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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75925	Devout rhapsodies: in vvhich, is treated, of the excellencie of divine Scriptures. Also, of God, his attributes. Plurality of persons. Absolute monarchie. Angels, Good, Bad, their power. How the bad fell. Tempt man. Man, his fall. Beatitude. / By J: A: Rivers.	Rivers, J. A. (John Abbot)	1647 (1647)	Wing A67; Thomason E413_16; ESTC R1117	46,163	91

Satan would Bring Moses body forth that th' Hebrews should It idolize he was made hold his peace By Michael and from th' enterprize surcease Who take the charge of Kings and kingdoms these Are sti●'d magnifique Principalities When God prodigious operations takes In hand he then the active Virtues makes His instruments Angels archangels are His Nuntio's when he pleases to declare His mind to Mortals the angel Gabriel went In Embassie to crave a Maids consent And as some Paranymph prepare a roome Where God himselfe should to our nature come And wooing in 's owne person make a tye Betwixt our flesh and his Divinity The hypostatick Union was the Ring Did make the match and to perfection bring And made our lumpe of despicable clay Ore the Empyrian Dominations sway What time the Spouse both Jewes and Gentiles takes And with them both a mystique marriage makes The fervent Seraphin and Cherubs be Lords of Gods privy Councell although he Nor sits nor needs much to deliberate What 's to be done in businesses of State Yet some blest Angels know more of his mind And in the Book of Life read deeply find The fixt decrees of his eternall will How he elects the good rejects the ill Some leaders of Gods Army whom he sends Or to subdue his foes or aide his friends So Michael Generalissimo commands The sacred Brigades and Caelestiall Bands Guesse at their strength by what but one has done Killing in Egypt every fi●st borne for All this one night perform'd Did not almost Two hundreth thousand of the Syrian Host o th' ground lye gasping by one Angell kil'd And all the rest with Panik terrourfilde Trudge with their King away some Angel must I' th latest day collect all humane dust When soules shall reassume their flesh and give Account of all their actions done alive All these great Princes hourely waite upon Their glorious King encompassing his throane To doe him service and i' th very name Each one Enucleates his Creators fame For every single appellation suites To be the Banner of Gods attributes The Seraphim proclaime that ardent fire Wherewith the Persons mutually conspire To give existence and communicate To what 's existent an accomplish'd state The Cherubs witnesse an abysse of skill In the production and a provident will In government o th' world both in the height Of wisdome number and of weight How fitly doe the quiet thrones expresse Gods never to be altered quietnesse Who in himselfe immov'd alwayes the same With various motions alters the Worlds frame Mutations in the fire ayre water land And in all these God has a speciall hand But as some Rock fixt firmly midst the waves Stirs not a jot although the ocean raves And boysterous winds conspiring with the tyde Cause noyse and feare alike on every side So in the world though daily motions be Changes of elements and Kingdomes he Who changes all sits quiet in his throne Ever the same unalterable One Powers vertues principalities display With dominations a despotick sway The Angels fancied young with Cherubs wings The cheerfull expedition in their Kings Commands these ninety nine have never er'd But alwayes loyal to their God adher'd When Lucifer that Ca●●lin lost his place These purchast glory keeping their first grace A mighty Prince prepar'd Assuerus feasts And sent his Vassals to invite the guests And bid 'em forthwith to the banquet come They onely wanted to adorne his roome They all excuse one answers he hath bought A Farme and goes to see if 't be worth ought Another has bought Oxen and must know By tryall whether they be good or no The third 's a married man and for his life He cannot obtaine licence of his wife What 's to be done must all the Kates be spoyld This noble Prince and all his court'sie foyld No sure his servants goe to every street And take up all the passengers they meet Yet there is place he sends for the Rif-raf They come sit at his table drink eate laugh Such is God bounty he prepared feasts Adorn'd heavens Hall and onely wanted guests To fill the roomes of those rebellious Fiends Wherefore to Jews and Gentiles out he sends Many excuse themselves some pride of life Retard some hope of gaine others a Wife But who can crosse Gods efficacious will Guests are compel'd