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A55570	Tsofer bepaḥ, or, The bird in the cage, chirping four distinct notes to his consorts abroad I. of consideration, counsel and consolation, II. some experiences and observations gathered in affliction ..., III. the lamentations of Jeremiah ..., IV. a true Christians spiritual pilgrimage setting forth his afflicted and consolatory state in another metre : and as a preface hereto, an epistle to the Welsh churches, and a brief narrative of the former propagation and late restriction of the Gospel ... in Wales ... / by Vava. Powell.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3078; ESTC R19436	71,339	204

Profession and Practice of him Persecution Clear knowledge of Christ in the understanding begets fervent love in the heart and both Godliness in the life When a man is imprisoned and shut up from men he is the more shut up with God Account it not restraint as long as thy heart can goe out towards God and his people and waies in affection and Prayer Retiredness and close imprisonment drives a man to hold closer Communion with God and to a stricter Search of himself I would be glad to be out of the World when I have no Service to do for God in it He that would live for himself only or chiefly in the world is not worthy to live a day in it If I may not have Liberty to serve Christ I would have the Glory to Suffer for Christ Never fear Death but when sin is in the way to it either as a cloud hiding thy assurance or as a provoking Cause pulling death as a punishment upon thee Com. I would not have God pluck me to heaven in Anger As a master seeing his Servant sleepy or sloathful turns him out of the field and from his work to sleep and take his rest at home I would willingly work for Christ to eternity if I could without asking any more wages then I had already and skill power and delight to do his work If an Earthly Jubilee or outward deliverance come to Gods people whilst thou live here be rosolved to give both thy Ears to be bor'd through and to abide with him and return no more to sin or the world Never reckon what thou hast of outward and wordly things unless it be to Praise God for them or to Serve God better with them Compar Take heed that preparatory meditation to prayer doth not prevent Prayer it self or put you beside Prayer Secret Prayer is either a familiar Speaking to God and with God or a pouring out of the heart before God through his Son our Saviour by his Spirit Sometimes ejaculations or short and suddain Pantings and breathings out of desires to God may be more acceptable to him and prevailing with him then long prayers One of the three Radicall sins spoken of in 1 Joh. 2.16 is every man's master-sin My strongest greatest and most fervent frequent desires were to be found in Christs reghteousness to convert sinners to be Holy in all manner of Conversation and to have my lot and living among and with the people and Saints of God There may be great difference between the temper of a Christian one time and another yea in the excercising of his gifts in Praying Preaching c. I often found my heart in dayes of humiliation more affected and melted by the Prayers of weaker then stronger Brethren And likewise observ'd that sometimes in matters of counsel and advice in the Church God hath given out his minde more clearly and convincingly by such as were less esteemed in the Church then those that were most esteemed Even as the hindermost Hound hits upon the Scent when all the pack besides lose it True Godliness and Hypocrysie are best discern'd in turnings and changes either when they change their conditions by Marriages or are exalted to offices or when new opinions begin to grow Com. Mark when you see a Professor that hath been careful to walk with other Christians and to follow the Ordinances of God constantly and closely if he begin to lagge behind and to with-draw he is surely under some sore temptation or hath faln into under some sin or which is worse may be dangerously suspected for a Hypocrite The like of one that hath been very confident and cheerful and is grown doubtful and sad Com. As the sappyest wood will hardlyest take fire so the Spiritualest Christian is hardlyest overcome with temptation and corruption 1 do not remember that ever fear and threatning did as mnch prevail with me as love and kindness or that I did atempt to overcome any man so much by might and cruelty as by perswasion and mercy I never repented me since my Conversion of any thing I said did or suffered for Christ or for walking in his way of joyning with his people nor resolved to goe on in any sin or turn back from the way of God or aside from the Commandements of God or to leave Church-Society One sin hath cost me more Sorrow then all my Sufferings It is happy to dye in the Lord and honourable to dye for the Lord. A Prison or persecution is to a Christian as some scaring thing that one sees in the night at a distance but when he comes near it and to know it he is not at all afraid of it Com. A man should hold sin as one would hold a hot-iron ready to fling it out of his hand but hold the Gospel and his Profession as a man would hold a Silver-cup that hath dainty meat in it which though it be hot yet he will not let it fall or like a glass that