she went To keep the Sabbath-day But little rest sad Mary found Reflecting on her Lord. No meat no drink or sleep I judge She did her self afford Early next morn Mark 16. v. 1. with Marys two She took her ointments dear To give her Lord the last farewell The Guards she did not fear Nor who should roll away the stone v. 4. Which passed much their strength Love gave her wings Love gave her will Love brought her joy at length But lo Mary a second grief Lik 24. v. 3. The Body is not here The Tomb is open some have stol'n Away my Lord I fear Chear up Mary An Angel asks Woman Io. 20. v. 13. why dost thou weep I know not where they 've laid my Lord Which wounds my heart full deep v. 2. She runs and tells his Brethren this Peter and John ran fast And found what she had said was true And back again they past But Mary still stood weeping at The Tomb v. 11. would not depart Where her Lord's Body last was lay'd She had intomb'd her heart No longer could Christ's clemency Forbear but did appear v. 15. Say'ng Woman why do you thus weep And whom do you seek here She took him for a Gard'ner by His habit v. 15. and replies If thou him took'st I 'le fetch him back Tell me but where he lies Christ seeing Mary's loving tears No longer could conceal Himself but open'd Mary's eyes And did himself reveal MARY v. 16. says Christ She knew him then And Rabby she reply'd She saw he was no Gard'ner but Her Lord who for her dy'd And fell down at her usual place His Feet to kiss but see New grief Her Lord denies her this Say'ng v. 17. Woman touch not me v. 17. But go and tell my Brothers dear That I again do live Mat. 28. v. 7.10 In Galily they shall me see Where I will blessing give Mary obeys and in the way v. 9. Christ lets her kiss his feet Love made him first appear to her Her Love with Love did meet How oft to her Christ did appear The Scripture doth not tell 10. 11. v. 5. But we may judge it often was For he lov'd Mary well And when to Heav'n he did ascend Act. 1. v. 14. Mary was with the rest When Holy Ghost he promis't them And his Beloved Bless't Behold how Mary serv'd her Lord And never did depart From him in Joy or Misery So constant was her Heart Grant JESUS dear for Magd'len's sake That I adhere to Thee In Life and Death and that her Prayr's True Joy may bring to me Dear Mother Look in the old Hymn at Lauds beg this of your Lord As you did for your Brother That in this Life he 'l give me grace And glory in the other THE THIRD PART Containing the rest of her life after Christ's Ascension to her death YOu 'l say While Christ was here on Earth Mary was led in hand Now he is gone and out of sight Let 's see how she doth stand Io. 11. v. 44. Christ raising Laz'rus up from Death Confirm'd his doctrin so How to defame and blast the same The Jews no longer know Io. 12. v. 10. To kill him therfore they resolve But God permitting not How to destroy the family They next contrive and plot The brother sisters and some more They put into a boat Without Sails Oars or any guide Upon the Sea to float Intending to destroy them thus of humane help depriv'd But by God's Providence they all Safe at Marselles arriv'd Where Magdalen began to preach One God and Saviour dear Such Doctrine these poor Heathens blind Before did never hear From Idols many turned were By word and works she wrought Till at the last they would adore Her for the God she taught Which made her beg of God to take Her from the praise of men Convey'd she was by Angels hands Into a lonely Den. Where never Man or Woman she Beheld for thirty years Her meat was what the Mount did yield Her drink was wrought by tears For shedding tears for her past sins And Death of Master here Immediatly at her request Sprung up a Fountain clear To keep fresh in her memory Her dear Lord's death and loss She begs some Instrument of God An Angell brings a Cross She spent her life in tears of love And heav'nly Contemplation Her Heart curs't Satan nêre could move With any vain Temptation Christ her dear Lord could nêre forget This his dear Penitent But to her seaven times a day His gloriôus Angels sent Who by their virtue rais'd her up Into the air so high That with a ravish't Soul she