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A67822	The idea of Christian love being a translation, at the instance of Mr. Waller, of a Latin sermon upon John xiii, 34, 35, preach'd by Mr. Edward Young ... ; with a large paraphrase on Mr. Waller's poem Of divine love ; to which are added some copies of verses from that excellent poetess Mrs. Wharton, with others to her.	Young, Edward, 1641 or 2-1705.; Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687. Of divine love.; Wharton, Anne, 1632?-1685. Poems. Selections.	1688 (1688)	Wing Y61; ESTC R14445	29,505	144

Oracles admir'd While with Events their doubtful Sense comply'd At God's bright Word imbody'd soon retir'd Forc'd in his own Abyss his Head to hide Yet thither did its Influence descend And in new Fetters bound the gnashing Fiend The Progress of that Soul of Love With all its Triumphs over Death and Hell We have recorded from Above In Transcripts which the Sybills Leaves excel Before these Oracles the thundring Baal And all the Heathen Gods do fall For here the Spirit of our God does dwell Th' eternal Word which spake the Universe Affords the hallow'd Theam of my aspiring Verse Mr. Waller As late Philosophy our Globe has grac'd And rowling Earth among the Planets plac'd So has this Book Intitled us to Heav'n And Rules to guide us to that Mansion given Tells the Conditions how our Peace was made And is our Pledg for the great Author's Aid His Power in Natures ampler Book we find But the less Volume do's express his Mind Paraph. III. Some late Philosophers raise Earth to Heav'n While it they 'mongst the wandring Planets place But Heav'n to Earth extended is by Grace Not only in a fair description giv'n For Faith to feast upon Such as our finite Sense can bear Of the unbounded Pleasures there Which of it self is some Fruition But th' emanations of the Light Divine Which in the Gospel shine Make out our Title to that bliss Where God himself circled with Glory is Invite and Lead us to the promis'd Land And are an earnest Penny giv'n in Hand Of that most gracious Aid By which God loves to perfect what he made For Humane Breast he ne're would fire With thoughts of Immortality But with design to crown desire Which he himself had rais'd so high The Works of the Almighty's Hand In Nature's massy Book recorded stand But that great Mind Which those stupendious Works design'd In the less Volume is express'd The Footsteps of our God are there confess'd Where Mercy ruling over all his Works we find Mr. Waller This Light unknown bold Epicurus taught That his bless'd Gods vouchsafe us not a thought But unconcern'd let all below them slide As Fortune do's or Human Wisdom guide Religion thus remov'd the Sacred Yoak And Band of all Society is broke What use of Oaths of Promise or of Test When Men regard no God but Interest What endless Wars would jealous Nations tear If none Above did Witness what they swear Sad Fate of Unbelievers and yet just Among themselves to find so little trust Were Scripture silent Nature would proclaim Without a God our Falshood and our Shame To know our Thoughts the Object of his Eyes Is the first step to'ards being good or wise For tho with Judgment we on things reflect Our Will determines not our Intellect Slaves to their Passion Reason Men employ Only to compass what they would enjoy His Fear to guard us from our Selves we need And Sacred Writ our Reason do's exceed Paraph. IV. When Man came warm from his Creator's Hand Before he yeilded to his tempting Wife And Clouds had dampt the Breath of Life How fair an Emblem of his Maker did he stand Not Aaron's Breast-plate nor yet Moses's Face When from the Holy Hill He brought the Transcript of the Laws Divine Did with such Glory shine As Man before he fell from Grace When him his always present God did fill The Laws which Moses brought Into his very Frame were wrought His Duty was Divinely taught Tho then his Heart no Table were of Stone It might have kept till now the bright Inscription But sensual Love did more with Man prevail Than all the Powers of Hell could do Did not the Woman woo The lively Stamp of Heav'n sure could not fail Against all other Ills Man might provide Who could suspect a Dart from his own Side Or a foul Asmodeus with a Bride From his own Rib dress'd by an Hand Divine So very beautiful so wondrous fine How could he Ruine fear But such Divinity below Man from his unseen God did bear Who Ignorance of his Duty chose for what he there did know V. God's Spirit thence became estrang'd The kind Familiar with Regret withdrew