of Pride and Ambition Faire Dame Humilitie to emulate Whose onely pietie is superstition And by pretence of friendship couers hate Cain by her did worke his brotheâ—s fate Ioab slue Abner in the time of peace In Court shee styled is a trick of State In Church and Citie shee doth so increase For Catholique and Vniuersall shee doth prease 44 Nay goe vnto the meanest beggars cell And there as proud a heart you often find As those that vnder Cedar roofes doe dwell And did his purse but answere to his mind He would despise the proudest of mankind Where shall you see more Enuie Malice Strife Than is betweene the Seruant and the Hind Where more dissembling than twixt Man and Wife The Sword is not more keene than is the bloody Knife 45 Ambition How dost thou possesse the mind Of restlesse Man whilst in an idle vaine Which thou call'st Honour thou dost nothing find But vanitie and vexation for thy paine Know'st thou not Godlinesse is greatest gaine And that the Merchant was pronounc'd most wise That sold all that he had this Pearle t' obtaine Oh would'st thou seeke to buy this merchandize Humilitie is shee can helpe thee to such prize 46 Then ô my Soule couet Humilitie Dost thou seeke Knowledge Pleasure Wealth Promotion All these shee will thee bring assuredly Shee 's like the Master-spring that first giues notion To eu'ry wheele that in the Clocke hath motion Like Salt that sauours eu'ry dish we eate Shee 's Sugar sweetning eu'ry bitter Potion Promotion Knowledge Pleasure Wealth Drinke Meat Humility's all these and yet shee is not great 47 Oh neuer let me seeke to emulate Except in Goodnesse and with more desire To follow than in hope to adequate And like a Tree low planted neare the Mire Bring forth much Fruit not Fewell for the fire With little let me euer be content Patient of miseries for my sinnes require Than I haue had farre greater punishment And farre thy smallest fauours my deserts out went 48 For I confesse that too ambitiously I hunt for worlds entisements base and vaine Which clogge my Soule so that shee cannot flie Aloft where sound ioyes euermore remaine And though I basely thinke of gold and gaine Yet Honours glitt'ring shewes so daze mine eyes That still I 'm tainted with ambitious staine And wish I might to worldly honour rise But this in me the Flesh not Spirit doth deuise 49 For shee hath learn'd that not from East or West Promotion comes The higher one is plac't The greater cares and troubles him infest And as thou more or greater Talents hast The more thou art to count for at the last Thou art a Steward here 'T is not thine owne But as thee ' boue thy fellowes God hath grac't So must thy Faith and care ' boue theirs be showne We doe expect best Crops whereas best Seede is sowne 50 These things ô God! I aske doe not denie Let me depend vpon thy Prouidence In paine and ease losse and prosperitie My selfe submit with all obedience Vnto thy Will performe with diligence Charge publique priuate Let Humilitie Be vnto me a Rocke of sure defence Against Mens malice and Worlds iniurie And where my weaknesse failes let thy good Grace supply 51 Oh thou that Lazarus from Diues gate Didst into Abrams blessed bosome raise There to enioy eternall happy state That here on earth was humbled all his dayes Direct mine humble heart in all thy wayes The meeke in iudgement thou delight'st to guide Turne all I doe vnto thy glorious praise Preserue me from Ambition Enuie Pride And though with Lazar's sores in thy Loue let me bide 52 Thou hast ô Lord proclaymed Blessednesse To all the meeke in Heart and poore in Spirit Blest are the Meeke they shall the earth possesse The Poore eu'n now Gods Kingdome doe inherit Lord I acknowledge freely my demerit It is thy Grace whereby I am liue moue Thy humbling to the Crosse for me did merit That I should be exalted to thy Loue And liue with thee in blisse eternally aboue 53 I aske that which thy blessed Martyrs had Which here haue witness'd their Humilitie And of that cup of gall to taste were glad Which first their Master swallow'd willingly Thy Grace ô Lord which thou wilt not denie For they haue found it all-sufficient Humble me how thou wilt Abilitie Yet grant in sorrow to be patient And strength with Paul in paine or ease to be content 54 Grant me thy Grace but to conceaue the end And certayne fruits of my humiliation Then shall I plainely see and apprehend That it prepares me fit for exaltation And to make sure with feare mine owne saluation Whereby I may stand firme and confident 'Gainst wicked Men Hell Deuils and damnation Who neuer shall be able to preuent Thy loue in Christ which thou on humble men hast bent 55 Now for that thing which worldlings doe deplore I yeeld to thee most heartie laud and praise That thou art pleas'd to humble me therefore On earth that thou againe to heau'n might'st raise Oh teach me Lord to number so my dayes That I my life may labour to amend Oh teach me lowlinesse in all my wayes To thinke of my beginning and mine end Prince Beggar borne alike and to their graue descend 56 And since that sweet Humilities condition I haue so learned by this Meditation That now I hate Pride Enuie and Ambition With complements base subtile machination Grant me to follow Christs humiliation Who from the Crosse to Glorie did ascend Whose suffrings make a reconciliation For those that by true Faith him apprehend And after him in lowlinesse and meeknesse wend. 57 You may remember how I earst you told That when Humilitie had clear'd the score Whereby t'ambitious Pride my heart was sold Shee led me to Repentance who before The chiefe Iudge Iustice brought and my foule sore Discouer'd to my more humiliation Till Faith and Hope at Mercies seate therefore Did pleade Christs Blood my reconciliation But this I leaue vnto another Meditation MEDITAT III. Of Repentance 1 THe Highest that created first of nought A Chaos vast and out thereof did take The Earth whereof he noblest Creature wrought Eu'n Man and made all Creatures for his sake Him first pure iust and righteous did make But since their owne inuentions they obay And in a right path set their way mistake And as blind fooles and slaues haue gone astray Nor can without the true Light find againe the way 2 For whilst they doe yet in their sinnes remaine Their Soules in errour and in darknesse bide They know not how they should be borne againe For Sinne this mysterie from them doth hide And till Humilitie their trustie Guide Shall them to wholesome true Repentance leade They misse their ayme and striuing stray more wide Repentance quickneth men in sinne cleane dead And teacheth new-borne Babes in path of Life to tread 3 Shee is the Mid-wife that with keenest knife Our Nauell cuts whereby we cleaue to
