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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74677	Eugenius Theodidactus. The prophetical trumpeter sounding an allarum to England illustrating the fate of Great Britain, past, present, and to come. Such wonderful things to happen these seven yeers following, as have not been heard of heretofore. A celestial vision. VVith a description of heaven and heavenly things, motives to pacifie Gods threatned wrath: of a bloody, fiery way of the day of judgment, and of saints and angels. / Sung in a most heavenly hymn, to the great comfort of all good Christians, by the Muses most unworthy, John Heydon, gent. philomat.	Heydon, John, b. 1629.	1655 (1655)	Thomason E1671_3; ESTC R208414	82,593	168

So to affect and recreate the minde As that the more we thereof do possess The more our love whereof we shall express Again the artificial lights men make As torches tapers lamps and candles slake Are soon burnt out extinct and therefore need Some fomentarie adjunct them to feed But as for precious Stones their sparkling light Is genuine by Nature shineth bright And glisters in the most obscure dark place Alwayes retaining their resplendant grace And therefore do most lively represent The splendor fair and beauty excellent Of th' ever selfe subsisting Deitie Alwaies the same one-same eternity This citie is inviron'd bounded round With a great high-topt wall thick strong and sound Which unto us doth thus much intimate That though i' th' Churches Militant esrate The congregations of Christs faithful Saints Were stil molested ful of wofull plaint Tost to and fro with storms Tyrannicall With persecutions most satanicall And like Noes-ark were ne're in peace or rest With worldly billowing-waves dasht and distrest Yet in this Chuch-triumphant they shal be From all heart-hurting fear of danger free Surely securely kept from least annoy In heav'nly safetie sempiternall joy For why the Doctrine apostolicall Shall as a firm invincible strong wall Debar and keep out heart deluding errors All unclean creatures Lyers and the tortors VVhich their abominations might effect For this wall Doctrinall doth them reject And thus the Prophet Ieremie doth call A constont Preacher a strong brazen wall Now this strong wall is made more admirable By Stately Ports and ground-work solid stable Twelve Gates are about it plac't conveniently VVhich thus much do unto us signifie That all her friends and Citizens shall see The way to th' city easie plain to be Plain to the just to th' unjust narrow straight Easie to those to these most intricate And on these Gates were charactred most fair The names of Isr'els twelve tribes to declare Their good assu●ance and their ready way That none might wander erre or go astray There needs no use of a conducting guide Their way lying ope ' to them on every side But here by th' names of Israels twelve tribes The sacred spirit unto us describes They being once Gods sole peculiar Vine Til they did from his Love and Lure decline That by a figure are in them included The elected Gentiles once from grace secluded Even people of all Nations under heaven To whom Salvation God in Christ hath given Are here all ta'ne for sp'rituall Israelites Whom Christ the Corner-stone to th' Jews unites At these twelve Gates twelve angels there did stand But not like Edens-angels in their hand Holding a sword a sword like fiery flame To daunt and drive what ever thither came But here these angels stand like Porters kind That Abr'ams faithfull Sons access may find Unto the tree of life and sacred spring VVhich grows and flows from Christ this Edens King VVith most commodious decent scituation Are these twelve gates plac ' 'bout this heav'nly station And good Ezechiel doth them thus digest Three East three North three south and three by west These three tribes names Dan Ioseph Semamen Orethe three Eastern Gates were to be seen Orethe three Ports set on the Northern side Iude Levi Reubens names might be discride Ore the three southern gates th' inscription Of Simeon Isachar and Zabu●on Also the three gates on the VVest part had The name of Aser Napthalem and God Of which most decent triple distribution Of these twelve Gates this is the resolution Namely that all the Saint-elected souls VVhose names are written Heav'ns eternall rowles From whatsoever quarter of the earth They had their first originall and birth Yet had but one especiall means t' ascend Unto this Citie their hopes happy end To wit the blest profession of the trinitie Hereby to Christ th' are joynd in neer affinitie And that they thus professing three in one Shall finde the way wide ope to heav'ns high throne Shall find the path more parent plain and straight And at the Gates twelve angels for them wait A