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A52171	Mentis humanæ metamorphosis, sive conversio, The history of the young converted gallant, or, Directions to the readers of that divine poem written by Benjamin Keach, intituled Warre with the devil here shewing the readers thereof how to read the same poem aright in these four respects, viz. I. in reference to the substance or history thereof, II. in reference to the intent or mystery thereof, III. in reference to the consequent doctrine thereof, IV. in reference to practical application thereof / compiled in a poem by J. Mason, Gent. ...; Mentis humanae metamorphosis	Mason, John, fl. 1676-1683.	1676 (1676)	Wing M916; ESTC R7190	51,417	169

this Similitude INtentive and Unanimous Readers let us for the Truth sake contemplate yet a little further this comparison and see into the Heighth Depth Length and Breadth thereof for it is worth the knowing that by the natural Mystery we may learn the Supernatural and try our selves thereby For verily there is not a greater secret in nature or art then this of the Compass if we rightly consider all the properties thereof And therefore having given you the Pourtraicture thereof I will also here in the next place give you the Description of it and so proceed to application for Instruction sake in the work of Conversion The Pilots compass is a round box of Wood hollow and plain In the Verge of it are set down the 32 Points of the Winds and in the middle or Center stands a sharp Pins point whereon the Needle by a hollow Dent becomes Voluble and turneth round thereon tumbling and shaking 'till it leaves them all and fixeth in the North point only toward the Polar Star And over it is a plate of Glass or Chrystal to preserve it from all violent motion by the wind and to keep it from the Air dust or any foulness least it lose its Magnetick vertue And so is placed in the Ship near the Helme as a Directour to the Pilot how to Steer his course aright from place to place till he come to his rest or wished Harbour But there yet remain two greater wonders Namely the Load-stone or Magnet and also the Load Star or North-point The Loadstone is the efficient cause of the Needles Conversion and the Load-star is as the final cause of its conversion for there it ends and terminateth in rest and from both these the Needle receiveth the power of Conversion else it could have none And it must first receive vertue from the Load-stone before it can turn to the Load Star as I have said before And then having been touched thereby and joyned thereto and as it were gendring together it attracts to it self a secret love or inclination to the North-Poynt with eager desire But why or how this can be in nature no wit of man could ever yet find out for it is Digitus Dei the Finger of God a wonder in Nature for a lesson to Mankind Now in the next place observe the unparallel'd properties of these three The Stone the Needle and Star For these three act as one in this work 1. The Load stone draws and attracts the Needles Point figured as you see like a Lilly and as it were kisseth and embraceth it and anointeth or baptizeth it with a secret invisible vertue and this is the first change 2. Then the Needle rejoyceth in the vertue thereof as made Convertible thereby to its place of rest and this the second change 3. Lastly the Star or Morth point standeth fixed and cnmoveable to receive the Aspect and Reflexion of the Needle towards it in mutual Conjunction and this the third and last change in this great Mystery of nature Further observe one Load stone though there be many can inspire and new inform a Million of Needles and no Stone else can do it Marble Coral Agate Diamond Ruby Saphyre or Pearle nor all the Stones in Aarons Breast-plate nor in the Royal Crown nor yet the rare Elixar or Philosophers Stone can give it the vertue of Conversion to the Heavenly North-Star Neither can a Needle made of any Mettal but firm Steel receive this vertuous Tincture of Love Gold Silver Copper or Lead are not capable of this hidden vertue with all their Worldly Glory and Splendour they cannot receive a kiss of Love from the Magnet for they have not a Magnetick Principle in them nor any Heavenly inclination nor are they capable of this Communion and Unity as to point all to one place in the Heavens Earth is their Center and there they end in the grave of Corruption But these Love-touched-Brethren stand ever in Communion though far asunder the place and object of rest make them one in nature and in society inseperable companions in love and vertue though differing in locality remote from each other The Spiritual Application A Little Application will serve to the Intelligent Reader The Mystery is written in Capital Letters he that runs may read at first sight Behold all of you young and old men and women the wonderful power of God in the Creation in this and in all his works of wonder and so let all fall down and worship him adore admire and be converted unto him who hath made Heaven and Earth O draw neer unto him as the Needle to the Magnet and he will draw neer to you Magnifie