long a captive lead So Jacob shall rejoyce indeed and Isra'l shall be glad 6 Hymn A sigh from the whole Creation In a Threnetick Hymn O Lord that true and righteous art hark how thy Creatures all Do sigh and groan by thee alone to be redeem'd from thral From bondage of mans wickedness we were redeem'd say they Why then are we mans vanity subjected to obey The curse and wrath we bear is great cross to our makers will How long must we by tyranny mens lawless lusts fulfil Lord sweep the world refine the Church from dross tinn straw and stubble By fire and sope revive our hope Our Island save from trouble No feller then on us shall come nor burdens us oppress Christ will with justice truth and peace and Halelujahs bless 7 Hymn Zions Lamentation after the Lord. HOw long Lord dost thou hide thy face to us return we crave The riches of thy powerful grace vouchsafe thy poor to have See how the Boars and Beasts of prey do pluck and spoyl thy Vine And wher 's your God blaspheming say as if it were not thine The World in wrath and bloud does roule its burdens still increase To thee Lord cries its weary Soul when shall these mischiefs cease Thy Spirits become to mighty ones a vile reproach and scorn Among the pots thy ' dopted Sons do lie black and forlorn O turn to us turn us to thee powre out thy Spirit again Thy promise is and that 's our bliss Jesus shall live and raign 8 Hymn A sigh for pure Worship The 1st Part. LOrd show to us thy way and will to VVorship thee aright Give by thy word and spirit that skill to lead into thy sight VVhen God to me said seek my face my heart its eccho cry'd To seek thy face oh give me grace But Lord it do not hide For that alone will gladness give and joy with peace far more Then corn and wine souls do not live on earth or goods in store Then will I to thine Altar go and in its flames delight The way to bliss thus I shall know and pleasures in thy sight Here I the end of wicked ones shall plainly see and read For life to Israels dry bones hence I 'le beleive and plead Lord hast to bring that righteous King into his Temple pure Its glory ope the whore the Pope in their abyss secure That second Temple God will rear and his Salvation wall it In 's beauty there will Christ appear Jehovah Shammah call it 9 Hymn Hopes for the approaching Glory The 2d part OUr God will come in hast in 's Glory to appear And now fulfil to Zions Hill his promist good so near Rejoyce ye Sons of God All ye that Sion love Shake from your eyes the dust rise your sins and bands remove His time now posteth on For Babels final doom And great Salvation in every nation Oh let thy Kingdom come Though Nations rush and rage Oh bring them to thy foot And hear the prayer of such as are in dust and destitute Then Jesse's branch will bud Two staves unite in one Then may we hope all priso'ns op'e That Christ may have the Throne Idols he will abolish And worship pure appoint Sion espouse to be his house And or'e it Christ annoint Oh then rejoyce in hope Of such a glorious day When all that mourn their tunes will turn Singing Halelujah 10 Hymn Future hopes of Good YE Saints that do Jehovah fear sing with melodious hearts That chosen are of God most dear his secrets to impart Before the earths foundations he on you plac't his Election And when these heavens no more shall be you 'l have a Resurrection Thrice blest they be whom God does chuse and pure in heart that be Tho' men abuse and you refuse such God at last shall see Then Saints shall know as they be known and see God as he is God will not shame their names to own for such shall live in blisse Then shall your bodies glorious rise first Christs then all his Saints When power divine them clarifies and full joys ends complaints Oh who then would not sigh and long this Kingdom 's wine to taste Thy Kingdom come and will be done that glorious state O hast 11 Hymn Faith's triumph in the hopes of a Resurrection or'e deaths Victory ALL ye that live and die in Christ O bless the Lord with me Beyond the grave a hope you have of perfect Victory Tho dying yet behold we live in sorrows still we sing Christ bore the curse and sin that 's worse death 's but in name a King What tho' from Abel to this day death of