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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56830	King Solomon's recantations being an extract out of the famous works of the learned Francis Quarles ... : with an essay, to prove the immortality of the soul, by way of symetry, or connexion.	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.	1688 (1688)	Wing Q103; ESTC R2993	60,560	98

thing is Man how frail and brittle How seeming great how truly little We rise securely with the Morning Sun But unregarded Die e're Day be done Yet his Estate was level and he hath Free-will To stand or fall unforst to Good or Ill. Such is the State Man was created in Within his Power a Power not to Sin His life 's a bubble full of seeming Bliss The more it lengthens the more short it is The swelling of his outward Fortune can Create a prosperous not a happy Man. 'A peaceful Conscience is the true content ' But Wealth is only her Golden Ornament ' I care not so my Kernel relish well ' How slender be the substance of my shell ' My Heart being Virtuous let my Face be wan ' I am to God I only seem to Man. To him the searching of Mens Hearts belong Mans Judgment sinks no deeper than the Tongue Let shame prevent our Lips recant and give To the Almighty his Prerogative He overlooks thee and in one space Of Time his Eye is fixt on every place A Disswasive from placing our Hopes in transient Happinesses BUild not your Bliss upon the blaze of Glory Can perfect Happiness be transitory Nor in the use of Beauty place your end Nor in the enjoyment of a Courtly Friend These if injoy'd are crost with Discontent If not in the pursuit yet in the event Apply thy Heart to Wisdom with good attention For 't will inrich thy Soul with fair prevention That no foul Treason against thy Blood intended Thy Life thy State will Loyally be defended For Worship Honor and true respect Shall be done to him whom the Heavenly King do affect Peerless Honours and Princely Rights Be done to them in whom this King delights The highest Heavens will still conspire to Bless All faithful Seed and with a fair success Their Enemies he 'll ty they shall not make reply Not daring to answer nor deny The Heavens grown great with Age must soon decay ●●e pondrous Earth in time shall pass away ●●t yet his Sacred Words shall always flourish Though Days and Years and Heaven and Earth do perish ●an sees like Men and can but comprehend ●●ings as they present are not as they end Man wants the Strength to sway his strong affections What Power he has is from Divine direction Which oft unseen through dulness of the Mind We Nick-name Chance because our selves are Blind And that 's the cause Man's first beholding Eye Oft Loves or Hates and knows no reason why If he be Poor that wanteth much how Poor he that hath too much and yet wants more ●●ice happy he to whom the bounty of Heaven ●fficient with a sparing Hand hath given ●e fairest Crop of either Grass or Grain ●ot for use undew'd with timely Rain The Wealth of Crcesus were it to be given Were not Thank-worthy if unblessed by Heaven 〈◊〉 Riches which fond Mort●●s so imbrace ●re not true Riches it not enlightned with true Grace Wealth interpos'd with too too gross a Care ●hey lie obscur'd and no Riches are Let not the fawning World to pleasure then invite Thy wandering Eyes the Flesh presents delight ●sist me in my Combat with the Flesh ●elieve my fainting Power and refresh 〈◊〉 feeble Spirit I will not wish to be Cas●t from the World Lord cast the World from me To be afraid to die or wish for death Are Words and Passions of disparing Breath But wretched Man were thy condition mine I 'de not dispair as thou do'st not repine But offer up the broken Sacrifice Of an humble Soul before his gracious Eyes Whose Works are Miracles of Admiration He mounts the Meek amidst their desolation Confounds the Worldly Wise that blindfold they Grope all in darkness at the Noon of Day But guards the humble from reproach of wrong And stops the current of the crafty Tongue Thrice happy is the Man his Hands correct Beware lest fury force thee to reject The Almighties Tryal he that made thy Wound In Justice can in Mercy make it sound ●ear not tho multiply'd affliction shall B●siege thee he at length will rid them all In Famine he shall feed in War defend thee Shield thee from Slander and in Griefs attend thee Thy House shall thrive replenisht with Content Which thou shalt Rule in prosperous Government For Man ●●licted by the Almighties Hand His Faith doth flourish and securely stand Yet the worst