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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74677	Eugenius Theodidactus. The prophetical trumpeter sounding an allarum to England illustrating the fate of Great Britain, past, present, and to come. Such wonderful things to happen these seven yeers following, as have not been heard of heretofore. A celestial vision. VVith a description of heaven and heavenly things, motives to pacifie Gods threatned wrath: of a bloody, fiery way of the day of judgment, and of saints and angels. / Sung in a most heavenly hymn, to the great comfort of all good Christians, by the Muses most unworthy, John Heydon, gent. philomat.	Heydon, John, b. 1629.	1655 (1655)	Thomason E1671_3; ESTC R208414	82,593	168

sight Is to be found the fulness of delight Of wisdome beautie riches knowledge pure Of happiness for ever to endure Of goodness joy and true Nobilitie Of treasure pleasure and felicitie Of all that merits love or admiration Or worketh comfort or sure contentation Yea all the powers and powerful faculties Of soul and bodie shal partake likewise Shal be sufficed with the ful fruition Of heav'ns eternal ternal glorious vision God unto all his sacred Saints shal be Their universal sweet felicitie Containing each particular delight Which may affect th' aspect of their blest sight Infinite both for number and for measure And without end shal be their endless pleasure To th' eyes he shal be a Mirror cleer Melodious Musick to delight the ear To th' Palate he shal be Mellifluous Mell Sweet spiring Balm for to refresh the Smel Unto the understanding he shal bee A Light most bright and pure it'h high'st degree To th' VVill he shal be perfect contentation To th' Memory erelasting continuation In him we also shal injoy possess What ever various time could here express Yea all the beauties of his rarest creatures VVhich may our love allure by their sweet features All joy and pleasure to content the minde Such at it'h creatures selves we nere could find This sight I say is th' angels chiefest treasure The Saint repast repose and princely pleasure This is their everlasting life their crown Their Meed their Majestie their high renown This their rich rest their spacious specious palace Their outward inward joy and soveraign solace Their Paradise divine their Diadem Their ample bliss their blest Jerusalem Their peace of God past all imagination Their ful beatitude and sweet salvation To see him who them made re-made made Saints Him seeing to possess without restraints Possessing him to love him as their King And loving him to praise him as the Spring And Fountain of this all felicity And praising ever this blest ●nitie O then my soul cease not to like to love These admirable lovely joyes above And though thy corrupt flesh is th' obstacle And stays delayes from this blest habitacle Although thy flesh like churlish Nabal frown Refuse the pains to seek this sacred crown Yet let thy Spirit like good Abigal Go forth to find this place angelical Let Hagar never get her Mistris place Nor Ismael good Isaac so disgrace But strive most strenuously fight that good fight Subdue thy flesh withstand proud Satans might And with the eye of faith believe desire To live with Christ pray seek sue and inquire Pray earnestly to Christ thy King above In burning zeal firm faith and burning love For what ●s this world nought but a flou●ing fanciesie A theatre or vainness pleasant phren● A sinc of sin a shop of all deceit Iniquities chief center and sure seat A Map a mirror of all miserie A Dunge on of most dire calamitie Lovely to look on like the Scarlet VVhore But dangerous to deal with evermore A mazie Labyrinth of impious errors A camp of Cruelty of tears and terrors Constant in nought but in inconstancy And most unconstant in that constancie In nought the same save not to be the same And of being but a very name Still floting fleeting never at a stay Hates on the morrow whom it loves to day Yea t is a Ioab ful of craft and guile Kills his Embracers with a traiterous smile A Wrastler 't is and trippeth up the heels Of many a man ere he its grasping ●eels Solomon wise strong Sampson so renownd It made their lengths to measure on the ground Therefore to love the world is nought els sure Then to her Lime-twigs thy poor soul t' allure Which so the feathers of thy faith will marre Thy soul if 't may be from heav'ns joyes to barre Why then my soul shouldst thou to the earth be thral Which hast a heav'nly blest Original Why shouldst thou pin thy thoughts on mortal things Who art immortal from the King of Kings And why shouldst thou a sp'rit invisible Be pleas'd with things both gross and visible Striving to pamper thy corrupted bodie Whose definition is indeed that both-die Both Soul and Body when the Flesh gives way To Sin and Satan in their dire decay And hence it is that Latinists likewise Thus Corpus fitly crimologize Cor which was once the heart of pure perfection Is thus made Pus all filth and foul infection Why then shouldst thou then thy self so low depress Who art of high caelestial Nobleness One of thy Fathers first-born children deer Whose name in Heav'ns blest Records may appear Why should the worlds falle promises delude thee Since heav'n with grace goodness hath indu●d thee Wilt thou a Princes Son a heavenly Prince Let Satans gilded