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A44756	Thērologia, The parly of beasts, or, Morphandra, queen of the inchanted iland wherein men were found, who being transmuted to beasts, though proffer'd to be dis-inchanted, and to becom men again, yet, in regard of the crying sins and rebellious humors of the times, they prefer the life of a brute animal before that of a rational creture ... : with reflexes upon the present state of most countries in Christendom : divided into a XI sections / by Jam. Howell, Esq.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3119; ESTC R5566	113,995	188

Garter-like of hot candent steel I was told that they were design'd for the perjur'd Knights of that Order in Gheriona to wear upon their legs when they com thither for breaking in the late war the solemn Oath they had taken at their Installment to defend the Honour and Quarrells the Rights and Dignities of their Soverain c. Nere unto them I might see brasse hoops glowing with fire and they were Scarfs-like I was told they were ordained for those Knights of the Bath to wear for Ribbands next their skins when they came thither for infringing that sacred Sacramentall Oath they took at their election which was To love their Soverain above all earthly creture and for his Right and Dignity to live and die A little beyond I saw a Copper-table with chairs of the same all candent hot I was told that those were for perjur'd Privy-Councellors who had broke their Oath to their King which obliged them to be tru and faithfull servants unto him and if they knew or understood any manner of thing to be attempted done or spoken against his Majestie 's Person Honour Crown or Dignity they swore to lett and withstand the same to the uttermost of their power and cause it to be revealed either to Himself or any other of his Privy Councill Hard by I saw a little Furnace so glowing hot that it lookt of the colour of a Ruby or Carbuncle I was told that it was to clap in the Master of a King's Jewell-house when he comes thither for being so perfidious and perjurious to his Master Not far off I might see a huge brasse Caudron full of molten lead with som Brewers cruelly tormented therein for setting their own Country on fire I was curious to know whether ther were any other infernall tortures besides those of fire Yes I was answered for to speak of fire to a peeple habituated to a cold Climat were not onely to make them slight Hell but to have a mind to go thither So my Spirit brought me a little Northward and shewed me a huge Lough where ther were frosted Mountains up and down and I might discover amongst them a world of Blew-caps lying in beds of yce with their noses and toes nipt the isicles stuck to their fingers ends like horns and a bleak hispid wind blew incessantly upon them they made the most pitteous noise that me-thought I had heard in all Hell for they wawl'd screech'd and howl'd out ever and anon this dismall note Wea is me wea is me that ever I betraid my gid King Among all those damned souls I desired to see what punishment an Atheist had my Spirit was ready to answer me that ther were no Atheists in Hell at all 't is tru they were so upon Earth before they came hither but here they sensibly find and acknowledge ther is a God by his justice and judgments for ther is here poena sensûs and poena damni ther is inward and outward torture The outward torments you behold are nothing so grievous as the inward regrets and agonies the souls have to have lost Heven wherof they were once capable and to be eternally forsaken by their Creator the Lord of Light their chiefest Good Add hereunto that they know these torments to be endlesse easelesse and remedilesse Besides these qualities which are incident to the damned souls they have neither patience towards themselfs in their own suffrances nor any pitty towards others but their natures is so accursed that they wish their neighbours torments were still greter then their own Moreover their torments never lessen or have any mitigation by tract of time or degrees of sense but they persevere alwaies in the same heighth they are still fresh and the soul made stronger to bear them I saw that everlasting Villain who committed one of the first sacriledges we read of by burning the Temple of Diana whose torments were so fresh and cruciatory upon him as they were the first day he was hurl'd in thither Iudas was in the same degree and strength of torture as he was the first moment he fell thither Iack Cade Wat Tyler Iack Straw and Ket the Tanner did fry as fresh as they did that very instant they were tumbled down thither Amongst whom it made my heart to melt within me when I saw som of their new-com'd Country-men amongst them wherof I knew divers And though society is wont to be some solace to men in misery yet they conceived no comfort at all by these fresh companions It is high