's the top and height Of all our happiness That God with us we enjoy thus The Fountain of all bless 184. All which we have in Thee And with Thee perfectly Who can Thee reach or who can preach All thy perfections high 185. Oh thanks for evermore To God and to the Lamb Through Gods grace good and the Lambs blood It is that here we came 186. Where sulness of alâ— joy And pleasures evermore Our portion be therefore we Thee For ever do adore 187. The Scriptures we need not In dark they were our light Thou art our book on Thee we look And all things see aright 188. Tou art our GENESIS In Thee we were create Thou' rt our Beginning without Beginning And End beyond all date 189. By thee we out of dust Or nought our beings had All things in Thee to us are free And we have nothing bad 190. Thou art our EXODUS Our goings out of thrall Thou didst us save deliverance gave By thy high heav'nly call 191. Thour' t our LEVITICUS Through Thee to God we clave Through thy Priesthood and offrings good He never did us leave 192. We also to be Priests Were all by thee anneald Our Leprosie is cleans'd by Thee And all our issues heal'd 193. Thou art our NUMBERER In thee inrold we be Where God doth own in thee is shown Our Genealogie 194. Thou art our Second LAW A perfect summary Of Gods mercies and our duties We do in thee descry 195. Thou art our JOSHUAH Our Saviour Judge and King What we omitted or else forgetted Thou to our mind dost bring 196. It s thou in EPHRATA That hast done worthily Poor Gen iles thou when they did bow Hast lifted up on high 197. Thou art the perfect Scribe The writer of Gods Law Freedome declar'd and all repaird By thee we also saw 198. The poor and patient JOB Made poor and rich again Who thee opprest at thy request Yet mercy did obtain 199. Thou the sweet Singer art The chief Musitian who The Instrument didst first invent And play'st upon it too 200. Thou art our PSALM and Song Our hearts and tongues always Thou through thy love dost tune frame move To fing forth all thy praise 201. Thou only fulness hast All without thee is vain Thou art the Preacher and heavenly Teacher Who dost in Salem Raign 202. Thou' rt the Beloved one The swift Roe or young Hart The Song of Songs to Thee belongs Who its chief Subject art 203. Thy Testimony is Of all the Prophets old The quintessence and thou the sense Of Proverbs dost unfold 204. Thou from a low degree Hast rais'd us to the Throne The Righteous seed Thou hast all freed Here 's Lamentations none 205. Thou art the Gospels sum The tidings of great joy Blessings have we and peace in Thee Nothing doth us annoy 206. Thou Gods Epistle wert His mind in Thee He writ When we absent were he thee sent And Thou discoveredst it 207. Thou art the end of all In Thee God doth unfold And hath reveal'd what lay conceal'd In Thee we All behold 208. Thou all art and in all ALPHA and OMEGA Wherefore to Thee ever do we Sing Oh Hallelu-sah To the Holy Spirit 1. ANd yet again wee 'll sing and strike our strings Wee 'l shew forth whence the spring Of joy that makes us sing Oh 't is a glorious Fountain whence it springs 2. It is the Holy Spirit which he inherits Who did redeem us when We all were but lost men And purchast us to God by his great merits 3. The Spirit of Life which hath fil'd up our Faith And quenched all our griefs With his Cordial reliefs Hee 's Author of our good rejoyc'd us hath 4. He fils us with divine life as with wine And always flows into us And doth such glory show us That to rejoyce we jointly do combine 5. And cannot but rejoyce with pleasant voice And that continually And to Eternity With joys and gloryings in him rare and choice 6. That holy Spirit we will With utmost skill Set 〈◊〉 and magnifie And 〈◊〉 his love glory By whom God and the Lamb did all fulfil 7. He one is of the three in whom do we Live love and whom we doe Worship and bow unto Whose glory 't is our happiness to see 8. The glorious Father wild the word as skild Being that deep wisdom In which the will doth come Devâ—'d the Spirit of might it all fulfil'd 9 The Father and the word with one accord Decree'd devis'd to give Being to all that live And was the Spirit that being did afford 10. He is the mighty hand which the command Of the Father and the Son Which did through all things run Effected gave the world to be and stand 11. He the Heavens high out spred and adorned According as Gods will Holy and wise in skill Pleas'd to determine He them fashioned 12. The very crook't Serpent to his intent He form'd and all beside That was or doth abide According to Gods great commandement 13. He man to understand and to command All things in Earth and Sea That he did make to be Did form and fashion by his mighty hand 14. He is the fulness which is the most rich Forth-going of the High Father and Son whereby All things He built and as a tent did pitch 15. In him there is no less then all the bless And blessed vertues high Which do dwell perfectly In God and in the word and they possess 16. The fulness of all good like a great flood From the Ocean going And all overflowing Yea fuller 't is than can be understood 17. He from God and his word with them one Lord Searcheth the things most deep Which God in Christ doth keep The knowledge of them t is he doth afford 18. One with them twâ—â—â— was He As well know wee In all their councels old Most high and manifold Therefore they all by him declared be 19. Blest be that Spirit of grace who in its place Did both a body frame For the Word and th same Sanctifie that no sin might it deface 20. The eternal Spirit the same who did us frame Seeing us in sin dead And helpless pittyed Us all and blessed be his holy Name 21. He that we might from sin be freed wherein We lay condemn'd prepar'd As He had fore declar'd That blessed body unto us a kin 22. And fild it with his power that in the hour Of death and darkness He Upheld was did not flee From that great cup of vengeance sharp and sour 23. To which he by this Spirit that he might merit For us Redemption Accurst the Cross upon Did yield himself that we might Life inherit 24. Thou Spirit most blest didst raise within three days That body up again Loosing of Death the pain To justifie us for which we thee prasse 25. And for those infinite perfections bright That are in Thee and all Thy works both great and small Thou carryedst up that body to
to seek to know him bend Our thoughts to him and keep him in our mind With greatest earnestness his praises view To think on him bid all things else adieu LXIII Love God with all thy heart as him we know Let our affections close with and embrace Him freely fully all things high and low To the injoyment of him must give place Resign our wills to him on him rely Joy and delight we in his Majesty LXIV Seek his approvement fellowship and grace Joy in his word and service and adhere Firmely unto him seek his strength and face Above all things and the loss thereof fear Yea love the places whereon be his name His paths posts statutes and frequent the same LXV Love God with all thy soul the life and might Which soul united with the body gives To put forth all our strength it is but right Seeking and serving him who ever lives Remiss and slothful seeking him implies That our love to him 's cold and cold love dies LXVI Yea yet again we may be thrice put on To love the Lord because a Trinity There is in him He 's three though yet but one As Scriptures do expresly testifie Love God the Father Son and holy Spirit For each of them thy fervent'st love do merit LXVII For each and All are love in one and have Joyntly and severally their love exprest To us poor mortals that they might us save And that our miseries might be redrest In love the Father sent the Son unto us In love the Son came and the Spirit doth wooe us LXVIII In love the Father his Son yielded up To be made flesh and poor despis'd and dye 'T was He that gave to him that bitter cup Which wrung his Soul with many an agony In love to us he rais'd him up again And hath exalted him on high to reign LXIX In love to us the Son our flesh and blood Did at the Father's just appointment take And in our room and stead as surety stood And by his dying did atonement make And rose and off'red up himself on high Living to plead for us continually LXX In love to us he sent the holy Ghost And gifts did give to men as he thought good That so by them his Name in ev'ry coast Might be proclaim'd and his grace understood And unto those who do his grace retain He 'll come in glory and raise them to raign LXXI In love to us the Holy Ghost comes forth In Christ his Name and doth his truth make known Shewing the things of Christ and their great worth Wooing us to him that we might him own Waiting with patience for our turning in Ready to wash and cleanse us from our sin LXXII He guids us into truth he gives support Strengthneth in services and sufferings Unto our fainting Spirits he gives comfort Yea he all life and blessings to us brings Will raise us up from death and grave and give In glorious bodies us with Christ to live LXXIII Love Love Love God therefore intensively Who was and is and who is yet to come Love every person in the Trinity Oh that he had in my heart all the room Thus in the first place love to God is due But let us now a second Object view LXXIV Love secondly our Neighbour for the Text That bids us first of all to love the Lord Tells us the second precept which is next Is love our Neighbours and we in God's Word Good reason for it find because they are Our brethren though with God they can't compare LXXV All men are sprung from out one common stock Branches of the same root made of one blood Rais'd from one common mold chips of one block Fram'd by one hand capable of one good We had at first the same original And must at last into the same dust fall LXXVI Indeed there is in us such backwardness To love our Neighbours that this thrice repeated Word Love may be apply'd with earnestness That our cold hearts to love them may be heated God we so little love our selves so wrong That Neighbours get not what to them belong LXXVII 'T would be as good for them happy to be And to be miserable full as sad As to be happy will be good for thee And to be miserable for thee 's bad Seek to promote their good prevent their wooe Do to them as thou wouldst be done unto LXXVIII Especially fince it is God's