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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66465	Poetical piety, or, Poetry made pious by rendering into its method observations arising from various divine subjects, useful for these prophane and enormous times : to which is added, a brief alphabetical expositor, explaining the most intricate words made use of in this book, to the conception of a mean reader, and may serve as a remembrancer to the imperfect memory / by William Williams ...	Williams, William, of Cardigan.	1677 (1677)	Wing W2785; ESTC R8078	64,141	220

prevent This is most true try this experiment SUBJECT XIV On Luke 12. vers 47.48 And that Servant which knew his Lords Will and prepared not himself neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes But he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes That man who know's Gods will dos't not and he His will that knows not these shall beaten be WHo knows Gods will and does it dis-regard I find that many stripes are his reward That knows it not yet renders God the wrong Again I find few stripes to him belong How vain is' t then for men themselves t' excuse In either of these cases God abuse Who knows his Masters will and does it not 'T is just that many stripes fall to his lot That 's Ignorant thereof and will begin To plead his Ignorance that 's found a sin Then let none think whose Ignorance abuse Their God this sin will others sins excuse Yet 't is Gods will that man should be so mild And Innocent as is the harmless child That is like these in malice but what then In understanding would have all be men To know himself he would have all to learn And 't is their shame that cannot him discern Mens Ignorance excuses will deny When they exceed the days of Infancy Youth Manhood and old Age if these neglect To mind their God how can he them protect That never cordially did him affect Justice must have its course in the event On these no mercy crav'd nor did repent Thus some mens understanding are so dim Tell them of God and they care not for him If scriptures we peruse the cause we find Is Ignorance that makes their hearts so blind 'T is good much to discern and to live well Is found that good the other do excell In case that men cannot them both attain True Piety e're wisdom let them gain Though without Knowledge Piety seems vain The knowledge of all things none happy makes Nor is he blest because of these Partakes A life Religious towards God 't is this That makes a man participate of Bliss Of all that may be known that knowledge's best Which makes us better till of God we are blest And ignorance shall not excuse an elf Because that ignorance is sin it self Then 't is his duty that doth know Gods will As much as in him lies this to fulfill By his obedience to Gods pleasure still And 't is his duty that knows not the mind Of God to seek untill the same he find Who loves not that men alwayes should be blind SUBJECT XXIII A Contemplation on Math. 6. vers 24. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon Mammon's man's friend but God's a greater one When God hates Mammon let 's love God alone WHo would serve God must Mammon set a part For he affects not mans divided heart My Son give me thy heart God does require The giver to give him this gift entire For man has nothing worthy to bestow On God save this yet this to him does ow As very clear the sacred Records show God render'd this to man that man might give The same to God that gave him life to live Then ought it not on any thing be set Too much least it Gods goodness should forget 'T is full of Avarice does this express By coveting more wealth with greediness Triangular's mans heart the world is round Therefore to fill its Corners is not found God fram'd it such a thing that no supply Might satiate it unless the Trinity Yet covets most those things it cannot gain Or must could they be got not long remain Then covet not fond man from this abstain Man with all diligence should keep his heart That no temptations cause it to depart From God that made it such a wondrous thing From whence the Issues of mans life do spring Blessing and cursing good and bad do flow From this receptacle of weal or wo. Blessing and good when loving God entire Cursing and bad when Mammon must desire Thus God and Mammon never will agree Therefore not lodg'd within one heart can be No more than greatest in the least degree God either all or none requires mans heart A Piece to Mammon he will not impart Since God therefore cannot be satisfi'd Without it all let Mammon be deni'd No doubt the Mammonist would give his wealth To God did God deprive him of his health Wealth is but grief and trouble to enjoy When God the comfort does of health destroy Confider this and let it be your care To make you friends that may of Mammon share That when you fail when your health do cease They may receive you where 's e'relasting peace I mean all poor blind lame sick weak young old Are Mammons friends to feed keep from cold Then harbour these they will you entertain To habitations that for aye remain Mansions of glory doubtless will reward Their Souls who for Christs sake the poor regard And Heavens Gates ' gainst such shall neer be bar'd SUBJECT XXIV A Pause upon Proverbs 11.2 vers When Pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly is wisdom When Pride approaches strife doth it attend From which humility will men defend IF shame's the destiny that will betide Conceited man what reason is for Pride Why may not this vain thing be set aside Who would be haughty arrogant and proud Since God with shame this sin does threat so loud What 's loftiness or to aspire the place Of Lucifer when gaining but disgrace Too oft experience teaches this to know Who pride exaults Gods justice brings him low That 's proud in heart the Scripture will accord This mans Abomination to the Lord That 's arrogant his justice will reject That 's meek his grace and mercy will protect This is that truth ' gainst which none need except By others harms henceforth may men beware Of Pride least they in its destruction share For pride it is an elevated thrall So sure as it stands high so sure must fall Like to those Angels that for this have fell From th' highest Heaven to the lowest Hell That pride themselves those doubtless God does hate In this the Devil they do imitate If not remidi'd in a devillish state Men fall most desperate when they do aspire The highest pitch they can themselves admire The higher mens presumption climb they shall Without dispute the greater find their fall But for the lowly humble meek and wise When others fall God fails not these to rise They seem most lovely in his purest eyes Then of a Truth to those that lie most low To greater exaltation God will show For he himself that humbles shall embrace Gods glory that exalts himself disgrace Thus then you see as by a Touchstone tri'd What are the Fruits and the effects of pride It soares on high and bears a lofty name But in the sequel nothing's found but shame And that affect it most are

most too blame Then shun we pride because a shamefull evil That hath its derivation from the Devil So base a thing is pride wise men it know T' have brought the proud to want from want to wo. A Spiritual Hymn to the praise of God who is Omnipotent Omniscient and Omnipresent Lord frame my tongue To sing a Song O Could I sing To Sions King A Song that would him please No doubt but he Would pity me And my griev'd heart soon ease Teach Lord my King My tongue to sing To God alone Besides him none I 'le make my moan that he May mercy take For his Sons sake On such a wretch as me I would thee praise My God alwayes I am defil'd Sin me beguil'd So wretched is my case Since Adams fall That I and all Gods Image did deface May I begin Lord to hate Sin God did Create Man in a state Of blessedness at first In Edens land Plac'd him to stand Where he became accurst O Lord do thee From sin me free In Paradice Did Satan tice Man to transgress Gods Laws Forbidden fruit There like a Brute Accepts his sin 's the cause Lord from the Devil Sprang all evil Man did rebell Deserved Hell But God to help mans need Procur'd a Friend Should man defend Of Adams womans seed Gods love descends Christ makes amends O! here is news Let none refuse The message that is sent Mans Saviour's found May praise redound To God Omnipotent God from above Shew'd men his love Messiah blest Gave man kind rest By restless agonies Man to restore Gods wrath Christ bore And on a Cross he dies Christ on the Cross Repair'd our loss Joy to all men Abounded when Their Saviour Christ was born The Angels prais'd Their God that rais'd A King whose Crown was thorn An Angels voice Made th' Earth rejoyce Glory above And on Earth love This Song did Angels sing With one accord Unto the Lord And Christ their new born King Glad tidings came With Christ his name Christ dy'd for those That were his foes This was exceeding love Which far excells All paralells Men in compassion move For 's foes Christ dy'd None so beside God him commends That loves his friends And with his friends his foes Though such as he may chance to be Not many are of those Man will deny For 's Friend to die Man for some end Affects his friend This I have seen most plain His love is set In hopes to get Some benefit or gain Save God above Few have true love Love is a cheat Or meer deceat As now a dayes 't is us'd This but in part 's lodg'd in the hear Which makes it thus confus'd Love oft-times skips From heart to lips Gods seeing eye 's ubiquity And his omiscience can know by his might And present sight The Inward thoughts of man God mans intent Knows and how bent Thrice blessed then Be God of men O Praised be his name For evermore Let 's him adore That sees and knows our frame Amen say I Eternally Divine Ejaculations or Pious breathings O Lord prepare my Soul to seek Thy self and make my Spirit meek O Thou preserver of mankind May through thy grace my heart Will Conscience Spirit Soul and mind From what 's impure depart Lord cleanse my heart and make it thine Then without doubt thou wilt be mine O rectifie each faculty That to my Soul pertains And every member bodily Redress from sinful stains O shew some token Lord on me That I am wash'd from sin by the. That in thy sight as Innocent And sinless I appear Possessing mercy to prevent The Judgement drawing near My Soul being freed from sin I say Will make me joy at Judgement day Because that then all works of men To Triall shall be brought As acted how and where and when Both good and bad they wrought All works I did Dooms-day shall try Lord