still is Gods and God for ever one Both unbeliev'd in flesh and both unknown 50. Then Man learn by thy fall to judge of neither Our flesh cannot this spirit comprehend Death and new birth in us must joyn together Before our nature where it was ascend Where man presumes on more then he obeys There straight Religion to opinion strays 51. Then since 't is true we onely here possess These Treasures but in veslels made of slime Religion we by consequence confess Here to be mixt of base things and sublime Of native evil supernatural good Truth born of God and error of our blood 52. Yet Gold we have though much allay'd with dross Refining never perfect in this life Still in our journey meeting gain and loss Rest in our deaths and until then a strife And as our days are Want Temptation Error So is our Zeal War Prayers Remorse and Terror 53. Such is the state of Infants in new birth Fed first with Milk too weak for stronger food Who learn at once to know and doe in earth both enemy and impotent in good Must feel that our Christ can of his loose none Which unto us makes Grace and Merit one 54. These be true Antidotes against despair Cradles for weakness stories for corruption To read how faith begins to make her fair By cleansing sensual sinks of interruption Whereby the throws of many thoughts bring forth Light onely shewing Man is nothing worth 55. For this word Faith implies a state of Mind Is both our woing and our Marriage Ring The first we meet and last but Love we find A given hand that feeleth Heavenly things And who believe indeed God Heav'n and Hell Have past in that chief letts of doing well 56. Then let not man too rashly judge this Light Nor censure God by his own imperfections What can give limit to the infinite When he by works will witness our election Degrees I grant there be of Will and Might Some to beget some onely to inherit Yet still the Conscience must obey the Spirit 57. Yea though God call his Labourers every hour And pay the Last and First with Heavenly gain Though he give faith beyond the Law and Pow'r Yet is Gods nature where he is to raign His word is Life the Letter all mens fall That it without the Spirit measure shall 58. This Sacred word is that Eternal Glass Where all mens souls behold the face they bring Each sees as much as life hath brought to pass The Letter can shew Life no other thing The hearts Grace works to know what they obey All else prophane God and the World betray 59. This work is Gods even his that works all wonder His Arm not shorned and his goodness one Whose Presence breaks sins middle wall in sunder And doth in flesh deface the evils throne He is all gives all hath all where he is And in his absence never soul finds bliss 60. His AEgypt wonders here he doth exceed For there he mixt with Winds Rain Natures line Now by his spirit he doth blast our weeds Immediate Grace true miracles Divine Guides not by Fires and Meteors night and day His wandring people how to move or stay 61. But into sinners hearts shadows of death The saving light of truth he doth inspire Fitteth our humane Lungs with Heavenly breath Our mortal Natures with immortal fire He draws the Camel through the Needles eye And makes the chosen flesh die ere they die 62. Yet keeps one course with Israel and us The flesh still knew his Pow'r but not his Grace All outward Churhes ever know him thus They bear his name but never run his race They know enough for their self-condemnation His doing know him to their ownsalvation 63. His Church invisible are few and good The visible erroneous evil many Of his the Life and Letter understood Of these nor Life nor Letter dwell in any These make his word Sect Scisme Phisosophy And those from Fifhers call'd Apostles be 64. They do in praying and still pray in doing Faith and obedience are their contemplation Like Lovers still admiring ever woing Their God that gives this Heavenly constellation They war that Finite Infinite of sin All Arts and Pomps the error wanders in 65. God is their strength in him his are not weak That Spirit Divine which Life Pow'r wisdome is Works in these new born Babes a life to speak Things which the world still understands amiss The Lye hath many tongues Truth only one And who sees blindness till the sin be gone 66. Fools to the world these seem and yet obey Princes oppressions whereat fools repine They know these Crowns these Theaters of Clay Derive their earthly pow'r from pow'r Divine Their sufferings are like all things else they do Conscience to God with men a wisdom too 67. Book-Learning Arts yea School Divinity New types of old Law-munging Pharisies Which curst in bondage of the Letter be They know they pitty and would fain advise The goodness moves them yet the wisdom stays From sowing Heavenly seed in stony ways 68. To you they cry O you that hold the shrine As sent by God yet Priests of chance and gain Your charge is to distribute things Divine O do not lie for God and sin in vain Reveal his word his misteries expound Else what he works you travel to confound 69. You should be keys to let his Will pass out Bind sin and free repentance by his word Fear those that scorn and comfort them that doubt What drowned