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A65835	Wadsworth's remains being a collection of some few meditations with respect to the Lords-Supper, three pious letters when a young student at Cambridg, two practical sermons much desired by the hearers, several sacred poems and private ejaculations / by Thomas Wadsworth. With a preface containing several remarkables of his holy life and death from his own note-book, and those that knew him best.	Wadsworth, Thomas, 1630-1676.	1680 (1680)	Wing W189; ESTC R24586	156,367	318

love-flames Those Oh those are names make melodie VIII But see what is' t there stands A tablet all of Gold Spread with a cloth of threads as fine as light Oh its pity 't should be foul'd What dainty Fare is that How richly is 't persum'd Oh it smells and it looks as drest of fires of love Meat that 's eat yet ne're consum'd May I taste may I taste yea welcome welcome Thy Lord did it prepare That thou mightest have a share Now he hath got thee above He will feast thee with love Thou must now forget all grief and care IX Here 's honey-combs indeed Sweets that will ne're annoy I scarcely could think that Heav'n it self could yield Such delights that could not cloy This wine I have but sipt It will make a sick soul well One drop it would fetch a soul to life again That with grief were sunk to Hell Will this life always last yea for ever for ever Of want there can't be fear When God will make the cheer And that provision must last That with eating can't waste Such is all the food that we have here X. What lulling murmur's this That thus salutes mine ear It 's pleasant muttering accents almost made Me quite forget my chear These are the silver streams Of joys sprung from the Throne Of which each drop's more beautiful than pearl And more rich than th' Onyx stone Transparent it is as the Chrystal the Chrystal Of taste and smell more sweet Than th' ointment on his feet Here souls and angels leap in And together all swim Who along her banks like arrows fleet XI These dainty curling streams About her shores that twine Is sweetly shaded with a tree of life Yielding juice more rich than th'vine It 's roots spreads in th' clouds As old as th' night and day Twelve sorts of fruits twelve times each several year It doth yield yet don't decay The Pomegranate or the grape a' nt so pleasant so pleasant Compar'd to th' worst of these Never fruit did half so please Besides who tasts but one bit Is made immortal by it For its juice is clean from dregs or lees XII Here always it is spring A long continued May Our Sun standing still makes Summer ever last And an everlasting day For my heart I cannot sleep No though I were to die Those ravishing Sun-beams keep me broad-awake Yea and will eternally It 's God and the Lamb that thus glissen thus glissen Whose faces blush with light If I wink it straight were night Whilest with these beams I 'm then blest I 'le never think upon rest But conclude that waking's always best MORTALITY I. FRom the womb From the womb Do I pass to my tomb For my passage is quick in the cast of an eye I here that am living you 'l straight see me die This warm breathing dust to a clod of cold clay In a trice will be turn'd then molder away Hark you but a while you 'l soon hear the bell Toul out my Funeral-knel My thread is e'en spun My glass almost run That on earth I here cannot long dwell II. Ev'ry breath ev'ry breath Is a step to my death My flesh is consuming each thought that I think Each minute that passeth to my grave I do sink The hungry worms my neighbours will be And my guests too that shortly will feed upon me I was born of corruption a cruel step-mother That brought me but forth to smother No sooner in th' world But out I am hurld So I 'm shufled from th' one to th' other III. What is death what is death But a stop of th'breath Some small puff of wind that will blow a flame out Or the turn of a door for a soul to step out It 's no more than the wreck of a Ship that hath crost A Sea that 's tempestuous where no passenger's lost The planks of my body may be tomb'd in a wave But my God will my spirit save It 's but to step in At most to unpin My rags that are fit for a grave IV. What 's a groan What 's a groan That our friends thus bemoan When they by our beds side sit to close up our eyes It 's no more than a crack from the Heaven that flies Our souls then like lightning are breaking their way From the clods of our bodies and why should they stay It 's a pang of corruption our mother that brings Forth souls that she breeds to be Kings For no sooner I 'm dead But a Crown 's on my head And Hosannah in Heaven I sing V. Not a day Not a day That doth pass but I pray That my work were dispatcht that I might hence but go Though the first Inn I lodg at is the grave I do know Those chambers of darkness my soul do'nt affright It is but mine Inn I dare lodg there one night In my Coffin I 'le creep as into my bed And my winding-sheet I 'le not dread There soundly I 'le sleep Till the morning