thee show But if thou hast me first thou happy art When or however thou dost hence depart Yea and I pow'r have every other thing As I see good for thee to pass to bring If Husband Wife or friends or riches I Do see thee want I can thy want supply They 'r all at my dispose thy way lies fair If thou l't be rich be marryed to the heir All things are theirs who have me theirs to be They heirs of all are by vertue of me Men Angels Paul Apollo and Cevhas World life Death things that are and what to pass Shall come hereafter though 't is in my dispose And they may not take any thing of those But as I give it them even as an heir To some great Lord though under Age and bare As to his own possession yet hath all In 's Guardians dispose and he may call Or ask for what he wants but he must have His Guardians grant for that which he doth crave And may not take but what he will allow Who being wise and 's Father well doth know His Childes desires and needs and consident The Child may be of 's Fathers good intent In all he doth and that he will supply Him with what 's good in his necessity And give what he doth ask or else what he As wiser than the Child doth better see So that the child may well himself submit Unto his Fathers will judging what 's fit For him hee 'l give him and nothing deny If pleasd with him that good is in his eye Such is the case between my Father and Those that me loving obey my command Or as the Wife who from the Dunghill base Nought having of her own if by the grace And special favour of some Prince shee 's took Into the bond of marriage well may look On his estate as hers especially If he a joynture hath her made whereby He hath her interessed in it all And may it thenceforth also hers well call And thence expect to be maintained too And have her wants supplyed all although Her Lord do its dispose keep in his hand And will have her depend on his command For the receipt of all supplies and not Turn out his Tenants take away their Lot Or rights therein and do here pleasure but Go to him for allowance to him put The ord'ring of her maintenance even so An interest thou shalt in mine have though I the dispose keep in my hand and thou Must come to me for what I will allow Resign thy wil up unto mine and pray Thy will be done Give me Lord day by day What needful is and there 's no cause to fear I will thy needs regard thy pray'rs I 'le hear I 'le give thee what is meet do but thou me Imbrace and follow and then thou shalt see I will be thy good Lord a husband loving That will deny thee nothing that 's behoving May'st thou not trust me seeing I did give My very lise for thee that thou might'st live And when thou wast of me most ignorant And did'st not love me I to thee did grant The knowledge of me canst thou think that I Can any thing that 's good for thee deny When thou to me art reconciled and Espoused too surely that cannot stand With my good honour Nor think thou it will Be any hindrance to Thee to fulfill My good advise and pleasure it will be A very great advantage unto thee Like as if some poor woman would have all Her wants supplyed should a rich man call Her to him and make tender to espouse her Unto him for a wife and with him house her Could her accepting him an hindrance be To the supplies of her necessitie Nay were 't not the best way them to obtain Far better than with Vagabonds and vain Poor Raskals her self to associate Thinking by them to get a good estate Even so thy seeking first my Kingdome and My righteousness will excellently stand With thy best having other wants supply'd For I am rich in grace and on thy side I then shall stand and give thee what is best For thy injoyment that thou mayst be blest I wise am too and better understand Then thou thy self dost what in Sea or Land May be best for thee and I power have too What ere I see best for thee that to do Doth not that child do better who doth take His Father to be with him and to make Choâ—se of a Hat or suir then for to go Without his Father and his own will do Especially if he be weak and childish Or led away by vain men being wildish Or have to do with cheats who will a prey Make of him and get from him what they may But hath a Father loving wise and willing To chuse the best for him and for his shilling Such is thy case here for I have more skill To know what 's for thâ— good or bad what will The consequent of this or that thing prove And as I oft have said I do thee love Whereas thou led by blind affection art In danger to run upon thine own smart And this most wicked world is false and double And where it pleasure promiseth gives trouble WISEDOME with an Inheritance is good But an Inheritance not understood Or without wisedome proves the hurt and harm Of him that hath it and of times doth charm Him into snares and troubles which undo him While into divers noysom lusts they throw him Besides all things remain in my dispose Whither thou dost with me or dost not close Thy folly may thy self indammage but It hurts not me nor possibly can put Me our of my possession thererefore I Can and may justly if thou me deny Give or deny thee what thou dost prefer Before me and my love in mine anger To be a snare and by what thou dost chuse Can punish thee because thou dost refuse My guidance and my blessing as I did The Israelites who oft times with me chid And would have meat their lusts to satisfy I gave it them and punisht them thereby And when a King they would from me extort Against my mind after the Heathen sort A King unto them in my wrath I sent To be unto them for a punishment Alas I can thee blast in thy injoyments And curse thee in thy ways and thy imployments If thou neglecting me thine heart dost set Upon the things below how them to get I can give thee a wife may make thee poor A sickly costly wife an arrant whore If thou for beauty chuse preferring that Before my grace I can give one shall hate Thee and her self to others prostitute There 's many a Crab that looks like pleasant fruit I can an husband give if one thou l't have Without me that shall prove a very knave Riches with snares vexations suits and trouble Or pleasures mixt with griefs and forrows double I can give children if thou must them have That may as Rachels bring thee to thy
he In leading them there-through by day and night Both by a shady cloud and fiery light In giving them from Heaven Angels bread Wherewith for forty years they were all fed In causing flinty Rocks to give them drink When they through thirst seemed to be at pits brink How did he by a Serpent made of brass Erected heal their wounds and made them pass Safely through mid'st of swelling Seas and floods Drave out seaven Nations and their lands and goods Divided to his people to possess That they his Name for evermore might bless And all might see That they who serve God have A great preserver who them all will save And recompence with good and that To Bliss The only certain way to serve God is How did he ruddy David while a youth Because he served him in upright truth Take from the sheep-folds and with oyl anoint him And to rule over Israel appoint him And though he from Saul's envy suffred much While he Gods favour did unto him grutch And many dangers too of death sustain'd Before the Crown and Kingdom he obtain'd Yet how did God him keep uphold and save In many a desert mountain hill and cave Till having humbled him he his promise Remembred and cut off his enemies Gave him the Sovereign power and government So that he ruled long with great content Inlarg'd his Territories and increast His power among the great ones of the East Till in his great prosperity he fell Into the sins whereof the Scriptures tell When that it might appear that God regards Mens actions and unto them gives rewards And punishments according thereunto He met with sad corrections and much woe Though mixt with mercies manifold because He did through grace repent and to my laws Return How strangely did he Mordecay And the Jews help whom Haman sought to slay Turning upon his Head those evils which He for them had devis'd into the ditch He for them dig'd he himself was cast down That thereby both Gods favour and his frown He might at once declare How helped he Those worthies which are call'd the children three They walkt in mid'st of fiercest flames no smell Of fire their garments had when they down fell Dead at the furnace mouth who east them in Such difference is 'twixt righteousness and sin How helpt he Daniel in the Lyons den And him deliver'd when those very men Destroy'd were who devis'd his ruine How Did he oft help his servants when brought low In times of Macchabees and all along When they dispersed were and suff'red wrong How helped he the holy men that dy'd In faith of me whom the World crucifi'd Through many Storms and Tempests by the rage Of persecutors rais'd in every age For love of me they willingly did yield To Death so as by Death they won the field Triumphing over every worst torment That was devised by the curst Serpent And his inraged instruments until By their deaths and their doctrine they did fill The World with fruits and made proud error fall Before the truth confessed by them all For those same ignominious Deaths and crosses Those heavy sufferings and most grievous losses Whereat the World doth stumble and whereby They with the Devil in confederacy Endeavour to affright thee from my Word More comfort and more glory far afford Then all those pleasures and those braveries By which they do bewitch the mind unwise Yea many have more peace and joy exprest In cruel Deaths through me then they who rest And quiet in the World injoy as far As a glow-worm's exceeded by a Star Of greatest magnitude or by the Sun Which with great glory doth its courses run Which moved Moses though both Learn'd and Wise The riches of all Egypt to despise And all its pleasures to take part with those Who suff'red great oppressions from their foes For sake of me because he well perceived That greater glory then can be believed Is thence received yea more then can be found Form all the best injoyments of this Round Who are more honour'd in this World's esteem Then they who do their life and blood out teem And many watchings fastings combates great And hardships suffer which each hour them threat To do their Countrey service or maintain Its liberties or greater rule to gain Unto it and shall those who for the sake Of their most high creator undertake His truth and Kingdom to assert be thought The only persons to be set at nought Or be the worse accounted because they Do many cruel things sustain all day Are they not therefore far more worthy praise For suff'ring so great things so divers ways The worst of Deaths and Torments that the wit And malice both of Men and Devils knit Together could devise and bear the shame Of vilest imputations for my Name Shews it not forth their greater love to me And is' t not meet I should so loved be Who for their sakes my state of glory left And suffered my self to be bereft Of all things even of life and to sustain The greatest agonies in Soul and pain In body even the dreadful curse to bear Of God's most righteous Law because they were Thereof the breakers and thereby concluded To be from Gods most joyful sight extruded Is it not too a commendation to My person and my kingdom that they so Dare suffer for them for therein they show That they such excellencies in them know That for the sake thereof they do contemn The greatest mischeifs can be done to them Rather then be thereof depriv'd yea sure The patience too wherewith they do endure Their gloryings also and great joys therein Which often in that case exprest hath been Unlike to those who suffer otherwise Some excellency clearly testifies In what they suff'red for and that they found Some such strong satisfactions to abound As nothing in this World can them afford But only the Divine power of the Lord. And sure if they who for their Countrey dye With Monuments and Trophies gloriously Are honour'd and the more by how much they More willingly and greater suff'rings may Have undergone those ignominious things Which the confession of my doctrine brings Through Sathan's and the World's malice upon My followers as oft times it hath done Their glory and their praise esteemed should be And so they are esteemed too of me And of my Father who will recompence Such glory to them as such patience And love to him and me may challenge yea According as of us they taken be Of our great grace and favour who account Them worthy of such glories as surmount All humane merit and though they do owe Such service to us yet great things bestow By way of recompence such as surpass All humane understanding as far as The Heavens exceed the Earth or th' Ocean large Exceeds the compass of some Boat or Barge For 't is the glory of the Majesty Of God to give rewards exceeding high As Kings give gifts like Kings and not like those
