if their reason they had lost They will not suffer in the least They curse blaspheme not fearing God Nor his severe chastizing rod. Nay Man God's Image they fear not To curse blaspheme and wish all evill As thô their God they had forgot They sacrifice Man to the Devill Wishing the Devill him to take Thô God made Man dy'd for his sake Gen. 4. v. 3.4 To own God Man did Sacrifice And give to him still of the best By cursing Man his God defies Gives man to th' Devill with the rest Who oft upon the Devill calls To him by cursing prostrate falls O bold affront O dread contempt Of our great God and King of Kings Vile rebell Man who dares thus tempt The Lord and Maker of all things When thou call'st on the Devill fear He may thee strait in pieces tear Thô God doth the Blasphemer spare Permitting him still here to live Yet he and his the worse do fare For wicked curses he doth give Wisd 1 v. 6. No wonder since he oft doth call For Pox and Plague they should befall And if this Vice he will not mend But in the same perversly dy Hell-Fire most sure will be his end There with his Devill-God to ly In fiery bed and ever shall With curses on the Devill call Let all men then in time beware And this good scripture-counsell take Not once to curse or vainly swear Which enemies to God them make Who such doth leave and when he parts The Dev'd doth soon possess their hearts Hear then the Wiseman Eccli 23. v. 10. seldom name God or his Saints in conversation And when you do pronounce the same Show great respect and veneration Thus you this Precept will not break Thô you their Names should often speak Still Honour Praise Ps 95. v. 8. and Glory give To God's blest Name while you are here Love fear and serve him while you live And then to dy you will not fear With the Profane you will not ly But praise God's Name Eternally Amen A LYAR TO BE EXCLUDED Lying Lips are abomination to our Lord. Prov. 12. v. 22. IF Man did think on his once happy state A Ly of all things in the World he 'ld hate Since by a Ly the Devill did deceive Gen. 3. v. 4. His Father Adam and his Mother Eve And by it brought them into God's displeasure With justice loss of all the greatest treasure v. 7. Besides they were cast out of Paradise To toil for Bread v. 23. this was sins dâ—adly price With blinded reason and depraved will Heavn's loss Hells gains who caÌ„ coÌ„ceive the ill And shall a Lyar heav'nly joys regain No He in Hell for ever must remain Heav'ns King is Truth there nought but Truth shall enter Lyars desceÌ„d into the lowest Center Io. 14. v. 6. Io. 8. v. 44. To Lying Devill Father of all Lyes Brought forth by envy wch the Truth defyes These are the Parents of a Lying Man A baser off-spring bring me if you can A Lyar of all creatures is the worst By God and Man deservedly accurst Prov. 6. v. 17. Ibid. 12. v. 22. Since Angel-like by thought men can't declare Their minds by Tongue as instrumeÌ„t they are To tell their thoughts that meÌ„ might know their mind And freely deal with them in ev'ry kind This ordinance of God is by a Ly Orêthrown and all human society Destroy'd for since a Lyar no one can Believe who dares converse with such a Man All Trade is stop't discourse MaÌ„'s great delight Is silenced by this accursed wight Who name of Man doth not deserve but rather Of Devill in man's shape for he 's his Father Io. 8. v. 44. Dumb Beasts will not allow his company They make true signs his ToÌ„gue does aways ly Where shall we then find place for him I 'le tell In lonely Desart till he goes to Hell Or that he may repent and poor soul save Cut out his Tongue let him go to his grave Speechless since of it he made such bad use That Hell is due to him for the abuse Without eye hand or tongue Math 2â— v. 8.5 it 's better go To God than with them to our mortall foe It is no wonder that God hates a Ly Since that it strikes at his blest Deity Truth is God's Essence this a Ly denies All Verity and God it still defies Beware for Ananias and his wife For telling Ly were both depriv'd of life Act. 5. v. 5.10 For laÌ„d they sold they brought short of the price And gave Saint Peter this was Hell's advice He askt They boldly told him this is all At his rebuke for lies they dead did fall Who taught you to the holy Ghost to ly v. 3. To God and man you do the truth deny Great reason also Men have to despise A lyar Prov. 24. v. 9. who by his detracting Lyes Defames their Credit and doth cause such strife That Love destroys and many times Man's life By quarrels he doth raise Yea Lyes alone Kingdoms and Families have overthrown Who is there living that hath yet forgot The horrid Oatish Presbyterian plot Where Oates