is due to thee O Heav'nly queen my Helper be And plead my case before thy son Isai 59. v. 2. Wisd 1. v. 3. From whom by sin I 've basely run Whose rage and fury I do fear And without thee dare not appear Ps 50. v. 6. For unto him I 've sinn'd alone My tears present unto his Throne And do not turn away thy face O Holy Mary full of grace Be thou my sad hearts keeper here Prov. 1. v. 7. Imprint in me God's holy fear Obtain for me pureness of life In actions good and void of strife Eccli 21. v. 1.2 Obtain that I may sin detest To love what 's just and there to rest O Virgin sweet my heart's delight None hath or êre shall shine so bright Like thee among the femal Kind Luk. 7. v. 28. Whom God alone did worthy find To bear his son who pardon gave To Mary sinner Luk. 7. v. 48. satan's slave O pardon beg of him for me Ps 37. v. 5. From sin's great load that he will free My dolefull soul lest at the last In Hell with devils it should be cast O pious Rose without a thorn Their help who here in sin are born Pray unto Christ for me each hour That he will free me from the power Of tempting Flesh the world Revel 12. v. 12.1.10.2 v. 16. Gal. 5. v. 17.19 and Devil Who sorely press me unto evill On every side in sense and soul Dear Mother help and keep me whole Christ 10.3 v. 16. only son to God above I beg for thy dear Mother's love Luk. 11. v. 27. In whose blesst womb thou didst take Flesh Whose sweet breasts milk did thee refresh By her on bended knee I crave Thy mercy Lord Luk. 2. v. 1 ◠1.10 ◠v. 14 Coloss 2. v. 14. who once didst save The world and souls which are therein Paying the debt of Adam's sin Thô I in conscience guilty be Yet mercy beg o God Ps 50 v. 1. Mark 10. v. 47. of thee Have mercy Christ God's only son Pardon the evill I have don Mercy it self shew it to me My sinfull soul from satan free Blot out my sins Ps 50. v. 11.12 by mercies art Create in me a new clean heart Grant lively Faith and Hope to me In perfect Love that I may be And that at death my soul may rest Revel 14. v. 13. which is a gift of all the best Grant that my heart so grieved be For sin Ps 50. v. 19. that I be joyn'd with thee Make me so worthily receive Thy Body as all sin to leave Withdraw thy anger Christ my dear Let thy pure Blood wash me so clear Ps 50. v. 4. Without in body and within My heart so clear from filth of sin That when grim death doth seize me here The Angel strong may then appear Ps 90. v. 11. Who is my Custos by thy grace And me among the Just may place While death my body paineth much Let second death me no way touch Rev. 2. v. 11. Althô my flesh do putrify My soul let in thy bosom ly That when I rise my Judge to see 2. Macchab v. 9. I alwaies may remain with thee And never from thee parted be But praise thee for Eternity Ps 83 v. ◠Hear us o Lady for thy son Doth honour thee all that is don Which of him thou dost crave Sweet JESUS by thy Mother dear Who prays for us poor Sinners here We beg our souls to save CHRIST'S THIRST OF MAN'S SALVATION JESVS said I thirst Jo. c. 19. v. 28. OUr corporall substance hath originall birth And is composed of four Elements The fire and air cold water ponderous earth All naturall bodies have these four contents Their qualities drought moisture cold and heat By consequence they do participate The Body healthfull is while these remain Even proportion'd but if one prevail It generates sicknes bitter grief and pain And causeth stomack health and strength to fail Creatīg death and doth dissolve the whole Except by Physick you the same controul As fire more active is of all the four So heat its quality exceeds the rest The thirsty man is crucify'd much more Than who with cold or hunger is opprest By sicknes hunger's less than t was before But burning thirst increases more and more Christ therefore us'd this word Thirst to declare The great desire he had of man's salvation His loss in grace and virtue to repair To dy for sin and free him from damnation Thrice he did thirst in Heav'n poor Man to be On Earth made man and dying on the Tree The Prophet David who in many things Prefigur'd Christ Redeemer of mankind As is recorded in the Book of Kings 3. Kings 23. v. 15. To drink of Bethleem's water had a mind Of Bethleem's cistern water who 'l give me To drink 1 Chron. 11. v. 17. that my great thirst allay'd may be No other water wine or pleasant drink Could satisfy or please this holy King He of the living water then did think Which out of Bethleem's Cistern was to spring That was Christ Math. 2. v. 1. the Messias who was born In Bethleem to save man who was forlorn So God the King of Kings in joys above Seem'd not content he had a burning thirst Proceeding from the passion of his love Io. 3. v. 16. Man to redeem who was by sin accurst To take our flesh Io. 1. v. 14. and wrap his Deity Within the robes of our humanity In Bethleem he was born and man became Mat. 2. v. 1. To tast our bitter water which doth spring From tribulation sorrow pain and shame And purchase for us that which life doth bring Iohn 4. v. 13. He who doth drink the water I shall give Nêre more shall thirst but with me every live This water's Grace which that we may obtain As Pattern Christ Example to us gave To practise Virtue while we here remain Whom we must imitate if Grace wee 'l have I here on Earth do you example give Ioh. 13. v. 15. That you may imitate me while you live But since he found all men defil'd with sin Rom. 5. v. 12. Before they could be capable of grace They were with tears and sorrow to begin First to lament and grieve their sinfull case These tears he thirsted from mans heart and eye That man might drink this water and nêre dy When Christ did thirsty sit at Jacobs well He crav'd of the Samaritan to drink Ioh. 4. v. 7. What drink he meant this woman could not tell Of that well-water she did only think Why dost thou water ask of me V. 9. since Jews Samaritan's assistance do refuse To show what sort of water 't was he mean't Christ openly declares her sinfull state Ibid. v. 17. Desiring that she should the same repent And give him tears proceeding from sin's hate Ibid. v. 10. If
evill This lesser Light was Magdalen To Moon compar'd and she Was once Eclips't by Sin and thus Did not the danger see For as the Moon from Sun hath light So when the Earth's between The Moon 's obscur'd because she is By Sun no longer seen So God the Light of Mary's Soul By earthly Carnall Love Was parted from her and through Sin Did grace's light remove But when the Sun of Justice rose Malac. 4. v 1. Luk. 1. v. 78. And in this World appear'd With Mercy he did her behold And from Sin 's darkness clear'd And set her up a Light to be To all in sinfull state That they by her example might Repent before too late And never more return to Sin But perfectly Christ joyn As she did after lead on Earth A pure Life and divine No one of Pardon may despair Or to recover grace Since Magdalen a Sinner great In glory hath a place Althô their Night be perfect dark And danger great appears When this full Moon reflects her light 'T will free the heart from fears For thô the first part of her life With Sin was dark as Night The other part Moon-like doth give To Sinners guiding light Which if they follow it will bring Them out of darksom Sin To Christ the Sun of Justice bright A new life to begin Saint Luke c. 7. v. 37. who her Conversion writ Calls her the City-Sinner Who touch't with sorrow ran to Christ v. 36. Where he was sat at dinner Who Mark 16 v. 9. as Saint Mark affirms did cast Out of her seaven Devills For she had been addicted much Unto all sorts of evills Saint Gregory doth call these Devills The seaven Deadly Sins To which she long time slave had been But now her freedom wins And now Rom. 5. v. 20. where Sin did once abound Grace also doth abound She makes Vice Virtue 's Instrument She Pardon sought and found On Sin she once had plac't her love To Christ she now it gave Love was her Death Love was her Life Thus freed was Sathan's Slave Her Senses and her Members too Which she to Sin did use She now makes Instruments to grace And forth her Pardon sues Her Ears which unto lewd discourse Before were wholly bent She now lends to Christ's words most sweet Which made her heart relent Her Feet which ran before to sin She doth imploy to find Her now beloved and dear Lord That she may ease her mind And hearing where at Meat he sat Luk. 7. v. 37. She boldly did appear And feared not expell'd to be 1. Io. 4. v. 18. Love had expell'd and Fear She who did use to take first place Now humbly stands behind Her Lord and with tears in her Eyes Luk 7. v. 38. Unto his Feet inclin'd Those Eyes which with their wanton looks Lament 3. v. 51. Of Grace had robb'd her soul Shed Floud which wash't her Saviours Feet Who was to make her whole Her golden Locks which had inslav'd Poor souls in Cupid's snare Luk 7. v. 38. To wipe the Feet of her dear Lord She us'd as Towell rare Her Lips which had sin's poyson suck't And plac't it in her Heart v. 38. Continu'd kissing Christ's chast Feet And from them would not part Untill she had on them pour'd forth Her oyntments rich and sweet Which caus'd her Lord most mercifull With Mercy her to greet Woman v. 50. thy sins I do remit Go homeward now repair Because thou lovest much v. 47. thy sins Thô many pard'ned are What Joy these words did cause in her No Tongue can well express Nor Heart conceive except her own It was to that excess Learn here Poor Soul of Magdalen How to return to God To free thy self from Sin 's great load And Justice heavy Rod. First Ear give unto Gospel word Inspir'd or taught by Tongue With Mary run thy Lord to seek And Pennance not prolong Hate Sin love JESUS and declare The Sorrow that 's within By outward Tears prest from the Heart Through thy deep sense of Sin Imploy thy hair that is thy goods Christ's Feet the Poor to feed Tob. 12. v. 9. Fear not but Alms will thee relieve And help in time of need Pour forth thy oyntments that 's cast out True Virtue 's fragrant Smell Which will raise up thy Soul above In Heav'nly Joys to dwell Give Kiss of Peace to Christ that is Hate Sin commit no more And Christ will thee his Blessing give Luk. 7. v. 50. And Peace to thee restore Grant JESU that we Magdalen's Steps of Repentance trace And as we follow'd her in Sin May follow her to grace Dear Magdalen for JESU'S sake Pray unto him for me That in this life in all distress My Helper thou maist be THE SECOND PART Containing her life after her conversion unto Christ's Ascension BEhold the change of Mary's Life Which first to Sin was bent In service of her Master dear Was after wholly spent We never read she sinn'd again But follow'd her dear Lord Administring to him Mark 15. v. 41. Luk 10. v. 39. and his Attending to his word Luk. 10. v. 39. v. 40. Which sitting at his Feet to hear Her Sister did complain Of her as idle but her Lord Would have her there remain Say'ng Martha thou art busy'd much v. 41. And dost declare thy Heart Dressing my Meat but Mary here v. 42. Hath chose the better part Her brother being sick she sent Io. 11. v. 3. To let Christ know the same Say'ing whom thou lov'st is sick and he v. 7. With his Disciples came She met him and as she did use v. 32. Fell down before his Feet With Kisses from a loving Heart She did her dear Lord greet Where she renew'd her Tears again And so much did lament That Christ shed Tears with her v. 35. and thence Unto the Grave he went Say'ng Lazarus arise v 43. come forth He rose up suddenly To the great joy of sisters both And all the standers by Dear Mary shed these tears for me That I in Bliss may rest Since they prevail'd with God to weep And grant thee thy request In gratitude before Christ's Death She brought rich ointments Io. 12. v. 3. v. 5. worth Three hundred pence and as he sat On 's Head she pour'd them forth At this the Traytor Judas griev'd And said v. 4. Mark 14. v. 4. why this excess What she deem'd little he thought much Who priz'd his Master less Mat. 26. v. 15. When he sold him for thirty pence O Judas tell me why Thou didst not ask her who 'ld give more Before her Lord should dy When Christ was nail'd unto the Cross And all his friends were fled Io. 19. v. 25. Mary stood constant weeping by With sorrow almost dead When dead she help't to take him down And in the Tomb to lay Then marking well the Tomb Mark 15. v. 47.
thou didst know me water thou wouldst give And water beg which makes the soul to live This tear-probatick water healeth all Infirmities of soul Iohn 5. v. 4. when being mov'd By contrite heart Ps 50. v. 19. and from the eyes doth fall It still prevails with God as hath been prov'd In David Peter Magdalen who gain'd Sin 's pardon and God's holy grace obtain'd Since Christ this water craves his Thirst allay Shed tears proceeding from true love and grief Let these be bread unto you night and day Ps 41. v. 4. And doubt not they will bring your soul relief For Magdalen's caus'd God Io. 11. v 35. v. 44 made man to weep And raise her brother from his deadly sleep Christ also thirsted our perfection here That we might our Creatour imitate Math. 5. v. 48. And therefore did like us on Earth appear Coloss 1 v. 28. To teach us Virtues love and sin's true hate Before he came Virtue was little known Gen. 6. v. 5.12 Less practis'd nature was to vice so prone Reason obscur'd by sin and Will deprav'd Eph. 4. v. 18. The careless Soul seem'd to be ignorant Of future life and what corrupt Flesh crav'd She granted not consid'ring her own want And giving scope to sensuality v. 19. Made that her Heav'n with wordly Vanity But when Christ came he taught us to deny The Belly-God and Idol-Wealth to hate Phil. 3. v. 19. Coloss 3. v. 5. Which teach the soul the true God to defy And place her Joy in Lust and worldly state With the true God these Dagons cannot stand 1. Kings 5. v. 3. Their base desires still thwarting his command Against the Flesh Christ war did here declare By Fasting Watching Travels Cold and Heat Thus teaching us our Flesh still to beware 1. Pet. 2. v. 11. And as our greatest Enemy to treat Riches and Honours he did also fly To teach the World's conteÌ„pt would naked dy Christ also taught profound Humility Joyn'd with Obedience even unto death Philip. 2. v. 8. All injuries he suffer'd patiently And pray'd for Foe to his expiring breath Luk. 23. v. 34. These Virtues with the rest that we might learn He thirsted since they are our chief concern Did this allay the Thirst of Christ no no. He more and more still thirsted our soul's good That he might Grace and life on us bestow He thirsted death and shedding of his bloud Luk. 12. v. 50 A bloudy baptism is for me behind Till it be don how much I 'm prest in mind The great desire Christ had of mans salvation Math. 21. v. 7.8.9 Made him with joy and Triumph to ascend And to admit this 〈◊〉 Acclâ—mation Hosanna from those who did him attend They also strew'd Palm branches in his way Thus representing his victorious day When Christ the Law of Moyses had coÌ„pleated Math. 26. v. 28. A Sacrament of Love he did ordain Where his beloved with his Flesh he treated Math. 28. v. 20. Resolving thus on Earth still to remain Did this as yet allay his loving thirst No it was still as great as at the first Nothing this burning thirst could satisfy Love's feaver had so much enflam'd his heart But shedding bloud and on the Cross to dy He was so deeply wounded with Love's dart He therfore rises Math. 2â— v. 46. and in hast doth go To meet with Judas now his mortall foe Who had betray'd him to the wicked Jews Math. 26. v. 15. For thirty pence a compact he did make Knowing the place of Pray'r wch christ did use Resolv'd him there with armed host to take Math. 26. v. 23. Christ knew his heart and treacherous design Yet Love would not permit him to decline Ioh 18. v. 1. But to the Garden cheerfully he went And to declare that he was passible As God he did to Nature represent His future pains which were so terrible Luk. 22. v. 44. To the inferiour part which was to dy That he fell in a bloudy Agony The sense rejected what the soul approv'd Accepting all that did advance our good The sense at this with fear was so much mov'd That Christ was bathed in a sweat of bloud Luk. 22. v. 42. He pray'd he might be freed yet did resign Thy will be done o Father and not mine Great was the fear and terâ—our yet his Love 1. Ioh. 4. v. 18 Transcended and at last expell'd all fear Our soul's salvation he preferr'd above His life and ease as after did appear Math 26 v 46 Mark 14 This made him boldly meet his enemies His Love all pain and torment now defies This made him take scoffs v. 42. Math 26.27 Mark 15. Lâ—k 22.23 Io. 19. blows rebukes and scorns False accusations and nere to reply His Whips at Pillar and his Crown of Thorns And Sentence that as guilty he must dy This made him bear his Cross till he did fall This nayl'd him to 't this made him tast the gall This made him Luk. 23. v. 34. hanging on the Cross to pray For those that put him to this shamefull death Their malice still with love he did repay Which love was constant to his dying breath His thirst could not be quench't untill he dv'd Io. 19. v. 34. And they with lance had pierct his sacred side His victory could not his thirst allay But Sampson like who had a thousand kill'd With a jaw bone Iudg. 15. v. 19. in that victorious day With burning thirst had dyed in the field But that God caus'd a fountain clear to spring Out of that bone which sweet allays did bring Thus Christ thô by his Cross he had subdu'd And overcome our mortall enemy Thirsted on th' Cross and to his Father su'd On our behalf to gain a Legacy Which was the seaven sacraments that be Life-giving fountains flowing from that Tree I thirst O Father from my Wounds let flow Those sacrameÌ„ts which may MaÌ„s wants supply And by them you in mercy may bestow Grace to their souls that they may never die And thus preserve what I so dearly bought And make them practise what on Earth I taught These were the FoutaiÌ„s which the Prophet saw In spirit when he did the same foretell Out of your saviour's Fountains you shall draw Isai 12. v. 3. Water in joy while here on earth you dwell Isai 55. v. 1. Come come make hast all you who thirsty be Drink at these Fountains which to all are free Behold the good God's thirst brought to maÌ„kiÌ„d It made him man and here on Earth to dwell The way to virtue it caus'd us to find It purchast Heaven and preserv'd from Hell O let us thirst his pleasure to fulfill That we may never act against his will Let this thirst last whilst here on Earth we are Which will preserve us from Eternall thirst And teach us those vain pleasures to beware Which make the soul
