be multiplied unto her Full of Glory the Spouse I say that until then like Jacob beyond Jordan was but obscure and of small Retinue able to plead but little visibility but here like Him again having once passed some bitter waters can challenge either Stars or Sands for Number singing now Laudate Dominum omnes Terrae Praise the Lord all ye Lands I. Quid Linguae Gentium nisi conversionem Gentium 1. What else do the Tongues of all Nations here import but the conversion of the Nations Again whereas at first all languages save one were as a curse for sin Gen. 11. Gen. 11. a punishment of pride none of them as yet by some thought holy unlesse the three inscribed on the Cross of Christ viz. Hebrew Greek and Latin why here were all the other sanctified by this appearance of the holy Ghost in Tongues for which Let all Tongues and Languages Kindreds and Nations especially that enjoy these Fountains open and not stopt up by envious Philistins ever sing prayses to the Lord and speak good of his Name for so affording them his word in their owne language as a Means and Message of their Salvation Lastly The Tongue too is an Instrument of Tast as well as Speech Distnguit sapores sapidum ab insipido dulce ab Amaro So doth the Holy Spirit rectifie the Palate of the soul hereby teaching her to relish Good and disgust Evil to prefer a bitter wholesom to a sugered venom 1 Cor. 2.22 to taste and see how gracious the Lord is Psal 34. whereby the natural man saith the Apostle as wanting this same holy Tongue Non sapit quae Dei sunt Discerneth not savoureth not the things that are of God But one may speak too much even of the Tongue it self and therefore now I will cleave off my discourse from the Linguae to the Dispertitae The third Querie Why the Holy Ghost was pleased to descend in cloven Tongues And this Dispertitae some take to be no more then Distributae Tongues divided not in themselves they mean but among their Receivers Ita ut Quisque suam habuit So as that a Peculiar Tongue sate upon each of them But there is more in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that signifieth such as were divided from the middest dimidiated as it were by-forked Tongues in specie Ignis saith Goran Gorran in locum These imitating Fire likewise in its pyramidall Figure may easily bee conceived to spread into a Bipartition And what did the two Branches hereof intimate but the equall mixing of the Law and Gospel for the conversion both of Jew and Gentile In the old Law you know the dividing of the hoof was an argument of cleanness Levit. 11.3 Lev. 11. and the Serpent also that embleme of wisdome to which Christ schooleth our Imitation Matth. 10. hath Linguam bifurcatā Matth. 10.16 a kind of a forked tongue Here therefore why may not the cleaving of the tongue be an apt Symboll of sincerity Sure that tongue which rends it selfe off from worldly and corrupt communication and setleth to Gods praises is one of the Holy Spirit 's cloven tongues For the Devill too playeth Gods Ape and hath his cloven tongues viz. those that love division flattery and dissimulation as well as his fiery tongues viz. such as love lying slanders oathes blasphemy and imprecations And these likewise I fear may all Nations hear I am sure our's may almost in every corner speaking in their own language Horribilia Diaboli the fearfull works of the Devilll But not to proportion my discourse of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the Sin of Tongues lest I be infinite or rather uncessant but in stead thereof let us take a more necessary glance of the number here the Holy Ghost descended on For we read of 120. assembled Acts 1.15 But Beza and some others restrain this Advent of the Spirit Acts 1.15 to the Apostles onely because indeed the promise was made to them and He led them forth at his Ascension and the Grand Charge was laid on Them Go forth and preach c. yet for all this the stream runneth th' other way C. à Lapide with a cloud of witnesses affirmes the Holy Spirit shed on all that Company but not without Discrimination In locum Acts 1. cap. 10.47 and this argued first from that Question Acts 10. Who can forbid water that these should not bee baptized having received the Holy Ghost as well as wee besides we know more were to preach the Gospel then the Apostles Luke 10.1 He appointed other seventy Luke 10. and they then had need of tongues But then here may bee objected that there must be divers women in this Company besides the blessed Virgin Acts 1.14 Acts 1.14 and They not permitted to speak in the Church needed not this gift of tongues but we may thus salve the scruple The Holy Ghost here probably descended on them all Apostles and others men and women Joel 2.28 according to Saint Peters exposition of that place of Joel Effundam Spiritum I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh your sons and your daughters shall prophecy Acts 2.17 c. Acts 2.17 which he there appropriateth to that every businesse to take off the Enthusiasticall Pretenses of this Age yet all this not to the same end nor in the same degree as one that was present there Saint Paul will tell you 1 Cor. 12. 