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<HEAD>An Embleme of the Times: <HI>OR,</HI> A &s;ea&s;onable Exhortation drawn from the con&s;ideration of Gods gracious dealing with ENGLAND, above all other her neighbour-Nations.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Legall Puni&s;hments</HEAD>
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<L>While on this Emblem thou do&s;t fix an eye</L>
<L>Know it pre&s;ents ouryles late mi&s;erie</L>
<L>Warr and the pe&s;telence tho&s;e judgments great</L>
<L>For go&s;pill great abu&s;e much felt of late</L>
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<BIBL>Revel. 19. 1.</BIBL>
<Q><P>Salvation glory and power to the Lord our God.</P></Q>
<Q><P>2. <HI>For true and righteous are his judgements, for he hath judged tho&s;e which corrupted the earth, &amp;c. and he hath a|venged the bloud of his Ser|vants.</HI></P></Q>
<Q><P>6. <HI>Alleluia, for the Lord our God raigneth.</HI></P></Q>
<Q><P>15. <HI>Out of his mouth goeth a &s;harp &s;word that with it hee &s;hould &s;mite the Nations, hee &s;hall rule them with a rod of yron, &amp;c.</HI></P></Q>
<Q><P>17. <HI>An Angell cryed with a loud voice &s;aying to all the fowles that fly in the mid&s;t of heaven, Come and gather your &s;elves together unto the Supper of the great God.</HI></P></Q>
<Q><P>18. <HI>That yee may eat the fle&s;h of Kings and the fle&s;h of Cap|tains, and the fle&s;h of mighty men, the fle&s;h of hor&s;es and tho&s;e that &s;it thereon.</HI></P></Q>
<BIBL>Zeph. 2. 8.</BIBL>
<Q><P>I have hard the reproach of <HI>Moab,</HI> and the revilings of the children of <HI>Ammon,</HI> whereby they have reproach't my people, and magnified them&s;elves.</P></Q>
<BIBL>Ver&s;. 9</BIBL>
<Q><P>Therefore as I live &s;aith the Lord &s;urely <HI>Moab</HI> &s;hall be as <HI>Sodome. &amp;c.</HI> therefore they &s;hall be a perpetuall de&s;o|lation, the re&s;idue of my peo|ple &s;hall &s;poyle them.</P></Q>
<Q><P>10. <HI>This &s;hall they have for their reproach, and for their pride, becau&s;e they magnified them&s;elves again&s;t the people of the Lord.</HI></P></Q>
<BIBL>I&s;ai. 9. 17.</BIBL>
<Q><P>Therefore the Lord &s;hall have no joy in them, nor have mercy on their fatherle&s;s and widdowes, for every one is an hypocrite, and an evill doer, and every mouth &s;peak|eth folly.</P></Q>
<BIBL>I&s;ai. 10. 6.</BIBL>
<Q><P>I will &s;end him a|gain&s;t an hypocriticall Nati|on, and again&s;t the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the &s;poile, and to take the prey, and tread them down like mire in the &s;treets.</P></Q>
<BIBL>I&s;ai. 16. 6.</BIBL>
<Q><P>We have heard of the pride and haughtine&s;s of <HI>Mo|ab</HI> and of his wrath, but his lies &s;hall not be &s;o.</P></Q>
<BIBL>I&s;ai. 19. 11.</BIBL>
<Q><P>Surely the Princes of <HI>Zoar</HI> are fools, the coun&s;ells of the wi&s;e&s;t Coun&s;ellours of <HI>Pharoah</HI> are become bruiti&s;h.</P></Q>
<Q><P>12. Where are they, let thy wi&s;e men tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord hath pur|po&s;ed.</P></Q>
<BIBL>I&s;ai. 22. 9. 12.</BIBL>
<Q><P>You have &s;een the breaches of the Cities of <HI>Da|vid</HI> that they were many.</P></Q>
<Q><P>In that day did the Lord God of&punc; Ho&s;ts call to weeping, and mourning, &amp;c.</P></Q>
<BIBL>1 Pett. 4. 17.</BIBL>
<Q><P>The time is come that judgement hath begun at the hou&s;e of God, and if it fir&s;t begin at us, what &s;hall become of tho&s;e that obey not the Go&s;|pell?</P></Q>
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<L>ENglands admired change, who can a&s;cend?</L>
