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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

that which is the cause of Strife That men may live in Vnity and Peace And Amity and Wars and Blood-shed cease A Time of Darkness o're this Land has bin So thick so dark so gross because of Sin That many People Truth will not receive That God is Light nor in his Son believe Although the Scriptures amply do declare That God and Christ the Name of Light do bare And first concerning God who all things made By his eternal powerful Word He said Let it be so and so it came to pass That all in Heaven and Earth created was This God is Light and in the Light doth dwell As doth the holy Scriptures plainly tell In many places you may plainly find Who read the Scriptures with an humble Mind And that his Son our Christ who is the Lamb Is call'd the Light who from God's Bosom came To lead Man up to God out of the Fall In which through Sin we are concluded all And so through Sin in Death and Darkness be Till by the Light of Christ we are set free Who came to lead all those that him obey Out of the Night into the perfect Day O blessed Day O glorious Day of Light Which conquers Darkness and expels the Night Blest be time in which thy Day-Star bright And Morning redness of Eternal Light Our Hearts did visit and by splendant Rayes Reveal the Glory of these latter Dayes In which the Lord of Host our God most-high According to his Promise doth draw nigh Unto his People and their King will be And by his powerful out-stretch'd Arm set free His Sons and Daughters who long Captives were Under oppressing Pharoah and did beare The heavy Yokes oppressing Burdens and Increasing Talks of black dark Egypt's Land Of Divine Love WHat shall I say of Love the chiefest Good 'T is Bread of Life the Soul 's Coelestial Food The blessed Mansion of Eternity The Residence and Dwelling of the high And lofty One the New-Ierus'lem bright Fill'd with that glorious Splendor and great Light Which doth the seven-fold Light o' th' Sun transcend Which Light transparent never shall have end O depth of Love and boundless Ocean wide Under the shadow of thy Wings us hide And keep us Lord in perfect Rest and Peace Shower down thy Mercies make all Discords cease Reveal thy Light thy glorious Truth make known And by thy conquering Love bind all in one That in a Oneness all may sing amain Iehovah-King on Earth in us doth Reign An Exhortation to dwell in Love DWell Friends in Love and then no Strife will be Nay nor Contention but a Unitie For Love in all things doth for Oneness call Thinking no Evil but pure good to all Yea Love is God and God is Love and Light Fulness of Pleasure Joy and great Delight Dwell ye therein and ye shall witness Friends Such sweet Enjoyments can't be writ by Pens For since the Lord in mercy hath made known This Dispensation of his Love and shown To me its Vertue and choice Nature pure To ye with boldness this I dare assure That Love 's the highest Dispensation yea That ever hath or will dispensed be Christ the true Light Christ the Son of God's Love DWell in the Light and there true Love will be Dwell in true Love and great Light ye shall see For in the Light there true Love doth abound And in the Love there true Light may be found For Light and Love though they seem two by Name Yet one in Substance and in truth the same DEar Friend J. C. with true unfeigned Love I thee salute which in my Heart doth move Towards thee and all our tender Friends most dear Whose Minds are staid on God in his pure fear Feel me dear Friend a Member joyntly knit To all in Christ in heavenly Places sit And here to Friends no Stranger would I be Though they my Face as outward ne're did see For truly Friend I dearly love and own All travelling Souls who truly sigh and groan For the Adoption which sets free from Sin And works Redemption from that state wherein The Prince o' th' Power of Darkness long did reign But blest be God the time 's at hand a Chain In utter Darkness must his Portion be There to be bound and never more set free O! all the Riches that are here below Pomp State and Glory man esteemeth so What is It all if I It once compare Unto a Child that doth Gods Image bare But Dross and Dung yea filthy Dirt and Mire To purest Gold refined in the Fire How can I then but dearly love and own Those precious Members which are Bone of Bone And prize their presence and enjoyment more Than Butts of Wine and Oyl and Barns of Store THe man that lives in Sin walks in the Night And spends his dayes in Darkness not in Light A righteous man his Works to Life do tend But wicked men their Minds to Strife do bend Avoid the Ways of Satan they 're not right But traoe the Steps o' th' Just which Shine as Light Comfort the Comfortless in time of need Distribute to the Poor and Hungry feed A Complaint against New-England Professors O Sad New-England I have heard strange News concerning Thee Why didst Thou thus abuse Gods Children dear Male and Female Surely Their Blood Thou Slew and Hang'd aloud doth cry Unto the Lord who will avenge the same Upon Thy Head A Record to thy shame A shameful thing indeed what shall I say You are the stock of Cain this was his way Your cruel Works Your hardned Hearts make known Your Babel great must to the Earth be thrown Your boastings high like Caparnaum tall Must all come down your Pride shall have a fall You that so cruel and merciless were The Vengeance of Almighty God must bear Concerning Persecution SInce Abel's time unto this present day There is an Evil that hath born great sway An Evil Great A Horrid and Black Sin Call'd Persecution All that walk therein What e're they say profess or do pretend By Persecution People to amend Yet none of them could ever make appear Co-ercive Means was a good Course to stere It ne're did Mend but rather always Mar Who e're harpt on that ftring still made a Iar IT is a hateful foul destructive thing To King nor People It ne're good can bring The Work and Fruit thereof as many write Nought else produceth but a Hypocrite I think it strange why some should pleasure take And Toil themselves but Hypocrites to make It is work that Marks all in it are With Mark and Badge of Satan which they weare The Mark o' th' Flesh and Birth that 's from below A Badge with which all Persecutors go For as it was so still it is I say The Fleshly Birth the Spirits Birth would slay Nothing more certain is the Mark and Seat O' th' wicked Whore than Persecution great Nothing the mark of the false Church more plain Than Reformation per force to

