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A75925	Devout rhapsodies: in vvhich, is treated, of the excellencie of divine Scriptures. Also, of God, his attributes. Plurality of persons. Absolute monarchie. Angels, Good, Bad, their power. How the bad fell. Tempt man. Man, his fall. Beatitude. / By J: A: Rivers.	Rivers, J. A. (John Abbot)	1647 (1647)	Wing A67; Thomason E413_16; ESTC R1117	46,163	91

exhausted never poore Such science is a more peculiar grace Granted to none o' th Philosophike race And who will have this TRIAD for his booke Must with FAITHS candle on the volume looke Though none can understand each page aright Who has not for his Flame-bew Glories light Merchants who travell to the rising SVN And view his setting when the day is done In neither of the Worlds can fulnes finde For though they fill their purses yet their minde Is emptie still and still they covet more And are amidst their heapes of Riches pore The Macedonian youth contented not Himselfe with the whole World his sword had got The Reason all things here confined are Within their Modell insufficient far To satisfie mans APPETITE ordain'd Not to be satisfi'd till GOD begaind The Spherik Figure no waye can suffice To equall what is made TRIANGLE wise Lay one upon another you shall see All waies some corners will unfurnish'd be When the Worlds maker made mans Soule the same Triangular did the best Worke-man frame To represent his matchles self and be The Image of one GOD in Persons three Ordaining him to love to honour serve His GOD who for such service do's reserve A Crowne and place in Heaven where he shall see The TRIADS order and how all things be Deriv'd from thence Nor can there ought be found In this low O●be that 's Sphericall and round May satisfie our Soules nor can wee ●est In Creatures who are ordred to be blest By his fruition who to Creatures gave That existence and essence which they have Sol'e GODS proportion'd to our Soules and till GOD be injoid wee nere shall have our fill Unles wee feed on this Celestiall meate Wee still shall hunger still desire to eare Creatures observe that order keepe that state Which GOD appoints Sole MAN'S retrogradate Behold the wandring Planets and fix't stars Are Constant in the motion of their Cars And as they approch or goe from severall seates Cause winters nipping frosts and Summer heates Make buds and blossomes sprout foorth in the Spring And in the Au●●mne to perfection bring See how the Simple Elements Combine And in the making of mixt Bodies ioyne The Fire the Ayre the Water that surrounds The Earth how all observe their proper bounds And very bounteously themselves bestow On all things that have sense or move or grow Suppose what will not be some glorious light The Sun or Moone should fall from Heaven or quite Extinguished be suppose Gods arme should take This World and of 't the Pristine Chaos make Involving in the same calamity The old the middle aged and the Frie Here death gives rest to Beasts to Fish to Foule All paine expiring with the fleeting Soule And though here 's some inversion of that end Which Nature in Creation did pretend Yet t is no more then if some Clowne should grub Or cut a plant up but as yet a shrub Or a young Partridge caught i th' Fowlers net Or by the Hawke devour'd Pin-fether'd yet But different far is Mans accursed state If by transgression he prevaricate For if in prosecution he shall erre Sulphurean Flames that first prepared were For the Infernall Fiends must be his hire And with condemned Ghosts eternall fire Better he had nere been borne then be borne so As dying he must live in endlesse woe For not as soules of Birds and Beasts Mans minde Shall with the body dissolution finde But when chance age or sicknesse break the tye Twixt Body and the Soule this last shall flye Supported by the wings of heavenly love To those magnifie●e Pallaces above Where Saints and Angels with much blithenesse sing The Trophees of the slaughtered Lambe and bring Their Anadems of Glory as t is meet Offering them and themselves at IESVS feet Who with the treasure of his precious blood Purchast his Courtiers such Beatitude Or else the Soule poysde with transacted faults Shall streight descend to subterranean Vaults Where horrour with pale desperation dwell And damned Ghosts eternally shall yell 'T would be some ease if thousand myriads past Of yeares Hels torments should have end at last But they 'le endure so long as GOD shall be And one way equalize eternity O thou all-potent Trinity whose hand First made then polisht Fire Aire Water Land Prescribdst to all their duty and their end Which they without reluctancie attend And gaine Illuminate our souls to know Wherefore thou mad'st us whether we should goe To heaven our journey is direct our wayes To that blest Land there crowne us with thy rayes Of glory who made by and after thee Without