To all thy sons and chosen ones Of ' th misteries of Salvation Now in their hearts and inner parts Work by thy spirit in them Obedience that they from hence May live like holy men By thy Dominion overcome Their Enemies O Lord And to that end be pleas'd to send Thy spirit with thy word To good and bad we freewil had But now since Adam's fall It is not so to will or do We are unable all We are both dead and buried Till thou shalt us translate Till thou convert and bring the heart Into a gracious state Then shall we be for ever free From our old natures clogg And from the sin that we are in And freely serve our God And in a case that by his grace We shall have power and skill Both readily and spiritually Good works to do or will Yet still the breed of the old seed Of Unregeneration In us remains till mortal pains Remove our earthly station And we enjoy in heaven high The Saints felicity Then we shall be made fully free To do good perfectly In the mean time those that are thine And Heaven shall inherit O gracious Lord call by thy word And by thy holy spirit Out of the sin that they are in Into a state of grace Through Christ thy Son let it be done For thy own mercies sakè O Lord give light to blind give sight Remove their hearts of stone And hearts of flesh good and upright Lord give them in the Room Renew their wills and give them Grace By'd them renewed be Lord give them grace to grow apace For Lord thy grace is free And there is none but thee alone Can give this special grace Thou offerest it and mak'st us fit Thy offer to imbrace This is our case 't is thy free grace And thy free grace alone 'T is not for any grace in us That was foreseen or known Lord pierce our hearts and inner parts We are but passive all Let thy good spirit for thy sons merit Give us an innward call O Lord accept us thine elect Lord freely justifie Us thy poor Saints Lord hear our plaints Thy son for us did dye He paid the debt remov'd the lett He suffered for our sin O for his sake Lord pitty take We do rely on him Lord we beleive for sin we greive Lord help our unbeleif Let thy free Grace good Lord take place Thou sav'st the sinful theif Adopt us sons and set us free Us for thy children take Not for the works that we have done But for Christ Jesus sake Give us access to make address Unto the Throne of grace Let us repent cry and lament Our sad and sinful case O Lord accept do not reject Our Prayers and tears and cry Adopt us Heirs for thy sons sake Who for our sins did die Give us new hearts and better parts Then ere we had before Let sins dominion in us all Be weakned more and more Our several lusts destroy in us Corruptions mortifie Let us more practice Holiness And dayly sin destroy Let saving faith in us be wrought Good Lord most perfectly Let us into the way be brought Of true felicity Increase this grace in us apace O multiply it more This master grace deserves the place Increase it Lord therefore And let it work by love alwaies In us and every one Producing fruits of Holiness Faith never goes alone By word and Prayer and Sacraments Let it increased be Let us be justifi'd by it And sav'd eternally O Gracious Lord let us accord To all the truths that be Revealed in the written Word For all Posterity Lord let our hearts and inner parts By faith be purifi'd And by that Sword thy Holy Word Let sin be mortifi'd Give us desire with hearts intire To love thee cordially O give us grace that track to trace That leads to bliss and joy Some crumbs of comfort Lord we cravâ— Our faith is very weak We almost are brought to despair O let thy spirit speak A word of comfort to our hearts In this our misery Let us from hence have perfect sence Of our felicity We Agar like have lost our sight And now are in distress Remove the scales Lord give us light To see our happiness Lord we Repent and do lament Our infidelity O make our faith more evident Remove our malady The well of life it open lies Yet we no comfort find We water want for want of Eyes Our feares our Faith do blind Therefore O Lord grant unto us Assurance of Salvation O clear our states from all mistakes And free us from Damnation And when we such assurance have Grant we may carefully Preserve the same and praise thy name And live Religiously Thy Church and People Lord protect From all their Enemies Be graciâ—â—s is Lord to thine Elect Hear their complaints and cryes O bless the King and councel him His Royal Spouse direct And in her heart and every part True Holiness erect Lord bless Duke Iames let all his aims Be for thy Glory bent Bless all the Royal Family And guide the Parliament Remove the wicked from the King His godly Councel bless Establish Lord the Throne of him And his in Righteousness O fit us all both great and small To meet our Blessed Lord When he shall come and justly Doom And sentence all the world When he shall sit let us be quit And cleared from damnation By Faith in him that dy'd for sin To purchase our salvation Lord when this dreadful day will come To us it is unknown â—ts by decree and known to thee And unto thee alone Let 's watch and pray both night and day Therefore most fervently That Christ may say at that great day You have dealt faithfully You have well done O therefore come And enter into joy Receive a Crown with great renown Bliss and Felicity Lord hear our Prayers accept our Tears And pitty on us take Not for our worth which merits wrath But for Christ Jesus sake To Father Son and Holy Ghost By Angels and by men All Power and Glory be ascrib'd For ever more Amen An Epitaph upon the death of the Right Worshipful Anne Cokaine Widdow who Dyed the 29th of August 1664. By Edward Manlove Esq HEre lies inter'd one that deserv'd Great Honour Praise and Fame Who comely was and did surpass Most of her Noble Name In liberallity and Hospitallity This Lady did delight O Muses rise do not despise Her praises to indite Yea ring her knell her praises tell She