said To be a worke of Mercy For as hee That most affects his Sonne is not afraid To scourge him oft for his impietie Eu'n so our gracious God to whom wee bee Than Sonne vnto his Father farre more deare Doth oft chastise to purge and purifie Vs from sinnes guilt whereby we may appeare Before him perfect pure and liue more holy here 40 For Mercy doth like skilfull Surgeon deale That hath for eu'ry sore a remedy If gentle drawing Plasterâ— cannot heale The wound because it festreth inwardly He sharper corraâ—iues must then apply And as he oft cuts off some member dead Or rotten lest the rest should putrifie So Mercy wicked Members off doth shred Lest they should noysome proue to body and the head 41 Mercy is like the glorious Cherubins Which in the holiest place their wings extend And vnder their broad spreading golden â—ins Arke Mercy â—eate Rod Manna comprehend So glorious Mercy doth her Grace forth send By ruling workes of Mercy poores defence The Arke Gods Statutes doth to vs commend The Rod his Pow'r Manna his Prouidence Mercy them all contaynes in wings circumference 42 Eu'n as one totall summe it selfe extends To all the Credits in the Merchants Bill So Mercy doth all Vertues comprehend And Men of Mercy with all Graces fill And as from foule corrupt depraued will All wickednesse abundantly doth flow So from a Heart of Mercy doth distill All Graces that in Loues faire Garden grow Mercy 's the summe of all I doe or wish to know 43 But all in vaine I seeke by Simiâ—e To shew the nature of this Grace Diuine Since earthly things to Her all shadowes be Thy Mercy Lord no where so cleare doth shine As sending of that blessed Sonne of thine Vnspotted Lambe slaine from Eternitie To saue all that their hearts to him incline From Hell Death Bale and endlesse Miserie This Mercy is without all like or paritie 44 Here will I striue to cleare the difference That I of Loue and Mercy doe conceiue To other each haue so neare reference That we one for another oft receiue Gods Loue vpon th'Elect doth onely cleaue Mercy on them in Miserie that lie Till Satan our first Parents did deceiue God them embrac'd in Loue and Charitie No Mercy needed them that felt no Miserie 45 Gods Loue doth most in our Creation shine In our Election and Predestination But his great Mercy seemes to draw her line From our Redemption and Iustification Not that I hence exclude Loues operation For Loue is as the Prince and Soueraigne Of all the Graces needfull to saluation And Mercy is the chiefest of her traine And seemes in Mans Redemption like her Queene to raigne 46 As that great Peere that in his Princes grace For Vertue and for Learning high doth stand And next to him obtaynes the second place And chiefest gouernement of all the Land In Court of Mercy doth eu'n counter-mand Acts that are sped in Iustice highest Plee So Mercy here who is Queene Loues right lâ—nd Doth vs from sentence of damnation free Which Iustice doth pronounce A hard but â—ust Decree 47 But as this Peere deriues authoritie From Prince by whom all Regiment doth moue So speciall sauing Mercy doth relie And first proceed from Gods eternall Loue. O deepe rich wisedome of our God aboue Vnsearchable thy Iudgements and thy Wayes Past finding out more hard the more we proue Most glorious Sunne of Loue which wide displayes Thy beames of Mercy bright like Phoebus golden rayes 48 But ah such knowledge soareth â—arre aboue The reach of my weake Muses waxen wing I now Mans Mercy and his heau'nly Loue Seeke to compare for their discoueringâ— Where heau'nly Loue sends her sweet lightening Shee doth of thing belou'd like Loue require But when we Mercy shew to any thing We seldome Mercy of that thing desire Mercy stil downward goes Loue most what mounteth higher 49 Mercy doth most in Miserie consist Loue reacheth Heau'n with her high mounting wing And Head and Members all in one doth twist But downe againe I my discourse must bring To Mercy which from Heart hath life and â—pring Whence shee receiueth her denomination For Misericordia whereof now I sing Is one with Mercy and is by translation A miserable Heart or piteous inclination 50 And though indeed no Miserie can fall Vpon th' eternall Being blest for ay Yet he that bare the Miserie of all And hath before vs lin'd out Mercies way His part in Miserie for vs did play When as he saw or heard of Miseries He to compassion moued was streight-way And to them ministred best remedies And oft with teares bewayled our infirmities 51 Hierusalem Oh poore Hierusalem His Heart full sad his Eyes eu'n flowing teares How oft would I you gather as a Hen Her Chickens vnder her warme wings vpreares Not inward grones and weeping he forbeares When Iewes and Mary Lazarus bemone Vpon the Crosse all Miseries he beares And cryes out for our woes not for his owne Such cryes were neuer heard Such Mercy neuer knowne 52 As our high Priest all our inâ—â—rmities Excepting sinne he in his Body bare Whereby he learn'd to know our Miseries And to releeue them that in anguish fare He now his Blood and Body doth not spare But deales it out in blessed Sacrament For Meate and Drinke to those that grafted are Into his Body by sweet couplement Sound Meate and Drinke for Soules and Bodies nourishmentâ— 53 As Ointment sweet that powr'd on Aarons head Ran downe and did perfume his garments all So this sweet Oile of Mercy doth dispread From Christ our Head and on his Members fall If I should here to your remembrance call The Names of all whose Mercies did abound I might as well here make memoriall Of all Saints Names that Bookes of Life propound Who shew'd true Mercy here in Heau'n haue Mercy found 54 Noe Abramâ— Lot Iob Isaac Israel With all the righteous Men before the Flood Good Ioseph Moses Iosuaâ— Samuel All Kings Priests Prophets Iudges that were good Behold it was sweet Israels Singers food To chant Gods Mercy earely and at night Apostles Martyrs that for Truth haue stood In workes of Mercy set their whole delight In preaching Faith Hope Loue in Almes and doing right 55 No Father on his Child more pitie takes Then doth our heau'nly Father shew compassion On vs and loues our Children for our sakes Which lasteth to the thousand Generation Oh! had he not it showne on this our Nation We had long since consumed beene with fire And brought like Sodom vnto desolation These wicked dang'rous times when sinnes conspire To draw on vs Gods vengeance and eternall ire 56 But why seeke I outward Aâ—thorities If we stand right we in our hearts shall find Of heau'nly Mercy such testimonies That all Soules Bodies Powers will be inclin'd To magnifie Gods Mercies wondrous kind That like his Truth for euer doe endure Which hath all outward needfull things assign'd And giu'n vs earnest which doth vs secure