grace abide And glory at our death do win Let 's all praise Christ by joynt consents Who purchast us these Sacraments Amen THE TWO TABLES AFTER SHIPWRACK BAPTISM AND PENNANCE Baptize in the Name of the Father Math. 28. v. 19. Great ships which seem to dare the seas Are oft stav'd on a Rock Which carefull Pilot might with ease Have sav'd from fatal knock If he Land mark or Beacon had With care kept in his eye In storms and tempests ere so bad He might have steered by But now alas it is too late The Ship is broke and all The goods are lost O dolefull fate That often doth befall The Negligent Now all his care Must be his life to save Since Ship is lost and all its ware Lest Sea should prove his grave And to do this he finds small hope No other ship is nigh To lend him boat or cast him rope To save his life therby Till laying hold of plank or table He passes through the waves At length finds footing firm and stable Whereby his life he saves A stately ship God once did place On this World 's dangerous waves This fraighted was with holy grace Which here from shipwack saves This ship was Man the Pilot soul â—en 4 v. 〈◊〉 Eccli 5. v. 17. His Guide was reason's light His will had power to controul And make him steer aright The crafty Pirat who did see That Man would sail secure Untill this Light extinguih't be The same did strait procure Gen. 3. v. 4. With lies he tempts and doth prevail The right way not to steer Poor man believes secure doth sail The Rock he doth not fear Gen. 2. v. 17. This Rock was the forbidden Tree Which he was not to touch If so death's prize he was to be God's Pact with him was such Gen. 3. v. 6. The devill tempts with Eve his wife He eats and fears no blame Thus sense depriv'd his soul of life And we partake the same Gen. 3. v. 15. c. 22. v. 18. Ps 131. v. 11. Math 27. v. 26. For all were lost and still had been Had not God in his love Promis'd Redemption from this sin And all guilt to remove Christ by his death did this fulfill And Sacraments ordain As helps for us to do his will And favours here obtain Of these Baptism and Pennance are Those which we Tables call Ordain'd our losses to repair And save us after fall Rom. 5. v. 12. Gen. 3. v. 19. The first shipwrack that Men sustain'd Was by Origînall Sin From this by death Christ them regain'd Or else all damn'd had been Thô Christ from pains of Hell did save Rom. 5. v. 8 9.10 Io 3. v. 5. By shedding of his Bloud Yet joys of Heav'n no one shall have But by Baptismall floud This Christ ordain'd that so his merit Math. 8. v. 19. Might be to Man apply'd And that he now new born in spirit Might in his grace abide Hence t is that Children christ'ned be Christ dy'd for all 2. Cor. 5. v. 16. Marc. 10. v. 14. who saith The little ones let come to me Althô they have not faith The Parents faith may here suffice As well as Parents fall Did cast them out of Paradise And purchast Hell withall When Christ'ning Font cannot be had Desire and Love supply Or else some Saints case had been bad Who did without it dy Of Baptism sev'rall sorts there be Water Love's Fire and Blood If th' first to have man is not free The other are as good The fruits of this great Sacrament Tit. 3. v. 3. Are Justifying grace The sin which we have by descent That doth our soul deface And actûall are remitted but Act. 2. v. 38. Io. 3. v. 5 Marc. 16. v. 16. Here grief is still requir'd Heav'n gates are op'ned which were shut Where 's all can be desir'd After this Sacrament receav'd Esay 59. v. 2. Who in great sin doth fall His soul of this grace hath bereav'd Rom. 6. v. 25. And purchast Hell withall This second shipwrack we do name From which the soul to save Hebr. 6. v. 4.5.6 No one can twice baptize the same What help then can he have Our mercifull Redeemer hath Left us a second Table Which joyned with a perfect Faith Grace to restore is able This Sacrament of Pennance is The soul's security Which if the soul doth willing miss It 's lost eternally THE SECOND PART OF PENNANCE Whose sins you remit they are remitted Jo. 2â— v. 23. CHrist Math. 9. v. 13. who came sinners frail to save As we read in Saint John Io. 20. v. 23. Absolving Pow'r in his Church gave And this to Priest alone Ibid. Whose sins on Earth you do remit And whose you do retain The first in Heav'n I also quit The other shall remain We sin in thought in word or deed All sin comes from these three Three ways to satisfy there 's need That sin remitted be So Pennance that 's the Sacrament Contains a triple part Confess the fault I am 5. v. 16. Math. 5. v. 25. the wrong'd content With sorrow from the heart 2. Cor. v. 10. These three when as they perfect be And joyn'd with Absolution As Sacrament impart to thee Of grace a distribution Where God is reconcil'd again To thee in perfect love From Hell thou' rt freed and dost remain God's Heir to Heav'n above Let no one here this doubt admit Suggested by his foe How can this Pennance small acquit Of sin when all men Know Sin doth deserve Eternall pains And what proportion's this Pennance is but while life remains And that for ever is It 's true Math. 5. v. 27. God's Justice seeks severe Proportion to the debt And these two equall ballanc't were Ps 84. v. 11. When Mercy Justice met That was when Christ Man to regain Upon the Cross did dy This Sacrament he did ordain His merits to apply To sinfull soul that 's gone astray And Baptism doth the same Let none deny then but man may Remit sin in Christ's name Iohn 20. v. 23. If you believe Christ's God and Man Believe he cannot ly And by this Sacrament he can His Justice satisfy And thô Christ's merits did supply Our inability Think not because he once did dy You are so quit and free Luk. 13. v. 3. Rom. 2. v. 6. That you may Pennance now neglect And good works set apart As thô our saviour would protect A wicked sinfull heart No Christ will not encourage Sin Ps 44. v. 8. Heb. 1. v. 9. Which odious is to God Be sure if you do fall therein You 'l feel his scourging rod. Luk. 13. v. 3. Except in heart you do repent And as Christ hath ordain'd Make use of Pennance Sacrament Where pardon is obtain'd First see that you true sorrow have For sins you have committed Your soul you can't without this save Nor of sin be acquitted To have this
greif consider well Rom. 6. v. 23. What fruit by sin you gain With loss of Heav'n you purchase Hell And devil's slave remain For what is sin but à privation Of your act 's rectitude Contempt of God and your salvation And all ill doth intrude Your soul 's possessed by the devill Where he doth rule and reign Compelling it to what is evill This is a sinners gain This well consider'd must needs move 1. Iohn 3. v. 8. Your soul sin to repent But chiefly loss of your God's love In heart you must lament This most of all let soul resent Isay 59. v 2. Ier. 17. v. 13. Osee 4. v. 12. That God is from her parted Who is her Center of content Because she prov'd false hearted Here let your soul grieve bitterly With sorrow from the heart Hence forth resolve you 'l rather dy Than from your Lord depart If he 'l be reconcil'd again Zach. 1. v 3. Isai 1. v. 18. Such sorrow will him win To come to you and there remain Remitting all past sin Next Act. 19. v. 18. all the sins you do recall To mind you must confess Their nature circumstance and all What 's doubtfull still express If you conceal but one great sin Or what much aggravates Act. 5. v. 4. A greater evill you fall in Such sacriledge God hates It maketh void your whole Confession And no sin there is quitted When Priest absolves but new trangression And mortall sin 's committed And all sins after while you live Thô you confess them plain And Priest doth Absolution give Unpardon'd still remain For till the first sin be confess 't That once you did conceal God pardons none of all the rest Be sure then it reveal With all which you since that committed How oft' confess 't receiv'd That sacriledge may be remitted And Conscience be reliev'd When you to Priest your sins confess Let neither shame or fear You hinder but still truth express And make Confession clear Fear not the Priest will them disclose For he is sure of this If ever he discovers those His soul condemned is Thirdly this Sacrament requires You satisfy for wrongs And this as Priest of you desires To Pennance this belongs Exod. 22. v 1 Luk. 19. v. 8. Your neighbour satisfaction make Restoring what 's his due And ask his pardon for God's sake That God may pardon you To God your satisfaction is Ps 50. v. 19. A contrite humble heart To mend what you have don amiss No more from him to part By sinfull thought Esay 59. v. 2. by word or deed Be sure you this intend Math. 10. v. 22. Pray him to help in time of need Persever to the end Thô all this cannot strait be done Yet really resolve This to perform when you are gone That Priest may you absolve Thus Sacrament works it's effect Io. 20. v. 23. Which is your sins Remission And grace of God which will direct To mend your life's condition Be sure avoid this great abuse Which I fear some fall in To make this sacramentall use An instrument to sin Because Christ left this help for all Who truely do repent They little care how oft they fall And lost grace less resent For Who presumes to sin because He may here find salvation Directly runs into the jaws Of Hell to his damnation For to confess thus without doubt He never is absolv'd Till he doth also cast this out And better is resolv'd This Sacrament was not ordain'd T'embolden you in sin But that when grace is here regain'd You may abide therein Luk 7. v. 38. With Magdalen past sins lament And follow Christ your Lord Thus you will find true hearts content When Christ and you accord All praise and glory to Christ's Name Mark 2. v. 10.11 Who sin did here remit As Man and to men gave the same Full power to acquit As Father me to Earth did send Iohn 20. v. 21. I also do send you Absolve poor Sinners to this end That they good life renew Amen THE SACRAMENT OF LOVE OR THE SACRAMENT OF SACRAMENTS This is my Body This is my Bloud Math. 26. v. 26.28 MOsaick Sacraments Adieu To this you must resign the place You were but Figures Hebr. 10. v. 1. here 's the true Fountain and source of heav'nly grace Io. 6. v. 49.51 You did prefigure what is here True God and Man our JESUS dear Not oxen Levit. 1. v. 2. c. 7. v. 9. Gal. 2. v. 19. c. 5. v. 2. sheep nor calves or bread Are off'red here as in that Law Those types and figures now are dead Aaron like sacrifice nêre saw True God and Man 's our Sacrifice And here upon our Altar lies He 's Sacrifice Hebr. 9. v. 28. Hebr. 9. v. 12.14 and Sacrament And first did offer-Sacrifice The Priest by his Commandement The Consecrating Words applies By death he sacrific'd on th' Cross It 's offred here without life's loss Io. 1. v. 14. God's son for Man's sake did descend From Heav'n took flesh and man became And practis'd virtue to this end Io. 13. v. 15. Math. 16. v. 24. Luk 9. v. 23. That Man might learn to do the same If you will my Disciple be Deny your self follow me Io. 19. v. 28. And when the scriptures were fulfill'd And what of him was writ compleated Thô innocent the Jews him kill'd Whom they before had vilely treated His Love nail'd him unto the Cross Man to redeem and his great loss He dy'd but once yet still doth dy Revel 13. v. 8. And shall as long as world doth last As to th' effect not really His suff'ring state is gon Rom. 6. v. 9. and past That memory of this remain A Sacrifice he did ordain In the last Supper he did make With his Disciples he took seat And Blessing Bread and Wine said Math. 26. v. 26.28 Take This is my Body which you eat This is my Bloud Luk 22. v. 19. do you the same As a Memoriall in my Name Thus Phaenix-like he still revives Thô for our sins he once was dead Like Pelican to save our lives Io. 6. v. 55.58 His children with his flesh he fed What Mother ever did in stead Of Milk with her bloud children feed Here did he perfectly fulfill What Salomon of him did write The sons of men who do my will Prov. 8. v. 31. To be with them is my delight Whom by my Death I did revive With my own flesh I keep alive And this I do that they may be Rais'd up from their poor humble state 2. Petr. 1. v. 4. And that they may be one with me By perfect love and sin's true hate Io. 6. v. 56. Who eats my Flesh abides in me And to him I 'le united be Mercy and Love did me incline To leave my Father's glorious Throne That I might Man's frail Nature joyn To my divine and make them
one I took his flesh and do hereby Return it with my Deity O sacred Banquet Revel 19. v. 9. th'Angels treat Supper of Lamb and Wedding Feast On Earth become poor Man's true Meat That he while here may find true rest Io. 6. v. 56. And to his Spouse Christ wedded be And joyn him for Eternity Behold here God's transcending Love Which if it were consid'red well The hardest heart to love would move And make it in God's love excell Love made God man Io. 3. v. 16. on th' cross to dy And in this Sacrament to ly The Paschall Lamb prefigur'd this Which also was men to remind Exod. 12. v. 13. How striking Angel doors did miss Where Lamb's Bloud sprinkled he did find When Egypts first-born all were slain And Hebrews did alive remain 1. Pet. 1. v 19. Revel 5. v. 9. By this Bloud all men were set free From the deserved pains of Hell And by the same preserved be From Dev'l while on the Earth they dwell Who goes about Souls to devour 1. Petr. 5. v. 8. But where this Blood is â—ath no power The Brazen serpent did make whole From Desart's serpents poys'nous bite Numb 21. v. 8. All that beheld it on the Pole So doth this Lamb where Faith is right This nailed once upon the Tree From serpent's bite set all men free Gen. 2. v. 9. A Tree was plac't in Paradise Life Giving those who should it tast This Sacrament was Christ's deaths price And in his Church by him was plac't Io. 6. v. 50. Who eats of this shall never dy But live with Christ eternally Exod. 16. v. 4.15 With Manna God his children fed In Desart t' was their only meat Which place supply'd of Flesh and Bread Thus God did his Beloved treat Wisd 16. v. 20. All pleasant tasts it did contain In health and strength they did remain True Manna is this Sacrament Which doth contain all heav'nly grace And fills the Soul with all content Till it in joy beholds God's face Io. 6. v. 49.50 Who eat that Manna now are dead He nêre shall dy that 's with this fed See how all types and figures are Compleated in this Sacrament Which grace gives with all virtues rare To feed here is the soul 's content Yet soul that is in wicked state This Sacrament doth nauseate A stomack weak and disaffected Rejectes the best meat that it takes And if by Physick not corrected What 's good the cause of Death it makes Who this receive unworthily Of Death and Judgment guilty ly THE SECOND PART OF DUE PREPARATION Who receives unworthily receives Judgment to himself 1. Cor. 21. THE counsell of S. Paul then take Before you do approach this Feast 1. Cor. 11. v. 28. Examen strict in Conscience make Of what is sinfull in the least If Charity and Faith be true And nought in Conscience trouble you As Body by the soul doth live Which separated strait doth dy So Faith life to the Soul doth give And to the works of Charity Rom. 3. v. 20. Iac 2. v. 26. Without Faith works are truly dead Without works Faith is quite misled A lively Faith when you receive Is the first thing that God requires Of this the poor soul to bereave The devil of all things desires Io. 6. v. 52. How can a Man Christ's true flesh eat Thus did the Jews our Saviour treat Their Query was how can this Man Give us his flesh They did not own That Christ was God who all things can At pleasure do with word alone Who made all things of nought can't he By word make Bread his Body be The Jews had never doubted this Had they believ'd him God to be So when Man doubts most clear it is He doubts of his Divinity Think this not much believe Christ can Do all things Io. 1. v. 14. who is God and Man Believe you then this verity Confirm'd by Christ's repeated word The Fathers with S. Paul agree The Church and Councills all accord When lawfull Preists christ's word pronounce That 's Flesh of Christ which Bread was once What wine was also is made Bloud Of neither substance doth remain True Faith is here misunderstood By those that teach that doctrine vain Christ's under signs of Bread and Wine No Bread remains or fruit of vine And since his Body 's glorify'd It is against the Christian Faith His Flesh and Bloud here to divide Who one receives the other hath If these you part then Christ can dy Once more Rom. 6. v. 9. which makes the scriptures ly Christ consecrated Wine and Bread And Priests the same commanded were To mind us that when Christ was dead His Flesh and Bloud were parted there But now his Body 's glorify'd Bloud in his Body doth abide When sacred Host the Priest divides Your senses then be sure controul Believe Christ still entire abides In part as much as in the whole The Priest breaks but the signs you see In each his Bloud and Body be Next prove if you have Conscience clear For if in mortall sin you be At this great Feast do not appear For then you are Christ's enemy Marc 14. v. 14. With my Disciples I Pasch make Be sure the same no Judas take If you find sin's wound in your soul Make use of Pennance Sacrament Which Christ ordain'd to make it whole Where sin with grief you must resent Confess resolve it to amend The Priest absolves you to this end Then see you are in Charity Math. 5. v. 25. With those who ever you offended And let your love united be To other virtues or intended Thus take this Sacrament of Love That you may live with Christ above See that you Wedding Garment have Pure in your Soul with virtues drest For want of this rebuke Christ gave To one who was at wedding Feast How cam'st Thou here Math. 22 v. 12.13 to Hell be gon Not having wedding Garment on When from this Feast you do depart Be sure this great abuse you fly To cast all sorrow from your heart And lead your life as formerly Luk 11.2.26 This doth your sin increase ten fold Oft to resolve and nêre to hold When you depart straitway begin Your promises to execute Avoiding what doth lead to sin Embrace what yieldeth virtues fruit Be on your guard 1. Petr. 5. v. 8. and ready stand Believe your Enemy's at hand To try if he can separate Christ from your Soul by sinfull act Ps 118. v. 128. Rom. 12. v. 9. Increase in you sin's perfect hate And oft renew the late compact Which you with God have made and dy Rather than from it basely fly Fear not but figâ—t couragiously Chrysost Homil. 65 You are made dreadfull by loves fire To this your mortall enemy To quench it is all his desire Breath forth this fire in satan's face He cannot stand but soon gives place Then turn unto
your JESUS dear Embrace him with a loving heart Desire he 'l take his lodging here And never from you to depart Remain O Lord for night draws on Of sins Temptation Luc 24. v. 29. be not gon How senseless are men to refrain Receiving this blest Sacrament Since that it doth all grace contain And fills the Soul with true content The cause of this is liberty Eccls 12. v. 12. The Flesh would not restrained be All honour praise and glory be To Christ for this great sign of love That you may for Eternity Live joy and reign with him above Oft humbly take this Sacrament In soul to God and virtue bent Amen THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS Do this in remembrance of me Luc 22. v. 19. THE light of reason dictates this That there 's a God from whence we came It also dictates that there is A Sacrifice due to the same By which we do him Homage pay And our true Lord and Master own And for his blessings daily pray This honour 's due to him alone The Heathens by the self same light Did own a God and sacrifice But yet their judgment was not right They many own'd and did devise Horrid Oblations to express Their duty to the Gods they own'd They sacrific'd Ps 105. v. 37. as merciless Their children not the least bemoan'd In Natures Law as we are taught Gen. 4. v 34. Man Sacrifice to God did yield Thus duty paid and Blessings sought Cain gave to him fruits of the field And Abell of his flocks v. 5. v. 4. as due But Cain's Oblation God rejected God knew that Cain's heart was not true Just Abel's off'ring was accepted In Moyse's Law commanded were Four Sacrifices for salvation Burn't Off'rings Levit. â— v. 9. which consum'd all there The second was of Expiation Exod. 29 v. 36. Lev. 7. v. 12. Lev. 15. v. 15. Numb 16 v. 47. The third Thanksgiving they did call The fourth preferr'd their just petition To these the Law obliged all God's grace to gain and sin's remission The first did own God's Deity And that from him we 've our Creation The next did purge iniquity And thus preserved from damnation The third for blessings gave God praise The fourth for favours made request These Sacrifices of those days Rom. 7. v. 6. Christ did abolish with the rest And in the new Law did ordain Luk 22. v. 19. One great unbloudy Sacrifice Which in effect doth all contain Where he himself concealed lies v. 19. Which he commanded should be don And now it is without life's loss In memory how he God's son Made man did dy upon the Cross Where he for sin did satisfy Rom. 9. v. 11. and 18. And by his merits purchase grace We to our souls must them apply That grace of sin may here take place Heb. 13. v. 15. Which by this Sacrifice we do Where of Christ's Death we God remind And for his grace and pardon sue Which through his merits we do find This Sacrifice the Mass we call From the word Mitto that 's to send For here by Christ God sends to all His grace who with true faith attend And we by Christ return again Our pray'r and thanks to God above And thus the faithfull do remain By this Oblation in God's love When first from Satan Man was freed 2. Petâ— 1. v. 19. Upon the Cross by meek Lamb's Bloud That we might still this loving deed Bear in our minds and for our good A Sacrifice Christ did ordain Wherein himself would offred be And thus on Earth with us remain From Death of sin to keep us free By this great Sacrifice we own That God made Man dy'd on the Cross And that Christ able was alone Man to redeem and his great loss This now doth expiate our sin By this we thanks for favours give Io. 6 v. 56.57 By this we beg and graces win By this made one with Christ we live Here 's Sacrifice and Sacrament The same that 's offer'd we receive This by Oblation's to God sent Which Christ for our relief did leave This Sacrifice in full contains What all the old prefigured The Author of them all remains Here under signs of Wine and Bread How can we think God will deny What here we ask in JESUS Name Since Christ that we might satisfy His Justice did ordain the same As he by Death did satisfy The Debt Coloss 2. v. 14. that to our sins was due So we by Mass his Death apply To us and forth our pardon sue No fast no Pray'r or other act Doth God so please as doth the Mass No Sin no Crime or horrid fact In their demerits can surpass The merits of our saviour dear Which are in virtue infinite And for our souls are off'red here All men to Mass let this invite Since that for those who present are It 's offer'd in a speciall sort And they above the rest do share In the effects who there resort But most of all who with the Priest The same do offer with pure heart For they by this are joynd with Christ And void of grace shall nêre depart The Angels here on Christ attend Be sure with rev'rence to remain Lest Christ and them you should offend Io. 2. v. 15. And Curse instead of Blessing gain We read that Christ with his own hand Chastiz'd those which the Church abus'd Io. 9. v. 31. All Church-profaners guilty stand The Pray'rs of such will be refus'd If by just let you can't be by In person when the Mass is said Devoutly still the same apply Unto your soul where you are stay'd Make you an Altar of your heart With sorrow pierc't Ps 50. v. 18. heat with love's fire By Pray'r devout act you the part Of Priest 2. Cor. 8. v. 12. and you 'l have your desire For Dead as well as Living we Do offer up this Sacrifice And surely they partakers be Since Holy scriptures do advise To pray for them â— Macch. â—2 v. 46. so when you here Or absent do your prayers say Still let your Charity appear And for those Souls devoutly pray 1. Cor. 11. v. 26. Since Mass doth Christ's Death represent Devoutly on it meditate All your past evills there repent Raise in your soul sin's perfect hate With tears reflect upon the pain Which he for sin did once endure That he to God your soul might gain And heav'nly joys for you ensure And as Christ is the Mass-Oblation Doubt not God's wrath to pacify And through his merits have Salvation Who for your sake vouchsaf't to dy If you devout with Priest do joyn And offer up this Sacrifice Where under signs of Bread and Wine True God and Man obscured lies In all your wants devoutly go Coloss 11 v. 19.20 Unto this Treasure-house with speed Where God doth freely grace bestow Supplying us in all our need When you are tempted unto evill To this great
