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A55570	Tsofer bepaḥ, or, The bird in the cage, chirping four distinct notes to his consorts abroad I. of consideration, counsel and consolation, II. some experiences and observations gathered in affliction ..., III. the lamentations of Jeremiah ..., IV. a true Christians spiritual pilgrimage setting forth his afflicted and consolatory state in another metre : and as a preface hereto, an epistle to the Welsh churches, and a brief narrative of the former propagation and late restriction of the Gospel ... in Wales ... / by Vava. Powell.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3078; ESTC R19436	71,339	204

but in vain They gave their pleasant things for meat to bring their souls again See O Lord and consider me for vile I yet remain 12 Oh is it nothing unto you all ye that do passe by Behold and see if that there be any sorrow like my Sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the Lord now hath Afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger and wrath 13 Fire from above into my bones in justice he hath sent And it prevaileth against them by which my strength is spent For my feet he hath spread a net he back hath turned me Yea he hath made me desolate and all the day fainty 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his own hand They are wreathed and are come up on my neck as a band He hath made my strength for to fail the Lord delivered me Into their hands from whom I now cannot rise or get free 15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my men once mighty And in the midst of me he hath called an assembly Aganst me to crush my young men the Lord trod the Virgin The comely daughter of Judah in a wine-press for sin 16 For these things do I weep mine eye mine eye pours water down Because the Comforter that should relieve my Soul and own Is far from me and my children are desolate you see Because the Enemy hath so prevailed over me 17 Sad Zion spreadeth forth her hands to comfort her there 's none The Lord commanded concerning Jacob and his Zion That his Enemies should surround him yea Jerusalem Is as a menstruous woman now abiding among them 18 The Lord is wonderful righteous for I rebelled have Against his just commandment for all this he can save Hear I pray you all People then and this my sorrow see My maids and my young men are gone into Captivity 19 I called unto my Lovers but they deceived me My Priests and my Elders gave up the ghost in the City While they sought their meat that their souls therewith reliev'd might be 20 Behold O Lord for I am in grievous distress and woe My bowels are troubled mine heart is turn'd within me too Because I have most grievously rebelled this is come Abroad the Sword bereaveth much there is like Death at home 21 They my foes have heard that I sigh there 's none to comfort me Yea all mine Enemies have heard of this my misery They are glad that thou hast done it thou yet the day wilt bring That thou hast call'd and they shall be like unto me suffering 22 Let all their wickedness O Lord in time come before thee And do unto them according as thou hast done to me Because of all my transgressions committed against thee For my sighs are many for sins and my heart is fainty CHAP. II. HOw hath the glorious Lord cover'd the daughter of Zion With a thick cloud in his anger and from Heaven cast down Unto the earth the lowest state Israels whole beauty And forgot his foot-stool in the day that he was angry 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the inhabitants well known Of Jacob and hath not piti'd in his wrath he threw down The daughters of Judah's strong holds he brought down to the ground He hath polluted the kingdom and her Princes once crownd 3 In his fierce anger he cut off Israels horn fully He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy And he is grievously incens'd against Jacob with ire Which round about sorely devour'd like to a flaming fire 4 He also bent his mighty bow like as an enemy He likewise stood with his right hand ev'n as an adversary And slew all things that did appear pleasant unto the eye In Zions daughters tent like fire he pour'd out his fury 5 The Lord was as an enemy he Israel swallowed And all her stately Pallaces he hath quite devoured He hath destroyed his strong holds and hath increased in The daughters of Judah's mourning and sorrow for her sin 6 And his Tabernacle away he did take violently As a Garden he destroy'd his places of Assembly The Lord caus'd Sabbaths and solemn feasts to cease in Zion He hath despis'd the King and Priest in his indignation 7 The Lord hath cast off his Altar he loath'd his sanctuary Her pallace wals he gave up to the hand of th' enemy And they in the house of the Lord have lifted up a voice As in the solemn feasting-days appointed to rejoyce 8 The Lord hath purposed also the wall to undermine Of the dear daughter of Zion he hath stretch'd out a line And he hath not withdrawn his hand from cruel destroying For he made rampart and walls mourn they joyn in languishing 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground her Bars are spoil'd and burst Her King and her Princes carried among the Gentiles curst The Law is no more to be seen her Prophets also find No vision nor Revelation from the Lord of his mind 10 The Elders of Zions daughther sit