thy Soul did cheat The Woman vain she lays the blame Upon the Serpent's Guile Who to her said Like unto God You shall be in a while From sinful Lust Judgment doth haste On Man and Woman too 'T is they must die that lov'd a Lie Above a God most true The Ground once blest with Thorns is curst The Woman bears in sorrow And Man must sweat if Bread he 'll eat The Serpent trails the Furrow Thus happy Man he is undone Himself he can't restore O Man's sad Fate the Devil's State He 's in for evermore Unless some State that 's uncreate More pity shew to Man Than Angels have whom God won't save That from their Maker ran CHAP. VI. The ARGUMENT Jehovah seeing his Creature Man undone in the New World begins to be concerned how he may be restored and not for ever lost as the revolted Angels He makes a Proposition to the heavenly Hosts to this End but all stood mute until the Son of God broke silence with the offer of himself to be Man's Redeemer Vpon which the heavenly Host gave a Shout with Hallelujah's SHALL Man be lost by Devil's Lust And ne'r recover'd more Shall Devils boast of their Conquest And triumph in their Power Come heavenly Host can none suggest Where such Love can be found You Spirits all who 'l be mortal That Justice may not wound The Man to Death I made of Earth But may for ever live who 'l pity take on his sad State For Man himself will give Now all stood mute and silent to 't A Pause in Heaven's made Till one did break the Silence great And there it was replied By God's own Son What! is there none That will Compassion show I looked when some Seraphim Would pity Man below I God's dear Son will Man become A Man of Sorrow's Death This glorious Throne I 'll leave anon And descend to the Earth For to restore this Man so poor Unto a better State And make him wise a Paradise He shan't lose as of late Then Heaven rang the Angels sang That splendid Host above Who saw such Grace in God's Son's Face And shewed Man such Love And God did see his own Decree From Love to Man he made Even from high Eternity Which runs not retrograde He gave his Son for sinful Man That in his stead might die And set his Face in our Law-Place Us to indempnify The Angels shape he doth not take Nor them redeem to live Yet let none speak thus God is weak Or Grace diminutive I thee do tell unsearchable Is his Beneficence Yet know also he 'l save but who His Sovereign Will presents CHAP. VII The ARGUMENT An Apostle extraordinary relates how that Jehovah had a Son who was to be born of a Virgin The great End and Scope of it was the Redemption of a lost World IF some would know how Man from Wo Is brought and set in Bliss A Wonder 's wrought come see God's Thought In this Analysis The Spirit above sell in much Love Upon a Virgin sweet To comprehend or understand This I do not predict But yet that King and holy Thing Which was in Mary's Womb Was God indeed of Abr'am's Seed True God and yet true Man Who understands how God and Man Should in one Person dwell One Person true yet Natures two But one Immanuel His Godhead Rays had dull'd our Eyes But vail'd with humane Flesh His Glory 's hid for there 's much need With Man he should converse And nothing less for Man's Trespass An angry God can please But Righteousness in humane Dress Can his great Wrath appease No Diadem or Hecatomb Such large Dimensions hath Of blessed Good Christ won by Blood For those that tread his Path. CHAP. VIII The ARGUMENT A Man of God with an antient Record signifieth the Time and Coming of the Messiah and the long Journey he makes to visit a sinful World And tho he sat as the Second Person with the Eternal Trine Council in the Court of Celestial Glory upon making and redeeming the World yet is graciously pleased to suffer hard Things for those who rebelled against his Royal Crown and Dignity THE time draws on the Lord must come And Daniel's Weeks shall end It 's then some will Messiah kill The Sanctuary rend And when the Tax from Cesar's Acts Begins for to commence Mary goes then to Bethlehem From Nazareth went thence And in a Stable it 's no Fable The Virgin did bring forth The greatest King ever did reign Or will be on the Earth This blessed King lies in an Inn No Princes Court hath he But in a Manger lies in danger Expos'd to misery O blessed Morn a King is born A Virgin-Maid the Mother But his Grandsire is God admire This Myst'ry altogether But pray from whence did come this Prince From Heaven's Council-Board Where he did sit in Council great Before the World was made Mr. Milton Counsels of Love in Heaven above With Father Son and Spirit Counsels of Peace how to release Man from his sad Demerit In this Compact Eternal Act It was concluded on That Man should be the Subject free Of God's Redemption In this Contract and noble Act The Price was fixt upon Justice demands no Gold or Lands But Godlike Blood for Man A Covenant of Suretiship Christ entered into That unto Death would give his Life And unto God his due So he might reign and be a King Over redeemed Man His Captain Head for him will bleed And in his room will stand In this Decree they did agree That what the Surety did God would impute from Grace's Root As if the Debtor paid This Infant God deserves thy Ode Come join the Angels Quire And from the Altar of thy Heart Ascend an hallowed Fire To him who left his Royal Court And chose a darksome House This Majesty lays Glory by For to espouse a Curse And tho this Man from David sprang He 's pure without within And tho is made of Abraham's Seed Hath no Orig'nal Sin Pow'r Infinite can separate