good will And precept that thy Neighbour thou should'st love And that he might thee move it to fulfill His own example gives thee from above He hath both loved thee and others too As he hath done to thee to others do LXXIX God's love to thee obliges thee again Readily what he bids thee to obey To Love thy Neighbour then do not disdain Whatever lust of thine thereto say nay Though of thy love unworthy he doth seem Worthy of thine obedience God esteem LXXX But who 's our Neighbour surely every man Distinct from us at least till fil'd with evil Any we find that clearly see we can That they are thereby made one with the Devil For they that are God's enemies so far Out of our loves we lawfully may bar LXXXI But for all others they should loved be Whither they be our friends our foes or strangers Their good we should indeavour joy to see Defend and seek to rescue them from dangers Grieve for their harms and do what in us lies Their happiness to further any wise LXXXII Me thinks three sorts of Neighbours I espy God's friends our own and they that neither be Respectively to whom this trinity Of love-commands again apply may we Love those that love God love friends and allies Love other men strangers or enemies LXXXIII Love those that love God for they 'r worthy love In that they do the thing that 's good and right They are God's friends he loves them that may move Thee therefore in them to take much delight They love not God who do not love his friends And they are faulty who e'r them commends LXXXIV For in asmuch as any loves God He God's image in him in some measure bears They are Christ's vertues which in him we see God's and Christ's liv'ries he upon him wears And he that loves not God as seen in 's brother Loves not but hates God howe'r he it smother LXXXV If God thou lov'st and seek'st desirously Acquaintance with he with his people dwels In cleaving to their heavenly company Thou shalt meet with him as the Scripture tells If thou hast no desire his face to know Thou lov'st him not what face so e'r thou show LXXXVI Amongst all men they the first place should have In our affections because God's in them They 'r nearest to him what they of him crave He 'll give for he their pray'rs will not contemn They then who him neglect and them despise He needs must take to be his enemies LXXXVII They be Christ's favourites he doth them own As his dear
woes from us proceed It was not long of him or of his creatures Their parts their sweetness beauty goodness features Nay Nay these Devils though they at us thrust By their inticements moving us to lust Are not the reason of our punishment For God against them did us so prevent That had we him but minded and obey'd We had resisted them also and made Them flee away But wo wo unto us We were the reason why we perish thus Though it be true that we in Adam fell Yet we are not for that damn'd to this Hell Though thereby we fell into death and grave Yet Christ from that Destruction did us save So as from them we were rais'd up again And shall not those things any more sustain That Death and Hell have given us up and we Now in a worser pit tormented be Though we were dead in sins and trespasses And could not our selves quicken or redress Yet Christ who died for us and doth live Did by his quickning Spirit such power give When he did call us in the day of grace That then we might been able to imbrace His counsels and instructions 'T was our will Our wilful choice of evil did us kill The creatures which we sinned by were good Had we by Christ's assisting power withstood Our lusts and the temptations of the Devil Christ would us have defended from all evil Oh had we now again those things which we Abus'd to our destruction we would be More thankful for them and would better use them And not as we have done before abuse them How would we serve the Lord with all our store Which we unjustly kept or spent before Oh we would be more righteous and more just Deny our selves and would not serve our lust Oh had we but those opportunities We have mispent before we would be wise How would we hear and read and fast and pray Watch against sin our Idols cast away None should by force or flattery withdraw Our hearts and service from God's holy law We would obey the Laws and Magistrates So far as in the Lord we might Debates And strifes and hatred avarice and lust We would detest with all that is unjust Oh how would we serve God! we would him fear And have a care never to come more here But now it is too late the Door is shut The time of grace is past and we are put Here by an irreversible Decree Whence never more delivered we shall be This is that Tophet prophecy'd of old 'T is large and deep indeed for it doth hold Innumerable more then may be told And for the King the greatest sinners it Prepared was and they are in this pit The cursed Serpent with his Angels all Who did from their first habitation fall And mightyest men who mightily have sin'd Most mighty miseries do herein find The mighty Spirit of God his mighty Power Like to a stream of Brimstone every hour Doth seed these dreadful flames while it doth show And make us feel that we do justly owe The bearing of these torments because we Rebel'd against his light and would not see But wilfully reject his profer'd grace Would not his counsels nor his love embrace Which things he doth to us so evidence And set so strongly on our conscience That we can't now out of our breasts them shake As we were wont Oh none these flames can slake These flames of wrath God's wrath did burn before But Christ did quench it by his sufferings sore But we by our rebellions have again New kindled it and we must bear our pain No other Sacrifice doth now remain For Christ will no more dye for us Oh we Must bear for evermore God's just decree Had we been but admonished before The time of grace was out before the door Of mercy was bar'd up we might have lived But now of all hope we are quite deprived Now we be helpless hopeless easless too Nothing can now avail that we can do Nothing is here but wrath nothing of love No help nor hope of help now from above And all our earthly comforts are quite fled With which we all our days sins committed While we did live on Earth we had our health Meat drink cloath fire warm lodgings houses wealth Yea many of us rich attire did wear Had great attendance lived without fear And if at any time we were not well Yet many mercies still with us did dwell We had our beds to ease us neighbours and Friends oftentimes were ready at our hand Servants to wait upon us and attend us Chyrurgions and Physitians to amend us We had our mitigations intermittings Changes of postures lyings walkings sittings Varieties of meats or drinks to see Whether with this or that we pleas'd might be But now alas these comforts all are gone And mitigation of our pains here 's none No variations here to lessen grief No intermissions nothing for relief We us'd to guzle down excessively Cup after cup but now we are thirsty For something to refresh and cool the tip Of our now flaming tongues but none may dip His fingers end into cold water but All means of easing us are hence out shut We cannot now call for this or that meat This or that cooler to allay our heat No sweet perfumes or odoriferous smell Nothing but Brimstone and the fire of Hell Immixed wrath and which doth yet extend Our misery there is thereof no End Eternal punishment eternal grief Oh never never end never relief Oh might we live ten thousand years as slaves Might we but then go back into our graves Or twenty times ten thousand years might lye In these most dreadful flames might we then dye Were we but mortal as we were before But oh this Endless Wo this Evermore It sinks and breaks us Yet we cannot dye To sense of torment to Eternity This us up swallows 't is the Hell of Hell And passeth all things else that we can tell Wo wo wo wo oh wo and well-a-day Wo wo unto us wo wo wo who may Our misery conceive oh doleful state No heart can it conceive no tongue relate Oh doleful state of those that wicked are Hear oh dear Soul be warn'd and keep thee far From what doth lead thereto be rul'd by me And this Condition thou shalt never see Canto V. Or the Joyful Canto The joys of Heaven and Songs of the Righteous Awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust Isa 26.19 This Joyful Canto doth declare The happy state and great welsare Of those that in Christ's joys shall share What songs may fit that happy state Though their injoyments then so great Will be as no pen can relate First songs the Father cheifly eyes The second the Son magnifies And praises his great victories The third songs wholly to this tend The Holy Spirit to commend And then this Canto hath an end BUT on the contrary the Righteous men Shall have great pleasures and rejoycings when They go into eternal life
