specialiter tamen filio yet is it notwithstanding principally attributed to the Son the work of our Redemption Matth. 1.25 because as his Word witnesseth t was his person that became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is God with us Mat. 1.23 in whom we have redemption through his bloud according to the Riches of his Grace I that onely was the Causa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both the leading and impulsive cause of all Christs woes and sufferings the sole Quare why this good Shepheard left the 99. in the Wildernesse i. the fallen Angels in their sin and punishment and died to ransom this one lost sheep mankind Well therefore may the vulgar Latin read that John 15.13 Nimia Charitas Greater love hath no man so great too great a love too great on both sides The Quare on our part being the expiating of sin Rom. 4.24 Rom. 4. and conferring of Grace 1 Cor. 1. Being hereby made unto us Wisdome 1 Cor. 1.30 and Righteousnesse Sanctification and Redemption The Riches of his Grace paid our Talents and much more will our Pence we doing our Duty in mean time and giving but all diligence 2 Pet. 1.10 2 Pet. 1. satisfied both our Eternall and our Temporall Debts to God cancelled Satans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that black Scrowle against us and is to us as the Angel to St. Peter bound in Prison as the indulgent Father to the returning Prodigall and the very good Samaritan unto the wounded Traveller For by his stripes we are healed Isai 53. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isai 53.5 1 Tim. 2.6 His we are by Ransome his by Purchase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his by Conquest John 16.33 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be of good cheer John 16.33 I have overcome the world Thus Christs sufferings were proportioned to his Person suffered in to the sins suffered for to the Good will he suffered with and for the End he suffered to all Universals and Superlatives all inexpressibles our businesse is to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conformed in some measure Phil. 3. to his Life and Death that being partakers of his sufferings we may be also of the consolation and that 's done two wayes chiefly St. Gregory Cum per abstinentiam affligitur corpus per compassionem animus We will mend it somewhat in the rendring When we beat down the body with Abstinence and Devotion and the Mind with Penitence and Compassion Sit thee down then my Soul this day and make it thy Good Friday by application that was so bad to Christ by bloudy passion Cheer up to think with how many Priviledges this day was honored viz. Sin cancelled Death subdued Hell spoyled Heaven opened Scriptures verified Man redeemed and all this by thy Saviour crucified This Meditation would allay all out Extravagancies and moderate the excesses of our former pleasures 'T would sweeten all our bitter draughts and fit us in some measure to pledge Christ in this bitter Cup if he should please to call us to that Honour as we have comfortably seen in Others This would fortifie us against the worst could happen Then let not Ignorance for shame be more busie with superstitious Figures of the Cross then true Devotion with this frequent Meditation and the more lively representations of it in the Word and Sacraments For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the Motto of every true Christian as well as Constantine Under this Banner shalt thou overcome From the QUIS the person of this glorious subject we may gather First Obedience and Compassion among many other Fruits on the Tree of the Cross Obedience to God Heb. 10.9 Psa 40. to his legitimate Vicegerents Rom. 13. And never was there such compassion Indeed 't is storied of Trajan that was stiled the Good that he tore off his own Robes all to pieces to bind up the wounds of his Loyall Souldiers and 't was a noble pitty But our great Captain here though Monarch of the World throws off his Robes of Glory and imparts them Suffereth not his Garments onely but his skin his Flesh his very Heart to be all ren and torn that through his Death we might have life though so great love hath no man yet each may gain somewhat from it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This boundlesse love of Christ with all its Distances may teach men how to stand affectioned to each other Men I say 'twixt whom unlesse in some few Transitories there is no difference as after a few years whoso looks into their Graves will find but little difference between their bones John 15.35 Love is the Christian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Ear-mark of Christs Sheep John 15. And therefore the Apostle presseth it with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 4.8 Above all things have fervent love c. 1 Pet. 4. and he gives a good Reason For love covereth a multitude of sins in utroque foro by preventing by excusing by forgiving From the QUID what our Saviour suffered we must learn Mortification and Submission Phil. 3. Crucifying the Old Man with his corrupt Affections Phil 3.10 There is a story of St. Francis that by austere meditation of the Passion he had Christs five main wounds imprinted on him and so plain that many since scarce know the one from the other and that Ignatius by the like mortification had the Holy Name of Jesus written visibly in his Heart However these may stand in credit I am sure the Apostle cannot faile who maketh Fellowship of his sufferings the best assimulation unto Christ Phil. 3. Nay Rev. 2.17 even incorporates us into his Body and writes that new Name on us Rev. 2. And for Submission remember the demeanour of this Sheep before the Shearers and let not each Triviall injury incense thee into such an usuall Fury Look on Him here who lost all but Patience and be not so crucified with a few worldly losses What ever is thy Distresse it cometh far short of His Let some of His Patience bear thee company and He that gave Himself will not deny thee succour mean time accept of his own Legacy Luke 19. without which no man is Compos animae Luke 19.21 possessor of his own Soul and we should look to that especially living in an Age wherin none knoweth how long he may possesse any thing else And now the last Circumstance the QUARE Why all this Hints us to Gratitude Emendation Comfort Magnes Amoris Amor Love is the Loadstone of Love St. Bernard Quanto pro me vilior tanto mihi charior Let not Christ ask again Where are the Nine Nor forgetfull Israel be the Type of us Disobedient at the Sea even the Red Sea Psal 106. Let us not pledge Josephs Butler in his Cup of Oblivion but David rather in his Cup of Salvation praising the Lord for his Goodnesse and declaring the wonders that he doth for the children of men
