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A29659
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The remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke being poems of monarchy and religion : never before printed.
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Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628.
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1670
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all without Of which within it lives and dies in doubt 24. The other branch is meer Hypocrisie The worlds Religion born of Wit and Lust All which like hunters follow things that flie And still beyond things found find somthing must As God is boundless endless infinite So seem these Idols to the Hypocrite 25. Wit there is Priest who sacrisice doth make Of all in Heaven and Earth to his desire For from this Wit God and Religion take As many shapes as many strange attires As there be in the World degrees of change Which upon humours time occasion range 26. This teacheth all ambitious Magistrates On sins unquiet humors how to build Idols of Pow'r to alter natures rates And by false fears and hopes make people yield Their hearts for Temples unto Tyrants Laws Which Zeal divine to humane Homage draws 27. And when spiritual Lights which Truth expound Once to the traffick of Mans Will descend With chains of Truth Mankind no more is bound Whereby their hearts should up to Heaven ascend But vainly link't unto their tongues which draw Religion to a fleshly outward awe 28. And though this Fear a Holiness in shew Such as no Eye of Man can pierce the veil But least Gods houshold to contempt should grow Or this Hypocrisie not still prevail To raisâ— them reverence above their worth Blood Inquisition Question they bring forth 29. They draw the sword of Pow'r against her own Or else stir people up to war their Kings Both must be theirs or both be overthrown They bind Man unto words God binds to things For these false heads of holy Mother see Scepters to Miters there inferior be 30. Among our selves likewise there many be That make Religion nothing else but Art To master others of their own degree Enthral the simple well believing heart These have opposers scorn obedient fools Affecting Raign by educations tools 31. And though they serve Ambitious Princes use While they protect them like a nursing Father And while this common traffick of abuse Mutually helpeth either side to gather Yet mark the end of false combined trust It will divide and smart the people must 32. For sure in all kinds of Hypocrisie No bodies yet are found of constant being No uniforme no stable Mistery No inward Nature but an outward seeming No solid Truth no Vertue Holiness But types of these which Time makes more or less 33. And from these Springs strange inundations flow To drown the Sea-marks of Humanity With Massacres Conspiracy Treason Woe By Sects and Schisms prophaning Deity Besides with Furies Fiends Earth Air and Hell They fit and teach Confusion to rebell 34. But as their lives a true God in the Heaven So is there true Religion here on earth By nature No by Grace not got but given Inspir'd not taught from God a second Birth God dwelleth neer about us even within Working the goodness censuring the sin 35. Such as we are to him to us is he Without God there was no man ever good Divine the Author and the matter be Where goodness must be wrought in flesh and blood Religion stands not in corrupted things But vertues that descend have Heavenly wings 36. Not heathen vertue which they do define To be a state of mind by Custome wrought Where sublime Religion seems to refine Affection perturbation every thought Uunto a Mens Adepta which work spent Half of the days to humane Hermes lent 37. For in his work Man still rests Slave to Fame To inward Caution outward form and pride With curious watch to guard a rotten frame Safe undiscovet'd from the piercing ey'd Assiduous caution tyrannizing there To make frail thoughts seem other then they are 38. Under this Mask besides no vice is dead But passion with her counter-passion peaz'd The evil with it self both starv'd and fed And in her woes with her vain glories eas'd The work and tools alike vain flesh and blood The labour great the harvest never good 39. For in this painted Tomb let Mans own spirit Really judge what that estate can be Which he begetting in himself inherits Other then DESERTS of Hypocrisie Within the darkning shadows of his wit Hiding his stains from all the world but it 40. And if the habits of Hypocrisie With such attention must be kept and wrought If to mask vice be such a mistery As must with her captivity be sought If to be nothing and yet seem to be So nicely be contriv'd and dearly bought As vanity must in a Phaenix fire Smother her self to hatch her false desire 41. Then Judge poor Man Gods Image once 't is true Though now the Devils be thine own defection Judge Man I say to make this Image new And cleanse thy flesh from this deep dy'd infection What miracles must needs be wrought in you That thus stand lost in all things but election What living death what strange illumination Must be inspir'd to this Regeneration 42. Must not the Grace be supernatural Which in forgiving gives sanctification And from this second Chaos of his fall Forms in Mans little world a new Creation And must not then this twice born Child of Heaven Bring forth in life this new perfection giv'n 43. Then Man pray and obtain believe and have Omnipotence and goodness ready be To raise us with our Saviour from the Grave Whence Enoch and Elias lived free He made all good yet suffred sin and death To Raign and be exil'd again by faith 44. Then till thou find this Heavenly change in thee Of Pride to Meekness Atheisme to Zeal Lust to Continence Anger to Charity Thou feel'st of thy election no true seal But knowledge only that poor infancy Of this new Creature which must thence appeal Unto the father for obedience Judging his hopes or condemnation thence 45. For what else is Religion in Mankind But raising of Gods Image there decay'd No habit but a hallowed state of Mind Working in us that he may be obey'd As God by it with us Communicates So we by Duties must with all estates 46. With our Creator by sincere devotion With Creatures by observance and affection Superiors by respect of their promotion Inferiors with the nature of protection With all by using all things of our own For others good not to our selves alone 47. And ev'n this sacred band this Heavenly Breath In Man his understanding knowledge is Obedience in his Will in Conscience Faith Affections Love in death itself a bliss In body Temp'rance life Humility Pledge to the mortal of Eternity 48. Pure onely where God makes the Spirits pure It perfect grows as imperfection dies Built on the rock of truth that shall endure A Spirit of God that needs must multiply He shews his Glory cleerly to the best Appears in Clouds and Horror to the rest 49. Such was the soul in our first Sires Creation When Man knew God and goodness not the evil Far greater in the Godheads incarnation Where Truth subdu'd the sin that made the devil She
