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A06202	Ecclesiastes, othervvise called The preacher Containing Salomons sermons or commentaries (as it may probably be collected) vpon the 49. Psalme of Dauid his father. Compendiously abridged, and also paraphrastically dilated in English poesie, according to the analogie of Scripture, and consent of the most approued writer thereof. Composed by H.L. Gentleman. Whereunto are annexed sundrie sonets of Christian passions heretofore printed, and now corrected and augmented, with other affectionate sonets of a feeling conscience of the same authors.	Lok, Henry.; Lok, Henry. Sundry Christian passions contained in two hundred sonnets.	1597 (1597)	STC 16696; ESTC S104588	172,130	348

shal speake thy praise 172 My tongue shall tell thy word of truth and walke thy righteo●s wayes 173 Helpe with thy hand for I entend thy precepts to pursue 174 Thy sauing helpe and law I seeke Lord do my faith renue 175 Let liue my soule to praise thy name thy mercie me vphold 176 I feare thy law then clense my sinnes and bring me to thy fold Psalme 121. 1 VNto the hils I lift my eye from whence my helpe shall grow 2 Euē to the Lord which fram'd the heauens made the deeps below 3 He will not let my feete to slip my watchman neither sleepes 4 Behold the Lord of Israell still his flocke in safety keepes 5 The Lord is my defence he doth about me shadow cast 6 By day nor night the Sunne nor Moone my limbs shall burne or blast 7 He shall preserue me from all ill and me from sinne protect 8 My going in and comming forth he euer shall direct Psalme 130. 1 FRom pit of deepe perplexities to thee for helpe I cry 2 O Lord giue ●are vnto my pla●●t and 〈◊〉 me speedily 3 If strictly thou my sinnes behold ô Lord what ●●esh is iust 4 But mercy proper is to thee and thereto d● we trust 5 Vpon thy promise I attend thy word is alwayes true 6 With morning and with euening watch I will my sute renue 7 Thy seruant must depend on thee in thee i● mercie found 8 Thou wilt redeeme their ●oules from death thy grace doth so abound Lords Prayer OVr Father which in heauen art Lord halowed be thy name Thy knigdome come thy will be done in heauen and earth the same Giue vs this day our daily bread our trespasses forgiue As we for other mens offence do freely pardon giue Into temptation leade vs not but liuer vs from ill For thine all kingdome glory powre is now and euer will SVNDRY CHRISTIAN PASSIONS CONTAINED in two hundred Sonnets Diuided into two equall parts The first consisting chiefly of Meditations Humiliations and Prayers The second of Comfort Ioy and Thankesgiuing By H. L. Call vpon me in the day of trouble so will I deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me LONDON Printed by Richard Field 1597. To the rIght renoVVneD VertVoVs VIrgin ELIzabeth VVorthy QVeene of happIe EngLanD her hIghnesse falthfVL subleC● Henry Lok VVIsheth Long Lyfe VVIth eternaL bLIsse IVne VII MY worthlesse pen To eternize In holy flame VVhich doth dispise Thee sacred dame That should protect VVhose Phoenix quil And those hath dect Heauens do distill As come from thence Ioue long you saue For whose defence Venus would craue VVhich Pallas wils Presumeth to deuise Your peerles vertuous fame Of zeale my hart doth rise A theame of vulgar frame The graces haue select The holy Muses hill Doth heauenly Crowne affect VVhich Romane Trophies fill Their happie influence You there your portion haue VVhose Scepters you dispence True English hearts he gaue And Dain doth that due Me yeeld alone to you The obseruations of the square following 1 A Saint Georges crosse of two collumbs in discription of her Maiestie beginning at A. and B. in the middle to be read downward and crossing at C. and D. to be read either single or double 2 A S. Andrews crosse beginning at E. read thwartwaies and ending with F. containing the description of our happie age by her highnesse 3 Two Pillers in the right and left side of the square in verse reaching from E. and F. perpendicularly containing the sum of the whole the latter columbe hauing the words placed counterchangeably to rime to the whole square 4 The first last two verses or the third and fourth with seuenth and eighth are sense in them selues containing also sense of the whole 5 The whole square of 100. containing in it self fiue squares the angles of each of them are sense particularly and vnited depend each on other beginning at the center 6 