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A52171	Mentis humanæ metamorphosis, sive conversio, The history of the young converted gallant, or, Directions to the readers of that divine poem written by Benjamin Keach, intituled Warre with the devil here shewing the readers thereof how to read the same poem aright in these four respects, viz. I. in reference to the substance or history thereof, II. in reference to the intent or mystery thereof, III. in reference to the consequent doctrine thereof, IV. in reference to practical application thereof / compiled in a poem by J. Mason, Gent. ...; Mentis humanae metamorphosis	Mason, John, fl. 1676-1683.	1676 (1676)	Wing M916; ESTC R7190	51,417	169

refin'd their Dross forsake Namely that Pride which in the Soul doth lie That first born Nature call'd Egoity Lo thus this Gallant 's chang'd all his wildness Is now dissolv'd to Meekness and to Mildness All his unruly passions are made Tame And loose Affections wrought to sober Frame His Love his Wrath Joy Grief Fear Hope All six move gentle in their bounded scope As calmed Seas when stormy blasts are stay'd And swelling Billows in the deep are lay'd Or as the Humbled Prodigal returning To his lost home with blushing with mourning For he 's asham'd and blushes to appear Before the Just whom he did scorn and jeer Thus Mortify'd and chang'd in deep Remorse By free consent of Will not Form or Force He 's strip'd of all not by the hands of Thieves But by the power of Truth which he believes For Truth hath over-powered his belief And makes him think of sinners he is chief And this his first Step is in Degradation Leading the way to fuller Resignation The Reason of this first way in Conv●rsion For though high Honour God himself doth give To all his Saints who here obedient live Yet Man must first descend from his own Glory And so come down unto the lowest story He must come down from that exalted Throne In his proud heart and his own self disown Before he can Ascend in perfect Love To Contemplation of the life above And e're to Sion-Hill he dares go on He first comes down from lofty Babylon That Babylon Great where he was born an bred He leaves and loaths as to her joyes quite dead And so falls down a prostrate Publican That God may have the Honour and not Man Lo By this step this Gallant first Descends Before he climbs the Hill to which he tends For such a one each Gallant ought to be And so makes good this Converts History II. The Second Mortifying Grace or Virtue or the second Step and Degree in his Conversion Descending Namely Impartiality in Iudgment Concerning Sin and Errour Vice and Vanity and every Evil. THus first brought low in Spirit meek mild Fit to receive Instruction as a Child He in his Youth a new Christ Cross doth learn 'Twixt Good and Ill the difference to discerne To chuse the Good and to refuse the Ill The next hard Cross unto a Gallant 's Will For it is Death unto a High-born Spirit To judge aright the sin he doth inherit But now his Conscience is awak'd from sleep And made alive late risen from the deep And by that Light of Conscience wond'rous clear The Pow'rs of Darkness he doth see and hear VVith open Eyes he sees how vain a King Did rule his soul and sense in every thing For 't is a saying and a Truth of Old All that doth glister is not perfect Gold Yea thus our Father first lost Paradise A False-appearance did delude his Eyes And since that day to this a Glistering show Deludes us all we nothing rightly know 'Till Conscience doth consume man's vain Desire Like to a shining and a burning Fire The Process followeth Thus this enlightned Convert doth begin To judge aright of Vanity and Sin To pass a Righteous Sentence on Truth 's side And not Prevaricate with Pomp and Pride If Conscience should mistake yet Truth cannot ' Though that o're-see yet this will hit the blot For now the Beam is pull'd from his own eye That he the Mote in others may espye He sees that all is Vain this world commends For Honour Pomp or Pleasure or like Ends. He sees how Vice puts on a brave Disguise To make it pass for good before Mens eyes As Jugglers do or Players on the Stage Who with a Cheat our wandering eyes engage But above all he doth discern full well That dark Abysse which leadeth unto Hell Call'd Pride of Gallantry ' and of gentile ' state In which he liv'd involved deep of late He sees how Vain those Gentile Gloryes are Which in False shape him and the World insnare He sees besides the several Faults and Crimes And sinful fashions of these sensual Times And how base Flattery too doth cover all 'Till all at last to desperate Hardness fall O 't is a Blessing to discerne each Errour Vice and False Virtue Scruple vain Terrour The Election and Decree