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A52171	Mentis humanæ metamorphosis, sive conversio, The history of the young converted gallant, or, Directions to the readers of that divine poem written by Benjamin Keach, intituled Warre with the devil here shewing the readers thereof how to read the same poem aright in these four respects, viz. I. in reference to the substance or history thereof, II. in reference to the intent or mystery thereof, III. in reference to the consequent doctrine thereof, IV. in reference to practical application thereof / compiled in a poem by J. Mason, Gent. ...; Mentis humanae metamorphosis	Mason, John, fl. 1676-1683.	1676 (1676)	Wing M916; ESTC R7190	51,417	169

Christ is to none that turn to Christ deni'd The smallest grain of Faith in time of need Prevails with him and never fails to speed By whom the peace is made for ever sure 'Twixt God and Man which can and will indure Through a Resigned Will to his good pleasure Taking what he will give and wait his leasure Christs will with mans united in mans heart Make that firm tye which time can never part Grace and free-will set both their Seals thereto Which all the powers of hell cannot undoe But the Seir'd heart whether men chide or praise it No Counsell can to Grace or free-will raise it ●ecause it can no true Repentance find ●or Faith nor Conscience nor least change of mind Thus some attain that everlasting Bliss Which others by neglect for ever miss ●he Saints above in several mansions raigne ●nd several Regions sure in Hell remain ●nd thus according as our works shall be ●ach man receives his Measure and Degree ●is measure and degree in joy or pain ●nd so shall rise in glory or in shame ●he End of the Third Part of this Book and of the Third Direction to the Reader THE Fourth Part of this Book And Fourth Direction TO THE READER OF THE Book aforesaid Concerning the Application thereof in general and in special ☞ The First Application General Directed to all Real Converts and real Readers hereof as lovers of the Truth and as Legitimate and true Christians I Love that Reader who shall view this Book With serious thought and to himself doth look Who learns to read his inward soul thereby And the whole matter to himself apply ●or 't is not made for vain applause or praise Or the vain glory of the Poets Bayes But for a light to every one that reads To guide him right in all his words and Deeds ●nd though some few should give it commendation ●nd thereto set their seal of Approbation Yet he 's the Reader whom my soul most loveth Whom this small Book commendeth and approveth To praise the Truth is but lip-labour vain Except the truth doth him approve again Him do I love whom these lines justifie ●nd so makes good this Converts History And blest is he that rightly can apply This story to himself without a lye ●ea happy is that Convert who can say My Friends 't is I I am this youth this day This day I find and tell what I have found That my Conversion's built upon sure ground ●is no Fiction which was told to you ●y me this day the Story is made true ●ecause I hear and fear and do obey ●nd murder not my Conscience any way And besides this I clearly feel and find Christ's Kingdom ruling in my heart and mind ●nd thereby know I am his promis'd Wife ●nd that my Name stands in the book of Life With all those faithful Converts now at rest 〈◊〉 Abrahams Bosome and their Saviours Breast The Second Application General directed to Apostate degenerate Christendome And all false Hypocritical Christians LEave Christian leave thy old Hypocrisie And learn to own thy close Adultery Which thou do'st act as I before have told In the wrong use of Creatures manifold Leave leave thy Church and good books read no more Till thou for shame leav'st playing of the Whore Though to thy self thou may'st seem chast and just The Holy Law will manifest thy Lust For all Gods laws and each Commandement Were writ by his own hand and so were sent Into the World to teach man how to serve And Worship him without a close reserve In spirit and in truth man must obey them Without excuse and in no wise betray them Watch therefore thy false Heart thine eye and ear And keep within the bounds of holy fear Have a suspition and just jealousie O're thy best deeds thy zeal and piety ●rove thy Conversion out that it be right ●east thou be found within the ballance light When Law and Death before Christ's Throne shall cite thee ●nd with a Cat'logue of thy sins Indite thee ●nd tell thee how thy Conscience