degenerate That Miracles are ceas'd dost praedicate E're since the World did from a Chaos spring Upon its Theatre God still did bring His acts of Wonder spreading them abroad As Witnesses to all there was a God All ages of the World can testifie Those matchless Wonders of the Dcity But why less frequent in these later times Is cause of Mortals unbelieving Crimes Faith now is wanting whosoever hath That may do Wonders with a grain of Faith Rocks may be mov'd the Seas divided and Earth's floted o're the Ocean made dry Land Man's unbelief and much unworthiness Has caus'd exuberant Miracles to cease But yet these later dayes so barren grown Are not but they true miracles have shown The Romish Church although Priests oftâ—n fain Some through the cursed thirst of rotten gain True miracles has seen O Man despise Not all because some Priests have forged Lyes For nothing is to thee more dangerous Than to say what God doth Belzebub does But to that pass men now adayes are grown That they no miracles at all will own But if ought pass beyond their apprehension They strait cry out it is black Hel's invention As if th' Immortal King to Hell had given The glorious Wonder-working Power of Heaven Or had resign'd to him his right or swore Never to shew his Arm of Wonders more Long shall not Man retain these thoughts for why As Lightning breaketh th'rough the Crystal Sky So shall miraculous Wonders have a birth And with new Light illuminate the Earth And shew that Heav'n's Magâ—tians can do More than Belzebub or his Magâ— too For those who eat shall on these fruits you see Shall only God's true sacred Magi be And these shall make them so thou shalt be one Their several virtues therefore shall be shown Seest thou that Dish those fruits in Scarlet dy'd Who seem to brave it in Pomona's pride Such is their virtue that they far excel In giving Eloquence the Clarean Well Hermes himself less Eloquent shall be Than those whose Tongues these tip with swavity These tasted strait the Tongue-ty'd sweetly speaks And all impediments assunder breaks Tongues stammering strings are scru'd to Heav'nly strains The blattering Mouth the highest Measures gains They to the Eater straitwayes do dispence The divine accents of true Eloquence Rhetoric Honey through their Lips do speed And such are termed golden-Mouth'd indeed Their virtue 's ty'd not to one Tongue alone It the true Grammar of all Tongues makes known And in a Moment the unlearned'st Man Can teach the deepest Characters to scan And make him speak all Languages that are More smoothly than his own vernacular To Mose's Mouth the fluent Aâ—â—on this Fruit granted was for the Isachians Blisse This sacred Fruits high Virtue did imbue A many of the holy Prophets too Whereby in charming Notes they did diffuse God's sacred Word unto the stubborn Jewes The holy Spirit when in cloven flame He on the Heads of the Apostles came Touched their Tongues with this Fruits sacred juyce And of all Tougues they straitwayes had the use Such is the virtue of this matchlesse Fruit Unless by those that are adjoyning to 't But mark that next Dish where green Leaves inclose Fruit which in scarleâ— Robes out-braves the Rose So fulgent Rubies court and charm the eye When with clear Smuragds they invelop'd lye The Pestum flower peeps th'row her infant Skreen With paler blâ—â—hes wrap'd with duller green The jayce of these impregnates strait the Brain Not with discourses Kicksie nor with vain Disputes true Logic art it doth diffuse And teaches Syllogisms how to use For Heav'n's own int'rest True Dilemma's too Can by infusion to the Taster shew This doth the understanding purge the eye O' th' Soâ—l the Mind from Motes do purifie This Reason doth illuminate and shews How the true Dialectic Art to use Reason's corruptions spots and fallacies This purgeth out and gives it purer eyes This givâ—th Armes unto Truth 's Champions and Inables them in Dispute's Wars to stand This unto Paul was borne by some of us When He with Beasts battail'd at Ephesus By this at Athens to the Schoole he flew And th' Epicures and Stoicks overthrew With solid Arguments This means did show His persecutors how to overthrow The Iewish Rabbies Gentile Doctors Mute At last were made 'gainst him was no dispute That third Dish where in Seas of Beauties wallow The slick-skin fruits bestrip't with Red and Yellow Screening their Virtues in a double fold Of Crimson Satin and of yellow Gold The ground is Gold upon whose face is spread A thousand striplets of a grain-dy'd Red. That Dish contains fruit of unvalued prize Whose sacred virtue makes man truly wise That Magic makes and true Phiâ—â—â—hers That â—isdoâ— and true Knowledge still infers Those Fruits unlock the fast-shut Cabinet Of Nature and her Treasures open set Nature's true â—ewels rol'd in pitch do lye Not to 〈…〉 by an Heav'nly Eye And such an one these give an Eye that looks Upon and reads her most mysterious Books An Eye that thorow Neptune's Region goes And all things in his brinish Kingdom knows An Eye that walketh thorow all the Mines An Eye that to Earth's solid Centre shines An Eye which doth perspicuously see What virtues in all Vegitables be That the true Nature of all things that grow From the tall Cedar to the shrub doth know An Eye that from the Earth to Heav'n doth rise And rangeth th'rough the myst'ries of the Skies That views the stations of the Wanderers That sees the mansion of the Northern Bears That knows the nature of those glittering Fires That reads their Lectures and Heav'n's Hand admires That knows their good and evil influence They on the World and Mortals do dispence That knows the causes of all natural things Seas and Earth's motions and the Winds swift wingâ— The streaming Metours and the blazing Stars The hairy Comets sad predicts of Wars That truly sees and knoweth all the parts O' th' Ptolomic and Eucledean Arts. These sacred Fruits besides all these disclose Nature's hid Magic which th' unwise oppose The Ancients wisdom whereby they could do Things wonderful yet natural and true Not jugling tricks nor by ill Spirits might But by Dame Nature's just and sacred Light Almost extinct now in the World unknown 'Cause men have sought praestigiae of their own And following airy Notions caught the shade Whilst the true substance did their hands evade Such are the Virtues of these Fruits divine Which with such matchless lustrous Beauties shines Of these the Father of the Faithful eat Sucking true Wisdom from the blessed meat And those who liv'd nine Ages to descry The Planets dances iâ— the azure Skye Great Salomon that mighty Magus had His Wisdom and his Rnowledge from this food This sacred Fruit was lovely to his eyes For he this more than 's Crown or Gold did prize He wisely said For all things there a Time Was did but Mortals on the Earthly clime Exactly
