have a place Amongst the saved ones which made us bold Our sinful courses and vain ways to hold Believing that if saved we might be We must be turn'd in irresistibly And if not so we should but toil in vain Against the stream from vices to abstain And to obtain the Kingdom of the just For do we what we could perish we must Or otherwise their life and doctrine did Imbolden us to do the things forbid They made us to believe that because we Baptised were with water we must be Happy at last if we did but comply So far with the Churches authority As therein to be kept though we did rest But in formalities we must be blest Or if but once we true believers were We could ne'r fall away of that no fear However we might sin and do such things As upon others swift destruction brings Wo worth false Prophets who have us deceived While we them as true Prophets have believed Because they were the men that had the voice Of those that were impowred to make choice Of men to teach us and had publikely Approvement by humane Authority Though they were Ministers only of men And knew not God how could they teach us then Gods truth sincerely They were but time-servers Men pleasers and from God's good doctrine swervers And of the Souls of men they were the starvers Wo worth them that they did not us reprove When they did see us sin they no such love Had to our Souls but seeking gain from us They sooth'd us up and now we are lost thus Wo worth the loose Professors Hypocrites Who oft lay'd stumbling-blocks before our sights While they did their profession fouly stain By falshood cheating or behaviours vain Which made us all Religion to detest And think those who had none to be the best Wo worth our manifold Idolatries Wherein forsaking God we worship'd lies Made Idols of the Angels Devils Men Both dead and living yea and now and then Our fancies bellies works them bowing to And other creatures looking help them fro Our worshipping the Beast and his Image Our beastly wills and those in every age Who lording it over our Conscience Imposed on us their own will and sense Wo worth those superstitions and devis'd Ways and conceptions whereby men disguis'd God and his worship causing us full low To those things God forbad our selves to bow Wo worth our taking of God's name in vain By oaths and perjuries and by prophane Abuses of it and formality While resting in the formes we did deny The power os godliness and not such fruit Bring forth as with that worthy Name did suite Wo worth our breaches of Gods Sabboaths and Our disobedience to the command Of Kings and Princes which they lawfully Imposed on us that Authority We did despise contemn the Magistrates Seditions and Rebellions wrought in States Our Parents disobey'd or did not give The honour due to them while they did live Wo worth our envy murther strife debate Our malice slanderous words that sprung from hate Wo worth our fornications uncleanness Our thefts oppressions bearing false witness Wo worth the time that we were discontent With what God of his goodness to us sent And coveted our Neighbours wo that we Did in our selves trust righteous to be Did justifie our selves in our own eyes Thought our selves wise and good Did Christ despise Accursed be these wicked wretched Devils For they inticed us to all these evils Accursed be the Heavens over our head Accurst the Earth whereupon we did tread Accurst the Sun that gave by day its light By which such objects were unto our sight Made visible as moved us to do The things that have occasioned this woe Accursed also be the Night and dark Thereof wherein what places we did mark I' th' day time we brake through or went unto The deeds of darkness therein for to do Accurst the bread we eat the nourishment Our food afforded oh him that it sent Who made the Heavens and Earth and Seas and all And-suff'red Adam into sin to fall And gave such laws as would not sin permit And that doth now so greatly punish it Oh wretched Caytiffs that thus blaspheme God! Because we feel his just deserved rod. Oh 't is our selves that we may blame for this We we were wicked and we did amiss God we despised his will we contemned We lifted up our selves and him condemned All might have been to us too for mercy As well as unto those that are on high God gave us Heaven and Earth and Seas and all The creatures that therein were great and small Of his great bounty for to do us good But we abus'd them and against him stood We lov'd them more then him who gave them and Priding our selves in them we his command Did disobey Him who is infinite In greatness and in goodness we did slight Did chuse what wrong was and refus'd the right Against such things 't was just there should be laws The penalties are just also because He 's infinite in greatness we abused And his infinite goodness we refused Yea he was infinitely merciful For he his Son sent down us for to pull Both from our sins and miseries and he Was ready us to succor But we we Neglected him also his help we scorn'd Slighted his mercy and though oftn warn'd We would not be admonish'd by him but His gratious counsels all we from us put Oh what good days what opportunities Did he afford but we did them despise At such a time in such a place we heard What us almost perswaded to regard His counsels but we stopt our ears and quencht Those motions oft we went our ways and drencht Our wits in Wine or Ale or went away Unto our Farms our Merchandise our play We were not well at quiet or at rest Till we those motions had shakt from our brest Which we did hate like Serpents oh had we Been willing to have let them there to be Had they abode with us they might have brought Us to repent of those bad things we wrought When we should have God's word heard oft we went To other places and our times mispent Or if we went and heard we did not mind That we God's gracious will therein might find We soon forgot it or did rest in knowing But practised it not as nothing owing Of duty when we should have pray'd and wept We turn'd away or lay'd us down and slept At such a time we did our ways discern And see their vileness and began to learn The knowledge of the Lord but liked not It to retain and therefore soon forgot Those things again we threw the glass away That shew'd our spots Wo wo and well-a-day 'T is we 't is we are guilty oh what sense Have we now of it in our Conscience Oh how it gnaws us as a worm and tears Our bowels worse then Lyons teeth or Bears Oh now we see that God was good indeed In all he did our
wish yet many things He then wants not fore-sees with her she brings A many other wants or sond desires Now she his company and heart requrires Now he her will must sarisfie his pleasure With her must take so that he hath no leisure Now left to seek the Lord on her to wait And her to hu on it sit and char or prate With her he must or else go walk or ride Go build her a fair house maintain her pride This thing to alter or that thing to mend In Gardning Planting building his time spend Take care he may maintain her in good fashion Take heed he put her not into a passion By taking of such courses God to find As cross her principles disturb her mind He must think how to live his Family Provide for Children get and multiply So bring them up and get such means for them As credit they may have none them contemn So that he who would not attend before To seek and walk with God hath now much more To keep him back and thinkd he may excuse Himself when bidden and the feast refuse Whereto God calls him He may stay at home Send word I have a wife I cannot come As if he badly might obey the call Before but now he cannot come at all So 't is with women too if they cannot Mind to seek God till they have husbands got Conceiting then they shall be be ter fit The knowledge of the Lord to seek and get They do deceive themselves for when they have An husband then his consent they must crave They must seek him to please and not offend This for him they must make and that thing mend Do nothing that may not 〈◊〉 with his mind For fear they make him unto them unkind Unless as 't is sometimes the Womans guise Thinking themselves for their Husbands too wise They scorn to be rul'd by them Strive to get The Master-ship as for them far more fit They must conceive in â—oâ—â—ows and bring forth With pain and anguish such as oft woe worth Those pleasures brought those pains they haply cry Yea many things they need to make or buy Before the Birth-time have many 〈◊〉 boâ—â—ts Bufie themselves to make their Children Clouts Trim up their houses after nurse their young Gossip sometimes their neighbours too among Oft times conceive again bring forth another Before the former children can call Mother That now less time they have to hear and mind The Word of God and seek his grace to find Then formerly and such things doubtless made Th' Apostle to advise such as were stayd And could contain themselves rather t' abide In single life than change their state and bride So likewise when a man must riches get Before he can in serious manner set His heart to seek the Lord he either never Attains to riches though he them endeavour