Proud Courtlings to th' Riches of the fields And why should we not think that we are taught By Love to love again were our hearts iron A Loadstone might attract them and such Love is Doe the milde Turtles so engage themselves By natures mandate That the loss of one Denies the other benefit of Like And shall we not resent that benefit Our Saviour purchas'd for us quitting Life To make ours sure for ever Or how is 't We can survive not droop and pine away For our offence which was the cause we ought And the Dominion that sin hath o'r us Else 't is an other lesson Grace instructs And that 's to entertain his Sufferings As our enlargement his Stripes for our healings Embracing all those Bounties with such Souls May ready be to melt and to dissolve In tears contritionall for their Corruptions Yet rais'd with Comfort of such Mercies Riches Be fruitfull in the works of Piety Henceforth and praises of his holy Name Who is the Fountain and must give the same Unless with Bartimeus we were blinde How doe we not perceive the Clay we tread on To be the substance whereof we were made And by the Sun that Attom'd into Dust Tells us but what we must dissolve into Or like the Shadow represents us see We not what 't is and what we all shall bee That in observance of our bubble Thoughts We still aspire and make our Fancies dance Within the Imaginary pool of Pride Or sea of Self-conceit This not of Eyes But dimness of the Minde is too too bad Wherewith bemisted in our apprehensions We dream we fathom all perfections And yet but grope after the least of truths It may be in the twilight of our reason We offer at obedience to instruction And seek to be inform'd If what we hear Fly not beyond our pitch a great Professor Master of Israel once was gravelled Upon that Shelf and 't was through lack of Faith Had he but had so much as t'have compar'd With that least Grain of all no Mountain could Have bragg'd of firmness 'gainst his moving power But to shew truly what esteem we ought To set upon our selves 't is here set down When the prophetick Prince and Prince of Prophets Compares his Royalties but to a Worm And by the best Authority can vouch An innocent and little harmless Childe Is plac'd for us to imitate And those Who would aspire great blessings of salvation For to be Last is First and First but Last Least greatest greatest Least Epitomise Our selves and we become voluminous In Graces Library when if we swell With pride of our own Worth the smallest vent Un-winds that blather blasting our intent And that we may once more Example scan Consider th' Pharisee and Publican But if all these not serve to break our ston And iron hearts mark what he Rode upon Into the City who Salvation brings And when he lists rides on the Winds swift wings Doth the least cross or rubb we meet withall Set our whole little world afire and raise Tempestuous motions to disturb the rest And quiet of our Souls Prompting revenge And yet behold our Food and Raiments friend Led to the slaughter Dumb and to the Shearers Without an angry Bleat to shew distaste Are we so frozen-handed that we fear To open any help to those that need Upon this scruple lest thereby we seem To break the Ice for Merit to start out at So seek to share with him in whom all Lies As if we knew not that our Faith were lame Without this Grace for to support the same And that if in his Name who fed the hungry Cur'd the diseased heal'd both Lame and Blinde Administring whilst here he was amongst us All comforts for our imitation And pattern to walk by we doe refresh Any the sons of Abraham with water A Mite or Ragg may help necessity He will accept it as to him 't were given And the reward or recompence is Heaven Call we to Minde when mov'd to any wrath How many wayes we daily doe transgress Our gracious Gods decrees who as the sarcell Or master Feather of his Mercies wings To raise them above all his other Works Abounds in Patience and delays due Judgment To favour our Repentance with more time Never forgetting how He bore the Taunt That whited Wall cast on him nor the Buffet Scourging or Spittings on all that disgrace Envie and Malice could contrive for us Who had deserv'd no less and then perchance Such Lessons may procure our temperance To suffer is a double kinde of phrase For so he did that died for us yet still 'T is through his sufferance that we are alive And suffered to enjoy one benefit Whilst by our Evil wayes what in us lies We crucifie the Lord of Life each houre As when our thoughts forge mischief on our beds Are not his temples Crown'd anew with thorns Our hands that should be open to Relieve If that they graspe more than our own so thieve Or work oppression and our feet are swift In shedding Blood too how doe such again Nail his unto the Cross our tongues are tipt With poyson'd Envies and Maliciousness False lying slanders all that 's impious Tuning our Lips to Blasphemy and loose Unsavoury talk Doe they not seem to spit On him afresh tearing that window open With our spear-pointed Discord that let in The Gall-less Dove brought the true branch of Peace And Reconcilement whilst from thence did flow A Crimson shower of pure Compassion And satisfying Mercy in the height His Side I mean that like Noes Ark had been Our safeties from the Deluge wrought by him And now Remains our pledg that those that flie Unto that Sanctuary never Die We through our Natures weakness not of power To give the Least of Sufferings resistance Although we promise fair as Peter did May here be taught to trust so far to Faith Not that proceeds from vain security Lest then the Crowing-Cock give us the lie But such whereby we are Regenerate And Justify'd more than bare Law could promise As to o'rcome the great'st temptation And judge the Beffetings of Satan Blessings The World the wilderness and Every high Conceit of our own worths we are tickled with To be the Mount Superlative designes As when we pry too far into Gods Ark And sift those Mysteries ' neath the Cherubs wings We seem upon the Temples Pinnacles Thus travailing like Pilgrims here a while Nothing but dangers and vexations Allurements through enticing change betrays Us to the snares of His precipit ways Whose Art destructive by enchantments power Seeks to encompass us within that circle He fell himself into through presumption Which to eschew whilst Gods long-suffering patience And charity shewn to his handy work
