confess to God and them forsake And pray for pardon for our Saviours sake And if he doth his brother scandalize Or the true Church in any wise He must confes 't and sorrow for the same And reconcile himself to them again Of good Works SUch works as God by 's holy word commands Such he accepts from all his peoples hands But such as be the products of blind zeal Or mans device shall not a whit avail Good works by men done in obedience To Gods commands are fruits and evidence Of true and lively Faith and manifest That they by Faith do in assurance rest And have a good and strong and full perswasion Founded upon the promise of salvation Men by good works their brethren edifie Adorn Profession and God glorifie They by their works shew what they do profess Their faith produceth fruits of holiness No man good works by his own power can do The spirit doth inable him thereto Yet must he not be negligent and sin But must stir up the grace of God in him They that attain unto the greatest height Yet their obedience alwaies wanteth weight Man's short of duty in a sinful state How then can any superorrogate No mortal man for sin can pardon merit Such Popish thoughts proceed from no good spirit When he hath done what ever he can do His duty he cannot attain unto What good man doth proceedeth from the spirit What 's wrought by him is staind where 's then the merit Yet as the persons of beleivers be By God through Christ accepted so doth he Their works accept yet still its all through him For their best works defiled are with sin But God accepts them if they be sincere And them rewards as if they perfect were God doth not unbeleivers workes accept And yet they sin if they good works neglect Their works proceed from hearts not purifi'd Therefore by them God is not glorifi'd Of the perseverance of the Saints VVHom God accepted hath for his sons merit And call'd and sanctifi'd by his good spirit They never can that are in such a case Fall finally from that good state of Grace But shall therein continue to the end And then their souls to Heaven shall ascend This perseverance wholly doth depend On God's decree which never hath an end And not upon th' free will of sinful men But th' spirit's power that inables them This floweth from the love of God so free In Christ that it can never changed be Yet through corruption man may sin commit And for a time may take delight in it And may thereby incurr the Lords displeasure And be depriv'd of comfort in some measure And conscience wound and hardness have of heart And eke of judgements feel the weight and smart Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation THough Hypocrites and unregenerate May through false hopes mistake their own estate And thereupon presume of their salvation When they are in the state of deep damnation Yet true beleevers may assured be Of their salvation and felicity If for salvation they on Christ rely By Faith and love him in sincerity Indeavouring good detesting every sin A happy state are such beleivers in And of salvation may themselves assure And happiness that shall for aye endure Men may have Faith and yet may not attain To full assurance nor perceive the same For many times God makes his Children waite And suffer conflicts ere they do pertake Of such assurance yet the Lord takes care For their support and keeps them from despair And they that get assurance of salvation Are not so sure but that it may be shaken For God the same doth often intermit When they are careless of preferring it Or do commit some great and griveous sin When by temptation Satan drawes them in Or if the Lord withdraw himself from them They walk in darkness like despairing men Yet when the Lord thus for a time departs He leaves his spirit working in their hearts And he himself returns in his due time Then their assurance is reviv'd again Of Religious Worship and Rest on tâ—â— Lords Day THe light of nature shewes there is a Lord That rules and raigneth over all the world Good of himself and doth do good to all Unto this God we ought to cry and call Fear him and love him trust him day and night Praise him and serve him with our hearts and migâ—â— QuestioÌ„ But what 's the Worship that will please the Lord Answer Such as he hath revealed in his word Not mâ—ns device not mans imagination Nor the suggestions that proceed from Satan But Gods good word prescribes the ready way Walk in the same Rest on the Sabbath day Religious worship's due to God alone To Angels Saints and other creatures none To Father Son and Holy Ghost then pay This Holy Tribute and no other way And that thy service may have acceptation Do all thou dost through Christ his mediation Prayer with thanksgiving from a holy heart Of this pure worship is a special part By God required from all sorts of men But that it may accepted be from them It must be made through Jesus Christ the Son And by the help of his good spirit done According to his will most reverently In faith and love with all humility And all such Worship vocal must be done Not in the Popish way but in the vulgar tongue We ought to pray for all the sorts of men But for the dead we must not pray for them Nor pray for him that doth of malice sin Against the spirit that enlightned him Read Holy Scriptures with a godly fear Sound Preaching of the Word eke gladly hear Perform these duties in Obedience Unto the Lord with faith and reverence Singing of Psalmes with good and gracious hearts Receave the Sacraments for they are parts Of that Religious Worship God commands And doth expect at all his peoples hands Besides Religions Oathes Vowes solemn Fasts And eke Thanksgivings for deliverance past Religious Worship will accepted be In any place performed reverently And is not ty'd to places here or there God may be truly worshipt every where In publick private or in families But yet more solemnly in Church Assemblies Which wilfully must not neglected be When God calls us to such solemnity One day in seven wholly must be kept And for a Sabbath must a part be set And solemniz'd unto the living Lord According to his will and holy word The seventh day the J with Sabbath was Till Jesus Christ from death to life did pass Since on the first it hath been kept alway And so is now the Christian Sabbath day This Sabbath to the Lord is holy kept When as the people do with due respect To his commands fit and prepare their hearts And worldly business wholly set a part And do observe a holy rest that day Not to their Recreations giving way Nor their own works nor words nor thoughts Works of necessity and mercy yet we ought To do but we must alwaies