thou hast slain ●nd Crucifi'd the Lord of Life again Thy light thou hast extinguisht oft in Theft ●o many Murders and Adulteries left Which thou count'st good and lawful for thy part ●ecause Gods Law 's not written in thy heart But now be wise and just why wilt thou dye ●●ke to a fool in thy Hypocrisie Learn to escape O man that secret snare Of the Great Whore by which most ruin'd are To the Female Sex in General Gentry and others AN honest Wife in some respects may be Her Husbands Whore when both in sin a●gree Yea she that ne're knew Man may be a Whore To her own self and to a thousand more When Woman of Mans Rib at first was made She was ordain'd for his meet help and aid But she became his Murderer in part A deadly wound she gave him to the heart For she soon turn'd unfaithful and unjust And so upstart his Whore in Pride and Lust. His Wife became his Whore and tempted him To Whoredom first by acting unknown sin For till that time sin was as yet unknown Though now with men women common grown Thus in the sin the woman was the first And man the next so both became accurst ●et when to God their Whoredom they confess'd ●●eir curse was taken off their Marriage blest And to this day most women act the woman Eve first did by tempting to undoe man 〈◊〉 so to boot undo themselves for ever ●hen death at last shall soul and body fever ●●less they first turn Converts in their lives ●nd so become true Virgins and true Wives For lo this story doth concern you all ●f that fair Sex and sounds a General call ●oth to the Married and Unmarried lass 〈◊〉 view themselves in this unspotted glass ●hat e're is said of this young Gallant here ●●tends to every Female far and neer For Lust and Pride is their Inheritance 〈◊〉 they run on within the Devil's dance ●●om head to foot they put his livery on ●all vain fashions by the vain begun 〈◊〉 meats and drinks in cloaths and dresses brave ●hich many damn but never any save And thus they play the Whore with ev'ry creature 〈◊〉 several Fashion and of several Feature ●he very Church is now become a Stage ●f all She-Gallantry this wanton age ●he poor do act the rich the rich each evil 〈◊〉 Eve when first she hearkned to the Devil And so her Maydenhead she lost though young Unto the Devil by a Serpents Tongue And thus the Serpent in you seems to dwell Of him you savour and of him do smell Your wanton nimble Tongues so full of Tattle Within your lips incessantly do rattle Tale upon tale and story upon story Boasting and telling of your own fine glory Thus on you go in Pride in Lust in Lying O that you went as fast in self-denying That in this worst last age you all might be The

delicious fare and cheer And for the feeling she those snares doth fit As have drawn millions to the lowest pit And thus the seaven deadly sins come in Where ere this Whore doth set her snare or gin For like as tempting Dalilah did intrap Strong Sampson sleeping careless in her lap Whilst she his hair did shave where his strength lay And to his enemies did her Love betray Who in brass fetters did strong Sampson bind Put out his eyes and forced him to grind Ev'n such are all who to this world consent All are betray'd who take therein content This story to them all may well belong Both high and low the valiant wise and strong For all they have or know or wish or see Or love and like their Dalilah may be And whilst I write these things I see what I Am of my self ' though to these things I dye I see sometimes I should the good reject Did not meer Grace the better part elect So quickly man is caught within the snare If he keep not his eyes awake with care An Apology for the Creatures Good in their Kind and blest of the Creatour YEt all the Creatures in themselves are good If rightly us'd for cloathing and for Food And this the Poets all and Sages old Amongst the Heathen wisely taught and told With little man lives best Nature doth give Blessings to all if men knew how to live And without doubt a mortifyed soul That rightly drinks of the Communion Bowle Though he should deck himself in cloath of Gold Or richest Robes with Jewels manifold Would be as poor as Adam cloath'd in skins Whil'st he remembers all his former sins Rich cloaths rich fare he safely can enjoy If cause require yet not his soul annoy But where 's the Man now lives that can do this And not be tempted by a worldly bliss But what 's the Tempter Surely mans own will ●nd lustful temper choosing what is ill The Creatures are no Whores nor do I mean That they are fowle but in themselves