humble was though great Her comly parts and humble heart Her prayses may compleat A comly Creature for form and feature Proper and tall of stature Noble by Birth lies in the earth Death conquer'd comly nature This Flower was cut down like Grass Which flourished many a day She quit the Stage in her old age Grimm Death took life away God call'd for her she made no stir But yeilded patiently She knew full well none need her tell All mortal men must die To Rich and Poor respect she bore She did no sort despise She patiently did live and die And so she clos'd her eyes Now in the Dust as all we must Ere long interred be This Lady is Lord bring to Bliss Her whole Posterity An Epitaph upon the Death of Mr. William Waine Vicar of ASHBORN Composed by Edward Manlove Esq SInce that pale death hath stopt the breath Of Learned William Wain Friends and Allies dry your wet eyes To Weep it is in vain He 's in the Dust where all men must Ere long interred be Whilst he liv'd here he did appear A Learned man to be Of judgement great tho not so neat In words as many are But for his parts in learned Arts With most he might compare Yet they can tell that knew him well He was not puff'd with Pride Nor soared high ambitiously But humbly liv'd and dy'd And in his Grave as in a Cave This learned Rabby lies Where he must stay till that great day That Christ shall say arise Then Learned Wain must rise again From dusty earth and Clay To judgement just as all men must And after live for aye Books newly Printed for Richard Mills at the Peste and Morter without Temble Bar. PAndion and Amphigenia or the History of the Coy Lady in large Octavo Divine Contentment or a Medicine for a Disconted man in small Octavo FINIS
murmur some do mourn Which maketh God their mercies to adjourn Wouldst thou have mercy seek to God and pray This murmuring doth God's mercy much delay When children struggle they are beaten worse Our sinful passions cause a heavy curse The Isralites by murmuring discontent Procur'd from God a heavy punishment They were rewarded for their peevishness They wandred long within the wilderness Then strive O man against thy discontent This evil spirit labour to prevent The world is such that men the more they have Are less content which makes them more to crave Doth Wealth increase the worldly mans desire Increaseth more this Oyle inflames the fire The heart of man triangular is found The world is very Circular and Round There is nothing man's soul can satisfie But God the Lord the Holy Trinity Then covet not much wealth strive for content Life is a vapour and is quickly spent Sometimes the Sun goes down before noon day Before old age grim death takes life away Sometimes the Sun of life sets presently Death doth approach the dawning Infancy Sometimes it is Eclipsed in the Womb The mothers belly doth the babe intombe Man's here to day to morrow he is gone Our winged Time goes very swiftly on Life is uncertain long it cannot last It is a wheel that 's running ever fast Man's life it is compared to a day Or to a Post that rideth fast away Our life is short long here we cannot stay And little will our charges here defray It is not far unto our journeys end And after death we need no more to spend If Farmers should great summes of money spend In Building when their terme is neer an end They would be deemed very indiscreet For building where they have no better right So he that doth immoderately give His mind to Wealth and hath short time to live May be accounted for a carnal man That slights his soul he is no Christian Then learn content for wealth cannot delay The Pangs of Death which take thy life away Sad thoughts and troubles often here attend A great Estate and terrour in the end T is not aboundance that a man enjoyes That is the thing wherein contentment lies An evil spirit haunts the Worldlings Chest So that the Miser cannot be at rest His heaps of Gold he strives to hide them sure He takes great care his Riches to secure His worldly wealth he labours to increase His anxious thoughts destroy his inward peace The World affordeth many pleasant things This Bee gives Honey but it often stings Within the Sunshine is the pleasant seat Yet it is troubled with the scotching heat Most men they do delight in dainty fare The Rich mans table often is his snare He quickly may ingulf himself too deep And drowned be within these waters sweet T is difficult to know how to abound Good Salve ill us'd may make a greater wound So many times mans great Prosperity Doth make him Proud and cause security And yet aboundance few mens hearts doth fill But many souls this Plurisy doth kill Then with a little learn to be content Srive to be good not to be eminent When Iacob for his Pillow had a stone And when his body lay the earth upon He sweetly slept and did enjoy his rest For Food and Rayment Iacob made request Doth wealth increase it doth increase thy cares And may thee draw into a world of snares Small Pinaces ride safe upon the Sea When storms and winds cast gallant Ships away Our Father Adam fell in Paradise Iob from the Dunghil had a glorious rise Strong Sampson slept securely on the lap O Dalilah that sought his life to trap The fawning world is worse then when it frownes The greatest cares attend the Richest Crownes When men grow rich their hearts begin to swell The sin of Pride in rich mens hearts doth dâ—â—â—ll Observe how mad men when the Moon declines Are quieter then when it 's in the prime When mens Estates are low and in the Waine They humble are and less mind worldly gain Then be contented with thy present lott If thou have less then others envy not A great Estate great envy to it drawes Men hate Superiours that 's the greatest cause When David kept his Father Iesse's sheep None did him envy none his life did seek But when he did enjoy a Kingly Crown Then envy sought to bring his Honour down An envious man he hath an evil Eye He hates