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A75580	The ark, its loss and recovery; or, some meditations on the history recorded in the beginning of I Sam. in meeter	Adamson, John, d. 1653, attributed name. aut	1660 (1660)	Wing A3697mA; ESTC R230977	9,699	16

tends Lust riot rapine see but where it ends Samuel the Gracious Child unto the Lord Ch. 3. Did minister then precious was the word The word when plentiful had in derision Grew now esteem'd there was no open vision God can inhance his truths and make men prise His Gospel-light by hiding't from their eyes He can make proud despisers lofty scorners That slight his word i' th' streets go seek't in corners 7 Rais't by depressions free it by restraints 3 By wicked shakings can make setled saints 4 Thus counterplots he Satan and his tools Isa 29.12 13. Thus Noph and Zoan Councellors are fools When Elies lamps were dim Gods lamp had light 2. His Candlestick not yet removed quite 3. Samuel lay down to sleep whom God doth wake 4. And unto Eli ran he through mistake 5. Thrice thus mistaken he to Eli ran 6. Nor could discern 'twixt voice of God and man 11. Poor novice yet he knew not well the Lord 7. Nor fully was reveal'd to him the word O would too many were not to be found Of riper years that can't discern the sound Of words of worthy men unto this hour From spiritual Gospels mighty saving power But to old Eli it Gods call appears 8. Who bids him say speak Lord thy servant hears 9. He does so then the Lord doth farther tell 10. How he would do a thing in Israel Should make their ears to tingle who should hear it 11. He 'd Judgment bring and Elies house should bear it 12. Their ears to tingle that would tickled be Judgment on those that hope yet to go free On Elies house who 's on this message sent By Elies bouse will certainly be shent Rough preaching will rough handling meet suspended At least he 'l be till Elie's power be ended When I begin saith God I 'le make an end For I have told him I will Judgments send For his Sons unrestrained Villanies I 've sworn it sha'nt be purg'd by sacrifice 4. 'T is sad but just Priests hainous crimes do cry Louder than others for severity If you by place draw nigh him know he 's nigh you Trembling remember Nadab and Abihu ●●t 10.15 Samuel lay til the morn was then afraid To tell old Eli what the Lord had said And well he might expecting nought but scorn I know by whom the like would ne're be born But Eli will hear all and does submit 17. 'T is the Lord let him do what he sees fit 18. A good Submission let it pattern be To us in fear'd or felt calamitie God was with growing Samuel none of all 19. His words to ground did unregarded fall Him an establish'd Prophet Israel knew 10. 11. To whom in Shiloh God himself did shew By God he 's own'd to Israel he 's known His Call who 'l call in question who 'l disown 'T is bold to slight confess'd reality For want perhaps of some formality Idle drones angry Wasps we know their honey They 'l part with wax to those will part with money But Gospel-calls though they 're not legal ones Will serve for Gospel-ministrations He need not care whom Heavens broad-seal confirms To get earths purchas'd seal on dirty terms Now Israel would forth in battel go 4. 1. To fight the Philistines their ancient foe But Oh alas it was with little gain Israel is smitten and four thousand slain In hast they went without their God their loss Returns them back again by weeping-cross Hot spurs may easily begin a fray Who not so easily can win the day The Elders pause upon 't and thus advise Why hath God smote us by our enemies Affliction makes men serious then they 'l think Who 't is that bores their keel and why they sink They now discern whose arrows 't were that smot them Although they were Philistian bows that shot them Come let us have the Ark among us then God's hand will save us from the hands of men The Sons of Eli to the Camp it bring 4. All Israel did shout the earth did ring 5. When Micha got a vagrant Levite he Judg. 17 13 Jer. 7.4 Forthwith expected g●eat Prosperity The Temple Temple of the Lord are these Were idle words did idle people please The Church the Church is such an empty noise Wherewith some vaunt that vaunt themselves of toys Even such was this poor Ark an empty shew When God o' th' Covenant himself withdrew Could less be look'd for when such Priests were by When 't had such Cattel in its company 6. The Philistius the noise and news did hear Thinking the Hebrews God was there did fear Did the Philistins fear fear all ye slighters 7. In any case against God to be found fighters Wo unto us they cry 't was never thus They 're mighty Gods who shall deliver us 'T was never thus Extravagancies use The inconsiderate vulgar to amuse 8. Those are the Gods that them from Egypt brought That