down my consumed members with a horrible Feaver trembling shaketh together my bones with a raging cold furthermore a sharp scorching burneth my inmost marrows as fire wasteth away dry Torches Now I have lost my body a light shadow of me scarcely is above ground As a flower heavied with showers throweth down its little tender head so my little miserable undone soul giveth place to the weight of evil things O bountiful Jesu look back to my Labours under-lift me falling with Thy right hand I do not now pray that this plague may go away from my body I seek after again and request this one thing in all my vows that thou wouldst minister to me strength and constancy Let this fire devour my weak Joynts marrows all my bones whilst my mind being mended lively and strong by Thy Spirit may resist and being pleasant alwayes may sing praises in consort to thee The bounteous Jesus having suffered horrible Wounds is ready to run under those who are grieving O my Soul cast away faithfully sickness fears complaints rest thou call on the most sweet Name of Thy King he is a most strong Tower to those who are calling upon him GRAM X. He grieveth himself to be now an Old Man neither yet till this time have begun to serve God with his mind A Lack Old Age being sprinkled on my hairs waxeth gray Age slippeth away as the water of a flood and pale Death plucking the ear admonisheth Miserable ah miserable man how long dost thou go on to follow thorowly dreams and vain shadows Immediately thou shalt be made to appear to the most Holy Tribunal of the chiefest Judge who who who knoweth the inmost senses of the heart the sayings the deeds of all men the mind judgeth all these things to be true sure and all things being lest wisheth burneth endeavoureth to serve the chiefest blessed God-head with his whole Forces but oh my little miserable wretch fastned to the filthy Earth laboureth in vain A match go to support me O bountiful Jesus come under me for help and reach forth Thy right hand Thou hast called me dead in time past from beneath by Thy Death do not suffer me now being alive to perish again by Thy life Make that I may despise all humane things and being naked may follow thee naked and loose me at last from the knittings of my massy body that my pure and whole mind having seized on the life of the heavenly Inhabitants may leave never to praise thee O holy and the best Father and the everlasting Spirit Jesus the safe-guard the haven the joy of his Suppliants will yield to those things which I pray against with my whole mind I will give thanks to the bounteous God-head and will alway sing his praises with a joying breast GRAM XI How sweet and wholsome may the daily meditation of the wounds and torments of Christ be O Jesus I pray never cease to feed me with the holy gore-blood of Thy wounds that blood strengthneth me and filleth me up with sweet joy This is a cup of heavenly love knocking away all filthy loves My mind drunk with this drink is made unmindful of it self and all things whatsoever the World containeth and thinketh on the onely God and Thy love O vehement love to be spoken out by no man thou dost lead down the Son of the greatest God from the blessed Seats and beputtest on him a mortal body and then settest him upon the rough Cross So o lovely most sweet love stir up so great flames of love in my senses that these knittings of my weighty body being burnt I being blessed may fly to the best Jesus with Thy wings GRAM XII He prayeth that by the bounty of Christ it may be lawful for him to lead a life godlily and holily O Present safeguard of all men who Worship thee with a pure mind Give I pray that I may think do speak nothing that may not please Thy godhead that I may be gentle bountiful toward the good evil least I should be a base Son of the best Father who enlightneth all with the fair light of the Sun He furnisheth all with meat and drink Direct me chastly or rather continuedly through the ways of Thy Laws that I may know and speak openly that whatsoever of good I shall do all that to be of thy gift Whether the Feaver grazeth on my joynts or whether the wicked Souldier burneth my Fathely house let me not leave to say praises to thee but that I may live quietly nothing