two Sacraments thereof giuen to the Iewes by Almightie God IEhova that great God of heaven gaue to the fathers old A covenant of doing all That in the Law is told Doe this and liue said God to them But no man could do so Wherefore the law sends all to Christ To keepe their soules from woe This covenant was sign'd and seald With two cleere Sacraments The first was Circumcision Withall rights and intents Th' other was the Passeouer Wherein Christ was set out The Lambe of God slaine for our sinnes Of this be out of doubt FINIS The Summe of the new Covenant or Testament with the two Sacraments confirming the same and given both to the Iewes and Gentills by Iesus Christ the sonne of God THe Couenant of Christ with man in the new Testament Is this that we beleeue in him and striue with whole intent To loue and liue as Christ hath done yea beare his crosse and pray That we may doe as we would haue men deale with vs alway This Covenant also is confirmed With holy Sacraments twaine Which like wise set out Christ to vs Who for our sinnes was slaine The first of these is Baptisme Which sets out our new Birth The other the Lords Supper is Which brings vs heavenly mirth And thus one Church is gathered Of Jewes and Gentiles eke Rome therefore is a Harlot found And our Church Catholicke For we stand firmly to Gods word And thereby wil be taught But Papists cheifely by the Pope Which thing great strife hath wrought These Sacraments which Christ set out They like not simple-ly But will have 7. S. to Christs twaine And giue no reason why Consider what absurdities Doe grow of this by them Five covenants more they would confirme Belike from mortall men Their Priests of all men should receiue The Sacraments each one Yet must he not be married For then his Priest-hoods gone Some of these fiue cal'd Sacraments The people may not haue As Orders yea and Marriage too Which some men will not craue Where as the Sacraments of Christ Must be received of all Even as his Law and Covenant Which serues for great and small But I will now contend no more I seeke to teach the Truth And to bewraye Absurdities To aged folke and youth FINIS An instruction of the whole year deuided in 12. Months foure seasons or quarters as also into weekes and daies of the Sabboth or Lords day and what is the true keeping of it Of a Yeare A yeare is that which holds from spring to spring From march to march the fiue twentith day Wherein we sow and reape of euery thing To serue for meat and clothing as we say Of the 12. Monthes in the yeare Twelue monthes there are belonging to each year Into foure quarters we divide the same Thirteen full moons in this space doe appeare And 4 weeks maks vp euery month we name Of the names of the Monthes Cold Ianuary Februarie March Mild Aprill May with Iune and Iuly these Hot August which the corn doth ripe parch September sweet which doth the Ploughman please October and November then takes place The last of all these Months is cald December And they that haue but even a sparke of grace Gods benefits in these they will remember Of the 4. Quarters in the yeare 1 The Quarters foure in all the year are these March twentie fiue is cald our Lady-day Or the Anun-tia-ti-on if you please Of blessed Marie by that man of ioy I meane the Angell Gabriell which did come With newes frō heauē that she shuld mother be Of Iesus Christ Gods deare only sonne Which story in the Scripture all may see 2 The second quarter hapneth still in Iune And Saint Iohn Baptists day we doe it call Or Midsommer in English speach or tune The yeare is then at best as it will fall 3 The third is in the Month we call Septēber And beares the name of glorious Mi-cha-ell Wherein let poore men euermore remember Their yeare or halfe yeares rent to pay downe well 4 The fourth and last falls in December still And Christmas quarter men doe cal the same God grant vs in them all to doe Gods will And so to thriue in body goods and name FINIS A religious Letter shewing how and whom to wooe in the way of Marriage though all men cannot doe or haue it so as is here set downe IN humble wise I doe commend and write these words to you Whom I esteeme as my deare friend neuer to change for new Vnto my words in patience now let your eares incline And that will be some recompence to quit these paynes of mine In younger yeares when strength did grow and nature sought her will I vsed all good meanes that are The same to quench and kill I prayd to God I fasted oft I kept from com-pa-ny I read good bookes to beat downe lust And harlots haunts did fly I labor'd in my calling much I watcht and studied harde Yet as I sat the tempter came With all