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A49980	The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L.	Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1688 (1688)	Wing L915; ESTC R224149	138,032	220

change it for hollown●… for wrinkles and stains Now then O now then c. Those Eyes which so many so much did admire And with strange Affections set many on Fire Shut up in that Darkness which Age will constrain Shall never see Mortal no never aga●…n Now then O now then c Those Lips whereon Beauty so fully discloses The colour and sweetness of Rubies and Roses Instea●… of that here will a gashliness weare And none shall believe what Perfection was there Now then O now then c. Thy Teeth that stood firmly like Pearls in a row Shall rotten and scatter'd disorderly grow That gate and those gestures that win thee such grace VVill turn to a feeble and staggering pace Now then O now then c. By these Imperfections old Age will prevail Thy Marrow thy Sinnews and Spirits will fail And nothing is left thee when those are once spent To give or thy self or another content Now then O now then c. That Lust which thy Youth can so hardly fore-go VVill leave thee and leave thee Repe●…tance and Wo And then in thy ●…olly no joy canst thou have Nor hope other rest then a comfortless Grave Now then O now then c. For next shall thy Breath be quite taken away Thy ●…esh turn'd to Dust and that Dust turn'd to Clay And those that thou hast loved and share of thy store Shall leave thee forget thee and mind thee no more Now then O now then c. And yet if in time thou remember not this The slenderest part of thy Sorrow it is Thy Soul to a torture more fearful shall wend Hath ever and ever and never an end Now then O now then if safety thou love Mind thou O mind thou thy Maker above A Passage taken out of Witber's Motto WHat if America's large tract of Ground And all those Isles adjoyning lately found VVhich we more truly may a Desert call Then any of the World 's more civil pale VVhat then if there the VVilderness do lie To which the VVoman and her Son must flie To 'scape the Dragon's fury and there ' bide Till Europe's thankless Nations full of Pride And all A●…ominations scourged are VVith Barbarisin as their Neighbours were The Verses before are these The Eastern Kingdoms had their Times to flourish The Greeci●…n Empire rising saw them perish That fell and then the Roman Pride began Now scourged by the Race of Ottoman VVho live in Sin are all but Thieves to Heaven And Earth they steal from God and take unsiven Good men they rob and such as live upright And being Bastards share the free man's right They 're all as Owners in the Owner's stead And like to Dogs devour the Childrens Bread. Lord what I have let me enjoy in thee And thee in it or else take it from me DIVINE POEMS selected from the Works of Francis Quarls I care not so my Kernel relish well How slender be the Substance of my Shell My heart being virtuous let my Face be wane I am to God I only seem to man. MEDITATION HOw great 's the Love of God unto his Creature Or is his Wisdom or his Mercy greater I know not whether O! th'exceeding love Of highest God that from his Throne above VVill send the brightness of his Grace to those That grope in Darkness and his Grace oppose VVhat thing is Man that God's regard is such Or why should Heaven love rechless man so much VVhy what are men but quickned lumps of Earth A feast for VVorms a buble full of Mirth A Looking glass for grief a ●…ash a Minit A p●…inted Tomb with putrifaction in it A map of Death a burthen of a Song A VVinters dust a VVorm of five Foot long Begot in Sin in darkness nourisht born In sorrow naked shiftless and forlorn His first Voice heard is crying for Relief Alas he comes into a world of Grief His Age is sinful and his Youth is vain His Life 's a punishment his Death 's a pain Death respects Kings and ●…eggars both alike Uncertain when but certain she will strike Death is a minute full of suddain Sorrow Then live to day as thou mayst dye to morrow The VVorld's a body each Man a member is To add some measure to the publick bliss VVisdom is sold for sweet Pleasures for Pain VVho lives but to himself he lives in vain Man in himself 's a little VVorld alone His Soul 's the Court or high imperial Throne VVherein as Empress sits the Understanding Gently directing yet with awe commanding Her hand-maids will affections Maids of Honour All following close and duly waiting on her But Sin that alwayes envied man's condition VVithin this Kingdom raised up Division Vouchsafe Lord in this little VVorld of mine To reign that I may reign with thee in thine Heathen Godds THe Egyptians God did implore Godd Assus the Chal●…eans did adore ●…ibel to the devouring Dragon seeks The Arabians A●…aroth Juno the Greeks The name of B●…llus the Assyrians hallow The Tr●…yjons Vesta Corinth wi●…e Apollo The Arginians Sacrifice unto the Sun ●…o light-foot Mercury bows Macedon To Godd Volumus lovers bend their Knee To Pavor those that faint and fearful be VVho pray for Health and Strength to Murcia those And to Victoria they that fear to lose To Muta they that fear a woman's Tongue To great Lucina Women great with young To Esculapis they that live opprest And such to Quies that desire rest Implore those Godds that list to howl and bark They bow to Dagon Dagon to the Ark But he to whom the Seal of Mercy 's given Adores Jehovah the great God of Heaven Mortality CAn he be Fair that withers at a blast Or he be Strong that airy Breath can cast Can he be VVise that knows not how to live Or he be Rich that nothing hath to give Can he be Young that 's feeble weak and wane So fair strong wise so rich so young is Man. VVhy brag'st thou then thou worm of five Foot long Th' art neither fair strong wise nor rich nor youn●… Like to the Damask Rose you see Or like the blossom on a Tree Or like the dainty Flower in May Or like the morning to the day Or like the Sun or like the shade Or like the Gourd which Jonas had Even such is man whose Thred is spun Drawn out and cut and so is done The Rose withers the blossom blasteth The Flower fades the morning hasteth The Sun sets the Shadow flyes The Gourd consumes and Man he dyes Like to the blaze of fond delight Or like a Morning clear and bright Or like a Frost or like a Shower Or like the pride of Babel's Tower Or like the Hour that guides the Time Or like the Beauty in her prime Even such is man whose glory lends His Life a blaze or two and ends Delights vanish the Morn o'er-casteth The rosts breaks the Shower hasteth The Tower falls the Hour spends The Beauty fades and man's Life ends Of

goeth forth from Eternity to Eternity continually from the Father and Son and replenisheth the whole Father he is nothing less or greater then the Father and Son. Here we cannot say with any ground that God is three Persons but he is three fold in his eternal Generation b●… begetteth himself in Trinity having three manner of workings and yet but one only Essence as may be seen i●… the over-flown Power and Virtue in all things but it is especially represented to us in Fire Light and Air which are three several sorts of working●… and yet but in one ground and substance And as we see that Fire Light and Air arise from a Candle though the Candle be none of the three but a cause of them so likewise the eternal Unity is the cause and ground of the eternal Trinity which manifesteth it self from the Unity and bringeth forth it self in first Desire or Will which is the Father secondly Pleasure or Delight which is the Son and thirdly proceeding or out-going which is the Holy Ghost Of the Creation of the holy Angels and how an Angel and a Man is the Image of God. THe Powers in God do operate or Qualifie in that manner as in Nature in the Stars and Elements or in the Creatures No you must not conceive it so for Lord Lucifer in his Elevation made the Powers of impure Nature thus burning bitter cold astringent sower dark and unclean But in the Father all Powers are mild soft like Heaven very full of Joy for all the Powers triumph in one another The quality of the VVater is not of such a condition or man●…er in God as it is in this world The