thô God's dear Son Luk. 24. v. 26. Could not in glory be But by pains undergon And dying on the Tree His Saints sought their Salvation The self-same way Ps 33. v. 20. as best And by much Tribulation They ent'red into rest And he who 'l glorious be Rom. 8. v. 17. With Christ must suffer here From Hell pains if be free He must not Pennance fear Math. 7. v. 13.14 Narrow is Heav'ns way Broad is the way to Hell Few love in that to stay In this do many dwell Lib. Since all you say is true As Scriptures testify 1. Pet. 2. v. 11. Pleasures I bid Adieu In Pennance I will dy Rom 8. v. 13. Ps 118. v. 59 Rom. 8. v. 13. No longer Liberty Let that curst name be gone I will your Convert be Blest Mortification A DIALOGUE BETWIXT HOPE AND DESPAIR OR HOPE CONVERTING A DESPAIRING MAN Althô he should kill me I will trust in him Job 13. v. 13. Hope WHat fruitless sighs and sobs are these Which Eccho in my ear Distrustfull thoughts do never please Hope must be joyn'd with Fear That tears to Soul may fruitfull be And sorrow comfort bring These joyn'd with love of God do free The Conscience of guilt's sting Desp 'T is I poor Soul who sigh weep To think what joys are past Wisd 17. v. 10. What frights do now possess my sleep In Hell strait to be cast The good I 've lost the ill I 've gaind Do sore perplex my mind How I my Soul with Sin have stain'd That I no joy can find When once I liv'd in Conscience clear And service of my God 1. Io. 4. v. 18. Love had secur'd my heart from fear Of his chastizing Rod. All creatures me afforded joy God's praises I did sing My Flesh my Spirit did obey My Soul my heavenly King Curst Satan 1. Pet. 5. v. 8. envy'ng my good hap With his sought my downfall My careless Soul he did intrap And brought it in Sin 's thrall Now all things that I see Wisd 17. v 9. or hear Add sorrow to my grief My Sins in Conscience still appear And I despair relief Rom. 7. v. 23. Gal. 5. v. 17. For now my senses all rebell And war against my Soul God's grace my help I base did sell For Sin How to controul Or them restrain I do not know They Reason do so blind They't pleasure bring her to their bow And thus corrupt the mind Hope Poor Soul consid'ring your sad state Ps 41. v. 4. You reason have to weep To sigh and to lament your fate With grief of heart most deep For on the Earth no state 's so bad Ps 5. v. 7. Ps 10. v. 7. As that of sinfull heart Which once God's grace and favour had And from it did depart Ps 44. v. 3. Eccl. 12. v. 7. Eph. 2. v. 8. Tit. 3. v 7. Rom 6. v. 23. Ps 93. v. 19. Mat. 8. v. 12. Eccli 39. v 35.36 Grace keeps Man's Soul in God's true Love By Sin God him doth hate By Grace he 's heir to joys above By Sin in damned state While he 's in grace God doth him greet With heav'nly consolation In Sin with Hell's food he doth meet Sad grief and desolation What grief hath Father child to leave Who loves him tenderly Who can the Mother's grief conceive Who sees her children dy For loving friends to part for ever Is grief beyond expression Exil'd from all to come back never How sad in this condition For loving Man and Wife to part Is little less than Death Of all griefs Eccli 41. v. 1. this destroys the heart Our life's expiring breath All these are griefs in high degree Yet joyn them all in one Equall they can't the misery That 's found in sin alone For God who bears all Titles dear Of pleasure and of Love From soul is separated here By sin Isai 59. v. 2. Mat. 25. v. 29. Ezech. 16. v. 27. Mat. 12. v. 45. and doth remove All 's Blessings from her and doth give Possession to the Devill Where Tyrannizing he doth live Enslaving her in evill The forenam'd sorrows have release By time and do expire Wisd 17. v. 10. The Conscience-grief doth still increase Till it brings to Hell-fire Where it's nêre dying worm doth feed On th' soul Isai 66. v. 24. Wisd 5. v. 3. to think what 's lost Which vain remorse doth in it breed To think how dear sin cost Desp What you have said I own for Truth Bêing sensible in soul Of much Had I took care in youth I had preserv'd it whole Man's frailty once I would not own But scorn'd those were in sin And thus by Pride Ps 1â—7 v. 67. was overthrown Same state I now live in Hop Thô God in you hath punish't Pride Ps 118. v. 71. And left you without grace That falling humble you abide With shame 's blush in your face Ps 31. v. 10. Yet by no means you must despair But on his Mercies call Which in your God transcending are Man's Refuge after fall How many sinners found relief In Heaven now are Saints When they for sin mixt tears with grief God heard their dolefull plaints And he hath promis't Isai 1. v. 8. Ezech. 33. v. 14 16. he 'l receive Sinners at their return If they their sinfull course will leave In Hell they shall not burn Des Cain he was sorry yet was curst Gen. 4. v. 1â— Mat. 27. v. 5. And Judas hang'd himself Of greatest sinners I 'm the worst Poor weak a graceless Elf Mine's greater then the sin of Cain Christ had not shed his bloud Wisd 16. v. 29. I more ungratefull here remain Than Cain pay'ng ill for good I Mat. 26. v. 15. Judas-like who 's Lord did sell And still his grace abus'd When Christ by grace in me would dwell I basely him refus'd Io. 8. v. 44. Adjoyn'd his Enemy in fight ' Gainst him and thus ungratefull His pretious Blood and death did slight A sin of all most hatefull Hop Enough Despair no more of this Men plung'd as deep in sin And as ungratefull did not miss But oft have pardon'd been If Cain and Judas did lament And yet grace did not find They did not truly sin repent And were not right in mind Cain seemed sad yet we do'nt read Because he had don ill Or did repent that wicked deed Gen. 4. v. 14. But fear'd men would him kill Judas repented what was don Yet wanted Mercy 's hope And Faith in Christ Mat. 27. v. 3. God's only son So hanged in a rope 2. King 11. v. 4. v. 15.24 1. King 16. v. 1.12 Io 21. v. 17. Mat. 26. v. 74. Io. 19. v. 34. David Adult'ry did commit And murder after he Was chose by God in Throne to sit Prophet and King to be Peter of all made chief when try'd His Master did forswear With spear Longinus pierc't Christ's
side Yet all these pardon'd were What greater sins can you conceive Or more ungrate full Men Yet those when they did evill leave And did return agen With tears of Eyes Ioel. 2. v. 12. and grief of heart With hope and Faith conjoyn'd By fervent Pray'r and Pennance smart v. 13. To Mercy God inclin'd Who did receive them in his love And grace on them bestow Ezech. 18 v. 22. Rom. 5. v. 20. The guilt of sin he did remove Where Vice now Virtues grow Thus they with many more became Great Saints and reign above Remitted sins Luk 7. v. 47. increase the flame Of Gratitude and Love If any sin he 'l not forgive It 's that which you are in Despairing Mercy 1. Io. 5. v. 16. Ier. 18. v. 12.13 while you live The greatest of all sin By this you do deny in him Ps 144. v. 9. Eph. 4. v. 19. His greatest Attribute Which leads the soul unto Hell's brim Despair's accursed fruit God's Mercy 's greater than Man's Sin So is the Price Christ gave Upon the Cross his Soul to win And from Damnation save Put trust in God Ps 90. v. 14.15 and in the merit Of Christ thy Saviour dear Leave Sin Ezech. 18. v. 32. by Faith raise up your spirit And pardon never fear Des I grant all 's true that you do say But yet this Mercy I Who Sinner am know not the way To gain or to apply Christ's merits to my Soul I fear Prov. 28. v. 9. While J'm in state of Sin My sighs and Pray'rs God will not hear This oft hath proved been Hope That is while Heart remains perverse Ready to sin again Eccli 34. v. 31. But when Man grieves his sinfull course And doth from sin refrain By Sacraments let him apply Christ's merit to his soul Christ promis't who can never ly Io. 20. v. 23. That he will make it whole Desp Sweet Hope Rom. 8. v. 24. which dost to Heav'n bring Your Convert I will be Dev'lish Despair away I 'le fling And hearken unto thee I 'le weep I 'le grievee I 'le leave all sin By Sacraments will I God's Mercy seek his grace to win Eccli 2. v. 11. And thus in Hope will dy Amen OF DEATH Remember thy last Ends and thou wilt not sin for ever Eccl. 7. v. 40. It is appointed for all men once to dy Hebr. 9. v. 27. THe soul of Man since Adam's fall Eph. 4. v. 18 19. Is so obscur'd by Flesh and Bloud The senses seem to govern all As if the soul nought understood Men to this life do so attend They little think upon their End The whole Earth sayeth Jeremy Ier. 12. v. 11. With desolation's desolate And he declares the reason why That we may mend before too late No one considers deep in heart That from this life he must depart Much less 2. Cor. 5. v. 10. that he account must give Of all what ever he hath done And that he must for ever live In joys or sorrow when he 's gone This want of true consideration Is chiefest cause of Man's damnation The Wiseman therfore doth advise That in your ways you mindfull are Of your last things Eccli 7. v 40. thus you 'l be wise And for a happy death prepare You 'l never sin or do amiss While this your Meditation is What is grim Death in picture made With Dead-Man's skull and standing by Hour-glass with crooked Sithe and spade Arm and Leg-bones that cross do ly Death nothing is but Life's privation The soul and Body's separation But yet how sad that hour will prove When Flesh and soul must separate Which were so firmly joyn'd in love No tongue is able to relate S. Denis Ps 54. v. 5. Among all other dreadfull things That day to Man most terrour brings That puts an end to carnall pleasures Which then to Soul cause bitter grief That separates from Worldly treasures Luk. 12. v. 20. Which then afford men no relief That parts from Children Wife and Friend To Worldly joys that puts an end That quells the spirit of the proud And stubborn disobedient heart That makes the Sinner cry aloud His guilty Soul 's loath to depart Wealth honour Pow'r will not prevail When Death arrests he takes no Bail Your Life to mend he 'l grant no space But to the Judge your Soul present Where bribes or friendship find no place To late 't will be then to repent Eccl. 11. v. 3. As at that hour you 're found to be So you 'l be for Eternity Delights and Pleasures wanton Love Which were before your heart 's content In that most dreadfull hour Wisd 5. v. 3. will prove Grief to your Soul which will lament To think how for these pleasing toys She is depriv'd of reall joys Those then will pass and leave behind A strict account for her to make Why she let them possess her mind And Pleasure with the Flesh did take Since she was made for joys above And to contemn all Carnall Love Then Glory Honour Power Wealth In which vain Men do put their trust Youth Beauty Valour Courage Health Will all be buried in the dust That Man will vile to God appear Who seem'd so great and glorious here Eccls. 1 v. 8. All these you 'l own then to be vain On which before you plac't your love Despairing then you will remain To think upon your God above How he will justly you condemn Who did for these his Laws contemn Ps 33. v. 22. O dreadfull day to wicked Soul Which here in body did neglect Her sense and passions to controul And crooked Nature to correct Still yielding with depraved will Her Flesh-desires here to fulfill Whereas in Body she was plac't Corrupted Nature to restrain And what she found in it defac't By grace and Virtue to regain But she let senses govern all By which the Dev'l procur'd her fall Mat. 25. v 7. The Prudent Virgins imitate With oyl in Lamp prepar'd remain Not with the foolish v. 8. when too late To seek v. 10. and knock but all in vain The gate is shut you are forgot The Bride-groom says v. 12. I know you not Have oyl of works in Lamps of Faith ' Gainst midnight-Death â—â—â—l 5.6 â—â—â—m 2. 〈◊〉 4.24 thus ready stand And glory not as scripture saith In Faith alone lest Spouse command You Ecâ—â—â—â—â—at 22. v. v. 12.13 not adorn'd with works to ly In fire yet dark and nêre to dy Take warning then before too late Deut. 32. v. 29. And that your life you may amend On your departure meditate That Worldly pleasures will have end That Riches you must leave behind Which will at Death perplex the mind O Death Eccli 41. v. 1. how bitter is the thought Of thee to those who do possess Peace in their Riches which have brought Their Soul to Sin and Wickedness To leave their
men to kill Just Noah for his God's Mercy wins Who always did his will Gen. 15. v. 13. Exod. 1. v. 14. Exod. 3. v. 10. Soon after they return'd to sin Th' Egyptians them inthrall'd God Moyses sent their hearts to win For Mercy they then call'd Exod. 14. v. 2â— Exod 20. Exod â—6 v. 4 13. By the Red sea they all were freed Commands he gave them ten Whom Moyses did in Desart feed And brought them back agen Unto the Land of Promise which Iosue 3. v. 17. With milk and honey flow'd Where they became a Nation rich In blessings there bestow'd Here they did oftentimes rebell Against their God most high Iudg 2. v. 12.17 And by the Serpents craft they fell Into Idolatry They oft for this chastized were 4. King 25. v. 11. And into Bondage led Some were corrected by dread fear Ps 77. v. 14. When others were struck dead But Vice with men did still renew Till our Redeemer came And laid it open to the view Which caus'd in men a shame And by his Virtues rare did win Them Virtue here to love Which drew their hearts from filthy Sin Now fix't on God above And when for Adam's fault he dy'd And freed from sin and Hell He form'd a Church out of his side Where Men secure might dwell Not fearing Sathan's strength 1. Tim. 3. v. 15. or sleights Again them to deceive He left therein such guiding Lights If they would to them cleave The Ark of Noah prefigur'd this Gen. 7. v. 1.23 Which sav'd all Souls within But who to enter here did miss Did perish in their sin v. 23. So those who in God's Church abide Pure in their conversation 1. Tim. 3. v. 15. And from that Faith do never slide Find therein true salvation But after Christ was gone Alas And his Apostles dead 2. Petr. 2. v. 1.2 v. 13. v. 10.18 Iud. v. 19. v. 12. He and the Truth blasphemed was Men by their senses led Forsook their Faith and doing good And running to all vice Trod under foot Christ's pretious Bloud Which was their Soul's great price At this God was offended sore Saint John reveals the same Rev. 7. v. 1. He power gave to Angels four Whom he sent in his Name To punish men by sea and Land Destroying all therein For Man's offence who now did stand Defil'd with hainous sin But God who 's still to Mercy bent Once more was pacify'd Another Moyses here was sent Among us to abide Who by his Life was to renew Christ's Passion in our mind And lay his Life unto our view That we might Virtue find Another Angel v. 2. says Saint John I saw come from the East Who cry'd unto the four hurt none Sea Earth Trees Fish or Beast Vntill in th' forehead with the Cross v. 3. I 've sign'd God's servants dear Teaching by sin what heavy loss What comfort 's in God's fear Poor Francis of Assise was he Born rich a Merchants son With other youth at first too free In pleasures he did run Yet to the Poor in charity He always did increase Which caus'd him to elected be God's Anger to appease Lo How God Sinners of all Men Chose Sinners to recall King David Peter Magdalen And Francis last of all As fittest Patterns here to win Them to Repentance by Assuring them Ezech 13. v. 15.16 if they 'l leave Sin They in his Love shall dy You may him well an Angel call For his chast Life and pure From which he never more did fall It always did endure Seraphicall for his great Love Doth Holy Church him name From Seraphins who burn above Absorp't in Love's great flame He had the Sign of God above Rev. 7. v. 2. As after did appear The Wounds that Christ had for our love He in his Flesh did bear He sign'd all men in th'forehead deep Renewing in their mind Christ's Passion and his deadly sleep He suffred for Mankind While yet a Merchants Life he led An Alms was begg'd but he Deny'd to give as busied Thô other times most free Lo he runs after speedily As pitty did him move And gave with Vow nêre to deny Ought asked for God's Love Another begs who was full bare He knew him nobly born He gave the cloaths which he did wear And put on his all torn These acts of pitty mov'd God so That Francis Mercy wins For Charity conceals 1. Petr. 4. v. 8. you know A multitude of Sins Next night in sleep Christ did appear And shew'd where Jewels were Saith These are for my souldiers here Who Holy Cross do bear He strait prepares for th' Holy Land Where Souldiers wore a Cross He did not Visions understand And thus was at a loss Till Christ reveal'd to him again He mean't not that Warfare But that to suffer and take pain With him he must prepare By his example to recall Sinners from their sad state To save them from Eternall thrall And cause them Sin to hate To teach them Virtue and true way To Heaven Gal. 5 v. 24. Phil. 3. v. 18.19 by the Cross Which glory gives in th' latter day When Sinners shall find loss With tears he prays both day and night To know God's holy will And how to do this work he might His pleasure to fulfill Christ from a Cross to Francis spake Go thou my Church repair Which falling is He care did take All things prepared are Saint Damians Church wherein he pray'd He did intend to mend Great Sums of mony that were pay'd He sav'd unto this end And gave them to the Pastor free The same work to compleat Who did refuse to take them he Did fear his Father's heat But Francis left the mony there Which when his Father knew He ready was his hair to tear So high in rage he flew And presently in hast did run Mony and Son to find To punish him who had this don He was resolv'd in mind Poor Francis but a Proselyte For fear hid in a cave Not yet arriv'd to virtue's height Resolv'd himself to save The Priest shew'd to his Father then Colos 3. v. 5. Where his God-mony lay He taking it was pleas'd agen And quiet went away But Francis seem'd to be asham'd At this his cowardise And his small Love to Christ he blam'd And begg'd of God advice Who gave him grace and courage too He strait to th' City went Resolv'd for Christ to undergo What malice could invent By Fasting pale and poorly clad He sadly walk't along The people thought he had been mad With cryes about him throng His Fathers hears goes forth to see Lays on him viôlent hands Brings home a Pris'ner close to be Lock't up and bound in bands His Mother more inclin'd to pitty Watch't opportunity When 's Father was gone out of th' City And set her dear Son free He missing him at his return Seeking at last did find With Avarice his heart did