hath wine in it which a man will not willingly let slip out of his hand Com. Seek to find out your own Errors before another find them out and to write your own Errata's Com. It is now with all or most Christians as with men that had been at a very great and full feast who have Surfeited thereby and are stomack-sick and willing rather then to continue so to take a vomit and cast up all to the dogges so Christians had rather cast up all the sweet Morsels and mamocks of worldly things which they have swallowed down to the wicked againe then have them lye as guilts upon their Consciences or blocks between their Souls and Christ The Kings of the earth will ere long be Fanaticks that is wise fools and see their folly and madness in joyning with the Beast against the Lambe But first the Lamb must give one sound overthrow and fall to the Beast Rev. 17.14 16. When the Lord is trying his People they should be trying themselves I never remembered that I had such a hard thought of God as to think he did wrong me in or by any thing he layd upon me Com. Christians should not desire deliverance before the time appointed for that is as if a woman should desire to have her child born before the full and due time Com. Some mercies are big-belly'd mercies that have many mercies in their wombes as Election Redemption c. Com. Election is like the conception Redemption like the quickning in the womb Conversion like the birth and Perseverance in holiness like growth Com. A man that goes up stairs step by step may come to the Top at last as well as he that strides two or three steps of the stairs at once so a soft-pac'd Christian by continuance and perseverance will reach heaven at last It is a commendable thing in a Traveller so to travel in the mornning as to continue or mend his pace in the Evenning Soe for a Christian to run faster the

all his works in and for God Joh. 3.21 Rom. 6.10.1 Cor. 10.31 4. To bring his will to submit to the will of God in every thing Mark 26.42 Heb. 10.7 Take heed of sinning presumptuously i.e. 1. Knowingly Luke 12.47 Heb. 6.4 6.2 Pet. 2.20 2. Willingly and wilfully Hos 5.11 Heb. 10.26 3. By contemning the Law and Love of God Prov. 3.13 Rom. 2.4 4. By flighting Jesus Christ's Person Power and his Blood Mat. 12.24 Luke 19.14 Heb. 10.29 5. By blaspheming and doing despight to the Spirit of God Luke 11.15 Heb. 10.29 6. By falling into the hands of God without Christ and true Sanctification Heb. 10.29 Com. A Christian in Affliction if he understand not what God intends thereby should believe God intends not to hurt him As a Wife or a Child that a Husband or Father brings into a Wood or Water ☜ yet they are confident it is not to hang or drown them It is a sign that People do not repent when they grow worse Rev. 16.9 11. A passionate and troubled spirit is like a little Pryll of Water which every showre of Rain or Beast that passes thorow doth change the colour of it and make muddy Quick Onsets and Endeavours to Reform are far better than many Purposes and Resolutions It should trouble a Christian much to have such Graces which he receives from God beget so little good in him Oh my soul will neither great Love great Mercy great Forbearance great Intreaty nor great Wages prevail with thee to serve Christ freer and better A deep sence of sin begets deep sorrow for sin and true sorrow for sin leads to wel-grounded Faith from hence flows inward Peace Joy and Holiness The Lord would soon turn from his Wrath if men were turned from their Wickedness A Christian is not only to be contented with any condition but he is to be religiously contented or in a religious manner not as a meer man and to see that the least things he hath more than he deserves and the worst things that he endures yet sweetned and sanctified to him Com. As a Husbandman when great Rain comes unyoaks his Oxen and turns them home where they are feeding and gathering new strength to work again So God doth his Children in time of Affliction and Persecution Com. A Christians time of Affliction is like to a Womans washing or scouring day when the Cloaths or Vessels are all out of order but it is in order to set them in a better frame speedily Of all men a Christian may be freer to lose or to part with any thing than another man for he loses nothing but either what is hurtful to him to wit his sins or what he shall regain and recover of a better sort and in a more abundant degree As if he lose a small temporal ESTATE he hath in reversion an Eternal INHERITANCE If he lays down a body that is full of Corruption he shall have another free from Corruption and therfore he may say better than the Heathen could What I keep I lose and what I give or lay out I save The Lord hath I am perswaded done more by the Afflictions which he hath lately brought upon his People than either was done or like to be done by any other wayes or means Viz. 1. He hath driven his People more together and made them more one * Vnio in Larine signifies Vnion or a Pearl Oneness among Saints is a Pearl of great value 2. He hath separated more between them and the World like winnowing drives the Chaff further from the Wheat 3. He hath convinced them more of their miscarriages both towards him and toward one another 4. He hath made them to know persons and things better 5. To