careful be In all we do to act Religiously Of the Church ALL God's Elect that Heaven shall inherit And be by Faith pertakers of Christ's merit All those the univeâ—sal Church we call They are Christ's flock and he the head of all Out of all Nations is this flock selected Clens'd by Christs Blood and by himself accepted And the whole number of th'elected ones That have been are or shall be he will own The Church of Christ which visible we call And under the Gospel is Catholicall Consists of them and theirs that do profess The true Religion and true Holiness Out of this way can no sure expectation Be had by any of their souls salvation Unto the Church Christ gave the Ministry Which by his spirit works effectually For gathering and for making perfect his That are elected to eternal bliss And of this Church Christ Jesus is the head And by his spirit are his people lead The Pope of Rome cannot in any sence Be Head thereof you may collect from hence That he 's the Anti-Christ and man of sin That doth oppose Christs holy Church and him Of the Communion of Saints ALL Saints to Jesus Christ their head are knit By 's spirit and faith and have a fellowship With him in 's sufferings death and in his graces His Resurrection and in happy cases Are all such Saints and Heaven shall inherit And eke pettake of Christ and all his merits So all such Saints to one another knit In love begets a holy fellowship They have Communion in each others graces Share in their Prayers and in their hearts have places And are oblig'd such duties to perform Publick and private as may them concern And to their mutual good conducing be Both to the outward man and inwardly This fellowship which Saints with Christ injoy In no respect gives them equality With him none of his Saints or servants can Compare as he is either God or man Nor Saints Communion never can destroy In Goods or Lands their sole propriety Of Baptisme BAptisme is a Holy Sacrament Which doth to us most lively represent The powerful washing of the blood and spirit Of Christ that did for all beleivers merit Into the Church they have initiation And signes and seales of their regeneration Pardon of sins is eke confirm'd to them And into Christ they are ingrafted then They sin that do this Ordinance neglect Salvation yet to it 's not so anext But that without it infants may be saved And some into Perdition go that have it Of the Lords Supper THis ordinance unto the soul is sweet Where there is faith and where the Heart 's upright What empty poor and barren things are then The Sacraments to unbeleiving men Get faith Repent draw neer to God and pray Use ordinances in a Holy way T is great dishonour to the God of might When men his holy Ordinances sleight O then call in for all the stock of grace Stir up affections in this weighty case First get your sins slain by the edged sword Of Gods good spirit in the Holy Word Excite your faith Repentance exercise Forsake all sins and buy the Pearl of prise Faith is the Captain and the Master-grace Faith his our souls our Saviour to embrace Faith is a Jewel faith doth justifie Bâ— faith on Christ poor sinners do rely Faith gives us interest in his benefits Faith weary souls for Grace and mercy fits Faith gives us interest in Christ's blood and merit Faith makes Christ ours both in his grace spirit Faith makes the soul his Saviour apprehend The grace of faith our souls to Christ commend By faith we do our Saviours body eate By faith Christs body we receave for meat By faith we drink our blessed Saviours blood Our Saviours Body is his servants food The matter of the Sacrament indeed Is Christ himself whereon we chiefly feed By him we nourish'd are our sins are kil'd By Christs warm blood our souls with Grace are fil'd O sin-sick soul canst thou more dainties wish Then to be nourish'd by this Princely Dish Hath Christ provided sinners such a Feast By which their graces are so much increast O then praise God flie evill follow good Thy filthy sins have shed thy Saviours blood All wicked persons and impenitent Pertake not of this blessed Sacrament For graceless persons by the same grow worse Instead of blessings they obtain a curse Grace in the Sacrament is never bred But grace by it 's Increas'd and nourished They that come graceless thither gâ—aceless may Return from thence and go much worse away The State of Man after Death and of the Resurrection of the Dead WHen men are dead their mortal bodies must Both see corruption and return to dust And then their souls which shall immortal be Return unto the Lord immediately The souls of Saints that lived righteously Are then receav'd into the Heavens high Where they behold Gods face in glorious light Ath ' day of Judgement souls and bodies meet The souls of wicked men are sent to Hell Where they in pain and utter darkness dwell And are reserv'd unto the judgement day Then to receive their dreadful doom for aye Two places only God for souls created When souls and bodies should be seperated At 'h day of Judgement such as lite enjoy Shall