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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80028	Divine blossomes. A prospect or looking-glass for youth: wherein and whereby he may plainly behold and see a supereminency and super-excellency of grace and religion, beyond the worlds honor, glory, fame, repute, pleasure, joy, delight, love,. [sic] And all other lower accomodations whatsoever. Laid down to youth by exciting parallel between [brace] earths honor carnal pleasure inordinate love [brace] and [brace] heavens glory and spiritual pleasure divine love. Under every of which particulars, the author exemplarily expresseth himself in a varied verse. / Composed by a hearty wel-wisher to the youthful generation, Francis Cockin, alias Cokayne.	Cockin, Francis.	1657 (1657)	Wing C4873; Thomason E1652_1; ESTC R209121	43,716	131

possess Lord I am poor and thou art full of riches Abound'st with wisdom Folly me bewitches Lord I am weak and thou art God of strength Unless thou sav'st I perish shall at length Thou do'st enjoyn the Rich unto the poor For to impart with some of their full store And canst thou God of Riches do ought less Then give to th' Needy what thou dost possess In great abundant fulness Ah! Canst thou What thou enjoynst thy Creatures to tell how For to deny thy self Oh! Wilt thov prove So cruel so unkind Thou God of Love No sure thou canst not thy delight 's to give Abundantly to man crav'st that receive Of thee he would that everlasting treasure Of thine consisting in true joy and pleasure Miserable am I whither should I turn But unto Mercy My desires burn And long and pine thy Grace for to possess O thou in whom my life and pleasure is Enlarge my Soul still more fill my desires With greater longings with more stronger fires That still my youth may make its boast of thee And thou mayst still delight thy self in me That the whole strength of these my yonger dayes May be laid out and spent in thy blest praise As freely as thou gav'st my life to me So freely do I give my strength to thee A GLASS FOR VIRGINS Wherein also every SOUL may see and from whence may be gathered The Duty of every SOUL to CHRIST Held forth by a continued Parallel Between Virgins Behaviours to their Suitors and The Christian Souls to Christ. Unto which likewise the Author expresseth himself By F. G. Young Men and Maids Old Men and Children Praise ye the Lord. THE AUTHOUR Of this following POEM ALthough young Women are included and comprehended alwayes under the expression young Man when Mankind is spoken to in general because things must be exprest in the Melior which the sacred Writ as well as common Writ witnesses which take in this one instance for many Psal 119. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way c The Expression comprehending both Sexes young Women as well as young Men so also have I all along as much as I could hinted to young Women in and through young Men oft times also expressing the term more indeffinitely by the word youngling which more clearly comprehends both Sexes But for asmuch as in the pursuit of a Discourse we are bound to follow up matters in the melior and to pursue Instances of the prime Concernment Therefore do I think good to annex these following Lines to the former wherein young Women shall be positively concerned and the state of young Women absolutely spoke unto and parallel'd as the nature and condition of young Men was before yet so as reserving that truth alwayes in my mind and carrying of it along in my thoughts with me in this Discourse viz. that there is no distinction of Sexes with Christ And therefore peradventure I may mix Expressions of both Sexes in one oft times because all is one in Christ Herein will be what as well concerns the one Sex as the other and that not absolutely young Ones only but the Aged also may find their Duty in some measure herein laid down Oh Reader be sober and read with a heart solid and spiritual and thy delight I doubt not then will be as great in reading as mine is in writing and was when I express'd from truth of Experience these things thy good and prosperity in God I heartily wish A Glass for Virgins 1 NOw Virgins unto you to you I speak To you directly now my Speech I turn For why Your welfare I entirely seek And thereunto doth my desier burn You are to me alike belov'd and dear And every whit as pretious as they were 2 Christ maketh no distinction no more do I But good in any one I love and prize And wheresoever Grace I do espy Why in those persons my hearts pleasure lyes Both Male and Foemale are alike to me When alike Principles I in them see 3 My heart is dead most cold is my desire To any 's