how do'st sleighted stand IX Whose World 's a frantick Sea more crosse Windes fly Than Sailers Compasse knows SAINTS ply Their Sails through airy Waves anchor still on HIGH X. 'T is HOLINES lands there where None distasted Rave with Guilts Dread nor with Rage wasted Nor Beauty-dazled Eyes with Femal Wantons blasted XI No childish Toyes no boyling Youths wilde Thirst No ripe Ambition no accurst Old griping Avarice no doting Sloth there 's nurst XII No Glutt'nies Maw-worm nor the Itch of Lust No Tympanie of Pride nor Rust Of Envie no Wraths Spleen nor Obdurations Crust XIII No Canker of Self-Love nor Cramp of Cares No Schism-Vertigo nor night-Mares Of inward Stings affright here lurk no penal Snares XIV Hence Earth a dim Spot showes where Mortals toil For shot-bruis'd Mud-walls childish broil For pot-gun-cracks 'gainst Ant-hill-works ô what a Coil XV. Where Glutt'ny is full gorg'd where Lust still spawns Where Wrath takes Blood and Avarice pawns Where Envy frets Pride struts and dull Remisness yawns XVI Where Mars th' Ascendant's How Realms shatter'd lie With scatter'd Courts beneath mine Eye Which shew like atoms chac'd by Windes Inconstancie XVII Here th' Vniverse in NATURES Frame doth stand Upheld by TRUTH and WISDOMS Hand ZanzuÌ„mims shew from hence as Dwarfs on Pigmy land XVIII How vile's the World Fancie keep up thy Wings Ruffled in Bussle of low Things Toss'd in the common Throng then acquiesce 'bove Kings XIX Thus Thou being rapt and struck with Enthean Fire In SKIES Star-chamber strike thy Lyre Proud Rome not all thy Caesars could thus high aspire XX. Mans spirit'ual State enlarg'd still widening flowes As th' Helix doth A Circle showes Mans nat'ral Life which Death soon from its Zenith throwes XXI HEAV'NS Perspective is over-reas'ning FAITH Which Soul-entrancing VISIONS hath Truths Beacon fir'd by Love Ioyes Empire open lay'th XXII This All-enforming LIGHT i' th pregnant Minde The Babe THEOPHILA enshrin'd GRACE dawns when Nature sets Dawn for fair Day design'd XXIII Breathe in thy dainty Bud sweet Rose 'T is Time Makes Thee to ripened VIRTUES clime When as the SUN of GRACE shall spread Thee to thy Prime XXIV When her Lifes-Clock struck twelve Hopes Noon so bright She beam'd that Queen admir'd her Sight Viewing through Beauties Lantern her intrinsick Light XXV As when fair Tapers burn in Crystal Frame The Case seems fairer by the Flame So do's HEAV'NS brighter LOVE brighten this lovely Dame XXVI Her Soul the Pearl her Shell out-whites the Snow Or Streams that from stretcht Udders flow Her Lips Rock-rubies and her Veins wrought Saphyrs show XXVII Attractive Graces dance about her Lips Spice from those scarlet Portals skips Thence Gileads mystick Balm Griefs sovâ—ragin Balsam slips XXVIII Such precious Fume the incens'd ALTAR vents So Gums in Air breath Compliments So Roses damaskt Robe prankt with green Ribbons sents XXIX Her Eyes amaze the Viewers and inspire To Hearts a warm yet chast Desire As Sol heats all yet feel they in Themselves no Fire XXX Those Lights the radiant Windows of her Minde Who would pourtray as soon may finde A way to paint the viewless poise the weightless Winde XXXI But might we her sweet Breast LOVES Eden see On those Snow mountlets Apples be May cure those Mischiefs wrought by the forbidden Tree XXXII Her Hands are soft as swannie Down and much More white whose temperate Warmth is such As when ripe Gold and quickning Sun-beams inly touch XXXIII Ye Syrens of the Groves who pearcht on high Tune gutt'ral Sweets Air-Minstrels why From your Bough-Cradles rockt with Windes to HER d' ye flie XXXIV See Lilies gown'd in Tissue simper by Her With Marigolds in flaming Tire Green sattin'd Bayes with Primrose fring'd seem all on Fire XXXV Th' art silver-voic'd Teeth pearl'd thy Head 's gold-thatcht Natures Reviver Flora's patcht Though trickt in Mayes new Raiment when with Thee She 's matcht XXXVI THOU chast as fair Eve ere she blusht From Thee The Libe'ral Arts in Capite The Virtues by Knight-service Graces hold in Fee XXXVII A gratious Soul figur'd in Beauty is Best Pourtrayture of Heavenly Bliss Drawn to the Life Wit-feign'd Pandora vails to This. XXXVIII So Cynthia seems Star-chambers President With crescent Splendor from Sol lent Rallying her starrie Troop to guard her glittering Tent. XXXIX Pearl'd Dews add Stars yet Earths Shade shuts up soon Her Shop of Beams Whose Cone doth run 'Bove th' horned Moon beneath the golden-tressed Sun XL. Wh ' on Skie Clouds Seas Earth Rocks doth Raies disperse Stars Rainbows Pearls Fruits Diamonds pierce The Worlds Eye Sourse of Light Soul of the Universe XLI Who glowes like Carbuncles when winged Hours Dandle the Infant-Morn which scours Dame Luna with her twinkling Spies from azure Tow'rs XLII Thee THEOPHIL Dayes sparkling Eye we call Thy Faith 's the Lid thy Love the Ball Beautying thy graceful Mein with Form ANGELICAL XLIII That Lady-Prioress of the cloyster'd Skie Coacht with her spangled Vestalls nigh Vails to this Constellation from DIVINITIE XLIV Vertue ' s her Spring of Honour her Allies Are Saints Guard Angels HEAV'N her Prize Whose Modestie looks down while thus her Graces rise XLV Eugenia Wit Paidia Art affords Eusebia Truth for Her uphords Poets have Legislative Pow'r of making Words XLVI Her Heart 's a Court her richly-temper'd Breast A Chappel for Loves regent GUEST Here feasts She sacred Poets SHE Herself a Feast XLVII Ye Bay-crown'd Lords Who dig from Wisdoms Pits The Oar of Arts and with your Wits Refine't who prop the doaâ—â—ng World in stagg'ring Fits XLVIII And in Fames Court raise Obelisks divine Such Symphonies do ye combine As may inspirit Flesh with your Soul-ravishing Wine XLIX While Winter Autumn Summer clasps the Spring While tenter'd Time shall Paeans sing Your Eagle-plumes that others waste shall ymp Fames Wing L. The rampant Juice of Teneriffe recruits Wildely the routed Spirits So Lutes Harps Viols Organs ah and Trumpets Drums Flutes LI. Though Art should humour grumbling Bases still Tortring the deep-mouth'd Catlins till Hoarse-thundring Diapasons should the whole Room fill LII Yet those But string this LADIES Harp She 'l trie Each Chords tun'd Pulse till She descry Where mosts harmonious Musicks mystick Soul do's lie LIII Now Grace with Language chimes Thrice blest who tast Their HEAV'N on Earth in Lifes Book grac't Who leaving Sense with Sense their Spirit with SPIRITS have plac't LIV. With those divine Patritians who being not Eclips't with Sense or Bodies Spot Are in the Spring of living FLAME Seraphick hot LV. One TASTE gives Joyes Joyes at which Words but rove Schools purblinde grope at Things Above Cymmerian-like on whose Suns brow Clouds darkly move LVI HEAV'NS Paths are traceless by Excess of Light O're-fulgent Beams daz'd Fyes benight Say Ephata and Clay ' s Collyrium for my Sight LVII Transported in this Extasie befriend Me like the Stagirite to end My Thoughts in That Euripus None can comprehend LVIII This mystick Chain ô lengthen't still imparts Links fett'ring 'bove all
consumeris Illo Hoc magis Aeterno Tu consummaberis Aevo INCIPE Censurâ major qui Fonte Camaenas Idalias tingis casto Tua Metra Sionem Parnasso jungunt celebri tam digna Lituris Nulla canis quà m sunt omni dignissima Laude THEIOPHILAM resonare docens Modulamine diam Impia priscorum lustrâsti Carmina Vatum PERGE beatifico correptus NVMINE PERGE Vivida felici fundendo Poemata Flatu Pectore digna tuo COELI penetrare Recessus Et quae densa tegit Nubes Mysteria claro Lumine perlustra solito non concite Plectro Quaelibet altisono prosterne Piacula Versu PERFICE terrenum transcende POETA Cacumen Conversus converte Vagos Quos decipit Error Incautos Meliora doce Britonesque bilingues Lingua fac erudiat Britonum sit quanta superbi Pectoris Ambitio Veri Caligo Camaenis Subdola vesani depinge Sophismata Sêcli IO. GAVDENTIVS S. T. D. In Sanctos THEOPHILAE Amores VIx mihi Te vidisse semel concessit Apollo Inque tuo pictam Carmine THEIOPHILAM Quum gemino Ipse miser sed fortunatus AMORE Deperii dubius sic Ego factus Amans Cur Dubius Fallor Nam quamvis partibus aequis Igne simul duplici me novus urat Amor Afficitur tamen Objecto atque unitur in uno Totaque divisis una Favilla manet Ne Lector mirêre Novum est Sed protinus Ignes Si sine felle legas experiêre meos THEIOPHILA In cunctis Praecellentissima Nymphis Nominis ad Famam quot Tibi Corda cadent Corporis Ingeniique Bonis dotata triumphas Binaque cum summa Laude Trophaea geris DOCTE Tibi aeternae quales Spectacula Chartae Quotque Illi efficient Pagina docta Procos Sexus uterque pari visâ HAC ardebit Amore HACque frui ex aequo Sexus uterque volet Ne vercare tamen Cuncti licet Oscula figant THEIOPHILAE ne sit casta vel una TIBI Famae Ejus nil detrahitur si publica fiat Hanc ut ament Omnes Nil Tibi AMICE perit Tu solus DOMINA dignus censeberis Illâ ILLAM qui solus pingere dignus eras P. de CARDONEL In celeberrimam THEOPHILAM feliciter elucubratam A Nne novi veterisve prius Monumenta revolvam Ingenii Tragicos superantia Scripta Cothurnos Atque Sophoclaeis numerari digna Triumphis Quà m bene vivificis depingitur Artibus ECHO Quà m bene monstriferas Vitiorum discutis Hydras Carminibusque doces quantum peccaverit Aevum Quanta Polucephalis repserunt Agmina Sectis SPHINGE THEOLOGICA quae dia Poemata pangis Mira Vera canens nodosa Aenigmata solvis Nec vitae pars ulla perit nec transigis unam Ingratam sine Luce Diem dum pervigil Artes Exantlas avidisque bibis Permessida Labris Iam velut primo Phoenix revocatus Eoo Apparet nostris nova Sponsa THEOPHILA Terris Illius è roseis flammatur Purpura malis Et Gemmis Lux major adest blandius Aurum A Calamo BENLOSE tuo dum Dotibus amplis Excolis Ingeniique Opibus melioribus ornas Lactea Ripheas praecellunt Colla Pruinas Fronte Decor radiat sanctoque Modestia Vultu Suada verecundis Gratia plena Labellis Assidet casti Mores imitata Poetae Te Moderatorem fusis amplectitur Vlnis Hiâ—ce Triumphatrix decorata THEOPHILA Gemmis Celsior assurgit Mundumque nitentior intrat Virgineis comitata Choris QUAM Tramite longo Agmina Cecropiis stipant Heliconia Turmis Non aliter quoties adremigat Aequoris Vndas Fraenatis Neptunus Equis fluit ocyùs Antris Nereidum Gens tota suis Dominumque salutant Blandula caeruleo figentes Oscula Collo P. F. Qui Virtutes THEOHILAE praedicat Religioni non Gloriae studeat Noverim Te DOMINE noverim me LAudis in Oceano me submersistis Amici Maxima pars Decoris me nihil esse patet Laus famulare DEO submissi Victima Cordis Est Hecatombaeis anteferenda Sacris CHRISTE meae da par ut sit mea Vita Camaenae Sim neque Laus Aliis prodiga parca TIBI Ore-come me not with your Perfumes ô Friends My greatest Worth to shew I 'm nothing tends Praise wait on HEAV'N Th' Host of an humble Heart Excells the sacred Hecatombs of Art Grant LORD my Life may parallel my Layes They me too much I THEE too little praise IN DIVINOS POETAS SAncto SANCTA COLUMBA Musa Vati Parnassus superae CACUMEN AETHRAE CHRISTI GRATIA Pegasus supremus Vati Castalis Vnda DIUS IMBER Pennam dat SERAPHIN suis ab Alis. AGNI scribitur Optimi CRUORE Vati Bibliotheca SPHAERA COELI VITAE è CODICE faenerans Medullam Internos penetrat POLI RECESSUS O CONAMINA fructuoâ—iora O SOLAMINA delicatiora Per Quae creditur ANGELUS Poeta PATRONUSque pio DEVS Poetae ON DIVINE POETS A Hallow'd Poets Muse is Th' HOLY DOVE Parnassus th' EMPYRAEAN HEIGHT Above His lofty-soaring Pegasus CHRISTS LOVE HEAV'NS Shoure of GRAOE is his Castalian Spring A SERAPHIN lends Pen from his own Wing His Ink is oâ— the best LAMBS purple Die To Him HEAV'NS SPHERE is a vast Librarie Rais'd by th' Advantage of th' ETERNAL BOOK His piercing Eye ev'n into HEAV'N does look O what ENDEAVORS can more fruitful be What COMFORTS can we more delightful see By which the Poet we an ANGEL deem Yea GOD to 's sacred Muse does PATRON seem Ergo brevi stringam COELESTIA Cantu AIming to profit as to please We bring No usual Hawk to try her Wing Come come THEOPH'LA fresh as May Hark how the Falkner lures This is Loves Holy-Day Her stretch is for Devotions Quarrie which Mounts up her Zeal to Eagle-pitch Cheer Thou her present tim'rous Flight Whil'st She thus cuts with Wing the driving Rack of Height From thence 'bove sparkling Stars She 'l spritely move Her Plumes of Faith being prun'd by Love AS GRACE shall ymp her Pineon more Or less she will or flag or 'bove what 's mortal soar The Author musing here survay How He may THEOPHIâ— portray Where Others Art â—urpast you â—ind They draw the Body HE the Mind The World 's beneaâ—h his Foot while SHEE HEAV'N by the Heav'nly Sphere does see A CROWN is râ—acht HER from the SKIES Vp with his BOOK an Eagle flies THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE CANTO I. ARGUMENT Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret Rivales IESVS non in Amore sinit Quid mihi non sapiat Terrâ mihi dum sapit AETHER Sed sapiet sapias nî mihi CHRISTE nihil Awake Arise LOVES Steersman and first tast Delight Sound That ere Anchor 's cast On JOY stere hence a pray'rful Course to HEAV'N at last STANZA I. MIght Souls converse with Souls by ANâ—EL-way Enfranchis'd from their pris'ning Clay What STRIANS by INTUITION would They then convay II. But Spirits sublim'd too fast evap'rate may Without some interpos'd Allay And Notions subtiliz'd too thin exhale away III. The Gold Sols Child when in Earths Womb it lay As precious was though not so gay As when