thy selfe shall nev'r contented be To the Honorable William Savile Baronet my Godson Edward Atsloe Iohn Church Esquires Sermo Quartus The Argument Wee sing what power bad Angels have and how All causes and their consequents they knowe Are incorporeall and with w●nged speed Act what they will but not their bounds exceed Wee sing unhappie mans corrupted state How more then Beasts he do's degenerate THe World being finish't God amazed stood And with much complacence pronounc'd al 's good If all be good how come ill Angels then So noxious yet so conversant with men If they are ill why are they lef't to roame Abroad why are they not confin'd to home In Hell why did they not when they lost grace Forfeite as well their Energye as place In Heaven they can doe wonders have a power As great as Sions courtier's some have more What from the rising of the Radiant sune Till in the Occident his race be run Is acted they see clearely can without Passing through Medium's scu'd the World about It'h twinckling of an eye at distance can Mountaines oreturne destroye or tempt a man Locall Dimensions limit not their Sphere Of action where they operate they are there And though these Devils can the Sun as soone Shut in a lanthorne as deduce the Moone Downe from it's Mansion yet they are petty Kings In the airie Region and ore earthly things Can dominere although not reach so farre As is the Mansion of the lowest Starre All Theorie and Practike arts they knowe Natures abstruser secrets no plants growe But they their Virtues ken and can apply Actives on Passives to bring miserie And witchcrafts upon man and as if wee Framde of Ambition envie enmitie Were not sufficient Devills to our selves Wee must have ayde from these Infernall Elves In our malitious plots and for the hire Damne our owne soules to their eternall fire And as wee share in their Iniquitie So in their punishment associates be And such must of necessity be ill Who once deprav'd can never change their will Never retract an Error nor repent What once apprehended good they durst attempt Speake more Celestiall Muses what 's the cause Of so much pervicacie against the Lawes Of humane sence how fell the Angels downe Why did they forfeit that Perennall Crowne Due to integrity and Virgins knowe The knowledge of

sings our Churches lot and state of Fiends Thy Poeme speakes all these which I reade ore With wonder and delight but which was more I know not of these two and dare proclaime Who understand it will commend the same Nor doe I envy it because 't is thine Yet were vowes potent I could wish it mine Ad eundem Decasticon QUale tuum pectus quae Musa humana superna Dum pariter lustrans Tartareasque domus Caelicolas cantat cives ipsumque sedentem In solio Dominum Terrigenasque Deos. Hinc amor invitat justos ad pnemia terret Dum legitur sceleri debita paena malos Sed benè cum cantas haec omnia sperne quid ausint In Librum Rabies invida tempus redax Scilicet haec Thamesis resonabunt carmina Ripae Dum placido Thamesis mur●ure Lympha fluit George Cox To my worthy and learned Friend Mr. Rivers after the reading of his Religious Rhapsodies THat thou in noblest straines of Poesie Do'st teach the myst'ries of Theologie And raisest humane soules from sordid earth Vp to that blest place whence they take their breath I leave to them whose learned spirits know How best their knowledge and thy praise to show And onely saying I the Work admire Wish that all those who Christian bayes desire With just attention and cleare sight would looke Each houre or day on thy sweet mystick booke So they reform'd by vertue of thy Muse No more shall Wit and Poesie abuse Iohn Chapperline To my deare Friend Mr. Rivers upon his Rhapsodies HOw often write I Verses often teare My Verses stil imagining they were Vnworthy thy brave Muse begin againe And search in every corner of my braine Barraine I bite my P●● my servants rate When the fault lies 〈◊〉 in them but my Pate Shall I who have so many Verses writ In every Theme impl●yd my active wit And having promis'd Verses not performe What I have promis'd here againe I storme Yet reassume my Quill write All men know That to my noble Friend I Verses owe Protest against my selfe so great 's the summe Of thy due praise my Muse is banquer out Dumbe H. W. DEVOVT RHAPSODIES To the Right Honourable Philip Herbert Earle of Pembroke and Montgomerie And to the Lord Philip Herbert his Son Liber Primus Sermo Primus The Argument As branches doe the Roote Rivers obey The Ocean smaller lines their tribute pay And homage to the Centre as the Sreames Shot from the Sun confesse themselves his Beames So must all Authors all prescriptions fall Vnto the scripture as Originall Wrangling Philosophers may boast The Scriptures only speake the Holy Ghost Their Schooles decay what 's grounded on our Texts Shall flourish maugre Gentilisme and Sects OUr sacred