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A45630	Horæ consecratæ, or, Spiritual pastime. concerning divine meditations upon the great mysteries of our faith and salvation : occasional meditations and gratulatory reflexions upon particular providences and deliverances, vouchsafed to the author and his family : also a scripture-catechisme dedicated to the service of his wife and children, and now published, together with other treatises mentioned in the following page for common use / by Sir James Harrington ...	Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Meditations upon the creation, man's fall, and redemption by Christ.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Noah's dove.	1682 (1682)	Wing H803E_PARTIAL; Wing H815_PARTIAL; Wing H831_CANCELLED; ESTC R4540	368,029	493

her Ape and imitatrix As for the Plain it self which I may well call Nature's great Oval Table because there she Daily teasted her Guests and off-spring it was most beautifully spread as it were with a green Carpet of unshorn Velvet imbroidred with many coloured and Gold like Flowers For it was now about the Moneth of May the gladsome and concluding time of her anniversary Feast in remembrance of her Creation the Beasts we call wild as though they had been metamorphized Acteons and had still retained his reason seem'd tame and civiliz'd feeding upon her Varieties cookt and prepared for them there without intemperance or gluttony But O how short and temporary are all Earthly delights and refreshments for no sooner was I cheared contented and revived after about ten Hours travel with this new Scene of things pleasant change and sweet prospect but the carreering of four Horse-men issuing out of several quarters of the Woods alarm'd me to prepare for an on-set and to alight with my Servant that drawing our Swords and cocking our Pistols and backt by our Horses we might not be surpriz'd but secure our selves and a considerable sum of Money This our prepared vigilancy as I conjecture being at a neer distance perceived by our adversaries they stopt united and wheeled about retreating into the Woods again thereby encouraging us to remount and to return that Night with safety home But the true cause of this great deliverance as being from thee O Lord is only known to thee who struck the Sodomites and Syrians with an intellectual rather than with an organical blindness that thou mightest preserve safe thy Lot and Elisha and caused the numerous Army besieging Samaria for the sake of a few there and to make thy Word good and thy Power known to be abused and deceived also by their other Sence of Hearing and to fly when none pursued them How and by what means these Robbers were diverted I know not but this I know that it is my duty O Lord greatly to praise thee for this preservation and to commemorate it to Posterity for ever which accept I beseech thee in this my poor Sacrifice of Thanks-giving and never-dying Record dedicated to thy Glory Amen The RESCVE Ejaculation or Hymn on the former Subject MY Life from first to last O Lord's A Pilgrimage a Journing tow'rds My home few evil are my Dayes As wrackt with sickness scortcht with Raies Of Earthly and Coelestial Suns Wearied with care dusted undone With slanders sweating all my race Vnder sad troubles and disgrace Amidst these travels thou didst please Good God to give to me some ease An interval wherein I did A sweet refreshing take and rid As on a Plain adorn'd with store Of Flowry blessings green all o're With mercies then I Brutes did see Grown tame and civiliz'd by Thee Yea there encompast with thy Armes I was from Sun and other harmes Secur'd then did I often hear Musick beyond that of the Spheres Without within me But alas This lasted not for soon I was Assailed by a Troop of slie And Hellish Thieves powers in high Places spiritual wickedness Skilfully arm'd none weaponless One Fiend as I remember well Had Darts of Lust inflam'd from Hell Another Bow and Arrowes on Feather'd with Pride Ambition A third was arm'd Cappee point V●e With a Coat-Male of Avarice The last with Sword and Lance excess Of Pleasures and Voluptuousness O Lord I bless thee who didst then And since counsel even when I knew not how for to defend My Soul and Treasures from these Fiends Thou didst advise me to dismount From my own strength and to account Humility the surest Ground On which to stand and to confound These Robbers yea thou did'st prepare And cockt my heart full-charg'd with prayer Thou help'st me to draw out thy Sword The Devil-daunting written Word They thus repulst fled gave me space For to proceed on tow'rds my Place Of rest and peace That Tower wherein No fear of Sathan World or Sin The Soul and Body both which thou Didst and dost still preserve shall bow Vnto thy Praise Eternally And Triumph in thy Victory Amen ARGUMENT Vpon God's good Providence over