their Breast Th' ALMIGHTIES FACE is still their FEAST Their BLISSE in Service lies in Messages their REST XCIII They speak with Thought atchieve without a Fee Silence They hear Idaeas see Still magnifying HIM who cannot GREATER be XCIV Thus THEY with one fleet Glance intuitive Into Each others Knowledge dive And by Consent Thoughts else inscrutable unrive XCV Each ONE in Psalms ETERNITY employes Where Vse nor tires nor Fulness cloyes Enjoying GOD their END without an end of JOYES XCVI Each ravishing Voice each Instrument each Face Compos'd such MUSICK that I was In Doubt Each so in Tune which did precede in GRACE XCVII The spritely Instruments did sweetly smile The Faces play'd their Parts mean while The Voices with both Graces did them Both beguile XCVIII The Nine-fold QUIRE such Heav'nly Accents there In Sweets EXTENSION still do rear As over-pow'r the Windings of a mortal Ear. XCIX Who MUSICK hate in barb'rous Discord rowle In HEAV'N there is not such a Soul For there 's All-Harmony SAINTS sing the damned howl C. Coelestial Sweets did this Discourse excite Firm Ioy fast Love fixt Life fair Sight But may a Creature its CREATORS GLORY write Nunc alti Plumbum scrutatur Viscera Ponti Viscera Navarchae non repetenda Manu Hinc procul optatam divino LUMINE Terram Cernimus optatum perficiamus Iter Te DEUM Laudamus THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO VII The Contemplation ARGUMENT Pango nec humanis Opus enarrabile Verbis Quae meliùs possem Mira silendo loqui Da DEVS Illa canam quae Vox non personet ulla Metiar ut minimis MAXIMA MIRA modis She launcheth into shoarlesse SEAS of LIGHT Inexplicable Infinite Whose BEAMS both strike her blinde and renovate her Sight STANZA I. WEre all Men Maro's were those Maro's all EVANGELISTS met in Earths Hall For Grand-Inquest of That which we ETERNAL call II. Draw Time from 's Cradle Innocence could They And piled Heaps of Ages lay Amassed in one Scale Those would they find to weigh III. Ballanc't with THEE no more when All is done Than if They vainly had begun To poize minutest atome with the MIGHTY SUN IV. Could They Earths Ball with Numbers quilted see Yet those throng'd Figures sum not THEE They were but Cyphers to immense ETERNITIE V. Should every Sand for thousand Ages run When emptyed Shoars of Sands were done That Glass no more THEE measures then if now begun VI. Had Tongues HEAV'NS Mint to coyn each ANGEL-GRACE In Dialect They'd fail o' th' Space Where All to come is One with All that ever was VII FAITH stretch thy Line yet That 's too short to â—ound SEA without BOTTOM without BOUND As Circular as Infinite ô Shoarlesse Round VIII Immense ETERNITIE What mystick Art Of THEE may coppy any Part Since THOU an indeterminable CIRCLE art IX Whose very CENTER so diffus'd is found That not HEAV'NS Circuit can It bound Then what what may the whole CIRCUMFERENCE surround X. HEAV'NS HERO'S can ye find for th' ENDLES End Can POW'RS IMMENSITY extend UBIQUITIE inclose The BOUNDLES comprehend XI JEHOVAH's Zone to this uncentred BALL Ecliptick and Meridionall Who WAS before Is with and SHALL be after All XII But now behold Its Height Above all Height Plac't beyond Place Above Lights Light Rapt were the three APOSTLES by a Glimps o' th' Sight XIII O Thou all-splendent all transcending Throne Compact of High'st Dominion That 'bove the Super-Eminence of LUSTRE shone XIV From Each of Thine ineffably bright Sides Diffusion of such Splendor glides As rowls 'bove thousand Seas of JOYES in flaming Tides XV. With such Refulgence that if CHERUBS might With Face unvail'd gaze on That Sight Strait their Spiritual Natures would be nothing'd quite XVI Nature put on thy most coruscant Vest Thy Gayeties shew brought to this Test As a crude Ielley dropt from duskie Clouds at best XVII Could'st Thou impov'rish every Indian Mine And from each golden Cell unshrine Those Beams that w th their Blaze out-face Dayes em'lous Shine XVIII Could'st finde out secret Engins to unlock The treasu'ring Casket of each Rock And reap the glowing Harvest of that sparkling Shock XIX Could'st thread the Stars fixt and erratick here That stud the luminated Sphear That all those Orbs of Light one Constellation were XX. Could'st joyn Mines Gems Skie-Tapers All in one Whose neer-Immense Reflection Might both outrival and outvie the glorious Sun XXI Could all thy Stones be Gems Seas liquid Gold Air Crystal Dust to Pearl enrold Each Star a Sun that Sun more bright a thousand fold XXII Yet would those Gems seem Flints those Seas a Plash Those Stars a Spark That Sun a Flash Pearl'd Islands Diamond Rocks Gold Mines All â—ully'd trash XXIII Yea were all Eyes of Earth Skie HEAV'N combin'd And to one Optick point confin'd This super-radiant OBJECT would ev'n strike That blindâ— XXIV Blinde as the sable Veil of gloomy Night The GOSPELS SELâ— but hints This SIGHT All seem obscurer Shades to THIS non-parel LIGHT XXV Amazing Most Inexplicably RARE O if but Those Who Worthy are None may This LIGHT declare None may This LIGHT declare XXVI Best Eloquence is languid high'st Thoughts vail To think to speak Wit Language fail 'T is an ABYSSE through which no SPIRITS Eye can sail XXVII Here GLORY dwells with Lustres so surrounded That brightest RAYES are quite confounded When they approach this radiant Eminence unbounded XXVIII Forth from This FULGURANCE such Splendors fly As shall draw up frail Dust on HIGH Which else would in its lumpish Vrn still bedrid lie XXIX Before the ALMIGHTIES Throne my Soul I throw WHENCE All that 's Good and Great does flow LORD I that GRACE implore which may this GLORY show XXX GREAT GOD THOU All-beginning Unbegun Whose Hand the Web of Nature spun At once the Plenitude of All and yet but ONE XXXI PARENT of Beings Entities sole Stud Spirits eternal SPRING and FLOOD Sprung of THY SELF or rather no way sprung CHIEF GOOD XXXII Abstract of Ioyes whose WISDOM an ABYSSE Whose POW'R OMNIPOTENCY is Whose Soul-enlivening SIGHT' 's the Vniversal BLISSE XXXIII THOU dost descend on Wings of Air displaid 'Bove Majesty It self arraid Curtain'd with Clouds the HOST of HEAV'N Attendants made XXXIV ESSENCE of Glory SUMMITY of Praise Abasht at thy All-piercing RAYES Heav'ns QUIRE does chaunt uncessant ALLELUIAHS XXXV Diamonds than Glass than Diamonds Stars more bright Than Stars the Sun than Sun Heav'ns Light But infinitely purer than Heav'ns Self ' s THY SIGHT XXXVI Great is the Earth more large the Airs Extent Planets exceed The Firmament Of Stars outvies Vnlimited's the HEAV'NLY TENT XXXVII But as my tenter'd Minde its Spirits still Strains forth from lesse to more LORD fill My out-spent Raptures by thy All-repairing SKILL XXXVIII When I above Air Stars HEAV'N on wou'd press Rackt Thoughts to SPHEARS beyond EXCES Myriads of Sphears seem Motes to thy Immense ONENESSE XXXIX ETERNITY is but THINE Howerglasse IMMENSITY but fills THY Space Whole Natures six Dayes Work took up but six Wordâ—
to each Sin-disdaining Soul THOU dost exhibit in an unexhausted Bowl XCI This Wine of EXTASIE by th' SPIRIT giv'n Doth raise the ravisht Souls to HEAV'N Affording them those COMFORTS are of Earths bereav'n XCII Thy UNION is as strict as large thy MERIT No HEAV'N but THEE which SAINTS inherit Thâ—ough Grace divinest Sap derivâ—d by th' HOLY SPIRIT XCIII When Souls enflamed by that highest LIGHT Fix on Thy glorifying SIGHT All Glories else compar'd to THAT are duskie Night XCIV When high'st INFUSIONS passe our highest Sense Amazement is high Eloquence Bove all Hyperboles which fall to Exigence XCV Blest TRINITY TH' art ALL Above All GOOD Beatitudes BEATITUDE Which swallows us yet swim we in this LIVING FLOUD XCVI TH' art KING of Kings of Lords LORD None like THEE Who for thy Style hast MAJESTIE And for thy Royal Robes hast IMMORTALITIE XCVII MERCIE for Throne for Scepter JUSTICE hast IMMENSITIE ' s for Kingdom plac't And for thy Crown such GLORIE as doth ever last XCVIII For Peace what passeth Understandings Eye Pow'r IRRESISTABILITIE For HOLINES All what 's most sacred pure and high XCIX For Truth thy WORD WISDOM for Counsellour OMNIPOTENCE does Guard Thy TOW'R Thou ministring Angels hast to act thy Soveraign POW'R C. OMNISCIENCE Thine Intelligencer is For Treasure Thou hast Endlesse BLISSE For Date ETERNITY O swallow me ABYSSE Ite pii Cantus Cantus quibus arduus Aether Est Portus Portum quem videt alma Fides Visuram Littus Navem sacra Serta coronent Serta per innumeros non perâ—tura Dies Gloria in excelsis DEO THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO VIII The Admiration ARGUMENT COELI trina MONAS TRIAS una faveto precanti PERSONAS unâ Tres DEITATE colo Sunt tria sunt idem Fons Flumen Gurges aquartum Sic tria sunt unum Sol Jubar at Calor Th' Elixir centuplies It self But ô Myriads of Myriads must She so T' express GODS ESSENCE which no Intellect can show STANZA I. PRojection to my Soul Thy SIGHT 's a Wreath Of GLORY Thou dost VIRTUE breath Thy Words like sacred Incense Fuel Flame bequeath II. THOU MAID of Honour in HEAV'NS Court to break Thy Gold-twist LINES shews Judgment Weak Yet deign to hear my Suit Of GODS hid NATURE speak III. Can Counters sum up INFINITE Fond Man Could'st grasp whole Oceans in thy Span And Phoebus could'st out-face in his Meridian IV. Tear Rocks of Adamant and scale the Wall O' th' glorious Empyraean HALL And Worms to Super-Eminence of SERAPHS call V. Yet THIS ev'n then thou could'st nor learn nor teach The World unravell'd cannot stretch To sound th' ABYSSE IT SELF alone It SELF can reach VI. Of all Intelligencies not all Light Mustred into one Optick Sight Can speak what each where is yet no where seen to th' He ight VII WHO out of Nothing all Things did compact Whose Will 's His Work whose Word his Act Of WHOM who say's the most must from His WORTH detract VIII How from the ESSENCE the CREATOR flowes Or how the WORD what Creature knowes How th' SPIRIT All in 't All from 't do's Heav'ns Assembly pose IX Here they who leave the Churches Ship are tost Till irrecoverably lost Whose Rudder is GODS Word Steersman th' HOLY GHOST X. ARCHESSENCE THOU Self-full Self-Infinite Residing in approachlesse LIGHT In the INCOMPREHENSIBILITIES of HEIGHT XI Thy peerlesse uncreated NATURE is The SUPER-EXCELLENCE of BLISSE Where Holiness Pow'r where Truth Goodness kiss XII WHO only in THY SELF subsists without Or Form or Matter yet no doubt Inform'st the Matter of the Vniverse throughout XIII No Need compels THEE no Disasters sad Disturb thy STATE no Mirth makes glad Oblivion takes not from THEE nor can Mem'ry adde XIV With prudent Rev'rence Thus. What ere 's in GOD His ESSENCE is There 's His ABode Whose Will his Rule whose Heav'n his Court whose Hell his Rod. XV. He ' exists an active ENS uphoulding both IT SELF and every Thing that doth Exit without distinction or of Parts or Growth XVI Not made by Nothing Nothing Nothing makes Nor Birth from any Thing HE takes For what gives Birth precedes Springs usher in their Lakes XVII Were HE Material then HE local were All Matter be'ing in Place So there Th' INCIRCUMSCRIPTIBLE would circumscrib'd appear XVIII HE 'S so diffusive that HE 'S All in All All in the Universall Ball All out of It The only WAS the IS the SHALL XIX To help thy Reason think of Air there see Vbiquitieâ— unseen and free From Touch Inviolable though it pierced be XX. Meer Air corrupts not though conveigh'd unto All Lungs for thither It does go To cool them Quickneth All as the Worlds Soul doth show XXI Moysture and Heat its Qualities are Cause Of all Production yet because This Element's a Creature GOD CREATOR pause XXII SELF-LIFE the Attribute of 's BEING is His WILL of Governing and His COMMAND of Execution and his LOVE of Blisse XXIII All 's ty'd in this Love-knot JEHOVAH's LOVE Times Birth the TRINITIE do's prove CREATOR made WORD spake SPIRIT of GOD did move XXIV Let us in our own Image Man create Which Salomon do's explicate Remember the CREATORS in thy youthful State XXV The FATHER spake the SON i' th' Stream did move At his Baptizing from Above The HOLY GHOST descended in the Form o' th' DOVE XXVI Of HIM to HIM and through HIM all Things be Of through and to declare the THREE And in the HIM the UNITY of GOD we see XXVII Thus HOLY HOLY HOLY'S nam'd to show A TERNION we in UNION know The Notions issuing from the TRINE in t ' ONE do flow XXVIII Whil'st that I think on THREE I am confin'd To ONE while I have ONE in Minde I am let forth to THREE Yet THREE in ONE combin'd XXIX O Inconceivable INDENTITIE In ONE how may a PLURAL be COAEQUAL both in ATTRIBUTES and MAJESTIE XXX The FATHER is true GOD i' th TERNION The WORD unborn yet after SON The SPIRIT GOD Coessential THREE cause THREE from ONE XXXI The FATHER WORD are ONE ONE shews their Power Are distinct PERSONS ONE does shour On Tritheits Vengeance Are does Arrians devour XXXII ONE yet not One The FATHER and the SON In PERSONS two from FATHER one By th' SPIRIT SON is one by Resignation XXXIII The WORD is what HE was yet once was not What now HE is for HE hath got A NATURE more then once HE had to cleanse our Spot XXXIV For ne're had Man from Earth to Heav'n attain'd Had GOD from Heav'n to Earth not deign'd His SON now unto GOD Mans way by MAN is gain'd XXXV EQUAL and SON the form of Servant takes The World unmade by Sin new makes EQUAL SON Servant All are Mysteries not Mistakes XXXVI Thus by free GRACE is Mans Defection heal'd Behold the Mysterie reveald WORD Aequal shado'wing SON Unction is Servant seal'd XXXVII Because GODS AEQUAL Serpents Tempts are quell'd Yet HE as SON to Death must yeeld For us by Resurrection to
Tour's that seem Heav'ns Cupulas VI. Each City-Shop's a Trap each Toy a Yoke What Wise-man willingly would choke Himself in thicker Clouds of griping Care than Smoke VII Who would not flie that Broil whence Blisse is flown Where in Times dregs Religion 's grown From Best to All flow Tears of Blood from All to none VIII LORD guide thy Church which Interests empair Who without Knowledge factious are They little mind the Flock so they the Fleece may share IX Why climb'd they else the Pulpit as Lots Brother With Fire in one Hand Knife i' th other 'T was vip'rous Nero slew his own indulgent Mother X. As Peace Heav'ns Blessing so is War His Rod Man-hunting Beast a Scourge from GOD Which doth unhinge the World fierce Grapes in Wraths Press trod XI Let me in Griefs Prerogative be bold To question Such as dare to hold That they the SHEPHERD lov'd when they forsook the Fold XII Such Scramblers at the Shearing Feasts I shun Forgetting and forgotten run To fraudlesse Swains I have a FRIEND compliant won XIII By his Example may my Life be penn'd May He read like Himself his Friend Souls in Conjunction should like Stars kind Influence send XIV Us Sympathie the Mindes true Priest does joyn 'T is Grace makes Sociall Love divine Tun'd Octaves Uni'sons are Duos in One combine XV. When two enweav'd are in one high Desire They feel like ANGELS mutuall Fire Flames Intellectiue liue materiall Flames expire XVI Vain World thy Friends are Theeves of Time Twice they Are robb'd for Times Self steals away Leaving a dull December for a sportive May. XVII Fools Chat is built on Sand But blest who hives Discourse that on Heav'ns Sweetnesse lives Such as to raise the Fire to high-born Virtue strives XVIII For Birds of Paradise the proper Fare Is purest Vapour of the Aire Souls nourisht from the Influ'nce of GODS SPIRIT are XIX Dew fattens Earth the Earth yeelds Plants and then The Plants feed Beasts the Beasts feed Men Man on His WORD should feed who gave him Origen XX. From Publike Roads to private Ioy 's our Flight To view GODS Love we leave Mans sight Rich in the Purchase of a Friend who gilds Delight XXI Thus go we like the Heros of old Greece In Quest of more than Golden Fleece Retreating to sweet Shades our shatter'd Thoughts we peece XXII So when the Sun Commander of the Day Muffles with Clouds his glorious Ray He clearer afterwards doth his bright Face display XXIII Kings too much seen grow mean Renown does dawn From Cotts unsightly hang'd and drawn With Spider-woven Arras and their Cobweb-Lawn XXIV Victorious Charles the fift who had acquir'd Fame Wealth and what could be desir'd By greatest Emperours left All to live retir'd XXV That Sea-dividing PRINCE whose Scepter'd Rod Wrought Freedom to the Church of GOD Made in the Mount of Horeb fourty Dayes Abode XXVI In Wildernesse the BAPTIST shin'd more clear In Lifes Night Starrie Souls appear They who Themselves eclips are to Heav'ns Court more dear XXVII But now what need we cite Examples more This by our SAVIOUR heretofore Was practiz'd Who whole Nights retir'd did GOD implore XXVIII Examples are best Precepts Sweet Secesse The Nurse to inbred Happinesse How dost Thou Intellects with fuller Knowledge blesse XXIX Waft us All-guiding POVV'R from wild Resort By Cape of Hope to Virtues Port Where Conscience that strong Champion safely guards the Fort. XXX Here Liberty ev'n from Suspition free Does terminate our Fears by Thee We conquer Lusts Each Sense wears Reasons Livery XXXI With Thee like cloyster'd Snails is better State Than to be Lions in a Grate The World hers coopt like Bajazet does captivate XXXII But here the Type of ever-smiling Joyes Without disturbing Fears or Noise We bright-ey'd Faith with quick-ey'd Art in Truths Scale poize XXXIII Religious Maries Leisure we above Encombred Marthas