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 at several times 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. Printed by Andrew Sowle in the Year 1684. 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 written by a Young Man some of them in the time of his Apprenticeship some of them at several times since and the latter part of them in his late Consinement by a Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo 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. Also some Lines written by J. C. London Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle 1684. Friendly Reader IF in these following Lines thou ought espy Seemeth not right not pleasing in thine Eye Pray be so kind so courteous and so fare Excuse the Author don't hard on him bare For what he wrote I judge well did intend I pray his Faults the Reader to amend One while 't was with him neither day nor night But in the Ev'ning-Tide appeared Light And as unto this Light he did take heed The Morning Day-Star did arise indeed And Sun of Righteousness did shine more clear And Truth more plain obvious did appear If some things dark obscure seem not so sound Pray pass them by some things herein are found Both sure certain Truths plain clear As who reads to the end may find And here As I in several Papers did them find Present them to thee with an honest Mind Believing this they will no harm produce So make them publick to thee for thy use And in that Love wherewith I them present Do but receive them and I am content N. B. I Thought it well these Lines came to thy Hand Thou wouldst then publish I did understand Because thou knew'st the Lad as from a Child Was sober Bred Religious bent not wild For unto some acceptable they 'l be Though many pass their days in Vanitie Not fearing God not thinking of their end Not mattering how their precious time they spend Sporting themselves in Pleasures and Delight In deeds of Darkness Evil Works o' th' Night Forgetting still to Judgment they must come For their bad Deeds receive a heavy doome Of Go ye Curst depart from me I say You workers of Iniquity away This is the sentence Christ the Judge will give To those in Pleasures liv'd dead while they live J. C. The CONTENTS AN Introduction Concerning the Works of God The Serpents Subtilty The Serpents Punishment The Womans Punishment The Mans Punishment Cain the first Murderer about Religion Cain's Punishment To remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy Youth That Self more than Adam is to be blamed for sinning Several Petitions and Prayers to God to be taught of him Some Directions where to find Wisdom with a Psalm on her Praise And concerning the manner of her appearing Also Reproof to those that talk of Righteousness and live in Sin And to those that profess the Truth and don 't live in the Power of it With a word to the Haters and Despisers of the Grace of God A Prayer An Alphabet of Two Lines An Alphabet of One Line Concerning Out-side Professors A Call to Old and Young to behold the Day of God now dawned and broken forth Concerning God and Christ bearing the Name of Light And concerning the Glorious Day of Light Concerning divine Love An Exhortation to dwell in Love Christ the true Light Christ the Son of Gods Love A Salutation of Love to J. C. c. Concerning bearing the heavenly Image Concerning a Righteous Mans Work and a Wicked Mans Work to what each tendeth A Complaint against New-England Professors Concerning Persecution Another Prayer Concerning the Philosophers Stone Concerning Covetousness Concerning Pride Avarice and Luxury Concerning Temperance Health and Happiness Concerning the Cross of Christ Concerning the Souls Travail Concerning the breaking forth of the Word and Power of God Concerning Gods powerful and glorious Presence Concerning Maintenance for the Poor Concerning the Vncertainty of Worldly Riches A Lamentation and Warning for England By the Author B. A. To which is added A Tripple-Plea by T. C. And some Lines written by J. C. The Introduction BEfore that Light or Darkness did Appear When th' Earth lay void and all things now in 't were As nothing then Iehovah fashioned all By th' Word Created hee both great and small The Sun Moon Stars and all i' th' Heavens be The Day the Night the Dry Land and the Sea The Lord Iehovah hath all these things made Yea they were formed by the Word He said But when made God the Heavens Earth and Light 'T was i' th' beginning as doth Moses write By th' Word Beginning we must understand Not from Eternity God made the Land Or ought therein but first of all before Fishes did swim or Fowls i' th' Air soare That is before God did create the Whale Which is the first of all things Animale ' Twan't from Eternity the World was made But then when time its first beginning had And why did Moses write and thus declare To us that these things i' th' beginning were First to confute or that we might not be Deceiv'd by those maintain its Eternitie For if that People seriously do mind To know the Truth i' th' Scriptures they may find That from Eternity Eternal none Is but Iehovah who 's the Holy Oue Although 't is so that World to come we say Is without End yet this World goes away And as some say that what e're had beginning As had this World must also have an ending Some do not stick to say A Generation Of men there were before Adam's Creation And that there was a World before was he If we them credit and no further see Or rather unto Moses Writings may Incline our Ears to hear what he doth say Concerning the Creation of Mankind The first man God created as we find Was Adam unto whom Dominion he Had given him o're Birds Beasts and Fish i' th' Sea 'T was he to whom God brought the Fowls that fly And Creeping things that on their Bellies lie The Cattel all and Beasts both wild and tame Were brought to Adam that he might them name By