me and his Preservation of me from the Vices of the times when I was left by my Parents to my liberty and alone in the Cities of Westminster and London young and about Seventeen Years of Age. Soliloquium or Discourse O How early even in the Spring of my Youth did sin and vanity bud flower and bring forth clusters of Sodom and Apples of Gomorah no sooner was I mounted for London about the year 1625. but a Troop of Lusts were on Horse-back also ready to attend me thither Viz. Pride in a disguise and Garment of neatness Lust in a light riding suit of love and amorousness Lying in a divers coloured Coat of Complement and good language and Idleness in a wide-made Suit slasht and open-sleeved of recreation upon which was a travelling Cloak of friendly Visits seventy miles as to my labour seem'd but a short stage but as to my longing desires five hundred until I got a fight of the Southern constellation of the English Geminy Peter and Paul's Churches and the united Cities of London and Westminster where I was no sooner setled but I found my self unsetled through the multitude of temptations and incitations to sin and vanity Being almost suffocated with ill scent of pride and vanity I rode out for Recreation to a Park neer it to find out sweeter Air but there me thought the Proverb was verified The World runs upon Wheels which raised up Clouds of dust as though the Earth against Nature would take place of the Element of Air There I saw many Inchanters of both Sexes raise their familiars and command and charm them within multiplied circles of Coaches wherefore I returned from thence to walk as I conceived in a more private and reserved Paradice called therefore the Springs Garden but that I was so crowded and shouldred with the Gallants of both Sexes which as so many moving Groves fill'd up and replanted the Walks that the whole Garden was me thought changed into a wild Wood and Wilderness wherefore to avoid this throng through some solitary Meddowes and winding Paths I sought in the Centre of the Wood for some place of privacy and found some little Hermitages where I hoped to have discoursed with some sober or devout Persons but found them to be Chapels of ease dedicated to Bacchus Ceres and Venus which made me think of the truth and reason of that Sentence Sine Cerere Bacho friget Venus The Lord's Day being come I thought to spend that Day better than the Days of the Weeks past and therefore Visited the Church of Peter's Westminster which to say no more in its commendation according to Relations I found to be in some things like St. Peter's Church in Rome This being I was a Protestant and in a Protestant City

did raise my admiration but not my devotion After this having heard extolled the wit and language of our English Poets and that their Playes a fit name for such Airy Poems were much Visited and by the Youth of our Nation preferred above the best of Sermons As also that they were acted to the life in the publick Theatres I we●t thi●ther and was both an Auditor and Spectator where I heard wi● and language abused Being told of the Noble Buildings of both Exchanges and of the great concourse to them of Coaches and Persons of the best Quality I expected better things there but found in that place an Exchange but as for the Company the like or the same The Shop-keepers and their Feminines being like the Company of Players I saw lately that know how to act all parts currantly and sedantly especially those of lying equivocation dissimulation and over-reaching when they meet with Country Ignoramuses After some time I adventured at the instance of some of my acquaintance not therein my friends to go into a Tavern I stopt and thought the fair structure rich Sign-bush and Bason had some resemblance to the Roman Tryumphant Arches But my admiration was soon chang'd into a detestation for the roaring and singing bawling and swearing of their Tenants at will the knocking of Pots the scraping of Fidlers the gaping of Tapsters at the Bar not of truth and Justice but too often of the contrary made me think it to be a Bedlam a place full of mad-men or the House of Circes where by mixt intoxicating and adulterated Liquors rational Men are changed into Swine Dogs Goats and Lyons yea into all kind of Beasts and bruitishness My mind tasting no good nor finding any satisfaction in these things I thought to entertain it with more private and as most think although therein deceived harmless delights and recreations such as Complemental Visits of fair and vertuous Ladies Balls and mixt Dancings yea I assaid by chast and modest Rules or Bonds to bind Cupid as I vainly held forth in an Herogliphical Order But for and after all these carnal pleasures my heart was and is sad yea I found my soul empty of that Rest and happiness I sought after and being seasonably and graciously taught by the same spirit of