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Taylors Vrania, or His heauenly muse With a briefe narration of the thirteene sieges, and sixe sackings of the famous cittie of Ierusalem. Their miseries of warre, plague, and famine, (during their last siege by Vespasian and his son Titus.) In heroicall verse compendiously described.; Urania
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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Christ is dead and rizen I know no greater sinner then Iohn Taylor Of all his Death did Ransome out of Prizzen And therefore heere 's my Pride if it be Pride To know Christ and to know him Crucifide Thine in all humilitie Iohn Taylor TAYLORS VRANIA 1 ETernall God which in thine armes do'st Graspe All past all present and all future things And in ineuitable doome dost claspe The liues and deaths of all that dies and springs And at the doomefull day will once vnhaspe Th' acusing booke of Subiects and of Kings In whom though ending nor beginning be Let me ô Lord beginne and end in thee 2 All cogitations vaine from me remooue And clense my earthly and polluted heart Inspire me with thy blessings from aboue That to thy honour I with Artlesse Art May sing thy Iustice Mercy and thy Loue Possesse me with thy Grace in euery part That no profane word issue from my pen But to the Glorie of thy name Amen 3 I do beseech thee Gracious louing father Reiect me not in thy sharpe iudging Ire But in thy multitude of mercies Rather Recall me to thee Recolect me Nigher My wandring Soule into thy bosome Gather And with thy Grace my gracelesse heart Inspire Dictate vnto my minde what it may thinke Write with thy spirit what I may write with inke 4 Thou all things wast eu'n then when nothing was And then thou all things did'st of nothing make Of nothing All thou still hast brought to passe And all againe to nothing must betake When sea shall burne and land shall melt like brasse When hills shall tremble and the mountaines quake And when the world to Chaos turnes againe Then thou Almighty All shalt all remaine 5 And since this vniuersall massie ball This earth this aire this water and this fire Must to a ruine and a period fall And all againe to nothing must retire Be thou to me my onely All in All Whose loue and mercy neuer shall expire In thee I place my treasure and my trust Where Fellon cannot steale or canker rust 6 All things but only God at first began The vncreated God did all Create In him Alone is equall will and can Who hath no ending or commencing date To whose Eternitie all time 's a span Who was is shal be euer in one state All else to nothing howerly doth decline And onely standes vpon support diuine 7 Our high Creator our first Parents form'd And did inspire them with his heau'nly spirit Our Soules seducer Sathan them deform'd And from Gods fauour did them disinherit Our blest Redeemer them againe reform'd And ransom'd them by his vnbounded merit Thus were they form'd deform'd reform'd againe By God by Sathan and our Sauiours paine 8 Mans Generation did from God proceed A mortall Body and a Soule Eternall Degeneration was the Deuils deed With false delusions and with lies infernall Regeneration was our Sauiours meede Whose death did satisfie the wrath supernall Thus was man found and lost and lost was found By Grace with Glory euer to be crownd 9 Man was produc'de seduced and reduc'de By God by Sathan and by God agen From good to ill from ill he was excusd'e By merit of th' immortall man of men The vnpolluted bloud from him was sluc'de To saue vs from damnations dreadfull den Thus man was made and marde and better made By him who did sinne death and hell inuade 10 Let man consider then but what he is And contemplate on what he erst hath bin How first he was created heyre of blisse And how he fell to be the Childe of sinne How of himselfe he howerly doth amisse And how his best workes do no merit winne Except acceptance make them be esteem'd Through his obedience that our Soules redeem'd 11 Before thou wast remember thou wast nought And out of nought or nothing thou wast fram'de And how thy Body being made and wrought By God was with a liuing Soule inflam'de And how th' eternall Nomenclator taught Thee name all Creatures that were euer nam'de And made thee Stuard of the worlds whole treasure And plac'de thee in a paradice of pleasure 12 Then wast thou Viceroy to the King of heau'n And great Lieuetenant to the Lord of hosts The rule of all things vnto thee was giu'n At thy command all creatures seru'd like posts To come or go and at thy becke were driu'n Both neere and farre vnto the farthest coasts God all things made as