Between the Virgin 's Sin And Virgin 's Seed for there is need Christ be a holy Thing The Virgin blest lays Christ to rest Then round the Courtly Stable Bright harness'd Angels guard the Lord While in a Cribbee Cradle CHAP. IX The ARGUMENT A Celestial Messenger called an Angel is dispatch'd from the Throne to inform the Shepherds in the Field of the Nativity of the Messiah The heavenly Host do unite in their singing Hallelujah's to the most High for sending his Son to redeem Man Satan sends a Summons to his Peers to enter into a deep Council how he may procure Man's second Revolt knowing if he can perswade Man to rebel against the second Adam there remains no more Sacrifice for his Sin THE Angels great much speed do make To Shepherds keeping Sheep And say Fear not a Saviour great Is born O do not weep Rejoice be glad come joy in God In David's City strong This Day is born for Man
the Crew of damned Hue In all the World about He will much more his Power declare Ascended now on high Captivity he captive led In his triumphant Day This Hebrew Child tho meek and mild Made Devils loudly roar On Mountains steep in Vallies deep On all the Seas and Shore All Oracles dumb no hideous Hum No mighty Trance or Spell Apollo's Shrines no more Divine's Nor no Prophetick Cell The Flamins quaint at Altars faint In consecrated Grove Because no Sound doth there rebound From their-sweet Object Jove All Temples dumb Peor Baalim And mooned Ashtaroth No Tapers shine none can divine Hence Beelzebub is wroth Now Moloc's fled that Idol's dead Isis and Osiris From Judah's Land the Infant 's hand Laid low the Heathen Priests Each fetter'd Ghost slips to his Post To the Infernal Jail Who go in Troops their Malice shoots Back to the God of all Who comes who comes in glor'ous Blooms From Edom and Bozrath In whose Brow high is Majesty And treads untrodden Paths Glory surrounds his Body's Bounds There 's Terror in his Face Mr. Norris The Evening Sky the Scarlet Dye His Robes cannot debase They are so red with God-like Blood And Blood of Enemies They are much stain'd with Conquest gain'd And blessed Victories I mighty One 't is I do come That treads the Press alone Of Wrath Divine such Power is mine I will have help from none 'T is I can speak my Foes to death And that in Righteousness Almighty I can save most high From Hell to Heaven's Bliss 'T is I alone go conqu'ring on By my great Power and Strength And Blood runs o're my Garments pure My People might have Health 'T is I outvie the Scarlet Dye And make my Garments red Like those Men that do tread the Fat And Wine-press for the Blood I wear those Clothes red like the Rose To save some some destroy By shedding Blood I bruise one's Head And God do satisfy The Day is come that signal One And Death shall have its Doom The Kingdoms dark I will subvert And conquer every One No Sea of Blood but Christ's most good The Enemy could spoil And we are glad Christ's bloody Flag Doth flourish over all The Cher'bims Guard of the High Lord Stood by while Christ did fight His Father true forsook him too Yet he the Field did get My Fury strong supports me long And with my single Arm The Conquest 's won Salvation's come To mine that none can harm CHAP. XX. The ARGUMENT This Chapter contains an Account of a triumphant Song to the Lamb by the Saints of the Old and New Testament for Christ's most glorious Conquest over his and the Church's Enemies in his Resurrection and Ascension WITH Deborah we 'l sing to Jah Who hath avenged me And trod down Strength his Arm hath length To spoil his Enemy When he march'd on the Enemy strong Did tremble in the Earth And in the Field he made them yield As Holy Scripture saith Wake Deborah awake with Mirth A Song of Triumph sing Our Barak Head Captivity led A Captive tho a King Proud Sisera must stand in awe The Stars in Heaven fight The great Jael hath conquer'd Hell And put his Foes to flight Come to our King with Israel sing The Lord 's a Man of War He gloriously triumphs on high And leads his Enemies far Pharaoh of Hell that proud Rebel His Chariots overthrew His great Captains and chosen Ones Their Strength could not renew They proudly said Pursue the Head Fight not with Small or Great But Israel's King strike most at him Then we shall them defeat Come draw your Sword upon my Word My Lust I will fulfil I will divide the Spoil his Pride Shall not go conquering still The Sea arose upon his Foes And in it they did sink A Sea of Wrath wherein no Path Can find from it to shrink Who can compare with this most Fair Glorious in Holiness And fearful in the praise of Men His Wonders cannot cease Now Hannah sung we will prolong Our Honour he exalts Against our Foes his Power flows They may not proudly talk The mighty One is broken down And weak Ones girded are The Prince brought down from a high Throne The Poor exalted there Come Esa's Song we will prolong To our beloved King That us hath made his sweet Vineyard Who were but Lumps of Sin And fix'd it in a fruitful Hill Where Showers fall Divine A Tower great he made in it And on it Christ doth shine He doth it watch his Vineyard rich 'T is done both Night and Day A fiery Wall is round them all Against the Beasts of Prey May Zion say in a good Day Tho thou wast angry Lord With me for Sin through Christ our King Thy Favour is restor'd Behold my God doth Help afford He is Salvation Who shall I fear Jehovah's near My Trust my Strength my Song Therefore in Faith let 's draw with Mirth From God's Salvation-Wells Those living Streams Christ's bloody Veins