its conquests boast Christ through the sides of it did ride and so its sting was lost Nature it King of Terrors calls and terrour 't is to Kings Yet with delight into Gods sight body and Soul it brings Our first begotten from the dead arose and sits on high But when again he comes to raign his foes at 's foot must lye Our scatter'd bones about the Grave shall come again together And when we rise with these our eyes we God shall see for ever 12 Hymn Faiths triumph in the Resurrection of the dry bones ALL ye that love the Lord his grace that tasted have Tho' death devour there 's set an hour when you shall rise from grave Our life with Christ is hid Souls cannot dye therefore For while we sleep our Lord does keep Of hell and death the door Oh then rejoyce and sing Ye that dwell in the dust Shall in your lot stand without spot with spirits of perfect just What tho' our scattered bones lye still about graves mouth Christ unto you will life renew that has dew of his youth Isra'ls dry bones at last a spirit of Life shall get That Roman Sun and Jewish Moon under a cloud shall set Then shall the righteous shine as Suns before Gods sight With holy ones sitting on Thrones in everlasting light 13 Hymn Doxolog gratulatory Psal 16.7 ult BLessed be God for Jesus Christ and his free righteousness For nothing less lost souls could bless and lead to happiness My soul bless thou the Lord always and all that in thee is Instructed be behold and see what great Salvation's this The Lord 's set still before my sight I shall not be deprest My heart and voyce do both rejoyce in hope my flesh shall rest Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell nor to the grave captive But wilt me show what path to go where I shall ever live For in thy sight fulness of joy and pleasures are in store All treasures stand at thy right hand of life for evermore 14 Hymn An Hymn of Petitions for the Spirit as Psal 51.12 Cant. 5. ult TO thee Jehovah I do thirsting cry and crave That early dew thy spirit most true this droughty soul may have Awake O North wind blow O South breath pleasantly Behold how dry my Gardens lie my Plants wither and die
Heliotrope To face the Sun seem'd to desire to turn or shut or o'pe Said I this much resembles love that grace does much delight With Christ its Sun to turn and move dilating at his sight A third plant on the wall did lean 3. as Vines that fruitful are Its bulk nothing most weak and mean yet blessed clusters bare Thus faith a part from Christ we call a meer notion and sound Hee 's only root and strength that wall from him our fruit is found Next that presented to my sight and 'long the wail did creep A flowr most fair and Lilly-white 4 'mong thorns that made it weep Repentance like this flowr does grow it s own tears serve for dew Moist'ning its soyl and roots below which does its fruits renew Two winter Gillivers I next upon the wall beheld That with the cold were nipt and vext when pluckt how sweet they smel'd 5. Like Twins meekness and Patience thrive as Camomile both grow Tho trod on yet they keep alive still green and pleasant show The meek ones mute and silent sit under the hand of God And unto hard things oft submit bearing his smarting rod. 6. Patience all humane injuries sustains ev'n unto blood Inflames it lives in triumph dyes still counting Gods will good 7. One plant not of a pleasant smell but bitter tast it was To natures health it profits well tho' nice ones by it pass Mortification makes contrite and sinful self it scorns Restrains all carnal appetite with holiness adorns A Sister plant nigh that did grow 8. that hearts-ease some well name A plant Solomon scarce did know it 's worth who can proclaim Contentment is that Jewel so rare a crown may want it yet A poor man freed of worldly care with godliness may 't get 9. And as the Flowers from roots must dye or serve for Ornament So 's he that can himself deny spend or for Christ be spent 10 A tree there grew that maketh wise discerning good and evil Makes face to shine ' light'ns the eyes its fruit expels the devil 11. A burning plant did next appear hot in the fourth degree That warms the breasts of all sincere and makes them zealous be 12. Then last I