their part We have not visited the sick We have not cloath'd the naked We have not log'd the stranger nor Him compassionated Our souls and bodies are unclean By thoughts and words and actions We have defil'd our sinful souls We have corrupt affections And rotten speeches do proceed From our corrupted hearts Our eyes and ears do let in sins Which poyson every part We have not made a Covenant With hearing sight and senses We have not watch'd and pray'd and fasted We have not shun'd intemperance We have not used all good means To further the estate Neither of our selves or neighbours but Have been inordinate We have not labour'd to maintain Or justly to defend Our neighbours credit or good name For any holy end We have not been contented with Our Callings and Estate But have unjustly coveted Our selves to elevate Now Lord since we have sinned so And done so wickedly We justly merit to inherit With Dathan's family Eternal pain and misery VVithin the pit of Hell And with the Divel and the damn'd We do deserve to dwell For if thou didst not Angels spare Which had such glorious stations But hurl'st them down from Heaven high And from their habitations Into the place and pains of Hell In darkness there to lye Who sinned once and sin'd but once Against thy Majesty And our first Parents did'st expel From pleasant Paradise Who broke one law and them to that The Divel did intice What vengeance then may we expect For all our filthiness Who dayly sin like water drink And dayly do transgress And have not broken only one But all thy Lawes most holy Thy Precepts Statutes and Commands We have neglected wholly Sin upon sin we heaped have And do deserve the sentence Due unto those that thee oppose And sin without Repentance We all are vile and wretched men Thy Law our souls condemns Yet Lord thy Gospel us assures Thy Grace thy Law transcends Thy goodness doth delight to raigne Where sins do most abound Thy mercies master all thy works Thy mercy wears the Crown O therefore Hallowed be thy name Who of thy self art holy Thy judgements just do shew the same Thou art a God of Glory Thou art Jehovah Lord of Hosts Thy power is very great Thou Father Son and Holy Ghost We humbly thee intreat Give us such knowledge of thy self And of the Trinity And of thy word and works that we Thy Name may glorifie Good Lord let us thy word beleive And fear thy dreadful name Good Lord grant us fidelity To Sanctifie the same O Lord make us fear thee alone Give us Humility And Patience that we from hence May yield most willingly And may submit our selves unto Thy just correcting rod Who dost in love correct th'elect And art a gracious God O give us Grace that we may praise And hallow thy great name And by our Conversations may Give Glory to the same Lord let not sin nor Satan reigne But let thy Kingdome come And let thy spirit in our hearts Strive for Dominion Abolish Satans Kingdome Lord And from captivity Inlarge thy Saints and break their bands And set thy servants free Collect and gather thine Elect O do it speedily And to that end do thou set up A faithful Ministry And let the blessing of thy spirit Accompany thy word O slay the sins of all thy Saints By that two edged Sword And dayly more increase the gifts And graces of thy spirit In all thy Saints and servants that Thy Kingdome shall inherit And by thy word and spirit rule The hearts and lives of them Kill their corruptions curb their lusts And make them watchful men Raise up Religious Magistrates That truly may adore The Beauty of the Spouse of Christ And hate the Romish Whore Root out dumb dogs and purge the Church From all impurity Remove those Rocks that give offence Root out Idolatry Root out all greedy Wolves O Lord Root out those Currs with speed That fleece and fley and snarle and bite And take no care to feed O finish Lord with hast and speed The Kingdome of thy Grace Call all th'lect that are uncall'd Give thine a glorious place Come quickly Lord dissolve the world Destroy this earthly station Shew thy respect to thine elect O hasten their salvation Stir up thy strength and come at length Thy deadly foes destroy Who do oppose both thee and those That love thy Majesty On thee we rest thy time is best Thy blessed will be done O grant we may from day to day Obey thee every one And that we may thee so obey Lord grant that we from hence May willingly submit to thy Good will and providence And all at once may now renounce Our evil inclinations The World the Flesh and Satan's will And labour for Salvation And may the Angels imitate And Saints that are in Heaven And such obedience yeeld to Christ As should to him be given Give us this day our dayly bread O Lord we thee intreat Give life and health and cloathes and wealth And food for us to eat And give us grace on thee to place Our trust and confidence Till life doth end let us depend Upon thy Providence Forgive our debts as even we On debtors pity take Remit our sins and blot them out For Jesus Christ his sake And lead us not into temptation But free us from all evil And grant to us thy preservation From World and flesh and Devill Now unto thee all prayses be O Lord that didst elect Us to salvation before Creation And others didst reject Lord thy free