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
except some two or three Who rank't among the greatest Hero's be For some strange facts which are of them recorded And yet their present ages scarce afforded Such honour to them because they did foil Their actions by that humour which doth spoil All it possesses because it declines The common road where the Worlds glory shines Though they the hap had by the after ages To be inrol'd among the wiser Sages But think'st thou that the World is now the same It was before it had the Christian name Nay sure for then it was not as yet drencht In that religious water which hath quencht Its former fiery Meteors and hath taught How men may freed be from all that 's naught Though yet they practise it for being wet With that same water they a new form get For that suffices any to make clean Especially if they the golden mean Of moral virtue joyn'd with pollicy And a prudential conformity Unto the most and greatest therewith hold And to reprove their faults be not too bold Now the broad way is best though heretofore When men were blinder and did stocks adore The narrow way was best The case is not The same it was because we now have got God and the World in one so reconcil'd That nothing may be counted now defil'd But what the common road doth go beside Yea now the World it self is Deifi'd Its power its ways its pleasures all are Gods What now is joyn'd in one set not at odds Bow down and worship therefore without fear The power the greatness and the customs here Do as the most do and as those that be The greatest in esteem and thou shalt see Nothing but good betide thee what dissents Therefrom avoid Be sure thou make no rents In that great body nor to other spirit Incline thine heart then what it doth inherit Swim down the tide fear not but it runs even And carries thee the direct way to Heaven Think of no other Heaven or happiness Then what the World doth now and shall possess Dream of no other pow'r of God then what Doth in the Worlds great persons terminate Nay give thy heart and senses scope enjoy What pleases them avoid what doth annoy Come do as we do be not overwise To think of things unseen believe thine eyes It 's a fanatick fancy to believe In and for things that thou canst not perceive By verdict of thy senses and thy Reasen Against their Soveraignty commit not Treason Still those loud noises then that thou dost hear So frequently to sound in fancies ear Alluring thee to mind strange things unseen Which they do promise thee there ne'r hath been Nor shall be greater happiness and bless Then what thou now in this life mayst possess For sinee the old Fathers have faln a sleep We see all things their wonted courses keep And all those glorious things they promised Appear but fancies of some doting head Let not vain hopes into thine heart intrude And of thy present comforts thee delude Nor let vain fears prevail upon thee so As to cause thee those pleasures to forgo Which here thou mayst enjoy while thou do'st gaze After unseen enjoyments and amaze Thy self with dismal fears while Heaven and Hell Thou think'st on thou thereby away do'st sell Those opportunities the World doth give A merry pleasurable life to live Take hold thou fool o' th' opportunity And be not gul'd so as to pass it by Go joyn thy self with yonder gallant boys Go hawk and hunt with them go taste their joys Roysters Come on young man with us cast in thy lot Do as we do come take a pipe and pot Let 's lay in wait for blood let 's take a prey Let 's rob some innocent that rides this way We 'll swallow them alive whole as the pit Rich spoils and booties to our selves we 'll get We shall all pretious substance catch and find Such booties as will satisfie our mind Cast in thy lot amongst us le ts have all One purse in whatsoever shall befall We 'll share alike come we shall such fruits reap As will rejoyce our hearts and make them leap Christ. Take heed dear Soul avoid them do not go In the same way with them it leads to woe However sweet and profitable it May seem to thee thou there wilt ruine get For they do lay in wait for their own blood They 'll loose their Souls in stead of getting good Roysters Come let us feast and frolick let us dine At yonder Tavern ther 's a cup of Wine Most rarely brisk it moves it self i th' cup It 's generous Wine and saith come drink me up Let 's have a game at Billiards or at Cards Be merry now think not of afterwards Christ. Take heed dear Soul mind what will be the end Thou may'st thy self a while in pleasures spend But in the end thou wilt it sadly rue Be warned by me what I say is true The Drunkards and the Gluttons poor shall be They shall be cloth'd with rags Look not to see The colour of the Wine or whatsocre To sight or Taste delightful may appear T' will sting thee as an Adder at the last Bite as a Serpent when the pleasure 's past Woe sorrow and contentions and babling Wounds without cause redness of eyes 't will bring Hardness of heart too so that on thou'lt go And nothing fear till thou art drown'd in woe They that love pleasures will be poor at last And they not rich who love good chear to taste F.W.D. While life and youth and strength wit do last Do not thou them in Melancholly waste In thinking of a God and Heaven and Hell And such strange Objects as on man can tell What kind of things they be embrace the breasts Of this brave World frequent her costly feasts Let not the pleasant flowers of the Spring Pass by unpluckt away thy fancies fling Possess the joys this present World affords Break thou the bands and east away the cords Which that religious Spirit doth bring to bind Thy Soul withal so strait Set not thy mind On those conceits it doth to thee suggest Shake out those blacker motions from thy breast See yonder 's a brave Damsel a spruce Lass Ready to court thee can'st thou let her pass See what an amorous look she hath her eyes Sparkle like Diamonds beauty in her cheeks lies Her lips drop Honey and her mouth 's like oyle No Wen or blemish her fair face doth soil Her very garments sweet perfumes do breath Sure she is more delightful underneath What do'st thou think that witty nature made Thy senses and thy members to be laid Aside as dead and stupifi'd while yet Thou art alive shall such a fancy get Possession of thee as thy self to make Like to those images thou do'st forsake That thou should'st eyes have and nought with them see Ears and not hear the things that spoken be Or what may please thee shalt thou have a tongue And not say
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