his words but deeds He mov'd to Imitation Which are indeed the best of seeds To spring up Reformation Transcending was his Poverty Which quits of worldly cares Admitting of no Property And this the Heart prepares To fix it self on Heav'nly gain All Earthly to despise Which at the last doth prove but vain Dress't up in false disguise He so much lov'd pure Chastity Of Body and of Mind That if he felt the contrary Allays he strait did find He disciplin'd his Flesh full sore In thorns he tumbled so Untill his very flesh they tore Or rolled in the snow Francis the Humble Men him call He did excell in this The place whence Lucifer did fall Is thought now to be his This Virtue he did recommend To his and 't was his pleasure To name them Minors to this end That they might seek this Treasure 1. King 15. v. 22. Obedience he well knew to be Better than Sacrifice Thô Father of them all was he Yet still he did devise Subject to be unto another And therfore on the way Obedience strict unto his brother He promis't and did pay And as he the Creatour still Humbly obey'd in all So did dumb Creatures do his will Still ready at his call Brothers and Sisters he them nam'd To all he was so sweet That Fish the Fire and Beast he tam'd Who did him kindly greet Our Works are crown'd with Patience Iam. 1. v. 4 Mat. 10. v. 22. That our reward doth merit For all the Pains we feel in sense Or anguish of the Spirit With Christ to suffer he desir'd In Pain Mat. 16. v. â—4 Mark 8. v. 34. or any loss To imitate what he requir'd In bearing of the Cross The Queen of Virtues 1. Co. 13. v. 13. Charity His heart had so inflam'd That it would almost melted be When God's Love was but nam'd Mat. 22. v. 39. His Neighbour's Love possest him so That for his dear Soul 's good The hardest things he 'ld undergo To ' th shedding of his bloud This caus'd him journy to begin To Egypt's King that he Might to Christ's Church those faithless win Or else a Martyr be In sweetness he did so excell The Sultan freely gave Him leave to preach where he thought well And no disturbance have Missing his aim which was to dy For th' Faith of JESUS dear And finding no great profit by His Preaching Christ's Faith here He doth return with weeping eyes Bewailing his great loss Resolves his Love to Sacrifice To Christ upon the Cross Devotîon great he had to all God's Saints in chief his Mother Whom he did his dear Lady call But yet above all other He priz'd the Passion of his Lord As Treasure house of Grace Which doth to souls good thoughts afford And ill away doth chase Io. 3. v. 16. Eph. 6. v. 2. This is a Glass wherein we see Our God's great Love to us Who rather than we damn'd should be Chose to be treated thus And also how he Sin did hate That he would rather dy Than see men live in sinfull state Void of Felicity This teacheth us to love God here As also to hate Sin And as we love him still to fear Lest we should fall therein And if by Sin we 've lost God's Love Here 't is restor'd again Rom. 5. v. 9.10.11 Off'ring our tears to him above Joyn'd with Christ's bitter pain This Passion Francis preach't to all And thus their Ezech. â—â— v. 4. Rev. 7. v. 3. Foreheads cross't Imprinting how for Adam's fall Our Saviour's Life was lost That they to him be gratefull still Prov. 23.26 And to him give their heart Abhorring Sin to do his will And never from him part All Virtues that Christ taught Mankind Appear'd in Francis clear To print them deep in others mind His labour was while here But now grown weak that Death draws nigh He knows by Revelation And does employ his thoughts solely In Heav'nly Contemplation Let all learn here how to prepare For Death while they do live To love God still Deut. 6 v. 5. Rev. 14 v. 7. and sin beware And thus due honour give To teach us this Christ gave example Which he doth now renew In Francis who in manner ample Hath laid it to our view THE THIRD PART Containing the remainder of his life from the receiving of the holy Stygmes to his Death PRetend I shall not to recount The Miracles he wrought Which were so many they surmount In number frail man's thought The actions of his whole life were But one continu'd wonder To whom all things while be was here Obedience prompt did render Before his Death I 'l only tell How JESUS did him grace With Priviledge that did excell And worthily takes place Of all yet given unto any Which clearly doth declare His merits were both great and many Which thus rewarded were He being on the Mount Alvern In contemplation high Of JESUS'S Passion did so burn In Love that he must dy For his dear Lord or undergo Like pain our sins him gave Christ heard his Pray'r and yielded so His Wounds that he should have Behold a glorîous Seraphin Descending from above As thô he crucify'd had been Which did inflame his love Isai 6. v. 2. Six-wing'd he was two vail'd his head His feet two two did fly And while Saint Francis marveled The Seraphin draws nigh And on the Cross there did appear His dear Lord Crucify'd Fast nail'd upon 't as once when here He for all Mankind dyâ—d This griev'd him and did so inflame His heart with Love's great fire That to be nail'd unto the same Was now his whole desire Lo from hands feet and side did stream Five clear but bloudy rays Which pierc't like places as they came Where marks remain'd always In hands and feet like Nails were plain In 's Side the Wound of Spear Which bled and put him to such pain As thô he should dy here Having receiv'd these stygmes there He now might truly say Let no one molestation bear Gal. 6 v. 17. But readily obey Since thus with Wounds my Body 's sign'd Of my Redeemer dear Th' example which in me you find To follow do not fear To him this may be well apply'd I live Gal. 2. v. 20. thô now not I But JESUS Christ my Crucify'd Doth live and in me ly O marv'lous Man true friend of God Phil. 3. v. â— Gen. 28.12 Than Man an Angel rather Who under foot the World hast trod And mounted Jacob's ladder By Vice's hate and Virtue 's love Thou walkedst without blame And thus Poor Sinners thou didst move While here to do the same Obtain that we may imitate Thy footsteps in true Love That we may Sin as truly hate And live with thee above Those sacred Wounds he did receive Two years or thereabout Before this frail Life he did leave Which clear'd Men of all doubt For they did oftentimes appear Thô his humility Indeavour'd to conceal
Ecce gui tollit peccata Mundi PIOUS INSTRUCTIONS IN MEETER FITTED TO THE WEAKER CAPACITIES Thy Iustifications were sung by me in the place of my Peregrination Ps 118. v. 54. PRINTED in the year 1693. With licence of Superiours ADVERTISEMENTS 1. COnsidering that those for whom I chiefly made these Verses are not skilled in the reading of Abbreviations which sometimes are pronounced otherwise than they are written to avoid the confusion that might follow if I should write them as usually words which are abbreviated ending in D. and are pronounced with a T. I have written them with T. as pronounced 2. Complying with the desires of some friends I have noted in the Margent severall Texts which are related unto in this book and commonly but one in a place althô there be many more relating to the same subject the Margent not being capable to contain all 3. And note that in the Verses are not always the very same words of the Text but sometimes only the substance or allusions to the Text. 4. Again observe that the Catholick Bible names four Books of Kings whereas the Protestants call the two first the Books of Samuel And whereas the Protestants divide the 9th Psalm and joyn the 146. and 147. Psalms in one which the Catholick Bible upon better Authority doth not in all my Citations I follow the Catholick Bible and therfore the Psalms which I cite between the 9th Psalm and the 147. are always the Psalms following in the Protestant Bible As for example when I cite the 136. Psalm Vpon the rivers of Babylon it is the 137. in the Protestant Bible and so of the rest THE PREFACE HAving been conversant above three and thirty years with the poor whom to assist has been my employ I find a docile spirit amongst them and that many of them are hungry as I may term it and eager after Instructions not so much in curiosity as to be informed of their duty But I fear this of holy Jeremy is too much verified in these days The little ones have asked bread and there was none that brake it to them Lament c. 4. v. 4. Not but that there are many excellent Sermons made many pious and learned Books writ but that men of this age being grown so curious and of itching ears after eloquence of speech quaint and refined language in Prose Poëticall fancies and conceits in Verse that where these are not found the Sermon or Book takes not let the subject be never so pious which makes most Preachers and Writers incline to dress up what they render in such sort that it may be gratefull to those who esteem themselves the Wits of the Age. And perhaps all the profit they reap from them is this Elogium The man spoke well he has writ good language and is full of witty conceits and in the mean time those who seek more after the virtue than the curiosity of the word are deprived of their desires the language or conceits so exceeding their capacities that they cannot attain unto the sense and so make little or no advantage I speak not this as condemning such Preachers or writers for certainly when Piety Learning Wit and Eloquence are joyned together that is the most compleat Work But I rather make an Apology for these plain Verses which I dedicate unto the Poor who indeed stand most in need of Instructions which must be given to them in an humble and low stile befitting their capacities Wherefore I hope no pious person will carp at them which are beneath a Poets censure since I pretend not to Poetry in them but only have put such Instructions as I think needful to the Poor People in Meeter fitted for tunes such manner of reading being most delightfull to young People sooner learn't and better retained which they may learn to sing and so prevent the great abuse that is now a days among many in singing profane and lascivious songs And I doubt not but some will say that these exceed the length of songs I grant it but since I make them for Instructions commonly the subject I treat of considering the capacities they are fitted to cannot be fully explicated in shorter to their advantage And they may serve the good man to sing working at his trade thereby to edify his family Receive then you little ones of Christ's flock and my dearly beloved these my small endeavours for you and make that use of them which I hoped for when I made them that knowing what is evill you may avoid it and what is good you may embrace and put it into practice that so Christ's coming may not be in vain to you who came not only to redeem you from sin but also to teach you Virtue And if this Book may happily advantage you in this as I hope it will I have what I aimed at and as I ever had a love for and desire to serve you so I hope you will be mindfull in your prayers of Your true friend in Christ B. Leo of S. Mary Magdalen THE TABLE OF THE CONTENTS A Devout Prayer p. 1 Christ's Thirst of mans salvation p. 5 The Seaven Sacraments p. 14 Baptism and Pennance p. 21 The Sacrament of love p. 34 The Sacrifice of the Mass p. 45 The Israelits Lamentation p. 52 The 2. part A sinners Lamentation p. 61 The World's glory is Vanity p. 63 The 2. part True joy in Virtue p. 71 The fruits of Drunkenness p. 76 Death and Life in the Tongue p. 82 Take not God's name in vain p. 89 A Lyar to be excluded human society p. 97 The true Art of loving well p. 102 Of Pride p. 111 2. Part. Of Humility p. 115 Of Patience and the contrary p. 120 Of Obedience and the contrary p. 127 Of Poverty and the contrary p. 138 Of Chastity and the contrary p. 146 Do Pennance p. 153 Of Prayer p. 162 Our Father p. 171 Hail Mary p. 178 Of Fasting and the contrary p. 185 Of Alms-deeds and the contrary p. 193 The Angel Guardians advice p. 200 Liberty and Mortification p. 209 Hope and Despair p. 213 Of Death p. 222 Of Judgment p. 229 Of Hell p. 238 Of Purgatory p. 244 Of Heaven p. 252 S. Mary Magdalens Life p. 261 S. Francis his Life p. 278 The Books Address to the Reader p. 315 A PIOUS HYMN OR PRAYER IN HONOUR OF CHRIST AND HIS B. MOTHER HAil MARY hope of all mankind Hail pious pure and meek of mind Hail full of grace Luk 1. v. 28. God's holy spouse Of all that 's good the Treasure house Hail Virgin chast Luk. 2. v 7. Christ's Parent dear Thou who alone didst merit here Luk. 1◠v 35◠Isai 7. v. 14. Without a father to have child To be a Mother undefil'd Empress of Angels queen above Poor sinners comfort for Christ's love Pitty my tears let joy begin In my poor heart defil'd with sin Comfort a Sinner in distress And give not to the merciless The honour which
Sanctuary fly Where you 'l be shielded from the devill And under God's Protection ly Numb 28 v 3. Ezech. 46. v. 13. The Jews did daily Sacrifice A Lamb and thus their duty pay'd The same doth holy Church advise And therfore Mass is daily said That you to God may honour give And keep your soul still in his grace To Mass devout be while you live That with the Just you may have place Amen THE ISRAELITES LAMENTATION IN THEIR CAPTIVITY THE FIRST PART Vpon the rivers of Babylon there we sate and wept whilest we remembred Sion Ps 136. v. 1. THE Prophets by internall light Of future things have such foresight That what 's to come they tell as past And often what is first put last Thus David did in spirit see The Israëlites Captivity Their bitter sighs and Lamentation For holy Sion's Desolation Upon the Riv'rs of Babylon See the whole Psalm 136. We sate and wept and made our moan In this our dolefull and sad state On Sion we did meditate How we somtime were happy there 4. Kings 22. v. 16.17 But for our sins exiled were City and Temple are destroy'd All desolate doth ly Isai 64. v. 10.11 and voyd Ps 106. v. 13. How often did God patiently Bear with our sins and sweetly try By less chastisements if he could Win us and if return we would Ps 106. v. 12.13 Ps 77. v. 34.41 When he chastiz'd we promis't fair When he withdrew we took no care Thus often try'd we nêre amended Our crying sins to God ascended We often did our God deny And fell into Idolatry Ps 105. v. 37. We sacrific'd our children dear To Idols God we did not fear The holy Temple we abus'd And Holy Sacrifice misus'd Would not Gods holy Law obey Regarded not what Priest did say Isay Ieremy Ezech. Ioel e. The Prophets warnings we still slighted In vice and wickednes delighted Our Heav'n was Wealth and Carnall Pleasure Which we affected without measure Ier 25. v. 10 11. Ps 105. v. 43 Ier. 32 v. 28 29.30 Thus we provok'd our loving God To lay upon us Justice rod. As we his Mercy oft abus'd To shew us Mercy he refus'd 4. Kings 25. v. 21. v. 3. Ier. Lament 2 v. 20. Baruch 2. v 3. Ezech. 5. v. 18. 4. Kings 24. v 24 4. King 25. v 9.13.14.15 Our dearest friends by th' sword lay dead Our Wives and Children famished O dolefull day for want of meat The Parents did their Children eat The fierce Chaldeans who did take Our City did us Pris'ners make They Sion burnt and Temple sack't Our sins did cause this horrid fact To Babylon their chiefest City They brought us slaves 4. King 24. v. 15.16 1. Chron. 9. v. 1. where void of pitty They us'd us with a cruelty Exceeding Egypts slavery Our Bread was short our Drink was scant Ier. Lam. 1. v 11. â— 5. v. 4. Who can with tongue express our want The labours we did undergo For others forc't to plow and sow Ier. Lam. 5. v. 5. Our enemies did domineer And keep us in such aw and fear Like Slaves we under foot were trod Chastized with the Whip and Rod. This ill exceeded all the rest And our poor souls with grief opprest To serve our God we were not free But prest unto Idolatry Barud 6. v 3 Ier. Lam. 1. v. 4. Their Temples Altars Sacrifice Reminding us how Sion lies In ashes and the Temple torn With all the Altars now forlorn This caus'd such grief v. 16.17 no pleasant thing Could any pleasure to us bring But more increas't our tears and grief Our sorrows could find no relief Ps 136. v. 1. They plac't us by the river side Where whisp'ring stream did curling glide The banks were set with sallow trees About them pleasant notes of bees This did increase our Melancholy To meditate on our past folly Deut. â—â— v. 13â— How with true joy we once abounded And with God's blessings were surrounded How v. 14. of all nations we were blest Our Temple did excell the rest 2. Chron. 7. v. 13.14.15 By sacrifice we did obtain All spirit ' all good and did remain God's chosen people Deut. 7. v. 6. till by sin To leave his laws we did begin And sacrifice to Idols which Our hearts with folly did bewitch For this allow'd of liberty In carnall pseasure we might ly Without controul and Heaven make On earth which freedom we did take Ierem. c. And thô the Prophets did foretell Those ills which for our sins befell Their preaching we would not believe But freedom to our senses give Ps 144. v. 18. Which justly brought us in this thrall Which when into our mind we call No musick voice or pleasant thing Can to our sad hearts comfort bring Ps 136. v. 2. We therfore hang'd our Organs by Than play we had more mind to cry And when they scoffing bid us sing This grief unto our hearts did bring Reminding us thô now too late Of our lost joys and pleasant state v. 3. Sing unto us of Sion's songs Joy to this pleasant place belongs Leave of your melancholy thought Live chearfully where you are brought Conform to us and think not on Jerusalem from whence you 're gon 4. King 25. v. 24. And you shall live with us in peace All slavish cruelty shall cease To gather Wealth you shall be free And joy with us in liberty No thô our slavery be great And us so cruelly you treat Jerusalem we 'l nêre forget Nor love on Babylon will set Baruch 4. v. 1. For thô our sins deserved this We now repent what 's done amiss Ezech. 33 v. 12.16 And hope God will be pacify'd Who Penitents nêre yet deny'd This is a place more fit to use Sighs holy songs we 'l not abuse Ps 136. v. 4. To sing them in this wicked land Lest we should with you guilty stand In this some comfort we do find To keep Jerusalem in mind Which if we ever do forget Let this our Penalty be set v. 5. That our right hand forgotten be That 's what is dearest let us see Forsook by God nay let him cause v. 6. Our Tongues to cleave unto our jaws If she have not the cheifest place Still in our joy and with God's grace We hope to see her walls rebuilt The Temple purg'd where bloud was spilt New Altars made and sacrifice Offer'd which God will not despise But pardon give with a cessation Of his just wrath and indignation This we 'l pray for while we live here And from this time live in God's fear With hope expecting our recall When we will praise him great and small Their Pennance did with God prevail 1. Esdr 1. v. 1. c. 2. v. 1. And of their hope they did not fail But God recall'd them back again In Joy and peace they did remain A SINNERS