Grace in this great case Most plainly doth appear That such as we should saved be And Christ our scores should clear O blessed Son thou hast well done To die for thine Elected For thou wast slain and sufferedst pain That we might be protected Great was thy merit with holy spirit Thou fully wast anoynted And full of Grace fit for the place Thy Father had appointed To mediate and undertake For us poor sinful creatures Thy Fathers will thou didst fulfil And didst assume our natures And in due time the Cross did'st Climb And suffered'st grievous pain Wast after dead and buried And then didst rise again And through the skie to Heaven high Unto a glorious place Then didst thou go and mount up to Thy Fathers Throne of Grace And reconcile that bloody broile That Adam's sin procured Which being done by Gods own son His Saints are all secured Thou art indeed the womans seed That broke the Serpents head And with a flood of thy own blood A Pardon purchased Thy sacrifice did pay the price For us poor sinful creatures Lord thou didst dye and satisfie Sin suffered in our natures O blessed son since thou hast done This mighty work of merit The same apply effectnally By thy most holy spirit That thy redeem'd may be esteem'd By God and godly men Thou blessed son O still go on And interceade for them In thy good word thou dost record A perfect Declaration
To all thy sons and chosen ones Of ' th misteries of Salvation Now in their hearts and inner parts Work by thy spirit in them Obedience that they from hence May live like holy men By thy Dominion overcome Their Enemies O Lord And to that end be pleas'd to send Thy spirit with thy word To good and bad we freewil had But now since Adam's fall It is not so to will or do We are unable all We are both dead and buried Till thou shalt us translate Till thou convert and bring the heart Into a gracious state Then shall we be for ever free From our old natures clogg And from the sin that we are in And freely serve our God And in a case that by his grace We shall have power and skill Both readily and spiritually Good works to do or will Yet still the breed of the old seed Of Unregeneration In us remains till mortal pains Remove our earthly station And we enjoy in heaven high The Saints felicity Then we shall be made fully free To do good perfectly In the mean time those that are thine And Heaven shall inherit O gracious Lord call by thy word And by thy holy spirit Out of the sin that they are in Into a state of grace Through Christ thy Son let it be done For thy own mercies sakè O Lord give light to blind give sight Remove their hearts of stone And hearts of flesh good and upright Lord give them in the Room Renew their wills and give them Grace By'd them renewed be Lord give them grace to grow apace For Lord thy grace is free And there is none but thee alone Can give this special grace Thou offerest it and mak'st us fit Thy offer to imbrace This is our case 't is thy free grace And thy free grace alone 'T is not for any grace in us That was foreseen or known Lord pierce our hearts and inner parts We are but passive all Let thy good spirit for thy sons merit Give us an innward call O Lord accept us thine elect Lord freely justifie Us thy poor Saints Lord hear our plaints Thy son for us did dye He paid the debt remov'd the lett He suffered for our sin O for his sake Lord pitty take We do rely on him Lord we beleive for sin we greive Lord help our unbeleif Let thy free Grace good Lord take place Thou sav'st the sinful theif Adopt us sons and set us free Us for thy children take Not for the works that we have done But for Christ Jesus sake Give us access to make address Unto the Throne of grace Let us repent cry and lament Our sad and sinful case O Lord accept do not reject Our Prayers and tears and cry Adopt us Heirs for thy sons sake Who for our sins did die Give us new hearts and better parts Then ere we had before Let sins dominion in us all Be weakned more and more Our several lusts destroy in us Corruptions mortifie Let us more practice Holiness And dayly sin destroy Let saving faith in us be wrought Good Lord most perfectly Let us into the way be brought Of true felicity Increase this grace in us apace O multiply it more This master grace deserves the place Increase it Lord therefore And let it work by love alwaies In us and every one Producing fruits of Holiness Faith never goes alone By word and Prayer and Sacraments Let it increased be Let us be justifi'd by it And sav'd eternally O Gracious Lord let us accord To all the truths that be Revealed in the written Word For all Posterity Lord let our hearts and inner parts By faith be purifi'd And by that Sword thy Holy Word Let sin be mortifi'd Give us desire with hearts intire To love thee cordially O give us grace that track to trace That leads to bliss and joy Some crumbs of comfort Lord we cravâ— Our faith is very weak We almost are brought to despair O let thy spirit speak A word of comfort to our hearts In this our misery Let us from hence have perfect sence Of our felicity We Agar like have lost our sight And now are in distress Remove the scales Lord give us light To see our happiness Lord we Repent and do lament Our infidelity O make our faith more evident Remove our malady The well of life it open lies Yet we no comfort find We water want for want of Eyes Our feares our Faith do blind Therefore O Lord grant unto us Assurance of Salvation O clear our states from all mistakes And free us from Damnation And when we such assurance have Grant we may carefully Preserve the same and praise thy name And live Religiously Thy Church and People Lord protect From all their Enemies Be graciâ—â—s is Lord to thine Elect Hear their complaints and cryes O bless the King and councel him His Royal Spouse direct And in her heart and every part True Holiness erect Lord bless Duke Iames let all his aims Be for thy Glory bent Bless all the