And quit from Clay I did attain Swift as a glancing Meteor to th' Aerial Plain XLIII Where passing through I did perfume the Air With sacred Spice and incenst Pray'r While grateful Clouds their liquid Pearl as Guift prepare XLIV I spare tâ—unlock those Treasuries of Snow Or tell what paints the rainy Bowe Or what cause Thunders Lightnings Rains or whence Windes flow XLV Those Regions pass'd where bearded Comets light The World to fatall Woes a bright Large Orb of harmless Fire enflam'd my Heav'n-ward Flight XLVI To azure-arched Skie ascends my Soul Thence view I North and Southern Pole Where Globes in Serpentine yet order'd Motions rowl XLVII Thence by the changing Moons alternate Face Vp through unweari'd Phosphors Place I mount to Sols Diurnal and his Annual Race XLVIII By whose propitious Influence Things are Quickned below this Monarch Star Making his Progresse through the Signes unclouds the Air XLIX And eight-score Times out-bulks the Earth whose Race In four and twenty Howers space 'Bove fifty Milions of Germanick Leagues do's pace L. This Giant with as many Tongues as Rayes Speaks out so oft as He displayes His Beams which gild the World that Man his LORD should praise LI. Through Sphears I pass'd to Stars that nail HEAV'NS Court My Stay was with Skie-wonders short Which by first Movers Force are whirl'd about their Fort. LII Through the blew-spangled Frame my psalming Tongue Made th' Orbs suspend their usual Song To hear Coelestial Hymns the glist'ring Quires did throng LIII Chime out ye Crystal Sphears and tune your Poles Skies sound your Base ere ye to Coals Dissolve and tumble on the Bonfire World in Shoals LIV. The Primum Mobile do's seem immense And doth transfused Influence Through all inferiour Orbs as swift as Thought dispense LV. Suppose a Milstone should from thence be hurl'd Vnto the Center of this World 'T would make up sixscore Years ere it could down be whirld LVI Now entred I HEAV'NS Suburbs 〈…〉 No orient Jewels cast such 〈◊〉 O might this Verse be wreath'd but with 〈◊〉 Diadems LVII Sols radiant Fulgence in meridian Skies Seem'd Shade unto those CLARITIES Where Beauties Self might beautifie her fairâ—st Eyes LVIII 'T is 'bove high'st Verge where Reason dares be bold That HEAV'N of GOD is of such Mold That Eyes till glorify'd cannot the same behold LIX 'T is purely Spirit'al and so must be Above compare in all Degree With Ought that draws its Line from th' six Dayes Pedigree LX. 'T is immaterial 'bove the highest Sphear Doth brighter then the rest appear Than Orbs of Fire Moon Sun or Crystaline more clear LXI 'T is Space immense from whence Apostates driv'n Their Rooms might so to Men be giv'n With Those confirmed SONS th' Indigenae of HEAV'N LXII Absurdly some Philosophers did dream That HEAV'N's an uncreated Beam Which forth eternally from GOD HIMSELF did stream LXIII 'T is but a Creature though its Essence be To change unsubject standing free On never shaken Pillars of INFINITIE LXIV Ocean of JOYES Who can THEE fully state For clearer knowledge Man must wait First shoot Deaths Gulf thy Soul may then arrive thereat LXV For no One enters There till He hath trod Deaths Path then from that Period Elected Souls ascend to Heav'n to BLISSE to GOD LXVI Zeal through me fir's its way to speak that I Would thither like wing'd Lightning flie Were my Flesh-curtain drawn that clouds my Spirits Eye LXVII What Heights would Souls affect could they undress Themselves of Rags that them depress How beautiful ' s the Form of naked HOLINES LXVIII New Light Life Love Joy Bliss there boundless flow There shall my Soul thy GLORY know When She her Robe of Clay shall to Earths wardrobe throw LXIX Fond that I am to speak Passe on to BLISSE That with an individual Kisse Greets Thee for ever Pardon this Parenthesis LXX Faith 's the Souls Eye As nothing were between They that beleeve see Things unseen Close then thy carnal thy spiritual Eyes unscreen LXXI For my transplanted Spirit shall emblaze Words may make Wonder stand at Gaze Vnboundless Bliss doth ev'n the sep'rat Spirit amaze LXXII O Fleet of Intellectuals Glory-fraught Inestimable Arras wrought With Heart-orecoming Colours how ye pass all Thought LXXIII THOU All-comprizing uncompriz'd WHO art Ever yet never made impart THOU Loves Abyss without or Ebbe or Shoar an Heart LXXIV Of WISDOM to attempt proceed and end what never Was Is Can be penn'd May Spots in Maps dumb Teacher Empires comprehend LXXV The Skie-enchased Diamonds lesser show Than Julie's hairy Worms that glow Sampled with those Rebounds unbounded GLORIES throw LXXV That Vessel of Election rapt to th' Soil Of highest BLISSE did here recoyl I' th' same Attempt 't is Honour to confess a Foyl LXXVII Sense knowes not 'bove Court-Triumphs Thrones or Kings Gems Musick Beauties Banquetings Without such Tropes it can't unfold Spiritual Things LXXVIII O how That most unutterable BLAZE Of HEAV'NS all-luminating RAYES Do's Souls disrob'd of Flesh both brighten amaze LXXIX That boundless Solstice with transparent Beams Through HEAV'NS triumphant ARCHES streams And gliding through each Spirit with intrinsick Gleams LXXX Pierceth to th' little World and doth dispell The gloomy Clouds of Sin that swell The Soul decoying it to ever-burning Hell LXXXI By GLORY how are SPIRITS made divine How super-radiantly They shine From th' ever-flowing SPRING of the refulgent TRINE LXXXII Beyond Report of high'st Discourse They dart Their Radiations 'bove all Art This cath'like BLISSE ore-flowes the most capacious Heart LXXXIII Conceive a Court where all Joyes domineer Where Seas of Sweets oreflow and where GLORIES exhaustless Mines Sports endless Springs appear LXXXIV Where infinite Excesse of Sweets ne're cloyes Where still Fruitions Feast employes Desire where Who enjoy the least can't count their Joyes LXXXV One may t' a Glimps None to a Half can rise Had He more Tongues than HEAV'N has Eyes Such nothing see as would in Words this SIGHT comprize LXXXVI Can Measures such UNMEASURABLES hold Can Time INFINITIE unfold Superlative DELIGHTS may be admir'd not told LXXXVII When GLORIES Heav'n is all one Sunny Blaze That flowing RADIANCE doth amaze While on That inconceivable RESULT we gaze LXXXVIII What King would not court Martyrdome to â—old In Capite a Citie ' of Gold Where look how many Gates so many Pearls are told LXXXIX The Structure's Square A firm Foundation Twelve-fold for Each a precious Stone The LAMBS APOSTLES Names engraven therupon XC There sparkles forth the verdant Emerald The blew-ey'd Saphyr therein wall'd The Topaz too with that Stone which from Gold is call'd XCI There Jasper Chaloedon Chrysoprase shine There Sardonix and Sardius joyn There Beryl Hyacinth and Amethyst combine XCII No sympathizing Turkise there to tell By Palenesse th' Owner is not well For Grief 's exild to Earth and Anguish groans in Hell XCIII The Streets with Gold perspicuous are arrai'd With blazing Carbuncles inlaid Yet All seem Night to GLORIES from the LAMB desplay'd XCIV For
first mov'd Satan to ruine HEAV'NS Belov'd The Serpent Devil'd Eve She 's Dam to Adam prov'd XVI Both taste by tasting tastlesse Both became Who All would know knew nought but Shame They blush for That which They when righteous could not name XVII Still in our Maw that Apples Core doth stick Which they did swallow and the thick Rinde of forbidden Fruit has left our Nature sick XVIII Now serves our Guiltiness as winding Sheet To wrap up Lepers Cover meet While thus stern Vengeance does our Wormships sadly greet XIX Disloyal Slaves look out see Mischief revels Look in see your own Denne of Evils Look up see Heav'ns dread JUDGE Look down see Hells fierce Devils XX. Created in GODS Image to look high Corrupted like to Brutes you lie Perdition's from your selves No Cure for those will die XXI Your Beautie Rottenness skin'd o're does show Like to a Dunghill blancht with Snow Your glorious Nature 's by embasing Sin brought low XXII Hence you the heavy Doom of Death do gain Enforc'd unto laborious Pain And th' ANGELS flaming Sword doth you expuls'd restrain XXIII Thus She reproacht Yet more alas remain'd Mans Issue in his Loins is staind Sin set his Throne in Him and since o're all has reign'd XXIV Black Sin more hideous then green Dragons Claws Dun Gryphons Talons swart Bears Paws Then checquer'd Panthers Teeth or tawnie Lions Jaws XXV Forfeit to the CREATOR'S thus Mans Race And by the WORD withdrawn is Grace From him the SPIRIT of GLORY turn'd his pleasing Face XXVI Yet that this Second Race in fallen Plight Might not with th' First be ruin'd quite The WORD doth interpose to stop th' incensed MIGHT XXVII Then undertakes for Man to satisfie And the sad losse of GRACE supply That us He might advance to GLORIES Hierarchie XXVIII Then Peace is preacht i th' Womans SEED but then As Men increase So Sins of Men And Actual on Original heapt GOD's vext agen XXIX Till drencht they were in Deluge had no Shore And burnt in Sodom-Flames of yore Plagued in Egypt plung'd into the Gulf of Core XXX And gnawn by Worms in Herod Sin 's Asps Womb Plotter Theif Plaintiff Witnesse Doom Sledge Executioner Hells Inmate Horrors Tomb. XXXI Misgotten Brat thy Trains are infinite To ruine each intangled Wight Mischiefs nere rest in Men th' have everlasting Spite XXXII Spite wageth War then War turns Law to Lust Lust crumbles Faith into Distrust Distrust by causelesse Jealousie betrayes the Just XXXIII The Iust are plunder'd by thy Rage thy Rage Bubbleth from Envie Envie 's Page To thy Misdeeds Misdeeds their own Misfate engage XXXIV Thus linkt to Hell's thy Chain Curs'd be that Need Makes Sinners in their Sins proceed Shame to Guilts forlorn Hope leads left-hand Files Take heed XXXV GODS Fort the Conscience in the worst does stand Though Sin the Town keeps by strong Hand Yet lies it open to the Check at HEAV'NS Command XXXVI Hence Hell surrounds them In their Dreams to fall Headlong they seem then start groan crawl From Furies with excessive Frights which them appal XXXVII Ne're was more Mischief ne're was less Remorse Never Revenge on his black Horse Did swifter ride Never to GOD so slow Recourse XXXVIII The Age-bow'd Earth groans under Sinners Weight While guiltlesse Blood cries to HEAV'NS Height JUSTICE soon takes th' Alarm whose steeled Arm will Smite XXXIX Inevitable Woes a while may stay Vengeance is GODS Who will repay The desperately Wilfull nor will long delay XL. 