Mans Heart Countenance were so much chang'd That his own handy work God hardly knew Yet still the Beams of Light Divine God did not to his Heav'n confine Where e're the Holy Patriarchs went Its welcome Warmth was lent That which to Israel's chosen Race A Pillar was of Fire Leading them o're the Scorching Plain Until the Son of God was slain Far from their Tents did ne're retire But still in various ways God shew'd his stinted Grace But when the stubborn Iews Did the last proffer of that Grace refuse Whereby he did them his peculiar People chuse Eternal Love broke from its narrow bound And visited the chearful World around It Lighted up in every Breast That Candle of the Lord Reason which soon those Truths confess'd Contain'd in the Divine Record Which did the vain Disputers of the World confound VI. Had Epicurus once beheld So much of God below As Holy Writ do's show It had his dang'rous Errors quell'd He could not then have thought that Chance Had made the World thrô Atomes lucky dance And that th' Eternal Pow'r had left to Fate What he did neither order nor create Had this Philosophy prevail'd Mankind e're this had fail'd Or turn'd to Brutes had on each other prey'd In vain were any Compacts made When there were nought but human Pow'r to awe Each would his Neighbour's Right invade When Art or Force could free him from the Law. Religion is the Bond of Peace The want of that dissolv's Societies An humble Love and awful Dread Of th' unseen Pow'r secures us here While 't is a Judgment and the Consequence Upon Mens Unbelief Which they deserve and whence they justly fear What e're they have lies without Fence And if it fail their Hopes have no relief But what hereafter must the faithless Wretches bear VII Take but the thoughts of Heav'n away And Earth would turn to an Akeldama Yet while Men hurry'd on to Sin Something would whisper them within And bid them mind a sacred Guest Which sigh's and griev's to turn a Slave Where Nature it an Empire gave And till it conquers Hyle cannot rest The first assistance which it has to rise In the Belief of th' Godhead lies Philosophy a God may find Before it can discern the Ill Of all things that oppose his Will Or read the Lines he wrote upon the Mind Self-Love arising from our Flesh and Blood Darken's the Characters of good When present Pleasure courts the easy Sense 'T is hard to think it sinful to comply But in the thought of God a Charm do's lye The Contemplation of his Purity Affords a strong Defence Our Souls we thence as by a Mirror dress And this do's many'a wand'ring Thought repress Yet after all uncertain is th' Effect Since Will determines not the Intellect And Men enslav'd to

Passion 's sway Use Reason but to progg for Appetite And carry'd on with warm Delight Make the poor Captive Soveraign obey Till Scripture working on our Passions too Prevailing on our Hope or Fear Those Tyrants which so domineer Laying the Misery and Bliss in view As we the broad or narrow Path pursue Charm's us into an happy State To which for all Mankind it opens wide the Gate Mr. Waller For tho Heaven shows the Glory of the Lord Yet something shines more glorious in his Word His Mercy this which all his Works excells His tender Kindness and Compassion tells While we inform'd by that Celestial Book Into the Bowels of our Maker look Love there reveal'd which never shall have End Nor had Beginning shall our Song commend Describe it self and warm us with that Flame Which first from Heav'n to make us happy came Paraph. VIII God's Glory Heav'n that does his Love declare Love which is God does open lye Exhibited to Mortal Eye Within th' instructing Pages there That Attribute which was our God's Delight Before he made the Sons of Light While the Immense Three One Did entertain Himself alone And shall for ever with him stay When there 's no Change of Night and Day That Essence of the Deity Which in a Living Flame From Heaven to bless us came Shall be the Subject of my Poetry That shall it self describe warming my Verse Me. Mr. Waller The fear of Hell or aiming to be bless't Savour's too much of private Interest This mov'd not Moses nor the Zealous Paul Who for their Friends abandon'd Soul and all A greater yet from Heav'n to Earth descends To save and make his Enemies his Friends What Line of Praise can fathom such a Love Which reach'd the lowest Bottom from Above Paraph. IX They 're narrow Souls who seek their private ends Without regard to Relatives or Friends Not so did Moses and the Zealous Paul Who of th' Extent of human Kindness stand Examples