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A15992	The Song of Songs, which was Salomons metaphrased in English heroiks by way of dialogue. With certayne of the brides ornaments, viz. poeticall essayes vpon a diuine subiect. Whereunto is added a funerall elegie, consecrate to the memorie of that euer honoured Lord, Iohn, late Bishop of London. By R.A.	Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?	1621 (1621)	STC 2774; ESTC S104589	110,486	224

sailes doe faile all faile in their true motion 41 Faith is our spirituall Sunne in Firmament Which Clouds may darken not put out her light Shee is swe●t Oile that giueth nutriment Vnto our Lamps vs to direct aright Shee is our strong Shield vnder which we fight Safe and secure'gainst all the powers of Hell Which though our brest-plate oft by force or slight They pierce of Righteousnesse Faiths shield doth quell Yet all Hells fiery darts and Satans force expell 42 Shee Morter is vs liuing Stones to ioyne In that great Building to the corner Stone The Pins and Ioynts which euery peece combine Into one goodly Frame By Faith alone Members on Earth and Head in heau'n is one Shee doth espouse the Bridegroome to the Bride Shee vs the earnest of his Spirit hath showne Shee sets vs at the Banquet by his side Then Loue vs to embrace her Armes doth open wide 43 Faith like is to the holy Martyr Steuen Who when before the Councell he did stand Look'd vp and saw Gods glorie great in heau'n And Iesus standing by on his right hand Shee 's like Tobi●● Angell at command For to direct vs in our iourney right And free from danger both by Sea and Land Shee doth endue vs with such heau'nly light That we to Friends and Parents may restore their sight 44 Like Aduocate who not for priuate gayne Pleades for all sinners to Repentance brought Whom neither feare nor fauour can restrayne From pleading till our Pardon shee hath wrought Shee neuer leaues vs till shee hath vs brought To the most glorious happy Court of Loue Into his armes whose Blood vs dearely bought For Faith and Hope cease further there to moue Our state there is immutable without remoue 45 Faith like to Moses out of Egypt leades All Israelites that vnder bondage grone Baptiseth them that in her foote-steps treades As in red Sea Faith cleaues a Rocke of stone From which gush liuing Waters Faith alone The hidden Manna makes from heau'n descend Which who by Faith eate Bone become of Bone Flesh of his Flesh Faith doth before vs wend Through this worlds wildernesse but there she makes an end 46 Yet Faith like Moses doth from Mount behold And view from farre the blessed promis'd Land But leaues vs there vnto our Iosuah bold T' expell the Amorite with mightie hand And giue vs seisin of that blessed Land Loe then Faith to sure Knowledge is return'd Then we in state vnchangeable doe stand Not that Faith Hope as needlesse off are turn'd What Faith beleeu'd and Hope did waite for is confirm'd 47 Like when some friend doth promise thee to giue After his death a faire Inheritance Thou must beleeue and hope whilst he doth liue But when his change thy fortunes doth aduance And thou possessest this Inheritance Loe then thy first beliefe and hope d●crease Thou hold'st it now by good assurance So when we Hea●●n possesse Faith Hope doe cease It is our owne for euer not a Farme by lea●e 48 Faith is as much as when we credit say Which is as sure as money in our hand If we trust one that able is to pay And to what he hath promised will stand If rightly then Gods power we vnderstand And Truth which fast like him hath euer stood We haue most firme assurance of heau'ns Land Yet least weake Faith make doubt of this as good Loe his last Testament sealed with his owne Blood 49 If with th'incredulous these cannot preuaile Who will beleeue no more than they can proue By Sense and Reason None of these shall faile Thee to a true and liuely Faith to moue Behold the Father vs hath shew'd such loue That we the Sonnes of God should called bee If Sonnes we be Coheires of heau'n aboue If we beleeue but what we taste and see To Sense in Sacraments exhibited is hee 50 With these authorities why should I sort Saints Monuments which in Worlds wildernesse By Faith obtayning here a good report Are now arriu'd at th' Hau'n of blessednesse Millions which haue and constantly professe And for this Faith land