same The form and being of this world doth prove The mighty power of the great IEHOVE And that a Deity there is For why 'T is plain it was not from Aeternity The constant changes of all things below The same to wise men do most clearly show Its alteration its Catastrophe Declares but what is from Aeternity No end can have The world beginning had Which was from Chance from Nature or from God From CHANCE it was not what a jumbled thing And foul mishapen Monster Chance would bring Forth could but she a world produce but this Of harmony and true agreement is So full that Atheists convinc'd proclam'd Have that not chance but God the world hath fram'd For who considers but the Harmony Of those bright fires shining in the skie The order marriage and the sweet consent With one another of each Element The secret virtues of all things that grow The hidden Sympathy of things below And Earth's most admirable form will not Himself exhibit to be such a sot Nor will be fill'd with so much ignorance As to averr the world was made by CHANCE Nor yet by NATURE was the world created For if that she had thus the world instated All things obedient would have been to her And past her bounds and rules not dar'd to stir But all do know how that sometimes the Creature Passeth the limits and the bounds of Nature Miraculously as when the golden Sun Ecclipsed is in the full of the Moon As when the Sun when Christ our Saviour dy'd His face did in a Mask of darknesse hide As all the world well knew for then between The Moon and him full half the Heav'n was seen So that it was impossible the cause Of this Ecclipse should come from Nature's Laws Nor yet can those who Nature God will make For every thing a Natural reason speak NATURE nor CHANCE therefore this world could frame A God therefore it follows made the same A GOD therefore there is The Devil too And acts of evil spirits plainly shew The same the world can testifie to this That Sp'rits apparitions no fable is But chiefly men although they God deny Themselves are forc'd a God to justifie How else can they such an Idea frame Of the great God as to deny the same For who can an Idea frame of what No being has whose species is not We an Idëa frame may of a face Of man or beast which living never was But men and beasts there are or else we frame Could not any Idëa's of the same So man may false Ideas frame of God But were there none he no Ideas shoâ—'d So man of God doth an Idea frame Whilst he about goes to deny the same And so is forc'd indeed for to confess What 's mouth denyes with so much wickedness Nature hath with an Adamantine pen Insculped deeply into the hearts of men That there 's a God although she could not show Nor dictate to them the true God to know And on their consciences she by her Law Has of a Deity impos'd an aw For there 's no Nation though they brutish be But have a Notion of a Deitie Some thing or other for a God adore They do which certainly was past the power Of humane policy for to imprint And o're the whole world through all ages hint Conscience doth prove a Deity likewise Which in the face still of the wicked â—â—es And though his actions ne'r so secret be Yet he 's afraid there is an eye doth see An eye which points and doth distinguish still Betwixt the several acts of good and ill Lastly the soul of man which shall for aye In night Eternal or eternal day Dwell which immortal is for were 't not so Corruption would take hold upon it too As well as on its case but all know this Th' immortal soul in age the stronger is The nearer that the body 's to the grave The more advantages the soul will have And so diseases which the case controule Cannot corrupt nor yet infect the soul. Sâ— alwayes mark whilst from the Body we By contemplation on deep abstracted be The â—oal doth better shew her complement But much more when she 's from the body rent As also by her laâ—ge capacity And by her utter independency On th' outer case for leaving that sometimes Without that she transcurs the earthly climes And visits places and them far more clear Beholds than if she in the body were This history will justifie but we Will strive for to avoid prolixity If the soul's mortal what doth make her love 〈◊〉 despising mortal things to sore above And never tire like unto like doth goe Which makes her thus despise all things below And to the Centre out of which she came Sâ—ll upwards tend with an immortal flame I say the soul doth prove a God to be The cause of her or else it follows she Iâ— of her self the cause then should we know All things that are more clearly than we do Knowledge nor understanding should we want Nor of our selves nor parts be ignorant Of which we are our parent then should not Be ignorant of what they have begot But how the cause and the effect can be All one as yet I have not eyes to see But to conclude what further proof indeed Of God than his great Providence doth need His providence in every thing but yet In plaguing those who him deny'd and it Especially for such struck with his rod Have by their deaths made known there is a God PHERECIDES was eaten up with lice LUCIAN by 's dogs devoured in a trice DIAGORUS from ATHENS banished A talent promis'd them who brought his head An arrow split the heart of JULIAN An ulcer killed scoffing APPION MACHIAVEL in prison rotted and HERMANUS felt the fire and God's just hand â—t would be endless to recount them all â—ut as they did may every ATHEIST fall Seeing that there a God immortal is 〈◊〉 follows then there are more Worlds than this For God's not seen here in this Orb below But as he doth himself in 's Creatures show Indeed he dwelleth here and every where Nor can he be confined to a Sphere But yet there is a world a glorious place Where brightned souls behold him face to face Where he is seen cloath'd with Eternal Day Where vails and shadows all are ta'ne away Where Saints behold him in great glory stand Not vail'd as here nor at the second hand Who so believes the sacred Scripture must Acknowledge needs that our assertion's just For that to take all scruples from us says God not one World but Worlds created has I 'le here not usher in with museful straines Th' exuberant fancies of some witty braines Who make the Moon a World to be and who Make Worlds of all the starres of Heav'n too Let such themselves and others to delude With brain-built worlds and worlds infinitude I 'le not contest GOD may do what he please But here I treat not
