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A42893	Miscellanea, or, Serious, useful considerations, moral, historical, theological together with The characters of a true believer, in paradoxes and seeming contradictions, an essay : also, a little box of safe, purgative, and restorative pils, to be constantly taken by Tho. Goddard, Gent.	Goddard, Thomas.	1661 (1661)	Wing G916; ESTC R7852	164,553	225

th●u resolvest wickedly to keep what thou hast sinfully gotten thy sins wil most certainly find thee out the wrath of God will pursue thee his judgments will overtake thee and his dreadful vengeance will both fall and rest upon thy soul estate name and posterity Prov. 11 7. 18. 10. 7. Prov. 3. 33 16. 8. 28. 8. Ezek. 33. 15. no restitution no remissi●n by consequence no salvation now by the way if this rule of St. Augustine which hath been judged esteemed Orthodox canonicall so many ages should be precisely observed and exactly conformed unto then certainly what one said of the Romane Senators viz. That if they should restore to others what they had unjustly gotten taken from them they must go to their ploughs and cottages again might truly be affirmed of and would be the condition of many thousands yea millions of great and rich men in the world And lastly a reall grieving for our sins more then for our sufferings and that we have provoked dishonoured God more then that we are punished by God are the marks the Principia constitutiva of true repentance Repentance 't is a setting of the soul again it being double dyed and twice dead in Originall and in actuall sin and pluckt up by the roots through delight and continuance therein in the rich soil of Grace and a watering of it with tears of contrition and the bloud of Jesus Christ as Hortensius did his Plane trees with wine if I may so speak without a Solecisme applyed by a justifying faith to Revivification and fruitfulnesse 'T is the condition of that Obligation without the performance whereof the Soul cannot be discharged from the debt of sin but remains lyable every moment to be arrested without all possibility of either flying hiding or defending it self by that irresistable inexorable Serjeant Death to be tryed and cast upon that Bond in the high Court of Gods Justice and after a verdict given up by Gods Law and its own Conscience against it to have judgment and execution served upon it and then to be thrown into the Prison of Hell there to lye without baile or Mainprize for ever 'T is a well of everlasting life Springing up in the heart without which there is no possibility of being holy no promise of being happy 'T is a soul in travaile of those spirituall Twinns Pardon Peace pain'd and tortured with many grievous heart-rending pangs for Gods Children have alwaies their hardest labours of their choycest sweetest greatest mercies but at length by an Almighty wonder●working hand and power safely seasonably joyfully delivered 'T is the plank on which the soul gets when dasht or wrackt upon the rocks of sin by the tempests of temptations and corruptions and so escapes perishing in the sea of despair distraction damnation 'T is that Aqua fortis which both eats through the very heart of sin and wherewith the characters of honesty vertue piety are engraven upon the inward man 'T is the water which both quenches the burning wrath of God cleanseth a polluted conscience and moistens the soul till it become an Eden 'T is the day-break of saving mercy with a cloudy wet morning but a bright fair pleasant afternoon and a glorious Sun-set follows it 'T is one of a Christians main deeds and best evidences for his right and title to an heavenly inheritance The Motto of a true penitent may well be like that French Ladies a watering pot dropping with this inscription Nil mihi praeterea praeterea mihi nihil He 's happier weeping then the wicked are when rejoycing for there is more true delight and joy of heart in the sorrow of Saints then in the mirth and laughter of the world Verus poenitens de peccatis dolet de dolore gaudet A true penitent grieves for his sins and rejoyceth in that grief it being his exceeding great delight and pleasure to consider that God hath given him a heart to mourn and sorrow for them The Athenians never went to conclude a peace but in mourning habits we can never make our peace with God unless we go to him with mourning hearts True repentance doth work wonders It will turn a Wolf into a Lamb an Eagle into a Dove a Thorn into an Olive a Rock into a fountain