affections were Fixed upon this glorious Star Which lightens all the Stars above And on poor welps lets out this love MAZE 8 Types and emblems Rev. 5.6 9 10 HEre does the Rose in Sharon lively grow The faces of the comers colouring Here living waters from the fountain flow And graces be abundant bullering Here feeds the Pelican her fainting brood Dying but being revived by her blood The Phenix tasting death death to subdue Life to restore and nature to renew Captives to rescue here the Lyon dread see and adore The Lamb in suffering death a ransome made man to restore Thy faith-bred thoghts unto these theams confine Where these transcendent mysteries do shine For every minut in eternity New marvels in this mirrour thou shalt see Join with heavens holy host in heavenly hymnes Sing hallelujahs with the Seraphims Amongst these pregnant Spirits ever poring In this abysse of blesse and joy adoring Adoring God whose wisdome bountie bright Doth shine so fair in this dark cloudy night Infer confer when thou com'st out to see These mysteries clear what shall that glory be MAZE 9. Loves union Joh. 17.22 23 NOw Happy Holy Ones who sees The Myst'ry sweet of Mysteries How from that Myst'ry myst'ries flow And from that Wonder wonders grow Fitting for souls eternall thinking When the Redeem'd are ever drinking At the Cisterns of salvation In the cups of consolation Life from the ever-living Fountain Moving on the unmoved Mountain In that celestial Communion Sublime and unconceived Union Where never then incensing stain Unto rebuke shall us arraign Nor possible again seclude From this felicity so good Of joyes transcending and exceeding All that on his face are feeding Past separation quite which is The Crown of our eternall blesse That blesse all finite thoughts above Feasting upon eternall love Where from the splendor of illustrious beams Grace in immortall glory ever streams THE FIRST STEP TO THE JEWEL NOw in this Garden where we have been using And in these Mazes moved unto musing And be returning to our Cypresse bowres To take a breathing for some silent hours Let us beware for we in danger be To sleep away our sweet tranquillity We members of the Body mysticall Which Militant we ordinarly call Are to regard the universall cases Of all the parties in their sev'rall places Common desires delights designs devoted As this State-int'rest best may be promoted So when in person most remote we are We may in sp'rit be best imployed far Now let us try this course in our retirings Fervent and faithfull be in all desirings And dutifull endeavours for our King And for His cause so shall we daily sing And let us ever in the faith be eyeing Him in His glorious actings as by seeing We may the more by grace enlarged be His glorious Name for to exalt on hie And in our secret Soliloquies then How God hath granted grace for gracelesse men Recent resume and so the sp'rit compose As you in sp'rit may sp'ritually rejoice But O! what drousinesse and what decay Infirmity and failing we bewray When from the Garden we debarred be For any space untill for new supply The Silver Trumpet sounding in our streets For fainting souls a new approach invites For help this precious Jewel as the Root Of all the Garden spices flowers and fruit For spirit feeding feasting smelling healing Apply'd to thy affections for prevailing Effectuall prove for in these Gemmes imbosed All vertue efficacious is inclosed With fixed eyes and warm affections ponder And as thou dost revive rejoice and wonder The second Step to the JEWEL THis Microcosme Man of wonders full By God made wonderfully wonderfull And in his lively image made to live By breathing in this life that he doth give A compend of the whole Creation bright In whom the Divine Nature took delight There to converse as in a mansion meet Doth join with lifelesse dust a living sp'rit This soul doth all in all the parts remain Of all the body for the bodies gain Relief and preservation in all cases Her self unmov'd whose action never ceases So and infinitely above what can Imagin'd be by any soul of man The glorious Creator doth possesse His blessed Self in all this Universe Containing all things uncontain'd unmoving His glory in all motions promoving Which shining in His Name and nature prove No change to be in His eternall Love As by his operations appear That Majesty to man and angel clear By dyving wherein there is true delight Untill through darknesse we arrive at light The JEWEL of Jewels The LORD our GOD who 's only PURE In TRUTH and GOODNESSE doth endure PERFECTION JUST OMNIPOTENT OMNISCIENT and OMNIPRESENT INFINITE ONE WONDERFUL All these rich Gemmes in this fair Jewel seen All in all All all 's involves In our believing all resolves Believing knowing presupposing Fervent love and full rejoicing In these most sweet enliving Beams True living reviving Streams frō this one All who shining is In Bounty Beauty boundlesse This Pearle rare transparent doth contain ETERNALL BLESS and MERCIFUL EMMANUEL and high COUNSELLER LOVE LIFE and only COMFORTER UNCHANGEABLE and WISDOM bright LONG SUFF'RING sweet GRACIOUS LIGHT The use of the JEWEL THis firmament of starry constellations Planets Signs Poles in sep'rate scituations Which from the Sun the Prince of Stars receive Inliving vigour to the life they have On this Terrestial Glob from every Airt Their influence on bodies all impart To every sev'rall kinde by sweet infusion Diffused variously without confusion Wherein infinite multiplicity Each one may plead these heav'ns were made for me Like Iron and Adamant alike affecting And all things else except themselves neglecting Since then the God of nature hath impos'd This naturall necessity compos'd Dead Elements to quicken and revive Procreate preserve restore and to enlive The vegetives and sensitives what then Can be the glory he for elect men Reserv'd hath in himself to let them prove The force of servent free and fountain love In moving to discern with open eyes