prize Spiritual Priviledges and Ordinances more Such a fulness as Christians had of Ordinances made them despise them like the Israelites the Manna 6. To experience their own weakness of Faith together with their great misbelief by checking the over-much Confidence of his Saints 7. To cry more earnestly to him and wait more constantly on him 8. They are unloaded and much discharged of the burden of the World A Christian should take heed lest he be giving way to his heart to steal out now and then to sin and get some sweet-bits thereof between Duties He should be careful also to fence that Gap most by which the strongest Temptations do enter oftenest in There will be a reviving of old sins if there be not effectual Repentance for them and a care by Faith through all Duties and Ordinances to get new strength against them and a constant watch kept over them When God makes the World too hot for his People to hold then they will let it go A Christian comes not to know the weakness of his Grace till the Spirit ceases to work in and by it nor the power of his Corruption till Satan works therein by his Temptation A Christian's flesh shonld keep from the shew and his Conscience from the guilt of Sin Sin 's best is before but its worst is behind and the sting and tayl of it longer than it self Where Sin is not killed it will kill Sin was condemned by Christ to save the sinner Rom. 8.3 Oh then let not the Sinner seek to save the Sin to condemn Christ again As the natural Sun the nearer it is to us and the more direct over us the less shadow it casteth So Christ the nearer he is to us the less Darkness and Sin we have Christians should account restraints from Sin great Mercies to them but Recoveries out of Sin with advatage greater Sin hath no mother but a man's heart nor father but Satan Sin draws the Soul into it either by power of policy by force or by fraud Christians should not give offence carelesly nor take offence causelesly Fear thy Friends more than thy Foes thy Sins more than thy Sufferings and Liberty more than Bondage Some Christians have four Thorns that grieve them a Thorn of Affliction from God a Thorn of Persecution from men and a Thorn of Temptation from Satan and of Corruption in themselves which is the worst and that which should trouble them most Though a man may be bled in time of self-ostentation both by God and men by God in Affliction and by men through Persecution Reproaches c. yet that Vein is apt to fill up still Christians should desire to be handfasted and heart-tied to the Lord and to be strong in Faith on Christ Love to him and Resolution for him Self-loathing destroyes self-love much and the more we loath our selves the better we love others Christians should not envy the patience of God towards their Enemies for it is nothing in comparison of what grace he shews to them If Affliction doth us good we should not desire to be free from it till it does us more good much less if it hath not done us any good at all The reason why men do not more magnifie GOD's Grace

but in vain They gave their pleasant things for meat to bring their souls again See O Lord and consider me for vile I yet remain 12 Oh is it nothing unto you all ye that do passe by Behold and see if that there be any sorrow like my Sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the Lord now hath Afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger and wrath 13 Fire from above into my bones in justice he hath sent And it prevaileth against them by which my strength is spent For my feet he hath spread a net he back hath turned me Yea he hath made me desolate and all the day fainty 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his own hand They are wreathed and are come up on my neck as a band He hath made my strength for to fail the Lord delivered me Into their hands from whom I now cannot rise or get free 15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my men once mighty And in the midst of me he hath called an assembly Aganst me to crush my young men the Lord trod the Virgin The comely daughter of Judah in a wine-press for sin 16 For these things do I weep mine eye mine eye pours water down Because the Comforter that should relieve my Soul and own Is far from me and my children are desolate you see Because the Enemy hath so prevailed over me 17 Sad Zion spreadeth forth her hands to comfort her there 's none The Lord commanded concerning Jacob and his Zion That his Enemies should surround him yea Jerusalem Is as a menstruous woman now abiding among them 18 The Lord is wonderful righteous for I rebelled have Against his just commandment for all this he can save Hear I pray you all People then and this my sorrow see My maids and my young men are gone into Captivity 19 I called unto my Lovers but they deceived me My Priests and my Elders gave up the ghost in the City While they sought their meat that their souls therewith reliev'd might be 20 Behold O Lord for I am in grievous distress and woe My bowels are troubled mine heart is turn'd within me too Because I have most grievously rebelled this is come Abroad the Sword bereaveth much there is like Death at home 21 They my foes have heard that I sigh there 's none to comfort me Yea all mine Enemies have heard of this my misery They are glad