The Temple,

The rather fince his fcatter'd jugglings were
United now in one both time and sphere.
From Egypt he took pettic deities,
From Greece oracular infallibilities,
And from old Rome the libertie of pleasure,
By free difpenfings of the Churches treasure.
Then,in memoriall 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 transmigrations;
From all these places, but at divers times,
He took fine vizards to conceal his crimes:
From Egypt Anchorifme and retiredneffe,
Learning from Greece, from old Rome ftatelineffe:
And blending thefe, he carri'd all mens 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 voluntarie tranfmigration.

All pofte to Rome: Princes fubmit their necks
Either t'his publick foot or private tricks.
It did not fit his gravitie to ftirre,

Nor his long journey, nor his gout and furre.
Therefore he fent out able minifters,
Statesmen within, without doores cloisterers:
Who without fpear, or fvvord, or other drumme
Then what was in their tongue, did overcome;
And having conquer'd, did fo ftrangely rule,
That the whole world did feem but the Popes mule,
As new and old Rome did one Empire twist;
So both together are one Antichrift,
Yet with two faces, as their fanus was;
Being in this their old crackt looking-glaffe.
How deare to me, O God, thy counfels are!

who may with thee compare?

Thus

Thus Sinne triumphs in Western Babylon ;
Yet not as Sinne, but as Religion.

Of his two thrones he made the latter beft,
And to defray his journey from the caft.
Old and new Babylon are to hell and night,
As is the moon and funne to heav'n and light.
When th'one did fet, the other did take place,
Confronting equally the law and grace.
They are hells land-marks, Satans double creft:
They are Sinnes nipples, feeding th'eaft and weft.
But as in vice the copie ftill exceeds.

The pattern, but not fo in vertuous deeds;
So, though Sinne made his latter feat the better,
The latter Church is to the firft a debter.
The fecond Temple could not reach the first :
And the late reformation never durft
Compare with ancient times and purer yeares;
But in the Jews and us deferveth' tears.
Nay, it fhall ev'ry yeare decrease and fade;
Till fuch a darkneffe do the world invade
At Chrifts laft coming, as his first did finde:
Yet muft there fuch proportions be affign'd
To thefe diminishings, as is between tin
The fpacious world and Fury to be seen.
Religion ftands on tip-toe in our land,
Ready to pafle to the American strand.
When height of malice, and prodigious lufts,
Impudent finning, witchcrafts, and distrusts
(The marks of future bane) fhall fill our cup
Unto the brimme, and make our measure up:
When Sein fhall swallow Tiber, and the Thames
By letting in them both pollutes her streams: -
When Italie of us fhall have her will,
And all her calender of finnes fulfill;
Whereby one may foretell, what finnes next yeare
Shall both in France and England domineer :

Then

Then fhall Religion to America flee:
They have their times of Gofpel, ev'n as we.
My God, thou doft prepare for them a way,
By carrying firft their gold from them away:
For gold and grace did never yet agree.
Religion alwayes fides with povertie.
We think we rob them, but we think amiffe:
We are more poore, and they more rich by this.
Thou wilt revenge their quarrell, 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 fhall thither weftward flie,
So Sinne fhall trace and dog her inftantly:
They have their period alfo and fet times

Both for their vertuous actions and their crimes...
And where of old the Empire and the Arts
uher'd the Gofpel ever in mens hearts,

Spain hath done one; when Arts perform the other,
The Church fhall come, & Sin the Church fhall fmò-
That when they have accomplished the round, (ther:
And met in th' eaft their firft and ancient found,
Judgement may meet them both & fearch them round.
Thus do both lights, as well in Church as Sunne,
Light one another, and together runne.

Thus alfo Sinne and Darknefte fallow ftill
The Church and Sunne with all their power and skill.
But as the Sunne ftill goes both west and east;
So alfo did the Church by going west

Still eastward go; because it drew more neare
To time and place, where judgement fhall appeare.
How deare to me, O God, thy counsels are!

who may with thee compare?

Ing of Glorie, King of Peace, With the one make warre to cease; With the other bleffe thy sheep, Thee to love, in thee to fleep. Let not Sinne devoure thy fold, Bragging that thy bloud is cold, That thy death is alfo dead, While his conquefts daily spread; That thy flesh hath loft his food, And thy Croffe is common wood. Choke him, let him say no more, But referve his breath in ftore, Till thy conquefts and his fall Make his fighs to use it all, And then bargain with the winde To discharge what is behinde.

Bleed be God alone,
Thrice bleffed Three in One.

FINIS.