At least to what he riches thinks and calls Or if he doth yet usually he falls Into so many snares and foolish lusts By them while secretly in them he trusts And makes then as his Gods and takes delight To have them often in his thoughts or sight Or is so fil'd with cares how them to keep Or fears of losing them that oft his sleep He thereby breaks and fils his Head and heart With many cumbring thoughts and paâ—â—ful smart He must when rich now all things else provide Suitable to his state He now must ride On a well mâ—â—â—ed Steed must at his hand Have one or two to be at his command He must inlarge his house or it new build And garnish all thing both in house and feild Must be in form and figure He must get Acquaintance with such persons as be fit For his now better company and them He then must humour least they him contemn He must now keep such correspondency With greater persons as he may thereby Some reputation in the world obtain He must take heed of too godly a strain Least he thereby his riches should neglect Or purchase with the World some disresnect Yea riches fills his head his heart his hands With so much caercise oft as it stands Not with a serious giving up his mind To seek to know the Lord and him to find Or in the knowledge of him rightly walk For his estate to save he oft must balk Such uprightness as grace would lead him to And make such shifts as bring his overthrow His house his landy or living now doth bind Him so unto the earthy his heart so wind Into the love of them that very oft He is away from God for ever caught So that while men do think to mend the matter And make their cases better they but flatter Themselves with vain pretences and will find That they have much mistaken in their mind And what they thought were they but pleased there Would further them doth now a let appear Chr There was a certain rich man who had ground The fruits whereof when grown did so abound That he far more then for the present year Provided was yet did not his heart there Find such content as that with thankfulness To God because his Grounds he did so bless Receiving what was sent and laying by What thereof might be fit for his supply He what beyond his room for it was more With cheerfulness divided to the poor And gave himself on Gods word to attend And so receive as his life to mend And yield himself to serve the Lord nor sought How he unto his Kingdom might be brought But on the contrary finding that he Should want some room wherein his fruits might be All stored up perplered was in mind How room sufficient for them all to find And after many thoughts thereof at last Thus for his satisfaction he forecast I 'le pull my Barns down thinks he and I 'le build Far bigger up where what my lands do vield I 'le treasure up in safety and though 't will Take up some time this purpose to fulfill And put me to some cost and trouble yet When that is over I this fruit shall get I 'le then compose my self to rest and ease Eat drink be merry and so I will please My soul for all its troubles I will say Soul thou hast goods laid up for many a day Nay here 's enough to serve thee many a year Thou mayst all further care and toile forbear No fear of want but in the mean time lo A voice from God came this rich man unto Which thus bespeaks him Ah thou silly fool Thou shalt not live another day thy soul For which thou only hast provided here Upon the earth and nought in heaven where Wise men for it provide this night shall be By my grim messengers requir'd of thee And then who shall all those thy fruits possess With thoughts whereof thou dost thy soul so bless And with the cares whereof thou now thy soul So exercisest like a silly fool And such a fool is every one who makes Much
him up as if he were Divine Both in his own esteem and others eyes Who as a Demi-God account him wise Though when all this subserves the flesh and evil It brings men to be fitter for the Devil Chr. This carnal wisdom 's that that doth mislead The world this the false Prophets which are dead Misguided and seduced while thereon They lean'd and learn'd there-from their vision The which while unto others they it told They led them into mischiefs manifold Yea 't is no other then that foolish Woman Which Solomon speaks of which doth undo Man The worldly spirit that is clamorous And lowd and subtle and industrious To call in passengers who go right on The path that leadeth to Salvation To her deceits which though she nothing know Aright pretendeth unto men to show The better path Yea the old Serpent by it Deludeth those that simply magnifie it And who with these possest are hearten on Themselves and others to destruction While by their fond inticements and their rude Examples wicked counsels and most lewd Temptations many poor Souls they draw in Into the snares and false deceits of sin To turn their backs on me and on my calls Despise my counsells and leap o're the walls And bounds I set to keep them from the ways Which lead to utter ruin all their days But oh dear Soul beware and take good heed Of all the flatt'ries which from them proceed They speak of pleasant things their words are smooth They tickle thee and in thy sins thee sooth Their way is easie broad and wide but mind And I will tell thee what an end thou 'lt find If thou adhere to them they will deceive thee And of all happiness they 'll quite bereave thee And to eternal woe they 'll surely bring thee And to provoke me quite away to fling thee Into that lake prepar'd for those that scorn My Counsels Better thou had'st nere been born Minist That thou may'st this believe I will thee shew Wherein they do abuse thee and what 's true Attend unto me therefore yet again And mind how we the matter do explain Do'st thou not hear how they in their discourse Do talk of nature thereby to inforce Thee to conceit that there 's no God but that All things that are do happen by some fate Or fortune or some other way which by The name of Nature they call wickedly Though sometimes too the word God they do name The better thee t' insnare their talk to frame Lift up thine eyes Behold the Heavens above The Sun the Moon the glistering Stars which move In their due constant motions and do give Their light and influence to all that live See what great glory is on them How rare Their beauty and their comely order are Doth not their glory beauty order all Their motions and their influences call Thee to confess a greater power which gave Them what Beings and what virtues they have Look down below behold the Earth which bears So many various creatures on 't and wears Such party colour'd garments and brings forth Upholds and cherishes of diverse worth Innumerable things inanimate Stones Mettals Minerals and animate Indued with various formes and different Degrees of life which both the continent And Isles produce either Vegetative As Plants of divers kinds or things alive Which Sense and Loco-motion have as Beasts And Birds and creeping things things reasonless Behold the Seas their ebbings flowings waves Where many thousands oft have made their graves Where fishes of all sorts do swim and play Where many gallant Ships do find a way Through divers dangers all-about to coast From port to port to seek out where the most Advantage to their owners they make For all the pains and hazards they do take Behold thy self and mankind who obtain An higher excellence of life the main Endowments of a reasonable Soul And understanding whereby to controul The greater creatures which both Land and Sea Produce and into all the things that be Assay to peirce and there about discourse And descant which is better which is worse From whence are all these things who to them gave Those various formes and properties they have Can'st be so blind as not clearly to see By all these things that there 's a Deity An unseen Power and Mind that is most wise And is Almighty too that could devise So glorious and so great a Fabrick and Them in that order set wherein they stand What! can it be believed to be true That by some Atoms which together flew By some strange hap their Beings they received Whence came those Atoms or can't be believed That these things could each other make whereas We see that Man can nothing bring to pass Or make of nothing though he greater be Then any other thing that thou can'st see In active power to contrive and do Such things as th' other can't attain unto Nay he can neither life give nor preserve Unto himself or others they much swerve Who think there is not some thing far above Which doth him marvailously in his love Uphold and save through all the dangers great Which death and ruin often to him threat Now if thou this believe which all things Preach That there 's a glorious God which to impeach Is the great thing thine enemies endeavour That so they might thee wholly from him sever Consider well why should He man endue With such like faculties by which what 's true What 's false he may inquire and search into And understand as it is given also By which also he 's capable of choise And may obey or disobey the voice Of such a law or rule as may impose Upon him to do these things forbear those At least when and so far as he 's set free From such intanglements as on him be Is it not that as he hath power to give Laws to himself and others He might live Under the Law of that great power Supreme Which over all the rest advanced him When he commands his fellows shall not he By his Creator too commanded be Shall he receive from him such benefits As to oblige him and be lawless It s But meet he should acknowledge him from whom His life strength reason and his knowledge come And who all things daily provides and gives Of his mere bounty whereupon he lives Seeing he is made capable thereof As no creature besides is Is' t enough That he live as the Beasts after his will And brutish appetite who hath the skill To act much higher and hath such a spirit As may be made Religious may demerit Gods bounty by ingratitude or can So well or ill act towards God or Man As to offend his maker or obtain Approvement from him shall it be in vain That he is capable to understand And to receive of God divine command Why should it not be believed be that when God such capacities hath given to men He should so further gracious to him be As to reveal