Aright a sight of divine mysteries This Garden treasure JEVVEL every jem Spring from that sweet sublime eternall stem In Gospel Ordinances so resplendent Industrious divinely condescendent And every one in every one so vive That every one doth every one revive Whence flow these various flowers that do affect Spirituall senses to a sweet reflect Cordials of comforts here ingrafted grow And soveraign balm from precious spices flow That by the influence of refreshing beams And constant current of spiritual streams Upon the proper object so effecting Directed duely by divine directing And straightly darted out from every point Curing securing every severall joynt From that One-All unmov'd eternall pure Where infinit perfection doth endure That Omnipotent Omnipresent is And Omniscient savingly to blesse In Him the Son of righteousnesse by name Emmanuel high that only glorious beam Where wisdom full of wonder shines so bright In ord'ring all these works of wonder right That goodnesse may be seen
exceeding good It shines in glory on ingratitude That mercy may in God admired be He makes an object of our misery Justice ador'd shines bright in Jesus bleeding By merits mercy for our persons pleading Eternall love shines clear in timous grace Gaining the elect of the rebell-race Counsell and comfort for the heart contrite Long suff'ring to convince the haughty sp'rit That life and light by which we see and live That sp'rit of truth whereby we do believe By whom alone these glorious rayes transcendent Become so bountifully condescendent And from the grounds of these ingredients green Sov'raign preservatives to save are seen For feeding breeding feasting framing right The Babe of Grace translated unto light A sp'rituall sympathy of inclination 'Twixt Head and Members by a new creation As naturall grafts well grafted in the root Come timely to their known and kindly fruit By shedding out and sucking substance sweetly Incorp'rate and corroborate compleatly This practicall Divinity could make Which of the Divine Nature doth partake For through the vail admitted by believing We instantly receive above conceiving To see our selves blind-born sin-born and more Death-born wrath-born forlorn for eveâ—more And in that minut then immediatly Light life relief and true tranquillity By looking up and in this JEWEL dyving Presented for perpetuall reviving As on the heart it doth impression take And kindly motions to the Mover make So as with longings we enlarg'd may be This glory to enjoy triumphantly From this One-all One-uncreated Blesse Who glorious in the whole Creation is Till face to face we Called come to see And chang'd from glory unto glory be The Symphonicall Desires and delights of all Saints in their Retirements SONG I. DArknesse depart do not our eyes deprive Of this bright Star of day that doth appear To usher in the Sun that can revive Our fainting hearts and clouded spirits clear The Rose of Sharon all our banks and bowers Perfumes with odours of all ointment sweet Our fields be sending forth the fairest flowres The singing birds our slownesse do invite The Turtle mourning for her Mate doth moan Because his comming he so long delayes And we affected with her griefs do groan And tune our Lutes unto her mourning layes Most glorious Sun of righteousnesse consent To hear to see to cause thy face to shine The clouds dispell make clear the firmament And for thy coming move us to incline Oh that we could Thee know believe and love Then could we not but for thy coming long Wonder importunate we do not prove Untill our sighs be turned to a song Most glorious King out through the continent The glorious Gospel gloriously convey Make all the Nations come with one consent To kisse the Son and on his statutes stay The Devil that by delusion doth deceive The world lost roaring in fiery rage Of whom the Beast and Prophet false receive Babel and Balaam's ruine for their wage Endite condemn discover give them doom With these the Whoor flagitious detect The Serpent and the Man of Sin consume From all their drifts redeem thy dear Elect. Triumphant Monarch for thy Truth appear And with thy brazen legs these tyrants turn Out of the way with eyes of flaming fire These fiends pursue and in thy fury burn When shall thy garments stain'd with blood be seen Of these proud foes that do thy grace disdain The glory of these wonders doth pertain To thee this might and malice to restrain How this wild Lion through the earth doth reel And prey upon poor blind-born Adams race Whirling the worldly minded like a wheel Up by his gins thy Image to deface Thou sees O Thou who pow'r hes to prevent This vile invet'rate and invective spleen And for destroying Satans works was sent Our evil deserts let not thy help detain Dread King who question dare thy just decrees Mysterious holy righteous and profound For out of all apparent contraries Glory and might right doth to thee redound Let all the hosts in heav'n and earth be still And with submission simple thee adore The Projects of thy wise eternall will To see fulfill'd rejoice for evermore All revolutions strange our King aright Doth by a change of providence direct By death and darkness making life and light Brightly appear for all his dear Elect. Heav'ns King our sp'rits more sp'ritually dispose And shine upon the seed of saving grace That faithfully and fruitfully repose We may and all the swey of flesh displace The time that thou art glorious to appear Hasten impediments out of the way Remove that seeing eyes clear'd to admire The magnified in thy members may The wicked world that doth in lies delight The voice of truth and wisdom doth disdain And will not see till everlasting night Close up their fight in soul-tormenting pain Longing we be when we himself may see Shining in glory on his glorious Throne Where feasting in his glorious face we 'll be When immortality we have put on Welcome great King let now the glorious Day Begin to dawn of thy eternall reign