Volumes are the seald springs Where choisest Nymphs as they of heavenly things Sing ditties both themselves from the white Mount Of Liban issues this perennall Fount Which prooves an Ocean where the silly sheepe May wade securely yet the same 's so deepe The Elephant may swim and if he range Too f●r be swallowed in the Gulfe so strange And perilous are these streames Was not a Wave Nestorius venturde on Nestorius grave And did not Arrius perish in these seas Whilst he durst saile midst the profundities And wanted a sure Pilot What Saint Paul Hath preach'd and writ to instruct and save us all Turnes to the ruine of illiterate men As they pervert the meaning of his pen Who prie too neerely into Majesty Strucke purblinde by the raies of glory die 'T is true Pharphar and Abana are streames Of Syria but if leprous Naaman dreames Thei le clense his spots he erres and must obey The Prophet and to Jordan take his way There glide the waters which he washing in Shall cure his leprousie and clense his skin Poems must from this Chrystall Torrent spring Else they le as did those bitter waters bring Diseases to the Drinker Wanton bookes Hurt soules as did the bodie Maras brookes Like dangerous Basiliskes a passage finde To dart their poyson at the inveigled minde What Are our Rils drunke up Our fountains dry That wee must to such durty puddles fly First shall no Tapers grace the spangled heaven The rough Alps lye as the smooth Vallies even Ere who are conversant in sacred writ Shall faile of Themes to exercise their wit Are not the Fire the Aire the Earth the Seas The Spheres the Saints th' Angels above all these A still supplying Subject then to wade In the Divine Idaeas whence God made Of nothing every thing and with one word Could existence to all he made afford The Birth the Infancy of this Vast Frame Increase decrease restoring of the same All Sciences of things above below More then Philosophy did ever know Are objects of Gods Booke and easily yield To all invention a most spacious field Wee grant prophaner Authours have given Rules Of living well kept open natures scholes But this booke Gentilisme exceedes as far As the bright Sun at Noone some lesser Star Why doe wee study Wherefore are wee joyn'd So fiercely in dispute To adorne the minde With Truthes and as the flint and steele conspire In issuing forth the Element of fire By joynt collision so from much bickerings In disputation Aletheia springs Volve and revolve your Sages Volumes you Shall not be certaine one opinion 's true Amongst one hundred What their Historie Patcht up with idle fables and with lies What 's noxious there our Scripture reprehends What 's crooked rectifies what 's faulty mends What 's good makes better and you neede not feare Any report or false position there Millions of Lines about this Circle are And though they mutually may seeme to square And contrary as East to West the South To North yet all meete in the Centre Truth What can be thought or writ by any quill Is in our Bible specified and still New matter drawes the curious Reader on And makes the Learned to reflect upon The sense of deeper Mysteries as he sees Heere wondrous actions done and out of these Drawes morall applications and can fly To Allegorie and Anagog●e From the same words and deeds quadripartite Senses are fetcht and every one is right Who but the Mother of us all Gods minde Could in few words such stronge allusions finde And then what hee hath in Aenigma's put Make curious wits enueleat the Nut GOD is a copious Magazin men are The dispensatours of his precious ware And heere 's such plenty that from every clause New mysteries the ingenious Reader drawes Goe jugling Mountebanks cry up your toyes Amongst the Rustiks Idiots Girles and Boyes Yee winding Sophisters expose your tra●h Wrangling Philosophers together clash Frame-Sophismes Syllogismes describe devide Bring in essentials to define decide By Demonstrations Problemes What 's all this To what we are made for everlasting blisse Study foure yeeres the ten Predicaments Meane while forget the ten Commandements What profits Stoicisme What

such Cronicles you owe To Sacred Historyes how Ba●thasar And Nemroths Babylon surprized are And the Assyrian Monarchie cast downe The Medes and Persians share the Imperiall Crowne How Tomyris the warlicke S●ythian Queene Amidst her thickest Troopes in Armour seene Acts dire Revenge and having first made drunke The Persian Brigades drenches the cold trunck Of slaughtered Cyrus in a tub of gore Bidding him quaffe his fill who evermore Had thirsted blood how like the flashing fire Of angry Heaven when Heaven and Earth conspire To raise a tempest Alexander flies And shewes the World his glorious Victories How by death conquered he who conquer'd all Must in the midst of all his Trophies fall Many great Homers Alexanders Vow Inrich you with such Histories and