on the ground silent They have cast dust upon their heads in great astonishment They have girded themselves also with sack-cloth they are found The Virgins of Jerusalem hang their heads to the ground 11 Mine eyes do greatly fail with tears my bowels are troubled My liver and my inward parts on the earth is poured For the breach of the Daughter of my People in mis'ry For the babes and sucklings swoon in the streets of the City 12 They say to their Mothers where is the Corn and Wine we die When they swoon'd as the wounded in the streets of the City When their precious soul was poured and surrendred again Into their dear mothers bosom but all this was in vain 13 What thing shall I at this time take to testifie for thee Or what thing shall I parallel to thee in misery O daughter of Jerusalem what shall I think upon Equal to thee that I may give the consolation O Virgin daughter of Zion for thy breach is very Great like the sea who can heal thee of this thy misery 14 Thy Prophets have beheld both vain and foolish things for thee And they have not discovered thy great iniquity To turn away thy sore bondage by bidding thee repent But saw for thee false burdens and causes of banishment 15 All that passe by do now at thee clap their hands together They hiss and wag their heads now at Jerusalem's daughter Saying is this the City that men call the perfection Of beauty the joy of the whole earth Is this that Zion 16 All thine enemies have open'd their mouths wide against thee They hisse and gnash the teeth they say and that triumphantly We have now swallowed her up quite this is the day surely That we look'd for we it have found we have seen it fully 17 The Lord hath done what he devis'd and he hath fulfilled His words that in the daies of old himself had commanded He threw down and hath not piti'd and caused thine

temptation God hath heard me and frightned away the Temptation The wonderful work of God is much seen in preserving the Saints from the worship of the Beast Rev. 15.2 3. Be sure to praise God when you receive power agaist Sin and Temptation and you shall be sure to find God ready to give you power another time when you want it When thou art talking with thy Eenemy be sure to have thy eye upon his Sword and thy hand upon thy own watch how Satan or Sin intends to overcome you and how you may best disadvantage them Be still imployed in doing good and you shall not be much tempted or troubled with Evil. Some Christians have more trouble from and for temptation and Sin in one day than they have for suffering many Months Though a Christian should not adventure or dare to do or commit the least evil to gain the greatest good yet sometimes God makes some sin to do more good to a true Saint than many Ordinances and services Com. As a man that hath had great Plague-sores after they have been broken and healed the party becomes more healthy many years after or as some of the Physicians say the strongest poyson as Opium if it can be mastered and corrected it becomes the most Soveraign Physick But no other Physician but Christ can make Sin work good to the Godly as that expression of the Apostle Rom. 8.28 All things work together for good Perkins in his Case of Cons is judged by many Interpreters to comprehend Sin in it as well as suffering as the same words All things are taken in other Scriptures Act. 13.39 Eph. 5.13 And some say that the drinking of the wine wherein the Viper which is one of if not the most poysonful Creature hath been drowned will cure the Leprosy But this Viperous Poyson Sin is warily to be thought on and understood and 't is as when a Husband-man sees a Mole spoyling his ground he is moved the rather to turn water over it which is a means to kill and drown many more So a true Christian sometimes at the sight or sence of one corruption maketh search for and finds out many which puts him more earnestly to wrestle with God for more of his Spirit Power and grace against them all A Hypocrite knowes more than he is willing to do but a true Saint desires to do what he knows and to know more that he may do more and better The liberty of a Saint is not to be indifferent to do this or that but to be free in things that are excellent The actual sins of Men do not so much offend Christ as that they will not have him to be their Saviour Some means to help on Assurance and Holiness 1. Labour after a clearer knowledge of the Covenant of Grace and Testament of Christ as what Christ hath done and suffered for whom and upon what conditions men come to partake thereof 2. Consider these two works of Holiness and Assurance to be the proper works of the Spirit of God and therefore is called the Spirit of Holiness and of Grace because it doth sanctify and Seal the people of God Rom. 1.7 Zach. 12.10 2 Thes 2.13 Ephes 4.30 3. The Soul is to be perfectly off from beholding or depending upon any thing in self or done by self Esa 64.6 2 Cor. 1.9 Rev. 3.17 When the spirit of God seals our Souls as witnesses we do believe and are Gods Children Eph. 1.13 Rom. 8.16 there will be none of our own Signs or qualifications seen but like the Stars they will disappear when the Sun shines yet are still Stars and fixed so are Graces in believers 4. Be diligent in praying for Assurance and in using other means epsecially self-examination Heb. 6.12 2 Cor. 13.5 5. Take heed of all Sins for they put back the Soul both in beleiving and holiness Psal 51.8 11. Luke 22.31 32. 