Pharaoh still is Israels forde Wisdome above the truth was Adams sin That veyle which Christ rent off will you walk in 70. Observe Faiths nature in these hallow'd shrines Both of the old and perfect Testament Works be her fruits her nature is Divine Infus'd by him that is omnipotent Doe we believe on him on whom we stay not Can we believe on him whom we obey not 71. His Pen left two examples it is true First of his chosen how he grosly fell Then of the Thief born instantly anew Vice rais'd to Heaven perfection fall'n to hell And of each nature therefore left not many Lest hope or fear should over-work in any 72. Is it not then by warrant from above That who gives faith gives true obedience What other Medium hath our flesh to prove That sin with God keeps no intelligence Takes this from Man the fruits of Christ his death No it translates him into it by faith 73. For though God gave such measure of his Grace As might in flesh fulfill the second Table Yet sin against the first did quite deface Gods Image and to raise that who is able Between the Flesh and Grace that spiritual Fight Needs Father Son and their proceeding Might 74. Nay let us grant God would enable Man After his calling to accomplish all From Adams sin who yet redeem him can Or Pauls transgression cleer before his call But Christ that comes to none of Gods in vain The justest need him
Counterpeaze Of humours temper'd happily to please 125. But their best help indeed is happy choice Of under Ministers of every kind By whom discreetly Thrones may judge the voice Of Images projected to their mind And so by weak but wakeful jealousie The true of false scope of propounders see 126. Whence mark how that young unexperienc'd spirit Alexander who was after nam'd Severe During his youth did of his people merit By help of Council uncorrupt to bear The practice of his publick government Under good Laws which gave good men content 127. Now though pow'r hardly can fit spirits to place Which must want Judgement wanting industry And so as rarely well dispose of Grace Having but Chance no true Nobility Yet kinless Fame helps weakness what to judge Till from an eccho she become a drudge 128. For as the Painter curious in his Art Extream ill features easily represents And by deformity in every part Express the life and likeness to content As he in â—atures good proportions shews That in her pride Art equal with her goes 129. So Fame this Quintescence of humane spirit Brings unto light the divers states of men And seldome to unworthiness gives merit Or lets Perfection languish in a Den But on her wings alike brings either forth The one as good the other nothing worth 130. Thus may Fames many Eyes Heads Wings and Heart Instruct weak pow'r to keep her state upright And as to rule these is a Masters Art So to rule by these is one way of Might Wherein the Crown can feel no great distress And for the People they must sure find less 131. Besides the help of Fame weak Thrones shall find The wit of Time and selfness in mens hearts Will teach how one man many men may bind And raise the head by counterpoize of parts All having charge and subaltern degree To ease the audits of Authority 132. Where else weak hands in mighty works must fail And all transform'd be to Usurpers passion Thrones then reserve your selves choice and appeal Greatness her way must with some labor fashion With many Eyes he must see wrong and Right That Finite being would rule Infinite 133. Or if Pow'rs tender thoughts will needs make pleasure The end of Crowns which God made publick good Yet give your seconds scope in such a measure As may for Chiefs still make you understood Which one poor priviledge you may reserve By thinking more then one can well deserve 134. For as in bodies living though decay'd If all parts equally chance to be stain'd The whole is by an AEquilibrium sway'd As where no odds can easily be gain'd And so Mortality adjourn'd as far Oft as in those all whose parts sounder are 135. So these weak Pow'rs in whom States are diseas'd By equal disproportion in each part May scape great fits and happily be eas'd Keeping her tottering Ballance up by Art In making Faction which destroys the strong By peazing weak Pow'rs to preserve them long 136. What had become of Romes vast Monarchy When Galienus buried was in Lust Sloth Riot and Excess of vanity Even while the Barbars swarm'd like barren dust Had not the Thirty Rivals to each other From one Mans Tyranny preserv'd their Mother 137. Let Place then Rule let Favor raign not Merit And each in his Predicament be King Do of a head use neither pow'r nor spirit To audit question or judge any thing Onely let Faction multiply her seed Two bodies headless seldom danger breed 138. For equals soon each other will oppose And both in Thrones as suddenly unite To it they pray they travel they disclose Creation only ballanceth their Might Reserve distribute that in jealous measure Then Crowns may stand and Kings may take their pleasure 139. These partial wits which Faction works withal Though fatal Judges yet good Sisters be Which while they strive each other to enthral Cleer up the dimme lights of authority And shew weak Crowns