my Exaltation His Death my Life Liberty and Glory His Love my Strength And the incentive of mine His Resurrection my Release His Ascension my Triumph His Gospel my Joy The Light of his Countenance And of thine in him My Reviving Healing Comforting Sun In the day of thy Grace let me work for thy Glory Rejoyce in thy Goodness And according to the wideness of mine Understanding The Greatness of my Soul The Liberty of my Thoughts Walk at large In all the Regions of Heaven and Earth In all the Regions of Time and Eternity Living in thine Image Towards all thy Creatures On Angels wings Holy Meditations According to the transcendent Presence of my Spirit everywhere Let me see thy Beauties Thy Love to me To all thy Creatures In the First Creation In the Government of Ages In the Day of Judgment In the Work of Redemption In My Conception and Nativity In All my Deliverances In The Peace of my Country In Noah's Ark. With Moses and David Let me behold thy ways Delight in thy Mercies Be praising thee O shew me the excellency of all thy works In the Eternity that is before the World began let me behold the beauty of thine everlasting Counsels And in the Eternity which appeareth when the World is ended let me see thy Glory O God of infinite Majesty now I confess that the Knowledge I have of thee is admirable by that which I discover in my self for if in a thing so gross as is my Body there be a Spirit so noble as is my Soul which giveth it Being and Life governeth it and in it and by it worketh such stupendious things how much more necessary is it that thou be in the midst of this extended World who art that supream Spirit by whom we all are live move and have our being Since therefore thou art my Being and my Life thou art my Soul too and I rejoice to have thee for my 〈◊〉 loving thee infinitely more than my stlf O that all did know thee and love thee more than their Life and their own Soul since thou art the true Life and Soul of all To whom be Glory Honour and Praise for evermore Amen Thanksgivings for the Glory of God's Works BLess the Lord ye his Angels that excel in strength that do his Commandments hearkening to the Voice of his word Bless the Lord all ye his hosts ye Ministers of his that do his pleasure Bless the Lord all his WORKS in all places of his Dominion Bless the Lord O my soul. Psal. 103. 21 22 23. O Lord our God how excellent is thy Name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the Heavens Psal. 8. 1. When I consider the Heavens the work of thy fingers the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained What is Man that thou art mindful of him or the Son of Man that thou visitest him For thou 〈◊〉 made him a little lower than the Angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour Thou madest him to have Dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his fect All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field The fowl of the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas Psal. 8. 3 4 c. O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the world Thy works O Lord are for ever to be remembred The earth is full of thy riches The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof the world and they that dwell therein Psal. 24. 1. The heavens are the Lords but the earth hath he given to the children of men As we are visible Bodies Conversing here beneath He hath given us the Earth To his Image As we are invisible and immortal Souls Hath he given the heavens And the heaven of heavens The woods and trees and fields and valleys hast thou subjected to the Government and work of our hands The heaven of heavens to our Understand To see their glory ings Admire their greatness Enjoy their delight Possess their treasures Rejoyce in their hosts And 〈◊〉 thy 〈◊〉 Mines of gold and veins of silver The variety of precious stones Diversity of minerals Iron Brass Copper Lead and Tin Carbuncles Emeralds Pearls Diamonds All these Hast thou given to our bodies Subjected the same to the use of our hands That we might beautify the earth With Crowns and Scepters Regal Thrones Palaces and Temples Pillars Castles Cities Closets Jewels Rings Chains Ornaments Delectable things Which by the Use of all men Become the fruition Of every holy and wise Spectator Oyl and Wine Perfumes and Spices Wheat and Rye Fruits and Flowers Hast thou given to us to delight our Senses Apples Citrons Limons Dates and Pomgranates Figs Raisins Grapes and Melons Plumbs Cherries Filberts Peaches Are all thy riches for which we praise and bless thy Name Clouds and Vapours glorify thee By serving us Springs and Rivers praise thy Name Being far more precious than gold and silver The Day is thine the Night also is thine thou hast prepared the Light and the Sun Thou hast set all the borders of the Earth thou hast made Summer and Winter He appointed the Moon for seasons the Sun knoweth his going down O Lord how manifold are thy works In wisdom hast