cleft To send a death-bound soul a quickning lift And when our Sun seems be eclipsed far Faith playes her course by the least twinkling star The Wran may flighter on this oceans brim The Dolphine dyve the Elephant may swim For loves sweet sympathies consist in looks Blinks smiles and smells whereby the Lover hooks The loved and the loved thence again From passion strong cannot it self refrain Let this suffice and ere we do remove We 'll consolate this Lady sick of love Her Lover shall ere it be long be sure Shine on her soul and so her peace procure For she in child-birth of fair grace doth ly Let us some cordials for her pangs apply And now speak damesell and let us hear What fruit from our endeavours doth appear Hele. Now am I so o'recome constrain'd to note Your travels for my well have been devote For ev'ry parcell of your free confessions Renews the sense to me of like transgressions But now in speciall you have specified Some errors that I would were rectified And all that ye have said I must confesse For every word my grief may well increase When I look up what my most Princely Love Before he brought me here made me to prove And likewise also since he brought me here What kingly bounty daily doth appear Freely bestow'd upon a fondling poor Whose worth could never thing but wrath procure And now I am convinc'd for I have prov'd That with such fervent love he hath me lov'd That for my frailties and infirmnesse great His grace and mercy he would not retreat Or that his bowels which for me were moved By this my stumbling should have been removed But this rich bounty and this love divine I lost and am deserv'dly left to dwine And pine away in sp'rituall poverty For pride of sp'rit unseen takes root in me Which now I find the cause of all my anguish Wherein I do consume away and languish Nor should I yet have seen this vain conceit But by the fruit of that vile root of late For I did suffer my fond heart to think That I was setled so I could not sink And that by grace receiv'd I could sustain Till from this tent translated I had been I doated on his gifts did not adore Himself of whom I did enjoy that store The idol of the heart was set in place Above the Author of my grace and peace And now therefore of force confesse I must His judgements are both righteous and just For grace abus'd thus gracelesse here to ly In place of peace in deep perplexity Sam. And art thou past recov'ry can'st thou say Is there no ground of hope whereon to stay Or art thou so vain-gloriously affected Ev'n when that seed of Satan is dissected Hele. No but I am therewith infected sore That seperate I cannot any more Therefrom then from my self for it 's become Deaf to rebuke and to defence but dumb Sam. Dost thou not know for this is still confesâ— Remnants in us remain undispossest Of much perversity which all our life To purge will keep us in continuall strife Hele. And I immunity do not indeed From provocation or correction plead But this a sprig so privily doth sprout And with the root and fruit of grace break out So sp'ritually and so commixt convoy'd Untill it get the life of grace destroy'd Ev'n as these sp'rits whereby we be enliv'd By veins and arteries the blood deriv'd Out from the heart the body to maintain Unknown contains therewith the bodies bain For what I do or what I do endure Progresse in grace to make or growth procure In mortifying self self to reform This venom unawars doth all deform I cannot speak a word by rule of reason Nor think nor act religiously in season But this vile poyson of spirituall pride Doth sliely in the heart deceitfull slide This is the thing our King could not endure In Angels for by pride they fell impure What may I then base wretch impure expect Who on some drams of grace receiv'd reflect I am as if of grace a treasure sure In store I could at my command procure Whereas my conscience shewes that I am stain'd With all that justly may make me disdain'd And that which might this mighty monster check His subtilty perverse detect and break But with this tincture now I am so tainted And throughly as I were therein indented Which when I see and am ashamed sore Haughty hereof I do become the more Sam. And what but grace in this most fearfull sight Could thee sustain against the Serpents slight Whereby thou formerly hes still prevailed ' Gainst all the policie he hes assailed Hele. The flesh and sp'rit defil'd with thoughts impure Which carnall hearts do unto lusts allure I see and do gainstand by grace but this Bred up with grace grace to displace it is And cannot pitch but on the print of grace Sincerity of grace for to deface Sam. How then is this thou can so moved be Since grace thou does confesse remains in thee Whereon this witch doth fix and keep thee waking And cast thee over in this fever quaking Consider when a King provok'd hes been By his own Son by many pranks obscene Should give commands in bands to make him ly In prison dark to humble him thereby And yet indulgently again relent To try if he