to us all Meek Moses was content to see the Land To'ards which his murmuring Friends he led And then laid down his Aged Head Singing his Requiem for his Work was done As soon as Israel's Rest begun But as'tis thought this humble Soul Much farther yet did reach While he by Love was carryed on And tho by Faith he knew Of an Immortal Roll Where he stood Enter'd with the chosen few Ordain'd to be transported o're From off this horrid Shore 'Gainst which so many Tempests roar Unto a Land of endless Life and Bliss Yet trembling on the naked Beach Under a careless Preterition Contented was to lie Left destitute of more than common Aid To struggle for that blest Eternity Which the Decree of Heav'n to him had certain made X. St. Paul a Man of warmer Temper was Yet this degree of Love he could not pass Finding his Brethren shut without the Pail Depriv'd of that peculiar Grace Which ne're th' inclos'd within the Church can fail In pious Rant he wisht with them to change his Place But how much greater was that Love Which the Eternal Word did move Quitting the full Possession Of all the Glories of his Father's Throne To take our Flesh and suffer Pain That he his Enemies might gain And all their Obstacles to Bliss remove Who can his Thoughts to height sufficient raise Or what Expressions can he find To sute th' Ideas floting in his Mind When he this unexampl'd Act of Love would praise Mr. Waller The Royal Prophet that extended Grace From Heav'n to Earth measur'd but half that space The Law was Regnant and confin'd his Thought Hell was not Conquer'd when that Poet wrote Heav'n was scarce heard of until he came down To make the Region where Love triumphs known Paraph. XI The antient Prophets that Seraphick Tribe Who did Divine Benignity describe While the Dominion of the Law did last And Clouds the Sun of Righteousness o're cast Had more contracted Theams To influence their Holy Dreams Through Heav'n and Earth God's Grace it self had shown But Heil its Power had never known And Heav'n it self was darkly drawn Till the bright Day did dawn Which shew'd on Earth God's only Son He a free Prospect of that Region brought Where Light and Joy and Love do far exceed all Thought Mr. Waller That early Love of Creatures yet unmade To frame the World th' Almighty did perswade For Love it was that first created Light Mov'd on the Waters chac'd away the Night From the rude Chaos and bestow'd new Grace On things disposed to their proper Place Some to Rest here and some to shine Above Earth Sea and Heav'n were all th' Effects of Love. And Love would be return'd but there was none That to themselves or others yet were known The World a Pallace was without a Guest Till one appears that must excel the rest One like the Author whose capacious Mind Might by the glorious Work the Maker find Might measure Heav'n and give each Star a Name With Art and Courage the rough Ocean tame Over the Globe with swelling Sails might go And that 't is round by his Experience know Make strongest Beasts obedient to his Will And serve his Use the fertil Earth to Till When by his Word God had accomplish'd all Man to create he did a Council call Employ'd his Hand to give the Dust he took A Graceful Figure and Majestick Look With his own Breath convey'd into his Breast Life and a Soul fit to command the rest Worthy alone to celebrate his Name For such a Gift and tell from whence it came Birds sing his Praises in a wilder Note But not with lasting Numbers and with Thought Mans great Prerogative Paraph. XII Love in the Bosom of the Godhead lay Before the Creatures into Being rose Through this to frame the World he chose He spake and passive Matter did obey That Spirit which did on the Waters move And with its brooding Wings hatcht Vital Heat Which spreading o're the formless Deep Did the Worlds outward Lines compleat Was nothing else but mighty Love Whence charming Symmetry did smiling leap And through the gloomy heap Diffus'd a grateful Light That Banisht Chaos with its horrid Night When the Proportions finisht were Love then the Features and the Graces drew About the rising World it flew Distinguisht and adorn'd the Waters Earth and Air. A Stately Pallace it did build And furnisht to amazement every Room Curious Plantations round about it made With Grassy Walks which ever Greens did shade And Fruit-Trees interspersed were Enricht with Fruit or gay with Bloom Each Herb and Plant and Flow'r was there With many an Avi'ary 't was fill'd And Entertainments for the Eye Of all the Beasts that move or Birds that fly And Creeping things in vast variety As if to Court some great Inhabitant were laid XIII This glorious Scene with more than Verse can sing Being prepar'd by the Eternal King Man newly cast i' th' Heav'nly Mold From off his flowry Bed do's rise He casts