which mayn't I there Sayings here disprove For was a World then what did in it move Did Fowls o' th' Air Fishes and Beasts o' th' Field Who gave them Names and to whom did Trees yield Their Fruit God gave to Adam for to feed On every Tree and Herb that beareth Seed Though Atheists dream and Heathenish People fain Fabulous like their Fancies would maintain Yet those themselves deem Christians they ought not Open their Ears to hear but rather shut And close their Ears than hear the Tales of such Those things do broach invalid Scripture much Concerning the Works of God HOw doth the Sun and Moon God's work declare The glittering Stars which in the Heavens are The Hills the Mountains and the Valleys low The Works of God and his great Power do show The Woods the Trees the Bushes and the Bowers The Herbs the Grass and all the Garden Flowers The Tender Plants which from the Earth do spring Praises to God from time to time do sing The rowling foaming Waves his Might do show The Hard congealed Ice and Milk-white Snow The Fountains and the Meadows every one The running Brooks and clear Springs make him known The Fowls o' th Air the Birds in time of Spring Most sweet melodious Harmonies do sing The roaring Lyon and the Vnicorn The firey Dragon all God's Power adorn Disobedience the first Sin of the World BEhold the subtil Serpent's Subtilness Who to the Woman thus made his Address Saying unto Her Hath God said unto thee Thou shalt not eat o' th' Fruit on every Tree Then said the Woman thus to him indeed The Lord hath given unto us to feed On every Tree save that i' th' midst doth stand To which We may in no wise lift our Hand Lest that We dye The Serpent he said No Ye shall not dye at all But God doth know That when Ye eat Thereof then Ye shall see And like to Gods knowing Good and Evil be The Tree being good and pleasant to the Eyes A Tree to be desir'd to make one wise She took the Fruit thereof did eat saying Lo Take this O Husband He did eat also Their Eyes being open'd knew they naked were And to make Breeches Fig-Leaves did prepare Soon after this the Voice of God They hear Walking i' th' Garden which made Them to fear The Serpent's Punishment THe Serpent's punish'd three wayes First He of all Creatures most is curst Next on His Belly goes not feet And Last the Dust o' th' Earth must eat The Woman's Punishment IN Sorrow thy Conceptions are In Sorrow Thou shalt Children bare To Man shall Thy desires be Thy Husband shall rule over Thee The Man's Punishment ADam that did his Eve obey And do the thing which God said Nay The Ground was cursed for His Sin Then Thorns and Thistles grow therein In Sorrow all his days must eat With sweat o' th' Brows his Bread his Meat Till to the Earth thou go thou Dust For thereunto return thou must Cain was the first Murderer about Religion CAin was the first we read of Till'd the Land And Abel us'd oft by the Flock to stand And in process of time Cain hap't to take O' th' Fruit o' th' Ground an Offering for to make Unto the Lord and Abel brought also The Firstlings of the Flock and Fat to go To offer up to God who did respect HIS Sacrifiee But Cain's he did reject Then Cain was Wrath his Countenance soon chang'd Thus said the Lord to Him Why art thou strange If well thou dost thou shalt accepted be If ill thou dost Sin at thy Door doth lie Soon after that Cain talk'd with Abel when They were i' th' Field he slew his Brother then Thus said the Lord to Cain What hast done I The voice o' th' Brothers Blood from th' Earth hear cry But how hap't this or what 's the cause I pray That Cain his Brother Abel thus did slay 'T was Envy for in that he did proceed To execute this Bloody treacherous deed Because the Lord the Sacrifice of Cain Rejected and accepted his was slain Cain's Punishment WHat Punishment to Cain was sent And what Plague fell upon Him Curst was he of God to be For e're a Vagabon REmember thy Creator in the prime O' th' Youth before the Evil dayes or time Come when thou 'lt say I take no Pleasure in The Years and Days that lately I have seen Whilst Light o' th' Sun o' th' Moon o' th' Stars remain Before the Clouds return after the Rain That 's whilst thy Eyes lend to thy Body light As doth the Sun by day the Moon by night Or Cloud return after the Rain that is Before stark Blindness as a dark Cloud seize Upon thine Eyes when many a woful Tear With Humors have them washt from Year to Year When the House-keepers and the strong men all Shall bow themselves and tremble like to fall The Grinders cease because they are but few And those look out o' th' Windows dark shall shew The strong men are the Legs as Pillars stands The keepers of the House the Arms and Hands Which with the Paulsie waggel shake and shiver The Legs though Props shall tremble bow and quiver And in the Street the Door then shut shall be When noise or sound o' th' Grindings low and he At Voice o' th' little Bird shall rise and all His singing Daughters their attention fall That 's when thy Ears have past Musical season And can't attend to hear Deafness the reason The Door without that is the Mouth so faint As can't be open'd but by some constraint The rising up at voice