still is Gods and God for ever one Both unbeliev'd in flesh and both unknown 50. Then Man learn by thy fall to judge of neither Our flesh cannot this spirit comprehend Death and new birth in us must joyn together Before our nature where it was ascend Where man presumes on more then he obeys There straight Religion to opinion strays 51. Then since 't is true we onely here possess These Treasures but in veslels made of slime Religion we by consequence confess Here to be mixt of base things and sublime Of native evil supernatural good Truth born of God and error of our blood 52. Yet Gold we have though much allay'd with dross Refining never perfect in this life Still in our journey meeting gain and loss Rest in our deaths and until then a strife And as our days are Want Temptation Error So is our Zeal War Prayers Remorse and Terror 53. Such is the state of Infants in new birth Fed first with Milk too weak for stronger food Who learn at once to know and doe in earth both enemy and impotent in good Must feel that our Christ can of his loose none Which unto us makes Grace and Merit one 54. These be true Antidotes against despair Cradles for weakness stories for corruption To read how faith begins to make her fair By cleansing sensual sinks of interruption Whereby the throws of many thoughts bring forth Light onely shewing Man is nothing worth 55. For this word Faith implies a state of Mind Is both our woing and our Marriage Ring The first we meet and last but Love we find A given hand that feeleth Heavenly things And who believe indeed God Heav'n and Hell Have past in that chief letts of doing well 56. Then let not man too rashly judge this Light Nor censure God by his own imperfections What can give limit to the infinite When he by works will witness our election Degrees I grant there be of Will and Might Some to beget some onely to inherit Yet still the Conscience must obey the Spirit 57. Yea though God call his Labourers every hour And pay the Last and First with Heavenly gain Though he give faith beyond the Law and Pow'r Yet is Gods nature where he is to raign His word is Life the Letter all mens fall That it without the Spirit measure shall 58. This Sacred word is that Eternal Glass Where all mens souls behold the face they bring Each sees as much as life hath brought to pass The Letter can shew Life no other thing The hearts Grace works to know what they obey All else prophane God and the World betray 59. This work is Gods even his that works all wonder His Arm not shorned and his goodness one Whose Presence breaks sins middle wall in sunder And doth in flesh deface the evils throne He is all gives all hath all where he is And in his absence never soul finds bliss 60. His AEgypt wonders here he doth exceed For there he mixt with Winds Rain Natures line Now by his spirit he doth blast our weeds Immediate Grace true miracles Divine Guides not by Fires and Meteors night and day His wandring people how to move or stay 61. But into sinners hearts shadows of death The saving light of truth he doth inspire Fitteth our humane Lungs with Heavenly breath Our mortal Natures with immortal fire He draws the Camel through the Needles eye And makes the chosen flesh die ere they die 62. Yet keeps one course with Israel and us The flesh still knew his Pow'r but not his Grace All outward Churhes ever know him thus They bear his name but never run his race They know enough for their self-condemnation His doing know him to their ownsalvation 63. His Church invisible are few and good The visible erroneous evil many Of his the Life and Letter understood Of these nor Life nor Letter dwell in any These make his word Sect Scisme Phisosophy And those from Fifhers call'd Apostles be 64. They do in praying and still pray in doing Faith and obedience are their contemplation Like Lovers still admiring ever woing Their God that gives this Heavenly constellation They war that Finite Infinite of sin All Arts and Pomps the error wanders in 65. God is their strength in him his are not weak That Spirit Divine which Life Pow'r wisdome is Works in these new born Babes a life to speak Things which the world still understands amiss The Lye hath many tongues Truth only one And who sees blindness till the sin be gone 66. Fools to the world these seem and yet obey Princes oppressions whereat fools repine They know these Crowns these Theaters of Clay Derive their earthly pow'r from pow'r Divine Their sufferings are like all things else they do Conscience to God with men a wisdom too 67. Book-Learning Arts yea School Divinity New types of old Law-munging Pharisies Which curst in bondage of the Letter be They know they pitty and would fain advise The goodness moves them yet the wisdom stays From sowing Heavenly seed in stony ways 68. To you they cry O you that hold the shrine As sent by God yet Priests of chance and gain Your charge is to distribute things Divine O do not lie for God and sin in vain Reveal his word his misteries expound Else what he works you travel to confound 69. You should be keys to let his Will pass out Bind sin and free repentance by his word Fear those that scorn and comfort them that doubt What drowned Pharaoh still is Israels forde Wisdome above the truth was Adams sin That veyle which Christ rent off will you walk in 70. Observe Faiths nature in these hallow'd shrines Both of the old and perfect Testament Works be her fruits her nature is Divine Infus'd by him that is omnipotent Doe we believe on him on whom we stay not Can we believe on him whom we obey not 71. His Pen left two examples it is true First of his chosen how he grosly fell Then of the Thief born instantly anew Vice rais'd to Heaven perfection fall'n to hell And of each nature therefore left not many Lest hope or fear should over-work in any 72. Is it not then by warrant from above That who gives faith gives true obedience What other Medium hath our flesh to prove That sin with God keeps no intelligence Takes this from Man the fruits of Christ his death No it translates him into it by faith 73. For though God gave such measure of his Grace As might in flesh fulfill the second Table Yet sin against the first did quite deface Gods Image and to raise that who is able Between the Flesh and Grace that spiritual Fight Needs Father Son and their proceeding Might 74. Nay let us grant God would enable Man After his calling to accomplish all From Adams sin who yet redeem him can Or Pauls transgression cleer before his call But Christ that comes to none of Gods in vain The justest need him