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A75925	Devout rhapsodies: in vvhich, is treated, of the excellencie of divine Scriptures. Also, of God, his attributes. Plurality of persons. Absolute monarchie. Angels, Good, Bad, their power. How the bad fell. Tempt man. Man, his fall. Beatitude. / By J: A: Rivers.	Rivers, J. A. (John Abbot)	1647 (1647)	Wing A67; Thomason E413_16; ESTC R1117	46,163	91

Bounty Mercy Justice an Abysse Of infinite Perfections Wee le conceive Millions of worlds i' th Divine Essence leave Nothing which may adde beauty give delight To the understanding hearing and the sight Angels surmounting sands o th' Ocean shore Of populous Nations a far ampler store Then should of Atomes be had this vast Frame Nothing but distinct Atomes in the same Now what a pleasant Vision wert If you Saw all these objects in one simple view Millions of Angels Men Beasts Plants rich Stones All Minerals heard all Symphonies at once Beheld all Colours Fields Woods Trees Flowres Fountaines Oceans Springs Rivers Vallies Plaines Rocks Mountaines Numberlesse Cityes Hamlets Castles Courts All recreations all delightfull sports Is there delight in War the Seige of Troy And sacking oft' How barbarous Kings destroy Rome and Jerusalem The Punik slights Of Hannibal Grecian and Romane fights The battailes by our third stout Edward fought Against the French and Flower-de Luces got To adorne our Scutcheons the renowned story O' th Field of Agincourt fift Harries glory And what with BLOVD not inke should be set downe Our CIVILL fights since that at Keinton Towne Which so much bloud and many lives have cost That whosoever was gainer England lost Had they been well imploy'd those Legions might Have subdu'd France regain'd the Electorall Right The Romane Triumphs and Olympian Games And whatsoe're Magnificent in Fames Booke stands registred is shall be hath been Are in Gods Essence as a Mirrour seen And all these knowne a thousand Myria●s more Of objects may be seen and yet the store Never exhausted GOD alone must be The Comprehender of his Infinitie Eternally there was duration though Nor Yeares nor Monthes six thousand yeares agoe Nor Dayes nor Houres nor minutes did divide Ages and Times and all these specifi'd By the perpetuall motions of the SVN As he shall through his annuall mansions run And by the carrying his eternall Light Make Winter Summer Autumne spring day night So when the world shall fade and all these ●●ase The tired Earth injoy a constant peace No Plough rip up her Bowels The Gl●be-land Still unmannured and untilled stand No aurigations of the heavenly ca●res No incertaine motions of the wandring Stars Shall not there be DVRATION Sure there shall But such an one as comprehendeth all Ages and Times the present future past And all these vanish'd evermore shall last And is the same with God This never had Beginning never shall have end This made When it pleas'd him the universe Wee know How long 't is since he made it If wee goe FVRTHER that FVRTHER is Eternity And will not measur'd but admired be For who conceives some thousand Centuries Of ages past and againe multiplies The same millions and millions more of time Yet cannot this grand Calculator climbe Although perpetually he multiply Unto the Top of GODS eternity Who only can his owne DVRATION tell Above created thoughts ineffable These glorious Attributes and Idioms shew A mighty GOD come wee to things below As he converses with the sons of men Bestowes his gifts beares with their manners then Greater amazement will arise to see His Bounty Mercy Longanimity But wee le defer to insist upon this Text And with Devotion prosecute the next To the Honorable my most honored Friends the Lady Francis Nevil And Mistrisse Margaret Brooke her Daughter Sermo Tertius The Argument Wee sing the Notions of the Father Son And Holy Ghost issuing from both yet ONE With BOTH One individed Essence Three Persons by relative Pluralitie Man is Gods Image and do's represent This Ternall One and the unconfinde extent Of the whole Macrocosme yet never shall Be happy till he gaine this ONE this ALL SHall he from whose redundant Plenitude Wee all receive Being Grace Beatitude Who fills the Ocean with innumerous spawnes Replenishes the Desarts and the Lawnes With stocke of Cattell dayly do's repaire With yong ones the inhabitants of the Aire Can such a God be barren No a sire Issuing a Son shall with that Son conspire To breath the Holy Ghost and all these three Equall in glory and in Majesty Ethinks acknowledg'd though with much adoe One