Sempiternum view'd whose greeness did surpass And by the Sun 't was still bedew'd this perseverance was Now while I recreation had to bind them up to gather The Keepers voice me call'd and bad me first to come up thither I went immediately and he in t ' a green arbour led Propounding of a mystery or riddle and thus he said A pleasant plant in Eden grows Not ev'ry one it's value knows It s orient colours shine out most And smells most fragrant in the frost It beautifies deformed faces And the compleatest beauties graces Its root does grow above its stalks And as it spreads in fruit it walks 'T is low and oft trod down by beasts Yet in its branches fowls build nests It s name and root if you once find And eat t' will sight restore if blind As life by eating once was lost So 't is restored without all cost The tree of death was once dear bought Now that of lif 's enjoyed for nought The more 't is pluck't the more 't wil spread It kills the quick enlivens the dead Pluck it and tell what 't is and whence A crown then is your recompence When I this riddle had pondered well its meaning for to know Light from above upon me fell and did the secret show The Answer to 't The Root is Christ the Plant is Grace Which will the pure in glory place Next I 'le you tell of Edens Well AMidst Gods Garden did appear A fountain that was sweet and clear A pleasanter was never seen It kept the plants all fresh and green Still flowing full but inexhaust Inviting all that saw 't to tast And come drink in a golden cup These living waters bubbling up Hence Sanctuary-streams derive That still keep all Gods roots alive In Golden pipes still issuing Cooling and chearing ev'ry thing In it all that do wash their eyes May penetrate deep mysteries Like Manna 't tasts as Milk and Honey Its waters run free without money All that to wash into it go Tho' leprous 't makes them white as Snow The spots of sin and Conscience-grypes And stains away it purely wipes He that does drink of this in store For other Cisterns thirsts no more 179 Hymn Of the Fruit of Edens Garden NOw as mine eye did contemplate and Edens Fruits desire To th' tree of Life the open gate I longing did enquire Considering what is on record of Adam and his Wife Kept by an Angels flaming Sword out from that tree of Life And now an angel to me flew having receiv'd command That tree of life to me to shew and gave First-fruits in hand But told me that above it grew amidst Gods paradise One branch of which gave such a shew as dazl'd mortal eyes This branch did o're the wall extend with most delightful tast And down within my reach descend to eat my soul made hast This beauteous and glorious branch with choice fruits did abound Its Kingdom to our times did lanch tho' with a cross first crown'd To stay my longings oft there fell its apples here and there These promises did relish well both food and physick were One also brought flagons of Wine and bad me drink and gather The clusters of the choicest Vine for plant it did the Father 180 Hymn Vltimate Glory THis upper Garden on the mount I long'd and climb'd to enter But under ground one gave account I through a Cave must venter This Cave I dark and silent found the first sight caus'd me weep One step me lodg'd next under ground and there I fell asleep Yet prospect got I ere I slept by faith at a small hole Embalm'd in Christ I shu'd be kept there hee 'l not leave my soul Then flew it †i. e. the soul strait to paradise such sleep to it was gain My flesh did rest in hope t' arise and both with Christ to raign Thus I put off mortality asleep with little pain In state immortal by and by to rise and live again There I bad all the world adieu here Sword and Shield let fall Looking to be array'd anew when God is all in all But whilst I at this Port deferr'd did for my passage long Melodious Chore's within I hear'd so I in consort sung 181 Hymn An Hymn of the immortal joys Where pains nor sighs nor sin annoys Psal 16. ult 2 Tim. 1.10 1. Pet. 1.4 LOrd in thy Gospel tydings be of death abolish't quite And life with immortality therein is brought to light This glorious mystery conceal'd in Types from ages past Thou in due time by Christ reveal'd to us in mercy hast This mystery doth far excell all wisdoms transitory That in beleivers Christ should dwell the hope of future glory That Christ before us up should go and Anchor for us