THE SONG OF SONGS WHICH WAS SALOMONS Metaphrased in English Heroiks by way of Dialogue With certayne of the Brides Ornaments viz. Poeticall Essayes vpon a Diuine Subiect Whereunto is added a Funerall Elegie consecrate to the memorie of that euer honoured Lord IOHN late Bishop of LONDON By R. A. REVEL 21. 9. Come hither and I will shew thee the Bride the Lambs wife LONDON Printed by William Stansby 1621. TO MY MOST BELOVED AND WORTHY GOOD FRIEND Mr. HENRY KING Arch-Deacon of Colchester IT pleased you long since at my request to present this holy Song to my honourable good Lord and your most deare and louing Father Whose worthy approbation hath encouraged me to publish it intending the Dedication to his euer-honoured memorie But God hauing now taken him to himselfe and left vs to bewaile our inestimable losse it being printed before his Death I resolue not to alter the Dedication but desire you his liuing Heire to accept it in his Name praying the Lord of all Grace who hath made you Heire of his Graces and Vertues to make you Coheire with him of eternall Happinesse resting alwayes Your owne R. A. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD IOHN LORD BISHOP OF LONDON ACcept my Lord into your Treasurie Of Wisedome Learning this deuoted Mite In Widdowes offering out of penurie Thy Lord did more than richest gifts delight Your Lordships worthy fauours did inuite Mee to this boldnesse when you first did raise My lot which in obscuritie was light In better Fortunes for to spend my dayes For which I blesse your bountie and my Maker praise As little Brookes which from the Ocean wide Receiue their Source thence watering hollow vaines Of fruitfull Earth backe to the Sea doe slide Yeelding some Drops of Tribute for their gaines Euen so a thankfull heart my Muse constraines This Tribute to your Bountie to repay And consecrate my labour and my paines Vnto your Seruice which I humbly pray Like Mite to Treasure Drop to Ocean answer may My Muse once rashly sought to enterprise To ranke thine Honour in the Court of Fame But knowing Thou such Glorie didst despise In white stone seeking a new written Name Which he knowes onely that receiues the same I chose this Song of Christ and 's Church to sing Where if mine ignorance commerit blame I doe submit it to thy censuring Who art in pardoning and giuing like a King With Spirit of Moses Iosuahs fortitude The Faith of Abram Isaacks happy peace With Dauids heart Iobs patience be indu'd With Salomons wealth and vvisdomes good increase From Samuels dealing Iustice neuer cease Be blest like Iob in his last happy broode With Pauls content be it in paine or ease Let Churches hidden Manna be thy food Thy daies and strength like Calebs happy long good Your Lordships most bounden and deuoted R. A. The Pastor to the Authour I Out of Pulpit oft haue beene thy Teacher Now in this Booke thou art to me a Preacher God grant what 's there and here deliuered May daily in our liues be practised Io. Whyte To The Authour THis Worke diuine to paint with commendation Were sure a worke of supererogation In mee yet in plaine english I say this The Booke 's the theorie the practice His. B. L. WHen I at home thy Practice doe behold Me thinks it goes beyond all contemplation But soone this Booke hath that conceit control'd And rays'd my soule to heau'nly admiration Thy skill so here thy Practice doth transcend I see there 's none so good but may amend W. B. Affinis-domesticus OF making many Bookes there is no end And too much reading wearieth the flesh But more that I to reading these intend They more my Soule and Spirit doe refresh I. A. YOu carelesse Church-men that your time mis-spend In idlenesse or worldly cogitation Learne of the Learned in the Lawes to spend Your idle time in holy Meditation Denout Ciuilians of our English Nation Besides their true discharge of publique place Giue faire example worthy imitation By learned Pen to season soules with grace Hayward in Prose our Authour here in Verse Both Doctors of another facultie Doe sacred heau'nly Mysteries reherse As if they did professe Diuinitie Goe on braue Spirits while your deuouter Lines Shame them that falsly call themselues Diuines A. Magirus Pag. 10. Stan. 1. Lin. 6. for shine râ—ade shone pag. 11. stan 2. liâ— 7. for amidst r. amisse pag. 23. stan 2. lin 6. for confesse r. confessed p. 31. stan 2. lin 2. for will r. nill p. 67. stan 3. lin 1. for fellowes r. followes p. 75. stan 1. l 2. for heau'n r. hau'n p. 111. stan 1. lin 1. for assay'd r. asâ—ail'd p. 〈◊〉 sta 2. l. 1. for within r. which in p. 123. stan 1. lin 5. for abye r. abyes pag. 135. stan 3 lin 7. for religious r. Religions p. 139. stan 3. lin 9. for imperfections r. impeâ—fection's p 140. stan 1. lin 3. for fand r. fend p. 145. stan 4. lin 8. reade so mis-spend p. 152. stan 1. l. 5. for ioynes r. ioynts pag. 187. stan 3. lin 7. for will dread r. wildred THE SONG OF SONGS WHICH WAS SALOMONS The Argument MY Muse that whilome swaid by lust of youth Did spend her strength in idle wanton toyes Now viewes her vanity with mickle ruth And as awak'd doth seeke for solid ioyes Such as pure soules to blessednesse conuoyes This is the cause why shee so much doth long His grace implor'd who in a mighty noyse Appear'd in clouen tongues to teach my tongue To sing these sacred mysteries this SALOMONS song CHAP. I. The Churches loue to Christ shee doth defend And cleere her selfe from all indignitie She cals her Spouse who shewes her how to wend They bothdelight in sweet communitie WIth kisses of thy mouth doe thou me kisse Thy loue is better vnto me then wine Thine oyntments sauour good and pleasant is A sweet perfume is that blest Name of thine Therefore the Maydes all in thy loue combine Oh draw me and we after thee will run If to thy treasures thou our hearts incline We will reioyce and in that ioy begun We will recount thy loues with all that errours shun Scorne me not Sions Nymphes though I seeme browne For I am faire and comely as a Rose I till Sunnes scorching beames on me did frowne Was like those that in Salomons tents repose My Mothers sonnes my beauty did expose To the Sunnes heate and raging me abiected So did they me a baser way dispose To keepe strange Vineyards not to be respected Whil'st mine ay me lay vnmanur'd quite neglected Oh tell me where thou whom my soule doth loue Thou feed'st thy Sheepe and rests them at noone day For why alas should I a strag'er proue And feede my flocks with them that goe astray Fairest of mayds since thou know'st not the way Tread not in steps that into errours moue But leade thou forth thy Kids to leape and play Vpon the hills the Shepheards tents
