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B08383	Some buds and blossoms of piety also, some fruit of the spirit of love. Which directs to the Divine wisdom, being a collection of several papers, found in manuscript, / written by a young man, many of them in the time of his apprenticeship, some of them since. Who, as appears by his writings, had a true travail after the knowledge of God, and heaven, and heavenly things. And did attain to know him and his son, Christ, whom he hath sent, which is life eternal. ; To which subjoyned is a tripple plea, touching law, physick and divinitie, formerly printed and subscribed T.C.	B. A. (Benjamin Antrobus), d. 1715.; T. C. Tripple plea.	1684 (1684)	Wing A3523A; ESTC R176216	28,434	89

that which is the cause of Strife That men may live in Vnity and Peace And Amity and Wars and Blood-shed cease A Time of Darkness o're this Land has bin So thick so dark so gross because of Sin That many People Truth will not receive That God is Light nor in his Son believe Although the Scriptures amply do declare That God and Christ the Name of Light do bare And first concerning God who all things made By his eternal powerful Word He said Let it be so and so it came to pass That all in Heaven and Earth created was This God is Light and in the Light doth dwell As doth the holy Scriptures plainly tell In many places you may plainly find Who read the Scriptures with an humble Mind And that his Son our Christ who is the Lamb Is call'd the Light who from God's Bosom came To lead Man up to God out of the Fall In which through Sin we are concluded all And so through Sin in Death and Darkness be Till by the Light of Christ we are set free Who came to lead all those that him obey Out of the Night into the perfect Day O blessed Day O glorious Day of Light Which conquers Darkness and expels the Night Blest be time in which thy Day-Star bright And Morning redness of Eternal Light Our Hearts did visit and by splendant Rayes Reveal the Glory of these latter Dayes In which the Lord of Host our God most-high According to his Promise doth draw nigh Unto his People and their King will be And by his powerful out-stretch'd Arm set free His Sons and Daughters who long Captives were Under oppressing Pharoah and did beare The heavy Yokes oppressing Burdens and Increasing Talks of black dark Egypt's Land Of Divine Love WHat shall I say of Love the chiefest Good 'T is Bread of Life the Soul 's Coelestial Food The blessed Mansion of Eternity The Residence and Dwelling of the high And lofty One the New-Ierus'lem bright Fill'd with that glorious Splendor and great Light Which doth the seven-fold Light o' th' Sun transcend Which Light transparent never shall have end O depth of Love and boundless Ocean wide Under the shadow of thy Wings us hide And keep us Lord in perfect Rest and Peace Shower down thy Mercies make all Discords cease Reveal thy Light thy glorious Truth make known And by thy conquering Love bind all in one That in a Oneness all may sing amain Iehovah-King on Earth in us doth Reign An Exhortation to dwell in Love DWell Friends in Love and then no Strife will be Nay nor Contention but a Unitie For Love in all things doth for Oneness call Thinking no Evil but pure good to all Yea Love is God and God is Love and Light Fulness of Pleasure Joy and great Delight Dwell ye therein and ye shall witness Friends Such sweet Enjoyments can't be writ by Pens For since the Lord in mercy hath made known This Dispensation of his Love and shown To me its Vertue and choice Nature pure To ye with boldness this I dare assure That Love 's the highest Dispensation yea That ever hath or will dispensed be Christ the true Light Christ the Son of God's Love DWell in the Light and there true Love will be Dwell in true Love and great Light ye shall see For in the Light there true Love doth abound And in the Love there true Light may be found For Light and Love though they seem two by Name Yet one in Substance and in truth the same DEar Friend J. C. with true unfeigned Love I thee salute which in my Heart doth move Towards thee and all our tender Friends most dear Whose Minds are staid on God in his pure fear Feel me dear Friend a Member joyntly knit To all in Christ in heavenly Places sit And here to Friends no Stranger would I be Though they my Face as outward ne're did see For truly Friend I dearly love and own All travelling Souls who truly sigh and groan For the Adoption which sets free from Sin And works Redemption from that state wherein The Prince o' th' Power of Darkness long did reign But