in the Wilderness such Wonders wrought Have none but these heard Egypts Prodigies 9. Wilderness-works Open O Lord mens eyes Now quit your selves like men lest they be seen To be our Lords that have our vassals been Like men like devils for what mortal he Dares to oppose where God but seems to be But Tyranny is loth to lose its profit They 'l try to hold their slaves what e're comes of it They fought like men indeed for Israel 10. VVere smitten fled and thirty thousand fell And which was worst the Ark of God they gain 11. And which was just the Sons of Eli slain Thus the poor Ark an Idol made is taken Nor helps it self nor them of God forsaken Thus threats are prov'd in their most sad conclusions Nor Melancholy fancies nor delusions A Benjamite that day to Shiloh fled 12. VVith Garments rent and earth upon his head Sad news comes Thundring home and rending hearts As lightning quick or feathred wounding darts He came where Eli by then way did sit 13. VVho for the Ark was in a trembling fit Not only for the danger which appear'd But conscious of the cause of what he fear'd He told the Citizens they all cry'd out Eli does hear demand what means the rout 14. In hast the man comes in the story told To him who now was ninety eight years old 1. Israel is fled that could not but affect him 17. VVith a great slaughter that must more deject him Thy Sons are also dead that 's nigher to him The Ark is taken that quite overthrew him For then he fell old heavy and dime-ye'd 18. He backwards fell he brake his neck and dy'd He fell from off the seat where he had sate Forty years judging Israel in the gate There lay a Judg condemn'd and executed There lay a Purifying Priest polluted Slain like a sacrifice one in disgrace Of reverend age and

The ARK its LOSS and RECOVERY Or some Meditations on the History recorded in the beginning of 1 Sam. in Meeter THe Ark in Shiloh rested many a year 1 Sam. 1.3 Ch. 2.12 Hophni and Phineas Priests of God were there Though Priests of God yet Sons of Belial The causers of their own and fathers fall Their ignorance and scandal did disgrace Their holy function and that holy place To such their linnen Ephods but pretence It signifies nor light nor innocence But whited Sepulchres when that which borders On Atheism is clad with holy Orders Ch. 1.12 Their ignorance was gross they knew not God Though in his house they had their whole abode 15. Their scandal gross rapacious gluttony 16. And its vile off-spring brutish lechery 22. The women at the Tabernacle doors This place a stews those votaries made whores 17. VVherefore their sin was great before the Lord And men the offrings of the Lord abhorr'd It was so then and will be so where e're A blockish brutish Clergy domineer Their reverend father Eli's made acquainted 22. VVith what debaucheries his Sons were tainted Sons of the Church whose blazing-vices will No more be hid then beacons on a hill And what says he alas he 's very old 22. And in this cause of God is very cold A feeble why d' ye do so with a why 23. Hear I this evil to your infamy Away my Sons for 't is no good report 24. I hear from all that to me do resort Not only evils that your selves do do But that you make the People wicked too By vile perswasions and by viler deeds The Vulgar is corrupted He proceeds The Judg shall judg the man whom men implead If God's offended who shall intercede 25. 'T was good and grave reproof but it was less Then what was meet for such vile wickedness Oh! that but half so many sav'ry words Might drop from any of those Spiritual LORDS Who can't but know the common fame's relation And hear the groans of a whole mourning Nation But thus their gentle father could not stay them 25. From sinning 't was because the Lord would slay them God hardens whom he means to break thus steel Is poud'red and his hand they 'l surely feel Emptying and overturning whom he sees Zeph. 1 12. And does permit to settle on their lees Mean while does * That is Asked of God Samuel grow that child of tears 26. Child of a gracious Mothers Vows and prayers That when this cursed crew should be remov'd He might succeed of God and men belov'd He needs must prosper whom the Lord does blest Needs must be lov'd where God plants loveliness He needs must thrive that has a portion where It can't be lost as it is often here Pray'rs put to interest in heav'n are better Where God by Promises becomes the debtor Ask'd and receiv'd of God return'd accepted For and from such a child what may b'expected And in a dark and doleful day 't is well God can raise Samuel's for his Israel A man of G●d to father Eli came 27. Did his Sons vileness and his mildness blame In Gods name thus bespeak them Did I chuse 28. Your Fathers for my Priesthood you abuse Did I appear in Egypt to relieve them And after Israels