Propochampech sport Such cause the noyses in Mount Heclesort Where flakes of fire and black stinking smoke The Countrey round for many Leagues do choke Where hammers noyse and Cyclop's strokes like thunder Till all that dare go hear the same with wonder Others there be which do their nests prepare Within the â—epid bosom of the Ayr These are swift Curriers who with news can go And things transport from Ganges unto PO These are those airy birds that soon can bear Your whisper'd Treason unto Cesar's ear These these are those muster'd by higher hands That in the aire 's clear Region shew their bands Where skirmishing in battel 's order shew Warrs future evils and events to you Such Germany and our dear Albion has Seen just before dire warrs have come to passe Some dwell within the caves of Aeolus Some likewise dwell in dropping Auster's house Some ride upon the back of Taurus some From Western Seas with sweet Favoniâ—â— come Some on the wings of blustring Borâ—as ride And some sweet Zepher's fragrant blasts bestride Others love Neptunâ—'s Courts and Thâ—tâ—'s Lap Oâ—hers themselves in Chrystal Rivers wrap Such was that Triton who met Caesar on The sedgâ—-fring'd Bank of rapid Rubicon And bravely sounding hâ—s recurved shell Presag'd good Fortune which to Caesar fell Others in Fountains have their habitations Others in Lakes sporting in inundations Some love the River some a stinking Pool Some clear-spring'd Iordâ—n some Asphales foul Some stinking Lakes which as Maeotis love Some likewise never from Avernus move So some the lesser Rivers some the Great Do chuse some wander for a constant seat Some to the Earth belong and these abound In numbers great or on or under ground The subterran within their hidden den Hide treasures from sometimes disclose to Men Sometimes such move the Treasures that they hide Sometimes by these are Mines to Men deny'd Sometimes great treasures they disclose anon To durt convert them or thence steal ag'en Others which on the Earth do dwell some Love The Rocks and Caves and some the shady Grove Some Woods Trees some stones some fields some Planes Some Vales some Hills some Marshes Meadows Draines Some in Islandian Heâ—la love to lye Others in Hechelberg to roare and cry Some one place some another Love but all Are frequent almost throughout all the Ball. Some love for to converse with men but some More solitary rather'd have their Room Some also love among the dead to be Church-yards and Tombs do best with such agree I do not mean those shapes of Men that walk About Church-yards or bloody feilds do stalk For these are th' astral bodyes of dead men Which to the earthy fain would joyn agen But these dissolving those are forc'd to die And to the Chaos whence they came to fly Now some of these have bodies others none Some borrow shapes some shapes have of their own Some are great Lords and Princes others are Servants to them some peace and others war Do cause some govern Cities Countries large Some have a greater some a lesser charge Some they are oft some they are seldome seen Some meerly mortal at a certain time Die as the Beasts and to their AEther go Some ' bide so long shall as the world shall do Who then shall with the soul of this great world Into the womb from whence they came de hurl'd By these Arcanas deep are oft made known To men and secrets of this world are shown Farther they search not for their skill doth lie In knowing solely this worlds Mystery There lyes their Essence But the Devils can The dark world's secrets and the Outer's scan And so the Angels know their own and this World 'cause their Essence in them hidden is But man compos'd of all the worlds may know The things of this the light and dark world too A thousand Myst'rys here disclos'd might be Fetch'd from these knowing spirits treasury And would man dive into their depths he there Sould find great secrets and Arcana's rare Concerning only this great world But I Do man advise a lof'tier flight to fly And not into this out-world's Magick quaere For noble Man 's not born a subject here But this world's spirit to command and so Should from a higher Magick all things know Magick is threefold this world 's natural Sacred the light dark diabolical Great is the Magic of this world but yet Greater the dark the light more great than it When this worlds secrets Man knows from the light He knows the Magic of this woâ—ld aright But otherwise he deals preposterous Le ts go a Jewel doth a bauble choose As it unlawfull is for man for to Investigate the dark world's Magic so He leave this lower Magic should and strive To gain what it through Adam did deprive Him of for 't was the Magic of this orb Which clothed Adam in his fleshly garb Let man therefore wisely investigate The ancient Glory of his pristiâ—e state And through the Magic of the light worlds see This world's Arcana's and grand Mystery The Heathen that advantage had not as Through mercy now the holy Christian has For Christ our Saviour hath thrown down the Wall Which wrath erected had through Adams fall Which bard us from the secrets of that place Illuminated by our Saviours face And gives free leave unto the Holy-wise Adams lost Magic now to reagnize Through which true-man may able be to know Th' internal Worlds and this worlds secrets too This is the true and safest way to see Into the Magick of this world and be Acquainted with all its Arcana's for Through ignorance great danger else incur You may Satan that great Impostor that Doth for to mischief Man all times await With higher Magic can deceive you soon And by the world's sp'rit can procure your ruin Since he through Adams fall within this Sphere Has got a place he doth so dominere That to his will he bowes this Magic and Makes this worlds spirits follow his command So that all mischief that these Spirits do The Man the Devil doth enforce them to One skil'd in the dark-Magic can do more Then he who 's skil'd in this World's but before Them both is he who in the Light-â—oâ—ld's skil'd By him the plottings of the Devil 's spil'd He cann't deceived be to his doth bow This World 's deep Magic and the Devil 's too He then this World 's whole Host of Spirits and The dark World 's too shall have at his command Inferiors bow unto Superiors shall This out World's Spirits passive lye to all Both Dark and Light Magicians so that they Sometime the dark sometime the Light obey Let Christians therefore the true Magic gain And nothing hidden from them shall remain Then without danger to deceived be By Hell the myst'ries of this World they 'le see For this end Iesus at whose mighty Name All evil spirits bow their Heads for shame And fear beholding Sathâ—â—n's Subtleties How he by this