Royal Family And guide the Parliament Remove the wicked from the King His godly Councel bless Establish Lord the Throne of him And his in Righteousness O fit us all both great and small To meet our Blessed Lord When he shall come and justly Doom And sentence all the world When he shall sit let us be quit And cleared from damnation By Faith in him that dy'd for sin To purchase our salvation Lord when this dreadful day will come To us it is unknown â—ts by decree and known to thee And unto thee alone Let 's watch and pray both night and day Therefore most fervently That Christ may say at that great day You have dealt faithfully You have well done O therefore come And enter into joy Receive a Crown with great renown Bliss and Felicity Lord hear our Prayers accept our Tears And pitty on us take Not for our worth which merits wrath But for Christ Jesus sake To Father Son and Holy Ghost By Angels and by men All Power and Glory be ascrib'd For ever more Amen An Epitaph upon the death of the Right Worshipful Anne Cokaine Widdow who Dyed the 29th of August 1664. By Edward Manlove Esq HEre lies inter'd one that deserv'd Great Honour Praise and Fame Who comely was and did surpass Most of her Noble Name In liberallity and Hospitallity This Lady did delight O Muses rise do not despise Her praises to indite Yea ring her knell her praises tell She humble was though great Her comly parts and humble heart Her prayses may compleat A comly Creature for form and feature Proper and tall of stature Noble by Birth lies in the earth Death conquer'd comly nature This Flower was cut down like Grass Which flourished many a day She quit the Stage in her old age Grimm Death took life away God call'd for her she made no stir But yeilded patiently She knew full well none need her tell All mortal men must die To Rich and Poor respect she bore She did no sort despise She patiently did live and die And so she clos'd her eyes Now in the Dust as all we must Ere long interred be This Lady is Lord bring to Bliss Her whole Posterity An Epitaph upon the Death of Mr. William Waine Vicar of ASHBORN Composed by Edward Manlove Esq SInce that pale death hath stopt the breath Of Learned William Wain Friends and Allies dry your wet eyes To Weep it is in vain He 's in the Dust where all men must Ere long interred be Whilst he liv'd here he did appear A Learned man to be Of judgement great tho not so neat In words as many are But for his parts in learned Arts With most he might compare Yet they can tell that knew him well He was not puff'd with Pride Nor soared high ambitiously But humbly liv'd and dy'd And in his Grave as in a Cave This learned Rabby lies Where he must stay till that great day That Christ shall say arise Then Learned Wain must rise again From dusty earth and Clay To judgement just as all men must And after live for aye Books newly Printed for Richard Mills at the Peste and Morter without Temble Bar. PAndion and Amphigenia or the History of the Coy Lady in large Octavo Divine Contentment or a Medicine for a Disconted man in small Octavo FINIS
And how canst thou indure his wrathful ire Or who dwell with everlasting fire A natural man is under Satans power This roaring Lion seeketh to devóure Be not contented with thy wicked state Get true Repentance ere it be too late He that 's indebted till the debt be paid May be Arrested and in Prison laid Thou art indebted man by Adam fell Thou mayst be carried Prisoner unto Hell Thou canst not pay who will thy surety be There 's none but Christ can undertake for thee O then Repent lay hold on Christ by Faith O be contented thou art under wrath Change thy condition hasten out sin Thou wilt be damned if thou die therein Lott Sodome quit that City full of sin Was all destroy'd and all that stayd therein The longer man continues in his sin The stronger hold doth Satan get in him A Gartison that 's strongly fortifi'd And victuall'd well soon cannot be destroy'd A Plant that 's young soon plucked up may be But thou canst not pluck up a rooted tree If thou be rooted in the sin of Pride And unbeleif and nature be thy guide T is hard to pluck up those great roots of sin Which all thy life thou hast been rooted in Break off thy sins and choose the better part O man Repent and get a broken heart Thou better hadst abide the grief and pain Of setting bones then all thy life be lame That trouble 's blest that brings the soul to God With patience beare the Lords chastising Rod. A Conscience bad and quiet needs must be An evil state a sinful Lichargy Let no condition that dishonour brings Unto the Lord who is the King of Kings Give thee content therein's no inward peace And outward comforts they will shortly cease Take heed of trading in a course of sin God never call'd thee for to trade therein Art thou a servant labour speedily To get into some godly Family Continue not be not content to dwell Within the Suburbs or the smoak of Hell But hasten out of wicked sinners tents Lest thou incurr their heavy punishments Or be infected with the Poysoning sin Of ill example that abounds therein When Ioseph liv'd and greatest sway did beare In Pharohs Court he learned there to swear An ill example soon is sucked in Our eyes behold our eares do let in sin Good men by bad may sooner be perverted Then bad by good to godliness converted A master bad a servant bad doth make Men by their Masters do example take When Labans flock the pilled rods did see Of Poplar Hasle and the Chesnut tree They did conceive and brought forth speckle Goaâ— With white Ring-straked and with spotted coate Men quickly learn the tune that others sing Examples draw and are prevailing things In Kedars tents then do not thou reside Lest with the wicked thou shouldst be destroyd If in a wicked Family thou dwell Thou dost inhabit in a little Hell A good mans house with blessing is perfum'd The evil mans in wrath shall be consum'd When on the head the