and his Companions be But such as fear'd the Lord thereto did he Invite and call they in God's mysteries Have the best judgment are the truly wise Nor God nor good men for their poverty Do any such despise why then should I Better by one poor good man prais'd to be Than by a thousand bad of high degree In such though mean men in this World God's treasures Have oft been put and they of divine pleasures Have oft the largest deepest draughts the Saints Or holy men what ever outward wants Have them attended Christ's inheritance With all its glorious riches doth advance If such then like my works if what I 've pen'd Those that be truly pious do commend It is enough if they be pleas'd I much Pass not for their accounts that are not such Though that 's the lot of goodness too that oft Some such it praise too who themselves are naught Such virtu's beauty that it oft attracts Their eyes and tongues who yet refuse its acts Who loving sensual pleasures can't endure Themselves unto those labours to inure Whence those good fruits are reap't which who so taste Shall joys injoy which evermore shall last Such forcedly though th' act not praise what 's right But vertues foll'wers praise her with delight J Horne THE Divine VVooer Canto I. A wake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead and Christ shall give thee light Eph. 5.14 The Call The man upon his Soul doth call To view it's state original And what it 's now through Adam's fall The Soul it 's bad estate espies And ready to despair out cries A Minister thereto replies Directing it to Christ He shews Of him the gladsome heavenly news Yea Christ himself for its love sues Declares his worthy facts his love And what to close with him might move And shews what doth it most behove Then warns it of it's subtle foes Who seek to bring to it great woes And there this Canto hath it's close Man ROwse up thy self my Soul consider well What of thy state I herein do thee tell What was thy first condition what it 's now That what behoves thee thou mayst better know Good was thy state at first before thy fall For thou from God hadst thine original A pure off-spring of his heavenly breath Thou wast not subject unto sin or death Or grief or fear or any thing might harm thee Till the old Serpent from thy God did charm thee For we in Gods own image and likeness At first were framed and he did express Great love and bounty to us he withheld Nothing of good from us our state excel'd All creatures here below for to us he Gave the Dominion over Land and Sea And all that in them were yea all above He made also for us such was his love A pleasant Garden even a Paradise Of pleasures also full of rarities He for us planted and therein a Tree Of life by which we might from Death been free Yea whatsoever might yield us delight To Soul or Body touch or taste or sight He therein did provide with different sex For more content and off-spring nought did vex Or cause disquiet then yea thou didst know The nature of all things and couldst it show And such agreeing names on them impose As might their inward properties disclose Yea even with God himself thou to converse Wast fitted and his praises couldst rehearse And hadst thou still obey'd his just commands And had'st not broke by Sin the sacred bands Of friendship wherewith to himself he ty'd thee Nothing should ere have power had to divide thee From his affections nor should any thing Befaln thee but what good to thee should bring But now alas thy state is altered Since thou by sinning from thy God hast fled By listning to the Serpents subtlety And giving heed to his false glozing lye Of all the good thou had'st thou art berest And nought but what 's bad now in thee is left The Image of thy God wherein did stand Thy cheifest glory thou hast marred and Like to the Beasts that perish now hast made thee And Satans lies to ruine have betray'd thee His poyson hath thy heart infected so That nought but wickedness therefrom doth flow So that of God thou nought deserv'st but hate Yea and all creatures thee to ruinate May well conspire since thou so wretchedly Hast turn'd away from God their enmity Against thee is but just that as before Thou waft Heavens favourite and all things bore Respect unto thee now they should neglect thee And unto answerable woes reject thee To what thy blesses were for oh my Soul Thou art become a Dungeon very foul Nasty and dark and loathsomâ—sin and evil Have got possession in thee and the Devil Hath thee inslav'd so to his will and lust That thou art full of all that is unjust And hateful unto God who therefore hath From Paradise expel'd thee in his wrath And unto Death hath thee condemned so That from the force thereof thou can'st not go Of unclean Birds thou art become a cage Thy lusts and passions in thee rule and rage And drive thee to and fro and thee expose Unto the Malice of Infernal foes All thou do'st mean think love or joy in now What is it but what 's vain and brutish Thou In whom Gods Wisdom sometime had delight Art now become a very loathsom sight Wholly for her pure fellowship unmeet And for his service for from Head to Feet Thou full of sores and ulcers art In thee Nothing that 's right or lovely can He see Thou neither knowest him nor thy self nor how Thou may'st thy self recover nor can'st thou His favour re-obtain by any thing Which thou by way of off'ring can'st him bring For unto him no reall love thou hast Nor any virtuous thing of all good waste And empty now thou art To Sathans power And to Gods wrath obnoxious every hour Oh then how sad's thy state where ere thou go Thou art in danger of eternal wo. While thou art in thy sins over thy Head Gods wrath doth hang his wrath whom Angels dread And all the Creatures and whose furious ire When poured forth is like devouring fire So as the Rocks are thereby rent and fall Asunder for it 's able to turn all Into its Antient Chaos and to bring The whole Creation to a mere nothing Bethink thee then my Soul what course to take Is there no way thy peace with God to make Is there no way his wrath to pacifie To scape his vengeance that thou may'st not die Not die for ever while thou yet hast space Mayst thou not seek for and implore his grace Soul And is it so indeed is this my case Doth sin in me Gods image so deface And render me so loathsom in his eye Is his wrath so provok't am I to dye By his just law so doom'd oh whither then Shall I betake my self what can we men Devise or do whereby his anger we May pacifie
him up as if he were Divine Both in his own esteem and others eyes Who as a Demi-God account him wise Though when all this subserves the flesh and evil It brings men to be fitter for the Devil Chr. This carnal wisdom 's that that doth mislead The world this the false Prophets which are dead Misguided and seduced while thereon They lean'd and learn'd there-from their vision The which while unto others they it told They led them into mischiefs manifold Yea 't is no other then that foolish Woman Which Solomon speaks of which doth undo Man The worldly spirit that is clamorous And lowd and subtle and industrious To call in passengers who go right on The path that leadeth to Salvation To her deceits which though she nothing know Aright pretendeth unto men to show The better path Yea the old Serpent by it Deludeth those that simply magnifie it And who with these possest are hearten on Themselves and others to destruction While by their fond inticements and their rude Examples wicked counsels and most lewd Temptations many poor Souls they draw in Into the snares and false deceits of sin To turn their backs on me and on my calls Despise my counsells and leap o're the walls And bounds I set to keep them from the ways Which lead to utter ruin all their days But oh dear Soul beware and take good heed Of all the flatt'ries which from them proceed They speak of pleasant things their words are smooth They tickle thee and in thy sins thee sooth Their way is easie broad and wide but mind And I will tell thee what an end thou 'lt find If thou adhere to them they will deceive thee And of all happiness they 'll quite bereave thee And to eternal woe they 'll surely bring thee And to provoke me quite away to fling thee Into that lake prepar'd for those that scorn My Counsels Better thou had'st nere been born Minist That thou may'st this believe I will thee shew Wherein they do abuse thee and what 's true Attend unto me therefore yet again And mind how we the matter do explain Do'st thou not hear how they in their discourse Do talk of nature thereby to inforce Thee to conceit that there 's no God but that All things that are do happen by some fate Or fortune or some other way which by The name of Nature they call wickedly Though sometimes too the word God they do name The better thee t' insnare their talk to frame Lift up thine eyes Behold the Heavens above The Sun the Moon the glistering Stars which move In their due constant motions and do give Their light and influence to all that live See what great glory is on them How rare Their beauty and their comely order are Doth not their glory beauty order all Their motions and their influences call Thee to confess a greater power which gave Them what Beings and what virtues they have Look down below behold the Earth which bears So many various creatures on 't and wears Such party colour'd garments and brings forth Upholds and cherishes of diverse worth Innumerable things inanimate Stones Mettals Minerals and animate Indued with various formes and different Degrees of life which both the