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<P>THE ROD OF RECOMPENCE OR THE HAND OF JUSTICE.</P>
<P>In the Puni&s;hment of the ENEMIES of CHURCH &amp; STATE, BY Gods Providence and Ju&s;tice brought about, after they had by the &s;pace of eighteen years afflicted and tormented both.</P>
<P><HI>Written by</HI> JOHN CONSET, D. in <HI>Phy&s;ick.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL>PSALM 9.16.</BIBL>
<P>The Lord is known to execute Judgement, and the wicked &s;hall be trapped in the work of his own hands.</P>
<P>For the poor &s;hall not alway be forgotten, the patient abiding of the meek &s;hall not peri&s;h for ever.</P>
<P>For when he maketh inqui&s;ition for blood, he remembreth it, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.</P></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>T. R.</HI> for the Author, <HI>A. D.</HI> 1660.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
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<HEAD>THE ROD OF RECOMPENCE OR THE HAND OF JUSTICE.</HEAD>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>I</HEAD>
<L>THE branch which late I reached to the ju&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>Portending Peace</HI></L>
<L><HI>And much increa&s;e</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of hap to tho&s;e who must</HI></L>
<L>Acknowledge Gods high power in Re&s;tauration,</L>
<L>Of them and theirs from this late de&s;olation.</L>
<L>Its me&s;&s;age ended, now becomes a rod</L>
<L>Of Recompence to tho&s;e, who man or God</L>
<PB N="4" REF="3">
<L>Of late contemned, counting nothing holy</L>
<L>Which did not tend to th' advance of their folly.</L>
<L>Nor &s;par'd to &s;courge with in&s;olence the ju&s;t,</L>
<L>And them to trample in the abject du&s;t.</L>
<L>The&s;e Nimrods now by a mo&s;t ju&s;t &s;ucce&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t mount the &s;cene to an&s;wer their oppre&s;&s;ion.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<L>Thus have you &s;een the Providence divine</L>
<L><HI>From captive thrall</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of late recall,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And end their woes in fine</HI></L>
<L>Who did with patience ki&s;s their Soveraigns he&s;ts,</L>
<L>Them daigning for a while (to be oppre&s;t)</L>
<L>Unto their Tyrant foes to give: But lo,</L>
<L>How he rewards their patience, and how</L>
<L>He crown'd their &s;ufferings with much con&s;olation,</L>
<L>And clears their innocence by this Re&s;tauration.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<L>Whil&s;t tho&s;e who late their &s;tern oppre&s;&s;ors were,</L>
<L><HI>Are captive made,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And in a &s;hade</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of pen&s;ive dreary care</HI></L>
<L>Benighted, and their horrid guilt loud cries</L>
<L>For vengeance on their retchle&s;s Butcheries</L>
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<L> And Providence reads lectures of In&s;truction</L>
<L>To after-Ages; in their ju&s;t de&s;truction.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<L>Not long it is &s;ince the black lines of woe,</L>
<L><HI>Did much ore cloud</HI></L>
<L><HI>And &s;ore en&s;hroud</HI></L>
<L><HI>By this our common foe,</HI></L>
<L>Tho&s;e radiant Beams of Royal Maje&s;ty,</L>
<L>Which er&s;t enlighten'd faithfull loyalty:</L>
<L>As Phaebus fills the le&s;&s;er &s;tars with light,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;ole Ecclip&s;e benights their glory bright.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="5">
<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<L>But now the radiant beams from Gods high favour,</L>
<L><HI>Th' Ecclip&s;e remove,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And in his love</HI></L>
<L><HI>He (appearing a Saviour</HI></L>
<L>To King and people) tho&s;e black lines out-raced,</L>
<L>Their comely vi&s;age which had &s;o defaced;</L>