a Serpent into a Sheep a Tyrant into a Martyr a stone into a Son of Abraham a Saul into a Paul a persecutor into a worshipper of and a sufferer for Christ a cruell Jaylor into a sorrowful Confessor and a dry stick like Aarons rod into a fruitful tree Alexander the great being asked Quomodo potitus esset Graecia respondebat Nihil procrastinans Speedy hearty repentance is a sure infallible means for us to obtain more then Greece even grace pardon Heaven Optima poenitentia est nova vita saith Luther He that hath new and holy principles the new wine of Grace wrought and put into the Bottle of his renewed heart by the spirit of God will neither walk in his old wayes continue in a profane course nor hanker after nor long for the flesh-pots of Egypt again Ista est vera poenitentia quando quis sic poenitet ut non repetat A righteous Lot will run to Zoar but he will not return any more to Sodom Noah was drunk but once David was but once an Adulterer When a grievou● grosse sinner becomes a gracious Saint he gives this Motto Ego non sum ego and he carefully prints it in his life and actions well knowing that they only are sincere Christians do truly repent ●hat carefully resolutely constantly forsake loath and abhorre all their sins It is then our wisdome and wil be our happinesse to write with a pen of iron and with the point of a Diamond upon the stonie tables of our obdurate hearts that Golden saying viz. It is every mans duty to repent one day before he dies for we are not sure to live to morrow no nor til to morrow but we are sure if wedie before we repent to be damned And if we neglect deferre or think it too soon to repent to day it may be too late to morrow for God hath * Micah 3. 4. Jerem. 14 12. and Psalm 32. 6. threatned that he will turn a deaf ear to such desperate carelesse transgressors although they cry shed many tears and make many praiers for audience mercy and acceptance Besides how justly do they deserve to perish that will neither seek nor labour to obtain a pardon when they are reprieved that do not value it till they be going to the Gallowes to their graves And although poenitentia vera est nunquam sera tamen poenitentia sera est earo vera Though true repentance be never late yet late repentance is seldome true 'T is very rare to see a Felon though he professe and seem to be very sorry for his fact pardoned and unpinioned upon the Ladder more strange to see a condemned Traitor fetcht away from the scaffold

and carryed to the Court to be honoured advanced so highly by the King as not only to become his Favourite but his Son and Heir also But it 's the greatest wonder of all and the highest phrensy for men to wound and poyson themselves because they may be cured to break their bones because they may chance to get them well set again to run into the fire because it 's possible their Father will pull them out and not suffer them to be burned and to love act live and persevere both in theft murder and rebellion in hope of being not only pardoned but promoted when they come to be executed And certainly it 's no lesse then the greatest folly yea madnesse and cruelty to our own Souls that we are capable either to invent act or expresse to presume and expect to obtain mercy favor and pardon from God at our death when we have knowingly wilfully and impenitently continued both robbers of God and traytors to God by sinning against him all our life For it 's most just and equall that the Lord should abhorre reject and burn the bone when the Devill hath had all the marrow The Prayer O LORD under the Law those sacrifices that were acceptable to thy Majesty were offered up with Fire but under the Gospell those Oblations those duties and services are most pleasing to thee which are presented and tendered with Water with penitentiall tears flowing from the bitter-sweet springs of a saving sight of sin and godly Sorrow for sin Grant O Lord that we may both love thee and grieve that by our Iniquities we have offended thee Let us serve thee with gladnesse of heart and yet be in bitternesse of Soul for our dishonouring of thee O give us Holy God to worship serve and pray unto thee not only with the fire of Love and zeal burning upon the altars of our inflamed hearts but also with the waters of contrition and remorse streaming out of broken Spirits Let us not seek thee and sin wilfully against thee Let us not professe repentance and practise rebellion Let us not O Lord forsake Egypt and long to enjoy it again But grant that we