breaking their Covenant Casting them off Dispersing them throughly Punishing them with Destruction In revenge of the Murder of Jesus Christ. Now if the Fall of them be the Riches of the World and the Demolishing of them the enriching of the Gentiles how much more their fulness Rom. 11. 12. What shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead Rom. 11. 14. Restore them O Lord That as we have obtained Mercy Through their unbelief So they by our Mercy and our Faith prevailing may obtain Mercy The death of Jesus that universal Benefit Spreads from a Centre Through all the World And is wholly the Joy of all People The Patience of Job was once obscure Which is now the Publick Right Of Mankind The Cross of Christ exceeding vile Yet now in my Closet my perfect Treasure Pregnant Signes What infinite Depths may lie concealed In the rude appearance of the smallest Actions A world of Joys hid in a Manager For me for every one His Cross a prospect of eternal Glory Sheweth that All things are treasures infinitely Diffusive Earthly Occurrences celestial Joys For the Learning of the Fathers I glorisie Thee More for the Labors of the holy Apostles My crown and my joy Their Persecutions are my Glory Their Doctrine my Foundations Their Sweat my Dew Their Tears my Pearl Their Blood my Rubies For giving of the Holy Ghost Upon the day of Pentecost I supremely praise Thee O let me be filled with it That I may clearly see the Powers of my Soul That As a Temple of thy Presence I may inherit all things That In the Light of my Knowledge All Ages may abide And I in them walking with thee In the Light of Glory What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits toward me I will take the cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. Ps. 116. 12 13. With reverence I will learn The riches of our Saviour At the time of his Ascention And see what a Paradise The Glory of his Resurrection Made the World Who when he ascended up on high led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men And he gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors and Teachers Eph. 4. 8. and 11. O let me see into the deeper Value of such glorious Treasures Nearer to our Saviour Greater than the Angels Images of God Labouring to death For our sakes Of all the benefits Which they did to all My bosom is the recipient I the Heir How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of them that bring the glad tidings of good things Rom. 10. O blessed be thy glorious Name For the Conversion of this Island Wherein I live The Day spring from on high That visited us The Light of the Gospel The Conversion of our Kings The professed Subjection Of our Lords and Senators Our Ministers Bishops Pastors Churches Sacraments Liturgy Sabbaths Bibles Laws Ecclesiastical Establishment of Tythes Universities Colledges liberal Maintenance of our Saviours Clergy Christian Schools Cathedrals and Quires where they sing his praises That Pillars are erected in our Land To his Name That his Cross is exalted to the top of Crowns Seated on high On more than kingly Palaces His Temple in our Borders That his Gospel is owned and fully received His Kingdom established by Laws In our Land Which might have been a Wilderness Which might have been a Golgotha Which might have been a very Tophet A blind corner of brutish Americans And I a torn desolate confessor Or far worse A Negroe like them In the horrid Island For all this I glorify thy Name Humbly confessing and acknowledging With Joy Thy Mercy in this to have been greater Towards us Than in delivering Israel from the Egyptian Bondage Earnestly beseeching thee to forgive the Ingratitude and Stupidity of thy People Open their Eyes Cause every one to see That he is the Heir and Possessor Of all thy Joys In their Peace and Prosperity Let me thy Servant inherit Peace And in thy Light let me see Light Make them more my Treasures By making Them better By making Me wiser Increasing both our love What hast thou done for me thy Servant In giving me The Beauty of the World In giving me The Land in which I live In giving me The Records of all Ages In giving me Thy self in all for evermore Being done for thousands for all O Lord It is more my Joy I bless thy Name for the Perfection of thy Goodness so wholly communicable to many Thousands So endlesly communicated from all Generations Coasts and Regions to every Soul By enriching whom thou magnifiest me Because they are My Friends Because they are My Temples Because they are My Treasures And I am theirs Delighted by my love in all their happiness Tho War should arise in this will I be confident One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple Ps. 27. 3 4. He hath chained Ages Kingdoms together Nor can they without us Nor we without them Be made perfect Heb. 11. 40. The Lord is King throughout all Genrations Magnifying his eternal Wisdom In making every true Christian possessor Of his Joys The multitude of Possessors enrichers of Enjoyment Every one the end of all his Ways Me even me Hath thy Glory exalted in all these things I am possessor and they my treasures I am delighted abundantly by being possessed That thou O Lord art supreme possessor And every one of thine possessor In thy Likeness Pleaseth me supremely pleaseth me wholy Furthereth my Joys Addeth to them Maketh them Infinite Yea infinitely Infinite The very manner of Enjoying O Lord Let all the Greatness whereby thou advancest thy Servant Make me not more proud but more humble More Obedient to the King More Diligent in my Calling More Subservient to my Spiritual Fathers Pastors and Teachers More Meek to mine Inferiours More Humble to all More Compassionate on the ignorant More Sensible of my Sins More Lowly to the poor More Charitable to the needy More Loving to mine Enemies More Tender to the erroneous Thirsting their return More Industrious in serving thee In calling them In saving all Teach me by Wisdom to see the Excellency of all thy Doings And by goodness to rejoyce in all thy mercys To delight in the Praises which they offer unto thee And in the Blessings which descend upon all thy Creatures O make my life here upon Earth beautiful O Lord that my Soul may be pleasing to thy Saints and Angels To be well pleasing to whom is an unspeakable delight because thy love is infinite to them Thanksgivings for the Wisdom of his WORD THE Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God They are all gone aside they are altogether become 〈◊〉 there is none that doth
Eternity being equally near to mine Understanding Together with the infinite spaces beyond the Heavens because thine Omnipresence is wholly every where O the incredible things it attaineth Thou Light of Jerusalem As thou makest the Hemisphere to be wholly in its image wholly present in every point By the rays of light that from all parts of the Heaven close in one every where in one as if no where besides By which thou makest the World communicable to millions of Eyes Such is the Glory of thy exquisite Presence that it is at once wholly in millions of persons Wholly in them all like the Sun in a Mirrour in a thousand thousand Mirrours that maketh by its Beams the Heavens also to be present there And me like a Mirrour the entire 〈◊〉 of all thy Glories Most really O Lord are they all within me because thou art really dwelling there Even thou my SUN who with all thy Kingdom are dwelling there Thou in me and they in thee for evermore How infinitely high how glorious how blessed how divine hast thoumade me God is Love O teach me the dignity the depth the mistery the infinite excellency of that operation So wholly lovely is thine eternal Nature it is imposiible to perceive and not to love it In making me to love and desire to be pleased Thy Wisdom and Power are wholly Wonderful How we see or feel thy presence we cannot tell but how by it we shall inherit all things is easy to understand But O the wonder of Delight and Glory 'T is I O Lord was an object of thy Love from everlasting Thou intimately knewest me and wast acquainted with me from all eternity Thy Bosom is the Temple thy Love the Glory thy Knowledge the best Light wherein I can see and enjoy my self In my self I am finite but the infinity of thy Glory maketh every thing infinite upon which thou lookest From everlasting to everlasting thou art God Thou art our dwelling place in all Generations And all this hast thou done O Lord for every Soul for every Angel That they might all like thee be meet for my love and delightful to me Thou O my God art so great and infinite a mystery that Eternity alone is a sufficient light wherein to see thee What Lord could I require of thee more than this to give me thy self Thou givest thy self by employing all thy wisdom all thy Goodness all thy Power in producing the best of all possible Delights for the satisfaction and exaltation of every Soul And in giving thy self in the best of manners Without which thy love had not been infinite nor yet thy self nor I supreme nor thou been given Thou givest thy self by living the best of all possible lives Which is by doing the best of all possible things Without which the perfection of pleasure would never be attained From all Eternity thou didst ever live the best of lives without end or beginning Nor didst thou approach to it nor canst thou remove from it In all operations therefore at once art thou ever infinite To whom nothing can be added out of whom nothing can be taken from everlasting to everlasting including all things In whom we live and move and have our Being By whom we see from everlasting to everlasting in power here actually in Heaven Because all thine Eternity after a manner incomprehensible dwelleth within Thine Almighty power employes it self in causing me to see thine infinite Eternity Beyond that no possibility of exaltation can be conceived So one would think But infinite Infinity hath no limitation Thine infinite Eternity shall I wholly enjoy Being infinitely more exalted As the object of my delight but more as the enlargement of all my Glory more as the eye that delighteth in me More it is thine than mine O Lord. Yea more In Men and Angels The fruition of thy self being infinite in me but multiplyed infinitely in all thy Creatures In all thy Saints in all thy Sons shall I see thine Eternity wholly enjoyed thine omnipresence wholly in every Bosom To these O Lord thy love is infinite imparient of delay It could never endure to be distant from them not a moment could stand between thee and them so raging is the thirst of thine Eternal Love Immediately present from everlasting with them yea to those O Lord that are yet unborn In thee for ever as Ages in Eternity in thee for ever all Kingdoms were in