LAMENTATION IN THE DEVIL'S BONDAGE THE SECOND PART Many are the scourges of a sinner Ps 3â— v. 10. O You Ier. Lam. 1. v. 12. that do pass by this way Stop here and make some little stay Attend and lend to me your ear That you my dolefull case may hear Ezeck 14. v. 8. Which may a warning to you be And also make you pitty me Eccles 1. v. 14. Who on these pleasant banks can find No object to content my mind The murm'ring waters musick make Wherein the Ear may pleasure take The streams reflected by the sun Delight the eyes to see them run A fragrant smell the flowers cast The fruit's delicious to the tast All 's here that may the senses please Refresh the Body and give ease Eccles 2. v. 1.11 Yet all these bring no joy to me But objects of my sorrow be Reminding me what I have lost By hatefull Sin how dear it cost Sion is still within my mind Christ's holy Church where I did find Those inward joys and consolations That far excell'd these recreations Prov. 15. v. 15. A Conscience clear was my great feast Where I still fed on what was best Christ's Body was my dayly bread His Bloud my drink thus was I fed Wherein I found all true delight Faith gave my Understanding light True Charity my Heart inflam'd The sweets I felt cannot be nam'd No eye êre saw 1. Cor. 2. v. 9. or ear heard tell Nor can Man's Heart conceive it well What God for man doth here provide While he doth in his love abide Love doth his Heart secure from fear 1. Io. 4. v. 18. Hope makes his future joys appear As present thus he doth possess In part Ps 15. v. 9. his future happiness This happy state was I once in Eccli 40. v. 9.10 Till I consented unto sin Which in a trice robb'd me of all And turn'd my sweets to bitter gall The World the Dev'll and flatt'ring Flesh Numb 21. v. 5. c. 11. v. 5. Promis'd my Sad heart to refresh Like those with Manna surfited I sought with onions to be fed Math. 12. v. 45. And granted what the Flesh desir'd And yielded what the World requir'd These Idols I ador'd in place Of God and so I lost his grace And then the Dev'l did soon possess My heart and to all wickedness Did tempt it thus to sin I fell Without the fear of God or Hell The Sacraments I little us'd And when receiv'd I them abus'd Math 6. v. 5. My Pray'r was hypocriticall I little read or none at all I slighted counsell except bad Prov. 18. v. 3. All good adivce did make me sad The Flesh did live without controul She domineer'd and not the Soul What Senses will'd Eph. 2. v. 3. the Will did grant She used not the least restraint Iude 1. v. 4. Which made me live worse than a beast In filth of Sin I kept my Feast The Devill toss't me like a ball Eccli 27. v. 12. From this unto the other wall From one sin to another press't That I could find no kind of rest My conscience Prov. 12. v. 18. now and then would bite My Reason had some little light â—hâ—â—â— only served to torment My Heart was hard would not relent What frights and fears did me possess Prov. 28. v. 1. Whilst I liv'd in this wickednes The thought of God was like a dart With horrid fear it pierc't my heart This to expell my mortall foe Would tempt me here and there to go To this and that lewd company That all good thoughts might in me dy Ps 54. v. 6. Yet these great fears in me nêre ceas'd But dayly more and more increas'd My Reason now began to clear Which made me more and more to fear Heb 10. v. 31. God's Judgments now were in my eye And Hell my due when I should dy The doubtfull hour of corpôrall Death Each moment might expire my breath Wisd 17 v. 9.10 All sudden noise that I did hear Did make me tremble quake and fear My very shadow made me start Ps 114. v. 3. O what a Hell 's a sinfull Heart When I on Sion cast my thought How once my soul with joy was fraught Ps 41. v. 4 The brackish tears ran down my eyes Ps 37. v. 9. I fill'd the air with sighs and cries To think how happy I had been How miserable now by sin This made me Musick cast away Eccli 22. v. 6. More mind to weep I had than play My crafty foe did bid me sing That he again my heart might bring In love with these deceitfull joys 1. Io. 2. v. 16.17 Which now appear'd to me but toys How can I sing in this strange land Afflicted by a cruell hand Rev. 18. v. 7. Where pleasures are my grief's increase And purchase pains without release Where Flesh indeed may pleasure take 1. Petr. 2 v 11. Rom. 8. v. 13. But for her self a Hell doth make Where she in fire shall ever ly Still wishing but shall never dy No Rom. 5. v. 5. no. I hope I yet shall see Jerusalem it 's dear to me Where my good God doth live and reign I hope he will be pleas'd again Iam. 4. v. 9. And me into his mercy take Who now am willing for his sake In grief and sorrow still to ly v. 10. So I for sin may satisfy 2. King 12. v. 13. And this hope to my soul doth bring To think how sometimes Israel's King Had been a sinner yet regain'd God's love and in his grace remain'd The Israêlites were also sent Oft for their sins to banishment Yet by Repentance did obtain 1. Esdr 2. v. 2. c. That they were called back again I will not therfore settle here My joy as if it Heaven were But will with bitter grief lament My wickedness and time mispent Ps 6. v. 7. Ps 41. v. 4 Ps 50. v. 19. With tears I 'll wash my couch and bed They shall be day and night my bread A contrite heart J'll offer God To beg that he 'l withdraw his rod. If he at first my Pray'r doth slight I 'le own it is but just and right Numb 15. v. 30.31 Since I did slight and him contemn He justly may my soul condemn Ps 33. v. 5. I will persever and not fear But he my Pray'r at last will hear Ezech. 33. v. 11. Since he desireth not the loss Of Man redeemed by the Cross Like the good Father he 'l receive The Prodigall Luk. 15. v. 22. when he will leave His wickednes and home return With fire of love his heart will burn With tears of joy he 'l him embrace Luk. 15. v. 7. And to his soul restore his grace He 'l feast and with his friends rejoyce With Musick dance and singing voyce This happy hour I will expect J'l never tears and
Pray'rs neglect Ps 15. v. 9. Bêing confident he 'l hear my cry And mercy shew before I dy Amen THE WORLD'S GLORY IS VANITY TRUE JOY IN VIRTUE All things that are done under the sun are vanity and affliction of spirit Ecclesiastes 1. v. 14. WHat is this World and all therein But Vanity producing sin Except the soul withdraw her love And Eagle-like take flight above And there in contemplation high On God doth fix her piercing eye Where she in God will clear behold Her self her worth and doth unfold The fallacies the World doth use To win mens love and them abuse By representing that for good Which proves disguis'd when understood She takes the Titles that declare God's attributes and Symbols are Of Heav'nly Bliss to name her toys That they may seem to us true joys But when you once do them detect As vain you slight contemn neglect By honour power and Majesty She raiseth some to that degree As Gods on Earth Dan. 3. v. 5. they will be treated As thô their Thrones with God's were seated Riches and Pleasures have some blinded That other Heav'n they never minded Some did in Beauty so excell Like Goddesses on Earth did dwell Puff't up with Pride ador'd by Men And Deify'd by Poets pen This glory now in dust doth ly All 's vanisht in the twinkl'of eye And if ought here of them remains It is their soul 's most sinfull stains Which in God's Justice may require The flame of Hell's Eternall fire Of Worldly Joy this is the end To which she brings her dearest friend Are here her joys from sorrows free No they are mixt with misery Honour doth meet with emulation Hest 7. v. 10. Which often causeth great vexation And when it seems past Fortunes frown Proud Aman-like it is cast down With labours great men riches gain What frights and fears do they sustain Lest they should lose their Idoll Wealth They often hazard life and Health And when death comes they no more have Than a poor Coffin Shroud and Grave Great Alexander in his Throne Was not content thô he alone The world possest he oft did weep His soul found want disturbing sleep Nothing the soul can satisfy That is beneath a Deity The Epicure and Sodomit Whom name of Beast doth most befit Eph. 4. v. 18 19. Like swine in carnall puddle ly By this obscuring Reason's Eye They shame's disease and sicknes find With lost repute true grief of mind Behold a drunkard in his cups What comes to hand clear off he sups With hellish smoke he fumes his brains Till void of reason he remains He curses swears he damn's his soul He spews like swine in it doth roll Wisd 2. v. 6. c. These are the joys and glory great With which the world her friends doth treat This course of life consider'd well To men of sense seems but a Hell Rom. 6. v. 21.23 Leading poor Souls to that infernall Where devills are and flames Eternall Base world who here false joys for true Dost give thy Lovers now Adieu No longer shalt thou Tyrannize On sense and soul to make thy prize No longer joy I 'le seek in thee Hence shall my joy in Virtue be THE SECOND PART HEAVEN UPON EARTH OR TRUE JOY IN VIRTUE A secure mind is as it were a continuall Feast Prov. 15. v. 15. TO stop a floud doth pains require Small hopes with oyl to quench a fire So floud of Vice 't is hard to turn Where Carnall love the Heart doth burn Yet burns asswage by greater heat So Virtues love makes that retreat To win Man's Heart to Virtues love Is properly God's work above Especially where sin is plac't And sense Man's Reason hath defac't Yet Virtue known is of that force It gains the Heart and changeth course The cause is known by its effect So I will Virtue here detect Not by defining as the use But by the fruits it doth produce The which Mans Reason will so please They 'l steal his Heart and love with ease Health Honour Riches to possess May termed be World's happiness But since in Heart Fear doth remain That what it gives ' twill take again They can't be deem'd felicity Where Fear 's 1. Ioh. 4. v. 18. true Joy can never be A Man that is in Conscience clear Is void of sorrow fright and fear He feareth nought the World can take It 's Joy to him Rom 5. v. 3. if for God's sake He loseth all and pains endure Rewards above he knows are sure Math. 9. v. 29. Christ's promise of an hundred fold For what is lost makes him so bold That Persecution he don't fly But runs into 't couragiously If he 's possest with any fear It 's lest he may not suffer here The greatest honours here on Earth Bestow'd by Man or due by Birth He slights as mean and Vanity When he above doth cast his eye To be God's son his Spouse Io. 1. v. 12. 1. Io. 3. v. 1. his friend Are honours which do those transcend On Earth was Alexander great Who sate in hâ—â— Imperiall seat To judge the World seems glory high Math. 19. v 28. 1. Cor. 6. v. 3. Compar'd to his he doth deny Since by Christ's promise judge he shall The Angles and the World with all Croesus with riches did abound Which do command on Earth what 's found These he contemns Math. 19. v 24. Mat. 5 v. 3. Iam. 2. v. 5. since t is a venture If ever they shall Heaven enter He blessed calls his Poverty which from that doubt doth set him free King Salomon Eccli 2. v. 10. who did possess All what was pleasant did confess T was Vanity v. 11. and grief of mind True ioy therein he could not find But Man from these withdrawing love Doth tast the lasting joys above Hence t is no worldly Crosses can Disturb the soul of Virtuous Man Since he all here as vain doth flight And suff'rings are his great delight For if with Christ 2. Cor. 1. v. 7. saith Sacred story He shares in pain he shall in glory Gal. 6. v. 14. This makes him pains and Crosses thirst Th'unsuffring state he deems the worst If others do'nt him mortify He makes himself his enemy With hunger cold and labours great And Discipline Gal. 5. v. 2. his Flesh doth treat To all affronts he 'l open ly What 's Will requires he will deny Still saying Luk 22. v. 42. Father with God's son Not mine but thy bles't will be don 2. Tim. 2. v. 4. Who as he came all men to save So he them glorify'd would have All Virtues are his great delight To practise them both day and night For they to soul do glory bring And wed her to the heau'nly King Where she in ioy shall still remain What price too great for so great gain Here you the reason clearly see Why virtuous Man from grief is free For ought on Earth he hath
no love Therefore no loss his heart doth move Curst Envy's reach he doth not fear His soul 's above Phil. 3. v. 20. thô Body here Where he doth daily take a tast Of Heav'nly joys as if there plac't On Love's smeet Manna he doth feed Which all supplys in time of need 1. Io. 4. v. 16. He still grows more and more divine And thus by Love his God doth joyn Here you the Worldly joys may see Compar'd to Virtues nothing be Betwixt them there 's no parallell More than 's of Heav'n and cursed Hell Make you your choice Rom. 6. v. 23. yet take advice To choose what end in Paradise Amen Wo to you who are mighty to drink wine and stout men in drunkennes Esay 5. v. 22. VAin Ovids Metamorphoses forbear Admiring here you greater have than there The Gods their own work chaÌ„g'd in Heav'n plac't By Man on Earth God's work is here defac't Noah's Floud is still a wonder to Mankind en 7. v. 18. Observe and you shall here a greater find Heavn's Floudgates opeÌ„'d and great showers fell v. 11. But this great Deluge is produc'd by Hell That many bodies did of life bereave Here Sentence of Damnation Souls receive Gen. 9. v. 11. God promis't that should never be again Men and the Devill will have this remain We read the Giants with the Gods made war Twixt God and man this makes a reall jarr Here Man blasphemes and doth his God defy Nay that there is a God he dares deny Dan. 4. v. 30. Nabuchodonosor was turn'd a Beast These men like swine in Wash do make their Feast Untill tâ—eir Reason they have overthrown And only by their shape from beasts are known That Man might glorious be God Reason gave Prov. 20. v. 1. Ps 81. v. 6.1 Io. 3. v. 8.10 This Man destroys to be the Devils slave A blest Exehange of all the greatest evill Of God's true son to be the child of Devill These changes great and more are made in man By dev'lish Floud of liquour pipe and Can. The Poets feign a River runs in Hell This hath broke bounds and flows on th' earth we dwell Gen. 8. v. 16. No man revived after Noah's great Floud From this vast Deluge few return to good Men other vice are gain'd to leave and hate A Man is rarely stay'd at this Floud gate Which broken down lets in all sort of sin All God's CoÌ„mands man boldly breaks therein No wonder Os 4. v. 11. since his Weapon Reason's light The Devill gains disarm'd how can he fight The first CoÌ„mand One God thou shall adore The Drunkard slights he loves his belly more He curses Phil. 3. v. 19. damn's he takes God's Name invain This Ale house Musick sounds while Cups remain God's Sabbath he contemns and Holydays He breaks at Cards and Dice with others plays He 'l honour neither Parent or Superiour While he 's in 's Cups each man is his Inferiour His Idoll-Will all men must then adore Prov. 20. v. 1. Gen 19. v. 33.35 Deny'd he kills or dyes in bloudy gore In Wine doth brutish Luxury abound found Lot-like his Daughter serves when Wife 's not Eccli 49. v. 1. Prov. 21. v. 17. By Drunkenness he doth a Beggar grow TheÌ„ cheats theÌ„ robbs and steals froÌ„ frieÌ„d or foe He lyes by course and tells detracting story Unjust desires do share his sinfull glory The Church Commands he doth as little keep Fasting and Pray'r shall nêre disturb his sleep Let soul be damn'd so please the Flesh he can What state 's so bad as this of Drunken Man Many more sins the drunkard doth commit To name them to chast ears it is not fit For liquors strong are fewell to the fire Of Luxury Prov 23. v. 31.33 and heart's unchast desire Eccli 31. v. 38. Of all sins drunkenness you see 's the Mother The devill Father who wed one another In Ale-house where they drunken children get By Pipe and Pot and other snares there set Behold how drunkard doth his soul defile Prov. 12. v. 11. And of all good the same he doth beguile Besides his soul he Reputation stains On earth short life and scorn are all his gains Gen. 9. v. 22. Noah when drunk disclos'd his nakedness So drunken Man his folly doth express His words and actions men to laughter move What Man of Reason such a life can love Since Reason's lost by Vice of Drunkenness Men who invite unto it do express A seeming grief that God hath made them men And wish like Beasts that they were made agen If change in them God will not what is man They 'l make themselves Brute Beasts in which they can Come let us tast the pleasures of the Beast To Brutish men this is the pleasantest Feast Isa 56. v. 12. Drink and be merry sorrow cast avay Enjoy your selves while in this house you stay Come here 's a Health be sure this Glass go rouÌ„d Iob. 21. v. 13. All grief and care in this good Liquor 's drown'd Dev'lish advice taught by the Prince of Hell Lest man should glory have froÌ„ whence he fell Be merry Prov. 23. v 29.30 what in sin and God's abuse Drink Healths which Death unto the soul produce If you 'l not sorrow and for sin grieve here Sorrows of Hell and just Damnation fear Where wit the drunken damn'd Society You shall drink healths in flames Eternally They slight the joy that is in Virtue found with God and HeaveÌ„ when their Heads turn rouÌ„d O Beastly Men by men of sense avoided As enemies to God and men exploded Iudith 13. v. 10. And to themselves the greatest enemy Who seeming would like Holophernes dy At least they hazard limbs and neck to break O sad account to God which they shall make Of lost time also and their mony spent In sin which for their good to them was lent The Liquor also which they vainly wast Consuming all so they may please the tast Isai 5. v. 11 Luc 16. v. 24. O cursed Pallat which brings souls to Hell In glutton Dives fiery place to dwell Where flouds of flames shall pour down thy throte Which will produce this vain repenting note O would to God in time I had been wise And sense had never blinded Reasons Eyes My boon Companions can give no relief Here ly I must encompassed with grief The cursed devils are my company On whom in cups I call'd Math. 25. v. 41. Revel 16. v. 4. with them I ly In fiery Bed which my old note renews Blasphemous curses Musick which we use Beyond this fire Isay 26. v. 10. it 's tort'ring grief to me That I the face of God shall never see But feel his scourge ' cause I his Law conteÌ„n'd With Rebell Angels justly here condemn'd I wish all men would timely warning take This brutish Vice of drinking to forsake Isay 28. v. 7. Which is the inrode
to all sort of sin And hard to leave when once they fall therein Feed not your Bellies swine-like Iam. 5. v. 5. to the knife Seek not joys here but in the other life Hence fly your drinking friends society Mind you were made to joyn a Deity Cast not away this Counsel as they use Away its Melancholy Here 's abuse Dan. 5. v. 5. Beware Balthasar's hand upon the wall Wâ—ch while he 's drinking writes his great downfall Luk. 21. v. 34. That night he lost his life do you beware God's eye above doth see and will not spare The least of faults but note it down by hand Severe much more shall drunkard guilty stand Who hundreds hath made partners in his sin Poor sottish soul henceforth do thou begin A Reformation leave this Mother Vice Attendants all will vanish in a trice Fix thought on Heaven Phil. 3. v. 20. let thy converse be With Angels that is the society God made thee for and there with him to dwell While brutish drunkards buried are in Hell DEATH AND LIFE Are in the hands of the tongue Prov. 18. v. 21. THe soul thô active yet while here Within the Body sâ—â—â—s confin'd Math. 12. v. 34. In this defective doth appear Not able to declare her mind Without the use of instruments Of which the Tongue is always chief In the revealing her intents Her love her hate her joy her grief Hence 't is the Tongue participates In her soul's actions good or ill So do the lips which are the gates That shut and open at her will Thus death and life are said to be In the Tongûes power 〈◊〉 her hands Althô the sin's formality Is in the Will which all commands But yet from fault the Tongue 's not free Some Tongues so ready are to speak Eecli 4. v. 34 Eccli 32. v. 10.11 Like Fancy they as nimble be Let fly at all and thus they break The Laws of Reason God and Man With evill words they wound the soul They speak before their Reason can Well judge what 's right and them controul Hence 't is Saint James declares that he Who to Religion doth pretend And leaves his Tongue at liberty Of his Religion there 's an end Iam. 1. v. 26. Except a Man his Tongue refrain And make of it Religious use Ps 139. v. 12. He doth pretend to it in vain T is not Religion but abuse A Tongue that 's let at liberty Iam 3. v. 8. Saint James doth call a restless evill Abounding with iniquity And brings the soul unto the Devill It swears it curses v. 9.10 it blasphemes It lyes detracts and causeth strife It treats men with injurious Names Which oft occasions loss of life It doth the innocent defame By telling stories too and fro Iam. 3. v. 6. It puts the whole World in a flame Such Tongue to ' scape what man doth know Ps 56. v 5. Ps 13. v. 3. David compares it to a sword Under its lips Asp's poyson is Hundreds somtimes but with a word Infecting or with whispeâ—ing hiss Detracting words it doth let fly Prov 24 v. 9 21 Eccli 20. v. 28.30 To th' loss of others Reputation Thus wounds the souls of standers by And many times to their Damnation For they do oft too much attend And credit the Detractours speech When they the absent should defend Math. 7. v. 12. As Christian Charity doth teach And thus they guilty do become Rom. 1. v. 32 Lev. 5. v. 1. By Silence seem to give consent In their defence are wholy dumb And lend their ear with much content Hear what Saint Bernard says of this Men to detract or others hear Which of these two more wicked is It doth not plain to me appear Again the Tongue by words impure 1. Cor. 15. v. 33. Provokes the Hearers unto Lust For which one day let man be sure A strict account he render must As instrumentall to their evill As envying their dear soul's salvation Against his God he joyns the devill And brings their souls unto damnation O fy lascivious Man for shame Beware your Tongue Eccli 27. v. 7. Math. 12 v. 34. for it doth show You are in heart the very same Since by his Tongue Man's Heart we know Let then your Tongue be chast and pure And Heart convert from that great Vice Rev. 21. v. 27. For no uncleanness we are sure Shall ever enter Paradise See what great evills men run in By their unchast detracting Tongue Besides their own most wicked sin All hearers sins to them belong Coloss 3. v. 8. Beware this Vice then from this day And of your Tongue most carefull be Ps 18. v. 14. Still with King David humbly pray From others sins O Lord spare me Some Tongues are good and Life do give By Godly counsell Pray'r and Preaching They gain from sin and win to live In virtue by their pious Teaching Souls to convert of all good works Saint Denis calls the most divine Let them be with the Jews or Turks Dan. 12. v. 3. Such Teachers shall with glory shine Choice silver saith wise Salomon That pure Tongue is Prov. 10. v. 20. which many teacheth To worship God and call upon His Holy Name and if it preacheth Good doctrine from all errours quit He truly names it Prov. 15. v. 4. Wood of life Reviving all that tast of it Such Tongues are always void of strife To injuries they make reply With meek with mild with humble spirit They always speak with charity Which pleaseth God and grace doth merit They pray they sing they praise God's Name If gratefull office they can do They still are ready for the same True Charity prompts thereunto Such blessed Tongues are instruments Eccli 37. v 21.22.26 To do themselves and others good They cross the Devil 's curst intents Christ's Death to frustrate and his Bloud Which he by wicked Tongues oft gains Destroying Christian Charity Well knowing Christ's most bitter pains For such will ineffectuall be The nature of the Tongue you see It is the best and worâ—â— of things As you do use it certainly Death to the soul Eccli 37. v. 21. Ps 100. v 6 Eph 4. v. 29. or life it brings Of others tongues do you beware Lest you be partner in their sin And of your own take equall care That you the same Gulf fall not in Come Children hear Ps 33. v. 12. and credit me Saith David I 'le teach you God's fear Who with long life would blessed be And see good days while he is here v. 14. Let him his Tongue refrain from ill His lips let not deceitfull be Thus he 'l perform his Makers will Long Life and happy days shall see But since it doth to God belong Prov. 16. v. 1. As Salomon the Wise declares To govern and to rule the Tongue Ps 140. v. 3. With David let us make our Pray'rs Put to