doth peep From the dust then I 'le raise up my head Self-Estimation MOunt up my soul and stroke into a calm The surges of proud passions with a Psalm Stretcht out on either side tower up thy head O'retop the waves stear on let reason lead Be 't as thy Polar-star while thou art tost Lest 'mong perplexing billows thou be lost Look how the first fiercely comes rowling on Which reason calls Self-Estimation A sporting-wave turns visage now bold now shie How fond as if in love with thy Egoifie She fawns and with her circling arms Embraceth that which quickly feels her charms See how she soars aloft and on her wing Mounts self yet all this while but flattering When at the height her sleiked face turns glass Which represents self's vertues in a mass Thrice double to their proper magnitude Take heed don't look my soul it doth delude Think what 's but a wave will quickly sink And mounts so weak in vallies sooner shrink Waves quickly fall they cannot stand so fast Their weight will press their fainting knees at last Thus with her higher gusts of flattery She turns thy brain then turns thine enemy Strange metamorphis'd passion glass just now Fit for reflection of an amorous brow Now in a cup she 's turn'd bow'd fit for th'lip Presents thee with a Nectar bids thee sip Sip not my soul waters that brackish are Are much too strong for weaker heads to bear Their duller spirits they will soon convey And chill thy brains to ice for as they say Salt will freez hard though in a thawing day CONTEMPT A Dialogue betwixt Flesh and Spirit Flesh WHat all to small Nothing seems big enough To entertain thee yet doth th'housholdstuff Of this vaste Microcosm prove now too small To dress and trim thy swoln-big heart withal Sp. Her gusts to great contraction cannot bound That which infinite can scarce surround Contentment she must have which cannot be Found cloister'd in the cells of poverty F. Won't

Then in the afternoon some of his choice Christian friends Ministers and others met to seek the Lord with fervency on his behalf When again pinch'd with recurring pains he said He was in an agony but not a bloody one And what are all my pains to those Christ did undergo for me When they were earnest with God in prayer for faith and patience He would often be saying Though thou killest me yet will I trust in thee And expressing much humility when they were importunate for his restoration Ah! poor useless sinful wretched creature that I am that they should be so earnest for my life But when it pleased the Lord that his pains should continue and the joint and ardent prayers of his dearest Relatives and people were not prevalent for his recovery He would be ever and anon thus stilling and quieting himself What shall I say unto thee O thou preserver of men One minute in heaven would make amends for all this pain LVIII On Friday 27th his repeated pains did continue yet the Doctor of Physick said There was no danger Towards evening he had some intermission and then was reading some part of his own Book concerning the Immortality of the Soul and Faiths Triumph over the fears of Death That Friday night his friend that much lov'd him Mr. Jeofferies sate up with him When being again rack'd with grievous pain he spake to this purpose Oh! the wonderful mysteries of the Providence of God! who can see a Job cast out upon a dunghil filled with botches and biles for saken by his friends and worried by Satan and yet at that very time God had not a more choice servant on the face of the earth nor one more dear to him than he was To another of his Congregation come with his Wife that evening to visit him and saying If it should please God he should then dye they should be a scattered flock as sheep without a shepherd He said The great shepherd of his flock liveth still or eternally He doubted not but he would take care of them LIX On Saturday morning 28th he by the help of his intimate friend Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick Merchant made his Last Will and Testament constituting his Wife sole Executrix he then as one who had set his house in order taking leave of this world told his Wife He had now done with Wife and Children and not less than twice to the Question How it was with him as to soul-concerns He answered I bless the Lord I have no cloud upon my spirit yet if my God should give Satan leave he may put me into an Agony before I dye Reverend Mr. Bragg in his Sermon p. 24 25. hath more He then spake of this nature yet further he repeated that of Solomons The soul knows his own bitterness and a stranger intermedles not with his joy He told Mr. Parsons his fellow-labourer in the Ministry All my self-righteousness I disown and I trust only to Christ and hope I have a Gospel-righteousness This evening seeing his Wife to weep He said I prethee weep not but turn thy face with Hezekiah to the wall and pray The night after when he was weaker his pains grew stronger but when an acute pain was a little over He would ever and anon say Now this