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A42592	Gemitus de carcere Nantes, or, Prison-sighs and supports being a few broken scraps and crumbs of comfort lately fallen from the great kings table, the Holy Scriptures, into the prisoners basket : who being satisfied, let fall (through the grate) a few leavings for the hungry souls abroad, till God send more plenty.		1684 (1684)	Wing G482; ESTC R31724	15,019	19

Yet God himself will do it And if our hopes fail here and we dye in the Pit as one alate did that may not fail there 's a General Jaol delivery at hand And so 7ly and Lastly 't is an allay to Confinement to be assur'd the time is confin'd and set by him that bounds rage of Man and turns it to his praise 'T is a Title given to God with other attributes the Lord foreseeth Prisoners Psal 146. 7. So he did of old by Joseph and so to Peter Paul Silas and so to many in the Marian Days and some condemned to Death I mean not only at Death which is the final deliverance when the Pris'ners rest together they bear not the Voice of the Oppressors and the weary be at rest Job 3. 17 18. But in life oft God owns that Title For 'T is a part of Christ's Office by Prophesie to open the Prisons to them that are bound And to say to them come forth and feed Isai 42. 7. 49. 9. He also paid the Ransome after which 't is unjust with Men to hold them fast the Blood of the covenant is so valuable a price to God that it builds a strong hold of Hope to us our fleeing to 't is both safety and discharge Job 33. 24. I have found a Ransome my Son paid it says the Father and now go open the Doors and bring them out with gladness Besides Experience verifies the facts Joseph lay but untill his word came Psal 105. 19. Gods Word in the promise becomes ours in performance and that which tryed his Faith freed him at last Nor are Examples wanting how this is done in all Ages both Ordinary and wonderful whereof all storys are well fraught Sometimes the Rulers themselves that detain'd them unjustly release them on better advice more justly as Pharaoh did Joseph Darius did Daniel Breaking an unrepealable Persian Law to do it Dan. 6. 23 24. Because he trusted in 's God So they that earst had shut Paul up are glad precariously to perswade him out Acts 16. 37 39. as not able to justify that illegal confinement So was that Earthquake a wonderful mean of his discharge tho' under a double restraint ver 24-26 God will shake the foundations of the Prisons rather then suffer his Embassadors of Peace to be long shut up as Pris'ners of War Sometimes Prayers are drawn out at length to draw them out and so Peter was rescu'd by an Angel Acts 12. 5 10. And now and then the Angel knocks a Herod c. on the Head as with the Key ver 23. and so the word grows and multiplies being water'd both with the Blood of Martyrs and at last of Malicious Persecutors Some condemned to dye in flames were by Queen Marys Death free'd And if the time be ask't for one Psalm indigitates it when God appears in 's Glory to build Zion to hear the Prayer of the lowly and destitute and to look from 's Sanctuary on the Earth and hear the Groaning of the Pris'ners and lose the Sons of Death as it is in Psal 102. 13 15 27. 19 c. to 22 ver A Glorious Prophetick Psalm And tho' the time be prolong'd and some may drop as ripe Figs ere it 's accomplish't Yet by the encrease of the guilt of some and the Cryes of oppressed Souls at and under the Altar it cannot be long it 's seldom seen but violence to Sacred matters is aveng'd in the same Age 't is committed As the Eagles theft of flesh from the Altar carry'd alive coal thence that fired her nest young and all tho some Sinners are bore long with yet after Patience has suffer'd sufficient abuse Divine Wisdom Justice and goodness it self consult a time swiftly and speedily to repay recompences Joel 3. 4. Hab. 2. 7. Zac. 5. 1-4 c. And the delay makes a good expected long more Glorious Now if it be so if those be our just Groans and if they ascend on high and these our present allays for a fore taste of better hopes at the day of our full Redemption and Kingdom of our Lord let none grudge if we impart of our Prison scraps to many abroad that Hunger And say to any that own Humanity or Christianity For the Lord's sake remember the Pris'ners If not we chear our selves in the dark as singing Nightingales hoping day in this Gallicinium Corpus mens Oculus Conclusum Libera Laetus Est Fruitur Spectat Carcere Pace Palum The Body 's shut up the mind in Peace does lye The joyful Eye the Heavenly Pole does Spye FINIS An Hymn on Canticles 4. 