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A55570	Tsofer bepaḥ, or, The bird in the cage, chirping four distinct notes to his consorts abroad I. of consideration, counsel and consolation, II. some experiences and observations gathered in affliction ..., III. the lamentations of Jeremiah ..., IV. a true Christians spiritual pilgrimage setting forth his afflicted and consolatory state in another metre : and as a preface hereto, an epistle to the Welsh churches, and a brief narrative of the former propagation and late restriction of the Gospel ... in Wales ... / by Vava. Powell.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3078; ESTC R19436	71,339	204

but in vain They gave their pleasant things for meat to bring their souls again See O Lord and consider me for vile I yet remain 12 Oh is it nothing unto you all ye that do passe by Behold and see if that there be any sorrow like my Sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the Lord now hath Afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger and wrath 13 Fire from above into my bones in justice he hath sent And it prevaileth against them by which my strength is spent For my feet he hath spread a net he back hath turned me Yea he hath made me desolate and all the day fainty 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his own hand They are wreathed and are come up on my neck as a band He hath made my strength for to fail the Lord delivered me Into their hands from whom I now cannot rise or get free 15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my men once mighty And in the midst of me he hath called an assembly Aganst me to crush my young men the Lord trod the Virgin The comely daughter of Judah in a wine-press for sin 16 For these things do I weep mine eye mine eye pours water down Because the Comforter that should relieve my Soul and own Is far from me and my children are desolate you see Because the Enemy hath so prevailed over me 17 Sad Zion spreadeth forth her hands to comfort her there 's none The Lord commanded concerning Jacob and his Zion That his Enemies should surround him yea Jerusalem Is as a menstruous woman now abiding among them 18 The Lord is wonderful righteous for I rebelled have Against his just commandment for all this he can save Hear I pray you all People then and this my sorrow see My maids and my young men are gone into Captivity 19 I called unto my Lovers but they deceived me My Priests and my Elders gave up the ghost in the City While they sought their meat that their souls therewith reliev'd might be 20 Behold O Lord for I am in grievous distress and woe My bowels are troubled mine heart is turn'd within me too Because I have most grievously rebelled this is come Abroad the Sword bereaveth much there is like Death at home 21 They my foes have heard that I sigh there 's none to comfort me Yea all mine Enemies have heard of this my misery They are glad that thou hast done it thou yet the day wilt bring That thou hast call'd and they shall be like unto me suffering 22 Let all their wickedness O Lord in time come before thee And do unto them according as thou hast done to me Because of all my transgressions committed against thee For my sighs are many for sins and my heart is fainty CHAP. II. HOw hath the glorious Lord cover'd the daughter of Zion With a thick cloud in his anger and from Heaven cast down Unto the earth the lowest state Israels whole beauty And forgot his foot-stool in the day that he was angry 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the inhabitants well known Of Jacob and hath not piti'd in his wrath he threw down The daughters of Judah's strong holds he brought down to the ground He hath polluted the kingdom and her Princes once crownd 3 In his fierce anger he cut off Israels horn fully He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy And he is grievously incens'd against Jacob with ire Which round about sorely devour'd like to a flaming fire 4 He also bent his mighty bow like as an enemy He likewise stood with his right hand ev'n as an adversary And slew all things that did appear pleasant unto the eye In Zions daughters tent like fire he pour'd out his fury 5 The Lord was as an enemy he Israel swallowed And all her stately Pallaces he hath quite devoured He hath destroyed his strong holds and hath increased in The daughters of Judah's mourning and sorrow for her sin 6 And his Tabernacle away he did take violently As a Garden he destroy'd his places of Assembly The Lord caus'd Sabbaths and solemn feasts to cease in Zion He hath despis'd the King and Priest in his indignation 7 The Lord hath cast off his Altar he loath'd his sanctuary Her pallace wals he gave up to the hand of th' enemy And they in the house of the Lord have lifted up a voice As in the solemn feasting-days appointed to rejoyce 8 The Lord hath purposed also the wall to undermine Of the dear daughter of Zion he hath stretch'd out a line And he hath not withdrawn his hand from cruel destroying For he made rampart and walls mourn they joyn in languishing 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground her Bars are spoil'd and burst Her King and her Princes carried among the Gentiles curst The Law is no more to