may never any more attempt or presume to repeat or act our former old or any new crimes And since most Holy God every known sin even the very least is a great a grievous a deep and a desperate wound to the Soul so soon as it is acted that festers in it by continuance gangrenes by delight and kills the Soul by impenitency O let all transgressing Christians speedily search their Souls and sores with the Probe of serious consideration let them behold them with the eyes of grief and humiliation let them bath and wash them with Tears of sorrow and contrition inable them by a justifying Faith to receive and apply unto them that Soveraign all-healing plaister made of that most precious Balm the bloud of Jesus Christ let them bind up their wounded spirits with the hands of compunction and self-abhorrency and grant that they may keep on their plaister both by a through reformation and a constant conscientious care willingly deliberately knowingly to sinne no more that so they may recover be healed and live Grant this great mercy O thou God of mercy unto us for the merits of Jesus Christ Amen Poenitere est vere sapere valere vivere XIII Of Prayer 'T Is that safe carefull nimble spirituall messenger and post that carries and brings letters of intelligence and love-tokens to and from Christ 'T is the language of Canaan A Christians Shiboleth 'T is the souls both Orator and Sollicitor in that great Court of Requests Heaven 'T is a Jacob wrastling with God and prevailing A Jonah though buried alive in a swimming Sepulchre though shipt in a living Vessel and carried down under Deck to the confines of Hell crying for and obtaining a safe landing on the shoar of Life 'T is a Moses begging and receiving cure of the souls Physitian of Almighty God for Miriam a leprous sinful person 'T is a Christians Forces wherewith he besieges Heaven and takes it by storm by violence 'T is the souls industrious faithfull factor in Heaven from whence it brings the precious everlasting riches and Jewell of grace forgivenesse comfort to the heart T is the key that opens and shuts Heaven Oratio justi clavis est coeli ascendit precatio et descendit Dei miseratio licet alta sit terra altum coelum audit tamen Deus hominis linguam si mundam habet conscientiam Prayer like a Hackw Apolog p. 295. histor of Flanders .. Dousa's Doves when Leyden was besieged it brings certain intelligence of relief supplies assistance coming from the Lord of Hosts to strengthen succour and deliver the soul when it 's beleaguered indangered or assaulted by sin Satan or the world What was said of Luther is true of prayer It may have almost what it will of Christ There is a kind of omnipotency in it whereby it holds hinders and with an humble holy reverence be it spoken binds the arm of Almighty God that he cannot strike Let me alone saith the Lord to Moses and get thee out of Sodome said the * Genes 19. 22. Angell to Lot for thy supplication is her preservation thy prayers and presence are her protection thy company is her security thy residence her reprieve I cannot do any thing I cannot rain down Hell out of Heaven in a fiery showre to consume her till thou beest out of her and got to Zoar. As Faith is the Emperesse of Graces so prayer is the Queene of duties The Elements of effectuall Prayer are First Faith Vt oremus credamus ut ipsa non deficiat fides qua oramus * James 5 16. Hebr. 11. 5. Oremus Fides fundit orationem fusa oratio fi dei impetrat firmitatem Faith and prayer are like the fire and fewel fire makes the fewell burn and flame and fewell feeds the fire and keeps it burning and flaming Faithlesse prayers are fruitlesse prayers or rather such supplications are provocations for God is so far from smelling a sweet savour in the sacrifices of unbelievers that he loaths them they stink in his nostrils and therefore he will cast their duties like dung into their faces 2. * James 5. 16. Fervency Qui frigide rogat negare docet prevalency is the child of importunity An * Luke 18 4 5. Atheisticall unjust judge that neither fears God nor cares for man will grant the earnest suit of a poor Widow though a stranger to him How much more then will the great judg of Heaven and earth who is not only a just but also a most gracious compassionate God and Father both hear and grant the ardent humble and hearty petitions of his own Children He that did never say to the house of Iacob seek ye my face in vain He that commands us to aske and seek and hath promised that we shall receive and find