bitter Quality qualifieth in the sweet astringent or ●…arsh and sower Quality and the love riseth up from Eternity to Eternity As all the Powers of God the Father rise up from Eternity to Eternity so all the Powers rise up also in an Angel and a Man into the Head ●…or higher they cannot rise for they are but Creatures which have a beginning ●…nd an●… end And in the Head is the divine Council-S●…t or Throne and it signifieth God the Father And the five Senses are the Counsellors which have their Influences out of the whole Body out of all Powers Now the five Senses always sit in Council in the Power of the whole Body and when the Council's Decree is concluded then the compacted or concruted Judge speaketh it out into its Centre or midst of the Body as a word into the Heart for that is the Fountain of all Powers from which also it taketh its rise Now it standeth there in the Heart as a self-subsisting Person composed out of the Powers and is a VVord and signifieth God the Son and now it goeth ou●… from the Heart into the Mouth on to the Tongue which is the sharpness and that so sharpneth it that it sendeth sorth and is distinguished according to the five Senses From what Quality soever the VVord taketh its original in that Quality it is thrust forth upon the Tongue and the power of the destruction or di●…erence goeth sorth from the Tongue and that 〈◊〉 the Holy Ghost The Mouth signifieth that thou art an unalmighty Son of thy Father whether thou art an Angel or a Man for through the Mouth thou must draw into thee the power of thy Father if thou wilt live An Angel must do so as well as a man though indeed he needs not to use the Element of Air in that manner as a ●…an doth 〈◊〉 he must a 〈◊〉 into himself through the 〈◊〉 the Spirit from which the Air of this World 〈◊〉 For in Heaven there is no such Air but the Qualities are very meek and joyful like a pleasant cheering breath of Wind. And this the Angel also must make use of or else he cannot be a moveable Creature for 〈◊〉 must also eat of the heavenly Fruit through the Mouth Thou must not understand this in an earthly manner for an Angel hath no Guts neither Flesh nor Bones but is constituted and composed by the divine Power in the shape form and manner of a man and hath all Members like man except the Members of Generation and the Fundament or go●…ng out of the Dross neither hath an Angel need of these For man got his Members of Generation first in his doleful and lamentable fall An Angel sendeth forth nothing but the divine Power which he taketh in at the Mouth wherewith he kindleth his Heart and the Heart kindleth all the Members and that he sendeth forth from himself again at the Mouth when he speaketh and praiseth God. But the heavenly Fruits which he eateth are not Earthly and though they are of such a form and shape as the Earthly are yet they are meer divine Power Indeed it is most certain and true that there are all manner of Fruits Plants and Flowers in Heaven as in this World and not meerly Types and Shadows As the Angels are so are the Vigitation and Fruits all from the divine Power These heavenly Sprouts and Springings thou must not wholly liken to this World for there are two Qualities in this world a good and an evil and many things grow through the Power of the evil Quality which doth not so in Heaven For Heaven hath but one Form or manner nothing groweth there which is not good only Lord Lucifer hath deformed and dressed this World in that manner Of the Place and Government of Angels WHen God Almighty had decreed in his Counse●… that he would make Angels and Creatures ou●… of himself then he made at first three Kingly Governments or Dominions answerable to the number of the holy Trinity and each Kingdom had the order or ordinance Power and Quality of the divine Beeing First Prince Michael signifieth the great Strength and Power of God and is created according to God the Father that circumference or space Region or Province wherein he and his Angels are created is his Kingdom which is above the created Heaven Secondly Prince Lucifer this high and mighty glorious beautious King lost his right Name in the fall He was created according to the quality beauty and condition of God the Son and was bound to and united with him in Love and his Heart also stood in the centre of Light as if he had been God himself and his Beauty and Brightness well transcended all For his circumference Conception or chiefest Mother was the Son of God his Court Province Place or Region wherein he dwelt with his whole Army or Company and wherein he is become a Creature and which was his Kingdom is the created Heaven and this World wherein we dwell with our King Jesus Christ. For our King sitteth in divine Omnipotence where King Lucifer did sit and on the kingly Throne of expulsed Lucifer and the Kingdom of King Lucifer is now become his O Prince Lucifer how dost thou relish that Lucifer had still been an Angel if his own Will had not introduced him

●…HE Temple of VVisd●…m FOR THE Little world In TWO Parts ●…he First Philosophically Divine treating of The Being of all Bee●…gs And whence every thing hat●…●…ts origi●… as ●…eaven Hell Angels Men and Devils Earth Stars and Eleme●…●…articularly of all Mysteries concerning the Soul ●…d of Adam before and after the Fall. Also a Treatise of the four Complexions wit●…h 〈◊〉 Causes of spiritual Sadness c. To which is added A Postscript to all Students in Arts and Sciences Second Part Morally divine contai●… Abuses stript and whipt by Geo. Wither with his discription of Fair Virtue ●…econdly A Collection of divine Poems ●…om 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Essayes and Religious Meditations of Sir Francis Bacon Knight Collected Published and intended for a general 〈◊〉 BY D. L. Printed and Sold by Willia●… Bradford in Philadelphia Anno 1688. A few words to the Reader by way of PREFACE MY intent is to say little either of the Book it self or by what impulse I took the pains to ●…mpile and publish it but rather let nimble Time ●…hat over-runs all things manifest the Effects of both 〈◊〉 so also let it manifest my Opponents which 〈◊〉 been the fate of publick Writers heretofore And lest that in this promiscuous Generation of 〈◊〉 this little Book might appear as a promiscuous Co●…osition of Authors it is there●…ore distinguished ●…n t●… parts ●…w then as to the first part I say that most of what ●…he diligent Searcher and Enquirer shall find dispe●…d in the whole Works or Writing's of Jacob Behn he will here find collected contracted and compr●…d in a little room it being chiefly the substanti●… or affirmative part that is here delivered and 〈◊〉 the circumstantial for otherwise it could not 〈◊〉 contained in so few Sheets For Jacob t●…●…hout his Writings hath much used Tautology 〈◊〉 confesseth by reason as he saith of his 〈◊〉 and dull Apprehension 〈◊〉 yet what is here immitted to thy view is his 〈◊〉 and sentences in his own phrase and 〈◊〉 as I found them dispersed as aforesaid for ●…o otherwise durst I deal by him God forbid should only this know that I have in about half dozen places added a Parenthesis instead of Ma●…gent which yet is his own expressions of the sam●… thing else-where thereby the more unfolding 〈◊〉 matter to the understanding All which considering my many years acquaintance with his Writings may very well be notwithstanding the wonderful Revelation and deep sight and knowledge 〈◊〉 man had in heavenly Mysteries for in his time t●… eternal day was but as it were dawning and 〈◊〉 day-star beginning to appear but now the glori●… Sun is arisen and arising and shines forth ints splendor and gives a clearer discerni●…g of thigs that differ Not that I boast my self so greatly illumined thereby or so highly graduated in discerning ●…re than others O no I am as subject to be obs●…ed by the clouds of Sin and Error as other men an●…am so frail and subject to fall that no man nee●… the hand of divine Protection more than I an●…●…ver had more need than now to call to mind and ●…ain a lively sence of the day of my first inward Vis●…●…ion which I once knew which was a Day Anguish and Sorrow and that from no extern●… cause when I