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Divine contentment, or, A medicine for a discontented man and a confession of faith, and other poems upon several subjects / by Edward Manlove ...
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Manlove, Edward, fl. 1667.
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By fained horrors with the trembling heart Which is perplexed with most grievous pain And restless anguish doth therein remain And brings the Patient into such a rage That he his present horrour to asswage Would rather die then live and choose to dwell With Hellish Furies in the Pit of Hell Such are the terrours of a troubled mind Bruised and wounded in this woful kind As may appear both by the desperate cry Of Cain and Iudas damn'd eternally As also by the mournful sad complaints Of Iob and David and such glorious Saints These flames of horrour how shall we endure What Balsome can a wounded Conscience cure In friends not Physick nothing's to be found The Blood of Christ An admonition to the unconverted can only cure this wound Ye unconverted be perswaded then To turn to God for unconverted men Though they awhile in pleasant places dwell They 'l be transplanted in the Pit of Hell Then t is too late Repentance then is past Redeem the time whilst thy short life doth last Forsake not mercy but thy sins forsake God freely offers Christ his offer take If thou refuse how wilt thou then avoid The wrath of God which wicked men abide Art sick and senceless dost thou feel no smart Thou hast the symptom of a stony heart When Conscience stings and sins in Battail ray Do set themselves then in the evil day What wilt thou do those Lions then will tear Thy trembling heart and thee confound with feare Then subtil Satan he will play his part And shoot tentations at thy fainting heart He was thy Master thou dist him obey Thou didst walk with him in the damned way Now in thy sickness thou wouldst him forsake But now the Devil doth advantage take And doth indite thee for thy evil acts And now thy Conscience proves thy filthy facts Thou tookst ful draught of carnal peace and pleasure Thou dist carrouse tipple in great measure Thou didst God's faithful Ministers despise And with thy tongue by slanders scoffs and lyes Didst much abuse them and with great despight Didst labour much to quench the â—â—ving light Thou didst thy will and power and purse imploy God's faithful Saints and servants to destroy Such crying sins as these and many more Stand on the unconverted sinners score Ye that are washed from the filth of sin An admonition to the Converted Free'd from that damned state your souls were in Flie sinful Lusts defile your souls no more By such Rebellion as you did before Sin is most hateful in the sight of God And doth procure his smart correcting rodd God loves all creatures that he ever made But hateth sin with everlasting hate Sin wounds the soul brings men to misery Sin was the cause that God's dear Son did die Sin Satan made sin sunk him into hell Sin sunk the Pit where all the damned dwell Sin God offends sin is the greatest evil Sin damns the soul sin is the rankest Devil Object Is sin so ugly why doth most delight In sinful waies why doth not sin affright Them from pursuing of their Carnal pleasures And make them strive to get eternal treasures Answer Now Satan puts on sin in such a case A seeming fairness on a hellish face He paints this Harlott in a handsome dress And souls to sin draws by deceitfulness Were this deformed Hagg without false hair And painted face she could not scules insnare The grisly face of sin would men affright But by false colours it seems fair and bright Thus Satan covers sins deformity And makes it pleasant to the sinners eye Though of it self it 's filthy foul and naught Compar'd to meat thrust out into the draught All other filth the body doth defile but sin's contagious and the soul doth soyle It 's most infectious like a Leprosie Infects the walls the cloathes Posterity The sin of Adam to his seed remains Till Christ's warm Blood doth wash away the staines The misery of Man not Reconciled to God in Christ O Wretched man where shall my Muse begin To state the case that thy poor soul is in Who art condemned to eternal death Adjudg'd to Hell before thou drawest breath Thy Father Adam was by God created In innocence in Paradise was placed That he and his Posterity might have â—mmortal life and conquer Hell and Grave To him all earthly Creatures were made free For meat and use excepted was one tree That was forbidden under pain of Hell He ate thereof and so thy Father fell Pride puff'd him up he did