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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66781	Speculum speculativum, or, A considering-glasse being an inspection into the present and late sad condition of these nations : with some cautional expressions made thereupon / by George Wither, immediately after His Majesties restauration, to preserve in himself and others a Christian obedience to God's various dispensations ; hereby also are some glimmerings discovered of what will probably ensue hereafter.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing W3193; ESTC R200947	83,568	179

lovest me ev'n Hell a Heaven would be Since Love enough to praise Thee he that could thither bear Should make the Devils praise thee And quench the Fires there 26. For LOVE all things created subdued Hell and Death Thy Law it hath compleated outlasteth Hope and Faith Thou when that love doth praise thee givest best respects thereto And till in love we praise thee in vain is all we do 27. Were I therefore bereaven of all that 's called mine Of Body Soul and Heaven my love should live in thine And as I then did praise thee when I no being had So I again shall praise thee When I am quite unmade 28. But never comprehended Can be thy Love to me And therefore never ended My Songs of praise must be A Hymne wherein to praise thee I have on earth begun And better hope to praise thee When this short life is done 29. Then when asleep Death lays me LORD let me from the Grave Where Dead-men cannot praise thee A Joyful Rising have Let those likewise who praise thee With me whilst I am here Where Saints and Angels praise thee To praise thee meet me there Two other Meditations here I 'll add Which though such Musings mean esteem have had In latter times may now as useful be To some in my case as they are to me 1. BUt are in my Riches gone and all those fled away Whose love depended thereupon for ever Farewell they Since these have gotten wings I will not them pursue But set my heart on better things and bid them quite adieu 'T is GOD that gives and takes whose love remains the same And whether rich or poor he makes still blessed be his Name With suffrings to comply loth was I to begin But better thoughts of them have I since they have proved been 3. For what I dreadfull thought when first the same appear'd Hath joys to me by sorrows brought and hopes by what I fear'd To be despis'd and poor if in my GOD I trust Will me at last advantage more then if I nothing lost 4. Long time I have profest in words a Christian Creed And now am-with occasions blest to shew it forth by Deed. We holy men would seem and up for Saints are cride But now comes that Probation time In which we must be tride 5. Whilst Riches I enjoyd They made me but a drudge To be on their affairs imployd and on their Errands trudge Me poor my plenties kept made me engage my Friends And often wake whilst others slept to wait upon their ends 6. They fild me with Desires whose Lusting endlesse was And onely brought forth thorns and briers to choak the seeds of Grace They made me fearful too Of Tyrants and of Knaves Yea which is ten times worse then so Made me a slave to slayes 7. My heart then be content let wealth and honour go For better things to thee are meant then these can raise thee to Let those who on them dote by our deportment see That in those Gods we trusted not which their chief Idols be 8. Though my despightful Foes Now my Estaie is gone I having nothing else to lose my body seize upon Therefore take thou no care for GOD thy help will be And put on them a greater fear then they can put on thee 9. And to encrease that load which I at present bear Though they say Where now is thy God of whom thy boastings were He will of me of me be found and also make it known When open shame shall them confound that he my Cause doth own 10. Thy Cross with patience take do not there at repine But bear it stoutly for his sake who bore his Cross for thine Still meekly in thy way therewith proceed thou so That others it encourage may to what they see thee do 11. The Lot of Saints hath been Afflictions Wants and Scorns And he that is the best of Men was mockt and crown'd with Thorns No House to him they gave wherein to rest his head Him also in a borrow'd Grave they laid when he was dead 12. Yea he that 's LORD of all when first with flesh arrayd Was meanly housed in a Stall and in Manager layd A Guest so poor he was that whilst he lodged there The labouring Ox and toyling Ass his Chamber-fellows were 13. Yet Wisemen from the East were guided by a Star To bring to this despised Guest Gold Frankincence and Myrrhe They fooled for his sake a Tyrannizing King GOD'S Angels care of him did take and round about him sing 14. To him allide am I and he will send to me Howere obscurd the like supply as oft as need shall be For timely he relieves all those that trust in him And charge unto his Angels gives to be a guard to them 15. In Stables Barns and Stalls the poor as much he heeds As those that are in Princes