HIs cradle's made of rush he layes his head On Nile's proud backe that is his feather-bed Had he not bin so lost hee 'd nere been found If not cast out to drowning had been drown'd Blest Babel all things conspire thy good and chance Out of thy danger works deliverance 38. The burning bush ch 3. v. 3. 4. In midst of fire and unconsumed yet This doth a wonder in my minde beget A fire of zeale this was made by heavens-art Not to inflame the bush but Moses heart 39. PHARAOH ch 7. For Pharaoh's pride against the LORD of Hostes An universall darknesse shades his coastes A darknesse such as might be felt a night That long usurped baffled Phoebus right He yet continu'd obstinate wee finde The greatest darknesse then was in his minde THE TEN COMMANDEMENTS Command 1. 40. Heare O ISRAEL I am the LORD thy GOD c. Israel that GOD who gave requires thine eare He deignes to speake and shouldst not thou to heare So heare as after hearing to fulfill The holy tenour of his heav'nly will Who hopes that GOD should heare him when he praies Attend what GOD attend what justice sayes Should we so ill requitall to him make Who fore all other people did us take To take a god'fore him place him behind The fancy'd Idols of our idle minde We have created gods indeed below To whome obedience honour love we owe. Whome would we see rightly to serve O let Them fore our eyes but GOD fore them be set Command 2. 41. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Images c. Whilst to Bulls Dogs and Cats th' Egyptians bowe They an egregious Hieroglyphick showe Of vaine Idolatry but little more Of reason then those Animals they adore For why should Man into whose soule his maker Hath heavenly light infus'd and made partaker Of his own image worship things that are Inferiour to himself in worth so farre Or worship God by Proxy dare to sett Of what we never saw the counterfett If ' gainst this we a remedy would finde Conserve these precepts graven in our minde Command 3. 42. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine c. Thou hurtst God's name with vaine and idle chat But Foole thou hurt'st thy self far more then that Thy words are wind but when great God doth speak Thou 'lt find he silence can in thunder break 43. Aliud Is God thy fellow that thou still Dost take his holy name at will The word that fram'd thee thou dost mock And makest it thy laughing-stock Thou oft invokest God to heare Take heed too soon hee 'l lend an eare Command 4. 44. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day c. 'T is hard if out of seaven we can't afford One day to be kept holy to the Lord Rest then from Labour and blesse him that we In sixe dayes toyle of him may blessed be This Sabbath sanctifie an earnest 't is Of that eternall one of heav'nly blisse Bestow some hours in pious meditation Though we work not on Gods work the creation And if to that grand secret we would climbe Of our Redemption O redeeme this time What though the day be chang'd as 't was heaven's will Keep our devotion on 't unchanged still Command 5. 45. Honour they Father and thy Mother c. Honour thy parents and obey What they and what God here doth say To them observant if thou be And honour'st them others will thee Long life is promis'd a reward For those who this command regard A long life shall on earth be given A longer afterwards in heaven 46. Aliud Honour and love thy father naturall Politique and Ecclesiasticall For in so doing all may clearly know Whether thou truly honorest God or no. Nature's laws charge the first which who resists Is of the rank of rankest naturalists Thother's enjoyn'd us by civility And that imp'd with a smack of policy The third which teacheth why this should be showne T' all three's the summe of all religion Command 6. 47. Thou shalt doe no murther Murther 's so foul a crime 't may not be wrought By us indeed in deed in word or thought To boyle with anger is manslaughter nay We shall for grudgings be arraign'd one day Of murth'ring there be many peices mo Then death which comes by murth'ring piece's blow Command 7. 48. Thou shalt not Commit Adulterie O have a care and bridle each ill thought Which this command may violate let nought That is but unbeseeming be in thee Do thou avoyd all wanton company Let not thy love be firmly fixt upon Her that 's another mans and not thine owne Yet on Christ's spouse the Church fixe thy firme love Although her proper husband be above Command 8. 49. Thou shalt not steale We are forbid to steale and if we do In hell we shall be punisht and here too Whilst though we work in darknesse like the mole And steal another steals from us our soul Command 9. 50. Thou shalt not bear false witnesse against thy neighbout God is the Father of all truth but lies Are onely wicked Satan's properties If thou then must bear wittnesse don't through fear Speak false God will not with a liar bear Command 10. 51. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house c. This last and least of Gods commandments lies In order next which we ought not despise Howe're if ought we would contemn begin With detestation to despise this sinne Of coveting what 's not our own yet still Covet what 's not our own to have like will With our Divine Creatour that were rather To keep then break the Law of him our Father What should I covet poor babe under age But Christ my elder brother's heritage That and his love I prize all things before And covet I may covet nothing more The third book of MOSES called LEVITICUS 52. The fire shall be ever burning c. ch 6. v. 13. THe Priest lest holy fire should decay Duly each morn did on it fuell lay So lest our fire of zeal should die 't is fit Our prayers each morning give new life to it Whilst we this flame foment we need not doubt But that the fire of Gods wrath will go out This on the Altar of our hearts being kept God us and our peace-offering will accept 53. NADAB and ABIHU burnt ch 10. Your minds were kindled with a strange desire Of offering incense with as strange a fire This 't was incens'd Gods anger made you wish You had been strangers to such deeds as this Fire sent from God your death and ruine was Made heavenly martyrs though not for heav'ns cause Whilst these unsanctified flames you bring Your selves are turn'd to a burnt-offering Sinne-offering you were none since no expence Of sacred fire could expiate your offence Yet a sinne-offering too you were for in Your offering there was nothing else but sinne Had you one spark of grace then had not heaven Needed ethereall fire thus to have
with the beasts Who us'dst each day to frolick it in feasts Thou now a higher then thy self wilt see Since thou' rt deprived of all dignitie 209. DANIEL cast into the lions den ch 6. v. 16. You salvage Monsters crueller by farre Then lions although beasts of prey they are Is thus his piety rewarded then Straight to be thrust into the lions den They say those creatures never harm kings seed But fawn on them 't is true in him indeed Then courage Daniel and pluck up thy heart Thou the adopted sonne of heavens King art 210. His accusers devoured c. ch 6. v. 24. The beasts their stomach now could find at last When who cast him into their den were cast Whose bodies mangled by those lions pow'r A farre worselion did their souls devour HOSEA 211. Come and let us return unto the Lord. ch 6. v. 1. COme jointly let 's return unto the Lord Who made the sore can onely balme afford And th' onely balm our hurt by him thus bound Will be more firm then e're it was a wound He smites but shews his love in smiting best Let us too smite our selves upon the brest Like fawning spaniels let us love the more The Master from whose hands the stroke we bore Whilst thus we undergo these sufferings Each blow is struck will cure the smart it brings 212. Rejoyce not O Israel for joy as other people ch 9. v. 1. But little reason for true joyes have we ' Midst worldly joyes whilst wallowing we be Alas a whoring from our God we 're led And joy in wrongs we do our nuptiall bed Rejoyce not we like other people no But drown false pleasures in th' abysse of wo. This done and God once more propitious No other people ere should joy like us 213. When Israel was a child then I loved him c. ch 11. v. 1. Oraculous sence an Evangelick dream Infolded in abstruse prophetick scheme Epitome of what was past yet doom Of what in future ages was to come A sure foretoken Isr'el was belov'd When for their sake from Egypt God was mov'd To call his sonne and he calls us could we Call on his sacred name uncessantly Since he 's from Egypt call'd there 's little doubt Our souls from thence shall be deliver'd out 214. Who is wise he shall understand these things ch 14. v. the last To understand Gods wayes aright would we We must our selves be right as those wayes be All earthly knowledge too we should decline To gain experience in Gods laws divine This prophet sure the way of wisedome took In it he ends his life with it his book JOEL 215. Awake ye drunkards c ch 1. v. 5. ROuze you from out your death like Lethargy Drunkards that on your couches snorting lie 'Ts not to carouse mistake me not no sack But rather sackcloth 't is my friends you lack The blushing liquour late you drunk I fear Must now grow paler and turn to a tear What makes you look so friday-fac'd to day O're prest with wo our prest wine tane away 'Ts cut from your mouth and with your swill to part No mar'l it cuts you to the very heart 216. Beat your plough-shares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears ch 3. v. 10. Beat up the drummes and sound alarm all-arm Let numerous companies together swarm Beat beat your plough-shares into swords learn now To handle weapons who erst held a plough Turn pruning-hooks to spears and what ere are The instruments of peace let be of warre Ploughs thus employ'd 't will be to us I fear An hard to death a too too plenteous year AMOS 217. Ye who turn judgement to wormwoood and leave off righteousnesse in the earth ch 5. v. 7. IS righteousnesse quite out of fashion then And will you never put it on