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A27387	Theophila, or, Loves sacrifice a divine poem / written by E.B., Esq., several parts thereof set to fit aires by Mr. J. Jenkins.	Benlowes, Edward, 1603?-1676.; Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.; Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1652 (1652)	Wing B1879; ESTC R22902	113,211	344

And quit from Clay I did attain Swift as a glancing Meteor to th' Aerial Plain XLIII Where passing through I did perfume the Air With sacred Spice and incenst Pray'r While grateful Clouds their liquid Pearl as Guift prepare XLIV I spare t●unlock those Treasuries of Snow Or tell what paints the rainy Bowe Or what cause Thunders Lightnings Rains or whence Windes flow XLV Those Regions pass'd where bearded Comets light The World to fatall Woes a bright Large Orb of harmless Fire enflam'd my Heav'n-ward Flight XLVI To azure-arched Skie ascends my Soul Thence view I North and Southern Pole Where Globes in Serpentine yet order'd Motions rowl XLVII Thence by the changing Moons alternate Face Vp through unweari'd Phosphors Place I mount to Sols Diurnal and his Annual Race XLVIII By whose propitious Influence Things are Quickned below this Monarch Star Making his Progresse through the Signes unclouds the Air XLIX And eight-score Times out-bulks the Earth whose Race In four and twenty Howers space 'Bove fifty Milions of Germanick Leagues do's pace L. This Giant with as many Tongues as Rayes Speaks out so oft as He displayes His Beams which gild the World that Man his LORD should praise LI. Through Sphears I pass'd to Stars that nail HEAV'NS Court My Stay was with Skie-wonders short Which by first Movers Force are whirl'd about their Fort. LII Through the blew-spangled Frame my psalming Tongue Made th' Orbs suspend their usual Song To hear Coelestial Hymns the glist'ring Quires did throng LIII Chime out ye Crystal Sphears and tune your Poles Skies sound your Base ere ye to Coals Dissolve and tumble on the Bonfire World in Shoals LIV. The Primum Mobile do's seem immense And doth transfused Influence Through all inferiour Orbs as swift as Thought dispense LV. Suppose a Milstone should from thence be hurl'd Vnto the Center of this World 'T would make up sixscore Years ere it could down be whirld LVI Now entred I HEAV'NS Suburbs 〈…〉 No orient Jewels cast such 〈◊〉 O might this Verse be wreath'd but with 〈◊〉 Diadems LVII Sols radiant Fulgence in meridian Skies Seem'd Shade unto those CLARITIES Where Beauties Self might beautifie her fair●st Eyes LVIII 'T is 'bove high'st Verge where Reason dares be bold That HEAV'N of GOD is of such Mold That Eyes till glorify'd cannot the same behold LIX 'T is purely Spirit'al and so must be Above compare in all Degree With Ought that draws its Line from th' six Dayes Pedigree LX. 'T is immaterial 'bove the highest Sphear Doth brighter then the rest appear Than Orbs of Fire Moon Sun or Crystaline more clear LXI 'T is Space immense from whence Apostates driv'n Their Rooms might so to Men be giv'n With Those confirmed SONS th' Indigenae of HEAV'N LXII Absurdly some Philosophers did dream That HEAV'N's an uncreated Beam Which forth eternally from GOD HIMSELF did stream LXIII 'T is but a Creature though its Essence be To change unsubject standing free On never shaken Pillars of INFINITIE LXIV Ocean of JOYES Who can THEE fully state For clearer knowledge Man must wait First shoot Deaths Gulf thy Soul may then arrive thereat LXV For no One enters There till He hath trod Deaths Path then from that Period Elected Souls ascend to Heav'n to BLISSE to GOD LXVI Zeal through me fir's its way to speak that I Would thither like wing'd Lightning flie Were my Flesh-curtain drawn that clouds my Spirits Eye LXVII What Heights would Souls affect could they undress Themselves of Rags that them depress How beautiful ' s the Form of naked HOLINES LXVIII New Light Life Love Joy Bliss there boundless flow There shall my Soul thy GLORY know When She her Robe of Clay shall to Earths wardrobe throw LXIX Fond that I am to speak Passe on to BLISSE That with an individual Kisse Greets Thee for ever Pardon this Parenthesis LXX Faith 's the Souls Eye