he In leading them there-through by day and night Both by a shady cloud and fiery light In giving them from Heaven Angels bread Wherewith for forty years they were all fed In causing flinty Rocks to give them drink When they through thirst seemed to be at pits brink How did he by a Serpent made of brass Erected heal their wounds and made them pass Safely through mid'st of swelling Seas and floods Drave out seaven Nations and their lands and goods Divided to his people to possess That they his Name for evermore might bless And all might see That they who serve God have A great preserver who them all will save And recompence with good and that To Bliss The only certain way to serve God is How did he ruddy David while a youth Because he served him in upright truth Take from the sheep-folds and with oyl anoint him And to rule over Israel appoint him And though he from Saul's envy suffred much While he Gods favour did unto him grutch And many dangers too of death sustain'd Before the Crown and Kingdom he obtain'd Yet how did God him keep uphold and save In many a desert mountain hill and cave Till having humbled him he his promise Remembred and cut off his enemies Gave him the Sovereign power and government So that he ruled long with great content Inlarg'd his Territories and increast His power among the great ones of the East Till in his great prosperity he fell Into the sins whereof the Scriptures tell When that it might appear that God regards Mens actions and unto them gives rewards And punishments according thereunto He met with sad corrections and much woe Though mixt with mercies manifold because He did through grace repent and to my laws Return How strangely did he Mordecay And the Jews help whom Haman sought to slay Turning upon his Head those evils which He for them had devis'd into the ditch He for them dig'd he himself was cast down That thereby both Gods favour and his frown He might at once declare How helped he Those worthies which are call'd the children three They walkt in mid'st of fiercest flames no smell Of fire their garments had when they down fell Dead at the furnace mouth who east them in Such difference is 'twixt righteousness and sin How helpt he Daniel in the Lyons den And him deliver'd when those very men Destroy'd were who devis'd his ruine How Did he oft help his servants when brought low In times of Macchabees and all along When they dispersed were and suff'red wrong How helped he the holy men that dy'd In faith of me whom the World crucifi'd Through many Storms and Tempests by the rage Of persecutors rais'd in every age For love of me they willingly did yield To Death so as by Death they won the field Triumphing over every worst torment That was devised by the curst Serpent And his inraged instruments until By their deaths and their doctrine they did fill The World with fruits and made proud error fall Before the truth confessed by them all For those same ignominious Deaths and crosses Those heavy sufferings and most grievous losses Whereat the World doth stumble and whereby They with the Devil in confederacy Endeavour to affright thee from my Word More comfort and more glory far afford Then all those pleasures and those braveries By which they do bewitch the mind unwise Yea many have more peace and joy exprest In cruel Deaths through me then they who rest And quiet in the World injoy as far As a glow-worm's exceeded by a Star Of greatest magnitude or by the Sun Which with great glory doth its courses run Which moved Moses though both Learn'd and Wise The riches of all Egypt to despise And all its pleasures to take part with those Who suff'red great oppressions from their foes For sake of me because he well perceived That greater glory then can be believed Is thence received yea more then can be found Form all the best injoyments of this Round Who are more honour'd in this World's esteem Then they who do their life and blood out teem And many watchings fastings combates great And hardships suffer which each hour them threat To do their Countrey service or maintain Its liberties or greater rule to gain Unto it and shall those who for the sake Of their most high creator undertake His truth and Kingdom to assert be thought The only persons to be set at nought Or be the worse accounted because they Do many cruel things sustain all day Are they not therefore far more worthy praise For suff'ring so great things so divers ways The worst of Deaths and Torments that the wit And malice both of Men and Devils knit Together could devise and bear the shame Of vilest imputations for my Name Shews it not forth their greater love to me And is' t not meet I should so loved be Who for their sakes my state of glory left And suffered my self to be bereft Of all things even of life and to sustain The greatest agonies in Soul and pain In body even the dreadful curse to bear Of God's most righteous Law because they were Thereof the breakers and thereby concluded To be from Gods most joyful sight extruded Is it not too a commendation to My person and my kingdom that they so Dare suffer for them for therein they show That they such excellencies in them know That for the sake thereof they do contemn The greatest mischeifs can be done to them Rather then be thereof depriv'd yea sure The patience too wherewith they do endure Their gloryings also and great joys therein Which often in that case exprest hath been Unlike to those who suffer otherwise Some excellency clearly testifies In what they suff'red for and that they found Some such strong satisfactions to abound As nothing in this World can them afford But only the Divine power of the Lord. And sure if they who for their Countrey dye With Monuments and Trophies gloriously Are honour'd and the more by how much they More willingly and greater suff'rings may Have undergone those ignominious things Which the confession of my doctrine brings Through Sathan's and the World's malice upon My followers as oft times it hath done Their glory and their praise esteemed should be And so they are esteemed too of me And of my Father who will recompence Such glory to them as such patience And love to him and me may challenge yea According as of us they taken be Of our great grace and favour who account Them worthy of such glories as surmount All humane merit and though they do owe Such service to us yet great things bestow By way of recompence such as surpass All humane understanding as far as The Heavens exceed the Earth or th' Ocean large Exceeds the compass of some Boat or Barge For 't is the glory of the Majesty Of God to give rewards exceeding high As Kings give gifts like Kings and not like those