holy Oyle of Grace Is poured out it much perfumes the place And doth diffuse it self most pleasantly Upon the skirts of all the family Then labour thou to live in such a place Where by Gods blessing thou maist get more Grace For good examples are magnetical But ill examples do in danger all Be not contented with a little grace But strive for more be growing up apace T is not enough that thou have only life Grace is increased by a holy strife Paul pressed hard towards the Holy place Still striving for a greater stock of grace Some Stars in brightness others do transcend More Grace more Glory bringeth in the end Then strive for Grace but seek not for content In worldly wealth which is not permanent Let Holiness then be thy hearts delight Of Holiness God is the Prototype He is the Pattern and Original Of Holiness but we are sinners all Divine Contentment is a happy thing From this sweet Root doth consolation spring Contented Spirits chearful spirits are These Golden Shields keep off distracting care A cheerful Christian will himself submit Unto Gods dealings and rejoyce in it The inward joy of him doth not abate That is contented with his present state He that 's contented hath a thankful heart And all Afflictions taketh in good part Sweet Contemplations holy hearts do raise They strive to be the patterns of God's praise To the contented nothing comes amiss In all conditions he contented is Contented Christians they are only those Who wholly do submit to Gods dispose And will not run into a course of sin To rid themselves from troubles they are in But are contented willingly to wait Gods leisure till he free them from their streight Disquietness proceeds from unbeleif This want of Faith doth cause this inward grief Faith scatters fears and doubtings puts to flight It stills the heart when passions would affright Faith chides down passion and prevents that siâ—â— When reason sinckes then Faith aloft doth swiâ—â— Faith shewes the soul that all its tryals are From God in love who of the soul takes care Then humble be and learn to be content If Crosses come be not impatient Keep Conscience clear indulge not any sin Guilt breeds disquiet if it be therein When as the More is got into the eye It makes it sore it makes it watery And so doth sin raise tempests in the soul And brings a curse it brings a flying roule But if thou keep the eye of conscience clear This flying roule can never enter there Then pray to God invoke his holy name O get thy heart into a praying frame Prayer will prevail against thy discontent In greatest grief Prayer gives a holy vent The Key of Prayer well oyl'd with bryny tears Unlocks the heart of its affrighting fears By Prayer to God unbosome then thy soul And eke thy self upon thy Saviour roul Make known thy mind unto thy faithful friend Who to thy heart can ease and quiet send Unload thy soul into thy Saviours brest Where it may have all sweet content and rest Though God and man and both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Give true contentment to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS Poems of Praise and Poems upon several other Subjects GOod Hezekiah pleasant Poems sings To God the Lord the only King of Kings Who heard his Prayers and granted his request Who heald his Plague and freed him from the Pest A good example from a godly King The godly ones God's Praises ought to sing When they are cumbered with the greatest fear Terrors and troubles of their Conscience where Can they have help but from their gracious God Who whips his Children after burns the rod. Both Rich and Poor then pay your chief age to The Lord of Lords the Rent of Praise you owe. Can you pay less unto so good a Lord Who gave his only Son his Holy Word To save his Saints to free their Souls from pain To die for them that
they might live again Who all were dead by Adams sinful fall But now revived by Christ's Funeral Who all were slaves till Jesus made them free Till Christ did die and climb the cursed Tree Praise God praise God praise God the Lord on high Praise God the Lord the Holy Trinity Christ hath redeem'd thee and discharg'd thy scorâ— Praise God the Lord praise him for evermore Proverbs Chap. 18. Ver. 14. Mans spirit will Infirmities sustein But who can beare the woundea spirits pain MAns spirit that is furnished with Grace And fortifi'd with favour of God's Face May pass the Pikes and Conquer all his foes Why should he fear when God keeps back thâ— blowe If God be for us who can us withstand Who can oppose Iehovah's mighty hand Whose mercy to his people hath no bounds Nor stint nor limit it is so profound Th' impetuous current of the rageing Sea He made Recoyle to make his people way He made the flames of hot and burning fire From his three Children swiftly to retire He made the Roaring Lyons couch and quake And change their natures for his Daniels sake He made the Locusts lice and Froggs and Flies In battel ray at his command to rise To save his people from their cruel foes To curb proud Pharoh that did them oppose He fed Elijah by the croking Crow When Iezebel did seek his overthrow He made the Furnace like a downy bed To blessed Bainham that was Martyred When David hunted was by wicked Saul Acts Monuments 1030 When robbed of his wives and children all When Zigglag was to ashes burnt with fire When David had no place of safe retire When David's Souldiers spake of scorning him When Holy David was great troubles in Then in distress poor David wept full sore Then David wept till he could weep no more Then David did unto Iehovah crie Then David prayd to God in misery Then David's courage was by God stir'd up Then to the sword th' Amalekites he put Then by the sword he made his enemies fall Then by Gods help he did recover all Then all true Saints take courage in the Lord Trust him in trouble read his Holy Word By weak without against means he can free His Saints and Servants from