my Mouth O Lord a Keeper To lips a door of circumstance Before I speak Eccli 11. v. 8. that I may deeper Weigh if it doth my good advance For if by words no good accrews To you or to your neighbors soul To speak it 's better to refuse Than let your Tongue so idle roll Prov. 10. v. 19. Maâ— 12. v. 6. Eccli 20. v. 8. For since in many words there 's sin And we for words account must give From idle words your Tongue keep in So you 'l in Peace and quiet live When you would speak take care it be Still to God's honour praise and glory Your words inflame with charity Abhorr unchast detracting story Math. 5. v. 9. Employ your Tongue in making Peace Instructing others and in Pray'r Thus will the Tongue your good increase And after in your glory share Thrice happy are such Tongues as these They give life to themselves and others Who seek both God and Man to please Without offence unto their brothers Such Tongues while others are condemn'd To Fire for all Eternity Ps â—3 v. 5. In Heav'n shall praise God without end In the celestiall Hierarchy Amen Thou shalt not take God's Name in vain Exod. 20. v. 7. WHen God Man's Body made of Earth Gen 2. v. 7. He breath'd a soul into that clay And gave to him a noble birth Who was to love him and obey Gen. 1. v. 28. Whom as their Lord all Creatures here Were to obey to love and fear Gen 3. v. 3. And God descended from above In Paradise with him to walk To manifest to him his love Familiarly with him would talk His person man was to adore Respect and honour ever more But when to sin Man did not fear He was averted in his heart And hid himself Gen 3. v. 8. durst not appear Thus from God's presence he did part v. 19. And had this for his Penalty With brutish beasts to live and dy Man being thus estrang'd by sin From God and his blest conversation Idolatry he strait fell in To Creatures gave God's Adoration O strange Exchange The Lord of all To subject here doth prostrate fall And this because he did contemn His Makers Precept love and grace To Brutes his Lord did him condemn No more to see his blessed face And as he now convers't with Beasts Their beastly Pleasures were his Feasts Thus Man in Reason blinded lay Forgetting God and to what end He was created went astray From Natures Law till God did send Him ten Commands Exod. 20. v. 1 c. Mat. 19. v. 17. which do contain What 's needfull Heaven to regain Where first Exod. 20. v. 1.2.3 v. 7. he doth reveal again Himself one God to be ador'd Next that Man shall not take in vain The Name of him his dreadfull Lord Which he 'l have honour'd by all here As much as if he did appear And this the Israelites well knew That Holy Name they durst not speak But gave to it the honour due Burgens ad dit to Lyra on the 3 c. of Exod. Least God's Command'ment they should break None but the Priest in Church alone Might name the Tetragrammaton Which holy Name doth signify The same as God Exod. 3. v. 14. Exod. 6. v. 3. in our tongue The Essence of the Deity And only did to God belong Names of his attributes they us'd Which also must not be abus'd Much less our dear Redeemers Name JESUS which all men must adore Which signifies much like the same That Name doth which we nam'd before Phil. 2. v. 10. At JESUS Name let all knees bow In Heau'n on Earth and Hell below The very Dev'ls in Hell do tremble When Men these Names devoutly use And God their sins will not dissemble Who boldly do the same abuse Exod. 20. v. 7. Deut. 5. v. 11. Who take God's Name in vain they shall Be guilty and condemn'd withall Much more if they shall by it swear As now a days too many do Setting aside God's love and fear And headlong to the Devill go With him in fire for êre to ly Still wishing Rev. 9. v. 6. but shall never dy Of sins rash swearing is most vain It is a Sin of pure contempt It brings no pleasure or rich gain Of swearing Man had never dream't If God the same had not forbid The Vice of swearing had lay hid Hence 't is the swearing vice God hates And lays on Man this punishment Depriv'd of grace his soul creates New sins to vice beîng wholly bent This with the Wise Man we must yield Who sweareth much Eccli 23. v. 12. with Vice is fill'd The same affirms the Plagues of God And punishments v. 12. shall nêre depart The swearer's house of whose iust Rod He while on Earth shall find the smart It 's fear'd this swearing vice alone The World with Plagues hath overflown To take an Oath when Law requires Ier. 4. v. 2. Is counted a Religious act To execute what God inspires I bind my self by Vows compact Thy Law saith David Ps 118. v. 106. I did swear To keep O Lord and thee to fear When you make Oath saith Jeremy Be sure in it these three are found Judgment Justice Ier. 4. v. 2. and verity And that to swear you ' re also bound For who saith Wiseman Eccli 23. v. 14. vainly swear Not justify'd but guilty are From sin in Oath if you 'l be free Swear not at all Math. â— v. 35. I am 5. v. 12. as Christ commands Let Yea and Nay your answer be Which with the just as firmly stands Who false will prove and tell a Ly By Oath you never shall him ty Who sweareth oft is much the same No Oath his heart to Truth shall bind Who fears not to abuse God's Name To ly you will as ready find who 'l swear will ly who 'l ly will steal Who with a swearer then dares deal Besides this Vice there is another Which equally breaks this Command Blasphemous Cursing is its brother Levit. 24. v. 16. Which makes men equall guilty stand Which sin is greater I can't tell Since both condemn the soul to Hell I shall not speak of Blasphemy ' Gainst God immediatly directed But of that which seems hid to ly Little regarded till detected Your curse to Creature doth reflect On God and shows your disrespect God all things made and they were good Gen. 1. v. 31. All were created for mans use If this were rightly understood How durst Man offer this abuse To curse the Gift and Giver slight O desp'rate Rebell fill'd with spite Saint Jude relates Iud. 1. v. 9. that Michaël Contending stiffly with the Devill Durst not him curse he knew full well Blaspheming was the greatest evill Thô sin his Nature had deprav'd God's hand-work there was still engrav'd But many men if they are cross't By stick or stone by wind or beast As
stable born Luk 2. v. 7. Math. 4 v 19.21 Luk. 6. v. 20. and Manger laid He chose Poor Men would have no other For his Disciples to them said Blessed are you who here are Poor Of Heav'nly joys you may be sure When one did ask how he might gain Heaven Math. 19. v. 16. v. 17. Keep the Commands But if Perfection you 'l attain Sell all you have and with your hands Give to the Poor v. 21. and follow me This doing you will perfect be Who Heav'n and Earth possest Ier. 12. v. 7. and All Seem'd All to leave Poor Man to be To raise Man from his deadly fall And free him of his misery He lived Poor Ps 87.16 and naked dy'd And must Men rich on Earth abide Mark of himself what he did say The Fox hath holes Luk. 9. v. 58. but Son of Man Hath no place where his head to lay Or Worldly Treasures Prov. 17. v. 5. that he can Say This is mine and shall men scorn Those who are Poor or Poorly born Let Rich Men judge it not a folly All to forsake and imitate Christ Of all states this is most holy The World with all its Wealth to hate We have left all Math. 19. v. 27. and follow'd Thee Saith Peter What Reward shall be Amen I say to you that when The son of Man in Majesty Shall sit v. 28. you all shall rise agen And Judges ôre twelve Tribes shall be v. 29. And who for me shall Riches leave For one an Hundred shall receive This makes so many Men forsake Their Father Mother House v. 29. and Land Religious Lives to undertake And be at other mens command Their Cross to take Math. 16. v. 24. and Will deny To live with Christ Eternally And for this reason they refuse Riches on Earth thô they be good If rightly us'd but most abuse Them and it 's hard if understood To keep them Math. 19. v. 24. and to Heaven go They are to Virtue such a Foe They are the Ministers to Vice They purchase all for sinfull Heart What it desires all in a trice They bring and Men will freely part With them to purchase hatefull Sin But not that they may glory win They nat'rally do so bewitch Mens Hearts Eccls. 4. v. 8. Eccls. 5. v. 9. as still to desire more Their fingers to receive still itch But will give nothing to the Poor What they part with for any good Comes from their Heart like drops of bloud This is the Idoll they adore Avârice is the Root of evill Colos 3. v 3 1. Tim. 6. v. 10 Luk. 12 v. 15. Eccli 10. v. 9. Set not your Heart on it therfore For certain it brings to the Devill More souls by Wealth have gone astray From God than any other way Our Saviour Christ affirmeth this Math. 19. v. 24. A Camell can as easy pass Through eye of needle as in Bliss A rich Man enter Yet alass Most Men do Riches here desire Which brought rich Dives to Hell fire What then can't Rich Man saved be Yes if he will dispense his Wealth Dan. 4. v. 24. And to the Poor in Alms be free He may preserve his soul in health And friends of this his Mammon make Luk. 16. v. 9. At death to joys his soul they 'l take But since it is so hard a thing Wealth to possess and not to set Your Heart upon it from you fling What is superfluous and thus get Claim to this Promise Luk. 6. v. 20. Blest are you In spirit Poor Heav'n is your due O blest Exchange Luk. 6. v. 38. for Worldly Pelf To be partaker of God's glory If you 'l give gold he 'l give himself If we may credit sacred story Mat. 6. v. 29. Then send your Riches there before Where you shall live for evermore And you who Poor are don't repine But be contented with your state Be Poor in spirit Math. 5. v. 3. and in fine Your wants will open Heaven's Gate God's Just and will reward you there For Wants you patient suffer here Be not sollicitous Mat. 6. v. 25. or fear That you shall want cloths meat or drink To God your wants do all appear Be not mistrustfull or once think That he v. 26. who Birds and Beasts doth feed Will you neglect in time of need Mark 10. v. 38. You know not what is for you best Health sicknes Wealth or Poverty Trust him with Life and all the rest Obedient still unto him be Be confident and never fear What 's best for Soul he 'l give you here Most certain 't is true Poverty Is here on Earth the greatest Treasure From Sin it keeps the Soul most free Increasing Virtue in great measure It frees a Man from fear of loss And joyns with Christ upon the Cross He suffers Hunger Thirst 1. Cor. 4. v. 11. and cold Which when receiv'd with Resignation Do purchase Heaven more than gold And more secure him from Damnation Blest Poverty which Soul doth bring And weds her to its Heav'nly King Yet all who Poor are be not blest For some are Poor against their will And in desires do never rest But still contrive them to fulfill Their Hearts are so much set on wealth It often brings them unto stealth Those Poor are blessed who in spirit Are humbly with their state content Such dayly do increase their merit By wants and Crosses to them sent Luk. 6. v. 21. These shall in Heaven have their fill For Resignation to God's will Let Rich and Poor then warning take Ps 61. v. 11. On Riches let no'ne set his heart But freely give them for God's sake And when his soul shall hence depart He shall from his God mercy find Since to the Poor he was so Kind You Poor deem not your lot the worst Nor greedily seek after gain Luk. 6. v. 24. Which makes so many Souls accurst But patiently your wants sustain Then they from Sin will keep you free And Rich in Heav'n with Christ you 'l be Amen OF CHASTITY He that can take it let him take it Math. 19.12 SInce God was pleased not to make All Men at once but did decree One flesh should of another take And thus in bloud related be That they might one another love In heart and all division hate As Natures instinct doth them move God to this end did them create A Lawfull Union is requir'd Betwixt the Male and Female King Which Mat. 19. v. 5. as in Flesh so it s desir'd They both united be in mind Gen. 1. v. 28. Eph. 6. v. 4. T' increase is God's Commandement And breed up Children in his Fear This must be Wedlock's chief intent As by the Scripture doth appear So that before the World was fill'd The Marriage-Precept had great force If all Gen. 9. v. 1. but few again were kill'd Men would be bound to
take that course But since no want of Men we have Our great God when he Man became Of single Life example gave Mat. 19. v. 12. Exhorting us unto the same Yet since a single Life to live Is hard 1. Cor. 7. v. 25. now Nature's prone to ill Command of this he would not give But left all men to their free will He did commend those who for Heaven Mat. 19. v. 12. Themselves on Earth did Eunuchs make To whom a speciall glory 's given He that can take it let him take Saint Paul saith of Virginity I have no Precept yet do give This counsell If you will be free From many cares chast like me 1. Cor. 7. v 32. live Wedlock is good but Single Life Is better v. 38. Wedlock trouble brings v. 34. The Virgin 's void of Worldly strife Wedded unto the King of Kings This Virtue is Angelicall The Angels live in purity But Men Since their First Parents Fall Gen. 6.2 v. 12. Inclined are to Luxury Virginity like God doth make Who all impurity doth Fly By Luxury men do partake With Brutes in Bestiality This Virtue is to Flesh and bloud So hard that till the Law of grace It was by few right understood Virginity few did embrace Yet Some there were the Same approv'd Elias single Life embrac't For which he was by God remov'd From Men in fiery Chariot plac't Among the Gentils 't is recorded The Sibyls Kept Virginity 4. King 2. v. 11. For which they were by God rewarded With the rare Gift of Prophesy Foretelling Christ's Nativity Who was all Mankind to redeem Since God rewards Virginity What Man will not the same esteem When God descended from above Took Flesh and so became our Brother To shew how much he this did love Luk. 2◠v. 27. Io. 19. v. 27. He chose a Virgin for his Mother And when upon the Cross he dy'd His Mother to a Virgin gave Saint John who while she did abide Took care of her unto the grave And now to Heav'n he is ascended This his beloved Virgin says Revel 14. v. 4. By Troops of Virgins he 's attended Who follow him the Lamb always By all this you may plainly see That those who pure and chast live here Above the rest beloved be And with him always do appear If you hereafter would be great While here on Earth a Virgin live That you with Virgins may have seat To Whom Christ doth a Garland give But if it chance you wedded be Gen. 6. v. 3. Abstain from all unlawfull Lust For lustfull Men shall never see The Face of God as 't is but just For he doth Heav'n and God contemn For Flesh-delights and Carnall Love And God to Hell will him condemn Gal. 5. v. 19.21 Nêre to possess true joys above As he lov'd Flesh-Concupiscence In fire of Lust took his delight In fire he shall make recompence With Dev'ls condemn'd which is his right This Vice of Lust doth so deface The soul consenting to the same That it falls wholly in disgrace With God who for it Man became My Spir't Gen. 6. v. 3. said God shall not abide In Man because he 's Flesh that is The Flesh his soul doth wholly guide Still leading it to what 's amiss Young Men and all who single are And you who are in wedded state Rom. 13. v. 13. The Vice of Luxury beware This sin of all sins truly hate Eph 4. v. 18. For this doth so much Reason blind The sense doth seem to govern all That by their lives v. 19. if you 'l but mind Not Men but Beasts you may them call Men who are in just Wedlock ty'd 1. Thess 4. v. 5. May not enjoy all sort of pleasure They always carefull must abide Lest they lose grace the soul's great Treasure They are not to all actions free Nor to all words or lustfull thought Many of these may sinfull be As by our Reason we are taught To keep true Purity of mind Men still must be upon their guard Rebellious motions when they find They must suppress thô it he hard The best way is th' occasion fly Eccli 5. v. 27. Avoid the Obiects which do move The Touch the Tongue the Ear the Eye And what the sense is prone to love The Eye 's the casement of the soul The Ear 's the door that lets all in The Touch with Lust inflames the whole The Tongue doth strongly tempt to sin If sense and Member you 'l not check But yield to their unjust desire The Devill hath you at his beck With Lust to set your Heart on fire David we read did Sin contract By cast of eye on Bersabee 2. King 11. v. 2.4 This to prevent Job made compact With 's eyes Iob. 31. v. 1. Eccli 13. v. 1. lest they should Virgin see If you touch pitch it will defile So when you touch a femall kind Sense doth the Soul of grace beguile Corrupting thus the chastest mind Words have great force and tempting are Since they the state of mind express Mat. 12. v 34. Of Toungue in all your ways take care Lest it plunge Soul in wickedness And Since by Ear the word doth move The Heart and taketh lodging there Which blows the Fire of Carnall Love ' Gainst words unchast still stop your Ear. Eccli 28. v. 28. These counsells take and always pray To God for Purity of mind Wisd 8. v. 21. That Flesh the Spirit may obey That he may lodging in you find Who doth delight in the chast Soul His Spirit there doth take its rest 1 Cor. 6. v. 19. From sinfull wounds to keep it whole How much is chast and clean Heart blest Dear Authour of all Purity Sweet JESUS born of Mother-maid Grant that with all sincerity I may acknowledge what is said And also use my best endeavour To keep my Soul and Body pure That I may live with thee for ever Mat. 5 v. 8 Reu. 14 v. 4. In joys which always shall endure Amen DO PENNANCE Or you shall all perish Luc 13. v. 5. THrice happy state that Man was in Before he had committed Sin Lord-like on Earth he did all sway Gen. 1. v. 28. All Creatures were him to obey Delightfull fruits the Earth did yield v. 11. With pleasant Flow'rs in ev'ry field There was no need of spade or plow No labour care or sweat of brow The Air was always temperate No piercing cold or parching heat No change of weather Man did fear 'T was pleasant Spring-time all the year Gen. 2. v. 8. There was no Sickness or Disease Nothing could hurt but all did please If strength decay'd or youth did fade By th' Tree of Life all new was made v. 9. So Man Wisd 2. v. 23. thô Mortall nere had dy'd But here in pleasure was t' abide Till God to joys had him translated In Heav'n for which he was