Socrates did of his enemies Anitus and Melitus they may kill me but they cannot hurt me for he is like the Amiantus stone called the Asbest which t is said being cast into the fire seems forthwith to be all on a flame but being taken out shines more gloriously And like gold which put into fire is more pure and being cast into the water is most radiant Tribulation is to him as the enemies sword was to that souldier who being therewith wounded in his side was thereby cured of an Impostume which otherwise would have caused his death Adversity it is a Christians Topicks from whence he deduces Arguments to prove himself a * Prov. 13. 1● Favourite in the Court of Heaven 'T is his Heraldry or Coat of Arms where by he is able to prove himself allyed to Christ and an Heir of Glory they being Bastards Esay 27. 9. not Sons who are not chastened of the Lord. Deus unicum tantum habet filium sine peccato nullum sine flagello It 's the † Physick that purgeth out the peccant dangerous humours of sin 't is a painfull but a health-bringing medicine Nulla remedia quae vulneribus adhibentur tam faciunt dolorem quam quae sunt salutaria saith the Orator Corrections like Plato's suppers are best the day after * A gale of groans and sighs a stream of tears accompanies us to the very gates of Heaven and there bids us farewell for ever M. Baxter A good mans drink is wormwood here for he must not expect two Heavens Delicatus es si hic gauderevelis cum seculo postea regnare cum Christo Since they that would reap in joy must sow in tears they must expect both clouds and showres † 1 Thess c. 3. v. 3● it being the lot portion and condition of all Gods people to have foul weather and foul way in their Journey towards their everlasting home Heaven c Rainold Orat p 401. Cyrus olim suos Persas libertatis dulce dinem ex labore servitutis docuisse traditur * Si mihi tranquilla placata omnia faissent incredibili qua nunc f●uor laetitiae voluptate caruissem Cicer. post reditum Misery gives a sweet relish to mercy and therefore God will have his people to be slaves in Egypt before he makes them free denisons of Canaan * Afflictions are the snuffers wherewith God makes his people to burn and shine more bright Affliction 't is the Morter in which a Child of God is beaten and bruised to make his graces like sweet spices smell more fragrantly Afflictio piorum non est tam poenae criminis quam examen virtutis For Gods sharpest dealings and severest dispensations towards his children are corrections not judgments chastisements but not punishments or if they be punishments they are yet poenae emendatoriae non interfectoriae reforming not consuming temporall not eternall sin-killing but not soul-killing punishments Affliction 't is the Sive wherewith God sifts and as it were dresseth them to make them fit grain to be gathered into his Garner 'T is the workhouse in which he frameth his Servants like to his Son 'T is the mould wherein God casts his own people and forms Jesus Christ in them 'T is the Mint-house wherein the Lord stampeth his own Image upon them with this superscription Holinesse to the Lord. d There is no greater sign of damnation then to lie in sin and evill unpunished of God saith blessed Mr. Bradford 'T is the mark livery Cognizance of the friends sheep and servants of Christ 'T is a Rod like † 1 Sam. 14. 27. Janathans with honey at the end of it whereby mens eyes are enlightned to behold their misery most men and women being too like the Mole who they say is blind till a little before her death but then see 's * Job 36. 8 9. If they be bound in fetters and be holden in the cords of affliction then God sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they have exceeded saith Elihu Manasses could not see his sins so as to be humble for them and to repent of them till affliction had opened his eyes Adversity 't is the Grave of sin and the Womb of Grace 'T is like d Rainold Orat p. 394. the picture of Diana in Chios which frowns when you come to it and smiles when you go from it * Nihil mihi videtur infelici●s eo cui nunquam aliquid ●venit adversi Demetrius Demetrius an Heathen accounted it a great unhappinesse that he had no misfortune And not without just cause since prosperity is usually the mother and fore-runner of iniquity security * Prov. 1. 