to see good mens Prosperity Then be content seek not too high to mount The more thou hast the greater's thy account Trade for Gods Glory hast thou less or more Lay out thy money on this publick score Cast in thy Mite into this Treasury Improve thy Talent for Eternity Art thou exalted to a high degree Then in good Works man labour Rich to be Remember that thou art a Steward here Prepare thy self and make thy reckoning cleare Against thy Lord and Master call for it Thou must account for this thy Stewardship And when this great account is clearely past Then thou art free this reckoning is thy last Then what if thou some hardship here indure Death ends thy Hell and then thy Heaven 's sure Rich Dives did poor Lazarus disdain Who craved crumbs his life for to sustein And yet the doggs some pitty took on him As if those doggs had his Physitians been They lickt his sores when Lazarus did lie At Dives gate to beg his Charity But Lazarus he from sorrow soon was quit Here was his Hell he was releast from it And was by Angels carried clear away To Paradise where he shall be for aye But Dives was sent to the lowest Hell Where he with Divels shall for ever dwell And in his torments in the flaming fire A little water Dives did desire To cool it tongue but could it not obtain The damned must endure eternal pain He that would not afford the poor a crumb For water cryd to cool his burning tounge Observe Gods Justice upon wicked men That have no mercy he hath none for them And seek by prayer Gods Judgements to prevent Use well thy wealth and learn to be content â—t is a judgement for a man to have A great Estate and yet still more to crave The greedy man will never be content He cryes give give he 's alwaies indigent He eats and drinks and yet 's not satisfi'd This glutton hath a greedy appetite For avarice doth foster discontent â—t is a sin it is a punishment It is accounted for a secret curse For goods ill gotten makes the gainers worse The more they have the less they are content The more they crave the more 's their punishment For heaps of silver cannot satisfie Him that loves silver here 's his misery Then strive for grace and greatness set aside Be not content till sin be mortifi'd Though sin in the regenerate remain Yet sin in them doth never rule not reign Be not contented with thy natural state Gods Wrath pursues the Unregenerate
passions labour to prevent Displease the Divel learn to be content By discontent the Devil 's gratifi'd And by this sin thy Soul may be destroy'd Take heed of discord t is the Devils joy Fly discontent it brings much misery Subdue thy self strive for this Victory Keep down thy flesh it is an enemy Art thou reproached or in Prison cast Bear it with patience till the storm be past God can repair thee and release thee thence But he is pleas'd to prove thy Patience He knowes what 's in thee but this exercise Will make thee learn his mercy more to prize Iob was corrected with a sharper rod Yet under sufferings he did Worship God He lost both Flocks and Heards and Children dear Yet in all this he did God's Justice clear He was Divested of a great Estate The Lord that gave the Lord away did take His body suffered in a high degree From Biles and Botches there was no place free Then he a Potsheard took himselfe to scrape And humbly he down in the ashes sate O here behold the fruit of true content Iob suffered much and yet was Patient He got much Gain by this correcting Rod All works for good to them that love their God God in his Wisdome maketh many times Our Maladies to be our Medicines Art thou then poor are Earthly comforts gone God can make Physick of Affliction Unto the Righteous godly and upright In greatest darkness there ariseth light Afflictions great may prove an excellent Cathalicon against thy discontent And also teach thee much Humility For much proud flesh within thy heart doth lie But sharp corrections are Gods Corrowsives To eat it out proud flesh is apt to rise Yea Gall and Wormwood God doth oft provide To purge his Children from the sin of Pride By Gods Chastisements man is often brought To true Repentance which thereby is taught Repentance is the pretious fruit that growes Upon the Cross this Thorne doth beare a Rose Afflictions do Gods children truly trie They are the touchstone of sincerity They make them zealons when they pray to God They are most fervent when they feel the Rod. Ionah securely in the ship did sleep But Ionah prayd in danger in the deep Affliction sifts the soul of sinful man It tries his Faith 't is Gods refining Fan. Faith propt with Patience bears the greatest weight This far shines brightest in the darkest night T is God that doth our Graces often trie Submit to him much comfort comes thereby Do not withstand Gods way which works out sin Thy heart 's impure much dross is found therein By Gods chastisements man receives no loss This fiery furnace purgeth out the dross Tho Shadrach Mesach and Abednego Were in the Furnace hot they felt no woe They were fast bound and cast into the fire It burnt their bonds it burnt not their attire So doth the fire of our Afflictions trie And burns the bonds of our iniquity We are Gods people and his husbandry Within our hearts the seeds of sin do lye He Ploughs them up destroyes the wicked weed And in our hearts he sowes a holy seed He kills the Tares he Harrowes every part Afflictions help to make a holy heart True Faith put forth most pure and noble acts In times of tryal faith beats fearing back The Torch that 's beaten gives the greater light Faith in affliction shineth far more bright The Bay and Cipress flourish in the shade But in the Sun these fragrant flowers fade The shade of sorrow more improves thy Grace Then shining solace in a pleasant Place Then murmur not submit to God most high Accept that well which makes thee fructifie By discontent our Prayers we do confute We pray thy will be donâ— this is our