his band and guard Evill motions he did raise in me With Ona-nizme Sinne But I likte not or gaue consent To ought that he brought in But I would walke abroad sometimes And take some re-cre-ation To put vaine thoughts out of my heart In good and christian fashion And even in this had I respect to every cir-cum-stance Time place and seasons every thing That goodnes might advance Then went I to my worke againe I never made a toyle Of sport or recreation Which should be but as File To get the Mellancholly ruste And filth of flesh away Least Sinne and Sathan should in me As Kings beare rule and sway When none of these things did prevaile But Sathan tempted still I thought vpon mans last refuge Gods lawes for to fulfill I meane the honest Marriage Bed Therein to liue most chast My body which Gods Temple is No way to file or wast My Parents which did bring me vp Gaue learning to mine Art And made me often read Gods word Which I laid vp in heart Thus getting Scripture readily As at my fingers ends I vanquisht world the flesh and Divell Not shaming selfe nor friends This was of God I wrought it not but here all sorts may see Christs yoke is easyer then we judge If good meanes vsed be But if like Cowardes we will yeelde To lust and to affection So oft as Sathan he will tempt In vaine is all direction Where fore such counsell as I reade Such counsell giue will I Resist the Deuill saith Saint Iames And he from thee will flie Or else how did good Iosephhe Susanna and the rest Withstand all filthines of sin and whoredome still detest To passe by this I will proceede and bend my speech more plaine To you whom I respect in heart in which I doe not faine Because I meane to knit my selfe In marriage as I said I did bethinke my selfe where I Might find some honest maid That I might wooe
away the painefull day The horse and Mule with sound of bell Encouraged is to labour well The Head enfraught with frantike toies The tuned strings doe make full graue The heart opprest and voide of ioy Will greatly ioy Musicke to haue When studie deepe hath duld the braine Musicke will sharpe the edge againe We read how Dauid plaid full trimme Before the holy Arke of God And how his wife for mocking him By sentence iust was then forbod For hauing Children any more But barren should she be therefore The shepheards and the Angels eke When that our Sauiour Christ was borne With voice did laud that lambe so meeke That died for mankind without scorne We ought to praise the Lord also VVith musicks art in wealth and woe A song well set well sung with voice Or other musicke handled fine Farre passeth any earthly noyse Yea rather is a thing divine And some doe writ that Musicke euen Doth represent the ioyes of heauen Since Musick is a science such That God will honoured be withall A fish and fowle ioyes therein much And euery thing to nature thrall Hath he not then a stony heart That can dispraise this noble art Loue Musicke therefore in her use Loue Poetry void of abuse Heare songs and Instruments somtimes So as they lead not to ill crimes And thus an end of Musicks praise VVhich God aduance in all our dayes FINIS A song in commendation of diuers instruments of Musicke PRaise the Lord O man mortall Night and day upon him call Sing and say both great and small That God is good and iust Search and seeke the Scripture well It doth testifie and tell Euery one in ioy shall dwell That in the Lord doth trust Take the sounding Trumpet shrill Tabrell and the sweete Timbrill Winde the Flute with right good will That Saints on earth may heare Let the Drummer strike amaine Till our spirituall foes be slaine Then with ioy retire againe And serue the Lord in feare Bring the Bandora to blay Let the Bumberd come and Bray Put not Dulcimers away Nor pipes that praise the Lord Send the Cinfan and Simball Sacbuts long and virginall Let the Lute and Citterns small Agree with one accord Heare the Crumpehorne and the Harpe Hoboise and the Regale sharpe Let the Vialls come and carpe Our minds for to delight Sing with Shalmes and Psaltery Play vpon the Organes hie Cause the Cornets for to crie In skillfull peoples sight Learne in Gods word how you may Vse these Instruments in play Putting the abuse away That wicked men doe use Let your mirth and Musicke still Be according to Gods will Carnall lust for euer kill On good things alwayes muse March with Moses valiantly Answer Miriam singingly After Israels victorie On Pharaoh and his hoast Ioy with ioyfull Iaell shee Debora and Baruck hee VVho did Siseras downfall see Of whom there was much boast Brittaine thinke on things of waight Spaniards comming eighty eight VVith the Powder