Joy Making the scope of all My future aim To Reverence and Glorifie His Name Thus when our God will frown if we weigh it In Judgments Scales we mak 't a Benefit My Penthouse against the Storm of Grief occasioned upon the Death of a dear Friend O How the Blasts Temptation Casts Against my Naked Ston Threaten Subversion Sithence the Decree of late was Thine To take away My Sheltring Vine Well let them blow Break clouds and rain Their Gusts and Show'rs in vain For Confident I am My Gratious God upholds the Frame Whilst I the Olive Sprouts see grow Thus to my Hart I may impart Th' assurance of a Peace Wherein such Trials cease If Patience-born that Fear is good When it withstands ill not of ill withstood Man Levens the Batch GOD makes all things for good 't is Man Sowers and worsts Creation Who Leven'd by his Father thence Becomes all Disobedience No thought no word no action He Contrives can own Integrity To Him that made Him for by Deeds As Words and Heart his growth 's in weeds Which whilst neglected doe express Gods Grace but Man's unfruitfulness Now if again man would bear Corn He must himself a Weeder turn The Attributes of true Love WE call that Patience when provok'd we can Deferr revenge but 't is true love in Man And when with open hand we would express Our Bounties Tribute some style 't Lavishness But They mistake as farr as those despise All steps whereby an Other Man doth rise Yet think they have Love too and boast no less Than that She is their constant Patroness If Her Decrees be not to seek her own Praise as not seemly whither are such blown As thus would tempt Her anger when 't is taught She is not to be mov'd to an ill thought But 's ever pleas'd and doth rejoyce to see Truth sit in Triumph o're Iniquitie As She sustains and is contented still With what wind blows so doe her hopes sails fill When from the windows of Beleef doth breath A steady Gale t' advance her course beneath Till by the Saints transplanted and above She 's Moor'd within that Port and call'd True Love Contraria juxta se posita Gal. 5. 19. to 23. C-upio Formans A-dmiror Creaturam R-eminiscor Injurice O-btempero Vosunteti S-anctitatē Curo V-irtuti Seruio T-rucsentiā Sperno I-ncontinentiā Noso R-apacitatē fugio I-rasei nequeo P-atientia Vineo S-asutem Spero Like Night to Day or foyles that Raise The Lustre of the Diamonds praise Such and no other Vertue Lies Hind in th' approach of Contraries Love begets Fear 'T Was of Thy Goodness Lord at first I had Knowledge of what was Good and what was bad Yet through the Ill of Nature become blinde I followed Sin and left thy Fear behind By which I forfeited a Blessing till Thou of thy Mercy free and Gracious will Sign'st me a Pardon in that style Repent That so I might avoid all Punishment Thus then rows'd up and wak'ned I began Thy Judgments Blessings Love and Fear to skan And in a Scoale when I them all had waigh'd Methought I lov'd Thee still still was afraid My Invocation GReat and Good God of Justice Love As That to Fear so grant This move My Trembling Heart till It retain Some Sparks of heat and life again Sithence My Creation-Fuell's don Lighten again the Turf by thine own Son Small hopes of This unless I may In awe to That finde a decay Of such Lewd Thoughts Words Acts did bring My whole Man to a wintering In Lust and Sin and growth of Grace T' assure a fruitfull Spring-tide in the place How 's that attain'd By heat not cold 'T is that the Bounteous Marygold Displayes its Treasure and kinde Showers Not Frosts befriend both fruit and Flowers Thaw then my Breast till 't open Zeal And let my Eyes those sighs reveal In rain that my Affections may subdue So from my Old Congeal'd Clot raise thoughts new Misericordia Dei Splendidissima GODS Mercy shines 'bove all His works as farr As doth the Cyprian-Queen out-light a Starr To Man Epig. HArd-Hearted Man what canst thou say That Thou thy self hast turn'd to Brick thy Clay But that Thy Hopes are built upon His Promise once sent Fountains out of Ston Wherefore to Sacrifice to Gods desire Mans Heart must be the Altar Sighs the fire My Pool of Bethesda or the Effusion of Christs Merits to heal our Miseries WHen Children would goe or Cripples stand Crutches and Stools are fram'd for Arm and Hand To rest upon lest such attempting shall Without like Props occasion them to fall What are the Sons of Adam if we try Condemn'd to Lamenesse and to Infancy Through Sin and so disabled to Pace The Paths of Vertue tread the Steps of Grace Till God of 's Mercy pleased to Confer A standing stool as if from th' Carpenter Though He himself was Artist and did frame This Remedy for Those were Weak and Lame So that without a farther Inquisition We All were and are such Christ's the Physition The Five Porches to Bethesda MAn is Bethesda and 's five Senses be Porches unto that Great Intermery Where Divers Cures are sought for yet not