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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66466	Divine poems and meditations in two parts / written by William Williams ...	Williams, William, b. 1613.	1677 (1677)	Wing W2786; ESTC R8131	55,180	128

DIVINE POEMS AND MEDITATIONS IN TWO PARTS Written by William Williams of the County of Cornwall Gent. when he was Prisoner in the Kings-Bench in the Sixty second and Sixty third year of his Age. Psalm 5.1 Ponder my words O Lord consider my meditations LONDON Printed by J. Redmayne for the Author and are to be sold by John Williams at the Crown and John Crump at the Three Bibles in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1677. LICENSED March the Seventh To the Honorable Sir Francis Winnington Knight Sollicitor General to His Majesty King Charles the Second and a Member of this present Parliament And to Sir John King Knight Sollicitor to His Highness the Duke of York NOble Gentlemen your words spoken for me in the High Court of Chancery the First day of Trinity Term 1675. were like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver they are fit to be Recorded to posterity to encourage other Worthy Persons that now live and may succeed you to be kind and take part to assist Prisoners for they can be grateful if ingenuous you little thought what you then spoke for me would be the subject and occasion of all these following Lines The First I took it to be my duty to present to God as my Thanksgiving And then to you which bountifully rewarded and encouraged my gratitude This unexspected mercy did so raise my contemplations which were formerly exercised in vainer fancies 't was God and you that raised my Meditations on more Diviner Poems if there be any thing in them that be good let God have the Glory and you as his Instruments and the for ever most thankful acknowledgments of your favors to the infinite comfort of From my lodging in the Mint in South-wark March 10. 1676. Your Honors most faithful and obliged Servant William Williams To the Worshipful Arthur Sprye Esq one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Cornwal and a Member of this present Parliament Worthy Sir REnowned Homer for whom Seven Cities contended for the Honor of being the place of his Birth when he first betook himself to Poetry thought himself obliged to express his thankfulness to his Benefactors and first to Mentor who took care of him when he had sore eyes and to his Master which brought him up in Learning and he gratefully requited Tychicus the Leather-seller that received him into his House If I endeavor to imitate the worthy example of this darling of the Muses and render you my most hearty thanks and record to all ages your so Generous Free and Bountiful love to me and care of me when a Prisoner deserted by my Kindred and Relations not sparing your pains in Travel and cost on my occasions with your bounty to me other waies never to be forgotten which hath set me sometimes into Admiration of Gods great mercy to me in raising me such a Friend that hath sent me so many comforting Letters which as so many Cordials have revived my sad and drooping Spirits And that you who are so eminently imployed in the publick and have so many great affairs of your own should lay all aside and Travel and expend on my occasions which did never nor ever was in a capacity so highly to engage you And all this done when I was cast down so low when no satisfaction from me was visible your favors were then so clear and continued without any reserve to your self Your indefatigable pains in being the instrument in Gods hands of setting me at liberty which is to me the beginning of a new life Should not these so eminent favors call me to gratitude I were worse than the beast that perish Sir It hath not a little rejoyced my soul that God in my old Old age hath enabled me amid all this more than Three years calamity to have something of my own to present you with though not worthy of you They are my Two last years exercises by way of Meditations in the Kings-Bench They were for the most part written in the House But Corrected and Enlarged in the Rules I beseech you accept them as the most grateful acknowledgment of your so much Care Pains Travel and Expence for me It is the only requital that ever I can be capable of and that I can tell afterages that I can be thankful I shall be most rude and ungrateful if I forget the favors which I have so chearfully received from the Right Honorable Right worshipful and many of my noble countrymen and others by whose bounty and favors I have bin supported in this my so long imprisonment Most thankfully acknowledging their favors especially of some which have exceeded far beyond my expectation and all beyond my deserts Sir I pray that you will take these papers with the author into your protection and continue your favor that God will continue his grace and favor to you shall ever be the desires of my heart while I breath and remain Your ever obliged Servant William Williams TO THE READER Courteous Reader IT is not unknown to many that have bin and some that now are prisoners in the Kings-Bench in what a sad disconsolate condition I was for many moneths after I came Prisoner to that uncomfortable place finding my self reduced from so plentiful a condition to the sad calamities of a Prison neglected by my kindred and relations from whom I had most cause to expect comforts And to add to my griefs I was encountred with railing Rabshecah's and cursing Shimei's to the great discomfort of my soul In Trinity term 1675 I was called by Habeas Corpus to answer a bill in chancery endeavoring to turn me over to the fleet for a contempt as the adversary pretended It grieved me much to think of a remove and renew a new place of Torment I not thinking my self able to answer the court as might be acceptable did retain councel But before I was called my councel went of pretending he had business to attend the Parliament then sitting So I was left to my self But it pleased God soon to supply that defect to my great advantage by enclining the hearts and tongues of the eminent and ever to be honored persons Sir Francis Winnington and Sir John King To improve the reasons I then delivered with so much pious and charitable zeal for me against councel retained against me that they got me an order for my return And at another time enclined one Mr John Hearl a councel at law and my noble Countryman in like manner to defend my cause at the Rouls unknown to me and without a fee for which I make him this my thankful acknowledgment These so eminent mercys from God and so great favors from persons of so high place and parts with whom I had never spoken nor seen their faces as I knew of made me admire Gods great mercy to me a Prisoner meerly upon principals of Honor and Charity These providences my Adversary observing Gods dealing with me stopt the violence of his proceeding and