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A52171	Mentis humanæ metamorphosis, sive conversio, The history of the young converted gallant, or, Directions to the readers of that divine poem written by Benjamin Keach, intituled Warre with the devil here shewing the readers thereof how to read the same poem aright in these four respects, viz. I. in reference to the substance or history thereof, II. in reference to the intent or mystery thereof, III. in reference to the consequent doctrine thereof, IV. in reference to practical application thereof / compiled in a poem by J. Mason, Gent. ...; Mentis humanae metamorphosis	Mason, John, fl. 1676-1683.	1676 (1676)	Wing M916; ESTC R7190	51,417	169

this Similitude INtentive and Unanimous Readers let us for the Truth sake contemplate yet a little further this comparison and see into the Heighth Depth Length and Breadth thereof for it is worth the knowing that by the natural Mystery we may learn the Supernatural and try our selves thereby For verily there is not a greater secret in nature or art then this of the Compass if we rightly consider all the properties thereof And therefore having given you the Pourtraicture thereof I will also here in the next place give you the Description of it and so proceed to application for Instruction sake in the work of Conversion The Pilots compass is a round box of Wood hollow and plain In the Verge of it are set down the 32 Points of the Winds and in the middle or Center stands a sharp Pins point whereon the Needle by a hollow Dent becomes Voluble and turneth round thereon tumbling and shaking 'till it leaves them all and fixeth in the North point only toward the Polar Star And over it is a plate of Glass or Chrystal to preserve it from all violent motion by the wind and to keep it from the Air dust or any foulness least it lose its Magnetick vertue And so is placed in the Ship near the Helme as a Directour to the Pilot how to Steer his course aright from place to place till he come to his rest or wished Harbour But there yet remain two greater wonders Namely the Load-stone or Magnet and also the Load Star or North-point The Loadstone is the efficient cause of the Needles Conversion and the Load-star is as the final cause of its conversion for there it ends and terminateth in rest and from both these the Needle receiveth the power of Conversion else it could have none And it must first receive vertue from the Load-stone before it can turn to the Load Star as I have said before And then having been touched thereby and joyned thereto and as it were gendring together it attracts to it self a secret love or inclination to the North-Poynt with eager desire But why or how this can be in nature no wit of man could ever yet find out for it is Digitus Dei the Finger of God a wonder in Nature for a lesson to Mankind Now in the next place observe the unparallel'd properties of these three The Stone the Needle and Star For these three act as one in this work 1. The Load stone draws and attracts the Needles Point figured as you see like a Lilly and as it were kisseth and embraceth it and anointeth or baptizeth it with a secret invisible vertue and this is the first change 2. Then the Needle rejoyceth in the vertue thereof as made Convertible thereby to its place of rest and this the second change 3. Lastly the Star or Morth point standeth fixed and cnmoveable to receive the Aspect and Reflexion of the Needle towards it in mutual Conjunction and this the third and last change in this great Mystery of nature Further observe one Load stone though there be many can inspire and new inform a Million of Needles and no Stone else can do it Marble Coral Agate Diamond Ruby Saphyre or Pearle nor all the Stones in Aarons Breast-plate nor in the Royal Crown nor yet the rare Elixar or Philosophers Stone can give it the vertue of Conversion to the Heavenly North-Star Neither can a Needle made of any Mettal but firm Steel receive this vertuous Tincture of Love Gold Silver Copper or Lead are not capable of this hidden vertue with all their Worldly Glory and Splendour they cannot receive a kiss of Love from the Magnet for they have not a Magnetick Principle in them nor any Heavenly inclination nor are they capable of this Communion and Unity as to point all to one place in the Heavens Earth is their Center and there they end in the grave of Corruption But these Love-touched-Brethren stand ever in Communion though far asunder the place and object of rest make them one in nature and in society inseperable companions in love and vertue though differing in locality remote from each other The Spiritual Application A Little Application will serve to the Intelligent Reader The Mystery is written in Capital Letters he that runs may read at first sight Behold all of you young and old men and women the wonderful power of God in the Creation in this and in all his works of wonder and so let all fall down and worship him adore admire and be converted unto him who hath made Heaven and Earth O draw neer unto him as the Needle to the Magnet and he will draw neer to you Magnifie him and glorifie his Name that his vertue his power his Love Fear and Faith may touch your hearts and anoint them with his secret spirit of Grace in Conversion that you may become all Elect Vessels of Honour in his sight and