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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

you all farewel and wish you may live well and so dye well which you cannot do except you first bid the World farewel and dye to that whilst here you live The whole Compass of this Earth through all its round Circle of 32 points must be left for Heaven-sake in all its Longitudes and Latitudes and Degrees thereof All must be left for one Pearl one only Treasure for which the Merchant or Mariner sold all he had to purchase it And where the Treasure is there will the Heart be whether in Heaven or in Earth But on Earth the Needle the Heart or Mind of Man hath no rest it is a Pilgrim there and travelleth to its Resting-place above all Earthly Joys State and Delight which Resting-place is Invisible it is a Misterie above Nature the Natural minded unconverted Man can have no propensity or inclination to it the Heavenly converted Soul seeks and finds it and is fixed in it as the Needle to the North-point its proper place of Rest. For after all Fixation crowns the work The Needle would be a cast away were it not both Toucht and Fixt For otherwise it could give no Direction no true Instruction nor be of any use service for its maker or its master but being Fixed after long Trembling and Quaking and seeking Rest it secretly and silently rejoyceth with an Allelujah to its Creator Rejoycing that it is Fixt to-towards him as all true Saints do and ever did Therefore said David that sweet Singer of Israel in the midst of all his Troubles and Tryals My Heart is fixed O God my Heart is fixed I will sing and give praise Awake my Harp c. Psal. 50.7 And again Psal. 59.16 I will sing of thy Power I will sing a loud of thy mercy early in the morning unto thee O my strength will I sing For God is my Defence saith he and the God of my mercy In him my Heart is fixed He is the God of my salvation and deliverance the God that giveth me Life Strength Health Food and Raiment The God who hath anointed me with the Spirit of Grace and with the inward light of his Countenance who hath pardoned my sin and redeemed my Feet from Death Who hath given me a New Heart to love his Commandments And his Law is sweet to my Lips as the Honey and the Honey-comb more delightsome than my dayly-food yea than all the Glories of my Kingly-crown ●n him my heart resteth to him will I sing and give praise But the Needle the Heart or mind of Man cannot come to this place of Rest and Perfection till it first be Baptized Annointed like the Heart of David by the Holy Ghost The Heart must become a Child in its Humility taken up into Christs Arms and blest For the word of God namely the Prophets and Apostles bring the Heart as a New-born Infant unto Christ inwardly in Spirit that like the Needle touched with the Load-stone it may be made Partaker of this Heavenly-Nature and so be made like unto him conformed to his Image lost in the first Adam then it is inabled to stand fixed and at Rest in the midst of all this worlds Tryals and Temptations as converted unto him who is the Rest and resting-place to all that be His. Therefore great need is there to all mankind of this Conversion of this outward and inward unction this divine Metamorphosis or change of the Mind this New-birth for without it none can make war with the Devil The world and the flesh none can become Old Souldiers of Christ Or Conquerours over Sin Hell and Death without it for this is the one thing necessary to everlasting Joy Rest and Perfection here and for evermore For it is the Saints Jewel their white-stone by which all are Purified Sanctified and Justified to all eternity Yea this is the sure infallible mark of the True Church on Earth the Lilley-hearted Church the Lillies of the Vallies the Lillies and Roses in Solomon's Garden here Typed forth by this lively similitude of the little Needle Loe Readers if all this be true if the case thus stands before the Throne of Jesus Christ where is then all Pride Envy Dispute Wars Jars and Contention about Religions All Religions and Opinions Institutions Signs Services and Sacrament must be subordinate and stoop to this one things necessary this Place of Rest and Fixation which is an humble clean Heart directed to God and Goodness in Jesus Christ alone And then farewell Sensuality and Gentility Riches and Honour for this one treasure this essential Principal of Rest and everlasting Happiness And thus much for the similitude omitting all Curiosity of discourse concerning Magnetick Bodies in general as likewise the variation of the Needle on this and that side the Aequator with all other abstrusities in this matter And only wish after all that my writing here might beeome