one Attain'd but through an Angels Motion Grace powred on the Heart which who so can Improve becommeth straight a perfect Man But Those who Opportunity neglect Must not an other Saving help expect For as the Cripple Thirty eight years lay And had done more had not Christ come i th' way So whilst these powr'd out waters we would try Others step in Prophane their Sanctity Lusts both our Ears and Eyes and Palates charm Through Nostrils and by Fingers we doe harm And 'cause all over Leprous and defil'd We 'd fain be cleans'd to health be reconcil'd Yet cannot get so soon into this Tide Afford us of that Jordan from Thy side Soliloquium ANima quid tam tristaris Ocule quid Lachrymaris Cur in Pectore singultus Cur Moerore madet vultus Quî fit gemitu plangescis Cor ut si integram non esses Cum quo hic fruamur toto Nostro non in Dei voto Ejus est suffragii sortem Dare Vitam dare Mortem Mortis certitudo brevem Vitae Curam reddit levem Et post Mortem sit levamen Quod Vivetur semper tamen Nec mensurâ quâvis horae Vespertinae vel Aurorae Metitur aeternâ Luce Sed haec dicta Dies duce In quâ cum gandeat omnis Sanctus Luctus sistat sileat planctus Poenam hic quâ laboramus Somno Mortis nam mutamus Et quid mali hora dedit Gaudio Sempiterno cedit Qui sic mutant invidendos Sentio solos non deflendos è contra Pectora Peccatis data Cor corruptum Ora lata Animam infectam Malis Nox dum sequitur fatalis Lugeat doleat Omnis Tales A Carroll IF nothing else may not this season move Or Time become true Chronicle of love And so allay the Fury stint
the Rage Or madness doth predominize this age When for to Ransome Man whose least Offence Was character'd in Disobedience He who knew no Sin came that to fulfill The Mercy Statute of His Fathers will Thus He forgave and gave to let us know What to our Very Enemies we ow By His Example and decrees this fate To the Posterity unfortunate Of too-beleeving Adam That They must Give themselves over to no other Trust Than what His Word assures nor to make less That first of Sins Create them numberless In Envie Malice and Ambition But joyn to Charity Contrition For by-past faults and resolutions raise To spend the future in our Makers praise Obey Him first then Those His Glorious Powers Shall substitute for our Superiours And with our own Condition whatsome're Content enjoy a full Harmonious Sphere Leaving no Orb for Discords fond increase Sithence He that 's born for us was Prince of Peace A Quid Retribuam POor sin-bound-naked-creature Man ne're knows What to return for that His God bestows But as Prosperities increase goes less I' th' retribution of Thankfulness His eyes not open but with Clay made dim Renders that Miracle not wrought on Him Remains so stupid but where Faith 's declin'd Int' unbeleef such are for ever blind Now that I may like Judgment still prevent By entertaining True-Souls-Nutriment Not Poyson let Example spurr me on To take the Cup fill'd with Salvation And t' praise his holy Name that did prepare Such Cates for those heavie and Laden are Sins Dromidaries swift by Nature led To run to Evil here unburthened By One who bore both Crosse and shame to free The Pliant branch of Eves posterity So have I tender Saplings seen unbroak When Tempests have o'r-turn'd the sturdier Oak And if in Sacrifice we 'd passe degrees The best for acceptation's from the knees Outward and inwardly exprest whereby To notifie unfeign'd Humility For such deny to shew repentance thus Surely forget Christ came from Heaven to us And those of that short memory may know Their Portion 's here They shall not to Him go Who's Riches Rayment Food and all Relief To them Condemn this World make Him their Chief E-dat V-itam C-aelestem H-omo A-nimi R-ecti I-ejunent S-imulantes T-alibus I-nest A-morities Though All must truly say They 've done amiss Yet there Goes more than Ord'nary to This For He that would not make the banquet sower Must form His Relish to his SAVIOUR A Pelican feeding her young with blood out of her own Brest a type of our Saviour P-orrigit E-ximtos L-atus I-ndulgetque C-ruores A-leseant N-ati V-ulneribusque S-uis Behold Here from the PELICANS Brest sprung A stream of precious blood to feed her young In Sanctam Coenam Domini Epig. WAsh and be clean Eat Drink this and 't will save So easie is the suit our Lord doth crave Yet with the healed Creeple back He 'll call thee And bid Thee Sinn no more lest worse befall thee A Dedication of my first Son IS it not fit the Mould and Frame Of Man should dedicate the same To God who first Created it and t' give To Him the first fruit of that Span we live In the worlds Infancy could Hannah tell Shee ought to Offer her sonn Samuel To Him that made him and refine That Sacrifice with Flowre and Wine Was Abrams long expected seed From Sarah's womb condemn'd to bleed And shall the times now they grow Old conclude In faithlesness and in ingratitude Let shame awake us and where blessings fall Let every one become a Prodigall In paying vows of thanks and bring The best and best for Offering Where am I then whom God hath deign'd to bless With hopes of a succeeding happiness Unto My house Why is 't I stand At th' Altar with an Empty hand Have I no Herds no Flocks no Oyl No Incense-bearing-Shebah-soyl Is not My Grainary stor'd with Flowre that 's fine Are not my Strutted Vessels full of Wine What Temporall Blessing 's wanting to suffice And furnish out a lively Sacrifice Save onely this to make a Free-Will-offering of an Infancy Which if I should not doe that pil'd-Up wood whereon lay Sarah's childe The Temple would accuse me where the son Of Elk'na first had Dedication Wherefore accept I pray thee