<L>And brings on th' Scene their active cruel foe,</L>
<L>Which thus had drawn on them the&s;e lines of woe.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="6">
<PB N="6" REF="4">
<HEAD>VI</HEAD>
<L>Not long it is &s;ince the&s;e black &s;ons of errour</L>
<L><HI>Rebellious Frie</HI></L>
<L><HI>And progeny</HI></L>
<L><HI>And to ju&s;t men a terror</HI></L>
<L>Mounted on their u&s;urped Throne did &s;hine</L>
<L>With rayes of Pomp and Triumph; But in fine</L>
<L>Their lu&s;tre proves like that which doth proceed</L>
<L>From tho&s;e fal&s;e fires which mi&s;ts and vapors feed.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="7">
<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<L>Mean while the&s;e meteors daily breath out woe,</L>
<L><HI>Or captive thrall</HI></L>
<L><HI>To the loyal</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who in their tract to go</HI></L>
<L>Refu&s;e; and therefore cruel &s;ervitude,</L>
<L>Or va&s;&s;a lage to them they do conclude.</L>
<L>Nay death and Martyrdome mu&s;t be their end,</L>
<L>Who to their rage will not a&s;&s;i&s;tance lend.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="8">
<PB N="7" REF="4">
<HEAD>VIII.</HEAD>
<L>But now behold the&s;e Titans brought to thrall</L>
<L><HI>By tho&s;e who late,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Did &s;atiate</HI></L>
<L><HI>By their distre&s;s &amp; fall.</HI></L>
<L>The &s;pleen and envy of the&s;e Tyrants fell,</L>
<L>Who now mu&s;t change their Throne into a cell:</L>
<L>Their Triumphs into Dirges mu&s;t they turn,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e who long have laught, mu&s;t learn to mourn</L>
<L>From whence they came, to that they mu&s;t return.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="9">
<HEAD>IX.</HEAD>
<L>Like In&s;ects they from corrupt matter came,</L>
<L><HI>By th' heat of War</HI></L>
<L><HI>And cruel jar</HI></L>
<L><HI>Late brooded, to the &s;ame</HI></L>
<L>Mu&s;t they di&s;&s;olve like tho&s;e <HI>Aegyptian</HI> flies,</L>
<L>Bred but to plague our Countrey for its vice:</L>
<L>But through repentance God hath them remanded,</L>
<L>Back to their cells again, when th' judgement's ended</L>
</LG>
<LG N="10">
<PB N="8" REF="5" MS="y">
<HEAD>X.</HEAD>
<L>Their threas mu&s;t they into petitions change,</L>
<L><HI>Who did rejest</HI></L>
<L><HI>With dire a&s;pect</HI></L>
<L>(<HI>When others torments &s;trange</HI></L>
<L>Enforc'd to &s;ue for mercy) their Petition;</L>
<L>And charg'd them (Loyal) with &s;ome foul &s;edition.</L>
<L>Steeling their faces with har&s;h lines of <HI>Terrour,</HI></L>
<L>Mi&s;calling truth with Epithites of <HI>errour;</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e may intreat, but iu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tly are forlorn;</L>
<L>Their <HI>Terrours</HI> turn'd into contempt and &s;corn.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="11">
<HEAD>XI.</HEAD>
<L>The&s;e are the men who tru&s;ted not in God,</L>
<L><HI>But in their &s;trength</HI></L>
<L><HI>And at the length</HI></L>
<L><HI>Did &s;way the ruling rod.</HI></L>
<L>And rather cho&s;e &s;ins plea&s;ures for a &s;ea&s;on,</L>
<L>Might their enjoyments be, though haughty trea&s;on</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t God and man the &s;ame <HI>conferr'd,</HI> than dure</L>
<L>Affliction with Gods people, who abjure</L>
</LG>
<LG N="12">
<PB N="9" REF="5">
<HEAD>XII.</HEAD>
<L>That gain or plea&s;ure which with Gods behe&s;t</L>
<L><HI>Doth not agree</HI></L>
<L><HI>But when they &s;ee</HI></L>
<L><HI>What to their &s;ouls &s;eems be&s;t</HI></L>
<L>Do chu&s;e it, though clag'd with clods of affliction,</L>
<L>Or vail'd and &s;hadow'd with clouds of dejection.</L>
<L>For well they know, that to their pre&s;ent grief</L>
<L>Joy &s;hall &s;ucceed, and they &s;hall find relief.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="13">
<HEAD>XIII.</HEAD>
<L>But the&s;e, believe not God for future good</L>