beleive the Devil He tasted of the Tree of Good and Evil By this foul fall eternal misery Intailed was on his Posterity And made them subject to sore punishment Whilst they like thee remain impenitent Finis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A DIVINE POEM OR A Confession of FAITH Composed in Meeter By E. Manlove Esq Of the Scriptures and Argments to prove them the Word of God BY God's good word the way unto salvation Is truly taught by holy Inspiration O then beleive it and the same obey Give no such credit to Appocrypha Nor to traditions of the Romish See All saving truths in Scripture written be And are recorded for Divinity By truth it self the holy Trinity Depending not upon the testimony Of any Church the Pope of Rome or any But God the Author our most blessed Lord Receive them therefore as his Holy word But we by witness of the Church may deem The Scripture worthy of a high esteem O prize it highly 't is a pretious thing Sweet tidings of Salvation it doth bring The stile and doctrine challenge reverence The efficacy gives great evidence Of Gods known will it makes a full discovery And shewes the way for sinful man's recovery Though mortal man of Scripture was the writer Yet God's good spirit was the sole Inditer Some Secretaries God did set apart Who spoke and wrote but he inspir'd the heart These Writers did for Holiness surpass All Popes and Doctors of the Romish Mass And by their works such depth of wisdome shoâ—â— As learned men could not attain unto Yet never trained up in Learned Schooles With them compar'd Phylosophers are fooles The Prophet Amos he did far surpass Some learned Rabbies yet a Heardsman was And Peter Iames and Iohn but fishermen Admired by the Elders of Jerusalem Amongst the writers ther 's a sweet concord Which proves the Scripture is the Holy Word None disagree at which we may admire For God himself the Penmen did inspire They wrote such things as never wit could hatch No History this History doth match And what they wrote was full of Majesty Profoundness Wisdome and Authority Commanding Credit to be had to them Denouncing threats against all wicked men The end and scope of all the Scriptures be For God's great glory and mans felicity The writers antient for Antiquity Aoses more antient then the Heathens be The deadly hatred that the Divels beare â—gainst the Scriptures yet believe and fear Do prove them plainly
and do them deifie But for their error and their false Tradition They do deserve our utter opposition Regard them not beleive not Romish Fables Abhor their Idols Crosses Beades and Bables Their Agnus Dei which Pope Urban tells Will work strauge feats and evil sprights dispel Their creeping crouch their kissing of the Pax Their Medals Roses and such Romish knacks Their hallowed swords their false equivocations In sacred Oathes their mental reservations Their worshiping of wooden stock and stones Their Adoration of old rotten bones Their Altars Vestures Images and Tapers Their Censings Offerings Shrifes and holy Waters Their new found Faith of Transubstantiation Their Prayers to Saints a Popish Innovation Their Cancelling Christ's Will and Testament By mangling of the Holy Sacrament Their Bulls their Pardons and their Purgatory Their Latine service and such Ceremony Their Pilgrimage their Merits and Processions Their five new Sacraments their forc'd Confessions Their deifying of the Romish Whore Vain sacrifice and many errors more These Popish errors totally discard These Apish toyes good Reader disregard And so farwel what followes now peruse Imbrace the Truth my errors all excuse POEMS Against Popery Composed by Edward Manlove Esq I. Against the Popish Tenent of Justification by inherent Righteousness INherent Justice no man Justifies Our Righteousness in Christ our Saviour lies And his made ours by faith it doth suffice To make us Righteous in Gods Righteous Eyes And all his Members clearly will acquit A'â—h Judgement sear when Jesus Christ shall sit The Romish Whore a Bastard brood did nurse Who blast this truth with a tridentine curse Christ's righteousness imputed must give plaâ—â— To righteousness by our inherent grace This horrid point Pelagius did invent And 't was confirmed at the Councel Trent Till then this point of Faith did not intrude Till then this error Councels did exclude Also Chrisostome Ambrose Bernard Gregory Jerom Which now for truth the Romish Church reteit This new sound faith doth still at Rome remain But Austin doth this Popish point deny Inherent justice cannot justifie In vain the Papists wrangle and dispute This Popish point which Scripture doth confute We