sought secret places to bewale my wo●…●…state because of inward Sin for no man coul●… outwardly accuse me of evil and yet that day eve●…●…at day of Mourning was a day of Love and Re●…●…oycing in which I can in Truth say As Showers of Rain do cause the Earths Increase So streams of Tears did bring my Soul true Peace And in that day of my first love and zeal for Holiness the reading all Books was a burthen to ●…me yea even the holy Scriptures also and instead of receiving comfort therefrom I was only wound●…ed in spirit by them witnessing that saying The Letter kills but it is the Spirit that quickens But now I shall come to the matters themselves Jacob Behme to the Doctors and Schollars and Readers of his Writings COme on ye Doctors if yé are in the right then give answer to the Spirit What do you think stood in the place of this world before the time of the World 2ly Out of what do you think the Earth and Stars came to be 3dly What is that in man that displeaseth God so much that he tormenteth and afflicteth man so being he hath created him And 4thly That he imputeth Sin to man and condemneth him to eternal punishment 5thly Why hath he created that wherein or wherewith Man committeth sin 6thly What is the cause or the beginning or the birth and geniture of Gods fierce Wrath out of or from which Hell and the Devil are come to be 7thly Or how comes it that all Creatures in this world do bite scratch strike beat and worry one another and yet sin is imputed only to man 8thly Out of what are the venomous and poysonous Beasts and Worms and all manner of Vermine come to be 9thly Out of what are the holy Angels come to be 10thly What is the Soul of man And lastly What is the great GOD himself and how is he in Love and Wrath If you can demonstrate that God is not in the Stars Elements Earth Men Beasts Worms Leaves and Grass also in Heaven and Earth also that all this is not God himself that my Spirit is false and wicked then I will be the first that will burn my Book in the fire and recall and recant all whatsoever I have written and will accurse it and in all obedience willingly submit my self to be instructed by you I do not say that I cannot err at all for there are some things which are not sufficiently declared and are described as it were from a glimpse of the great God when the Wheel of Nature whirled about too swiftly so that man with his half dead and dull capacity or apprehension cannot sufficiently comprehend it Now it concerns every one that will speak or teach of divine Mysteries that he have the Spirit of God and know in the Light of God those matters which he will give forth for true and not suck or draw them from his own reason and so without divine knowledge run upon the bare Letter in his opinion and drag the Scriptures as it were by the hair of the head to prove it as is usually done by reason From this so exceeding many Errors are arisen in that the divine knowledge hath been sought in mens own wit and art and so men are drawn from the Truth of God in their own Reason And though I search sublimely and deep and shall set it down very clearly yet this must be said to the Reader that without the Spirit of God it will be a Mystery to him and hidden from him Therefore let every one take heed how he judgeth that he fall not into the judgment of God. Every one will not understand my Writings according to my meaning and sense but every

one according to his gift for his benefit one more than another according as the Spirit hath its property in him For the spirit of God is often subject to the spirits of men if they will that which is good or well and seeth or looketh af●…er what man willeth that his good work be not hindred but that every where above all Gods will or willing or desiring be done Of the two Qualities in one TVvo Qualities a good one and an evil one are in one another as one thing in this World in all powers in the Stars and the Elements as also in all the Creatures and no Creature in the ●…esh in the natural Life can subsist unless it hath the two Qualities 2. For from the two fold Source every thing hath its great mobility running springing driving and growing for meekness in Nature is a still Rest but the fierceness in every Power maketh all things moveable running and generative for the driving Qualities cause a Lust in all Creatures to evil and good 3. In every Creature in this World is a good and evil Will and Source which is caused by or proceedeth from the Stars for as the Creatures in the Earth are in the●…r Qualities so are the Stars there is nothing in Nature wherein there is not good and evil in Men Beasts Fowls Fishes Worms and in all that which is upon the Earth or in the Earth or Gold Silver Copper Tinn Lead Iron VVood Herbs and Grass in the Earth in Stones in t●…e VVater and all whatsoever can be thought upon Eve●… thing moveth and liveth in this double impulse working or operation be it what it will. 4. But the holy Angels and fierce wrathful Devils are here to be excepted the holy Angels live and qualifie in the Light and Meekness in the good Quality but the Devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful Quality in fierceness destruction and perdition 5. And though Moses writes I am an angry zealous God Yet the meaning of it is not that God is angry in himself and that there ariseth a ●…ire of Anger in the holy Trinity No that cannot be for it is written Against those that hate me In that same Creature the Fire of Anger riseth up For if God should be angry in himself then the whole Nature would be on fire which will come once to pass in the last day in Nature and not in God. But in God the triumphing Joy will burn it was never otherwise from Eternity nor will it ever be otherwise 6. Now the elevating springing triumphing Joy in God maketh Heaven triumphing and moveable and Heaven maketh the Stars and Elements moveable and the Stars and the Elements make the Creatures moveable out of the Powers of God are the Heavens proceeded out of the Heavens are the Stars out of the Stars are the Elements out of the Elements are the Earth and the Creatures come to be Thus all had its beginning even to the Angels and Devils which before the Creation of Heaven Stars and the Earth were proceeded out of the same Power out of which the Heaven the Stars the Earth were proceeded Now Hell and the dark World or the anger of God is a Gulf of desperation devoid of the Hope of God and all good it is the first ground to the eternal Nature the place is between the Kingdom of God and this World and maketh a peculiar Principal dwelling in it self and hath neither place nor local abode and is every where inhabiting it self only and yet it giveth Essence to the Light and outward 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is it is the cause of the Source viz. the Fire 〈◊〉 the whole Beeing of all God's Beeings 7. In the Darkness he is an ang●…●…ealous God in the fire Spirit a consuming ●…ire and 〈◊〉 the Light ●…he is a merciful loving ●…od and in the Power of the Light he is especially above all other Pro●…rties called God and yet 't is all but God manifested●… who manifesteth himself through the eternal Na●…ure in ingredient Properties 8. The Essence of this VVorld 〈◊〉 in evil and good and the one cannot be with●…t the other But this is the great Iniquity of this ●…Vorld that the evil over powereth the good that 〈◊〉 Anger is stronger then the Love and this by re●…n of the Sin of the Devils and Men who have dist●…bed Nature by the false Desire that it mightily and effectually worketh in the wrath as a Poyson in the Body 9 VVe see very clearly that there is nothing in this VVorld so evil but it hath a good in it the good hath its rise originally out of the heavenly Property or light VVorld and the evil hath its Property out of the dark VVorld for both VVorlds are in each other as one Of the Seven Forms or Properties of the Eternal Nature which make three Principles or VVorlds I. Form Astringent Desire IT is the beginning of the eternal Nature the cause of Essences as also of harshness sharpness hardness Cold and Substance ●…a Mother of all Salts II. Form Bitter Compunctive The motion of the Desire