6. Give not way to hard thoughts of God neither entertain that principle of falling from Grace which cannot possibly consist with Assurance See Esa 63.16 and 64.8 Jer. 3.19 and 32.40 Phil. 1.6 Rom. 8.35 36. 7. Look narrowly to your Hearts Tongues Steps and Waies and keep a Diary of Gods dealings and your own walkings Prov. 4.23 Psal 24.25 26. Heb. 12.13 8. Exercise Repentance constantly upon every slip and fall into sin confess them mourn for them be ashamed and humbled for them and labour to hate them and loath your selves for them Lev. 26.40 41. Psal 32.15 Jer. 3.21 Ezek. 7.19 2 Cor. 7.11 Jam. 4.8 9. Eze. 20.43 THE Lamentations OF JEREMIAH IN MEETER CHAP. I. HOw doth the City sit alone that full of People was How is she become a widdow she that was great alas Among the Nations and Princess in Power and Glory Among the Provinces Is she become Tributary 2 She weepth now sore in the night and on her checks are teares She hath none for to comfort her among all her Lovers All her Friends have dealt treach'rously with her and now they are Become her real Enemies she could not them beware 3 Judah is gone into Bondage because of Affliction For their greatness of Servitude how sad is dear Zion She dwelleth among the Heathen she finds no rest but waits Her Persecutors overtake her between the sore straits 4 The ways of Zion do mourn much because none come of late Unto the solemn Feasts but all her Gates are desolate Her Priests do sigh her Virgins are afflicted too no less And she Jerusalem her self is in great bitterness 5 Her Adversaries are the chief her Enemies prosper Because the Lord himself for sins hath so afflicted her For her many Transgressions into Captivity Her little children are now gone before the Enemy 6 And from the Daughter of Zion all her beauty departs Her Princes have lost their Courage and are become like Harts That find no pasture any where and they are gone fainty Without strength before the face of the Pursuer they be 7 Jerusalem minded in the days of her Affliction And of her Miseries all her pleasant things that are gone That she had in the dayes of old when her People did fall * Dutch Transt By the hand of the Enemy and none help'd her at all The Adversaries look on her and at her Sabbaths mock'd 8 Jerusalem sin'd grievously therefore she is remov'd All that did honour her before hate her and not regard Because they saw her nakedness she sighs and turns backward 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts she her last end not minds Therefore she came down wonderfully no comforter she finds O Lord behold my affliction for the proud enemy Against thee and against me Lord himself doth magnifie 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand on all strongly Her pleasant things for she hath seen into the Sanctuary The heathen entred whom thou didst command that there should none Of them at all enter into thy Congregation 11 All her People do sadly sigh they seek bread

Enemy to Rejoyce o're thee and he set up the horn of this thy foe 18 Their heart cried unto the Lord O wall of the Daughter Of Zion day and night let tears run down like a river Give thy self O Jerusalem no rest nor quietness Let not the apple of thine eyes cease whilst thy foes oppresse 19 Arise and cry out in the night in the first watch with grace Pour out thy heart like water now before Jehovah's face O lift up thy hands towards him for the life of thy sweet Young children that for hunger faint in top of every street 20 Behold O Lord and consider to whom thou this hast done Shall the woman eat their own fruit and babes of a span-long Shail the Priest and Prophet be slain in the Lords Sanctuary 21 The young and old lie on the ground in the streets openly My Virgins and my young Men are fallen by th' sword sadly Thou slew'st them in thy angry day thou kill'st without pitty 22 Thou cal'st as in a solemn day my terrours round about So that in the day of the Lord's anger none scaped out Nor remained those that I have swadled and brought up so Mine Enemy hath consumed my sin hath caused this woe CHAP. III. the man that affliction saw by the rod of his wrath Into darkness but not to light he led and brought me hath Surely against me he is turnd he turns his hand all day My flesh and skin hath he made old he brake my bones alway He built against me and compass'd with gall and travel me He set me in dark places as they that of old dead be He hedgd me round I cannot scape he made my chain heavy He also shuts out my prayer when I do shout and cry With hew'n stones he inclos'd my ways my paths he made un-straight Like Bear or Lion secretly for me he lies in wait And he hath turn'd aside my ways and in pieces pull'd me Yea he hath made me desolate great is my misery He bent his Bow and set me as a mark for the Arrow The Arrows of his Quiver he made through my reigns to go I was a Scoffe and derision to all my own People Also their song all the day long this to my sore trouble He fil'd me with bitterness he made me drunk with wormwood He brake my teeth with gravel-stones with ashes he me clad And thou hast also removed my soul far off from peace And I forgat prosperity by this my bitterness And I said my strength and my hope from the Lord is quite gone Minding the wormwood and the gall in