GOD'S VENGEANCE

Q Vid gloriaris in maliciam? qui potens es in iniquitate. Thu vengeable wretch, replete with poison and vice, Why dost thu thus rejoice, in cruel tie and malice? Thinkest thu that God sleepeth, & will not his defe ̄ de And that thy mischief, shall never have and end? The blood of innocentes, to him for vengeaum ̄ ce call And therefore this hour. must I fiercely upon ̄ the fallen Thinkest thu to stop me, with thy foolish continued ̄ iuracyon Whom God sends hither, for thy abomination? I am vindictam Dei, in po ̄ nyshment most fierce, With water, with sword, and with fire I must the pierce. By filthy rewards, thu cannyst not me entreat, But that I will do, as God hath me commanded. For if worldly gifts, my fury might have changed. The universal world, had not be drowned with water, Nor Sodom and Gomor, with so fiery fearful mat ter. Nor yet the Israelytes, with terror of the sword, With hunger and pestilence, in the anger of Gods word. Pharao in Egypt, the plagues had never felt, Might I have be stopped, for silver or for gelte. Into Egypt I brought, ten terrible po ̄ nyshmentes Upon the people for breaking his commau ̄ deem ̄ tes Their wholesome waters, I turned into blood, I multiplied frogs, to poyso ̄ therewith their fond I made wasps & dranes, them grievously to sting, And all kinds of flies, soon after dead I in bring Upon their cattle, I threw the foul pestilence, Both borche, boil & blain, they had for their offence. Lyghtenynges and hailings, destroyed their corn and fruit, A swarne of hungry locusts, their pastors destitute The space of three days, I gave them palpable dark ness, I slew the first goote ̄ , of ma ̄ & beast for thy rudeness For I never strike, but for the, Infidelity. What, thu Wilt not so, thy brains are not so light. All that will not help, thy wicked workings now, When the stronger come, the weaker must needs bow The law of Nature, infected thu hast with a lepry? Of whom sprung they first? but of Infidelity? Therefore thu shalt have that plague of penalte, Which they first tasted, for their inyquyre. For those two vices, I drowned the world with uva ter. In token whereof, I plague the with the same matter. And him thu corruptedest, with Avarice & Amby cyo ̄ , And so dedyst leave him, in miserable continued ̄ dycyo ̄ , Thu shalt have therefore, that than to them was endue, Most terrible barrayle, the Israelytes untrue, That time dead suffer, for their infidelity, Wherefore with this sword, I justly banish the. Because thu shalt here, give place to Christ's gospel The innocent blood, of saints continually, Does call unto God, to revenge their injury, Against false doctrine, and cursed hypocrisy. Whom thu hast raised, the glory of the Gospel, To darken, and his Friends, most miserably to quell. Wherefore thu shalt have, like as thu hast deserved For thy wicked doings, thy ponyshme ̄ to now doubled. Ignis ip sum ̄ precedet, the Prophet David say thus Ar que inflame mabit in circuitum inimicos eius. A consuming fire, shall run before the judge, His enemies consuming, they shall find no refuge. Ob scelera & culpas hominum, ritus que nephandos In cineres ibit tellus, tenuem que favillam. As Mantuan writeth, for the wickedness of the. The earth to ashes, by fire shall turned be.