His meek Humility and chief of graces Favours us with forbearance Let 's come home Whilst 't is to Day for who can tell to whom The morrow shall belong and in that way Tract by the Prodigall i' th Parable Seek out our Fathers face with love and meekness And we are sure of his embracing Armes For though through Natures subtilty we have been As 't were hid deep within the caves of Earth Buried in Worldly cogitations The Merchant of our Souls did spare no pains Nor cost in myning through the earths dark vains To purchase us so brings again to light Yet as pure Gold requires the Finers art And Diamonds polishing and to be cut So here He past the Furnace and became Chief Jeweller for 't was the Blood o' th Lamb Not of he-Goats could serve and if we grinde Our selves for Sin to powder we 'r Refin'd So as at first we were unman'd by her Should be our help that still she might so prove God brings't about no other Vessell serves To entertain a ghest of so great price As that must Ransome all the world besides But of that Sex and though the news at first Strook terrour and amazement afterwards It was sole Remedy against fear for as The name of Caesar to the Seaman once Prov'd of security sufficient To make him put to Sea So here the Virgin Assured that 't was Emmanuel she carryed Gave Ioseph courage not t' abandon Her But casting Anchor on those promises To become full of Faith and by what ere The Lord suggested In that Course to steer Thus was time brought abed of what its young And tender Infancy had onely shewn By Revelation to the Patriarchs Prophets and men of God and which now past Upon these latter Times by Faith is cast So he that was before all time begun Came in the fulness and remains a Son To mediate with the Father that our fears Cancell'd by Faith we might become Coheirs Bona Regni Terreni Potestas quibus opponuntur Infirmitas Horor quibus opponuntur Ignominia Divitiae quibus opponuntur Paupertas Deliciae quibus opponuntur Luctus Regni Coelestis Haec Temporaria sine Illis Sempiterna Illis Joyes Flitting Pleasures Transitory Lie Accompanied with much Infirmitie Below here whilst without th' allay of wo Heav'n for eternity doth those bestow The Brazen Serpent THe world 's a Wilderness and Man therein Exposed to the bite and sting of Sin Whose wages Death from that same curse began Ushering in need of a Physitian Then did the Great Creator of Mankinde And all things else a ready Balsame finde To cure those wounds corrupted Nature so Contracted had for its own overthrow Whose Mercy by a Type at first invites Unto belief the stiff-neck'd Israelites Brings Moses into credit as they pass By setting up a Serpent made of Brass To foil Sin at 's own weapon and to bring The future hopes of our recovering By Him alone who lifted on the Tree A cursed Death endur'd to set us free His goared Head Pierc'd Side and Hands and Feet With Crown of Thorns and Spears and Nails did meet That we might tread on Carpets and become Coheirs with Him in truest Elizium That bitter Cup he did vouchsafe to pledg For us whose teeth by sower grapes set on edg Were almost helpless must incite us on To seek the liquor of salvation Taste Vineger and Gall here first and be Greatly Ambitious of humilitie Cast down our selves for him was rais'd for us If we desire to rise Glorious Bear Crosse be rob'd and hurt shame undergo Passe from Ierusalem to Iericho There meet with theeves no healing hopes we can Expect but from This true Samaritan Good Fridays Reveille or on the Passion Salutis Cataplasmus MAy we call this Dayes task to minde And prove we to each other still