what weight of hope or fear The State or mind of every man can bear 140. Besides Thrones have all moulds of their forefathers Safe under-buildings of the wisdoms dead Exchequers that Revenues Judge and gather Courts that examine Treason to the head Parliaments Councel-seats Tripods of Law Engines of pow'r to keep desire in awe 141. For forain practice they have spies of time And place to which intelligence is due For Church inferior functions and sublime To teach men God and take a spiritual view Of Schisme in Doctrine and in life of sin That neither Sect nor scandal enter in 142. Onely let not weak pow'rs lay new foundations Who cannot judge how time works on the old But keep the ancient forms in reputation To which Mans freedom is already sold Since Order over-worn is yet a frame Wherein Confusion rarely weavs her name 143. Thus much for weakness in that Royal part Which doth concern Justice that is supreme Whose Golden Links though forg'd by powers Art Safe Circles are to compass every Realm And keep out all thoughts of irreverence As bearing in it every mans defence 144. Where frailty else ever unfortunate Wanting true cales between Place Wit and Heart Scatters the strength and honour of a State By suffering more to play one Tyrants part And blows the people ike louds here and there As till exhausted objects of their fear 145. Lastly if these mild Cautions fail to stay These frailties which disease-like turn and toss And so for that change every where make way Which Change unguided still begetteth loss Then he who cannot take must taken be Such sharp points hath frail mans Supremacy Of Strong Tyrants SECT V 146. NOw from the setting of this evening Star Ascends that morning Planets influence Which both in Light and Glory passeth far These Comets of strong pow'r in feeble sence And who from inequality of state Strive to make all for one unfortunate 147. I mean such confident imperious Spirits As over act with restless Scepter-wit Thinking the world inferior to their merits And brook no other bounds or laws in it Then to make all their own thoughts words and deeds Receiv'd of people not as Rules but Creeds 148. Which souls thus over-swoln with windy vice Must wisely be allay'd and moulded be Lest Torrent-like they with the prejudice Of People wast their own transcendency And thus by cutting real grounds too thin Have their ambitions ever to begin 149. For though Throne-vice be publick like her State And therefore must of force wound many ways Yet some move scorn some faults men wonder at Others harm not so many as they please Ill chosen vices vanish in despair Well chosen still leave somthing after fair 150. Vitellius vertueless in Life and Raign Yet by a gluttons familiarity The German Armies did so finely gain As against Otho he had victory Brake the Praetorian forces and in vain Vespatian had aspir'd his Monarchy But that each vice fits not all times and states For what one age affects another hates 151.
for the worst he is slain 75. His life he makes example where he please To give his spirit which is to forgive What can the flesh assume it self in these Since reason dies before his faith can live Who knows Gods pow'r but where he sin removes What should restrain the Almighty where he loves 76. Besides who marks Gods course from our Creation Down unto Christ shall by succession see Bliss of the goodness evils condemnation Establisht by unchanging destiny The Word is cleer and needs no explanation Onely the Council is a Mystery Why God commanded more then Man could do Being all things that he will and Wisdom too 77. Why came our Saviour if flesh could fulfill The Law enjoyn'd or if it must transgress Whence took that Justice this unequal Will To bind them more to whom he giveth less Here Pow'r indeed to wisdom must direct Else Light saves few and many doth detect 78. Strive not then wit corrupt and disobeying To fetch from Popes stools Pow'rs commanding Thrones Doctrines of Might that suffer no denying Yet divers as Earths Tempers in her Zones Since Christs own heard him faw him live and dye Yet till he rose knew not the mistery 79. Pray then and think Faith hath her mediation Ask for thy self that spirit which may judge Wait the degrees of thy Regeneration Count not without thy God nor do thou grudge Limits and bounds of thine illumination But give account of that which God hath given Since Grace not Merit with the Law makes even 80. And if thou seek'st more Light to cleer thy mind Search not Gods councils in himself contracted But search his written word where thou shalt find That Adams fall was breach of Law enacted By which in stained womb the chosen seed Together with the reprobate did breed 81. The one shew'd forth the Light which he receiv'd Fashion'd within him by the infinite The other serv'd the evil was deceiv'd And in that which condemn'd him took delight Both States partakers of Eternity In Life or death as good or ill they be 82. Both had one School one form and Education Each knew one God but onely one obey'd Where in the odds was spiritual adoration And outward Rites which ever have betray'd Abel sought God alone Cain would have more Which Pride was in the Angels