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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53475	Poems on most of the festivals of the church composed by the Right Honourable Roger, Earl of Orrery.	Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679.	1681 (1681)	Wing O495; ESTC R22207	38,091	90

stately Church Erect On the Day of St. Io●n the Apostle HAil Great Apostle who so happy prov'd As to be call'd th' Apostle IESUS Lov'd A Name which does to thee more Glory bring Then wer 't Thou stil'd the Vniversall King Who well can think Linus and Cletus were Who next to Blessed Peter fill'd Romes C●air The onely Heads Christ to His Church did give While ●hou who on ●is Bosome Dw●llst didst Live Thou on whose Head while Thousands did Admire The Spirit did sitt in Cloven Tongues of Fire Thou whom that Spirit did Inspire to write The Loftiest Gospell which it did Indite Thou whose blest Tongue by God himself was Chose That Book to Dictate which His Word did Close Thou to whom Christ while yeilding vp the Ghost Gave Gifts the Like of which none Else could boast Hee left His Blessed Mother to Thy Care And by Adoption made Thee His Joint Heir None could whilst Thou on Earth mad'st Thy abod● Bee above ●hee who Brother wer 't to God Yet this great Truth must Contradicted bee Or it must Ruine Romes Supremacy Whose Sons alas with too much guilt maintain Onely Their Bishops o're Christs Church can Raigne God might to Thee so Long a Life Dispence That such Vsurping might have noe Pretence Tho Tyrants Thee to Patmos did Condemn Yet there Thou saw'st the New Ierusalem God shew'd Thee thence lest too Long Life might Cloy Those Glories which through Faith thou shouldst Enjoy Let none Admire since Christ Lov'd Thee so well That Hee so Long left Thee on Earth to Dwell For since to serve Him here Hee did Decree To do His will on Earth was Heav'n to Thee Thus Angells tho from God They take their Flight Yet finde in Their Obedience Their Delight Thou onely of Thy Blest Society Christ did permit a Naturall Death to Dye Mans Fury did the Rest to Death Decree But Age it self to God presented Thee Which proves All Those as sure to beav'n shall Climbe Who Dye in Christ as those who Dy For Him Many might else from His Blest Doctrine Fly I● all who taught it had been Doom'd to Dy. Which sinfull Fear that All men might Decline God who Their Lives did shorten Lengthen'd Thine On the Day of St. Matthias THE APOSTLE VVHen Cursed Iudas the sad Breach had made By having both His Lord and Soul Betray'd Peter by Scripture Lets th' Apostles See They were Impowr'd to fill the Vacancie Which to effect They Invocated Heaven And Lots did Cast the Spirit not been given Our Saint and Ius●us were the Blessed Pair Of which One should by Lot fill Iudas Chair Hail Glorious Saint who to the Honour got Of the Apostleship by Sacred Lot Thy Blessed self wer't both the first and Last Whom God that way in that High Office Plac'd And what the Lot Declar'd the Holy Ghost Confirm'd on the great Day of Pentecost For then the Spirit vnto Thee was given As God bestow'd it on the Blest Eleven Tho Iustus ●ist of that Supream Degree For which Hee then stood Candidate with Thee Yet to the Second Christ did Him admitt Since For the First th' Apostles Judg'd Him Fitt Hee knew their Prayr's th'vnerring Lot did guide And it was God did the great Doubt decide To which Hee did Submitt without Appeal And what it gave a Miracle did Seale By which the Churches Priesthood God made known Shall be continued by Election That Sacred Office which so Long did shine In Levi's Tribe and in High Aarons Line Now was by Gods Decree to yeild the Place To the more Glorious Ministry of Grace None therefore to th' Apostolate e're gott Of Levi's house either By Choice or Lott Christ Calling none to it of Aarons Line Declar'd Hee did that Priesthoods End Designe After Our Saint was with the Spirit Blest His Soul Allow'd his Body little Rest Through many Regions Hee the Gospell spread And Those reviv'd who in their Sins were Dead Authors in Various Narratives abound Where t was that Hee with Martyrdome was Crown'd In Ancient Martyrologies wee Read The Jews first Ston'd Him then Cutt off his Head But if Greek Offices may bee beleev'd Hee on a Cross his Martyrdome Receiv'd Hellen the mother of Great Constantine In whom Exalted Piety did Shine The Relicks of Our Saint did so Esteem That she remov'd them from Ierusalem And at