In righteousnesse thy Royall Scepter swey Of mercy and of judgement we may sing Time mend thy pace unto thy period post Stir up thy strength do not retard nor slide All shall be done anone be gone thou must Eternity to sink thee down doth glyde Let us our sp'rits a little time compose And fix upon the starry Firmament And all the Stars that are let us suppose Full as the Sun did shine so excellent And that this glob of earth transparent were And ev'ry star out from his glorious Sphere Darting his rayes and influence so far As all dimensions of the world appear â—oor worms we never could a blink endure Of this created glory we conceive â—ut in the beauty of this brightnesse sure Be raz'd because we could it not receive â—gain by faith in contemplation ponder What places for the Elect are prepared â—o far surpassing all the Stars in number â—nd to the glory of the Sun compared 〈◊〉 immortality when we 're arrayed â—nd for these places pure spiritualized â—ransparent in this splendor there displayed â—nd yet humane remain so subtillized Yet our great King those changes we perceive From naturall darknesse to this light of grace Exceeds more fully then we can conceive Till we receive that fulnesse in His face Where that all-glorious increated light Remains whence we our light and life derive And shall enjoy joyes in His joyfull sight Unseen unheard till there we do arrive Who see these marvels but they must admire Who see admire but doubtlesse they do long Who see admire and long but do aspire Seated to be these miracles among But rather how is it we do not weigh The wisdome of our King and condescend Simply unto His dispensations high Who our desires unruly doth suspend Untill by tryals strong through truth sustained Our lost condition and His love we see And by His grace be from the world weaned And fitted for this Life of Glory be
The Turtle-dove an emblem of the new Creature her properties described THe Turtle-dove truely resemble can Of any thing in nature the New-man In heart and whole affections constant pure Does loyall only to her choise endure Most searching piercing storms and darkest night In presence of her Lover she doth slight But thoughts of separation be so sad Created comforts cannot make her glad Whiles vexing grief from self-suspition grows That his removall from her motion flows This Animall the Rationall so exceeds She for preferment of affection pleads They born again this case can only state Prevail and far exceed in the debate For they refram'd refin'd revived be By that anointing makes them hear and see Himself who so elects allures and loves His Dove redeem'd reproves proves and approves Most blessed they thus taught thus fram'd thus gain'd To God by grace and from the world wean'd CANT 2.12 14. The voice of the Turtle is heard in our Land 14. O my Dove that art in the clefts of the Rocks in the secret places of the Stairs let me see thy countenance let me hear thy voices for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely PSAL. 68.13 Though ye have lien among the pots yet shall ye be as the wings of a Dove covered with Silver and her feathers with yellow Gold THE TURTLE-DOVE UNDER THE ABSENCE PRESENCE OF HER ONLY CHOISE OR DESERTION DELIVERANCE REVIVED 1. Ushered with the NICODEMIAN PARADOX explained in a Comparison betwixt the First and Second BIRTH and closed with the Characters of the Old and New Man 2. And seconded with a SURVEY of the First and Second DEATH which inclosed with a Sepation-kisse betwixt two most intimate Friends the Soul and Body of Man 3. And a Glimring of the First and Second Resurrection and Generall Judgement closing with a Song of Degrees from what we were to what we are and from thence toward what we shall be By a Lover of the Celestiall Muses IOHN 3.8 The wind bloweth where it â—isâ— c. EDINBVRGh Printed by Andrew Anderson Printer to the CITTY and COLLEDGE Anno DOM. 1664. The Presentation of the Turtle-Dove to the Lady VISCOUNTESS of KENMOOR RIght Noble Madam Please your Honour now Accept this present of a Turtle Dove Which in the Ark reserv'd secure hath been And both the worlds new and old hes seen The Nations of the old deaths captives living The natives of the new in death reviving She sees preserv'd from fear from pit from snare Where wretched worldlings wamble in despair Those old ascendent shining and shut out These born anew with Songs of safety shout Eternall purposes reveal'd she weighs And timous precious promises applyes Timely performances she truly proves And feels how fervently her Lover loves Now when you have consideratly seen Her Songs and found them clear and Christ-all-clean Then let her sweetly by your licence flie Amongst true mourners with her melody These discords well compos'd abounding there In concords move a sweet soul-melting air Ladies and Lovers Lidia-like advert Till sp'ritual motions mollifie your heart That moulded new in love true and divine Then in your Lovers likenesse you may shine An ACROSTICK upon the NAME of the Right Honourable LADY JEAN CAMPBEL VISCOUNTESS of Kenmoor L LOve-bred designs from deep divine desires A A Sp'rit inspires transcending humane skill D Dilating still the will with heavenly fires I Inflam'd wherewith admires her Lover still E Elected Ladie elevated Lover J Injoy the object of thy Love sublime A Adore the dictats of thy Divine Mover N Now training thee to treasures after time E Eternall troubles inward tryals strong C Come out to make thee famous in thy fight A And manag'd be the mysteries among M Make up thy life-translation unto light P Presse through the straits the precious prize perceive B Bounty bestows and blessed souls receive E Eternall triumphs glorie infinite L Loves Darling comes thy comforts to compleat The Minion of the Muses here Great Mistris of this gracious Quire Whose study unto self-denial Had suffered to shine the trial Should made the Muses homage do Her Pen and Person both unto An ACROSTICK upon the name of that