time for us now said my good guiding Spirit to be gone to the other world so we directed our cours towards the Ferry upon Styx But Lord what a nomber of lurid and ugly squalid countenances did I behold as I pass'd There was one sort of torment I had not seen before ther were divers that hung by their toungs upon posts up and down I asked what they were answer was made that they were prick-ear'd Preachmen Iudges and Lawyers who against their knowledg as well as against their consciences did seduce the ignorant peeple of Gheriona and Carboncia and incite them to war And ther was a new tenter-hook provided for one gran Villain who pronounced Sentence of death against his own Soverain Prince whose Subject he was and whom by a sacred Oath of Allegiance he was tyed to obey A little further I might see multitudes of Committee-men and others slopping up drops of molten lead in lieu of French Barly-broth with a rabble of Apprentices sweeping the gutters of Hell with brooms tufted with ugly Adders and Snakes because they running into the Wars and leaving their wares had therby broke their Indentures with their Masters and their Oaths of Allegiance to their lawfull Prince Passing then along towards the Ferry a world of hideous shapes presented themselfs unto my sight There I saw corroding cares pannick fears pining griefs ugly rebellion revengefull malice snaky discord oppression tyranny disobedience perjury sacriledge and spirituall pride the sin that first peepled Hell put to exquisit torments Couches of Toads Scorpions Asps and Serpents were in a corner hard by I asked for whom they were prepared I was answered for som Evangelizing Gherionian Ladies which did egg on their husbands to War So having as I thought by a miraculous providence charm'd three-headed Cerberus by pointing at him with the signe of the Crosse upon my fingers we passed quietly by to the Ferry where being com I found tru what Pluto had said before that ther were divers Gherionian Tarpalins entertain'd by Charon but they were in most cruell tortures for their bodies were covered all over very thick and close with canvases pitch'd and tarr'd which continually burnt and flam'd round about them Herewith I got awake again about the dawning of the day and it was high time to do so For lo the golden Orientall gate Of gray-fac'd Heven 'gan to open fair And Phoebus like a Bridegroom to his Mate Came dancing forth shaking his

the Heads and Tails But the Tomanto Empire was like a Beast that had multitude of Tails but one Head that govern'd all the Body which Head being to get through any passage all the Tayls follow him in an exact obedience without any confusion of diffring fancies or clashing of opinions Touching that Caesar you speak of whom you wold make Prince Paramount of all others in point of Majesty and Might it cannot be denied but that the Imperiall Eagle when he was at the highest pitch of power might be said to have spread his Wings overall the then habitable Earth he fixed his Talons upon the banks of Euphrates Eastward upon the Nile Southward and he had all the known Western world within his pounces His annuall Revenues were then computed at a hundred and fifty Millions wherof the Salary of the Legionary Soldiers amounted to twenty Millions But that glorious Empire that mighty Giantesse is now shrunck up and shrivell'd into a Pigmey's skin insomuch that the present Caesar may be said to have onely one of the old Eagle's feathers in his cap He who was us'd to make the greatest Potentats pay homage unto him is now us'd to be baffled by every petty Companion Pererius Such is the plesure of the All-ruling Providence with whom the greatest Kingdoms upon Earth are but as so many kettle-pins which he tips down when he pleases 't is He who transvolves Empires tumbles down Monarchies and cantonizeth them into petty Common-wealths whereunto the Philosopher seem'd to allude when being ask'd what Iupiter did in Heven he answer'd Magnas Ollas frangit ex frustis earum parvulas componit He breaks great Pots and of their fragments makes little pitchers This shews the brittlenes the lubricity and unfixednes of all sublunary things as well Politicall as Naturall so that to find out a tru stability and permanence we must travell beyond Trismegistus's Circle and seek it in the other world But let not this alienat your affections to visit again your own Country in human shape and return to your Religion wherby when this mortall life is ended you may gain Eternity Boar. Religion I truly ther 's scarce any left in Aetonia for since the time of Therlu who being fallen into a lustfull love with an Abadesse unfrock'd himself and made Religion his Macarell to enjoy her I say since that time the Artonian fancy was never so greedy after new fashions in Apparell as the Aetonians high and low do daily thirst after new-fangled opinions in matters of Religion