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A19906	Yehovah summa totalis or, All in all, and, the same for euer: or, an addition to Mirum in modum. / By the first author, Iohn Dauies.	Davies, John, 1565?-1618.; Davies, John, 1565?-1618. Mirum in modum.	1607 (1607)	STC 6337; ESTC S109347	39,757	86

Truth for Errours greater ayde For like old Eyes at hand they blinded be But farre off falsely graunds each quantity After this wisedome comes presumption After Presumption blindnesse of the mind And after all these foule Affection Then Custome comes insensibly behind And makes these ils vnfelt with craft vnkind So haue the lewd no feeling of offence Their pow'r of feeling Custome so doth bind Thus fleshly wisedome is the Roote from whence Spring greatest Synnes withall impenitenee These thrust out Reason of her Signiorie The Braines where erst she sate in Siluer Throne Ruling with Scepter of pure Iuory That is Commaunding nought but Right alone For right is cleare from all corruption Vpon which Scepters Top an Eagle's fixt To note that Reason bee'ng her Wings vpon Transcends the Spheares to see the world vnmixt With Eyes that see the subtill'st parts betwixt If Reason then retaine her Pow'r and Place Shee doth aright informe the Intellect VVhich counsels well the Will in eu'ry case That it commaunds the Members with effect To do as she by Reason doth direct So wild Affections truely tamed be For by the Raigne of Reason they are checkt Then the Minds Kingdome is as fast as free Being a VVorld of all Felicity Yet when all Vice is brought in Vertues Bounds Ah! see how Man is here still millitant Hydra-like hath strēgth from her own wounds So growing an vnconquered Combatant Doth make the Soule with endlesse strife to pant Vnlesse she seares Prides euer-springing Heads With the hot Iron of the Law to dant Her haughty hart which with that Sharpnesse bleeds For she is conquer'd by her owne misdeeds Thus when we haue subdued eu'ry Synne The Conquest doth beget sinne to subdew So lose we more by how much more we wyn To gaine which losse we must the Fight renew Or else lose all that should to vs acrue For not a moment may we cease to fight Lest mortall Sinne to death should vs pursue Sith Hydra-headed Synne gets greatest might When we haue brought her to the weakest plight Shee 's strongest to destroy when we suppose We haue destroy'd her by our hardynesse So worst we fall by her worst Ouerthrowes Because we glory in our great successe So make it not so much or nothing lesse O Synne damn'd Nothing that dost all things dam'n Which thou dost touch where lies thy mightinesse If in thy Head our Head hath bruz'd the same Yet liu'st thou in his spight who thee or'came If maugre him thou liu'st that 's Lord of Might Whose onely frowne can Hell it selfe confound How shall we froth of Frailty foyle thee quite Who art more whole the more we thee do wound And mak'st vs sore by making thee vnsound O help vs Weaklings Lord of Hoasts to fight Else we to Nothing must be captiue-bound For Nothing Synne doth nothing day and Night But make vs worse then Nothing by her spight The Fount of Goodnesse goodnesse makes to flow from out the worst of Ils which we fulfill For he thereby makes vs our selues to know And humbles vs in goodnesse by that Ill So thereby betters both our Works and will But the curst Cause of all impiety Out of our Best the Worst extracteth still VVho drawes high'st Pride from low'st Humilitie So drawes most ill from Ills most contrary Thus from the high'st intire ETERNITY Our Muse hath stoopt vnto the low'st Ills Thereby to show their inequality Yet each is such as fils yea ouerfils The Soule with weale or wo so saues or spils But Phoebus Horses now their swift Careere Haue staid for this day on the highest Hils And fal'n to rest beneath our Hemyspheare Therefore with them tir'd Muse thy toile forbeare LO how Apollos Pegasses prepare To rend the ring-hedge of our Horizon Be ready Muse sith they so ready are To flee with them in such proportion That both may moue by heau'nly motion And yet their Mouer moues not but doth rest In restful-restlesse perfect Action By which the worst still fals out for the best For him and them that by him still are blest He changeth not that truely euer Is Sith what Is truely cannot changed be For what is sometimes