this Thou 'st given and my first Sonn is Let him be Thine and from his Cradleling Begin his services first reckoning Grant with his Dayes thy Grace increase and fill His Heart nor leave there room to harbour ill That in the Progress of His years He may express whose badg He wears In Quadragesimam WHen all the Dayes w' have borrowed are mis-spent Had we not need to beg more time were Lent And not to suffer This too to be gon Because abus'd through superstition A knife to cut with 's good but if to kill It be abus'd why then we deem it ill All things are made for use Abuses came But as Usurpers to deprave the same And in some kinde or other all we do Speak think or have those have their morals too Our Pampred Bodies oft such thoughts put on That they become like to proud Iessuron And when our minds from full Cups are exprest They 're like to Baltashazzer's at His Feast Our Actions too laden with Temporall good Cannot permit t' aspire at Spirituall food But over-fed we surfet and becom Like to the Beast in all things save being dumb Tongue-tide we are not when we would express Our Enmity from th' root of Bitterness Nor yet uncharitable unless in this To judge that those who hunger doe amiss And such as thirst too whilst our Cups run o're And Bellies are made Magazines of store It should be otherwayes if we would shun The heavie doom of sad Temptation And as the Meat and Drink of Faith prepare A Holy-Fasting-sanctifying Prayer Cook'd from our Corner'd hearts and not the streets A Sacrifice Incens't with Love for sweets And thus performing what is Lent aright We 'l fear no Schismatick nor Anchorite A Hymm occasioned upon going to receive the blessed Sacrament when it was a snow INvited now to Sup with Thee my Lord All that I am is at a Period How to be fitly drest And so t' become a worthy Guest For 't is prepar'd alone For such as have the Wedding garment on Which through Guilt I want And all my Substance t' buy one is too scant Make Me a Purse then from His Sacred Score Whose institution 't was and will doe more For Those beleeve His name That to redeem us Sinners came Into the World and shed His precious blood which might stand all in stead By a quick Faith apply The Soveraign Balsome of His Agony For like the Man met Theeves we all were left Naked and Wounded Spectacles of Theft And Rapine too wherein We weltring lay a prey to Sin Till th' true Samaritan Passing this way Redemption began Not sparing Wine nor Oyle Out of His Hands and Feet and Side the while Thus now
beast Carries his house wherein to rest Or Legless one But Emblemer Of frailty would infer Danger to be trod upon By every Passenger And doe we break our ease To follow these Fly at preferments pitch And adding to our heaps grow rich In Muck and Slime When 't is our Soul Immortall should controul And so Calcine our time From all such dross to Gould Which by afflictions tri'd And worldly crosses purifi'd Our Great Redeemer will apply His stamp to give it currency In Divitem Lazarum DIves Quidam Ingens sed nondum Nomine Dignus Purpureo Decoratus erat Victuque Superbo Gaudet Assiduis Dapibus nec sumptibus ullis Parcitur Ingluviem Queis possit pascere Foedam Sed Mare Consulitur Totum longinqua Potestas Terrarum excutitur nec non Iunonia Regna Addunt Ingenuis cumulatim proemia Mensis Nec deerat nisi Flammiferens Ignisque futurus Mortuuus Iste tamen Somno Lethale sepultus Dicitur nil aliud Pauper Alter erat gracilis Quem buccea reddit Spectandum Charitate Magis nudisque lacertis Frigidus ante fores procumbens Divitis Omne Solatium à Canibus Lambentibus esse fatetur Non etenim blando hoc captanda est gloria seclo Mortuus est etiam Sed Queis discrimine vitae Dissimilis Fortuna fuit His Mortis idem Nempe Quod in fragilis gaudetur tempore mundi Vertitur in Lachrymas Durissima quaeque fuêre Illius Arbitria accipiunt pro munere Pectus Vpon the Rich Glutton and Poor Begger THere was a Certain Mighty Rich man had No other name in Scripture although clad In Purple who delitiously did fare Daily for which there neither Cost nor Care Was spar'd to feed his Gluttony with store Of what the Seas could yeeld when Galed ore And whatsome'r both Earth and Air afford Seem'd Heaped Tributes to his quainter bord So that no Element to his desire Was Niggard save what was reserv'd the Fire Yet this man Died and on that sleepy score Was Buried and no more There was an Other whom spare Diet made More spectacle for Charity being laid Naked and Cold before the Rich mans gate Who full of sores and all Disconsolare Saving from what the licking Dogs apply Concludes all this worlds pomp but flattery Then He Dies too But as in life these were Nothing akin so in Diameter Death Their Condition states for now 't appears What here was sown in Joy there 's reapt in tears And He who by hard Fate was here opprest In Abrams Bosom finds an Interest A Reveille Mattin to my best Friend LOrd when the Casements of Mine eyes To welcom in The Morn first open'd are Grant that my Heart may early sacrifice To Expiate for Sin Prepare And mustring up Thy Favours and Its Crimes Cashiere the One let th' other stand enrold To evidence at full that Time of Times Wherein Thou Ransom'dst me who once was sold Let all the Drowsie Vapours prest My Fancy down Dispell and give it way To rise betimes and to be better drest So Dignifie and Crown The Day With Anthems may set forth that Glorious flame Thy love burst out in when my fault was so I 'd line for e'r benighted in the same Hadst Thou not vanquisht and o'rcome my fo Cause I beseech thee that moist dew That falls upon My waking Temples tress By every yawn Thy goodness taught to