plot conceipt VVhere of all sorts should tast Dally not with God therefore Trust not Papists any more Banish them that blessings store May come to vs in hast Their Sinnes of Idolla-try Our Sinnes of impiety Both of them to God doth cry For vengeance night and day Let vs therefore now repent And all our sinfull wayes lament Let our minds to good be bent And we shall liue for aye FINIS A song against Fortune and those that haue or doe defend the same which may be sung to the Tune of Fortune my foe why dost thou frowne on me FOrtune shall bene God nor guide of mine Fortune to thee nothing I will resigne Fortune thou art the heathens Queene and Princesse How should a Christian take thee for his Mistres Fortune some say shee hath a restles wheele Turning the same that men her power may feele Fortune doth giue and take life as a Princesse Thus euery way is Fortune tooke for Mistres But shall I shew the folly of this thing And credit haue if I the truth doe bring Then giue me leaue I will proue this Heathnesse To be no Goddesse Princesse Queene or Mistresse Fortune what is it who can tell or shew It is no God nor Angell this we know No man nor woman no creature dumbe or senceles No vice nor vertue to be made a Princesse What world or worke did Fortune make or frame What law or Gospel comes forth in her name Whom doth shee call to count with as a Princesse Where will shee raigne when this world 's turnd to ashes Seeth no man can define what Fortune is Nor yet declare her workes of bale or blisse Seeth none did ever see or know this Princesse Why should a christian take her for his Mistres In God therefore that made both Sa and land Heaven earth and all things with his mightie hand In him alone the father of all mercies I put my trust aboue all earthly Princes Fortune and Fancy Hazz and Happe and chance Venture and Destiny Lucke an ignorance God will destroy and call account of Princesse Of young and old of servants and of Mistres Fortune ye see then is but even a name Which Heathen Nations to themselues did frame Of prophane people only she is Princesse And therefore christians should haue no such Mistres Where God is knowne and truely knowne indeed There Fortunes name is banisht with all speed Ye a all grosse sinne which doth our God offend Which thing I prayse and so my song shall end FINIS A song or Ditty made on this theame I know not what wherein is shewed how men ought not to set their mindes on worldy pleasure but on the living Lord. To the tune of Labandalashot and doth runne on the names of them that gaue the theame and his that made the song VVHo viewes the life of mortall man His state and where of he began Shall find such hugy heapes of woe As neither tongue nor penne can show Wherewith our mindes should daunted bee From vsing worldly mirth and glee And mooue vs to consider well What paines here are prepar'd in hell For wicked people as their lot which haue done heare they know not what If euerie man would heare Gods word and reuerently obey the Lord Then wickednesse would not abound But grace and vertue would be found In yong and old in hie and low In servants and in childre'n also In rich and poore in great and small In preachers and in people all Who delight in this and that And often doe they know not what Looke round about in each degree And marke what crimes and faults we see Behold the court and country too And then note well what great a doe There is in euery kind of state Few are content with simple rate But euery one will elime aloft Till triall hath them plainely taught T is vaine in hope of this or that To say or doe they know not what Loue is not found but here and there Leud lust doth flourish euery
arose A proud sect of the Libertines that did enuie him sore Still seeking him to persecute that he should speake no more They hyred some to sweare and say that Stephen spake blasphemie Against the Lord and Moses law for which he ought to die Then to the Counsell he was brought to purge him of that crime Which thing he did most worthily before them at that time When they had heard these words and saw he feared not the chiefe Their hearts for anger burst and they gnasht on him with their teeth They gaue a shout with voyces loud and lead him straight away Then did they stone him unto death yet he for them did pray O Lord forgiue their sinne quoth he and doe my soule still keepe Vpon his knees he prayed thus and so did fall a sleepe Such patience grant to us O Lord and eke such constancie When for thy truth or otherwise we shall be brought to die A Carroll for Saint Iohns day The holding of the same BEfore the Lord now let vs sing with all the ioy