1 Cor. 12.8 To one was given by the Spirit the word of wisdome to another the word of knowledg by the same Spirit To others the gift of Faith to others Prophesie to others the Discerning of Spirits as was most necessary to their severall conditions but to the Apostles and to their Helpers the higest Degree of Illumination Diversitie of Tongues and Interpretation of Tongues because they were to convert the Nations Serm. 69. de Temp. So that we may conclude it gratefully with St. Augustine Spiritum sanctum à Christo promissum duodecim Apostalis datum numero decuplato O the great Fidelity and Liberality of Christ that promised a Gift to 12 Apostles and performeth it to ten times twelve which is 120. teaching us to be spaing in protestations ample in performances not like Antigonus sirnamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of whom it is said he never denied any thing was asked nor ever performed any thing he promised but like David to keep our word though it bee our losse it shall be our Gain a better way Psalm 15.4 it is a Qualification of a St an Imitation of Christ you see who here promised his Apostles only filleth all of them with the Holy Ghost And while they are thus filled with the Holy Ghost some mockers are so empty of him as to say the Apostles are filled with new wine Acts 2. Acts 2.15 If They did not sure enough their Successours shall never want Censures and Derisions
of them 4 And they were all filled with the holy ghost And began to speake with other tongues etc The Plate here Whitsunday DISQUISITION 15. THis Day is worthily devoted to the Holy Ghost the third Person in the Blessed Trinity by whom all things times and persons that are such are sanctified and made holy Epist 118. ad Januarium and therefore so devoted over all the world saith Augustine in memoriall of that day Acts 2. wherein the Spirit after a Wonderful and mysterious manner descended for the propagating governing and preserving of Christs holy Catholick Church unto the end of the world 'T is sometime called Pentecost as being fifty days after our Christian Passeover Deut. 16. The Jewish Pentecost was a memoriall of the Law which was an hidden Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Fifty Acts 2.1 but our Pentecost a memoriall of the Gospel which is the revealed Law One delivered in Mount Sinai th' other in Mount Sion and somtimes called Whitsunday from the glorious light of heaven that was then shed upon the earth as also from a custome of some Christians Thence cloathing themselves in white Cyril Catech. in token of the joy and solemnity thereof as Saint Augustine speaks for whereas Christs Birth and other times we keep in Honour of his coming in the flesh now at Whitsuntide wee should rejoyce more for his coming in the Spirit Now we have a double joy Serm. 133. de Evang. saith he Quod abeuntem Christum non amisimus venientem Spiritum possidemus that we have not lost our Christ departed but yet enjoy the Spirit approached I the Sun of Glory being now in his height shines forth on his Apostles in a Light from Heaven and knowing the worlds charity would soone wax cold as he foretold them Matth. 24. He warmeth them with a shower of Heavens better fire and lest great sorrows for his Absence strike them dumb as ingentes stupent He sendeth each of them for a Token an inspired tongue Christs Promises O how worthy confidence that so in each point answered their necessities as not in any thing left them comfortlesse John 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereas without him Joh. 14.15 16. and his Comforts what forlorne Orphanes are the best of men very Apostles you see in the Metaphor here as fatherlesse children or widdowed mothers Orphanos In locum Hierom rendreth it Orbos so Beza One of the words speaking a neer Allegory to helplesse children The other to deprived parents both pregnantly expressing man's destitute condition without Christ Christs Fatherly affection towards man Man who left alone is the desolatest creature in the world especially for Spirituals how unable therein to help himselfe Rom. 1.19 so much as to a good thought Rom. 7. When thus the Apostles without Christ are very Orphanes as children Fatherlesse exposed to oppressions injuries and delusions Let Nature boast of nothing what are the rest of men without him but even wormes as it were and no