his folly would repent Give orders for his further liberty Out of the prison dark to set him free And yet this ranting child should still remain So sensless as to think he could retain This life of freedom and abused light By his own industry or naturall right Were it not then convenient for to cast Him in the darkest pit in fetters fast Till he by pain and pinching hunger there Were taught of vain conceits for to despair Doth this comparison thy pallat please Can'st thou apply it to thy own disease And if thou can then shall it truely prove The strong effects of a Parentall love Hele. Nothing in nature can decipher more The case and cause of my distractions sore But naturall causes have a naturall cure Yet who a wounded spirit can endure How far the heavens above the earth doth bend Spirituall things our naturall thoughts transcend My Princely Parent penetrats the sp'rit And loves the single humble heart contrite He He alone with searching piercing eyes This privy pride and arrogancie sees And cannot passe't for it doth derogate Most from His dispensations intimate Hereby in bondage I indure these stounds These hellish torments and these deadly wounds Of conscience wherein I to death am bleeding Forc't by the folly of this fancie feeding Sam. I would have thought thou shouldst preferred far Thy Lovers wisdom and affections were All similies before could be devis'd By any finite creature or advis'd Thou by his secret censures sees he sees The deepest of these damned subtilties And throws thee under bondage till thou be Taught how to guard against this devilry Now then consider him who sees
may more clear this Divine science see And with the whole affections of our heart To learn the Heavenly Methods of this Art I know the heart contrite and broken spâ—rit Is for our King a Receptacle meet I know with timous comforts he doth turn Unto the pure in sp'rit who for him mourn I know the thirsting soul and hungry heart In His sweet face have fulness for their part I know that pleasures in eternitie Attend their souls that fleshly follies flee I know the penny-earn'st of Peace and Bless Received by the meek and lowly is And wisely witnessed here may we see The might of truth and height of mercy free The strength of Faith shining through filial fear The wing of Love weak ones to hide and bear Hele. I wonder much that you so wise and grave Such groundlesse expectations can conceive For shew'd you are so far of this my case That I presumed should have made you cease But presuppone that these your strange conceits Were true of me which unto me relates But nothing unto me I think belong Yet were it fearfully free Love to wrong And should bewray ingratitude so far As justly might me from his grace debar For sure I am I had not been cashiered If to offend my King my heart had feared But gading I so far astray have stept And in confusions such my self have wrapt That now mine eyes are dimm'd my tongue bedumb'd Mine ears are deafned and my heart benumb'd That what I hear I do not apprehend But sure I see my well you do intend Jea Yet with permission and submission now My friend let me obtain this sute of you This is a day of grace and it may prove If you improve it well a time of love Unto this timous counsell grave advert Gainstand these griefs that do disturb thy heart Think on what light life liberty and peace Thou lately tasted hes by special grace The earnest of these Treasures rich procured For thee and by the Lover sweet secured But under cloud eclipsed thou must be By proof to find thine own infirmitie In Patience Faith Dependency Submission Importunately presse thou hes commission Then look and long and to this promise cleave And when thou art rebuked yet believe He. Madam your counsell gracious grave and good Does all desir'd felicities include But I have forfault all these offers fair And of these Blessings now am stripped bare And when I hear of former happinesse Grief horrour and despair the more increase Once was I light and now in darknesse ly Once was I life now in deaths jawes I dye Once had I freedome now in bondage bound Once had I peace now in vexation stound You speak of pleasures in a word anew But dolefully may I bid them adiew For I an earn'st of wrath endure I think Might all the sinfull sons of Adam sink The evil spirit when he does depart Returning enters in the empty heart And every devil of whatsoever deceit May in this soul receive a several seat And I will tell you more Jea No more Refrain There is too much of this untimely strain O fearfull but it be for to let slip Of Sacred Truths by Faith the saving grip And O! how bitter are the agonies Of absence in soul-searching secrecies O horrour terrour dread what dreadfull height Is absence totall in eternal night When timely tastes do so the godly tare Where shall the godlesse go beneath despair But I forbear Sir speak to her so plain That she may be brought to her self again Sam. This darknesse does th'approach of day presage And us the more unto the means