That and sometimes This Is mixt of Simples which do disagree But he is simply selfe Simplicîty Then That Is not that is not simply so Sith in an Instant It from Is doth flee And as the restlesse Seas do ebbe and flow So that twixt Was and Is doth come and go But hee 's ne're mou'd and so can neuer change For what should moue him in whom all do moue He fils each Place then can he neuer range And so is fixt all Time and Place aboue So still I AM he doth himselfe approue I AM that Is which is That which He is Euer the same as firme in hate as loue Who could not be immortall but for This For who doth change dies throgh that change of his Each Essence changeable is said to die To what it Was when it Is otherwise So may mans Soule in immortality Be said to dy when it from Vertue flies And liue aright when it to Vices dies So may immortall Spirits Augelicall Dy through such change and tumble from the skies As some haue done and so no doubt may all But that a Pow'r still fixt preuents their fall For what may sin may die and die they must That sin if Grace do not their death preuent If any Creature cannot be vniust That Iustice is not his it is but lent Onely the Lender's iust of his owne bent Who by no change can possibly offend And much lesse dy for Hee 's still permanent The Fount of Grace and Life on whom depend Al Changes sith hee 's changelesse without end But if he might be chang'd it needs must be By actiue pow'r of some himselfe without Or by himselfe through passiue Potency But nought can euer bring this change about For nought's more strong then Pow'r most absolute Nor can a simple Act be passiue so It puts the question clearely out of doubt That neither can another Agent no Nor he himselfe himselfe change too and fro For that is chang'd that not remaines the same But hee 's the same he was and euer is And That stil Is that neuer alters frame But such alone is that firme state of his That changeth all yet changeth not by this Hee 's Glories Sunne whose Shade is constant sight Then can no Shade of change eclipse his Blisse In whom's no darknes for he blinds the sight Of bright-Ey'd Angels with his glory bright Though he assum'd our Shape so seem'd to change Sith what he is he was not yet the same He was he is and though the case be strange Yet is it true in nature though his Name Be doubl'd by his confixt double Frame He came to take our Nature to his owne Yet ours into his nature neuer came But ours from His by eithers Acts is knowne Then by that

יהוה Summa Totalis OR All in All and the same for euer Or an Addition to Mirum in Modum By the first Author Iohn Dauies Those Lines vvhich all or none perceiue aright Haue neither Iudgement Art Wit Life or Spright LONDON Printed by William Iaggard dwelling in Barbican 1607. To the right Honourable mine approued good Lord and Master Thomas Lord Elsmere Lord Chancellor of England and to his Right Noble Lady and Wife Alice Countesse of Derby my good Lady and Mistresse be all felicitie consisting in the sight of the Obiectiue Beatitude THe Time my duty and your deere desert Deseruedly Right Noble do conspire To make me consecrate besides my Heart This IMAGE to you forg'd with heauenly Fire The Backe-parts of his FORME who form'd this ALL Characterd by the Hand of louing Feare Are shaddovv'd here but ah they are too small To shevv their greatnesse vvhich ne're compast vvere But though that Greatnesse be past quantity And Goodnes doth all quality exceed Yet I this Forme of Formelesse DEITY Drewe by the Squire and Compasse of our CREED Then vvith your greater GVIFTS accept this small Yet being right it 's more then ALL in All Your Honors in all duety most bounden Iohn Dauies of Here ford SUMMA TOTALIS MY Soule sad Soule now sommon al thy Povvres To seeke out Misteries past finding out But first inuoke the Heau'ns to stream their Showres Of Diuine Graces on thee to disrout The Clouds of darknesse which ingirt thy Towres And that vncompast Round thou go'st about If trauelling by Night we pray for Day Now must we going blind a wailesse Way O Thou great Kindler of Diuine desire Deere Light of Lights without which all is Hel Before me go with Flames of Heau'nly Fire By which I may my Compasse keepe so wel That on these groundlesse boundlesse Seas that swell To ouerwhelme me I may safely go The Wonders of