are unjust our hearts are all unclean Our righteousness Ec. 7.20 Pr. 20.9 Es 64.6 Ro. 7.23 as filthy raggs remain And in our members are the law oâ— sin Which leads us Captain waging war therein In many things all mortal men offend We sinners are James 3.2 Joh. 1.8 Act. 13.39 Rom 3.24 Eph 8.9 2 Cori. 5.21 till sinful life do end We are deceived if we do deny This sacred truth and full of falcity Through faith in Christ beleivers are made just By his free grace to works we dare not trust Our blessed Saviour was for us made sin And we the righteousness of God in him Can filthy raggs poor sinners justifie Or save them from eternal misery Repent beleive to God for mercy pray Christ's blood alone can wash thy sins away Against the Doctrine of Merit HOw can man merit all that he can do Is less then duty strictly ties him to And halfe done duties how should God respect Or what reward is due for such neglect Eternal death is wages due for sin Neglect of duty needs must fall therein Through Jesus Christ God gives eternal bliss Ro. 6.13 Salvation comes no other way but this God works accepts if faith do them evert And them rewards but not for their desert These merit-mongers therefore much mistake That look for Heaven for their merits sake Against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation THe Romish Prelates labour by coertion To make men own this marvellous conversion Have Priests such power by words of consecration Of Bread and Wine to make such transmutation A point Prodigious that a Popish Priest Can make his God or re-create his Christ This Novelty of Transubstantiation At Lateran Councel An. dom 1215 500. years before had its confirmation But Protestants may Pope Gelasius quote Who long before against this error wrote This Cockatrice was hatcht in latter time Nurst up at Rome by such as Bellarmine This Monstrous Bratt the Roman Church begot The Greeks abhor'd it Ancients own'd it not Augustine he doth learnedly maintain That Bread and Wine substantially remain The Scripture saith 1. Cor 11.26 that after consecration The bread is bread wher 's then this transmutation How can Christ's body crucifi'd for thee At once Acts 3.21 Binius in many thousand places be If thou remain in Christ and Christ in thee Thou hast receiv'd this sacred Mistery Against the Doctrine of the Half Communion THis Romish error Anno 1453 lately started up The Councel Constance took away the Cup. And thus they then presumptuously did wrent Our Saviours blessed will and Testament By Christs Example they will not be lead They to the Laicks only give the bread Though Christ himself all Christians do enjoyn To eat the Bread and also drink the Wine Yet Popish Prelates 1 Cor. 11.28 Christ's Commandment sleight And rob his people of a holy right By this Presumption all may plainly see How Sacriledgious Popish Prelates be Against Missal Sacrifice OUr Blessed Saviour Heb. 10.10.11.12.13.14 on the Cross A sacrifice for sin His body offered once for all For such as trust in him There needs no further sacrifice Our sins to do away Vain is the Missal sacrifice That 's offer'd every day Against Image Worship THis Worship well deserves the name Of gross Idolatry God's holy word 's against the same And all Antiquity Lev. 26. ver 1. Deut. 16.22 Esa 42 17 45 16. Deut. 27 15. Mic. 5.13 Ye shall your selves no Idol make Nor Graven Image reare Nor bow to it nor Worship give The Scripture makes it clear Against Papal Indulgences and Purgatory THe Romish Clergy labour much This error to maintain This fire doth make their Kitchins smoak This crast brings in their gain This brings their Pardons into play This puts them off with speed To all such silly souls as do Beleive the Romish Creed This dreadful Doctrine makes mens hearts To tremble and to fear Away for Pardons then they pack Although they buy them dear Yet there 's no torment after death To those that faithful be Their sins dispersed as a Cloud And their iniquity They into judgement shall not come Their souls are free from pain And in eternal peace and joy For ever shall remain Against Divine Worship in an unknown Tongue BArbarian like those Bablers are That Service say oâ— Cant In Greek or Latine unto those That understanding want This profits not 't is not the way God's Glory to advanâ—e This Romish practice in the Church Produceth Ignorance 1 Cor. 14 5 6 9 11 13 14 23. Five words with understanding spoke More profits people then Ten thousand words in unknown tongues Spoke to unlearned men Against forced Sacramental Confession BOth good and beneficial use There may be of Confession By such as burden'd are with sin And griev'd