Whose greatest riches is a suite of cloaths Min. For though the righteous God his judgments now Both on the good and on the bad doth show Yet they are but a small part of that Doom Which shall at length to either of them come A little demonstration of a Judge And of a judgment which shall them that grudge Against Gods Being and his Providence Which both of good and bad hath perfect sense Wholly confute and strike into silence A Judge who judgment too doth execute According to mens doings and their fruit But yet that all the Judgments doth not here Pass upon Good or Bad may hence appear Firstly for that all those who wicked be And whose great wickedness all men may see Receive not here condigne punishment For their offences but oft having spent Their times in vanity the poor oppressing And widdows of their rights too dispossessing Contemning God yea who blasphem'd his Name Women and Maids defil'd and in the same Have gloryed and many other crimes Have perpetrated yet such oftentimes Are taken hence with no such stroke as may It evidence that God on them doth lay The punishment of their offences great But they dye quietly in their own seat Even as that gluttonous rich man who far'd Deliciously each day and never spar'd To satisfie his lusts but yet the poor Suff'red to lye neglected at his door Even he his days in pleasures spent and when His time was come to dye like other men He died and was buried in great state So as men could not therein see Gods hate Can it be thought the righteous Judge of all Will suffer those whom he doth wicked call And against whom his wrath 's upon record To scape unpunished and break his word Will he be partial punish but a few The greatest part dispense with of that crue No verily There is a time to come When every wicked man shall have his doom Again when every wilful breach of law Doth dreadful punishments upon men draw Who so offend and are impenitent Can it be judg'd to be sufficient For millions of such sins that one such stroke Should take away the sinners who provoke God every day to strike shall such an end As something of just vengeance doth portend Not very much beyond the common fate Which all mankind abides be for the hate Of God and goodness which they always bear From day to day yea oftimes many a year Full recompence for how much greater pain Did Pharoah when drown'd in the Sea sustain Or Haman when he was hang'd up on high Then is the common pain of all that dye There was some publike shame and sodainness And some such violence as might express A righteous hand of God but yet the same Occurrences of violence and shame Are but what men by their laws oftentimes Do judge men to for some such hainous crimes As treason and rebellion against them And shall such persons as do God contemn Sustain no greater punishment then they Deserve who mortal men but disobey Nay verily but as God greater is Then greatest men so they who do amiss Against his law and government shall such Great punishments sustain as do as much Exceed the punishments from men as he Exceeds them in his power and high degree And what befals them now is far from all The punishment that shall upon them fall Besides though they who serve God find supports In their afflictions and have great comforts From him when they are persecuted for His name and truth confessed by them or For tryal of their faith or for increase Of virtue or to cause that they may cease From what offends him though they do sustain Much trouble and affliction grief and pain And though ofttimes he signally them save From greatest dangers yet they sure shall have Far greater things then those a recompence Beyond what here they have for they go hence Ofttimes with great reproaches crosses shame And dye reputed worthy of great blame Yea are cut off by cruel Death because They durst not violate Gods holy laws Can it be thought that that great God whom they So constantly through so great griefs obey Will not their service and their love regard So as the same openly to reward With such rewards as with his greatness suite And may to all eternity confute His enemies that do blaspheme his Name And put his service to rebuke and shame Yes verily as his with patience Bear greatest troubles with great confidence Of an after reward sufficient To recompence the blood which they have spent And all that they have parted with and born For his Names sake a Crown that shall be worn By them to all eternity a Crown Of heavenly glory eternal renown A recompence beyond the thoughts of man Yea such as no Angel express it can They shall receive from him who notice takes Of all their suff'rings and inquiry makes After their blood He 'll not their hope deceive But give them even beyond what they believe Christ Know then dear Soul that there 's another day A time when Heaven and Earth shall flee away When God shall judge the World in righteousness And give to them who here his truth confess Unspeakable rewards and the unjust Into eternal fire and torments thrust Unto which purpose I who was abas't And suffer'd so great things for to lay waste The pow'r and kingdom of the enemy And for the sakes of sinful men did dye And being raised up went up on high And am set down in royal Majesty On Gods right hand shall in great glory come To execute the judgment and the doom Of my eternal Father and to give Rewards to men according as they live Those who with hate repay me I 'll destroy And fill my lovers with eternal joy And who so fit as I man's Judge to be Who am both God and Man and all things see In God and Man Being Gods glorious Word Made of man Flesh and am made sovereign Lord Of Men and Angels and do fully know What God hath done for man what man doth owe To God again Man may be sure I will Not undeservedly him destroy or kill Seeing I his most loving Saviour am Who him to save down from my Father came Yea into Death and Hell went down that I Might thence redeem man and lâ—ft him on high Nor can I be unrighteous both for that I 'm one with God and all unright things hate And 't was unrighteousness for to destroy That I appear'd in righteousness I joy Yea 't is a just reward that I who were Unjustly judged and condemned here Should be exalted to that glorious height To sit as Judge of what is wrong what right And judge my Judges yea since I thereby The power have to forgive sins who as I So fit to judge To which in Gods season I shall appear in glory on the Throne With honour and with Majesty bedeckt When all before me without all respect Of persons I shall
then they Shall shout and sing and well they may thus say Oh oh oh Hallelujah oh this day Oh oh Hallelujah Hallelujah who may Our happiness conceive oh happy state What heart can reach it what tongue it relate Minist Yea well they may as Harpers strike their string And with great triumph thus and better sing I. HAllelujah oh happy day That ever we were born Oh well are we that we do see This everlasting morn II. Oh what are we That we should be Thus lifted up on high We did not merit Thus to inherit Honour and dignity III. Blest be the Lamb That here we came Rais'd up from Death again 'T is by his blood We have this good Ever with him to reign IV. Blessed for all that did befall Be God for evermore Oh blessed be that one in three Whom ever we adore V. Who can set forth His wond'rous worth It doth all things surpass It doth exceed All that we read And all that ever was VI. Oh happy we who do him see Who all perfection is No Potentate no Monarch great Ever had joy like this VII Rivers of pleasures Beyond all measures Unto our lot doth fall No mixture is In this our bliss But it is blessing all VIII All things we have That heart can crave And more then heart can reach None ever could This joy unfold None ever could it preach IX Our joy surmounts On all accounts All that we could believe All praise is due To God most true He did us not deceive X. Oh glorious sight Oh great delight None ever did behold So rare a sight A light so bright Our glory can't be told XI All 's infinite All is delight We have no sorrow here Nothing of dark No fading spark All is most bright and clear XII All All is love All things above And all that is below We see no evil We fear no Devil Nothing but good we know XIII Nothing but joy Nought to annoy Here we are void of fear For we are sure We shall endure For ever happy here XIV Oh Majesty Oh glory high What one is like to thee We 've our desire Thee we admire To all eternity XV. Our blessedness None can express It is an ocean great All that excels For ever dwells In this most glorious seat XVI Blest be the Lord Blest be his Word Blest be his holy Spirit How happy we In this One-Three Our portion to inherit XVII Oh mighty King Everlasting Beginning thou had'st none When nothing were Then thou wast there Thou wast thy self alone XVIII In thy self blest Thou had'st thy rest Of us thou had'st no need Thou did'st possess Full happiness Thou' rt happiness indeed XIX Of thy good will It to fulfil The Worlds foundation sure By thee was lay'd Thou it up-stay'd At thy will to endure XX. The Word thou said'st All things thou mad'st Oh blessed be that Word Which did Being To every thing In thy good time afford XXI Blest be that love That did thee move Before the World was made To be the seat Of thy works great Or its foundations laid XXII To think of this Eternal bliss And it prepare for us Oh what were we That then by thee We should be car'd for thus XXIII Blest be that thought That us out sought And our great happiness We do admire The great desire Thou had'st us thus to bless XXIV Could we be dear Who nothing were Unto thy Majesty Thou did'st possess That word express Which was with thee on high XXV All things were made By him and lay'd On their foundation fast That they might stand At thy command And at thy will might last XXVI 'T was for his sake That thou did'st make Invisible Beings The Angels Thrones Dominions And all visible things XXVII That him thou might And his great height Most gloriously display And his fulness Thereby express That others know it may XXVIII But cheifly man When thou began Thou gratiously did'st view From him all which The Seas did rich And on the Earth that grew XXIX Yea the Heavens bright With all their light And all the hosts therein Thine hand did frame And gave the same To serve and honour him XXX Whom thou in thine Image divine Did'st good and upright make And from his side Did'st