32. misery e Plutarch Apothegm When Philip King of Macedon had tidings brought unto him of many worthy and prosperous exploits atchieved all together in one and the same day he cryed out O fortune work me but some small displeasure I beseech thee for these so many blessed good turns f Camerar lib. 1 p. 38. And when Amasis King of Egypt heard of Polycrates his happinesse he wrote to him saying I have thy great felicity in suspicion And afterwards said that he feared he should be forced to sorrow and lamentation because of this his friend overwhelmed with misery And that he feared came to passe for not long after Polycrates was hanged upon a Gibbet by the Command of Oraetes the Lieutenant of Cyrus * Miserum te judico quod runquam fuisti miser Seneca de divin providentia Impunity is the greatest infelicitie * Prov. 2. 1● prosperous wickednesse being the usuall Harbinger of grievous calamities for God is most angry at the wicked when he seems because he doth not punish them to be pleased with them Amongst men there is et misericordia punien● crudelitas parcens Witnesse Tiberius g Suetonius vita Tyberii who constrained them to live who were willing to dye And h Camerar lib. 5. p. 334. Caligula whose Command to the bloudy Executioner of his cruelties was Ita feri ut mori se sentiat strike so as he may feel Death And when a poor prisoner said to Tiberius I beseech your Majesty that I may dye he answered him thou art not yet in my favour So the Lord but most justly punisheth his enemies by sparing wounds by not striking and plagues them by prospering of them For Adversity with Gods mercy is true felicity but prosperity with Gods wrath is reall misery Paul in a Dungeon was happily miserable when Nero upon a Throne was miserably happy The way to Canaan for the Israelites lay through a howling desert Affliction is the Kings great road to Heaven i Don Anthony de Guevara Dial of Princes Fol. 28. Bias amongst others ordained this Law That none should be a Prince of the Perinenses but he that had been brought up ten years in the Warres Because saith he he alone doth know how

and some continue thereon untill they be full ripe by old age and then drop down into their graves Man hath as it were two Sepulchres One in the warm belly of his naturall Mother and the other in the cold Bowels of the common Mother of all both men and women the Earth By life he is put into a Gaole by Death into a Dungeon So soon as we are born we cry as if because we then want language to speak them our eyes did weep elegies and by those tears at once prognosticate expresse and lament our future troubles sorrowes sufferings Funerals The Mexicanes thus salute their Infants coming out of the Womb Infant thou art come into the World to suffer endure suffer and hold thy peace Our Mothers are living Tombs to us before our birth and so soon as ever we do but peep or step into the world every thing not only mindeth us of but also preacheth and readeth Sermons Lectures and Lessons to us of our departure out of it again For what are our swadling cloaths but winding sheets What are our cradles but Coffins What is the ringing of the Bell before our being Christened but an antedated passing peal What are those arms which carry us to Church to be baptized but a Biere What doth our being first undrest signifie but the putting off of our mortality What is our being layd down to sleep but an embleme of our Buriall And what is our first sleep but the Image and elder Brother of Death Life 't is a weak twig and a slender thread upon which fraile man hangeth over both his Grave and Hell 'T is a Tragae-Comedie whose scenes are health sicknesse strength weaknesse joy sorrow mirth and mourning The Prologue tears the Epilogue groans a Rainold Orat 185. Romani duas angorum voluptatum deas Angerioniam Volupiam ita colebant ut Angeroniae pontifices in sacello Volupiae et Angeroniae simulacrum in ara Volupiae collocarent quo significarent angores voluptatibus dolorem gaudiis humana vita semper temerari In this world there is no day without clouds The door of this naturall life is alwaies turning upon the hinges of mutability and variety of conditions Winter Summer Autumne Spring prosperity adversity sadnesse gladnesse black and white daies b Godwin Rom. Antiq. as the Romanes distinguished them make chequer-work in our lives Our complexions our outward estate and conditions are sometimes fair and ruddy with joy comforts mercies and sometimes they are black wrinkled pale and wan with sorrows crosses and miseries Man hath neither * Psalm 102. 11. Job 14. 