God but knew not what belonged to ATRIAD what is Divine GENERATION What is PROCESSION what active SPIRATION The FATHER needs must ●et a SON and then That FATHER and that SON give Origen To the Holy Ghost the first Two cannot be Vnlesse they make their Number Ternary For Love which gives all Creatures birth and growth Before all Creatures had his birth from Both Father on Son the Son on Him reflecting And with a mutuall Complacence affecting The Synagogue of this had shaddows but Their Lanthorne was under a Bushell put And the Hebrew Rites and Books Enigma's are They ' explaine not Truths but poynt at from a far The Law in measure above measure Grace When that once past this other comes in place That Lambe that Lampe of the Caelestiall Towne Shall leave his royall Throne and comming downe Enucleat Mysteries preach a Godhead three In Notions yet a pure Identitie Who comprehends himselfe could onely tell GODS immanent Acts that are ineffable O thou Eternall Son and Word who far i th' raies of Saints before the morning Star Wert got and spoke let 's through all Ages break And search when GOD did thee beget and speake For both are One GOD did no more afford To give thee birth then uttering of a Word Le ts search a hundreth thousand Ages moe Yet shall we not thy Birth and utterance know If we thy Father question hee le reply My Son is both so old and young as I. When he was got as no time can designe So when he was not got no time define Yet of his Origen you truly may Affirme he is begetting every day And through Eternity all Ages past Shall this continued Generation last A SON of 's FATHER independant Heat As th'e ORIGEN whence t is deriv'd so great True GENERATIONS yet devoid o● Motions Reall relations yet no more then Notions As the Vast Ocean that surrounds the Earth Though it give RIVERS springs and Brookes their Birth Euphrates Volga Quahu Nile our Thame Yet never wanteth but runs stil the same As th●nkfullie all these Returne againe And ●isembog●e themselves into the Maine The FATHER never wants although the SON 〈…〉 hath nor are these TWO undone Nor the least jot of all their Treasure lost Though al 's be f●owde upon the holy Gost For though they mutuallie give all their store Yet give they so that they can stil give more Imagine some Eternall Spring or Mine Whence Purest Gold is ●igd flowes richest wine And yo 'ule conceive some glimsies that come nigh ●o shadowe this stil Bounteous Trintie Not Trimegistus or the Stagy●it Not any Stoik or Platonik wit Though Monas Monadem begat can tell How this Fecunditie yet no wombes swell Arises how one can give all his store Yet never be

a Citie where large Kingdomes are The gracefull streets Rome Babylon Grand Caire But simple Cottages compar'd with ours Their Pallaces their high-Heaven-threatning Towers But sties for swine though we fond mortals cry 'Em up not knowing true Felicity Heavenly Jerusalem with jems is built The Wals the Battlements the Turrets guilt The streets are pav'd with Saphire Ophir stones Berill rich Carbuncles and Uniones In such a Citie when the blest soules must Be reunited to their wonted dust Compleated by that Union the Saints shall Have lordly domination over all The World and seated in Majestick chaires Judge Nations heires of God with Christ coheires Be conversant with him humbly adore And kisse those wounds by which he trumph'd ore The grave and Hell acknowledge his sole blood The onely price of their Beatitude Therefore with the Elders every Saint casts downe Prostrate at Jesus feet his royall Crowne Not onely in the mirrour of Gods minde You shall the Apostles Paul John Peter finde But all the Patriarcks Martyrs Doctors see Converse and with 'em most familiar be Heare every passage of their lives and deathes How the stout Martyrs purchased their wreathes Heare Paul relate through what Seas he did wade What dangers scap't where what Orations made And before whom what good his Sermons wrought And who by them into the Church were brought And as he speakes so act at every straine That you would think you heard him preach againe Your understanding shall be lightened so That you the severall Hierarchies shall know See perfectly what now wee but in trust Take up if every Individuum must Bee ' a severall Species by it selfe and God Must needs of the same Forme create an od Suppose if two of the same forme hee le make He must our Mother the first Hyle take But these are Nicities Your principall Happinesse is God whose Vision includes all May satisfie What 's done in Heaven the Son By his Father got