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A65224 Divine poems written by Thomas Washbourne ...; Poems. Selections Washbourne, Thomas, 1606-1687.; Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696? 1654 (1654) Wing W1025; ESTC R20784 59,365 164

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of a Dove To fly unto the bosome of our Love There we should rest securely from all harmes Embracing and embraced in his armes But what is this behold another sight Two men or Angels rather clad in white Angels Leave gazing thus ye men of Galilee For this same Jesus you shall shortly see Returne again in the same manner as You now beheld him hence to Heaven pass He 's gone but to prepare for you a place Against the time that you have run your race Leave wishing too for wishes will not raise You to the mansions of those endlesse joies Where he resides but let your thoughts all bend In heavenly conversation to ascend Follow his holy steps for so you shall Have your Ascension bodie soul and all Apostles We thank you for your counsel and obey This having said they all depart away Th' Angels to heaven th' Apostles homeward went Expecting when the Spirit should be sent And they endu'd with power from the Lord To save the world by preaching of the Word Upon all Saints day SUch honour have all the Lords Saints that we Keep this day holy to their memorie And reason good for they examples are To us in life and death of vertues rare For though all vertues in some measure met In all the saints as lines i' th' center yet Some special grace in every one did dwel Wherein each one the other did excel Thus Abram for his Faith was most renown'd Job for his singular Patience was crown'd Moses for Meeknesse did all men surpasse Elias for his Zeale most famous was David is for an Upright heart commended Josias for a Tender heart transcended John the Evangelist for Charity And John the Baptist for Austerity Saint Paul for his Humility surmounted When chief of sinners he himself accounted And least of all th' Apostles though indeed For pains and parts he did the rest exceed Peter for Penitence the prize doth bear Who for his sinne shed many a bitter teare Now as their life to us serves for a light So is their death most precious in Gods sight By that we learn to live by this to die By both we come to immortality Since then they are such happy guides wel may We solemnize at least one annual day Unto their honour yet not guiltie be Of superstition or Idolatry When we observe this day we do no more Then reverence them as Saints not them adore God's the sole object of our invocation They but the pattern for our imitation And 't is our prayer alwaies on this day That we their godly living follow may Til we with them at last come to partake Of joyes unspeakable for Christ his sake Whiles thus we celebrate this festival None can us justly superstitious cal To Christ A Poem of Hugo Grot. Sil. lib. 1. p. 10. Translated O Christ which art the head of every thing From whom a better life then this doth spring Thy Fathers measure yet unmeasured Whom whiles that he himself contemplated In his high mind he streams forth light of light And sees himself in 's equal image bright Like whom the world and the worlds guardian man Was made but O he suddainly began To be rebellious his high honour l●st And prest with crimes which him most deerly cost Becoming guilty of the greatest pain In this state lay and had for ever laine But that thy Father his case pitying did Give thee who with himself before wast hid Under concealed light eternal love Unto his Church did him to mercy move His truth by dreams he wil reveal no more Nor visions by his Prophets as before But willing now a living Law to make And lasting league with men lo thou didst take A mortal body and a man-like face Yet not begot the way of humane race By filthy lust but thou conceived wast By power divine born of a Virgin chaste Though thou no purple hadst to cloth thee then B●ing newly born nor bands of armed men To compasse thee about and be thy guard Yet Citizens of heaven keep watch and ward And divine Anthems sang about thy stal More royal thus then any Princes Hall The beasts and shepherds thee incircled there Poor but far happier then all Kings they were In that they knew thee thou a new come guest Wert by thy heaven to earth made manifest The Magi stood amaz'd a starre to