blest be God the time 's at hand a Chain In utter Darkness must his Portion be There to be bound and never more set free O! all the Riches that are here below Pomp State and Glory man esteemeth so What is It all if I It once compare Unto a Child that doth Gods Image bare But Dross and Dung yea filthy Dirt and Mire To purest Gold refined in the Fire How can I then but dearly love and own Those precious Members which are Bone of Bone And prize their presence and enjoyment more Than Butts of Wine and Oyl and Barns of Store THe man that lives in Sin walks in the Night And spends his dayes in Darkness not in Light A righteous man his Works to Life do tend But wicked men their Minds to Strife do bend Avoid the Ways of Satan they 're not right But traoe the Steps o' th' Just which Shine as Light Comfort the Comfortless in time of need Distribute to the Poor and Hungry feed A Complaint against New-England Professors O Sad New-England I have heard strange News concerning Thee Why didst Thou thus abuse Gods Children dear Male and Female Surely Their Blood Thou Slew and Hang'd aloud doth cry Unto the Lord who will avenge the same Upon Thy Head A Record to thy shame A shameful thing indeed what shall I say You are the stock of Cain this was his way Your cruel Works Your hardned Hearts make known Your Babel great must to the Earth be thrown Your boastings high like Caparnaum tall Must all come down your Pride shall have a fall You that so cruel and merciless were The Vengeance of Almighty God must bear Concerning Persecution SInce Abel's time unto this present day There is an Evil that hath born great sway An Evil Great A Horrid and Black Sin Call'd Persecution All that walk therein What e're they say profess or do pretend By Persecution People to amend Yet none of them could ever make appear Co-ercive Means was a good Course to stere It ne're did Mend but rather always Mar Who e're harpt on that ftring still made a Iar IT is a hateful foul destructive thing To King nor People It ne're good can bring The Work and Fruit thereof as many write Nought else produceth but a Hypocrite I think it strange why some should pleasure take And Toil themselves but Hypocrites to make It is work that Marks all in it are With Mark and Badge of Satan which they weare The Mark o' th' Flesh and Birth that 's from below A Badge with which all Persecutors go For as it was so still it is I say The Fleshly Birth the Spirits Birth would slay Nothing more certain is the Mark and Seat O' th' wicked Whore than Persecution great Nothing the mark of the false Church more plain Than Reformation per force to

maintain Nothing more plain is writ in Letters Red Than Antichrist where they mens Blood do shed About Religion and Religions things This is a truth Conviction with it brings To all that sober serious moderate are It is an Argument great weight will beare For Christ commanded that the Wheat and Care Should grow together till the Harvest were The Tares to be pluckt up he gave no leave Lest that thereby the Wheat should hurt receive He also told to his Disciples all When that from Heaven they would Fire call They did not know nor understand aright What spirit they were of for his delight Was Mens Lives for to save and not to kill For this end did he come to do Gods will He also said when that you Cursed are Then you should Bless when Persecuted bear It patiently and Pray for Enemies Do Good to those that hate you none despise Because they are not now just as you are The time may come they may Gods Image bear Though now Adverse Idolatrous and Vain The time may come they Mercy may obtain If now their Way be False Erroneous and Not Right in time they Truth may understand The best way then is still to let them live And let your Light so shine as it may give A better Understanding that they may Receive the Truth and walk in the Right Way After this manner Christ his Scholars taught And those ' teach otherwise their Doctrine's naught They ne'er did learn it of the Light the Lamb. For Persecution from the Devil came 'T is he that sets men to this Work and they Shall of him have their Wages and their Pay Therefore let none that this bad Work attend Expect Good Wages in their latter end Their Work is bad and their Reward will be Gnashing of Teeth to all Eternitie Thus much concerning Persecution here A thing from which all Christians should keep clear LOrd God Eternal by thy mighty Power Preserve I pray thee in the approaching hour Thy Lambs thy Babes thy little Ones yea all Who in Thee trust and on thy Name do call Support them Lord