pardon my iniquity There to receive their recompence And stipend of reward According as with Reverence To God they had regard If my good works out-poise my bad O this will make my conscience glad They that obediently did serve The Lord in Heaven shall dwell That disobediently did swerve From God shall go to Hell If that my evil works out-weigh My good I am undone for aye The significations of the word World in Scripture A formed world deform'd reform'd again I find a truth Scriptural proofs maintain Form'd first of God deform'd through Satan next Reform'd through Christ this tenet proves the text Form'd free from blame deform'd through shame sin Reform'd from faults as if they 'd never bin On the words Exploration Deploration Imploration Explore Deplore Implore these words contain Three certain grounds which proves the Christians gain First Exploration to search out his crimes Next deploration these bewail betimes Then Imploration to invoke or call On God for absolution from them all On the words Easeless Endless and Remediless Easeless and Endless and Remediless Are Hells amazing Torments to possess Easeless because no respite of the grief Endless in that no period for relief Remediless ' cause sinners would not turn From sin for which they chose for aye to burn On Faith Hope and Charity Faith Hope and Charity three Virtues are So transcendental none with these compare Faith flies to Heaven by Caelestial wings Hope waits till Faith from thence some comfort brings But Charity both Faith and Hope excels Man's Heav'n on Earth is love wherein God dwels On God the King and the Church God and the King to rule the Church agree Though th' King bear rule God rules the King she First God inclines the King to rectifie The Church-deformers with Conformity The Church enjoyes her union by this thing From that Communion of God and the King On the Personality of God to wit Father Son and Holy Ghost The Father Son and Holy Ghost all three To make man in Gods Image did agree The Father did command the Son Create The Holy Ghost this Image animate Thus man was made next Angels in degree By God that 's Three in One and One in Three Though God afflicts man for evil yet Gods afflictions to man are not evil The evils of chastisements truly are No evils nor with Evil things compare For from the chiefest good even God they flow Lead to the chiefest good this God to know And in the chiefest good likewise are found Even Jesus Christ abundantly t' abound Sometimes God will not hear nor regard the Prayers of his own Servants The Lord will not bow down his sacred Ear Nor will the Prayers of his own Servants hear When they ask either things in nature bad Not good for them nor by them to be had Or things right good for some malignant ends Such gifts as these bestow God ne're intends The Scriptures say according to his will Soshould we pray if God our prayers fulfill On Matthew 6.33 But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and

condemns the Gospel will reprieve He whom the Law condemns let him but grieve No doubt the Gospel will find a reprieve For such if but the Gospel he 'l believe Although Gods justice does mans deeds require Gods mercy will accept of his desire Therefore Gods mercy should all men admire Since mercy thus Gods justice do exceed Let none suppose God evermore decreed Mans reprobation that repents his deed Nor yet that mans Election stands secure Because he some temptations may endure Sin 's mans infection penitence his cure I am afraid too many men defin'd Election stricter than God e're design'd By his decree concerning humane kind God by predestination left a space Wherein Christs merits might for man take place Since evermore he saw mans wretched case Election thus consider'd does repaire Mens hopes prompts them unto frevent prayer And proves their Antidote against despair But when deliver'd in a stricter sense It has Created fear and diffidence By its possessing men with negligence 1 Some derive ill corsequences from the Dectrine of predestination How many Persons now a days declare Who be Elected such sure saved are Let them sin on Election will them spare Again one man will to another say Some hear Sermons every Sabbath day I hear none am sav'd as well as they For ought I know the Preacher may be one Design'd of God for reprobation What need of Preachers Sermons will save none Thus will the vulgar and Illiterate men Dispute the case and argue now and then Enquiring who are sav'd who not or when Which thus Creates destruction in the brain Some bless'd as Abel are some curst as Cain To those damn'd by decree Devotion 's vain 1 Cain no Reprobate by positive decree Who can affirm or for a truth dare tell Cain by decree was reprobate of Hell When God would him accept had he done well Mercy was offer'd unto Cain when he Had Abel slain sayes God shalt thou not be Accepted if thou dost but well by me To say that God did Cain commiserate And prove that Cain was then a reprobate Seems from Gods justice much to derogate Cain in his wrath did first his Brother kill And cause his blood upon the Earth to spill Then vengeance overtakes him for the Ill. From which I might attract this inference Just Abel dy'd was sav'd through Innocence And Cain condemn'd for his Impenitence Had Cain repented of his crime and sin This homicide