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A31368	Self-conflict, or, The powerful motions between the flesh & spirit represented in the person and upon the occasion of Joseph when by Potiphar's wife he was enticed to adultery : a divine poem / written originally in low-Dutch by Jacob Catts ... ; and from thence translated.; Self-stryt. English	Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660.; Quarles, John, 1624-1665.; Quarles, John, 1624-1665. Triumphant chastity.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1524; ESTC R17547	60,812	132

and these joys reject But why should we that have not reach'd our Noon Think on the period of our days so soon Disturb by thoughts of other worlds our rest And flee those joys of which we are possest Age blith like Youth like hoary age Youth grave Things more discording not on earth we have Dalliance becomes best Youth as hand in hand With joy Youth couples knits in am'rous band Both their designs is Mirth and soft delight As doth their Names their humour 's so unite And both one soul so they agree possess What the one covets t'other craves no less Hymen in stricter union never joyn'd Two pleasant pairs of more agreeing mind Youth in his bloom and now when South inspires Life in the Spring and gathers into quires The scatter'd Nightingales and decks the Hills With cheerful green and Banks of gliding Rills When Gardens re-assume their Summers pride Where Art and Nature both in triumph ride Whose various Flowers deceive the rasher eye In taking them for curious Tapistry Then three chief pleasures he to him assumes With which the hasty minutes he consumes Jocundity the first compos'd of air That knows no sadness nor doth laughter spare Who not on Earth but as on Air doth tread Each step he makes with e●e● tossing head Next Play whose fingers strike the warbling string Which moves the Soul and into tune doth bring Whose musick regulates dividing feet That move in dance and makes both fitly meet And lastly Chace to fallow-Deer inclin'd But which in Cities not in Woods we find Hotly pursuing till within his toyls He has obtain'd some of those beautious spoyls Then sweet-lip'd Joy attractively array'd With soft Habiliments whereon pourtray'd Are Loves inventions though her brighter air Plunge hearts far deeper into am'rous care The Onyx and the Jaspers various die And Diamonds darken at her brighter eye The Saphyr's blew by her more azure veins Seem to confess they serve but there for stains And blushing Rubies seem to loose their die When her more Ruby lips are moving by The curious Apples of her swelling breasts In which a Paradise of pleasure rests Surpass the whitest Syndon which she wears And gazing eyes to ravishment ensnares Thus clad and qualified likewise she For her diversion has made choice of three Song first with quavering throat who in soft lays Of moving Verse Loves mysteries displays Or of Salmacis streams a Song indites Which turns her listners to Hermaphrodites Loose Riot next to revelling inclin'd So to supply the concaves of her mind Which must by merry ●outs a vent obtain Of that light Spirit active in her brain And lastly Snap the belly-friend whose taste In well-fed flesh than fruit finds more repast Whose blood like Kids upon a mo●y plain Doth skip and dance Leval●●'s in each vein Lo what a jolly company is here Methinks my youthful Soul with new-born chee● At their remembrance over-spread I feel Which in each faculty doth gently steal We both yet young now flourish in our prime You twenty seven scarce reckon of your time I not so much if now it may not be A time to love that time we ne're shall see Ah why should youth his sweet desires controul And with too pensive thoughts torment his Soul Just when the fragrant bloom of Youth would sprout But 't is in vain for youthful lust will out It will have all its due let th' aged grieve Who now of love have took eternal leave Let them with sighs converse and groan to know High things who with a third leg added go As to like years we to like mood incline Of Sex both fit in acts of love to joyn So kindly Nature hath our tempers wrought That whilst we 're two we 're made thus one in thought Well then cheer up dull Soul no● longer now To spend thy days in grief thy self allow O do but see how all these joys do move To serve thee in the practices of love When aged furrows once thy face shall plough No more then these delights will Love allow Of things uncomely we the chiefest find When age like youth to dalliance is inclin'd Come then to Nature Mother of each thing Let 's for an Offring our youths verdure bring Her Priests we are her Temple my rooms name My bed her Altar and her fire ou● flame Our days worst part is when declining age Suddenly takes us