As nothing were between They that beleeve see Things unseen Close then thy carnal thy spiritual Eyes unscreen LXXI For my transplanted Spirit shall emblaze Words may make Wonder stand at Gaze Vnboundless Bliss doth ev'n the sep'rat Spirit amaze LXXII O Fleet of Intellectuals Glory-fraught Inestimable Arras wrought With Heart-orecoming Colours how ye pass all Thought LXXIII THOU All-comprizing uncompriz'd WHO art Ever yet never made impart THOU Loves Abyss without or Ebbe or Shoar an Heart LXXIV Of WISDOM to attempt proceed and end what never Was Is Can be penn'd May Spots in Maps dumb Teacher Empires comprehend LXXV The Skie-enchased Diamonds lesser show Than Julie's hairy Worms that glow Sampled with those Rebounds unbounded GLORIES throw LXXV That Vessel of Election rapt to th' Soil Of highest BLISSE did here recoyl I' th' same Attempt 't is Honour to confess a Foyl LXXVII Sense knowes not 'bove Court-Triumphs Thrones or Kings Gems Musick Beauties Banquetings Without such Tropes it can't unfold Spiritual Things LXXVIII O how That most unutterable BLAZE Of HEAV'NS all-luminating RAYES Do's Souls disrob'd of Flesh both brighten amaze LXXIX That boundless Solstice with transparent Beams Through HEAV'NS triumphant ARCHES streams And gliding through each Spirit with intrinsick Gleams LXXX Pierceth to th' little World and doth dispell The gloomy Clouds of Sin that swell The Soul decoying it to ever-burning Hell LXXXI By GLORY how are SPIRITS made divine How super-radiantly They shine From th' ever-flowing SPRING of the refulgent TRINE LXXXII Beyond Report of high'st Discourse They dart Their Radiations 'bove all Art This cath'like BLISSE ore-flowes the most capacious Heart LXXXIII Conceive a Court where all Joyes domineer Where Seas of Sweets oreflow and where GLORIES exhaustless Mines Sports endless Springs appear LXXXIV Where infinite Excesse of Sweets ne're cloyes Where still Fruitions Feast employes Desire where Who enjoy the least can't count their Joyes LXXXV One may t' a Glimps None to a Half can rise Had He more Tongues than HEAV'N has Eyes Such nothing see as would in Words this SIGHT comprize LXXXVI Can Measures such UNMEASURABLES hold Can Time INFINITIE unfold Superlative DELIGHTS may be admir'd not told LXXXVII When GLORIES Heav'n is all one Sunny Blaze That flowing RADIANCE doth amaze While on That inconceivable RESULT we gaze LXXXVIII What King would not court Martyrdome to ●old In Capite a Citie ' of Gold Where look how many Gates so many Pearls are told LXXXIX The Structure's Square A firm Foundation Twelve-fold for Each a precious Stone The LAMBS APOSTLES Names engraven therupon XC There sparkles forth the verdant Emerald The blew-ey'd Saphyr therein wall'd The Topaz too with that Stone which from Gold is call'd XCI There Jasper Chaloedon Chrysoprase shine There Sardonix and Sardius joyn There Beryl Hyacinth and Amethyst combine XCII No sympathizing Turkise there to tell By Palenesse th' Owner is not well For Grief 's exild to Earth and Anguish groans in Hell XCIII The Streets with Gold perspicuous are arrai'd With blazing Carbuncles inlaid Yet All seem Night to GLORIES from the LAMB desplay'd XCIV For

broken Consort of Hearts and Spirits the Will there accepted for the Work and the Desire for Desert Behold here in an Original is presented an Example of Life with Force of Precepts happy who coppy them out in their Actions Indeed Examples and Precepts are as Poems and Pictures for as Poems are speaking Pictures and Pictures are silent Poems so Example is a silent Precept and Precept a speaking Example And as Musick is an audible Beauty and Beauty a visible Musick So Precepts are audible Sweets to the Wise and Examples silent Harmony to the illiterate who may unclasp and glance on these Poems as on Pictures with Inadvertency yet He who shall contribute to the Improvement of the Author either by a prudent Detection of an Errour or a sober Communication of an irrefragable Truth deserves the venerable Esteem and Welcome of a good ANGEL And He who by a candid Adherence unto and a fruitful Participation of what is good and pious confirms Him therein merits the honourable Entertainment of a