'T is darkest neer Day-break HE will o'return Th' Implacable who Mercie spurn Superlative Abuses in th' Abysse shall burn XLI Deaths Hell Deaths Self out-deaths Vindictive Place Deep under Depths Excentrick Space Horrour It self than Thee wears a lesse horrid Face XLII Where Pride Lust Rage Sin treble-pointed dwell Shackled in red-hot Chains they yell In bottomlesse Extreams of never-slaking Hell XLIII Riddle Compell'd at once to live and die Frying they freez and freezing frie On helplesse hopelesse easelesse endlesse Racks they lie XLIV And rave for what they hate Cursing in vain Yet each Curse is a Pray'r for Pain For cursing still their Woe they woo GODS Curse again XLV Devils and Shreeks their Ears their Eyes affright There 's blazing Fire yet darkest Night Still paying ne're discharg'd Sins Debt is Infinite XLVI Angels by one Sin fell So Man How then May Sinners stand Let 's quit Sins Den This Moment's Ours Life hasts away Delayes gangrene XLVII Conviction ushers Grace Fall to prevent Thy Fall Times Fore-lock take Relent Shall is to come and Was is past then Now repent XLVIII Before the Suns long Shadows span up Night E're on thy shaking Head Snowes light E're round thy palsy'd Heart Ice be congealed quite XLIX E're in thy Pocket thou thine Eyes dost wear E're thy Bones serve for Calender E're in thy Hand 's thy Leg or Silver in thy Hair L. Preventing Physick use Think now ye hear The Dead-awakening Trump Lo there The queazie-stomackt Graves disgorge Worms fatning Chear LI. Sins Sergeants wait t' attach you Then make haste Lest you into Despair be cast The JUDGE unsway'd Take Dayes at best count each your Last LII Time posts on loose-rein'd Steeds The Sun ere 't face To West may see Thee end thy Race Death is a Noun yet not declin'd in any Case LIII The Cradle's nigh the Tomb. That Soul has Woe Whose drowzie March to HEAV'N is slow As drawling Snails whose slime glues them to Things below LIV. Anathema to luke-warm Souls Lo here THEOPHILA'S unhing'd with Fear Clamm'd with chill sweat when as her ranckling Sins appear LV. Perplext in Crimes meandring Maze GODS Law And Guilt that does strict Iudgement draw And her too carnal yet too stonie Heart She saw LVI Yet Rocks may cleave she cries Then weeps for Tears And grieves for Grief fears want of Fears She Hell HEAV'NS Prison views Distress for Robe She wears LVII Deprav'd by Vice depriv'd of GRACE with Pray'r She runs Faiths Course breaks through Despair O'retakes Hope Broken Legs by setting stronger are LVIII Shame native Conscience views That HOLY ONE Who came from GOD to Man undone Whose Birth produc'd a Star Whose Death eclips't the Sun LIX She sees Man-GOD in Stamp Of Him who shakes but does not cramp The bruised Reed Snuffs puts not out the sputtring Lamp LX. She sees for Creatures the CREATOR came To die The SHEPHERD prov'd the Lamb For Sacrifice when Jews releas'd a spotted Ram. LXI She sees defamed Glory wronged Right Debased Majestie crusht Might Virtue condemn'd Peace robb'd Love slain And All by Spite LXII She streaming sees like Spouts each broached Vein With Gore not to be matcht again Her Grief thence draws up Mysts to fall in weeping Rain LXIII Vast Cares long dumb thus vent Flow Tears Souls Wine Iuice of an Heart opprest Encline LORD to this heart-broke Altar cemented with Brine LXIV Romorsefull Clouds dissolve in Showr's 'T is Blood Turns rocky Hearts into a Flood Eyes keep your Sluces ope HEAV'N
their Breast Th' ALMIGHTIES FACE is still their FEAST Their BLISSE in Service lies in Messages their REST XCIII They speak with Thought atchieve without a Fee Silence They hear Idaeas see Still magnifying HIM who cannot GREATER be XCIV Thus THEY with one fleet Glance intuitive Into Each others Knowledge dive And by Consent Thoughts else inscrutable unrive XCV Each ONE in Psalms ETERNITY employes Where Vse nor tires nor Fulness cloyes Enjoying GOD their END without an end of JOYES XCVI Each ravishing Voice each Instrument each Face Compos'd such MUSICK that I was In Doubt Each so in Tune which did precede in GRACE XCVII The spritely Instruments did sweetly smile The Faces play'd their Parts mean while The Voices with both Graces did them Both beguile XCVIII The Nine-fold QUIRE such Heav'nly Accents there In Sweets EXTENSION still do rear As over-pow'r the Windings of a mortal Ear. XCIX Who MUSICK hate in barb'rous Discord rowle In HEAV'N there is not such a Soul For there 's All-Harmony SAINTS sing the damned howl C. Coelestial Sweets did this Discourse excite Firm Ioy fast Love fixt Life fair Sight But may a Creature its CREATORS GLORY write Nunc alti Plumbum scrutatur Viscera Ponti Viscera Navarchae non repetenda Manu Hinc procul optatam divino LUMINE Terram Cernimus optatum perficiamus Iter Te DEUM Laudamus THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO VII The Contemplation ARGUMENT Pango nec humanis Opus enarrabile Verbis Quae meliùs possem Mira silendo loqui Da DEVS Illa canam quae Vox non personet ulla Metiar ut minimis MAXIMA MIRA modis She launcheth into shoarlesse SEAS of LIGHT Inexplicable Infinite Whose BEAMS both strike her blinde and renovate her Sight STANZA I. WEre all Men Maro's were those Maro's all EVANGELISTS met in Earths Hall For Grand-Inquest of That which we ETERNAL call II. Draw Time from 's Cradle Innocence could They And piled Heaps of Ages lay Amassed in one Scale Those would they find to weigh III. Ballanc't with THEE no more when All is done Than if They vainly had begun To poize minutest atome with the MIGHTY SUN IV. Could They Earths Ball with Numbers quilted see Yet those throng'd Figures sum not THEE They were but Cyphers to immense ETERNITIE V. Should every Sand for thousand Ages run When emptyed Shoars of Sands were done That Glass no more THEE measures then if now begun VI. Had Tongues HEAV'NS Mint to coyn each ANGEL-GRACE In Dialect They'd fail o' th' Space Where All to come is One with All that ever was VII FAITH stretch thy Line yet That 's too short to â—ound SEA without BOTTOM without BOUND As Circular as Infinite ô Shoarlesse Round VIII Immense ETERNITIE What mystick Art Of THEE may coppy any Part Since THOU an indeterminable CIRCLE art IX Whose very CENTER so diffus'd is found That not HEAV'NS Circuit can It bound Then what what may the whole CIRCUMFERENCE surround X. HEAV'NS HERO'S can ye find for th' ENDLES End Can POW'RS IMMENSITY extend UBIQUITIE inclose The BOUNDLES comprehend XI JEHOVAH's Zone to this uncentred BALL Ecliptick and Meridionall Who WAS before Is with and SHALL be after All XII But now behold Its Height Above all Height Plac't beyond Place Above Lights Light Rapt were the three APOSTLES by a Glimps o' th' Sight XIII O Thou all-splendent all transcending Throne Compact of High'st Dominion That 'bove the Super-Eminence of LUSTRE shone XIV From Each of Thine ineffably bright Sides Diffusion of such Splendor glides As rowls 'bove thousand Seas of JOYES in flaming Tides XV. With such Refulgence that if CHERUBS might With Face unvail'd gaze on That Sight Strait their Spiritual Natures would be nothing'd quite XVI Nature put on thy most coruscant Vest Thy Gayeties shew brought to this Test As a crude Ielley dropt from duskie Clouds at best XVII Could'st Thou impov'rish every Indian Mine And from each golden Cell unshrine Those Beams that w th their Blaze out-face Dayes em'lous Shine XVIII Could'st finde out secret Engins to unlock The treasu'ring Casket of each Rock And reap the glowing Harvest of that sparkling Shock XIX Could'st thread the Stars fixt and erratick here That stud the luminated Sphear That all those Orbs of Light one Constellation were XX. Could'st joyn Mines Gems Skie-Tapers All in one Whose neer-Immense Reflection Might both outrival and outvie the glorious Sun XXI Could all thy Stones be Gems Seas liquid Gold Air Crystal Dust to Pearl enrold Each Star a Sun that Sun more bright a thousand fold XXII Yet would those Gems seem Flints those Seas a Plash Those Stars a Spark That Sun a Flash Pearl'd Islands Diamond Rocks Gold Mines All â—ully'd trash XXIII Yea were all Eyes of Earth Skie HEAV'N combin'd And to one Optick point confin'd This super-radiant OBJECT would ev'n strike That blindâ— XXIV Blinde as the sable Veil of gloomy Night The GOSPELS SELâ— but hints This SIGHT All seem obscurer Shades to THIS non-parel LIGHT XXV Amazing Most Inexplicably RARE O if but Those Who Worthy are None may This LIGHT declare None may This LIGHT declare XXVI Best Eloquence is languid high'st Thoughts vail To think to speak Wit Language fail 'T is an ABYSSE through which no SPIRITS Eye can sail XXVII Here GLORY dwells with Lustres so surrounded That brightest RAYES are quite confounded When they approach this radiant Eminence unbounded XXVIII Forth from This FULGURANCE such Splendors fly As shall draw up frail Dust on HIGH Which else would in its lumpish Vrn still bedrid lie XXIX Before the ALMIGHTIES Throne my Soul I throw WHENCE All that 's Good and Great does flow LORD I that GRACE implore which may this GLORY show XXX GREAT GOD THOU All-beginning Unbegun Whose Hand the Web of Nature spun At once the Plenitude of All and yet but ONE XXXI PARENT of Beings Entities sole Stud Spirits eternal SPRING and FLOOD Sprung of THY SELF or rather no way sprung CHIEF GOOD XXXII Abstract of Ioyes whose WISDOM an ABYSSE Whose POW'R OMNIPOTENCY is Whose Soul-enlivening SIGHT' 's the Vniversal BLISSE XXXIII THOU dost descend on Wings of Air displaid 'Bove Majesty It self arraid Curtain'd with Clouds the HOST of HEAV'N Attendants made XXXIV ESSENCE of Glory SUMMITY of Praise Abasht at thy All-piercing RAYES Heav'ns QUIRE does chaunt uncessant ALLELUIAHS XXXV Diamonds than Glass than Diamonds Stars more bright Than Stars the Sun than Sun Heav'ns Light But infinitely purer than Heav'ns Self ' s THY SIGHT XXXVI Great is the Earth more large the Airs Extent Planets exceed The Firmament Of Stars outvies Vnlimited's the HEAV'NLY TENT XXXVII But as my tenter'd Minde its Spirits still Strains forth from lesse to more LORD fill My out-spent Raptures by thy All-repairing SKILL XXXVIII When I above Air Stars HEAV'N on wou'd press Rackt Thoughts to SPHEARS beyond EXCES Myriads of Sphears seem Motes to thy Immense ONENESSE XXXIX ETERNITY is but THINE Howerglasse IMMENSITY but fills THY Space Whole Natures six Dayes Work took up but six Wordâ—
