thô God's dear Son Luk. 24. v. 26. Could not in glory be But by pains undergon And dying on the Tree His Saints sought their Salvation The self-same way Ps 33. v. 20. as best And by much Tribulation They ent'red into rest And he who 'l glorious be Rom. 8. v. 17. With Christ must suffer here From Hell pains if be free He must not Pennance fear Math. 7. v. 13.14 Narrow is Heav'ns way Broad is the way to Hell Few love in that to stay In this do many dwell Lib. Since all you say is true As Scriptures testify 1. Pet. 2. v. 11. Pleasures I bid Adieu In Pennance I will dy Rom 8. v. 13. Ps 118. v. 59 Rom. 8. v. 13. No longer Liberty Let that curst name be gone I will your Convert be Blest Mortification A DIALOGUE BETWIXT HOPE AND DESPAIR OR HOPE CONVERTING A DESPAIRING MAN Althô he should kill me I will trust in him Job 13. v. 13. Hope WHat fruitless sighs and sobs are these Which Eccho in my ear Distrustfull thoughts do never please Hope must be joyn'd with Fear That tears to Soul may fruitfull be And sorrow comfort bring These joyn'd with love of God do free The Conscience of guilt's sting Desp 'T is I poor Soul who sigh weep To think what joys are past Wisd 17. v. 10. What frights do now possess my sleep In Hell strait to be cast The good I 've lost the ill I 've gaind Do sore perplex my mind How I my Soul with Sin have stain'd That I no joy can find When once I liv'd in Conscience clear And service of my God 1. Io. 4. v. 18. Love had secur'd my heart from fear Of his chastizing Rod. All creatures me afforded joy God's praises I did sing My Flesh my Spirit did obey My Soul my heavenly King Curst Satan 1. Pet. 5. v. 8. envy'ng my good hap With his sought my downfall My careless Soul he did intrap And brought it in Sin 's thrall Now all things that I see Wisd 17. v 9. or hear Add sorrow to my grief My Sins in Conscience still appear And I despair relief Rom. 7. v. 23. Gal. 5. v. 17. For now my senses all rebell And war against my Soul God's grace my help I base did sell For Sin How to controul Or them restrain I do not know They Reason do so blind They't pleasure bring her to their bow And thus corrupt the mind Hope Poor Soul consid'ring your sad state Ps 41. v. 4. You reason have to weep To sigh and to lament your fate With grief of heart most deep For on the Earth no state 's so bad Ps 5. v. 7. Ps 10. v. 7. As that of sinfull heart Which once God's grace and favour had And from it did depart Ps 44. v. 3. Eccl. 12. v. 7. Eph. 2. v. 8. Tit. 3. v 7. Rom 6. v. 23. Ps 93. v. 19. Mat. 8. v. 12. Eccli 39. v 35.36 Grace keeps Man's Soul in God's true Love By Sin God him doth hate By Grace he 's heir to joys above By Sin in damned state While he 's in grace God doth him greet With heav'nly consolation In Sin with Hell's food he doth meet Sad grief and desolation What grief hath Father child to leave Who loves him tenderly Who can the Mother's grief conceive Who sees her children dy For loving friends to part for ever Is grief beyond expression Exil'd from all to come back never How sad in this condition For loving Man and Wife to part Is little less than Death Of all griefs Eccli 41. v. 1. this destroys the heart Our life's expiring breath All these are griefs in high degree Yet joyn them all in one Equall they can't the misery That 's found in sin alone For God who bears all Titles dear Of pleasure and of Love From soul is separated here By sin Isai 59. v. 2. Mat. 25. v. 29. Ezech. 16. v. 27. Mat. 12. v. 45. and doth remove All 's Blessings from her and doth give Possession to the Devill Where Tyrannizing he doth live Enslaving her in evill The forenam'd sorrows have release By time and do expire Wisd 17. v. 10. The Conscience-grief doth still increase Till it brings to Hell-fire Where it's nêre dying worm doth feed On th' soul Isai 66. v. 24. Wisd 5. v. 3. to think what 's lost Which vain remorse doth in it breed To think how dear sin cost Desp What you have said I own for Truth Bêing sensible in soul Of much Had I took care in youth I had preserv'd it whole Man's frailty once I would not own But scorn'd those were in sin And thus by Pride Ps 1â—7 v. 67. was overthrown Same state I now live in Hop Thô God in you hath punish't Pride Ps 118. v. 71. And left you without grace That falling humble you abide With shame 's blush in your face Ps 31. v. 10. Yet by no means you must despair But on his Mercies call Which in your God transcending are Man's Refuge after fall How many sinners found relief In Heaven now are Saints When they for sin mixt tears with grief God heard their dolefull plaints And he hath promis't Isai 1. v. 8. Ezech. 