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A13277	Panthea: or, Diuine vvishes and meditations: vvritten by Io. Siluester: reuised by I.M. Master of Arts. Whereunto is added an appendix, containing an excellent elegy, written by the L. Viscount St. Albans, late Lord High Chancelour of England. &c.	Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.; Martin, James, fl. 1615-1630.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1630 (1630)	STC 23580; ESTC S118074	13,759	32

PANTHEA OR DIVINE VVISHES AND MEDITATIONS Written by Io. Siluester Reuised by I.M. Master of Arts. Fero spero Whereunto is added an Appendix containing an Excellent Elegy written by the L. Viscount St. Albans late Lord High Chancelour of England c. LONDON Printed for F. Coules and are to be sold at his Shop in the vpper end of the Old-Baily 1630. To the very Honorable Knight and Magnificent Baronet Sr. RICHARD HOVGHTON of Houghton-Tower All Health Honor and Happinesse Most Honor'd Sir THe heauenly Light of Diuine Truth shining in the sacred Scripture hath enabled our Soules cleerely to see their owne Excellence viz. that they are by Creation Spirits a Eccles. 12.7 or spirituall Substances of an b Mat. 10.28 immortall Nature in Duration eternall as being in Tertullians phrase Afflatus oris Diuini the immediate Handiworke of God and consequently c Quicquid ex nihilo fit est incorruptibile incorruptible Yea such is their exquisite Beauty and absolute Perfection considered in their owne d The Essence of God Angels Soules is knowne to God alone exactly Athanas Tract de Definitiombus Essence as the most amiable Reflex of Diamonds the Virgin-blushes of Rubies the azure veines of Saphires the greene lustre of Emeralds the various beames of Iacincts and the radiant constellations of the fairest and most Orient Vnions are neuer able to parallell Thus Nobly-descended and rarely-qualified is the Soule a Creature of such Angelicall Serenity as that the MAIESTY of HEAVEN enamour'd on his owne bright Image made this goodly Globe of Heauen e Ita S. Chrysost and Earh for her solace and Contemplation wooed her with most ardent and inflam'd Affection stiling her f In Salomons Song his Loue his Doue his Sister his Spouse and lastly married her to Himselfe for euer by assuming our Humane g Deus humana natura vniuntur non Deus Homo quia non Persona Persona Assumpsit Deus non Hominem sed Humanitatem Nature which hauing hypostatically and indissolubly vnited to his DEITY hee accomplisht in it the most Admirable Worke of our Redemption inuested it with Jmmortality by his Resurrection and aduanced it to his Heauenly Kingdome far aboue all Coelestiall Powers by his Ascension And now is MAN in regard of this superexcellent Honour become in this point superiour to the ANGELS as being participant of the h St. Pet. Ep. 2. chap. 1. v. 4. Diuine Nature subsisting in the most Sacred Person of our euer-blessed Lord JESVS whose glorified Humanity is most triumphantly enthroniz'd at the Right Hand of God on High Thus hath the King of Angels in his ineffable loue to our Soules exalted this humane Flesh aboue the highest Hierarchy to the amazement of those Heauenly Spirits as the i St. Pet. Ep. 1. chap. 1. v. 12. Prince of th' Apostles intimateth Neuerthelesse if an exact Suruey be taken of this present World will there not be found in all Estates such a generall Apostasie from the Loue of God as if Men were altogether Soule-lesse or at least Sense-lesse how infinitely the Creator of the World values that peerelesse Pearle which this shell of Mortality containes a Pearle so inestimable as nothing in Heauen or Earth but the very k Our Sauiours Heart was pierced with the speare for our sinnes O that our hearts might be pierced with true compunction and Repentance otherwise wee haue no part in his Passion HEART BLOOD of the ONELY SONNE of GOD could redeeme To instance this sottish Madnesse and Epidemicall Corruption in all Degrees and Delinquents were infinite J will therfore in present cull out onely some that are in their owne Conceits the Creame of Christendoms the purest and demurest Professants in comparison of whom the obedient Children of the Church of England are reputed prophane and Vnsanctified Persons l Eccl. Hist lib. 8. cap. 7. Eusebius an Authenticke and approued Author hath a memorable H●storie appliable to this purpose He relates how he saw at Tyre a City of Phoenicia diuers naked Christians exposed by their Persecutors to cruell Panthers mighty Beares and m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wild Bores to be deuoured by them which rauenous Beasts although they were prouoked by the