Cares approve Uncloystred we this Course beyond Courts Splendor love XXXIV Seated in safe Repose when circling Earth Suffers by Rage of War and Dearth Secure from Plagues and angry Seas we manage Mirth XXXV The low-built Fortune harbours Peace when as Ambitious high-rooft Babels passe Through Storms Content with Thankfulnesse each Blessing has XXXVI So fragrant Vilets blushing Strawberies Close shrouded lurk from lofty Eyes The Emblem of sweet Blisse which low and hidden lies XXXVII No masked Fraud no Tempest of black Woes No flaunting Pride no Rage of Foes Bends hitherward but soon is laid or over-blows XXXVIII We rule our conquer'd Selves what need we more To gadding Sense we shut the Door Rich in our Mind alone Who wants himself is Poor XXXIX Slaunder is stingless Envie toothless here The Russet is well lin'd we wear Let Citts make Chains the Ensignes of their Pomp appear XL. Faith linkt with Truth and Love with Quiet too Ore pleasant Lawns securely goe The golden Age like Jordans Stream does here reflow XLI For Fields of Combate Fields of Corn are here For Trooping Tree-ranks appear War steels the heart but here we melt Heart Eye and Ear. XLII O might a sacred Muse Earths Frenzie calm On That we 'd pour such suppling Balm As might vain Trophies turn to an unfading Palm XLIII Then should each He who wears the Face of Man Discern their Emptinesse and span The Vulgars triviall Idols and their Follies scan XLIV Though in rough shels our Bodies kerneld are Our Roof is neat and sweet our Fare Banisht are noysom Vapours to the pent-up Air. XLV No subtle Poyson in our Cup we fear Goblets of Gold such Horrors bear No Palace Furies haunt ô rich CONTENT thy Chear XLVI How Great are Those who use like Gold their Clay And who like Clay Gold Great are they To Grandeur slighted Titles are the ready Way XLVII Courts amplest Shine nor addes nor takes from MINDES That pierce the World true MERIT bindes Bright Souls unto It whil'st Fog th' ignoble blindes XLVIII Humble not slav'd without Discomfort sad Tim'rous without despair and glad Without wild Freaks we are The World 's or Fool or Mad. XLIX From Taurus when Sols Influence descends And Earth with verdant Robe befriends And richer Showres then fell on Danaes Lap dispends L. When early Phosphor lights from Eastern Bed The gray-ey'd Morn with Blushes red When Opal-Colours prank the Orient Tulips Head LI. Then walk we forth where twinkling Spangles shew Entinseling like Stars the Dew Where Buds like Pearls and where we Leaves like Em'ralds view LII Birds by Grovets in feather'd Garments sing New Ditties to the non-ag'd Spring O how those tracelesse Minstrels chear up every Thing LIII To hear quaint Nightingales the Lutes o' th' Wood And Turtle-Doves by their Mates woo'd And smelling Vio'let sweets how do These chear the Blood LIV. While teeming Earth flow'rd Satten wears embost VVith Trees with Bushes shagg'd with most Clear Riv'lets edg'd by rocking Windes each gently tost LV. The branching Standarts of the chirping Grove With rustling Boughs and Streams that move In murm'ring
And Fruits of Glory bud A Glimps of HEAV'N the Place XXIII This the Spring-Garden to spiritual Eyes Which fragrant Scent of Gums out-vies Three Kings had thence their triple mystick Sacrifice XXIV O happiâ—â— Walks where CHRIST and none beside Is Journeies End and Way and Guide Where from the humble Plains are greatest Heights descry'd XXV Heav'nward his Gaze. Here does a Bower display His Bride-room and SCRIPTURIA Her self is Bride Each Morn presents his Marriage-Day XXVI What Ecstasie's in this delicious Grove Th' unwitnest Witnes of his Love What Pow'r so strongly can as flam'd Affections move XXVII The Larks wing'd Travellers that trail the Skie Unsoyl'd with Lusts aloft do fly Warbling SCRIPTURIA SCRIPTURIA on high XXVIII T' have been affected by a Virgin Heir Rich young and chast wise good and fair Was once his first Delight but HEAV'N restrain'd that Care XXIX Thou Providence dist both their Wills restrain Thou mad'st their Losses turn to Gain For Thou gav'st Heav'n to her on him dost Blessings rain XXX But stop pleas'd Thoughts A high'r Love 's here design'd Fit in each Breast to be enshrin'd Bright Angels do admit no Sex nor do's the Minde XXXI To all her Lovers thousand Joyes accrew And Comforts thicker than Mayes Dew Shour down on their rapt Souls as Infinite as new XXXII Her Oracles directing Rules declare Unerring Oracles Truths Square Her Soul-informing Light does Earth for HEAV'N prepare XXXIII All beatizing Sweets as in their Hive At her fair Presence do arrive Which are to drooping Spirits best Restorative XXXIV To whose Sight Eagles paralell'd are blinde Had Argus thousand Eyes he 'd finde Darknesse compar'd with her illuminating Minde XXXV The Sun does glean his Splendor from her Eyes Thence burn we ' in Sweets as Phoenix lies Glowing on Sols Ray-darted Pile of Spiceries XXXVI From pretious Limbeck sacred Loves distill Such Sublimations as do fill Mindes with amazed Raptures of their Chimick Skill XXXVII That such Soul-Elevations still might stay We'd bear and do both vow and pay And serve the LORD of Lords by her directive Way XXXVIII Soon as our Ear drinks in His Command Be 't acted by our Heart and Hand Under his Banner we shall Satans Darts withstand XXXIX May He accept the Musick of our Voice While on his Goodnesse we rejoyce And while each melting Psalm makes on His GRACE its Choice XL. On Feast-Dayes from that Bour to Church we haste Where HEAV'N dissolves into Repast When we Regalios of the mystick BANQUET taste XLI O Deliccaies infinitely pure To Souls best Nutriment and Cure Where Knowledge Faith and Love Beatitude ensure XLII Poor Solomons Provision poor to This Manna Heav'n-dewing Banquet is Who reigns in Heav'n becomes on Earth our Food and Bliss XLIII O Sacramental Cates divinely drest GOD the Feast-maker CHRIST the Feast The HOLY GHOST Inviter and the Soul the Guest XLIV All Ioyes await the blessed Convives knit All Excellencies are in It This overcomes our Spirits overpowr's our Wit XLV For us poor Worms that â—lories SOVERAIGN dy'd O let our fleshly Barks still ride At Anchor in calm Streams of His empierced SIDE XLVI This is Heav'ns Antepast By Vnion He 's One to â—ll and All to One In Loves intrinsick Mystery to Souls alone XLVII Ecstatick Raptures loose our Hearts on high With Joyes Ineffabilitie Exub'rant Sweets orewhelm as Torrents Tongue Eye XLVIII Such Life-infusing Comforts from Above Our Souls with inward Motions move That totally for GOD we quit all Creature Love XLIX Should HE condemn us yet would Love compell Him down with us and we would dwell Rather than without HIM in Heav'n with HIM in Hell L. Soul of my Soul when I a Ioy receive Disjoyn'd from THEE let my Tongue cleave To 's Palate Me of All not of this Feast bereave LI. Not in the winter Solstice of my Years When shivering Snow surrounds deaf Ears And dreary Languishment Deaths gashly Vizard wears LII When they shall tremble that the House defend The Columns which support it bend The Grinders fail the Watch through Casements Objects blend LIII Then shine dear LORD when quivering Winter Dress Is icicled with hoary Tresse VVhen all Streams frozen are but Tears through Loves Excess LIV. VVhen periwig'd with Snow's each bald-pate VVood Bound in Ice-Chains each strugling â—lood VVhen North-Seas bridled are pris'ning their scaly Brood LV. Then let those freezing How're be thaw'd by Pray'r As VVells in VVinter warmer are By Circumsession of refrigerating Air. LVI That nipt with Cold or parcht with Heat resign We may our Will in each to THINE Be 't lesse or more be 't low or high be 't Storm or Shine LVII After Nights Soot smears Heav'n Day gilds its Face Wet April past sweet May takes place And Calm Air smiles when rufling Winds have run their Race LVIII Who hope for Mines scorn Dross Such only get Who lose a Game to win the Set Wordlings He 's rich who 's Above 's his Cabinet LIX To well-tun'd Tempers Things that disagree Have oft some Likenesse thus we see Winde kindles Fire Discord makes Concord Harmony LX. Affliction tunes the Breast to rise or fall Making the whole Man Musicall We may Affliction Christians second Baptism call LXI Who CHRIST for Spouse his Cross for Joynture has His Hand supports where 's Rod doth passe The LORD of Angels He the KING of Suff'rings was LXII Loves Life took Death that Death Loves Life might gain The Soveraign dy'd that Slaves might reign The World can't Books that should be writ of HIM contain LXIII Those have the greatest Cross who Cross nere bore They 'r rich in Want who GOD adore Who do's supply all Emptiness with His full Store LXIV Saint Paul the Gentiles Doctor rich 'bove Kings And high 'bove Oratories Wings Rapt up to HEAV'N had Nothing yet possest all Things LXV The Rav'n of Birds proves Caterer and feasts Elijah so the Lion of Beasts Was Samsons Purveyor Quails to murm'ring Jews were Guests LXVI Midst Thorns environ'd Love sweet Roses findes Steep wayes lie plain tâ—inamor'd Mindes Love gilds all Chains surpriz'd not thrall'd w th Comfort binds LXVII Then threaten World a Goal shall bolt me in He 's free as Air who serves not Sin VVho 's gather'd in Himself His self is his own Inne LXVIâ—I Then let fierce Goths their strongest Chains prepare Grim Scythians me their Slave declare My Soul being free those Tyrants in the Face I 'l stare LXIX Man may confine the Bodie but the Minde Like Natures Miracles the VVinde And Dreams do's though secur'd a free enjoyment find LXX Rayes drawn in to'a point more vig'rous beam Joyes more to Saints engoal'd did stream Linnets their Cage to be a Grove Bars Boughs esteem LXXI Burnisht to Glory from Afflictions Flame From Prison to a Scepterâ—came The lov'd and fear'd ELIZA-Titles vail t' Her Name HAving reformed Religion established Peace reduced Coin to the just value delivered Scotland from the French revenged domestical Rebellion saved France from headlong
refin'd it doth It self abroad display IV. Mount Fancie then through Orbs to GLORIES Sphere Wilde is the Course that ends not there You who are VIRTUES Friends lend to her Tongue an Ear. V. Let not the wanton Love-fights which may rise From vocal Fifes Flame-darting Eyes Beauties Munition Hearts w th Wounds unseen surprize VI. Whose Basilisk-like Glances taint the Air Of VIRGIN purenesse and ensnare Entangled Thoughts i' th' Trammels of their Ambush-hair VII Loves Captive view who 's Daies in warm Frosts spends On 's Idol dotes to Wit pretends Writes blots rends nor heeds where he begins or ends VIII His Stock of Verse in Comick Fragments lies Higher than Ten'riffs Pique He flies Sols but a spark Thou outray'st all Diamonds of the Skies IX Victorious Flames glow from thy brighter EYE Cloud those twin-lightning ORBS They 'l â—rie Anice-vein'd Monk cloud Them or PLANET-struck I die X. Indians pierce Rocks for Gems Negro's the Brine For Pearls Tartars tohunt combine For Sables Consecrate all Off'rings at HER SHRINE XI Crouch low -O Vermeil-tinctur'd CHEEK for thence The Organs to my Optick Sense Aredazled at the Blaze of so bright ANGELENCE XII Does Troy-bane Hellen Friend with ANGELS share All Lawlesse Passions Idols are Frequent are fuco'd Cheeks The Virtuosa's rare XIII A Truth authentick Let not skin-deep white And red perplex the nobler Light O' th' Intellect nor mask the SOULS clear piercing Sight XIV Burn Odes Lusts Paperplots Fly Playes its Flame Shun guileful Courtisms Forge for Shame No Chains Lip-traffick and Eye-dialogues disclaim XV. Hark how the frothy empty Heads within Roar and carouse i' th' jovial Sin Amidst the wilde Levalto's on their merry Pin XVI Drain dry the ransackt Cellars and resign Your Reason up to Riot joyn Your Fleet sail by Sugar-rocks through Floods of Wine XVII Send Care to dead Sea of Phlegmattick Age Ride without Bit your restive Rage And act your Revel-rout Thus on the tipling Stage XVIII Swell us a lustie BRIMMER more till most So Vast that none may spie the Coast Wee 'l down with ALL though therein sail'd LEPANTO'S Host XIX Top and Top-gallant hoise We will out-rore The bellowing Storms though shipwrackt more Healths are than tempting'st Syrens did inchant of yore XX. Each Gallon breeds a Ruby Drawer score'um Cheeks dy'd in Claret seem o' th' Quorum When our Nose-carbuncles like Link-boyes blaze before'um XXI Such are their Ranting Catches to unsoul And out-law Man They stagger rowl Their â—eet indent their Sense being drunk with Circes Bowl XXII Intombed Souls Why rot ye thus alive Melting your Salt to Lees and strive To strangle Nature and hatch Death Healths Health deprive XXIII The sinlesse Herd loaths your Sense-stifling Streams When long Spits point your Tale Ye Breams In Wine and Sleep your PRINCES are but Fumes and Dreaâ—s XXIV I 'd rather be preserv'd in Brine than rot In Nectar Now to Dice they 're got Their Tables snare in both Then what can be their Shot XXV Yet Blades will throw at Aâ—l sans Fear or Wit Oaâ—hâ— black the Night when â—ice do'nt hit When Winners lose at Play can Losers win by it XXVI Egypts Spermatick Nurse when her spread Floor Is flow'd 'bove sev'nteen Cubits ore Breeds Dearth And Spend-thriâ—ts waste when they enflame the Score XXVII Tell me ye pybald Butterflies who poise Extrinsick with intrinsick Joyes What gain ye from such short-liv'd fruitless empty Toys XXVIII Ye Fools who barter Gold for Trash report Can Fire in Pictures warm Can Sport That stings the mock-sense fill How low's your HEAV'N how short XXIX Go chaffer BLISSE for Pleasure which is had More by the Beast than Man the Bad Swim in their Mirth CHRIST wept nere laught The Best are sad XXX Brutes covet nought but what 's terrene HEAV'NS Quire Do in eternal Joyes conspire Man 'twixt them Both does intermediate Things desire XXXI Had we no Bodies we were ANGELS and Had we no Souls we were unmann'd To Beasts Brutes are all Flesh all Spirit the Heav'nly BAND XXXII At first GOD made them One thus by subjecting The Sense to Reason and directing The Appetite by th' Spirit But Sin by infecting XXXIII Mans free-born Will so shatters Them that They At present nor cohabite may Without â—Regret nor without Grief depart away XXXIV Go cheating World that dancest ore thy Thorns Lov'st what undoes hat'st what adorns Go idolize thy Vice and VIRTUE load with Scorns XXXV Thy luscious Cup more deadly then Asps Gall Empoys'neth Souls for Hell Thou all Times Mortalls dost enchant with thy delusive Call XXXVI Who steals from Time Time steals from him the Prey Pastimes passe Time passe HEAV'N away Few like the blessed Thief do steal SALVATIONS Day XXXVII Fools rifle Times rich Lott'rie Who mispend Lifes peerlesse Gemme alive descend And Antidate with Stings their never-ending End XXXVIII Whose vast Desires engrosse the boundlesse Land By Fraud or Force Like Spiders stand Squeezing small Flies Such are their Nets such their Hand XXXIX When Nimrods Vulture-Talons par'd shall be Their Houses Name soon chang'd you 'l see For their Bethesda shall be turn'd to Bethanie XL. Better destroy'd by Law than rul'd by Will What Salves can cure if Balsams kill That Good is worst that does degenerate to Ill. XLI Had not GOD left the BEST within the Power Of Persecutors who devoure We had nor MARTYRS had nor yet a SAVIOUR XLII SAINTS melt as Wax Fools-clay grows hard at Cries Of that scarce-breathing Corse who lies With dry Teeth meager Cheeks thin Maw hollow Eyes XLIII GOD made Life Give 't to Man By opening Veins Death's sluc'd out and Pleuretick Pains Make GOD thy Pattern Cure thy self Alms are best gains XLIV HEAV'NS GLORIE to atchieve what scantling Span Hath the frail Pilgrimage of Man Which sets when risen ends when it but now began XLV Who fight with outward Lusts win inward Peace Iudgements against Self-Iudges cease Who face their Cloaks with Zeal do but their Woes increase XLVI The Mighty mighty Torments shall endure If impious Hell admits to Cure The best Securitie is ne're to be secure XLVII Oaks that dare grapple with HEAV'NS Thunder sink All shiver'd Coals that scorch do shrink To Ashes Vap'ring Snuffs expire in noysom Stink XLVIII Time strip the writhel'd Witch Pluck the black Bags From off Sins grizly Scalp the Hags Plague-sores shew then more loathsom than her leprous Rags XLIX 'T was She slew guiltlesse Naboth 't was she curl'd The painted Iezabel she hurl'd Realms from their Center She unhing'd the new-fram'd World L. Blest then who shall her dash 'gainst Rocks her Grones Our Mirth and wash the bloody Stones With her own cursed Gore repave them with her Bones LI. By Salique Law She should not reign Storms swell By her which Halcyon Dayes dispell Nought's left that 's good where she in Souls possest does dwell LII 'T was her Excesse bred Plagues Infecting Stars Infesting Dearth Intestine Wars Surfeit with Graves the Earth 'mongst Living