37.12 13. c. 5. About the last part of Redemption by Christ both of our bodies and spirits and of Zions repair Resurrection of witnesses the future glory and liberty of the New Jerusalem 6. The joy and Halelujahs of all Saints at Christs standing with them on Zion 7. Some more private Meditations and Poems on Paradise regain'd and also Occasional Hymns on our fires so oft repeated on that in Breadstreet the late Drought and after it Rain On Death of Friends or Children and the Sickness or Recovery of some And on the Sabbath c. Errata's PAge 4. line 18. Read Wine p. 12 l. 17. r. side p. 15. l. 11. f of r. and p. 16. l. 27. r. inquir'd p. 19. l. 29. dele to p. 20. r. and you from wick l. 14 r. Christ s p. 24. l. 5. r. O come p. 25. l. 20 r. and for your l. 24. r. ye ' ave trimmed up your Lamps p. 26 l. 4. r. aye p. 29. l. 13. r. blest p. 30 l. 2 r of 's love or d. of p. 31 l. 5. r. throw p. 32. l. 2 r. who thou art p. 36. l. 17. r. on p. 45 l. 11. Gogs p. 47 l. 6. dele his p. 48. l. 14. r. compassions p 49. l. 12. r. hidd n. p. 55. l. 3. r. t' a morn p. 60 l. 22 their eyes p. 72 l. 2 dele the p. 74. l. 15. but those p. 75. l. 8. r. your h. p. 83. l. 25. for nigh r. near p. 86. l. 3. for thus r. them p. 87. l. 9 r. and ch 25. 6. p. 88. l. 1. d. s. p. 101. l. 10. boding l. 11. r. none p. 103. l. 25 r. scortching Sun l. ult where thine thou safe dost p. 110. l. 24. r. the Lord. p. 114. l. 29. r in 's p. 118. l. 6. r. rejoyce l. 8. for and r. to 's raign p. 119. l. 20. r. exalted be p. 121 l. 22. hate and from her retire l. 24. r. burning her p. 123 l. 20. r. on harv p. 129 l. 2. r. vale of l. 17 dele th' l. ult dele to p. 134 l. 1. r brake p. 137 l. 9. r. their p. 148. l. 13. and Nimrods hunt for prey p. 149. l. 29. r. befall p. 150 l. 27. r. said p. 156 l. 8. dele s in nation p. 157. l. 6. dele s in lamentation p. 162 l. 12. r. so p. 163. r. will p. 166. l. 8. dele s in Zions l. 12 r. heads p. 168 Hymn 146 two lines are added to the first staff which belonged to the second p. 174 l. 2. r. what sin p 176 l. 3. r their fate p. 178 l. 7. r. God p. 193. l. 7. dele Hymn and division on the base p. 195. l. 4 r. if he in us This Hymn two Adams fruit compares And way to th' tree of Life declares AS mans first sin quickly led in A curse on 's Children all So did the second Adam win All lost by t'other's fall The fruit that he pluck off the Tree Off knowledge all did fill With ignorance and enmity ' Against all his makers will Yet God thought fit out of this pit that fall'n man should rise And come to eat a fruit more sweet amidst Gods Paradise Oh therefore when ye Sons of men will ye his calls embrace Return and come to him with whom yet ye may hope for Grace Here grows a Tree of Life will be your food and medicine With him that well of life does dwell to him your hearts incline Against the sting of Adams sin here Antidote you 'le find Your dying Soul may on this pole its brazen Serpent mind VVhy will ye dye this tree is nigh to eat if you endeavour Your welcom 's free O tast and see yea eat and live for ever 2 Hymn A Pisgah sight or foretasts and sips of Canaan BLest be the Lord that hath forgiven our sin throw Christ his merit A new and living way to Heaven conducting by his Spirit Gods Sons are heirs of Glory all joynt-heirs with Christ their King They all obey his powerful call and new songs to him sing Their priviledges here are great To ask and have their will On his own Throne Christ will them set and so their joy fulfil Our bodies now so vile and low through grief contempt and pain Tho' death under the clods them sow shall yet arise to raign Then no uncircumcised one before that judge shall stand For heirs of Glory they alone must sit on Christs right hand They that by Bacahs Vale once past now come to Berecha And thus Before their King at last still sing Halelujah 3 Hymn A Prophetick Lamentation for our Times O Lord draw near prevent our fear of Romish desolation For Babels whore lies at the door with her abomination That man of sin long since got in and in Christs Throne does sit