apples thee convince Wilt thou the Son of heav'ns all-sacred King Offend thy father for so vile a thing Wilt thou thy birth-right Esau-like forge For one dire mess of broth bewitching wo Oh. no! deceitful Dalilah a-dieu Thy Syrens Songs my soul doth most eschew Thy Crocadile-like tears which would betray me By heav'ns preventing-grace shal never slay me For all thy bitter-sweets false protestations My soul esteemeth but hellish incantations Wherefore as A●mon being once defiled With his own Sister whom he had beguiled After the fact did hate her ten times more Then ever he had loved her before So I whom thy false friendship once defiled VVhom thy deceitful ambush once beguiled I hate abominate thy mischief more Then ere I lov'd or liked thee before As sea-men Rocks as Children Scorp●ons flie So Oh my sou● hate worldly vanity And oh what 's he that would not leave most glad Worlds vanities so finite base and bad For pleasures infinite VVhat 's he would take Fraudulent joyes and permanent forsake None doubtless none but Dastards void of grace None but faint-hearted fearful cowards base The resolute couragious Christian bold Dares deaths grim face confront see and behold Dares death defie and his approach desire Because by death he knows he shal acquire The end of all his hope for deaths the Key Which opes the door to true felicitie Yea 't is no pain but of all pains the end The gate of heav'n and ladder to ascend And death 's the death of all his storms and strife And sweet beginning of immortal Life Therefore with smiling count'nance merrily To heav'n his place of rest he casts his eye And in his heart these thoughts are oft revolved Unfeignedly I wish to be dissolved To be with thee O Christ my Saviour sweet Thee my deer eldest brother for to meet I see thee Christ I see thee heav'nly home I gladly would and quickly to thee come I see thee O thou Saints caelestial place I much desire I once had run my race But though I cannot with Elias run i th' strength o' th spirit in this race begun Unto the heav'nly Canaan yet give Grace Though I with Iacob halt to halt apace And if not so yet that at

windings they do see And where no certainty they can behold Yet on their leaders knowledg they are bold Or on their multitude yea though they know And see them erre and turn and stagger so In darksome paths that well suppose they may They rove and wander in an uncouth way Yet stil they are unwilling to suspect The wisdome of the Fathers of their Sect. Yea though no satisfaction they can find Though fears and doubtings do afflict their mind They still impute it rather to their own Infirmities or to the depths unknown Of those mysterious points to mention brought But never call in question what is taught Lest being by those Teachers terrifide They might forsaken in despaire abide Their Doctors also failing to devise Strong arguments their hearers to suffice This course to save their credits late have got They say forsooth Faiths doctrine settles not With naturall capacities and that The Spirit must those men illuminate VVho shall receive them And indeed in this They do both say the truth and say amiss This is a Jesuitish juggling trick And if allow'd it be each lunatick And every brain-sick Dreamer by that way May foist upon us all that he can say For though Gods holy Spirit must create New hearts within us and regenerate Depraved nature e're it can be able To make our outward hearings profitable VVe must not think that all which fancy faith In terms obscure are mysteries of faith Nor make the hearers want of power to teach Their meanings to be proofes of what they teach There is twixt men and that which they are taught Some naturall proportion or t is naught The deepest mystery of our profession Is capable of literall expression As wel to reprobates as men elected Or else it may of error be suspected Yea wicked men a power granted have To understand although they misconceive And can of darkest pointsmake plain relations Though to themselves they faile in applications God never yet did bid us take in hand To publish that which none can understand Much less affecteth he a man should mutter Rude sounds of that whose depth he cannot utter Or in uncertain terms as many do Who Preach non-sense and oft non entia too For those which man to man is bound to show Are such plain Truths as we by word may know Which when the hearer can express again The fruit hath equalled the Teachers pain Then though the soul doth many times conceive By faith and by that Word which we receive Deep mysteries and that which far transcends A carnall knowledge though she apprehends Some glimmerings of those Objects that are higher Then humane Reason ever shall aspire Though she hath tastings of that blessedness Which mortall tongue could never yet express And though the soul may have some earnest given On earth of what it shall enjoy in heaven Though God may when he list and now and then For cause not ordinary to some men Vouchsafeth for their secret satisfactions A few reflections from eternall actions Though this be so let no man arrogate That he such secrets can by word relate For they are things of which no voice can preach High flights to which no mortall man can reach T is Gods own work such raptures to convey To compass them there is no other way But by his blessed Spirit and of