very Religious and Famous GENTLE-WOMAN MARION McKNAICHT M More happy then imagined can be A And blessed are such as with heart sincere R Resolve to cleave to Christ to live and die I In Him with Him and for Him to appear O O What transcedent glorie grows from grace N None but no not the soul refined shall M c Make to appear that Light that Life that peace K Known only to the pure Possessors all N Now thou by grace art unto glory gone A And gain'd the Garland of eternall blesse I In seeing Him who on the glorious Throne C Created uncreated glory is H Heavens Quire did sing at thy conversion sweet T Time posts thy finall comforts to compleat Those names among the living worthily Preserved be that true Belivers be And such they be that truely do believe Who living learn to die dying to live TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Noble and Religious LADY JEAN VISCOUNTESS of KENMOOR Right Honourable BEing past controversie and universally acknowledged that bitter Experience is the best Teacher and School-master of fools amongst which rank I do esteem my self to be inferior to very few And therefore must be educate under such exercises and discipline as the only wise Parent who knows well the frame disposition and inclination of every one of his children sees meet for instructing rectifying and reclaiming of the blind-born ignorant prone to all maner of perversity out of that naturall darknesse by the illumination of the holy Ghost unto the life of grace whereby God makes himself known to the Elect and themselves to themselves and whereby they be moved to hate and abhore themselves to love and believe Him so clearly manifested to them that the Devil or his instruments from without or from within cannot gain ground so far against the work of his begun grace as to raze it Neverthelesse the subtile Hunter cruell and violent Persecutor of such as are thrusting through the strait gate ceaseth not to prepare and set many snares privily in our way partly by entangling our minds with too much worldly affairs and other vain inventions and partly by presenting well-polished idols for our humors as means of diversion whereby we be marred in our growth and come slowly unto maturity But our only good God and gracious Father who out of his infinite goodnesse hath begun knows also how to accomplish his work in every one of his own For proof whereof I have made bold to let your Ladyship know that after many multiplied compassions unchangeable love and long-sufferings wherewith my Lord hath been driving me nearer to Himself now at length to lead me apart as it were out of the world by a singular and unexpected providence unto the wildernesse not to be tempted by the Devil as my dear Saviour was before me who
consum'd in which they 're pyn'd Then reason's corrupt faith's weak sense is gone Hope fails love still remaining's left alone Which surely though unsensibly unites The soul to Christ Christ to the soul invites Lo likewise here thou 'lt see the ground on which Some Christians are so toss'd some not so much With their procuring causes and occasions Grave warnings suting all such dispensations Lest when they be advanc'd they swell in pride And turn secure then sadly fall or slide With heartlesse frettings When they cannot have All things at all times their vain hearts do crave In all which things his words he fitly squares With sound experience its norm and dares With open face avow all here declar'd To have been clearly known found seen and heard Come therefore read and with all care peruse His words for love to thee did cause him chuse To publish them Thy good he did intend Next to Gods glory and if this great end Be reach'd he 's recompenc'd for all his pain Give praise to God thank him for thine 's the gains W. G. To my highly Honoured and very obliging FRIEND upon his rare and sutable Choise in the ensuing POEM MVch honoured Sir the stately peerlesse worth Of your high soaring spirit is held forth In slighting things terrene divine desiring With most undanted boldnesse high aspyring To know see yea injoy him whose perfections Cannot be reach'd by most inlarg'd conceptions Of most capacious sp'rits and deeply dyves In these hid â—hings which knowing souls in lives Your progresse since ingag'd in this abstruse Deep art being helped by the heavenly muse Appears in these well fram'd lines which contain A Christians present toyle but future gain O but your warnings wise and counsells be Wholsome convey'd with moving gravity Your skilfull well tun'd Songs shew that you 're taught In heavenly Poesie and fully fraught With free Urania's gifts your lofty strain Holds forth a heav'n sprung high Poetick vein Surely such soul-transporting Songs could not By any not transported be begot How hes your soul been fill'd with rapting joyes O how enlarg'd by the melodious noise Of these celestiall hosts and glorious throngs How elevated by their pleasant Songs When such sweet parallels were by your pen Convey'd of so great use to blind-born men Great Sir well done ye have not basely spent Your noble and broody spirit forc'd to vent It self on somewhat in devising vain Vtopian stories which Romanticks fain Who busk Chymerick notions which are not Else where but in the fanciers brain begot And with high-flown deckt words great things portend Which try'd into a noysome nothing end Your gravity would not permit you choise Such theams you fancy not a birthlesse noise Your subject's grave your drift's not transient pleasure But solide joy true peace these lasting treasures W. G. TO THE JUDICIOUS READER Upon the excellency and sutablenesse of the AUTHOR his Choise and Subject of the Turtle-dove in the ensuing POEM HO curious Sp'rits who love to spend your time In reading strange new things in Prose or Rime Come here a Creature rare describ'd you 'll see No Monster yet more strange then Monsters be She 's stil'd a Turtle-dove hereby's held forth Her Clement Nature Properties and Worth