THE DIVINE WOOER OR A POEM Setting forth The Love and Loveliness of the LORD JESVS and his great desire of our welfare and happiness and propounding many Arguments full of weight and power to persuade Souls to the faith and obedience of him and Answering divers Objections that are made there-against and that hinder many there-from Composed by J. H. a servant of God in the glorious Gospel of his well beloved Son Psal 45.1 My heart herein a good thing doth indite The things pertain to Christ which here I write A ready writer's pen may my tongue prove Imprinting on the Readers heart Christ's love Psal 34.8 11. O taste and see how good 's the Lord and just O happy man that maketh him his trust Come children unto me give heed I 'll teach You how to fear the Lord his grace I preach Quis leget haec Persius Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci Horat. A verse may find him who a Sermon flies And turn delight inâ—â— a sacrifice Herbert LONDON Printed for R. Taylor and T. Sawbridge and are to be Sold in Little-Brittane 1673. THE DEDICATION LOrd I would dedicate this work to Thee For its materials are mainly thine And those endowments too thou gav'st to me Through exercise whereof it became mine But yet that exercise of mine 's so short Of what ought t' have been that thou mayst abhor't II. I do confess that unto Thee I owe My self and all that I am or can do For all that 's good in me Thou did bestow And in my wants it is to Thee I go Therefore 't is meet that I devote to Thee My self my works and all that is in me III. But I 'm a very sinful dirty thing So much defil'd in heart mind head and hand That I no offring meet for Thee can bring Nought that before Thee thou mayst bear to stand If Thou do'st look upon it with pure eye And mark its many swervings narrowly IV. O wash me in the fountain of that blood Which thy most blessed Son for me hath shed Renew me with thy grace that can make good And clean both heart and mind both hand and head Then shall I better offrings bring to Thee Than either I or this my work now be V. The spring whence flowed out those streams which here Together gathered I have by study Is with what flows therefrom both pure and clear But ah the channel they ran through is muddy Thy words are all most pure but in my mind While they received are there dirt they find VI. Mistakes and earthiness carnal desires And selfish ends therein so frequent are That what results therefrom greatly bemires The heav'nly liquor and it almost marres Yet Lord let not thy wine be thrown away Though of the cask something it rellish may VII But let the Readers such good strainers find Of piercing judgment as to seperate What 's mine from thine so as what 's thine to mind And nothing thereof for my sake to hate Yea what in them or me thou seest amiss Pard'ning and purging to us both it bliss VIII Oh cause both me and them who read or hear Of what 's here writ of thy beloved Son The truth thereof behold so bright and clear As unto him at all times we may run And unto him resolve so fast to cleave As him by no means we may ever leave IX And O might all the musings of my mind And words or writings which from thence proceed Be such as may with Thee acceptance find And useful be to who them hear or read To what 's good therefore Thou my strength Lord be And from what ill inthrals me set me free TO THE READER THere is a Proverb saith Blest is the wooing That is soon over or not long in doing This Proverb hath its truth and verity In this same woing which unto thine eye And mind I here present if we respect The party wooed He that dont ' reject Christ's profer'd kindness or his patience tire But quickly yields himself to his desire Without excuses or delays is Blest And sooner of much happiness possest Whereas He that stands dallying long and gives Frequent denyals of much good deprives Himself mean while and many griefs sustains While between two He in suspense remains Yea and endangers the Great Wooer too To turn away in anger and then woo And anguish will succeed for there is none With whom the soul can live well but this One Though in respect of him that 's woo'd it s well That Christ upon his suit long time doth dwell That He 's not quick to anger but doth wait To shew his mercy even to such as hate To be reproved and do long resist That grace of God without which none is blist That He vouchsafes to call and knock and stay At the long-closed-Heart from day to day Till by his goodness and long-suffering He Subdues its unkind hardness makes it see Its folly Him so to oppose in whom All good and happiness to it doth come And without whom it must sustain such woe As it can neither bear nor get therefro Which patience and long-suffering doth commend This Wooer much that He will so attend Vpon such sorry persons and so long Before He leave his suit His love is strong Which led him hither through so many tryals And leads him too to take so oft denials When as He is so Great and perfect too That He no need hath any one to wooe Nor is there any worthy of his love Or to injoy him He 's a match above The Highest creature none in Heaven or Earth Can equal him in greatness goodness birth But who is that that 's wooed whom doth He court Is' t only some of the more wealthy sort Is' t only the brave gallants or is' t those Whose wit and breeding other mens out-goes Or is it such as are set up on high Invested with some great Authority We might suspect indeed that He some such Would take to him that in these matters much Come nearer to his greatness But alas For none of all those things He ought doth pass Nor do they make those who them have to be Any whit nearer to him in degree Than those who have them not they bear no sway With him at all that more of his heart they Then others should obtain but whosoere Do heartily him love to him are Dear It 's any soul in general that He Doth call and Woo that saved it might be To whom He by his works and words doth show His truth and goodness that it them may know And by his holy Spirit them evidences In any measure But men oft their senses So stupifie with pride and lust that they Do not perceive what he to them doth say But do neglect his voice till He them leave The fruits of their own folly to receive But wheresoere men hear him and do heed Those heavenly words which do from him proceed Believing on him He
them all doth take Into a nearer union and doth make An everlasting Covenant with them Their sins to pardon their souls not condemn He 'll be their God and guide their portion great Their Head and Husband they with him shall eat And drink and rest and dwell and see his face He will them dearly love He 'll them embrace He 'll kiss them satisfie their souls with good He 'll over flow them with a mighty flood Of peace and happiness and they remain Shall ever with him ever with him reign The Soul of Man like to a female is Anima f. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And its desire is strongly after bliss And to some other thing as to its male It doth subject it self for it would fail If left alone as by it self to dwell For then it doth sink down to death and Hell And many things there are like Males to it To which it turns it self seeking to get From them its pleasure and subsistance and Subjects it self too unto their command The World or Spirit of it Mundus m. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that magnifies The things below and such vertue as lies In them that courts the soul which nat'rally Since it from God is fallen sets its eye Vpon its pleasures pomps riches and fare And what the objects of its senses are To this it turns it self to this it flies On this for peace and safety it relies For this it lusts and its imbraces wishes Opens it self thereto likes well its kisses In it delights and to it it self yields Desires its gifts of Money Houses Fields What ere may please it and protection give And make it in good plight and rank to live But this World 's empty fading false and vain And if the Soul match to 't 't will prove its bane The Wicked one even the soul spirit Diabolus m. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that sets The heart on Mischeif when He therein gets Possession stirs up unto strife debate Oppression violence pride envy hate He courts the Soul too and it s oft beguil'd By him and with those wicked seed's defil'd Conceiting sweetness oft in any thing Which unto other men may mischief bring A Spirit of error and false Prophecy Is He ofttimes to Heaven but by a lye Pretending and in divers shapes appears And some great how and port He often bears As if he came from Heaven and led thereto Yea usually the name of Christ also He can assume though 't is but in deceit Th' unwary Soul the easlier to cheat For He doth always turn the Soul away From the true Christ who down his life did lay For our offences and from that good word Th' Apostles preach't and what it doth afford Not singly leading it to Christ that He Its Lord and Saviour in all things might be On him to trust his counsells to observe But to some fancy leadeth it to swerve Or else some other work law power or name Doth joyn with Christ Adultery with the same Leading the Soul to practise whereby it Misseth Christ's blessing and his wrath doth get For Christ indeed the only one is Chirstus m. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who Hath power received from God the Soul to woo And He alone that for the Soul hath done And that can and will do for it that none Besides him could or can and therefore He Alone its Bridegroom worthy is to be He all things hath that may the Soul enrich Content and cherish He from all things which May danger it will safely it defend And bring it to an happy glorious end But naturally the Soul doth not Him know Nor what a one He is but looks below To things unto its senses manifest Thinking in their enjoyments to be blest And if it see a need of any thing Beside to after-Bliss it for to bring Then usually it plays the wanton whore Some form of godliness it will adore Wherein the World and Devil too it may Have fellowship withal and with them play And sport it self and yet be godly too And some fine easie outside service do Or if some stricter course it yields to take As it can be at cost and pains to make It self a graven Image as of old The Israelites to make a Calf of Gold Would with their Jewels part its the design While with the Spirit of error 't doth combine To be its own Redeemer or to get A righteousness or Name wherewith commit Adultery it may for oft with more Than one false Spirit the Soul doth play the Whore But only Christ is worthy it to have Who from the Heavens descended it to save From Sin and Death and pow'r hath all to give Which may make Soul and Body both to live And He by 's Word and Spirit and those in whom These are and work unto mens Souls doth come Inviting them to him but not that He With other things only should partner be In their affections and their worships but That all things else from the heart being shut He might alone the Sovereign power obtain It to command and over it to reign That it to him its love and confidence May singly give in the belief and sense Of his great worth and goodness and submit In all things to his wise dispose of it The Spirit of Wisdom which comes from on high And doth of Christ and his things testifie And into their hearts who have him received Inspired hath the Truth to be believed And by them wrought such miracles as none Besides them in the World have ever done He calls men unto Christ his voice is Come To Christ for Righteousness and for Wisdom For Pardon Peace for Strength for Holiness For Freedom from all evil for all bliss The Church or Spouse the Bride of Christ who knows And singly to him cleaves she him forth shows And not her self as the false Church she wooes For him alone Yea every one his voice That hears and in his goodness doth rejoyce Is both allow'd and bid to call men to This Blessed one and them for him to woo It 's only the false Church that magnifies Her self and hides his glory from mens eyes Oh come ye come ye then to Christ I pray Come all that thirst all that want help and stay Support life comfort guidance righteousness And what may satisfie the Soul with bless All that are heavy laden and opprest Come unto Christ and He will give you rest Come come here is a Fountain open set Exposed to you all whence you may get Freely what good you want Here 's what will make You fully happy Come these waters take Here 's no restraint ye may all come and buy Wine water milk without price or Money Only let go your lusts your Idols and What with the love of Jesus will not stand Part with your sloth with diligence attend At all his posts and pillars in the end Ye shall him find and whatsoere ye want That is good for you
he In leading them there-through by day and night Both by a shady cloud and fiery light In giving them from Heaven Angels bread Wherewith for forty years they were all fed In causing flinty Rocks to give them drink When they through thirst seemed to be at pits brink How did he by a Serpent made of brass Erected heal their wounds and made them pass Safely through mid'st of swelling Seas and floods Drave out seaven Nations and their lands and goods Divided to his people to possess That they his Name for evermore might bless And all might see That they who serve God have A great preserver who them all will save And recompence with good and that To Bliss The only certain way to serve God is How did he ruddy David while a youth Because he served him in upright truth Take from the sheep-folds and with oyl anoint him And to rule over Israel appoint him And though he from Saul's envy suffred much While he Gods favour did unto him grutch And many dangers too of death sustain'd Before the Crown and Kingdom he obtain'd Yet how did God him keep uphold and save In many a desert mountain hill and cave Till having humbled him he his promise Remembred and cut off his enemies Gave him the Sovereign power and government So that he ruled long with great content Inlarg'd his Territories and increast His power among the great ones of the East Till in his great prosperity he fell Into the sins whereof the Scriptures tell When that it might appear that God regards Mens actions and unto them gives rewards And punishments according thereunto He met with sad corrections and much woe Though mixt with mercies manifold because He did through grace repent and to my laws Return How strangely did he Mordecay And the Jews help whom Haman sought to slay Turning upon his Head those evils which He for them had devis'd into the ditch He for them dig'd he himself was cast down That thereby both Gods favour and his frown He might at once declare How helped he Those worthies which are call'd the children three They walkt in mid'st of fiercest flames no smell Of fire their garments had when they down fell Dead at the furnace mouth who east them in Such difference is 'twixt righteousness and sin How helpt he Daniel in the Lyons den And him deliver'd when those very men Destroy'd were who devis'd his ruine How Did he oft help his servants when brought low In times of Macchabees and all along When they dispersed were and suff'red wrong How helped he the holy men that dy'd In faith of me whom the World crucifi'd Through many Storms and Tempests by the rage Of persecutors rais'd in every age For love of me they willingly did yield To Death so as by Death they won the field Triumphing over every worst torment That was devised by the curst Serpent And his inraged instruments until By their deaths and their doctrine they did fill The World with fruits and made proud error fall Before the truth confessed by them all For those same ignominious Deaths and crosses Those heavy sufferings and most grievous losses Whereat the World doth stumble and whereby They with the Devil in confederacy Endeavour to affright thee from my Word More comfort and more glory far afford Then all those pleasures and those braveries By which they do bewitch the mind unwise Yea