Thou shalt be e're 't is Night But this sage King the most Serene True God and only Wise Humours him not in this his Plot Tho Rage against him rise They him transfer to Pilate's Bar Drest in an Idiot's Coat They him degrade as Fools are made And at the Lord do flout Then Pilate saith Who takes an Oath Let Evidence appear Why he must die at Calvary As if some Premunire We 'l him chastise before your Eyes And so let him depart No they reply him crucify We beg with all our Heart We 'l no King have but Cesar brave He is Legitimate Down with this thing this little King Cesar's the Potentate Then they him scourge which made a purge Our Souls to clarify His sacred Back no stripes did lack Before he went to die Some think with Rods others with Cords Or Wier he was whipt And tied fast unto a Post When he was naked stript In Rancor great his Body's beat O Adamantine Heart They made his Blood run like a Flood From Head and every part Behold the Man said Pilate then In him no Fault I find Away with him said the Obscene To Death he is design'd The President for Water sent To purify his Hands See I am clear from his Blood pure Upon him lay no Bands Pilate may think that Christ will wink At this prodigious Sin O no he sate as Magistrate And Sentence gave on him Who wonder can that Pilate's Hand At last himself should hang When 's Conscience was so faithful as To tell him Christ was King CHAP. XVIII The ARGUMENT One of Messiah 's Learned Disciples interposeth with an astonishing Narrative about his Lord 's being led to execution bound with Cords and the heavy Cross fixt on his Back on which he was crucified and a strong Guard surrounded him all the way to Golgotha And while the Cross was fixing in the Earth they unmantle and strip him to his naked Body which they lift up and nailed to the Cross one Foot on the top of the other with Arms stretched out being plac'd between two Thieves a Crown of Thorns on his Head and an Inscription of Hebrew Greek and Latin as the Custom of the Romans was to all they accounted Malefactors THE most high Lord they bound with Cord And lead to Calvary Fixt on a Cross most ponderous On which he was to die Upon his Back like Isaac The blessed Type of Christ This Cross did lie most heavily Tho he was meek and Just This Innocent 't is like did faint And Humane Nature sail Being so sore with Stripes before And had no time
's overcome you see Who would serve him a conquer'd one Obey me 't is no sin Cast off his Name 't is horrid shame To own one dead your King What Revel-rout in Hell throughout When they thought all was won And Christ laid low see how they crow In hopes that all 's their own Now Lucifer ascends his Chair And mounts his gloomy Throne The hellish Guard flock round their Lord And vaunt he 's King alone Now the black King began to sing Altho in Flames array'd And thus began the hellish Song When to his Peers he said Dominions Thrones Powers unknown I claim all as my Right Mr. Wesley I 've gain'd the Field Jesus did yield And he is conquer'd quite I do not fear him call'd the Heir Immortal some him thought But now he 's dead he 's gone and fled And ne'r to life be brought The Devils in pomp and great triumph Appear now Christ is dead The Oracle's Head come fill with speed The World may be misled The Hebrew Child no Sword can weild He 'l conquer you no more Let 's march from Hell in Heaven we 'l tell Of our all-conqu'ring Power And conquer there as well as here Who can before us stand Now God is dead I will be Head In Heaven Sea and Land While Satan spake with lofty state In came the Glorious One With all the Marks victorious Acts Of a triumphing King While Beelzebub with his black Club Did vaunt yea scoff and boast Came starting in the powerful King And Guards from God of Hosts This glorious Guard surround the Lord Like warlike Angels stand To smite to Hell great Belial And all against him band Who is this here doth domineer And boast of Victory Over God's Son the holy One Who lives altho did die I have the Keys of Hell and Death Who am the First and Last All Potentates and powerful States To me shall yield or taste Unmixed Wrath as my Word saith Which they can never bear Nor dwell in ever-burning Lakes Or the devouring Fire O how confus'd and how amaz'd The Devils all do stand Satan flies down his Iron Throne To flee from Jesus Hand The Devils fled