those Most can we not some must we not disclose For if they only touch our private state They were not sent that we should them relate But deigned that the soul they strengthen might Amid the perils of some secret sight VVhen men to honour God or for their sin The terrours of this life are plunged in And as it is reputed of those things VVhich foolish people think some Fairy brings So of Euthusiamses speak I may Discover them and straight they fly away For thus they fare who boast of Revelations Or of the certainty of their Salvations Or any Ghostly gift at times or places Which warrant not the mention of such graces Yea by revealing things which they should hide They entrance make for over weening pride And that quite m●rres the blessing they possest Or for a while obscureth it at best And yet if any man shall climb so high That they attain unto a Mystery Conceiv'd by few they may if they be able Disclose it where it may be profitable But they must know that if it be indeed Of such transcendency as doth exceed Meere naturall reaches it should be declar'd To none save unto those who are prepar'd For such conceptions and more apt to know them By their own thoughts then are out words to show them Else all they utter will in Clouds appear And errors men for truths away wil bear Would this had been observed a little more By some who in our Congregations roare Of Gods unknown Decrees Eternall Callings Of Perseverance and of Finall Fallings And such like Mysteries Or else I would That they their meanings better utter could If wel they meant For though those points afford Much comfomrt and instruction as Gods word Hath mentioned them and may applyed be And opened when we just occasion see Yet as most handle them who now adayes Do pass for Preachers with a vulger praise They profit not for this ripe age hath young And forward wits who by their fluent tongue And able memories a way have found To build a house e're they have laid the ground With common places and with notes purloin'd Not wel applyed and as ill conjoyn'd A garb of preaching these have soon attained VVhich hath with many approbation gained Beyond their merit For they take in hand Those mysteries they neither understand Nor studied on And they have much distracted Some hearers by their Doctrines ill compacted Yea by enquiring out what God fore-sees And medling much with his unknown Decrees The Churches peace so much disturb'd have they So foul and crooked made Faiths plainest way Such scandalls rais'd and interrupted so By doubts impertinent what men should do And their endeavours nullified so far That many of them at a nonplus are Heydons not of their minds who take from this And other things that are perform'd amiss Occasion to disparage frequent preaching Or to abate our plentiousness of teaching For of our Harvest Lord I humbly pray The store of Labourers continue may And I could also wish that none were chose To be a seed-man till he truly knows The wheat from tares and is indu'd with reason And grace to sow in order and in season And that those art-less workmen may be staid VVho build before foundations they have laid Lest when our Church wel built suppose we shall It sink and overwhelm us in the Fall It pities me to mark what rents appear Within our Sion and what daubings are To hide the ruines and I fear the frame VVil totter if we long neglect the same Our watchmen for the greater part are grown Less mindful of Gods honor than their own For either

not com neer me That so these blasts though blow may not so fe●r me Thou being my un-rocking rock my shield My fortress strong which to no force can yeild Most skilful Pilot so my stern direct My weather beaten boat so safe protect That it these dangers infinite may sh●n And to my harbour may the right way run Commiserate compassionate my case And in thine arms O Christ my soul embrace Though I with Ionas seamen lose my wares My goods my life worlds pleasures best affairs Though persecution Rocks my Bark may batter My danger driven boat may split may shatter Yet grant O Lord I may not shipwrack make Of my sure faith in thee but as the Snake Is said t' expose his body to the blow Of him that smites to save his head Even so I willingly may undergo all crosses And with content may bear the greatest losses That I may hold fast faith in Christ my head So I may live by faith to sin be dead With this conclusion should my soul be cherisht I had been undone had I thus not perisht Yea with those Argo-Nautae willingly My ship through straightest passages shal flye So that in th' end I may with joy possess The Golden fleece of endless happiness Lord though the puddle of impurity Hath my poor soul polluted loathsomely The Ocean of iniquities foul flood Hath me beimeard in stinking mire and mud O yet sweet Christ with Hylap of thy merit Clense and make clean my sin-polluted spirit Wash me o Christ with thy most precious blood None nought but thou can do my soul this good My wel-nigh-shipwrackt soul O Lord assist VVhich too too-long the way to thee hath mist Contemn me not condemn me not for sin But let my Soul to thy sweet rest go in Remit O Lord what I have il-omitted Remove O Lord what I have mis-committeed And though I be to pass by th' Gates of hel Grant power to pass them and with thee to dwel To dwel I say with thee i th' Land of Living Where