thou made them all the Earth is full of thy riches These serve us in their glorious heights so perfectly that we cannot alter their course because we cannot mend their Operation The Fowls and Fishes Beasts and creeping things Hast thou made ours By giving them Excellencies meet to serve us Strength Swifrness Fat Skin Hair Wool Flesh Sinews Veins and Senses By giving us Understanding and Bodies to subdue them By giving us a Right and Dominion over them For all these O Lord I bless and glorify thy Holy Name And give Thee Thanks So Glorious are thy Works that Skies full of Pearl Globes of Gold Spheres of Silver greater than the Earth are Dross and Poverty in Comparison of thy Treasure All which thou offerest me to partake of The Duty to which thou hast called me Is greater than my Wealth To contemplate thy Glory The Excellency of thy Wisdom 〈◊〉 Infinite Goodness The Riches of thy Love To me thy unworthy Servant Exhibited in those Their Value Fulness Ministery My Right Interest Property Thy Blessedness Mercy Favor And in all these My Wonderful Exaltation with thee my God Blessed is the Man whom thou chusest and causest to approach unto thee that he may Dwell in thy Courts He shall be satisfied with the Goodness of thy House even of thy Holy Temple They also which Dwell in the Utmost parts are afraid of thy Tokens thou makest the Outgoings of the Morning and Evening to rejoyce Thon visitest the Earth and waterest it thou greatly Enrichest it with the River of God which is full of Water Thou preparest them Corn when thou hast so provided for it Thou waterest the Ridges thereof abundantly thou
shine as the Sun In thy heavenly Kingdom From whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ. Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself Then shall each Limb a spring of Joy be found And ev'ry Member with its Glory crown'd While all the Senses fill'd with all the Good That ever Ages in them understood 〈◊〉 are Containing Worlds of Treasure At one Delight with all their Joy and Pleasure From whence like Rivers Joy shall overflow Affect the Soul though in the Body grow Return again and make the Body shine Like Jesus Christ while both in one combine Mysterious Contracts are between the Soul Which touch the Spirits and by those its Bowl The Marrow Bowels Spirits melt and move Dissolving ravish teach them how to love He that could bring the Heavens thro the Eye And make the World within the Fancy lie By beams of Light that closing meet in one From all the Parts of his celestial Throne Far more than this in framing Bliss can do Instame the Body and the Spirit too Can make the Soul by Sense to feel and see And with her Joy the Senses wrap'd to be Yea while the Flesh or Body subject lies To those Aflections which in Souls arise All holy Glories from the Soul redound And in the Body by the Soul abound Are felt within and ravish ev'ry Sense With all the Godheads glorious Excellence Who found the way himself to dwell within As if even Flesh were nigh to him of kin His Goodness Wisdom Power Love divine Make by the Soul convey'd the Body shine Not like the Sun that earthly Darkness is But in the strengths and heights of all this bliss For God designs thy Body for his sake A Temple of the Deity to make But now O Lord how highly great have my Transgressions been who have abused this thy glorious Creature by Surseiting and Excess by Lust and Wantonness by Drunkenness by Passion by immoderate Cares excessive Desires and earthly Fears Yea had I been guilty of none of those had no Lies and Oaths polluted my Tongue no vain Imaginations 〈◊〉 my Heart no stealing my Hands nor idle Speeches profaned mine Ears Yet have I been wholly estranged from thee by the sinful Courses of this World by the Delusions of vain Conversation Being unsensible of these things I have been blind and dead profane and stupid seared and ingrateful and for living beneath such a glorious Estate may justly be excluded thine everlasting Kingdom Enable me to keep thy Temple 〈◊〉 Which thou hast prepared for thy self Turn away mine Eyes From beholding Vanity Enable me to wash my hands in Innocency That I may compass thme altar about And list up my Hands To thy Holy Oracle Put a Watch over the Door of my Lips That I speak not unadvisedly with my Tongue Let my Glory awake early in the morning To bring praises unto thee Enter O Lord the Gates of my Heart Bow down the Heavens O Lord And break open those Everlasting Doors That the King of Glory may enter in Let the Ark of thy Presence rest within me Let not Sin reign in our mortal Bodies that we should obey it in the Lusts thereof Neither let us yield our Members as instruments of Unrighteousness unto Sin but let us yield our selves to God as those that are alive from the Dead and our Members as Instruments of Righteousness to God Rom. 6. My Beloved put in his Hand by the Hole of the Door and my Bowels were moved for him I rose up to open to my beloved and