And throw Gods anger we are in danger to fall into his pit Th' old Dragon fierce does wound and peirce thy Sions blessed Seed But Christ departs that cuts our hearts who soon could wound his head But Lord return for thee we mourn Our Prophets we see none That where we are can well declare while Christ our light is gone Send forth thy Sword thy Holy word Leviathans head to wound Rouze Judahs Lion let Virgin Sion no more sit on the ground VVhy does thy face so full of Grace eclipsed still remain Both Devils and men subdue and then thou Lord alone shalt raign 4 Hymne A Thirsty cry after that good Spirit of Adoption O Lord our hearts do thirst and cry for thy pure living water Thy spirit is good Oh such a floud on droughty Souls Lord scatter Then shall we like thy Garden be full of all pleasant fruit For Christ laid up O then hee 'l sup of Wines his tast that suits Then Sharons's Rose that withering is in beauty shall appear Thornes shall not so with Lillies grow nor Saints still Sackcloth wear Then shall that Sun of Righteousness heal them that fear his name True judgement shall in Desart dwell and wipe off Sions shame Then Babels moon in darkness soon unto a change will come The Virgins shall in triumph call Their Bridegroom to his home Adopted ones now cease all groanes Heavens meet the Earth with Songs Lord come away for such a day thy whole creation longs 5 Hymne The Thirsty Soul ONe thing of thee Lord I desire and yet that one is all With ' love of Christ my heart inspire that mine I may him call O let the Coals of Jah inflame my Soul with burning love Unite my heart to fear thy name O send in Noah's Dove The Olive branch of peace to bring wherein I shall rejoyce And over all my sorrows sing in faiths melodious voice And when that King of Righteousness shall raign and prosper too With peace he will our Islands bless them that oppress undo Extend good will to Sions Hill that now we ruin'd call Oh build agen Jerusalem repair her broken wall From Sion Israels safety speed so
for where Christ is that Heav'n it's self proclaims And when these wars their course have run they 'l terminate in peace And when the Lamb's war long begun shall end our travels cease Those flames that in Gods bush have burn'd for now some thousand-years On Babels throne and seat once turn'd in them the Lamb appears Who 's Lord of Lords and King of Kings his chos'n followers then shall in the shadow of his wings for triumph sing Amen 169 Hymn Ten horns once conquered and tame Against the whore subserve the Lamb. Psal 75.4 10. Zacr. 1. ult Apoc. 6.16 WHen God doth rise his cause to plead that with the whore depends The beast and horns hee 'l captive lead and so the last wrath ends Long has this controversie stood and Seas of bloud 't has spil'd Oh! that the Lord decide it wou'd in Armageddon field For meekness truth and righteousness and for his Zions sake That he the earth with peace may bless hee 'l thorough vengeance take For he that judgeth her is strong and mighty is to save And his delay and suffering long will swifter vengeance have On Zion Hill then with the Lamb his followers shall be shown Who shall proclaim their fathers name he also them will own Saying these my redeemed ones no Women could defile Follow the Lamb up to their thrones in whose mouth is no guile Then Kings Captains and men of Might with bound free rich and poor To rocky holes agen take flight and face the Lamb no more 170 Hymn On the late Dissolution 81. Tho' all things have their Dissolution Our Lords return makes restitution Ps 11.3 and 75.3 Act. 3.19 21. LOrd what a world is this how is the whole-head sick When head and heart dissolve and part where 's body politick Foundations long have shook and all are out of frame The stone hath smote God will promote the Kingdom of the Lamb. As once one little stone brought down that railing †Goliah wight That in his pride Gods host defy'd and put all 's host to flight So shall the little stone by Gods decree once more Proud Babel strike and dash it like chaff of the threshing floor These bodies must dissolve and be renew'd again That they may be fitted to see Christs beauty in his raign Lord hast thy Son to reign then all things hee 'l restore Wound but one head and by its dread ten horns shall thee adore Ps 68.21 110.5 6. Apoc. 17.15 171 Hymn Rejoyce we in the Lord of Host That never yet a Battle lost In 's excellence believers boast Ps 46.7 11. 