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what 's Man whom Thou didst so Regard Thou mad'st Him twice as 't were to make him sure Renewd'st Thine Image He so fowly mar'de Stampt in Thy self that so It mought endure Wert Man Thy self that Manhood mought be pure Thus GOD the Man sets full at Libertie Steps in his stead And is his Suerty O Second person in the Trinity Lord Jesus Christ the Horn of our Salvation That wroughst in Man by Theoanthropie More Integrall then at his first Creation Keep me within the Tower of that Station Then stronger mine shal be then Adams Case For He stood by himself I stand by Grace Deo Gloria Tremor Cordis THine Holinesse O GOD I apprehending And Iustice so Exact for least Transgression How Thou from Heav'n threw'st Angels down offending And cast out Man from Paradise his Session O then my Soule comes trembling to Confession I am a Lump of Sinne not one spot free All over sinfull what becomes of me Recording then Thy self becam'st a man And wer 't made Sinne for Mans sinnes Expiation Didst die for Sinne in Sinners Roome O than 'gainst Devil and Hell I get Refocillation And calling Faith to this high Admiration Beleeve GOD made Himself a Man to Dye For Greatest Sinners Sinners such as I. Spiritus ubi vult spirat WHat 's Spirit Spirit is what 's Flesh is Flesh Thou Breathest where thou please O Holy Breath GOD breathed Life at first Breath Thou afresh Else all Life long I do but live in Death So is all Life but what 's from The Beneath Draw me O GOD to CHRIST O Draw me still Me-thinks I come like one against his Will Etiam Pater quia Tibi ita placuit Math. 11.26 et Luke 10.21 EV'n so O Father for it pleas'd Thee so The Sonne of GOD on GODS own Will doth rest The Sonnes of Men will farder Reasons know As though GODS Will of Reasons were not Best Cause of first Cause Thou seek'st to have exprest For still thou sayst There 's Reason of that Will Be 't so But farre beyond thy Reach and Skill Luke 21.19 Possesse your Soules in Patience THy Soule in Patience labour to possesse The LORD His own Disciples Counsail'd so This fluctuant World is busie more ore lesse By change or chance to machinat thy woe Tumbling thy best Endeavours to and fro To Patience then Lay Anchor in Her Roade Then Let thy Ship float where it will abroad O Sonne of GOD that wer't the Sonne of man Poorest of All Yet Lord of Allwert borne First laid in Cratch so basely life began Hunted by Herod felt the Scourge and scorn Thy shoulders bare the Crosse Thy Head the Thorn O CHRIST whose patience did more encrease In most Extremes Binde me unto Thy Peace I will shew mercy on whom J will shew mercy Exod. 33.19 THou wilt shew mercy Lord on whom thou wilt Remember me then in Thy mercies Will And though most Monstrous be my Sin and guilt My Pardon shall with Glory mercy fill Mong'st Those Thou pardon'st Lord then me imbill To put my name into Thy Mercy-rolles Above the third Heavens Mercy it extolls IVstice as Great as Mercy is How than Thy Iustice LORD Thy Sonne hath fully paid GOD answers GOD No man nor Angel can And in His Blood hath all my Score defraid And doth quite claime what can by Law be laid Then Thou O GOD maist seale my Pardon sure Iustice and Mercy Both kept Even and pure Come unto me All ye that are laden And I will refresh you Math. 11.28 LAden O LORD laden I am with Sinne The heaviest Weight that ever Earth did beare Crusht down without contunded more within Nothing but Wrath and Horrour doth appeare My trembling Soule in shivers shakes for feare I come to Thee thus laden LORD thus broken Ease me as in Thy Gospell Thou hast spoken Luke 10.34 O deere Samaritane Binde up my Wounds My Soules Soare runneth like a Rotten Boile In Thee such Vertue and such Grace abounds As Thou canst heale me with a Drop of Oile Poure it into me and my Soule assoile Thy Blood 's the Oyle LORD Bathe me in that Vnction And wash me cleane * It is Thy Blessed function How unsearchable are the Judgemens of GOD and His Wayes past finding out Romanes 11.33 GOD drowns the World yet spareth Noe and his Esau He hates But Iacob dearely loveth Who dares find fault or Reason aske of this If He rejecteth me and thee approveth I le silence keepe for so it me behooveth Submit thy self to GODS own Sacred Will Not medling Why He sends here Good there Ill. And for no Angell dares make Indagation Into GODS Arke where His close Counsailes lye Get thou a Copy of thine own Salvation Why others shall not study not to prie GOD can and Will His own Wayes Iustifie What thou must learn is wrot in GODS own Story What is conceal'd is seal'd up to his Glory I nothing LORD deserve but wrath and Ire Let not my Humblings make me worse to fare Most Iust of all must Mercy needs Require And Me most vile if Thou beest pleas'd to spare What 's He that murmer 'gainst that Mercy dare Quit me O CHRIST no more but speak the Word For of thy Mercies Thou Thy Self art LORD His