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A91224	Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Rockes improved.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Christian sea-card.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Christian paradise.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Comfortable cordials.	1641 (1641)	Wing P4013C; ESTC R231891	119,024	224

Gods owne people past it on dry ground In safety shadow that red Sea of Blood Which Christ upon the Crosse shed for our good Wherein the sinnes of all his chosen sheepe With Hellish Pharaoh and his Hoast so deepe Are sunke and drowned that they never shall Appeare againe their Soules once to inthrall O let our Sinnes in this red Sea be dround Then are we certaine nought shall us confound 3. The Sea 's the way meanes passe to to transport Men to those Ports to which they would resort Christs blood 's the sea way ship which men convoyes From Earth to Heaven and eternall Joyes Sweete Jesus let the Sea of thy blest Blood Conduct and leade us safely through the Flood And Rockes of this worlds Sea to Heavens Port To which thy chosen Flocke with hast resort 4. The Seas faire lovely shining azure Face It 's pleasant Calmes in Halcion-daies Gods Grace And sweete appeased Loving Countenance To us in Christ which raps into a trance The saddest Hearts and fils them with content And matchlesse joyes most lively represent O then in all our griefe and misery On Gods sweete smiling Face still fixe an Eye Which will support our soules in all distresse And cheare them so that nought shall us oppresse Sweete Jesus when the Sea we view or passe Present thy selfe thus to us in its glasse Then if it wrecke or drowne us yet shall we Through thy Bloods Sea escape and saved be Meditations of the third Ranke BEsides the Sea exhibits to our sight A lively Emblem of the State and plight Of Gods Elect with all those sore and great Stormes of Afflictions which doe dayly beate Upon them whiles they passe this Sea below Where World Flesh Devill seeke to overthrow 1. For first the Sea is restlesse night and Day Its flux and constant progresse none can stay Just so are Gods elect who alwayes move Tending to Heaven and the things above No Bankes Winde Stormes threats death their course can cease Till they arive at Heavens Port in Peace 2. The Sea is ever tost from place to place With Winds stormes Tides And is not this the Case Of Gods deare Saints still handed too and fro By sundry Tempests which they undergoe From Coast to Coast from Goale to Goale to shew They Pilgrims are and Strangers here below Fixt to no Certaine Clime and that their home And resting place is in the world to come 3. The Sea is ever working purging forth And casting out filth weedes trash of no worth Which falls into it and corrupt defile Its Christall streames making them foule and vile Thus Gods Elect still purge out and eject Those Lusts sinnes vices which their Soules infect With such suggestions as foule Devills cast Into their Hearts them to pollute and Waste 4. The Sea 's exposed to all stormes and Winds So Saints to Troubles Crosses of all kindes To make them humble and translate their love From things on Earth unto the things above 5. None dare to crosse the Sea without a Card Or Compasse which they still with care regard Stearing their course thereby for feare they stray Or misse their Port and so be cast away Thus Gods Elect whilst they doe saile and rove In this worlds Sea by Compasse ever move Stearing their Rudder by Gods Sacred Writ For feare they misse their Harbor or else hit Their Soules against those Rockes Shelves Sands which lye To Crosse their voyage to Eternity 6. The Ebbing Sea discovers to the eye Those dangrous Rockes Shelves Sands that hidden lye At full Sea Tides which then oft drowne and sinke Those who approach them when they least feare thinke Of any danger So the Ebbing State The Crosses of Gods Chosen Demonstrate And point out to them many Rockes Shelves Sands To shipwracke Soules betray them to the hands Of Hellish Pyrats which still hidden lye And undiscerned in prosperity By which they shun their danger and commend These Ebbes which from such perills them defend Before those Full-Sea-Tides of wealth and joy Which Shipwrecke thousands and their Soules destroy 7. The lowest Ebbe hath still the highest Flood Saints deepest sorrowes end in greatest good Their Floods of joy transcend their Ebbes of woe Beyond compare and all their griefes out-goe 8. When Seas are at their lowest Ebbe they then Forth-with begin to spring and flow So men Belov'd of God when as they seeme to lye At lowest Ebbe in deepest misery Past helpe past hope in Carnall mens account Beyond all expectation spring and mount Above their Crosses and enjoy a Flood Of Peace wealth honour and the greast good If old examples faile you may now view The truth hereof in some yet fresh and new 9. Gods Will and pleasure