their misery Sith a good Conscience and a stock of grace Be'th only means t' incounter and out face Poems of reproof Our grand opposer and to draw the stings Out of our sorrowes and our sufferings And in the dreadful day so soveraign are To save the soul from sinking in despair Then be reproved those that take no care But are secure and sleight these Jewels rare Those Fools and Bedlams that have such a price Put in their hands and yet are not so wise It to improve for their eternal bliss But all their life and health imployed is In sensual lusts and on their Dunghil pleasures Whilst they neglect rich and eternal treasures What do you think to such poor souls belongs That pleasure take in Satans Syren songs And drink themselves drunk with Prosperity And take no care about Eternity But swiming down the current of the times Neglect Gods grace and grasp at Golden Mines Abuse misuse unthankfully mispend Their time and Talents to an evil end Neglect the Harvest time of ining grace And all their lives licentious tracks do trace For wealth and riches run and ride and strive And sayl a pace at Honour to arrive Alas poor souls they seek to bear great sway But will that help them in the evil day When the hot gleam of earthly glory 's past Great Clouds of dismal darkness draw on fast The grisly King of terrours stops their breath And they are haled to the port of death Then fiery flames shall make them fear and quake They must be drowned in the burning lake What will these sleepers in the Harvest say When they be waked at the dreadful day When guilty conscience gnawing at the heart Like to a Vulture fiercely plaies his part What will become of all the wicked then What is portion of such wicked men O vile ungrateful wretch then hide thy face God did capacitate thy soul for grace Why then dost thou so lull thy self in lust Self love and Pride are not God's Judgements just Wast made for naught but drink and sleep eate Laugh and be merry that 's a vain conceit Is Conscience seard then ther 's no more to say But to adjourn thee to the dreadful day But yet I pray thou maist reform thy waies Redeem the time the remainder of thy daies Awake awake and strike upon thy thigh Wrastle with God by servent Prayer and crye Faith and Repentance is the onely way Against despairing in the evil day Of all bad men Of the saving Light most pestilent are those That impiously God's Ministry oppose And by their hatred malice and despight Study and strive to quench the saving light All that oppose the saving word of grace Do strike directly at Christ's blessed face Who is as tender of his Ministry As he is of the Aple of his Eye O then Repent to God make thine address Wound not thy Conscience with such wickedness The sin of Persecution lowdly cries At Gods Tribunal makes a hideous noise For just revenge the vengeance of Gods ire For tempests great for showres of flaming fire To be distill'd and poured down on them That are such cruel and blood thirsty men How long O Lord O holy just and true Avenge our blood pay wicked men their due These spightful spirits heated with hell fire Flesht with the blood of Saints do much desire To cloud the Sun the Gospel of Gods Grace In which transparent glass Saints see his face The Nature of a Wounded Spirit FRom wounded spirits there ariseth fear A wounded Conscience what proud heart can beare Man doth conflict in this great misery With God himself a God of Majesty Can sinful man contend with God most high Or dust and ashes with eternity When God is angry no poor soul can stand Against the fierceness of his heavy hand Can stubble dry'd repel the flaming fire No more can we resist Iehovah's ire When we are whipt and lashed with his rod And do behold the frowning face of God Then we like leaves with wind soon shaken are And tertifi'd with flashings of despair Our heavy hearts for fear both faint and faile Our silly souls will then our sins bewail Then with our selves we are at enmity And do inlarge the rent most grievously For when our souls are in this trembling case We love too much in Satan's Glass to gaze Who labours much by lying cruelty Our sins both to inlarge and multiply Of every Molehil he a Mountain makes That wounded spirits may no comfort take To every sin he adds a bloody sting That he poor sinners to despair may bring Then what they think remember see or hear Is turnd to terrour and to hideous fear The dreadful fancy then doth bear its part
By fained horrors with the trembling heart Which is perplexed with most grievous pain And restless anguish doth therein remain And brings the Patient into such a rage That he his present horrour to asswage Would rather die then live and choose to dwell With Hellish Furies in the Pit of Hell Such are the terrours of a troubled mind Bruised and wounded in this woful kind As may appear both by the desperate cry Of Cain and Iudas damn'd eternally As also by the mournful sad complaints Of Iob and David and such glorious Saints These flames of horrour how shall we endure What Balsome can a wounded Conscience cure In friends not Physick nothing's to be found The Blood of Christ An admonition to the unconverted can only cure this wound Ye unconverted be perswaded then To turn to God for unconverted men Though they awhile in pleasant places dwell They 'l be transplanted in the Pit of Hell Then t is too late Repentance then is past Redeem the time whilst thy short life doth last Forsake not mercy but thy sins forsake God freely offers Christ his offer take If thou refuse how wilt thou then avoid The wrath of God which wicked men abide Art sick and senceless dost thou feel no smart Thou hast the symptom of a stony heart When Conscience stings and sins in Battail ray Do set themselves then in the evil day What wilt thou do those Lions then will tear Thy trembling heart and thee confound with feare Then subtil Satan he will play his part And shoot tentations at thy