the Earthly Dreggs away Which would ferment within Making us eager with tumult'ous Sin Which brings our fretting Bodies to decay Debauches more destructive far Than livid Plague or bloody War In every Nation sway Tho Hercules might Monsters quell And the Augoean Stables clean From horrid Filth and Beasts obscene His Labours were much more confin'd Than Love's whose Task is all Mankind The Place less foul Monsters less fell Than what Love cleanses and subdues in Humane Mind Mr. Waller Impendent Death and Guilt that threatens Hell Are dreadful Guests which here with Mortals dwell And a vext Conscience mingling with their Joy Thoughts of Dispair do's their whole Life annoy But Love appearing all those Terrors fly We live contented and contented dye They in whose Breast this Sacred Love has place Death as a Passage to their Joy embrace Paraph. XXVI When the first Clouds o're Human Mind were spread And Vapours from the Earth press't Love Divine Which kept with Innocence a constant shine Man's humble Confidence and Courage fled Darkness and Terror seiz'd his Soul He felt within a gnawing Pain An Omen and an Earnest too Of Death and that ensuing Woe In which he must for ever rowl If Love resign him to a worse controul Leaving his rav'nous Lusts to raign Yet all the Anguish and Dispair Which here the Wretches Entrails tear But a faint prospect show Of what for him hereafter must remain All other Comforts do with Love retire 'T is that which keeps our Spirits up And sweetens the most bitter Cup And did not Grace renew its Fire After Man's Fall all Travellers Below would tire Nor can they mount Above But on the Wings of Love That do's with Comforts here supply And carry's us to Heaven when we dye Whither we oft before in Flames of Love did fly Mr. Waller Clouds and thick Vapours which obscure the Day The Sun 's Victor'ous Beams may chase away Those which our Life corrupt and darken Love The Nobler Star must from the Soul remove Spots are observ'd in that which bounds the Year This brighter Sun moves in a boundless Sphere Of Heav'n the Joy the Glory and the Light Shines among Angels and admits no Night Paraph. XXVII As the Sun Vapours Love do's us exhale Do's by Degrees refine And make us all Divine Melting away what e're was frail That which at first was cloud And did the Lightsome Body shroud Will turn into that active Orb Which never leaves its course till it the whole absorb Whatever Spots may in that Sun appear Which guides the Day and bounds the Year The Sun of Love in Heav'n its Sphere Is with unblemish'd Lustre bright It here but a weak Twilight keeps And Day through Cloudy Curtains peeps What thought can reach those Raptures of Delight Which do those blessed Souls await Who freed from every Earthly weight And all the Seeds of dull Mortality In an Eternal Sunshine lye Under great Love's transforming Eye Which works their Bodies to a Spirit'al Frame And guilds them over with that Flame Which do's th' Angelique Host array That Joy that Glory that perpetual Day Of which an adequate Ideae were Ev'n Heav'n it self Below Do's from the Beatifick Vision flow Of Everlasting Love smiling from 's Starry Chair Mr. Waller This Iron Age so fradulent and bold Touch'd with this Love would be an Age of Gold Not as they faign'd that Oaks should Honey drop Or Land neglected bear an unsown Crop. Paraph. XXVIII This Iron Age the very Dross of Time Love would with alterative touch sublime And bring again the Golden Prime Not such as lazy Poets idly feign In Phlegmatick Old Saturn's Raign While Nature prodigal o' th' beaut'ous store Requir'd no Courtship to unlock her Heart But like a Prostitute and easy Whore Did to each Comer all her Wealth impart But tho Dame Nature's more reserv'd and coy And looks for Labour and the utmost Care Of them who would her Favours share And many after all cannot the least enjoy Love which diffus'd is Charity Would all Mankind supply While he who did successful prove And here Success is all Be'ing taught Humanity by God-like Love Would think himself bound to divide To them whose Needs did call As much as to prevent his own Child's fall A Plank cast out to sinking Men Bore down ill Fortune's unresisted Tide With a rich Lading do's return agen What solid Joy what sober Pride From a good Act effective springs Nor Field