agen Were you but wise you 'd wear it lest you be Your selves worn out with war and misery And you who justice call a wormwood-cup Shall justly drink a farre more bitter up 218. Behold the dayes come saith the Lord God that I will send a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water c. ch 8. v. 11. A famine yet no want of bread can be Abundance plenty and yet scarcitie Are contrarieties then joyn'd can now A man be hungry and yet filled too Yet so it is although the bodi 's fed The soul may want its food of heav'nly bread Much better 't were the first were pin'd away Then the last have not its ambrosia Yet could we truly hunger for Gods word Heav'ns Granaries abundance would afford 219. Though they dig into hell thence shall mine hand take them ch 9. v. 2. You 'll then dig deep enough I cannot tell A pit you have more title to then hell Or will you climbe 'bove the mid region Where thunder to reward you there is none Yet there you can't stay long your sinnes deny A receptacle for you in the sky That God should take you up from hell prophane 'T is with more force to hurl you down again OBADIAH 220. Behold I have made thee small among the heathen thou art greatly despised v. 2. DEspis'd contemn'd of all the heathen folk Their publick laughing-stock their open talk JONAH 221. JONAH swallowed by a fish ch 1. He 's swallow'd by the whale who doth become To him drown'd yet alive a living tombe Himself inguls'd in double sea he knows Being now truly in the depth of woes But yet the fish quickly disgorg'd him quick And for his welfare was her self sea-sick Though 't was a miracle yet all things scan'd This was the soonest way t' have come to land 222. And the Lord prepared a gourd and made it to come over Jonah c. But God prepared a worm c. ch 4. v. 6.7 How soon grown up and yet how soon 't is gone Ere thought upon Of which longer to write I could afford But I 'll cut short and imitate the gourd MICAH 223. Wo to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds when the morning is light they practise it ch 2. v. 1. HEar God in justice here pronounce a wo On those which they would fain bring others to Who hatch that mischief on their beds which they Intend to perpetrate th' ensuing day Whilst thus they shew their pow'r they 'l understand At last themselves the pow'rs of Gods right hand They merit it whose onely care 's to make Others the more and greater care to take 224. But thou Bethlehem-Ephratah though thou be little amongst the thousands of JUDAH c. ch 6. v. 2. Thrice happy Bethlehem though thou little art Of Judahs thousands scarce the thousandth part Yet out of little thee by Gods fore-doome An immense Saviour was foretold to come This Micah could discern far off his eye Clear'd by bright rayes made it appear more nigh And yet his purblind countrey-men scarce saw The light arising out of Ephratah When we far distant Isles descry
it sure The too near splendour did their sight obscure NAHUM 225. The mountains quake at him and the hills ch 1. v. 6. SEE how the mountains quake as if they meant To th' centre through themselves a way to rent The hils ' gin melt earth burns with a desire She might be turn'd to elementall fire God's present that 's the cause yet all this light Is dim'd by his refulgence farre more bright 226. The ruine of NINEVEH ch 3. Great Nineveh is faln the burden late Good Nahum bore is turn'd upon their state Sad state of things what had so populous been O'rethrown is now depopulated clean Yet were it clean fire never had com there If matter none combustible there were HABAKKUK 227. And the Lord answered and said Write c. c. 2. v. 2. VVHen mute things shall to cry begin O think how crying is thy sinne 228. What profiteth the graven image c. ch 2. v. 18. From him that form'd you you expect no good Yet do from what your selves have formed wood Were you not wood and stonyhearted too You 'd give God his not them what 's not their due Whilst you frame images by hel-bred arts You quite deface Gods image in your hearts 229. Was the Lord displeased against the rivers was thine anger against the rivers was thy wrath against the sea c. ch 3. v. 8. Though figtrees blossome not or blossoming Let fall their scarce-form'd buds blasted i th' spring Though olives bear no fatnesse and the vine Empty of clusters bring no store of wine Yet whilst we have Gods favour oil of gladnesse We ne're shall want of wine to banish sadnesse Though all else barren are we 'll fruitfull be And consecrate our first-fruits Lord to thee ZEPHANIAH 230. And it shall come to passe at that time that I will search erusalem with a candle c. ch 1. v. 12. O Time of dismall darknesse horrid night When heav'n it self is forc'd to use a light Isr'el pursues th' Egyptians sinnes I fear For they have got their quondam darknesse here God lights a candle ' cause you Jews 't is plain Have put out yours and must I fear remain â—n night eternall as your candle you Put out from heav'n you put your selves out too Y' extinguish grace and natures light