all be changed but they shall not die And all the dead that day shall raised be With the same bodies not such qualities And to their souls united be again Some doom'd to bliss some to eternal pain Of the last Judgement GOd hath appointed Jesus Christ his Son To judge the World and to pronounce the doom Of wicked Angels and all earthly men Who shall appear and shall be judged then By Jesus Christ who shall in glory sit Condemn the wicked and the Godly quit This day of Judgement it shall surely come God knowes the time and none but he alone O Watch and Pray then night and day God's Lawes obey that Christ may say Thou hast done faithfully Thou hast well done O therefore come And enter into Joy POEMS Against POPERY COMPOSED By Edward Manlove of Ashborn in the County of Derby Esquier LONDON Printed for Richard Mills at the Pestel and Mortar without Temple Barr. 1667. To the READER PEruse these Poems drest in mean attire Love truth hate error heartily desire To follow Peace and worship God aright Observe the Scriptures Romish errors sleight The Roman Church did Christ her Spouse forsake And to her Idols did her self betake She is unclean defil'd with spots and staines Unsound corrupt but yet a Church remains Therefore beware of utter detestation Of all her doctrine all 's not Innovation Truth 's fundamental which themselves descrie By their bright lustre do not thou deny But them imbrace and shun what is unsound Coyne currant is that 's in a channel found Refuse the Chaff do not the Wheat reject Hate Heresie but wholsome Truths respect They hold three persons in the Trinity We hold the same
passions labour to prevent Displease the Divel learn to be content By discontent the Devil 's gratifi'd And by this sin thy Soul may be destroy'd Take heed of discord t is the Devils joy Fly discontent it brings much misery Subdue thy self strive for this Victory Keep down thy flesh it is an enemy Art thou reproached or in Prison cast Bear it with patience till the storm be past God can repair thee and release thee thence But he is pleas'd to prove thy Patience He knowes what 's in thee but this exercise Will make thee learn his mercy more to prize Iob was corrected with a sharper rod Yet under sufferings he did Worship God He lost both Flocks and Heards and Children dear Yet in all this he did God's Justice clear He was Divested of a great Estate The Lord that gave the Lord away did take His body suffered in a high degree From Biles and Botches there was no place free Then he a Potsheard took himselfe to scrape And humbly he down in the ashes sate O here behold the fruit of true content Iob suffered much and yet was Patient He got much Gain by this correcting Rod All works for good to them that love their God God in his Wisdome maketh many times Our Maladies to be our Medicines Art thou then poor are Earthly comforts gone God can make Physick of Affliction Unto the Righteous godly and upright In greatest darkness there ariseth light Afflictions great may prove an excellent Cathalicon against thy discontent And also teach thee much Humility For much proud flesh within thy heart doth lie But sharp corrections are Gods Corrowsives To eat it out proud flesh is apt to rise Yea Gall and Wormwood God doth oft provide To purge his Children from the sin of Pride By Gods Chastisements man is often brought To true Repentance which thereby is taught Repentance is the pretious fruit that growes Upon the Cross this Thorne doth beare a Rose Afflictions do Gods children truly trie They are the touchstone of sincerity They make them zealons when they pray to God They are most fervent when they feel the Rod. Ionah securely in the ship did sleep But Ionah prayd in danger in the deep Affliction sifts the soul of sinful man It tries his Faith 't is Gods refining Fan. Faith propt with Patience bears the greatest weight This far shines brightest in the darkest night T is God that doth our Graces often trie Submit to him much comfort comes thereby Do not withstand Gods way which works out sin Thy heart 's impure much dross is found therein By Gods chastisements man receives no loss This fiery furnace purgeth out the dross Tho Shadrach Mesach and Abednego Were in the Furnace hot they felt no woe They were fast bound and cast into the fire It burnt their bonds it burnt not their attire So doth the fire of our Afflictions trie And burns the bonds of our iniquity We are Gods people and his husbandry Within our hearts the seeds of sin do lye He Ploughs them up destroyes the wicked weed And in our hearts he sowes a holy seed He kills the Tares he Harrowes every part Afflictions help to make a holy heart True Faith put forth most pure and noble acts In times of tryal faith beats fearing back The Torch that 's beaten gives the greater light Faith in affliction shineth far more bright The Bay and Cipress flourish in the shade But in the Sun these fragrant flowers fade The shade of sorrow more improves thy Grace Then shining solace in a pleasant Place Then murmur not submit to God