new Rome much Time and Treasure spent In giving them a Second Monument From thence as Old Church Histories have said His bones to other Cityes were Convay'd And even to our Times Triers and Rome Contest in which of Them they have their Tombe Since of His Dust so much Esteem is had Much Greater to his Doctrine should bee pai'd On the Day of St Mark THE EVANGELIST HAil Great Evangelist whose Sacred Pen Inspir'd by God has taught His wayes to Men Before Hee did Receive His saveing Call Into what sad Back-slideing did Hee Fall Great Epiphanius has expresly showne Tha● of the Guilty number he was One Who when they Literally vnderstood They were to Eat Christs Flesh and Drink His B●ood Th' Amaze●ng Doctrine They di● so Abhorr That They withdrew and walk'd with Him no more Yet the like words mistaken are b●come And made an Article of Faith by Rome Averroes pray'd H●aring such Doctrine prest His Soul with the Philosophers might Rest. Heathens have no beleif so wild and Odd As both to Worship and to Eat their God But Peter did to Mark the Truth Dispence And shew'd the words had a Spirituall Sence His Faith thus Fix'd He ne're again did Fall But was to Peter what Luke was to Paul And after Hee His Convert was become Hee did Attend Him when He went to Rome The Earliest Writers diff●r where and when The World did ow the Gospell to his Pen. Which Peter did Review and then Decreed It should bee in Divine Assemblies R●ad Papias and Eusebius Declare 'T was writt at Rome and at His C●nverts Pray'r But the Ve●etians will not this Ad●itt They say It was at Aq●ilej● writt And that the Greek Originall's with Them VV●ich They of A●l t●eir ●reasures m●●t E●teem Blest Peter who at Rome was in Restraint Egypt to Free Thither employ'd our Saint True Gospell Charity in this VVee see ●hile him they b●●d ●ee does sett others Free Free from worse Chaines then Tyrants make vs bear 〈…〉 are than Nero's heavyer Nile to her People ne're such blessi●gs brought As They enjoy'd by the Blest Faith he taught Fair Alexandria was the Happy place Which with His Doctrine Hee did oftn●st Grace By which m●re Fam'd by much it did become Then for its b●ing Alexanders Tombe Or for those Pyrami●s to which were given More heighth then to that Tower which threa●end Heav'n Or to those mountaines which by Gyants paines Were Raisd to Scale the Skies from Phlegra 's P●aines Yet Hee his Mitre did not there Confi●e

Churches Representative They had in Truth what Others had in Boast Th' Vnnerring Guidance of the Holy Ghost They in plain words did their Decrees Impart Others cloud Theirs with Sophistry and Art None were with Their Anathemas Opprest Since such as have most Right will Threaten Lest The Lawfull Shepherds most the Flocks will spare And True Kings milder then Vsurpers are Who but St. Paul could have been fittest thought The Convert-Antioch Gentiles to have Taught For Hee the Gentiles great Apostle was And His Resolves might well for Canons pass Yet Him They to Ierusalem will send The Circumcision Difference to End Yet Hee does not to Peter only goe But to th' Apostles All and Elders too And those Fam'd Canons which they then did Frame In their Joint Title Bore the Breth'rens Name To shew that what to All had been Decreed The Clergy and the Laity Agreed Tho to Record that Pattern God j●dg'd Fitt Yet How Few Councills since have Follow'd it Yet in the Canons which at Nice were Sign'd Both Constantine and His Blest Mother ●oyn'd But worthy 't is to be Observ'd that there No Pope nor Legates for Him did appear Thy Pen does Magus Gnosticks best Confute And proves Faith is the Tree h●t works the Fruite Thy Blest Epistle cutts off all Deba●e And does vnite what they did Separate To Faith Good works the Brightest Lustre gives And is the Highest Godlike Proofe it Lives Thy Life with Acts of Charity was Fraught Thou most didst Practice what thy Sermons taught Which tho it mett among the Good with Praise Yet in the Pharisees did Envy Raise Envy which where it Raignes All Good Controules Envy the Hurry-cane of Humane ●Soules Some of that Sect with Faigned Joy declare That By his Preaching They his Converts were And therefore beg'd that All the P●ople might At once be brought from Darkness into Light Which to Effect They Him with Rev'rence bring Into an Heighth above the Temples wi●g And vnder it great Crouds of men Appear As if they came Christs Laws from Him to 〈◊〉 But when the Sacred Faith He did D●spence