with a deaths presage Pluck therefore flowers my youth e're spring be past Let 's love that most which doth but shortly last Dost thou yet muse Or is it timerous fear Withholds thy hand Behold thy blooming year With speedy feet to falling Autumn hies And he who gets this fall no more doth rise JOSEPH NOr reason nor Religion 't is that I Should wast my youth in carnal luxury Too soon you judge it that with prudent care I for my hasting end should now prepare But is there any one or can you tell When death shall ring us our departing knell None can the measure of his days divine Or when his Sun shall in its grave decline Even now we by that Pursevant may be Hurried from hence to that Eternity Where no repentance is allowed more To us nor mercy which we scorn'd before And yet you think the shortness of our days To so much more industry in the ways Of lust should us elicite O much beguil'd Nor unto poorest reason reconcil'd Should he who shortly must account produce Of his led life be therefore more profuse Of his most precious minutes and excite His youthful vigor to obscene delight 'T is as unreasonable as t is sure By many sins we many plagues procure O think how oft we crimson cheeks do view Suddenly change into deaths bloodless hue How oft vermilion-lips have been surpriz'd With hue more pale than box and sacrific'd By deaths inevitable stroak to dwell With Spirits just or evermore in Hell Nay though as young as you yet have we seen ●risk morning looks at evening who have been Wrapt in a winding-sheet and oft at night Eyes shut to sleep that more ne're view'd this light We daily see nor is it more a wonder ●ans Sun at noon declining going under And that which we on others acted see ●orewarns may happen either you or me Gay youths as smoak that quickly fades away We as our last should therefore think each day And strive as that perswasion did require By setling things before it should expire To God the fattest of the fold we yield And so the first-fruits of the tilled field How should we dare then with our own refuse Of feeble age his Majesty abuse 〈◊〉 to the flesh our youth we give and bring To God a crazy stump for offering ●embers repleat by age with pains and akes Whose palsie joynts for deaths approaches shakes What will he say or how can we conceive 〈◊〉 our performances should then receive More wisely therefore let 's our time redeem Whilst youth remains which God doth most esteem The

with doubtful fears With dangers long with pains with Lovers tears Obtained at length and that by wondrous hap That of its self now tumbles in thy lap Sues for thy favour prest with restless fires Sports with thy Net and to be caught desires Hangs on thy Neck to thee flings up that dore Through which our youth have sought to go before That craves thy aid towards thee lo that wings Offers itself about thee gently clings Not to become thy Wife but Love invites Not unto Wedlocks yoak but lusts delights Needs must thou be a stock devoyd of pleasure Empty of every amiable treasure Nay humane sense and sure if so must then Deserve exile from reasonable men If thy own happiness thou wilt forsake Nor wilt of these my choice delights partake Needs must thou be some stone some sapless leaf Froward as seas or than their banks more deaf Than Tops more whimsical than hoary Ice More nipping cold and more than fools unwise ●ut no it cannot be I shall prevail Nor longer thus my grief in vain bewail Whom do not courteous smiles move inwardly What heart can stand before a woeing eye What inclination is so strangely nice Whom ruby lips should not to kiss entice With whom don 't mirth prevail smooth-fac'd delight Whom tempt not dainties bless'd with appetite Who if to him I say Thee 't is I chuse So kind a Love yet basely can refuse Who can those arms wherein he 's straitly clasp'd As like the Oak with clustering joy grasp'd Break loose with unkind force Who can refuse A beauteous Female for his Love that sues Well I have done what 's said shall now suffice And sure enough is said to make thee wise Lo for a while thy sight I will suspend But instantly to come again intend Be no more fond thy self that while advise To take good warning to beware be wise I leave thee thy own judge thou from thy choice Thy self may'st sentence with unerring voice Exit JOSEPH alone DEar Soul awaken thou 't become the game Against thy life is now this womans aim Swell'd with revenge By her fierce looks appear And wild behaviour what thou hast to fear She now her utmost valency assays To fright thee from all chast and pious ways To cool thy zeal for which she doth produce What to her Cause may seeming strength infuse Thee sometimes fain she would with lust possess Deny'd her note then doth in threatnings dress One while with