most high Accept that well which makes thee fructifie By discontent our Prayers we do confute We pray thy will be donâ— this is our suite And yet we murmur in Adversity Which shewes our Prayers are in Hipocrysy Hast thou more sorrow then some others have Then seek to God and his assistance crave He can support thee in thy sorrowes all And set thee free from all thy Bonds and thrall The Prophet Daniel was by wicked men Accus'd and cast into the Lyons Den. Yet was preserv'd by Gods Almighty power The hungry Lions did not him devoure But his accusers found them violent Their bones they brake God sav'd the innocent Great sufferings are the way to glory great God's blessed Son did blood and water sweat He suffered death and yet was free from sin He payd thy debt wilt thou do nought for him O be content do not thy case condole Afflictions help to cure a sin sick soule But male content of grief and anger both A mixture hath and raiseth stormy wroth Within thy soul this spirit restless is T is never quiet something is amiss The man 's not sick and yet he 's never well Aske what he ailes alas he cannot tell What is the matter his great discontent Hath discompos'd his heart and made a rent There is no state can please his wavering mind In no condition he can comfort find He runs the round he ends where he begun Moves to and fro dislikes both shade and sun Faith looks beyond the help of earthly things And feeds upon both hope and promisings Faith will trust God where him it cannot trace And will adventure of his word and grace But discontent no reason will obey The rules of faith it wholly casts away Great sinfulness is found in discontent Both in the causes and the consequent Pride Envy Avatice and Unbeleif Of discontent these are the causes chief Pride makes a man too highly to esteem His own deserts and others meanly deem His own condition he conceives too low And so blames God because he made it so And this proud man presume to tax the Lord Because he plac'd him in no higher Orb. So Envy is a very divellish sin Adam was holy Satan envyed him The sacrifice of Abel was accepted Cain envyed him because his was rejected And Avarice doth cause great discontent T is ever craveing alwaies indigent For Covetousness contentedness doth thwart They cannot both live in a holy heart Distrust's an evil greater then distress 'T is inconsistent with contentedness And discontent it is a dayly grief It is the Eccho of mans unbeleif And this distemper causeth such discord That man with gladness cannot serve the Lord For discontent doth alwaies live in want Unthankfulness is its concomitant This discontent made Ahab Naboth stone That Naboths Vineyard might be come his own And Absolom it caus'd to seek a Crown To raise himself and pull his Father down This discontent doth dayly stir up strife It takes away the comfort of mans life Iâ— man hath much and yet do thirst for more He 's discontent this makes the Rich man poor We nought deserve and yet we much desire If God deny us we are full of ire When Ionahs Guard that withering vanity Was smitten Ionah in a Pet would die All live in want that live in discontent Rich men are rob'd by this distemperment Through discontent some
and do them deifie But for their error and their false Tradition They do deserve our utter opposition Regard them not beleive not Romish Fables Abhor their Idols Crosses Beades and Bables Their Agnus Dei which Pope Urban tells Will work strauge feats and evil sprights dispel Their creeping crouch their kissing of the Pax Their Medals Roses and such Romish knacks Their hallowed swords their false equivocations In sacred Oathes their mental reservations Their worshiping of wooden stock and stones Their Adoration of old rotten bones Their Altars Vestures Images and Tapers Their Censings Offerings Shrifes and holy Waters Their new found Faith of Transubstantiation Their Prayers to Saints a Popish Innovation Their Cancelling Christ's Will and Testament By mangling of the Holy Sacrament Their Bulls their Pardons and their Purgatory Their Latine service and such Ceremony Their Pilgrimage their Merits and Processions Their five new Sacraments their forc'd Confessions Their deifying of the Romish Whore Vain sacrifice and many errors more These Popish errors totally discard These Apish toyes good Reader disregard And so farwel what followes now peruse Imbrace the Truth my errors all excuse POEMS Against Popery Composed by Edward Manlove Esq I. Against the Popish Tenent of Justification by inherent Righteousness INherent Justice no man Justifies Our Righteousness in Christ our Saviour lies And his made ours by faith it doth suffice To make us Righteous in Gods Righteous Eyes And all his Members clearly will acquit A'â—h Judgement sear when Jesus Christ shall sit The Romish Whore a Bastard brood did nurse Who blast this truth with a tridentine curse Christ's righteousness imputed must give plaâ—â— To righteousness by our inherent grace This horrid point Pelagius did invent And 't was confirmed at the