call both quick and dead And give to them as here they have lived Minist For whereas thy malicious foes suggest Among the other things they have exprest That it 's a fancy to conceit that they Who in their graves are quite consum'd away Should ever possibly be rais'd again To live in glory or to suffer pain It 's like the rest of what blind error saith Leaning to its own thoughts devoy'd of faith By which the reason should be rectifi'd And which in all things it should make its guide For as man's things only man's spirit can know So none but God's spirit can his matters show But when the fallen fool saith in his heart There is no God how can he but depart From that divine light of his holy Word Which right direction only doth afford But seeing there 's a God a power divine As all things both in Heaven and Earth combine To manifest a glorious power that made The Heavens the Earth the Seas and them hath stay'd And held up to this moment can it be Unreasonable thought by men that he Should act like to himself and such things do As may his power and greatness clearly show And is' t a greater or unlikelier thing The dead and rotten back to life to bring The 't was at first all things to make of nought Can any thing for God too hard be thought For him that is Almighty is' t not right To think that Greatest things become his might Yes verily It 's like himself to do Such mighty things as far surpass and go Beyond the shallow model of man's wit To comprehend and what can be more sit For his Almighty power to bring about Then from their graves to make the dead come out To judgment and such recompence bestow As may his heigth and greatness greatly show And seeing it may well supposed be That unto man as was foreshewed he Would give his precepts and his mind declare With motives to obey him such as are Great and his Greatness do become why should It once be doubted of what he hath told But that it 's true and right what is' t because They are so great things that he saith why pause A little on 't again and see if that Can any just ground be to stumble at Such declarations promises and threats Because they may be rank't among the Greats As if with Greatness great things did not suit Or such a Tree could not bring forth such fruit Nay verily those things God best become That are so great as wholly to strike dumb The mouth of Reason and to pass the mind Of men and Angels their method to find Chr. Believe it then dear Soul that there shall be A Resurrection of the Dead by me Who am the Son of God and do possess The fulness of his power and happiness I by my Death have so the law fulfil'd Which bound men o're to Death that I have kil'd Its power to hold men under yea I have Not only my self risen from the grave But have a passage also from it made For all mankind because the sin that laid Mankind so low I have destroyed so That it shall not them hinder thence to go Yea being raised and gone up on high I have received highest dignity Over all things in Heaven in Earth in Hell The fulness of the Godhead doth all dwell In me I have the keys of Hell and Death All things above and all that is beneath Are subject to my power and as I have Destroyed by my Death both Death and Grave So I can them command and in due time Will do it also Neither Grace nor Crime Shall thereby be from their reward back kept But at my voice who ever there have slept Or yet shall sleep shall from their graves come forth Even from the East and West and South and North. They shall not keep my worshippers and them Who for my sake their own lives do contemn That they should not receive those great things which I promised wherewith them to inrich And gloriously to honour and advance Even an everlasting inheritance Where they in glory great shall ever shine And shall possess the Kingdom that is mine Shall me behold and with me joy for ever Where mixture of adversity shall never Impair their happiness or it abate Where they shall be void of all strife and hate Of enmity and envy death or pain And without all disturbance ever Reign Fulness of joy and glory in the sight Of God they shall injoy with full delight Rivers of pleasures shall them satisfie Of which they all shall drink eternally No tongue can utter no heart can conceive The joy and glory which they shall receive And have for ever who on me believe When I that joyful sentence utter shall Come oh ye blessed of my Father all Inherit ye the Heavenly Kingdom now Before the World's foundations for you Prepared for when I hungred ye me fed When sick and prison'd ye me visited Ye gave me drink when thirsty intertain'd me When I a stranger was and men disdain'd me When in my members thus it was with me Even with my meanest Brethren here that be Ye shew'd me favour Come therefore possess My Kingdom now in everlasting Bless The World despis'd you and thrust you away Accounted you accursed oft ye lay In Streets and Prisons poor and thinly clad But now the time is come wherein I glad Will you for ever make ye shall be now Exalted high when they shall all lye low I 'll feed you with my fat things not disdain you But in joys and glories entertain you My glory shall you cloath and ye in white Shall with me walk because ye did the right Now you shall no more thirst for I 'll you make Of the fountains of living water take And drink your fills nor shall you hunger more I 'll feed you at my Table nor be poor For I 'll inrich you And ye who were strangers Wandring about expos'd to many dangers I 'll take you now to me and sit ye shall Upon my throne of glory eternal Oh come ye Blessed of my Father now Possess the Kingdom sore-prepar'd for you Canto IV. The Dreadful Canto The last judgment and Doom of the Wicked Our God will come and will not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him Psal 50.3 This Dreadful Canto doth relate The doleful Doom and sad estate Of such as God and goodness hate How Christ and his shall laugh at them As they with scorn did them contemn When he to woe doth them condemn What horrour at the glorious sight Of Christ and his shall on them light And how it shall them all affright What doleful wailings they shall make When they go down into the Lake Of vengeance which none ere shall slake NOR on the other side shall Death or Grave Or Hell be able those my foes to save From my just judgments who my
He will freely grant He 's full and free and none will turn away That come to him and on his Name do stay To Him I call thee Reader Thou art He Who art invited and spoke to by me Who ere thou art rich poor wise or unwise I call Thee unto Christ do not despise What I present Thee though as 't is from me Thou many weaknesses therein mayst see Yea Christ doth call Thee by me in the main It is his language do not it disdain Slight not his love it 's He that doth Thee woo I 'm but his spokesman but the Trunk where thro He sends his voice to Thee do thou it hear Peruse this Book and mark well what is there Propounded to Thee Read it to the end And much good do 't Thee so desires Thy Friend April 30. 1673. JOHN HORNE Another to the READER of the Contents of this BOOK 1. REader If thou do'st look into this Book For wit and for high strains Thou 'lt loose thy pains 2. It was not my intent strains to invent Or witty phrases which some men count rich 3. 'T was not thy lust to feed while thou dost read Nor yet to satisfie a vain fancy 4. But 't was thy Soul to win from vice and sin And woo thee unto Bliss that I writ this 5. The mind and fancy have their lust and crave Food for their pleasure too which may undo 6. But here they will not find their sails with wind To fill I do not ride in state and pride 7. My wit runs plain and smooth yet doth not sooth Nor lull thy Soul a sleep to fall i th' deep 8. I do not soar or fly up loftily In words and phrases where all Stars appear 9. I go low near the ground both sure and sound My lines are not too heady but square and stedy 10. The matter which I write doth want no height But mounts up very high 'bove Stars and Sky 11. It opens Heaven to thee where thou mayst see Such excellencies as mans wit do pass 12. It treats of his high love who 's from above And who above is gone and 's on the Throne 13. Yet by the way doth tell the woes of Hell And warns thee for to keep from that sad deep 14. It shews the lovely face and glorious grace Of Heavens high heir in part to take thy heart 15. Though who can him declare He is so fair No pencel can set forth his wondrous worth 16. These great things to express I sought no dress Of flaunting eloquence nor great expence 17. Of wit and art for they cannot display Their glory more but hide their native pride 18. Is not his labour lost and all his cost Who would the Sun make fine and gild its shine 19. The finest cloth of Gold that may be sold Yea Pearls and Diamonds sure would it obscure 20. Rich lines with rich wits suits such tree such fruits Such as I have I give read well and live An Apology for writing the following Poem in Verse and at such a time as wherein I left my living it being writ in Anno 1662. after August 24. therein What 's hear thou'lt say A Preacher turn'd a Poet A marry'd man in 's Elder days to woo it What doth He dote Is this a time for him When He hath lost his Living to go rime As if He was well satisfi'd and pleas'd That He of Fourscore pounds by th' year is eas'd Alas He is not for a Poem fit His scull's too thick He wants both Art and Wit What can this Babler say can ought proceed From him that worthy is that we it read To this I something briefly answer shall And then commit it to thy perusal TO Poetry I do not much pretend Though at that time I found my Genius bend Somewhat thereto when this I wrote my skill Is small having but little dipt my quill In those still waters which do qualify The soul best for the Art of Poetry Yet to my inclination at that time A little I gave way to write in rime I scarcely can tell why but I did find That sort of Spirit or Muse to court my mind To which it having sometimes by the by Yielded it self a little amorously And yet divinely too at length it fell Vpon this subject wherewith it did swell Till far beyond what I did first intend It did this large production here forth send Wherein that happ'ned to me which sometime Befals young mayds or women in their prime Who while they tick and toy and to young men Perhaps their lovers they do now and then Yield up themselves after a wanton sort To taste the pleasures of the Nuptial sport Not thinking or desiring although wild Thence to conceive and to bring forth a child Yet after sometimes scaping which doth make Them bolder of those pleasures to partake Before they are aware they 're oft deceived Begin to swell and find they have conceiv'd Even so it far'd with me saving that I In my attempts did act more honestly And therefore not asham'd of what I did I have not sought to keep its product hid As is their wont who acting sinfully Are fill'd with shame and therefore seek to fly From peoples knowledge of it but while to That Spirit which my mind sometime did woo I somewhat pleasingly my self inclin'd It did insinuate into my mind That though I thought but only by the by To exercise my wit yet sodainly I felt my self to swell grow big and sick Of my conceptions that I see I quick Was prov'd before I thought so and perceived That something from that Spirit I had received That had the nature of an heavenly seed And this same Embrio in my mind did breed Which as it dropt into my mind in verse So I in meeter do it here rehearse A way which holy men have sometime took As may be shewed from Gods holy Book They holy things conceiv'd and pend in song Which their sweet singers did sing among The people at their solemn meetings oft As in the Book of Chronicles we 're taught Vnto the pure all things be pure and they May any gift of God use any way May take he leads them to thereby to draw Themselves and others more to mind his law And this of verse doth some men more delight Then if the same in prose peruse they might For I conceive that something there is found In most mens minds that doth of musick sound That it s much wrought on by and suiteth best With what in measur'd numbers is exprest And some where we are willed to our King Not only praise but skilful praise to sing The holy Spirit of Wisdom judges it A practise also for him not unfit To condescend to men in any ways Whereby He them from Earth to Heaven may raise And leads his servants to be All to any That they thereby may unto God win many That I should go a wooing now may be Perhaps an unbeseeming thing
