eats his God Not thinking how by such Religious fictions He vents these inconsistent contradictions First that our Lord behold a fatal shelf That splits their Doctrine once did eat himself That accidents taste colour outward show Should be in things and yet not subject know That the same Body is at once existent In many places from it self is distant Does at the same time rest yet truly move Is here and there below and yet above Can meet it self and then with wondrous Art Retire again and from it self depart Nor are the Lutherans indeed less out Who seek t' unty the Knot and salve the Doubt By Consubstantiation For that they With little Reason less Religion say The words This is my Body this my Blood Must in the lit'ral sense be understood Yet not the Elements chang'd They only deem The Blood and Body in or under them Nor do they this a Local Union call But Personal and Hypostatical As Christ his humane nature cannot be At all divided from the Deity And in this sense indeed the Papists may Be counted more allowable than they Whose Doctrine Christs two natures quite confounds His omnipresence and his Local bounds And by this argument as well we may Of common Bread as Sacramental say This is Christs Body since themselves declare That his divine and humane Nature are Inseparable whence where one is we Must think the other nature still will be And if his Deity all places fill His manhood not divided from it will That other practise of the Church of Rome Which will allow the Wine to only some And those the Priests is a bold Sacriledg That does the lay-communicant abridg Of half his right But Rome hath power of late What God himself hath joyn'd to separate Christ's blood to Laymen says the Priest 't is vain The body does the blood of Christ contain So Grass hath moisture in 't and therefore may The Shepheard to the Sheep when thirsty say Eat Sheep to quench your thirst if that won't do I will by Drinking do the rest for you Authentick Constance-counsel whose decree Can thus for Orthodox speak Blasphemy Be 't thus by us establisht Notwithstanding Primitive practice and Gods mouth commanding But no Non-obstance Act can supersede What in his institution Christ decreed Which was if Scriptures are be believ'd Both Bread and Wine by all to be receiv'd Question Now what 's the inward part that 's signifi'd Answer Though in the former notion I deny'd The real presence of Christ's flesh and blood As those at Capernaum understood Yet in a mystick sense both are I grant Partaken by the true Communicant And he that truly does in Christ believe Does both indéed and verily receive Question What are the benefits and graces that Receivers do hereby participate Answer Confirming grace which vig'rous strength imparts And grace of comfort to our feeble hearts For as our outward bodies by the Bread And wine which they receive are nourished So by the Body and the Blood of Christ Our inward-man is strengthned and refresht And as to temp'ral life those feed the carnal These nourish up the Soul to life Eternal Question What is required and expected front Such as to this great Wedding-Supper come Answer To come with Wedding garments trim'd and drest As suits the quality of such a feast First to examine the most inward parts And close recesses of their treach'rous hearts To try if there they find repentance true With stedfast purpose to be born anew Whether forsaking all their former Sin They do a Course of Righteousness begin The Room must first of filthy lust be clear'd And then with holy purposes prepar'd Before we must expect the Lord our guest Or dare approach his Soul-refreshing feast To this must come a lively faith and firm Such as may give the Man-of-no-man worm A confidence that God will mercy have On such as in his merits Mercy crave And to these graces next there must be joyn'd A pious thankful and Remembring mind Of Christ his death that Cursed death which he Dy'd freely from a worse to set us free In which his precious Sacred blood was shed To wash our Souls with those dear drops he bled He Gall and Vinegar drank that we might drink Rivers of pleasure that o'r-flow the brink And in a word to shame from glory fell To lift up sinful Man to Heaven from Hell And to compleat the man of God that he Furnish'd to all good works may perfect be It is requir'd that in his Soul there move An universal Charity and Love Not such a charity as does extend Only to benefactor lover friend Not such a narrow strait-lac'd love as will Requite a good turn and revenge an ill Not such half-love as can forgive and yet Will never be persuaded to forget Not such a