Which lately with such spite they did pursue Then would they set their hearts on things aboue And all base worldly cares out of their mind remoue 36 Or be as 〈◊〉 Iohn and Iames affected When on the Mount their Lords Transfiguration They saw and thenceforth worldly cares reiected Desiring there to make their Habitation Or could they see the Bridegroomes preparation When clothed all in Maiestie and Loue He hastens to his marriage consummation How would they all their former thoughts reproue And striue to be ioyn'd to their Head by Faith and Loue 37 When Loue like Moses holds vp both her hands We gainst our spirituall Amalâ—c preuaile And lest shee faints like Hâ—r and Aaron stands Both Faith and Hope to stay them lest they faile These three transcendent Vertues loe can quaile All that our passage to the holy Land Oppose by force or else by flight assaile Loe two of them ten thousand can withstand The third triumphs o're Sinne and all the Deuils band 38 If when good 〈◊〉 saw Goliah slaine His loue to valiant Dauid was so great That they did as one soule from thence remayne How should we loue our Lord that did defeat Our spirituall Goliah How intreat Our Ionathâ—â— that doth his Fathers ire Appease and though he drops of blood doth sweat Will vindicate vs from eternall fire And make Coheires with him Angels this Loue admire 39 And father Iacoâ— thought it much to send His dearest Beniaâ—â—â— to Egypt land Hauing ten sonnes vpon him to attend To loose their brother Simeon then in band How doth Gods loue it selfe to vs expand Who hauing but one onely Sonne him gaue Vs to redeeme from Satans cruell hand And vs his enemies as his Sonnes to saue In whom and by whom he will grant vs all we craue 40 And as the Child that sucks his Mothers brest Is in all dutie to her euer bound For bearing him with paine and losse of rest With many troubles shee in nursing found So should our Loue vnto our Lord abound By whose Crosse we are new borne from aboue And nurs'd with Blood that floweth from his Wound His Flesh we eate his Blood we drinke and proue Flesh of his Flesh Bone of his Bone by Faith and Loue. 41 Behold here is a Sea of Mysterie Where Lambs may wade and Elephants may swim And both be drown'd except sweet Loue stand by By Faith we onely wade about the brim Of this deepe Sea by Loue vp to the chin It is a mysterie which to vnfold No speech is able 't is the heart within To which this mysterie is plainely told This secret Babes and Sucklings doe through Loue behold 42 Loue 's like to Oile that in Zarepta's Cruse By spending on the Prophet did increase Like Sunne which light doth into all infuse Yet doth thereby his light no whit decrease Like boundlesse Waters of the bounteous Seas Which faile not though on all the Flouds they spend Like Leaches skill by vse which gaynes increase Like feruent Prayer which the Cloudes transcend Yet by her daily vse in strength and growth doth mend 43 Loue 's like pure liuing Streames in Pipes which flow From some faire Conduit built vpon a Hill Which though they moisten all the Vales below And many Offices with Water fill Yet to as high a pitch remounten still As is the Fountayne from whence first they fall Eu'n so Loues streames which from our head distill Vpon the lowest Member here of all Mount vp from whence they came with source perpetuall 44 But why seeke I by simile's t' expresse The heau'nly Nature of this glorious Queene Since Men and Angels greatest noblenesse But eu'n as shadowes to the substance beene If with her most celestiall splendour seene Let dust and ashes dare then be so bold His Maker to compare with Loues great Queene So I her heau'nly graces may vnfold And you the plainlier may her glorie great behold 45 God's vncreate eternall infinite Loue 's boundlesse sans beginning without end And as Gods Throne aboue in Heau'n is pight Yet 's Prâ—â—dence doth on meanest Worme attend So thâ—â—gh Loues habitation doth transcend Shee dwells with meanest Creature here below And â—n them her most gracious Beames doth send Gâ—d eu'n the secrets of mans heart doth know And Loue the secret things of God to Man doth show 46 The King of Heau'n for Man did on him take A Seruants forme eu'n so this heau'nly Peere Her selfe a Seruant vnto Man doth make The whole Law God for vs fulfilled heere And Loue vs from the guilt thereof doth cleare If you will grant similitudes may proue By thousands I can make it plaine appeare Loue 's like in all to God in heau'n aboue Yea Loue is God himselfe for God is called Loue. 47 As in the Frame and Microcosme of Man The Soules great power all other motions sway And the whole Frame which of the Chaos came To the prime Mouer alwayes doth obay So doe all spirituall heau'nly Vertues ay Depend vpon this gracious Queene of Loue And eu'n as Man and the whole World decay When Soule departs and Spheres doe cease to moue Eu'n so all Vertues die not quickened by Loue. 48 Two things obserue in Loue longing delight Longing to get Delight when we obtayne Loe Loue with longing doth our hearts inuite Vnto the feast where Christ shall entertayne Virgins that in their Lamps sweet Oile maintayne Those that are in the wedding Garment drest Where they with him shall euermore remayne In solemnizing of this marriage feast Where they enioy true happinesse and endlesse rest 49 As is Loues Obiect so indeed is Loue Constant delightfull happy permanent If we affection set on things aboue And treade in his steps that before vs went Delight shall euer last with true content If for this pearle of Loue we all doe pay And let no Wife Farme Oxen vs preuent From comming to the marriage at the Day Then like Loues Obiect so delight shall last for ay 50 Th' examples of this Loue are manifold In holy Men when yet the Law had place As Abram Moses Iob and Dauid bold But they haue shined more now vnder Grace Amongst those that haue seene our Sauiours face But most since he the Comforter hath sent Stones Fagots Swords Sawes Crosses they embrace As if they did their Sauiour represent Shewing by losse of their deare Blood their true intent 51 In eu'ry Age examples doe abound Of Gods loue t 'vs and ours to God againe Yea when most en'mies seeke Loue to confound Shee doth her owne most valiantly maintayne No horror death cold hunger losse or paine Saints from their Loue to Christ can separate Their Martyrdome's their Crowne their losse their gaine Their Captayne 's death Souldiers doth not amate They know this is the way in at the narrow Gate 52 Oh! let this one example serue for all For Loue a Seruants forme God on him takes To raise vp Man eu'n God receiues a fall Himselfe a Suiter poore to vs