Soules phancie IF that my Catyffe Soule did walk on Ground And visibly were from the body known Which GOD at first Infus'd so purely Sound Now by my flesh so vild and loathsome grown My Phancy is GOD could not know his own Expurge O CHRIST my Soules fowle Inquination Then GOD againe will know His owne Creation His Soules comfort Math. 18.21 Luke 17.4 NOt seav'n but seav'nty seav'n times Peter shall Forgive his Brother by His Masters Will And if seav'n times a day he sinnes and call Seav'n times for pardon he must pardon still When all Hopes flag This Hope LORD mounts the Hill Thou wilt forgive as oft and much more too Then what Thou bidst Thy Servant Peter doe His Soules Rest Deus Tranquillus tranquillat omnia IF Thou bee'st pleas'd O GOD to be at peace With Thy poore Creature in Thy Blessed Sonne Then shall my Faintings Doubts and Terrors cease And Combat with that Horrid Hoast be done And towards Heav'n my Soule walk safely on Speak peace then LORD and Resecat by Grace My fleshly fetters that Implex my pace Or despisest thou the Riches of His Mercy that leadeth thee to Repentance Rom. 2.4 ☞ WHo not observes how by Sweet Mercies side Iustice close standeth gyrded with its Sword May sodenly into Presumption slide Daunger of Daungers all to be abhor'd As which Indulgence to all Sinnes affor'd Mercy Right weigh'd Repentance doth begin Not Right a Torrent opens unto Sinne Not to Repent and Mercy to despice Seemes by this Text to Me to goe as One If Mercy doth from True Repentance rise Where no Repentance Mercy can be none Those wofull Privatives goe not alone Who Mercy seekes and Paenitence exclude Plainly Himself And would his
GOD delude Repentance seemes in Order first in place Mercy in Nature doth praecede before LORD Both at once flow freely from Thy Grace And Both at once my Soule on knees Implore Repentance That Repentance neede no more And Mercy That I so converted be * In Heaven The Angels may Rejoyce for me Lent ☞ IF all the sinnes all Sinners did Confesse Were to mine Eares to lessen mine propounded As much in weight And not in number lesse Confesse I must though therefore were Confounded Yea LORD sins I know not Thou knowst'd abounded Not one as I his dayes have so mispent Confession must begin first part of Lent Now could I sterve my lusts so proud within Barre Adams out And CHRIST my LORD retayne Worlds Courses leave and Hav'n on Earth begin Temperance unto my Profession chayne For my Soules Health Surfets in Sinne restraine Through Faith in pure Conscience Repent Then acted is the second part of Lent THe least of these LORD is not in my power Onely from Grace proceed both Will and action I can Confesse cannot amend an hower Begin perhaps assoone begun a Fraction Soule and Soules faculties all in distraction LORD what I ought to do and what 's not done Set it on him did Do for me thy Sonne H. W. Aetatis sua 76 1626. Jud. 14. Ecce venit Dominus c. Behold the Lord cometh with ten Thousand of His Saints to Judgement THat Heav'nly CHOIRE ô Christ that at thy Birth Did sing aloft Glory to God on Hie Mercy and Peace Below to men on Earth Shall at thy second coming change their Cry Sounding with Trumpet Judgement through the skye And shake as with a mighty Rush of Thunder Foudations of the VNIVERSE a sunder Lord All Thou do'st is just and Just is Good Thine Agents Angels are Caelestiall Though Wicked Ones may murmur in their Mood And Cruelty Thy pure Justice Call Imprecating Mountaines on them to fall For what Eye can in Thy Great day of Doome Behold that MAIESTY wherein Thou Come Or what strong Words can Blazon Thine Assize The Starres shall fall the Heav'ns shall melt away All Living must stand forth All Dead must rise The Sunne grow dark Moone turn to blood that day Fire vapours Smoake All over feare and fray Yet Lord in all this Horrour Flame and Dread Thou Bid'st Th' ELECT to lift up then their Head The HOMOLOGIE POore is my knowledge But I Aym'd to know My Realls are yet lesser then mine Art The Theorie Infatuats me so I playd the Trevant in the practique part O Lord forgive And Innovate mine Heart To know and know to doe and not to looke To be sav'd so as Felons by their Booke Absit Mary Magdalen Luke 7.38 ad finem usque IN Magdalens Heart there a Limbeck was Distil'd her Sinnes into a flood of Teares Which got her Pardon in such Termes to passe As her LORDS Mercies in the FULL appeares To comfort all poore Sinners Hearts and Eares His feet Shee washt in Paenitentiall water Her Memory is blest for ever after My stony Heart no Teares can melt nor bruise O Thou That out of Stones canst Children raise To Abraham Thy Souppling Grace Infuse Into my Soule I may my latter Dayes THOSE PAST O PERDON treade in straighter wayes So may with MARY whole on CHRIST Repose And with those Words these papers up I cloze FINIS * Etiam si moriar c. Mat. 26.35 Philipp 4.11.12 * Heb. 9 14.15 10 12.14 * Luke 15.7 Act. 2.19 20. Luke 21.28