men But on the other side How manifestly did Christ's Parentall care appear to them that while present gathered them as an Hen her chicken and now absent set so good a Guardian over them Earth could not afford a Comforter sufficient no alas her miserable ones and therefore Heaven shall nor is any Angel there thought good enough to be intrusted with so dear a charge but even God himselfe the Holy Ghost who from the sweet effects of his Illumination and Assistance is Emphatically stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all the world the Comforter indeed sometimes he is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 14.16 i. e. another Comforter yet not exclusively but relatively Christ still remaining one Abiit per id quod Homo est manet per id quod Deus 'T is Saint Augustines Christ though absent in body yet by spirituall protection Lo I am with you to the end of the world Matth. 28. Nay and so farre even literally it is made good by Him Matth. 28.20 being personally for ever with our humane Nature Lo I am with you c. or else another Comforter saith Calvin both for distinction of Persons In locum and difference of Gifts as it was proper to the Son to pacifie the wrath of God to ransome us from hell to purchase life by dying but peculiar to the Spirit to aply these Benefits to make us partakers of Christ and all his saving graces I we have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cor. 12.14 i. e. Diversities of gifts by that same Spirit or as the same Apostle else where calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. the manifold wisdome of God Spiritus benignus Spiritus dulcis Spiritus fortis So St. Bernard He is a Spirit of Comfort as various as our Misery a Spirit of Love to unite the envious a Spirit of strength to support the weak a Spirit of truth to guide the ignorant a Spirit of Consolation to bind up the Afflicted Psal 68.18 So that David's prophesie is fulfilled here Psal 68. Ascendisti Dedisti Thou art gone up on high and hast given gifs unto men I Thou hast now given all good gifts by giving them the Giver of all the Holy Spirit The gifts bestowed as upon this day were of a double considerability viz. Officia Gratiae Abilities or Graces Either gifts of Edification for the Church which are legible Eph. 4.11 He gavesome Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and sme Pastors and Teachers Or gifts of Sanctification for the immediate Benefit of Soules whose Catalogue you have Gal. 5.22 The Fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith meeknesse c. Psal 68.18 which St. Paul repeats Ephes 4.8 Davids word received and the Apostles Gave no opposition butshewing the Heavenly Derivation c. But what John 20.22 Dr. Hammon in locum had they not formerly received the Holy Ghost Joh. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet some say This signifies here not the actuall giving of the Holy Ghost for that came not on them till Acts 2. and they are appointed to abide at Jerusalem Luke 24.29 til they were endued with power from above which therfore now before his Ascension they had not received and when the Spirit came it would lead them into all truth and as yet it appears by their question Acts 1.6 Acts 1.6 they were not thus led but onely the confirming to them his former promise and by the ceremony of breathing on them to expresse the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The eternall Breath and Spirit of God sealing it as it were solemnly unto them The Holy Ghost not received til now and preparing and fitting them for the receiving of it So saith Theophylact 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The words Receive the Holy Ghost signifie Be ye ready to receive him and again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. He
but Saint Peter confuteth them from their own experience it being but the third hour of the day ver 15. Wine was not their mocker but the Jews yet Saint Bernard confesseth it with a qualification Verè Ebrii vino novo Saint Bernard in Festo They are drink indeed with new wine saith He but such a new wine as those old bottles the unbelieving Jews were neither worthy to receive nor able to contain being a wine powred out by the true Vine Himself by Him that trod the Wine-pesse alone Vinum Cor Laetificans non statum mentis evertens such a wine as made glad the Heart without any disturbing of the braine The Apostles had had a sowr Drawght on it by their Masters Absence now therefore they receive the wine of comfort and this me thinks may cheer our patince to see it is Christ's Method to keep the best wine till the last here then what if wee must taste of sorrows cup while we are sure hereafter to have our water turned into wine our tears