friendship where no Grace I find Nought else but it can my affection fire Or something that is like to it in kind Partial Oh! May I never he in Love Nor ne'r affect where great Jehove don't move 4 Virgins attend Note your denomination You prize the Name Oh! see you live unto it Yo be●r your selves upon that appellation And so do I what it bespeaks let 's do it Virgin speaks purity and singlnesse All Chastity and Soul retirednesse 5 A Virgins heart 's within it self compact In unity within it self 's composed Each faculty's entire and all exact Its happinesse within it self 's enclosed The heart 's entire th' affection whole and sound T●e will desire unto themselves are bound 6 A serene quiet calm tranquillid frame Of spirit doth a Virgins soul possess And being so nought can it eas'ly maim Nor is there ought can make their joyes he less Affections in 'em are not parcel'd out Disordered passions therefore can't them rout 7 A Virgins glory 's to maintain this frame T is this they make their business of life Their strength 's laid out for to maintain the same And so their souls preserved are from strife Thus is Virginity Angelical And to be priz'd the best estate of all 8 A Virgins honour lives in modest looks In sober and yet humble carriages A Virgins spirit no uncleanness brooks Hates of impurity all passages Her front shines with a kind of Majesty True vertue may be seen with in her eye 9 This is a Virgins ' state I have defined A Virgins Nature I have pencil'd out The Acts of them th●t have themselves resigned Up thereunto with their employment what about The which so worthy and approved carriage Presents them most desirable in marriage 10 Chuse to what person you will this apply To God himself or to a lower creature For both in love the carriages do eye Deporture and demeanour in each feature To one to both this lovely you presents Though God alone to please were your intents 11 Oh Virgins know Jehovah hath a Son The Heir of heaven and earth alone is he He 's meek and milde yet hath by courage won Of the world sin hell and death th' victory All pow'r and might and strength 's subjected to him He is so truly rich nought can undo him 12. This person 's single and he seeks a wife Amongst the sinful childeren of men He was so reall that he gave his life To gain their love and to redeem them when They were sold captives unto hellish fiends Under darkness bound with everlasting chains 13. Which was such love that now a silent suit 'T is thought might be enough to gain their love Because their lives are his in small dispute May cause affections unto him to move His Love was true and reall no vain proffer No complement no superficial offer 14. His blood did seal the truth of

then for the delight of the Reader the Authour varies that verse and expresses his own youthfull experience of pleasure shewing what it truely is And then declares and layes down the arguments and considerations wherewithall he opposed all the pleasures of sin and got mastery thereof Hints to what sin deprives of and layes down in a word or two the excellencie of the unpa●aleld sweets of religion Then coming to the third particular shews thereunder how youths heated bloud layes him open to love and lusts Declares the advantage the Devil takes at youths carelesse activity and how he ever attendeth to give him an object for his active Spirit to fix on Shews youth to be guided by a head-strong passion Then paralells Heavens beauty with earths and divine with carnall love in several circumstances Reasons youth from the excellency of the one and the sordidnesse of the other to seek that which is most excellent eschew absurditie● and dangers the which is illustrated by several resemblances Then the Authour turns off and in a pleasant strain expresses himself relating the excellency of divine beauty and describes the worthyness of divine Love by his own experience triumphing in his youthfull choyce Therein paralelling the beauty excellency proportionablenesse sweetnesse c. of the Creatours Love to the creatures in a kind of Soul-ravishing extasy relating Soulenamoring rarities Then comes to a conclusion wherein he shews the difference between the service of sin and God excites from several considerations to the service of God Relates the sum of his own desired endevour for the good of youth how single-hearted he hath been therein affectionately expressing the tendernesse of his heart to the good of young One But more especially how exceeding precious gracious young-Ones are to him and how entirely beloved by him Deign● out of depth of affection to give them some peculiar instructions Exhorts to make use of prayer shews the excellency thereof in it self and in its effects Relates his own experience thereof and so therein and therewithall puts period to the whole The Invocation 1. MOst dearest Lord My souls desire and joy That se'st and rulest all things even as one In whom it lies to save or to destroy There being none can save but thou alone 2. 