2. Solstice nor rest here and therefore the Romanes built the Temple of Quies without the City to signifie that the lower Region of this Life is subject unto and disquieted with storms and showres * Lacrymae nobis decrunt antequam causae dolendi Sencca de brevitate vitae troubles and afflictions The Womb of Life is alwaies pregnant with both consolations and tribulations which struggle therein and the one as * Genes 25. 26. Jacob did Esau usually taketh the other by the heel c Plin. Secund Panegy ad Trajan Habet enim has vices conditie mortalium ut adversa ex secundis ex adversis secunda nascerentur Like ship-boys we stand sometimes upon the top of the mast of Prosperity and sometimes we are put down under● deck by Adversity Our life is a Sea wherein these tides are alwaies ebbing and flowing Dolor voluptas se invicem succedunt No man was ever yet so happy as to injoy all those mercies which the hand of God hath liberally scattered and divided amongst all men Nor was there ever yet any man so miserable but he had some comforts And though the line of calamity be often if not ordinarily to the godly longer then that of felicity in this Life yet it will be but very short even in his own judgment that is most miserable if it be measured or compared with the endlesse line of eternity And this consideration will make the waters of Marah sweet to a Child of God Our Life is an Irish a troubled dangerous tempestuous Ocean we take Shipping at our Birth with tears we ●ail over it with care fear sorrow and we land at the port of Death with sighs sadnesse unwillingnesse The thread of Life is so short and rotten that it is often yea alas too often spun out by the wheele and broken off by the hand of providence before it leads us out of the Labyrinths and maze of sin and misery many millions being carryed to their graves before they consider why or for what they came out of the Womb into the world For they do not consider that Man was not made and born to imbase his Soul with the allay of sin which alone renders it capable and maketh it fit to receive the impressions of temptations and all reall evills To fewell and feed his filthy Lusts or to gratifie and comply with his vile and vain desires To burn himself in the fire of uncleannesse anger or malice or to drown himself in the waters of drunkennesse and intemperance To choak himself in the dirty puddles and muddy Fennes of sensuality and Epicurisme To lye groveling upon or to spend his time in rooting in the earth by wilfully diseasing his Soul with the falling-sicknesse of Avarice or to entertain a dumb Devill into his heart not only to hinder but disable him from either praying to the Lord for grace and pardon of sin or praising him for his great and undeserved mercies And yet it 's too true that with the most of these devills some men and women are possessed and the most with some of them 'T is most certain that God did not give mans soal brave wings to pursue the poor quarrey of pleasure profit and honour or to fly unto hell but that by holy meditations and a religious conversation it should with them mount up to Heaven The Lord both gives us our beings and continueth us in them to trust love serve obey honour and delight in him He hath assured us we must dye and yet concealed from us how long we shall live that so we might every day and every where expect death and by a holy life and faith in Christ escape the torments of an everlasting death in hell We read of many that had alwaies some memento's of their Originall by them Agathocles who was but the Son of a Potter when he became a King had earthen pots brought up and set in his Presence chamber to immind him of his low extraction d Camerar lib. 1. p. 48. Willigis from a base condition for he was but the Son of a Carter being advanced to so high a dignity as to be made Arch-bishop of Ments caused these following words to be written in great Letters in his Lodging Chamber Willigis Willigis remember from whence thou camest And certainly if Men and Women even the most Royal