it cutteth asunder the hardness and attracted Desire the true Root of Life a cause of the stirring so also of the Senses and the ground of the bitter pain III. Form Anguish Perceivance It is a cause of the Mind wherein the Senses are moved and acted the ground of the natural VVill wherein the eternal VVill desireth to be manifested that is it will be a Fire or Light In these three first Properties consisteth the foundation of Anger and of Hell and of all that is wrathful IV. Fire Spirit Reason Desire In the Fire the unity appeareth and is seen in the Light that is in a burning love and the wrath in the Essence of Fire In Fire and Light consisteth the Life of all things viz. in the Will thereof let them be ●…nsensible vegetable or rational things every thing as the Fire hath its ground either from the Eternal as the Soul or from the Temporary as Astral Elementary things for the Eternal is one Fire and the Temporary is another V. Form Light Love. This Property is the ●…ire of Love or world of Power and Light which in the Darkness dwelleth in it self and the Darkness comprehendeth it not in the Light the eternal Unity is substantial that is an holy spiritual Fire an holy Light an holy Air which is nothng else but Spirit also an holy Water which is the over-flowing Love of the unity of God and an holy Earth which is all powerful virtue and working It is the true spiritual angelical world of the divine Joy which is hidden in this visible world VI. Form Sound Voice Word Proceeding from the divine Powers which is formed in the Love the Sound is the understanding wherei●… all the Properties understand one another VII Form Essence Beeing Mansion This seventh Property is rightly and truly called the ground or place of Nature wherein the other Properties stand in one only ground the

Contents of the other six in which they work as the Life doth in the Flesh also it is a Food of the Fire where the Fire draweth Essence for its sustenance wherein it burneth and the seventh is the Kingdom of the divine Glory Not that the seventh Property is the Tincture but it is the Body of it the Power and Virtue of the Fire and Light is the Tincture in the substantial Body It is especially to be noted that alwayes the first and seventh Properties are accounted for one and the second and sixth also the third and fifth and the fourth is only the dividing mark or bound And yet all seven are but one the last is the Body of the first They are altogether only the manifestation of God according to Love and Anger Eternity and Time. In the Desire is the original of Darkness and in the Fire the eternal Unity is made manifest with the Light in the fiery Nature Out of the fiery Property and the property of the Light the Angels and Souls have their Original The Darkness becometh substantial in it self and the Light becometh also substantial in the fiery Desires these two make two Principles viz. God's anger in the darkness and God's love in the Light each of them worketh in it self and there is only such a difference between them as between Day and Night and yet both of them have but one only ground and the one is alwayes a cause of the other The visible World is the third Principle that is th●… third ground and beginning this is out-breathed out of the inward ground viz. out of both the first Principles and brought into the Nature and ●…orm of a Creature But according to the manifestation of the Trinity of God there are but three Properties of Nature the first is the Desire which belong●…th to God the ●…ather yet it is only a Spirit but in the seventh Property the Desire is substantial The second is the divine Power and Virtue and belongeth to God the Son in the second Property it is only a Spirit but in the sixth it is the substantial Power and Virtue The third belongeth to the holy Ghost and in the beginning of the third Property it is only a fiery Spirit but in the fifth Property the g eat Love is manifested therein Now these are the seven Properties in one only ground and all seven are equally Eternal without beginning none of them can be accounted the first second third or last but are equally Eternal We must represent this in a Typical way that it may be understood how the one is born of the other The ☿ Seven Forms of Spirits mentioned Revelations Chap. 1. 1. Dark World a Similitude of it is a Candle ♄ ☽ I. Harsh desiring will. ☿ ♃ II. Bitter or stinging ♂ ♀ III Anguish till the flash of Fire 2. Fire World a Similitude of it is the Fire of a Candle ☉ IV. Fire dark Fire light Fire 3. Light World a Similitude of it is the Light of a Candle ♀ ♂ V. Light or Love whence the VVater of Eternal Life floweth ♃ ☿ VI. Noise Sound Mercury ☽ ♄ VII Substance or Nature The first Principle The dark World or Fire of Wrath hence God the Father is called an angry zealous ●…eal us God and a con●…ming Fire The second Princple The Light World or Fire of Love hence God the Son the Word the Heart of God is called a loving and merciful God. The third Principle This World of four Elements which is produced out of the two inward VVorlds above said and is a Glass of them wherein Light and Darkness Good and Evil are mixt it is not Eternal but hath a beginning and an end Of God the Father Son and holy Ghost WHen we consider the whole Nature and its Property then we see the Father When we behold 〈◊〉 and the Stars then we behold his eternal Power and Wisdom So many Stars as stand in the whole Heaven which are incomprehensible to Reason so manisold and various is the Power and ●…Visdom of God the Father If a man would liken the Father to any thing he should liken him to the round Globe of Heaven Thou must not conceive here that the very Power which is in the Father standeth in a peculiar severed part or place in the Father as 〈◊〉 Stars do in Heaven No but the Spirit sheweth that all t●…e Powers in the Father are one in another as one Power VVhen I think with my self what is many hundred thousand Miles above the siary Firmament I find the eternal unchangeable Unity is there the only Eternal God or that only Good which a man cannot express His immensenses●…●…ighth and depth no Creature no not any Angel in Heave●… can search into it But the Angels live in the Power of the Father very meekly and full of Joy and they alwayes sing in the Power of the Father In the Fire God is called an angry God but in the Ligh●… or Love-fire he is called the holy God and in the dark Nature he is not called God. VVe must make distinction each world hath its Principle and Dominion and indeed all is from one eternal Original but it severizeth it self in a twofoid Source a Similitude whereof we have in the Fire and Light where the ●…ire is painful and consuming and the Light meek and giving And yet one were as nothing without the other Of God the Son. YOu must not think that the Son is another God then the Father or that he is without or besides the Father No the Father and Son are not of such a Substance he is eternally in the Father he is the Heart in the Father and the Father generateth him continually from Eternity to Eternity and the Father and Son is one God of an equal Beeing in Power and Omnipotence Now the Heaven and Stars and the whole Deep between the Stars signifie the Father And the seven Planets signifie the seven Spirits of God or the Princes of the Angels among which Lord Lucifer was one before his fali which all were made out of the Father in the beginning of the Creation of Angels before the time of this VVorld Now as the Sun standeth in the midst betwixt the Stars ●…nd the Earth enlightning all Powers and is the Light and Heart of all Powers and is all the Joy in this VVorld Even so the Son of God in the Father is the Heart in the Father and shineth in all the Powers of the Father his Power is the moving springing Joy in all the Powers of the Father and shineth in the whole Father as the Sun doth in the whole VVorld Of God the Holy Ghost THe holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Son and is the third self-subsisting Person in the Deity As ●…he Elements in this World go forth from the Sun and Stars and are the moving Spirit which is in every thing in thi●… world So the Holy Ghost is the moving Spirit in the whole Father and