continent And Isles produce either Vegetative As Plants of divers kinds or things alive Which Sense and Loco-motion have as Beasts And Birds and creeping things things reasonless Behold the Seas their ebbings flowings waves Where many thousands oft have made their graves Where fishes of all sorts do swim and play Where many gallant Ships do find a way Through divers dangers all-about to coast From port to port to seek out where the most Advantage to their owners they make For all the pains and hazards they do take Behold thy self and mankind who obtain An higher excellence of life the main Endowments of a reasonable Soul And understanding whereby to controul The greater creatures which both Land and Sea Produce and into all the things that be Assay to peirce and there about discourse And descant which is better which is worse From whence are all these things who to them gave Those various formes and properties they have Can'st be so blind as not clearly to see By all these things that there 's a Deity An unseen Power and Mind that is most wise And is Almighty too that could devise So glorious and so great a Fabrick and Them in that order set wherein they stand What! can it be believed to be true That by some Atoms which together flew By some strange hap their Beings they received Whence came those Atoms or can't be believed That these things could each other make whereas We see that Man can nothing bring to pass Or make of nothing though he greater be Then any other thing that thou can'st see In active power to contrive and do Such things as th' other can't attain unto Nay he can neither life give nor preserve Unto himself or others they much swerve Who think there is not some thing far above Which doth him marvailously in his love Uphold and save through all the dangers great Which death and ruin often to him threat Now if thou this believe which all things Preach That there 's a glorious God which to impeach Is the great thing thine enemies endeavour That so they might thee wholly from him sever Consider well why should He man endue With such like faculties by which what 's true What 's false he may inquire and search into And understand as it is given also By which also he 's capable of choise And may obey or disobey the voice Of such a law or rule as may impose Upon him to do these things forbear those At least when and so far as he 's set free From such intanglements as on him be Is it not that as he hath power to give Laws to himself and others He might live Under the Law of that great power Supreme Which over all the rest advanced him When he commands his fellows shall not he By his Creator too commanded be Shall he receive from him such benefits As to oblige him and be lawless It s But meet he should acknowledge him from whom His life strength reason and his knowledge come And who all things daily provides and gives Of his mere bounty whereupon he lives Seeing he is made capable thereof As no creature besides is Is' t enough That he live as the Beasts after his will And brutish appetite who hath the skill To act much higher and hath such a spirit As may be made Religious may demerit Gods bounty by ingratitude or can So well or ill act towards God or Man As to offend his maker or obtain Approvement from him shall it be in vain That he is capable to understand And to receive of God divine command Why should it not be believed be that when God such capacities hath given to men He should so further gracious to him be As to reveal
himself to him that he Might exercise his heart and mind to have The pleasure him to know who to him gave Those other excellent endowments which Do him above the rest advance inrich And dignifie that unto him he should His will and his commandment unfold That he might ordred be by him and give Obedience to him so as he might live Doth it not God become to be so good To mankind or shall it be understood To be an happiness to man to be Lawless and from ingagement God-ward free That he like to brute Beasts without controule Be led by Lust and so debase his Soul And rob it of its glory which consists In fellowship with God Oh how great mists Do overspread their minds who do account The way unto the top of bless to mount Is to live like the Beasts to satisfie Their appetites a while and then to die At most to use their reason like to men In things humane and earthy like them when They capable are of Divine converse And may after a sort their minds immerse Into the things of Heaven Oh crooked minds And void of judgments which such pleasures finds In things that perish and contemn the prize Which would immortalize them were they wise But mind again how they in all they said Have the old Serpents head further bewray'd Whose grand design it was with man at first That he might make him like himself accurst Into mans mind t' insinuate amiss That God who made him did envy his bliss As if 't had bondage been to be forbid To do the thing which when done him undid What else do they when they do represent As if it were matter of discontent Not to have liberty at will to use Thy parts and senses so as them t' abuse By serving lawless brutish lusts which take Thy mind and soul from him who did thee make As if they were as dead and useless quite Unless they be exorbitant and might Have liberty to do and act those things Which God offend and men to ruine brings Do they not therein greatly injury Gods goodness and great liberallity While wickedly they from thy view withhold Those many uses more then can be told Which God affords to man in all those things Which to God glory and to man good brings Both unto other men and to himself What! is there noting else besides the pelf And garbish of the World for mind and senses And members to be us'd in vain pretences God gives the hearing taste smell touch and sight Both for necessity and for delight Though not to satisfie that brutish lust Which dwells within man and makes him unjust May'st thou not see the wondrous works of God And use thine eyes to look out all abroad Upon them may'st thou not with them his words Peruse which lively instances affords Both of the ways and ends of good and bad How well good men have fared and how sad The end of evil men may not thine eyes Behold thy way and work and see what lies Before thee or discover foes or friends What to thy well-fare or thy ill-fare tends May'st thou not with them too bewayle with tears Thy many sins and mispent days or years Mayst thou not use thine ears God's words to hear And such instructions as unto his fear May thee provoke and his commandments too Which shew thee what thou should'st or should'st not do That from destruction they might keep thee yea Both what divine are and what moral be Are not thy other senses too allow'd Of God for to distinguish in that crow'd Of objects which present themselves unto thee What is good for thee or what may undo thee What thou may'st chuse as things that wholesome are And what refuse as things that may impair Thy health or safety so thy palate meats Distinguishes thy feeling colds or heats Soft hard rough smooth and other properties Which diversly in divers bodies lies And render them as good and grateful or As things may hurt thee and thou them abhor Thy nose and smell is given thee that thereby Thou may'st distinguish things which differently Do smell that thou may'st this chuse that refuse How many ways may'st thou thy senses use With God's allowance to thy benefit And give him thanks and praises too for it Great use them to every thing he gives Which in the World indued with them lives But unto mankind for more noble ends Then other creatures can have to what tends Unto God's praises and mans happiness To seek and walk in the way unto bless Yea man perceive may from th' use of his sense That there 's a good God and wise providence As also man his mind his heart his brains May exercise in what to bless pertains Christ Yea God who all things made for man at first And blest them to him till the cords he burst Of such ingagements as between them were By casting from him God's most holy fear Hath by my Death and Blood again restor'd That use of all things to him may afford Much benefit unto him many ways And give him cause with joy his Name to praise All things are cleansed now by my dear Blood And lawful made for man to do him good God him allows a sober use to have Of all things which at first he to him gave According to the uses he ordain'd Them to at first He only hath restrain'd The lawless use which goes beyond the bounds Which he hath wisely set and so confounds Mens properties and rights to what he gives And so each other of their right deprives Or what doth cherish his concupiscence And hellish lust which as experience Doth often show both leads into excess Robbing God of that part he should possess And dangerous diseases breeds whereby Mans days are shortned and he worse doth dye How many men through a voluptuous life Giving themselves to pleasures or through strife Which love of riches or ambition breeds And such pursuit of them as right exceeds And bounds of due sobriety have brought Innumerable troubles on them oft And have by divers Deaths with greater pain Been snatcht away then many do sustain Who suffer for the truth of God because They dare not violate his sacred laws Is it not now become an usual word More perish by the Throat than by the Sword And yet of those who by the Sword do dye Most perish by some lust most usually By which they pull it on them with more shame Oftimes too then the men who for my Name False judgment undergo and what more just Then that they who through voluntary lust Have hated all my counsels and commands Should meet with such like measures at my hands Which yet is but a very small pittance Of that sad doom and most direful vengeance Which hangs over the scorners as I may Further declare in what I have to say Canto III. Providence and Judgment The Lord is known by the judgments that he executeth Psal 9.16 Of Providence and