thee they are for evermore O thou who art a comsuming fire Whose love is compared to everlasting Burnings the delight which thou takest in our happiness was always satisfied The last of thy ends from everlasting attained the first of thy thoughts immediately present with all Eternity What infinite Mystcries are these O Lord The vehemence of thy love is the almightiness of thy power The delight which thou takest in communicating thy self is thine in finite goodness Love is thy blessedness The nature of these as well as of Eternity shews that once all things are with thee Before they arise thou art present For all live under thee in whom there is no variableness nor shadow of changing O the wonderful excellency of thine eternal Nature It is as a Sphere O Lord into which we were born whose Centre is everywhere circumference no where O the burning of thine Eternal Zeal the sounding of thy Bowels From the utmost bounds of the everlasting Hills thou surroundest us and fillest us on every side Who then can forbear to be ravished with love to see thee so infinite in goodness And they O my God being so delicious 〈◊〉 an I chuse but love them as my self My Jewels my Treasures my second selves my shining Lights my Crowns my Temples my Lovers my Friends Thy Sons O Lord thine Images Thy Bride beautified each one with thy Glory But to see their persons being infinite Joy What is it O Lord to be a Peer among them embraced samiliarily freely honoured feasted at their Table magnified by their love All this enflaming my love to thee making me to love thee ten thousand times more than I can possibly love my self Who art infinitely near wholly to be embraced How much glory will it be to me to see thee who infinitely lovest them infinitely 〈◊〉 with all their glory From everlasting enjoying all thy satisfaction continuing to everlasting in all thy 〈◊〉 Thou lovest them each more than themselves and art more than themselves delighted with their Glory Shall I not then love thee more than my self As much as my self because thou hast given me my self Infinitely more for giving me all things The benefits I receive being the fuel of my love And what is the event or success of doing it Even as Farthers are exalted in their Childrens Honour Friends delighted in the Prosperity of their Friends and Brides more pleased in their Husbands persons As Mothers are more tender in feeling the Calamities or Joys of their Children By vertue of the love which they bear unto them So
In the Tabernacle p. 115. l. 8. for to r. by p. 124. l. 〈◊〉 r. Glory p. 129. l. 20. r. how can A Serious and Pathetical CONTEMPLATION Of the Mercies of GOD IN SEVERAL Most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the same Thanksgivings for the Body BLess the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me bless his holy name Bless the Lord O my Soul and forget not all his benefits Who forgiveth all thine Iniquities who 〈◊〉 all thy Diseases Who redeemeth thy life from destruction Who crowneth thee with loving kindness and 〈◊〉 mercies Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed as the Eagles O Lord who art clothed with Majesty My desire is to praise thee With the holy Angels and Archangels To glorisie thee And with all thy Saints in the Church triumphant For the eternal brightness Of thine insinite bounty The freedom of thy love Wherein thou excellest the beams of the Sun To celebrate thee I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy works and that my Soul knoweth right well My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book all my members were written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them How precious are thy thoughts also unto me O God! How great is the sum of them If I should count them they are more in number than the sand When I awake I am still with thee Blessed be thy holy Name O Lord my God! For ever blessed be thy holy Name For that I am made The work of thy hands Curiously wrought By thy divine Wisdom Enriched By thy Goodness Being more thine Than I am mine own O Lord Thou hast given me a Body Wherein the glory of thy Power shineth Wonderfully composed above the Beasts Within distinguished into useful parts Beautified without with many Ornaments Limbs rarely poised And made for Heaven 〈◊〉 filled With celestial Spirits Veins wherein Blood floweth Refreshing all my flesh Like Rivers Sinews fraught with the mystery Of wonderful Strength Stability Feeling O blessed be thy glorious Name That thou hast made it A Treasury of Wonders Fit for its several Ages For Dissections For Sculptutes in Brass For Draughts in Anatomy For the Contemplation of the Sages Whose inward parts Enshrined in thy Libraries Are The Amazement of the Learned Are The Admiration of Kings and Queens Are The Joy of Angels Are The Organs of my Soul Are The Wonder of Cherubims Those blinder parts of resined Earth Beneath my Skin Are sull of thy Depths For Many thousand Uses For Hidden Operations For Unsearchable Offices But for the diviner Treasures wherewith thou hast endowed My Brains Mine Eyes My Heart Mine Ears My Tongue My Hands O what Praises are due unto thee Who hast made me A living Inhabitant Of the great World And the Centre of it A sphere of Sense And a mine of Riches Which when Bodies are dissected fly away The spacious Room Which thou hast hidden in mine Eye The Chambers for Sounds Which thou hast prepar'd in mineEar The Receptacles for Smells Concealed in my 〈◊〉 The feeling of my Hands The taste of my Tongue But above all O Lord the Glory of Speech whereby thy Servant is enabled with Praise to celebrate thee For All the Beauties in Heaven and Earth The melody of Sounds The sweet Odours Of thy Dwelling place The delectable pleasures that gratisie my Sense That gratify the feeling of Mankind The Light of History Admitted by the Ear. The Light of Heaven Brought in by the Eye The Volubility and Liberty Of my Hands and Members Fitted by thee for all Operations Which the Fancy can imagine Or Soul desire From the framing of a Needle 's Eye To the building of a Tower From the squaring of Trees To the polishing of Kings Crowns For all the Mysteries Engines Instruments wherewith the World is filled which we are able to frame and use to thy Glory For all the Trades variety of Operations Cities Temples Streets Bridges Mariners Compass admirable Picture Sculpture Writing Printing Songs and Musick wherewith the World is beautified and adorned Much more for the Regent Life And Power of Perception Which rules within That secret depth of sathomless Consideration That receives the information Of all our senses That makes our centre equal to the Heavens And 〈◊〉 in it self the magnitude of the World The involved 〈◊〉 Of 〈◊〉 common sense The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of 〈◊〉 fancy The 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Of things that are past The 〈◊〉 of things to come Thy 〈◊〉 be glorified For evermore For all the art which thou hast hidden In this little piece Of red clay For the workmanship of thy hand Who didst thy self form man Of the dust of the ground And breath into his Nostrils The breath of Life For the high Exaltation whereby thou hast glorified every body Especially mine As thou didst thy Servant Adam's in Eden Thy Works themselves speaking to me the same thing that was said unto him in the beginning WE ARE ALL THINE And why O Lord wouldst thou so delight To magnify the dust 〈◊〉 from the ground From the dark obscurity of a silent Grave Thou raisest it O Lord Herein indeed Thou raisest the poor out of the dust and 〈◊〉 the needy out of the dunghil That thou mayst set him with Princes even with the Princes of thy people But why would the Lord take pleasure in creating an earthly Body why at all in making a visible World Couldst thou not have made us immortal Souls and seated us immediately in the throne of Glory O Lord thou lover of Righteousness Whose Kingdom is everlasting Who lovest to govern thy Subjects by Laws and takest delight to distribute Rewards and Punishments according to right Thou hast hidden thy self By an infinite miracle And made this World the Chamber of thy presence the ground and theatre of thy righteous Kingdom That putting us at a distance A little from thee Thou mayst satisie the Capacities Of thy righteous Nature Thou wast always sit to reign like a King Able to rule by the best of Laws To distribute the greatest Rewards and Punishments That therefore thou might'st raise up Objects for these Thou hast seated us at a little distance from thee Not 〈◊〉 respect of thy Ubiquity but degree of Knowledge In Heaven thou 〈◊〉 ellest As a Bridegroom with thy Bride A Father with thy Children A King with Kings Governours and Peers Shewing and manifesting all thy Glory Unto which thou wouldst have us first to come As humble and obedient Servants That in us thou mightst see Ingenuity Thanksgiving Fidelity Wisdom Love Even to an absent Benefactor There is the Kingdom of eternal Glory Beyond which can be no Rewards The highest of all being there attained In which can be no trial Blessedness being seen with open face
to 〈◊〉 That Nature never gave to any thing a power in vain To what end therefore am I endned with these eternal Powers The similitude of thy Greatness in my Soul Infinity in my Soul Eternity in my Soul Is it not that I might live In the simili tude of thy Wisdom towards all thy Creatures Goodness towards all thy Creatures Holiness towards all thy Creatures For to nothing that is without the reach of my Comprehension Can my Thoughts extend To nothing without the sphere of my Knowledge Can I behave my self Amiably Can I behave my self Beautifully Can I behave my self Wisely To the intent therefore that being wise like thee I might be just and good to all thy Creatures And be holy towards them in all my Ways And be holy towards them in all my Thoughts And be holy towards them in all my Affections Hast thou made me thus in thy great similitude That being wise and holy towards thee and all things as I ought to be I might evermore be gloriously blessed In thy diviner Likeness To which I am created O my God! In the contemplation of my Soul I see the Truth of all Religion Behold all the Mysteries of Blessedness Admire thy Greatness Rejoyce in thy Goodness Praise thy Power Adore thy Love Am ravished with thy Wisdom Transported Pleased with the beauty of thy 〈◊〉 Who hast made me 〈◊〉 best and greatest Like thee Thine Image Friend Son Bride More than thy Throne Thy 〈◊〉 Treasure Such wonderful Power hast thou created in me That I am able to do more than my Soul durst once attempt to imagine A greater Power have I received of thee Than that of creating Worlds Could I create Worlds and not enjoy them