Greatness and the strict Account to be given for All O then give me an undaunted Fortitude an elevated Course of Contemplation a Resignation of Spirit and a sincere Desire of thy Glory Adde O LORD to the Cheerfulness of my Obedience the Assurance of Faith and to the Confidence of my Hope the Joyes of Love O THOU who art the Fountain of my Faith the Object of my Ioy and the Rock of my Confidence guide my Passion by Reason my Reason by Religion my Religion by Faith my Faith by thy Word be pleased to improve thy Word by thy SPIRIT that so being established by Faith confirmed in Hope and rooted in Charitie I may be only ambitious of THEE prizing THEE above the Delights of Men Love of Women and Treasures of the World Nothing being so pretious as thy Favour so dreadfull as thy Displeasure so hateful as Sin so desirable as thy Grace Let my Heart be alwayes fixt upon Thee possessed by Thee established in Thee true unto Thee upright toward Thee and entire for Thee that being thus inebriated with the sweet and pure streams of thy Sanctuary I may serve Thee to the utmost of each Faculty with all the Extension of my Will and Intension of my Affections till my Love shall ascend from Earth to HEAVEN from small Beginnings to the Consummatiâ—n of a well-regulated and never ceasing Charitie O GOD who art no lesse infinite in Wisdom than in Goodness let me where I cannot rightly know Thee there reverently admire Thee that in Transcendencies my very Ignorance may honour Thee Let thy Holy SPIRIT inflame my Zeal inform my Judgement conform my Will reform my Affections and transform me wholly into the Image and Imitation of Thy Onely SON Grant that I may improve my Talent to thy Glory who art the Imparter of the Guift the Blesser of the Action and the Assister of the Designe So that having sowen to the Spirit I may by thy Mercies and Thy SONS Merits who is the SON of thy Love the Anchor of my Hope and the Finisher of my Faith reap Life everlasting And now in his only Name vouchsafe to accept from dust and ashes the Oblation of this weak yet willing Service and secure the Possession to THY SELF that Sin may neither pollute the Sacrifice divide the Guift nor question the Title Fill my Mouth with Praises for these happy Opportunities of Contemplation the managing of publick Actions lesse agreeing with my Disposition and though my Body be retir'd yet let my Soul be enlarged like an uncaptiv'd Bird to soar in the Speculation of Divine Mysteries O be praysed for that in this general Combustion of Christendom THOU hast vouchsafed me a little Zoar as Refuge in which my Soul doth yet live to magnifie Thee But above All for my Redemption from the Execution of thy Wrath by the Execration of the SON of thy Love having made Innocence to become guilty to make the guilty innocent and the Sun of Righteousness to suffer a total Eclipse to expiate the Deeds of Darkness Be THOU exalted for the Myriads of thy Mercies in my Travells through Europ as far transcending my Computation as Compensation But chiefly for the Hope Thou hast given me that when I have served Thee inhumbly-strict Obedience to the Glorie of thy Name THOU art pleased that I shall enter into the GLORY of my LORD to all Eternitie where I shall behold THEE in thy Majesty CHRIST thy SON in his Glory the SPIRIT in his Sanctity the Hierarchy of Heaven in their Excellencie and the Saints in their Rest in which Rest there is perfect Tranquillitie and in this Tranquillity Ioy and in this Ioy Variety and in this Variety Security and in this Security Immortality with Thee Who reignest in the Excellencies of Transcendencie and in the infinite Durations of a blessed Eternitie To WHOM with the IMAGE of thy GOODNESSE and the BREATH of thy LOVE ô most glorious TRINITY and ineffable UNITIE be all Sanctitie and Adoration sacrificed now and for evermore Amen Amen INto the most Holy TREASVRIE Of the ever-glorious PRAISES Of the MEDIATOR between GOD Man CHRIST JESUS The Empyraean Flame of the DIVINITY Indefinible Interminable Ineffable The Immaculate Earth of the HUMANITY Inseparable Inconfusible Inconvertible Mysterious in an Hypostaticall UNION WHO is The true LIGHT enlightning the World The ETERNAL WORD By ENERGIE Incarnated Embrightning our knowledge Enlivening our FAITH Quickning our HOPE Enflaming our LOVE Prostrated dust and ashes With an adoring Awfulness trembling Veneration To his INFINITE MAJESTIE Doth humbly cast this Mite Acknowledging from GOD all Opportunities of Good to be improved by His GRACE to His GLORY THEOPHILAS LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO II. The Humiliation ARGUMENT Vnde superbit Homo cujus Conceptio Culpa Nasci Poena Labor Vita necesse morâ— Totus homo pravus Caro Mens Natura Voluntas Coelicus act Hominis Crimina tollit AMOR. The Deiform'd Soul deform'd by Sin repents In Pray'rs and Tears her Grief She vents And till Faith cheer her by CHISTS Love Life Death laments STANZA I. ALMIGHTY POWER Who did'st All Souls Create Who did'st Redeem their faln Estate Who still dost Sanctifie and them Redintegrate II. Sourse River Ocean of all Blisse instill Spring-tides into my low-ebb'd Quill Each graceful Work flowes from what works all Grace Thy Will III. LORD Thou before Time Matter Form or Place Wast All E're Natures mortal Race Thy SELF Host Guest and Palace Natures total Space IV. When yet though not discern'd in that Abysse CREATOR WORD and SPIRIT of Blisse In UNITY the TRINE one GOD adored is V. E're THOU the Chrystal-mantled HEAV'N didst rear Or did the Earth Sols Bride appear First Race of Intellectuals mad'st THEE to revere VI. Praise best doth Inexpressibles expresse Soul Th' ARCHITECT of Wonders blesse Whose All-creating WORD embirth'd a Nothingnesse VII Who brooding on the Deep Production Dispos'd then call'd out Light which on The formless Worlds rude Face was all dispers'dly thrown VIII When callow Nature pluckt from out her Nest Of Causes was awak'd from Rest Her shapeless Lump with fledg'd effects He trimly drest IX Then new-born Day HE gilt with glittering Sun Contracted Light with changing Moon He Night adorn'd and hung up Lamps like spangled Bullion X. The Earth with Water mixt HE separates Earth Plants brought forth and Beasts All Mates The Waters Fowl and Fish to yield Man delicates XI Then did of th' El'ements Dust Mans Bodie frame A perfect Microcosm the Same He quickned with a sparkle of Pneumatick Flame XII More Heav'nly specify'd by Life from th' WORD That Nature doth This Grace afford And Glory from the SPIRIT design'd as threefold Cord. XIII Man ere a Childe by ' Infusion wise though He Was of yet not for Earth though free Chanc'lour install'd of Edens Universitie XIV His Virgin-Sister-Wife i' th Grove He woo'd Heav'ns Nursery new Fruit his Food Skin was his Robe Clouds washt Winds swept his Floor All good XV. Envie that GOD should so love Man
are Hell-proof THEOPHILA'S Soliloquie STANZA 1. WHen Heav'ns LOVE Paramount HIMSELF reveals And to the suppliant Soul her Pardon seals At feard-Hopes doubtful Gate w th trembling fell 2. Who Heav'n-ward sails coasts by the Cape of Hell That Her HE deigns to take She joyes in Woes To have in Labour pass'd the Parturition Throes 3. All Travell-pangs all New-birth Heart-deep Groans All After-births of Penitential Mones Are swallow'd up in living Streams of Bliss 4. When as the Heav'n-born Heir the New-man is By th' quickning SPIRIT of the HIGH'ST reborn Time past hath pas'd her Night present presents her Morn 5. See Ioy in Light See Light in Ioy O see Poor worthless Maid Fruit brought thee from Lifes-Tree By th' SPOUSE SPIRIT Saints sole Supporters Rise 6. Then Hells Apostate and be Heav'nly wise THOU art Lets interpledge our Soul my ONE My ALL though not by UNITIE by Vnion 7. Ineffably mysterious Knot begun Saints mount as Dew allur'd by beckning Sun Loves faithful Friends what parallels your Guard 8. Where Truth is Sentinel and Grace the Ward The Way is Flow'r-strown where the Guide is Love His SPIRIT with you below your Spirit with HIM Above 9. Reciprocal Excesse of Ioy Then soar My Soul to HIM Who Man became Nay more Took Sin it self to cleanse thy fully'd Clay 10. But took it only to take it away O SELF DONATION peerlesse GUIFT unknown Now since that HE is Thine be never Thou thine own 11. O Prodigie of Great and Good Faith sound This LOVES Abysse that do's so strangly bound ALMIGHTINES IT SELF From Whose Veins see 12. Unsluc't LOVES purple Ocean when His Free Red-streaming Life did vanquish Death Hell That thou might'st live HE dy'd That thou might rise HE fell 13. GOD so lov'd Man that Naturalists may deem GOD to set Man before HIMSELFE did seem When Man with seeing blinde 'gainst GOD arose 14. And slew his only FRIEND GOD sav'd his Foes Sol mour'nd in blacks Heav'ns Vice-roy Nature swounded Excess Loves Reason was Immensitie Love bounded 15. Ye Twins of Light as Sun-flow'rs be enclin'd To th' SUN of RIGHTEOUSNES Let Taste refin'd Like nothing as LOVES Heav'nly Manna and 16. Let all but CHRIST feel rough as Esaus Hand Let nought like 's Garment smell Let Ears rejoyce But in expresles Dictates of LOVES whisp'ring Voice 17. HE 'S thy bright Sun 'twixt WHOM and thy Souls Bliss Thy earthie Body interposed is Whereby such dread Eclipses caused are 18. As fam'd Astâ—â—â—omers can ne're declare Yet oft HE shines Then vanish servile Fears Then Heav'n-ward filial Hopes dry up thy trickling Tears 19 Spiritual Light Spirituals clears In HEAV'N Thou 'lt view that full what now by Glimps like Steph'n Thou canâ—st but spy There shalt thou Face to Face 20. His Light His Ioy His Love His Pow'r His Grace And His ALL-FILLING GLORY clearly see In optick Emanations from ETERNITIE 21 I' th' RING of boundless LUSTER from whose Ray This petty World gleaneth its peep of Day Thou shalt be Crown'd with Wreaths of endless Light 22. Here oft's an Enterview in Heat and Might By Inter-lucidations from ABOVE Twining Embraces with 's ensphearing ARM of LOVE 23 Most blessed Souls to whom He do's appear Folded within your Arms chast Hemisphear O Condescend How 's LIPS shed Love Life Merit 24. He makes his Angels Court of Guard By 's SPIRIT HE crowns you with his Grace So with his BLOOD When HE Redeem'd you and consign'd His FLESH for Food 25 Meat came from th' Eater from the Strong did Dew Sweetnesse when as incomparably true OMNIPOTENCIES SELF did largely shed 26. His mystick Oil of Ioy upon thyâ— Head Then trample Sin in Babylons golden Cup Treasures away She trifles Trifles treasures up 27 Oyl of this Lamp obsequious Soul lights Thee To thine approaching HEAV'N In Sanctiâ—ie Be actuated then Being up assumâ—d 28. By this bright Sun with this rich Oyl perfum'd Th' art prepossest with Heav'nly Comforts which With their Soul-chearing Sweets both ravish and enrich 29 Poor panting Heart Loves Seat yearn for Ioys Pith To have thy highest Bliss Communion with The FATHER the SON one SPIRIT with CHRIST 30. And One in THEM as THEY are One Thou fly'st Through Grace to GLORY VISION shall sublime Thy Faith FRUITION Hope ETERNITâ— thy Time THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SONG STANZA 31. SELF ô how mean an Harmonie it breeds JESUS All Names this NAME of Names exceeds This Name 's GODS Mercie at full Sea 't is LOVES 32. High Tow'r Ioyes Loadstone This my Spirit moves Hark Rise my Love my Fair One Come away Lingring breeds Losse I am thy Leader Light and Way 33. What Speed Speeds self can make Soul flie withall GREATNES and GOODNES most Magnetical Shoot like a Flashof Fire to th' ruby Wine 34. His precious BLOOD transcendently Divine How poor those costly pearls were drunk by Some My LORD drink Blood to me Let It to th' Worlds Health come 35 All Hope 's unanchor'd but in THAT THOU art 'Bove Indies Womb rich to my Love-sick Heart Flesh-fair Endowments are but Skin-deep Brags 36. Varnisht Corruption Wealth is but Cares Bags The Bag impostom'd choaks Gold Beauty Fame Are sublunary Mysts to SAINTS Seraphick Flame 37 JESUS THIS fans my Fire which has at best But Grains of Incense Pounds of Interest Go Int'rest Take the Principal Thine own 38. Divine LOVE loves thy LOVELINES alone What Flames to THINE proportionable be LORD had'st not first lov'd Man Man could not have lov'd THEE 39 Why lov'st us but because THOU would'st O why For Lepers would the UNDEFILED die That Pen was dipt i' th' Standish of thy Blood 40. Which wrot th' Indenture of our termless Good O LOVE 'bove Wish Never such LOVE enroll'd Who think their utmost Flames enough for THEE are cold 41. Whose HIGHNES did not to be low disdain Yet when at Lowest Highest did remain Who bow'dst HEAV'NS Altitude refresh with Flowrs 42. With JESSES Sov'raign Flow'r my fainting Pow'rs Which sink as shaft-struck Hart embost twixt Grief And Ioy Grief for my Sin Ioy for thy free Reliefâ— 43. Wrackt is with bitter-sweet Extreams my Minde Shell'd sheath'd cag'd coffin'd in her treacherous friend Her always tempting mass of Flesh She bears 44. Her Hopes did they not sprout from Thee were fears HOPE Thou Perfume of LOVERS for thy Sake LOVE'S generous throws at All Life 's but a petty Stake 45 Scarce worth the Prize LOVE makes two Spirits but one Me Counterpart to thy Indenture own I active then as Light tread Air and Flame 46. Without or Wing or Chariot and disclaim All the faint Sweets of Earth Thy SPIRIT views How in Loves torrid Zone thy sweltring Martyr stews 47 Row me ye Dove-wingd Oars whom Hope do's buoy To wisht-for Hav'n flowing with Tides of Ioy Yet wish I not my Joy thy Ioyes Above 48. Meerly for Ioy nor Pleasures of thy LOVE Only for Love of Pleasure No let free Spiritual Languors teem Fruitful yet Virgins be 49 Give give me