to gild thy Way conspire 17. Love may Them lead by Verse whom Sermons fright Bring Them where Faith comes not into Heav'ns Light 18. O may our Numbers in sweet Musick flow Nor the least Harshnesse of Elisions know 19. Shade me ô LORD I seek not Virgils Tree Hence Springs prophane Glide Siloam by me 20. Trampling vain Labours with loose Wits defil'd The Hallow'd BRAIN brings forth a Spritely Childe 21. What 's Life a Vapour Beauty Ashes Gain An Idol Honour Bubble the World vain 22. Life flits away and Beauty wanes at full Gold cheats and Honour fades the World is dull 23. Life Pleasure's short and Pleasures Life is vain It knowes not highest Blisse GODS LOVE to gain 24. That Torch which flam'd so bright in Hero's Room Did light her lov'd Leander to his Tomb. 25. To Death a thousand Wayes to Life but one For Sin who groans not he for Sin shall groan 26. Arm'd Wrath perfidious Tyrants throwes from high They conquer Right Sin Them Th' AVENGER'S nigh 27. Sinners first Steps Sins Seed and Fruit avoid Many by neer Infection are destroy'd 28. Kill Vice i' th' Egge Iohn Ioseph Robelesse fly Peter Thou stay'st and stay'st but to deny 29 By Night and Day at Home and when Abroad Guilt stings the Soul and thereon layes its Load 30. Of Decalogue Creed Supper of the LORD Though Laws speak loud our Church hath scarce a Word 31. Hence Flocks are pin'd The JUDGE in Time will come Unthought of Neer to Guilt 's the AVENGERS Doom 32. Nor Pray'r nor Price nor Fraud nor Rage nor Art Can help Ah fear then Flames eternal Smart 33. Wet-cheekt how oft I 've moan'd to THEE my DEAR All Night awake alone ô Cure appear 34. Seest THOU and suff'rest Stop Sins Course Birth Let not that Hand bear Arms that sowes the Earth 35. LOVES Pow'r's infus'd from GOD a free-giv'n Grace THEOPHILA from Love takes Name and Race 36. Thou burn'st pierc't THEOPHIL with firie Dart If blessed Heat enflames thy vigorous Heart 37. The more Thou burn'st the more be Bellows still As thy Flames grow Let those Flames Others fill 38. Heat the Luke-warm to Those more hot give Fire Bless GOD Refresh with GRACE enflame Desire 39. The Poets Pharos be that sets forth sail While he steers sheet-fill'd with a holy Gale 40. Pure Wit 's the Sails quick Iudgement Oars Thou th' Star Pilot the Scribe Sea Vein the Ship Hymns are 41. I give Wits Tackling to thy guiding Hands Honour in giving Love in taking stands 42. Binde up what 's loose what 's rash new-mold refell What 's ill lame help smooth rough depress what swell 43. Thou slight'st Earths ratling Squibs with Sulphur fill'd Kingdoms such Nests are as the Birds do build 44. Above all Worldly Wealth thy Riches rise Thy Microcosm the Macrocosm out-vies 45. Thou lay'st out hoarded Gold the Poor to aid So with GODS Love thy Love to GOD's repaid 46. Thy sacred Skill imparted Reverence breeds Thy Worship's Practise and thy Words are Deeds 47. Fiends Hate Saints Prize whence Lyrick Strings sound clear Of spotless Faith pure Minde to th' HIGHEST dear 48. The Emerald-Grove envies thy golden Hair Whose Curls make GRACES blush Themselves more fair 49. As many Ioyes thy starry Beauties shed As Bees in Attis Gems in Skies are spred 50. The Diamond sparkleth Rage at thine Eye-Beams Whose chast Orbs brandish thence their sacred Gleams 51. The Coral Die is blankt at Lips so red And livid Grapes at rosie Cheeks hang head 52. I 'd gaze o' th' Lili'd Cheek and the Lips Rose But ô thy Cheek thy Lip surpasseth those 53. Grace pours sweet-flowing Words from charming Lips Sparkling 'bove Nectar which i' th' Crystal skips 54. Rare PSALTRESSE with Heav'n-drops inebriate What Sweets to Mouth and Ear dost Thou create 55. Sweet Violets Saffron Balm Myrrhe from Thee flowes Bdell Incense Cedar Cinn'amon Nard the Rose 56. The Rose Swains Spice Such Heav'n-dew'd Verse dost frame As sweet as Honey-comb as bright as Flame 57. While Combs and Flames divine from THEE are cast I 'm fed as fir'd Ev'n Flames do nurse my Taste 58. The Swan pines at thy Neck This Milkie Way Doth Steps begun to th' Holy LAMB display 59. There fals on thine Alp-Breasts a lasting Snow To which Snow's black Swans foul the Goose a Crow 60. The hoary Frost turns Durt vi'd with thy Hand And where thy Fooot does tread it prides the Land 61. On Lilies Milk on Violets Purple throw On Saffron Gold Scarlet o' th' Rose bestow 62. Wreaths worthy Thee fair Flora ne're can weave Nor can our highest Strains THEE higher heave 63. With all-bred Flowr's glitt'ring Buds THOU beam'st As if t' have cropt all Paradise THOU seem'st 64. Each Vertue 's in thy Life so pois'd so fine What 's first This That or T'other since All shine 65. Love to thy Soul deriv'd is from Above Where Honour reigns sparks Beauty triumphs Love 66. In Chymick Art Thou my Elixir be Convert to Gold the worthlesse Dross in me 67. Fire makes of Ashes Glass makes Metals shine This Fire my Body may to Spirit calcine 68. Enamour'd Ir'on does to the Magnet flie Yea Sparks in hardest Flints concealed lie 69. Nothing more hard than Stone more soft than Fire Yet Stones are melted by inflam'd Desire 70. Is 't so who 'd not dissolve in Flames of Love Be THOU the Grace Thou my Thoughts Loadstar prove 71. Mindes Gemme Eyes Apple Hearts intenser Flame THOU shew'dst the Way I 'll prosecute the Same 72. For GOD created bright in VIRTUES Train Weigh'st Right quell'st Passions o're Deeds dost reign 73. GOD is thy Life Law Virtue Glorie CHRIST HIM who leads Thee by Love Thou lov'st HIM high'st 74. CHRIST to endure the Cross what did THEE move The Pledge of Bitterness was Pledge of LOVE 75. IS GOD both Meat and Lover CHRIST thy Food What Banquet is This LOVER As Sweet as Good 76. CHRIST's Spice Thou say'st Light Triumph Praise to me Musick Wine Feast Fame Crown GOD All to Thee 77. LORD Thou art All in All Thou lost All 's nought How base seems muddy Earth where HEAV'N is sought 78. Earth's Exile Death the Gate my Home's Above My Staff's Hope Faith Companion Leader Love 79. Turn Indie into Iewels HEAV'N to Verse Nor Indie can thy Worth nor HEAV'N reherse 80. Let me Thee fear and love Fear Loves Heat blowes Fear is DEVOTIONS Fount whence LOVE o'reflowes 81. Thy Word 's my Rule I cleave to THEE my Vine LORD Thou art All to me I 'm wholly Thine 82. O hear my Pray'r my Suff'rings bear my Task Take off redresse my Wrongs grant what I ask 83. With Pray'r Desire Faith Zeal Hope Deed I call Laud seek love pray worship THEE All in All. 84. If I behold THEE I 'm all flaming Spice If not behold THEE I 'm congeal'd to Ice 85. Adde Flames to Flames that I may melt away Be I belov'd of THEE or else Deaths Prey 86. Sweet Seas light
Caesar for his Glorie Absolon for his Beauty Achitophel for his Policie Dives for his Wealth or Iudas for his Office Seeing then that Happinesse consists not in the Affluence of Exorbitant Possessions nor in the Humours of fickle Honour all external Splendors being unsatisfactory let Christians neglect terrestrial Vanities and retire into the Recesses of Religion nothing being so great in humane Actions as a pious knowing Minde which disposeth great Things and may yield such permanent Monuments as bring Felicity to Mankinde above the Founders of Empires being an Antepast to the overflowing FEASTS of ETERNITIE Man endued with Altitude of Wisdom in the sweetnesse of Conscience and Height of Vertue is of all Creatures sub-Angelical the ALMIGHTIES Masterpiece the Image of his MAKER a Candidate of DIVINITY and Model of the Vniverse who in holy Colloquies Whisprings and secret Conferences with GOD findes HIM a Torrent of Pleasure a Fountain of Honour and an inexhaustible Treasure whose divine Life is a Character of the DIVINE NATURE by taking GOD for the Text Truth for the Doctrine and Holinesse for the Use without which the highest Endowments of the most refined Wit are but the quaint Magick of a learned Lunacie Most wretched therefore are they beyond all Synonima's of Misery whose undisciplin'd Education leaves them unfurnisht of Skill to spend their Time in any Thing but what in the prosecution of Sin tends to Death Wealth and Greatnesse rendring them past Reproof ev'n ready to tempt their very Tempter whereby they are wholly enclin'd to Sensualities being in their Entertainments commonly intemperate in their Drink humerous their Humours quarrelous their Duels damnable concluding a voluptuous and brutish Life in a bloody and desperate Death preferring the Bodie before the Soul Sence before the Spirit Appetite before Reason temporary Fooleries phantastick Visits idle Courtships gay Trifles fascinating Vanities as if the Pleasure of Life were but the smothering of pretious Time in those things which are meer Puffs in Expectation Vanitie in Enjoyment and Vexation of Spirit in Departure before solid Goodnesse and eternal Exultations To divert thee therefore from such Shelves of indiscreet Vice and to direct thee to the safe and noble Channel of Vertue ev'n to Faith with good Works to Piety w th Compassion to Zeal with Charity to know the End which distinguisheth thee from a Beast and to chuse a good End which differenceth thee from an evil Man be so much thine own Friend as to peruse seriously this spiritual Poem which treateth on Sub-coelestials Coelestials and Super-coelestials whereby a delightful Curiousness may steal thee into the Pleasure of Goodnesse Know then that Sub-coelestials or Sublunaries have their Assignment in the lowest Portion of the Universe and being wholly of a corporeal Nature do enjoy Spiritual Gifts the Chief of which is Life by Loan onely where there is no Generation without Corruption no Birth without Death From the Surface of the Earth to the Center is 3436 Miles the whole Thickness 6872 Miles the whole Compsse 21600 Miles from its Center to the Moon is 3924912 Miles Now Coelestials or aethereal Bodies are seated in the middle which participating of a greater Portion of Perfection impart innumerable rare Vertues and influential Efficacies to Things below not enduring a Corruption only subject having obtained their Period to change The glorious Projection and Transfusion of aetheral Light both of the Sun and of the Stars of the six Magnitudes constitute by astronomicall Computation more than 300 Suns upward to the EMPYRAEAN HEAVEN A Starre in the Equator makes 12598666 Miles in an Hour which is 209994 Miles in a Minute a Motion quicker than Thought Super-coelestials are Intelligencies altogether Spiritual and Immortal excellent in their Beings intuitive in their Conceptions such as are the glorious Quire of the Apostles the exulting Number of the Prophets the innumerable Army of crown'd Martyrs triumphing Virgins charitable Confessors c. or the blessed Hierarchie of Angels participating somewhat of GOD and Man having had a Beginning as Man and now being immortall with GOD having their Immortality for his Sempiternity void of all Mixture as is GOD and yet consisting of Matter and Form as doth Man Subsisting in some Subject and Substance as doth Man yet being incorporeal as is GOD They having Clarity Impassibility Subtility and Agility having Understanding without Errour Light without Darkness Joy without Sorrow Will without Perturbation Impassibility without Corruption pure as the Light ordained to serve the LORD of Light They are local and circumscribed by Place as is Man yet are they in a place not properly by way of Circumscription but by way of Definition though they cannot be in several Places at once yet are they able in a Moment to be any where as GOD alwayes is every where of admirable Capacity and Knowledge resembling GOD yet ignorant of the ESSENCE of GOD much lesse see they all Things in IT in that like Man Ev'n these Incorporeal Substances would pine and starve if an All-filling and infinitely All-sufficient and Superabundant GOD were not the Object of their high Contemplation whose Blisse of theirs is the neerest Approach to that Divine MAJESTIE WHO is a true real substantial and essential NATURE subsisting of HIMSELF an eternal BEING an infinite ONENESSE the radical PRINCIPLE of all Things whose ESSENCE is an incomprehensible Light His POVVER is Omnipotency and his BECK an absolute Act WHO before the Creation was a BOOK rowl'd up in HIMSELF having Light only in HIMSELF WHO is a SPIRIT existent from everlasting to everlasting One ESSENCE Three SUBSISTENCIES whose DIVINE NATURE is an essential and infinite UNDERSTANDING which knowes all Things actually alwayes which cannot possibly be comprehended by any finite Creature much lesse by Man groveling on Earth in the Mud of Errour and grosse Ignorance who are unable by any Art or Industrie to finde out the true Nature Form and Vertue of the least flie or gnat The whole Vniverse is the Looking-glasse of GODS Power Wisdom and Bountie HE loves as Charitie knows as Truth judges as Equitie rules as Majestie defends as Safety works as Vertue reveals as Light c. HE is a never deficient Brightnesse a never weary Life a Spring ever-flowing the Principle of Beginning c. If any Creature knew what GOD is he should be GOD for none knoweth HIM but HIMSELF who is Good without Qualitie great without Quantitie present without Place everlasting without Time WHO by a Bodie is no where by Energie every where Above all by Power beneath all by sustaining all without all by compassing all within all by penetrating all being absent seen being present invisible of WHOM to speak is to be silent WHOM to value is to exceed all Rate WHOM to define is still to encrease in Definition INFINITENESSE being the right Philosophers Stone which turns all Metals into Gold and one Dram of IT being put not only to a Seraphin or to a whole Element but even to the least gnat
