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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19443	A spirituall song conteining an historicall discourse from the infancie of the world, vntill this present time: setting downe the treacherous practises of the wicked, against the children of God: describing also the markes and ouerthrow of antichrist, with a thankesgiuing to God for the preseruation of her Maiestie, and of his Church. Drawen out of the holy Scriptures, by Roger Cotton.	Cotton, Roger.	1596 (1596)	STC 5869; ESTC S116424	11,575	28

doth recorde The mercies of our Lord. And liuely paints the whoredome of that Beast Whose marke Gods Saints do faythfully detest FINIS Let them which hauē beene redeemed of the Lord shew how he hath deliuered them from the hande of the oppressor Psal. 107.2 NOw may we all of England say of truth As we haue heard so haue we seene performd In these our dayes most worthy to be learnd How that the Lord doth stil his Church defend From cruell foes whom his to hurt pretend Let vs therefore vnto our mindes now call The cruell rage that wicked men haue had Agaynst the Lordes as though they had been mad Them to deuoure as Lions spoyle their pray Inuenting their oppression day by day As bloodie Caine the first of Serpentes race That onset gaue against the womans seede For whose good workes he wrought that wicked deed And as began the combate still doth hold That sonnes of lyfe euen swallow quicke they would As Lamech next a bud of that vile roote Who in his rage all men would wound and kill As though he did the law of God fulfill Whose deedes to grace he coulde a Scripture cite Although true sence and meanyng wrested quite Next him that Cham the sonne of Noe the iust who soone reuiues the wounded seede of Cain and doth as ill vncoueryng Fathers shame and so procures a curse most vehemently Vpon himselfe and his posteritie As he for one that Nimrod hunter great who sayd Come buyld a Tower fayre and hie a stately one whose top may reach the skie that we may get vnto our selues a name and all may see we well deserue the same But this their rage the Lord did soone espie and downe he came their language to confound that one knew not what others did propound and Citie theirs he called Babylon which name doth shew They found Confusion And Ismael next Aegiptian Hagars sonne who Isaac skoft of Abram blessed seede so as it shewes how Cham doth still proceede to hate as Cain the brother working good foure hundred yeeres afflicting Isaacs blood The lyke doth he that Esau most prophane good Iaacobs blood vnkindly seeke to spill like rauenyng Wolfe which seely Lambe doth kill and birthright solde for messe of pottage red despising Christ the Lambe the Rocke the Bread Chams race holdes on as Pharaoh hard of hart good Abrams seede most hardly to intreat with slauish toyle and burthens ouer great in bricke and clay and bondage very ill vntil at length their children he did kill And thus they were foure hundred yeeres too long afflicted sore by Chams Aegyptian dogs but they were plagu'd with lice with flies with frogs with blood for blood with blaines with scabs with haile to shew how smal man can gainst God preuaile Himselfe his host his chariots and his horse inclosd with waues were tombd in heapes of sand where Israel past from yoke of Egypt land their ryder fell and Israel skapt away and Miriam sung such prayse as now we may The seconde part THen Amalec of nations who was first that warre did make Gods people to withstand whereby they might them keepe from holy land But Moses prayd whyle Sunne abode in skye and Iosua fought vntil his foes did flye And God a curse vpon that nation gaue and vow did make their name for to roote out because gainst his they shewd themselues so stout and in Record he caused it to be that he would warre with them continually Then Balak he to Balam sayd Come curse come curse Israel detest him I thee pray who frets my hart to see him beare such sway Then Balam sayd a people blest of God fayne would I curse but that I feare his rod. Yet greedy gayne this Prophet false drew on who wages lou'd vnrighteously to get although dum Asse gainst that would teach him wit And Angels sworde against him was out drawne who spared then yet in the ende was slayne When Iudges ruld sixe times full sore opprest were Gods elect by Nations strong and stoute some left in land some others thereabout Aram Moab Canaan and such lyke Madian Ammon Philistins all did strike But Othinel Ehud Shamgar euen he with goad of Oxe sixe hundred men did kill and Ehud lame fat Eglons blood did spill These Iudges three their foes so strong did bend and Barac did from Chariot wheeles defend God whet his sworde and valiant Gedion fought with pitcher pots and men but hundreds three yet foylde that host which numbred could not bee Of Ammon townes did Ieptath twenty strike and with Asse iaw did Samson thousand smite And Deborah holpe and Starres Streames did striue gaynst Canan Kinges at ancient Kishon brooke at Kishon streames God on his Saints did looke And Iaels hand with Hammer smote the Nayle whereby Israel gaynst Sisera did preuayle Yet did these streames increase their strength agayne and others met vntill great floods they were in Dauids time as it may well appeare Both forraine foes and those at home in brest as Absalon and Saul aboue the rest Who Dauid sought as one would do a Flea and still did hunt th' Annoynted of the Lord his soule to take as Hunter Partridge would Euen so did he most cruelly persist to persecute in him both God and Christ. Yet did he stand as Lyon strong and stout vntill he did his foes all subiect bring and he through God did raigne alone as King For whom the Lord the Crowne and Diademe kept aye to remayne but Sauls away he swept The thirde part AGayne in dayes of King Iehosaphat the vile pretence of wicked men we see and forces great like Mountains seemd to bee That then had ioynd in league and constant band to cut off quite poore Israel from their land And that no name of Nation they should haue as then those craftie councels had decreed but thought in hart to cut them off with speed and were in band ten Nations well we know that then had ioynd to serue good Israel so But Israel prayd and God for them did fight to him they cald and he their sute did heare and causd their foes kill each with others speare they standing still saluation did behold and three dayes were in gathering of their gold Then gathered they to valley Berachath to blesse the Lord to blesse and prayse his name whose mercies last toward those that seeke the same they sought in truth they sought as did him please who stroke their foes and to them gaue great ease In time againe of Ezechias King how did that proud Saneherib by name the Lord and his with most vile speach blaspheme in bragging sort most vaynely to be tolde as though by force