frame a Bride Whom he to him did take XXXI A comely pair And very fair For though they naked were They found no shame While void of blame Nor had they any fear XXXII A Sabboath day For rest had they The seventh when thou didst rest From thy works all Both great and small And therefore thou it blest XXXIII A day wherein They without sin Might with thy Majesty Have sweet converse Thy praise rehearse And view thy great glory XXXIV A Garden sweet With pleasures meet Thou put'st them in also Wherewith delight Thy will they might Learn of thee and it do XXXV Of life a Tree Was given by thee That they might live for ay A River large Which did discharge Its streams forth every way XXXVI All things that might Give them delight Thou on them didst bestow One only Tree Withheld by thee Was good and ill to know XXXVII Thou gav'st them food Was only good Not good and evil both If both they would Know thou them told Thou would'st with them be wroth XXXVIII Thou death didst threat If they would eat That so thou might'st them scar That free from ill They might live still And from death keep them far XXXIX Yet them to try Thou prov'dst them by A Serpent subtly wise Who thee did fault Them to assault And cheated them with lies XL. The Woman first The bonds did burst Wherewith thou did'st them tye Unto thee fast The Man did taste By her means both did dye XLI How happy a state Did'st thou create And set them in while they Were innocent Without intent Thy laws to disobey XLII Man then was Lord Of what thy word Created for his sake Of all things he Had leave from thee But one Tree to partake XLIII Pleasures he had To make him glad Sabboath and River too A spotless Wife A Tree of Life What should'st thou for him do XLIV How great his good How might he stood How was he bound to thee His glory much No creature's such But oh more happy we XLV Our state exceeds Beyond all needs There was a Serpent there They did aspire To be yet higher But here 's no Tempter here XLVI We are not in Danger of sin Nor need we to aspire Here 's injoyment Of all content We nothing more desire XLVII Tempted we were But before here We came to be thus blist Our tryal's past Sathan's down cast And we his snares have mist XLVIII Now we do rest For ever blest From all temptations free Our danger 's past Our joys shall last To all eternity XLIX This is the day That we did pray And wrestle to obtain From sin set free With thee to be And never part again L. 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Thee they show'd In Thee we have them here 72. Thou the beginning art Of Gods Creation good The ground most strong and firm whereon All things were built and stood 73. Thou art the perfect LIGHT Thou our of carkness shone And made us see things as they be Light out of Thee there 's none 74. In earth Thou art the Plant Of honour and renoun The righteous root whence issu'd out What ever God doth own 75. Thou Root of David art Whence all his hopes did spring Of that Kingdom which now is come Whereof Thou art the King 76. Thou art the fruitful Vine That doth that grape forth beare Which God and man heartily can And have refresht with chear 77. Thy full obedience And pretious blood out shed Reliev'd our hearts in all our smarts And God fully pleased 78. Thou art the stately Palm And Olive fresh and green With weights opprest thou grewst up best Thou' rt always lively seen 79. Thou art the green Firt-Tree Whence all our fruits abound And the Apple-Tree where under we Have fragrant shadow found 80. Thine Apples oftentimes Have us most chearful made Flagons of Wine from Thee our Vine Oft times our hearts have staid 81. Like Cedar tall and strong Which useth not to rot Such is thy raign which doth remain Firm and decayeth not 82. The stone of Israel And aged Rock thou art The precious stone Foundation To stay and strength the heart 83. Thou art the Pearl of price For whom we all things sold The Silver of strength whence days of length Thou' rt the most precious Gold 84. Among the waters thou The Sea and Ocean art Whence all do flow to which all owe The good they do impart 85. All good from Thee proceeds And unto Thee again It is but meet that all retreat Who dost all good contain 86. Thou art the Fountain too And Spring of waters pure Which run and live Thou all dost give Thy Streams are allways sure 87. All other things beside Are Cisterns Pipes and Pools Who Thee forsook and of them took Were all deluded fools 88. Thou art the Life indeed All Life from Thee doth flow The Life and love wherein we move We wholly to Thee owe. 89. For we were dead in sins No living act could doe Till thy fresh sent did us prevent And reach our souls unto 90. In Heaven the Morning Star Which in our darksome night When helpess we No hope could see Arose and Brought us light 91. Thou art the glorious Sun Light Heat and life from Thee To all to whom thy vertues come Sweetly imparted be 92. The Sun of righteousness Which hath upon us rose And in thy wings all healing brings And all our wounds hast clos'd 93. Oh what were we if Thee We did not now injoy Sure like to those who are thy foes And whom thou dost destroy 94. It s glorious to behold Thy glorious countenance It gives us sight fills with delight And doth our souls advance 95. In thy light we do live And walk for evermore In Thee we play and joy all day Hallelu-jah therefore 96. Amongst those things on Earth Thou mad'st to live and move Like to the tame and harmless LAMB Thou wert in thy great love 97. Gods Lamb most innocent Most meek and spotless who Clothing and food affordest good And ill didst undergo 98. With greatest patience Not answering again Though Thou defil'd wast and revil'd By men and put to pain 99. Gods Lamb indeed thou wert That sacrifice whereby Our peace was made wrath aside laid And we receiv'd mercy 100. Thy flesh thou gav'st for food Thy blood was drink indeed Feeding on that we comfort gat And strength in every need 101. Thy righteousness us cloth'd And thy vertues so high And most divine do make us shine Always most gloriously 102. Thou art the Lyon too For strength and power so those Thee oft have found unto their wound Who were thy mortal foes 103. In thy great strength Thou hast Upon them roard whereby They were thy prey and behold they Torn and devour'd now ly 104. Oh it was well for us That Thou our General A Lyon wer'â— else we like Harts Had soon been râ—uted all 105. Thou art the UNICORN Thy Horn is stately high Thy power and might alone to flight Hath put the Enemy 106. Thou art the Glory and The sum of all the rest The Man thou art who hast the heart With understanding best 107. For Thee were all things made And they were given to Thee In Heaven and Earth above beneath And in the Ocean Sea 108. Thou art the Male to us And we thy Femal be Thou the Husband us to command And we the spouse to Thee 109. For Thee we framed were And of Thee secretly While thou didst sleep a sleep so deep As for our fins to dy 110. Out of thy flesh we are And out of thy bone too One Soul we have which thy Breath gave Thy Heavenly things to know 111. In us thou tak'st delight And our delight thou art Thou with thy grace dost us embrace And lay'st us in thy heart 112. While thou didst us embrace And we submit to Thee There did proceed from Thee that Seed Which made us fruitful be 113. Which in thine own Image Thou didst beget we bear Thy Company makes us happy All our eternal year 114. Thou art the Angel too The Messenger by whom The Heavenly grant Gods Covenant Down unto us did come 115. Yea all the things of weight We in the Scriptures read Compleatly be fulfil'd in Thee As might be mentioned 116. The Sabboath or the Rest Thou art and Thou dost give Thou art our rest God hath Thee blest Joyful in Thee we live 117. From all his mighty works God ay in Thee doth cease Thou art the end whereto they tend Thou art our Rest and peace 118. In Thee by us injoy'd Our works are ended all No travail more or labour sore Or grief shall us befall 119. We also are thy Rest For now that us thou hast Thy works are o're for evermore Thy labours all are past 120. Thou the sweet Garden art The Garden of delight The Paradise where pleasure lies And what doth please our sight 121. And we thy Garden are In us thou pleasure tak'st Us to possess Tast of and dress Thou oft thy business mad'st 122. Thou art the TREE of LIFE Which pleasant fruits doth bear Whereof we leave have to receive And Death we cannot fear 123. The River too thou art Of living waters pure Thy streams go out and run about With joys both full and sure 124. Thou hast been unto us The ARK wherein we were Shut up and kept not to be swept Away with floods of fear 125. Thou art the Covenant too Made between us and God In Thee we be for ever fâ—ee From fears of future flood 120. Yea Thou that Covenant art In which we are the Lords And God our Tower by his great power All bless to us