pain is over and I shall know it no more And to one that stood by who he thought had not walk'd acurately Now see the benefit of a good conscience Then when they had given him something from the Apothecary to dispose him to sleep though his speech was somewhat interrupted with pain and drowsiness He was much concern'd for the People of God in England After a little slumber he said I long to see a people rich in spiritual graces as well as spiritual priviledges but surely God hath here a peculiar people a royal priesthood that serve him day and night in sincerity LX. On the Lords-day morning 29th his Wife asking him whether he knew her What saith he not know thee not know my Wife Thou would'st make me to think I am going to triumph before I am However his triumph was not many hours after For though his people in the solemn assembly that holy day had been earnest again with the Lord if he had seen good to have spared him longer to them about one of the Clock that Lords-day on which blessed days he had used to be much in an heavenly frame as before this choice servant of the Lord expired his last breath and his holy soul entred those joys he had often been labouring to get a Pisgaghsight of and to shew them to others whiles he was here in the body Upon his death that being dissected there was a stone took out of his bladder figured like an Egg which then did weigh 'twixt three and four ounces It may yet be seen in the hands of his Sister He had a brother who though a very strong young man when he was not above 20 years of age dyed being cut of the stone which much affected our compassionate Author and made him all his life after pre-apprehensive of those pains which nextly caused his own dissolution LXI If upon their departure as Erasmus saith in the life of Hierome We are ready to kiss the very shooes and shirts though soyl'd of those Saints we lov'd we should certainly account their Books their best Reliques most useful and efficacious The Works of our Author much beloved by those who knew him well already published with good effect are 1. His serious Exhortation to an Holy Life wherein he doth with great strength and much affection from Mat. 5.20 put in a plea for the absolute necessity of inherent righteousness in those that hope to be saved This was written when he had been six years at Newington as he saith in his Epistle to it 2. The Immortality of the soul prov'd by Scripture and Reason to the Saints joy and the Sinners terror Printed much about the time of his last marriage 1670. To which is annext 3. The Triumph of Faith being in a tendency to the Practical improvement of the former from Phil. 1.21 answering fears upon the conceiv'd approach of death 4. ● Sermon in the Printed Book of Farewell-Sermons though it seems that was not the very last he preached before stinging Bartholomew on Rev. 2.5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and do the first works or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of his place except thou repent Published 1663. where he presseth England to repent Lest said he if God be provoked by sin to go the Devil come And he adds prophetically enough the Plague Pestilence and Sword and all other manner of Evils follow God doth not go alone neither doth God remove his candlesticks alone I do not tell you that God threatens you to pull down all your lights I would not terrifie you by telling you that God is a departing from you when he puts out

setled up he mounts Upon his Royal Steed Who prancing through the streets is prais'd For his victorious deed Just so my glorious blessed Prince With vict'ry on his side Being won with ghastly gaping wounds In triumph he must ride Down with a Chariot made of clouds From th' Palace-yard on high His Father sent to setch his Son In great solemnity Before he steps up to his seat Like Royal Prince he gave Rich-wonder-working gifts to 's friends And then he took his leave Strait at command the foaming winds With prancings up they fly Proud of the burthen that they drew A load of Majesty When he got home Oh! with what shouts Of joy did Heav'n resound When th' Father sat him on his Throne And there himself him crown'd Angels and Saints do all at once The Song of the Lamb sing As worthy of all honour praise Yea worthy to be King Sit there thou great Victorious Prince At thy Fathers right hand Bring down thine en'mies to thy feet Rule all by thy command HYMN V. The Souls Access LOrd hear my knocking 's hark my crys Want drives me to thy door Oh! chide not do not say Away I was here once before Where shall I go thou only hast That life none gives beside I went about the world to beg For life but all deni'd Thou art my God and Saviour To thee I naked creep Besmear'd in blood and tears I lie Lord pity see I weep If I have sin'd Lord thou hast di'd To free me thou wast sent And thou hast said I shall not die If that I will repent Justice Oh hold a while thy stroke Suffer a sinner plead It 's for my life one word and then Strike on and