Thus having made a true Discovery Of Sin and Vice and every Vanity He now proceeds unto Election next And to reject the Ill that him perplex't A Throne of Judgment now is set in Heaven In his own Soul and a true Sentence given That all is Vain which Men call Gallantry Vanity of Vanities all is Vanity Whether in Sacred or in Civil Things In Priests or People in Subjects or in Kings And thus condemning what he judgeth Ill Proceeds to Execution in his Will Which is the Third Degree of his Descending Step after step his Life and Faith amending The Increase of his Faith hereupon For in his Heart true Faith hath taken place Panting still more and more for Saving Grace Of which he hath a Taste his Soul delighting And all his inward faculties inlightning So by that Grace Divine is brought about To work with Fear his own Salvation out 'Till by Obedience to that Light so Pure He make his Calling and Election sure And at all times and places bears his Cross With constant Mind whatever proves his Loss None can deter him with vain Words or Fears Or laugh him out of Judgment with their Jeers And such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this Converts History The End of the Second Degree Descending Called Impartiality in Iudgment Concerning Good and Evil. 3. The Third Mortifying Grace or Virtue being the third Step or Degree of Conversion Descending Namely Execution of Iudgment OR THE Performance of the Will In forsaking Vanity Gallantry and Pride of Gentility THus having well Decree'd what he foresees He hast's to Execute his Just Decrees And to Perform what he Resolv'd before To set upon the Work and Droll no more For many do Resolve but few Obey Like this True Convert what they think or say So light so loose so empty and so drie Are Mans best Thoughts in his vain Gallantry For all his Resolutions are a Jest And he a Gallant Hypocrite at best Like to a Barren Cloud that mounts on high Yet never yields a Shower from the Skie His Life 's a Dream and in a Dream he walks He 's fast asleep and in his Sleep he talks Because his Will the first Birth doth suprize And suffers not the Second Birth to rise Which should give Life and Vigour to the Will To Execute his Thoughts against the Ill. Therefore I here will let my Readers see How these two Births do Differ or Agree The Difference of the two Births Old and New Many Degenerate Gentile Sparks there are But to find one Regenerate is Rare Many High-born and that 's no News to hear But one New-born

The Heavenly Poles i' th' Compass rightly sixt All to the North-star look with one Aspect And there do meet all in a line Direct East West North South in every Coast or Land All by Instinct fixt to the North poynt stand Such is this Church of which I here do write Whose hearts all pant after the Heav'nly light Magnetick Love unto the Truth doth draw them Into one Center where no force can awe them For where the Carkass is the Eagles gather Not to themselves but to the Carkass rather The New Birth is this Load Star which doth draw Thousands of Hearts by its Magnetick Law And all that so do congregate are one All built together on the corner stone For without Love knowledge is but a sound Like babbling Ecchoes from an hollow ground 'T is perfect Love that makes Conversion clear The Sealed Mark of these true Converts here With whom there are no Schisms or Divisions No scofflng of each other or derisions And thus united in a Spiritual Peace They persevere in Love which cannot cease But yet I nominate no Church or Sect Person or People for a by-respect Yet such undoubted in this world there are Dispersed here and there though few and rare Some in the farthest Indies some neer hand Some in each City some in every Land All known to God and to their Saviour dear In whom they live united far and near Blessed are all who in this Church do dwell And so make good the Wonder which I tell The Sixth Mystery of Grace opened Being the sixth Mark of the Church Elect viz. Reality of Mind and Spirit BUt yet what I have said of Piety Of Grace of Vertue or Society There still remains one Mark to perfect all Which some of late Reality do call An Ens Divine a substance from on high A serious and a solid entity A strength of mind persisting in the good And making that its true Essential food Truth in the inward parts without pretence Or a false shew in its obedience From which no Church in all the world is free But the true Church in its Edentitie The Worlds Religion is a Frolick Queen Which loves of all both to be heard and seen But this alone serves God in real wise In Spirit and in Truth without disguise And where this Essence this Elixar's sound Lo there 's a Church with high perfection crown'd But if you think there 's