be seen her Prophets also find No vision nor Revelation from the Lord of his mind 10 The Elders of Zions daughther sit on the ground silent They have cast dust upon their heads in great astonishment They have girded themselves also with sack-cloth they are found The Virgins of Jerusalem hang their heads to the ground 11 Mine eyes do greatly fail with tears my bowels are troubled My liver and my inward parts on the earth is poured For the breach of the Daughter of my People in mis'ry For the babes and sucklings swoon in the streets of the City 12 They say to their Mothers where is the Corn and Wine we die When they swoon'd as the wounded in the streets of the City When their precious soul was poured and surrendred again Into their dear mothers bosom but all this was in vain 13 What thing shall I at this time take to testifie for thee Or what thing shall I parallel to thee in misery O daughter of Jerusalem what shall I think upon Equal to thee that I may give the consolation O Virgin daughter of Zion for thy breach is very Great like the sea who can heal thee of this thy misery 14 Thy Prophets have beheld both vain and foolish things for thee And they have not discovered thy great iniquity To turn away thy sore bondage by bidding thee repent But saw for thee false burdens and causes of banishment 15 All that passe by do now at thee clap their hands together They hiss and wag their heads now at Jerusalem's daughter Saying is this the City that men call the perfection Of beauty the joy of the whole earth Is this that Zion 16 All thine enemies have open'd their mouths wide against thee They hisse and gnash the teeth they say and that triumphantly We have now swallowed her up quite this is the day surely That we look'd for we it have found we have seen it fully 17 The Lord hath done what he devis'd and he hath fulfilled His words that in the daies of old himself had commanded He threw down and hath not piti'd and caused thine

stirred up an Adversary unto Solomon Hadad the Edomite c. And the Lord stirred up another Adversary Rezen c. w 1 Kin. 11.14 23. The like is said of Gods stirring up the King of Assyria to carry some of the Children of Israel Captives into Babylon x 1 Ch. 5.26 So God said he would strenghen the King of Babylon and put his Sword into his hand y Ez. 30.24 These with many more instances prove that Gods will and hand are in all the matters that are done upon Earth Object But these are Old-testament proofs and God dealt at that time in another way than he doth now in the Gospel daits Answ You will find as clear proofs in the New-Testament Christ himself allowes and in effect affirmeth That the power that Pilare had to condemn and Judge him was given him from above z Jo. 19.11 And the Apostles jointly acknowledge That Herod Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together to do what soever Gods hand and his Counsel determined before to be done a Act. 4.28 So it is said That the Key of the bottomlesse-pit was given to the Angel that fell from Heaven b Rev. 9.1 2. Rev. 9.1 2 And this must be Christ who is said to have the Keys of Hell and of death c Ch. 1.18 But what to do Even to open make way for the smoke of Errors and Wickedness to ascend as there it follows Likewise the Gentiles have Commission to trample upon the Church for so much the words will bear And the Holy City shall be trodden under foot for forty and two Moneths d Ch. 11.2 Nay it is said further That God hath put it into the hearts of the ten Kings to fulfil his will to agree and to give their kingdom unto the Beast until the Word of God shall befulfilled e Ch. 17.17 But some may object and say by his will is meant hating the Whore making war with her and making her desolate Though that be part of his will yet the other may aswel be his will and so taken here and agreeable to other Scriptures As God said unto Satan before the destruction of Ahab Thou shalt be a lying spirit and goe forth and do so thou shalt prevaile with him f 1 Ki. 22.22 So it ' s said That the dwellers of Jerusalem and their Rulers fulfilled the Scriptures that is Gods will in condemning Christ. g Act. 13.27 Consider then you that fear God if you are under any affliction or suffering whatsoever that it is God that is the efficient and first cause of it As the Church in the Lamentations said Though he meaning God causeth grief c. h La. 3.32 And it is he that formeth Light and createth darkenesse i Esa 45.7 and there is no evil in the City i. e. of affliction but he doth it k Am. 3.6 If your enemies hate you look upon it as Gods turning their hearts to hate you l as the Egyptians did the Israleites l Ps 105.25 If they curse you look upon it as David did on Shimei's cursing For the Lord saith David hath bidden him m Sam. 16.10 11. If robbed spoiled and reproached by them remember That it is the Lord that gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the Robbers n Es 42.24 and Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproach o 43.28 And if you be delivered up into the hands of your Enemies yet say as Job did God hath delivered me up to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked p Jo. 16.11 And if they slay you yet know they are but Gods Instruments and hand therein