Children or I die LOVE rest Thy Head upon the Pillows of my Breast When me THOU shalt impregn'd with Vertues make 50. A fruitful Eden All the Frutage take Thy Passion Ionathan below did move Rapt SPIRITS in high Excess flame with intensest Love 51 My Life is hid with THEE in GOD Descry THY SELF ô THOU my plighted SPOUSE that I May ever glorious be That my joy'd Soul 52. With THEE may make up Marriage and my whole Self THEE for Bridegroom have My Hope still sends Up Come that I may enter with thy feasted Friends 53. O That long-long'd for COME ô COME mine Eyes LOVES Sentinels watch like officious Spies Strike Sparks of JOY t'enflame LOVES Tinder make 54. The Exile view her Home the Dreamer wake Tears raise the Fire of LOVE Ease Sighs of Air Fires Passion watry Tears and earthy self Despair 55. My Sighs condens'd to Drops compute Hours spent Cancell the Lease of my Clay-Tenement Which payes deer Rent of Groans ô grant a Writ 56. Of Ease I languish out not live Permit A Passe to SIONS MOUNT But I resigne My green-sick Will though sick of LOVE to that of Thine 57. Waitings which ripen Hopes are not Delayes Presence how great how true's LOVE Absence saies While Lungs my Breath shall organ I 'l press still 58. Th' Exinanition of my o'regrown Will Behold I quickly come O're-joyd I'm here O Come Till then each Day 's an Age each Hour a Year 59. JESU That NAME' 's Ioyes Essence hasten on Throng amorous Sighs for Dissolution Fastidious Earth avant With Love-plumes soar 60. My Soul to meet thy SPOUSE Can'st wish for more Only Come give a RING Re-eccho then O Come Even so LORD IESV Come Amen Amen LXI Who 's this Inamor'd VOT'RESSE Like the Morn From Mountain unto Mountain born Who first with Night-drops dew'd seem'd Turtle Dove forlorn LXII But now e're warped Body neer Decay Stands Bow-like bent to shoot away Her Soul Ere prone Looks kiss her Grave e're her last Day LXIII She LOVE-fill'd wants no Mate has rather one Body too much I' th' SPIRITS Throne CHRISTS Peace is fullest Quire Such Loneness least alone LXIV When soft-flying Sleep Deaths Sister Wings do's spread Over that curtain'd Grave her Bed Then with prophetick Dreams the HIGHEST crowns her Head LXV Behold a comely PERSON clad in white The all-inlightning Sun lesse bright Than that illustrious FACE of HIS which blest her Sight LXVI To Her in MAJESTIE His Way HE broke And softly thus to Her HE spoke Come Come away My JESUS saies She. So She woke LXVII Her Pray'rs more passionate than witty rise As Sols Postilion bright her Eyes Wrastling with GOD for GRACE bedew Loves Paradise LXVIII Betimes when keen breath'd Winds with frosty Cream Peri'wig bald Trees glaze tatling Stream For May-games past white-sheet peccavi is Winters Theme LXIX Those Day-breaks give good Morrows which she takes With Thanks so doubly Good them makes Who in GODS Promise rests in GODS Remembrance wakes LXX SAINTS nothing more SAINTS nothing lesse regard Than LOVES SELF than self-Love unscar'd Though rackt into an Anagram their Souls being spar'd LXXI Through Vertuous Self-mistrust They acted move Like Needle toucht by th' Stone of Love Blest Magnet which attracts and Souls directs ABOVE LXXII Were She but mortal She were satisfy'd So GOD liv'd in Her till She dy'd His WORD her Deed his WILL her Warrant BOTH her Guide LXXIII Thus this DEVOTA breaths out yerning Cries Let not Dust blinde my sensual Eyes When as my Spirits Energie transcends the Skies LXXIV VIRTUES raise Souls All 's FILIAL to ABOVE Low'st Step is Mercenary Love Fraternal are the Sides that SAINTS Ascent improve LXXV Manna to my enamour'd Soul art THOU The SPIRIT of Heav'n distill'd do's flow From thy ASPECT By That from Brutes we ANGELS grow LXXVI Had I ô had I many Lives as Years As many Loves as Love hath Fears All All were THINE had I as many Hearts as Hairs LXXVII From THEE my JOY-EXTENSIONS spreading flow Dilating as Leaf-gold be n't slow O THOU my All and more Love-lorn THEE still I woo LXXVIII The Widow press'd till THEE to grant She bound The VIRGIN sought THEE till she found The Publican did knock till opening knocking crown'd LXXIX Though nought but dross I in my self can spie Yet melted with THY beaming EYE My Refuse turns to Gold by mystick Alchymie LXXX Then whet thy blunt Sythe Time and wing thy Feet Life not in Length but Use is sweet Come Death the Body brought a bed o' th' SOUL Come fleet LXXXI Be Pulse my passing-Bell be Skin my Herse Nights sable Curtains that disperse The Rayes of Day be Shroud Dews weep my funeral Verse LXXXII Pittie me Love-sick Virgins Then She swound O'recome with Zeal She sunk to th' Ground Darts of intolerable Sweets her Soul did wound LXXXIII She lay with flaming LOVE empierc't to th' Heart Wak't As She bled She kist the Dart Then sigh'd Take all I am or have All All THOU art LXXXIV Then sunk again Reviv'd LOVES BOW She bent And marry'd String to Shaft and sent Ejaculations which the Skies like Lightning rent LXXXV Piercing Them through feather'd with Sighs to show She little pay'd yet much did owe The Feathers sung and fir'd as they did upward go LXXXVI No ice-fring'd Cloud may quench LOVES soaring Flame LOVE is more strong then Death or Shame Grown up all Soul the Flesh sinks in a triple Qualm LXXXVII I charge ye SION VIRGINS let Her still Enjoy her disencloystred Fill In These high Extasies of UNION and WILL. LXXXVIII Do not with Claps of Hands or noise of Feet Awake Her from what is more sweet Till the bright rising Day-star light Her to HEAV'NS Street LXXXIX Yeeld Her what her unfetter'd Rapture gives Since She 's more where She loves than lives Transanimations scaling HEAV'N break carnal Gyves XC In LOVES triumphant Chariot plac't She is Concentrick are her JOYES with HIS Encharioted in Fire her Spirit HEAV'N-ripe for Blisse XCI They 're only sound who Thus are lost in Trance Transported to the High'st Advance With Him who was in Spirit rapt to ' expreffeles Glance XCII Return'd She cry'd O slay me thus again Ne're lives she who thus ne're is slain How sweet the Wounds of LOVE No Pleasure to LOVES pain XCIII In furnac't Pyrausta-like I fry To live is Faith 't is Gain to die One Life 's enough for Two THOU liv'st in me not I XCIV How mid'st Regalios of LOVES Banquet I Dissolve in Sweets Extremitie O Languors Thus to live is in pure Flames to die XCV Three Kings three Gifts to th' KING of Kings did bring Myrrhe Incense Gold to Man GOD King For Myrrhe Tears Incense Pray'rs Gold take Loves Offering XCVI O take Loves Hecatomb Then through her Eyes Did LOVE inamoring Passions rise HIGH'ST GLORY crowns THEOPHILA's Love-Sacrifice XCVII Not She Mortality alone did die Death's but Translation to the Skie All Virtues fir'd in her pure BREAST their Spicerie
XCVIII As when Arabias Wonder Spices brings Which fann'd to Flames by her own Wings She from the glowing Holocaust in Triumph springs XCIX So VIRTUES Pattern Priestesse Altar Fire Incense and Victime up did spire VICTORIA VICTORIA sung All HEAV'NS QUIRE C. She Ecchoing Eccho which do's all surpasse GODS Sight is GLORIES Looking-glasse MAGNIFICATS HOSANNAS HALLELUIAHS Pars Cursûs emensa mei Pars restat aranda Ex aequo Metam Vesper Ortus habent Ergo per immensos properent cava Lintea Fluctus Iactatam capiant Littora sancta Ratem Amans Animâ satiatur Amantis View See the Authors â—igâ— Designâ— His Book displaid â—is â—apers shine Is Aâ—honian Bird 〈◊〉 Dog and Cat 〈…〉 intimate TIEOPHLA doth before Him stand Amused witâ— erected Handâ— And like an Eagle upward flies 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 ANGELS to the SKIES THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO V. The Representation ARGUMENT Mundus Opes Animam COELUM Terramque resumpsit Terra DEVS Vitam cum tulit IPSE dedit Solus AMOR facit esse DEVM QUEM Mente capaci Si Quis conciperet posset esse DEVS The Authors Vision Her Ascent HEAV'NS Place Descry'd where reigns all glorious GRACE Where 's all-sufficient GOOD the Sum of BLISSE She has STANZA I. I 'M vile a thing impure Corruptions Son Earth-crawling Worm by Sin undone Whose suppliant Dust doth own its Shame and t' HEAV'N doth run II. GRACE intervene 'twixt Sin and Shame and tie A hopeful BLISSE to Miserie LORD pardon dust and ashes both yea worse am I III. Though dust thy Work though Clay Thy HAND did turn This Vessel and though ashes th' URN THOU art them to restore when Skie Earth shall burn IV. Whil'st that my Heav'n-allyed-Soul does stay Wholly on THEE not Europs Sway Can elevate my Wish like one Grace-darted Ray. V. Meet meet my prison'd Souls Address oh might She view through mouldring Earth thy SIGHT GRACE perfects Natures want Say here Let there be Light VI. Then though in Flesh my Spirit pris'ned be She may by FAITH ascend to THEE And up be rais'd till she shall mount to Libertie VII Clear-sighted FAITH point out the Way I will Neglect curl'd Phrases frizled Skill Humble DEVOTION lift Thou up my flagging Quill VIII Which faints at first Approach my Faith 's too light To move This MOUNTAIN reach This HEIGHT Can squeaking Reeds sound forth the Organs full delight IX I 'm mute for only Light can Light declare A Diamond must a Diamond square Yet where I dare not speak there yet adore I dare X. Ear has not heard nor Eye has seen nor can Mans Heart conceive vast Heart of Man The Riches treasur'd up in GLORIES Ocean XI Tomes full of mystick Characters enfense Those Seas of BLISSE To write to Sense HEAV'NS Chronicle wou'd ask a HEAV'ND Intelligence XII How then from Flood of Tears may an Arkt Dove try Its ventrous Pineons to descry That Land unknown to Nature Vast ETERNITIE XIII Fear Gulfs unfathomable nor desire Ere of GODS Court thou art t' aspire To be of 's Counsell Pry not but with Awe admire XIV Dwarf-words do limp do derogate do scan Nor Height nor Depth Since Time began What constitutes a Gnat was ne're found out by Man XV. Dares mortal Slime with ruder tongue expresse What ev'n CELESTIALS do confesse Is inexpressible Thou Clod of Earth first guesse XVI In like Degrees from Aequinoctial Track Why Men are tawny white and black Why Bactrias Camel two Arabs one Bunch on 's Back XVII Canst lead Leviathan with a silken String Canst cover with a Hornets Wing Behemoth Canst thou Seas into a Nutshell bring XVIII Canst Motion fix count Sands recall past Day Shew Height Breadth Length o' th' spreading Ray Discardinate the Sphears and rapid Whirlwindes stay XIX Tell tell how pond'rous Earths huge proplesse Ball Hangs poised in the fluent Hall Of fleeting Air how Clouds sustained are from Fall XX. How burnt the Bush when Verdure cloth'd its Fire How from the Rock Rod-struck in Ire Did Cataracts gush out How did the Sea retire XXI Canst thou take Post-Horse with the coursing Sun And with Him through the Zodiack run How many Stages be there ere the Race be done XXII Then tell how once He shot his Beams down-right From the same Zenith while for Night Mortals stood gazing at a doubled Noon-dayes-Light XXIII Tell how that Planet did in after-dayes Turn Cancer shooting Parthian Rayes Ten whole Degrees reverst which did the World amaze XXIV Poor thingling Man Propitious HEAV'N assign Some ANGEL for this high DESIGN HEAV'NS HISTORIE requires at least a SERAPHIN XXV O might some glorious SPIRIT then retire And warble to a sacred Lyre The Song of Moses and the LAMB in HEAV'NS full Quire XXVI 'T was at Nights Noon when Sleep th' Opprest had drown'd But sleepless were Oppressors found 'T was when Skies spangled Head in sable Veil was bound XXVII For theevish Night had stole and clos'd up quite In her dark Lantern starrie Light No Planet seen to sail in that dead Ebbe of Night XXVIII When lo all-spreading RAYES the Room surround Like such Reflections as rebound Shooting their Beams to th' Sun from Rocks of Diamond XXIX This to a Wonder summoned my Sight Which dazled was at so pure Light A FORM ANGELLICK there appear'd divinely bright XXX I wisht my Self more Eyes to view this Gleam I was awake I did not dream Too exquisite Delight makes true Things feigned seem XXXI Model of HEAV'N it was I floated long Twixt Ioy and Wonder Passion strong Wanting due Vent made Sight my Speech Eyes my Tongue XXXII Oft my rapt Soul ascending to the Eye Peept through upon ANGELITIE Whose Blaze did burnisht Plate of sparkling Sol outvie XXXIII If gratious Silence shin'd forth any where With sweet Aspect 't was in this Sphear The Soul of Sweetness and the SPIRIT of Ioyes mixt here XXXIV From out LOVES Wing He must a Pensil frame Who on Times cloth would paint this Flame None can pourtâ—ay this glorious Draft but who 's the same XXXV Vail then Tiâ—antes-like this guess'd at FACE The Curtain of That inward GRACE Whose Forehead with Diaphanous Gold impaled was XXXVI For starrie Knobs like Diamonds did attire That Front with GLORY and conspire To lavish out their Beams to radiate that Fire XXXVII Whose Amber-curling Tresses were unbound And like a glittering Veil spread round And so about the snowy Shoulders sweetly wound XXXVIII Whose Robe shot forth a Tissue-waving Shine Which seem'd loose-flowing far more fine Than any interwoven Silk with silver-Twine XXXIX With gratious Smile approaching neerer sate This glorious THING ô humble State Yet on the VISION inexpressive RAYES did wait XL. 'T was glorify'd THEOPHILA sat there I mute as if I tongueless were Till Her Voice-Musick drew my Soul into mine Ear XLI 'T was 'bove Lutes sweetest Touch or richest Air I bring Thee Things saies She are rare All subcoelestial Streams Drops to this OCEAN are XLII Hear first my Progresse Loos'd from Natures Chain