worshippers from death Either of body or of soul though they Did do their service to them every day Dead fouls with dead things suit the living God Who quickens what is dead and with his rod Corrects the Nations living things likes best Even living groans of an inspired brest The World such living service can't perform It hates the pow'r and only likes a Form Of Godliness which they may leave or take Use or lay by as for their turn 't doth make Mistake me not herein as if I thought Or else intended to judge all pray'rs naught That are taught by a Book or as if none Might pray acceptably who pray thereon It is the Worlds bad guise I here reprove Who serve God with pretences their sins love Which many too may do that pray without A Book and so too many do no doubt Delight themselves in their own gifts and parts While yet their lusts they love with all their hearts Witness the pride or avarice of some Who yet as Saints into God's presence come I know a Book that service may hold forth Which God requires and shews to be of worth And so each sacred Bible doth declare What worship God requires of praise and pray'r Or other ways of service but no ground Of any such distinction so is found As if some Bibles did not shew the way How we should serve God and unto him pray I do suppose it was some other thing That you did signifie in your saying Likely those Form's of Pray'r you meant thereby That are injoyned by Authority If so pray know that I the words of them Do not except against much less condemn The Prayers are pithy Orthodox and good More gen'rally if rightly understood And such as whereto I Amen can say Heartily when with them I hear men pray And so may others too I think although Some few things there among scruple I do Unto the pure all things are pure and good But that must warily be understood For what I am not satisfied in I cannot say I am without my sin Nor would I thereby stain my Conscience Or unto others give cause of offence But why you Sir those Prayers the Service call I can't well tell nor much inquire it shall I call them not my Service they that do May lay them on the Altar I think so They might be off'red up although they there Should lye untouch't or unread all the year As a sum of the Churches pray'rs and praise And so less grief to some men they would raise And they the same are and as pithy too Though never read as when men read them do Though I the reading of them too allow To such as please if any would them know Or in those words would their desires express I can mine sometimes too with readiness Though I profess I ne'r could find it yet In any passage of the holy writ That God requires or holy men did use To read their pray'rs to God but pray excuse That passage in me I leave others free Let others leave me so and we agree Sententious Verses of an unknown Author COnfession is to cure our sin A very present Medicine Thy Saviour on his Cross did choose To save thy life his own to loose Our Saviour cry'd Repent Repent As John who fore our Saviour went Blessed be the Name of Jesus Who tormented was to ease us The grace of Jesus is to me The only true felicity Christ's Cross my Crown I do esteem What ever earthy men do deem My hope in Christ is fixed sure Who wounded was my wounds to cure My hope shall never be confounded Because my hope on Christ is grounded My soul cleave fast to Christ above For nought on earth deserves thy love Fear not my soul be not dismaid For Jesus Christ thy debts hath paid The Death of Christ is life to thee If thou a Christian truly be Faith is not faith unless it be A faith that works by charity Christ is by marriage knit to thee If thou to him by Sanctity Admire my soul the mystery Of Jesus Christ's nativity Christ was conceiv'd i' th' Virgins womb That thou might'st a Son of God become Christ unto thee if thou be his Both light and food and Medicine is If thou polluted art with sin The fountain's open enter in He that doth eat and drink by â—aith Christ's flesh and blood salvation hath Be wise do not too far inquire For what thou rather shouldst admire Christ is ascended up on high And we must up as Eagles flie God sealeth by his holy Spirit As many as shall life inherit Great is the Churches dignity That chosen is Christ's spouse to be In Christ we are of God elect What 's out of Christ God doth reject Our prayers do pierce the starry sky And fetch down blessings from on high The Angels of the Lord protect All those that are the Lord 's elect The Devils treacheries who knows A thousand ways he seeks our woes He 's only wise who God doth know And doth by life his knowledge show To live it is not but to dye To live in sin securely Christ's life must be a Rule to thee If Christ's Disciple thou wilt be Thou from thy self must first depart Before thou can'st in Christ have part Thy soul can nothing satiate But God who did the same create Labour to have thy conscience pure When all things fail that will endure What is a bubble such is man Whose life in length is but a span The man that Covets is but poor Although he riches have great store The sign by which the Saints we know It is by love their faith to show The soul that chaste is is Christ's Spouse His bed of rest his lodging house The life of man's a rolling stone Mov'd to and fro and quickly gone Love not the World the World is vain But love the things that will remain The Palme-tree grows the more prest down And crosses prove the Churches crown Take up thy cross and it endure Then of a crown thou shalt be sure Let not tentations cast thee down For perseverance will thee crown Think every day to be thy last And when that 's come thy life is past Grieve not when Christian friends do dye They gain by Death eternity Remember that Christ Jesus shall Thoughts words and deeds to judgment call All earthly things tread under thee And let thy thoughts in Heaven be The Saints are Pilgrims here below And towards Heaven their country go If thou beest here a child of grace ' Mongst Angels thou shalt have a place If into Hell thou would'st not fall Think dayly on 't and mind God's call The pains of Hell do far extend Beyond all time World without end Doth Adam dye Christ in thee live Christ shall eternal life thee give Upon the carelesness and covetousness of some that regard not to Read much-less are willing to buy good and useful Books and the wickedness of others that traduce them
Quis leget aut emet haec SEE here my friends that which with much expence Of time and money if without offence I may suggest it I prepared have Your good to further and your souls to save Is here exposed to you will you read it So as with seriousness to mind and heed it Will you with little charge and cost that buy Which doth me in far greater charges lye Your pains in Reading it will be far less Than mine it to Compose and in this dress To make it ready for you and your gain Will far exceed your cost if it remain Upon your Reading it in memory And if unto the practise you apply Your hearts of what it tends to as you ought You will not then repent that you it bought But I observe it some men's humour is To slight and undervalue things like this They 'll rather idle Ballads buy and read Or such bad Books as vice do breed and feed And what their souls tend to spoil and destroy For pride or belly chear they will imploy Their time and money and it is a grief To find such humours in some men so brief To see no more regard to what with pains And cost prepar'd is for their endless gains Yea sometimes I with such could angry be When such like carriages in them I see Or marvail at their stupidness to slight What their own welfare much advantage might But then when I look higher and reflect Upon the sad regardless disrespect That too too commonly we all express To God and Christ who far more for our bless And endless happiness than any man By all his study and expences can Have done and have prepar'd and tender to us Whereto with much long suff'ring they do wooe us It doth allay my grief and wonder too As to my labours or what others do Of like import for what am I or any Who labour in such studies whereby many Might benefitted be with him compar'd Who hath eternal life for us prepar'd By such a costly way as by the Death Of his dear Son who for us spent his breath And 's life and soul expos'd to many a grief To bring unto our souls endless relief Find we not Christ himself sometime complain That he had labour'd and his strength in vain Had spent while they among whom he had wrought Did all his love and labour set at naught Though he doth freely tender all the good Which he hath bought by his most precious blood For mankind unto whosoever will Accept thereof and take thereof their fill Yet because something he again requires That men do value and which their desires And love are bent upon they should forsake That of his better things they might partake Because he bids us of him his things buy Men do refuse them too too generally Though all he doth require us to forgo Or unto him to offer up that so We might be happy in what he doth give And might with him in joys for ever live Is nothing worth nor worthy to be ey'd Compar'd with what he gave when as he dy'd For us and for our sins his life and blood More precious far than can be understood Or else compar'd with what he gives again Even joys and glory that ever remain If we resent it if our labours