suite And yet we murmur in Adversity Which shewes our Prayers are in Hipocrysy Hast thou more sorrow then some others have Then seek to God and his assistance crave He can support thee in thy sorrowes all And set thee free from all thy Bonds and thrall The Prophet Daniel was by wicked men Accus'd and cast into the Lyons Den. Yet was preserv'd by Gods Almighty power The hungry Lions did not him devoure But his accusers found them violent Their bones they brake God sav'd the innocent Great sufferings are the way to glory great God's blessed Son did blood and water sweat He suffered death and yet was free from sin He payd thy debt wilt thou do nought for him O be content do not thy case condole Afflictions help to cure a sin sick soule But male content of grief and anger both A mixture hath and raiseth stormy wroth Within thy soul this spirit restless is T is never quiet something is amiss The man 's not sick and yet he 's never well Aske what he ailes alas he cannot tell What is the matter his great discontent Hath discompos'd his heart and made a rent There is no state can please his wavering mind In no condition he can comfort find He runs the round he ends where he begun Moves to and fro dislikes both shade and sun Faith looks beyond the help of earthly things And feeds upon both hope and promisings Faith will trust God where him it cannot trace And will adventure of his word and grace But discontent no reason will obey The rules of faith it wholly casts away Great sinfulness is found in discontent Both in the causes and the consequent Pride Envy Avatice and Unbeleif Of discontent these are the causes chief Pride makes a man too highly to esteem His own deserts and others meanly deem His own condition he conceives too low And so blames God because he made it so And this proud man presume to tax the Lord Because he plac'd him in no higher Orb. So Envy is a very divellish sin Adam was holy Satan envyed him The sacrifice of Abel was accepted Cain envyed him because his was rejected And Avarice doth cause great discontent T is ever craveing alwaies indigent For Covetousness contentedness doth thwart They cannot both live in a holy heart Distrust's an evil greater then distress 'T is inconsistent with contentedness And discontent it is a dayly grief It is the Eccho of mans unbeleif And this distemper causeth such discord That man with gladness cannot serve the Lord For discontent doth alwaies live in want Unthankfulness is its concomitant This discontent made Ahab Naboth stone That Naboths Vineyard might be come his own And Absolom it caus'd to seek a Crown To raise himself and pull his Father down This discontent doth dayly stir up strife It takes away the comfort of mans life Iâ— man hath much and yet do thirst for more He 's discontent this makes the Rich man poor We nought deserve and yet we much desire If God deny us we are full of ire When Ionahs Guard that withering vanity Was smitten Ionah in a Pet would die All live in want that live in discontent Rich men are rob'd by this distemperment Through discontent some
they might live again Who all were dead by Adams sinful fall But now revived by Christ's Funeral Who all were slaves till Jesus made them free Till Christ did die and climb the cursed Tree Praise God praise God praise God the Lord on high Praise God the Lord the Holy Trinity Christ hath redeem'd thee and discharg'd thy scorâ— Praise God the Lord praise him for evermore Proverbs Chap. 18. Ver. 14. Mans spirit will Infirmities sustein But who can beare the woundea spirits pain MAns spirit that is furnished with Grace And fortifi'd with favour of God's Face May pass the Pikes and Conquer all his foes Why should he fear when God keeps back thâ— blowe If God be for us who can us withstand Who can oppose Iehovah's mighty hand Whose mercy to his people hath no bounds Nor stint nor limit it is so profound Th' impetuous current of the rageing Sea He made Recoyle to make his people way He made the flames of hot and burning fire From his three Children swiftly to retire He made the Roaring Lyons couch and quake And change their natures for his Daniels sake He made the Locusts lice and Froggs and Flies In battel ray at his command to rise To save his people from their cruel foes To curb proud Pharoh that did them oppose He fed Elijah by the croking Crow When Iezebel did seek his overthrow He made the Furnace like a downy bed To blessed Bainham that was Martyred When David hunted was by wicked Saul Acts Monuments 1030 When robbed of his wives and children all When Zigglag was to ashes burnt with fire When David had no place of safe retire When David's Souldiers spake of scorning him When Holy David was great troubles in Then in distress poor David wept full sore Then David wept till he could weep no more Then David did unto Iehovah crie Then David prayd to God in misery Then David's courage was by God stir'd up Then to the sword th' Amalekites he put Then by the sword he made his enemies fall Then by Gods help he did recover all Then all true Saints take courage in the Lord Trust him in trouble read his Holy Word By weak without against means he can free His Saints and Servants from their misery Sith a good Conscience and a stock of grace Be'th only means t' incounter and out face Poems of reproof Our grand opposer and to draw the stings Out of our sorrowes and our sufferings And in the dreadful day so soveraign are To save the soul from sinking in despair Then be reproved those that take no care But are secure and sleight these Jewels rare Those Fools and Bedlams that have such a price Put in their hands and yet are not so wise It to improve for their eternal bliss But all their life and health imployed is In sensual lusts and on their Dunghil pleasures Whilst they neglect rich and eternal treasures What do you think to such poor souls belongs That pleasure take in Satans Syren songs And drink themselves