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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12742	Loves revenge VVherein is briefly shewed from the historie of the holy scripture, the rising, grouth, and finall fall of the man of sinne; with the long and continuall strife betwixt the two seeds, how they have, from time to time, sought to disinherite each other: and how that Christ, by his righteous life, and long sufferings, in the end shall get the victory, and justly revenge himself upon his adversarie. Omnia vincit amor, & c. By Ios. Speed.	Speed, Joshua.	1631 (1631)	STC 23050; ESTC S101712	43,323	144

Loves Revenge VVHEREIN IS BRIEFLY SHEWED FROM THE HISTORIE OF the holy Scripture the rising grouth and finall fall of the Man of Sinne with the long and continuall strife betwixt the two Seeds how they have from time to time sought to disinherite each other and how that Christ by his righteous life and long sufferings in the end shall get the victory and justly revenge himself upon his adversarie Omnia vincit amor c. By Ios Speed HABAK. 1.5 ACT. 13.41 Behold ye despisers and wonder and vanish away for I work a work in your daies a work which ye shall not believe if a man should declare it you At AMSTERDAM Printed by Richard Raven 1631. The Preface WHen darknesse is supprest by light That nights black shadows shun the day True faith doth give the soul clear sight To see and finde the living way Then must proud Death give place to Life In vain it is his strength to try For Hope will end that deadly strife And swallow Death in victory And Errour must acknowledge Truth For all his fierce and cruell rage For Loue hath threatned him in youth And will not spare him in his age When Faith hath light for to discerne And Hope can hold in storm and rain If Love be there to guid the stern The wished shore they shall attain No travell can unfruitfull prove When Faith Hope do work by Love When unbelief is beaten down And Faith hath got the upper hand Then light doth shew true faith her crown Which she shall have if she do stand And then despair of force must flie In vain it is if she contend For life will give Hope victory If she continue to the end And hatred must of force depart And give true Love free place to dwell For truth will give Love true desert And hatred due reward in hell Light is the glance of Faiths clear sight Life is the crown which Hope requires Truth is the guide which leads both right Through Love to finish their desires Where Light and Life and Truth agree Faith Hope and Love make unitie To the Reader LEt prejudice be laid aside Christian Reader in thy reading Let love unfained be thy guide Thy thoughts to equall judgement leading The labour and the charge is mine I wish the profit may be thine To think that I should all men please All men would think such thoughts were vain Esteeming it a fools disease Arising from an idle brain That labour which I here bestow Is but to pay the debt I owe Vnto my Countrey and my Friends And all which do professe Christs name In him our faith begins and ends By him we hope to purchase fame If then our love be like to his We all shall see him as he is If any thing displeaseth thee When thou my Faith and hope dost prove Yet fasten malice to that tree On which she once did murder love And break in twain that Serpents head For love shall reigne when hate is dead I seek to trouble no mans minde Nor yet to give offence to any Yet dare not hide nor leave behind That good which may redound to many Whereat if any kick or hinch Were he not gauld he should not winch The mark whereat I chiefly aim Is to unfould the fraud of sinne What rightes and titles he doth claim The evill daies that we live in Our present danger his desire To bring us to eternall fire If then by chance I hit the mark At which my bow is holy bent Or if I misse this subtle Clark T is but one headlesse arow spent Yet hit or misse thus much I know The blinde by chance may kill a Crow The Authors Faith I Do believe in God alone Whose love doth passe all breadth length And do relie on other none To make the arm of flesh my strength My faith is such not to remove Such is my Hope such is my Love He is the onely Lord of lords A King of mighty strength and fame His Majesty with truth accords And great Iehovah is his name The first the last the totall summe Which is which was which is to come He is the God of Israel Their root and generation The vanquisher of Death and Hell The horn of our salvation Before whole throne all flesh shall come The wicked to their finall doom Then why should I fear mortall man Whose breath within his nostrills lies His life for length is but a span Although his malice never dies My body he may keep in thrall But cannot hurt my soul at all Let cursed Cain then fret and rage And wicked Lamech boast his fill Let scoffing Ham come on the stage Let bloudy Nimrod work his will Let Babels Tow'r through Satans pride Be once again re-edifi'd Let pharaoh with his hoast pursue Let Amaleck stand in the way Let Og and Sihons hatefull crue Their bloudy banners still display Let proud Goliah's hellish cry The God of Israel defie Let Balaam lay a stumbling block Let Rabshecah come railing down Let dogged Doeg accuse Christs flock Let Shemey curse let Nabal frown Let Philistines their battells pitch Let Saul ask counsell of a Witch Let the ten tribes of Israel Give care to Ieraboam's call Let Ahab marry Iesabel And build an altar unto Baal Let Baals Priests cry till heare doth break Their God can neither hear nor speak Let Nebuchadnezar pour out His thundring threats rage and revile Let Baltazar his drunken rout The vessells of the Lord defile Let haughtie Hamans pride bewray His hatefull thoughts to Mordekay Antiochus that wicked root Let him run on his wretched race To waste and trample under foot Gods Temple and his dwelling place Let Holofernes rule and sway Till Iudith take his head away Let Samballat the Horonite With all his cursed crue accord To race to sack to vanquish quite The walls and building of the Lord. Let men conspire with malice fraught Yet shall their counsells come to nought Let cruell Herod still assail The tender infants for to stay Let Scribes and Pharisees prevail Give Iudas money to betray My faith is fixt on him above So is my hope so is my love His waies are right his judgements just His mercy alwaies firm and sure To such as on his goodnesse trust And stedfast to the end endure He giveth all men life and breath And grieveth at the sinners death He did admonish wretched Cain To leave his wicked enterprise Suffer said he not sinne to reigne Least Abels bloud for vengeance cries Abandon wrath ther 's grace in store If not lo sinne is at thy door And when he saw and well perceiv'd All flesh corrupting of their waies His spirit strove his soul was griev'd Contain'd his wrath yet many daies Had true repentance there been found The world had sur'ly not been drown'd When Sodom and Gomorahs cries Ascended up unto his throne Yet was there mercy in his eyes He would have saved them each one Could he have found some godly