be And cost neglected Oh then what may he With whose both pains and cost if we compare Any or all of ours they nothing are His labour and his patience very great Beside his agonies and bloody sweat He went about by Land and Sea that good He might do unto those who shed his blood Which he most freely poured out that we Drinking thereof might blest for ever be Yet amongst men how slender his reward How few his love or labours do regard Such is the Worlds guise such it constantly Hath been to cast their best concernments by While vanity they love and follow after Mere leasings or fond things of mirth and laughter Yea not only such things they disrespect As tend their greatest weal most to effect But oft repay with hatred and disdain The greatest love and things of greatest gain Whereof as Christ himself the Sovereign Lord Of glory so his choise servants afford Sufficient proof and evidence how great Their pains and labour the World to intreat To save their souls how great their diligence By Preaching Writing Travail Patience In good and bad reports and yet how bad Their intertainment every where how sad Their ill requitals oh at how great cost Have we our Bible truths how many lost Their precious lives laid out their strength and time That we might know the way whereby we climb May up to Heaven and happiness yet who Will even for Heaven it self their lusts forgo Well then may I not grutch at cost or pains Nor grumble at any neglects disdain Or what like things me for my labours shall From any man at any time befall Yea if I for my labours disrespect May meet with it may make me to reflect Upon my self and smiting on my thigh To say Thus thus too much and oft have I Requited God Christ and the holy Ghost And those his servants who unto our coast With pains and travail God's truth carried forth Truths of unspeakable and boundless worth Why then should I complain if I should find Such disrespects as suit less with my mind Or why should I expect respect or look For better likement unto any Book Than usual is for all good things to have Hatred they must expect who souls would save When I and others mend and better be To God they will deal well enough with me AN EPITAPH UPON Mr. THOMAS LILLY Of South-Lin I. THou that go'st by cast here thine eye I sometime walked there I was a Flower I stood my hour And now I 'm fallen here II. I in my time was of the prime That lived in this Town A Lilly fresh but I was flesh And Death hath cut me down III. ALl flesh is grass it 's grace doth pass The best is but a flower The stoutest man do what he can Must dye when 't is his hour IV. If riches could Death's force withhold I had not dyed yet Riches good store I had Death's sore Yet thence no cure could get V. I thought of this I sought for bliss I good attention gave To what I heard the Lord I fear'd And as I sought I have VI. O man thou must return to dust What ever now thou art Dust was thy breed and 't is decreed Thou and the World must part VII Yet thou may'st live if thou do'st give Good heed to mend thy ways For though thou dye yet certainly God will again thee raise VIII For Death came in by loathsom sin But Christ for all did dye And unto those who with him close He 'll give the victory IX Nothing beside will long abide But soon will fade away Consider well Take heed of Hell Think on thy dying day X. So farewel friend and God thee send To live so holily That Heaven may be a place for thee When 't is thy turn to dye FINIS Reader there be too many mistakes of Words Letters and Points the chief of them thou hast here a note of and how thou may'st correct them viz. as follows IN the Title page vers last for inot r. into In the Epistle p. 1. vers 14. for too r. two v. 16. r. woe In the Apology p. 3. l. 32. r. such woers p. 4. l. 36. r. I my self submit In the body of the Poem p. 2. l. 30. put out the full stop at bands p. 5. l. 30. r the vile p. 6. l. 33. for to r. so p. 8. l. 14. put out the stroke of the parenthesis and put it in l. 17. after back p. 11. l. 22. r. the better and their talk p. 34. l. 13. r. they may make p. 39. l. 14. r. good God p. 42. l. 30. r. naught p. 44. l. 20. for vow r. bow p. 54. l. 14. for left r. lift p. 58. l. 10. r. in my joys p. 60. l. 20. r. reprov'st us p. 65. l. last for can r. did p. 66. l. 1. and 3. for make r. made p. 69. l. 24. r. that they in their p. 72. l. 34. r. fill us p. 111. l. 14. for whom r. when p. 131. l. 4. for once r. over p. 139. l. 17. for abhorred r. adhered p. 138. al. 140. l. 33. for to r. so p. 148. l. 9. for is r. if and l. 29. put out is p. 151. l. 30. r. fading p. 161. l. 15. for nosh r. now p. 164. l. last r. do pierce p. 167. l. 14. r. show'd p. 172. l. 15. for best r. blest p. 181. l. 24. for but r. by p. 186. l. 15. the word Lamentations should have been in a great and different character as also diverse other words in the foregoing pages p. 211. l. 22. r. death honour p. 224. l. 33. r. between p. 228. l. 5. for thy r. thee p. 232. l. 26. for caret r. care p. 234. l. 16. r. stinch p. 235. l. 6. r. though p. 244. l. 30. r. thy pledge my holy p. 243. l. 27. for fashion r. fathom p. 254. l. 6. put our the stop at so p. 259. l. 27. r. heart p. 256. l. 22. r. ay p. 260. l. 4. for lovely r. lowly p. 264. l. 4. for this r. his p. 267. l. 28. put out not p. 268. l. 7. for soul r. love p. 276. l. last for oft r. oft p. 295. l. 6. r. and their portion Other mispointings I leave to thy discretion to observe and rectifie in thy Reading
's the top and height Of all our happiness That God with us we enjoy thus The Fountain of all bless 184. All which we have in Thee And with Thee perfectly Who can Thee reach or who can preach All thy perfections high 185. Oh thanks for evermore To God and to the Lamb Through Gods grace good and the Lambs blood It is that here we came 186. Where sulness of alâ— joy And pleasures evermore Our portion be therefore we Thee For ever do adore 187. The Scriptures we need not In dark they were our light Thou art our book on Thee we look And all things see aright 188. Tou art our GENESIS In Thee we were create Thou' rt our Beginning without Beginning And End beyond all date 189. By thee we out of dust Or nought our beings had All things in Thee to us are free And we have nothing bad 190. Thou art our EXODUS Our goings out of thrall Thou didst us save deliverance gave By thy high heav'nly call 191. Thour' t our LEVITICUS Through Thee to God we clave Through thy Priesthood and offrings good He never did us leave 192. We also to be Priests Were all by thee anneald Our Leprosie is cleans'd by Thee And all our issues heal'd 193. Thou art our NUMBERER In thee inrold we be Where God doth own in thee is shown Our Genealogie 194. Thou art our Second LAW A perfect summary Of Gods mercies and our duties We do in thee descry 195. Thou art our JOSHUAH Our Saviour Judge and King What we omitted or else forgetted Thou to our mind dost bring 196. It s thou in EPHRATA That hast done worthily Poor Gen iles thou when they did bow Hast lifted up on high 197. Thou art the perfect Scribe The writer of Gods Law Freedome declar'd and all repaird By thee we also saw 198. The poor and patient JOB Made poor and rich again Who thee opprest at thy request Yet mercy did obtain 199. Thou the sweet Singer art The chief Musitian who The Instrument didst first invent And play'st upon it too 200. Thou art our PSALM and Song Our hearts and tongues always Thou through thy love dost tune frame move To fing forth all thy praise 201. Thou only fulness hast All without thee is vain Thou art the Preacher and heavenly Teacher Who dost in Salem Raign 202. Thou' rt the Beloved one The swift Roe or young Hart The Song of Songs to Thee belongs Who its chief Subject art 203. Thy Testimony is Of all the Prophets old The quintessence and thou the sense Of Proverbs dost unfold 204. Thou from a low degree Hast rais'd us to the Throne The Righteous seed Thou hast all freed Here 's Lamentations none 205. Thou art the Gospels sum The tidings of great joy Blessings have we and peace in Thee Nothing doth us annoy 206. Thou Gods Epistle wert His mind in Thee He writ When we absent were he thee sent And Thou discoveredst it 207. Thou art the end of all In Thee God doth unfold And hath reveal'd what lay conceal'd In Thee we All behold 208. Thou all art and in all ALPHA and OMEGA Wherefore to Thee ever do we Sing Oh Hallelu-sah To the Holy Spirit 1. ANd yet again wee 'll sing and strike our strings Wee 'l shew forth whence the spring Of joy that makes us sing Oh 't is a glorious Fountain whence it springs 2. It is the Holy Spirit which he inherits Who did redeem us when We all were but lost men And purchast us to God by his great merits 3. The Spirit of Life which hath fil'd up our Faith And quenched all our griefs With his Cordial reliefs Hee 's Author of our good rejoyc'd us hath 4. He fils us with divine life as with wine And always flows into us And doth such glory show us That to rejoyce we jointly do combine 5. And cannot but rejoyce with pleasant voice And that continually And to Eternity With joys and gloryings in him rare and choice 6. That holy