full clean God hath ordain'd them all for mans best use They of themselves cause not their fowl abuse But man in Lust doth offer violence To all the Creatures through his whoring sense Yea all the creatures groan and all complain Of that hard Bondage which they still sustain The Fruit Forbidden did not play the Whore But man transgres'd in midst of all his Store Of all the Trees most freely he might eat And onely One excepted for his meat That was no meat for him and to this day That Law doth hold and man must it obey The Creatures are no Whores nor act a sin But the fowl Lust of Man conceiv'd therein The sinful hankering appetite doth long To have its will fullfill'd be 't right or wrong And thus much of this First sense charming Strum●pet I next must sound the Second Ladies Trumpet And because few or none do write thereof I 'le tell the Truth though all the world shoul● laugh The Second Temptation General followeth The Fourth Intent and Fourth Mystery of Iniquity Touching the second Daughter of Mammon or Second Temptation General THough Whores and Whoredomes both of various kind And various shape throughout the world we find Yet the most Glorious and Brave Whore of all ●s that which most Gentility do call As like unto her Sister every way As like may be but that she goes more gay And some suppose them Twins both of a Birth So both one Mother have and both from Ea●th From Earth this Harlot came yet mounts on high And lifts her head up to the Starrie Sky But lifted up anon she falls down right Like to a Star-faln Gelly in the night A false appearance and deceivtng vapour An Ignis Fatuus and a short-liv'd Taper A madness and a folly void of reason Or like dead Salt when it hath lost it's season The First did only catch the outward sense But this flyes higher in a brave pretence A Hellish Spirit risen from the Earth To fill the world with its Infectious Breath For it is not of God nor of that Spirit By which our Lord did Mans Redemption merit An high conceit and vain imagination Without an Ens or Substance Ground or Station In all the forms of Life there 's no such feature No such Created thing such kind of creature And let the great'st or best Logician With all his Art define it if he can Give me the Genus or the Species to it Or an Essential Difference to know it For 't is no real thing no shape or sound Nor such a name in all the Scripture found There 's no such being such an uncooth Stature In all the works of God or forms of Nature Vertue 't is not nor that which we call Grace Nor is it beauty in Mans soul or face Many poor souls more vertuous far do live More beautious shine then some who Arms do give A Monster strange compos'd of several shapes Of Birds and Beasts of Lyons Woolves and Apes From Pride of life it had its first beginning And ever since hath multiply'd by sinning By Fraud and Force Ambition Lust and Pride With bloudy Wars and thousand sins beside A Guilded Outside and an empty Bubble Yet full of splendid fears and cares and trouble The meanest Jewel in a Golden Crown And soon Eclips'd when God for sin doth frown What pen can write the several Fornications Of this red Whore and her abominations For she can seem an Angel pure in sight And yet can rob and steal and kill and fight Thousands there are I pitty to relate By her quite lost both body soul and state A dangerous Rock where their fair Vessels Split And few there be who are aware of it Yet sad examples many we may see Of shame and want in their posterity In every office function trade and art If you keep not a watch she 'l win your heart For in the Heart as in a Temple gay She loves to sit and rule and bear the sway And there 's no heart that 's free in Church or Chancel Till God and Grace this inbred Pride do Cancel Till time doth come that she must be reveal'd Who in the heart so closely lay conceal'd So natural is this kind of pride to all So deeply rooted and original And this original sin as close doth stick Unto the flesh as Horse-leech or as Tick Sucking mans bloud so he in bloud delights Of bloud he brags for birth and bloud he fights For 't is a general taint in each degree From which by birth no man or woman's free Examples hereof THe poorest Rogue that goes from door to door Bears in his breast this Gallant Gentile Whore Oft have I seen a Beggar rent and torn Tell a brove tale how highly he was born Sure were it possible he would lay down His Rags for Robes his old Cap for a Crown Might pride prevail there then would be no odds 'Twixt high and low