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A31568	A sacred poem wherein the birth, miracles, death, resurrection, and ascension of the most holy Jesus are delineated ... : also eighteen of David's psalms, with the Book of Lamentations paraphras'd, together with poems on several occasions / by James Chamberlaine.	Chamberlaine, James, Sir, d. 1699.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1817; ESTC R34419	74,873	219

that thou shalt conceive She who is barren call'd Elizabeth Is now with Child To Zach'ry I brought down The joyful Message of a wisht-for Son Six Months with Child she 's gone with God there 's nought How strange soe're but he can bring 't about The Conception it self Behold said she the Handmaid of the Lord Be it to me according to thy Word For ever Lord thy Glorious Name be prais'd Who from a low and abject State hast rais'd And in renown exalted me above The rest of Women by this mark of Love Mary's saluting Elizabeth No sooner Gabriel had his Message done But back he flew to Heaven's Glorious Throne Up from her bended Knees the Virgin rose And straightway went to Zacharia's house Within Judeas hilly Country where She found her Cousin and saluted her The welcome Greeting did no sooner sound Within her Ears but she the Infant found To leap within her Womb and straight her Breast With a Prophetick Spirit was possest And thus she spake Elizabeth's Exclamation Blessed art thou most lovely Maid above The rest of Women in th' Almighty's Love Blessed for ever Blessed is that Son Of the Great God within thy Virgin Zone O what a joy is it for me to see The Mother of my Lord to visit me For loe mine ears no sooner heard thy Voice But in my Womb the Infant did rejoyce Blessed art thou because thou didst believe The Angels Message it shall never grieve Thee that thy Faith was so much wrought upon For e're nine Months thou shalt bring forth this Son Then Mary said Magnificat My Soul doth praise the Lord for evermore And Spirit joyes in God my Saviour For he regarded hath the low estate Of his poor Servant and hath made her great So great that Generations henceforth shall Respect my name and highly-Blessed call For he that mighty is great things hath done For me beyond imagination His Mercy is from Age to Age on them Who serve him blessed be his Glorious Name He with his Pow'rful Arm hath to the great And proud Designers given a Defeat He from their Seats the Mighty hath put down And rais'd the humble Soul unto a Crown He hath the needy with good things supply'd But to the proud his Mercies hath deny'd He in remembrance of his promise made To Abra'm and his Seed hath now made glad And holpen Isr'el for within my Womb There lies inclos'd the promis'd Seed to come S. John's Birth Well nigh three Months within her Cousins House Remain'd the lovely new betrothed Spouse Of Joseph till she plainly did perceive Her Womb contain'd him who the World should save Then she took leave and forthwith to her home Poor and despised Nazareth did come Some few days after of a lovely Boy Eliz'beth was deliver'd to the joy Of all her Neighbours her Relations were Glad when they heard how God a Son and Heir Had given to her and had Mercy shown Making her pregnant who was barren known On the Eighth Day they all together came To Circumcise and give the Child a Name The bloody Act perform'd they voted all Him by the name of Zachary to call But when the Mother heard how they her Son Had Zachary nam'd she gave the name of John They told her none of her Relations were Call'd by that Name as ever they could hear Unto the Father they made signs to know How he would have him call'd 't should be so He made them signs to have a Book which brought Within it John unto their wonder wrote Which having done his Tongue immediately From its restraint was set at liberty And in most thankful manner the first thing Was the Almighty's praise which he did sing When they heard this who round about did dwell A reverential fear upon them fell Believing all this Child in time would prove Some mighty man whom Heaven so did love Who in the Womb and ever since hath been By God so favour'd as was never seen Old Zacharias who was musing on What Gabriel said of his and Mary's Son A sacred flame arose within his Breast And thus divinely sung the inspir'd Priest Benedictus Blest be the God of Isra'l and esteem'd Who hath his People visited and Redeem'd And rais'd within his servant Davids house A mighty King and Saviour unto us As by his holy Prophets mouths he spake Which have been since he the vast World did make That we should be delivered from all those Who are our secret or our open Foes To keep his mercy which he promised To our Fore-fathers and their num'rous Seed The Oath he swore to Abraham on this wife That he would free us from our Enemies That we securely may devote our days To do his Will and sing his worthy praise And thou my Child of the most High I know Shalt be a mighty Prophet thou shalt go Before the