no such Church yet come Nor like to be before the day of doom Yet wonder not for every faithful man Makes good this Church that 's truly Christian. For as they are but one in general So one just man doth represent them all The Conclusion hereof THough many Signals more I might relate Of this pure Church pure mind and heav'nly State Yet having done with the two several kinds Of men and manners in their several minds I leave you to your choice which you will follow The Sound Young Convert or Apostate Hollow The End of the second Part and second Direction General THE Third Part of this Book And Third Direction TO THE READER OF THE Book aforesaid Concerning the Consequence or Doctrine following the History and Mistery thereof THus have you seen the Mistery drift and end Which that vai'ld History closely did intend And now the consequence thereof we 'l view And try what Doctrine may from thence ensue The First Consequence or Doctrine viz. Concerning the Wills Rejection of Evill Whoever would be sav'd or hopes to see The face of Christ to all Eternity On this Foundation he must first begin That Conscience gives no Latitude to sin Neither to good nor bad to Church nor State To high nor low to Prince nor Potentate Nor Pope nor Priest can give Indulgence to it Nor Lord nor law can tolerate man to doe it For Conscience is a Lord above all Lords A Law above all self-made laws or Swords A Judge Impartial who cannot dispence With any sin of pride or Negligence Man must renounce each sin in general In thought in word and deed be 't ne'r so small His will must be a Virgin not consent Or yeild to sin nor take therein content Be 't ne're so noble gallant sweet and brave He must not be to his dear sin a slave Not to live freely in it nor yet by it For wealth or want but for Christ's sake deny it That man lives well who e're doth chuse to dye Rather then sin that he might live thereby The several kinds of Sin to be Rejected ALL Sensuality man must reject And never more on this worlds toys reflect In Meats and Drinks brave Cloaths or Fashions Fine Or the Temptations of the Golden Mine Or the large offers of her Gallantry With which the most commit Adultery For all who Christ do chuse must freely part From their Gentility both in Life and Heart Since 't is an Idol that can never stand With Christianity in a perfect band Because it is not real pure and sound Nor in the Role of Christian Graces found For in Christs Kingdom there 's no Lord nor Knight But all are Saints and Children of the Light No Titles there of Honour or Degrees But all in self-denyal bend their knees There 's no respect of persons high or low All are accepted who their sins forgo Other sins Rejected THerefore a just and Conscientious man Doth evermore his mind and actions scan Least he should lodge some sin of high ambition In his vain heart or else some superstition Setting the Creatures in his thoughts too high For that 's False Worship and Idolatry Nor doth he wink at his Impediments Or in the least excuse his false intents Nor lay the fault upon his natural frame Thereby to salve his Conscience and his fame And by that weak pretence to justifie His sin and self in his Hypocrisie He doth connive at no such weak defect But at all times all vain excuse reject O let no Convert palliate his sin A thousand ill effects are lodg'd therein For then each Grace he stifles in the bud And so he dayly feeds on strangled bloud All his good motions unto death do bleed Whilst he with vain excuse his sin doth feed Or is content in Ignorance to lye As a fair plea for his infirmity The Gospel doth allow no such evasion Nor the sound conscience such prevarication Christ and the world no man can serve at once One of these two he must and will renounce Therefore take heed which of these two ye chuse And which of these you do in heart refuse For this be sure that on your own Election Depends your own Salvation or Rejection The Second Consequence or Doctrine viz. Concerning the Wills Election of the good or better part WHatever God hath made is wondrous good And in each thing the * Godheads understood So man must have a care by Scripture Light How to serve God in every Creature right In every thing of Nature and of art With

