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A80028	Divine blossomes. A prospect or looking-glass for youth: wherein and whereby he may plainly behold and see a supereminency and super-excellency of grace and religion, beyond the worlds honor, glory, fame, repute, pleasure, joy, delight, love,. [sic] And all other lower accomodations whatsoever. Laid down to youth by exciting parallel between [brace] earths honor carnal pleasure inordinate love [brace] and [brace] heavens glory and spiritual pleasure divine love. Under every of which particulars, the author exemplarily expresseth himself in a varied verse. / Composed by a hearty wel-wisher to the youthful generation, Francis Cockin, alias Cokayne.	Cockin, Francis.	1657 (1657)	Wing C4873; Thomason E1652_1; ESTC R209121	43,716	131

'T is no fit object for my view An unfit subject to pursue To gain those things I will persever That like my Soul endure for ever I dare not give thee any room Because to judgment I must come I know the Judg and thou art Foes If thee I follow him I lose Avaunt Be gone Stand off therefore Don't dare bold Sin to tempt me more My heart thy dainties doth disrellish Because deceit doth them embellish Such Evils too they tend to cherish As will make Soul and Body perish Thy pleasant Path doth lead to Hell With damned spirits for to dwell Mine eys therefore thereon sha'n't look To hear thereof mine ears sha'n't brook Unto thy Paths my feet sha'n't walk Nor of thee shall not my tongue talk All thoughts of thee O may I smother Who am the interest of another Disloyall am I him unto If I strike friendship with his Foe I dare not O I dare not I Think such a thought for he stands by He hath a Cabbin in my Breast He knows what 's not by me exprest His eye doth every secret see Kept ignorant he cannot be He 's omni-present filleth all And every place both great and small His arm is long he will me reach From East to West the same doth stretch How then dare I consent to sin Or any one thought harbour in My tender breast that may conduce His sacred Name to prejudice He 's just and jealous I don't dare Him to offend my Soul doth fear His righteous judgments and my flesh Doth tremble and can do no less His Majesty in flames of fire Cloath'd with wrath and furious ire Shall make appearance when the world By fiery flames shall be dissolv'd Shall mount upon his glorious Throne And then examine every one All acts must into judgment come And every one receive their Doom According to their several Deeds The Judg to them their Sentence reades He says to them that have done well Ye blessed of my Father dwell In his bright glories mount the Throne Prepared for ye every one Ye did your hearts for me maintain Come therefore now and with me reign Ye on the earth did to me live Now I to you a Kingdom give You hated Sin now I you own And give you an all-glorious Crown You of your ways did conscience make Your wills and lusts too for my sake Did crucifie with strength oppose All the suggestions of my foes Your strength up to me you did give Come therefore your Reward receive But as for you you hellish Elves That to your Lusts did give your selves That ever burn'd with strong desire Bred and maintain'd by wanton fire Be gone from me into those flames That burn and nought their fury tames As in your life-time you have been A neer Associate to Sin So now therewith go bide and dwell For ever in the lowest Hell In utter darkness make abode Under my flaming furious Rod There live out your eternal breath With howling cries with gnashing teeth I know right well this is Sins Doom Therefore I dare not giue it room I dare not entertain it in me For sure I am it soon will win me Its joy doth but a moment last But ah its pain is never past Eternity my Soul doth eye Vain Pleasure therefore dare not I Once look upon nor will I greet It wheresoever I it meet I know it is an hellish Fi●nd And all its courses thither tend Be gone be gone thou dost beguile me And of most pleasant sweets dost spoil me Thou giv'st me Peebles for my Treasures Sharp sorrows for delightfull Pleasures Mine own I am not but am bought At a dear rate and therefore ought To give both Soul and Body too Unto his blessed service who Did me redeem from bondage fell Reprieve my Soul from Death and Hell He gave his Life his Love was such To men and shall I then think much To answer love with love entire And for his sake to quench the fire Of lower loves and with affection Most pure and true yeeld him subjection Long may I to him loyal prove Strong may I with him be in love The pleasures of religion I Do finde more sweet and do espye More beauty in than want on pleasure Can give to them that have