into eternall joy for what I say unto you saith Christ I say unto all and that is Non relinquam John 14.18 I will not leave you comfortlesse To which end let us fervently and frequently say unto him againe in the Prayer of the Church O God make clean our hearts within us and take not thine Holy Spirit from us POEM 18. THe Sun of Glory being now in 's hight Shines forth on His in a Meridian Light And lest Griefs for his Absence strike Them mute An inspir'd Tongue doth each of Them salute And the World's Charity grown Cold and Dead With fire from Heaven is here Re-quickened Christ's Promise meets th' Apostles Vnion Which Those share not that love Division A Spirit of Comfort various as our Griefs Proportioning them all with fit Reliefs A Spirit of strength for to support the weak And bind up wounded hearts when like to break A Spirit of Amity and sacred love Uniting Lower envies from above A spirit of Aliment to hungry Souls Cheering with Manna and true Nectar bowles And now all Persons of the Trinity Have at times to man appear'd visibly Two Heraulds here usher the Spirits way A mighty wind and Sound fit to display The Gospel one whereof the world must Ring Mens carnall chaff the t'other winnowing Then doth Himself in fiery tongues dispence Heaven takes Some as some That by violence Hither a Question pertinent belongs Why he descends in Fire and cloven Tongues A fiery Comforter must needs seem strange shall not that angry Element once change The world to cinders True and yet presume While God's i' th Flame it sha'nt a Bush consume The Light and heat of fire best emblem forth Knowledg and zeal all true Apostles worth Science without zeal Ape 's the Glow-worm wel But zeal without that Heat without light 's Hell The seven chief Graces of the Spirits desire Not frigidly demonstrated by fire The fire doth Gold from its drosse purifie The Spirit doth by love purge enmity Fire melts the most obdurate Mines you know The Spirit by Remorse makes heard hearts flow Fire hardneth clay against the injurious storme The spirit by patience doth sad hearts confirme The fire makes new and burnisheth the Mine The Spirit by knowledg makes the Face to shine By fire to things ascending motion 's given The spirit by Faith too makes Souls tend to Heaven The fire to all about it light imparts The spirit by wisdome doth irradiat Hearts Fire too preserves things sweet not still consumes The spirit by Innocence our life persumes But why now was this fire shap'd into Tongues To speak those grand abilities that Throngs Converted unto Christ throughout all lands Drawn by such Eloquent and pious bands Without which Dore of utterance all Gifts Crost And like Gems in a casket whose key lost But hence all Nations sweetly woo'd do come T' hear News from heaven in their own Idiom But Satan too his fiery Tongues hath spred Whose fire by Fire shall be extinguished But cloven tongues these of th'Apostles were Mixing that is Law Gospel every where And by that double Fork'd Reflection Pointing out Gentiles Jews conversion The parting of the hoof did cleannesse shew The Serpent's too a cloven tongue we know Christs school of wisdom then the tongue that 's clean From putrid talk 's the cloven tongue we mean Thus Christs and Davids word both made good then When Christ gone up showr'd down these gifts on men The COLLECT The Epistle Act. 2. v. 1. to v. 12. The Gospel Joh. 14. from v. 15. to the end God which as upon this day hast taught the heart of thy faithfull people by the sending to them the light of thy holy Spirit grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things and evermore to rejoyce in his holy comfort through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Spirit one God world without end Amen Vpon Trinity Sunday DISQUISITION 16. IMmediatly after that admirable Descent of the Holy Ghost forementioned as it were consequently ensued notice of the incomprehensible Trinity even thereby given to the Church of God But as the Apostle saith Great is the mystery of Godlinesse 1 Tim 3.16 1 Tim. 3. and This indeed one of rhe greatest parts of all that mystery viz. the Distinction and yet Union of those three glorious persons of the Deity Byssus Abyssum invocat Here one deep calleth upon another A Theam fitter for admiration then examination not visible in the Book of the Creature where the Deity is seen Vt per speculum as in a glasse onely by reflexion No nor presently legible in the Book of the Scripture where God is seen Vt per lucem by a kind of light more directly you know Moses could see but his back-parts Exod. 33.20 and scarce them neither they were so glorious but this Distinction of Persons is as it were His Face and accuratly to be discerned is scarce an adaequate object of this life