by thine Out-stretched Hand And give them boldness valinntly to stand True Witnesses for thee thy Truth and Light And bear their Testimony in despite Of Wicked Men who wilfully oppose That saving Light their deeds of Darkness shows ' Gainst their false Worships and Idolatry Which holds the Seed in sore Captivity That so the Righteous Seed o're all may rise To praise thy holy Name thou only Wise To whom be Glory Honour and Renown Who only worthy art to wear the Crown Concerning the Philosophers Stone BLest is that man can want and can abound And rest Content in all states he hath found That precious Pearl much hidden and unknown Which may be term'd the Philosophers Stone For it turns all to Good the chiefest Gold What-e'er it haps on either Heat or Cold Sun-shine or Rain Riches or Poverty Stripes or Reproaches all things well comply And with this Stone so joyntly mix and change Its course most swift throughout the World doth range And by its sublime Vertue still convert All things to Riches and great Joy of Heart Press forwards Chymists and this Stone attain For 't is the Sumnum Bonum and the main Point of Religion and Divinity Thus in Gods hand in true Content to lie And at the ordering of his mighty Power With true submissiveness even every hour In still and quiet Resignation stand To his disposing Providential hand Concerning Covetousness THere is a Sin too much liv'd in It many Cloakes doth wear These Cloakes much us'd and much abus'd Are almost grown Threed bare The Rich Men yet these Cloakes will get And wear them frequently As if so be no one could see What under them doth lie Alas Alas these Cloakes may pass Avarice to cover Yet all won't do to tell them true Though wrapt over and over This Sin which hath so many Cloakes Is named Covetousness Here ye may see Idolatry In some great things profess Although this sin so much liv'd in Be meer Idolatry Say what one will they 'l live in 't still 'T is Truth none can deny Concerning Pride Avarice and Luxury PRide Avarice and Luxury these three Are Evils great avoided for to be By all who Christ profess and bare his Name His Life and Doctrine did condemn the same Pride was the Evil which did first prevail Mis'ry on all through Adam to entail Pride and Self-love desires to grow so great Persues and craves to know what is not meet And when obtain'd it works a strange exchange Drives out from Paradise on Earth to range So Pride before Destruction goes and all That are of Haughty minds must have a fall Proud man God did resist and doth so still But doth the Humble teach to do his Will His Will then done Man does enjoy Gods Peace Rests in his Sabbath and from Sin doth cease Avarice is an Evil great indeed Because from it all Evils do proceed A Root of Mischief 't is Idolatry A Sin from which we all should swiftly fly But having touch'd on this great Sin before The less need say and so now pass it o're Luxury next is that of which I write An Evil great to indulge th' Appetite 'T is an Excess of Pleafure and Self-ease With Christian moderation ne're agrees To say What shall we eat or drink or weare It was the Gentiles for those things took care But Christ to his Disciples thus did say Take ye not thought he shew'd another way First seek Gods Kingdom and his Righteousness All other things the Lord will add and bless By which those that Luxuriously did feed And drink excessive are reprov'd indeed Indeed the same severe Reproof doth merit For those it use strange Mischiefs shall inherit Not only to their Bodies and Estates But on their Souls brings burdens and great weights Impareth Health it shortens Life and still Unfits the mind to do Gods holy Will And those in Luxury and Self-ease dwell Forget God so must be turn'd into Hell There 's One thing more to you I now may name Apparels first ordained to hide mans shame And why of these should man be proud I pray And for what reason should they be so gay Since the first Coat which Adam wore was spun By Sin a Threed and Work hath all undone Why then should Man use so much Cost and Care His Lapse to show thus trim the Badge to wear As if to all he meets he would impart His Innocency lost and Pride of 's Heart Well this I say Pride Avarice and all Luxurious ways sprung up through Adam's Fall And as Man comes to be Restor'd again By Christ these Sins are mortifi'd and slain But those live in such Evils and Excess Be no good Christians what e're they profess TEMPERANCE is a Vertue choice and rare This Age these Trees are scarce such Fruit doth bear This is an Age Intemperance and Sin Too much in Fashion is