The out-angles are to be read 8. seuerall waies in sense and verse 7 The eight words placed also in the ends of the S. Georges crosse are sense and verse alluding to the whole crosse 8 The two third words in the bend deaeter of the S. Andrews crosse being the middle from the angles to the center haue in their first letters T. and A. for the Author and H. L. in their second for his name which to be true the words of the angles in that square confirme 9 The direction to her Maiestie in prose aboue containeth onely of numerall letters the yeare and day of the composition as thus DD. C LL LL LL LL. VV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV. IIIIIIIIIIIII For 1593. Iune V. A Square in verse of a hundred monasillables only Describing the cause of Englands happinesse   Haec     ●       A B       F   In                     ●oc   God 5 hath pourd forth Rare Grace On this I●●e And     Makes Cround 4 your rule Queene In the same so 4 still     Kings lawd THis 3 saint Faire that with truth 3 doth stand     Rule so long time 2 milde Prince ioy 2 land it will   C Forma For proofe you showes 1 wise 1 of earths race whome There Quadrata   Heauēs haue vp held Iust 1 choice 1 whome God thus sheilds     Your stocke of Kings 2 worlds rich of 2 spring and feare     States fame Known 3 farre Praise Isle which ALl 3 blisse yeilds     Hold God 4 there fore sure stay of all the 4 B●st   Vinces Bl●st 5 is your raigne Here Builds sweet Peace true Rest 5 Sign●●   Fi●●●   The Square plainely set downe GOd hath powr'd forth rare grace on this I le and Makes crown'd your rule Queene in the same so still Kings laud this Saint faire that with truth doth stand Rule so long time mild Prince ioy land it will For proofe you showes wise of earths race whom there Heauens haue vpheld lust choyce whom God thus shields Your stocke of kings worlds rich ofspring and feare States fame knowne farre praise I le which all blisse yeelds Hold God therefore sure stay and port the best Blest is your raigne here builds sweet peace true rest To the Christian Reader WHo so shall duly consider the whole progresse of mans estate from life to death shall find it gentle Reader to be nothing else but a very pilgrimage through this earth to another world for whether we obserue the common course of all flesh which from the mothers wombe to the graue is still trauelling with change of bodily constitution from youth to age from health to sicknesse so from one estate to another Or if we behold the particular incounters which each man findeth in himselfe in the variable change of hopes and crossing of his purposes in both it shall by a generall experiēce of all mens calamities be assuredly confirmed to be too true But

vnto his soule forthwith to craue Whereby it sleeping void of holy rayes Of grace in sinne doth spend away the dayes Which Christ our Sauiour died the same to saue Vnto thee Lord Creator powrefull king With birds by break of day they prayse shold sing SON LXVII I List not iudge nor censure other men As I do iudge so iudge me others will And God himselfe that part can best fulfill With others faults I will not meddle then Vnlesse so farre as dutie doth desire Which is with loue to warne them of the way Whose weaknesse doth our louing aide require To stay their steps wherein they are astray But I must iudge my selfe doth scripture say And that I will but not by natiue skill The law and Gospell they shall try me still And their true touch shall my estate bewray My conscience witnesse more then thousands ten My hart confesse my faults with tongue and pen. SON LXVIII I See sometimes a mischiefe me beset Which doth amaze me much and griefe procure I haue a hope or hap I wish t' endure But it doth vanish straight and I do fret I craue sometimes of God with feruencie A thing me thinkes which might worke to my ioy My prayers yet he seemeth to denie And by the contrary doth worke my'annoy I find at length the thing I scorn'd as coy Fall to my profit and doth me assure That God by this his goodnesse doth allure Me to depend on him and not to toy By natiue reason guided but to let His prouidence haue praise and honor get SON LXIX HOw should I vse my time henceforth the best The little that remaines ought well be spent Too much lost time cause haue I to repent Best mends must be well to imploy the rest To pray and prayse the Lord is fit for me To craue things needfull and his mercies tell My spirituall wants