their part We have not visited the sick We have not cloath'd the naked We have not log'd the stranger nor Him compassionated Our souls and bodies are unclean By thoughts and words and actions We have defil'd our sinful souls We have corrupt affections And rotten speeches do proceed From our corrupted hearts Our eyes and ears do let in sins Which poyson every part We have not made a Covenant With hearing sight and senses We have not watch'd and pray'd and fasted We have not shun'd intemperance We have not used all good means To further the estate Neither of our selves or neighbours but Have been inordinate We have not labour'd to maintain Or justly to defend Our neighbours credit or good name For any holy end We have not been contented with Our Callings and Estate But have unjustly coveted Our selves to elevate Now Lord since we have sinned so And done so wickedly We justly merit to inherit With Dathan's family Eternal pain and misery VVithin the pit of Hell And with the Divel and the damn'd We do deserve to dwell For if thou didst not Angels spare Which had such glorious stations But hurl'st them down from Heaven high And from their habitations Into the place and pains of Hell In darkness there to lye Who sinned once and sin'd but once Against thy Majesty And our first Parents did'st expel From pleasant Paradise Who broke one law and them to that The Divel did intice What vengeance then may we expect For all our filthiness Who dayly sin like water drink And dayly do transgress And have not broken only one But all thy Lawes most holy Thy Precepts Statutes and Commands We have neglected wholly Sin upon sin we heaped have And do deserve the sentence Due unto those that thee oppose And sin without Repentance We all are vile and wretched men Thy Law our souls condemns Yet Lord thy Gospel us assures Thy Grace thy Law transcends Thy goodness doth delight to raigne Where sins do most abound Thy mercies master all thy works Thy mercy wears the Crown O therefore Hallowed be thy name Who of thy self art holy Thy judgements just do shew the same Thou art a God of Glory Thou art Jehovah Lord of Hosts Thy power is very great Thou Father Son and Holy Ghost We humbly thee intreat Give us such knowledge of thy self And of the Trinity And of thy word and works that we Thy Name may glorifie Good Lord let us thy word beleive And fear thy dreadful name Good Lord grant us fidelity To Sanctifie the same O Lord make us fear thee alone Give us Humility And Patience that we from hence May yield most willingly And may submit our selves unto Thy just correcting rod Who dost in love correct th'elect And art a gracious God O give us Grace that we may praise And hallow thy great name And by our Conversations may Give Glory to the same Lord let not sin nor Satan reigne But let thy Kingdome come And let thy spirit in our hearts Strive for Dominion Abolish Satans Kingdome Lord And from captivity Inlarge thy Saints and break their bands And set thy servants free Collect and gather thine Elect O do it speedily And to that end do thou set up A faithful Ministry And let the blessing of thy spirit Accompany thy word O slay the sins of all thy Saints By that two edged Sword And dayly more increase the gifts And graces of thy spirit In all thy Saints and servants that Thy Kingdome shall inherit And by thy word and spirit rule The hearts and lives of them Kill their corruptions curb their lusts And make them watchful men Raise up Religious Magistrates That truly may adore The Beauty of the Spouse of Christ And hate the Romish Whore Root out dumb dogs and purge the Church From all impurity Remove those Rocks that give offence Root out Idolatry Root out all greedy Wolves O Lord Root out those Currs with speed That fleece and fley and snarle and bite And take no care to feed O finish Lord with hast and speed The Kingdome of thy Grace Call all th'lect that are uncall'd Give thine a glorious place Come quickly Lord dissolve the world Destroy this earthly station Shew thy respect to thine elect O hasten their salvation Stir up thy strength and come at length Thy deadly foes destroy Who do oppose both thee and those That love thy Majesty On thee we rest thy time is best Thy blessed will be done O grant we may from day to day Obey thee every one And that we may thee so obey Lord grant that we from hence May willingly submit to thy Good will and providence And all at once may now renounce Our evil inclinations The World the Flesh and Satan's will And labour for Salvation And may the Angels imitate And Saints that