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A79291	Heart-salve for a wounded soul... Or meditations of comfort for the holy living, and happy dying Christian either in the depths of dark desertion, or in the heighth of heavens glorious union. The second edition, with an addition of an elegie upon an eminent occasion. By Tho. Calvert, minister of the gospel.	Calvert, Thomas, 1606-1679.	1675 (1675)	Wing C323A; ESTC R230932	68,723	208

Soul-rusting pride and fashions strange Whose brood's Court Lunaticks in monthly change How many traps alluring baits do lie And rest in naked breasts for an adulterous Eye Tinctur'd by you not she knew not your toys Nor dieted her Soul with Dunghils joys Smells as foul earth your Sophistrie she fled Which makes a two-fac'd Monster with one Head An Act calls God Bungler Blush stars and Sun Art perfects that face Heaven had not well done Three things were deemed precious 〈…〉 Eye Time Faith Christs Blood for which her prayers did vie In first the second by second third she got 'Bove both Indie's treasures a surpassing lot Put to the Trial Temptations hotest flame She du'd endured stood withstood quencht orecame And from Whales belly out of sorrows Hell Of Gods supporting Grace could wonders tell O Heavenliest Art that sweet Experience She could decline Afflictions in each Tense What Present Past and future fruits they bring How Saints do sometimes sink then float and swim Yet here 's not all more Virtues could I pick To puzzle and gravel all Arithmetick Which makes me pity that poor S●agyrite When he did his Ethnick Ethick Volumes write VVhere all the moral Virtues he could count The number of eleven did not surmount Our living Volum fair printed had far more Our little VVorld saith his great world was poor For whose dear sake Grammarians may define Virtue always of Gender femenine Thy death sham'd not thy life thy dearest friend On his day chose thee to him to ascend Thy green years promis'd life Virtue full grown Pronounc'd thy field was ripe fit to cut down Living each one had part of Joys in thee Dying like griefs as having from our Tree Best branch rent off O loved Spousess c●ys one Dear Daughter another Sister Companion Kind Lady these all Friend bo●●● tyed and true With love engrain'd that never chang'd the hew Thy Battel 's ended Lawrel decks thy brows Deaths livery ours the fadest Cypress boughs Had death spar'd thee a while and given leave ' Mongst us thy friends some legacies to leave Our griefs had lower ebb'd Lo I desire For Legacy some coals of thy hot fire Of Zeal to heat my freezing frigid heart Or else of thy Humility a part ' Gainst innate Pride O thou mightst well have given Thy Love divided amongst six or seven Thy worlds contempt had been an excellent gift That eight or nine amongst us might it shift And knowing our hasty spirits when thou slipt hence Why didst thou not bequeath thy Patience Thou knewst how many walk'd with that bad note Of busie scullers in anothers boat Couldst not thou say Friend take thee this bequest Handle thine own Oars that becomes the best I leave thee it ' cause I lov'd it Thus good heart Thou mighst have given us every one a part I see Death will engross say what we list He scorns our Laws will be a Monopolist I 'le not Chide fate nor curse dire destiny Nor challenge Death to field nor rage and cry O hateful Heavens when Providence will must Have the perledst Mortals once to kiss the dust Here Heart from sighs our Eyes from brackish tears Body from weakness Mind from horrid fears Can't be priviledged Earths Cushions pillows best Be stufft with thorns or life is stuck and drest VVith netles briars Blest be thy Pylat Death VVho hence from Pirats on these Seas beneath Sin Misery Vanity doth our Souls transport Into Heavens blessed Harbour Rests true Port. VVhere neither boistrous North West South or East Raises ambitious VVaves nor yet that Beast Leviathan below can Cables break Or with Temptations make our Pinnace leak VVhere we forget those Threnodies of grief VVeep watery Eyes and VVho can send relief For me Impar●dis'd Soul to thee once dear Assistant witness in thy assaults of fear And sore Soul-combates were Saints power to mind As mind here was I should not stay behind For reason and religion both this prove Heaven doubles Gr ce and so it doubles Love Some curious Eyes did look I should rehearse Some light-heel'd lines in a wit-woven verse VVisemen will think the match is very base To lay on cloth of Gold a Buck-rams lace Or motleys purls and edge The sobred Grave Hate feathred leightness and substantials crave Her aims o'rclimb'd the Stars who gravity Sleight neither know themselves nor her nor me Nor eare I what capriccious Judges think Who say here it flatteries mart and Oile for Ink I 'le glew these lines on envious slaunders barr And Twelve of Malice's Clients that would marr A VVorld of honesty shall empaneld be To vent galls verdict ' gainst this verity Truth fears no blasting breath come slander speak Or bite thy lips in anger till th' Heart break Had she no faults yes some thou more none 's free Adam fell once we often sometimes she VVhen Marbles moulder and pounded are to dust Yet fresh shall be the Memorial of the Just When in my Memory enrolled I find thee not Well may I doubt all virtue I hove forgot Sanctities pen writes such an Epicede Quaint'st brains mere Pernasian doth exceed Ermins are vermin base in Arms and Coat Where Grace powders not life with holy note Good Day thou hast gotten bidst us Good night Leaving thy virtuous pattern to guide us right An holy course chalks th' way to Heavenly light Let vain World dress its Carps spit spite fume laugh A Gracious life leaves fairest Epitaph The Epitaph on the Lady Mary Gryffith FRom mothers womb unto earths womb the grave Through th' Worlds desert some years I wandered have Nature gave being Grace well-being Death th' best Heavens happy Being to Soul to Body rest I lie here waiting till the last shrill-voic'd Trump Shall breath new life into this dead Clays lump Then shall be at once two Nuptials solemniz'd Of Body to Glorious Soul and both to Christ O Mortals learn of me make Christ your scope By Prayers and Tears I came to rest in Hope FINIS