Christ t' instruct the World how they May him imbrace and all his Laws obey To teach them how when they have evil done Through him they may obtain Remission All through the mercy of our God whereby Christ hath to us descended from on high To give them Light who do in Blindness sit Within the Vale of Death and guide our Feet Into the path of peace which pleasant way Will lead us all to joys which ne're decay Thus sung the aged Priest unto his joy In Spirit strong and stature grew the Boy John's Education Within the Mountains of Judea he Severely past his tender Infancy There he abode until the day wherein His Ministerial Function did begin Now in the forty fourth year of his Raign The great Augustus Caesar did ordain And strictly charge that all in every Town Within the Roman Empire should set down Their Names Fortunes in those Cities where Their Ancestors were born of whom they were When this first Taxing was by Caesar made Cyrenius for his Province Syria had To their respective Cities each one went To be enroll'd in Caesar's Government From Galilee out of Naz'reth Joseph came With Mary big with Child to Bethlehem Because they both of David's Princely Race Descended were who born was in that place It came to pass they were no sooner there But Mary found the happy time drew near Wherein she must her first born Son bring forth The Word by whom God made both Heav'n and Earth The Birth of Christ Within the Inn no room she could obtain Although she sought it o're and o're again Into the Stable she was forc'd to go Then on the ground her Knees did humbly bow And in the midst of glorious thoughts the Son Of the Most High brought forth without a groan In Swadling-Cloaths she wrapp'd her First-born Child And on the Straw she laid him in the Field Were Shepheards who by nightly turns did look Unto their innocent and wealthy Flock When lo an Angel from the glittering Throne Of the Almighty came and round them shone The daz'ling brightness of his presence made The watchful Shepheards

The joyful Mary came and did declare How she had seen the Lord and likewise what He did command but they believ'd her not When in the Ev'ning of that day they were Assembled with the Doors close shut for fear Of the malicious Jews in Jesus came They knew not how an●●●hers sa●uted them Peace be unto you when he had so said They trembling stood most terribly affraid Concluding that it could not Jesus be But a delusion which they t●ere did see Yet when he show'd his Hands and wounded Side Those Marks which he receiv'd when Crucify'd The Souls rejoyc'd and all with one accord Acknowledg'd him to be their Sov'raign Lord. He therefore to confirm their Faith begun T' expound the Scriptures which had long foreshown His cruel Death and Resurrection And by his Spirit made them plainly see The full import of ev'ry Prophecy And now farewell said he yet 'fore I go The same Commission I do give to you Which I receiv'd to plant a Church I came Do ye succeed me and compleat the same Be of good comfort to assist you here I 'le send you down the blessed Comforter But here attend ye till he doth come down Then did he go and breath on ev'ry one And by so doing did his Followers fit For that unerring guide the Holy Sp'rit Which at the Feast of Pentecost came down And sate like flaming-Fire on ev'ry one He gave the Keys of Heav'ns glorious Gate Into their Hands to Excommunicate The stubborn Sinner to absolve or bind They Power had as they just cause did find But Thomas called Dydimus the Twin Who was not with them when the Lord came in Now being come they up and told him how Jesus had with them been but even now But he declar'd unless his Eyes did see And Hands did touch his Wounds he 'd faithless be When his Disciples that day sev'nights were Met at their usual Place to joyn in Pray'r The Lord of Life the second time did come They knew not how into the close-shut Room Thomas said he since you will not believe Your Fellow-Servants that I am alive Except your Hands do touch and Eyes do see Those cruel Marks bestow'd on me Behold my Wounds thy Fingers thrust into This Side of mine and be not faithless now My Lord and God! said Thomas now I know And am convin'd the very God art thou Had'st thou before believ'd what thou hast seen Thy Faith said Jesus had then nobler been Than now it is my blessing I do give To them who see me not and yet believe His Ascension Full forty days th' Eternal Son of God After he rose again on Earth abode Teaching his Followers what they ought to do To make the World his Fathers Will to know And now just ready to ascend his Throne To take possession of his purchas'd Crown He went unto Mount Olivet with them Sev'n Furlongs distant from Jerusalem Upon whose lofty Brow with Hands lift high Unto the sacred Throne of Majesty He blessed them which having done a bright And shining Cloud convey'd him from their sight Up to the glorious Seat of Bliss where He Triumphant sits to all Eternity To the Eternal Three above Father