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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34639	The confinement a poem, with annotations.	Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1679 (1679)	Wing C6385; ESTC R3156	63,598	97

exist After this life if lull'd in listless sleep They senceless lie wrapt in eternal mist Bound up in foggy clouds that ever weep Benumming tears and the Souls centre steep With deading liquors that she never minds Or feeleth ought thus drench'd in Lethe deep Nor misseth she her self nor seeks nor finds Her self this mirksome state all the S●uls actions binds Stanza III. latter end That 'twixt this sleepy state small difference You 'll find and that Men call mortality Plain Death 's as good as such a Psycopannychi● There is another opinion too of the sleep of the Soul which seems to be fram'd out of that dream of the Stoicks concerning the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the World after the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereof to wit that when at the firing of the World the force of that fatal Conflagration has wearied the afflicted Ghosts as well of evil Daemons as wicked men into an utter recess from all matter and thereby into a profound sleep that after a long series of years when not only the fury of the fire is utterly ●lack'd but the vast Atmosphere of smoak and vapours which was s●nt up during the time of 〈◊〉 ●arths Con●lagration has returned back in copious showers of rain that Nature recovering thus to her advantage and becoming youthful again and full of genital salt and moisture the Souls of all living Creatures shall in due order awaken and revive in the cool rorid air Which expergefaction into life is accompanied say they with propensions answerable to the resolutions they made with themselves in those fiery torments and with which they fell into their long sleep Page 19. line 1. Their Souls in the terrestrial Hyle sink The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Platonists is no more than a congeries of corporeity the faeces and dregs of Matter with which when the Soul is so clog'd and burden'd that she is overwhelm'd in sensuality and cannot operate as she ought she is said to be plung'd into Plotinus defines this Hyle to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the essence of evil and the first or original Evil and having given a reason of that perplexing question 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what is the first Origin of Evil in the World he writes thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That the World is mixt of Intellect and Necessity and that those things which come from God are Good but the Evil are from that antique nature which is call'd Hyle Plotinus Ennead 1. lib. 8 cap. 7. But nearer that to Hyle things do dive They are more pent and find much lesser room Thus sensual Souls do find their righteous doom Which Nemesis inflicts when they descend From heavenly thoughts that from above do come To lower life which wrath and grief attend And scorching lust that do high honour blend See Dr. Moores Poems Neither does this account of the origin of Evil as is objected by some make Matter to be essentially evil nor the existence of evil natural and necessary for if the Soul be so careless and negligent as to yield and stoop to its sluggish inclinations it becomes the voluntary cause of its own evil Page 22. line 1. What harder Fate can er'e accrew then this Banish'd to live in their Metropolis To be separated from and debar'd the freedome of conversation with Relations Friends and acquaintance though inhabiting in the same street or adjacent ones to be restrained from all the profits delights and advantages that accrew to those who are members of a Corporeity is worse than a Banishment where the want of those benefits is the better born because not expected Page 22. line 5. Their Chariots through their Portals hurry on Their Coaches hurry through the noted Gates of the City which generally being strong are made use of as well for the custody of Prisoners as the preservation of the City Page 22. line 11. Thus amidst pleasures tantaliz'd they dwell And in their proper Heaven find a Hell Amidst a populous City that abounds in all varieties of delights and which might have been a proper sphere of pleasure to them as well as their Neighbours but for some unhappy turns of Fortune which has reduced them to this state Page 22. line 13. Known Pinnacles and Towers still appear Either from their windows or Battlements if their Prisons are built so high as most of the Gates are Page 24. line 1. No Sun appears for Persian to implore The Persians adored Apollo or the Sun in the figure of a Lion Crown'd with a Diadem holding the horns of an Ox in his paws They called him Mithra and actually worship'd him at his rising preserving a sacred Fire in honour of him in their Temples Page 24. line 3. Nor can th' Ephesian to the silver Moon Though several Nations did adore Diana or the Moon y●t the most noted place where she was Worshipped was Ephesus where she had a Temple erected as some think by the Amazons a work of so stupendious a grandeur that there was spent above two hundred years in finishing of it all Asia contributing to this inestimable expence It was environed with a twofold range of Columns in form of a double Portico It was in length 420 foot upon 200 pillars all of Marble 70 foot in heighth when it was burnt by Erostratus who set it on fire that his name might be rendred famous having no other means to get renown but by this wicked deed whereupon the Ephesians strictly commanded that none should offer to mention his Name upon pain of death Page 24. line 6. What 's due to Thetis or Oceanus Oceanus was the Son of Coelum and Vesta his Effigies was much like that of the Rivers a Man of a prodigious size with great horns upon his head The●is was his Wife and Goddess of the Sea The Sea-Divinities had their Temples usually adorn'd with the spoils of many Naval Victories Page 24. line 8. Nor could the Asiatick Mountaineer His Athos or Olympus once reveer Athos was a great Mountain scituated between Macedonia and Thrace so vast that it cast a shade even to the Island of Lemnos Olympus was another stupendious Mountain between Macedonia and Thessaly now called Lacha of that height that the Poets often made use of it to express Heaven by and to Iupiter himself they gave the Title of Olympius They were both ador'd as Divinities Page 24. line 10. No Indian here could worship o're-grown Tree Nor to the Nile Memphitick Priest bow knee The Indians Worshipt any thing that was monstrous as vast Mountains cragg'd and precipitous Rocks over-grown Trees and Plants thinking some Divinity in all those productions which were not obvious or common See Bry's America Things that are great and vehement people are subject to suspect they rise from some supernatural cause insomuch that the Wind cannot be more than ordinarily high but they are prone to imagine the Devil raised it So rude Antiquity

