Iordans siluer sides From Libanon to Sodoms lake that glides Along the plaines where Iesus was baptiz'd The holy Ghost in shape of Doue disguiz'd Mat. 3. 15 16 17. Heauens windowes ope thus speaketh in their sight This is my Sonne in whom I take delight When all was finish't and to Heauen Christ went Then downe came he to giue vs all content As Iustice Mercy both with Loue are linck't Simile So God is one the Persons three distinck't These altogether as the heauens decree'd Iustitia Misrecordia Charitas Veritas The Tree of Life protect from Adams seede The World it selfe with wonderment they fill Their meate is knowne to do their fathers will Who all this while is with their sister sweete Natura His eldest daughter as 't was euer meete When Time had done discharged full his due Aboue the clouds vp to the Heauens God flew Where he remaines leauing the world and all Which euer yet was knowne vpon this ball To the protection of that noble Dame That to the earth with loue her sister came So well affected labouring what she can That all her care is but for sinfull man Let him his mind to goodnesse alwayes bend And Nature euer is his louing friend Great God of Heauen now is thy Iustice showne Thy Loue and Mercy with thy Nature knowne Time hath thy Face and glorious browes vnmask't And thus at first my Rurall Muse hath task't Heere brought forth Truth from her hath neuer sturd Reueal'd the same wrapt in thy holy Word Of Paradise the sacred curtaine drawne The Sabaoth shew'd on no mans vice doth fawne Of all the world hath sung the first beginning Told Adams faults and Eues offensiue sinning Their seede defac't in breaking of thy lawes And heere I le stay and sit me downe and pause The end of the first Age. THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE second Age. Diuinely handled By Thomas Peyton of Lincolnes Inne Gent. Seene and allowed LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his shop ouer against Staple Inne 1620. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Beati Pacifici THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE SECOND AGE The Argument The sacred Muse by envious Foes is crost Adam and Eue how each from other lost Their first borne sonne by cursed malice led Vnkindly wounds his dearest Brother dead Apostacy the cause of all this ill The totall World on euery side doth fill With Bloud Oppression Cruelty and Hate To waste consume and winde each others state The Church deriued from the third borne child Is staind polluted with Caines Race defilde So that the World and all there in was found Besides the Arke were wash't away and drown'd VRania Soueraigne of the Muses nine Inspire my thoughts with sacred worke diuine Come down from Heauen within my Temples Rest Inflame my heart and lodge within my Brest Grant me the story of this World to sing The Glasse of Time vpon the Stage to bring Be Aye within me by thy powerfull might Gouerne my Pen direct my speech aright Euen in the birth and infancy of Time To the last Age season my holy Rime Oh leade me on into my Soule infuse Diuinest Worke and still be thou my Muse That all the World may wonder and behold To see Times passe in Ages manifold And that their wonder may produce this end To liue in loue their future liues to mend Then shall thy lookes with sacred luster shine The Muses all within thy Browes combine Richly adorn'd with all the Nimphes and Graces Shall sound thy prayse with louely pleasing faces Ioying to see thy glorious heauenly hap The golden Ball cast downe into thy lap To thy delight and great contentment more Then if the World were only thine in store Though cursed Enuy on thy Fortune frowne Yet thy chast Browes shall weare heau'ns lawrel crowne In future Ages as the Muses Queene Thy Temples wreath'd shall euer flowrish greene And what if Hymen something doe annoy Thy tender Fruit yet shalt thou liue in ioy And when pale death shall close vp both thine eyes Thy fame shall mount aboue the lofty skyes And yet Vrania how canst thou be glad To see this Age wherein we liue so bad All ouergrowne far worse then at the first Bemir'd in sin as if it were accurst Nothing but bloud contention Brides and braules The Serpent still vpon his belly crawles And round about on enery side doth winde With cunning sleights the Infants face to grinde Nay thouthy selfe noble Vrania deere Since first thy landing and ariuall heere Hast thou not beene on euery side turmoyl'd Tost too and fro by Enuy ouertoyl'd Whose viprous tongue within a sacred place Hath belcht her venome aim'd at thy disgrace Like to the Diuell in Paradise at first Simile That banefull poyson in his Brest hath nurst To wrong thy person weaken much thy state Enrich himselfe to satisfie his hate Tooke all aduantage working on thy youth Suggested lies instead of naked truth Lock't thee vp close Immur'd within a Wall When not a Groate was due to him at all But by the order of this noble Land He in that place for debt to-thee should stand Great God of Heauen it makes me weepe and waile To see Iuiustice oftentimes preuaile To domineere and catch into her hand When Innocence must at her mercy stand Then doth she squeese wring wrest extort and lurch When seldome times oppression comes at Church Deare friends perswasion once can ne're preuaile To worke a peace till all be set to saile Then swallowes all into a griping purse Not satisfied continues ten times worse Vowing to wast and Ruine all thy state Oh cursed malice hatcht by enuious fate When thy false heart hath made the act thy worst What art thou then more then a beast accurst Nay farre more worse for thou must count at large For euery soule committed to thy charge If by thy fault the least of them be lost Thy soule in hell the price of it will cost But yet my Muse vnfold to me the cause Why thou didst fall into the trecherous pawes Of hatefull foes deuouring Tigers fierce False hearted friends which in thy state did pierce That thou shouldst thus be tost on euery side Compeld oft times to be from home and ride To see if Enuy with her viperous face Hath foysted lies in sacred Iustice place I know no cause nor could I euer tell Why she should thus against thee alwayes swell Winding her selfe her mallice best to smother Ier. 23. 12. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Into the habit of thine elder brother One thou hast lou'd inough to make me doate To see vice lurke vnder a formall coate And thou thy selfe that yet didst neuer hurt To harme a childe or throw a worme i'th'durt Or take delight to glory in the fall Of any one much lesle thy tongue to gall Bite scandall blurre to Iniury defame The worth of any in their goods or
away be washt Yet the Apostles instituted sure A sacred day a holy Rest and pure The Church of God they planted well and watred And but the day they onely chang'd and altred In which the flocke they traind along and fed them As God aboue in 's holy Spirit led them And euer since the Christians kept that day To heare the word to come to Church and pray For God is good and wil be mockt of none His glorious face the Saints behold alone Paul the Apostle that was after cald When Iesus Christ was in th' heauens instald 1. Cor. 16. 13. Heb. 4. 9. Both with the word and holy Spirit annointed The Christian Sabaoth in Gods Church appointed To meete together heare his voyce diuine The Scriptures search to trace them line by line To preach and pray to lay vp for the poore For all the Saints to open wide the doore That sweete Disciple whom the Lord of life Ioh. 21. 7. 20. 33. More dearely loued then any faithfull wife Which euer yet vpon the earth was bred Could seeme to shew vnto her spouse and head The last of all more louing then the rest Which lean'd at suppervpon Christ his brest And stayd behind his holy Church to guide His fellowes thought he should haue neuer dide When by Domitians spightfull cruell word Vit. Sanct. Ore all the world hot persecution stir'd Though often times before he had scap'd the pawes Of barbarous Tyrants and their cursed Lawes Liu'd still secure as not afraid of fire Sword famine murder in their diuellish ire Yet at the length at his most damn'd command Againe he 's caught subiected to their hand And in a Tun of hot and scalding Oyle He hurles his body ore the fire to boyle But seeing that could do no good at all Worse then a Diuell most treacherously doth fall To stratagems inhumane actions vile To banish him in Pathmos wandring Ile Mongst sauage beasts which lurke in euery bowre With open mouth his body to deuoure Where solitary in that vnked place Christ Iesus shewd his glorious burnisht face Reu. 1. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14. Whose feete like Brasse and eyes as flames of fire Rauisht Iohns spirit made his soule admire To see the Lord which for our sins late dy'd His Christian Sabaoth from the Iewes diuide By that all powerfull sharpe two edged sword His glorious holy milde Maiesticke word His owne example to th' Apostles all That on this day was euer seene to call To come amongst them and to shew his face To distribute his goodnes and his grace This great Apostle to heauens potent Prince The Lords day he hath cald it euer since T is writ i' th' Hebrews if the law be ceast That to Gods people there remaines a Rest Heb. 4 9. From sin to cease his holy name to praise Together flocke our meditations raise Aboue the clouds to that commanding king Which out of darknes did our sences bring Disperst the Truth and by his sacred might Plac'd all our thoughts w'thin the Gospels light O let it neuer sinke within my brest That to Gods people should remaine no Rest But toyle and trauell painfull worke alway And Hoddy Loddy Topsie Turuy play T is true they say that Constantine the Great First Emperour of all the Christian Seate A learned wise religious Councell cald First Nicene Counsell Himselfe amongst them in his Robes instald An Order set abuses foule corrected Reform'd the Church which Arrians infected Establisht Peace ador'd the Royall Law Made Penalties to keepe them more in awe Iam. 2. 8. And by his power as head of all the Earth Christs gouernment was now but in her birth According to the word and Scriptures pure Confirm'd our Sabaoth euer to endure In euery Age since first the world was made God shew'd his iudgements on those men which wade Beyond the Truth prophanely still deuise To breake his Rest and publish wicked lies As for example though I could produce A multitude that none might plead excuse Before his Iustice at that dreadfull barre For leading others in a maze so farre And yet of them but three in all I le cite As fitting to the times wherein I write To shew how God hath euer hated curst The very place that Sabaoth breakers nurst The ancient Iewes which in Arabia walked Exod. 13. 