for to desire Lowly to seeme and secretly aspire Vnto a Crowne by legs with Absalâ—m Such complement let Pagan Courts admire Neuer such basenesse yet had any roome In Court of heau'nly Loue where heart and looke is one 9 For true Humilitie is vndiuided Shee alwayes lookes speakes does seemes thinks the same And though shee bee by scorners oft derided Shee 's alwayes humble like vnto her name Nor doth shee vertuous deeds to purchase fame But for themselues and for her Lords deare sake Who with her suffred much reproch and shame When he a Seruants forme did on him take And Lord of all himselfe of none account did make 10 The Sonne of God from all eternitie Most holy happy wise whose glorious Station Being pight in Heau'n thought it no robberie To be with God of equall estimation Himselfe to make here of no reputation His glorie great in highest Heau'ns to leaue And liue here in the meanest seruants fashion And when the Heau'ns did him againe receaue Her here vnto his Spouse for an ensample leaue 11 Oh! could we but this wondrous Grace conceaue And honour Loue hath done Humilitie Would it not cause vs vnto her to cleaue And her embrace with all integritie Keeping her in our hearts most carefully That from our humbled hearts as from a Well There might flow forth vnfayn'd humilitie That when we are hence summon'd by the bell We in Loues Court with ioy eternally may dwell 12 This is the finall cause of Humblenesse To gaine true Blisse and Gods eternall Loue The formall is vnfayned Lowlinesse In and without which God and Man approue The knowledge of our selues vs well may moue As the efficient cause her to embrace Thoughts manners lookes words tires materiall proue For by the words eye act attire and face A wise man may discerne what in the heart hath place 13 But now if we vnto th' effects proceede What gaynes a man by all his lowlinesse Wee see what mickle sorrow it did breede Vnto our Captayne when in great distresse Hee 's humbled to the Crosse and we no lesse By his ensample looke to vnder-goe His scoffes and scornes his gall and bitternesse If this be all Humilitie can doe Of all they are most wretched that are humbled so 14 But loe our Leader that did her embrace With such affection God doth him regard As his deare Sonne behold he doth him grace Aboue the Angels and he hath prepar'd Such ioyes for him as cannot be compar'd With glorie and with honour hath him crown'd And though a while on earth he meanely far'd All now vnto his honour doth redound At naming of his Name all knees must kisse the ground 15 And vs that in our Captaynes steps doe treade And follow him in true Humilitie He will to endlesse blisse and glorie leade And honour here with true nobilitie And as he captiue led captiuitie And did from lowest earth to heau'n ascend So from the dust and graue shall we on high Be rais'd where we in glorie shall transcend The Angels which on Head and Members must attend 16 But soft my Muse thou now dost farre transcend The subiect of thy song Humilitie Now homeward to thy selfe thy thoughts intend And view the subiect where shee doth aby The heart 's the seate of true Humilitie And in thy body seated is thine heart Both made of basest Clay thy soule from high The highest by thy nostrils did impart Which is there all in all and all in eu'ry part 17 The bodi 's base the soule it doth transcend And were 't not here immur'd in house of clay Against her nature shee would re-ascend To him that gaue her Then my Soule I say Into her Makers presence would away And be accepted by his mediation Who humbled to the Crosse for her did pay His dearest blood for reconciliation For after humblenesse doth follow exaltation 18 Nay eu'n our flesh though humbled in the dust By vertue of our Sauiours Resurrection Againe shall be vnited and the iust Which haue beene humbled here by his direction Shall be deliuer'd from worlds base subiection Into the libertie and glorious light Of Gods owne Sonnes vnder whose safe protection They euer shall enioy the happy sight Of God and 's Saints which here haue humbled beene aright 19 But Humblenesse is not the onely way To bring vs to this glorious exaltation End of our hopes but first doth vs conuay To wholesome true Repentance to saluation Which is from filthy sinne the best purgation Mercy the meeke and humble man doth saue Though Iustice vs condemne to dire damnation If Faith and Hope for vs we Patrons haue Whilst Bountie grants vs all things needfull we doe craue 20 The Treasurer Knowledge who hath alwayes vow'd Her selfe true seruant to Humilitie Hath her with precious and rare gifts endow'd Yet still more meane and lowly shee will bee For well shee wots in whom the Treasuree Of Wisedome and of Knowledge all did dwell Became a seruant meane of low degree Truth often vnto her what shee knowes well That shee hath nought but what shee hath receau'd doth tell 21 Thus Meeknesse Patience true Obedience Ioy Doe alwayes with Humilitie abide Shee is most kind and curteous neuer coy Vnto the vertuous and shee opens wide Loues gate vnto the Humble but doth hide From th' enuious vaine and the ambitious wight Truth Prudence Knowledge which should be their guide Thus Humblenesse guides all to Truth and light But Pride Ambition leade to darknesse errour night 22 This Monster foule Ambition cursed Pride Who enuying Man eu'n in his first creation Did like a subtile Serpent smoothly slide In t' Edens Garden Mans sweet habitation Where by malicious subtile false perswasion He then perswaded simple Eâ—e to trie Forbidden fruits and by false application Assur'd her shee should knowledge get thereby Such knowledge gayne they that eqâ—iuocate and lie 23 Oh! had Humilitie true Knowledge brought To Eue before shee did commit this sinne Shee ne're had entertayn'd so base a thought Nor we of Pride and Satan bond-slaues bin See here the end of all that doe begin In pride and in ambition they must fall Pride first betray'd vs to the Fowlers gin But Humblenesse deliuers them from thrall That doe vnfeignedly with her for mercy call 24 What Be as gods For to be proud and poore Is a base sinne hated of God and Man Behold eu'n as Humility's the doore That leades to Happinesse eu'n so began At Pride the miserie and smart of Man Which still in him remaynes a dangerous sore For honour here a Worldling what you can His greedie thoughts will neuer count it store Ambition like to Hell and Graue still gapes for more 25 Thus Poets tell of an ambitious Snaile That golden weather-cocke on steeple high Espying from sweet Garden would assaile And for vaine glorie life would ieopardie He by fast hold and winding subtiltie Mounts slily vp the steeples highest spire Whence he the poore Bird throwes downe cruelly And doth to
