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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14380	A prospectiue glasse to looke into heauen, or The cœlestiall Canaan described Together with the soules sacred soliloquie, and most ardent desire to be inuested into the same. Sung in a most heauenly hymne, to the great comfort of all good Christians, by the Muses most vnworthy, Iohn Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1618 (1618)	STC 24698; ESTC S111547	48,107	79

as at a stand I stand amazed That I a dust-borne Babe poore weake and crazed Of stammering tongue a childe in vnderstanding Of heart oft subiect vnto sinnes commanding Should vndertake Worme that I am to prie Into the depth of so great Mysterie That to describe which askes an Angells skill A Soules which of that sight hath had its fill And yet all too-too-little to declare The beautie infinite the splendor faire Of great IEHOVAH'S Palace Crystaline All full of heau'nly glorie all diuine Which to describe the more I doe contend I more admire and lesse doe comprehend And whose rare Fabrique and coelestiall sight I rather could stand wondring at than write Pardon oh therefore pardon Lord I pray My great presumption let thy Grace alway Illuminate my Sin-caecated heart And to my Layes thy sacred helpe impart That nought may be misse-done misse-thought misse-said O Lord I craue thy sacred Soueraigne aide Giue me a voice now O Voice all Diuine With heau'nly fire inspire this brest of mine And since thou Lord art able to declare By th'mouthes of Babes which weake and tender are Thy might and power Lord though vnworthy I Into my heart infuse abundantly The soueraigne Graces of thy holy Sprite That my weake Pen thy wondrous Praise may write That thy Enthousiasme of Propheticke skill May on my Laies like Honney sweet distill That by Diuine-Diuine Iohns godly guide I from the Truth may not once step aside But by his true Propheticall direction May methodize Ierusalems perfection That all that reade it may enflamed bee With hearts desire therein to raigne with thee To make great haste and speedie properation To this blest Citie with due preparation As God th' e'reliuing all-good-giuing King The First that moues of euery mouing thing When vnto Moyses he vouchsaft to show The Land of Canaan which did ouer-flow With Milke and Honney which he vow'd to giue To Iacobs off-spring wherein they should liue On top of Pisgah Mountayne did him place That Moses might from thence behold the grace The pleasure wealth and riches of that Land Which they should haue by power of his right-hand Euen so the Darling of Christ Iesus Iohn Rap't in the Spirit was also plac't vpon A high-topt Mount in Pathmos whence he might Contemplate this great Cities glorious fight A sight more glorious farre then that the Deuill That subtill Serpent fire-brand of euill Shew'd to our Sauiour in his great Temptation When he with Satan fought for our Saluation Thou well-beloued of thy Sauiour deere Saith a blest Angell vnto Iohn draw neere With ioy come hither stand a while by mee And thou the heau'nly Canaan shalt see The Churches glorifi'd spirituall state Thou shalt behold and swee●ly contemplate The spotlesse Spouse th' immaculate chaste Bride With which the I am he Christ Iesus will abide The ioy in God and godlies consolation Th' elected Saints most holy Habitation Prepared for them by the Trinitie Where they shall raigne remayne eternally Call'd the great Citie holy Canaan Great whose Inhabitants none number can Holy because no putrifacting Sin Nor least impuritie can there creepe in Call'd Canaan or New-Ierusalem A Place of peace Saints rest Soules Diadem Now this most holy heau'nly Habitacle This most magnificent Saints receptacle Was beautifi'd adorn'd and decorated Was richly fill'd was rarely illustrated With glorie which did from the Lord proceed Whose most refulgent splendour did exceed The lustre of all precious stones most bright They all came short of this most glorious Light Yea as a faire transparent Iasper greene So shall his Saints felicitie be seene For ere to waxe most fresh and alwaies flourish Because Gods power and prudence shall it nourish It being pure as any Crystall cleere Where by nor blot nor spot can there appeere No staynes of foule terrestriall vncleannesse No grosse pollutions of impure obsceannesse Shall this their ioy obnubilate make dim Or once eclipse their beautie fram'd by him Gods gracious presence and great Maiestie Shall it so decke decore and glorifie Here 't is no triuiall question why the Light Of this blest Cities lustre exquisite Is to a precious Iasper stone compared And why 't might not haue beene as well declared By th' Sunne or Moone or Starres most excellent Or Artificiall