we can That we may rightly celebrate Christs birth with good Sainr Iohn The Carroll it selfe According to Gods promise made in mercy to Mankind Christ Iesus came into the world as we in Scripture find Of whom the Prophets prophecied long time ere he was sent That he should be a Sauiour to all that doe repent Our Sauiour Christ both God and man when these things ended were And he had led his life on earth the space of thirtie yeere He did begin to call the twelue and taught them earnestly To preach his fathers will in all the Regions farre and nie And as he walked by the Sea he saw both Iames and Iohn The sonnes of simple Zebedie who was a fisher-man Christ called them and they forthwith obeyed him and came Wherefore Apostles they were made to preach still in his name Saint Iohn was borne by mothers side of great and royall stocke Though he were once a fisher-man and after fed Christs flocke He came of Mary Sallome of Davids braunch most deere And Sister to the Virgin pure that bare our Saviour deere The words of this Euangelist hath sounded euery where Vnto the comfort of all those that serue the Lord in feare Wherefore let vs with cheerefull hearts sing prayses to Gods name And in our Christian life like John still imitate the same FINIS A Carroll for Innocents Day The holding of the Carroll VVEeping mourning there was heard in Rama did complaine That wofull woman Rachel shee her children they were slaine The words of the Carroll it selfe When that th' eternall Sonne of God by providence diuine Into this sinfull world did come mankind for to redeeme Then Bethelem Iuda thought her selfe thrise happy and thrise blest That shee was found a worthy place to lodge that heauenly guest Wise-men there came from the East parts to worship this yong King Farre they had seene his starre appeare which did foretell this thing VVhen Herod heard of this strange newes O he was troubled sore And all Hierusalem with him they were in an vprore He called the Priests and asked them where this great King should be They answered at Bethelem if he would search and see In secret then did Herod call the wise men vnto him To know what time the starr appeared of this the new borne king And when he knew the certaintie he bid the wisemen goe And bring him word that he might come and worship him also But in a dreame God warned them the King not to obey Wherefore as they returned home they went another way When Herod knew of this he said this yong King I will quaile Ten thousand for his sake shall die with blood I will prevaile The Infants young of two yeares old by Herods campe were slaine Their guiltlesse soules God hath receiu'd in Heauen with him to raigne To Ioseph then an Angell spake in sleepe as we may read Saying take Mary and the child and hast away with speede To Nazareth then was Iesus brought and there he nursed was Vntill such time as he was cal'd vnto an other place A Carroll for New yeares day setting out vnto vs the true circumcision of the heart with out the which the circumcision of the outward members was of none effect To the tune of any ordinary Psalme REioyce we in the Lord our God for this ioyfull new yeare And let our holinesse of life from day today appeare The law of Circumcision now we humbly call to minde Yeelding most hearty thanks therefore to God that is so kind He made his sonne our sauiour Christ obedient to the law For vs that disobedient were and would not liue in awe Not to the end we should abide in sin as heretofore But that we might repent and pray henceforth to sinne no more This law of circumcision first God gaue to Abraham And to the fathers euery one long time before Christ came As we haue Baptisme now in vse so did they hold and keepe This ordinance which was a signe betweene God and his sheepe The badge the marke the Sacrament whereby all men did know They were his chosen people then and he their God also The eight day after that their sonnes into the world were borne The Priests did circumcise them all or else thy were forlorne The foreskinne of their privie parts with sharpe knife they did pare And cald the children by that name which then was given there The women children were contain'd vnder the males each one Wherefore they gaue them not the signe of circumcision This signified and did set forth unto the peoples view The Circumcision of the heart in all Gods children true And this the Lord did oft recite by all his prophets then And in like sort by Preachers now he shewes it to all men That God may haue his honour due and euery man his owne That Iustice may be ministred to make the truth well knowne That helpe may still be granted to the