that saved we may be From his destroying hand If I 'm so vile That all I think or do sin doth defile How is it possible that any thing I can perform that may me safety bring If I had all the World at my command To offer up to him nought at my hand Needs He to take whose all things are nor could I it so bring as He accept it would From me that am so vile but alas I Have nothing of mine own but misery And sin I must therefore lye down forlorn Bewailing that sad day when I was born And wishing that some Hills or Mountains might Fall on and cover me from his dread sight That He might not how sinful I am see Nor I Him who so angry is with me But oh alas these bootless wishes are Nought they avail me nothing but Despair Remains as my sad lot in wretchedness To perish evermore without redress O wo is me what shall I think or do I am undone I sink I perish Oh! Minist Despair not Soul But hear and listen well Unto a true story that I shall tell Tidings of joy and gladness I do bring Tidings of peace that well may make thee sing Incline thine ear therefore and bend thy mind That of my words thou may'st the comfort find Though thou most wretchedly from thy Creator Hast run and play'd vile prevaricator From his just laws hast sin'd against him still And hast not set by his most holy will Unworthy art of love most worthy wrath Yet He to thee a strong affection hath Loves thee intensively and thy welfare To bring about no cost or pains doth spare One only Glorious and dear Son hath He Begotten of him from eternity The brightness of his Glory light of light The Image of his person His delight His word eternal his wisdom most pure By whom He all things made and makes t' endure Yet him did He send forth when He saw fit To expiate the sins thou did'st commit To ransom thee from thrall to Death and Devil To raise thee up and free thee from all evil To bring thee from thy woful lost estate In which thou must else lain time without date And thee restore again unto his grace That thou might'st see his sweet and glorious face Injoy his favour sit under his wing And his high praises evermore might'st sing That glorious splendor of his Majesty Who in his Bosom was eternally According to his will determined Was born of a poor Damsel espoused Unto a Carpenter of mean degree Laid in a Manger where there use to be The Ass or Oxen feeding other room The Inn affording not for his welcome When that poor Damsels time was come that she Of this unheard of birth untwin'd should be Even like as if some mighty Prince by birth Should quit his Fathers Pallace and the mirth He there injoy'd should lay his robes aside His Princely robes and the better to hide His high-born dignity and great degree With Pilgrims or poor beggars rags should be Meanly attir'd and so himself betake To travail through great dangers for the sake Of some of his poor subjects who allur'd By some false Traytor had his Realm abjur'd Joyn'd themselves in confederacy to His Fathers and his own most hateful foe Till thereby they upon their heads had brought By means of that rebellion they had wrought Some dreadful punishment and deadly thrall Indangering the ruine of them all That He might in that strange disguise unknown Vanquish those foes who had them overthrown And unexpectedly a pardon bring Unto them from their own much injur'd King And by such love declared win their mind Unto himself that they with him combin'd Might from those Traytors who had them seduced Into his Fathers Kingdom be reduced Under his conduct as their Prince and guide Whose love and care of them they had so try'd Even so this mighty high-born Son of God Into this World down by a path untrod Descended in a garb unknown wherein He wore the badges of our loathsom sin Cloath'd with great poverty infirm and weak Fil'd with reproaches which his heart did break Through swelling Seas of sorrows travail'd He In the strength of his love to seek up thee And save thee from that wretched state wherein Thou ready wast to perish in thy sin In this disguise made under law and so Exposed to indure that curse and woe Which was thy due when he was set upon By all the powers of Hell the field He won In an unusual manner not by strength But weakness rather where through He at length After some combates yielded up to Death His spotless body and his blessed breath Wherein the laws demands He so fulfil'd That it's condemning power thereby He kil'd For so the bonds He cancel'd and the debt Discharg'd that bound thee ore to death and set Thee free from under Sathans power and force That thou may'st now again have free recourse To thy Creators presence for He hath By this his pilgrimage and Death the wrath Of his displeased Father pacified So that his anger He hath laid aside And holds thee now no longer as a Foe bound ore to Death but freely lets thee go Keeps thee not at a distance any longer But calls thee back and by his Son who stronger Is then thine enemies as by the way And leader too by whom the weakest may Strongly and safely walk against the worst Endeavours and resistance of that curst Infernal crue who seek to keep thee back He thee invites and prays thou wilt not slack Thy pace unto him but return again Into his heavenly Kingdom there to reign Over thine enemies in glorious state For everlasting time beyond all date That safely to him thou might'st back be brought This Royal Prince of glory who thee bought From thraldom by his blood doth thee invite To hear his pleasant voyce behold his light In which he sets himself in glorious state Before thy view beseeching thee to hate Those enemies who did thee overthrow And brought thee from so high to be so low And Him to listen to believe and love Who for thy sake descended from above And worst of Deaths and dangers did sustain That He might thee restore to life again He with his words puts forth his mighty hand To turn thee and to make thee understand To give thee strength to lean on him and go The good way after him which He doth show He loves thee dearly wooes thee with his heart Intreats thee from thine Idols to depart Which will undo thee ore again if yet Thou wilt thy self to their advise commit Beseeches thee to save thy self or rather Be sav'd by him who came forth from his Father To save poor sinners bring them safe and sure Unto those joys which ever shall endure He condescends unto thee though thou be'st Viler then any thing that here thou seest As in thy sins unworthy of him yet He Disdains not to address himself to thee Incline thine ear
'll come in to thee I with thee will sup I 'll spread thy Table I will fill thy cup I 'll put thee to no charge I 'll bring my meat And freely give to thee that thou may'st eat And drink abundantly of that blest wine Which will thee satisfie with joys divine Open therefore to me my Sister dear Open thy heart to me Oh taste my chear Give me thy self let me thy body have And heart also I will them bless and save It 's all I ask of thee I crave no more Give me thy self do but thou me adore Give me thy love and thy affections and Be thou but subject unto my command Cleave to me with thy heart put all thy trust In me believe in me for I am just I will not fail or leave thee But thou none Must entertain besides me I alone Challenge thy love and service and it 's fit That none besides me none from me them get I parted for thy sake with all I had To ransom thee from thy forlorn and sad Condition and I all that I again Receiv'd have of my Father not disdain Upon thee to bestow my self I gave To ransom thee my self I give to save Thee too and therefore I alone deserve That thou should'st me alone both love and serve The Devil and his works thou must forsake Thou may'st not serve him his suggestions take For truth use divinations witchcrafts charms Inchantments times observe for good or harms Consult familiar Spirits believe his lies Ask counsel of the dead Idolatries Practise or what ere crafts He doth devise He in the disobedient beareth sway Inticing them to sin and go astray From my right paths Thou must resist him and In nothing yield thy self to his command Thou must forsake this wicked World likewise Not list'ning to their counsels who despise Me and my doctrine nor associate Thy self with them who my good ways do hate It 's pomps and pastimes shows and braveries Vain customs fashions and formalities Thou may'st not dote on neither may'st thou take My gifts or Ordinances and them make Idols as is the guise of worldly men Who do despise me and my laws contemn Their Silver Gold their Riches Houses Lands Their Kings and Governors and their commands They Idolize while after them they lust And in them secretly do put their trust Prefer them before me and fear them so That in my straight ways oft they durst not go The flesh with it's desires also thou must Renounce even every sinful cursed lust Thy bruitish appetites to satisfie In Drunkenness Uncleanness Gluttony Excess of Riot Sports or rich Attire Or what else thy corruptions do desire My words thou must receive and them hold fast No Article of them thou by may'st cast But howsoere thy reason they may pose Thou in thy heart must truly with them close And firmly them retain My holy will Take heed unto that thou may'st it fulfill No Gods but Me in my sight may'st thou have However secretly for none can save Thee but the holy Trinity who all Do meet in me on none else may'st thou call Or look or trust to nor thy Conscience May'st yield to them upon any pretence No image may'st thou to thy self invent Nor may thy heart or knee thereto be bent No false imaginations of me or Devised worships for I them abhor But worship God in Me and as my Word Doth thee direct for I 'm a jealous Lord. Thou may'st not take my holy Name in vain Nor it with Blasphemies or false Oaths stain Or with a vain Profession without fruits Produced thereby such as with it suits Or blemish it with any sinful way For I 'll not such hold guiltless The seaventh day Thou must observe in me to take thy rest Who am the substance by that day exprest That I may sanctifie thee thou be blest To Father and to Mother while they live And to all thy superiours thou must give Due honour and subjection too in me Giving to Caesar what things Caesars be To all men owing nothing but to love Cheifly those loving who are from above All Murther with all Malice Envy Hate See thou avoid with all Strife and Debate Thy body keep in Chastity thou must Flee Fornication and unlawful Lust Thou must not others Wrong or from them take Ought that is theirs nor them Calumniate But yield thy self to Me and be content With Me and what I give letting no bent Of Avarice possess or stain thy mind Thou shalt in me all satisfaction find All which I certainly will work in thee If thou wilt but yield up thy self to Me. I put on thee no hard nor grievous task What I require I 'll give too if thou ask It of me and for it on me depend My Spirit to work it in thee I will send And wherein thou through weakness goest astray The vertues of my blood shall take 't away Be thou but upright and chast unto me I am and evermore will be for thee If thou refuse this offer thou must die And perish in thy sins eternally None other Lords or lovers can thee save What ere they be or seem they ne'r so brave For they be vanities of vanities Their strength is weakness their promises lies Their words are wind and all they meditate Is from a feined love a real hate Their smoothest language is false flattery Their best imbraces are but treachery Their kisses of thee are but like to his Who sometimes me betrayed by a kiss And when he said Hail Master yet even then He me deliver'd up unto those men That sought my life to whom he had me sold For thirty pieces not of yellow Gold But whitely silver or like his who while He feined love to Abner did beguile And smite him with a Weapon on his side Under his fifth rib that thereof he died And on another time as one well verst In that accursed craft Amasa pierc't With warlike Sword to th' heart while friendlike He Saluted him and as one with him free Did with his right hand take him by his beard And kist him till his blood him all besmear'd Such are the soft imbraces of those foes To thee and Me who do my words oppose Suggesting to thee that I am austere And put upon thee more then thou can'st bear That they are thy best friends and wish thee well And many pleasing stories to thee tell As that thou art whole strong wise holy just May'st live without me may'st follow thy lust That to deny thy self of thy desire Is foolishly thine own death to conspire With me who love thee not but wish thy loss And take delight to bring thee to the cross Where like unto my self thou may'st be made A publick scorn ' mongst those that drive the trade Of robbing by the high-way-side or those Who unto Kings and Magistrates are foes Rebelling against them and their commands And seeking in their blood to wash their hands Or else amongst such Hereticks most