both in point of Doctrine and Discipline Add hereunto that ther is a bosom peculiar vice Aetonia is addicted unto which is Intemperance wherwith she hath infected most of her neighbours The Hydraulian can tell you that the immoderat use of drink came tumbling down upon her from Aetonia like a huge and a furious rapid Torrent whence it found passage over with wind in poop to Gheriona and her subordinat Kingdoms which is as good at it being of an Aetonian race originally and therfore apt to imitat Nay as they say as the Gherionian is good Inventis addere to improve any new thing so they go beyond the Aetonians herein for whereas they use to pelt the brain with small shot the Gherionian doth storm it with great Cannons and huge carowses for he when he is at it doth not sip and drink by halfs or demur upon it by pauses as the Aetonian doth or by eating som salt quelque chose between but he deals in sheer liquor and is quickly at the bottom of his cup without any intervening talk Yet the Aetonian carrieth still the report to a Proverb Hereupon they use to characterise the Aetonian to be an Animal that can drink more then he can carry and who useth to barrell up more than he can broach in point of knowledg because commonly he useth to have in him more than he can utter Pererius It seems very strange to me that you shold thus vilifie your own Country and traduce so goodly and high-built a Nation as the Aetonian is Boar. 'T is tru they are bulky built high enough but it is observ'd that tall men are like fabriques four or five stories high where the garret or upper room is worst furnished you may guesse at my meaning Moreover magnitude is not the measure of worth If the Aetonians wit and valour had been sutable to their outward bulks the Tomanto Emperor had not carried away so many Territories from them which mighty Emperour hath grown so powerfull by the Divisions and so fortunat by the Vices of Aetonia Pererius Come come shake off those hispid staring bristles and fordid skin that useth to tumble in sloughs and mire and return to your own noble Country your Kindred and that high Quality you were of formerly for in the condition you now stand you are like our base Misers good for nothing till you are dead Boar. It is a great truth and when we are dead ther 's nothing that 's bad in us but our Excrements which also though in regard of the sharpnes therof they be not good for compost to fertilize the Earth yet they are found good for divers sorts of Trees as the Pomgranat and the Almond Trees as also for divers sorts of Apple Trees to free them from worms Our blood being so full of fibres is excellent good against Carbuncles our brains are good against the biting of Serpents our lard with wonderfull celerity makes firm broken bones the ashes of our cheek-bone are good against Ulcers the liver of a Boar is good against the biting of a mad Dogg and drowsines of spirit the gall of a Boar mingled with rosin and hony is passing good against Ulcers the Testicles good against the Falling-sicknes the hoofs of a boar made powder is good against the stopping of the urine a plaister made of Boar's dung is good against all venomous bitings as also against the pain in the spleen or the Sciatica the ankle of a boar worn about the neck is good against quartan Agues Moreover 't is found tru by frequent experiments that the milk of a Sow in sweet wine is good to help women in travell and restores milk in their paps 't is good also against the bloody flix and the tissick Amber sodd in Boar's grease receives nitor and bewty Now all these vertues proceed from our Bodies because we have not so much corruption within us as Man Our food also being more simple and fresh and our appetites more regular So Sir I bid you farewell for I am going to herb it among that tuft of Trees 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Eighth Section A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra Pererius and a Wolf who had bin a Cuprinian Soldier whom for his Plunderings Rapines and Spoyles she transfigur'd to that shape Morphandra Pererius and a Wolf Morphandra HOw did you bear up with that Boar could you not get him into the toyl and make him turn Man again Pererius Truly