Lights which men inuent All these are Lights true but too-light they bee Compar'd with Light it selfe i' th'highst degree First in regard the Sunnes farre piercing rayes With its bright beames the eye-sight much decayes If the beholder thereon fixtly looke Nor can his sight the brightnesse thereof brooke But precious stones haue no obnoxious might But with their splendor rarely doe delight The eyes of their beholders so that they The more on them they looke the more they may Whereby egregiously they intimate And to vs point the sweet and delicate Delight we shall in heau'nly knowledge find So to affect and recreate the mind As that the more we thereof doe possesse The more our Loue thereof we shall expresse Againe the Artificiall Lights men make As Torches Tapers Lamps and Candles ●lake Are soone burnt-out extinct and therefore need Some fomentarie adiunct them to feed But as for precious stones their sparkling light Is genuine by Nature shineth bright And glisters in the most obscure-darke place Alwaies retayning their resplendent grace And therefore doe most liuely represent The splendor faire and beautie excellent Of th'euer-selfe subsisting Deitie Alwaies the same One-same eternitie This Citie is inuiron'd bounded round With a great high-topt Wall thicke strong and sound Which vnto vs doth thus much intimate That though i' th' Churches-Militant-estate The Congregations of Christs faithfull Saints Were still molested full of wofull plaints Tost to and fro with stormes Tyrannicall With persecutions most Satanicall And like Noes-Arke were ne're in peace or rest With worldly-billowing-waues dasht and distrest Yet in this Church-Triumphant they shall bee From all heart-hurting feare of danger free Surely Securely kept from least annoy In heau'nly saf'tie sempiternall ioy For why the Doctrine Apostolicall Shall as a firme inuincible strong Wall Debarre and keepe-out heart-deluding Errors All vncleane Creatures Lyers and the terrors Which their abominations might effect For this Wall Doctrinall doth them reiect And thus the Prophet Ieremie doth call A Constant Preacher a strong ●razen Wall Now this strong Wall is made more admirable By stately Ports and Ground-worke solid stable Twelue Gates are 'bout it plac't conueniently Which thus much doe vnto vs signifie That all her Friends and Citizens shall see The way to th' Citie easie plaine to bee Plaine to the Iust to th' vn-iust Narrow straight Easie to those to these most intricate And on these Gates were Charact'red most faire The Names of Isr●els twelue Tribes to declare Their good assurance and their readie way That none might wander erre or goe astray There needs no vse of a conducting Guide

Their way lying ope ' to them on euery side But here by th' Names of Israels twelue Tribes The sacred Spirit vnto vs describes They being once Gods sole peculiar Vine Till they did from his Loue and Lure decline That by a figure are in them included Th' Elected Gentiles once from Grace secluded Euen People of all Nations vnder Heauen To whom Saluation God in Christ hath giuen Are here all ta'ne for sp'rituall Israelites Whom Christ the Corner-stone to th' Iewes vnites At these twelue Gates twelue Angels there did stand But not like Edens-Angels in their hand Holding a sword a sword like fierie flame To daunt and driue what euer thither came But here these Angels stand like Porters kind That Abr'ams faithfull Sonnes accesse may find Vnto the Tree of Life and Sacred Spring Which growes and flowes from Christ this Edens King With most commodious decent Scituation Are these twelue Gates plac't 'bout this heau'nly Station And good Ezechiel doth them thus digest Three East three North three South and three by West These three Tribes names Dan Ioseph Beniamin Ore the three Easterne Gates were to be seene Ore the three Ports set on the Northerne side Iud ' Leui Reubens names might be descride Ore the three Southerne Gates th' inscription Of Simeon Isachar and Zabulon Also the three Gates on the West part had The names of Aser Napthalim and Gad. Of which most decent triple distribution Of these twelue Gates this is the resolution Namely that all the Saint-elected Soules Whose names are written Heau'ns eternall Rowles From what soeuer quarter of the Earth They had their first originall and birth Yet haue but one especiall meanes t' ascend Vnto this Citie their Hope 's happy end To wit the blest profession of the Trinitie Hereby to Christ th' are ioyn'd in neere Affinitie And that they thus professing Three in One Shall find the way wide ope ' to heau'ns high Throne Shall find the path most patent plaine and straight And at the Gates twelue Angels for them wait A twelfe-fold Ground-worke and Foundation strong Did also to this