see fall of Babylon And that her Grace Gods will may thus performe we pray thee Lord that long her raigne may be since on this day she chosen was by thee And Crowne didst giue as due to her by right because she was accepted in thy sight Therefore let vs this day with voyces ring and giue all prayse and thankes vnto the Lord that hath her geuen for to defende his worde Agaynst the rage of Pope that monstrous Beast whose strength we pray she dayly more may waste So will we all still Halleluiah sing and eke confesse that God alone doth raigne a King of Kinges for euer to remayne Wherefore reioyce and prayses sing with hart and neuer let them from our mouthes depart Since he doth fight that on White Horse doth ride our battles all most righteous iust and true a glorious Lord to whom all prayse is due For he alone the victorie hath wone and into hell his foes cast euery one Reioyce therefore and prayses let vs sing ye people all that marke of God do beare come lende your voyce all yee that do him feare Come sing the song of Moses seruant his and of the Lambe that on mount Sion is And let vs say Most great and maruelous are all thy workes Lord God that art lyuing Most iust and true are all thy wayes O King Who would not feare and glorifie thy name O Lord of hostes whose wayes are still the same Thou sits on high aboue the Heaues all and downe dost looke on seruantes poore of thine and blood of theirs reuengest in due time Wherefore we prayse thy name eternally for that reuenge on whore of Rome we see FINIS A description of olde Rome or misticall Babylon and may be song as the 81. Psalme THou Rome thy Armes Saint Iohn hath blasd most cleare and playne to see Thou Rome dost stand on seauen hils what Citie olde but thee Thou Rome that Purpled strumpets seate that ouer Kinges dost raigne Thou Rome that was and eke was not yet now thou art agayne Thou Rome the eight and yet of seauen thou art accompted one Thou Rome to wracke destruction calls thou must as rest haue gon O Rome why are thyne eares so stopt why are thyne eyes so dim Thou Rome the Image of first Beast thou mights be warnd by him Thou Rome that latter Kittim art thou man of sinne so cald Thou Rome must perysh now a pace thou hast long ouer ruld Thou Rome that Sodom sinke of sinne thou Aegypt art and worse Thou Rome that Babel mysticall whose fall now we rehearse Thou Rome whose policie we know the Lord of lyfe did kill Thou Rome with Pilate wilt wash handes yet blood of Saints to spill Thou Rome thou Lion Beare Leopard thou Beast that hornes hast ten Thou Rome that Lambe would seeme to be yet Armes from Daniels won Thou Rome thy Frogs yape all in vayne thy Scorpions stinges be dull Thou Rome take heede the Kings on earth thy flesh from backe will pull Thou Rome thy Locustes haue the fruites of ground so long likt vp That Rome thy senses be too dull by reason of thy fat Thou Rome like Balam Prophet false dost kill mens soules for gayne Thou Rome mee thinkes an Asse may teach thou therefore must be slayne Thou Rome thus much thou knowest full well that Babylon must fall O Rome so blind canst thou not see that God doth thee so call Thou Rome the Italian synagog that number well so fits Thou Rome we hate thy name to weare sixe hundreth sixtie sixe Thou Rome there is a man found out but not from tribe of Dan Yet Rome a man this number hath which is Adonikam A name thou Rome most fit and iust to shew thy Popes thereby For they as GOD on earth stand vp who can the same deny Thou Rome God bids come out from thee and giue thee double pay Thou Rome if so he would vs blesse though thou and thine say nay But Rome while we so sparing be to rid our land of thee Both thornes in sides and prickes in eyes to vs thou must needes bee Yet Rome yf fayth and loue we keepe yf manners thine we voyde Thou Rome be sure our Candlesticke with vs still shall abyde If we reuiue thinges like to dye and worde of God do seeke We Pillers shall in Temple be sayth hee that Key doth keepe If we so colde waxe hot agayne and golde desire to buye Thou Rome shalt not our land then haue know thou assuredly Thou Rome hast not an eare to heare thou eye-salue wilt buy none Thou Rome the holy Cities Iewels of thee they are vnknowne But Rome we knocke at gate of God for opening to his throne Thou Rome we fall downe flat to craue that we may weare his name And Rome know thou that we haue eares and eyes we haue to see The tree of