blinde the halt and lame The prisoners that afflicted are for Christ his truth and name Then shall we tightly hold and keepe this day cal'd New-yeares day By putting euill out of our hands the which God grant we may To whom be honour laud and praise from whom be given grace To vs that we may magnifie his name in euery place The father Sonne and holy Ghost that euer loued vs deere Increase true amitie in vs and send a good new yeere A Carroll for Twelfe day On the Feast of the Epiphanie The holding of the Carroll CHrist manifested in the flesh to Iewes and Gentiles all Still shew himselfe to vs and ours when we doe cry and call The Carroll it selfe This feast of Christs Epiphanie or open setting out Vnto beleeving Gentiles all to put vs out of doubt That he the God and Sauiour is of Iewes and Gentiles too And makes one people of them both which none but he could doe He now saluted is of kings of
among us bee that have from slandrous tongue bin free Then to conclude seeth it is so that slandrous tongues all sorts will bite Let faith and patience be thy guide and let the Lord give them their right Till then pray thou to God with me to mend those tongues that slandrous be FINIS A song or ditty shewing the nature of the ambitious and what is true happinesse namely to live as that we may make a good end before death THe happy life in these our dayes That all doth seek both small and great Is who may gaine or win the prayse or who may sit in highest seat But in this life happ what happ shall the happy end exceedeth all A good beginning oft we see but seldome standeth at one stay For few doe like the meane degree then prayse at parting some men say To death seeth euery one is thrall the happy end exceedeth all To be as wise as Cato was or rich as Cressus in his life To haue the strength of Hercules which did subdue by force and strife What helpeth it when Death doth call the happy end exceedeth all The longer life that we desire the more offence doth daily grow The greater paine it doth require except the Lord some pitty shew Wherefore I thinke and euer shall the happy end exceedeth all The rich my well the poore releeue the rulers may redresse much wrong The learned can good counsell giue but marke the end of this my song Who shewes good fruites happy I call his happy end exceedeth all FINIS A song in dispraise of spight and enuie To the tune of Now leaue and let me rest VVHen spight hath spent his worst and malice wrought his will Then truth will trie the iust and sift the good from ill Though truth may hap be blamed by spight and spightfull parts Yet truth shall not be shamed for all their spightfull hearts For truth will trie it selfe at length with honest fame When that the spightfull elfe shall hide his head for shame Spight is a spightfull sin with falshood to preuaile A spightfull fained friend hath poyson in his tayle Spight spies out spightfull wayes a true man to deface And laughs when he decayes such is his spightfull grace Yet speake out spight and spare not to spend thy spight dispatch For all thy spight I care not nor for no spightfull wratch For when thy spight is spent and truth shall come in place Then shame thy selfe shall shent and shew thy shamefull face For truth shall still prevaile in spight of spights ill minde Though spight spightfull rayles as curres that bite behinde God sendes them all mis-chance that spends such spightfull drosse With falshood to advance themselues with others losse For spight I little care let spight spie out his worst And make of spight no spare for in truth will I trust Sith truth did never faile at length for his defence Against wrong to prevaile for all his false pretence Vse falshood they that list in earnest or in gaine A false man never mist for falshood â—o haue shame A sorrowfull song or sonnet wherin is lamented our miserable estate in this life hunting after vanity To the tune of Labandalashot TO view the state of mans vnrest I muse oft times in mournfull brest What causeth him by sundry wayes to seeke for worldly pelfe and praise What hope what helpe what tried trust what ioy or stay in things vniust What sureance haue we here to bide we come and goe as doth the tide And yet we take felicitie to loue this worldly vanitie How many mischiefes may befall vpon thy head O man mortall When thou in ioy and iollitie doest little thinke of miserie Great heapes of heavie harmefull haps doth lucklesly light in our laps The snatching snare of death is spread and man on so daine is strooke dead Yea tract of time doth plainly try this world to be but vanitie O wicked Diues man of mold that hadst all pleasures twentie fold