Spirit we will With utmost skill Set 〈◊〉 and magnifie And 〈◊〉 his love glory By whom God and the Lamb did all fulfil 7. He one is of the three in whom do we Live love and whom we doe Worship and bow unto Whose glory 't is our happiness to see 8. The glorious Father wild the word as skild Being that deep wisdom In which the will doth come Devâ—'d the Spirit of might it all fulfil'd 9 The Father and the word with one accord Decree'd devis'd to give Being to all that live And was the Spirit that being did afford 10. He is the mighty hand which the command Of the Father and the Son Which did through all things run Effected gave the world to be and stand 11. He the Heavens high out spred and adorned According as Gods will Holy and wise in skill Pleas'd to determine He them fashioned 12. The very crook't Serpent to his intent He form'd and all beside That was or doth abide According to Gods great commandement 13. He man to understand and to command All things in Earth and Sea That he did make to be Did form and fashion by his mighty hand 14. He is the fulness which is the most rich Forth-going of the High Father and Son whereby All things He built and as a tent did pitch 15. In him there is no less then all the bless And blessed vertues high Which do dwell perfectly In God and in the word and they possess 16. The fulness of all good like a great flood From the Ocean going And all overflowing Yea fuller 't is than can be understood 17. He from God and his word with them one Lord Searcheth the things most deep Which God in Christ doth keep The knowledge of them t is he doth afford 18. One with them twâ—â—â— was He As well know wee In all their councels old Most high and manifold Therefore they all by him declared be 19. Blest be that Spirit of grace who in its place Did both a body frame For the Word and th same Sanctifie that no sin might it deface 20. The eternal Spirit the same who did us frame Seeing us in sin dead And helpless pittyed Us all and blessed be his holy Name 21. He that we might from sin be freed wherein We lay condemn'd prepar'd As He had fore declar'd That blessed body unto us a kin 22. And fild it with his power that in the hour Of death and darkness He Upheld was did not flee From that great cup of vengeance sharp and sour 23. To which he by this Spirit that he might merit For us Redemption Accurst the Cross upon Did yield himself that we might Life inherit 24. Thou Spirit most blest didst raise within three days That body up again Loosing of Death the pain To justifie us for which we thee prasse 25. And for those infinite perfections bright That are in Thee and all Thy works both great and small Thou carryedst up that body to
heavens height 26. To glorious dignity and Majesty And him also thou dost Fill full oh holy Ghost The fulness of the Godhead bodily 27. Through him Thou gifts did give That we might live Even Thou from him sent forth Gav'st heavenly gifts of worth Whereby men through thy grace errour outdrive 28. And 't was all times before Upon that score Of that great sacrifice Which Thou didst fore-promise That thou didst testify the love God bore 29. Thou blessed Spirit forth came And in Gods name The spirit of Truth thou did What before time lay hid Take and unto Men didst declare the same 30. Yet not to all that were Didst thou so clear Their minds and manifest Gods councels ever blest But unto some as thou pleas'dst didst appear 31. Through Christ the Father did his counsels hid By thee declare to some To whose minds thou didst come And with whom as thou pleasedst thou abid 32. And those things to be writ thou didst commit Moving those thereunto To whom thou didst them show According as thou wisely didst judge fit 33. Though Thou didst also go convince and wooe The world of mankind bad When they by their sins had Themselves destroy'd in a great overthrow 34. Thou art the wisdome high Of God whereby All called were to turn Though many men did spurn Yea we rebelled also grievously 35. That Spirit which did strive with men alive Before the flood of old With reproofs manifold Who did their souls of happiness deprive 36. Of that sweet peace comfort and great support Thou gave'st to those that clos'd With thee and not oppos'd With them thou dealt'st after another sort 37. Thou would'st not strive with them who did contemn Thy counsels always but Did'st give them up and shut Them up in blindness yea did'st them condemn 38. But unto those that turn'd though they had spurn'd Sometimes against thee too Thou didst declare and show The secrets of the Lord with love that burn'd 39. Thou art the Spirit of love From God above Who 's love it self and from The Word his only Son And thou in great love did'st reprove and move 40. That thou to good might'st move thou didst reprove And where thou found'st a way Thou man'st it didst convey Thy grace like waters even thy sweetest love 41. 'T was love thou shew'dst from God when as his rod Sometimes upon our bace Because we were so slack To goodness he did lay in love thou chod 42. Thou art that power and strength whereby at length We though we stubborn were Were brought to approach neare To God to see and hear him Thou gav'st strenght 43. Thou wrestled'st with us so Oh there is no Such wrestler as thou art That thou o'recame'st our heart And made'st us from our sins depart and go 44. In and from thee we felt Gods love to melt And bow our hearts and draw Them when they frozen were In thee power dwelt 45. And dwels for evermore Thou heald'st our sore For 't was by Thee our Lord In and by his good word Did heal us we thee laud and praise therefore 46. As thou gav'st forth Gods mind Thou did'st it find Also in this good word So it was thou O Lord That mad'st it of such force to break and bind 47. Thou mad'st it powerful to convince us so That what we were as we Were in our selves we see That we did nothing rightly see or know 48. Nor that we could that do that us unto God might bring back or keep Us from the dreadful Deep Of Hell or us again redeem therefro 49. Thou therein did'st display and 'fore us lay The glorious things of Christ Worthy ay to be blist So as thou mad'st our hearts on him to stay 50. 'T was thou and Christ in Thee whom so long we Provck't and made to wait Upon us at the gate Of our hard hearts Blest let that patience be 51. It was thy long-suffring that did us bring Salvation while thou there Our many faults didst bear Thou brak'st our stiffness well we may thee sing 52. Hadst thou been quick and rough T 'had been enough To have destroy'd us quite For cause enough thou might Have found to have destroy'd us much bad stuff 53. But 't was thy truth thy grace and that sweet face Of Christ which thou didst show Which did prevail to bow Us to thee while thou gav'st us such good space 54. Thou wer 't that strength and power whereby each hour We were supported all And kept from that sad fall Which would us have destoy'd Thou sweet'st our sout 55. Thou art that strength whereby the victory Over our Enemies We gat and did arise Up from our foiles and falls and did not dy 56. Thou wert our Comforter by thee we were In all our sorrows chear'd By thee our eyes were clear'd Thou didst us in thine arms carry and beare 57. All good from Thee we had for we were bad Love joy peace patience Meekness faith abstinence All our good fruits and all that made us glad 58. 'T was thou that drew us so as made us go After the Lamb although Through much sorrow and woe Losses crosses and what the world could doe 59. Thou art that Spirit of hope which at the scope Didst make us look the Rest And great reward possest Now by us Thou did'st shew 't beyond all trope 60. Thou shew'dst it and our eye it to espy And wistly to behold Whereby we were made bold Thou didst direct and fix continually 61. When Death had seis'd upon Our flesh and bone And grave had unto dust Converted us Thou just And holy Spirit raisedst us alone 62. By the Good will of God and him that trod The grave down in his strength Thou didst us up at length Raise and revive Thou art the mighty God 63. Thou art that River claer that free from fear Hast set us fully and Mak'st us firmly to stand With joy in presence of the Lamb most Deare 64. A mighty River pure constant and sure Thou with thy sorce hast thrown All oppositions down Ans Thou us fill'st with joys that shall endure 65. With joy with peace with good as with a flood Fed from the Ocean great The mighty Throne and seat Of God and of his Lamb which shed his blood 66. Thou fillest us for ever for they can never fail or abate but flow Without all end no low Ebb shall befall us Nought from God shall sever 67. Nought from that Ocean and Sea without Sand Those wates Christalline Most pure and most divine In their enjoyments we shall ever stand 68. For Thee in every heart evern thee who art Th' eternal powerful spirit We do ard shall inherit A band so firming us as we can't part 69. From God or Christ or each by any breach From other thou dost give Us without change to live Eternally and ever Thee to preach 70. Thy glory 's infinite thy glory bright Oh Fountain of de ight Oh Ocean infinite Oh infinite