him and glorifie his Name that his vertue his power his Love Fear and Faith may touch your hearts and anoint them with his secret spirit of Grace in Conversion that you may become all Elect Vessels of Honour in his sight and so be renewed in soul and body mind and spirit ever looking up to Heaven and panting after your Saviour who is gone before to prepare a rest for the blessed that look towards him above all the Profits or Pleasures or Glories of this world For he is in Heaven looking down upon you and after you as waiting for you and I when I ascended saith he will draw up all men after me Namely all that are capable to be drawn unto him in real Conversion from this world and the things thereof Every Sinner Swearer Drunkard Thief Whore and Adulterer Extortioner and vain glorious or covetous soul he waits for to come unto him to rest in him from sin to take up his dayly cross and follow him for of such little Children is the Kingdom of Heaven and all that be his already thus do he knows them and they him for they have already received many a kind kiss from him they are joyned as the Needle and Magnet mutually together and receive vertue of his vertue daily and cannot be drawn from him their hearts are with him though their bodies are here below and thus they all make one Assembly of Saints on Earth fixed on him in Heaven For by this Needle of pure firm Steel understand the Heart of Man his Soul and Mind Mens Humana the Humane understanding mind spirit sanctified and made Heavenly and Divine The Lovers of Gold and Silver and Brass and Pretious Stones Jewels and Glories of this World Titles of Honour and Gentility pleasures of Sensuality attain not this Conversion Those 32 points must all be left when the Word of God and his Spirit touch the True Mettled Heart as prepared for the Bosome of Jesus Christ the True North-star in whom is their Rest and Peace through a pure Lile Faith and Conscience and in no other but him Readers Take it into deep consideration for it is Truth here told you Hereby you may see and know your selves and your sins your Salvation or your Damnation Much more might here be said but I bid

a Wonder doth appear Of such a One our News-books never told Nor yet the Belgick's Mercury of old And therefore marvel not if I supply The Old Defect with this New History Two kinds of Birth the Scripture well explains Esau the First Jacob the Last obtains These Names two Natures do imply and so The Last supplants the First and brings it low For a New Nature doth a New Name take And a New Birth doth a New Christian make 'Till now this Gallant did Usurp that Name But his New Birth makes him to be the same And far more Noble is this Second Birth For this from Heaven comes but that from Earth Yea this is Born of God but that of Man This calls God Father That nor will nor can This Noble Birth transcends each Coat of Arms. All natural Extract or the Field Alarms And for this Birth this Youth himself bereaves Of his First Birth and its Vain-glory leaves With all its tinckling Titles of Degrees To which men bow their heads and bend their knees This was the third hard Cross to this poor soul For all the Powers of Hell this work controul Old Satan's Kingdom cannot stand one hour In that poor heart where Pomp hath lost its power Nor can Gentility in its Pride agree With Christianity in true sympathie For these to Princes are as opposite As Light and Darkness or as Black and White The Jew and Gentile don 't more different seem Than Gentleman and Christian in esteem Dam me to Hell the sinful Gallants crie Hell is their Portion sin their propertie To whom this Convert stands a Pattern here Of True Repentance and of Holy Fear Of true Nobility in the highest kind Born of Humility in the lowest mind Who to obtain a New-name as New-born Leaves all vain Trappings which his Name adorn And here degrades himself of Gentile Pride So to be made for Christ his lowly Bride For such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this Gallant 's History The End of the Third Degree in Conversion Descending and Third Mortifying Virtue Called Execution of Iudgment and Will In forsakeng all Vain Gentility The Fourth Mortifying Grace or Virtue Being the Fourth Step or Degree in his Conversion Descending Called Rationality or True Discretion In Bridling of the Wit and Lordly Tongue THus now bereft of his Gentility For Conscience sake in deep Humility And of that Vain Imagination late Which Airie Titles bred in his first ' state Such as the Vulgar their Commanders give Though ne're so Vile ' though ne're so Vain they live He now doth wonder how he play'd the child With those fine Rattles which his Wits beguil'd And next he strives with all the Power he can In all his Words to prove a Rational Man For Speech is given unto all but few Attain in Speech the Moderation due Therefore himself he now doth Recollect And both his Tongue and his wild Wit Correct He that can Rule his Wit doth Rule his Tongue Else it will prove oft-times too large too long Thus a new work he now doth undertake As well for Credit as for Conscience-sake And so