16. Before the Law when God with Moses talked And bad him warne the people all that none Should dare to gather euery one alone More then a Omer of that blessed food Which fell from heauen vnto their soueraigne good And in the day before the Sabaoths rest Two Omers full as is before exprest Should then be gathered rosted bak'd and sod But in the rest minde nothing else but God How hath that food releeu'd the lingring mind Of those his people whom true loue did bind In awfull feare diuinely wondrous fed And onely in the light of nature led Those which abusde his sacred Rest and grace How did it then infect the aire and place With putrifaction loathsome deadly ranke In noy some manner ore the earth it stanke Vntill such time that God aboue did please To cleare the aire and send them better ease Causde all that was so lewd prophanely got To wast dissolue consume away and rot The next example of his iudgements great Was in those daies that Babylon did beate The chosen people and the holy Nation Ier. 17 21. to the last With such a scourge as since the worlds foundation Was neuer heard as yet in any land To feele the weight of his most heauy hand For prophanation of his sacred Day In carrying burdens toyling worke and play In reuell rout and such phantasticke sport Eu'n from the greater to the meaner sort All run from Church to damn'd offences foule Neglecting still the danger of their soule But God aboue although he often mand Their chosen Hoast by his victorious hand Brought them from Aegypt through the red seas waue When mighty Neptune fomes aloft and raues And in despight of enuious Fortunes fate Great powerfull riuals and their deadly hate Led them at length with al their ventrous hoast And plast their feete vpon the promist coast Yet for their foule abusing of his rest In all those things which are aboue exprest He sends the Plague pale Famine Sword and Fire Ier. 52. 67 Fowre furious foes to execute his Ire Raz'd downe their walls their temple desolated Their City sack't and Land depopulated That for the space of threescore yeeres and ten It lay vntild and had her rest as then O holy God was euer thing more plaine Then these thy iudgements on thy flock againe 2. Chr. 36. 21 Vpon thy land what stony heart but feares To giue them now a Sabbaoth iust of yeares For all their foule abuses wicked lewd As in my worke shall more at large be shew'd The third example of his wrathfull frowne Was lately shew'd vpon Geneua towne The Imperiall goodly
In some I meane and not in all his worke For pleasant folly couch't therein may lurke Yet the allusion and the meaning sure May reference haue vnto the Scripture pure And though it shines as Tytans westerne rayes By some 't is held but wanton in our dayes But most of all the ripenesse of these times The heauenly works vp to the clouds that climes The enuious eye which ouerlookes our deeds When each mans taste on sundry dishes feedes The snarling cur at euery thing that bites The slandring Mome which no good worke endites The monster curst with his vile forked tongue That from Hels vault vp to the earth first sprung With Hidra heads and Ianus double face To fawne before then wound to our disgrace Hath made my Muse vnwilling heere to sing As loath her selfe vpon the stage to bring To each mans view and her owne painefull toyle But that the sight may many vices spoyle When sin we see vnmasked brought to light And damn'd offences naked to our sight Like lezabel that did the Clouds aspire 1. Kin. 4. 18 19 Chap. 19. 2 Cha. 21. 10 23 In rusling silks and glorious braue atire Vnder a holy outward forme and rite Gods chosen flock are fleec't and murthered quite But once vnmask't the Minions of her court Hurle heri'th durt pash out her braines in sport And as a foule mishapen painted monster 2. Kin 9. 30 33 35 37. Conceit of her as all the world doth conster Then is she seene disrob'd disrank't of all The map of folly in her sudden fall Her cup with poyson damned Enuy fills Her cursed eyes haue seene those seuen built hills Where all the Saints Apostles Martyrs stood With crimson colours all imbru'd in bloud O glorious God inspiror of my Muse Grant that thy Word my soule may dayly vse And that what learning painefully it got Still from the truth may neuer swerue a iot That in her spring beginning and her bud May sing thy glory to the Churches good And in foule folly none asleepe I rock Nor giue offence to any of thy flock But that my speech as generall to all May like a Sermon in the Pulpit fall And not to wade in curious questions deepe But feede thy flock and edifie thy sheepe That none at all may haue a iust excuse By such examples as I shall produce And all that see their faults their liues may mend That to thy glory I this Worke may end Then shall the world with admiration see Her face vnmask't to all eternitee The famous actions heeretofore lay dead Shall then be rouz'd out from obliuions bed And all the noblest kingdoms euer knowne Will be reuiu'd within my verse be showne Their manners customes nature and their state Their end beginning fortune and their fate From Adam first throughout in euery age Shall heere be mustred on this publike Stage In Rurall Robes to giue the earth content How heeretofore the ages past weee spent O that my Muse might once but rest in peace Then would she sing diuinely neuer cease But worke out Truth within her holy Rimes Glyding along descending to our times And deare Vrania Soueraigne of my verse Should heere the glory of this world rehearse Vnfoulding still to Gods immortall glory The heauenly sweetenesse of a sacred story What may we thinke of all the iudgements iust Of great Iehouah buried in the dust Beside all those in holy Scriptures pend Which humane wit as yet could neuer mend Nor all the Rabbies in their learned fame Could euer tell how to correct the same Shall we go on and still be bold to thinke Hee 'le punish them and on vs alwayes winke For some of them the earth it selfe did gape How can we know that we are sure to scape The Angels which against the Lord did swell He quite casheer'd and cast them downe to hell Where being bound eternally in chaines They feele the torments of ten thousand paines Farre more then can expressed be in inke And all the world and sinfull man can thinke Adam what made thee wilfully at first To leaue thy of-spring to this day accurst So wicked foule and ouer growne with Sinne And in thy person all of it beginne That hadst thou stood in Innocenie fram'd Death Sin and Hell the world and all thou hadst tam'd Then hadst thou beene