honours life doe leaue Accounting it their greatest happinesse They are worthy found not onely to beleeue In Christ but for his sake their liues goods friends to leaue 51 See Abraham in whose most holy Seede All Nations of the earth most happy are How Faith did arme him to performe a deede Against the promise God vnto him sware His sonne his onely sonne not Isaack spare See Iacob with his Maker hand to hand Wrestling to get a blessing nor doth care To lose his limbs so firme his Faith may stand Loe Faith brings Iosephs bones from Nile to holy Land 52 Moses by Faith the red Sea doth diuide So stroke the Rocke that Waters g●shed out Calls food from Heau'n with God on Mount doth bide Full fortie dayes Loe Iosuah bold and stout Commands the Sunne to stand still while he fought Gods Battailes Loe Kings Iudges Prophets all By Faith inuincible did neuer doubt Blessings Raine Haile and Foode from heau'n to call With fire and vengeance on Gods enemies heads to fall 53 Loe Christ himselfe when he on earth did preach And mightie miracles to passe forth brought What thing did he more here vnto vs teach Than Faith By which great miracles he wrought He that had Faith neede not despaire of ought Lepers by Faith are cleans'd issues are stayd Blind see Lame walke the Deuils are cast out Her Faith so great 's growne that for crummes earst pravd That Be it as thou wilt to her by Christ is said 54 Yea after that our Sauiour did ascend And had the promis'd Comforter downe sent His Church by Faith wrought wonders that transcend Loe Peters shaddow heal'd eu'n as he went Partlets and Napkins from Paules body sent Expell'd ill spirits did Blind and Lame restore Cur'd all diseases of the patient So that th' Apostles by true Faith did more And greater miracles than Christ had done before 53 I doe beleeue the World could not contayne The Bookes if one all Monuments should write Of Saints which Clouds of witnesses remayne Of Faith's great power her glorie grace and might Which though they laid their liues downe in this fight Their glorie euer doth in Heau'n remayne Where Victors they triumph in the Lambs sight And for their losse of life and mortall payne True immortalitie and endlesse pleasure gayne 56 And though in these last times and 〈◊〉 dayes Her force and vertue seeme for to decline Yet he that feeles the comfortable rayes Of her Sunne-beames vpon his heart to shine Infallibly perceaues some power Diuine In him that World of wonder hath effected Which is both God and Man in one to ioyne For this they know and feele that are elected But Satan blinds the eyes of those that are reiected 57 Oh! What great wonders worketh Faith within When first shee rayseth by regeneration And quickneth soules that lay long dead in sin Vnto the life of

by Gods helpe thou shalt against them all preuaile 51 So by this mightie Power we shall at length Be Victors though Sinne seeme vs here to foile Lord grant me this spirituall Pow'r and Strength That though my Body suffer here a while And like a Coward oft doth take the foile I may with courage so my Soule defend No Power me of spirituall Armes despoile Lord grant I practise may what I commend So I with prayse my Booke and Meditation end 52 Thus as one of the Bridegromes meanest Friends I to adorne the Bride doe offer here These Ornaments The gift no worth commends But He to whom the Widdowes mite was deare Because shee all her substance offred there Will well accept of this poore Offering That when I shall at that great day appeare Before the Iudge to giue my reckoning This time may be allow'd me for Gods honouring FINIS The third Booke consisting of fiue MEDITATIONS viz. 1. Knowledge 2. Zeale 3. Temperance 4. Bountie and 5. Ioy. And The fourth Booke of viz. 1. Prudence 2. Obedie●ce and 3. Meekenesse 4. Gods Word and 5. Prayer Were Likewise intended by the Authour at this time for the Presse But the euer-lamented losse of his most honored Lord which hath changed all his Ioyes into Sorrowes and Songs to Lamentations hath beene the cause of deferring their publishing A FVNERALL ELEGIE Consecrated to the memorie of his euer-honoured Lord IOHN KING Late Lord Bishop of London LEt others call their Muse to helpe them mourne And books of Tragique Scenes and Stories turne My Heart abundant matter shall indite If but the halfe I of my sorrow write Were it