are In God and so agreeing None 's so fair XXXVIII Behold his lively image Chirst our Lord Where God himself unto us doth present He 's white and ruddy his face doth afford What ever may our souls like and content Power wisdom greatness riches glory grace And all that suits our wants dwells in his face XXXIX What ever we can wish desire or crave That may promote our hearts content or ease In God we may behold it and it have Yea so as perfectly our hearts to please When healed so as we can see aright All beauty 's far below his glory bright XL. If love and bounty may challenge as due Affection from us He the first is there God loves so and his favours old and new Are such as none like them there ever were We nothing have that 's good but He it gave us We no ill scape but He therefrom doth save us XLI Oh who God's love and goodness can set forth Who can his benefits justly repeat Their number 's numberless and such their worth As cannot be exprest it is so great Behind before about us look we round Above beneath we see his love abound XLII Where shall we first begin where make an end If with the world's beginning that 's too late Before the World God did us good intend Sure then his love is of an elder date And it 's his desire we should do well for ever His love 's eternal then and endeth never XLIII When God did make this World and Being give Unto each thing therein it was for man That He might be well and contented live Yea h's thoughts to make it before it began Were with an eye to us that we might Be And might his goodness and his glory see XLIV What a well furnisht house did God provide With all accomodations that might make Our lives most comfortable yea beside We of his heav'nly Image did partake God gave us pow'r and rule over the rest Of creatures and with fitness for 't us blest XLV Wisdom he gave to manage such a pow'r And such a manly courage majesty And countenance as well might make them lowre That would but dare t' oppose his Sovereignty Yea male and female for each other meet He made us that our converse might be sweet XLVI Yea further he did also us create Capable with himself converse to have And did his mind to us communicate What could we more of him desire or crave How great his love and goodness to us then When we were innocent and upright men XLVII But yet his love he shewed forth more sully When we by sin were fallen into woe And sins curst fruits did soul and body sully And we deserv'd he should have been our foe When we were helpless and had ever perish't Unless his love had us reliev'd and cherish't XLVIII When the whole World could not relieve our case But more then a whole World it did require To ransom us from ruin that his face We might behold with joy and ' scape his ire Then more then all this World he for us gave Oh how he lov'd us that he might us save XLIX He to redeem us sent his only Son Cloth'd with our flesh and blood made poor and weak Made sin and curse for us as one undone That he the pow'r of sin and curse might break He him deliver'd to death on the cross That by his death he might repair our loss L. Yet neither did his love and goodness here Take up and cease but knowing that we wanted A quickning pow'r us up again to rear And keep from death that quickning pow'r he granted For raising up his Son again from dead He fil'd him with all fulness o' th' God-head LI. Set him upon the throne of Majesty Made him a quickning spirit and so gave Him cloth'd with pow'r and all Authority To bring us back again from sin death grave Yea rescue and defend us from the Devil Fill us with blessings free us from all evil LII His Son his only Son by whom he made This World and all therein he thus did give A gift beyond the World it can't be said How great a gift he was that we might live For he a person is excelling far All things that by him either were of are LIII Through him he daily doth us feed and cloth And bountifully lade with benefits Upholds us in our tryals don't us loath Though bad requitals oft from us he gets Yea Heaven he opens to us and displays His glory to us thither us to raise LIV. Through his dear blood he hath prepar'd a way And grace affords that we his Sons may be Injoy his favour see his face alway Be satisfied with good from ill be free Yea and in glory ov'r other things Reign to eternity with him as Kings LV. The good and glory which he hath prepared For us unworthy sinful wretched men In our return to him can't be declared Oh what a lover of us is He then Yea all his rods and chastisements do tend To bring us to those joys that have no end LVI And to impow'r and move us to repent And close with him his Spirit doth us give With that grace and those means which us prevent That we though dead may hear and hearing live So that but yielding our obedience to him He 'll work our works nought shall pluck us fro him LVII He calls us to him bids us ask and crave What ever good we want us to supply Cleaving to him we shall it surely have For nought that 's good for us will he deny Yea much he freely gives unaskt that so To hope in him and ask he might us wooe LVIII And more then we can ask or think he 'll give Yea more then now our narrow hearts can hold If we believe on him and to him live The glory he will give cannot be told What love 's like his or where is such a lover Amongst all persons that we can discover LIX There 's none in Earth beneath nor Heaven above That loves like him his love if we do heed 'T will us convince that him again to love It 's meet yea love to him in us 't will breed The first love to him then rightly belongs Let him be first in all our praising songs LX. Yea he 's so worthy love that well we may Treble the exhortation with respect To him and to our selves and others say Love Love Love God who ever we neglect He 's worthy and we 're backward him to love Need therefore fervently thereto to move LXI Yea love 's his due in the highest degree Because his goodness is superlative With all things that we have with all we be He 's worthy love so long as we 're alive Love God therefore with all thy mind heart soul Love Love Love and let nought that love controule LXII Love God with all thy mind to him attend Consider what of him we hear and find Yea set our selves
O Daughter give good heed Unto those gracious words which do proceed From his most holy lips in such like wise As here doth follow do not them despise Christ Dear Soul the price of my most precious blood Which I have shed for thee and for thy good For I my self a ransom gave for all And now I to repentance do thee call Hearken to me and to my voice give ear Turn not away from me why should'st thou fear To listen unto me I am thy friend Thy Lord thy Saviour did not stick to spend My life and blood for thee and now I have Through painful cross and through the silent grave Obtain'd my Fathers Kingdom am ascended Unto the throne of glory where attended I am with millions of the heavenly Host The glorious Angels yea the Holy Ghost Immeasurably upon me doth rest And with all heavenly blessings I am blest I 'm heir of all things yea in me doth dwell All fulness of the Godhead Heaven and Hell And Earth and Seas and all things else that be Are put into subjection under me And all that I have suffer'd and sustain'd 'T was for thee and thy good all I have gain'd Thereby I gain'd for thee thee to possess Of endless joys and everlasting bless Behold me then behold me turn thine eye From other objects see what Majesty What glory and what beauty are in me What riches and what fulness and how free I am the same to all those to impart Who me imbrace and love with all their heart Behold me then dear Soul and wistly view My matchless virtues see how good how true How powerful too I am I 'm rich to all In mercy who sincerely on me call None that repair to me do I cast by But them relieve and cure their misery I 'm alsufficient able every way To make thee happy to an endless day Turn then away from empty things thine eye From lies from falshood and from vanity Which cheat thee and deprive thee of all good Oh turn to Me who for thee shed my blood Look towards me dear Soul behold and see Hath any other such things done for thee As I have done hath any condescended And stoopt so low hath any else expended And laid out so much to obtain thy love As I that came to th' earth from Heaven above And laid down all my riches and my life That I might thee redeem from all that strife 'Twixt God and thee and take thee for a Wife That I might free thee from th' infernal foe That held thee captive and fills thee with woe Can any give to thee such gifts as I Can they advance thee to like dignity Can any so inrich thee as I can Can any thee so satisfie what man Or Angel may with me compare Can or will do for thee as I will do Oh turn thee unto me my darling dear Open thine eye on me incline thine ear Give me thy heart it is thy love I seek And I deserve it I am lowly meek And merciful no one is like to Me Yet I have set my heart and love on thee See See I that am heir of all things and Have Sovereign power and all things do command I who thee can save or destroy with ease Can make or break thee or do what I please Who happy am without thee and no need Have of thee or of ought that can proceed From thee do suit and court thee and request That thou wilt love me that thou may'st be blest It 's not to be by thee advanc'd made great Or rich or safe that I thy love intreat But 't is because I love thee and do wish Thy everlasting happiness and bliss It 's not because that thou art