my Hands dropped with Myrrh and my singer with sweet smelling Myrrh upon the Handles of the Lock O my beloved be not as a Wayfaring Man that turneth aside to tarry but for a Night Thou hast ravished mine Heart with one of thine Eyes How fair is thy Love my Sister my Spouse How much better is thy Love than Wine and the smell of thine Oyntments than all Spices Thy Lips O my Spouse drop as an Hony Comb Hony and Milk are under thy Tongue and the small of thy Garments is as the smell of Leb mon Or ever I was aware my Soul made me like the Chariots of Aminadab Return O my Love I would lead thee and bring thee Into my Mothers House I would kiss thee yet should I not be despised O let me live in thy Bosom for ever O Infinite God Center of my Soul Convert me powerfully unto thee that in thee I may take Rest for thou didst make me for thee and my heart 's unquiet till it be united to thee And seeing O Eternal Father thou didst create me that I might love thee as a Son give me Grace that I may love thee as my Father O only begotten Son of God Redeemer of the World seeing thou didst Create and Redeem me that I might Obey and Imitate thee make me to Obey and Imitate thee in all thy imitable Persection O Holy Ghost seeing thou didst create me to Sanctify me do it O do it for thine own Glory that I may acceptably praise and serve the holy and 〈◊〉 Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity Amen Let all thy Creatures bless thee O Lord and my Soul praise and bless thee for them all I give thee Thanks for the being thou givest unto the Heavens Sun Moon Stars and Elements to Beasts Plants and all other Bodies of the Earth to the Fowls of the Air the Fishes of the Sea I give thee thanks for the beauty of Colours for the harmony of Sounds for the pleasantness of Odours for the sweetness of Meats for the warmth and softness of our Raiment and for all my five Senses and all the Pores of my Body so curiously made as before recited and for the Preservation as well as Use of all my Limbs and Senses in keeping me from Precipices Fraetures and Dislocations in my Body from a distracted discomposed confused discontented Spirit Above all I praise thee for manifesting thy self unto me whereby I am made capable to praise and magnify thy name for evermore Thanksgivings for the Soul I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all Generations And the Heavens shall praise thy Wonders O Lord thy faithfulness also in the Congregation of the Saints The Heavens shall praise thy Wonders But more the Powers of my immortal Soul Which thou hast made more excellent than the Clouds and greater than the Heavens O Lord I rejoyce and am exceeding glad Because of thy Goodness In Creating the World In Giving Brightness to the Sun In Ruling the Sea In Framing the Limbs and Members of my Body But much more abundantly For the Glory of my Soul Which out of Nothing thou hast builded To be a Temple unto God A living Temple of thine Omnipresence An understanding Eye A Temple of Eternity
Bosom all the treasures Of God Angels and Men Make all the enjoyments of Kingdoms ours Teach us to enjoy all thy Works and Holy Ways In the best of manners In the fulness of their service To Angels and Men Direct us to the End for which we were Created Are answerable to the Nature and Powers Of our Souls Shew that thou lovest us infinitely Since thou hast given us all things Among those in those by those thyself Are Laws sit for the Bride of God Articles of Marriage between us and thee The Copy of thy Bosom The Commentaries of Heaven and Earth Teaching us how they are all to be enjoyed Ordinances of thy House for the Sons of God Consonant to thy Nature Suitable to thy Works The very Laws which Angels keep in Heaven Requiring duties that are the Works of Glory Fixing us to thee Making us to live here in Heaven Even thou O Lord By Goodness inheritest thy Self and all Things Is it not my Joy Is it not a part of the beatifical Vision To see how perfectly thy Goodness loveth us How it enjoyeth all things for our sakes O God I love thy Goodness Delight in thy Nature Rejoyce in this that thou takest perfect pleasure In glorifying thy Wisdom And Power infinitely So to exalt us Who will not delight in being beloved of thee Yet that is all which thy Laws require When we are commanded to love thee To love thy Goodness To rejoyce in thy Favour To prize thy loving Kindness according to the Value And Glory of it Who being infinite Love Love unto us Exaltest thy Sovereignty Exaltest thy Wisdom Exaltest thy Power In all places of thy Dominion To Magnifie thy Sons To Adorn thy Bride To Enrich thy Servants Thy Laws O God Are the perfect Laws of Right Reason Nature speaks them Eternity rewards them Reason asserts them Wisdom suggests them Interest and self love doth prompt them Thy Benefits oblige us to them The Beauty of Holiness is exceeding Wonderful In one act all Gratitude Obedience together Goodness Blessedness