to thy saints thy joyes thou stil art giving O thou my souls sweet soul my Harts dear Hart In this distress do not from me depart Be to my soul as a bright-morning-star Which I may clearly see though somwhat far And be as th' art indeed the sun most bright Of righteousness that my flesh-dimmed sight Being with Faiths Collyrium made more cleer I speedily may see the way appear To my heart-chearing long desired port Whereto my soul hath longed to resort I may in time see and fore-see sins charms And so prevent th' event of Sins great harms That on the shore I may perceive thee stand Giving me aym with thy most sacred hand To keep the right way to thine habitation The heaven of happiness and sure salvation That passing thus this Danger-obvious Ocean By thee the strong Arch-mover of each motion I may go forward with such circumspection And be so guided by thy good direction And with thy grace be so corroborated And with Rock-founded faith so animated That as 'twixt Scylla's and Charib●is fear My Bark in passage doth a ful sail bear I mean proud Pharisaical Self-station And graceless Diffident Cains desperation By th' justified Publicans example I may the right regenerate paths trample Of that true penitent good Prodical To thee O Lord for mercy cry and call That by thy gracious guide and safe tuition I may escape despairs and prides perdition And so with joy with joy unut●erable Approaching to the shore most amiable Casting the anchor of a constant hope On Christ my Saviour fastned with faiths rope I may my Merchandizes bring a-Land And put them into my sweet Saviours hand Even all the gains which I poor soul had made Of this good Talent lent to me to trade To whom although I bring but one for five Yet will he not my soul of heaven deprive And though that one through mine infirmitie Hath been much blemish't with impurity Hath been disgrac't defac't and much abused Yet by my Christ it wil not be refused But graciously hee 'l take my wil for deed Wil hold me by the hand and thus proceed VVell done good Servant worthy of my trust Wel done I say thy service hath been just Since thou in little matters hast done well Thou shalt be Lord of things which far excel Since thou to do my Will hast done thy best Come come with me into thy masters rest Even so Lord Iesus come I humbly pray For thine Elects sake hast that happy day I look I long that I might once deserie That happy Day my soul to happyfie That I with thee my Saviour may rejoyce That with heart-cheering musick and sweet voice In that blest Chorus sweet Angelical Society of Saints celestial I Halleluiah Halleluiah may Sing cheerfully to God the Lord alway To God the Father Son and Holy Ghost Unto the Trine-One Lord of Host To this great God be given all thanks and praise For his sweet succour in these sacred Layes Amen FINIS Omnis Gloria solus est Domini Thrice happy Vision more thrice happy zeal Thus flames us with God Saints Heav'ns Commonweal To the good godly and ingenuous Reader GEntlemen This Book was written for you for none ●ut you any that are malicious wicked and corrupted with any deadly sin in no wise let him presume with Uzza to touch the Ark lest he die It is inchanted with white Magick the Angel of righteousness doth and wil protect it the spirit of the air his seal plannet Sachiel his s●irit and Zebul his Region the Mild south Winde bloweth peace and concord to those I mean such as it is dedicated to and none but honest good moral discreet men may read it whose lives are devoted to the service of God and in whose hearts there is no guile to such this book is given Excuse my absence from the Press Which causeth me thus to express Reader If you with any errors meet In this or that or the other sheet You must therefore the Printer blame For he did all these errors frame

of earthly comfort more or less No seeking suing there wrongs to redress By temp'rall laws or ecclesiasticall For there the trinity is all in all And is this glorious Cities great Lord-Keeper Most vigilant and watchful he 's no sleeper And which as was promis'd is the perfection And consummating of this benediction This glorious Kingdome where Gods Saints shal reign Shal doubtless sempiternally remain Like glorified Kings most gloriously Their bliss shal last past all eternity Now as bounteous hearted King doth use When he a Fau'ri●e unto him doth chose On whom he meaneth largely to bestow His golden gifts like Rivers to ore-flow What he doth promise or by words proclaime By 's Letters-patents ratifies the same Thus O even thus our bounteous hearted Lord The heart of bounty Loves ore-flowing word Having his Church his favorite elected And promis'd she shal be by him erected Richly endow'd gorgeously beautified Rarely be royalliz'd and sanctified Her head adorned with a Crown of Gold A fragrant Garland which shal nere wax old Triumphantly in endless joy shal reign And see her subject abject foes in pain The Lord I say this promise having given That all these joyes they shal possess in heaven To verifie his promise and confirm What he hath said beyond times endless term Hath given his Letters Patents his broad Seal i th' sacred Scriptures which he'ele nere repeal Seal'd by an angels testimony pure And as his act and deed given and made sure To blessed Iohn in the behalf and right And to the use of all the Saints of