many have more peace and joy exprest In cruel Deaths through me then they who rest And quiet in the World injoy as far As a glow-worm's exceeded by a Star Of greatest magnitude or by the Sun Which with great glory doth its courses run Which moved Moses though both Learn'd and Wise The riches of all Egypt to despise And all its pleasures to take part with those Who suff'red great oppressions from their foes For sake of me because he well perceived That greater glory then can be believed Is thence received yea more then can be found Form all the best injoyments of this Round Who are more honour'd in this World's esteem Then they who do their life and blood out teem And many watchings fastings combates great And hardships suffer which each hour them threat To do their Countrey service or maintain Its liberties or greater rule to gain Unto it and shall those who for the sake Of their most high creator undertake His truth and Kingdom to assert be thought The only persons to be set at nought Or be the worse accounted because they Do many cruel things sustain all day Are they not therefore far more worthy praise For suff'ring so great things so divers ways The worst of Deaths and Torments that the wit And malice both of Men and Devils knit Together could devise and bear the shame Of vilest imputations for my Name Shews it not forth their greater love to me And is' t not meet I should so loved be Who for their sakes my state of glory left And suffered my self to be bereft Of all things even of life and to sustain The greatest agonies in Soul and pain In body even the dreadful curse to bear Of God's most righteous Law because they were Thereof the breakers and thereby concluded To be from Gods most joyful sight extruded Is it not too a commendation to My person and my kingdom that they so Dare suffer for them for therein they show That they such excellencies in them know That for the sake thereof they do contemn The greatest mischeifs can be done to them Rather then be thereof depriv'd yea sure The patience too wherewith they do endure Their gloryings also and great joys therein Which often in that case exprest hath been Unlike to those who suffer otherwise Some excellency clearly testifies In what they suff'red for and that they found Some such strong satisfactions to abound As nothing in this World can them afford But only the Divine power of the Lord. And sure if they who for their Countrey dye With Monuments and Trophies gloriously Are honour'd and the more by how much they More willingly and greater suff'rings may Have undergone those ignominious things Which the confession of my doctrine brings Through Sathan's and the World's malice upon My followers as oft times it hath done Their glory and their praise esteemed should be And so they are esteemed too of me And of my Father who will recompence Such glory to them as such patience And love to him and me may challenge yea According as of us they taken be Of our great grace and favour who account Them worthy of such glories as surmount All humane merit and though they do owe Such service to us yet great things bestow By way of recompence such as surpass All humane understanding as far as The Heavens exceed the Earth or th' Ocean large Exceeds the compass of some Boat or Barge For 't is the glory of the Majesty Of God to give rewards exceeding high As Kings give gifts like Kings and not like those
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
caus'd the Beast To trample under feet 15. Because we liked not Th' intoxicating wine Which from her Cup the World suckt up As if ' thad been divine 16. Wher is she now become Shee and her Lovers too Who did commit what was not fit With her and whoredomes doe 17. Alas they are long since Burnt up and quite destroy'd Their Market's gone and they did moan Who in her greatness joy'd 18. Yea all the train of foes Who in our sorrows laught Who Thee refus'd and us abus'd Destruction hath them caught 19. Thou hast them overcome O Lamb of Kings the King Well may we say Hallelu-jah And praises to Thee sing 20. Where now is all that lust That had in us a hold It s subtle Heads Delights and dreads And branches manifold 21. Which service challenged And over us would reign Did us molest and oft opprest And cau'd us smart and pain 22. And where 's the carnal mind That subtly did devise To draw us in to commit sin Through its deceits and lies 23. And where 's the whorish heart Which oft withdrew from thee And did us cheat with many a feat Making us sorrow see 24. These foes are all destroy'd And we from them are free By thy sharp sword thy powerful word They all consumed be 25. No errour in our mind Nor ignorance hath place Our hearts retain nothing that 's vain Thanks therefore to thy grace 26. Nothing of unbelief Or of unlovingness No envy hate strife or debate Pride falshood us possess 27. Thou hast us made so clean That in us there 's no spot No wrinckled skin no jot of sin Nor weakness in our lot 28. Thou our good husband art Who didst our faults so bear And them reprove with words of love As made us Thee to hear 29. And what we heard of Thee Did wash us wondrously But now thy sight makes us so white No blemish thou canst spy 30. Hallelujahs we sing Sin us no more annoys Hallelu-jah Hallelu-jah We noâ— have perfect joys 31. Where is mortality All our Diseases pains Our Massiness which did us press Nought of them now remains 32. Oh death where is thy sting Grave where 's thy victory Where be our fears wrings strains and tears And all that made us cry 33. Where are our oft complaints Our bruiâ—es breaches wounds Our sighs and moans Our sobs and groans Our famtings and our swounds 34. Where are our sleepless nights Where are our toilsome days Our gastly siglus Or â—udain frights And what 〈◊〉 us amaze 35. Where be our lamenesses Deafness and Dumbness too Dimness of sight our want of light Crutches wherewith to go 36. Where are our pangs and throws Our cruel ach's and smarts Our weary beds Our dizzy heads Our sad and doleful hearts 37. Where are our Prison bands Fetters and Pillories The hurtful stocks The taunts and mocks And furious outcries 38. The Gallows and the racks The Gibbets Beasts and Fire With whatsoe're did rend and teare Or did us ver and tire 39. Where is that rottenness That after Death took hold The stinking smell The jaws of Hell And what else may be told 40. Not one of these appears They are all fled and gone Hallelu-jah to Thee we say For 't is from Thee alone 41. All enemies thou subdu'dst Oh who is like to Thee Thou Lord of Hosts art in all coasts And thou hast made us free 42. Thou the stout Warriour art In Battel mighty strong The man of War by whom all are Subdu'd Thou art our Song 43. By Thee we have escap't Whatever ill befell By Thy goodness we now possess Such joys as none can tell 44. Thou from the midst of foes Hast brought us now to be With Angels bright in Heav'nly light Companions with Thee Deut. 33.26 27 28 22. 