King had made a long tedious journy of 600 miles going and comming to visit them he was so gracious that they did but ask and have any thing He gave amongst them those antient Demeans that went to maintain the Mitre so many hundred years by the pious donation of Progenitors He conferr'd honors abundantly upon them of all kinds and did other wondrous acts of grace for which the great Councill in Gheriona use to give a supply of Tresure to their Souvrain by way of an humble correspondence but he did all this to the Carboncian gratis Yet they proved afterwards the gretest monsters of ingratitude that ever were for they not onely sided with his Gherionian Insurrectors against him but when by crosse successes and corrupt counsells he was brought to such an exigent that he went away in a mean disguise to the Carboncian Army they most basely for a sum of mony delivered him over to the plesure of his Gherionian enemies who tormented him afterwards beyond expression by hurrying him from prison to prison and chopp'd off his head at last Pererius One wold have thought that the Carboncians wold have valu'd it for a mighty honor to have their own King in the heighth of his distreses to throw himself thus into their arms and to put so rare a confidence in them But who were the chiefest instruments in doing all this Goose. The unlucky Kirk-men who as if they had bin so many of the Devills Chaplains preach'd nothing but Warr and against the receiving of the King in Carboncia in this his extremity But ther were never so many quick and apparant judgments fell upon any Nation as have tumbled one upon the neck of another in a few yeers upon this First ther hapned an outragious Plague in their chief City which in one yeers compasse swep'd away the Inhabitants by thousands What a huge nomber of Witches have bin arraign'd and executed How many thousand Carboncians were bought and sold for slaves to be hurried over to furnish forrain Plantations What nombers of them were starv'd and som tumbled into their graves alive How while they thought to get into the upper-bed they may be now said to lye upon hard matts on the flat ground the truckle-bed they lay in afore being taken away from them And truly it is fit they shold still lie so low it being the best policy Gheriona can use to keep that cold northern dore bolted up whence so many bleak hispid winds and tempests have broke out upon her Pererius It is wholsome Policy indeed if it be so as you say to keep under such a crosse-grain'd and stubborn inconstant peeple Goose. I will yet go further this Rebellion in Carboncia caus'd another in Hebrinia her neighbour as one firebrand doth use to kindle another Examples move and make strong impressions upon the fancy Precepts are not so powerfull as Precedents to work upon human nature The said example of the Carboncians did wonderfully operat upon the imagination of the Hebrinians and fill'd them with thoughts of emulation that they merited to have as good usage as the Carboncian their Country being far more beneficiall and consequently more importing the Gherionians wherof many thousands had made firm and plentifull fortunes in her Add hereunto that the Hebrinians had far more grievances than the Carboncians who really had none at all for they were threatned to be more pinch'd in the exercise of their Religion There was new Plantations intended to be made ther of Carboncians and Hydraulians There was every day a scrutiny made of conceal'd Lands and dark defective Titles There were new Imposts laid upon them they remain'd incapable of any preferments in Church and State whereas the Carboncians had Advancements and Offices every day in the Gherionian Court and som of them admitted to sit at the Council-Table These motifs impell'd the Hebrinians also to rise up in Arms hoping they might speed as well as the Carboncian who obtain'd what he pleas'd So they rise up to som purpose for many cruentous and horrid Massacres hapned on both sides which took away hundreds of thousands Now all these things considered will you have me return among the Carboncians again Pererius My principall proposall unto you is to turn Man again and the Globe of the Earth is large you may live in what Country you please You may plant your self in Gheriona a cheerfull and plentifull Country and so be neerer the Sun Goose. 'T is tru that Gheriona abounds with all things that Air Earth or Water can afford But it may be said that all things are good in her except one which is that Creture who speaks It hath bin an antient saying all the world over in nature of a proverb That Gheriona is a good Country but the Peeple are bad insomuch that her King hath bin call'd the King of Devills If this hath bin said of her now in former times much more may it be said of her now most of the Nation being so much deprav'd and degenerated from what they were Therfore if I were man again I wold be loth to go thither But to tell you truly Sir I am grown a tru Misanthropos a hater of men I had rather continu in this shape then be Virbius again In this shape I have far more variety of plesure I fish for my food in the Water I sleep on Earth and I solace my self in the Hevens in the Airy Region where I am now to fly The Eleventh Section Consisting of a Dialog 'twixt Morphandra Pererius and a Hive of Bees who had bin once a Monastery of Nuns and were transmuted to those small Insects because that after a yeers Probation and their own praevious free Election they murmur'd at that Reclus'd Claustrall life and wish'd themselves