are in Heaven And such obedience yeeld to Christ As should to him be given Give us this day our dayly bread O Lord we thee intreat Give life and health and cloathes and wealth And food for us to eat And give us grace on thee to place Our trust and confidence Till life doth end let us depend Upon thy Providence Forgive our debts as even we On debtors pity take Remit our sins and blot them out For Jesus Christ his sake And lead us not into temptation But free us from all evil And grant to us thy preservation From World and flesh and Devill Now unto thee all prayses be O Lord that didst elect Us to salvation before Creation And others didst reject Lord thy free Grace in this great case Most plainly doth appear That such as we should saved be And Christ our scores should clear O blessed Son thou hast well done To die for thine Elected For thou wast slain and sufferedst pain That we might be protected Great was thy merit with holy spirit Thou fully wast anoynted And full of Grace fit for the place Thy Father had appointed To mediate and undertake For us poor sinful creatures Thy Fathers will thou didst fulfil And didst assume our natures And in due time the Cross did'st Climb And suffered'st grievous pain Wast after dead and buried And then didst rise again And through the skie to Heaven high Unto a glorious place Then didst thou go and mount up to Thy Fathers Throne of Grace And reconcile that bloody broile That Adam's sin procured Which being done by Gods own son His Saints are all secured Thou art indeed the womans seed That broke the Serpents head And with a flood of thy own blood A Pardon purchased Thy sacrifice did pay the price For us poor sinful creatures Lord thou didst dye and satisfie Sin suffered in our natures O blessed son since thou hast done This mighty work of merit The same apply effectnally By thy most holy spirit That thy redeem'd may be esteem'd By God and godly men Thou blessed son O still go on And interceade for them In thy good word thou dost record A perfect Declaration
To all thy sons and chosen ones Of ' th misteries of Salvation Now in their hearts and inner parts Work by thy spirit in them Obedience that they from hence May live like holy men By thy Dominion overcome Their Enemies O Lord And to that end be pleas'd to send Thy spirit with thy word To good and bad we freewil had But now since Adam's fall It is not so to will or do We are unable all We are both dead and buried Till thou shalt us translate Till thou convert and bring the heart Into a gracious state Then shall we be for ever free From our old natures clogg And from the sin that we are in And freely serve our God And in a case that by his grace We shall have power and skill Both readily and spiritually Good works to do or will Yet still the breed of the old seed Of Unregeneration In us remains till mortal pains Remove our earthly station And we enjoy in heaven high The Saints felicity Then we shall be made fully free To do good perfectly In the mean time those that are thine And Heaven shall inherit O gracious Lord call by thy word And by thy holy spirit Out of the sin that they are in Into a state of grace Through Christ thy Son let it be done For thy own mercies sakè O Lord give light to blind give sight Remove their hearts of stone And hearts of flesh good and upright Lord give them in the Room Renew their wills and give them Grace By'd them renewed be Lord give them grace to grow apace For Lord thy grace is free And there is none but thee alone Can give this special grace Thou offerest it and mak'st us fit Thy offer to imbrace This is our case 't is thy free grace And thy free grace alone 'T is not for any grace in us That was foreseen or known Lord pierce our hearts and inner parts We are but passive all Let thy good spirit for thy sons merit Give us an innward call O Lord accept us thine elect Lord freely justifie Us thy poor Saints Lord hear our plaints Thy son for us did dye He paid the debt remov'd the lett He suffered for our sin O for his sake Lord pitty take We do rely on him Lord we beleive for sin we greive Lord help our unbeleif Let thy free Grace good Lord take place Thou sav'st the sinful theif Adopt us sons and set us free Us for thy children take Not for the works that we have done But for Christ Jesus sake Give us access to make address Unto the Throne of grace Let us repent cry and lament Our sad and sinful case O Lord accept do not reject Our Prayers and tears and cry Adopt us Heirs for thy sons sake Who for our sins did die Give us new hearts and better