a priuate losse of mine alone I could it smother with a priuate grone But ah I ring my Fathers Fathers knell The Charet and Horsemen of Israel Happy Elisha when the fiery Horse And Charets thee did from thy Master force Whilst he in Whirlewind vp to Heauen ascends His Spirit doubled downe on thee descends But ah I haue no Spirit but to mourne And wash with teares this sacred Fathers Vrne His 〈◊〉 is not left me to diuide Mine Eyes from Teares as Iordanes floods were dride Yet had I but his Spirit here to tell How stoutly he opposed Iezabel And all her Baalling superstitious crew Of Prophets and their Idols ouerthrew How firmely he in his Religion stood Readie till Death to seale it with his blood Without least Bastard thought to change that Truth Which was in him firme rooted from his youth I then might ius●ly hope my feeble Verse Had done full right vnto thy wronged Herse For I should muzzell those that wrong thy fame And die them like their whoare scarlet in shame Should force into their face that modest blood That left them ere since they left Truth and Good Yet why should I thinke much that Calumnie Labours to cloud thy Names bright memorie Since that Iust One thy Sauiour after Death Could not auoid Slanders envenom'd breath And if thy Lord and Masters fate were such Let not thy Ashes grieue to beare as much Oh sacred Spirit enclos'd in frailest mold Of britle Clay when I did thee behold Praying Elias-like thou couldst constrayne The Heau'ns to water all the Earth with rayne And when thy zealous tongue touch'd with the flame Which Seraphin had from the Altar ta●ne Thou like to Paul or Peter didst diuine Three thousand Soules conuerting at a time When thou didst sit on Iustice sacred Throne Thy Prudence shin'd like that of Solomon And Samuel-like so equall didst diuide Thou often gau'st content to either side Like Aristotles thy Schole Disputations Thy Speeches Tullies eloquent Orations Thy Lectures all Ideas most diuine Where Arts like Starres in Firmament doe shine Did ● behold thee in thy Familie Thy House a Temple of the Deitie Thou Dauid-like didst to th' Almightie sweare No wicked riotous Person should come there You worthy Tribe of Leui when you want And find your shorne allowance all too scant His 〈◊〉 which refresht you often blisse And gaue you Liuengs free as they were his You Poore lament whom he so often fed Not with his Doctrine onely but his Bread And Strangers when you want his losse lament Who vnto you such large allowance sent One and the same Rule in things Temporall He did obserue as in Spirituall Who so on Earth doth plentifully sow May well expect a like increase to mow Most happy Man if Vertue Honour Right Or any worldly Blisse make happy wight Home and abroad honour'd belou'd and fear'd Him Grace and Learning vnto all endear'd But oh what Mortall stands so sure and fast That here may be call'd happy till his last To whom the People erst Hosanna cride When he in triumph doth through Sion ride Ere many dayes was on the Crosse so shaken As if he fear'd himselfe of God forsaken So when this Saint like Paul the ●ged sung To build vp Sions ruines with his Tongue The rauish'd Hearers with thy message strooke Sate as they had no powr's but Eare and Looke Both which did yeeld thy Worth such loud applause As if an Angels Trump had lent thee voyce I thinke their strict attention did fore-see They neuer more should heare so much from thee A Swan-like Dittie for it was his last For ere the Sunne had round his circuit past He that for Sions building vp did pray Did in his owne fraile Temple feele decay My Soule eu'n trembles but thy groanes to heare Alas how couldst thou them with Patience beare Afflictions which would breake a brasen Wall And hardest Milstone grin'd to powder small But Hee in Heau'n that heard thee groane and weepe And all thy teares did in his Bottle keepe When it was full doth take of thee compassion And freed thee from thy paynes and bitter passion Eu'n on that Day whereon we celebrate His Passion whom thou liu'dst to imitate Loe God doth millions of his Angels send Thy sorrowes here with heau'nly Ioyes to end Shall we bewaile thy happy commutation Now chang'd from Earth to heau'nly Habitation Where as thy Ioyes the Angels farre surpast Which neuer of thy Miseries did taste For there thou dost that Psalme of comfort ring