It would be to no purpose Could I create millions of Worlds and enjoy them all I could only enjoy created things In receiving a Power To enjoy all things I am made able to enjoy even thee Who art infinitely greater Thee in every thing Every thing in thee My self in all things for evermore I have received a Power infinitely greater Than that both of Creating and Enjoying Worlds Infinitely more Blessed Infinitely more Profitable Infinitely more Divine Infinitely more Glorious O Lord I am contented with my Being I rejoyce in thine infinite Bounty And praise thy Goodness I see plainly that thy love is infinite And having made me such a Creature I will put my Trust in Thee Could I have chosen what power soever I pleased I would have chosen this A Power to Please thee A Power to Enjoy thee In all the Varieties of Works and In all the Varieties of Creatures Compared unto these A Power To Divide the Sea Turn Mountains into Gold Command the Sun Trample upon Divels Raise up the Dead With whatsoever all the fancy of man can imagine or desire Is Very feebleness Is Unprofitable Vanity Is Foolish Childishness Blessed be thy Name that thou hast given me Power to Praise thee A Power not only to Comprehend The Magnanitude Being Nature Order Place of Things Bat to love their Goodness Prize their value Delight in their Beauty Rejoyce in the Benefits which I receive from them Which is Wholly to enjoy them These things thou commandest my Soul to do That I might be Wise and Holy Yet givest me Liberty To do what I please Not that thou art careless or indifferent what I chuse But because thou wouldest make me Blessed and Glorious An Object of Delight to thine Eternal Godhead And like unto thee the Joy and Blessing of all thy Creatures Who by Loving them freely As Thou dost Delighting in their Beauty And prizing their Goodness Shall my self be Beautiful in all their eyes Thine IMAGE O Lord To thee and them a peculiar Treasure The Works thou commandest thou infinitely desirest and tellest us plainly They are better than Wine More precious than Fruits More pleasant than Spices Living Waters Even to thee our God Which satisfy the fire of thine eternal Love Being desired of thee because they are necessary To our happiness My soul O Lord doth magnify thee Because out of nothing thou hast exalted thy Servant Requiring that I should do the works which thy soul commandeth And not another That the glory of such Deeds might shine in me And the pleasure of the goodness whereby I do them That being honoured in the eyes of Angels and Men I might be enlarged by them Acknowledged Received into their bosoms Delighted in Embraced Crowned Thou makest thy Bride All Glorious within And her own Works Shall praise her in the Gates While chiefly she is beautiful To thee her God Shineth in thine Image Reigneth in thy Throne Most in thy bosom They all delight to look upon her And in every work thou requirest of her Rivers of Oyl and Wine are hidden Yea living Streams of Divine Affection Which thou more prizest then Thousands of Rams and tens of thousands of Rivers of Oyl Then Worlds though Millions of Gold and Silver The Work of Love Is the Soveraign Delight Of all the Angels The Cream and Crown of all Operations The Cause Efficient and the end of all Things The Navil Which conveys all the Joys of Heaven and Earth Into the Soul of Man The Oyl wherewith We anoint The Gold wherewith We Crown Thy Holy Angels Thy Saints Thy Son Our selves in them And thee in all A Power in this have we received O Lord To please thee more And to enrich thy Kingdom with Greater Treasure Than if Creating Worlds We presented them at thy feet At the feet of thy Saints Of every Angel They all like Thee More Desire our Good Works Than Crowns and Scepters Which are Holy Treasures In communion with Thee For ever to be enjoyed By doing them our selves we are made thine Image That we should have the Glory Of being Crowned with the Beauty Of our own Works Is not 〈◊〉 but more thy Glory Infinitely more thy Glory and Joy Most Holy Lord How infinite is thy Thirst That we should perform the thing thou desirest O Lord Thou so loved'st us That for our perfect Glory Thou didst adventure into our hands A Power of displeasing thee Which very confidence of thine ought more to oblige me than all the things in Heaven and Earth faithfully to love thee But wo is me I have sinned against thee I have sinned O Lord And put an Object before thee Which thou infinitely hatest An ugly Object Of infinite 〈◊〉 From which it is impossible Thou should'st turn away thine eyes And hadst thou not loved me With a greater Love Than all this I must like Lucifer Have 〈◊〉 into the Pit Of eternal Perdition But thou hast redeemed me And therefore with Hallelujahs Do I praise thy Name Recourting the ancient Glories Which thou 〈◊〉 in my Soul And 〈◊〉 That infinitely more is left unsaid O my God Sanctify me by thy Spirit Make me a Temple of the Holy Ghost A willing Person in the day of thy Power Let my Saviour's Incarnation be
up in order unto thee When I would declare and speak of them they are more than can be numbred Psal. 40. 5. When I leave the Earth And ascend to thy Throne To see thy Glory above the Heavens There I am ravished with amazement and joy To see thy Love More great to thy Servant Than if thou hadst loved none besides Thou Sun of Righteousness Life and Glory Who gav'st thy self wholly to every Soul How wonderful are the Riches of thy manifold Wisdom Giving All things to One More than if they were given to him alone The Rays of the Sun Which shine in my eyes I know to be mine But those that fly to the utmost Stars That go to the Mountains Shine upon the Moon Are scattered and dispersed Over all the Heavens Seem to forsake me And fly wholly to other places Yet beautify the World And make me Possessor of all its glories They reflect again And closing in mine eye Cause me to see even all thy Glories Did that glorious Orb Of embodied Light Direct all his Beams to me I could not see him So perfectly as now If uniting into one they scorch'd me not A night of darkness Would still surround me The Heavens and the Earth Would to me be lost The beauty of all the Creatures be Buried in a Grave The World a Dungeon round about me Nor do those Rays which seem to leave me Illuminate alone They digest Gold Cherish Minerals Animate the Air Quicken Trees Excite the Influences of the very Heavens Melt the Waters Inspire living Creatures Ripen Fruits Perfect Flowers Raise Exhalations Cause the Rivers Begetting Propagating Enlivening all those Creatures Cherishing all those Creatures Preserving all those Creatures That are the life and beauty of my Habitation Thou hast created Cherubims Thou hast created Saints Thou hast created Angels Like Suns they shine Like Stars they serve Like Jewels they adorn Thy celestial Kingdom Their Beauty Love Melody Wisdom Order Goodness Ministry Power Their Thrones Joys and and Crowns Praises Make them like thee Whose Image they bear My supremest Treasures And me they serve As perfect Joys While I to them am made a Glory Hadst thou loved me and none besides Those glorious Hosts had never been Of those my Joys my soul had been bereaved More than thy self Hast thou given me In giving me beside thy self Those thine Images In every one of those As the Sun shineth both naked to mine eye Again in a mirror Hast thou given me thy self A second time But O the vast the 〈◊〉 the unconceivably sufficient and endless Powers Of mine immortal Soul That are able to enjoy thee Wholly in thy self Wholly in thy Son Wholly in each of all thine Hosts In advancing whom to the highest Thrones Thou hast employed thy Goodness Thou hast employed thy Wisdom Thou hast employed thy Power To enrich thy Servant With The Chief of Beings With Living Temples With Glorious Hosts With Second Selves With Inestimable Mirrors With Fellow-Members With Divinest Treasures In Communion with whom By all their Knowledge and Love enlarged I shall ever see thy glorious self In the unsearchable Excesses Of eternal Love Infinitely more than infinite In Glory for evermore Goodness for evermore Wisdom for evermore Blessedness for evermore Hadst thou created none but me alone And made me the Temple Of thine eternal Godhead In giving me thy self thy Bounty would be infinite In raising such Kings to love and see me Who are each thine Image Who are each thine Friend and Who are each thine Son Thy Love is more By giving me thy self In each of them Infinitely insinite O Lord I am transported With the Excesses of thy Love By making them thy Likeness As thou gavest me thy self Thou givest me them Employing all thy Wisdom Employing all thy Goodness Employing all thy Power In making them thine Image That in the Likeness of thy Glory That in the Likeness of thy Love and That in the Likeness of thy Blessedness They might be to me What my God is Each one A shining Light Each one An exceeding Joy Each one A Fountain of living Waters Each one A Royal Diadem Each one A Crown of Glory Thou hast given me thy self Again and again in each of those Especially by making me to them What thou art A Lover of their Happiness A Rejoycer in their Joy A Delighter in their Glory Thanksgivings for the Blessedness of God's Ways TO him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood And hath made us Kings and priests to God and his Father To him be Glory and Dominion for ever and ever Amen Rev. 1. 5 6. Thou Lord art one and the same for ever LOVE ETERNAL more Thy Goodness infinite Thy Bounty omnipresent Thy Wisdom enriching every gift Making every Creature an endless Treasure Making every Thought and Action an endless Treasure Only we Are blind and dead and dull and foolish Only we Apostate Enemies careless Wanderers Only we Banishing our selves Only we Accustomed only to narrow things Like Runnagates we dwell in a dry Land And see not the Mysteries of thy holy Courts The inward Beauty of all thy Creatures Because we loath the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge Restore thine Image Recall our Minds Enable us in thy Likeness To enjoy thy Works To see thy Wonders Possess the Worlds Delight in thy Laws Feel our selves Admire thy Riches Wean us O Lord from Vain Treasures Little Treasures Useless Treasures False Treasures Dead Treasures Unprofitable Treasures And elevate our Souls To thee and thine Make us acquainted Our Thoughts paralel Our Affections present Our Imaginations busie constant familiar With great things wide things fathomless things eternal things Thy Bride thy Son Thy Dominion over Ages The glory of thy Kingdom Which Includeth all Which Endureth for ever Teach us thy ways upon Earth Which are infinitely Holy Which are infinitely Sweet Which are infinitely Glorious Which are infinitely Delightful Which are infinitely Beautiful Transforming all that look upon them Exalting those that are busie in them Concerning all Reaching unto all To every Soul in Heaven and Earth From every Region From every Age and From every Kingdom O my Lord thou art in every thing Divine Wise Blessed Holy Heavenly Glorious Because in every thing thou overflowest 〈◊〉 to all Art infinite in Goodness in all thy Ways Infinitly Communicative of all thy Goodness Granting it wholly to all thine hosts In every thing wholly to every person In every place Every way For every End By him in thy Likeness wholly to be enjoy'd Whom thou constitutest likewise And appointest to be heir Of all that Goodness communicated unto all Recollecting the same And causing it to rest in him alone Yea not to rest But with greater joy From him to overflow To all thine Armies Let the same mind be in us that was also in Christ Jesus Phil. 2. Who is gone before us to prepare a mansion In the beavens for us 10. 14. Teach us by Wisdom To enjoy
