The rather fince his fcatter'd jugglings were
United now in one, both time and sphere.
From Egypt he took petty deities,
From Greece oracular infallibilities,
And from old Rome the liberty of pleasure,
By free difpenfings of the Church's treasure."
Then in memorial of his ancient throne,
He did furname his palace Babylon.
Yet that he might the better gain all nations,
And make that name good by their tranfmigrations;
From all these places, but at divers times,
He took fine vizards to conceal his crimes:
From Egpyt anenorifm and retiredness:
Learning from Greece, from old Rome ftateliness:
And blending these he carry'd all men's eyes,
While truth fat by counting his victories:
Whereby he grew apace, and fcorn'd to use
Such force as once did captivate the Jews;
But did bewitch, and finely work each nation
Into a voluntary tranfmigration.
All post to Rome: Princes fubmit their necks
Either t' his public foot or private tricks.
It did not fit his gravity to ftir,
Nor his long journey, nor his gout and fur;
Therefore he fent out able ministers,
Statesmen within, without doors cloisterers:
Who without fpear or fword, or other drum,
Than what was in their tongue, did overcome;
And having conquer'd, did fo ftrangely rule,
That the whole world did feem but the Pope's mule.
As new and old Rome did one empire twist,
So both together are one antichrift;
Yet with two faces, as their Janus was,
Being in this their old crack'd looking-glass.
How dear to me, O God, thy counfels are!
Who may with thee compare?
Thus fin triumphs in Western Babylon;
Yet not as fin, but as religion.
Of his two thrones he made the latter beft,
And to defray his journey from the Eaft.
Old and new Babylon are to hell and night
As is the fun and moon to heaven and light.
When th' one did fet the other did take place,
Confronting equally the law and grace.
They are hell's land-marks, fatan's double creft:
They are fin's nipples, feeding th' East and Weft.
But as in vice the copy ftill exceeds
The pattern, but not fo in virtuous deeds;
So though fin made his latter feat the better,
The latter Church is to the first a debtor.
The fecond temple could not reach the first:
And the late Reformation never durft
Compare with ancient times and purer years;
But in the Jews and us deferveth tears.
Nay, it fhall ev'ry year decrease and fade;
'Till fuch a darknefs fhall the world invade
At Chrift's laft coming as his first did find:
Yet must thei fuch proportions be affign'd
To thefe diminishings as is between
The fpacious world and Jury to be seen.
Religion ftands on tiptoe in our land,
Ready to pass to the American strand.
When height of malice and prodigious lufts,
Impudent finning, witchcrafts and diftrufts,
The marks of future bane, fhall fill our cup
Unto the brim, and make our measure up;
When Sein fhall fwallow Tiber, and the Thames,
By letting in them both, pollutes her ftreams:
When Italy of us fhall have her will,
And all her calendar of fins fulfil;
Whereby one may foretel what fins next year
Shall both in France and England domineer:
Then fhall religion to America flee:
They have their times of gospel ev'n as we.
My God, thou doft prepare for them a way,
By carryi g first their gold from them away:
For gold and grace did never yet agree:
Religion always fides with poverty.
We think we rob them, but we think amifs:
We are more poor, and they more rich by this.
Thou wilt revenge their quarrel, making grace
To pay our debts, and leave our ancient place
To go to them, while that, which now their nation
But lends to us, fhall be our defolation.
Yet as the Church shall thither westward fly,
So fin fhall trace and dog her inftantly:
They have their period alfo and set times
Both for their virtuous actions and their crimes..
And where of old the empire and the arts
Ufher'd the gospel ever in men's hearts,
Spain hath done one; when arts perform the other,
The Church shall come, and fin the Church hall fmo-
That when they have accomplished the round,
And met in th' East, their first and ancient found,
Judgment may meet them both and search them round. Thus do both lights, as well in Church as fun,
Light one another, and together run.
Thus alfo fin and darkness follow ftill
The Church and fun with all their power and skill.
But as the fun ftill goes both Weft and East;
So alfo did the Church by going Weft
Still eastward go; because it drew more near
To time and place where judgment fhali appear.
How dear to me, O God, thy counfels are!
Who may with thee compare?
ING of Glory, King of Peace,
With the one make wars to cease;
With the other bless thy sheep
Thee to love, in thee to sleep.
Let not fin devour thy fold,
Bragging that thy blood is cold,
That thy death is alfo dead,
While his conquefts daily spread;
That thy flesh hath loft his food,
And thy cross is common wood.
Choke him, let him fay no more,
But referve his breath in ftore,
Till thy conqueft and his fall
Make his fighs to use it all,
And then bargain with the wind
To discharge what is behind.
Bleffed be God alone,
Thrice bleffed Three in One.
AND SOLD BY T. HURST, PATER-NOSTER-ROW,
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