Whose greatest riches is a suite of cloaths Min. For though the righteous God his judgments now Both on the good and on the bad doth show Yet they are but a small part of that Doom Which shall at length to either of them come A little demonstration of a Judge And of a judgment which shall them that grudge Against Gods Being and his Providence Which both of good and bad hath perfect sense Wholly confute and strike into silence A Judge who judgment too doth execute According to mens doings and their fruit But yet that all the Judgments doth not here Pass upon Good or Bad may hence appear Firstly for that all those who wicked be And whose great wickedness all men may see Receive not here condigne punishment For their offences but oft having spent Their times in vanity the poor oppressing And widdows of their rights too dispossessing Contemning God yea who blasphem'd his Name Women and Maids defil'd and in the same Have gloryed and many other crimes Have perpetrated yet such oftentimes Are taken hence with no such stroke as may It evidence that God on them doth lay The punishment of their offences great But they dye quietly in their own seat Even as that gluttonous rich man who far'd Deliciously each day and never spar'd To satisfie his lusts but yet the poor Suff'red to lye neglected at his door Even he his days in pleasures spent and when His time was come to dye like other men He died and was buried in great state So as men could not therein see Gods hate Can it be thought the righteous Judge of all Will suffer those whom he doth wicked call And against whom his wrath 's upon record To scape unpunished and break his word Will he be partial punish but a few The greatest part dispense with of that crue No verily There is a time to come When every wicked man shall have his doom Again when every wilful breach of law Doth dreadful punishments upon men draw Who so offend and are impenitent Can it be judg'd to be sufficient For millions of such sins that one such stroke Should take away the sinners who provoke God every day to strike shall such an end As something of just vengeance doth portend Not very much beyond the common fate Which all mankind abides be for the hate Of God and goodness which they always bear From day to day yea oftimes many a year Full recompence for how much greater pain Did Pharoah when drown'd in the Sea sustain Or Haman when he was hang'd up on high Then is the common pain of all that dye There was some publike shame and sodainness And some such violence as might express A righteous hand of God but yet the same Occurrences of violence and shame Are but what men by their laws oftentimes Do judge men to for some such hainous crimes As treason and rebellion against them And shall such persons as do God contemn Sustain no greater punishment then they Deserve who mortal men but disobey Nay verily but as God greater is Then greatest men so they who do amiss Against his law and government shall such Great punishments sustain as do as much Exceed the punishments from men as he Exceeds them in his power and high degree And what befals them now is far from all The punishment that shall upon them fall Besides though they who serve God find supports In their afflictions and have great comforts From him when they are persecuted for His name and truth confessed by them or For tryal of their faith or for increase Of virtue or to cause that they may cease From what offends him though they do sustain Much trouble and affliction grief and pain And though ofttimes he signally them save From greatest dangers yet they sure shall have Far greater things then those a recompence Beyond what here they have for they go hence Ofttimes with great reproaches crosses shame And dye reputed worthy of great blame Yea are cut off by cruel Death because They durst not violate Gods holy laws Can it be thought that that great God whom they So constantly through so great griefs obey Will not their service and their love regard So as the same openly to reward With such rewards as with his greatness suite And may to all eternity confute His enemies that do blaspheme his Name And put his service to rebuke and shame Yes verily as his with patience Bear greatest troubles with great confidence Of an after reward sufficient To recompence the blood which they have spent And all that they have parted with and born For his Names sake a Crown that shall be worn By them to all eternity a Crown Of heavenly glory eternal renown A recompence beyond the thoughts of man Yea such as no Angel express it can They shall receive from him who notice takes Of all their suff'rings and inquiry makes After their blood He 'll not their hope deceive But give them even beyond what they believe Christ Know then dear Soul that there 's another day A time when Heaven and Earth shall flee away When God shall judge the World in righteousness And give to them who here his truth confess Unspeakable rewards and the unjust Into eternal fire and torments thrust Unto which purpose I who was abas't And suffer'd so great things for to lay waste The pow'r and kingdom of the enemy And for the sakes of sinful men did dye And being raised up went up on high And am set down in royal Majesty On Gods right hand shall in great glory come To execute the judgment and the doom Of my eternal Father and to give Rewards to men according as they live Those who with hate repay me I 'll destroy And fill my lovers with eternal joy And who so fit as I man's Judge to be Who am both God and Man and all things see In God and Man Being Gods glorious Word Made of man Flesh and am made sovereign Lord Of Men and Angels and do fully know What God hath done for man what man doth owe To God again Man may be sure I will Not undeservedly him destroy or kill Seeing I his most loving Saviour am Who him to save down from my Father came Yea into Death and Hell went down that I Might thence redeem man and lâ—ft him on high Nor can I be unrighteous both for that I 'm one with God and all unright things hate And 't was unrighteousness for to destroy That I appear'd in righteousness I joy Yea 't is a just reward that I who were Unjustly judged and condemned here Should be exalted to that glorious height To sit as Judge of what is wrong what right And judge my Judges yea since I thereby The power have to forgive sins who as I So fit to judge To which in Gods season I shall appear in glory on the Throne With honour and with Majesty bedeckt When all before me without all respect Of persons I shall
want That thou did'st grant To Adam heretofore Yea he far less Then did possess Then we now evermore LI. We have a Rest A day that 's blest A Sabboath day to be With thee we 'r blest Thou art our Rest And change we ne'r shall see LII Hallelujah Oh blessed day Who can thy glory speak This Sabboath we Perpetually Keep and it never break LIII Therein we sing To thee our King Thy glory we behold Our work is this Thy Name to bliss Thy praises to unfold LIV. A Paradise Wherein there lies All pleasures sweet and great With liberty Perpetually Thereof to take and eat LV. An Heavenly Tree Of life have we Which doth us ever feed It doth us give Ever to live And nothing can we need LVI A River pure Of Waters sure Doth clear as Chrystal run We with it meet In every Street Our City needs no Sun LVII God is our light He shines most bright No Cloud doth him obscure All things we see Just as they be Our knowledge is most sure LVIII It s always full It s never dull Our comforts ever flow Our Suns bright beams Our Rivers streams No damp no ebb do know LIX All manner fruits Which with us suits And may give us delight Our Tree doth bear Throughout the year Most pleasant to our sight LX. All is most sweet With which we meet Here 's nothing sharp or sowre Pleasures we have We can't more crave They 're constant every hour LXI We need no Wives To make our lives More comfort us afford We never dye Nor company Need we at bed or board LXII No different sex Nothing to vex Nothing to tempt we know All perfect is All 's full of bliss Our tides are never low LXIII We do all reign And Lords remain Over all creatures We never shall From our heigths fall Our Kingdom ever dures LXIV We have no night Nor borrowed light No Moon or Candle here For it alway Is perfect day The Sun is not so clear LXV Oh blessed King From whom doth spring This state of happiness We 'll sing thy praise All our All-days Thy goodness we 'll confess LXVI When Adam fell What tongue could tell What was our misery In him we were He did us bear And in him we did dye LXVII Branches were we Of him the Tree The root wherefrom we grew A flood of woe Did us ore flow When his fall made us rue LXVIII Our root did rot Having forgot The hand that did it plant The branches must Then turn to dust For they their life did want LXIX In him we fell As low as Hell Death upon us did seise Woes in us bred Away quite fled All comfort joy and ease LXX Great was our fault At one assault And when ingaged thus God to reject And in effect To thrust away from us LXXI Great misery Therefore did lye Upon us by desert Of good bereft To be quite left To utmost grief and smart LXXII We were beguil'd Sin us defil'd And had so filthy made That God and we Could not agree Of him we were afraid LXXIII Mortallity Did by and by Seise on us oh what pain Did we procure For to endure Till dust we turn'd again LXXIV Yea God we lost Which was the most Sad loss could us befall His wrath also We fell into And into deadly thrall LXXV We lost that light Which gave us sight And ceast to understand And led by lust Became unjust Subject to sins command LXXVI The old Serpent A false light lent Which made us judge amiss And in vain things To seek the springs Of everlasting bliss LXXVII By those inslav'd We misbehav'd Our selves in every thing We acted evil We serv'd the Devil Took him for guide and King LXXVIII Lust was vice-King That was the spring Of actions light and grave Our subtlety That was the spy Which us false counsel gave LXXIX These did conspire To make us higher In our false fond conceit For Heaven the show'd False pleasures strow'd And therewith did us cheat LXXX Oh woful plight Oh ruful sight This was our fallen case In thraldom dwelt Seldom it felt But took it for solace LXXXI In darkness deep In dangers steep Perplexities and fears In depths of Hell Then did we dwell And spend our woful years LXXXII God was but just Us out to thrust From him we left him first And then a Hell Of woe befell Because of him accurst LXXXIII In which sad state Objects of hate And enemies to God Without his sight And destroy'd quite We ever had abode LXXXIV But that the Lord Though he abhor'd Then fellowship with us Yet pittiful In love did pull Us out and help us thus LXXXV The mighty Word Of this great Lord By whom he did us make Tha Wisdom high Our sins did spy But not with them partake LXXXVI A fountain pure He did endure In whom God took delight He was beloved And well approved For he did always right LXXXVII Angels some fell And down to Hell Were thrust ' cause they rebel'd God past them by And let them lye In chains of darkness held LXXXVIII But he by whom All good doth come Most holy did abide By him God now His love did show And mercy glorifi'd LXXXIX Him he decreed In this our need That saved we might be To be sent forth This one of worth Able to set us free XC The Womans seed Of David's breed To be He was ordained A man of grief To bring relief That we might be regain'd XCI Oh loving Lord Oh mighty word The source of all our bliss To be ador'd With one accord For evermore in this XCII This grand devise Ground of our rise Let men and Angels praise Angels admir'd And much desir'd This to behold always XCIII This we admire This with desire Now fully satisfi'd We look upon We make our song Its praise we cannot hide XCIV Here fully we Behold and see Gods admirable love And perfectly We here descry All his perfections move XCV In this we live This all doth give Which we injoy and have Can we forget To set forth it Which did us help and save XCVI This God fore-teld This all forth-held Both Law and Prophets too This all upheld This we beheld To raise us up from woe XCVII This with a blow Did overthrow The Devils Kingdom quite This did destroy What did annoy What kept us from the light XCVIII This to declare Let us not spare This is the mystery We now behold And can unfold With all its treasury XCIX With eye to this The God of bliss Ere since our dreadful fall Before it was Yet brought to pass In act did order all C. What mercies we Receiv'd we see Proceeded all here-fro We that have bliss They who did miss Beholden were hereto CI. Though justice them Who did contemn And slight it doth destroy To us that live Mercy doth give And Justice too all joy CII Mercy did all Respect i th' fall And help for them provide