heard The Heav'nly Harmony And in that space of thirty years As Mary lived there Her Lord an hundred and ten times Did gloriously appear What ravishments he gave her then Of Joy and what excess Excells Man's fancy to conceive Or Tongue well to express God willing now that Magdalen In soul this World should leave Reveal'd her who from Maximin Christ's Body did receive And being thus prepar'd for Death Her Soul left presently Her Mortall Body and with wings Of Love to God did fly Where now with him she doth remain In joy of Heav'nly Bliss Become a Patroness for those Who here have done amiss Behold the Soul of Magdalen At first defil'd with sin Refin'd by Love and purg'd by tears At last did Heaven win Let no poor Sinner then despair Of Mercy here and Grace If Mary's Life he 'l imitate And her rare Virtues trace This let him beg of God in faith Of JESUS Passion dear And merits of this glorious Saint Whose Pray'rs he 'l ever hear Blest Mary my poor love accept And be to me a Mother Pray in this Life God's Grace I have And Glory in the other Amen THE LIFE OF THE SERAPHICALL FATHER S. FRANCIS IN VERSE DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS The First Part to the making of his Rule GOd made Man's nature innocent Adorned with Free-will Gen 4. v. 7. Eccli 15. v. 17. Gen. 2. v. 17. And gave him one Commandement His pleasure to fulfill To break it Death to keep it Life Was for Eternity And while on Earth void of all strife And human misery Luk. 10. v. 18. Rev. 12. v. 9.12 Curs't Satan who from glory fell Did hate Man's happy state Made for his place in joy to dwell Where once this proud Fiend sate Wisd 2. v. 24. Gen. 3. v. 4. And to deprive him of his Bliss He tempts the fruit to take Thou shalt not dy 't is not amiss Do but experience make Man yielding to his Wife's desire v. 6. Rom. 5. v. 12. Made that unhappy tast Incurr'd for him and his Hell-Fire Who here on Earth were plac't Environed with misery In Reason blinded so They fell into Idolatry Their God they did not know For this and many other sins Gen 6. v. 7. v. 8. God thought all
eternally accurst Let 's Grace and Virtue thirst untill we dy That we may quench it in God's deity Amen THE SEAVEN SACRAMENTS I saw seaven golden Candlesticks and in the midst of them one like the son of Man Apoc. c. 1. v. 12. and 13. The sun gives light unto the eye Io. 1. v. 9. So doth God's grace unto the soul That man may walk secure therby And from sin's wound preserve it whole But if this light should be put out The soul would perish without doubt For nature is so weak and frail And flesh and blood to sin so prone The enemy would soon prevail Io. 15. v. 5. If God should leave poor man alone Grace is the soul's security Against her mortall enemy This grace Christ purchast on the Tree And that it might with us remain The Sacraments ordained be Which also do lost grace regain These are the conduits which conveigh Gods grace to souls which him obey These from the side of Christ did flow These with his bloud death were bought By their right use God doth bestow His gracious gifts as we are taught These signs Christ in his Church did place Still in themselves conferring grace Rev. 1. v. 13. S. John the shape of one did see Midst seaven candlesticks of gold Who seem'd the son of man to be And seaven starrs in 's hand did hold v. 16. Which shews the Sacraments receive From Christ the grace they in us leave In Exodus w' are also told Moyses commanded was to frame Exod. 25. v. 31.37 A Candlestick of purest gold And place seav'n Lamps upon the same Which were to burn and to give light In th' Tabernacle day and night This Candlestick did signify Christ's Church The seaven lamps declare The Sacraments wherein doth ly Prov. 8. v. 31. The oyl of Grace and true lights are Illuminating with God's grace The soul of man his resting place Seav'n things our bodies do require To their beginning and support When they are born they food desire But yet not of the strongest sort Breast-milk feeds them while they are yong And grosser meat when they are strong Physick's requir'd when Health doth fail Salves are apply'd to wounded parts When Physick seem's nought to prevail Rich