squeamish love or rather passion As reaches not beyond its own persuasion Not that self-ended love whose only drifts In giving are to purchase greater gifts But such impartial love as deals abroad Its alms to all the images of God True objects of its Charity does chuse Gives freely looks for no return or use Such as does envy scorn revenge despise From heart forgives and prays for enemies As God himself who bids us pardon thus Both hath and will for Christ's sake pardon us This is the Card'nal grace the Axel-Pole The hinge of vertue in a Christian Soul This grace like Jacob's Scale by steps shall rise Mount up from earth and mounting reach the skies And when our faith shall be compleat in vision When hope shall be consummate in fruition Love an inhabitant in Heav'n shall prove As lasting as the God himself of Love 'T is this we stand or fall by this that brings Our Souls to Abra'ms bosome makes us Kings 'T is this that gives us Crowns which never fade Among the Spirits of Just men perfect made Who swallow'd up in joys in Heav'n above God and each other shall for ever love FINIS
THE CATECHISM OF THE Church of England POETICALLY PARAPHRASED BY JAMES FOWLER LONDON Printed by Tho. Hodgkin 1678. Imprimatur Guil. Jane Jan. 4. 1677. TO My Worthy and much HONORED FRIEND EPHRAIM SKINNER Esq SOMETIMES His MAJESTIES CONSUL IN LEGORN SIR AS I know you have a natural aversness to being passive so I find in my self no temptation to be active in those lofty Praises that commonly stuff up Dedications Let your works themselves not my Encomium's praise you in the Gates Enjoy your self in that Noble and Christian principle of sparing the Trumpet for securing the Reward Only thus much I must say in Apology for this boldness That the Catechism of the Church knows not better where to seek for Patronage than at those hands that have been exemplarily liberal in beautifying the Temple May you go on and Prosper in so pious a Design and since it cannot be accounted a Digression to your Progress with your favourable acceptance encourage these Papers which are written for their Instruction that ought to be the Polished Corners of it that when nothing of you shall remain but the memory of your actions they may rise up and call you Blessed Which blessedness as you plenteously sow it in this life that you may reap abundantly in a better is the hearty Prayer of Your most Obliged and humble Servant JAMES FOWLER TO THE READER READER THat indifferency in Poetry which one that was a Stranger to it thought unattainable hath here been aimed at This Paraphrase was intended for the benefit of Youth and as near as I could Calculated for that Meridian I have studied to approve my self a Divine that may Delight and a Poet that may be Understood If by tying my self to Scripture-phrase and the expressions of the Church I come short of that Poetick strain that may be expected I desire it may be remembred that it was design'd for Children and not for Criticks If it be read with that simplicity of heart that it was written I hope though it was fitted to the Capacities of the Younger yet it will not so nauseate the more Intelligent and Judicious but the performance may be accepted for the honesty of the Design THE CATECHISM OF THE CHURCH of ENGLAND Poetically Paraphrased Question OF all the gifts that serve delight or grace The humane nature knowledge first takes place Knowledge which to the mind at once supply's Enlightning beams and light-discerning eyes That heav'n-born faculty which man invest With God-like nature differs man from beasts That blessed object of the souls desire That does at once content yet skrew it higher Of which a maxime it hath always stood That Souls to be without it is not good Now since of Knowledge that that is divine Does that that 's meerly humane far out-shine Since knowing of our selves was always found In this great Science the Foundation ground Since what does this Self-knowledge first proclaim Is that the busie tatling Child can frame It s yet unpractised tongue to tell its Name To give some proof how well thou hast begun To get this knowledge What 's thy Name my Son Answer The name first given me when I became A Christian and thence call'd my Christian Name Which aided by that Epithete gives check To sinful deeds crys sinful thoughts stand back And bids the soul walk worthy of the honour And grandeur of that name that 's call'd upon her Live a true Christian or renounce that name Lest that which honors her she basely shame And that profession that she should adorn Expose to censure obloquy and scorn This glorious name the mark and badge