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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51312	Psychodia platonica, or, A platonicall song of the soul consisting of foure severall poems ... : hereto is added a paraphrasticall interpretation of the answer of Apollo consulted by Amelius, about Plotinus soul departed this life / by H.M., Master of Arts and Fellow at Christs Colledge in Cambridge.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.	1642 (1642)	Wing M2674; ESTC R7962	134,102	252

ΨΥΞΩΔΙΑ PLATONICA OR A Platonicall Song of the SOUL Consisting of foure severall Poems viz. ΨΥΞΟΖΩΙΑ ΨΥΞΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΑ ΑΝΤΙΨΥΞΟΠΑΝΝΥΞΙΑ ΑΝΤΙΜΟΝΟΨΥΞΙΑ Hereto is added a Paraphrasticall Interpretation of the answer of Apollo consulted by Amelius about Plotinus soul departed this life By H. M. Master of Arts and Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge Nullam majorem afferre solet ignaris inscitia voluptatem 〈◊〉 expeditum factidiosúmque contemptum Scal. CAMBRIDGE Printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the Universitie 1642. To the Reader But whom lust wrath and fear controul Scarce know their body from their soul If any such chance heare my verse Dark numerous Nothings I rehearse To them measure out an idle sound In which no inward sense is found Thus sing I to cragg'd clifts and hills To sighing winds to murmuring rills To wastefull woods to empty groves Such things as my dear mind most loves But they heed not my Heavenly passion Fast fixt on their own operation On chalky rocks hard by the Sea Safe guided by fair Cynthia I strike my silver-sounded lyre First struck my self by some strong fire And all the while her wavering ray Reflected from fluid glasse doth play On the white banks But all are deaf Unto my Muse that is most lief To mine own self So they nor blame My pleasant notes nor praise the same Nor do thou Reader rashly brand My rhymes 'fore thou them understand H. M. ΨΥΞΟΖΩΙΑ OR A CHRISTIANO-PLATONICALL display of LIFE Written in the beginning of the year of our LORD 1640. and now published for all free Phisophers and well-willers to the true Christian Life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Trismeg CAMBRIDGE Printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the Universitie 1642. TO THE READER upon the first Book of PSYCHOZOIA THis first book as you may judge by the names therein was intended for a mere Platonicall description of Universall life or life that is omnipresent though not alike omnipresent As in Noahs Deluge the water that overflowed the earth was present in every part thereof but every part of the water was not in every part of the earth or all in every part so the low Spirit of the Universe though it go quite through the world yet it is not totally in every part of the world Else we should heare our Antipodes if they did but whisper Because our lower man is a part of the inferiour Spirit of the Universe Ahad Aeon and Psyche are all omnipresent in the World after the most perfect way that humane reason can conceive of For they are in the world all totally and at once every where This is the famous Platonicall Triad which though they that slight the Christian Trinity do take for a figment yet I think it is no contemptible argument that the Platonists the best and divinest of Philosophers and the Christians the best of all that do professe religion do both concur that there is a Trinity In what they differ I leave to be found out according to the safe direction of that infallible Rule of Faith the holy Word In the mean time I shall not be blamed by any thing but ignorance and malignity for being invited to sing of the second Unity of the Platonicall Triad in a Christian strain and Poeticall scheme that which the holy Scripture witnesseth of the second Person of the Christian Trinity As that his patrimony is the possession of the whole earth For if it be not all one with Christ according to his Divinity although their attributes sute exceeding well For that second Unity in the Platonicall Triad is called Filius Boni The Son of the Good The Christian second Person The Sonne of God He 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first beauty or lustre He the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and sometime 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As in Trismeg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He the Truth That the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or true platform according to which every thing was made and ought to be made That Aeon He Eternall life He the wisdome of God That the Intellect He 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet the Platonists placing him in the same order and giving him the like attributes with the Person of the Sonne in Christianity it is nothing harsh for me to take occasion from hence to sing a while the true Christian Autocalon whose beauty shall adorn the whole Earth in good time if we believe the Prophets For that hath not as yet happened For Christ is not where ever his name is but as he is the Truth so will he be truly displayed upon the face of the whole Earth For God doth not fill the world with his glory by words and sounds but by spirit and life and realtie Now this Eternall life I sing of even in the midst of my Platonisme for I cannot conceal from whence I am viz. of Christ but yet acknowledging that God hath not left the Heathen Plato especially without witnesse of himself Whose doctrine might strike our adulterate Christian professours with shame and astonishment their lives falling so exceeding short of the better Heathen How far short are they then of that admirable and transcendent high mystery of true Christianisme To which Plato is a very good subservient Minister whose Philosophy I singing here in a full heat why may it not be free for me to break out into an higher strain and under it to touch upon some points of Christianitie as well as all-approved Spencer sings of Christs under the name of Pan Saint Paul also transfers those things that be spoken of Jupiter to God himself Arat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those latter words he gives to the Christian God whom he himself preached I will omit the usual course of the Spirit of God in holy Writ To take occasion from things that have some resemblance of divine things under them to speak of the true things themselves All this out of a tendernesse of mind being exceeding loth to give any man offence by my writings For though knowledge and theory be better then any thing but honesty and true piety yet it is not so good as that I should willingly offend my neighbour by it Thus much by way of preparation to the first piece of this Poem I will now leave thee to thine own discretion and judgement Upon the second Book THis second Book before we descend to particular lives exhibits to our apprehension by as fit a similitude as I could light upon the Universe as one simple uniform being from Ahad to Hyle no particular straitned being as yet being made no Earth or any other Orb as yet kned together All homogeneall simple single pure pervious unknotted uncoacted nothing existing but those eight universall orders There God hath full command builds and destroyes what he lists That all our souls are free effluxes