a Monarch from thy birth Gods onely Darling both in heauen and earth The world and all at thy command to bend And all heauens creatures on thee t' attend The sweetest life that euer man could liue What couldst thou aske but God to thee did giue Protected kept thee like a faithfull Warden As thy companion in that pleasant Garden No canckred mallice once thy heart did moue Free-will thou hadst endude from him aboue What couldst thou wish all worlds content and more The best Diuine that ere the Earth yet bore Gods onely Sonne the Prince of Peace except For thy sad fall how oft mine eyes haue wept Alas weakeman hadst thou in honour stood How heauenly blest thrice happy beene thy blood And all thy aged issue to this day Had liu'd secure as in the Month of May. What need had we that any should haue dy'd Vpon the Crosse our sinfull soules reuiu'd And that Messias God himselfe the Son Should here descend to put our nature on To liue deiected poore contemn'd forlorn'd Derided beate tost vpside downe and scorn'd And more to beare for this thy wofull fall Then euer man which liu'd vpon this ball Curst be that Diuell that first thy sence bely'd If thou hadst liu'd then we had neuer dy'd Oh God! to purchase with that bloody cost Our soules redeem'd when they were fully lost Here is a loue which farre surmounts the skies My sences rapts and dazles both mine eyes But tell me Adam what might be the cause That thou shouldst breake thy holy Makers lawes When of a thousand which might make vs weepe In all the world thou hadst but one to keepe And that but light Alas couldst thou not see But touch and taste that one forbidden tree Which in the midst of all the garden grew An ill knowne tree to make thy ofspring rew What pleasant tast or relish had the same How were thy senses dim'd and much to blame That had the Garden sole at thy command And all the fruits within thy sight to stand Farre better pure more daintier euery way Then such an Apple painted like a gay Fit for a woman or some lickorish foole A silly child or one that goes to schoole Thy wilfull foule absurd and grosse abuse Against thy God admits no iust excuse T is not the losse of one poore Apple mist That thou didst grapple in thy sinfull fist Could be the cause his anger to procure Fierce heauy wrath eternall to endure It was not that he did so much respect But thy foule error wilfull bad neglect Contempt of Him rebellion treason pride And all the sinnes within the world beside That linked
1. If Salomon could well compare with thee But when she saw and glutted had her eye With sight of that which farre and wide did flye Alone she leaues his glorious Temple guilt His stately Court and all that ere he built His pleasant land and curious deckings fine As all not worth for to compare with thine And so returnes within short space againe Within thy wals a royall Queene to raigne Gods true Religion in those dayes profest Away she brought and plac't it in thy brest The other Queene that hath adornd thy browes With Lawrell crowne of sacred Christian bowes Act 8. 27. Was Candace great Empresse of such fame As Enuy still cannot obscure her name When Indica her loyall Eunuch went To Iewry land vpon Ambassage sent Homewards returning on his weary way In Pilgrymage straight forced was to stay By God himselfe which by the faithfull bide And Philip sent to be his onely guide O matchlesse Queene braue pearle of women kind Renowned fame shall thy chast temples bind Which by thy meanes as old Records yet sayth Conuerted all vnto the Christian faith Baptized thy selfe within that sacred fount Which stands still firme vpon thy holy mount And in that Church whereas the God of loue Descended downe in shape of flaming Doue All sacred hill how can I choose but wonder To see the God of lightning flames and thunder That rends the rockes and all to powder pashes The sturdy mounts with sudden sulphery flashes Descend himselfe vpon thy glorious head When all thy Princes were baptiz'd and fed With that true Manna that from heauen was showred When Christ his bloud vpon thy browes was powred Within that Temple of immortall fame That till doomes dayes shall euer beare his name And which before his dearest bloud was spilt Vnto the Son was consecrate and built O Amara which thus hast beene beloued Still to this day thy foote was neuer moued But in the heat of most tempestuous warres God hem'd thee in with strong vnconquered barres Protected safe and kept thy feet vpright Against the world the flesh and all to fight No maruell then since man at first was humbled Vpon thy head hath falne himselfe and stumbled In admiration of thy gifts diuine When Nature Arts the Gods and all combine To cull thee out in farre aboundant measure And on thy browes to showre their dearest treasure If in thy walls as some this day haue thought Adam and Eue by God himselfe were brought And plast secure in pleasures wondrous well Till from thy top for wilfull sinne they fell Some men againe more farre then these are wide Whose large conceits in Eden cannot bide Fond franticke men the sacred truth to reach And Paradise ore all the world to streach Wolfangus Wissenburg Soropius Vadianus The land of Eden of that spatious worth To thinke it went quite ouer all the earth The lofty wals which hem'd the same in round To be the Spheres that in their vtmost bound On euery side about the world do passe And seeme to vs much like a wall of Brasse The flaming Sword that guards the tree of life From sinfull Adam and his likorish wife Haue presupposd in all the world alone To be the hot and horrid burning Zoane That mans exile by cursed enuious fate Was nothing but the changing of his state When at the first from God aboue he fell To be entombd within the graue and hell In ancient times when people were besotted Patricius van 10 lib. 20. Not in that vice which some of vs vs call potted But in blind errour of the heauenly light Till God by Christ enlightned had their sight Perswaded were that Paradise at first In which old Eue and Adam both were nurst A reall place vpon this earth was set Vntill for sin the world it selfe was wet With such a shower on euery side and round That all therein were quite consum'd and drownd Then Paradise his owne peculiar seate Gen. 7. 