halls to help them at their needs Yea unto them he comes and will their suffrings mark Although they lie in nasty Rooms or Dungeons deep and dark 16. A portion more secure then Goods or Lands is he An Heritage that will endure when Kingdoms lost shall be And when exposd to shame their Bodies we behold It shall more magnifie their name then Statues made of gold 17. But this to them will seem who dote on outward things No better then an idle Dream which no assurance brings If pompously they live and in rich Tombs may lie Themselves they happy men believe although like beasts they die 18. And I am half in fear when this is sung among Those who in love with riches are 't will seem a Bedlam-Song For seldome we perceive that when his Mammon's gone A Rich Man's able to believe he is not quite undone 19. It makes them almost mad to hear another preach That joyes and comfort may be had whereto they cannot reach LORD help their unbelief and mitigate their fears For though they pity not my grief yet I do pity theirs 20. Preserve in me that Grace which now infus'd I find And let not time events nor place hereafter change my mind For in them good or bad External things have nought But as Good or ill use is made Or else as got or sought Another Meditation relating to the Authors present Condition 1. MY Foes you have your hearts desire a spoyle of me you make And as I hear you now inquire what Course I mean to take I now am brought so low you say so destitute and poor That well assure your selves you may I shall arise no more 2. You naytheless may be deceiv'd and of your aims have mist For in those things which are bereav'd my wealth doth not consist And I have that within my view which if pursude it be May make me as much laugh at you as you now laugh at me 3. But though it makes you to be glad to see my griefs encreast I have for some of you been sad when you were less opprest And if you

necessary Or save my credit till it did miscarry By forfeitures and burthens cast upon me So mercilesly that it hath undone me As to the world unless GOD shall prevent That which now threats a further Detriment For when the CURS which did before but bawl As when you see a hunted Stag doth fall By alber Dogs immediately fell in And from the flesh began to tear the skin To make complaints I saw it was in vain For none I know to whom I might complain With hope of help and certainly perceived That though by them I seem'd to be bereaved Of my Estate yet GOD's hand was therein And that the Judgement which doth now begin At his own House did mark me out for one Upon whom Execution must be done Therefore forthwith examining my heart And finding that far less then my desert Was brought upon me to his Chastisement I humbly do submit and will present Ere I proceed this my Confession With Praises intermixed and Contrition A HYMNE Of CONFESSION and PRAISE 1. LORD Thou from dust didst raise me When I no being had And I in flesh to praise thee A living Soul was made That therefore I may praise thee as I am bound to do Still henceforth let me praise thee In Soul and Body too 2. To have thy Will fulfilled To thee I oft have pray'd Which that I truly willed Now comes it to be tride And that my Soul obeys thee as thou thy Will mak'st known I am resolv'd to praise thee by laying down mine own 3. Thy Servants are confunded this day with shame of face And with their Plagues surrounded for their neglects of Grace On us therefore to praise thee a Judgement is begun In which my heart to praise thee still cries thy Will be done 4. And since by my Transgressions the breach was wider made I will by my Confessions unto thy Glory add Oh! make thou them to praise thee so hearty and sincere That other men to praise thee their failings may declare 5. Me thou hast not corrected with worse or sharper things This are sometimes inflicted upon the greatest Kings By Charity to praise thee their wants thou then supplid'st And now to make me praise thee that way for me provid'st 6. Nought heretofore I wanted wherewith to give thee praise But what to me was granted I wasted otherwayes And since I did not praise thee when I enjoyed most I now am come to praise thee when all I had is lost 7. Oft when my Conscience chid me I in my sins went on She therefore lately led me to what hath me undone Yet that at last will praise thee for which I suffer must And I confesse to praise thee that all thy wayes are just 8. The portion by thee given I on my Lusts have spent Sinn'd against Thee and Heaven for which I now repent And since I did not praise thee as I oblig'd have been I meekly now do praise thee In suff'rings for my sin 9. Of earthly Joys and Pleasure that most desired are To me in ample measure thou didst vouchsafe a share But I for them to praise thee performed not my part And therefore now I praise thee with sad and contrite heart 10. An honest Reputation on me thou hast bestown That to this Generation thy praise I might make known But by what I should praise thee I sought a fruitlesse fame And therefore now