unkinde Doth Passion bear o'r Reason sway Making us quite neglect this Passion day Why are we suffer'd so to err As not t' remember our Great Sufferer In Praises due who whilst he dies Shews what He 'd have us doe for Enemies Forgive them first for thus He sues Unto His Father for the cursed Jewes Next whatsoever Crosses come To be like Sheep before the Shearers dumb Or Lambs unto the Slaughter led In Meekness not with fury hurryed Then through that Conflict he endur'd If humbly we beleeve we shall be cur'd For it falls short in other art To frame a remedy for such a smart As from the sting of doing amiss In following Sin to death here heap'd up is And to apply this Plaister lay it on There needs no Others hand save Faith's alone On Easter-day 1648. Death where is thy sting Grave where is thy victory EAch thing below here hath its day As in the Proverb 's said And so it comes to pass that they Conquer are Conquered For He who for mans fault assign'd Death and 2 Graves reward Was pleas'd those bands for to unbind And so himself not spar'd But issuing forth his heav'nly throne Vouchsafes the Earth to bless And became here a little One To make our Crimes goe less Not that our disobedience can In weight or measure shrink But that this Great Physitian Before us takes the drink That bitter Potion we had Deserv'd to quaff and thus He weeps Himself and becomes sad To purchase Joy for us And more than so for every one Will for his friend lay down Some spark of love but he alone His Enemies to crown Refus'd not Death so deep from high His Mercies did extend And if you ask the reason why 'T was meer for Mercies end Yet that grim Death and mouldy Grave No longer be His Prison Than He himself alone would have He ' bides not there but 's risen And if we would as Conquerors rise With him who vanquish'd those We must not fear where danger lies For Him all to expose But though the Grave doe open stand And persecutions reign At Hels desire and Deaths command Look on our Sovereign His Banner doth present the Cross He bore and bare Him too For us and we must count it loss To fail what he did do Thus Sin and Hell the Grave and Death Must quit the field and fly Whilst in contempt of borrow'd breath We 'd live Eternally Thrice happy day whereon the Sun Of Righteousness did rise And such a glorious Conquest won By being our Sacrifice And as unhappy He that shall Not finde the white and best Of Stones to mark the same withall And priz't above the rest To Prince CHARLES in Aprill 1648. Upon the hopes of his Return SEems not the Sun more Glorious in his ray When as the Cloud that shadowed's blown away Is not each beam He darts then truly said Of triple heat after being sequestred The Crimson streaks belace the Damaskt West Calcin'd by night rise pure Gold from the East And cast so fair a Dapple o'r
in words we doe bemone There 's nothing less left in Intention England that was not Is Unless in Metamorphosis Chang'd from the Bower of bliss and rest To become now Bellonaes Interest In danger of a Funerall Pile Unless some happy Swift means reconcile Which how to bring to pass Beyond Mans hopes alass Therefore be pleas'd Thou who didst make Atonement for His sake To silence this unnaturall spell As Thou didst once the Delphian Oracle My Reformation If all the Span Of Dayes Lent here to Man To Pilgrim in And in Times Kalendar enrol'd God should but Skan What might He finde for weight and Measure But Pounds and Pecks of this and t' other evil No one markt to His Praise But spent or sold For Profit or in Pleasure By whole-sale Unto Sin And by Retaile Unto the