and carnall plenties be As many yet his blessings which excell But multitude of words please not so well He knowes the heart which righteously is bent All holy actions are as prayers ment And he is praysd when sinne we do repell Then if my life the world and flesh detest I pray and prayse and shall find actions blest SON LXX Good words are praisd but deeds are much more rare One shadow is the other substance right Of Christian faith which God and man delight Without which fruits our barren tree is bare Once well done is more comfort to the soule More profit to the world to God more prayse Then many learned words which sinne controule Or all lip-labour that vaine glorie sayes Who in a holy life doth spend his dayes And still maintaine gainst sinne a valiant fight He preacheth best his words are most of might He shall conuert men most from sinfull wayes Such shall haue honor most affirme I dare With God and man and lesse of worldly care SON LXXI SInce we by baptisme seruants are profest To Christ whose name we as an honor beare It is good reason we his liuery weare And not go ranging vainely with the rest Since we do feed by bountie of his hand On precious food which he doth giue and dresse Who at the well of life doth ready stand Vs to refresh if thirst do vs oppresse We are too slow our selues to him t' addresse To craue and vse these gifts in loue and feare His righteous liuery we do rather teare Then whom we serue by vse thereof expresse Little he got that was such bidden guest And how can thanklesse seruants then be blest SON LXXII SInce shame of men much more then godly feare Restraineth vs from sinne as proofe doth preach Since more we after name of vertue reach Then to the truth thereof we loue do beare It were a part of wisedome to deuise To vse our nature of it selfe so vaine From so base custome euen for shame to rise To actions good which might true honor gaine The best remede I therefore find remaine To purchase prayse and vertues habit teach Is to professe in speech the same whose breach In life we should refraine least we should staine Our name which would at length our liking reare To loue of God indeed and sinnes forbeare SON LXXIII THe difference is right great a man may see Twixt heauen and earth twixt soule and body ours Twixt God man heauens powre earthly towres As great the difference in their vse must bee By high ambitious and by wrathfull sword Are earthly transitory kingdomes gaynd Humilitie with patient deed and word To heauenly crowne and honour doth attaine Man will his conquest with vaine glory staine Heauens kingdom former pride forthwith deuowrs It equals all estates sects skils and powres And makes the bodie well vnite remaine Whereof the head is Christ the members we And held coheires of heauen with him we be SON LXXIIII FOr vs who do by nature still incline Vnto the worst and do the best forget Who do all passed benefits lightly set And so vnthankfully gainst God repine It were great wisedome dayly to obserue Such sundry haps as do to vs befall By which to learne how much God doth deserue Who those and passed benefits gaue vs all And since there is not any blisse so small But for the which we ought acknowledge debt On each occasion we should gladly get A meanes our minds to thankfulnesse to call For nought God craues newe can giue in fine But drinke with thankes his cup of sauing wine SON LXXV THe parable of seed well sowne on ground Which did according as the soyle did sarue Some neuer bud some bloome some straightway starue Some grow in his crop so much abound Doth well describe as Christ full well applyes The nature of the word the which is sent By written Gospell and by preachers cryes Into the heart which hearing it doth rent And as well tild sometimes begins relent And yeeldeth blessed fruit and prayse desarue As God the showres of grace doth freely carue And diligence in weeding it is spent For many times such sinfull tares are found As good had bin the seed in sea had drownd SON LXXVI I Cannot chuse but yet deuoyd of pride To note the happie and the glorious time Wherein we liue and flourish in the prime Of knowledge which those former dayes not tride For all preheminences which are read Forespoke of latter age by Prophets all As happily were perform'd as promised When Christ those mysteries did on earth vnfold And those accomplish which were long foretold The same yea more by farre we dust and slime Vnworthy wayers of thee high we clime Enioy through preached truth more worth thē gold But woe is me this grace is vs denyde We to our selues haue not the same applyde SON LXXVII IF thou do feele thy fleshly thoughts repine When thou doest beare the crosses God doth send And that thou vnder burden of them bend And out of due obedience wouldst vntwine Remember when as yet a child thou wast

