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A61073	Prison-pietie, or, Meditations divine and moral digested into poetical heads, on mixt and various subjects : whereunto is added a panegyrick to the right reverend, and most nobly descended, Henry Lord Bishop of London / by Samuel Speed ...	Speed, Samuel, 1631-1682.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.	1677 (1677)	Wing S4902; ESTC R1711	99,936	245

to be thy Match or Mate then consult thy Honour if thou lovest the World and embracest the Earth canst thou hate Adultery with man and be an Adultress to God Let not a Strumpet stand in thy sight but especially suffer not thy heart to whore after Vanity If thou fallest into ill Company that shall court thee let not the Devil woo●… thee O my Soul thou most beloved above all Creatures that hast God for thy Hu●…band Heaven for thy Dower and Eart●… for thy Service suffer not Hell to 〈◊〉 thy Pander to dote upon the World let thy Heart be an Habitation for Go●… and Heaven Thy Soul is the Lord of thy Body take then thy bodies homage not thine own ruine let thy Soul act the will of God and command the body to execute thine Let not thy body be thy God lest thou becomest a Devil to thy self Thy Soul is an Angels peer let it not then be a companion for Satan Let not thy Lordship be sold for slavery and misery for if thou maintainest not thy right Hell must be thy harbour Torments thy terrour and wicked Spirits thy company Thy Soul under God is the supream Soveraign of thy body be not then a subject to thy subject let not the law of the Members be the law of the Minde for the Senses are Handmaids to the Soul and she is the Princess of Heaven Thy Soul is a free-born-childe of Eternity Heir of Immensity the Daughter of Almighty God who is beyond all bounds of Time and Being to whom then oughtest thou to pay thy duty but to him alone Thy Body is but a prison to thy Soul thou art inclosed in the walls of Mud and gates of Sense Can there then be more pleasure in a Prison than a Palace Shall a Bodily Restraint be preferred before a Spirits Liberty Canst thou count thy Bondage to be thy Bliss Are Chains of Iron to be esteemed above the Treasures of Gold Are Fetters better than Freedom Earth is but a Goal to Heaven then be not so rash as to prize thy Goal before thy Delivery lest thou art cast into that Goal from whence there is no redemption It is most just that the Soul that prizeth the Devil's Chain before God's Liberty should have the Devil's Prison instead of God's Palace and befor ever his slave in Hell that would not be God's servant for a time on Earth O thou beloved Dove of God fly to thy Coelestial home belime not thy spiritual wings in slime and mud in Heaven is thy Treasure and where canst thou finde more Riches to invite thee Be not like the Crow to feed upon Carrion or like the blinde Beetle to place thy blessedness in Boggs Make not sale of thy self to buy a Goal when thou partest with a Palace for the purchase and becomest a Familiar to Bolts and Shackles Thy Soul is God's Jewel and thy Body is the Casket then keep thy Body clean that thy Soul may the better be preserved It is a bright Diamond of Heaven a Spark of the Divinity a Ray of Divine Glory set for a time in the Foil of Flesh till it pleaseth God to take it to himself and keep it for ever in his Cabinet Let not then thy Soul that transparent Diamond be an ornament to the Devil's finger when it may sit at the right hand of God where there are Pleasures for evermore Thy Soul is the Purchase of Christ bought with no less than the blood of the Son of God then sell not that for a Trifle which cost thy Saviour so great a price it is better to enjoy the Riches of Eternity than to purchase Vanity for a Moment Is thy body distemper'd then thou requirest Physick if wounded thou sendest for a Chirurgeon if naked it must have Cloaths and if hungry it must have Food For these thou shouldest depend upon God for he knoweth all these things are necessary But when thy precious Soul lies sick of sin hath wounds of the spirit stript of its innocence and starv'd for grace no regard is given thereunto not considering though thou usest humane helps it is God that gives the Blessing and is the Physitian both of Soul and Body That Soul that acts the part of a faithful servant to the Lord shall have a double reward The Crown of a Saint and of a Sufferer Certain Considerations worthy the Devout Souls Meditation THe Soul is Spiritual sin makes it Carnal The Soul is Immortal sin is the death of the