most leisure To wait thereon in it I finde That sweet repose unto my minde That peace that sweet delight that joy That worldly powers cann't destroy Faith feeds me with the Bread of Heaven Thereby to me its joys are given In such a measure that oft I Being overcharg'd with joy do cry As of my senses quite bereaven Whether am I now in Earth or Heaven What 's this I both feel taste and see Sure I am in Heaven or Heaven 's in me Time slackes his course his glass do'n't run Or is eternity begun Both weeks and months their motions stay They are to me as one short day But they that would of Soul delight Then this have a more fuller sight From me then let them please to look Upon another former book I penn'd in part long since and there Expressions make 't at large appeare 97. But still for to pursue my present task As youthfull blood doth make the wind aspire To fading honour after pleasure ask Setting the Senses thereon all on fire So too that heated blood the Soul doth move To be a thralled Captive unto Love 98. Youth 's swelling veines made hot with blood and Spirits Doth like to fire never cease to stur Will be in motion though thereby 't inherits Shame for the same a constant blur The Soul of man is made of living fire That never moves yet motion don't expire 99. The Devill therefore tends with diligence To give it matter whereupon to act Presents an object to the greedy Sense The which from thence the Soul doth soon infect Unto the Eye of youth he proffers beauty And streight fond youth presents it shrine with duty 100. Beauty to youth is as the oyle 't a fire And as dry fewel unto raging flames It doth convert him all into desire And what is 't then that furious passion tames Th' eye to the heart presents this foul infection Poysons the Soul thoroughout by the affection 101. Youth now doth love and must possesse in love What he desires on whom his heart is fixt All arguments are far too weak to move There is no incongruity betwixt Her whom he loves and him no he can tell She suits his disposition very well 102. What will he stick to venture for her sake Whom he so fondly loves as that his life I' n't deare unto him so he may partake Her fellowship and she be made his wife Heaven and earth and God and life and blisse Compar'd with her unto him norhing is Youths antick tricks herein I sha'n't discover I do'n't intend to toile my muse so much Again my Soul thereof was ne'r a lover And therefore once to speak of them I grutch My Soul takes no delight such things to

Earth the Captain is The cause is good 't is for eternal bliss 5. O put on courage Let that boyling blood That heats your veins turn into holy rage Bid Sin avaunt let Sathan be withstood And in that holy War your selves engage Redeem your time your freedomes and your selves For all are Captives unto hellish Elves 6. Your enemy is strong a potent foe He 's full of might of policy and skill The World the Flesh do joyn their strength un●● Most earthly Powers do obey his will Things that do look with seeming glorious faces Principalities and Foes in heavenly places 7. You have to fight against Engines of War Your Foe-man hath sleights stratagems and wildes Whereby he often conquers from afar And often many Creatures he beguiles We are his Slaves and in fell bondage all Stand at his beck and run when he doth call Encouragements 8. and Exhortations Oh let us rouze us quitting sinful floth And put on courage and go forth with might For to engage in fight let 's not be loth Because we lose our Souls else and their right What though our Foe be strong our Captain 's stronger What though his arm be long our Captain 's longer 9. The Body 's broke Up up and take the spoyl The Body of our foes puissant strength Our noble Captain ' th given Death the foyl And we shall be victorious to him at length Fall on Fall on our foes are in a Rout The Victory is ours out of doubt 10. Right noble Spirits true heroick Minds Delight t' engage where Courage may appear I have oft heard how glad He is that finds A desperate attempt that may him dare And this they do that the shrill Trump of Fame Unto the Age may blazon forth their Name 11. Argument 1. But young Men Heark ye If that airy honour May move hot Spirits to adventure far Then what may this under Jehovah's Banner For your owne Interests t' attempt a War Y' are Slaves to Sin and to each Humour then Arise arise and quit your selves like Men. 12. The Spoyl is good the Triumph and the Joy Is great and glorious Ever doth endure Time sha'nt wear out Oblivion sha'nt destroy Your Trophees of Renown you shall be sure Ever to have and therewithall a Crown Of lasting Glory when this life 's laid down 13. Each valiant Act