33. v. 14 16. he 'l receive Sinners at their return If they their sinfull course will leave In Hell they shall not burn Des Cain he was sorry yet was curst Gen. 4. v. 1â— Mat. 27. v. 5. And Judas hang'd himself Of greatest sinners I 'm the worst Poor weak a graceless Elf Mine's greater then the sin of Cain Christ had not shed his bloud Wisd 16. v. 29. I more ungratefull here remain Than Cain pay'ng ill for good I Mat. 26. v. 15. Judas-like who 's Lord did sell And still his grace abus'd When Christ by grace in me would dwell I basely him refus'd Io. 8. v. 44. Adjoyn'd his Enemy in fight ' Gainst him and thus ungratefull His pretious Blood and death did slight A sin of all most hatefull Hop Enough Despair no more of this Men plung'd as deep in sin And as ungratefull did not miss But oft have pardon'd been If Cain and Judas did lament And yet grace did not find They did not truly sin repent And were not right in mind Cain seemed sad yet we do'nt read Because he had don ill Or did repent that wicked deed Gen. 4. v. 14. But fear'd men would him kill Judas repented what was don Yet wanted Mercy 's hope And Faith in Christ Mat. 27. v. 3. God's only son So hanged in a rope 2. King 11. v. 4. v. 15.24 1. King 16. v. 1.12 Io 21. v. 17. Mat. 26. v. 74. Io. 19. v. 34. David Adult'ry did commit And murder after he Was chose by God in Throne to sit Prophet and King to be Peter of all made chief when try'd His Master did forswear With spear Longinus pierc't Christ's
grace abide And glory at our death do win Let 's all praise Christ by joynt consents Who purchast us these Sacraments Amen THE TWO TABLES AFTER SHIPWRACK BAPTISM AND PENNANCE Baptize in the Name of the Father Math. 28. v. 19. Great ships which seem to dare the seas Are oft stav'd on a Rock Which carefull Pilot might with ease Have sav'd from fatal knock If he Land mark or Beacon had With care kept in his eye In storms and tempests ere so bad He might have steered by But now alas it is too late The Ship is broke and all The goods are lost O dolefull fate That often doth befall The Negligent Now all his care Must be his life to save Since Ship is lost and all its ware Lest Sea should prove his grave And to do this he finds small hope No other ship is nigh To lend him boat or cast him rope To save his life therby Till laying hold of plank or table He passes through the waves At length finds footing firm and stable Whereby his life he saves A stately ship God once did place On this World 's dangerous waves This fraighted was with holy grace Which here from shipwack saves This ship was Man the Pilot soul â—en 4 v. 〈◊〉 Eccli 5. v. 17. His Guide was reason's light His will had power to controul And make him steer aright The crafty Pirat who did see That Man would sail secure Untill this Light extinguih't be The same did strait procure Gen. 3. v. 4. With lies he tempts and doth prevail The right way not to steer Poor man believes secure doth sail The Rock he doth not fear Gen. 2. v. 17. This Rock was the forbidden Tree Which he was not to touch If so death's prize he was to be God's Pact with him was such Gen. 3. v. 6. The devill tempts with Eve his wife He eats and fears no blame Thus sense depriv'd his soul of life And we partake the same Gen. 3. v. 15. c. 22. v. 18. Ps 131. v. 11. Math 27. v. 26. For all were lost and still had been Had not God in his love Promis'd Redemption from this sin And all guilt to remove Christ by his death did this fulfill And Sacraments ordain As helps for us to do his will And favours here obtain Of these Baptism and Pennance are Those which we Tables call Ordain'd our losses to repair And save us after fall Rom. 5. v. 12. Gen. 3. v. 19. The first shipwrack that Men sustain'd Was by Origînall Sin From this by death Christ them regain'd Or else all damn'd had been Thô Christ from pains of Hell did save Rom. 5. v. 8 9.10 Io 3. v. 5. By shedding of his Bloud Yet joys of Heav'n no one shall have But by Baptismall floud This Christ ordain'd that so his merit Math. 8. v. 19. Might be to Man apply'd And that he now new born in spirit Might in his grace abide Hence t is that Children christ'ned be Christ dy'd for all 2. Cor. 5. v. 16. Marc. 10. v. 14. who saith The little ones let come to me Althô they have not faith The Parents faith may here suffice As well as Parents fall Did cast them out of Paradise And purchast Hell withall When Christ'ning Font cannot be had Desire and Love supply Or else some Saints case had been bad Who did without it dy Of Baptism sev'rall sorts there be Water Love's Fire and Blood If th' first to have man is not free The other are as good The fruits of this great Sacrament Tit. 3. v. 3. Are Justifying grace The