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

DIVINE BLOSSOMES A PROSPECT or LOOKING-GLASS For YOUTH Wherein and whereby he may plainly behold and see a Supereminency and Superexcellency of Grace and Religion beyond the Worlds Honor Glory Fame Repute Pleasure Joy Delight Love And all other lower Accommodations whatsoever Laid down to Youth by Exciting Parallel Between Earths Honor and Heavens Glory Between Carnal Pleasure and Spiritual Pleasure Between Inordinate Love and Divine Love Under every of which particulars the Author Exemplarily expesseth himself in a varied verse Composed by a hearty Wel-wisher to the Youthful Generation FRANCIS COCKIN aliàs COKAYNE Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy Youth Eccl. 12. Delight thy self in the Lord and he shall give thee thy Hearts desire Psal 35. 4. I love them that love me and they that seek me early shall find me Prov. 8. London Printed by W. G. for E. Farnham at the entrance into Popeshead-alley out of Cornhill 1657. To the Generation of Youth TEnder Reader knowing how much youthfull yearts delight in eating early fruit though green and so unwholsome I therefore here present thee with a dish of early fruit yet mature and ripe and therefore no whit dangerous to thy greedy stomack therefore accept it willingly and with safety fall to with courage And much good may it do thee Onely let me request thee to use civill behaviour in thy so doing be sober be serious read understandingly apply diligently and practise conscionably the precepts here given thee For thy good profit and incouragement I have vouchsafed to expresse my self unto thee what thou hast heard of me by me in me and from me do therefore and take all in Love from him that seeks most heartily and with the strength of his Soul thy eternal wellfare and Gods glory in thee Ely July 1656. F. C. To the most famous renowned Mr. George Wither Worthy Sir ALL happiness and peace I wish you And having been very desirous since the first time I ever met with ought of yours to gratifie you according to your worth and desert and finding no means and wayes thereunto I have deigned to present these few Pages unto you thereby to testifie in part the high esteem and honorable respect that I adjudge you worthy of Sir accept of this in love pass your candid censure of it and though the Phrases and Style be mean let the Matter and Drift excuse it Again considering by me 't was penn'd in a few dayes with much haste and past from me immediately no person fitter then your self to patronize these Artless Lines could I find because your Youthful years were in the same manner spent Sir I am Yours most ready to serve you in ought FRANCIS COKAINE Courteous Reader LEt me request thee when ever thou findest any fault in the sense or Verse to mend it as is hereunder specified the Authors absence having occasioned several mistakes PAg. 1. Staff 4. l. 4. strange r. strong st 5. l. 2. in slavish r. give slavish p. 12. st 3. l. 3. r. scatter'd strength p. 19. st 30. l 2. r. with those p. 20. st 34. l. 5. Joy r. Toy p. 25. st 54. 4. redeem r. esteem p. 29. st 70. Heads r. Hestos p. 31. st 79. l. 3. use r. case p. 32. st 82. l. 1. besides r. repel or resist p. 33. st 87. l. 6. months r. moments p. 34. st 90. l. 5. r. lavish cups p. 42. st 98. l. 6. never r. ever p. 45. st 110. l. 6. be●ded bow r. bend and bow p. 66. st 24. l. 6. r. but dim p. 69. st 34. l 3. was pric'd p. 92. st 13. 3. r. sure small dispute p. 93. st 16. l 4. ful possessor p. 94. st 20. l. 1. r. Queer of Heaven p. 117. st 30. l 7. r. motions The Contents of the Book FIrst the invocation presents it self wherein the Authour craves Gods divine assistance and gracious acceptance in and of the intended work Then by way of Introduction proves his own fi●nesse to the worke Gives a word or two to Parents about the educating their children and declares the manner of their greeting them in Hell hintes some matters to Superiors and so procceds to the work it self Wherein the Authour First begins to excite youth to seek after God and glory from the heat of his Spirit aspiring to honour declares the high worth of the engagement And forasmuch as the heart of youth is ambitious of fame glory and renown gotten and won by valiancy in desperate and dangerous attempts therefore the Author describes the might strength and power of that grand Christian enemy And stirs up the courage of youth to engage in the quarrel against him by several encouraging motives Declares the worth of that that lies at stake and must else be lost and then the worthy renown and glory that may be obtain'd by a couragious encounter against fleshly lusts As also relates an Onenesse that is between Christs Spirit and the Spirit of him that opposes the motions of sin they both joyn to do the same work c. Shews that according to the employment so should the reward be Then for the further encouragement and stronger excitement of youth to seek God and Glory the Author expresses himself and declares at what a rate he sets the service of God the contempt that he hath of the world and all things in the world in respect of that honourable service By a brief survey of all that the world affordeth he proves and declares all therein to be non-satisfactory and insufficient to the desire of the Soul of man Then insisting upon the second point viz. pleasure First he shews the congruity that is between it and the nature of youth declares the effects of pleasures and to what they tend by instance And gives sound counsell therefrom