Which none but Saints afflicted here can sing That Ioy which neuer had in Heau'n beene knowne But by those Saints that vnder crosses groane That Ioy which feeles God comfort vs againe After he hath vs plagu'd on Earth with paine And for a few yeares of aduersitie Rewards in Heau'n with Ioyes eternitie Which giues for Sorrow Ioy for Labour Rest A Hau'n to vs whom Shipwracke erst distrest From Danger Safetie Light vnto the eye Long blind in Dungeons obscuritie Life after Death doth make our liues more sweet Who here Christs plentifull afflictions meet Shall haue in him a plenteous consolation Then let vs all that wait for like saluation In Body like this Saint the dying beare Of 's dying Lord and let him neuer feare But his Lords life shall be made manifest In Him when He our Labour turnes to Rest. But more my Muse is as vnfit to write As are my sorrowes stupid to endite Onely Shee thus the publique losse bemones And what Shee wants in words supplyes with grones Act. 2. 3. Church Christ. Church Christ. Church Church Christ. Church Christ. Church Church Christ. Church Christ. Christ. Christ. Church Christ. Church Christ. Church Daugh. Church Daugh. Church Christ. Christ. Apples ❀ Church Christ. Church Christ. Church Christ. Church a 1. Sam. 2● 39. 40. b 1. Sam. 18. 18. c Mark 1. 3. d Iohn 3. 29. * Matth. 22. 9. f Can. 2. 14. 3. 7. g Ca● 5. 1 2. h 2. Cor. 12. 1 2 3 4. i Matth. 22. 2 3 4. k Ca● 7. 1 2 c. l Luk. 2. 32. m Luk. 14. 17 18 c. n Apoc. 22. 1 2. o Can. 5. 1. p Can. 4. 12. 6. 2. q Apoc. 21. 4. * Apoc. 5. 11. Quaere I●dg 9. 8. * P●nitentia * 〈◊〉 ❀ Christs ❀ Strength ❀ Strength * Presumption a Infidelitie b Despaire ❀ Heart ❀ Iesus ❀ By reason ¶ By sense * Reuel 6. 10. 11. ❀ Mens merits * Separatists * 〈…〉 Truth of Iudgement Truth of Heart Truth of Speech Truth of Action ❀ Pota●iana 3. Esdr. 4. * 〈◊〉 Gen. 32. 33. * Woman-Man * Cutter

his place vaine-gloriously aspire Till Boreas brasen wings him throwes downe in the mire 26 Thus vaine fond youth left his sage Fathers lore And by his borrowed wings did soare so high Loe here their end that seeke so high to soare The Sunne beames heate his waxen wings did frie. Proud Bryar that safe and secure did lie Vnder stout Oakes most safe protecting armes Supplanted him by treason cunningly Then to Sunnes heate expos'd and Winters stormes He 's trod downe by wild beasts and eaten vp of wormes 27 Once had the feete the noble Head defide Grieuing to beare his burthen any more And Brawny armes their helping hands denide To feede the belly with conuenient store But hands and armes forthwith grew weake and poore For want of stomacks strength'ning nourishment And now the legs that able were before To beare both Head and Bodies wonderment Became wrang stumbling lame for want of gouernment 28 When Ioth●ms trees went out t'annoint a King They first besought the Oliue tree to raigne But he his fatnesse highly valewing Refus'd to leaue it for a Kingdomes gaine Next Fig-tree sweet to rule they would constraine Who nould his sweetnesse leaue for Kingdomes glee Last to the fertile Vine they doe complaine Who fruitfulnesse loues more than Sou'raigntee But Bryar base will raigne and the anointed bee 29 Like as on Mountaynes which doe breake the clouds Sand grauell and vnfruitfull earth doe lye But in the fruitfull Valleyes lowly shrowds Fruit good for meate and to delight the eye And as the brackish Waues doe mount on high Whilst fresher Waters silent slide away Eu'n so it fares with sweet Humilitie Which like the fruitfull Meadow's fruitfull ay And like fresh Brookes whose sweetnesse neuer doth decay 30 And as tall ships which beare too high a saile Are soone o'returned by a boystrous wind Whilst smaller Vessels 'gainst the Waues preuaile Arriuing safely at the Port assign'd So they that to ambition are enclin'd And Phaeton-like to guide the Sunne aspire All things consume that vnder them they find Till from their Coach they tumble in the mire Till fewell failes Ambition neuer slakes her fire 31 And as mans eye the higher he doth stand The things which are beneath doth lesser deeme So he that doth Gods greatnesse vnderstand In his owne eyes doth vile and nothing seeme An humble man 's a gemme of high esteeme Which ignorant men doe trample in the mire Vntill the skilfull Ieweller redeeme It from the dust and clense it in the fire Then