were within thy fault at first Chain'd to thy Act and in thy folly nurst What may we thinke of that ambitious Pope Which dar'd to scoffe vnder heauens glorious Cope Against that God that in his sacred frowne Turns vp his heeles and hurles his pride soone downe When hauing mist a simple childish toy A Peacocke bird which seem'd his onely ioy Distempered much began in heate to chide That few men could his holy presence bide And afterward asham'd of what was past To shew his choller not long time did last Excusde himselfe that he might angry be As well for that as was the Trinitie When discontented for an Apple lost Both Eue and Adam to their paine and cost From Paradise were thrust quite out and beaten And much disgrac't for one poore Apple eaten Now tell me Rome that thinkst thy selfe the minion Christs onely Vicar in thine owne opinion And shouldst his sheepe still to this day haue fed Where was thy Church when Iulius was thy head Thy Papacy I may not here dispute As yet my tongue must of that thing be mute And backe to Adam whence I last digrest Too fortunate my Muse had beene and blest Had it but sung thy first estate and all And neuer knowne the horror of thy fall A greater loue on man was neuer showne Nor on the earth as yet was euer knowne Then all the world to be at thy command Still to this day to serue thy turne and stand All that againe for this he did require To keepe the Garden that was his desire At other times to his immortall fame That thou shouldst praise his glorious holy Name Here was thy calling Adam naught beside His owne example must thy actions guide Sixe dayes to worke to till that holy ground And in the seuenth thy Makers prayses sound For as at first thou wast a body framde So time and place himselfe he hath ordainde Design'd appointed for his seruice pure Not for a day but euer to endure By this thou know'st that he thy person blest To giue thee then his holy sacred Rest And sanctifie the Sabaoth to thy good Aye to be kept in all thy future blood Those that refuse to keepe his Sabaoth holy Gods owne example may conuince of folly But soft I heare some Laodicean make Reu. 3. sinon inuenter of the horse of Troy Euen Sinon like the ground of all to shake To stay my pen with such a question strange As first from Rome now ore the world doth range How God could Rest which neuer wrought as yet For he that workes his labour must be great To frame a matter of so huge a worth As is the Fabrike of the spatious Earth The Sea and Heauens the Firmaments and all Which euer yet within thy sight could fall Oh righteous God that sinfull man should make Within his mouth thy holy word to take And by the same thy sacred actions taxe To wring them now like to a Nose of Waxe simile Too make a doubt and question of that Rest Which to the world for euer thou hast blest T is true I know when God first fram'd the world The waters all within their limits curl'd The firmaments and euery liuing thing Out from the dust he then did Adam bring Made him a man a demi-God in byrth Plac't him his Vice-roy here vpon the earth And by his power all sacred and diuine So fram'd the world as if he had wrought by line Set all in order working in their time Like to the wheeles within a clocke or chime To serue the turne of Adam and his race And all these made but full in sixe dayes space Then did he rest and sate him downe to view And to the heauens vp againe he flew And from the worke which by his word he wrought In sixe dayes space and seeing none was nought But from creating any further matter He onely ceast and least the same might scatter And so returne to what it was at first His prouidence his works hath euer nurst Aye by his power his wisedome and his might The heauens and earth are gouerned aright He worketh still preseruing what was made Far more then can by any man be sayd His armes supporting all this weighty ball Else would the same dissolue againe and fall O God thy Rest hath euer bin admired Seene of thy Saints and of my soule desired The Pagan people to this day that slept In ignorance haue yet a Sabaoth kept Exod. 16. 23. 26. Num. 15. 32. Eze. 20. 13. 20. 24. The Iew at first with Manna wondrous fed His Sabaoth kept by thy example led Though now in error great he snores and sleeps The Saterday his Sabaoth still he keepes No Christian state is so vnciuill rude But keeps thy Rest as thou hast him endude With grace and goodnesse from the Prince of peace The Sunday he from all worlds works doth cease Lead thereunto by that all rising Son On Easter day that rose againe and won The eternall crowne in Paradise first lost A bloody prize to his great paine and cost Besides the examples of thy deerest Saints Thine institution and the holy plaints Of all th' Apostles famous men and Martyrs In all the world within her vtmost quarters Which euer vsde to preach thy word and pray And sanctifie the sacred Sabaoth day The Ethiopian least he should offend To breake thy Rest in superstition pend The Saterday and Sunday both he keeps And in those dayes he often prayes and weeps That thou wouldst pardon all his former sins There is his Rest his happinesse begins In childish toyes in gaming sports and playes He spends small time but keeps his Sabaoths dayes Their royall Queene which came so many miles With cunning questions witty speeches wiles 1. Kin. 10. 