so be renewed in soul and body mind and spirit ever looking up to Heaven and panting after your Saviour who is gone before to prepare a rest for the blessed that look towards him above all the Profits or Pleasures or Glories of this world For he is in Heaven looking down upon you and after you as waiting for you and I when I ascended saith he will draw up all men after me Namely all that are capable to be drawn unto him in real Conversion from this world and the things thereof Every Sinner Swearer Drunkard Thief Whore and Adulterer Extortioner and vain glorious or covetous soul he waits for to come unto him to rest in him from sin to take up his dayly cross and follow him for of such little Children is the Kingdom of Heaven and all that be his already thus do he knows them and they him for they have already received many a kind kiss from him they are joyned as the Needle and Magnet mutually together and receive vertue of his vertue daily and cannot be drawn from him their hearts are with him though their bodies are here below and thus they all make one Assembly of Saints on Earth fixed on him in Heaven For by this Needle of pure firm Steel understand the Heart of Man his Soul and Mind Mens Humana the Humane understanding mind spirit sanctified and made Heavenly and Divine The Lovers of Gold and Silver and Brass and Pretious Stones Jewels and Glories of this World Titles of Honour and Gentility pleasures of Sensuality attain not this Conversion Those 32 points must all be left when the Word of God and his Spirit touch the True Mettled Heart as prepared for the Bosome of Jesus Christ the True North-star in whom is their Rest and Peace through a pure Lile Faith and Conscience and in no other but him Readers Take it into deep consideration for it is Truth here told you Hereby you may see and know your selves and your sins your Salvation or your Damnation Much more might here be said but I bid

the Spirit would the Flesh give place Pride still would be Supream and Carnal Lust Would Reign and Rule and be accounted Just. His Wit his Will Fancy all cry Treason Against the Truth in his Anointed Reason Old Satan too if possible would fain The Castle he hath lost once more regain But in this Converts heart Grace keeps the Field ' Til all at last to Truth and Reason yield And this good News he to his Friends imparts Who feel find these Warrs in their own hearts O that the Gallants of this Age as well As Forreign News this Home bred News could tell And fill our News Books with these Holy Warrs In stead of Christians most Unchristian Jarrs 5. The Fifth Particular Vanity in Talk Forsaken Namely Religious Debate AS for the Sects and Churches their wayes His Heart 's his Church he none of them gainsays Though they gainsay each other opose Each others Tenets both in Verse and Prose Sect against Sect Church against Church ingage Swords against Swords tongues against tongues do rage What some call truth som others hold for lies What one Condemns another Justisies And 't is impossible to please them all 'Till they have more of Honey less of Gall. Some Preach by Books some Reason some by Spirit Some Preach Free grace some Free-will some Merit Some for the Churches Institution stand And some against them rise throughout the Land Thus Pro and Con tossing the Ball about They fill the Land with wrangling with doubt And wilst each Party strives to get the Ball Sometimes they give and sometimes get a fall ☞ Reason's Advice in this Case But peaceful Reason in his low Contrition Bids him sit still and mind his own Condition Gentle to hear all sides with patient Ear But unto nooe save Christ's own voice adhere For as in life he 's neither vain nor vicious So he 's no wrangling Make bate or Seditious A fit Companion for those Souls alone Who with the whole Creation sigh and groan For such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this Converts Historie The end of the Fourth Degree Descending Called Rationality in Speech and Bridling the Gallant Tongue 5. The Fifth Mortifying Grace or Virtue being the Fifth Step or Degre in his Conversion Descending Namely Abstemiousness or Continence in Meats Drinks Cloaths and all Sensuality THus when his Reason into Light was brought And from its dark Eclipse to clearness wrought Having first learn'd himself thus to deny Of Gentile talk and all Vaniloquie Lo this Young Heir born to a large possession Leaves all to follow Christ in strict Profession And in New-life with dayly Sin-denyal Bears his first Cross in many a tempting tryal For now his Joyes run a contrary way Quite cross to what they ran in his First-day His Hawks and Hounds he leaves for all his care Is to find out the Truth not hunt the Hare His Fleet-Race Horses all are quite out-run For he hath now a larger Rarce begun His Tables Cards and Dice he flings away For he hath now a harder Game to Play Whilst Tears do trickle from his mournful eyes With sad remembrance of his Vanities For he play'd wrong before and doth begin A second Game against each youthful Sin His costly Dishes and delicious Fare And gaudy Dress which he was wont to were He claims no more For Pride or Ornament But having Food and Raiment is content And with a Dish of Herbs or Garden-sallet Can Dine or Sup and satisfie his Palate His Sword and Belt his Periwigge and Plumes His whiting Powders and