to youth in respect of Soul-demeanment Then the Author layes down the rist of pleasure declaring what it is that makes pleasure And shews by similitude the woful and dangerous estate of a vain luxurious Spirit Declares in a word or two the unmatchlesse worth of the Soul and reasons somwhat from that thence its freedome In sadnesse of heart declaring the abasement of the Soul by sin hints at the reward of sin by way of arguing Proves the soul Christs purchase and discourse● somewhat therefrom Then layes down some Solid instructions to youth how and whereby he should get free from sinnes slavery and get the conquest of every hellish enormity Describes the bliss that thereby his soul shall procure to it self viz. the presence of Christ and sanctification by his Spirit acceptance of God through him and adornment with his graces lays down the paralell of the present estate with the estate past and describes some excellent peculiar Christian privileges Then describes pleasure to be a painted strumpet propounds 4 Questions to youth from whence he gives him to understand how dear bought all the pleasures of sin are Describes the miserable slavery and servitude of sin And

Shall cease to be yea cease for ever And fierce fire this world shall burn Say then shall she Lo This is he That I have waited so upon 14 Behold him now with glory claded And his great Majestick train Oh now how my soul is gladded I shall with him e'r remain With Angels I Eternally Shall praise him in melodious strain 15 Then will he in glory throne me With his sacred Majesty He as his dear spouse will own me I shall bide e'r in his eye And live by love Of him above In heaven to all eternity 16 To such a Spouse as thus'll advance me Say may I be coy to love At what a rate should I inhaunce me With what hatred to sin move How coy how shie With heart defie It seing he me terms his Dove 17 My noble spirit scorns the abasement Of the servitude of sin It puts her beauties to defacement Blasts and stains her Lilly-skin Far may it be The refore from me Its pleasures by such losse to win 18 No Sin avaunt my Soul doth loath thee Thou dost of my beauty spoyl me Begon I say my Soul abhors thee Thy pleasures do not please but toyl me Thy delights My Soul affrights And thy ease doth greatly foyl me 19 My Virgin-Soul's of noble birth Of his royal blood descended That is Lord of Heaven and Earth Therefore ought to be attended As such a One And not alone Left for to be by Sin offended 20 O Sin Thou base foul Blackamore Hell's off-spring and by Devils nurst That part'st from God for evermore And mak'st all like thy self accurst Thou deadly Foe Far from me go Into my presence do not thrust 21 For I am a Maid of Honour Spoused to God's only Son O're whom he displayes his Banner And thereby hath conquest won 'T is vain for you Therefore to sue Bold Sin avaunt away be gone 22 A chaste Virgin I must keep me Till the day of Marriage come At which time who should may reap me Giving unto me this doom True hast thou been As I have seen To me Therefore enjoy me Come 23 I know my Lord views my behaviour I know he notes each gesture well He regards how I him favour And whereupon my thoughts do dwell My Virgin Soul If she prove foul Must with the Devils bide in Hell 24 Loathsome Sin begone far from me I dare not lodge thee No I dare not Thou brings grief and horrour to me Therefore for thy joyes I care not Thy seeming joyes Are sad annoyes Shall I transgresse O No I dare not 25 What shall such a one as I am Prostitute my self to sin No its pleasures I defie em And its waies to persist in No I may not Give place a jot For the disgrace of my kin 26 Shall I dare my self to banish From my souls own native soyle For sins sake that soon doth vanish And my choicest pleasures spoyl Oh! sure I won't Therefore sin don 't Disturb me more keep such a coyle 27 Shall I be bewitcht with evil So as with my God to part Give my members to the Devil And with them my mind and heart Make I no more To play the whore And from my loved Lord to start 28 No I am a Virgin sworn Unto great Jehovahs Son And my Virgin soul doth scorn To be by another won To do an act Or any fact That he prohibits to be done 29 For life's to me far less dearer Than his pretious matchless love Oh that that I were to him nearer In his glorious house above Him to enjoy Without annoy And never more from him to move 30 Dearest Lord let me for ever While I in this vale abide Be disserted of thee never What ills e'r so me betide So sin shall be Abhor'd by me And all its motives e'r deny'd 31 For thy looks revive my spirit And new life therein inspire They do give me to inherit Those delights that I desire Accord to me Let me them see And so they never shall expire 32 Most Endeared let me woo thee With thy Counsels me to guide And that nothing may undo me Let thy presence with me bide And so shall I Most constantly Keep close unto thy foot and side FINIS THere is another Book composed long since by this same Authour shewing the Souls Conversation with God Contemplation in God Supplication to God Adoration of God and containing several Love Sonnets and Ejaculations breathed forth according to the several Estates and Conditions of the Soul laid down in several Odes as Occasion permitted the Authour Wherein and whereby may be understood the manner of the Authours Life and Carriage from time to time which the Authour gave forth to the Press long since whatever is become of it to the which this Quotes and would be of great use to go along with this