seruants vnto thee Because thou only shouldst his seruant be 13 He gaue life vnto herbes to plants and trees For if they wanted life how could they grow A beast hath life and sence moues feeles and sees And in some sort doth good and euill know But man 's before all Creatures in degrees God life and sence and reason did bestow And least those blessings should be transitory He gaue him life sence reason grace and glory 14 Then let our meditations scope be most How at the first we were created good And how we wilfull Grace and goodnes lost And of the sonnes of God were Sathans broode Then thinke the price that our redemption cost Th' eternall sonne of Gods most precious bloud Remember this whilst life and sence remaine Else life and sence and reason are in vaine 15 Thou to requite thy God that all thee gaue Ingratefully against him didst rebell Whereby from Regall state thou turnedst slaue And heau'nly Iustice doomb'd thee downe to hell As thy rebellion from thy God thee draue So 'gainst thee all things to rebellion fell For when to heau'n thy due obedience ceast Thy disobedience taught each brutish beast 16 Now see thy miserable wretched state Thou and the earth is eake with thee accurst All worldly things which thee obaide of late In stiffe commotion now against thee burst And thou for euer droue from Eden gate To liue an exilde wretch and which is worst Thy soule Gods darling fell from her preferment To be the Deuils thrall in endlesse torment 17 But Mercies sea hath quenched Iustice fire And Heau'ns high heyre in pittie of mans case In person came and satisfide Gods ire And Gracelesse man new Repossest in Grace The sonne of God came downe to raise vs higher To make vs Glorious he himselfe made base To draw vs vp downe vnto earth he came And honor'd vs by putting on our shame 18 Who can conceiue the Glory he was in Aboue the heau'n of heau'ns in throan'd in blisse Who can conceiue the losse that he did winne To rectifie and answere our amisse Who can conceiue the Mountaines of our sinne That must be hid with such a sea as this No heart no tongue no pen of mortall wight These things can once conceiue or speake or write 19 Man may collect th' abundance of his vice And the deare loue his God to him did beare In thinking on th' inestimable price Was paide his sinne polluted soule to cleare To gaine him an immortall paradice And to Redeeme his foes to pay so
Graceles fell from goodnes and from grace And kick'd and spurn'd at Heau'ns most glorious face The Prophets and the Seers that were sent To warne them to amendment repent They ston'd they killd they scorn'd they beat they bound Their goodnes to requite their spight did wound The Prophets came with loue and purchasd hate They offred peace and were returnd debate They came to saue and were vniustly spilld They brought them life and were vnkindly killd No better entertainment they afford Vnto the Legates of their louing Lord. Thus were the Lab'rers in GODS Vineyard vsde Thus was their loue their care their paines abusde Their toyles and trauailes had no more regard Bonds death and tortures was their best reward At last th' Almighty from his glorious seat Perceiu'd his seruants they so ill intreat No more would send a Prophet or a Seer But his owne Sonne which he esteem'd most deere He left his high Tribunall and downe came And for all Glory enterchang'd all shame All mortall miseries he vnderwent To cause his loued-loueles Iewes repent By Signes by Wonders and by Miracles By Preaching Parables and Oracles He wrought and sought their faithles faith to cure But euer they obdurate did endure Our blest Redeemer came vnto his owne And 'mongst them neither was receiu'd or knowne He whom of all they should haue welcom'd best They scorn'd and hated more then all the rest The GOD of principalities and powers A Sea of endles boundles mercy showres Vpon the heads of these vnthankfull men Who pay loue hate and good with ill agen Their murdrous-minded-malice neuer left Till they the Lord of life of life bereft No tongue or pen can speake or write the storie Of the surpassing high immortall glory Which he in pittie and in loue forsooke When he on him our fraile weake nature tooke To saue Mans soule his most esteemed Iem And bring it to the new Ierusalem From Greatest great to least of least he fell For his beloued chosen Israel But they more mad then madnes in behauiour Laid cursed hands vpon our blessed Sauiour They kill'd th' eternall sonne and heyre of heau'n By whom and from whom all our liues are giu'n For which the great Almighty did refuse Disperse and quite forsake the faithles Iewes And in his Iustice great omnipotence