nor Traffick such Improvement brings A charitable Man 's a God Below And with his raised Head do's touch the Sky While others turn'd to Beasts of Prey Upon the Ground in wait for Mischief lye Nor Pleasures more exalted know Than what a Wolf enjoys tearing a bleating Stray Mr. Waller Love would make all things easy safe and cheap None for himself would either Sow of Reap Our ready Help and Mutual Love would yeild A nobler Harvest than the richest Feild Famine and Dearth confin'd to certain parts Extended are by barrenness of Hearts Some pine for Want where others Surfeit now But then we should the use of Plenty know Love would betwixt the Rich and Needy stand And spread Heav'ns Bounty with an equal Hand At once the Givers and Receivers bless Encrease their Joy and make their Suff'rings less Paraph. XXIX 'T was want of Love which first gave price to Gold When they to whom kind Heav'n did lend More than their Families could spend And of the Overplus its Steward 's made The Sacred Trust betray'd And what they should distribute basely sold. This put the Scepter into Fortune's Hand And she who was despis'd before By Man's consent a Crown Imperi'al wore With Life and Death put under her Command Her Frown gave Ruin to whole Families Without her Favour none could rise While Men might takeout of the common Store And no Man treasur'd for himself alone Nor ought beyond his Needs esteem'd his own None were unfortunate or poor Nature is bountiful Man is not so But when her flatt'ning Streams would flow Enriching all the Plains below Men with their Damns divert her Course And into narrow Bounds diffusive Nature force XXX All things would easy be and cheap Did Love the Key of the great Store-house keep If here the Earth deceive the Lab'rers Toil Another meets with more returning Soil Famine and Dearth never from Nature came She always gave enough for all If to engrossing Hands it fall 'T is not the barren Land but barren Heart Which ought to bear the blame The Heart where Love did never shine Or one compassio'nating Ray impart Love would not suffer some for Want to pine While others Surfeit with excess And turn into a Curse what was ordain'd to bless Love like a Fav'rite Minister of Heav'n That ne're to execute its Wrath was sent But many 'a threatning Vial did prevent With Pow'r Divine of Blessing giv'n Betwixt the Scramblers of the Earth would stand And spread its Riches with an equal Hand He whose

Endeavours did the best succeed Would think his Riches lay in helping others need Mr. Waller Who for himself no Miracle would make Dispens'd with Nature for the People's sake Paraph. XXXI The Lord of all things while he travell'd here Found the whole World was Canton'd out And nothing left for th' Universal Heir Besides a breathing Place i' th' open Air. Not having where to rest his Head Or Table for his Hunger spread With Pilgrim's Weed and Fare wandring about Yet Nature but his Handmaid was Nor could have disobey'd his Voice If of her Stock he had but made his Choice The Stewards must have let it pass Nay Stony Hearts or Doors of Brass Could not the winged Wealth have kept All things would to their Lord have gladly leapt Were the Earth's Fruits not fit for taste Ev'n at his Touch they 'd into Ripeness haste A Miracle was nothing more Than an exertion of his Natural Pow'r Yet freely did he rigid Chances bear And but for others wants would not a God appear Mr. Waller He that long Fasting would no Wonder show Made Loaves and Fishes as they eat them grow Of all his Pow'r which boundless was Above Here he us'd none but to express his Love. And such a Love would make our Joy exceed Not when our own but other Mouths we feed Paraph. XXXII When th' utmost Stress on 's Human Nature lay Through Fasting ready just to faint away While Satan o're him did insulting stand Hoping when spent he 'd fall his Prey He would not the least Miracle command But when desire of Spirit'al Food Drew to his Side the hungry Multitude Love soon engag'd his Pow'r Divine And then he was a God indeed When he created Food unto their need And did by wonderful Production Thousands dine What e're he did while here Below Came from the Principle of Love. Love was the Vertue which did from him flow His Meat and Drink were to fulfil His Heav'nly Father's Will Of doing good to Men. If his Disciples we 'd our Selves approve No Victory would yeild us so much Joy As taking from ill Fate Pow'r to destroy Those whom the Monster hurry'd to its Den Bringing most comfortable Aid To them were posting to th' Infernal Shade Worn out