〈…〉 Alterations of Kingdoms, for despising of god: & how God defendeth his 〈…〉 repeat these. vi. lines after every sixth line Every Kingdom, Both all and some. That is divided within itself: Desolate shallbe, Without fear truly Of God, be in that comen wealth. THe first division, In Paradise begun. when Satan, the woman tempted: By whose enticement, They breeke God's Commanndment For that they were thence banished. Spiteful wicked cain, His brother hath slain, Because that Abel's sacrifice, Of God was accepted, And Cayns neglected, This mischief he did devise. This manslaughtor, God did abhor, And cursed wicked cain, He died a like death, Thus scripture saith, At length himself was slain. Good Seth to advance, God's Kingdom to enhance, Of him came many holy men, But Cayns posterity, For their infidelity, were drowned in noah's flood then. They despised God, All godliness withstood, In adultery lived they, In all wilfulness, In tyranny doubtless, For this ensued their dekey. Of their ill living God gave them warning, An hundredth year before By Noah his servant, To that they would not grant, but oppressed the poor much more And suddenly came on, The flood them upon, And every one there drowned, Save only that Noah, And his family, In the Ark they were all saved. Thus God preserved, His Church, figured, By faithful Noah & his household, So surely he will. Preserve them still, That be of his true flock & fold. 〈…〉 ●e, 〈…〉 one, 〈…〉 ●he. Then after this, The Caldeys, builded the tower of Babylon, But in that building, God not delighting, He brought it to destruction. The first kingdom than, By Nemrod began, Among the babylonians. Through Idolatry, And living ungodly, It came to the Assyrians. Then sardanapal, Most lecherous of all, Of his kingdom was deprived, For his ill living, His Office neglecting, His people were then divided. Sodom and Gomor, with ten Cities more, Sank for the sin of lechery, Therein they were brent, They would not repent, They lived so delicately. joseph most prudent, In his government, Brought the Egyptians in religion He set up godly fere, with Civil good manner. Of him is right famous mention. Pharaoh truly, For his tyranny, was drowned in the red sea, when Moses the captain, with God's people then, Passed clean through that way. King Roboam, was a wilful man. He set nought by his counsel old, For divers things, To his subjects undoings, To obey them he never would. Release nought he would, That he unjustly did hold, His people went from him a stray. And a new kingdom, was there begun, And set up in Samaria. The good King joas An holy man was, As long as joiada lived, But when he did die, He set up Idolatry, & zachari his some caused to be killed. Good king Ezechias, A godly man he was, He restored God's worship again, King Balthasar, God's worship did ma●… And for spite he caused That the Chaldees' god was a greater God, Then had the jews This great blasph●… Brought their calam●… The angel of god wrot●… That Bal●hasars ki●… To destruction shuld●… And he sh●de perish t●… Thus the Caldia● And the Assyrians, were at much desenc●… Through strange 〈…〉 Then grew the Per●… which made their k●… Now Christ is co●… The true kingdom 〈…〉 Seek ye rest and fol●… And repent from sy●… A new life now beg●… That virtue may w●… simeon Christ ●… In his arms and 〈…〉 Now let thy servant 〈…〉 An exsaumple true 〈…〉 which we should er●… From strife that w●… Now do ye rega●… How God doth re●… The wicked world when punish doth Vicious men truly He giveth to reign But when God The Comens, he Kings and Rule which maketh the And to them they Both loving, go●… watch ye and ●… Ye know not the ●… Nor the hour w●… To judge the liui●… And they in grau●… At the dreadful d●… God defend o●… From tongues fl●… And send him a pro●… with long contin●… God's glory to a●… And the wealth ●… Love one 〈…〉 〈…〉