how Caesar amidst and by perfidious friends I' th Capitall his life not glory ends The sad disasters of these Monarchies With the addition of ten thousand lyes Of the Assyrian Greek Odrysian Lords Innumerous Stories numberlesse Records Speak amply many Birds first reassume Onely their proper Feathers then unplume The Roman Eagle till great Mahomet As he did Constantines Bizantium get Wrung off one neck and in that Empire plac'd The beauty of our Towring Bird defac'd But of the reall grounds why these States fall Why th' other rise no mention 's made at all Nor once remembred what condition they Be of who are chiefe Actors in this Play Of blood and death where a Muse buskind sings With teares the Fates of Common-wealths and Kings The Gentile Sages by experience see But know not whence proceeds our Miserie They never know with what industrious Arts The Devils in our Drames act chiefest parts Why Man doth with the Spiders Cobwebs spin And one net wrought unsatisfied begin A fresher web why with the Ante take paines With such sollicitude for sordid gaines Why thrust the Badger with the Foxes slight Out his owne Hole why with the Lyons might Invade the weaker why made Lord of all The Universe does he degenerate fall So low beneath himselfe and far inferiour In sence to many Beasts to all superiour In brutish qualities exceeds the Hog In drunkennesse more sawning then the Dog When profit shall accrue in rage outgoes The Hircanian Tygres when assayl'd by foes Shee saves her young ones and with teeth and nayles Against a world of combatants prevailes Prouder then the Horse when in his bravery He shall attract every beholde● eye To marke him onely as with stately grace Through the streets richly hanged he shall pace As here the Gentiles all are silent wee Should sit amaz'd and with them silent be Wholy transformed knowing our God all good Dispute how with such bounty it hath stood To suffer his chiefe creature Man to fall In such disorders and permit in all So generall a confusion when behold Onely our writs the Origen unsold Of all these mischeifes taught by them wee le speake The causes and through many ages breake Boldly our passage ope beginning long Before the Universe began a Song To the right Honorable John Paulet Marquesse of Winchester the Lady Honoria The best Example of her Sex His Marchiones and the Honorable Walter Mountague Sermo Quintus The Argument What round Angels a transcendent pride Or envy Because Man was Deifide Proud Lucifer turn'd Traytor animates His fellow Angels to be associates In the Rebellion Michael with the bands Of Loyall Subjects for GODS title stands The Traytors lose the day Grace glories Crowne They might have 〈◊〉 toth' depth● of Hell cast downe THe Devill nere was glutton never soild With amorous embraces never foild with drink no purser by the high way side Never for Murder at the Sessions tride Nor could ●e faile so such concupiscence Following corporeall faculties and sense Yet has he perpetrated all these crimes By proxie above a hundred thousand times How fell the Devill then how lost his place And share 'o th Deity Coelestiall grace How did the searcher of all intrailes finde Iniquity in so sublime a minde What horrid act hath his eversion wrought Ruine on him on Us destruction brought For he having limp● himselfe made Adam halt Whence issued our hereditary fault Was Lucifer a Peacock when he spide His specious plumes with a selfe-pleasing pride Tooke he fond complacence in gifts bestowde And with those gifts rebeld against his God Who gave 'em did he glorying in his state Aspire to be with God coequall Mate With soaring wings why would he northward flye And independant be as the most high Or did not envy raigne that God should sleight The Angelike Essence and himselfe unite To our weak substance by a wondrous tye Including in one Man the Deity And humane Nature this makes Traytors rise In armes 'gainst their Creator envies eyes Are so malignant that anothers good Like daggers strikes toth' heart and fetches blood What quoth th' aspiring Angell shall this slime o th earth this worme in plenitude of tyme Grac'd with the union Hypostaticall Be Deified have Empire overall Must Angels so accomplished with grace In Entity so perfect give him place Be slaves and as obsequious Vassals stand To know then execute what hee le command If God cannot his bounties better share Wee le learne him Order teach him who we are If needs he will his gifts and selfe diffuse In Donatives let him election use Wherefore you Legions ayde me and wee le make This partiall God recall his purpose take Ou● Nature where you all shall sharers ●e And fellowes with me in the Deity As in a Leguer where distracted mindes Revolt against their Generall Treason findes New complices to act a d●irie plot So now seditious Lucifer ha's got Whole multitudes to second what he saith As