onely is the Cause Why Seas doe Ebbe and flow not any Lawes Of Nature Moone or Planets So the will And blessed pleasure of our God is still The first chiefe cause of all the Ebbes and Tides Which here befall his Saints nought else besides Yea as Sea Stormes proceede from God and tosse Men up towards Heaven So each storme and crosse Which lite on Gods Elect from him first springs And nearer Heaven them lifts up and brings 10. The Sea is Salt and brackish Crosses are The like at first to Saints who doe them beare 11. The Saltest Seas the sweetest Fishes breed Saints sweetest comforts from the Crosse proceede Yea as the best and largest Fish are found In Saltest waters So the best most sound Large strongest Christians which wee finde or know In harshest Floods of Sorrowes alwayes grow 12. The Seas salt waters clense and purifie Things that are filthy Thus adversitie Doth purge and wash away from Gods Elect Those Spots sinnes vices which their Soules infect 13. Seas brinish waters pickle and preserve Things from corruption So Afflictions serve To season Saints who else would putrifie And rot in those foule sinnes which now they flye 14. Sea stormes drive Men to prayers cryes and teares Augmented and intended by their Feares Yea make them post to Harbours for releefe And bid the Sea adieu with Joy not greefe Thus troubles cause the Saints to pray and cry To God for helpe with greater fervencie Intend increase their prayers make them flye To God their Harbour for security Cause them to loath and leave this world with joy Whose waves and Tempests them still sore annoy 15. And as great blustring stormes doe sooner drive Ships to the Harbours where they would arive Then Calmes and mildest Gales So Crosses mend Gods darlings speed and oft times sooner send Them unto Heaven then prosperity Which calmes their Sailes and makes them still to lye 16. The Tempest that befell the Ship wherein The Prophet Jonah fled and slept in sinne Did never slacke nor cease till he was cast Into the Sea which done

our Rocke Christ or his Heritage Themselves not him nor them to powder grinde And in the close nought but confusion finde O dash not then against these Rockes which shall Stand firme amidst all stormes that on them fall Lord let us never be of this lewd crue But with thy grace our Hearts and Lives renue That so we may escape that Lake of fire Where they shall ever feele thy scalding Ire Meditations of the fifth Sort. ONce more me thinkes the Sea which ever floates But never rests presents unto my thoughts A lively Mappe of this vaine World which it In some respects resembles very fit Yeelding them ample Sea-roome for to hale And chase this Theame with a delightfull Gale Untill my roving Muse quite tyred shall Take in her Sailes and let her Anchor fall 1. Now to begin this pleasing chase the Seas Are salt harsh brackish and no Pallats please This world is bitter tart and salt to all Through sickenesse sorrowes crosses which befall Them in some kinde or other for to make Their Hearts more willing its love to forsake But most unpleasant is it to Gods Saints Of any others whose most sad Complaints Of its sharpe Brine would peirce a heart of steele And make all salt we in it taste or feele How can we then this brinish world once love Or be unwilling from it to remove Unto that other fraught with all delights All sweetest Joyes and Soule-refreshing sights 2. Sea waters drunke downe hurt gnaw fret decay The Entralls and oft times take life away This brackish world quaft down the soule annoyes Corrodes consumes and at the last destroyes Those who sippe of it sickely grow but such Are past all cure who swallow over-much O let us never bibbe carouse or love Her poysnous cups which doe so deadly prove 3. Salt waters still increase not quench mens thirst He that drinkes these is dryer than at first This worlds salt streames mens drought can never swage The more they drinke the more their thirst doth rage A cup or two still makes them long for more And none so dry as those who have most store Of this worlds waters which doe onely feede Not quench the dropsie cause not helpe their neede O taste not then her streames but them defie Which swage no thirst but make men still more drie 4. The Sea is ever floating changing place State and condition never in one Case Sometimes it flowes a space then ebbes againe Forth-with and Stormes its Calmes still entertaine If now it smiles anon it frownes foames swels Ringing the changes more than any Bells This world is flitting fickle mutable We all like strangers pilgrimes in it dwell Roving from place to place till death arrest Our wandring Corps and lose us in Earthes brest Sometimes the flowing Tydes of happinesse Mount us aloft anon some Ebbes depresse And cast us downe farre lower than before As happy made to be more vile and poore One space a Calme or pleasant Gale doth smile And breath upon us but within a while Tempestuous