created Had he not eat of Knowledge-Tree From grief and pain he had been free Do Pennance he had never heard If he his God had lov'd and fear'd By sin he lost all Gen. 3. v. 6.7 v. 24. v. 18. v 19 in a trice And was cast out of Paradise The Earth must yield no Bread to eat But what he gets with toil and sweat Birds Beasts and Fish did from him fly Would not obey God's enemy ' Gainst him the Elements rebell Sickness and death v 19 now due with Hell He and his Heav'n were then excluded With dev'ls in fire to be detruded In this sad state they must remain What lost not able to regain Till God made Man for Man did dy And for Sin did so satisfy That with his Grace we able are Our greatest losses to repair Phil. 4. v. 13. That is lost Heaven to regain And Keep us from Eternall pain By Pennance this is to be don If you will credit Christ God's son Who when on Earth to Men did preach This sacred Doctrine he did teach Do Pennance and see it be true Or else you 'l perish as your due His blest Fore-runner when he came Preach't to the Jews the very same Do Fruits of Pennance ready Stand Math. 3. v. 2.8 God's Kingdom now is nigh at hand The Ax is lay'd unto the Tree v. 10. What Tree's unfruitfull it shall be Cut down and cast into the fire As God's great Justice doth require Not by words only but by deeds While here Christ sow'd true Pennance seeds Math 11. v. 29. Math. 16. v. 24. That we the same may imitate And not Repent when t is too late He fasted watch't he wept he pray'd He suffer'd all upon him lay'd Isai 53. v. 7. Math 26. v. 27 Mat. 14. v. 15. Luk 22. v 23. Io 18 v. 19. Isai 53. v. 5. With buffets whips with Crown of Thorn His sacred Flesh was rent and torn Nail'd to the Cross he meekly dy'd With cruell Lance they pierc't his Side He suffer'd what was due to sin As if a sinner he had been Whose Life from sin like Christ's so pure Of glory who is so secure His Flesh had joyn'd the Deity To sin it could not subject be Yet as we read in sacred story That he might enter into glory He was to suffer thus and dy Luk. 24. v. 26. To Rise and to Ascend thereby None then can plead that they are free From doing Pennance thô they be Not Sinners great For this is sure who 'l Glory have Act. 14. v. 21. must Pains endure Two reasons why I shall here give Men must do Pennance while they live First that they satisfy for Sin Next that they may not fall therein All know that sin deserves Hell Fire Math. 25. v. 41.46 And that God's Iustice doth require We satisfy here for the debts Or else the Sin he 'l not forget For we could never satisfy Thô in Hell-Torments we should ly If Christ had not our want supply'd And by his Death once satisfy'd But now Poor Man can satisfy If he by Pennance Rom. 8. Ps 17. will apply Christ's merits to his sinfull Soul From Sin 't will purge and keep it whole Saint Austin saith that evêry Man Must satisfy in what he can Without our help God did us make But to be sav'd we share must take And if we do what in us lies Christ by his Death our want supplies And thus we Satisfaction make By Penall Acts we undertake Act. 26. v. 20. But he who 'l nothing suffer here For Sin committed let him fear Thô Christ on th' Cross did for him dy He perish shall Eternally And with the Damn'd Repent for ever That here he us'd not his endeavour By Pennance strict to satisfy God's Justice and his friend to dy Who hath in scripture past his word That he 'l sheath his Revenging Sword If Sinners will do Pennance Isai 1. v. 18. he Will pardon and in Friendship be Sinners he saith Return to me In your whole Hearts converted be By Fasts Ioël 2. v. 12. and Tears your Sins lament Your Hearts and not your Garments rent Isai 1. v. 18. And thô your Sins in Bloud were dy'd As Snow they shall be purify'd And I 'l Ier. 31. v. 34. Ezech 33. v. 15.16 bear them no more in mind But you shall my free Pardon find This is the force of Pennance true It quits from all to Sin that 's due But if here Pennance be neglected In Hell the Soul must be corrected Now that your Pennance may be right Look in what Sins you did delight And Pennance let proportion'd be In quality Mat 3. v. 8. and quantity If you to Wealth enslav'd your self Give to the Poor your Worldly pelf If you have sinn'd in Glutony By Fasting you must satisfy If your Offence were Brutish Lust Chastize your Body Gal. 5. v. 24. 't is but just With Hunger Thirst with cold with heat With Whip and Scourge the Rebel treat If you have been puft up with Pride Contempt Disgrace and Scorn abide If Passion hath been your Offence Let Patient suff'rings recompence Do you the like in all the rest That satisfaction is the best When in the Member or the sense You did offend you recompense Besides your Pennance quality Observe the like in quantity If your offences have been great Your self with equall Pennance treat Mat. 3. v. 8. Think not great sins and small require But equall grief or purging sire Or what for one the same for more Will satisfy and grace restore God by his Prophet doth declare Some more than others punisht are Revel 18 v. 7. How much in pleasures she did live So much of torment to her give To bring forth Pennance worthy fruit Let it with your Offences sute And doubt not God will it approve And you receive into his love And do not think Sinners alone While here have Pennance undergone No no You 'l find that the most just Durst not unto their Justice trust Except by Pennance they did tame Their Flesh Rom. 8. v. 13. lest they should lose their aim Of heav'nly joys which are not gain'd But by great suff'rings here sustain'd Besides this they did know full well That Pleasures draw to Sin and Hell But Acts of Pennance do secure The Soul from Sin and joys ensure This made Saint John his life begin In Pennance Mark 1. v. 6. not due to his Sin For he in Womb was sanctify'd Without great Sin he liv'd and dy'd Luk. 1. v. 25. Yet would in lonely Desart live No pleasures to his Flesh would give Mat. 3. v. 4. But cloath'd himself in Camel's hair Honey and Locusts were his fare The great Saint Paul Vessel elect His Flesh by Pennance did subject 1. Cor. 9. v. 27. Lest whilst he taught Men Sin to hate Himself might be a Reprobate If these great Saints were not
Sara to expell Pray'r's good v. 8. said Raph'ël When 't conjoyns Fasting and Alms it Mercy finds Elias pray'd it might not rain 3. king 17. v. 1. c. 18. v. 45. And no rain did for three years fall He pray'd that it might rain again Sweet showr's fell down reviving all By Pray'r the Heav'ns did ope and shut As thô all pow'r in Pray'r were put Stout Josue's victorious hand Fighting he fear'd th' approaching night Iosue 10. v. 12.13 By Pray'r commands the Sun to stand It stood and gave him more day-light No wonder Creatures Pray'r obey Since the Creatour it did sway The Jews in Desart of 't rebell'd And God to Anger did provoke But Moyse's Pray'r his hands fast held From giving the Revenging stroke Permit my Anger God did say Exod. 32. v. 10.11 Which is restrain'd while thou dost pray Behold the force of fervent Prayer Attended with due circumstance All losses past it doth repair The Soul in grace it doth advance Untill by Love she doth God joyn 1. Io. 4. v. 16. And thus in him become divine In all temptations still be sure To use this Buckler of Defence As Bull-work this will you secure From Dev'ls and your great God's offence Lest in temptation you should fall Mat. 26. v. 41. By Pray'r upon your Father call And as the Dev'l doth go about Still watching whom he may devour 1. Pet. 5. v. 8. So saith S. Paul still pray devout That God will free you from his power 1. Tessal 5. v. 17. He doth not mean that you shall be Always in Pray'r upon your knee All men may follow their Vocation As he declares 1. Cor. 7. v. 20. but then be sure You have in it communication With God by word and thought most pure Colos 3. v. 17. Do what you do in the Lords Name Then this with Pray'r will be the same Thus who 's at work or in the Quire Will still be praying in effect Off'ring their hearts with pure desire To God that he may them protect Thus they 'l remain without all fear Of Satans snares while they live here And at their Deaths they 'l surely find God present helping in that hour If they by Pray'r will him remind He will protect them by his power And take their Soul still to remain In joys By Pray'r this you obtain Amen OUR FATHER When you pray pray thus Our Father Math. 6. v. 10. WHen God came down our Flesh to take Io. 3. v. 17. Mat. 11. v. 29. Two reasons mov'd him thereunto That he might dy for poor Man's sake And also teach him what to do For Men by Sin were grown so blind That Virtues path they could not find Christ did not then as formerly Command men this and that to do Threatning if not Exod. 21 v. 12.16.17 Act. 1. v. 1. they sure should dy In Virtues path he first did go Christ by Example first did teach And then he did begin to preach This is the best of ways in teaching When deeds the words associate It far excells all other preaching And brings a man to imitate Luk 6. v. 12. Christ day and night did often pray And afterwards taught us the way Son Eccli 18. v. 23. saith the Wise before you pray Prepare your heart tempt not the Lord All worldly cares cast clear away Let tongue and mind in Pray'r accord With revêrence still your Pray'r begin v. 23. Lest that it should be turn'd to sin The like Christ teacheth in this Pray'r By Preface which doth us remind Our thoughts to Heaven must repair If any favour we will find These words do also chear the heart Our Father which in Heaven art Christ doth call God our Father here For he to us a Being gave And names himself our Brother dear Who took our Flesh our Souls to save Tell my dear Brothers Io. 20. v. 17. I intend To God our Father to ascend What can give greater confidence That we shall gain our just desire Thô't were release of great offence Since we of Father it require Luk. 15. v. 20. The Father spend-thrift did receive The like he 'l do when Sin we leave This also doth our Hope increase That Christ God's Son our Brother is Who thô in Heav'n Rom. 3. v. 34. doth never cease To mediate for what 's amiss O Father life for all I gave Those who return receive and save Thus b'ing incourag'd humbly kneel Before your God prepar'd in heart And whensoever you do feel That he good motions doth impart Be sure you do them prosecute That they in time may bring forth fruit Then Cross your self say In the Name Of Father Son and Holy Ghost The Devils tremble at the same It guards you from that Hellish Host It shews one God and Persons three That God made Man dy'd on the Tree Thus arm'd with faith devoutly say Our Father which in Heaven art And also with Devotion pray Iam. 1. v. 5. That he will grace to you impart Then make this sevênfold great request Which of all Prayers is the best Hallowed be thy Name alway Of all Requests first let this be That all may honour and obey God their Creatour one and three Exod 33. v. 20. But since none can see him and live To his blest Name this honour give Thy Kingdom come God's pleas'd to say Revel 21. v. 3. Prov. 8 v. 31. With Men my Tabernacle is I take delight with them to stay And guide them to Eternall bliss For their sakes I took flesh and dy'd Mat. 28. v. 20. And still on Earth with them abide O let him reign in you by love Let his Loves Scepter in you sway By sinfull Act him nêre remove Isai 59. v. 2. Wisd 1 v. 3.4 Like Subject true his Word obey Thy Kingdom come Lord govern here My Heart keep in thy love and fear Thy Kingdom come Lord grant to me That while I live I do thy Will That I may thy Disciple be Mat. 25. v 41. v. 34. And pleasure in all things fulfill That I may scape thy dreadfull frown And hear come blest receive a Crown Thy Will be done for that is best In Earth as 't is in Heaven still What êre befalls still quiet rest Iob. 1.21 1 King 3. v. 18. Conforming to his pleasing Will. What you command O God or send Let me subscribe to to the end Gen. 4. v 7. Mat 23. v. 37. God given hath Free-will to man Which Lady-like doth domineer Reject accept at list she can She governs Flesh while she is here Water's before thee set Eccli 5. v. 17. and Fire To choose what 's best be sure aspire But since our Reason is so blind That oft it knows not what is best And will to Flesh is so inclin'd It yields to Flesh and Bloud 's Request Beg God to work in you his will That like the Saints you do it
him he will give grace And Heav'n shall be his resting place Alms Avarice from heart remove Extinguishing its raging heat They also lessen Worldly Love Tob. 4 v. 12. Eccli 3. v. 33. And bring the Soul with God to treat As waters do extinguish fires So Alms resist what Sin requires Alms saith the Angel Raphaël Do free from Death Tob. 12. v. 9. Tob. 4. v. 10.11 Ps 111 v. 10. and purge from Sin They purchase Mercy keep from Hell As if we Sinners had not been They life obtain with God above So much doth God our Alms-deeds love The Wise man doth this counsell give Eccli 20. v. 15. Lay up your Alms in th' Poor Mans heart These will preserve you while you live From ill and when you hence depart Tob. 4. v. 11. Will help you in that dangêrous hour And shield you from the Devil's power This Virtue seems by Daniel With God to be the most prevailing In winning grace it doth excell And of God's Mercy seldom failing Dan 4. v. 24. Thy sins with Alms O King redeem Of all ways this I most esteem An Angel to Cornelius say'd Act. 10 v. 4. Thy Pray'r and Alms-deeds are ascended To God and shall be well appay'd Go unto Peter who 's descended To Joppen credit what he saith He shall instruct thee in the Faith The praise of Alms-deeds is to long For me at present to rehearse Exceeding limits of a song So I 'le conclude all in this Verse Give Alms Luk. 11. v. 41. saith JESUS and behold All things are pure to you as Gold Besides the Alms which Body feeds There is another you must give Instruct your Brother Eccli 18. v. 13. where it needs To love God and in 's Fear to live As Soul the Body doth excell So doth this Alms which keeps from Hell A third Alms yet you must bestow Without which God you cannot please To pardon and forgive your Foe From sin thus you will have release If you do Luk. 6. v. 37.38 Mat. 18. v. 340. God will pardon give If not you still shall guilty live Remember what you daily say Math. 6. v. 11. Give us this day our daily Bread Feed you the hungry then thus pray And your soul shall with grace be fed Luc. 6. v. 38. For as you do to others give So God your wants will still relieve We say Mat. 6. v. v. 12. Our trespasses forgive O gracious Lord and them forget As we offenders do relieve And freely pardon them their debt v. 14. If you do pardon heartily He 'l pardon you his Enemy And this will quit your soul of Fear In the last dreadfull Judgment day When you these thund'ring words shall hear Which to the Wicked Christ will say You 'ld not forgive Mat. 25. v. 41. to Hell be gone Nor give so Glory you 'l have none But then Christ to the Mercifull Shall say Come Mercy you shall find v. 34. Since you to Poor were pittifull And to your Enemy as kind Possess the Crown prepar'd for you Which is to Alms and Mercy due Amen THE ANGEL GUARDIAN' 's ADVICE TO HIS PUPIL He hath given his Angels charge of thee Psal 90. v. 11. THe charge of Men to Angels here God gave them to direct In all their ways Ps 90. v. 11. in Love and Fear Of him and to detect Temptations of their Enemy To keep them from all evill To win their hearts to God on high From Flesh the World and Devill Give ear to me my Pupil dear Who am your Angel-Keeper Tob. 5. v. 20.21 Who day and night do guard you here Fear not I am no sleeper But always watchfull you to mind Of good and when your Foe Doth tempt to ill in any kind That you may it forgo Consider Man your dignity How high your Natur 's flown Above the highest Hierarchy Of Angels Mark 16. v. 19. to God's Throne Whose Love to you was not confin'd Making one part your Soul His Image Gen. 1. v. 27. 't was then in his mind To honour more the whole Io. 1. v. 14. From Heav'n to Earth he did descend Your Nature to unite To his divine Rom. 5. v. 18.19 unto this end That he might make that right Which Adam's Sin deprav'd this great Work by his Death he wrought At God's right hand it now hath seat As by the Creed you 're taught No wonder then that God commands Ps 90. v. 12. His Angels to make care Of Mortall Men and in their hands Them to support and bear Lest Satan hurt them any way Since they thus honôred be And we as readily obey And them do serve as free Since then you are thus dignify'd Scorn basely to descend To worldly love Deut. 6. v. 5. Mat. 22. v. 37. Luk. 10. v. 27. let your's abide In Heav'n unto the end Let Satan curst you not deceive And stoop you down to Sin Since what he lost you shall receive The place he once sat in By Sin he fell and you must rise By Virtue to his place Hate Sin Eccli 21. v. 2. Rom. 6. v. 23. love Virtue thus be wise In keeping of God's grace What 's Sin but pleasure of the Flesh That 's common to the Beast Which doth the soul no whit refresh God is her only feast 1. Pet. 5. v. 5. The pound of heart God doth resist The humble he doth call To heav'nly Thrones the Angels mist Whose Pride was their downfall Hence comes the Mortall Enmity Of them unto Mankind That Men to Glory rais'd should be Doth sore perplex their mind Mat. 26. v. 15 'T was greedy gain made Judas sell His Saviour and his Soul Mat. 19. v. 29. The world's Contempt doth make men dwell With God above the Pole Gen. 19. v. 24. Foul Lust caus'd Sodom to be fir'd Chast Souls wed God above Gen. 4. v. 11. Cain's Envy curse from God requir'd Man's one with God by Love Luk. 16. v. 22. 'T was Gluttony that Dives rich Did bury deep in Hell v. 22. 'T was Laz'rus want and hunger which Made him in Heav'n to dwell The furious Man abounds with sin Mark 5. v. 4. The Meek possess the Land The Idle Heav'n shall never win 2. Tim. 2. v. 5. Who fights shall crowned stand In fine all Vice doth separate 'Twixt God Isai 59. v. 2. and Man's Soul here And only this can make him hate That which he loves so dear This Virtue that doth reunite The Soul again to God When she the Flesh and World's delight Both under foot hath trod Mat. 4. v. 35. Rev. 12. v. 9. As Devils tempt you unto Sin So I to Virtue move Malice moves them the Prize to win In me 't is only Love To follow them the Flesh doth please To which my counsell's grief This Heav'n doth bring the Soul 's true case That Hell where 's no relief Attend
and hearken night and day Iob. 32. v. 8 Heb. 1. v. 14. Unto God's inspirations Which I inspire and them obey Repelling all Temptations Which come from Satan and to know The good from bad ask me Who am to teach you here below And your Instructor be God says Exod. 23. v. 20. My Angel shall precede And keep you in the way Contemn him not v. 21. who you doth lead But do his voice obey v. 22. And I an Enemy will be To your's and will chastize Those who do any hurt to thee In goods or otherwise As Gabriël Luk. 1. v. 26. I Message bring To you from God above To love and practise every thing That 's good I do you move Like Raphaël Tob. 12. v. 14. J'm sent to thee That I may make thee whole When serpent's bite hath made thee see What ill Sin brings the Soul 4. Esdr 4. Antiph at Bened. in the office of the Angel Guardian Act. 12. v. 7. I am 4. v. 7. As Uriell is Shepheard chief Orê God's beloved Flock So I from you do chase the Thief Awaking like a Cock When he assaults I put in mind What ill comes by consent If you resist here you shall find Relief with Soul's content And thus like Michaël I fight Rev. 12 v. 7. Rev. 12 v. 9. Against the Dragon fell Who would rob you of Grace's light And plunge your Soul in Hell I check I move I pray to God I leave no way untry'd That you may scape God's heavy rod And in his love abide Be mindfull then oft in the day Of me Tob. 5. v. 15. Gen. 48. v. 16. your loving Guide And me as oft devoutly pray With you still to abide Sin not and thus your self deceive Because Men do not see What 's hid from others I perceive And nothing's hid from me Set guard on th' Tongue Prov. 18. v. 21 Mat. 12. v. 34. for in its hands Is life and death of Soul It test fies how your heart stands And if you 'l keep it whole Shut Eyes and Ears ' gainst Objects bad Which by them enter in And cause the Heart to be full sad When they have made it sin Gen. 9.21 Coloss 3. v. 5. Take equall care of all your senses And Members guard them well Raise up against them these strong fences The Fear of God and Hell Rom. 6. v. 13. Make them to serve your Maker dear As Virtues Instrument To purchase Heaven with them here This was your God's intent Receive all Crosses chearfully From hand of your good God Math 16. v 24. Prov. 3. v 12. Heb. 12. v 6. Rev. 3. v. 19. With them you must your glory buy And kiss his scourging Rod. Who doth in life chastize you here To spare you afterward And keep you in his Love and fear The Soul's securest guard In all distress Ps 9. v. 11. Ps 17. v. 31. put confidence In God your Fathêr above And in dear JESUS thô gone hence Since he dy'd for your Love The presence of the Holy Ghost Wisd 1. v. 4. With clean heart seek to have The Pray'rs beg of the Heav'nly Host That God your soul will save With good thoughts I 'le you oft inspire Comply then with the least Nourish't spark-like 't will set on fire Your Soul to act what 's best But if first motion you neglect And that be not attended Your heart God leaves then to direct When slighted he 's offended When you do pray with Faith attend Mat. 21. v. 22. And God in Heav'n adore Devout persever to the end Christ's Mother's help implore Such Pray'rs with joy I do present To God and with you crave What you do ask with due intent In due time you may have These counsells take and still obey My holy Inspiration Thus shall I teach you Virtues way Which leads unto Salvation And at your Death with joy present Your Soul unto God's Throne Where we for êre in joys content Shall praise him Three and One. Honour Pup and Praise to God above Who doth his Angels send Thanks to you Custos for your Love Who do your Charge attend I vow that I will you obey When I your voice do know That I may not deceiv'd be pray Or in my duty slow Amen A DIALOGUE BETWEEN LIBERTY AND MORTIFICATION Mortify your Members which are upon the Earth Coloss 3. v. 5. Lib. AS slumbering I lay Me thought I saw a Man His hair was turned gray His colour waxed wan Lean-fac'd and hollow-ey'd His Body skin and bone I ask't He thus reply'd Mor. J'm Mortification Lib. Where do you live and why Do you the Flesh thus treat Mor. I live in Monastery Where I do little eat My sleep the like my Flesh With Discipline I tear Mat. 11. v. 29.30 And this doth me refresh Christ's painfull Cross to bear All this I do to keep 1. Cor. 9. v 27. Ps 6. v 7. Flesh subject to the spirit For past Sins I do weep And to increase my merit The hardest Virtues I Do practise and thus stand Prepar'd Phil. 1. v. 20.21.23 for Christ to dy When Faith and Love command Lib. What needs this strict Life now Coloss 1. v. 20. Act 1 v. 10. c. 7. v. 55. Christ hath Sin 's debt full pay'd And this you must allow Heav'n Gates are open layd Enjoy what pleasure 's here While God you life doth send Believe and never fear But Heav'n shall be your end God pleasant things did make On Earth 3. Esd◠8. v. 44. for men to use And pleasures you to take As sinfull do refuse Are you than God more wise To judge what 's good and evill 1. Tim. 2. v. 4. D' you think he 'l Sin disguise To cheat you to the Devill Mor. 'T is true when God did make The World and Man therein Gen. 1. v. 29 Gen. 2. v. 17. He made all for his sake To use and without Sin Excepting Knowledge Tree Which thô its fruit was good To eat forbid was he He eat Gen. 3. v. 6.7 and guilty stood And thus did he by Sin Forfeit his right to all Pleasures and grace must win Luk. 13. v. 3. By tast of bitter gall I grant Christ's Death did free From Hell yet that of Heaven Man might possessor be Many commands are given Io 3. v. 5. He first baptiz'd must be And when hath use of reason Mat. 19. v. 17. God's ten Commands must he Keep strict break them 't is Treason Condemning 〈◊〉 to dy His Justice to appease Mat. 3. v. 8.10 ◠He must here satisfy By works which may him please Gal. 5. v. 24. That 's corporall affliction With sorrow from the heart Joyn'd with the contradiction Of his rebellious part Mark 8. v. 34. And Christ to follow right He must himself deny Bear Crosses 2. Cor. 4. v. 17. and thus fight To live Eternally For Christ