his strong Perfumes All sent and smell like Adled Eggs quite rotten Or like good Chear long vented and forgotten To both th' Exchanges he now bids farewell With all the Modes and Fashions there they sell All the Attractive shooing hornes of Vice He hates as Vermin and Aegyptian Lice His Moderation and Gratitude Thus in his moderate Food and comly Dress He keeps the mean and balks all vain excess What e're he wears what e're he eats or drinks Of Christ's last Supper or his Cross he thinks And setting all his old Excess a part He keeps a daily Eucharist in his heart Perpetual Thanks do Transubstantiate And Change his Mind into a Heav'nly state For that is the right Transubstantion Which most mistake in gross imagination Who in their blinded Superstition strange Themselves unchanged think the Bread should change And this vain Error for four hundred years Hath fill'd the Christian world with doubts fears But this wise Convert in his changed Sight Free from that Errour Ears and Drinks aright For he himself is changed and his Food In his New-change is by due Thanks made good And as a Nazarite thus he doth endure Both in his Diet and his Habit pure For such a one each Gallant ought to be And so make good this Converts Histerie Th end of the Fifth Degree Descending Called Abstemuousness or Continency Touching Sensuality The Sixth Mortifying Grace or Virtue Being the Sixth Step or Degree in his Conversion Descending Namely Solitude or Separation from all Uain and Uicious Society WHo e're hath learn'd to bridle in his tongue No more to vain acquaintance doth belong And so remains the last and greatest Wonder The Heaviest Cross and hardest to come Under As if the Soul from Body were Divided And with the Flesh no more the Spirit Sided For now his Old Aquaintance and Sweet Friends Whom as his Soul he lov'd he reprehends His Consorts kindred and Relations dear He baulks he Shunns Seldome doth come neer He keeps aloofe from All and doth not dare To eat or drink with those who Lye or Sweare Vain Company he Loathes Pure Grain from weeds He now discerns No more with Swine he feeds Yet if Occasion chance to draw him in His Care is then to keep himself from Sin And as a Sheep feeding among the Beasts He 's all alone though present at their Feasts For ' though among them yet he is not of them And rather doth bewail then scorn or scoffe them From Sin and Sinners both he turnes away And their Allurements scorns though ner'e so Gay For all his Joy is fix't on higher-Things A fit Companion for the best of Kings For now the King of Saints doth not disdain To sup with him and in his heart to Reign Yea after all he leaves the glorious Court With all his Pomps Pleasures Game Sport And one day by his Cross had rather ' bide Than in the Court a thousand dayes beside The Painted Madams and the Spotted Faces VVith Amorous Arms he now no more embraces And to his Tempting Miss dares boldly say I am not I begone away away That Park he baulks where Gallants Sacrifice To Venus and her Nymphs their Hearts and Eyes At the She-Bulls he laughs and turns his Eyes From the beholding of those Vanities For he is turn'd another Creature quite Nor Sin nor Sinners can give him

delicious fare and cheer And for the feeling she those snares doth fit As have drawn millions to the lowest pit And thus the seaven deadly sins come in Where ere this Whore doth set her snare or gin For like as tempting Dalilah did intrap Strong Sampson sleeping careless in her lap Whilst she his hair did shave where his strength lay And to his enemies did her Love betray Who in brass fetters did strong Sampson bind Put out his eyes and forced him to grind Ev'n such are all who to this world consent All are betray'd who take therein content This story to them all may well belong Both high and low the valiant wise and strong For all they have or know or wish or see Or love and like their Dalilah may be And whilst I write these things I see what I Am of my self ' though to these things I dye I see sometimes I should the good reject Did not meer Grace the better part elect So quickly man is caught within the snare If he keep not his eyes awake with care An Apology for the Creatures Good in their Kind and blest of the Creatour YEt all the Creatures in themselves are good If rightly us'd for cloathing and for Food And this the Poets all and Sages old Amongst the Heathen wisely taught and told With little man lives best Nature doth give Blessings to all if men knew how to live And without doubt a mortifyed soul That rightly drinks of the Communion Bowle Though he should deck himself in cloath of Gold Or richest Robes with Jewels manifold Would be as poor as Adam cloath'd in skins Whil'st he remembers all his former sins Rich cloaths rich fare he safely can enjoy If cause require yet not his soul annoy But where 's the Man now lives that can do this And not be tempted by a worldly bliss But what 's the Tempter Surely mans own will ●nd lustful temper choosing what is ill The Creatures are no Whores nor do I mean That they are fowle but in themselves full clean God hath ordain'd them all for mans best use They of themselves cause not their fowl abuse But man in Lust doth offer violence To all the Creatures through his whoring sense Yea all the creatures groan and all complain Of that hard Bondage which they still sustain The