Impious Angels violate their faith Turne to a Creature their chiefe leader and Amazed at his eminencies stand For Lucifer had such similitude With God that he next him was the first good No Cedar in Mount Libanus so tall No Beech as hee he far surmounted all Great his indowments specious were his raies And he stild justly First of all Gods wayes Allured with such parts the inferiour stars Forsake their stations denounce open Wars Against their Maker Now the signal 's given Of a great battaile to be fought in Heaven For Michael and his friends oppose themselves In Squadrons rangde against the haughty Elves The loyalty of Subjects now is tryde As they take part on Michaels and Gods side Who stands impartiall a spectator by To see these Combatants for maistery try No party brought to th' field or swords or bils But serious alterations of their Wils Neither did they with a Stenthrean voice On any part plead rights but without noice Ioyn'd the Batalia's No loud ●lamots there Let the left Wing advance bring up the Rere But what they would have either friend or foe Should understand their Wils did make 'em know Yet Drums and Trumpets were the harmonious Spheres Still ecchoing terror in

nere saw So Aristotle form'd a happy man In his owne braine which no age could or can Or shall behold Riches and outward things Are temporary Pleasure brings No constant blisse are wives and women ware More precious let our Ancestors declare The worth of these What is for silver sold Lesse valued is then Silver lesse then gold A Wife by Gods command the Prophet buyes And with her having paid his Sicles lyes A Kings first daughter chaffer'd for the skins And slippits of preputiate Philistins We goe beyond their wisedome now 't is common Without a Dowry few will take a woman Five thousand twenty forty thousand crownes Laid downe upon the naile wardrobes of gownes And rich attire jewels prepar'd before Shee enters her dread Lord and husbands dore Yet notwithstanding all this stir and cost The haplesse husbands have by th' bargaine lost For some such shrews or rather Furies are Their husband 's better be without 'em far What are your Empires what your large commands So many severall cares as severall lands What are your stately masques ingenious playes Wit uttered showes perform'd by Popinjaies Besides this transitory life 's so short That passing we can onely look at sport Not sit by it that thread the life of man Spins out fitly resembled to a span What 's Solomon on his Imperiall Throne His Grandees all attending every one Praising his wisedome Despicable clay Accou●red well set forth in rich array Yet thus set forth a Lilly withering streight Shall quite eclipse this gaudy Monarcks state If wisedome learning erudition bring Felicity we must confesse this King A happy man but he himselfe shall grant Where 's much affliction likewise ther 's much want Of happinesse though sciences delight Yet what a toyle is studying day and night To purchase arts and when all 's done none know What animates a dog a cat a crow We see when any such poore creature dyes The senslesse carkasse without motion lyes Death some thing must destroy some thing divide That soule and body hath together tyde The union 's lost where is and what is that Did constitute a crow a dog a cat We cannot tell more then in generall How we these actuating soules should call We have surveigh'd the world and nothing finde Which can beatifie m●ns restlesse mind Created to be happy must this end Be frustrate must we toyle and labour spend In vaine No! we will fly with wings of love To heaven and finde beatitude above The state of joy and pleasure is the will The object either reall good or ill Yet such as clothes it selfe in the antique tire Of good the senses when what they desire They have transmit to th' soule their Queene delight Which issues from the heating cast smel sight That pleasure is the scules we are easily taught Because the will or else some pensive thought Can curbe all pleasure in exteriours t●ne Yea more convert all pleasure into paine Faire Aletkeia the search and object is o th' understanding and its proper blisse Is formall verity How are we glad When certaine demonstrations can be had In any science through what labours run To finde how where by whom such deeds were done Pleasures belong to th' will and to know much Gives the understanding great contentment such Knowledge have Sions Citizens they know All things as torrents so their pleasures flow A torrent blessing the overwhelmed meads Derives his Origen from severall heads Heaven-threatning mountaines in abundance send Their fleecy snowes the neighbouring rivers lend Friendly their streames heavens cataracts fly ope The earth to all her ●lood-gates gives full scope So shall there be a confluence of all good To make compleat the Saints beatitude Will understanding memory every