that thou hast done it thou yet the day wilt bring That thou hast call'd and they shall be like unto me suffering 22 Let all their wickedness O Lord in time come before thee And do unto them according as thou hast done to me Because of all my transgressions committed against thee For my sighs are many for sins and my heart is fainty CHAP. II. HOw hath the glorious Lord cover'd the daughter of Zion With a thick cloud in his anger and from Heaven cast down Unto the earth the lowest state Israels whole beauty And forgot his foot-stool in the day that he was angry 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the inhabitants well known Of Jacob and hath not piti'd in his wrath he threw down The daughters of Judah's strong holds he brought down to the ground He hath polluted the kingdom and her Princes once crownd 3 In his fierce anger he cut off Israels horn fully He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy And he is grievously incens'd against Jacob with ire Which round about sorely devour'd like to a flaming fire 4 He also bent his mighty bow like as an enemy He likewise stood with his right hand ev'n as an adversary And slew all things that did appear pleasant unto the eye In Zions daughters tent like fire he pour'd out his fury 5 The Lord was as an enemy he Israel swallowed And all her stately Pallaces he hath quite devoured He hath destroyed his strong holds and hath increased in The daughters of Judah's mourning and sorrow for her sin 6 And his Tabernacle away he did take violently As a Garden he destroy'd his places of Assembly The Lord caus'd Sabbaths and solemn feasts to cease in Zion He hath despis'd the King and Priest in his indignation 7 The Lord hath cast off his Altar he loath'd his sanctuary Her pallace wals he gave up to the hand of th' enemy And they in the house of the Lord have lifted up a voice As in the solemn feasting-days appointed to rejoyce 8 The Lord hath purposed also the wall to undermine Of the dear daughter of Zion he hath stretch'd out a line And he hath not withdrawn his hand from cruel destroying For he made rampart and walls mourn they joyn in languishing 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground her Bars are spoil'd and burst Her King and her Princes carried among the Gentiles curst The Law is no more to be seen her Prophets also find No vision nor Revelation from the Lord of his mind 10 The Elders of Zions daughther sit on the ground silent They have cast dust upon their heads in great astonishment They have girded themselves also with sack-cloth they are found The Virgins of Jerusalem hang their heads to the ground 11 Mine eyes do greatly fail with tears my bowels are troubled My liver and my inward parts on the earth is poured For the breach of the Daughter of my People in mis'ry For the babes and sucklings swoon in the streets of the City 12 They say to their Mothers where is the Corn and Wine we die When they swoon'd as the wounded in the streets of the City When their precious soul was poured and surrendred again Into their dear mothers bosom but all this was in vain 13 What thing shall I at this time take to testifie for thee Or what thing shall I parallel to thee in misery O daughter of Jerusalem what shall I think upon Equal to thee that I may give the consolation O Virgin daughter of Zion for thy breach is very Great like the sea who can heal thee of this thy misery 14 Thy Prophets have beheld both vain and foolish things for thee And they have not discovered thy great iniquity To turn away thy sore bondage by bidding thee repent But saw for thee false burdens and causes of banishment 15 All that passe by do now at thee clap their hands together They hiss and wag their heads now at Jerusalem's daughter Saying is this the City that men call the perfection Of beauty the joy of the whole earth Is this that Zion 16 All thine enemies have open'd their mouths wide against thee They hisse and gnash the teeth they say and that triumphantly We have now swallowed her up quite this is the day surely That we look'd for we it have found we have seen it fully 17 The Lord hath done what he devis'd and he hath fulfilled His words that in the daies of old himself had commanded He threw down and hath not piti'd and caused thine

Enemy to Rejoyce o're thee and he set up the horn of this thy foe 18 Their heart cried unto the Lord O wall of the Daughter Of Zion day and night let tears run down like a river Give thy self O Jerusalem no rest nor quietness Let not the apple of thine eyes cease whilst thy foes oppresse 19 Arise and cry out in the night in the first watch with grace Pour out thy heart like water now before Jehovah's face O lift up thy hands towards him for the life of thy sweet Young children that for hunger faint in top of every street 20 Behold O Lord and consider to whom thou this hast done Shall the woman eat their own fruit and babes of a span-long Shail the Priest and Prophet be slain in the Lords Sanctuary 21 The young and old lie on the ground in the streets openly My Virgins and my young Men are fallen by th' sword sadly Thou slew'st them in thy angry day thou kill'st without pitty 22 Thou cal'st as in a solemn day my terrours round about So that in the day of the Lord's anger none scaped out Nor remained those that I