doubting all things to be governed by the nod of Thy god-head It behoveth that prosperous and rough things ought to delight the Sons of God May I bear the glory of thee and the most great Father before my health neither may any thing more wished for happen to me than to suffer reproaches for thee let that death be dearer to me than light it self that I being uncloathed of my body may fly to the blessed joys of Thy Kingdom GRAM XIII He giveth thanks to Christ by whose benefit he is taken away by force from the most great dangers and called back again to the way of Salvation O Blessed Light of the Heavenly Dwellers the most trusty safeguard of mortals bounteous Jesus what thanks shall I give to thee as a little miserable sheep in time past erring from the flock lurketh in fearful Forrests to be devoured by and by by the snatching wild Beasts so I the most miserable of all being blind did rush violently through all evils when the white light of Thy blessed Spirit hath shined bright again and shewed me the way which leadeth to the eternal Kingdoms of the happy heavenly powers that light hath driven away the darknesses of my mind that light hath fastned the Torches of Thy most sweet love in my heart O holy from that time whole I burn for thee I being wounded with love seek thee to see Thy innocent countenance my mind burneth to enjoy Thy embracings she thinketh on nothing now besidethee only A raging Lover never so utterly perished for a comely Virgin both of the Parents never loved so a little tender Son My soft heart is melted with the scorching heat of love as wax is wont being stricken through with hot Suns O flame cooling my mind and boyling fully out all spots set me on fire alway every day more and more go on to singe me waste me until thou shalt turn me whole into thy Torches GRAM XIV He complaineth the greatest part of men Christ being left to study empty things O Blessed Jesus if they who love empty things did know how sweet it is to make use of Thy holy love oh how it would weary them of their madness The sharp wounds of Thy body flow with so great sweetness that whosoever will suck them he may being forgetful of himself now loath riches honours and all things that he loved and rejoyce in the onely glory of God But a blind Nation setteth
in mi siht for Thour oneli sake whether the glorious beuteous comli Sun illuminateth irradiateth illustrateth the confines circumserences borders of the aëri Element with his splendid transparent fair liht or whether the noict refrigerateth moistneth bedeweth our languishing faint feebl bodies with liberal rest let mi 〈◊〉 inqire invocat hymnize Thee seare after pour out praiers before sinâ— praises to Thee both privatly and publicly and mai happily holey and soley acquiesce remain rest repose pleace deliht joi and enjoi it self in Thour Odoriferous mellifluous dulcifluous sweet-smelling sweet relishing most dilicious Nome PARAPH. VIII An Hymn Ode Canticl on Christ WEE the virtuous chast modest Virgins we the incorrupted innocent uprilit Youth wee men of decrepid age veri old at deaths door one foot in the grave and wee the antient Matrons crazed and brokn with the infirmities of age let us O let us al of what age or sex soever altogether celebrat sing and lift up our voices with hymns to Jesus the Christ of God and our Jesus in whose feith to abide let it be the Crown of our joiing and triumph who loveth nourisheth cherisheth us with no less delihtful affection than the Complacence and lov of a Pather The Pather his own Pather and our Pather who is in the Heavns O everlasting Son of the supreme Deïtie the Creator Former Maker of the Heavn the Earth and the broad Sea Nothing within the vast immensitie unmeasurabl vastness and uncompassabl expansness spaciousness of the heavns nothing within the grand magnitude huge wideness large circumference of the round World is conteined inveloped environed that can sai whisper or insinuat it self to be uncreated unproduced unmade bi the artifice abilitie divinitie of Thour sole finger Thu having making keeping Thour residence in the breast heart bosom of the Pather do becom the Nourisher Feeder Foster-Father Rector Governor Ruler of whatsoever dare attempt to titl it self bi the