stormes and whirle-winds over-take Tosse teare split sinke us and we shipwracke make To day we rich are ere to morrow poore Well in the morning dead or at deaths doore Ere night in Honour and esteeme this houre The next cast downe base withered like a flower How many sayling in full streames of wealth Pomp Honour Pleasure Favour Greatnesse Health And all contentments which the world can give Unto her darlings whilst they therein live Have in one houres space beene stript of all And dasht in peeces with a suddaine fall How many mighty Kings States Monarchies Have in a moment felt such miseries Such fatall changes in their worldly State As no Heart could conceive no tongue relate Unconstant world more full of changes then The Sea or Moone how can the sonnes of men Once love or trust thee Goe cheate Thy sickely friendship ever will defie 5. The Sea is full of Rockes which sinke and quash Those Ships Barkes Boates that doe against them dash This world hath farre more Rockes to wracke and Split The Soules of such as doe against them hit Wealth honours lusts pompes pleasures pride of Life With sundry other Rockes are here at strife Which shall most soules destroy and sinke to Hell In Seas and Lakes of brimstone still to dwell How dare we then approach these Rockes or run Upon them which whole Millions have undone Or take delight this worlds ill Seas to crosse Where most are Wreckt none scape without some losse 6. The Sea a smiling shining azure face And lovely out-side hath her selfe to grace Wherewith she hides her savage cruelty Rockes Shelves Gulfes and those Monsters that doe lye Close couch'd in her to wrecke and to devoure All those her beauty drawes within their power This cheating flatring world mens soules to traine Into her deadly Snares where they remaine Fast hampred till they perish still presents Her selfe to them deckt with such Ornaments Such out-side beauty pompe State gaudinesse And seeming shewes of present happinesse As ravish most mens Eyes and Hearts with Love Of her and turne them from the things above Whereas if they once saw or could discry Those horrid Monsters Rockes gulfes snares that lye Hid under her faire surface they would shun Her Love and faster from than to her run O let us view her intrals not her skin She 's Gold without but Poyson Drosse within 7. The Sealyes open to all stormes and winds This world exposed is unto all kinds Of Tempests Crosses Losses Gustes and Harmes How can we then lye sleeping in her Armes Or hope to finde peace rest content or blisse In her where we are certaine all to misse 8. The Clouds above much darken and obscure The Seas bright shining face whiles they indure So clouds of crosses sent from God deface This worlds bright Luster much eclipse her grace Making her loathsome in these very Eyes Which in her Sun-shine did her over prise 9. Those Fogges Cloudes Stormes which darke the light-some skies Ecclipse the Sun-shine worke much harme arise Out of the Sea at first Most cloudes of woes Mists fogges of sorrowes which doe interpose Twixt Men and Heaven hiding Gods sweete Face And presence from them with his Rayes of grace Vexing their Hearts Mindes Soules doe ever spring From this worlds Seas which nought but mischiefe bring O let us never fixe our mindes or Hearts On her that is the cause of all our smarts 10. The lowest Ebbes Seas highest Tydes succeede Mens greatest falls from this worlds heights proceede Expect then when her Tydes doe highest flow Some great approaching Ebbe to bring thee low Let not then her spring Tides of happinesse Make men secure proud haughty or to blesse Themselves without good cause since none so nigh Are to a fall as those she mounts most high 11. The

Dewes that on Rockes light Make them not fruitfull nor in better plight But glide away forthwith not sinking downe To make them Mellow good or sinne to drowne So Rockie Hearts though they receive the raine And frequent showres of Gods blest Word remaine Still Barren Hard and Sencelesse nought will stay That drops upon them but all slides away That 's Good or Sacred onely Flouds of sinne Sinke downe with speede and freely enter in 14. None craggie Rockes will Till Plough Plant or Sow Their Labours lost who doe it nought will grow Obdurate Hearts few use to Plough or Till With Godly Precepts Counsells sith they still Neglect deride contemne them so as all The seede is lost which on the Rockes doth fall 15. Rockes blunt and hurt the edge of Tooles that smite Or square them for good uses yea in spite Their Chips and Shivers dash against the Eyes Face Shins of those that hew them Loe the guise Of Rockie Hearts which hurt and malice those Who checke their sinnes and hate them as their Foes Yea let their Pastors in their Ministry But touch their Sores into their Face they flye So zealous are they for those Sinnes which end In hell when they will not Gods cause defend O that our zeale for God were halfe so