Son and Spirit of Love By all the glorious Host in Heav'n And Men on Earth be Glory giv'n On Christ's Sufferings LOrd what is Man that thou from Bliss Where Love in full perfection is Should'st send thy Son thine only One To be contemn'd and spit upon To be the abject and the scorn Of ev'ry Villain to be torn With cruel Rods to be revil'd And live as 't were a live exil'd And after all this ignomy To hang on the accursed Tree That the eternal God above Should chuse this way to show his love To such as we who do return Instead of gratitude our scorn That he his only Son should send To suffer an inglorious end And make the Innocent to be An Offering for Impiety It raises wonder but 't was so Jesus did all this undergo Not by compulsion 't was his choice He suffer'd that we might rejoyce All this he did for to regain Lost Souls from an eternal pain And Jesus shall not we express Our thanks to thee for happiness Had'st thou not dy'd we had remain'd As Satans Victims ever chain'd No act of ours could e're have wrought That Reconcilement thou hast bought With thy dear Blood thou Heav'ns Rage Did'st fully with thy Death asswage Such obligations Lord should move Our stony-hearts to melt with Love And in the strictest duty bind To thee the Souls of all Man-kind CANTATE DOMINO CANTICVM NOVUM Praise the Lord up on the harp sing to the harp with a psalm of thanksgiving EIGHTEEN OF David's PSALMS PARAPHRAS'D By the same Hand LONDON Printed by R. E. for R. Bentley and M. Magnes in Russel-Street in Covent-Garden 1680. Eighteen of Davids Psalms Paraphras'd PSALM 22. MY God my God! Why am I left Helpless in my distress bereft Of that protection I have had Why are my Foes with Conquest clad I call and weep both day and night To thee my God to thee for right But O my Crys and Tears are vain There 's no redress no ease of pain All this shall not discourage me Since I do know thou just wilt be And true to ev'ry promise Thou Hast bound thy Self to me by Vow And though Thou let'st mine Enemys Insult and deaf art to my Crys Yet Lord thou holy art and still Deserv'st the praise of Israel Our Fathers they rely'd on thee Thou Lord wast their security When dangers did their Souls surround To thee they call'd and freedom found But I my Foes most deadly scorn With patience hitherto have born The vulgar and ignobler sort Do make my misery their sport In an insulting way they cry Let his Salvation now draw nigh He trusted in the Lord that he Would help him in adversity Let him stretch out his arm and save If either strength or pow'r he have But Lord their scorn and cruelty Shall not dismay or trouble me Since I have always found thine arm Able to rescue me from harm Since from the Womb I came alone Thou hast been my Salvation And from my Mothers tender Breast My God my hope wert and my rest Now be not far from me but save Permit not the triumphing Grave Insa●●te as my cruel-Foes My Life untimely to enclose Redeem my Soul there 's none I know Except my God can help me now For I am close besieg'd and brought To that distress I can't get out Like as a rav'ning Lyon doth Roaring pursue with open mouth The helpless Creature that he may Affrighted fall and be his Prey So do my Foes threaten and rave To bring my Soul unto the Grave So week and feeble I am grown Wasted to nothing ev'ry bone Disjoynted from its place doth start Like Wax dissolv'd so is my Heart And as a Potsheard so my strength Is dryed up my Tongue at length Cleaves to my Jaws my earthly-Frame

And cast your Nets to try your Luck again Into the watry Chambers of the Deep And thence on Shoar the Scaly Dwellers sweep But Simon told him we have all the night Labour'd in vain and on no Fish could light And now at noon day and a Sky serene To think we shall be more successful than We yet have been is a conceit so vain That none who knows the Trade can entertain Nevertheless at thy request we 'll wet Once more our Nets although no Fish we get Then down into the deep they hopeless cast Their fatal Engines and inclos'd at last So vast a draught of Fish both great and small That their Nets brake and they were forc'd to call To James and John to come and help them take The slutt'ring Pris'oners forth the crystal Lake Come to their help with much ado they got Part of the loaden Net into the Boat Still by degrees they more of it did pull Till they had heap'd with Fish their Boat so full That down into the deep they sinking were At which the greedy Simon full of fear Fell at the knees of Jesus and besought Him to depart out of the sinking Boat For Lord said he my Sins so num'rous are They 'l render me unfit to reap a share Of this great draught so great as ne're was known Which is a cause of admiration To me and my Companions who before Ne're saw the like nor ever shall see more But Jesus bid him lay aside all fear They were as safe as if on Land they were Besides said he if thou and these will be Who are thy Partners Followers of me Ye shall have all by much a nobler