Souls exist After this life if lull'd in listless sleep They senceless lie wrapt in eternal mist Bound up in foggy clouds that ever weep Benumming tears and the Souls centre steep With deading liquors that she never minds Or feeleth ought thus drench'd in Lethe deep Nor misseth she her self nor seeks nor finds Her self this mirksome state all the S●uls actions binds Stanza III. latter end That 'twixt this sleepy state small difference You 'll find and that Men call mortality Plain Death 's as good as such a Psycopannychi● There is another opinion too of the sleep of the Soul which seems to be fram'd out of that dream of the Stoicks concerning the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the World after the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereof to wit that when at the firing of the World the force of that fatal Conflagration has wearied the afflicted Ghosts as well of evil Daemons as wicked men into an utter recess from all matter and thereby into a profound sleep that after a long series of years when not only the fury of the fire is utterly ●lack'd but the vast Atmosphere of smoak and vapours which was s●nt up during the time of 〈◊〉 ●arths Con●lagration has returned back in copious showers of rain that Nature recovering thus to her advantage and becoming youthful again and full of genital salt and moisture the Souls of all living Creatures shall in due order awaken and revive in the cool rorid air Which expergefaction into life is accompanied say they with propensions answerable to the resolutions they made with themselves in those fiery torments and with which they fell into their long sleep The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Platonists is no more than a congeries of corporeity the faeces and dregs of Matter with which when the Soul is so clog'd and burden'd that she is overwhelm'd in sensuality and cannot operate as she ought she is said to be plung'd into Plotinus defines this Hyle to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the essence of evil and the first or original Evil and having given a reason of that perplexing question 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what is the first Origin of Evil in the World he writes thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That the World is mixt of Intellect and Necessity and that those things which come from God are Good but the Evil are from that antique nature which is call'd Hyle Plotinus Ennead 1. lib. 8 cap. 7. But nearer that to Hyle things do dive They are more pent and find much lesser room Thus sensual Souls do find their righteous doom Which Nemesis inflicts when they descend From heavenly thoughts that from above do come To lower life which wrath and grief attend And scorching lust that do high honour blend See Dr. Moores Poems Neither does this account of the origin of Evil as is objected by some make Matter to be essentially evil nor the existence of evil natural and necessary for if the Soul be so careless and negligent as to yield and stoop to its sluggish inclinations it becomes the voluntary cause of its own evil To be separated from and debar'd the freedome of conversation with Relations Friends and acquaintance though inhabiting in the same street or adjacent ones to be restrained from all the profits delights and advantages that accrew to those who are members of a Corporeity is worse than a Banishment where the want of those benefits is the better born because not expected Their Coaches hurry through the noted Gates of the City which generally being strong are made use of as well for the custody of Prisoners as the preservation of the City Amidst a populous City that abounds in all varieties of delights and which might have been a proper sphere of pleasure to them as well as their Neighbours but for some unhappy turns of Fortune which has reduced them to this state Either from their windows or Battlements if their Prisons are built so high as most of the Gates are The Persians adored Apollo or the Sun in the figure of a Lion Crown'd with a Diadem holding the horns of an Ox in his paws They called him Mithra and actually worship'd him at his rising preserving a sacred Fire in honour of him in their Temples Though several Nations did adore Diana or the Moon y●t the most noted place where she was Worshipped was Ephesus where she had a Temple erected as some think by the Amazons a work of so stupendious a grandeur that there was spent above two hundred years in finishing of it all Asia contributing to this inestimable expence It was environed with a twofold range of Columns in form of a double Portico It was in length 420 foot upon 200 pillars all of Marble 70 foot in heighth when it was burnt by Erostratus who set it on fire that his name might be rendred famous having no other means to get renown but by this wicked deed whereupon the Ephesians strictly commanded that none should offer to mention his Name upon pain of death Oceanus was the Son of Coelum and Vesta his Effigies was much like that of the Rivers a Man of a prodigious size with great horns upon his head The●is was his Wife and Goddess of the Sea The Sea-Divinities had their Temples usually adorn'd with the spoils of many Naval Victories Athos was a great Mountain scituated between Macedonia and Thrace so vast that it cast a shade even to the Island of Lemnos Olympus was another stupendious Mountain between Macedonia and Thessaly now called Lacha of that height that the Poets often made use of it to express Heaven by and to Iupiter himself they gave the Title of Olympius They were both ador'd as Divinities The Indians Worshipt any thing that was monstrous as vast Mountains cragg'd and precipitous Rocks over-grown Trees and Plants thinking some Divinity in all those productions which were not obvious or common See Bry's America Things that are great and vehement people are subject to suspect they rise from some supernatural cause insomuch that the Wind cannot be more than ordinarily high but they are prone to imagine the Devil raised it So rude Antiquity conceived a kind of Divinity in almost any thing that was extraordinary great Whence some have worshipped very tall Trees others large Rivers some a great Stone or Rock others some high and vast Mountains whence the Greeks confound Great and Holy in that one word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that signifies both And the Hebrewes by the Cedars of God the Mountains of God the Spirit of God and the like understand high Cedars great Mountains and a mighty Spirit or Wind. Dr. More in his Tractate of Enthusiasm Sect. 16. The River Nilus was represented in the shape of a Man with a great many little Children swarming about him which was to represent the fertility and increase which was caused throughout all the Land by the ove●-flowing of his banks