But if ye'll mark her with a searching eye Ye'll find her wonderfull made wondrously She is begot she 's born and yet O strange Created nay renew'd Ne're such a change Was heard of by Philosophers Yet more By that same act by which she 's made adore She is espous'd yea match'd Her Maker is Her Lover yea her Mate and she 's made his His milk's her food her Collactaneus Mother Sucks the same breasts their Nurse is al 's their Bâ— Yet both his members are He 's soul and head They Feasters He 's the Table and the Bread He 's Prophet Sacrifice Priest Judge and King They Judges Priests and Kings with him shall reign And though these seem to be moe when alone Yet Husband Mother Spouse Nurse makes but one WILLIAM GORDOUN The POEM with the accomplishmenes Epitomized BEauty and Valour many Volums prove To be the Object of most ardent Love And subject where the most profound confine Their deepest thoughts both morall and Divine The Streams of Truth unto the Fountain leads Where Vertue true from verity proceeds Unfading Beauty does in Vertue shine And Valour strong triumphs in Truth Divine Vertue Truth still victorious doth grace And Truth in Vertue Beauty fair imbrace What foes fair Vertue to deface contend Truth overturns and doth her cause defend From Truth what Rivall Vertue would allure Vertue disdains and does his death procure Fair Vertue does a constant Conflict keen From foes within and foes without sustain But by the Truth her Standart-bearer stands Against the malice of these mighty bands Most happy they and right Heroick sure Can faithfull hearts unto this fight procure But all these conflicts and these battels be Spirituall and discerned sp'ritually Yet carnall minds for substance shadows take But who for substance shadows does forsake True Valour Vertue Beauty Love come see The Subject of these Songs ensuing be Where shining in this Portraict shall appear The lineaments of a lively Christian clear Delineat from his birth and breeding glorious â—raught with the Trophees of triumphs victorious THE NICODEMIAN PARADOX EXPLAINED By a COMPARISON betwixt the Natural Generation of MAN and the Spirituall Regeneration of the NEW CREATURE CLOSING With the CHARACTERS of the OLD and NEW MAN THE PARADOX 1. Except a Man be born again he cannot see the Kingdome of GOD. 2. That before we can come to GOD we must know our selves captives and slaves to Satan 3. That before we enter the way to Heaven we must see our selves in the way to hell 4. That the most sad Crosse produceth the most sweet fruit of most kindly comfort 5. That the Believer keeps a daily Feast and also a daily Fast. 6. That there is no true contentment attainable in any thing present 7. That the Believer enjoyes joyes unspeakable in things unseen 8. That the poor that have nothing possesse all things and make many rich THese and the like of these are unto every man in the state of nature clear contradictions for no Creature is able to surpasse its own Sphere The Vegetative attains not unto Sense The Animal attains not unto Reason The Rational can as little apprehend the things of God which are only discernable by the Spirit of God The most able of men for judgment understanding or other parts naturall or by learning and industry acquired or extraordinarly given by revelation are but common gifts of the Spirit as proper to the Believer in grace so to the unbeliever in nature and by the man wholly in nature naturally received and naturally practised As also the very devils are known to have more light by the many advantages and occasions they have of knowledge both by experience and revelation then all the sons of men and although
generations hath revived and brought forth from the Womb of Regeneration a fair Family of Believers and by the Gospel-ordinances gathered them into his Garden of grace by the New and Living Way where the Fountain and Well of Life is opened free for all that will come to smell the Flowers and feast upon the Fruits of eternall and unchangeable Bounty infinitely preferable to all their losses where he conversing with them prepares them for the Pallace-Royall the Place of his Habitation where Mansions are appointed for them that they may be where He is that they may see His Glory and reâ—oice in Him for evermore And that as they have born the image of the earthly so we may â—ear the Image of the Heavenly And here is the prime and most precious Subâ—ect of Christian Contemplation where the Believer may expatiate and ingratiate himself in the â—weetest Recreations and Consolations by attaining unto and entertaining of an unseparable communion with God in Christ by the Holy Ghost â—nseparably One and only adorable MAZE 1. for restriction Job 37.33 34 HEnce carnall minds that apprehend Erroniously The Incomprehensible to comprehend most impiously Lights glorious Center inaccessible who can behold Lifes-life eternall unexpressible who can unfold How then shall men come to conceive Of this rare Blesse some do receive By Gods preordinate appointing who be renew'd And by the Holy Ghosts anointing who be indowed Brightly to see that Majesty Of God-Man that great Mystery Of love unto the Elect-seed Whence admiration doth proceed May come and see and so confesse Professe His Name and praise expresse And you who humbled in the sense of wants And search to know the priviledge of Saints May come in faith with reverence and fear See that without this frame you do forbear MAZE 2. for instruction 1 John 3.2 IN all these Mazes where we move The ground we walk upon is love And where we make approachings near Let 's come in reverence and fear Before His glorious Name who is A Beam supream of boundlesse blesse But so resplendent and transcendent To make appear convincing clear Behold this naturall Sun whose gleams doth apprehend us And whose illuminating beams doth comprehend us And thence infer how far The supream Author of this all excels this Star In this all comprehensive name I AM so condescending