fainting heart He was thy Master thou dist him obey Thou didst walk with him in the damned way Now in thy sickness thou wouldst him forsake But now the Devil doth advantage take And doth indite thee for thy evil acts And now thy Conscience proves thy filthy facts Thou tookst ful draught of carnal peace and pleasure Thou dist carrouse tipple in great measure Thou didst God's faithful Ministers despise And with thy tongue by slanders scoffs and lyes Didst much abuse them and with great despight Didst labour much to quench the â—â—ving light Thou didst thy will and power and purse imploy God's faithful Saints and servants to destroy Such crying sins as these and many more Stand on the unconverted sinners score Ye that are washed from the filth of sin An admonition to the Converted Free'd from that damned state your souls were in Flie sinful Lusts defile your souls no more By such Rebellion as you did before Sin is most hateful in the sight of God And doth procure his smart correcting rodd God loves all creatures that he ever made But hateth sin with everlasting hate Sin wounds the soul brings men to misery Sin was the cause that God's dear Son did die Sin Satan made sin sunk him into hell Sin sunk the Pit where all the damned dwell Sin God offends sin is the greatest evil Sin damns the soul sin is the rankest Devil Object Is sin so ugly why doth most delight In sinful waies why doth not sin affright Them from pursuing of their Carnal pleasures And make them strive to get eternal treasures Answer Now Satan puts on sin in such a case A seeming fairness on a hellish face He paints this Harlott in a handsome dress And souls to sin draws by deceitfulness Were this deformed Hagg without false hair And painted face she could not scules insnare The grisly face of sin would men affright But by false colours it seems fair and bright Thus Satan covers sins deformity And makes it pleasant to the sinners eye Though of it self it 's filthy foul and naught Compar'd to meat thrust out into the draught All other filth the body doth defile but sin's contagious and the soul doth soyle It 's most infectious like a Leprosie Infects the walls the cloathes Posterity The sin of Adam to his seed remains Till Christ's warm Blood doth wash away the staines The misery of Man not Reconciled to God in Christ O Wretched man where shall my Muse begin To state the case that thy poor soul is in Who art condemned to eternal death Adjudg'd to Hell before thou drawest breath Thy Father Adam was by God created In innocence in Paradise was placed That he and his Posterity might have â—mmortal life and conquer Hell and Grave To him all earthly Creatures were made free For meat and use excepted was one tree That was forbidden under pain of Hell He ate thereof and so thy Father fell Pride puff'd him up he did beleive the Devil He tasted of the Tree of Good and Evil By this foul fall eternal misery Intailed was on his Posterity And made them subject to sore punishment Whilst they like thee remain impenitent Finis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A DIVINE POEM OR A Confession of FAITH Composed in Meeter By E. Manlove Esq Of the Scriptures and Argments to prove them the Word of God BY God's good word the way unto salvation Is truly taught by holy Inspiration O then beleive it and the same obey Give no such credit to Appocrypha Nor to traditions of the Romish See All saving truths in Scripture written be And are recorded for Divinity By truth it self the holy Trinity Depending not upon the testimony Of any Church the Pope of Rome or any But God the Author our most blessed Lord Receive them therefore as his Holy word But we by witness of the Church may deem The Scripture worthy of a high esteem O prize it highly 't is a pretious thing Sweet tidings of Salvation it doth bring The stile and doctrine challenge reverence The efficacy gives great evidence Of Gods known will it makes a full discovery And shewes the way for sinful man's recovery Though mortal man of Scripture was the writer Yet God's good spirit was the sole Inditer Some Secretaries God did set apart Who spoke and wrote but he inspir'd the heart These Writers did for Holiness surpass All Popes and Doctors of the Romish Mass And by their works such depth of wisdome shoâ—â— As learned men could not attain unto Yet never trained up in Learned Schooles With them compar'd Phylosophers are fooles The Prophet Amos he did far surpass Some learned Rabbies yet a Heardsman was And Peter Iames and Iohn but fishermen Admired by the Elders of Jerusalem Amongst the writers ther 's a sweet concord Which proves the Scripture is the Holy Word None disagree at which we may admire For God himself the Penmen did inspire They wrote such things as never wit could hatch No History this History doth match And what they wrote was full of Majesty Profoundness Wisdome and Authority Commanding Credit to be had to them Denouncing threats against all wicked men The end and scope of all the Scriptures be For God's great glory and mans felicity The writers antient for Antiquity Aoses more antient then the Heathens be The deadly hatred that the Divels beare â—gainst the Scriptures yet believe and fear Do prove them plainly