48.8 Isai 13.4 Luk. 2.13 THou Lord of hosts art General of absolute command In heav'n earth sea the souldiers all before thee armed stand If thou commandst one Angel go and put that host to flight Or kill some bloody Herod so 't is done all in a night If thou alone dost but accost an army in the field One look from thee O Lord of host or frown shall make them yeild If thou to Emrods or small Mice dost but allow commission Nay less worms flies and smallest lice repress vile mens ambition Those Records of thy wars O Lord are stor'd with the upright How God to women did afford to vanquish men of might But when the Lamb of God does stand in Armageddon last Satan and Rome at his command to flames below are cast Dan. 7.11 Apoc. 16.16 18.8.20 10. 172 Hymn Happy are they whose eyes shall see The good of them Gods chosen be They may rejoyce eternally Isa 12.3 Rom. 8.33 2 Thes 2.13 AScribe to God Salvation the fountain of All grace That to our consolation ' mongst his elect did place To him that in the lamb our head did call to holiness But to what happiness hee 'l lead what Angel can expresse To him that loves immutably whose gifts and calls are sure Like to himself eternally without repentance ' dure To him whose chain all 's own in folds none can a link undo And in 's own hands he both ends holds election glory too To him that all his own foreknew and care on them has took And them in time to life he drew and seal'd up in 's own book Lord had thy purpose pass't us by had'st never call'd nor chose But left us fall'n i' th' pit to dye who could thy will oppose But since thou lou'd us out o' th' pit and that good work 's begun That we may cry grace grace to it go on Lord till 't is done 173 Hymn A Vision of Gods faithful Lambs By prayer a quenching cruel flames Exod. 3.3 Ps 74.7 8. 83.12 NEar Zions Hill I walk't and in her fields did spy A flock of Lambs beset with flames Lord what are these said I A still voice to me said this Antichristian flame That Dragon blew and 's bloody crew but who shall quench the same A pool like Heshbon's then nigh to this flame I spy'd Which sighs and tears of sufferers the engine prayer supply'd A river also ran in deep and bloody streams Whose cryes no doubt them fires will out and bring again sweet beams The Lambs of God all joyn'd and under th' Altar cry'd How long shall groans of holy ones for vengeance be delay'd Then stood amidst the Throne a Lamb as 't had been slain Your bloud said he aveng'd shall be on all that scarlet train And this take for a sign of swift revenge to come When they shall cry peace and safety then is their final doom 174 Hymn Vnfaithfulness lamented here And prayer for strength to persevere Ps 5.9 12.1 2 5. 120.2 3. HElp Lord for men that godly be and faithful ones do quail Among the Sons of men we see that faithfulness does fail ' Gainst falshood and a lying tongue be thou our sure defence For fraud and violence do wrong to th' poor mans innocence For sighing of the poor opprest now'le God rise to redeem And him in safety set at rest from them that puff at him From lying lips that do deceive deliver thou our souls Sharp arrows let their Conscience grieve and hot Juniper-coals How long shall judgment into gall hemlock and wormwood turn Lord it to righteousness recall to chear up them that mourn With judgement Lord Zion redeem her converts free proclaim Then shall our land faithful esteem and City prize the same Come Lord thy throne on earth possess the beast and whore subdue That thou mayst sway in faithfulness that are most just and true 175 Hymn The glory and the dignity Of them Martyrs for Christ that dye Act. 7.54 Rev. 2.13 14. 13. and 20.4 REjoyce before the throne ye sufferers that are For upon it God's Lamb does sit his diadems to share Your faithfulness to death with him accepted is Behold him stand at Gods right hand to welcome you to bliss My cross with me y 'ave bore reproach want and disdain And now as ye suffer'd with me so with me shall ye raign Have ye beheaded