from Christ their Head And from his terrible Wrath But Christ pursues his scoffing Foes Through their black horrid Path. The Devils knew that Christ the true Had broke their Gates and Walls And conquer'd Death and all the Earth So into Hell he falls And now the Word of God's made good The Serpent's Head is bruis'd Christ he hath trod upon his Head Which makes him thus confus'd Then Satan spake with horrid hate What tho I conquer'd am Be just if sent and don 't torment Your Foes before the time And now in Chains he them confines Unto the judgment-Judgment-Day All Powers must bow before his Brow Who doth the Scepter sway Christ he Death's Bands broke with his Hands And in triumphing manner He did arise tho Enemies Stood round with Guard and Banner Yea that strong Guard upon the Lord Did tremble like dead Men The Earth did quake their Hearts did shake To see him rise again And at the Grave an Angel brave That shined as the Sun Did roll away the Stone that Day The Lord did rise upon And that day's Morn good Women mourn About the Sepulchre Jesus you seek pray do not weep The Angel said Don't fear Rather rejoice lift up your Voice Christ from the Grave is gone In Galilee you may him see The Living he 's among The Lord did shew himself most true After he did arise The Signs were all infallible He was in no disguise And for to put all out of doubt No Spirit did appear Come touch said he and handle me My Flesh and Bones most pure After he rose and vanquish'd Foes An Apparition's made To Magdalen in a Garden By Jesus Christ the Lord. The Gard'ner then she thought upon Till that Christ Mary said O Rabboni she did reply My King my Lord my Head Mary touch not thy Lord as yet Till I to God ascend Then me embrace by Faith which Grace Will all the Saints commend But poor Thomas his Faith 's amiss He won't believe 't is he Unless the print where the Nails went Into his Body he see A just Reproof of s Unbelief The Lord gave when he said Most bless'd is him who hath not seen And yet believ'd his God The Scripture saith if we ha'n't Faith In the rising again Of Christ our Head we all are dead And damned every one Then Preaching's vain and Faith 's no Gain If Christ be in the Grave God's Justice Good not satisfied So Pardon none can have The Church did meet and God did seek Upon the Week's first Day Where Christ among them often came To cheer them in his Way And gave Commands into the Hands Of his Apostles dear How they should act in every part Till he again appear E're Christ ascends he gave Commands That at Jerusalem At Wisdom's Gate they may expect The Spirit promis'd them Now Christ ascends before his Friends From Earth to Heaven high From whence he 'l come e're it be long To fetch his Bride away Christ clears the Air and Hemisphere Where damned Spirits dwell He clears the Path for Saints on Earth To Joy Celestial Disperse you Orbs you glittering Clouds At distance roll away His glorious Guard the Way prepar'd On Christ's ascension-Ascension-Day The Angels high above the Sky Spake unto them below What happy King is this you bring In triumph he doth go Who is this King this glorious One And what may be his Name The Lord of Hosts he 's known by most His Vict'ry gives him Fame Lift up ye Gates ye Doors of State And entertain your King Come stand wide ope in Heaven's Court Ye Gates everlasting He comes who hath conquer'd the Grave And drags the King of Pride Fastned unto his Chariot new In which the Lord doth ride Triumphantly to Bliss on high His Chariot moved fast To Heaven's Gate where many wait And thousands cry Haste haste This Prince of State when Heaven's Gate He had arriv'd unto O what a Shout is given out By Angels as his due And with his Crown went in sat down Close by his Father's Side And will prepare a Palace there To entertain his Bride He 's now gone home to wear his Crown For all his Work is done God's satisfy'd En'mies subdu'd And now ascends his Throne Now Christ is gone the Spirit doth come On the Rebellious The Sinner's Head is captive led And Gifts are given us On Pentecost the Spirit did rest In cloven Tongues upon The Messengers of Jesus Christ Because he was gone home He doth inspire baptize with Fire Prophets Apostles too He 'l Pastors give the Church may live A holy Life and true Poor Fishermen go conquering on The World in Jesus Name The Blind do see the Dead rais'd be To Christ's eternal Fame If Christ did shew his Godhead true When in a swadling Clout Mr. Milton Controll'd