active Spiration How these embracing mutually conspire From both their heats to give eternall fire Its Origen which sent by them shall move In such a circle that with ardent love The World shall burne acknowledging a Law That shall both Jewes and Gentiles keep in awe A Law not of sterne threats and fetters made To compell man but gently shall perswade Attracte with tyes of love no more command Then what may easily with prastice stand Let 's well observe what things are requisite To draw from Scientifique arts delight So shall we know what they and how much pleasure Enjoy who purchast have this hidden treasure A power a faculty apt to conceive And from proportion'd objects formes receive And knowledge and delight compleater be According to the objects dignitie This power cognoscitive must be combinde With th' object and the closer it is joynde The more it knowes receives the more content And both increase when th' object 's excellent Can any object be like God of good The fountaine in himselfe Beatitude Of bounty mercy justice a vast Ocean Whose every vertue every single notion Speaks an abysse of worth where sily sheepe May wade Elephants may swim not reach the deep With this sea of perfections sea of good The soul 's so joyn'd t is swallowed in the flood Immerg'd so deeply in that vast abysse That with it one and the same spirit tis Knowes all his immanent acts sees all respects Which his All-potent hand has to eff●cts Is entred to all Gods joyes and injoyes Made one with God all treasures pleasures joyes Gods all in all things and whom he unites So neerly to him with him all delights Pertakes nor need the blessed journeys take To seek Beatitude God alone will make Them happy having in himselfe all store Of bounty mercy justice wisedome power And such an object how must it distill Torrents of pleasures on the ravish'd will How shall our memorie th●●●… M●g●zin Of all Idaeas showing what has been Is extant shall exist before us lay All acts from the Worlds cradle to this day Present all passages through our life run The manie favours God for us hath done The many dangers we have scapt the fights We had against the world the flesh the slights Of Satan how God aided with his grace And brought us Conquerours to this happy place Where our browes circled with triumphant bayes Eternally we shall his mercies praise Then we surveigh the worlds Chronologie And entring in Gods Cabinet councell see Why he so oft hath suffered just men here To be opprest the wicked domineere Plainely perceive these miserable times To issue from the deluge of our crimes Our bloody sins have made so loud a cry Nothing can cure us but Phlebotomie We did abhor the very name of Peace The clamour of the Drum shall never cease We chase Religion out the Land not any One can content us now we have too many Did too much plenty cause a surquedrie Famine shall cure it and much penurie The stock of cattle spent a barren yeare Shall Victuals make and Corne excessive deare Excises shall set up on every score Adde to the famine and undoe the poore Necessity caus'd taxes the same Law Must keep 'em up to keep the rout in awe Why did th' ambitious Horse endure the bit To chase the hart then would be free from it But cann't who thrust themselves into a yoake Deserve to beare untill their backs be broake The Saints shall see why God permits all this And not a jot be troubled in their blisse For those blest Citizens of Sion be As well from trouble as from sicknesse free Nor can their Kin or dearest friends annoy Though knowne diminish their eternall joy For mercies towards themselves to God they owe And praise his justice in Delinquents woe To the right Honourable Edward Earle of Dorset Richard Lord Buckhurst his Son and my truly honored Friend Doctor Samuel Turner Sermo Nonus The Argument Man labouring like the Spider when al 's done T is but a simple Cobweb he hath spun The Epirot will with his Armies rome Abroad to gaine what he injoyes at home Well may we learne of the industrious Ant To gather treasures 'gainst the time of want Such is that dreadfull day when all soules shall In publike audience give account of all Their life The good mounting in heaven shall dwell The bad descend downe to th' Abysse of Hell HOw does the Spider toile and when al 's done T is but a silly cobweb shee hath spun Worth nothing of no durance every blast Can break it with a dish of water cast It falls or Joane when shee makes cleane the roome Sweeps downe the Cobweb and with her long broome The Spider kils from heavens embroydered hall The Angels see who with one act view all That done on earth so doe the Devils too And crave such acts as to their nature due Fond men with the laborious Spider toile By day and night are troubled