Light Which being done makes thereof Proclamation VVith most emphaticall asseveration That he the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Hath power to do and wil perform these things And surely heaven and earth shal pass away Yea all things shal prepostrously decay Ere his pure word in one least jot or tittle Shall fade or fail or alter nere so little VVhich though some wretches athiesticall Some Nauseous Neuter Satans tennis-ball Some execrable Saduces I say VVhich do the resurrection denay Though some vile quakers Pythagoricall Or Anabaptists most Diabolicall VVhich have suppos'd the spirits trans-migration From one t' another in life consummation VVhich do with devillish dotage them perswade That there 's no God which ere the world hath mad Nor that the would ere had a prime beginning And think and hold that it shal nere have ending Although such Hectors past all grace May entertain a thought with brazen face And heart of flinty infidelity To think or say that the rare symmetry Of this Jerusalem coelestial Seems as thing meer hyperbolicall Incredible to their besotted sense And past the reach of their intelligence Yet let the rabble of such miscreants know That ther 's 'gainst them pronounc't a fearful wo There no-belief or wavering un-belief Shal fil their souls with never ending grief And what they erst would not conceive in mind Their heart with smart shal then both feel and find Nor shal they have least part or portion here Of this great Cities pleasure joy and cheer But from Gods presence shal be seperated Which is the second death nere terminated As for good Abrahams faithful Generation Who waver not in tottering haesitation Who have a hearty thirst and thirsting heart Of these rare pleasures once to have their part Whose hope past hope doth cause their souls aspire By faith in Christ this Kingdome to acquire Wherewith i th' warfare of this life they fight Fenc't with the bulwark of a zeal upright Arm'd at all points with Christs blest furniture Wherewith they may most constantly endure The fight spiritual their Loins to tye With the strong g●rdle of Christs Verity Having the brest-plate on of righteousness To quench the Darts of hels ourtagiousness And on their head the helmet of salvation True peril proofe 'gainst he is most hot temptation The sword o' th' Spirit brandisht in their hand Wherewith they may couragiously withstand That brood of quakers Anabaptists and the flesh VVhich evermore assault the soul afresh VVith hot encounters hellish stratagems To keep them from the new Jerusalems Eternal bliss In which most faithfull fight If they magnanimously stand upright Assisted by that all-proofe fervent prayer The godlies guard supporter and chiefe stayer If thus they get as thus being arm'd they shall The conquest ore those foes fierce Capitall Even from the proud Pope their old enemy VVhen he shall challenge them this fight to try As oft he wil they nere by fraud or force By terrours or by torments leave their course Of constant perseverance to the end But his hopes frustrate and their souls defend Then shall they like brave victors have the crown Of immortality of blest renown Triumphantly to reign with Christ their King And all their vertues as rich trophies bring And lay before him for which he wil give A crown a Kingdome wherein they shal live The Lord in them and they in him shal dwel As Christs co-heirs whom he loves passing wel And shal sit down with him as children dear To Sup at 's table with coelestial cheere And then their thirst of this accomplishment Shal satisfyed be with ful content Then shall the holy happy faithful see The structure of this sacred frame to be Far more illustrious admirable rare Than earthly things could possibly declare And that those Stones and gold were too too base To serve t' illustrate heav'ns coelestial place Whose boundless beauty all discourse transcendeth Whose infinite felicity nere endeth Yea that t is such as that no mortal eye Could but as through a glass the same descry Such as no ear hath heard no tongue ere told The Majesty which there they shal behold Yea such I say as never humane heart Could ere conceive th' incogitable part O then my soul thou having contemplated This City all with glory decorated Thou having viewd with heart exulting pleasure The Majesty unparralleld the matchless treasure The most magnificent majestick state Where into Christ wil his incorporate What wilt thou thereof with thy self conclude What wilt thou say of this beatitude Oh this even this with Peter and with Iohn At Christs admir'd tranfiguration T is good to make thy seat and mansion there Oh there t is best to dwel and dwel for ere Never did noble Greece so much affect Their Poetiz'd Elysean fields aspect Never so much did wandring wise Vlysses Desire his chast Penelopes kind kisses Or rather more divinely for to raise My thoughts unto a more religious phrase Never did Noah more desire to see Ararats Hills where he of 's ark was free Nor Sheba's queen to see wise Solomon Nor at Christs birth more glad was Simeon Then doth my soul desire these heav'nly fields Which perfect pleasure joy and comfort yeilds To see my Saviour sweet on Sion hil My sences with his sacred sight to fil To ske him in his glorified state Therein to be with him associate Even in these Mansions of Eternity To live in