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A40629	The turtle-dove, under the absence & presence of her only choise, or, Desertion & deliverance revived 1. Ushered with the Nicodemian paradox explained in a comparison between the first and second birth, and closed with the characters of the old and new man, 2. And seconded with a surveyof the first and second death, which is closed with a sepation [sic]-kisse between two most intimate friends, the soul and body of man, 3. And a glimring of the first and second resurrection and generall judgement : closing with a song of degrees, from what we were to what we are, and from thence toward what we will be / by a lover of the celestiall muses.	Fullartoun, John.	1664 (1664)	Wing F2381; ESTC R6244	103,213	257

Our glorious King eternall only wise Incomprehensible all things contains Who never doth the heart contrite despise But by His Sp'rit the broken sp'rit maintains By worlds of men thy will fulfilled be Through all the earth and let thy glory shine Jehovah high in Heav'n eternally And all the Elect to thy praise incline SONG II. A Song of triumph Rev. 15.3 4. Great And Marvelous Are Thy Works Lord God Almighty Just And True Are Thy Wayes Thou King Of Saints Who Shall Not Fear Thee O Lord And Glorify Thy Name For Thou Only Art Holy For All Nations Shall Come And Worship Before Thee For Thy judgements Are Made manifest GReat greatness doth unto our God belong And Majesty to be ador'd alone Marvelous and admir'd thy Saints among Are thy decrees eternall every one Thy works within thy Sanctuary are seen Works full of wonder thou to light hast broght Lord Lord thy purposes are pure and clean God only God that thou in us hast wrought Almighty might all finite light transcending Just justice uncontroll'd in wisdome right And righteousnesse in all thy acts extending True God of truth conjoin'd with glorious might Are not the Hosts of heav'n our heav'nly King Thy Mercy Justice Statutes truth desiring Wayes Wisdome works to see and seeing sing Thou King of Saints thy Majesty admiring King King of Kings before whose glorious face Of glory Kings created Crowns cast down Saints seperate and sanctified by grace Who thee imbrace thy praises shall resound Shall not the Nations thy great Name regard Not thee by whom their beings only be Fear thee who for thy people hast prepar'd The consolations of eternity O thou who doth so far our faith exceed Lord lead us to thy truth thereto to cleave And firmly fix our eyes on thee to feed Glorify thy Name in us us Lord revive Thy name is like to oyntments only sweet Name O ye Nations His dread Name with fear For He in all perfections is compleat Thou seest Him past comparison appear Only thy self Self-soveraignity Art thou incomprehensible alone Holy immense adored Majesty For thou art glorious Heavens and earth upon All only All in all thy Name is seen Nations in thy Salvation shall rejoyce Shall not the captives that deliver'd been Come and upon thy grace and peace repose And who will not unto thy greatnesse still Worship and homage do with heart sincere Before the Throne in ardency of will The Saints among when there they shall appear For now the wisdom of thy wise decrees Thy judgments deep and so divine so cleared Are to the sense of every eye that sees Made manifest and ever are admired A Harmonious Consort in a Song of Praise SONG III. Part. 3. THrones and dominions now adore This deep profound abysse before Of Wisdome and of knowledge high Shining in just mercy free Flowing from that fountain love That both the head and members move And made the dying head to live And all the members dead revive The mights and slights did him defy Below His feet down thrown do ly They bruis'd His heel but from His hand Now must they feel an iron brand Which breaks the necks of all His foes And makes the Hosts of Heaven rejoice For now our Glorious Head doth render To God the Kingdome and doth tender Himself unto His Spouse redeemed And members so by Him esteemed That so His long desires that day For evermore enjoy He may And they refyned and inflamed With sacred fires and so reframed Which the most glorious Head inspires And Members glorified admires The Universall Heavens filled With all this influence instilled By our victorious King alone Christ mysticall God-Man in One Whose generations account Who can which doth so far surmount All rationall mens conceiving Believing all poor sp'rits perceiving But O! admired doth invite Finite unite with infinite And in their stations sp'ritualized And gradation authorized Cordially with all consents Above the Orbs and Elements The Region of the fire and air Adoring be Echo Beware Now spare Till there you do approach and then Let Angels and immortall Men Like Stars resplendent shining sing Praise to their Author Spouse and King Do not I pray thee so inhibite For we cannot be prohibite To conceal that grace that glory That in this very middle story We do enjoy by faith and hope Which giveth latitude and scope With much alacrity to sing And when we be eclips'd to bring Unto the Altar timous tears And bemoan our faithlesse fears For He is firm who us affects And cannot fail who us protects And there shall in the darkest night Arise for us a glorious light And in the deepest deadly hell The Balme of Paradise shall smell Which shall increase of grace procure And shall our souls in peace secure Then do us not discharge to sing Praise to our Royall Spouse and King Sing on but in sobriety Beware of soaring too too high Flight'ring above the lofty line Where Love resides and doth refine Affections to incline aright To live by faith