refin'd it doth It self abroad display IV. Mount Fancie then through Orbs to GLORIES Sphere Wilde is the Course that ends not there You who are VIRTUES Friends lend to her Tongue an Ear. V. Let not the wanton Love-fights which may rise From vocal Fifes Flame-darting Eyes Beauties Munition Hearts w th Wounds unseen surprize VI. Whose Basilisk-like Glances taint the Air Of VIRGIN purenesse and ensnare Entangled Thoughts i' th' Trammels of their Ambush-hair VII Loves Captive view who 's Daies in warm Frosts spends On 's Idol dotes to Wit pretends Writes blots rends nor heeds where he begins or ends VIII His Stock of Verse in Comick Fragments lies Higher than Ten'riffs Pique He flies Sols but a spark Thou outray'st all Diamonds of the Skies IX Victorious Flames glow from thy brighter EYE Cloud those twin-lightning ORBS They 'l â—rie Anice-vein'd Monk cloud Them or PLANET-struck I die X. Indians pierce Rocks for Gems Negro's the Brine For Pearls Tartars tohunt combine For Sables Consecrate all Off'rings at HER SHRINE XI Crouch low -O Vermeil-tinctur'd CHEEK for thence The Organs to my Optick Sense Aredazled at the Blaze of so bright ANGELENCE XII Does Troy-bane Hellen Friend with ANGELS share All Lawlesse Passions Idols are Frequent are fuco'd Cheeks The Virtuosa's rare XIII A Truth authentick Let not skin-deep white And red perplex the nobler Light O' th' Intellect nor mask the SOULS clear piercing Sight XIV Burn Odes Lusts Paperplots Fly Playes its Flame Shun guileful Courtisms Forge for Shame No Chains Lip-traffick and Eye-dialogues disclaim XV. Hark how the frothy empty Heads within Roar and carouse i' th' jovial Sin Amidst the wilde Levalto's on their merry Pin XVI Drain dry the ransackt Cellars and resign Your Reason up to Riot joyn Your Fleet sail by Sugar-rocks through Floods of Wine XVII Send Care to dead Sea of Phlegmattick Age Ride without Bit your restive Rage And act your Revel-rout Thus on the tipling Stage XVIII Swell us a lustie BRIMMER more till most So Vast that none may spie the Coast Wee 'l down with ALL though therein sail'd LEPANTO'S Host XIX Top and Top-gallant hoise We will out-rore The bellowing Storms though shipwrackt more Healths are than tempting'st Syrens did inchant of yore XX. Each Gallon breeds a Ruby Drawer score'um Cheeks dy'd in Claret seem o' th' Quorum When our Nose-carbuncles like Link-boyes blaze before'um XXI Such are their Ranting Catches to unsoul And out-law Man They stagger rowl Their â—eet indent their Sense being drunk with Circes Bowl XXII Intombed Souls Why rot ye thus alive Melting your Salt to Lees and strive To strangle Nature and hatch Death Healths Health deprive XXIII The sinlesse Herd loaths your Sense-stifling Streams When long Spits point your Tale Ye Breams In Wine and Sleep your PRINCES are but Fumes and Dreaâ—s XXIV I 'd rather be preserv'd in Brine than rot In Nectar Now to Dice they 're got Their Tables snare in both Then what can be their Shot XXV Yet Blades will throw at Aâ—l sans Fear or Wit Oaâ—hâ— black the Night when â—ice do'nt hit When Winners lose at Play can Losers win by it XXVI Egypts Spermatick Nurse when her spread Floor Is flow'd 'bove sev'nteen Cubits ore Breeds Dearth And Spend-thriâ—ts waste when they enflame the Score XXVII Tell me ye pybald Butterflies who poise Extrinsick with intrinsick Joyes What gain ye from such short-liv'd fruitless empty Toys XXVIII Ye Fools who barter Gold for Trash report Can Fire in Pictures warm Can Sport That stings the mock-sense fill How low's your HEAV'N how short XXIX Go chaffer BLISSE for Pleasure which is had More by the Beast than Man the Bad Swim in their Mirth CHRIST wept nere laught The Best are sad XXX Brutes covet nought but what 's terrene HEAV'NS Quire Do in eternal Joyes conspire Man 'twixt them Both does intermediate Things desire XXXI Had we no Bodies we were ANGELS and Had we no Souls we were unmann'd To Beasts Brutes are all Flesh all Spirit the Heav'nly BAND XXXII At first GOD made them One thus by subjecting The Sense to Reason and directing The Appetite by th' Spirit But Sin by infecting XXXIII Mans free-born Will so shatters Them that They At present nor cohabite may Without â—Regret nor without Grief depart away XXXIV Go cheating World that dancest ore thy Thorns Lov'st what undoes hat'st what adorns Go idolize thy Vice and VIRTUE load with Scorns XXXV Thy luscious Cup more deadly then Asps Gall Empoys'neth Souls for Hell Thou all Times Mortalls dost enchant with thy delusive Call XXXVI Who steals from Time Time steals from him the Prey Pastimes passe Time passe HEAV'N away Few like the blessed Thief do steal SALVATIONS Day XXXVII Fools rifle Times rich Lott'rie Who mispend Lifes peerlesse Gemme alive descend And Antidate with Stings their never-ending End XXXVIII Whose vast Desires engrosse the boundlesse Land By Fraud or Force Like Spiders stand Squeezing small Flies Such are their Nets such their Hand XXXIX When Nimrods Vulture-Talons par'd shall be Their Houses Name soon chang'd you 'l see For their Bethesda shall be turn'd to Bethanie XL. Better destroy'd by Law than rul'd by Will What Salves can cure if Balsams kill That Good is worst that does degenerate to Ill. XLI Had not GOD left the BEST within the Power Of Persecutors who devoure We had nor MARTYRS had nor yet a SAVIOUR XLII SAINTS melt as Wax Fools-clay grows hard at Cries Of that scarce-breathing Corse who lies With dry Teeth meager Cheeks thin Maw hollow Eyes XLIII GOD made Life Give 't to Man By opening Veins Death's sluc'd out and Pleuretick Pains Make GOD thy Pattern Cure thy self Alms are best gains XLIV HEAV'NS GLORIE to atchieve what scantling Span Hath the frail Pilgrimage of Man Which sets when risen ends when it but now began XLV Who fight with outward Lusts win inward Peace Iudgements against Self-Iudges cease Who face their Cloaks with Zeal do but their Woes increase XLVI The Mighty mighty Torments shall endure If impious Hell admits to Cure The best Securitie is ne're to be secure XLVII Oaks that dare grapple with HEAV'NS Thunder sink All shiver'd Coals that scorch do shrink To Ashes Vap'ring Snuffs expire in noysom Stink XLVIII Time strip the writhel'd Witch Pluck the black Bags From off Sins grizly Scalp the Hags Plague-sores shew then more loathsom than her leprous Rags XLIX 'T was She slew guiltlesse Naboth 't was she curl'd The painted Iezabel she hurl'd Realms from their Center She unhing'd the new-fram'd World L. Blest then who shall her dash 'gainst Rocks her Grones Our Mirth and wash the bloody Stones With her own cursed Gore repave them with her Bones LI. By Salique Law She should not reign Storms swell By her which Halcyon Dayes dispell Nought's left that 's good where she in Souls possest does dwell LII 'T was her Excesse bred Plagues Infecting Stars Infesting Dearth Intestine Wars Surfeit with Graves the Earth 'mongst Living
making Jars LIII My Soul enlabyrinth'd in Grief spend Years In Sackcloth chamleted with Tears Retir'd to Rocks dark entrals court unwitnest Fears LIV. There passe with Heraclite a gentler Age Free from the sad ACCOUNT of Rage That acts the toilsome World on its tumultuous Stage LV. There sweet RELIGION strings and tunes and skrues The Souls Theorb ' and doth infuse Grave Dorick Epods in th' Enthusiastick MUSE LVI There LOVE turns trumpets into Harps which call Off Sieges from the gun-shot Wall Alluring them to HEAV'N her Seat Imperial LVII Thence came our Ioy and Thence HYMNS eas'd our Grief Of which th' ANGELICAL was chief Glory to GOD Earth Peace Good Will for Mans Relief LVIII Quills pluckt from Venus Doves impresse but shame Then give your Rimes to Vulcans Flame Hee 'l elevate your badger Feet He 's free though lame LIX Things fall and Nothings rise Old VIRTUE fram'd Honour for WISDOM WISDOM fam'd Old VIRTUE Such Times were Wealth then Arts Page was nam'd LX. Lambeth was Oxfords Whetstone Yet above Preferments Pinnacle they movâ— Who string the Vniverse and bracelet It for LOVE LXI Virtues magnifick Orb inflames their Zeal By high-rais'd ANTHEMS Plaguâ—s they heal And threefork'd Thunders in HEAVNS outstretcht Arm repeal LXII Shall Larks with shrill-chirpt Mattens rouze from Bed Of curtain'd Night Sols orient Head And shall quick SOULS lie numb'd as wrapt in Sheets of Lead LXIII Awake from slumbring Lethargie The gay And circling Charioter of Day In 's Progress through the azure Fields sees checks our Stay LXIV Arise and rising emulate the rare Industrious Spinsters who with fair Embroid'ries checker-work the Chambers of the Air. LXV Ascend Sol does on Hills his Gold display And scatt'ring Sweets does spice the Day And shoots delight through Nature with each arrow'd Ray. LXVI The Opal-colour'd Dawns raise Fancie high Hymns ravish those who Pulpets fly Convert dull Lead to active Gold by LOVE-CHYMIE LXVII As Natures prime Confectioner the Bee By her Flow'r-nibling Chymistrie Turns Vert to Or So VERSE gross Prose does rarifie LXVIII Pow'rs cannot Poets as They Pow'rs up-buoy Whose Soul-enliv'ning Charms Decoy Each wrinkled Care to the Pacifick Sea of Joy LXIX As where from Iewels sparkling Lustre darts Those Rayes enstarre the duskie Parts So Beams of Poesie give Light Life Soul to Arts. LXX Rich POESIE Thy more irradiant Gems Give Splendor unto DIADEMS And with coruscant Rayes emblazest HONOURS Stems LXXI Thee MUSE Arts ambient Air Inventions Door The Stage of Wits both Rich and Poor Do court â—A PRINCE may glory to become thy WOOER LXXII POETS ly'entomb'd by KINGS Arts Gums dispence By Rumination bruis'd are thence By VERSE so fir'd that their Perfume ENHEAV'NS the Sense LXXIII It s The'ory makes All wiser yet Few better Practise is Spirit Art the Letter Vse artlesse doth enlarge Art uselesse does but fetter LXXIV Sharp Sentences are Goads to make Deeds go Good Works are Males Words Females show Whose Lives act Presidents prevent the Laws and Do. LXXV So far We know as we obey GOD and HE counts We leave not his Command When as our Interludes but 'twixt our Acts do stand LXXVI Honours brave SOUL is in that Body shrin'd Which floats not with each giddy Winde Fickle as Courtly Dress but WISDOMS Sea does find LXXVII Steering by GRACES Pole-star which is fast In th' APOSTOLLICK Zodiack plac't Whose Course at first four EVANGELICK Pilots trac't LXXVIII The THEANTHROPICK WORD That mystick Glasse Of Revelations That masse Of Oracles That Fu'el of Pray'r That Wall of Brass LXXIX That Print of HEAV'N on Earth That Mercies Treasure And Key That Evidence and Seisure Faiths Card Hopes Anchor Loves full Sail Abyss of Pleasure LXXX Such SAINTS high Tides n'ere ebbe so low to shelf Them on the Quicksand of their self Swallowing Corruption Sin 's the Wrack They fly that Elf. LXXXI Gloomier than West of Death than North of Night Than Nest of Triduan Blacks with Fright Which Egypt scar'd when HE brought Darkness WHO made Light LXXXII Compar'd to whose Storm thund'ring Peals are calm Compar'd to whose Sting Asps yield Balm Compar'd to whose loath'd Charm Death is a Mercy-Psalm LXXXIII Her Snares escap'd soar Muse to HIM whose bright Spirit-illuminating Sight Turns Damps to glorious Dayes turns Fogs to radiant Light LXXXIV RELIGION's Wisdoms Study That display LORD countermand what goes astray And smite the Ass rude Flesh when it does start or bray LXXXV Soul thou art lesse than MERCIES least Three ne're Depart from Sin Shame Guilt and Fear Fear Shame Guilt Sin are Four Yet All in One appear LXXXVI Crest-faln by Sin how wretchedly I stray Me thinks 't is Pride in me to pray HEAV'N aid me strugling under this sad Load of Clay LXXXVII No Man may merit yet did ONE we hold Who most do vant their Zeal are cold Thus Tin for Silver goes with these and Brasse for Gold LXXXVIII Renew my Heart direct my Tongue unseal My Hand inspire my Faith reveal My Hope encrease my Love and my Backslidings heal LXXXIX Let Language Mans choice Glory serve the Minde Thy SPIRIT on Bezaliel shin'd Help BLOUD by Faith apply'd Thy Spittle cur'd the Blinde XC Turn Sense to Spirit Nature's chang'd alone By GRACE THAT is the Chymick-stone And thy all-pow'rful WORD is pure Projection XCI TRUTHS Touchstone surest Rule that ere was fra'md Tradition Mans dark Map 's disclaim'd The Paper burns me not yet I am all inflam'd XCII For as I read such inward Splendor glowes Such Life-renewing Vigour flowes That All what 's known of thy most righteous WILL It showes XCIII Whose Spells make Enochs walk with THEE withhold Corruption and translate e're old All Vaticans are drosse THIS Magisterial Gold XCIV Thus poor numm'd Tartars when th' are brought into Warm Persias Gem-pav'd Court are so Reviv'd that then They live till then half dead w th Snow XCV Good Thoughts from THEE infus'd I do derive Good Words effus'd THOU dost me give Good Works diffus'd by THEE in THEE do live thrive XCVI Nerve-stretching Muse thy Bow 's new strung shoot then Hymns to the BEST from worst of Men Make Arts thy Tributaries twist Heart Tongue Pen. XCVII But how can Eves degenerate Issue bent To Sin in its weak Measures vent Thy PRAISE Unmeasurable and Omnipotent XCVIII Shrubs cannot Cedars nor Wrens Eagles praise Nor purblinde Owls on Sols Orb gaze What is a drop to Seas a Beam to boundlesse Raies XCIX Yet Hope and Love may raise my drooping Flight And Faith in THEE embeam my Night Great LOVE supply Faiths Nerves with winged Hope I WRITE C. My Spirit LORD my Soul my Bodie all My Thoughts Words Works hereafter shall Praise THEE and Sin bemone JESU how lov'dst THOU me Me blessed thy LOVE make Me raised Thy LOVE take JESU my pretious ONE May This LOVES OFFERING be My Heart Tongue Eye Hand boweâ— Knee As All came from let All return to THEE NVnc sacra primus habet Finem mea Cura Libellus IÃ m