delight The Ignorant Vulgar Crew both high and low VVhether in Silks or homely VVeed they go He both declines and will at no time dwell VVith such as can't their Right from left hand tell But yet those lowly-Souls who are content To leave their vulgar confidence and repent Those he bids wellcome to his House and Table Both Rich and Poor the best that he is able For such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this Converts History The end of the six Degrees Descending with the six Vertues and Vices therein described as opposites The Uertues 1. Humility of Spirit 2. Impartiality in Judgment 3. Contempt of Gallantry 4. Rationality in Speech 5. Sobriety and Continency 6. Solitude or Separation The Uices 1. Haughtiness of Spirit 2. Partiality in Judgment 3. Pride of Birth and Gentility 4. Vaniloquy and Multiloquy 5. Sensuality and Excess 6. Vain Society The six Ascending Degrees follow The Entrance To the six Degrees of Conversion Ascending and sayling through the waves of this World THousands we see in their Preposterous Will Boast of Good works before they leave their Ill. Which is the cause of all Hypocrisie To those who still in unconversion lye But sure the vessel first they should Refine Before they pour therein the good New Wine As this wise Convert here hath well begun And so his first great cleansing work is done Who having learn'd the wrong way to descry Where splitting Rocks and swallowing Quick-sands Lye Kept safe from Shipwrack and the Syrens Baits By sayling wisely through the dangerous Streights He in his New-built Ark well Pitch't and Mann'd Now shoots the Gulf * into the New-found Land Where there are pretious Stones and Gold that 's good As in that place where Paradise once stood And so begins a second Voyage here And in the right good way his Course to Steer For having First descended that high Hill Of Pride and Greatness in his Wit and Will Unto that Holy Hill he next proceeds Of Grace and Goodness in his words and deeds Which none attain but those New-born of God First Taught of him and humbled by his Rod As this young Saint who to the world about him Stands a rare pattern ' though most fleer and flout him Yet such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this following History Advertisement HAving finished the six Degrees Descending the Hill of Pride in the Heart of Man through the six Virtues of Mortification and Repentance in the work of sin-denyal now remain the six Degrees Ascending the Hill of Holyness in the heart of man through the six graces of Obedience ond Renovation in the work of Self denyal as concerning this young Convert 1. The First Grace or Degree of his Conversion Ascending Namely his Resignation Trust and Dependance upon Gods Good-Will and Providence not relying on his wealth with industry Labour and Diligence in his Affairs and Calling which is Husbandry FIrst his n●w Course of Goodness he begins With leaving of the City and her sins London he quits and so himself doth Solace With lawful Joys in his own Country-Palace From Court to Cart he turns in Duty bound To manage his Estate with Judgement sound Wise to foresee and warie to prevent Each dangerous cross least he too late repent Yet if Afflictions happen or sad loss As sent from God he gently bears his Cross And now begins to exercise his hands In taking pains about his house and Lands To Plant and Set to Lop to Prune and Graft With all the Mysteries of the Rurall Craft To overlook his Cattle great and small His Herds and Flocks at pasture or at stall To see his Lands well Till'd and Closes fenc'd His grounds in season all well drain'd and trench'd And to avert the dregs of gentile sloth Which to the Soul 's a Canker and a Moth He sometimes puts his hand unto the Plow And sometimes to the Forke or Spade doth bow Sometimes perhaps he takes the Flayle in hand And with strong Nerves doth well the same command For God to Man this priviledge allows To eat his Bread with sweat of his own brows And 't is an Ordinance for ever blest Six days to labour and the seventh to rest Nor doth this Convert Gallant here ●eny His Grand-Sire NOAH'S Trade was Husbandry And he like him doth plant and plow and sow With his own hands nor scorns to reap and mow Without disparagement to'his birth or name His Honour Worship Credit or his Fame For there 's no Title do what Heraulds can Excell's the Primitive Name of Husbandman A Title Great and Good Knight ' Squire and Gent. Are all but upstart terms of Ornament And to themselves no good at all can do With their brave Swords and Belts and Feathers too It is the Plow that keeps them all alive Whilest they for Titles and Preferment strive And thus he spends his time in lawful pains Respecting more Gods Honour then his Gains To him alone he looks on him doth ' call For now he finds God's Blessin'gs all in all Gods favour and his blessing far surmount The high'st promotion in the World's account Therefore his Gold is not his God or Treasure But only doth depend on his good Pleasure And thus his lands and large revenues are All sanctifi'd and blest with pains and care And such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this Converts History The end of this Degree Ascending in the First step