and fratricide had bin An object doubtless should Gods favour win Therefore his Condemnation I believe Was not so strict but mercy might reprieve His Life from death did he repent and grieve My reason is because I no where find His doom precede his deed but come behind His Brothers murther whereto he inclin'd If Cain was reprobated ever more Should mercy say that sin lay at his door Since so decreed he could have not forbore 'T would seem Injustice in our God should he First damn this Cain then him Create to be A man of mischief from sin never free This circumstance proves God the Origin And fountain of corruption whence mans sin Since Adams days derivative has bin 1 Esau no reprobate by predestination Let 's take a view of cursed Easau's state and see if God this Creature would Create To be an everlasting reprobate This inconsistent doubtless needs must be With him that 's mercy in the high'st degree Then for damnation none Created he God by his life hath sworn that his delight Is not in sinners death but that they might Return and live religious in his sight He would have all men to be sav'd and they To understand the truth and it obey Thereby salvation to secure for aye Jacob I lov'd and Esau did I hate These words some wrest and wrongfully translate To mean this Esau born a reprobate Of Easau's reprobation by decree I never read nor of his doom till he To Jacob sold his Birth-right for a Fee No more then of Cains doom before he slew His Brother Abel which doom did ensue The murther as the stipend that was due The Potter he hath power o're the clay This is a truth that no man need gain-say But who made Pots design'd to cast away 'T is like the Potter may somtimes mistake In temp'ring mould and so a vessel make Fit for no use or in its forming break But God admits of no mistakes for he Was all-sufficient when he did decree What matter and formation man should be Now for to honour God and reprehend Their Judgement who to know Gods will pretend Yet bound his boundless mercies without end Mercy and Meekness Justice Truth and Grace Could not admit not in the least embrace Damnation for his un-born Creatures case This is foreseen if prudetnly men pause God will not execute without a cause All his commands are true and just his Laws But yet this truth is not by me deny'd By mans damnation God is glorifi'd By mans salvation more and more beside The one God from his presence does expell For his transgressions to the pit of Hell The other suffers with himself to dwell And both these persons represent his might That goes to Hell where 's everlasting night To Heaven this where is eternall light And thus I have endeavour'd to express Gods Acts of mercy and his righteousness The harmless state and their state that transgress Predestination's danger to allay Pass lightly o're this bogg thou canst not stray Faith and Repentance miss not Heavens way I know I shall be either damn'd or sav'd And shall be Judg'd as I my self behav'd Yet hope for mercy which I ever crav'd I 'le Judge my self and will my self condemn My frailties urge me to it now and then Not damn my self least God should me contemn 1 Election reprobation depends on mans penitence or his prisumption Mans Reprobation and Election dreams Appear to some to others strictest theams To me a medium 'twixt these two extremes My reason prompts me that all persons may Obtain salvation that repent and pray In faith to God through Christ their crimes t' allay 1 God intended the Salvation of all by the mission of Christ Salvation to all mankind was Gods aim In sending Christ the Appostles do proclaim Christ has a balm for each believers maim Then blessed Jesus who for man didst die Grant me thy grace for ever to relie Upon thy death until I live thereby So shall I render praise for evermore To thee whom I in spirit do adore With heart and voice according to my Lore SUBJECT X. The Right description of a true Christian and those qualifications pertinent to this believer in his state of Grace and Christianity A Christian is a man that is sincere And honour's God with reverentiall fear One who believes in Christ as crucifi'd For his transgressions all his sin 's to hide One that declares he nothing does possess As rightly his save what 's unrighteousness One that

gave it to maintain The Preacher as his Payment for his pain Them to defraud no doubt our God will Ire The labourer is worthy of his hire And God his due will at our hands require O let us not detain the Preachers mite Since Gods commands confirms the same his right But with his Tribute freely to impart To him as his not ours with all our heart For he takes pains and so 't is his desert So Honour to whom Honour every thing Commanded from the Beggar to the King As loving Subjects then God will us own Both to this Crown and that of Heavens throne And shall adopt us children of his own Implore we then his grace to live thereby While here on Earth in Love and Amity Endeavoring and daring to be true And to our power render all their due Pleasing our God and bearing right regard To his commands that will us sure reward SUBJECT XIV Gods love to mankind and the Terms of of Salvation consider'd from John 3.16 God so loved the World that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Man sin'd Hell gain'd and Heaven was his