Greatness and the strict Account to be given for All O then give me an undaunted Fortitude an elevated Course of Contemplation a Resignation of Spirit and a sincere Desire of thy Glory Adde O LORD to the Cheerfulness of my Obedience the Assurance of Faith and to the Confidence of my Hope the Joyes of Love O THOU who art the Fountain of my Faith the Object of my Ioy and the Rock of my Confidence guide my Passion by Reason my Reason by Religion my Religion by Faith my Faith by thy Word be pleased to improve thy Word by thy SPIRIT that so being established by Faith confirmed in Hope and rooted in Charitie I may be only ambitious of THEE prizing THEE above the Delights of Men Love of Women and Treasures of the World Nothing being so pretious as thy Favour so dreadfull as thy Displeasure so hateful as Sin so desirable as thy Grace Let my Heart be alwayes fixt upon Thee possessed by Thee established in Thee true unto Thee upright toward Thee and entire for Thee that being thus inebriated with the sweet and pure streams of thy Sanctuary I may serve Thee to the utmost of each Faculty with all the Extension of my Will and Intension of my Affections till my Love shall ascend from Earth to HEAVEN from small Beginnings to the Consummatiâ—n of a well-regulated and never ceasing Charitie O GOD who art no lesse infinite in Wisdom than in Goodness let me where I cannot rightly know Thee there reverently admire Thee that in Transcendencies my very Ignorance may honour Thee Let thy Holy SPIRIT inflame my Zeal inform my Judgement conform my Will reform my Affections and transform me wholly into the Image and Imitation of Thy Onely SON Grant that I may improve my Talent to thy Glory who art the Imparter of the Guift the Blesser of the Action and the Assister of the Designe So that having sowen to the Spirit I may by thy Mercies and Thy SONS Merits who is the SON of thy Love the Anchor of my Hope and the Finisher of my Faith reap Life everlasting And now in his only Name vouchsafe to accept from dust and ashes the Oblation of this weak yet willing Service and secure the Possession to THY SELF that Sin may neither pollute the Sacrifice divide the Guift nor question the Title Fill my Mouth with Praises for these happy Opportunities of Contemplation the managing of publick Actions lesse agreeing with my Disposition and though my Body be retir'd yet let my Soul be enlarged like an uncaptiv'd Bird to soar in the Speculation of Divine Mysteries O be praysed for that in this general Combustion of Christendom THOU hast vouchsafed me a little Zoar as Refuge in which my Soul doth yet live to magnifie Thee But above All for my Redemption from the Execution of thy Wrath by the Execration of the SON of thy Love having made Innocence to become guilty to make the guilty innocent and the Sun of Righteousness to suffer a total Eclipse to expiate the Deeds of Darkness Be THOU exalted for the Myriads of thy Mercies in my Travells through Europ as far transcending my Computation as Compensation But chiefly for the Hope Thou hast given me that when I have served Thee inhumbly-strict Obedience to the Glorie of thy Name THOU art pleased that I shall enter into the GLORY of my LORD to all Eternitie where I shall behold THEE in thy Majesty CHRIST thy SON in his Glory the SPIRIT in his Sanctity the Hierarchy of Heaven in their Excellencie and the Saints in their Rest in which Rest there is perfect Tranquillitie and in this Tranquillity Ioy and in this Ioy Variety and in this Variety Security and in this Security Immortality with Thee Who reignest in the Excellencies of Transcendencie and in the infinite Durations of a blessed Eternitie To WHOM with the IMAGE of thy GOODNESSE and the BREATH of thy LOVE ô most glorious TRINITY and ineffable UNITIE be all Sanctitie and Adoration sacrificed now and for evermore Amen Amen INto the most Holy TREASVRIE Of the ever-glorious PRAISES Of the MEDIATOR between GOD Man CHRIST JESUS The Empyraean Flame of the DIVINITY Indefinible Interminable Ineffable The Immaculate Earth of the HUMANITY Inseparable Inconfusible Inconvertible Mysterious in an Hypostaticall UNION WHO is The true LIGHT enlightning the World The ETERNAL WORD By ENERGIE Incarnated Embrightning our knowledge Enlivening our FAITH Quickning our HOPE Enflaming our LOVE Prostrated dust and ashes With an adoring Awfulness trembling Veneration To his INFINITE MAJESTIE Doth humbly cast this Mite Acknowledging from GOD all Opportunities of Good to be improved by His GRACE to His GLORY THEOPHILAS LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO II. The Humiliation ARGUMENT Vnde superbit Homo cujus Conceptio Culpa Nasci Poena Labor Vita necesse morâ— Totus homo pravus Caro Mens Natura Voluntas Coelicus act Hominis Crimina tollit AMOR. The Deiform'd Soul deform'd by Sin repents In Pray'rs and Tears her Grief She vents And till Faith cheer her by CHISTS Love Life Death laments STANZA I. ALMIGHTY POWER Who did'st All Souls Create Who did'st Redeem their faln Estate Who still dost Sanctifie and them Redintegrate II. Sourse River Ocean of all Blisse instill Spring-tides into my low-ebb'd Quill Each graceful Work flowes from what works all Grace Thy Will III. LORD Thou before Time Matter Form or Place Wast All E're Natures mortal Race Thy SELF Host Guest and Palace Natures total Space IV. When yet though not discern'd in that Abysse CREATOR WORD and SPIRIT of Blisse In UNITY the TRINE one GOD adored is V. E're THOU the Chrystal-mantled HEAV'N didst rear Or did the Earth Sols Bride appear First Race of Intellectuals mad'st THEE to revere VI. Praise best doth Inexpressibles expresse Soul Th' ARCHITECT of Wonders blesse Whose All-creating WORD embirth'd a Nothingnesse VII Who brooding on the Deep Production Dispos'd then call'd out Light which on The formless Worlds rude Face was all dispers'dly thrown VIII When callow Nature pluckt from out her Nest Of Causes was awak'd from Rest Her shapeless Lump with fledg'd effects He trimly drest IX Then new-born Day HE gilt with glittering Sun Contracted Light with changing Moon He Night adorn'd and hung up Lamps like spangled Bullion X. The Earth with Water mixt HE separates Earth Plants brought forth and Beasts All Mates The Waters Fowl and Fish to yield Man delicates XI Then did of th' El'ements Dust Mans Bodie frame A perfect Microcosm the Same He quickned with a sparkle of Pneumatick Flame XII More Heav'nly specify'd by Life from th' WORD That Nature doth This Grace afford And Glory from the SPIRIT design'd as threefold Cord. XIII Man ere a Childe by ' Infusion wise though He Was of yet not for Earth though free Chanc'lour install'd of Edens Universitie XIV His Virgin-Sister-Wife i' th Grove He woo'd Heav'ns Nursery new Fruit his Food Skin was his Robe Clouds washt Winds swept his Floor All good XV. Envie that GOD should so love Man
are Hell-proof THEOPHILA'S Soliloquie STANZA 1. WHen Heav'ns LOVE Paramount HIMSELF reveals And to the suppliant Soul her Pardon seals At feard-Hopes doubtful Gate w th trembling fell 2. Who Heav'n-ward sails coasts by the Cape of Hell That Her HE deigns to take She joyes in Woes To have in Labour pass'd the Parturition Throes 3. All Travell-pangs all New-birth Heart-deep Groans All After-births of Penitential Mones Are swallow'd up in living Streams of Bliss 4. When as the Heav'n-born Heir the New-man is By th' quickning SPIRIT of the HIGH'ST reborn Time past hath pas'd her Night present presents her Morn 5. See Ioy in Light See Light in Ioy O see Poor worthless Maid Fruit brought thee from Lifes-Tree By th' SPOUSE SPIRIT Saints sole Supporters Rise 6. Then Hells Apostate and be Heav'nly wise THOU art Lets interpledge our Soul my ONE My ALL though not by UNITIE by Vnion 7. Ineffably mysterious Knot begun Saints mount as Dew allur'd by beckning Sun Loves faithful Friends what parallels your Guard 8. Where Truth is Sentinel and Grace the Ward The Way is Flow'r-strown where the Guide is Love His SPIRIT with you below your Spirit with HIM Above 9. Reciprocal Excesse of Ioy Then soar My Soul to HIM Who Man became Nay more Took Sin it self to cleanse thy fully'd Clay 10. But took it only to take it away O SELF DONATION peerlesse GUIFT unknown Now since that HE is Thine be never Thou thine own 11. O Prodigie of Great and Good Faith sound This LOVES Abysse that do's so strangly bound ALMIGHTINES IT SELF From Whose Veins see 12. Unsluc't LOVES purple Ocean when His Free Red-streaming Life did vanquish Death Hell That thou might'st live HE dy'd That thou might rise HE fell 13. GOD so lov'd Man that Naturalists may deem GOD to set Man before HIMSELFE did seem When Man with seeing blinde 'gainst GOD arose 14. And slew his only FRIEND GOD sav'd his Foes Sol mour'nd in blacks Heav'ns Vice-roy Nature swounded Excess Loves Reason was Immensitie Love bounded 15. Ye Twins of Light as Sun-flow'rs be enclin'd To th' SUN of RIGHTEOUSNES Let Taste refin'd Like nothing as LOVES Heav'nly Manna and 16. Let all but CHRIST feel rough as Esaus Hand Let nought like 's Garment smell Let Ears rejoyce But in expresles Dictates of LOVES whisp'ring Voice 17. HE 'S thy bright Sun 'twixt WHOM and thy Souls Bliss Thy earthie Body interposed is Whereby such dread Eclipses caused are 18. As fam'd Astâ—â—â—omers can ne're declare Yet oft HE shines Then vanish servile Fears Then Heav'n-ward filial Hopes dry up thy trickling Tears 19 Spiritual Light Spirituals clears In HEAV'N Thou 'lt view that full what now by Glimps like Steph'n Thou canâ—st but spy There shalt thou Face to Face 20. His Light His Ioy His Love His Pow'r His Grace And His ALL-FILLING GLORY clearly see In optick Emanations from ETERNITIE 21 I' th' RING of boundless LUSTER from whose Ray This petty World gleaneth its peep of Day Thou shalt be Crown'd with Wreaths of endless Light 22. Here oft's an Enterview in Heat and Might By Inter-lucidations from ABOVE Twining Embraces with 's ensphearing ARM of LOVE 23 Most blessed Souls to whom He do's appear Folded within your Arms chast Hemisphear O Condescend How 's LIPS shed Love Life Merit 24. He makes his Angels Court of Guard By 's SPIRIT HE crowns you with his Grace So with his BLOOD When HE Redeem'd you and consign'd His FLESH for Food 25 Meat came from th' Eater from the Strong did Dew Sweetnesse when as incomparably true OMNIPOTENCIES SELF did largely shed 26. His mystick Oil of Ioy upon thyâ— Head Then trample Sin in Babylons golden Cup Treasures away She trifles Trifles treasures up 27 Oyl of this Lamp obsequious Soul lights Thee To thine approaching HEAV'N In Sanctiâ—ie Be actuated then Being up assumâ—d 28. By this bright Sun with this rich Oyl perfum'd Th' art prepossest with Heav'nly Comforts which With their Soul-chearing Sweets both ravish and enrich 29 Poor panting Heart Loves Seat yearn for Ioys Pith To have thy highest Bliss Communion with The FATHER the SON one SPIRIT with CHRIST 30. And One in THEM as THEY are One Thou fly'st Through Grace to GLORY VISION shall sublime Thy Faith FRUITION Hope ETERNITâ— thy Time THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SONG STANZA 31. SELF ô how mean an Harmonie it breeds JESUS All Names this NAME of Names exceeds This Name 's GODS Mercie at full Sea 't is LOVES 32. High Tow'r Ioyes Loadstone This my Spirit moves Hark Rise my Love my Fair One Come away Lingring breeds Losse I am thy Leader Light and Way 33. What Speed Speeds self can make Soul flie withall GREATNES and GOODNES most Magnetical Shoot like a Flashof Fire to th' ruby Wine 34. His precious BLOOD transcendently Divine How poor those costly pearls were drunk by Some My LORD drink Blood to me Let It to th' Worlds Health come 35 All Hope 's unanchor'd but in THAT THOU art 'Bove Indies Womb rich to my Love-sick Heart Flesh-fair Endowments are but Skin-deep Brags 36. Varnisht Corruption Wealth is but Cares Bags The Bag impostom'd choaks Gold Beauty Fame Are sublunary Mysts to SAINTS Seraphick Flame 37 JESUS THIS fans my Fire which has at best But Grains of Incense Pounds of Interest Go Int'rest Take the Principal Thine own 38. Divine LOVE loves thy LOVELINES alone What Flames to THINE proportionable be LORD had'st not first lov'd Man Man could not have lov'd THEE 39 Why lov'st us but because THOU would'st O why For Lepers would the UNDEFILED die That Pen was dipt i' th' Standish of thy Blood 40. Which wrot th' Indenture of our termless Good O LOVE 'bove Wish Never such LOVE enroll'd Who think their utmost Flames enough for THEE are cold 41. Whose HIGHNES did not to be low disdain Yet when at Lowest Highest did remain Who bow'dst HEAV'NS Altitude refresh with Flowrs 42. With JESSES Sov'raign Flow'r my fainting Pow'rs Which sink as shaft-struck Hart embost twixt Grief And Ioy Grief for my Sin Ioy for thy free Reliefâ— 43. Wrackt is with bitter-sweet Extreams my Minde Shell'd sheath'd cag'd coffin'd in her treacherous friend Her always tempting mass of Flesh She bears 44. Her Hopes did they not sprout from Thee were fears HOPE Thou Perfume of LOVERS for thy Sake LOVE'S generous throws at All Life 's but a petty Stake 45 Scarce worth the Prize LOVE makes two Spirits but one Me Counterpart to thy Indenture own I active then as Light tread Air and Flame 46. Without or Wing or Chariot and disclaim All the faint Sweets of Earth Thy SPIRIT views How in Loves torrid Zone thy sweltring Martyr stews 47 Row me ye Dove-wingd Oars whom Hope do's buoy To wisht-for Hav'n flowing with Tides of Ioy Yet wish I not my Joy thy Ioyes Above 48. Meerly for Ioy nor Pleasures of thy LOVE Only for Love of Pleasure No let free Spiritual Languors teem Fruitful yet Virgins be 49 Give give me
