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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08383	Some buds and blossoms of piety also, some fruit of the spirit of love. Which directs to the Divine wisdom, being a collection of several papers, found in manuscript, / written by a young man, many of them in the time of his apprenticeship, some of them since. Who, as appears by his writings, had a true travail after the knowledge of God, and heaven, and heavenly things. And did attain to know him and his son, Christ, whom he hath sent, which is life eternal. ; To which subjoyned is a tripple plea, touching law, physick and divinitie, formerly printed and subscribed T.C.	B. A. (Benjamin Antrobus), d. 1715.; T. C. Tripple plea.	1684 (1684)	Wing A3523A; ESTC R176216	28,434	89

maintain Nothing more plain is writ in Letters Red Than Antichrist where they mens Blood do shed About Religion and Religions things This is a truth Conviction with it brings To all that sober serious moderate are It is an Argument great weight will beare For Christ commanded that the Wheat and Care Should grow together till the Harvest were The Tares to be pluckt up he gave no leave Lest that thereby the Wheat should hurt receive He also told to his Disciples all When that from Heaven they would Fire call They did not know nor understand aright What spirit they were of for his delight Was Mens Lives for to save and not to kill For this end did he come to do Gods will He also said when that you Cursed are Then you should Bless when Persecuted bear It patiently and Pray for Enemies Do Good to those that hate you none despise Because they are not now just as you are The time may come they may Gods Image bear Though now Adverse Idolatrous and Vain The time may come they Mercy may obtain If now their Way be False Erroneous and Not Right in time they Truth may understand The best way then is still to let them live And let your Light so shine as it may give A better Understanding that they may Receive the Truth and walk in the Right Way After this manner Christ his Scholars taught And those ' teach otherwise their Doctrine's naught They ne'er did learn it of the Light the Lamb. For Persecution from the Devil came 'T is he that sets men to this Work and they Shall of him have their Wages and their Pay Therefore let none that this bad Work attend Expect Good Wages in their latter end Their Work is bad and their Reward will be Gnashing of Teeth to all Eternitie Thus much concerning Persecution here A thing from which all Christians should keep clear LOrd God Eternal by thy mighty Power Preserve I pray thee in the approaching hour Thy Lambs thy Babes thy little Ones yea all Who in Thee trust and on thy Name do call Support them Lord by thine Out-stretched Hand And give them boldness valinntly to stand True Witnesses for thee thy Truth and Light And bear their Testimony in despite Of Wicked Men who wilfully oppose That saving Light their deeds of Darkness shows ' Gainst their false Worships and Idolatry Which holds the Seed in sore Captivity That so the Righteous Seed o're all may rise To praise thy holy Name thou only Wise To whom be Glory Honour and Renown Who only worthy art to wear the Crown Concerning the Philosophers Stone BLest is that man can want and can abound And rest Content in all states he hath found That precious Pearl much hidden and unknown Which may be term'd the Philosophers Stone For it turns all to Good the chiefest Gold What-e'er it haps on either Heat or Cold Sun-shine or Rain Riches or Poverty Stripes or Reproaches all things well comply And with this Stone so joyntly mix and change Its course most swift throughout the World doth range And by its sublime Vertue still convert All things to Riches and great Joy of Heart Press forwards Chymists and this Stone attain For 't is the Sumnum Bonum and the main Point of Religion and Divinity Thus in Gods hand in true Content to lie And at the ordering of his mighty Power With true submissiveness even every hour In still and quiet Resignation stand To his disposing Providential hand Concerning Covetousness THere is a Sin too much liv'd in It many Cloakes doth wear These Cloakes much us'd and much abus'd Are almost grown Threed bare The Rich Men yet these Cloakes will get And wear them frequently As if so be no one could see What under them doth lie Alas Alas these Cloakes may pass Avarice to cover Yet all won't do to tell them true Though wrapt over and over This Sin which hath so many Cloakes Is named Covetousness Here ye may see Idolatry In some great things profess Although this sin so much liv'd in Be meer Idolatry Say what one will they 'l live in 't still 'T is Truth none can deny Concerning Pride Avarice and Luxury PRide Avarice and Luxury these three Are Evils great avoided for to be By all who Christ profess and bare his Name His Life and Doctrine did condemn the same Pride was the Evil which did first prevail Mis'ry on all through Adam to entail Pride and Self-love desires to grow so great Persues and craves to know what is not meet And when obtain'd it works a strange exchange Drives out from Paradise on Earth to range So Pride before Destruction goes and all That are of Haughty minds must have a fall Proud man God did resist and doth so still But doth the Humble teach to do his Will His Will then done Man does enjoy Gods Peace Rests in his Sabbath and from Sin doth cease Avarice is an Evil great indeed Because from it all Evils do proceed A Root of Mischief 't is Idolatry A Sin from which we all should swiftly fly But having touch'd on this great Sin before The less need say and so now pass it o're Luxury next is that of which I write An Evil great to indulge th' Appetite 'T is an Excess of Pleafure and Self-ease With Christian moderation ne're agrees To say What shall we eat or drink or weare It was the Gentiles for those things took care But Christ to his Disciples thus did say Take ye not thought he shew'd another way First seek Gods Kingdom and his Righteousness All other things the Lord will add and bless By which those that Luxuriously did feed And drink excessive are reprov'd indeed Indeed the same severe Reproof doth merit For those it use strange Mischiefs shall inherit Not only to their Bodies and Estates But on their Souls brings burdens and great weights Impareth Health it shortens Life and still Unfits the mind to do Gods holy Will And those in Luxury and Self-ease dwell Forget God so must be turn'd into Hell There 's One thing more to you I now may name Apparels first ordained to hide mans shame And why of these should man be proud I pray And for what reason should they be so gay Since the first Coat which Adam wore was spun By Sin a Threed and Work hath all undone Why then should Man use so much Cost and Care His Lapse to show thus trim the Badge to wear As if to all he meets he would impart His Innocency lost and Pride of 's Heart Well this I say Pride Avarice and all Luxurious ways sprung up through Adam's Fall And as Man comes to be Restor'd again By Christ these Sins are mortifi'd and slain But those live in such Evils and Excess Be no good Christians what e're they profess TEMPERANCE is a Vertue choice and rare This Age these Trees are scarce such Fruit doth bear This is an Age Intemperance and Sin Too much in Fashion is