Love will mercy shew In Enmity The Serpent's and the Woman's seed shall be This Love in mercy to you will infuse He shall thy heel but thou his head shalt bruise The Gate of Life is shut lost's thy blest state But Time shall come when it recuperate Shall be the Gates of Death broke down and one What thou hast lost recover shall again From Paradise they go or Paradise Rather departs from them their blinded eyes Cann't pierce into the holy Element Which in this World as in a prison pent Remains Like to a Tree whose springing sap Causes the Tree grow green when to the top It doth ascend but when unto the root It goes how bears the Tree of leaves and fruit There it lies buried and the Tree seems dead Till its remounting all begreens her head So did the World appear lost was its grace A darker Vail now hid its brighter Face Far greater difference this change dâ—d bring Then 'twixt cold Winter and the pleasant Spring Or like a burning Torch which being sat I' th midst of some great Room doth dissipate The darker shades which by and by immur'd In some dark Lanthorn all the Room 's obscur'd And scarce a Ray of brighter Light is seen So is the World to what it once hath been The Devil's poyson is diffus'd th'row all Things that compose or circundate this ball Both good and bad together blend in some Things more of Good in others more doth come Of Bad the Rose hath more of Paradise Then faetid Hemlock Pinkes than Margs or Crise The Lamb then Tygers Apple-trees than Yew The Doves than Hawkes Nightshade hath lesse than Rew. The Devil chose those creatures that were arm'd With Teeth Hornes tallons clawes that others harm'd By them might be for had he chose the Dove Or Lamb could they like Hawk or Lion prove Discording Seeds now grow in every thing Confusion thorow all the Earth doth spring Wrath's Principle doth penetrate this Ball And what aboâ—t it is coporeal Both good and ill together mixed are All things created of them have a share This ill lay hid before We poyson may Into our Bodies safely take allay The same with other good ingredients In such and such a quantity It rents The Body else if it superabound So this great Orb in pristine state was found Or as in Man all Passions hidden lye Which none if not awaken'd can descry Nor do they hurt him But awaken those The Mind and Body both they discompose So dormant lay the wrathful Principle As sparks of fire in ashes wrapt untill By Adam's fall it was awak'd the same Hid spark by Sathan's blown into a flame The Planets now forego their wonted Love Contrary'ng do in opposition move Th◠〈◊〉 Aspects the starry Orbs immense Do now receive a naughty influence Such to the Earth they give The Heav'n and she Now seem to be at deadly enmity From her thick vapours and bad stinks arise Which as her darts she sends against the skies Sol sucks her moisture forth with vehement heat Her parched sides as with his scourges beat He doth And Heav'n her flowring Corn with round Ice-bullets forceth to the very ground Syderial blasts Mildew and storms he sends Then from his window agil lighâ—'ning wends When that enough he with his Summer scourges Has beaten her comes Winter then with surges He doth bedrench her Face Contracting cold Robs her of all her Beauties very old She seems when snows hang dangling on her head Chaps which for heat did now for cold do spread Then storms of Rain and blustring Winds do make Her Brooks o'reflow her Trees and Mountains quake Thus they oppose each other now the Seas Beat with the Wind do threat the very Skies Sometimes excurring from his wonted place With brinish floods doth wash his Sister's Face Now Love is lost no longer unity But wrath and hatred 'mong the Creatures be The Lamb now fears the Wolf The Lion tears The Kid for food Bees rob'd are now by Bears They stings receive The tusked Bore the Cow Assaults The tender Dear and Hares are now Slain by the Dogs The mighty Elephant Serpents and the Rhinoceroth supplant The harmlesse yields to those of greater power All fill'd with Ire each other do devour Serpents now stings receive strong poyson Toads Reptils with Reptils Plants with Plants at odds Are now Now death-Hemlock and Woolf's-Bain hold With too much heat this that with too much cold Doth kill Now Bryars Nettles Thorns and Weeds With hurtful Plants the Earth accursed breeds Now Whales eat other Fish Trout Dace devoures Minnows the Perch The Pike the Rivers scoures To catch the smaller Fry Eeles Gudgions eat And them the Herns Fish now for Fowl are meat They too on each another prey The Kite On tender Chickens Hawkes on Sparrows light Thus Enmity arose thus wrath and strife And thus each Creature seeks each others life And all or most seâ—k humane blood to spill Because that Man was cause of all their ill All this did spring from the first Principle Which open'd strait when our first Parents fell And thus the World from its first happy state To this we now do see it in was brought But now the Time 's at hand all long to see This World again a Paradise shall be The Wrath shall be dethron'd the Lamb shall Reign In purity when Christ appears again O hast thy coming Lord This blessed Day Let us behold Lord Jesus hast away Wrath 's mighty Monarch se'ing how he had wrought And the whole Orb under his power brought By Adam's lapse rejoyced much and straight He doth his Kingdom 's Princes convocate With the whole Host of Hell to whom he thus Speakes Princely vassals Who is like to us What power can contend with us I see The Light World's strength cann't match our Policy This Day brave Princes have I subject made A World and Man too by our guiles betray'd I need not tell what you already know That I to Love am an Eternal Foe So he to Me or that continual Jarrâ— Betwixt us rise and everlasting warrs Our Kingdoms opposite you know Contend For mastership which strife shall never end We differ in all things nor shall a Truce A minutes quietude from Armes produce We are as strong as they I scorn to bow To him for I a way have gained how For to encrease our strength You Kingdoms and Whole Worlds shall have now under your Command So many vassals shall this Kingdom stuff Wer 't not so vast 't would scarce be large enough For to contain them you great Princes now I will advise you what you are to do The World and Man which I have gain'd I see By strength and cunning must preserved be You know aspiring Princes you and I Left Heav'n for prying into the unity Because we scorn'd but for to be above For why should mighty Wrath give place to Love We left those Orbs and did them all despise And
