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Otia sacra optima fides
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Westmorland, Mildmay Fane, Earl of, 1601-1666.
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1648
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OTIA SACRA Deus nobis hoec Otia fecit Virg London Printed by Richard Cotes 1648. Columna Fidei OUR Senses are bewitch'd and seem to grow So to the Creature and on things below That all our busied Fancy can devise Serves more to sink them than to make them rise For out of sight and minde at once agree To blind-fold Nature from Eternitie And leave her groveling for to groap her way Here in This Transitory bed of Clay Till Faith steps in and in the stead of wings Unto Beleef a lofty Pillar brings Whereby we should be raised up And thus Ascend to Him descended once for Us ΚΑΡΔΙΑΓÎΩΣΤΗΣ On the Title Page THere is a Fowle wont hide its head To Passe so undiscovered Judging it self exempt from eyes Of others whilst it none descryes Not much unlike are such to these Who commit Closet-trespasses And Chamber-dalliance and then Goe for unseen 'cause so of Men If They my Pillars top attein They 'l finde an eye tryes heart and rein But Natures Pur-blinde sight short is Nor can she rise alone to this Till Grace assist which will such vertue yield As both t' ascend the Pillar gain this Shield OTIA SACRA Ad Libellum suum GOE without Dedication for that might Imply I sought to Shelter what I write Under some Patronage I can afford None Sharers in this Offering with my Lord His are both Line and Leisure which mis-spent The fault lyes on th' unhappy Instrument That should improve both better But 't is done And Thy fate is decree'd why woof is spun Censure must passe Yet Blush not since thy Strings Are onely consonant with holy things Ad Viatorem NUmina non Nummos Me dum cernis Meditantem Et Me-ditantem crede Viator habes EST In Vnitate Trinitas THat Number 'bove the rest For ever Blest Which God Himself doth daign To Branch into yet Re-unites again For as His Prescience could tell When Angels fell That Man would follow and there should be On Sent for to make Redemption So from our Misery did He Infer Th' necessity of a Comforter This doth inspire That did Create The second did Regenerate Thus though Distinct They are Yet singular And One wise-ever Power it is doth Tie This Triple Knot into a Unitie Mundi Ex Maxima Parte nondum Vocati Participes Verbi es Sacramentorum qui fuêre vocati sed nonduÌ„ electi Ad Sanctificationem Qui propter externam vocationem Domini per Verbum interne effectualiter vocantur per Spiritum Sanctum Justicationem Grex parvulus Christi Luk. 12. 32. Glorificationem Tertia pars Domini Zachar 13. 9. Electi ideoque vocati Let me not tread the Broad highway to Sin But being Elect declare my Call therein Seminantur à Deo Inter Homines à Diabolo Veritas Inter Homines Mendacium Pax Inter Homines Discordia Amicitia Inter Homines Inimicitia Ut Alterutri prodessemus Ut Alterutrum devoremus A Morning Thought Sithence it is given To Man to follow's Labor till the Even And when that Star doth close Up Day then to seek quiet and repose Let Us what 's of our Own Learn to make known To be But so much Cash of purchas'd Misery All else Confess Of Love and Providence true happiness For as our Souls had been A Combating all Day with Flesh and Sin And then for Captives led In Slumbers Fetters Prison'd in a Bed So by the Nights Exchange again to Day They may Set free take up their Armes And having overcome those Charmes Boldly Conclude the Victory to keep When as they Warr for Him kept them asleep No other Ransom Need To Speed This Liberty but once awake Into our thoughts to take What such Confinement might Administer of Danger in One night And how th'all-wakefull eye Provided had for our Delivery Which on the wings of Contemplation rais'd Again w' are Mounted whilst His name is prais'd Coeli enarrant Gloriam Dei ARe we asleep or doe we see No more than did blind * Bartime Or are our Senses Charm'd to lie Benumm'd into some Lethargie Whilst Sin makes of 's a Conquest Rise Flesh-buryed Soul and from the Skies Let thy wing'd thoughts to thee relate Who 't was those structures did Create Where in Thy Hemisphere at large is pen'd More wonder then frail Clay can comprehend Whether a Sun a Moon a Star A Comet or a Meteor A Various Bow true sign of Peace