civility by this they use to distinguish a Gentleman from a Clown besides they hold it one of the most â—…ertuous ways to employ time I am the more covetous of a punctuall correspondence with you in this point because I commonly gain by your Letters your stile is so polite your expressions so gallant and your lines interspers'd with such dainty flowers of Poetry and Philosophy I understand ther is a very able Doctor that reads the Anatomy Lecture this terme if Ploydon will dispense with you you cannot spend your hours better than to hear him So I end for this time being crampd for want of more matter and rest West 3 Iul. 1631. Your most affectionat loving Cosen J. H. XXI To my Nephew J. P. at St. Johns in Oxford Nephew I Had from you lately two Letters the last was wel freighted with very good stuff but the other to deal plainly with you was noâ—… so Ther was as much difference between them as twixt a Scots Pedlars pack in Poland and the Magazine of an English Merchant in Naples the one being usually full of Taffaty Silks and Satins the other of Calicoes threed-ribbands and such polldavy ware I perceive you have good Comodities to vent if you take the pains your trifles and bagatells are ill bestowed upon me therfore heerafter I pray let me have of your best sort of wares I am glad to find that you have stor'd up so much already you are in the best Mart in the world to improve them which I hope you dayly do and I doubt not when the time of your apprentiship there is expir'd but you will find a good Market to expose them for your own and the publick benefit abroad I have sent you the Philosophy Books you writ to me for any thing that you want of this kind for the advancement of your studies do but write and I shall furnish you When I was a student as you are my practise was to borrow rather than buy som sort of Books and to be always punctuall in restoring them upon the day assign'd and in the intrim to swallow of them as much as made for my turn this obligd me to read them thorow with more haste to keep my word wheras I had not been so carefull to peruse them had they been my own Books which I knew wer always ready at my dispose I thank you heartily for your last Letter in regard I found it smelt of the Lamp I pray let your next do so and the oyl and labor shall not bee lost which you expend upon Westm. 1 Aug. 1633. Your assured loving Uncle J. H. XXII To Sir Tho. Haw SIR I Thank you a thousand times for the choice Stanzas you pleas'd to send me lately I find that you wer throughly heated that you wer inspir'd with a true enthusiasme when you compos'd them And wheras others use to flutter in the lower Region your Muse soars up to the upper and transcending that too takes her flight among the Celestiall bodies to find a fancy your desires I should do somthing upon the same subject I have obeyd though I fear not satisfied in the following numbers 1. Could I but catch those beamy Rayes Which Phaebus at high noon displayes I 'de set them on a Loom and frame A Scarf for Delia of the same 2. Could I that wondrous black com near Which Cynthia when eclips'd doth wear Of a new fashion I would trace A Mask therof for Delia's face 3. Could I but reach that green and blue Which Iris decks in various hue From her moist Bow I 'de drag them down And make my Delia a Summer Gown 4. Could I those whitely Stars go nigh Which make the milky way in skie I 'de poach them and at Moon-shine dress To make my Delia a curious mess. 5. Thus would I diet thus attire My Delia Queen of hearts and fire She should have every thing divine That would befitt a Seraphin And 'cause ungirt unbless'd we find One of the Zones her wast should bind They are of the same cadence as yours and aireable so I am Westm. 5 Sept 1633. Your humble Servitor J. H. XXIII To the R. H. the Lady Eliz. Digbye Madame IT is no improper comparison that a thankfull heart is like a box of precious ointment which keeps the smell long after the thing is spent Madame without vanity bee it spoken such is my heart to you and such are your favors to me the strong aromatic odor they carryed with them diffus'd it self through all the veins of my heart specially through the left Ventricle wher the most illustrious bloud lyes so that the persume of them remains still fresh within me and is like to do while that triangle of flesh dilates and shuts it self within my brest nor doth this perfume stay there but as all smells naturally tend upwards it hath ascended to my brain and sweetned all the cells therof specially the memory which may be said to be a Cabinet also to preserve courtesies for though the heart be the box of love the memory is the box of lastingnes the one may be term'd the source whence the motions of gratitude flow the other the cistern that keeps them But your Ladiship will say these are words onely I confess it 't is but a verball acknowledgment but Madame if I wer made happy with an opportunity you should quickly find these words â—…urnd to actions either to go to run or ride upon your arrand In expectation of such a favorable occasion I rest Madame Your Ladiships most humble and enchained Servitor J. H. West 5 Aug. 1640. XXIV To Sir I. B. Noble Sir THat od opinion the Jew and Turk have of women that they are of an inferior Creation to man and therfore exclude them the one from their Synagogues the other from their Meskeds is in my judgment not only partiall but