twelf fold Ground-work and Foundatoin strong Did also to this mighty wall belong I mean not to the Citie but the VVall For of the Citie Christ is all in all Upon which twelve Foundations glorious rare Christs twelve apostles names were graven faire Who here are said to be this Walls foundation By their apostolique administration For having by their blest Ministry Christ Jesus Doctrine preached publikely Unto the World as the first instruments Are therefore thus the twelve strong Firmaments Not that they are the Principall Foundation But having first place in this Fabrication Are as I so may say the first stones laid On which the building of this wall was made For no man is so silly as to say That the Foundation doth it self down lay But that 's the office of the architector Which is Christ Jesus this great works director This Cities Soveraign whose un-shrinking shoulders Are this most glorious Cities firm upholders Who laid his twelve disciples as Supporters Of this Quadrangled walls most spacious quarters As those in whom his Churches doctrine pure Did most consist and constantly endure Thus are th' apostles grounds of ministration But Christ the only Basis of Salvation But what sayes Rome to this that man of Sin Who proudly reignes and rules as Lord and King Peters supremacy superiour State Is here me thinks quite torn worn out of date For though our Saviour call'd his Faith the Rock Whereon hee 'd build his Church his Love his Flock And his and all th' apostles Doctrine pure To be his Churches ground-work grounded sure Yet neither is St. Peter here exprest To be in dignity above the rest Nor yet to be the principall Foundation But one with others have their Station Then surely hence 't is most apparent plain That antichrist of Rome doth not maintain His proud priority from Peters Faith But from his Person whom he falsly saith T' have been Romes Bishop which nor he nor 's crue Shall ere be able to approve as true His person 't is I say not Doctrine pure Oh this it is the Pope can worst endure Therefore since he mis-deems Christs blest foundation He ne're shall have least part in Christs Salvation But now return we whence we have digrest The Light-bright Angel which did manifest Unto S. Iohn this glorious sacred sight Now like some noble Pers'nage Princely wight Like to another prudent Ne●emie Or like good Ezra ful of prudencie By th' Symbole of a Golden Reed in ' his hand Did represent that he with that Met-wand The Cities spacious round should measure out The height length breadth and compass all about Entries and wall environing the same All under line and measure truly came All most exactly form'd with due respect By the arch-artist of this architect Yea with a Golden Reed he meets the same Most fit to measure such a glorious frame By which externall gesture the angel here As else-where

sight Is to be found the fulness of delight Of wisdome beautie riches knowledge pure Of happiness for ever to endure Of goodness joy and true Nobilitie Of treasure pleasure and felicitie Of all that merits love or admiration Or worketh comfort or sure contentation Yea all the powers and powerful faculties Of soul and bodie shal partake likewise Shal be sufficed with the ful fruition Of heav'ns eternal ternal glorious vision God unto all his sacred Saints shal be Their universal sweet felicitie Containing each particular delight Which may affect th' aspect of their blest sight Infinite both for number and for measure And without end shal be their endless pleasure To th' eyes he shal be a Mirror cleer Melodious Musick to delight the ear To th' Palate he shal be Mellifluous Mell Sweet spiring Balm for to refresh the Smel Unto the understanding he shal bee A Light most bright and pure it'h high'st degree To th' VVill he shal be perfect contentation To th' Memory erelasting continuation In him we also shal injoy possess What ever various time could here express Yea all the beauties of his rarest creatures VVhich may our love allure by their sweet features All joy and pleasure to content the minde Such at it'h creatures selves we nere could find This sight I say is th' angels chiefest treasure The Saint repast repose and princely pleasure This is their everlasting life their crown Their Meed their Majestie their high renown This their rich rest their spacious specious palace Their outward inward joy and soveraign solace Their Paradise divine their Diadem Their ample bliss their blest Jerusalem Their peace of God past all imagination Their ful beatitude and sweet salvation To see him who them made re-made made Saints Him seeing to possess without restraints Possessing him to love him as their King And loving him to praise him as the Spring And Fountain of this all felicity And praising ever this blest ●nitie