loss Christ to save men from Hell dy'd on the Cross GOds goodness did behold mans wretch'd case Since Adams fall in sin and void of grace This mov'd his mercy to commiserate Poor mans condition in so curst a state When welt'ring in his blood through sin he lay Gods bowels yearn'd that he consults a way For his salvation that so vile did seem In his pure eyes and how him to redeem From that so base a case in Gods esteem The means whereby he mans redemption wrought Was by his death mans life that dearly bought And that was God himself becoming man Who made Eternity to seem a span For God incarnate did himself behave As man excepting sin unto the grave Whose sinless nature never did deprave Christ was his name to death was crucifi'd Upon a cross and thus as man he dy'd To save believers that in him abide By vertue of whose death men life obtain Christ bore the loss and man enjoy'd the gain He suffer'd torments he endur'd the grief And sacrific'd himself for our relief Betwixt two malefactors as a thief The way the truth the life he since was found By those believers sin their souls did wound In him all these find mercy to abound We all things have in Christ and Christ is all And every thing to those on him that call For instance when our sins our Soul make sick Physitian-like does search us to the quick By lancing our corruptions so that we From sinful Ulcers are by him set free He pow'rs the Oil and Balm in every wound Of sin sick souls to cure and make them sound And now no more mans duty than belief In Christ repenting all his sins with grief And when this service is perform'd then he Shall to his Masters joy admitted be Will seem to God without a spot of sin As not defil'd by Adams Origin Christs blood and his repentant tears did flow To wash his Leprosie as white as Snow His crimson crimes no more their redness show SUBJECT XV. A Mediation on Esay the 55. vers 6. Seek the Lord while he may be found call upon him while he is near In seeking God by Prayer Invoke his Name And when he 's found O man extoll the same INquire my soul search earnestly and seek For him who is most mighty and most meek Use all the means thou canst till thou dost find Who is most mighty and most meek most kind Pursue thy search and doubtless thou shalt see who 's mighty most most meek most kind to thee And when thou shalt this truth experience 'T will quit thee of thy fear and diffidence By framing in thy heart a larger scope For faith to Act than was requir'd by hope Faith is that powerful grace whereby the soul Do's over all despondencies controul And does its self upon Christs merits roul But hope is oft assaulted by despair Somtimes dejections does poor hope impare Yet 't is renew'd again by fervent prayer Faith joyn'd to hope or hope in Faith to rest Are buckler's of such Armour-bearers brest These fortifie his courage so that he Will conquer more than conqueror shall be Whereas if he had neither of these twain Nor faith nor hope no conquest could he gain But Esau-like the Lord his God might seek With cares and fears and tears upon his cheek And yet in searching not find him at all Or finding of him in effectuall Because that love the best Grace of these three Within his Bosom is not found to be Where is true hope O there true Faith begins For love to cover multitude of sins This hope to no man does create a shame But rather renders credit to his name Then cease we not to seek God virtually Till sound through faith and hope and charty This is the day of grace wherein he ought For to be found and by his Servants sought Now is the accepted time when this is past No search for him no finding him at last Seek God my soul whilst thou canst not him see Least when he 's seen he 'l not be found of thee Seek him by hope and thou shalt find him near By Faith this day of grace though he appear Not to the eye of sense to see him clear All shall behold him at the Judgement day But those far off his Laws did disobey And others near to save their souls for aye If that we would not seek the Lord in vain We must seek him in Truth once and again Yea often-times or rather constantly Till with his presence he our souls supply Let us not seek an other thing to find Instead of God but God whom we design'd Nor any thing besides God wish in heart Nor yet for any thing from God depart And since that God is neer this day of grace Then let us seek the presence of his face With right regard to him and reverence Declining not this search dy deligence In Truth and Love then let us seek God ever Until we find him and when found let 's never Cleave unto what from him our souls may sever SUBJECT XVI A Contemplation on Job 20. vers 5. The triumphing of the wicked is short the joy of a Hypocrite is but for a moment An Hypocrite is not within devout All his Devotion 's visible without LO how he Tirumphs now puft up with pride Whose time is as uncertain as the Tide One day unto his dayes he cannot borrow To day he Triumphs tumbles down to morrow From goodness and from virtue he will vary Although he knows his time but momentary Thus then his Character to amplifie This is the Hyprocrites Hypocrisie 'T is said of Hyprocrites their Congregation Shall be destroy'd by certain desolation Good reason why the just is more in danger Of him although his neighbour than a stranger For