becomes a well composed Soul Whose Babbling Wit true Reason doth controul His words are few he in deep silence dwells And only to the Wise his Minde he tells Lest he be made at any time or season A scorn to Fools that understand no Reason Reason's the Jewel which his Soul doth prize As giving sight to his awak'ned Eyes Regenerate Reason now becomes his Guide In all his Words Works Thoughts beside A God-like Image and a Light Divine When saving Faith its grossness doth Refine But 't is Preposterous Piety to make Reason the Ground of Faith and Truth mistake For God's the Lord of Reason and of Sense Of Phancy Judgment and Intelligence Yea he is Lord of Language and doth give Reason to Man in Language pure to live And by that Light to Rule his vagrant Tongue Least he exceed in Talk or speak what 's wrong To guard his lips as with a flaming Sword For Man must give account of every Word Of every idle saying jest or story Which he of vents for his own praise and glory The Tongue 's a Bruitish Member void of Wit And Man must keep perpetual Warr with it And stand upon his Watch to keep it in Lest it fly out and fall to deadly Sin For all Man's talk is either good or evil So he an Angel Acts or else a Devil Therefore observe in each Particular How Reason leads this Convert through this war Where he finds several Enemies at hand They against him he against them doth stand The several Particulars follow concerning Vanity in Discourse and here Forsaken As the Enemies to Reason Faith and Truth 1. The First Particular Vanity in Speech Namely Lightness Iesting and Laughing Forsaken by this Convert ANd now this Noble Princely Youth begins To take account of all his Verbal Sins Which seem'd before an Ornament and Grace To his High-Birth his Quality and Place But now this Laughing Spirit he Corrects With solid looks and his light humour Checks For Manly Reason in his Sober School Permits no Scholar there to act the Fool To vent his With or laugh at his own jest Or to make Sport in vain for all the rest For nothing more corrupts the work of Grace Than a loose jesting Tongue and laughing Face 2. The Second Particular Forsaken in Vaniloquie Viz. Complement ANd next he leaves his nimble tongues activity In Complemental Fine and False Civility False Flāttering Titles now he gives no more Nor lends the Name of Madam to a Whore Nor Sir unto a Knave All Gentile Oaths And Humble Service he both leaves and loaths For all his Care is to serve God aright With Lips unfeign'd in all the Peoples sight 3. The Third Particular in Vaniloqui forsaken Viz. Amorous Discourse Songs and Uerses ANd to proceed he now no more rehearses To his Fine Misse his Amorous Books Verses Into the Fire he casts his Playes burns them For fume they are and into fume he turns them Like unto like from Wanton Flames they came And must again return into a Flame His Aerie Sonnets and his wild Romances Tales Fables Fictions and a thousand Chances Of Wandering Knighthood and brave Chivalrie Are now all mute and in deep silence lie One Penitent Psalm doth more his Soul delight Than all the Books of Mirth that Wit can write Saying O Lord with Grace my Heart renew And fill my lips with language chaste and true 4. The Fourth Particular Vanity in Talk Forsaken Viz. Telling of Uulgar News NOr tells the News from any forreign Part For he finds News at home in his own heart There 's Civil Warrs begun and like to hold For Sence by Reason scorns to be controul'd Because he long hath reign'd as Elder-Brother And frets to be supplanted by the other Nature and Custome would not yield to Grace Nor to

you all farewel and wish you may live well and so dye well which you cannot do except you first bid the World farewel and dye to that whilst here you live The whole Compass of this Earth through all its round Circle of 32 points must be left for Heaven-sake in all its Longitudes and Latitudes and Degrees thereof All must be left for one Pearl one only Treasure for which the Merchant or Mariner sold all he had to purchase it And where the Treasure is there will the Heart be whether in Heaven or in Earth But on Earth the Needle the Heart or Mind of Man hath no rest it is a Pilgrim there and travelleth to its Resting-place above all Earthly Joys State and Delight which Resting-place is Invisible it is a Misterie above Nature the Natural minded unconverted Man can have no propensity or inclination to it the Heavenly converted Soul seeks and finds it and is fixed in it as the Needle to the North-point its proper place of Rest. For after all Fixation crowns the work The Needle would be a cast away were it not both Toucht and Fixt For otherwise it could give no Direction no true Instruction nor be of any use service for its maker or its master but being Fixed after long Trembling and Quaking and seeking Rest it secretly and silently rejoyceth with an Allelujah to its Creator Rejoycing that it is Fixt to-towards him as all true Saints do and ever did Therefore said David that sweet Singer of Israel in the midst of all his Troubles and Tryals My Heart is fixed O God my Heart is fixed I will sing and give