and each Heroick Deed You do or ever shall attempt to do With real Heart taking respective heed Shall much the glory of your Crown ad to For every Lust you conquer and subdue Joy Peace and Comfort will to you ensue 14. Argument 2. Nay 'T is high Honour for you then to joyn With Gods own Son the Heir of Earth and Heaven Your spirits then with his Spirit combine For to destroy all Sin his Life was given He came to overthrow the works of th' Devil The same do you when you oppose an Evil. 15. Youth would'st have Honour Prethee tell me then What is' t to be Favourite to a King The King of Kings that rules and reigneth when The world shall cease and every earthly thing This thou shalt be if thou dost to him live A Crown and Kingdome likewise he 'l thee give 16. Tell me then Can thy strength be laid out better Can thy hot vigorous Youth it self imploy For more advantage then to make him Debter Unto thee that doth Heaven and Earth enjoy His Love thou gain'st by living in his will Shalt Him and his possesse on Zions Hill 12. Oh lay not out the strength of youthful years To feed foul humours and a fond desire Vain pleasures will procure eternal tears And make thee lodge in everlasting fire Resist oppose thy youthful inclination That leads thee captive to each sordid passion 13. Wilt serve him whom thou art asham'd to own As Master of the work that thou dost do Be not deceiv'd but look what thou hast sown Thou canst not but expect to reap also Bur-seed doth Burs Dill-seed doth Dill bring forth The fruit and seed are ever of like worth 14. Thou sow'st in Flesh of Flesh thou shalt reap shame But if in Spirit glory thou shalt find Permit not puny pleasure for to maim Thy Souls best strength nor to enerve thy Mind Thou canst not say but 't is an absurd evil To give the worst to God the best to th' Devil 15. Tax me not Young-man that I do enjoyn Thee to a thing impossible to do No I 'l assure thee here is not a line But 't is thy safety to comply unto 'T is not by Hear-say that the thing I tell But by Experience I know it well 〈…〉 21. My heart esteems't the noblest design That ere my youth can make adventure on Unto Jehove to make a full resign And in my Soul for to set up his Throne I would that he should reign o're me as King And every thought to his Subjection bring 22. His service I esteem at such a rate I would not leave it for to be a King An Emperour the mightyest Potentate The Earth ere bore I do esteem that thing Of far less worth in Splendor far more dim Then for to be a Servant unto him 23. I scorne a Crown an Earthly Diadem The Scepter of this universe to sway Compared with that matchlesse glorious Gem Of grace for why that Honour 's but a day But grace doth bring to glory evermore Makes a possessour of all glorious Store 24. If that a Crown was layed at my feet As sure as I do live there should it lie If with Emperial honour men should greet Me as the greatest Earthly majesty I would refuse that honour and that grace For those same troubles that attend the place 25. Much more would I contemn it if it should Be proffer'd to me if I would forsake The Service of my God or if I would My self subservient to my humours make No such petty honour I disown I eye no less then an alglorious Crown 26. An Earthly Crown 's too mean for my desire Too base an object for my heart to fix on My Spirit 's fill'd with more Heroick fire I beauty love not such a dull complexion My Noble Soul doth crave a bigger boone I must injoy that sacred Three in one 27. Your fading honour I esteem as dung Earth's weltering glory as the dirt in street I will not lodg one thought thereof among Those noble thoughts my Soul do dayly greet Base servile earth avaunt I 'l not enslave My thoughts with thee if I the world might have 28. Alas poor earth what 's all that thou canst give Or dost afford when sorrow greets the mind Wherein can an awakened conscience live What cordial in thy Store-house can it find Thou canst not give thereto one dram of peace 'T is not in thee to make distraction cease 29. Alas Alas thy glories are too mean Too mean an object for the Souls desire The Souls desire's vast and too extreme 'T is too extreme and heat with better fire Then