sin which we have by descent That doth our soul deface And actûall are remitted but Act. 2. v. 38. Io. 3. v. 5 Marc. 16. v. 16. Here grief is still requir'd Heav'n gates are op'ned which were shut Where 's all can be desir'd After this Sacrament receav'd Esay 59. v. 2. Who in great sin doth fall His soul of this grace hath bereav'd Rom. 6. v. 25. And purchast Hell withall This second shipwrack we do name From which the soul to save Hebr. 6. v. 4.5.6 No one can twice baptize the same What help then can he have Our mercifull Redeemer hath Left us a second Table Which joyned with a perfect Faith Grace to restore is able This Sacrament of Pennance is The soul's security Which if the soul doth willing miss It 's lost eternally THE SECOND PART OF PENNANCE Whose sins you remit they are remitted Jo. 2â— v. 23. CHrist Math. 9. v. 13. who came sinners frail to save As we read in Saint John Io. 20. v. 23. Absolving Pow'r in his Church gave And this to Priest alone Ibid. Whose sins on Earth you do remit And whose you do retain The first in Heav'n I also quit The other shall remain We sin in thought in word or deed All sin comes from these three Three ways to satisfy there 's need That sin remitted be So Pennance that 's the Sacrament Contains a triple part Confess the fault I am 5. v. 16. Math. 5. v. 25. the wrong'd content With sorrow from the heart 2. Cor. v. 10. These three when as they perfect be And joyn'd with Absolution As Sacrament impart to thee Of grace a distribution Where God is reconcil'd again To thee in perfect love From Hell thou' rt freed and dost remain God's Heir to Heav'n above Let no one here this doubt admit Suggested by his foe How can this Pennance small acquit Of sin when all men Know Sin doth deserve Eternall pains And what proportion's this Pennance is but while life remains And that for ever is It 's true Math. 5. v. 27. God's Justice seeks severe Proportion to the debt And these two equall ballanc't were Ps 84. v. 11. When Mercy Justice met That was when Christ Man to regain Upon the Cross did dy This Sacrament he did ordain His merits to apply To sinfull soul that 's gone astray And Baptism doth the same Let none deny then but man may Remit sin in Christ's name Iohn 20. v. 23. If you believe Christ's God and Man Believe he cannot ly And by this Sacrament he can His Justice satisfy And thô Christ's merits did supply Our inability Think not because he once did dy You are so quit and free Luk. 13. v. 3. Rom. 2. v. 6. That you may Pennance now neglect And good works set apart As thô our saviour would protect A wicked sinfull heart No Christ will not encourage Sin Ps 44. v. 8. Heb. 1. v. 9. Which odious is to God Be sure if you do fall therein You 'l feel his scourging rod. Luk. 13. v. 3. Except in heart you do repent And as Christ hath ordain'd Make use of Pennance Sacrament Where pardon is obtain'd First see that you true sorrow have For sins you have committed Your soul you can't without this save Nor of sin be acquitted To have this
greif consider well Rom. 6. v. 23. What fruit by sin you gain With loss of Heav'n you purchase Hell And devil's slave remain For what is sin but à privation Of your act 's rectitude Contempt of God and your salvation And all ill doth intrude Your soul 's possessed by the devill Where he doth rule and reign Compelling it to what is evill This is a sinners gain This well consider'd must needs move 1. Iohn 3. v. 8. Your soul sin to repent But chiefly loss of your God's love In heart you must lament This most of all let soul resent Isay 59. v 2. Ier. 17. v. 13. Osee 4. v. 12. That God is from her parted Who is her Center of content Because she prov'd false hearted Here let your soul grieve bitterly With sorrow from the heart Hence forth resolve you 'l rather dy Than from your Lord depart If he 'l be reconcil'd again Zach. 1. v 3. Isai 1. v. 18. Such sorrow will him win To come to you and there remain Remitting all past sin Next Act. 19. v. 18. all the sins you do recall To mind you must confess Their nature circumstance and all What 's doubtfull still express If you conceal but one great sin Or what much aggravates Act. 5. v. 4. A greater evill you fall in Such sacriledge God hates It maketh void your whole Confession And no sin there is quitted When Priest absolves but new trangression And mortall sin 's committed And all sins after while you live Thô you confess them plain And Priest doth Absolution give Unpardon'd still remain For till the first sin be confess 't That once you did conceal God pardons none of all the rest Be sure then it reveal With all which you since that committed How oft' confess 't receiv'd