parts Then ere we had before Let sins dominion in us all Be weakned more and more Our several lusts destroy in us Corruptions mortifie Let us more practice Holiness And dayly sin destroy Let saving faith in us be wrought Good Lord most perfectly Let us into the way be brought Of true felicity Increase this grace in us apace O multiply it more This master grace deserves the place Increase it Lord therefore And let it work by love alwaies In us and every one Producing fruits of Holiness Faith never goes alone By word and Prayer and Sacraments Let it increased be Let us be justifi'd by it And sav'd eternally O Gracious Lord let us accord To all the truths that be Revealed in the written Word For all Posterity Lord let our hearts and inner parts By faith be purifi'd And by that Sword thy Holy Word Let sin be mortifi'd Give us desire with hearts intire To love thee cordially O give us grace that track to trace That leads to bliss and joy Some crumbs of comfort Lord we cravâ— Our faith is very weak We almost are brought to despair O let thy spirit speak A word of comfort to our hearts In this our misery Let us from hence have perfect sence Of our felicity We Agar like have lost our sight And now are in distress Remove the scales Lord give us light To see our happiness Lord we Repent and do lament Our infidelity O make our faith more evident Remove our malady The well of life it open lies Yet we no comfort find We water want for want of Eyes Our feares our Faith do blind Therefore O Lord grant unto us Assurance of Salvation O clear our states from all mistakes And free us from Damnation And when we such assurance have Grant we may carefully Preserve the same and praise thy name And live Religiously Thy Church and People Lord protect From all their Enemies Be graciâ—â—s is Lord to thine Elect Hear their complaints and cryes O bless the King and councel him His Royal Spouse direct And in her heart and every part True Holiness erect Lord bless Duke Iames let all his aims Be for thy Glory bent Bless all the Royal Family And guide the Parliament Remove the wicked from the King His godly Councel bless Establish Lord the Throne of him And his in Righteousness O fit us all both great and small To meet our Blessed Lord When he shall come and justly Doom And sentence all the world When he shall sit let us be quit And cleared from damnation By Faith in him that dy'd for sin To purchase our salvation Lord when this dreadful day will come To us it is unknown â—ts by decree and known to thee And unto thee alone Let 's watch and pray both night and day Therefore most fervently That Christ may say at that great day You have dealt faithfully You have well done O therefore come And enter into joy Receive a Crown with great renown Bliss and Felicity Lord hear our Prayers accept our Tears And pitty on us take Not for our worth which merits wrath But for Christ Jesus sake To Father Son and Holy Ghost By Angels and by men All Power and Glory be ascrib'd For ever more Amen An Epitaph upon the death of the Right Worshipful Anne Cokaine Widdow who Dyed the 29th of August 1664. By Edward Manlove Esq HEre lies inter'd one that deserv'd Great Honour Praise and Fame Who comely was and did surpass Most of her Noble Name In liberallity and Hospitallity This Lady did delight O Muses rise do not despise Her praises to indite Yea ring her knell her praises tell She humble was though great Her comly parts and humble heart Her prayses may compleat A comly Creature for form and feature Proper and tall of stature Noble by Birth lies in the earth Death conquer'd comly nature This Flower was cut down like Grass Which flourished many a day She quit the Stage in her old age Grimm Death took life away God call'd for her she made no stir But yeilded patiently She knew full well none need her tell All mortal men must die To Rich and Poor respect she bore She did no sort despise She patiently did live and die And so she clos'd her eyes Now in the Dust as all we must Ere long interred be This Lady is Lord bring to Bliss Her whole Posterity An Epitaph upon the Death of Mr. William Waine Vicar of ASHBORN Composed by Edward Manlove Esq SInce that pale death hath stopt the breath Of Learned William Wain Friends and Allies dry your wet eyes To Weep it is in vain He 's in the Dust where all men must Ere long interred be Whilst he liv'd here he did appear A Learned man to be Of judgement great tho not so neat In words as many are But for his parts in learned Arts With most he might compare Yet they can tell that knew him well He was not puff'd with Pride Nor soared high ambitiously But humbly liv'd and dy'd And in his Grave as in a Cave This learned Rabby lies Where he must stay till that great day That Christ shall say arise Then Learned Wain must rise again From dusty earth and Clay To judgement just as all men must And after live for aye Books newly Printed for Richard Mills at the Peste and Morter without Temble Bar. PAndion and Amphigenia or the History of the Coy Lady in large Octavo Divine Contentment or a Medicine for a Disconted man in small Octavo FINIS