and Jupiter as also Mars by reason of their great Orb cir●…umference cannot do it because they stand so high above and far distant from the Sun. The other Planets are peculiar Bodies of their own which have a Corporeal Propriety of themselves and are not bound to any fixed place but only to their Circles Orb or Sphere wherein they run their Course but the Sun is not such a Body but is only a place or Locality kindled by the Light of God. Understand the place where the Sun is is such a place as you may chuse or suppose any where above the Earth And if God should kindle the Light by the Heat then the whole World would be such a meer Sun for the same Power where the Sun standeth is every where all over and before the time of Wrath it was every where all over the place of this World as light as the Sun is now bu●… not so intolerable For that Heat was not so great as in the Sun and therefore the Light also was very meek So that man should not dare to say that the Sun is an open Gate of the L●…ght of God but is as the light in a man's Eye whereas also the place of the Eye belongs to the Body but the Light is distinct from the Body The Stars are 〈◊〉 Powers of the seven Spirits of God for when the 〈◊〉 of God was kindled by the Devil in this world then the ●…ole House of this world in Nature or the outermost Birth or Geniture was as it were benumed or chilled in Death from whence the Earth and Stones came to be The Stars are arisen or proceeded out of the kindled House of God's wrath for the whole House is ●…enumed in Death as the Earth is whence the Stars also subsist in Wrath and Love. Before the times of the created Heavens ●…he Stars and Elements and 〈◊〉 the creation of Angels there was no such Wra●…h of God no Death no Devil no Earth nor Stones neither any Stars but the Dei●…y generated it self very meekly and lovingly and formed ●…gured and framed it self in Ideas Shapes and Images which were incorporated 〈◊〉 to the qualifying or fountain Spirits in the generating Of the Earth c. THe Earth is come from the corrupt Saliter of the outermost Birth or Geniture For on the first Day God drove together or compacted the corrupt Saliter which came to be so in the kindling of ●…he Wrath. In this driving 〈◊〉 or compaction of the corrupt wrath S●…liter was King Luc●…r also as an impotent Prin●…e together with ●…is A●…ls driven into the hole of the WrathSaliter into that place where the outward half dead Comprehensibility is generated which is the place or space in upon above the Earth up to the nature Goddess the Moon So far reacheth their extent now ●…ill the last Day and then they will get a House in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where the Earth now is and 〈◊〉 that is in the 〈◊〉 Birth in the Darkness and this will be called the ●…urning H●…ll For Nature w●… very 〈◊〉 and thin or transparent and all stood meerly in Power and was in a very pleasant ho●… temper But as soon as 〈◊〉 Fight began in Nature with 〈◊〉 proud Devil Nature got a two-fold Source and the outer most Birth or Geniture in Nature was kindled in the wra●… Fire which is called the Wrath of God or the Burning Hel●… But Now when this was done the Deep became clear an●… with the hidd●…n or concealed Heaven th●… Light was seperate from the Darkness and the Globe of the Earth in the grea●… Wheel of Nature was roled or turned once about and th●… p●…ssed the time of one Revolution or of one Day In the duration of the second Day began the sharp 〈◊〉 tion and the incomprehensible 〈◊〉 between the Wra●…h an●… the Love or Light was made And so King Lucifer sirmly strongly or fast bolted up into the House of Darkness and wa●… reserved to the final Judgment And so also the Water of Life was separated from the Water of Death yet in that manner as that they hang to gether in this time of the World as Body and Soul and 〈◊〉 neither of them comprehend the other the Firmament is th●…●…liff or gulf between Time and Eternity But that God calleth it Heaven and maketh a division of the Waters gives us to understand that Heaven is in the world and the world is not in Heaven the VVater above the Firmament is in Heaven and the VVater under the Firmament is the external material Water the palpable water is Death and the impalpable is the Life Moses saith God created Heaven and Earth and all Creatures in six days and rested on the seventh yet God needed no Rest for he hath wrought from Eternit●… and he is a meer working Power and Virtue the understanding li●…th ●…idden in those Words could not 〈◊〉 ●…ve made all his Works in one day Neither can we properly say there was any Day before the Sun was for in the Deep there is but one day in all Therefore the meaning lieth hidden 〈◊〉 understandeth by each days workings the manifestation of the seven Properites for 〈◊〉 saith In the beginning God created H●… and ●…arth This visible World is sprung from the spiritual World and is only an Effluence of the seven Properties for it proceedeth out of the six working Properties but in the seventh that is in Paradise it is in rest and that ●…s the eternal Sabboth of Rest wherein the divine ●…ower and Virtue resteth for the seventh day was the ●…rue Paradise understand it spiritually That is the Tincture of the divine Power and Virtue ●…hich is a temperament this pi●…rced through Properties and wrought in the seventh that is in the substance of all the other Now it may be asked Why did not God bolt up the Devil instantly and then he had not done so much Mischief Answer This was Gods purpose and that must stand which is he would re-edifie out the corrupted Nature of the Earth or build again to himself an ange●…ical Host or Army viz. a true Body which should subsist eternally in God It was not God's intention at all to let the Devil have the whole ●…arth for an eternal dwelling-House but only the death and fierceness of the Earth which the Devil had brought into it Now if he should have instantly left it to the Devil for an eternal dwelling House then out of that place a new Body could not have been built Now what Sin had that space place or room committed against God that it should stand in eternal shame Sure none and therefore that was unequal to be so Also the purpose of God was to make a curious excellent Host or Army out of the Earth and all manner of Images Ideas and ●…orms for in and upon that all should spring and generate themselves a new as we see in Minerals Oars Stones Trees Herbs and Grass and all manner of Beasts after a heavenly

and Adam made himself Earth and that he is ●…ut can a man make of himself what he will he hath both before him the Fire and the Light Will he be an Angel in the Light then God's Spirit in Christ helpeth him to the Society of the angelical Quire. But will he be a Devil in Fire then God's anger helpeth him into the Abiss to the Devil Now observe further God said to the Serpent the old Devil Seeing tho●… hast done this cursed art thou And to the creaturely Serpent which must now become a creature for the Devil had turned himself into the form of a Serpent therefore must the Serpent also continue to it he said Thou shalt go upon thy Belly and 〈◊〉 Earth Seeing it had seduced man so that he was become ●…arthly therefore should also the Devil's Image be earthly and devour the fierce wrathful Source or Quality viz. Poyson that should now be its Source or Quality And here we are to know that the Devil figured or framed to himself the Serpent's Image from the Constellations and elements through his Imagination so he had great Power till the Lord wholly cursed him and set the dear Name Jesus for a mark or limit o●… seperation and there his great Power was laid Adam was the only man that God created Eve his Wife God would not create Generation was to be out of one only But seeing he fell so that God must make him a Wife then came the Covenant and Promise again upon one only that all should be regenerate and new Born again out of one only viz. out of the second Adam not out of the Virgin Mary but out of Christ the heavenly Adam God set his purpose in Adam's Child and brought his Imagination into the persished Image