whether they wil or nil By congruous grace to come and fill the seats O' th trayterous Elves and feed on dainty meats The lame the feeble and the poore in spirit By grace of Christ advanc'd not their owne merit To Gods owne table eate Caelestiall Kates Where Angels minister and Jesus waites Of these in Heaven a countlesse multitude Inhabit not as the base vulgar rude But deeply learned having for their book Even God himselfe on whom they daily look And as they more or lesse relations see I th' sacred triad so they learned be And happy more or lesse and what them all Most firmly comforts they shall never fall From this beatitude some ages past This state of things shall end theirs ever last No sicknesse no diseases can come neare That happy Towne nor is there any feare That all consuming time or pensive cares Shall issue furrowing wrinckles or gray hayres Never sedition troubled this blest towne Since Lucifer that Boutifew fel downe And care is had that none shall enter in The gates de●il'd with leprousie of sin T is true there 's difference twixt the light of stars Yet cannot inequality breed jars No Saint repining at anothers share Though some more glorious then some others are All rest contented with their proper store Of grace and glory and require no more And 't were a madnesse any should repine The cheerfull Sun should on his fellow shine Or dropping Clouds with a fructiferous shower Upon his neighbours fields a blessing poure The selfe same mirrour bounteously reflects Upon a thousand severall mens aspects The aiery species nor is lesse your view Because a thousand sharers are with you God is this glorious planet this cleere glasse That cheers all shews all objects as they passe Though he cheer all though he be seen of many All this is done sans detriment of any And had there been millions of such worlds more Of saints and angels an innumerous store All had had heat all had as clearely seen Yet th' object never penetrated been As easily God giving life and forme To al as he doth to the silliest worme And though to some his bounties ampler be Yet even in this we shal Deco●um see As a●chitects who reare a house or wal When pondrous stones are fit apply not smal When smal proportion will not massie place For so the worke would want both art and grace Such is Gods City made of lively stones Spiritual Chrysolithes and Unions The Sardonix and sparkling Chrysoprase Beryllus Jasper Christaline like glasse All these rich Jems proportionably cut Are in that

such Cronicles you owe To Sacred Historyes how Ba●thasar And Nemroths Babylon surprized are And the Assyrian Monarchie cast downe The Medes and Persians share the Imperiall Crowne How Tomyris the warlicke S●ythian Queene Amidst her thickest Troopes in Armour seene Acts dire Revenge and having first made drunke The Persian Brigades drenches the cold trunck Of slaughtered Cyrus in a tub of gore Bidding him quaffe his fill who evermore Had thirsted blood how like the flashing fire Of angry Heaven when Heaven and Earth conspire To raise a tempest Alexander flies And shewes the World his glorious Victories How by death conquered he who conquer'd all Must in the midst of all his Trophies fall Many great Homers Alexanders Vow Inrich you with such Histories and how Caesar amidst and by perfidious friends I' th Capitall his life not glory ends The sad disasters of these Monarchies With the addition of ten thousand lyes Of the Assyrian Greek Odrysian Lords Innumerous Stories numberlesse Records Speak amply many Birds first reassume Onely their proper Feathers then unplume The Roman Eagle till great Mahomet As he did Constantines Bizantium get Wrung off one neck and in that Empire plac'd The beauty of our Towring Bird defac'd But of the reall grounds why these States fall Why th' other rise no mention 's made at all Nor once remembred what condition they Be of who are chiefe Actors in this Play Of blood and death where a Muse buskind sings With teares the Fates of Common-wealths and Kings The Gentile Sages by experience see But know not whence proceeds our Miserie They never know with what industrious Arts The Devils in our Drames act chiefest parts Why Man doth with the Spiders Cobwebs spin And one net wrought unsatisfied begin A fresher web why with the Ante take paines With such sollicitude for sordid gaines Why thrust the Badger with the Foxes slight Out his owne Hole why with the Lyons might Invade the weaker why made Lord of all The Universe does he degenerate fall So low beneath himselfe and far inferiour In sence to many Beasts to all superiour In brutish qualities exceeds the Hog In drunkennesse more sawning then the Dog When