fair and fresh For thou art all deform'd thou art but flesh Defil'd with sin as with a Leprosie Of which unless I cure thee thou wilt die I can without thee live and happy be For I my Fathers joyful face do see Where fulness of delights I have and where Dwells neither want nor grief danger nor fear But thou poor wretch can'st not without me live It 's I alone that life to thee can give Yet I am free to give my self and all I am to thee or that as mine I call A Covenant I with thee will gladly make An everlasting Covenant thee to take And love and live with thee as mine for ever To be thy Head and Husband none shall sever 'Twixt thee and me I will thy portion be And want of good things thou shalt never see For here and for hereafter I 'll take care Of thee and as my life I did not spare Thee to redeem from Death and Hell so now I will withhold nothing from thee that thou May'st want or need I 'll wash thee from thy dirt I 'll make thee clean and handsom I 'll thee girt With robes of glory and with rich attire My righteousness and virtues thy desire I 'll fill and satisfie Thou shalt be fed With finest of the wheat with Angels bread With honey from the rock butter and oyle The choisest things of Heaven and thou the spoil Of all thine enemies shalt take and wear Them as thy Ornaments and thou shalt bear My name upon thee shalt my consort be Thou shalt in Me rejoyce and I in thee I will thee joynture in my portion great And set thee with me on my Royal seat Bring thee unto my God and Father He Will entertain imbrace and welcome thee In and with me He 'll the same love impart To thee wherewith He loves me in his heart He and all his is mine and all shall be Thine that is mine if thou'lt accept of me Minist Oh matchless match Oh peereless Prince of life That wilt accept of such a homely Wife Come then dear Soul since Christ himself will give Give him thy self too and for ever live Christ I 'll feed thee with my flesh and blood my heart And body too I will to thee impart And no good thing will I with-hold from thee But freely give 't if thou 'lt accept of me Behold I stand with patience great and wait With much long suff'ring at the clos'd up gate Of thy hard heart where I behold and see What is within and whom thou hast with thee How with thy mortal foes thou mak'st a rout Sporting thy self while me thou keepest out While I with patience stand I call and knock For entrance in but thou the door do'st lock And bolt against me Both by works and words I call and knock my very rod affords Low'd calls unto thee if thou wilt me hear And open unto me my Sister dear I 'll come in unto thee I 'll soon drive out That wicked company that rebell rout Which now oppress thee and do wound thee sore Urging thee against Me to shut thy door Yea I will soon subdue them unto thee And thou from their dominion shalt be free If thou wilt hear and open unto me I
him up as if he were Divine Both in his own esteem and others eyes Who as a Demi-God account him wise Though when all this subserves the flesh and evil It brings men to be fitter for the Devil Chr. This carnal wisdom 's that that doth mislead The world this the false Prophets which are dead Misguided and seduced while thereon They lean'd and learn'd there-from their vision The which while unto others they it told They led them into mischiefs manifold Yea 't is no other then that foolish Woman Which Solomon speaks of which doth undo Man The worldly spirit that is clamorous And lowd and subtle and industrious To call in passengers who go right on The path that leadeth to Salvation To her deceits which though she nothing know Aright pretendeth unto men to show The better path Yea the old Serpent by it Deludeth those that simply magnifie it And who with these possest are hearten on Themselves and others to destruction While by their fond inticements and their rude Examples wicked counsels and most lewd Temptations many poor Souls they draw in Into the snares and false deceits of sin To turn their backs on me and on my calls Despise my counsells and leap o're the walls And bounds I set to keep them from the ways Which lead to utter ruin all their days But oh dear Soul beware and take good heed Of all the flatt'ries which from them proceed They speak of pleasant things their words are smooth They tickle thee and in thy sins thee sooth Their way is easie broad and wide but mind And I will tell thee what an end thou 'lt find If thou adhere to them they will deceive thee And of all happiness they 'll quite bereave thee And to eternal woe they 'll surely bring thee And to provoke me quite away to fling thee Into that lake prepar'd for those that scorn My Counsels Better thou had'st nere been born Minist That thou may'st this believe I will thee shew Wherein they do abuse thee and what 's true Attend unto me therefore yet again And mind how we the matter do explain Do'st thou not hear how they in their discourse Do talk of nature thereby to inforce Thee to conceit that there 's no God but that All things that are do happen by some fate Or fortune or some other way which by The name of Nature they call wickedly Though sometimes too the word God they do name The better thee t' insnare their talk to frame Lift up thine eyes Behold the Heavens above The Sun the Moon the glistering Stars which move In their due constant motions and do give Their light and influence to all that live See what great glory is on them How rare Their beauty and their comely order are Doth not their glory beauty order all Their motions and their influences call Thee to confess a greater power which gave Them what Beings and what virtues they have Look down below behold the Earth which bears So many various creatures on 't and wears Such party colour'd garments and brings forth Upholds and cherishes of diverse worth Innumerable things inanimate Stones Mettals Minerals and animate Indued with various formes and different Degrees of life which both the continent And Isles produce either Vegetative As Plants of divers kinds or things alive Which Sense and Loco-motion have as Beasts And Birds and creeping things things reasonless Behold the Seas their ebbings flowings waves Where many thousands oft have made their graves Where fishes of all sorts do swim and play Where many gallant Ships do find a way Through divers dangers all-about to coast From port to port to seek out where the most Advantage to their owners they make For all the pains and hazards they do take Behold thy self and mankind who obtain An higher excellence of life the main Endowments of a reasonable Soul And understanding whereby to controul The greater creatures which both Land and Sea Produce and into all the things that be Assay to peirce and there about discourse And descant which is better which is worse From whence are all these things who to them gave Those various formes and properties they have Can'st be so blind as not clearly to see By all these things that there 's a Deity An unseen Power and Mind that is most wise And is Almighty too that could devise So glorious and so great a Fabrick and Them in that order set wherein they stand What! can it be believed to be true That by some Atoms which together flew By some strange hap their Beings they received Whence came those Atoms or can't be believed That these things could each other make whereas We see that Man can nothing bring to pass Or make of nothing though he greater be Then any other thing that thou can'st see In active power to contrive and do Such things as th' other can't attain unto Nay he can neither life give nor preserve Unto himself or others they much swerve Who think there is not some thing far above Which doth him marvailously in his love Uphold and save through all the dangers great Which death and ruin often to him threat Now if thou this believe which all things Preach That there 's a glorious God which to impeach Is the great thing thine enemies endeavour That so they might thee wholly from him sever Consider well why should He man endue With such like faculties by which what 's true What 's false he may inquire and search into And understand as it is given also By which also he 's capable of choise And may obey or disobey the voice Of such a law or rule as may impose Upon him to do these things forbear those At least when and so far as he 's set free From such intanglements as on him be Is it not that as he hath power to give Laws to himself and others He might live Under the Law of that great power Supreme Which over all the rest advanced him When he commands his fellows shall not he By his Creator too commanded be Shall he receive from him such benefits As to oblige him and be lawless It s But meet he should acknowledge him from whom His life strength reason and his knowledge come And who all things daily provides and gives Of his mere bounty whereupon he lives Seeing he is made capable thereof As no creature besides is Is' t enough That he live as the Beasts after his will And brutish appetite who hath the skill To act much higher and hath such a spirit As may be made Religious may demerit Gods bounty by ingratitude or can So well or ill act towards God or Man As to offend his maker or obtain Approvement from him shall it be in vain That he is capable to understand And to receive of God divine command Why should it not be believed be that when God such capacities hath given to men He should so further gracious to him be As to reveal