and impregnated the same with his divine Power and Substantiality and converted the Soul's will out of the Earthliness into God so that thus Mary became impregnated with such a Child as Adam should have been impregnated with Which Self ability could not effect but sunk down int●… Sleep viz. into the Magia where then the VVoman wa●… made out of him which should not have been made 〈◊〉 Adam himself should have impregnated in Venus's Matrix and have generated Magically But seeing that might not be therefore was Alam divided and his own Will of great might and power was broken in him and shut up in Death But now Alam being divided the Man longeth after the Matrix of the Wife and the VVife after the Limbus of the Man The woman hath a watry Tincture and the man a fiery the man soweth Soul and the woman Spirit and both sow Fiesh viz. Sulpher therefore is Man and VVife but one Body and make together a Child And therefore ought to continue together if they once mix VVhosoever mixeth w●…ith another or seperateth from one another they break the Ordinance of Nature and such a one is like the bruite Beasts and considereth not that in the Seed the eternal Tincture lieth wherein the divine Substantiality lieth hid Also that is a work which will follow after man in the Shadow and its Source or Quality will one day be made stirring in the Conscience Of the Soul's original with its Essences Substance and Property THe Soul is a Life awakened out of the Eye of God its original is the Fire and the Fire is its Life Thi●… is the greatest wonder that the Eternity hath wrought that it 〈◊〉 ma●…e the eternal a corporeal Spirit which thing no Sense can find out and it is unfathomable to us For no Spirit can sound it self it seeth well the Deep even into the Abiss but it comprehendeth not its Maker it 〈◊〉 and diveth into him indeed but it knoweth not its own making this is only hidden to it and nothing else therefore 〈◊〉 we are cómmanded to be silent and dive no further The Essences of the Soul came out of the centre of Nature out of the Fire with all For●…s of Nature all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lie in the Soul. All that God hath and ca●… do and th●…t God is in his T●…rnary all this is in the Essence of the Soul as the virtue of a Tree i●… in the T●… that groweth out of it The Substance of the Soul is heavenly created creat●… out of the divine Essentiality yet the Will of it is free eith●… to demerse it self and esteem it self nothing and so eat of the Love of God as a Twig feedeth upon a Tree or to ris●… up in its Fire and be a Tree of it self and eat of that and so get Essentiality viz. a creaturely Body The Property of the first Soul was created according to both Mothers but all Properties lie in it it may awaken and let in what it will and whatsoever it awakneth and le●…h i●… is pleasing to God if its Will b●… in the Love of God in humili●…y and obedience Of the breathing in of the Soul and of its peculiar Fashion and ●…orm EVery Spirit without a Body is empty and knoweth not it self and therefore every Spirit desireth a Body for its Food and for its Habitation Hence the outward Image according to the Spirit of this World with the outward Fiat was conceived and a Body was created out of the Matrix of the Earth a mass or red Earth consisting of Fire and Water The inward man was in Heaven and his Essences wer●… P●…radisical his glance in the inward Eye was Majesty an incorruptible Body which could speak the Language of God and of Angels and the Language of Nature as we see in Adam that he could give Names to all Creatures to every one according to its Essence and Property 〈◊〉 was also in the outward Image and yet knew not the outward Image 〈◊〉 inde●…d the Body hath no knowledge And in this two ●…old Body which was created in the sixt●… Day in the sixth Hour of the Day in the same Hour whic●… Christ was hanged on the Cross after the Body was finished the royal Soul was breathed in from within by the holy Ghost into the Heart in the holy man into its Principle like an awakening of the D●…y A●…d the outward Spirit viz. the Air and the whole outward Principle with the Stars and Elements did cleav●… to the inward and the outward Spirit breathed its Life in the same manner with the Soul through the Nostrils into the Heart into the outward Heart into the earthly Flesh which was not then so earthly The Source of the Wrath insinuated it self with the breathing in viz. with the original of the Soul so that the Soul could not remain God's Image unless it remained in Humility and Obedience and yielding its Will into God's Will or else it were very difficult for a Creature to rule such two Principles as the wrathful and the outward are the outward being also born out of the wrathful Therefore sure its Temptation was not only the biting of an Aple nor di●… it continue only for some few Hours but

four Complexions whereinto less Wickedness is introduced for it is always in combat against the Devil knowing him to be very near Neighbour for the Darkness is his Habitation Therefore doth he so willingly assault the Melancholy Soul striving always to keep it either in Darkness or else to throw her down Headlong from the Hope in God that it may dispair and make away it self For he knows well what the Soul can do if it once kindle God's light in it self for then it fires his Garison over his Head whereupon he remains in great Ignominy and his Deceit is made manifest There is no Complexion wherein the Devil's will with all his sly Suggestions lie more open to the clearest discovery if the Soul be once kindled in God's Light then in the Melancholy as they that in the storming his Fort have felt his onsets well know For they then in their enlightned Complexion see quickly what a shameless impure Harpy he is After that he desires not to come near the Soul except he finds it secure and returning to feast it self again in the house of Sin. then he comes as a fawning Spaniel so as the Soul knows him not strows Sugar upon its Viands holds forth to it nothing but shews of Friendliness and ●…iety till he can bring it back again out of God's Light into the Complexion that it feed upon its unwholsom sad-making nourishment O how cunningly doth he lay his Nets for the unwary Soul as a Fowler for the Birds oft he frights it in his Prayer especially in the Night-time when 't is dark injects his Imaginations into its that it thinks now God's wrath ●…eizes upon it and will throw it into Hell Then be makes semblance ●…o have power over the Soul as if it were his ●…hough indeed he hath not power to touch one Hair of the Head except it disappearingly yield it self over into its hands he dares neither spiritually take possession of it nor touch it only darts his Temptations into its Imagination through the Complexion For this is the reason why he so assaults this Soul viz. because the Complexion-chamber is dark for into the Light he cannot intrude his Imaginations 't is man's Sin must give him entrance but into this Complexion he finds an easie and most natural entrance it being of a nature so near that of his own most desired home because its dark desire produces Darkness in which fear is an Inhabitant by reason of the ●…ild Earth except in this respect he hath not one spark more of right to or dominion in this than the other Complexions He can accomplish in the Imagination than only to'a●…right the man and make ●…aint-hearted if the Soul through dispair do not give over it self to him then he induceth the man at last to make away himself for except the man first cast away himself he dare not lay Hands on him The Soul hath its free choice or will and if it with-stand the Devil and refuse consent however des●…rous he be yet hath he not so much power as to touch the outward sinful Body 〈◊〉 boasts himself indeed as if he had this power but he is 〈◊〉 Lyar for had he such power he would soon shew it but ●…tis not so Christ by his entrance into Death and Hell's ●…kest Dungeons set upon the Gate of Heaven for all Souls each one hath now a free entrance the Devil 's ●…rong Cords where with he fast bound the Soul in Adam is ●…roken assunder by the Cross. O how