of Scripture that worship such Rom. 14.23 and 1 Cor. 8.4 and will hardly come off from self-condemnation and flat Idolatry And whether this or that other object of their worship be the worst I leave to the Readers Judgment that Divifie such as never were holy men as the * Dr Sutcliff examinat of Rom. cap. 7. Pagan souldier that pierced the side of Christ by the name of Longinus the Millenarian Papias Becket Sanders Garnet c. most or all of which stand Sainted in the Tiberine Calender I may say with one * Dr Abbot Antipol p. 3. non Martyres Domini though in charity I add not sed Mancipes Diaboli til the crowd is so great that the whole yeer hath too few days to be devoted Et tot templa Deûm Romae quot in urbe sepulchra Heroüm numerare licet But confining unto truth and modesty we understand here such Solemnities as St Austin speaks of Festa quae vel ab ipsis Apostolis vel gener alibus Consiliis instituta à toto terrarum orbe servantur Which either by the Apostles themselves a As those concerning Christ c. or by general Councels instituted b As those concerning the Apostles Epist 118. are observed throughout the Christian world and all these in their proper seasons as neer as can be aim'd at by Mortality the Substance clothed with the circumstances of the Performance and as on these good grounds so likewise for good ends we celebrate them Eccles Hist lib. 4. c. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not only as a memorial of the Dead saith Eusebius but for an holy imitation of the Living Sancti non servitute sed charitate honorandi would all of Durandus his side were as ingenuous in that The blessed Saints are not to be honoured with any worship either of Invocation or Adoration but only with love and the charity of Imitation which indeed calls on us to look both on their Actions and their holy Passions sending us also to Prayer and Fasting and other duties of Mortification wherewith beside the set and solemn times of devout Abstinence each of these Festivals is to be attended both these Solemnities as it were making up the soul a pair of Angels wings much furthering her flight to heaven and even grounded on the law of Nature to regulate piously those two raigning Passions of our Joy and Sorrow with which all the Actions of our life are mixed so that whatever we can do or may be done unto us still the sequell is one or other of the said Affections and our Life according Wherefore the Church of Christ that most absolute and perfect Schoole of Vertue hath by the special direction of Gods good Spirit hitherto inured men from their infancy partly with dayes of Festival exercise for the framing of their Joy and partly with Times of a contrary sort for the regulation of their Grief by both These I say consecrating the whole life to God And here it must ever be remembred that the intent of the Church in these her holy Solemnities is not only to inform us in the Mysteries which are commemorated but also and that chiefly to conform us thereby unto Christ our Head and his glorious Members which is the sum and substance of all our Celebrations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the Apostles word of exhortation Phil. 3. Phil. 3.10 Conformable unto him if not thus affected by them we neither approve our selves of the number of his Followers nor of his lively Members but these well improved are multiplyed Advantages to Devotion a Christian practice I know not whether of more Piety or Antiquity Eusebius telling us how Dionysius Bishop of Alexandria Eccles Hist lib. 7. cap. 19. above 1400 years agoe wrote upon this Argument And do not all the golden Fountains of the Fathers both of the East and West Coloss 2.16 the Greek and Latine Church flow with the same streams Quorum saluberrima est Authoritas whose Authority's a sufficient conduct in Saint Augustines Judgment that there 's no fear of falling into Saint Pauls Reprehensions * Loco praecitato either touching Times Gal. 4. or Abstinence no kinn to Heathenish Observations 1 Cor. 8.8 or Judaicall Reserv'dnesse but a religious Obedience on better grounds and ends of Piety more claiming interest in his Commendations 1 Cor. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All being done decently and in Order and tending onely to Gods Honour his Saints Memory and our Edification Without which 't is too visible Religion will soon languish and even die away by degrees †As Sir W Ra. prophesies de lege Mosaica prope initium into Profanenesse Heresie and Atheism But that a Disquisition swell not into a Volume I referr your further satisfaction herein to those too Starrs of the first Magnitude in the Church of England judicious Hooker a Eccles pot l. 5.373 and the learned b His defence of Christian Feasts Featly PNEM 4. Gods first born People the selected Jews By his command Solemnities did use New Moons and Sabbaths and the Sowre-herb-Feast Those of Weeks Tents of Purim and the rest Both fixed Feasts and Fasts to let them know When they should humbled soules when gratefull show Which Scions since the Christian Church transplants Grafting on nobler stocks and soil that wants No pious care to cultivate their Spring For Christ's advance and his Saints flourishing Two raigning Passions in our Hearts do grow Sorrow and Joy both which to temper so That neither may transgress the Church hath fix'd Her solemn Feasts and Fasts both duly mix'd That the most low-roof'd souls may learn thereby To tune their Griefs to Sin their Joyes pitch high These are the harmless Books of Ideots where Without all Superstition Truths appear All else without Book by such marks may know What Lord such places persons times doth ow These are Religions Boundaries where we The Pious steps of our Fore-fathers see Weekly solemnizing i' th' Sabbath blest Our grand Creator's Works and sacred Rest Till that Judaick Term Grav'd with his Son Rose the Lords day by 's Resurrection Whose saving Mysteries of Life and Death By Annual Returns These keep in Breath Lest else in Story as in Act forgot All in Atheistical oblivion Rot His humble Birth his Tragick-Passion His Rise Triumphant and Ascension With the Descending of the sacred Dove All kept t' augment his honour and our love And as peculiar Feasts tend the bless'd Three So one the undivided Trinity Good offices of Angels are observ'd With love to them worship to God reserv'd And since our Faith saith Truth is founded on Prophets Apostles seal'd with the Passion Of bleeding Martyrs those are Registred As golden Pipes while we adore the Head And least Joy wanton on so numerous Feasts The Church sometimes calls us as mourning Guests Shifting the Scene minding our Hopes of Fears Mingling our Bread with Ashes Drink with Tears Such