q Ps 17.13 14. And therefore conclude and say to them as Joseph did to his Brethren As for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good r Gen. 50.20 Object But doth not this as you say plead for the enemies of God and tend to strengthen their hand and give them incourgement to persecute the people of God so much the more Answ No more than the Prophet Elisha's saying unto Israel I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Ifrael ſ 2 Ki. 8.12 c. Give him ground to kill and slay as he did afterward or the words of Christ said of Judas One of you shall betray me tend to move him to betray Christ And though God may give up wicked men to their own hearts lusts t Ps 81.12 and suffer them to walk in their own waies and commit such wickednesse v Act. 14.16 and leave them to discover what is in them and give the Devil leave to delude and harden them as he did Ahabs Prophets and permit them as he did Pharoah to pursue the Israelites who threatned and resolved six things I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoyl my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword my hand shall destroy them w Exo. 15.9 yet he could performe but one of them and God will turn the rage of man to his own praise and the remainder of wrath he will restrain x Ps 86.11 Consid 2 Secondly as we should consider that whatsoever is done is done by the will appointment of the Lord and therefore we should with the Prophets learn to be silent because he doth it † Psal 39.9 So we should also consider wherefore the Lord doth all this doubtlesse it is not without cause as God told Israel of old And they shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done to it y Eze. 14.23 If like self-justifying Judah you ask Wherefore the Lord our God hath done all these things unto us z Jer. 5.19 I may and oh that I could with tears mention it and that my blood were fit to write it answer with the same Prophet For the greatnesse of our iniquities a Cha. 13.22 But alas whose tongue can utter or whose pen can expresse the nature or number the greatnesse grievousnesse of the sins of the Professors nay of the choisest Christians of this age to whom it may be truly said as formerly to Jerusalem That they have multiplied their transgressions more then they b Ez. 16.51 i. e. then the Samaritans with whom the Jewes had no dealings c Joh. 4.9 And may not the Lord say to his people now as formerly Thou hast also taught the wicked ones thy wayes d Jer. 2.33 Nay may not the Saints of God generally cry out Woe to us we have sinned e Lam. 5.16 and transgressed like men Yea wo to us we have sinned such sins as unrighteous men could not sin against light and love assurance and experience after sealing and consolations Hath any generation since the Apostles daies had such powerful Preachers and plenty of Preachings as this

he doth it to prove and try them Deu. 8.2 2 Chr. 32.31 He repents him for afflicting them Deu. 32.36 Ps 135.14 He feeds fans and purifies them by afflictions Mich. 6.14 Esa 1 25 27 9. Heb. 12.10 he then remembers them and the Covenant he made with them most of all Psa 136.23 Ne 9.17 he is not ashamed then to own them for his people He. 11.16 he shewes them mercy purposely that their enemies may shew them mercy Jer. 42.12 1 Ki. 8.5 he will throughly plead their cause against their enemies Je. 50.34 51.3 and he stretches his hand against the wrath of their enemies and restrains it Ps 138.7 86.11 rescues them out of their hands when they think they hold them fastest Je. 50.33 34. And he saith he will cut off their enemies before their faces and they shall no more oppress them but they shall fee their fall Ps 58.8 9 10 11. Es 17.19 Je. 46.18 Pr. 29.16 and they themselves shall be in due time perfectly delivered Ps 37.4 Pr. 12 13 Je. 24.7 1 Coe 10.13 And God will yet set his Son upon his holy hill and Kingdom in despite of his enemies Ps 2.6 Es 9.6 and if any wil detain Gods Ark the Church they will have cause to say as the Philistines did woe to us 1 Sam. 4.7 Let all therefore that fear God love Christ and wish well to Zion say with Jeremiah so be it O Lord Jer. 11.5 Some Scriptural Observations Spiritual Experiences pithy Sentences and plain Comparisons tending to Edification IN the first Creation The Old and New Creation compared God created the matter and substance of the Creation first and afterwards divided and formed the same So in the second or New Creation or in the work of Regeneration Gen. 1.2 so called 2 Cor. 5.17 Gal. 6.15 Ephes 2.10 first God createth Principles or infuseth the habits of Grace so called into men when there is none Phil. 2.12 Act. 9.4 5. and then distinguisheth and divideth the same 2. In the distinction between the parts and Works of the first Creation Ver. 4. some are higher and some lower as the Firmament higher than the Earth So some part of the work of Grace is in the supernal or uppermost room of the Soul that most stately building of God the Understanding in which is placed true Light and Knowledge and in the Will the Wine-Celler of God is seated Obedience 1 John 5.20 2 Cor. 10.5 3. Between these two are placed the Affections some whereof as Joy Love Desire and Hope are like the VVaters above the Firmament V. 7. and the other as Sorrow Grief and Hatred like the Waters below the Firmament 4. In the first Creation God's Spirit moved upon the Waters V. 2. So in the second Creation the Spirit convinceth quicknet● sanctifieth c. Jo. 16.8 6.63 1 Pet. 1. ● 5. In the first Creation V. 3 6 9.20 26. God by his Command and Word made all things so by his Word God works Regeneration and Grace in the Soul John 4.41 and 6.63 1 Pet. 1.23 Jam. 1.18 Psal 19.7 6. In the order of the first Creation or rather Formation V. 3. Division or Distinction God created and formed Light so in the order of Regeneration God first creates Light and Knowledge 2 Cor. 4.6 Acts 26.15 18. 