much As for our darling Crimes when Men them touch Then would we let them strike wound lance yea Slay Our dearest Sinnes and thanke not them gaine-say 16. Rockes Cold and Heavie are and never move Out of their Places nor mount up above Unlesse perforce and then they ever bend Downe to the Center whence they did ascend So Rockie Hearts are Cold and lumpish still To all that good is prone to nought but Ill No Love Heate zeale to God within them flame His Cause they 'le not stir in for Love nor Shame Their Thoughts Minds Cares are fixt on things below And never upwards Soare to view mind know The things above unlesse some sodaine Feare Of Death Hell Danger up them scrue or reare Against their Wills which past to Earth they hie With greater poyse and there still groveling lie 17. Rockes Dumbe and silent are So Hearts of Stone For good Discourse have neither Tongue nor Tone Sitting still Mute like stones without voyce sence When any fall to godly Conference 18. Rockes bare and naked are whence all may spie Their Nakednesse and grosse Deformitie All Stony Hearts are naked poore and bare Their Barenesse vilenesse wants exposed are To all Mens view till Christs rich Robes of Grace Cloath or Adorne them and these wants deface 19. Rockes Livelesse are and Stony Hearts are Dead No life of Grace was ever in them bred Yea all who now draw breath must shortly dye Who knowes how soone and dead as Rockes shall lye 20. Rockes till by force they broken be and slit Hewd polisht for all Buildings are unfit Thus Rockie Hearts till God them rent hew square To build his House Church Temple uselesse are 21. Rockes make Men fall and stumble to their Paine And Hurt That Rockie Hearts doe thus t is plaine Since all our Slips Falls Bruises Sinnes proceede From Stony Hearts which make us take no heede 22. Rockes Shipwracke those who doe too neare them sayle And sunken Rockes to split Ships most prevaile Thus Rockie Hearts unlesse we from them fly Will wracke us all but yet especially When neither Felt nor Seene for then we run With full-saile on them and are quite undone 23. Rockes feele no Burthens weights that on them lie So Rockie Hearts doe never sigh groane cry Vnder the Weights and Burthens of their Crimes Though heavier than the Sands a thousand times And why because they never feele their poyse Till it them sinke to Hell and quite destroyes 24. Not all the Men on Earth with all their Art Can make one Rock or Stone much lesse an Heart But onely God himselfe yet Men alone Are the Creators of all Hearts of Stone Not God O wonder that Men should create Nought but Hard Rockie Hearts which God doth hate Such Hearts can none else but Men Fathers call Which sinke still downewards till to Hell they fall 25. O then when ever we a Rocke shall see Let these thoughts to our Mindes recalled be Yea ponder what Old Rockie Hearts we have By Sinne and Nature then New soft Hearts crave With fervent Prayers Grones Sighes Teares so we Our Hearts of Rocke to flesh transform'd shall see And if we finde feele know by signes most sure Our hearts thus changed and made soft and pure Let us for ever in Word Deede Life Thought Extoll and y praise Him who this Change hath wrought Keeping a narrow watch both night and day Over our cheating Hearts for feare lest they Should by degrees freeze or grow hard againe Yea turne to Rockes and so for aye remaine 26. Sweete Jesus take our Stony Hearts away And give us hearts of flesh we humbly pray And of all other Plagues from us avert This as the greatest an obdurate Heart And since of all our Parts Thou dost require Seeke prize our Hearts most grant us we desire Such broken contrite tender Hearts as may Delight Thee most and never from Thee stray Such Hearts Thou onely canst create not we Make our Hearts such then happy shall we be Miscellanie Meditations of the fifth Kinde TO winde up all Rockes to our Mindes present Some other usefull Thoughts with great content 1. When we behold some Stones with Tooles and Barres Dig'd out of Rockes and taken from the Quarres To build some Stately Church whiles others stay Still there unwrought though quite as good as they It mindes us of that common Rocke wherein Mankinde corrupted lay through Adams Sinne From whence God by Election and meere Grace Culls out some Stones though few which he doth place Within his Churches Buildings where they lie Fast joyn'd to Christ for all Eternitie When as all others though as good as they And of the selfesame Rocke Quar Lumpe and Clay Lye still unpolisht in the rotten Masse And State of Sinne untill to Hell they passe Without Injustice since Gods Grace is free And none but for some Sinne shall damned be 2. When I consider that all Tombestones Urnes And Tombes where Man meere Dust to Dust returnes Are broken pieces of some Rockes I then Behold my Tombe-stone in each Rocke I ken And say Loe here 's the lasting Monument Wherein my Body must ere long be pent And shut Close Prisner till the Judgement day When all its Rust and Bolts shall fall away Which Thought digested makes me still amend My Life and fits me alwayes for mine End Let all revolve it oft within their Minde And they shall Treasure Honey in it finde 3. When I behold some people dwell live lye In Caves of