untill we come to sight The second Part of the third SONG THen by this liberty to sing Of our most Royall Spouse and King whose Love doth us allure His Deity in glory we Tri-unity adoring be our comforts to secure There unapproachable He is In all eternity of blesse above our feelings far For at the word of His command All things appeared where they stand from nothing as they are We do these wonders all believe And that He hes come to relieve us who did so disdain To do His wil and hear His voice But wilfully made wofull choise to sin which hes us slain Here is the Text here is the Theam Here is the Fountain here the Stream whence all our comforts spring Here all the Angels ever dive Hence all the Saints their life derive here doth our glory sing His power experimentally By working in us mightily we know do and believe For we in ignorance were born And in the bands of death forlorn till He did us receive Who can His wisdome but adore And providence so much the more as we are ever seeing From wonderfull varieties And seeming contrarieties harmonious agreeing Him in His truth we worship must He being only worthy trust as we do daily try Far far above our weak believing In every strait He is relieving as we His word apply His knowledge whose all-seeing eye All things that are were or shal be are ever straight before All persons places cases right Divinely ordered in His sight which Angels do adore And O! how righteously our King Doth to the rule of justice bring and equally compose Above our weak capacity Unmov'd by partiality alike to friends and foes His pittying mercy we admire Whereby He doth our miseries clear and leads us to be cur'd Who in our blood were lying blind That we our light and life may find by Him for us procur'd In these excellencies our King Does shine we Him injoy and sing but O!

The Turtle-dove an emblem of the new Creature her properties described THe Turtle-dove truely resemble can Of any thing in nature the New-man In heart and whole affections constant pure Does loyall only to her choise endure Most searching piercing storms and darkest night In presence of her Lover she doth slight But thoughts of separation be so sad Created comforts cannot make her glad Whiles vexing grief from self-suspition grows That his removall from her motion flows This Animall the Rationall so exceeds She for preferment of affection pleads They born again this case can only state Prevail and far exceed in the debate For they refram'd refin'd revived be By that anointing makes them hear and see Himself who so elects allures and loves His Dove redeem'd reproves proves and approves Most blessed they thus taught thus fram'd thus gain'd To God by grace and from the world wean'd CANT 2.12 14. The voice of the Turtle is heard in our Land 14. O my Dove that art in the clefts of the Rocks in the secret places of the Stairs let me see thy countenance let me hear thy voices for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely PSAL. 68.13 Though ye have lien among the pots yet shall ye be as the wings of a Dove covered with Silver and her feathers with yellow Gold THE TURTLE-DOVE UNDER THE ABSENCE PRESENCE OF HER ONLY CHOISE OR DESERTION DELIVERANCE REVIVED 1. Ushered with the NICODEMIAN PARADOX explained in a Comparison betwixt the First and Second BIRTH and closed with the Characters of the Old and New Man 2. And seconded with a SURVEY of the First and Second DEATH which inclosed with a Sepation-kisse betwixt two most intimate Friends the Soul and Body of Man 3. And a Glimring of the First and Second Resurrection and Generall Judgement closing with a Song of Degrees from what we were to what we are and from thence toward what we shall be By a Lover of the Celestiall Muses IOHN 3.8 The wind bloweth where it ●is● c. EDINBVRGh Printed by Andrew Anderson Printer to the CITTY and COLLEDGE Anno DOM. 1664. The Presentation of the Turtle-Dove to the Lady VISCOUNTESS of KENMOOR RIght Noble Madam Please your Honour now Accept this present of a Turtle Dove Which in the Ark reserv'd secure hath been And both the worlds new and old hes seen The Nations of the old deaths captives living The natives of the new in death reviving She sees preserv'd from fear from pit from snare Where wretched worldlings wamble in despair Those old ascendent shining and shut out These born anew with Songs of safety shout Eternall purposes reveal'd she weighs And timous precious promises applyes Timely performances she truly proves And feels how fervently her Lover loves Now when you have consideratly seen Her Songs and found them clear and Christ-all-clean Then let her sweetly by your licence flie Amongst true mourners with her melody These discords well compos'd abounding there In concords move a sweet soul-melting air Ladies and Lovers Lidia-like advert Till sp'ritual motions mollifie your heart That moulded new in love true and divine Then in your Lovers likenesse you may shine An ACROSTICK upon the NAME of the Right Honourable LADY JEAN CAMPBEL VISCOUNTESS of Kenmoor L LOve-bred designs from deep divine desires A A Sp'rit inspires transcending humane skill D Dilating still the will with heavenly fires I Inflam'd wherewith admires her Lover still E Elected Ladie elevated Lover J Injoy the object of thy Love sublime A Adore the dictats of thy Divine Mover N Now training thee to treasures after time E Eternall troubles inward tryals strong C Come out to make thee famous in thy fight A And manag'd be the mysteries among M Make up thy life-translation unto light P Presse through the straits the precious prize perceive B Bounty bestows and blessed souls receive E Eternall