did this mighty Kingdom colonize Because we would be free here we Command Are Kings there servants did obedient stand We are grown mighty and our powers we 'l try To make all World's bow to our Majesty Our fires Love's Waters shall consume we 'l see Who shall be greatest either I or he A World betwixt us not long since was made Wrath's essence there as well as Love's was shed Ours made Rocks stones flints Mines of Iron and Lead His Rivers Trees Ayr Gold and Silver bred In ordering them there was an higher hand Which to conjunction did them both Command And strange such opposites should mixed be In every thing in equal Harmony But that Usurper got the upper ground And under his our Essence strictly bound So that he Lord was ours a slave and thus He thought for aye to Lord it over us O how I raged O how the fire flew From my bright eyes how I shook Hell you knew Full well But yet no way there was that I For to release our essence could espy I a sworn Foe to Harmony did gret At Heart to see our essence bound and fret Did to behold my mortal Foe to sport Himself on Earth and call it his own Court. Making a Paradise of it whilst there I for to set a foot did scarcely dare O how I long'd for a confusion and To have my Essence like to his Command To vex me more and to encrease his blisse He made a Man for to enjoy all this By what I thought would hurt me most of all Gained I have the Rule of Earth's fair Ball No way our Essence to release was left But by the fall of Man alwayes to sift I then began In Paradise there stood A Tree was partly evil partly good This was to Man prohibited Love knew If he should eat thereof what would ensue For by that meanes alone our Essence might Released be Loves Essence put to flight I then bestir'd my self and by my guiles Made them to eat thereof who poor exiles Do now repent their fact their Joy and Blisse And every thing on earth subverted is Our essence now doth ev'ry where appear And like it self begins to domineer Now we 'l command the Earth Love's essence scoff For I intend you shall be Lords thereof Are not we mighty now who like to us Hah who can match us when we can do thus Our Foe who thought in Earth to captivate Us prison'd is thus alter'd is our state But let us now provide for th' Future Gain We may a Kingdom better than maintain It being got Our Foe hath footing there Still who will strive for to regain his share And beat us back again the which he can Ne'r do but by redeeming fallen Man About him all our strife will be for Love Still loves this Man all Creatures else above For him I know his Forces he 'l engage Therefore the World must be the fighting stage For our two Powers He 'd not let us have one Would Man obey him or with him Conjoyn But wee 'l deal well enough his Paradise Now cann't be seen wee 'l set before Man's eyes The Earth's vain pleasures which shall captivate Him to us rob him of his future state For present Pleasures far more pleasing are Than those hereafter promis'd few know where Wee 'l have a thousand wayes experience Shall make you masters in our Arts Commence For to beguile poor Man wee 'l do it tho We nothing gain by it to rob our Foe Of his delights But Man is mighty great Without him our Kingdom cann't be compleat Which is exceeding vast you know it wants To fill each corner such inhabitants Who most men gain shall I with Love do vie Nor can he Man's Soul Correct more than I. He without Man cannot his Wonders show Nor I without him what my power can do Therefore when one you gain'd have to your lore He 'l sooner gain to you a thousand more But all of you mark this No Soul doth come In flesh no Babe springs from its Mothers womb But that my Foe a little spark doth place The which he calls his Image or his Grace Within the Centre of its Soul This then You must endeavour to root out of Men And in its place place mine for that once gon He 's perfect with us and is sure our own But if extinguish it you cann't I say Smother't with the World's pleasures what you may And be you sure it ne'r begins to glow For if it does the better gains our Foe I know you will be circumspect therefore To such free Agents need I say no more But go and do your work maintain our might Within the World against Love's power fight My ayd you shall not want Go mighty Prince Lord of the ayr with all your Forces hence March to the lower Orb Do thou abide I' th' Airy Regions over storms preside Tempests and blust'ring Winds Do thou direct Some naughty influence from bad aspect To new-born Infants with blasts mildews blites Afflict the Earth and spoil her best delights Mighty Baalzebub follow him and be Thou Lord of discord plagues discordancy Man Beast and Earth falls under thy large Lot Do thou Men disunite send murrain rot Amâ—ng the Beasts send Locusts vermine and Do what thou canst for to aâ—flict the Land Great Belial with thousand Legions wend Thou next into the Earth thy Forces bend To make of no effect Love's goodnesse seek Holy Idea's in Man's mind to break Disturb his intellect Chymera's vain Strange untrue fancies cause thou in his brain Next Pitâ—on go with thy innumerable Legions of Daemons be throu strong and able For to pervert the Truth infatuate Man's understanding Cause him Truth to hare Potent Samaeliel Saâ—â—an Enemy To Love and goodnesse thou thy Forces try Justice for to pervert Wrath Terror Ire Disperse th'row out the World set all on fire And bring confusion if thou canst For us Do thou destroy all things Asmodeus Thou fiery Spirit raise such to the seat Of greatnesse who Lovâ—'s Forces may defeat With Pride and Cruelty indue them Hie Thou next with thy Troops bitter Meriri Seek thou to hinder Man's perfection Disturb his happinesse and union With our Foe Love and let thy Pride expresse Thy high and mighty Forces statelinesse Next march swift Asteroth to men of Parts Make known our secrets Sciences and Arts Let 't be thy work continually to fill Their busie brains with our delighting skill Ten thousand Legions I assign to thee Abaddon Spirit of Impiety Take thou away all comfort sicknesse death Destruction cause to all that are beneath Thy power Mammon tho the last nor least For thy power reach shall from the West to East See that that thou all dost cause the world to love Preside o're riches and all things that move Below the Moons sphear tie the world to Man And they cann't mount unto Loves Kingdom thenâ— Under your banners march may those mixt sp'rits