That sacriledge may be remitted And Conscience be reliev'd When you to Priest your sins confess Let neither shame or fear You hinder but still truth express And make Confession clear Fear not the Priest will them disclose For he is sure of this If ever he discovers those His soul condemned is Thirdly this Sacrament requires You satisfy for wrongs And this as Priest of you desires To Pennance this belongs Exod. 22. v 1 Luk. 19. v. 8. Your neighbour satisfaction make Restoring what 's his due And ask his pardon for God's sake That God may pardon you To God your satisfaction is Ps 50. v. 19. A contrite humble heart To mend what you have don amiss No more from him to part By sinfull thought Esay 59. v. 2. by word or deed Be sure you this intend Math. 10. v. 22. Pray him to help in time of need Persever to the end Thô all this cannot strait be done Yet really resolve This to perform when you are gone That Priest may you absolve Thus Sacrament works it's effect Io. 20. v. 23. Which is your sins Remission And grace of God which will direct To mend your life's condition Be sure avoid this great abuse Which I fear some fall in To make this sacramentall use An instrument to sin Because Christ left this help for all Who truely do repent They little care how oft they fall And lost grace less resent For Who presumes to sin because He may here find salvation Directly runs into the jaws Of Hell to his damnation For to confess thus without doubt He never is absolv'd Till he doth also cast this out And better is resolv'd This Sacrament was not ordain'd T'embolden you in sin But that when grace is here regain'd You may abide therein Luk 7. v. 38. With Magdalen past sins lament And follow Christ your Lord Thus you will find true hearts content When Christ and you accord All praise and glory to Christ's Name Mark 2. v. 10.11 Who sin did here remit As Man and to men gave the same Full power to acquit As Father me to Earth did send Iohn 20. v. 21. I also do send you Absolve poor Sinners to this end That they good life renew Amen THE SACRAMENT OF LOVE OR THE SACRAMENT OF SACRAMENTS This is my Body This is my Bloud Math. 26. v. 26.28 MOsaick Sacraments Adieu To this you must resign the place You were but Figures Hebr. 10. v. 1. here 's the true Fountain and source of heav'nly grace Io. 6. v. 49.51 You did prefigure what is here True God and Man our JESUS dear Not oxen Levit. 1. v. 2. c. 7. v. 9. Gal. 2. v. 19. c. 5. v. 2. sheep nor calves or bread Are off'red here as in that Law Those types and figures now are dead Aaron like sacrifice nêre saw True God and Man 's our Sacrifice And here upon our Altar lies He 's Sacrifice Hebr. 9. v. 28. Hebr. 9. v. 12.14 and Sacrament And first did offer-Sacrifice The Priest by his Commandement The Consecrating Words applies By death he sacrific'd on th' Cross It 's offred here without life's loss Io. 1. v. 14. God's son for Man's sake did descend From Heav'n took flesh and man became And practis'd virtue to this end Io. 13. v. 15. Math. 16. v. 24. Luk 9. v. 23. That Man might learn to do the same If you will my Disciple be Deny your self follow me Io. 19. v. 28. And when the scriptures were fulfill'd And what of him was writ compleated Thô innocent the Jews him kill'd Whom they before had vilely treated His Love nail'd him unto the Cross Man to redeem and his great loss He dy'd but once yet still doth dy Revel 13. v. 8. And shall as long as world doth last As to th' effect not really His suff'ring state is gon Rom. 6. v. 9. and past That memory of this remain A Sacrifice he did ordain In the last Supper he did make With his Disciples he took seat And Blessing Bread and Wine said Math. 26. v. 26.28 Take This is my Body which you eat This is my Bloud Luk 22. v. 19. do you the same As a Memoriall in my Name Thus Phaenix-like he still revives Thô for our sins he once was dead Like Pelican to save our lives Io. 6. v. 55.58 His children with his flesh he fed What Mother ever did in stead Of Milk with her bloud children feed Here did he perfectly fulfill What Salomon of him did write The sons of men who do my will Prov. 8. v. 31. To be with them is my delight Whom by my Death I did revive With my own flesh I keep alive And this I do that they may be Rais'd up from their poor humble state 2. Petr. 1. v. 4. And that they may be one with me By perfect love and sin's true hate Io. 6. v. 56. Who eats my Flesh abides in me And to him I 'le united be Mercy and Love did me incline To leave my Father's glorious Throne That I might Man's frail Nature joyn To my divine and make them