and Bedloe with hell's cursed crew Vented their Lyes and still invented new How many men did they send to the grave When Royall family 't was hard to save Then Lying devills did break Pale of Hell And ever since with men on Earth do dwell Who seem to have possest the greatest part Of this poor Nation lodging in man's heart To dispossess them and to Hell confine By loving Truth let ev'ry true Heart joyn Zach 8. v. 16. A Lyar then Eccli 28. v. 15. is enemy accurst To God and Man and to himself the worst For Lying mouth Wisd 1. v. 11. saith Salomon doth kill The souls of them who bear this wicked will O monstrous Man Io. 8. v. 44. that is for nothing good Not Man but devil if right understood That hissing serpent which Man first deceiv'd Teacheth to whisper words of Truth bereav'd Eccls 10. v 11. Rom. 1. v 30. Prov. 5. v. 13. Iam. 3. v. 6. I 'le tell you this but look you do not tell The Man concern'd O curst Firebrand of Hell Who with thy toÌ„gue dost put the world in flaÌ„es Curst serpent devil fits thee of all Names Besides detraction Lying doth produce Many more sins This Proverb is in use Give me a Lyar I 'le give thee a Thief By Lying he doth think to gain belief Theft to conceal but if he 'l not amend Hell by the Gallows soon will be his end A man that is to cursed Lying bent While here in part receives his punishment This is his Plague when he speaks Truth as just No one believes him or his word will trust See here how useless Lyar is on Earth He had been happy stifled in birth You Parents to whom God doth children give Teach them by Truth in love of God to live Let not the
Lying devill them deceive By Lyes of joys their dear souls to bereave O wicked Parents who while young neglect This dev'lish Vice in children to correct You Lyars guilty of this deadly crime Leave off Repent amend while you have time Speak what is just Eph. 4. v. 25. do not the truth deny The Lying devill and his Lyes defy Love and serve God his just Laws still attend Thus once a Lyar may make happy end THE TRUE ART OF LOVING WELL. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God Math. 22. v. 37. I Shall not here like Ovid teach The Art of brutish Carnall Love But that which did exceed his reach Practis'd by Seraphins above Which God Io. 13. v. 34. made man did teach to men To joyn them to their God agen To love those only who love you Or objects that your senses please Math 5. v. 46. What do you more then Heathens do Or brutes â—ho Belly love and ease Your God above whom you don't see I 'le teach to love and Enemy This Christ did teach v. 44. while he was here By words Luk 23. v. 34. and his most rare example The same to follow do not fear Rom. 5. v. 15. He for you grace hath purchas 't ample He hath rais'd Man unto this state He can love those Act 7. v. 60. who do him hate To do this cast your eye above Contemplate God's most lovely features Then for his sake you 'l learn to love In him all his beloved creatures And most of all Gen. 1. v. 26. his Image dear Which wrap't in flesh is placed here The Elements to Center tend As Water Earth the Air and Fire Where they do rest as in their end To hold them back doth force require The iron doth to Loadstone cleave That it may virtue thence receive Ps 72. v. 26. God Center is to soul of man Which here to Body is confin'd And without him there 's nothing can Give satisfaction to her mind He is the Loadstone where she gains Perfection and content remains For what are objects of Man's love Wealth Power Beauty Riches Glory All these are found in God above In high degree saith sacred story Wisd 1. v. 7.1 Ioh 4. v. 19. God all perfections doth contain Since he loves you love him again He loves you not for interest As if you could him profit bring But that you may with him have rest In glory of your heav'nly King Where you with Angels shall always In joy sing forth his glorious praise Love makes the consort of the Quire For all their Notes are tun'd by Love And Love is all their hearts desire Their God is Love 1. Ioh 4. v. 16. that reigns above By Love you do him perfect joyn To love him truly then incline To gain your loving heart's consent Gen. 1. v. 26. 