And quit from Clay I did attain Swift as a glancing Meteor to th' Aerial Plain XLIII Where passing through I did perfume the Air With sacred Spice and incenst Pray'r While grateful Clouds their liquid Pearl as Guift prepare XLIV I spare tâ—unlock those Treasuries of Snow Or tell what paints the rainy Bowe Or what cause Thunders Lightnings Rains or whence Windes flow XLV Those Regions pass'd where bearded Comets light The World to fatall Woes a bright Large Orb of harmless Fire enflam'd my Heav'n-ward Flight XLVI To azure-arched Skie ascends my Soul Thence view I North and Southern Pole Where Globes in Serpentine yet order'd Motions rowl XLVII Thence by the changing Moons alternate Face Vp through unweari'd Phosphors Place I mount to Sols Diurnal and his Annual Race XLVIII By whose propitious Influence Things are Quickned below this Monarch Star Making his Progresse through the Signes unclouds the Air XLIX And eight-score Times out-bulks the Earth whose Race In four and twenty Howers space 'Bove fifty Milions of Germanick Leagues do's pace L. This Giant with as many Tongues as Rayes Speaks out so oft as He displayes His Beams which gild the World that Man his LORD should praise LI. Through Sphears I pass'd to Stars that nail HEAV'NS Court My Stay was with Skie-wonders short Which by first Movers Force are whirl'd about their Fort. LII Through the blew-spangled Frame my psalming Tongue Made th' Orbs suspend their usual Song To hear Coelestial Hymns the glist'ring Quires did throng LIII Chime out ye Crystal Sphears and tune your Poles Skies sound your Base ere ye to Coals Dissolve and tumble on the Bonfire World in Shoals LIV. The Primum Mobile do's seem immense And doth transfused Influence Through all inferiour Orbs as swift as Thought dispense LV. Suppose a Milstone should from thence be hurl'd Vnto the Center of this World 'T would make up sixscore Years ere it could down be whirld LVI Now entred I HEAV'NS Suburbs 〈…〉 No orient Jewels cast such 〈◊〉 O might this Verse be wreath'd but with 〈◊〉 Diadems LVII Sols radiant Fulgence in meridian Skies Seem'd Shade unto those CLARITIES Where Beauties Self might beautifie her fairâ—st Eyes LVIII 'T is 'bove high'st Verge where Reason dares be bold That HEAV'N of GOD is of such Mold That Eyes till glorify'd cannot the same behold LIX 'T is purely Spirit'al and so must be Above compare in all Degree With Ought that draws its Line from th' six Dayes Pedigree LX. 'T is immaterial 'bove the highest Sphear Doth brighter then the rest appear Than Orbs of Fire Moon Sun or Crystaline more clear LXI 'T is Space immense from whence Apostates driv'n Their Rooms might so to Men be giv'n With Those confirmed SONS th' Indigenae of HEAV'N LXII Absurdly some Philosophers did dream That HEAV'N's an uncreated Beam Which forth eternally from GOD HIMSELF did stream LXIII 'T is but a Creature though its Essence be To change unsubject standing free On never shaken Pillars of INFINITIE LXIV Ocean of JOYES Who can THEE fully state For clearer knowledge Man must wait First shoot Deaths Gulf thy Soul may then arrive thereat LXV For no One enters There till He hath trod Deaths Path then from that Period Elected Souls ascend to Heav'n to BLISSE to GOD LXVI Zeal through me fir's its way to speak that I Would thither like wing'd Lightning flie Were my Flesh-curtain drawn that clouds my Spirits Eye LXVII What Heights would Souls affect could they undress Themselves of Rags that them depress How beautiful ' s the Form of naked HOLINES LXVIII New Light Life Love Joy Bliss there boundless flow There shall my Soul thy GLORY know When She her Robe of Clay shall to Earths wardrobe throw LXIX Fond that I am to speak Passe on to BLISSE That with an individual Kisse Greets Thee for ever Pardon this Parenthesis LXX Faith 's the Souls Eye As nothing were between They that beleeve see Things unseen Close then thy carnal thy spiritual Eyes unscreen LXXI For my transplanted Spirit shall emblaze Words may make Wonder stand at Gaze Vnboundless Bliss doth ev'n the sep'rat Spirit amaze LXXII O Fleet of Intellectuals Glory-fraught Inestimable Arras wrought With Heart-orecoming Colours how ye pass all Thought LXXIII THOU All-comprizing uncompriz'd WHO art Ever yet never made impart THOU Loves Abyss without or Ebbe or Shoar an Heart LXXIV Of WISDOM to attempt proceed and end what never Was Is Can be penn'd May Spots in Maps dumb Teacher Empires comprehend LXXV The Skie-enchased Diamonds lesser show Than Julie's hairy Worms that glow Sampled with those Rebounds unbounded GLORIES throw LXXV That Vessel of Election rapt to th' Soil Of highest BLISSE did here recoyl I' th' same Attempt 't is Honour to confess a Foyl LXXVII Sense knowes not 'bove Court-Triumphs Thrones or Kings Gems Musick Beauties Banquetings Without such Tropes it can't unfold Spiritual Things LXXVIII O how That most unutterable BLAZE Of HEAV'NS all-luminating RAYES Do's Souls disrob'd of Flesh both brighten amaze LXXIX That boundless Solstice with transparent Beams Through HEAV'NS triumphant ARCHES streams And gliding through each Spirit with intrinsick Gleams LXXX Pierceth to th' little World and doth dispell The gloomy Clouds of Sin that swell The Soul decoying it to ever-burning Hell LXXXI By GLORY how are SPIRITS made divine How super-radiantly They shine From th' ever-flowing SPRING of the refulgent TRINE LXXXII Beyond Report of high'st Discourse They dart Their Radiations 'bove all Art This cath'like BLISSE ore-flowes the most capacious Heart LXXXIII Conceive a Court where all Joyes domineer Where Seas of Sweets oreflow and where GLORIES exhaustless Mines Sports endless Springs appear LXXXIV Where infinite Excesse of Sweets ne're cloyes Where still Fruitions Feast employes Desire where Who enjoy the least can't count their Joyes LXXXV One may t' a Glimps None to a Half can rise Had He more Tongues than HEAV'N has Eyes Such nothing see as would in Words this SIGHT comprize LXXXVI Can Measures such UNMEASURABLES hold Can Time INFINITIE unfold Superlative DELIGHTS may be admir'd not told LXXXVII When GLORIES Heav'n is all one Sunny Blaze That flowing RADIANCE doth amaze While on That inconceivable RESULT we gaze LXXXVIII What King would not court Martyrdome to â—old In Capite a Citie ' of Gold Where look how many Gates so many Pearls are told LXXXIX The Structure's Square A firm Foundation Twelve-fold for Each a precious Stone The LAMBS APOSTLES Names engraven therupon XC There sparkles forth the verdant Emerald The blew-ey'd Saphyr therein wall'd The Topaz too with that Stone which from Gold is call'd XCI There Jasper Chaloedon Chrysoprase shine There Sardonix and Sardius joyn There Beryl Hyacinth and Amethyst combine XCII No sympathizing Turkise there to tell By Palenesse th' Owner is not well For Grief 's exild to Earth and Anguish groans in Hell XCIII The Streets with Gold perspicuous are arrai'd With blazing Carbuncles inlaid Yet All seem Night to GLORIES from the LAMB desplay'd XCIV For
thousand Suns make an Eclipse to THOSE The Diamond there for Pavement growes As on its glitt'ring Stock and all its Sparkles throwes XCV And there on every Angel-trodden Way Loose Pearls instead of Pebbles play Like duskie atoms in the Suns embrightning Ray. XCVI Had I a Quill sent from a SERAPHS Wing And Skill to tune't I could not sing The Moity of that Wealth which That All-glorious KING XCVII Of HEAV'N enstates Those in who follow Good And prizeâ—t above their vital Blood HEAV'N my be gain'd on Earth but never understood XCVIII As when the Sun shakes off the Vail of Night And scatters on the Dawn his Light He soon takes Pris'ner to Himself th' engaged Sight XCIX So when I view those indeficient BEAMS O They in overfulgent GLEAMS Like Diamonds thaw'd to Air embubble forth in Streams C. Ev'n SPIRITS who have disrob'd their Rags of Clay Lay'd up in Ward-robe till that Day Orecome They dazled are by each IMPERIOUS RAY Sexta repercussi Pars antepenultima Ponti Imparibus restat perficienda Modis Quam si praestiterit Mentem DEUS OPTIMUS addam Flammiferos Phoebus cum jug at ortus Equos Ex obscuro spectabile COELUM THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO VI. The Association ARGUMENT Panduntur COELI juvat hinc invisere Divûm Atria mortali non adeunda Pede Hîc Animae pennis advecta THEOPHILA cernit Agmina COELICOLÛM ducere fancta Choros HEAV'NS Order Beauty Glory is descry'd Here read the State o' th' GLORIFY'D Which THEOPHIL i' th' Heraldry of HEAV'N had ey'd STANZA I. THose happy Mansions glorious SAINT discover Where the bright Host of Spirits hover Bring down all HEAV'N before the Eyes o' th' HEAV'NLY LOVER II. Frail Man with Zeal and Wonder here behold Clay cast into a Heav'nly Mold Faith did now VISION does BEATITUDE unfold III. The Tenants in This splendid FRAME are They Whose grosser and unpolish Clay Calcin'd in Graves now Robes of GLORY do array IV. Here MARTYRS sit enthron'd who late did bleed Sap from their fertil Wounds to feed With Oyl the Churches Lamps and with red Dew her Seed V. These ovant Souls KNIGHTS of Saint VINCENT are For high Atchievements gain'd each Scar To make a golden Constellation seems a Star VI. Not by inflicting but receiving Blowes By suff'ring They ore-came their Foes How long LORD ere THOU do'st avenge their Blood on Those VII These own their Bliss sprung from the Word Will O' th' LAMB by Whom They conquer'd still Themselves and that revolted Band that Hell do's fill VIII Therefore Each prostrate Casts with th' Elders down At the LAMBS Feet their Palm and Crown Beholding round all Eminencies but their own IX Th' APOSTLES here with Him in whose sweet Tongue The Lute of high-tun'd LOVE was strung When through so many Regions He the GOSPEL sung X. The loving lov'd EVANGELIST here lives On LOVES pure Influence and gives No Bounds to 's flaming Love but how to heighten 't strives XI LOVE was his only Theme SHE here is crown'd Who neer Deaths Tomb Life risen found Whose Eye-bowl was Tear-brimm'd whose Towel Hair unbound XII Parcht Africks GLORY born in 's Mothers Eyes An happier Off-spring of her Cries Than of her Womb here to ecstatick LOVE does rise XIII The Bounds are boundless of divine AMOUR Love hopes and yet hath all Things for In HEAV'NS eternal Heraldry true LOVE is Or. XIV Fruition LOVE enfires thence Zeal's renu'd LOVE hath the SPIRITS Plenitude Burning with Flames in SPLENDOR of BEATITUDE XV. LOVE caus'd the SON of GOD from 's Throne dismount And make HIMSELF of no Account Become a Man of Sorrows Who of Ioy 's the Fount XVI This LOVE by Quire of HEAV'N scarce understood Could so much Ill cause so much Good For Mans Redemption that GODS SON should shed His Blood XVII THOU LOVE when as my guilty Soul did dwell In Nest of Ruine did'st unshell My Spirit fledg'd with GRACE from that disord'red Cell XVIII And having crusht the outward Film of Earth Gav'st Her new form'd with GLORY Birth That She might stye to th' SEAT of Beatifick Mirth XIX And praise THEE with those VIRGIN-SOULS who in The Cloysters of their Flesh have bin Washt in their SAVIOURS Bath of Blood from Spots of Sin XX. Flow'rs on our Heads as on their Stems do grow Which into fadeless Colours flow Nor Cold to blast nor Heat to scorch nor Age they know XXI Scenting 'bove thousand precious Ointments shed On consecrated AARONS Head Above pearl'd Dew on Hermons ever-fragrant Bed XXII How far immaculate FLAMES do You excell All that in Thoughts high Turret dwell What then can Opticks see What then can Volumes tell XXIII If Beauties Self we could incarnate see Teeming with Youth and Ioy yet She Would not so beauteous as the VIRGIN-MOTHER be XXIV Who like a full-orb'd Moon our Stars out-shin'd In glorious Fulgurance of Minde For whose surpassing Splendour I this Ode desig'nd XXV Hail blessed VIRGIN-SPOUSE who did'st bequeath Breath unto HIM Who made Thee breathe And gav'st a Life to HIM Who gave the Life from Death XXVI Who bor'st HIM in thy Womb Whose Hands did stack The studded Orbs with Stars and tack The glowing Constellations to the Zodiack XXVII And what improves the Mystery begun New Mysteries from Thee were spun HE did at once become thy Father Spouse and Son XXVIII Conceiving HIM as by the Womb so th' Ear th' ANGELS Tongue HEAV'N cast Seed there Thou heard'st believ'dst thence didst breed thence didst bear XXIX Thou only may'st so it be humbly boast To have brought forth the ETERNAL HOST By mystick OBUMBRATION of the HOLY GHOST XXX By Thee did GOD and Man embrace Each other Thus HEAV'N to Earth became a Brother Thus Thou a VIRGIN to thy MAKER wast a MOTHER XXXI Thy Fleece was wet when all the Ground lay drie Drie when all moist about did lie As AARONS rootless Rod so didst Thou fructifie XXXII Thou art from whence FAITHS Burgeon sprang the Ground Before in after Birth was found Purenesse untoucht with VIRGIN-MOTHERS Honour crown'd XXXIII Thou Shrine of GLORY Ark of BLISSE Thou high Fair Temple of DIVINITY In Thee the Master-peece of Nature I descry XXXIV My ravisht Soul said She extols His NAME Who rules the HEAV'NS expansed Frame Whose MERCIE rais'd me up to magnifie the SAME XXXV Who can anatomize the glorious List Of Heirs to GOD Coheirs with CHRIST Who Royalize it There by GRACES high Acquist XXXVI Whose several GLORIES admirable are And yet as INFINITE as Fair Where Alls's enjoy'd at Full where every Thing is rare XXXVII The Ioy of EACH ONE is the Ioy of ALL BEATITUDE'S reciprocall They drink CHRISTS Cup of flowing Wine who pled'gd his Gall XXXVIII Silence most Rhet'rick hath and GLORIES best Do pourtray forth that Royal FEAST At which each blessed SAINT is an Eternal GUEST XXXIX Nor can a Thought of earthly Friends Annoyes Extenuate one Grain of JOYES While MERCY saves the Wise while JUSTICE Fools destroyes
XL. Strangely their Intellects enlightned be Natures Compendium did not see One half yea ere He tasted the forbidden Tree XLI If that Sea-parting PRINCE from cleft Rocks Space Viewing GODS Back-parts thought it Grace What Honour is it then to see HIM FACE to FACE XLII WHO doth inspirit the indeficient Ray Not dimm'd with a minute Allay Where though no Sun ere rose yet 't is ETERNAL DAY XLIII Where ALL are fill'd yet ALL from Food abstain Where ALL are Subjects yet ALL reign ALL rich yet have no Bags that stifled Wealth contain XLIV Where each SAINT do's a glorious Kingdom own Where each KING hath a starry Crown Each CROWN a Kingdom free from the rude Peoples Frown XLV Where Each hath All yet more than All They owe All Subjects yet no KINGS They know Save KING of Kings LORD of Lords who quel'd their Foe XLVI Where highest JOY is their perpetual Fare Their Exercise HOSANNAS are SPIRITS the Choristers the Subject PRAISE and PRAYER XLVII The Laureate KING his Psalming Voice doth raise And sings to 's solemn Harp high Layes Being HIMSELF the Organ to His MAKERS Praise XLVIII Enflam'd with holy Zeal and high Desire Encircled with the Enthean QUIRE Warbles This Epinician Canzon to his Lyre XLIX Thou CROWN of BLISSE whose Footstool's Earth whose Throne Outshines ten thousand Suns in One Who art the Radi'cal LIFE of all true JOY alone L. Royal PROTECTOR when in THEE Lights Sun Mortals wou'd deem the last Hour run We finde no Wane of Day but a SOLSTITIAL Noon LI. When We Times Volumes of past Thousands scan Thy ORIGEN with Time to span We finde no Track in Infant Age when It began LII ANCIENT of DAYES to WHOM all Times are Now Before Whom SERAPHIMS do bow Though highest CREATURES yet to their CREATOR low LIII Who art by Light-surrounded POWERS obey'd HEAV'NS Host Thy ministring SPIRITS made Cloath'd with UBIQUITY to WHOM all Light is Shade LIV. Whose Thunder-clasping HAND do's grasp the Shole Of total Nature and unroul The spangled Canopy of HEAV'N from Pole to Pole LV. Who on the Clouds and Windes thy Chariot rid'st And brideling wildest Storms them guid'st Who moveless All dost move Who changing All abid'st LVI The Ocean Thou begirt'st with misty Shrouds That Monster wrapt'st in swathing Clouds And with thy mighty WORD controul'st tempestuous Flouds LVII Earth-circling Oceans Thy DISPLEASURE flee Mountains dismounted are by THEE Those airy Giants smoak if THOU incensed be LVIII Innumerable Troops of Joyes do stand Before Thy boundless PRESENCE and Vncessantly attend Thy ever-blissefull HAND LIX Thou LORD Good without Quality dost send Blisse to All Thine Great without End Whose Magnitude no Quantity can comprehend LX. What 's worthlesse Man what his earth-crawling Race That THOU shouldst such a shadow grace And in unspeakable triumphant GLORY place LXI Who may thy MERCIES Height Depth Breadth extend In Height It do's to HEAV'N ascend Confirms the ANGELS and in Depth doth low descend LXII Lessening the Pains o' th' damned ev'n in HELL In Breadth from East to West do's swell And over all the World and all thy WORKS excell LXIII Immense EXISTENCE HEAVN'S amaz'd at thy INCOMPREHENSIBILITIE INTELLIGENCIES dread Thine All-commanding-EYE LXIV Ye winged HERO'S whom all BLISSE embow'rs To HIM in Anthems strain your pow'rs Whose Sea of Goodness has no Shoar whose Age no How'rs LXV Then ore the trembling Cords his swift Hand strayes And clos'd All with full Diapaze As in a sounding Quire the well-strook Consort playes LXVI Victorious Iubilies when Eccho'd clear From the Church-Militant are dear To HEAV'NS triumphing QUIRE Such no gross Ear can hear LXVII Musicks first Martyr Stradas Nightingale Might ever wish poor Bird to fall On that excelling HARP and joy i' th Funeral LXVIII