of him Whose Service makes me free is N. or M. Question Who gave it you Answer My sureties who because When I submitted to the Christian Laws They answ'ring for me did my soul beget Into the faith my self not able yet To make confession on 't are therefore styl'd Parents in God to me their Christian Child The scene of my receiving thus from them This Christian favour was my Baptism That mystick Military Sacrament In which by Covenant I did indent The great Captain of my souls salvation Fighting his battle to maintain my station Thus at my first enrolement into grace I wretched I till then whose woful case Angels condol'd God piti'd Christ bemoan'd For whose lost state the whole creation groan'd While devils did with spiteful joy and pride Gods image so transform'd to theirs deride I from the body erst lopt off and dead My soul a Bastard and disherited I thus to misery by sin betray'd By this blest means Oh blessed means was made A noble member of the noblest high'st And wisest head my Lord my Saviour Christ A Child of God the most august or rather The onely great and honourable Father And an inheritor undoubted heir To an estate as truly rich as fair No soil so fruitful nor the purest air So wholesom for the sp'rits no prospect is So ravishing no title safe as this So safe the heir can never be bereaven For 't is a Kingdom and that plac't in Heaven Question What did your undertakers then for you Answer Thrée things they did engage for me by vow First that I should forsake abhor detest That Enemy to mans eternal rest That Serpent-hypocrite who though he can Transform himself about to ruin man Into an Angel of most glorious light Is prince of darkness king of blackest night That roaring Lyon whose Apostate power Ranges the world to seek souls to devour That Crest-fal'n King of pride that pride-fal'n star And metamorphos'd Angel Lucifer Who for his tempting first and then accusing For his ungodlike property in chusing What-ever's evil and what 's good refusing And in a word his aptness to do evil Fitly obtains his proper name the Devil This is that Lord whom they did undertake I should together with his works forsake Nor should it strange appear that he which lurks And rules in sloathful bosoms only works Slack rains in duty is the Devils bridle 'T is work enough for him to make men idle Whom he can wean from God himself has won Let men their work omit and his work 's done Sin then 's his work and fitly titled his Who is not Gods the Devils servants is And does his work nor does he serve for nought Vengeance his wages is that sin hath wrought Poor wages for hard service let that Lord Do his own work and take his own reward With him I must forsake what by his care Is of a blessing made a curse and snare The painted gewgaws of this cheating prize This wicked world it's pomps and vanities So perfect from the Makers hands it came That from its beauty it deriv'd the name And he which good exactly understood Approv'd of it when made as very good But all-inverting sin which could it dwell In Heav'n would make ev'n Heaven it self be Hell This from its purity the world estrang'd And perfect good to perfect wicked chang'd 'T was this that set
like himself Immaculate By th' Holy Ghost whose over-shadow'd power Being graciously vouchsaf't unto her Impregnated Oh Heavenly bridal-groom A chast unspotted Virgins womb Born of the Virgin Mary mother she To him that gave her first to be Happy to be his Mother happier far That he his Daughter counted her Whose sinless chast conception did bring forth A Sin-Curse-Free a painless birth Fourth Article S. James the Great Suffer'd not for his own but for the Sin Of hopeless helpless wretchless men Vnder a Governor a Zealous pleaser Of the Ambitious jealous Caesar Pentius Pilate who his death Commands And washes then his guilty hands Was Crucified Condemned and forc't to be Hang'd on the Cross the Cursed tree Where while nails pierc'd his sacred plants and palms his wounded side dropt healing balms Blood that might pay the score to justice then Water to wash and make us clean To evidence redemption finished Water from 's heart to prove him dead Dead truly dead the Lord of life and breath Fast-fetter'd in the Chains of death And buried buried in a Tomb obscure And guarded too to make him sure Yet was the Guest not common and the grave No common entertainment gave A Rock receiv'd him and the Scriptures say A Rock where never man yet lay Fifth Article S. Thomas He whom the heav'n and heav'n of heav'ns in vain Might have endeavour'd to contain Descended into Hell Content to have His lodgings in a six-foot