then they Shall shout and sing and well they may thus say Oh oh oh Hallelujah oh this day Oh oh Hallelujah Hallelujah who may Our happiness conceive oh happy state What heart can reach it what tongue it relate Minist Yea well they may as Harpers strike their string And with great triumph thus and better sing I. HAllelujah oh happy day That ever we were born Oh well are we that we do see This everlasting morn II. Oh what are we That we should be Thus lifted up on high We did not merit Thus to inherit Honour and dignity III. Blest be the Lamb That here we came Rais'd up from Death again 'T is by his blood We have this good Ever with him to reign IV. Blessed for all that did befall Be God for evermore Oh blessed be that one in three Whom ever we adore V. Who can set forth His wond'rous worth It doth all things surpass It doth exceed All that we read And all that ever was VI. Oh happy we who do him see Who all perfection is No Potentate no Monarch great Ever had joy like this VII Rivers of pleasures Beyond all measures Unto our lot doth fall No mixture is In this our bliss But it is blessing all VIII All things we have That heart can crave And more then heart can reach None ever could This joy unfold None ever could it preach IX Our joy surmounts On all accounts All that we could believe All praise is due To God most true He did us not deceive X. Oh glorious sight Oh great delight None ever did behold So rare a sight A light so bright Our glory can't be told XI All 's infinite All is delight We have no sorrow here Nothing of dark No fading spark All is most bright and clear XII All All is love All things above And all that is below We see no evil We fear no Devil Nothing but good we know XIII Nothing but joy Nought to annoy Here we are void of fear For we are sure We shall endure For ever happy here XIV Oh Majesty Oh glory high What one is like to thee We 've our desire Thee we admire To all eternity XV. Our blessedness None can express It is an ocean great All that excels For ever dwells In this most glorious seat XVI Blest be the Lord Blest be his Word Blest be his holy Spirit How happy we In this One-Three Our portion to inherit XVII Oh mighty King Everlasting Beginning thou had'st none When nothing were Then thou wast there Thou wast thy self alone XVIII In thy self blest Thou had'st thy rest Of us thou had'st no need Thou did'st possess Full happiness Thou' rt happiness indeed XIX Of thy good will It to fulfil The Worlds foundation sure By thee was lay'd Thou it up-stay'd At thy will to endure XX. The Word thou said'st All things thou mad'st Oh blessed be that Word Which did Being To every thing In thy good time afford XXI Blest be that love That did thee move Before the World was made To be the seat Of thy works great Or its foundations laid XXII To think of this Eternal bliss And it prepare for us Oh what were we That then by thee We should be car'd for thus XXIII Blest be that thought That us out sought And our great happiness We do admire The great desire Thou had'st us thus to bless XXIV Could we be dear Who nothing were Unto thy Majesty Thou did'st possess That word express Which was with thee on high XXV All things were made By him and lay'd On their foundation fast That they might stand At thy command And at thy will might last XXVI 'T was for his sake That thou did'st make Invisible Beings The Angels Thrones Dominions And all visible things XXVII That him thou might And his great height Most gloriously display And his fulness Thereby express That others know it may XXVIII But cheifly man When thou began Thou gratiously did'st view From him all which The Seas did rich And on the Earth that grew XXIX Yea the Heavens bright With all their light And all the hosts therein Thine hand did frame And gave the same To serve and honour him XXX Whom thou in thine Image divine Did'st good and upright make And from his side Did'st frame a Bride Whom he to him did take XXXI A comely pair And very fair For though they naked were They found no shame While void of blame Nor had they any fear XXXII A Sabboath day For rest had they The seventh when thou didst rest From thy works all Both great and small And therefore thou it blest XXXIII A day wherein They without sin Might with thy Majesty Have sweet converse Thy praise rehearse And view thy great glory XXXIV A Garden sweet With pleasures meet Thou put'st them in also Wherewith delight Thy will they might Learn of thee and it do XXXV Of life a Tree Was given by thee That they might live for ay A River large Which did discharge Its streams forth every way XXXVI All things that might Give them delight Thou on them didst bestow One only Tree Withheld by thee Was good and ill to know XXXVII Thou gav'st them food Was only good Not good and evil both If both they would Know thou them told Thou would'st with them be wroth XXXVIII Thou death didst threat If they would eat That so thou might'st them scar That free from ill They might live still And from death keep them far XXXIX Yet them to try Thou prov'dst them by A Serpent subtly wise Who thee did fault Them to assault And cheated them with lies XL. The Woman first The bonds did burst Wherewith thou did'st them tye Unto thee fast The Man did taste By her means both did dye XLI How happy a state Did'st thou create And set them in while they Were innocent Without intent Thy laws to disobey XLII Man then was Lord Of what thy word Created for his sake Of all things he Had leave from thee But one Tree to partake XLIII Pleasures he had To make him glad Sabboath and River too A spotless Wife A Tree of Life What should'st thou for him do XLIV How great his good How might he stood How was he bound to thee His glory much No creature's such But oh more happy we XLV Our state exceeds Beyond all needs There was a Serpent there They did aspire To be yet higher But here 's no Tempter here XLVI We are not in Danger of sin Nor need we to aspire Here 's injoyment Of all content We nothing more desire XLVII Tempted we were But before here We came to be thus blist Our tryal's past Sathan's down cast And we his snares have mist XLVIII Now we do rest For ever blest From all temptations free Our danger 's past Our joys shall last To all eternity XLIX This is the day That we did pray And wrestle to obtain From sin set free With thee to be And never part again L. Nothing we
gave way Day after day To lusts or cares or fears CLIV. How oft when he Had cleans'd us we Did us again defile How oft confest Yet not redrest How much we hid through guile CLV A spring of sin We had within Running continually No good in us How marvailous Was his love and mercy CLVI To each good deed That did proceed From us through his good grace Sin did adhere And it besmear Such was our wretched case CLVII But oh his love Did not remove But constantly abide Love made him blind And not to mind Our sins but them oft hide CLVIII So as that God Ofttimes his rod Forbore on us to lay And passing by Iniquity He turn'd his wrath away CLIX. A fountain great He open set And there us purifi'd And if he chode Yet love he show'd And did not always chide CLX Sometimes he hid His face and did An angry count'nance shew That he might make Us sin forsake And be to him more true CLXI Oft by some cross Some grief or loss He made us him to seek And then we felt His love to melt How gentle he and meek CLXII His loving mind Unto mankind Appearing did us save That did us make Those things forsake Which did us fore-inslave CLXIII Nor did he grieve Us to receive When unto him we came But readily Did justifie And wash us in his Name CLXIV He by his power Us every hour Did keep in his great love Which every way He did display As he did see 't behove CLXV What he did by Pleading on high God's mercy to obtain And what from thence He did dispence Made us with him remain CLXVI To him to cleave Him never leave Or if we went astray Our good shepheard Did us regard And reduce to his way CLXVII His love us drew And made us true And hid us when we fail'd Him to forgo Who lov'd us so Nothing with us prevail'd CLXVIII To him we nought That good was brought No good thing we could do He who us bought All in us wrought And helpt us against our foe CLXIX What we did want He did us grant We could but ask and have Askig aright And in his light Yea much unaskt he gave CLXX He to us clave He did us save Or else we had been gone He did begin And never lin Till all things he had done CLXXI. He in his armes Kept us from harmes He did us safely bear He did us feed Keep save and lead Untill he brought us here CLXXII Something we wore On Adam's score As we from him did spring So long as Death Held us i' the ' Earth From whence he did us bring CLXXIII The Serpents seed Which he did breed Within us and without Did dog us too Us to undo And compast us about CLXXIV Through Christ our shield We won the field He was our Captain brave Down fell our flesh We sprung up fresh He brought us out from grave CLXXV Oh faithful friend Unto the end Who did us never fail Through him we stood ' Gainst all the flood He made us to prevail CLXXVI Our Prophet he Who made us see The way of truth and right He sent that guide That did abide With comfort strength and light CLXXVII He did as Priest Upon his Breast Us in the Heavens present Our good procur'd Our weal assur'd Our evils did prevent CLXXVIII He was our King All good did bring Gave Laws made us them chose Rul'd with his arme Kept us from harme Subdued all our foes CLXXIX Yea all our wound He up hath bound As our Phisitian good Our maladies With remedies He cured by his Blood CLXXX Yea Prophets he Made us to be And Heavenly Priests and Kings To offer praise And raign always Over all other things CLXXXI Oh happy we This day that see When nothing doth annoy We have no pain Nor grief sustain But we are fil'd with joy CLXXXII Oh blest be he By whom this we For ever do possess Let creatures all Before him fall And him for ever bless CLXXXIII But we much more Will him adore Who are his choice delight Whom he doth fill Of great good will With pleasures in his sight CLXXXIV Were every part Of us a heart Yet he should have them all Were each a tongue And his praise sung By each 't would be too small CLXXXV To this our King Who did us bring To this All-Happiness Let 's sing a song Eternal-long His praises to express Hallelujah Another to Christ. I. Oh holy glorious King The Mighty Prince of Peace Thou art the Lamb by whom we came From sin to have release II. To thee we owe our selves To thee all praise is due To thee O King we 'll praises sing A song of praises new III. Oh mighty Word of God Gods dear and only Son Thou did'st us know when we were low When we were quite undone IV. Thou had'st no need of us For thou wert God above And we nothing to thee could bring And yet thou did'st us love V. Thou in the form of God Wast high and rich indeed Therefore of us who were but dust Thou could'st not stand in need VI. Thou thou all glorious art The Father thee possest When he began his works even then Thou laydest in his Breast VII Before his works of old Were either fram'd or wrought The ancient hills or fruitful fields Or Earth thou wast forth brought VIII The Father purposed His purposes of old In thee who art and do'st impart His wisdom manifold IX When he the Heavens prepar'd And the foundations lay'd Of the vast Earth in joy and mirth Thou ever by him stay'd X. Before the World was made The day or darksom night Fountain or deep or Mountain steep Thou thou wast his delight XI By thee the Worlds he made And all things more or less Without thee nought to pass was brought Thou worthy art of bless XII By thee he made us men And in thine Image clean All things we see were made for thee And all the things unseen XIII Thou art the heir of all And in thee all things stand The Life that lasts and Death out-casts Thou all things do'st command XIV Thou art th' eternal truth The everlasting light The unity all without thee Be falshood strife and night XV. The Angels thou did'st make Those which did not abide Worthily fell down into Hell The recompence of pride XVI We by thee made fell too By listning to the lies Which th' old Serpent did first invent Aspiring to be wise XVII Wisdom we had in thee And wise thou did'st us make Wiser to be foolishly we Presum'd thee to forsake XVIII While we thy holy Word And thy command divine Departed fro and our selves to The Serpent did incline XIX Great was the misery Which we were plung'd into For from thee gone God we had none Our state was full of woe XX. God gave us what was meet And that whereby we might The Tempters wiles which did beguile us Have all avoyded