those Deepes abroad to tel Calme Fancies Stormes and let my Course be slow For hast therein may speed mine ouerthrow Erect my Thoughts direct my Iudgement so That neither either do misgo or tire And let my Numbers with that fury flow Which thou alone in Wisedome set'st on fire Make all my Measures meet in Truth intire That is in thee Sole Truth for out of Thee Are nought but Errors Rockes and Vices Mire To wracke al those that trauel Truth to see Without thy Compasse wherein compasse me First forthy Name sith It al Thoughts transcends Much more all Words here at my setting out Sith thy WORD onely thy name comprehends I le balke It as a Gulph of deepest doubt Therefore a further way I le go about To seeke thy nature so thy name to finde And as I go I le send forth Care my Scout To see my passage cleare before behind Wherein my Muse must glide to know thy kind Then at thy Properties I will begin Now blesse my Course for I am laūcht from Land Which are as they eternally haue beene Of thy meere Essence where they do not stand As Accidents in Substance for thy Hand Thrusts from thy Substance Accidents and all That seeke to bring thy boundlesse Pow'r in Band For thou art free and holdest that in thrall How euer great that seeks to make thee small Thy Porperties and Attributes are one For all is proper that attributes ought To thee if free from imperfection Hate Anger and the like in vs are nought But in thee good and iust and as they ought Thou can'st loue ardently and neuer dote And hate extreamely without hatefull thought But they in vs can neuer scape the note Of both when both those Passions are aflote Thou giu'st thy selfe those Titles in thy Stile And not so much to stoup to vs thereby To make vs know thee by ourselues the while But for they are in thee most really yet not as in vs Ill and diuersly In vs they Qualities and Vertues be But in Thee they are most essentially Many in vs but onely one in Thee Sith with thy simple Essence they agree Thou art omnipotent iust gratious wise yet not as they are diuerse but as one For these be thine essentiall Properties Which in thee meete in perfect Vnion To make Thee simply great and good alone Then from thee great Good now I le turn my speach Vnto mine Equals in Creation Sith Folly feares to Wisedomes Sp'rit to preach Myselfe and others teach me then to teach Then euen Christians let an abiect one With your allowance spend his powrelesse might In ernest search of this Trin-vnion As farre as of himselfe he giues me sight Either by Natures or diuiner light Whereby I see his Actions fixt are still Vnto his Properties which act aright For through Loue he doth loue wil through VVill And so he doth what he doth else fulfill Which Properties are two fold some there be Eu'ry way proper to his nature blest As his Omnipotence Vbiquitie Eternity sole Wisedome and the rest With these nor Men nor Angels can be drest Others in part and by Comparison As Wisedome Iustice Mercy may inuest Man his viue Image Brother of his Sonne But not as in Them in perfection For sith they are Substantially in God And not as in Man casually they be They must be odly eu'n sith eu'nly odd Is He in whom they are no Trinity Though so He be in strictest Vnity But being of Him wholy infinite They must be One by their infinity For were they many they were definite And for the waight of his Worth too too light Who is a NATVRE supernaturall So say Diuines so sayes Phylosophy Which call God Nature naturizing all That was or is or shal in nature be The Creature then is so of Him that he Is not his nature nor may he be Stil'd Nature her selfe though as she is a She Shee 's but a Creature now with sinne defil'd Yet makes she All for God and Man 's hir Child So Nature made the Maker made to make All Things beneath his Seat for him alone Not that He after toyle need rest to take Nor can He toile though still in Action Yet acteth by subordination To NATVRE nature 's then subordinate That made to that without Creation The first makes by the last in loue or hate What is in naturall or monstrous state In which respect some wicked Ones there were Affirm'd two Natures in the Diety That 's good and bad sith so it seemes t' appeare In things created vniuersally But vnto GOD they did great iniury To multiply his nature being One And so make Gods by such plurality Then in that Nature purely good alone To put in Ill doth put him from his Throne Though to him often Hate ascribed be Yet that in him is simply good and iust For hee thereby impugns Impiety And in his wrath he doth what Iustice must Scowre Ill from Good sith Euill Good