to dwell Midst th' unextinguishable flames of hell 231. This is the rejoycing citie that dwelt carelesly c. ch 2. v. 15. Ingodly joyes mirth pleasure pride to what A sad condition brought you Judahs state A place for beasts to lie in yet not more â—r viler beasts then there were in 't before What 's Gods they wrest to their destruction Who is indeed and there 's beside him none Yet now with little change 't is made their own They 'r miserable and beside them none HAGGAI 232. Ye have sown much but ye bring in little ye eat but ye have not enough ch 1. v. 6. YOu clothe you but no warmth you get No fire of zeal inflames you yet From hence alas the reason came You cloth'd you not with wooll o th' Lamb. Unholy folk your gains bring curses You put your coin in holely purses Without a bottome for therein You lay the wages up of sinne Which yet I fear you will not lose But keep them to your lives last close Untill they weigh you down that precipice Where like your purses there no bottome is 233. In that day saith the Lord of hosts I will take the sonnes of Zerubbabel and will make them a signet c. ch 2. ver last What greater signe of favour can be had Then thus to be a signet made A signet which was us'd in times of yore On great mens right hands to be wore This grace didst thou Shealtiel's sonne obtain And now dost at Gods right hand reign O grant good God though I a signet ne're Shall prove I may thy impresse bear Vouchsafe I may in these my infant dayes Be made a cignet to resound thy praise ZECHARIAH 234. Yea they made their hearts as an adamant stone lest they should hear the law c. ch 7. v. 12. HArd hearts and yet I fear if all were known Not so precious as that stone If hard as adamant methinks 't were fit Gods laws were in such tables writ But since they will not have it so their sinne Is wrote with lasting characters therein 235. Rejoyce greatly daughter of Sion shout daughter of Jerusalem ch 9. v. 9. As if with aged eyes he could behold What he fore told As if he saw what heav'n is proud of ride Without all pride As if he heard the peoples clamours ringing Hosannah singing He long before might I have a dim cast Of what is past But since I cannot Heav'n reserve a room That I with joy may see the pomp to come 236. And in that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses HOLINESSE UNTO THE LORD ch 14. v. 20. Asses bore holinesse of late and now Must horses too What Aarons bels and plate did whilome bear These beasts must wear Their bridles have 't ingrav'd though their mute tongue Doth want a song Gods servants in their hearts keep holinesse These on their breasts We in the Scriptures and these steeds have it In holy writ MALACHI 237. A sonne honoureth his Father and a servant his Master if then I be a Father where is my honour if a Master where is my fear ch 1. v. 6. A Master fear hath due to him a Syre Doth honour from his progeny require If God our heavenly Father be O where 'S his Honour if a Master where 's his fear If sense of duty nought in us will do Honour for fear fear not to honour though The end of the Old Testament The Gospel of our Saviour JESUS CHRIST According to S. MATTHEW The blessed Virgin O Virgin blest 'bove all in Israel In that th' art mother of Emanuel But O more blest in that thou undefil'd With sin art made the daughter of thy child The nativity of our Saviour JESUS CHRIST ch 2. Emanuel is born O where shall we Blest babe find out thy place and worship thee Where li'st thou at an Inne left I should rove Tell me the signe is' t not the signe of love Let me at thy celestiall manger feed And eat thy body which is bread indeed The heav'ns have sent their starry Messenger To bid my soul take up her lodging here â—…nes which to publick sinnes were once abus'd Are now by us to publick worship us'd Temples farewell heav'n prompts me 't is no sinne â—… such a case to make my Church an Inne The miracle of the loaves ch 15. Thou fed'st their bodies Lord and then Thou brak'st the bread of life agen Who can this wondrous banquet tell But as a double miracle Where to be sure they might be fed Thou mad'st thy body Lord the bread The blind receiving sight ch 20. He gave sight and repentance to the blind At once enlightning
strange So choosing thou wert proud of such a change Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sinne for a season esteeming the reproch of Christ c. ch 11. v. 25 26. Cheap pennieworth affliction when such gain It brings and quits with so much joy our pain Cheap bought yet dearly too since 't doth conferre On us what is both precious and dear Who then can Moses discommend that he Suffer'd reproches so contentedly In case he had deny'd to bear them then He had deserv'd reproch from all good men The Epistle of the Apostle S. JAMES For as the body without the spirit is dead even so c. ch 2. v. 26. YOu boast of faith you say too you have set It safe like jewels in a cabinet Why say you not and I should credit give Almost as soon a carrion corps doth live That doth not breathe nor 