He left them to a reprobated sence Thus sundry times these people fell and rose From weale to want from height of ioyes to woes As they their gracious GOD forsooke or tooke His mercy either tooke them or forsooke The swart Egyptians and the Isralites And raging Rezin King of Aramites Then the Assirians twice and then againe Th' Egiptians ouer-runs them all amaine Then the Caldeans and once more there came Egiptian Ptolomy who them o'recame Then Pompey next King Herod last of all Vespasian was their vniuersall fall As in Assiria Monarchy began They lost it to the warlike Persian Of Nimrods Race a Race of Kings descended Till in Astiages his stocke was ended For Cirus vnto Persia did translate Th' Assirian Soueraigne Monarchizing state Then after many bloody bruzing Armes The Persian yeelded to the Greekes Alarm's But smoake-like Gracian glory lasted not Before t was ripe it did vntimely rot The worlds Commander Alexander dyde And his Successors did the world deuide From one great Monarch in a moment springs Confusion Hydra-like from selfe-made Kings Till they all wearied slaughter'd and forlorne Had all the earth dismembred rent and torne The Romans tooke aduantage of their fall And ouer-ran câ—ptiu'de and conquerd all Thus as one nayle another out doth driue The Persians the Assirians did depriue The Graecians then the Persian pride did tame The Romanes then the Graecians ouercame Whilst like a vapour all the world was tost And Kingdoms were transferd from coast to coast And still the Iewes in scattred multitudes Deliuer'd were to sundry seruitudes Chang'd giuen bought sold from land to land Where they not vnderstood nor vnderstand To euery Monarchy they were made slaues Egipt and Aram Caldea them out braues Assiria Persia Graecia lastly Rome Inuaded them by heauens iust angry doome Foure Ages did the sonnes of Hâ—ber passe Before their finall desolation was Their first Age aged Patriarks did guide The second reuerend Iudges did decide The third by Kings naught good bad worse and worst The fourth by Prophets who them blest or curst As their dread GOD commanded or forbid To blesse or curse eu'n so the Prophets did Our Sauiour weeping on the Mount did view The Cittie and foretold what would ensue And in his tender pitty vnto them Said oh Ierusalem Ierusalem Thou killst the Prophets and to death didst ding Those that were sent thee heau'nly grace to bring How oft and oft would I for your owne good Haue gathered you as doth as Hen hir brood But you would not and therefore to you all Your houses shall to desolation fall Which came to passe according as he said Which in the second part is here displaide The last and most lamentable Destruction of the Ancient famous and memorable Cittie and Temple of Ierusalem being destroyed by Vespasian and his Sonne Titus COnfusion Horror Terror dreadfull Wars Domesticke forreine inward outward Jars Shafts shot at Iuda in Iehouahs ire Infectious plague war famine sword and fire Depopulation desolation and The finall conquest of old Iacobs Land These are the Theames my mournfull Muse rehearses These are the grounds of my lamenting Verses Iosephus wrote these things in ample wise Which I thus briefly do Epitomize Which worthy Author in large scope relates His Countries alterations and estates The Bookes of his Antiquities do tell How often times th'arose how oft they fell How oft God fauourd them how oft his frowne From height of greatnes cast them headlong downe The Seaueuth booke of his Warrs declareth plaine How Roman Conquest did the Kingdom gaine How death did tyrannize in sundry shapes In sword in fire in famine and in Rapes Who loues to read at large let him read his Who likes compendious briefes let him read this Since Hebers sons the country first enioy de Six times it hath bin wasted and destroyde Twice three times spoyld and thirteen times in all Wars force or Composition made it thrall Compare all wars that chanc'd since the Creation They all are nothing to their desolation No storie or no memorie describes Calamitie to match old Isrels Tribes For if each Land their bloody broyls recount To them 't were but a mole-hill to a mount All which for sin in the Almighties furie Was heap'd vpon the sinfull Land of Iurie And almost sixteen hundred winters since Did great Vespaesian Romes Imperiall Prince With braue yong Titus his stout valiant son Iudeaes Kingdom spoyle and ouer-run And with an Army Royall and renownd They did Ierusalem beleaguer round With force with stratagems with warlike powers With Rams with Engines scaling ladders Towers With all the Art of either might or sleight The Romans vpon each aduantage wait