I 'le look for that I can project If better come 't is more then I expect If other ways I am Arm'd with preparation No Sorrows sudden to an expectation Lord to thy Wisdom I submit my Will I will be thankful send me Good or Ill. If Good my present state will pass the sweeter If Ill my Crown of Glory will be greater All this experience tells when I advise Those who have taught many may themselves b● Wise Tho rising early with the Morning Sun Yet unregarded die e're Day be done No Gold is pure from dross tho oft refin'd The strongest Ceder's shaken with the Wind. The ●est of Men have Sins none lives secure In Nature nothing's perfect nothing pure ●●om mudded Springs can Crystal Water come 〈◊〉 some things all Men Sin in all things some Since that my Vesture cannot want a stain Assist me lest the Tincture be in Grain To thee my great Redeemer do I fly It is thy Death alone can change my Dye Tears mingled with Blood can scowr so That Scarlet Sins shall be as white as Snow But wretched Man be not in thought too sure Sin steals unseen when we sleep most secure By Craft there are who season error with the taste of truth And tempt the frailty of our tender Youth What pleasure is in Dainties if the tast Be in it self distemper'd better fast Lord in my Soul a Spirit of Love create me And I will Love my Neighbour tho he Hate me I Love the World to serve my turn and leave her Tho I 'll not say 't is no Deceit to cozzen a Deceiver She 'll not miss me I less the World shall miss To loose a World of G●ief to injoy a Life Bliss By thy Mercy Lord to Glory receive me in A●though my Soul is burthen'd with my Sin For thou art Just and bent to a Wise Decree Which certain is and cannot alt'red be It seems a Paradox beyond belief T●●t Men in trouble should prolong relief We poor weaklings when we sleep in Sin Knock at onr dro●sie Hearts and never lin Till thou 〈◊〉 our sin congealed Eyes Lest drown'd in 〈◊〉 we sink and never rise The approaching 〈◊〉 might be at once prevented With Pra●rs and Pains r●●●red reattented We try new ways dispairing of the old Love quickens Courage makes the Spirits bold Our God bids go our Credit bids us stay Our guilty fear bids fly another way O Earthy Men make not your Righteous Laws A trick for gain let Justice r●●e the Cause ' O worthless Man arise and see ' There 's not a twiny

giveth liberally to all Men and uppraideth not and would have all Men endued with Divine and deep Delights that they may be eminent and conspicuous in the true exercise of every Virtue and be Cloathed with great Activity Courage and Prudence to overcome their Enemies and inherit the Benefits of their own Virtues in the Peace and Tranquility of a happy Condition by being Liberal and Kind Humble and Chearful Rejoycing and Trusting exceedingly in God then shall their Soul● be even now as happy as if they had taken Possess●on of Heaven Having taken that City as it were Violence or Force by carrying Virtue to the highe●● pitch humane frailty could exalt it to God havin● given us many Lights to assist our Souls in the compleating more allurements to provoke our desir● after more of Heaven and its Glorious Injoyment● so that all our Inclinations may now become Puri●● and Praise that we may hereby be able to reconci●● Men to God who were formerly Enemies to Gra●● and Virtue by putting Embroideries on Religion 〈◊〉 moving in a Sphere of Wonder In that his Life is ●ontinual stream of Miracles for such a Man carries 〈◊〉 Light whereever he goes for he is Cloathed like 〈◊〉 Son in his Raies and Reigns like a King by the sole Power of Virtue and Goodness in Beautifying Religion in the due exercise hereof making himself great by inriching others being full of Musick in the Words of his sweet and pleasing behaviour This being conducive to his own Ease and Honour the want therefore of the abovementioned Virtues is pernicious and destructive for these Holy Works and Wise Dispositions of Soul are absolutely necessary to qualifie us for Heaven For all the Fathers teach us both An●ient and Modern that good Works are inseparable attendants upon a justifying Faith and no Heretick hat is either Grave or Serious can deny this sequel For this must consequently follow upon the Premises ●or good Works are absolutely necessary to Salvation tho ●hey can in no wise merit it for far be it from us ●●om decrying good Works or the due use of them but ●he merit of them For that there is any real or per●onal merit in them we do indeed d●●ry not but ●hat high induments of 〈◊〉 is a greater Blessing to ●●ll that are so