to be quencht then for to be contented What those poor shadows that by thee 's presented 30. Thy wealth what 's that a truss of meer deceit A bladder full of wind an empty joy A real nothing yet a glorious baite That doth beguil man of eternal joy And shall my noble Spirit then lay out Her precious thoughts such vanities about 31 No No my Soul 's immortal and must have Such wealth as is of an immortal being Such treasures as indure for aye I crave What do'nt I lightly prize and value seeing It cannot answer my Souls vast desire Allay nor coole the heat thereof the fire 32. Thy pleasures world thy Sense-besotting pleasures That so bewitch's men of tender years Conduce as much to joy as do thy treasures Unto contentment and to free from fears But this is that that most of ' th world do follow 'T is after pleasure that they hoop and hollow 33. 'T is pleasure that doth take the heart of youth 'T is pleasure his desires lead him to His hot veins swel and pleasure strait doth sooth His lively humours makes them act and go Pleasures doth lull most younglings fast asleep Makes them laugh now eternally to weep 34. O Young ones know Pleasure 's the Devils bait Wherewith he fishes for immortal souls In Pleasure he doth lodge a grand deceit And so most youthfull Nature he befools Your boiling blood do soonest close with pleasures Which of Gods wrath doth oft unlock the Treasures 35. Alas and what are pleasures to Gods Ire Pleasures are fading that doth Age endure Think ye can pleasures coole those flames of fire Or th' bitings of those hellish Scorpions Cure No your delightful pleasures then will sting ye As sure as now they unto Hell will bring ye 36. Pleasure 's a Ship that doth imbark for Hell All Passengers that are contain'd therein In endless flames they must be sure to dwell That do indulge and live and dye in sin They sweet and swiftly Sail and that doth tend Quickly to bring 'em to their Iourneys end 37. O stay thy course young man lower thy Sails Winde up thy Canvas Ty 't close to the Mast Being open spread the wind then most prevailes Oh therefore wind it up and ty 't up fast The affections are the Sailes the which the Gusts Of vain desires do fill full with wanton Lusts 38. The Mast I 'd have thee tie these Sailes about Is Solid reason and a judgment true Reason should guide th' affections thoroughou● And judgment should inordinacy subdue Reason is Mistris Governess will desire affection As hand-maids should attend her in subjection 39. But for to speak more properly unto thee Respecting what delights most tender years Preventing pleasures that they mayn't undo thee And so expose thee unto endlesse tears I say Religion yields as much delight As sinne can do persisted in aright 40. All pleasure rises from congruity And fitness ' t●een the faculty and object When there 's a natural propensity Needs must it be a●●ost delightful subject Guide then thy Soul by ●udgments solid Art What makes delight 's the ●●mper of the Heart 41. An earthly heart doth earthly things persue An heaven-born Spirit takes delight in heaven From a luxurious heart there doth ensue Luxuriousness of vertue quite bereaven An empty wanton heart filled with aire E'ry vaine object 's ready for to dare 42. And such a heart like an un-ballast'd Ship Is turned o'r with e'ry breath of wind As empty vessels under sail do skip That they within 'm nought but danger find So 's the immortal Spirit tost to and fro Hurried up and down where fancy wills to go 43. This matchlesse Gem this noble worthy Pee●e Continually of shipwrack is in danger Tost to and fro now there and sometime here Unto all safety a perpetual stranger So long as mov'd by the light wind of passion Subject to nothing but to alteration 44. Inestimable worth value unknown And past conceiving is the Soul of man A treasure Jewel that Jehove do●h own Term so and take delight in tell me then Should this same peereless Spirit serve an humour A besteal sordid lust it● 〈…〉 ngth consumer 45. The Soul 's a heaven-born virgin prostitute her Wilt thou to loathsome sin and so to Hell Ah! canst thou suffer Divells to deprive her Of state of glory with them for to dwell Must Shee her countrey and her kindred leave A cursed doome with Divels to receive 46. My heart doth ake to think of the abasement The Soul doth suffer while it traide with sin My Spirit sobs to view that foul defacement Of J'hoves bright glorious beauty 's seated in The Soul of man there ever to endure Consisting in an holy heart and pure 47. Ah wanton youth are earths vain worthless pleasures So dear unto thee that thou 't not them leave For feare of great Jehovahs direful treasures Nor yet a Crown of glory to receive Wilt thou sell life and glory for a toy For sordid pleasure barter heavenly joy 65. Ah canst thou be content to bed in flames In utter darkness to make thine abode Canst thou dwel there where nothing fury tames Eternally deprived of thy God Ah canst thou bear the burthen of Gods Ire When as that task shall never out expire 49. O youth remember thine immortal Soul And beare in mind what price was for it given Remember what can purge it being foule Consider what may bring it unto Heaven