sent To every Part it 's Nourishment Not like Those whom Fond Appetite More then Concoction doth invite Having through ill Digestion The Rickets of Religion Her Head with Pious Notions Fraught Which Her mild Tongue discours'd and taught To all about her with an Eye Full of sweet humble Modesty To Good She ' had still an open Eare But most where the wise Charmers were Not like Some we now live Among Being Christians but in Ear and Tongue 'T was Her Great Care Reall to be And Uniforme in Piety Spotlesse from the Time-Vices Taint Whom God not Her self made a Saint Her Palate of such Temperance As was the Schoole of Abstinence Of Lovely Aspect sweet to all Candid Serene and Liberall Her Hands Compos'd of Charity And all Exacter Houswifery Her Book and Needle shar'd the Day And sweetly stole the Time away Yet for Her better Speed to Heaven She gave God two whole Dayes of seaven Besides his part of Each this She Which Crowned all did Constantly Her Foot no Novell Paths did Trace But in the good Old way kept Pace Untir'd Therein still finding rest Till of Eternity Possest This Gold-Finch of Her Family Scorning Earths Chaffe thus Soard on high Vertue and Beauty were at strife Which should most set Her out to Life Not Galba-Like where a faire Soule A Deform'd Body did enroule Nor yet like Specious Absolon Whose inside was Corruption But Her faire Structure and pure Mind Like those bright Golden Apples shin'd In Silver Pictures hung upon The Tents of Royall Solomon All Changes Stoutly She 'd partake And Welcome for the Senders sake So fixt that Full or Ebbing state Could nor depresse Her nor Elate Nor through all Turn's of Mortalls Wheele Did any more Contentment feele Thus did our Sublimated Friend In Christianity transcend And by faire consequence as Wife Was of a Correspondent life A Sarah Srongly Affectionate And as Respectfull to her Mate Right Hannah that did vow her Sonne To Heaven er'e Him thence Prayers wonne Wise Abigail which could controule All Passions with Her Prudent Soule And yet stout Hester like She proud To defend Truths or Persons Lov'd Like Happy Jacobs Lovely Mate Too-like her in her Teeming Fate One of th' Apostle's-Matron-Dresse Above Phantastick Garishnesse A very Dorcas for both Parts Of Pious Alms and Prudent Arts Therefore bewail'd like-her and Prais'd O could She too like Her be rais'd All these Examples to the Life Make up her Character as Wife But as a Step-Dame who can tell Me where to find a Paralell Prophaner Story yeildeth none And Sacred afford's only one One Naomi whose Worth and Fame Is Treasur'd in Her Comely Name Who indeed well deserv'd of Ruth For so advertising Her Youth Yet She propounded once to Part And 't was the Daughter would not start But this Indulgentest of Mothers Exceeded Her as She did Others Acting that speech where er'e Thou goe Or mak'st Abode I will doe so Thy God too shall be mine and I Desire with Thee to Live and Dye So that ' mongst most Affectionate Of Native Mothers seek Her Mate Such whose soft Nature Consort beares Both in their Childrens Smiles and Teares Whose Tenderlings are still well fed Yet better Taught and better Bred Who to their wholesome Nourishment Adde Educations Complement Who both in Health and Sicknesse can Act Tutresse and Physitian Not trusting Hyr'd or Borrow'd Care But their own Selves the Burthen Share And all this Constant to the Death Seald up with Prayers of latest Breath And such Diviner Counsell given As still guides Her dear Charge to Heaven When er'e Thou canst find such Another She She comes neerest to This Mother As Spanish Children they say Quake At mention of the Name of Drake English me thinks should Still'd and Tam'd Be when They hear this Mother nam'd who thus hath Purchased a mild Retaliation for her Child And sure They 'l under Curses dwell That with her Off-spring deale not well Whole Nature blushing as it were To see own Mother 's pass'd by Her Who Christneth that same Barbarous Name Of Step-Mother and mends their Fame And therefore justly so Admir'd Belov'd in Life in Death desir'd Lest all Relaps and Step-Dames prove As bad as er'e by Her Remove Remove alas a word of Paine To us of Loss to her of Gaine For from such Premises we know Can none but Good Conclusions Flow Her Sickness was but an Expresse Of Her Religious Healthinesse The Pious Groanes of Her Death Bed But Eccho's of a Life well Led The Grave an Embleme too may be Of Her Retyred Piety And Heaven it selfe the Church wherein She triumphs over Death and Sin She here Lying in a while did stay But in Heaven kept her Churching Day Now if Love Ground of Sorrow be Oh who to be so mourn'd as She If comfort yet Arise from Bliss Whose change to be so Joy'd in is Whose Life and Death did both Conspire Her speed to Saints and Angels Quire Where we shall once Re-meet and Sing Aeternall Hymns to Mercies King Meane time Deare Martha I shall pray And strive to follow the same way What in Caesar and Pompey were Great vices are great vertues here As Wife or Christian none Excel'd As step-mother none parallel'd And who Conceives not all This true Or Her or Vertue never Knew An Acrostick Epitaph M ary and Martha both were met in Thee As Act and Contemplation testifie Right Mary thy Soule Sought what did excell T hy Body still the Martha Busied well Having a while prov'd both with upright Heart A ll Mary now Th' hast chose the Better Part. Sprung from that Ancient Generous Finches Nest Pursu'dst with wings of vertue Heavenly rest And like a true Sparke of the Glorious Sphere Right upward tendedst untill fixed There Kind as in life to wonder so in Death Expiring but to Give an Other Breath The Recommendation of the Booke to himselfe multiplied Ed. and Sa. Sparke DEare pledges of my Love and hopes to you 'Bove all this Muse should be of welcome view As most ally'd and sprung from the same Head Surviving Monitors when Author dead Partners enough your losse of Mother mourne In their spirituall Teeming Rachels urne Who so many Benoni's hath left here That ever shall her Memory be deare Then though your Fate 's so cruell to deprive You doubly thus at once yet to revive Both in a sense againe here fixe your eyes And you may see their constant Pieties And though in this sense borne out of due time May here reflect on either in their Prime The Churches structure of Devotion To persons squar'd and Times proportion Her Feasts and Fasts freed from all just Complaints Commemorating not Adoring Saints And Piety I thinke 't is not a Crime As place and person To give dues to Time But sure Religion then must needs decay When as it's Christian Landmark's ta'ne away To you therefore that I might Propogate Something above fraile Natures brittle state A Christian Map o' th' world I somtime drew Where of both Globes you have an usefull view And for your further Guidance too you may Sarah and Hagar's History Survey But Chiefly This Peruse as Goshen Light To guide your steps in an Aegyptian Night Perhaps some others too as well as you May Deigne to take a profitable view And as some use by Jewels value more These Glories lost then while Injoy'd before Reflecting from your Duty naturall On their Matriculation spirituall And like the Method on 't or Matter told The one because 't is New the t'other Old And for all Sorts compos'd at least excuse My though no soaring yet high fixed Muse Then while the Age Reeles in false firing zeale This Book shall sober steady Truths Reveale At one side Scour'd from Rusty Heresies And Purg'd at other from wild Novelties Retaining Doctrine Primitve and cleane Reflecting on that Churches Golden meane Which like things Eminent had hardest Fate All Envying what they cannot Imitate Read then and Act this beaten Church way Tread And Sure to Heaven 't will you one day Lead FINIS