magnetick to my beloved Readers and might attract some at the least to true Love of the Saints Jewel here described and so become members of the universal Lillie Church with their Lillie-pointed Hearts touched with the Load-stone of divine Love and Grace And thus much of-this Book written occasionly from the sight of that Divine Poem aforementioned in the beginning written by the hand of One altogether unknown unto me hoping it will prove acceptable to him and to the Lovers and Believers of the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus the fountain of all Truth Remaining to them all a Servant to my Power in the service of the said Truth John Mason The full Period An Advertisement WHereas His Majesty hath been gratiously pleased by his Letters Pattent to grant and confirm to Richard Hains the sole cleansing the Seed called Trefoil Nonsuch or Hop clover from its Husk and course Grass he being the first that made the discovery with prohibition to all others to cleanse the same which Seed thus cleansed is very profitable to many places of this Kingdom especially for dry Lands as Chalkey Rocky and Hilly Grounds c. which are Naturally barren and will produce little or no Pasture These are to certifie all Gentlemen Farmers and others willing to improve such barren Grounds so as with the expence of six shillings to make Land which without it is dear of half a Crown an Acre by the Year to be worth 15 20 or 25 shillings per Acre and for their farther information They may have a Printed account of the Nature use and advantage of the said Seed cleansed as aforesaid At Mr. Russels Coffee-house in Bartholomew-close near West-Smith field The said Seed so cleansed is to be sold by Mr. Thomas Mottershed at the Cross keys in Lumbard-street and Mr. William Lucas at the naked Boy in the Strand and not else-where in London The way for sowing it is with Oats and Barley and the first Weeks of January February March and April the said Richard Hains himself will be in London and may be spoken with at the

this Similitude INtentive and Unanimous Readers let us for the Truth sake contemplate yet a little further this comparison and see into the Heighth Depth Length and Breadth thereof for it is worth the knowing that by the natural Mystery we may learn the Supernatural and try our selves thereby For verily there is not a greater secret in nature or art then this of the Compass if we rightly consider all the properties thereof And therefore having given you the Pourtraicture thereof I will also here in the next place give you the Description of it and so proceed to application for Instruction sake in the work of Conversion The Pilots compass is a round box of Wood hollow and plain In the Verge of it are set down the 32 Points of the Winds and in the middle or Center stands a sharp Pins point whereon the Needle by a hollow Dent becomes Voluble and turneth round thereon tumbling and shaking 'till it leaves them all and fixeth in the North point only toward the Polar Star And over it is a plate of Glass or Chrystal to preserve it from all violent motion by the wind and to keep it from the Air dust or any foulness least it lose its Magnetick vertue And so is placed in the Ship near the Helme as a Directour to the Pilot how to Steer his course aright from place to place till he come to his rest or wished Harbour But there yet remain two greater wonders Namely the Load-stone or Magnet and also the Load Star or North-point The Loadstone is the efficient cause of the Needles Conversion and the Load-star is as the final cause of its conversion for there it ends and terminateth in rest and from both these the Needle receiveth the power of Conversion else it could have none And it must first receive vertue from the Load-stone before it can turn to the Load Star as I have said before And then having been touched thereby and joyned thereto and as it were gendring together it attracts to it self a secret love or inclination to the North-Poynt with eager desire But why or how this can be in nature no wit of man could ever yet find out for it is Digitus Dei the Finger of God a wonder in Nature for a lesson to Mankind Now in the next place observe the unparallel'd properties of these three The Stone the Needle and Star For these three act as one in this work 1. The Load stone draws and attracts the Needles Point figured as you see like a Lilly and as it were kisseth and embraceth it and anointeth or baptizeth it with a secret invisible vertue and this is the first change 2. Then the Needle rejoyceth in the vertue thereof as made Convertible thereby to its place of rest and this the second change 3. Lastly the Star or Morth point standeth fixed and cnmoveable to