o' th' Bird doth show Old Age is wakened even with Cock-crow When Men shall be afraid of that is high And likewise in the Way they fear espy That 's when they climb Fear doth possess them and They stumble likewise on the Plain they stand When th' Almond Tree shall flourish that I 'le show Is when thy Head shall with white Fleeces grow When the Grashoppers shall a burden be That 's when thy Legs gouty are and crasie When all Concupiscience from thee 's gone quite That to thy Meat thou hast small Appetite Or e're the Silver Cord be loos'd or slack't Or Golden Bowle be broke or Pitcher crack't Or Wheel at Cestern broke that is saith one The nervous Pinacles to th' Vrine gone The Silver Cord the Back-Bone stretched out And golden Bowle the Heart whence Life doth sprout The Pitcher broke at Fountain doth narrate The heat o' th' Liver lost the Stomachs fate THough Sin at first on all through Adam came Yet let not him but Self bare all the blame For as I heard perhaps the thing was true A Rich Man to a Poor Man this did shew Set him to work who dig'd i' th' Ditch apace Till sweat o' th' Brows did trickle down his Face Then tossing up the Earth with Shou'l or Spade This Cry did utter and these Words he said O Adam Adam Adam And hard-by His

Master walking thus did hear him cry And to him call'd Friend why dost Adam blame O Sir said he I need not tell the same 'T is full well known how I by Adam's fall Not only I but We his Off-spring all As he himself with sweat o' th' Face i' th' Dust Must work since he from Paradise was thrust Had He not sin'd we 'd not subjected bin Think I to work i' th' Earth But for his Sin God sent him forth to Till the Earth He came From it and to 't he must return again Thou Adam blames but how if in his stead Thou wert then thou wouldst do just as he did For this observe these Words I speak to thee Cast down thy Spade leave Work and follow me If my Command and Precept thou●lt obey Two strokes of Work thou shalt not do all day But live at ease and from thy Labour cease Taking thy Rest in Safety and in Peace If this my one Command thou keep 't is small Thou shalt not want for any thing but all Thou canst desire to thee I 'le freely give And thou as 't were in Paradise shalt live Thou at my Table shalt set down to Meat And eke Diurnal of my Banquets eat Of Dishes rare of every Mess but one Which shall be cover'd look not thereon I mean not that thou may not see th' out-side But don't uncover't in thy place abide Lust not to know what 't is but do refrain From touching it if I thee entertain Then if thou dost this one Command obey And keep my Precept thou shalt with me stay Living at Ease with Comfort Joy and Pleasure Rise when thou wilt and lie down at thy pleasure Touch not the Mess the Dish uncover not But let it stand alway clos'd up and shut So whilst thou dost this my Command obey Within my House thou may'st be sure to stay But if my Precept thou do not observe But disobey and from my Counsel swerve Then of my Dainties rare thou mayst not feed But from my House shalt be expel'd indeed So for some time this Poor Man he remain'd Within the House being bravely entertain'd For he had all his Heart could well desire Food in due season when cold a good Fire If weary then a Bed his Bones to rest Surely thinks he now I am greatly blest But on a time when he to Dinner went Sate down at Table none being there present Then in his mind it secretly did spring This is the time to see what 's in this thing So up he starts the Dish uncovers then Out leaps a Mouse away it runs and when He sees this Mess no other Rarity had Forbidden Fruit to take doth make him sad In comes his Master who brought him to his House What now saith he Why sad Hast seen the Mouse Yea quoth the Man I in the Dish did peep And suddainly a Mouse there out did leap So says his Lord Now see leave off for shame No more blame Adam Self's only to blame When Adam sin'd from Paradise he went So hast thou now broke my Commandment And from my House and Table thou must go Because what in the Dish was thou wouldst know Couldst thou have been contented in thy place Thou happy wert but now art in disgrace And to thy Work i●th ' Ground with sweat o' th' Brow Return again thy Mind to digging bow And learn for time to come content to be When placed where thou mayst live so happily And learn for time to come not Adam blame But Self Self do Self have 't is still the same If this be so although the case was sad Yet 't was no more than his Desert he had TEach me O Lord thy Fear which will begin Wisdom in me and lead me from my Sin Teach me O Lord thy Truth and I thy Fame Will spread abroad trusting in th' holy Name Teach me O Lord of One Accord to be And of One mind with Those that Trust in Thee Teach me O Lord that I acquainted may Be with the Children of the Light and Day Teach me O Lord by thine Admonishment In all estates fully to be Content Teach me O Lord for to rehearse thy Acts And let my Hands commit no Bloody Facts Teach me O Lord according to thy Will To ask in Faith that thou my Heart may fill Teach me O Lord my Wayes for to amend And grant I may to Idols never bend Teach me O Lord when Vain Thoughts do arise I Christlan-like by Prayer them surprise Teach me O Lord by thy Eternal Might Against thy Foes couragiously to fight Teach me O Lord that I may never Mock At Sin as Fools nor be a Laughing-stock Teach me O Lord Offences for to take Yea ten times told rather than once one make Teach me O Lord as I desire of Thee To be forgiven to Forgive Injurie Teach me O Lord to slight all Earthly Toyes And let my Heart be fixt on Heavenly Ioyes Teach me O Lord a true account to give Even of my Stewardship whilst that I live Teach me O Lord that I my Sins to thee May all confess and by Christ be set free Teach me O Lord by Divine Inspiration To sound thy Praise amidst a Crooked Nation Teach me