drunk with Prosperity And take no care about Eternity But swiming down the current of the times Neglect Gods grace and grasp at Golden Mines Abuse misuse unthankfully mispend Their time and Talents to an evil end Neglect the Harvest time of ining grace And all their lives licentious tracks do trace For wealth and riches run and ride and strive And sayl a pace at Honour to arrive Alas poor souls they seek to bear great sway But will that help them in the evil day When the hot gleam of earthly glory 's past Great Clouds of dismal darkness draw on fast The grisly King of terrours stops their breath And they are haled to the port of death Then fiery flames shall make them fear and quake They must be drowned in the burning lake What will these sleepers in the Harvest say When they be waked at the dreadful day When guilty conscience gnawing at the heart Like to a Vulture fiercely plaies his part What will become of all the wicked then What is portion of such wicked men O vile ungrateful wretch then hide thy face God did capacitate thy soul for grace Why then dost thou so lull thy self in lust Self love and Pride are not God's Judgements just Wast made for naught but drink and sleep eate Laugh and be merry that 's a vain conceit Is Conscience seard then ther 's no more to say But to adjourn thee to the dreadful day But yet I pray thou maist reform thy waies Redeem the time the remainder of thy daies Awake awake and strike upon thy thigh Wrastle with God by servent Prayer and crye Faith and Repentance is the onely way Against despairing in the evil day Of all bad men Of the saving Light most pestilent are those That impiously God's Ministry oppose And by their hatred malice and despight Study and strive to quench the saving light All that oppose the saving word of grace Do strike directly at Christ's blessed face Who is as tender of his Ministry As he is of the Aple of his Eye O then Repent to God make thine address Wound not thy Conscience with such wickedness The sin of Persecution lowdly cries At Gods Tribunal makes a hideous noise For just revenge the vengeance of Gods ire For tempests great for showres of flaming fire To be distill'd and poured down on them That are such cruel and blood thirsty men How long O Lord O holy just and true Avenge our blood pay wicked men their due These spightful spirits heated with hell fire Flesht with the blood of Saints do much desire To cloud the Sun the Gospel of Gods Grace In which transparent glass Saints see his face The Nature of a Wounded Spirit FRom wounded spirits there ariseth fear A wounded Conscience what proud heart can beare Man doth conflict in this great misery With God himself a God of Majesty Can sinful man contend with God most high Or dust and ashes with eternity When God is angry no poor soul can stand Against the fierceness of his heavy hand Can stubble dry'd repel the flaming fire No more can we resist Iehovah's ire When we are whipt and lashed with his rod And do behold the frowning face of God Then we like leaves with wind soon shaken are And tertifi'd with flashings of despair Our heavy hearts for fear both faint and faile Our silly souls will then our sins bewail Then with our selves we are at enmity And do inlarge the rent most grievously For when our souls are in this trembling case We love too much in Satan's Glass to gaze Who labours much by lying cruelty Our sins both to inlarge and multiply Of every Molehil he a Mountain makes That wounded spirits may no comfort take To every sin he adds a bloody sting That he poor sinners to despair may bring Then what they think remember see or hear Is turnd to terrour and to hideous fear The dreadful fancy then doth bear its part
By fained horrors with the trembling heart Which is perplexed with most grievous pain And restless anguish doth therein remain And brings the Patient into such a rage That he his present horrour to asswage Would rather die then live and choose to dwell With Hellish Furies in the Pit of Hell Such are the terrours of a troubled mind Bruised and wounded in this woful kind As may appear both by the desperate cry Of Cain and Iudas damn'd eternally As also by the mournful sad complaints Of Iob and David and such glorious Saints These flames of horrour how shall we endure What Balsome can a wounded Conscience cure In friends not Physick nothing's to be found The Blood of Christ An admonition to the unconverted can only cure this wound Ye unconverted be perswaded then To turn to God for unconverted men Though they awhile in pleasant places dwell They 'l be transplanted in the Pit of Hell Then t is too late Repentance then is past Redeem the time whilst thy short life doth last Forsake not mercy but thy sins forsake God freely offers Christ his offer take If thou refuse how wilt thou then avoid The wrath of God which wicked men abide Art sick and senceless dost thou feel no smart Thou hast the symptom of a stony heart When Conscience stings and sins in Battail ray Do set themselves then in the evil day What wilt thou do those Lions then will tear Thy trembling heart and thee confound with feare Then subtil Satan he will play his part And shoot tentations at thy fainting heart He was thy Master thou dist him obey Thou didst walk with him in the damned way Now in thy sickness thou wouldst him forsake But now the Devil doth advantage take And doth indite thee for thy evil acts And now thy Conscience proves thy filthy facts Thou tookst ful draught of carnal peace and pleasure Thou dist carrouse tipple in great measure Thou didst God's faithful Ministers despise And with thy tongue by slanders scoffs and lyes Didst much abuse them and with great despight Didst labour much to quench the â—â—ving light Thou didst thy will and power and purse imploy God's faithful Saints and servants to destroy Such crying sins as these and many more Stand on the unconverted sinners score Ye that are