Fruit Forbidden did not play the Whore But man transgres'd in midst of all his Store Of all the Trees most freely he might eat And onely One excepted for his meat That was no meat for him and to this day That Law doth hold and man must it obey The Creatures are no Whores nor act a sin But the fowl Lust of Man conceiv'd therein The sinful hankering appetite doth long To have its will fullfill'd be 't right or wrong And thus much of this First sense charming Strum●pet I next must sound the Second Ladies Trumpet And because few or none do write thereof I 'le tell the Truth though all the world shoul● laugh The Second Temptation General followeth The Fourth Intent and Fourth Mystery of Iniquity Touching the second Daughter of Mammon or Second Temptation General THough Whores and Whoredomes both of various kind And various shape throughout the world we find Yet the most Glorious and Brave Whore of all ●s that which most Gentility do call As like unto her Sister every way As like may be but that she goes more gay And some suppose them Twins both of a Birth So both one Mother have and both from Ea●th From Earth this Harlot came yet mounts on high And lifts her head up to the Starrie Sky But lifted up anon she falls down right Like to a Star-faln Gelly in the night A false appearance and deceivtng vapour An Ignis Fatuus and a short-liv'd Taper A madness and a folly void of reason Or like dead Salt when it hath lost it's season The First did only catch the outward sense But this flyes higher in a brave pretence A Hellish Spirit risen from the Earth To fill the world with its Infectious Breath For it is not of God nor of that Spirit By which our Lord did Mans Redemption merit An high conceit and vain imagination Without an Ens or Substance Ground or Station In all the forms of Life there 's no such feature No such Created thing such kind of creature And let the great'st or best Logician With all his Art define it if he can Give me the Genus or the Species to it Or an Essential Difference to know it For 't is no real thing no shape or sound Nor such a name in all the Scripture found There 's no such being such an uncooth Stature In all the works of God or forms of Nature Vertue 't is not nor that which we call Grace Nor is it beauty in Mans soul or face Many poor souls more vertuous far do live More beautious shine then some who Arms do give A Monster strange compos'd of several shapes Of Birds and Beasts of Lyons Woolves and Apes From Pride of life it had its first beginning And ever since hath multiply'd by sinning By Fraud and Force Ambition Lust and Pride With bloudy Wars and thousand sins beside A Guilded Outside and an empty Bubble Yet full of splendid fears and cares and trouble The meanest Jewel in a Golden Crown And soon Eclips'd when God for sin doth frown What pen can write the several Fornications Of this red Whore and her abominations For she can seem an Angel pure in sight And yet can rob and steal and kill and fight Thousands there are I pitty to relate By her quite lost both body soul and state A dangerous Rock where their fair Vessels Split And few there be who are aware of it Yet sad examples many we may see Of shame and want in their posterity In every office function trade and art If you keep not a watch she 'l win your heart For in the Heart as in a Temple gay She loves to sit and rule and bear the sway And there 's no heart that 's free in Church or Chancel Till God and Grace this inbred Pride do Cancel Till time doth come that she must be reveal'd Who in the heart so closely lay conceal'd So natural is this kind of pride to all So deeply rooted and original And this original sin as close doth stick Unto the flesh as Horse-leech or as Tick Sucking mans bloud so he in bloud delights Of bloud he brags for birth and bloud he fights For 't is a general taint in each degree From which by birth no man or woman's free Examples hereof THe poorest Rogue that goes from door to door Bears in his breast this Gallant Gentile Whore Oft have I seen a Beggar rent and torn Tell a brove tale how highly he was born Sure were it possible he would lay down His Rags for Robes his old Cap for a Crown Might pride prevail there then would be no odds 'Twixt high and low

intended And O that Rome and we were both as one In life and faith pleasing to God alone And ever strive each other to excell In Grace and Peace where e're we live or dwell I unto Rome do bear that free respect That 's due to her and every Church or Sect And keep the Peace what in me lyes with all Provided that by none I stand in thrall And let them all give thanks to God and me His Servant bold for this discovery Thus from the left hand turning to the right From the Black House I 'le lead you to the White And having shewn you both not to deceive you Unto your own Election I will leave you Thus much of the Unconverted Parties Principle and Property in Reference to the Gallant Youth in his Natural State The Converted State and Party followeth The Exception or Excepted Party under a True Conversion Shewing what is meant by this Youth in his Converted State namely the Church Elect out of the World though in the World As also the Mind of Men in its New Birth and in its new essential Property or Principle of Divine Light and Grace THus having pass'd through Babylon the Great We now are come