Sence Shall freely give a large benevolence A body so exact in every part That skilfull nature cannot mend nor art Make better after the age of Christ for he As author so th' exemplar cause must be Of the Saints blisse full of agility Can when it will through the 〈◊〉 Kingdomes flie Drakes Ship as a rare monument was kept At Debtfort 'cause she had the Ocean swept Encompassing the world and 〈◊〉 the Sun Had thrice his course through th' oblique Zodiack run Circled the coasts of parched Africa Of Asia Europe and America What is this world compar'd to heaven a span To fifty leagues Yet the Saints bodyes can As soone as the swift sun all regions see And at the journyes end not wearied be Then how pellucid bodyes made divine By glory are how radiantly they shine Here they were Tabernacles though of clay In which soules deare to God a while made stay Organs o th' divine glory so Pauls tongue Through th' Universe Gods praise and Gospell sung Orethrew Idolatry orethrew false Gods His body for the true God scourg'd with rods Orewhelm'd with stones in perils on the Maine His head by th' sword from off his shoulders tane These severall members for the severall wounds Shall be adorn'd with severall Diamonds Anadems of glory circle that blest front Gyrlands of richest Jewels set upon 't The Proto-Martyrs body black and blew With stones shall shine in a most fulgent hue Such glorious dowries the Saints bodyes grace That rocks and hardest marble must give place To make them way nor can they suffer harme By any sword manag'd by th' strongest arme Subject to woes to blowes to torments here Senslesse of woes of blowes of torments there Parch'd Afriks glory borne in 's mothers eyes An happyer issue of her holy cries Then of her wombe would magnifie three sights Above all other temporall delights To see our Saviour in that flesh araid In which he was to the false Jewes betraid By Gentiles crucified rose from the grave And by his death did Jewes and Gentiles save To heare the Doctor of the Gentiles Paul Either in the Athenian judgement Hall From th' unknowne statue fit occasion take And to his auditors a Sermon make Or in the Synagogues instruct the Jewes How he whom they so barbarously did use Naild to the Crosse should with much glory come To give all Mortals an impartiall doome Or else before the Roman Presidents Thundring Gods judgements and what punishments Attend transgressors with his Rhetorick make Affrighted Faelix and Drusilla quake Then what a glorious sight wil't be to see Great Rome in all her former Majesty Or in Augustus or Vespasians time Proud with the Trophees of the Easter clime The spoiles of Nations Caesars bringing forth In Ovant pompe what in the South and North Was rich and glorious Souldiers crown'd with Bayes Ecohoing in Paeans their Commanders praise Rome at the greatest was but thirty miles About had for its houshold-stuffe the spoiles Of the whole World the riches of all Realmes Arabian Gums and gold Egyptian Gems What 's thirty miles to Sions amplitude What 's the worlds treasure to Beatitude We speake

a Citie where large Kingdomes are The gracefull streets Rome Babylon Grand Caire But simple Cottages compar'd with ours Their Pallaces their high-Heaven-threatning Towers But sties for swine though we fond mortals cry 'Em up not knowing true Felicity Heavenly Jerusalem with jems is built The Wals the Battlements the Turrets guilt The streets are pav'd with Saphire Ophir stones Berill rich Carbuncles and Uniones In such a Citie when the blest soules must Be reunited to their wonted dust Compleated by that Union the Saints shall Have lordly domination over all The World and seated in Majestick chaires Judge Nations heires of God with Christ coheires Be conversant with him humbly adore And kisse those wounds by which he trumph'd ore The grave and Hell acknowledge his sole blood The onely price of their Beatitude Therefore with the Elders every Saint casts downe Prostrate at Jesus feet his royall Crowne Not onely in the mirrour of Gods minde You shall the Apostles Paul John Peter finde But all the Patriarcks Martyrs Doctors see Converse and with 'em most familiar be Heare every passage of their lives and deathes How the stout Martyrs purchased their wreathes Heare Paul relate through what Seas he did wade What dangers scap't where what Orations made And before whom what good his Sermons wrought And who by them into the Church were brought And as he speakes so act at every straine That you would think you heard him preach againe Your understanding shall be lightened so That you the severall Hierarchies shall know See perfectly what now wee but in trust Take up if every Individuum must Bee ' a severall Species by it selfe and God Must needs of the same Forme create an od Suppose if two of the same forme hee le make He must our Mother the first Hyle take But these are Nicities