They in a Fury threw Him headlong the●ce To his Blest Life a VVond'rous End was giv'n Since from that Fall God Rais'd his Soul to Heav●● Then that great Truth was Evidenc'd in Him To Fall for Christ is the sure way to Climb His Foes worst malice made Him to Lay down A Fading Mitre for a Deathless Crown On the Day of St Iames the Apostle Sirnamed the GREAT HAil Sacred Iames in Graces so Compleat That the whole Church gave Thee the stile of ●reat Yet till in Him the Spirit did Reside H●e felt the Stormes of Dire Rev●nge and Pride So much did Passion Him and Iohn Inflame That Christ did Both the Sons of Thunder Name They in Their Mothers Proud Suite did Partake And twixt th' Apostles the First s●rife did make When a Samarian Village did Refuse To Lodge Him and the Rest Since They were Iews Had His Pow'r Equall been to His Desire Hee had Like Sodome Rui●'d it with Fire Such darken'd Frailty does to men Belong Till Grace Enlightens Them and makes them Strong He Could not See till Christ the Vaile did Draw How mild the Gospell is above the Law These Crimes the Sacred Scripture does Relate After His Call to the Apostolate To shew That in the Church the Loftiest Place Will not Restrain Since nothing can but Grace But Christ who what He would bee did Foreknow Since Hee who makes vs doe Knows what wee 'll Doe And who did Goodnes more then Kinred Rate Did Choose Him one of his Triumvirate While Those who nearer were to Him Ally'd To share in that vast Honor were Deny'd But He and Iohn IESU'S First call o●ey'd Leaving their Home Their Father and Their Tra●e Which proves Those are vnworthy of Christs Call Who to obey it will not give vp all Peter and these great Brothers were made Blest With Favours not Extended to the Rest. T was These Three only Iesus with Him Lead When He Rais'd Ia●rus Daughter from the Dead These on Mount Tabor saw the Glorious Three The Greatest sight next to the Trinity And onely They the Griev'd Spectators stood VVhen on the Mount Hee sweat great Drops of Blood After Our Lords Ascention first of All Hee taught the Iews disperst at Stephens Fall Then spread the Faith if Elder Times say True In our Great Britain and this Island too Blest Patrick whom this Isle her Saint has made Did build on that Foundation which Hee Lay'd But of this Saint Romes Soas such Fables write As Darkned what They meant to make more Bright Divers are Loth that Holiness to Prize VVhich men attempt to magnify by Lyes Since but too many as it oft does Fall For some vntruths Suspect the Truth of All. But VVee the Legends Fiction cast away And to His Pious Life Due Rev'rence Pay VVhen in the west Saint Iames much time had spent Back to Ierusalem again he went Herod Agrippa by Decree of Rome To the I●daick Empire being Come That Sla●●sh Fawning to His Countr●y brought VVhich Hee vnder Caligula was Taught Tho Hee in the Iews Paths did stric●ly Tr●ad Yet Hee Romes Emperour a God Decreed By this the Tyrant Hee did hope to gain And then to wash off that Blasphemous Stain The C●ristian Church Hee did with Fury wast And Our Apostle into Prison Cast. The Iews extolling ●his Hee did proceed And his Sin Finish'd Cutting off his Head How Frantick are th' Idolators of Fame Who fell their Soules in hope to buy a Name At our Saints Death such Charming Truths Hee said That Hee his Keeper a Blest Martyr made Nothing can to the Spirit give Restraint One moment turn'd a Goaler to a Saint Of All th' Illustrious Twelue the Sacred Word Does only Our Saints Martyrdome Record Angells to Heav'n His Blessed Spirit Bear And then an Angell struck His Murt●erer Cesarea saw Him whom They did Admire And call a God vnder Gods wrath expire But All Spaines Empire Judge that They are Blest Thinking His Bones at Compostella Rest. On the Day of St. Bartholomen THE APOSTLE HAil Glorious Saint whose Lofty Lineage Springs As divers Ancients wri●e from Syrian Ki●gs But hadst Thou been the Sove'rign of the Earth Yet had Thy Office far Excell'd Thy Birth Thy Birth could give Thee but a Temporall Throne Thy Office gave Thee an Eternall One. The Holy Scriptures somethings does R●late Of all those call'd to the Apostolate Only of our blest Saint the Sacred Word Does but his Office and his Name Record Which made some Writers and of no small Fame Think Him and blest Nathaneel were the Same Tho the best Bishop which in Hippo Sate Denies His Call to the Apostolate But our great Church Historians Clearly show How