receive the Aspect and Reflexion of the Needle towards it in mutual Conjunction and this the third and last change in this great Mystery of nature Further observe one Load stone though there be many can inspire and new inform a Million of Needles and no Stone else can do it Marble Coral Agate Diamond Ruby Saphyre or Pearle nor all the Stones in Aarons Breast-plate nor in the Royal Crown nor yet the rare Elixar or Philosophers Stone can give it the vertue of Conversion to the Heavenly North-Star Neither can a Needle made of any Mettal but firm Steel receive this vertuous Tincture of Love Gold Silver Copper or Lead are not capable of this hidden vertue with all their Worldly Glory and Splendour they cannot receive a kiss of Love from the Magnet for they have not a Magnetick Principle in them nor any Heavenly inclination nor are they capable of this Communion and Unity as to point all to one place in the Heavens Earth is their Center and there they end in the grave of Corruption But these Love-touched-Brethren stand ever in Communion though far asunder the place and object of rest make them one in nature and in society inseperable companions in love and vertue though differing in locality remote from each other The Spiritual Application A Little Application will serve to the Intelligent Reader The Mystery is written in Capital Letters he that runs may read at first sight Behold all of you young and old men and women the wonderful power of God in the Creation in this and in all his works of wonder and so let all fall down and worship him adore admire and be converted unto him who hath made Heaven and Earth O draw neer unto him as the Needle to the Magnet and he will draw neer to you Magnifie him and glorifie his Name that his vertue his power his Love Fear and Faith may touch your hearts and anoint them with his secret spirit of Grace in Conversion that you may become all Elect Vessels of Honour in his sight and so be renewed in soul and body mind and spirit ever looking up to Heaven and panting after your Saviour who is gone before to prepare a rest for the blessed that look towards him above all the Profits or Pleasures or Glories of this world For he is in Heaven looking down upon you and after you as waiting for you and I when I ascended saith he will draw up all men after me Namely all that are capable to be drawn unto him in real Conversion from this world and the things thereof Every Sinner Swearer Drunkard Thief Whore and Adulterer Extortioner and vain glorious or covetous soul he waits for to come unto him to rest in him from sin to take up his dayly cross and follow him for of such little Children is the Kingdom of Heaven and all that be his already thus do he knows them and they him for they have already received many a kind kiss from him they are joyned as the Needle and Magnet mutually together and receive vertue of his vertue daily and cannot be drawn from him their hearts are with him though their bodies are here below and thus they all make one Assembly of Saints on Earth fixed on him in Heaven For by this Needle of pure firm Steel understand the Heart of Man his Soul and Mind Mens Humana the Humane understanding mind spirit sanctified and made Heavenly and Divine The Lovers of Gold and Silver and Brass and Pretious Stones Jewels and Glories of this World Titles of Honour and Gentility pleasures of Sensuality attain not this Conversion Those 32 points must all be left when the Word of God and his Spirit touch the True Mettled Heart as prepared for the Bosome of Jesus Christ the True North-star in whom is their Rest and Peace through a pure Lile Faith and Conscience and in no other but him Readers Take it into deep consideration for it is Truth here told you Hereby you may see and know your selves and your sins your Salvation or your Damnation Much more might here be said but I bid

you see and read I have ●lso finished the whole matter throughout the four ●arts thereof hoping that you have perused it ●ith a right Mind in a right understanding for ●se it will signifie little and edifie less but remain dark letter to you all For without a right un●erstanding of the Truth there can be no true and ●●ght real Conversion in any one And here are many positive Fundamental Truths couched and many doubts and controversies briefly resolved and if you diligently and with serious eye do observe them they will be very helpful to you all and so likewise very acceptable without offence but if any be offended they will turn to his damage The careless scornful slight Reader will profit nothing by this Book who reads here a little and there a little like some News Book and so flings it aside in him the Fire is quite gone out and all