unwillingly does he hear ●…he Cross mentioned which seriously applyed in the work ●…f Mortification is his most deadly Pes●…ilence The Devil is ever objecting to the Melancholy man th●…●…niousness of his Sins and thereupon seeks to perswade ●…im there 's no possibility of attaining God's grace favour Therefore that it only remains he disappearing stab drown 〈◊〉 hang himself or murther another so that he may gain ●…n approach to the Soul otherwise he neither dare nor can ●…ouch it He dare not force thee nor indeed hath he any power to ●…ouch the Soul during this Life For Christ hath unlock●… the Door of Grace it now stands open wide to the poor Sinner ●…hile he lives upon the Earth this Door of Grace stands open ●…n the Soul. Christ hath in his Soul broke open the Iron-gate that was ist shut up in God's wrath Now all Souls have a communion and correspondance with this Soul they all come from 〈◊〉 and are altogether one Tree with many Branches his ●…reaking open of that Prison is from him gone forth upon all ●…ouls from Adam till the last men the Door of Grace stands open to them all God hath shut it up to none but those th●… will needs exclude themselves The sign or work of his ingress into the Man-hood is manifest to all Souls the sam●… will be a witness over all ungodly men in the Judgment day which they have despised Though our Sins saith Esaias were as red as Blood yet stands the Door of Mercy still open for in the Sinne●… conversion they shall be made as white as the snowy Wool. Therefore let no Soul think the measure of mine Iniquities is full God hath forgotten me I cannot be saved No i●… cannot be so he hath engraven it in his Nail-pierced-hand●… it is a Sprig of the great Tree of all Souls and 〈◊〉 an invisible commerce and communion with all as the Branch with the Tree while it lives in this world so long as it is cloa●…ed with Flesh and Blood it remains yet in the Tree Of the Temptation arising from the Complexion and Influence of the Stars IF the inward anguish or terror of Soul be not accompany●… with a kind of outward terrifying astonishment th●… is the Devil not there present but 't is the Souls amazement which is affrighted at the inward risings of the dark Abiss 〈◊〉 Principle of God's wrath in it It thinks of●… when the Melanchol●… Complexion is kind●…ed by some angry sower Influe●… of the Stars that the Devil is there when indeed there i●… no such matter When he comes 't is either with vehem●… astonishing Terrors or in an Angels behaviour or rather i●… a flattering posture like a fawning Hound All Temptation comes not from the Devil especially wi●… Melancholy men but the most part of that afflicting Sa●…ness comes from the Imagination of the Soul which bei●… necessitated to dwell in dark Melancholy Habitations 〈◊〉 wonder if it be easily surprised with heav●…ess so as to 〈◊〉 God hath forgotten it and will have none of it For the Melancholy Complexion is dark and hath no 〈◊〉 of its own as the other Complexions have yet is not this Du●… ness essential to the Soul but is only its ●…onesom Tabern●… ●…uring its Pilgrimage here on Earth nor doth the Soul's Holiness and Righteousness consist at all in the Complexion ●…ut in the inward heavenly Principle where God ●…wells ●…or as St. Paul saith Our Conversation is in Heaven Now

Charity IN loving God if I neglect my Neighbour My love hath lost his proof and I my labour My Zeal my Faith my Hope that never fails me If Charity be wanting nought avails me Lord in my Soul a Spirit of Love create me And I will love my Brother if he hate me In Temptation ARt thou oppos'd to thine unequal Foe March bravely on thy General bids thee go Th' art Heaven 's Champion to maintain his right Who calls thee forth will give thee strength to fight God seeks by conquest thy renown for he Will win enough fight thou or faint or flee In Slander IF Winter fortunes nip thy Summer Friends And tip their Tongues with Censure that offends Thy tender Name dispaire not but be wise Know Heaven selecteth whom the World denyes Of Death ME thinks I see that nimble aged Si●…e Pass swiftly by with ●…eet unapt to tire Upon his Head an Hour glass he wears And in his wrinkled hand a Sythe he bears Both instruments to take the Lives from men Th' one shews with what the other sheweth when Me-thinks I see my dearest Friends lament With sighs and tears and woful drysiment My tender VVife and Children standing by Dewing the Bed whereupon I l●…e Me-thinks I hear a Voice in secret say The Glass is run and thou must dye to day Deceitful World. WHat is the World a great exchange of Ware VVherein all sorts and Sexes cheapening are The Flesh the Devil sit and cry What lack ye VVhen most they fawn they most intend to rack ye The VVares are cups of Joys and beds of Pleasure Plenty of choice down weight and flowing measure A Soul 's the price but they give time to pay Upon the death-bed on the dying Day Hard is the Bargain and unjust the Measure VVhen as the Price so much out-lasts the Pleasure The Joys that are on Earth's are Counterfeits If ought be true 't is this they 're true Deceits They daily dip within thy Dish and cry Who hath betray'd thee Master It is I. Hell Torments ALl words come short t' express the pains of those That rage in Hell enwrapt in endless woes VVhere time no end and plagues find no exemption VVhere cryes admit no help nor place redemption VVhere wretched Souls to Tortures bound shall be Serving a world of Years and not be free There 's nothing heard but yells and suddain cryes VVhere Fire never slacks nor worm e●…er dyes But where this Hell is plac't my muse stop there Lord shew me what it is but never where In Hell no Life in Heaven no Death there is In Earth both Life and Death both bal and bliss In Heaven 's all Life no end nor new supplying In Hell 's all Death and yet there is no dying Farth like a partial Ambodexter doth Prepare for Death or Life prepares for both Christ's Death ANd am I here and my Redeemer gone Can he be dead and is not my Life done VVas he tormented in excess of measure And do I live yet and yet live in pleasure Alas could Sinners find out ne'er a one More fit then thee for them to spit upon Did thy Cheeks en●…ertain a Traytors lips VVas thy dear Body scourg'd and torn with VVhips Till that the guiltless Blood came trickling after And did thy fainting Brows shoot Blood and VVater VVert thou Lord hang'd upon the cursed Tree O world of grief and was all this for me Burst forth my T●…ars into a world of Sorrow And let my Nights of gr●…f find ne'er a Morrow Heaven's Glory WHen I behold and well advise upon The wise man's Speech There 's nought beneath the Sun But Vanity my Soul rebels within And loathes the Danghil prison she is in But when I look to New Jerusalem VVherein's reserved my Crown my Diadem O! what a Heaven of bliss my Soul enjoyes On suddain wrapt into that Heaven of Joyes VVhere ravisht in the depth of meditation She well discerns with Eye of Contemplation The glory of God in his imperial Seat Full strong in Might in Majesty compleat VVhere troops of Powers Virtues Cherubims Angels arch-Angels Saints and Sera phims Are chaunting Praises to their heavenly King VVhere Hallelujah they forever Sing Whoever smelt the breath of morning Flowers New sweetned with the dash of twi-light Showers Or pounded Amber or the flowering Thyme Or purple Violets in the proudest prime Or swelling Clusters from the Cypress Tree So sweet's my Love aye far more sweet is he Dismount you Quire of Angels come With men your Joyes divide Heaven ne'er shew'd so sweet a Groom Nor Earth so fair a Bride Hark Hark I hear that thrice Coelestial voice VVherein my Spirits wrapt with Joys rejoyce A Voice that tells me my Beloved's mie I know the Musick by the Majestie ●…ehold he comes 't is not my blemisht Face Can slack the swiftness of his winged pace Behold he comes his Trumpet doth proclaim He comes with speed a truer Love ne'er came The Imperfections of my present state Come forth my Joy what bold affron●… of Fear Can fright thy Soul and I thy Champion here 'T is I that calls 't is I thy Bride-groom calls thee Betide it me whatever it befalls thee The Winter of thy sharp Afdiction's go●… VVhy