Gods onely Son had of it such esteem That with his death its life he did redeem 50. For Christs sake thou thy Souls Salvation prize Because his death did life unto it give Permit not pleasures to put out thy eyes But ronze thy sloth and up unto him live Live unto him whose death bought thy Salvation Die for his sake whose Life 's thy preservation 51. Oh die thou must or thou canst never live Die to thy self to thy hearts lusts and pleasures Die to all sinne or thou canst not receive Those glorious sweets that God to his out-measures Thy Souls redemption cost Christs utmost breath And its Salvation must be by sinns death 52. Thou must be buried with him into death Or thou canst not in life with him partake That sharp two edged cutting sword unsheath To cut down lusts that separation make 'Tween thee and him 'tween his Spirit and Thine That do thee ' gainst him unto ill incline 53. Know fleshly lusts do war against the Soul And seek its utter ruin and undoing 'T is thy souls safety Youth them to controul But thou art ever courting and a wooing Them with delight unto thee thy desires Do beak themselves at lusts base smoaky fires 54. My Soul doth groan for to behold the Courses That young ones take how they with full carere Seek their own ruin and as tender Nurses Do nourish cherish and redeem as dear That which deprives them of a dwelling place In Heaven to behold Gods glorious face 55. Luxurious youth a little

have given Himself to death to purchase for us heaven 40 But may this love be termed or a debt That 's to him due that suffer'd so much for us We are the purchase of his Blood and yet He craves our love when as he might abhor us He need not sue our hearts enough are his If that a debt by way of purchase is 41 About this matter let me reason with yee Were we not his we could not be our own His en by debt mistake me not I prethee He was our Help when we were helpless grown When we were lost why then he did us find When none regarded us he did us mind 42 When we were Captives bound unto the Devil And to partake with him in his sad doom Sold unto Sin and to each sordid evil For our Redemption then his Grace did come To satisfie for us God's flaming ire And save our Souls from everlasting fire 43 He drunk that Cup which else we must have drunk He felt for us what else we should have felt He plung'd those deeps wherein we should have sunk He bore that blow that justice to us dealt For Mankind's safety he his life laid down And by his Death did purchase him a Crown 44 Now doth he sue 't is but his own he sues for It is the purchase of his blood he craves Denial here is that the soul e'r rues for Who so complies thereto the same he saves Oh Virgins be ye solid be ye wise Undone for ever she 's his suit denies 45 Be circumspect look well to your behaviours Return him for his love true love again Who doth not Ingenuity not savours And must feel for it everlasting pain He'as over-bought our love who doth deny To give 't him therefore 's worthy aye to dye 46 Who doth accept his love he makes his Wife Whom he doth cloath with Roabs of brightest glory Fills with all joy and peace that 's free from strife Her state 's then such as Seraphims scarce can story The best of Sains cannot while here conceive it Oh may we ever faithfully believe it 47 His Grace doth sue that we 'd hold forth in carriage That him we prize and love and do adore That we would live as those that expect marriage With him that rules and reigns for evermore Most reasonable is this then let 's comply With mind and members let us instantly 48 Parallel this with 34. Oh! Virgin souls can ye less worthy judge him Than carnal Lovers that can gain respect At all hands from ye Oh! how can ye grudge him Those common favours and his love neglect Careful are ye to live as e'r before him And with your souls whole strength do ye adore him 49 This with the 35. Are ye e'r sober modest chaste and wise Respective in each gesture each behaviour All this you 'l be before your Suitors eyes Your words or actions may of no ill savour Solid you seem not garish in your looks No ill discourse your ear at that time brooks 50 Can ye do this for them less worthy deem him That as your Love so is your Lord and King Oh! can ye can ye lightlier esteem him Would ye far less respect unto him bring He eyes your carriages as well as they And thinks the same respect expect he may Staffe 37 51 Do you love those that are related to him Do you respect them as your Lovers kinne Think ye in love that your dear life ye owe him Spare ye for nought his favour for to winne All this for lower Lovers ye will do To th' God of life and glory won't ye so● 52 Your Lovers voyse is pleasant