45. NOw we may sing and say What one is like unto Jesuruns God I' th' Heavens who rode To save us from all woe 46. Th' Eternal God Thou wert Our refuge and thine armes Under us were us up to beare From all dangers and harms 47. Thine everlasting armes Whose strength doth rever fail With them th' unjust thou out hast thrust And made us to prevail 48. Thou hast destroy'd them all Who did us injury And now there 's none we dwell alone And are in great safety 49. New Heavens and Earth have we A Land of Corn and Wine Thou' rt our fountain and Thou dost rain on us thy dew divine 50. Oh happy Israel What one is like to us Sav'd by the Lord who is the sword And shield most marvellous 51. To which our foes are all At length as Lyers found Their planes high where in safety They dwelt we 've trod to th'ground 52. How glorious now our State Praises to Thee therefore Who can express the blessedness That we have evermore 53. Our Body is become All glorious like to thine Thy glory bright more than the light Or Sun doth make us shine 54. Like Angels now we be With whom we do converse As nimble and light as pure and bright And through all things do pierce 55. We need no Marriages More than they for increase Our Company can never dy Our joys shall never cease 56. Nay now we Angels judge Such is to us thy heart Thy very Throne which Thou sit'st on Thou dost to us impart 57. Our pleasures now are full Immived pure and clear We feel no cold we wax not old Nothing our strength doth wear 58. No Winter time we have No withering or decay No Frost nor Snow No storms do bloâ— We have all Summers day 59. Yet without parching heat Or ought that may annoy No scorching Sun oâ—â—e us doth run Nought to allay our joy 60. Great joy we also have In our society Each one in other as in our Brother Have great felicity 61. Here Abel we injoy Who suffered first for Thee Enoch Noah and all thy way Who kept our Partners be 62. The holy Patriarks Before and since the flood Father renown'd with glory crown'd And all their children good 63. Thy holy Messengers Martyrs and Confessors Who faithful were with us are here Of life inheritors 64. But above all the rest Thy presence glorious Doth satisfie eternally And make us triumph thus 65. Like a City compact And fully one are we Where without rent or discontent We perfectly agree 66. And perfectly we joy In one anothers good All perfectly Thee glorifie Who for us shed'st thy blood 67. In Thee for evermore We all have full content Thee to behold Thee to unfold Is all our merriment 68. No one doth seek himself Or in himself delights But every one is fixed on Thy glorious beauty bright 69. Thou art our All in whom Father and Spirit both And all good else with us now dwells Thy glory doth us cloth 70. In Thee we were compleat And had all good before Compleatly we now injoy Thee And thine for evermore 71. All excellencies which In the Creation were From Thee they flow'd and
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
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
Quis leget aut emet haec SEE here my friends that which with much expence Of time and money if without offence I may suggest it I prepared have Your good to further and your souls to save Is here exposed to you will you read it So as with seriousness to mind and heed it Will you with little charge and cost that buy Which doth me in far greater charges lye Your pains in Reading it will be far less Than mine it to Compose and in this dress To make it ready for you and your gain Will far exceed your cost if it remain Upon your Reading it in memory And if unto the practise you apply Your hearts of what it tends to as you ought You will not then repent that you it bought But I observe it some men's humour is To slight and undervalue things like this They 'll rather idle Ballads buy and read Or such bad Books as vice do breed and feed And what their souls tend to spoil and destroy For pride or belly chear they will imploy Their time and money and it is a grief To find such humours in some men so brief To see no more regard to what with pains And cost prepar'd is for their endless gains Yea sometimes I with such could angry be When such like carriages in them I see Or marvail at their stupidness to slight What their own welfare much advantage might But then when I look higher and reflect Upon the sad regardless disrespect That too too commonly we all express To God and Christ who far more for our bless And endless happiness than any man By all his study and expences can Have done and have prepar'd and tender to us Whereto with much long suff'ring they do wooe us It doth allay my grief and wonder too As to my labours or what others do Of like import for what am I or any Who labour in such studies whereby many Might benefitted be with him compar'd Who hath eternal life for us prepar'd By such a costly way as by the Death Of his dear Son who for us spent his breath And 's life and soul expos'd to many a grief To bring unto our souls endless relief Find we not Christ himself sometime complain That he had labour'd and his strength in vain Had spent while they among whom he had wrought Did all his love and labour set at naught Though he doth freely tender all the good Which he hath bought by his most precious blood For mankind unto whosoever will Accept thereof and take thereof their fill Yet because something he again requires That men do value and which their desires And love are bent upon they should forsake That of his better things they might partake Because he bids us of him his things buy Men do refuse them too too generally Though all he doth require us to forgo Or unto him to offer up that so We might be happy in what he doth give And might with him in joys for ever live Is nothing worth nor worthy to be ey'd Compar'd with what he gave when as he dy'd For us and for our sins his life and blood More precious far than can be understood Or else compar'd with what he gives again Even joys and glory that ever remain If we resent it if our labours be And cost neglected Oh then what may he With whose both pains and cost if we compare Any or all of ours they nothing are His labour and his patience very great Beside his agonies and bloody sweat He went about by Land and Sea that good He might do unto those who shed his blood Which he most freely poured out that we Drinking thereof might blest for ever be Yet amongst men how slender his reward How few his love or labours do regard Such is the Worlds guise such it constantly Hath been to cast their best concernments by While vanity they love and follow after Mere leasings or fond things of mirth and laughter Yea not only such things they disrespect As tend their greatest weal most to effect But oft repay with hatred and disdain The greatest love and things of greatest gain Whereof as Christ himself the Sovereign Lord Of glory so his choise servants afford Sufficient proof and evidence how great Their pains and labour the World to intreat To save their souls how great their diligence By Preaching Writing Travail Patience In good and bad reports and yet how bad Their intertainment every where how sad Their ill requitals oh at how great cost Have we our Bible truths how many lost Their precious lives laid out their strength and time That we might know the way whereby we climb May up to Heaven and happiness yet who Will even for Heaven it self their lusts forgo Well then may I not grutch at cost or pains Nor grumble at any neglects disdain Or what like things me for my labours shall From any man at any time befall Yea if I for my labours disrespect May meet with it may make me to reflect Upon my self and smiting on my thigh To say Thus thus too much and oft have I Requited God Christ and the holy Ghost And those his servants who unto our coast With pains and travail God's truth carried forth Truths of unspeakable and boundless worth Why then should I complain if I should find Such disrespects as suit less with my mind Or why should I expect respect or look For better likement unto any Book Than usual is for all good things to have Hatred they must expect who souls would save When I and others