proper Judgment and self-will ' Gainst God do oft rebell And are the Authors of all ill And plunge the Soul in Hell Saint Austin saith that nothing burns In Hell but Man's self-will Who this denies and humbly learns His Master 's to fullfill By his Obedience is secure Where no Sin is intended Colos 3. v. 24. And of Rewards from God is sure When this short life is ended But who Superiours disobey And slight their just desires Will be condemn'd Colos 3. v. 25. in th'latter day Unto Eternall fires Rom. 13. v. 1. For as all Power is from God So those who it resist v. 2. Shall surely feel his scourging Rod If they in it persist The World would in confusion be Without state-government The like in Church you soon would see If Laws did not prevent Except on Earth men had a Law To govern them thereby Of no one they would stand in aâ—â— But set up Anarchy What is the cause of Heresy Eccli 10. v. 14. But disobedient Pride Men will not on the Church rely Iud. 1. v. 18. But take themselves for Guide And thus they into errours run And stubbornly defend The Heresy they have begun Mat. 1â— v. 17. Untill they are condemn'd Rebellion also is a Child Of disobedient Heart Those men who are with this defil'd From God's just Law depart ' Gainst God and Man they do rebell Whom God doth reprobate Thus headlong they run on to Hell Repenting when too late Hence Murders Rapes hence Fire and sword This lays all desolate This brings to slight God and his Word New Doctrins to create Rev. 12. v. 7. v. 9. As Lucifer rebelling fought And into Hell was cast So those who have Rebellion taught Will perish at the last Exod. 20. v. 12. Long life is promis't unto those Who Parents do obey But death their eyes shall sooner close Who do not duty pay Where Father blesseth Eccli 13. v. 11. without doubt God blessing doth bestow v. 11. When Mothers Curses do root out Whole Families we know Here we do see the sad effects Of this unnat'rall Vice The stubborn Heart God nêre directs Take then Saint Paul's advice Rom. 13. v. 5. To higher Powers subject be And this for Conscience sake Thus from God's Curse you will be free And happy end will make For since all sinfull acts proceed From disobedient will Deny your will and you 'l be freed From Sin and God's fullfill Hence that our own wills we submit The Scriptures do advise 1. King 15. v. 22. Affirming that the same to quit Excells our Sacrifice By word and deed Luk. 2. v. 51. Christ taught the same His Mother still obeying And to Saint Joseph bearing name Of Father duty paying I came not here Iob. 6. v. 38. by Father sent To seek and do my will But mine while here is always bent His pleasure to fullfill Christ full of grief in bloudy sweat Math. 26. v. 44. Desirous to be quit Three times his Prayer did repeat Yet always did submit Father not mine Luk. 22. v. 42. but thy blest will Be now and ever don To imitate be ready still This most obedient son Since Christ as Man would subject be And his own will deny Thô it were good much less ought we On self-will to rely Gen. â— v. 21. For since our will to Sin is prone And from the Truth to slide It 's dangerous to act alone Much safer with a Guide We read that Abrâm to fullfill God's pleasure and command Gen. 22. v. 10. Was ready on the Mount to kill His son with his own hand This so pleas'd God above the rest He promis'd v. 18. in his seed All Generations should be blest By Christ from Devill freed God doth esteem Free-wills submission Above all Sacrifice Conjoyned with the Hearts Contrition For from the Heart arise All human actions then give this And you give all you have And you can never do amiss But Soul at Death will save Except to God you give your Will No Sacrifice is gratefull Thô you should fast and pray yet still Your Works are to him hatefull The People pleaded they had fasted Esai 58. v. 3. The Prophet answer'd well Your self-Will with your Fast still lasted Which brings the Soul to Hell Let all men be while here they live Obedient to Superious And also never let them give Rom. 12. v. 10. Affront to their Inferiours Thus Pride of Heart will be subdu'd And self-Will overthrown The Soul with grace will be indu'd And made with God all one Dear JESUS Phil. 2. v. 8. since Obedience laid Thee dead upon the Tree And thus for Disobedience paid We humbly beg of Thee Math. 16. v. 24. Luk 9. v. v. 23. That we may be obedient still And our own will deny Conforming to thy blessed will That we may never dy Amen OF POVERTY AND THE CONTRARY Blessed are you poor for yours is the Kingdom of God Luke 6. v. 20. IF Cicero the Eloquent Or Aristotle that great Wit Had taught or Angel hither sent In golden letters had this writ The Poor are blest they 'd not have gain'd Disciples but alone remain'd For since