I praise thee for my Reproach and shame 11. Of Good Men much esteemed I rend'red was by thee But better oft I seemed then I could truly be I therefore now do praise thee that my Defects were hid And that some now dispraise me for what I never did 12. To thee I am a Debter for what I most esteem No earthly blessing better deserving Thanks doth seem And for the same still praise thee though lately for my sin That for which now I praise thee a bitter-sweet hath been 13. But sharp and sweets together through all my life-time past And single shares of either so timely deign'd thou hast That I not onely praise thee for what most sweet appear'd But also truly praise thee for what I shun'd and fear'd 14. Thou didst with Robes adorn me which men of Honour weare That Fools the lesse might scorn me when I thy praise declare But what thou gav'st to praise thee I did to folly turn And therefore now I praise thee in Garments thred-bare-worn 15. To thousands much delightful my Youthful days were made My Heart was blith and sprightful thy praise the more was spread But I with them to praise thee did not what should be done For which I 'm left to praise thee all day and night alone 16. My private Faith infringed to others and to thee Thou lately hast avenged by publique breach to me And therefore now I praise thee for that just doom of thine Oh! make them also praise thee whose sins have punish'd mine 17. Inspight of their Oppressions who my Destruction sought Thou gav'st me large possessions which now are come to nought And since I did not praise thee when I enjoyed more I justly now do praise thee in Wants Distresse and Poor 18. I heretofore had fullness of ev'ry pleasant meat Which brought on me a dulnesse that made me thee forget And therefore now to praise thee Affliction bread prepares And thou dost make me praise thee in drinking of my tears 19. Like Baruch out of season things for my self I sought Missed by Carnal Reason lent borrowed built and bought But left the way to praise thee that 's taught me in thy Schools And therefore now to praise thee I numbred am with Fools 20. Yet as to sinck me lower Scorns wrongs and Wants encrease So dayly Faith gets power Hope thrives and Fears grow lesse To move me to dispraise thee the more my Temper tries My Spirit still to praise thee a pitch the higher flies 21. Though I myself have nothing in thy hands all things be And harbour food and cloathing thou wilt provide for me For thou hast means to praise thee stirr'd up in every Town Whereby each man may praise thee who hath not of his own 22. And for Reptue or Treasures I will not thee implore For friends lands goods and pleasures enjoyed heretofore I rather ask to praise thee what most extolls thy Name Although it be to praise thee in Sorrow Death and Shame 23. Whilst here my sins benight me still cause thy face to shine For what will more delight me then Corn and Oyl and Wine And though oppression weighs me quite down unto the ground I with more joy shall praise thee then when wealth did abound And whatsoe'r betide me I will not change my Case With any who derides me nor shall distrust thy Grace My soul desires to praise thee and loves thy praise so well That might I there best praise thee thee praise I would in HELL 25. For Thee to love thou mov'st me which shews thou lovest Me And doubtlesse whilst thou

them not But when such information he hath got Whereby they may to him be truly known 'T is hop'd that each man will enjoy his own In which hope many thousands now undone Take up their Cross and patienty walk on This Shepherd not deluded by their folly Who heed a Ravens croaking from the Holly Or such like Auguries foresaw by whom And why those which now befall are come He therefore when they came stood undismay'd And looking up to Heaven thus meekly said GOD gives and takes and blessed be his Name Though I am not yet he is still the same And on him fixt my trust unshaken stands Ev'n whilst I am in my Oppressors hands Expecting my Deliverance from him And nothing but Revenge and Scorns from them If unto one he shall vouchsafe to grant But so much Grace as many of them want I shall possess bought at anothers cost An Heritage that never will be lost And ere this Generation is quite gone That which hath long been hop'd for will be done Believing this he wholly cast away Vexatious Care permitting these to play Their pranks at will till they with cruel scorn From Him and His their whole Estate had torn Yet he no more fears their despights to him Then they do fear what he can do to them And may perhaps yet pipe them such a strain As ere next Sheepshear will fetch back again Some part of what is lost for t will be found His late Possessions were but Fairy-ground And not so sanctified that all those Who walkt upon it must put off their shoes Unlesse there be a Sophistry in Schools That 's able to turn wise men into fools If they do merit to be credited Who in that Mannor-house inhabited From which the Shepherd's cast they there were frighted With Sounds and