They who refus'd And it abus'd His justice must abide CIII Those things that we Could not so see While mortal flesh we had For then our sight Was not so bright Though we saw what did glad CIV These things we now Do clearly know Their reason now we see Our vails are gone Darknesses none Within our hearts now be CV We see it 's true In time most due God sent his only Son Of woman made As he had said As ne'r before was done CVI. Angels it see And did agree With joy it to declare Angels and we Agreed now be And knit together are CVII Though in our flesh Us to refresh It was that Christ appear'd For us to dye Our death thereby To vanquish which we fear'd CVIII Angels had not Our flesh or spot Of sin therein as we Yet they who stood I' th truth were good And joy'd our good to see CIX Under the Law The Word us saw Under the Law came he That he that way Our debts might pay And by Death set us free CX Our bands to break He did them take And with them he was bound God's cords we burst Christ was accurst That he might heal our wounds CXI We were condemn'd Who had contemn'd God's holy Word and will He was contemn'd Misus'd condemn'd Our evils did him kill CXII For us he dyed Being crucified Sustain'd a cruel death Was broke with grief Us'd as a thief Till he gave up his breath XVIII His grave was made And body laid With the rich and unjust His honour high Despis'd did lye All cover'd up with dust CXIV Oh wondrous sight Oh love most bright Never the like was seen That one so high So low should lye Poor caytiffs to redeem CXV Of men what one For men undone His Son would so abase For enemies That him despise That they might be in place CXVI Yet such a love The Lord above To us when poor did show For bankrupt us He made him thus To pay what we did owe. CXVII His wisdom here Did strange appear The World was pos'd hereby Its eye was blind And could not find Hereof the mystery CXVIII This it befool'd This it quite gull'd This cross so cross did lye They stumbled here And could not bear That 't was God's Son did dye CXIX It did deride And crucifi'd This mystery again As if that he God could not be That such things did sustain CXX This wisdoms height Did dim the sight O' th' Serpents eye so sore He could not see Those heights here be Yet did against them roar CXXI This brake his head This down did tread His craft and power who Had man brought down And quite ore-thrown Into a pit of wo. CXXII Here wisdom we And power did see When God did clear our eyes The law fulfil'd Its curse was quel'd Whon Christ from grave did rise CXXIII For here it was That God did pass Sentence upon our sin He judg'd it here Christ did it bear For us who fell therein CXXIV This vanquisht Death Appeased wrath Did justice satifie Pardon for more Then Adam's score Was purchased hereby CXXV Great pleasure here As did appear God took who the third day Without delays Did him up raise From the grave where he lay CXXVI And did him take Even for the sake Of what he suffered To be on high In his body And of all power the Head CXXVII Here God did lay A certain stay And sure foundation Of all his acts And mighty facts For man's salvation CXXVIII Of all our hope The under-prop While we had not attain'd Of all the bless We do possess Now we the end have gain'd CXXIX Here lay the ground Here God did found Our slidden hearts and feet Hence all the flood Of all the good Wherewith we ere did meet CXXX Yea on this ground God did new found The Earth and World again Both as it was Till it did pass And as it doth remain CXXXI Here he fulfil'd What was forth-held Of a prepared Feast All ready here That might us chear So as no want i' th' least CXXXII The holy Spirit As he did merit Fully God did him give That for his praise He might us raise From Death and make us live CXXXIII From darkness great Wherein we sate From Death to Life from Thrall To Liberty Of his mercy Thereby he did us call CXXXIV He sent forth light He gave us sight And turn'd our hearts to mind What he held forth That so its worth And goodness we might find CXXXV He gave his speech And did beseech Us to consider well He gave an ear That we might hear The things that he did tell CXXXVI Full oft when we His light did see We winked with our eyes It did displease us It did dis-ease us Faulting our vanities CXXXVII Ofttimes we heard But then we fear'd Least what we heard should mar Our false pretences Wrong confidences And put it from us far CXXXVIII Ofttimes we felt The power that dwelt In him and in his truth Almost we turn'd And yet oft spurn'd Thus dealt we from our youth CXXXIX Oh how we lov'd What he reprov'd How loath with it to part From idols vain How loath t' abstain Although they caus'd us smart CXL But oh his love That did him move To pass by our misdeeds He did forgive And made us live His gratiousness exceeds CXLI In misery That we should dye He had no will at all He interceded And for us pleaded And yet again did call CXLII His patient Good deportment His lamb-like gentleness His suffering long Our many a wrong Oh what tongue can express CXLIII How oft his love Did our hearts move And make us to him look How oft did we Look back to see The Idols we forsook CXLIV It was the strength The power and length Of his dear love unto us His words of grace His pleasant face His constancy to wooe us CXLV His excellence His love immense The freeness of his grace Which caught our heart And made us part With all him to embrace CXLVI Oh had he not Ofttimes forgot Our great unkindnesses And look't away From what each day We acted quite amiss CXLVII If with his eyes Iniquities Against us he had markt How we rebel'd Our lusts fast held The light he gave us darkt CXLVIII We had been then Like yonder men Who cast out of his fight Do yell and cry Most hideously Throughout their endless night CXLIX But there is none Save him alone None like him constant is His constancy Was our safety And brought us to this bliss CL. Can it be told How manifold Our stubbornesses were Our great neglects And disrespects Committed year by year CLI How much to do He had to wooe Before he did obtain How oft in heart We did depart When wooed from him again CLII. What vanities Did draw our eyes From looking him upon How often we Refus'd to see His great salvation CLIII How dull we were His voice to hear How oft we stopt our ears How we
slaughter and shame Did valiantly fustain 188. For every one of which Praises to God and thee The lamb by whom all that did come Well ordered was we see 189. Through thee it was for good That such things we did bear Yea sins also whence griefs did flow As they permitted were 190. By our unrighteousness And our offences sore Thy righteousness was more express And our ingagements more 191. Thou turnst them all to good Though from us they were ill And thou thy praise from thence didst raise By thy great power and skill 192. It was for good that Death Thou didst to us ordain Diseases pains and such remains As brought to dust again 193. For by the thoughts thereof And sights and feelings too Thou didst us wake more hast to make To scape from endless woe 194. They moved us the less The flesh and world to mind And unto thee the more to flee And seek thy Grace to find 195. They made us less to prize What did from thee allure Death did present their injoyment Falling and unsecure 196. They made us less to dread What men us scared by While Temporal we see them all And that no way but dy 197. Yea while we also see That common Death no less Torments had oft then what down brought Those that did Thee confess 198. Yea further Death and grave This good unto us brought They gave us rest from what opprest When all our work was wrought 199. We bless thee for them all For all together wrought For our great good even death and blood And more joy to us brought 200. While greater proofs we had Of thy great faithfulness How great each hour thy love and power To help our weaknesses 201. For as our tryals did Thereby abound and grow So thy supports and our comforts Did more upon us flow 202. Oh happy was that time Happy the means by which Perswaded we became by Thee To take a course so rich 203. Thy words to intertain And thy servants to be Sustain the loss and bear the cross And follow after Thee 204. Oh blessed be that grace That power and truth and love Which did us draw and keep in awe Notletting us remove 205. For herein also Thou Our mighty Captain stood Our Enemy foild his Armies spoild And filledst us with good 206. For though our flesh fell down And Death it overcame And Fire or Grave did it outbrave Yet we receiv'd no shame 207. Yea more than Conquerors In all those things we were Through thy great love which did Thee move Our sin and Death to beare 208. This was our victory The faith we had in Thee That turn'd to meat what did us eat And made us life to see 209. But yet the full conquest Over that Enemie Thou didst not make till thou didst take From Grave our dead Body 210. Though when Death had us seis'd And Bodies dead did ly Our Spirit with Thee thou took'st to be In thy joy and glory 211. Where safety thou us gav'st And freedome from all ill In peace to rest in thy sweet brest Our rising time untill 212. Yet Death and grave had so Our Bodies quite deprav'd As that it seem'd not to be deem'd That thence they could be sav'd 213. Such transmutations they Did so long time sustain They were so jumb'd disperst and crumbl'd How could they rise again 214. But all this made but way For greater glory yet And to compleat thy Conquest great Which thou could'st not but get 215. For by thy powerful voice The Graves and place all Where we lay hid presently did Yield us up at thy call 216. They had no power and might Against thy power and will Us to retain and make remain Under corruption still 217. Thy Angels thou sentst sorth And gatheredst thine Elect That we by thee might honoured be With great love and respect 218. And now we do injoy The Kingdom gloriously With Thee we raign and shall remain To all Eternity 219. Oh what a Warriour stout Art thou Thou meekest Lamb There 's none could stand against thy hand But thou them overcame 220. And Thou hast given to us Thy Victories each one Our Enemies all thou mad'st to fall And would'st not reign alone 221. Thy Conquests now are full The field is fully clear There is no moe left any foe Not one doth now appear 222. For now thou hast them all Destroyed totally They down are gone where help is none In endless flames they fry 223. And we we reap the fruits Of all thy wars so great We have the end we did intend Thy pleasant fruits we eat 224. Now we are fully sav'd From all our miseries Broke is the Net and we are set Above our Enemies 225. All praise is due to thee Thou all things hast well done Thou first and last hast all outcast Now sorrows we have none 226. A toilsome path we trod A tedious journey had A Wilderness of great