have swadled and brought up so Mine Enemy hath consumed my sin hath caused this woe CHAP. III. the man that affliction saw by the rod of his wrath Into darkness but not to light he led and brought me hath Surely against me he is turnd he turns his hand all day My flesh and skin hath he made old he brake my bones alway He built against me and compass'd with gall and travel me He set me in dark places as they that of old dead be He hedgd me round I cannot scape he made my chain heavy He also shuts out my prayer when I do shout and cry With hew'n stones he inclos'd my ways my paths he made un-straight Like Bear or Lion secretly for me he lies in wait And he hath turn'd aside my ways and in pieces pull'd me Yea he hath made me desolate great is my misery He bent his Bow and set me as a mark for the Arrow The Arrows of his Quiver he made through my reigns to go I was a Scoffe and derision to all my own People Also their song all the day long this to my sore trouble He fil'd me with bitterness he made me drunk with wormwood He brake my teeth with gravel-stones with ashes he me clad And thou hast also removed my soul far off from peace And I forgat prosperity by this my bitterness And I said my strength and my hope from the Lord is quite gone Minding the wormwood and the gall in this my affliction My soul doth still remember them and is humbled in me This I recall to mind therefore have I hope Lord in thee It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consum'd quite Because his compassions fail not we live still in his sight They are renew'd ev'ry morning great is thy † Faithfulness The heb word signifies also Truth truth in them The Lord 's my portion saith my soul therefore ' I le hope in him The Lord is good unto them that wait for him patiently And good unto the soul that doth seek him effectually It is good that a man should both hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the Lord which unto his is * Psal 85.9 nigh It is good for a man that he the yoak in his youth bear He sits alone and silence keeps for on him he bar't there He putteth his mouth in the dust if perhaps hope may be He gives his cheeks to him that smites frl'd with reproach is he Nevertheless the Lord will not cast off for ever such But though he cause grief yet will he express compassion much According to the multitude of his mercies often For he afflicts not willingly nor grieves the sons of men To crush under his feet all the poor prisoners of the world To turn aside mans right before the face of the high Lord. To subvert a man in his cause the Lord doth not approve Who saith and it comes to pass when God wills it not above Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not good and evil Why doth the living man complain man's plagu'd for being sinful Let 's search and try our ways and turn back to the Lord quickly Let 's lift our hearts with hands to God that 's in the heavens high We have transgressed and rebel'd thou hast not pardoned Thou hast cover'd us with anger and us persecuted Yea Jehovah thou hast us slain and hast not pittied Thou coveredst thy self with a cloud and our condition now Is such that our prayers could not unto thee Lord pass throw Thou mad'st us as the off-scouring and refuse among men All our enemies against us their mouths daily open Fear and a snare is come on us distresse and destruction Therefore with rivers of water mine eye still runneth down For the daughter of my People most sore destruction Mine eye drops down and ceaseth not without intermission Till the Lord look down and behold my case from heaven high For th'daughters all of my city my heart 's mov'd by mine eye Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird causlesly In th' dungeon they cut of my life and cast a stone on me Waters flowed over mine head then I said I am gone I call'd upon thy Name O Lord out of the low dungeon Thou heardst my voice hide not thine ear at my breathing my cry Thou drewest near bid'st me not fear that day I call'd on thee My soul's causes O Lord thou plead'st thou didst my life redeem Judge thou my cause O Lord again for thou my wrong hast seen Yea all their vengeance at all times thou perfectly didst see And their imaginations all wrongfully against me Thou hast heard their reproach O Lord all their † So in the Hebrew thoughts ' gainst me still The lips of those my foes that rose against me to my ill Also their ungodly device against me all the day At their down-sitting and rising I am their † So in the Hebrew See in Job 30.9 the same word song alway Render to them a recompence O Lord according to Their handy works give them thy curse yea them hearty sorrow Persecute and destroy them in anger from under * The thy Glorious heavens who onely art the Lord God Almighty CHAP. IV. HOw is the gold now become dim How 's the most fine gold chang'd In † So heb th' head of ev'rystreet the stones Of th' * Heb. sanctity Sanctuary out are pour'd 2 The precious sons of Zion like to fine gold how are they Esteem'd as works of Pottets hands the prtchers made with clay 3 Yea the † Heb. See Mal 1.3 Dragons draw out the breast they give suck to their young My Peoples daughters like fierce * Marg. owles of desarts is become 4 The sucking child's tongue cleaves to the roof of his mouth for drought The