for great transgression But setting them upon the rack And straining them so high As strict confession of all sins Is Romish Tyranny No such Confession is requir'd As doth to sin invite And nameing fleshly pleasures doth Much move the Appetite For who can tell how oft he sins Or gives to God offence He alwaies sins that so presumes Upon his innocence As that he can enumerate His great transgressions all For he that thinks them less then great Doth into greater fall Christ did not to the sinner say That had Faith and Contrition Thy sins must numbred be or else Thou canst have no remission He Absolution freely gives Unto his children dear Mar. 9.2 Thy sins forgiven are saith he My son be of good chear Against Invocation of Saints 1 Kings 8.39 Eccl. 9.5.6 Esai 62.16 Ps 7.10.44.20 â— 9.4.11 Prov. 15.10 17.3 24.12 Jer. 21 20 87 10 10 11. Psal 50 14 Against Eph 2.8 THe Saints in Heaven do not know Our hearts they cannot hear Our Prayers or supplications Made in this lower Sphear Our God alone our Prayers doth hear Prayers made to Saints are vain God knowes the secrets of our souls And tryeth all our Reins Call on the name of God the Lord For ease in pain and grief And in thy greatest troubles he Will send thy soul releif Against the seven Sacraments OUr blessed Saviour none but he Could make a Sacrament He made but two he made no more Is very evident 1 Cor. 10 1 2 3 4. St. Austin Baptisme the Supper of the Lord These flowed like a flood Out of the side of Jesus Christ In Water and in Blood The one it is the Sacrament Of our Initiation The other Sacrament is for Our holy confirmation Against the Doctrine of Tradition THe Law of God's a perfect law And needeth no supply What 's needful to salvation Is fully taught thereby In vain do many worship God Matth. 15.9 And teach for doctâ—ine sound Commandements oâ— wiâ—ked men Thus errors do abound Against the Universal Headship of the Bishop of Rome POpe Gregory the great Inveighs Against this Lordly name As insolent the Churches plain As wicked and Prophane A great corruption of the faith To God a great abuse Against the Canons of the Church Against th'Apostles use Whosoever use this loâ—ty stile And glory in the same Forerunners are of Antichrist And glory in their shame Against Challenged Infallibility THis Arrogation doth appear A Paradox to be For former Popes have fowlly faln Into flat Heresie And Councels have condemned them For errors manifest The Councel held at Basil take Multi poncifices errores he resies lapsi esse leguntur Consi Basil in Ep. Sinod For one among the rest Against the Popes Superiority to General Councels VVEll near a thousand Fathers of The Romish Church did Vote Against this Dommineering Power Pretended by the Pope And in the Councel Constance thus Determin'd punctually An. 1415 If General Councels make Decrees The Pope is bound thereby Against the Presumption of Papal Dispensations POpes had no power in former time To grant a Dispensation â—gainst Decrees by Councels made This comes by Usurpation These boundless Dispensations are A wicked Innovation This great Presumption plainly shewes The Popes degeneration Against the Popes Domineering over Kings and Emperours Po. Gregory said thus Mauritius vobis Obedientiam prebere desidero THe Pope to Theodosius came With Cap and bended knee â—ut now the greatest Monarch must Stoop to the Romish See Now Popes their lawful Soveraign sleight These Prelates greater be Then all the Princes of the World In Power and Dignity Now Popes pretend a lawful power Their Emperours to dethrone And of their Empires to dispose As if they were their own The Emperour like a Serving man When as the Pope commands Must hold a Basin whilst that he Doth wash his Holy Hands And sometimes like a Stable Groom His Horse must lead and guide And hold his Stirrup whilst that he On Horsback gets to ride And sometimes like a Porter must Upon his Shoulder bear His Holiness the Pope forsooth And Homage to him swear This domineering over Kings And Emperours doth shew How Pontificial Prelates have Rob'd Caesar of his due These Romish Tricks in former times Nor better were then Treason Against God's holy Word they are Against both right and reason All Christian Kings and Princes great Abhorr the Romish Whore Break off her Bonds cast off her Yoak And never own hâ—r more A form of Prayer Composed in Meeter By Edward Manlove Esq O God most great whose Glorious seat Is in the Heavens high â—t thy command both Sea and Land Obey thy Majesty â—nd at thy will the Seas stand still And neither rage nor foame â—rom side to side to Winds and Tide Thou mak'st thy power known Thou glorious art in every part Thou art Omnipotent Be 't far or near thou dwellest there Thou art Omniscient The Heavens high nor lofty skie Thy Glory can contemn Thou raign'st on high thy Majesty Doth Winds and Waves restraine To those that do by shipping go Into the Waters deep By works of wonder and words like thunder Thou shew'st thy power and might And thou the Storm turn'st to a calme And then the Waves are still Thou makest glad them that were sad And sav'st them from all ill We therefore all may fear to call Upon thy dreadful name For our vile lips they are unfit To nominate the same We here abide the stubble dry'd Thou art consuming fire Thou might's us burn and make us turn To ashes in thine ire In our own eyes we all are vile Our waies are very wicked Then in thy sight whose eyes are bright How shall we be acquitted We are unfit to kneel or fit Before thy gracious Throne Or to draw nigh thy Majesty To make our cases known But Lord we come to thee alone For Jesus Christ his sake Accept our Prayers which we present And through thy spirit make We are unworthy to be call'd Thy sons or have the name Of any of thy servants yea The meanest of the same Our duties unto thee and man O Lord we have neglected And not obey'd thy Holy Word But have thy Lawes rejected We have not honoured thee O Lord With fear and reverence But sin'd against thy just Precepts By disobedience O Lord we have not Worship'd thee According to thy will Nor in our hearts have had delight Thy statutes to fulfil But we confess we have abus'd Thy great and glorious name And also we irreverently Have often us'd the same We have Prophan'd the Sabbath day In whole or else in part By needless thoughts and words and works We all have carnal hearts By murderous thoughts and wicked words We have our neighbours wrong'd Our wicked words have cut like swords We all have evil tongues We have not sought our neighbours good Nor had a tender heart To our poor brethren in distress Nor pleaded on