gave way Day after day To lusts or cares or fears CLIV. How oft when he Had cleans'd us we Did us again defile How oft confest Yet not redrest How much we hid through guile CLV A spring of sin We had within Running continually No good in us How marvailous Was his love and mercy CLVI To each good deed That did proceed From us through his good grace Sin did adhere And it besmear Such was our wretched case CLVII But oh his love Did not remove But constantly abide Love made him blind And not to mind Our sins but them oft hide CLVIII So as that God Ofttimes his rod Forbore on us to lay And passing by Iniquity He turn'd his wrath away CLIX. A fountain great He open set And there us purifi'd And if he chode Yet love he show'd And did not always chide CLX Sometimes he hid His face and did An angry count'nance shew That he might make Us sin forsake And be to him more true CLXI Oft by some cross Some grief or loss He made us him to seek And then we felt His love to melt How gentle he and meek CLXII His loving mind Unto mankind Appearing did us save That did us make Those things forsake Which did us fore-inslave CLXIII Nor did he grieve Us to receive When unto him we came But readily Did justifie And wash us in his Name CLXIV He by his power Us every hour Did keep in his great love Which every way He did display As he did see 't behove CLXV What he did by Pleading on high God's mercy to obtain And what from thence He did dispence Made us with him remain CLXVI To him to cleave Him never leave Or if we went astray Our good shepheard Did us regard And reduce to his way CLXVII His love us drew And made us true And hid us when we fail'd Him to forgo Who lov'd us so Nothing with us prevail'd CLXVIII To him we nought That good was brought No good thing we could do He who us bought All in us wrought And helpt us against our foe CLXIX What we did want He did us grant We could but ask and have Askig aright And in his light Yea much unaskt he gave CLXX He to us clave He did us save Or else we had been gone He did begin And never lin Till all things he had done CLXXI. He in his armes Kept us from harmes He did us safely bear He did us feed Keep save and lead Untill he brought us here CLXXII Something we wore On Adam's score As we from him did spring So long as Death Held us i' the ' Earth From whence he did us bring CLXXIII The Serpents seed Which he did breed Within us and without Did dog us too Us to undo And compast us about CLXXIV Through Christ our shield We won the field He was our Captain brave Down fell our flesh We sprung up fresh He brought us out from grave CLXXV Oh faithful friend Unto the end Who did us never fail Through him we stood ' Gainst all the flood He made us to prevail CLXXVI Our Prophet he Who made us see The way of truth and right He sent that guide That did abide With comfort strength and light CLXXVII He did as Priest Upon his Breast Us in the Heavens present Our good procur'd Our weal assur'd Our evils did prevent CLXXVIII He was our King All good did bring Gave Laws made us them chose Rul'd with his arme Kept us from harme Subdued all our foes CLXXIX Yea all our wound He up hath bound As our Phisitian good Our maladies With remedies He cured by his Blood CLXXX Yea Prophets he Made us to be And Heavenly Priests and Kings To offer praise And raign always Over all other things CLXXXI Oh happy we This day that see When nothing doth annoy We have no pain Nor grief sustain But we are fil'd with joy CLXXXII Oh blest be he By whom this we For ever do possess Let creatures all Before him fall And him for ever bless CLXXXIII But we much more Will him adore Who are his choice delight Whom he doth fill Of great good will With pleasures in his sight CLXXXIV Were every part Of us a heart Yet he should have them all Were each a tongue And his praise sung By each 't would be too small CLXXXV To this our King Who did us bring To this All-Happiness Let 's sing a song Eternal-long His praises to express Hallelujah Another to Christ. I. Oh holy glorious King The Mighty Prince of Peace Thou art the Lamb by whom we came From sin to have release II. To thee we owe our selves To thee all praise is due To thee O King we 'll praises sing A song of praises new III. Oh mighty Word of God Gods dear and only Son Thou did'st us know when we were low When we were quite undone IV. Thou had'st no need of us For thou wert God above And we nothing to thee could bring And yet thou did'st us love V. Thou in the form of God Wast high and rich indeed Therefore of us who were but dust Thou could'st not stand in need VI. Thou thou all glorious art The Father thee possest When he began his works even then Thou laydest in his Breast VII Before his works of old Were either fram'd or wrought The ancient hills or fruitful fields Or Earth thou wast forth brought VIII The Father purposed His purposes of old In thee who art and do'st impart His wisdom manifold IX When he the Heavens prepar'd And the foundations lay'd Of the vast Earth in joy and mirth Thou ever by him stay'd X. Before the World was made The day or darksom night Fountain or deep or Mountain steep Thou thou wast his delight XI By thee the Worlds he made And all things more or less Without thee nought to pass was brought Thou worthy art of bless XII By thee he made us men And in thine Image clean All things we see were made for thee And all the things unseen XIII Thou art the heir of all And in thee all things stand The Life that lasts and Death out-casts Thou all things do'st command XIV Thou art th' eternal truth The everlasting light The unity all without thee Be falshood strife and night XV. The Angels thou did'st make Those which did not abide Worthily fell down into Hell The recompence of pride XVI We by thee made fell too By listning to the lies Which th' old Serpent did first invent Aspiring to be wise XVII Wisdom we had in thee And wise thou did'st us make Wiser to be foolishly we Presum'd thee to forsake XVIII While we thy holy Word And thy command divine Departed fro and our selves to The Serpent did incline XIX Great was the misery Which we were plung'd into For from thee gone God we had none Our state was full of woe XX. God gave us what was meet And that whereby we might The Tempters wiles which did beguile us Have all avoyded
quite XXI Our fall was of our selves It did not come from thee We willingly the way to dye Did chuse but thou wert free XXII Yet blessed be that will That did permit our fall And whatsoere permitted were To any of us all XXIII For now we see 't was well That God did so permit And not withhold that Serpent old From tempting us to it XXIV For hereby he hath shew'd His attributes most clear How foolish we how dear to thee And unto him we were XXV That so we in our selves No more might put our trust Or listen to what led us fro Thee to fulfil our lust XXVI Yea thereby to himself Our hearts he doth indear While we do see what for us he Hath done while such we were XXVII And so it hath ingag'd Us wondrously to thee That thou so high vouchsafest to dye To set such caytiffs free XXVIII When we all helpless were And hopeless were become Thou did'st us save our foes out drave Brought'st us to thy kingdom XXIX There 's nothing in these acts But big with love it is From first to last we love do taste And thee for ever bliss XXX No shorter date can be Sufficient to express Our hearty sense of so immense A love and it confess XXXI Yea wisdom too we see In suffring that our fall It was O King glory to bring To thee in our recal XXXII That thou might'st be made known And the Father in thee That thy love might shine forth most bright And we more happy be XXXIII We never can express Our thanks sufficiently That thou O King did'st back us bring And to that end did'st dye XXXIV Let 's then strike up our strings As Harpers full of skill And sing our song All our ay-long Till we do sing our fill XXXV What one is like to thee Oh holy glorious one What did thee move us thus to love When we were all undone CXXXVI Thou in thy self wast blest Thou character express Of Gods person his only Son His Glories full brightness XXXVII It was exceeding love And goodness to us when I' th' dust we lay and were but clay To make us living men XXXVIII In thy divine Image And to be like to thee A living soul and to controule All things in Earth and Sea XXXIX How could the dust deserve To be preferred so It was only thy pleasure high Thus thereunto to do XL. Yet as it did no good Such favour to procure So it no bad within it had For all thy works were pure XLI Whereas we not only Void of all goodness were But had done ill yet 't was thy will Favour to us to bear XLII All those expressions great Of love when we were dust We valued not but quite forgot To satisfie a lust XLIII The Serpent who no good Had done for us at all Far before thee preferred we When we from thee did fall XLIV For without any shew That it was true he said We took his lye threw thy truth by Thy love aside we laid XLV Oh great ingratitude Folly and madness great So easily to throw thee by And suffer such a cheat XLVI Whereby we were defil'd And made thine enemies Very unjust and fil'd with lust And all things good despise XLVII Yet that thou might'st us save Thou wast content to be For us