before thine eies The royall kingdomes of the earth For all that is under the skies Is mine inheritance by birth All glory majesty divine Honour and power all is mine Nebuchadnezar wore my crown And did my royall scepter sway He did maintain my high renown All men must his command obey Now will I give all this to thee If thou wilt bowe and worship me Satan avoid I am forbod And must obey if I will live To worship any other God Then him which doth the power give All honour majesty divine Belongs to him t is none of thine Nebuchadnezar did not love The God of heaven whom I adore Nor knew his power came from above But was his own my God therefore Did his ambition deride Even in the height of all his pride And made him like another beast Seven winters long in frost and snow Among the oxen for to feast That he at length might come to know And in this time might justly prove All power comming from above The Serpent then thought in his minde This must be sure that blessed Lambe For in my tempting I do finde That he is more then Abraham Then Isaac Iacob more is he Nay he is more then all these three For Abrams faith was weak and frail When God did promise him a seed And Isaac's hope began to fail When he lay ready for to bleed And Iacob's love that was not great When he refus'd his brother meat Yet Abraham when hope was past By faith did blessed Isaac gain Isaac also while hope did last Praid for a sonne God gave him twain But Jacob's love did win the crown When faith hope were both put down This man he is but one alone Yet with them all he doth agree So that I now see three in one And yet this one more then these three They were like shadows on a wall And this the substance of them all Moses and Aaron both did fail They were not perfect in Gods sight And Ioshuah could not prevail For he was put unto the flight And could not win nor conquer aie Till Achans sinne was put away What need I any more repeat All men have failed in their time Yea all have sinned small and great This man alone is void of crime His faith his hope his love will draw Sinnes strength power from the law Oh this is he which was foretold That of a Virgin should be born For thirty pence he should be sold And made a curse and open scorn Yet when his guiltlesse bloud is shed The curse will light upon my head This is that Abel which was slain Whose bloud was poured on the ground And yet in Sheth did rise again Deaths fetters could not hold him bound This is that Henoch other none VVhich God did take up to his throne When all men fell this man did stand His faith alone did mercy crave He built an Ark at Gods command Him and his family to save Which being done he entred in And did condemn the world for sinne This is that blessed Abraham VVhich did not spare his onely sonne But went to offer up that lambe And said Oh Lord thy will be done This is that Isaac now I say Which was as ready to obey This is that Iacob which did flie His brothers malice to prevent And went to Haran speedily There where his father had him sent VVithin his mothers house to finde A wife unto his fathers minde This is that Iudah born to reign Levi to offer sacrifice That Ioseph which did gather grain Against a famine should arise His hatefull bretheren to feed When they did stand in extream need This is that Moses which did smite The proud Aegyptian to ground Seeing him with an Hebrew fight He gave him there a deadly wound He thought they would on him depend As one that should their right defend Coming again the other day He found two Hebrews at debate My bretheren then he did say VVhy do yee one another hate Love teacheth men to suffer long And not to do his brother wrong The wrongfull would not understand But in his heart began to grudge Thrust Moses from him with his hand Saying Who hath made thee a judge Or art thou come my bloud to spill As thou didst the Aegyptian kill This Moses fled but came again For to release them from their bands But then his coming was not vain He pluck't them out of Pharaoh's hands And by a strong and mighty hand He brought them out of Aegypt land This is that Ioshuah whose might Possest them in the holy Land Slue one and thirty kings in fight The Sunne and Moon both still did stand Vntill his enemies did flie And he return with victory This is that David which took care His fathers sheep from Wolves to hold He kild a Lyon and a Bear VVhich would have broke into his fold And after that Goliah slue The proudest Gyant of the crue He was a Shepheard so is this Yet chosen king while Saul did reigne This must be he how should it misse For Gods anointing is not vain The Crown doth hang over his head And he shall reigne when I am dead Saul's unbelief despair and hate Deprived him of his renown Faith hope and love did David's state Advance and brought him to the Crown The more I do the Shadow see The more I know that this is he I must of force now give him scope I can by no means him allure For Abram 's faith and Isaac's hope Have made his birth-right firm and sure And Iacob's love that perfect band Hath bound the blessing in his hand And thus he left him there he stood Through hunger fainting almost dead But then the Angels brought him food VVherewith his hungry soul was fed And then he went from coast to coast To seek the sheep which he had lost He brought glad tidings to the poor The broken hearted he did binde And opened the prison door That captives liberty might finde And shew'd them the reward of sinne To comfort those which strove to win He made the blinde receive their sight The Lepers he made whol and clean The lame and creple go upright The deaf to hear the dead were seen To rise again out of their grave He did help all that help did crave For all diseases he did cure He did the Divells dispossesse And sought all men for to allure To purchase life and happinesse Sinnes fetters he did break asunder That all men did behold and wonder While that the sunne did shine thus bright The Serpent overspread the skie With misty clouds to damp the light And make his beams reflect and flie That men could not by humane sight Know night from day nor day from night You look for a deliverer A King quoth he to set you free But Joseph's sonne the Carpenter You may be sure is none of he Will you on basenesse fix your eies And feed your eares with fantasies Suppose he were of David's race Yet can