ingage Thou harden dost thy self in thy mistakes And of our tendernesse advantage makes Thou dost expose thy self a present prey Syrene deceits of Sathan to obey Misled with carnal wit by quaint convoyance So subtilly to worke thy souls annoyance Wilt thou prescribe his coming or confine His counsels to these finit thoughts of thine Dare thou his faithfulnesse draw in debate Because he doth not on thy humours wait Doth he his influence dispense for hyre Dar'st thou a reason of his rules require But these demands in time and place recall Examine and answers receive we shall And now in patience yet we shall persist And with convincing arguments insist Think on when we from darknesse unto light Translated were and did receive our right Unto His Royal Court and House of Wine Where loves bright banner over thee did shine Then didst thou see in darknesse thou hadst been Clos'd Embrion-like into the womb unseen Untill thy Lover Mover in this place The fruits of His free love made thee imbrace Then didst thou clearly see that gracious He Indur'd to be obscur'd for gracelesse thee And that He might thy glorious dayes begin Assum'd thy flesh and suffered for thy sin Purg'd and perfumed thee His Bride to be And did present himself Bridegroom to thee Thy King thy Captain and thy Husband now And to engadge thee more him to avow His Princely Robes thou saw him lay aside Enter the lists and in his armour bide Till all thy foes he had defyed in fight And from their malice fred thee by his might And led thee here among these sweet contents Where only children of the King frequents But that thou may'st convinced be the more I shall this Countrie set thy face before For as it seems thou dost so sullen ly Thou art surprysed with a lethargie Or for a proof art left a little space To try what love thy Lover can displace Thou knowst the Citty of our Royall King Where He to breed and woo his Bride doth bring What glorie and excellencie alone Believers shining see about the Throne Thou seest Him righteous Judgements dayly read Give doome unto thy foes thy causes plead When from His Ivorie pallaces he comes Thee to imbrace the smell of His perfumes Affect the Virgin-bowels for to move Frames and inflames the quickned heart to love For certainly unto Beleevers true That be renew'd all things becometh new And in this World of wicked workers we A World enjoy of sweet felicitie Consisting in a Righteousnesse procured For us with sp'ritual joy and peace secured And this new heav'n and earth and citty fair Whether the Elect chosen called are Above comparison you know excells The rarest fairest richest parallels The River that out-through the Citty slides For every severall Cittizen divides Unto refreshment and the fruitfull tree That renders various fruits abundantly For every season unto all affections And soveraign physick health for all complexions Our everlasting light without declining Advancing gloriously and brightly shining Curse from the Crosse force from affliction shed The sting from death from fear and bondage fred Where we may dayly sing among the branches And swime among the streams our thirst that quenches And bath us in that River sweetly flowing And feed upon the Spices neatly growing About the banks of these delicious fields That hony milk and wine so pleasant yeeldâ—
on our stumps Seas Huge Oceans we Mounts Main Mountains high Hills We Hills that be resound shal your transumpts Our solace is in thee who loves the heart contrite And is a sanctuary unto the broken sp'rit Great joyes to thine thou dost propine By love divine up with thy self eternall When all thy foes with the godlesse goes In endlesse woes down to the pit infernall Thus all the joy of mind And solace we have seen Is his sweet face inclin'd In love still springing green So glory we in knowing Thee our King to be our Life our Love our Light Who bought us dear and keeps us here till we appear by grace in glory bright Jea Sweet maid thou dost to melody incline Our minds to move in mysteries divine Rapt up in most Seraphick-love to sing The praises of our high exalted King SONG III. Liberty out of Bondage Sam. NOw thou who dyving is in this abysse of blesse Conveyed through all these wonders To be enjoyed by so many numbers Who were by Adam old depraved And by the second Adam saved Thou having then seen what thou can In that great mystery of Divine Majesty GOD-MAN And doth aspire with all desire to pry and to admire These excellencies the quintessences Of all felicity in their simplicity Yet think these things to be more high Then can conceived be under mortalitie More then the child unborn by its sagacity Hes of capacity for to conceive aright Of this large Universe where we converse untill it come to light So should it be with thee in heav'nly places Amongst these faces made so fair By the splendor shining there That thou should'st disdain And mourn to turn again Unto these earthly treasures And all created pleasures And shouldst admire so much and more As if thou wert