flatt'ry stroaks then with constraint Cruelly cha●es alas who can 〈…〉 ●n such uncertain conflicts and so strong Where from our self proceeds our greatest wrong With what a shew of reason does she dress Her lustful Cause nor equitable less Does she in her unjustest force appear ●f we observe her with a carnal ear Alas how Piety is still opprest And innocency of right dispossest The way we walk most slippery is found Where a small trip deprones us on the ground ●ow am I baffled with uncertain things My heart if crost sinks low if prosperous wings Above aspiring Hermon more indeed That bears than can from humane strength proceed This lustful Eve to me her fruit commends ●nd with fair signs my observation bends To guess the taste whilst I its beauty view ●ut 'tis sure death if I her end pursue ●nd yet my flesh this danger will not see ●hough in the taste I know a death to be ●ur Father Adam so his wife believ'd ●efore his God and his dear Soul bereav'd Of all its bliss Ah! by his strength if he ●hough perfect could not stand how then shall we ●he Off-spring of his Fall in wavering ways ●hat are but constant toss'd in evil days ●he world's a Sea our strong Desires the Winds ●he Ship our Flesh the swelling sails our minds 〈◊〉 left we drive and when in straits we fall 〈◊〉 do we then find Ankors help at all ●hen mighty waves advance then sail our minds 〈◊〉 yet behold more tempests fiercer winds We whilst we rest pursue but toyl acquire And what should quench our griefs but feeds their 〈◊〉 When my fierce thirst to cool I do intend Enraged fires then lo my inwards rend My carnal gust in that great sweet doth find Which yet as Wormwood tasts unto my mind The vulgar tale if true my case then seems Like theirs on bed big with nocturnal dreams Who are with Night-mares as with charms opprest And then it seems a Rock is on their breast In which sad case their spirits a cold sweat Possess who labour from this load to get They cry unheard nor stir for fear yet shake Till they again become as when awake Or I am like one who through surges breaks And him t' a ship in lifes distress betakes Where whilst for help his hands upheaved be Lo by the Current he 's compell'd to sea Yet now methinks I'm like Rebecca more When she fierce Esau and my Father bore Where by two different natures of this pair She was of tumults in her womb aware Ay me what strong commotions what a fray Afflicts my mind I feel the thing I say But what 's more strange of one behold now two Mortally bent each other to subdue This is the fruit of Soul-beguiling sin I fear not forrain but strong powers within My bosome breeds the jar the field 's my heart Where two in battle each the other thwart To hate sins ways the Law instructs my mind Yet in my members sin possest I find I in the spirit upright paths would tread But by the flesh in ways perverse am led ● am in health and sick safe and forlorn ● live and dye am buried and new-born ●y zeal is hot sometimes than frost more ●old Now I 'm afraid and then again as ●old ● burn and freeze am blith and sad of mind I stand and down I fall I loose and find Provok'd by youth that which fond youth doth please I love yet contrite tears produce my ease What man yet ever of such wonders read My health is by perpetual sickness 〈◊〉 I'm chas'd though I pursue scourg'd though I strike Even my own affections I dislike I 'm my own slave yet my own self I fear What works my grief eftsoon● I count most dear ●y these mixt thoughts I 'm driven to and fro Sometimes I 'm tost on high then plung'd as low Alternately thus they disturb my rest Whilst one commends what t'other did detest Alas what benefits a bolted dore Since that 's within which is my greatest sore Whilst above earth sometimes I mount on wing My gross desires me down amain do bring Now I 'm refresh'd then with my tears agreed Now retrograde I fly then on proceed Now joys I feel then grief my joys offend Now towards Heaven then towards Hell I bend Now I 'm a Prince then nothing straight at all Now strong I stand then beneath thoughts I fall Now am I yea then no a storm then still Now ebb then flood nor know I mine own will Ah