1. Ioh 4. v. 9 Ioh 1. v. 14. Ioh. 20. v. 17. Behold what here on Earth is don All creatures made for your content Nay he has sent his only son To take your flesh and Brother be From sin and Hell to set you free All objects of true Love are here Laid open to your corp'rall view Since all that 's perfect doth appear In Christ who God and Man is true Ps 44. v. 5. He is the beauty of Mankind In Body features grace and mind He is not only amiable In body but likewise in heart His love to you was firm and stable Ioh. 13. v. 1. Till Death did soul and Body part While here on Earth for your souls sake No pains did he refuse to take He fasted pray'd he watch't he taught Cold Hunger Thirst he did endure Salvation for your soul he sought And to make future Glory sure Ro. 5. v. 8. By bitter pains he dy'd on th' tree Thus much thy JESUS loved thee Now he to heaven is ascended Io. 14. v. 2.1 Io. 2. v. 2. Rom. â— v. 34. Heb. 7. v. 25. Beholding Father face to face His Love to you is still extended He hath prepared you a place That it may be your finall home He is your Advocate become Love this your God-Man who loves you And for your sake hath done all this In all your ways prove to him true Against his Laws nêre do amiss His blessed will be sure obey Math. 19. v. 17. To Heav'n it is the only way THE SECOND PART I say to you love your Enemies Math. 5. v. 44. If you love me Ioh. 14. v. 15. saith Christ our Lord Be sure you keep this my command Ioh. 15. v. 12. Math. 22. v 39 1 Ioh. 4. v. 20. With one another still accord Your Brother love as your right hand Who doth not here his Brother love Loves not his God who is above Not only love him who loves you For blindest Heathen doth the same But love your Enemy Math. 5. v. 44. as true Tender his life his goods his fame So you who Enemies have been To me Math. 6 v. 12.14 shall love and pardon win God made man's soul his image dear To live with him eternally And thô to sin he did not fear And thus became his Enemy Revenge on him he did not take But taking flesh dy'd for his sake Here learn of God Math. 5. v. 45. your Heav'nly Father Who sinner feeds as well as just To feed your Enemy yea rather Than friend so you may humbly trust Luk. 6. v. 38. That God your soul with grace will feed Since you fed Foe in time of need You cannot love his wickedness But as God's Image you must love 1. Ioh. 4. v. 20. To 's Pattern Kindness here express If Peace you love that is above Then mercifull to you he 'l be Who for his sake lov'd Enemy The Just dost lesser stand in need Of love Rom 8. v. 2. than he who is in sin From satan's pow'r the first is freed While this 2. Timi 2. v. 26. his slavery lyes in O pray that God will set him free Then God will mercy shew to thee But if Revenge thou seek'st to take Math. 18. v. 32 33. For injury that 's gone and past Thou liable thy self dost make To guilt forgiven and at last As cruell damn'd thy soul will be Not shewing Mercy shew'd to thee With joy forgive then Man's offence Since Christ our Lord hath promis't you Mark 11. v 25 Eccli 28. v 2. Mark 4. v. 24. For sin it shall make recompense And debt remit which to it's due What measure you give to your Brother The same shall you have and no other His loss is most when he wrongs thee In body goods or reputation Without Repentance his will be The loss of God and soul's salvation Pray you the Father as the Son Forgive Luk. 23. v. 34. he knows not what h 'as don If you saw Beast in danger great You strait would run his life to save And enemy away would beat
receive their sentence there When they before the Judge appear v. 12. The Conscience-Book will op'ned be Wherein as in a Christal clear Each Man his good and ill shall see All what lay hid before 1. Cor. 4. v. 5. shall then Be open lay'd to th' view of men All what in dark Eccli 23. v. 26. or private place Was done or what was unconfes't With great confusion and disgrace Shall open ly Math. 10. v. 26. Eccli 25. v. 27. with all the rest Then all shall own there was an Eye From which no secret hid could ly The Dev'l Rev. 12. v. 10. who is Man's great Accuser Will vent his Malice at that day As of Man's life the strict peruser Our faults before the Judge will lay All thoughts words deeds which ere have been Less virtuous he 'l accuse of sin Thrice happy he who hath apply'd By Sacraments Christ's pretious merits Unto his soul before he dy'd He will not dread these wicked Spirits Whose tears have washt Luk. 7. v. 38 1. Pet. 4. v. 8. and Charity Cover'd his Faults secure shall be Iam 5. v 20. Luk. 13. v. 5. Dan. 4. v. 24. But he who Pennance did neglect And with Alms did not sin redeem Will nothing find him to protect Against the Dev'ls but then will seem Wholly dejected and mute stand At what God shall of him demand It is not Power or Eloquence That with the Judge will then prevail An humble and clear conscience Is then a friend that will not fail A virtuous Beggar Luk 16. v. 22. here contemn'd Will be preferr'd and Kings condemn'd The Lyar there shall not prevail The Swearer's Oath will be in vain All craft and Policy will fail Heb. 4. v. 12.13 Deceitfull Tongue will