Offrings did I give them Did God by * Forsan●●rum st●● Titu● Providence or by Permission Advance and put them in so good condition Not only save them when they were so low But by his bounty made them over flow Why kick ye at mine offring like the teaching 29 Of those who often preach ' gainst often preaching Which I commanded have why are preferr'd 29 Thy graceless Sons before me thou hast err'd You feed your Selves and not my Flock you snatch What 's not your share you live upon the catch Things inharmonious are and out of tune Where Priests are fat and sacrifice Jejune Who honour me I 'le honour in mens eyes 30 Lightly esteem'd shall be who me despise 'T is not proud looks big words can men exempt From just disgrace from a deserv'd contempt The swelling Toad did burst if tales say true And then his lothsome garbage came in view Is not the empty chaff lift up I pray In winnowing only to be blown away 'T is not the slippery hight secures at all Psal ● 18. Only procures when 't comes the greater fall The proudest plumes must down when God disgraces By loss of reputations first then places Thine arm of strength I will cut off behold 3 In all thine house shall not a man grow old My pretious time they shall not idly spend But end their lives for living to no end Thou bringst an enemy where I do dwell 3 In all the wealth I give to Israel These are the true state enemies that fall Like angry Sampson ruine selves and all That by their wickedness do mischiefs bring Upon themselves their Country and their King Those are the real Rebels that are so ch 1 Both to their King above and him below These do not only call in enemies But make them prosper in their enterprise These weaken hearts and hands divide confound Councels and actions run a State on ground Not only do their own Estates let fly But turn a Nations wealth to beggery And yet that they may still pass unsuspected Cry out of others Oh th' are disaffected If any man of thine I do reprieve 3. Thine eyes he shall consume thine heart shall grieve The spreading branches of thine house I 'le lop Thy buds thy blossoms in the flow'r I 'le crop 4. And take this for a signal from on high Hophni and Phineas in one day shall die Thus men of greatest Comforts are depriv'd When not return'd from whence they were deriv'd Thus greatest hopes are dash'd by God confounded When upon ought beside himself they 'r grounded After which I a faithful Priest will raise 5. Shall do what 's in my heart unto my praise He 'l mind my mind his house shall be secure Before my Christ for ever to endure ●●nted Yea that 's a faithful one indeed that still In all his Ministrations the will Of God reveal d in 's Word does mind the fashions Inventions humours fancies pride or passions His own or others never yields unto He 'l thrive with God though men do him undo The face of God for ever shall he see How e're unfix'd on earth his station be Then every one that of thine house remain 6. Shall crouch a petty pension to obtain Shall beg a piece of Silver bit of meat Shall beg an Office he may have to eat Such hireling Priests will for a piece of bread 13. Handfuls of Barley that they may be fed 19. Condemn whom God acquits and by a lie Encourage souls whom God condemns to die But see pride avarice to what it

honourable place As man we may believe good in the main As Father by his fondness justly slain God gave him raynes but as is sadly shown Throwing them on the mad Colts necks he 's thrown His grace and bad-good nature long contended VVhen this o'recame it Tragically ended When Phineas pregnant Widow heard of all 19. Th' Arks loss her Fathers and her Husband fall She cry'd gone is our glory with our God 21. She dy'd and nam'd Posthumous * That is Where is the Glory Ichabod 22. The glory gone from Israel doth she cry Wast with the brethren in iniquity No though they rufftled if yet infamous Were they in life in death calamitous Or did old Elie's loss their glory dim Alas his glory's losts e're they lost him No no it was the Ark for it was there God's glory shone upon their Hemisphere She dy'd regardless of her Progeny Crush'd in the ruines of her Family Her breath shortn'd by death short'ns the story She breaths all in a word GONE IS OVR GLORY The Second Part. THE RECOVERY THe joll Philistins do homeward hie Ch. 5.1 With th' Ark a Trophee of their victory From † Ch. 7.1 Eben ezer other while 't is true A stone of help now none when God withdrew To Ashdod there their house of gods to stock 2. In Dagon's house they set it by their block The God of Israel does much abhor it In Dagons house Dagon must tumble for it For when they early came perhaps to see 3. How well the Ark and Dagon could agree They found their Idol faln before the place Where stood the Ark Dagon lay on his face Le ts turn our thoughts