wisdome that instructed Solomon I sealed and that experimentally with him to that truth of God Vanity of Vanities all is vanity and vexation of Spirit And though I saw an end of all perfection in Earthly things with holy David yet the Law and Word of God is exceeding broad which caus'd me diligently to attend upon some living Oracles of God in those times Seraphical Holesworth devout Taylor pious Gouge eloquent Shute with others by whose holy wooings and love-tokens my first love to my Spouse begun about a year before in the Country was now renewed increased and confirmed and these great temptations of the World and my Enemy Sathan prevented and overcome who thus a while after my first Conversion assaulted me as he did my Saviour as soon as he entred upon his Office deceitfully shewing to me in these Cities as in a time and contracted Map the Vanities of all the World and the empty glory thereof insinuating to me the enjoying of them would I fall down and worship him that is yield to his temptations and enslave my self to him by the wicked possessing of all these sinful Lusts and delights But blessed be the Lord who hath broaken the Snare and I am escaped For which great deliverance and manifold mercies accept O Lord in my dear Mediator's hand my multiplied praises both here and in this following Psalm of Thanksgiving The METROPOLIS Ejaculation or Hymn on the former Subject LOrd thy Word is Verity Child hood Youth are Vanity Else had not such Troops of Vice Waited on me in Disguise Blest be that Power which from thee Made them Gibeonites to me So that they shall hence-forth be Hart-hewers Water-drawers In my Sacrifice to Thee When in Courts I saw Men rise On Prides Wings by Flatteries View'd dear God their Luxury Sinful Lusts and Gluttony Through thy help I left that place As a School of Vice not Grace A Quag-mire where the rich of 't Lose Estates spent at Court-rates When Poor Beggars mount aloft When Sins Parks Vicinity Had almost impailed Me And those Heards of Women spies Had neer filtcht away my Eyes Then thou shewest me Lord that time Was not mine to lose but thine And that those that spend a Day On such sights and vain delights Do but with white Devils play In the Garden call'd the Spring Where the Flowers and Fruit are sin In which Bound by Day and Night Devils walk like Angels bright Where young Adams by their suit Eat again forbidden Fruit. There thou call'st me Lord to thee From those Groves Of wanton Loves Promist better things to Me. Thence to Theatres I went Where vain Wits their Poems vent Heard and saw such Ribaldry As defiles both Eare and Eye For Man's mind inclin'd to ill Runs not up but down the Hill There thy spirit to me told He 's asleep that comes to seek In a Cole-pit veins of Gold To Exchanges Old and New I repair'd as worth my View There my Eares were deft with Cries Lackt you Sir what will you buy Pride and Conscience in that place I saw sold all things but Grace Lord thou kept'st my wit and purse From deceits And lying Cheats And their Females which were worse Then to Taverns I went in Which I found the sinks of sin There the Devil's Revels be Lust and Drinking Gluttonie Swearing Dancing Carding Dice Cheating and all other Vice On their Doors Lord set a Cross To keep me All that love thee From Souls Bodies Plague and loss Last I thought of a reserve How to please and yet preserve Me from all unchast delights By a choice of vertuous wights Who agreed a● modest ●●lls Oft to meet by mutual calls By mixt Dancing will not quall Sathan's wiles Who Vs beguiles Give an Inch He 'l take an ●ll Blessed Lord that m●dest me see Sin and dangers misery And that all things here below Are but Ciphers in a row That a Father was to me When my Parents left me free In my Youth and in a place Where all Vice Hath its rise And true vertues in disgrace Yet where Sathan hath his Thrones Thou hadst Churches precious Ones Vnto which thou leddest thy Youth And declared to me thy truth There thou gavest to me thy love Kist me call'd me Spouse and Dove And imbrac't me in thy Armes Made me tast Thy delicates And deliver'd me from harmes Is thy love Lord set upon Such an Aethiopian Did'st thou take me from the P●ts Cleanse me from my Leopard's spots Let me a chast comfort be Now and ever unto thee Till I be by Angels led My first rise To Paradise

