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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00024	Peace with her foure garders Viz. fiue morall meditations: of concord, chastitie, constancie. Courtesie. Grauitie. Eschew euill, and doe good, seeke peace and ensue it.	Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?	1622 (1622)	STC 1002; ESTC S118662	30,466	62

PEACE WITH HER FOVRE GARDERS VIZ. Fiue Morall Meditations OF Concord Chastitie Constancie Courtesie Grauitie Eschew euill and doe good seeke Peace and ensue it LONDON Printed for Iohn Teage and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Ball. 1622. SOme loathing Peace wish Warre because vnknowne To them Peace is like Manna common growne I such doe wish to trauell out and see Their Countries Blisse by others misery Peace types vs out the Blisse of our Creation Warres shew our fall from Glory to damnation All Warriours since which seeke immortall fame Must fight for PEACE or merit Hell and shame Sweet PEACE to Subiects doth all blessings bring Immortall honour to a mortall King The Uertues foure which doe on Peace attend Her Body guard as still doth them defend For nothing sets a Kingdomes Peace so fast As Courtiers constant courteous graue chaste TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD IOHN LORD BISHOP of Lincoln Lord Keeper of the Great Seale and one of his MAIESTIES most Honorable Priuy Councell THou great Peace-Keeper whom the greatest King That our great God of Peace did euer bring To rule these Westerne Iles in happy Peace For Honours Arts and Piety's increase Thou whom this mighty Monarch doth intrust With his Great Seale as Prudent Faithfull Iust God to thy outward blisse adde inward Peace That Goodnes with thy Greatnesse may increase May but thine actiue Spirit now descend Frō high affaires and high-straind thoughts vnbend To walke in Muses gardens delicate Wisest Apollo thou shalt imitate And Martiall Pallas whom the Poets faine To leaue Olympus Mount for Tempe-plaine Thus Dauid leaues his Throne to sit with Graces The Preacher after Trauels Hymen paces These Precedents imboldned haue my Muse For Patron of the Graces thee to chuse Whom great Augustus with his Seale doth grace Oh be a true Mecenas in thy place Seale vp for euer Ianus Temple doore And let Bellona's voice be heard no more I of some Graces onely meditate But they are all in thee habituate Then my defects excuse when we oppose Darknesse to Light the day more glorious showes Your Lordships humble seruant Robert Aylet To the curious READER PRophaner Michols will be censuring Eu'n Dauid if hee doe but dance and sing Before the Arke Then how should holy Rimes Escape the Iawes of these Censorious times MEDITATION I. Of Peace and Concord WHen first Worlds great Creatour fashioned This little Mansion for our Soules of Clay Man in his image he so ordered He had both Will and Power to obay Thus this sweet concord might haue lasted ay If to his Power had been ioynd his Will Which failing in Obedience to stay He brake the Peace whereby he all did fill With Fury Warres and Strifes which doe continue still Thus by mans wilfull fault Hostility Betweene him and his Maker first began Such breach hath Sinne made with the Deity As reconcile not all the creatures can Besides they all are Foes become to man For that he 'gainst their Maker did rebell Poore Adam guilty naked wo and wan The Noise of God to couert doth compell A guilty Conscience is more terrible than hell Adam eu'n then did feele a double paine One paine of Losse another paine of Sense And now against him Battailes all maintaine Heau'n Hell World Creatures Wife and Conscience Are out with him for Disobedience Till God who first elected Man in Loue For mercies sake now by Obedience From him doth paine of Losse and Sense remoue And brings to endlesse Peace and rest in heau'n aboue Of wondrous value is this Pearle of Peace Which to redeeme the Lord of Life was sold Most sweet peace-offring when for our release Christs precious bloud was as a ransome told Not that we heere should Peace and quarter hold With Hell World Lust true Peace's mortall foes Such Peace doth vs in dang'rous warres infold Except we these most valiantly oppose For seeming Peace on earth we doe the heau'nly lose Therefore the great Peace-maker did not come To send vs Peace on earth but Swords and Strife Debate betwixt the Father and the Sonne Mother and Daughter Husband and the Wife Perpetuall warfare is a Christians life With Armes and Weapons he must fortifie Against his foes which will assaile him rife Right end of Warres and