Children or I die LOVE rest Thy Head upon the Pillows of my Breast When me THOU shalt impregn'd with Vertues make 50. A fruitful Eden All the Frutage take Thy Passion Ionathan below did move Rapt SPIRITS in high Excess flame with intensest Love 51 My Life is hid with THEE in GOD Descry THY SELF ô THOU my plighted SPOUSE that I May ever glorious be That my joy'd Soul 52. With THEE may make up Marriage and my whole Self THEE for Bridegroom have My Hope still sends Up Come that I may enter with thy feasted Friends 53. O That long-long'd for COME ô COME mine Eyes LOVES Sentinels watch like officious Spies Strike Sparks of JOY t'enflame LOVES Tinder make 54. The Exile view her Home the Dreamer wake Tears raise the Fire of LOVE Ease Sighs of Air Fires Passion watry Tears and earthy self Despair 55. My Sighs condens'd to Drops compute Hours spent Cancell the Lease of my Clay-Tenement Which payes deer Rent of Groans ô grant a Writ 56. Of Ease I languish out not live Permit A Passe to SIONS MOUNT But I resigne My green-sick Will though sick of LOVE to that of Thine 57. Waitings which ripen Hopes are not Delayes Presence how great how true's LOVE Absence saies While Lungs my Breath shall organ I 'l press still 58. Th' Exinanition of my o'regrown Will Behold I quickly come O're-joyd I'm here O Come Till then each Day 's an Age each Hour a Year 59. JESU That NAME' 's Ioyes Essence hasten on Throng amorous Sighs for Dissolution Fastidious Earth avant With Love-plumes soar 60. My Soul to meet thy SPOUSE Can'st wish for more Only Come give a RING Re-eccho then O Come Even so LORD IESV Come Amen Amen LXI Who 's this Inamor'd VOT'RESSE Like the Morn From Mountain unto Mountain born Who first with Night-drops dew'd seem'd Turtle Dove forlorn LXII But now e're warped Body neer Decay Stands Bow-like bent to shoot away Her Soul Ere prone Looks kiss her Grave e're her last Day LXIII She LOVE-fill'd wants no Mate has rather one Body too much I' th' SPIRITS Throne CHRISTS Peace is fullest Quire Such Loneness least alone LXIV When soft-flying Sleep Deaths Sister Wings do's spread Over that curtain'd Grave her Bed Then with prophetick Dreams the HIGHEST crowns her Head LXV Behold a comely PERSON clad in white The all-inlightning Sun lesse bright Than that illustrious FACE of HIS which blest her Sight LXVI To Her in MAJESTIE His Way HE broke And softly thus to Her HE spoke Come Come away My JESUS saies She. So She woke LXVII Her Pray'rs more passionate than witty rise As Sols Postilion bright her Eyes Wrastling with GOD for GRACE bedew Loves Paradise LXVIII Betimes when keen breath'd Winds with frosty Cream Peri'wig bald Trees glaze tatling Stream For May-games past white-sheet peccavi is Winters Theme LXIX Those Day-breaks give good Morrows which she takes With Thanks so doubly Good them makes Who in GODS Promise rests in GODS Remembrance wakes LXX SAINTS nothing more SAINTS nothing lesse regard Than LOVES SELF than self-Love unscar'd Though rackt into an Anagram their Souls being spar'd LXXI Through Vertuous Self-mistrust They acted move Like Needle toucht by th' Stone of Love Blest Magnet which attracts and Souls directs ABOVE LXXII Were She but mortal She were satisfy'd So GOD liv'd in Her till She dy'd His WORD her Deed his WILL her Warrant BOTH her Guide LXXIII Thus this DEVOTA breaths out yerning Cries Let not Dust blinde my sensual Eyes When as my Spirits Energie transcends the Skies LXXIV VIRTUES raise Souls All 's FILIAL to ABOVE Low'st Step is Mercenary Love Fraternal are the Sides that SAINTS Ascent improve LXXV Manna to my enamour'd Soul art THOU The SPIRIT of Heav'n distill'd do's flow From thy ASPECT By That from Brutes we ANGELS grow LXXVI Had I ô had I many Lives as Years As many Loves as Love hath Fears All All were THINE had I as many Hearts as Hairs LXXVII From THEE my JOY-EXTENSIONS spreading flow Dilating as Leaf-gold be n't slow O THOU my All and more Love-lorn THEE still I woo LXXVIII The Widow press'd till THEE to grant She bound The VIRGIN sought THEE till she found The Publican did knock till opening knocking crown'd LXXIX Though nought but dross I in my self can spie Yet melted with THY beaming EYE My Refuse turns to Gold by mystick Alchymie LXXX Then whet thy blunt Sythe Time and wing thy Feet Life not in Length but Use is sweet Come Death the Body brought a bed o' th' SOUL Come fleet LXXXI Be Pulse my passing-Bell be Skin my Herse Nights sable Curtains that disperse The Rayes of Day be Shroud Dews weep my funeral Verse LXXXII Pittie me Love-sick Virgins Then She swound O'recome with Zeal She sunk to th' Ground Darts of intolerable Sweets her Soul did wound LXXXIII She lay with flaming LOVE empierc't to th' Heart Wak't As She bled She kist the Dart Then sigh'd Take all I am or have All All THOU art LXXXIV Then sunk again Reviv'd LOVES BOW She bent And marry'd String to Shaft and sent Ejaculations which the Skies like Lightning rent LXXXV Piercing Them through feather'd with Sighs to show She little pay'd yet much did owe The Feathers sung and fir'd as they did upward go LXXXVI No ice-fring'd Cloud may quench LOVES soaring Flame LOVE is more strong then Death or Shame Grown up all Soul the Flesh sinks in a triple Qualm LXXXVII I charge ye SION VIRGINS let Her still Enjoy her disencloystred Fill In These high Extasies of UNION and WILL. LXXXVIII Do not with Claps of Hands or noise of Feet Awake Her from what is more sweet Till the bright rising Day-star light Her to HEAV'NS Street LXXXIX Yeeld Her what her unfetter'd Rapture gives Since She 's more where She loves than lives Transanimations scaling HEAV'N break carnal Gyves XC In LOVES triumphant Chariot plac't She is Concentrick are her JOYES with HIS Encharioted in Fire her Spirit HEAV'N-ripe for Blisse XCI They 're only sound who Thus are lost in Trance Transported to the High'st Advance With Him who was in Spirit rapt to ' expreffeles Glance XCII Return'd She cry'd O slay me thus again Ne're lives she who thus ne're is slain How sweet the Wounds of LOVE No Pleasure to LOVES pain XCIII In furnac't Pyrausta-like I fry To live is Faith 't is Gain to die One Life 's enough for Two THOU liv'st in me not I XCIV How mid'st Regalios of LOVES Banquet I Dissolve in Sweets Extremitie O Languors Thus to live is in pure Flames to die XCV Three Kings three Gifts to th' KING of Kings did bring Myrrhe Incense Gold to Man GOD King For Myrrhe Tears Incense Pray'rs Gold take Loves Offering XCVI O take Loves Hecatomb Then through her Eyes Did LOVE inamoring Passions rise HIGH'ST GLORY crowns THEOPHILA's Love-Sacrifice XCVII Not She Mortality alone did die Death's but Translation to the Skie All Virtues fir'd in her pure BREAST their Spicerie
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 tâ—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 fairâ—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 â—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
Caesar for his Glorie Absolon for his Beauty Achitophel for his Policie Dives for his Wealth or Iudas for his Office Seeing then that Happinesse consists not in the Affluence of Exorbitant Possessions nor in the Humours of fickle Honour all external Splendors being unsatisfactory let Christians neglect terrestrial Vanities and retire into the Recesses of Religion nothing being so great in humane Actions as a pious knowing Minde which disposeth great Things and may yield such permanent Monuments as bring Felicity to Mankinde above the Founders of Empires being an Antepast to the overflowing FEASTS of ETERNITIE Man endued with Altitude of Wisdom in the sweetnesse of Conscience and Height of Vertue is of all Creatures sub-Angelical the ALMIGHTIES Masterpiece the Image of his MAKER a Candidate of DIVINITY and Model of the Vniverse who in holy Colloquies Whisprings and secret Conferences with GOD findes HIM a Torrent of Pleasure a Fountain of Honour and an inexhaustible Treasure whose divine Life is a Character of the DIVINE NATURE by taking GOD for the Text Truth for the Doctrine and Holinesse for the Use without which the highest Endowments of the most refined Wit are but the quaint Magick of a learned Lunacie Most wretched therefore are they beyond all Synonima's of Misery whose undisciplin'd Education leaves them unfurnisht of Skill to spend their Time in any Thing but what in the prosecution of Sin tends to Death Wealth and Greatnesse rendring them past Reproof ev'n ready to tempt their very Tempter whereby they are wholly enclin'd to Sensualities being in their Entertainments commonly intemperate in their Drink humerous their Humours quarrelous their Duels damnable concluding a voluptuous and brutish Life in a bloody and desperate Death preferring the Bodie before the Soul Sence before the Spirit Appetite before Reason temporary Fooleries phantastick Visits idle Courtships gay Trifles fascinating Vanities as if the Pleasure of Life were but the smothering of pretious Time in those things which are meer Puffs in Expectation Vanitie in Enjoyment and Vexation of Spirit in Departure before solid Goodnesse and eternal Exultations To divert thee therefore from such Shelves of indiscreet Vice and to direct thee to the safe and noble Channel of Vertue ev'n to Faith with good Works to Piety w th Compassion to Zeal with Charity to know the End which distinguisheth thee from a Beast and to chuse a good End which differenceth thee from an evil Man be so much thine own Friend as to peruse seriously this spiritual Poem which treateth on Sub-coelestials Coelestials and Super-coelestials whereby a delightful Curiousness may steal thee into the Pleasure of Goodnesse Know then that Sub-coelestials or Sublunaries have their Assignment in the lowest Portion of the Universe and being wholly of a corporeal Nature do enjoy Spiritual Gifts the Chief of which is Life by Loan onely where there is no Generation without Corruption no Birth without Death From the Surface of the Earth to the Center is 3436 Miles the whole Thickness 6872 Miles the whole Compsse 21600 Miles from its Center to the Moon is 3924912 Miles Now Coelestials or aethereal Bodies are seated in the middle which participating of a greater Portion of Perfection impart innumerable rare Vertues and influential Efficacies to Things below not enduring a Corruption only subject having obtained their Period to change The glorious Projection and Transfusion of aetheral Light both of the Sun and of the Stars of the six Magnitudes constitute by astronomicall Computation more than 300 Suns upward to the EMPYRAEAN HEAVEN A Starre in the Equator makes 12598666 Miles in an Hour which is 209994 Miles in a Minute a Motion quicker than Thought Super-coelestials are Intelligencies altogether Spiritual and Immortal excellent in their Beings intuitive in their Conceptions such as are the glorious Quire of the Apostles the exulting Number of the Prophets the innumerable Army of crown'd Martyrs triumphing Virgins charitable