Thee they show'd In Thee we have them here 72. Thou the beginning art Of Gods Creation good The ground most strong and firm whereon All things were built and stood 73. Thou art the perfect LIGHT Thou our of carkness shone And made us see things as they be Light out of Thee there 's none 74. In earth Thou art the Plant Of honour and renoun The righteous root whence issu'd out What ever God doth own 75. Thou Root of David art Whence all his hopes did spring Of that Kingdom which now is come Whereof Thou art the King 76. Thou art the fruitful Vine That doth that grape forth beare Which God and man heartily can And have refresht with chear 77. Thy full obedience And pretious blood out shed Reliev'd our hearts in all our smarts And God fully pleased 78. Thou art the stately Palm And Olive fresh and green With weights opprest thou grewst up best Thou' rt always lively seen 79. Thou art the green Firt-Tree Whence all our fruits abound And the Apple-Tree where under we Have fragrant shadow found 80. Thine Apples oftentimes Have us most chearful made Flagons of Wine from Thee our Vine Oft times our hearts have staid 81. Like Cedar tall and strong Which useth not to rot Such is thy raign which doth remain Firm and decayeth not 82. The stone of Israel And aged Rock thou art The precious stone Foundation To stay and strength the heart 83. Thou art the Pearl of price For whom we all things sold The Silver of strength whence days of length Thou' rt the most precious Gold 84. Among the waters thou The Sea and Ocean art Whence all do flow to which all owe The good they do impart 85. All good from Thee proceeds And unto Thee again It is but meet that all retreat Who dost all good contain 86. Thou art the Fountain too And Spring of waters pure Which run and live Thou all dost give Thy Streams are allways sure 87. All other things beside Are Cisterns Pipes and Pools Who Thee forsook and of them took Were all deluded fools 88. Thou art the Life indeed All Life from Thee doth flow The Life and love wherein we move We wholly to Thee owe. 89. For we were dead in sins No living act could doe Till thy fresh sent did us prevent And reach our souls unto 90. In Heaven the Morning Star Which in our darksome night When helpess we No hope could see Arose and Brought us light 91. Thou art the glorious Sun Light Heat and life from Thee To all to whom thy vertues come Sweetly imparted be 92. The Sun of righteousness Which hath upon us rose And in thy wings all healing brings And all our wounds hast clos'd 93. Oh what were we if Thee We did not now injoy Sure like to those who are thy foes And whom thou dost destroy 94. It s glorious to behold Thy glorious countenance It gives us sight fills with delight And doth our souls advance 95. In thy light we do live And walk for evermore In Thee we play and joy all day Hallelu-jah therefore 96. Amongst those things on Earth Thou mad'st to live and move Like to the tame and harmless LAMB Thou wert in thy great love 97. Gods Lamb most innocent Most meek and spotless who Clothing and food affordest good And ill didst undergo 98. With greatest patience Not answering again Though Thou defil'd wast and revil'd By men and put to pain 99. Gods Lamb indeed thou wert That sacrifice whereby Our peace was made wrath aside laid And we receiv'd mercy 100. Thy flesh thou gav'st for food Thy blood was drink indeed Feeding on that we comfort gat And strength in every need 101. Thy righteousness us cloth'd And thy vertues so high And most divine do make us shine Always most gloriously 102. Thou art the Lyon too For strength and power so those Thee oft have found unto their wound Who were thy mortal foes 103. In thy great strength Thou hast Upon them roard whereby They were thy prey and behold they Torn and devour'd now ly 104. Oh it was well for us That Thou our General A Lyon wer'â— else we like Harts Had soon been râ—uted all 105. Thou art the UNICORN Thy Horn is stately high Thy power and might alone to flight Hath put the Enemy 106. Thou art the Glory and The sum of all the rest The Man thou art who hast the heart With understanding best 107. For Thee were all things made And they were given to Thee In Heaven and Earth above beneath And in the Ocean Sea 108. Thou art the Male to us And we thy Femal be Thou the Husband us to command And we the spouse to Thee 109. For Thee we framed were And of Thee secretly While thou didst sleep a sleep so deep As for our fins to dy 110. Out of thy flesh we are And out of thy bone too One Soul we have which thy Breath gave Thy Heavenly things to know 111. In us thou tak'st delight And our delight thou art Thou with thy grace dost us embrace And lay'st us in thy heart 112. While thou didst us embrace And we submit to Thee There did proceed from Thee that Seed Which made us fruitful be 113. Which in thine own Image Thou didst beget we bear Thy Company makes us happy All our eternal year 114. Thou art the Angel too The Messenger by whom The Heavenly grant Gods Covenant Down unto us did come 115. Yea all the things of weight We in the Scriptures read Compleatly be fulfil'd in Thee As might be mentioned 116. The Sabboath or the Rest Thou art and Thou dost give Thou art our rest God hath Thee blest Joyful in Thee we live 117. From all his mighty works God ay in Thee doth cease Thou art the end whereto they tend Thou art our Rest and peace 118. In Thee by us injoy'd Our works are ended all No travail more or labour sore Or grief shall us befall 119. We also are thy Rest For now that us thou hast Thy works are o're for evermore Thy labours all are past 120. Thou the sweet Garden art The Garden of delight The Paradise where pleasure lies And what doth please our sight 121. And we thy Garden are In us thou pleasure tak'st Us to possess Tast of and dress Thou oft thy business mad'st 122. Thou art the TREE of LIFE Which pleasant fruits doth bear Whereof we leave have to receive And Death we cannot fear 123. The River too thou art Of living waters pure Thy streams go out and run about With joys both full and sure 124. Thou hast been unto us The ARK wherein we were Shut up and kept not to be swept Away with floods of fear 125. Thou art the Covenant too Made between us and God In Thee we be for ever fâ—ee From fears of future flood 120. Yea Thou that Covenant art In which we are the Lords And God our Tower by his great power All bless to us
hard that if I do Him chuse and after his advises go How shall I live for I have heard that He Hath told his followers that they shall be Hated of all men and shall troubles find The world will perfecute oppress and grinde Them all to pieâ—es How then shall I live Or what can comfort in such cases give Besides I many things for this Life want A Wife or Husband Riches Honour shan't I first look after these and have a care I don't deprive my self of things that are Most reedful for me here I hope I may First seek these things for my support and stay And afterwards seek after God and find him But till I have those things I cannot mind him Man But mind my Soul what He who doth thee love And suits thee sâ—â—ll-hereto it doth behove Thee well to weigh whither against these things He any Antidote sufficient brings Lord cause my Soul to understand and know What to such fears and cares thou dost us show Chr. Dear Soul confider me life up thine eye From what 's about thee there and see what I Am and have done for thee and then mind well What to assure thee of welfare I tell I am the WONDERFUL and wondrous things I have effected whereof the World rings Such as none else besided the i◠〈…〉 Both God and Man hypostatically Or in one person The Immanuel God so in me as in none else doth dwell Such things I 've done and do as none else did My worth and name though much dâ—â— ar'd is hid So that it cannot all seen or known be None but my Father fully knoweth the. I am the Counsellor with me is skill And Wisedom how to manage what I will I know what things have been what are and shall Hereafter unto any man befall I know thy mold and temper what thou art And what thou want'st whither what 's sweet or tart Be better for thee what is in thy mind And wherein thou felicity mayst find What or who are against thee who befriend thee What may indanger thee and what may mend thee How Harm thon may'st incur and how avoid it What this or that would be if thou injoy'd it There 's nothing hid from me I I can tell How to dispose of Thee and thy things well And I 'm so good and faithful that nothing I will advise Thee but what good may bring I am the MIGHTY GOD all power I have To order and dispose to kill or save None greater is than I because in me All fulness of the Godhead dwells and he With all his power and glory doth me fill So that I can do what soer'e I will My Fathers will is mine and mine is his But one will only in us both there is And I can execute it all with ease Because I can do whatsoer'e I please All power in Heaven and upon earth is mine I can make all things together combine To bring about my purpose Angels men Yea and infernal spirits I can when And as I please make use of and imploy To bring about thy sorrow or thy joy For I 'm th' ALL-MIGHTY GOD and I can do Whatever I do purpose there is no Thing to be done or word that I do say But I can do it too and in what way I please whither with many or with few With means or without means I can renew The heart though it be foul 〈◊〉 and rain And I can raise thy â—â—dy up again When dead and turn'd to dust and rottenness I can do all things my power is boundless And I 'm the LORD of Hosts all things below 〈◊〉 Be put and do their best obedience owe me All that my Father hath is mine and I Invested am with full authority Over all things the earth is mine and all That is therein and I can for them call And use them and imploy them as I will Even the whole World what heav'n Earth and Seas sill And I the Everlasting Father am Though as a Child into the World I came Born of a Woman given a Son to be To mankind â— comfort unto them and Thee That I might bring yet from Eternity I was brought forth and liv'd in great Glory Yea on me now the Goverment as made A Child and Son for man is wholly laid And both for ancientness wisdome and care To see and to provide for thy welfate I may a Father from of old be stild And Thou on me depend mayst as a Child For I 'm the Faithful God th' Amen am Who never fails my friend not tell a ly But speak in righteousness and am upright And Truth and Uprightness are my delight Falshood and lies I perfectly do hate Deceit and wickedness abominate There 's nothing wreathed or perverse from Me. No guile defiles my heart no flattene Proceedeth from my lips what 〈◊〉 I say For just and true all men believe it may I 'm full of goodness and of mercy too I 'm Love it self and all in Love I doe To those that listen to me all my ways Are Truth and Mercy every one doth praise Me and my works and doings who me know And all my Saints my worthiness do show For I 'm the PRINCE of PFACE too by my blood I took away what against mankind stood To keep him out from God fin law and death And I create Peace by my holy Breath What ever is mans trouble or his sear If he 'll obey me I his heart will chear I will dispel his dumps errours mistakes And what annoys my powerful word it makes Peace and gives quiet I the floods controul And I with goodness satisfie the Soul My works declare my Name they clearly shew My wisdom Greatness Goodness that I 'm true And kind and loving See what I for Thee And all have done Let my works speak for me I for mans sake and for thy cause came down From Heaven laid by my Royal Râ—bes and Crown Was made a man yea poor and full of grief Sustain'd your curse and death that so relief To thee and mankind I thereby might bring Oh many griefs and agonies did wring And pierce my Spotless soul I passed through Many temptations way both smooth and rough To Grave and Hell that so I might obtain Freedom there from for youâ— I rose again And up to Heaven ascended there to be With and from God a SAVIOUR unto Thee There I appear for the an HIGHPRIEST great To intercede for mercy and intreat Gods favour towards thee thy sins to cover And to obtain that God may pass them over A Merciful High-Priest who mercy can Shew forth and exercise to sinful man Tender his weakness and conpassionate Those that are in a poor afflicted State Yea I did therefore suffer and did prove Many temptations is it did behove That so the tempted and the miserable To succour and relieve I might be aâ—le All which of my mere merey did proceed For of mankind I had at all no need