Dame Nature this doth teach To lay up for a Winters day It had been vain for them to preach The contrary or to gainsay The Emmets Prov. 6. v. 6.8 who in summer hide Corn and for Winter do provide And since God's greatest friends on Earth With riches were by him rewarded This Doctrine had dy'd in its birth And never would have been recorded Than Rich the Poor more happy are Such new Divines men would beware Iob. 1. v. 3. Gen 12. v. 7. c. 22. v. 17. Was not just Job with riches fraught And Abrâm promis't Chanaan's Land The Israëlites from want were brought Through Desart by God's mighty hand And to a rich Land Iosue 3. v. 17. which did flow With Milk and Honey they did go While Adam's Sin had men enslav'd And light of Reason had so blinded Eph. 4 v. 18.19 That they like Beasts themselves behav'd And future joys but little minded They follow'd what did please the sense And little thought of going hence Or that they had à Soul to save Denying th'Immortality Thereof but when Flesh to the Grave Did go the Soul did also dy This made them seek their Heaven here And nothing more than Want to fear And our good God did so comply With human frailty Man lay in That he did not immediatly Command Perfection but from Sin To keep Levit. 20. v. 22.24 and in his fear to live And he would temp'rall Blessings give Io. 1. v. 14. But when the Plenitude of Grace God's Son from Heaven did descend What did before seem vile and base He took upon him to this end That we might still convinced be What World esteems is Vanity He Flesh would take of poorest Mother In
Sara to expell Pray'r's good v. 8. said Raph'ël When 't conjoyns Fasting and Alms it Mercy finds Elias pray'd it might not rain 3. king 17. v. 1. c. 18. v. 45. And no rain did for three years fall He pray'd that it might rain again Sweet showr's fell down reviving all By Pray'r the Heav'ns did ope and shut As thô all pow'r in Pray'r were put Stout Josue's victorious hand Fighting he fear'd th' approaching night Iosue 10. v. 12.13 By Pray'r commands the Sun to stand It stood and gave him more day-light No wonder Creatures Pray'r obey Since the Creatour it did sway The Jews in Desart of 't rebell'd And God to Anger did provoke But Moyse's Pray'r his hands fast held From giving the Revenging stroke Permit my Anger God did say Exod. 32. v. 10.11 Which is restrain'd while thou dost pray Behold the force of fervent Prayer Attended with due circumstance All losses past it doth repair The Soul in grace it doth advance Untill by Love she doth God joyn 1. Io. 4. v. 16. And thus in him become divine In all temptations still be sure To use this Buckler of Defence As Bull-work this will you secure From Dev'ls and your great God's offence Lest in temptation you should fall Mat. 26. v. 41. By Pray'r upon your Father call And as the Dev'l doth go about Still watching whom he may devour 1. Pet. 5. v. 8. So saith S. Paul still pray devout That God will free you from his power 1. Tessal 5. v. 17. He doth not mean that you shall be Always in Pray'r upon your knee All men may follow their Vocation As he declares 1. Cor. 7. v. 20. but then be sure You have in it communication With God by word and thought most pure Colos 3. v. 17. Do what you do in the Lords Name Then this with Pray'r will be the same Thus who 's at work or in the Quire Will still be praying in effect Off'ring their hearts with pure desire To God that he may them protect Thus they 'l remain without all fear Of Satans snares while they live here And at their Deaths they 'l surely find God present helping in that hour If they by Pray'r will him remind He will protect them by his power And take their Soul still to remain In joys By Pray'r this you obtain Amen OUR FATHER When you pray pray thus Our Father Math. 6. v. 10. WHen God came down our Flesh to take Io. 3. v. 17. Mat. 11. v. 29. Two reasons mov'd him thereunto That he might dy for poor Man's sake And also teach him what to do For Men by Sin were grown so blind That Virtues path they could not find Christ did not then as formerly Command men this and that to do Threatning if not Exod. 21 v. 12.16.17 Act. 1. v. 1. they sure should dy In Virtues path he first did go Christ by Example first did teach And then he did begin to preach This is the best of ways in teaching When deeds the words associate It far excells all other preaching And brings a man to imitate Luk 6. v. 12. Christ day and night did often pray And afterwards taught us the way Son Eccli 18. v. 23. saith the Wise before you pray Prepare your heart tempt not the Lord All worldly cares cast clear away Let tongue and mind in Pray'r accord With revêrence still your Pray'r