mend and better be To God they will deal well enough with me AN EPITAPH UPON Mr. THOMAS LILLY Of South-Lin I. THou that go'st by cast here thine eye I sometime walked there I was a Flower I stood my hour And now I 'm fallen here II. I in my time was of the prime That lived in this Town A Lilly fresh but I was flesh And Death hath cut me down III. ALl flesh is grass it 's grace doth pass The best is but a flower The stoutest man do what he can Must dye when 't is his hour IV. If riches could Death's force withhold I had not dyed yet Riches good store I had Death's sore Yet thence no cure could get V. I thought of this I sought for bliss I good attention gave To what I heard the Lord I fear'd And as I sought I have VI. O man thou must return to dust What ever now thou art Dust was thy breed and 't is decreed Thou and the World must part VII Yet thou may'st live if thou do'st give Good heed to mend thy ways For though thou dye yet certainly God will again thee raise VIII For Death came in by loathsom sin But Christ for all did dye And unto those who with him close He 'll give the victory IX Nothing beside will long abide But soon will fade away Consider well Take heed of Hell Think on thy dying day X. So farewel friend and God thee send To live so holily That Heaven may be a place for thee When 't is thy turn to dye FINIS Reader there be too many mistakes of Words Letters and Points the chief of them thou hast here a note of and how thou may'st correct them viz. as follows IN the Title page vers last for inot r. into In the Epistle p. 1. vers 14. for too r. two v. 16. r. woe In the Apology p. 3. l. 32. r. such woers p. 4. l. 36. r. I my self submit In the body of the Poem p. 2. l. 30. put out the full stop at bands p. 5. l. 30. r the vile p. 6. l. 33. for to r. so p. 8. l. 14. put out the stroke of the parenthesis and put it in l. 17. after back p. 11. l. 22. r. the better and their talk p. 34. l. 13. r. they may make p. 39. l. 14. r. good God p. 42. l. 30. r. naught p. 44. l. 20. for vow r. bow p. 54. l. 14. for left r. lift p. 58. l. 10. r. in my joys p. 60. l. 20. r. reprov'st us p. 65. l. last for can r. did p. 66. l. 1. and 3. for make r. made p. 69. l. 24. r. that they in their p. 72. l. 34. r. fill us p. 111. l. 14. for whom r. when p. 131. l. 4. for once r. over p. 139. l. 17. for abhorred r. adhered p. 138. al. 140. l. 33. for to r. so p. 148. l. 9. for is r. if and l. 29. put out is p. 151. l. 30. r. fading p. 161. l. 15. for nosh r. now p. 164. l. last r. do pierce p. 167. l. 14. r. show'd p. 172. l. 15. for best r. blest p. 181. l. 24. for but r. by p. 186. l. 15. the word Lamentations should have been in a great and different character as also diverse other words in the foregoing pages p. 211. l. 22. r. death honour p. 224. l. 33. r. between p. 228. l. 5. for thy r. thee p. 232. l. 26. for caret r. care p. 234. l. 16. r. stinch p. 235. l. 6. r. though p. 244. l. 30. r. thy pledge my holy p. 243. l. 27. for fashion r. fathom p. 254. l. 6. put our the stop at so p. 259. l. 27. r. heart p. 256. l. 22. r. ay p. 260. l. 4. for lovely r. lowly p. 264. l. 4. for this r. his p. 267. l. 28. put out not p. 268. l. 7. for soul r. love p. 276. l. last for oft r. oft p. 295. l. 6. r. and their portion Other mispointings I leave to thy discretion to observe and rectifie in thy Reading
Judgment too This Canto fullyer doth show That men must reap as they do sow Which by examples manifold Both in the bad and good is told Where all God's justice may behold Yet that nor good nor bad have here Their full rewards is here made clear Till Jesus Christ to judge appear Which that he shall is here exprest The Resurrection and the Rest Of the just too made manifest IT being reasonable that the Lord Who doth such eminent favours afford To man should give to him a holy law Requiring that of him he stand in awe Him worship and obey with thankfulness For all the love he doth to him express He will too as with men its usual Him in due time forth unto judgment call And render to him as his works shall be Rewards and punishments as ye may see All Laws and Governmens are guarded so By promising rewards and threatning woe To those that under them do live as they Those laws do either keep or disobey To what good purpose should laws order'd be If they who break them may yet escape free And not for any thing they do sustain Due punishment by either loss or pain And if th' observers thereof be neglected And nothing better be therefore respected Even so God who his laws unto man gave Observes too how men do themselves behave Whether they do submit their necks unto them Believe his sayings readily to do them Or whether they the reins to lust do give And to themselves and their corruptions live And them accordingly he will reward As they regard him or him disregard See'st thou not this discovered oftentimes While evil men who do commit great crimes Though they do think themselves to be secure Are brought most heavy judgments to endure Is not God by his righteous judgments known While wicked men are thereby overthrown In their devises witness that great flood Which overflow'd the old World and which stood Above the highest mountains when the World Which wicked was was into ruine hurl'd For those abominations which they Committed stubbornly from day to day Refusing by good Noah to be warn'd Yea me in him they set at naught and scorn'd For it is I the Wisdom and the Word Of the Almighty and eternal Lord Who by my Spirit do dwell in holy men And lead them forth with boldness to condemn And fault the Worlds great wickedness because They take no heed unto my righteous laws It was my judgment executed in Those five great Cities famous for their sin Sodom and her near neighbours overthrown By Fire and Brimstone so as ne'r was known Before or since because they cast away My counsels from them would not me obey The Word and Wisdom of my Father high Who to the sons of men do use to cry To shew them what is right and what is wrong What doth to them and what doth not belong My words those sinful Cities thrust away And after strange flesh vilely went astray Pride idleness and riotous excess Was in them and the poor they did oppress And lewdness they committed therefore I In flames of Fire from Heaven did make them fry What should I mention Egypts haughty King Who proudly my commands away did fling And with his people badly did intreat My people and did them abuse and beat How did I judge them and with plagues them break Because their bad ways they would not forsake Making them warnings to all Tyrants that In after ages me and mine should hate I Plung'd them strangely into that great flood Or Sea whose waves mean while on both sides stood Of my Elect whom I had chose to be A special lot or people unto me What should I speak of Saul and Haman and The Jewish Nation for in every Land Such monuments of judgment oft have been In whom and what befel them 't may be seen That there 's a God above whose eyes behold The proud who him contemn and are so bold To break his laws and walk in their own pride Nought can them from his powerful vengeance hide Whereas on th' other side He doth protect And shew his favour unto his Elect His worshippers all such as do him fear And to my wholesom counsels do adhere Though He be pleas'd their faith sometimes to try Them from the dross of sin to purifie And divers ways to exercise them till His gratious purpose He on them fulfil That so their vertues might more brightly shine And God more fully shew his pow'r divine In their