Swoln Clouds which cause on earth increase When breaking they Distill the Glum And horrid beat of Thunders Drum We hear or see Why are these sent But t' shew He is Omnipotent Who thus in Characters doth write whereby We have a Lecture in Divinity For as those great and lesser Lights Distinguish Time by Dayes and Nights So was it Day with us untell Our Disobedient Parents fell Yet as the Tincell'd Night gives way At th' opening o' th' true Golden Day So did the powers of Darkness fly The Sun of Righteousness being by And when we Comet-struck int' Sin had run The Father did redeem us by the Son When th' Undertaker first did dain For to restore His world again He us'd no other lock or sluce I' th' Clouds but sent a Bow of truce What did His Mercy less when we Who are the Worlds Epitome Delug'd in Sin lay Breathless Drown'd Untill Our Saviours Pretious Wound Open'd a Drayn wherewith he laid us dry From wickedness into fertility The Aire imprison'd fain would try The virtue of more Liberty Yet meeting with a tougher Cloud Is forc'd to quarell and speak loud So if we seek our freedom heer We must no Cloud of Fortune fear But like Bonargeses proclame What we profess then be the same For whilst the Face looks one way and the Mind Another 't is like Rain brought against the Wind. There shall no Thunder-crack nor dash of wet Prodigious Comet in us fear beget But the Suns Purple and the Silver wings The Moon puts on bespeaks us Saints and Kings Whilst Iris Endless Peace the numerous Lights Adorn the Night discypher all delights Which for to seek to compass and obtain He that quits life and all here makes great Gain My Countrey Audit BLest Privacie Happy Retreat wherein I may cast up my Reck'nings Audit Sin Count o'r my Debts and how Arrears increase In Natures book towards the God of Peace What through perversness hath been wav'd or don To My first Covenants contradiction How many promis'd Resolutions broke Of keeping touch almost as soon as spoke Thus like that Tenant who behind-hand cast Intreats so oft forbearance till at last The sum surmounts his hopes and then no more Expects but Mercy to strike off the score So here methinks I see the Landlords Grace Full of Compassion to my drooping Case Bidding me be of comfort and not griev'd My Rent his Son should pay if I believ'd Cui in calamitatibus soli sit fidendum WHen first the Towring Hills the loftier Pine
beast Carries his house wherein to rest Or Legless one But Emblemer Of frailty would infer Danger to be trod upon By every Passenger And doe we break our ease To follow these Fly at preferments pitch And adding to our heaps grow rich In Muck and Slime When 't is our Soul Immortall should controul And so Calcine our time From all such dross to Gould Which by afflictions tri'd And worldly crosses purifi'd Our Great Redeemer will apply His stamp to give it currency In Divitem Lazarum DIves Quidam Ingens sed nondum Nomine Dignus Purpureo Decoratus erat Victuque Superbo Gaudet Assiduis Dapibus nec sumptibus ullis Parcitur Ingluviem Queis possit pascere Foedam Sed Mare Consulitur Totum longinqua Potestas Terrarum excutitur nec non Iunonia Regna Addunt Ingenuis cumulatim proemia Mensis Nec deerat nisi Flammiferens Ignisque futurus Mortuuus Iste tamen Somno Lethale sepultus Dicitur nil aliud Pauper Alter erat gracilis Quem buccea reddit Spectandum Charitate Magis nudisque lacertis Frigidus ante fores procumbens Divitis Omne Solatium à Canibus Lambentibus esse fatetur Non etenim blando hoc captanda est gloria seclo Mortuus est etiam Sed Queis discrimine vitae Dissimilis Fortuna fuit His Mortis idem Nempe Quod in fragilis gaudetur tempore mundi Vertitur in Lachrymas Durissima quaeque fuêre Illius Arbitria accipiunt pro munere Pectus Vpon the Rich Glutton and Poor Begger THere was a Certain Mighty Rich man had No other name in Scripture although clad In Purple who delitiously did fare Daily for which there neither Cost nor Care Was spar'd to feed his Gluttony with store Of what the Seas could yeeld when Galed ore And whatsome'r both Earth and Air afford Seem'd Heaped Tributes to his quainter bord So that no Element to his desire Was Niggard save what was reserv'd the Fire Yet this man Died and on that sleepy score Was Buried and no more There was an Other whom spare Diet made More spectacle for Charity being laid Naked and Cold before the Rich mans gate Who full of sores