O Lord that what in Hand I take With Wisdom I accomplishment may make Teach me O Lord Ambitious Pride to shun That nought may be Mis-thought Mis-said Mis-done Some Breathings of Love which truly do move Vnto such that do Wisdom desire Declaring the Way in which Wisdom may Be found of those for her enquire WHo seeks for Wisdom and would Virtue find A secret Treasure and a quiet Mind A fruitful City and a pleasant Hill Whose glorious Prospect Sharon's Rose doth fill Dropping down Virtues Distillations sweet Cooling the Sons of Zions ardent heat Whose strong Desires as lively Sparks aspire Still upwards as doth naturally the Fire It s Scituation towards the East doth stand Or rising of the Sun its Soil or Land It s F●rtile Pleasant Amiable and Faire Which B●shans Oaks and Lebanon's Cedars bare With all the stately Trees o th Forrest and The choicest Garden Spices in this Land Do grow as Myrrh Spikn●rd and Cinamon With Trees of Mence Calamus and Saffron A goodly Place 't is pleasant to the Eyes A Place to be desir'd where dwell the Mise And Prudent Minds who value Vertue more Than precious Stones or Gold within the Ore Because compar'd unto Her all things are But Dross and Dung A Spotless Virgin faire In whose Right-hand is Time with length of Dayes Her Left-hand Honour Riches all her Wayes Are Paths of perfect Peace and Pleasantness With her's great Treasure Joy She doth possess A Crown Immortal on her Head she wears Deckt with bright Diamonds like to glittering Stars Her Tyer is rich her Necklace of pure Gold Her Bracelets fill'd with precious Pearls ne'er told For number numberless innumerable Unto all Vertuous Minds most delectable This is that Queen of Wisdom who her finds A

greater Treasure hath than all Earth's Mines Of Gold and Silver For shee 'l guide thy Way From Darkness gross unto Light 's perfect Day Who doth her seek assuredly may find Her in the Closet of an Humble Mind In which she dwells darting her Beams of Light Into the Heart that she discover might The crooked Paths and sinful Wayes wherein The simple Soul a Captive long hath bin To free the Soul that if it will it may Refuse Night Darkness and embrace Light 's Day O! then come all who Wisdom doth desire And thus as once I did for her enquire Who sought not long for her but she reveal'd Her dwelling in my Heart had been conceal'd To Wisdom I my Mind will bend And Understanding she will send To me for on her I 'le depend And she alone shall be my Joy I 'le seek for her and she will be A Guide delightful unto me Walking i' th Paths of Equitie With her alone will I rejoyce Where e're I do her Works espye They are delightful to mine Eye For she 's of Assiduity With those that on her do depend She 's better than the Silver fine And Richer than the Golden Mine As bright as Sol himself doth shine With her dwells Immortality I 'le prize her more than Gold most pure And on her would be fixed sure For she 's a Rock that will endure And conversant with Elohim She 's Comly Beautiful and Faire All precious Pearls cannot compare To her a Tree of Life so rare And she alone will I exalt THus seeking Wisdom Wisdom as a Light Within my Heart appear'd most glorious bright Like to the splendor of the glorious Sun Expelling Clouds and causing Mists to run Like scorched Scrowls and vanish quite away That Truth and Righteousness might now display Its self and put forth Fruits o' th' heavenly Vine Against the which the Esaubites combine But let them know their Combinations are To Samson's strength no better than a Hair The Stone cut out of the Mountain without Hands Must now increase and greatly fill our Lands Assuredly on whom this Stone doth fall It s ponderous weight to Powder grind them shall But they are happy Fall upon this Stone Whose Hearts are broke with true Contrition They shall be mollified with holy Oyle And by the Lamb's Blood cleans'd from Filth and Soyle That they as Virgins pure array'd in White Prepar'd may be to walk in Wisdom's Light Which shineth in their Hearts who It obey Even more and more unto the perfect Day Yea Wisdom cryes without her Voice i' th' Street She utters loud the Simple for to meet And turn them from that Way to Death doth lead Wherein like to Post they haste with speed Calling amongst the press of all desiring And thronged croud of Thoughts that We retiring May seek for Wisdom O! ye Fools saith she Why will ye dye Return return to me That I my Mind may pour out to yon and May give you Knowledge for to understand Dark Words and prudent Sayings of the Wise With Parables in Wisdom to surmise And recreate your selves with Solace sweet That to embrace her in your Hearts you meet Then keep her and to you she 'l be a Guide Receive her in your Hearts and she 'l abide And to your Souls with Knowledge bring delight And cause you through her Counsel walk upright O! seek her early while she may be found She oft Instruction with Reproof doth sound To those her seeks that they may understand The Fear of God is the Beginning and First Gate of Entrance to that City where None but the Sons of Vertue do appear Who sought for Wisdom more then Gold refin'd And till they found her could not rest in mind But rove from Hills to barren Mountains where Like scattered Sheep amongst the Wolves they were Grievously bitten pritcht and torn with Thorns Yea often push● with Bashan's Bulls Brass-Horns Till almost tyr'd yet at last did appear Where think you even in their Hearts most near The proper Habitation of her Rest That those who seek may of her be possest Who so doth find her hold her fast be sure Fot she 's a Rock that will for e're endure A hiding Place a Covert and strong Tower Whereto the Righteous run God's Arm of Power His Word by which all things created were That in the Heavens Earth Sea and Land are A Queen before the Depths with Honour crown'd And Virgin fair for Beauty most