O have these fleshy eyes of ours such various presentations of pleasure to delight these Bodies of Clay with and can we imagine Faith the eye of the immortal Soul can be destitute of a subject worthy its view and contemplation O no my Soul The weakest-sighted Faith enjoys a far better and more excellent prospect viz. with Eagles eyes looking abroad upon the glorious Son of Righteousness and Son of God Jesus Christ. The Life of the Body gives the first power and motion to the Eye but this Heaven-aspiring sight gives the Soul its first Life Hear me saith God that is believe in me and your Soul shall live The Earthly Sun suffers sometimes an Eclipse so did ours once for all An interposition caused the one the other not any defect in his own Body or Light but a condense Darkness an Orb of Sin for a time obscured his brightness Women and Children whose shallow reach fathome not the depth of Natures works may with a flying fear hide themselves not daring to behold the labouring Sun when a learned Artist by Water or reflection searcheth out the cause and greatness of an Eclipse Worldly and carnal Men may mask their understanding with a wilfull ignorance But do thou O Lord which hides these things from the Wise and revealest them unto Babes make me to apprehend the reason and admire the infiniteness of thy suffering Earth affords not a neerer Union or Relation than friendship That mysterial incorporation and perfect conjunction of Wedlock is but an inclusive of this that being more particular this more general Society is the happiness of Mans life this is the height of that Conjunction and the perfection of that happiness He is either most miserable or undeserving that hath not had some taste of this reciprocal foelicity Since vice and vertue have both their favourites the one exceeding in number the other in worth Thus far hath my Meditations roved on Earth ascending this height of temporary delight that from such a rise my Soul may take a quick flight to Heaven The friendship of the World and all things else in it eminent or praise●worthy are but dark shadowes of Heavenly things beames derived from that eternal Light to give Light to Man Doth not the Holy Spirit express the exceeding love of the eternal Father to us his Children by the tenderness of Earthly Parents His infinite and free mercy by the charity and friendship of the Samaritan stranger The ardent and unparallel'd affection of our Saviour Jesus Christ to us his Church by a Matrimonial and espousal love O all yee that have any illumination of Faith come and witness with me if there were ever or can be any love amity or affection like unto this which God hath shewed towards us Lord I would fain express thy acts of mercy the witness of thy love and object of my Faith but who is sufficient for these things or able to express what he cannot sufficiently conceive of How or where shall I begin when Lord my beginning was from thee Yea from all beginnings hast thou chosen me and in time hast thou called me void of love desire and freedome of will or any other congruity remote or sufficient to answer thee calling being the servant of Sathan and Bond-slave of Sin and therefore an Aliene from thee and the common wealth of Israel One not only sick but dead in sins and trespasses and therefore unable to move towards thee A natural Man perceiving not the things of God and therefore ignorant of thee Thy love alone was the cause of mine for herein is love not that we loved thee but that thou loved'st us first Nor foreknowledge of my after works or willingness to receive grace occasioned this free Election For not of works which I had done but according to thy mercy didst thou elect and save me From thy free and gracious predestination my faith with a devout affection makes haste to behold the Foundation thy dear Son Jesus Christ my Saviour O wonder O infinite Love O admirable friendship He whose glory and greatness the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain was inclosed within the Womb of a poor though pure Virgin God descends in humility from Heaven that Man might ascend Heaven in Glory becoming like to Man that Man might be like to him Not Rome the Metropolis of the World nor Jerusalem the glory of Judea must tryumph in the birth or be made more honourable by the first presence of Emanuel but Bethlem the least of the Cities of Juda. Which poor place either ignorant or regardless of so high a favour was not only void of thankfulness and common courtesie but of neighbourly hospitality A Stable a Manger and brute Beasts being the Palace the Cradle the company it prepared for the entertainment of the Worlds Saviour Behold here a mystery of mysteries He who knows no beginning now begins to be that his being in nature might give us a being in grace in glory And in his Infancy did our gracious Redeemer begin to suffer the entrance of his life being but the Prologue of his sorrow and the total thereof a continued passion His innocent Child-hood is made the subject of treason and nought but his slaughter must allay the Tyrants suspition What needed any unjustly or violently to have sought his Death who willingly came to Dye only living the life of Man that for Man he might be capable of Death This Herodian cruelty hath a deeper dye than Nero's Tyranny For he destroyed the World only in his wish but this Man by one act would have made not our Bodies only