and all Disconsolare Saving from what the licking Dogs apply Concludes all this worlds pomp but flattery Then He Dies too But as in life these were Nothing akin so in Diameter Death Their Condition states for now 't appears What here was sown in Joy there 's reapt in tears And He who by hard Fate was here opprest In Abrams Bosom finds an Interest A Reveille Mattin to my best Friend LOrd when the Casements of Mine eyes To welcom in The Morn first open'd are Grant that my Heart may early sacrifice To Expiate for Sin Prepare And mustring up Thy Favours and Its Crimes Cashiere the One let th' other stand enrold To evidence at full that Time of Times Wherein Thou Ransom'dst me who once was sold Let all the Drowsie Vapours prest My Fancy down Dispell and give it way To rise betimes and to be better drest So Dignifie and Crown The Day With Anthems may set forth that Glorious flame Thy love burst out in when my fault was so I 'd line for e'r benighted in the same Hadst Thou not vanquisht and o'rcome my fo Cause I beseech thee that moist dew That falls upon My waking Temples tress By every yawn Thy goodness taught to shew An Exhalation Express Obeying no heat save what did proceed From that most Righteous Sun whose beams alone Were of full Power to refine the deed Our Parents Dross'd by their Corruption And as My Armes unfolded stand To fathom out The Latitude as 't were 'Twixt the Beds either side Meridian Let my Thoughts sore about That Sphere Unparalleld for Grace and stretch to be Embracers of those Mercies did extend Beyond all sounding Plummet or degree And thither all my Kids and Fatlings send Thus tane by th' hand by His whose felt What mine deserv'd I 'm up and straight perceive The Mornings Birth Bedew'd with his whose smelt All of Perfumes and serv'd T' conceive Such Raptures in Me that no part nor sense Could be at quiet till it rose to make This Offering and from a full influence Inspir'd of Love Dull Thanklesness t' forsake Now if my Eyes my Heart my Head my Armes Embrace Contemplate feeling seeing Charmes Where can this Exorcism trulier stay Than on that Star which chang'd our Night to day Quid Amabilius IF I must needs Discover I am in Love be Christ again my Lover And let His Passion bring My Actions to their touch and censuring Who in this world was born Liv'd in it and was put to death with scorn That I to Sin might die Being born again so live eternally Thus I 'l no longer make Addresses to my Glass for this Curles sake Or that quaint garb whereby I may enchanted be with flattery Nor on Luxurious vow Becircling Rose-buds seek to Gird my brow But with a melting thought Bring home that Ransom whereat I was bought In Contemplation Of that same Platted Crown He once had on And when my Glove or Shoo Want Ribbond Call for th' Nails that pierc'd Him too Else farther to be drest Borrow the Tincture of His naked brest Nor wash but in Soul Pride Then use no other bason than His Side So up and ready think How He for Me low in the grave did sink That I again might rise With Him who was both Priest and Sacrifice To make atonement in The Difference 'twixt his Fathers wrath Mans fin Whereto it must remain That I through Faith requite this love again Quare Viventem quaritis Non Hic est Quare inter quaritis enim est Quare Mortuos quaritis surrectus est Dumin Luxuria Libidine Et in omnium denique malorum consuetudine conquiescamus Arrogantiae Avaritia Et in omnium denique malorum consuetudine conquiescamus Tranquillitate Tyrannide Et in omnium denique malorum consuetudine conquiescamus Et tamen Salvatorem Salvationem Denique quicquid bonoium ex omni munificentia singulari providentia largiri dignetur Omnipotens petere conemur quid aliud ni◠viventem inter Moriuos quarimus Veritatem Vitam Denique quicquid bonoium ex omni munificentia singulari providentia largiri dignetur Omnipotens petere conemur quid aliud ni◠viventem inter Moriuos quarimus Immunitatem Immortalitatem Denique quicquid bonoium ex omni munificentia singulari providentia largiri dignetur Omnipotens petere conemur quid aliud ni◠viventem inter Moriuos quarimus Ut itaque Mortis amaritudine relicta Vita foelicitatis fruamur aeternâ Vitia vitemusutpote ad mortem aeternam ducentia Amphoram amplectemur aquae Caelestis Nequitiam in nobismetipsis necemus Ut beneficia Resurrecti acquiramus Descendamus per poenitentiam pro peccato in nostrorum ipsorum Contemptum Ut