Greatness and the strict Account to be given for All O then give me an undaunted Fortitude an elevated Course of Contemplation a Resignation of Spirit and a sincere Desire of thy Glory Adde O LORD to the Cheerfulness of my Obedience the Assurance of Faith and to the Confidence of my Hope the Joyes of Love O THOU who art the Fountain of my Faith the Object of my Ioy and the Rock of my Confidence guide my Passion by Reason my Reason by Religion my Religion by Faith my Faith by thy Word be pleased to improve thy Word by thy SPIRIT that so being established by Faith confirmed in Hope and rooted in Charitie I may be only ambitious of THEE prizing THEE above the Delights of Men Love of Women and Treasures of the World Nothing being so pretious as thy Favour so dreadfull as thy Displeasure so hateful as Sin so desirable as thy Grace Let my Heart be alwayes fixt upon Thee possessed by Thee established in Thee true unto Thee upright toward Thee and entire for Thee that being thus inebriated with the sweet and pure streams of thy Sanctuary I may serve Thee to the utmost of each Faculty with all the Extension of my Will and Intension of my Affections till my Love shall ascend from Earth to HEAVEN from small Beginnings to the Consummatiâ—n of a well-regulated and never ceasing Charitie O GOD who art no lesse infinite in Wisdom than in Goodness let me where I cannot rightly know Thee there reverently admire Thee that in Transcendencies my very Ignorance may honour Thee Let thy Holy SPIRIT inflame my Zeal inform my Judgement conform my Will reform my Affections and transform me wholly into the Image and Imitation of Thy Onely SON Grant that I may improve my Talent to thy Glory who art the Imparter of the Guift the Blesser of the Action and the Assister of the Designe So that having sowen to the Spirit I may by thy Mercies and Thy SONS Merits who is the SON of thy Love the Anchor of my Hope and the Finisher of my Faith reap Life everlasting And now in his only Name vouchsafe to accept from dust and ashes the Oblation of this weak yet willing Service and secure the Possession to THY SELF that Sin may neither pollute the Sacrifice divide the Guift nor question the Title Fill my Mouth with Praises for these happy Opportunities of Contemplation the managing of publick Actions lesse agreeing with my Disposition and though my Body be retir'd yet let my Soul be enlarged like an uncaptiv'd Bird to soar in the Speculation of Divine Mysteries O be praysed for that in this general Combustion of Christendom THOU hast vouchsafed me a little Zoar as Refuge in which my Soul doth yet live to magnifie Thee But above All for my Redemption from the Execution of thy Wrath by the Execration of the SON of thy Love having made Innocence to become guilty to make the guilty innocent and the Sun of Righteousness to suffer a total Eclipse to expiate the Deeds of Darkness Be THOU exalted for the Myriads of thy Mercies in my Travells through Europ as far transcending my Computation as Compensation But chiefly for the Hope Thou hast given me that when I have served Thee inhumbly-strict Obedience to the Glorie of thy Name THOU art pleased that I shall enter into the GLORY of my LORD to all Eternitie where I shall behold THEE in thy Majesty CHRIST thy SON in his Glory the SPIRIT in his Sanctity the Hierarchy of Heaven in their Excellencie and the Saints in their Rest in which Rest there is perfect Tranquillitie and in this Tranquillity Ioy and in this Ioy Variety and in this Variety Security and in this Security Immortality with Thee Who reignest in the Excellencies of Transcendencie and in the infinite Durations of a blessed Eternitie To WHOM with the IMAGE of thy GOODNESSE and the BREATH of thy LOVE ô most glorious TRINITY and ineffable UNITIE be all Sanctitie and Adoration sacrificed now and for evermore Amen Amen INto the most Holy TREASVRIE Of the ever-glorious PRAISES Of the MEDIATOR between GOD Man CHRIST JESUS The Empyraean Flame of the DIVINITY Indefinible Interminable Ineffable The Immaculate Earth of the HUMANITY Inseparable Inconfusible Inconvertible Mysterious in an Hypostaticall UNION WHO is The true LIGHT enlightning the World The ETERNAL WORD By ENERGIE Incarnated Embrightning our knowledge Enlivening our FAITH Quickning our HOPE Enflaming our LOVE Prostrated dust and ashes With an adoring Awfulness trembling Veneration To his INFINITE MAJESTIE Doth humbly cast this Mite Acknowledging from GOD all Opportunities of Good to be improved by His GRACE to His GLORY THEOPHILAS LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO II. The Humiliation ARGUMENT Vnde superbit Homo cujus Conceptio Culpa Nasci Poena Labor Vita necesse morâ— Totus homo pravus Caro Mens Natura Voluntas Coelicus act Hominis Crimina tollit AMOR. The Deiform'd Soul deform'd by Sin repents In Pray'rs and Tears her Grief She vents And till Faith cheer her by CHISTS Love Life Death laments STANZA I. ALMIGHTY POWER Who did'st All Souls Create Who did'st Redeem their faln Estate Who still dost Sanctifie and them Redintegrate II. Sourse River Ocean of all Blisse instill Spring-tides into my low-ebb'd Quill Each graceful Work flowes from what works all Grace Thy Will III. LORD Thou before Time Matter Form or Place Wast All E're Natures mortal Race Thy SELF Host Guest and Palace Natures total Space IV. When yet though not discern'd in that Abysse CREATOR WORD and SPIRIT of Blisse In UNITY the TRINE one GOD adored is V. E're THOU the Chrystal-mantled HEAV'N didst rear Or did the Earth Sols Bride appear First Race of Intellectuals mad'st THEE to revere VI. Praise best doth Inexpressibles expresse Soul Th' ARCHITECT of Wonders blesse Whose All-creating WORD embirth'd a Nothingnesse VII Who brooding on the Deep Production Dispos'd then call'd out Light which on The formless Worlds rude Face was all dispers'dly thrown VIII When callow Nature pluckt from out her Nest Of Causes was awak'd from Rest Her shapeless Lump with fledg'd effects He trimly drest IX Then new-born Day HE gilt with glittering Sun Contracted Light with changing Moon He Night adorn'd and hung up Lamps like spangled Bullion X. The Earth with Water mixt HE separates Earth Plants brought forth and Beasts All Mates The Waters Fowl and Fish to yield Man delicates XI Then did of th' El'ements Dust Mans Bodie frame A perfect Microcosm the Same He quickned with a sparkle of Pneumatick Flame XII More Heav'nly specify'd by Life from th' WORD That Nature doth This Grace afford And Glory from the SPIRIT design'd as threefold Cord. XIII Man ere a Childe by ' Infusion wise though He Was of yet not for Earth though free Chanc'lour install'd of Edens Universitie XIV His Virgin-Sister-Wife i' th Grove He woo'd Heav'ns Nursery new Fruit his Food Skin was his Robe Clouds washt Winds swept his Floor All good XV. Envie that GOD should so love Man
best by Tears is woo'd LXV THOU Who one Shoarless Sea of All did'st make Except one floating Isle to take Vengeance on Guilt My Salt Flood rais'd drown Sin i' th' Lake LXVI O how these Words Arise to Judgement quell On Wheels in Torments broke I 'd dwell So as by Grace I might be sav'd from endlesse Hell LXVII To Angel-Intercessor I 'm forbid To pray Yet pray to ONE that did Pray to ANOTHER for HIMSELF when 's Blood-drops slid LXVIII FATHER Perfections Self in CHRIST does shine Thy Justice then in HIM confine Through 's Merits make thy Mercies both are endless mine LXIX See not but through's abstersive Blood my Sin By which I being cleans'd within Adde Perseverance 'T is as hard to hold as win LXX Her Eyes are Centinels to Pray'r to Moans Her Ears her Nose courts Charnel-bones Her Hands Breast-hammers are her constant Food is Groans LXXI Her Heart is hung with Blacks with Dust she cloyes Her golden Tresses Weds Annoyes Breeds Sighs bears Grief which Ibis-like Sin-snakes destroyes LXXII Thus mounts she drizling Olivet the Plains Of Iericho she leaves While Rains The Farmer wet they fully swell his earing Graines LXXIII She her own Farmer stockt from HEAV'N is bent To thrive Care 'bout the Pay-day's spent Stange She alone is Farmer Farm and Stock and Rent LXXIV The Porcupine so 's Quiver Bow and Darts To ' her self alonâ—e has all Wars Arts Her own Artillery needs no Aid from forreign Parts LXXV Sad Votaresse thy Earth of late oregrown With Weeds is plough'd till'd harrow'd sown The Seed of Grace sprouts up when Nature is kept down LXXVI Thy Glebe is melow'd with Faith-quickning Juice The Furrows thence Hope-blades produce Thy Valley cloth'd with LOVE will Harvest Joyes diffuse LXXVII Live Phenix from Self-death I' th' Morn who dies To Sin does but immortalize Who studie Death ere dead ere th' Resurrection rise LXXVIII Rachel thy Children Goal and Crown have won Ere they had Skill or Will to run Blest who their whole Dayes Work in their Lifes Morn have done LXXIX Like misty Morn She rose in Dew so found She ne're was till this Sicknesse sound Till Sin in Sorrows flowing Issue Tears lay drownd LXXX Souls Life-blood Tears prevailing Pleaders tame Such Rebels as by Eve did shame Mans Glory only These the old faln World new frame LXXXI Lust causeth Sin Sin Shame Shame bids repent Repentance weeps Tears Sorrow vent Sorrow shews Faith Faith Hope Hope Love Love Souls Content LXXXII Thus from bruis'd Spiceries of her Breast doth rise Incense sweet-smelling Sacrifice Whilst she lifts up to HEAV'N her Heart her Hand her Eyes LXXXIII I 'm sick with trembling sunk with mourning blasted With sinning and with sighing wasted New Life begins to breath O Ioy too long untasted LXXXIV Twice did'st new Life by Breath by Death bestow On Man prevaricating Who By yielding