Flesh the World the Devil If the Immense Goodness Did not dispense Its power upon Our frailties that like Clay or Glass Makes no defence 'Gainst Potters or the Glasiers skill What could we promise to withstand such loss Our Miseries redress Unless alass His Son He let them kill So Himself t' pay That by One Which on all lay And t' expiate through grief and cross Here am I lost So small Yet so much cost Wherein the debt Would wel-nigh drive into despair Had not the Most Of me been dross and so unfit To take the stamp of any Grace or Good Untill he that made all Did to repair My Crackt estate and knit By His pain Wherein met To set again That Breach for Balm His precious Blood Captives ye know Are led Into much woe And Sufferance Untill by Ransome they get free Again and so No more are bound but to those wayes Where lies my bond and Obligation then To Sin was Cancelled But still with Thee My Saviour whose Bayes O'r Death's sting Hell and Chance A Conquest bring To set me at full Liberty again Not what I will To speak Or doe My fill As Appetite Not Reasons Fescue shall direct But with that Skill Thy Gracious Mercies shall infuse To make me truly sensible of those Whilst I the Fetters break And so detect That which did me abuse My Young years Which were light Too void of fears That so I might the rest for Thee compose My Close-Committee HOw busied's Man To seek and finde An Accusation Against all those He deems his Bodies good or Goods oppose And winks at such as Hazard Soul and Minde Nothing of late Is done or spoke But either King or State Concerned are The while Each 'gainst his Neighbour wages War So 're all the bonds of love and friendship broke And how Comes this But that we do Or utter what 's amiss In every thing Making Each Fancy Lord each Will a King And all that Checks not Reason Treason too Were 't not more wise To lay about Which way for to surprise That Traitrous band Of Sins that in our Bosomes bear command And entertaining Grace t' cause those March out Our Lust our Pride Ambition Or whatsome'r beside Seems to give way To that unjust Militia and Array Bring we t' our Close-committees inquisition Thus when our hearts these for Malignants brand Commit them not but banish them Thy Land Humiliation without Reformation a foundation without a Building Reformation without Humiliation a Building without a foundation BEst Architects whether in Brick or Ston Cast first to lay a sure Foundation Then raise the Fabrick Confident hereby T' assign 't a term of perpetuity While Lesser Artists failing of that Care And skill erect them Castles in the Aire An Element unconstant which betrayes To Ruine whatsoever there those raise Such and no Other are They so profess To add by Reformation happiness Yet want the Basis for to build upon To make it last Humiliation When others seemingly cast on the flore Yet are reform'd no better than before So here Foundation without Building is And there a Building on a Precipice Wherefore let me be humbled first and then Reform so as never to sin agen Blending these two together with intent To Build an Everlasting Monument A Carroll A Wake dull Soul and from thy fold of Clay Receive the blessed Tydings of the Day Not of a Foxes Cubb whose guile might be A promise of successive Tyrannie Nor o' th' Victorious Eagles farr-spread wing The chiefest of the Worlds parts covering But of a Lamb that 's yean'd a Childe that 's born No Spectacle of Glory but of Scorn For in the house of bread This Bread of life For us is come to Ioseph and his wife And though the City David's were therein His Son no Throne Possesses