of that and I have done and here behold obedient Isaac the willing Porter of his funerall pile Loyall Vriah carrying the Instrument of his own destruction where by the Riddle of Tyranny his enemies make good that double Crucifige as 't were twice crucifying him once as with a Burden and secondly as with a Crosse the Crosse the worst of all the Jews four Tortures which for their slaves they had borrowed from Heathen Cruelties And Tully himself is here at a Non-plus In 7. Oratione contra Verrem To bind a Citizen of Rome saith he is hainous to scourge him villany a kind of Paricide to kill him but Quid dicam What shall I call it to put him on the Crosse O that were sure a strange Piaculum what shall I say to this The Apostle answereth somewhat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He humbled He emptied himself Phil. 2. Christ emptied himself of glory of Beauty of Help of Company of Life all his veins of bloud all his senses of delightfull objects for contrary Nay emptied his soul of Divine comfort emptied Phil. 2.7 humbled himself even to the death of the Crosse that sin might be carried out of the world as it came in i. upon the Woodden Horse whereon his nailed body is extended as the Hieroglyphick of his ample mercy Brachia in amplexus dimittit in oscula vultum What should I here trouble you with the nice Speculation of some Friers How big the nails were whether big enough to make Constantine an Helmet Ludolp de vita Christi in loc and a Bridle What severall sorts of wood the Crosse was of and why with the strict number of his stripes and wounds Let Granatensis and Acosta answer for their boldnesse numbring about 500. while more exact Osorius argueth from the Band of Souldiers full 660. in the Body 72. in the Head beside the 5 main Wounds in Hands and Feet and Side But Pauperis est numerare Numbring is but an argument of paucity though Starrs and Sands and every leaf in Autumn score a griefe All this were but a Substraction to Christs infinite sorrows who therefore in his Type assureth us Innumerable troubles have compassed me about Psal 40. And if any thing in this world could come ought neer them me thinks our Sins were likeliest O then let each of Them number out a wound in him find its Cure there And if they come short Why then to reach his multiplied miseries to our offences add his Enemies who had they been either Graves or Earth or Rocks or any thing but Jews how would they have Opened Rent Quaked in compassion added no more scoffs spunge spear unto his Grucifixion which yet They do even til the Sun 's ashamed the Temple 's angry and the Earth's afraid Insomuch that the very Astrologers of that Age acknowledged from that totall unnatural Eclipse of the Sun the Moon being at ful Aut Deus Naturae patitur aut machina mundi dissolvitur That either the world or its Maker was then a dying And Josephus telleth us of the Angels valediction a voyce heard in the Temple about that time Transeamus hinc Let us flye hence and pitch our Tents no longer about such wicked Persons And now one would think we were neer the Consummatum est his Passion finished Indeed of his outward suffering is somwhat opened to you but I have said nothing yet of his Internall Passion The deep impressions of all those ignominies and ingratitudes cast on him Nothing of the Burden of his Fathers anger which caused that second Agony on the Cross 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My God My God! wherein his Soul complaineth and even Descends to Hell and therefore we may well joyn prayer with that old Greek Liturgie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By thine unknown fuffering good Lord deliver us And here that Ecce homo is lost into an Ecce Agnus Dei Behold the slain Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the World Here I might wind you into the Labyrinths of School-Disputes Why Christ so earnestly did deprecate his Passion with a Transeat Calix Let this Cup pass from me whether out of the Dominion of his inferiour will or no or only out of human infirmity How far then and after he was Relinquisht of the Diety whether only in regard of momentary Suspension or of any Separation As also how his Temporall Passion could satisfie for our Eternall Debts Whether by the Excellence of his person or by the prevention of His graces in us But aiming more at the kindling of Devotion then swelling up a volume we will send these Questions back again to School while with more profit we now apply the QUARE The Quare Why all this was done and suffered What David said to his brother Eliab 1 Sam. 17.29 1 Sam. 17. when Goliah defyed the Hoast of Israel is there not a Cause the same me thinks Christ here answereth his brethren of flesh and bloud to their treble Ecce of Attention Admiration and Compassion Demanmanding also Why camest thou down hither Down from Heaven down to Earth down to misery down to the grave nay down to Hell it self ad triumphandum non ad patiendū an inchoation of his Triumph after the consummation of his Passion Why is there not a Cause saith Christ Do not Sins play the insulting Philistims and Satan defie the Israel of God and therefore he re-encountreth him like David with the Staffe and Sling of his Cross and passion slaying the Goliah Death and with his own Sword beheading him Is there not a Cause Yes hence we see a double one on Christs part Love on mans part danger on Christs part not onely ut implerentur omnia that all the Prophesies and Prefigurations might be fulfilled though even in that sense also saith the Evangelist ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so to enter into his Glory Luke 24.26 but likewise an invaluable love an incomprehensible Affection to poor mankind Non praevisa fides non opera Not Faith or any works foreseen which were effects not causes of this mercy but onely that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes 1.9 Eph. 1. that same free grace good will and pleasure of the Diety of all the glorious persons of it Quorum opera ad extrà sunt indivisa Their actions outwardly being undivided though distinguished the love of the Father sends the Son John 3. John 3.16 Luke 2.34 John 10.16 The Holy Ghost overshadowed the blessed Virgin-mother Luke 2. yet neither impeadeth the voluntary coming of the second person who layeth down his life here none taketh it from him John 10. Misit tota Trinitas Thus the whole sacred Trinity wrongth this great work of Mans Redemption Vnicuique operanti cooperantibus duobus Whatsoever one worketh the other two cooperating consenting as here the Father of Mercies and the Spirit of Consolation joyn'd with the Son of everlasting love