name of a thing Thu through singular superlativ unparalelled bowels of Charitie compassion commiseration pittie lov mercie to our miserie cast off the Robes of Majestie aeternitie and becom invested with the rags of contemptibl Mortalitie and being fixed fastned nailed here below to the fearful dreadful cruel Cross thu deliver set free acqit mee bi Thour death from everlasting burnings unqenchabl flames the lake that without interruption or intermission burneth and blazeth with fire and brimstone Thu having vanqished conquered overcomn death and gloriously triumphing in the spoils of Principalities and Powers reverted and revisited Thour Coelestial Palace Court Throne do put place set the Worshipers Reverencers Adorers of Thee great and small together in their several beuteous select seats places Mansions in Thour Pather's Hous Thee the Venerable Qire of the Patriarchs Thee the Goodli Fellowship of the Prophets Thee the Glorious Companie of the Apostls Thee the Holi Societie of the Evangelists Thee the Nobl Armie of Martyrs Thee the Divine Assemblie of Doctors Thee the Uncontroulabl Congregation of Confessors Thee the Chast Unspotted and Pure Convent of Virgins Thee the Honorable Association of Undefiled Married Matrons Thee the Delicious Order of Infants in consort and conjunction with the hih Acclamations of all Saints and the Hierarchie of Angels incessantly do magnifi glorifi bless cri aloud in lauds to Thee with Eucharists celebrat Thee and sing praises sing praises Hosannah and Hallelujah from age to age generation to generation beyond all time evn til time shal be no more The aetern sempitern everlasting Spirit of Promiss Life Comfort of Feith Truth Holiness of Grace God and of Glorie testifieth beareth record and setteth it Seal to the Truth of Thour being the alone Autor of al Salvation Thu are the sweet repose liht deliht of the minds and Spirits of al Souls Thu are the Pastor Feeder Shepheard the immaculat spotless holi Lamb of God taking away the iniqities transgressions sins of the world the oneli tru everlasting Pape Bishop Hih-Priest readi at hand to pacifi asswage appeas the indignation anger wrath of the incensed pâ—ovocahed affronted most hih Power and Godhead O kind merciful most tender-hearted Jesu pleace to favor bless prosper the undertakings works waie of those who serv attend wait on Thee according to Thour wonted used accustomed benignitie goodness bountie and condescend further to take up admit givear to the pious Eucharists praises thanksgivings which are poured flow come forth from unfeined lips PARAPH. IX Hee invocateth imploreth calleth on Christ perceiving finding feeling that he is now oppressed over-whelmed brought low bi the magnitude hugeness greatness of a distemper disease siekness 'T is ful five Moonths ago compleat since a horrid terribl dreadful fever consumed devoured wasted mi putrified consumptiv lean members dread shivering trembling palsied tottered shaked mi bodi of bones with a furious frigiditie numness coldness To this a vehement sharp piercing scorching burning heat fireth mi veri inwardest marrow evn as heat fire a flame absumeth consumeth eateth to nothing a dri Torch or Link Now the veri substance of mi bodie is annihilated destroied brouht to nothing scarcely now appeareth so much as the umbrage shadow or faint shade thereof As a flower over-pressed burthened loaded with showers dejecteth droopeth hangeth down it tender young litl head in like manner mi litl miserabl lost undoon mind Spirit submitteth crowcheth yeeldeth givethwaie to the load burthen weight of evils O compassionat Jesu respect review look back on mi labors toils travels let Thour helping hand sublevat rais lift up Thour weak fainting falling suppliant That this pest conatgion plague mai recede turn back get it felf gon from this skeleton carkass bodie is not mi praier at present but that thu would minister afford vouchsafe me abilitie strength power with perseverance constance continuance that that thing that thing only is the Subject object mark of all my obsecrations reqirings vows Let the fire afore-said demolish devour destroi al mi faint joints marrow bones so long as in the Interim interval mean space mi Spirit vivified fortified