fear●…st thou Cold and art so near the Son. Heaven only knows the Bliss my Soul enjoyes T'and Earths too dull to apprend such Joyes Then let thy Breath like ●…aggons of strong wine Relieve and comfort this poor Heart of mine For I am sick till time that dotli delay Our Marriage being our joyful marriage day CONCLUSION GAsp not for Honour wish no blasing Glory For these will perish in an Ages story Nor yet for power Power may be 〈◊〉 To Fools as well as thee that hast deserv'd Thirst not for L●…ds nor Money wish for non For Wealth is neither l●…sting nor our own Riches are fair Inti●…ements 〈◊〉 to deceive us They fl●…ter while we live and dying leave us Nor House nor Land nor measur'd heaps of Wealth Can render to a dying man his Heal●…h And what is Life a bubble ●…ull of Care Which prik't by Death straight e●…ters into Air. The Author's Dream Mr Sins are like the Hairs upon my Head And raise their Audit to as high a score In this they disfer these do daily shed But ah my Sins grow daily more and more If by my Hairs thou number out my Sins Heaven make me bold before the Day begins My Sins are like the Sands upon the Shore Which every Ebb lies open to the Eye In this they differ those are cover'd o'er With every Tide my Sins still open lie If thou wilt make my Head a Sea of Tears O! they will hide the Sins of all my Years My Sins are like the Stars within the Skies In view in number even as bright as great In this they differ these do set and rise But ah my Sins do rise and never set Shine Son of Glory and my Sins are gone Like twinkling Stars

and Corruption For certainly Grapes as the Scripture saith will not be gathered of Thorns or Thistles neither can Justice yield her Fruit with swe●…ss among the Bryars and Brambles of catching and pulling Clerks and Ministers On the other side an antient Clerk ●…ilful in Presidents wary in proceeding and understanding in the business of the Court is an excellent Finger of a Court and doth many times point out the way of the Judge himself Lastly Judges ought above all 10 remember the Conclusion of the Roman twelve Tables Salus populi Supreama lex and to know that Laws exc●… they be in order to that end are but things Captious and Oracles not well inspired A●…d let no man weakly conceive that just Laws and true Pollicy have any antipathy I 〈◊〉 they are like the Spirits and Sinnews that one moves within the other Neither ought Judges to be so ignorant of their own Right as to think there is not left to them as a princip●…l 〈◊〉 o●… their O●…ice a wis use and application of Laws for 〈◊〉 m●…y remember what the Apostle saith of a greater L●… then theirs Nos Scimus Quia lex bona est Jude-Quia ●…a utatur legitime XXV Of Honour and Reputation THe winning of Honour is but the revealing of a man's Virtue and Word without disadvantage for some in their Actions do a●…ct Honour and 〈◊〉 which sort of men are commonly much talk●… of but inwardly little admired and some darken their Virtue in the shew of it so as they be undervalued in Opinion If a man perform that which hath not been attempted before or attempted and given over or hath been atchieved but not with so good Circumstance he shall purchase more Honour than by affecting a matter of greater difficulty or virtue wherein he is but a follower A man is an ill Husband of his Honour that entreth into any action the failing wherein will disgrace him more then the carrying of it through can honor him Honour hath three things in it the vantage ground to do good the approach to Kings and principal Persons and the raising of a man 's own Fortunes He that hath the best of these Intentions when he aspireth is an honest man and that Prince that can descern of Intentions in one that aspireth is a wise Prince Meditationes Sacra XXVI Of the Works of God and Man. GOd beheld all things which his Hands had made and lo they were all passing good But when man turned him about and took a view of the Works which his Hands had made he found all to be Vanity and vexation of Spirit wherefore if thou shalt work in the Works of God thy Sweat shall be as an Oyntment of Oders and thy Rest as the Sabboth of God. Thou shalt travel in the sweat of a good Conscience and shalt keep holy-day in the quietness and liberty of the sweetest Contemplations But if thou shalt aspire after the glorious Acts of men thy Works shall be accompanied with Compunction and Strife and thy remembrance followed with distaste and upbraidings and justly doth it come to thee O man that since thou which art God's work dost him no reason in yielding him well-pleasing Service even thine own Works should also reward thee with the like Fruit of Bitterness XXVII Of the Miracles of our Saviour He hath done all things well A true Confession and applause God the Word in the Mircacles which he wrought Now every Miracle is a new Creation and not according to the first Creation would do nothing which breathed not towards men Favour and Bounty Moses wrought Miracles and scourged the Egyptians with many Plague●… Elias wrought Miracles and shut up Heaven that no Rain should fall upon th●… Earth and again brought down ●…rom Heaven the ●…ire of God upon the Captains and their Bands Elisha wrought also and 〈◊〉 Bears out of the Desert to devour young Children Peter struck Ananias the sacrilidgious Hypocrite with present Death And Paul Elimas the Sorcerer with blindness But no such thing did Jesus the Spirit of God descended down upon him in the form of a Dove of whom he said You know not what Spirit you are of The Spirit of Jesus is the Spirit of a Dove those Servants of God were as the Oxen of God treading out the Corn and trampling the Straw down under their ●…eet but Jesus is the Lam●… of God without Wrath or Judgment All his Miracles were consumate about man's Body as his Doctrine respected the Soul of man The body of man needed these things Sustenance Defence from outward Wrongs and Medicine it was he that drew a multitude of Fishes into the N●…ts that he might give unto man mo●…e liberal Provision He turned Water a less 〈◊〉 ●…ishment of man●… Body into Wine a more worthy that glads the H●…art of man. He sentenced the ●…igg-Tree to wither for not doing its duty whereunto it was ordained which is to bear Fruit for mens Food he multiplyed the scarcity of a few Loaves and Fishes to a sufficiency to Victual an Host of People He rebuked the Winds that threatned destruction to the Sea-faring men ●…he restored motion to the Lame light to the 〈◊〉 speech to the Dumb health to the Sick cleannes●… to the Leprous a right Mind to those that are possessed and Life to the Dead No Miracle of his is to be found to have been of Judgment or Revenge but all of Goodness and Mercy and respecting man's Body for as touching Riches he did not vouchsafe to do any Miracle save only one that Tribute might be given to C●…r XXVIII Of the Innocency of the Dove and the Wisdom of the Serpent The Fool re●…iveth not the Word of Wisdom except thou discover to him what he hath in his Heart THerefore it behoveth him which aspireth to a goodness not retired or particular to himself b●… a fructifying and begetting Goodness which sho●… draw on others to know those Points which be cal●… the deeps of Satan that he may speak with Autho●… and true Insinuation Hence is the Precept Try●… things and hold fast that which is good which endur●… a discerning Election out of an Examination whence 〈◊〉 thing at all is excluded out of the same Fountain ariseth that direction Be you wise as Serpents and 〈◊〉 as Doves There are neither teeth nor stings nor venom nor wreathes and folds of Serpents which ought not to be all known and as far as Examination doth lead tryed neither let any man here fear Infection or Polution for the Sun entreth into Sinks and is not defiled Neither let any man think that herein he tempteth God for his diligence and generality of examination is commanded and God is sufficient to preserve you immaculate and pure XXIX Of the Exaltation of Charity I have rejoyced at the overthrow of him that hated me Or took Pleasure when Adversity did befall him THe detestation or renouncing of Job for a man to love again where he is loved it is the Charity