profane for the Image of the Creator shines as clearly in the one as in the other and I beleeve ther are as many female-Saints in heaven as male unless you could make me adhere to the opinion that women must be all Masculine before they be capable to be made Angels of Adde heerunto that ther went better and more refined stuff to the creation of woman than man 'T is true 't was a weak part in Eve to yield to the seducements of Satan but it was a weaker thing in Adam to suffer himself to bee tempted by Eve being the weaker vessell The ancient Philosophers had a better opinion of that Sex for they ascribed all Sciences to the Muses all sweetnes and morality to the Graces and Prophetic Inspirations to the Sybills In my small revolving of Authors I find as high examples of vertue in Women as in Men I could produce heer a whole Regiment of them but that a Letter is too narrow a field to muster them in I must confess ther are also counter instances of this kind if Qu â—…bia was such a precise pattern of
To D. C. Esqr. SIR IN my last I writ to you that Ch. Mor. was dead I meant in a morall sense Hee is now alive again for he hath abjur'd that Club which was used to knock him in the head so often and drown him commonly once a day I discover divers symptoms of regeneration in him for hee rayls bitterly against Bacchus and swears ther 's a devill in evry berry of his grape therfore he resolves hereafter though he may dabble a little somtimes he will bee never drown'd again you know Kit hath a Poetic fancy and no unhappy one as you find by his compositions you know also that Poets have lâ—…rge souls they have sociable free generous spirits and theâ—… are few who use to drink of Hâ—…licons waters but they love to mingle it with som of Lyaeus liquor to heighten their spirits Ther 's no Creature that 's kneaded of Clay but hath his frailties extravagancies and excesses som way or other for you must not think that man can be better out of Paradise than he was within 't Nemo fine crimine He that censures the good-fellow commonly makes no conscience of gluttony and gormandising at home and I believe more men do dig their graves with their teeth than with the tâ—…kard They who tax others of vanity and pride have commonly that fordid vice of covetousnes attends them and he who traduceth others of being a servant to Ladies doth baser things We are no Angels upon earth but we are transported with som infirmity or other and 't will be so while these frail fluxible humors reign within us while wee have â—…luces of warm bloud running through our veins ther must be ofttimes som irregular motions in us This as I conceiye is that black beane which the Turks Alchoran speaks of when they feign that Mahomet being asleep among the mountains of the Moon two Angels descended and ripping his brest they took his heart and washed it in snow and after pull'd out a black bean which was the portion of the devill and so replac'd the heart In your next you shall do well to congratulat his resurrection or regeneration or rather emergency from that course hee was plunged in formerly you know it as well as I and truly I beleeve hee will grow newer and newer evry day we find that a stumble makes one take firmer footing and the base suds which vice useth to leave behind it makes vertue afterward far more gustfull no knowledg is like that of contraries Kit hath now oâ—…e-com himself therfore I think he will be too hard for the Devill hereafter I pray hold on your resolution to be here the next Term that we may tattle a little of Tom Thumb mine Host of Andover or som such matters so I am West 15. Aug. 1636. Your most affectionate Servitor J. H. IV. To T. D. Esquire SIR I Had yours lately by a safehand wherin I find you open unto me all the boxes of your brest I perceive you are sorehurt and wheras all other creatures run away from the instrument and hand that wounds them you seem to make more and more towards bâ—…th I confess such is the nature of love and which is worse the nature of Women is such That like shadows the more you follow them the faster they flâ—… from you Nay some Femalls are of that od humor that to feed their pride they will famish affection they will starve those naturall passions which are owing from them to Man I confess coynes becoms som beauties if handsomly acted a frown from som faces penetrats more and makes deeper impression than the fawning and soft glances of a mincing smile yet if this coynes and these frowns savor of Pride they are odious and t is a rule that wher this kind of pride inhabits Honor sits not long Porter at the Gate Ther are som beauties so strong that they are leagerproof they are so barricadoed that no battery no Petard or any kind of Engin sapping or mining can do good upon them Ther are others that are tenable a good while and will endure the brunt of a siege but will incline to parley at last and you know that Fort and Femall which begins to parley is half won for my part I think of beauties as Philip King of Macedon thought of Cities ther is none so inexpugnable but an Asse laden with gold may enter into them you know what the Spaniard saith Dadivas quebrant anpeñas presents can rend rocks Pearl and golden bullets may do much upon the impregnablest beauty that is It must be partly your way I remember a great Lord of this Land sent a puppie with a rich coller of Diamonds to a rare French Lady Madam St. L. that