Cordialls must revive their hearts Superiours they are govern'd by By Marriage they do multiply These seaven things most needfull are To give us life and it maintain Seav'n Sacraments Christ did prepare For souls whilst here they do remain Baptism the first Tit. 3. v. 5. Io 3. v. 5. regenerates By water souls which God creates For thô the soul is innocent Yet when it 's in the Body plac't United Ps 50. v. 7. t is incontinent Guilty and in it's self defac't Rom. 5. v 12 Tit. 3. By Adam's sin it dead remains Baptismall grace it's life regains By Confirmation it is fed With milky grace till it be strong It must not tast that living Bread To the adult this doth belong Act ◠v. 17. This gives to it the Holy Ghost To strengthen it against Hell's Host Who seek the soul's first fruit to gain When use of reason doth appear By Confirmation do remain In us God's Spirit Love and Fear It doth enable us to fight That we may put the dev'l to flight Let no one then this Sacrament Neglect You Parents still take care That you to Bishop do present Your children but first them prepare To this great gift of Confirmation That it may prove to their Salvation When reason's ripe a stronger food Christ in his love did here ordain His pretious Body MarK 14. v. 22.23 Io. 6 V. 56. and his Bloud That he with us might still remain And we not fear the greatest evill Being dreadfull made unto the devill Of this transcendent act of love I shall not now pretend to treat Nor how much it doth us behove Oft to receive this Heau'nly Meat There and the rest I do reserve To treat alone as they deserve Iob. 7. v. ◠Mans life on Earth a Warfare is ' Gainst devil World and Flesh he fights Iames. 3. v. 2. He often erres and doth amiss And wounded is by satans sleights A sovêrain Salve Christ did prepare To heal and keep him from despair This Sacramentall Pennance is Which Io. 20. v. 23. right apply'd doth heal the soul Where God gives to it Peace's Kiss And grace all passions to controul To root out all inord'nate Love And six it's joys on God above What requisites most needfull are That Pennance may work these effects J shall hereafter full declare And also what are the defects Which hinder Sacramentall grace And hatefull sin set in its place When sickness doth so much prevail That you expect your Friend to dy And usûall Physick seems to fail Rich Cordialls then you must apply Life to preserve till Nature 's spent Which also death somtimes prevent Thus Extream Unction doth apply The Churches Pray'r Iam. 5. v. 14. if death appear To those who agonizing ly Which God is often pleasd to hear And longer life grant V. 15. to this end That they their former may amend Or else it doth prepare to death V. 15. By full remission of their sin That when they yield their vitall breath Life everlasting may begin O! always beg you ne're may dy Without this sacred remedy Judges and Magistrates we need The Body Politick to guide So Priests and Prelates Act. 20. v. 28. rule and feed All such as in the Church abide Luc. 22. v. 19. Hence t is that such might still remain Christ Holy Order did ordain Io. 20. v. 22. Act. 13. v. 3 c. 6. v. 6. 1. Tim. 4. v. 14. 2. Tim 1. v. 6. These have their power from above The Holy Ghost Christ to them gave Those they ordain Christ doth approve And they the self same power have They are the Guides unto our soul Good to promote and Vice controul Priests consecrate the Sacrament Of the most Holy Eucharist They do absolve the Penitent As being authoriz'd by Christ Io. 20. v. 23. Whose sins you quit the same do I And whose you bind the same I ty By Wedlock Bodies multiply And souls which God in them creates The Sacrament doth grace apply Mat 19. v 6. And God this Contract consecrates Who grace to Man and Wife doth give Eph 5. v. 33. That they in mutûall love may live That they their duty may fulfill Breeding their Children in God's fear To love him and fulfill his will That when at Judgment they appear They may not bear their Children's blame As being Authors of the same Here you compendiously do see The virtue of the Sacraments As also why they seaven be Which sacred number represents The seav'nfold grace of God's bles't Spirit Which we by Sacraments do merit These seaven stars are our true Guide That we may shun the Gulf of sin By these we in God's