Th' abuse thereof doth record beare that thou wouldst not impart nor spare One farthing to the fatherlesse nor needie neighbors in distresse Can riches bring thee backe againe out of this place of plunging paine Where thou in woefull waues must lie bereft of worldly vanitie My mind is much dismayd to see both high and low of each degree How cunningly their parts they play as though this world should last for aye The king in higher place would sit the subiect thinkes himselfe most fit To rule and raigne in regall state that in the sight of small and great He may be seene to sit on hie amidst this worldly vanitie All good advise and counsell graue which we in memory should haue Is cast into oblivion and cleane forgot of eueryman Examples rare of Gods iudgement will not procure vs to repent His benefits we doe abuse his sacred word we doe refuse His mercies powred plenteously we doe reiect for vanitie Such lawlesse Lawyers some there be that plea des on both sides as wee see For many makes the matter sure and maister Mendax will procure That you shall be dispatcht with speed if you can helpe him at his need These prating parasites God knowes which in the silly sheepe-skin goes Deceiueth men by flatterie and all for worldly vanitie Prepend the life of merchants eke how ventrously at sea they seeke For their advantage many miles and then with sundry worldly wiles The simple sort they doe deceiue and so the web of sin thy weaue For that with othes and count'nance made the country people they perswade All ware is good of honestie when it is worse then vanitie If we would thinke vpon our state and in our selues be at debate A remedie there might be found to beat our sinnes vnto the ground But we in wantonnesse doe spend our life and liuings to the end And hauocke makes such wast and spoyle that Lazers poore doe starue the while Instead of hospitalitie is Bacchus bankets of gluttonie Could swinish Sodom liue more ill and be so bent to wanton will Or could Gommorra truly say that we liue not so ill as they If we be iudge our selues herein yet must we looke to sinke for sinne Our carelesse life calls to the Lord for vengeance great of fire and sword We haue no care to liue godly but to delight in vanitie From friends to flatterers we come from God to godlesnesse we runne Of whoredome now is nothing made and drunkennnsse is no ill trade We iest it out when we defame our neighbours nothing worthy blame Vpon suspect reuenge we will what so we doe it is not ill To beare false witnesse wrongfully some are content for vanitie Of sacred scriptures we will none for we can read the same at home Of ministers we haue no care we doe deride them here and there We loathe their learned exhortations which should be for our owne saluations Such like reprochfull words some vse Gods messengers for to abuse For they reprooue
their iollitie and say it is but vanitie Refraine the santasies deere friends aske mercy for your former sinnes Accompt this world to be but lent praise God and alwayes be content His benefits both great and small we must giue reckning for them all Our time is short right well we know and none is sure when he shall goe With speed then let 's prepare to die for sure this word is vanitie Death is the end of mortall life and death doth cease all worldly strife He bridles vp the brainsicke foole and doth dispute in fancies schoole Where dainty damsels he doth meet and laps them all in shrowding sheet All Adams amorous impes beside which decke them selues in pomp pride With vgly face most tufully he takes them from their vanity If I might moue the minde of man onely in heart to way and scan How I haue now in verse displaid nothing but truth in that is sayd Repentance sure with teares would call helpe Lord forgiue thy people all O guide our steps still with thy word deliuer us from euill good Lord Inflame our hartes with ioyes on hie so shall we hate all vanitie In this song we are put in mind of our fraile and weake estate and we are taught how to lull and bring asleepe our affections that we may goe to God To the tune of the 15. Psalme SIng lullaby as women doe wherewith they bring their babes to rest And lulaby can I sing too as womanly as can the best With lulaby the child they still with sugred songs they sing out shrill Such wanton babes God knowes have I that must be stild with lulaby First lulaby my youthfull yeares it is now time to goe to bed For crooked age and hoarie haires haue wonne the haven in my head With lulaby then youth be still with lulaby subdue thy will Sith courage quailes and comes behind goe sleepe and so beguile thy mind Next lulaby my wanton