make me bleed If I had sin'd and would not yield But stoutly stand it out Thy wrath might then have broacht my heart And let my life run out If I had heard a Christ was come With open arms to save Had I not run for refuge there Mercy I might not crave Now Justice strike 't is done but see Where I incircled lye Within the folds of Jesus arms Strike in his arms I 'le die Chear up my heart the storm is o're Justice is ris'n and gone All thy accusers creep away Thy Christ is lest alone What blessed voice was that I heard My Son rise off thy knees Thy sins are pardon'd thou art free And I have paid thy fees Lord what a quick dispatch hast thou In grace giv'n to my cause I am arraign'd acquit set free By thy most gracious Laws Had I not guilty dar'd to plead Though fraught with Angels skill How sure my impannel'd conscience would Have sought and found the bill HYMN VI. The descent of the Spirit WHO knows the winds from whence they come Or whither they do go The holy breathings we receive Are from the Spirit ev'n so Sometimes its cooling gales we feel On Conscience all on fire Sometimes its cooling heats we find Our nummed hearts inspire This is that Holy Ghost that Christ Did promise for to send This is that pow'rful Spirit that Our stubborn hearts must bend Jerusalem the City was Design'd for his descent Thither the Christians at th' command Of th' Heavenly Angel went No sooner were they set but straight A mighty tempest rose Shook the foundations of the house Which they for pray'rs had chose Struck with amazement soon there fell Flames shap't both flat and long Which hovering light upon each head Much like a Cloven-tongue Those little fiery bushes were But wonders for to shew That th' wonder-working Spirit was Come down to men below For straight he tun'd each Christians tongue All Languages to speak The Parthians Medes and Elamites To them their minds might break Thousands of Salem flock to see This strange unheard-of thing They flock too fast for they forget Good hearts with faith to bring Some are amaz'd but others scoff Some praise but others say They have too much of tongue they 'r drunk With much new wine to day Oh injur'd God! how can'st thou bear These dreadful Blasphemies These wonders speak thy Gospel true They say it 's nought but lyes Scarce fifty days now past thy Son With nails they Crucifi'd And now to heap up sin on sin Thy Spirit they deride Instead of wrath Gods bowels yern Yet thinks them thoughts of Grace The bleeding Christ while Peter preacht The Spirit gave them chace Three thousand hearts at once he struck Who bleeding came and cri'd What shall we do we do believe On Christ we Crucifi'd O holy conquering Spirit thou Those souls did'st captivate This is a second wonder wrought Which we with Songs relate Oh let me find thy heats within As a refiners fire Purge from my heart all dross and sin This this is my desire HYMN VII First Part. THOU dreadful Judg whose Majesty Angels themselves adore That can't with open face thee see But clap their wings before When thou with whispers dost but chide The arch of Heaven doth quake Big-bellied clouds forth lightning bring And into thunders break When that thy wrath it doth but breathe Great storms of whirlwinds rise Hail snow and rain come tumbling down Whilest th' trembling sinner flies The lofty mountains stoop their heads To hide them in their vales Great men and Princes shrink for fear Their hearts and courage fails Some high and mighty Angels hatcht Treason against his Crown He spar'd them not but from their Throne With vengeance pull'd them down He chains of darkness on them laid As pris'ners doth them keep Against the great and terrible day When hardest hearts shall weep When the old world thy name forgot And laid aside their fears The gentle wrathful Heavens wept Drowns it with showers of tears When Sodom and Gomorrah burnt With fires of wanton lust With flakes of fir'd brimstone thou Those Cities burnd'st to dust Sion it self that darling hill In Salem that did stand Them both for slaying of thy Son Thou mad'st a fire-brand Our bleeding carcasses thy sword leaves reeking on the ground Yet after this we no more fear Than men fall'n in a swound Second Part. When thou O mighty God shalt come Riding upon the wind To judg the world Oh! in what place Will th' wicked refuge find How shall we hear thy shrill voice't trump Cleaving th' air asunder To wake our ashes in their graves With noise like claps of thunder Lord what a glorious train is that That on their wings do ride Look how they post in full career Thronging on either side Oh! they 're the Angels of the Lord Egypt's first-born that slay'd That took poor Lazarus soul that di'd And him in bosom laid The Trump shall sound and Michael then Th' Archangel strait shall cry Arise you dead to judgment come The Lord your lives must try Look how the wicked's bodies crawl Like Toads out of their den What ghastly fearful looks they bear They look like frighted men Why do you sinners now thus quake Call for your