distress But now thou 'st made us glad 227. In all our Pilgrimage And great temptations thou Didst with us bide hast us supply'd And we be happy now 228. Oh happy now our state Our joys who can express Well sing we may Hallelujah And thee for ever bless FINIS Another to the same Tune 1. A New triumphant Song Fil'd full of mirth and praise To Thee our King now will we sing Extolling thee always 2. And well we may rejoyce O're all that wretched crue Who took delight with great despight Our ruine to pursue 3. Where are they all become That did us sore oppress They all are gone left there is none That may impair our bless 4. Where is that old Serpent That dreadful Dragon fell Hallelujah hee 's not to day For Hee 's thrust down to Hell 5. He and his Angels all That vexed us full sore Lying in wait for us with hate Destroy'd are evermore 6. That dreadful burning Lake Of wrath so large and deep They 'r thrown into to bear their woe Where Sinners wail and weep 7. Where are those dreadful Beasts That were his instruments With horns and heads so full of dreads Breathing out punishments 8. Where is their pompous train Their Names of blasphemy There 's not a Crown unfallen down There 's none of them on high 9. Where now 's the false Prophet Who all the World deceiv'd Who up did cry and magnifie The Beast and him believ'd 10. Who did him worship give And to his Image fall Name Image Mark are all ' th' dark And their Adorers all 11. Both Beas and Prophet false Are gone into the lake To bear their hire in that great fire Whose burnings never slake 12. Where is that painted Whore Which rode in Pomp and State Her gilded Cup which was fil'd up With poysonous liquors late 13. Whom Earthly Kings ador'd As if she sure had been The only fit in State to sit As Soveraign Lady-Queen 14. Who sought and suckt out blood As if it had been sweet Greatest and least she
affords 127. In and with Thee He hath giv'n The everlasting Land Whereof we be The heirs with Thee In whom our lots do stand 128. In Thee from all our flesh We circumcised were The Blessed seed thou art indeed Whence we be blessed here 129. Thou art the high Father And we thy Children be We are the Kings and the off-spring Proceeded out of Thee 130. Thou art the Isaac The heir of promise who Our laughter art Thou mak'st our heart Rejoyce after our woe 131. Thou art the Israel The Prince with God and Man By both assail'd thou hast prevaild With both the field thou wan 132. Thou the true Joseph art First by thy Brethren sold To sufferings by their great envy Exposed manifold 133. But from those great suffrings Thou wert exalted high To have the store to Thee therefore All had resort to buy 134. Thou the meek Moses art Drawn out of waters great Whom also thy People thrust by And badly did intreat 135. Thou unto us wast sent A Prophet Priest and King From dreadful thrall us out to call And hither us to bring 136. Thou shewd'st thy mighty signs On Pharaoh and his Land The Dragon fell to us cruel And who with him did stand 137. Thou brought'st us forth from thall And lead'st us through the Sea Of troubles great which though they beat Thou mad'st a wall to be 138. A means of safety from The Dragon who pursu'd Thou didst us save where they their grave Did make by thee subdu'd 139. Thou ledst us through the wide And howling wilderness Thou us stoodst by led'st us safely Through fears and great distress 140. Yea there thou all things wert To us that they injoy'd The Paschal Lamb Through thee we came From the world undestroy'd 141. Even through thee crucify'd Besprinkled with thy Blood Through faith we eat thy flesh as meat And in all slaughters stood 142. Thou our Lawgiver wert A Law of Life and grace Thou gav'st from on the Mount Sion Thy high and holy place 143. Which in our fleshly hearts Thou too imprintedst so That we clave fast unto the last And would not from thee go 144. Thou that great Prophet art By whom the Father did Those things reveal which under Seal Lay in his bosome hid 145. Thou wast our Ark of strength Gods presence in thee was By Thee we were safe in each fear And safely on did pass 146. Thou wast that Tabernacle Where God with us did dwell He would in Thee worshipped be And there his mind did tell 147. Thou wast the Sacrifice Our sins to take away Us to atone and make at one With thy Father for ay 148. Yea Altar and Incence And Mercy-Seat thou wert Laver and Priest Shoulder and Breast Thy holy Priesthoods part 194 The Light and Candlestick The Table and Shew-bread Thou to us wert though Thou impart Thy glory as our head 150. Thou wert our Manna while In Wilderness we were Dayly did we pertake of Thee Till we arrived here 151. And oft we guilty were Of slighting Thee through lust Which made us crave such things to have As were for us unjust 152. Through which sometimes we did Gods wrath upon us bring So as to send the fiery Feind Our Souls to vex and sting 153. Against the which Thou wert Our Brazen Serpent sure While we betook ouâ— selves to look To Thee thou didst us cure 154. Thou art the Rock from which By Moses Rod when smore By curse of Law Thy blood to draw Fresh waters issu'd out 155. Even Heavenly Doctrine And Heavenly comforts sweet Where with in all that did befall We every where did meet 156. Nay all the Types were short Of thy perfections great Thou didst exceed and dost indeed All things that thee forth set 157. Moses did fail and dy Before the peoples rest But thou dost live and to us give The land that 's ever blest 158. For Thou our Joshuah art Who Finishedst our way Thou dry'dst the River Even Death for ever And here thou mak'st us stay 159. Thou our Great Captain art By thee and thy command Our battel 's fought and we are brought Into this pleasant Land 160. This glorious Land of Rest Where we all fulness have What ever thou didst promise now W'injoy and more can't crave 161. Thou' rt our Deliverer The Judge who didst us save By thy just Doom we here are come This glorious Rest to have 162. Where all in and with thee We have this endless day Therefore O King to Thee we sing Hallelu-jah alway 163. Thou the true David art Over all Israel set His Royal Throne Thou first upon Thy Kingdom 's very great 164. To which Thou art advanc'd From Sheol's dreadful hand From suffering by the great envy Of those that rul'd the Land 165. Thou art th' Anointed King That hast beat down our foe A City great and built compleat Thou hast us brought unto 166. Where thou the beauty art The Sun and glorious Light For here we thee enjoy and see Thy Majesty most bright 167. In Thee we God injoy And his Sons fully are With us he dwells our joy excels Our City is most rare 168. Its Gates are precious Pearls Its Streets are finest Gold All things are pure precious and sure And glorious to behold 169. For Gods own glory here For evermore doth shine And us to fill with pleasure still All things do here combine 170. O happy glorious state Who can it all declare Beyond all wishes beyond all blesses Our happinesses are 171. Thou art our Solomon In peace and glory raign'st Bâ— none disturb'd for thou hast curb'd All that rose thee against 172. And in this Kingdome we As Kings with thee do sit In Stately seat and glory great As thou hast thought it fit 173. That glorious Pomp and State Of Solomon of old Though it was found greatly beyond All that of him was told 174. Yet was but a short type Of this thy glory high In which thou raignst beset with Saints In glorious Majesty 175. In which ten thousand fold Ten thousand times nombred Thou dost regard us to reward For all we suffered 776. Our sufferings were but light And momentany but They 'r weighty Crowns endless renouns Which Thou hast on us put 177. Thy Wisdome too exceeds Wise Solomon's by far Thou all things know'st and clearly shew'st None may with Thee compare 178 That stately Temple which By Solomon was made Thou dost excel in whom doth dwell All fullness o' th' Godhead 179. All his perfections here Are gloriously displayd And we them see beyond what we Ever heard of them said 180. Yea Thou to us impart'st This glory too for we An holy place for Gods good Grace Are builded up by Thee 181. Thou the foundation art And precious Corner Stone Thou dost us bear and cause t' adhere To God and every one 182. Through Thee God also dwells With his perfections pure In us always to his great praise For ever to endure 183. And that
's the top and height Of all our happiness That God with us we enjoy thus The Fountain of all bless 184. All which we have in Thee And with Thee perfectly Who can Thee reach or who can preach All thy perfections high 185. Oh thanks for evermore To God and to the Lamb Through Gods grace good and the Lambs blood It is that here we came 186. Where sulness of alâ— joy And pleasures evermore Our portion be therefore we Thee For ever do adore 187. The Scriptures we need not In dark they were our light Thou art our book on Thee we look And all things see aright 188. Tou art our GENESIS In Thee we were create Thou' rt our Beginning without Beginning And End beyond all date 189. By thee we out of dust Or nought our beings had All things in Thee to us are free And we have nothing bad 190. Thou art our EXODUS Our goings out of thrall Thou didst us save deliverance gave By thy high heav'nly call 191. Thour' t our LEVITICUS Through Thee to God we clave Through thy Priesthood and offrings good He never did us leave 192. We also to be Priests Were all by thee anneald Our Leprosie is cleans'd by Thee And all our issues heal'd 193. Thou art our NUMBERER In thee inrold we be Where God doth own in thee is shown Our Genealogie 194. Thou art our Second LAW A perfect summary Of Gods mercies and our duties We do in thee descry 195. Thou art our JOSHUAH Our Saviour Judge and King What we omitted or else forgetted Thou to our mind dost bring 196. It s thou in EPHRATA That hast done worthily Poor Gen iles thou when they did bow Hast lifted up on high 197. Thou art the perfect Scribe The writer of Gods Law Freedome declar'd and all repaird By thee we also saw 198. The poor and patient JOB Made poor and rich again Who thee opprest at thy request Yet mercy did obtain 199. Thou the sweet Singer art The chief Musitian who The Instrument didst first invent And play'st upon it too 200. Thou art our PSALM and Song Our hearts and tongues always Thou through thy love dost tune frame move To fing forth all thy praise 201. Thou only fulness hast All without thee is vain Thou art the Preacher and heavenly Teacher Who dost in Salem Raign 202. Thou' rt the Beloved one The swift Roe or young Hart The Song of Songs to Thee belongs Who its chief Subject art 203. Thy Testimony is Of all the Prophets old The quintessence and thou the sense Of Proverbs dost unfold 204. Thou from a low degree Hast rais'd us to the Throne The Righteous seed Thou hast all freed Here 's Lamentations none 205. Thou art the Gospels sum The tidings of great joy Blessings have we and peace in Thee Nothing doth us annoy 206. Thou Gods Epistle wert His mind in Thee He writ When we absent were he thee sent And Thou discoveredst it 207. Thou art the end of all In Thee God doth unfold And hath reveal'd what lay conceal'd In Thee we All behold 208. Thou all art and in all ALPHA and OMEGA Wherefore