the righteous seede he will on earth preserue 80 To praise God for the blessings manifold His Word assures vnto this righteous Nation Would in discourse my Muse for euer hold And be too long for this one Meditation Oh hold me then to more strict obseruation Of Time to come than I haue had of past That I may make a daily examination Of my whole life and all my sinnes vp cast As mindfull of th' account I am to giue at last 81 And teach me that this Grace of Righteousnesse Is as a Chaine of many links close ioyn'd By which we would ascend from hence to blesse Whereof if but the least linke doth vnbind Loe the whole Chaine is to the earth declin'd Eu'n so in this strong Chaine of Law and Right Though most of all our acts be rightly lin'd If one Iniquitie our Hearts delight This one makes all the rest vnrighteous in Gods sight 82 But I vniustly my discourse extend Now I beseech the Authour of this Grace I all my force to practise it may bend And first doe Right and Iustice in my place Respecting not the Person but the Case In my Commerce with all Men dealing right Last that I may true Righteousnesse embrace That with true Faith and a good Conscience dight I in these spirituall Armes vnto the end may â—ight 83 Thus hauing chalked out the Rule of Right I should by my first Method next proceede To sing of Mercy but Truth doth inuite My Muse first her great power to areede Who doth in time eu'n Righteousnesse preceede Besides none can approch dread Mercies Throne But those whom Truth and Iustice thither leade And sure their Nature links them so in one As one without the other neuer goes alone MEDITAT II. Of Truth 1 SVch is the nature and sweet inclination Of heau'nly Graces all whereof I sing That with most kind and mutuall relation They all seeme ioyn'd together in a ring So close each one another following That who gets one doth all the rest obtayne For from one Fountayne all of them doe spring All link'd together in so strong a chayne As where one Vertue dwels there all the rest remayne 2 'T is vaine to thinke that single Graces can Make vp complete the Man spirituall More than diuided Members of a Man Can grow or thriue not ioyn'd together all Hence Poetâ— the three Graces twins doe call Ioues Daughters and them in one ring doe ioyne And hence they make the Virgins musicall All but one consort which are Sisters nine Thus by their fables shadowing things Diuine 3 For they discern'd by Natures dimmed light One Authour sole of eu'ry goodly Grace Whom Father they and King of all doe hight And him Lord ouer all their gods doe place Loe thus as in a mist they Truth did trace But missing the true path of Righteousnesse In stead of Truth they Errour did embrace For neuer was Dame Iustice Errours guesse Nor euer Truth did dwell with false Vnrighteousnesse 4 For seeming Truth without the 〈◊〉 of Right Like Summum 〈◊〉 is greatest iniurie And Righteousnesse not guided by Truths light Is Curiousnesse or false Hypocrisie Faith that brings forth fruits of Iniquitie Is base Presumption Loue Diffimulation That worketh not in vs by Charitie All from one Head haue life and sustentation And therefore all together make their habitation 5 But none more like are or of Kin more neare Than this faire paire of Truth and Righteousnesse The blessed Mother and her Daughter deare For Truth the Mother is of Vprightnesse And surely Truth and honest Simplenesse To eu'ry Vertue doth so needfull grow That all faire shewes not done in Singlenesse And Truth of Heart are but a false vaine show A splendid sinne corrupted by Mans heart below 6 Thou in whose Lips was neuer found least guile Whose Heart hates lying and iniquitie Whose Hands did neuer God or Man beguile Whose Hand Heart Word and Thought is Veritie Whose blessed Spirit of Truth doth testifie Vnto our Spirits true way of Righteousnesse By which we come to liue eternally Direct my Muse Truths nature to expresse That Truth may guide my steps to endlesse Happinesse 7 My bounded Muse here dareth not define Of boundlesse Truth from all Eternitie Which as impossible's to mete by Line As Persons three which in the Trinitie Make but one Truth and perfect Vnitie But as one God consists of Persons three And each participates of Deitie So we one Truth communicated see To Persons three which but one in the God-head bee 8 Of Father 〈◊〉 and Spirit of Truth we reade But as one God so but one Truth alone Into which Truth the Spirit of Truth doth leade Who sent is from the Father and the Sonne The Word of Truth that gloriously did won With Spirit and Father from eternitie Flesh here tooke of our flesh bone of our bone To free vs from errours captiuitie And chalk't vs out a way to walke in Veritie 9 This is the Truth whereof I meane to write Which ought to be of our whole Life the square To leuell out our words thoughts acts aright And eke our Iudgements to Gods Word to square For of this Truth foure parts there onely are Of Iudgement Action Speech and of the Heart The want of one the rest doth all impaire Wrong iudgement words and actions doth diuert But a false heart doth iudgement action speech peruert 10 And that I right and plainely may proceede I will all foure thus singled out define And first the Truth of Iudgement I doe reade A power inlightning of Gods Spirit Diuine Which doth Mans vnderstanding part refine And settles in the Doctrine of his Word Behold when Truth doth in our iudgement shine All Heresie and Schismes by vs abhord This Truth of Iudgement sacred Knowledge doth afford 11 Truth of the Heart is a sweet singlenesse And sincere meaning whereby Man constraynes His Heart to approue it selfe in Holinesse To him that searcheth both the Heart and Raynes This in the inward Man the Truth contaynes And is to God most acceptable treasure This Truth from all Hypocrisie refraynes Here doth the Deuill soonest take his seasure For loe the Heart of man's deceitfull aboue measure 12 The Truth of Speech is when our hearts agree Vnto the matter and vnto our mind For if it from our Heart doe disagree Or from the thing whereto it is design'd The first to be plaine lying is defin'd The second falshood at the best we name One doth abuse the Conscience and the Mind The other brings the Authour vnto shame Both falsifie the Truth and are alike to blame 13 The Truth of Actions honest dealing plaine Faithfull in all without dissimulation With God and Man whether we lose or gaine When we doe not deceiue by simulation And feigning things without determination Or else dissembling whereabouts we goe These are from Truth a wicked declination And when we God or Man deceauen so What we would vnto vs to others we