Did purchase for Rebels In this good Day we all will say Praise praise the Lord alone Exalt his Name and spread his Fame For great 's the holy One. In Zion's Land his mighty Hand Is stretched out to save His Israel where he doth dwell Whom to his Son he gave Well is it said in God's sure Word Excellent Things doth he 'T is shewed forth in all the Earth God for his Church will be Sing and cry out come give a Shout Of Hallelujah's high To Jehovah begun on Earth But lasts Eternity The Prophet old when he foretold Death should be swallowed up In Victory by one on high Then he this Song did put Unto the Church to triumph much On that triumphant Day Eternal Gates stand ope in state That Saints then enter may This City strong they enter in Salvation is their Wall And Bullwarks too none can subdue And make this City fall As Mary's Song when Gabriel came The Angel her did tell And her salute and kindly greet With News that did excel That she should bear the glorious Heir Of Heaven and of Earth In her pure Womb should lie God's Son As holy Scripture saith Then she brake out with holy Shout Of Praise to magnify The Lord above who in much Love Had fill'd her Soul with Joy What Wonders here that I should bear A Saviour unto Man That I so poor God great in Power Should set his Love upon And me exalt with all my Faults Above all Women high No Queen he took this King to suck Or bear in her Body But me poor Maid he did regard To his eternal Praise I bore the King who had no Sin One of eternal Days With Zachary the Lord on high Let us ever extol For visiting and redeeming His People from all thrall A Horn of Power and a strong Tower Of great Salvation For us hath rais'd eternal Praise The Lord shall wait alone Now are made good the Prophet's words Spake since the World began God's Covenant stood
his Mercy 's good He sent to us his Son To save us from the Proud and Strong Yea all our Enemies In Righteousness and Holiness To serve him all our Days That good Day-spring doth Knowledg bring Of Sins remission free And blessed Light and Peace in sight To those in Darkness lay With Simeon old let 's be so bold To take the Lord of Glory In Arms of Love tho high above Heaven's Superior Story And praise him too for 't is his due And tell him we can die Peace and Rest because the best Of Objects now we see Our Eyes have seen the blessed One Hid from great Potentates The Gentiles Light he is most bright And Israel's Glory great Now triumph Saint the Lord he went Unto Mount Calvary Suffer'd the Cross and bore the Curse For Man's Felicity â—or surely by his Poverty The Poor are very rich And by his Shame they have great Fame No earthly Monarch such We were set free for bound was he Unto the Post and Cross Great Grief he had we might be glad Our Crown cannot be lost â—rom Heaven's room the Son came down We all might there ascend God Man became he might regain That Love which hath no End No House had he tho of Heaven free We may have one above Not made with Hands or Mens Commands But by God's Power and Love God in the dark seem'd to forsake His own eternal Son We might have Light splendid and bright And ever with him dwell A Wonder 's here God's Son most dear Had less ground to expect The Shines of God when that he di'd Than Saints of either Sex He 's in the Dark to purchase Light From hence forsaken too Saints may expect tho Christ did not God's Shines their Dying-day Lord we a Song will sing as long As an Eternity O King of Days 't is endless Praise Is still thy Childrens cry What tho we stand in a strange Land A Babel Wilderness Our Harps will tune to the Renown Of him who 's Lord of Hosts As travelling on to Mount Sion Our House our Place our Home As going on we 'll sing our Song To him upon the Throne Who can but sing the Lord will come Methinks he 's at the Door Faith sees him stand now just at hand My Soul be sad no more With David sing and Offerings bring Let all the Saints of God Rejoice in him that maketh them Most glorious by his Blood Upon your Bed sing to your Head Declare his noble Acts For this will be-eternally The Work of Tongue and Hearts O let us sing the Lamb's sweet Song Cry Great and marvell us Are all thy Works Lord God of Hosts Almighty true and just And with Saint John we 'l praise the Lamb The Prince and King of Earth Who loved us and washed us With his own Blood through Faith To God most wise give all due Praise Glory and Majesty Dominion great a Prince's Seat He hath above the Sky Let 's give henceforth Hallelujah Salvation Honour too With that Voice came out from the Throne Praise God his Servants do O King of Saints all Nations faint At thy just Judgment Lord Who shall not fear and thee revere And spread thy Fame abroad Thou worthy art to have the Heart Because all Things th' hast made For thine own Will and Glory still Hence 't is we give thee Laud. Let Heav'n and Earth their Praise set forth And Hallelujahs sing For our high God and mighty Lord Remains a conqu'ring King CHAP. XXI The ARGUMENT An Evangelist sheweth whence it was that so much Shame and Pain fell on an innocent Person by striking the Name of the Debtors out of the black and bloody Bond of the Law and inserting his own What a long Journey he came to redeem and marry poor Leprous Beggars And what bloody Battels he fought to gain this poor contemptible Worm and how he invested her with an Eternal Kingdom of Glory from his last Will and Testament WHO Inquest-makes Interrogates The Scribe which here indites If he can show why all this Wo Fell on the Lord of Light I 'll