renown'd He that approach into her presence will Must Self-deny Self-mortifie and kill And enter with the patient Crown of Job And she will cloath thee with a princely Robe Wouldst thou her blessed Company enjoy Then bid adue to all Lusts base annoy If thou desirest to have her for thy Friend With Peace towards all what may be thy Mind bend For where is Peace there Wisdom may be found But where is Strife can any thing be sound She is a Virgin of more purer Eyes Than to behold Sin 's base Deformities She is a precious Pearl and valued high Come who can part with all thou may her buy Stay I 'm not bought with Money nay saith she Come buy come buy without Price I am free Come buy ye Milk and Honey is My Call Come buy without Price 't is free for you all Why spend you Labour for that is not Food And Strength for that which will not do you good Awake awake 't is high time ope ' your Eyes Obey Christ's Voice let Wisdom's Light arise Within your Hearts that checks for Evil and Be sure Obedience yield to Its Command That as a Sword and Hammer by great Power It may smite down and as a Fire devour The Stubble for I know the Lord demands The Fruits of Righteousness at all your hands You great Professors that long time have been Talking of Righteousness but found in Sin And you who to God's Light and Truth confess Have felt its Virtue yet do not posses It in you I a word of Exhortation Unto you give make you the Application Consider First why God discovers Sin The strait Gate and broad VVay the VVorld walks in Vain Customs Pride Hypocrisie Deceit Truth Righteousness and sound VVords these more meet Are your Profession to accompany Yea perfect Fruits of true Christianity As those who in the Life of Christ do dwell Experimentally to you can tell Are not these things thus laid before your Eyes That you the best may chuse the worst despise And now a word to you that hate the Light And to Gods gracious Spirit do despite ' Counting that an Unholy thing and Low A Natural Light which doth to all men show Their secret Sins a Common Grace whereby There 's no Salvation thus you villifie Christs precious Blood that on the Cross was shed For your Redemption who through sins are dead Counting Gods only Son our Prince and King The Lamb Christ Jesus an Unholy thing Despising Gods Free Grace and tender Love That in your Hearts

we may read In Deutronomy plain The Lord ordained ways and means The Poor for to maintain Yea he took care and gave strict charge The Poor Reliev'd might be As also in Leviticus We may both read and see And in the Book of Samuell God made both Rich and Poor He lifteth up and bringeth low Let all his Power adore The Persons of the Princes great Accepteth not the Lord Nor more regards the Rich than Poor He made both by his Word The Rich who do the Poor despise And Needy Ones disdain The time will come that all their Wealth Can't free them from their Pain The expectation of the Poor Shall perish not nor fail Though Wicked men them persecute And in Pride them assail The Proud lay wait to catch the Poor Their Eyes are priv'ly set The Needy they seek to ensnare And take them in their Net But they are blest who do the Poor In their Distress consider And help the Needy in their straits Their Leaf shall not soon wither The Lord will certainly maintain The just Right of the Poor The Cause of the afflicted Ones For-a ye and evermore Although his Neighbours hate the Poor And Brethren him despise Much Food is in his tillage and A Blessing on it lies Whoever do the Poor Oppress And to them are unkind They do dishonour God them made I' th' Scripture we so find We also read that man is blest Hath a Bountiful Eye Because his Bread unto the Poor He gives when they do cry The Churle doth ill devices make For to destroy the Poor And them to slay with Lying words That they may rise no more The Person Vile no more shall be A Liveral man esteem'd Nor yet the Churle thought Bountiful It must not so be deem'd The Poor who walk in Uprightness And in Gods fear do dwell Are better than the Rich Perverse Whose ways lead down to Hell He that unto the Poor doth give Sha'nt lack in time of need But he that hides his Eyes shall have Many a Curse indeed Doth not the God of Heaven and Earth The Poor of this world chuse Doth not the Lord reject the Rich No kindness to them shews The Rich and Poor together meet The Lord them both did make And though the Rich regard them not God for them care will take Concerning the Vncertainty of Worldly Riches AS doth the Eagle soar aloft And towards the Heavens fly So Riches to themselves make Wings Gone from us by and by No Certainty nor Confidence A man can in them have His precious Soul they can't Redeem Nor Ransom from the Grave Those that them eagerly persue And to grow Rich make haste Do oft into great Michiefs fall And Heritage lay waste Therefore 't is good content to be With what the Lord doth give And whether thou be Rich or Poor Still in Gods Fear to live Mans Happiness and Life don't stand In his Abundance great Therefore let all contented be Not wanting Clothes and Meat For who so to Content is come A Creasure hath before That man whose Barnes are fill'd and throng'd So full they 'l hold no more The Cares and Riches of this World The good Seed oft doth choak When some grow Rich then they grow High And so casts off Christ's Yoak Therefore said Christ How hard it is For those have Riches store Into Gods Kingdom for to go More easie for the Poor How sorrowful it made th' Young Man Christ said lack'd One thing more Which was to Sell all that he had And give 't unto the Poor And thou in Heaven Rich shalt be And come and follow me But having great Possessions here How sorrowful was he More easie for a Camel 't is A Needles Eye go through Than for a rich man as saith Christ Gods Kingdom get into The Widdows Mites which she cast in The Creasury was