together Wisdom Glory together To prize all things according to their value being The Perfect Work of Right Reason The Fulfilling of all Laws The Answer of all Obligations The Payment of all Gratitude The Way to all Rewards The Fruition of them Whereby we are in one Thy Servants Sons Thy Bride Image Objects of Delight to Almighty God The Joy of Angels The beautiful Possessors of Heaven and Earth Advanced to thy Throne Crowned with thy Glory By prizing we receive all thy Treasure By feeling we enjoy it By valuing we feel it By enjoying it We Glorisie thee Acknowledge thy Goodness Admire thy Power Fullfil the Work for which we were made Satisfie thy Design Accomplish the End of the whole Creation Therefore I love thy Commandments above Gold yea above fine Gold I esteem all thy Precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way How marvellous is thy loving Kindness O Lord How great is thy Goodness whichthou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thouhast wrought for them that put their trust in thee before the Sons of Men Having laid infinite Obligations upon us Thou commandest us to be Happy And With infinite Rewards recompencest Those That keep thy Commandments How excellent are thy Laws to me in particular They Require all Angels Cherubim and Men to delight in and promote my Happiness They command Kings Emperours To take care of and love me Wise Men Apostles To take care of and love me Patriarchs Prophets To take care of and love me Saints and Martyrs To take care of and love me Among Cherubim and Angels Command them to love and delight in all those whom I love and whom as my Friends and Brethren I love to see beloved delighted in and honored Command me those Duties which make me a Sovereign a supreme Blessing a Delight an inestimable Joy to the whole World Require me to do no other things than those only whereby I enjoy my supreme Happiness Make me a Delight to God himself who rejoyceth to see me enjoy his Happiness Command Cherubim Angels and Men to do me those services every one of which is More Sweet More Profitable More Amiable More Delightful More Satisfactory Than Seas of Amber Mountains of Pearls Thousands of Gold and Silver Which Works are To Love each other To Praise God To Behold his Works To Enjoy his Blessedness Ordaining them each to live perpetually in the Similitude of his HOLY LIFE Which is an endless Sphere of beautiful Delights Prepared for the enjoyment of me his servant O my God! Thy Laws are so convenient for every Soul As if they were prepared for him alone So perfectly promote the happiness of all As if nothing were regarded But the Publick Peace of the whole World They banish all things Evil from the Earth Anger Malice Injustice Oppression Covetousness Ambition Cruelty Pride Disorder War Those bitter Roots of Gall and Wormwood That would spoyl even Heaven being there They introduce all things good And profitable to Men Order Humility Love Wisdom Knowledge 〈◊〉 Justice Contentation Peace Security Joy Glory Establish the Happiness of all the Earth Make all things conspire for each others felicity Create a Benevolence in every Soul to all the World Make all the Sons of Men In their Actions Thoughts and Persons Like the holy Angels All A Blessing to each other All Like God the enricher of our happiness The world a Paradice Every one in it the heir of it They interpret and enrich the Works of God Which by serving all are serviceable to each While we like God Above the Sun the Stars the Skies Are a mutual Joy in all Generations And Thee Which is the greatest Benefit of all Being faithfully kept they allure to dwell Well pleased among us O make me to understand the way of thy Precepts so shall I talk of thy wondrous works Disguised Duties Real Joys Having prepared for us such inestimable Treasures Nature it self requires us To See the Beauty that is in them To Love their Goodness To Rejoyce in their Glory Thy Laws are exceeding Righteous because they require what Right requires Infinitely Righteous and strangely so Because they command what Reason Wills What Wisdom it self Nature urges Thy Goodness by commanding us to live happily having shut up in one all Perfections It is Right O Lord That we should Understand thy Love Be sensible of thy Benefits we receive from Thee Answer the Obligations that lie upon us Live in thine Image towards all thy Creatures Prize every thing according to its Value Satisfie the Powers of our immortal Souls By sixing them on their proper Objects in a Blessed manner Do that which leadeth us to Bliss Accomplish the End for which we came into the World Be Delights like Thee To thine Eternal Majesty All these in one Work do thy Laws command How sweet are thy words unto my taste yea sweeter than honey to my mouth