Apparitions when benighted And that therein before that he came thither Zim Jim with such Hobgoblins danc'd together And these perhaps will thither come again As to a place which doth to them pertain By Tenant-Right now their Old Lords are come To re-admit them to their dancing-Room It may be too till by him repossest They who intrude may there take little rest Or till they shall that wicked charge withdraw That makes a sin where none is made by Law And impudently therewithal dare brand Not onely purchasers of prelates-land Opposed now by them but also fling That Guilt both upon Parliament and King In whose defence the Shepherd doth defie Not one alone but all the prelacy And if they prove before an equal Judge That purchasing their Lands is Sacriledge Or more a sin then marketting of Eggs He will resign his claim for two Tithe Piggs Nay if of Sacriledge he prove them not To be more guilty when those Lands were got And whilst that they in their possession were Then any of their purchasers now are He will submit to be anathamiz'd By them and of all honest men dispis'd For were a faithful Demonstration made Of what beginning prelacy first had By what ways prelates usually aspire How they their large Revenues did acquire How they have been from time to time enjoy'd How often to the publick harm employ'd What persons owned them and to what ends Their Constitutions principally tends With such-like which are left upon Records Whose credit doubtless evidence affords It plainly manifested would appear That none so truely sacrilegious are That few have acted more destructively To civil peace and real piety Or oftner upon Kings intrusions made By whose Indulgence they their being had They who now heed the posture they are in And how pedantically they begin To act their parts since they have been new-shelld Within those walls from whence they were expell'd Do wonder much that men of their profession And parts should fail so much in their discretion For their untimely Avarice and Pride Ev'n their best friends and favourers deride With fear that their Ambition will not cease Till it destroys again they common peace And they who love the King begin to see That unto him they mischievous may be Most of their Conversations are on earth What is this Pars'nage what that Vic'rage worth Are their chief Queries or which way to make Their Markets and Advantages to take Without regard whose right they do enjoy How many Families they do destroy Or what disturbance or disreputation They bring on King Parliament or Nation To such ends they have bawld of Sacriledge Til they have set most hearers teeths on edge By their continual grating on that bone Which their own Jawes will break ere they have done That Scare-crow now affrighteth none but fools Who are but lately crept out of their schools For that which they have charg'd the people with Doth yet stick fast between their tongue and teeth And will he proved by a holy Text The Thirtieth day of Fedruary next If those Revenues we examine shall Which they the Churches patrimony call The great Diana for which some with us Cry out as once they did at Ephesus Is but an Idol and their Out-cries made Are only to preserve a sordid Trade Whereby those Crafts-men seek to be enrich'd Who with their Drugs have silly men bewitch'd The price of Dogs and wages of a Whore Might own'd have been as justly heretofore For holy things if offer'd they had been Yea with less impudence and with less sin For some of them as in despight of Heav'n Were Merchandizings for mens souls and giv'n In high contempt of him whose heart-blood bought That which they to a worthless price have brought Yet sold too dear because the Buyers lost As well their own safe-being as their cost Meer simple and despairing Malefactors Were by the Divels Brokers and Contractors Abused with Mock-pardons Heirs defeated Of their Estates Widows and Orphans cheated And many a poor soul with a Pasport sent To Heav'n as he thought when to Hell he went This way had those Pessessions their advance Which now are termed GOD's Inheritance And what can be a greater Derogation From him then this Or what a Provocation More daring then for men to challenge that As his which he doth more abominate Then Dogs or Strumpets Or what can in reason More properly reputed then high Treason Against the King then to engage him for And Interest which GOD doth so abhor And which insensibly may draw him in To be a partner with the MAN of SIN In guilt and punishment by to their emds Perverting what he piously intends Let this be well observ'd for GOD doth yet Their Prosecutions hitherto permit But for Probation only that he may Try who will turn to him who fall away VVho will not unto his Govenant adhere VVho for preferment profit or for fear Will wave the same how far forth those Pretenders VVill active be and how far their Defenders Will patronize them that those things which are Yet doubtful may undoubtedly appear That those plants which God planted may bear fruit Those which he planted not be rooted