bound are they will in no wise Let slip but take the first good Gale which lost May quite undoe or put them to great cost Their Wisedome should instruct all those who lye On Earth below for passage to their high And Heav'nly Country never to omit One Gale of Grace which blowes well towards it But whiles Life Time and meanes of Grace endure And breath upon them to make heaven sure And post on to it with full Sayles each day For feare they lose their passage through delay One Gale of Grace or opportunity Neglected may lose us eternity Gods Spirit which blowes when and where it will Must not be slighted but observed still It will not ever waite nor strive with men And once departed returnes not agen 28. Sea waters in their Channels are but light Under them all a Childe may stand upright But taken thence they very pondrous prove A Pipe or two no Gyant can remove Whole Seas of vastest sinnes are very light On carnall Hearts who never feele their weight Whereas to humbled Soules the smallest Crimes Are heavier than the Sea ten thousand times Wherewith their Soules are burden'd and opprest More than if Mountaines lay upon their brest The reasons plaine in one sinnes in its place But out of it in Hearts renude by grace Try then thy State hereby if sinnes weigh light In thy Soules Seales thy case is ill not right 29. The Sea is full of waters which there lye Pil'd up in Heapes as in Gods Treasurie Or Common store-house who doth thence disperce Them to all Places of the Vniverse Where they are needfull Which in lively wise Paints out most sweetely to our Hearts and Eyes Those inexhaust vast boundlesse Magazines Of goodnesse grace with all those golden Mines Laid up in God and Christ who day by day With open Hands disperse and give away These precious stores to every living thing Throughout the world and to their Homes them bring How should the thought of their vast stores feast cheare Our hungry Soules and banish all their feare Sith Seas shall sooner faile of streames and dry Quite up then these stores of the Diety Faile or diminish which still open stand All needfull things to yeeld us out of hand 30. When I consider how the Seas did stand And swim at first above the highest Land Till God confin'd them within Bankes whence they If but permitted would soone scape away And in a moment drowne the world againe Me thinkes it points out to us very plaine The patience mercy and abundant grace Of our sweete God who keepes them in their place Though dayly urged by our sinnes and Crimes To let them loose to drowne us sundry times And then instructs us him not to offend Who can at will whole Seas against us send Yea troopes of Devils which would soone devoure Us if not held off by his mighty Power 31. When I in Scripture read that God did found This world on Seas and floods ●s on its ground I finde the cause of this Worlds ficklenesse And all the things that We therein possesse For how can ought be stable firme or stayd That on unstable floating Seas is layd O then make nought that this world yeelds your stay Or Treasure sith it floates and swimmes away 32. The Sea is Homogeniall and each small Drop in it hath the nature of it all In all respects and will not mixe nor close With strange or forraigne things but them oppose Which should instruct all Christians to agree Yea in Faith Word and Deede but one to be And not to hugge love like but shun all those Who in Faith Life workes doe not with them close 33. The Sea retaines in every coast and place Her Native Colours and sweete azure face A checke and shame to that phantasticke crue Which paint and chop old fashions still for new And to those changlings who to serve the time Can suite themselves to every Sect Place Clime And whiles they thus become all things to all In truth are nothing and the worst of all 34. When angry Crosse Seas meete and clash together They foame rage roare yea raise stormes in faire weather And tosse wrecke or indanger all that saile Or passe their race and over them prevaile When Potent Neighbour Princes strive war fight One with another with great force and might Nought else but bloody Battels tumults cryes Stormes perils to their Subjects still arise Which wrecke consume their Fortunes Goods Lands Lives And of all worldly blessings them deprives O Let us then be thankefull for our peace And pray that it may last and still increase 35. The Sea and Skies in colour both agree When as in most things else they different be It s then ill judging by the meere out-side Those who thus doe shall oft times erre and slide 36. All Springs and Rivers runne with chearefull speed Into the Ocean