his Mercy 's good He sent to us his Son To save us from the Proud and Strong Yea all our Enemies In Righteousness and Holiness To serve him all our Days That good Day-spring doth Knowledg bring Of Sins remission free And blessed Light and Peace in sight To those in Darkness lay With Simeon old let 's be so bold To take the Lord of Glory In Arms of Love tho high above Heaven's Superior Story And praise him too for 't is his due And tell him we can die Peace and Rest because the best Of Objects now we see Our Eyes have seen the blessed One Hid from great Potentates The Gentiles Light he is most bright And Israel's Glory great Now triumph Saint the Lord he went Unto Mount Calvary Suffer'd the Cross and bore the Curse For Man's Felicity â—or surely by his Poverty The Poor are very rich And by his Shame they have great Fame No earthly Monarch such We were set free for bound was he Unto the Post and Cross Great Grief he had we might be glad Our Crown cannot be lost â—rom Heaven's room the Son came down We all might there ascend God Man became he might regain That Love which hath no End No House had he tho of Heaven free We may have one above Not made with Hands or Mens Commands But by God's Power and Love God in the dark seem'd to forsake His own eternal Son We might have Light splendid and bright And ever with him dwell A Wonder 's here God's Son most dear Had less ground to expect The Shines of God when that he di'd Than Saints of either Sex He 's in the Dark to purchase Light From hence forsaken too Saints may expect tho Christ did not God's Shines their dying-Dying-day Lord we a Song will sing as long As an Eternity O King of Days 't is endless Praise Is still thy Childrens cry What tho we stand in a strange Land A Babel Wilderness Our Harps will tune to the Renown Of him who 's Lord of Hosts As travelling on to Mount Sion Our House our Place our Home As going on we 'll sing our Song To him upon the Throne Who can but sing the Lord will come Methinks he 's at the Door Faith sees him stand now just at hand My Soul be sad no more With David sing and Offerings bring Let all the Saints of God Rejoice in him that maketh them Most glorious by his Blood Upon your Bed sing to your Head Declare his noble Acts For this will be-eternally The Work of Tongue and Hearts O let us sing the Lamb's sweet Song Cry Great and marvell us Are all thy Works Lord God of Hosts Almighty true and just And with Saint John we 'l praise the Lamb The Prince and King of Earth Who loved us and washed us With his own Blood through Faith To God most wise give all due Praise Glory and Majesty Dominion great a Prince's Seat He hath above the Sky Let 's give henceforth Hallelujah Salvation Honour too With that Voice came out from the Throne Praise God his Servants do O King of Saints all Nations faint At thy just Judgment Lord Who shall not fear and thee revere And spread thy Fame abroad Thou worthy art to have the Heart Because all Things th' hast made For thine own Will and Glory still Hence 't is we give thee Laud. Let Heav'n and Earth their Praise set forth And Hallelujahs sing For our high God and mighty Lord Remains a conqu'ring King CHAP. XXI The ARGUMENT An Evangelist sheweth whence it was that so much Shame and Pain fell on an innocent Person by striking the Name of the Debtors out of the black and bloody Bond of the Law and inserting his own What a long Journey he came to redeem and marry poor Leprous Beggars And what bloody Battels he fought to gain this poor contemptible Worm and how he invested her with an Eternal Kingdom of Glory from his last Will and Testament WHO Inquest-makes Interrogates The Scribe which here indites If he can show why all this Wo Fell on the Lord of Light I 'll take from thee Prolixity In a Compendium shew That thee and I made him to die Who was Messiah true His Cheeks we smote by our proud Heart And Hair eradicate His Hands and Feet Nails penetrate He might us happy make I say again thy Sin and mine Procured all this Wo The thorny Crown makes Blood run down From Head to Feet below We him did strip and also whip The Spear ran in his Side The Travail of his Soul did make An Enemy his Bride Come Malefactor evil Actor Make one believing look What all pass by none cast