again And that with abjuration and execration and all the aggravations possible and all this too after Christs indulgent Dialogue with him Thou art Peter c. O see here and lament sad humane Frailty If such Rocks be shaken what shall Rushes if cheif Apostles fall O be not high minded but fear and let him that standeth take heed least he fall Yet let us not take notice of his foul steps onely but also of his washing them Vers 75. Verse 75. He went out and wept bitterly bitterly as ere he sinned O that we could as easily repeat his tears as sins and that we could so vindicate the former acts of our life as he did with the latter being ever afterward a diligent and most successful Apostle as though still a Fishing Catching three thousand at a Sermon Acts 2. till Herod Agrippa seiseth Acts 2.41 and imprisoneth him Chap. 12. Acts 12. intending to serve him as he had done Saint James but that the Prayers of the Church fetched an Angel from Heaven miraculously to release him That afterward about Anno Christi 51. at Rome he expugned Simon Magus whose imposture had so carried away the vulgar that they inscribed Altars to him Saint Peter and Simon Magus Simoni deo sancto to Simon the holy god But Simon Peter made him appear the worst of men though some have so pen'd the story as make the passages rather seem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. More Poetical then real Thence passing into the lesser Asia he Preached a while unto the Jews being sometime called the Apostle of Circumcision until his Vision of the Feasting Sheet let down from Heaven with all edible Creatures of the Earth Acts 10. And thence Acts 10.11 emblematically instructed he became a Converter of the Gentiles also as Prudentius excellently Somniat illapsum Petrus alto ex aethere discum Prud. Enchirid Confertum omnigenis Animalibus ille recusat Mandere sed Dominus jubet omnia munda putare Surgit immundas vocat ad Mysteria Gentes Saint Peter dreaming of that Feast from Heaven Stor'd with all Creatures eats not of what 's given God checks his niceness clean expressing all Whence he to Christ doth unclean Gentiles call To which end he went afterward to Antioch Vide Alsted Chron. c. 27. where some write him seven years to have been Bishop and in Anno Christi 67. being the fourteenth of Nero he returns to Rome there abiding not many moneths and that not as Bishop but as a stranger though Damasus writes that he came to Rome Anno Christi 60. which was the seventh year of Nero and even thereby confuting those who affirm him to have sate Bishop there Five and twenty years when as Nero scarse reigned full fourteen in all but there all agree he suffered Eusebius l. 3. c. 1. And Eusebius and others say That in the Sixty eighth year of Christ which was the last of Nero Saint Peter and Saint Paul both both in one day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they had formerly born the yoke of Labors Isaacsons Chro. so now of Torture or rather were both together unyoked with the Rest of Martyrdom Saint Peter being crucified Inversly saith Eusebius to differ from his Master and Saint Paul beheaded by the tyranny of Nero who hence was justly stiled Dedicator condemnationis Christianae The Founder of those Ten Christian Persecutions POEM 32. Here you come forth to see with eyes of mind No Reed but a Rock shaken with the wind A Rock of Confidence and Faith profest Shook with a Faint blast of a Damsels Brest Yet like a well-set Oke rooted the more By storms and firmer after then before This Primate of the Apostles having been Longer with Christ and most his wonders seen Deservedly above the rest he most Doth of his love and stout adherence boast To his dear Lord who too truly descries His Champions fall yet praying for his rise He that left Ships and Nets and World and all When Christ and gainful miracles did call No sooner sees his Paths bestrew'd with Thorn But Peter like the rest leaves Christ forlorn Christ who from drowning Waves supported him He now leaves in a storm to sink or swim But did he not then follow to the Hall Yes to disown him and augment his Thrall Nice to see that High Court and this strange tryal But there espi'd first wounds him with denial Denies in a bad sense himself and next Abjures his Countrey and his Lord perplext Then his poor inch of life to loose so loath That he seals all with a perfidious Oath He whose unstain'd Profession all admire Was thus besmutted at the High Priests fire Was this the Rock not to be mov'd by death So tost and stagger'd by a Maidens breath Was this he liv'd on Miracles was this He that saw Tabors metamorphosis What is best Flesh and Blood left to it self Faith needs must wrack when each is his own shelf How vain all humane confidence how faril Christains 't is humble Faith and Pray'rs prevail Here Satan winnowed the choicest grain Yet our Lords Prayer purg'd off his Chaff again After all this Christ gave him but a look And that the Saint into the Peter strook Reflection and remorse met both together And made fair after though first showry weather Christs eye dissolv'd his frozen heart to tears And from those bitter streams sweet Fruit appears The monitory Cock then timely sings Alarums to his Soul and lends her wings For though his Master at this time he flie Yet for the same at length did stoutly die Lord be thy Word our Chantecleer of sin And when we start let thy Grace eye-us in And then such fractures maugre all complaint Well-set again shall make the stronger Saint Who knows so well what 't is to go astray The care of Sheep and Lambs best take he may Who Heaven most values by such streights as these Seems fittest to be trusted with the Keys I when all 's done this Peter proves the stone Which Christ hath hewn to build his Church upon And though all Tempests of the World assail That Faith yet ' gainst it Hell shall not prevail The COLLECT The Epistle Acts 12. ver 1. unto v. 12. The Gospel Matth. 16. ver 13. unto v. 20. Almighty God which by thy Son Jesus Christ hast given to thy Apostle Saint Peter many excellent gifts and commandedst him earnestly to feed thy Flock make we beseech thee all Bishops and Pastors diligently to preach thy Holy Word and the people obediently to follow the same that they may receive the Crown of everlasting glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. S. IACOBVS MAIOR The Plate here Vpon the Feastival of St. James DISQUISITION 30. THis Saint James was one of the sons of Zebedaeus Matth. 20. This was James the brother of John Jacobus Major and why called James the Great sirnamed James the Great and