1. To Thelaste A pleasant place delightfull sweete and neate For feare the floud which o're the earth did flow When Noahs Arke did on the waters row Should ruinate the goodly sacred place And bring the walls iust in the selfe same ease That Henoch City in those dayes was found When all the world and all therein was drown'd Transported it within a instant quite Far from the earth and reach of this our sight And plaste the same euen in a moment soone Within the circle of the lofty Moone And some there be as far as Rome haue rambled The Manichees origen Rom. familestes ad Renegaoes Which back againe for want of meanes haue ambled Like vgly Bat the monster of his kind That vice can see but yet to goodnesse blind Happy were we when first they ran from hence Casting a mist vpon the Scriptures sence To thinke the place where Adam first did fall Was but a tale and no such place at all That holy Moses in his sacred worke Hath little true but only fictions lurke Damn'd wicked man the child of vnbeliefe Esa 33. 15 16 17. The Word distrust and thus to play the thiefe Gods Church to rob his chosen flock to fleece The truth to blur and heere to pick a peece Wringing the same or as we vse to squeese A Sponge with water or such kind of Leese Simile The Scriptures true and heauenly Hebrew Story Conuerting all into an allegory Thou soarest high heere is thy lofty flight Gen. 2. 8. 2. King 19. 12 False hearted Rome which canst not see the light That shineth cleere within the Scripture lyes The truth it selfe hath bleared both thine eyes Like to the Bird thou beareth in thy crest That seldome times vpon the earth can rest But mounts aloft with proud aspiring wings Simile The Eagle Till base desires downe to the ground him brings As if the light he could no more endure But falls and stoopes vnto a carrion lure The Sodomites which in the dayes of Lot About the walls where groaping very hot Gen. 19. 11. To find the Angels that his house possest Till fearefull blindnesse stayd their course to rest Were beaten downe with horrid sulphery smoke That instantly their cursed breath did choke Transform'd their townes in lesse then halfe an houre When God but once vpon their vice did lowre With fire and brimstone strange vnwonted thunder Of all the world the sad and fearefull wonder Amazing all which at this day behold it To see how God hath vp to nothing rold it Made it a puddle and infectious sinke Not fir for man once of her source to drinke Euen so thy wilfull cursed vnbeliefe Prophane abusing of the scriptures chiefe Thy Sabaoth breaking couetuousnesse and pride With all the sins within the world beside Haue made thee blind to find that louely place Where Adam first was in his greatest grace About the walls thou canst not find the dore To come withinland view the plenteous store Thy
venom'd carkasse in thy pride shall barnish An vgly creature shalt thou be vncouth Thy teeth all blacke within thy lying mouth Out of that hollow irkesome vast abisse Vpon thy belly shalt thou crawle and hisse Dust shalt thou eate and canckred be thy skin Thy body swolne with poyson all within Thy viperous seed in vgly enuy borne To all the world shall be the hatefull scorne In euery path and out of euery hedge Their poyson fell in humane flesh shall wedge That when they time and place to purpose feele Their venom'd tongue shall bite them by the heele Thus till the earth shall mould away and fall Where men least thinke there shall they lie and crawle The Womans seed in iust reuenge againe Thy head shall breake and cursed actions baine When that sweet Babe shall to the world be borne That heauen and earth with glory shall adorne Then shall he trample on thy cursed hide And on the clowds with winged fame shall ride Before his face shall ratling cracks of thunder Amaze thy sense and reasons false bring vnder To see when he shall on the earth descend How thou in chaines and fetters shalt be pend Tormented in those paines no tongue can tell Scorcht all to cinders with dam'd diuels in hell Curst is thy life thrice cursed is thy race Voyde of all goodnes mercy loue and grace Here is thy doome vpon thy Snakie head That others with thee hast to sinne misse-lead Scarse these last words were spake by God himselfe Of his sad iudgement gainst this cursed Elfe And but beginning of Eues dismall speech When suddenly she gan to cry and screech When in the instant from the lofty skyes Miscricordia Mercy comes downe and into Eden hies Prostrated falls vpon her bended knees But God himselfe his daughter deare that sees With weeping eyes before his face to craue That but on Eue he would compassion haue Began to stay his minde to alter cleane And to the woman now began to leane But that hard by stood Iustice in the place And vrg'd him much to prosecute the case When all the reason Mercy well could render Was that her selfe was of the female gender Whilest both of these each other do oppose Iustitia Misericordia Loath each of them their humble suite to lose Contending still as aduocates at Barre Or combatants in furious fearefull Warre And altogether iudgement speedy feares Natura Gods eldest daughter in the place appeares Nature diuine like to Aurora fac't A noble Lady beautifull and chast Simile Naturae descriptio Braue famous Queene a royall person borne Whom