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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20681	Apollo Christian: or Helicon reformed		1617 (1617)	STC 708; ESTC S104423	21,858	50

fresh bankes Angels sing carcls and immortall thankes And all the solaces which heauens afford To bee a seruant and a worme abhord §. 12. MVse time will come when I shall celebrate The residue of his great acts and state And most of all that loue whose golden shafts Wounded him so that ' spite of all the crafts And policies and stratagems of hell To hinder it did worke so wondrous well As plainely vanquisht with his Spouses eyes He came among vs in that base disguise And poore and friendlesse founded such a might As conquers all the world and doth by right Breake Realmes of enemies as towrs of glasse This miracle all miracles doth passe Meanewhile my Decasyllabons rest in peace The way to holde out is a while to cease MELOS VI. To the noble young Gentle-men of Great BRITAINE COme away Deâre come away Let not light songs make you stay Noble soûles leaue leaue at large What will one day come in charge Time ill spent and good howres squandred While your thoughts haue sweetly wandred In the dreames of elues and faeries After beauty which but aër is Leesing God and selues the while Glorious wits what doth beguile What so sowly you bewitches With the shewes of worth and riches Louely shapes and formes of pleasure Strongly phansied as if treasure That you thus leaue Sion quite Where true Muses day and night Honour beauties fading neuer And at Helicon perseuer Come away Deâte come away Let not light songs make you stay Mindes diuine and Spirits haughty Heere behold my Muse hath taught yee Hippocren to bee but muddy Cedrons quicke brooke once made ruddy By our Sauiours sacred wounds Waters hath which haue no grounds Dreggs that settle in the bottom Aër not troubled with an Atom Heauenly wholesome to it hath As not Buxton Flint or Bath Such a Ladie such a beautie Queene of Muses there to sute yee Each with loues and each with Graces As no forrests woods or Chases Where ranke Satyres lewd Fawnes wanton Into all Saints turning Pantheon Come away Deare come away Let not light songs make you stay DEO GRATIAS SOLI DEO HONOR ET GLORIA AMEN THE PRISONERS O. O CLAVIS DAVID ET SCAEPTRVM DOMVS ISRAEL The Prisoners O. THe key of the abysse vnder which the prince of hell was shut was saith the Apocalyps in the custody of an holy Angell his iaylour but the key which did first open the kingdome of heauen to all beleeuers was in thy custody ô thou Sonne of DAVID being formed out of that sacrificing iron with which thy immaculate flesh was in fiue places peirced Thy victorious agonie was the Potarrh which blew vp the brazen doores of hell Nay thou thy selfe art the key as thou art the doore and the way Open thy gates ô my foûle that the King of glory may come in Who is the King of glory ô who It is hee without whose key all graces are lockt vp in thee as wares without vse without whom the gates of heauen in selfe are for euer shut against thee A mystery a very great mystery is in this Apostrophe O KEY OF DAVID AND SCEPTER OF THE HOVSE OF ISRAEL This is the mysterie that the keyes are heerein ioyned with the scepter of the house of Israel For who hath not heard that there appeared to Great Constantine our Lords name in Greek cypher The capitall letter wherof P passing perpendicularly through the midst of the capitall letter X a figure was produced representatiue of the crosse in a part and significatiue of the crucified in the totall as thus And what was this else but an Hiereglyphicke of the keyes and scepter conioyned These characters are capable of such a position and as they are capable so certainely is it their proper also The place of Roh in that celestiall proportion in Brachigraphie is the place of the Scepter and the place of the Keyes is the place of Chi And let them bee so configured trust to me neuer if the mystery be as not authentick as superlatiuely important The keyes of his Preisthood doe locke and vnlocke heauen and his Scepter passing through them protects what it vpholds and gouernes aswell aboue as heere It is a rod of many names It is a rod of direction it is a rod of correction it is a rod of power and the onely treble mace by which heauen earth and hell are awed and regulated So that in respect of those two cheife authorities preist-hood and regalitie meeting in the person of our Sauiour King of Kings and Prince of Preists wee may most aptly change this of Virgil Rex Anius rex idem hominum Phaebique sacerdos Into this Monostichon full of most venerable truth Rex CHISTVS reu idem hominum Dominique sacerdos But I had much rather heare this mysteries reason in the words of the most learned Doctor of the Lattin Church by occasion of this saying of CHRIST in Matthew Data est mihi omnis potestas in caelo in terra Power was giuen to him saith S. Hierome who but a little while before was cruciside who was buried in a tombe who had lyen dead who afterward rose againe And power was giuen to him in heauen and in earth that hee who before did raigne in heauen might raigne also in the earth by the beleefe of the faithfull The true proprietarie owner of two such ensignes of Soueraignty and Sanctimonie as the keyes and scepter is more worthy then that all the Hierarchies can sufciently praise is more worthy then that the heauens the most beauteous of visible creatures should be worthy enough to bee his mansion is to conclude more worthy then that his dwelling should any where bee worthy of him but onely within himselfe Aboue the greatnesse of his Maiesty is the sweetnesse of his clemencie Humbly confident in that I therefore say Let thy golden keyes ô CHRIST vnlocke thy treasures of spirit and grace and out of them store my soule with furnitures for entertainment of so diuine a Visitant and let thy golden Scepter brandish it selfe by thy hand ouerall my faculties and driue from thence and from about all perturbations and deformities that Memory Reason Imagination set at liberty may obey to the purest part of my minde and so concurre to the receipt and hospitage of mine incarnate God But ô my deerest soûls how captiue and how caitiue am I who doubly am in prison Behôld material wals and locks and bolts about mee and other iouisible within mee The canopie which shrowds mee is not Ionas his Gourd but the shadowes of death and darknesse Come ô come the rather holy Patrôn enfranchize thy slaue from the tyes and shackles of vanity and then is captiuitie the caitiue For freedome is not empeacht by prison but by sinne because nothing can make any man guilty but his conscience I feele the feruor and strength of meditation decay within mee The breath of frailty is short in the race of things diuine The house