Redemptions Mystery Pardon our Contemplations if so bold A little your bright Natures to behold All Spirit without clog of Body yee Move as the Wind or Light or Lightning free And yet each of your Millions Scripture tells The strongest human force in strength excells Of Distinct Orders and yet for the most All styl'd in Holy Writ The Heavenly Host The Horse and Chariots of the Mighty Lord Ready for March and Motion at his Word So that in Heaven sometime we read of War No marvell then poor Mortals live in jar But how got Foes in there Sure as in Flowers Serpents do breed so There degenerate Powers There Michael fought with his Traind-bands of Light And beat the Dragon down to Endlesse night Yet in the Praecipiece his knotted Tayl Against some of those Splendors did prevail And so puld many thence of that bright Train One day from us to be supply'd again Your joy then at our penitence we pay With joy for Christs confirming of your stay Then since we both but one Church constitute Let us be neither Actionlesse nor mute Sith ' Angels need not our Good Offices Let us to Men what those to us expresse Joyning above i' th Song of Victory Still singing Triple-Holy to 'th most High For if to this words Root we stoop our Mind Who 's like the Lord in Michael we find To pray to Angels then if you mark well Is a Mistake for Christ is Michael He the Arch-Angell is that conquereth Sin Satan in us for us Hell and Death Or if another Angel they withstand All Adoration by severe command Our gratefull love is Theirs but to dispence Worship on Them 's a Double vlolence THE COLLECT PRAYER The Epistle Rev. 12. v. 7. to 13. The Gospel Matth. 18.1 to 11. EVerlasting God which hast ordained and constituted the services of all Angels and Menin a wonderfull order mercifully grant that they which alwayes doe thee service in Heaven may by thy appoyntment succour and defend us in Earth through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen S. LVCAS He whome the world containes not and whose court shines with his glorious presence to confort with beasts and in a manager lodge wee see excepts vs not without Humilitie The Plate here Vpon Saint Lukes Day DISQâ—ISITION 34. THis Evangelist was by Nation of Syria by Birth of Antioch Ecccles Hist l. 3. c. 4. as Eusebius and * In vita Lucae Hierom report by Profession a Physician saith St. Paul Col. 4.14 Luke the beloved Physiciau greets you A Physician and therefore the more admirable for his Devotion being not onely a Courtier of Nature lost in second Causes but per scalas Creaturarum ascending to the first by the Ladder of the Creatures Corpus humanum objectum Medicinae and teaching others so to climb to Heaven The Human Body not being the adaequate object of his study and practice Medicus totius compositi being first cured himselfe by him that was so farre more eminently he became a Physician of the whole Man of Soul as well as Body and that both for the Therapeutick and Phylactick part of Physick first curing their Infidelity and Impenitence with the Soveraign Precepts and prescripts of his Gospel and then preserving that same spirituall temper with the wholsome Examples and good Acts of the Apostles And this Religio Medici although none can equall yet for the honour of God and that Profession I wish more would imitate To take off all vulgar imputations and just occasions of those Ironick Apologues viz. How once such an one knocking at Heaven-Gates Saint Peter demanding who he was and that by an enumeration of almost all Religions art thou a Jew No replieth he A Christian Neither c. till being asked in generall Of what Religion hewas He answered That he was a Physician and so at length was denied for his Denials But God forbid so honorable and needfull a Profession should suffer for the Delirations of some of the worst pieces of it Perhaps some few Philosophicall Humorists that are but as the Warts and Wens meer excrescenses of that same Noble Science whose brains being over-heated by their Chymicall Experiments may as easily mistake the Truth as the Philosophers Stone Quod ad ab omnibus amatur tamen virgo est which though wooed of so many yet still remains a Virgin But for the Profession Ecclus 38.1.2 't is the Wise mans counsell Honour the Physitian c. And our blessed Lord himself at once commends and recommends him Matth. 9.12 Jer. 8.21 Matth. 9. The sick have need of the Physician God Himself owning the Compellation Ier. 8.22 Is there no Physician there Christ also imitating their practice in the Good Samaritan But here expressly honoring the Profession with the Office of an Evangelist sc in St. Luke the Physician Some think him to have been one of the 70. Disciples from his 24 Chapt. v. 13. Lib 4 contra Marci But Tertullian and other Ancients say That he was none of Christs immediate Disciples but onely Sectator Discipulus Apostolorum A Companion and Disciple of the Apostles as indeed himselfe intimates in the very beginning of his Gospel Chap. 1.2 Luke 1.2 Sicut tradiderunt As they have delivered them unto us which from the beginning saw themselves Insinuating that he wrot his Gospel by Dictation but the Acts of the Apostles by his own observation But that he writ both he attestates Acts 1.1 In the former Treatise O Theophilus Acts 1.1 c. Which former Treatise being his Gospell he wrot Anno Christi 51. Lib. 1. saith Eusebius Others say Anno 54. from the mouth of Saint Paul who thence is thought to use that phrase Rom. 16. According to my Gospel Rom. 16. And Saint Luke indeed being the constant companion of Saint Paul in his double Travels Acts 16. so he became both the Masters the Apostles Register His being but a deserved Emblem viz. The Ox strong to labour his Pen as unwearied as his Person and both proportionable to his excellent Subject He becomss an Evangelist before Peter and James Gal. 2.9 those Pillars of the Church Ten of the Apostles are past by and his Quill chosen God sometimes is pleased to effect great Designes by obscure means and even by unthought of Instruments Amos an Heardsman made a Prophet Amos 1.1 Many Fishermen Fishers of many men an easier transition then may make St. Luke here an Evangelist of a Physician And 't is worth while to take notice of his Dedication Most excellent Theophilus Acts 1.1 c. which some doubt whether it be a common or a proper Name And Baronius though he hath tried cannot unty the knot If we take it for a common Appellative Ad annum 58. it hints the Gospel written to such as are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. lovers of God as being a Pearl not to be cast to Swine Matth. 7.6 But every