profit shall accrue in rage outgoes The Hircanian Tygres when assayl'd by foes Shee saves her young ones and with teeth and nayles Against a world of combatants prevailes Prouder then the Horse when in his bravery He shall attract every beholde● eye To marke him onely as with stately grace Through the streets richly hanged he shall pace As here the Gentiles all are silent wee Should sit amaz'd and with them silent be Wholy transformed knowing our God all good Dispute how with such bounty it hath stood To suffer his chiefe creature Man to fall In such disorders and permit in all So generall a confusion when behold Onely our writs the Origen unsold Of all these mischeifes taught by them wee le speake The causes and through many ages breake Boldly our passage ope beginning long Before the Universe began a Song To the right Honorable John Paulet Marquesse of Winchester the Lady Honoria The best Example of her Sex His Marchiones and the Honorable Walter Mountague Sermo Quintus The Argument What round Angels a transcendent pride Or envy Because Man was Deifide Proud Lucifer turn'd Traytor animates His fellow Angels to be associates In the Rebellion Michael with the bands Of Loyall Subjects for GODS title stands The Traytors lose the day Grace glories Crowne They might have 〈◊〉 toth' depth● of Hell cast downe THe Devill nere was glutton never soild With amorous embraces never foild with drink no purser by the high way side Never for Murder at the Sessions tride Nor could ●e faile so such concupiscence Following corporeall faculties and sense Yet has he perpetrated all these crimes By proxie above a hundred thousand times How fell the Devill then how lost his place And share 'o th Deity Coelestiall grace How did the searcher of all intrailes finde Iniquity in so sublime a minde What horrid act hath his eversion wrought Ruine on him on Us destruction brought For he having limp● himselfe made Adam halt Whence issued our hereditary fault Was Lucifer a Peacock when he spide His specious plumes with a selfe-pleasing pride Tooke he fond complacence in gifts bestowde And with those gifts rebeld against his God Who gave 'em did he glorying in his state Aspire to be with God coequall Mate With soaring wings why would he northward flye And independant be as the most high Or did not envy raigne that God should sleight The Angelike Essence and himselfe unite To our weak substance by a wondrous tye Including in one Man the Deity And humane Nature this makes Traytors rise In armes 'gainst their Creator envies eyes Are so malignant that anothers good Like daggers strikes toth' heart and fetches blood What quoth th' aspiring Angell shall this slime o th earth this worme in plenitude of tyme Grac'd with the union Hypostaticall Be Deified have Empire overall Must Angels so accomplished with grace In Entity so perfect give him place Be slaves and as obsequious Vassals stand To know then execute what hee le command If God cannot his bounties better share Wee le learne him Order teach him who we are If needs he will his gifts and selfe diffuse In Donatives let him election use Wherefore you Legions ayde me and wee le make This partiall God recall his purpose take Ou● Nature where you all shall sharers ●e And fellowes with me in the Deity As in a Leguer where distracted mindes Revolt against their Generall Treason findes New complices to act a d●irie plot So now seditious Lucifer ha's got Whole multitudes to second what he saith As Impious Angels violate their faith Turne to a Creature their chiefe leader and Amazed at his eminencies stand For Lucifer had such similitude With God that he next him was the first good No Cedar in Mount Libanus so tall No Beech as hee he far surmounted all Great his indowments specious were his raies And he stild justly First of all Gods wayes Allured with such parts the inferiour stars Forsake their stations denounce open Wars Against their Maker Now the signal 's given Of a great battaile to be fought in Heaven For Michael and his friends oppose themselves In Squadrons rangde against the haughty Elves The loyalty of Subjects now is tryde As they take part on Michaels and Gods side Who stands impartiall a spectator by To see these Combatants for maistery try No party brought to th' field or swords or bils But serious alterations of their Wils Neither did they with a Stenthrean voice On any part plead rights but without noice Ioyn'd the Batalia's No loud ●lamots there Let the left Wing advance bring up the Rere But what they would have either friend or foe Should understand their Wils did make 'em know Yet Drums and Trumpets were the harmonious Spheres Still ecchoing terror in