how was he by Laban iniured His brother Esan did his life assaile Yet strong in God his heart did neuer faile Not when at Mahanim he met Gods Hoast And Esau with foure hundred did he quaile Of Iosâ—ahs valour may all Iudah boast But of them all herein may Daâ—id glorie most 32 Apocryphall are Stories not the Facts Of machabaeus and his Bretheren Whose noble Fortitude and valiant Acts Transcend the courage of all mortall Men. Oh! wondrous prowesse which they shewed then For to defend their Lawes and Libertie Their Temples Cities Wiues and Children From prophanation by Idolatrie And from the bondage of an Heathen enemie 33 I might of Moses Caleb Gedeon tell Ieptha Iob Samson Dauids Worthies three That through an Hoast drew Water from a Well Eu'n millions of examples you may see Of Saints which in Gods Booke our paternes bee As Children three which would endure the flame Before they would commit Idolatrie Of all the Apostles onely Paul I name Whose Fortitude in God deserues eternall fame 34 What are the Seruants greater than their Lord No all the strength that did in them abound He of his fulnesse did to them afford In whom all perfect Fortitude was found Whom when he did conuerse with Men on ground No Deuill Power terror could dismay And that he might at last Hels powers confound His Life on cursed Crosse eu'n downe did lay Sad Night But loe His rising brings a ioyfull Day 35 Which to sweet Nectar turnes our Cup of Gall Loe This is true braue Fortitude of mind That as Christ chearefully did suffer all That God for our Redemption had assign'd So all our strength and will must be inclin'd All crosses valiantly to suffer here But where we them against Gods glorie find For with such iniuries Christ could not beare And therefore Merchants did with whips from Temple scare 36 What Shall I here all Woman-kind exclude As Subiects meane for this heroick Grace No In the mind is seate of Fortitude And oft in Female brests obtaynes high place 'T is not proud Looks mens Tire stout Speech bold Face Can Women for true Fortitude commend No Vertue like to Modestie doth grace That Sexe and best their Honour doth defend In this the brauest Women alwayes did transcend 37 See faire Rebecca couer'd with a vaile Iudge Debora vnder an Oken tree Most modest Iudith durst the Head assaile Of Holofernes Hâ—ster next I see Bring Haman vnto shame for Mardochee Shall I name one that doth surmount them all Loe our late Queene Elizabeth was shee Yet was most modest shamefac't Virginall All Female boldnesse Impudence not Grace we call 38 This Androgune Masculine-Foeminine Sometimes of Doubtfull oft of Common Gender Who turn'd her face where Womanhood should shine To bold out-facing And her locks did tender Vnto the Scisers Our Faith 's great Defender Because shee was of Fortitude the scorne And Ape of Manhood did so reprehend her As now all vertuous Ladies haue her lorne Forgotten and disgrac'd as shee were neuer borne 39 Great Faiths Defender who dost here defend As Faith so Valour and true Fortitude Oh were my Muse but able to commend Thy Princely Heart and Minds braue magnitude Wherewith th' Almightie hath thy brest indude Or tell the courage of thy valiant Sonne Our Prince which stretcheth to such amplitude That had my Song with his great Praise begun My Life on Earth had ended ere my Muse had done 40 But we returne to Fortitude within By which we fight 'gainst spirituall enemies World Deuill Flesh and our originall Sinne Hell Empires Powers Principalities To our spirituall Peace all enmities Against these for our safegard we embrace All spirituall Graces as sure remedies Ah! how dare they looke Satan in the face That are quite destitute of all true sauing Grace 41 Alas What strength haue they then that depend Vpon the Pope and his Supremacie Or hope his holy Water can defend Them from this strong and subtile enemie Saints Reliques Bulls Beades and such trumperie Are now the onely weapons they must weare Their Agnus Deies doe so terrifie The Deuill and away ill spirits scare For other spirituall Armour now they neede not care 42 How hope they to be able to withstand The Serpents malice and the Worlds despite Who lay by Armes and loose and idle stand Not buckeling themselues vnto the fight As Armes were like apparell for delight Or for sport onely and a glittering show These fainting hearts that are afraid to fight Vaine Fooles that neuer yet Hels strength did know Which at the first encounter them will ouerthrow 43 Alas eu'n too too many now a dayes Like Gallants of our time make goodly show In glitt'ring Armes and bragge great might in Frayes But come where danger to their life may grow They then away both Armes and Weapons throw Thus they abuse the knowledge God doth lend Vnto their ruine and their ouerthrow Wanting true valour Truth for to defend And Christian Fortitude to hold out to the End 44 My onely wish is euer to be strong In God and in the power of his Might Casting off all things that doe not belong Vnto the Christian Battaile I must fight Oh! who in warres can serue his Prince aright That doth himselfe with Worlds affaires entangle With spirituall Weapons we maintayne this fight And not with cunning at the Barre to jangle We here must fight for Life and not for profit wrangle 45 I here confesse mine inward strength is vaine Vnable to withstand such enemies That I to seeke out of my selfe am faine For helpe against Hels powr's and policies So many are my knowne infirmities I mine owne strength doe vtterly distrust Hoping thy Grace that all our wants supplies Will strengthen me against Hell Sinne and Lust Since in no finite Power but infinite I trust 46 Oh grant me firme on thine Omnipotence In crosses and afflictions to relie And wholy to renounce all confidence Mans strength or hope in Princes can supply Who vnder shadow of thy Wings doe lie No forraine Power nor inward dread need feare Thy strength is most seene in infirmitie In thee wee able to doe all things are By force of thy great Might we all aduenture dare 47 God is my Refuge Strength and Fortitude My Rocke Shield Buckler and in whom I trust Who hath my Foes all vnto me subdu'd Making our Enemies to licke the dust Most firme defence vnto the Meeke and Iust All superstitious vanities are vaine Who put in God their confidence and trust Firme stable sure like Sions Mount remayne No powres of Hell can snake where this foundation 's layne 50 Great is the Power wherein we doe trust A mightie Power and exceeding strong Able to raise our Bodies from the dust And to Eternitie our life prolong All pow'r from God to God all doth belong Why then should'st thou my Soule distrust or quaile On him relie and none can doe thee wrong Thine Heart and Conscience Satan may assaile But