Life with whose greene leaues all Nations healed be Call more O Lord this Tree to see by thy two witnesses An hundreth fourtie foure thousand to be thy senniories Shew vs O Lord with golden Reede thy Arke thy Manna hid Shew vs thyne Alter of fine golde whose Incense standes in steede Cloth vs with holy garmentes White and golden Girdles giue Vs Sacrificers wash thou cleane that we may euerlyue Lo Rome we crowned are with Starres of Postles twelue for light And Moses Prophets CHRIST the ground to frame our buyldinges right Loe Rome our Lampes are filde with Oyle our Harpes be tunde with skill Our Trumpets sound eternall prayse to him that heares vs well So Rome our Sackcloth shall remoue and with Palme bowes wee sing Hosanna and Halaluiah to Christ our Head and King To whom all prayse and glory be both now and euermore For all good graces shewed to vs we giue him thankes therefore R. Cotton FINIS Psal. 124. Psal. 48.8 Psa. 121. to the end 125.2 Psa. 37.33 Psal. 37.1 14.32 Gen. 4.1.1 18. 1. Iohn 3.12 Iude. 1 Gene. 4.23 24. Gen. 9.22.25.26.27 Gen. 10.8.9.10 11.3 to the ende Gen. 11. Gen. 21.9.10.11 Gala. 4.22 to ende Gen. 15.13 Gen. 27.41 32.6 Ebre 12.16 Iohn 1.29 1. Cori. 10.4 Iob. 6.47 Exod. 1,9.10.11.16 5.4 to 10. * From y e tyme that Ismael began to the comming out of Egypt which was 400. yeores Exo. 7.19 8.6.16.24 9.3.10.23 10.14 22. 12.29 Exod. 14.1 to ende Exod. 15.20.21 Num. 14.45 24.20 Exod. 17.8 to the ende Exo. 17.14 Num. 24.20 1. Sam. 15.2.3 Exo. 17.14.16 Num. 22. 23. and 24. chapters Num. 23.7 Num. 22.3.5 Num. 13.32 2. Pet. 2.15.16 Iude. 11. Num. 22.23 Num. 31.8 Iudg. 3.8.12 4.2 6.1 10.7.8 13.1 Iudg. 3.9.10 Iudg. 3.31 Iud. 3.15.17.21.22 Iudg. 4.16 Iudg. 7.20 6.12 Iud. 7.16.21 Iud. 7.12 Iud. 11 33. Iudg. 15.15 Iudg. 4.9 Iud. 5.21 Iud. 4.21.22.23.24 5.24 to 28. 1. Sam. 26.8 to 21. and 2. Sam. 15. 1. Sam. 26.20 1. Sam. 24.12 26.20 Accordyng to Gen. 49.8 to 13. 1. Sam. 15.28 2. Croni 20.1 the ende Psal. 83.1 to the ende Psal. 83.4 Psal. 83.3.4 Psa. 83.6 to .9 2. Chro. 20.6 to 14. Psal. 83.9 to ende 2. Chro. 20.22 2. Chro. 20.17 2. Chro. 20.25 2. Chro. 20.26 2. Kin. 18.13 to ende 19. to ende and 2. Chro. 32.1 to 23. 2. Kin. 19.23 Esai 37.24.25 2. Kin. 18.34 2. Chr. 32.13.14.15 Esa. 36.14.18 19.20 2. Kin. 19.28 2. King 19.22.23 2. Kin. 19.35 2. Kin. 19 3â— Dan. 2.37 to 41. Dan. 7.17.18 Dan. 2.44 7.13.14 Dan. 7.2.3 Dan. 7.17.18 Dan. 7.15.28 10.2.3.16 Dan. 7.9 to 13. 10.21 Dan. 7.11 â—n 2.34 Dan. 2.31.32 Dan. 2.35 Reade Luke 2. â— to 8. then was the Image fully beaten to dust by Christ the stone Dan. 2.33.41.42.43 Dan. 2.31.32 Dan. 2.37 to 46. Dan. 2.35 Math. 2.1 to 19. According to Dan. 2.35 * According to psalm 2. which was fulfylled in Pilate Herod Roman officers § Math. 27.26.28.29.30.31.39.40.41 and Mark 15.15.18.19.20.27.28.29 and Luke 22.64 23. to end Iohn 19. to end Math. 13.55.56 and Mark. 6.4 and Luk. 4.22 According to Gene. 3.15 Reue. 12.7 to 11. Math. 23.35 1. Thes. 2.16 Reue. 17.9 Reuel 1.3 22.7 Reue. 14.9 to 14 15.23 16.15 Reue. 13.1.2.11 Reue. 13 1 2. Dan. 7. Called y â— Withholder 2. Thes. 2.7 Accordyng to 2. Thes. 2.7 Reue. 13.3 17.8 Reue. 13.11 to ende Reue. 13.11.12 Reu. 13.12.16 Reu. 13.15.17 Reue. 13.16 Reu. 13.17 Reue. 17.18 Reue. 17.6 Reue. 17.4 Reue. 18.3 Reu. 16.13.14 Reue. 12.17 Reue. 12.6.14 Reu. 12.12.14 Reue. 12.15 Reue. 16.16 to ende Iudge 4.1 to end 5.1 to ende Eeuen as the enemies of the Church in Psal. 83. and Psal. 124. Psal. 48. Psal. 48.8 9 10. Reue. 17.16 17. Reue. 17.16 Reue. 18.1 to the end Reue. 19.1 to 8. Reue. 19.16 Reue. 19.11 Reue. 19.20 Reuel 18.20 19.1 to 8. Reue. 19.5 Reue. 15.3 Reue. 15.3 14.1 Reue. 15.3.4 Psal. 8.1 Ebre 1.3 Reue. 19.2 Reue. 18.20 19.2 Reuel 17.9 Reue. 17.18 Reue. 17.8 Reue. 17.11 Reue. 17.11 Reue. 13.14.15 17.8 Num. 24.24 2 Thes. 23 Reue. 11. â— Reue. 17.5 Reue. 11.8 Math. 27.24 Mark 15.15 Reue. 13.1.2 Reue. 13.11 Dan. 7. Reue. 16.13 Reu. 9.3 to 12 Reue. 17.16 Reu. 9.3 to 12 Even like vnto those in Ioel worse for these destroy y â— frutes of Justification by fayth in Christ. Num. 22. 23 24. cha Reue. 18.13 2. Pet. 2.15.16 Reue. 18.1 to end 14.8 16.19 Reue. 13.18 Reue. 18.4.6 Exod. 23 33. Deut. 7.16 Num. 33.55 Iosu. 2313. Reue. 2.4.10 Reue. 18.4.5 Reue. 2.5 Reue. 3.2.10 Reue. 3.12 Reue. 3.7 Reue â—â— 16.18 Reue. 2.7.11.17.29 3.6.13.22 3.18 Reue. 3.12 21. 22. cha Reu. 14.1 Reue. 2.7 22.2 Reue. 11.3 Reue. 7.4 14.1 to 6. Reue. 11.1 Reue. 11.19 2.17 Reue. 8.8 Reue. 3.4.5 15.6 19.8 Reue. 12.1 Ephe. 2.20.21.22 Math. 25. Reue. 14.2 15.2 Psal. 65.2 Math. 21.9 Reu. 19. Ephe. 1.22 Reue. 1.5 Reue. 147. 1.6 Psa. 61.19 147.19.20