8. Jesus from all Worldly Delights And Sufferings too his Spouse Invites 1 COme O my Spouse with me come home From Leb'non hast away With me from Lebanon now come From top of Amona From Shenirs Top and Hermon Hill From Dens of Lyons hast And from the Leopards fierce that still Thee on those Hills do wast 2 O come that word Attracts my heart Who will not hearken to 't For some must hear that word Depart Lord bring us to thy Foot To come with thee Lord I 'm content Wilt thou accept of me Tho' in the Lyons Dens I 'm pent Grant there thy Company 3 But can't my Lord be well content Without my Fellowship In pieces me tho' Lyons rent I 'le o're them Mountains skip Lord stay for these Ascents are hard From Leb'nons Sweet Delight Lead me along and be my guard When Lyons me affright And when these Mountains I have past In thy Sweet Company To th' Hill of Spices me at last Conduct to be with thee The Phoenix a Prison-Hymn LOrd here I sit alone My Liberty is gone My Ministry's resign'd to thee Grant Sweet Communion I once did others Water Whom thou now let'st men scatter O Fountain free now water me By what shall flow from thee My Testimony turn Tho' this the fire do burn Unto thy praise and after raise A Phoenix from its Urn. As Birds that lonesome sit Or Joseph in the Pit Or ev'n as when the Pellican To Wilderness takes flight So Lord I to thee sly To have good company Be thou my one companion For I 'm content with thee And when my days are spent That here thou hast me lent Now take me up with thee to Sup Where my Forerunner went An Hymn on Canticles 2. 14. I' th Clefts o' th' Rock apart from Noise Christ longs to hear his Doves sweet Voice 1 OH thou my Dove for secrecy In Clefts of Rock Retires In Secret Stairs that hid dost lye Lo this thy Spouse desires Come forth let me thy Count'nance see Fain hear thy Voice wou'd I For sweet thy Voice is still to me And Countenance comely 2. No Secret Staires no Clefts at all VVherein Christ's Spouse does dwell From Christ can hide No Den nor VVall Nor yet the Belly of Hell But even there our Cryes he hears And counts our face most sweet Tho' most bedew'd with Briny Tears And prostrate at his Feet 3. But Lord whence flows this Love and Grace How much to be admir'd That thou so long'st to see our face VVhy is our Voice Desir'd A place there in our Rock now is VVhere Christ his Flock does hide The cause of his desire is this And here we safe Abide But Lord hast thou so great Delight In our Imperfect grace What Joys shall we have in thy sight When we shall see thy face FINIS

that length yet either the Duration or Iteration of this Cross or some Adjunct annext 〈◊〉 Exile and Captive too so Isaiah 51. 14. or want or closeness or else Sickness joyn'd Mat. 25. 43. or as Vagrant as in Isaiah 49. 21. 〈◊〉 any of them far more if all be conjoyn'd add weight So Temptation Desertion Dejection Conjoint do make a Prison as a dark Dungeon to be shut up so that bitter Complaint Suits it of He●●●n though a wise Soul I 'm shut up that I cannot come forth Psal 88. 6 8. this twists the bands double and treble the wreath'd Irons are sharpest the wrath of man alone is hot enough of God hotter both United intollerable no getting forth till he that binds loosen and say to the Prisoners come 〈…〉 again One at Liberty is sad Fetter'd thus but one so in Prison is now 〈…〉 Pit like Jeremys full of mire or Joseph in which is no Water 37. 24. as theirs in Babylon was no Water of Comfort though 〈…〉 of Gall and Affliction Oh how pining and dismal like looks 〈…〉 Prisoner now If the Light of Gods face makes a Prison a Palace 〈…〉 to want it now is to be in a Hell on this side Hell and 't is the 〈…〉 Misery therein once to have been happy 〈…〉 one Groan more as to this and a sad one The Devil he casts 〈…〉 Substitutes the Saints some of them and would do all into Prison 〈…〉 2. 10. so does he Labourers to set up Loyte●ers hinder the Gospel 〈…〉 ruine Souls says he Oh these Ring-leaders of Faction disturb the 〈…〉 of my Kingdom rob me of my Vassals cast me out of my Possessi 〈…〉 long held by Prescription I hate the Micaiahs they never speak good 〈…〉 me or my Laws but Evil So he rais'd envy oft in the devout against both the first and best of Preachers in all ages 'T is well to be ●oted that Apoc. 2 10. is Usher'd in with a behold to note when Saints are shut up all should mind well the Instruments of some's Commitment For though the intermediate cause was Man Dioclesian yet 't was 〈◊〉 Devil sat on the bench or as the Greek is Apoc. 2. 