either Pliny tels us Nat. Hist that the Eagle knowes her young ones by their eyes their perspicacy and unlesse they can outface the Sun that she rejects them as a Bastard brood but I must tell you God knowes his children by their hands their liberality and will own no withered Jeroboams God requires no costly sacrifice as of the Jews Pauper est Altare Dei the calves of our lips Oblations of our hearts and hands is all He looks for and therefore to do good and to distribute or communicate forget not Heb. 13.16 Heb. 6.10 for c. Hebr. 13.16 And God will not forget c. Sola misericordia comes defunctorum Mercy is the sole companion of the dead and God hath given men wealth non tanquam Dominis sed Dispensatoribus not as unto Treasurers Enthymius but as to Stewards Imitate then the wise one in the Gospel Luke 16. For to every one shortly shall bee said Redde rationem Give an account of thy Stewardship And believe it none shall make a more comfortable reckoning at the Day of Judgement then the charitable man if you will believe the Judge Himselfe Matth. 25.35 Matth. 25. who there takes notice onely of such Actions as Feeding Clothing Visiting Ministring and those He sets upon his own Account Mihi fecistis Ye have done it unto me and therefore Himselfe rewards it with a Venite Benedicti Come yee Blessed c. And who thus practise the Communion of Saints here need no whit doubt his Eternall fellowship with them hereafter POEM 40. PArticular Accounts you have had hither Now take the Totall of All Saints together And that 's Communion Union with the Head And all the Members mutually shed Both the Saints Militant and Those above All knit together with the Bond of Love So that strong Sympathies thence rise in All So far as suits Each State reciprocall Yet not as though we Prayers might addresse To our Related Saints in Blessednesse Or as their joyes had leisure to look down On our poor Accidents of Smile or Frown But that in Generall both joyntly Pray Stil for the Churches Consummation Day The Number of th' Elect might be suppli'd And All together shortly Glorifi'd Thus Earth's Hosannah onely not so long And Heavens Halleluiah's the same song Thus Love 's the Cement of the World the Chain Links Heaven to Earth and Earth to Heaven again Where Strife is Hel's begun but where This Love There 's Heaven i th' bud below full blown above No Article of Faith Cures more complaints Then This Communion of All Blessed Saints The COLLECT The Epistle Revel 7. v. 1. to 10. The Gospel Matth. 5. v. 1. to 13. Almighty God which hast knit together thy Elect in one communion and fellowship in the mysticall Body of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord grant us grace so to follow thy holy Saints in all vertuous and godly living that we may come to those unspeakable joyes which thou hast prepared for them that unfainedly love thee through Jesus Christ c. Vpon The four Ember weeks at the four seasons of the year The ARGUMMNT OF all the solemn Fasts as Lent holds the first so these the second place times of Dovotion anciently observed at the four seasons of the year viz. the first being Wednesday Friday and Saturday after Saint Lucys Day Decemb. 13. the second being those dayes aforesaid after the first Sunday in Lent the third being the said days next following Pentecost Which are the Ember weeks the fourth the same days next after that called Holy Crosse Sept. 14. and they were then observed among other chiefly for these * Leo de Jejunio decim Mensis S. 4. Hierom in Zach. 8. And why then observed Reasons 1. That Christians might not come short of the Jews Devotion but improve the same opportunities to better ends that so consecrating the first Fruits of each season unto God the Remainder of the year might all be Holy 2. That such Devout abstinence might at once chastise the exorbitancies of the ending Quarter and caution That beginning 3. That the Devotions of them might both Apprecate the Almighties Blessing to the Fruits of the Earth then either sown sprung up Ripening or gathered and deprecate the dangers and distempers commonly most incident to those Seasons Lastly with ferventest devotion to Assist the Churches sacred Ordinations which were of old Solemnized the next Lords day following Each of These and which ought as by CHRIST and his Apostles so ever by their successours to bee performed with Prayer and Fasting Luke 6. ver 12. Acts 1. verse 24. and ch 13.3 POEM 42. WHo strictly Primitive Devotion seeks Must Rake out of Times Ashes Emberweeks And blow them too into an holy Flame Of Prayer and Fasting sinfull Lusts to tame Next to the soul Feast Lent these Fasts of old The Church did every Quarter solemn hold That Christians zealous might as Jews appear And Consecrate Each season of the year For if first Fruits grow ripe in Piety Of Things or Times the rest will holy be Then let our Janus zeal at once lament The Sins forepast the following prevent The First in Advent First sacred Abstinence makes Preparation To entertain the Author of Salvation Cleansing the Stable garnishing the Heart That he may There reside and never part Such vessels as are full can hold no more The Rich go empty while Christ Feasts the poor This true Mortification vices kils And 't is the the Hungry soul our Saviour fils The second in Lent And now conformity to Christ bids Fast And Pray for he did both and more did taste That bitter cup of Divine wrath for us Shall we do nothing when He suffred thus Fasting and Prayer was ever prescrib'd good Before a Medicine and such Christs blood Whom Satan tempting had so foyld a Pull That where he tempts one Fasting Thousands full The third after Pentecost Now doth Religious Abstinence attend That Sacred Spirit which did of late descend On the Apostles and them all inspire Requiting Holy zeal with heavenly fire Those then that Blessings from above expect Must not these Duties in their times neglect But if they look for the descending Dove Must wait with Prayer and Fasting Faith and Love The fourth Sept. 14. And now our Crops are Ripe we going to Reap Hath God no Harvest no part of our Heap That gave it all shall he fill every place And our Hearts only empty be of Grace No Prayer and Fasting now wil quench excesse Both sin and sicknesse of the time suppresse Let these Devotions then bring up the Reare And mak 't an holy and an happy year The Churches last and not the least good sense Was this being sacred Orders to dispense On the Lords day succeeding each of these Sought God by Prayer and Fasting to appease That so by joynt Devotion might be gain'd Choice Blessings on her work and those ordein'd That thence the outward ecchoing inward call