grave Thence to th' infernal pit where Satan lurks To triumph over him and 's works The third day ere his sacred body saw Or yielded to corruptions law He the first fruits of life which he in spight Of Death and Hell would bring to light Rose again from the dead and shew'd it plain That man being dead can live again Sixth Article S. James the Less He then his work being done redemption wrought Hells works destroy'd and man rebought Ascended into Heaven his first abode The only proper place for God And sitteth not till now his labour ceas't And not till now he sits to rest At the right hand of God to signifiâ— As well his pow'r as dignity Where now in our behalf he dayly pleads And with the Father intercedes For such continual and benign supplies As suits our wants and miseries The Fath'r Almighty who can all things do But to his dearest Son say no Who as Almighty can his sute fulfill And as a gracious Father will Seventh Article S. Philip. From thence when judgments Trump shall sound a Call And to the Barr shall summon all And not before to raign as some mean dream A thousand years on earth with them He but not such as formerly was he Cloath'd with disgrace and poverty But he such as he is eye-dazling bright With Majesty and heav'nly light Shall come attended as he truly merits With Legions of Scraphick Spirits To Iudge impartially according to The works that in this life they do The quick who though in death they sleep not shall Be changed in a moment all And the dead too whose perish'd bodies then Shall by his pow'r be rais'd again And re-united with the soul together With that shall live and live for ever Eighth Article S. Bartholomew I Believe in him who proceeds as third Both from the Father and the Word Proceeding as the Godheads Emanation Yet coeternal in duration The third yet equal person in the One Both with the Father and the Son The Holy Ghost the blessed Lord and giver Of life whose lease bear's date for ever Who by his various gifts dispenc'd abroad So edifies the Church of God And by his works upon the hearts of men So lively influences them That they who thus the seeds of grace inherit Brings forth the gracious fruits o' th' Spirit This is the sum of what my faith doth gather Of God my gracious heav'nly Father Ninth Article S. Matthew Another part of my belief remains And that the Church my Mother Claims And here I do believe not in nor on Such faith respecteth God alone But with a faith Historically meant Which does to truth reveal'd assent The holy Cath'lick Church that lovely spouse For which her Lord his life did lose Holy as builded up and founded on Christ the most holy corner stone Whose Constitutions Principles Profession Teach us her Sons this holy Lesson That holy as he is holy we must be Or never hope his face to see Catholick as all those it comprehends Whom our dear Lord accounts his friends Whether they Militate for him below Or having conquer'd triumph now A Church truth's rocky pillar and firm ground ' Gainst which Hell-gates no force have found Tenth Article S. Simon The sweet communion of the Saints that high And most Angelick harmony Which they have first with God Christs father and theirs As his beloved sons and heirs With God the Son as branches with the vine As members with the head combine With God the Spirit who in them as God Within his Temple keeps abode This bond of Charity does kindly move Their hearts and souls in mutual love And keeps the Church of God by this Communion A City in it self at Vnion Not tainting her nor truth perverting by Blind and erroneous heresie Nor yet with Schisms Rents dividing one And making many so make none The full and abs'lute free and gracious No way deserv'd or earn'd by us Forgiveness Pardon plenary remission Indempnity and abolition Of Sins of whatsoever kind degree Whether in thought word deed they be Granted to such as having faith that 's true Are by repentance born a-new Eleventh Article S. Judas Thaddeus The Resurrection of the fleshly part To share the spirits joy or smart The body to corruption now inclin'd But then more purer and more refin'd Whose scatter'd ashes erst base earth and clay And bones with drought consum'd away New-fram'd and reunited shall restore The self-same man that was before So though those crawling Cannibals the worn Destroy these bodies in their urns Yet in the flesh with these not other eyes We shall to see the Lord arise Twelfth Article S. Matthias And as the end the Crown and recompence Of this my faith and patience The Life not frail as this whose every breath Brings the man one step nearer death But everlasting such a life as when Thousands of years and after them Miriads are spent by millions multiply'd Though each brought forth an Age beside Shall have when this is spent and ten times morâ— As long to last as 't had before And so shall still roll on without conclusion In an Eternal revolution In which all Souls Eternally shall dwell As Kings in Heav'n or Fiends in Hell Ravish'd with Musick in the Angels Quire Or Brands of Everlasting Fire Amen this was is will be true till when My Faith and Expectation say Amen Question I 've gladly heard you word by word explain This sacred Symbol great might be the pain To learn this young but greater sure the