'T is thou alone to whom I make my suit 'T is thou to whom my self I do addresse 'T is for thy sake that I would not be mute I 'd speak thy praise nor can I do ought lesse 3. My tender youth proffers my slender Rimes To do thee service whose I wholly am I give my best I 'd spend my vacant times For and to thee from whom my Being came 4. Lord mayst thou please my fancy to enrich And fill my spirit with celestial flames Begetting in each faculty an itch Of strange desire thereto that whoso blames 5. Me for the laying out my self about That which may tend thee honor for to bring I may them sleight in slavish thoughts the rout And in despite of all thy glories sing 6. Instruct my heart and fill my Mind with Matter My Apprehension quicken and enable Compose my Thoughts let not Distraction tatter My inner Man but in Thee make me stable 7. Yea ad thou Art to polish so my Rimes That my intended purpose they may do Thou tak'st the advantage of all Things and Times Here take thy ' dvantage that thy Glories so 8. May grow by my endevours which when I With joyful heart with gladded soul shall see My utmost Aim and End I then espie Oh may I not in this deceived bee 9. For what doth't profit me O Lord to live If to thy praise my Life be noe directed Thou daily giv'st I daily do receive Unworthy I of Thee to be respected 10. A twofold wayes my Soul and Body 's Thine Thine by Creation Thine by Purchase too By th' last of which thy Son and his is mine An interest in thy Self I have also 11. A single Bond sufficient is to bind An honest person to perform an Act And shall a double less advantage find How greatly dis-ingenuous is that fact 12. Thine thine I am for thee I would lay out My Strength my Skill my Might my Power and Love Fain would I busied be thy works about And for Employment now I do thee move 13. My dappled Quill thy Service waits to do For to record whatere the Minde dissolveth To words my hand is willing thereunto And all my Powers upon that task resolveth 14. Oh bless and breath upon my weak Endevours Thou God of blessing Authour of all good That crown'st with glory that Soul that persevers Whose might and power cannot be withstood 15. Infuse thy Spirit so into my Soul That neither Wit nor matter may be wanting Unto me Youths vain courses to controul And set his Nature after thee a panting 16. For to insinuate into his will And usher thorough his Judgment to 's Affection Vouchsafe to me the Strength the Art the skill That He may give to Thee all due subjection 17. Vouchsafe these feeble Lines for to inspire With so much power of thy prevailing Grace That they each Readers Heart may set on fire And efficacious be sin to displace 18. O God! Let not that Cannibal devoure Those precious Souls for whom Christ gave his blood But mitigate his domineering power And make Mankind attentive more to good 19. Permit him not O Lord to spoil and stroy Thy tender Plants nor any budding flower Permit him not thy vineyard to annoy Rebuke him let him not thy vines devoure 20. O let him not of Youth make a full prey Correct O Lord Correct and give a check To You●h's vain courses stop 'm make 'm stay For they 'l conformed be to no ones beck 21. Unblind Youths Eyes unstop his deafned Ears And undeceive his vain deceived Heart Strike thou his spirit for he nothing fears And him and his beloved humours part 22. Thou God of love and grace shew mercy to him Vouchsafe to turn him ere he goes to hell O let not lusts pleasures vain love undo him Defeat him of thee with the damn'd to dwell 23. But make him tractable to good Instruction Conformable unto thy blessed pleasure Complyable to every safe direction And to esteem thy love above all treasure 24. Make this my endevour serviceable to him Make this to him as pleasant savoury food Yea make it powerfull enough to woo him To purge out evils make it physick good DIVINE BLOSSOMES The Introduction 1. IF sickly Men fittest Physicians are And troubled Consciences the best Divines To contradict my fitness then who dare To speak to Youth in my unpolish'd Lines My years being tender I experience do What ere may be delightful Youth unto 2. Who better knows or who 's a fitter Man To tell the Road than Carriers that do travel It every day Perhaps another can Say what it was of late and where some gravel Was laid on such a place on such a day But what