Had it but heard Those AYRS where Musick meets With Raptures of Voice-warbled Sweets Flowing with ravishing EXCES in SIONS STREETS LXIX All what Symphonious Breaths inspire All what Quick Fingers touch compar'd sound flat Could I but coyn a Word beyond all Sweets 'T were THAT LXX What Orders in NEW-SALEMS HIERARCHIE In what Degrees They ' enstated be Are Wings that mount my Thoughts to high Discovery LXXI Blest Sight to see HEAV'NS order'd HOST to move In Legions glist'ring ALL Above Whose Armour is true ZEAL whose Banner is pure LOVE LXXII Bright-harnessed INTELLIGENCIES Who Enucleate can your ESSENCE so As Men may both your mighty Pow'r Nature know LXXIII Invisible impassive happy fair High incorporeal active rare Pure scientifick and illustrious SPIRITS You' are LXXIV Guesse at their Strength by ONE Was not almost Two hundred thousand of an Host By ' an ANGEL slain when Assurs Chief 'gainst HEAV'N did boast LXXV In Brightness They the Morning Star out-vie In Nimbleness the Windes out-flie And far surpasse the Sun-beams in Subtilitie LXXVI ARCHANGELS Those superiour SPIRITS are GODS LEGATS when he will declare His Minde to 's Chosen GABRIEL did thus prepare LXXVII GODS Embassie when his BELOV'D did tie Our Flesh to his DIVINITIE GRACE was the Kisse the UNION was the Ring from High LXXVIII ANGELS the Posie sung This made our Clay O're Empyraean Courtiers sway When as the SPOUSE his mystick NUPTIALS did display LXXIX No sooner shal That great ARCHANGEL sound His wakefull Trump of Doom to th' Ground And Eccho shall as banded Ball make quick Rebound LXXX But pamper'd Graves with all their Iawes shall yawn And Seas Flouds Nurse strange Shoals shall spawn Of Men to wait o' th' dreadfull JUDGE at 's Iudgements Dawn LXXXI To Incorruption then Corruptions Night Shall turned be for That strange Sight Inebriates Souls with deepest Woes or high'st DELIGHT LXXXII Then shall my Ear my Nose my Hand Tongue Eye Alwayes hear smell feel taste espye Hosanna's Incense Off'rings Feasts Felicitie LXXXIII To act GODS WILL ore sublunary Things The DOMINATIONS sway as Kings He curbs Aerian Potentates by th' POW'RS HE wings LXXXIV The PRINCIPATES of Princes take the Care T' enlarge their Realms or to empair VIRTUES in acting of his WILL have their full Share LXXXV THRONES HIM contemplate nor from 's Presence move To CHERUBS HE reveals Above Hid Things He SERAPHINS enflames with ardent Love LXXXVI Praecelling SERAPHS shew GODS ARDOR still Wise CHERUBS his ABYSSE of SKILL In Governing of ALL beatious THRONES instill LXXXVII To us his STEDDINES in 's blessed THRONE Ever unalterably ONE Powr's Virtues Principates to his Commands are prone LXXXVIII Dominions own his REGAL SWAY and so ARCHANGELS ANGELS swiftly show Agilitie that from the DEITIE do's flow LXXXIX Their Number 's numberlesse not half so few As orient Pearls of early Dew Like Aromatick Lamps THEY in HEAV'NS TEMPLE shew XC And yet of THEM though vast the Number be The Thing that most do's glorifie Their MAKER's This THEY differ specifically XCI Of the first Machine THEY the Parcels are Yet if we Them with GOD compare Then w th their Wings they skreen Themselves though else most fair XCII Lawlesse Desire do's never pierce
place XL. One Word did th' All-surrounding Skie-roof frame With all its Starrie sparkling Flame Not all created Wisdom can spell out THY NAME XLI Supreme COMMANDER of the rowling Stars Thy LAW sets to their Progresse Bars Does Epicycle their obliquely gliding Cars XLII No Lines Poles Tropicks Zones can THEE enthrall First MOVER of the Sphearick Ball Above Beneath Without Within Beyond them All XLIII What could but thy All-potent HAND sustain Those Magazines of Hail Snow Rain Lest They should fall at once and deluge All again XLIV By Them THOU Plenty dost to Earth distill And Mans dependent Heart dost fill Windes are Van-Curriers Postilions to THY WILL XLV 'T is That the ominous Cause of Earth-quakes bindes In Subterranean Grotts That findes Strange Ruptures to enfranchise th' ever-strugling Winds XLVI Thy Sandy Cord do's proudest Surges bound And Seas unfathom'd Bottoms sound Thy semi-circling Bow i' th' Clouds thy Covenant crown'd XLVII Earths Hinges hang upon thy Fiat set Midst Air-surrounding Waters yet Stand fixt on That like Which what is so Firm so Great XLVIII Yet Earths fast Columns at thy Frown do quake And Oceans dreadful Horrors make Flints melt the Rocks do rowl the airie Mountains shake XLIX Yea HEAV'NS SELF trembled and the Center shook With thy amazing PRESENCE strook When POWER of Pow'rs on Sina's Mount His Station took L. Each Ens as linkt to PROVIDENCE thy Chain Is govern'd by thy FINGERS Rein THOU seeing us we GRACE we THEE do GLORY gain LI. WHO hast no Eyes to see nor Ears to hear Yetâ—eest â—eest and hear'st All-EYE All-EAR WHO no where art contain'd yet art THOU every where LII The optick Glass we of thy PRAESCIENCE may Call th' Ark where all Idaeas lay By which each Entitie THOU dost at first pourtray LIII Future Events are praeexistent here As if they lately acted were Then any new dissect Anatomy more clear LIV. Each where at once THOU totally art still The same unchang'd yet at thy Will THOU changest All Who though THOU art unmov'd dost fill LV. Things that are most remote In whose Forecast Contingencies do crowd so fast As if past Things were now and Things to come were past LVI Though Acts on Earth crosse to thy WILL are done Besides thy WILL yet acteth None Preceding and succeeding Will in THEE are One LVII Of whose vast MANNOR all the Earth's Demains Though Earth nor Air nor HEAV'N contains Yet each obscurer Grott thy OMNIPRESENCE gains LVIII Though nought accrues to Thy unbounded STATE From Spirits which THOU didst create Yet They thy GOODNES and thy LOVE shall still dilate LIX THOU who mad'st All mad'st neither Sin nor Death Mans Folly first gave them their Breath That did â—base whole Nature with it self beneath LX. But Sin to cure THOU in a Crib gav'st Man EMANUEL DIVINE humane WHO diffâ—ring Natures joyn'd Whose REIGN no Ages scan LXI And THOU O MEDIATOR THOU whose PRAISE Like Morning Dewes to first of Dayes Was sung by Heav'nly CHORISTERS in SERAPH LAYES LXII GOD by the HOLY â—HOST begat THEE LORD Flesh took by the ETERNAL WORD Whose Self-Eternal EMANATION None record LXIII As thy Eternal EMANATION's past So to ETERNITY shal't last In the beginning was the WORD shews still THOV wast LXIV There GOD in ESSENCE One in PERSONS Three Here NATURES two in One agree THOU sitting in the Midst of TRINAL-UNITY LXV At Heav'ns High Councel-Table dart'st such Rayes As strike ev'n CHERUBS with amaze Of which the School disputing All it nothing sayes LXVI Search we the Ages past so long ago None None this MYSTERY could show Till in that Maiden-Birth t was acted here below LXVII A Dove hatch't in that Nest THY SELF did build A LAMB that Thine own Flock does shield A Wintersp FLOW'R that fram'd from whence it sprung the Fieldâ— LXVIII The Iewish Shepherds all affrighted are When HERALDS THEE proclaim'd i' th' Air Yea Magi came t' adore led by a new-born Starre LXIX Yet though thus wond'rously begot thus born SPONSOR for us faln Race forlorn T'ingratiate us with GOD becam'st to Man a Scorn LXX The GRACE SELF th' Honour t' Evangelize The sacred FUNCTION as a Prize Thou took'st yet That not on till call'd in Aarons Guize LXXI Which GOD t' Apostolize did bring to passe By th' HOLY GHOSTS Descent at Face Of Jordans then blest Streams of Which John Witness was LXXII Thence led by th' HOLY GHOST to th' Wilderness There tempted by the Fiends addresse Him overcam'st by Scriptum est Hence our Release Then forth thou wentst LXXIII Thy SERMONS Oracles ACTS Wonders were THOSE Faith begot THESE OTHERS Fear By BOTH thus wrought in us to THEE our selves we rear LXXIV THOU gav'st the Lame swift Legs the Blinde clear Eyes THOU heal'dst all humane Maladies THOU mad'st the Dumb to speak THOU mad'st the Dead to rise LXXV And art to Dead Men LIFE to sick men HEALTH SIGHT to the Blinde to th' Needy WEALTH A PLEASURE without Pain a TREASURE without Stealth LXXVI LORD in not of this World Thy KINGDOM is Thy chos'n Apostles preacht thy Blisse That none of all thy Creatures might SALVATION misse LXXVII Abra'ham long dead before yet saw THY DAY In Isaack born and Vowes did pay Type first then Antitype and quicknest every way LXXVIII Thy Gospel WISDOMS Academie shew'd Thy Mercy JUSTICE calm'd Life view'd Is TEMPERANCE Thy Death the Flag of FORTITUDE LXXIX Thou Altar Sanctuary Sacrifice Priest Bread of Life do'st All suffice N'ere cloying Feast where Appetite by Food doth rise LXXX And SON of MAN dost Sin of Man forgive To be THY Victimes Hearts do strive Who liv'dst that Life might die and di'dst that Death might live LXXXI Yet dy'dst THOU not but that Spîrit quickned free THOU might'st Saints Paradised see Rejoyc'd Assurance give to Them rejoyc'd in THEE LXXXII And that from thence to Satans gloomy Shades Made Prison for the damned Hades Thou miâ—ht'st Thy CONQUâ—ST shew Thy GLORY that ne're fades LXXXIII Thence loos'd Deaths Chains from BODY up to rear IT That when RAIS'D STATE THOU dost inherit THOU might'st become to us an ever-quickning SPIRIT LXXXIV The FATHER to reveal gives to his SON THEE HOLY GHOST thus THREE in ONE Of All peculiar SANCTIFYER yet not Alone LXXXV The FATHERS Love and SONS Adoptions Seal The SPRING of Sanctitie The WEAL O' th' Church THY SELF in Light of fiery Tongues reveal LXXXVI O LIGHT unscann'd Of Wisdom every Glance Beams only from Thy COUNTENANCE Whose STORE when empty'd most It self most doth advance LXXXVII Whose Fruits are Gentleness Peace Love and Joy All crown'd with Blisse free'd from Annoy Which neither Time World Death Hell Devil can destroy Lâ—XXVIII THOU art a Feast fram'd of that fruitfull Fare Which Hungers wast not but repair A rich Perfume no Windes can winnow into Air LXXXIX A Light unseen yet in each Place dost shine A Sound no Art can e're define A pure Embrace that Times Assault can n'ere untwine XC Flouds of unebbing Joyes from THEE do rowl Which
regain the Field XXXVIâ—I The SPIRIT is true GOD from Ever HE Did reign with BOTH The TRINITIE COEQUAL COETERNAL COESSENTIAL be XXXIX The FATHER 's full though th' SON hath All engrost Nor yet is ought of this All lost Though th' FATHER give HIM SELF to th' SON by th'Hâ—LY GHOST XL. For though HE freely thus give All his STORE Yet hath He INF'INITE as before Conceive for Glimpsâ—some â—some endless Spring or Mine of Ore XLI What Soul will have this TRIAD for his Book With Faith must on the Back-parts look For with HIS glorious FACE blind are ev'n SERAPHS strook XLII By Speculation from Sols Substanceâ— we The FATHER from its Splendor see The SON from 's Heat the HOLY GHOST Here One is Three XLIII The Intellect the Memory the Will Resemblance make o' th' TRINE These fill One Soul yet are distinct in outward Workings still XLIV Thus to restore from Fall we may descrie THE TRINITY in UNITY Inscrutable ABYSSE rebates our weaker Eye XLV Be Ever-Ever-Ever blest ô TRINE Ever UNITEDNESSE divine WHO dost as well in Ants as in ARCHANGELS shine XLVI The Principats Thrones Dominations all Archangels Pow'rs Coelestial Are Ministers attending on thy SOVERAIGN CALL XLVII The Government 'bove Star-embroidred Hall Thus truly is Monarchicall Where All are Kings and yet one KING does rule Them All XLVIII Lesse then the thousand Part I have exprest Mans Weaknesse cannot bear the Rest. For thy Expresselesse NATURE LORD be ever blest XLIX SOUL of all Sweets my Love Life Joy and Bliss To ' enjoy THEE'S Heav'n Hell THEE to misse What 's Earths Ev'n Heav'n hath its Beatitude from THIS L. Remove the Needle from the Pole-Star and 'T is still with trembling motâ—on fann'd Till it returns No Fixure but in GOD does stand LI. To Saints all other Objects prizelesse be In GOD the ALL of All we see Feast to the Taste all Beauty to the Sight is HE LII Musick to th' Ear and Those whom HE unites Partake with HIM in high'st DELIGHTS Spring-tides of Pleasures over-whelm their ravisht Sprites LIII But Contraries when opposite best show As Foils set Diamonds off we know See Hell where Caitives pine yet still their Tortures grow Lâ—V As Metals fierie Waves in Furnace swell That Founders run to cast each Bell This not endur'd more Rage ten thousand Times is Hell LV. Where Souls still rave adust with horrid Pain They tug they tear but all in vain For them from raging Smart HOPE never shall unchain LVI O that for trash these Esaus sold their BLISSE For Sin that worse than Nothing is This desperates their Rage How they blaspheme at This LVII This Viper clings corrodes 'gainst which no Ward GODS BEATIFICK SIGHT debarr'd Renders their Case 'bove all the Pains of Sense more hard LVIII O never-sated Worm unpity'd Woes Unintermitted what Sin owes Hell payes The Damn'd are Anvils to relentless Blowes LIX Fiends forfeit not their Energie There Cain Fries but for one Lamb by him slain O what Flames then shall Butchers of CHRISTS Flock sustain LX. Earths fatal Mischief prosp'rous Thief that Thunder Which tore the Nations all asunder Whom Just Fate flew i' th' Worlds Revenge that conqu'ring Wonder LXI That Ghost of Philips hot-brain'd Son may tell Heart-breaking Stories of his Hell Too late He findes one Soul did his whole World excel LXII There curs'd Oppressors dreadful Rackings feel Whose Hearts were Rocks and Bowels Steel O scorching Fire cryes Dives for one Drop I kneel LXIII Oblig'd is Man GODS Steward to supply Brethren in CHRIST Coheirs who lie Gasping in stiff'ning Frosts no Cov'ring but the Skie LXIV Whose wither'd Skins fear as the saplesse Wood Cleave to their Bones for want of food Seem Natures Monsters thrown a Shoar by Mis'ries Flood LXV Though all their Physick's but a Diet spare Have no more Earth than what they are Nor more o' th' World than Graves yet in Heav'ns Love they share LXVI Inestimable LOVE from None bereav'n HEAV'N sunk to Earth Earth mounts to HEAV'N Just JUDGE to Dives Hell to Laz'rus Heav'n is giv'n LXVII LOVE Disengage us of our selves LOVE has Nor Biâ— nor Reins Rich 'bove Earths Mass Fixt in Idaeas of LOVES Soul-inliv'ning GRACE LXVIII O LOVE ô HEIGHT above all Height to THINE Thy FAVOUR did to Foes encline Unmeasurable MEASURE endlesse END of Line LXIX LOVE darts all Thoughts to its BELOV'D doth place All BLISSE in waiting on His GRACE It languisheth with Hope to view HIM Face to Face LXX And ushers in that BEATIFICK LOVE Which so divinely flames Above And doth to VISION UNION and FRUITION move LXXI Ice is a thing distinct from th' Ocean wide But melted by the Sun does glide Into 't becomes one with 't and so shall e're abide LXXII Desire 's a Tree whose Fruit is Love the Show'rs That ripen it are Tears the Flow'rs Are Languors Leaves Afflictions Blossoms Pray'r-spent How'rs LXXIII O Mental PRAY'R thy Ioyes are high Resort By Thee 's to GOD Thou art the Port Of inward Peace from Storms The Path to SIONS Court LXXIV By Pray'r GOD's serv'd betimes Remember Who The Blessing got by Wrastling so Who early pray they healthy holy happy grow LXXV Then pray before Lights rosie Blush displayes I' th' Orient Sols enchearing Rayes When He from 's Opall East to West oblikely strayes LXXVI Before the Cock Lights Herald Day-break sings To 's Feathr'ie Dames ere roost Lark springs Morns Vsher when the Dawn its mungrell hour forth bringsâ— LXXVII PRAY'R Thou art Lifes best Act Souls silent Speech The Gate of GRACE Saints GOD beseech By Prayer but joyn'd with Alms Fasts they HIM besiege LXXVIII Fasting the Souls delicious Banquet can Adde Strength to PRAY'R feast th' inner Man And throw up to ETERNITY the Bodies Span LXXIX Fasts sackcloth ashes groveling on the ground SAINTS study'd have with Pain and found VVith Ioy that what degrades the Sense in HEAV'N is crow'nd LXXX Prize FAITH the Shield of Martyrs Ioyes Confection Souls Light the PROPHETS sure Direction Hopes Guide Salvations Path the Pledge of all Perfection LXXXI In Faiths mysterious EDEN make abode VVith Iacobs Staff and Aarons Rod Frequents its Grove where none are but the LOV'D of GOD LXXXII The Radiations of FAITHS Lamp excite Such a Colosse of sparkling Light That Saints through worldly Waves may steer Lifes Course aright LXXXIII Being in not of this World They Comforts rear Above the Pitch of servile Fear Terrestrial Blossoms first must die ere Fruit They bearâ— LXXXIV No clogging Fetters of impris'ning Clay No wry-mouth squint-ey'd Scoff can stay Their swift Progression soaring in their HEAV'NLY Way LXXXV Thoughts on the endlesse Weight of GLORY shall Render ev'n Crowns as Dung and all Afflictions light as Chaffe chas'd on Earths empty Ball. LXXXVI The Torch that shines in Night as Eye of Noon Is but as Darkenesse to the Sun Run after Shades they fly fly after Shades they run LXXXVII All worldly Gayes are Reeds without Support Fitly with Rain-bow gleames they