his fuel is turn'd to ashes there is no spark of conversion left in him in vain it is to add the breath of the Bellows where there is not a spark of fire left to begin withal But whereever there is a spark of goodness left or lyes hid in any heart verily it will receive life and light from this truth and will revive and grow up into a holy flame and desire after the Truth more and more I say this writing will certainly have an influence and a good effect upon every one that reads it night and morning with serious meditation Therefore let none be offended at the Truth here written either high or low Gentry or Commonalty learn'd or unlearn'd Roman Catholick or Protestant the sound reacheth you all and you hear it that Pride and Lust may have a fall and many high and low will repent thereof and become the Converts there described but many will not till destruction overwhelm them in their sensuality sin and ignorance as it is written Many in the last Times shall be purified whitened and tryed but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Therefore so read as you may understand what you read distinctly even to a Conversion visible to all that all who see your new carriage new Life new looks new habit and conversation may reod a right Conversion in you and glorifie God through your example And be not ashamed of Jesus Christ and his Cross into which you say you were baptized and vowed to fight under his Banner against the vanities and pomps of this world be not found lyars before him but make your vow and promise good in laying down the Pride of your Gentility and the lust of your sensuality the two Temptations here set before you in this book for a warning to you all in this last age And for this end observe yet more punctually what I have set down in the 66 page hereof for your better Intelligence concerning the three Ranks of Christians in reference to the title of our Authors Book on which I here write call'd War with the Devil craving his acceptance and yours of these my labours seconding his though he and you are altogether unknown to me and I to him and you The three Ranks of Christians as to Christs Cross. 1. The first Rank I call Cowards or Runagadoes in Christianity and are as yet no Soldiers of Christ under his Cross and Banner 2. The second are the Beginners or new Soldiers of Christ who have begun to fight under his Banner Listed Soldiers 3. The third are called the old Souldiers of Christ Veterani old standers in the Army that have fought the good fight under the Cross of Christ nigh or even to the end And in these three Looking-glasses every man and woman may easily discern in which of the 3 Ranks they are found ☞ 1. By the first therefore understand loose Christendome in general the formal and verbal Professours of Christianity of Christ and his dayly Cross living still in their sensuality and Pride of Gallantry Unconverted turning the back in the Battle against the World the Flesh and the Depil meer Hypocrites as yet that are ashamed to own the Cross of Christ in self denyall least they should want a livelyhood or be laugh'd at for their Conversion These are call'd Christians secundum dici not secundum esse ☞ By the second understand that Church of Christ and those Christians who are as it were come out of Babylon Travellers toward Jerusalem and their Heavenly rest but are not yet fully come thither Notwithstanding they have given up their names to Christ their Captain and are sworn listed and inrolled Soldiers Converted to the real Profession of the truth and pure life as it is in the Leader Jesus the Saviour Guide and Governour of them by his word and spirit in the renewing of their Faith and Conscience and these are Christians Secundum esse ☞ By the third Rank understand that small Church of Christ few and rare and hard to be seen who not only are come out of Babylon in this world but have travelled quite through from Babylon to Jerusalem even to Mount Sion the place of rest and Peace in their Faith and Conscience and this is the persevering party even to the end in this Holy War or Spiritual War-fare having put on the whole Armour of God and not put it off till they be Conquerours over themselves and all their spiritual enemies These follow the Lamb whereever he goeth cloathed in white The World knows them not for they are not of this World though in it for their Conversation is in Heaven and their love in Heavenly things And thus they rest from their sins from Avarice Pride Lust Ambition Extortion Oppression Drunkenness Wantonness and every iniquity and at their death they rest also from their labours troubles persecutions and afflictions And these I have typed forth by a similitude of the Magnetick Needle