Exod. 33. And albeit the Bible begin and run on still with his NAME in the plurall number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Gen. 1.1 Gods created the Heaven and the Earth Yet this determineth not three Persons although it fairly contribute something toward it and more then intimateth Diversity of persons Gen. 1. Deut. 5. even when applied to God Himself Gen. 1. and Deut. 6. And some even out of the first Book of holy Writ do probably argue that triple personality from that first plurall word of Gods created that there are several persons hinted and you know the act of creation is generally externally attributed to the Father quod extra according to us for else to all the three indivisibly God created the c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And in the second verse there is another person Particularized viz. the Spirit The Spirit
of Scripture that worship such Rom. 14.23 and 1 Cor. 8.4 and will hardly come off from self-condemnation and flat Idolatry And whether this or that other object of their worship be the worst I leave to the Readers Judgment that Divifie such as never were holy men as the * Dr Sutcliff examinat of Rom. cap. 7. Pagan souldier that pierced the side of Christ by the name of Longinus the Millenarian Papias Becket Sanders Garnet c. most or all of which stand Sainted in the Tiberine Calender I may say with one * Dr Abbot Antipol p. 3. non Martyres Domini though in charity I add not sed Mancipes Diaboli til the crowd is so great that the whole yeer hath too few days to be devoted Et tot templa Deûm Romae quot in urbe sepulchra Heroüm numerare licet But confining unto truth and modesty we understand here such Solemnities as St Austin speaks of Festa quae vel ab ipsis Apostolis vel gener alibus Consiliis instituta à toto terrarum orbe servantur Which either by the Apostles themselves a As those concerning Christ c. or by general Councels instituted b As those concerning the Apostles Epist 118. are observed throughout the Christian world and all these in their proper seasons as neer as can be aim'd at by Mortality the Substance clothed with the circumstances of the Performance and as on these good grounds so likewise for good ends we celebrate them Eccles Hist lib. 4. c. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not only as a memorial of the Dead saith Eusebius but for an holy imitation of the Living Sancti non servitute sed charitate honorandi would all of Durandus his side were as ingenuous in that The blessed Saints are not to be honoured with any worship either of Invocation or Adoration but only with love and the charity of Imitation which indeed calls on us to look both on their Actions and their holy Passions sending us also to Prayer and Fasting and other duties of Mortification wherewith beside the set and solemn times of devout Abstinence each of these Festivals is to be attended both these Solemnities as it were making up the soul a pair of Angels wings much furthering her flight to heaven and even grounded on the law of Nature to regulate piously those two raigning Passions of our Joy and Sorrow with which all the Actions of our life are mixed so that whatever we can do or may be done unto us still the sequell is one or other of the said Affections and our Life according Wherefore the Church of Christ that most absolute and perfect Schoole of Vertue hath by the special direction of Gods good Spirit hitherto inured men from their infancy partly with dayes of Festival exercise for the framing of their Joy and partly with Times of a contrary sort for the regulation of their Grief by both These I say consecrating the whole life to God And here it must ever be remembred that the intent of the Church in these her holy Solemnities is not only to inform us in the Mysteries which are commemorated but also and that chiefly to conform us thereby unto Christ our Head and his glorious Members which is the sum and substance of all our Celebrations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the Apostles word of exhortation Phil. 3. Phil. 3.10 Conformable unto him if not thus affected by them we neither approve our selves of the number of his Followers nor of his lively Members but these well improved are multiplyed Advantages to Devotion a Christian practice I know not whether of more Piety or Antiquity Eusebius telling us how Dionysius Bishop of Alexandria Eccles Hist lib. 7. cap. 19. above 1400 years agoe wrote upon this Argument And do not all the golden Fountains of the Fathers both of the East and West Coloss 2.16 the Greek and Latine Church flow with the same streams Quorum saluberrima est Authoritas whose Authority's a sufficient conduct in Saint Augustines Judgment that there 's no fear of falling into Saint Pauls Reprehensions * Loco praecitato either touching Times Gal. 4. or Abstinence no kinn to Heathenish Observations 1 Cor. 8.8 or Judaicall Reserv'dnesse but a religious Obedience on better grounds and ends of Piety more claiming interest in his Commendations 1 Cor. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All being done decently and in Order and tending onely to Gods Honour his Saints Memory and our Edification Without which 't is too visible Religion will soon languish and even die away by degrees †As Sir W Ra. prophesies de lege Mosaica prope initium into Profanenesse Heresie and Atheism But that a Disquisition swell not into a Volume I referr your further satisfaction herein to those too Starrs of the first Magnitude in the Church of England judicious Hooker a Eccles pot l. 5.373 and the learned b His defence of Christian Feasts Featly PNEM 4. Gods first born People the selected Jews By his command Solemnities did use New Moons and Sabbaths and the Sowre-herb-Feast Those of Weeks Tents of Purim and the rest Both fixed Feasts and Fasts to let them know When they should humbled soules when gratefull show Which Scions since the Christian Church transplants Grafting on nobler stocks and soil that wants No pious care to cultivate their Spring For Christ's advance and his Saints flourishing Two raigning Passions in our Hearts do grow Sorrow and Joy both which to temper so That neither may transgress the Church hath fix'd Her solemn Feasts and Fasts both duly mix'd That the most low-roof'd souls may learn thereby To tune their Griefs to Sin their Joyes pitch high These are the harmless Books of Ideots where Without all Superstition Truths appear All else without Book by such marks may know What Lord such places persons times doth ow These are Religions Boundaries where we The Pious steps of our Fore-fathers see Weekly solemnizing i' th' Sabbath blest Our grand Creator's Works and sacred Rest Till that Judaick Term Grav'd with his Son Rose the Lords day by 's Resurrection Whose saving Mysteries of Life and Death By Annual Returns These keep in Breath Lest else in Story as in Act forgot All in Atheistical oblivion Rot His humble Birth his Tragick-Passion His Rise Triumphant and Ascension With the Descending of the sacred Dove All kept t' augment his honour and our love And as peculiar Feasts tend the bless'd Three So one the undivided Trinity Good offices of Angels are observ'd With love to them worship to God reserv'd And since our Faith saith Truth is founded on Prophets Apostles seal'd with the Passion Of bleeding Martyrs those are Registred As golden Pipes while we adore the Head And least Joy wanton on so numerous Feasts The Church sometimes calls us as mourning Guests Shifting the Scene minding our Hopes of Fears Mingling our Bread with Ashes Drink with Tears Such
Pair of cleansing streames flow'd from the Side Of our deare Lord when on the Crosse he dy'd Even Christs two witnesses who though not slaine Yet slay our sinnes and fresh his Death againe Our Brace of Spies that from blest Canaan brings Newes of its cheering wines and fruitfull Springs A Mother hath but two Breasts Ours These are For spirituall Nutrition thriving fare The two Church dores open to who desire First leading into th' Body then the Quire The one a Spirituall Matriculation T'other such nourishment and Education Then not to Tantalize you on and Tast The Delicates of their Divine repast Vpon Holy Baptism Gen. 15.17.11 1 Cor. 1.16 1. The INDULGENCE CHRIST no hard Master our Indulgent Lord Now for harsh Sacraments doth milde afford No way ward Zippora need now upbraid Her Moses bloudinesse or be afraid Her Child's life cut together with his Skinne That Bloud 's turnd Water now but wash thy sinne His Yoake in deed is easie Burthen light Wear 't all Life's day and rest well at Death night 2. The LAVER To wash is ease but Thereby to doe good Faith must our Water mingle with Christs Bloud And then it takes out Staines of deepest dye And gives more then our own first Purity A Simon Magus else may be Baptiz'd And passe for a Disciple so disguis'd 'T is not the Water only but the Dove Moving upon 't doth the Soules Laver prove 3. The LISTING This is the Military Sacrament Giving to each Presse-money from Christs Tent Engaging us to warre ' gainst Sinne and Hell Such and so many Foes need guard us well Mind we our part 'o th Compact as Christ his Who the victorious Crowns with Grace and Blisse But who his Standard cowardly doth flye You know by Martiall Law deserves to dye But there 's a Chancery in our Leaders breast That who returns shall be a pardon'd Guest 4. The ARK This is Christs Ark as 't were while Flouds of Sinne Deluge the World to shroud his Servants in Even in