in the World or the least moâ—e in the Sun is of Force to make it true and very GOD For first It maketh it to be the first ESSENCE derived from none other 2. It maketh it to be but One because there cannot be two INFINITES where there are two there is Division where Division there is end of one and beginning of another and so no INFINITE 3. It maketh the Subject to be immaterial for no Matter can be INFINITE for a Body is contained and if contained not infinite being without Matter it is also without Passion for sola materia patitur and so becometh also immutable for there can be no Change without Passion 4. It maketh a thing to be immoveable for whatsoever moveth hath Bounds but in INFINITE there is no Bounds 5. The INFINITE THING is simple for in Composition there is Division and Quality and so by consequent Limits Thus INFINITENESSE distinguisheth from all Creatures and is first primary without Cause but existing absolutely in HIMSELF and of HIMSELF and is to all other Things the Cause and Beginning yet not diminishing HIM having all their Essence but no part of his ESSENCE from Him But ô here the most superlative Expressions of Eloquence are no other than meer Extenuations I tread a Maze and thread a Labyrinth on Hills of Ice where if I slip I tumble into Heresie I am with S. Peter in the Deep where without the Hand of POWER I should sink eternally and be swallowed up by the bottomlesse Gulf. The Prosecution of this Argument were fitter for the Pens of ANGELS than for the Sons of Corruption whereof we may say that if all should be written of INFINITENESSE not only the whole World but even Heaven It Self would not suffice to hold the Books which should be written I satisfie my Incapacitie with rejoycing in GODS Incomprehensibility And now descending from these amazing Heights know Reader that Divine Poesie is the internal Triumph of the Mind rapt with S. Paul into the third Heaven where She contemplates Ineffables 't is the sacred Oracles of Faith put into melodious Anthems that make Musick ravishing no earthly Jubilation being comparable to It It discovers the Causes Beginnings Progresse and End of Things It instructeth Youth comforteth Age graceth Prosperity solaceth Adversity pleaseth at Home delighteth abroad shortneth the Night and refresheth the Day No Star in the Sphear of Wisdom outshines It Natural Philosophy hath not any thing in it which may satisfie the Soul because that is created to something more excellent then all Nature but this Divine Rapture chains the Minde with harmonious Precepts from a divine Influence whose Operations are as subtle and resistlesse as the Influence of Planets teaching Mortals to live as in the Sight of GOD by whom the Coverts of the thickest Hypocrisie that white Devil are most cleerly seen thorough Now 't is Iudgement begets the Strength Invention the Ornaments of a Poem both These joyn'd form Wit which is the Agility of Spirits Vivacity of Fancie in a florid Style disposeth Light and Life to a Poem wherein the Masculine and refined Pleasures of the Vnderstanding transcend the feminine and sensual of the Eye From the Excellencie of Fancie proceed grateful Similies apt Metaphors c. Sublime Poets are by Nature strengthned by the Power of the Minde inflamed and by divine Rapture inspired They should have a plentiful stock to set up and manage it artfully their Conceptions should be choice brief perspicuous well-habited In Scripture Moses Iob David Solomon and others are famous for employing their Talents in this kinde S. Paul likewise cited three of the Heathen Poets whom he calls Prophets as evident Convictions of Vice and Demonstrations of Divinity viz. Epimenides to the Cretians Tit. 1. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Menander to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 15. 33. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Aratus to the Athenians Acts 17. 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From these Results I fell in love with our more divine and Christian Poesie observing that in the Sayings and Writings of our Blessed SAVIOUR and his Disciples there are no lesse than sixty Authorities produced from above fourty of Davids Psalms Hence from that high Love which hath no Weapons but fierie Rayes my Spirit is struck into a Flame to enter into the secret and sacred Rooms of Theologie and Reader if thou wilt not prejudice thine own Charity by miscrediting me I dare professe thou wilt neither repent of thy Cost or Time in reviewing these Intervall Issues of spiritual Recreation which may thus happily prove a pleasant Lure to thy pious Devotion May likewise thy Charity suggest to thy Belief that I have done my best to that End and if thou thinkest that I have wanted Salt to preserve them to Posterity know that the very Subject It self is Balsam enough to make them perpetual Delightest thou in a Heroick Poem If Actions of Magnanimity and Fidelitie advancing moral Vertue merit the Title of Heroick much more may THEOPHILA a Combatant with the World Hell and her own Corruptions gain an eternal LAUREL Whose Example and Precepts well follow'd will without Doubt bring Honour Joy Peace Serenity and Hopes full of Confidence The Composer hath extracted out of the even Mixture of Theorie and Action this cordial Water of saving Wisdom by distilling Them through the Limbeck of PIETY whereof they drink to their Souls Health who not only take it in as parched Earth does Rain but turn it into nourishment by a spiritual Digestion being made like It Divine This metrical Discourse of his serious Day to which he was led by Instigation of Conscience not Titillation of Fame inoculates Grafts of Reason on the Stock of Religion and wouldâ— have all put upon this important Consideration that the Life of Nature is given to seek the Life of GRACE which bringeth us to the Life of GLORIE the obtainment of which is his only Aim being fully perswaded that as every new Star gilds the Firmament and encreaseth its first Glorie So those who are Instruments of the Conversion of Others shall not only introduce new Beauties but when Themselves shine like other Stars in GLORY they shall have some Reflexions from the Light of Others to whose fixing in the Orb of HEAVEN they Themselves have been Instrumentall He would not run thee out of Breath by long-winded Strains for in a Poem as in a Prayer 't is Vigour not Length that crowns it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Taedia ut Ambages pariant nervosa Favorem Sic Brevitas Labor est non brevis esse brevem He wisheth it might be his Happinesse to meet with such Readers as discern the Analogie of Grounds as well as the Knowledge of the Letter and have as well a Systeme of Reason as the Understanding of Words yea such as have Iudgement and Affections refin'd and with THEOPHILA be Love-sick too which Love is never more eloquent than when ventilated in Sighs and Groans HEAVENS delighted Musick being in the
broken Consort of Hearts and Spirits the Will there accepted for the Work and the Desire for Desert Behold here in an Original is presented an Example of Life with Force of Precepts happy who coppy them out in their Actions Indeed Examples and Precepts are as Poems and Pictures for as Poems are speaking Pictures and Pictures are silent Poems so Example is a silent Precept and Precept a speaking Example And as Musick is an audible Beauty and Beauty a visible Musick So Precepts are audible Sweets to the Wise and Examples silent Harmony to the illiterate who may unclasp and glance on these Poems as on Pictures with Inadvertency yet He who shall contribute to the Improvement of the Author either by a prudent Detection of an Errour or a sober Communication of an irrefragable Truth deserves the venerable Esteem and Welcome of a good ANGEL And He who by a candid Adherence unto and a fruitful Participation of what is good and pious confirms Him therein merits the honourable Entertainment of a faithful Friend But he who shall â—â—â—duce him in Absence for what in Presence he would seem to applaud incurres the double Guilt of Flattery and Slander and he who wounds Him with ill Reading and Misprision does Execution on Him before Iudgement Now He who is the Way the Truth and the Life bring those to everlasting Life who love the Way and Truth in Sincerity The severall Cantos The Humiliation Restauration Inamoration Representation Association Contemplation Admiration The Recapitulation Praelibation Translations Abnegation Disincantation Segregation Reinvitation Termination Be pleased Reader first to correct these Typographical Errours Acres circumfert centum licèt Argus Ocellos Non tamen errantes cernat ubique Typos AT the bottom B4 Line 20. Read Ecstasies Pag. 1. Stanza 1. Strains p. 54. St. 23. Condescent p. 76. St. 71. Vnbounded p. 84. St. 25. Thee p. 106. St. 86. doth most 132. 31. non p. 144. rectifie the Figures p. 169. St. 60. repurgat 173. 90 eversis 203. 82. For. 214. l. 12. exanimes 217. l. 7. splendet 239. 29. didst 268. l. 25. Nectare c. PNEVMATO-SARCO-MACHIA OR THEOPHILA'S Spiritual Warfare THE Life of a true CHRISTIAN is a continual Conflict Each Act of the good Fight hath a Military Scene and our Blessed SAVIOUR coming like a Man of War commands in Chief under the FATHER who hath layed Help upon One that is Mighty by anointing him with the Holy GHOST and with Power This World is his pitched Field his Standard the Cross his Colours Blood his Armour Patience his Battle Persecution his Victory Death And in mystical DIVINITY his two-handed Sword is the Word and Spirit which wounds and heals and what is shed in this holy War is not Blood but Love his Trumpeters are Prophets and Preachers his Menacies Mercies and his Arrows Benefits When he offers HIMSELF to us He then invades us His great and small Shot are Volies of Sighs and Groans when we are converted we are conquer'd He bindes when He embraceth us In the Cords of Love He leads us Captives and kills us into Life when He crucifies the Old and quickens in us the New Man So then here is no Death but of inbred Corruptions No Slaughter but of carnal Affections which being Mortified the Soul becomes a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable unto GOD. WHEN that great Gen'ralissimo of all Infernal Ianizaries shall His Legions of Temptations raise enroul And muster Them 'gainst Thee my Soul And Ranks of Pleasures Profits Honours bring To give a Charge on the right Wing And place his dreadful Troops of deadly Sins Upon the Left with murth'ring Gins And draw to his main Bodie thousand Lusts And for Reserve wherein he trusts Shall specious Sanctities Brigade provide Whose Leader is spiritual Pride And having treacherously laid his Trains In Ambush under Hope of Gains By sinning as so many Scouts to finde Each March and Posture of thy Mind Then Soul sound an Alarm to FAITH and presse Thy ZEAL to be in Readinesse And leavie all thy Faculties to serve Thy CHIEFE Take PRAY'R for thy Reserve Under the Conduct of his SPIRIT See Under the Banner that they be Of thy SALVATIONS CAPTAIN Then be sure That all thy Out-works stand secure Yet narrower look into th' indenting Line Of thy ambiguous Thoughts Designe With constant Care a Watch o're every Part Ev'n at thy Cinque-ports and thy Heart Set Centinels Let FAITH be Captain o're The Life-Guard standing at the Dore Of thy well-warded Breast Disloyal Fear That corresponds with Guilt cashear Nor let Hypocrisie sneak in and out Thy Garrison with that Spie Doubt The Watch-word be IMMANUEL Then set Strong Parties of thy Tears and let Them still to salie forth prepared stand And but expect the Souls Command Waiting until a blest Recruit from HIGH Be sent with GRACES free Supplie Thus where the LORD of Hosts the Van leads there Triumphant Palms bring up the Rere TO MY FANCIE UPON THEOPHILA FLy FANCIE Beauties arched Brow Darts wing'd with Fire thence sparkling flow From Flash of Lightning Eye-balls turn Contracted Beams of Chrystal burn Wave Curls which Wit Gold-tresses calls That golden Fleece to Tinsel falls EVade Thou peach-bloom Cheek-Decoies Where both the Roses blend false Joyes Presse not the two-leav'd Rubie Gates Which fence their Pearl-Portcullis Grates Suck not the Breath though it return Fragrant as Phoenix spicie Urn. LOck up thine Ears and so disarm The Magick of inamoring Charm The lily'd Breasts with Violets vein'd Are Flow'rs as soon deflowr'd as gain'd Love-loâ—ks Perfume Paint Spots dispraise These by the Black-Art Spirits raise GArnish no Bristows with rich Mine Glow-worms are Vermin though they shine Should one Love-knot All Lovelies tie This One These All soon cloy and die Cupid as lame as blinde being gone Live One with HIM WHO made Thee One AVoid exotick Pangs o' th' Brain Nor let thy Margent blush a Stain With artful Method Misc'line sow May Iudgement with Invention grow Profit with Pleasure bring to th' Test Be Oar refin'd before imprest PAsse Forge and File be Point and Edge 'Gainst what severest Browes alledge Mix Balm with Ink Let thy Salt heal T' each Palate various Manna deal Have for the Wise strong Sense deep Truth Grand-Sallet of choice Wit for Youth CUll Metaphors well-weigh'd and clear Enucle'ate Mysteries to th' Ear. Be Wit Stenography'd yet free 'T is largest in Epitome Fly through Arts Heptarchie be clad With Wings to soar but not to gad THy Pineons raise with mystick Fire Sometimes 'bove high-roof't Sense aspire So draw THEOPH'LA that each Line Centring in HEAV'N may seem Divine Her Voice soon fits Thee for that Quire W' are cindred by intrinsick Fire MAgnetick VIRTUE' 's in her Brest Impregn'd with GRACE the noblest GUEST Who in LOVES Albo are enrol'd Unutterable Joyes behold Geographers Earths Globe survey Fancie HEAVN'S Astrolabe display SIx hast thou view'd of Europs Courts Soon as Idaeas pass'd their Sports Sense canst thou perse and construe Blisse Only