design'd Alive to be enshrin'd in that live-tomb Of the mothers womb for evermore Yet think again what shall become of some who never dreams of these sad theams Till they be hurl'd in everlasting flames without remission or relenting When time is past of pardon by repenting Hel. Oh now my soul shall these thee now exceed In Songs alongst these streams whilst they thee lead Thou dazles doating where thy guides do go But prostrate be and here in excesse show With joy of heart that none can equalize A soul thus ravish'd who shall eternize The praises of her Love with such content Who freed her from so fearfull detriment Who feeds her now with so delicious fare And doth propine her with such riches rare And leads her to the Land where she may see His face by grace where joy and glory be Now that I may your sweetest songs excell I 'le on my Lovers face adoring dwell And as I see and do receive I shall Report unto your mutuall comfort all Be elevate with full consent again To prosecute this Evangelick strain SONG IV. The Joy of the LORD Hel. OUr glorious our victorious King doth reign The hosts of heav'n do sing about his Throne Where he is gone in all delights to live Whence we derive our light and life alone Know him who would make bold treat for a smile He never did beguile a true Believer He is a River full of divine delights None like Him in the depths nor in the heights For He was dead and is alive again He did sustain hells pain when he was slain Our freedom to procure he did endure What we deserved and never swerved And of these stounds he bears the wounds Thus shalt thou know him for he is non-such And thou shalt say too much cannot be said of such a One Whom man and angel heav'n and earth alone Have their dependency eternally upon So shalt thou need no more One blink shall heal thy sore And thou shalt thirst no more For He a Fountain is of blesse supernall And this eternall is For on his eyes indeed With soul-festivities they feed so sweet so sure They cannot more indure to gade And when He hides His face sad sad they be Bâ—t groping still and hoping till He smile again Or do translate them to his heav'nly Train Where all the Members mysticall delighted Triumph in him in whom they are perfected Sam. I do rejoice in this thy heart-content Hel. And I rejoice that thou wast hither sent Jea And I rejoice here with you both to be Hel. And I rejoice and praise my King for thee Sam. Now I must go unto my charge again Hel. I pray thee do not so but stay Sam. Refrain Hel. Then one word by thine Echo bid me speak Echo Speak Hel. Now need I any more but to believe E. Live Hel. And any more to do but live exact E. Act. Hel. What if I tempted be shall I endure Echo Dure Hel. In suff'ring what will free me from disgrace E. Grace Hel. Shall I promove and constantly persevere E. Ever Hel. And will my dear Love go from me or no E. No. Hel. Then shall I sure believe and live and act Endure by grace and perseverance make The Warning Jea OUr dearest friend unto his charge again Is gone and I no longer may remain But ere we part sweet girle I must thee give Some warnings that thou may more warily live Thou hast been weighted in this absence short But sees not what the journey may import Now thou art glistering fair upon the mountain Extracting life from the life-giving fountain They Sp'rits sp'rituallized are and poring Thy clearer apprehensions highly soaring Both bred and fed by divine excellencies And breathings of the sweetest influences And so delighted art to shine by grace And holinesse before thy Lovers face But yet remember when thou sadly lay In bondage under absence then this day Of so clear seeing if thou couldst conceive Right so bethink if now thou canst believe That ever such a thing should thee befall As may again thy liberty enthrall But in the bodie while thou art beware For we are tempted and in danger are To be insnar'd for the old man is prone To snatch at every bait before us thrown For this I wish thee wisely to uptake The case of every child of God and make The diffâ—rence right 'twixt the rebellious man And the obedient new-born Christian The last a weakling but a willing child The first both wicked false perverse and wild Upon whose back the crosse the rod must ly The serpents brood may be born down thereby Which both so numerous and so nimble be As atoms in the air before thine eye Or vapours-like from brooks corrupt that rise And do the shining of the Sun surprise Such is the sinning sin such is the seed Of Sathan in the soul such is the breed Whereby the new-born Christian is annoy'd Till by the grace of Christ they be destroy'd Worldly desires delights cares fears to daun The weeds of carnall lust how to supplant So as the seed of grace may sweetly spring Which successe makes us under sadnesse sing Believing certainly the truth of this