made flesh in our likeness Such sin except as we XLVIII Thou did'st not take the form Of some great King or Lord Like a servant poor and in want Thou we'rt of men abhor'd XLIX In which abased forme Great grief thou did'st sustain Yea for our good to shed thy blood Thou didest not disdain L. Oh wond'rous love indeed That one so great and high Who did proceed from God should bleed And for us sinners dye LI. Besides reproaches blows Abuses shame and scorn Thy bloody sweat agony great Whereby thy life was worn LII The curse which was our due Thou also did'st endure In the grave lay till the third day Our freedom to procure LIII Yea also thou went'st down Into the lower Hell As one bereft of God and left Thy griefs no tongue can tell LIV. It was no gain from us That thou could'st get thereby When we most had we could not add Unto thy Majesty LV. But how much less when we Had lost what thou did'st give And nothing had but what was bad And were unfit to live LVI Oh what was sinful man That thou should'st him so love At such a cost to save the lost What pitty did thee move LVII How can we but confess That thine of right we are Since thou us made thy life down laid Us when sinners to spare LVIII And yet that was not all Thy love did so exceed 'T was not only least we should dye That for us thou did'st bleed LIX Thou like to us was 't made And our deserts did'st bear That we might be made like to thee Thy robes of glory wear LX. Oh depth oh heigth of love None may compare with thee So low to lye that we so high Who were so low might be LXI Which thing to bring about God raised thee again For pangs of death or Hell beneath Could not thee long detain LXII Because thou art the life The life eternal and Against that life no mortal strife Of Death or Hell could stand LXIII The Serpent and his slaves Did strive thee down to hold But all in vain thou rose again As was of thee foretold LXIV Oh mighty conqueror A glorious conquest here Thou oâ—â—â— evil sin World and Devil Triumphantly did'st bear LXV This was the glorious fight This was the day indeed Which God did make for his Names sake This did from him proceed LXVI These were the wars of God A battel bravely fought 'Twixt th' innocent and the Serpent Whereby our peace was wrought LXVII No war was like to this This the foundation laid Of all the blows and overthrows Upon the foes since made LXVIII Those were the mortal foes Of God and mankind too ' Gainst God's glory and Man's safety Their malice thy did show LXIX Oh Prince of might elect God's dear and only Son Thou them withstood unto thy blood Wherethrough the field was won LXX This field for us was fought Their helpless prey were we But thou them foil'd and their plot spoil'd Ransom'd we were by thee LXXI We were thy lawful prize And thou our lawful Lord Oh happy day then all did say Who did believe thy word LXXII How deadly was that thrall In which before we lay No Tyrants fell be so cruel To use their slaves as they LXXIII Here was the coming in Of all our future good Our hopes of all that since did fall On this foundation stood LXXIV We never had come here Or this glory possest Unless thou Lamb had'st overcame And given us this conquest LXXV Here through thou took'st the spoiles Of all thine enemies And went'st on high triumphantly With those thy victories LXXVI Oh who this victory This Conquest gotten
past 132. Herein thou didst again A noble conquest make Us from our sin we lived in Unto thy self to take 133. Oh noble Conqueror Thy power and might we see Oh Lord of Hosts throughout all coasts What one is like to thee 134. Herein we do admire The force of thy great love Our stubborn hearts and bad deserts Which got so much above 135. And here began our bliss Our happy state in which Thou didst us bring unto a spring And Fountain sure and rich 136. Here our new life began Because we planted were Into a stock which did not mock But made us fruit to bear 137. A Root most free of Sap And living juice where from We did inherit both Life and Spirit Yea all good thence did come 138. A Root which did us bear And give us living fruit Thy word declar'd it thy Arm unbar'd it And made us with it sute 139. Thence all our Springs were found And all our fruits were good For all our own away were thrown Being unfit for food 140. Oh what an happy state Were we advanced to When into thee planted were we And made in thee to grow 141. We one with thee became And of thy bliss partook Better we had and what did glad More than what we forsook 142. God pittyed us before But now he did us own He in his love did us approve And of him we were known 143. The special love that was Thy lot thou didst impart Gods loving face that secret place Which thou hadst in Gods heart 144. This was a happy Change While we in Adam were Our case was sad and very bad But now 't was blessed here 145. We had not God before Because we had not thee In whom he is and gives his bliss Then wretched men were we 146. For though thou wert the hope And help of lost mankind Yet without Thee hope had not we Nor solid peace of mind 147. But when in Thee thou gavest Sure title to all good Because in Thee the living Tree And Root of life we stood 148. We were to Thee espous'd And Thou our Husband wert In thine Estate for love and hate We thenceforth had our part 149. Thy Father ours became Thine Angels were our guard Thy Riches ours thy Wisdom Power And thine was our reward 150. Thine Enemies thence were ours And thy friends our friends too In Thee Elect God did respect And favour to us show 151. Yea hence is all the joy And glory we possess Hence Worlds abuse and Gods good use In joy and happiness 152. Thence God us took for Sons All former things were gone No wrath abode his love He show'd His face upon us shone 153. But Thou hadst other fights Wherein a share had we At thy command with Thee to stand Against the Enemie 154. In which Thou wert our help Our Captain and our Guide Thy grace and love they did us move Still with thee to abide 155. The same that did at first Our hearts to thee subdue Was it prevail'd when Joes assaild And made us to Thee true 156. In which thy grace supply'd What in us wanting was Our weaknesses Miscarriages There throught thou by didst pass 157. Doubtless had'st thou not been So cloth'd with Charity Our many halts Retreats and Faults Had made Thee cast us by 158. But none is like to Thee No Captain so will bear His Soldiers faults retreats and halts Or can their hearts so chear 159. Thou wast the prize for which We fought thy prize were we Our Enemies Plot was us t' have got Quite out again from Thee 160. Therefore they us inticed To leave the Faith wherein We one with Thee were made and free Were set from all our fin 161. That was the bed of love The bond of Amity Therefore from that to separte Us sought the Enemy 162. By many a Stratagem He did us oft assail By flatteries and batteries Yet could he not prevail 163. Although he had the world As a great Magazine Of fiery Shafts fit for his Crafts Our souls to undermine 164. From whence on either side He did us oft assault With pleasing sights or dreadful frights Yea we had many a fault 165. From which he oft-times rais'd By his great policy Such over casts and dreadful blasts As made us like to fly 166. Oft-times us to allure To take part against thee Pleasures He brought into our thought Or glory made us see 167. And sundry other things Which with our flesh did sute From Trees to sight fit for delight Moving to pluck the fruit 168. Sometimes to puff us up That down he might us throw Our godliness gifts parts graces Or works he would us show 169. Sometimes again by Cheats Which he thereto abus'd Some crooked way He forth would lay Which was of Thee refus'd 170. Sometimes this art he us'd The easly'r us to take As if of light an Angel bright He were He shew would make 171. Oft-times He also shew'd What dreadful things should be From instruments of his intents If we would cleave to Thee 172. The world he stir'd to wrath Against us for thy sake So that of mocks Scourges or Stocks Oft times we did partake 173. Yea many hardships thence He pressed us withal By many losses and divers crosses Moving from Thee to fall 174. Not only our Estates He sometimes from us caught But even our blood like to a flood Was powred out full oft 175. But Thou by thy good grace And help which thou didst give Our Enemy did make to fly And made our Souls to live 176. Armour of righteousness On each hand us did fend Thy glory bright stood on our right O' th' eft wrath without end 177. If to Thee and thy Word Thy right and perfect ways Firm we would cleave and not thee leave Thou shew'dst us endless praise 178. But if Thee we would leave And turn to vanâ—â—ie For worldly good or fear of blood We endless torments see 179. Which things eternal while Thou mad'st us keep in view Things temporal we slighted all And not from Thee withdrew 180. Thou wert our strength and stay Our help was of thy grace Through thy defence no fond pretence Did move us out of place 181. Here also Thou didst get The conquest o're our foes The victory and the glory Unto thine honour goes 182. We had been wholly foild And driven from Thee again But that our heads thou covered'st And didst our hearts sustain 183. To thee we give the praise Of our safety untill Through manifold perils untold Our days we did fulfill 184. When yet one combate more Abode us generally To yield our Breath passing through death And in the grave to ly 185. Nor had we any might Against that Enemy Give way mus we to Gods decree That mankind once must dy 186. Whereto by several ways We did arrive at length Diseases some made thither come Or some decay of strength 187. By persecutions some Through many deaths much pain Who for thy name