heauen and earth and all therein adorne Her haire disheueld trailing to the ground And in the same the rarest secrets bound Without all art in curious manner curld And in her hand the Globe of all the world Ten thousand colours in her gowne are seene Wrought by her selfe vpon a ground of greene In all her iewels of admired gaine With fower braue Ladies bearing vp her traine The Elements She sober enters in that sacred place And downe she fals before the Almighties face Father sayd she deare Father here behold Oratio Giue me but leaue to be a little bold Finding my sisters iarring neuer cease To reconcile and set them both at Peace A holy worke which thou hast euer loued My selfe thereto by charity first moued One of my deare affected sisters sweete That from this place to heauen did lately fleete Brought me such newes when at the first we met Till all dissolue I neuer shall forget And like it is this massie weighty ball Which hangs so euen iust in the midst of all Would soone returne to what it was at first If all thereon for this one fault were curst Behold this Fabricke here within my hand The mighty Gloabe of all the world doth stand What will become of all thy Noble workes This goodly frame and all that euer lurkes Within the compasse of the heauen and earth If now destroyd within their prime and birth All will consume and vnterly decay If Iustice once thy Mercy ouersway Iustice I know doth vrge thy sacred word Which from the Truth as yet hath neuer stird Thy penalty on Adam and his Race For foule offending in this holy place The execution of thy Law diuine In the least tittle of each Statute line Which hath ordaind that in that dismall day In which the woman did the diuell obay To taste the fruite and sucke it with her breath That both of them should die a fearefull death Mercy againe as being full of Loue Pittie compassion from thy throane aboue Presents her selfe before thy sacred face Imploring Goodnes Maiestie and Grace To be a meanes to mediate a peace And that for once all further iudgement cease When by the Enuie of a viperous tong Hatcht by the diuell this cursed malice sprung And their offence to take it at the worst By Iustice weigh'd will yet be found the first O then deare Father let me speake my minde Be lust and Louing Mercifull and Kinde Punish all sinne according to thy word The Truth preserue that none at Iustice gird But yet let Mercy at thy right hand sit Thy noble workes in sacred holy writ Shall then be blaz'd vnto their vtmost worth And thou be knowne a God vpon this earth Then shall large volumes with thy prayses swell Thy Mercy drop to infant soules in hell Which neuer haue offended much thy minde But borne in sinne and neuer knowne vnkinde Whose cursed parents crost thy heauenly will The sperme of those that liue in errour still Thy sentence past cannot againe be call'd And truth must stand before thy face instal'd That very day according to thy word In which the tree of Knowledge first was stird By Eue and Adams wilfull treachery Both of them then a cruell death should dye If mercy now had not come downe in hast And at thy feete her humble sute had cast Before this time that iudgement had beene giuen Both of their liues might well haue beene beriuen O then what would become of all this frame And all thereon too infinite to name The famous actions by thy spirit nurst All must returne to what it was at first One day with thee is as a thousand yeeres The hower of death Incertaine full of feares First saue the seede and let them liue in awe Then dye a death for breaking of thy Law So is thy word confirm'd my sisters pleaz'd The world remaine and iudgement somewhat eaz'd Then shall thy creatures in all ages stand The worke diuine of thy all powerfull hand And euery thing that on the earth is bred Shall shew thy glory both aliue and dead That all may stand to all eternity Thy only Son offers himselfe to dye But silenc'st once by Gods commanding Word The iarring sisters neuer after stird But satisfied and resting well content They spent the time in haplesse merriment And God aboue to iudgement doth
life To wander Grope as in the darke be lost And farthest off from that they ayme at most The sacred luster of Gods Word diuine The Gospels truth which ore the Earth doth shine The Son of Peace Christ Iesus being borne Whose glorious Light doth all the World adorne Haue made Man blind and dazled both his eyes To see that Ioy which in the Scripture lies When many dayes were past away and spent Finding at last they mist of their intent And that their toyle and trauell to their paine Was frustrate quite their labour still in vaine Much discontented for their sad mishap Yet once againe vpon the walls they rap Then weepe and howle lament yearne cry and call But still no helpe nor answer had at all Perplext in mind and dazled with the light With griefe and care distempered in their sight Amazed both iust as the wind them blew To Paradise they bad their last adew Like those are Moapt with wandring hither thither Simile From thence they went thēselues they knew not whither The Crosses griefes vexations troubles care Befell them after with their hungry fare Stragling about abiding in no place And Discontent vpon their late disgrace The angry Heauens for many dayes that lowred The sable clouds which sulphury showres downe powred The very Earth combining with them both Strange hideous sights of irkesome Lights vncouth The Elements as all together bent Against mans Sin themselues in sunderrent The Sunne asham'd the inconstant angry Moone Began to wane sending a Night at Noone Surcharg'd with Sorrowes no where now to rest Their griefes more great then can be well exprest The discontent some say which Adam found Comment in Cabalist vidi Reuch lib. 1. Being expulst