doth recorde The mercies of our Lord. And liuely paints the whoredome of that Beast Whose marke Gods Saints do faythfully detest FINIS Let them which hauē beene redeemed of the Lord shew how he hath deliuered them from the hande of the oppressor Psal. 107.2 NOw may we all of England say of truth As we haue heard so haue we seene performd In these our dayes most worthy to be learnd How that the Lord doth stil his Church defend From cruell foes whom his to hurt pretend Let vs therefore vnto our mindes now call The cruell rage that wicked men haue had Agaynst the Lordes as though they had been mad Them to deuoure as Lions spoyle their pray Inuenting their oppression day by day As bloodie Caine the first of Serpentes race That onset gaue against the womans seede For whose good workes he wrought that wicked deed And as began the combate still doth hold That sonnes of lyfe euen swallow quicke they would As Lamech next a bud of that vile roote Who in his rage all men would wound and kill As though he did the law of God fulfill Whose deedes to grace he coulde a Scripture cite Although true sence and meanyng wrested quite Next him that Cham the sonne of Noe the iust who soone reuiues the wounded seede of Cain and doth as ill vncoueryng Fathers shame and so procures a curse most vehemently Vpon himselfe and his posteritie As he for one that Nimrod hunter great who sayd Come buyld a Tower fayre and hie a stately one whose top may reach the skie that we may get vnto our selues a name and all may see we well deserue the same But this their rage the Lord did soone espie and downe he came their language to confound that one knew not what others did propound and Citie theirs he called Babylon which name doth shew They found Confusion And Ismael next Aegiptian Hagars sonne who Isaac skoft of Abram blessed seede so as it shewes how Cham doth still proceede to hate as Cain the brother working good foure hundred yeeres afflicting Isaacs blood The lyke doth he that Esau most prophane good Iaacobs blood vnkindly seeke to spill like rauenyng Wolfe which seely Lambe doth kill and birthright solde for messe of pottage red despising Christ the Lambe the Rocke the Bread Chams race holdes on as Pharaoh hard of hart good Abrams seede most hardly to intreat with slauish toyle and burthens ouer great in bricke and clay and bondage very ill vntil at length their children he did kill And thus they were foure hundred yeeres too long afflicted sore by Chams Aegyptian dogs but they were plagu'd with lice with flies with frogs with blood for blood with blaines with scabs with haile to shew how smal man can gainst God preuaile Himselfe his host his chariots and his horse inclosd with waues were tombd in heapes of sand where Israel past from yoke of Egypt land their ryder fell and Israel skapt away and Miriam sung such prayse as now we may The seconde part THen Amalec of nations who was first that warre did make Gods people to withstand whereby they might them keepe from holy land But Moses prayd whyle Sunne abode in skye and Iosua fought vntil his foes did flye And God a curse vpon that nation gaue and vow did make their name for to roote out because gainst his they shewd themselues so stout and in Record he caused it to be that he would warre with them continually Then Balak he to Balam sayd Come curse come curse Israel detest him I thee pray who frets my hart to see him beare such sway Then Balam sayd a people blest of God fayne would I curse but that I feare his rod. Yet greedy gayne this Prophet false drew on who wages lou'd vnrighteously to get although dum Asse gainst that would teach him wit And Angels sworde against him was out drawne who spared then yet in the ende was slayne When Iudges ruld sixe times full sore opprest were Gods elect by Nations strong and stoute some left in land some others thereabout Aram Moab Canaan and such lyke Madian Ammon Philistins all did strike But Othinel Ehud Shamgar euen he with goad of Oxe sixe hundred men did kill and Ehud lame fat Eglons blood did spill These Iudges three their foes so strong did bend and Barac did from Chariot wheeles defend God whet his sworde and valiant Gedion fought with pitcher pots and men but hundreds three yet foylde that host which numbred could not bee Of