comprehend thee but admire Thy glorious being and thou art still higher Than is mine admiration thou above My highest thoughts art placed or my love In thee do all perfections abound No one deficiency in thee is found In essence Lord I know thou art but one Yet being all in all thou needest none In thy self thou hast all so have not I. A creature cannot grasp Infinity Of bliss and happiness in its own arms And therefore cannot but look out for charms And beauties and delights one that may be Fit to serve God fit to converse with me One that may be my comâ—ort every way My help at all times both in night and day GOD. Adam thou know'st me God who do full well My Creatures understand and who can tell Whatever may thought necessary be To render perfect thy felicity I Information do need from none But knows it's bad for man to be alone And among all my Creatures do not see One that is a companion meet for thee My bounty hath run over ne'retheless My bounty to thee I 'le yet more express All that I do intend thou hast not yet Received from my gracious hand it 's fit My pleasure thou should'st wait but Adam know What is my purpose what for thee I 'le do To work again I will one I will make In whom thou pleasure and delight maist take Into a comely body I 'le inspire A noble Soul which to thy hearts desire Shall most completely suit and I will bring Her to thee and in her thou every thing Most lovely and desirable shalt find All that 's now wanting to thy craving mind For with a deep sleep I thine eyes will close And bind thy senses up and not unlose That bond again until out of thy side A Rib I take and of it make a Bride I will a rib take flesh and spirits warm And vital blood without doing thee harm For th' operation shall cause no pain And when it 's done I 'le heal the wound again This Rib thus taken out I my self will Form curiously by mine own power and skill Into an humane creature thou shalt see Thy soul and body in her sampled be Sex only shall be diff'rent all things fair In her thou shalt conclude contained are From her converse thou maist receive new store Of pleasing sweets thou didst not know before No sooner said than done Adam see here A Virgin for thee a companion dear ADAM Blessed Creator of thine own good will Heaven and Earth with goodness thou dost fill On all thy works great beauty is imprest But of all Fairs this fair one is the best My self I in her see bone of my bone Flesh of my flesh she is my lovely one Woman she shall be called because she Extracted was from man even from me And for this cause he shall most gladly leave Father and Mother and to 's Wife shall cleave Let nothing their joint-happiness controul For they one flesh shall be one heart and soul. GOD. Adam consider well and throughly know What love praise and obedience thou dost owe Unto me thy Creator who did rear Thee out of dust and then inclin'd mine ear To thy request and gave thee one that might Make great addition unto thy delight Now have a care sin not but stand in awe Do not thou disobey me and the Law I gave thee think upon Do not thou eat Of that one tree its fruit is deadly meat In framing of thy Wife I 've done my part She hath thine image and thou hast her heart Act thou thy part also thou art the Head It becomes thee to lead her to be led She is to help thee and with thee to live But counsel and advice are thine to give More wisdom therefore I on thee confer Use but that wisdom and thou wilt not err Or wander from the path of life Be thou Her guide for such I do ordain thee now She is a lovely Creature therefore she Deserveth love and cherishing from thee In a just ballance yet be sure to weigh With her thy self and do not overlay Her worth with thy esteem The greatest grace Attends not always on the sweetest face The side from whence she came keep thou her by And over her a tender watchful eye Let her not from thee go lest she alone Be by another thou by her undone Thus have I set thee up thus I advise My charge do not forget Adam be wise ADAM Come dearest Consort of my self a part Who of me formed wast who hast my heart By our Creators gift Eve thou art mine And by bond-conjugal I too am thine May nothing nothing nothing ever be Cause of disquiet unto thee or me Look round about thee all things here below Are subject unto us to us they owe Obedience and we to God above All whose commands speak him a God of love For present there is none but thou and I But he hath said Increase and multiply While we do live let us rejoice together Yea let us still rejoice one in another Yet most in God himself for he will be If we sin not ours to eternitie He hath this Garden given us to tend We must both dress and keep it we must bend Our labours that way but our labour will Breed us no pain