more Than all the rest what they cast in Of their abundant store A Lamentation and Warning for England OH England England surely now Thy case is very sad When many in thy Borders are So wicked grown and bad That at good men they make a Scoff At Purity deride Disdain the name of Holiness Exalted in their Pride Contemn the Worship of the Lord In Spirit and in Truth This is a state to be lament In old men and in Youth Because of Oathes the Land doth Mourn Swearing is grown so great Daming and Sinking may be heard Too frequent in the Street Cursings Plague-rot and God-confound So commonly are used With Gluttony and Drunkenness Gods Mercies are abused Moreover and besides all this Wicked Informers are By some too much encouraged Christs flock to rend and tear Their Goods to Spoil Houses Rifle And them in Prison cast And go on still to work that ill Will Ruin bring at last But if these things encourag'd be And no stop put thereto The End will but Destruction bring And Nation quite undo For certainly the God of Truth That doth in Heaven dwell His great Displeasure will make known For such things I fore-tell But though to thee I tell the same Yet some will not regard But still will Mock at Warnings fair Their Hearts are grown so hard E're long the time will come in which A Reckoning God will make With them that do his People wrong And from them their Goods take 'T is not for Evil they have done But only and alone For worshipping and serving him Who is the Holy One Yea certainly the thing is strange Did you the like e're hear If one do either Preach or Pray He Fined is severe And if one neither Preach nor Pray But with Gods People meet Although in Silence they remain In Meeting-House or Street Then this is deem'd a Crime so great Some say they won't it bear And threaten if they stand i' th' Street A Riot they will swear They chuse not in the Street to stand But forced by Constraint Out of their hired Houses then To meet i' th' Streets are faint In Peace and Quietness they stand Upon the Lord to wait That so their Strength renew'd may be And bettered in their state For this they know their Duty is Assembled for to be And wait upon and Worship God In true Sinceritie And God the Searcher of all Hearts He their Intent doth know That for no other end they Meet And to Assemblies go They are a People principl'd Their Practice has made known No wrong to do nor seek revenge Good Will towards all they 've shown Their Principle and Practice is Superiors to Obey And do those things which they require Wherein God don't say Nay But if it happen to fall out Some things they have enjoyn'd The Lord contrary-wise requires I' th' Scriptures ye do find It better is God to Obey Than subiect be to Man To This all good Men do agree Let rest say what they can Their Meetings are Religious and Most Peaceable and Quiet And yet some Vile Ungodly Men Swears thus meeting a Riot Where nothing

Riotous appears In Words Deeds nor Intent And yet they 'l boldly swear the same So wickedly they 're bent But certainly the time 's at hand God will his Children dear That serve him uprightly in Truth From all false Charges clear And they that wrongfully accuse And hate them without cause Shall bear his Righteous Judgment fierce And Rigour of his Laws Who Rigorous to his Lambs have been Severe beyond all Reason Conspirators against the Lamb And guilty of High-Treason They at his Bar of Justice then Arraigned all shall be And sentence from the Judge receive For their Iniquitie Depart from me ye Workers of Iniquity and Sin Unto the place prepar'd of old Tophet 't is call'd wherein The Worm ne're dyes and Fire burns Exceeding hot and fierce A flame of Brimstone kindleth it Where Piles of Wood's not scarce In Everlasting Torments they Their Teeth shall gnash with Pain In Chains of Darkness they 'l be bound Not to be free'd again Therefore to those that persecute The Righteous and the Just I say Repent before God say Depart from me ye Curst For if Repentauce ye don t know And from these Evils cease Then into Thraldom must you go Ne're more to have release And what you have to good Men done And that without just cause The same to you shall measur●d be By those contemn your Laws Oh! that my Native Country-men And Subjects of this Realm To Moderation might incline And those set at the Helm The Cry of the Oppressed and The Case of all the Poor Would hear and those in Goals now lie To Freedom would restore And grant to all the Israelites Free leave to serve the Lord And go to New-Ierusal'm to Praise him with one accord Then Blessings from above will come Upon this Nation great The Nations round about shall all Not only hear but see 't When Truth and Righteousness prevails Iustice and Iudgment to The want of which where-e're it be That Nation will undo Where Iudges for Rewards do judge More then the Case o' th' Poor The Righteous Judge of Heav'n and Earth Will judge with Vengeance sore Where Priests that preach are Hirelings found And tear the Wool from Sheep They Shepherds are void of Gods fear Not fit his his flock to keep And God whose Eye goes to and fro And all things doth behold His Controversie with them 's great As Prophets said of old That Light is come and now doth shine False Teachers doth discover And It must break forth more and more And spread all Nations over For to discover Babylon And all her Merchants great That so the Whore may reign no more But come down from her Seat She long has sate and reign'd as Queen No Sorrow she would see But now the time 's at hand in which Will come her Destinie She long the Blood of Saints hath drunk ' Cause from Truth they 'd not turn But now the Kings shall hate the Whore Her flesh with Fire burn B. A. A Tripple Plea Law Physick and Divinitie Were at a jarr could not agree To prove their Right which of all three Should have Superioritie The Law pleads It