lesse be'got Sith it 's lesse then Priuation in degree Though He of Nought made all Things perfectly Yet could he cause that Christ Is not and Is Then could he cause Nought Men should instifie Which were repugnant to that Truth of his That flat affirmes Christ cheefely worketh This. His Povv'r to two Things He hath fastned then That is to Nature still for Orders sake And to his WORD for his Words sake to Men That so they might his VVord the rather take VVho can aswell himselfe as it forsake yet NATVRES Bounds his Pow'r doth oft trāscend VVhen it works Miracles Men good to make But past his VVORD it neuer can extend Sith it is That which neuer can haue end So then he can do whatsoere he will But yet he will not do what ere he can For he could melt the Heau'ns the Earth to spill But will not nor destroy the righteous Man Though all the VVorld a Deluge ouer ran He will not do so sith he will not so The reason of his Will his Will doth scan But he that would the same yet further kno Looke in his VVord but no step further go He can do nought but what is good and iust And though that all he doth be simply so yet doth it not ensue that needs he must Do what he doth and likewise do no mo Lest he his Grace and Iustice should forgo No if he would do more or otherwise All should be good and iust which he should do For hee 's the fount of GOOGDNES whence doth Pow'r infinite all good to exercise rise But some affirme that he can do no mo But what he did foresee he should performe By his Pow'r actuall the same is so But his Pow'r Absolute can that reforme And make much more in much more better forme So though he through his Purpose did foresee VVhat he would do yet did himselfe informe That he could do much more then now can Be Because his Purpose is as fast as free But he saw all he made was perfect good Then could they not by nature better be He must haue chang'd their Essence with their mood If he had made them better in degree Sith in their kinds he Them did perfect see No Pow'r can multiply a Numbers Store But it must change the Number really So Man as he was made his Fall before VVas good if better then a Man no more VVe meane as he was good essentially For accidentally no doubt he might Haue bin complish't much more perfectly VVith neither Will nor Povv'r to do vnright And haue continued in that perfect plight yet as Immortall Saints are Men no more Then we so we though made more exquisite Should be but Men as we were made before For Fooles are Men aswell as Isidore But O! had he so pleas'd t' haue made Man staid Man had beene staidly-blest till his remoue For hence at last he should haue beene conuai'd To stay for euer Motion farre aboue But how remou'd God knowes I cannot proue Assumpted some suppose but howsoe're It should haue bin as best should Man behoue The Way could not haue bin throgh Death or Fear For Sinne made Them els they had bin no where But why he made Man to His constant Forme yet made him changeable so most vnlike And why his Sonne endur'd his Anger 's Storme Sith so Man chan'gd I am heerein to seeke But sure I am for It Hee Him did strike Could He resolue before he gaue the VVound with his owne Paines past Paines to heale the Sicke when with more ease he might haue keptthem sound He did and what he doth hath perfect ground Though he were GOD yet suffe'rd he in Flesh Such Agonies as made that Flesh to sweat Both Blood and Water which came streaming fresh From all his Parts to coole his Anger 's heat As he was God which is as hot as great Nay it was such that though true GOD he were yet that the Cup might passe he did intreat So much he did ensuing Torments feare which he came to sustaine yet fear'd to beare His Glory was the Marke whereat did ayme The Shame and Torments which he did sustaine yet why sith he all glory wel might claime As his owne Right without so strange a Straine As to endure for Glory shamefull paine But O! the depth of al Profundity His Iudgements ô who can attaine To know his Councels ful of mistery Not one not God as Man then much