judg'd before 83. Thus when Creation was a fresh Tradition And miracle the proper ground of faith Guiding the sin unto her true Physitian Yet then we see sin multiplyed death For him that made them men would not obey Idols and Sects ne'r had any other way 84. Men would be Gods or earthly Giants rather Number their strength and strength their number is Their Doctrine sin which as it spreads doth gather This present world Flesh seeks no other bliss As God by goodness saves those souls he chooseth So Hell condemns those wicked souls it useth 85. Now while both Churches lived thus together Patted by Grace by miracles united The outward worship common was to either And both alike by benefits invited Yet murmure and obedience prov'd them two For while both knew yet onely one would doe 86. Thus though by life the Spirit Spirits trieth So as Gods goodness is by his exprest Which goodness in the devils ever dieth Yet God hath here more latitude imprest For unto those who only bear his name He gave such Gentiles as deny'd the same 87. But when with idols they prophan'd the Land Which he gave them for seeming to adore him When they that held by form even brake that Band And Israel in the outward fail'd before him Then came captivity that earthly Hell Planting the Gentiles where his did dwell 88. In this times womb this uttermost defection Of fleshly Israel came the Virgins seed That rightfulness which wrought Gods own election And in the flesh fulfill'd the Law indeed When Doctrine Miracles benefits prov'd vain Then was this Lamb ordained to be slain 89. Thus by defection from obedience Successively both Sin and Sects have grown Religion is a miracle to sence The new man of the old is never known And to those hearts where gross sins do not die Gods Testaments are meer Philosophy 90. What Latitude this to the world allows Those souls in whom Gods image was decay'd Then know when they perform such spiritual vows As underneath our Saviours Cross are laid They that receive his wages bear his Arms Know onely what avails us and what harms 91. Wherein to take Thrones first as chief in Might Davids we wish of Salomons find some Not in those wisdoms of the infinite But in the rest which bide more doubtful doom Thrones are the worlds how they stand wel with heaven Those pow'rs can iudge to whom such grace is given 92. Next that High Priesthood which the spirit fall'n Jew So prized and erroneously maintain'd Ceased in him whose sacrifice was due To all the world by her defections stain'd Small hopes this gives to our Cathedral Chairs The spirit onely choosing spiritual Heirs 93. Again for such as strive to undermine The vanity of Romes ore-built foundation With sins ambition under words Divine Hoping to raise Sects from her declination O let them know God is to both alike The one he hath the other he will strike 94. And in the world where pow'r confirms opinion Advantage disadvantage as they stand Rome hath the odds in Age and in Dominion By which the Devils all things understand The Superstition is too worn a womb To raise a new Church now to equal Rome 95. Last for our selves which of that Church would be Which though invisible yet was is shall For ever be the State and Treasurie Of Gods elect which cannot from him fall Arks now we look for none nor signes to part AEgypt from Israel all rests in the heart 96. Our three Crown'd Miters are but works of Spirit Faith Key and Scepter our Ambition Love Built upon Grace we are and thence inherit Temptation which in us doth purge and prove Mortifie regenerate sanctify and raise Our old fall'n Adam to new Adams ways 97. This word of life then let not fleshly Man Corrupt and unregenerate expound As well the Mortal judge the immortal can Or deafness find the discords out of sound Or Creatures their Creator comprehend Which they presume that judge before they mend 98. Mixe not in Functions God and Earth together The wisdom of the world and his are two One Latitude can well agree to neither In each men have their beings as they do The world doth build without our God within He trafficks Goodness and she trafficks sin 99. Schools have their Limits wherein Man prescribes What Credit hopes Truth there which contradicts States have their Laws all Churches have their Tribes Where sin is ever strongest and inflicts For Man is judge and force still wisdom there How can God thence expect a spiritual Heir 100. But Gods elect still humbly pass by these Make Love their School and scale of righteousness