<L>Or &s;how the ground, why war thus near &s;hould end?</L>
<L>A Civill War thus in our &s;infull Nation,</L>
<L>How far above all humane expectation.</L>
<L>Our &s;ins that caus'd the &s;ame as great as tho&s;e</L>
<L>That ruin'd Germany, Ireland do expo&s;e:</L>
<L>Whereby &s;uch &s;ad and dolefull lamentation,</L>
<L>With depth of griefe, o're-whelm their Nation.</L>
<L>Oh England! I&s;raels God hath &s;aved thee,</L>
<L>And kept thee from intended &s;laverie.</L>
<L>The great oppre&s;&s;ion and Egpytian yoke</L>
<L>He onely hath di&s;&s;olved, and &s;taid that &s;troke:</L>
<L>Words are unable to expre&s;&s;e that love,</L>
<L>And tender dealing, who&s;e affections move</L>
<L>To carry on a worke, and heale our bleeding Ile,</L>
<L>This work's intended, for &s;uch &s;inners vile,</L>
<L>Then with what thankfull hearts, obedient,</L>
<L>Oh now delay no time, with &s;peed repent,</L>
<L>Wars di&s;mall voice of late thus heard to &s;ound</L>
<L>Throughout the Kingdome, let not fall to ground.</L>
<L>Shall great &s;alvation from free love appeare?</L>
<L>Shall &s;ongs of mourning turne to prai&s;e and prayer?</L>
<L>Shall wrath and vengeance turne to tender love?</L>
<L>Shall peace pre&s;ent her trea&s;ure from above?</L>
<L>Shall truth and mercy wooe a &s;infull Nation?</L>
<L>Shall Ju&s;tice &s;tay her &s;troke, what provocation</L>
<L>The danger of relaps, mo&s;t de&s;perate,</L>
<L>Oh therefore now returne, before too late.</L>
<L>War &s;heathing of his &s;word, yet arm'd both &s;tand,</L>
<L>And &s;tayes a while, yet ready at command.</L>
<L>If &s;in &s;till &s;tay the clo&s;e, our expectation</L>
<L>Fru&s;trate &s;hall be, without a Reformation.</L>
<L>Our plenty of the Go&s;pells ble&s;&s;ed food</L>
<L>Becomes not &s;uch &s;ad janglings, 'tis not good</L>
<L>When children &s;trive where plenty there is &s;tore,</L>
<L>Then wantonne&s;&s;e, not hunger, is the more.</L>
<L>This nice di&s;liking if no novelty,</L>
<L>Poore pampred England cannot ju&s;tifie,</L>
<L>Oh what a &s;ad condition are we under,</L>
<L>That by divi&s;ion thus are rent a&s;under.</L>
<L>The head and tongue, which &s;o deceitfull are,</L>
<L>Yet mo&s;t preferr'd, whil&s;t hearts neglected are.</L>
<L>What &s;hall thy comfort be that know'&s;t the mo&s;t,</L>
<L>When fill'd with pride and &s;in, then cea&s;e to boa&s;t:</L>
<L>Go learn to do what yet thou &s;lighted ha&s;t,</L>
<L>Then &s;halt thou know, <HI>The doer &s;hall be ble&s;t.</HI></L>
<L>Obedience, that great Scripture-Character,</L>
<L>Accounted now by &s;ome a worke of nature;</L>
<L>A faith but to believe, and for di&s;pute,</L>
<L>How greatly valu'd, and of mo&s;t repute?</L>
<L>But Scripture-Worthies (&s;till upon Record)</L>
<L>Declare the truth, that now obtain reward:</L>
<L><HI>Noah, Abraham, Mo&s;es,</HI> what indur'd they,</L>
<L>With many others, whom we mention may:</L>
<L>In Holy Writ, there's not a Saint there &s;et,</L>
<L>But &s;till obedience and his faith have met:</L>
<L>Then would we war and pe&s;tilence &s;hould cea&s;e,</L>
<L>That England might abound with truth and peace?</L>
<L>Let &s;inners all for&s;ake their provocation,</L>
<L>Turne from their evill to humiliation:</L>
<L>Then the de&s;troying Angell quite &s;hall turne</L>
<L>And we no longer &s;adly caus'd to mourne,</L>
<L>But Hallalujahs for our great &s;alvation,</L>
<L>Shall &s;ound with joy to him that &s;av'd the Nation.</L>
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<P><HI>London:</HI> Printed by <HI>R. A.</HI> 1647.</P>
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