refreshed mai can be enabled to resist withstand hold out and placently sweely delihtfully sing praises in consort to thee for ever the most liberal bountiful merciful Jesus having suffered indured undergon dreadful wounds is prompt praesent readi at hand for the succor aid relief of the Souls that are under ani grief dolor lamentation O mi Soul abject cast away throw away confidently bravely boldly sorrow fear whining qiesce acqiese rest and be qiet calling on the sweetest Name of Thour Rector Ruler King Hee hee it is who holey soley onely is a most fortified defenced strong Fort Castl Tower to al who approach address draw near to the Throne of his Majâ—stie in bi with their invocations petitions praiers PARAPH. X. Hee mourneth weepeth waileth to find himself already becomn decrepit old strickn in yeers and yet not to have so much as begun heartily to serv his Maker AIE wo Haloss How is Old Age mixed cheqered
I am did hood-winkt blind blind fold run tumbl rush throuh al manner of evils when the briht beuteous fair liht of Thour blessed Spirit expanded it beams magnificently spread forth it raies gloriously shined resplendently and directed pointed shewed me the vaie leading to the aetern Kingdoms of the blessed Coelestial Inhabitants That liht hath dispelled dispersed drivn away the cloudiness gloominess darkness of mi mind that liht hath fixed fastned darted in the briht burning flames of the sweetest lov into mi brest from that time Oh holi Jesu I desire breath long pant in holi ardors after Thee I being wounded with lov seek to view see behold Thour candid fair comli face Mi mind is earnest restless inflamed with desire for the full enjoyment of Thour embraces now on Thee holey soley onely it fixeth placeth reposeth it utmost inmost thouhts A distracted Lover is not so Lov-sick for a comli handsom seemli Virgin Damosel Maid Pather and Mother do not so lov deliht dote on their tender young litl Son Mi fleshi tender soft heart is liqified dissolved melted with lov's vehement ardor as wax is wont being mollified pierced smitn throuh bi the Sun's fire's flame 's ardor fervor heat O heat refrigerating refreshing comforting mi mind and purifieing purging putting away al blots blurrs blemishes inflame mee with lov continualy more and more from deie to deie make me stil in lov spend mee til I am confounded consumed converted altogether into Thour beuties beams lihts PARAPH. XIV Hee waileth moaneth lamenteth that the most part of men having qite forsakn clear abandoned utterly left Christ studi follow practice vain unprofitabl empti things O Happi heavnli blessed Jesu if thei who bear good wil to affect lov vain things did but understand what a delicious placent sweet thing it is thorowly to enjoi Thour sacred lov oh how taedious irksom troublsom vould their mad follie be to them The tart vexatious bitter torments terrors horrors of Thour bodie flow stream pour sorth with so great placentness pleaceurablness delihtfulness that whosoever will suck draw rellish hang reli rest on them let him learn now to despise disdein disaesteem wealth honors and al things hee reposed his deliht in and let him settl fix place his joie mirth gladness with an oblivion neglect sliht of himself in the glorie of God soley But blind Peopl praefer putid stinking filthi pestilent pernicious plagui lakes puddls pools abov these Rivers Fontains Springs Immèns immortal great thanks be to Thee O magnificent puissant Almihti Jesu who purifi wash cleans feed foster nourish mee with Thour most immaculat unspotted pure blood PARAPH. XV. Hee praedicateth reporteth giveth out that hee should rush head-long into everi evil thing without the guardianship shield succour of Christ O Sanct Jesu I adore reverence Worship Thee with a suppliant begging beseeching heart I dedicat surrender giv up mi bodie Soul and Spirit to Thee Evn as a child of two years old if it want lack be without it Nurs Keeper Tender Provider it procureth createth causeth to it self great danger So pau'r I if I want be destitute deprived of the praesential aid of Thour Spirit of power praecipitat tumbl down head-long mi self into all manner of mischiefs imaginabl O benign delicious Spirit I reqest intreat beseech of Thee that Thu