all things as he enjoyeth them Goodness To enjoy all things as he enjoyeth them Love To enjoy all things as he enjoyeth them In thy Likeness In Communion with Thee As Sons and Heirs As Kings and Priests As Brides and Friends As Coheirs with Christ As Partakers of the Divine Nature To the Praise of thy Glory To the Joy of thy Son By the Power of thy Spirit Dwelling in us Let him who is the Light of the World Be insinitly Profitable unto us The Light of Life to quicken our Sence The Light of Love to enflame with Goodness The Light of Knowledge to open our eyes O the Joy and Treasure of our Souls Jesus our Saviour Christ the anointed of the Lord Anointed for and given to us Thou artthe Purchaser of all our Glory And thy fruition of it The great Example Teaching us to enjoy it How were thine Affections here upon earth Present with all Families Present with all Kingdoms Present with all Ages Of what Esteem was every Soul in all the World By being the Image of thy Fathers Person Thou art thy self the brightness of his Glory His Son The Heir of all things Heb. 1. 〈◊〉 2 3. And the Glory which he hath given thee Thou hast give unto us Job 17. 22. O let us all with open Face beholding as in a glass the Glory of the Lord be transformed into the same Image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 13. 18. Make us to understand the Power which thou hast given us to become the Sons of God Teach us to use it For now are we the Sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know when he doth appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 Jo. 3. 2. Thy Father needeth not The Heavens or the Earth The Seas or Stars The Clouds or Trees or Fields or Rivers For us he made them and Enjoyeth them only by his 〈◊〉 Goodness And love unto us He needeth not Cherubims He needeth not Angels He needeth not Men Being insinitely Blessed Without beginning His goodness enjoyeth them Only by this he exalteth them to Glory His Goodness enjoyeth them By making them Blessed And by the pleasure he taketh To see them sitting Like God himself In the Throne of Heaven His Goodness only needeth them And it is his Glory that his Goodness needeth them That God from all Eternity should infinitely Delight in exalting others Create them out of nothing Make them his Image By Almighty Power Give himself to one By infinite Love Communicate himself wholly to all his Hosts By eternal Wisdom That having no use of them But meerly to imploy his Goodness Advance them and Crown them He should infinitely desire to see them blessed This is his Glory Whose Goodness is his Wisdom For by that doth he inherit all his Works His Blessedness also For so good he is that himself is crowned In every Creature Himself enjoyeth the happiness of Angels Infinitely delighteth in the Blessedness of Men And by the way of Eminence Includeth all things Being therefore himself the object of Delight The exceeding Joy Ps. 43. Of all his Creatures His Goodness is so great That then he most enjoyeth himself When he is enjoyed He loveth to be seen and delighted in To be the Glory Joy and Treasure Of all his Hosts He loveth to be delighted in Because he delighteth To be The Sun of every Eye The crown of every head The Jewel and the Joy of Every Bosom Who when he is the object of all our Joy The delight of Angels The Ineffable Fathomless Eternal Object of all Delight To all his Creatures To all his Kingdoms To all his Ages Is then himself in eternal Glory Our Author and our End Enjoying himself By that which is himself His infinite Goodness Our Joy and Blessedness O then why should not we Ponder upon the Goodness Of our Author and our End And imitate the Goodness Upon which we ponder Since as he is our Author by doing all Things for us So he is our End by calling us to contemplate what he hath done Especially what he is Whose Love is his Blessedness Since as thou O Father enjoyest all things In creating us to Glory Thine eternal Son enjoyth all things In Redeeming them for us And us for them And by the joy that he taketh In seeing us attain The End of our Redemption Yea since the Holy Ghost by Goodness enjoyeth all Things In his Elect People When having healed their Rebellion He notwithstanding their Wilfulness Openeth their Eyes Dwelleth in them Guideth their Thoughts Enliveneth their Hearts Giveth them Power And maketh them by his Grace To enjoy God In all his Works Ways Counsels Thoughts and Attributes Since goodness in the Father Since goodness in the Son and Since goodness in the Holy Ghost Are Wisdom Glory Are Peace and Blessednes Why should not we by Goodness alone Be fraught with Wisdom Glory Be fraught with Peace Blessedness And enjoy all things as God doth By delighting in his Blessedness In the Blessedness of Christ our Lord In the Blessedness of God the H. Ghost In the Blessedness of Angels and Men Especially since the Blessed of God and them is Goodness indeed the Delight which they take in our happiness O Goodness inessable Who never more expressest thy Goodness Than by making Creatures like Thee Sovereign and supreme in Goodness Restore us by thy Son and thy Holy Spirit By the Merits of the one By the Working of the other To the similitude of that Goodness Whereby thou enjoyest thy self in all things Enable us to delight in thee our God For loving us so Gloriously To delight in thy Highness In the Blessedness of thy Son In the Godhead and Blessedness of the H. Ghost In the Joy of Angels Cherubims That our selves in thy Likeness and Men May be the Joy and Blessedness Of all thy Hosts Thy Blessedness O Lord in all thy Creatures The Crown of thy Works The Centre of thy Beams The Temple of thy Goodness Thy peculiar Treasures For by this O Lord shall we Reign in Glory And now most holy Father I crave strength Eternally to perform my great desire Of Glorifying Thee Praising Thee Blessing Thee For all the Riches of thine eternal Love In the Redemption of the World Had I not seen the Excellence of thy Goodness In giving thy Son I should never have understood That thou givest us all things Had I not seen the Excellence of thy Love In giving all Things In making them Meet to be heavenly Treasures And giving us Powers endless to enjoy them I could scarcely have believed The giving of thy Son But now with Joy I praise thy glorious Name Because having made me In the best of manners Which is in thine Image To enjoy all things I know thou hast Redeemed me By the Death of thy Son And feel in my self a Nature answerable to the greatness
of his Passion And since I am Redeemed by the Death of thy Son Know that I am made to inherit all things Rom. 8. 32. Give me Power therefore To overcome all Opinions Of the World Ways Of the World Customs Of the World Censures Of the World Who err in thy Kingdom From the way of Blessedness Since thou hast promised He that overcometh shall inherit all things And I will be his God and he shall be my Son Rev. 21. 7. In Jesus Christ let me sit down with thee in the heavenly Places Glory with thine Inheritance Enjoy thy People thy peculiar Treasure Prize thy Love unto mankind Delight in the Beauty of thy celestial Bride See thy Joys And take pleasure in them in all Ages Because Jesus Christ enjoyeth them all He bought them with a price Let me delight in his Happiness above mine own Let his Happiness be to me Not only mine But more than mine ten thousand fold Here upon Earth let it be my Joy That He Dwelleth in Heaven The Angels and Cherubims sing his Glory All Power in Heaven and Earth Is put into his hands He shall come in the Clouds of Heaven and in all the Glory of his Fathers Angels and shall judge The Quick and the Dead He shall enjoy his Bride the Church triumphant for evermore Thee in them Them in Thee All these let me O Lord enjoy in him Here on Earth Above in Heaven Let the miraculous Excellency of his eternal LOVE Open the gate of Wonder to me Liberty to me Difficulty to me The gate of Glory The gate of Triumph The gate of Invincible Peace The gate of Unchangeable Goodness The gate of Beauty and Delight By teaching me to love as he loveth The Souls of Men Of the worst of Men More than my self Tho the more I love The less I be loved Tho they Hate me Tho they Persecute me Tho they Kill me Let my Love be Immortal Let my Love be Sovereign Let my Love be Divine Let my Love be Invincible The Master point of Art In Christian Religion Which my Saviour taught on the Cross From the Chair of his Profession Let me learn O Lord with zeal and joy The love of Souls triumphed Over the love of his own Life His hands and feet his heart and head Were all opened Even to the last drop of blood For us Enemies For us Rebels For us Felons Let his O Lord be the Rule of mine Who valueth a Soul above the world Dying for my Soul Thou shewedst that my Soul was dearer to thee Then thine own Life O my Lord make me like thee A Son of God In my love to Sinners Thy self worth many worlds thou gavest for sinners And whatsoever love I bear to thee thou hast by Deed enrolled and set it over unto others What glorious Treasures shall I possess When all these are so esteemed Nevertheless O Lord Let my love be Genuine Divine and Free And for the delight I take To rescue and to save them To exalt and crown them Let me pour out my self My Spirit Soul and Blood My Time Labour Health Estate Life and all O'tis Heavenly Divine Angelical The glorious Victory over all the world Is love continuing beyond unkindness Fill my love with the Zeal of thine Like thine O Lord I desire it should be A flame of thirsting Industry Out living hatred Over all Unkindness Over all Ingratitude Over all Perversness An eternal Triumph Ever lively Always conversant in the highest