Thinna Gos all all pursue The wretch 't is highest time my name 's the aim I here endure unsufferable shame Jos Good God what impudence how will this end Seph Haste haste your Lady from a Rape defend A trayt'rous villain brought from Hebrons soyl Upon me runs my body to defile His violence a● quickly quickly tame The slave is full of lust and void of shame JOSEPH ME what anointed fraud Hark hark I hear Pursuing feet through all the house that bear Sure death Ah woe is me what pur●ue cryes Now shall this woman cloak her guile with lyes And make a sad complaint me to accuse Of that which she against my self did use The Cloak I left her when from her I brake Shall for her fraud no small advantage make My God what help what safety then have I Alas I know not which way I shall fly The changes of these lower things behold They but what 's smoak and empty wind infold As like a Bubble now appearing fair Which in a 〈◊〉 dissolves in humid air Earths greatest dignities and chiefest good Are like the flowing and the ebbing flood In splendid honour I this day did swell And now from thence am hurl'd as low as Hell Though guiltless now a shameful fall I bear Uncertain what must be my future share Ah me on what on what shall I resolve How in my breast shall I my case revolve Shall I with base subjection like a slave Her guilt my guilt confess and pardon crave Sure no If I till now have lust deny'd In that good mind I 'll to the end abide How then shall I unto the Court repair And there unto my Lord the truth declare O no that house with happy peace that 's blest May not be griev'd for my desired rest Well but what then Shall I my self betake Within and there to each relation make Of all that 's pass'd Nor that 't is not done well The crimes of Ladies to their slaves to tell What then shall I the Countrey fly with speed As guilty fly that were a shameful deed 'T is better patiently the worst to bear For flyers ever guilty we declare Besides when slaves presume to run away For that they with their backs or necks must pay What then shall I conclude high time 't is now Resolve then this my Soul not hence to go Then be it so I 'll wait here what may be By Gods Decree selected out for me To him I pray'd through him my fight renew'd With him stood firm and by him lust subdu'd From him the rest I 'll wait and laugh at shame What should he fear that trusts upon his Name Now I return to give due thanks to thee Great God that from my self hast rescu'd me Although vain beauty did assault my eyes Thou helpedst me its witchraft to despise My feet from shameful fall preserv'd thou hast My Soul from ruine when with lust opprest Be thine the praise I 'll in thy Name delight So well who hast instructed me to fight In thy dear cause Towards thee I aspire With longing Soul thou end of my desire Henceforward my endeavours I will bend In thy unspotted ways my days to spend Then shall my ways be in thy eyes upright When thou shalt aid me by thy Spirits might The Concluding DAYRY-EMBLEM Discovering the Mystery and Nature of this Religious Self-Conflict THis Churn behold without and inwardly As with thy bodies so the Spirits eye And thus whilst thou reflectest on this thing Instructing matter it to thee shall bring Without 't is still within is uproar loud Like hollow drums exciting battle proud When now two Armies in a Champain large Each others force prepared stand to charge The tumults cause is from two differing things Each other charging with enforced flings Within the Vessel The insipid stream Flows in the fat amongst the thicke● Cream Hence the fray rises where these each would smother Now one gets uppermost and then the other The Cream's now under then the tastless Whay Holding in doubt whose the victorious day At length shall be till after tedious fight The well-wrought Cream doth by degrees unite And now of hue become like tryed gold As in prevailing hands the Palm doth hold But though it floats above it must abide The dabblings of the Whay on every side Until a higher hand doth down convey That wherewithal it bears it thence away Then in pure water throughly cleanseth it Preserves with salt and into vessels ●it ●ncludes and lastly crowns Where this regard Who overcomes so shall obtain reward He who this discord 'twixt the Cream and Whay With profit now desires to overlay By an approved Limbeck let him bring A noble matter from this trifling thing The Vessel here is Man therein the Broyl Presents the War 'twixt thoughts both good and vile The Cream's the Spirit Whay doth Lust Intend With restless spight each other these offend Awake dull Saint learn what 's within thy heart The Spirit 's not alone nor th'flesh apart Their powers are mixed as together grown Both in thee are as interwove in one Much like the glimmering Dawn that goes before The ruddy day which doth mans cares restore Discov'ring neither Darkness nor yet Light Not Day not Night alone but Day and Night Or like refulgent White with Negro hue Nor white nor black but gray betwixt the two Or like cold streams which when to boyling thrown Is neither hot nor cold but lukewarm grown Well lo the war begins it goes to blows Each his All brings his Op'nent to oppose Fill'd with fix'd hate The Flesh embattel'd draws Incorrigible youth lusts ' nslaving Laws Sports void of bounds and Deeds of guilty Night As Drunkenness and all obscene delight Base worldly