shew An Exhalation Express Obeying no heat save what did proceed From that most Righteous Sun whose beams alone Were of full Power to refine the deed Our Parents Dross'd by their Corruption And as My Armes unfolded stand To fathom out The Latitude as 't were 'Twixt the Beds either side Meridian Let my Thoughts sore about That Sphere Unparalleld for Grace and stretch to be Embracers of those Mercies did extend Beyond all sounding Plummet or degree And thither all my Kids and Fatlings send Thus tane by th' hand by His whose felt What mine deserv'd I 'm up and straight perceive The Mornings Birth Bedew'd with his whose smelt All of Perfumes and serv'd T' conceive Such Raptures in Me that no part nor sense Could be at quiet till it rose to make This Offering and from a full influence Inspir'd of Love Dull Thanklesness t' forsake Now if my Eyes my Heart my Head my Armes Embrace Contemplate feeling seeing Charmes Where can this Exorcism trulier stay Than on that Star which chang'd our Night to day Quid Amabilius IF I must needs Discover I am in Love be Christ again my Lover And let His Passion bring My Actions to their touch and censuring Who in this world was born Liv'd in it and was put to death with scorn That I to Sin might die Being born again so live eternally Thus I 'l no longer make Addresses to my Glass for this Curles sake Or that quaint garb whereby I may enchanted be with flattery Nor on Luxurious vow Becircling Rose-buds seek to Gird my brow But with a melting thought Bring home that Ransom whereat I was bought In Contemplation Of that same Platted Crown He once had on And when my Glove or Shoo Want Ribbond Call for th' Nails that pierc'd Him too Else farther to be drest Borrow the Tincture of His naked brest Nor wash but in Soul Pride Then use no other bason than His Side So up and ready think How He for Me low in the grave did sink That I again might rise With Him who was both Priest and Sacrifice To make atonement in The Difference 'twixt his Fathers wrath Mans fin Whereto it must remain That I through Faith requite this love again Quare Viventem quaritis Non Hic est Quare inter quaritis enim est Quare Mortuos quaritis surrectus est Dumin Luxuria Libidine Et in omnium denique malorum consuetudine conquiescamus Arrogantiae Avaritia Et in omnium denique malorum consuetudine conquiescamus Tranquillitate Tyrannide Et in omnium denique malorum consuetudine conquiescamus Et tamen Salvatorem Salvationem Denique quicquid bonoium ex omni munificentia singulari providentia largiri dignetur Omnipotens petere conemur quid aliud ni◠viventem inter Moriuos quarimus Veritatem Vitam Denique quicquid bonoium ex omni munificentia singulari providentia largiri dignetur Omnipotens petere conemur quid aliud ni◠viventem inter Moriuos quarimus Immunitatem Immortalitatem Denique quicquid bonoium ex omni munificentia singulari providentia largiri dignetur Omnipotens petere conemur quid aliud ni◠viventem inter Moriuos quarimus Ut itaque Mortis amaritudine relicta Vita foelicitatis fruamur aeternâ Vitia vitemusutpote ad mortem aeternam ducentia Amphoram amplectemur aquae Caelestis Nequitiam in nobismetipsis necemus Ut beneficia Resurrecti acquiramus Descendamus per poenitentiam pro peccato in nostrorum ipsorum Contemptum Ut
OTIA SACRA Deus nobis hoec Otia fecit Virg London Printed by Richard Cotes 1648. Columna Fidei OUR Senses are bewitch'd and seem to grow So to the Creature and on things below That all our busied Fancy can devise Serves more to sink them than to make them rise For out of sight and minde at once agree To blind-fold Nature from Eternitie And leave her groveling for to groap her way Here in This Transitory bed of Clay Till Faith steps in and in the stead of wings Unto Beleef a lofty Pillar brings Whereby we should be raised up And thus Ascend to Him descended once for Us ΚΑΡΔΙΑΓÎΩΣΤΗΣ On the Title Page THere is a Fowle wont hide its head To Passe so undiscovered Judging it self exempt from eyes Of others whilst it none descryes Not much unlike are such to these Who commit Closet-trespasses And Chamber-dalliance and then Goe for unseen 'cause so of Men If They my Pillars top attein They 'l finde an eye tryes heart and rein But Natures Pur-blinde sight short is Nor can she rise alone to this Till Grace assist which will such vertue yield As both t' ascend the Pillar gain this Shield OTIA SACRA Ad Libellum suum GOE without Dedication for that might Imply I sought to Shelter what I write Under some Patronage I can afford None Sharers in this Offering with my Lord His are both Line and Leisure which mis-spent The fault lyes on th' unhappy Instrument That should improve both better But 't is done And Thy fate is decree'd why woof is spun Censure must passe Yet Blush not since thy Strings Are onely consonant with holy things Ad Viatorem NUmina non Nummos Me dum cernis Meditantem Et Me-ditantem crede Viator habes EST In Vnitate Trinitas THat Number 'bove the rest For ever Blest Which God Himself doth daign To Branch into yet Re-unites again For as His Prescience could tell When Angels fell That Man would follow and there should be On Sent for to make Redemption So from our Misery did He Infer Th' necessity of a Comforter This doth inspire That did Create The second did Regenerate Thus though Distinct They are Yet singular And One wise-ever Power it is doth Tie This Triple Knot into a Unitie Mundi Ex Maxima Parte nondum Vocati Participes Verbi es Sacramentorum qui fuêre vocati sed nonduÌ„ electi Ad Sanctificationem Qui propter externam vocationem Domini per Verbum interne effectualiter vocantur per Spiritum Sanctum Justicationem Grex parvulus Christi Luk. 12. 