faithful Friend But he who shall ●●●duce him in Absence for what in Presence he would seem to applaud incurres the double Guilt of Flattery and Slander and he who wounds Him with ill Reading and Misprision does Execution on Him before Iudgement Now He who is the Way the Truth and the Life bring those to everlasting Life who love the Way and Truth in Sincerity The severall Cantos The Humiliation Restauration Inamoration Representation Association Contemplation Admiration The Recapitulation Praelibation Translations Abnegation Disincantation Segregation Reinvitation Termination Be pleased Reader first to correct these Typographical Errours Acres circumfert centum licèt Argus Ocellos Non tamen errantes cernat ubique Typos AT the bottom B4 Line 20. Read Ecstasies Pag. 1. Stanza 1. Strains p. 54. St. 23. Condescent p. 76. St. 71. Vnbounded p. 84. St. 25. Thee p. 106. St. 86. doth most 132. 31. non p. 144. rectifie the Figures p. 169. St. 60. repurgat 173. 90 eversis 203. 82. For. 214. l. 12. exanimes 217. l. 7. splendet 239. 29. didst 268. l. 25. Nectare c. PNEVMATO-SARCO-MACHIA OR THEOPHILA'S Spiritual Warfare THE Life of a true CHRISTIAN is a continual Conflict Each Act of the good Fight hath a Military Scene and our Blessed SAVIOUR coming like a Man of War commands in Chief under the FATHER who hath layed Help upon One that is Mighty by anointing him with the Holy GHOST and with Power This World is his pitched Field his Standard the Cross his Colours Blood his Armour Patience his Battle Persecution his Victory Death And in mystical DIVINITY his two-handed Sword is the Word and Spirit which wounds and heals and what is shed in this holy War is not Blood but Love his Trumpeters are Prophets and Preachers his Menacies Mercies and his Arrows Benefits When he offers HIMSELF to us He then invades us His great and small Shot are Volies of Sighs and Groans when we are converted we are conquer'd He bindes when He embraceth us In the Cords of Love He leads us Captives and kills us into Life when He crucifies the Old and quickens in us the New Man So then here is no Death but of inbred Corruptions No Slaughter but of carnal Affections which being Mortified the Soul becomes a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable unto GOD. WHEN that great Gen'ralissimo of all Infernal Ianizaries shall His Legions of Temptations raise enroul And muster Them 'gainst Thee my Soul And Ranks of Pleasures Profits Honours bring To give a Charge on the right Wing And place his dreadful Troops of deadly Sins Upon the Left with murth'ring Gins And draw to his main Bodie thousand Lusts And for Reserve wherein he trusts Shall specious Sanctities Brigade provide Whose Leader is spiritual Pride And having treacherously laid his Trains In Ambush under Hope of Gains By sinning as so many Scouts to finde Each March and Posture of thy Mind Then Soul sound an Alarm to FAITH and presse Thy ZEAL to be in Readinesse And leavie all thy Faculties to serve Thy CHIEFE Take PRAY'R for thy Reserve Under the Conduct of his SPIRIT See Under the Banner that they be Of thy SALVATIONS CAPTAIN Then be sure That all thy Out-works stand secure Yet narrower look into th' indenting Line Of thy ambiguous Thoughts Designe With constant Care a Watch o're every Part Ev'n at thy Cinque-ports and thy Heart Set Centinels Let FAITH be Captain o're The Life-Guard standing at the Dore Of thy well-warded Breast Disloyal Fear That corresponds with Guilt cashear Nor let Hypocrisie sneak in and out Thy Garrison with that Spie Doubt The Watch-word be IMMANUEL Then set Strong Parties of thy Tears and let Them still to salie forth prepared stand And but expect the Souls Command Waiting until a blest Recruit from HIGH Be sent with GRACES free Supplie Thus where the LORD of Hosts the Van leads there Triumphant Palms bring up the Rere TO MY FANCIE UPON THEOPHILA FLy FANCIE Beauties arched Brow Darts wing'd with Fire thence sparkling flow From Flash of Lightning Eye-balls turn Contracted Beams of Chrystal burn Wave Curls which Wit Gold-tresses calls That golden Fleece to Tinsel falls EVade Thou peach-bloom Cheek-Decoies Where both the Roses blend false Joyes Presse not the