all hostility Is gaine of happy Peace and sweet tranquillity Thou that before through warres and dread affray Hast for vs enter'd on true Peace and rest By thine owne bloudy wounds vs op'ning way And paines wherewith thy foes did thee infest Inspire sweet heau'nly peace into my brest That thence as from a Lymbick may distill Sweet drops of peace on hearts that are opprest And with true loue of heau'nly peace so fill As feeling her sweet Good they neuer faint for ill Peace may be call'd the minds serenity The concord of th' affections and the will The Band of Loue the hearts simplicity The Soules chiefe good the conscience free from ill Thus is she simply but if so you will Discerne her nature plainer we diuide Her by the friends to whom she beares good-will Thus we in Peace with God doe first abide Next with our selues and last with all the world beside And yet this peace with God our selues and men Is but one and the same true heau'nly peace That happy peace we haue with God is when We freed by Faith are iustifide of Grace True inward peace then in our hearts hath place When as our Consciences excuse within Then peace with men we rightly doe embrace When to haue peace with all men we begin Thus haue we peace with Iewes and Turkes but hate their sinne Eternall inward and externall peace Eternall Peace is that with God alone From which our inward Life hath and increase The third 's the peace we haue with eu'ry one No farther yet than it concernes our owne For when we wrong'd or iniuride behold Those that with vs in godly League are growne We breake our League if peace with them we hold For by such worldly peace our loue to God growes cold God is the Author Christ the King of Peace The Seeds of peace are by the Spirit sowne Which water'd by his Seruants heere increase Till they into abundant fruits are growne How beautifull the feet of them doe showne That Peace's ioyfull tidings to vs bring This Pearle of Peace where euer it is knowne Doth passe all vnderstanding Christ our King Did honour Peace on earth with his sweet publishing Health Quiet Happinesse Prosperitie All Concord Liberty and good successe Peace to vs brings with minds-tranquillity And frees our Soules from dismall heauinesse It is the doore to inward happinesse True inward Peace our hearts doth mollifie And make like Wax that Ioy on them may presse The priuy Seale whereby assuredly We sealed are to liue with God eternally The Gentiles that farre off and strangers were Peace by Christs precious bloud now maketh nic For he 's our peace whereby

throwes Then he too late plaine-dealing from dissembling knowes But now to thee that peace dost so commend I answer That for reconciliation And thee imbracing as a faithfull friend I neuer had so fond determination God shield me from thy sly malicious nation Thy guilefull heart 's as hollow as the sand Thou doubt'st of Truth I of Equiuocation Stand off The Morall you may vnderstand You haue this Tale from me but at the second hand Thus did the Snake our mother Eue beguile By baits of honour kindnesse and ambition But from her stole this pearle of peace the while And plung'd her and her Seed in all perdition E're since by feign'd shewes false apparition This subtill Serpents viprous progeny Imbrace vs Ioab like with all submission But to the heart-blood stab vs priuily I le neuer trust a base malicious enemy Of a fat Iouiall Oratour I read A pleasant story who when he ascends Into a narrow Deske for Peace to plead The people all foorth shouts and laughters sends Though 's corps were grosse his wit soone apprehends Th' occasion and he thus them telleth plaine My wife at home in bignesse me transcends Yet vs at peace one bed can well containe At oddes we in this Citty wals cannot remaine But well my Muse of her Digression wites From Peace to Concord which the Schooles define An vnion of diuers appetites Of diuers men who in affection ioyne To Peace this Definition they assigne To be a concord in the appetite Which doth th' affections but of one combine In one I Peace and Concord here vnite And of them as but one true perfect peace do write All cruell warres and battels Dauid fought Was but to stablish peace to Solomon That type of happy peace who now no doubt Rests in that Peace which he on Earth begun Oh blessed ioyfull happy Vnion The Song of peace thou singest of the Bride And that great King of peace her louely One When sitting at the Banquet by his side Her with true peace as with a Banner he doth hide His sweetest gardens are our beds of rest The fruits there growing sweetest fruits of peace The tunes