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A42592	Gemitus de carcere Nantes, or, Prison-sighs and supports being a few broken scraps and crumbs of comfort lately fallen from the great kings table, the Holy Scriptures, into the prisoners basket : who being satisfied, let fall (through the grate) a few leavings for the hungry souls abroad, till God send more plenty.		1684 (1684)	Wing G482; ESTC R31724	15,019	19

Gemitus de Carcere Nantes OR Prison-Sighs AND ●UPPORTS BEING 〈◊〉 Few BROKEN SCRAPS AND Crumbs of Comfort … ly fallen from the great Kings Table the Holy … iptures into the Prisoners Basket who being satisfied 〈◊〉 fall through the Grate a few Leavings for the Hungry … s abroad till God send more Plenty Meliora Speranda Psal 69. 33. The Lord Despises not his Prisoners Usque quo domine Rev. 6. 10. How long Lord c. London Printed in the Year 1684. TO THE READER Reader THou hast herein Prison Visits Repay'd with a Groan from them immur'd within Ecchoing to them at Liberty without 'T is Pity their just Defence that suffer should be an Offence to any or that the Hope of Righteousness to come in them that Feed in Stone Walls at present should obtain no Softer Usage then Words harder then the Walls of a Prison but Patience is both our Duty and Dignity till he comes that will take Account for Idle and Hard Speeches panton ton skleroon Jud. 15. hard to prove and harder to bear Now two things make these Stony Restraints Tollerable if not Comfortable the one store of Water that is Tears and Sighs to Soften hard things and wash away Filth The other Sweet Herbs to Adorn and Refresh Of both sorts the two Sheets following give a Taste to the Hungry If any ask us what we do in Prison We Answer we Sigh and Cry to him whose Ears are open Psal 34. 15. to the Cry of the just or as the Gr. is in their Cry but our doing now is by way of Suffering our Witness more silent and still but as true and effectual If any grudge this Freedom 'T is but our Duty to send the Hungry a few of our Scraps to stay their Appetites till more comes that Spiritual Crumbs of Manna may Feed those that Suffer loss of Goods by Temporal Spoiles and Rapine If the Pris'ners Basket goes about not to Crave but carry broken Meat in time of Famine 't is Pity any should envy either the Bread or the Eater To the Hungry even bitter things are Sweet Prov. 27. 7. If any love to Quaff as that Profane Belshazzar Dan. 5. did in our Tears much good do 't them So we say to the Lords Lambs till God send Plenty and Christ be your Food Dear Souls These things had crept through the Grate sooner had not the Press without been opprest by sad Obstructions and some of the Prisoners within by Multiply'd Tryals and growing bonds so that some expect no Manumission in an ordinary way till Death Arrests us or our keepers by an Habeas Corpus cum Causa to Answer at the Kings-Bench and Ultimate Tribunal and then if not before comes our Audit and good Deliverance Nor are some of us Anxious or Avidous of Liberation till our Word comes and God and the King by a Golden Key cause Pulpit and Prison Doors to fly op'n at once and then our Liberty may be of Use for God and the good of Souls the best End of Life In the Interim our Patience must possess our Souls being well Satisfy'd that our Prison Sighs and Cryes if our Cause be good are Preferable to Dumb Pulpits and Dear-bought Liberties by Insnaring Bonds or Sinful Complyances mixt with the Terrours that most Worshippers are now Exposed too The Lord send us all a Good Deliverance VALE Prisoners Sighs and Supports COnsidering it has been the lot of the best and noblest Souls that have bore mortal Flesh even Christ Himself to be in Prison for a good cause yea in a Native Land And that God has an open ear to the Groans of such And finding the kindness of Auditors and Visitors not otherwise to the compensated 't is meet till debts can be paid in full to pay in part by Lines● And seeing Stone Walls are but Dumb Preachers 't is very Lawful to make the just cryes on the inside to Eccho to all without That some that envy'd our Liberty may by seeing their own pitty our Captivity and others joyn their Supplications to our Sighs for the Gospel and Christs sake To that End let Christians at Liberty Eccho to us in bonds sensing both our Prison Sorrows and Supports the one in this sheet the other in the next For the first though no Christian who deserves that Royal Stile and knows what Sin and Sorrow meanes can want his Sighs Yet Pris'ners● for Religion yea thinking Persons at Liberty with