to your ear No burden is the precept he layes on you You joy as much to do 't as it to hear Dissent thereto in the least tittle won't you The God of life for this same thing doth woo And ye will not for him comply thereto 53 Ah must he be denied that which his Creature May gain and have with joy ful cheerful heart Expressed clear by many a lovely feature You will not stick nor with his Love won't part You will maintain that love on any terms Your souls with strong resolves themselves so arms 54 This prince of Light of Glory Wealth and Peace Doth crave no more than what you to these give From evil courses he would have you cease And then a life conformed to him live Tender his Precepts and obey his voyce Making his pleasure your selected choyce 55 He craves respect as lower Lovers have And then your hearts affection he doth sue for He gives true love and he true love doth crave Which for to do bid all the World adieu for This seems not harsh for persons whom ye love You 'll all forsake and with them you will move 56 Who so loves me give ear unto my voyce Saies this blest heir and note my precepts well To keep my Hests make evermore your choyce And ever with you then I 'll bide and dwell Then unto you shall my affections move To joy and be enjoy'd in mutual love 57. If you love me then keep you my Commands And you shall loved be by the most high Of me these were my Fathers strickt Demands And I obey'd his glorious Majesty Do thou obey and his love eke and mine Twisted together shall be both made ●hine 58. Which when ye do say then what is in Heaven That you desire or that your soul can crave Which at your earnest suit shall not be given And at my hands most freely ye can't have Enlarge your hearts and crave what e'r you will I ready am the same for to fulfill 59. Ask what you will and I 'll accord unto it For powers all in Heaven and Earth are mine Soul speak thy suit I won't refuse to do it My ear and heart shall thereunto incline Thou canst not ask what I can't to thee give Nor canst thou fail because I ever live 60 Soul if thou lov'st him then let these his words Be sweeter to thee than the honey dewes For whatsoever God or Heaven affords Of joy or peace then to thy Soul acrews Thou then shalt have him here and evermore Possess him after with all glorious store 61 Staffe 38. You suit you to the temper of your Love Are pleas'd and delighted with his pleasure What e're he wills you to you do approve And his deserts out by your love you measure Demean your selves to Jesus Christ but so You shame to say to this Proposal No. 62 But if you reckon upon life and blisse And that your Souls should scape e'●lasting fire Close with his love your safty else you misse And are frustrated in your hearts desire Shall he enjoy you that did never love you Nor with a Lovers suit did ever move you 63 Ah! Sure he sha'nt it is for love you marry 'T is mutual love that joyneth hearts together If you do'nt like the person you will tarry The case stands

thus 'tween us and Christ for either We must love prize esteem him above all Or ' ●is in vain him our lov'd Lord to call 64 He will not save that Soul that doth not love him Marriage can't be where persons don't affect Can he unite with them thatn're did move him Nor shew unto him any love Respect Life is not dear where love hath taken place How do we prize How do we ra●e his Grace 65 Make we no Conscience of a course of Sin Nor cool nor quench a soul or vain desire Yet do we think his favou● for to win And to be fill'd with that celestial fire That mutually doth joy and re-enjoy Those pleasures in him that can never cloy 66 Think we Gods Son will marry with a Whore Wi●l he that is the Heir of Earth and Heaven Abase himself so much as evermore To honour persons of all good bereaven No no such persons as indulge in sin He will not own if live and die therein 67 I appeal to young Men or to Virgins either Would they present her with true love that 's cōmon With every man The like to Virgins Whether Could ye love him that deals with every Woman Much less may any One expect to win Christs favovr that trades with delight in sin 68 Know whatsoe'r thou art that dost commerce Continually with sin that thou shalt never See or behold much less with have converse This glorious Bridgroome that doth live fot ever No know thou that he 's full of jealousie And cannot brook filthy Adultery 69 And whensoe'r thou hold'st commerce with sin Thou play'st the whore commit'st adultery Know whenso'r vain thoughts are lodged in Thy breast thou losest thy Virginity Sin doth pollute the heart 't is filthy foul It doth corrupt it doth defile the soul 70. You know that 't is abominable in nature To