Confessors c. or the blessed Hierarchie of Angels participating somewhat of GOD and Man having had a Beginning as Man and now being immortall with GOD having their Immortality for his Sempiternity void of all Mixture as is GOD and yet consisting of Matter and Form as doth Man Subsisting in some Subject and Substance as doth Man yet being incorporeal as is GOD They having Clarity Impassibility Subtility and Agility having Understanding without Errour Light without Darkness Joy without Sorrow Will without Perturbation Impassibility without Corruption pure as the Light ordained to serve the LORD of Light They are local and circumscribed by Place as is Man yet are they in a place not properly by way of Circumscription but by way of Definition though they cannot be in several Places at once yet are they able in a Moment to be any where as GOD alwayes is every where of admirable Capacity and Knowledge resembling GOD yet ignorant of the ESSENCE of GOD much lesse see they all Things in IT in that like Man Ev'n these Incorporeal Substances would pine and starve if an All-filling and infinitely All-sufficient and Superabundant GOD were not the Object of their high Contemplation whose Blisse of theirs is the neerest Approach to that Divine MAJESTIE WHO is a true real substantial and essential NATURE subsisting of HIMSELF an eternal BEING an infinite ONENESSE the radical PRINCIPLE of all Things whose ESSENCE is an incomprehensible Light His POVVER is Omnipotency and his BECK an absolute Act WHO before the Creation was a BOOK rowl'd up in HIMSELF having Light only in HIMSELF WHO is a SPIRIT existent from everlasting to everlasting One ESSENCE Three SUBSISTENCIES whose DIVINE NATURE is an essential and infinite UNDERSTANDING which knowes all Things actually alwayes which cannot possibly be comprehended by any finite Creature much lesse by Man groveling on Earth in the Mud of Errour and grosse Ignorance who are unable by any Art or Industrie to finde out the true Nature Form and Vertue of the least flie or gnat The whole Vniverse is the Looking-glasse of GODS Power Wisdom and Bountie HE loves as Charitie knows as Truth judges as Equitie rules as Majestie defends as Safety works as Vertue reveals as Light c. HE is a never deficient Brightnesse a never weary Life a Spring ever-flowing the Principle of Beginning c. If any Creature knew what GOD is he should be GOD for none knoweth HIM but HIMSELF who is Good without Qualitie great without Quantitie present without Place everlasting without Time WHO by a Bodie is no where by Energie every where Above all by Power beneath all by sustaining all without all by compassing all within all by penetrating all being absent seen being present invisible of WHOM to speak is to be silent WHOM to value is to exceed all Rate WHOM to define is still to encrease in Definition INFINITENESSE being the right Philosophers Stone which turns all Metals into Gold and one Dram of IT being put not only to a Seraphin or to a whole Element but even to the least gnat
SOULS sanctify'd know This. Then hackney not to Toyes Lifes Span. The SAINTS Rere tops the Courtiers Van. IN Hopes Cell holy Hermit be Let Ecstacies transfigure Thee There as Truths Champion strive all Waies To storm LOVES Towre with Hosts of Praise Keep strong Faiths Court of Guard The Stars March in Batalia to these Wars ZEalous in Pray'r besiege the Skie Conquests are Crown'd by Constancie Stand Cen'tnell at the BRIDEGROOMS Gates Who serve there reign o're earthly States Rais'd on Devotions flaming Wings Disdain the crakling Blaze of Things NO Musick courts Spiritual Ears Like high-tun'd Anthems This uprears Thee FANCIE rapt through Mists of Fears And Clouds of Penitential Tears Eagling 'bove transitory Sphears Till ev'n the INVISIBLE appears DIvorc'd from past and present Toyes ' Spouse New Ierus'lems future Joyes Be Re-baptiz'd in Eye-dew-Fall Of All forgot forget Thou All. These Acts well kept Commence and prove Professor in Seraphick LOVE A Friends ECCHO to his FANCIE upon SACRATA I. WHen Fancie bright SACRATA courts It is not with accustom'd Sports â—Tis not in prizing of her Eyes To the Disvalue of the Skies Nor robbing Gardens of their Hue To give her â—lowrie Cheeks their Due II. â—Tis not in stripping of the Sea For Coral to resigne that Plea It hath to the Vermilion Die If that her râ—ddy Lips be nigh Or that I long to see them ope As if I thence for Pearl did hope III. Nor is 't in promising my â—ars Rather to her than to the Sphears Or that a Smile of hers displayes As much Content as Phoebus Rayes Or that her Hand for Whitenesse shames The Down of Swans on Silver Thames IV. Let such on these Romances dwell Who do admire Loves Husk and Shell Hark wanton Fair-ones all your Fawns Are Happinesses haplesse Pawns With these alone the Mind does Flag Beauty is oft the Souls Black Bag. V. Pure Flames that ravish with their Fâ—re Ascend unmeasurably Higher Which after Search we find to be In Virtue linkt with Pietie The Radiations of the Soul All Splendors of the Flesh controul VI. Fond Sense cry up a rosie Skin SACRATA rosy'd is within But brighter THEOPHIL behold Whoâ—e Vest is wrought with â—urfled Gold LOVES self in her his Flame embeams LOVES Sacrifice ZEALS Rapture seems VII Of Paradise before the Fall This Saint is Emblematical Then Fancie give Her due Renown She 's Queen of Arts This Book her Crown SACRATA turns CASTARA unto us And BENLOVVES Anagramm'd BENEVOLUS JER COLLIER M. A. and Fell. of S. Iohns Coll. Camb. Non me Palma negata Macrum data reddet Opimum A Smooth clear Vein should have it Sourse From Nature and have Art but Nurse Which though it Men at Athens feasts May fight at Ephesus with Beasts WIts rudely hal'd to Momus Bar By braying Beasts condemned are Reason How many Brutes there be 'Mong Men 'cause not inform'd by Thee VAtes Pôet-Prophet is If good Alike both scorn'd and understood Though Readers Censure 's Writers Fate Spleen sha'nt contract nor Praise dilate OR clap or hisse The Moon sails round Though bark'd at by each yelping Hound The brighter Shee the more they bark But slumbring quetch not in the dark DEign Him bright 〈◊〉 your piercing Glance Arts Foes are Sons of Ignorance So freed from Nights rude Overseers The POET may be try'd by his PEERS A VERDICT FOR THE Pious SACRIFICER TO shine and light not scorch thy MUSE did aim And so hath rais'd this Quintessential Flame By th' Salt and Whiteness of her Lines We think With holy Water Tears She mixt her Ink And both the Fire and Food of this chast MUSE Is more what Altars than what Tables use VVho does not pray with Zeal thy FAITH may move Rightly concentrick with thy HOPE and LOVE So in the TEMPLE these Religious Hosts From Hecatombs may rise to HOLOCAUSTS WALTER MONTAGVE Com. Manch Filius FOR THE AUTHOR Truly Heroick By BLOVD VIRTVE LEARNING SCholar Commander Traveller commixt Schools Camps Courts raise FAME make it fixt Your Fame and Feet have Alps and Oceans past Fam'd Feet which Art can't raise nor Envie blast Beaumont and Fletcher coyn'd a golden Way T' expresse suspend and passionate a Play Nimble and pleasant are all Motions there For two Intelligences rul'd the Spheare Both Sock and Buskin sunk with Them and then Davenant and Denham buoy'd them up agen Beyond these Pillars Some think nothing is Great BRITAINS Wit stands in a Precipice But Sir as though HEAV'NS Streits discover'd were By Science of your Card UNKNOVVNS appear Sail then with Prince of Wits illustrious Dunne VVho rapt Earth round with Love and was its Sun But your first Love was pure Whos 's ev'ry Dresse Is inter-tissu'd Wit and Holinesse And mends upon It self whose Streams that meet With Sands and Herberts grow more deep more sweet I wing'd with Joy to th' PRAELIBATION fly Thence view I Errours Trage-comedie With THEOPHIL from Fear to Faith I rise The mystick Bridge twixt Hell and Paradise Hell scap't seems double Heav'n RENEVV'D with Bands Of Pray'rs Vows Tears with Eyes and Knees and Hands I see her cope with HEAV'N and HEAV'N does thence As in the Baptists Dayes feel Violence But her ecstatick SONGS OF LOVE declare To Iedidiah Shee 's apparent Heir Be those then next The SONG OF SONGS Love stiles Her Fourth The Second Book of CANTICLES But with what dreadfull yet delightful Tones She sings when GLORIFY'D Then stinglesse Drones Are Death and Hell Joyes Crescent then 's encreast To fullest Lustre at her BRIDAL FEAST Sixth Sev'nth and Eighth such Banquets frame would make WISDOM turn Cormorant my Spirits shake i th' Reading Soul of Joy thy ravishing Sp'rite Draws bedrid Mindes to longing Appetite FAME write with Gold on Diamond Pages treat Upon the GLORIES of a Work so great Be 't then Enacted that all Graces dwell In Thee THEOPH'LA Virtues Chronicle Who jemm'st it in JERUSALEM Above Where all is GRACE and GLORY LIGHT and LOVE To That UNPARALLEL This comes so neer That 't is a Glimpse of HEAV'N to reade Thee here O blest Ambition Speculations high Enchariot Thee Elijah-like to th' SKIE What State worth Envy like Thy sweet Abode That overtops the World and mounts to GOD Walkt through your Eden Stanza's you invite Our ravisht Souls to recre'ate with Delight In Bow'r of compt Discourse Great Verse but Prose Such None but our Great MASTER could compose For Bulk an easie Folio is this All Yet we a Volume may each Canto call For Solid Matter where we should consult On Paragraphs mark what does thence result For every Period's of DEVOTION Proof And each Resolve is of concern'd Behoof Peruse Examine Censure ô how bright Does shine RELIGION checquer'd with Delight Diffusive Soul your Spirit was soaring when This Manna dew'd from your inspired Pen. Such melting Passions of a Soul divine Could They be cast in any Mould but Thine Wonder arrests our Thought That you alone In such Combustions wherein Thousands grone And
precor impellat sanctior Aura ratem I felix rapidas diffindas Caerula Syrtes Te Divina regit DEXTERA Sospes abi NON NOBIS DOMINE THEOPHILAS LOVE-SACRIFICE The Summary of the Poem THEOPHILA or Divine Love ascends to her BELOV'D by three Degrees By Humilitie by Zeal by Contemplation In the First She is Sincere In the Second Fervent In the Third Extatical In her Humiliation She sadly condoles her Sin in her Devotion She improves her Grace In her Meditation She antidates her Glory and triumphantly congratulates the Fruition of her SPOUSE And by three Wayes which Divines call the Purgative Illuminative and Vnitive She is happily led into the Disquisition of Sin by Man of Suffering by CRIST as SPONSOR of Salvation by HIM as REDEEMER In the Purgative Way she falls upon Repentance Mortification Self-denial helpt in part by the Knowledge of herself which breeds Contrition Renuntiation and Purpose of Amendment In the Illuminative she pursues Moral Vertues Theological Graces and Gospel-promises revealed by CHRIST as the Great APOSTLE which begets in her Gratitude Imitation and Appropriation In the Vnitive she is wholly taken up with Intuition of supercoelestial Excellencies with beatifical Apprehensions and Adherencies as to CHRIST in Bodie to the Holy GHOST in Spirit to GOD the FATHER in a bright Resemblance of the Divine NATURE All which are felt by the Knowledg of CHRIST as MEDIATOR whence flow Admiration Elevation consummated in GLORIFICATION And were Mysteriously intimated in the Symbolical Oblations of the Star-led Sophies Who by their Myrrhe signify'd Faith Chastity Mortification the Purgative Actions by their Incense implied Hope Prayer Obedience the Illuminative Devotions by their Gold importing Charity Satiety Radiancie the Vnitive Eminencies And it is the only Ambition of THEOPHILA to offer these presents to her BELOV'D by whom her Sin is purged her Understanding enlightned her Will and Affections enflamed to the Communion of all his GLORIES Thus She by recollecting past Creation present Corruption and future BEATIFICAL VISION endeavors to rowze us up from Hellish Security Worldly Solicitude and Carnal Concupiscence that being rais'd we may conform to the will submit to the Power and sympathize with the SPIRIT of CHRIST by a total Resignation of Self-comforts Abilities Ends and by the internal Acts of Love Devotion Contemplation She makes Sense subservient to Reason Reason to Faith and Faith to the written Word By Faith she beleeves what he has reveal'd and yields him up all her Vnderstanding By Hope She waits for his Promises and refers to Him all her Will By Charity she Loves his Excellencies and resignes to him all her Affections And by all these She triumphs over Sin Death Hell in the sensual World and by his Virtue Grace Favour enjoyes an eminent Degree of PERFECTION in the Intellectual THE AVTHORS PRAYER O THOU most High distinct in PERSONS undivided in ESSENCE Eternal PRINCIPLE of all