's thy faith joyn'd with works I 'd sooner take a charitable Turks And for your cabinet you keep it there So safe that we shall never see 't I fear Therefore to him that knoweth how to do well and doth is not to him it is sinne ch 4. v. 17. Oft with my self as I have musing sate Weighing the foolish and the wise man's state I 've doubtfull been which I might judge the best The wise man knows much good but doeth least The senselesse doltish Idiot without wit Knows nought and naught is able to commit The first Epistle of the Apostle S. PETER For it is better if the will of God be so that ye suffer for well doing then for evil ch 3. v. 17. AFflictions are like med'cines if they be Giv'n to sound bodies go down currently And trouble not but if distempers grow And make the stomach queazy 't is not so They purge and scoure and search till nought remain That 's an ill humour then comes out again So 't is with us If we our selves prepare And with no great offence corrupted are Afflictions seem more sweet but if there lie Upon the soul some foul enormity The burden weighs more heavy and our God Seems angry strikes hard with his iron rod. If I must of that bitter purge partake May 't be for triall not for my sins sake But it is unto them according to the proverb The dog is returned to his own vomit and the some that was washed to her wallowing in the mire ch 2. v. 22. ep 2. When thou art purg'd and cleans'd hast bin Be carefull lest again thou sin Behold the sheep that once being wash't Is wary lest she should be dash't For otherwise 't would labour be in vain To wash to filth to filth to wash again The first Epistle of JOHN He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love ch 4. v. 8. OUr God is love then why should we Live thus in wrath and enmity The blessed Trinity teach us love That we the liker them may prove To tie true-love's-knots now begin But yet at variance be with sin The second Epistle of JOHN For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil works v. 11. TO bid an evil man God speed 'S to be partaker of his deed But if unwittingly I spake My self I conscious did not make But must I first his businesse know Whether it lawfull be or no What need of that leave him to God And unto his revengefull rod Pray then that such who unto sins are bent God would with speed bring them to punishment The third epistle of JOHN But I trust I shall shortly see thee and we shall speak face to face v. 14. A Greater blisse then peace no man can have He that gave peace no doubt all things else gave Peace is the chief of graces for those were Indeed no graces which at discord are They as the Poets fain are link'd in one And virtue makes the full conjunction Behold how this one peace doth prosp'ring blesse All temporall affairs with wish'd successe The earth yields her increase each under 's vine Sits down in peace and drinks of his own wine More joy I cannot wish you then farwell The peace of God be with you where you dwell The epistle generall of JUDE Yet Michael the Archangel when contending with the devil and disputing about the body of MOSES durst not blame him with cursed speaking but said The Lord rebuke thee ver 9. WHat argument of pro and con there was With them I mean not to dispute the case This onely I am certain of the one Would bring no railing accusation For 't was as farre below him to contend In bitter words as was that ugly feind A body mov'd this strife at first 'twixt those Who had no bodies incorporeall foes Michael in his mild words without dispute His words did to mild Moses nature suit The Revelations of JOHN The Revelation of Jesus Christ. ch 1. v. 1. THis revelation in your minds up hoord See Christ the word revealed in his word Behold he cometh with clouds c. ch 1. v. 7. With clouds he comes a cloudy day 't will be With those Lord Jesus who despised thee But to the Saints happy thrice happy houre Those clouds shall melt in a sweet honey showre I am he that liveth and was dead ch 1. v. 18. No death could have the power over thee Thou freely did'st submit thy self to die Thou now dost live in sinnes Lord I am dead Joyn me a member to thy self the head Be thou faithfull unto the death c. ch 2. v. 10. Hast thou begun well so persever Runne on thy race and alter never Hell is their portion who begin In piety and end in sinne And this will be another hell To think that they began so well And I will give thee a crown of life ch 2. v. 10. In the bright throne thou shalt be set About thy head a coronet Thy faithfulnesse and constancy Shall be resounded in the skie And to have got this fame with such renown Shall adde a greater lustre to thy crown I am Alpha and Omega ch 22. v. 13. God's the worlds Alpha its creatour He formed all the works of nature He 'll be the worlds Omega to Bring to wicked men great WO. Here 's first and last for th' middle man who is' t Who can that be but Mediatour Christ Aliud ch 22. v. 13. God doth himself Alph ' and Omega call Yet no beginning hath no end at all Blessed are they that do his commandments ch 22. v. 14. O shut not up the book Ere you a little further look A sweet encouragement Read it i th' close is sent The tree of life is yours Who do endeavour to your pow'rs Gods precepts to fulfill i th' best abode The tree shall yield more fruit to you then you to God Even so Lord Jesus come quickly ch 22. v. 20. Make haste Lord Jesus quickly come And take my wandring spirit home Too long it hath been pleas'd