support and in that inward might Wherewith He them indues in the Worlds fight When all the old World who from me had swerv'd Was drowned how was righteous Noe preserv'd And in an Ark was with his houshold kept From that great deluge which the wicked swept Away without escape so Righteous Lot When Sodom was consum'd was not forgot But by an Angel was deliver'd out From that strange show'r of fire which round about All things burnt up so soon as he from thence Was carry'd out And what a sure defence To Abraham Isaac and Jacob too Was the Almighty Lord when they did go Into strange Countries few and strangers how Did he defend them because they did â—ow To him and his words keep yea how did God Rebuke Kings for their sakes and with his rod So frighted them that they durst nothing do Against them which their harm might tend unto How did he help chaste Joseph and him keep In those great suff'rings and those dangers deep To which his envious brethren did him sell And by his wanton Mistress him befell Who falsly him accus'd because he did Refuse her unclean lust of God forbid To satisfie at her unchaste request Preferring a clean conscience in his brest Before the amorous kisses of a whore Which would have ruin'd him for evermore How did the Lord in him his power display And goodness too both in the time he lay In prison-house where irons pierc'd his Soul God gave him patience in that sad and foul And painful tryal and was with him so As that he favour found the Jaylour fro And when God from the prison him released Having him thereby tryed as he pleased For unto such great honour he him brought As never by him could have been forethought To make him Ruler over all the Land Of Egypt that all men might understand That though God try his friends and them prepares Thereby for mercies yet he for them cares And when they fitted are he them advances Above their foes designs and all bad chances Did he not Israel in Egypt too And in the Wilderness cause him to know To be their mighty helper and their aid Their strong Redeemer from those griefs that made Them sigh and grone and from those dismal fears Which them encompassed for may years How did he bring them out from that hard Land Of bondage by his great and mighty hand What wonders wrought he for them at the Sea And in the Wilderness what things did
's the top and height Of all our happiness That God with us we enjoy thus The Fountain of all bless 184. All which we have in Thee And with Thee perfectly Who can Thee reach or who can preach All thy perfections high 185. Oh thanks for evermore To God and to the Lamb Through Gods grace good and the Lambs blood It is that here we came 186. Where sulness of alâ— joy And pleasures evermore Our portion be therefore we Thee For ever do adore 187. The Scriptures we need not In dark they were our light Thou art our book on Thee we look And all things see aright 188. Tou art our GENESIS In Thee we were create Thou' rt our Beginning without Beginning And End beyond all date 189. By thee we out of dust Or nought our beings had All things in Thee to us are free And we have nothing bad 190. Thou art our EXODUS Our goings out of thrall Thou didst us save deliverance gave By thy high heav'nly call 191. Thour' t our LEVITICUS Through Thee to God we clave Through thy Priesthood and offrings good He never did us leave 192. We also to be Priests Were all by thee anneald Our Leprosie is cleans'd by Thee And all our issues heal'd 193. Thou art our NUMBERER In thee inrold we be Where God doth own in thee is shown Our Genealogie 194. Thou art our Second LAW A perfect summary Of Gods mercies and our duties We do in thee descry 195. Thou art our JOSHUAH Our Saviour Judge and King What we omitted or else forgetted Thou to our mind dost bring 196. It s thou in EPHRATA That hast done worthily Poor Gen iles thou when they did bow Hast lifted up on high 197. Thou art the perfect Scribe The writer of Gods Law Freedome declar'd and all repaird By thee we also saw 198. The poor and patient JOB Made poor and rich again Who thee opprest at thy request Yet mercy did obtain 199. Thou the sweet Singer art The chief Musitian who The Instrument didst first invent And play'st upon it too 200. Thou art our PSALM and Song Our hearts and tongues always Thou through thy love dost tune frame move To fing forth all thy praise 201. Thou only fulness hast All without thee is vain Thou art the Preacher and heavenly Teacher Who dost in Salem Raign 202. Thou' rt the Beloved one The swift Roe or young Hart The Song of Songs to Thee belongs Who its chief Subject art 203. Thy Testimony is Of all the Prophets old The quintessence and thou the sense Of Proverbs dost unfold 204. Thou from a low degree Hast rais'd us to the Throne The Righteous seed Thou hast all freed Here 's Lamentations none 205. Thou art the Gospels sum The tidings of great joy Blessings have we and peace in Thee Nothing doth us annoy 206. Thou Gods Epistle wert His mind in Thee He writ When we absent were he thee sent And Thou discoveredst it 207. Thou art the end of all In Thee God doth unfold And hath reveal'd what lay conceal'd In Thee we All behold 208. Thou all art and in all ALPHA and OMEGA Wherefore to Thee ever do we Sing Oh Hallelu-sah To the Holy Spirit 1. ANd yet again wee 'll sing and strike our strings Wee 'l shew forth whence the spring Of joy that makes us sing Oh 't is a glorious Fountain whence it springs 2. It is the Holy Spirit which he inherits Who did redeem us when We all were but lost men And purchast us to God by his great merits 3. The Spirit of Life which hath fil'd up our Faith And quenched all our griefs With his Cordial reliefs Hee 's Author of our good rejoyc'd us hath 4. He fils us with divine life as with wine And always flows into us And doth such glory show us That to rejoyce we jointly do combine 5. And cannot but rejoyce with pleasant voice And that continually And to Eternity With joys and gloryings in him rare and choice 6. That holy Spirit we will With utmost skill Set 〈◊〉 and magnifie And 〈◊〉 his love glory By whom God and the Lamb did all fulfil 7. He one is of the three in whom do we Live love and whom we doe Worship and bow unto Whose glory 't is our happiness to see 8. The glorious Father wild the word as skild Being that deep wisdom In which the will doth come Devâ—'d the Spirit of might it all fulfil'd 9 The Father and the word with one accord Decree'd devis'd to give Being to all that live And was the Spirit that being did afford 10. He is the mighty hand which the command Of the Father and the Son Which did through all things run Effected gave the world to be and stand 11. He the Heavens high out spred and adorned According as Gods will Holy and wise in skill Pleas'd to determine He them fashioned 12. The very crook't Serpent to his intent He form'd and all beside That was or doth abide According to Gods great commandement 13. He man to understand and to command All things in Earth and Sea That he did make to be Did form and fashion by his mighty hand 14. He is the fulness which is the most rich Forth-going of the High Father and Son whereby All things He built and as a tent did pitch 15. In him there is no less then all the bless And blessed vertues high Which do dwell perfectly In God and in the word and they possess 16. The fulness of all good like a great flood From the Ocean going And all overflowing Yea fuller 't is than can be understood 17. He from God and his word with them one Lord Searcheth the things most deep Which God in Christ doth keep The knowledge of them t is he doth afford 18. One with them twâ—â—â— was He As well know wee In all their councels old Most high and manifold Therefore they all by him declared be 19. Blest be that Spirit of grace who in its place Did both a body frame For the Word and th same Sanctifie that no sin might it deface 20. The eternal Spirit the same who did us frame Seeing us in sin dead And helpless pittyed Us all and blessed be his holy Name 21. He that we might from sin be freed wherein We lay condemn'd prepar'd As He had fore declar'd That blessed body unto us a kin 22. And fild it with his power that in the hour Of death and darkness He Upheld was did not flee From that great cup of vengeance sharp and sour 23. To which he by this Spirit that he might merit For us Redemption Accurst the Cross upon Did yield himself that we might Life inherit 24. Thou Spirit most blest didst raise within three days That body up again Loosing of Death the pain To justifie us for which we thee prasse 25. And for those infinite perfections bright That are in Thee and all Thy works both great and small Thou carryedst up that body to