pleasures Envy and what 's worse Lyes treacherous Fraud and filthy tongue discourse The Spirit calmly comes begirt with Prayer With Gods pure word with words that season'd a●● With penitence Humility true Love Hope conqu'ring Faith and th'innocence o' th' dove The Combat's hot where we may safely say It seems that Flesh and Spirit now display Th' effects of fiercest hatred as if so They the Souls powers would straitway overthrow Until at last the strugling Spirit 's found Though after many dangers many a wound Far more divinely beautiful and bright And more puissant than before the fight Yet not without all blemish since the mind That yet possesses which to lusts inclin'd Whereby in fight since though it keeps the field 'T is oft compell'd to secret lust to yield Until the Lord his hand doth down convey And him from Earth by Death doth take away Translates into a Throne purges from dross And glorifies whereby he gains by loss Thrice happy he this firmly let 's believe This Good who through Gods Spirit doth perceive Thrice blessed is that Soul who in this night This upright war upholds maint●●ns this fight Immortal praise a Crown of great regard Prepared is for such a Souls reward Yet of pure mercy

our best works are sin What we enjoy doth from his grace begin For his Sons sake the Lamb for us once slain Provides that onely they that Bliss shall gain In whom the work of grace is found begun And to whom God aton'd is through the Son Eternal Power one God in Persons Three Blest who art in thy self ' above things that be Whence all things flow with strength my mind possess When Devil World and Flesh my Soul oppress Against these so instruct me to contend That I may reach that glory in the end Which for thy Saints in Heaven thou dost keep 'Till in dark Graves their Flesh and Griefs shall sleep Certain godly Divines have epitomiz'd the Nature of the various inclinations of Man towards Good and Evil in this following Table which I thought good here to insert The INCLINATIONS 1. Of the Carnal man Evil. I do evil and will do it Good I do not do good and I will not do it 2. Of the Regenerate man Evil. The evil I would not do that do I. Good The good I would do that do I not 3. Of the Glorified man Evil. I do not evil and I will not do it Good I do good and I will do it FINIS Books Printed for and are to be Sold by Robert Sollers at the Kings-Arms and Bible in St. Paul's Church-yard SAncti Ignatii Martyris Epistolae genuinae ●x Bibliothecâ Florentinâ Adduntur S. Ignatii Epistolae quales vulgô circumferuntur Ad haec S. Barnabae Epistola accessit universis Translatio vetus Edidit Notas addidit Isaacus Vossius 4o. Johannis Swammerdami Amstelredamensis M. D. Miraculum Naturae sive Vteri Muliebri Fabrica notis in D. Joh. van Horne Prodromum illustrata Tabulis à clarissimis expertissimisqu● Viris cum ipso archetypo colatis adumbrata Adjecta est nova Methodus Cavitates Corporis ita praeparari ut suam semper genuinam faciem servent ad Illustriss Regiam Societatem Londinensem Figuris ante hac erosis jam accuratissimè exsculptis 8o. A Discourse concerning the Beauty of Holiness by the Author of the Duty of Man c. 8o. Rome a la mode Or The true Sentiments of the Court and Cardinals there concerning Religion and the Gospel as they are delivered by Cardinal Palavicini in his History of the Council of Trent 8o. Syncrisis Or The most natural and easie Method of Learning Latine by comparing it with English Illustrated in fourteen Copper-Plates with the rude Translation opposite for the Exercise of those that begin to make Latine By E. Coles School-Master 8o. Cocker's Arithmetick being a plain and familiar Method suitable to the meanest capacity for the full understanding of that incomparable Art 12o. Urania Revived or the Muses Spring-garden adorn'd with many sententious Dysticks Poems By E. Cocker 4o. A short Treatise of the Combinations Elections Permutations and Composition of Quantities Illustrated by several Examples with a new Speculation of the Differences of the Powers of Numbers By Tho. Strode Gent. 4o. Two small Treatises The first A farther Essay towards the History of this present Fever with its two ●●●ducts the Morbus Cholera and the Gripes wherein are proposed some effectual Methods for the Cure thereof The second A Medico-Philosophical Analogy betwixt Vegetable and Animal Juices Both humbly offered to the consideration of the Colledge of Physicians by W. Simpson Doctor in Physick 12o. The Life of Herod the Great wherein his inhumane Cruelties are briefly but accurately related with an account of his fatal and miserable end 4o. Royal Loves or the unhappy Prince a Novel FINIS * It is remarkable that among the latter Pensioners in Holland the Heer Catts onely dyed in Peace upon his Bed