whence they first proceede And should not we with equall chearefulnesse And speed our courses to the grave addresse Since we from Dust did spring at first and shall By Gods decree to dust and ashes fall How soone he onely knowes thrice happy we If for the grave we still prepared be The onely Harbour where we rest secure From all those Tempests we did here endure 36. Nor neede we feare since we shall not remaine Still in our Graves but thence rise up againe For as the Ebbing Sea when it sinkes low And seemes quite lost and never like to flow Yet in short space returnes and springs a fresh As high as ever So our Corps and flesh Though turn'd to dust and rotted in the Grave A spring and rich returne from thence shall have With great advantage rising up againe Free from corruption sinne ach sicknesse paine And imperfection in such glorious plight That Sunne Moone Stars shall not shine halfe so bright Why should we then once dread death or the grave Or lose our Soules our Goods Lives Limbes to save Since our dead Corps lost Limbes shall rise againe In such surpassing glory and then reigne Joyn'd to our Soules and never more to dye In perfect blisse for all eternity Instruct us Lord to live to Thee by grace Whiles we here saile in this Seas dangerous race Then are we certaine when we end our dayes That thou wilt us from grave to Heaven raise Where we more Blisse and glory shall receive Than tongues can utter or our hearts conceive Lord let these Meditations of mine Heart Mine owne and others Soules to thee convert And rap them into such sweete Extasies That they nought else but Thee may Love and prise The Epilogue IF all who use crosse view the Sea would raise Such Meditations from it to the praise Of its Creator spending day by day Some vacant time and pious

feete But skin and bones without my helpe unmeete For any use yea let mee once withdraw My selfe from the most faire corps eyes ere saw It 's beauty fades it 's flesh to rottennesse Is turned and all abhorre it's loathsomenesse What hath the flesh or body worthy love Or praise but that which from mee first doth move Let mee desert them all their worth is lost And wither'd like grasse nipt with winters frost Why should you then O fooles bereft of sence From day to day bestow so much expence Time paines thoughts Care on these things which so base Meane fading are neglecting Mee and grace In which your chiefest good yea all your blisse Comprized are If you judge not amisse If this prevaile not but you still proceed Mee to neglect the flesh to decke serve feed Tell Mee I pray you when the dismall day Of sicknesse death or judgement take away And cite you to account how you have spent Your golden dayes for my use to you lent What joy or comfort can you reape from all Or any of those dayes houres which you shall Have thus mispent on belly backe head face Haire feasting pastimes pleasures voyd of grace Or in the flesh or bodies servitude Which then will too too late be of you ru'd Shall yee not then with sighs and teares lament And that in vaine the time you thus mispent Offering to give ten thousand worlds that you Had not bereft Mee of the time care due To Mee alone to fit Mee for that place Of endlesse blisse which I for want of grace Shall then be thrust from and cast into hell In fiery flames and torments still to dwell Will not you then wish you had never seene This flesh this body which to mee have beene So traitrous so unkinde Mee to enthrall Unto their lusts and spurre Mee into All That might undoe damne both them Mee and you And wee shall in hels flames for ever rue If this be true O then whiles life time space Are left you to repent and seeke for grace Bewaile what 's past and henceforth learne to be More loyall kind respectfull unto Mee Save Mee save all lose Mee and all is lost For ever with Mee spend then all your cost Thoughts paines cares dayes on Mee then shall you shine More bright than Starres Moone Sunne with rayes divine In Christs owne kingdome where you shall possesse Such endlesse joyes as no tongue can expresse If this will not perswade you to amend I 'le cease my Plaint and here in silence end FINIS Imprimatur Feb. 1. 1640. Tho. Wykes COMFORTABLE CORDIALS AGAINST DISCOMFORTABLE Feares of Imprisonment and other sufferings in good causes Containing some Latine Verses Sentences and Texts of Scripture written by Mr. WILLIAM PRYNNE on his Chamber walles in the Tower of London during his Imprisonment there since Translated by him into English VERSE 2 CORINTHIANS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort who comforteth us in all our tribulation that wee may bee able to comfort them which are in any troubles by the comfort wherewith we our selves are comforted of God For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ And whether wee be afflicted it is for your consolation salvation which is effectuall in enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffered or whether wee bee comforted it is for your consolation and salvation And our hope of you is stedfast knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings so also you shall be of the consolation For we would not Brethren have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia that we were pressed out of measure above strength in so much that wee despaired even of life But we had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the dead who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us you also helping together by Prayer for us that for the gift bestowed upon us by the meanes of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf Printed Anno. 161● TO THE RIGHT VVORShipfull his very Noble and highly Honoured good Friend SIR WILLIAM BALFORE Knight Lievtenant of the Tower of LONDON SIR it were Ingratitude and Injury For me in silence here to passe you by And not present these Cordialls unto you Sith they and all my service are your due For all your Noble Favours in the Tower Which have ingag'd me to my utmost power To be your eternally devoted poore Friend and servant WILLIAM PRYNNE COMFORTABLE CORDIALLS OR Latine Verses and Sentences written by Mr. William Prynne on his Chamber Walls in the Tower of London during his Imprisonment there Since translated into English by him 1. TRanslulit in Coelum Christi praesentia Claustrum Quid faciet Coelo quae Coelum jam creat Antro Christs presence hath my Prison turn'd into A blessed Heaven what then will it doe In Heav'n hereafter when it now creates Heav'n in a Dungeon Goales to Courts translates 2. Stigmata Christicolis splendentia sidera sanguis Purpura regalis mutilataque Membra Decorum Vincula gemmatus Torques Opprobria plausus Vulnera Martyrium Mors Vita Gravamina Lucrum Optima cuncta piis Tristissima sola ministrant Vnica Crux sanctis Via Ianua summa salutis Brands unto Christians are bright Starres Blood spent A Royall Purple Maym'd Limbes Ornament Bonds Chaines of Pearle Reproaches Praise no staine Wounds Martyrdome Death Life Oppressions Gaine To godly men the saddest fates only All best things bring and their joyes multiply The Crosse alone to Saints is the high way Gate summe of safety Meanes of endlesse Joy 3. Christus ubique pium comitatur Carceris Antrum Ingreditur Turres Densissima Maenia Rupes Fossas Ferratas Portas Obstacula Flammas Permeat intrepidus socius solamen Amicus Omnia seclusis solus saturatque benignus Deliciis superum sitientia Corda suorum Discipulis foribus clusis intravit amaenus Christicolis clausis habit at conviva perennis O fortunatus cui Con-captivus Iësus Laetificans radiis tristissima Claustra supernis Vincula non illum Tormenta gravamina moestum Efficiunt animum retinentem utcunque serenum Christ every where accompanies good Men He goes with them into the Prisons Den The Towers thickest Walls broad ditches Gates Of Iron Barracadoes Flames and Grates Doth boldly passe through proves Companion Friend solace all things of himselfe alone Vnto close Prisoners and fills plenteously The thirsty soules of his with heavenly Delights Hee entered in the dores fast shut To his Disciples them to comfort but With godly prisoners he 's a constant guesse Resides O happie he who doth possesse Christ for his Fellow-prisoner who doth gladde With heavenly Sunbeames Goales that are most

Breaches which the Sea makes on the maine Are hardly made up or repair'd againe The Ruptures which this worlds Floods dayly make Upon those Soules they batter enter take Are hardly cured and stopt up Beware Their Breaches then and them prevent with care Their entrance is at first with Ease debarr'd But once got in them to repulse is hard 12. All Rivers run into the Sea yet still It empty is and never hath its fill The streames of most mens Cares thoughts labours braines Into this worlds Sea run which yet remaines As empty as before O then bestow Nought upon that which never full will grow 13. Most livelesse things as mettalls stones dust sand And pondrous bodies sinke downe out of hand As soone as cast into the Sea where drown'd They are so lost that they cannot be found Yet trees which mount from Earth up to the skie Whiles they are growing and such foules as flye Up towards heaven safely swim and ride Vpon the Sea not fearing winds stormes tide So men deprived of the Life of Grace Made all of Earth on which they fixe and place Their hearts and thoughts no sooner lanch or fall Into this worlds Sea but they sinke downe all So deepe into it that it drownes them quite And in a moment swallowes out of sight Whereas Gods chosen Saints whose hearts and Love Are ever centred on the things above And soaring upwards safely swim and beare Themselves above her floods and still appeare 14. Sea waters quench not but increase the flame On which men cast them This worlds doe the same Her streames augment not quench mens raging fire The more they have the more they still