an Eye On me who am forsook Of my dear God my precious Lord And purely for your sake I left my Weal inscrutable I might you happy make My Hand I struck with God who took My Covenant and Bail That I might see the Debtor free From the Infernal Jail Men ought repent they ever went To take a Surety's Place But I did long the Day were come Tho suffer'd much Disgrace Your Names struck out the legal Book That Book and bloody Bond My Name I insert with all my Heart So I stand only bound I who am just God did arrest Your Substitute for all And God accounts the Sinner just And Christ the Criminal I paid Man's Debt by bloody Sweat In Prison also lay But afterward had a Discharge On th' Resurrection Day O Men admire free Grace the higher For Love distinguishing That you might live an Object have For Faith tho Devils none No Gospel-light before their sight Men no Commission have To preach in Hell the pure Gospel He only Men will save Surely Success we should not miss That are Ambassadors If we could preach and Devils teach Their Pardon Christ procures But now we preach our Hands we stretch In vain the whole long day And call upon the Sons of Men To haste and come away To Jesus Christ the Chief and Best But Sinners will not hear So Unbelief makes them the Chief Of Sinners will appear Yea greater than the Devil's Sin Or Man 's in Paradise For neither of them did rebel Against redeeming Grace CHAP. XXII The ARGUMENT The Spouse of Christ interposeth with the admiration of his Love the Quantity and immense Treasures thereof having no Bank nor Bottom The Nature of it is free All Sinners may fill their Vessels from this Pipe which is more comfortable than the most fragrant Wine and so powerful that it draws the Heart to Christ as a Loadstone the Mass of Steel WHAT marvellous rich Love is this That such a cursed Race As we came from should sit among The Children of his Grace Our Fathers sure the Hittites were Our Mothers Amorites A cursed Race yet by free Grace In those the Lord delights None us beheld when in the Field All wallowing in our Blood None pitied us under this Curse But the Samar'tan good He casts an Eye when passed by
is like his Majesty And there doth Intercession make For all whose Sins he bare And will not cease his glorious Work Until they with him are Our Ark of Love which saves thy Dove Thou art O Lord most strong When delug'd all the World beside Thâ—â—â—â—â—'dst thy Church 〈◊〉 Our Jacob's Ladder by which God Doth friendly visit us And we ascend upon the same Immanuel God with us Our Isaac art who bore the Cross And felt the sharpned Sword In whom the Nations all are blest According to thy Word Our blessed Joseph who was sent From Canaan heavenly Unto the Egypt of this World For Food we might not die Our fiery cloudy Pillar art In this dark Wilderness Our Joshua doth us conduct Unto the Land of Rest Our Rock of Ages Lord thou art Smote both by God and Man The Emanation of thy Blood And Streams were seen by John Our feasting Passover also The spotless Lamb was slain The sprinkling of the Soul by Blood Prevents a sinful Reign Our brazen Serpent we behold Whenever stung with Sin From that Disease deliver'd are Which else would end in Hell Our Jubilee accepted Year Was the Year of thy Death We heard the Gospel-Trumpet sound True Joy and free from Wrath. Our Mercy-Seat and Throne of Grace The great Propitiatory From which the Father kindly speaks Poor Sinners here is Glory The Mercy-Seat above the Ark And Tables of the Law Did figure Mercy triumphing O'er Justice which we saw The Altar Priest and Sacrifice As Priest both Man and God As Altar God who sanctifies As Man the Offering's good The rich and holy Vail thou art Thy Body's Vail was rent So we into the holy Place May have a free ascent The Manna in the Wilderness Tho called Angels Food Is far unlike that feeds the Soul The Gospel-Feast is Blood Which here below we feed upon In this sad Wilderness But when once got to Canaan's Land We feed no more as thus Yet as the Jew could not forget The Manna Miracle No more can Saints forget in Bliss God's Wonders there to tell Our Shiloh and safe Maker art And Jacob's Star also The Laver where poor Lepers wash And blessed Fountain too That 's opened for Jerusalem And Judah's Guilt to wash And all the Gentiles that repair To him for Righteousness The Shew-bread Table did hold forth