all without Of which within it lives and dies in doubt 24. The other branch is meer Hypocrisie The worlds Religion born of Wit and Lust All which like hunters follow things that flie And still beyond things found find somthing must As God is boundless endless infinite So seem these Idols to the Hypocrite 25. Wit there is Priest who sacrisice doth make Of all in Heaven and Earth to his desire For from this Wit God and Religion take As many shapes as many strange attires As there be in the World degrees of change Which upon humours time occasion range 26. This teacheth all ambitious Magistrates On sins unquiet humors how to build Idols of Pow'r to alter natures rates And by false fears and hopes make people yield Their hearts for Temples unto Tyrants Laws Which Zeal divine to humane Homage draws 27. And when spiritual Lights which Truth expound Once to the traffick of Mans Will descend With chains of Truth Mankind no more is bound Whereby their hearts should up to Heaven ascend But vainly link't unto their tongues which draw Religion to a fleshly outward awe 28. And though this Fear a Holiness in shew Such as no Eye of Man can pierce the veil But least Gods houshold to contempt should grow Or this Hypocrisie not still prevail To raisâ— them reverence above their worth Blood Inquisition Question they bring forth 29. They draw the sword of Pow'r against her own Or else stir people up to war their Kings Both must be theirs or both be overthrown They bind Man unto words God binds to things For these false heads of holy Mother see Scepters to Miters there inferior be 30. Among our selves likewise there many be That make Religion nothing else but Art To master others of their own degree Enthral the simple well believing heart These have opposers scorn obedient fools Affecting Raign by educations tools 31. And though they serve Ambitious Princes use While they protect them like a nursing Father And while this common traffick of abuse Mutually helpeth either side to gather Yet mark the end of false combined trust It will divide and smart the people must 32. For sure in all kinds of Hypocrisie No bodies yet are found of constant being No uniforme no stable Mistery No inward Nature but an outward seeming No solid Truth no Vertue Holiness But types of these which Time makes more or less 33. And from these Springs strange inundations flow To drown the Sea-marks of Humanity With Massacres Conspiracy Treason Woe By Sects and Schisms prophaning Deity Besides with Furies Fiends Earth Air and Hell They fit and teach Confusion to rebell 34. But as their lives a true God in the Heaven So is there true Religion here on earth By nature No by Grace not got but given Inspir'd not taught from God a second Birth God dwelleth neer about us even within Working the goodness censuring the sin 35. Such as we are to him to us is he Without God there was no man ever good Divine the Author and the matter be Where goodness must be wrought in flesh and blood Religion stands not in corrupted things But vertues that descend have Heavenly wings 36. Not heathen vertue which they do define To be a state of mind by Custome wrought Where sublime Religion seems to refine Affection perturbation every thought Uunto a Mens Adepta which work spent Half of the days to humane Hermes lent 37. For in his work Man still rests Slave to Fame To inward Caution outward form and pride With curious watch to guard a rotten frame Safe undiscovet'd from the piercing ey'd Assiduous caution tyrannizing there To make frail thoughts seem other then they are 38. Under this Mask besides no vice is dead But passion with her counter-passion peaz'd The evil with it self both starv'd and fed And in her woes with her vain glories eas'd The work and tools alike vain flesh and blood The labour great the harvest never good 39. For in this painted Tomb let Mans own spirit Really judge what that estate can be Which he begetting in himself inherits Other then DESERTS of Hypocrisie Within the darkning shadows of his wit Hiding his stains from all the world but it 40. And if the habits of Hypocrisie With such attention must be kept and wrought If to mask vice be such a mistery As must with her captivity be sought If to be nothing and yet seem to be So nicely be contriv'd and dearly bought As vanity must in a Phaenix fire Smother her self to hatch her false desire 41. Then Judge poor Man Gods Image once 't is true Though now the Devils be thine own defection Judge Man I say to make this Image new And cleanse thy flesh from this deep dy'd infection What miracles must needs be wrought in you That thus stand lost in all things but election What living death what strange illumination Must be inspir'd to this Regeneration 42. Must not the Grace be supernatural Which in forgiving gives sanctification And from this second Chaos of his fall Forms in Mans little world a new Creation And must not then this twice born Child of Heaven Bring forth in life this new perfection giv'n 43. Then Man pray and obtain believe and have Omnipotence and goodness ready be To raise us with our Saviour from the Grave Whence Enoch and Elias lived free He made all good yet suffred sin and death To Raign and be exil'd again by faith 44. Then till thou find this Heavenly change in thee Of Pride to Meekness Atheisme to Zeal Lust to Continence Anger to Charity Thou feel'st of thy election no true seal But knowledge only that poor infancy Of this new Creature which must thence appeal Unto the father for obedience Judging his hopes or condemnation thence 45. For what else is Religion in Mankind But raising of Gods Image there decay'd No habit but a hallowed state of Mind Working in us that he may be obey'd As God by it with us Communicates So we by Duties must with all estates 46. With our Creator by sincere devotion With Creatures by observance and affection Superiors