uncloyster'd again c. Morphandra Pererius a Bee Morphandra I Belive your perswasions could prevail little with that Volatil Creture that Soland-Goose in regard I observ'd how she took wing and flutter'd away from you in a kind of hast Pererius Truly Madame I may say that all this while according to the old proverb I have bin shooing of Goslings I have spent my labor and breath to little purpose in order to my main designe yet I cannot deny but that I have gain'd a great deal of rare knowledg by communicating with these transmuted Animals and truly they have made me better acquainted with my self and with the state of Mankind in generall But for this last transform'd thing none of all the rest did brand his own Country-men so bitterly He lays to their charge originally all those fearfull calamities those horrid confusions those cataracts of blood which fell of late years both in Hebrinia and Gheriona And he said that all that they have purchased therby is to have foold themselves into a perfect slavery and to have brought themselfs under an Iron Rod in lieu of that Golden Scepter under which they liv'd formerly And now Madame I have no hopes to do any good

and the last that dies thence she transmits a souvrain and conservatory influence through all the members without which the whole Man must in the fleetest article of time be but a Cadaver The Animal Faculty challengeth supermacy in order of eminence as regulating the sublimer actions as Sense and Motion togegether with the Memory Understanding and Imagination to which as to their perfection the two former are design'd Therefore gentle Bees think speedily on the free proposall I have made and of the fair opportunity you have offered you to be reinform'd with Rational Souls and to return to the Religious Convent you came from where being wean'd from the frail world together with the cares and encumbrances therof Where by the constant practise of holy duties night and day you may act the parts of Angels upon earth and afterwards of tru Angels in the land of Eternity Therfore shake off this despicable poor humming condition and go again to sing Hymns and Halleluiahs to your Creator Bee Know Sir that we have also a Religion as well as so exact a Government among us here Our Hummings you speak of are as so many Hymns to the great God of Nature And ther is a miraculous example in Caesarius Cisterniensis how som of the holy Eucharist being let fall in a medow by a Priest as he was returning from visiting a sick body a Swarm of Bees being hard by took it up and in a solemn kind of procession carried it to their Hive and there erected an Altar of the purest Wax for it where it was found in that form and untouch'd But whereas you spoke of Angels how do the separated Souls of good men when they are exalted to Heven differ from the Angels Pererius As they agree so they differ in many things Angels and separated Souls agree in that both of them are Spirits Both of them are Intellectuall and Eternall Cretures They both behold the beatificall Vision Both of them are Courtiers of Heven and act meerly by the understanding c. Lastly They both are Parishioners of the Church Triumphant Now as the blessed Angels and Souls separat do thus agree So they differ in many things They differ in their Essentialls for the principles of Angels are meerly Metaphysicall viz. Essence and Existence but a separated Soul continues still part of that Compositum which formerly consisted of matter and form and is still apt to be reunited therunto Till then she is not absolutely completed for all that while she changeth not her nature but her state of life Moreover they differ in the exercise of the Understanding and manner of knowledge for a Soul separat knows still by discours and ratiotination which an Angell doth not but by Intuition They also differ in dignity of Nature for Angels have larger Illuminations At the first instant of their Creation they beheld the Beatific Vision the summe of all happines yet separated Souls are capable to mount up to such a height of glory by degrees as to be like them in all things both in point of Vision Adhaesion and Fruition Bee Now Sir that you speak of Angels what degrees are ther of them in the Celestiall Hierarchy Pererius They are divided into three Hierarchies and in every Hierarchy ther are three Orders The first consists of Seraphims the second of Cherubims the third of Thrones The second consists of Dominations of Vertues and Powers The third consists of Principalities of Angells and Archangells Now those of the supremest Hierarchy partake of divine Illuminations in a greter mesure And you were all born gentle Bees to be members of any of these glorious Hierarchies Bee I remember when I was a Nun that som presumptuous spirits would preach that Angels were created for Man and that Man was of so high a creation that he was little inferiour