Soul it makes it die to Grace and live in Grief The Soul is Noble sin makes it Ignominious The Soul is Lord sin enslaves it The Soul is Soveraign sin brings it in subjection The Soul is God-like sin makes it beastial The Soul is the Spouse of God sin makes it the Strumpet of the Devil The Soul is the Jewel of God sins casts it in the Devil's fire The Soul is a free-born Citizen of Heaven sin keeps it in perpetual imprisonment The Soul is God's Purchase sin cheats God of his due and the Soul of eternal Bliss A MISCELANY OF Divine Maximes OR Words fitly spoken Like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver 1. WOuldst thou be truly perfect love God with all thy heart and thy Neighbour as thy self 2. Let thy eye be always upon God and thy self and thou shalt never see him without goodness nor thy self without misery 3. None shall see God so much as he is visible and none shall ever love God so much as he is amiable 4. He that doth not covet to love God more and more can never love him enough 5. To whom God is all the World ought to be nothing at all 6. Let us be what God will so we be but his and let us not be what we will our selves against the will of God 7. In the service of God there is nothing little enough to be rejected 8. To meditate much upon God is good but the Souls greater advancement in Vertue consists in much loving him 9. He to whom God alone is pleasing is displeased with nothing but that which displeaseth God 10. In Divine matters a generous Soul finds greatest contentment in believing things most difficult 11. All our actions take their value from their conformity to the Will of God 12. Love and Suffering are the greatest duties we owe to God they being the two causes for which he died for us 13. He that neglects his own will complies best with God's 14. So love thy Neighbour upon Earth as that thou mayst enjoy his love in Heaven 15. Thou canst not love thy Neighbour too much but thou mayst too much shew thy love 16. One great argument of our love to our Neighbour is to bear with his imperfections 17. We should never endure to hear evil spoken of any but our selves 18. We should never under value any person the workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence wherefore beware for God is present every where and and

What here thou Viewest is the Gravers Art A shape of man Only the Outward part Peruse the booke therein more plainly read Vera effigies Samuelis Speed F.H. Van Houe fec What here thou Viewest is the Gravers Art A shape of man Only the Outward part Peruse the booke therein more plainly read Vera effigies Samuelis Speed Prison Pietie OR MEDITATIONS Divine and Moral Digested into Poetical Heads On Mixt and Various Subjects Whereunto is added A PANEGYRICK TO The Right Reverend and most Nobly descended HENRY Lord Bishop of LONDON By SAMUEL SPEED Prisoner in Ludgate London Despise not this 'cause in Confinement writ Prisons improve the gifts of Grace and Wit For Before I was aflicted I went astray but now have I learned thy Statutes LONDON Printed by J. C. for S. S. and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1677. TO The most Reverend Father in God His Grace GILBERT By Divine Providence Lord Arch bishop OF CANTERBVRY Primate and Metropolitan Of all ENGLAND May it please your Grace USe hath become a Custome for Writers to shroud their Pens and Parts under the Patronage of some Honourable and secure Protection by which my Lord I am emboldened to supplicate your Graces favour my Attempt carrying with it these two Reasons to mitigate my Presumption First that these my Ejaculations and Meditations being Divine they pretend a Title to your Graces Cognizance with whose most learned Name being presented to the world they will undoubtedly sinde an Acceptance among Pious and Judicious Readers The other Reason is That since your Grace was acquainted with my deceased Grand father Mr. John Speed the English Chronologer and laborious Genealoger the Author and this his Enchiridion he humbly hopes may obtain your favourable Aspect For which causes I am apt to promise to my self a fair Interpretation though they are the Issues of my Retirements in a Prison since from the like place Almighty God by a Miracle did redeem St. Peter and our Blessed Saviour deigned to love poor Lazarus though in a low condition though I write from a Prison to the Palace of England's renowned Metropolitan it is however to testifie the zeal I have for your Graces merits May your Honours as your hours increase in this Age may your