exceeding good It shines in glory on ingratitude That mercy may in God admired be He makes an object of our misery Justice ador'd shines bright in Jesus bleeding By merits mercy for our persons pleading Eternall love shines clear in timous grace Gaining the elect of the rebell-race Counsell and comfort for the heart contrite Long suff'ring to convince the haughty sp'rit That life and light by which we see and live That sp'rit of truth whereby we do believe By whom alone these glorious rayes transcendent Become so bountifully condescendent And from the grounds of these ingredients green Sov'raign preservatives to save are seen For feeding breeding feasting framing right The Babe of Grace translated unto light A sp'rituall sympathy of inclination 'Twixt Head and Members by a new creation As naturall grafts well grafted in the root Come timely to their known and kindly fruit By shedding out and sucking substance sweetly Incorp'rate and corroborate compleatly This practicall Divinity could make Which of the Divine Nature doth partake For through the vail admitted by believing We instantly receive above conceiving To see our selves blind-born sin-born and more Death-born wrath-born forlorn for eveâ—more And in that minut then immediatly Light life relief and true tranquillity By looking up and in this JEWEL dyving Presented for perpetuall reviving As on the heart it doth impression take And kindly motions to the Mover make So as with longings we enlarg'd may be This glory to enjoy triumphantly From this One-all One-uncreated Blesse Who glorious in the whole Creation is Till face to face we Called come to see And chang'd from glory unto glory be The Symphonicall Desires and delights of all Saints in their Retirements SONG I. DArknesse depart do not our eyes deprive Of this bright Star of day that doth appear To usher in the Sun that can revive Our fainting hearts and clouded spirits clear The Rose of Sharon all our banks and bowers Perfumes with odours of all ointment sweet Our fields be sending forth the fairest flowres The singing birds our slownesse do invite The Turtle mourning for her Mate doth moan Because his comming he so long delayes And we affected with her griefs do groan And tune our Lutes unto her mourning layes Most glorious Sun of righteousnesse consent To hear to see to cause thy face to shine The clouds dispell make clear the firmament And for thy coming move us to incline Oh that we could Thee know believe and love Then could we not but for thy coming long Wonder importunate we do not prove Untill our sighs be turned to a song Most glorious King out through the continent The glorious Gospel gloriously convey Make all the Nations come with one consent To kisse the Son and on his statutes stay The Devil that by delusion doth deceive The world lost roaring in fiery rage Of whom the Beast and Prophet false receive Babel and Balaam's ruine for their wage Endite condemn discover give them doom With these the Whoor flagitious detect The Serpent and the Man of Sin consume From all their drifts redeem thy dear Elect. Triumphant Monarch for thy Truth appear And with thy brazen legs these tyrants turn Out of the way with eyes of flaming fire These fiends pursue and in thy fury burn When shall thy garments stain'd with blood be seen Of these proud foes that do thy grace disdain The glory of these wonders doth pertain To thee this might and malice to restrain How this wild Lion through the earth doth reel And prey upon poor blind-born Adams race Whirling the worldly minded like a wheel Up by his gins thy Image to deface Thou sees O Thou who pow'r hes to prevent This vile invet'rate and invective spleen And for destroying Satans works was sent Our evil deserts let not thy help detain Dread King who question dare thy just decrees Mysterious holy righteous and profound For out of all apparent contraries Glory and might right doth to thee redound Let all the hosts in heav'n and earth be still And with submission simple thee adore The Projects of thy wise eternall will To see fulfill'd rejoice for evermore All revolutions strange our King aright Doth by a change of providence direct By death and darkness making life and light Brightly appear for all his dear Elect. Heav'ns King our sp'rits more sp'ritually dispose And shine upon the seed of saving grace That faithfully and fruitfully repose We may and all the swey of flesh displace The time that thou art glorious to appear Hasten impediments out of the way Remove that seeing eyes clear'd to admire The magnified in thy members may The wicked world that doth in lies delight The voice of truth and wisdom doth disdain And will not see till everlasting night Close up their fight in soul-tormenting pain Longing we be when we himself may see Shining in glory on his glorious Throne Where feasting in his glorious face we 'll be When immortality we have put on Welcome great King let now the glorious Day Begin to dawn of thy eternall reign In righteousnesse thy Royall Scepter swey Of mercy and of judgement we may sing Time mend thy pace unto thy period post Stir up thy strength do not retard nor slide All shall be done anone be gone thou must Eternity