take from thee Prolixity In a Compendium shew That thee and I made him to die Who was Messiah true His Cheeks we smote by our proud Heart And Hair eradicate His Hands and Feet Nails penetrate He might us happy make I say again thy Sin and mine Procured all this Wo The thorny Crown makes Blood run down From Head to Feet below We him did strip and also whip The Spear ran in his Side The Travail of his Soul did make An Enemy his Bride Come Malefactor evil Actor Make one believing look What all pass by none cast an Eye On me who am forsook Of my dear God my precious Lord And purely for your sake I left my Weal inscrutable I might you happy make My Hand I struck with God who took My Covenant and Bail That I might see the Debtor free From the Infernal Jail Men ought repent they ever went To take a Surety's Place But I did long the Day were come Tho suffer'd much Disgrace Your Names struck out the legal Book That Book and bloody Bond My Name I insert with all my Heart So I stand only bound I who am just God did arrest Your Substitute for all And God accounts the Sinner just And Christ the Criminal I paid Man's Debt by bloody Sweat In Prison also lay But afterward had a Discharge On th' Resurrection Day O Men admire free Grace the higher For Love distinguishing That you might live an Object have For Faith tho Devils none No Gospel-light before their sight Men no Commission have To preach in Hell the pure Gospel He only Men will save Surely Success we should not miss That are Ambassadors If we could preach and Devils teach Their Pardon Christ procures But now we preach our Hands we stretch In vain the whole long day And call upon the Sons of Men To haste and come away To Jesus Christ the Chief and Best But Sinners will not hear So Unbelief makes them the Chief Of Sinners will appear Yea greater than the Devil's Sin Or Man 's in Paradise For neither of them did rebel Against redeeming Grace CHAP. XXII The ARGUMENT The Spouse of Christ interposeth with the admiration of his Love the Quantity and immense Treasures thereof having no Bank nor Bottom The Nature of it is free All Sinners may fill their Vessels from this Pipe which is more comfortable than the most fragrant Wine and so powerful that it draws the Heart to Christ as a Loadstone the Mass of Steel WHAT marvellous rich Love is this That such a cursed Race As we came from should sit among The Children of his Grace Our Fathers sure the Hittites were Our Mothers Amorites A cursed Race yet by free Grace In those the Lord delights None us beheld when in the Field All wallowing in our Blood None pitied us under this Curse But the Samar'tan good He casts an Eye when passed by
to heal Another Man a Syrenian At that time coming by Must bear the Cross most ponderous On which Christ was to die What Wit of Man can now define His Sorrow Grief and Shame Who can dilate and explicate His Misery and Pain At the same time the female Kind Compassion to him shew To see him thrust by Men unjust A base and fordid Crew Jerusalem the Lord said then Weep not for me from hence Peccavi cry your Sins are high Your Pride and Ignorance Condole be sad you were so mad As for to imprecate Innocent Blood upon your Head Will make you desolate He Calv'ry saw and Golgotha The Crosses situation Then Solltude he understood But for a sinful Nation Now being come Christ standeth bound Until the Cross be fixt With a strong Guard about the Lord A bitter Cup they mixt Now all the Crew Roman and Jew This blessed One do strip Unmantle bare and pluck'd the Hair From off his tender Lip He 's naked stript as well as whipt And all his Body bare That ours may be cover'd most free With Righteousness most fair Now all in haste they nail him fast And hang between two Thieves The Scripture's Will for to fulfil So Man from Hell he saves The Nails were great in Hands and Feet That fixt him to the Tree O who can tell what Christ did feel And there sustain'd for thee His Hands and Feet they penetrate And out the Blood did gush For they did tear him with a Spear And crown'd with thorny Bush That Christ was King the Inscription In Hebrew Latin Greek Did signify to all stood by For Pilate thought it meet Over his Head this Paper stood That all might read the same He was the King of Jewish Men Tho they did him defame Before he dies he opes the Eyes Of a most wretched Sinner Who own'd him King believ'd in him As the God-Man Redeemer Remember Lord to me be good When in thy Kingdom-State By my free Grace to Paradise This day I 'll thee translate They him exhaust and now do boast Our Grief he bore it all The weight of Sin was laid on him To save a precious Soul When he would ease his tortured Feet By hanging on his Hands They must be in prodigious pain This Reason understands And when he eas'd his tortur'd Hands By resting on his Feet His Body's weight where e're it met Must make the Patient sick God's holy Son tho God and Man Of Sorrow must be full On him did lie much Misery God's Wrath did fill his Soul The Lord at last cries out I thirst The Prophets to fulfil A Vin'gar spunge they gave his Lungs So he had not his Will Water was scant he must it want We might have plenitude Of living Streams come from his Reins O Love not understood Could Mary then of Magdalen Have had her own desire Her Tears should quench her Saviour's Thirst Whose Heart was on a fire A Flame of Love to him above To all Men did appear Where she did weep and wash his Feet And wip'd them with her Hair Now at this time the Souldiers game For Jesus seamless Coat For to fulfil the