had com over hither with an Ambassador she took the dog but returnd the coller I will not tell you what effect it wrought afterwards 'T is a powerfull sex they were too strong for the first the strongest and wisest man that was they must needs be strong when one hair of a woman can draw more then a hundred pair of oxen yet for all their strength in point of value if you will beleeve the Italian A man of straw is worth a woman of gold Therfore if you find the thing pervers rather then to undervalue your sex your manhood retire hansomly for ther is as much honor to be won as an hansom retrait as at a hot onset it being the difficultest peece of War by this retrait you will get a greater victory then you are aware of for therby you will over-com your self which is the greatest conquest that can be without seeking abroad wee have enemies enough within doors to practise our valour upon we have tumultuary and rebellious passions with whole hosts of humorâ—… within us He who can discomfit them is the greatest Captain and may defie the Devill I pray recollect your self and think on this advice of your true and most affectionat servitor Westm. 4 Decem. 1637. J. H. V. To G. G. Esq at Rome SIR I Have more thanks to give you then can be folded up in this narrow paper though it were all writ in the closest kind of Stenography for the rich and acurat account you please to give me of that renowned City wherin you now sojourn I find you have most iudiciously pryed into all matters both civill and clericall especially the latter by observing the poverty and penances of the Fryer the policy and power of the Iesuit the pomp of the Prelat and Cardinall Had it not bin for the two first I beleeve the two last and that See had bin at a low ebb by this time for the learning the prudentiall state knowledge and austerity of the one and the venerable opinion the peeple have of the abstenious and rigid condition of the other specially of the Mendicants seem to make som compensation for the lux and magnificence of the two last Besides they are more beholden to the Protestant then they are
you lately did to a kinsman of mine Mr. Vaughan and for divers other which I defer till I return to that Court and that I hope will not be long Touching the procedure of matters here you shall understand that my Lord Aston had speciall audience lately of the King of Spain and afterwards presented a Memorial wherin ther was a high complaint against the miscarriage of the two Spanish Ambassadors now in England the Marquis of Inopifa and Don Carlos Coloma the substance of it was that the said Ambassadors in a privat audience his Majesty of great Britain had given them informd him of a pernicions plot against his Person and royall authority which was that at the beginning of your now Parliament the Duke of Buckingham with others his complices often met and consulted in a clandestin way how to break the treatie both of Match and Palatinat and in case his Majesty was unwilling therunto he should have a Countrey house or two to retire unto for his recreation and health in regard the Prince is now of years judgment fit to govern His Majesty so resented this that the next day he sent them many thanks for the care they had of him and desird them to perfect the work and now that they had detected the treason to discover also the traitors but they were shy in that point the King sent again desiring them to send him the names of the Conspirators in a paper seald up by one of their own confidents which he would receive with his own hands and no soul should see it els advising them withall that they should not prefer this discovery before their own honors to be accounted false Accusers they replied that they had don enough already by instancing in the Duke of Buckingham and it might easily be guest who were his Confidents and Creatures Hereupon his Majesty put those whom he had any grounds to suspect to their oaths And afterward sent my Lord Conway and Sir Francis Cotington to tell the Ambassadors that he had left no means unassaid to discover the Conspiration that he had sound upon oath such a clearness of ingenuity in the Duke of Buckingham thâ—… satisfied him of his innocency Therfore he had just cause to conceive that this information of theirs proceeded rather from malice and som politicall ends then from truth and in regard they would not produce the Authors of so dangerous a Treason they made themselves to be justly thought the Authors of it And therfore though he might by his own royall justice and the law of nations punish this excesse and insolence of theirs and high wrong they had done to his best servants yea to the Prince his Son for through the sides of the Duke they wounded him in regard it was impossible that such a design should be attempted without his privity yet he would not be his own Judge herein but would refer them to the King their Master whom he conceiv'd to be so just that hee doubted not but he would see him satisfied and therfore hee would send an express unto him hereabouts to demand Justice and reparation this busines is now in agitation but we know not what will become of it We are all here in a sad disconsolat condition and the Merchants shake their heads up and down out of an apprehension of som fearfull war to follow so I most affectionatly kiss your hands and rest Madrid Aug. 26 1623. Your very humble and ready Servitor