breaking their Covenant Casting them off Dispersing them throughly Punishing them with Destruction In revenge of the Murder of Jesus Christ. Now if the Fall of them be the Riches of the World and the Demolishing of them the enriching of the Gentiles how much more their fulness Rom. 11. 12. What shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead Rom. 11. 14. Restore them O Lord That as we have obtained Mercy Through their unbelief So they by our Mercy and our Faith prevailing may obtain Mercy The death of Jesus that universal Benefit Spreads from a Centre Through all the World And is wholly the Joy of all People The Patience of Job was once obscure Which is now the Publick Right Of Mankind The Cross of Christ exceeding vile Yet now in my Closet my perfect Treasure Pregnant Signes What infinite Depths may lie concealed In the rude appearance of the smallest Actions A world of Joys hid in a Manager For me for every one His Cross a prospect of eternal Glory Sheweth that All things are treasures infinitely Diffusive Earthly Occurrences celestial Joys For the Learning of the Fathers I glorisie Thee More for the Labors of the holy Apostles My crown and my joy Their Persecutions are my Glory Their Doctrine my Foundations Their Sweat my Dew Their Tears my Pearl Their Blood my Rubies For giving of the Holy Ghost Upon the day of Pentecost I supremely praise Thee O let me be filled with it That I may clearly see the Powers of my Soul That As a Temple of thy Presence I may inherit all things That In the Light of my Knowledge All Ages may abide And I in them walking with thee In the Light of Glory What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits toward me I will take the cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. Ps. 116. 12 13. With reverence I will learn The riches of our Saviour At the time of his Ascention And see what a Paradise The Glory of his Resurrection Made the World Who when he ascended up on high led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men And he gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors and Teachers Eph. 4. 8. and 11. O let me see into the deeper Value of such glorious Treasures Nearer to our Saviour Greater than the Angels Images of God Labouring to death For our sakes Of all the benefits Which they did to all My bosom is the recipient I the Heir How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of them that bring the glad tidings of good things Rom. 10. O blessed be thy glorious Name For the Conversion of this Island Wherein I live The Day spring from on high That visited us The Light of the Gospel The Conversion of our Kings The professed Subjection Of our Lords and Senators Our Ministers Bishops Pastors Churches Sacraments Liturgy Sabbaths Bibles Laws Ecclesiastical Establishment of Tythes Universities Colledges liberal Maintenance of our Saviours Clergy Christian Schools Cathedrals and Quires where they sing his praises That Pillars are erected in our Land To his Name That his Cross is exalted to the top of Crowns Seated on high On more than kingly Palaces His Temple in our Borders That his Gospel is owned and fully received His Kingdom established by Laws In our Land Which might have been a Wilderness Which might have been a Golgotha Which might have been a very Tophet A blind corner of brutish Americans And I a torn desolate confessor Or far worse A Negroe like them In the horrid Island For all this I glorify thy Name Humbly confessing and acknowledging With Joy Thy Mercy in this to have been greater Towards us Than in delivering Israel from the Egyptian Bondage Earnestly beseeching thee to forgive the Ingratitude and Stupidity of thy People Open their Eyes Cause every one to see That he is the Heir and Possessor Of all thy Joys In their Peace and Prosperity Let me thy Servant inherit Peace And in thy Light let me see Light Make them more my Treasures By making Them better By making Me wiser Increasing both our love What hast thou done for me thy Servant In giving me The Beauty of the World In giving me The Land in which I live In giving me The Records of all Ages In giving me Thy self in all for evermore Being done for thousands for all O Lord It is more my Joy I bless thy Name for the Perfection of thy Goodness so wholly communicable to many Thousands So endlesly communicated from all Generations Coasts and Regions to every Soul By enriching whom thou magnifiest me Because they are My Friends Because they are My Temples Because they are My Treasures And I am theirs Delighted by my love in all their happiness Tho War should arise in this will I be confident One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple Ps. 27. 3 4. He hath chained Ages Kingdoms together Nor can they without us Nor we without them Be made perfect Heb. 11. 