to sink thee down doth glyde Let us our sp'rits a little time compose And fix upon the starry Firmament And all the Stars that are let us suppose Full as the Sun did shine so excellent And that this glob of earth transparent were And ev'ry star out from his glorious Sphere Darting his rayes and influence so far As all dimensions of the world appear â—oor worms we never could a blink endure Of this created glory we conceive â—ut in the beauty of this brightnesse sure Be raz'd because we could it not receive â—gain by faith in contemplation ponder What places for the Elect are prepared â—o far surpassing all the Stars in number â—nd to the glory of the Sun compared 〈◊〉 immortality when we 're arrayed â—nd for these places pure spiritualized â—ransparent in this splendor there displayed â—nd yet humane remain so subtillized Yet our great King those changes we perceive From naturall darknesse to this light of grace Exceeds more fully then we can conceive Till we receive that fulnesse in His face Where that all-glorious increated light Remains whence we our light and life derive And shall enjoy joyes in His joyfull sight Unseen unheard till there we do arrive Who see these marvels but they must admire Who see admire but doubtlesse they do long Who see admire and long but do aspire Seated to be these miracles among But rather how is it we do not weigh The wisdome of our King and condescend Simply unto His dispensations high Who our desires unruly doth suspend Untill by tryals strong through truth sustained Our lost condition and His love we see And by His grace be from the world weaned And fitted for this Life of Glory be
Our glorious King eternall only wise Incomprehensible all things contains Who never doth the heart contrite despise But by His Sp'rit the broken sp'rit maintains By worlds of men thy will fulfilled be Through all the earth and let thy glory shine Jehovah high in Heav'n eternally And all the Elect to thy praise incline SONG II. A Song of triumph Rev. 15.3 4. Great And Marvelous Are Thy Works Lord God Almighty Just And True Are Thy Wayes Thou King Of Saints Who Shall Not Fear Thee O Lord And Glorify Thy Name For Thou Only Art Holy For All Nations Shall Come And Worship Before Thee For Thy judgements Are Made manifest GReat greatness doth unto our God belong And Majesty to be ador'd alone Marvelous and admir'd thy Saints among Are thy decrees eternall every one Thy works within thy Sanctuary are seen Works full of wonder thou to light hast broght Lord Lord thy purposes are pure and clean God only God that thou in us hast wrought Almighty might all finite light transcending Just justice uncontroll'd in wisdome right And righteousnesse in all thy acts extending True God of truth conjoin'd with glorious might Are not the Hosts of heav'n our heav'nly King Thy Mercy Justice Statutes truth desiring Wayes Wisdome works to see and seeing sing Thou King of Saints thy Majesty admiring King King of Kings before whose glorious face Of glory Kings created Crowns cast down Saints seperate and sanctified by grace Who thee imbrace thy praises shall resound Shall not the Nations thy great Name regard Not thee by whom their beings only be Fear thee who for thy people hast prepar'd The consolations of eternity O thou who doth so far our faith exceed Lord lead us to thy truth thereto to cleave And firmly fix our eyes on thee to feed Glorify thy Name in us us Lord revive Thy name is like to oyntments only sweet Name O ye Nations His dread Name with fear For He in all perfections is compleat Thou seest Him past comparison appear Only thy self Self-soveraignity Art thou incomprehensible alone Holy immense adored Majesty For thou art glorious Heavens and earth upon All only All in all thy Name is seen Nations in thy Salvation shall rejoyce Shall not the captives that deliver'd been Come and upon thy grace and peace repose And who will not unto thy greatnesse still Worship and homage do with heart sincere Before the Throne in ardency of will The Saints among when there they shall appear For now the wisdom of thy wise decrees Thy judgments deep and so divine so cleared Are to the sense of every eye that sees Made manifest and ever are admired A Harmonious Consort in a Song of Praise SONG III. Part. 3. THrones and dominions now adore This deep profound abysse before Of Wisdome and of knowledge high Shining in just mercy free Flowing from that fountain love That both the head and members move And made the dying head to live And all the members dead revive The mights and slights did him defy Below His feet down thrown do ly They bruis'd His heel but from His hand Now must they feel an iron brand Which breaks the necks of all His foes And makes the Hosts of Heaven rejoice For now our Glorious Head doth render To God the Kingdome and doth tender Himself unto His Spouse redeemed And members so by Him esteemed That so His long desires that day For evermore enjoy He may And they refyned and inflamed With sacred fires and so reframed Which