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Religion, the only happiness a poem : in a letter to a friend.
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Dawes, William, Sir, 1671-1724.
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1694
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been supplied With noble Souls that for her sake have Died Not always single to destruction led Thousands together by the Great have bled Those kill'd with ease and kindly knock't o' th head The Tender Mercies of this Impious World We feel when Gently into tother hurld Others have a severer Fortune found Been first Abus'd and Mock't and Scourg'd and Bound And then have all the various Torments tried Which Rage cou'd find by Cruel Wit supplied 'T would chill my Blood with Horrour shou'd I tell By what strange Death 's the Primitive Christians fell Or the Mad D' Alva's Hellish Cruelties Or Paris's more fresh Barbarities Hibernia's yet more Perfect Wickedness Or the Wild Fury of our Maries Days And all this wretched Inhumanity These horrid Scenes of Barbarous Cruelty Were levell'd only against Piety Their Consecrated Poisons reach the Throne And their mean rage will pull a Cottage down Their Brutish Malice is not to be staid By all the softness of a tender Maid Her Pray'rs and Vows and Tears are all in Vain Her Honour and her Blood the Altars stain No Pity Infants softer Smiles can move All Passion 's banish't that 's ally'd to Love They 're ravisht from their Dying Mothers Breast And headlong hurl'd into Eternal rest Old Age by a Malicious Compliment In mere Good will to tother World is sent All these my Friend these wretched Miseries Flow from the enmity of Cursed Vice And yet Religious Votaries do choose Themselves in all these Dangers to expose Supported by assistances within Before the Sham Delights of Tempting Sin They know there is a near approaching hour When God shall come to judge the World with Pow'r In flaming Wrath His Vengeance to repay On all who did not his Just Laws obey Then shall their Cause at his great Bar be heard And to the World their Innocence be clear'd And those poor Wretches who condemn'd them here Shall have a much more dreadful Sentence there Eternal Torments shall the 'r Portion be And never ending Perfect Misery Whilst those blest Souls shall mount to Happiness Beyond what Heart can think or tongue express Freed from their Pains and Grief their Cares and Fears Their Hearts no Sorrows know their Eyes no Tears But an Eternal Joy their Heads shall Crown Where no disturbing Thoughts no Doubts are known No hov'ring Clouds obscure the Immortal Bliss No Sully'd Minute stains their Happiness But ah my Dazled Muse is rise too high She Flags and flutters in the bordering Skie And yet wou'd feign a little longer stay To view the brightness of the Eternal Day She feign wou'd bring you some Descriptions down And make those blest Abodes a little known But all her Notions so confused are She knows not to begin or how or where But pardon my Defects and as I can I 'le try to mete the Heavens with my Span. In those Eternal Fields of Sacred Light Always Serene and Calm all Fair and Bright Water'd by Rivers of Immortal Bliss On whose Fair Banks dwells Everlasting Peace What ever Happiness a God can give What ever Joy our Souls can Then receive Such Joys as the Eternal Son of God Cou'd purchase for us with his Sacred Blood Shall all be ours There we my Friend shall see The Glory of th' Almighty Majesty Not by faint Glimpses as he Here is known But by a steady View o' th' Holy One. Here what we learn we argue from below What from his Works and Holy Word we know But there my Dear from what in God we see His Goodness Wisdom and his Purity What e're we knew of his great Works while Here In a far greater Lustre will appear And those dark Methods we cou'd scarce discern The Reason of we there shall fully Learn How Just how Righteous all his dealings are That not his Wisdom but our Reasons err Our Glorified Redeemer we shall see There crown'd with Honour and with Majesty He that to save our Souls from endless Woe So many Miseries did undergoe And in our Natures paid the Mighty Price Which set us free and bought Eternal Bliss Now seated on his Mediatorial Throne From thence on us dispensing Blessings down Shall to his then most Perfect Body be United Head to all Eternity There you and I my Friend again shall meet And with more perfect Love each other greet Both shall contribute to that happy Rest And to the Joyful Number of the Blest For there my Dear each Saint shall be a Friend And all Perfections shall our Love attend And by the Pow'r of Friendship in our heart His Blessedness each shall to th' whole impart And all the Num'rous Blessings of the whole Shall be contracted in each single Soul The Happy Angels who for us have done So much while Here shall There by us be known Where we shall joyn and help them Celebrate Their Praises to the Infinitely Great And all these boundless Joys possest shall be Through the vast Circle of Eternity Though Rolling Ages follow Ages on And distant Years succeeding those are gone Our Joys shall ever last be fresh and but begun FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by Thomas Speed at the Three Crowns near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1694. 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