viz. Good Husbandry and Industry 2. The Second Degree in his Conversion Ascending Consisting of Sincerity Integrity upright dealing And the like Uirtues THe second step he takes up Sion hill Is Upright dealing in his business still The same that good King David doth commend As a blest rule of life tow'rds foe and friend To this new work he sets to dignifie His state and calling with integrity And as a Lyon all the Beasts doth awe His Brutish Swains he orders by a Law That no poor Neighbour may sustain oppression By him or his in all his large possession For he still makes a Conscience of his ways And what is due for Hire or work he pays Full Just and True and harmless as the Dove He nothing owes to any one but Love All Force and Fraud he hates all base extortion Ever content with his own Lot and Portion And rather suffers Wrong in any case Then do the least in his great pow'r and place But yet the willful Trespasser he pays In his own coyn that he may mend his ways Yea if that ought was by his Sire ill got He doth restore all back and keep it not Be 't house or Land Field Fen or piece of Ground Here Ten there Ten perhaps an hundred pound What e're was wrong he makes all right and eve● And by such Steps Ascendeth into Heaven Lo such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this Converts History The End of the Second Degree

delicious fare and cheer And for the feeling she those snares doth fit As have drawn millions to the lowest pit And thus the seaven deadly sins come in Where ere this Whore doth set her snare or gin For like as tempting Dalilah did intrap Strong Sampson sleeping careless in her lap Whilst she his hair did shave where his strength lay And to his enemies did her Love betray Who in brass fetters did strong Sampson bind Put out his eyes and forced him to grind Ev'n such are all who to this world consent All are betray'd who take therein content This story to them all may well belong Both high and low the valiant wise and strong For all they have or know or wish or see Or love and like their Dalilah may be And whilst I write these things I see what I Am of my self ' though to these things I dye I see sometimes I should the good reject Did not meer Grace the better part elect So quickly man is caught within the snare If he keep not his eyes awake with care An Apology for the Creatures Good in their Kind and blest of the Creatour YEt all the Creatures in themselves are good If rightly us'd for cloathing and for Food And this the Poets all and Sages old Amongst the Heathen wisely taught and told With little man lives best Nature doth give Blessings to all if men knew how to live And without doubt a mortifyed soul That rightly drinks of the Communion Bowle Though he should deck himself in cloath of Gold Or richest Robes with Jewels manifold Would be as poor as Adam cloath'd in skins Whil'st he remembers all his former sins Rich cloaths rich fare he safely can enjoy If cause require yet not his soul annoy But where 's the Man now lives that can do this And not be tempted by a worldly bliss But what 's the Tempter Surely mans own will ●nd lustful temper choosing what is ill The Creatures are no Whores nor do I mean That they are fowle but in themselves full clean God hath ordain'd them all for mans best use They of themselves cause not their fowl abuse But man in Lust doth offer violence To all the Creatures through his whoring sense Yea all the creatures groan and all complain Of that hard Bondage which they still sustain The Fruit Forbidden did not play the Whore But man transgres'd in midst of all his Store Of all the Trees most freely he might eat And onely One excepted for his meat That was no meat for him and to this day That Law doth hold and man must it obey The Creatures are no Whores nor act a sin But the fowl Lust of Man conceiv'd therein The sinful hankering appetite doth long To have its will fullfill'd be 't right or wrong And thus much of this First sense charming Strum●pet I next must sound the Second Ladies Trumpet And because few or none do write thereof I 'le tell the Truth though all the world shoul● laugh The Second Temptation General followeth The Fourth Intent and Fourth Mystery of Iniquity Touching the second Daughter of Mammon or Second Temptation General THough Whores and Whoredomes both of various kind And various shape throughout the world we find Yet the most Glorious and Brave Whore of all ●s that which most Gentility do call As like unto her Sister every way As like may be but that she goes more gay And some suppose them Twins both of a Birth So both one Mother have and both from Ea●th From Earth this Harlot came yet mounts on high And lifts her head up to the Starrie Sky But lifted up anon