2 Cor. 3.16 Heb. 8.10 7. In the first Creation the Lights as the Sun Moon and Stars were appointed to divide V. 14 16. and distinguish the day from the night So in the second Creation or Regeneration Jesus Christ his Spirit and Graces do distinguish Believers from Unbelievers and between themselves in the state of believing and regeneracy and the state of unbelief and unregeneracy in which they were in before Rom. 8.10 11. Eph. 2.12 13. and 5.8 1 Thess 5.5 1 Pet. 2.10 1 Joh. 3.4 8. In order the Evening Ver. 5 13 19 c. or time of darkness and disconsolation is before the morning or day of comsort and consolation set down in the first Creation So is the darkness sorrow fear trouble bondage doubts and disconsolations of a Christian first in his Conversion or his whole time in this Life is the evening of that Eternal Day they are to live with Christ in Heaven See Prov. 4.18 Psal 88.6 Isa 50.10 1 Cor. 13.9 1 John 3.2 9. In the first Creation the Trees V. 12. and so doubtless the Herbs had their Seed in them which brought forth fruit So the Trees and Herbs of Grace true Believers and Regenerate Persons have the seed of the Spirit the Word of God and his Grace in them which is the cause of their bearing spiritual fruit 1 Joh. 3.9 Mat. 13.23 2 Pet. 1.4 10. VVhen God in the first Creation had made the Creatures V. 21 25 c. he saw them all good So when God hath wrought the second Creation or work of Sanctification in the hearts of men he sees them good and not before Psal 37.23 Rom. 5.7 11. In the first Creation God made Man after his own Image that is in soveraignty over the Creatures or like the Father Son and Spirit that is consisting of spirit soul and body 1 Thess 5.23 So in the second Creation or Regeneration God doth create Men after his own Image in Knowledge Righteousness true Holiness and Love Col. 3.10 Eph. 4.24 1 Joh. 4.17 18. 12. In the first Creation God made some Creatures one day V. 5 13 19 c. and some another till He had finished the whole So God he makes some new creatures one day and some another and some in one Age and some in another till He hath converted his whole Elect and Redeemed number 13. In the first Creation V. 27. God created the Woman in the Man and then out of the Man and for the Man So in the Restitution of Man and Ch. 2.18 21 c. the Church of God is chosen in Christ and made holy by his Holiness and for his Glory Ephes 1.4 and 3.9 Ezek. 16.14 Hos 3.3 1 Pet. 2.9 14. VVhen God made the Creatures at first he commanded them to multiply and accordingly they did So when God works Grace in the hearts of his People he commands that they grow in grace and they do so 2 Pet. 3.18 Psal 84.7 and 92.12 13 14. Lastly VVhen the Lord had ended the work of Creation he rested Ch. 22.3 and the Sabbath begun So when the Lord hath finished the work of converting all his People then the Eternal Rest and Raign of the Saints will begin Matth. 13.48 49. Mark 13.20 27. Saints should fear every Sin but no Sufferings Psal 4.4 Revel 2.10 There is a guilt that Saints may communicate to others and contract from others both to be removed by new acts of Faith and Repentance It is a great ease to and unburthening of the Soul to confess Sin sensibly humbly brokenly and with hatred to it It is the property of a true Christian

temptation God hath heard me and frightned away the Temptation The wonderful work of God is much seen in preserving the Saints from the worship of the Beast Rev. 15.2 3. Be sure to praise God when you receive power agaist Sin and Temptation and you shall be sure to find God ready to give you power another time when you want it When thou art talking with thy Eenemy be sure to have thy eye upon his Sword and thy hand upon thy own watch how Satan or Sin intends to overcome you and how you may best disadvantage them Be still imployed in doing good and you shall not be much tempted or troubled with Evil. Some Christians have more trouble from and for temptation and Sin in one day than they have for suffering many Months Though a Christian should not adventure or dare to do or commit the least evil to gain the greatest good yet sometimes God makes some sin to do more good to a true Saint than many Ordinances and services Com. As a man that hath had great Plague-sores after they have been broken and healed the party becomes more healthy many years after or as some of the Physicians say the strongest poyson as Opium if it can be mastered and corrected it becomes the most Soveraign Physick But no other Physician but Christ can make Sin work good to the Godly as that expression of the Apostle Rom. 8.28 All