O then my soul cease not to like to love These admirable lovely joyes above And though thy corrupt flesh is th' obstacle And stays delayes from this blest habitacle Although thy flesh like churlish Nabal frown Refuse the pains to seek this sacred crown Yet let thy Spirit like good Abigal Go forth to find this place angelical Let Hagar never get her Mistris place Nor Ismael good Isaac so disgrace But strive most strenuously fight that good fight Subdue thy flesh withstand proud Satans might And with the eye of faith believe desire To live with Christ pray seek sue and inquire Pray earnestly to Christ thy King above In burning zeal firm faith and burning love For what ●s this world nought but a flou●ing fanciesie A theatre or vainness pleasant phren● A sinc of sin a shop of all deceit Iniquities chief center and sure seat A Map a mirror of all miserie A Dunge on of most dire calamitie Lovely to look on like the Scarlet VVhore But dangerous to deal with evermore A mazie Labyrinth of impious errors A camp of Cruelty of tears and terrors Constant in nought but in inconstancy And most unconstant in that constancie In nought the same save not to be the same And of being but a very name Still floting fleeting never at a stay Hates on the morrow whom it loves to day Yea t is a Ioab ful of craft and guile Kills his Embracers with a traiterous smile A Wrastler 't is and trippeth up the heels Of many a man ere he its grasping ●eels Solomon wise strong Sampson so renownd It made their lengths to measure on the ground Therefore to love the world is nought els sure Then to her Lime-twigs thy poor soul t' allure Which so the feathers of thy faith will marre Thy soul if 't may be from heav'ns joyes to barre Why then my soul shouldst thou to the earth be thral Which hast a heav'nly blest Original Why shouldst thou pin thy thoughts on mortal things Who art immortal from the King of Kings And why shouldst thou a sp'rit invisible Be pleas'd with things both gross and visible Striving to pamper thy corrupted bodie Whose definition is indeed that both-die Both Soul and Body when the Flesh gives way To Sin and Satan in their dire decay And hence it is that Latinists likewise Thus Corpus fitly crimologize Cor which was once the heart of pure perfection Is thus made Pus all filth and foul infection Why then shouldst thou then thy self so low depress Who art of high caelestial Nobleness One of thy Fathers first-born children deer Whose name in Heav'ns blest Records may appear Why should the worlds falle promises delude thee Since heav'n with grace goodness hath indu●d thee Wilt thou a Princes Son a heavenly Prince Let Satans gilded apples thee convince Wilt thou the Son of heav'ns all-sacred King Offend thy father for so vile a thing Wilt thou thy birth-right Esau-like forge For one dire mess of broth bewitching wo Oh. no! deceitful Dalilah a-dieu Thy Syrens Songs my soul doth most eschew Thy Crocadile-like tears which would betray me By heav'ns preventing-grace shal never slay me For all thy bitter-sweets false protestations My soul esteemeth but hellish incantations Wherefore as A●mon being once defiled With his own Sister whom he had beguiled After the fact did hate her ten times more Then ever he had loved her before So I whom thy false friendship once defiled VVhom thy deceitful ambush once beguiled I hate abominate thy mischief more Then ere I lov'd or liked thee before As sea-men Rocks as Children Scorp●ons flie So Oh my sou● hate worldly vanity And oh what 's he that would not leave most glad Worlds vanities so finite base and bad For pleasures infinite VVhat 's he would take Fraudulent joyes and permanent forsake None doubtless none but Dastards void of grace None but faint-hearted fearful cowards base The resolute couragious Christian bold Dares deaths grim face confront see and behold Dares death defie and his approach desire Because by death he knows he shal acquire The end of all his hope for deaths the Key Which opes the door to true felicitie Yea 't is no pain but of all pains the end The gate of heav'n and ladder to ascend And death 's the death of all his storms and strife And sweet beginning of immortal Life Therefore with smiling count'nance merrily To heav'n his place of rest he casts his eye And in his heart these thoughts are oft revolved Unfeignedly I wish to be dissolved To be with thee O Christ my Saviour sweet Thee my deer eldest brother for to meet I see thee Christ I see thee heav'nly home I gladly would and quickly to thee come I see thee O thou Saints caelestial place I much desire I once had run my race But though I cannot with Elias run i th' strength o' th spirit in this race begun Unto the heav'nly Canaan yet give Grace Though I with Iacob halt to halt apace And if not so yet that at