Eternall simple still the same all comprehending And in Emanuell sweetly seen In this fair Garden ever green Where daily with celestial showrs Be nourished His rarest flowrs Untill He glorifie His grace In such as here do Him imbrace MAZE 3. For incouragement Isa 55 John 1.27 HEre Soveraignity doth shine In condescensions so divine That ye whose lights are now anointed And for these glorious sights appointed On whom the Holy Ghost alone Hes left impressions upon Look in loves Christ-all mirrour clear Where loves sweet mystery does appear Firmly fixed till acquainted Thou be by faith therein indented This is the Mountain of our rest This sweetest Fountain only best Come drink salvation at this cup And on these consolations sup Where pleasures joy and peace abounds And glory to His Grace redounds Who Wonderfull will not conceal His Excellence but does reveal Himself so clear that we may read Him in His Name and on Him feed This Food who tasts shall thirst no more For fading gain or earthly glore But longing still to be translated Where they may be for ever stated MAZE 4. Loves mysterie 1 Tim. 3 1â— YE all who find your selves secure By lively saving faith and sure Who hes smell'd and who hes tasted Who hes felt and who hes feasted On these Love-dazling Mysteries divine Which on our cleared eyes do shine Of Man in God and God in Man Who sp'ritually destinctly scan Humanity still unconfounded With Deity and conjunctly bounded And do before The Unity in Trinity adore Advance that most admired Grace And feed upon that fairest Face For there alone and no where else That Love is found of love that smels That can be feasted on and felt The heart of Adamant can melt It 's life alone to be resolv'd In this this love to be disolv'd Tract it still and be allur'd So shall ye surely be secur'd O for these breathings of this Love That would the whole affections move MAZE 5. The fountain inexhaustible I AM THAT I AM GOD All Glorious I am that pure immense Ens entium Ens. Am I not wisdome infinite and love That omnipotent omnipresent whence I in my justice and my mercy move Am I not that sublime profound Abysse God Trinity in Unity compleat All truth all light all life eternall blesse Glorious holy Father Son Sp'rit GOD Holy Ghost eternall and infinite All Light all Life all Vertue pure compleat Irradiant being by whom all beings be Most blessfull breathings of the Vnity Sublime all-piercing and all-searching Spirit God Holy Ghost Eternall and Infinite E Expressed Splendor of the Deity M Might Majesty admir'd in Man Divine M Mercy rejoyc'd with Justice to agree A And Justice seen with joy in Mercy shine N Nerve of substantial Truth Illustrious fair V Wisdome and Well of Life where beauty springs E Eternall God of God God to declare L Lights Center where all Saints enlightned sings MAZE 6. Loves Labyrinth Eph. 5.23 THe race of man sprung from th'apostate reins deplorable And bitter root that all the branches stains restorable The mystery of man's defecting ponder The mind of God in mans perfecting wonder Perfected man degenerate by defection Defected man regenerate to perfection Adam by nature damn'd when he defected Damn'd Adam now refram'd by grace perfected O happy they may now we say Are such as sees with sp'ritual eyes aright these mysteries And do with reverence adore This Glorious Majesty before Fixed by faith till they prevail By pregnant prying through the vail The root of man elected leads this round And with the fruit of this great mist'ry's crown'd Come then and see the King as ye would live And by believing herein deeply dyve His power and his promise both believe So shalt thou see delight and love and live And with Heav'ns Quiristers adore and sing High Hallelujahs to this Glorious King MAZE 7. Loves mirrour Isa 45.22 LOve-dazled eyes look up and see Where purest spirits prying be And with seraphick love inflam'd You shall by fixing prove refram'd Gods only Son Gods rebell-wrath indure O love alluring Gods Sonship to Gods rebels to procure O large procuring We lay in darknesse till His glory shin'd And now He hes our souls in His combin'd Ingrav'd upon His Heart and Hands we be Ingrafted in His God-Man-Flesh be we Members more made Mates for Marriage loves To Him for whom the whole Creation moves In heaven and earth and hel whose scepter sweyes And dazles humane eyes with divine Rayes This Love all limits far exceeds Of length and depth and heighth and breadth Past comprehension by perusing A tractat for eternall musing Oh that our whole
Our glorious King eternall only wise Incomprehensible all things contains Who never doth the heart contrite despise But by His Sp'rit the broken sp'rit maintains By worlds of men thy will fulfilled be Through all the earth and let thy glory shine Jehovah high in Heav'n eternally And all the Elect to thy praise incline SONG II. A Song of triumph Rev. 15.3 4. Great And Marvelous Are Thy Works Lord God Almighty Just And True Are Thy Wayes Thou King Of Saints Who Shall Not Fear Thee O Lord And Glorify Thy Name For Thou Only Art Holy For All Nations Shall Come And Worship Before Thee For Thy judgements Are Made manifest GReat greatness doth unto our God belong And Majesty to be ador'd alone Marvelous and admir'd thy Saints among Are thy decrees eternall every one Thy works within thy Sanctuary are seen Works full of wonder thou to light hast broght Lord Lord thy purposes are pure and clean God only God that thou in us hast wrought Almighty might all finite light transcending Just justice uncontroll'd in wisdome right And righteousnesse in all thy acts extending True God of truth conjoin'd with glorious might Are not the Hosts of heav'n our heav'nly King Thy Mercy Justice Statutes truth desiring Wayes Wisdome works to see and seeing sing Thou King of Saints thy Majesty admiring King King of Kings before whose glorious face Of glory Kings created Crowns cast down Saints seperate and sanctified by grace Who thee imbrace thy praises shall