sacred Will That Will to consummate The direful Curse was ponderous The Malediction high Which made him cry Ely Ely Lama sabachthany I am content for to be empt Of all my Sacred Blood So I my Flock inoculate By Faith into their Head The Guilt of Man I 'll fasten on This cursed Cross and Tree Justice Divine shall have a Fine To set the Guilty free I 'll bury all their Guilt and Thrall Both in the Grave and deep Yea all the high Iniquity Of my free chosen Sheep Then some obscene said to the King Physician save thy self If that thou be God's Son most free Recover now thy Health The Mother stood nigh by the Wood I mean the wooden Cross On which did hang her precious Son Till all his Blood was lost What Tears of Blood could she have shed His Sorrow to prevent To see those Hands heal'd many Wounds So pierced torn and rent His glorious Head ran purple Blood His Feet and Side the same But his Free Grace that him debas'd Is his immortal Fame Those bloody Eyes they can't suffice Those Sluces are too small His Sorrow to give vent unto Hence from his Pores Blood falls He saw a Scrowl a dismal one Of Sins present and past And Sins to come he must atone For all from first to last Mr. Norris His Love most sweet and bloody Sweat Did wipe off all the Score Some moments Pain makes him to reign Eternal Ages sure And as he hung before the Sun His Virgin-Mother saw His Gore-blood Eyes and heard his Cries To God Abba Abba Into thy Hand my Spirit ascend My Work is finnished All Debts are paid Books cancelled Justice is satisfied Now Christ is dead they brake no Leg The Scripture may fulfil Yet by their Hate hangs dislocate Unjoint from Head to Heel Upon the same great Darkness came All o're the Hemisphere The Rocks did rent the Graves were empt Thus Wonders did appear The Temple-Vail was rent in twain Then soon they understood He was God's Son tho also Man From thence infer was God The Heathens all that Day condole And eloquently said Surely the God of Nature's dead Or final End hath made O this great World to Dust he 'l hurl For hanging on the Cross The Quintessence of all Goodness O Act preposterous CHAP. XIX The ARGUMENT A Friend of the Messiah 's signifies what happened after the Lord's Death A Counsellor at Law begs his Body and inters it with sweet Spices The great Council gives order for a strict Watch a Seal and Stone to be set on the Sepulchre Now Beelzebub triumphs to see Christ dead and in some hopes conquered for ever But the third Day he arose from the Grave to the Confusion of all the Devils And after forty Days upon the Earth ascends to Heaven from Mount Olivet in the view of his Apostles but first gave them his Benediction and on the Day of Pentecost sent down the Holy Ghost and from the Power of this Spirit his Disciples go on in the World conquering by preaching Jesus of Nazareth to be the Son of God OF Pilate Head Joseph did beg The Body of the Just And did inter the Lord with Myrrh As saith the Holy Ghost As Man at first did prove unjust In Eden Paradise The blessed King in a Garden Acquits the Man on wise The Watch was strong they sat upon The Grave where Christ did lie For to prevent the Lord's Intent Of rising the third Day The Sepulchre they made most sure With Watch a Stone and Seal For to prevent the Lord's Intent But they in all do fail When Christ was dead then Beelzebub Did triumph and thus speak I conquer'd have unto the Grave God's Christ of mighty State 'T is I am King and triumphing Who will my Subjects be And Christ deny whom I defy He
And said Live Infant live When in our Blood he was so good His saving Grace to give And threw his Skirt on our foul Heart To hide our Nakedness This is the Time of Love the Time He gave us Righteousness A Covenant wherein 's no Want With Sinners made when poor To be his own he gave his Son The Cov'nant to ensure We washed are with Water pure And with the best of Blood Blood 's wash'd away with Blood that Day Death seiz'd the Son of God God did appoint them to anoint With his most precious Oil They decked are with Silk and Hair All clean no longer foul A Chain of Gold the Worth's untold Is put about her Neck The Linen white and broidred Work Doth her most lovely deck Upon her Hands the Bracelet stands Her Head with Jewels set And on the same a glorious Crown With Ear-rings she 's bedect And she did eat the finest Wheat And sweetest Honey too She 's beautiful and doth excel The most Self-righteous Jew Now her Renown and glorious Fame Goes through the Heathen Land She prospers in a blest Kingdom Which never will have End Her Comeliness is Righteousness But this the Lord puts on And Comely through his Comeliness Glory to Grace alone This Spouse excels in glorious smells Myrrh Alloes Cashia Her Garments fine a sweet Perfume Do cast forth every way Within within the Glory 's seen In the King's Daughter true Wrought Gold 's her Garb most richly laid The Bridegroom wears it too At whose right Hand the Queen doth stand In Gold of Ophir fine Her Beauty great makes Christ to speak Thy Beauty is Divine The Father just his Son did trust Before his Incarnation In saving those to Heaven goes In every Land and Nation The Son most just the Father trusts That he Salvation give All the Elect who have their Debt Paid long before they live Their Debt did pay and satisfy Some hundred Years before They Being had by Christ his Blood Or e're they ran in score What 's requisite and what 's most meet In any Advocate Is found in Christ the Meek and Just The only Potentate Who doth delight to see the Spite And