out of that holy Ground By Eues foule error to be thus disgra'ste Made Him the World his Wife and all distaste And like a Hermit in his wandring weedes Simile On little else but griefe and sorrow feedes Repentant thoughts are harbour'd in his brest His Mind impatient finds no place to rest But to the East from Paradise doth run Towards the rising of the morning Sun Heere heere Alas his tender dazled sight With the great splendor of that glorious light Whose matchlesse grace when vp to Heauen it enters Simile Much like a Queene forth from her Chamber venters Climes vp the Skies and tramples on the Aire With cheerefull lookes in glittring Robes most faire Prances about in no place long it bides Viewes all the World on euery side it rides The radiant Rayes which sparkled in his face Made Adam thinke that God was in that place With this conceit he tarries in no coast But on he goes and all in hast doth poast Ore Hill and Dale with toyle vexation paine Like Siciphus that labours still in vaine Simile To roule a stone against a monstrous Mount His griefe more great then any man can count Finds to his cost his trauell to no end His weary works all to no purpose tend So on he runs on nothing else doth dreame Vntill he came at Ganges watry streame And as before ore many a little Riuer He made a way vp to his Heart and Liuer So in this streame hoping the same to win He enters bold and wades vp to his chin Heere is a Barre in superstions way Too deepe a rubbe to make his fury stay For all his hast he can no further passe By Ganges coast like to a Wall of brasse simile Where he is forst to try his vtmost skill Against the streame he striues and labours still Vntill by Practise with his actiue limbs A Mile or two vpon the waues he swims But yet too farre in absence of his Wife May breede a skarre and hazard so his life Thus discontented with that watry wall The griefe conceiued of his dismall fall The losse of her that late before he lost When as he thought to passe to God in post Himselfe alone bewayling of his sins To true Repentance faithfully begins And as some say did Circumcize himselfe Washt all his Skin bemir'd in durty pelfe Forsakes the World for certaine dayes did stand Within the streame and neuer came at land Vntill his flesh from top to toe was seene With cold and froath all ouergrowne with greene Then God which late vpon his fault did frowne Now smiles againe and sendeth Raziel downe One of the three in sacred Roabes of Light That euer stand before the most of might Since Sathiel one of their number fell From highest Heauens vnto the lowest Hell Michael Gabriel this Raziel stood Still to this day the sole Archangels good This noble Angell brings those tidings glad And cheeres the Man to be no more so sad Tells him that God is not with him offended But with the Diuell which first his Reason blinded That his Repentance purchast hath his peace From further Pennance wil'd him to surcease Although of Sin he hath beene once detected Yet his good will was in the Heauens accepted Bad him goe seeke and comfort vp his Wife People the World and liue a ioyfull Life The Messenger that from the Heauens descended To bring these tidings vp againe Ascended simile Like to a flame of pure celestiall light So vanisht he from earthly Adams sight Yet some do thinke he tarried in those parts And taught the man the liberall learned Arts Was his Companion as a friendly guide Iewes and Turkes That euer kept by Adams fearefull side When he went seeking to his care and paine With extreme toyle to find his Wife againe For many yeeres within the streame did stand Whilst Eue was wandring in the Nubian Land His faithfull Angell in all stormes and weather Vntill such time he brought them both together At Araffe hill within Arabia ground This was the place where Eue her husband found Heere at this Mount they both together met And each with Ioy their louely eyes did wet With such a shower of pearely christall teares Distil'd in Loues pure Limbeck full of feares That one the other finally had mist Heere once againe they smile imbrace and kist Still to this day the reuerent feare and awe Of those which yet the Mount haue euer saw The great respect that Superstition wins ' Mongst men denout in pardon of their sins The Worlds conceit by Mahomet late nurst That Eue and Adam heere repenting first Found Peace with God vnto their soules content Built them a House in which their liues they spent Hath made the Hill admired to this day For Turkish Pilgrims euer more to pray The sacred Skirtes with goodly plaines are wal'd And at this day the Mount of Pardons cal'd No lesse admir'd is that Renowned streame By Bengala which makes all Asia dreame And fills the World with superstious guile From Easterne India to th' Atlantike I le Braue Ganges floud how doost thou draw together Fierce warlike Nations mustring hether thether Captiu'st them all fettred within thy bankes To wade within thee yeeld