prevail We beg to pray they will not fail Iob. 42. v. 8. God sent Job's friends who had offended To beg that he would for them pray v. 8. To grant what Job askt he intended Thô their Request he cast away Rev. 5. v. 8. Thus Saints by Pray'r our wants relieve Thô to us Grace they cannot give And doubt not but our Pray'rs they hear For they our thoughts in God do know In whom as in a Chrystal clear They see all things which are below If Angels know not Sin is quit Luk. 15. v. 7. How can they'n Heav'n rejoyce at it And since the Saints for friends might pray When here I am 5. v. 16. why not now they are gone Will God this Privîledge take away That they shall leave their friends alone If here 't was counted Charity Shall they in Heav'n less loving be This doctrine false from Devils came 1. Tim. 4. v. 1. Who are to Saints and Sinners foes To lessên Saints honour is their aim That we may this advantage lose If tempting Dev'ls may here assault Why not Saints prayîng defend from fault In all your life time night and day Make Pray'r to God become your Brother The blessed Saints desire to pray For you and chiefly your dear Mother Io. 19. v. 27. Christ gave her Mother unto Saint John So she 's the same to evêry one Beg that she will your Mother be And next to God of you take care To pray for your felicity And that all Sin you may beware Now and in the hour of your Death When you must yield your vitall breath For on that hour all doth depend It Sorrow brings or lasting joy Beg her by Pray'r you to defend That Satan may you not annoy Pray Mother that I dy in love To live with you and God above Amen OF FASTING AND THE CONTRARY JESVS fasted forty days and forty nights Math. 4.2 YOu see that our first Enemy The Dev'l by Pray'r is overthrown How Flesh the next subdu'd may be I shall endeavour to make known Hest 14. v. 2.1 Cor. 9. v. 27. Pray'r doth prevent the Devil's aim Fasting rebelliôus Flesh doth tame Yet 't is most certain that without Fasting your Pray'r doth little avail When Flesh is pamper'd Rom. 8. v. 5.7.8.13.1 Pet. 2. v. 11. there 's no doubt The Dev'l will soon with you prevail The Flesh is his chief Instrument By which he gains the soul's consent For Stomack full with meat and drink Obscures the poor soul's Understanding That she on God can little think And thus she leaves the sense commanding Consenting to what Flesh requires Sleep Sloth Gal. 5. v. 19.20 and all unchast desires Hence 't was that when God Laws did give To Man he grounded them on Fasting That he might still obedient live And thus obtain Life everlasting Phil. 3. v. 19. The Belly-God you must deny Which doth the true God still defy To Man God's first Law was that he Should keep strict Fast and to abstain Gen. 2. v. 17. Eat not the fruit of this fair Tree And in my love thou shalt remain The Fruit was fair Gen. 3. v. 6. and pleas'd the Eye Man eat lost all by Gluttony And we his children from that time Of Gluttony do feel the smart By this our Parents hainous crime From God averted in our heart 1. Cor. 15. v. 50. Gal 5 v 17 Inclin'd unto Flesh-Liberty The Soul 's most Mortall Enemy The second Law which God did give Was to great Moyses in the Mount If by that Law we justly live To God we once must give account Exod 23 v 16 T' approach God there he had not dar'd Had he not been by Fast prepar'd v. 18. Exod. 31. v 18. He fasted forty days and nights And then receiv'd the ten Commands Which guide our Reason like ten Lights v. 18. And written were by God's own hands In stony Tables to declare The people Stony-hearted were For thô the Wonders were so great God wrought for them by Moyse's hand Ungratefully they him did treat Ps 104. And often in Rebellion stand While Moyses fasts in their behalf Exod. 32. v. 4. They make themselves a golden calf v. 6. v. 19. v. 4. They eat they drink about it dance The God of Heaven they deny This Idol's honour to advance This was the fruit of Gluttony When Moyse's zeal this evill saw v. 19 He broke the Tables of the Law Here in a trice one Gluttônous Act Made void the Fast of forty days