this my affliction My soul doth still remember them and is humbled in me This I recall to mind therefore have I hope Lord in thee It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consum'd quite Because his compassions fail not we live still in his sight They are renew'd ev'ry morning great is thy † Faithfulness The heb word signifies also Truth truth in them The Lord 's my portion saith my soul therefore ' I le hope in him The Lord is good unto them that wait for him patiently And good unto the soul that doth seek him effectually It is good that a man should both hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the Lord which unto his is * Psal 85.9 nigh It is good for a man that he the yoak in his youth bear He sits alone and silence keeps for on him he bar't there He putteth his mouth in the dust if perhaps hope may be He gives his cheeks to him that smites frl'd with reproach is he Nevertheless the Lord will not cast off for ever such But though he cause grief yet will he express compassion much According to the multitude of his mercies often For he afflicts not willingly nor grieves the sons of men To crush under his feet all the poor prisoners of the world To turn aside mans right before the face of the high Lord. To subvert a man in his cause the Lord doth not approve Who saith and it comes to pass when God wills it not above Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not good and evil Why doth the living man complain man's plagu'd for being sinful Let 's search and try our ways and turn back to the Lord quickly Let 's lift our hearts with hands to God that 's in the heavens high We have transgressed and rebel'd thou hast not pardoned Thou hast cover'd us with anger and us persecuted Yea Jehovah thou hast us slain and hast not pittied Thou coveredst thy self with a cloud and our condition now Is such that our prayers could not unto thee Lord pass throw Thou mad'st us as the off-scouring and refuse among men All our enemies against us their mouths daily open Fear and a snare is come on us distresse and destruction Therefore with rivers of water mine eye still runneth down For the daughter of my People most sore destruction Mine eye drops down and ceaseth not without intermission Till the Lord look down and behold my case from heaven high For th'daughters all of my city my heart 's mov'd by mine eye Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird causlesly In th' dungeon they cut of my life and cast a stone on me Waters flowed over mine head then I said I am gone I call'd upon thy Name O Lord out of the low dungeon Thou heardst my voice hide not thine ear at my breathing my cry Thou drewest near bid'st me not fear that day I call'd on thee My soul's causes O Lord thou plead'st thou didst my life redeem Judge thou my cause O Lord again for thou my wrong hast seen Yea all their vengeance at all times thou perfectly didst see And their imaginations all wrongfully against me Thou hast heard their reproach O Lord all their † So in the Hebrew thoughts ' gainst me still The lips of those my foes that rose against me to my ill Also their ungodly device against me all the day At their down-sitting and rising I am their † So in the Hebrew See in Job 30.9 the same word song alway Render to them a recompence O Lord according to Their handy works give them thy curse yea them hearty sorrow Persecute and destroy them in anger from under * The thy Glorious heavens who onely art the Lord God Almighty CHAP. IV. HOw is the gold now become dim How 's the most fine gold chang'd In † So heb th' head of ev'rystreet the stones Of th' * Heb. sanctity Sanctuary out are pour'd 2 The precious sons of Zion like to fine gold how are they Esteem'd as works of Pottets hands the prtchers made with clay 3 Yea the † Heb. See Mal 1.3 Dragons draw out the breast they give suck to their young My Peoples daughters like fierce * Marg. owles of desarts is become 4 The sucking child's tongue cleaves to the roof of his mouth for drought The

* So Isa 3.4 babes ask bread and no man doth break it to them though sought 5 They that delicately did feed in the streets are des'late They that in scarlet were brought up dung-hils embrace of late 6 For the punishment of the sin and of th' iniquity Of the daughter of my People is greater in degree Then the punishment of the sin of Sodom that 's orethrown As in a moment and no hand staid on her falling down 7 Her Naz'rits were purer than snow than milk they were whiter Their bodies ruddier than rubies their † Polishing decking of Saphir 8 Their visage blacker is than cole not known in th' streets of some Their withered skin cleaves to their bones like a stick it 's become 9 The slain with the sword are better than those by hunger kill'd For these flow out struck through † So Hebr. with want of the fruits of the field 10 The pittiful womens own hands sod their own children dear They were their meat in the slaughter of my Peoples daughter 11 The Lord accomplish'd his fury his fierce wrath out he pour'd He kindled fire in Zion and her foundations devour'd 12 The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants below Would not have believed that the adversary or foe And that the crule enemy should prevail over them Have forcibly entred into the gates of Jerus'lem 13 For the sins of her Prophets and her Priests iniquities That