but our Souls mortal O sweet Jesus thou fleddest into Egypt not to preserve life but to die daily avoiding his merciless Power that thou mightest declare thy powerfull mercy Thy Death by which we live must not be constrained least ungrateful Man should esteem it no gift The strength and policy of Herod are unable to wrest that per-force from thee which thou purposest freely to give Infancy must not suffer for Man-hood since the greater includes the less but the lesser cannot comprehend the greater That perfection of Age that made Mans rebellion and sin more full more hatefull must make thy obedience and sufferings more compleat more acceptable Not Bethlem but Jerusalem the center of the World must be the Theatre of infinite mercy of merciless cruelty that thy passion being acted in the place wherein the Legal Ceremonies were celebrated the Types and Figure might more clearly point out the substance All those bloody Sacrifices being abolished by one Sacrifice of blood After this escape of danger in his Child-hood and reprieved of his life for a time did not the increase of his years multiply his sorrows No doubt he suffered as well as fulfilled the Law for us during those thirty years he obscured himself At twelve years of age we finde him disputing in the Temple when surely

until Shilo come and unto him shall the gathering of the People be Now it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda. Further Moses drawing neer to his dissolution Prophesies and that from the Mouth of God That God will raise them up a Prophet like unto him Now Moses was not only a Prophet but a King He was King in Jesurun In the next place hearken to the mellodious and foretelling Hymns of the royal Psalmist David who knowing that God had sworn with an Oath to him that of the Fruit of his Loynes according to the Flesh he would raise up Christ to set on his Throne At once beholds his Seed his Saviour and becomes the Herald of his King his Son thus Proclaiming I have set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion And again The Lord said unto my Lord set thou on my right hand until I make thine Enemies thy Foot-stool Of him also the Prophet Esay thus Prophesieth Vnto us a Childe is born unto us a Son is given and the Government shall be upon his Shoulders and his Name shall be called Wonderfull Counseller the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace of the increase of his Government and peace there shall be no end Zachary also remarkably points him out and that not only verbally but by certain actions of our King Rejoyce O Daughter of Sion behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just and having Salvation lowly and riding upon an Ass and upon a Colt the Fole of an Ass. Lastly lest the testimonies of Men should seem weak the premulgation of Angels shall conclude and that undeniably this holy and comfortable truth Behold saith the Angel Gabriel to the blessed Virgin Thou shalt conceive in thy Wombe and bring forth a Son and shalt call his Name Jesus he shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David And he shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever And of his Kingdome there shall be no end Again as his Birth and Kingdome over the Jews yea over the whole World was foretold by the Angel so correspondently they were proclaimed by an Angel and seconded by a multitude of the Heavenly Host saying unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. O my Soul I have hitherto like John by the finger of the Prophets pointed out unto thee thy King thy Saviour The Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World It is expedient and time now that with Andrew thou follow him home and by the eye of thy faith takest a particular view of his excellencies administrations and government That thy heart being bedewed with those many comforts benefits and blessings which descend therefrom may with those ravished Jews in the Gospel cry out Hosanna blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Blessed be the Kingdome of our Father David that cometh in the Name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest And also sing with that Heavenly multitude Salvation unto our God which sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb Blessing and glory and wisdome and thanks-giving and honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever Amen Proceed then O my Soul and diligently consider first how thy King governs amongst his Subjects Secondly how he rules and reigns over his Enemies and lastly how in that great Assize he shall execute his last Judgment and translate his Kingdome on Earth to Heaven there establishing and fixing a glorious and tryumphant Monarchy even for Eternity The wisest Heathen whose choisest flowers of learning and knowledge were gathered out of our Paradise of God the Scriptures stiled