40. The Lord is King throughout all Genrations Magnifying his eternal Wisdom In making every true Christian possessor Of his Joys The multitude of Possessors enrichers of Enjoyment Every one the end of all his Ways Me even me Hath thy Glory exalted in all these things I am possessor and they my treasures I am delighted abundantly by being possessed That thou O Lord art supreme possessor And every one of thine possessor In thy Likeness Pleaseth me supremely pleaseth me wholy Furthereth my Joys Addeth to them Maketh them Infinite Yea infinitely Infinite The very manner of Enjoying O Lord Let all the Greatness whereby thou advancest thy Servant Make me not more proud but more humble More Obedient to the King More Diligent in my Calling More Subservient to my Spiritual Fathers Pastors and Teachers More Meek to mine Inferiours More Humble to all More Compassionate on the ignorant More Sensible of my Sins More Lowly to the poor More Charitable to the needy More Loving to mine Enemies More Tender to the erroneous Thirsting their return More Industrious in serving thee In calling them In saving all Teach me by Wisdom to see the Excellency of all thy Doings And by goodness to rejoyce in all thy mercys To delight in the Praises which they offer unto thee And in the Blessings which descend upon all thy Creatures O make my life here upon Earth beautiful O Lord that my Soul may be pleasing to thy Saints and Angels To be well pleasing to whom is an unspeakable delight because thy love is infinite to them Thanksgivings for the Wisdom of his WORD THE Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God They are all gone aside they are altogether become 〈◊〉 there is none that doth
giving me the Bible in such a manner In no doubtful narrow private Way Hast thou sent it to me But in a way Sublime Most High Rich Heavenly In a way most Large Profound Glorious Solemn Wonderful In all Ages hast thou been preparing it By all kind of Miracles Sealed it By the Ministry of Patriarchs and Prophets Crowning it By Apostles Publishing it By Tongues Adorning it By Prophecie fulfilled and yet to be fulfilled an Evidence greater than all that can else be imagined Confirming it By Successes exalting it By the humble Submission Distance Acknowledgment Reverence Of Kingdoms Fathers Sages crowned Emperours in the Lands and Ages Making it Eminent By the Materials in it supremely Enriching it O my God Hadst thou sent it to me by the Ministry of Angels it had not been capable of the Glory that now is in it Nor had the manner of thy giving it Been so Celestial Divine and clear Hadst thou sent it to me alone It had been infinitely less Less Obliging Less Effectual Had all the Counsel of the H. Cherubims Conspired together To have written a Book Had they taken Pens from the wings of Seraphims Had they drawn the Characters in Gold and Pearl Nor For Beauty more excellent Nor For manner more Gorgeous Nor For Materials more Rich Nor For any thing more Heavenly Divine Blessed Could they have sent it to us To me O Lord to me it cometh Mine hast thou made that Glorious Treasure An infinitie of Worth A World of Delight is included in it An alsufficient Ocean swims in its Womb For all Occasions An endless Mine of Profitable Variety Times Elixar The Quintessence of Ages Wisdoms Treasury The Magazine of History The Incense Light and Leaven Of this Earthly World A Collection of Experiences Fraught with Counsels Embassies of Angels Judgments Mercies Commandments Denunciations Threatnings Promises Affections Mirrours For all Estates Prosperity Adversity Sickness Health Life Death Liberty Bondage Peace War Riches Poverty Subjection Dominion Captivity Victorie Virginity Marriage Youth Old Age Priesthood Laity City Country Innocency Misery Grace Glory Affording Presidents for all these upon all occasions Advice Encouragement Blessing Caution Blessing O my God what endless Streams of Living Waters flow down from so little and small a Fountain To revive the Barrenness Of this Languishing World Here I behold the fate of Kingdoms Their Destinies Sores Remedies and Cures Consolations for the Poor and Broken hearted Instructions for Families Documents for the World Terrors to the Evil Encouragements and Delights for the Good and Blessed The Creation of Heaven and Earth Adam's Paradise The Fall of Man The Drowning of the World The Genealogie of Nations The confusion of Lahguages The computation of Ages Abraham made the Friend of God And Blessing to Mankind Joseph's Chastity and Charity Moses's Miracles The Ceremonial Law That curious Gospel In ancient Hieroglyphicks Israel's Victories Settlement Judges Samuel's Government David's Melody Solomon's Temple Proverbs Wisdom Riches Peace and Kingdom All abundantly flowing to my Bosom Elijab's Zeal Manasseb's Penitence Zedekiab's Bondage Israels Dispersion 〈◊〉 Captivity God's Long suffering Merciful Restitution Our Saviours Birth It s glorious Circumstances His Life Tranfiguration Passion Parables Resurrection Ascention into Heaven Our Kingdom and Priesthood Purchased by him Made conformable to his Example The Epistles of the Apostles Those Letters of Love and Eternal Wisdom The appearance of Glory and Heaven opened in the Revelation All these hath my God given me with ten thousand