to proceed from God Nor from the dictates of meer flesh and blood The preservation of them also may Though none in time so antient be as they â—nduce us to beleive and eke accord That all the Scriptures are God's holy word Experience shewes the power of God in them Even by their humbling and exalting men And when God's spirit shall our hearts incline For to beleive these Misteries sublime And also write them in our inward parts We shall beleive them with beleiving hearts Of GOD. GOd is most glorious wise and doth excell All future things he knowes and can foretel He sees into each corner of our hearts And knowes the secrets of our inner parts This great Iehovah is Omnipotent Yea good and gracious and omniscient A God of love his love to his sincere More then their fathers or their mothers were He loves all things that he did ever make And loves his Son and his for his Sons sake His mercy 's great he succors his in need He did Elisha by the Ravens feed He is most just in works in word and will Rewarding good detecting what is ill Of the Trinity GOD is one perfect Essence full of Bliss Whose being of himself eternal is Yet in this Essence there are persons three Distinct subsistances Singula sunt in singulis omnia in singulis singula in oÌ„nibus unum omnia Aug. lib. 6. de tri cap. ult these persons be And yet in substance all these three are one Gods Essence is without distinction And yet the persons in this Essence be Distinguish'd by the Holy Trinity The Father Son and Holy Ghost Divine Names Orders Actions do them best define The first the Father 's named in respect Of Christ his Son and then of his Elect. The second person then the Son is nam'd Because he 's of his Fathers nature fram'd And of his substance is by generation Th' Eternal Son of God not by Creation The third the Holy Ghost who by spiration Receives his Essence not by generation And is so called both in this respect That he proceeds and sanctifi's th' elect So by the order several things we see The several workings of the Trinity The Father works by th' son and holy spirit Yet each for dignity of equal merit None first none last save order is excepted One God all God all equally respected The Glotious Essence wholly in all three And in each perion of the Trinity And by the Counsel of Gods holy will He rul'd the world Kingdome of God his eternal decree and so doth rule it still And hath determin'd all things by decree From time to time from all Eternity Some unto life some unto death there be Predestinated by this great decree From hence we learn and so all Christians may God deals with Dust as Potters do with Clay The Creation GOd did of nothing all things fitly frame And made them good for Glory of his name For in six dayes created were by him The world and all things that were made therein And when he had all other creatures made Man Male and Female he did then create And into them immortal souls infus'd With Righteousness and Holiness indu'd In his own Image he did them create Both free from sin and in a holy state And God was pleas'd a Covenant to frame And ty'd them to performance of the same And life to them and their posterity Did promise if they kept it perfectly They were indu'd with liberty of will And freedome had his statutes to fulfill To them all earthly Creatures were made free For meat and use excepted was one tree That was forbidden under pain of Hell They are thereof The fall of man so Male and Female fell Pride puff'd them up they did beleive the Divel They tasted of the tree of good and evil And by this sin eternal misery Intayled was on their Posterity Three things Gods Providence each Christian may observe froâ— hencâ— God's Power Wisdome and great Providence Who order'd all to Holy ends herein Yet was no Author of this grievous sin By Adam's fall all men have inclination To every sin and all their Generation And are bound over to the wrath of God Curse of the Law and his destroying Rod. Now see compassion in this woful case God offers