Lord 's yet on the Crosse but in the even Joseph takes heart of grace prayes to be given To him Christs body Pilate hears him gives What Judas sold by him whose guilt he lives His body is embalm'd O could there be A sent more aromatick then was he Could ought more sovereign then himself be had Heav'ns sovereign precious balm of Gilead Wrapt up in fine white sindon which how e're Cannot his whiter innocence come near Clothe me with that pure raiment that I may Appearing at the last and generall day Not daunted at that great mutation Be found to have my wedding garments on His tomb 's prepared of no rare Architect With Imagery of Persian marble deckt What other ornament could that grave need Wherein our Lord did deign to lay his head From any former dusts pollution free Gods holy one must no corruption see But soft I am too rash that thus dare venture Boldly into this hallow'd place to enter Yet oh e're back I step 't is all I crave To leave my sins behind me in his grave Alas the day-star's clouded from my sight Alas the day rather alas the night The Sun of righteousnesse is set and I Groping to find the way i th' dark must cry At once my Saviour Lord why leav'st thou me The Sunne of righteousnesse is set to rise After repose more splendent in our eyes The Sun of glory 's set what should we do But turn our glory into sadnesse too Set in a sea of bloud who 's he forbears At least to bathe him in a sea of of tears The Sun of glory 's set and I have done Setting a period here with him my Sun An Hymn on the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST 1 HE 's rose not death the power could have To keep him longer in the grave His dusty spoils among He 's rose who set before to rise With greater splendour in our eyes And with him rise my song 2 This tomb in which inclos'd did lie Mortall immortalitie Left widdow'd since he went Though him it could not keep shall be Conserv'd it self in memory Be its own monument 3 How dire a journey did he take Of three dayes travell for our sake Riding his progresse on Conquering even death it self and making The damned fiends agast stand quaking In their own region 4 Who could a fitter Nuncius choose Then some bright cherub for this news Tidings so sweet they are As might create a strife to tell Which doth the other most excell The news or messenger 5 Let superstitious Persians follow With bent knees their ador'd Apollo From his Sabeans nest But my devotions course shall run An heliotropium to that Sun Arising in the East 6 Nor let Astrologers divine Because two sunnes together shine Death will ensue but rather Life which benignely flows from hence Shewn by combined influence Of Spirit Son and Fathèr An Hymn on the glorious Ascension of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ 1 MAke clear thy opticks Soul and view If wonder gives thee leave to see Heav'n comes to claime from earth it 's due Who not content is forc'd t' agree The principall shee holdes it best To pay yet keeps the interest 2 But loth her Lord so soon should hence From some low vaile shee would not let Him part but lingring brought her prince To th' top of high mount Olivet From whence an envious cloud in spight Doth ravish him from humane sight 3 What joyes Heavn's Hierarchy among What peales of Hallelujah's ring The glorified quire ' ginne throng Together to salute their King There gladnesse is on earth greifes swell Wrath envy black despaire in Hell 4 Now thou art rais'd why lingers heere Thy servant in this vale of wo Let him be fixed in a spheare With thee not wander heere below Let him a starre no planet prove A signe in heaven of thy love 5 My loadstone's set aloft attract With thy magnetick force my soule That touched with faiths lively act May turne to thee as to the Pole These are my Oraisons which god fulfill And Christ's ascension bids me hope he will A Hymn on the day of Pentecost 1 HAile o day so highly famed Brighter be thou still returning For thy candour aye be named A white a blest a glorious morning 2 In whose just praise my muse now writing Feares this honour'd feast she wronges Wanting whilst she is reciting What those Saintes had the guift of tongues 3 Tongues as diverse and as many As upon th' Apostles fell Yet amongst them all not any But kindled by the fire of zeale 4 Those their tongues were clove asunder Their praises I intend to joyne Till all as much are fill'd with wonder As they supposed to be with wine 5. But soft rash muse no further venture That heat sure doth not thee inspire Keep aloof and dare not enter Lest thou deserve another fire FINIS