caus'd the Beast To trample under feet 15. Because we liked not Th' intoxicating wine Which from her Cup the World suckt up As if ' thad been divine 16. Wher is she now become Shee and her Lovers too Who did commit what was not fit With her and whoredomes doe 17. Alas they are long since Burnt up and quite destroy'd Their Market's gone and they did moan Who in her greatness joy'd 18. Yea all the train of foes Who in our sorrows laught Who Thee refus'd and us abus'd Destruction hath them caught 19. Thou hast them overcome O Lamb of Kings the King Well may we say Hallelu-jah And praises to Thee sing 20. Where now is all that lust That had in us a hold It s subtle Heads Delights and dreads And branches manifold 21. Which service challenged And over us would reign Did us molest and oft opprest And cau'd us smart and pain 22. And where 's the carnal mind That subtly did devise To draw us in to commit sin Through its deceits and lies 23. And where 's the whorish heart Which oft withdrew from thee And did us cheat with many a feat Making us sorrow see 24. These foes are all destroy'd And we from them are free By thy sharp sword thy powerful word They all consumed be 25. No errour in our mind Nor ignorance hath place Our hearts retain nothing that 's vain Thanks therefore to thy grace 26. Nothing of unbelief Or of unlovingness No envy hate strife or debate Pride falshood us possess 27. Thou hast us made so clean That in us there 's no spot No wrinckled skin no jot of sin Nor weakness in our lot 28. Thou our good husband art Who didst our faults so bear And them reprove with words of love As made us Thee to hear 29. And what we heard of Thee Did wash us wondrously But now thy sight makes us so white No blemish thou canst spy 30. Hallelujahs we sing Sin us no more annoys Hallelu-jah Hallelu-jah We noâ— have perfect joys 31. Where is mortality All our Diseases pains Our Massiness which did us press Nought of them now remains 32. Oh death where is thy sting Grave where 's thy victory Where be our fears wrings strains and tears And all that made us cry 33. Where are our oft complaints Our bruiâ—es breaches wounds Our sighs and moans Our sobs and groans Our famtings and our swounds 34. Where are our sleepless nights Where are our toilsome days Our gastly siglus Or â—udain frights And what 〈◊〉 us amaze 35. Where be our lamenesses Deafness and Dumbness too Dimness of sight our want of light Crutches wherewith to go 36. Where are our pangs and throws Our cruel ach's and smarts Our weary beds Our dizzy heads Our sad and doleful hearts 37. Where are our Prison bands Fetters and Pillories The hurtful stocks The taunts and mocks And furious outcries 38. The Gallows and the racks The Gibbets Beasts and Fire With whatsoe're did rend and teare Or did us ver and tire 39. Where is that rottenness That after Death took hold The stinking smell The jaws of Hell And what else may be told 40. Not one of these appears They are all fled and gone Hallelu-jah to Thee we say For 't is from Thee alone 41. All enemies thou subdu'dst Oh who is like to Thee Thou Lord of Hosts art in all coasts And thou hast made us free 42. Thou the stout Warriour art In Battel mighty strong The man of War by whom all are Subdu'd Thou art our Song 43. By Thee we have escap't Whatever ill befell By Thy goodness we now possess Such joys as none can tell 44. Thou from the midst of foes Hast brought us now to be With Angels bright in Heav'nly light Companions with Thee Deut. 33.26 27 28 22. 45. NOw we may sing and say What one is like unto Jesuruns God I' th' Heavens who rode To save us from all woe 46. Th' Eternal God Thou wert Our refuge and thine armes Under us were us up to beare From all dangers and harms 47. Thine everlasting armes Whose strength doth rever fail With them th' unjust thou out hast thrust And made us to prevail 48. Thou hast destroy'd them all Who did us injury And now there 's none we dwell alone And are in great safety 49. New Heavens and Earth have we A Land of Corn and Wine Thou' rt our fountain and Thou dost rain on us thy dew divine 50. Oh happy Israel What one is like to us Sav'd by the Lord who is the sword And shield most marvellous 51. To which our foes are all At length as Lyers found Their planes high where in safety They dwelt we 've trod to th'ground 52. How glorious now our State Praises to Thee therefore Who can express the blessedness That we have evermore 53. Our Body is become All glorious like to thine Thy glory bright more than the light Or Sun doth make us shine 54. Like Angels now we be With whom we do converse As nimble and light as pure and bright And through all things do pierce 55. We need no Marriages More than they for increase Our Company can never dy Our joys shall never cease 56. Nay now we Angels judge Such is to us thy heart Thy very Throne which Thou sit'st on Thou dost to us impart 57. Our pleasures now are full Immived pure and clear We feel no cold we wax not old Nothing our strength doth wear 58. No Winter time we have No withering or decay No Frost nor Snow No storms do bloâ— We have all Summers day 59. Yet without parching heat Or ought that may annoy No scorching Sun oâ—â—e us doth run Nought to allay our joy 60. Great joy we also have In our society Each one in other as in our Brother Have great felicity 61. Here Abel we injoy Who suffered first for Thee Enoch Noah and all thy way Who kept our Partners be 62. The holy Patriarks Before and since the flood Father renown'd with glory crown'd And all their children good 63. Thy holy Messengers Martyrs and Confessors Who faithful were with us are here Of life inheritors 64. But above all the rest Thy presence glorious Doth satisfie eternally And make us triumph thus 65. Like a City compact And fully one are we Where without rent or discontent We perfectly agree 66. And perfectly we joy In one anothers good All perfectly Thee glorifie Who for us shed'st thy blood 67. In Thee for evermore We all have full content Thee to behold Thee to unfold Is all our merriment 68. No one doth seek himself Or in himself delights But every one is fixed on Thy glorious beauty bright 69. Thou art our All in whom Father and Spirit both And all good else with us now dwells Thy glory doth us cloth 70. In Thee we were compleat And had all good before Compleatly we now injoy Thee And thine for evermore 71. All excellencies which In the Creation were From Thee they flow'd and
By which means seeing I the conquest 〈◊〉 O're death and hell and overthrew the plot Of the old Serpent subde and crasty Let those my doings of me testify They show my love my power and wisdom too And they my faithfumess and truth do show Would I have 〈◊〉 in any thing I say Sure it would there have been wherein there lay So many diffiâ—â—â—â—ties in my way Behold me then dear Soul and duty mind What I am and have done and thou â—halt find Encouragement enough against these things Which do occasion those my waveringâ— Why dost thou 〈◊〉 or care for things below Seeing thy wants and dangers all I 〈◊〉 And I can any thing on thee bestâ—â—â— What if men should thee hate and 〈◊〉 And band themselves against thee 〈◊〉 I Secure thee from all harm that may befall To thee or thine from any of them 〈…〉 Are they not in my hands â— their 〈◊〉 hears I can dispose and order all their part And power and time and breath are in my hand And I can that of 〈◊〉 way theâ—â— command And If thou mindst â—â—y love thou mayst be sure That in obeying me 〈◊〉 thee 〈◊〉 From what may harm thee although because I All-wise am I shall thy security And safety in such manner prosecute As may best with thy after we sare suit In which because thoâ— childish art or blind Or foolish and canst not in thy wear mind Discern or comprehend my ways or see The method of my walkings towards thee Nor canst well judge what may be for the best And that the rather because in thy bâ—est Lust bears so great a sway which covereth After those things that â—â—nd unto thy death Shrinking away from that wherein thou mayst Find more felicity if then thou stay'st Thy self upon me and on me sely Plucking quite out and casting by that eye Though thy right eye which seeing things amiss Moves thee to stumble at my ways in this Or that thing which I order and suspect That I do not things for the best effect Thou shalt do wisely And thou may'st me trust With thee and thine 〈◊〉 since I am just And righteous and sindâ— I love thee too And being to order thing to thy best good As may in what in said be understand If thy ways please 〈◊〉 I thine enemies Can and will make thee to befriend their eyes Shall towards thee be good thee for to spare For their affections too in my hunds art If great men hate thee I can safely hide Thee from their malioâ— I can curb their pride Or break their power or take away their breath Or thee from them for by such ways I Death Make mine befriend or else I can divert Their enterpriser as when Saul begirt Poor David I the Philistins did send To find Saul other work and so befriend My persecuted Servant or I can And often imeâ— I doe the wrath oâ— of man Turn to my praise and that that doth remain Beyond what may me praise I can restram See how the Sparrows though of value small Among the Birds of prey do live â—â—one fall No not one of them to the ground 〈◊〉 by My Fathers pleasure though they often 〈◊〉 In midst of dangers If my Father hath Such care of â—parrows where is then thy saith To crost me with thy safety and him who Doth value and esteem of mankind so As all the Birds and Beaâ—ts too never were As what â—suff'red for you makes appear Trust me then with thy safety verily Except I see it good thou shalt not dy Or suffer by the hands of men I will Be shield end Buckler to thee â— and thee still Will hide and 〈◊〉 so that though men fret And do themselves also against thee ser They shall not harm thee But if I do 〈◊〉 That it will for thy good be that I thee Deliver up into their hands to 〈◊〉 Imptison banish take away thâ— right Or kill thy body do thou them not feaâ— For all their malice shall be ended there For more they cannot do then kill the 〈◊〉 And when that 's done I 'le raise it up 〈◊〉 And seeing I so love thee thou may'st know For certain that if me thou dost follow I will not let them â—ill 〈◊〉 except Do see I may advantage thee thereby For such my pow'â— is that even Death and Hell And all their torment I can easly â—â—â—ll Make them serâ—â— my designe those to advance To glory who are my inheritance Feare nothing therefore of what may befall thee But yeild thy self and go where ere I call thee And do my service cheatfully with Thee I I thy Saviour evermore will be I that Almighty am and can desend thee I that do love thee well will succor send thee Thou shalt not be alone I will not leave thee I will go with thee and will not deceive thee I 'le strengthen thee to bear what shall befall thee I 'le thee support and â—â—ear where ere I call thee In all afflictions my love that 