would possess mee altogether inflame mi heart with amor affection lov that flame Taper Torch of Thourn illumin illuminat clarifi the caecitie darkness blindness of minds excoct boil out clear away whatever noxious nauseous hurtfull thing inhaereth adhaereth cleaveth to me O dein that I mai be lihtsom delihtsom joifull for ever and ever in Thee that riches honors mai be to mee as a sordid thing and that the glorie of the supreme Pather mai be clearer brihter lihter to mee than liht it self whether the garden delihteth the oies with a perli beutifull comli color of Flowers or whether the whistling fontan delihteth with vitreous crystalling living Waters from thence speedily immediatly instantly let Thour voice toung lips asscend rise mount up into the Celebrations of the Divine Sovereigntie The Sun the Moon the effulgence gliftering brihtness of the Stars the perennous perpetuous continuous sliding gliding rising falling ebbing flowing of the Rivers the formose fair flourishing Wood the Field's super-abundantly big boasting glorieing in the fruits everi thing that I see command me to view see behold and tractat feel handl with mi hand the most magnificent mercie of the holi happi blessed Deïtie Mence hereon here-from let mee be Discipled Tutored indoctrinated with gehtlness to giv assistence aid help to al mankind to injure prejudice wrong none that I mai liv al the residu remander remaning part of mi life unblamabl unblemishabl unspotted sincere innocent upriht and pretious dear indeared to God and then transvolating super-ascending surmounting the excelsities altitudes tops of the Stars of Heavn I mai be Arithmetized reckoned counted worthi of the possession fruition enjoiment of mi Master's joie to perpetuitie infinitie aeternitie of ages PARAPH. XVI Of about concerning his ardent fervent zelous amor affection lov Christ-ward I Languish droop pine away altogether with lov neither have I at al ani peace rest repose mercifull Jesu ostend shew exert put forth apert opn Thour courteous Countenance cherish comfort joi mi mind Spirit beatifi folicifi make happi mi oies bi the siht of Thour liht neither do Thu who are loving to mee denegat deni refuse to vouchsafe a loving visitation salute kiss to me who am sick of lov for Thee Thu are mi Soul's Bride-groom Husband Lord it inquireth searcheth seeketh after Thee incessantly invocateth Thee with sihs sobs tears O Thu Sanct sacred holi Une certenly surely without doubt Thu cannot dislike disdein be out of lov with the Soul redeemed rescued ransomed out of the hand Talons Claws of Death bi Thour blood and smith strickn alpierced throuh with the darts of Thour divine lov Wherefore then doth mi so miserabl wretched Soul resent rellish feel the dulcitie Suavitie sweetness of Thour praesence Ah whi are mi suppliant complaints moans wailings dissipated dispersed scattered wind-wife but non Obstante notwithstanding nevertheless Thu should torment writhe wrest mi affectionat embracing loving Soul with anxious amor pensiv affection perplexing lov it wil never desist decline depart from the lov of Thee O Sovereign Saviour Jesu to be in an incurabl irrecoverabl unrelievabl Phthisis Atrophie Consumption for the lov of Thee is the Arme top heiht of al pleaceurs delihts sweetnesses PARAPH. XVII Hee commendeth committeth surrendreth his Soul Mind Spirit to God being brought into the extremitie of peril danger hazard of his life throuh the magnitude hugeness greatness of a distemper diseas sickness O Blessed happi heavnli Supreme Lord Regent Rector Governor Ruler of the Coelestial Inhabitants who are so affectionatly inamoured ravished takn with of about the health good safetie of mortal men that Thu purisi purge