begin v. 23. Lest that it should be turn'd to sin The like Christ teacheth in this Pray'r By Preface which doth us remind Our thoughts to Heaven must repair If any favour we will find These words do also chear the heart Our Father which in Heaven art Christ doth call God our Father here For he to us a Being gave And names himself our Brother dear Who took our Flesh our Souls to save Tell my dear Brothers Io. 20. v. 17. I intend To God our Father to ascend What can give greater confidence That we shall gain our just desire Thô't were release of great offence Since we of Father it require Luk. 15. v. 20. The Father spend-thrift did receive The like he 'l do when Sin we leave This also doth our Hope increase That Christ God's Son our Brother is Who thô in Heav'n Rom. 3. v. 34. doth never cease To mediate for what 's amiss O Father life for all I gave Those who return receive and save Thus b'ing incourag'd humbly kneel Before your God prepar'd in heart And whensoever you do feel That he good motions doth impart Be sure you do them prosecute That they in time may bring forth fruit Then Cross your self say In the Name Of Father Son and Holy Ghost The Devils tremble at the same It guards you from that Hellish Host It shews one God and Persons three That God made Man dy'd on the Tree Thus arm'd with faith devoutly say Our Father which in Heaven art And also with Devotion pray Iam. 1. v. 5. That he will grace to you impart Then make this sevênfold great request Which of all Prayers is the best Hallowed be thy Name alway Of all Requests first let this be That all may honour and obey God their Creatour one and three Exod 33. v. 20. But since none can see him and live To his blest Name this honour give Thy Kingdom come God's pleas'd to say Revel 21. v. 3. Prov. 8 v. 31. With Men my Tabernacle is I take delight with them to stay And guide them to Eternall bliss For their sakes I took flesh and dy'd Mat. 28. v. 20. And still on Earth with them abide O let him reign in you by love Let his Loves Scepter in you sway By sinfull Act him nêre remove Isai 59. v. 2. Wisd 1 v. 3.4 Like Subject true his Word obey Thy Kingdom come Lord govern here My Heart keep in thy love and fear Thy Kingdom come Lord grant to me That while I live I do thy Will That I may thy Disciple be Mat. 25. v 41. v. 34. And pleasure in all things fulfill That I may scape thy dreadfull frown And hear come blest receive a Crown Thy Will be done for that is best In Earth as 't is in Heaven still What êre befalls still quiet rest Iob. 1.21 1 King 3. v. 18. Conforming to his pleasing Will. What you command O God or send Let me subscribe to to the end Gen. 4. v 7. Mat 23. v. 37. God given hath Free-will to man Which Lady-like doth domineer Reject accept at list she can She governs Flesh while she is here Water's before thee set Eccli 5. v. 17. and Fire To choose what 's best be sure aspire But since our Reason is so blind That oft it knows not what is best And will to Flesh is so inclin'd It yields to Flesh and Bloud 's Request Beg God to work in you his will That like the Saints you do it
side Yet all these pardon'd were What greater sins can you conceive Or more ungrate full Men Yet those when they did evill leave And did return agen With tears of Eyes Ioel. 2. v. 12. and grief of heart With hope and Faith conjoyn'd By fervent Pray'r and Pennance smart v. 13. To Mercy God inclin'd Who did receive them in his love And grace on them bestow Ezech. 18 v. 22. Rom. 5. v. 20. The guilt of sin he did remove Where Vice now Virtues grow Thus they with many more became Great Saints and reign above Remitted sins Luk 7. v. 47. increase the flame Of Gratitude and Love If any sin he 'l not forgive It 's that which you are in Despairing Mercy 1. Io. 5. v. 16. Ier. 18. v. 12.13 while you live The greatest of all sin By this you do deny in him Ps 144. v. 9. Eph. 4. v. 19. His greatest Attribute Which leads the soul unto Hell's brim Despair's accursed fruit God's Mercy 's greater than Man's Sin So is the Price Christ gave Upon the Cross his Soul to win And from Damnation save Put trust in God Ps 90. v. 14.15 and in the merit Of Christ thy Saviour dear Leave Sin Ezech. 