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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14380	A prospectiue glasse to looke into heauen, or The cœlestiall Canaan described Together with the soules sacred soliloquie, and most ardent desire to be inuested into the same. Sung in a most heauenly hymne, to the great comfort of all good Christians, by the Muses most vnworthy, Iohn Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1618 (1618)	STC 24698; ESTC S111547	48,107	79

what thou maist thy selfe with ease procure Onely thy Heart 't is onely this he craues This giuen to God both Soule and Body saues Not that thy God is better by the same But thou ma●e blest to magnifie his Name 'T is onely thine not his good he desires And for this good he onely thanks requires Oh therefore silly simple sinfull Man What greater madnesse tell me if thou can Than such a proffer fondly to refuse Than Death for Life for Treasure Straw to choose For precious Liquor Fountayne-water good To hoose foule puddles stinking full of mud Oh more then mad-men thus to take more paine Head-long to run to Hell with might and maine Then euen the holyest Saints to goe to Heauen Who oft with treates and threats are thereto driuen But O my Soule thy Sauiours counsell take O doe not thou his bountie so forsake Goe buy of him giue Body Heart and all To purchase this rare Gem Angelicall And with that Royall-Shepherd Dauid say O thou my Soule trust in the Lord alway Yea in his Awe and Law take thou delight O like loue looke on this both day and night Let it be thy Arithmetike alwayes To take account and number out thy dayes A Deaths-head let thy chiefe Companion bee An Houre-glasse Remembrancer to thee Let thy chiefe studie be continually How to liue well and blessedly to die So shalt thou O my Soule most happy bee When thou of that blest Citie art made free When thou amongst that sacred Hierarchie Shalt sing sweet tones and tunes melodiously With Heau'ns Psalmodicall harmonious Quire Of Saints and Angels zealous hot as fire The Diapason of whose heau'nly Laies Doth warble forth Heau'ns due deserued praise Where thou being grac't and plac't in heau'nly state In precious pleasure ne're to terminate Being sweetly rap't in heau'nly Extasie Christs and his Churches Epithalamie My Sainted-Soule with sugred voice shall sing To God in Christ my Three One heau'nly King O happie Citizens enfranchis'd there O ioyfull Qu●risters singing so cleere Victorious Souldiers thus to be trans-planted Where Peace for Warre where Life for Death is granted Happie wert thou my Soule most truely blessed If thou wert once of this rare ioy possessed That then I might be fill'd but neuer sated With that rare sight which once initiated Shall last for aye without Times dissolution Shall be most specious without all pollution Therefore my Heart as Hart being chafte and chaced By furious Houn●s most nimbly tract and traced Desires the Water-Brooks his heate t' allay That so refresht he thence may scud away Euen so my Heart O Lord desires to see Those Crystall streames of Life which flow from thee Sighes sues pursues her Countrie to recouer Here abiect subiect too too triumpht ouer By my three fierce and furious Enemies Who seeke my Soule t' insnare and sin-su●prize Euen Satan that old Hunter and his Hounds The World the Fl●sh which giue my Soule deepe wounds Who more like rauening Wolu●s would faine deuoure And captiuate my Soule in hellish power But thy preuenting Grace O Spring of Grace Prese●●e● my Soule dis-nerues their horrid chace And as a Bird out of the Fowlers Grin Or as Noes Doue looking to be let-in Into the Arke of thine eternall Rest My tyred Soule is vnto thee addrest My Soule with worlds encumbrances oppressed Desires O Lord to be by thee refreshed My Soule doth thirst and hasteth to draw neere And longs before thy presence to appeare O Tree of Life O euer-liuing Spring Whose laud and praise the heau'nly Hoast doe sing O when shall I come and appeare in sight Of thee the Sunne of righteousnesse most bright When shall my Soule by thine All-sauing hand Be led with ioy from forth this Desert Land When shall I leaue this Wildernesse of wo Wherein my Soule is tossed to and fro I sit alone as on a house the Sparrow I●h ' Vale and Dale of Teares feares sighes and sorrow O leade deare Christ my Loue-sicke Soule by th' hand From this vast Wildernesse drie thirstie Land To thy ●●ne-C●llers that I there may taste Of th● W●n●-fl●●ons thou prepared hast Comfort me with the Apples of thy Grace W●●h thy Hi● Manna strengthen my weake case With