in the Marriners Compass ever Pointing to the North Star where it Resteth and no place else through a secret instinct in the inward hidden attractive love point The Portraicture of the Marriners Compass by Sea and Land in the 32 Points thereof wherein the Needle first touched with the Mag●es or Loadstone never resteth till it come to the North-point and there standeth fixed And here are only 12 Figured instead of many thousands pointing all to the same place though thousands of miles asunder and so make a full Communion Behold in these 12 Figures a lively Type or Similitude of the True Church or Communion of Saints throughout the world at this day Whose Hearts all pant and point one way and so are already in Heaven where their Conversation is looking to the true North Star there Jesus Christ their hearts all touched with one and the same spirit though far distant in place from each other yet there they fix and rest as one full body all of one mind and one kind An Explanation of

a Wonder doth appear Of such a One our News-books never told Nor yet the Belgick's Mercury of old And therefore marvel not if I supply The Old Defect with this New History Two kinds of Birth the Scripture well explains Esau the First Jacob the Last obtains These Names two Natures do imply and so The Last supplants the First and brings it low For a New Nature doth a New Name take And a New Birth doth a New Christian make 'Till now this Gallant did Usurp that Name But his New Birth makes him to be the same And far more Noble is this Second Birth For this from Heaven comes but that from Earth Yea this is Born of God but that of Man This calls God Father That nor will nor can This Noble Birth transcends each Coat of Arms. All natural Extract or the Field Alarms And for this Birth this Youth himself bereaves Of his First Birth and its Vain-glory leaves With all its tinckling Titles of Degrees To which men bow their heads and bend their knees This was the third hard Cross to this poor soul For all the Powers of Hell this work controul Old Satan's Kingdom cannot stand one hour In that poor heart where Pomp hath lost its power Nor can Gentility in its Pride agree With Christianity in true sympathie For these to Princes are as opposite As Light and Darkness or as Black and White The Jew and Gentile don 't more different seem Than Gentleman and Christian in esteem Dam me to Hell the sinful Gallants crie Hell is their Portion sin their propertie To whom this Convert stands a Pattern here Of True Repentance and of Holy Fear Of true Nobility in the highest kind Born of Humility in the lowest mind Who to obtain a New-name as New-born Leaves all vain Trappings which his Name adorn And here degrades himself of Gentile Pride So to be made for Christ his lowly Bride For such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this Gallant 's History The End of the Third Degree in Conversion Descending and Third Mortifying Virtue Called Execution of Iudgment and Will In forsakeng all Vain Gentility The Fourth Mortifying Grace or Virtue Being the Fourth Step or Degree in his Conversion Descending Called Rationality or True Discretion In Bridling of the Wit and Lordly Tongue THus now bereft of his Gentility For Conscience sake in deep Humility And of that Vain Imagination late Which Airie Titles bred in his first ' state Such as the Vulgar their Commanders give Though ne're so Vile ' though ne're so Vain they live He now doth wonder how he play'd the child With those fine Rattles which his Wits beguil'd And next he strives with all the Power he can In all his Words to prove a Rational Man For Speech is given unto all but few Attain in Speech the Moderation due Therefore himself he now doth Recollect And both his Tongue and his wild Wit Correct He that can Rule his Wit doth Rule his Tongue Else it will prove oft-times too large too long Thus a new work he now doth undertake As well for Credit as for Conscience-sake And so becomes a well composed Soul Whose Babbling Wit true Reason doth controul His words are few he in deep silence dwells And only to the Wise his Minde he tells Lest he be made at any time or season A scorn to Fools that understand no Reason Reason's the Jewel which his Soul doth prize As giving sight to his awak'ned Eyes Regenerate Reason now becomes his Guide In all his Words Works Thoughts beside A God-like Image and a Light Divine When saving Faith its grossness doth Refine But 't is Preposterous Piety to make Reason the Ground of Faith and Truth mistake For God's the Lord of Reason and of Sense Of Phancy Judgment and Intelligence Yea he is Lord of Language and doth give Reason to Man in Language pure to live And by that Light to Rule his vagrant Tongue