Disagreement end Between the King and Men for Sin Therefore his Blood did spend He 's just and meek yea very sweet Most powerful and true And brings God down to love the Man And Man to God does go The Levites pass the Priests make haste From us sweltring in Blood But the good Man Samaritan Stood still to do us good And in the Soul did pour in Oil So heal'd the Wounds of Sin And rather than his Soul should pine His Blood he poured in He covers all our Shame and Fall With Robes of Righteousness And gives to Man a glorious Ring To seal them up to Bliss The fatted Beast is kill'd to feast Those starving Souls of ours O Lamb of God thy Blood was shed In an accepted Hour We Syrians poor and Strangers were In a most forlorn Plight Lay at thy Door of Grace full sore In Darkness without Light Yet saidst thou Live my Grace I give To thee besmear'd with Blood Live Infant live my Son I give To be thy Prince and Head An Head of Sense and Influence Is to his Body dear As from the Root the Branches shoot So Christ the Church doth bear His Lambs he 'l feed a tender Head One Member if but ill A Balsam made of his own Blood Doth from the Heart distil As Branches dry and also die Which from the Vine are cut So every Saint would quickly faint And die if from the Root As many Branches make one Vine And many Grains one Loaf So many Men one Body frame Unite to Christ by Faith Who gave himself for our Souls Health That 's more than Heaven high Ten thousand times ten thousand Tens Come let us for him die A Journey long through Storms a throng Christ came to visit thee His Head with Drops and Dew his Locks Did wet he might thee see Tho Mankind had some Lovers bad When he the Question put He gave his Dove excelling Love By which their Hearts he took But waited long with Patience strong For Floods can't quench his Love Repulses strong often and long Could not make him remove This Bridegroom wrought great Battels fought To him none equal be Few Husbands win their Bride and Kin By Blood as he did thee Mr. Delaun Ear-rings of Gold Riches untold He clothes his Bride withal His Spouse doth dress with Righteousness To beautify the Soul And from all Debts they are acquit By Marriage of the King Who will invest his with the Best A Kingdom without Sin What Monarchs known to leave his Throne For Leprous and Diseas'd And tho forlorn and fill'd with Scorn Yet he with those is pleas'd Some Bridegrooms change new Lovers gain And cast the old away But he loves first unto the last Yea to Eternity The Mother dear her Son most near She sooner can forget Than a Convert with changed Heart Out of his Love can slip The Mountains fast they all shall haste From their most fixed Place Before that he will thee deny Who art in Cov'nant-Grace If any can the Heavens span And measure Sea and Land Then Flesh and Sin and Satan's Gin May pluck them from his Hand If Moon so bright and Stars o th' Night Their Course can change and slip Then may his Love decline his Dove Whom he keeps while they sleep If he can drown the World again Against his fix'd Decree Then may his Love from thee remove Which none shall ever see So we from Justice were discharg'd Upon his dying Day He like a Lamb most patiently Unto the Slaughter's led And drunk the bitter Cup of Death Without a murmuring Word Before the Judgment Seat he stood A Prisoner at the Bar And by his Judgment we are freed Who wretched Prisoners were His Generation is so Great Noble Eternal too None can declare the Number of His Sons and Daughters true In shedding of his precious Blood A numerous Off-spring hath Which none can number nor declare For they fill Heaven and Earth And tho no Violence did act Yet he must make his Grave With wicked and ungodly Men For such he came to save It pleased God his Son to bruise An Offering he might give To have a glorious Church on Earth And with him ever live As Eve came out of Adam's Side So did the Church from Christ She is the Travail of his Soul For whom he groaned much But Satisfaction great hath he After his trav'lling Soul For his Seed he will justify By knowing Christ their All. A Portion with the Great he 'l have And with the Strong divide The Glory of his conquering Strength In spite of Hellish Pride Because he poured forth his Soul To Death both frank and free And took it up in three Days time So got the Victory And now triumphantly is gone Into the Heavens high Having Captivity captive led 'T
those separating Hills And take us to thy Rest The Winter Blasts are almost gone Farewel the Rain and Flood We cry aloud come fetch us home Why have thy Chariots stood Come Lord with thy sweet Jubilee Hark how the Creatures groan With Saints for full Redemption Hear how they make their moan Come blessed Lord do thou create New Heavens and new Earth A sinless Kingdom we long for Which gives true Joy and Mirth With speed make haste Vengeance to show For thy blest Temple's sake All Antichrists both East and West Do thou make desolate And then the chief rejected Stone Tho little it will grow Into a Mount and fill the Seat Of Monarchs here below Mr. Raseson That Stone which from the Mountain was Cut out without a Hand Into a Mountain let it grow And all the World command A burdensome Foundation-stone In Zion there shall lie All that do spurn against that Stone Shall by it fall and die Then all Christ's marked Ones they shall With him ascend the Throne Then all the World to him will bow When he shall reign alone Lord Jesus haste unto thy Throne We no more Captives be And fly upon the Wings of Love For thee we