Ammon townes did Ieptath twenty strike and with Asse iaw did Samson thousand smite And Deborah holpe and Starres Streames did striue gaynst Canan Kinges at ancient Kishon brooke at Kishon streames God on his Saints did looke And Iaels hand with Hammer smote the Nayle whereby Israel gaynst Sisera did preuayle Yet did these streames increase their strength agayne and others met vntill great floods they were in Dauids time as it may well appeare Both forraine foes and those at home in brest as Absalon and Saul aboue the rest Who Dauid sought as one would do a Flea and still did hunt th' Annoynted of the Lord his soule to take as Hunter Partridge would Euen so did he most cruelly persist to persecute in him both God and Christ. Yet did he stand as Lyon strong and stout vntill he did his foes all subiect bring and he through God did raigne alone as King For whom the Lord the Crowne and Diademe kept aye to remayne but Sauls away he swept The thirde part AGayne in dayes of King Iehosaphat the vile pretence of wicked men we see and forces great like Mountains seemd to bee That then had ioynd in league and constant band to cut off quite poore Israel from their land And that no name of Nation they should haue as then those craftie councels had decreed but thought in hart to cut them off with speed and were in band ten Nations well we know that then had ioynd to serue good Israel so But Israel prayd and God for them did fight to him they cald and he their sute did heare and causd their foes kill each with others speare they standing still saluation did behold and three dayes were in gathering of their gold Then gathered they to valley Berachath to blesse the Lord to blesse and prayse his name whose mercies last toward those that seeke the same they sought in truth they sought as did him please who stroke their foes and to them gaue great ease In time againe of Ezechias King how did that proud Saneherib by name the Lord and his with most vile speach blaspheme in bragging sort most vaynely to be tolde as though by force
A Spirituall Song conteining an Historicall Discourse from the infancie of the world vntill this present time Setting downe the treacherous practises of the wicked against the children of God Decribing also the markes and ouerthrow of Antichrist with a thankesgiuing to God for the preseruation of her Maiestie and of his Church Drawen out of the holy Scriptures By Roger Cotton Psal. 37.12 The wicked practiseth against the iust and gnasheth his teeth against him Psal. 37.13 But the Lord shall laugh him to scorne for he seeth that his day is comming Psal. 37.33 The wicked haue drawne their sworde and haue bent their bowes to cast downe the poore and needie and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation Psal. 37. But their sworde shall enter into their owne hartes and their bowes shalbe broken At London Printed by G. Simson and W. White 1596. To the right worshypfull Sir Francis Drake Knight Roger Cotton wisheth continuance of health with prosperous estate and felicitie THe happie estate of the present with the constant hope of further prosperitie Right worshipfull by the glorious conquest of the heauenly armie of holy ones and the vertuous zeale that you haue alwayes had to defende Gods trueth her Maiesties right and Countries tranquilitie hath imboldened mee being a poore brother of the Worshypfull societie of Drapers whereinto you were lately incorporated to present vnto you an Historicall discourse and short thankes giuing which I haue rudely but truly and according to the storie collected out of the holy Scriptures declaring therein the extreame rankour of the wicked agaynst the godly throughout all ages with the iust iudgementes of God duely rewarding their impieties and also a description of the marks of that Tirannicall Sea of Antichrist the sworne enemie to the gracious Gospell of eternall saluation heereby hoping to encourage all such as would auoyde the heauie burthē of that Egyptiecal yoke the captiuitie of that misticall Babell and the persecution of Gog and Magog to study the holy worde of God which is the sworde of the spirite and to take vnto them the whole armor thereof whereby they may be able to resist all the assaultes of the euyll one with all his souldiers and may also haue a full hope in the Lord that in the ende they shall haue a victorious conquest as now we haue and so learne with Martyrs Apostles