nor weariness but still Our recreation prove this blest estate In which we are hath nothing to abate Our full-grown pleasures here will be no let Of sickness tyring none no grief nor sweat See what variety of trees God made For our use and delight Now in the shade Of this we 'l sport together then at root Of that we 'l sit then go and pluck the fruit Of one and other freely there 's no fear No none at all of catching surfeits here Avoid the Tree forbid and then there 's none But we may feed upon all are our own EVE Our lines are fallen well we with delight May feast in day and then may rest at night In sweet embraces Our great Lord thought meet T' appoint a place of pleasures for our seat As for our work we may not quarrel it Since by him ordered by whom 't is fit All things should order'd be because all made His will whate're it is must be obey'd And therefore Adam let us up and do The work which our Creator set us to And if you do consent we 'l part a while And work asunder because every smile Which passeth us between will prove a let Taking us off from business when we get Alone our work we follow harder may And comfortably end it with the day Continual enjoyment may abate Sweetness so that we may it nauseate A little absence now and then will prove Sauce to our dainties fewel to our love When after that we two again do meet We shall with fresh delight each other greet ADAM Silence my Dearest I cannot abide To think thou shouldst be absent from my side Because our business doth not call away We may
raise And teach a creature dumb to speak its praise Which is an argument I shall not dye The Serpent eat and dy'd not why should I Are only we restrain'd Death only found Us two to fright and keep us within bound Was this rare fruit designed for a beast And must we die the death if taste the least I 'le not believe it I will take and trie Yea and taste too although I taste and die But if when I have eaten I do live And like I will some unto Adam give ADAM My Dear where hast thou spent so many hours What work could thee detain what pleasant Could keep thee from me or what could supply bow'rs Thy Husbands room so long for certain I Did greatly miss thee and do find it true Upon this earth is nothing like to you Nor only so for I did strangely find A discomposure in my thoughts and mind Which boded ill methought a sudden blow Was given though by what hand I did not know The earth beneath did tremble and withall Off from their trees the fading leaves did fall Upon a sudden beauty left their fruit And all the pretty warbling birds stood mute Some creatures fearful grew and others fierce Their looks were stern Eve I cannot rehearse All that I did observe My blood waxt chill My heart misgave me there was something ill Had fallen out and though I had e'en wove Of choicest flowers a Garland for my love Out of my hands I threw it would not stay A minute longer but did come away In haste to find thee glad to meet thee here How dost thou feel thy self how is 't my dear EVE It never better was never so well Unless I judg amiss since I could tell What Being means Thy company indeed Most sorely I did miss and shall take heed Of future absence for I felt such pain Upon that score I would not feel again But that which me detain'd so long was this The subtle Serpent who advanced is Unto a nobler state than what he had And is of that advancement very glad Most humbly came desirous to acquaint Me with his change and did most sweetly paint In lively colours virtues of that tree Which you and I by God forbidden be A taste of This he did in humane voice With words that were most eloquent and choice This secret not being selfish but most free Others should with him share he did to me Kindly impart and withal much perswade Me for to take and eat ADAM Ah! but I hope he did perswade in vain My Dearest tell me for I am in pain To know thee issue EVE My Lord he did perswade and did prevail I saw I took I eat What wil't avail Now to deny the fact neither despise Me for what 's done much clearer are mine eyes Scales off did fall my mind is more sublime Than e're I found it was before this time My spirits are dilated my thoughts flie Hither and thither with full libertie All my affections are rais'd I do Conclude my self a kind of Goddess too ADAM My soul is troubled thou hast troubled me Who formed wast my Comforter to be Upon me hath amazement taken hold My joints are loosed all and horror cold Runs through my veins this 't is to be undone By her that is my dear and only one Oh! that I ever suffer'd thee to go Alone expos'd alone unto thy so Had I deny'd thee then I had not now Known those sad sinking sorrows which I do Lately thou wast most lovely and most sweet In thee did all create Perfections