thee The Earth with all it's fulness mine is and Subject they be to my will and command And all that 's mine is the Irs who are in me And I will thereout to their welfare see Why take'st thou care for meat or drink Behold The Birds of Heav'n though more than may be cold They neither plow nor â—oâ—e not reap nor get Laid up in Storehouses provisions yet My Father doth for each of them provide So that in hardest 〈◊〉 they wide And canst thou fear that he with thee neglect Since unto man he hath shewd such respect As far surpasses all the care he hath Of Birds and Beasts Oh thou of â—â—tle saith And why for raiment â—â—â—'st thou thought as fearing God will not give thee clothes fit for thy wearing Behold the Lillies or the Tulips fine How bravely they be colour'd how they shine Though they do neither â—oyâ— nor spin not do Any thing which their clothing tends unto Yet they so gallantly assayed are That Solomon himself they cutted 〈◊〉 In bravery though he for Ornament And Royal garments was most ominent As having Gold and Silver precious stones And whatsoever they that sit on Thrones Do highly prize and porgeously array Themselves with their heigth and worth to display And canst thou be so faithless as to fear That God will not vouchsafe thee clothes to wear If thou dost yield thy self to serve him and Bee'st ready to obey my just command Seeing those fairest flowers be nought but grass Whose form and beauty soon away doth pass And though to day they florish yet to morrow They 'r burnt i' th Oven or wither in their furrow Wereas He Thee and Mankind so doth prize As cannot be declar'd in any wise Take thou no thought therefore for those things but For them and all things thy trust in me put And first Gods Kingdom and his right coufness Seek after and be sure He will thee bless And all things for this life as them for thee He seeth meet administred shall be It s not thy way first to seek other things And afterwards me that confusion brings And many mischiefs to those who so doe And much proâ—â—â—es me and my Father t To just displeasure because foolishly They undervalue things that are so high Yea and what can be more preposterous Then that men do themselves disorder thus Shall not the better things be prized most And greatest care be had they be not lost What shall some poor and forâ—y painted cloth Which is grown old and eaten with the moth Be so esteemed as the chiefest care When the house is on fire shall be to spare It from the burning while in the mean time For want of care upon the house to climbe And quench the fire that 's breaking out in 't all The stately building likely is to fall And be consum'd especially when too In case the liouse be safe the fire can do No hurt unto the paited cloth ovithin Or were it lost one might much sooner spin Or buy a better cloth and with less cost Then to rebuild the house if that be lost Is not my love and 〈◊〉 better â—â—rn Then all the best injoyments on earth are I happy make the soul that doth me find I fill their 〈◊〉 fures satisfie their mind Who me embrace I give them lengch of days Eternal life peart is in all my ways Riches and honours pleasâ—â—â— sweet and true And lasting they shall have whom I renew All things thou canstsdefire are far below Me and what I on my lovers bestow Fulness of joy they shall enjoy who come To be inheritors of my Kingdome Rivers of pleasures shall them satisfy At my Fathers right hand 〈◊〉 Whereas wives honoâ—â—â—s pleasures friends riches And what the world can give men may possess And yet be miserable they may dy Soon and go down to hell for wretchedly Live if they live so as small joy they shall Have much less what 〈◊〉 satisfy from all Those their injoyments foe of times some moth Or worm breeds in those earthly things which doth Eat out the pleasure or fill with such grief As there against no earthly thing relief Can give and at the bestin Dâ—â—th they fail And in the dread full judgment nought avail Beside we cannot take it well to see Our love so slighted He is not of me Worthy who will not all things else forsake For love of me Seeing that I to make Him safe and happy all forsook that I Injoyed with my Father in glory And I alone the man that doth me take Do so inrich that I him happy make Noting with me may be compar'd Beside This very often hath been prov'd when try'd That while men other things use to prefer Before me and my grace and so defer Till those things they have got to seek for me With those things they prefer their hearts so be Besotted and â—â—â—ar'd that afterward They ner'e find in their hearts to have regard Unto my words to seek me seriously But vainly spend their days untill they dy And t is a just reward from God that they Who me so â—â—ght as that they won't obey My counsels but do hearden their own heart Should hardned be so as ne're to convert But fall into destruction though so full Of mercy is my Father as to pull Sometimes such men too out of those their snares And dangers Which their foolish lusts and cares Run them into because no pleasure He Doth take that wicked men destroyed should be But it s a dangerous presumption To slight his grace when offered upon A thought uncertain that they after may And will do better on some after-day How often is it found that God justly Doth give such over to believe a ly And always to presume that afterward To morrow and to morrow they 'l regard And turn to him but never that time find In which they seriously do set their mind To seek him till Death sodainly them take From hence and then in hell their beds they make Min. It is the nature too of lust in men As often times it hath been prov'd that when It gets its head into mens hearts Its tail It draws in after and doth so prevail That when in one thing its fulfil'd it brings Other new lusts forth and as t were by strings Draws on a whole throng one after another Till all desires of good they wholly smother Choking the seed was sown that never it Takes root or perfect fruit doth e're beget He that now wants a wife and must her have Before he can attend on God and crave And seek his Kingdome and his righteousness Thinking could He that one desire gossel He nothing elss should want but be at â—easure To seek the Lord and in his wans taâ—e pleasure But when on such accounts He God neglects And more the getting of a Wife resnects If as sometimes it doth fall out his life Be not first gone before He gets his Wife But he obtains his
wish yet many things He then wants not fore-sees with her she brings A many other wants or sond desires Now she his company and heart requrires Now he her will must sarisfie his pleasure With her must take so that he hath no leisure Now left to seek the Lord on her to wait And her to hu on it sit and char or prate With her he must or else go walk or ride Go build her a fair house maintain her pride This thing to alter or that thing to mend In Gardning Planting building his time spend Take care he may maintain her in good fashion Take heed he put her not into a passion By taking of such courses God to find As cross her principles disturb her mind He must think how to live his Family Provide for Children get and multiply So bring them up and get such means for them As credit they may have none them contemn So that he who would not attend before To seek and walk with God hath now much more To keep him back and thinkd he may excuse Himself when bidden and the feast refuse Whereto God calls him He may stay at home Send word I have a wife I cannot come As if he badly might obey the call Before but now he cannot come at all So 't is with women too if they cannot Mind to seek God till they have husbands got Conceiting then they shall be be ter fit The knowledge of the Lord to seek and get They do deceive themselves for when they have An husband then his consent they must crave They must seek him to please and not offend This for him they must make and that thing mend Do nothing that may not 〈◊〉 with his mind For fear they make him unto them unkind Unless as 't is sometimes the Womans guise Thinking themselves for their Husbands too wise They scorn to be rul'd by them Strive to get The Master-ship as for them far more fit They must conceive in â—oâ—â—ows and bring forth With pain and anguish such as oft woe worth Those pleasures brought those pains they haply cry Yea many things they need to make or buy Before the Birth-time have many 〈◊〉 boâ—â—ts Bufie themselves to make their Children Clouts Trim up their houses after nurse their young Gossip sometimes their neighbours too among Oft times conceive again bring forth another Before the former children can call Mother That now less time they have to hear and mind The Word of God and seek his grace to find Then formerly and such things doubtless made Th' Apostle to advise such as were stayd And could contain themselves rather t' abide In single life than change their state and bride So likewise when a man must riches get Before he can in serious manner set His heart to seek the Lord he either never Attains to riches though he them endeavour At least to what he riches thinks and calls Or if he doth yet usually he falls Into so many snares and foolish lusts By them while secretly in them he trusts And makes then as his Gods and takes delight To have them often in his thoughts or sight Or is so fil'd with cares how them to keep Or fears of losing them that oft his sleep He thereby breaks and fils his Head and heart With many cumbring thoughts and paâ—â—ful smart He must when rich now all things else provide Suitable to his