Councel Trent Till then this point of Faith did not intrude Till then this error Councels did exclude Also Chrisostome Ambrose Bernard Gregory Jerom Which now for truth the Romish Church reteit This new sound faith doth still at Rome remain But Austin doth this Popish point deny Inherent justice cannot justifie In vain the Papists wrangle and dispute This Popish point which Scripture doth confute We are unjust our hearts are all unclean Our righteousness Ec. 7.20 Pr. 20.9 Es 64.6 Ro. 7.23 as filthy raggs remain And in our members are the law oâ— sin Which leads us Captain waging war therein In many things all mortal men offend We sinners are James 3.2 Joh. 1.8 Act. 13.39 Rom 3.24 Eph 8.9 2 Cori. 5.21 till sinful life do end We are deceived if we do deny This sacred truth and full of falcity Through faith in Christ beleivers are made just By his free grace to works we dare not trust Our blessed Saviour was for us made sin And we the righteousness of God in him Can filthy raggs poor sinners justifie Or save them from eternal misery Repent beleive to God for mercy pray Christ's blood alone can wash thy sins away Against the Doctrine of Merit HOw can man merit all that he can do Is less then duty strictly ties him to And halfe done duties how should God respect Or what reward is due for such neglect Eternal death is wages due for sin Neglect of duty needs must fall therein Through Jesus Christ God gives eternal bliss Ro. 6.13 Salvation comes no other way but this God works accepts if faith do them evert And them rewards but not for their desert These merit-mongers therefore much mistake That look for Heaven for their merits sake Against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation THe Romish Prelates labour by coertion To make men own this marvellous conversion Have Priests such power by words of consecration Of Bread and Wine to make such transmutation A point Prodigious that a Popish Priest Can make his God or re-create his Christ This Novelty of Transubstantiation At Lateran Councel An. dom 1215 500. years before had its confirmation But Protestants may Pope Gelasius quote Who long before against this error wrote This Cockatrice was hatcht in latter time Nurst up at Rome by such as Bellarmine This Monstrous Bratt the Roman Church begot The Greeks abhor'd it Ancients own'd it not Augustine he doth learnedly maintain That Bread and Wine substantially remain The Scripture saith 1. Cor 11.26 that after consecration The bread is bread wher 's then this transmutation How can Christ's body crucifi'd for thee At once Acts 3.21 Binius in many thousand places be If thou remain in Christ and Christ in thee Thou hast receiv'd this sacred Mistery Against the Doctrine of the Half Communion THis Romish error Anno 1453 lately started up The Councel Constance took away the Cup. And thus they then presumptuously did wrent Our Saviours blessed will and Testament By Christs Example they will not be lead They to the Laicks only give the bread Though Christ himself all Christians do enjoyn To eat the Bread and also drink the Wine Yet Popish Prelates 1 Cor. 11.28 Christ's Commandment sleight And rob his people of a holy right By this Presumption all may plainly see How Sacriledgious Popish Prelates be Against Missal Sacrifice OUr Blessed Saviour Heb. 10.10.11.12.13.14 on the Cross A sacrifice for sin His body offered once for all For such as trust in him There needs no further sacrifice Our sins to do away Vain is the Missal sacrifice That 's offer'd every day Against Image Worship THis Worship well deserves the name Of gross Idolatry God's holy word 's against the same And all Antiquity Lev. 26. ver 1. Deut. 16.22 Esa 42 17 45 16. Deut. 27 15. Mic. 5.13 Ye shall your selves no Idol make Nor Graven Image reare Nor bow to it nor Worship give The Scripture makes it clear Against Papal Indulgences and Purgatory THe Romish Clergy labour much This error to maintain This fire doth make their Kitchins smoak This crast brings in their gain This brings their Pardons into play This puts them off with speed To all such silly souls as do Beleive the Romish Creed This dreadful Doctrine makes mens hearts To tremble and to fear Away for Pardons then they pack Although they buy them dear Yet there 's no torment after death To those that faithful be Their sins dispersed as a Cloud And their iniquity They into judgement shall not come Their souls are free from pain And in eternal peace and joy For ever shall remain Against Divine Worship in an unknown Tongue BArbarian like those Bablers are That Service say oâ— Cant In Greek or Latine unto those That understanding want This profits not 't is not the way God's Glory to advanâ—e This Romish practice in the Church Produceth Ignorance 1 Cor. 14 5 6 9 11 13 14 23. Five words with understanding spoke More profits people then Ten thousand words in unknown tongues Spoke to unlearned men Against forced Sacramental Confession BOth good and beneficial use There may be of Confession By such as burden'd are with sin And griev'd