through these infections to the blessed Seats of the Heavenly Inhabitants Let all things be managed by the nod of him whether we take bread or handle at home or abroad any business or rowl again any thing in the inward mind may all that look for ever to the glory of the Blessed God-head O most chief Ruler of the Heavenly Inhabitants grant these things which we request with the whole mind to all who worship Thee and Thy onely Son with a pure heart through the everlasting Spirit Amen The Noon Prayer THe Sun now hath run through the highest tops of Heaven with a quick Star the nourishing Earth groweth warm with hot fires But thou O merciful Father inflame our cold hearts with Thy blessed Light stir up so great flames of Love in all the senses of the Godly that whatsoever the World containeth may be filthy to them in comparison of Thee neither let any strength moderate this hot burning of love but increasing still it may fly over all the Arches of Heaven and joyn us to the most chief Father with an unloosable bond Most great Framer of the Earth and Heaven we send these our Prayers from the lowest Breast to Thy Ears Prosper Thou our vows with Thy helping God head and grant these things to us for Thy Glory Amen The Evening Prayer THe Evening being risen beginneth to hide the day with darkness now we pray Thee the Father of holy Light not to suffer dark Night to creep into the minds of Thy People whether sweet sleep refresheth with nourishing rest or whether it forsaketh our languishing Lights O everlasting Light never depart from godly hearts that Thou may give them for ever every day more and more to see the bounty of the most great God-head with a clear mind and to burn from henceforth alway with the fires of the best love O chiefest Father of the Heavenly Inhabitants bring nigh thy bountiful ears to the vows of thy Suppliants that so we may direct all the senses of our heart and our sayings and deeds to Thy glory Amen The Poëms of that Seraphic Person Marcus Antonius Flaminius concerning Divine matters in Companie with John Norton's both Grammatic and Paraphrastic or if you pleace Periphrastic Translation with som smal notes of his perchance not unworthi the perusal The Matutin Precation THe Morning Star the fore-runner of the fair deie dispelleth now the shadows of the Noict from off the Earth and Skie and admonisheth us over and abov to leav our beds and pour forth our praiers from the bottom of our hearts toward the hihest Heavn Therefore wee most humbly prai the Aetern Father of Lihts that as He illuminateth all the parts of the Air so he vould replenish our hearts with the liht of His holi Spirit who mai conduct us free from all blame through these contagions here below to the blessed Mansions of those on hih Mai all things be managed according to His pleaceur whether wee eat or drink or do ani business at home or abroad or think anithing in our most retired thouhts mai all that have an oie for ever to the glorie of the blessed Deitie O most hih Moderator of the Heavns vouchsafe these things to us who beg them of Thee with our hol Soul evn to them also who call on Thee Thour oneli Son through the help of the holi Spirit Amen The Meridian Precation SEeing the Sun is now com swiftly to the hihest the earth surely at the hotest do Thu now O gratious Pather heat our cold hearts with Thour blessed liht so inflame all the senses of thour servants that whatsoever is in the world mai be in comparison of Thee to them as a sor did thing neither let ani power allai this effervescence of lov but that still increscing more and more it mai flee over the hihest Heavns and join us to the most Hih God our Pather with an indissolubl bond These our Petitions we praesent to Thour audience from the bottom of our hearts O most Sovereign Maker of Heavn and Earth favor Thu our Petitions with Thour gratious goodness and vouchsafe them to us to Thour glorie Amen The Vespertin Precation THe shadows of the Eevning are already stretched on us and begin to darkn the deie and now wee also beseech Thee the Pather of holi Liht not to permitt darkness to creep on our Souls Whether our Bodies be refreshed with sweet sleep or whether our weak oies refuse the same O everlasting Liht never depart from pious Souls so that everi deie more and more thei mai be vouchsafed to behold the goodness of Thour most great Sovereigntie with a clear Spirit and hereupon to be inslamed with the Ardors of the choicest Lov. O most hih heavnli Pather bow down Thour gratious Ear to the supplication of thour servants so that all the intentions of our hearts expressions of our lips and actions of our lifes may bend tend aim at Thour Prais Honor Glorie Amen HYMNUS I. Constitutus in magna aegritudine animi implorat opem Christi