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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60174	Virtue and science pindarick poems dedicated to the Most Illustrious Princess Anne, Dutchess of Richmond and Lenox, and to her sister, the Right Honourable Frances, Countess of Newburgh / by J.S.	J. S. (James Shute), 1664-1688.	1695 (1695)	Wing S3713B; ESTC R26919	14,321	24

Bright Science dost dispel Those Lazy Mists exhal'd from Hell Which stifle Virtue cloud our Day Reflect or else Refract Heav'ns Ray. Thou rescu'st Reason purgest Sense From that Original Offence And as who Lovely Objects spies By the Soul's Spectacles and Burning-Glass the Eyes Catches Love's Fire With far more Vigorous Desire Than others could By what dull Sounds and Hearsay told Such is th' Advantage Thou win'st here As Sight are Sound and Eye o're Ear. Thy clear Proposals gather and draw Heaven in Thro' the Soul 's widen'd Pores and squeez out putrid Sin e Faith but supplies thy room and brings Heav'n wrapt in Words thou writ in Things Faith's Lesson all may read that look But thine 's the Clearer yet the Harder Book Oh Book Oh World Oh Sun clad in thin shade Oh Book the Best and All that God e're made Dull Clods Drops Sparks thou seem'st to be Small Atomes of Great Entity But Big with GOD is thy each part And Vaster Truths far than thy Whole Self art VI. The Architect and Owner of this All Delivered out in Gross The All-rich Ball In Number Measure Weight Proportioned aright And bid us Traffick with 't and thrive But we were at a Loss None could into it's hidden Treasures rightly dive 'Till his Wise Steward Science came Acquainted with her Master's Will And with rare Skill f Did subtly take in pieces the vast Frame And to Heav'ns Merchandize the more to wooe us Detail'd in Parcels and chaw'd small the too-great Morsel to us When Prudence the wise Governess Of Virtue 's Family would try A Pattern of her perfect Managery And Rational Actions her sweet Children dress Fixing upon them in fit places Her whole bright Set of Circumstantial Graces By thy square Science she each Line doth draw And makes thy Word her Rule thy Dictates Law VII g When Virtue her self to Heaven a Journey takes And quaintly dresses Her shining Tresses With the most Curious and Enamouring Art To ravish so the High King's Heart Fair Science thy Bright Eye her Looking-Glass she makes In thine Eye Reasons best Mirrour She can spy each slender Errour And the least Blemish of Deformity h What 's wrinkled loosely set or pinn'd awry i When Musick would the ravish'd Soul beguile To dwell in the Ear 's Labyrinth a while Nature's well-ecchoing Musick-room Whither repairs A pretty Quire of nimble light-foot Ayres Ferry'd o're in quavering Undulations Interwoven on a thousand Fashions And there presents an unseen Masque of Sounds Sent from the Tattling Strings or Whistling Pipes Rebounds While She makes Friends in Consort each Discording Part Her Art tunes Instruments but Science tunes her Art VIII Thou art that Bright Reserve of Light For the Wise Church when grown From Unripe Nonage to her Manly Noon Her Youth's School-Master dark Credulity Too weak to govern mankind now a Child no longer But fit for th' University Will her dear Charge to Thee in Part resign And those Soul-binding Charms of thine To govern such a Free-born Subject stronger GOD is the Fountain-Sun Thou his ne're-changing Moon That deal'st as great a share of Borrow'd Light As can consist with our Flesh-veiled sight Fair Dawning to Bright Bliss Dark Nature's fullest Noon IX But ah my lisping Lyre Is now quite spent yet Thou art still Intire Farewel Bright Science thrice farewel Yet part not from My Soul such kind of Houses use to be thy Home Nature has built Thee there fine k Christal Rooms And I will wooe Virtue her self to strow There for Thee her Best Perfumes The Fabrick thou 'lt embrave beyond all Art and Praise With thy own Soul-guilding Rayes There there vouchsafe to dwell There there farewel Farewel in me and thy Dear Self improve To Full Light in my Head and in my Heart Firm Love FINIS ANNOTATIONS a WHat is meant here by Science is already declar'd in the Preface viz. All those Knowledges whether acquir'd by Prayer or Study which superadded to Faith are apt to render it Lively And indeed should we restrain the common signification of that word which imports no more but Knowledge to the Stricter Sense in which the Schools take it nothing ought even speaking of Natural Objects in true speech to be called Science unless it be in some Sort deriv'd from God and by means of that Derivation be apt to raise us to the Knowledge of Him For since all Truths are Connected and Science is the Knowing of things by their Causes hence only such Knowledges as relate to the First Truth and inform us of the Derivation of Things from the First Cause or of their Connexion with it can pretend to the Honour of being reputed True Sciences For which reason the Epicureans who deny a First Cause and hold all things to be done by Chance can lay no Claim to Scientifical Knowledge of any thing in Nature Whence of all other Sects of Philosophers Their Principles are the most Absurd Precarious and Inconsistent Moreover Science is intended to Perfect the Understanding Faculty but when 't is Practical and fits the Soul for Action that is in our case for the Love of God then 't is Full Lively and in that state which makes Science be as it should be that is Unmixt with Ignorance Whereas when 't is meerly Speculative and Unactive 't is Weak Faint ofttimes Airy and alwayes as to Heaven Vseless and by reason of it's Imperfection being alloy'd with some degree of Ignorance it degenerates from the Sincere and Genuine nature of Knowledge For it is to be noted that Virtue and Science are here treated of as in their Abstracted Ideas or as perfectly depur'd from all their Imperfections as may be seen in the third Stanza upon Virtue and in the 7th and 8th Stanzas here With which it may well consist that there may be many inferior Degrees of both of them that are not acquired either by Art of Contemplation but are Instill'd by the Common Doctrine and Discipline of the Church which may suffice to bring Souls to Heaven sooner or later tho' they may not perhaps come so high as to dispose them Immediately for the Beatifical Vision this being only attainable by those who are Pure in Heart and cleans'd from all Inordinate By-Affections to Creatures which requires more than Common Illuminations b For the Connatural way to Love any things is to Know and Conceit Lively the Goodness that is in it and therefore Regularly and in due order of Nature according to the Express and Lively Knowledge a Soul has of Coelestial Goods so great in proportion is her Love of them Whence whenever she falls into Sin or Loves not Heaven as she ought 't is because some Temporary or False Good making a more Agreeable Appearance to her at that unlucky Season the Knowledge of the Incomparable Good of Heaven which she had before is Darken'd and Dimm'd by Passion or which is the same by too much affection to some Creature according to that saying of Divines Omnis