Substances essential BEING of all Subsistencies CAUSE of all Causalities LIFE of our Souls and SOUL of our Lives Whose DEITIE is as far beyond the Comprehension of our Reason as thy OMNIPOTENCIE transcends our Impotencie We wretched Dust acknowledge that Adams Fall as it depriv'd us of all Good so hath it deprav'd us with all Evil for from our production to our Dissolution our Life if strictly discussed will be found wholly tainted alwayes tempted with Sin We discover our Condition to be more corrupt than we can fully discover The Sense of our Sin stupifies us the Sight of it reveals our Blindness and the Remembrance thereof doth put us in Minde of our forgetfulnesse of THEE The Number of our Transgressions surpasseth our Skill in Arithmetick their Weight is insupportable depressing us even to the Abysse their Guilt more extense than any thing but thy MERCIE O LORD we have loved Darknesse more than Light because our Deeds were evil therefore THOU hast shew'd us terrible Things We have sucked out the Dregs of deadly Wine Our National Crimes have extorted from thy JUSTICE National Iudgements Our hellish Sins enflame thy WRATH and thy WRATH enflames Hell-fire against us We want so much of Happinesse as of Obedience our Beatitude consisting in a thorough Submission of our Determinations unto thy Disposings and our Practise to thy Providence which causeth us with humbly-pressing Importunitie to implore thy GOODNESSE for HIS SAKE who of mere Love took upon Him a Nature of Infirmities to cure the Infirmities of our Nature that THOU would'st give us a Sense of our Senselesness and a fervent Desire of more Fervency and true Remorse and Sorrow for want of Remorse and Sorrow for these our Sins O Steer the mysticall Ship of thy CHURCH safe amidst the Rocks and Quicksands of Schism and Heresie Superstition and Sacriledge into the fair Havens of PEACE and TRUTH Give to thy disconsolate Spouse melting in Tears of Bloud the Spirit of Sanctitie and Prudence May the Light which conducts her to thy Coelestial CANAAN be never mockt by new false Lights of apostatizing Hypocrisie nor extinguished by Barbarism Thou our FATHER art the GOD of Peace thy SON our SAVIOUR the Prince of Peace Thy SPIRIT the Spirit of Peace thy Servants the Children of Peace whose Dutie is the Studie of Peace and the End of their Faith the Peace of GOD which passeth all Vnderstanding Let All submit to thy SCEPTER adore thy JUDGEMENTS revere thy LAWS and love THEE above All for thine OWN SAKE and others ev'n their Enemies for THY SAKE having THEE for our Pattern thy PRECEPTS for our Rule and thy SPIRIT for our Guide And now in particular I throw my self who have unmeasurably swarved from thy Statutes upon thy Mercies beseeching THEE to give me a deep Sense of my own Vnworthiness and yet withall sincere Thankfulnesse for thy Assistancies Grant that my Sorrow for Sin may be unfeigned my Desires of Forgiveness fervent my purpose of Amendment stedfast that so my Hopes of HEAVEN may be advanced and what THOU hast sowen in thy MERCIE THOU mayest reap from my Duty Let Religion and right Reason rule as Soveraign in me and let the irascible and concupiscible Faculties be their Subjects Give me an Estate balanc'd between Want and Waste Pity and Envie Give me Grace to spend my Wealth and Strength in thy Service Let all my Melancholy be Repentance my Ioyes spiritual Exultations my Rest Hope my Peace a good Conscience and my Acquiescence in THEE In THEE as the Principle of Truth in thy Word as the Measure of Knowledge in thy Law as the Rule of Life in thy Promise as the Satisfaction of Hope and in thy Vnion as the highest Fruition of Glory O Thou Spring of Bountie who hast given thy SON to Redeem me Thy Holy SPIRIT to sanctifie me and Thy SELF to satisfie me give me a generous Contempt of sensual Delusions that I may see the Vanity of the World the Deceitfulnesse of Riches the Shame of Pleasures the folly of Sports the Inconstancie of Honours the Danger of
best by Tears is woo'd LXV THOU Who one Shoarless Sea of All did'st make Except one floating Isle to take Vengeance on Guilt My Salt Flood rais'd drown Sin i' th' Lake LXVI O how these Words Arise to Judgement quell On Wheels in Torments broke I 'd dwell So as by Grace I might be sav'd from endlesse Hell LXVII To Angel-Intercessor I 'm forbid To pray Yet pray to ONE that did Pray to ANOTHER for HIMSELF when 's Blood-drops slid LXVIII FATHER Perfections Self in CHRIST does shine Thy Justice then in HIM confine Through 's Merits make thy Mercies both are endless mine LXIX See not but through's abstersive Blood my Sin By which I being cleans'd within Adde Perseverance 'T is as hard to hold as win LXX Her Eyes are Centinels to Pray'r to Moans Her Ears her Nose courts Charnel-bones Her Hands Breast-hammers are her constant Food is Groans LXXI Her Heart is hung with Blacks with Dust she cloyes Her golden Tresses Weds Annoyes Breeds Sighs bears Grief which Ibis-like Sin-snakes destroyes LXXII Thus mounts she drizling Olivet the Plains Of Iericho she leaves While Rains The Farmer wet they fully swell his earing Graines LXXIII She her own Farmer stockt from HEAV'N is bent To thrive Care 'bout the Pay-day's spent Stange She alone is Farmer Farm and Stock and Rent LXXIV The Porcupine so 's Quiver Bow and Darts To ' her self alonâ—e has all Wars Arts Her own Artillery needs no Aid from forreign Parts LXXV Sad Votaresse thy Earth of late oregrown With Weeds is plough'd till'd harrow'd sown The Seed of Grace sprouts up when Nature is kept down LXXVI Thy Glebe is melow'd with Faith-quickning Juice The Furrows thence Hope-blades produce Thy Valley cloth'd with LOVE will Harvest Joyes diffuse LXXVII Live Phenix from Self-death I' th' Morn who dies To Sin does but immortalize Who studie Death ere dead ere th' Resurrection rise LXXVIII Rachel thy Children Goal and Crown have won Ere they had Skill or Will to run Blest who their whole Dayes Work in their Lifes Morn have done LXXIX Like misty Morn She rose in Dew so found She ne're was till this Sicknesse sound Till Sin in Sorrows flowing Issue Tears lay drownd LXXX Souls Life-blood Tears prevailing Pleaders tame Such Rebels as by Eve did shame Mans Glory only These the old faln World new frame LXXXI Lust causeth Sin Sin Shame Shame bids repent Repentance weeps Tears Sorrow vent Sorrow shews Faith Faith Hope Hope Love Love Souls Content LXXXII Thus from bruis'd Spiceries of her Breast doth rise Incense sweet-smelling Sacrifice Whilst she lifts up to HEAV'N her Heart her Hand her Eyes LXXXIII I 'm sick with trembling sunk with mourning blasted With sinning and with sighing wasted New Life begins to breath O Ioy too long untasted LXXXIV Twice did'st new Life by Breath by Death bestow On Man prevaricating Who By yielding to a Woman made Man yield to Woe LXXXV Then did'st his Soul restore as first inspire With second Grace renewing Fire Whence He hath part again in thy Coelestial Quire LXXXVI Once more for this Heav'n-Denison did'st get A never-fading Coronet Which was with two bright Iewels Grace and Glory set LXXXVII 'T was at my bloud-stain'd Birth Thy Love said Live Links of Thy praevious Chain revive Ev'n crumbled Dust So Thou my Soul from Death reprive LXXXVIII CHRIST Th' Vnction art Salvation IESVS in Thy Death Redemption Blood for Sin Gives Satisfaction Thy Ascension Hope does winne LXXXIX Thy Session Comfort Though I did offend LORD Fears disband give Grace t' amend That Hope which reaps not shame may rise Peace descend XC My Pardon signe The Spear pierct THEE 's the Pen Thy Bloud the Ink Thy Gospel then The Standish is O let my Soul be Paper clean XCI Kinde angry LORD since Thou dost wound yet cure I 'l bear the Yoak the Crosse endure Lament and Love and when set free keep Conscience pure XCII Thus mourns she and in mourning thus she joyes Ev'n that adds Comfort which annoyes Sighs turn to Songs Tears to Wine Fear Fear destroies XCIII As holy Flame did from her Heart arise Dropt holy Water from her Eyes While Pray'r her Incense was LOVE her SACRIFICE XCIV Arm Arm She breaks in with strong ZEAL The Place Sin quitts now garison'd by GRACE Illustrious Triumphs do the Steps of Victors trace XCV When the loud Volleyes of her Pray'rs begin To make a Breach they soon take in The Parapets Redouts and Counterscarps of Sin XCVI At once she works and fights With Lamp she waits Midst Virgins at the BRIDEGROOMS Gates With HIM to feast Her with his BRIDAL DELICATES XCVII To HEAV'N now goes she on her Knees which cry Loud as her Tongue much speaks her Eye HEAV'N storm'd by Violence yields Eyes Tongue and Knees scale high XCVIII My Last crave Pardon for my First Extreams Be prais'd who crown'st my Morn with Beams Converted Age sees Visions erring Youth dreamt Dreams XCIX RELIGION's its own Lustre Who This shun Night-founder'd grope at midday Sun Rebellion is its own self-tort'ring Dungeon C. Mans restlesse Minde GODS Image can't be blest Till of this ONE This ALL possest THOU our Souls Center art our everlasting REST Pars superata Freti Lucem praebentibus Astris Longior at nostrae Pars superanda Viae Da DEUS ut Cursus suscepti nostra propinquet Meta laboranti grata futura Rati Magnificat Anima mea DOMINUM THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO III. The Restauration ARGUMENT Laetior una Dies IESV tua SACRA Canenti Quà m sine TE melicis Secula mille Lyris Vt paveam Scelus omne petam super Omnia COELUM Da mihi Fraena TIMOR Da mihi Calcar AMOR The Authors Rapture GRACE is prais'd a Flood Of Tears is pour'd for Albions Blood Shed in a Mist for smot Micaiahs PEACE is woo'd STANZA I. MUSE twang the pow'rful Harp brush each String O' th' warbling Lute and Canzons sing May ravish Earth and thence to HEAV'N in Triumph spring II. Noble Du-bartas in a high-flown Trance Observ'd to start from 's Bed and dance Said Thus by me shall caper all the Realm of France III. As viscous Meteors fram'd of earthy Slime By Motion fir'd like Stars do clime The woolly-curdled Clouds there blaze out their Time IV. Streaming with burnisht Flames yet Those but ray To spend Themselves and light our Way And panting Windes to cool ours not their own Lungs play V. So my enliv'ned Spirits ascend the Skies Wasting to make the Simple wise Who bears the Torch himself shades lightens others Eyes VI. As Lust for Hell ZEAL sweats to build for HEAV'N When fervent Aspirations driv'n By all the Souls quick Pow'rs to that high Search are giv'n VII High is the Sphear on which FAITHS Poles are hing'd Pure Knowledge Thou art not restring'd Thy Flames enfire the bushie Heart yet leave 't unsing'd VIII Suburbs of PARADISE Thou Saintly Land Of Visions Woo'd by WISDOMS Band By dull Mules in gold-trappings
thousand Suns make an Eclipse to THOSE The Diamond there for Pavement growes As on its glitt'ring Stock and all its Sparkles throwes XCV And there on every Angel-trodden Way Loose Pearls instead of Pebbles play Like duskie atoms in the Suns embrightning Ray. XCVI Had I a Quill sent from a SERAPHS Wing And Skill to tune't I could not sing The Moity of that Wealth which That All-glorious KING XCVII Of HEAV'N enstates Those in who follow Good And prizeâ—t above their vital Blood HEAV'N my be gain'd on Earth but never understood XCVIII As when the Sun shakes off the Vail of Night And scatters on the Dawn his Light He soon takes Pris'ner to Himself th' engaged Sight XCIX So when I view those indeficient BEAMS O They in overfulgent GLEAMS Like Diamonds thaw'd to Air embubble forth in Streams C. Ev'n SPIRITS who have disrob'd their Rags of Clay Lay'd up in Ward-robe till that Day Orecome They dazled are by each IMPERIOUS RAY Sexta repercussi Pars antepenultima Ponti Imparibus restat perficienda Modis Quam si praestiterit Mentem DEUS OPTIMUS addam Flammiferos Phoebus cum jug at ortus Equos Ex obscuro spectabile COELUM THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO VI. The Association ARGUMENT Panduntur COELI juvat hinc invisere Divûm Atria mortali non adeunda Pede Hîc Animae pennis advecta THEOPHILA cernit Agmina COELICOLÛM ducere fancta Choros HEAV'NS Order Beauty Glory is descry'd Here read the State o' th' GLORIFY'D Which THEOPHIL i' th' Heraldry of HEAV'N had ey'd STANZA I. THose happy Mansions glorious SAINT discover Where the bright Host of Spirits hover Bring down all HEAV'N before the Eyes o' th' HEAV'NLY LOVER II. Frail Man with Zeal and Wonder here behold Clay cast into a Heav'nly Mold Faith did now VISION does BEATITUDE unfold III. The Tenants in This splendid FRAME are They Whose grosser and unpolish Clay Calcin'd in Graves now Robes of GLORY do array IV. Here MARTYRS sit enthron'd who late did bleed Sap from their fertil Wounds to feed With Oyl the Churches Lamps and with red Dew her Seed V. These ovant Souls KNIGHTS of Saint