Your principall Happinesse is God whose Vision includes all May satisfie What 's done in Heaven the Son By his Father got active Spiration How these embracing mutually conspire From both their heats to give eternall fire Its Origen which sent by them shall move In such a circle that with ardent love The World shall burne acknowledging a Law That shall both Jewes and Gentiles keep in awe A Law not of sterne threats and fetters made To compell man but gently shall perswade Attracte with tyes of love no more command Then what may easily with prastice stand Let 's well observe what things are requisite To draw from Scientifique arts delight So shall we know what they and how much pleasure Enjoy who purchast have this hidden treasure A power a faculty apt to conceive And from proportion'd objects formes receive And knowledge and delight compleater be According to the objects dignitie This power cognoscitive must be combinde With th' object and the closer it is joynde The more it knowes receives the more content And both increase when th' object 's excellent Can any object be like God of good The fountaine in himselfe Beatitude Of bounty mercy justice a vast Ocean Whose every vertue every single notion Speaks an abysse of worth where sily sheepe May wade Elephants may swim not reach the deep With this sea of perfections sea of good The soul 's so joyn'd t is swallowed in the flood Immerg'd so deeply in that vast abysse That with it one and the same spirit tis Knowes all his immanent acts sees all respects Which his All-potent hand has to eff●cts Is entred to all Gods joyes and injoyes Made one with God all treasures pleasures joyes Gods all in all things and whom he unites So neerly to him with him all delights Pertakes nor need the blessed journeys take To seek Beatitude God alone will make Them happy having in himselfe all store Of bounty mercy justice wisedome power And such an object how must it distill Torrents of pleasures on the ravish'd will How shall our memorie th●●●… M●g●zin Of all Idaeas showing what has been Is extant shall exist before us lay All acts from the Worlds cradle to this day Present all passages through our life run The manie favours God for us hath done The many dangers we have scapt the fights We had against the world the flesh the slights Of Satan how God aided with his grace And brought us Conquerours to this happy place Where our browes circled with triumphant bayes Eternally we shall his mercies praise Then we surveigh the worlds Chronologie And entring in Gods Cabinet councell see Why he so oft hath suffered just men here To be opprest the wicked domineere Plainely perceive these miserable times To issue from the deluge of our crimes Our bloody sins have made so loud a cry Nothing can cure us but Phlebotomie We did abhor the very name of Peace The clamour of the Drum shall never cease We chase Religion out the Land not any One can content us now we have too many Did too much plenty cause a surquedrie Famine shall cure it and much penurie The stock of cattle spent a barren yeare Shall Victuals make and Corne excessive deare Excises shall set up on every score Adde to the famine and undoe the poore Necessity caus'd taxes the same Law Must keep 'em up to keep the rout in awe Why did th' ambitious Horse endure the bit To chase the hart then would be free from it But cann't who thrust themselves into a yoake Deserve to beare untill their backs be broake The Saints shall see why God permits all this And not a jot be troubled in their blisse For those blest Citizens of Sion be As well from trouble as from sicknesse free Nor can their Kin or dearest friends annoy Though knowne diminish their eternall joy For mercies towards themselves to God they owe And praise his justice in Delinquents woe To the right Honourable Edward Earle of Dorset Richard Lord Buckhurst his Son and my truly honored Friend Doctor Samuel Turner Sermo Nonus The Argument Man labouring like the Spider when al 's done T is but a simple Cobweb he hath spun The Epirot will with his Armies rome Abroad to gaine what he injoyes at home Well may we learne of the industrious Ant To gather treasures 'gainst the time of want Such is that dreadfull day when all soules shall In publike audience give account of all Their life The good mounting in heaven shall dwell The bad descend downe to th' Abysse of Hell HOw does the Spider toile and when al 's done T is but a silly cobweb shee hath spun Worth nothing of no durance every blast Can break it with a dish of water cast It falls or Joane when shee makes cleane the roome Sweeps downe the Cobweb and with her long broome The Spider kils from heavens embroydered hall The Angels see who with one act view all That done on earth so doe the Devils too And crave such acts as to their nature due Fond men with the laborious Spider toile By day and night are troubled