For usual scouts to scare black shades and Nights Hobgoblins Lemures Ast'ral spirits to talk About the fiâ—lds some in Church yards to walk Ghosts Fairies Night-mares dark tâ—â—icula's Affrighting Spectres haunting Empâ—saâ—â— Cadds airy Dâ—mons strange Phaâ—tâ—sms and Legions of other sp'rits to fill the band Press closer numerous swarm your ranks disclose Let yoâ— ' brave Princes nigher draw repose My chiefest strength in them I do for us With man their fight will still be cominus I know they 'r active you great Daemons show Them where to fight let them alone to do Do you dispose them let the aiâ—y Prince Cast mans natâ—vity then learn from thence His inclinations then may you choose Which of these Princes you had best to use Which will most fitting be where one cann't come Another may and have a spacious room Brave Pride who art so like to us you shall Be constitute Lieutenant General Next under thee let Envy march to thee Grand Avarice the third allotted be Then furious Wrath Dispaire and Ielousie March with your bands and let Idâ—latry Go next Adâ—li'â—y Lyâ—â—g 〈◊〉 Lust Luxury 〈◊〉 march you next to these 〈◊〉 your â—wy-sac'd bands in order Seâ— them march after Perjury and Murther 〈◊〉 and Blaâ—phemy your charge is thus By any means to gain Man's Soul to us Take all advantages and bravely fight Against our Foes the Troops of Love and Light I need to say no more nor need I fear But I shall overcome all Men when here I see such mighty powers who can withstand Your mighty â—orces and Hel's powerful Band Go and the World poâ—â—â—â—â—e I doubt not now But Man to us and Love's Prince too shall bow The Sâ—ygian Princes bow their snaky heads And Joy their Captain in their Faces reads â—o they 〈◊〉 and from 〈◊〉 sulph'ry throats Belch oâ—t ten thousand loud confused notes Then from their Centâ—e thousand Myriads go Of teter Sâ—ygian Bands where here below The Earth thâ— ayr and the vast hollownesse Betwixt the Ceruâ—le â—ky and Earth possesse They do And all coâ—bin'd are to annoy Man and his Soul immortal to destroy Black 〈◊〉 triumphing with a sable Bow 〈◊〉 Earth with armes displayed marcheth too Where murthering Hag her skilful hand to try With satâ—l Darts made Abel's life to â—â—ye The 〈◊〉 that ever yielded mortal breath Tâ—â— first that ever felt the Dart of Death And thus this World her misery indu'd Which guilty Adam's crime and Sin pursu'd Can Man escape such powers as these can he In tasety sleepâ— or one poor minute be Secure what can defend him from these armes Or who repel mâ—y Sathan's threat'ned harmes Spirits encounter Spirits must The Light â—orlâ— that aloâ—â— must match the dark Worlds might The Prince of Love of Light of Peace of Truth Beholds poor Man and his sad state with Ruth And tho Man's guilt brought down this sad distresse He Love immense doth still to him expresse And lest that mighty Wrath his Soul devour He will protect him with his mighty Power Heav'n's brighter Bands he therefore Convocates And thus his Royal Will to them relates Blest Princes of this lighter World and ye Vast Troops indu'd with immortality Know Man for whom a Paradise we made By his own folly is to Wrath betray'd He hath deserted us this happy Realm Hath lost now misery doth overwhelm Him and our Image in obscurity Doth buried by the World 's grosse Spirit lye Wrath's Principle hath poysoned the Earth Spoyl'd Paradise with his infectious Breath He now triumphs But what lose we 't is Man That suffers most for his own folly then Shall we desert him leave him to his Foe Strict Iustice might but Love cannot do soâ— Can fier cool or can cold Water burn No more can I from this my nature turn Nor his neglect nor his strange follies move May me to Wrath. O no! I still am Love My nature cannot change I pity have I must I will endeavour Man to save So long as he my Image doth retain Although obscur'd â—le seek him to regain To me and that immortal spark divine Shall like the Sun in its fair splendor shine Can I the Principle of Wrath dethrone Out of his heart and th'out Worlds he 's my own Wrath's Principle although he triumphs now One day again shall to our Powers bow The Earth a Paradise shall be and then All things shall turn to Harmony agen My Foe shall then be captivate Man shall Most happy live upon the outward Ball. Six dayes first past must be that principle Thousands of souls shall to its centre pull I' th' intrim I mans nature too must take My self and dy that I wraths power may breakâ— This I 'le effect such love to man I bear We are as strong as wrath we need not fear His fires our waters shall put ouâ— our Dove Shall fight his Dragon Nought's so strong as Love Noâ— Death nor Hell can conquer it The wrath Already sent hath his black Legions forth Into the Earth Poor man 's in danger hast Unto his succour Let your Troops be plaâ—'t â—ust opposite unto those teter bands Which Hells 〈◊〉 commands Arch-Prince of Angels MICHAEL of all Heavens brighter Legions be thou General Conduct our forces to Earths Orb and there Oppose the Dragoâ— bid man not to fear His â—â—ygian crue Do thou match Satan and To his dark troops oppose thy brighter band Maintain thou Love and Iustice 'gainst his might Do thou with equal force and valour fight â—ll heaven's Host attend thee shall and let Some powerful Angel o're the stars be set To let their male-conjunctions and thence For to direct their better influence Unto the Earth to cause the seasons due Unto the Earth her pleasures to renue And thou Mittatron thy strong Legions place In rank and order 'gainst Baalzebubs face Do you unite whilest he doth discord move Conjoyn thou all in amity and love Whilst that he causes Battails Plagues and Dearth Thou peace and health and fructiâ—ie the earth Next Caphtiel 'gainst Belial thy foe With Myriads of brighter Angels go Illuminate man's minde and make him see For his distraction Belial's policie His stranger fancies cause to vanish quite And of my goodnesse let him have a sight Go Iophiel and hinder Python's force Obstruct his vile infatuating source Exhibit truth to Man open his eyes That he may clearly see grosse Python's lies Ten thousand Legions take thou Ptsadkiel And bravely meet the firy Asmodel Be thou as well as he concomitant With Princes keep them that they may not vaunt Of their high state Let Pride and Cruelty Be banish'd from them let humâ—lity Supply their place whilst that he raiseth jars Cause Amity oppose thy Peace to Wars Bright Prince Uriel flags of light display And 'gainst Meriri with thine march away Stop thou his full carrer and se that you With wisdome and true happinesse endue Man give him eyes to see perfection If that with us he will have union Coelestial Rapâ—iel