but an Inn. There thou maist finde him at whose mean low birth The mightiest Potentates of all the Earth Nay Oracles are silenced and gon Nor longer serve the Devils delusion The Delphian Fiend confesses He 's o'rcome And by an Hebrew-born-Childe stricken dumb The Letters of th' Old Law effaced are Down falls the Statue of great Jupiter With th' Twins and their nursing Beast which shour Of Prodigies rouse up the Emperour Who thus farr in the dark could see t' erect In honor of th' Almighty Architect An Altar in the Capitoll to 's Son First-born with the sole dedication If Light thus thorow darkness shone why is 't That thou who hast the Gospels beams the mist Of errors canst not dissipate but still Becom'st Idolater in doing ill How doth thy Pride and Envie hatch deceit And fond Ambition raise thee in conceit Of thine own worth when all such honors can But dress thee up more stately Beast no Man The Serpents brood like Twins doe alwayes Pare Which by Thy beastly humors fostered are Thy tongue no more thy hearts cross-row doth spell Than if thou were 't an Other Oracle Be silent then nor longer more prophane That Holy Temple for which thou art tane But let the Lambs blood wash away the stains And Characters were written in thy veins By thy first Parents and which sithence thou hast By thy Endevours into Volumes cast Throw down thy self for Him who meekly came Into the world for thee a Childe a Lamb Born to be Slain for thee yet slain before To make the Victory and Conquest more Humility's a Childe a Giant Pride Goliah from the hand of David dide So though like Foes thy ill Affections grow Unto immensity a Powerfull throw Out of the Sling of Faith of Hope and Love May all that Monstrous-uncouth-brood remove Then maist thou raign without suspition free As Pharaoh did till this Nativitie Then shall Thy Conscience Oraclise thy Fate Than was Augustuses more Fortunate Nor in the Capitoll but in thy Hart Erect an Altar to Him let each Part Express thou art awake and seeing canst folded That now Salvation 's come to Israel In Pueros Bethlehemiticos quos Herodes morte Christi causa multavit INnocuis nocuit Iusto dum Injusta minatur Infanda
now bring Faith though but a Mustard seen So may we all remove that high appears In our Conceipts into a sea of Tears For 't is His Blood no other Jordan can Cuer the Leperous Assyrian Qui factus fuit nobis a Deo Sapientia Vt Timeamus utpote Initium Justitia Vt nostra nihili pendamus quoniam carnalis Sanctificatio 〈…〉 Redemptio 〈…〉 Non Recussantes Cruciâ— viz. Afflictionibus Tribulationibus pro Illo suecumber Queâ— astius Gravitatem Anxietatem pro abbis sustentaverut Psal. 104.73 Psalm 19. * The Son of Blindness in the Syriac Iuv. Sat. 10. Hor. Od. 3. Psalm 107. Exod. 2. 2 3. Exod. 2. 3. 14. Psalm 51. 17 Rev. 7. 3. Mat. 25.4 Matth. 13. * Mundities Tim. 1. 1 15. Luk. 1. 20 Mat. 9.13 Mark 2.17 Luk. 13.7 Hodie vidi herividi c. Luk. 2. 8. 10. 13. 32. 2. 1. Iohn 1. 20. Luke 2. 17. 11. 7. 4. 5. Dion Suidas Nicepho Psalm 44. 20. 1 Cor. 6. 19. Psalm 14. 11. Mat. 2. 16. Psal. 148.3 Psalm 82. 6 7. Ezek. 45.9 1 Cor. 1.31 Psalm 105. 119. Psal. 8. 6. Mal. 4. 2. Luke 1. 78. Isa. 60.1 2. Parab Luke 16. 19. Parable Luke 24. 5 6. Gen. 1. 26. Gen. 1. 28. Luk. 10.18 2 Pet. 2. 4. Iude 6. Rev. 20.10 Gen. 3. 24. Gen. 4.16 Ezek. 1.5 15 Gen. 2. 20. Gen. 2.23 10 Gen. 3. 1. 5 6 7 10 8 15 Heb. 11. 2. Rom. 8.24 Iob. 1.16 2 Cor. 1.20 Iob. 3. 15 16. Luke 23. 2 24 46. Rom. 8.34 1 Tim. 2.5 Ephes. 2.9 Iam. 2.26 1 Thes. 1.10 Ephes. 2.3 Nero c. Psal. 95.4 Luk. 1.46 49 50 51 52 53. Luke 23. 47. Mar. 15.39 Iohn 15.13 Ephes. 5. 2. Phil. 2. 