unto them if not their equall and that their chief ministeriall function was to guard Him c. Pererius They were presumptuous indeed and in a high degree of prophanenes as you shall find in these Stanza's of comparison though som of them are familiar and too low for so high a subject 1. Such as the meanest Star in Sky Is to the Sun in Majesty What a Monk's Cell is to high Noon Or a new Cheese unto the Moon No more is Man if one should dare Unto an Angel Him compare 2. What to the Eagle is a Gnat Or to Leviathan a Sprat What to the Elephant a Mouse Or Shepherd's Cott to Caesar's House No more is Man if one should dare Unto an Angell Him compare 3. What to a Pearl a peeble Stone Or Cobler's Shop unto a Throne What to the Oak the basest Shrub Or to Noah's Ark a Brewer's Tub No more is Man if one shold dare Unto an Angel Him compare 4. Then let not Man half child of night Compare with any Hevenly Wight He will appeer on that account A Mole-hill to Olympus Mount Yet let this still his comfort be He hath a capability To be of Heven Himself but on this score If he doth not make Earth his Heven before Bee Noble Prince you pleas'd to give divers touches of the Immortality of the human Soul I pray be pleas'd to illuminat and rectifie our understandings touching that point Pererius Concerning the immortality and incorruptiblenes of the Rational Soul in the World to com not onely Christian Divines but the best of Pagan Philosophers Poets and Orators have done her that right as is evident in their works Moreover the Intellectuall Human Soul doth prove her self to be immortall both by her desires her apprehensions and her operations Touching the first Her desires are infinit we know and never satisfied in this world Now it is a Maxim among the School-men That ther is no naturall passion given to any finit creture to be frustraneous Secondly Her apprehensions or longings after eternall Truths which are her chiefest employments and most adaequat objects declare her Immortall Thirdly from her operations 't is known that all corruption comes from matter and from the clashing of contraries Now when the Soul is sever'd from the Body she is elevated beyond the sphere of matter therfore no causes of mortality can reach her wherby her state and operations pronounce her immortall which operations she doth exercise without the ministery of corporeall organs for they were us'd to be a clog to her Add hereunto that she useth to spiritualize materiall things in the Intellect to abstract Idaeas from Individualls She can apprehend negations and privations she can frame collective notions all which actings conclude her immateriality and as 't was pointed at before where no matter is found ther 's no corruption and where ther 's no corruption ther 's no mortality Now her prime operations being without the ministery of Matter she may be concluded immortall by that common principle Modus operandi sequitur modum essendi Operations are according to the essence of every thing Now in the World to com the

Soul shall be in a state of pure independent Beeing for ther will be neither action or passion in that state Whence may be inferr'd she shall never perish in regard that all corruption comes from the action of another thing upon that which is corruptible therfore that thing must be capable to be made better or worse Now if a separat Soul be plac'd in her ultimat and utmost state that she can be made neither it follows that she can never lose the Beeing she hath Besides since the egress out of the body doth not alter her nature but onely her condition it must be granted that she was of the same nature while she continued incorporated though in that kind of imprisonment she was subject to be forg'd as it were by the hammer of materiall objects beating upon her yet so as she was still of her self what she was Therefore when she goes out of the passible ore wherein she suffer'd by reson of the foulnes and impurity of that ore she immediately becomes impassible and a fix'd subject of her own nature viz. a simple pure Beeing Both which as a most noble Knight Sir K. D. hath it may be illustrated in some mesure by what we find passeth in the coppilling of a fixed metall which as long as any lead or drosse or any allay remains with it continueth still melting flowing and in motion under the muffle but as soon as they are parted from it and that 't is become pure defaecated without mixture and single of it self it contracts it self to a narrower room and instantly ceaseth from all motion it grows hard permanent and resistent to all force of fire admitting no change or diminution in its substance by any externall violence In like manner it may be said when the Rational Soul departs from the drossy ore of the Body and comes to be her single self she is like exalted Gold and reduc'd to the utmost perfection She can be no more liable to