1. to the 11. 2. Chr. 9. 1. To tempt to heare and see the courtly guise The wit and words of Solomon the wise May rise in iudgement at that dradfull hower When Christ may also on our faces lower That more respect our pleasures worke and play Then him to serue vpon his sacred day What shall we thinke when Christ the Lord of life Luk. 11. 31. Which shed his bloud to end our mortall strife Shall speake these words out of his holy lips And not a word as yet that euer slips But still hath beene most weighty powerfull round One iot thereof hath neuer fell to th'ground When he himselfe shall thus picke out their Prince To warne vs all our follyes to conuince May we not thinke aswell he meant her land Now at this day as it is knowne to stand Shall like wise rise at his last trumpe and call To staine our liues and shame our actions all Father of Lights which dwellest in a Light That farre exceeds our Owely bleared sight What will become of all our learned wit When Iesus Christ at thy right hand shall sit To make our peace and step twixt thee and vs And we in Vice to run our
Christian City chast R Iohnson Within the Duke of Sauoyes country plast Whose people wise religious sober true Not giuen to wine with drunken Bacchus crue Nor to those foule abuses which abounds Within our land and ore the earth now sounds But euer beene of ciuill chast behauiour Neate in attire and of a comely fauour Soe decent in the actions which they wrought That euery man which saw their citty thought Ierusalem before it was abated Had beene deuinely to that place translated And yet these men which haue the rest outstript In one thing still themselues haue ouerslipt Vpon Gods rest his sacred Sabbaoth Day To shoote in Guns about the fields and play Vntill a custome in a lawfull pleasure Vpon that day grew far beyond all measure So that their Churchmen reuerent Preachers graue Let them alone carelesse their soules to saue But God aboue to shew his anger iust Vpon these people for their lawlesse lust In violating of his sacred rest A fury sent their country to moiest Fierce horrid warre now thunders on their land The Pope the Spaniard and the French King stand All link't alike to vndermine her wall Expecting thus a conquest by her fall Alas Geneua how art thou beset With three such foes as in Europa yèt Were neuer knowne so strongly to combine To sack a towne extracted from their line What can thy shooting in those Guns auaile If God for sakes thee how thy foes preuaile Weakens thy strength abateth much thy store Mewes vp thy Campe and makes thee extreame poore Ransackes thy Country all thy land belurches And brings thee now to be relieu'd in Churches These eyes of ours haue seene the worst and best And iudgement past for breaking of his rest That Antechrist which in the scriptures pure Is propheci'd to come amongst vs sure Began to shew his cursed face on earth Sixe hundred yeeres after the glorious birth Of that sweete Babe the Man God Christ and King Which came on earth our soules to Heauen to bring By the Alcoran on his Sabbaoth day Discardeth quite all gaming sports and play Denounceth Iudgement on the heads of all Which on that day in those offences fall And brands the Diuell an actor in all games Voyd of Religion yet such sports he blames As good for litle but to sweare and cup Fit Instruments to bring new quarrels vp The parrable of Christ vpon the earth Is of such weight and glorious heauenly worth Mat 13 3. to 44. Which by the sea to multitudes he spake What liuing man but at the same must wake To see how God like to a husbandman Works vp his ground as well as e're he can Winnowes the seede and sifteth euery graine In hope at haruest by the same to gaine But that the Diuelli'th instant followes hard Whose cursed seede the goodly field hath mard Throwes round about as much as in him dares In euery place to sowe his wicked tares How can we thinke to scape Gods Iudgementiust Fond men alas that are but earthly dust Weake silly wormes when he shall on vs lowre Then are we but a Winters withered flowre That such conceits within our hearts should lurke To tempt his loue examine thus his worke And what himselfe from heauen aboue hath taught To sleight it ore and hold it idle naught Although most true in Paradise at first His owne example hath the Sabaoth nurst The Patriarcks and all the holy men Before the law obseru'd their Restas