the most glorious Head inspires And Members glorified admires The Universall Heavens filled With all this influence instilled By our victorious King alone Christ mysticall God-Man in One Whose generations account Who can which doth so far surmount All rationall mens conceiving Believing all poor sp'rits perceiving But O! admired doth invite Finite unite with infinite And in their stations sp'ritualized And gradation authorized Cordially with all consents Above the Orbs and Elements The Region of the fire and air Adoring be Echo Beware Now spare Till there you do approach and then Let Angels and immortall Men Like Stars resplendent shining sing Praise to their Author Spouse and King Do not I pray thee so inhibite For we cannot be prohibite To conceal that grace that glory That in this very middle story We do enjoy by faith and hope Which giveth latitude and scope With much alacrity to sing And when we be eclips'd to bring Unto the Altar timous tears And bemoan our faithlesse fears For He is firm who us affects And cannot fail who us protects And there shall in the darkest night Arise for us a glorious light And in the deepest deadly hell The Balme of Paradise shall smell Which shall increase of grace procure And shall our souls in peace secure Then do us not discharge to sing Praise to our Royall Spouse and King Sing on but in sobriety Beware of soaring too too high Flight'ring above the lofty line Where Love resides and doth refine Affections to incline aright To live by faith untill we come to sight The second Part of the third SONG THen by this liberty to sing Of our most Royall Spouse and King whose Love doth us allure His Deity in glory we Tri-unity adoring be our comforts to secure There unapproachable He is In all eternity of blesse above our feelings far For at the word of His command All things appeared where they stand from nothing as they are We do these wonders all believe And that He hes come to relieve us who did so disdain To do His wil and hear His voice But wilfully made wofull choise to sin which hes us slain Here is the Text here is the Theam Here is the Fountain here the Stream whence all our comforts spring Here all the Angels ever dive Hence all the Saints their life derive here doth our glory sing His power experimentally By working in us mightily we know do and believe For we in ignorance were born And in the bands of death forlorn till He did us receive Who can His wisdome but adore And providence so much the more as we are ever seeing From wonderfull varieties And seeming contrarieties harmonious agreeing Him in His truth we worship must He being only worthy trust as we do daily try Far far above our weak believing In every strait He is relieving as we His word apply His knowledge whose all-seeing eye All things that are were or shal be are ever straight before All persons places cases right Divinely ordered in His sight which Angels do adore And O! how righteously our King Doth to the rule of justice bring and equally compose Above our weak capacity Unmov'd by partiality alike to friends and foes His pittying mercy we admire Whereby He doth our miseries clear and leads us to be cur'd Who in our blood were lying blind That we our light and life may find by Him for us procur'd In these excellencies our King Does shine we Him injoy and sing but O!
That all these troubles shall encrease thy bless And presuppose by dispensations yet Thou wert rapt up into an higher fit Whereby in Paradise thou could'st behold Above what either should or could be told Couldst thou who doest in this flesh temple dwell Indure these rayes and neither rust nor swell No under cloud again thou must retreat And with the messenger of Satan meet Enter the lists therefore by faith defend Thy Crown by perseverance to the end For if thou carnally become secure Thy fall shall all thy comlinesse obscure When under sad desertion thou wanders And knowst not what thou dost nor where thou danders But doest what all thy dayes makes thee asham'd When thou art smittenand by grace reclaim'd These dreadfull dolefull these disastrous dayes When on our souls the subtill Serpent prayers These weaknings warnings warmings dipt in love These smels from heaven which affections move Are meas'red out according to the need Of every member by the carefull Head And if to do or to endure thou be Appointed then anointed thou shalt be With grace sufficient unto stedfastnesse And get a blink to comfort in distresse So as a Christian in thy sufferings all Christ's glorifi'd wherein thou glory shall And argue may thou art in Him compleat When Head and members in affliction meet But thou must be upon thy guard and watch Against the Serpent at thy soul doth snatch He will uncessantly against thee fight By stratagems renew'd by day and night With snares and nets and grins laid in the way To hold thee fast when thou dost slide or stray And where he finds thee weak or wandring will Enter thy breach and break thee by his skill Corruption from within makes open