Altitude O my God do not deny me Forgive my former Flatness Forgive my former Intermissien Forgive my former Deadness Let me love every Person as Jesus Christ Meet his love and thine O Lord In every Person It is my desire Lord That my love to Men should be so strong That I may love Jesus Christ For loving them Enlarge my Soul To the love of Cities Counties Kingdoms Throughly settled in the love of Christ. The Virtue that shineth Brightest in his Example And standeth highest in his Commendation O learn me this and the whole is learned Learn me this the Divine Art And the Life of God! Desire Heroic Courage Long Suffering Compassion Forwardness Activity Everlasting and most lively Diligence Grant unto me in calling Souls So will I sing and praise thy Name Being one with Thee To Everlasting O what great Things dost thou permit a Worm To ask of Thee Grant it for his sake Who became a Curss for me Sin for me Awaken Sinners Give us to understand The infinite fervor and zeal of thy Love Who having prepared for us Heaven and Earth Angels and Men Thy self and all things Redeemed us by the Blood of thine eternal Son Called us by thy Prophets Martyrs and Apostles Desired to seat us in eternal Glory And left us to our selves only for this That we may satisfie thy Will In imitating thee Voluntarily and freely With the best of Actions Dost infinitly delight to see us Blessed And enjoy thy self When we O God are by thee enjoyed Give us to remember How that Love of thine Is the Fountain of thy Patience And long Suffering towards us To see it daily How it burneth for us How unchangeably thou Delightest To Communicate thy Goodness To Glorifie thy Bounty To Distribute thy Treasures To Reposire thy Blessedness In our Souls How infinitely thou lovest To To see thy similitude in our Natures To Enjoy thy self as given unto us To Admire thy workmanship in our Glory To Feel in us thine eternal Blessedness Behold thy Creatures whom thou so lovest Crowned with glory and honor Ps. 8. 4. In the throne of heaven Rev. 30. 20. And since nothing can hinder us But sordid baseness In contemning thy Treasures Let our acknowledgment of thy Goodness And love of it Burn day and night Like unto thine That being strengthened with Might by thy Holy Spirit in our inward Man Christ may dwell in our Hearts by Faith That we being rooted and grounded in Love May be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and heigth And to know the Love of Christ which passeth Knowledge that we may be silled with with all the fulness of God NOW to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the Power that worketh in us Unto him be Glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all Ages world without end Amen Ephes. 3. 20. 21. A KEY to the Gate Of Wonder NOthing being more Wonderful than an invincible Lover triumphant over Injuries Of Liberty Being entred therein we walk at large with unlimited Freedom in Gods Commandments Of difficulty Because nothing at first is more contrary to Nature But Gods Example hath made it easie Of Glory The Glory of Christ is his Love of Sinners Whom whosoever imitateth in the universality of it he is a Son of God Of Triumph Death Hell unkindness temptationt rampled under foot Of invincible Peace Nothing can offend them Of 〈◊〉
Goodness Nothing can discourage them Of Beauty and delight They are amiable in the Eye of God and Angels and ravished with security in the heights of Triumph Thanksgivings for the Blessedness of his LAWS GIve unto the Lord O ye Mighty give unto the Lord Glory and Strength Give unto the Lord the Glory due unto his Name Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness Ps. 29. 1 2. O that my Ways were directed to keep thy Statutes Ps 119. 5. I will praise thee with uprightness of Heart when I shall have learned thy Righteous Judgments Ps. 119. 7. I will delight my self in thy Statutes I will not forget thy Word Ps. 119. 16. Thy Testimonies O God are my Delight and my Counsellors Ps. 119. 24. O my God! Teach thy Servant to walk upon Earth In thy Similitude Open mine Eyes that I may behold wonderous Things out of thy Law Ps. 119. 18. Thy Laws O God Are greater Tokens of thy Love to me Than Heaven and Earth In them I see the Mirrour of the Mind In them I see the Beauty of the Love In them I see My Crown of Glory O how hast thou Magnified me thy Servant In thine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O Lord thou Tenderest my Happiness As the apple of thine Eye Commanding all others to love me As they love themselves Thou makest my Person sacred in the world Hedgest in my safety By thy holy Laws Wilt have no man to approach me But with Love and Reverence My Life My Honor My Estate and Goods My Soul My Body My dear Relations And dearest Friends My Ease My Peace My Joy Thy Laws Those Bulwarks of my Repose and Pleasure So wholly dignisie and exalt thy servant As if they had been made for me alone Should thy Goodness design to make a Creature The greatest imaginable The highest above the Cherubim The most Glorious among the Angels Thy Son thy Friend Thy Bride thine Image What greater Laws in favour of it could thy Wasdom provide than that upon pain of eternal 〈◊〉 all Angels Cherubim and Men should love that Creature as they love themselves What can he withhold that 〈◊〉 as himself With that Love thou hast given me Persons Honors Riches Houses Arts Hearts Abilities Their Beauty Strength Authority Vineyards Fields Gold and Silver And which is more than all hast compassed me about With all the Powers in Heaven and Earth Angels and Men For my Preservation Yea For my Delight Enlargement Honor Glory Nor can any thing but the intervening Rebellion of Men eclipse or hinder thine Eternal Bounty Thou hast made me to live In the Temple of their Soul To reign with thee In the Throne of their Minds Encompassed not with skies But blessed Affections I thank thee O Lord and praise thy Name for all the Consolation of thy holy Laws As if I alone Were the only Person for whom All things were made They are all commanded Angels and Men to love and take Care of me All other things to minister unto me All to magnisie please and delight me While I see thy Goodness Laying all the obligations In Heaven and Earth Upon Angels and Men to be kind to me And crowning their Obedience with the Same Rewards Where with thou rewardest their love to thee It is impossible they should proceed from any other than the infinite Ocean of eternal Love I bless thee more For commanding me to love all others Than for commanding them to love me In this O my God Thy Laws are not only The hedge of my Repose And steps unto my Throne But the Light of mine Eyes And the Crown of my Glory The Physick of my Soul And Rules of my Transformation To the Image of thy Blessedness Thy Laws are a Light to my feet and a Lamp to my 〈◊〉 Ps. 119. 105. The SUN is a glorious Light Whose Beams are most Welcom Whose Beams are most Necessary Whose Beams are most Useful To me and all the Sons of Men But thy Laws surpass the light of the Sun As much as that of a Gloe-worm Being the Light of Glory Teaching us to live On Earth in Heaven O how I love thy Law It is my Meditation all the Day Thou through thy Commandments hast made me wiser than my Enemies for they are ever with me I have more Understanding than all my Teachers for my Testimonies are my Meditation I understand more than the Ancients because I keep thy Precepts Ps. 119. 97 c. And I must confess O Lord to the honor of thy great Name that Thy Laws in commanding others to love me have made all things mine that commend their love Their Oyl and Wine their Jewels Palaces Gold and Silver Heaven and Earth yea all the things that magnifie them are mine O Lord because the Ornaments of those Persons whom thy Laws command to love me as themselves Thy Laws are my Purveyors And in shewing me the sincerity of thine Eternal Love The Right of my Joys All things in Heaven and Earth they 〈◊〉 To be mine Even Thee my God The Fountain of them all The Soveraignty and Authority Whereby thou makest Laws They shew to be mine And ravish me both here And in Heaven for ever But in commanding me to love Angels and Men They teach me to live In the Similitude of God And are the inward Health And Beauty of my Soul Marrow Wine and Oyl WITHIN They teach me to live in the Similitude of thy Glory Shew me thine inward Goodness Make me a Joy and Blessing unto all THINE INWARD GOODNESS Is among all thy Treasures Thy best Delight While I possess that I am made The Tabret and the Song of thy chosen People The Jewel of thy Saints Joy of the Cherubim The Crown of Glory and a Royal Diadem To thy Holy Angels To thee my God a peculiar Treasure I marvel at the Divinity of thine eternal WISDOM Who environest me with Glory In the midst of all Fruitions Making me a Joy to all others While they are so to me There is an end of all Perfection but thy Commandments is exceeding broad Ps. 119. 96. The World which thou hast made Is the City of our God The Streets are Ages And every Soul a Temple in it In which thou O my God rakest delight to Dwell Thy Laws are the Statutes enjoyning My Affections to all the Citizens The Inhabitants of the World So glorious are thy Laws They are the Canons of thy Bounty The Rule of Life The enlargement of my Soul My Peace and Liberty I will run the ways of thy Commandments when thou saith enlarge my heart Ps. 119. 32. O Lord they be The best of Laws Command the best of all possible Works Lead us to the highest of all possible Rewards Teach us to live in the Similitude of God Advance us to thy Throne Guide us in the paths of Blessedness Make us the sovereign End of all Things More than the Sole final and comprehensive Teaching us to love Thee more than our selves Derive into our