have shed the blood of the just in midd'st her is this 14 They † Heb. the same mov'd as blind men in the streets they have polluted much Themselves with blood so that men could not once their garments touch 15 They cry'd unto them depart ye for it is polluted Depart ye depart ye touch not when away they had fled And wandred they said among the heathen every where They shall no longer inhabit nor sojourn with us here 16 The Lord's anger divided them hee 'l them no more esteem The Priests persons they did not † favour prize nor th' Elders highly deem 17 As for us our eyes as yet fail'd for our vain help we have Watch'd in watching for a Nation which yet could us not save 18 They hunt our steps that we cannot go in our streets safely Our end is near our days fulfil'd for our end 's come quickly 19 Our persecutors swifter are than th' Eagles of Heaven They pursu'd and laid wait for us on hills in desart then 20 The breath of our nostrils is gone which refresh'd our spirits The annointed of † Heb. Jehovah was taken in their pits Of whom we said and surely hop'd that under his shadow Among the heathen we shall live which hope is vanish'd now 21 Rejoyce and be exceeding glad O daughter of Edom That dwellest in the land of Vz the cup also shall come And likewise pass through unto thee and thou drunken shalt be And make thy self naked because of thine iniquity 22 The punishment accomplish'd is of thine iniquity O thou sad daughter of Zion he will no more carry Thee away to captivity thy sins he will visit O daughter of Edom he will thy sins discover yet CHAP. V. O Lord † Heb. signifies to remember or mind mind what is come on us think on and see our shame Our portion is turn'd to strangers our houses aliants claim We are orphans and fatherless our mothers as widdows We drank our water for money our wood is sold to us Our necks are under grievous and sore Persecution Whe labour and we have no rest our state Lord think upon We have through want given the hand to the Egyptians And to be satisfi'd with bread to the Assyrians Our father 's sin'd and they are not and their † Iniquities sins born have we Servants rul'd or'e us ther 's none that from their hand doth us free We gat our bread with the peril of our lives and no less Because of the devouring sword of the dry wilderness Our skin was black like an oven through sore famine likewise They ravish'd th' women in Zion and maids in Judah's Cities Princes once powerful are now by their hand up hanged The faces of our grave Elders were no whit honoured They took the beautiful young men to grind to make them food And the children through their weakness did fall under the wood The Elders have ceas'd from the gates the youths from their † ●sick playing The joy of our heart is now ceas'd our dance turn'd to mourning The Crown is fallen from our heads wo to us we did sin For this our heart is faint for these things our eyes now are dim Because the mountain of Zion which is now desolate The cunning foxes upon it do boldly walk of late Thou O Lord for ever remain'st like to thee there is none Thy throne from generation to generation Wherefore dost thou forget us Lord and that for evermore And us forsake † So Heb. in the Margin for length of days this makes our suffering sore Turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Renew our days as thou of old did'st and hast promised But thou O Lord hast utterly we fear rejected us Against us thou art very wroth yet justly thou deal'st thus A true CHRISTIANS PILGRIMAGE Or AFFLICTED-STATE Setting forth Pathetically and Mystically a Saints Night and Day or Sorrow and Joy Most of it being A Vision seen in Affliction and profitable for Edification and Consolation The flying Sun the fading Shaddow The dismal Night the welcom Morrow O Glorious Sun that run'st with joy thy race And daily shewst the world thy goodly face Shine forth upon my Dyal tho but clay That I may rightly know the time of Day I thought it was scarce Noon but now I see The shadows of the Evening covering me Alas where have I been what have I done Had I my back all this while on the Sun Or did I sleep or dream that all my year A Summer without Winter would appear Alas my † Those six Words signifie the Conscience Watch Alarm and my Clock My mourning Dove my Sentinel and Cock. Slept all at once until that audibly One said the King and all his Train past by Then startling out of slumber I look'd out And saw his whirling Chariots fly about Ah thought I then I must lurk in the shade Until the Worlds great light doth Retrograde Where am I now on what ground do I stand I cannot see my right from my left hand Is this a Hill or Plain is' t Land or Water Oh! whither shall I step or flee for shelter I am soon doted and quite at a loss Already turn'd into my first Chaos Is there no hope of Light Oh I see none Where are the [a] Angels Pleiades and Orion Are all God's sparkling [b] Scriptures Diamonds divine So clad with clouds that none of them do shine I see not one about this Canopy Sad soul how fast comes on thy misery But where art thou fair [c] Church Moon wilt thou appear O [d] True Christian hearb of Grace lo here but ne'r the near Where is thy light O help if ever now Ah I cannot for the * Which is the cause of the Moons Eclipse earths thick shadow Hath interposed so between me and thee I am eclips'd look for no light from me