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A19254
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Bartas Iunior: or, The worlds epitome; man Set forth in his 1. generation, 2. degeneration, 3. regeneration.
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Cooke, Edward, fl. 1626-1631.
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14 11 Where in eternall darknesse they must ' bide Tormented with the wicked Fiends beside In fire not made to comfort but torment In fire the which no Fuell can augment Parsons his resolutions set out by Bunny In fire which burnes yet not consumes the wight In mystie fyer fyer without light Which fire no ayre nor water can abate No nor the length of Time extenuate There the rich Chuffe or sinne-polluted Goate Shall have hot-boyling Gold powr'd down his throat There the lascivious Person shall have sight Of all the ugliest Fiends that may affright There the Blasphemer shall have satiation Of horrid oathes of wicked execration Rev 16 10 11. There the foule-bibbing-Drunkard shall have thirst To drinke whole tunnes of Gall yet never burst The lowd-loquacious Lawyer there shall lacke A habeas corpus to remove him backe There the litigeous Client shall have strife Who never could be quiet in his life The Atheist will acknowledge There a God Reade the Practiâ—â— oâ— Piety When he shall feele the vigour of his rod And the seducing Hereticke will say That he hath mist the right and perfect way How happy then shall those blest-Spirits be â—njoying God their true Felicity How worthy-happy in their Gods account Whose sight doth all their greatest joyes amount They shall have Ioy without Anxiety Read S. August his Meditations Mr. Bunnâ— upon Parsons resolutions Mirth without mourning or disturbancy Peace without Warre Love without Envying Life without death life e're continuing Never defective in their Purity Ever establisht in Security No neede of Angels there for to protect For there shall be no Divell to detect No need of Preaching for that too shall cease And God shall be their everlasting Peace Knowledge by Science shall be abrogated Faith be extinguish'd Hope annihilated 1 Cor 13. 1. Faith 2. Hope 3. Charity Nought shall remaine in Heaven of the Three But perfect Love and perfect Charity Each shall receive a crowne for his desert And some withall shall have a greater part For there shall be many degrees in Glory The glory one and the same the differâ—nce in the degrees Simile As Austin writes in his most sacred story Which he illustrates by similitude To prove degrees in their Beatitude Take saith he Botles of their severall Marts Some great some lesse of pottles and of quarts Cast them into the sea when you have done And being full they all will overrunne So shall it with these Sainted-persons be They shall be sated with saturity And as the Finger envies not the Eye August de Civit. Dei l. 22. c. 30. To be her equall in Supremacy No more shall they envie at others Blisse But as the Finger shall accord in this None shall the others glory disanull For every one shall have his Botle full BVt stay my Muse stay whither wilt thou fly Lose not thy selfe in soaring up too high Mr. Vicars in his prospective glasse to â—ooke into â—eaven Recoile againe and let good Vicars come He hath a straine in this will make thee dumbe Lure backe I say for it is my request My warbling Pen doth gag for want of rest And I 'le recall thee backe againe in time Lest thou too high above my reach should'st clime Aug Civ Dei l. 22. â— 30. Yet know my Muse to you blest place I tend For Heaven was ordain'd Mans chiefest end Although one Adam lost it by his Fall A second hath repurchast it withall And made a Passage for Me unto Life â—ph 2 3 Who was by Nature once so full of strife Those Angels which debarr'd him of the Tree God hath appointed as an Aide to Mee To beare my soule to that celestiall place Cor. 13 Where I shall see my Maker face to face Not as he is immense or infinite For so the Angels cannot view his sight But as he shall Himselfe communicate In a full measure to my blessed State Aug. Civ Dei l. 22 c. 29. Now whether it shall be with corporall-eye As we the Sunne the Moone and Starres descrye I cannot tell but certainly withall It must be Perfect being Spirituall FJNJS ERRATA PAg. 2 line 34 for his Soule reade the soule p. 29 l. 17 reade to a better state p. 29 l. 19 for had restored reade hath restored p. 35 l. 32 thou reade tâ—ough p. 50 l. 21 reade But others p. 48. l. 20. for very reade every Preface page 5 line 20 reade incompatible with Divinity In the margent page 48 reade Rupertus THE TRIVMPH OF FAITH OR THE MIRROR OF WOMEN MATTH 15.28 Oh Woman great is thy faith be it vnto thee even as thou wilt TO MY TRVLY WORTHY AND MVCH RESPECTED FRIEND Mr. John Clarke Gentleman Steward and Receiver of King Iames Hospitall founded by Tho Sutton Esquire his best Wishes 'T Is not so great a worke to purchase love As to retaine it never to remove Thy Art herein hath made thee excellent A grace unto thy Place a President Never therein had any such applaud Of such perinnity Angelick land None of the Proto-stewards like to thee So changelesse constant so perpetuall free Then blame them not to praise and love thee too Their Tribute is no more than what is due Nor mine no lesse than theirs So I present Faiths Triumph to thy hand to give content With all To such a good Germanicus I wish long life Thy old men Clerke it thus Amen Ever Thine The Faith of the Woman of Canaan compared with and excelling the Centurions Faith to the great glory of that Sex THE Light of Lights The Sunne of Righteousnes Reflects and warmes our Hearts by lively Faith Admires That Guift in us when we expresse The same in full with all the power it hath What is it but we may obtaine by Faith Hell is subdu'd and Heaven is obtain'd Christ is enjoy'd a good Report is gain'd Heb. 11 2 VVitnesse this Gentile-Woman Canaanite The Romane yet the good-Centurion nam'd Both Converts Both connext in holy VVrit Both excellent transcendent truly fam'd Mirrours of Faith by Faithfulnes proclam'd Mat 9 11 Mat. 15 27 But which of eithers Faith will greatest prove Daine you to heare and judge as Reasons move The Faith of the Centurion so renown'd Of which our Saviour spake so wonderous well VVhich in his owne Apostles was not found Mark 9 1â— Nor in the circuite of great Israel No nor of us I blush the more to tell Came short of hers compar'd in the degree Though in the substance of like qualitie His Faith was like unto a goodly Tower Built on a Rocke in a faire pleasant Place VVhere neither raging Seas nor windy Power Could buckle with him in an open face Such was his Faith invironed by Grace But hers lay open to each mighty Blast Yet being on a Rocke it was kept fast Luke 6 â—â— He when he was to send unto our Saviour Luk 7 3. Had many Friends before