VINCENT are For high Atchievements gain'd each Scar To make a golden Constellation seems a Star VI. Not by inflicting but receiving Blowes By suff'ring They ore-came their Foes How long LORD ere THOU do'st avenge their Blood on Those VII These own their Bliss sprung from the Word Will O' th' LAMB by Whom They conquer'd still Themselves and that revolted Band that Hell do's fill VIII Therefore Each prostrate Casts with th' Elders down At the LAMBS Feet their Palm and Crown Beholding round all Eminencies but their own IX Th' APOSTLES here with Him in whose sweet Tongue The Lute of high-tun'd LOVE was strung When through so many Regions He the GOSPEL sung X. The loving lov'd EVANGELIST here lives On LOVES pure Influence and gives No Bounds to 's flaming Love but how to heighten 't strives XI LOVE was his only Theme SHE here is crown'd Who neer Deaths Tomb Life risen found Whose Eye-bowl was Tear-brimm'd whose Towel Hair unbound XII Parcht Africks GLORY born in 's Mothers Eyes An happier Off-spring of her Cries Than of her Womb here to ecstatick LOVE does rise XIII The Bounds are boundless of divine AMOUR Love hopes and yet hath all Things for In HEAV'NS eternal Heraldry true LOVE is Or. XIV Fruition LOVE enfires thence Zeal's renu'd LOVE hath the SPIRITS Plenitude Burning with Flames in SPLENDOR of BEATITUDE XV. LOVE caus'd the SON of GOD from 's Throne dismount And make HIMSELF of no Account Become a Man of Sorrows Who of Ioy 's the Fount XVI This LOVE by Quire of HEAV'N scarce understood Could so much Ill cause so much Good For Mans Redemption that GODS SON should shed His Blood XVII THOU LOVE when as my guilty Soul did dwell In Nest of Ruine did'st unshell My Spirit fledg'd with GRACE from that disord'red Cell XVIII And having crusht the outward Film of Earth Gav'st Her new form'd with GLORY Birth That She might stye to th' SEAT of Beatifick Mirth XIX And praise THEE with those virgin-VIRGIN-SOULS who in The Cloysters of their Flesh have bin Washt in their SAVIOURS Bath of Blood from Spots of Sin XX. Flow'rs on our Heads as on their Stems do grow Which into fadeless Colours flow Nor Cold to blast nor Heat to scorch nor Age they know XXI Scenting 'bove thousand precious Ointments shed On consecrated AARONS Head Above pearl'd Dew on Hermons ever-fragrant Bed XXII How far immaculate FLAMES do You excell All that in Thoughts high Turret dwell What then can Opticks see What then can Volumes tell XXIII If Beauties Self we could incarnate see Teeming with Youth and Ioy yet She Would not so beauteous as the VIRGIN-MOTHER be XXIV Who like a full-orb'd Moon our Stars out-shin'd In glorious Fulgurance of Minde For whose surpassing Splendour I this Ode desig'nd XXV Hail blessed VIRGIN-SPOUSE who did'st bequeath Breath unto HIM Who made Thee breathe And gav'st a Life to HIM Who gave the Life from Death XXVI Who bor'st HIM in thy Womb Whose Hands did stack The studded Orbs with Stars and tack The glowing Constellations to the Zodiack XXVII And what improves the Mystery begun New Mysteries from Thee were spun HE did at once become thy Father Spouse and Son XXVIII Conceiving HIM as by the Womb so th' Ear th' ANGELS Tongue HEAV'N cast Seed there Thou heard'st believ'dst thence didst breed thence didst bear XXIX Thou only may'st so it be humbly boast To have brought forth the ETERNAL HOST By mystick OBUMBRATION of the HOLY GHOST XXX By Thee did GOD and Man embrace Each other Thus HEAV'N to Earth became a Brother Thus Thou a VIRGIN to thy MAKER wast a MOTHER XXXI Thy Fleece was wet when all the Ground lay drie Drie when all moist about did lie As AARONS rootless Rod so didst Thou fructifie XXXII Thou art from whence FAITHS Burgeon sprang the Ground Before in after Birth was found Purenesse untoucht with VIRGIN-MOTHERS Honour crown'd XXXIII Thou Shrine of GLORY Ark of BLISSE Thou high Fair Temple of DIVINITY In Thee the Master-peece of Nature I descry XXXIV My ravisht Soul said She extols His NAME Who rules the HEAV'NS expansed Frame Whose MERCIE rais'd me up to magnifie the SAME XXXV Who can anatomize the glorious List Of Heirs to GOD Coheirs with CHRIST Who Royalize it There by GRACES high Acquist XXXVI Whose several GLORIES admirable are And yet as INFINITE as Fair Where Alls's enjoy'd at Full where every Thing is rare XXXVII The Ioy of EACH ONE is the Ioy of ALL BEATITUDE'S reciprocall They drink CHRISTS Cup of flowing Wine who pled'gd his Gall XXXVIII Silence most Rhet'rick hath and GLORIES best Do pourtray forth that Royal FEAST At which each blessed SAINT is an Eternal GUEST XXXIX Nor can a Thought of earthly Friends Annoyes Extenuate one Grain of JOYES While MERCY saves the Wise while JUSTICE Fools destroyes
place XL. One Word did th' All-surrounding Skie-roof frame With all its Starrie sparkling Flame Not all created Wisdom can spell out THY NAME XLI Supreme COMMANDER of the rowling Stars Thy LAW sets to their Progresse Bars Does Epicycle their obliquely gliding Cars XLII No Lines Poles Tropicks Zones can THEE enthrall First MOVER of the Sphearick Ball Above Beneath Without Within Beyond them All XLIII What could but thy All-potent HAND sustain Those Magazines of Hail Snow Rain Lest They should fall at once and deluge All again XLIV By Them THOU Plenty dost to Earth distill And Mans dependent Heart dost fill Windes are Van-Curriers Postilions to THY WILL XLV 'T is That the ominous Cause of Earth-quakes bindes In Subterranean Grotts That findes Strange Ruptures to enfranchise th' ever-strugling Winds XLVI Thy Sandy Cord do's proudest Surges bound And Seas unfathom'd Bottoms sound Thy semi-circling Bow i' th' Clouds thy Covenant crown'd XLVII Earths Hinges hang upon thy Fiat set Midst Air-surrounding Waters yet Stand fixt on That like Which what is so Firm so Great XLVIII Yet Earths fast Columns at thy Frown do quake And Oceans dreadful Horrors make Flints melt the Rocks do rowl the airie Mountains shake XLIX Yea HEAV'NS SELF trembled and the Center shook With thy amazing PRESENCE strook When POWER of Pow'rs on Sina's Mount His Station took L. Each Ens as linkt to PROVIDENCE thy Chain Is govern'd by thy FINGERS Rein THOU seeing us we GRACE we THEE do GLORY gain LI. WHO hast no Eyes to see nor Ears to hear Yetâ—eest â—eest and hear'st All-EYE All-EAR WHO no where art contain'd yet art THOU every where LII The optick Glass we of thy PRAESCIENCE may Call th' Ark where all Idaeas lay By which each Entitie THOU dost at first pourtray LIII Future Events are praeexistent here As if they lately acted were Then any new dissect Anatomy more clear LIV. Each where at once THOU totally art still The same unchang'd yet at thy Will THOU changest All Who though THOU art unmov'd dost fill LV. Things that are most remote In whose Forecast Contingencies do crowd so fast As if past Things were now and Things to come were past LVI Though Acts on Earth crosse to thy WILL are done Besides thy WILL yet acteth None Preceding and succeeding Will in THEE are One LVII Of whose vast MANNOR all the Earth's Demains Though Earth nor Air nor HEAV'N contains Yet each obscurer Grott thy OMNIPRESENCE gains LVIII Though nought accrues to Thy unbounded STATE From Spirits which THOU didst create Yet They thy GOODNES and thy LOVE shall still dilate LIX THOU who mad'st All mad'st neither Sin nor Death Mans Folly first gave them their Breath That did â—base whole Nature with it self beneath LX. But Sin to cure THOU in a Crib gav'st Man EMANUEL DIVINE humane WHO diffâ—ring Natures joyn'd Whose REIGN no Ages scan LXI And THOU O MEDIATOR THOU whose PRAISE Like Morning Dewes to first of Dayes Was sung by Heav'nly CHORISTERS in SERAPH LAYES LXII GOD by the HOLY â—HOST begat THEE LORD Flesh took by the ETERNAL WORD Whose Self-Eternal EMANATION None record LXIII As thy Eternal EMANATION's past So to ETERNITY shal't last In the beginning was the WORD shews still THOV wast LXIV There GOD in ESSENCE One in PERSONS Three Here NATURES two in One agree THOU sitting in the Midst of TRINAL-UNITY LXV At Heav'ns High Councel-Table dart'st such Rayes As strike ev'n CHERUBS with amaze Of which the School disputing All it nothing sayes LXVI Search we the Ages past so long ago None None this MYSTERY could show Till in that Maiden-Birth t was acted here below LXVII A Dove hatch't in that Nest THY SELF did build A LAMB that Thine own Flock does shield A Wintersp FLOW'R that fram'd from whence it sprung the Fieldâ— LXVIII The Iewish Shepherds all affrighted are When HERALDS THEE proclaim'd i' th' Air Yea Magi came t' adore led by a new-born Starre LXIX Yet though thus wond'rously begot thus born SPONSOR for us faln Race forlorn T'ingratiate us with GOD becam'st to Man a Scorn LXX The GRACE SELF th' Honour t' Evangelize The sacred FUNCTION as a Prize Thou took'st yet That not on till call'd in Aarons Guize LXXI Which GOD t' Apostolize did bring to passe By th' HOLY GHOSTS Descent at Face Of Jordans then blest Streams of Which John Witness was LXXII Thence led by th' HOLY GHOST to th' Wilderness There tempted by the Fiends addresse Him overcam'st by Scriptum est Hence our Release Then forth thou wentst LXXIII Thy SERMONS Oracles ACTS Wonders were THOSE Faith begot THESE OTHERS Fear By BOTH thus wrought in us to THEE our selves we rear LXXIV THOU gav'st the Lame swift Legs the Blinde clear Eyes THOU heal'dst all humane Maladies THOU mad'st the Dumb to speak THOU mad'st the Dead to rise LXXV And art to Dead Men LIFE to sick men HEALTH SIGHT to the Blinde to th' Needy WEALTH A PLEASURE without Pain a TREASURE without Stealth LXXVI LORD in not of this World Thy KINGDOM is Thy chos'n Apostles preacht thy Blisse That none of all thy Creatures might SALVATION misse LXXVII Abra'ham long dead before yet saw THY DAY In Isaack born and Vowes did pay Type first then Antitype and quicknest every way LXXVIII Thy Gospel WISDOMS Academie shew'd Thy Mercy JUSTICE calm'd Life view'd Is TEMPERANCE Thy Death the Flag of FORTITUDE LXXIX Thou Altar Sanctuary Sacrifice Priest Bread of Life do'st All suffice N'ere cloying Feast where Appetite by Food doth rise LXXX And SON of MAN dost Sin of Man forgive To be THY Victimes Hearts do strive Who liv'dst that Life might die and di'dst that Death might live LXXXI Yet dy'dst THOU not but that Spîrit quickned free THOU might'st Saints Paradised see Rejoyc'd Assurance give to Them rejoyc'd in THEE LXXXII And that from thence to Satans gloomy Shades Made Prison for the damned Hades Thou miâ—ht'st Thy CONQUâ—ST shew Thy GLORY that ne're fades LXXXIII Thence loos'd Deaths Chains from BODY up to rear IT That when RAIS'D STATE THOU dost inherit THOU might'st become to us an ever-quickning SPIRIT LXXXIV The FATHER to reveal gives to his SON THEE HOLY GHOST thus THREE in ONE Of All peculiar SANCTIFYER yet not Alone LXXXV The FATHERS Love and SONS Adoptions Seal The SPRING of Sanctitie The WEAL O' th' Church THY SELF in Light of fiery Tongues reveal LXXXVI O LIGHT unscann'd Of Wisdom every Glance Beams only from Thy COUNTENANCE Whose STORE when empty'd most It self most doth advance LXXXVII Whose Fruits are Gentleness Peace Love and Joy All crown'd with Blisse free'd from Annoy Which neither Time World Death Hell Devil can destroy Lâ—XXVIII THOU art a Feast fram'd of that fruitfull Fare Which Hungers wast not but repair A rich Perfume no Windes can winnow into Air LXXXIX A Light unseen yet in each Place dost shine A Sound no Art can e're define A pure Embrace that Times Assault can n'ere untwine XC Flouds of unebbing Joyes from THEE do rowl Which
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 Thâ—ough Grace divinest Sap derivâ—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 perâ—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 Vbiquitieâ— 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