times greater Profit and Advantage than if he had given them to me alone Multitudes of Publishers Nations of Admirers Ages of Adorers Increase my Joys Had they come to me in a Hidden Private Narrow VVay I might sear some Dream Or worse Illusion The Amplitude of God in all his Magnisicence had been too much straitened Concealed Taken away To me denied Indeed abolished But now I see him in all Kingdoms Glorifying his Name shewing his Goodness to ma ny Thousands Making Me Making Every one beside The Heir of it all I know him to be God By the greatness of his Love The universality of his Care The bright continuance of his Eternal Wisdom And see his Oracles exalted on the Desks In many Temples Countenanced by Kings Ratified by Parliaments Joyfully Sounded from many thousand Pulpits Had an Angel brought me this Glorious Book Being not prepared the other way O how poor desolate and miserable The World had been No Revelations in other Ages No Miracles No Ministry of Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles No Acclamations of joyful People No Delights of God in other Kingdoms Yea no Companions should I have then enjoyed but in a Wilderness of Infidels surrounded with Rebels through all Persecutions in a Night of Darkness Dearth of Holiness World of Vices Reproaches Enemies must I have Entered into Glory Blessed therefore be the Lord my God For the fulness of his Love I rejoyce in the manner of thy Revelation It shews the Depth and Infinity of thy Nature The coming of Cherubims had been but a Toy A Feather in comparison By the Ministry of thousands Hath it been Confirmed in all Kingdoms Enlarged Crowned Rooted Beautified And for these Causes by thy Servant Peter is so preferred For we have not followed cunningly devised Fables when we made known unto you the Coming and Power of our Lord Jesus Christ but were Eye Witnesses of his Majesty For he received from God the Father Honour and Glory when there came such a voice to him from the Excellent GLORY This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased And this voice which came from Heaven we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount We have also a more sure Word of Prophesie whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a Light which shineth in a dark place until the Day dawn and the Day star arise in your hearts 2 Pet. 1. 16 c. A more sure Word of Prophesie Written in the Volume of the Book Preferred above the voice that came from the Excellent Glory at the Transfiguration of Christ upon Mount Tabor For these Causes doth our Saviour prefer Moses and the Prophets above the Testimony of our rising from the Dead Yea which is Wonderful above the Power of his own Words And when the H. Ghost was given and spake in the Apostles Notwithstanding all the Miracles he gave them to atcheive He submitted to the Tryals of the H. Scriptures Teach me O Lord to Magnify with Joy What thou hast magnified Open thou mine Eyes that I may see the great things In that Map of Heaven Let it be a Clew A Gale of Air A Golden Chain Coming from thy Throne Raising me to Glory By them am I taught how here upon Earth to walk with God which is the Great Mystery the Master point of skill in thine Eternal Kingdom Appendix to the former Thanksgiving ANd now O Lord How infinite indeed is every Sin How infinite thy Love How high the Glory and
Ps. 119. 103. I opened my mouth and panted for I longed for thy Commandments Ps. 119. 131. Blessed art thou O Lord teach me thy Statutes Ps 119. 12. They make us blessed By teaching our Souls to imitate thee At midnight will I rise up to give thanks unto thee for thy Righteous Judgments Ps. 119. 62. I will delight in thy Law I will speak of thy Testimony before Kings I will meditare in thy Statures They satiate the Powers of our immortal Soul Ambition with the Honor of all the Angels Coveroushess with the Riches of Heaven and Earth Love with the goodness of God all things Make us fit for the Throne of Glory By making us a Joy to all Angels Kingdoms Ages O give me Understanding and I shall keep thy Law yea I shall observe it with my whole heart Ps. 119. 34. O Lord I beseech thee give me love unto thy Laws Delight in thy Laws Meditation on thy Laws Right Understanding of thy Laws And entire obedience unto thy Laws If my delight had not been in thy Law I had perished in my Trouble Hallelujab Thanksgivings for the Beauty of his Providence THY Mercy O Lord is in the Heavens and thy Faithfulness reacheth unto the Clouds Thy Righteoushess is like the great Mountains thy Judgments are a great Deep O Lord thou preservest Man and Beast How excellent is thy loving Kindness O God therefor the Children of Men put their trust under the shadow of thy Wings They shall abundantly be satisfied with the fatness of thy House and thou shalt make them drink of the River of thy Pleasures For with thee is the Fountain of Life and and in thy Light shall we see Light O continue thy loving