mightie-wall belong I meane not to the Citie but the Wall For of the Citie Christ is All in All. Vpon which twelue Foundations glorious rare Christs twelue Apostles names were grauen faire Who here are said to be this Walls foundation By their Apostolique Administration For hauing first by their blest Ministrie Christ Iesus Doctrine preached publikely Vnto the World As the first Instruments Are therefore thus the twelue strong Firmaments Not that they are the principall Foundation But hauing first place in this Fabrication Are as I so may say the first stones laide On which the building of this Wall was made For no man is so silly as to say That the Foundation doth it selfe downe lay But that 's the office of the Architector Which is Christ Iesus this great works Director This Cities Soueraigne whose vn-shrinking shoulders Are this most glorious Cities firme vpholders Who laid his twelue Disciples as Supporters Of this Quadrangled Walls most spacious Quarters As those in whom his Churches Doctrine pure Did most consist and constantly endure Thus are th' Apostles Grounds of Ministration But Christ the onely Basis of Saluation But what sayes Rome to this that Man of Sinne Who proudly raignes and rules as Lord and King Peters supremacie superiour State Is here me thinks quite torne worne out of date For though our Sauiour calld his Faith the Rocke Whereon hee 'd build his Church his Loue his Flocke And his and all th' Apostles Doctrine pure To be his Churches Ground-worke grounded sure Yet neither is St. Peter here exprest To be in dignitie aboue the rest Nor yet to be the principall Foundation But One with others haue their pointed Station Then surely hence 't is most apparant plaine That Anti-christ of Rome doth not maintaine His proud prioritie from Peters Faith But from his Person whom he falsly faith T' haue beene Romes Bishop which nor he nor 's crue Shall ere be able to approue as true His Person 't is I say not Doctrine pure Oh this it is the Pope can worst endure Therefore since he mis-deemes Christs blest Foundation He ne're shall haue least part in Christs Saluation But now returne wee whence we haue digrest The Light-bright Angell which did manifest Vnto S. Iohn this glorious sacred Sight Now like some noble Pers'nage Princely wight Like to another prudent Nehemie Or like good Ezra full of prudencie By th' Symbole of a Golden Reede in 's hand Did represent that hee with that Met-wand The Cities spacious round should measure out The height length breadth and compasse all about Entries and wall enuironing the same All vnder line and measure truely came All most exactly form'd with due respect By the Arch-Artist of this Architect Yea with a Golden Reede he meates the same Most fit to measure such a glorious frame By which externall gesture th' Angell heere As else-where in the Prophets may appeere In their Prophetick Visions vs'd to show The Lords intent by thus descending to Our weake capacity which ne're can keepe A verball document in mind so deepe As actuall gestures euermore we find Examples more than precepts teach the mind And heere by th' Angels meating with a Reede Wee are aduiz'd to take especiall heede And deepely to imprint in mind and heart The subsequent description and rare Art The stately Symmetry worth admiration Of this coelestiall sacred Habitation Contayning in 't an heau'nly harmony With the chiefe grounds of Christian verity This City lay in forme Quadrangulare By which firme Cubiq plat-forme heere we are To vnderstand and note the stable state Of this Mount-Sion free from Hostile hate Not to be stirr'd by tempests violent Immoueable most constant permanent Which being square the Gates are opposite To the foure Corners of Earths-Globe aright From euery part whereof to let in those Whom Christ the Lambe to raigne with him hath chose The foure Euange●sts the patterne are By whom this edifice was fashion'd square By Matthew Marke Luke and Christ tend'red Iohn Was fram'd I say this Constitution And since the twelue Apostles as foresaid Were by then short and present doctrine made The strong Foundation of the holy Wall Is 't not a Concord most harmonicall That these Euangelists most excellent By their Long-lasting-written Testament Should the foure Corners of that square build out And it to full perfection bring about The Angell then with 's Reede the Citie meted Which by iust Measure was thus computated Twelue thousand Stades whereof eight makes a Mile Which fifteene hundreth Miles doe iust compile The Length Height Breadth being all of equall space Doe make almost infinite roome and place Within the Wall As Christ himselfe hath said In my deare heau'nly Fathers house are made Many faire Mansions fit to comprehend Th' increase of Gods