which birds there warble in their brest Be songs of Peace There Spring doth neuer cease But Zephyrus with Dewes blowes full increase Sweet Peace which makes the Turtles voice resound Such Musique as the heauiest heart can ease For she her notes doth to the heart propound But none conceiue the sweetnesse till they feele the sound If I through Scriptures gardens should you lead And shew you all that glorious Nurcerie Of fruits and flowres there of Peace that breed I should you tire with sweet Variety It was the last bequest and Legacie Our King of peace did his Apostles leaue Who made our peace when he on Crosse did die For Peace he barres and gates of hell doth cleaue And his Will in due time to endlesse peace receiue See his Apostles Martyrs Fathers all How meeke and lowly they on peace attend Refusing neither Crosse nor cup of Gall So as they might attaine vnto their end Sweet peace on earth they labour to defend When they haue made their peace in heau'n aboue Who feeles this inward Peace feares not to spend Wealth Strength and Life for to maintaine the loue Of those which with them members of one Body proue But what need I thee furnish from without If in thine heart this inward peace thou find This peace of Conscience will giue no doubt More Rest and Comfort to thy Soule and Mind Than all wealth pleasure glory here assign'd Vnto the wicked for their worldly rest Sweet peace of Conscience who art not consin'd To any pleasure here on earth possest Eternall heau'nly peace possesseth all thy brest Oh I had my Muse some losty rapted straine The glory of this heau'nly peace to sing Which doth the heau'n earth sea ayre all maintaine By gentle gouernement and ordering Or were she able on a high-strain'd string To sing the Honour of my Soueraigne That grand Peace-maker Britaines peacefull King Who through the Christian world doth Peace maintaine God grant for peace on earth thou heau'nly peace mayst gaine But ah how can my soule opprest with Care And worldly tumults of such Glory sing Since quiet peace her selfe remoueth farre From Discord Strife Contentions Quarrelling Oh let me vnder shadow of thy wing In happy rest and Peace for ay abide So shall I neuer feare the malicing Of Enuy Satan Couetize or Pride True inward peace was neuer vanquished though tride Ah thus I wish for Peace but worldly Care And troubles more and more my mind oppresse Afflictions heere and Crosses should prepare And fit a man for peace and happinesse But oft they fill vs more with worldlinesse Yet such the nature is of inward peace She fils the hearts of all that her possesse And euer as her vigour doth increase Our worldly thoughts and cares do more and more decease O King of Peace grant me this inward peace 'T is that for which the Spirit alwayes prays That peace which brings all Graces sweet increase And now thou art to heau'n gone with vs stays This Peace Hell Death nor Tyrants rage dismays 'T is not such peace as world to vs doth giue In Comforts she transeends Sunnes gentlest rays By her when we in Life of Grace haue thriue With her we euer shall in life of Glory liue This is the peace which sets our hearts as sure As Sions Mount which no force can remoue This peace it is which euer shall endure If rooted in our hearts by Faith and Loue This Peace which first descends from heau'n aboue And doth our troubled Consciences still Which makes the Members like the Head to proue This is the Peace of God the which doth fill Both heau'n and earth with Peace and all men with good will Now neuer let my Soule enioy true Peace If now she doth not more my heart delight Than all the pleasures glory wealth and ease Which heere mens minds to vanity inuite God of all Peace which hast me giu'n a sight Of this most rich inualewable treasure Grant I on peace may set my whole delight True peace like loue which hath no bounds nor measure In this I ly downe safe and take my rest and pleasure MEDITATION 2. Of Chastitie THe heau'nly Steeres-man which was erst my guide Vnto the hau'n of peace and happy rest Where I could wish at anchor ay to ride Free from worlds stormes which mortals heere molest Doth now vnto my whiter Muse suggest The praise of heau'nly Chastitie to sing Most needfull grace for those in peace that rest For when she most tranquillity doth bring Man most in danger is of Lusts enchanting sting For such is Hels malicious subtilty With all aduantages still to assaile The part vnarm'd of mans mortalitie That he with greater danger may preuaile And when we all his instruments do quaile Of Anger Enuy Couetize and Pride In humble quiet peace he will