resound Shall not the Nations thy great Name regard Not thee by whom their beings only be Fear thee who for thy people hast prepar'd The consolations of eternity O thou who doth so far our faith exceed Lord lead us to thy truth thereto to cleave And firmly fix our eyes on thee to feed Glorify thy Name in us us Lord revive Thy name is like to oyntments only sweet Name O ye Nations His dread Name with fear For He in all perfections is compleat Thou seest Him past comparison appear Only thy self Self-soveraignity Art thou incomprehensible alone Holy immense adored Majesty For thou art glorious Heavens and earth upon All only All in all thy Name is seen Nations in thy Salvation shall rejoyce Shall not the captives that deliver'd been Come and upon thy grace and peace repose And who will not unto thy greatnesse still Worship and homage do with heart sincere Before the Throne in ardency of will The Saints among when there they shall appear For now the wisdom of thy wise decrees Thy judgments deep and so divine so cleared Are to the sense of every eye that sees Made manifest and ever are admired A Harmonious Consort in a Song of Praise SONG III. Part. 3. THrones and dominions now adore This deep profound abysse before Of Wisdome and of knowledge high Shining in just mercy free Flowing from that fountain love That both the head and members move And made the dying head to live And all the members dead revive The mights and slights did him defy Below His feet down thrown do ly They bruis'd His heel but from His hand Now must they feel an iron brand Which breaks the necks of all His foes And makes the Hosts of Heaven rejoice For now our Glorious Head doth render To God the Kingdome and doth tender Himself unto His Spouse redeemed And members so by Him esteemed That so His long desires that day For evermore enjoy He may And they refyned and inflamed With sacred fires and so reframed Which the most glorious Head inspires And Members glorified admires The Universall Heavens filled With all this influence instilled By our victorious King alone Christ mysticall God-Man in One Whose generations account Who can which doth so far surmount All rationall mens conceiving Believing all poor sp'rits perceiving But O! admired doth invite Finite unite with infinite And in their stations sp'ritualized And gradation authorized Cordially with all consents Above the Orbs and Elements The Region of the fire and air Adoring be Echo Beware Now spare Till there you do approach and then Let Angels and immortall Men Like Stars resplendent shining sing Praise to their Author Spouse and King Do not I pray thee so inhibite For we cannot be prohibite To conceal that grace that glory That in this very middle story We do enjoy by faith and hope Which giveth latitude and scope With much alacrity to sing And when we be eclips'd to bring Unto the Altar timous tears And bemoan our faithlesse fears For He is firm who us affects And cannot fail who us protects And there shall in the darkest night Arise for us a glorious light And in the deepest deadly hell The Balme of Paradise shall smell Which shall increase of grace procure And shall our souls in peace secure Then do us not discharge to sing Praise to our Royall Spouse and King Sing on but in sobriety Beware of soaring too too high Flight'ring above the lofty line Where Love resides and doth refine Affections to incline aright To live by faith untill we come to sight The second Part of the third SONG THen by this liberty to sing Of our most Royall Spouse and King whose Love doth us allure His Deity in glory we Tri-unity adoring be our comforts to secure There unapproachable He is In all eternity of blesse above our feelings far For at the word of His command All things appeared where they stand from nothing as they are We do these wonders all believe And that He hes come to relieve us who did so disdain To do His wil and hear His voice But wilfully made wofull choise to sin which hes us slain Here is the Text here is the Theam Here is the Fountain here the Stream whence all our comforts spring Here all the Angels ever dive Hence all the Saints their life derive here doth our glory sing His power experimentally By working in us mightily we know do and believe For we in ignorance were born And in the bands of death forlorn till He did us receive Who can His wisdome but adore And providence so much the more as we are ever seeing From wonderfull varieties And seeming contrarieties harmonious agreeing Him in His truth we worship must He being only worthy trust as we do daily try Far far above our weak believing In every strait He is relieving as we His word apply His knowledge whose all-seeing eye All things that are were or shal be are ever straight before All persons places cases right Divinely ordered in His sight which Angels do adore And O! how righteously our King Doth to the rule of justice bring and equally compose Above our weak capacity Unmov'd by partiality alike to friends and foes His pittying mercy we admire Whereby He doth our miseries clear and leads us to be cur'd Who in our blood were lying blind That we our light and life may find by Him for us procur'd In these excellencies our King Does shine we Him injoy and sing but O!