13. on the Throne ●●●ce he Emits Vassals dissolves Assemblies sends out Judas like In●mers or Sycophants convicts without Oath confines without Law ●shes without Fault and condemns without Justice for where he dwells there can be no worse Neighbour And the purer they be the ●●rse is his Enmity to them To say the Devil dwells in Russia Rome or China is sad enough but that he dwells at Britain or London where Christ and the Gospel have Obtained is far sadder That Satan should put his Mantle on Samuels shoulders was Serpentine Craft because it decely'd a King but to lay his Cloven Foot on the Throne of God and abuse the Scepter of Kings invading the place of the Holy to pervert Judgment and punish the Pious Causes far deeper Sighs Let none Judge our Sighs mixt with bitterness or undue Reflections for as good as Peter was Satan was too hard for him and if he insinuated into the Prince of the Apostles as some call ' im who is Exempt from his Pythonology How many Countreys Christian by Profession does he pervert to a Scarlet Inquisition ●● And last Sigh turns to a Supplication Not to Man for a Release 〈◊〉 to God for Relief Sighs Issue well that drop so in Gods Ear were it possible to read without the Walls what Petitions drop on the inside they would be found to be these or the like ●ord that thy Kingdom might come in Power over the Nations and 〈…〉 that the Prisoners in the Pit might be Visited as Isaiah 24. 3 last 〈…〉 That the Lord will appear in 's Glory to build up Zion to hear the Prayer of the low Shrubs and the Groaning of the Prisoners and deliver the Sons of Death that the Prophesies may be Fulfilled that Relate to the latter day Glory and the Captive Exile may ●asten out of the pit and in the mean time their bread mayn't fail Isaiah 52. 14. That Judgment and Righteousness might be in the Earth for the poor and opprest Psal 72. 6. 13. that wrong doers may be brought to account that just Law● may be Impartially Executed and unjust Null'd and the Gospel may be further'd by Satans hindring of its Preachers that the Sabbath may not be forgot nor Assemblies of Saints for ever scattered but the Days of our Dispersion may be Finished that the Reproach of the solemn Meetings may be wiped off and the Rebuke of his Folk took out of the Earth that the Lambs now scattered may be gather'd in a Cloudy and Dark day and the great Shepherds presence amongst them that the Children cries may be heard in the streets seeking meat with tears in the Eyes and hungry Hearts Saying Oh who 'll give us Bread to Relieve our Souls Look what Sighs the Famine of Bread Forces from the Hungry in a time of Natural Drought such nay far more dolorous are extort from Souls pluckt off the Breasts of Scripture Consolation and Tempted to eat poluted or poisoned bread and sit at the Table of Devils these the least of them often Itterated and Inlarged may be found writ on our Prison walls and with them much Incense added to our how-longs and are gone up in the Ears of the Lord God of Zabbaoth and will surely Obtain both Vengeance on some and Recompence on others Now by these hints may be guest what work is on Foot in the house of our Prison and for our Hopes and Supports they may deserve a second part We Conclude the first part thus Clamitat in Caelum vox sanguinis Sodomorum Vox oppressorum merces detenta Laborum Bloodshed with Sodomy ' ●d oppression 〈◊〉 And Laborers hire detain'd to God on high The Second Part. AS this World allows us no comfort without Crosses mixt so God never inflicts Crosses on his but Crowns them with Consolations not a few so Preponderating one by the other that 't is better to enjoy them both then to be exempted of the Cross wholly Nor is Liberty tho' in it self very sweet when a snare and Terror attends it so desirable or Bonds so heavy but God can and frequently does make the latter Evil more Eligible then the former good by the adjunct of his own comforting Presence Now that which makes Bonds easy and Prisons sweet is this when a Man can appeal to God and the World perhaps to some of his Enemies Consciences that he Suffers not as an Evil doer or Criminal So Daniel was faultless before both the King and all his Accusers 〈◊〉 in the Law and matters of his God Dan 6. 5 14 22. And so the 〈◊〉 freely Confest Christ had done nothing amiss Gr. _____ Luk. 23. 41. nil inconveniens nothing awry absurd or out of place and Jeremy was vindicated by the Princes against those Malitious Priests that sought his Blood since he