their Kings Pastors of the People That the Spirit of God useth the like Metaphor and that it might well be that they stole it from thence may be supposed from these places amongst others The Psalmist glorifying God for the deliverance of his People out of Egypt concludes thus Thou leddest thy People like a Flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron And the same Moses neer the ending of his life desires God to appoint his Successor That the People be not as Sheep which have no Shepward Michaiah Prophesying of Ahab's death and the overthrow of his Army saith That in a Vision he saw all Israel scattered a Sheep that have no Shepward And the Lord by the Prophet Esay promising his People a deliverance from their Captivity by the means of Cyrus even many years before his birth ●aith thus of him He is my Shepward and shall perform all my pleasure Surely as there is good cause to commend the Heathens choice and application of this Metaphor So a-above all to admire the infinite wisdome of the Spirit of God as the Original who under this similitude comprehends and discovers the whole duty of a religious Prince and Governor as that like a Shepheard he is to feed his People to lead them to fold and keep them from straying and to protect them from those Wolves and wicked Enemies that seek to destroy them See all this exprest in that woe pronounc'd by the Spirit of God against the Shepward of Israel that do feed only themselves Should not the Shepwards feed the Flock The diseased have yee not strengthned neither have you healed that that was sick neither have yee bound up that that was broken neither have yee brought again that that was driven away neither have yee sought that that was lost But with fierceness and with cruelty have yee ruled them Seeing then that the Lord himself commends unto us this humble vocation offering it as a Glass unto Princes his Vice-roys upon Earth therein to see their duties It will neither be unfit nor unprofitable to meditate and consider the office and actions of the Lord of Lords even our Lord Jesus Christ under the same Metaphor And the rather because St. Peter gives us a Precedent who stiles him the chief Shepward and Bishop of our Souls and more especially for these reasons First because God the Father so calls him often in Scripture witness that Prophesie of Ezekiel saying I will set up one Shepward over them he shall feed them Secondly he so names himself and with abundance of affection and delight and prosecutes and applies the similitude saying I am the good Shepward and know my Sheep and am known of mine And lastly whatsoever he in that Chapter or elsewhere applies to himself in the office of a Shepward doth most aptly agree with his Kingly administration But to make this more cleer Is it the duty of a King to govern and direct his People by good Laws Which though written yet are as it were his lively fixt and continued voice And is not this verified of our King the Shepward of

down and destroyed And that without my suffering of any considerable loss Soliloquium or Discourse OF all inanimated Instruments of God's curse for sin none have been so violent irresistable and destructive to Man as the four Elements because of all sublunary things they possess the largest extent and therefore have the greatest power and influence Witness the Earths tremendious swallowing up the Tents and Families of rebellious Korah Dathan and Abiram and the destructive and ruinating Antiochian Earth-quakes The Universal Deluge in Noah's time by Water The great Mortality and destruction of the Israelites in the Wilderness and our late dreadful Pestilences in London proceeding from the corruption of the Aire and the fearful and unparallel'd Visitation of Sodom and Gomorrah by Elementary Fire Of which four Fundamental Simples and sole Ingredients of our lower Creation None is so terrible so tormenting so swift and so indomitable as the Element of Fire and therefore not only the unsupportable pains of Hell are held forth to us in Scripture by Fire But flaming Fire is already irrevocably ordained by the Lord as the blessed Apostle Peter witnesseth to bring up the rear and to be the last and the most desolating Judgment upon this wicked World The sad yet lively figures of this last Fiery Destruction are the Burnings of Houses Towns and Cities particularly that of the great famous and ancient City of London in the Year 1666. Against which City those Ignation Fires marcht with such a large and fearful front that they destroyed and laid in Ashes in three Days the glory labours and expences of two thousand seven hundred of Years O gracious God! hath Fire been so raging unmerciful and desolating to many thousands of Houses and Palaces in London and England hath it now and heretofore impoverisht and undone many thousands of Persons and good Christians what cause have