preserves Mens Lands And keeps their Goods from Ravenous Hands Therefore of Right challengeth he To have Superioritie Physick prescribes Receipts for Health Which men prefer before their Wealth Therefore of Right challengeth he To have Superioritie Then steps up the Priest demure That of mens Souls takes Care and Cure Therefore of Right challengeth he To have Superioritie LEt Judges judge this Tripple-Plea Then Lawyers shall bear all the Sway. Let Empiricks their Verdict give Physitians most of all shall thrive Let Bishops be Judge in this case Then Priests shall have the highest place Let Honest Sober Wise Men judge Then all these three away may trudge For let men live in Peace and Love The Lawyers Tricks they need not prove Let men forbear Excess and Riot They need not live by Physicks Diet. Let men attend what God doth Teach They need not care what Priest doth Preach But if men Fools and Knaves will be They shall be Ass-rid of all Three T. C. THe Day of God doth now draw nigh From which the Wicked fain would fly Which Day discovers all their Deeds And plainly shews they are but Weeds And fit for nothing but the Fire And to be burned in Gods Ire Who now will throughly purge his Floore And save the Wheat for evermore Christ is the Door he is the Way Where all should walk where none can stray Turn in thy mind without delay That thou mayst joy in Gods pure Day To God Most-high Antient of Dayes My Soul aloud doth sound forth Praise This is the thirsting of my Heart That God his Love would more impart My Soul doth magnifie the God of Light For my Redemption great out of the Night Blessing and Praise to him for evermore Who hath inricht me with his heavenly store And gave me Entrance in by Christ the Door To dwell with him now and for evermore Glory and Praise be unto God I say Who brought me from the Night into the Day HOw fresh and green Things are in time of Spring How sweetly then the Turtle Dove doth Sing A heavenly Song of Praises pure I hear The time of my Redemption now draws near Praises pure Praises unto God forever Who by his Word my Soul from Sin doth sever And fit the same to enjoy endless Life By perfect Freedom from all Iars and Strife To live in Peace and in a joyful state With Christ my Head my Portion and my Mate Now I no longer in the World may dwell To me to live therein seems like to Hell The Course of the whole World which lies in Sin Too much therein I heretofore have bin But now my Life it stands in God most pure And here O Lord let me for a'ye indure And when that Satan did draw out my Mind I oft did in me hear a Voice behind Which said to me keep to the Good within For by It thou mayst be preserv'd from Sin Keep to its Teachings and mark the effect For by Its Power All Sin thou mayst reject Of this thou need in no wise for to doubt For by Its Power the Devils are cast out And that State known that 's always pure and clean Wherein no Spot nor Wrinkle can be seen And here the Soul may now for a'ye Rejoyce And Praise the Lord with a pure holy Voice The Lord hath often knocked in my Breast That my Immortal Soul might have its Rest And be Redeem'd from all that hath opprest To have my Life in Freedom which is best And so know Death through Life destroyed quite And Mortal cloathed with Immortal Light THe Day of God most holy is and pure Which Day and Light the Sinner can't endure He hates the Light appearing in his Heart Because the coming of it is his smart For as an Oven it will fiercely burn All that is bad and to Truth will not turn Yea all that is in Man it now will try And all that is Impure must surely dye And be consum'd as with a burning Fire And be destroyed in Gods dreadful Ire So only that which can the Fire endure Shall stand and so come forth holy and pure And shall be crowned with a Crown of Life Prepared as a Bride and the Lamb's Wife Therefore ye Sinners hear lest that ye dye The Voice of Christ Gods Son with him comply Who is the Saviour great and kiss him straite And to him bow before it be too late And take his Counsel for I plainly tell Those that reject the same go down to Hell Therefore with speed come turn your Minds within Obey that Voice which doth reprove for Sin And say This is the Way come walk in it That you with me upon my Throne may sit Go not therefore in Ways and Works of Evil No longer live in Sin and serve the Devil But follow me in those Ways that are Pure For dark and sinfnl Ways I can't endure My Soul in all respects doth loathe the same Those walk therein dishonour Gods pure Name My Counsel heed and do not run before Incline not to the Spirit of the Whore Her Cup of Wine is Fornication great Vials of Wrath shall come upon her Seat THe Lord doth feed his Flock and give them Rest In pleasant Pastures where they richly feast And drink of Shiloes Brooks that run so clear For they only the living God do fear They hear his Voice and do his Will aright In Holy things their Souls have great delight But this unto the Sinner seemeth strange Whose great delight in Darkness is to range And rove about and from the good to raven Walking in sinful Ways yet hope for Heaven 'T is a false Hope the Hope o' th' Hypocrite It leads not out of Darkness into Light Therefore that Hope I say trust to no more But come to Christ within the Hope the Door Come from that place where Satan has his station Enter the Kingdom through great Tribulation For all that will live godly in Christ they Shall meet with Persecution in their Way But God preserves the Humble and the Meek The Proud and Persecutors Head he 'l break Therefore thy Neck subject unto Christ's Yoke Fear not thy Bands though strong shall all be broke His Yoke is easie Burden light and shall Give to thee Rest and bring out of the Fall Into that Way which narrow is and straite Bow to his Yoke before it be too late J. 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