long to see This blessed Day no Night will have The Moon will be a Sun A seven-fold Light the Sun will be O were this Day begun Come haste that blessed break of Light Let Shadows flee away When Ordinances all shall cease Come on Eternal Day Then through a Glass shall look no more Unless the Glass Divine We shall through humane Nature see The blessed God-head shine The Glass of Ordinances cease Now look through them no more Nor Creatures Word or Promises When we see God most pure Then we shall in each Bosom's rest As in a Bed Divine And fulness of pure Joy shall have When God doth on us shine Now Righteous Ones they entrance have Into this Palace Royal There where no Curse shall ever be Or any time of Trial. That City of Jerusalem In Vision John did see Descending out of Heaven above With glorious Majesty This City which doth entertain The People of the Lord It is set forth by Metaphors So is not understood The Walls of Stone most precious are And the Foundation too Twelve thousand Furlongs is the Breadth The Length and Height also Twelve Gates twelve Angels at the Gates That keep both Watch and Ward No evil thing can enter there Tho they stand all abroad And on those Gates the Names are writ Of the twelve blessed Tribes Of the Children of Israel In whom the Truth abides And twelve Foundations hath the Wall Of this most Royal City In which Foundation there is writ Their Names the Lamb did pity The twelve Apostles of the Lamb Were written fair thereon There is no City like to this Free Holy without Sin Pure Jasper was the Wall built of The City of pure Gold Gold is the Streets of this rich Place Its Worth cannot be told Twelve glorious Pearls the Gates thereof One Pearl every Gate And the Foundation richly deck'd With precious Stones of State And from this City glorious Streams Of living Water comes Out of the Throne of God the Lamb Are most refreshing Streams And in the middle of the Street And either side the River Twelve sorts of Fruits the Tree of Life Did bear to heal us ever And here the Throne of God shall be Also the Lamb 's high Throne And there his Servants shall be free To serve the Holy One And they shall see his blessed Face And bear his glorious Name Which on their Foreheads shall have place His Image to proclaim And then and there shall be no Night For God the Lord most High Will be their Temple and their Light To all Eternity Mr. Barton Now blessed Jesus his will lead To living Water-Springs Where Tears shall all be wash'd away A City full of Kings Law-Righteousness could not procure Such Thrones and Kingdoms great Such Palms and Robes as Saints shall have When they in Heaven meet Strike up you blessed Spirits in Bliss Your Songs most lofty high You separated Souls in Bliss Praise him as well you may Mr. Reeves Unto the Lamb whose Seat is set In midst of the great Throne He there was seen who had been slain By Saints and Angels known 'T was thou wast slain and hast redeem'd All Nations by thy Blood Therefore worthy to ope the Book The Mysteries of God The Book seen in Jehovah's Hand Written without within Which do contain God's Counsels great Unto the final End O holy Jesus blessed Lamb John's Sorrows did prevent Thou David's Root and Judah's Lion Wast fit to ope the Book A Person very fit to Rule Both this World and the Church Therefore all Power is given him Because there is none such Let 's praise this King for ever-more With Angels Elders Beasts Church-Militant and Triumphant Adore the Lord of Hosts Ye noble Host of Martyrs all The glorious Prophets too Angels Apostles Arch-Angels Praise him the Lord most true Who can declare the sweet Jub'lee In Heaven solemniz'd By Seraphims and Cherubims And Principalities Powers and all Dominions too To him do cast their Crowns Then thousand times ten thousand Tens In holy Thanks abound Crying O holy holy Lord The Lamb in glorious State O Holy Ghost Holy and True Who did the Creatures make Redeemed Men for ever sing Of Surety-Righteousness They 'l have it there for ever-more In everlasting Bliss Come let us join the Creatures all In Heaven Earth and Sea All Creatures with loud Voices cry Worthy O Lamb worthy All Wisdom Riches to receive Strength Blessing Glory too From all in Heaven in Earth and Sea Is thine Eternal due FINIS ERRATA BOOK the First Page 16. line the first afteâ— thousand add c. Pag. 77. l. 23. for things read Temptations Book 2. Pag. 33. l. 19. read 27 Years Pag. 24 l. 29. for sad read said In the Poems Pag. 9. l. 11. read is brandisheâ— for it P. 31. l. 1. read adorn P. 75. l. 5. reaâ— they P. 96. l. 1. read what 's
forlorn A Saviour God and Man The heavenly Host do join their Force And give Encomiums high To God above who in much Love Hath sent his Son to die Glory to God the highest Good Who sends Peace to the Earth Man hath that Bliss the Devils miss An Object for his Faith Those damned Ones none them bemoans Who lie in deep despair Of any Good from that just God They all revolted are From hence in rage they all engage To envy God and Man Glory to God from Man all Good They 'l hinder what they can Adam the First Paradise lost Where once he sweetly sang But was regain'd by Man's good Friend Christ the triumphant King He Satan fought and gain'd the Fort Yea won the Field and Day The Woman's Seed did break the Head Of Man's grand Enemy Satan in spite he rallies up His broken Troops dispers'd A Council calls of black Peers all That Man may be distrest With our grand Shield we 'l gain the Field The second Adam took Come lose no Ground come be profound That