Least he exceed in Talk or speak what 's wrong To guard his lips as with a flaming Sword For Man must give account of every Word Of every idle saying jest or story Which he of vents for his own praise and glory The Tongue 's a Bruitish Member void of Wit And Man must keep perpetual Warr with it And stand upon his Watch to keep it in Lest it fly out and fall to deadly Sin For all Man's talk is either good or evil So he an Angel Acts or else a Devil Therefore observe in each Particular How Reason leads this Convert through this war Where he finds several Enemies at hand They against him he against them doth stand The several Particulars follow concerning Vanity in Discourse and here Forsaken As the Enemies to Reason Faith and Truth 1. The First Particular Vanity in Speech Namely Lightness Iesting and Laughing Forsaken by this Convert ANd now this Noble Princely Youth begins To take account of all his Verbal Sins Which seem'd before an Ornament and Grace To his High-Birth his Quality and Place But now this Laughing Spirit he Corrects With solid looks and his light humour Checks For Manly Reason in his Sober School Permits no Scholar there to act the Fool To vent his With or laugh at his own jest Or to make Sport in vain for all the rest For nothing more corrupts the work of Grace Than a loose jesting Tongue and laughing Face 2. The Second Particular Forsaken in Vaniloquie Viz. Complement ANd next he leaves his nimble tongues activity In Complemental Fine and False Civility False Flāttering Titles now he gives no more Nor lends the Name of Madam to a Whore Nor Sir unto a Knave All Gentile Oaths And Humble Service he both leaves and loaths For all his Care is to serve God aright With Lips unfeign'd in all the Peoples sight 3. The Third Particular in Vaniloqui forsaken Viz. Amorous Discourse Songs and Uerses ANd to proceed he now no more rehearses To his Fine Misse his Amorous Books Verses Into the Fire he casts his Playes burns them For fume they are and into fume he turns them Like unto like from Wanton Flames they came And must again return into a Flame His Aerie Sonnets and his wild Romances Tales Fables Fictions and a thousand Chances Of Wandering Knighthood and brave Chivalrie Are now all mute and in deep silence lie One Penitent Psalm doth more his Soul delight Than all the Books of Mirth that Wit can write Saying O Lord with Grace my Heart renew And fill my lips with language chaste and true 4. The Fourth Particular Vanity in Talk Forsaken Viz. Telling of Uulgar News NOr tells the News from any forreign Part For he finds News at home in his own heart There 's Civil Warrs begun and like to hold For Sence by Reason scorns to be controul'd Because he long hath reign'd as Elder-Brother And frets to be supplanted by the other Nature and Custome would not yield to Grace Nor to

the Spirit would the Flesh give place Pride still would be Supream and Carnal Lust Would Reign and Rule and be accounted Just. His Wit his Will Fancy all cry Treason Against the Truth in his Anointed Reason Old Satan too if possible would fain The Castle he hath lost once more regain But in this Converts heart Grace keeps the Field ' Til all at last to Truth and Reason yield And this good News he to his Friends imparts Who feel find these Warrs in their own hearts O that the Gallants of this Age as well As Forreign News this Home bred News could tell And fill our News Books with these Holy Warrs In stead of Christians most Unchristian Jarrs 5. The Fifth Particular Vanity in Talk Forsaken Namely Religious Debate AS for the Sects and Churches their wayes His Heart 's his Church he none of them gainsays Though they gainsay each other opose Each others Tenets both in Verse and Prose Sect against Sect Church against Church ingage Swords against Swords tongues against tongues do rage What some call truth som others hold for lies What one Condemns another Justisies And 't is impossible to please them all 'Till they have more of Honey less of Gall. Some Preach by Books some Reason some by Spirit Some Preach Free grace some Free-will some Merit Some for the Churches Institution stand And some against them rise throughout the Land Thus Pro and Con tossing the Ball about They fill the Land with wrangling with doubt And wilst each Party strives to get the Ball Sometimes they give and sometimes get a fall ☞ Reason's Advice in this Case But peaceful Reason in his low Contrition Bids him sit still and mind his own Condition Gentle to hear all sides with patient Ear But unto nooe save Christ's own voice adhere For as in life he 's neither vain nor vicious So he 's no wrangling Make bate or Seditious A fit Companion for those Souls alone Who with the whole Creation sigh and