his Churches armes then no time slip To have poore Soules imbarqued in this Ship Dispute not Infants Faith thou graft's thy Plant Though in its Youth and Winter it fruit want Commerce of Spirits goes not by age or acts Externall but where Gods free Grace affects And Christ most favour did to such dispence Schooling the Gravest to their Innocence Forbid not then these Sacramentall Rites To such as Jews admitted Christ invites His Ordinance and promise who neglect Are out of 's Arke and may the Floud expect And as for timely entrance Care be ta'ne So must there too that all i' th' Ship remain As Saint Paul caution'd for offences foule Cast Jonah's Lot on a bestormed Soul But after such a wrack no better plank Then deep Remorse to land on Safeties bank Vpon the Holy Eucharist 1 Cor. 11. John 6. 1. A FEAST TO thy Grand Houshold Th' art a bounteous Lord For all the World spreading an ample Board But specially for Man at whose feet all The severall Species in subjection fall Yet thine own Israel doe higher fare And Fellow-Commoners with Angels are The Rocks are broacht to quench their Thirst at wish They doubly Feast with first and second Dish And yet all these but figure in a mist The Viands thou preparest thine in Christ The former of thine Alm's-basket are fed But unto These Thou giv'st thy self for bread Bread thresh'd and ground to dust by Sinne and Jews As Staffe of life ' then let us this Bread use Walk with it all our wayes and 't will sustaine Our hearts from slips in Sinne from falls in paines The better Jacobs Staffe that guides to Heaven From whence this Feast the Feeder doth enliven As Grace before made Thee a welcome Guest So let Zeale waite and due praise close the Feast 2. The RANSOM Our life 's a warfare and our hellish Foes Too numerous and strong daily enclose Us in their fatall Nets insulting still Or'e us as Bond-slaves captiv'd to their will But Judah's Lyon by victorious power Free's his Sheep from those Wolves that would devoure Christ to our Rescue did descend This day And unto Heaven with him bore the Prey Nor are wee only Prisoners of Warre But of Debt also and ingag'd so farre That all we have or are can never free Our Soules be-dungeon'd to Eternity Yet cheere up drooping Wights he that essaid To Rescue you and did hath also paid The Price beleeve it farre beyond best Gold Your Debts and Forfeitures and this day told A Summe so great could not be understood Paid willingly too though as drops of Bloud Henceforth by double Ransome then His be Whose service is most perfect Liberty 3. An ANTIDOTE How sick doth Poyson swallow'd make the Heart Diffusing Venom into every part Within without all ulcered and thus The Serpents Teeth and Apple had serv'd us But here 's a soveraign Antidote made up Of rare Ingredients mixed in this Cup Of Bloud and Grace which who drinks heartily Shall be so Cur'a as live immortally 4. The CEMENT How should These mixt Tenacious Cement make To bind all in a Building should partake One Common Uniformity and grace Each other with proportion in its place This tyes Christs Members in a mutuall knot Never to be rescinded or forgot Unto their saving Head uniting all In Love and Duty both perpetuall Till He and They as in grace here below Above in Glory all one Body grow Vpon Holy Orders Or the Ministeriall Function 1 Cor. 9.11 1 Tim. 3.1 2 Cor. 2.16 1 Tim. 4.16 2 Cor. 4 7. Ch. 5.20 1 Tim. 5.17 VVHich the Worlds two main Burthens if you aske Truth saith the Kingly and the Priestly taske Both Heaven-born Functions but the last all fire They 'd need all Caution be who That aspire Indeed for Soule-cure who sufficient is It startles even a chief Apostle this What Atlas shoulders nay what Angels fit Thus to beare Heaven up and yet since it Is Both Gods acceptation and Decree This Treasure should in Earthen Vessels be We gratefully attend the Divine call And then in all obedience 'fore it fall But without That and signaliz'd by those Who rightly have the Keyes on 't to dispose We stirre nor Foot nor Hand least Uzzah-like Some suddaine Vengeance our presumption strike Must all your Arts and Plants mature with time And This which needs most leape into it's Prime Beware bold Flies that buzze about This flame Lest your proud wings being scorched in the same Your fond Icarian zeale at last fall down Into that Lake which Pride shall ever drown But you that by both Callings enter faire Snuffe your own Lights and take a watchfull care The Wearer doe not holy Vestments staine Or to your Master a dishonour gaine If undeserved Scandall doe you spoile Those Shafts to their own Shooters breasts recoyle Knowledge the Head the Heart crowns Holinesse Light and Perfection make up Aarons Dresse Spirituall and Corp'rall Charities With fervent Prayer's