on earth can praise But present vse of blessings I possesse With chearefull heart to exercise my dayes To good of such to whom I loue professe And deedes which charitie doe best expresse And that is all this world to thee can lend And vse why God did them vnto thee send verse 13 To eat drinke pains gained store as gifts Gods blessings were verse 14 His wil most firme man may not change but it admire with fere 13. And also that euery man eateth and drinketh and seeth the commodity of all his labo● this is the gift of God And to speake truth what man with all his paine And to speake truth what man with all his paine Can promise to himselfe the vse to haue Of what with greatest trauell he doth gaine To yeeld the sustenance his life doth craue What prouidence so wisely can it saue But in a moment it may vade away Twixt cup and lip fall many a slip we say Then let man learne that Gods good gifts they are And lent but for a time whereof to yeeld Account how they are vsed and how farre Our confidence and trust on them we build For wealth cannot from heauenly iudgement shield Let God therefore haue part the poore haue his With temp'rance do thou spend remaine that is 14. I know that whatsoeuer God shall doe it shall be for euer to it can no man adde and from it can none diminish for God hath done it that they should feare before him For well I know God all things doth foresee And seeing doth foreknow their issues all Whose knowledge when he will makes things to bee In such estate as vnto vs they fall Whose prouidence herein some fortune call Because effects of cause to vs vnknowne By chance as we suppose hath to vs growne But they in his decree immutable From all beginnings were and firme must stand Examples be mans frustrate labours still If God assist not with his helping hand A haire from head a bird falles not on land But with his heauenly will which is a law And should vs to his feare and reu'rence draw verse 15 Things past are now what is shal be for God will haue it so verse 16 Yet on the earth wrong rules for right and all peruerse doth go 15. What is that that hath bin that is now that that shall be hath now bene for God requireth that which is past Hence nature hath this interchange of things This spring times clothing of delightfull greene That scorched yellow colour sommer brings That tawney hew in new spent haruest seene Those withered pale prospects in winter beene When trees and plants to root liues sap retyre And euery change that seasons doe require This well deuided kingdome of the light Twixt Sunne and Moone so needfull to our life Of th' one by day th' other by the night Wherein they louingly like man and wife With equall care doe trauell voyd of strife By Gods almightie hand were framed so Things past and those to come in order go 16. And moreouer I haue seene vnder the Sun the place of iudgement where was wickednesse and the place of Iustice where was iniquitie Yea though God be not author of our ill Whereto by nature onely we are prone Yet for our tryall or our scourge he will Permit sometimes as I full oft haue knowne That euen his Magistrates by whom alone He leaues his lawes of Iustice to be tryde Into most foule enormities to slyde So wicked Tyrants vnto kingdomes rise And Iudges sit in holy Iustice seat Whose offices ordain'd to beat downe vice It fosters and the Iust do worst intreat Which of all plagues to kingdomes is most great Yet God who it permits can it redresse Whose wondrous works therein we must confesse verse 17 My hart yet giues both good bad in due time God wil find verse 18 Who made mā pure gaue him wit though brutish wil be blind 17. I thought in mine hart God will iudge the iust and the wicked for time is there for euery purpose and for euery worke For God the great law-giuer wise and iust Who sees the thoughts and secrets of the raynes Though he a while permit them in their lust To range in pride of their malicious braynes Yet when he please their progresse he restraynes And makes them stand before his iudgement seat Whose sway on earth doth seeme