whom any seri● Piety or thoughts of Eternity do obtain cannot well abandon such secret efforts of mind now when the whole Creation Groans as these following Sighs and Tears utter And sounds reverberate and Eccho best on the Waters Now first To begin at the root all sorrow is the Fruit of Sin He 's a Sot that Snarles at the Stone as Dogs do not eying the hand that sent it No Man how good soever his cause is but may find Sin enough Personally demerriting the Rod though not from Men And as God may at the same time inflict a scourge justly for Sin and yet permit a Tryal to befal us by Men unjustly and in both lay on a Sanctify'd Cross So we may in the same breath both condole our Sin and Captivity the yoke of our Transgression being wreathed by Gods hand and also enter our just appeal to God the just Judge for our Defence and Vindication And as each is call'd individually in secret to Mourn for his own so for others Sins and the Oppressions of the Day under which our Liberties groan God in Wisdom laying Sufferings on some in a Body Politick though Innocent for the sake of the nocent And this is one of our Groans Secondly Some Prisons are as Josephs strait Dungeons that allow us not the Jura humanae Naturae and like the House of Jonathan Jer. 37. 20. Dirty holes to the Prophets of God Chap. 38. And some of the Keepers ●gged severe Potiphars like Paul's Goaler Acts 16. 22. though some have no cause to complain so such as some of the Marian Martyrs Suffered and Sigh'd under turgid Alexanders that for gain can torment the Pious and Favour profane Capital Criminals S. R. Complain'd that to the Pious Law and Justice was deny'd which Rogues and M●●therers have gratis for Gods sake Thirdly To be clapt up and so forgot is a deep Sigh This was the Chief Butlers fault and Joseph's Case recogniz'd occasionally by P●●raoh's Dream Gen. 49. 17. Though Reason might have taught more g●titude to Joseph that foretold his happy Restoration Men in restra● may gladly hear good Tydings that in Honour forget their 〈◊〉 Fellows and Friends And being advanc'd too high daign not a look or recognition to Equals now below them And to be forgot is in a sort to be as one Dead or Buryed alive Psal 88. 8. 18. Few grieve for Josephs affliction or strait Amos. 6. 6. Fourthly The envy of Brethren is yet a Deep Sigh be they by Nature Nation or Profession so It cut Josephs

Yet God himself will do it And if our hopes fail here and we dye in the Pit as one alate did that may not fail there 's a General Jaol delivery at hand And so 7ly and Lastly 't is an allay to Confinement to be assur'd the time is confin'd and set by him that bounds rage of Man and turns it to his praise 'T is a Title given to God with other attributes the Lord foreseeth Prisoners Psal 146. 7. So he did of old by Joseph and so to Peter Paul Silas and so to many in the Marian Days and some condemned to Death I mean not only at Death which is the final deliverance when the Pris'ners rest together they bear not the Voice of the Oppressors and the weary be at rest Job 3. 17 18. But in life oft God owns that Title For 'T is a part of Christ's Office by Prophesie to open the Prisons to them that are bound And to say to them come forth and feed Isai 42. 7. 49. 9. He also paid the Ransome after which 't is unjust with Men to hold them fast the Blood of the covenant is so valuable a price to God that it builds a strong hold of Hope to us our fleeing to 't is both safety and discharge Job 33. 24. I have found a Ransome my Son paid it says the Father and now go open the Doors and bring them out with gladness Besides Experience verifies the facts Joseph lay but untill his word came Psal 105. 19. Gods Word in the promise becomes ours in performance and that which tryed his Faith freed him at last Nor are Examples wanting how this is done in all Ages both Ordinary and wonderful whereof all storys are well fraught Sometimes the Rulers themselves that detain'd them unjustly release them on better advice more justly as Pharaoh did Joseph Darius did Daniel Breaking an unrepealable Persian Law to do it Dan. 6. 23 24. Because he trusted in 's God So they that earst had shut Paul up are glad precariously to perswade him out Acts 16. 37 39. as not able to justify that illegal confinement So was that Earthquake a wonderful mean of his discharge tho' under a double restraint ver 24-26 God will shake the foundations of the Prisons rather then suffer his Embassadors of Peace to be long shut up as Pris'ners of War Sometimes Prayers are drawn out at length to draw them out and so Peter was rescu'd by an Angel Acts 12. 