washed from the filth of sin An admonition to the Converted Free'd from that damned state your souls were in Flie sinful Lusts defile your souls no more By such Rebellion as you did before Sin is most hateful in the sight of God And doth procure his smart correcting rodd God loves all creatures that he ever made But hateth sin with everlasting hate Sin wounds the soul brings men to misery Sin was the cause that God's dear Son did die Sin Satan made sin sunk him into hell Sin sunk the Pit where all the damned dwell Sin God offends sin is the greatest evil Sin damns the soul sin is the rankest Devil Object Is sin so ugly why doth most delight In sinful waies why doth not sin affright Them from pursuing of their Carnal pleasures And make them strive to get eternal treasures Answer Now Satan puts on sin in such a case A seeming fairness on a hellish face He paints this Harlott in a handsome dress And souls to sin draws by deceitfulness Were this deformed Hagg without false hair And painted face she could not scules insnare The grisly face of sin would men affright But by false colours it seems fair and bright Thus Satan covers sins deformity And makes it pleasant to the sinners eye Though of it self it 's filthy foul and naught Compar'd to meat thrust out into the draught All other filth the body doth defile but sin's contagious and the soul doth soyle It 's most infectious like a Leprosie Infects the walls the cloathes Posterity The sin of Adam to his seed remains Till Christ's warm Blood doth wash away the staines The misery of Man not Reconciled to God in Christ O Wretched man where shall my Muse begin To state the case that thy poor soul is in Who art condemned to eternal death Adjudg'd to Hell before thou drawest breath Thy Father Adam was by God created In innocence in Paradise was placed That he and his Posterity might have â—mmortal life and conquer Hell and Grave To him all earthly Creatures were made free For meat and use excepted was one tree That was forbidden under pain of Hell He ate thereof and so thy Father fell Pride puff'd him up he did beleive the Devil He tasted of the Tree of Good and Evil By this foul fall eternal misery Intailed was on his Posterity And made them subject to sore punishment Whilst they like thee remain impenitent Finis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A DIVINE POEM OR A Confession of FAITH Composed in Meeter By E. Manlove Esq Of the Scriptures and Argments to prove them the Word of God BY God's good word the way unto salvation Is truly taught by holy Inspiration O then beleive it and the same obey Give no such credit to Appocrypha Nor to traditions of the Romish See All saving truths in Scripture written be And are recorded for Divinity By truth it self the holy Trinity Depending not upon the testimony Of any Church the Pope of Rome or any But God the Author our most blessed Lord Receive them therefore as his Holy word But we by witness of the Church may deem The Scripture worthy of a high esteem O prize it highly 't is a pretious thing Sweet tidings of Salvation it doth bring The stile and doctrine challenge reverence The efficacy gives great evidence Of Gods known will it makes a full discovery And shewes the way for sinful man's recovery Though mortal man of Scripture was the writer Yet God's good spirit was the sole Inditer Some Secretaries God did set apart Who spoke and wrote but he inspir'd the heart These Writers did for Holiness surpass All Popes and Doctors of the Romish Mass And by their works such depth of wisdome shoâ—â— As learned men could not attain unto Yet never trained up in Learned Schooles With them compar'd Phylosophers are fooles The Prophet Amos he did far surpass Some learned Rabbies yet a Heardsman was And Peter Iames and Iohn but fishermen Admired by the Elders of Jerusalem Amongst the writers ther 's a sweet concord Which proves the Scripture is the Holy Word None disagree at which we may admire For God himself the Penmen did inspire They wrote such things as never wit could hatch No History this History doth match And what they wrote was full of Majesty Profoundness Wisdome and Authority Commanding Credit to be had to them Denouncing threats against all wicked men The end and scope of all the Scriptures be For God's great glory and mans felicity The writers antient for Antiquity Aoses more antient then the Heathens be The deadly hatred that the Divels beare â—gainst the Scriptures yet believe and fear Do prove them plainly
to th'elect by Adam's fall defil'd â—he womans seed did break the Serpents head â—he Lamb was slain for Saints and buried Christ hath Redemption purchased for men â—nd intercession he doth make for them â—hose he redeem'd to them he doth apply â—his purchase made by him effectually â—nd by his word a perfect Declaration â—eveal'd to them of th' misteries of salvation â—nd by his spirit in their inner parts â—oth work Obedience and doth guide their hearts And all their enemies he doth overcome By 's Power Wisdome and Dominion Of Free Will MAn in the state of Innocency had A power to will and do both good and bad He badly did and he by doing ill Lost both the power and freedome of his will He disobey'd and lost his happy station To will or do what might obtain Salvation To what is good he wholly is averse And also dead in sins and trespasses Man of himself thus merg'd in misery Can nothing do for his recovery Till God convert him and do him translate Into a godly and a gracious state Then he doth free him from his natural sin And from the bondage he before was in And by his Grace doth give him power and skill Spiritual works as well to do as will Yet still the seeds of unregeneration Remain in him till death remove his station And when he comes into eternal bliss Free to all good and not till then he is Of Efectual Calling ALL those that unto life by God's decree Predestinated are assuredly His Heirs