doors To what temptations from without occurres And sometime Syren-like he will assail With flatt'ries but if he do not prevail He will affright thee with a thousands fears Which on thy sp'rit that evil spirit rears There is no course God for our help doth take To keep us humble or our comfort make But he doth thereunto himself apply To make us doat or else despair thereby By mediat means when he doth not prevail Then by his fiercest darts he will assail And levell at thy faith the fruit of grace Thy hope and love the new man to deface He will suggest inject vile monst'rous notions Into distrust of Atheisme the motions And seek no better party then our reason To parly with him on the points of treason Capitulation-proof he knows to be Means to o'recome experimentallie Now then the sp'rituall armour timous take And to the fight of faith with fervour make Under the Royall standard of thy love Advance and by his martiall motions move Thou know'st Gods secret ones to circumveen No hellish plots have unattempted been And what cannot the devil yet contrive According as his malice doth him drive And what is it he can contrive but sure A man to act it out he shall procure For unto such an instrument he can Masked materials furnish for the man And wicked men have still an open ear The serpent's subtile whisperings to hear And at a wink can change his voice and sight Shining Saint-like in much angelick light To gaine his point how far he shall prevail By fained friendship fawning shall assail In such commixtion and so deep devise Here to supplant and there for to surprise But when this craft doth crosse his closse design Then in a spleen he sharps his cruell sting And in his fury kindles fiery tryals For all that dare give his commands denyals And never think it strange that man forsaken Of God hath now of Satan service taken Since Law nor Gospel Instance Word or Rod Will waken or reclaim lost man to God But they in wicked obduration will Persist their fathers lusts for to fulfill Or that the devil rationall man can make Sometime the colours of a Saint to take Another time in tyrrany to boyle By cruelty the blood of Saints to spoyle For he of every man the Idol knows And at his feet his full contentment throws And lets him see this is the way alone To rise to stand to settle in his throne And cannot this deceiver thus deceive In making him vain-vile-man to conceive That when he hath receiv'd the world in hyre To his ambitious carnall hearts desire That as a Saint he hath it to possesse And for his followers as their propernesse So as they may by any slight or might People suppresse for to maintain that right Is not this truth whereon we fix our standing Clear that the devil hath man at his commanding Prophets Apostles false false Christs also We warned are to guard against ye know Who when like rav'ning Wolves they be within Cloathed like sheep can so present their skin Since Cain first his brothers blood did spill The first-born man the second man did kill Unto this day men-murd'rers are lurking And as they moved be do fall a working But lest man should when he is settled think Upon his wicked course and then forethink His villany the devil leads him fair Upon exploits and deep devices rare To make him famous and his fancie feed So as his thoughts no further may proceed And see ye not some worldly Monarchs great For to maintain and to increase their stare Are only set their neighbours to disthrone That they may reign and only rule alone And therefore guard against this strong temptation This trying flame of cruell tribulation But be not moved for they cannot smite But as God for his glory doth permit And in the tryall of his Saints he will Them humble but thereby their joyes fulfill For thy triumphant King and Captain just These mights their slights down at his feet shall thrust The shining Cherub from his brightnesse shall Together with the fairest Cedar fall The Beast the Prophet and the Whore flagitious With all their pomp their spleen and pride pernicious Whose terrour troubled men while they did live The fiery lake the fatall stroak shall give Then be not mov'd the change may glad thy heart When from their heav'n they to their hell depart Thou from thy hell at heaven shall arrive While they in bail in blesse thou's ever live For when the devil by his instruments With the blood of Saints doth mix the Elements Shall not these suff'rings then so much the more Shorten their journey and increase their glore And are they not o'rejoyed when they see Their blood include the Church felicitie But for thy further tryall yet again What if the Lord the influence should restrain Of light and life and liberty even when Thou art the butt of hell and hellish men This this is it should make the tryall sad For if his face upon thy soul thou had Shining thou should'st disdain that dreadfull crew Of devils and all the darts they could renew But in this exigent he is so near That when thou least expects he shall appear And when thou hast thine