<L><HI>But what they &s;ee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>They take to be</HI></L>
<L><HI>The only chiefe&s;t good.</HI></L>
<L>And wholly bend their thoughts that to attain</L>
<L>(Gods he&s;ts neglecting) make their God their gain,</L>
<L>To which they &s;acrifice their whole endeavour,</L>
<L>And by this homage from their Maker &s;ever,</L>
<L>Only in word they'l own Him; but in deed,</L>
<L>Their own devices, not his word, they'l creed.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="14">
<PB N="10" REF="6">
<HEAD>XIV.</HEAD>
<L>They &s;par'd no ill to bring about their end,</L>
<L><HI>Be't King to kill,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Or other ill</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whereto their actions tend</HI></L>
<L>They wallow in all worldly joyes, and &s;till</L>
<L>(As if no God there were) their Genius fill</L>
<L>With all delights; Gods Word they only u&s;'d</L>
<L>As &s;ervant to their lu&s;ts, thus it th' abu&s;ed.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="15">
<HEAD>XV.</HEAD>
<L>And &s;ith they &s;aw no Judgement them ore take,</L>
<L><HI>As if Gods word</HI></L>
<L><HI>Did not afford</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Rule for us to make</HI></L>
<L>Our Guide to holy life, they laid a&s;ide,</L>
<L>And their &s;ucce&s;s they make their only guide</L>
<L>To prove Gods approbation, but behold</L>
<L>Their <HI>Mediums</HI> bad, and their conclu&s;ion cold.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="16">
<PB N="11" REF="6">
<HEAD>XVI.</HEAD>
<L>Loe he who 'gain&s;t his Soveraigns life did plead,</L>
<L><HI>And did attain</HI></L>
<L><HI>He &s;hould be &s;lain,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who was our chief &amp; head.</HI></L>
<L>He for his own life pleads, but is deny'd,</L>
<L>Sith at his in&s;tance our dear Soveraign dy'd.</L>
<L>He could not happy be while <HI>Charles</HI> did live,</L>
<L>Nor we, except to him his meed we give:</L>
<L>His pa&s;&s;ed &s;weets mu&s;t we repay with &s;owre,</L>
<L>His Sun&s;hines turn'd to Tempe&s;ts to&s;&s;ing &s;howre.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="17">
<HEAD>XVII.</HEAD>
<L>And he who&s;e frothy Rethorick did move</L>
<L><HI>By &s;ubtill words</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which nought affords</HI></L>
<L><HI>But &s;hows of what they love.</HI></L>
<L>The &s;illy ones (to &s;econd his de&s;ign)</L>
<L>Their Rings, their lives and all for to re&s;ign</L>
<L>To his di&s;po&s;al, lo now he wants breath,</L>
<L>Or words to plead, and &s;ave him&s;elf from death.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="18">
<PB N="12" REF="7">
<HEAD>XVIII.</HEAD>
<L>Full often hath this Mi&s;creant abu&s;ed</L>
<L><HI>That &s;acred place,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whence rayes of Grace</HI></L>
<L><HI>By Gods Word are diffu&s;ed</HI></L>
<L>Among&s;t poor Mortals them to light into</L>
<L>The way of Peace, there did he chu&s;e to do</L>
<L>His Antick Pageants; making it a &s;tage</L>
<L>Of Drollery to the profane phrantique age.</L>
<L>God thus permitting him uncurb'd to run</L>
<L>From ill to wor&s;e, till th' height of ills he had done,</L>
<L>And la&s;t the Guardon af tho&s;e ills hath won.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="19">
<HEAD>XIX.</HEAD>
<L>And tho&s;e who er&s;t in pomp and Triumph led</L>
<L><HI>Armies at Will</HI></L>
<L><HI>Do now want skill</HI></L>
<L><HI>To guard their tottering head.</HI></L>
<L>Their force is &s;catter'd, and their Armie's &s;haken,</L>
<L>For Gods ju&s;t judgement hath them overtaken,</L>
<L>Their valours daunted, and their Crafts out-vi'd,</L>
<L>And their de&s;ignes made void on every &s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="20">
<PB N="13" REF="7">
<HEAD>XX.</HEAD>
<L>For he who from his Throne beholdeth all,</L>
<L><HI>Which under th' Sun</HI></L>