and holy Prophets to reioyce and sing Hosanna and Haleluiah for the wound of that seauen headed Oragon and dyly to pray for the ouerthrow of his whole rage so shall their naked sores be couered healed with the leaues of that florishyng Tree of euerlasting lyfe which groweth by the Christall streames of that pure Riuer running through the Citie of God the celestial Ierusalem This if your Worshyp shal accept being the first frutes of my small paynes not regarding the barbarousnes of my phrase verse being no Scholler but the zealous affection of my hart to the loue of your godly care for the vpholding of Gods Religion I shall hauing so skilfull a Pilote to stirre my sterne and so worthy a Captaine to encounter the enimie be imbouldned hereafter to wade into deeper discourses as God shall blesse and time permit to gratifie your worthinesse withall Vntill which time I humbly commende your selfe and your most vertuous proceedinges to the gracious gouernment of the puissant Iehouah the victorious King of eternall glorie Your worships to command R. C. To the Reader IT hath been an vsuall thing gentle Reader throughout the whole Scriptures for later ages to make recitall of former stories both concerning the cruell rage of the wicked against the Church of God and also the tender care the Lord hath had for the defence and deliuery of his and vpon present experience of the same haue assembled themselues togeather not onely to shew foorth Gods glorie by songes of prayse and thanksgiuing but also to confesse that as they haue heard so haue they seene and therefore in the pallaces of Syon was God wel knowen for a refuge yea for a God most great therefore by them most highly to be praysed Euen so likewyse since all thinges that are written in the holy Scriptures are written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope I haue brought to your remembraunce as breefely as I can the cheefest stories therein conteined for this purpose that when you haue heard you may also say that you haue seene his great seueritie in the late miraculous destruction of his and our Romish enimies and his accustomed mercie in the deliuerance and preseruation of his children and so by that meanes be stirred vp to giue all thankes and prayse vnto God and to haue your hartes firmly stayed vpon him who is a wall and strong defence to Syon his Beloued and who continually sits vpon a throne hauing a Rainebow round about to assure vs of his fauour to be continued agaynst the waters which the olde Dragon powreth out by the Italian Synagoue of Rome wherefore seeing he is our defence against the troublesome waues of this lyfe let vs neuer cease to be talking of the noble actes which hee hath doone and the great deliuerance which he hath shewed from tyme to tyme and so take occasion to haue our mouthes filled with his prayses continually so shall God haue his glorie and I my whole desire and thus I rest praying for thy peace and wishing for my brethrens sake thy prosperitie O Ierusalem Yours in the Lord R. C. P. K. In commendation of this worke IF Poets pens deserued prayse Whose paynes deserued well Much more the mindes the pens the men Indued with heauenly skill Of loue of warre of Plants of Birds Of Sheepe and Shepheards toyes Haue Poets writ who lie in dust Bereft of heauenly ioyes Yet these we see through worlde their prayse With eccho doth resound Much more is prayse to Cotton due Who makes Gods worde his ground G. W. in prayse of this Booke WIll men be taught in whom to put their trust In time of troubles stird by tyrants pride Or will they learne to whom the godly must Sing thankfull Himnes when happie dayes betide Lo heere a Lantarne that may giue them light Both to relie and to reioyce a right A. W. in commendations of this discourse LEt worldly wisedome stande a part let policie giue place To simple ones to little babes whose hartes are filde with grace Whose tongues declare his prayse to whom all prayse belonges With ioyfulnes with singing cheere in Psalmes and spirituall Songs And you that hitherto haue hid your Talents in the ground Come learne of him that hath but one Gods mercies to resound R. I. in commendation of this worke YOu idle Drones that fleece and cannot feede You speechles ones that can not barke nor bay You Slowwoormes mates that make so euill speede To spie the Foxe and driue the Wolfe away This Booke shall be your iudge an other day Which sweetely