triumphs glorie infinite L Loves Darling comes thy comforts to compleat The Minion of the Muses here Great Mistris of this gracious Quire Whose study unto self-denial Had suffered to shine the trial Should made the Muses homage do Her Pen and Person both unto An ACROSTICK upon the name of that very Religious and Famous GENTLE-WOMAN MARION McKNAICHT M More happy then imagined can be A And blessed are such as with heart sincere R Resolve to cleave to Christ to live and die I In Him with Him and for Him to appear O O What transcedent glorie grows from grace N None but no not the soul refined shall M c Make to appear that Light that Life that peace K Known only to the pure Possessors all N Now thou by grace art unto glory gone A And gain'd the Garland of eternall blesse I In seeing Him who on the glorious Throne C Created uncreated glory is H Heavens Quire did sing at thy conversion sweet T Time posts thy finall comforts to compleat Those names among the living worthily Preserved be that true Belivers be And such they be that truely do believe Who living learn to die dying to live TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Noble and Religious LADY JEAN VISCOUNTESS of KENMOOR Right Honourable BEing past controversie and universally acknowledged that bitter Experience is the best Teacher and School-master of fools amongst which rank I do esteem my self to be inferior to very few And therefore must be educate under such exercises and discipline as the only wise Parent who knows well the frame disposition and inclination of every one of his children sees meet for instructing rectifying and reclaiming of the blind-born ignorant prone to all maner of perversity out of that naturall darknesse by the illumination of the holy Ghost unto the life of grace whereby God makes himself known to the Elect and themselves to themselves and whereby they be moved to hate and abhore themselves to love and believe Him so clearly manifested to them that the Devil or his instruments from without or from within cannot gain ground so far against the work of his begun grace as to raze it Neverthelesse the subtile Hunter cruell and violent Persecutor of such as are thrusting through the strait gate ceaseth not to prepare and set many snares privily in our way partly by entangling our minds with too much worldly affairs and other vain inventions and partly by presenting well-polished idols for our humors as means of diversion whereby we be marred in our growth and come slowly unto maturity But our only good God and gracious Father who out of his infinite goodnesse hath begun knows also how to accomplish his work in every one of his own For proof whereof I have made bold to let your Ladyship know that after many multiplied compassions unchangeable love and long-sufferings wherewith my Lord hath been driving me nearer to Himself now at length to lead me apart as it were out of the world by a singular and unexpected providence unto the wildernesse not to be tempted by the Devil as my dear Saviour was before me who

offered unto me the liberty freedom and benefite of a long wished for retirememt I took the opportunity of the time to take notice of the most observable passages of 72. years time passed me Wherein for the space of 36. years from my birth being carried by the swey of mine own naturall and native inclination the concourse of the like company and the current of time and place 1. First in my minority I have had much fearfull proof of what impiety the blind-born fu●-born wrath-born brutish atheist is naturally poysoned with and pro●e unto 2. And secondly after the years of discretion and the benefite of breeding a more fearfull proof of the vanity and deceit of self-confidence upon the ground of civile carriage and commerce 3. Thirdly and most dreadfull of all the conviction of that villany of hypocrisie under a formality of profession After all it being the good pleasure of my God in a time of love by the Ministry of the Word and convoy of the Spirit to clear mine eyes and open mine ears unto a right uptaking of mine own by-past madnesse and misery and of His marvelous long-sufferings and mercy so as by grace might have both humbled me and helped me And now again for the space of other 36. years being under the name of a standing but more properly stammering Professor I have found by better althogh bitter experience that the way of Gods Children through the wildernesse is strawed with innumerable piercing thorns of divers afflictions and variety of temptations And that the most searching tryals and sharpest afflictions are so unseparably conjoined as fire and heat under the exercise of desertion being unto the spirituall man and renewed party a present but temporary hell and yet carrying a heaven in the heart of it Whereas the Fools paradice of sinfull pleasures produces in a short time an everlasting hell And finding that out of the most terrifying and tormenting troubles songs of joyful deliverance were injoyed like sweet out of the strong and meat out of the eater although it should seem to the naturall man a Paradox Yet I shall speak a word to such as are inclining to better clearnesse then as yet they have attained unto That they would make it their study to know that the Child of God after regeneration in whom the seed of Grace is graciously infused by the effectuall operation of the Holy Ghost in the ministry of the word whereby the new Creature is formed in the soul where the old man of the flesh or corrupt nature formerly carried sway without controle that these two parties now in one person being of as different qualities as fire and