distrust Him for our Conduct through death unto that Life and Kingdom that He hath purchast for us at so dear a price Or shall we not rather desire to endure what we can be able for him and to be with him who hath indured for us so much to have us with him from under the power and out of the reach of the sting of death which is now a vanquished enemy and not to be feared but become a friend to be especially loved And albeit the carnal part would keep us in exercise under the apprehension of a swift and sudden death which were dreadfull is not the spiritual part to be the more studious to make our calling and election sure and to be the more vigilant with the wise Virgins for the coming of the Bride-groom And if a lingring disease be apprehended it may prove a precious time for better preparation If violent and extreamly painfull it is the more speedily past If inflicted by the Persecutor of the Profession in whatsoever maner then it is accompanied with the highest degree of blessednesse for the Spirit of God and of glory rests upon you and great is their reward in heaven who suffer for righteousnesse And if by that which the natural man calls accident seeing all things in his eyes fall out alike to the good and to the evil Yet the Believer knows that nothing falls out but by a well-ordered providence not so much as a hair of their head to their hurt much lesse shall they be forsaken when they have most ado with present and immediate supplie And whereas some of Gods Children who have been of a long continuance in the Profession singular in their conversation and zealous in duties have been at a very low ebb for mater of comfort in the time of their departure And others also kept under much wrestling and conviction when as some of lesse note and esteem have had all their sails filled with the sense of that soul-saving sweetnesse that meets them from the Mediator at the time of their removall As also some very weak men have been wonderfully born out under most fearfull torments inflicted upon them by the Persecuter and others of far greater expectation have fainted and fallen off when the peril appeared and yet have been reclaimed by repentance and found mercy Some also we see that have lived very civilly all their dayes have died under much darknesse and without any signs of a gracious wakening while as others that have been most abominable in their lives have made a glorious end And now in contemplation of all these various dispensations may we not and must we not see and adore the glory of the Lord both in Soveraignty and Wisdom And is not every Believer unto their own felt and sensible experience in every passage of their severall exercises exceedingly benefited unto their increase of their inward and spirituall consolation And the beholders that are as yet making on to the way helped unto incouragement and confirmation Hereby also may all flesh be taught to finish their salvation in fear to beware of swelling under sense and of sinking under absence of prescribing Providence or ascribing any thing to our selves but subscribing and submitting absolutely in all things to the holy and good pleasure of His will with whom we have to do denying our selves relying and depending upon Him like little children making our entry into the kingdom of heaven by what way He will have us to go who is the Author of our vocation preservation perseverance and perfecting resting in quietnesse and confidence till we see the great salvation of God THE CLOSE IN A SEPARATION-KISSE Betwixt two most intimate FRIENDS The SOVL and BODY By way of DIALOGUE betwixt NATURE and GRACE Under the Names of FLESH and SPIRIT Spirit DEar Saviour now my soul receive Flesh blood and bones slide to your grave And separate sleep from grief and pain Till gloriously we meet again Flesh Shall now these tearms so oft repeated Be instantly for all compleated And must I now in dreadfull night Deprived be of Life and Light Oh had it not far better been This life that I had never seen Sweet Ghost is there no remedy But thou must go and I must die For of a meeting who can think When sinfull I in slime must sink Spirit It 's true no man by nature sees Nor can perceive these mysteries That by believing we conceive And do the earn'st thereof receive When our affections have been feasted Upon the fruits that we have tasted We part a space our grace to try Thou' rt not annihilat more then I And thou redeemed art from death As I and from eternall wrath Flesh I do confesse and call to mind At former warnings of this kind By force of these truths truly tende'rd Sometimes my soul have freely render'd But now it seems that too too slightly I have past by not ponder'd rightly How I to thee or thou to me Shall come or when I cannot see Were we not first immortall made And but by accident do fade Canst thou not now who grace hes found Find also how we two be bound So fast incorporat may remain Untill our Saviour come again Spirit Dear Flesh resist these carnall notions So marring and untimely motions Thou know'st it was our vile revolt That Paradice did on us bolt But now no losse incurres thereby Our Head exalted lifts us hie 'Bove by creation what we were Then earth 's below the highest star When I was sent thee to assume Could'st thou then know that I should come That seed whereof thou was congeal'd Thy Parents from their food did yeeld Digested which from fish flesh grain And fruits they had receiv'd again These grosse ingredients whence were they But from worms water grasse and clay Do not therefore dear mate repine But to thine element incline Till the refreshing time returne And turne thee up out of thine urne When all the Elements shall sweat Purging their drosse with fervent heat And tendering out our substance true Like drops refin'd of Cristal-dew While every soul shall be attending Their bodies fitted for ascending In that dread revolution glorious Dreadlesse thou shalt ascend victorious When all this world these wordly frameâ— Shall be burnt up in fiery flames When all the Heavens shall be roll'd And at an instant roundly scroll'd Sun Moon Stars Signs and Planets seen No more then if they had not been The glory of the Lord obscuring All sights and lights were most alluring He He alone then only being The sweetest Object of our seeing Nor shall there in this swirle be seen Confusions but conclusions clean Appear from these purpos'd decrees Establisht from eternities Perform'd peremptorly in time Now at the tinkling of this Chyme Like as our Horologe in part Keeping the method of the airt Unto the stinted time doth carry Not wearying nor seen to vary But at the period of the hours When she is most to shew her powers What