then And his command to keepe vs more from sinning Hath a Memento in the first beginning The heathen men euen from the worst to best In euery age still kept a seemely Rest And all the Saints Apostles men and Martyrs Throughout the world in all her vtmost quarters The generall counsells learned fathers graue Those God aboue elected hath to saue The greatest Kings and noblest personages Throughout the world in all her former ages The fearefull iudgements on that holy Land Which he did plant against all foes to stand The Lord of life Christ Iesus on the earth Then all before we prize him better worth Ordain'd himselfe our Rest vpon this day To come to Church to heare the Word and pray Yet we contemne and not respect the least But others leade to breake the Sabaoths rest Grant heauenly God that euer more my heart May vpright be and from thee neuer start But that my soule the purest of my thought May be with loue like to an Anuill wrought To make a conscience of thy sacred day To reade thy word within the Church to pray That all my life vntill my glasse be run Be not offensiue to thy deerest Son Which sits triumphant farre aboue the skies Grant that I may behold him with mine eyes And when I shall appeare before thy face Then may I find thy mercy goodnes grace And not thy Iustice for offenses past But let thy Loue be euer on me cast Euen in the day that some men dreame of least Place him betwixr vs giue my soule her Rest And yet great God thou hast not so restraind Our liberty but that thou hast ordaind 1 Cor. 10. 31. 1. Pet 4. 11. At vacant times from serious meditations To ease our selues in honest recreations Such that all others to no vice allure Nor in our minds shall adde a thought impure But that our sports our actions and our playes May prayse thy name the Rest of all our dayes The Puritant he is againe as nice As these vnciuill in their clamorous vice 1. Cor. 6. 12. 2. Cor. 3. 13. 17 Gal. 3. 11. Gal. 2. 14. 16. 17. That all the weeke with superstition fed To good conceits of others scarce are led Adopted sons elected brethren wise To thinke all damn'd beside their sect precise Pure hypocrite vnder a formall cloke That on Gods Rest must draw the Iewish yoke And walke to Church as if his steps he told To make no fire but sup his broath vp cold And many things which if I here should tell I might too long vpon the matter dwell But whither is my Muse transported now Beyond her compasse farre away and how Comes it to passe that she hath rambled thus About the earth these questions to discusse In euery Age her sacred holy Rimes To walke along descending to our times And taxe the world of vnbeseeming playes To reprehend the abuses of these dayes And all this while is Adam still alone In Paradise and company hath none Vnlesse somtimes God comes himselfe and sallies Before his eyes within those pleasant Allies Simile Then is he glad his heart doth leape for ioy He runs and skips much like a little boy That goes to schoole al weary at his booke Is glad to peeke in euery bush and looke With those his fellowes for some bird or nest Their company his mind still pleaseth best So art thou Adam when thou art all alone Then dost thou grieue complaine and make thy mone Vnto the Earth the Aire the
course on thus To anger thee so good and iust a God Not once afrayd of thy reuenging Rod But in the day that thou didst early rise Of death and hell to get th' immortall prize In which we were partakers of thy blood And body both vnto our soueraigne good And when we should repent vs of our sins By true contrition which thy mercy wins Engrafted made the members of that head Whose precious bloud our soules but then hath fed Relieue the poore examine well our fall In meditation spend the day and all And when we should thy sacred prayses sing To make thy people all the while to ring Whilst we at Bowles shall sometimes curse and fret And all for threepence which we cannot get And shall maintaine our sinfull deedes in Churches And run our selues to gather vp the Lurches Those that behold vs with repentant eyes We call them fooles and Puritants precise And when the best our companie do shun Home to their house we send for them and run Pardon vs Lord forgiue our great misdeedes Cull out thy Wheate and pluck out all the weedes Which wrong thy people by their ill example The truth neglectin vgly vice to trample Though our Religion we may seeme to halue Like to the Iewes which made the golden calue simile Exod. 32. 4. 5 6 10. In Aarons time and on their holy day Did eate and drinke and rose againe to play If these men by their rude vnciuill sport Thy Maiesty did anger in such sort That had not Moses knowing of their fall In zeale besought them they had perish't all His great desire thy fury could not stay But that three thousand fell within one day Their guerdon iust no liuing man can tell But very like they had gone downe to hell All quick aliue amongst the damned bad The punishment which after Korah had Num. 16. 