sort Want Solidnesse when gain'd they are as false as short LXXXVIII While Fooles like silly Larkes with Feathers play And stoop to th' Glasse are twitcht away Amidst their pleasing Madnesse to Hels dismall Bay LXXXIX O could embody'd Soules Sinnes Bane view well Rather in Flames they 'd choose to dwell Not so much Ill as Sin have all the Paines of Hell XC A smiling Conscience wrong'd does sweetly rest Though starv'd abroad within doth feast Has HEAV'N It self for Cates has GOD HIM SELF for Guest XCI May call HIM FATHER â—His Vicegerent be An Atome of DIVINITIE Redeem'd by 's SON by the SPIRIT inspir'd blest by ALL THREE XCII His JUDGE becomes his ADVOCATE hath Care To plead for Him The ANGELS are His Guardians from his GOD Him Heights nor Depths may scare XCIII O Blest who in His COURTS their Dayes do spend And on that SOVERAIGN GOOD depend His WORD their Rule his SPIRIT their Light HIM SELF their End XCIV While Pride of Life and Lust o' th' Eye do quite Dazle the World SAINTS out of Sight Retire to view their BLISSE On which some Canto's write XCV For Souls sincerely good in humble Cell Encloystred neer Devotions Bell By Contemplations Groves and Springs neer HEAV'N do dwell XCVI Bright-gifted soaring MINDES though Fortune trod Are carelesse of dull Earths dark Clod Enricht with higher Donatives their PRIZE is GOD XCVII Farewell As vanisht Lightning then She flies O how in Me did Burnings rise The only Discord was Farewell Hearts out-reach Eyes XCVIII The Air respires those quintessential Sweets From whence She breath'd and who so meets With Such the tuneful Orbs He in that Zenith greets XCIX Dwell on This Ioy my Thoughts re-act her Part Such Raptures on thy shuddering Heart Make Thee all Ecstasieâ— by Spirit-seizing Art C. Chewing upon those HEAV'N-enchanting Strains My Soul Earths giddy Mirth disdains Fleet Ioy runs Races in my Blood through thousand Veins Contingit gratam victrix Industria Metam Et mea nunc Portu fessa potire Ratis Est Opus exactum Cujus non poenitet Acti Me juvat at Caepti Summa videre mei OMNIA in UNO in OMNIBUS UNUS MIra mihâ— inter Authorem Opus occurrit Symphonia Ille Caelebs Hoc Virgineum â—lle Philomusicus Hoc ipsum Melos Ille Dilectus Hoc 〈◊〉 Dilectâ—o Quis enâ—m ad â—im Amoris explicandum vel copiosiùs dixit vel impensiùs Opere perfecit quà m Autor hîc in sua THEOPHILA quae tantâ Florumâ—â—rietate â—â—rietate conâ—â—ersa est ut quid priùs legam aut laudem vix mihi post 〈◊〉 Lectionem constare possit Quid etiam Jucundiùs Animi Oculis quà m sitiâ—ntem tam coelesti Nect are Animam adimplere Sine me Deliciis igitur istis inebriari me Epulis hisâ—e Mel Amorem spirantibus jugiter accumbere Moâ—us amandi DEUM non habet modum nullus planè in hoc Genere Excessus daturâ— Scripserunt De Arte Amandi Varii sed imperfectè admodum impurèâ—ac si non tam Amandi quà m Peccandi Artem edocere profesâ— essent Quia hujusmodi illecebrae dum sensìm sine sensu Venenum hauriunt Morbo sine Medelâ afficiunt Hîc autem sunt Dictu honesta Lectu jucunda Scitu utilia Observatu digna Factu praestantissima Eximium ergo hoc felicis Ingenii Specimen propter Multiplices Aculeos in Legentium Animos suavitèr penetrantes penitiorem aeâ—ternae Veritatis Cognitionem instillatam Auresque harmonice demulcentem in Lucem emitti non possum non laetari M. G. S. T. D. I am satìs expertus Briticum Mare contraho Vela Naviget Ausonio Musa Latina Salo. Falloâ— an externo venit Aura secundior Orbe Portus in Latios versa Triremis eat Ad piae Poesios Cultum Invitatio VOS Eruditionis Candidati quibus Crux DOMINI Gloriae Religio Cordi Integritas Honori Doctrina Ornamento Poesis sacra Oblectamento qui Cupiditates Rationi Rationem Religioni ut Christiani subjugâstis cum Musis convivamini devotioribus ut perpetuâ Posterorum vigeatis Memoriâ— Non ad Mundi deliria VOS Animae piè anhelantes sed fulguris more ad Sublimia nascimini Credite Vosmetipsos DEâ—I Filios respondete Generi vivite Coelo PATREM Similitudine reâ—erte Quid enim evidentius coelestis Originis Indicium quà m humano Corpore Mentem Angelicam circumferre Vosmetipsos ergo erigite Dictatores Magna loquimini Magna viuite Caeteros ad inferiora depressos Quadrupedes non esse natos paeniâ—â—eat O quà m divina Res est Mens variis ornata Disciplinis Acquisitio Sapientiae Carbunculos pretiosissimas Orientis Gazas antecellit Nihil Vobis â— Animae DEI insignitae Imagine desponsatae Fide dotaâ—ae Spirâ—â—u redemptae Sanguine deputatae cum Angelis capaces Beatitudinis aequè sit Curae quám ut omnes altiores Animi vestri Vires in summum Illius Honorem qui primum Illum Vobis inspiravit Aestum exâ—ratis Tanti enim est Quisque quanti Mens quae praeter DEUM nihil excelsius in Terris Seipsâ— complecti potest Ad Se igitur revocetur Secum versetur in Se abeat Sibi tota intendat deque sua Sublimitate Autore semper adorando cogitet Hoc autem praestare non possit nisi Vitia Corporis ableget nisi Avaritiae Ambitioni renuntiet nisi sui Juris sit nisi Se denique a Sensibus separata penitiùs perfruatur tunc enim ad DEUM Objectum suum libera assurgat Haec autem ipsius in Seipsam Conversio aâ— Defixio â—antae est Voluptatis ut excogitari nulla in hac Vita possit quae vel ad aliquam ejus particulam accedat Ut igitur ad summum hoc Bonum summis Ingeniis Propositum perveniatis Votis Vocibus cohortamur Imo DEUS in Vobis velle persicere operetur Ipse Autor Ipse Remunerator Ipse Cansa effectiva finalis Cui soli Nobilissimi incumbite Vnum Hoc agiteâ— ut vos DEO Davidicae Pietati consecratos Sedes in GLORIae Templâ— aeternae excipiant Sed quiaâ— Heroes alloquimur heroico nostram hanâ— Paraenesin Carniâ—e substringemus THEOPHILAE AMORIS HOSTIA HECATOMBE IX RECAPITVLATIO Animae piè anhelantis Descriptio Beato THEOPHILAE Virginis Incendio Quisquis flagrare gestis In quo felicior Salamandrâ triumphes Et instar Pyraustae nascaris instar Phoenicis moriaris Vt AEVITERNITATI resurgas Non tam vitam deserens quam conserens Sanctioris Ovidii Carmina Cordis Oculis Oculorum Corde perlustres Debuissent Incendia dia Adamantino Stylo In Tabula IMMORTALITATIS incîdi Sed quoniam pennae ductibus scribenda fuêre Pennas porrigat Scribenti Pietas pennatior Ave Et centum Oculos Legenti oculatior Argo PORTICUS Amor erga Magistrum Sodalem Languidiùs se movet quodamodo vegetat Erga Parentem Conjugem Expansiùs se exerit quasi sentit Erga Patriam Patriae Patrem Elatiùs se erigit Rationem
to gild thy Way conspire 17. Love may Them lead by Verse whom Sermons fright Bring Them where Faith comes not into Heav'ns Light 18. O may our Numbers in sweet Musick flow Nor the least Harshnesse of Elisions know 19. Shade me ô LORD I seek not Virgils Tree Hence Springs prophane Glide Siloam by me 20. Trampling vain Labours with loose Wits defil'd The Hallow'd BRAIN brings forth a Spritely Childe 21. What 's Life a Vapour Beauty Ashes Gain An Idol Honour Bubble the World vain 22. Life flits away and Beauty wanes at full Gold cheats and Honour fades the World is dull 23. Life Pleasure's short and Pleasures Life is vain It knowes not highest Blisse GODS LOVE to gain 24. That Torch which flam'd so bright in Hero's Room Did light her lov'd Leander to his Tomb. 25. To Death a thousand Wayes to Life but one For Sin who groans not he for Sin shall groan 26. Arm'd Wrath perfidious Tyrants throwes from high They conquer Right Sin Them Th' AVENGER'S nigh 27. Sinners first Steps Sins Seed and Fruit avoid Many by neer Infection are destroy'd 28. Kill Vice i' th' Egge Iohn Ioseph Robelesse fly Peter Thou stay'st and stay'st but to deny 29 By Night and Day at Home and when Abroad Guilt stings the Soul and thereon layes its Load 30. Of Decalogue Creed Supper of the LORD Though Laws speak loud our Church hath scarce a Word 31. Hence Flocks are pin'd The JUDGE in Time will come Unthought of Neer to Guilt 's the AVENGERS Doom 32. Nor Pray'r nor Price nor Fraud nor Rage nor Art Can help Ah fear then Flames eternal Smart 33. Wet-cheekt how oft I 've moan'd to THEE my DEAR All Night awake alone ô Cure appear 34. Seest THOU and suff'rest Stop Sins Course Birth Let not that Hand bear Arms that sowes the Earth 35. LOVES Pow'r's infus'd from GOD a free-giv'n Grace THEOPHILA from Love takes Name and Race 36. Thou burn'st pierc't THEOPHIL with firie Dart If blessed Heat enflames thy vigorous Heart 37. The more Thou burn'st the more be Bellows still As thy Flames grow Let those Flames Others fill 38. Heat the Luke-warm to Those more hot give Fire Bless GOD Refresh with GRACE enflame Desire 39. The Poets Pharos be that sets forth sail While he steers sheet-fill'd with a holy Gale 40. Pure Wit 's the Sails quick Iudgement Oars Thou th' Star Pilot the Scribe Sea Vein the Ship Hymns are 41. I give Wits Tackling to thy guiding Hands Honour in giving Love in taking stands 42. Binde up what 's loose what 's rash new-mold refell What 's ill lame help smooth rough depress what swell 43. Thou slight'st Earths ratling Squibs with Sulphur fill'd Kingdoms such Nests are as the Birds do build 44. Above all Worldly Wealth thy Riches rise Thy Microcosm the Macrocosm out-vies 45. Thou lay'st out hoarded Gold the Poor to aid So with GODS Love thy Love to GOD's repaid 46. Thy sacred Skill imparted Reverence breeds Thy Worship's Practise and thy Words are Deeds 47. Fiends Hate Saints Prize whence Lyrick Strings sound clear Of spotless Faith pure Minde to th' HIGHEST dear 48. The Emerald-Grove envies thy golden Hair Whose Curls make GRACES blush Themselves more fair 49. As many Ioyes thy starry Beauties shed As Bees in Attis Gems in Skies are spred 50. The Diamond sparkleth Rage at thine Eye-Beams Whose chast Orbs brandish thence their sacred Gleams 51. The Coral Die is blankt at Lips so red And livid Grapes at rosie Cheeks hang head 52. I 'd gaze o' th' Lili'd Cheek and the Lips Rose But ô thy Cheek thy Lip surpasseth those 53. Grace pours sweet-flowing Words from charming Lips Sparkling 'bove Nectar which i' th' Crystal skips 54. Rare PSALTRESSE with Heav'n-drops inebriate What Sweets to Mouth and Ear dost Thou create 55. Sweet Violets Saffron Balm Myrrhe from Thee flowes Bdell Incense Cedar Cinn'amon Nard the Rose 56. The Rose Swains Spice Such Heav'n-dew'd Verse dost frame As sweet as Honey-comb as bright as Flame 57. While Combs and Flames divine from THEE are cast I 'm fed as fir'd Ev'n Flames do nurse my Taste 58. The Swan pines at thy Neck This Milkie Way Doth Steps begun to th' Holy LAMB display 59. There fals on thine Alp-Breasts a lasting Snow To which Snow's black Swans foul the Goose a Crow 60. The hoary Frost turns Durt vi'd with thy Hand And where thy Fooot does tread it prides the Land 61. On Lilies Milk on Violets Purple throw On Saffron Gold Scarlet o' th' Rose bestow 62. Wreaths worthy Thee fair Flora ne're can weave Nor can our highest Strains THEE higher heave 63. With all-bred Flowr's glitt'ring Buds THOU beam'st As if t' have cropt all Paradise THOU seem'st 64. Each Vertue 's in thy Life so pois'd so fine What 's first This That or T'other since All shine 65. Love to thy Soul deriv'd is from Above Where Honour reigns sparks Beauty triumphs Love 66. In Chymick Art Thou my Elixir be Convert to Gold the worthlesse Dross in me 67. Fire makes of Ashes Glass makes Metals shine This Fire my Body may to Spirit calcine 68. Enamour'd Ir'on does to the Magnet flie Yea Sparks in hardest Flints concealed lie 69. Nothing more hard than Stone more soft than Fire Yet Stones are melted by inflam'd Desire 70. Is 't so who 'd not dissolve in Flames of Love Be THOU the Grace Thou my Thoughts Loadstar prove 71. Mindes Gemme Eyes Apple Hearts intenser Flame THOU shew'dst the Way I 'll prosecute the Same 72. For GOD created bright in VIRTUES Train Weigh'st Right quell'st Passions o're Deeds dost reign 73. GOD is thy Life Law Virtue Glorie CHRIST HIM who leads Thee by Love Thou lov'st HIM high'st 74. CHRIST to endure the Cross what did THEE move The Pledge of Bitterness was Pledge of LOVE 75. IS GOD both Meat and Lover CHRIST thy Food What Banquet is This LOVER As Sweet as Good 76. CHRIST's Spice Thou say'st Light Triumph Praise to me Musick Wine Feast Fame Crown GOD All to Thee 77. LORD Thou art All in All Thou lost All 's nought How base seems muddy Earth where HEAV'N is sought 78. Earth's Exile Death the Gate my Home's Above My Staff's Hope Faith Companion Leader Love 79. Turn Indie into Iewels HEAV'N to Verse Nor Indie can thy Worth nor HEAV'N reherse 80. Let me Thee fear and love Fear Loves Heat blowes Fear is DEVOTIONS Fount whence LOVE o'reflowes 81. Thy Word 's my Rule I cleave to THEE my Vine LORD Thou art All to me I 'm wholly Thine 82. O hear my Pray'r my Suff'rings bear my Task Take off redresse my Wrongs grant what I ask 83. With Pray'r Desire Faith Zeal Hope Deed I call Laud seek love pray worship THEE All in All. 84. If I behold THEE I 'm all flaming Spice If not behold THEE I 'm congeal'd to Ice 85. Adde Flames to Flames that I may melt away Be I belov'd of THEE or else Deaths Prey 86. Sweet Seas light