Man Of the Covenac of grace a Covenant of Grace That all th'elect by Faith might saved be Both Jew and Gentile none excepted he Beleive and live God offers Christ to thee â—f thou accept him hel 'e a Saviour be A Prophet Priest and eke a Royal King Right Heire of all things is this Holy thing Head of the Church Redeemer of the same â—udge of the world Christ Jesus is his name Twixt God and man he is the great Peace-maker â—urely for Saints the only Mediator Equal with God yet did assume the nature Of Adams seed faln man a sinful creature Yet without sin but not infirmities He had a sence of all man's miseries Conceaved by the Holy Ghost he was And through the Virgin Maries Womb did pass And of her substance also did pertake And yet his God-head he did not forsake Without Conversion or Confusion there Godhead and Manhood both conjoyned were And doth remain without a seperation Both God and man the God of our salvation Who was Anointed with the holy spirit That he might mediate for man and merit He undefiled was and full of grace And fitted for a Mediators place And from his Father he receiv'd command Who put all power and judgement in his hand To undertake and execute the same For th' good of man and glory of his name That God and man might reconciled be And Christ do all things that might make him freâ— Christ did this Office freely undertake And did discharge it for his servants sake Which none could do but he he did fulfil The Law exactly and his Fathers will His soul and body under sufferings were His blessed body The Passion of Christ peirced with a Spear This blessed man on'th Cross was Crucifi'd And for our sins our blessed Saviour dy'd To save the Saints and free their Souls from paiâ— He dy'd for them that they might live again Who all were dead by Adam's sinful Fall But now revived by Christ's Funeral Who all were slaves till Jesus made them free Till Christ did dye and climb the cursed Tree When death dominion got the power it kept Till the third day Of Christs resurrection and assention our Blessed Saviour slept Without Corruption then he rose again And conquer'd death and Hell and deadly pain And the same body which in earth did lie Assended up into the Heavens high And is exalted to the Throne of Grace By God his Father in a glorious place There to remain until he shall descend To judge the world when it shall have an end Our Saviour was a Holy Sacrifice One offer'd up to God which satisfi'd â—â—s Fathers justice and hath reconcil'd â—im
for great transgression But setting them upon the rack And straining them so high As strict confession of all sins Is Romish Tyranny No such Confession is requir'd As doth to sin invite And nameing fleshly pleasures doth Much move the Appetite For who can tell how oft he sins Or gives to God offence He alwaies sins that so presumes Upon his innocence As that he can enumerate His great transgressions all For he that thinks them less then great Doth into greater fall Christ did not to the sinner say That had Faith and Contrition Thy sins must numbred be or else Thou canst have no remission He Absolution freely gives Unto his children dear Mar. 9.2 Thy sins forgiven are saith he My son be of good chear Against Invocation of Saints 1 Kings 8.39 Eccl. 9.5.6 Esai 62.16 Ps 7.10.44.20 â— 9.4.11 Prov. 15.10 17.3 24.12 Jer. 21 20 87 10 10 11. Psal 50 14 Against Eph 2.8 THe Saints in Heaven do not know Our hearts they cannot hear Our Prayers or supplications Made in this lower Sphear Our God alone our Prayers doth hear Prayers made to Saints are vain God knowes the secrets of our souls And tryeth all our Reins Call on the name of God the Lord For ease in pain and grief And in thy greatest troubles he Will send thy soul releif Against the seven Sacraments OUr blessed Saviour none but he Could make a Sacrament He made but two he made no more Is very evident 1 Cor. 10 1 2 3 4. St. Austin Baptisme the Supper of the Lord These flowed like a flood Out of the side of Jesus Christ In Water and in Blood The one it is the Sacrament Of our Initiation The other Sacrament is for Our holy confirmation Against the Doctrine of Tradition THe Law of God's a perfect law And needeth no supply What 's needful to salvation Is fully taught thereby In vain do many worship God Matth. 