she falls down right Like to a Star-faln Gelly in the night A false appearance and deceivtng vapour An Ignis Fatuus and a short-liv'd Taper A madness and a folly void of reason Or like dead Salt when it hath lost it's season The First did only catch the outward sense But this flyes higher in a brave pretence A Hellish Spirit risen from the Earth To fill the world with its Infectious Breath For it is not of God nor of that Spirit By which our Lord did Mans Redemption merit An high conceit and vain imagination Without an Ens or Substance Ground or Station In all the forms of Life there 's no such feature No such Created thing such kind of creature And let the great'st or best Logician With all his Art define it if he can Give me the Genus or the Species to it Or an Essential Difference to know it For 't is no real thing no shape or sound Nor such a name in all the Scripture found There 's no such being such an uncooth Stature In all the works of God or forms of Nature Vertue 't is not nor that which we call Grace Nor is it beauty in Mans soul or face Many poor souls more vertuous far do live More beautious shine then some who Arms do give A Monster strange compos'd of several shapes Of Birds and Beasts of Lyons Woolves and Apes From Pride of life it had its first beginning And ever since hath multiply'd by sinning By Fraud and Force Ambition Lust and Pride With bloudy Wars and thousand sins beside A Guilded Outside and an empty Bubble Yet full of splendid fears and cares and trouble The meanest Jewel in a Golden Crown And soon Eclips'd when God for sin doth frown What pen can write the several Fornications Of this red Whore and her abominations For she can seem an Angel pure in sight And yet can rob and steal and kill and fight Thousands there are I pitty to relate By her quite lost both body soul and state A dangerous Rock where their fair Vessels Split And few there be who are aware of it Yet sad examples many we may see Of shame and want in their posterity In every office function trade and art If you keep not a watch she 'l win your heart For in the Heart as in a Temple gay She loves to sit and rule and bear the sway And there 's no heart that 's free in Church or Chancel Till God and Grace this inbred Pride do Cancel Till time doth come that she must be reveal'd Who in the heart so closely lay conceal'd So natural is this kind of pride to all So deeply rooted and original And this original sin as close doth stick Unto the flesh as Horse-leech or as Tick Sucking mans bloud so he in bloud delights Of bloud he brags for birth and bloud he fights For 't is a general taint in each degree From which by birth no man or woman's free Examples hereof THe poorest Rogue that goes from door to door Bears in his breast this Gallant Gentile Whore Oft have I seen a Beggar rent and torn Tell a brove tale how highly he was born Sure were it possible he would lay down His Rags for Robes his old Cap for a Crown Might pride prevail there then would be no odds 'Twixt high and low

intended And O that Rome and we were both as one In life and faith pleasing to God alone And ever strive each other to excell In Grace and Peace where e're we live or dwell I unto Rome do bear that free respect That 's due to her and every Church or Sect And keep the Peace what in me lyes with all Provided that by none I stand in thrall And let them all give thanks to God and me His Servant bold for this discovery Thus from the left hand turning to the right From the Black House I 'le lead you to the White And having shewn you both not to deceive you Unto your own Election I will leave you Thus much of the Unconverted Parties Principle and Property in Reference to the Gallant Youth in his Natural State The Converted State and Party followeth The Exception or Excepted Party under a True Conversion Shewing what is meant by this Youth in his Converted State namely the Church Elect out of the World though in the World As also the Mind of Men in its New Birth and in its new essential Property or Principle of Divine Light and Grace THus having pass'd through Babylon the Great We now are come to Syons Holy Seat Where the true Church of Christ doth firm abide The Church Select that 's call'd his faithful Bride Whom he hath chose and mark't out for his own With his two Seals of Truth and Love well known And by those Marks as Sacred Scriptures tell You well may know them all where ere they dwell Not who they be but what they be I show How many or how few no man doth know And having told the Mystery of sin The Mystery of Grace I here begin The First Mystery of Grace and Godlyness opened Namely Purity of Life The First Mark. THough I in general terms have spoken much Of the Worlds way I mean not