5 10. And now and then the Angel knocks a Herod c. on the Head as with the Key ver 23. and so the word grows and multiplies being water'd both with the Blood of Martyrs and at last of Malicious Persecutors Some condemned to dye in flames were by Queen Marys Death free'd And if the time be ask't for one Psalm indigitates it when God appears in 's Glory to build Zion to hear the Prayer of the lowly and destitute and to look from 's Sanctuary on the Earth and hear the Groaning of the Pris'ners and lose the Sons of Death as it is in Psal 102. 13 15 27. 19 c. to 22 ver A Glorious Prophetick Psalm And tho' the time be prolong'd and some may drop as ripe Figs ere it 's accomplish't Yet by the encrease of the guilt of some and the Cryes of oppressed Souls at and under the Altar it cannot be long it 's seldom seen but violence to Sacred matters is aveng'd in the same Age 't is committed As the Eagles theft of flesh from the Altar carry'd alive coal thence that fired her nest young and all tho some Sinners are bore long with yet after Patience has suffer'd sufficient abuse Divine Wisdom Justice and goodness it self consult a time swiftly and speedily to repay recompences Joel 3. 4. Hab. 2. 7. Zac. 5. 1-4 c. And the delay makes a good expected long more Glorious Now if it be so if those be our just Groans and if they ascend on high and these our present allays for a fore taste of better hopes at the day of our full Redemption and Kingdom of our Lord let none grudge if we impart of our Prison scraps to many abroad that Hunger And say to any that own Humanity or Christianity For the Lord's sake remember the Pris'ners If not we chear our selves in the dark as singing Nightingales hoping day in this Gallicinium Corpus mens Oculus Conclusum Libera Laetus Est Fruitur Spectat Carcere Pace Palum The Body 's shut up the mind in Peace does lye The joyful Eye the Heavenly Pole does Spye FINIS An Hymn on Canticles 4. 8. Jesus from all Worldly Delights And Sufferings too his Spouse Invites 1 COme O my Spouse with me come home From Leb'non hast away With me from Lebanon now come From top of Amona From Shenirs Top and Hermon Hill From Dens of Lyons hast And from the Leopards fierce that still Thee on those Hills do wast 2 O come that word Attracts my heart Who will not hearken to 't For some must hear that word Depart Lord bring us to thy Foot To come with thee Lord I 'm content Wilt thou accept of me Tho' in the Lyons Dens I 'm pent Grant there thy Company 3 But can't my Lord be well content Without my Fellowship In pieces me tho' Lyons rent I 'le o're them Mountains skip Lord stay for these Ascents are hard From Leb'nons Sweet Delight Lead me along and be my guard When Lyons me affright And when these Mountains I have past In thy Sweet Company To th' Hill of Spices me at last Conduct to be with thee The Phoenix a Prison-Hymn LOrd here I sit alone My Liberty is gone My Ministry's resign'd to thee Grant Sweet Communion I once did others Water Whom thou now let'st men scatter O Fountain free now water me By what shall flow from thee My Testimony turn Tho' this the fire do burn Unto thy praise and after raise A Phoenix from its Urn. As Birds that lonesome sit Or Joseph in the Pit Or ev'n as when the Pellican To Wilderness takes flight So Lord I to thee sly To have good company Be thou my one companion For I 'm content with thee And when my days are spent That here thou hast me lent Now take me up with thee to Sup Where my Forerunner went An Hymn on Canticles 2. 14. I' th Clefts o' th' Rock apart from Noise Christ longs to hear his Doves sweet Voice 1 OH thou my Dove for secrecy In Clefts of Rock Retires In Secret Stairs that hid dost lye Lo this thy Spouse desires Come forth let me thy Count'nance see Fain hear thy Voice wou'd I For sweet thy Voice is still to me And Countenance comely 2. No Secret Staires no Clefts at all VVherein Christ's Spouse does dwell From Christ can hide No Den nor VVall Nor yet the Belly of Hell But even there our Cryes he hears And counts our face most sweet Tho' most bedew'd with Briny Tears And prostrate at his Feet 3. But Lord whence flows this Love and Grace How much to be admir'd That thou so long'st to see our face VVhy is our Voice Desir'd A place there in our Rock now is VVhere Christ his Flock does hide The cause of his desire is this And here we safe Abide But Lord hast thou so great Delight In our Imperfect grace What Joys shall we have in thy sight When we shall see thy face FINIS