<L><HI>By man is done,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Or on this stable ball</HI></L>
<L>Doth come to pa&s;s, permits mans cur&s;t invention</L>
<L>Sometimes to take effect, but with intention</L>
<L>When he his whole atchievement hath attain'd,</L>
<L>And th' &s;umme of all his wicked hope hath gain'd,</L>
<L>To let him &s;ee his hand can quickly foil</L>
<L>His greate&s;t Fortre&s;s, and it give to &s;poil.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="21">
<HEAD>XXI.</HEAD>
<L>When therefore you oppre&s;&s;ion do behold</L>
<L><HI>Within a land</HI></L>
<L><HI>Long time to &s;tand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let not your faith be cold.</HI></L>
<L>But know who heaven, and earth, and all hath made,</L>
<L>(Though long he &s;uffer) yet by him's ore &s;waid</L>
<L>The powers therein contain'd; and 'its He,</L>
<L>Who all Oppre&s;&s;ours and un<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;t doth &s;ee,</L>
<L>And will in time their injuries repay,</L>
<L>Avenge their wrongs at la&s;t, though long he &s;tay.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="22">
<PB N="14" REF="8">
<HEAD>XXII.</HEAD>
<L>Mo&s;t true it is we had de&s;erv'd his ire</L>
<L><HI>Again&s;t his he&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>(For ever blest)</HI></L>
<L><HI>By our rebellion dire,</HI></L>
<L>With haughty &s;pirits &s;purning, and with &s;corn</L>
<L>Rejecting his commands; His patience worn</L>
<L>With our rebellious wanton <HI>carriage,</HI> turning</L>
<L>To wrath and fury, 'gain&s;t our vices burning.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="23">
<HEAD>XXIII.</HEAD>
<L>Therefore he gave us to the Phili&s;tim</L>
<L><HI>To be dejected</HI></L>
<L><HI>And afflicted</HI></L>
<L><HI>By their tortours grim,</HI></L>
<L>Who &s;poil'd our hou&s;es, and our lands did take</L>
<L>To their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, and our Church did make</L>
<L>A Den for foxes, or for Owles a ne&s;t.</L>
<L>Our &s;elves their Captives whom they rob'd of re&s;t,</L>
<L>Our women from their plea&s;ant places they</L>
<L>Ca&s;t out, and made our joyes become their prey.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="24">
<PB N="15" REF="8">
<HEAD>XXIV.</HEAD>
<L>Thus were we toyled with fell &s;ervitude,</L>
<L><HI>Untill at length</HI></L>
<L><HI>God &s;hew'd his &s;trength,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Our &s;orrows to conclude.</HI></L>
<L>And did remove from us his &s;courging hand,</L>
<L>When gain'd the end of his Afflictions, and</L>
<L>Reclaimed us from &s;inning, then he throwes</L>
<L>Into the fire of vengeance the&s;e our foes;</L>
<L>Whom by &s;ucce&s;s he made a Rod to us,</L>
<L>Now burnes the &s;ame, our woes concluding thus.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="25">
<HEAD>XXV.</HEAD>
<L>Let not therefore Gods patience you incite</L>
<L><HI>With violence</HI></L>
<L><HI>To innocence</HI></L>
<L><HI>To offer &s;hrewd de&s;pite.</HI></L>
<L>For &s;ure you &s;hall by wofull tryal find,</L>
<L>He all your wrongs will trea&s;ure up in mind,</L>
<L>And at the length, he vengeance on your head</L>
<L>Will feirce repay, either alive or dead.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="26">
<PB N="16" REF="9">
<HEAD>XXVI.</HEAD>
<L>Now &s;ith, O Lord, thy ju&s;tice doth thus &s;ure</L>
<L><HI>Avenge all wrong</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which here is done,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And doth al&s;o procure</HI></L>
<L>In &s;pite of ill relief to th' wronged flock,</L>
<L>Who flie to thee as their faiths &s;ure&s;t rock.</L>
<L>Let us beware how we do thee provoke,</L>
<L>To lay on us thy &s;courge, and fatal &s;troke.</L>
<L>And let's in faith and fear wait for thy favour,</L>
<L>That here and after thou may&s;t be our Saviour.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER>AMEN.</CLOSER>
<CLOSER>DEO GLORIA.</CLOSER>
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