a while and view the damp Is cast upon their triumph see them stamp Tear their hairs beat their breasts perplext to see Their captive-present conqueror to be Le ts view the secret power and equity That moves the work of this Catastrophie The Ark was Gods appointment mans conceit Was Dagon and his worship but a cheat Humane inventions on the ground must lie Though shoulder'd up by power and policy If this be seen in a Philistian land ●zek 43.8 Can post by pillar in the Temple stand They set him up again and on the morrow 4. They find him down again more to their sorrow Without or head or hand there lay the lump Only to Dagon now was left the stump If one fair fall does not make them give o're Their Wrestlings with the Lord he 'l give them more The former down-fall gently did bespeak'em And warn them to submit the next will break ' em Therefore nor Priests nor Worshippers will tread 5. Upon the threshold where he lost his head And what is done for men of like conditions To cure them does augment their superstitions ●er 51.9 Thus Babylon will not be heal'd at all Therefore shall irrecoverably fall Without advising-head or helping-hand Was now their God but heavy on the Land The hand of Israel s God the Lord of hosts 6. Was upon Ashdod and on all its coasts With Emerods smote he them he so thinks fit While th' Ark's detain'd they shall not easy sit They may sow pillows cushions to be eas'd ●zek 13.20 But 't will not do while God remains displeas'd The men of Ashdod when they saw 't was so 7. When they perceiv'd the cause of all their wo They said let 's keep the Ark of God no more Whose hand on us and Dagon lies so sore The eyes of Dagonites are open'd who Discern for what they 're plagu'd and what to do Would others that have felt the hand of God Would learn of Philistines to hear the rod 8. They call their Lords their Law-givers to tell What should be done with th' Ark of Israel Who loath as yet to let it go consent Such was the wisdom of that Parliament To have it had about to Gath they 'l try Experiments if there 't wil quiet lye Thus were the Syrian privy Councellors wise 1 Kin. 20.22 When they their King so gravely did advise To try the Plain and promis'd him success When in the event they found it nothing less Nothing does more ' gainst men God's anger fix Then when they think to baffle him with tricks Their law is put in Execution 9. To Gath 't is carry'd see what comes thereon See if the laws of men will bear them out And justifie their tumbling it about A very sore destroying whipping-rod Of an avenging of an angry God With Emerods also did he smite them all Princes and People high low great and small Who share in sin must sorrows also share What state or quality soe're they are Whilst in their secret parts those Emerods be Th' afflicted felt what others could not see Much like the secret smarts and inward twinging Of seared hearts when they are further singeing The men of Gath thus wearied with 't would have it 10. To Ekron sent the Ekronites do wave it They would not have the stone so burthensome Zach. 12.3 Mat. 21.44 The builders breaking grinding stone to come Within their quarters for that they had seen it Hurtful to others they 'l not meddle in it They all cry'd out With us it shall not stay They 've brought the Ark to us that us will slay What if it do their Lords seem to reply Die Martyrs of our Laws your loyalty 'T is four to one the major part out-vote you If you obey not factious we must note you On t'other hand the Ekronites do seem For all this talk much otherwise to deem We think it neither faction nor treason T' appeal from you to common sense and reason If 't be a law repeal't there 's nought but need And make another better in its stead They congregate their Lords and them petition 11. Oh send it to its place with expedition For if it here with us do longer stay The hand of God will sweep us all away Many were dead the rest were sick the cry 12. Of all the City mounted to the sky The sky does Eccho 't back unto the ground And all their neighbours hear the doleful sound Sev'n months by them the Ark had been restrain'd 6.1 But if seven years with them 't had been detain'd What work would it have made sure at this rate Th 'ad all been gone and their land desolute And that it is not so in other places Where th' Ark's expos'd to manifold disgraces The appointed worship of the Lord forbidden And many of his useful talents hidden Where the Ark and Samuel are separated That such a people are not desolated It only can ascribed be to this That God long suffering and patient is Priests and Diviners next to Convocation 2. To save the remnant of a ruin'd Nation Are call'd and ask'd How shall we do we pray In sending of this Ark of God away We cannot keep it longer needs must send it Tell us