state He now must ride On a well mâ—â—â—ed Steed must at his hand Have one or two to be at his command He must inlarge his house or it new build And garnish all thing both in house and feild Must be in form and figure He must get Acquaintance with such persons as be fit For his now better company and them He then must humour least they him contemn He must now keep such correspondency With greater persons as he may thereby Some reputation in the world obtain He must take heed of too godly a strain Least he thereby his riches should neglect Or purchase with the World some disresnect Yea riches fills his head his heart his hands With so much caercise oft as it stands Not with a serious giving up his mind To seek to know the Lord and him to find Or in the knowledge of him rightly walk For his estate to save he oft must balk Such uprightness as grace would lead him to And make such shifts as bring his overthrow His house his landy or living now doth bind Him so unto the earthy his heart so wind Into the love of them that very oft He is away from God for ever caught So that while men do think to mend the matter And make their cases better they but flatter Themselves with vain pretences and will find That they have much mistaken in their mind And what they thought were they but pleased there Would further them doth now a let appear Chr There was a certain rich man who had ground The fruits whereof when grown did so abound That he far more then for the present year Provided was yet did not his heart there Find such content as that with thankfulness To God because his Grounds he did so bless Receiving what was sent and laying by What thereof might be fit for his supply He what beyond his room for it was more With cheerfulness divided to the poor And gave himself on Gods word to attend And so receive as his life to mend And yield himself to serve the Lord nor sought How he unto his Kingdom might be brought But on the contrary finding that he Should want some room wherein his fruits might be All stored up perplered was in mind How room sufficient for them all to find And after many thoughts thereof at last Thus for his satisfaction he forecast I 'le pull my Barns down thinks he and I 'le build Far bigger up where what my lands do vield I 'le treasure up in safety and though 't will Take up some time this purpose to fulfill And put me to some cost and trouble yet When that is over I this fruit shall get I 'le then compose my self to rest and ease Eat drink be merry and so I will please My soul for all its troubles I will say Soul thou hast goods laid up for many a day Nay here 's enough to serve thee many a year Thou mayst all further care and toile forbear No fear of want but in the mean time lo A voice from God came this rich man unto Which thus bespeaks him Ah thou silly fool Thou shalt not live another day thy soul For which thou only hast provided here Upon the earth and nought in heaven where Wise men for it provide this night shall be By my grim messengers requir'd of thee And then who shall all those thy fruits possess With thoughts whereof thou dost thy soul so bless And with the cares whereof thou now thy soul So exercisest like a silly fool And such a fool is every one who makes Much
frowardness for I am meek And with all gentleness their welfare seek I neither cry nor lift up angry voice Against dull Scholars but I do rejoyce To take pains with them them to teach and show My Doctrine till I cause them it to know The bruised Reed I break not though it be Weak and unprofitable unto me Nor quench the smoking wiek or snast but strive With all long-patience to keep it alive I can the smoke and stanch of it endure Untill I blow it up and do it cure For power and meekness skill and faithfulness None like to me there is none in distress Or can so pity or can so pass by What they discern may of iniquity None is so blind as I that perfect am And who to open blind eyes hither came I many things do see yet don't observe 'T is not because I cannot see men swerve For I see all things perfectly what e're They be both good and bad to me are cleare But 't is because I love them and no mind Have causes of destruction for to find In and against them for should I with eye Too vigilant their many sins espy Who then should stand before me and avoid By my most heavy hand to be destroyd Do but thou then yield up thy self to me I nothing else desire or seek of thee Be but thou willing and obedient And I shall therewith fully be content I 'le keep thee through all dangers in the way I 'le overcome in and for thee what may Thee hinder or in danger thy perdition I 'le bring thee to a fully safe condition Though the way narrow be thou shalt not err I 'le be thy guide therein and I 'le confer My Spirit do but thou heed my commands Keeping them he shall keep thee in his hands Yea in his arms shall carry thee I 'le show My truth to thee and thou my ways shalt know So as no false Christs or false Prophets shall Prevail to make thee e're from me to fall Be but upright in what I make thee see Not winking with thine eye putting from thee My heavenly light and truth made known away And I will keep thee that thou shalt not stray And though the gate be strait so as into it Thou canst not of thy self though crowding go yet I 'le so put forth my hand and pull thee to me That there is nothing shall withold thee fro me Remember what I said before that I Came to save sinners not only stand by And bid them save themselves do but thou yield Thy self to me and I will win the field I 'le take away that greatness in conceit That makes thee for the gate of life too great I 'le circumcise thee take away that mass Of flesh from thee that will not let thee pass I le make thee such as through the gate thou shalt Most safely enter Nor shall any fault Deprive thee of my Kingdome for I will Not fail my Fathers pleasure to fullfil I l'e pardon what is past and I will make Thee for the future clean thou shalt forsake Thy sins and Idols that so dear are to thee And which if cleaved to will quite undo thee If thou wilt hearken unto me there shall No strange God be in thee I 'le rid them all Out of thee those false thoughts which do so hold Thy soul in bondage while I do unfold My truth and grace unto thee I 'le destroy So that they shall not thee thenceforth annoy Or captivate my truth shall make thee free To leave thy sins to follow after me And if I set thee free thou shalt indeed From what doth now imbondage thee be freed I 'le soon subdue thy foes within thee that Do war against thy soul and those that hate Both thee and me bring under and I will With choisest bread thee feed thy soul I 'le fill With sweetest honey wisdome thou shalt find More sweet by far then honey to thy mind That I may make thee pleasing unto me I 'le wash thy staines and spots clean off from thee I 'le take the pains to make thy soul as white As snow or wool as pure as is the light Thou dost mistake thy self to think it shall Be left to thee and unto thy lot fall To bring thy self to Heaven or to make clean Thy heart in thine own strength I don't so mean The difficulties in the work are mine I came to do them do but thou incline Unto my words thine ears and yield to me And thou with patience all well done shalt see When I by Joshuah did my people lead Into the Land of promise thou may'st read How they were to pass over Jordans stood When as above the banks the waters stood Yet while my Priests who bare the Ark did but At my command into the waters put Their Feet-soles by my power I made the flood Give way unto them as I thought it good So as before them that great stream became Dry land so that most safely through the same My people marched over that so I All others might instruct and teach thereby To follow me with courage wheresoe're I shall them lead and not to doubt or fear Draw back through unbelief or halt or stay Demurring at what may seem in the way Too hard or dangerous for them to do But only me obey after me go The like I did when Pharaoh did before Pursue them with his Chariots in his sore Rage to reduce them when before they had The Sea to hinder them yet when I bad Them march into it it to them gave way And was a means of safety too that day Standing as walls on either hand while through Its waves as on dry land they past which rough Growing against their foes which them pursu'd Destroy'd and drowned all their multitude Never did any that my voice obey'd By any thing of danger that afraid Might make them or impossible might seem In my way ever perish but I them Have ever helpt in their obedience and Remov'd their obstacle at my command Dispute not but obey Look not what thou Art or canst do but do thou mind me how I am accomplisht those things for to do For which I call thee to me and thee woo Have I not power to make a Cammel pass Even through a needles eye to whom there was Ne're any thing too hard cannot I guide thee Shall I thee woo and shall not I abide thee If thou accept art thou not now to day As bad and fowl as may be doth that fray Me from seeking thy love if thou consent Canst think that I my bargain will repent I 'me not like poor blind men that things pursue With eagerness which afterwards they rue Because they knew not how they should them find Or were themselves unstable in their mind I 'm not like man that I should so repent Therefore obey me and yield thy confent Unto me wholly I will surely do What needful is for thee I 'le