sings our Churches lot and state of Fiends Thy Poeme speakes all these which I reade ore With wonder and delight but which was more I know not of these two and dare proclaime Who understand it will commend the same Nor doe I envy it because 't is thine Yet were vowes potent I could wish it mine Ad eundem Decasticon QUale tuum pectus quae Musa humana superna Dum pariter lustrans Tartareasque domus Caelicolas cantat cives ipsumque sedentem In solio Dominum Terrigenasque Deos. Hinc amor invitat justos ad pnemia terret Dum legitur sceleri debita paena malos Sed benè cum cantas haec omnia sperne quid ausint In Librum Rabies invida tempus redax Scilicet haec Thamesis resonabunt carmina Ripae Dum placido Thamesis mur●ure Lympha fluit George Cox To my worthy and learned Friend Mr. Rivers after the reading of his Religious Rhapsodies THat thou in noblest straines of Poesie Do'st teach the myst'ries of Theologie And raisest humane soules from sordid earth Vp to that blest place whence they take their breath I leave to them whose learned spirits know How best their knowledge and thy praise to show And onely saying I the Work admire Wish that all those who Christian bayes desire With just attention and cleare sight would looke Each houre or day on thy sweet mystick booke So they reform'd by vertue of thy Muse No more shall Wit and Poesie abuse Iohn Chapperline To my deare Friend Mr. Rivers upon his Rhapsodies HOw often write I Verses often teare My Verses stil imagining they were Vnworthy thy brave Muse begin againe And search in every corner of my braine Barraine I bite my P●● my servants rate When the fault lies 〈◊〉 in them but my Pate Shall I who have so many Verses writ In every Theme impl●yd my active wit And having promis'd Verses not performe What I have promis'd here againe I storme Yet reassume my Quill write All men know That to my noble Friend I Verses owe Protest against my selfe so great 's the summe Of thy due praise my Muse is banquer out Dumbe H. W. DEVOVT RHAPSODIES To the Right Honourable Philip Herbert Earle of Pembroke and Montgomerie And to the Lord Philip Herbert his Son Liber Primus Sermo Primus The Argument As branches doe the Roote Rivers obey The Ocean smaller lines their tribute pay And homage to the Centre as the Sreames Shot from the Sun confesse themselves his Beames So must all Authors all prescriptions fall Vnto the scripture as Originall Wrangling Philosophers may boast The Scriptures only speake the Holy Ghost Their Schooles decay what 's grounded on our Texts Shall flourish maugre Gentilisme and Sects OUr sacred Volumes are the seald springs Where choisest Nymphs as they of heavenly things Sing ditties both themselves from the white Mount Of Liban issues this perennall Fount Which prooves an Ocean where the silly sheepe May wade securely yet the same 's so deepe The Elephant may swim and if he range Too f●r be swallowed in the Gulfe so strange And perilous are these streames Was not a Wave Nestorius venturde on Nestorius grave And did not Arrius perish in these seas Whilst he durst saile midst the profundities And wanted a sure Pilot What Saint Paul Hath preach'd and writ to instruct and save us all Turnes to the ruine of illiterate men As they pervert the meaning of his pen Who prie too neerely into Majesty Strucke purblinde by the raies of glory die 'T is true Pharphar and Abana are streames Of Syria but if leprous Naaman dreames Thei le clense his spots he erres and must obey The Prophet and to Jordan take his way There glide the waters which he washing in Shall cure his leprousie and clense his skin Poems must from this Chrystall Torrent spring Else they le as did those bitter waters bring Diseases to the Drinker Wanton bookes Hurt soules as did the bodie Maras brookes Like dangerous Basiliskes a passage finde To dart their poyson at the inveigled minde What Are our Rils drunke up Our fountains dry That wee must to such durty puddles fly First shall no Tapers grace the spangled heaven The rough Alps lye as the smooth Vallies even Ere who are conversant in sacred writ Shall faile of Themes to exercise their wit Are not the Fire the Aire the Earth the Seas The Spheres the Saints th' Angels above all these A still supplying Subject then to wade In the Divine Idaeas whence God made Of nothing every thing and with one word Could existence to all he made