Ps. 119. 103. I opened my mouth and panted for I longed for thy Commandments Ps. 119. 131. Blessed art thou O Lord teach me thy Statutes Ps 119. 12. They make us blessed By teaching our Souls to imitate thee At midnight will I rise up to give thanks unto thee for thy Righteous Judgments Ps. 119. 62. I will delight in thy Law I will speak of thy Testimony before Kings I will meditare in thy Statures They satiate the Powers of our immortal Soul Ambition with the Honor of all the Angels Coveroushess with the Riches of Heaven and Earth Love with the goodness of God all things Make us fit for the Throne of Glory By making us a Joy to all Angels Kingdoms Ages O give me Understanding and I shall keep thy Law yea I shall observe it with my whole heart Ps. 119. 34. O Lord I beseech thee give me love unto thy Laws Delight in thy Laws Meditation on thy Laws Right Understanding of thy Laws And entire obedience unto thy Laws If my delight had not been in thy Law I had perished in my Trouble Hallelujab Thanksgivings for the Beauty of his Providence THY Mercy O Lord is in the Heavens and thy Faithfulness reacheth unto the Clouds Thy Righteoushess is like the great Mountains thy Judgments are a great Deep O Lord thou preservest Man and Beast How excellent is thy loving Kindness O God therefor the Children of Men put their trust under the shadow of thy Wings They shall abundantly be satisfied with the fatness of thy House and thou shalt make them drink of the River of thy Pleasures For with thee is the Fountain of Life and and in thy Light shall we see Light O continue thy loving Kindness to them that kdow thee and thy Righteousness to the upright in heart Let not the foot of Pride come against me and let not the hand of the Wicked remove me There are the workers of Iniquity faln they are cast down and shall not be able to arise Ps. 36. Let us with all the Saints in the Church Triumphant Sing The Song of Moses the servant of God And The Song of the Lamb Saying Great and Marvelous are thy Works Lord God Almighty Just and true are thy Ways thou King of Saints Let their Beauty ravish us Let their Farness delight us Let their Goodness enrich us Let their Wisdom please us Let their Abundance transport us Let them ever be such in our Eyes as they are in thine Whose Delights have been in the habitable Parts of the Earth among the Children of Men. O Lord I delight in thee For making my Soul so wholly Active So prone to Imployment So apt to Love That it can never rest nor cease from thinking I praise thee with Joy For making it so wide that it can measure Ages See thine Eternity And walk with thee in all thy Ways It must be busie And it is happy for me Thou hast made it a LIFE like thine O God All Activity Its Rest is Imployment and its Ease is Business Teach me the best and fairest Business Teach my Soul to walk with thee By thinking Wisely Upon all thy Doings Let me never rust in 〈◊〉 or Sloth Nor sleep in Death Nor 〈◊〉 my self with Vanity Nor 〈◊〉 my self thorow with needless Fears or Sorrows We are always Desolate while our Souls are Idle But when our Thoughts are employed far and near upon then glorious Objects then are we encompassed with Festivals of Joy Solemnities and 〈◊〉 Blessed be thou O Lord And for ever Blessed be thy glorious Name For preparing for us in all Ages Perfect Treasures THE WORKS OF THY RIGHTEOVSNESS Are more pleasant to Angels Than apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver O Lord let me be in all my Solitudes As a Jeweller among thy Jewels As a Perfumer among thy Odors As a Servant among thy Treasures As a Son among thy Servants Thine Image and thine Heir Among all thy Works in all Kingdoms and Nations In the dead time of the Night In my greatest Retirements Let all thy Works be neer unto me All thy Ways Thy Wonders Thy Revelations from Heaven Thy MERCIES Thy JUDGMENTS My familiar Joys Let them fill me with Company when I am most alone Fill me with Delights Surround me with Beauty Turn my Retirements into Songs My Days into Sabbaths My Darkness into Day Or into a Night of Joy as in the solemn Assemblies For enflaming my Soul with the Thirst of Happiness For shewing me its Objects and the manner of Enjoying them For causing me to prefer Wisdom above hidden Treasure and to search for her as for Gold and Silver I Bless and Praise thy H. Name The Desire satisfied is a Tree of Life Had I never thirsted I should never 〈◊〉 valued nor enjoy'd WISDOM I know by experience that she is better that Rubies And all the things I can desire are not to be Compared with her She putteth on my head an ornament Of Grace A crown of Glory she giveth to 〈◊〉 Prov. 4 9. Maketh me a possessor of all thy Joys Bringeth me to the Store-house of thine everlasting Riches 〈◊〉 me in Paradice Surroundeth me with Flowers Yea with all the Delights in the Garden of God May Lillies compare with the Souls of Men Perfumes with Virtues Gold with Affections Crowns with Ages Temples Cities Kingdoms are in my ways Coronations Triumphs Victories surround my Feet No ways strewed with Lillies Pearls and Diamonds can equal these I. These sweeter far Lillies are No Roses may with these compare How these excel No Tongue can tell Which he that well and truly knows With praise and joy he goes How great and happy 's he that knows his Ways To be divine and heavenly Joys To whom each City is more brave Than Walls of Pearl and Streets which Gold doth pave Whose open Eyes Behold the Skies Who loves their Wealth and Beauty more Than Kings love golden Ore II. Who sees the heavenly antient Ways Of GOD the Lord with Joy and Praise More than the Skies With open Eyes Doth prize them all yea more than Gems And Regal Diadems That more esteemeth Mountains as they are Than if they Gold and Silver were To whom the SUN more pleasure brings Than Crowns and Thrones and Palaces to Kings That knows his Ways To be the Joys And Way of God These things who knows With Joy and Praise he goes The Souls of Men and Holy Angels are my delights How endless are thy Treasuries How wide thy Mansions How delectable my Joys Many millions of Miles from hence The Sun doth serve me The Stars many thousand Leagues beyond the Sun The morning Stars and Sons of God Abundantly beyond them all Nor is there any Bounds of my Habitarion The inestimable Presence of Almighty God Endlesly extendeth protracting my Joys And with an Eye from Infinity Beholdeth my Soul The Sun of Righteousness is my perfect Joy Mine Understanding seeth him In the highest Heavens In every moment I see Eternity Conceived
in its Womb In every moment an infinity of Joys Thy Ways O my God are infinitely Delicious From the beginning until now Blessed be thy Name whose infinite Wisdom Blessed be thy Name whose infinite Goodness Blessed be thy Name whose infinite Power Are in every thing Magnified Are in every thing Perfectly exalted Towards all thy Creatures Thy Condescention in creating the Heavens And the Earth Is wholly Wonderful Thy Bounty to Adam To me in him Most Great and Infinite Blessed be thy Name for the Employment thou gavest him More Glorious than the World To see thy Goodness Contemplate thy Glory Rejoyce in thy Love Be Ravish'd with thy Riches Sing thy Praises Enjoy thy Works Delight in thy Highness Possess thy Treasures And much more Blessed be thy H. Name For Restoring me by the Blood of Jesus To Thy glorious Works To Those blessed Emploments It is my Joy O Lord to see the Perfection of thy Love towards us in that Estate The Glory of thy Laws The Blessedness of thy Works The Highness of thine Image The Beauty of the Life that there was to be led In Communion with Thee Those intended Joys are mine O Lord In thee my God In Jesus Christ In every Saint In every Angel But the glorious Covenant so graciously renewed O the Floods the Seas the Oceans Of Honey and Butter contained in it So many thousand Years since my standing Treasure O reach me to Esteem it O reach me to Reposite it in my Family As that which by its Value is made sacred Infinitely Sacred because infinitely Blessed How ought our first Fathers To have esteemed that Covenant To have laid it up for their Childrens Children As the choicest Treasure The Magna Charta of Heaven and Earth By which they held their Blessedness The Evidence of their Nobility The antient Instrument of their League with God Their pledge claim to eternal Glory The sacred Mystery of all their Peace But they Apostatized and provoked thy Displeasure Sixteen hundred and fifty six Years Till thou did'st send a Flood that swept them away Yet did'st thou give them The Rite of Sacrificing The Lamb of God To betoken his Death From the beginning of the World Shewedft them thy Glory And that of Immortality By Enochs Translation Of which me also hast thou made the heir In the midst of Judgments thou hadst mercy on Noah And saved'st us both In an ARK by Water That Ark is mine Thy Goodness gave it me By preserving my Being and Felicity in it It more serveth me there where it is 〈◊〉 Than if all its Materials were now in my In that Act did'st thou reveal thy Glory As much as by the Creation of the World itself Reveal thy Glory to me and by many such Dispel the foggs of Ignorance and 〈◊〉 That else would have benighted And drowned my Soul The Rainbow is a Seal Of thyrenewed Covenant For which to day I praise thy Name As for the wicked They revolted back from the Life of God But the holy Sages brightly shined Whom thy Goodness prepared To be the Light of the World Melchisedec North 〈◊〉 himself In whom thy Goodness Blessed Me thy Servant In whom thy Goodness Blessed And all Nations Whom thy Goodness chiefly Blessed by making a Blessing When the World would have extinguished Knowledge And have lost thy Covenant Thou heldest the Clew and maintained'st my Lot and sufferedst not all to perish for ever Out of the Loins of thy beloved Thy Glory form'd a Kingdom for thy self Govern'd by Laws Made famous by Miracles 〈◊〉 by Mercy 's Taught from Heaven 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of Witness thou dwelledst among them Thy Servant David in most Solemn 〈◊〉 sang Thy Praises Thy Glory appeared in Solomon's Temple But more in his Wisdom And the Prosperity of thy People Thy Prophers in their order ministred to us The concealed Beauty of thy Ceremonies Is wholly mine To me they exhibit in the best of Hieroglyphicks JESUS CHRIST The Glory of their Ministery Service and Expectation For two thousand Years is my Enjoyment For my sake and for thy Promise sake Did thy goodness forbear When their Sins had provoked Thee To destroy them wholly How did thy Goodness in the time of Distress Watch over them for Good When like a Spark in the Sea They were almost wholly Extinguished In the Babilonish Waves How Lord did'st thou Work in that Night of Darkness Making thy Glory and the Glory of Love More to appear Then was 〈◊〉 Welfare turning upon the hinge Our Hope gasping for a little Life Our Glory brought to the pits brink And beyond the possibility of human remedy Endangered in the Extinction of that Nution How then did thy Power shine In making Nehemiah the Kings Cupbearer Hester Queen Mordecai a Prince The three Children cold in the furnace Daniel Lord chief President of 127 Provinces Zorobbabel and Ezra especial favorites And in sending thy people home Without any Ransom That the influence of thy promise Might surely descend And our Saviour arise out of Davids Loins Be born at Bethlehem Crucified at Jerusalem According to the Prophesies That went before concerning him Blessed Lord I magnific thy holy Name For his Incarnation For the Joy of the Angels that sang his praises For the Star of his Birth For the Wise men's Offerings that came from the East For the Salutation of thy handmaid Mary For the Ravishing Song of the blessed Virgin For the Rapture and Inspiration of Zacharias thy Servant For the Birth of John our Saviours forerunner O Lord Who would have believed that such a worm as I should have had such Treasures In thy celestial Kingdom In the Land of Jury 3000 miles from hence So great a Friend such a Temple Such a Brest plate Glittering with Stones of endless price Such Ephod Mytre Altar Court Priest and Sacrifices All to shew me my Lord and Saviour By the Shining Light of nearer Ages By the Universal consent of many Nations By the Most powerful Light of thy blessed Gospel See that remoter in the Land of Jury More clearly to shine The universal Good which redounded to all Is poured upon me The root being beautified by all its branches The fountain enriched and made famous by its streams Their Temple Sacrifices Oracles Scriptures Ceremonies Monuments of Antiquity Miracles Transactions Hopes Have received credit and magnificence by successes By the Lustre Authority and Glory By the Conviction of Ages By the Acknowledgment of Sages By the Conversion of Philosophers By the Of Flourishing Cities Empires 〈◊〉 and mighty States All which enamel the Book of God And enrich it more for mine exaltation The very Trees and Fruits and Fields and Flowers that did service unto them Flourished for me And here I live Praising thy Name For the silencing of Oracles And the flight of Idolatry For demolishing the Temple When its Service ended For permitting the Jews In severity to them For permitting the Jews In mercy to me To kill my Saviour For