to Syons Holy Seat Where the true Church of Christ doth firm abide The Church Select that 's call'd his faithful Bride Whom he hath chose and mark't out for his own With his two Seals of Truth and Love well known And by those Marks as Sacred Scriptures tell You well may know them all where ere they dwell Not who they be but what they be I show How many or how few no man doth know And having told the Mystery of sin The Mystery of Grace I here begin The First Mystery of Grace and Godlyness opened Namely Purity of Life The First Mark. THough I in general terms have spoken much Of the Worlds way I mean not all are such All are not caught with snares of Lust and Pride Some few there are who have themselves deny'd There are some thousands never bow'd to Baal And a few names in Sardis righteous all Those Virgins chast and pure those few I mean Who like true Nazarites keep their Garments clean Such as are said to walk with Christ in White And are accounted worthy in his sight Who from the World do keep themselves unspotted And now no more are with her Wine besotted And whom no Romish Gentry can defile Nor whom the Baits of Mammon can beguile Nor yet the Gloryes of the Scarlet Whore This Church Elect is not her Paramour Having their senses exercis'd to know What 's good what 's ill and what they should forego Who keep the faith and true belief in God Ever depending on his Staff and Rod For they are taught of him and dayly learn 'Twixt right and wrong the difference to discern The Second Mystery of Grace opened being the Second Mark of the Church or Mind Elect Called Lowliness of Spirit A Gallant 's one who never knew the smart Of a Converted new created heart Nor ever felt the pangs and sharp affliction Of the souls inward work and true Conviction Nor ever found what a Desertion meant What 's right contrition what t is to repent His Tongue 's his own without controle he talks His Sword 's his own without a check he walks But with these Virgin Saints it fares not so All walk in life and spirit wonderous low For oft they pass the sharp and fiery tryal And so remain in humble self-denyal Yea they are Mourners all in meek behaviour Longing for him they rightly call their Saviour O 't is a comely and a glorious sight To see Saints walk lowly in the light A signal mark like to the Red Cross sayle Of the true Church when all the rest do fail The Third Mystery of Grace opened Or the Third Mark of the Church Elect Namely Soundness in Conversion LEt now some Gallant tell me if he can When from a Beast he turned to a man Or when from darkness he was brought to Light Or when with sin and Satan he did fight When he from Babel travelled to Sion When to a Lamb he turned from a Lyon When he began to be a Christian first Or for Christs bloud did find himself a thirst When first from greatness he to goodness changed Though he long time in his wild course had ranged And so transformed in his inward mind Became thereby a creature new in kind For this the Holy new-born Church can do Throughout the world here and beyond seas too They can declare their several alterations From ill to good and several operations Of Gods good spirit working by its grace Their total change they know both Time and Place And in their hearts an Altar do erect Of Thanks Remembrance and sincere respect On which they offer dayly Sacrifice As Abel did accepted in Gods eyes This is a Mystery of Grace I tell Which all that have found Grace do know full well The Fourth Mystery of Grace or Fourth Mark of the Church Elect Namely True Wisdom or the knowledge of the saving Truth THe World is full of knowledge in its kind And yet remains dark ignorant and blind But sure one beam of true and heavenly light More clears the soul then all that wits can write A mark infallible of this Church Elect Keeping it safe from errour and defect For the false light dares all Gods laws withstand And all the Ten Commandements command But the true light doth keep obedient still To all his laws and to his written will False light can turn the truth into a lye But the true light doth all its shifts descry Such is this Church Elect where all agree In saving truth and truth doth make them free Blest are those souls in whom the truth resides And as a living Principle abides A pure informing and reforming Spirit Working by Faith and Mercy not by Merit For Truth 's no notion but a substance bright A Heavenly real and essential light A firm Eternal and Immortal Being Which gives to all that have it life and seeing O with what freedom will the earth be blest When Truth shall spread its Wings from East to West When Wars and jars laws and Religions all On bended knees before the truth shall fall When no false Leaders reign in any Sect Or Church or State to bind blind or infect For sure the Badge of the true Church is truth By whom is meant this New-converted Youth The Fifth Mistery of Grace opened being the Fifth mark of the Church Elect Namely Love Divine or oneness of Spirit A Farther secret Readers here I tell They all are one though far remote they dwell All one in faith in life and spirit pure And Doctrine sound infallible and sure An Homogeneous body of one breed Descended from one Father and one Seed And as a thousand Needles far asunder Point to the North in their Magnetick Wonder All with the Loadstone toucht and set betwixt