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A51785 Divine contentment, or, A medicine for a discontented man and a confession of faith, and other poems upon several subjects / by Edward Manlove ... Manlove, Edward, fl. 1667. 1667 (1667) Wing M452; ESTC R31166 37,704 118

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careful be In all we do to act Religiously Of the Church ALL God's Elect that Heaven shall inherit And be by Faith pertakers of Christ's merit All those the unive●sal Church we call They are Christ's flock and he the head of all Out of all Nations is this flock selected Clens'd by Christs Blood and by himself accepted And the whole number of th'elected ones That have been are or shall be he will own The Church of Christ which visible we call And under the Gospel is Catholicall Consists of them and theirs that do profess The true Religion and true Holiness Out of this way can no sure expectation Be had by any of their souls salvation Unto the Church Christ gave the Ministry Which by his spirit works effectually For gathering and for making perfect his That are elected to eternal bliss And of this Church Christ Jesus is the head And by his spirit are his people lead The Pope of Rome cannot in any sence Be Head thereof you may collect from hence That he 's the Anti-Christ and man of sin That doth oppose Christs holy Church and him Of the Communion of Saints ALL Saints to Jesus Christ their head are knit By 's spirit and faith and have a fellowship With him in 's sufferings death and in his graces His Resurrection and in happy cases Are all such Saints and Heaven shall inherit And eke pettake of Christ and all his merits So all such Saints to one another knit In love begets a holy fellowship They have Communion in each others graces Share in their Prayers and in their hearts have places And are oblig'd such duties to perform Publick and private as may them concern And to their mutual good conducing be Both to the outward man and inwardly This fellowship which Saints with Christ injoy In no respect gives them equality With him none of his Saints or servants can Compare as he is either God or man Nor Saints Communion never can destroy In Goods or Lands their sole propriety Of Baptisme BAptisme is a Holy Sacrament Which doth to us most lively represent The powerful washing of the blood and spirit Of Christ that did for all beleivers merit Into the Church they have initiation And signes and seales of their regeneration Pardon of sins is eke confirm'd to them And into Christ they are ingrafted then They sin that do this Ordinance neglect Salvation yet to it 's not so anext But that without it infants may be saved And some into Perdition go that have it Of the Lords Supper THis ordinance unto the soul is sweet Where there is faith and where the Heart 's upright What empty poor and barren things are then The Sacraments to unbeleiving men Get faith Repent draw neer to God and pray Use ordinances in a Holy way T is great dishonour to the God of might When men his holy Ordinances sleight O then call in for all the stock of grace Stir up affections in this weighty case First get your sins slain by the edged sword Of Gods good spirit in the Holy Word Excite your faith Repentance exercise Forsake all sins and buy the Pearl of prise Faith is the Captain and the Master-grace Faith his our souls our Saviour to embrace Faith is a Jewel faith doth justifie B● faith on Christ poor sinners do rely Faith gives us interest in his benefits Faith weary souls for Grace and mercy fits Faith gives us interest in Christ's blood and merit Faith makes Christ ours both in his grace spirit Faith makes the soul his Saviour apprehend The grace of faith our souls to Christ commend By faith we do our Saviours body eate By faith Christs body we receave for meat By faith we drink our blessed Saviours blood Our Saviours Body is his servants food The matter of the Sacrament indeed Is Christ himself whereon we chiefly feed By him we nourish'd are our sins are kil'd By Christs warm blood our souls with Grace are fil'd O sin-sick soul canst thou more dainties wish Then to be nourish'd by this Princely Dish Hath Christ provided sinners such a Feast By which their graces are so much increast O then praise God flie evill follow good Thy filthy sins have shed thy Saviours blood All wicked persons and impenitent Pertake not of this blessed Sacrament For graceless persons by the same grow worse Instead of blessings they obtain a curse Grace in the Sacrament is never bred But grace by it 's Increas'd and nourished They that come graceless thither g●aceless may Return from thence and go much worse away The State of Man after Death and of the Resurrection of the Dead WHen men are dead their mortal bodies must Both see corruption and return to dust And then their souls which shall immortal be Return unto the Lord immediately The souls of Saints that lived righteously Are then receav'd into the Heavens high Where they behold Gods face in glorious light Ath ' day of Judgement souls and bodies meet The souls of wicked men are sent to Hell Where they in pain and utter darkness dwell And are reserv'd unto the judgement day Then to receive their dreadful doom for aye Two places only God for souls created When souls and bodies should be seperated At 'h day of Judgement such as lite enjoy Shall all be changed but they shall not die And all the dead that day shall raised be With the same bodies not such qualities And to their souls united be again Some doom'd to bliss some to eternal pain Of the last Judgement GOd hath appointed Jesus Christ his Son To judge the World and to pronounce the doom Of wicked Angels and all earthly men Who shall appear and shall be judged then By Jesus Christ who shall in glory sit Condemn the wicked and the Godly quit This day of Judgement it shall surely come God knowes the time and none but he alone O Watch and Pray then night and day God's Lawes obey that Christ may say Thou hast done faithfully Thou hast well done O therefore come And enter into Joy POEMS Against POPERY COMPOSED By Edward Manlove of Ashborn in the County of Derby Esquier LONDON Printed for Richard Mills at the Pestel and Mortar without Temple Barr. 1667. To the READER PEruse these Poems drest in mean attire Love truth hate error heartily desire To follow Peace and worship God aright Observe the Scriptures Romish errors sleight The Roman Church did Christ her Spouse forsake And to her Idols did her self betake She is unclean defil'd with spots and staines Unsound corrupt but yet a Church remains Therefore beware of utter detestation Of all her doctrine all 's not Innovation Truth 's fundamental which themselves descrie By their bright lustre do not thou deny But them imbrace and shun what is unsound Coyne currant is that 's in a channel found Refuse the Chaff do not the Wheat reject Hate Heresie but wholsome Truths respect They hold three persons in the Trinity We hold the same