J. H. XXIX To Sir Kenelme Digby Knight SIR YOu have had knowledge none better of the progression and growings of the Spanish match from time to time I must acquaint you now with the rupture and utter dissolution of it which was not long a doing for it was done in one audience that my Lord of Bristoll had lately at Court whence it may be inferr'd that 't is far more easie to pull down than reare up for that structure which was so many years a rearing was dasht as it were in a trice Dissolution goeth a faster pace than Composition And it may be said that the civill actions of men specially great affairs of Monarchs as this was have much Analogie in degrees of progression with the naturall production of man To make man there are many acts must procede first a meeting and copulation of the Sexes then Conception which requires a well-disposed womb to retain the prolificall seed by the constriction and occlusion of the orifice of the Matrix which seed being first bloud and afterwards cream is by a gentle ebullition coagulated and turnd to a crudded lump which the womb by vertue of its naturall heat prepares to be capable to receive form and to be organiz'd wherupon Nature falls a working to delineat all the members beginning with those that are most noble as the Heart the Brain the Liver wherof Galen would have the Liver which is the shop and source of the bloud and Aristotle the Heart to be the first fram'd in regard 't is primùm vivens ultimùm moriens Nature continues in this labor untill a perfect shape be introduc'd and this is call'd Formation which is the third act and is a production of an organicall body out of the spermatic substance caus'd by the plastic vertue of the vitall spirits and somtimes this act is finisht thirty days after the Conception somtimes fifty but most commonly in forty two or forty five and is sooner don in the male This being done the Embryon is animated with three souls the first with that of Plants call'd the vegetable soul then with a sensitive which all brute Animals have and lastly the Rationall soul is infus'd and these three in man are like Trigonus in Tetragono the two first are generated ex Traduce from the seed of the Parents but the last is by immediat infusion from God and 't is controverted 'twixt Philosophers and Divines when this infusion is made This is the fourth act that goeth to make man and is called Animation and as the Naturalists allow Animation double the time that Formation had from the Conception so they allow to the ripening of the Embryo in the womb and to the birth therof treble the time that Animation had which hapneth somtimes in nine somtimes in ten months This Grand busines of the Spanish match may be said to have had such degrees of progression first there was a meeting and coupling on both sides for a Iunta in in Spain and som select Counsellors of State were appointed in England After this Conjunction the busines was conceiv'd then it receiv'd form then life though the quickning was slow but having had nere upon ten years in lieu of ten months to be perfected it was infortunately strangled when it was ripe and ready for birth and I would they had never been born that did it for it is like to be out of my way 30 ol And as the Embryo in the womb is wrapt in three membranes or tunicles so this
H. XXXI To the Right Honourable the Lady Wichts Madam SInce I was hurl'd amongst these walls I had divers fits of melancholy and such turbid intervalls that use to attend close prisoners who for the most part have no other companions but confus'd troops of wandring cogitations Now Melancholy it far more fruitfull of thoughts than any other humour for it is like the mud of Nile which when that Enigmaticall vast River is got again to her former bed engendreth divers sorts of new creatures and som kind of Monsters my brain in this Fleet hath bin often thus overwhelmd yet I never found it so muddy nor the Region of my mind so much clowded as it was lately after notice had of the sad tidings of Master Controulers death The newes heerof struck such a damp into me that for sâ—…m space me thought the very pulse of my bloud and the motions of my heart wer at a stand for I was surpriz'd with such a consternation that I felt no pulsations in the one or palpitations in the other Well Madam he was a brave solid wise man of a noble free disposition and so great a controuler of his passions that he was alwaies at home within himself yet I much fear that the sense of these unhappy times made too deep impressions in him Truly Madam I lov'd and honour'd him in such a perfection that my heart shall wear a broad black ribband for him while I live as long as I have a retentive faculty to remember any thing his memory shal be fresh within me But the truth is that if the advantagious exchange which hee hath made were well considered no frend of his should be sorry for in lieu of a white staffe in an earthly Court he hath got a scepter of immortality He that had bin Ambassadour at the Port to the greatest Monark upon earth where he resided so many yeers an honour to his King and Countrey is is now arriv'd at a far more glorious port than that of Constantinople though as I intimated before I fear that this boysterous weather hath blown him thither before his time God Almighty give your Ladiship patience for so great a loss and comfort in your hopefull issue with this prayer I conclude my