most powrful great He cals each creature in his time at will To wreke the wrongs that innocents abyde Plague famine sword attend vpon him still And all mishaps the wicked doe betyde Fro out the snares the iust he safe doth guyde In his due time and them with honour crowne But their oppressors headlong plucketh downe 18. I considered in mine heart the state of the children of mē that God had purged them yet to see to they are in thēselues as beasts Thus mayst thou see as I do truly say By deepe consideration of the thing To humaine state on earth each houre and day Some chaunge or alteration new to bring To all estates to subiects as to King And that albeit in creation we Were holy and pure we now corrupted be Through which corruption death did first creepe in And death with it all plagues and wants hath brought The heauie recompence of parents sin By them infusd to vs by vs still wrought Corrupt throughout in word in deed in thought With more then brutish sins which in vs raigne And in our of-spring alwayes will remaine verse 19 Man beast like liues dies both breath liue and die in vaine verse 20 Of dust at first all passe by death vnto the earth againe 19. For the condition of the children of men the condition of beasts are euen as one cōdition vnto thē as the one dyeth 〈◊〉 dieth the other for they haue all one breath there is no excellencie of man aboue the beast for all is vanity And as with brutish kind our liues pertake Or rather doth out passe them farre in ill For Tygers Wolues Gotes Swine our sins vs make When wrath deceit lust glut'ny rule our will So to our end with them we hasten still Foreseeing nothing deaths approching houre Which vs like them is readie to deuour In care and trauell we like them doe liue We liue vncertaine of the houre of death Vncertaine thus securely we doe giue Our selues to pleasure till it stop our breath When time is come no art the houre prolongeth When we as they againe returne to dust In earth no more then they may we haue trust 20. All goe to one place and all was of the dust and all shall returne to the dust One common matter was our stuffe and mould Euen earth and slime the Element most vylde Which though our maker for our honour would With his owne hands vouchsafe to frame and bylde And with infused breath adopt as chyld Whilst by his word alone the others all Take essence in the forme they were

7 More vanitie I searched out and this I found that one verse 8 Liues carefull to get vnheird wealth and pyning liues alone 7. Againe I returned and law vanitie vnder the Sunne Thus doth one error forth another bring Like Hydras heads which ech way vs assayle Man vnto man a Wolfe with Scorpions sting Of force by fraud still seeketh to preuayle If Sathans forren practises do fayle Our selues against our selues he straight doth arme With ougly lusts of sinne which in vs swarme So though we scape one snare we soone may fall Into some other snare that he hath set Into despaire if our estate be small Into presumption if our power be great And euery sinne doth thousands more beget And we with euery waue of fortunes wind Do swell or sinke in glorie of our mind 8. There is one alone there is not a second which hath neither sonne nor brother yet is there none end of all his trauell neither can his eye be satisfied with riches neither doth he thinke for whom do I trauell and defraud my soule of pleasure this also is vanitie and this is an euill trauell And yet of all vaine humors that arise This seemes to me the greatest plague indeed When one of powre vnto himselfe denies The lawfull pleasures might his comfort breed When he hath no man but himselfe to feed Ne child ne heire ne any friend at all To whom his horded wealth he wisht to fall And yet he ceaseth not to trauell still To gather wealth he knoweth not how nor why Which though with plentie God into him fill He to himselfe doth natures wants deny And of the world is made a scorne thereby Not hauing grace once to his mind to call To whom the wealth he gets is like to fall verse 9 Not thinking two do more deserue then one and haue more hire verse 10 A readler helpe if foot do slip do find if need require 9. Two are better then one for they haue better wages for their labour Ne knowes he truly as it should appeare The blessings that his wealth depend vpon For did he he would hold no wealth too deare To be bestowd in gaine of such a one As might his comfort breed with whom alone He