by respect of their promotion Inferiors with the nature of protection With all by using all things of our own For others good not to our selves alone 47. And ev'n this sacred band this Heavenly Breath In Man his understanding knowledge is Obedience in his Will in Conscience Faith Affections Love in death itself a bliss In body Temp'rance life Humility Pledge to the mortal of Eternity 48. Pure onely where God makes the Spirits pure It perfect grows as imperfection dies Built on the rock of truth that shall endure A Spirit of God that needs must multiply He shews his Glory cleerly to the best Appears in Clouds and Horror to the rest 49. Such was the soul in our first Sires Creation When Man knew God and goodness not the evil Far greater in the Godheads incarnation Where Truth subdu'd the sin that made the devil She
Which infinite those hearts desire to please While to the world they leave her wickedness Sect and division cannot here arise Where every Man in God is only wise 101. Can it then be a Doctrine of despair To use the words or Councils of our God As they stand in him though they seem severe Health of the chosen is the lost childs rod. Though flesh cannot believe yet God is true And onely known where he creates a new 102. Things possible with man are yet in question Gods pow'r Gifts Will here faith's true Bases be All Mediums else are but the sins suggestion The mover onely makes our nature free Faith and obedience he that asketh gives And without these Gods spirit never lives 103. Again in this strange war this wilderness These AEgypt Brick-kills from our straw depriv'd God ever liveliest doth himself express Help being here from Heavenly pow'r deriv'd Affliction of the Spirit made mans true Glass To shew him God brings what he will to pass 104. Now in this fight wherein the man despairs Between the sin and his regeneration Faith upon Credit never takes her Heirs Gods wonder in us works her adoration Who from the Heaven sends his graces down To work the same obedience he will Crown 105. This leads us to our Saviour who no more Doth ask then he enables us to do The rest he frees and takes upon his score Faith and obedience onely binds us to All other Latitudes are Flesh and Devil To stain our knowledge and enlarge our evil 106. Offer these Truths to Pow'r will she obey It prunes her pomp perchance ploughs up the root It pride of Tyrants humors doth allay Makes God their Lord and casts them at his foot This Truth they cannot wave yet will not do And fear to know because that binds them too 107. Shew these to Arts those Riddles of the sin Which error first creates and then inherits This Light consumes those Mists they flourish in At once deprives their Glory and their Merit Those mortal forms moulded of humane error Dissolve themselves by looking in this mirror 108. Shew it to Laws Gods Law the true foundation Proves how they build up earth and loose the Heaven Give things Eternal mortal limitation O're-ruling him from whom thair Laws were given Gods Laws are right just wise and so would make us Mans captious divers false and so they take us 109. Shew it the outward Church strange speculation For that Hypocrisie to see the Life They that sell God for earthly estimation Are here divorc't from that adulterous wife For this truth teacheth Mankind to despise them While God more justly for his own denies them 110. Offer these Truths to flesh in General God in his pow'r and Truth they do confess But want of faith that venome of their fall Despairs to undergo his righteousness They think God good and so his Mercy trust Yet hold good life impossible to dust 111. Onely that little flock Gods own elect Who living in the world yet of it are not God is the wealth Will Empire they affect His Law their wisdom for the rest they care not Among all floods this Ark is still preserv'd Storms of the world are for her own reserv'd 112. For their sake God doth give restraining Grace To his seen Church and to the Heathen too Sets sin her Latitude of time and place That onely she her own may still undoe And where the sin is free to all as one He binds temptation to preserve his own 113. So as though still in wilderness they live As gone from AEgypt suffer Israels care Yet Food and Clothes that wear not out he gives Of them that hate them they preserved are This Grace restraining bounds the Hypocrites Whose ravine else might spoil the world of Lights 114. Then Man rest on this feeling from above Plant thou thy faith on this Celestial way The world is made for use God is for Love Sorrow for sin Knowledge but to obey Fear and Temptation to refine and prove The Heaven for Joy desire thou that it may Find peace in endless boundless Heavenly things Place it else where it desolation brings FINIS Duke of Alva These were the places of residence of the Caliphes Constantinople Cairo Aleppo Queen Eliz. Queen Eliz. Livius lib. 2 Velleius Paterculus lib. 2. Charo Timotheus Iphicrates Emil. Prob 9. in vita Timothei Iustin. lib. 4. Isocrates in nicocles Terentius Varro Paulas Emilius Livius Cic. de lege Agraria contra Rutilium Ptolomoeus Florus lib. 3. Polybius lib. 1. 245 years Livy lib 5. Plutarch in vita Camilli