to a Woman made Man yield to Woe LXXXV Then did'st his Soul restore as first inspire With second Grace renewing Fire Whence He hath part again in thy Coelestial Quire LXXXVI Once more for this Heav'n-Denison did'st get A never-fading Coronet Which was with two bright Iewels Grace and Glory set LXXXVII 'T was at my bloud-stain'd Birth Thy Love said Live Links of Thy praevious Chain revive Ev'n crumbled Dust So Thou my Soul from Death reprive LXXXVIII CHRIST Th' Vnction art Salvation IESVS in Thy Death Redemption Blood for Sin Gives Satisfaction Thy Ascension Hope does winne LXXXIX Thy Session Comfort Though I did offend LORD Fears disband give Grace t' amend That Hope which reaps not shame may rise Peace descend XC My Pardon signe The Spear pierct THEE 's the Pen Thy Bloud the Ink Thy Gospel then The Standish is O let my Soul be Paper clean XCI Kinde angry LORD since Thou dost wound yet cure I 'l bear the Yoak the Crosse endure Lament and Love and when set free keep Conscience pure XCII Thus mourns she and in mourning thus she joyes Ev'n that adds Comfort which annoyes Sighs turn to Songs Tears to Wine Fear Fear destroies XCIII As holy Flame did from her Heart arise Dropt holy Water from her Eyes While Pray'r her Incense was LOVE her SACRIFICE XCIV Arm Arm She breaks in with strong ZEAL The Place Sin quitts now garison'd by GRACE Illustrious Triumphs do the Steps of Victors trace XCV When the loud Volleyes of her Pray'rs begin To make a Breach they soon take in The Parapets Redouts and Counterscarps of Sin XCVI At once she works and fights With Lamp she waits Midst Virgins at the BRIDEGROOMS Gates With HIM to feast Her with his BRIDAL DELICATES XCVII To HEAV'N now goes she on her Knees which cry Loud as her Tongue much speaks her Eye HEAV'N storm'd by Violence yields Eyes Tongue and Knees scale high XCVIII My Last crave Pardon for my First Extreams Be prais'd who crown'st my Morn with Beams Converted Age sees Visions erring Youth dreamt Dreams XCIX RELIGION's its own Lustre Who This shun Night-founder'd grope at midday Sun Rebellion is its own self-tort'ring Dungeon C. Mans restlesse Minde GODS Image can't be blest Till of this ONE This ALL possest THOU our Souls Center art our everlasting REST Pars superata Freti Lucem praebentibus Astris Longior at nostrae Pars superanda Viae Da DEUS ut Cursus suscepti nostra propinquet Meta laboranti grata futura Rati Magnificat Anima mea DOMINUM THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO III. The Restauration ARGUMENT Laetior una Dies IESV tua SACRA Canenti Quà m sine TE melicis Secula mille Lyris Vt paveam Scelus omne petam super Omnia COELUM Da mihi Fraena TIMOR Da mihi Calcar AMOR The Authors Rapture GRACE is prais'd a Flood Of Tears is pour'd for Albions Blood Shed in a Mist for smot Micaiahs PEACE is woo'd STANZA I. MUSE twang the pow'rful Harp brush each String O' th' warbling Lute and Canzons sing May ravish Earth and thence to HEAV'N in Triumph spring II. Noble Du-bartas in a high-flown Trance Observ'd to start from 's Bed and dance Said Thus by me shall caper all the Realm of France III. As viscous Meteors fram'd of earthy Slime By Motion fir'd like Stars do clime The woolly-curdled Clouds there blaze out their Time IV. Streaming with burnisht Flames yet Those but ray To spend Themselves and light our Way And panting Windes to cool ours not their own Lungs play V. So my enliv'ned Spirits ascend the Skies Wasting to make the Simple wise Who bears the Torch himself shades lightens others Eyes VI. As Lust for Hell ZEAL sweats to build for HEAV'N When fervent Aspirations driv'n By all the Souls quick Pow'rs to that high Search are giv'n VII High is the Sphear on which FAITHS Poles are hing'd Pure Knowledge Thou art not restring'd Thy Flames enfire the bushie Heart yet leave 't unsing'd VIII Suburbs of PARADISE Thou Saintly Land Of Visions Woo'd by WISDOMS Band By dull Mules in gold-trappings
Time-born Arts Such sweet Divisions from tun'd Strings may ravish Hearts LIX Best Tenure holds by th' Ear In Saul disguis'd When Satan oft Tarantuliz'd The Psalming Harp was 'bove they swaying Scepter priz'd LX. This Hymn ZEALS burning Feaver do's refine My gross hydropick Soul Divine Anthems unbowel BLISSE and ANGELS down encline LXI ANGELS shot forth the happiest CHRISTMAS Newes Ev'n CHRIST to warble Hymns did use When Heav'ns high'st DOVE do's soar He Wings of Verse doth chuse LXII No Verse no Text. Since Verse charms All Sing on Let Sermons wait till PSALMS be done Soul-raisers ye prevent the RESURRECTION LXIII But ah in War Wraths Midwife which do's tire Yet never fills the Jaws of Ire Keen as the Evening Wolf can She yet use her 〈◊〉 LXIV Yes She 's unmov'd in Earth-quakes tun'd in Iars Fear argues Guilt She stands in Wars And Storms of thund'ring Brass bright as corusâ—ant Stars LXV Vertue ' s a Balsam to It self Invoke She MERCIE did to oyl steels Yoke Thus in an iron Age This golden VIRGIN spoke LXVI Dread GOD Black Clouds surcharg'd with Storms When Pâ—ple Robes hide Scarlet Sin Ingrain'd from that Life-blood which moâ—ted their Souls 〈◊〉 begin LXVII Our Sea-girt World once Fort'nate Isle O Change Deplorable t' It self seems strange Vnthrifty Death has spread where thriving Peace did range LXVIII War hath our luke-warm Claret broacht with Spears LORD save thy Ark from Floods of Fears Or thy sad Spouse may sink as deep in Bloud as Tears LXIX She chaws Bread tleept in Woes gulpt down with Cries She drinks the Rivers of her Eyes Plung'd in Distress for Sin to THEE She fainting flies LXX Tune th' Irish Harp from Sharps to Flats Compose Whatever vitious Harshnesse grows Vpon the Scottish Thistle or the English Rose LXXI No ramping Lion its own Kind do's fear No tusked Bore no rav'ning Bear Man Mans Apollyon doth CHRISTS mystick Body tear LXXII Ye Sons of Thunder if You 'l needs fight on Lead your fierce Troops 'gainst Turkish Moon Out of the Line of FAITHS Communication LXXIII The large-commanding Thracian Force defie Like Gun-stocks though your Corps may flie To Earth Your Souls like Bullets will ascend on HIGH LXXIV If GOD be then i' th' Camp much more will HE In 's Militant Church His Temple be To chasten Schism and pervicacious Heresie LXXV LORD rent's thy Coat Loves Type This sads the Good Though Presters rudely fierce fain wou'd Be heard THOU hat'st uncivil Pray'r and civil Blood LXXVI Ah could dissembling Pulpeteers cry't Good To wade through Seas of native Blood Break greatest Ties play fast and loose beneath Smects Hood LXXVII By Such were Catechisms Communions Creeds Disus'd As March spawns Frogs so Weeds Sprung hence Worst Atheist from corrupted Church-man breeds LXXVIII Vse the LORDS Pray'r be th' Publican recant The Pharisee Or else avant With your six-hundred-sixtie-six-word Covenant LXXIX LORD they through faithlesse Dreams the Feast disown Of thy SONS INCARNATION Then whether will such Proteus-tants at last be blown LXXX That FEAST of Feasts Archangels Ioy Heav'n here Espous'd to Earth Saints Blisse most dear Prerogative o' th' Church The Grand Day of the Year LXXXI Man first made Good Himself unmade and then The WORD made Flesh must dwell with Men That Man thus worse then nought may better'd be agen LXXXII Dare to own Truth Drones seiz'd the Bees full Bow'r All 's paint that Butterflies deflowr As Ants improve so Grashoppers impair their Hour LXXXIII When Pirat-wasps sail to the hony'd Grot They 'l finde a Trap-glasse Death i' th' Pot Levites sleight not your Breast-work for vain Out-works got LXXXIV We ken Kirk-Interest Draco's Laws recall Repair the old Church Saints the Wall True Pastors Conduits Grace the Font Love cements All. LXXXV Passe freely would we of Oblivion An Act and pardon all by-gone Would you smite Hand on Thigh and say What have we done LXXXVI Truths Pensioners your Flocks bleat Food they need CHRISTS Flesh their Meat Blood Drink indeed View GLORIES Crown In Season out of Season feed LXXXVII Ye Friends to th' BRIDEGROOM Stewards to the Bride With Oracles of Truth us guide Truth blesseth Church and State Faithful till crown'd abide LXXXVIII So when the JUDGE with his Reward appears You 'l reap in Joy what 's sown in Tears Moyst Seed-times crown the Fields with golden-bearded Ears LXXXIX JUDGE-ADVOCATE to th' wrong'd sure THOU to Guilt Which would unmake thy Creatures wilt Be just when Inquisition's made for Blood that 's spilt XC At our Ears Port land Peace and Truth O then Welcome as Sol to th' Russ in 's Den As Shoar to shipwrackt as to Towns dismantled Men XCI O might a second ANGEL-QUIRE nere cease To Worms worn out with Wars Distress To sing in all Mens hearing their blest Song of PEACE XCII Peace Home of Pilgrims first Song at CHRISTS Birth Peace His last Legacie on Earth Peace gen'ral Preface to all Good Peace SAINTS true Mirth XCIII Love Thou Support to Martyrs as Iet Straw So Vs to our BELOV'D dost draw Thou art Golds true Elixir Thou summ'st up the Law XCIV Who can Divine Love speak in words of Sense Since Man as ransom'd Angels thence Transcends Such is CHRISTS Passions high Preheminence XCV Here did She seal her Lips unsluce her Eyes To flowing Rhet'rick and descries The World 's a Cask its Wine false Mirth its Lees Fools Prize XCVI And now by lympid Spring of Life-joy where Crystal is lymbect all the Year To GOD She would her Heav'n-ascending Raptures rear XCVII Taught hence misguided Zeal whom Heats dispose To Animosities may close And bloody Furies CONVERTS be by pond'ring Those XCVIII Harmonious Beauty feast our Ear They 're Kings At least who hear when LOVE thus sings LOVE to high Graces Key skrues up low Natures Strings XCIX Love Thou canst Ocean-flowing Storms appease And such oregrown Behemoths please As tax the scaly Nation and excise the Seas C. If THEOPHIL thy LOVE-SONG can't asswage The Fate incumbent on this Age No Time to write but weep For we are ripe for Rage Ite sacrosanctae Tabulata per Alta Carinae Non opus est Fluviis Lintea pando Mari. Ite Rates Ventis quo vos rapit Aura secundis Brittica Cymba pias findat AMORIS Aquas Animarum Sponsus IESUS The Soule against Complations fights Whom Death and Hell present with â—ights The World with 〈◊〉 ca lt and â—onour couâ—ts The Fleshes Glass invites to Spouts But THEOPHIL by Faith her Shield And Hopes firm â—nchoâ— stands the Field Accompanyâ—d with GRACE and LOVE By ANGELS SHE does upward move THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO IV. The Inammoration ARGUMENT O DEVS aut nullo caleat mihi Pectus ab Igne Aut solo caleat Pectus ab Igne Tui Languet ut Illa DEO mihi Mens simul aemula languet Coelitùs ut rapitur me Violenta rapit She Onset makes first with Love-darts aloof Then with ZEALS Fire-works storms HEAV'NS Roof Whose FAITHS Shield SALVATIONS Helmet