glorious Memory be admired in futurity And when your Grace shall exchange your Terrest●…ial Theatre for a Coelestial Throne may a Crown of Glory to eternity adorn your Vertues which is and shall be the continual Prayer of Most Reverend Learned and most Pious Patron Your Graces Most devout most humble and obsequious Servant SAMUEL SPEED To the DEVOUT Christian Reader LOndon's too late and fatal Judgments the Plague and Fire having made me uncapable to manage my Affairs with the like success as formerly some Creditors severe as well as covetous forced me to a Confinement in Ludgate where the bet ter to employ my time I have compiled and composed this Manual of Meditations which consists of Psalms Hymns and Divine Poems In which act of Contemplation I made my Prison my Paradise being so transported with Raptures that I banish'd from my memory all thoughts of my Affliction And as I found great satisfaction in the writing I hope the Reader will finde the like in the perusal for in it are variety of Subjects especially such as are extracted from the Psalms that book which may properly be called the Heart of the Bible and is therefore most fitly placed in the middle as the Anatomy of the Soul the Epitome of the Law and the Expositor of the Gospel the Register Enchiridion and Summary of the Holy Scriptures And as the writing thereof hath been delightful so certainly in Confinement no pleasure can exceed a serious especially if Divine Study no Companions can be better than divine Books nor can any time be better spent than in contemplative Devotion Therefore since this life is as it were a Fair and while the Fair lasteth there is to be bought in it any thing that is necessary if we suffer the time of the Fair to slip away it is in vain to expect another Wherefore before the time be past which the Lord of the Fair and the mercie of thy Maker hath allowed be studious to perform Repentance that thou mayst procure Pardon be diligent to gain Grace that thou mayst obtain Glory It is reported of Alexander the Great that when he came to besiege any place he caused a burning Light to be set up and then made proclamation that so long as the Light burned he gave his Enemy time to seek for mercie by surrendring themselves and the place but if within that time they did it not the Sword should destroy them all Now what is mans life but a burning Light and so long as this Light continues God gives us time to make our peace with him and to provide for our future safety but this Light being once extinguished before we draw neer to God by Repentance and Conversion those two fabricks of Salvation what remains but a sudden and an eternal destruction Therefore since we have filled God's bag with our sins let us likewise fill his bottle with our tears Wherefore when we waste our time we ought not to complain for the want of time but rather to follow the example of that holy St. Ignatius who when he heard a Clock strike would say There 's one hour more now past that I have to answer for Latimer rose usually at Two of the clock in the morning to his Study and Bradford slept not commonly above four hours in the night and in his bed till sleep came his Book went not out of his hand He counted that hour not well spent wherein he did not some good either with his Pen his Study or Discourse these Worthies well weighing that truth which Seneca asserts Time that is consumed idly is rather spilt than spent Contemplation is the life of the Soul and the Christians best Companion in his solitude but a contemplative life without practice is like unto Rachel Jacob's Wife beautiful bright-sighted but barren It is good therefore to have Rachel's beautiful face to be seconded with Leahs fruitful womb By Contemplation and Consideration Solomon got much of his Wisdom as appeareth by his Ecclesiastes which by some is very aptly called Solomon's Soliloquy St. Basil left his friends and acquaintance retiring himself into a Wilderness that he might the more devoutly serve God and delight himself in holy Meditations And St. Hierome comforting a young Hermit bad him look up to Heaven and take a few turns in Paradise by his Meditations assuring him that so long as he had Paradise in his minde and Heaven in his thoughts he should not be sensible of his Solitariness Nor is Contemplation onely delightful but also profitable by taking the meditation off from vain Imaginations idle Company profane Discourse and obscene Songs all which are too frequent in a Prison and tend not onely to the corruption of good