BEnigne Jesu qaeso nè despice fervidas precationes mea vota Ut terra hiulca ignibus solis sic meus animus afflictus aeger aridus exspectat Tuum dulcissimum rorem O mea Salus resrigera meam mentem muta metus dolores lacrymas perenni gaudio ut hae slebiles qerelae mutentur in Tuas laudes vox agentis gratias personet noctes qe dies Qaeso nè pondera more judicis qid egerim qid dixerim qid cogitaverim sed deleas omnia mea peccata Tuo cruore dolor Tuorum vulnerum sanct me Tua amara mors instillet dulcedinem meo cordi ut fortis libens feram meam crucem HYMN II. Qà m beati sint qi sua cruce sumpta sequntur Christum I Lle beatus qi tollit suam crucem qotidie qe sectatur Jesum magnis passibus Maximus Pater Coelestium adoptat ultro illum filium sibi qe donat ei Spiritum beatum pignus inclytae haereditatis delentem omnia peccata Is excitat miros amores Optimi Patris in intimo corde Hinc ille temnens omnia qaecunqe tellus dives arena maris continet laetatur unico Deo Nominat Hunc spem salutem gloriam qe suum gaudium Patrem Magistrum qe conspicit tegentem dextrum latus sibi utsecurus ambulet per formidolosas vias hujus vitae sentiat benignitatem chari Patris ergò nec humana vis nec tremendus furor inferorum territat illum maximis casibus periculorum manet semper immobilis ut dura rupes tunsa procellis turgidi Adriae nec negligens sui cessat juvare hostes amicos patriam ullo tempore sic ille colens vitam Coelitûm triumphat perenni gaudio licèt impius sit potens terrae qe maris qe occupet pulcrum nomen felicis est semper miser HYMN III. Comparat suum animum Flori. UT tenellus formosus
scattered up and down to and again here and there al mi hair over and as the wave of a River so fleeteth glideth slideth away mi age and pale Death telleth mee privatly in mi ear bi waie of exhortation admonition warning whispering to me saiing O wofull rufull wrethed man how long do thu procede march on go forward in the proseqution perseqution persuance of toward after dreams whims vanities and vane void empti shadows Praesently in a moment in the twinckling of an oie thu are to be cited summoned called to appear before the most rihteous Tribunal Throne Judgment-seat of the supreme chief hihest Lord Judg to whose intellect cgnolege understanding the inmost senses of the heart sai-ings of our mouth dooings of the hol man are opn naked bare Mi Spirit Soul mind conceiveth concludeth judgeth the infallibilitie veritie certaintie of these things and longeth is earnest endeavoureth to reverence adore Worship with their hol miht strength power the supreme blessed happi Deïtie contemning casheering casting away al other things els beside But ah mi veri miserabl mind Spirit fixed to the sordid dirti filthi earth striveth strugleth wrastleth in vane to litl no purpose O O then O sweetest Saviour assist aid help me and extend stretch forth hold out Thour power arm helping hand Thu once have redeemed fetcht brouht me of old from Death the Grave Hel bi Thour Death O do not now being vivified enlivened made alive through Thour life let mee be destroied undoon lost the second time Vouchsafe me the savor grace mercie to disaesteem sliht scorn whatsoever beareth the Superscription Image Titl of man earth or morâ—al on it and in imitation of Thour self to follow Thee tho stript stark naked and releas loos free me from the knots bands ties of mi ponderous weihti heavi earth flesh bulk that mi mind being bi Thee made pure clean unspotted and having obteined possessed won an heavnli life O Sanct une Thu holi One let mi mind never cess praising Thee O Jesu together with our most mercifull Pather and the Sempitern Spirit Jesus the guardianship wa dship Port Havn Joie comfort of His Petitioners Suppliants Beggars grant these things which from mi veri Soul I reqest beseech prai for and thanks will I render to the benign bountifull mercifull Deitie and alway celebrat His praises with an exsulting jubilating triumphing Soul PARAPH. XI How mellifluous dulcifluous placent salubrious safe saving a thing it is incessantly diligently constantly to meditat studi muse on the torments tortures wounds of the Lord of Life and Glorie O Jesu I reqest intreat beg of Thee never cess to entertain nourish feed me with the pure holi