might recount the secrets of his state And partner make of good and aduerse fate For by the lawes of friendship and of loue Such mutuall frutes doth kindnesse counterchange That two as one like tast of state do proue And eithers thoughts do in the other range With such a sympathy as seemeth strange Whilst gaine of both to each one doth remaine And eithers kindnesse kindnesse payes againe 10. For if they fall the one will lift vp his fellow but woe vnto him that is alone for he falleth there is not a second to lift him vp If one of them an inconuenience haue The other readie is to yeeld reliefe His perill shall the others perill saue And with his yeelding shoulders beare his griefe And which indeed of all is comfort chiefe His weale and woe on th' others shall depend And loue in both both ascend and descend Whilst that this wretched solitary wight Vnknowne and vnregarded quite of all Shall liue the obiect vnto all despight And helplesse perish if he hap to fall No pittie finding or but very small For who by gratitude is bound to mone His case who carelesse seekes to liue alone verse 11 If two togither ly they find the heat that sole bed lackes verse 12 If wrōgd reliu'd by friend for three plight cord not lightly cracks 11. Also if two sleep together then shall they haue heat but to one how should there be heat Such one me thinkes may well compared bee Vnto a man that in long winters night Through lacke of light can no earths comfort see And in his bed can find no great delight When lacking list to sleepe he hath no wight With whom in speech the time to passe away But wallowing in his bed doth long for day Or rather to the withered aged man In whom the liues warmth bloud is waxen cold Whom when as shiuerings seaze he seeketh than In many furres and clothes himselfe t'infold Which not suffising then he also would A bed-fellow wish wherewith to haue withstood His cold by others heat of natiue blood 12. And if one ouercome him two shall stand against him and a threefold cord is not easily broken And that in all respects I well may say The solitary man vnhappy is Do but mans nature herein truly way Which is directly opposite to this He in societie reposeth blisse Whose maker great to whom he best was knowne Ordain'd a meanes he might not liue alone The diuerse wants likewise our liues sustaine Compels the wise a neighbour helpe to craue A single man is soone opprest by twaine Whose valour though right great will scarce him saue For great the strength small twigs in bundell haue And closely plighted threeds strong Cables make And force vnited greater force doth take verse 13 A poore wise child is better then an old fond king vnt aught verse 14 From prison to a crown he climbs that poore king set at naught 13. Better is a poore and wise child 〈◊〉 an 〈◊〉 and foolish king which wil 〈◊〉 more be 〈…〉 The princely state of all most happie held And happiest sure if worthie Prince haue place Hath not all common woes so well expeld But often times their crownes do cares imbrace Though God as his owne deputies doth them grace For where in vertue and wisedome is defect Full hardly can that honour them perfect For though best subiects bodies do obay The tyranny of most iniust behest Yet doth their minds obedience oft denay When they do find that powre hath right supprest And then the poore wise child is held more blest That yeeldeth to aduice the sage doth bring Then ill aduised head-strong aged King 14. For out of the prison he commeth f●rth to raigne when as he that is borne in his kingdome is made poore Such one there hath not seldom times bene seene Of base descent by pedegree of kin Abandon'd so of hope that you would weene He hardly should his liuing poorely win Much lesse of captiue euer free haue beene Yet so by vertue he hath raysd his state In th' end he wore a crowne that pynde of late Whereas contrariwise you oft behold The worthlesse child of many a worthy king On predecessors vertues grow so bold And to their state so little honor bring That from them natiue right some others wring And they vnto the common state of men Poore and reiected do returne as then verse 15 I saw all liuing follow change and on sunne rising gaze verse 16 No trust in peoples loue now one now other they will prayse 15. I beheld all the liuing which walke vnder the sunne with the secōd child which shall stand vp in his place For so iust God the Monarke maker great Disposeth of these Emperies