32. Glorificationem Tertia pars Domini Zachar 13. 9. Electi ideoque vocati Let me not tread the Broad highway to Sin But being Elect declare my Call therein Seminantur à Deo Inter Homines à Diabolo Veritas Inter Homines Mendacium Pax Inter Homines Discordia Amicitia Inter Homines Inimicitia Ut Alterutri prodessemus Ut Alterutrum devoremus A Morning Thought Sithence it is given To Man to follow's Labor till the Even And when that Star doth close Up Day then to seek quiet and repose Let Us what 's of our Own Learn to make known To be But so much Cash of purchas'd Misery All else Confess Of Love and Providence true happiness For as our Souls had been A Combating all Day with Flesh and Sin And then for Captives led In Slumbers Fetters Prison'd in a Bed So by the Nights Exchange again to Day They may Set free take up their Armes And having overcome those Charmes Boldly Conclude the Victory to keep When as they Warr for Him kept them asleep No other Ransom Need To Speed This Liberty but once awake Into our thoughts to take What such Confinement might Administer of Danger in One night And how th'all-wakefull eye Provided had for our Delivery Which on the wings of Contemplation rais'd Again w' are Mounted whilst His name is prais'd Coeli enarrant Gloriam Dei ARe we asleep or doe we see No more than did blind * Bartime Or are our Senses Charm'd to lie Benumm'd into some Lethargie Whilst Sin makes of 's a Conquest Rise Flesh-buryed Soul and from the Skies Let thy wing'd thoughts to thee relate Who 't was those structures did Create Where in Thy Hemisphere at large is pen'd More wonder then frail Clay can comprehend Whether a Sun a Moon a Star A Comet or a Meteor A Various Bow true sign of Peace Swoln Clouds which cause on earth increase When breaking they Distill the Glum And horrid beat of Thunders Drum We hear or see Why are these sent But t' shew He is Omnipotent Who thus in Characters doth write whereby We have a Lecture in Divinity For as those great and lesser Lights Distinguish Time by Dayes and Nights So was it Day with us untell Our Disobedient Parents fell Yet as the Tincell'd Night gives way At th' opening o' th' true Golden Day So did the powers of Darkness fly The Sun of Righteousness being by And when we Comet-struck int' Sin had run The Father did redeem us by the Son When th' Undertaker first did dain For to restore His world again He us'd no other lock or sluce I' th' Clouds but sent a Bow of truce What did His Mercy less when we Who are the Worlds Epitome Delug'd in Sin lay Breathless Drown'd Untill Our Saviours Pretious Wound Open'd a Drayn wherewith he laid us dry From wickedness into fertility The Aire imprison'd fain would try The virtue of more Liberty Yet meeting with a tougher Cloud Is forc'd to quarell and speak loud So if we seek our freedom heer We must no Cloud of Fortune fear But like Bonargeses proclame What we profess then be the same For whilst the Face looks one way and the Mind Another 't is like Rain brought against the Wind. There shall no Thunder-crack nor dash of wet Prodigious Comet in us fear beget But the Suns Purple and the Silver wings The Moon puts on bespeaks us Saints and Kings Whilst Iris Endless Peace the numerous Lights Adorn the Night discypher all delights Which for to seek to compass and obtain He that quits life and all here makes great Gain My Countrey Audit BLest Privacie Happy Retreat wherein I may cast up my Reck'nings Audit Sin Count o'r my Debts and how Arrears increase In Natures book towards the God of Peace What through perversness hath been wav'd or don To My first Covenants contradiction How many promis'd Resolutions broke Of keeping touch almost as soon as spoke Thus like that Tenant who behind-hand cast Intreats so oft forbearance till at last The sum surmounts his hopes and then no more Expects but Mercy to strike off the score So here methinks I see the Landlords Grace Full of Compassion to my drooping Case Bidding me be of comfort and not griev'd My Rent his Son should pay if I believ'd Cui in calamitatibus soli sit fidendum WHen first the Towring Hills the loftier Pine
Bifronted doth stand Looking at once to this and t'other hand What would He teach our Consciences save this To see at one View whence Salvation is And whence our woe came that for this we may Our Tribute Tears for that all-praises pay Now when the Season blossomes in its Spring And time puts on a party-colour'd wing Why should not our Souls which before did lye Defil'd through th' smutch of Sin receive a dye Whereat the Rose may blush from that same flood All Streams surpasses of our Saviours Blood For if that Leprosie we fain would heal This is our Iordan stain'd with Cutchinneal If from our first Sire we receiv'd a wound This is that Spikenard that can make us sound And as th' approaching Sun comes daily on For to supplant the Winters Garison So should our frozen hearts be thaw'd and Melt When we to Mind call what our Jesus felt And we deserv'd His Zodiack should bring Us to the Tropick of our Summering In those warm thoughts till ripe in faith and hope Love like a Vale cover Our Horiscope For what can we return for His who rent The Temples to free us from Punishment O let the Lustfull Clusters we behold Betasseling Autumn and those Ears of gold Resembling Corn say to us if we thirst Or hunger He who is both Last and First Did tread the Wine press for us and fulfill What was to us due for our Parents ill That so we might be numbred 'mongst those guest The Lamb invited to his Mariage-Feast And though we once fell by what one Tree bore God by Anothers fruit did us restore Then