8. Mat. 11.29 Iob. 10. 11. Rom. 2. 4. Mal. 4. 2. Ibid. Ier. 8. 22. 2 King 5.15 27. Zach. 13.1 2 King 5.27 14. Luke 2. 21. Iob. 1.29 Rev. 19.8 Isa. 28.16 Luke 23. 26. Phil. 2. 8. Mat. 10.38 Rev. 16.1 Prov. 6.6 Matth. 6.28 Magnes Amoris Amor 2 Cor. 5. 15. 1 Cor. 15. 21. Luke 24. 26. 1 Pet. 2.24 2 Cor. 6.4 5 6 10. Ephes. 1.23 Iohn 4. 14. Gen. 2.7 Iohn 3. 1 4. Mat. 17.20 Psalm 22.6 Math. 18.3 Mat. 20. 16. Mark 9. 35. Luke 9. 48. Luke 18. 11. 12 3. Zach. 9. 9. Psalm 18.10 Psalm 44.11 Iob 31.20 Isa. 53.7 Gal. 5. 6. 1 Cor. 13. 1. Luke 19. 9. Deut. 15. 7. Mat. 23.40 Luke 16. 9. Mat. 26. 67. Mark 14.65 Luke 22. 63 64. Mar. 15. 17 18. Psal. 36.4 Iohn 19. 34. Luke 22. 33. 34. Rom. 3. 28. Matth. 4. 1. 8 5. Psal. 95. 8. Heri vidi Fragile Frangi Sen. trag Hodie vidi Mortalem mori Sen. trag Quim Dies vidis veniens Superbum Hunc Dies videt rediens Iacentem Ibid. Luke 15. 13 18 19 20. Rom. 5. 6 8. Heb. 10.4 Heb. 9. 12. The sacrifices of the Old but shadows of the New A Diamond dissolvable by Goats blood and to be cut with the help of its own powder Luke 1. 28. 29. Quid Times Caesarem Fortunam suam vehis Luca. Matth. 1.23 24. Gen. 12. 3. Isa. 7. 14. Iohn 3. 15. Gal. 4.4,5 1 Tim. 2.5 1 Sam. 17. 26,36 Psal. 3. 6. Lev. 26.26 Gen. 5. 25. 2 Kings 4. 42 43. Luke 2.21 Gal. 2.4 5. (1) Pegasus (2) Helicon (3) Horat. Ovid Ar. (4) Hippocren (5) Obid animas quasi habere dicuntur utpote immortalia quodammodo videntur Immortales etiam creasse nam Dignum Laude virum Musa veraâ— mori (6) Luke 1. 31. (7) Genesis 3. 15. (8) Luke 1. 70. 1 Pet. 1. 10. (9) Matth. 10.41 5.12 (10) 1 Cor. 6.11 (11) Genus ab humo huminum adeâ— in Peccatis volumini ut omni Gratiarum succo proâ—sus vacuum videatur (12) Gen. 3. 19. (13) Luke 22.44 Iohn 19.34 (14) 2 Pet. 1. 3. (15) 1 Pet. 3.4 Christi Passio induit Fidele Purpurâ Resurrectio vero ascensio Coronam addunt Victoriae ut ita Secum Reges etiam simus participesque Patri Gloriae Luke 2. Ephes. 6. 11. c. Heb. 6. 19. Zach. 3. 8. Esay 11. 1. Rom. 13. The Ignorant The Presumptuous The worldly Wise The morally Civill The Hypocrite Iohn 1. 5. Numb. 24. 17. Luke 1 78. Iohn 3. 19. Luke 1. 79. Ephes. 5. 8. Matth. 2. 1. 2 Thess. 5. 5. Matth. 2. 1. 1 Iohn 3. 5. Isa. 10. 3. Iohn 1. 16. Luke 2. 6. Gal 4.4 Esay Luk. 10.42 Joh. 19. 19 1 Pet. 3. 18 Mat. 9. 13. (1) In Crucem alatâ— (2) Iudais (3) Gensilaâ— (4) Ovid Met. (5) Vam laborum Herculis (6) The old Serpent the Devil (7) Sâ—mon virgins (8) Christs conquest over death (9) Ferendo serit (10) Man had so offended God that nothing but God and Man could make atonement (11) All power was given him of the Father who voluntarily undertook the work of our redemption (12) He becomming the truest Anchor of our hopes we cannot vere out the Cable of faith upon better security against all shipwracking Ab Aqua Igne liberavit nos Domus 1 Bohemiae rex seu Palatinus 2 Rex suetiae 3 Pro omni in Palatinatus Civitate 4 Be Opnam 5 Wirtsburg 6 Magdeburg 7 Gods acre praelium Lipsie 8 The Blve flum German 9 Palatioum in Prague 10 Imperator in fugâ—m paratus ut fama 11 Tillius in Monasterium subreptus ut lama sed mendax 12 Saxoniae duae qui se neutralem huc usque reservasset 13 Hoc ita dictum à multiendine militum 14 Hoc vero à puritate causea ad-suscipiendum hoc Bellam maxime movantis 〈◊〉 ut Aquilae juen à Principibus Populoque Germanico tollatur ut eis pristiâ—ae restaurentur Libertates Almania quasi Tora de quae Hyociâ—a sylva cincta Sibi subdieâ— Mart. l. 7. Ep. 38. Mart. l. 10. Ep. 47. Mart. l. 5. Ep. 18. Pastor Fido. Magnes amoris amor Nunquam minus sulus Tim. 3. 16. Iob. 2.14 1 Cor. 1.30 Prov. 9. 10. Cor. 1.29