's better Then wine thou shalt rast of I that am greater Then all against thee will in my arms bear thee And mitigate the sense of what may dear thee I gave my self for thee and grief sustained A bitter death I bare in love unfeigned For thee and for thy sake fear not to give Thy life and body to me as I live I 'le take the care of them I will thee cherish And no hair of thy head shall from thee perish In life and death I will be faithful to thee And notwithstanding Death â—onor I 'le do thee I 'le make thy sufferings bearable and sweet And with my good spirit thou shalt surely meet If I into deep waters do thee lead I will go with thee and bear up thy head So as they shall not overflow or drown thee No though they should no ev'ry side surround theâ— Into the fire if I do lead thee yet No dammage thou from its fierce flames shalt get For I 'le safe keep thee bear thee in my armes And I 'le secure thy soul from all ill harms Fear none of those things then that unto thee By Sathan or his Servants done may be Though into prison they ten days thee cast And there with chains of Iron make thee fast I will be with thee there and bring thee out Be confident of me my love don't doubt Be faithful unto me and I will give A Crown of life to thee and thou shalt live And as for other things why should'st thou care Seeing my Father for thee did not spare To give me up to Death and gives me too To be thy Head and portion How canst thou Suspect or fear that any thing He will Withold from thee that 's good No. He will fill Thy cup with what 's who some for thee to drink If thou away from my words dost not shrink All things are mine and what I have shall be Thine and I 'le give of them what 's good for
thee The Earth with all it's fulness mine is and Subject they be to my will and command And all that 's mine is the Irs who are in me And I will thereout to their welfare see Why take'st thou care for meat or drink Behold The Birds of Heav'n though more than may be cold They neither plow nor â—oâ—e not reap nor get Laid up in Storehouses provisions yet My Father doth for each of them provide So that in hardest 〈◊〉 they wide And canst thou fear that he with thee neglect Since unto man he hath shewd such respect As far surpasses all the care he hath Of Birds and Beasts Oh thou of â—â—tle saith And why for raiment â—â—â—'st thou thought as fearing God will not give thee clothes fit for thy wearing Behold the Lillies or the Tulips fine How bravely they be colour'd how they shine Though they do neither â—oyâ— nor spin not do Any thing which their clothing tends unto Yet they so gallantly assayed are That Solomon himself they cutted 〈◊〉 In bravery though he for Ornament And Royal garments was most ominent As having Gold and Silver precious stones And whatsoever they that sit on Thrones Do highly prize and porgeously array Themselves with their heigth and worth to display And canst thou be so faithless as to fear That God will not vouchsafe thee clothes to wear If thou dost yield thy self to serve him and Bee'st ready to obey my just command Seeing those fairest flowers be nought but grass Whose form and beauty soon away doth pass And though to day they florish yet to morrow They 'r burnt i' th Oven or wither in their furrow Wereas He Thee and Mankind so doth prize As cannot be declar'd in any wise Take thou no thought therefore for those things but For them and all things thy trust in me put And first Gods Kingdom and his right coufness Seek after and be sure He will thee bless And all things for this life as them for thee He seeth meet administred shall be It s not thy way first to seek other things And afterwards me that confusion brings And many mischiefs to those who so doe And much proâ—â—â—es me and my Father t To just displeasure because foolishly They undervalue things that are so high Yea and what can be more preposterous Then that men do themselves disorder thus Shall not the better things be prized most And greatest care be had they be not lost What shall some poor and forâ—y painted cloth Which is grown old and eaten with the moth Be so esteemed as the chiefest care When the house is on fire shall be to spare It from the burning while in the mean time For want of care upon the house to climbe And quench the fire that 's breaking out in 't all The stately building likely is to fall And be consum'd especially when too In case the liouse be safe the fire can do No hurt unto the paited cloth ovithin Or were it lost one might much sooner spin Or buy a better cloth and with less cost Then to rebuild the house if that be lost Is not my love and 〈◊〉 better â—â—rn Then all the best injoyments on earth are I happy make the soul that doth me find I fill their 〈◊〉 fures satisfie their mind Who me embrace I give them lengch of days Eternal life peart is in all my ways Riches and honours pleasâ—â—â— sweet and true And lasting they shall have whom I renew All things thou canstsdefire are far below Me and what I on my lovers bestow Fulness of joy they shall enjoy who come To be inheritors of my Kingdome Rivers of pleasures shall them satisfy At my Fathers right hand 〈◊〉 Whereas wives honoâ—â—â—s pleasures friends riches And what the world can give men may possess And yet be miserable they may dy Soon and go down to hell for wretchedly Live if they live so as small joy they shall Have much less what 〈◊〉 satisfy from all Those their injoyments foe of times some moth Or worm breeds in those earthly things which doth Eat out the pleasure or fill with such grief As there against no earthly thing relief Can give and at the bestin Dâ—â—th they fail And in the dread full judgment nought avail Beside we cannot take it well to see Our love so slighted He is not of me Worthy who will not all things else forsake For love of me Seeing that I to make Him safe and happy all forsook that I Injoyed with my Father in glory And I alone the man that doth me take Do so inrich that I him happy make Noting with me may be compar'd Beside This very often hath been prov'd when try'd That while men other things use to prefer Before me and my grace and so defer Till those things they have got to seek for me With those things they prefer their hearts so be Besotted and â—â—â—ar'd that afterward They ner'e find in their hearts to have regard Unto my words to seek me seriously But vainly spend their days untill they dy And t is a just reward from God that they Who me so â—â—ght as that they won't obey My counsels but do hearden their own heart Should hardned be so as ne're to convert But fall into destruction though so full Of mercy is my Father as to pull Sometimes such men too out of those their snares And dangers Which their foolish lusts and cares Run them into because no pleasure He Doth take that wicked men destroyed should be But it s a dangerous presumption To slight his grace when offered upon A thought uncertain that they after may And will do better on some after-day How often is it found that God justly Doth give such over to believe a ly And always to presume that afterward To morrow and to morrow they 'l regard And turn to him but never that time find In which they seriously do set their mind To seek him till Death sodainly them take From hence and then in hell their beds they make Min. It is the nature too of lust in men As often times it hath been prov'd that when It gets its head into mens hearts Its tail It draws in after and doth so prevail That when in one thing its fulfil'd it brings Other new lusts forth and as t were by strings Draws on a whole throng one after another Till all desires of good they wholly smother Choking the seed was sown that never it Takes root or perfect fruit doth e're beget He that now wants a wife and must her have Before he can attend on God and crave And seek his Kingdome and his righteousness Thinking could He that one desire gossel He nothing elss should want but be at â—easure To seek the Lord and in his wans taâ—e pleasure But when on such accounts He God neglects And more the getting of a Wife resnects If as sometimes it doth fall out his life Be not first gone before He gets his Wife But he obtains his
let me never fall by my iniquity My hope is all in thee and in thy great goodness I nothing have in me that may deserve thy bless Help me thy name to praise as it is right and due Do thou thereto me raise thy goodness for to view Dear Lord thou worthy art of all my heart and love Oh let me not depart from thee my Lord above Unite my heart to thee that I may fear thy name And let me never be put to rebuke and shame Oh flow thou into me Thou art an Ocean Though I a poor one be Thou art the wealthy man Set my heart toward thee and make it open stand Come thou Lord into me and wholly me command Oh do thou live in me and fill me with thy grace That I may joy in thee and ever see thy face Thou art the lovely one all things are black to thee Fix mine eye thee upon make me thy beauty see Thou only fulness art I am an empty thing Do thou thy grace impart and me unto thee bring Be evermore with me where er'e thou mak'st me go Let me thy glory see and thy will ever do Thou art the mighty God thou canst subdue my foes Thou hast them all down trod all things that thee oppose Thou art the holy one Thou canst me holy make Make me love thee alone and all for thee forsake Oh be thou all to me who rothing have that 's good Oh frame my heart to thece whshing it in thy blood Oh there is none to thee Thou all things dost excell What er'e is good for me doth in thee fully dwell None ever served thee but thou them satisfy'd None thy grace ever see but they it magnify'd Thou Lord art far above all I can say of thee Thou art the God of love All praise be unto thee Chr. Dear soul I do accept thee and thou art Most welcome to me it doth glad my heart To see a soul it self unto me yield More than when some stout Champion wins the field And takes the spoils of all his enemies Which up against him us'd in arms to rise Since thou thy self to me dost yield be sure My love shall ever toward thee iâ— dure Be but thou constant nothing shall me draw Those to reject that cleave unto my law I 'le order over thee my government So as thou â—ere shalt have cause to repent Of thy submission to me every thing Which I shall do to thee shall blessing bring Thy forepast sins I blot out and remit And