shall I be delighted in all thy Glory And be so much pleased as if thou went only glorified for my sake And all thy Sons that glorify thee shall be my Treasures O give me grace here upon Earth to glorify thee To be tender of thine Honour and to delight in thy Praises Since at all this expence thou magnifiest thy Friend and makest me so O let me not debaso my self as low as Hell by stooping down to Earthly principles but live like thee an understanding life and faithfully accomplish the work of Love O let the perfection of 〈◊〉 Essence always ravish me Who could'st never need because never be without all thy Joys Let thy loving kindness continually be before mine eyes With joy let me suffer the reproaches of thine enemies in defence of thy Glory Let it be delicious to me to die in thy service My Joy that thou Reignest blessed in Heaven No life pleases me but the similitude of God No Riches but thine O Lord. All are thine rightly understood Let nothing satisfy me but all Eternity And all within it Since men upon earth live in darkness and are infinitely beneath thy glorious ways Let me never be subject to their vain opinions but ever mindful of thee my God To walk in thy ways is to contemplate their Glory to imitate their Goodness to be sensible of their Excellency A Thanksgiving and Prayer for the NATION REmember me O Lord with the favour that thou bearest to thy people O visit me with thy Salvation That I may see the good of thy chosen that I may rejoyce in the gladness of thy Nation that I may glory with thine Inheritance O Lord my God thou hast compassed me with Mercies on every side The Fields and Valleys Being truly seen are inestimable treasures The beauty of the Skies a magnificent joy To him that was nothing Created but yesterday Taken from the Dust To Day Half an hour since This very moment Rivers Springs Trees Meadows Even dry Land it self Clouds Air Light and Rain The Sun and Stars Are wonderful works Filling me with cheerfulness Made to serve us I praise the O Lord for the delights of Eden Such are these Among which were I alone like Adam Being wise I could not be 〈◊〉 But thou hast compassed me With innumerable Treasures Pleasant for variety Of infinite value Surmounting the created World 10000. fold The World is a Case Containing Jewels A silent Stage A Theatre for Actions Made for innumerable ends In all which thy fatherly wisdom hath shewn it self But O my God empty Cases Cabinets spoiled are dum shews The Jewels O Lord and Scenes and Actions These are the Treasures which most we prize The delights we esteem The Crown of Pleasure For the sake of which Cabinets were made Theatres erected Cases valued O Lord spare thy people Spare thy people O my God! Those Jewels in thy Cabinet those Persons on thy Stage that fill the World with wonderful Actions Make me a Moses to thee them Nehemiah to thee them Ezra David to thee them Did mine interest speak Could my heart understand it Did I see the value of all my joys Rivers of Tears running down mine eyes day and night would not suffice for the slain of my People O be not wrath very sore Let mine interest enflame me But thy goodness more Let Wisdom speak that respecteth me But Love cry out with groans unutterable For thy Mercy and Long suffering Unto this my people O Lord mine will be the loss I the sufferer My Bowels torn by those Wars My Bosom the Stage of those Calamities What ever love therefore thou bearest to thy Servant whom thou hast made a little lower than the Angels And Crowned with Glory and Honour For thy Servants sake be thou gracious to thy people Visit me with the savour which thou bearest unto them Shew it O Lord in their preservation We have sinned with our Fathers we have committed iniquity we have done wickedly We understood not thy wonders Nor remembered the multitude of thy tender Mercies But provoked our God continually Both at Land and Sea Nevertheless he saved us for his own Name sake that he might make his mighty power to be known That we might see the Glory of his loving kindness And that the goodness of God might lead us to repentance But we have been all day long a stiff necked and rebellious people When thy hand is lifted up they will not see In the Land of uprightness we deal unjustly and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord. We are infinitely seared Waxed fat and unsensible And what shall we do in the end of it The Ox knoweth his Owner and the Ass his Masters Crib but Israel is a brutish People that will not consider My God hath nourished and brought up Children that have rebelled against him Ah! Sinful Nation a people laden with In iquity a seed of evil doers Children that are corrupters They have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger they are gone away backward Why should ye be stricken any more Ye will revolt more and more O my God! I see it plainly Neither Mercies will melt us Nor Judgment afright us Nothing soften nothing astonish us Nothing cause us to turn unto thee Thy Mercies we value not Under thy judgments are grown insensate Nothing less than the infinite multitude of thy tender mercies are able to bear with us any longer O my Bowels are yet lockt up Cannot ye be sensible of their Incorrigibleness Do what thou wilt in Judgment or Mercy We are Desperately bent to grow worse in Wickedness O Lord I confess the worst that can be spoken of us The worst that can be done have we atchieved Thy long suffering O God I importunately crave unto this people Of absolute Grace O thou in whose hands are the hearts of Kings to turn them as the Rivers of Water Rule the heart of thy chosen Servant our Royal Sovereign incline his Will to walk in thy way and make him thankful for evermore That in his prosperity we may walk in peace Convert him wholly unto thee O Lord Raise up Zerubbabels and Joshuahs Magistrates and Priests Careful Parents Of tender Bowels and contrite hearts That may endeavour the reformation of my peculiar people Leave a remnant always among us And for our Childrens sake that shall be born Throughout all Generations That these future Off-springs Of peculiar Treasures Whom thou infinitely esteemest May augment thy Kingdom O Lord if thou spare my life And give it me for a prey wherever I go Yet I shall be the sufferer in my peoples ruin Shall Nettles grow up in our pleasant Palaces Brambles in our Treasuries Owls and 〈◊〉 dwell in our Temples Briars and Thorns in the rubbish of our Stones O my Lord let me rather be blotted out of the Book of the living than be so bereaved Robbed of my Children Spoiled of my Glory Let them not lay
waste the heritage of the Lord Nor break down our Temples with Axes and Hammers Tread not underfoot thy mighty men In the midst of me Crush not my young men Carry not my Virgins away Captive O Lord. They respect not the persons of Priests or Elders Let not the breath of our Nostrils be taken in their pits Nor our Princes suffer the reproach of Servants Nor our Fathers be abused nor our Bodies lie as Dung upon the Ground nor our Wives be ravished nor our Children slain in the top of every Street What are all the Temples in the Land Though they should remain What the Cities Walls and Towers But silent Monuments of greater Woe If no man is inhabitant Or dwelling in them Nests of Snakes Owls and Dragons But no habitations of Joy and Melody A Salvage Indian among Rocks and Mountains Would be as happy as I in those possessions In the days of her affliction all the pleasant things that my people had of old would come into mind Increase my Melancholy And shew me the filth of her skirts in those What would their Scarlets Ermines Purple Gold and Pearl profit me in the day when they lie about me like idle ruins Though all that is in the Land were left My people gone The Joy and Life The Marrow Glory and Crown The Lustre Beauty and Delight Of all my delectable things is spoiled Forgive O Lord the ingrateful temper of my sinful people Heal O God the reprobate sence Wherewith we are perverted Open our eyes that we may see thy Treasures Admire while we have them Rejoyce in thy people Those Celestial Jewels The riches of thy bounty which thy love hath given us Nothing but the exceeding transcendent value Of thy wonderful Gifts hideth from us Thy love is lost in its own splendor Hid in its greatness Drowned in that Glory Of thine excellent Treasures The reality of thy Bounty blindeth us The freedom of thy love 〈◊〉 thy Bounty The possession of thy Wealth maketh us poor But reprobate is the blindness whereby we contemn the Gifts of God because they are common Shall nothing make us sensible of thy love But the absence of it Nothing teach us to prize thy Mercies But their removal from us O Lord the Children of my people are thy peculiar Treasures Make them mine O God even while I have them My lovely companions like Eve in Eden So much my Treasure that all other wealth is without them But Dross and Poverty Do they not adorn and beautifie the World And gratify my Soul which hateth solitude Thou Lord hast made thy Servant a sociable Creature for which I praise thy name A lover of company a delighter in equals Replenish the