the Earth ascendeth like a Ghost Conueyes her selfe into the promist coast By Paradise where Caine was sacrificing Some of his corne his double heart disguising Watches the Time when as she thought most best And windes her close in his dissembling brest No sooner she was in his heart acquainted But his best bloud was with her venome tainted His vaines swolne vp and all his body puft His Head Heart Lungs infectuously were stuft With Enuy Malice Wrath and deadly Rage Nothing could now his stomack fell asswage Finding no ease his countenance falls downe His cankred mind discerned by his frowne Now Father Mother Brother none he brookes That Heauen it selfe takes notice of his lookes Since first the light from darkenesse was discouered Or that the Clouds within the Aire haue houered The Heauens and Earth the Sea and all begun And Phaeton his endlesse Race hath run About the World in twice twelue howers right Or siluer Cinthia shew'd her pale fac't light Neuer was seene a more delightfull day The glittring Sunne in burnish't bright aray Nor Heauen it selfe more pleasing euer smil'de Then when the brothers on Loues Alter pilde The Sacrifice before their Fathers face To God aboue within that holy place But when Medusa from Hells deepest vaults Began but once to spy mans secret faults And from her Den in darke Obliuion pent The bowels of her Mother Earth had rent To come aloft into the open Ayre With her foule breath infectious poysoned haire And Rags most base as late before I told To seate her selfe in Caines securest hold Then Heauen and Earth and all began to change The winged clouds about this Ball to range The burning lampes within the firmament Seem'd for to winke as if their oyle were spent The glorious Sun to hide his glistring face Asham'd of Enuy in a sacred place And all at once most fearefully to lowre To threaten tempests or some sudden showre When instantly on Caines dissembling head A sable cloud from all the rest out shed Began to stand himselfe and all iust vnder Hearing this voyce out from a dreadfull thunder False Hippocrite how canst thou simulize Before my face thy actions fowle disguize Gen. 4. 6. 7. To thinke that I which all the World adorne Would thus be fed with riffe raffe of thy Corne Or yet in bloud to satiate my selfe To liue as thou by base and Earthly pelfe And not conceiue that Holy thing is ment Within the same which giues me full content Why is thy Soule thus pestred with a sore Ranckled bespaked like a rotten core Simile Thy conscience deedes false enuious mind so bad Thy lookes cast downe and countenance so sad Dost thou not know that if thy heart be right Thy actions good and pleasing in my sight That thou shalt be accepted best and more That other wise sin lyeth at thy dore Think on my Words halt not within my sight I am that God which brings the Truth to light Amend thy life at cursed Enuy hisse Repent thy selfe of what is done amisse Let her not once be harbourd in thy brest Nor in thy Heart her banefull poyson rest Redeeme the Time behold the lofty skyes Where Loue and Mercy for offences lyes One comfort more then thou deseru'st I giue Thy Brother yet shall at thy seruice liue Thou like a Lord shalt ouer-rule him still And his desire according to thy will Shall subiect be deuoted euer stand To run and goe with Ioy at thy command But yet take heede do not too high aspire Goe sinne no more and adde no coles to fire Caueat The Heauenly voyce down from the Clouds descending In these sad words sweetely diuinely ending The day cleer'd vp and Sol began againe To shew his face vpon the sacred Plaine The Aire all still the lofty Winds quight calme Adam and Abell singing of a Psalme Caines sacrifize alone vpon the ground Vntouch't at all still to their view they found Whereat with Ioy to see the God of powre To smile on one and on the other lowre To vaile his face vnto their sinfull sight Hearing his voyce out from the dradfull light Home they depart in wonderment and peace Minding a while from further worke to cease Whilst Caine alone retireth discontent Forsakes his God and to the field he went His enuious mind still runs on his disgrace First Apostasy in Caine. False to be found before his fathers face All working Power deepe searcher of the Reines Discerner of the in ward heart and Veines What secret Art can from thy sight be hid Thine Eye still saw what either Brother did How iust art thou and full of mercies sweete The eyes of all are cast downe at thy feete The greatest men and Monarches of the earth The first borne seede and noblest in their birth The proud Commanders in their formall coates The homebred Sheepe thou dost deuide from Goates The eldest Brother yongest in thy sight Are both alike so that their hearts be right No outward forme can make thee partialize Thou look'st vpon the inward sacrifize Beholding Habels willing gtatefull gift Which thou art pleas'd vp to the Clouds to lift When Caine false hearted though he was first borne Him thou forsakst leauing his Gift forlorne O wofull fearefull is the dangerous state Of euery man so ouerswolne with Hate Whom God by this cannot to good conuert But giues quight ouer to a storry Heart Apostacy making a man to quake God Father friends all vtterly forsake Prince Country Kingdome all the Land in hope To run perhaps vnto the Turke or Pope In discontent for conscience gaine or pelfe To sell their soules vnto the Diuell himselfe Some to their shame haue had small cause to boast Mat. 12. 31. Luke 12. 9. 10. Mar. 3. 29. Pro. 26. 11. Of this foule sin against the Holy Ghost Accurst and damn'd of all that euer fell But few I know but quick went downe to hell Amongst the Diuels in euerlasting paines Loaden with Boults of heauy burning chaines Whilst those return'd like to a Dog that gurnes Simile That back againe vnto his vomit turnes Or beastly Sow bemir'd in dirty tilth simile Cleere water shuns to scoure away her filth But in a ditch with some vnsauory Bore She layes her downe far worse then ere before How can we thinke or well conceiue in heart That those which once do from their country start And shall distast the grounds wherein at first With Pastors pure they were train'd vp and nurst Heb. 6 4 5 6. That do renounce their Faith and euery thing Their Oath Alegiance to the State and King And in this sinne without Repentance fall How of that man can there be hope at all When as his case what shew so ere he gaine Is but the same with cursed enuious Caine I must confesse Repentance is a worke Repentance Of Gods great loue which caunot lye and lurke Within the Heart but that it forth must shine Like to a