nothing gain Their Truth will naked open ly Which none shall dare then to deny Great Honour Pow'r Prov. 11. v. 4. and Majesty Wealth Beauty Valour Strength and Wit Will not at all regarded be Nothing but Virtue then shall quit This shall advance to high degree And those will prove but Vanity Wisd 5. v. 1. The Just shall in great constancy Against their Persecutours stand v. 3. Who sighing then most bitterly Will their past follies understand How dearly worldly Pleasures cost For which Eternall Joys are lost We v. 4. mad Men did the Saints lives deem Great madness and their end disgrace Behold how God doth them esteem v. 5. And with his dearest children place What doth our glory now avail v. 8. Since of Eternall we do fail The Sheep then parted from the Goats Shall placed be at God's right hand Mat. 25. v. 32. v. 33. Those pleasant these with dolefull notes Shall at the left with Devills stand Expecting Sentence which shall sever Them from the Just and God for ever Then God unto the Just shall say When I was hungry or in need v. 35. You Ghospell-Counsell did obey And in the poor you did me feed What unto them to me you gave v. 45. And from me your reward shall have Come Blessed v. 34. glory now possess Go you Accursed to Hell fire v. 41. v. 42. As you on Earth were merciless And as your horrid Sins require Iam 2. v. 13. Mat. 25. v. 46. Your Lot with Dev'ls in Fire shall be But these shall live for êver with me I wish all Men would oft reflect Upon this dreadfull Judgment-Day Then Virtue they would not neglect Nor for vain pleasures go astray Since they account for all must give 2. Cor. 5. v. 10. They would be carefull how they live This was Saint Jerom's Meditation Hieron de Reg. Monachor c. 20 what e're I do write eat or drink Upon that great day's desolation And God's strict Iudgment I do think This Trumpet still sounds in my ear Arise you Dead make answer here Thrice happy Man who doth prepare For that most horrid dreadfull day 2. Pet. 3. v. 11.14 Who God doth serve and sin beware And Pennance do without delay While others fear he shall rejoyce At Trumpet sound and Iudge's Voice Amen OF HELL Go ye accursed into Everlasting fire Math. 25. v. 41. AS Man in part Corporeall is He of necessity must dy Gen. 3. v. 19. Wisd 7. v. 1. 1. Cor. 15. v. 5◠But when this part from grave is ris ' He 'l live again Eternally In joy or grief in Heav'n or Hell Iudgment decides where he shall dwell Who liv'd and dy'd in wickedness With piercing Fire shall then be try'd No Tongue is able to express What he with Dev'ls shall there abide What grief in soul what pain in sense What knawing worm of Conscience Isai 66. v 24. For as his Body shar'd in sin So shall the sense afflicted be 2 Cor 5. v. 10. The soul as Actor chief therein Shall undergo most misery The pain of sense no Tongue can tell The pain of Loss will that excell God by the Wise Man doth declare Eccli 39. v. 33. In Hell there are Tormenting Spirits Which to revenge created are And punish justly to demerits Who have in fury fortify'd Their Torments Who shall then abide His fury who hath them created v. 34. They shall powr forth without restraint No pain shall ever be abated God will not mind their sad complaint Hail Fire Famin Death and Scorpions v. 35. v. 36. Beasts teeth and Serpents are their Portions The Fire will pierce in that degree And so excessively torment That they will so enraged be As their own Flesh to gnaw and rent Rev. 16. v. 10. They 'l curse the hour which life first gave And wish the Womb had been their Grave Mat. 26. v. 24. The Lord 's great Day says Malachy Malae ◠v. 1. Shall like à fiêry furnace flame When all the Proud like straw shall be Consum'd to ashes in the same v. 3. The Humble shall tread them in fire Who did on Earth so high aspire The wanton and Luxurious Man Shall fiery Serpents there embrace Eccli 39. v. 36. Who greedy after Riches ran Shall come to want shame and disgrace The Envious Man shall pine away To think of others happy day The Furious Man the Fire shall tame His Oaths and Curses none shall dread The Lving Tongue shall come to Shame The Slothfull shall with Want be fed The Glutton there Luk 16. v. 24. through burning Thirst Shall judge his case to be the worst The Atheist then a God will find So also will the Temporiser Who held belief of any kind To save his Wealth true Faith's despiser All then shall own what Scripture saith There 's but one God Eph. 4. v. 5. and one true Faith Themselves in vain they will condemn Wisd 5. v. 7.8.13 That for vain Honour Riches Wealth The Laws of God they did contemn With virtue Isai 66. v. 24. Mark 9. v. 44.46.48 and their ghostly