inclination which thy self hath implanted And give me Eyes To see the beauty of that life and comfort Wherewith those by their actions Inspire the Nations Their Markets Tillage Courts of Judicature Marriages Feasts and Assemblies Navies Armies Priests and Sabbaths Trades and Business the voice of the Bride-groom Musical Instruments the light of Candles and the grinding of Mills Are comfortable O Lord let them not cease The Riches of the Land are all the materials of my Felicity in their hands They are my Factors Substitutes and Stewards Second selves who by Trade and Business animate my Wealth Which else would be dead and rust in my hands But when I consider O Lord how they come into thy Temples fill thy Courts and sing thy Praises O how wonderful they then appear What Stars Enflaming Suns Enlarging Seas Of Divine Affection Confirming Paterns Infusing Influences Do I feel in them Who are the shining Light Of all the Land to my very Soul Wings and Streams Carrying me unto thee The Sea of Goodness from whence they came Their Rings and Jewels beautify us in adorning them Did I regard only the Fabrick of their persons Their Speech Face and Understanding To see another So infinitely exalted above all the Creatures A Divine Image more glorious than the World A second self Created besides for me to enjoy How should this transport me O Lord And if one in my solitude would be such a Treasure What O Lord is the variety of their Persons Dispositions and Actions Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound they shall walk O Lord in the Light of thy Countenance In thy name shall they rejoyce all the day and in thy righteousness they shall be exalted For thou art the Glory of our Strength and in thy favour our Horn shall be exalted For the Lord is our defence and the Holy One of Israel our King Psal. Take me not away from thy joyful sound Nor thy joyful sound from me Destroy not my people for how then shall I walk in the light of thy Countenance Should I not rust O Lord and grow dull and heavy Though I believe in Jesus Being taught it by their means Though I see him on the Cross Adore him in the Heavens And shall always remember my Friend in thy Throne Need I not Spurs Wings Enflamers O my God how often should I die were it not for these thy Glorious Hosts Yes wo is me how often do I die and fail already By intermitting the continual Fruition of thy Joys I was glad when they said vnto me let us go into the House of the Lord. But my people being removed which are The Ornaments of thy Kingdom The Beautifiers of the Land The Intelligence of Temples The Tillers of the Ground The Singers of thy praises Like David in the Wilderness should I complain As the Hart panteth after the Water Brooks so panteth my Soul after thee O God My Soul thirsteth for God for the living God when shall I come and appear before God! My Tears have been my Meat day and night while they continually say unto me Where is thy God When I remember these things I pour out my Soul in me for I had gone with the Multitude I went with them to the House of God with the voice of Joy and Praise with a Multitude that kept Holy Day Why art thou cast down O my Soul why art thou disquieted in me hope in God for I shall yet praise him for the help of his Countenance The help of thy Countenance And the light of it O Lord The sweet combinations of private love Particular friendships Carried in the Bark of our Nations welfare Will all be laid waste in its desolation Those amiable objects so full of beauty And Heavenly commerce in Angels eyes Each of whom is An incarnate Cherubim A Member of Jesus Christ A penitent Transgressor O what wonders do mine eyes behold There is more joy in Heaven for the conversion of one Sinner than for ninety nine just persons that need no repentance For every Prodigal returning unto thee There is another Jubilee and Feast in Heaven For this cause therefore return thou on high and come and Save us My Goodness extendeth not to thee but to the Saints and to the excellent
good no not one Ps. 14 2 3. They know not neither will they understand they walk on in darkness All the foundations of the earth are out of course Ps. 82. 〈◊〉 O Lord thy word testisieth What my experience seeth That the Sons of Men Err in their hearts From thy holy Ways The Glory of thy Kingdom they cannot see The Blessedness of their Estate None will regard Nor behold the Brightness of Thine eternal Treasures Nor how near they are to Thine eternal Love The glory of the Earth is Stainedby Sin Oppressed with Tares Spoiled with Briars and cursed Thorns But more with the corruptions Blindness of sinful Men. Errors of sinful Men. False Opinions of sinful Men. Wherein according to the course of this World according to the Prince of the Power of the Air the Spirit that now worketh in the Children of Disobedience They all walk In the Lusts of the Flesh In the vanity of the Mind Having the Understanding darkned Being alienated from the life of God Through the ignorance that is in them Eph. 4. 17. 18. With one consent they wander up and down To polluted streams And will not refresh their Soul With living Waters The riches of thy bounty Which with infinite liberality Thou freely givest They disregard By that means turning the world into a 〈◊〉 Wilderness Of Owls and Dragons That thirst after happiness They know not what Seek it they know not where Find it no where They seek it in Gold not in Thee In Silver In Apparel In Feasts In Houses In any thing Little Rare False Counterseit Scarce Unknown But in the high Estate to which already they are by thee exalted they find no pleasure The freedom of thy Love hideth it from their Eyes The Truth and Commonness of thy Glorious Works They cannot see The daily Continuance and presence of thy Riches maketh them despised The Greatness of thy Wealth not understood Thou preventest us With the pure Blessings of thy Goodness Their Endlesness Excellency Abundance Service Variety 〈◊〉 Compasseth us about Yet Blmdeth our Eyes They Grope in Darkness Wander in the valley of the shadow of Death Are estranged from thy Treasures Err from Thee Hope for any End of their vain Endeavours Never attain any Rest in their feigned Riches Escape imaginary Wants But still increase Conceited Poverties O Lord they have drown'd not only themselves but the world also In Destruction and Perdition Covered it with Snares With Chains of Darkness Woes and Miseries By their false Opinions False Opinions concerning Happiness Till thy Word came and shined among us That plainly sheweth The Glory of the Father Bringing us back To the true Treasures Causeth us to see That we are already exalted And that it is not by seeking what we want But by enjoying what we have That we are truly Blessed Thy Word alone Extricateth our Souls from all their Snares Our Wants are none Thou hast wrought all things already for us Were a Sun that shineth Now to be created Millions of Gold would be thought Too little His Beams more Necessary Than the approach of Angels Are now Despised Being by reason of their presence not understood They animate our Blood Beautifie the World Give light to the Day Warmth and Spirits Without them no Morning Flowers Waters Springs could be But all the World a Cave of Datkness Death and Misery Which an Angels presence cannot mend Thy Laws thy Works thy Ways Thy Revelation from Heaven The Excellencies of our Soul The Endowment of our Body Thy Tender Love Thy Truth and Faithfulness These are the Riches Thou hast prepared for the Poor For Creatures cut out of Dust and nothing To these thy Word reduced us again That shining Light Infinitely more precious and Heavenly than the SUN That Holy Fountain Of Living Waters Refresheth the Soul Even of thy Holy Angels It self is a Treasure worth innumerable Millions of Gold and Silver A Book which thou hast sent To me from Heaven To Detect the vanities of this wicked World To Guide my feet into the way of peace To Shew me the Treasures of eternal Happiness To Elevate my thoughts Purifie my heart Enlighten my eyes Refine my Soul Direct my Desires Quicken my Affections Set my Mind in frame Restore me to thine Image Call me again to Communion with Thee In all thy Goods and Treasures O Lord thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy Name It sheweth me the Greatest and Highest Things Bringeth my Soul cut of Prison Leadeth me in the Paths of Blessedness and Glory Teacheth me to ponder upon the Works of thy Hands And to Meditate upon thy Laws Day and Night To speak of the might of thy terrible Acts To talk of thy Doings O my God every Day will I bless Thee and I will praise thy Name for ever and ever Ps. 141. 2. All thy Works shall praise thee O Lord and thy Saints shall Bless the Ps. 145. 10. I will sing of Judgment and Mercy to thee O Lord will I sing And talk of all thy wondrous Works Ps. 145. 2. The Sons of Men hast thou given Me The Heavens and the Earth and all that is therein Thy manifold Wonders Ancient Miracles Laws Promises H. Oracles and Blessed Revelations In thine Image to be enjoyed Thy self and All Things The best of Treasures In the best of manners I Acknowledg thy Gift Thy Heavenly Gift And I adore the Wisdom and Glory of the Way whereby thou givest me the H. Bible To deliver me from the darkness of the disordered VVorld I needed O Lord a Book from Heaven I longed to receive it And panted after it with my Expectation Which above my Hopes Was already sent Before I was born A Book inclosing the best of Tidings the wisest Counsels the newest Revelations Heavenly Discoveries the profoundest Depths the highest Wonders the rarest Miracles the most glorious Examples the treasures of Wisdom the richest Promises the joys of God Divine Affections the greatest Encouragements Halclujahs Raptures Shewing us How Man is Magnified In Covenant with God Lord of his Works His Son and Friend Ministred to by Angels Admired by Cherubims Made for Heaven Called into the Glory of Almighty God Ordained for his Throne Redeemed by his Son Shal rise from the Dead Be made Immortal Overcome the World Be more than a Conqueror Inherit all things O Jerusalem Jerusalem Hadst thou known at least in this thy Day the things that concern thy Peace But now they are hidden from thine Eyes Had you seen Oh! ye Sons of Men the High Estate of your ample Glory how would you have been ravished Ye that are Crowned with Loving Kindness and Tender Mercies Beloved of God more than Himself Doth he not love his Son as Himself Tendered as his Eye Exalted above Angels In all things magnified by his Eternal Love as much as wisdom Goodness Power infinite could atcheive By all his Counsels Laws and Works exalted As in the Death of Jesus Christ. O my God I give thee Praise For