groan For such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this Converts Historie The end of the Fourth Degree Descending Called Rationality in Speech and Bridling the Gallant Tongue 5. The Fifth Mortifying Grace or Virtue being the Fifth Step or Degre in his Conversion Descending Namely Abstemiousness or Continence in Meats Drinks Cloaths and all Sensuality THus when his Reason into Light was brought And from its dark Eclipse to clearness wrought Having first learn'd himself thus to deny Of Gentile talk and all Vaniloquie Lo this Young Heir born to a large possession Leaves all to follow Christ in strict Profession And in New-life with dayly Sin-denyal Bears his first Cross in many a tempting tryal For now his Joyes run a contrary way Quite cross to what they ran in his First-day His Hawks and Hounds he leaves for all his care Is to find out the Truth not hunt the Hare His Fleet-Race Horses all are quite out-run For he hath now a larger Rarce begun His Tables Cards and Dice he flings away For he hath now a harder Game to Play Whilst Tears do trickle from his mournful eyes With sad remembrance of his Vanities For he play'd wrong before and doth begin A second Game against each youthful Sin His costly Dishes and delicious Fare And gaudy Dress which he was wont to were He claims no more For Pride or Ornament But having Food and Raiment is content And with a Dish of Herbs or Garden-sallet Can Dine or Sup and satisfie his Palate His Sword and Belt his Periwigge and Plumes His whiting Powders and his strong Perfumes All sent and smell like Adled Eggs quite rotten Or like good Chear long vented and forgotten To both th' Exchanges he now bids farewell With all the Modes and Fashions there they sell All the Attractive shooing hornes of Vice He hates as Vermin and Aegyptian Lice His Moderation and Gratitude Thus in his moderate Food and comly Dress He keeps the mean and balks all vain excess What e're he wears what e're he eats or drinks Of Christ's last Supper or his Cross he thinks And setting all his old Excess a part He keeps a daily Eucharist in his heart Perpetual Thanks do Transubstantiate And Change his Mind into a Heav'nly state For that is the right Transubstantion Which most mistake in gross imagination Who in their blinded Superstition strange Themselves unchanged think the Bread should change And this vain Error for four hundred years Hath fill'd the Christian world with doubts fears But this wise Convert in his changed Sight Free from that Errour Ears and Drinks aright For he himself is changed and his Food In his New-change is by due Thanks made good And as a Nazarite thus he doth endure Both in his Diet and his Habit pure For such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this Converts Histerie Th end of the Fifth Degree Descending Called Abstemuousness or Continency Touching Sensuality The Sixth Mortifying Grace or Virtue Being the Sixth Step or Degree in his Conversion Descending Namely Solitude or Separation from all Uain and Uicious Society WHo e're hath learn'd to bridle in his tongue No more to vain acquaintance doth belong And so remains the last and greatest Wonder The Heaviest Cross and hardest to come Under As if the Soul from Body were Divided And with the Flesh no more the Spirit Sided For now his Old Aquaintance and Sweet Friends Whom as his Soul he lov'd he reprehends His Consorts kindred and Relations dear He baulks he Shunns Seldome doth come neer He keeps aloofe from All and doth not dare To eat or drink with those who Lye or Sweare Vain Company he Loathes Pure Grain from weeds He now discerns No more with Swine he feeds Yet if Occasion chance to draw him in His Care is then to keep himself from Sin And as a Sheep feeding among the Beasts He 's all alone though present at their Feasts For ' though among them yet he is not of them And rather doth bewail then scorn or scoffe them From Sin and Sinners both he turnes away And their Allurements scorns though ner'e so Gay For all his Joy is fix't on higher-Things A fit Companion for the best of Kings For now the King of Saints doth not disdain To sup with him and in his heart to Reign Yea after all he leaves the glorious Court With all his Pomps Pleasures Game Sport And one day by his Cross had rather ' bide Than in the Court a thousand dayes beside The Painted Madams and the Spotted Faces VVith Amorous Arms he now no more embraces And to his Tempting Miss dares boldly say I am not I begone away away That Park he baulks where Gallants Sacrifice To Venus and her Nymphs their Hearts and Eyes At the She-Bulls he laughs and turns his Eyes From the beholding of those Vanities For he is turn'd another Creature quite Nor Sin nor Sinners can give him