This seen they further passe not far from this Was Tartarus within his huge Abysse â— He look'd and saw nothing but horrid dark Obnigrous clouds heard Wolves and Dogges to bark Lions and Tygers roar men shreech and wail Others Blaspheme and others Curse and rail 'Gainst Heav'n a strange confused noyse He smelt Most horrid stinks and cold damp vapours felt Srait wayes huge fires appear'd below whereby He might the Souls tormented there descry All sorts of torments that you can devise With all the plagues and all the Miseries You can imagin he inflicted saw Upon those miserable Souls below Some torn with wheels some with hot Tongs their tongues Pul'd out and some with scalding flames their Lungs Wash'd were and others in the fire hung From whence they into fâ—ozen Rivers flung Were by and by and others whip't with steel Others on Gridirons brent whilst others feel The smart of Salt and Vinâ—ger which laid Is on their tender flesh be'ing newly flead With divers other sorts of torments then From this deep pit of Hell they farther wen. Now far they were not gon from Tartarus When in this sort spake Hel's mystagâ—gus Whilest we proceed t' our Kingdoms Centre where Our mighty King his Court doth keep declare I will our Kingdom 's first original When we came first into this â—â—ery Ball For do not think that ignorant we be Of our beginning and high pedegree Or that we have no memory of what We once enjoy'd no more then Souls forget What they in Earth have done when they come here For all their deeds Eternal forms do bâ—ar Which here remain and which torments them more Than in cold Styx for to be plunged o're Ah! Could but Souls in Lethe drenched be How little would they feel of misery But this a favour is which now I shew And should be granted unto none but you Know then there is a God and this although We tremble at it we assur'dly know Yet that there 's none we ofâ—entimes suggest Unto the misbelieving Atheist This God or mighty Power which all Worldâ— fill Unsearchable he is we to his Will Obedient are he fills our World his Might And Power 's as great here as in th' Oâ—b of Light By it this World consists and it shall be Thou't had beginning to Aeternity 'T is not against this Power that we â—ear And rend and fight and so opposing are Ne'r to be reconcil'd Our foe is Love The second Pâ—inciple 'gainst that we move In Wrath and bitternesse and natural It is for us to fight against that Ball. As fire cann't but tend upwards so cann't we But to that Orb perpetual Enmity Bear That to us has an Antipathy Think not that God in Wrath did us create Or that for damned Souls he made this state For to torment them in He did not Will That there a Hell should be or any ill Thus then it came God from Aeternity Did generate two Principles which be Contrary to each other God alone Cannot but by these Principles be known These generate he did Aeternally Both in and by himself a mysterie Not to be comprehended Neither tho Is God yet he 's the Root from whence they flow This Principle in which we make abode Is call'd the first An ang'â—y zealous God And full of Wrath Vengeance and Ire here To mortal Men and us he doth appear In th' other Principle of Love and Light To men he doth appear quite opposite The nature of our Principle is this It full of raging anxious prickling is An harsh sowr tart fell â—ager essence and Of bitternesse and stinging full we stand In this The other Principle is quite An other nature to this opposite We know no more of that this I can tell That accidentally is the cause of Hell Proceeding still they now were come upon The entrance to Hel's inmost Region A vast huge Globe of sad dark glowing Fire He saw and in it thousand Devils nigher He fears to go which seen thus said the Fiend What now affraid what is the matter Friend You do forget you have no body on Your Spirit 's here and Spirits cannot burn With this you must be cloath'd in this we dwell And so must you This is the fire of Hell Which never can go out don't you admire What fuel 't is maintains so great a fire Come e'r we farther go I will explain Its cause and nature in a word or twain This Principle of Wrath of which I spake Ev'n now God ne'â— intended to awake For it recluded was he did not will It should be open nor that so much ill Should happen Now before your lower Sphear Had birth or being we created were Our mighty Prince King Lucifer was then Created of such stuff as Souls of Men Created are and we his servants true Caelestial Forms at that time did indue Our Prince more bright than your light-giving Sun In glorious Rayes of Heavn'ly Light out-shon All other Angels sat upon the Throne Of God and like a God himself did reign Out of both Principles compos'd we were As Man's Soul is and other Angels are The first recluded was and we were made â— I' th second there we should for aye have stay'd But our brave Prince I must commend him for 't Did bravely Lord it in a Kingly sort Over the heart of God that meeknesse scorn'd Did higher flye and his high Spirit turn'd Into the fiery property that Rage And fiery flash which Love could not asswage He there begat We as our Master did Raged as he and so defiance bid To Love and Meeknesse and those Angels that With no aspiring Spirits kept their state Thus we deserted with our Prince that Throne Of Light and Love and gain'd this fiery one Where we are potent and with that strong might 'Gainst Micâ—â—â—â— our adversary fight Now those bright Rayes which our brave Prince had on Before with courage high he lefâ— that Throne As scorning to adorn his Princely grace With ought that did belong unto that place He left behind with that fine form which he There had now in the fiery property We other forms have got which we can change Into all sorts of shapes and Figures strange In that great râ—ge and burning of the Wrath This fire you see we live in then hâ—rst forth Which from our selves proceeds and which is made By that strong enmity which doth invade Us 'gainst the â—â—verse Orb of Light and know This Fire doth from bitter harssinesse grow As when you rub your fâ—int upon a wheel Which turneth round and is compos'd of Steel You see from bitter grating Fires proceed So our harsh grating Spirits Fire breed Which is the same you see This is the pain That we and all the damned in remain For all those torments that I shew'd you were But Images the better to declare The nature of this one and yet alass This doth all them a thousand times surpasse Spirits alasse though