meet But now thou art defac'd thou now art lost Which will a thousand thousand sorrows cost Oh! hadst thou ne'er been made or being made Wouldst have my counsel given thee obey'd Poor ruin'd Eve for I must change my note What e're thou think'st thou art to death devote Thy wound 's incurable who can it heal God never will the sentence past repeal EVE Did I feel what thou fearest I would be Alone a victim to that Deitie Which thou supposest angry and so end All that displeasure thou dost apprehend But whence these fears I pray and pray again That thou wouldst tell me Is not the case plain The Serpent did eat first afterward I And we do live why shouldest thou then die If thou shouldst eat but grant it hadst not rather If die we must that we die both together Where is thy love or where thy noble heart Art thou afraid to die shall death us part But where where is he if his fatal blow Must cut me off why don't he strike it now Come let me hug thee in my tender arm And so infolded fear not any harm I tell thee and with twenty kisses seal The truth of these my words I ne'r did feel Such extasies of joy as did insue My tasting of that tree Taste thou it too ADAM Since thou dost give my Dear I 'le take although I 'm not deceiv'd like thee but better know I know that eating this will do me harm But I am carried captive by thy charm My flesh and bone thou hast with them my heart We two are one and therefore will not part In happiness thou didst partake with me In miseries I will partake with thee My great delight thou hast been even thou Whatever comes I will not leave thee now What though this hour I fetch my dying groan It would be death to me to live alone Or if thou die and then another come That other never would fill up thy room Let God his pleasure do I will do mine In life and death resolved to be thine Eve I have eaten and now own my love To thee which threatn'd death could not remove DEVIL Of my ends thus I master am thus I With ease have triumph'd o're mine enemy God did intend to honour dust to raise And make these despicable worms a praise A race of men he was resolv'd should spring From Adam's loins forsooth them he would bring To those coelestial places whence we fell And while we do tormenting pains in hell Suffer without all hope there they should be As favourites crown'd with felicity And that at which my spirit most recoils Is they should be enriched with our spoils And could we Angels brook it though we are Fallen and ruin'd yet we cannot bear Such an affront I gladly would have prey'd On his Imperial Throne I would invade His stately Royal Palace if that it Would but a siege or storm or myne admit But its walls are too high for me to scale It 's gate so fastned no strength can prevail To force it open there he sits secure In happiness for ever to endure Well though his lofty Throne I could not shake I now have that atchieved which will make Some breach upon his peace and spoil in part His matchless joys and grieve him to the heart I call to mind how greatly he was pleas'd VVith our confusion when he had eas'd Heaven of us as
abound Not that this holy firmness doth proceed Or spring from natures power in Abra'ms seed Or from the grace in them that 's but a creature And might be master'd soon were not a greater rout And alsufficient strength by God put out Which doth maintain their ground prevent their Even Peters faith had fail'd had not Christ pray'd And also secretly afforded aid Saints eminent if God withdraw his hand For one poor moment from them cannot stand Should he with-hold his influence they die Should he leave them they soon would him deny Angels themselves would fall but that they be By grace confirm'd in their felicitie Much more would Adam's seed who have within Back-sliding principles and seeds of sin They soon would God forsake and soon undo The Cov'nant made to love and serve him too The root they do not bear the root bears them They are both holy Saints and sinning men Undone thou soon wouldst be if God should take Away his Spirit and thy soul forsake By thine own strength O man thou dost not stand But thy dear Father is at thy right hand Holding thee up and he will carry thee In arms of love to blest eternitie Thy Cistern leaks but it shall not be dry Because the upper springs will send supply Dangers and clouds shall vanish God shall be An everlasting Sun and shield to thee Consider in how much thou Christ hast stood Not one whit less than his most precious blood For thee his Head with thorns was crown'd his side Was pierc'd for thee he sweat he bled he di'd And will he cast away a soul that cost So great a price as this shall that be lost Which he prefer'd before his life no he Will be his purchas'd Saints securitie His own thou art with thee