contiguous joyn Not only friends or brothers nor alone Those that with me the same Religion own Though chiefly these But generally all Whom by the glorious name of Man we call All whom the great Creator hath endu'd With Souls made in his own Similitude All Jews Turks Hereticks and Infidels And ev'n my Enemy where e're he dwells To these my duty is like love to bear As to my self and hold them equal dear To do to every man as I would be Content and willing he should do to me To both my Parents who my being gave And then from death my Infant-life did save Such honor and such filial love to shew As to the Author 's of my life is due If need require to succour and relieve them In all distresses that in age may grieve them The King and all his Ministers which he Hath vested with a just Authority In all Commands in every thing where they Cross not God's Laws to honor and obey To be submissïve to my spiritual Pastors Governors Teachers and instructing Masters To bear me low and reverend in my deeds To all whose place or fortune mine exceeds They are to God who made them differ debters But I must count them diff'ring thus my betters No bodies injury or hurt to act Either with tongue in word or hand in fact To be as Conscience cries aloud I must To all in all my dealings true and just Not off'ring to deceive with sly evasions Mysterious sence or mental reservations No private grudge malicious wounding dart Nor envious peek to lodge within my heart To kéep my hands from picking and from stealing That when I 've pow'r to falsifie in dealing And none sees what I do but God alone His eye may teach me then to know my own My tongue to bridle that it never may In vain superfluous speaking go astray Always to set a careful watch before My mouth that lying never scape the door My Lips to keep that they may speak no guile Nor with false sland'rous tales my Soul defile To kéep my body fit for the abode Of that great Guest the holy Spirit of God In temp'rate eating which a proof may give That I live not to eat but eat to live In sober drinking not with Swine to swill To drink to quench my thirst but not to fill And chastity Christ's Members not to take And them the Members of an Harlot make Not to desire or cover goods that be Not mine but other men's by property But well to learn and labor hard to get My living truly by my own brow-sweat And in that state of life in which I stand Lawfully call'd thereto by God's Command Whether my place be great mean high or low Whether the Gown the Sword the Pen or Plough Whate're my duty be God calls me to it Something he bids me do and I must do it Of these two parts consists a Christian's duty In these and only these is perfect beauty No wealth or pow'r the world affords that can So much as these adorn the Christian man Question 'T is very true But this my good Child know In nature's Garden no such fruit will grow Unless the Lord the Husbandman prepare The ground with Grace 't will no obedience bear He that hath that walks upright in the ways That God directs but he that wants it strays Nor comes this Grace unsought for no man gains it But he that by true fervent pray'r obtains it The method of supplying what we want Is first for man to ask then God to grant And for this grace to him thou must repair By humble diligent and fervent prayer Let me hear therefore if thou canst repeat That brief but full succinct but most compleat And comprehensive form our Saviour's words Prescrib'd by him and therefore call'd the Lord's Who pitying to see the humane mind In heavenly matters ignorant and blind Directed us when we prepare to pray Those words or such-like words as those to say Answer PREFACE Our common Father now not mine alone But all men's that are born of thee Though no man's faith can save me but my own Yet Prayers may excepted be That I for others make or they for me Which art in Heaven most eminently there As that thy glorious might declares Who yet though they be