see Ne're seen before how great say they is he That 's born to honour whom new stars appear Yee ●erie signes of heaven your light forbear Forbeare ye wandring stars and Charls his Wayne To guide the Passengers upon the Maine For through the various waves of things below And life's uncertainties this Star doth show The way not that which unto Babylon brings Proud in the Courts of her Ars●oian Kings Nor to the Palaces of Tibur stout Nor to Jerusalem's turrets but points out The Cottages of Bethlehem and the door Of shepherds tents Jewes seek your King no more Amongst the Cornets and the Trumpets sound And th' Arms wherewith mans furie doth surround Himself ye know not wretches as ye be How neer a thing to heaven is povertie How sweet to suffer tel the Parthians now Goe tel the Romans tel your Herod how Hee 'll make the blind to see the lame to walk Hee 'll make the deaf to hear the dumb to talke Hee 'll heal all plagues and sicknesses with ease By 's word not herbs and calm the raging seas Thousands he wil with little food sustain Himself long time with none and raise again The dead make water wine at his command And walk upon the sea as on dry land Let them whom jewels deck let Martial men Try if they can perform the like again These my poor Christ can doe nor doth he cure Bodies alone but minds of men make pure Purges their brests that are possest with sin And heals the plague-sick world which we live in Thus a right way he takes whiles those that stand And mightie are he puls down with his hand Those that are weak and fallen he erects But look what stirrs i' th' heavens What strange aspects And strife of things Whiles so great good in thee Is recompenc'd with hateful crueltie Not by the Sythian or the barbarous men Of Affrick or the north Pole Citizen But by good Abrahams off-spring who alone Of all the nations was thy chosen one Such mischiefe black ambition can do Whiles't being incens'd with pride and hatred too It rages under faigned piety A simple fate thou didst not perish by But as a thief thou di'dst though innocent To undergoe our sin and punishment The sins of all the world did lye on thee Since Adam ate of the forbidden tree From that first hour to this they prest thee all On us those bonds on us those blowes should fall Those sharp black thorns should prick our temple veins The Sergeant should us drag to endlesse pains The nails should pierce our hands the spear our side And we without delay
twice born that made this Poesie Nature imparted little to his wit 'T was grace which had the greatest hand in it His pen came from the wing of th' holy Dove Dropping no gall but innocence and Love No scurrilous obscenity to make It vendible and with the Rabble take No tenter stretch'● conceits no puff-paste strains Which serve not to instruct but wrack mens brains No such as their invention draw from wine And reele into a Verse but all Divine Clear as the beams are of th' inlightned day Smooth as the Galaxy or milkie way Pure as Ezekiels waters which did glide Forth of the Sanctuary on each side Made not to please the Pallat of the foule And carnal man but to revive the soul That humbled is at sight and sense of sin To cheere his spirits comfort him within To scare bold sinners from their wicked course And win them to a penitent remorse That they who take these Poems up as men May lay them down as Saints made by his pen Thus Ambrose catch't an Austin by his quaint Divinity the Manichee turn'd Saint E. P. The Table THe Accident 135 Affliction brings man home 22 The Ague 134 Angels our guardians Psal. 91.11 12 18 The Antipodes 90 All Saints 110 The Ascension 107 The passing Bel 94 The Blind man Mark 10.51 49 Gods Bottle Psal. 56.8 14 The heavy burden Psal. 38.4 12 The bush burning Exod. 3.2 2 Care cast on God 1 Pet. 5.7 75 The child and the old man 130 Christs second coming compared 89 Christ calumniated Matth. 11.19 46 Christs cup Matth. 26.39 48 To Christ Jesus 140 The Church black but comely Cant. 1.5 29 The Circulation Eccles. 12.7 27 No continuing City Heb. 13.14 71 The good mans clothing Job 29 14. 8 The Circumcision 105 Man complaining without just cause Lam. 3.39 32 Country Disputations 133 To day heare Gods voice Psal 95.8 20 An Apostle a Divel John 6.70 52 Of Divine Love 8● The Dove and Serpent Matth 10.16 4● The dream 10● The drunkard 12● Gods two dwellings Isa. 57.15 3● The Eccho 8● Faith and works Jam. 2.20 7● Fear of falling 1 Cor. 10.12 6● Former favours earnests of future 1 Sam. 17 37. 