two-leav'd Rubie Gates Which fence their Pearl-Portcullis Grates Suck not the Breath though it return Fragrant as Phoenix spicie Urn. LOck up thine Ears and so disarm The Magick of inamoring Charm The lily'd Breasts with Violets vein'd Are Flow'rs as soon deflowr'd as gain'd Love-lo●ks Perfume Paint Spots dispraise These by the Black-Art Spirits raise GArnish no Bristows with rich Mine Glow-worms are Vermin though they shine Should one Love-knot All Lovelies tie This One These All soon cloy and die Cupid as lame as blinde being gone Live One with HIM WHO made Thee One AVoid exotick Pangs o' th' Brain Nor let thy Margent blush a Stain With artful Method Misc'line sow May Iudgement with Invention grow Profit with Pleasure bring to th' Test Be Oar refin'd before imprest PAsse Forge and File be Point and Edge 'Gainst what severest Browes alledge Mix Balm with Ink Let thy Salt heal T' each Palate various Manna deal Have for the Wise strong Sense deep Truth Grand-Sallet of choice Wit for Youth CUll Metaphors well-weigh'd and clear Enucle'ate Mysteries to th' Ear. Be Wit Stenography'd yet free 'T is largest in Epitome Fly through Arts Heptarchie be clad With Wings to soar but not to gad THy Pineons raise with mystick Fire Sometimes 'bove high-roof't Sense aspire So draw THEOPH'LA that each Line Centring in HEAV'N may seem Divine Her Voice soon fits Thee for that Quire W' are cindred by intrinsick Fire MAgnetick VIRTUE' 's in her Brest Impregn'd with GRACE the noblest GUEST Who in LOVES Albo are enrol'd Unutterable Joyes behold Geographers Earths Globe survey Fancie HEAVN'S Astrolabe display SIx hast thou view'd of Europs Courts Soon as Idaeas pass'd their Sports Sense canst thou perse and construe Blisse Only

to each Sin-disdaining Soul THOU dost exhibit in an unexhausted Bowl XCI This Wine of EXTASIE by th' SPIRIT giv'n Doth raise the ravisht Souls to HEAV'N Affording them those COMFORTS are of Earths bereav'n XCII Thy UNION is as strict as large thy MERIT No HEAV'N but THEE which SAINTS inherit Th●ough Grace divinest Sap deriv●d by th' HOLY SPIRIT XCIII When Souls enflamed by that highest LIGHT Fix on Thy glorifying SIGHT All Glories else compar'd to THAT are duskie Night XCIV When high'st INFUSIONS passe our highest Sense Amazement is high Eloquence Bove all Hyperboles which fall to Exigence XCV Blest TRINITY TH' art ALL Above All GOOD Beatitudes BEATITUDE Which swallows us yet swim we in this LIVING FLOUD XCVI TH' art KING of Kings of Lords LORD None like THEE Who for thy Style hast MAJESTIE And for thy Royal Robes hast IMMORTALITIE XCVII MERCIE for Throne for Scepter JUSTICE hast IMMENSITIE ' s for Kingdom plac't And for thy Crown such GLORIE as doth ever last XCVIII For Peace what passeth Understandings Eye Pow'r IRRESISTABILITIE For HOLINES All what 's most sacred pure and high XCIX For Truth thy WORD WISDOM for Counsellour OMNIPOTENCE does Guard Thy TOW'R Thou ministring Angels hast to act thy Soveraign POW'R C. OMNISCIENCE Thine Intelligencer is For Treasure Thou hast Endlesse BLISSE For Date ETERNITY O swallow me ABYSSE Ite pii Cantus Cantus quibus arduus Aether Est Portus Portum quem videt alma Fides Visuram Littus Navem sacra Serta coronent Serta per innumeros non per●tura Dies Gloria in excelsis DEO THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO VIII The Admiration ARGUMENT COELI trina MONAS TRIAS una faveto precanti PERSONAS unâ Tres DEITATE colo Sunt tria sunt idem Fons Flumen Gurges aquartum Sic tria sunt unum Sol Jubar at Calor Th' Elixir centuplies It self But ô Myriads of Myriads must She so T' express GODS ESSENCE which no Intellect can show STANZA I. PRojection to my Soul Thy SIGHT 's a Wreath Of GLORY Thou dost VIRTUE breath Thy Words like sacred Incense Fuel Flame bequeath II. THOU MAID of Honour in HEAV'NS Court to break Thy Gold-twist LINES shews Judgment Weak Yet deign to hear my Suit Of GODS hid NATURE speak III. Can Counters sum up INFINITE Fond Man Could'st grasp whole Oceans in thy Span And Phoebus could'st out-face in his Meridian IV. Tear Rocks of Adamant and scale the Wall O' th' glorious Empyraean HALL And Worms to Super-Eminence of SERAPHS call V. Yet THIS ev'n then