In God's House is no want The Lord is alway with his Flock His Table is not scant Our Altar of Perfume O Lord And golden Censor art The Cloud of spiced Incense sweet Perfumes the Mercy-seat O Lord our Sin and Peace-off'ring Jonah cast in the Sea To still the Storm of Wrath Divine Man in it may not lie Our Temple Tabernacle true Which God did pitch not Man The Godhead dwelt in humane Flesh Is the Temple I mean Our Joshua and dear Saviour Who wore our Rags of Sin And we his Robes of Righteousness So brought unto the King And now the filthy Garment's gone And chang'd with Raiment new The long and spotless Robe of Christ Now what can Satan do Thou art our great Zerubbabel A spiritual Temple makes The Temple of the living God In Men Christ undertakes To build tho greatly opposed By Mountain Enemies He that laid the Foundation-stone The Top-stone he will raise And finish Grace where it 's begun In spite of all our Foes That you may all ever ascribe To him Grace Glory Praise Our Sampson art who slew by Death More than when living was The strangest way of conquering Is dying on a Cross Who took from Satan's Kingdom great The Gates thereof away And led Captivity captive In his triumphing Day Our spotless Lamb both God and Man Was foreordain'd to die To take off Sin and Death's great Sting Bring Immortality The slain and living Goat thou art As slain the Mercy-seat Is still with Blood besprinkled As living dost intreat And interceed continually This is the Incense sweet That like a Cloud in sweet Perfume Is round the Mercy-seat The Goat on which our Sins are laid Iniquities confess And carried out of Memory Lost in the Wilderness And far removed as East from West Drown'd in his bloody Sea Behind his Back they all are cast And blots them out most free He is the great Melchisedeck Without Beginning End As Man no Sire no Mother as God The Type he did transcend A King of Peace and Priest most high Who offer'd once for all Not for his own but others Sins Himself not Beasts did fall The Peoples Covenant thou art In Substance Person Name And hence art called Immanuel Two Natures Person one The Substance of the Covenant Of Grace it is in short Thy God I am thou shalt be mine And we will never part Now God and Man together dwell In Christ for evermore This is the great Foundation of Man's Happiness in store That tho by Sin Man's separate From God the chiefest Good Yet now in Christ united are Man shall live still with God And if the Union cannot cease Call'd Hypostatical No more can that 'tween God and his Because 't is Eternal Tho God and all our Adam lost Yet Christ hath it regain'd And now the Saints have God in all The want of which them pain'd But Unbelievers have not God In what they do enjoy Since Sin did break the golden Link All things do them annoy But those are Christ's all things are theirs And work still for their Good But the Profane what e're they have It 's separate from God From God in way of Covenant So that all these may say Riches and Honour I have much But God in all leaves me And when Man lost a sight of God A Vision beautiful He by his Blood hath it regain'd When all things else did fail CHAP. XXIV The ARGUMENT The undefiled Virgins of the Lamb beg her Beloved to make haste over those Mountains of Bether and Separation and put an end to the Winter Storms and hasten the break of the Eternal Summer and Day of Glory where back-part Sights and Lattice-Looks will be turned into the Beatifical Vision and all the Saints shall have their white Robes Palms in their Hands and Crowns on their Heads and sit with Christ upon his Throne to judg Men and Devils then they shall behold the Glorious Deity shining through the Blessed Glass of the Humane Nature The Virgins conclude with an Exhortation to the Noble Host of Martyrs the Glorious Apostles and Prophets Elders Seraphims Cherubims and every Creature in Heaven and Earth to cast their Crowns before the Lamb. WHAT back-part Views and Lattice Lights To those beyond the Grave There 's Banquets sweet here is none such For any Saint to have Lord make no stay come look'd-for Day What ails the Morning-Light All Shadows flee away be gone And Day of Glory break Lord Bether Mount remove it quite And leap over them all No longer Separation make Between thee and my Soul O be thou like the Roe and Hart With winged speed make haste Come o're