heau'nly Milke and Honny Lord make glad My heart which worlds afflictions hath made sad O let me once from Wisedomes sacred Lip Coelestiall Nard and Rosean Liquor sip Yea l●● me satiate mine in-satiate thirst With that sweet Milke wherewith thy Saints are nourc't I thirst O Lord I thirst thou art the Well O quench my thirst and let me with thee dwell I hunger Lord I hunger thou art Bread Euen Bread of Life O let my Soule be fed I seeke thee Lord yet still I goe astray Through High-wayes By-wayes yet I misse the way Thou art O Lord the perfect Way and Dore My Soule will follow if thou goe before Direct my feete to leaue the paths of Sin Ope glories Gate and let my Soule goe in Let it be Riches to me to possesse thee Let it be Glorie to me to confesse thee Let it be Clothes Christ Iesus to put on Let it be Food his Word to feed vpon Yea let it be my Life to liue and die For Christ my King and for his Verilie So shall my Riches be to me eternall So shall my Glorie be with Christ supernall So shall my Clothing still be faire and new So shall my Foode be Manna heau'nly Dew So shall my Life ne're fade but euer Spring Being still preseru'd by Christ my Lord and King But oh alas when shall I see that day That Day of gladnesse neuer to decay That Day of Iubile when all are glad That Day when all reioyce none can be sad Whose endlesse time and neuer fixed date Eternitie shall ne're exterminate That Saints blest Birth-Day which shal ne're haue Euening That Lasting Day to which no Night giues ending That rare Grand-Iubile that Feast of Feasts Sabbath of Sabbaths endlesie Rest or Rests To which least Care shall neuer dare come neere Wherein the Saints shall shake off palid feare O pure O pleasant most desired Day Of that eternall springing Moneth of May In which my Soule shall euermore reioyce In which my Soule shall heare that happy Voyce Enter blest Soule into thy Masters ioy Enter into sweet rest without annoy Enter into the House of Christ thy King Where Peace and Pl●ntie Mirth and Ioy doe spring Where thou shalt find things most to be admired Where thou shalt haue what most thy Soule desired Ioyes infinitely numberlesse I say And various pleasures infinitely gay Vnspyable vnspeakable by Man Immutable inscrutable to scan Where I thy Soule will feed will feast will fill Feede with spiritual food of my blest Will Feast with the dainties of delight most pure And fill with glorie which shall e're endure Enter I say and heare that melodie Which comprehends datelesse festiuitie Where

Church once Militant Now should they thus build vp his Church Triumphant And as they had conuerted Soules to Christ Their Soules should shine like Starres in glorie high'st Thus then the Citie Wall and Ground-worke past To th' Gates with ioy we now are come at last Twelue Gates most rich and precious did belong To th' Wall Apostolike most firme most strong Which Gates were all of Pearles most Orient Yet all were but One Pearle most excellent Euen Iesus Christ who is the only Port Through whom th' Elect must into blisse resort Through whom alone by Faith we here are fed Through whom at last we all shall taste that bread That Bread of Life neuer to hunger more Which for his Saints Christ hath laid vp in store He only is the Doore by which I say We shall goe in and our feed liue for ay And as on twelue Foundations did arise A Wall as we did formerly premise But One in Matter and in lustre bright Euen God the Father Father of all Light So these twelue Ports are all One Pearle most rare Euen God the Sonne whence they deriued are But here this one Obiection may accrew How it may come to passe a Pearle should shew And represent this Man-God Christ our King To which Obiection I this Answere bring That as the Shell wherein the Pearle doth grow Which Plinie plainely in his worke doth show Doth at a certayne ●eason gape and yawne And without any generating Spawne Drawes into it a Dew from forth the Aire Which by the Sea i' th' Shell growes Orient faire And of this Dew doth more coagulate Than 't is of earthly stuffe coaugmentate Euen so the Holy Ghost from Heau'ns high frame Vpon the blessed Virgin Marie came And Gods eternall power whose breath All made Did so Christs Virgin-Mother ouer-shade That without any Humane copula●ion Christ in her Wombe tooke on him Incarnation Yet so as that his powerfull Diuinitie Was still assistant vnto his Humanitie Which subiect was to Mans Infirmitie But not to Sinnes euen least Impuritie Being thus most perfect God and Man indeed Knowing our wants to helpe vs at our need Thus then wee see that