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Verbum sempiternum
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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old king flees and ouer Iordan hies The sonne pursuing and the Father flies Achitophel himselfe hangs in dispaire And Abâ—olom dies hanged by the haiâ—e The King for his rebellious son doth mourne His people numbred are at his returne The Lord is warth the pestilence encreast That seuenty thousand dies then it ceast 1 Kings The kingly Prophet valient Dauid dies His throne is left to Salomon the wise Falfe Adoniah Ioab Shimei kild By his coÌ„mand as erst his father wild With speed hee sends for workmeÌ„ from farre coasts To build a temple to the Lord of hoasts Before or after him was neuer such That had of wisdome or of wealth so much A thousand women some wed some vnwed This wise king to Idolatry misled He dies and 's buried by his fathers toome And Rehoboam doth succeed his roome Now Israel from Iuda is diuided Both kingdoms by bad kings are badly guided Yet God to Iacobs seede doth promise keepe And raises faithfull pastors for his sheepe 2 Kings Eliah worketh wonders with his word By inspiration of the liuing Lord. Hee 's taken vp aliue and his blest spirit Doth doubly in Eâ—shaes breast inherit Some Kings do gouerne wel most gouerne ill And what the good reformes the bad doth spil Till Isrel Iuda King and kingdomes lost To great Nabuchadnezzar and his host 1 Chronicles Hâ—ere euery tribe is numbred by their names To their memorial and immortall fames And Dauids Acts t' instruct misguided men Are briefly here recorded all agen 2 Chronicles The state of Isrel Iuda and their kings This booke againe againe recordance brings Their plagues of plague of famine slau'ry sword For their contemning heau'ns Al-sauing word Manassehs praier Manasseh almost drownd in blacke dispaire Gaines mercie by repentance by praier Ezra The Persian Monach Cirus granteth leaue The Iewes once more their freedom shold receiue When at Ierusalem they make abode They all with zeale repaire the house of God Malitious men with poysnous malice fild Makes Artaxerxes hinder those that build Yet God so workes that Isrels loue zeale Resumes againe their Church and Common weale Nehemiah The booke of Ezra doth concord with this Commanding good forbidding what 's amisse And godly Nehemiah heere reformd What sinne and sathan had long time deformâ—d Ester Heere he that dwels in heauen doth deride Queene Vshty's and ambitious Hamans pride The Iewes are sau'd by Esters suit from death And Heman and his sons hangd lose their breath Poore Mordecay is held in high account And to great greatnesse humbly he doth mount Thus God doth raise all those his lawes that seeke Hee laies the lofty low exalts the meeke Iob No losse of sons and daughters goods and all Makes not this man into impatience fall Assailing sathan tempting wife false friends With perfect patience he all woes defends I naked came quoth hee into this world And naked hence againe I shall bee hurld God giues and takes according to his word And blessed euer be the liuing Lord. Psalmes The blessed kingly Prophet sweetly sings Eternall praises to the King of Kings Gods power iustice mercy fauor looke For they are coÌ„prehended in this booke Prouerbs The wisest man that euer man begot In heau'nly Prouerbs shews what 's good what not Ecclesiastes Health strength wit valour wordly wisdome pelfe Al 's nought worse then vanity it selfe Salomons song This song may well bee cald the song of songs It to the heauenly Bride and Groome belongs It truely shewes Christs loue vnto his loue His Church his wife his virgin spouse his doue Isayah This worthy Prophet truly doth foretell How Christ shal come to conquer death and hell Rewards vnto the godlie hee repeates And to the godlesse hee denounceth threats Ieremy This man of God long time before foreshoes Ierusalems Captiuity and woes Lamentations He wishes here his head a fountaine deepe That he might weepe weepe nothing else but weepe That hee might gush forth flowing streames of teares For Iuda's thraldome miserie and feares Ezechiel In Babylon this Prophet captiue is And there hee prophesies of bale and blisse How all must come to passe the Lord hath said How iudgement surely comes although delaid Daniel The Kings dark dreame the Prophet doth expouÌ„d For which hee 's highly honor'd â—â—nownd Nabuchadnezar doth an image frame Commands al pain of death t' adore the same Three godly Iews by no meanes will fall downe And for contempt are in the furnace throwne Where midst the flames vnhurt they sweetly sing Which wonder doth conuert the tyrant King Here Daniel prophecies of Christ to come Of Babel Persia Gracia and Rome Hosea He tels misgouern'd Isrdel their sinnes And how the losse of grace destruction winnes Ioel This Prophet tels the stubborne hearted Iewes How heau'ns consuming wrath apace ensues Hee therefore doth perswade theÌ„ to contrition And by contrition they shal haue remission Amos Mans thankelesse heart and gods vnmeasurd loue This Prophet doth to Isrels faces proue Obadiah He comforts Iudah ouerprest with woes And prophesies destruction of their foes Ionah Heere Ionah tels the Niniuites except