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A28348
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The trial of the ladies Hide Park, May Day, or, The yellow books partner
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W. B. (William Blake), fl. 1650-1670.
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indeed if my Lord or my Lady had such an onely daughter and a lovely Lady also she were a match for the greatest Prince in the world and were Angelical Spirits capable of marrying or giving in marriage as they are not Mark 12. 25. they would come to such vertues but when blossomes birth and beauty have nothing to adoâ—ne them but spangles gold and outward glory they are farre short of the Church of Christ the Kings daughter who is all glorious within Psal. 45. 13. Inward glory is true glory outward glory is false inward glory is pure light life and heart purifying but of outward honour glory beauty and esteem a man may have a great deal and a great deal of Gold with capps knees and bowings to him for his portion and go to the Devil when all is done but the Lord is my portion saies the Church Lament. 3. 25. And truly it were a Lamentation well worth the taking up to think how many brave Sparks and Ladyes that are now in midst of all their gold and glory displaying of themselves and glories as it were for the glory of the day in Hide-Park with leaping lightsome hearts and souls through the pleasures of it yet that the night should and suddenly will come that all these must undress and go away hence to the darksome cold earth yea to the darksome dens or darkest dungeons of Hell if they have nothing but outward glory for their portion and then they will be more miserable than they that are acquainted with a kind of Hell beforehand Some say when they make a Nun in another Country first they make a feast as rich and noble as may be then they invite their greatest friends yea they entertaine all of qualitie with the greatest delights that this earth can afford and she her self to espouse her self to Christ as she thinks is dressed with all that youthful virgin rich and princely attire that is possible to be thought on or adorned with but the feast and the mask the musick and the singing being over the poor Lady is 〈◊〉 to the skin yea she burns in the presence of them all her greatest ornament and glory her hair and all for the Kingdome of Heavens sake sequestring her self from all the pleasures of this life for another which she ignorantly hopes to find in a wrong way but sure I am you wilfully loose that which you may easily find in a way of beleeving though not in a way of working and this is a lamentation and a thing to be taken up for a lamentation that you the Lords and Ladies of England the Gentry and the greater part of the Gentry and glory of the Nation in a common sense forgoe for a present Heaven which yet is but a Hell to a heavenly man and an heavenmind the true Heaven and the God of Heaven whose loving kindness is better than life so saith David Psal. 63. O Madam home is home as we use to say though never so homely and Heaven is Heaven when all is done but there is no home like to Heaven and the God in Heaven which you forgot for a moments lust were your pleasures as his are for evermore it were something but for moments joyes to loose a Heaven the joyes of Heaven and Heavenly glories for evermore is a loss indeed And now I am speaking of Heaven let me give you one touch of that and I have done onely I shall make your Funeral Sermon in conclusion for I think verily you will be damned and never come there yea most of you will be so and though I am but a poor man yet I would not be in some of your conditions for an hundred thousand Worlds heretofore when I have been going to bed I have thought when I saw my sins before I came to see them all freely done away and pardoned by the blood of Christ if I should have been sick in my bed and dye what a miserable creature should I be sure I am in danger to be damned thought I and yet there is no man living but he may be easily saved if he looks to God and beleeves in God in time yea if a man beleeves in God and lives to God really he shall as certainly be saved as ever any sinner in the World was damned Iohn 3. 36. But now if some of you should go home and consider a little in the night what you have been doing all the day yea what you have been undoing all your lives along it would make you sad indeed some men live long enough to get Heaven for their souls and an estate for their Children but if they get nothing but an estate for their relations let them have this for an Epitaph upon their graves here lies PENNY WISE but POUND FOOLISH and let them have a little thatch in their hands also for that will do them as much good as the welfare of their wives and children if their souls doe miscarry in the other World but for a man to live ten twenty forty years or upwards to undo his relations and his own soul as some do yea most of you fine folks do litte else but sin a great deal and live a little while to undoe and damne your selves for ever and ever some fill the bag or bushel in a little time and are carried away into the Land of Shinar Zaph 5. 5. and we remember them no more when they are once gone to the Devil I beleeve you your selves have almost forgot forty brave Sparks as heretofore used Hide-Park Christ was thirty three years old before he thoroughly saved one soul and then he dyed and saved all the world Iohn 1. 29. but it is that World that beleeves in him repents and lives to him But of the world of Gallants that I saw the last year in Hide-Park I did not see above half a dozen of my acquaintance that looked any thing Saint-like or Sion-ward some look as if they would never pray others as if they would never swear or sin they are so handsome and yet they do nothing else but sin and swear or tittle tattle all the day long for my part I did not hear one word of Christ and yet I was in the Park all the afternoon but it was upon a good account and for my part I am resolved for ought I know never to go again after this bout I have witnessed twice against them and once against the Tryrâ—s at White-Hall and I beleeve they will make but a blind business with the Keyes of David now in their hands which should be in the hands of Christ alone Isa. 22. 22. Nor will they ever put the power of Preaching for fear of spoyling their trade into the hands of any in the world but they that will make an absolute trade of it when as I am confident an ugly knotty stick being hewed and plained a little will make a better piece of timber than some of them that they set up will