whilst the Sharp'd-breath'd Winter seems to lay Stripes on the bearing earth and Blasts th' array She late was deckt in Spitting on her face Its Feather'd-rain all embling the disgrace For Us He felt who would have known no shame Had we been Innocent and without Blame Doth 't not discypher how a Lilly pure Sprung up 'midst Thorns Scourgings to endure And how They Spat upon a Face that Shin'd Which prov'd our Eye-salve who before were blind My Observation at Sea THough every thing we see or hear may raise The Makers Praise For without Lightning or Thunder His Works are all of wonder Yet amongst Those there 's none Like to the Oceon Where not a Catalogue to keep Of severall Shapes inhabiting the Deep Let but our Thoughts confer With what once Gravel'd the Philosopher And we must straight confess Amazement more but apprehension less The Fire for heat and light Most exquisit And the All-tempering Aire Beyond Compare Earths Composition and Solidity Bountifull Mixed with Humidity But here for Profit and Content Each must give place to th' Liquid Element Whose Admirable Course that Steers Within Twelve Houres Mariners Outwards and Homewards bound May be Sufficient Ground To raise Conclusion from thence At once of Mighty Power and Providence For as the Cynthian Queen Her bounty less or more vouchsafes be seen So by her wain She brings The Tides to Neaps and by her Full to Springs Yet not but as He pleas Who set Her there chief Governess of Seas Which understood Truly by such would seek for Traffique good They must their Anchors waigh Out of the Oozie dirt and Clay Earths Contemplations yeild And hoysing Sayles They 'l straightway have them fill'd With a fresh-Mackerell Gale whose blast May Port them in true happiness at Last There th'in a Bay of Bliss Where a Sweet Calm our welcom is Let us at length the Cables Veere Fore and abaff that may our Moorage cleere From warp or winding so ride fixt upon Our Hopes Sheat-Anchor of Salvation Vpon Moses put young to Sea or hid in an Ark of Bulrushes THis son of Amram soon as born did find Pharaoh a Tyrant but the Midwives kind So being from that bloody Doom set free Becomes His Mothers Care and Huswifrie Who to His safety that She might confer More hopes She makes him first a Mariner A good presage whereby it was implide His People He through the Red-Sea should guide In Mosen adhuc Infantem Amni commissum Cur latitans Iuncis Moses fit Nauticus Infans Ut ducat Populum per Vada Rubra suum Docem Praecepta Acrost Konist 1 I n AEgypte cum fuisses respexit Solus ut Exisses 2 E rrantes in Eremo plectit paucos posteros ut reddat Cautos 3 H abeas Nomen non in Vano ore sed in Corde Sano 4 O pere nec sordeat Dies in quâ jussa Sancta quies 5 V erus Amor Paternalis docent in Parentes qualis 6 A rdens Cura ignoscendi tollat Rabiem Plectendi 7 D oceat Casta Vitae normam qui Vitam dat formam 8 E ripiendi queis fruentur alii nec sit Mens libenter 9 V era Testimonia Testes reddant laetos falsa Moestos 10 S is Contentus tuâ sorte Nec Iunctam cupias Portam Porta Capias Vitam tunc pro Morte The Contempt of this World raises the Others Esteem WHen all the Vertue we can here put on Is but refined Imperfection Corruption Calein'd A Minerall vain Where Clay to be more priz'd some Ore doth gain Why should we not employ the best of Care To learn wherein Truest Contentments are And how attain'd The Jewellers command O're Art is how to Foyle the Diamond As may add Lustre to it So who tries Less to Esteem of This worlds Flatteries Sets higher Value on the Other where Perfection proves th' Eternall Jeweller In Diem Natalem NE morìatur Homo Sanctus de Virgine purâ Mirificxsque hodie nascitur Ille Puer Ne Peregrinetur Factus Peregrinus Idem est In Cunis Stabulum Glorificatque suis Ne pro Delictis Proavi plectatur amara Pocula fert alio non patienda Modo Exul ut è Coelis Migrans terraque Marique Iactatus tenebras Mortis Ima petit Nos ut surgamus Sancti quoque Luce fruamur AEterna Astriferas incolit Ille Domus In Eandem Christus Vita Venit Christus Veritas Venit Christus Via Venit Venit Mors Discedunt Venit Mendacium Discedunt Venit Error Discedunt Laeta Dies Cunctis Mors quâ calcanda recessit Nascitur in Domibu◠dummodo Vita suis Plena Dies Lucis Verum quâ clarius exstat Et Falsi Fuscum tollitur Omne Genus Fansta Dies in quâ Via stornitur Omnipotentis Error aufertun Clara Beata Dies To Kisse Gods Rod occasioned upon a Childs Sickness WHat ever Gods Divine Decree Awardeth unto Mine Or Mee Though 't may seem ill With patience I am resolv'd to undergo Nor to His purpose once say no But Moderate both Mind and Will And Conquering th' Rebellions of Sense Place all content in true Obedience Thus I create it good When His Correction 's understood Which is Not to destroy But to reclaim And t' cause me turn a new-leaf ore Count all an Error-writ before So find the sting of Flattering