But now from growing Evils mounted high Change but the Soule her Seat from Ear to th' Eye This bright Starre still doth Lead wise men to Christ Through this dark Bochim and Aegyptian Myst Nay here what himself doth in Heav'n behold Ev'n Blessed Visions doth his Book unfold In Eximium Pijssimumque Richardum Holdsworth S. T. P. Theologum Flexanimum HIc Celebri Fato Pollenti Claruit ortu Holdsworth Flos vatum Cujus Doctrina stupori Non minus Emicuit Totus fuit ere voluptas Et populo plaudente Favus Cant'brigia Gemmam Perdit Eximiam Londini Ecclesia stellam Fulgentem amisit vigilans Quemcunque Priorum Inspice Praelatum meritò Canit Hippo sagacem Urbs Constantini Commendat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Auri Pagina Scriptores Loquitur Romana Solennes Sed nec Pinetum Corili nec sidera solem Aequant Annales Latios Graiósque revolve Prisca Parem ignorans aequalem postera nullum Ex hibitura Dies vates super Eminet omnes Solus Praeteritis melior majorque futuris Vpon the Pious and Learned Doctor Holdsworth THis Church as Isle's a Ring Holdsworth the Gemme Too bright for Earth now decks Heaven's Diadem We mourn our Losse He joyes in his Remove From Envious Men unto the God of Love Whose Learned Pious high and steady Soule No Gainfull Transmutations could controule Nor Hopes nor Feares Prisons nor Liberty Could move from Orthodoxall verity Nor Storms nor Calms could warp him the same Lives And like well season'd Timber never Gives Right owner of his Name which Sweet shall last And Holds ' worth still in Spight of Envy's Blast His Latter Prophesies then Left behind O may we Reall and successefull find Vpon the Early and neere Contemporary Death of Divers learned and Pious Divines viz. Doctor Featly Doctor Somes Master Browning Master Symons Master Haynes Master Chestlin Eminent all for Pen and Pulpit VVHat now most need Leave your poor Mother so To that Complaint of Jacob in his woe Joseph is not and Simeon is gone And must Death too our Benjamin Seise on These Prudent Watchmen equall Dangers saw With that Grave Guide o' th Church of Affrica Who when the Gothes and Vandalls enter'd There Took him to Christian Weapons Teares and Prayer Importuning Th' Almighty to Remove Or Them in Judgement or Himself in Love A Suite which his Great Master not deny'd For Austin soone in Besieg'd Hippo dy'd As much for These fure did their Prayers effect When all mens Church-Indeavours found neglect Early Transplanted from this Scaene of Wees Where spight of Virtue Crimson sinne so Growes Heaven was their Center while the Earth whirld Round While Classick Synods reel'd These stood their Ground These when the Church Like a Bestormed Barque Where Winds and Seas wage Warre and Skies grow Dark Like stoutest Marriners Expos'd Themselves To save the Vessell from the Wracking Shelves And Thereby soonest wash'd off with fierce Waves Were snatch'd away from us with hasty Graves Yet herein happy Fates did them betide That They for Presse or Pulpit harness'd Dy'd And though we mourn their worth when heard or Read Bless'd Spirits that have Them smile to see Them dead Or rather living in their better Parts Above in Soules below in Divine Arts. These were a Bunch of Canaans Grapes as 't were Which to make Wine for Angels God press'd here Who puls away such Pillars when he meanes The Fabrick should to Ruinous Extreams Yet that it might not alwayes so remaine There Ink's a Cement t'aedifie't againe God plucks such Stakes out of the Churches Hedge When He 'l set Sacrilegious Teeth on Edge Yet drunk with that Vine Lest to Hell they reele These both Disease and Med'cine did reveale God calls Home such skil'd Pilots from the Helme When He will Sin-fraught Vessels overwhelme Yet lest a totall wrack should us befall These fram'd and left a Card to Steere with all And who sayles by their Compasse cannot misse Mangre all Stormes and Rocks the Port of Blisse Vpon the prudent Dove and Vindicatresse of Stepmothers Mothers in Law justly half-hang'd by Fame Are now repriev'd by this Indulgent Dame Richer in Love to an Adopted Graft Then others to their Native usuall Craft Here turn'd to Sweetnesse Bits in stead of Blowes And for Neglect Good Breeding she bestowes Some talke of Memphis some of Jasons Fleece Perfumes some think none to their Amber Greece Awedge of Gold some boast a fine new Fashion Raiseth in others a strange Admiration Kindnesse Nam'd Thee more then the Law a Mother Earth ' mongst her Wonders shewes not such another A Consolatory to the Deprived of their Dearest Mate who thus bespeaketh the Relict THough a Right Turtle to thy Living Mate Yet now being Sour'd thou mayst not imitate In her incessant moanes that mournfull Dove Which thou exceedest in a Spotlesse Love If Nature claime her Tribute yet let Grace Christen thy Teares and Re-possesse her Place That Grief not Love but Envy doth expresse Which floweth from a Dear Friends Happinesse Who now is sfe from Griefe and Warres Above the Reach of Earthly Jarres By Christ sequestred happily From Sorrow Sinne and Misery Admitted through his precious Bloud To those Joyes here not understood Speed on thy Pious Race and then We nere to part shall meet againe Mean-time beare Christianly thy Cross And let not my Gaine seem thy Losse Fie-Lavish Eyes Dear drown not thine ' Cause God hath wip'd all Tears from mine That God ô high Advance for thee Himself might now thy Consort be Then all th' Affections born the Dead Be on the Living Off-spring shed In Oculos Catarrho labo rantes PLurima Lascivos intrant dum Crimina Ocellos Guttula nec madidis Exeat ulla Genis Efficit id morbus virtus quod debuit una Lumina defluxu bina madere gravi Culpae digna Lues Qui non peccata dolerent Lumina Diffluerent absque Liquore Sacro O tristes oculi vitreos Sic perdere humores Fletus Aeterni Flendo Notare Locum Foelices Oculi maculas si spoute dolendo Praevenerant Animae Corporis atque Cladi Morbus adhuc Foelix magis hic Medicina vocandus St Magdalenae fit liquor iste pius Tunc ad Supremi ac Animae Sponsalia Regis In soles oculi in vina revertet Aquae The Epigram upon sore Eyes thus rendred VVHile wanton Eyes Sinnes daily entertaine And no repentant Teares flow Thence againe A Disease doth what Vertue should effect Melts them into a dolefull Cataract And a just Scourge those Eyes that mourne not Guilt Their Teares should thus in Vaine and Pain be spilt Unhappy Eyes to lose such pearly Dews Which forc'd the Place of weeping but foreshews But happy those which freely Sinnes lament And so both Soules and Bodyes Ill prevent Yet Happier this Disease this Remedy If Maudlins cleansing Bath it prove to be Then at the Nuptials of the Soule 's Bride-groome Those Eyes shall Sunnes that Water Wine become Melvinus Poeta Scoticus De Altaris Cultu