18. v. 32. by Faith raise up your spirit And pardon never fear Des I grant all 's true that you do say But yet this Mercy I Who Sinner am know not the way To gain or to apply Christ's merits to my Soul I fear Prov. 28. v. 9. While J'm in state of Sin My sighs and Pray'rs God will not hear This oft hath proved been Hope That is while Heart remains perverse Ready to sin again Eccli 34. v. 31. But when Man grieves his sinfull course And doth from sin refrain By Sacraments let him apply Christ's merit to his soul Christ promis't who can never ly Io. 20. v. 23. That he will make it whole Desp Sweet Hope Rom. 8. v. 24. which dost to Heav'n bring Your Convert I will be Dev'lish Despair away I 'le fling And hearken unto thee I 'le weep I 'le grievee I 'le leave all sin By Sacraments will I God's Mercy seek his grace to win Eccli 2. v. 11. And thus in Hope will dy Amen OF DEATH Remember thy last Ends and thou wilt not sin for ever Eccl. 7. v. 40. It is appointed for all men once to dy Hebr. 9. v. 27. THe soul of Man since Adam's fall Eph. 4. v. 18 19. Is so obscur'd by Flesh and Bloud The senses seem to govern all As if the soul nought understood Men to this life do so attend They little think upon their End The whole Earth sayeth Jeremy Ier. 12. v. 11. With desolation's desolate And he declares the reason why That we may mend before too late No one considers deep in heart That from this life he must depart Much less 2. Cor. 5. v. 10. that he account must give Of all what ever he hath done And that he must for ever live In joys or sorrow when he 's gone This want of true consideration Is chiefest cause of Man's damnation The Wiseman therfore doth advise That in your ways you mindfull are Of your last things Eccli 7. v 40. thus you 'l be wise And for a happy death prepare You 'l never sin or do amiss While this your Meditation is What is grim Death in picture made With Dead-Man's skull and standing by Hour-glass with crooked Sithe and spade Arm and Leg-bones that cross do ly Death nothing is but Life's privation The soul and Body's separation But yet how sad that hour will prove When Flesh and soul must separate Which were so firmly joyn'd in love No tongue is able to relate S. Denis Ps 54. v. 5. Among all other dreadfull things That day to Man most terrour brings That puts an end to carnall pleasures Which then to Soul cause bitter grief That separates from Worldly treasures Luk. 12. v. 20. Which then afford men no relief That parts from Children Wife and Friend To Worldly joys that puts an end That quells the spirit of the proud And stubborn disobedient heart That makes the Sinner cry aloud His guilty Soul 's loath to depart Wealth honour Pow'r will not prevail When Death arrests he takes no Bail Your Life to mend he 'l grant no space But to the Judge your Soul present Where bribes or friendship find no place To late 't will be then to repent Eccl. 11. v. 3. As at that hour you 're found to be So you 'l be for Eternity Delights and Pleasures wanton Love Which were before your heart 's content In that most dreadfull hour Wisd 5. v. 3. will prove Grief to your Soul which will lament To think how for these pleasing toys She is depriv'd of reall joys Those then will pass and leave behind A strict account for her to make Why she let them possess her mind And Pleasure with the Flesh did take Since she was made for joys above And to contemn all Carnall Love Then Glory Honour Power Wealth In which vain Men do put their trust Youth Beauty Valour Courage Health Will all be buried in the dust That Man will vile to God appear Who seem'd so great and glorious here Eccls. 1 v. 8. All these you 'l own then to be vain On which before you plac't your love Despairing then you will remain To think upon your God above How he will justly you condemn Who did for these his Laws contemn Ps 33. v. 22. O dreadfull day to wicked Soul Which here in body did neglect Her sense and passions to controul And crooked Nature to correct Still yielding with depraved will Her Flesh-desires here to fulfill Whereas in Body she was plac't Corrupted Nature to restrain And what she found in it defac't By grace and Virtue to regain But she let senses govern all By which the Dev'l procur'd her fall Mat. 25. v 7. The Prudent Virgins imitate With oyl in Lamp prepar'd remain Not with the foolish v. 8. when too late To seek v. 10. and knock but all in vain The gate is shut you are forgot The Bride-groom says v. 12. I know you not Have oyl of works in Lamps of Faith ' Gainst midnight-Death â—â—â—l 5.6 â—â—â—m 2. 〈◊〉 4.24 thus ready stand And glory not as scripture saith In Faith alone lest Spouse command You Ecâ—â—â—â—â—at 22. v. v. 12.13 not adorn'd with works to ly In fire yet dark and nêre to dy Take warning then before too late Deut. 32. v. 29. And that your life you may amend On your departure meditate That Worldly pleasures will have end That Riches you must leave behind Which will at Death perplex the mind O Death Eccli 41. v. 1. how bitter is the thought Of thee to those who do possess Peace in their Riches which have brought Their Soul to Sin and Wickedness To leave their