these twelue Pearly Gates Consisting of One Pearle this intimates That we in Heau'n or Earth none other haue To inuocate our sinfull Soules to saue But Iesus Christ true God and Man alone Who sits our Aduocate in Heau'ns high Throne Oh then the wilfull madnesse of our Foe That monstrous Beast of Rome who though he know This our Position most Authenticall Both he and h●s besotted Shauelings all Yet they vnto their Saints appropriate And vnto Angels dare accommodate The honour only due to Christ blest Name Angels themselues hauing refus'd the same And since nor Saints nor Angels know our state Nor ha●e in them power vs to consolate But Christ hath will'd v● come to him alone Who can and will ease and appease our mone Therefore that they dare adde and thus diminish From Gods firme Truth they doe but striue to finish And measure vp to th' full their owne damnation Threatned to all such in the Reuelation The Gates thus entred now we may behold The Streets within all pau'd with purest gold Which gaue a lustre like the cleerest glasse Euen euery Street through which the Saints shall passe And customarily walke vp and downe Like glorious Kings in pompe and great renowne Which Streets and parent passages imply Amongst their other ioyes the Libertie And perfect Freedome which those sacred Saints Shall fully there possesse without restraints Of being vnto any one place ty'de For why wheres'ere they goe God is their Guide They walke in God and God in them alwayes Their beauteous paths shining with his bright rayes Thus haue we seene th' Essentiall Maiestie This Cities glorious frame and Symmetrie The most magnificent and blissefull State Of those which are in Christ incorporate But yet whiles here we see 't no otherwise Then as we had a Mist before our eyes Then as we were i th' bottome of a vaile Whence of a perfect sight we needs must faile By reason that cloud-kissing Mountaynes hie And lost●e Trees are interpos'd to th' eye And hereby hinder our more cleere aspect Of this most glorious heauenly Architect So that but Aenigmatically wee As through a Glasse this sacred Citie see Whiles in the Flesh we liue by liuely Faith As blessed Paul in his Epistle saith Yet let it ioy our hearts our Soules delight That though but thus we may admire this sight That though but with the Prophet Daniel wee May ope ' the window and looke toward thee O Date-lesse Fate-lesse Rest-full Blisse-full Citie Where Halleluiah is the Angels Dittie Now let it not be O! how can it bee Tedious to vs to contemplate and see What Maiestie and Dignitie compleat Is Accessarie to the glorie great Of that externall beautie of this place Fill'd with the glorie of the Lords bright face Making this Citie most magnificent An abstract Common-weale most permanent First there shall be no Temple in the same Wherein to worship Gods all-glorious Name No Sacrificing no peculiar place To worship in or be this Cities grace Nor no externall Paedagogie shall Be vsefull there no Seruice Rituall Like that vnder the Law amongst the Iewes When they did their old Sacrifices vse But God the Father and the Lam●e Christ Iesus Shall of such heauie yokes then cleerly ease vs. And be a Temple vnto his most faire To whose blest sight Saints with delight repaire His worship then shall be most plaine and pure And shall for euer constantly endure Without all Legall Rites or Ceremonie Adoring God in Christ in Sanctimonie Whose lookes to them a● Lessons shall appeare His only Name be'ng Musike in their eare And such indeed is this great Cities State So admirable so inexplicate That gold and precious stones being too too base T' expresse the glorie of that glorious place If Nature did more precious things bring forth More amply to describe this Cities worth I therefore know not what terrestriall thing We may with due proportion hereto bring To haue a fit and true Analogie Vnto this Temple of eternitie But God himselfe and Iesus Christ alone In whom it may most properly be showne Againe this Citie hath no need of Light Neither of Sunne or Moone or Starres most bright For as the Prophet saith When God againe Shall his deare Church restore and o're it raigne The glorious Light thereof so cleere shall shine By the blest presence of the Vnite-Trine That euen the Sunne and Moone shall seeme most darke And in comparison but like a sparke To that ineffable refulgent light Of Gods blest countenance and sacred sight Whereby alone the Saints shall all possesse Such perfect ioy and heartie cheerfulnesse As that all earthly comfort though it seem'd And were as bright as Sunne and