dummodo Gallus adest Vpon King CHARLES return out of Scotland in November 1641. DOth CHARLES return to make our Climate shine And shall not every Spring run Claret-wine Is not the Kalendar reverst and where Decembers dirt and th' Frost of Ianivere Threatn'd a winter now those sheets display Themselves ore fruitfull Iune or teeming May For thus as ' thin the Tropicks may we boast That two fair Seasons have twice blest our Coast Ere one whole year ran round The time He went Seeming the Springs forerunner or our Lent For so He was but borrowed and we rest Pleas'd with 's return alone who 's interest Sufficient of Himself in which bank lies The Treasure of His subjects hearts and eyes See how they Flock else and with tumbling hast Are less content because so soon He past Be satisfi'd ye have your Prince again Fro'th ' North and CHARLES triumphant not in Wain In quendam nomine Squier haud Generosum ARmiger es neque Arma geris non Martis at Artis Indutus Galea es Ingenioque vales Vpon the King and Queens meeting after long absence THe welcome showers of Aprils morning dew Distill'd upon the Bosom of the Earth Beget a May whose Liverie anew Cloaths Fields and Woods and there creates such mirth Amidst the winged Quier that Eccho tells It ore again from Natures Minstrells The Spicie Gumms that so perfume the East To bid the Sun good-morrow are not more Esteem'd for that than is the golden West But that of Treasures Both have hidden store Is manifest no perils can deter The forward hopes of the Adventurer No world no season spring summer nor fall In Fruits in Flowers Treasures could e're present Such sweet and wealthy Joyes Harmoniall From Countrey or from Element As when our Gracious King and his bright Queen Did after Twelve months parted interveen In Sim. Lev. Pot. Top. NAtura His par est Vitio nam non caret Alter Et virtute Carens Alter uterque Opibus Cordium Concordia vera It is not meant that three in one should be But in each heart triple Capacitie Wherewith to serve ones God ones King ones Friend To which assign'd and for no other end In Flaming Zeal upwards to mount again In Loyalty to own a Soveraign In mutuall Love society t' maintain To N. B. for his Company FRiend Can I be at home and you the same Yet neither meet The Curteous Flame the Flame And Streams each other greet Although it seem from either Pole they came Or farthest stretch'd Meridian fetch'd Surely it is but some malignant Starr That would debarr This influence for fear We should more bright appear Souls in Conjunction frame the perfect'st Sphere So I to you must move or you move here Ad Amicum de Vita Beata ME qualem capiat Iudice Formulam Vita Commodius Tempora solvere Nec tantum tenui pareat Ilici Quem frangant Aquilones neque vertici Pinus stelliferae fidat ut arduo Imis non Careant Coelica Culmina Dormitque Occiduis Lucifer Alpibus Non est ut nihilo Laudéve Parvulo Speret maxima nam semper honoribus Tantis praefigitur Lubrica Scalula quae Ergo nec cupiat Ditior ut siet Ponti Teutonici Littore Fertiléque Agro vivere Fagis celeberrimo Nondum nunc Placeat Vinea Ripula Secretis liceat sit nota passubus Mentem nec laceret Pondera talibus Incumbunt Gravia est Montis Acutuli Ditantem-Locum ut in subsidium petat Alis Si-Lineis pervolet aequora Quisquam Naufragium vix fuget ultimum Et si in Remiget Omnibus Amnibus Portus non Aditum hic invenit Ullibi Nam Quot in Tonitru Hesperies Vomit Dotes provideant Indica viscera Dum Marsupia fert Alter Apostolus Simonis Filio nec fit Iniquior Captis vae nisi sit cautus Agellulus Cum Parvo sonitu subrepit Inscia Frigilla Nemorum jurgia suscitet Subrisum moveat Pullus Hirundinis Necnon Monachi cui Domus arbore Exit ter nobilis cedere Conjugis Voto qui voluit sit licet improbum In Vanumque habeat quidquid impedit Mentem quin sibi jam comparet integram Vivat nam facili cumque parabili Re nec Carleolis invidet Artibus Sed Coco vacuus praeparet Allia Gustum sic patina in contrahat optimum Nec desint Oleo Crurula Pulluli Reprensa ex Pridianóque superstite Adsit Bos Aridus Lingulaque Hinnuli Suis Buccina Ientacula optime Condit Rancida tunc Artocrea addita Baccae Cervisia est in pretio afferat Promus Poculáque Alcimedontica Sectari Leporem Climate Limpido Dum suadet Catulis hora sagacibus Cedant Temporibus dumque Caniculis Brumae sydera jam quaeritet anxiè Damorum Domus in Queis tremebundula Terret Hospites Silva Populeis Si quando libeat Limine proprio Versari Officiis non Saliaribus Iactet Foemineis Sed ut Equestribus Se exornet studiis Ferra Ferocibus Dans Pullis Sonipes Lorea despuat Nunc volvens pedibus queis viduaverat Vulturnus Nemora nunc Folia abditis In Musaeolis vertere Dactylo Sic fitque ut valido Corpore gaudeat Solutus Medico Hic atque Animo simul In praise of Fidelia GEt thee a Ship well rigg'd and tight With Ordnance store and Man'd for fight Snug in Her Timbers Mould for th' Seas Yet large in Hould for Merchandies Spread forth her Cloth and Anchors waigh And let Her on the Curld-waves play Till Fortune-tow'd she chance to meet Th' Hesperian home-bound Western Fleet Then let Her board-um and for Price Take Gold-ore Sugar-canes and Spice Yet when all these Sh' hath brought a shore In my Fidelia I 'll finde more Two Turtles billing and death with his Sithe over them ready to make separation To whom this Divide Impera NAture hath ore Affection so much won To knit a knot never to be undon Whilst life remains but Death to shew his power Cuts and Divides so becomes Emperour Yet the Relict for to prevent Fates charmes Doth voluntary fleck into Deaths armes To Sir John VVentworth upon his Curiosities and Courteous entertainment at Summerly in LOVINGLAND WHen thou the choice of Natures wealth hast skan'd And brought it to compare with Lovingland Know that thou maist as well make wonder less By fancying of two Timbering Phoenixes At the same time and dream two Suns to rise At once to cast fire 'midst those Spiceris Pregnant She is yet that must not deny The purest Gold to come from Barbary Diamonds and Pearl from th' Indies to confer On every Clime some thing peculier For so She hath And like a sum to all That Curious is seems here most liberall Affording in Epitome at least What ere the world can boast of or call best Now as contracted vertue doth excell In power and force This seems a Miracle Wherein all Travailers may truly say They never saw so much in little way And thence conclude