XL. Strangely their Intellects enlightned be Natures Compendium did not see One half yea ere He tasted the forbidden Tree XLI If that Sea-parting PRINCE from cleft Rocks Space Viewing GODS Back-parts thought it Grace What Honour is it then to see HIM FACE to FACE XLII WHO doth inspirit the indeficient Ray Not dimm'd with a minute Allay Where though no Sun ere rose yet 't is ETERNAL DAY XLIII Where ALL are fill'd yet ALL from Food abstain Where ALL are Subjects yet ALL reign ALL rich yet have no Bags that stifled Wealth contain XLIV Where each SAINT do's a glorious Kingdom own Where each KING hath a starry Crown Each CROWN a Kingdom free from the rude Peoples Frown XLV Where Each hath All yet more than All They owe All Subjects yet no KINGS They know Save KING of Kings LORD of Lords who quel'd their Foe XLVI Where highest JOY is their perpetual Fare Their Exercise HOSANNAS are SPIRITS the Choristers the Subject PRAISE and PRAYER XLVII The Laureate KING his Psalming Voice doth raise And sings to 's solemn Harp high Layes Being HIMSELF the Organ to His MAKERS Praise XLVIII Enflam'd with holy Zeal and high Desire Encircled with the Enthean QUIRE Warbles This Epinician Canzon to his Lyre XLIX Thou CROWN of BLISSE whose Footstool's Earth whose Throne Outshines ten thousand Suns in One Who art the Radi'cal LIFE of all true JOY alone L. Royal PROTECTOR when in THEE Lights Sun Mortals wou'd deem the last Hour run We finde no Wane of Day but a SOLSTITIAL Noon LI. When We Times Volumes of past Thousands scan Thy ORIGEN with Time to span We finde no Track in Infant Age when It began LII ANCIENT of DAYES to WHOM all Times are Now Before Whom SERAPHIMS do bow Though highest CREATURES yet to their CREATOR low LIII Who art by Light-surrounded POWERS obey'd HEAV'NS Host Thy ministring SPIRITS made Cloath'd with UBIQUITY to WHOM all Light is Shade LIV. Whose Thunder-clasping HAND do's grasp the Shole Of total Nature and unroul The spangled Canopy of HEAV'N from Pole to Pole LV. Who on the Clouds and Windes thy Chariot rid'st And brideling wildest Storms them guid'st Who moveless All dost move Who changing All abid'st LVI The Ocean Thou begirt'st with misty Shrouds That Monster wrapt'st in swathing Clouds And with thy mighty WORD controul'st tempestuous Flouds LVII Earth-circling Oceans Thy DISPLEASURE flee Mountains dismounted are by THEE Those airy Giants smoak if THOU incensed be LVIII Innumerable Troops of Joyes do stand Before Thy boundless PRESENCE and Vncessantly attend Thy ever-blissefull HAND LIX Thou LORD Good without Quality dost send Blisse to All Thine Great without End Whose Magnitude no Quantity can comprehend LX. What 's worthlesse Man what his earth-crawling Race That THOU shouldst such a shadow grace And in unspeakable triumphant GLORY place LXI Who may thy MERCIES Height Depth Breadth extend In Height It do's to HEAV'N ascend Confirms the ANGELS and in Depth doth low descend LXII Lessening the Pains o' th' damned ev'n in HELL In Breadth from East to West do's swell And over all the World and all thy WORKS excell LXIII Immense EXISTENCE HEAVN'S amaz'd at thy INCOMPREHENSIBILITIE INTELLIGENCIES dread Thine All-commanding-EYE LXIV Ye winged HERO'S whom all BLISSE embow'rs To HIM in Anthems strain your pow'rs Whose Sea of Goodness has no Shoar whose Age no How'rs LXV Then ore the trembling Cords his swift Hand strayes And clos'd All with full Diapaze As in a sounding Quire the well-strook Consort playes LXVI Victorious Iubilies when Eccho'd clear From the Church-Militant are dear To HEAV'NS triumphing QUIRE Such no gross Ear can hear LXVII Musicks first Martyr Stradas Nightingale Might ever wish poor Bird to fall On that excelling HARP and joy i' th Funeral LXVIII Had it but heard Those AYRS where Musick meets With Raptures of Voice-warbled Sweets Flowing with ravishing EXCES in SIONS STREETS LXIX All what Symphonious Breaths inspire All what Quick Fingers touch compar'd sound flat Could I but coyn a Word beyond all Sweets 'T were THAT LXX What Orders in NEW-SALEMS HIERARCHIE In what Degrees They ' enstated be Are Wings that mount my Thoughts to high Discovery LXXI Blest Sight to see HEAV'NS order'd HOST to move In Legions glist'ring ALL Above Whose Armour is true ZEAL whose Banner is pure LOVE LXXII Bright-harnessed INTELLIGENCIES Who Enucleate can your ESSENCE so As Men may both your mighty Pow'r Nature know LXXIII Invisible impassive happy fair High incorporeal active rare Pure scientifick and illustrious SPIRITS You' are LXXIV Guesse at their Strength by ONE Was not almost Two hundred thousand of an Host By ' an ANGEL slain when Assurs Chief 'gainst HEAV'N did boast LXXV In Brightness They the Morning Star out-vie In Nimbleness the Windes out-flie And far surpasse the Sun-beams in Subtilitie LXXVI ARCHANGELS Those superiour SPIRITS are GODS LEGATS when he will declare His Minde to 's Chosen GABRIEL did thus prepare LXXVII GODS Embassie when his BELOV'D did tie Our Flesh to his DIVINITIE GRACE was the Kisse the UNION was the Ring from High LXXVIII ANGELS the Posie sung This made our Clay O're Empyraean Courtiers sway When as the SPOUSE his mystick NUPTIALS did display LXXIX No sooner shal That great ARCHANGEL sound His wakefull Trump of Doom to th' Ground And Eccho shall as banded Ball make quick Rebound LXXX But pamper'd Graves with all their Iawes shall yawn And Seas Flouds Nurse strange Shoals shall spawn Of Men to wait o' th' dreadfull JUDGE at 's Iudgements Dawn LXXXI To Incorruption then Corruptions Night Shall turned be for That strange Sight Inebriates Souls with deepest Woes or high'st DELIGHT LXXXII Then shall my Ear my Nose my Hand Tongue Eye Alwayes hear smell feel taste espye Hosanna's Incense Off'rings Feasts Felicitie LXXXIII To act GODS WILL ore sublunary Things The DOMINATIONS sway as Kings He curbs Aerian Potentates by th' POW'RS HE wings LXXXIV The PRINCIPATES of Princes take the Care T' enlarge their Realms or to empair VIRTUES in acting of his WILL have their full Share LXXXV THRONES HIM contemplate nor from 's Presence move To CHERUBS HE reveals Above Hid Things He SERAPHINS enflames with ardent Love LXXXVI Praecelling SERAPHS shew GODS ARDOR still Wise CHERUBS his ABYSSE of SKILL In Governing of ALL beatious THRONES instill LXXXVII To us his STEDDINES in 's blessed THRONE Ever unalterably ONE Powr's Virtues Principates to his Commands are prone LXXXVIII Dominions own his REGAL SWAY and so ARCHANGELS ANGELS swiftly show Agilitie that from the DEITIE do's flow LXXXIX Their Number 's numberlesse not half so few As orient Pearls of early Dew Like Aromatick Lamps THEY in HEAV'NS TEMPLE shew XC And yet of THEM though vast the Number be The Thing that most do's glorifie Their MAKER's This THEY differ specifically XCI Of the first Machine THEY the Parcels are Yet if we Them with GOD compare Then w th their Wings they skreen Themselves though else most fair XCII Lawlesse Desire do's never pierce
regain the Field XXXVIâ—I The SPIRIT is true GOD from Ever HE Did reign with BOTH The TRINITIE COEQUAL COETERNAL COESSENTIAL be XXXIX The FATHER 's full though th' SON hath All engrost Nor yet is ought of this All lost Though th' FATHER give HIM SELF to th' SON by th'Hâ—LY GHOST XL. For though HE freely thus give All his STORE Yet hath He INF'INITE as before Conceive for Glimpsâ—some â—some endless Spring or Mine of Ore XLI What Soul will have this TRIAD for his Book With Faith must on the Back-parts look For with HIS glorious FACE blind are ev'n SERAPHS strook XLII By Speculation from Sols Substanceâ— we The FATHER from its Splendor see The SON from 's Heat the HOLY GHOST Here One is Three XLIII The Intellect the Memory the Will Resemblance make o' th' TRINE These fill One Soul yet are distinct in outward Workings still XLIV Thus to restore from Fall we may descrie THE TRINITY in UNITY Inscrutable ABYSSE rebates our weaker Eye XLV Be Ever-Ever-Ever blest ô TRINE Ever UNITEDNESSE divine WHO dost as well in Ants as in ARCHANGELS shine XLVI The Principats Thrones Dominations all Archangels Pow'rs Coelestial Are Ministers attending on thy SOVERAIGN CALL XLVII The Government 'bove Star-embroidred Hall Thus truly is Monarchicall Where All are Kings and yet one KING does rule Them All XLVIII Lesse then the thousand Part I have exprest Mans Weaknesse cannot bear the Rest. For thy Expresselesse NATURE LORD be ever blest XLIX SOUL of all Sweets my Love Life Joy and Bliss To ' enjoy THEE'S Heav'n Hell THEE to misse What 's Earths Ev'n Heav'n hath its Beatitude from THIS L. Remove the Needle from the Pole-Star and 'T is still with trembling motâ—on fann'd Till it returns No Fixure but in GOD does stand LI. To Saints all other Objects prizelesse be In GOD the ALL of All we see Feast to the Taste all Beauty to the Sight is HE LII Musick to th' Ear and Those whom HE unites Partake with HIM in high'st DELIGHTS Spring-tides of Pleasures over-whelm their ravisht Sprites LIII But Contraries when opposite best show As Foils set Diamonds off we know See Hell where Caitives pine yet still their Tortures grow Lâ—V As Metals fierie Waves in Furnace swell That Founders run to cast each Bell This not endur'd more Rage ten thousand Times is Hell LV. Where Souls still rave adust with horrid Pain They tug they tear but all in vain For them from raging Smart HOPE never shall unchain LVI O that for trash these Esaus sold their BLISSE For Sin that worse than Nothing is This desperates their Rage How they blaspheme at This LVII This Viper clings corrodes 'gainst which no Ward GODS BEATIFICK SIGHT debarr'd Renders their Case 'bove all the Pains of Sense more hard LVIII O never-sated Worm unpity'd Woes Unintermitted what Sin owes Hell payes The Damn'd are Anvils to relentless Blowes LIX Fiends forfeit not their Energie There Cain Fries but for one Lamb by him slain O what Flames then shall Butchers of CHRISTS Flock sustain LX. Earths fatal Mischief prosp'rous Thief that Thunder Which tore the Nations all asunder Whom Just Fate flew i' th' Worlds Revenge that conqu'ring Wonder LXI That Ghost of Philips hot-brain'd Son may tell Heart-breaking Stories of his Hell Too late He findes one Soul did his whole World excel LXII There curs'd Oppressors dreadful Rackings feel Whose Hearts were Rocks and Bowels Steel O scorching Fire cryes Dives for one Drop I kneel LXIII Oblig'd is Man GODS Steward to supply Brethren in CHRIST Coheirs who lie Gasping in stiff'ning Frosts no Cov'ring but the Skie LXIV Whose wither'd Skins fear as the saplesse Wood Cleave to their Bones for want of food Seem Natures Monsters thrown a Shoar by Mis'ries Flood LXV Though all their Physick's but a Diet spare Have no more Earth than what they are Nor more o' th' World than Graves yet in Heav'ns Love they share LXVI Inestimable LOVE from None bereav'n HEAV'N sunk to Earth Earth mounts to HEAV'N Just JUDGE to Dives Hell to Laz'rus Heav'n is giv'n LXVII LOVE Disengage us of our selves LOVE has Nor Biâ— nor Reins Rich 'bove Earths Mass Fixt in Idaeas of LOVES Soul-inliv'ning GRACE LXVIII O LOVE ô HEIGHT above all Height to THINE Thy FAVOUR did to Foes encline Unmeasurable MEASURE endlesse END of Line LXIX LOVE darts all Thoughts to its BELOV'D doth place All BLISSE in waiting on His GRACE It languisheth with Hope to view