playes let reasons rule restraine thy thought Since that I finde by sundry wayes how deere thou hast thy sporting bought With lulaby take thou thine ease with lulaby thy dumps appease Blest is that wight which ere he die doth sing aright this lulaby Now lulaby my gasing eyes that wonted were to glance apace For every glasse may now suffice to shew the furrowes in my face With lulaby then winke a while with lulaby thy lookes beguile Let no faire face nor beauty bright entice thee vnto vaine delight And lulaby my body eke which once was clad in trim attire Warme furs to cloth thee now goe seeke in chayer keepe thee by the fire And lulaby let some man sing while thou to God doest make reckning Prepare thy selfe alwayes to dye forget not this my lulaby With lulably then bring asleepe dispaire which commeth by mistrust And Sathans doubts which faine would creep into our hearts that are but dust Put confidence in Gods mercy and euermore sing lulaby Commit thy selfe to Christ alone with him to ioy when life is gone Last lulaby in graue we make amidst the greedy wormes in clay Vntill that Christ accompt shall take of euery one at the last day Wherefore let vs sing lulaby till all his sinnes sleepe quietly And then to God make hast away in heauen with him to liue for aye The lamentable mone of a sorrowfull soule IN trouble thus I heard one cry Vpon his knees with weeping eye Saying O whither should I flie Where might I wish my selfe to be That God take no account of me For why my sinnes are growne so great That if I come to iudgement seat In vaine it is for to intreat A place therefore to hide me in I craue by reason of my sinne If in the heauens I seeke to be There must I needes be seene of thee In hell is no defence for me Thy presence fills each place I know In heauen aboue and earth below If I had wings at will to flie Beyond the seas that farthest lie Yet there thy hand and power is nie To bind and bring me backe againe In place where I should still remaine Thou doest possesse me every whit My heart my raines my head my wit My sinewes that my joynts doe knit Thou broughtst me from my mothers womb And thou shalt raise me from my tomb Thy passing power thy workes declare Thy threats shew what thy terrors are Thou seest all secrets every where My soule therefore that is in woe Alas then whether shall it goe As I was in this great distresse One spake and sayd to me doubtlesse Despaire not man through heavinesse For God delighteth not to see The death of sinners credit me By faith on these words I tooke hold And yet I durst not be too bold But tremblingly as one acold I prayd and gaue God thankes withall For comfort in such wo full thrall And thus I was received well As one releast from paines of hell My horror sure no tongue can tell Those pinching paines that I did feele Would surely breake an heart of steele A Christian promise then made I And vow'd a vow to God on hie That from henceforth continually His faithfull servant I will be Which to performe Christ strengthen me You sinners obstinate and ill That daily doe resist Gods will Giue eare now to my crying shrill Amend your liues while you haue space Or else you are in wofull case For our good King now let us pray The Lord preserue him night and day His counsell eke God keepe for aye This Realme good Lord saue and defend From euery foe to the worlds end A ditty declaring the fervent desire of a christian soule To the tune of O Lord of whom I doe depend SWeete Iesus who shall giue me wings of pure and perfect loue That I may mount from earthly things and rest with thee aboue For heere beneath I flie about in weake and weary case Like to the Doue that Noe sent out which found no resting place Euen thou O Iesus by thy power must giue me wings to flie Else shall I neuer know thy lure to stoope obediently Ne can I rise off from the fist of worldly pleasures vaine But stubbornely thy will resist to mine eternall paine My wearie wings sweete Iesus marke and grant me my request Put forth thy hand out of thine Arke and take me to thy rest For sure with thee are endlesse ioyes and no man there laments But here with vs are great annoyes whereof each one repents In heauen thy Saints doe sing to thee without all strife and feare But we on earth at variance be and subiect much to care Deggerly conceipts and base O toyes of deepe contempt From which sweet Iesus by thy grace my silly soule exempt For I have learn'd to loath those things wherein I did delight And unto thee the King of kings I come with all my might Craving a place with thy great host where I may sing alwayes To Father Sonne and holy Ghost all honour laud and praise