all are such All are not caught with snares of Lust and Pride Some few there are who have themselves deny'd There are some thousands never bow'd to Baal And a few names in Sardis righteous all Those Virgins chast and pure those few I mean Who like true Nazarites keep their Garments clean Such as are said to walk with Christ in White And are accounted worthy in his sight Who from the World do keep themselves unspotted And now no more are with her Wine besotted And whom no Romish Gentry can defile Nor whom the Baits of Mammon can beguile Nor yet the Gloryes of the Scarlet Whore This Church Elect is not her Paramour Having their senses exercis'd to know What 's good what 's ill and what they should forego Who keep the faith and true belief in God Ever depending on his Staff and Rod For they are taught of him and dayly learn 'Twixt right and wrong the difference to discern The Second Mystery of Grace opened being the Second Mark of the Church or Mind Elect Called Lowliness of Spirit A Gallant 's one who never knew the smart Of a Converted new created heart Nor ever felt the pangs and sharp affliction Of the souls inward work and true Conviction Nor ever found what a Desertion meant What 's right contrition what t is to repent His Tongue 's his own without controle he talks His Sword 's his own without a check he walks But with these Virgin Saints it fares not so All walk in life and spirit wonderous low For oft they pass the sharp and fiery tryal And so remain in humble self-denyal Yea they are Mourners all in meek behaviour Longing for him they rightly call their Saviour O 't is a comely and a glorious sight To see Saints walk lowly in the light A signal mark like to the Red Cross sayle Of the true Church when all the rest do fail The Third Mystery of Grace opened Or the Third Mark of the Church Elect Namely Soundness in Conversion LEt now some Gallant tell me if he can When from a Beast he turned to a man Or when from darkness he was brought to Light Or when with sin and Satan he did fight When he from Babel travelled to Sion When to a Lamb he turned from a Lyon When he began to be a Christian first Or for Christs bloud did find himself a thirst When first from greatness he to goodness changed Though he long time in his wild course had ranged And so transformed in his inward mind Became thereby a creature new in kind For this the Holy new-born Church can do Throughout the world here and beyond seas too They can declare their several alterations From ill to good and several operations Of Gods good spirit working by its grace Their total change they know both Time and Place And in their hearts an Altar do erect Of Thanks Remembrance and sincere respect On which they offer dayly Sacrifice As Abel did accepted in Gods eyes This is a Mystery of Grace I tell Which all that have found Grace do know full well The Fourth Mystery of Grace or Fourth Mark of the Church Elect Namely True Wisdom or the knowledge of the saving Truth THe World is full of knowledge in its kind And yet remains dark ignorant and blind But sure one beam of true and heavenly light More clears the soul then all that wits can write A mark infallible of this Church Elect Keeping it safe from errour and defect For the false light dares all Gods laws withstand And all the Ten Commandements command But the true light doth keep obedient still To all his laws and to his written will False light can turn the truth into a lye But the true light doth all its shifts descry Such is this Church Elect where all agree In saving truth and truth doth make them free Blest are those souls in whom the truth resides And as a living Principle abides A pure informing and reforming Spirit Working by Faith and Mercy not by Merit For Truth 's no notion but a substance bright A Heavenly real and essential light A firm Eternal and Immortal Being Which gives to all that have it life and seeing O with what freedom will the earth be blest When Truth shall spread its Wings from East to West When Wars and jars laws and Religions all On bended knees before the truth shall fall When no false Leaders reign in any Sect Or Church or State to bind blind or infect For sure the Badge of the true Church is truth By whom is meant this New-converted Youth The Fifth Mistery of Grace opened being the Fifth mark of the Church Elect Namely Love Divine or oneness of Spirit A Farther secret Readers here I tell They all are one though far remote they dwell All one in faith in life and spirit pure And Doctrine sound infallible and sure An Homogeneous body of one breed Descended from one Father and one Seed And as a thousand Needles far asunder Point to the North in their Magnetick Wonder All with the Loadstone toucht and set betwixt