made on Earth can'st hear With gracious and paternal ears And hearing grant thy needy Almes-mens pray'rs First Petition Hallowed reverenc'd by all that fear thee Magnifi'd honor'd and ador'd And sanctified in us that now draw neer thee Prais'd for the grace thou dost afford And for the mercy's that we want implor'd Thus hallow'd be thy Name that Name Divine Which does indeed deserve it solely Does all the names of Heathen Gods out-shine And when they speak no more than folly Thine is majestick wonderful and holy Second Petition Thy Kingdom that of grace whereby as King Thou in thy Children's hearts dost reign And into such subjection lusts canst bring That they shall but attempt in vain To dispossess their lawful Soveraign And that of glory which shall recompence All present shame and miseries When glorious Angels shall come fetch us hence And mounting us above the Skies Shall wipe away all tears from off our eyes This twofold Kingdom come the one to make Our hearts thy Spirit 's Temple-room The other us from Pilgrimage to take To our Eternal heavenly home So come Lord Jesus quickly let it come Third Petition Thy will which only has power to command At whose bare nod the Creatures run Which whatsoe're it says for Law must stand Curb'd question'd and controul'd by none This sacred godly will on earth be done On us in cheerfully submitting to All methods of thy Providence Who as our Maker what thou wilt mayst do And good or ill to us dispence As seems most fitting in thy own wise sence And by us in a dutiful compliance To thy Commands without demurring For aid so placing on thee our affiance That our endeavours joynt concurring May keep us never from our duty stirring Thus be it done by us on earth as 't is In Heav'n where 't is the Angels choice Their only pleasure glory joy and bliss Who in obeying thee rejoyce To execute the dictates of thy voice Fourth Petition Give us we cannot purchase Boons from Heav'n Nor fee th' Almighty to be kind All favours we receive from thee are given Should we be left our selves to find We soon should starve and perish hunger-pin'd This day we ask not Lord to be secur'd For years to come from being poor We are not of to morrows life assur'd From hand to hand supply our store This Lord we want indeed and ask no more Our daily bread plain wholsom homely food Not Kickshaws and Conserves but bread Not what delights the eye but what is good Not what may please but what may feed Not what we long for Lord but what we need Bread for the body meat and drink and cloathing A good name
liberty health peace And for the Soul or t'other comes to nothing Thy Spirit which our Souls may ease And Faith and Hope and Love in them encrease Fifth Petition Forgive us for we cannot satisfie Neither discharge the whole nor part Dear God forgive us though the score be high An able Creditor thou art We debtors neither can compound nor start Our trespasses for which the least of which Thou might'st Command us down to hell Where Scorpions rods should lay our lustful itch That bottomless Infernal cell Where none but Fiends and flames in darkness dwell This our ten thousand Talents Lord and more Forgive as we the hundred pence To them that ow't us and to clear the score Of our weak Brother's small offence Do thou with Grace our spirits Influence Sixth Petition And lead us not nor let the Tempter lead us So far into temptations field As underfoot to let that Lion tread us And throwing down our sword and shield Like Dastards to th' insulting foe to yield But by thy power deliver us from evil All that leads to or lies in sin From all the wiles and cunnings of the Devil From every snare and secret gin That he hath laid to trap and catch us in And from the ev'l of punishment that 's due To sin thy servants Lord deliver Thou might'st pay torments death and hell 't is true But thou art God blest for ever Of Grace and Pardon art a franker giver Conclusion For thine the Kingdom is thou canst reprieve And dost with acts of Grace abound And if thy power will as 't can forgive That power shall with praise be crown'd And all the glory shall to thee redound To thee be all for ever and for ever By all ascrib'd as 't is most meet Let this our prayer be deny'd us never Granted we wish and hope to see 't And therefore say to it Amen So be it Question Oh heavenly Prayer and such as did befit The blessed lips that first did dictate it But he that would as God's Petitioner His wishes at the Throne of Grace prefer In an acceptable and prospr'ous way Must with the understanding also pray Not he that to an unknown God addresses And rudely in an unknown