hours doth run By three times fifty and sixteen degrees Exceeds the World But who that Planet sees Deems him but smal How far beyond that Star As they account th' Emperial Heav'n's are You may imagine when the space they ' count 'Twixt Earth and the eighth Heav'n to surmount Sev'nteen hundred millions of Miles and more How vast a distance did Steven's eye therefore Behold our Saviour But that eye by which He say no bounds to it can distance pitch Paul's eyes were closed with what eye saw He The Glory then of Heav'n's bright Majesty Peter entranc'd was with what eye Beheld He then the sheet with clean and unclean fill'd And lastly with what Eye and with what Ear did divine Iohn in Patmos see and hear If thus the Eye may Heav'n see also The Body of that Eye may thither go It is not strange to them therefore that are Acquainted with true notions of that Sphear Wherein Iâ—hovâ—h and the Angels be That Man on Earth th' Aeternal Heav'n's may see For such do know how Souls abstracted may Be from their House of impediting clay And that whilst in their Bodies they remain May Heav'n by Faith not only here attain And be conversant in the highest Sphear Abstracted from the World though they dwell here But least because I here so stifly plead You should suppose I have been there indeed I will confess as ' counting it great shame To be accounted better than I am That I not worthy have accounted been O no I cleans'd am not am enough from Sin I am a Pilgrim and do thither wen Strong is my Faith I shall come there Amen! Assur'd I am although a very few Attâ—in whilst here on Earth this Court unto That here on Earth it may attained be Though Flesh and Blood impeed its clarity But you that ask me how I come to know Those things of Heaven which I here do show Since as I do confess I have not been There nor those myst'ries that I speak of seen Pray tell me also then how you come by Your knowledge of a Heav'n beyond the sky Were you e're there Yet confidently you Discribe the place affirm your notion true You 'l tell the Joys of everlasting Blisse Describe the Glory that in Heaven is And will you then if you did never see The place you speak of angry be with me For doing what your selves do daily do You say 't is UP to Heav'n and that is true And is 't not also INTO Heav'n you 'l grant That God's the Centre of all things and sha'nt The Centre which is inmost highest be Or Up or In it is all one to me But this I know that Heav'n and also Hell Though separate in every place do dwell Although as I confess I have not been In Heav'n nor there its spendid glories seen Yet I account it grace enough to be The Praecâ— of his heav'nly Majesty I may the Candle hold and light the way Into the place of everlasting Day I may the Mercury be to guide aright Caelestial Pilgrims with my glimmering sight We may see right unto the Mountain's top And point the way whilst we are getting up Unto our fellow-Travellers that they if faster go they can may see the Way We Joy if by our means aright they move Those that see more may thank us for our Love That upper Globe which you see pourtrai'd there Doth represent the high Eternal Sphear This is the highest Noblest brightest best The Glory Life and Centre of the rest The place of mighty Wonders the divine Seat of the sacred everlasting Trine The habitation of the blessed Saints Where glorious Angels spread their heav'nly Tents Where stands Mount Sion and the glorious Lamb Where is SOPHIA and Ierusalem This is the everlasting place of rest The Heav'n the habitation of the blest This Man may find in the deep Centre and How this through all devolveth understand Here is the spatious glassie Sea and the Crystalline Earth the Ayr of Purity The purest fire which conjoyn'd in one The matter is of the Caelestial Throne Of Everlasting Joyes This place it is The Empyreum and the Seat of Blisse GOD out of Nature Comprehended may Not be a Nothing so to us I say He seemeth but as he Himself doth show In the Eternal Forms of Nature so We apprehend him can The Father then Hath from Eternity begot the Son This Birth 's the Heart of God which ever was And though begot yet 't no beginning has From whence proceeds the sacred Spirit who From both begotten is Eternal too All three distinct in Person yet but One Aeternal GOD in a strict Union This is the Mysterie of the sacred Trine Which in this everlasting Orb doth shine But now the Father with a strong desire Thirsts for the Son from whence springs up a Fire Which Fire not reaching God's most sacred Heart Is full of Anguish Bitternesse and Tart. This is the Fire that inkindleth Hell Where all the damned and the Devils dwell But the same Fire when that sacred LOVE Or Heart of God it self to it doth move Strait blazeth forth into a meek and Bright Joy and desire of Aeternal Light This is the Light of Heav'n and pleasant Joy In which all Blisse is not the least annoy And thus O Reader if thou are not blind Heav'n's Blisse and Joy Hel's pain and torment find Thou wilt to come from one deep Root and even Perceive the true cause both of Hell and Heaven And thus thou seest how they together dwell Hell hid in Heav'n Heav'n in the midst of Hell And yet so great a Gulf between that they In Hell behold not the least glimpâ—e of Day Nor they in Heaven feel the least of wo Their separation's thus Eternal too Though Similies are too too base to shew This Mystery of Mysteries of Mysteries to you But that our weak and duller eyes may see More clear by them think on this Simile Take thou a lighted Tapor put it out The week thou ' lt see with Fire glow thr'owour From whence a stinking vapour and a Fume Displeasing to thy nosethrils fills the room The stinking glowing weik gives little light And the Fire far doth differ from a bright And burning Tapor Light the same and then Thou 'lt see the former darknesse fled agen Thou 'lt see a blaze which from the weik doth rise With a bright splendid Glory 'fore thine eyes Which Blaze without the Fire could not be made The Fire 's without that blaze a deady shade The Heat and Light distinct and several be Though joyntly they do in the blaze agree Nor can the 〈◊〉 without the Heat have being But joyntly in 〈…〉 agreeing They make that Glory brighter than the Gold Which in a lighted Taâ—or we behold But Heav'n's splendrâ—â—â— Light doth not contain Such scorching heat as 〈◊〉 such Lâ—ghâ—â— remain The Application's very 〈◊〉 'T is â—ven Thus 'twixt the Fire of â—ell and Light of