Kindness to them that kdow thee and thy Righteousness to the upright in heart Let not the foot of Pride come against me and let not the hand of the Wicked remove me There are the workers of Iniquity faln they are cast down and shall not be able to arise Ps. 36. Let us with all the Saints in the Church Triumphant Sing The Song of Moses the servant of God And The Song of the Lamb Saying Great and Marvelous are thy Works Lord God Almighty Just and true are thy Ways thou King of Saints Let their Beauty ravish us Let their Farness delight us Let their Goodness enrich us Let their Wisdom please us Let their Abundance transport us Let them ever be such in our Eyes as they are in thine Whose Delights have been in the habitable Parts of the Earth among the Children of Men. O Lord I delight in thee For making my Soul so wholly Active So prone to Imployment So apt to Love That it can never rest nor cease from thinking I praise thee with Joy For making it so wide that it can measure Ages See thine Eternity And walk with thee in all thy Ways It must be busie And it is happy for me Thou hast made it a LIFE like thine O God All Activity Its Rest is Imployment and its Ease is Business Teach me the best and fairest Business Teach my Soul to walk with thee By thinking Wisely Upon all thy Doings Let me never rust in 〈◊〉 or Sloth Nor sleep in Death Nor 〈◊〉 my self with Vanity Nor 〈◊〉 my self thorow with needless Fears or Sorrows We are always Desolate while our Souls are Idle But when our Thoughts are employed far and near upon then glorious Objects then are we encompassed with Festivals of Joy Solemnities and 〈◊〉 Blessed be thou O Lord And for ever Blessed be thy glorious Name For preparing for us in all Ages Perfect Treasures THE WORKS OF THY RIGHTEOVSNESS Are more pleasant to Angels Than apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver O Lord let me be in all my Solitudes As a Jeweller among thy Jewels As a Perfumer among thy Odors As a Servant among thy Treasures As a Son among thy Servants Thine Image and thine Heir Among all thy Works in all Kingdoms and Nations In the dead time of the Night In my greatest Retirements Let all thy Works be neer unto me All thy Ways Thy Wonders Thy Revelations from Heaven Thy MERCIES Thy JUDGMENTS My familiar Joys Let them fill me with Company when I am most alone Fill me with Delights Surround me with Beauty Turn my Retirements into Songs My Days into Sabbaths My Darkness into Day Or into a Night of Joy as in the solemn Assemblies For enflaming my Soul with the Thirst of Happiness For shewing me its Objects and the manner of Enjoying them For causing me to prefer Wisdom above hidden Treasure and to search for her as for Gold and Silver I Bless and Praise thy H. Name The Desire satisfied is a Tree of Life Had I never thirsted I should never 〈◊〉 valued nor enjoy'd WISDOM I know by experience that she is better that Rubies And all the things I can desire are not to be Compared with her She putteth on my head an ornament Of Grace A crown of Glory she giveth to 〈◊〉 Prov. 4 9. Maketh me a possessor of all thy Joys Bringeth me to the Store-house of thine everlasting Riches 〈◊〉 me in Paradice Surroundeth me with Flowers Yea with all the Delights in the Garden of God May Lillies compare with the Souls of Men Perfumes with Virtues Gold with Affections Crowns with Ages Temples Cities Kingdoms are in my ways Coronations Triumphs Victories surround my Feet No ways strewed with Lillies Pearls and Diamonds can equal these I. These sweeter far Lillies are No Roses may with these compare How these excel No Tongue can tell Which he that well and truly knows With praise and joy he goes How great and happy 's he that knows his Ways To be divine and heavenly Joys To whom each City is more brave Than Walls of Pearl and Streets which Gold doth pave Whose open Eyes Behold the Skies Who loves their Wealth and Beauty more Than Kings love golden Ore II. Who sees the heavenly antient Ways Of GOD the Lord with Joy and Praise More than the Skies With open Eyes Doth prize them all yea more than Gems And Regal Diadems That more esteemeth Mountains as they are Than if they Gold and Silver were To whom the SUN more pleasure brings Than Crowns and Thrones and Palaces to Kings That knows his Ways To be the Joys And Way of God These things who knows With Joy and Praise he goes The Souls of Men and Holy Angels are my delights How endless are thy Treasuries How wide thy Mansions How delectable my Joys Many millions of Miles from hence The Sun doth serve me The Stars many thousand Leagues beyond the Sun The morning Stars and Sons of God Abundantly beyond them all Nor is there any Bounds of my Habitarion The inestimable Presence of Almighty God Endlesly extendeth protracting my Joys And with an Eye from Infinity Beholdeth my Soul The Sun of Righteousness is my perfect Joy Mine Understanding seeth him In the highest Heavens In every moment I see Eternity Conceived