desire Why should we then affect her floods or store Which never make us rich but ever poore 15. The Sea still moves and runs with Wind and Tide These steare this World and doe her Rudder guide If Times Winds Tide move with us then will she Runne with us too and friendly seeme to be But let them once begin on us to frowne Shee 'le joyn with them to wreck and cast us down O falfe deceitfull world who dost forsake All when they neede thee most and never take Their parts but when they neede thee not adieu Unconstant friends are ever false not true 16. The Sea the Earth doth compasse and surround Some parts whereof by it are often drown'd Just so this world environs men about Their Soules to swallow so that ' few swim out Or scape her danger O thrice happie he That can saile through it and not drowned be 17. Sea fights of any other are most fell Fierce bloody dangerous hot and terrible The Battles which this world doth dayly make Against mens Soules them to destroy or take Are farre more dangerous deadly worse than those Wherewith the Flesh or Devill them oppose Her Engines traines assaults theirs much exceede And none can scape them without speciall heede 18. As Ships built on the Land with force toyle be Still lanched and dradge out into the Sea So man whence once form'd in his Mothers womb With painefull Labour is enforst to come And lanch'd by her into the worlds wide Sea Where he from winds and stormes is seldome free Hence he with sighes teares cries laments in vaine As soone as borne what he must here sustaine O let us then with songs and shouts of joy Leave this worlds Sea which doth us sore annoy And sith we enter it with teares cries paine Its madnesse thus to part from it againe What we with force griefe sobs first undertake We should with chearefull hearts at last forsake Like ships which gladly runne themselves a shore Because perforce lanch'd into Seas before And yet the most with greater griefe O Sinne Depart this world than they it entred in And must by might with grones teares shreekes and cry Be puld out thence and forc'd with woe to dye Blessed Lord God so steare our ships and Helme Through this worlds Sea which would us overwhelme And wrecke for ever that we may at last Gaine Heav'ns blest Port and there sure Anchor cast Meditations of the sixth Sort. IN fine the Sea suggests to each good mind These Meditations which are yet behind 1. First when we see the Sea it readily Presents that vow and Baptisme to our eye Which make us Christians and oblige us still The World Flesh Devill with their Pompe Lusts will Quite to renounce and ever to obey Gods holy Lawes who washt our sinnes away In these Baptismall waters to the end That we by sinning should no more offend His Sacred goodnesse but spend all our dayes In just good holy actions to his praise O then when ever we the waters see Let these things to our mindes recalled be To mend our Lives renue our vowes and make Us World Flesh Devill and their Lusts forsake 2. Crosse-Seas whose boisterous Tydes by turnes oresway Each other and enforce their streames to stray Quite from their proper course and over-beare Them so that they their motions counter-steare To that course they intend in lively wise A Newborne Christians state unto our Eyes Present in whom two Crosse Seas Tydes contend And meete each day contesting without end To over-beare each other Sometimes the Floods of their fleshly Lusts prevailers be And over-beare the Spirits counter-tydes Which at the last prevaile put flesh besides Its course and channell and through heav'ns great might Beare downe its streames and over-comes them quite 3. The floating Sea when it invades the Land And drownes the Coasts that next unto it stand Paints out that deluge in the dayes of Noy Which did the wicked old world quite destroy And then instructs us with all care to flye Those sinnes which drowne us for eternitie Both Soule and Body in the fiery Lake This thought should move us all sinnes to forsake 4. When we behold men goods lead stones sinke downe Into the Sea which them doth quickely drowne So deepe that they can never rise againe It paints forth Hell unto us very plaine That sinkes drownes tortures for eternity Mens soules and bodies which there chained lye So fast so deepe that they can never rise Nor swim out thence Which should us all advise To flye all sinnes yea more to feare and minde This fiery Lake whence none redemption finde And sith all feare in Seas for to be drown'd How should they dread this Lake that 's more profound 5. The Sands on Sea-shores which doe farre surpasse All number shewes us like a Christ all glasse Those multitudes of sinnes that in us breed Which doe the Sands in number farre exceede To make us humble And each flowing Tide Which doth the Sand both moysten drowne and hide From time to time instructs us every day With Floods of teares our sinnes to wash away And in Christs blood them so to drowne