heavens height 26. To glorious dignity and Majesty And him also thou dost Fill full oh holy Ghost The fulness of the Godhead bodily 27. Through him Thou gifts did give That we might live Even Thou from him sent forth Gav'st heavenly gifts of worth Whereby men through thy grace errour outdrive 28. And 't was all times before Upon that score Of that great sacrifice Which Thou didst fore-promise That thou didst testify the love God bore 29. Thou blessed Spirit forth came And in Gods name The spirit of Truth thou did What before time lay hid Take and unto Men didst declare the same 30. Yet not to all that were Didst thou so clear Their minds and manifest Gods councels ever blest But unto some as thou pleas'dst didst appear 31. Through Christ the Father did his counsels hid By thee declare to some To whose minds thou didst come And with whom as thou pleasedst thou abid 32. And those things to be writ thou didst commit Moving those thereunto To whom thou didst them show According as thou wisely didst judge fit 33. Though Thou didst also go convince and wooe The world of mankind bad When they by their sins had Themselves destroy'd in a great overthrow 34. Thou art the wisdome high Of God whereby All called were to turn Though many men did spurn Yea we rebelled also grievously 35. That Spirit which did strive with men alive Before the flood of old With reproofs manifold Who did their souls of happiness deprive 36. Of that sweet peace comfort and great support Thou gave'st to those that clos'd With thee and not oppos'd With them thou dealt'st after another sort 37. Thou would'st not strive with them who did contemn Thy counsels always but Did'st give them up and shut Them up in blindness yea did'st them condemn 38. But unto those that turn'd though they had spurn'd Sometimes against thee too Thou didst declare and show The secrets of the Lord with love that burn'd 39. Thou art the Spirit of love From God above Who 's love it self and from The Word his only Son And thou in great love did'st reprove and move 40. That thou to good might'st move thou didst reprove And where thou found'st a way Thou man'st it didst convey Thy grace like waters even thy sweetest love 41. 'T was love thou shew'dst from God when as his rod Sometimes upon our bace Because we were so slack To goodness he did lay in love thou chod 42. Thou art that power and strength whereby at length We though we stubborn were Were brought to approach neare To God to see and hear him Thou gav'st strenght 43. Thou wrestled'st with us so Oh there is no Such wrestler as thou art That thou o'recame'st our heart And made'st us from our sins depart and go 44. In and from thee we felt Gods love to melt And bow our hearts and draw Them when they frozen were In thee power dwelt 45. And dwels for evermore Thou heald'st our sore For 't was by Thee our Lord In and by his good word Did heal us we thee laud and praise therefore 46. As thou gav'st forth Gods mind Thou did'st it find Also in this good word So it was thou O Lord That mad'st it of such force to break and bind 47. Thou mad'st it powerful to convince us so That what we were as we Were in our selves we see That we did nothing rightly see or know 48. Nor that we could that do that us unto God might bring back or keep Us from the dreadful Deep Of Hell or us again redeem therefro 49. Thou therein did'st display and 'fore us lay The glorious things of Christ Worthy ay to be blist So as thou mad'st our hearts on him to stay 50. 'T was thou and Christ in Thee whom so long we Provck't and made to wait Upon us at the gate Of our hard hearts Blest let that patience be 51. It was thy long-suffring that did us bring Salvation while thou there Our many faults didst bear Thou brak'st our stiffness well we may thee sing 52. Hadst thou been quick and rough T 'had been enough To have destroy'd us quite For cause enough thou might Have found to have destroy'd us much bad stuff 53. But 't was thy truth thy grace and that sweet face Of Christ which thou didst show Which did prevail to bow Us to thee while thou gav'st us such good space 54. Thou wer 't that strength and power whereby each hour We were supported all And kept from that sad fall Which would us have destoy'd Thou sweet'st our sout 55. Thou art that strength whereby the victory Over our Enemies We gat and did arise Up from our foiles and falls and did not dy 56. Thou wert our Comforter by thee we were In all our sorrows chear'd By thee our eyes were clear'd Thou didst us in thine arms carry and beare 57. All good from Thee we had for we were bad Love joy peace patience Meekness faith abstinence All our good fruits and all that made us glad 58. 'T was thou that drew us so as made us go After the Lamb although Through much sorrow and woe Losses crosses and what the world could doe 59. Thou art that Spirit of hope which at the scope Didst make us look the Rest And great reward possest Now by us Thou did'st shew 't beyond all trope 60. Thou shew'dst it and our eye it to espy And wistly to behold Whereby we were made bold Thou didst direct and fix continually 61. When Death had seis'd upon Our flesh and bone And grave had unto dust Converted us Thou just And holy Spirit raisedst us alone 62. By the Good will of God and him that trod The grave down in his strength Thou didst us up at length Raise and revive Thou art the mighty God 63. Thou art that River claer that free from fear Hast set us fully and Mak'st us firmly to stand With joy in presence of the Lamb most Deare 64. A mighty River pure constant and sure Thou with thy sorce hast thrown All oppositions down Ans Thou us fill'st with joys that shall endure 65. With joy with peace with good as with a flood Fed from the Ocean great The mighty Throne and seat Of God and of his Lamb which shed his blood 66. Thou fillest us for ever for they can never fail or abate but flow Without all end no low Ebb shall befall us Nought from God shall sever 67. Nought from that Ocean and Sea without Sand Those wates Christalline Most pure and most divine In their enjoyments we shall ever stand 68. For Thee in every heart evern thee who art Th' eternal powerful spirit We do ard shall inherit A band so firming us as we can't part 69. From God or Christ or each by any breach From other thou dost give Us without change to live Eternally and ever Thee to preach 70. Thy glory 's infinite thy glory bright Oh Fountain of de ight Oh Ocean infinite Oh infinite