shall be and Heaven shall inherit And shall be called by his word and spirit Out of the state of death and deadly sin In which by Nature they were plunged in Into a state of grace and of Salvation By Jesus Christ and through his mediation And their blind minds shall filled be with light To understand the things of God aright From them shall taken be their hearts of stone And hearts of flesh infused in the room And in their wills they shall renewed be To do what 's good then grace shall make them free This calling is by special grace alone And not for any thing foreseen or known That is in man therein he passive is God by his spirit freely calleth his And them enables also to embrace His gracious offer when he offers grace Elected Infants in their Infancy Are sav'd by Christ although the Infants die Persons elect depriv'd of outward call by 'th Ministry yet they are saved all Men not elected though they called be by 'th outward call of word and Ministry And have some operation of the spirit shall not be saved by Christ Jesus merrit And those that be not Christians they can never Salvation have by any way whatsoever Though they their lives do frame by natures light And keep that Law wherein they do delight Of Iustification ALL those that called are effectually The same God doth most freely justifie And into them doth righteousness infuse They are the Children God doth freely chuse Their sins he pardons and their persons takes As righteous all for Christ our Saviour's sake Not for the works or deeds which they have done Their debts discharg'd by Jesus Christ his Son He by his sufferings did acquit from sin All those that rest and do rely on him By lively faith his righteousness is theirs This Faith God gives to his Adopted Heirs And they receave the same beleivingly And by their faith God doth them justifie All saying graces do attend this one Faith works by love and never goes alone And for all those that are thus justifi'd To answer Justice our dear Saviour di'd Man 's justify'd this done by Gods free grace And yet observe that Justice keeps his place That all the elect for which our Saviour dy'd By Gods decree were freely justifi'd Yet though elected they are not just men Till Christ by 'th spirit be apply'd to them Man justifi'd can never lose that treasure Yet he by 's sins may suffer Gods displeasure And lose the favour of his countenance Till he be humbled by true penitence And do confess his sin and pardon get Renew his faith and so remove the lett Believers under the Old Testament As under new herein is also meant And of God's mercy freely did pertake And justify'd were for our Saviours sake Of Adoption ALL those by God that justified be For his Sons sake adopted are and free God for his Children them doth freely take They have access unto the Throne of Grace And Abba Father they may boldly cry And he will help them in their misery He pities them and them he doth protect He is their father and will them correct Yet he his Children never will forsake Co-heirs with Christ he doth his Children make Of Sanctification ALL the Elect that are regenerated In them new hearts and Spirits are created And all such Saints are sanctifyed more By God's good spirit then they were before And they not only are more sanctifi'd But sins dominion is in them destroy'd And that dominion being so destroy'd Their several Lusts in them are mortifi'd More quickning and more fading graces then Appear in all such sanctified men More power they have to practise holiness Which brings them to eternal hapiness Yet notwithstanding Saints proceed so far Still their corruptions raise a dealy warr The flesh and spirit alwaies are at strife Flesh fights for death the spirit strives for life And in this fight the flesh doth many maime And then the spirit conquer's it again And then the Saints in saving graces grow More flesh doth fight more grace it self doth show Of saving Faith by 'th word and spirit saving faith is wrought In all th'elect and they thereby are brought Into the way that leads to perfect bliss And then their Faith by Prayer increased is Then by the Sacraments they get more strength By Faith in Christ their souls are sav'd at length By this true Faith all Christians do accord To all the truths in the revealed word And square their actions by the Rule and Line Of God's good word as he doth them incline Doing and suffering what he doth require Doing the same with hearts that are intire Trembling at threats the promises imbraceing Resting on Christ our Saviour for salvation Of Repentance unto Life BY Gods good spirit and by his Holy Word Which are as sharp as any edged sword True penitence may be so wrought in him That was defiled by notorious sin That by Gods grace and by the sence and sight Of sins defilement he may grow contrite And greatly greive that he did ever sin Against the Lord that suffer'd death for him And may endeavour with a true intent To walk the waies of God's Commandements Man by Repentance cannot pardon merit And yet without it cannot bliss inherit No sins so small but it deserves damnation No sin 's so great but man may have salvation By true Repentance but observe herein He ought t'repent of all and every sin And them