15.9 And teach for doctâ—ine sound Commandements oâ— wiâ—ked men Thus errors do abound Against the Universal Headship of the Bishop of Rome POpe Gregory the great Inveighs Against this Lordly name As insolent the Churches plain As wicked and Prophane A great corruption of the faith To God a great abuse Against the Canons of the Church Against th'Apostles use Whosoever use this loâ—ty stile And glory in the same Forerunners are of Antichrist And glory in their shame Against Challenged Infallibility THis Arrogation doth appear A Paradox to be For former Popes have fowlly faln Into flat Heresie And Councels have condemned them For errors manifest The Councel held at Basil take Multi poncifices errores he resies lapsi esse leguntur Consi Basil in Ep. Sinod For one among the rest Against the Popes Superiority to General Councels VVEll near a thousand Fathers of The Romish Church did Vote Against this Dommineering Power Pretended by the Pope And in the Councel Constance thus Determin'd punctually An. 1415 If General Councels make Decrees The Pope is bound thereby Against the Presumption of Papal Dispensations POpes had no power in former time To grant a Dispensation â—gainst Decrees by Councels made This comes by Usurpation These boundless Dispensations are A wicked Innovation This great Presumption plainly shewes The Popes degeneration Against the Popes Domineering over Kings and Emperours Po. Gregory said thus Mauritius vobis Obedientiam prebere desidero THe Pope to Theodosius came With Cap and bended knee â—ut now the greatest Monarch must Stoop to the Romish See Now Popes their lawful Soveraign sleight These Prelates greater be Then all the Princes of the World In Power and Dignity Now Popes pretend a lawful power Their Emperours to dethrone And of their Empires to dispose As if they were their own The Emperour like a Serving man When as the Pope commands Must hold a Basin whilst that he Doth wash his Holy Hands And sometimes like a Stable Groom His Horse must lead and guide And hold his Stirrup whilst that he On Horsback gets to ride And sometimes like a Porter must Upon his Shoulder bear His Holiness the Pope forsooth And Homage to him swear This domineering over Kings And Emperours doth shew How Pontificial Prelates have Rob'd Caesar of his due These Romish Tricks in former times Nor better were then Treason Against God's holy Word they are Against both right and reason All Christian Kings and Princes great Abhorr the Romish Whore Break off her Bonds cast off her Yoak And never own hâ—r more A form of Prayer Composed in Meeter By Edward Manlove Esq O God most great whose Glorious seat Is in the Heavens high â—t thy command both Sea and Land Obey thy Majesty â—nd at thy will the Seas stand still And neither rage nor foame â—rom side to side to Winds and Tide Thou mak'st thy power known Thou glorious art in every part Thou art Omnipotent Be 't far or near thou dwellest there Thou art Omniscient The Heavens high nor lofty skie Thy Glory can contemn Thou raign'st on high thy Majesty Doth Winds and Waves restraine To those that do by shipping go Into the Waters deep By works of wonder and words like thunder Thou shew'st thy power and might And thou the Storm turn'st to a calme And then the Waves are still Thou makest glad them that were sad And sav'st them from all ill We therefore all may fear to call Upon thy dreadful name For our vile lips they are unfit To nominate the same We here abide the stubble dry'd Thou art consuming fire Thou might's us burn and make us turn To ashes in thine ire In our own eyes we all are vile Our waies are very wicked Then in thy sight whose eyes are bright How shall we be acquitted We are unfit to kneel or fit Before thy gracious Throne Or to draw nigh thy Majesty To make our cases known But Lord we come to thee alone For Jesus Christ his sake Accept our Prayers which we present And through thy spirit make We are unworthy to be call'd Thy sons or have the name Of any of thy servants yea The meanest of the same Our duties unto thee and man O Lord we have neglected And not obey'd thy Holy Word But have thy Lawes rejected We have not honoured thee O Lord With fear and reverence But sin'd against thy just Precepts By disobedience O Lord we have not Worship'd thee According to thy will Nor in our hearts have had delight Thy statutes to fulfil But we confess we have abus'd Thy great and glorious name And also we irreverently Have often us'd the same We have Prophan'd the Sabbath day In whole or else in part By needless thoughts and words and works We all have carnal hearts By murderous thoughts and wicked words We have our neighbours wrong'd Our wicked words have cut like swords We all have evil tongues We have not sought our neighbours good Nor had a tender heart To our poor brethren in distress Nor pleaded on