matchlesse merits we shall duely pay With zeal and joy until our dying day We have felt the difference 'twixt Law and Lust 'Twixt cruel perjur'd Tyrants and a Just Mild gracious Prince whose love and piety Were his chief crimes Our Faith and Loyalty To CHARLES his Son our hatred shall expresse Of their ingratitude and wickednesse Who murder'd him only for this one thing That they themselves might get above the King This is our cost and sorrow we soon saw For neither Oaths Religion nor Law Could bound or stop their furious ambition Pride Avarice Rebellion or Sedition They rack't us rob'd us hatch't plots to destroy Our Naboth's their good vineyards to enjoy Thus bolted beaten burden'd we had spent Our dayes in slav'ry misery banishment Had we not been free'd and restor'd by thee From Tyrants Traytors to our Liberty When therefore Famous MONK thy body shall Receive a writ of ease to rest from all Those pining cares black dangers palsey fears Which canker and consume our flying years Mirror of men thine Epitaph shall be Sighs tears and groans not varnisht poetrie Not stones but hearts shall make thy monument Which will indure till time it self be spent And thus those seeds which thou this year didst sow Will root live sprout and till the last day grow Two harvests thou shalt reap honour in this And in the next World endlesse joy peace blisse On thy rare Tomb this shall be writ Here lies th' Elixir of all wit The summe the map the Quintessence Of Prudence Loyalty Sapience Englands Saviour and Renown Who gave his Soveraign his Crown And would not snatch it as his own Although he might have climb'd the Throne A world of wonders was this man A Caesar Souldier Christian A Son of Mars and yet a † He is an exception to that too general rule Nulla ●ides pietas que viris qui castra sequuutur Saint Who lov'd colours but loath'd paint Rich and Righteous good and great The pillar of our Church and State A scourge to Rebels friends to those That were not the Kings traitrous Foes Most valiant yet durst not draw His sword against King Oaths or Law Known unto none yet known by all To free three Ki●gdomes from their Thrall Though others scrambled for Empire He only did t' obey aspire Phanatiques he id dissipate Because both truth and peace they hate Lambert and 's Locusts he o'rethrew Yet did not fight that bloudy crew By stratagems he made them yield With words not swords he won the field The maul of errors Heresies Which do bemist and dim the eyes Of those that follow false new lights Until they lose their Fame Faith Sights He was like subtile Fabius By wise delaies he saved us Religious pure and lovely Face Which Bloud and Treason did disgrace Spot and deform he did make fair And beautiful For the right heir Of our late King the best of Men He restored to 's Diadem He woo'd agreed and Marryed Great Britain to her Sacred Head Whom fraud and Force had severed From his true Spouse and Royal Bed This is a little All the rest Of him by silence will be best Expressed who did far excel Whatever Wit or words can tell But hark Me thinks I hear some call and say Down with these common stones throw them away MONK cannot die He therefore needs no verse T'embalm his Name or to adorn his Hearse Nor yet to give a Tomb a tongue to tell Whose dust in that dark silent house doth dwell His true Allegiance and Piety Will make him live to all eternity 'T is true I 've done But will not cease to pray May England have a MONK until doom●-day Amen T. ● Upon the Happy Safe and miraculous return of our Sacred Soveraign CHARLES II. to his Scepter Citie and Subjects on the XXIX day of May 1660 A short Loyal and Cordial Congratulatory POEM WElcome great King of Hearts We 've had all night E're since we wanted thy refulgent light Who art our only Sun plagues curses warrs Oppression Rapine Ruine Faction Jarrs Bonds bloud confusion woe's calamities Gaols gibbets axes plunder Heresies Have been the sad but just effects of those Black crimes and bloudy paths too many chose Lov'd and resolv'd to tread We now do see At once the want and worth of Mornarchi● Our Law peace safety properties and all Our comforts were eclipsed by the fall Of glorious CHARLES yea kill'd nad buried With him for them and us who lost his head But thy miraculous Return doth give A resurrection to them for they live Again by thy reviving influence Whose presence quickens them The sight and sense Of this choice mercy unto us shall be Both cords and chains of faithfulnesse to thee And love praise thanks to our good gracious God Who hath destroy'd our Serpents burn't his Rod. Thy safe arrival makes a joyful spring The Heavens weep for joy to see our King Since thou didst rise and guild our Hemisphere With thy bright beams no ominous cloud appear Those beasts of prey that hunted to have fed O' th sheep and Shepherd too are all now fled Our day is unto them a dismal night Their dark deeds make them fear hate shun the light Peace plenty gladnesse triumphs do expresse And prove our Loyalty our happinesse Men earth air water fire do all agree To guard obey feast honour welcome thee Our pangs are gone