Man from God may look 'T is our Intent to circumvent Both Head and Body too If we can part Christ and Man's Heart That 's all we aim to do But he forgot what was Job's Lot And how he fail'd therein Yet is so mad to set on God Who made him of Nothing CHAP. X. The ARGUMENT Some Country Shepherds are giving an Account to the Nation of the Jews what an Angel had informed them and of their Journey to Bethlehem where they found Joseph and Mary with the Babe the Infant-God lying in a Manger TO Bethlehem those Shepherds come The Wonderful to see Isa 9.6 And found the Lamb the holy One Design'd for Calvary They told the Jews the Angels News Immanuel was come Now Admiration fills the Nation For this most glorious One. They found the Babe the Infant-God But in a low Degree His God-like Face was full of Grace To Man in Misery CHAP. XI The ARGUMENT A Man of God gives the Church Information of the Circumcision and presentation of Christ with his Mother Mary 's Purification in the Temple Also how a good old Man named Simeon and a gracious Matron called Anna believed that Child to be him of whom the Prophets spake should descend from Abraham and David 's Loins when probably many great Persons who walked in the Temple looked upon this Infant-God only as the Son of a poor Carpenter AFTER eight Days they Circumcise Christ which presag'd much Good That came to pass upon the Cross Where he shed all his Blood The purest Maid Mother of God Above all Women blest Was presented and purified In God's Temple of Rest Then Simeon old being foretold Of this great Potentate With a sweet look of Faith him took And blest the Lord of State And at his Breast Jesus did rest Here 's Love in highest Passion He dies in peace and goes to rest On sight of God's Salvation Tho rich and great the Temple walk'd When Christ was Circumcis'd To be a King none did know him But Ann and Simeon wise None did him greet who was so great But on him meanly look'd Some poor Off-spring far from a King A Carpenter's Relique But holy Ann when she came in And saw the Babe of Grace She did proclaim to every one He came of David's Race O Israel you looked well In your Jerusalem This pretty Babe in your Arms laid Works your Redemption 'T is Shilo sure who will allure All Men by his free Grace This is the Root from David shot He hath a God-like Face The Sage and Wise then heard the Noise A Jewish King was born They brought sweet Scent from Orient Gold Frankincense and Balm Herod the Great now full of Heat The blest Messiah's Foe He calls the Scribes of several Tribes This Monarch down to throw The Wise and Sage he them did charge If they did find the King To signify it by and by That he might worship him But his vile Mind had then design'd A Fact most Tragical O Hypocrite God will thee smite Thou Son of Belial But those wise Men they worship him And Herod's Laws despise For by a Dream and Star they came Unto the only Wise In Bethlehem the Babes all then From two Years old and up Were Martyred all that Christ might fall This was a bitter Cup. Now Lamentation fills the Nation For this inhumame Act All Parents cry and like to die Because their Babes are not The Governour began to fear That Cesar's Time was short And Mary's Son would shortly reign Their Government subvert CHAP. XII The ARGUMENT A Church is dispatcht from the Celestial Canaan to inform Joseph and Mary in a Dream of their going to Egypt to avoid the Malice of Herod who sought the Death of the young Child and upon Herod 's Death signifies God would have them return again to their own Land NOW on a Time an Angel came Who Mary and Joseph tell Their Feet must stand on Egypt Land Until that Herod fell Who quickly dies so th' Angel flies With all celerity To Egypt Land and gives Command That Joseph go his way â—or they are dead all gone and fled Which sought the young Child's Life â—nd by a Dream informed them From the true God of Light CHAP. XIII The ARGUMENT A Messenger of the King of Kings gives Information how this young King of Nazareth disputed with and confuted the Doctors of the Law at 12 Years old Of his entring upon his Prophetical Office He sends John Baptist as his Harbinger authorizeth him to Baptize and about thirty Years of Age was baptized by him himself to fulâ—â—â— all Righteousness the Ordinance confirmed by the whole Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost WHEN Mary's Son twelve Years had run The Doctors of the Law He did dispute and them confute And made them stand in awe And now in fine sweet Jesus time Of working doth commence A Harbinger for to prepare His way he sendeth thence His Mission is for to baptize John Baptist 't is I mean He them immerst who Sins confest And true Repentance gain For to fulfil the Royal Will Christ came to Prophet John To be baptiz'd in any wise When thirty Years had run Then John him took to Jordan Brook And there did him immerse He did him dip because most meet To fulfil Righteousness This was not done to wash off Sin Because Messiah's pure To Man he 's sent a Precedent Let it all Men allure The glorious Trine did all combine To witness to this thing The Father Son and Spirit as one Did honour his Baptism CHAP. XIV The ARGUMENT One of Christ's Learned Disciples informs the Church that after Jesus was baptized he is led into the Wilderness where the Devil appeared unto him probably like some Antient Man in poor Habit. The Messiah discovered he knew him tho under a disguise to be the Head of the Apostate Angels Christ not answering his End in making Bread of Stones is