he will not part Who once didst cost his blood still hast his heart Thou art a member of his body one Part of his fulness and he 'l part with none Of them or that but will them save and love Christ will not be a maimed Christ above Nay more he stands oblig'd His Father gave A people to him that he might them save He is accountable for every one Must raise them all at last day losing none Yea and in such a state he must them raise As they may be unto his name a praise Now in pursuance of his Father's will He that hath always kept will keep thee still And therefore he hath promis'd to impart His fear unto thee and write in thine heart His sacred law that though thou mai'st be tri'd With fierce assaults none of thy steps may slide He in himself hath laid up all thy store And if thou little hast he 'l give thee more Adam thy father had a pow'r to stand Which pow'r was wholly plac'd in his own hand But he did quickly lose the stock that was Committed to him hence Christ will not pass All thine estate to thee at once lest thou Run out of all and prove a beggar too Himself thy fulness is and therefore sure He being rich thou never shalt be poor So poor as to depend thou still shalt be But never know undoing povertie Eden was once indeed fill'd with more grace Or rather holiness yet that sweet place Was never so secure as is thy Ark Thy floating little cock-boat now for mark God is its skilful Pilot constant stay Who by his spirit steereth night and day Its course upholding strengthening thee likewise When tempests rage threatning waves arise Thus chear thy self when thou dost fear to fall Remembring God will be thine all in all Thy rock and refuge thy treasure and guard Who keepeth for thee constant watch and ward His eye doth neither slumber nor once-sleep He keepeth Israel and thee doth keep He is no land of darkness barren heath His everlasting arms are underneath He knows full well when ought would thee annoy Will always be thy comfort and thy joy Do thou thy duty and then know that God Will with his staff support thee with his rod Will guide thy steps until at last thou be Above a sinning possibility Doubt 11. From Satans Temptations SOVL. If God my keeper were I should not doubt My spiritual safety nor my holding out Mine enemies should fall and I should be At peace because in full securitie Iachin and Boaz I 'd my pillars call Did God make his Salvation my wall The Lion should not rend nor Serpent bite Because he watcheth his both day and night But sure the Lord hath left me for I feel The Serpent always nibling at my heel I now am walking in a wilderness Where Lion's always roaring more or less Hardly a day doth pass nay scarce an hour But Satan doth assault me with his power With utmost rage the mighty gates of Hell Assault and storm my crazie Cittadel And how is 't possible poor I should be An equal match for such an enemie What may a worm do what resistance can Be made by foolish weak and naked man Alas I quake and tremble every hour Expecting when he will my soul devour Now he doth play with me and my fears feed His mirth me at his pleasure he can lead An helpless captive hurrying me to sin He can me post to th' torments he is in Great is his strength and numberless his wiles Many his famous conquests trophies spoils Run through the world sinners Saints compare You 'l see the greatest part falls to his share Here he hath spread a net there set a gin Thousands of thousands are intrapt therein Of men the most he orders at his pleasure His sport he makes them when he 's most at leisure He knows and is assur'd they are his own If but a bait be laid the work is done They 'r caught his hook sticks and they caanot free Themselves from sin nor him nor misery Lord of this world he is whom they adore Fear him they do and yet they love him more Nay he 'l encounter any he fears none But counts himself a match for ev'ry one Those that are built on the eternal rock And stand immovable have felt his shock Experience tells us that those Saints who be Strongest in grace are not temptation free Adam in Paradise though perfect and Armed with strength sufficient to withstand All foreign force and bravely keep the field Was set upon and set upon did yield So did this subtle enemy undo A world of men in one man at a blow That first attempt succeeded to his heart Since he is grown a master in the Art Of tempting at the first he had his will Six thousand years have much increas'd his skill That victory did flesh him ever since He is courag'ous bids fear get it hence He set on David Ioshua the Priest When in Gods presence found he had not ceast From troubling Saints Although Iob did outshine All men on earth that lived in his time He could not be at quiet This foul Fiend Desir'd on him his