thou could'st nor learn nor teach The World unravell'd cannot stretch To sound th' ABYSSE IT SELF alone It SELF can reach VI. Of all Intelligencies not all Light Mustred into one Optick Sight Can speak what each where is yet no where seen to th' He ight VII WHO out of Nothing all Things did compact Whose Will 's His Work whose Word his Act Of WHOM who say's the most must from His WORTH detract VIII How from the ESSENCE the CREATOR flowes Or how the WORD what Creature knowes How th' SPIRIT All in 't All from 't do's Heav'ns Assembly pose IX Here they who leave the Churches Ship are tost Till irrecoverably lost Whose Rudder is GODS Word Steersman th' HOLY GHOST X. ARCHESSENCE THOU Self-full Self-Infinite Residing in approachlesse LIGHT In the INCOMPREHENSIBILITIES of HEIGHT XI Thy peerlesse uncreated NATURE is The SUPER-EXCELLENCE of BLISSE Where Holiness Pow'r where Truth Goodness kiss XII WHO only in THY SELF subsists without Or Form or Matter yet no doubt Inform'st the Matter of the Vniverse throughout XIII No Need compels THEE no Disasters sad Disturb thy STATE no Mirth makes glad Oblivion takes not from THEE nor can Mem'ry adde XIV With prudent Rev'rence Thus. What ere 's in GOD His ESSENCE is There 's His ABode Whose Will his Rule whose Heav'n his Court whose Hell his Rod. XV. He ' exists an active ENS uphoulding both IT SELF and every Thing that doth Exit without distinction or of Parts or Growth XVI Not made by Nothing Nothing Nothing makes Nor Birth from any Thing HE takes For what gives Birth precedes Springs usher in their Lakes XVII Were HE Material then HE local were All Matter be'ing in Place So there Th' INCIRCUMSCRIPTIBLE would circumscrib'd appear XVIII HE 'S so diffusive that HE 'S All in All All in the Universall Ball All out of It The only WAS the IS the SHALL XIX To help thy Reason think of Air there see Vbiquitie● unseen and free From Touch Inviolable though it pierced be XX. Meer Air corrupts not though conveigh'd unto All Lungs for thither It does go To cool them Quickneth All as the Worlds Soul doth show XXI Moysture and Heat its Qualities are Cause Of all Production yet because This Element's a Creature GOD CREATOR pause XXII SELF-LIFE the Attribute of 's BEING is His WILL of Governing and His COMMAND of Execution and his LOVE of Blisse XXIII All 's ty'd in this Love-knot JEHOVAH's LOVE Times Birth the TRINITIE do's prove CREATOR made WORD spake SPIRIT of GOD did move XXIV Let us in our own Image Man create Which Salomon do's explicate Remember the CREATORS in thy youthful State XXV The FATHER spake the SON i' th' Stream did move At his Baptizing from Above The HOLY GHOST descended in the Form o' th' DOVE XXVI Of HIM to HIM and through HIM all Things be Of through and to declare the THREE And in the HIM the UNITY of GOD we see XXVII Thus HOLY HOLY HOLY'S nam'd to show A TERNION we in UNION know The Notions issuing from the TRINE in t ' ONE do flow XXVIII Whil'st that I think on THREE I am confin'd To ONE while I have ONE in Minde I am let forth to THREE Yet THREE in ONE combin'd XXIX O Inconceivable INDENTITIE In ONE how may a PLURAL be COAEQUAL both in ATTRIBUTES and MAJESTIE XXX The FATHER is true GOD i' th TERNION The WORD unborn yet after SON The SPIRIT GOD Coessential THREE cause THREE from ONE XXXI The FATHER WORD are ONE ONE shews their Power Are distinct PERSONS ONE does shour On Tritheits Vengeance Are does Arrians devour XXXII ONE yet not One The FATHER and the SON In PERSONS two from FATHER one By th' SPIRIT SON is one by Resignation XXXIII The WORD is what HE was yet once was not What now HE is for HE hath got A NATURE more then once HE had to cleanse our Spot XXXIV For ne're had Man from Earth to Heav'n attain'd Had GOD from Heav'n to Earth not deign'd His SON now unto GOD Mans way by MAN is gain'd XXXV EQUAL and SON the form of Servant takes The World unmade by Sin new makes EQUAL SON Servant All are Mysteries not Mistakes XXXVI Thus by free GRACE is Mans Defection heal'd Behold the Mysterie reveald WORD Aequal shado'wing SON Unction is Servant seal'd XXXVII Because GODS AEQUAL Serpents Tempts are quell'd Yet HE as SON to Death must yeeld For us by Resurrection to