tongue expresses He knows not what that in a frantick notion Makes ignorance the mother of devotion That thinks the wisdom and the pow'r immense Of Heav'ns great Ruler bound to pick out sence From senceless Pray'rs which they themselves that sâ—â— Are ignorant what they deprecate or pray Not such a man must hope his Sute will thrive Or think he shall prevail with God to give Till he knows what he asks 't is only he That prays with knowledge can accepted be Nor can nor dare I bid you hope to speed Unless you first know rightly what you need Then how to ask Now give me leave t' enquire What do you in this Prayer of God desire Answer I beg of God my Lord and Father who As Lord hath pow'r as Father will to do What I request whose hand with bounty flows And on his Creatures all good things bestows To send to me and all of humane race His sanctifying and preventing Grace That with a hearty Zeal sincere and true That Reverence that to his Name is due That depth of love and thankfulness for all His love which for his answ'ring deep doth call That thus with his coelestial Grace endu'd We may in part express our gratitude In pious worship undefil'd and pure With faith not wavering but stedfast sure In civil service making still the end Of worldly bus'ness to his glory tend And in obedience such as shall submit To his Command ' cause he commanded it And I desire his heav'nly Providence Both to our Souls and Bodies to dispence All things that he sees needful to asswage Our grief and care in this our Pilgrimage And that he will on us his Servants though We merit wrath and vengeance mercy show That he will pardon us for Christ his sake As well the lesser faults and slips we make As our presumptuous those more daring high And impious Darts ' gainst Heav'n it self let fly That he 'l vouchsafe in mercy to defend us From all the num'rous dangers that attend us Ghostly to stifle and extirpate Grace And God's own Image in the Soul efface And send that glorious Heav'n-born Particle To Eternal Lodgings in the shades of Hell And bodily which wait us day by day Upon our lives and dearest joys to prey Diseases dolorous pains distracting cares Oppressing sorrows and dismaying fears Misfortunes pinching poverty and losses Despairing thoughts and over-burd'ning crosses That Israel's Shepherd he whose Eyes no sleep Nor slumber know would always guard and kéep Poor us his easily seduced Sheep From sin and wickedness and from the Foe That seeks to involve us in eternal woe That though with Satans fiery Darts surrounded We be not in eternal Death confounded That dying life that death which never dies Where dismal yellings frightful shriekes and cries Eccho'd with mournful accents of despair With throbs and curses beat the flaming air And this I humbly trust and hope he 'll do By his good mercy prompted thereunto For his dear sake who of his own accord Dy'd to redeem us Iesus Christ our Lord. And this my trust to evidence I say Amen say he Amen to what I pray Question Departing Friends their mem'ry to endear To those they part with make their love appear In absence strong and vigorous and maintain Constant affections till they meet again Some one request or two are wont to leave The doing which their sorrows may relieve And separations tediousness deceive And thus our ever dear but parting Lord Was pleas'd some pledges of his love t' afford Which given to his Spouse the Church in charge From over-pressing sorrows might enlarge Her fainting spirits exercise her graces And move th' affections in their proper places He institutes his blessed Sacraments Whereby each party mutually indents He to his people to remember them They thankfully to love and honor him But now How many hath the Lord 's Anointed For that great end to 's holy Church appointed Answer Two only which we properly so call As they respect the common needs of all And as they 're useful sutable supplies To Christians general necessities That is to say first that which enters them And makes them freemen Christians Baptism And that which feeds them at his holy Board The food of Souls the Supper of the Lord. First he gives milk for Babes in Christ and then Corroborating meat for stronger men Those others which obtruders introduce Are not of gen'ral Sacramental use And either want the parts in Constitution Or good Authority for Institution If holy Orders rightfully they call A Sacrament why not dispenc'd to all Since all are Souldiers why are all not bound By like engagements to maintain their ground This therefore in its proper definition Is but the Leading-Officer's Commission If Marriage were