things work together for good Perkins in his Case of Cons is judged by many Interpreters to comprehend Sin in it as well as suffering as the same words All things are taken in other Scriptures Act. 13.39 Eph. 5.13 And some say that the drinking of the wine wherein the Viper which is one of if not the most poysonful Creature hath been drowned will cure the Leprosy But this Viperous Poyson Sin is warily to be thought on and understood and 't is as when a Husband-man sees a Mole spoyling his ground he is moved the rather to turn water over it which is a means to kill and drown many more So a true Christian sometimes at the sight or sence of one corruption maketh search for and finds out many which puts him more earnestly to wrestle with God for more of his Spirit Power and grace against them all A Hypocrite knowes more than he is willing to do but a true Saint desires to do what he knows and to know more that he may do more and better The liberty of a Saint is not to be indifferent to do this or that but to be free in things that are excellent The actual sins of Men do not so much offend Christ as that they will not have him to be their Saviour Some means to help on Assurance and Holiness 1. Labour after a clearer knowledge of the Covenant of Grace and Testament of Christ as what Christ hath done and suffered for whom and upon what conditions men come to partake thereof 2. Consider these two works of Holiness and Assurance to be the proper works of the Spirit of God and therefore is called the Spirit of Holiness and of Grace because it doth sanctify and Seal the people of God Rom. 1.7 Zach. 12.10 2 Thes 2.13 Ephes 4.30 3. The Soul is to be perfectly off from beholding or depending upon any thing in self or done by self Esa 64.6 2 Cor. 1.9 Rev. 3.17 When the spirit of God seals our Souls as witnesses we do believe and are Gods Children Eph. 1.13 Rom. 8.16 there will be none of our own Signs or qualifications seen but like the Stars they will disappear when the Sun shines yet are still Stars and fixed so are Graces in believers 4. Be diligent in praying for Assurance and in using other means epsecially self-examination Heb. 6.12 2 Cor. 13.5 5. Take heed of all Sins for they put back the Soul both in beleiving and holiness Psal 51.8 11. Luke 22.31 32. 6. Give not way to hard thoughts of God neither entertain that principle of falling from Grace which cannot possibly consist with Assurance See Esa 63.16 and 64.8 Jer. 3.19 and 32.40 Phil. 1.6 Rom. 8.35 36. 7. Look narrowly to your Hearts Tongues Steps and Waies and keep a Diary of Gods dealings and your own walkings Prov. 4.23 Psal 24.25 26. Heb. 12.13 8. Exercise Repentance constantly upon every slip and fall into sin confess them mourn for them be ashamed and humbled for them and labour to hate them and loath your selves for them Lev. 26.40 41. Psal 32.15 Jer. 3.21 Ezek. 7.19 2 Cor. 7.11 Jam. 4.8 9. Eze. 20.43 THE Lamentations OF JEREMIAH IN MEETER CHAP. I. HOw doth the City sit alone that full of People was How is she become a widdow she that was great alas Among the Nations and Princess in Power and Glory Among the Provinces Is she become Tributary 2 She weepth now sore in the night and on her checks are teares She hath none for to comfort her among all her Lovers All her Friends have dealt treach'rously with her and now they are Become her real Enemies she could not them beware 3 Judah is gone into Bondage because of Affliction For their greatness of Servitude how sad is dear Zion She dwelleth among the Heathen she finds no rest but waits Her Persecutors overtake her between the sore straits 4 The ways of Zion do mourn much because none come of late Unto the solemn Feasts but all her Gates are desolate Her Priests do sigh her Virgins are afflicted too no less And she Jerusalem her self is in great bitterness 5 Her Adversaries are the chief her Enemies prosper Because the Lord himself for sins hath so afflicted her For her many Transgressions into Captivity Her little children are now gone before the Enemy 6 And from the Daughter of Zion all her beauty departs Her Princes have lost their Courage and are become like Harts That find no pasture any where and they are gone fainty Without strength before the face of the Pursuer they be 7 Jerusalem minded in the days of her Affliction And of her Miseries all her pleasant things that are gone That she had in the dayes of old when her People did fall * Dutch Transt By the hand of the Enemy and none help'd her at all The Adversaries look on her and at her Sabbaths mock'd 8 Jerusalem sin'd grievously therefore she is remov'd All that did honour her before hate her and not regard Because they saw her nakedness she sighs and turns backward 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts she her last end not minds Therefore she came down wonderfully no comforter she finds O Lord behold my affliction for the proud enemy Against thee and against me Lord himself doth magnifie 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand on all strongly Her pleasant things for she hath seen into the Sanctuary The heathen entred whom thou didst command that there should none Of them at all enter into thy Congregation 11 All her People do sadly sigh they seek bread