to Thee ever do we Sing Oh Hallelu-sah To the Holy Spirit 1. ANd yet again wee 'll sing and strike our strings Wee 'l shew forth whence the spring Of joy that makes us sing Oh 't is a glorious Fountain whence it springs 2. It is the Holy Spirit which he inherits Who did redeem us when We all were but lost men And purchast us to God by his great merits 3. The Spirit of Life which hath fil'd up our Faith And quenched all our griefs With his Cordial reliefs Hee 's Author of our good rejoyc'd us hath 4. He fils us with divine life as with wine And always flows into us And doth such glory show us That to rejoyce we jointly do combine 5. And cannot but rejoyce with pleasant voice And that continually And to Eternity With joys and gloryings in him rare and choice 6. That holy Spirit we will With utmost skill Set 〈◊〉 and magnifie And 〈◊〉 his love glory By whom God and the Lamb did all fulfil 7. He one is of the three in whom do we Live love and whom we doe Worship and bow unto Whose glory 't is our happiness to see 8. The glorious Father wild the word as skild Being that deep wisdom In which the will doth come Devâ—'d the Spirit of might it all fulfil'd 9 The Father and the word with one accord Decree'd devis'd to give Being to all that live And was the Spirit that being did afford 10. He is the mighty hand which the command Of the Father and the Son Which did through all things run Effected gave the world to be and stand 11. He the Heavens high out spred and adorned According as Gods will Holy and wise in skill Pleas'd to determine He them fashioned 12. The very crook't Serpent to his intent He form'd and all beside That was or doth abide According to Gods great commandement 13. He man to understand and to command All things in Earth and Sea That he did make to be Did form and fashion by his mighty hand 14. He is the fulness which is the most rich Forth-going of the High Father and Son whereby All things He built and as a tent did pitch 15. In him there is no less then all the bless And blessed vertues high Which do dwell perfectly In God and in the word and they possess 16. The fulness of all good like a great flood From the Ocean going And all overflowing Yea fuller 't is than can be understood 17. He from God and his word with them one Lord Searcheth the things most deep Which God in Christ doth keep The knowledge of them t is he doth afford 18. One with them twâ—â—â— was He As well know wee In all their councels old Most high and manifold Therefore they all by him declared be 19. Blest be that Spirit of grace who in its place Did both a body frame For the Word and th same Sanctifie that no sin might it deface 20. The eternal Spirit the same who did us frame Seeing us in sin dead And helpless pittyed Us all and blessed be his holy Name 21. He that we might from sin be freed wherein We lay condemn'd prepar'd As He had fore declar'd That blessed body unto us a kin 22. And fild it with his power that in the hour Of death and darkness He Upheld was did not flee From that great cup of vengeance sharp and sour 23. To which he by this Spirit that he might merit For us Redemption Accurst the Cross upon Did yield himself that we might Life inherit 24. Thou Spirit most blest didst raise within three days That body up again Loosing of Death the pain To justifie us for which we thee prasse 25. And for those infinite perfections bright That are in Thee and all Thy works both great and small Thou carryedst up that body to
of the creature and the Lord forsakes For what advantage can it be unto The soul when it its body shall forego That it had Wife or Husband House or Land Riches Honours or pleasures at command Yea Crowns and Scepters while the body it Inlive'ned Oh what profit will it get From any or from all those things when in The depths of Hell oppressed with its sin It shall have its abode can they relieve Its misery when it shall mourn and grieve And wail its folly No alas too gross For it a Spirit they are its sad great loss Of me and of my favour cannot be Made up by any thing it here could see For then no drop of comfort can it have How ever earnestly it may it crave This that thou may'st the better see mind well Another true story that I shall tell There was a certain rich and wealthy man Who far'd deliciously each day that ran Over his head was clothed with the best And finest silks and linnens wherewith drest he glitter'd bravely and all things he had Which this world could afford to make him glad There also was a poor and piteous man Cal'd Lazarus a Cripple lean and wan And full of sores who used to resort To th' rich mans dore and beg for some comfort His hunger-starved body to relieve But the hard hearted Churl would little give His dogs more kind than he would very oft His sores lick gently Death at length hence caught Poor Lazarus whom Angels did attend To guard his soul from every evil Fiend And carred him to Heaven where he did rest With great content in Father Abrahams brest Soon after 't came to 'th rich mans turn to dy And leave the world for no satiety And fulness of this world could always keep Him here alive but the black dismal sleep Of Death surpris'd him when a quiet end He seem'd to have circled with many a friend Amending on him till his life did fail When they did seem his death much to bewail Although his heirs were glad enough at heart That they might share to each of them a part Of those vast heaps which he had laid in store For after times and witheld from the poor From all which now they beare him to the grave Where rich and poor like intertainment have Save that they on his Funeral bestow'd More cost and worship and his greatness show'd On a more stately Tomb or Monument Whereon they ingrav'd his name to the intent It might not be forgot but before then His wretched Soul was hurri'd to the Den Of damned Spirits even to the pit of Hell Where what his torments were what tongue can tell This wretched man stript of his pomp and state And all his riches which he had of late Lay then in flames of fire tormented sore Because he had abus'd his wealth before Spent it on 's lusts relieved not the poor Had slighted God his truth and grace contemn'd Therefore to torments he was there condemn'd Where not one drop of water could he get Whereby he might allay the burning heat Wherein his wretched tongue that us'd to boast Great things blaspheme God curse the poor did roast And fry in flames which caused him to cry And howl and roar and yell most hideously When lifting up his woful eyes aloft He ' spyed that poor Lazarus whom oft He had disdained to behold before When he lay lame and begging at his doore In Abrahams bosome full of peace and joy Disturb'd with nothing that might him annoy Then calling out to Abraham he did cry Oh Father Abraham hither turn thine eye For I was of thine off-spring and from thee And thy blest stock deriv'd my pedegree Father shew forth thy pitty now behold I ly in torments here that can't be told My Soul is on a flame with scorching wrath Nothing in it now ease or quiet hath That tongue wherewith it secretly did speak More wickedness than ever forth did break From out my bodies lips see how it fries And flames tormented in these miseries Dear Father Abraham even for the sake Of those thy bowels whence I issu'd take Some pitty on thy child and Lazarus Send from thee to help me tormented thus Oh let him but one drop of water fetch One drop of comfort me to ease poor wretch Oh might he but the very end and tip Of one poor finger in cold water dip And to the tip of my scorcht tongue apply Which flames of fiery wrath do wondrously Afflict with sharpest pains 't would mitigate Somewhat these wofull torments 't would abate My heat a little Oh dear Father send That Beggar hither me now to befriend To whom that good old Patriarck reply'd Ah Son for that thou wast so 'ts not deny'd Remember how thou didst thy self abuse In thy life time and Gods good gifts misuse When this poor man lay begging at thy doors Unpitty'd by thee hungry full of sores Thou hadst enough wherewith to have reliev'd His penurie then yea therefore thou receiv'd Gods gifts of bounty but thou letst him ly Neglected then thou scornd'st his poverty Now therefore he with me doth rest possess And thou hast torments now without redress Yea now a gulf is fixt twixt us and thee So that though we each others state may see We cannot change them so as that we may Pass hence to you your torments to allay Nor can you come to us us to molest Or take part with us in our endless rest We joys have whereof you may not partake You endless burnings which we may not slake Your riches now have end your pleasure 's past Your torments and your miseries shall last Learn hence that 't is not riches nor great State Nor any fleshly priviledge will bate Nor yet preserve from endless misery Those persons who in sin do live and dy Who me neglecting and my gifts abusing And my now profer'd grace and love refusing Prefer their lusts and riches thereunto And in vain worldly ways do chuse to go All their now present injoyments shall fail them And after death none of them shall avail them Be now advised by me Dear Soul therefore If thou wouldst happy be for evermore Seek first Gods Kingdome and his righteousness So shalt thou have them and therein Gods bless Accept my profer'd love imbrace my grace When I say seek the Lord seek thou my face Get wisdom get true knowledge in thy heart Receive my words and let them not depart Out of thy heart and mind but let them ly Between thy tender breasts continually Then other things as they will lead thee thou May'st better look for and shalt find them too It is but reason that I do propoud No better course can for thy good be found For if thou seekest first the world or what Of it thou likest before thou hast got That which thou seekest thou may'st chance to dy And perish from my presence endlesly As in the former parable even now I did for admonition to