32. We see alas both grace and goodnesse lurkes scal li. 5. Within the hearts of fierce and crewell Turkes Of Sarazens and Pagan people rude Which with thy truth were neuer yet indude Before such time as their seducer nurst By Sergius helpe most dangerously at first A banefull poyson to infect their bloud O'reflowes the earth much like to Noahs floud Yet these alone by thy example led Or by the light of Nature in them bred Haue euer kept the Fryday in that worth Long time before the most vntimely birth Of Mahomet that Antechrist indeede Who found it so and left it to their seede Besides a world of other people more That heere I could produce in ample store Which euer kept a holy resting day Abstayning then from all rude workes and play The Indian people haue a rest alow'd Ind. Hist gasp Balb. guin dis 〈◊〉 â—d â—cot And those of Iaua that to Idols bowd The Negro black and rich Peguan left Haue each of them a seuerall Sabaoth kept The sacred Sibils with their frantike mother Haue still prefer'd one day before another We haue great God that which these neuer knew Thine owne example and the scriptures true Thy all diuine and holy morrall law Ex. 20. 8 9. 10 Cha. 31. 14 15 Cha. 34. 1. 21. Which these as yet haue neuer heard or saw Ingrost in Sinah writ twice by thy hand To shew the same for euermore should stand Both in the Law and in the Gospells light To come to Church and praise thy name aright Els how should we thy glorious worth extoll But like to Swine liue all at home and loll And neuer thinke how thou at first didst take A little earth and so our bodyes make Our soules infuse in Paradise vs plaste Till for our sins we soone from thence were cast ' Gau'st vs this world Christ Iesus sent besides Which wrought our life out from his bleeding sides But soft I heere that some vpon this clause Haue ventur'd farre to abbrogate the lawes The holy rest a Iewish Sabaoth call Haue vs liue free tide to no law at all But then alas what would become of vs That sift Gods actions tempt his highnesse thus Of all the lawes that to the Iewes he gaue But ten of them in all the world we haue And those reduc'st for feare they may be lost May be compil'd but into two at most These farre more weighty ponderous then the rest Were by his glorious sacred mouth exprest And Christ himselfe that death and hell did tame Hath not abolish't but confirm'd the same Else what meant he when oftentimes he said The heauens and earth the sea and all shall fade Before such time that Gods eternall Word One iot or tittle shall thereof be stird Did this his coming breede a doubt and flaw Still to destroy and not fullfill the law Haue not the Prophets told long since before Of this our Sabaoth which we now adore T is true that some euen in our christian Law Which haue the arts and learned Muses saw Yet haue alledg'd as their assertion Vpon this place anticipation Affirming Moses when those words were writ In Genesis and still are extant yet Gen. 2. 3. Then knew the rest and Sabaoth of the Iewes But this to me seemes rather vncouth newes For can we thinke that Moses did intend When first of all that Genesis was pend These should forgoe and be incerted best As an introduction to the Sabaoths rest That the command cannot be firme and strong Vnlesse these words did guide it all along Vpon this place still trained vp and nurst As grounding it on Gods example first What can they say to all the ancient men The Patriarkes and holy fathers then Before the law which liued long and blest Yet euer kept a sacred seemely rest To serue their God to giue him thanks and pray That late preseru'd them from that lowring day In which the world and all therein was found Besides the Arke were washt away and droun'd And to the Iewes that were with Manna fed Ouer the mountaines forty yeeres were led Which in the Arabian vasty desarts weare Tipe of our Church that God himselfe did reare Out of affliction hunger heate and cold O're hils and dales and highest mountaines rold Vntill at length with wandring hither thither Like sheepe dispearst fould all at last together When oft they murmur'd much repin'd and grieu'd Vntill their God their bodies had releeu'd By sending Quailes more thick then any haile Vpon their fields quite ouer hill and dale And showring downe a pearely dew at neede In shew much like to Coriander seede Sixe dayes together did this Manna fall And in the seauenth was sent them none at all But in the day before the Sabaoths Rest Full twice so much as other dayes at least They gathred vp and till the morrow kept In which they eat and prayd to God and wept To pardon those which on that sacred day Durst seeke the fields to finde the same and play But yet admit the holy Law be past And that in Christ the same