Trade Than this of men ye shall be Fishers made And with the Gospel-Net which you shall use Millions of Gentiles ye shall take and Jews And through Death's Chambers safely to the Shore Of Life and Bliss bring them for evermore Now when the four their Vessels safe had brought Unto the Shore which once they never thought Alive they should have reacht from that same time They forsook all they had and follow'd him MIRACLE II. The Cure of a Demoniack in the City of Capernaum JEsus to Capernaum went straightway With his Disciples on the Sabbath-day When a great number of the City were Assembled in the Synagogue to hear Their Rabbies with a reverence profound Erroneously Gods sacred Law expound Jesus came in and while they did unfold Their wronged Law and strange Traditions told His patient ear attentively did lend Unto their roving talk till it did end Then stretching forth his Arm th' eternal Son Of the great God his heav'nly Speech begun Teaching the Jews sublimer Truths than they By their conceited Priests were taught that day Preaching as one Commission'd from above Th' unheard of Mercies of the God of Love With so much pow'r that they wonder'd all Having ne're heard the like from any fall Now that same restless Spirit who doth go Round the vast Orb to work the overthrow Of fallen Man had then among the rest Of the assembled Jews a Man possest Who when he heard the ever blessed Lord Divinely teach most hellishly he roar'd And thus he spake Can't we be let alone Since we are banisht from the heav'nly Throne To have the freedom of this lower World Must we from hence as from above be hurl'd What have we Jesus for to do with thee Are we not here from thy Dominion free Art thou with pow'r come down to make us leave Those conquer'd Souls which by our wiles we have Fetter'd with a design to make them be Companions with us in our misery I know thee who thou art and must thee own To be the mighty Saviour and the Son Of that just God whom by our fatal Pride We would have equall'd but in vain we try'd Then Jesus sharply did rebuke the Fiend And to his saucy Questions put an end Commanding him to hold his peace and quit The captiv'd Body and ne're argue it Th' enraged Fiend who durst no longer stay Within his conquer'd Tenement of Clay All foaming threw him on the paved Floor Beating his Face till 't was imbru'd all o're With Froth and Blood then with an hideous yell Forth sally'd the infernal Imp of Hell Now when the Standers by beheld the deed They all astonisht were and all agreed That sure his Doctrin must be heav'nly And that the Teacher more than Man must be Whom the affrighted Devils do obey Tremble when he commands and sneak away Then through the Coasts of Galilee his Name Tryumphing rode upon the Wings of Fame MIRACLE III. The Cure of Peter's Wives Mother who was sick of a Feaver NO sooner was the Sabbath-duty done And to their homes th' amazed Jews all gone But Jesus James and John with Simon went And Andrew to their poor retirement Where almost till the dawn of the next day With the two pair of Brothers he did stay Within the house sick at that time did lye Simon 's Wives Mother at the point to dye Whose aged blood caus'd by a feav'rish flame Boyl'd with such fury that no Art could tame Whom the Physitians had quite given o're Knowing their skill could not her health restore Peter who just before had seen his Lord Effect a Cure by his Almighty VVord Upon a Man whom Satan had possest Fell on his Knees and humbly did request That by his mighty Pow'r he would cure His aged Mother's raging Calenture Jesus who ever ready was to give Relief to those who did in him believe Came to the Bed where the distemper'd Soul Tortur'd with scorching heat did toss and rowl And in the view of all who there did stand He took the woman by the burning hand And raising her upright the Feaver straight Did by his Sov'raign touch its rage abate So well she was that forthwith she did go And made Provision for her Guests below MIRACLE IV. The Cure of divers sick persons in the Evening of that Sabbath NOw when the fiery Chariot of the Sun Had round this part of our Horizon run Most of the City hearing of the Fame Of Jesus to the door of Peter came Bringing their Sick their Blind their Lame and all Those whom the Devil had long held in thrall Jesus whose love no limits ever knew When he beheld the sad diseased Crew And heard their dying groans and fearful crys Arising from their various miseries Out of a tender pity to Mankind Cur'd the Possest the Sick the Lame and Blind And the infernal Fiends would not allow Whom he cast forth to say they did him know MIRACLE V. The healing of several Sick and Diseased Persons by Jesus as he went through Galilee and more particularly the Cure of a Leper BEfore the guilded Planet of the East Had from his watry Bed arose and drest His nimble Body with a fulgent ray Up Jesus got and went aside to pray Into a solitary place when soon He was by Simon Andrew James and John Follow'd and