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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19051	Hebdomada sacra: A weekes deuotion: or, Seuen poeticall meditations vpon the second chapter of St. Matthewes gospell. Written, by Roger Cocks.	Cocks, Roger, fl. 1630-1642.	1630 (1630)	STC 5467; ESTC S118643	39,040	84

doth warch With bloody mind both Lamb and Eue to catch That he may prey vpon them therefore take The tender Infant and his Mother make Co-partner in thy flight to Egypt flee There 's roome and safety for thy Charge and Thee There plant thy habitation and remaine Till thou mayst safely venture backe againe Which safety when the time shall once afford I le be a Messenger to bring thee word This message ended backe the Angell goes When presently good Joseph doth dispose Himselfe to Gods command that very night With his deare charge he 'gins to take his flight But though such haste Ioseph made to be gone Wee 'll stay a while and meditate hereon That woman in the vncouth Wildernesse Reuel 12. Whom neere her time the Dragon did distresse One thinkes doth represent the Church another Not much amisse the blessed Virgin Mother Indeed the Dragon suits with Herod well And Mary is the womans paralell The story tells vs that the woman fled The Dragons furie when deliuered So was the blessed Virgin glad to flie With her young Babe from Herods cruelty The Dragon there stood ready to deuoure The Child when he was borne and euery houre Herod did gape for newes that he might slay The blessedst Infant euer yet saw day Yet Child and Mother both escaped there So Christ and Mary both preserued were As Moses guarded by Gods mighty hand Came safely of from the vniust command Of persecuting Pharoah and became A mighty Captaine in Iehouahs Name To quell the pride of Pharoah and set free The Hebrewes from Egyptian slauery So by Gods prouidence did Christ escape From Dragon Herods mouth which wide did gape To swallow him aliue that he might be Vnto his people in captiuity A mighty leader and the power quell Of Sinne and Sathan of the Graue and Hell And so in fine his Israel safely bring From bondage worse then vnder Egypts King Finally when the Dragon did perceiue Hi● force against the woman vaine did leaue To persecute her yet did i●ly burne In indignation and his fury t●●ne To warre vpon the remnant of her seed Hoping to meet ther● with succesfull speed So Herod frustrated of his desire Suffers his heart to burne in flaming fire Of furious rage and will needes wreake his spleene On silly infants but this shal be seene More largely in the progresse of this story Christs flight a while keeps back the Infants glory Like as a gardner when he spies a plant Full of faire hope fit elbow roome to want As nigh some ouerspreading tree bereauen Of the Suns heat and the fat dew of heauen With care remoues it to another place Where it thriues mainly in a little space So when the Lord his Sonne that plant did see Plac'd to neare Herod that farre spreading tree Yet fruitlesse therefore worthy to be feld Lest the vnholsome shadow death should peld To the neare neighbouring plant his powerfull hand Doth now transplant him to another land He that in flight our refuge is heere flies He that assists vs ●gainst our enemies Auoids the furie of his mortall foes And like an exile into Egypt goes That in such kind of dire calamities He might with vs the better sympathize Our Sauiour Christ without a Gyges ring Could haue obscur'd his person from the King Or had he pleas'd what euer was intended Gainst Herods malice haue himselfe defended He that by fire did his Eliah guard He that an host of Angels had prepar'd Elisha to secure he that did saue Daniel from Lyons Lazarus from the graue Had it seem'd good could heere haue gon as farre And quail'd the force of Herods men of warre But he chose rather to sepose his might And to expose his person vnto flight Either to shew what he himselfe doth say He came no worldly Scepter here to sway Ioh. 18. Or else by his example to declare The Church for persecution must prepare Or it may be to teach vs that the Lord No extraordinary will afford When we haue ordinary meanes at hand By which we may withdraw and quit the Land To worke our safety or to teach in fine Vs personall persecution to decline So Moses fled from Pharaohs cruelty So Dauid from his sonnes impiety So Paul no safety being in the Towne Was in a basket by the wall let downe That he might scape the danger so againe He fled from Salem fearing to be slaine So Polycarpe in persecutions heat Did by aduice for a while change his seate Eusebius So Athanasius did often flie From that blood thirsting Arrian tyranny So when Iustina Valentimans Mother Socrates scholaslicus Her rage against S Ambrose could not smother He fled from Millaine Chrysostome like fate Drew from Bizantium to shun the hate Eud●xia bare vnto him Christ our Sauiour When past an Infant had the like behauiour So when the Pharises a counsell tooke Against his life their presence he forsooke Mat. 12. 15. Luk. 4. Iohn 8. So when the Nazarens malicious will Would throw him headlong from the City hill He left the place so when with fell despite The Iewes did seeke to stone him from their sight He hid himselfe to make this truth more plaine He giues this as a precept to remaine To all succeeding times when tyrants hate Shall rather seeke your liues then your estate Out of one City to another flie Mat. 10. 23. And saue your selues from their st●rne cruelty This is to be like cunning Serpents wise Mat. 10. 16. When innocence of Doues will not suffice But we must know our Sauiour ●led not death Mortem distulit non fugit Chrisost Out of a feare to leese his vicall breath Onely for this cause he did now foreslow it That afterwards he better might bestow it He meant to lay it downe as a rare gift Of his owne bounty not by Herods drift By his freewill he did intend to die Morietur non vinculo necessitatis sed proposito voluntatis Fulgen. And not out of a fore'd necessity But seeing thou wouldst haue thy Sonne O Lord To flie wherefore to Egypt so abhord Can that to thy belou'd safe harbor giue In which thy Israel did in bondage liue Haue the Egyptians those plagues forgot Thou didst impose vpon them Will they not Study reuenge Or may not Ioseph feare If Egypts King of his arriuall heare He shall be taken for an Hebrew Spie And by some vncouth torment forc'd to die O let not flesh and blood expostulate With Gods determination or debate The matter any further God who drawes Honey from He●lock with the Bee can cause Each place that is to serue vnto his will And safety raise euen from those would kill The time was once when his almighty Hand Threw plagues apace on the Egyptian Land The worst of which wherewith they were annoi'd Was when their first borne issue was destroi'd To recompence this losse he sends his owne And by his bounty his great loue