have a bed defil'd it moveth rage And stirreth up that fury in a creature That scarcely death and Divorce can asswage In noble persons 't is the greater sin Noble I mean that wronged are therein 71. Now 't is a King the everlasting King That is concern'd in thee O Virgin soul 'T is he whose worth the glorious Angels sing Whose nature doth abhor a deed that 's foul 'T is he no less person that thou wrongest Thou art his interest unto him belongest 72. They that defile his bed are worthy sure Of a Divorce and of perpetual pain Yea they shall be confined to endure Such horrors as for evermore remain Sin doth the soul divorce from God for ever Brings it to torment that expireth never 73. To sum up all then take the matter thus Virgins while Virgins strickt are and severe Because their lives are then perspicuous Unto all persons great respective care They have that they miscarry not in ought 'T is good behaviour makes them after sought 74. Their reputation lies in their behaviour 'T is that gains love and meriteth respect 'T is that continueth their loveds favour That may they therefore by no means neglect O Virgin souls remember all this carriage To Jesus Christ who proffers to you marriage 75. When Wives they are and in strickt wedlock bound Such carriage must they shape as best may please Their spoused Husbands good Wives never stound To give it to them as their spousal fees If thou art spoused unto Christ O soul Remember this each surgent I 'll controule 76. But as thou stand'st in hope to be his Bride Thou stricktly art injoyn'd to live up to him To love him heartily and none beside Conforming to his will doth strongly woo him In holy life answer his gracious love And he will thine repay won't from thee move 77. O Virgin soul triumph for to present His Majesty with love and heart entire Be sure let nothing frustrate thine intent In giving to him thy hearts strongest fire Love is a most delightful bed to lie in Loves flames are very pleasant for to fry in 78. But to continue my old method still My self expressing in a varied verse For th' Readers pleasure therefore now I will Put stop and what remains therein rehearse For both to th' outward and the inward man I 'll suit my self as pleasant as I can 1 NOw my self for to express then In a varied pleasant strain And speak those sweets I taste when Sin doth not my soul distrain O may my Song And Lungs be strong To tell what joyes there do remain 2 As a Virgin sworn to him Out of depth of true affection So am I and won't forego him Nor refuse his blest subjection Long may I still Maintain my will Obedient to his direction 3 I do my high glory count it To maintain a loyal heart Unto his Grace and think amount it Doth all treasuries and art My soul doth crave Still to behave Her self so she mayn't with him part 4 He 's my choice and I do prize him Above all the world can show me My Soul 's ravish'd when she eyes him And all things are then below me She never meets With such like sweets As she conceivs when he doth know me 5 As a Virgin may I ever My self humble chastily carry That displease him I may never That abide he may and tarry With me till th' time In th' glorious clime My worthless Soul doth with him marry 6 Ah! might I ever feel the power Of his soul-melting love That all sweet and no whit sower Ah then how then should I move With quick'ned pace I 'd keep no place Till in the Courts of great Jehove 7 O the sweets the joyes the pleasures That the soul doth taste and find O the honors glories treasures That are possessed by that mind That Christ doth love All things above Shewing not it self to him unkind 8 There 's no earthly sweet can gloss it Nor shade it forth in meanest hue There 's no Artist that can dose it Or dimention give it true No reason's blind And cannot find Wherewith to set it forth to view 9 May my Virgin-soul enjoy him He shall lodge between my breasts And that nothing may annoy him I 'll keep watch while he there rests He shall to me Most welcome be So long as in my Soul he guests 10 He knows my heart I 'd not displease him Willingly to stire his ire But when I do why then I lease him Yet then his patience I admire For when that I To him draw nigh With Grace he doth me re inspire 11 He 's my joy my crown my glory Such contentment he affords As an Angel's Pen can't story Far beyond all sense of words Him for to gain I fear no pain Nor care I for the edge of Swords 12 For What 's life to the enjoyment Of his ever-blessed-love The sweets of life oft prove a cloyment Oft a loathing I 'll not move I 'll take no pain Them for to gain Because they meer deceits do prove 13 But my joyes in love last ever When both light of Moon and Sun