receive their sentence there When they before the Judge appear v. 12. The Conscience-Book will op'ned be Wherein as in a Christal clear Each Man his good and ill shall see All what lay hid before 1. Cor. 4. v. 5. shall then Be open lay'd to th' view of men All what in dark Eccli 23. v. 26. or private place Was done or what was unconfes't With great confusion and disgrace Shall open ly Math. 10. v. 26. Eccli 25. v. 27. with all the rest Then all shall own there was an Eye From which no secret hid could ly The Dev'l Rev. 12. v. 10. who is Man's great Accuser Will vent his Malice at that day As of Man's life the strict peruser Our faults before the Judge will lay All thoughts words deeds which ere have been Less virtuous he 'l accuse of sin Thrice happy he who hath apply'd By Sacraments Christ's pretious merits Unto his soul before he dy'd He will not dread these wicked Spirits Whose tears have washt Luk. 7. v. 38 1. Pet. 4. v. 8. and Charity Cover'd his Faults secure shall be Iam 5. v 20. Luk. 13. v. 5. Dan. 4. v. 24. But he who Pennance did neglect And with Alms did not sin redeem Will nothing find him to protect Against the Dev'ls but then will seem Wholly dejected and mute stand At what God shall of him demand It is not Power or Eloquence That with the Judge will then prevail An humble and clear conscience Is then a friend that will not fail A virtuous Beggar Luk 16. v. 22. here contemn'd Will be preferr'd and Kings condemn'd The Lyar there shall not prevail The Swearer's Oath will be in vain All craft and Policy will fail Heb. 4. v. 12.13 Deceitfull Tongue will nothing gain Their Truth will naked open ly Which none shall dare then to deny Great Honour Pow'r Prov. 11. v. 4. and Majesty Wealth Beauty Valour Strength and Wit Will not at all regarded be Nothing but Virtue then shall quit This shall advance to high degree And those will prove but Vanity Wisd 5. v. 1. The Just shall in great constancy Against their Persecutours stand v. 3. Who sighing then most bitterly Will their past follies understand How dearly worldly Pleasures cost For which Eternall Joys are lost We v. 4. mad Men did the Saints lives deem Great madness and their end disgrace Behold how God doth them esteem v. 5. And with his dearest children place What doth our glory now avail v. 8. Since of Eternall we do fail The Sheep then parted from the Goats Shall placed be at God's right hand Mat. 25. v. 32. v. 33. Those pleasant these with dolefull notes Shall at the left with Devills stand Expecting Sentence which shall sever Them from the Just and God for ever Then God unto the Just shall say When I was hungry or in need v. 35. You Ghospell-Counsell did obey And in the poor you did me feed What unto them to me you gave v. 45. And from me your reward shall have Come Blessed v. 34. glory now possess Go you Accursed to Hell fire v. 41. v. 42. As you on Earth were merciless And as your horrid Sins require Iam 2. v. 13. Mat. 25. v. 46. Your Lot with Dev'ls in Fire shall be But these shall live for êver with me I wish all Men would oft reflect Upon this dreadfull Judgment-Day Then Virtue they would not neglect Nor for vain pleasures go astray Since they account for all must give 2. Cor. 5. v. 10. They would be carefull how they live This was Saint Jerom's Meditation Hieron de Reg. Monachor c. 20 what e're I do write eat or drink Upon that great day's desolation And God's strict Iudgment I do think This Trumpet still sounds in my ear Arise you Dead make answer here Thrice happy Man who doth prepare For that most horrid dreadfull day 2. Pet. 3. v. 11.14 Who God doth serve and sin beware And Pennance do without delay While others fear he shall rejoyce At Trumpet sound and Iudge's Voice Amen OF HELL Go ye accursed into Everlasting fire Math. 25. v. 41. AS Man in part Corporeall is He of necessity must dy Gen. 3. v. 19. Wisd 7. v. 1. 1. Cor. 15. v. 5◠But when this part from grave is ris ' He 'l live again Eternally In joy or grief in Heav'n or Hell Iudgment decides where he shall dwell Who liv'd and dy'd in wickedness With piercing Fire shall then be try'd No Tongue is able to express What he with Dev'ls shall there abide What grief in soul what pain in sense What knawing worm of Conscience Isai 66. v 24. For as his Body shar'd in sin So shall the sense afflicted be 2 Cor 5. v. 10. The soul as Actor chief therein Shall undergo most misery The pain of sense no Tongue can tell The pain of Loss will that excell God by the Wise Man doth declare Eccli 39. v. 33. In Hell there are Tormenting Spirits Which to revenge created are And punish justly to demerits Who have in fury fortify'd Their Torments Who shall then abide His fury who hath them created v. 34. They shall powr forth without restraint No pain shall ever be abated God will not mind their sad complaint Hail Fire Famin Death and Scorpions v. 35. v. 36. Beasts teeth and Serpents are their Portions The Fire will pierce in that degree And so excessively torment That they will so enraged be As their own Flesh to gnaw and rent Rev. 16. v. 10. They 'l curse the hour which life first gave And wish the Womb had been their Grave Mat. 26. v. 24. The Lord 's great Day says Malachy Malae ◠v. 1. Shall like à fiêry furnace flame When all the Proud like straw shall be Consum'd to ashes in the same v. 3. The Humble shall tread them in fire Who did on Earth so high aspire The wanton and Luxurious Man Shall fiery Serpents there embrace Eccli 39. v. 36. Who greedy after Riches ran Shall come to want shame and disgrace The Envious Man shall pine away To think of others happy day The Furious Man the Fire shall tame His Oaths and Curses none shall dread The Lving Tongue shall come to Shame The Slothfull shall with Want be fed The Glutton there Luk 16. v. 24. through burning Thirst Shall judge his case to be the worst The Atheist then a God will find So also will the Temporiser Who held belief of any kind To save his Wealth true Faith's despiser All then shall own what Scripture saith There 's but one God Eph. 4. v. 5. and one true Faith Themselves in vain they will condemn Wisd 5. v. 7.8.13 That for vain Honour Riches Wealth The Laws of God they did contemn With virtue Isai 66. v. 24. Mark 9. v. 44.46.48 and their ghostly
she went To keep the Sabbath-day But little rest sad Mary found Reflecting on her Lord. No meat no drink or sleep I judge She did her self afford Early next morn Mark 16. v. 1. with Marys two She took her ointments dear To give her Lord the last farewell The Guards she did not fear Nor who should roll away the stone v. 4. Which passed much their strength Love gave her wings Love gave her will Love brought her joy at length But lo Mary a second grief Lik 24. v. 3. The Body is not here The Tomb is open some have stol'n Away my Lord I fear Chear up Mary An Angel asks Woman Io. 20. v. 13. why dost thou weep I know not where they 've laid my Lord Which wounds my heart full deep v. 2. She runs and tells his Brethren this Peter and John ran fast And found what she had said was true And back again they past But Mary still stood weeping at The Tomb v. 11. would not depart Where her Lord's Body last was lay'd She had intomb'd her heart No longer could Christ's clemency Forbear but did appear v. 15. Say'ng Woman why do you thus weep And whom do you seek here She took him for a Gard'ner by His habit v. 15. and replies If thou him took'st I 'le fetch him back Tell me but where he lies Christ seeing Mary's loving tears No longer could conceal Himself but open'd Mary's eyes And did himself reveal MARY v. 16. says Christ She knew him then And Rabby she reply'd She saw he was no Gard'ner but Her Lord who for her dy'd And fell down at her usual place His Feet to kiss but see New grief Her Lord denies her this Say'ng v. 17. Woman touch not me v. 17. But go and tell my Brothers dear That I again do live Mat. 28. v. 7.10 In Galily they shall me see Where I will blessing give Mary obeys and in the way v. 9. Christ lets her kiss his feet Love made him first appear to her Her Love with Love did meet How oft to her Christ did appear The Scripture doth not tell 10. 11. v. 5. But we may judge it often was For he lov'd Mary well And when to Heav'n he did ascend Act. 1. v. 14. Mary was with the rest When Holy Ghost he promis't them And his Beloved Bless't Behold how Mary serv'd her Lord And never did depart From him in Joy or Misery So constant was her Heart Grant JESUS dear for Magd'len's sake That I adhere to Thee In Life and Death and that her Prayr's True Joy may bring to me Dear Mother Look in the old Hymn at Lauds beg this of your Lord As you did for your Brother That in this Life he 'l give me grace And glory in the other THE THIRD PART Containing the rest of her life after Christ's Ascension to her death YOu 'l say While Christ was here on Earth Mary was led in hand Now he is gone and out of sight Let 's see how she doth stand Io. 11. v. 44. Christ raising Laz'rus up from Death Confirm'd his doctrin so How to defame and blast the same The Jews no longer know Io. 12. v. 10. To kill him therfore they resolve But God permitting not How to destroy the family They next contrive and plot The brother sisters and some more They put into a boat Without Sails Oars or any guide Upon the Sea to float Intending to destroy them thus of humane help depriv'd But by God's Providence they all Safe at Marselles arriv'd Where Magdalen began to preach One God and Saviour dear Such Doctrine these poor Heathens blind Before did never hear From Idols many turned were By word and works she wrought Till at the last they would adore Her for the God she taught Which made her beg of God to take Her from the praise of men Convey'd she was by Angels hands Into a lonely Den. Where never Man or Woman she Beheld for thirty years Her meat was what the Mount did yield Her drink was wrought by tears For shedding tears for her past sins And Death of Master here Immediatly at her request Sprung up a Fountain clear To keep fresh in her memory Her dear Lord's death and loss She begs some Instrument of God An Angell brings a Cross She spent her life in tears of love And heav'nly Contemplation Her Heart curs't Satan nêre could move With any vain Temptation Christ her dear Lord could nêre forget This his dear Penitent But to her seaven times a day His gloriôus Angels sent Who by their virtue rais'd her up Into the air so high That with a ravish't Soul she heard The Heav'nly Harmony And in that space of thirty years As Mary lived there Her Lord an hundred and ten times Did gloriously appear What ravishments he gave her then Of Joy and what excess Excells Man's fancy to conceive Or Tongue well to express God willing now that Magdalen In soul this World should leave Reveal'd her who from Maximin Christ's Body did receive And being thus prepar'd for Death Her Soul left presently Her Mortall Body and with wings Of Love to God did fly Where now with him she doth remain In joy of Heav'nly Bliss Become a Patroness for those Who here have done amiss Behold the Soul of Magdalen At first defil'd with sin Refin'd by Love and purg'd by tears At last did Heaven win Let no poor Sinner then despair Of Mercy here and Grace If Mary's Life he 'l imitate And her rare Virtues trace This let him beg of God in faith Of JESUS Passion dear And merits of this glorious Saint Whose Pray'rs he 'l ever hear Blest Mary my poor love accept And be to me a Mother Pray in this Life God's Grace I have And Glory in the other Amen THE LIFE OF THE SERAPHICALL FATHER S. FRANCIS IN VERSE DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS The First Part to the making of his Rule GOd made Man's nature innocent Adorned with Free-will Gen 4. v. 7. Eccli 15. v. 17. Gen. 2. v. 17. And gave him one Commandement His pleasure to fulfill To break it Death to keep it Life Was for Eternity And while on Earth void of all strife And human misery Luk. 10. v. 18. Rev. 12. v. 9.12 Curs't Satan who from glory fell Did hate Man's happy state Made for his place in joy to dwell Where once this proud Fiend sate Wisd 2. v. 24. Gen. 3. v. 4. And to deprive him of his Bliss He tempts the fruit to take Thou shalt not dy 't is not amiss Do but experience make Man yielding to his Wife's desire v. 6. Rom. 5. v. 12. Made that unhappy tast Incurr'd for him and his Hell-Fire Who here on Earth were plac't Environed with misery In Reason blinded so They fell into Idolatry Their God they did not know For this and many other sins Gen 6. v. 7. v. 8. God thought all
burn Which made him thus unkind While he in Vice his mony spent His Father minded not But now to Virtue he is bent He deems him but a Sot To th' Bishop he must with him go His Birth-right to resign Tim. â— v. 9. Francis deem'd Riches now a Foe And therfore don't repine But strips off all his cloaths withall And gives them altogether And says I now may truly call Not you but God my Father At this the Bishop wept with heart Embrac't him in his arms And cloath'd him who in joy did part Reviv'd with heav'nly charms He goes poor Lepers now to tend He wipes their sores with kiss What did him highly first offend He now esteems a bliss But all this while did Francis see Himself at loss which way The Church-repairer he might be And Christ thus to obey He could not tell or yet did know What Rule he should walk by Which did perplex and grieve him so That he wept bitterly Fearing that for his past sins still God was with him offended And would not plain declare his will Till something were amended He therfore wept fasted and pray'd Wither other acts austere Off'ring Christ's merits which once pay'd A Price for Sin most dear All this doth teach how hard a thing 'T is Justice to appease God's Mercy to our Souls to bring Ezech 33. v. 11.12 Ps 90. v. 15. Sin 's burthen here to ease Yet if with Francis we persever In Love in tears in grief With Francis we shall find God ever At hand to our relief SAINT FRANCIS THE SECOND PART OF HIS LIFE From the making of his Rule unto the receiving of the Stygmes a little before his Death TO God Man's duty twofold is As David doth record Ps 36. v. 27. 1. Pet. 3. v. 11. Do good decline from what 's amiss So thou shalt please thy Lord. The latter Francis had fulfill'd To good he was inspir'd The way he knew not thô he will'd To do what was requir'd But entring in the Church one day He heard that Gospel preaching Which doth relate what Christ did say When he sent his to teaching Take neither mony Mark 6. v. â— 8 Luk 10. v. 7. 1. Cor. 9 v. 13.14 purse or meat Shoo 's Staff two coats with you What 's set before you freely eat It is the Preachers due These words as from Christ to him said He takes and goes away Says Here my Rule 's before me laid And I will it obey The Life of Christ to imitate Must I and mine begin Which surely is the perfect state Mark 10. v. 21. For Mortals to live in Christ came Io. 8. v. 12. and taught all men the way Which leads unto Salvation Soon after men did from it stray I 'm sent for Reformation Not only my own soul to feed With heav'nly Contemplation But also to instruct where need And preach to ev'ry Nation His secûlar garments lay'd aside Heb. 4. v. 12. He cloath'd himself in grey Course cloth his nakedness to hide His shoo 's he cast away He made a Girdle of a Cord His Habit like a Cross To mind the Passion of his Lord Who had redeem'd Man's loss He presently began to preach With words that pierc't full deep And all poor Sinners he did teach To sorrow sigh and weep With confidence in God's great love If they 'l new Life begin And crave his Mercy Ionas 3. v. 10. that 's above The malice of Man's Sin His words were simple plain inflam'd With fervour of the spirit The Converts number can't be nam'd To gain which he did merit Many did Pennance for their ill Forsook the World would have Him teach them how to do God's will To whom a Rule he gave Not made by him but from above Reveal'd as he declares Teaching to hate what Flesh doth love Freeing from Worldly cares Obedienee true pure Chastity He vows to keep always And also such strict Poverty Not used in those days His Lents were many lodging hard No linnen he did wear No shoo 's his feet from thorns to guard Which oft his Felsh did tear With discipline he did chastise 1. Cor. 9. v. 27. His Body that the Spirit Might rule and still he did devise How to increase his merit Th' Apostles Life he thus trac't out Who twelve were sent to teach Luk 9. v. â— 2 Perfection and the World about The Faith of Christ to preach So he when twelve divided his And sent them to this end To preach the Faith and what amiss In manners to amend And after when they met again He found that many were Converted and that not in vain They preach't God's love and fear Their fervent words their humble looks With faces pale and thin Their Habit poor were Christian books To read perfection in Now that his Rule more force might have With it to Rome he went To be confirm'd and there he gave It to Pope Innocent Who thought it hard and did deny The same Rule to approve There were Rules many to walk by Made to increase God's love But lo To rest when sleep did call This Vision he did see The Lat'ran Church began to fall And to supported be By one poor man and he did know That Francis was the same He then approv'd it bid him go And teach it in God's Name And said to those who by him stood That Francis would repair God's Church decay'd by doctrine good And his example rare Poor Francis strait made his Profession There in Christ's Vicar's hand To keep the Rule without transgression And what it did command And after the Pope's blessing had He humbly went away Prais'd God and in his heart full glad For his success that day And so return'd unto Assise Where Monks did to him give A Church which he did highly prize And there resolv'd to live He lov'd this Church because 't was small The sitter for Poor Friers Lady of Angels they it call Because Angelick Quires Were here oft heard and he therfore Commands when he is dead This Church be counted evermore Of all his Orderâ—s head Moreover his desire was much This place should honour have Of all Christ did appear and such A boon unto him gave That whosoever enters in And right confessed be Shall Pardon have and also win Indulgence Plenary Was Francis's Love with this content Who Rule had made for Men No no. He knew that he was sent Each sex to bring agen From way of Vice to Virtue 's path And therfore made another For Women which same strictness hath And made Saint Clare their Mother And as he knew that all were not Of like ability And Wedlock was some others lot Which makes a worldly ty He made a third Rule for all kinds Rich Poor Wedded and free Leading to Virtue yet not binds Under sin's Penalty As our Redeemer when he came Did teach by word and deed So did Saint Francis do the same And sow'd Example's seed Not only by