these ways Job 36.7 Psal 34 14. Ignoras Agrippa me oculis non minus quam v●ce loqui solere Cajus Agrip Philo Iud de Legat. ad C●●um Profecto in oculis animus habitat Plin. lib. 11. cap. 37. I will guide thee saith the Lord with mine eye And they say the seat of Love though it be in the face yet it is specially in the eye Again Gods ear is towards thee thou prayest and he hears thou beggest strength and comfort he gives the first he delays but the last he gives thee the comfort of strength makes thee able to hold out in thy trouble though he do not yet give thee the strength of comfort to get out of thy trouble Surely we want not his face and favour when we have thus his good eye and gracious ear and can say to to the Tempter Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall Psal 32.9 Vid. Guazzum de civil convers lib. 4. de oculorum vi in amore Sunt cordis fenestrae pedisse qui. but the Lord hath been my helper What wantest thou then of his face nothing but one word from his mouth that he would speak peace to thee and say within thee in the voice of his Spirit I am thy salvation This I know is that the Saints oft-times want Psal 118.13 Psal 35.3 Proverb 12.25 Cupiendi amoris visus est ansa Plutarch His mouth is most sweet Cant. 5.16 Cant. 2.14 that God is long silent speaks not comfort to them Heaviness having seized upon the heart of man makes it stoop but then a good word makes it glad One good word from God would build up thy Soul if he should but say Be of good chear thy sins are forgiven thee And doubtless this thou hast also he speaks to thee in his promises only Satan and thy wrestling heart drown his voice that thou canst not hear his promises speaking particularly and distinctly to thee In the mean time call and pray unto God that is a seeking of his face and howsoever for a while he stand behind the wall thou seest him darkly but through the windows and he shew himself to thee but through the lattice Cant. 2.9 yet thou shalt in good time enjoy his face of comfort more fully and have a more compleat presence of him bringing sweet consolations to thy wearied Soul Thou hast already his countenance he will grant thee the joy of that countenance I conclude with that discourse of the Father concerning Gods face If God should come saith he and with his own voice speak to you though he is not silent but speaks by his Letters and should say to man Wilst thou sin sin on do what delights thee what ever thou lovest on earth let it be thine whom thou art angry at let him perish whom thou wouldst have taken away let him be taken away whom thou wouldst stay let him be slain whom condemned let him be condemned whom possess thou mayest possess him Let none resist thee none say to thee so much as What dost thou c. Take thee abundance of all earthly things thou desirest live in them and not for a time but for ever only upon this condition thou shalt never see my face Wherefore is your heart smitten if God should say Thou shalt never see my face Behold thou shalt be full of all earthly felicity of all things all temporal good things shall flow about thee thou losest them not never forsakest them what wouldest thou have more Surely chaste fear would weep and lament yea and say Rather let all these things and this felicity be taken from me so I may but see thy face chaste fear would cry out with the Psalmist August in Psal 127. Turn us again O Lord of Hosts let thy face shine on us and we shall be saved Psal 80.19 And One thing I have desired of the Lord that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the fair beauty of the Lord and to visit his Temple Psal 27.4 O Brethren would you know where Paradise is scituate and what Quarter Heaven lies in It lies in Gods countenance and in his reconciled face and the sorest torments of Hell lie in the everlasting hiding away of Gods face O Lord we are helpless Psal 42.5 give us the help of thy countenance When we are in darkness O lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance and our darkness shall be as Noon-day When we are full of sorrow thou shalt make us full of joy with thy countenance Turn thou unto us Act 2. ●8 Psal 80. O God of our salvation cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved The end of the first Book EYE-SALVE FOR The blind World OR An Excitation to the secure World to see and fear the Judgments of God are a coming upon it when God frequently calls his Rare Saints by death to go out of it By THO. CALVERT Mr. of Arts and Minister of Gods Word in York Luke 10.42 But one thing is needful Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her Foelix domus beata semper congregatio est ubi de Maria Martha conqueritur Bernard in Assumpt 6. Ma. Serm 3. London Printed by Fr. Leech for Th. Passenger at the Signe of the the three Bibles upon London-Bridge 1675. EYE-SALVE FOR The blind World ESAI 57.1 The Righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come THe preaching King hath put this among his golden Observations Eccl. 7.8 Constet finem praecipuum esse eo semper spectandum omnia propter illum patienter ferenda Mercer comment in Eccles 7 8. That the end of a thing is better than the beginning His intended purpose therein being to animate the faint-hearted not to start back at the first as afraid of enterprising weighty matters because of an harsh entrance into them Yet the beginning of this Chapter is much better than the end it begins with Christs Legacie Peace to the Righteous but the dregs are bitter at the bottom which the ungodly shall suck up 12 last ver There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Who cares for a blasted Rose or what verdict gives the world on a righteous man in his life but this which the Prophet gives of Christ for his humane base appearance Esa 58.3 there is no form or comliness in him and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him And yet these blind Balaams when they have done Satan all his work would willingly exchange their best wages of unrighteousness for the godly mans Vineyards penny Is it not a misery to see a Soul that hath all the days of this life been drunk with the wine of worldly ●usts the body now standing upon the brink of the