HIM Face to Face LXX And ushers in that BEATIFICK LOVE Which so divinely flames Above And doth to VISION UNION and FRUITION move LXXI Ice is a thing distinct from th' Ocean wide But melted by the Sun does glide Into 't becomes one with 't and so shall e're abide LXXII Desire 's a Tree whose Fruit is Love the Show'rs That ripen it are Tears the Flow'rs Are Languors Leaves Afflictions Blossoms Pray'r-spent How'rs LXXIII O Mental PRAY'R thy Ioyes are high Resort By Thee 's to GOD Thou art the Port Of inward Peace from Storms The Path to SIONS Court LXXIV By Pray'r GOD's serv'd betimes Remember Who The Blessing got by Wrastling so Who early pray they healthy holy happy grow LXXV Then pray before Lights rosie Blush displayes I' th' Orient Sols enchearing Rayes When He from 's Opall East to West oblikely strayes LXXVI Before the Cock Lights Herald Day-break sings To 's Feathr'ie Dames ere roost Lark springs Morns Vsher when the Dawn its mungrell hour forth bringsâ— LXXVII PRAY'R Thou art Lifes best Act Souls silent Speech The Gate of GRACE Saints GOD beseech By Prayer but joyn'd with Alms Fasts they HIM besiege LXXVIII Fasting the Souls delicious Banquet can Adde Strength to PRAY'R feast th' inner Man And throw up to ETERNITY the Bodies Span LXXIX Fasts sackcloth ashes groveling on the ground SAINTS study'd have with Pain and found VVith Ioy that what degrades the Sense in HEAV'N is crow'nd LXXX Prize FAITH the Shield of Martyrs Ioyes Confection Souls Light the PROPHETS sure Direction Hopes Guide Salvations Path the Pledge of all Perfection LXXXI In Faiths mysterious EDEN make abode VVith Iacobs Staff and Aarons Rod Frequents its Grove where none are but the LOV'D of GOD LXXXII The Radiations of FAITHS Lamp excite Such a Colosse of sparkling Light That Saints through worldly Waves may steer Lifes Course aright LXXXIII Being in not of this World They Comforts rear Above the Pitch of servile Fear Terrestrial Blossoms first must die ere Fruit They bearâ— LXXXIV No clogging Fetters of impris'ning Clay No wry-mouth squint-ey'd Scoff can stay Their swift Progression soaring in their HEAV'NLY Way LXXXV Thoughts on the endlesse Weight of GLORY shall Render ev'n Crowns as Dung and all Afflictions light as Chaffe chas'd on Earths empty Ball. LXXXVI The Torch that shines in Night as Eye of Noon Is but as Darkenesse to the Sun Run after Shades they fly fly after Shades they run LXXXVII All worldly Gayes are Reeds without Support Fitly with Rain-bow gleames they
dubitetur an haec illa vel ista praeit 65. Desuper extat Amor Tibi Mens contermina Coelo Regnat Honor radiat Forma triumphat Amor. 66. Illud es Elixir Chymicâ quod protinùs Arte Mutet in auratas me rude Pondus Opes 67. Igne Cinis fit agente Vitrum micat Igne Metallum Corpus hoc fieri SPIRITUS Igne potest 68. Magneti salit è Ferro celer Ignis Amoris Imò Silex faculas quis putet intus alit 69 Durius at Saxo nil est nil mollius Igne Dura sed ignitus Saxa resolvit AMOR. 70. Haec meditans quis non Facibus soluatur Amoris Tu Charis es Studiis Tu Cynosura meis 71. Gemmula Mentis Ocella Sinûs pia Flammula Cordis Incepi Duce Te Te Duce caepta sequar 72. Sponsa creata DEO Virtutum fulgida Caetu Jus colis Affectus supprimis Acta regis 73. Est Tibi Vita DEUS Pietas Lex Gloria CHRISTUS Expetis HUNC Tibi Qui semper AMORE praeit 74. Quid Te CHRISTE Crucem perferre coegit Amoris Ardor Amaroris Pignus Amoris erat 75. Factus Amans fit Esca DEUS Te nutrit IESUS O BONITAS Quales Hoc in AMANTE Dapes 76. Est mihi CHRISTUS ais Laus Splendor Aroma Triumphus Musica Vina Dapes Fama Corona DEUS 77. Omnia Tu JESUS prae TE nihil Omnia COELUM Exploraturae quà m mihi sordet Humus 78. Orbis es Exilium Mors Ianua Patria COELUM Dux sit Amor Baculus Spes Comes alma Fides 79. Diffluat in Gemmas Oriens in Carmina COELUM Nec Meritis Oriens nec POLUS aequa ferat 80. Fac timeam fac amem Quae Te timet acriùs ardet Nempe tui Cultûs Fons Timor Amnis Amor. 81. Vox tua Norma mihi Tibi Palmes adhaereo VITI Totus es IPSE mihi sim tua tota DEUS 82. Comprecor exaudi patior succurre molestor Auxiliare premor protege flagro fave 83. TE voco laudo rogo colo diligo quaero REDEMPTOR Affectu Prece Re Spe Pietate Fide 84. Si TE contueor liquefio perusta Favillis Ni TE contueor sum glaciata Gelu 85. O Facibus superadde Faces ut Tota liquescam Sim vel Mortis Odor sim vel Amantis Amor. 86. Grata Procella jugum mihi gratum gratus Ignis Me quibus immergit deprimit urit AMOR 87. Non mea sum sed Amore DEI languesco Sorores Me stipate Rosis languet Amore Sinus 88. Nil Animantis habet quae Pectore vivit Amantis Hoc in Amore mihi sit mora nulla mori 79. Unio sit Nobis Animamque liquamur in unam Vnaque Vita Duos stringat Amorque Duos 80. Tu super Omne places Tua sum Tu noster Ambos Mutuus Ardor agit possidet unus Amor. 81. Uror â—o Redamatur Amor Votoque fruiscor Dum quod Amans redamor dum quod Amante fruor 82. O quid Amare Quid est Redamari GAUDIA nacta Tanta stupendo tacet Tanta tacendo stupet 83. Vivo DEO morior Mundo moriendo resurgo Indè catenato Dite triumphat AMOR. 84. Sic amet omnis Amans sic immoriatur Amanti Vt Lyra Lusciniae Vitaque Morsque fuit 85. Si mea Lumen habent si Nomen Carmina Lumen Ex Oculo SPONSI Nomen ab Ore venit 86. Argus eat qui Talpa venit radiatus Amore Vates Sperati fidus Amoris ero 87. Cingant THEIOPHILAE potiùs mea Tempora Lauri Quà m gemmans Capiti sit Diadema meo 88. Nam quid erunt Animae Damno Diademata Mundi Celsa ruunt fugiunt Blandula prava necant 99. Vt praesens novit sic postera noverit Aetas Sivc premamus Humum Sive premamur Humo 100. Finis Fine caret nec Terminus ullus Amantem Terminat Hîc Modus est non habuisse Modum Imus in Albionis Freta per Latialia Littus Siste Britannales Hâc Vice Musa Pedes Anglica num praestent Latiis Briticisve Latina Scire velim Placeant quae magìs Illa dabo THEOPHILAS LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO IX The RECAPITVLATION And Pourtrait of a Heav'nly breathing Soul Whoso delights to burn in holy Fire Of VIRGIN fair THEOPHILA Joy Salamander in that Flame Thou so Pirausta born may'st like the Phoenix burn That to ETERNITIE thou rise Not losing Life but sowing well the same A holier Ovids smoothed Verse With Eyes of Heart with Heart-all-Eyes behold Such sacred Flames by Adamantine Hand Ought to be plac't in lasting Vrns But 'cause these Writings needed Aid of Pens Virtue than Birds more swift unto the Scribe lend Wing And let the Readers Care more Eyes than Argus bring The PORTICO Love to the Master and the Mate Stirs it self feebly in Lifes lowest Sphear That to our Parent and the Bed More large extends and breathes a Life of Sense That to our Countrey and its Sire Self raises loftier in Reasons Air But That to GOD Ravisht with Ecstasie It self transcends Nor Bounds nor Limits would It own But narrow'd That like Lovers kept apart Warms heats yea boyls boyls up and over Longs for th' Eternal sighs for HIM beyond that Lover THE ARGVMENT Blest Muse the Altar builds where LOVE' 's ador'd And throweth down loose Wit thy Nest abhorr'd She Clytie-like to th' Sun of Glory turns GOD is her Sun with Light of ZEAL She burns Distick 1. MVSE canst be silent when each charmed Grove Harbours a thousand warbling Notes of Loue 2 Art whets the Minde and Hymns set Edge on Art Dart up an Epod ZEAL crown thou the Dart. 3. Hope be thy Bowe thy Hand Love Faith the Shaft Let Hope shoot Faith to GOD with Loves strong Draft 4. Sacred's my Theme may my first Fruits HIM please Faith plants Hope nourishes Love ripens These 5. This World 's the Field GOD sows his WORD the Seed Satan the Thief the Good Corn th' Ill the Weed 6. LORD mount me to the Pitch of Larks on High That I as Birds wing'd Oars may cut the Skie 7. SAINTS would know GOD so as they Good may doe Let me both know this Good and act It too 8. HEAV'NS Love not knowledge doth the Palm acquire Who Heav'nly Knowledge gave will give Desire 9. That Ought I will can am is CHRIST from Thee CHRIST what I am can will accept from me 10. No Light Tast Strength without THEE Thou alone Art Health unto my Soul my Salt my Sun 11. Thou Light Way Life who sees walks liveth by That Flame Path Strength does not fall fail nor die 12. Upon thy Altars let my Verses prove The Victime Heart the Altar the Fire Love 13. Pray'r Frankincense Tears Myrrhe be Gold Souls Health The Minds best Work Hearts Laver Loves Wealth 14. I This Verse Hecatomb to THEE do bring As Solomon his numerous Offering 15. The pious Muse courts HEAV'N when highest Things She soars for still She craves BLEST DOVE thy Wings 16. With active Plumes flye up to th' ANGEL-QUIRE Where Chrysolites
their Crimes display LXVIII Giants of Earth Aviso's may you tell That though with envy'd State you swell Yet soon within Corruptions Charnel-house you 'l dwell LXIX Scepters are frail as Reeds who had no Bound Are claspt within six foot of Ground Whose Epitaphs next Age will be Oblivion found LXX Such Yesterday as would have been their Slave To day may tread upon their Grave That flats the Nose Best Lectures dust-seel'd Pulpets LXXI Who tost the Ball of Earth in dark Vaults rest All what that Gen'rall once possest Was but a Shirt in 's Tomb who vanquisht all the East LXXII Invading Cyrus in a Tub of Gore Might quaff his Fill who evermore Had thirsted Blood Him timeless Fate midst Triumphs tore LXXIII Weigh Life's frail Pomp vain remember Paul The way to rise will be to fall In 's high Commission low in 's low Conversion tall LXXIV Soul w'udst aspire to th' High'st clip Tumors Wing To th' Test of HEAV'N thy Axioms bring Best Polit'ick David was Who conquers Sin 's the King LXXV Let raised Elijah-like aspire To be encharioted in Fire Faith Love Joy Peace the Wheels to Saints sublime Desire LXXVI Avaro cite as void of Grace as stor'd With Gold the GOD his Soul ador'd Wealth twins with Fear Why start'st Unlock thy unsunn'd Hord LXXVII I 'l treble't by the Philosophick Stone This makes thee stare Why thus 't is done To Passives Actives joyn in due Proportion LXXVIII Behold vast Sums unown'd Thou hutch-cram'd Chink Art made as Nothing with a Wink Thou bred from Hell with Hell-deeds Souls to Hell dost sink LXXIX Gold is the Fautress of all civil Jarres Treasons Reward the Nerve of Wars Nurse of Prophaneness suckling Rage that Kingdoms marres LXXX Thou potent Devil how dost thou bewitch The dreggy Soul spott'st it with Itch This Slave to thee his slave was never poor till rich LXXXI Now chest th' all worshipt Ore with rev'rend Awe Sols Gold and Luna's Silver draw Should Hell have these 't would plunder'd be to sate thy Maw LXXXII While Gripes of Famine mutiny within And tan like Hides the shrivel'd Skin O' th' Poor whose pining Want can not thy Pitty win LXXXIII Having their Gravestones underneath their Feet Breath out their Woes to All they meet While thou to them are flintier than their Bed the Street LXXXIV Blinded with Tears with crying hoarse forlorn They seem to be of All but Scorn Death than Delay Wants bloudless Wound is easier born LXXXV Thy Dropsie breeds Consumption