afford The Birth the Infancy of this Vast Frame Increase decrease restoring of the same All Sciences of things above below More then Philosophy did ever know Are objects of Gods Booke and easily yield To all invention a most spacious field Wee grant prophaner Authours have given Rules Of living well kept open natures scholes But this booke Gentilisme exceedes as far As the bright Sun at Noone some lesser Star Why doe wee study Wherefore are wee joyn'd So fiercely in dispute To adorne the minde With Truthes and as the flint and steele conspire In issuing forth the Element of fire By joynt collision so from much bickerings In disputation Aletheia springs Volve and revolve your Sages Volumes you Shall not be certaine one opinion 's true Amongst one hundred What their Historie Patcht up with idle fables and with lies What 's noxious there our Scripture reprehends What 's crooked rectifies what 's faulty mends What 's good makes better and you neede not feare Any report or false position there Millions of Lines about this Circle are And though they mutually may seeme to square And contrary as East to West the South To North yet all meete in the Centre Truth What can be thought or writ by any quill Is in our Bible specified and still New matter drawes the curious Reader on And makes the Learned to reflect upon The sense of deeper Mysteries as he sees Heere wondrous actions done and out of these Drawes morall applications and can fly To Allegorie and Anagog●e From the same words and deeds quadripartite Senses are fetcht and every one is right Who but the Mother of us all Gods minde Could in few words such stronge allusions finde And then what hee hath in Aenigma's put Make curious wits enueleat the Nut GOD is a copious Magazin men are The dispensatours of his precious ware And heere 's such plenty that from every clause New mysteries the ingenious Reader drawes Goe jugling Mountebanks cry up your toyes Amongst the Rustiks Idiots Girles and Boyes Yee winding Sophisters expose your tra●h Wrangling Philosophers together clash Frame-Sophismes Syllogismes describe devide Bring in essentials to define decide By Demonstrations Problemes What 's all this To what we are made for everlasting blisse Study foure yeeres the ten Predicaments Meane while forget the ten Commandements What profits Stoicisme What

They amply would retaliate such great wrongs And we should read as well as loudly heare With how much patience they these scandals beare To my Honourable Friends Master EDWARD and Mistris RVTH PETRE Sermo Septimus The Argument We sing those Courtiers who attend the Throne And act commands of that most absolute One Who gives all takes from none but what before Issued from his never exhausted store We likewise treat with what despotike sway This Monarck governs Citizens obey PLATO fram'd a Republike and it cost Tullie much labour to write what is lost A Common-wealth so Aristotle writ His book of Politicks prooving in it How the best forme of Government is where One absolute Monarck shall the Scepter beare Be it so or not let slaine Cambyses Peres Dispute the Question jealousies and feares Arise on every side a Monarck may Turne tyrant Nero or Dionysius play Violently take your goods command your Wives And what more precious is then both your lives Bring in an arbitrary Government or feare or scorne to call a Parliament Forget himselfe and how one single clause Of his life more commands then all his Lawes He acts on a conspicuous stage and is Subject to all his subjects clap or hisse Thus Monarcks may decline and may not such Who to a state turne Kingdomes doe as much Suppose your Noblemen should beare the sway Even these may erre as well as tyrants may Consult combine to keep the people low And from the publike pressures potent grow A crafty party circumvent the rest Some few prevaile the bad oretop the best From reasons rule and square of Justice erre Before the generall private ends prefer Athens a slave by thirty tyrants made And Rome by the Decemviri betrayd These promis'd cures o' th body politick But made the same a hundreth times more sick Weary of Kings Rome ordains Consuls those Supprest shee ten chiefe Magistrates will choose Rods onely scourg'd her in the dayes of Kings And Consuls these few men with Scorpions stings Slash the poore Commons as none can be sure Of his owne goods nor in 's owne house secure The people grumble let 'em this base Yoake They brought upon themselves and till the' have broake Their Asses back i' th carriage must endure The burthen armed Cohorts