heavnli blood of Thour wounds that blood corroborateth fortifieth strengthneth and replenisheth fulfilleth filleth me full with sweet joie this is that Cup of Coelestial lov which dispelleth driveth away drowneth al sordid nasti filthi lovs mi mind Spirit inebriated intoxicated drunkn with this Liqor Potion Drink is made rendered becomn oblivious unmindful unthouhtful not onely of it self but of whatsoever els is conteined concluded compassed with in the cavitie of the Globes whether Coeâ—estial or terrestrial and cogitateth ruminateth meditateth on God alone and Thour lov O fervid fervent ardent immens unmeasurabl uncompassabl ineffabl unspeakabl unexpressabl lov Thu do deduce draw bring down from those blessed heavnli happi Mansions abov the Son of the Supreme God and indu vest cloath him with fading flesh and after hang it on and nail it to the cruel Cross O Thu amabl amiabl most dearly delicious lov excite enkindl stir up such so great lov-flames in mi senses that consuming burning firing the ligatures bindings bonds of this gross heavi dul lump of claie I mai bi the adjument auxil aid of Thour wings blessedly mount sore up and flee away to the most heavnli sweet holi Saviour Jesus PARAPH. XII He praieth that by the benignitie favor grace of Christ he mai liv a pious godli holi Life O Thu Guardianship Shield Defence who are readi at hand to al who reverence adore Worship Thee with a mind pure without spot blemish grant I beseech Thee that al mi meditations expressious actions mai be beneplacent acceptabl grateful to Thour Majestie and that I mai be affabl courteous good natured bounteous mercifull compassionat toward the good and toward the evil least I be a degenerat ignobl spurious off-spring of the best chief supreme Pather who illuminateth illustrateth irradiateth al men with the serene sair clear liht of the Sun he administreth affordeth giveth Victuals food sustenance to the Universal Creation Be Thu mi Star Oie guide continently incessantly uninterruptedly al along throuh the tracks waies paths of Thour praecepts commands laws that whatsoever good thing I shal act doo perform I mai cgno perceiv understand that and praedicat preach opnly declare that it al oweth it Original Source Rise to and from Thour grace goodness mercie Whether a fever brouz eat down graze on mi members joints limbs or the wicked Souldier confume wast burn to the ground the hous of mi Inhaeritance Ancestors Pathers let me celebrat laud prais Thee noict and deie incessantly without cessing and mai I pass the time of mi sojourning here in ttanqillitie qiet peace in no case sort manner haesitating doubting scrupling that everi kind of thing from the hihest to the lowest is hath will be governed ruled ordered bi the pleaceur will beck of Thour Deitie Godhead providential power Al things prosperous and advers sweet and sower good and bad should ouht must aeqaly eavnly in one and the same manner pleace affect deliht the Generation of the just Children of Abraham Sons of God let me praefer put place Thour glorie the honor and prais of God the Pather before mi veri Salvation neither can ani thing hapn fal out befal mee more optabl eligibl desitabl than to suffer endure undergo contumelies slanders reproaches for Thour sâ—ke Let the grave darkness death be more aesteemed pretious valued than the land of the living the liht of life bi mee that being devested disarraied dismantled unapparelled unrobed uncloathed of this Case Corps Carcase I mai freely swiftly and on Aql's Eagl's wings asscend whither mi Saviour did before mee to the Kingdom of bliss of joie of heavn PARAPH. XIII He rendereth thanks to Christ bi whose mercie kindness goodness hee is rescued delivered freed from the greatest perils dangers hazards and revocated revocaëd called back into the Vaie of Salvation O Blessed heavnli happi liht of the Coelestial powers the most feithful trusti sure Fort Tower defence for al mortal men O mercifull Jesu what thanks shal I render to thee Evn as a litl miserabl sheep straieing from the Flock lurketh privily lieth hid in formidabl frihtfull fearfull Forrests to be devoured consumed eatn up in a moment bi cruel ravenous fierce wild beasts evn so I mi veri self O wretched man of men that