Repentance wrath of heau'n doth intercept In forty daies high low rich poore great smal The Lords hot fury shal consume them all With hearts vnfaign'd the sinnefull City mournes The Lord grants mercy Ionah back returnes Micah He speakes of Isrels and of Iuda's crimes And tels them their confusion comes betimes Nabum The Niniuites againe forsake the Lord And are subdude by the Assirian sword This Prophet comforts those that are opprest And tels the godly they shall be releast Habakkuk He doth bewaile th' oppression of the poore For mercy humbly he doth God implore To keepe the captiu'd Iewes froÌ„ fell dispaire He teaches them a heauenly forme of Praier Zephaniah He fils the good with hope the bad with feare And tels the Iews their thraldome draweth neere Haggay H'exhorteth theÌ„ to patience in their paine And bids them build the temple once againe Zechariah He tels the Iews why they haue plagued been Hee bids them shun Idolatry and sinne Malachi For sin he doth reprooue both Prince and Priest And shewes the comming both of Iohn and Christ Malachy Which Christ shall be a Sauiour vnto al That with true faith obeyes his heau'nly call Apocrypha These bookes doe all in generall intimate The state of good men and the reprobate In many places they doe seeme to vary And beare a sense from Scripture quite contrary In Tobit and dame Iudith disagrees From text and Razes in the Mathabees For which the Church hath euer held it fit To place them 〈◊〉 themselues from holy writ SALVATOR MVNDI Printed at London by JO BEALE for John Hamman 1616. TO CHARLES Prince of Great Britaine The Epistle THou high-borne Of spring of the best of men To thy protection my vnlearned pen Doth creepe for shelter though my booke be small In substance t' is no lesse then all in all The Cedar shields the shrub from winters flawes And
better'd Th' Apostle Iames by Herod's put to death And Herod eat with lice lost hatefull breath Th' increasing Church amongst the Gentiles spreds By Nero Paul Peter lost their heads Romans Th'apostle Pauâ— from Corinth writ to Rome To strength theâ—â— faith tel theâ— Christ is come He shewes how high and low both Iew and Greeke Are one with God who faithfully him seeke He tels how siâ— in mortall bodieâ— lurks How wee arâ— sau'd by faith not by works In louing terms â—he people he â—oth moue To faith to â—ope to charitie â—â—d loue 1. Corinths Paul to Corinthus from Phillippy sends Their zeale faith hee louingly commends Hee tels them 〈◊〉 Gods seruice â—â—ey regard Th' eternall â—owne of life is â—â—eir reward 2. Corinthians In this saint Paul sends the Corinthians word Afflictions are the blessings of the Lord. He doth desire their faith may still increase He wishes their prosperitie and peace Galathians Hee tels them that their whole saluations cause Is all in Christ and not in Moses â—awes The law 's a glasse where men their sinnes doe see And that by Christ wee onely saued be Ephesians Paul bids Cast off the old man with his vice And put on Christ our blest redemptions price Philippians Hee bids them of false Teachers to beware He telles them that humilitie is rare And though they liue here in a vaile of striffe Yet for them is laid vp the crown of life Collossians Th' Apostle doth reioice and praiseth God That these Collossians in true faith abode Hee praiseth them he bids theÌ„ watch and pray That sinne and Satan worke not their decay 1 Thessalonians Hee thanketh God his labour 's not in vaine So stedfast in the faith these men remaine That they to others are a blessed light By their example how to liue spright 2. Thessalonians Againe to them hee louingly doth write Hee bids them pray the Gospell prosper might He wishes them prosperitie and wealth And in the end soules euerlasting health 1. 2. to Timothy Paul shewes to Timothy a Bishop must In life and doctrine bee sincere and iust And how the Scriptures power haue to perswade Whereby the man of God is perfect made Titus To Titus mongst the Creetans Paul doth send And warns him what t' allow or reprehend Philemon Paul earnestly the master doth request To pardon his poore man that had transgrest Hebrewes Although this booke doth beare no Authors name It shews the lews how they their liues shuld frame And that the Ceremoniall law is ended In Christ in whom all grace is comprehended S. Iameâ— Heare speake and doe well the Apostle saith For by thy works a man may see thy faith 1. 2. to Peter He counsels vs be sober watch and pray And still be readie for the Iudgement day 1 2 3. of Iohn He shewes Christ di'de and from the graue arose To saue his friends to confound his foes S. Iude. Iude bids them in all godlinesse proceede And of deceiuing teachers to take heede Reuelation Diuine S. Iohn to Pathmos I le euilde This heauenly work t' instruct vs he compilde Hee tels the godly God shall be their gaines He threats the godlesse with eternal paines He shewes how Antichrist should raigne and rage And how our Sauiour should his pride asswage How Christ in glory shall to iudgement come And how aâ— people must abidâ— his doome Praier Oh thou whose name is greatest of all names Preserue and keepe the Race of Roiall Iamet That Britaines throne for euer may besure Of one of them whilst Sunne and Moone endure Amen