the shame in the world with Christ and what a shame is this that you should be too fine for poor Christ when poor Christ makes you rich and gives the best of riches to you yea durable riches See page 11. of the yellow Book or the last May dayes Letter But take my word if you do not take Christ the Devil will take you and tear you worse than poor Cocks are torn or Bears bated yea you shall tear your selves in a thousand pieces if it were possible and yet not destroy your selves great Malefactors are hang'd alive in Hell and their misery is they cannot die nor get the fire out Mat. 25. 41. This shall be done to the man whom God will honour he shall live with God and reigne as it were with Christ in the eternity of God but all you that hate the Lord shall be consumed as the fat of Lambs Psal. 37. 20. yea let them all be consumed and confounded together that will not marry Christ or ever hear of being the servants of Christ there is such a deal of service among you but pray what have you done for Christ any of you genteel heathenish sinners yea or any of you professing Saints truly you that have done most have done nothing to any purpose and you that have done nothing have done enough to have damn'd you in your best action that ever you did if you were to be tryed by the Law or the purity of Gods Justice out of Christ but the business is who almost doth any thing or doth not at all mind every thing and no man minds the things of Christ Phil. 2. 21. Truly Christ hath a great many enemies and a great many friends and a great many lookers on some men look which way the tide runs and some which way the gain comes but godliness with content is great gain 1 Tim. 6. 6. and still I say the great stain of godliness is they are so greedy after it but greedy lovers of profits and greedy lovers of pleasures are little better than greedy doggs both and will be shut out of the new Jerusalem that cometh down from God or is above with God Revel. 21. 2. And now if some of you Ladies after all this brave dressing of your selves should be shut out of Hide-Park and made to stand in the ditch whil'st all the Nobles and rest of the Gallants were admitted in to take their fill of pleasures and the pleasures of the day it would be a great vexation but if thousands of you should be shut out of Heaven and the Kingdome of Heaven as Christ speaks Luke 13. 27. for minding nothing but pleasure the pleasures of the day and the pastimes of the night how will you then weep when you your selves shall see Abraham Isaack and Iacob with thousands more sitting down there but you your selves shut out ver. 28. Christ wept bitterly for Jerusalem Luke 13. 34. and if he were on earth I think he would weep for you for you are the most to be pittied for all your laughing and your singing one unto another of any people yea of any creatures in the world yea I in my conscience do verily think so for a man to sing to a bird and catch him in a net or hearken to a Syrryan as they say and be catched by a song is a misery and a cheaty misery none gets so much by gaming as the Devill does by playing his cards in some of your laps and truly you frequently commit adultery when you look so lustfully as you do Mat. 5. 25. on one anothers faces yea you make your selves Whores and Harlots by your talk many times Christian talk and Christian name with Christian life and conversation would do well together and if Christ be your Master let him be your Copy for I will not give a farthing for that Christian that is little better than an old common Protestant an old Protestant and an old Papish will agree better than either can with an honest Roundhead and yet the old Religion is the true ask for the good old way and follow that saies the Prophet Ier. 6. 16. and not these new lights and fangles and now I am resolved to be half a Quaker to a hair but not a whole one for a thousand worlds I resolve to be less complementall less a flatterer more an inward and an outward Christian yea a circumspect Christian in all things but to deny Jerusalems Christ Gods exalted dear and onely Son who is God over all blessed for evermore Rom. 9. 5. that hath washed me in his own blood Revel. 1. 5. saved my soul from Hell and reconciled me unto God for a whimsey I never will nor shall they ever pick my comforts by a many new words forced humility or reformation that ariseth out of self and leads man to rest on self a broken Reed a muddy Cestern and all that do so will lie down in sorrow yea this is all you shall have at my hands saith the Lord yea all you that compass your selves about by your own sparks Isa. 50. 11. for other foundations can no man lay than what is laid Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 3. 11. O foundation foundation time and age outlasting foundation Heaven Earth Saint and Angell burying foundation how art thou neglected by Generations of self righteous men on the one side doggs careless sinners loose Christians and despisers on the other and yet thou art all in all in life death and eternity Col. 3. 11. yea thou art Gods all in all and our all in all who have all our hopes helps and mercies in and from thee yea in thee and in thee alone is all our justification sanctification and hopes of glorification and yet how little do we live unto thee do or speak for thee our dearest dear before the Sons of men but O Christs time will come and certainly come that we shall wish a thousand times that the best of us all had said more and done more a thousand times for thee than the best of us all have done And therefore to you the powers of this Nation I humbly give this advice knowing good men in prosperity may easily forget the vowes in adversity that you remember as long as you live the cause for which so many tuns of blood were spilt and millions of souls sent to Hell sooner than ordinary yea the cause of our ever blessed dear and glorious Redeemer and what ever men say he certainly once had and still has a cause and controversie to plead with the Natitions however he will erre long certainly come and call all men to account and then you the dry skuls heads and bones of the Caviliers shall rise together yea with their dead bodies shall you arise or they with yours as the Prophet speaks in another case Isa. 26. 19. In the mean time know the night is at hand wherein no man can work Iohn 9. 3. And as Owner said of Ireton so I say to all