praise Awake my Harp c. Psal. 50.7 And again Psal. 59.16 I will sing of thy Power I will sing a loud of thy mercy early in the morning unto thee O my strength will I sing For God is my Defence saith he and the God of my mercy In him my Heart is fixed He is the God of my salvation and deliverance the God that giveth me Life Strength Health Food and Raiment The God who hath anointed me with the Spirit of Grace and with the inward light of his Countenance who hath pardoned my sin and redeemed my Feet from Death Who hath given me a New Heart to love his Commandments And his Law is sweet to my Lips as the Honey and the Honey-comb more delightsome than my dayly-food yea than all the Glories of my Kingly-crown ●n him my heart resteth to him will I sing and give praise But the Needle the Heart or mind of Man cannot come to this place of Rest and Perfection till it first be Baptized Annointed like the Heart of David by the Holy Ghost The Heart must become a Child in its Humility taken up into Christs Arms and blest For the word of God namely the Prophets and Apostles bring the Heart as a New-born Infant unto Christ inwardly in Spirit that like the Needle touched with the Load-stone it may be made Partaker of this Heavenly-Nature and so be made like unto him conformed to his Image lost in the first Adam then it is inabled to stand fixed and at Rest in the midst of all this worlds Tryals and Temptations as converted unto him who is the Rest and resting-place to all that be His. Therefore great need is there to all mankind of this Conversion of this outward and inward unction this divine Metamorphosis or change of the Mind this New-birth for without it none can make war with the Devil The world and the flesh none can become Old Souldiers of Christ Or Conquerours over Sin Hell and Death without it for this is the one thing necessary to everlasting Joy Rest and Perfection here and for evermore For it is the Saints Jewel their white-stone by which all are Purified Sanctified and Justified to all eternity Yea this is the sure infallible mark of the True Church on Earth the Lilley-hearted Church the Lillies of the Vallies the Lillies and Roses in Solomon's Garden here Typed forth by this lively similitude of the little Needle Loe Readers if all this be true if the case thus stands before the Throne of Jesus Christ where is then all Pride Envy Dispute Wars Jars and Contention about Religions All Religions and Opinions Institutions Signs Services and Sacrament must be subordinate and stoop to this one things necessary this Place of Rest and Fixation which is an humble clean Heart directed to God and Goodness in Jesus Christ alone And then farewell Sensuality and Gentility Riches and Honour for this one treasure this essential Principal of Rest and everlasting Happiness And thus much for the similitude omitting all Curiosity of discourse concerning Magnetick Bodies in general as likewise the variation of the Needle on this and that side the Aequator with all other abstrusities in this matter And only wish after all that my writing here might beeome magnetick to my beloved Readers and might attract some at the least to true Love of the Saints Jewel here described and so become members of the universal Lillie Church with their Lillie-pointed Hearts touched with the Load-stone of divine Love and Grace And thus much of-this Book written occasionly from the sight of that Divine Poem aforementioned in the beginning written by the hand of One altogether unknown unto me hoping it will prove acceptable to him and to the Lovers and Believers of the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus the fountain of all Truth Remaining to them all a Servant to my Power in the service of the said Truth John Mason The full Period An Advertisement WHereas His Majesty hath been gratiously pleased by his Letters Pattent to grant and confirm to Richard Hains the sole cleansing the Seed called Trefoil Nonsuch or Hop clover from its Husk and course Grass he being the first that made the discovery with prohibition to all others to cleanse the same which Seed thus cleansed is very profitable to many places of this Kingdom especially for dry Lands as Chalkey Rocky and Hilly Grounds c. which are Naturally barren and will produce little or no Pasture These are to certifie all Gentlemen Farmers and others willing to improve such barren Grounds so as with the expence of six shillings to make Land which without it is dear of half a Crown an Acre by the Year to be worth 15 20 or 25 shillings per Acre and for their farther information They may have a Printed account of the Nature use and advantage of the said Seed cleansed as aforesaid At Mr. Russels Coffee-house in Bartholomew-close near West-Smith field The said Seed so cleansed is to be sold by Mr. Thomas Mottershed at the Cross keys in Lumbard-street and Mr. William Lucas at the naked Boy in the Strand and not else-where in London The way for sowing it is with Oats and Barley and the first Weeks of January February March and April the said Richard Hains himself will be in London and may be spoken with at the