water dispositions designs desires delights as God the Author of the one and Belial of the other the one being a young and new Intrant the other an old possessor strongly fortified they enter an intestine war with as great hostility as is betwixt Michael and the Dragon Where the new man endures daily incursions by the violence and subtile wranglings of the adversary the advantage of the one proving the prejudice of the other Which conflict being continued in the Beliver there is prepared for beating down the old works of the Devil and purging out the pollutions of the flesh potions and antidots answerable to all the poyson vented upon our nature by the old serpent and whereby we are naturally infected untill the vice vanity and villany of the first generation be fully mortified and the work of grace vertue and verity be implanted and promoved unto maturity and perfection And in the evidence whereof the soul is inwardly overjoyed under all the outward and temporary annoyances that she suffers humbly submitting unto all such dispensations finding them prove her sensible advantages and the means of her advancement unto present growth in Grace and hope of glory But this being the secret work of God in His own Children unseen and not discernable by the carnall man in whose eyes they be but abject and despicable persons who can pretend such principles or presume upon so unsensible grounds not able to conceive far lesse to give credit that such daily seen and sad sufferings as the Believer is subject unto could produce such sweet soul-satisfying fruit as can make them sing for joy and shout for gladnesse of heart whence flowes the most of mistakes And by this perpetuall repugnancy and constant opposition betwixt the spirituality of the new and the carnality of the old man being throughly pondered it shall easily be agreed upon that what is affirmed●nent the beatitude of the Believer and grounds of incouragement they have under all their most grievous afflictions is confirmed For it may be asserted being generally acknowledged by all the Children of God that the least spunk of confidence preserved by grace in the heart of the Believer under the conflict of faith powerfully working produceth incomparably more real ground of true inward and spirituall comfort then all the splendor pomp and externall glory that the invention or imagination of man and Angel with the accession of all the cretures of the universe concentered in one and flowing out upon the best capacitat and apprehensive person habilitute to swim without sinking or swelling in that Ocean of all carnall and temporary delights without the least disturbance or annoyance unto the largest extent of time that any of the sons of Adam hes attained unto And that although there were no more albeit in the second place by reason of the brevity of all these carnall transitory and perishing pleasures extinguishing in present stink and closing in perpetuall torment And the duration accomplishment and perfection of the other in eternall glory above all conceiving sense or believing Which finding and still the more looking and delighting to see and dive in the Majesty of that wisdom knowledge and providence that appears in the progress of that work of His grace in His chosen called and faithfull Children inferior to none of the wonders of the Lord Excepting first that great and unsearchable mystery of godlinesse 2 Tim. 3.16 2. And secondly that secret and unseen way of infusing the seed of saving grace in the soul for forming of the new Creature John 3.3 to the 9. Out of which considerations from the experience attained and insight of the breeding formes and dispositions both of Court Country School and Citty the best by breeding and the worst by birth that can be expected of many I have set about composed and personate the purpose and project in this order maner invention and verse under Scripture-figures and metaphors succinct significant and sententious for taking best impression upon mind memory and affections Not by art or humane learning wherein I am little versed but by the Rudiments of Christianity and experienced observations most materiall and applicable to the purpose I. And first in the generall and whole complex of this discourse there is held out the most blessed condition freedom and felicity of

they be of a spirituall nature yet know not neither can they put any thing in practice but naturally Yet herein further consists the unhappinesse of man that he cannot conceive nor will he be taught to understand that there is any more excellent happinesse attainable than that whereunto they have attained or may naturally come by Whereas the Believer after many calls wakenings warnings purposes promises shifts and debates being in the peremptory time of Gods appointment the time of love effectually wrought upon by the Spirit and word of grace and truth unto a gracious wakning quickened and illuminate to see themselves under darknesse and spiritually dead without God in the world and posting on in the way of destruction and so deservedly wondring that he is not long ago swallowed up in the gulf of irrecoverable wrath Seeing also the Vail rent and the entry made by the New and Living Way for a gracious relief and hereby beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord is translated from that naturall darknesse to his marvelous light And lanching forth into this Ocean of eternall unconceivable love where the deluge of unsearchable and self-destroying misery meets with the incomprehensible deeps of infinite mercy where plunged as in the extreams of contrary Tides swelling to such