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Divine contentment, or, A medicine for a discontented man and a confession of faith, and other poems upon several subjects / by Edward Manlove ...
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Manlove, Edward, fl. 1667.
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careful be In all we do to act Religiously Of the Church ALL God's Elect that Heaven shall inherit And be by Faith pertakers of Christ's merit All those the univeâ—sal Church we call They are Christ's flock and he the head of all Out of all Nations is this flock selected Clens'd by Christs Blood and by himself accepted And the whole number of th'elected ones That have been are or shall be he will own The Church of Christ which visible we call And under the Gospel is Catholicall Consists of them and theirs that do profess The true Religion and true Holiness Out of this way can no sure expectation Be had by any of their souls salvation Unto the Church Christ gave the Ministry Which by his spirit works effectually For gathering and for making perfect his That are elected to eternal bliss And of this Church Christ Jesus is the head And by his spirit are his people lead The Pope of Rome cannot in any sence Be Head thereof you may collect from hence That he 's the Anti-Christ and man of sin That doth oppose Christs holy Church and him Of the Communion of Saints ALL Saints to Jesus Christ their head are knit By 's spirit and faith and have a fellowship With him in 's sufferings death and in his graces His Resurrection and in happy cases Are all such Saints and Heaven shall inherit And eke pettake of Christ and all his merits So all such Saints to one another knit In love begets a holy fellowship They have Communion in each others graces Share in their Prayers and in their hearts have places And are oblig'd such duties to perform Publick and private as may them concern And to their mutual good conducing be Both to the outward man and inwardly This fellowship which Saints with Christ injoy In no respect gives them equality With him none of his Saints or servants can Compare as he is either God or man Nor Saints Communion never can destroy In Goods or Lands their sole propriety Of Baptisme BAptisme is a Holy Sacrament Which doth to us most lively represent The powerful washing of the blood and spirit Of Christ that did for all beleivers merit Into the Church they have initiation And signes and seales of their regeneration Pardon of sins is eke confirm'd to them And into Christ they are ingrafted then They sin that do this Ordinance neglect Salvation yet to it 's not so anext But that without it infants may be saved And some into Perdition go that have it Of the Lords Supper THis ordinance unto the soul is sweet Where there is faith and where the Heart 's upright What empty poor and barren things are then The Sacraments to unbeleiving men Get faith Repent draw neer to God and pray Use ordinances in a Holy way T is great dishonour to the God of might When men his holy Ordinances sleight O then call in for all the stock of grace Stir up affections in this weighty case First get your sins slain by the edged sword Of Gods good spirit in the Holy Word Excite your faith Repentance exercise Forsake all sins and buy the Pearl of prise Faith is the Captain and the Master-grace Faith his our souls our Saviour to embrace Faith is a Jewel faith doth justifie Bâ— faith on Christ poor sinners do rely Faith gives us interest in his benefits Faith weary souls for Grace and mercy fits Faith gives us interest in Christ's blood and merit Faith makes Christ ours both in his grace spirit Faith makes the soul his Saviour apprehend The grace of faith our souls to Christ commend By faith we do our Saviours body eate By faith Christs body we receave for meat By faith we drink our blessed Saviours blood Our Saviours Body is his servants food The matter of the Sacrament indeed Is Christ himself whereon we chiefly feed By him we nourish'd are our sins are kil'd By Christs warm blood our souls with Grace are fil'd O sin-sick soul canst thou more dainties wish Then to be nourish'd by this Princely Dish Hath Christ provided sinners such a Feast By which their graces are so much increast O then praise God flie evill follow good Thy filthy sins have shed thy Saviours blood All wicked persons and impenitent Pertake not of this blessed Sacrament For graceless persons by the same grow worse Instead of blessings they obtain a curse Grace in the Sacrament is never bred But grace by it 's Increas'd and nourished They that come graceless thither gâ—aceless may Return from thence and go much worse away The State of Man after Death and of the Resurrection of the Dead WHen men are dead their mortal bodies must Both see corruption and return to dust And then their souls which shall immortal be Return unto the Lord immediately The souls of Saints that lived righteously Are then receav'd into the Heavens high Where they behold Gods face in glorious light Ath ' day of Judgement souls and bodies meet The souls of wicked men are sent to Hell Where they in pain and utter darkness dwell And are reserv'd unto the judgement day Then to receive their dreadful doom for aye Two places only God for souls created When souls and bodies should be seperated At 'h day of Judgement such as lite enjoy Shall all be changed but they shall not die And all the dead that day shall raised be With the same bodies not such qualities And to their souls united be again Some doom'd to bliss some to eternal pain Of the last Judgement GOd hath appointed Jesus Christ his Son To judge the World and to pronounce the doom Of wicked Angels and all earthly men Who shall appear and shall be judged then By Jesus Christ who shall in glory sit Condemn the wicked and the Godly quit This day of Judgement it shall surely come God knowes the time and none but he alone O Watch and Pray then night and day God's Lawes obey that Christ may say Thou hast done faithfully Thou hast well done O therefore come And enter into Joy POEMS Against POPERY COMPOSED By Edward Manlove of Ashborn in the County of Derby Esquier LONDON Printed for Richard Mills at the Pestel and Mortar without Temple Barr. 1667. To the READER PEruse these Poems drest in mean attire Love truth hate error heartily desire To follow Peace and worship God aright Observe the Scriptures Romish errors sleight The Roman Church did Christ her Spouse forsake And to her Idols did her self betake She is unclean defil'd with spots and staines Unsound corrupt but yet a Church remains Therefore beware of utter detestation Of all her doctrine all 's not Innovation Truth 's fundamental which themselves descrie By their bright lustre do not thou deny But them imbrace and shun what is unsound Coyne currant is that 's in a channel found Refuse the Chaff do not the Wheat reject Hate Heresie but wholsome Truths respect They hold three persons in the Trinity We hold the same
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