by Gods helpe thou shalt against them all preuaile 51 So by this mightie Power we shall at length Be Victors though Sinne seeme vs here to foile Lord grant me this spirituall Pow'r and Strength That though my Body suffer here a while And like a Coward oft doth take the foile I may with courage so my Soule defend No Power me of spirituall Armes despoile Lord grant I practise may what I commend So I with prayse my Booke and Meditation end 52 Thus as one of the Bridegromes meanest Friends I to adorne the Bride doe offer here These Ornaments The gift no worth commends But He to whom the Widdowes mite was deare Because shee all her substance offred there Will well accept of this poore Offering That when I shall at that great day appeare Before the Iudge to giue my reckoning This time may be allow'd me for Gods honouring FINIS The third Booke consisting of fiue MEDITATIONS viz. 1. Knowledge 2. Zeale 3. Temperance 4. Bountie and 5. Ioy. And The fourth Booke of viz. 1. Prudence 2. Obedieâ—ce and 3. Meekenesse 4. Gods Word and 5. Prayer Were Likewise intended by the Authour at this time for the Presse But the euer-lamented losse of his most honored Lord which hath changed all his Ioyes into Sorrowes and Songs to Lamentations hath beene the cause of deferring their publishing A FVNERALL ELEGIE Consecrated to the memorie of his euer-honoured Lord IOHN KING Late Lord Bishop of London LEt others call their Muse to helpe them mourne And books of Tragique Scenes and Stories turne My Heart abundant matter shall indite If but the halfe I of my sorrow write Were it a priuate losse of mine alone I could it smother with a priuate grone But ah I ring my Fathers Fathers knell The Charet and Horsemen of Israel Happy Elisha when the fiery Horse And Charets thee did from thy Master force Whilst he in Whirlewind vp to Heauen ascends His Spirit doubled downe on thee descends But ah I haue no Spirit but to mourne And wash with teares this sacred Fathers Vrne His 〈◊〉 is not left me to diuide Mine Eyes from Teares as Iordanes floods were dride Yet had I but his Spirit here to tell How stoutly he opposed Iezabel And all her Baalling superstitious crew Of Prophets and their Idols ouerthrew How firmely he in his Religion stood Readie till Death to seale it with his blood Without least Bastard thought to change that Truth Which was in him firme rooted from his youth I then might iusâ—ly hope my feeble Verse Had done full right vnto thy wronged Herse For I should muzzell those that wrong thy fame And die them like their whoare scarlet in shame Should force into their face that modest blood That left them ere since they left Truth and Good Yet why should I thinke much that Calumnie Labours to cloud thy Names bright memorie Since that Iust One thy Sauiour after Death Could not auoid Slanders envenom'd breath And if thy Lord and Masters fate were such Let not thy Ashes grieue to beare as much Oh sacred Spirit enclos'd in frailest mold Of britle Clay when I did thee behold Praying Elias-like thou couldst constrayne The Heau'ns to water all the Earth with rayne And when thy zealous tongue touch'd with the flame Which Seraphin had from the Altar taâ—ne Thou like to Paul or Peter didst diuine Three thousand Soules conuerting at a time When thou didst sit on Iustice sacred Throne Thy Prudence shin'd like that of Solomon And Samuel-like so equall didst diuide Thou often gau'st content to either side Like Aristotles thy Schole Disputations Thy Speeches Tullies eloquent Orations Thy Lectures all Ideas most diuine Where Arts like Starres in Firmament doe shine Did â— behold thee in thy Familie Thy House a Temple of the Deitie Thou Dauid-like didst to th' Almightie sweare No wicked riotous Person should come there You worthy Tribe of Leui when you want And find your shorne allowance all too scant His 〈◊〉 which refresht you often blisse And gaue you Liuengs free as they were his You Poore lament whom he so often fed Not with his Doctrine onely but his Bread And Strangers when you want his losse lament Who vnto you such large allowance sent One and the same Rule in things Temporall He did obserue as in Spirituall Who so on Earth doth plentifully sow May well expect a like increase to mow Most happy Man if Vertue Honour Right Or any worldly Blisse make happy wight Home and abroad honour'd belou'd and fear'd Him Grace and Learning vnto all endear'd But oh what Mortall stands so sure and fast That here may be call'd happy till his last To whom the People erst Hosanna cride When he in triumph doth through Sion ride Ere many dayes was on the Crosse so shaken As if he fear'd himselfe of God forsaken So when this Saint like Paul the â—ged sung To build vp Sions ruines with his Tongue The rauish'd Hearers with thy message strooke Sate as they had no powr's but Eare and Looke Both which did yeeld thy Worth such loud applause As if an Angels Trump had lent thee voyce I thinke their strict attention did fore-see They neuer more should heare so much from thee A Swan-like Dittie for it was his last For ere the Sunne had round his circuit past He that for Sions building vp did pray Did in his owne fraile Temple feele decay My Soule eu'n trembles but thy groanes to heare Alas how couldst thou them with Patience beare Afflictions which would breake a brasen Wall And hardest Milstone grin'd to powder small But Hee in Heau'n that heard thee groane and weepe And all thy teares did in his Bottle keepe When it was full doth take of thee compassion And freed thee from thy paynes and bitter passion Eu'n on that Day whereon we celebrate His Passion whom thou liu'dst to imitate Loe God doth millions of his Angels send Thy sorrowes here with heau'nly Ioyes to end Shall we bewaile thy happy commutation Now chang'd from Earth to heau'nly Habitation Where as thy Ioyes the Angels farre surpast Which neuer of thy Miseries did taste For there thou dost that Psalme of comfort ring Which none but Saints afflicted here can sing That Ioy which neuer had in Heau'n beene knowne But by those Saints that vnder crosses groane That Ioy which feeles God comfort vs againe After he hath vs plagu'd on Earth with paine And for a few yeares of aduersitie Rewards in Heau'n with Ioyes eternitie Which giues for Sorrow Ioy for Labour Rest A Hau'n to vs whom Shipwracke erst distrest From Danger Safetie Light vnto the eye Long blind in Dungeons obscuritie Life after Death doth make our liues more sweet Who here Christs plentifull afflictions meet Shall haue in him a plenteous consolation Then let vs all that wait for like saluation In Body like this Saint the dying beare Of 's dying Lord and let him neuer feare But his Lords life shall be made manifest In Him when He our Labour turnes to Rest. But more my Muse is as vnfit to write As are my sorrowes stupid to endite Onely Shee thus the publique losse bemones And what Shee wants in words supplyes with grones Act. 2. 3. Church Christ. Church Christ. Church Church Christ. Church Christ. Church Church Christ. Church Christ. Christ. Christ. Church Christ. Church Christ. Church Daugh. Church Daugh. Church Christ. Christ. Apples †Church Christ. Church Christ. Church Christ. Church a 1. Sam. 2â— 39. 40. b 1. Sam. 18. 18. c Mark 1. 3. d Iohn 3. 29. * Matth. 22. 9. f Can. 2. 14. 3. 7. g Caâ— 5. 1 2. h 2. Cor. 12. 1 2 3 4. i Matth. 22. 2 3 4. k Caâ— 7. 1 2 c. l Luk. 2. 32. m Luk. 14. 17 18 c. n Apoc. 22. 1 2. o Can. 5. 1. p Can. 4. 12. 6. 2. q Apoc. 21. 4. * Apoc. 5. 11. Quaere Iâ—dg 9. 8. * Pâ—nitentia * 〈◊〉 †Christs †Strength †Strength * Presumption a Infidelitie b Despaire †Heart †Iesus †By reason ¶ By sense * Reuel 6. 10. 11. †Mens merits * Separatists * 〈…〉 Truth of Iudgement Truth of Heart Truth of Speech Truth of Action †Potaâ—iana 3. Esdr. 4. * 〈◊〉 Gen. 32. 33. * Woman-Man * Cutter