self Madam Your Lapp s most humble and sorrowfull servant J. H. From the Fleet 15 Aprill XXXII To Mr. ES. Counsellour at the middle Temple SIR I Had yours this morning and I thank you for the newes you send me that divers of my fellow sufferers are enlarg'd out of Lambeth Winchester London and Ely House wherunto I may answer you as the Cheapside Porter did one that related Court newes unto him how such a one was made Lord Treasurer another Chancellour of the Exchequer another was made an Earle another sworn privy Counsellour I said he yet I am but a Porter still So I may say I am but a prisoner still notwithstanding the releasement of so many Mistake me not as if I repin'd heerby at any ones liberty for I could heartily wish that I were the Unic Martyr in this kind that I were the figure of one with never a cypher after it as God wot ther are two many I could wish that as I am the least in value I 〈◊〉 the last in number A day may com that a favourable wind may blow that I may launch also out of this Fleet in the mean time and alwaies after I am Fleet 1 Feb. 1645. Your true constant Servâ—…tor J. H. XXXIII To Mr. R. B. at Ipswich Gentle Sir I Value at a high rate the sundry respects you have bin pleas'd to shew me for as you oblig'd me before by your visits so you have much endeerd your self unto me since by your late letter of the 11 current Beleeve it Sir the least scruple of your love is not lost because I perceive it proceeds from the pure motions of vertue but returnd to you in the same full proportion But what you please to ascribe unto me in point of merit I dare not own you look upon me through the wrong end of the prospective or rather through a multiplying glass which makes the object appear far bigger than it is in reall dimension such glasses as Anatomists use in the dissection of bodies which can make a flea look like a cow or a fly as big as a vulture I presume you are constant in your desire to travell if you intend it at all you cannot do it in a beter time ther being little comfort God wot to breath English aire as matters are carried I shall be glad to steed you in any thing that may tend to your advantage for to tell you truly I take much contentment in this inchoation of frendship to improve and perfect which I shall lie centinell to apprehend all occasions If you meet Master R Brownrigg in the Countrey I pray present my very kind respects unto him for I 〈◊〉 my self to be both his and Fleet 15 Aug. 1646. Your most affectionat Servitor J. H. XXXIV To Cap. C. Price Prisoner at Coventry Cosin YOu whom I held alwaies as my second self in affection 〈◊〉 now so in afliction beiâ—…g in the same predicament of sufferance though not in the same prison as I Ther is nothing sweetneth frendship more than a participation and identity of danger and durance The day may com that we may discourse with comfort of these sad times for adversity hath the advantage of prosperity it self in this point that the commemoration of the one is oft-times more delightsom than the fruition of the other Moreover adversity and prosperity are like vertue and vice the two foremost of both which begin with anxieties and pain but they end comically in contentment and joy the other two quite contrary they begin with pleasure and end in pain ther 's a difference in the last scene I could wish if ther be no hopes of a speedy releasement you would remove your body hither and rather than moulder away in idlenes wee will devoutly blow the coale and try if we can exâ—…lt gold and bring it o're the helm in this Fleet we will transmute metalls and give a resurrection to mortified vegetables to which end the green Lyon and the dragon ye Demogorgon and Mercury himself with all the Planets shall attend us till we com to the Elixer the true powder of projection which the vulgar call the Philosophers stone If matters hit right we may heerby get better returns than Cardigan silver mines afford but we must not melt our selves away as I. Meridith did nor do as your Countryman Morgan did I know when you read these lines you l ' say I am grown mad and that I have taken Opium in lieu of Tobacco If I be mad I am but sick of the disease of the time which reigns more among the English than the sweating siâ—…knes did som six score yeers since amongst them and only them both at home and abroad Ther 's a strange
subject to starving to diseases to the inclemency of the weather and to be far longer liv'd I then spyed a great stone and sitting a while upon 't I fell to weigh in my thoughts that that stone was in a happier condition in som respects than either those sensitive creatures or vegetables I saw before in regard that that stone which propagates by assimilation as the Philosophers say needed neither grass nor hay or any aliment for restauration of nature nor water to refresh its roots or the heat of the Sun to attract the moisture upwards to encrease growth as the other did As I directed my pace homeward I spyed a Kite soaâ—…ing high in the ayr and gently gliding up and down the clear Region so far above my head I fell to envy the Bird extremely and â—…epine at his happines that hee should have a privilege to make a nearer approach to heaven than I. Excuse me that I trouble you thus with these rambling meditations they are to correspond with you in som part for those accurat fancies of yours you lately sent me So I rest Holborn 17 Mar. 1639. Your