those that trod on it before doe it admire 32 Those that in Princes seruice purchase fame And thereby would raise their posteritie Seeke great allyance to confirme the same And of the Heralds get a Pedigree But they that would gaine true nobilitie To doe Christ's heau'nly Fathers will must seeke For such his Mother Brother Sister bee No honour or allyance can be like To this yet sure such are the humble and the meeke 33 Humilitie's the Basis and foundation Of Vertues all into one building brought Which for to raise on high by contemplation Must deepe and low within the ground be wrought If one desire to mount his house aloft And workes his vnder-pinning slight below He builds vpon the sands all comes to nought For if the floods doe come or wind doe blow Affliction Persecution all doth ouerthrow 34 The thing which God or Nature doth decree In secret Man oft b' innate augurie Vnwittingly foretells which shewes to bee Betweene our soules and heau'n a sympathie Hence is it that this Dame * Humilitie Hath her denomination from the ground For though as shee is spirituall shee can flie Aboue the highest heau'ns yet shee is found The lowliest wight on earth though highly to be crown'd 35 The ancient Latines Homo Man did name By deriuation from Humilitie To teach him that he should become the same In Truth as in names Etymologie And let a man looke through Antiquitie Loe all the Men whose vertues are commended For paternes good vnto posteritie In humblenesse they haue begun and ended When Pride as basest sinne is alwayes reprehended 36 Abel and Cain firstlings of humane ●eede Ambitious Cain but Abel meeke and mild His offring was accepted which did breede Such wrath in Cain that he the ground defil'd With his owne brothers blood which he hath spoil'd Moses is call'd the meekest man aliue Abram himselfe but dust and ashes styl'd When he besought his Maker for twice ●iue Iust men there found to saue the Sodomites aliue 37 Iacob fed Labans sheepe the Patriarchs all Like trade of husbandrie did exercise The Iudges with the Prophets great and small And all good Kings were low in their owne eyes Iohn Baptist the Messias-ship denyes And humbly doth himselfe vnworthy deeme To be him that stoopes and his shooe vntyes Christ did it no disparagement esteeme To wash their feete whom with his blood he would redeeme 38 Ah what an humble mind did Mary beare When with salt teares that flowed from her eyes Shee wash'd Christ's feet and wip'd them with her haire Great Volumes I suppose would not comprise Names of all humble Saints let it suffice Their names are written in the Booke of Life They here vaine worldly glorie did despise Free from Ambition Malice Enuie Strife And now by Faith and Hope in Loues Court leade their life 39 Oh! could we but this Vertue truely taste And as w' are dust and ashes apprehend How he that in the highest heau'n is plac't And did of nothing to vs Being lend And one condition vnto all men send Vouchsafes spirituall communication Calls vs his Spou●e his Children Host and Friend We n'ould despise the honest conuersation Of meanest brother that 's Coheire of like saluation 40 Dares dust and ashes thus expostulate Shall not the Lord of all the World doe right And yet dares dust and ashes in his state Denie his brother poore to come in s●ght Shall dogs licke Lazar's sores whilst thou no bite Or crummes which vnderneath thy table fall Wilt to him giue Behold he shall be site In Abrams bosome thou the Deuills thrall For thus the Humble rise and thus the Proud must fall 41 No better obiect of magnificence Can there be found here than an humble heart Who still ascribes all to beneficence That he receiues not to his owne desart Vnto thy humble brother then impart Part of thy substance with true courtesie Intreat the least The lowlier that thou art God will thee higher raise Humilitie Mounts vp to heau'n whilst Pride in hell doth burning lie 42 But ah Ambition still cryes for a name Like Giants proud that Babels Tower would raise Whence followes sure confusion losse and shame Alas how few there be now in our dayes That seeke by humblenesse anothers praise Humilitie no entertainment finds But poorely 'bout Court Citie Countrey strayes And in her roome faign'd complement her winds Who ne're minds as shee sayes nor e're sayes as shee minds 43 Base Complement hatcht