Exod 33. v. 4 Exod. 32. v. 31. Exod. 34. v. 28. v. 29. Moyses makes them this Sin retract And for this wicked people prays And by like Fast he did obtain The Tables of the Law again Our Saviour when he did intend Mat. 4. v. 2. To give to us the Law of grace Kept forty days Fast to this end That we this Virtue might embrace Without this Gal. 5. v. 24. we pretend in vain God's Law to keep or Grace obtain You see in Fasting God did give The Laws of Nature Moyse's Grace To shew if blameless you will live And have your Reason still take place Rom. 8. v. 13.1 Cor. 15. v. 50. By Fasting you the Flesh must tame Or doubtless you will miss your aim 1. Cor. 9. v. 27. Fasting doth curb the Flesh delights And leaves the Soul to domineer Who freed from Flesh couragious fights Against the Dev'l and doth not fear Who of his Weapon Flesh disarm'd Can little do by Fasting charm'd The Soul by Fasting here doth live Like Angel rul'd by Reasons light To whom God Grace doth freely give Prov. 8. v. 31. 3. King 19 v 8 4 King 2 v 11. To be with her is his delight Elias day and night did fast And hence in fiery Chariot pass't The force of Fasting's very great God threatning Ninives overthrow Ionas 3. v. 4. v. 5. v. 10. Their Fast approach't his Mercy seat And Grace on them he did bestow What pow'r hath Fasting here you see Which made God change his first Decree Gen. 3. v. 7. Gen. 9. v. 22. Gen. 19. v. 33. Numb 11. v. 33. Ps 77. v. 30.31 By eating Man lost Innocency By drinking Noah's shame did appear By drinking Lot lost Continency Who God in th'desart did not fear But eat and drank and Belly fill'd When they were fat fed God them kill'd Luk. 16. v. 19. v. 22. Rich Dives feasted gorgeously Nothing was wanting to his Tast Hungry in Hell now he doth ly In Fire among the devills plac't v. 21. Poor Laz'rus Begg'd Bread at his door v. 22. Who feasts with God for evermore Feasting if you consider well Is Man's most mortall Enemy Blindfold it leads the soul to Hell When Reason's blind it doth not see v. 24. Of Gluttony what is the fate Till damn'd it doth repent too late Fasting of Chastity's the Mother S. Basil Hom de
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
Idols is their grief Which now can yield them no relief These thoughts will draw your love frō wealth From carnall pleasures still refrain If you will keep your Soul in health Think what at Death by them you 'l gain Rev. 18. v. 7. How much you liv'd in pleasures here So much of torments you may fear Since then the pleasures of the Flesh Wealth Honour Glory are but vain Phil. 3. v. 8. Eccli 2. v. 10.11 Isai 40. v. 6. And at Death can't Your soul refresh As base and vile do you disdain Esteem them all mere Vanity Which pass away immediatly Iames. 1. v. 10. Coloss 3. v. 1.2 And fix your love upon those pleasures Which are prepar'd for you above Those Honours Glory Joys and Treasures Which will both true and lasting prove Love nothing but in God Ps 41. v. 3. Luk. 2. v. 29. and he From fear of Death will set you free While you live here be enemy To Flesh and Bloud Gal. 5. v. 24. Fast Watch and Pray Relieve the Poor in Charity Be Humble Patient and Obey Still Virtue practise and Sin fly Thus you will stand prepar'd to dy Besides that Death doth put an end To all those Worldly Vanities It doth the soul from Body send To lasting Joys Mat. 25. v. 13. or Miseries And there 's not any certainty When this great Day or Hour shall be God doth the Hour of Death conceal That we may always ready stand 1. Thess 5. v. 2. Mat. 24. v. 44. Thief-like it doth upon us steal Believe it then to be at hand In Conscience clear with Virtues drest That when you dy your Soul may rest What Madness t is but for an Hour To ly in sin and hazard all 1. Io. 3. v. 8. To keep within the Devil's power And not to God for Mercy call If in that Hour you chance to dy Your soul is damn'd Eternally Fear Death before it comes and be Mat. 24. v. 44. Upon your guard against that Hour Love God and be assured he Will you defend from Satans power Eccl. 8. v. 12. c. 12. v. 24. Prov. 28. v. 14. Thrice happy man that liveth here Replenish't with God's Love and Fear Then come Death early come it late Foreseen or sudden when you dy Prov. 14. v. 26. Eccli 33. v. 26. 