entire and true Servitor J. H LII To master Sergeant D. at Lincolns Inn. SIR I Understand with a deep sense of sorrow of the indisposition of your son I fear he hath too much mind for his body and that he superabounds with fancy which brings him to these fits of distemper proceeding from the black humor of Melancholy Moreover I have observed that hee is too much given to his study and self-society specially to convers with dead men I mean Books you know any thing in excess is naught Now Sir wer I worthy to give you advice I could wish he wer well married and it may wean him from that bookish and thoughtfull humor women wer created for the comfort of men and I have known that to som they have prov'd the best Heleborum against Melancholy As this course may beget new spirits in him so it must needs ad also to your comfort I am thus bold with you because I love the Gentleman dearly well and honor you as being West 13 Iune 1632. Your humble obliged servant J. H. LIII To my noble Lady the Lady M. A. Madame THer is not any thing wherin I take more pleasure than in the accomplishment of your commands nor had ever any Queen more power o're her Vassalls than you have o're my intellectualls I find by my inclinations that it is as naturall for me to do your will as it is for fire to fly upward or any body els to rend to his center but touching the last command your Ladiship was pleased to lay upon me which is the following Hymne if I answer not the fulness of your expectation it must be imputed to the suddennes of the command and the shortnes of time A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity To the First Person To thee dread Soveraign and dear Lord Which out of nought didst me afford Essence and life who mad'st me man And oh much more a Christian Lo from the centre of my heart All laud and glory I impart Hallelujah To the Second To thee blessed Saviour who didst free My soul from Satans tyrannie And mad'st her capable to be An Angel of thy Hierarchy From the same centre I do raise All honor and immortall praise Hallelujah To the Third To thee sweet Spirit I return That love wherwith my heart doth burn And these bless'd notions of my brain I now breath up to thee again O let them redescend and still My soul with holy raptures fill Hallelujah They are of the same measure cadence and ayr as was that angelicall Hymne your Ladiship pleased to touch upon your instrument which as it so enchanted me then that my soul was ready to com out at my ears so your voice took such impressions in mee that me thinks the sound still remains fresh with Westm. 1 Apr. 1637. Your Ladiships most devoted Servitor J. H. XLIV To Master P. W. at Westminster SIR THe fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom and the Love of God is the end of the Law the former saying was spoke by no meaner man than Solomon but the latter hath no meaner Author than our Savior himself Touching this beginning and this end ther is a near relation between them so near that the one begets the tother a harsh mother may bring forth somtimes a mild daughter so fear begets love but it begets knowledg first for Ignâ—…ti nulla cupido we cannot love God unless we know him before both fear and love are necessary to bring us to heaven the one is the fruit of the Law the other of the Gospell when the clouds of fear are vanish'd the beams of love then begin to glance upon the heart and of all the members of the body which are in a maner numberless this is that which God desires because 't is the centre of Love the source of our affections and the cistern that holds the most illustrious bloud and in a sweet and well devoted harmonious soul cor is no other than Camera Omnipotentis Regis 't is one of Gods closets and indeed nothing can fill the heart of man whose desires are infinite but God who is infinity itself Love therfore must be a necessary attendant to bring us to him but besides Love ther must be two other guides that are requir'd in this journey which are Faith and Hope now that fear which the Law enjoyns us turns to faith in the Gospell and knowledg is the scope and subject of both yet these last two bring us onely towards the haven but love goes along with us to heaven and so remains an inseparable sempiternall companion of of the soul Love therfore is the most acceptable Sacrifice which we can offer our Creator and he who doth not study the Theory of it heer is never like to com to the Practise of it heerafter It was a high hyper physicall expression of St. Austustine when he fell into this rapture that if hee wer King of Heaven and God Almighty Bishop of Hippo he would exchange places with him because he lov'd him so well This Vote did so take me that I have turn'd it to a paraphrasticall Hymn which I send you for your Violl having observed often that you have a harmonious soul within you The Vote Oh God who can those passions tell Wherwith my heart to thee doth swell I cannot better them declare Than by the wish made by that rare Auâ—…elian Bishop who of old Thy Oracâ—…es in Hippo told If I were Thou and thou wert I I would resign the Deity Thou shouldst be God I would be man Is 't possible that love more can Oh pardon that my soul hath tane So high a flight and grows prophane For my self my dear Phil because I love you so dearly well I will display my very intrinsecalls to you in this point when I exmine the motions of my heart I find that I