of them all I wholly thee acquit How many or how great so er'e they were Thou mayst me freely serve without all fear Of my impuâ—ing any of them to thee I pass them by and they shall not undo thee I own thee as my own and thee present As in my self to him who me forth sent Even as a Branch in me into whom now Thou art ingraffed and henceforth shalt grow Or as a member of mine own body Which is recast of curse and miâ—ery I am thy Head and Root unto thee I Henceforth will minister all full supply Of grace and spirit nothing shalâ— thou want What may be good for thee I will it grant Open thy mouth and ask of me I will All thy petitions verily fulfill What ever thou shalt in my name desire Or of my Father for my sake require So be thou dost to me adhaere and cleave And firm in me abiding dost receive And keep my words within thee asking so And for such things as they direct thee to Thou shalt receive it and thou may'st be bold To come and ask for why mine eyes behold Thee and thy needs and wants and unto thee And all the righteous mine ears open be I will do more for thee than thou canst ask I 'le help thee every where I 'le put no task Upon thee but what I shall easy make Do but in me abide my counsel take I am thine Head and Husband lean on me My grace thou shalt enjoy my glory see To me thou art most welcome very dear Be confident of me and nothing fear But to neglect my counsels for as me My Father loveth so do I love thee I who for thee did shed my pretious blood Will nought deny that may for thee be good Since thou art come to trust under my wings I interest thee in all my good things My Father is thy Father too and He That my God is thy God likewise will be My Angels shall thee guard for thy welfare And of my glorious Kingdome thou shalt share And all the endless joys thereof my merit Is thy rich stock day pledge thy holy Spirit Whom I will pour on thee and in thy heart Will put that from me thou mayst never start He will conduct thee safely till thou hast All dangers of destruction wholly past He shall abide with thee and to thee show My things inlightning thine heart them to know My goodness and my glory what I have Done for and to thee that I might thee save What is in me for thee what things are mine And how in and with me they all are thine Yea He shall wash make clean renew thy heart And keep thee to me and to thee impart My grace and blessing therefore do not fear Only to him attend to him adhaere He shall thy works work in and for thee and Strengthen thee that thy foes thou may'st withstand He shall thee comfort fill with peace and joy And keep thee safe from what may thee annoy I 'le do all things for thee I 'le be thy lot Thy portion and thy riches fear thou not He who thee touches toucheth me for I Tender thee as the Apple of mine eye My heart is larget to thee than the Sea Or then by any words exprest 〈◊〉 be Fear not Dear soul thy state is happy now Since thou thy self dost to my scepter how Only I must inform thee that I must Take such a course with thee as may thy lust Destroy and make thee suitable to me That thou partaker of my joys may'st be I must thee sometimes try that so I may Prove whither Thou indeed wilt me obey I will into a Wilderness thee lead That so I may thee to thy Idols dead And that when stript of them I more may show My grace to thee and make thee it to know To be sufficient for thee do not fear For I 'le not leave thee nor forsake thee there I will be with thee and be all supplies To every one of thy necessities I will be better unto thee than all Egyptian Flesh-pots wherefrom I thee call I 'le there speak comfortably to thy heart And make thee know how dear to me thou art I 'le give thee there in all thy way mine arm To strengthen â—heâ— to walk on and from harm I 'le thee protect and keep untill I see It meet to take thee hence to be with me But thou must follow me and not look back As did
That thou mayst me imbracing Thy loves to me impart 85. And all the night of darkness Mayst lodge within my brest And I in thy imbraces May find sweet peace and rest 86. Oh make me subject to thee That thou mayst be above Uniting me unto thee And fill me with thy love 87. And let my loving-kindness Such love again beget That I my heart and bowels May open to thee set 88. And thou thy Word put in me As an immortal seed Fil'd with that Life and Spirit Which doth from thee proceed 89. That thou mayst make me fruitful With fruits of righteousness An of-spring which thine Image May livelily express 90. That thou thy pleasure in me Subject to thee mayst take And I have pleasures in thee Which may me chearful make 91. Oh make thou me so lovely That thou mayst count me meet For such communion with thee As is so pure and sweet 92. That chaste I may be to thee And content in thee find That none else I may look to Or covet in my mind 93. May never go a whoring From under thee my Lord But may be fully pleased With what thou dost afford 94. Nor only let me love thee Like to some Concubine So as for pleasures only Me to thee to incline 95. But as a Spouse and chaste one Though thou shouldst them withhold Yet I may love thy person And vertues manifold 96. And thine affaires take care of As things that are mine own And faithfully observe what Thou shalt to me make known 97. Leaving it to thy wisdom Those pleasures to impart Which cannot but be pleasing And satisfie my heart 98. But let me not love pleasures So as if thou delay Thine to impart unto me I should to others stray 99. But make me ever willing To stay and waite for thee Who when thou seest it fitting Will thine impart to me 100. Thou art the only worthy To be lov'd and obey'd Oh that my heart upon thee More fixed were and stay'd 101. Oh sanctifie me to thee And my soul purifie Bless rods and mercies to me That I to sin may dye 102. And unto all that from thee Would steal my heart away That I may live unto thee In what I do and say 103. Thou art the lovely portion Riches and honour dwell In thee with whatsoever Delights and doth excel 104. Oh were my heart reduced To that simplicity That I might chuse and love thee And cleave to thee only 105. I would not change my lot there For any of the heigths Of highest greatest persons My earnest groans and sighs 106. Shall reather be through suff'rings To have thy company Then live else where without thee In greatest jollity 107. With all the greatest fulness This World to them affords Who live in its embracements As high and mighty Lords 108. Yet thou hast room for them too In thy high palaces Oh make thou them acquainted With thy sweet embraces 109. Oh make them see how empty All things without thee are That they may flock unto thee Seeing thee only fair 110. All honour be unto thee Thou only worthy one For it is due unto thee And unto thee alone 111. In oneness with the Father And with the holy Spirit Thou worthy art all blessing For ever to inherit 112. To thee it 's my desire To leave my self and all I am with whatsoever I through thy gift mine call 113. Lord pardon my abuses Of thy great love to me And make my soul both upright And constant unto thee 114. So that thy blessing ever May on my soul remain And cleanse me so as that thou Mayst not my work disdain 115. Purge out what doth offend thee And make me white and pure That thou mayst ever own me And I be ever sure 116. Of thy love and thy favour Which life doth far excel And in thine heavenly mansions May with thee ever dwell Amen and Amen FINIS A Posie Improved UPON THE POSIE of a RING Love Love Love EPAVCIS MVLTA I. AMongst the pretty Poseys I have seen Which either friends or lovers have invented I have on none to discant tempted been Nor hath any my fancy more contented If rightly 't be apply'd then this above This one word thrice repeated Love Love Love II. What man it was who did the same invent From whom or unto whom the token came Whether some Love to his Love it sent Or for what other cause some did it frame It matters not nor what they did thereby Intend unto their friend to signifie III. Perhaps some young man who his Mistress loved Or else some Mistress who did love her Friend And want of love again or fear'd or proved In them they loved did this token send Their love to quicken and their constancy To them the better to provoke hereby IV. Like as some person who while he assays To do or reach for something and doth fall Into some danger whence he cannot raise Or save himself most earnestly doth call Help Help Help tripling it vehemently As like to suffer greatly else thereby V. So possibly some lover while he sought The pleasing object of his love to gain Being into some doubt or question brought Thereof or meeting with slights or disdain Might in his earnestness cry as above As one else like to perish Love Love Love VI. Perhaps some wanton who had lust mistook For love seeking his lust to satisfie Might send it to his Harlot to provoke Her fond affection unto him thereby Exhorting her to love love love again That oft his will with her he might obtain VII Perhaps some person who had lov'd too much Some other person and loves flames had felt Sadly to scorch him when they did him touch His folly wailing on this subject dwelt As crying out upon a thing so hot Whence He much heart smart and much hurt had got VIII That carnal love I mean wherein the creature Is made the object of a blind affection Doteing upon its beauty parts or feature Which when it meets with slighting and rejection As oft it s foolishly misplac't on what Either's unlawful or repays with hate IX Brings forth instead of pleasure doleful grief Stinging the soul with fears and sad despairs Distractions jealousies without relief And many fruitless dumps and waking cares Causing such one out of this love to cry Bewailing thus his fortune bitterly X. Love Love Love thou art a most cruel thing When fixt on some disdainful one thou' rt found Thy sweets are bitter thou leav'st many a sting Infusest venom and the heart dost wound Oh had thy fond deceits my soul ne'r tainted Oh had I with thy force ne'r been acquainted XI Love Love Love that fond thing which men so call Woe worth the time I did thee intertain Expecting sweetness where I meet with gall And pleasures where I nothing find but pain Unhappy soul that longedst after fruit That may not be obtained by any suit XII Would I had hardned against thee my heart