any diminution to action or passion or any kind of alteration but continues fix'd for ever in the full fruition of unconceivable blisse and glory Bee Excellent Prince these are high abstracted notions transcending the reach of vulgar capacities But you were pleased to reflect somwhat upon the blisfulnes and joys of the human Soul in the other world I pray be pleas'd to enlarge your self upon this Theme Pererius These joys as they are beyond expression so they are beyond all imagination That vast Ocean of Felicity which the separat Soul is capable to receive cannot flow into her untill those banks of earth viz. the corporeall walls of flesh be removed Those infinit joys which the human Soul shall be ravish'd withall in Heven are unmeasurable and beyond any mathematicall reaches They have length without points breadth without lines depth without surface They are even and uninterrupted joys but to go about to expresse them in their perfection were the same task as to go about to measure the Ocean in Cockle-shells or compute the nomber of the sands with peeble stones Touching these faint and fading plesures among the Elements we use to desire them when we need them and when we have them the desire presently languisheth in the fruition Moreover we use to love earthly things most when we want them and lesse when we have them The daintiest meats and drinks nauseat after fulness Carnall delights cause sadnes after the enjoyment All plesures breed not onely a satiety but a disgust and the contentment terminats with the act 'T is otherwise with Celestiall things they are most lov'd when they are enjoy'd and most coveted when they are had They are always full of what is desir'd and the desire still lasteth but it is a co-ordinat desire of complacency and continuance not an appetit after more because they are perfect of themselfs Yet ther is still a Desire and a Satiety but the one finds no want nor can the other breed a surfet The higher the plesure is the more full and intense is the fruition and the oftner 'tis repeted the more the appetit encreaseth Whence this conclusion follows that ther can be no proportion at all betwixt the joys of a separat Soul and those of a Soul embodyed For the least dram of the spirituall joyes in Heven is more than the whole Ocean of fleshly contentments One drop of those abstracted those pure permanent immarcescible delights is infinitly more sweet than all those mix'd and muddy streams of corporeall and mundan plesures then all those no other then Utopian delights of this transitory world were they all cast into a Limbeck and the very Elixir of them distill'd into one vessell Bee Incomparable Prince you have conquer'd us with such strong Herculean Resons you have raised our spirits with such high raptures and so illuminated our understandings that by the gracious Fiat of the great God of Nature and the favour of Queen Morphandra his handmaid in this particular we are willing to resume our first shapes and so return to our dear Country and Cloysters where the remembrance of this transfiguration we hope will turn to our advantage In the interim we render you most humble and hearty thanks in the highest degree that can be imagin'd for your flexanimous and hevenly perswasions which we found so melting and sweet that we may justly think Bees sat upon your lips as they did upon Plato's in your cradle or that you might be nurs'd with Hony in lieu of Milk as Pindarus the Prince of Lyricks was And because Poesie is the gretest light whereby the Rational Soul may be discerned to be a Ray of Divinity we will conclude with som Enthusiasms to blissfull Heven and the Hierarchies therof in this graduall Hymn beginning with our Creator Natures great God the Cause of causes be Ador'd and prais'd to all Eternity That supream Good that quintessentiall Light Which quickens all that 's hidden or in sight Who breaths in Man the Intellectuall Soul Therby to rule all Cretures and controul What Water Earth or Air c. 1. O holy Souls O heavenly Saints Who from corruption and the taints Of flesh and blood from pain and tears From pining cares and panting fears And from all passions except Love Which onely reigns with you above Are now exempt and made in endlesse Blisse Free Denizons and Heirs of Paradis 2. O glorious Angels who behold The Lord of Light from Thrones of Gold Yet do vouchsafe to look on Man To be his Guide and Guardian Praying always that He may be Partner of your felicity O blisfull Saints and Angells may yee still The Court of Heven with Halleluiahs fill 3. Seraphick Powers Cherubs Thrones Vertues and Dominations Supernall principalities Glories and Intelligencies Who guide the cours of Starrs in sky And what in their vast Concaves lye May ye for ever great Jehovah's will And His commands throughout the world fulfill 4. Archangels who the most sublime degree Do hold in the Triumphant