7● The fountain Zach. 13. ● 40 To Doctor Hammond 122 The best Harbinger John 14 2. 56 The good harvest 101 No hiding from God Gen 3.8 p. 1. The Christians hope not in this life 1 Cor. 15.19 64 Gods Jewels Mal. 3.17 42 The impartial judgment Rev 20.11 12. 76 The Inquisition Zeph. 1.12 39 To his kinsman Sir E. B. 118 To the Lady M. C. 125 To the Lady M. T. 120 To the Lady P. 121 To the Lady R. 119 The Larum 95 Against going to Law for trifles 127 Much in a little Psal 37.16 11 The three lives of a Christian Gal. 2.20 67 To the malic●ous man 128 What is man Psal. 8 4. 10 To one that married a rich but most unhandsome woman 131 The Mystical marriage 34 To his Cousin Mistriss M.B. 123 Themist 126 No●e but God Psal. 73.25 15 Paul Paradox 2 Cor. 12.10 66 Passion without Reason Jonah 4.1 36 The Pastoral 84 The path of the just Prov. 4.18 23 Christ persecuted in his members Act 9.4.5 58 Peters prayer Luke 5.8 51 The power of Prayer Exod. 32.10 3 Lay mens preaching 98 Upon Doctor Prideaux 116 A Poem of Grotius translated 111 Two of Boethius translated 114 11● The Race Phil. 3.13 14. 69 The Resurrection 206 The Rock Numb. 20.11 4 Scylla and Garybdis 96 Secret things belong to God Deut. 29.29 6 The holy separatist Psal. 4.3 9 The Snake in the garden 81 Snow in May 138 Treasures only in heaven Matth. 6.19 20. 43 The Temple of the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6.19 60 The contrary effects of Tobacco 110 The tooth-ach 93 Upon denyal of Tythes 87 The Vine wasted Psal. 80 12.13 16 The way the truth and the life Joh. 14 6. 57 The wind and sunne 102 The souls wish 88 The wounded spirit Prov. 18.14 25 Youths Memento Eccles. 12.1 26 GEN 3.8 And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the Trees of the Garden WHat fancies sin in our first Parents wrought That they a hiding place so quickly sought From Gods all-seeing Eye As if that he Who form'd the eye were blind and could not see Thorow the thickest trees or darkest shade Which in that Garden he himself had made Such simple fools are their posterity Who seek out places of obscurity To sin unseene and mask themselves all over That God should not their wicked deeds discover As though that they from him themselves could shrowd Like Juno from Ixion in a cloud Or like the Wood-cock hide their heads and then 'Cause they see none think none sees them agen Be not deceiv'd a double folly lies In sinning first then hoodwinking Gods eyes All 's one to him the darknesse and the light The night as clear as day is in his fight Think not by putting of a candle out Or drawing of a curtain round about Thy bed or by fast barring of thy door To shut God out or make him see no more Thou canst not be invisible to him Who did behold thy substance every limme And member of thy body ere that they Were perfect and received day by day Their form and fashion the womb to him was Cleare as the Chrystal or the purest glasse Search the worlds closest corners o're and o're 'Mongst all thou canst not finde a place that 's more Invisible and secret then reveal Thy sin to God which thou canst not conceale And what thou canst not hide from him confesse So seeing hee 'le no● see thy wickednesse But with the whitest Robe wil cover thee That without fear or shame thou may'st him see EXOD. 3.2 And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and was not consumed LOe here a sight Presented to the eye A Bush on fire flaming bright Yet not consum'd a wondrous mysterie The Bush the Church Affliction is the fire Which serves not to destroy but search And try her gold raising the value higher It gathers dust And ●ullied is with ease Wherefore to rub off all the rust To cast it in this fire God doth please Whence it comes forth Far brighter then before And is advanced much in worth One pound being equal now unto a score This bush that flame Could never long withstand Unlesse the Lord were in the same T is he that doth uphold it with his hand Whiles he is there And doth his light dispense The heat we need not greatly fear How ere it may seeme grievous to our sense For though we be I th' fiery furnace cast Our faith the Son of God may see Preserving of our very haires from waste Much more he will By his almighty arme Defend the souls of his Saints still That by this fire they shall