I a sinner above others to record and acknowledge thy great and continued mercies for no less than Eleven times quenching the Fires begun in Four of my Houses lately in my possession and for preserving our Goods from any considerable Damage O let thy Goodness and Mercy that was virtually Water to allay and put out these judicial and terrene Fires kindled by my sin as well as though the malice of Enemies and carelesness of Servants be as Oyle to cause the Flames of my Love and thankfulness so to mount aloft that they may be heard and seen afar off even of all that serve and trust in thee in these three Nations That they in the consideration of these and of others thy marvellous loving kindness to me declared in this my poor work may praise thee with me also Yea let this holy and Heavenly Fire consume and burn up whatsoever is not thy goods and furniture in me and destroy every Image of Jealousie any Lust that Sathan hath set up in thy Temple my Body or upon thy Altar my heart so shall my whole Man like thy House consecrated by Solomon be replenisht with thy brightness and glory yea being thus filled with the Holy Ghost my Life and Soul shall shine like holy Stephens Face thy Proto-Martyr and Confessor here and both Soul and Body hereafter to Eternity shall be made like unto my Saviour's glorious Body For we know that when Christ who is our life shall appear we shall also appear with him in Glory Amen The EXTINGVISHER Ejaculation or Hymn upon the former Subject HOw blest and Heaven-like was Man's State in Paradice When nakedness with goodness cloth'd was of a greater price By far than Cloth of Gold imbost with Diamonds Rubies great orient Pearles and other precious Stones There was no need nor pompous use of Houses fair To live lodge Banquet in or fence from Wind cold Aire Or Summers heat Grass ever green imbrodered With various colour'd Flowers was his sweet Bed The Earth his Table was spread with variety Of gustful Plants and Herbs yea every fruitful Tree As Servitors present his Smell Eye Hands and Tast With all kinds of the varest Fruits and delicates Above the rest was that Nature-preserving Tree Of Life giv'n him to feed on to Eternity By Day his large previllion was the Azure Skie Glorious like Heaven through the Sun 's light his Canopie Also by Night it was though chang'd and altred clean As being spangled o're with Stars like a new Scene O wretched Man who by thy own rebelliousness Hast forfeited this Patent of true blessedness And art most justly out-law'd and by sin cast out Of this thy first condition And be-set about With miseries hence is it that each Element Of which thou art compounded is revengeful bent Against thee that the glorious Sun whose Heavenly Fire Was made to warm and cherish thee is through God's Ire By its refracted Beams thy great Tormentor Hence The Aire is full of Thunders Tempest and with cold condenst Powers forth the down-Snow and canded Hail with Rains Like Floods Witness the Indian Spouts and Hurricanes The Seas and Rivers now have leave to pass their bounds And make that Sea again or Lakes that was drie ground Hence is it that our Mother Earth out of whose Wombe So many kindes spring forth unnaturally becomes Their Tombe before their time And with a trembling Jaw Devours her Off-spring swallowes up in her vast Maw Whole Townes yea Towring Cities and the swelling Streames Of Rivers deep making proud Mountains humble Plains Hence is it that wild Beasts rebel 'gainst Man their Soveraign Lord Nimrods oppress and Brothers fall by Brothers Sword These fearful fruits of Sin and of first Adam's Fall Was the ground Plot Impulsive cause Original Of Houses Towns and Cities Then necessity Was Man's Surveyor But now Pride and Luxury Which changed hath our Fathers Caves Tents Cottages To Castles Towers like Babel stately Pallaces And costly Buildings Four such Lord for my rich lot Thou gavest me once built furnisht to my hand what not Nay more that love and mercy might thy bounty match Eleven times thy good providence kept only watch And blest the meanes to quench those Flames that had begun To Ceize House Goods upon sins Execution Yea once the side pience of a Garret was on Fire put out Without the knowledg help of any Person wonderful throughout In all these Fires our Damages was very small When Neighbours lost fair Dwellings Houshold-Stuff and all Their precious things Wherefore let this thy goodness be By me O Lord Recorded to Posterity That what 's deficient here to celebrate thy praise May be supplyed by them in time and length of Days Dear God to give preserve from harm Four pleasant Seats Was thy great act of love and care made more compleat In giving gracing me poor sinful Hut of Clay To be thy Temple and thy dwelling Night and Day But wretched Man I am and mad that in return Have oft essai'd thine yea my one House to burn By Flames of Lusts