confess to God and them forsake And pray for pardon for our Saviours sake And if he doth his brother scandalize Or the true Church in any wise He must confes 't and sorrow for the same And reconcile himself to them again Of good Works SUch works as God by 's holy word commands Such he accepts from all his peoples hands But such as be the products of blind zeal Or mans device shall not a whit avail Good works by men done in obedience To Gods commands are fruits and evidence Of true and lively Faith and manifest That they by Faith do in assurance rest And have a good and strong and full perswasion Founded upon the promise of salvation Men by good works their brethren edifie Adorn Profession and God glorifie They by their works shew what they do profess Their faith produceth fruits of holiness No man good works by his own power can do The spirit doth inable him thereto Yet must he not be negligent and sin But must stir up the grace of God in him They that attain unto the greatest height Yet their obedience alwaies wanteth weight Man's short of duty in a sinful state How then can any superorrogate No mortal man for sin can pardon merit Such Popish thoughts proceed from no good spirit When he hath done what ever he can do His duty he cannot attain unto What good man doth proceedeth from the spirit What 's wrought by him is staind where 's then the merit Yet as the persons of beleivers be By God through Christ accepted so doth he Their works accept yet still its all through him For their best works defiled are with sin But God accepts them if they be sincere And them rewards as if they perfect were God doth not unbeleivers workes accept And yet they sin if they good works neglect Their works proceed from hearts not purifi'd Therefore by them God is not glorifi'd Of the perseverance of the Saints VVHom God accepted hath for his sons merit And call'd and sanctifi'd by his good spirit They never can that are in such a case Fall finally from that good state of Grace But shall therein continue to the end And then their souls to Heaven shall ascend This perseverance wholly doth depend On God's decree which never hath an end And not upon th' free will of sinful men But th' spirit's power that inables them This floweth from the love of God so free In Christ that it can never changed be Yet through corruption man may sin commit And for a time may take delight in it And may thereby incurr the Lords displeasure And be depriv'd of comfort in some measure And conscience wound and hardness have of heart And eke of judgements feel the weight and smart Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation THough Hypocrites and unregenerate May through false hopes mistake their own estate And thereupon presume of their salvation When they are in the state of deep damnation Yet true beleevers may assured be Of their salvation and felicity If for salvation they on Christ rely By Faith and love him in sincerity Indeavouring good detesting every sin A happy state are such beleivers in And of salvation may themselves assure And happiness that shall for aye endure Men may have Faith and yet may not attain To full assurance nor perceive the same For many times God makes his Children waite And suffer conflicts ere they do pertake Of such assurance yet the Lord takes care For their support and keeps them from despair And they that get assurance of salvation Are not so sure but that it may be shaken For God the same doth often intermit When they are careless of preferring it Or do commit some great and griveous sin When by temptation Satan drawes them in Or if the Lord withdraw himself from them They walk in darkness like despairing men Yet when the Lord thus for a time departs He leaves his spirit working in their hearts And he himself returns in his due time Then their assurance is reviv'd again Of Religious Worship and Rest on tâ—â— Lords Day THe light of nature shewes there is a Lord That rules and raigneth over all the world Good of himself and doth do good to all Unto this God we ought to cry and call Fear him and love him trust him day and night Praise him and serve him with our hearts and migâ—â— QuestioÌ„ But what 's the Worship that will please the Lord Answer Such as he hath revealed in his word Not mâ—ns device not mans imagination Nor the suggestions that proceed from Satan But Gods good word prescribes the ready way Walk in the same Rest on the Sabbath day Religious worship's due to God alone To Angels Saints and other creatures none To Father Son and Holy Ghost then pay This Holy Tribute and no other way And that thy service may have acceptation Do all thou dost through Christ his mediation Prayer with thanksgiving from a holy heart Of this pure worship is a special part By God required from all sorts of men But that it may accepted be from them It must be made through Jesus Christ the Son And by the help of his good spirit done According to his will most reverently In faith and love with all humility And all such Worship vocal must be done Not in the Popish way but in the vulgar tongue We ought to pray for all the sorts of men But for the dead we must not pray for them Nor pray for him that doth of malice sin Against the spirit that enlightned him Read Holy Scriptures with a godly fear Sound Preaching of the Word eke gladly hear Perform these duties in Obedience Unto the Lord with faith and reverence Singing of Psalmes with good and gracious hearts Receave the Sacraments for they are parts Of that Religious Worship God commands And doth expect at all his peoples hands Besides Religions Oathes Vowes solemn Fasts And eke Thanksgivings for deliverance past Religious Worship will accepted be In any place performed reverently And is not ty'd to places here or there God may be truly worshipt every where In publick private or in families But yet more solemnly in Church Assemblies Which wilfully must not neglected be When God calls us to such solemnity One day in seven wholly must be kept And for a Sabbath must a part be set And solemniz'd unto the living Lord According to his will and holy word The seventh day the J with Sabbath was Till Jesus Christ from death to life did pass Since on the first it hath been kept alway And so is now the Christian Sabbath day This Sabbath to the Lord is holy kept When as the people do with due respect To his commands fit and prepare their hearts And worldly business wholly set a part And do observe a holy rest that day Not to their Recreations giving way Nor their own works nor words nor thoughts Works of necessity and mercy yet we ought To do but we must alwaies