lesse I It was his suffrance and it was his will That man made stailesse so should fall and rise So he permitted not desired ill Or if he Ill desir'd t' was Good precise For ill he cannot will that 's onely wise Damnation's ill but in respect of vs But in regard of him quite otherwise Then if he will'd it it were righteous which makes as well as Grace him glorious Mans Free-vvill was the Cause of all the ill Beneath the Sunne which God did well fore-see yet sith Mans dignity requir'd Free-vvil No Man without it could his Essence be Much lesse with Gods Forme could his Form agree For by his Free-vvil and Intelligence He is the Image of the Diety And hauing ouer All preheminence T was fit he should command his Will and Sence And though the Diuine vvisedome did foresee He would abuse Free-vvil to his decay yet with that VVisedome it doth well agree To let him on his owne Supporters stay To stand vpright or downeright fall away That so Gods Grace and Iustice might appeare which due Revvards and Punishments bewray Both which as vselesse quite extinguisht were If Man from his foule Fall had stil bin cleare He knevv that through temptation Man would sinne yet made him apt in foulest sinne to slide Sith he fore-saw the good that Ill within Made for his greater Glory sith he dide That Man then dead might still in life abide Deeming it better ill should still consist That he through it might more be glorifi'de By doing highest Good for Euill high'st Then that there should no Ill at all exist yet he gaue Man not onely freest Will But with it Reason and Intelligence To choose the Good and to reiect the Ill Sith he had heard t' would wound his Conscience And Diuine Instice mightily incense So had he Meanes the force of Ill to foile Had he but vs'd them with ful confidence But willingly he fel before the Broile So freely did though charg'd to fight recoile yet was he framed so that if he had On God relide as he both might and should He had o'recome in fight but being mad With Diulish pride fell as the Deuill would Sith willingly of God he loost his hold That man might see God could not be distrest For want of him or what performe he could He made him free to serue whom he likt best So Sinne he seru'd at his Freewils request But yet the good which we by Sinne

of any sin which we do if we say he willeth it For as its Ill he doth it but permit The other is when that withour his Will And his Fore-knowledge we do Ill admit For so we do his perfect knowledge spill As in the other make his Goodnesse ill Our Soule doth moue our Body being lame And yet our Soule is whole in euery Limbe Then God is not for our misdeeds to blame Though he Workes all in All as pleaseth Him VVho makes the sinfull in their sinnes to swim Vntill they sinke to Hell so punnisheth Much Sinne by Sinne for he their Eyes doth dim That they should not perceiue the Snares of Death Vntill they fall those mortall Snares beneath He moues aright the most peruersest Will But by that crooked Will it waxeth Wrong As good meat put into a Stomacke ill Turnes to bad Humors with disease among So Good to God and Ils to Men belong He worketh all in All or good or bad Either as either are or weake or strong And so we are or ill or well bestad As our demerits him do greeue or glad Then wicked Actions as they Actions are And not as they are wicked God doth will For they are Beeings but we must beware Sith ere our fall we well could them fulfill We make him not the Author of their Ill For he may willingly stil suffer sin Though to his Wil it he repugnant still Which suffring by indulgence seekes to win The lost Sheepe though astray the more it ryn Then willing suffrance needs must be his VVil So then in God two ouert VVils we proue The Greater and the Lesse yet neither il Although the lesse to suffer Ill doth loue which yet the Greater euer doth reproue He by the Greater would we should dowel And if by Ill the Lesse we more approue Against the Greater then we do rebell By doing his wil that doth not so excell He suffers vs to sin when by his grace He might restraine vs from transgression So willingly doth Wil it in this Case As t is an Act to show his Goodnes on Either by Iustice or Remission The lesser Good is th' obiect of his VVill Aswell as that Good past Comparison But this doth saue and that doth