brightest Angel there In dignity and glory Yet he appeared here 27. That he might save us sinners Like to a Servant poor Where of our miseries too The liveries he wore 28. Yielding himself to death up And great indignities To ransome us from ruine Nor doth he now despise 29. The meanest that obey him To take into his grace Though he on high's ascended Unto his holy place 30. He such invites unto him With him they may be bold His secrets he unto them Most free is to unfold 31. Whoever him doth follow Shall see his pleasant face Hee 'l not disdain their lowness But kindly them imbrace 32. Hee 'l not despise their prayers Nor turn away his ear But being full of mercy He their complaints will hear 33. The sweetest of all persons Better than all is he The meekest and the gentlest Fairer then mens sons be 34. The highnest and the lowest The white and ruddle one In greatness and in goodness Like to him there is none 35. Come ye Queens and Princesses Whose Birth is great and high Who think yuor happinesses Do reach unto the sky 36. Because your Lords be great ones And have a great command For that their rule extendeth Both unto Sea and Land 37. Do ye not highly extol Your great good fortunes here Do ye not use your selves too Oft up thereby to bear 38. Do ye not think your great Lords To be so great and high And such advancements to you That ye for them could dy 39. Or else endure great hardships For them and for their sake With whom in their high honours So greatly you partake 40. Behold ye him whom I praise And whom my soul desires As its friend to delight in Can give what it requires 41. Lo Ho is much more noble In Birth and in degree And there 's not any Monarch Who 's of his gifts so free 42. Nor are the gifts which they give So pretious or so rare They all are but his Stewards And can't with him compare 43. Himself above all gifts is The Richest pearl of price His love cannot be valued The soul it satisfies 44. Oh he my love deserves more And to be followed Through every condition Whereto by him it s led 45. Then any of the greatest And highest Potentates Who have the largest Empires And rule the greatest states 46. I 'm his by way of purchase Who made and bought me too By that most precious blood which Did freely from him flow 47. Which he also discovered And call'd me of his grate There through that I might know him And might him too imbrace 48. And him I own to be mine My Lord and Saviour And his I am to care for And serve in every hour 49. My soul and body his are And whatsoe're I have And he is mine to give me What good for me I crave 50. Oh that I were more truly And heartily indeed Given up to love and live to Him who doth so exceed 51. All other lovely objects Be their worth ne're so great I should need not to fear then What ever may me threat 52. For I am his and of me He hath the care and charge And his disire toward me Is very full and large 53. Hee 's able to protect me From what may do me harm And 's ready to infold me Within his mighty arm 54. Oh that I were devoted More unto him and were More willing to be always To him chast and sincere 55. I 'm his not sins and Sathins That them I should obey Oh that when they intice me My heart might always say 56. Christ is my well-beloved He must my service have He 's only worthy of it Who only doth me save 57. For He He also mine is A portion may suffice To satisfie me always Your promises are lies 58. I 'me his and not a Servant Unto the world or men That I should yield my Conscience To be inslav'd by them 59. I may not to their pleasures My life and will compose To follow their desires So I my self might lose 60. For they cannot protect me When my Lord shall appear If he should then reject me They cannot me upbear 61. No no I 'm his who loves me And bought me by his blood From all that conversation Which is not just and good 62. He 's mine too to command me And be my sure defence Who certainly will keep me And glad my Conscience 63. For he will give assistance Of safety in his love And hold me in his hand so As nough shall me remove 64. He only may do with me What unto him seems best For He hath right unto me And will lead me to rest 65. Oh that he would imbrace me And give my soul a kiss Whose love than wine is better And fills the soul with bliss 66. His love the love of women Surpasseth very much How ever pleasing that is Its pleasures are not such 67. No nor is strength not servour Much less its beensitt As those that he that 's loved Of this Beloved 〈◊〉 68. Their love to this is empty Its pleasores be but short Although they 'r prerry creatures And 〈…〉 69. Their favour is deceitful Their beauty 's but a blast Their kingnesses soon vanish Their sweetness doth not last 70. Their embraces are bruises Their kisses oft are bites The vanity that 's in them Exceeds oft their delights 71. The love of Christ excelleth It s constant firm and sure It s very full of comforts And pleasures that indure 72. His words are full of kindness Yea when they are most tast Yet grace and love is in them Which floweth from his heart 73. His kisses and imbraces Are full of ravishment Filling the soul with goodness And riches of content 74. His beauty never changeth His strength doth 〈◊〉 ne're decay He is the same for ever Yesterday and to day 75. Oh that my Soul were fitted His kindness to receive That I by my unkindness His Spirit might not grieve 76. Oh may he count me worthy Of his inamourments Forgiving all my follies Causes of discontents 77. His soul it is spiritual Most holy just and pure All wickedness he hateth He can it not indure 78. But I poor wretch am sinful And full of vanity How can I be delightful And pleasing in his eye 79. Dear Lord I am unworthy To be owned of thee That thine I should be stiled And thou accept of me 80. Yet do not thou disdain me Do thou me lovely make That so thou may'st imbrace me And pleasure in me take 81. Be thou mine me to purify And to make 〈◊〉 and white Make me more thine and cause me In thee to take delight 82. Prepare my soul unto thee That I may thee imbrace And give thee intertainment And theâ— may'st me sâ—late 83. Lay thou me in thy bosom And keep me in thine arm So shall I rest securely Void of all fear of harm 84. Oh cause my soul to kiss thee And lay thee in my heart
are In God and so agreeing None 's so fair XXXVIII Behold his lively image Chirst our Lord Where God himself unto us doth present He 's white and ruddy his face doth afford What ever may our souls like and content Power wisdom greatness riches glory grace And all that suits our wants dwells in his face XXXIX What ever we can wish desire or crave That may promote our hearts content or ease In God we may behold it and it have Yea so as perfectly our hearts to please When healed so as we can see aright All beauty 's far below his glory bright XL. If love and bounty may challenge as due Affection from us He the first is there God loves so and his favours old and new Are such as none like them there ever were We nothing have that 's good but He it gave us We no ill scape but He therefrom doth save us XLI Oh who God's love and goodness can set forth Who can his benefits justly repeat Their number 's numberless and such their worth As cannot be exprest it is so great Behind before about us look we round Above beneath we see his love abound XLII Where shall we first begin where make an end If with the world's beginning that 's too late Before the World God did us good intend Sure then his love is of an elder date And it 's his desire we should do well for ever His love 's eternal then and endeth never XLIII When God did make this World and Being give Unto each thing therein it was for man That He might be well and contented live Yea h's thoughts to make it before it began Were with an eye to us that we might Be And might his goodness and his glory see XLIV What a well furnisht house did God provide With all accomodations that might make Our lives most comfortable yea beside We of his heav'nly Image did partake God gave us pow'r and rule over the rest Of creatures and with fitness for 't us blest XLV Wisdom he gave to manage such a pow'r And such a manly courage majesty And countenance as well might make them lowre That would but dare t' oppose his Sovereignty Yea male and female for each other meet He made us that our converse might be sweet XLVI Yea further he did also us create Capable with himself converse to have And did his mind to us communicate What could we more of him desire or crave How great his love and goodness to us then When we were innocent and upright men XLVII But yet his love he shewed forth more sully When we by sin were fallen into woe And sins curst fruits did soul and body sully And we deserv'd he should have been our foe When we were helpless and had ever perish't Unless his love had us reliev'd and cherish't XLVIII When the whole World could not relieve our case But more then a whole World it did require To ransom us from ruin that his face We might behold with joy and ' scape his ire Then more then all this World he for us gave Oh how he lov'd us that he might us save XLIX He to redeem us sent his only Son Cloth'd with our flesh and blood made poor and weak Made sin and curse for us as one undone That he the pow'r of sin and curse might break He him deliver'd to death on the cross That by his death he might repair our loss L. Yet neither did his love and goodness here Take up and cease but knowing that we wanted A quickning pow'r us up again to rear And keep from death that quickning pow'r he granted For raising up his Son again from dead He fil'd him with all fulness o' th' God-head LI. Set him upon the throne of Majesty Made him a quickning spirit and so gave Him cloth'd with pow'r and all Authority To bring us back again from sin death grave Yea rescue and defend us from the Devil Fill us with blessings free us from all evil LII His Son his only Son by whom he made This World and all therein he thus did give A gift beyond the World it can't be said How great a gift he was that we might live For he a person is excelling far All things that by him either were of are LIII Through him he daily doth us feed and cloth And bountifully lade with benefits Upholds us in our tryals don't us loath Though bad requitals oft from us he gets Yea Heaven he opens to us and displays His glory to us thither us to raise LIV. Through his dear blood he hath prepar'd a way And grace affords that we his Sons may be Injoy his favour see his face alway Be satisfied with good from ill be free Yea and in glory ov'r other things Reign to eternity with him as Kings LV. The good and glory which he hath prepared For us unworthy sinful wretched men In our return to him can't be declared Oh what a lover of us is He then Yea all his rods and chastisements do tend To bring us to those joys that have no end LVI And to impow'r and move us to repent And close with him his Spirit doth us give With that grace and those means which us prevent That we though dead may hear and hearing live So that but yielding our obedience to him He 'll work our works nought shall pluck us fro him LVII He calls us to him bids us ask and crave What ever good we want us to supply Cleaving to him we shall it surely have For nought that 's good for us will he deny Yea much he freely gives unaskt that so To hope in him and ask he might us wooe LVIII And more then we can ask or think he 'll give Yea more then now our narrow hearts can hold If we believe on him and to him live The glory he will give cannot be told What love 's like his or where is such a lover Amongst all persons that we can discover LIX There 's none in Earth beneath nor Heaven above That loves like him his love if we do heed 'T will us convince that him again to love It 's meet yea love to him in us 't will breed The first love to him then rightly belongs Let him be first in all our praising songs LX. Yea he 's so worthy love that well we may Treble the exhortation with respect To him and to our selves and others say Love Love Love God who ever we neglect He 's worthy and we 're backward him to love Need therefore fervently thereto to move LXI Yea love 's his due in the highest degree Because his goodness is superlative With all things that we have with all we be He 's worthy love so long as we 're alive Love God therefore with all thy mind heart soul Love Love Love and let nought that love controule LXII Love God with all thy mind to him attend Consider what of him we hear and find Yea set our selves