in thine Heir Who thus t' himself I 'l ease your Care Measure not Grounds but your own Earth Die now to spare LXXXVI What 's rak'd by Wrong and kept by Fear when mine Shall spread as I 'm Then brood the Shine Penurious Wretch till thou by empty Fulnesse pine LXXXVII Thy Care 's to lessen Cost how slow thy Payes How quick Receipts Lov'st Fasting-Dayes But 't is to save thus starv'st in Store thee Plenty slayes LXXXVIII When shall I rifle every Trunk and Shelf Of this old muckie wretched Elf Who turns as Chymists do all that he scrapes to Pelf LXXXIX O sordid Phrenzie Anxious Maze of Care O gripple Covetize to spare And dream of Gold The Misers Heav'n the Indians Snare XC Oppression is the Bloud-shot in their Eyes Bribes blanch Gehesa till he dies Fool read this Night Death may thy dunghil Soul surprize XCI Think not for whom thou dost thy Soul deceive And injur'd Nature so bereave But still thy knotty Brain with wedg-like Anguish cleave XCII Sruck blinde with Gold brood on thy Rapines till Thou hatch up stinging Cares to th' fill The heaviest Curse on this side Hell 's to thrive in Ill. XCIII Go venture for 't with Sharks haste Miser old To th' Hook because the Bait is Gold Pawn thy Soul for 't as Iudas did when 's LORD he sold. XCIV Possessors are as Saul possest who crosse HEAV'NS Law Gain got by Guile proves Losse Getting begits more Itch Lusts specious Ore is drosse XCV Who sowe to Sin shall reap to Iudgement Train To Hell is Idolized Gain Canst Death or Vengeance bribe If not dread ceaseless Pain XCVI Why so fast poasted by thy strugling Cares And Self-slaying Fraud with all their Snares Stay view thy self Destruction her crackt Glass prepares XCVII His pursie Conscience opens now I 've run On Rocks he houls too late to shun Lost Vse and Principle Gold I 'm by Thee undone XCVIII If to exhort be not too late attend The wholsom Counsel of a Friend Renounce thy Idol and prevent thy wretched End XCIX Sound for Faiths Bottom with Hopes anch'ring Cord Repent Restore large Alms afford The dismall Fraught of sinking Sins cast over-board C. He who returns to 's Avarice left his Sore Growes desp'rate Deadlier than before His Hopes of HEAV'N much lesse his Fears of Hell much more Oceani Monstrum natat infraenabile Lingua Naves saepè pias haec Echeneis habet Cui paro Naumachiam Freta conturbata pererrans Sit Remoque meo Lis Remoraeque tuae Spes rebus affixa fugacibus uno Frangitur Afflatu THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD CANTO XI The Disincantation ARGUMENT Crispulus hic nulli Nugarum Laude secundus Cui Mens Lucisinops Stulta Ruina Domûs Qui Cereri Bromioque litat Luxuque liquescit Huic ne putrescat pro Sale Vita datur Volupto crown'd with Blisse of Fools is bent To Wine Feasts Gauds loose Merriment Runs on in Lusts Career till Grace stops-with Repent STANZA I. O Headlesse heady Age O giddy Toyes As humble Cots yield quiet Joyes So prouder Palaces are Drums of restlesse Noise II. 'T was in the blooming Verdure of the Yeer When through the Twins Sol's Course did steer That a spruce Gallant did on Summons strait appear III. Glitt'ring in Brav'ry like the Knight o' th' Sun Whose Nags in Hide-park Races run This Ev'n 'T is sure Volupto old Avaros Son IV. Hot showes the Day by th' Dust upon his Head And all his Clothes so loosely spread He 's so untrust as if it were not long to Bed V. His Hands keep Time to th' Tune of 's Feet his Pace Is danced Measures and 't is Grace Enough ore's Shoulder to afford a quarter-face VI. Act 'bove French Monkies Antimasks he might Before the Apes Spectators right Such Dops Shrugs Puppet-playes shew best by Candle-light VII How mimick hum'rous Garbs in various kinde Do checquer Whimsies in the Minde As diff'ring Flow'rs on Peru's Wonder Gardners finde VIII Hast thou black Patches too for Shame forbear Smooth Chins should not have Spots but Hair But thou art modish and canst vapour drink swear IX How blazing Tapers waste Lifes blink away In Socket of their mouldring Clay How powder'd Curls do sin-polluted Dust bewray X. As Prudence fram'd Art to be Natures Ape So Pride forms Nature to Arts Shape Corrupted Wine is worst that 's prest from richest Grape XI Wilt Reasons Sense dissolve in senselesse Wine And sing while Youths frail Gem does shine Come
Ruine by Civil Warre supported Belgâ—a overthrown the Spanish invincible Navie expelled the Spaniards out of Ireland received the Irish into Mercie enriched England by her most prudent Government 45 Years Elizabeth a vertuous and triumphant Queen in the 70th year of her Age in most happy and peaceable manner departed this Life leaving here her mortal parts until by the last Trump she shall rise immortal LXXII She past the Furnace to be more refin'd From Flames drew Purity of Minde Not heat of Passion hence being try'd She brighter shin'd LXXIII Here wound here lance me LORD thy Austin cries Dissect me here for Paradise The Cross the Altar be so Love be Sacrifice LXXIV Imprint thy LOVE so deep into my Heart That neither Hunger Thirst nor Smart Gain Losse nor Thraldom Life nor Death Us ever part LXXV Should Foes rip up my Breast with piercing Blade My Soul would but have Passage made Through which to HEAV'N she might in Purple Riv'lets wade LXXVI Forbid the Banes 'twixt Soul and Body joyn'd The Corps but falls to be refin'd And re-espous'd unto the Glorifi'd high Minde LXXVII Who makes th' ALMIGHTY his Delight He goes To Martyrdom as to Repose The Red Sea leads to PALESTINE where all Ioy flowes LXXVIII Steel'd 'gainst Afflictions Anvel let 's become Proud of the Worlds severest Doom No Majestie on Earth is like to Martyrdome LXXIX Enter into thy Masters Ioy ' s so great This Thought is with such Flames repleat That from th' High Court of Mercy Souls all Deaths defeat LXXX Who saith Fear not HIM must we fear alone Blest whom no Fear makes Faith be gone How many must they fear who fear not only ONE LXXXI We are but once to our Graves Port brought in To which from Birth w' have sailing bin It matters not what Way so we scape Rocks of Sin LXXXII But hark 't is late the Whislers knock from Plough The droyling Swineheards Drum beats now Maids have their Cursies made to th' spungy-teated Cow LXXXIII Larks roosted are the folded Flocks are pent In huâ—dled Grates the tir'd Ox sent In loose Trace home now Hesper lights his Torch 〈◊〉 Tent. LXXXIV See glimmering Light the Pharos of our Cot By Innocence protected not By Guards we thither tend where Ev'n-song's not forgot LXXXV O Pray'r Thou Anchor through the Worldly Sea Thou sov'raign Rhet'rick 'bove the Plea Of Flesh that feed'st the fainting Soul thou art 〈◊〉 Key LXXXVI Blest Season when Dayes Eye is clos'd to win Our Heart to clear th' Account when Sin Has past the Audit Ravishments of Soul begin LXXXVII Who never wake to meditate or weep Shall â—ure be sentenc'd for their Sleep Night to forepassed Day should still strict Centrie keep LXXXVIII O let them perish midst their flaring Clay Who value Treasures with a Day Devoutly spent FAITH' 's the true Gem the World a Gay LXXXIX So wastful Vsâ—rer as thy self there 's None Who 〈◊〉 three true Gems for one 〈…〉 Thy Rest Famâ— Soul for ever gone XC When 〈◊〉 Mists our Hemisphear invade Of all the Air when one Blot's made 〈…〉 XCI Then for an Hour Elixir of Delight We Heav'n beleag'ring pray and write When every Eye is lockt but those that watch the Night XCII Saints fight on bended Knees their Weapons are Defensive Patience Tears and Pray'r Their Valour most when without Witness Hell do's scare XCIII May whiter Wishes wing'd with Zeal appear Lovely unto Thy purest Ear Where nothing is accepted but what 's chast and clear XCIV Lifes hectick Fits finde Cordials in Pray'rs Hive Transcendently Restorative Which might our Iron Age to its first Gold retrive XCV See listning Time runs back to fetch the Age Of Gold when Pray'r does Heav'n engage Devotion is Religions Life-blood 't is Gods Page XCVI Who brings rich Bliss by Bills of sure Exchange The Blessings that the Poor arrange For Alms receiv'd that Day beatifies our Grange XCVII Dance Nabals with large Sails on smiling Tides Till the black Storm against you rides Whose pitchie Rains interminable Vengeance guides XCVIII But LORD let Charitie our Table spread Let Vnity adorn our Bed And may soft Love be Pillow underneath our Head XCIX Enricht le ts darn up Want what Fortune can Or give or take away from Man We prize not much HEAV'N payes the good Samaritan C. Thus Life still blessing and still blest we spend Thus entertain we Death as Friend To disapparel us for GLORIES endlesse End CI. Who thus forgot in Graces growes as Years Loves cherisht Pray'r unwitnest Tears Rescu'd from monstrous Men no other Monster fears CII They who their dwelling in Abdera had Did think Democritus was mad He knew t was so of them The Application's sad CIII Knew but the World what COMFORTS tiding on Flow to such Recollection It would run mad with Envie be with Rage undone CIV O Sequestration Rich to Worldlings Shame A Life 's our Object not a Name Herostratus did sail like Witch i' th' Air of Fame CV Get long-breath'd Chronicles ye need such Alms Sue from Diurnal Breefs for Palms Injurious Grandeur for its frantick Pride wants Balms CVI. In Aery Flatt'ries Rumour not Fame lies Inconstancie Times Mistresse cries It up which soon by arguing Time Truths Parent dies CVII Fames Plant takes Root from Vertue grows thereby Pure Souls though Fortune-trod stand high When mundane shallow-searching Breath It self shall die CVIII O frail Applause of Flesh swoln Bubbles passe Turf-fire more Smoak than Splendor has What Bulwark firm on Sand What shell for Pearl may passe CIX But Saints with an attentive Hope from High On HEAV'NS Paroll do live and die Passing from Lifes short Night to Dayes ETERNITIE CX Whâ— blessedly so breathe and leave their Breath Of dying Life make living Death Each Day spent like the last does act a HEAV'N beneath CXâ— Death's one long Sleep and humane Life no more Than one short Watch an Hour before World after thy mad Tempest 't is the landing Shore CXII Mid point betwixt the Lives of Losse and Gain The Path to boundlesse Ioy or Pain Saints Birth-day Natures Dread GRACE doth this Bandog chain CXIII When Moses from high Pisgahs Top descry'd Fair Canaan Type o' th' HEAV'NLY Bâ—IDE He breath'd out his Joy-ravisht Soul so sweetly dy'd CXIV To IMMORTALITIE the Grave 's a Womb We passe into a Glorious Room Thorough the gloomie Entry of a narrow Tomb. CXV LORD as THOU mad'st most pow'rful ONE in THREE The World of nothing so let me Make nothing of the World but make my All in THEE CXVI Pardon the By-steps that my Soul has trod Most Great Good Glorious Gratious GOD Seal THOU the Bill of my Divorse to Earths dull clod CXVII Thy boundlesse Sourse of GRACE the scarlet Spot Scour'd white as Wool that first did blot Th' Original in Man that was so fairly wrot CXVIII Check not my Hope but spurre my Fear to THEE Virtue to court and Vice to flee Love lend thou me thy Spurre Fear thou my Bridle be CXIX