1. Io. 4. v. 16. Iob. 14. v. 14. Fear hath secur'd you from Hell's gate Love joyn'd you to the Deity Let Death be always in your mind That you these blest effects may find Amen OF JUDGMENT After Death followeth Judgment Hebr. 9. v. 27. AS we are servants placed here Our Masters pleasure to fulfill 2. Cor. 5. v. 10. So we before him must appear To prove if we have done his Will Where ev'ry one reward shall have As here he did himself behave Death's only Messenger to cite All Souls before God's dreadfull Throne Where he will pass a Judgment right And Justice do to ev'ry one Twice God will Judge at Death the Soul When Bodies rise he 'l Judge the whole Dan. 7. v. 10. Rev. 20. v. 12. As soon as Soul from Body parts All 's op'ned to the Conscience view Who knows the secrets of Mens Hearts Will pass a Sentence just and true The Soul that moment knows its doom Go thou Accurs't or Blessed come Yet God will have one Genêrall day When soul and Body shall appear The Bodies 1. Thess 4. v 16. v. 17. which before dead lay Shall rise with horrid dread and Fear All must appear at Trumpet 's sound To that Assize all men are bound Rom 2. v. 5 6. Mat. 7. v. 15. God will have all men publick try'd Who good and bad were shall appear God's Judgments will be justify'd Thô some Men were disguised here Wolves sheep-skins then must lay aside No one Hebr. 4. v. 13. that day his fault can hide As Bodies did with souls partake And share with them in sinfull acts They also here account must make And judged be of all their facts If good with soul they 'l happy be If bad condemn'd to misery Again this Judgment-day must be That Christ who here was vilify'd Mat. 24. v. 30. May then appear in Majesty By who all Causes must be try'd 2. Tim. 4. v. 1. Hen then shall Judge the Quick and Dead Who Thief-like to the Judge was lead Before this Dreadfull day there shall Luk. 21. v. 25. Math. 24. v. 7. Strange signs in Sun and Moon be seen Great Earth-quakes also shall befall Great Wars and Tumults rise between Father and Son Brother and Brother v. 7. All Nations fighting one another Besides the Anti-Christian cheat Mat. 24. v. 24. With sword and Wonders shall compell Most Men from Christ's Faith to retreat And draw them with himself to Hell 2. Thess 2. v. 8. He shall be kill'd by JESUS Spirit And cast in fire as he shall merit Ose 3. v. 5. Isai 10. v. 21. Math. 24. v. 29. Then the hardhearted faithless Jew Shall be converted to Christ's Faith Soon after these things will ensue The Judgment-Day as Scripture Saith Before which there will yet appear More dreadfull Signs recounted here The sun shall be obscur'd v. 29. Act. 2. v. 20. Mat. 24. v 29 Luk 21. v. 26. Rev. 6. v. 14. the Moon Shall lose her light like Bloud appear As dark as Midnight shall be Noon Which shall fill Men with Dread and Fear The Stars shall fall the Heavens mov'd By Earth-quakes Mountains be remov'd From Heav'n most dreadfull fire shall fall Luk. 21. v. 25 Rev. 6. v. 16. The sea most horrid noise shall make Sinners shall on the Mountains call To hide them and with Terrour quake With Fear they 'l dry Luk 21. v. 26. and wither away How Dreadfull then will be that Day The Ensign of the Son of Man The Cross Mat. 24. v. 30. shall in the Sky appear They 'l tremble who here from it ran Who lov'd it Dan. 7. v. 9 Mat. 25. v. 31. shall with joy draw near Then shall be plac't the Judgment Seat And Christ appear in glory great Dan. 7. v. 10. v. 10. Ps 96. v. 3. Mat. 24. v. 31. Mat. 25. v. 6. Milliôns of Angels shall attend Him Fire shall run before his face He then his Angels forth will send To summon all unto that place At Midnight they 'l the Trumpet sound Which will throughout the World resound Arise you Dead 1. Thess 4. v. 16.17 come out of Grave You also who alive remain Appear that you may sentence have Of Joys or Everlasting Pain The Dead shall rise Rev. 20. v. 12. Math 24. v. 12. and all shall stand Astonish't at this great Command Souls shall their Bodies repossess 11. The Just with joy shall enter in But those who liv'd in wickedness With grief Rev. 2◠v. 13. reflecting on their sin As Bodies good or wicked are They shall