shall secure The tyrants lives and military bands Force speedy execution of commands For the fond multitude they never knew Their proper good nor what belonged to Or worth or manners Peers and Monarcks know When they do injuries that they do so But the base Vulgars unrestrained wil Is model of their actions good or il A many headed monster yet not one Sconce stuft with Reason or Religion Fiery in prosecution of what 's new Which had they presently their wishes rue And you as easily may and even as soone Shape out and make a garment for the Moone Now crescent now i' th full now in the waine As satisfie the Vulgars fickle braine The Rable doated on this Parliament With clubs and staves for their protection went To Westminster gloryed to hear● themselves Cald Round-heads others Cavaliers new Guelphs And Gibelines what blood shed they what sights Adventur'd for the Parliamentall rights How bountifully did they give their store Of gold at Guildhall yea contribute more Then was requir'd City and Country cry T' have reverend Laud and active Strafford dye As enemies to'th Realme and Parliament And till their heads are off ne'r be content But now the case is altred they rayle on Both Houses cry downe for oppression Excises are so impudent they 'd thrust Them from their Voting whom themselves did trust With all their rights whisper expresse their spight In prose and verse most dangerous pamphlets write Yea some 't is strange so rash they dare proclaime Themselves the authors and subscribe a name Boldnesse and mercy these would spend their blood Most willingly our Senators are good And will not spil't knowing a Magistrate Should th' Emperour Nero yet young imitate Who wept when he should signe to th' deaths of men Condemn'd and wish'd he could not use a pen But howsoe're they hold a wolfe by th' eare Who court the multitude and still must feare Hee le byte 'em all their bones are broke in twaine Who seek the fickle Vulgars love to gaine So weak our providence so full of feare No state that 's perfect can be stablish'd here None formed yet a body politick That sundry noxious humours made not sick Eutopia fancied by our learned More Had faults and Platoes Common-wealth had more Let Genoa Jena Venice Amsterdam And my deare London a republike frame As they have fram'd some Constitutions are That erre from reason and with justice square Yet when Philolophers with all their wit Though some were States-men faile our sacred Writ Shall speak a Common-weale so sound so sure That for eternity it shall endure For lift your eyes up and contemplate them Who fill the Senate of Hierusalem There you shall see an ordered policy Establish'd a sure grounded Monarchy That on the Burgers has more blessings brought Then Common-weales have dream'd of or have sought A glorious City that surpasseth far Ninus vast Ninive or the grand Caire Though that could vaunt of threescore miles in length Wals of unmeasured magnitude and strength Almost two thousand towers as Babel high Threatning as Memphis Pyramids the skie Yet if with Sion you both these compare Both silie cottages both Sheep-coats are The pavement wals and roofe of gold are made With diamonds and precious stones inlaide That with their lustre give a constant light Although such need not for the sable night Is ever banish'd thence the fulgent rayes o th' slaughtered Lamb causing perpetuall dayes No watch no warding at the severall ports No military stations at the Forts Onely at every Gate an Angel stands And brandishes a Fauchion in his hands To keep Malignants ou● as heretofore Th' Angel kept watch and ward at Edens dore And when that shame of nature went about To break Lots house the angels kept 'em out Besides the Citizens al souldiers are Knights of St. Vincent for their fea●s of War They made their passage through a crimson flood As did the Israelites of Iesus blood And Satan mindfull he was vanqush'd here Scarce lifts his eyes to Heaven much lesse comes there The forme of Government is such one King To whom all homage owe and tribute bring His Court most glorious Myriads of those Peres Whose charge it is to volve the circling Spheres Assist his throne Cherubs who pierce and see The secret Orders of the Deity And those Seraphike Lords with firy love Inflam'd in and about the centre move o th' divine Essence Sedentary be The thrones and with a sweet tranquility Contemplate God Ore sublunary things The dominations sway and act their Kings Commands who uses to imploy the powers When he will curbe those enemies of ours Th' Acrian Potentates as