I am too slack In seeking thee yea woe is me I 〈◊〉 From thee have run apace since I begun To move toward thee I 'm too apt to run Toward my Idols in the ways of sin Yea Lord thou know'st how since I did begin To court thy favour I have run apace In wicked ways wherein had not thy grace And mercy me prevented I had been Or'e thrown forever this day never seen But oh my pace toward thee is so dulâ— That need I have that after thee thou pull My sluggish Soul oh bring thou me into Thy Chambers of defence and delight so As in thy love I such delight may take As never thee any more to forsake Let me be so inclosed as with walls Of sure defence that whatsoe're befalls I never may again from thee withdraw But allways may thee fear and stand in aw Least I offend thee oh that I to thee May swiftly run with all that upright be And in thy Chamber may with them abide Where thou dost all that love thee safely hide Wee 'll then be glad in Thee and much rejoyce Oh King wee 'l sing thy praise with chearful voice Wee 'l think upon thy loves which do excel The choisest Wine Oh we remember well The sweetness of its tast who be upright They do thy person love in thee delight Not in themselves their parts their gifts nor yet Those pleasures only that from thee they get Like to the Concubines which love to be Delighted with thy loves courted by thee But thee and thy concerns do slight neglect To seek thy glory don't thy name respect Sincerely but make thou me upright so As my heart wholly after thee may go Oh thou whom my soul in some measure loves Do thou me show what me to know behoves Tell thou me where thou feed'st thy flock and make Me go upright Let me not thee forsake With sinners in their dainties to perâ—ke Let me not turn aside from thee to go After the flocks of thy companions who Lift up themselves into equallity Of power or worth unto thy Majesty But shew me thy good ways and make me see The thing that is acceptable to thee Stay me with flagons of thy love and let Me of thy apples too the comforts get For I desire thy love oh do thou show it And cause thou me more clearly yet to know it Under my head put thou thy left hand and Therewith support me and let thy right hand Embrace my soul and keep me safe untill I have fulfil'd my course perform'd thy will And oh that then thou wouldst make hast unto My soul and be thou swifter than a Roe That so our union may compleated be And I may full fruition have of thee Make hast oh my beloved like a Roe Or a young Hart that on the Mountains go That leap upon the Mountains and o're Hills Come skipping Thou art he alone that fills The souls of those that love thee with delight And mak'st them fully happy in the sight Of thy most glorious person do not tarry Help me to hast to thee then hast to marry Me to thy self that I with thee may dwell Who dost in all excellencies excell And in the mean time make me chast and true Unto thee what opposes thee subdue Working my works in and for me yea al Thine own good pleasure whereto thou dost call And counsel me the work of faith with power That I may persevere unto the hour And in the hour of death till unto thee Thou tak'st me up in joys for aâ—e to be I leave my self to thee oh do thou what Is good for me Chr. I will so fear not that Amen HALLELUJAH FINIS A Song of Loves Lord grant that in a right renewed mind I may such love to thee and thy things find As to say of and to thee this behind 1. I Am my well beloveds My well-beloved's mine He is a person lovely Excellent and divine 2. For he is the Immanuel Both God and man in one The Mighty God the wonderful And like him there is none 3. His excellence surpasseth What one may it declare Or who among the mighty May with this one compare 4. Oh all ye that in love are Your lovers who commend Is any of them able To match with this my friend 5. Hath any of them ever So great things for you wrought Or is there any of them Hath you so dearly bought 6. Is any of them so high Either in Rank or birth No there is none so glorious Either in Heaven or Earth 7. Ther 's none of them is so great There 's none of them can do So great things and so wonderful Or can inrich you so 8. As this my Lord and Saviour Can and will do for me If I be upright with him And do not from him flee 9. Ye that in Kings and Princes And mighty Potentates Do make your boasts come tell me Hath he there any mates 10. Can any of them match him Nay they are all below The greatest of those great ones Their service to him owe. 11. They 'r short in understanding Their pow'r also is less Their rule extends not so far Nor yet their happiness 12. They are but men as others Their lives are but mortal Their breaths must pass out of them And then they perish all 13. But this my Lord and Lover Doth live for evermore His understanding's perfect All creatures him adore 14. Nothing for him too hard is For he can all things do Nothing from his eyes hid is For he all things doth know 15. He ruleth over all things Both in the seat and land Yea and all things In heaven be Subject to his command 16. He heir of Heav'n and earth is He is lord of all glory His brith's above all creatures There 's none can match his story 17. His excellence excels all That 's either hard or seen One half of what 's true of him Never declar'd hath been 18. Go glory of your Princes And Benefactors great Tell of their great majesty Their royal train and seat 19. I none of them shall envy This one 's mcuh better far Whom my soul hath desire to They can't with him compare 20. He hath far greater glory Than any one of them Though yet he is so lovely That none he doth contemn 21. Though they be poor and little If unto him they flee He none of them disdaineth But they accepted be 22. Those whom ye use to boast of Be proud and lofty too And oft in words and carriage Great haughtiness they show 23. Though they be far below him Who my beloved is And like to meaner persons He them reâ—roves I wiss 24. For in his hands they all are To do with as he please And he can make or break them Or change their state with ease 25. Oh there is none so lovely As this Beloved one In pitty love and goodness Like to him there is none 26. He higher than the Heavens is Or
mind the earthly to forget VI. And his dear Sarah too Who out with him did go Beside her many wandrings tryals had Twice she did scarcely scape From Heathen Kings a rape Her barren womb and bond-mayd made her sad Yet when by many tryals she was taught To trust in God she brought forth and she laught VII Though Jacob was decreed To Lordship as we read Yet how great hardships did he first sustain Through Esans great hatred He unto Laban fled Where as a servant he did long remain On the cold earth on an hard stone he slept Converst with God yet afterwards oft wept VIII He saw Heaven opened Whence God himself preached From top of ladder greatest blessings to him Which before he injoy'd Great sorrows him annoy'd How many griefs sustain'd he like t' undo him Yet in the close of 's tryals he did meet With many an heavenly satisfying sweet IX That chaste and pious lad Joseph after he had In dreams great dignity unto him shew'd Was by his brethren sold And sorrows manifold Sustain'd in Egypt by his Mistress lewd Many a doleful heart smart stinging grief Prisons and irons small hopes of relief X. Yet when God had him try'd He him well satisfi'd Rais'd him to honour made him to command With great Authority Over both low and high Next to the King throughout all Egypt's Land Thus God through tryals manifold prepar'd him And after with great honour did reward him XI Moses in rushy boat Did on the waters float Before he was receiv'd in Pharaoh's Court Whence put to flight again He was in Midian fain To act the shepherd in an homely sort Yet thence God brought him to be Israels head By whose hand out of Egypt he them led XII Where they had strangers been And great oppressions seen After the promise of the pleasant Land Brought whence at length they were Through Wilderness fear Seas flood and many tryals with high hand And after all at length they did possess The Land of promise with great quietness XIII That Ruddy youth the sheep Of Jesse that us'd to keep He was anointed King of Israel But before he did reign Great griefs he did sustain In Caves and Mountains through what him befel Yet God at length his enemies destroy'd He reign'd in state and in God greatly joy'd XIV Behold we Christ our Lord How much was he abhor'd Of men a man with many sorrows try'd In 's birth laid in a stall His Life and Death with gall Was fil'd with malefactors crucifi'd He as i' th' wine-press of God's wrath was trod Yet now is glorifi'd worshipt as God XV. Then let it not offend us If God that he might mend us Do exercise us after any sort Let us but to him cleave He never will us leave Till he hath satisfi'd us with comfort Since this his method is he first doth try And so prepare for bless then satisfies XVI Yet ev'ry one that 's try'd Is not so satisfi'd But they who tryals patiently abide Continuing in God's way And trusting in him they Shall with a crown of life be dignifi'd They who through unbelief impatiently Depart from God deprive themselves and dye XVII In Israel of old They who had manifold Proofs of God's love and graciousness receiv'd And yet through unbelief Put his good spirit to grief And turn'd aside thereby themselves depriv'd Not patiently abiding to the end They perisht in those judgments God did send XVIII They had not been o'rethrown Had they this truth well known And kept in mind that this is God's good way By tryals to prepare Those that his people are And then his satisfactions to convey This ruin'd them that being try'd they thought God hated them and their destruction sought XIX But God did never fail Those where grace did prevail To make them patiently to him to cleave Though failings oft they had Yet God did make them glad Pard'ning their sins he never did them leave 'T is not infirmities and failings many Where men are true to God shall deprive any XX. Then let us courage take And never God forsake For whatsoever tryal us beâ—al Our sins let us bewail And hope though thoughts assail Since God through tryals led his people all Only when God doth try us us to prove To try our selves too it doth us behove XXI That we may see what dross We yet retain which loss Will bring unto us if not purged out And when seen with it part So God will fill our heart With heavenly satisfactions without doubt And let none leave God's way because they 'r try'd Who keeps it shall at length be satisfi'd When by their tryals they are purifi'd To a Stationer who being asked for a Bible replyed Will you have one with the Service in it SIR Whether you ask't this question in a jear Or seriously you have my Answer here MY Service is not bound up in a Book For then I might sometimes have it to look For so some man might put it in his pocket Or lay it in his desk and from me lock it So that I might not get it when I should Perform it or it might in time grow old It might be lost burnt dirty'd rent or torn Or be with too much thumbing quite out-worn At best as clos'd up in a Book it 's dead And so not such as should be offered Unto the living God who now requires A living sacrifice not dead desires A reasonable service unto him And such a service he will not contemn My service Sir I 'd bear it in my heart Whence it may issue out to ev'ry part It is the yielding of my whole body To do God's will or bear it chearfully That is the service we ought to perform And not our selves to this World to conform As in the twelfth to t' Romans you may read The World it self and its service is dead They like to serve the Devil with their hearts Their tongues hands heads and all their other parts To give their bodies unto lust or pride Their mouths to curse boast scoff jear and deride Blaspheme and lye themselves they sacrifice To drunkenness whoredom or avarice And yet they think they serve God bravely too For they their service in a Book can show Their service is a thing that lies without them And they can carry it sometime about them Unless their Book 's too big or lay it by When they have said it o're and let it lye They can present it unto God i' th' morn And all the day beside his counsels scorn Or else perhaps present it but one day In six or seven and all the week else lay It at a distance giving God what 's dead While with what liv's their lusts are worshipped Oh gallant service like to the Idols old Which Heathens made of Silver or of Gold Which might be carryed from place to place And had th' appearance of an humane face But yet were life-less void of inward breath And could not keep their