highly 〈◊〉 by the Hand of Heaven 〈◊〉 to be in●iched by them and good Works are cer●●inly conditional to Life Eternal for in the great Day ●f Mercy 't will be said Come for ye have done them 〈◊〉 God for ye have not done them So that tho they 〈◊〉 not meritorious yet they are undoubtedly condional to Bifs for the more of these any Man have a ●●ue share in the more happy Eternally will he un●●oubtedly be so that what the Church of England in ●●is and in all points do Teach is most assuredly pure ●●d refined and in all points Conformable to the Pri●●●tire Times neither is She pure in Doctrine only ●●t in Charity most Catholick and in hearty Practise ●●ost refined for She admonishes her Children that ●●yey may not be Strangers to any point of Doctrine ●●at is of moment to Salvation unless they should unhappily be Aliens to Felicity by being Foreigners to the Truth but that they may in ●is Light learn to see the true Light that enlighten every one that cometh into the World 'T is this Beauty of Truth that maketh Knowledge of such infinite value as to repair the Divine Image in us in which consists the perfection of our Nature renews us in the Spirit of our Minds purging our Consciences from dead Works securing our Minds from that restlesness and unquietness which Minutly attends both the Dominion and Guilt of Sin which racks the Mind with dreadful expectations and fills the Consciences with dismal horror and direful Confusion and lays them obnoxious to the dreadfulest denunciations imaginable not only Temporal Improsperity but Eternal Punishments in the dismal Shades of the other World. But to avoid the danger of these let us convince our understandings that we ought to aspire to live Angelical lives such as becomes a reformed Religion built upon the Doctrines of the Apostles and have all the Marks of a true Church so that every one may prove and try himself whether he be in the right for by trying the Spirits we may know them if we observe their Fruits may we therefore perswade our Affections to stick close to this refined Religion that is certainly the true Path to Heaven and conducive to Life and Bliss For this Church agreeable to the Holy Scriptures directs to the Treasures of Divine Wisdom and ●uch Oracles to which it is safe to resort for saving Knowledge to rule and guide us to a Holy Life therefore we ought Studiously to imbrace whatsoever we ●earn from her since She is now refined and purged from all Error and Corruption Superstition and whatsoever is contrary to Divine Truth for in her Preaching She observes the Method of Christ by un●ailing the very Truth to her Disciples making Christs Word to us as it is in it self the Power of God to Salvation So that now the Gospel with Noon Day brightness does cearly shine amongst us for She gives us cautionary Advices and to them subjoins plain Directions sheving us how to detect Error and to love Truth so that her Counsel may be of the same effect to us as the Oral Word was to our Progenitors who lived their own Doctrine and Preached their own Experience and gave up themselves without reserve to the guidance of Gods Word inwardly reverencing every Paragraph of it as an immediate message from the Almighty For every thing in Scripture is sublimely Divine It s Doctrine are most accommodate to the refreshment and building up of our Minds and in all respects so ordered that every one may draw thence what is sufficient for him provided he approach it with Devotion Piety and Religion For the things of God are Spiritually descerned as the secret Word of God was fi●st dictated by the Holy Spirit so still it must owe its effects and influence to its Cooperation for by this its Power and Energy insinuatively perswades the Heart to be led by the Power of it and to invoke the Divine aid by darting Ejaculations up to God that we may truly understand the sense and meaning of his Divinely Inspired Word by ke●ping our Minds fixt and attent upon what we either hear or read that refin'd Thoughts ma●●●●ways poss●●● our Minds to convince our Understanding and perswade our Affection and intirely rule our Imaginations that Divine Meditations may always prepossess our Minds and refresh and revive our Souls turning out of our ●reast all distracting Phansies lest our Chr●stianity should vapor away and disappear by a pi●ing to too high degrees of Speculation and neglecting to practice plain Truths for the practice of 〈…〉 Truths are infinitely of more use then to Study curious or critical Remarks upon those Mysteries on which God have spread