Christians to assaile them for so were the poore Soules commanded yet they vtterly refused to hurt or approach them but on the contrary they slew at the Insidels without the Barres which exasperated them against the Christians To make some Application and Vse of this rare and miraculous Euent I haue learned by good Intelligence and your Noble Selfe with many Thousands in plagâ hyper-Boreâ were ocular Witnesses that certaine externall Professors n Of these see an excellent Sermon called Corona Charitatis pag. 28 29 30. of Christianity yet internall Contemners of the Ordinance of Christ in the Ministration of their owne o Heb. 13.17 Pastors hauing long panted after their Extirpation and Destruction combin'd together at last as close as p See Iob c. 41. v. 15 16 17. Leuiathans soules to strip them of their Reuenues incarcerate q A Diabolicall Act. Reu. 2.10 Thus the Arrians raged against Orthodox Teachers especially against Athanasius who was faine to slye from their hellish surie See his Apologie for his Flight c. and his Epistle ad Solitarios where he writes that hauing beene twice depriued by 2 false Synods he was at last absolued and restored to his Church notwithstanding the former Sentences of the Hereticall Bishops who as he elegantly termes them were rather Catascopi then Episcopi Catchpoles then Bishops their Persons disseaze them of their Frecholds by Bribery and Legall Sleights dissipate their Goods ruinate their Families begger their Posterities and to teare them quite in pieces O most detestable Immanity infame them with a thousand virulent Aspersions and venemous Jmputations assuring themselues though their tongues ranne neuer so false a Gallop yet some maleficiate or other would beleeue them the credulity of the Vulgar especially in Clorgie mens Cases being such as if a Gnat but spread his Wings betweene them and the Sunne to thinke it eclipsed These things being so let any Christian or Pagan iudge whether those wild beasts in Eusebius were not infinitely more humane compassionate and mercifull to the designed Martyrs then were these vnchristian Kernes masked Miscreants and Diabolicall Decoy's to their conformable Preachers in whose Coats seeing they could not finde a hole they resolued to fret one Vndoubtedly you bloody Bores selfe-admiring Libertines and Cyclopicall Canibals your crying Sinnes and thundering Crimes of Oppression and Ravine though mantled with Hypocrisie the Deuils Masking-sute haue entred the r Iam. 5.4 eares of the Lord of Hosts For howeuer this vnhallowed Crew may in a spirituall Phrenzy flatter and hug themselues in their abhorred Rapacity and sing Requiems and Lullabies to their senselesse Soules and cauterized Consciences as if they should neuer tremble before the terrible Tribunall of

pointing at a Starre As I at Thee thy Light transcending farre Thou dost our Thoughts to Speculation tye Like some cleere Fountaine where the Crystall Sky Her bright-vnwrinkled-azure brow may see So doe the Heauens behold their Face in Thee Thy Heart the Firmament of faithfull Truth Thy Arts the glistring Starres that grac'd thy Youth Thy Soule the Cynthia whose bright-shining Raies Lighted the World to haue reform'd her Waies Thy All a Little-World of richer Frame Then that which did possesse the Golden Name Hence then you Termagants to * Ætnae supposed to be Plutoes Court. Mongibell You * Certaine histrionicall Professors Disciples of Sr Iohn Lacke-Latine in the Vniuersity of Fooliana which supernodically censure all Verses whatsoeuer Pantalouns that POESY damne to Hell Peace yawning Goblins Hob Dick Hick and Will Spue not your Gall against his Sacred Quill To such may euery Leafe and euery Line An Armadillo be or Porcupine S. N. à sacerrimis Catharis Lavernionibus horrendiffimè spoliatus The Authors Inuocation and Imprecation against his Infernall Enemies SVpreame Commander of the Crystall Sky That ALL of NOTHING powerfully didst frame Bee 't not offense against thy Deity With humble Accents to adore thy Name Though in this Teare-composed Terrene Globe I weare Mortalities Sin-stained Robe Let me behold with Contemplations Eye The Beauty of thine Angell-guarded Throne And let my soule with humble boldnesse fly Aboue the Starry Constellation And there with that most holy Hierarchy Sing Hymnes and Anthems to thy Deity Let my sad Soule long pierc'd with Swords of Griefe By Fiends Alastors Harpyes Furies fell Receiue my God from thee Diuine Reliefe Which may their Pride and canker'd Malice quell Make those pure Hell-Dogs in their Dens to couch And Belzebub himselfe at last to crouch PANTHEA The Induction WHat should I wish for on the Earth Goodnes is