often spill yet glory gaines when he doth each fulfill So though his Will be one yea simply One yet is he said to will both Good and Ill Most properly he willeth good alone But Ill he wils as t' were against his Will Improperly against his nature stil. He willeth al that to himselfe pertaines Vrg'd by his nature not by Force or Skil But his free-wil his Creatures state maintaines Whose Good or Il in his free choise remaines No Man doth good or ill against his wil Though some do il in sort vnwillingly yet in so doing do their Lusts fulfil Therefore the VVilexcludes Necessity Sith it by nature hath free liberty Then none are damned but for wilful sin Nor saued but for willing Piety So the VVil's free as it hath euer bin From al Constraint saue Sin the same within Then Reprobates vniustly do complaine Of being preordain'd for Castawaies For though to perish God did them ordaine yet die they not but for their wicked VVaies And so the vniust iustly stil decaies They freely sinne by nature which is free Then God Sinnes wages euer iustly paies So Sinne steps in betwixt his iust Decree And th' excution that he iust might be There 's no Discourse nor Motion in his will That he should now wil This then That againe His Will is euen with his Knovvledge stil Though it in Order do behind remaine For nought but God Gods Substance can containe Then from eternity He wils their wrack On whom by Iustice He doth glory gaine Yet dye they for their sinnes sith grace they lack So God doth iudge and neuer Iustice Rack His Iudgments then are all iust strange and deepe For in a most vnutterable kind They that transgresse his Will his Will do keepe For nought is simply done against his Mind And all fals out as he hath fore-disignde He suffers Ill and that most willingly But would not suffer it did he not find His Might can make Ill Good almightly So Ill he wils to make it good thereby HE and his Glory is the End of all And all that are are meanes vnto that End For as they are by Him in generall So are they for him and on him depend For him That is his glorie to defend But yet this End doth not so moue his Will As by the End ours moue and to it tend To seeke a Cause of his good Will is ill More then his onely most good Pleasure still Then no Cause is there why he saueth some But onely that good pleasure which is free To saue or spill his Works by vpright doome Sith through all freedome all Deaths Vassals be Then some to saue is freest Clemency And as of All he freely some ellects So by his eviternall sure DECREE Ordaines them to the END and the Effects And so his owne free Guifts in them Affects Then in his Will remaines our VVeale or Wo Yet still we pray his will may still be done VVho by that Act doth will our ouerthrow By which he wils his owne dominion To which all Povv'rs are in subiection Then must we needs submit vs to his will Although it be to our Confusion Sith that is good for him though for vs ill And seeke for life his know'n-will to fulfill But let no temprall Torment or anoy Perswade vs he is not our willing friend For as the Persians punishments imploy Vpon their Nobles Weeds when they offend That by that grace they may their manners mend So God doth deale with those he loueth best whose Rods he on their Corpes State doth spend To saue their Soules and those he loueth least He plagues in Soule and lets their Bodies rest For as an ouer-gorged Stomack makes Anaking Head by Vapors that arise So too much VVeale the staidest Iudgement shakes And quite smoks out the Vnderstandings Eies For Ouer-much makes fondlings of the VVise. Then let all outward griefes be heapt on me So inward Comforts giue my wants supplies for so by Iustice God still makes me free from his iust vengance in great Clemency The higher we from Earth vp-lifted be The lesser will all Earthly Things appeare And so the neerer we to Heau'n do flee The lesse we value Things that Earthly are But Cloggd with Earth that Clogg is all our care Then with that Heu'n-rapt Saint rapt Muse ascend That third aethereall Heau'n-reuealing Spheare Yet lo quite spent before our Iournies end VVe must t' a lower full Point now descend And though we must confesse all Helps we tooke That God and Men affoorded vs herein Out of Mens VVritings and Gods blessed Booke Yet to our Muse it hath so waighty bin That now she