with wasting Woes yet still of worse afraid Mr. Waller Laws would be useless which rude Nature awe Love changing Nature would prevent the Law. Tygers and Lions into Dens we thrust But milder Creatures with their Freedom trust Devils are chain'd and tremble But the Spouse No Force but Love nor Bond but Bounty knows Men whom we now so fierce and dang'rous see Would Guardian Angels to each other be Such Wonders can this mighty Love perform Vultures to Doves Wolves into Lambs transform Love what Isaiah prophesied can do Exalt the Valleys lay the Mountains low Humble the Lofty the Dejected raise Smooth and make streight our rough and crooked ways Love strong as Death and like it levels all With that possest the Great in Title fall Themselves esteem'd but equal to the least Whom Heav'n with that high Character has blest This Love the Center of our Union can Alone bestow compleat Repose on Man Tame his wild Appetite make inward Peace And Foreign Strife among the Nations cease Paraph. XXXIII As Love decay'd Men sunk below their kind Thence to Humanity they 're Strangers found The Brutal part Superior to the Mind Where gen'rous Lions spare they meanly wound And their wild Lusts spread Death and Plagues around The Hopes or Terrors of a Future State Have with the most but little weight If they can solace here they 'l leave the rest to Fate Wherefore 't was needful sudden Pain And Punishment expected here Should the bold Head-strong Bruits restrain A Lion or a Bear i' th' way Would stop a Passion in its full Carier And what Temptation could prevail When all the Spirits sink and fail The Pleasure dissipated by the Fear This made the thinking part of Human kind Who had observ'd each turning of the Mind And could the Wilder into Tameness stroak Devise with Laws the stubborn Necks to Yoak With Spikes of Steel the Yoaks were set Mars did not struggle more in vain When caught in sooty Vulcan's Net Than they to break what they themselves ordain With Mulcts ill-Habits by degrees are broke But as poor Lunatick that feels his fit From lucid Intervals his Spirits alarm Do's to those welcom Cords submit Which may prevent his threatned Harm Yet at full-Tide of the Disease Whatever keeps from Mischief do's displease So 't is with Man in yeilding to the Law Which do's th' Impulses of depraved Nature awe XXXIV But Love all this would supersede That is a gentle Law within Which with sweet Force subdues the Law of Sin Love's Votaries no Rigors need All things are quiet where its Halcyons breed A smiling Calm do's smooth the Face Where Love sits brooding at the Heart Where e're it comes it scatters many'a Grace And do's a melting Warmth impart Which would dissolve the hardest Stone But with what Radiancy it shines When it has Female Wax to work upon Where it from little Coynesses refines And in one Will the Wife and Husband joyns All Ties but Love are laid aside Duty 's a Word that would divide What 's askt in Love was ne're by Love deny'd A pleasing Symphony each other charms As they go bound one in the others Arms While Div'ls are chain'd and Div'l like Men In loathsom Prisons lie confin'd And like fierce Tygers shut up in a Den With their vain Ravings spent sullenly grieve Where Love emancipates the Mind The Man 's as free as unpent Air Yet can no more Love's Object leave When he has chose the good and fair Than he to taste Joys unforbidden can forbear XXXV For working Wonders Love has mighty Pow'r Strange Transformations it can make They whose Delight was to devour A diff'rent gentle Nature take From Beasts to Men from Men t'Angellick kind By that we Changes in an Instant find Heav'ns winged Ministers sent out to guard The chosen few to Mansions there prepar'd Hardly more vigilant and tender prove Than they who Metamorphos'd are by Love. Love can Isaiah's Prophecy fulfil Exalt the Vale lay low the Hill Raise them that are Below and humble those Above No Man so high but would rejoice to fall To a great Soul who stands the Mark of Fate Yet spite of envious Fortune will be Great And God himself to th' Spectacle do's call To see him like an unmov'd Rock Stand the rude Billows empty shock And dash them back into the Face of Heav'n Until so well such brave Adventures please God smooths the Surface of the raging Seas And lets him reach Love's Haven then with ease Through Love alone our Happiness is giv'n Our Glory there and here our Peace And did this Rule Wars would amongst the Nations cease Mr. Waller No Martial Trumpet should disturb our Rest Nor Princes Arm tho to subdue the East Where for