growne to such a dearth While want of Grace doth make abuse Of that which might be for good Vse That who obserues what most men wish Shall find how fond and vaine it is Some wish for Wealth to pamper Pride The Medicine good but ill-applide Some wish for Honour in high thought Honour is good Ambition nought Some wish for Health to liue at ease Health may be good Ease breeds Disease Some wish for Power to wrong at will Power oft is good Oppression ill Some wish for Youth to nourish Folly Youth may be good the Wish vnholy Some wish for Loue to answer Lust Loue may be good the Wish vnjust Some wish for Strength to crush and kill Strength may be good but Murther ill Thus still th' Abuse which Will brings forth Doth make the Wishes nothing worth Yet since that Wishes may be good When Worth is truly vnderstood Let me set downe my Hearts desire And what hath set my Soule on sire It is not Earth nor earthly Treasure Nor worldly Honour fleshly Pleasure Nor Power nor Place nor Youth nor Strength Nor drawing out this Life at length Nor idle pleasing Natures Eye With fond Affections Vanity Not one of these comes neere the White Of my Hearts Wish and Soules Delight The Course of my true Cares content Extends aboue the Firmament The lenell of my Soules chiefe Loue Is onely in the Heauens aboue Where I shall see my Sauiour sweet And how his Saints and Augels meet With such an Harmony of voyces As shewes how euery Soule reioyces In the beholding his sweet Face That is the Glory of all Grace This this my Wish shall onely be To liue where I may euer see My Sauiour sweet and in his sight Haue all my Hearts and Soules Delight Daigne then my God this Boone to giue Whiles here vpon this Earth I liue That neither Wealth nor Pouerty Nor Comfort nor Calamity Nor Health nor Sicknes Ease nor Paine Nor Hope nor Feare nor Losse nor Gaine May euer take such hold on me But still my Ioy in CHRIST may be I. Wish or Meditation OH had I of his Loue but part That chosen was by Gods own heart That Princely Prophet DAVID he Whom in the Word of Truth I see The King of Heauen so dearely lou'd As Mercy beyond measure prou'd Then should I neither Gyant feare Nor Lion that my Soule would teare Nor the Philistims nor such Fiends As neuer were true Christians friends No Passion should my Spirit vex Nor Sorrow so my minde perplex But I should still all Glory giue Unto my God by whom I liue Then Health nor Sicknesse Griefe nor Ease Should so my mind disease or please But Want or We what-ere I proue The Lord of Life should be my Loue. To him I should my mind impart And to him onely giue my heart And to his mercy onely pray To put my secret sinnes away To heale my sinfull wounded Soule And put my Name in Mercies Roll In all my Cares and Crosses still To comfort me with his good Will And when I cry and rore in Griefe In deepe despaire of Hopes Reliefe My Faith should yet in Mercy finde The Comfort of a constant Minde And I should euer ioy to see How Mercies Eye did looke on mee Then should my Heart tune euery string That to his glory I might sing A Song of euer-lasting Praise To end in neuer-ending daies Then should I play and sing and dance And to the Heauens mine Eyes aduance With ioy to see in Triumph so The Arke of God in Glory go And whatsoeuer I possesse In Power or Honour more or lesse Nor Earth nor Heauen should me moue But still my Lord should be my Loue. If I were sicke He were my Health If I were poore He were my Wealth If I were weake He were my Strength If dead He were my Life at length If scorn'd He onely were my Grace If banisht He my Resting-place If wrong'd He onely were my Right If sad He were my Soules Delight In summe and all All-onely He Should be All aboue All to me His Hand should wipe away my Teares His Fauor free me from all Feares His Mercy pardon all my Sinne His Grace my life anew begin His Loue my Light to Heauen should bee His Glory thus to comfort me Thus was this Kingly Prophet blest To liue in Loues eternall Rest And since I see his Grace so great To all that Mercy doe intreat And how the faithfull Soule doth proue An heauenly Blessing in his Loue Let me but onely This request To be but thus with Dauid blest That Ioy or Griefe what-e're I proue The Lord of Life may be my Loue. II. Wish or Meditation OH that I were as Wise as * Salomon He That did by Obseruation see What All things are with all their Worth That vnder Heauen the Earth brings forth How vaine they are and how they vex The Soule whom Passion doth perplex Then should I neither carke nor care For things that so vncertaine are Nor toyle nor labour for a Life So full of Falshood Feare and strife Nor ayme at Title Power or