The twenty ninth of May Wee 'l therefore call Englands happy Birth-day Thy people had hard labour swoonings cries Cares faintings fears watred with weeping eyes Did burden rack afflict them till they saw Their Child and Father the true spring of Law Justice and power to their longing arms Brought and deliver'd without bloud or harms But now they have forgot their Throws and sing Being safely brought to bed of a brave King Whose vertues are too big for art prose verse To limn to hold or fully to rehearse Whose life 's a miracle whose patience Is truly wonderful whose innocence Suffrings sobriety desire of peace His enemies and comforts did increase A King yet without Subjects rich yet poor Born to a Throne yet cast upon the floor By Rebels hands who threw their Soveraign down To raise themselves and to usurp his Crown Forc't into 'th Field of war ' mongst enemies Abroad at home he was who to surprize And kill him did pray plot fight pay combine Though by all Laws both humane and divine They were forbidden those hellish horrid crimes Which Christians durst ne'r act in former times The weapons which they us'd for their defence Being only pray'rs tears flight obedience Depriv'd he was of Friends rest means by those That profest Loyalty but were deadly Foes His guard was dangers his associates Want fear distresse dishonour his estate Was seized and divided for this end T' increase rebellious numbers to defend Their theft and sacriledge with Gun and Sword Against their Oaths our Laws his right Gods word And which is more they voted to repeal Null and prohibit what God doth reveal To be his will Law and command to all We might nor pay nor pray but for his Fall 'T was death and treason made by them to do What Reason Conscience Scripture binds us to Thus we may see how wickednesse proceeds From evil thoughts to words from words to deeds Black as the place where all such shall remain Without repentance in horrors and pain Fire-brands and Rebels being condemn'd to dwell By a just God in endlesse flames in hell But all these blows did hew polish and square Thee for Gods Temple Great afflictions are The road to Heaven physick wholesome food Which God prescribes and gives his for their good Prosperity us surfeits crosses cure The potion's bitter the effect both sweet and sure Love power mercy have refined thee And brought thee out o' th furnace for to be A praise to God a blessing to this Land Which was consumed by his angry hand His dispensations are just gracious rare No age or story can with those compare Which he hath showred on thy Royal Head Since miracles did cease and go to bed On that same day where thou didst first see Light He did restore thee to thy Throne and Right Armies excluded Armies brought thee in A Rump was guilty of that odious Sin Thy sad exile a Loyal Parliament Did call thee home from thy long banishment The City fed those flames that did consume Our peace the City also did perfume Their streets with loyall Fires and put out The stinking ●aggots of the new-light Rout. Petitions mov'd that murder might be done On our ●ust King Addresses begg'd his Sonne Might be restored to this benighted Ile Which hath been a dark Egypt all this while Our crimes depriv'd us of our Soveraign The sins of Rebels and their frantick Train Together with the cries of pious men Prevail'd with God to give 's a King agen That King by whom all other Kings do raign Did pilot thee over the dangerous Main Those envious gusts which two daies hindered Thy passage to 's in traiterous Lungs were bred The Ships the Sea the wind that fill'd the sailes With which in which ore which with prosprous gales Thou didst then sail they were the Prayers Tears And hearts of pious Subjects whose great ●ears Sorrows and dangers are now vanished And by thy happy presence banished But terrors anguish hotly do pursue And sting that bloudy● painted faithlesse crew Whose consciences and matchlesse Villanies Tell them their guilt and future miseries What 's got by sin doth seldome long endure Justice is sometimes slow but always sure We 've seen the spring the summer and the fall The birth growth rise ruine and death of all Their wicked plots Let 's therefore strive to be Such Subjects and such Christians that we May joyn Allegiance unto Piety As Debt and Duty to his Majesty Since fearing God and honouring the King Will peace and happinesse to England bring And let none have so much as one good day That will not heartily boch say and pray God save the KING Amen T. G.