Laughter stretch our Spleen Come Sack in Crystal Shrine XII First Wine shall set next shall a wanton Dame Our Blood on Fire then quench our Flame But Brute Repentance shall or Hell thy wild-fire tame XIII Now with the Gallon ere thou try'st a Fall Think o' th' Hand-writing on the Wall If Bacchus th' Inturn gets down Conscience goes All. XIV Shouldst thou but once the swinish Drunkard view Presented in a Myrrour true Quite souc'd in Tavern Juice in him thy self thou 'dst rue XV. A nobler Birth with an ignoble Breast Rich Corps without a Minde 's a Beast He 's raz'd from Honours Stem who Riot is thy Guest XVI Thy Guests swoln Dropsies and dull Surfets are The Gluttons Teeth their Graves prepare They 're sick in Health living dead whose Maw's their Care XVII Go Corm'rants go with your luxurious Flock Rap'd from three Elements we mock Your muskie Jellie Pheasant candid Apricock XVIII To Arabs that they send their Phoenix write In 's spice Nest be cookt it might Far fetch 't dear bought best suits the Apician Appetite XIX Go with thy Stags embalm'd entombd in Paste On Tenants Sweat feeds rampant Waste We prize 'bove wilde Intemp'rance a Carthusian Fast. XX. Excesse enhanceth Rates Thou on this Score Grind'st 'twixt thy Teeth the starving Poor Who beg dry Crums which they with Tears would moysten ore XXI Laz'rus thy Skin's Deaths Sheet 'twixt that Bone There 's no Parenthesis bemone Dives CHRISTS Members now or thou shalt ever grone XXII Prance pamper'd Stallions to the Grave y' are driv'n Nought satisfies the Soul but HEAV'N Th' art empty World from Morn through Noon to doting Ev'n XXIII In twice-dy'd Tyrian Purple thou dost nest Restlesse with heaving Fumes opprest Which cause tumultuous Dreams Foes to indulgent Rest. XXIV From hence the Spark what pitty ' t is is Ill Grown cropsick Post for Physicks Skill Phlebotomize he must and take the Vomit Pill XXV Doctor the Cause of this Distemper state us His Cachexie results from Flatus Hypocondrunkicus ex Crapulâ creatus XXVI School him whose HEAV'N is Sense whose Reason dim Who wasts his Time as Time wasts him Give ore his Soul Divine Tayler make's Body trim XXVII Now sheath'd in rusling Silks new Suits display Thy Cloaths outworth Thee Wisemen say Hedg-creeping Glow-worms never mount to starrie Ray. XXVIII Yet who 's born under Iupiter shall move I' th Sphear of Honour Riches Love Say Wizards Vnder Jove w' are all born none above XXIX Still to be pounct perfum'd still queintly drest Still to be guarded to a Feast By fawning Looks squinting hearts like an Arrest XXX Still to have toting Waits unâ—eel thine Eyes In Bed at Board when sit when rise Such Card'nal-like their Paris prize 'bove Paradise XXXI Know Worldlings that Prosperitie's a Gin If wantoniz'd breeds Storms within To Torture turns the Metamorphosis of Sin XXXII Pomp it s own Burthen is Whose slippery State Oft headlong by too rash Debate Tumbles for value of a Straw pulls on its Fate XXXIII His Heart-blood seeths that Blood sends up in Heat Fierce Spirits those i' th' Eye their Seat Fires kindle fiery Eyes like Comets Ruine threat XXXIV Fierce Balaam hold thy Hand and smite no Asse But him i' th' Saddle he alas Wounds through her Sides himself Wrath through the Soul doth pass XXXV Duels for Blood like Molocks Idol gape Thou turn'd a Swine out of an Ape First put'st on Peacocks Pride at last the Tygers Shape XXXVI They 'r gross not Great who serve wild Laws of Blood Such only Great who dare be Good GRACE buoies up Honor which without It sticks in mud XXXVII Make thorough Search As hard to finde thy Cure As Circles puzling Quadrature Or next Way by North-Sea to sail to China sure XXXVIII Lo idle Sloth in Lap of Sodom plac't Here lies He did Occasions wast Invaluable now irreparable past XXXIX Go wanton with the Winde misus'd Hours have A Life no other then the Grave Most for Lifes circumstance the Cause of living wave XL. The privie Councel of the glorious TRINE Did in creating Man combine Angels lookt on and wondred at the Soul divine XLI Which Storehouse of three living Natures is Doth the vast World epitomize Of whom ev'n All we see 's but a Periphrasis XLII Now to what End can we conceive Mans Frame Save to the Glory of GODS Name And his eternal Blisse included in the Same XLIII Fools living die SAINTS dying live Seeds thrive When earth't Who dye to Sin survive So to come richer up Pearl-fishers deeper dive XLIV Now 's Courtesan appears who blowes Loves Fire Her pratling Eyes speak vain Desire To catch this art-fair flie the following Trouts aspire XLV The gamesome Flie that round the Candle playes Is scorcht to Death i' th courted Blaze Thus is the Amourist destroy'd by lustful Gaze. XLVI This Dame of Pleasure does to seem more bright Lattice her Day with bars of Night Spots this fair Sorceress Cloud more to enforce Delight XLVII This Helen who does Beautie counterfeit And on her Face black Patches set Like Tickets on the Door shewes that She may be Let. XLVIII She 'd Coach Affection on her Cheek But why W'ud Cupids Horses climb so high Over her alpine Nose t' orethrow it in her Eye XLIX Truths Apes beware such Wheels your Earth do wear Horses with rugged Hoofe will tear VVho living's coacht with Pride shal dying fall w th Fear L. But noble LADIES VIRGINS chast as fair Sweet modest Sex that Virtuous are Ye First my Honour my Respect ye Second share LI. ANGELICK FORMS far be it to perplex Or cast Aspersion on your Sex Loose Art in Those your native beaming Lustre decks LII So have I seen the Limners Hand design A ruder Peece neer one Divine With this course face to make That other Beauty shine LIII Her Eyes spread Nets her Lips Baits her Arms Enthralling Chains Sense hugs the Charms Of Idlenesse and Pride while Reason's free from Harms LIV. Tempestuous Whirlwindes revell in the Air Of her feig'nd Sighs her Smile 's a Snare Which she as slighly sets as subtly does prepare LV. Scarce is the Toy at Noon to th' Girdle drest Nine Pedlars need each Morn be prest To lanch her forth A ship as soon is rigg'd to th' West LVI At length Shee 's built up with accoutred Grace The Spark's enflam'd with her set Face Her glancing Eye her lisping Lip her mincing Pace LVII On those his optick Faculties do play Like frisking Motes in sunny Day Like gawdy nothings in the Trigon Glasse that ray LVIII On her profusely now he spends his Ore Scarce the Triumvir lavisht more When he did costly treat his stately Memphian Whore LIX Thou inconsid'rate Flash spend'st pretious Dayes In Dances Banquets Courtisms Playes To gain the Shade of Joy which soon as gaind decayes LX. Which barely tasted makes thee long the more Enjoy'd 't is loath'd was lov'd before Thus nor Mirths Flood nor ebbe can
And Fruits of Glory bud A Glimps of HEAV'N the Place XXIII This the Spring-Garden to spiritual Eyes Which fragrant Scent of Gums out-vies Three Kings had thence their triple mystick Sacrifice XXIV O happiâ—â— Walks where CHRIST and none beside Is Journeies End and Way and Guide Where from the humble Plains are greatest Heights descry'd XXV Heav'nward his Gaze. Here does a Bower display His Bride-room and SCRIPTURIA Her self is Bride Each Morn presents his Marriage-Day XXVI What Ecstasie's in this delicious Grove Th' unwitnest Witnes of his Love What Pow'r so strongly can as flam'd Affections move XXVII The Larks wing'd Travellers that trail the Skie Unsoyl'd with Lusts aloft do fly Warbling SCRIPTURIA SCRIPTURIA on high XXVIII T' have been affected by a Virgin Heir Rich young and chast wise good and fair Was once his first Delight but HEAV'N restrain'd that Care XXIX Thou Providence dist both their Wills restrain Thou mad'st their Losses turn to Gain For Thou gav'st Heav'n to her on him dost Blessings rain XXX But stop pleas'd Thoughts A high'r Love 's here design'd Fit in each Breast to be enshrin'd Bright Angels do admit no Sex nor do's the Minde XXXI To all her Lovers thousand Joyes accrew And Comforts thicker than Mayes Dew Shour down on their rapt Souls as Infinite as new XXXII Her Oracles directing Rules declare Unerring Oracles Truths Square Her Soul-informing Light does Earth for HEAV'N prepare XXXIII All beatizing Sweets as in their Hive At her fair Presence do arrive Which are to drooping Spirits best Restorative XXXIV To whose Sight Eagles paralell'd are blinde Had Argus thousand Eyes he 'd finde Darknesse compar'd with her illuminating Minde XXXV The Sun does glean his Splendor from her Eyes Thence burn we ' in Sweets as Phoenix lies Glowing on Sols Ray-darted Pile of Spiceries XXXVI From pretious Limbeck sacred Loves distill Such Sublimations as do fill Mindes with amazed Raptures of their Chimick Skill XXXVII That such Soul-Elevations still might stay We'd bear and do both vow and pay And serve the LORD of Lords by her directive Way XXXVIII Soon as our Ear drinks in His Command Be 't acted by our Heart and Hand Under his Banner we shall Satans Darts withstand XXXIX May He accept the Musick of our Voice While on his Goodnesse we rejoyce And while each melting Psalm makes on His GRACE its Choice XL. On Feast-Dayes from that Bour to Church we haste Where HEAV'N dissolves into Repast When we Regalios of the mystick BANQUET taste XLI O Deliccaies infinitely pure To Souls best Nutriment and Cure Where Knowledge Faith and Love Beatitude ensure XLII Poor Solomons Provision poor to This Manna Heav'n-dewing Banquet is Who reigns in Heav'n becomes on Earth our Food and Bliss XLIII O Sacramental Cates divinely drest GOD the Feast-maker CHRIST the Feast The HOLY GHOST Inviter and the Soul the Guest XLIV All Ioyes await the blessed Convives knit All Excellencies are in It This overcomes our Spirits overpowr's our Wit XLV For us poor Worms that â—lories SOVERAIGN dy'd O let our fleshly Barks still ride At Anchor in calm Streams of His empierced SIDE XLVI This is Heav'ns Antepast By Vnion He 's One to â—ll and All to One In Loves intrinsick Mystery to Souls alone XLVII Ecstatick Raptures loose our Hearts on high With Joyes Ineffabilitie Exub'rant Sweets orewhelm as Torrents Tongue Eye XLVIII Such Life-infusing Comforts from Above Our Souls with inward Motions move That totally for GOD we quit all Creature Love XLIX Should HE condemn us yet would Love compell Him down with us and we would dwell Rather than without HIM in Heav'n with HIM in Hell L. Soul of my Soul when I a Ioy receive Disjoyn'd from THEE let my Tongue cleave To 's Palate Me of All not of this Feast bereave LI. Not in the winter Solstice of my Years When shivering Snow surrounds deaf Ears And dreary Languishment Deaths gashly Vizard wears LII When they shall tremble that the House defend The Columns which support it bend The Grinders fail the Watch through Casements Objects blend LIII Then shine dear LORD when quivering Winter Dress Is icicled with hoary Tresse VVhen all Streams frozen are but Tears through Loves Excess LIV. VVhen periwig'd with Snow's each bald-pate VVood Bound in Ice-Chains each strugling â—lood VVhen North-Seas bridled are pris'ning their scaly Brood LV. Then let those freezing How're be thaw'd by Pray'r As VVells in VVinter warmer are By Circumsession of refrigerating Air. LVI That nipt with Cold or parcht with Heat resign We may our Will in each to THINE Be 't lesse or more be 't low or high be 't Storm or Shine LVII After Nights Soot smears Heav'n Day gilds its Face Wet April past sweet May takes place And Calm Air smiles when rufling Winds have run their Race LVIII Who hope for Mines scorn Dross Such only get Who lose a Game to win the Set Wordlings He 's rich who 's Above 's his Cabinet LIX To well-tun'd Tempers Things that disagree Have oft some Likenesse thus we see Winde kindles Fire Discord makes Concord Harmony LX. Affliction tunes the Breast to rise or fall Making the whole Man Musicall We may Affliction Christians second Baptism call LXI Who CHRIST for Spouse his Cross for Joynture has His Hand supports where 's Rod doth passe The LORD of Angels He the KING of Suff'rings was LXII Loves Life took Death that Death Loves Life might gain The Soveraign dy'd that Slaves might reign The World can't Books that should be writ of HIM contain LXIII Those have the greatest Cross who Cross nere bore They 'r rich in Want who GOD adore Who do's supply all Emptiness with His full Store LXIV Saint Paul the Gentiles Doctor rich 'bove Kings And high 'bove Oratories Wings Rapt up to HEAV'N had Nothing yet possest all Things LXV The Rav'n of Birds proves Caterer and feasts Elijah so the Lion of Beasts Was Samsons Purveyor Quails to murm'ring Jews were Guests LXVI Midst Thorns environ'd Love sweet Roses findes Steep wayes lie plain tâ—inamor'd Mindes Love gilds all Chains surpriz'd not thrall'd w th Comfort binds LXVII Then threaten World a Goal shall bolt me in He 's free as Air who serves not Sin VVho 's gather'd in Himself His self is his own Inne LXVIâ—I Then let fierce Goths their strongest Chains prepare Grim Scythians me their Slave declare My Soul being free those Tyrants in the Face I 'l stare LXIX Man may confine the Bodie but the Minde Like Natures Miracles the VVinde And Dreams do's though secur'd a free enjoyment find LXX Rayes drawn in to'a point more vig'rous beam Joyes more to Saints engoal'd did stream Linnets their Cage to be a Grove Bars Boughs esteem LXXI Burnisht to Glory from Afflictions Flame From Prison to a Scepterâ—came The lov'd and fear'd ELIZA-Titles vail t' Her Name HAving reformed Religion established Peace reduced Coin to the just value delivered Scotland from the French revenged domestical Rebellion saved France from headlong