heights being heaved as it were to the Region of the Air and hurled as if they should be instantly sunk in these death-destroying surges of despair And yet so strengthened that they see the wonders of the Lord who before they be aware commands peace to appear maketh all quiet and by the breathing of a sweet and soft gale brings safe to the shoar And now reflecting upon the by-past and naturall lost condition first in the guilt of the most base and irrationall revolt of Originall defection and then in the stain and stintlesse superfluities of naughtinesse daily sprouting out in actuall provocations grieving Gods Spirit and now vexing the New Man Observing also and recenting the long-suffering patience rich mercy free grace eternall and unchangeable love that hes followed them in that miserable condition melted and made them up in a new mould so as the old things are past and all things are become new to them They are set upon a two-fold task 1. Of selfdetestation as self-destroyers and 2. Of Saviour-admiration in their deliverance hating denying and forsaking themselves loving imbracing and relying upon him in a continued fast of abstinence from all that hes been offensive to His good Spirit and studious to know and delighting to do whatsoever may be well-pleasing unto Him who hes been doing all things well for us when we were disdaining his divine bounty and this being the vast difference betwixt the man in his naturall estate and in the state of grace and that no man hes ground of boasting of any thing in themselves more then another and that there is no warrant to any man to despair but for confidence in following the means appointed sincerely And the matter being of greatest consequence I have been taking the more particular notice by way of comparison betwixt the first and second BIRTH and growth in a most familiar way how any under the least degree of grace may most easily discern what progresse they have made And have annexed hereto the portraict both of the new and old man the better to inflame the affections to the love of the one and loathing of the other Not that it is possible by any comparison imaginable whether real or supposed to decipher the unsearchable mysterious way of the spirit in the soul of the elect in the Ordinances of conversion or that either Ordinances or instruments can make effectuall the work of God begetting and bringing forth the new creature unto life without the enliving power of the spirit of the new life in the Ordinances Nevertheless seeing the Lord hes appointed and blessed means wherein he will shine and whereby he dispenseth His grace very reason is convinc'd that the means are to be followed And this comparison is no further to be streached then in a rationall way to incite the reasonable party to a reverent attending with attentivenesse to the Ordinances and a confident dependance upon the truth and tendernesse of the Author obedience to whose authority is ever well taken and never any forsaken that have been sincere seekers of Him according to the perfect rule of Scripture-truth THE COMPARISON AS the mater of the body of man by the supreme Ordinance of God in the ordinary ●ct of generation is conceived brought into form and capacitate to receive the spirit of life and the ●oul being created and infused in the body doth operate unto the perfecting of the body and so by the Lord 's singular and gracious preordination they do become one compound creature for the discharging of the offices of an intelligible spirit joyned with the Organs of a bodily substance whereby to conceive and by words and actions to expresse according as they shall be by means ordinar or extraordinar naturall or supernaturall taught as the first Mover shall see meet Even so the word of the Gospel containing the seeds of the New Man by the Ordinance of Preaching and the ordinar act of hearing impressions are left upon the understanding and will for conceiving and bringing it into form quality and capacity to receive the spirit of spiritual life which creats and infuseth grace in the soul whereby every Elect Child of God according to God's grac●ous preordination in this new creature by t● efficacious operation of the Holy Ghost is ingrafted in the Head Jesus Christ and by th● Union inabled unto the performance of all Christian duties incumbent to the New Man an● that by degrees according to our growth and increase in knowledge and experience either unto doing or suffering according as they be moved o● called thereunto But as in the naturall generation after the Infant hes received form life senses and faculties but not come out unto the light and so withou● the object and exercise of them but lying unde● darknesse in this weak condition the brittle embrio is in hourly hazard of imminent destruction from causes seen and unseen innumerable and often proves abortive by an over-slow or over sudden birth Even so the life of grace by the Spirit and Word of the Gospel being conceived yet is the New Man overclouded with much naturall darknesse the Devil taking advantage of the time sets to work all his machinations musters up all his legions lies in ambush with swarms of temptations assaulting from all airts uncessantly from corruption from carnall reason from suggestions naturall and unnaturall wearying the poor youngling with fearfull wrestlings ●ut faithfully guarded against this malice by the ●uthor of his reviving Only the yoke of ●ondage from the undeniable endictment and ●itnesse in his own guilty conscience dragging ●im back to the justice seat of a sin revenging ●od to receive the righteous doom of his own ●righteousnesse