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<NAME>Olivia Bottum</NAME>
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<HEAD>TO THE READER</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>CHRISTIAN READER</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_LOOKE rather what is intended, than what I have attained. My principall aime and purpo&s;e is to &s;how that who &s;oever doth love to &s;ee the true purtrate of <HI>IESUS CHRIST</HI> our <HI>LORD,</HI> mu&s;t ver&s;e Him&s;elfe in holy <HI>Scripture,</HI> except Hee will chui&s;e to ly open to delu&s;ion. If it plea&s;e Thee to read and &s;eriou&s;ly perpend what is &s;aid to this purpo&s;e, I have eneugh for my paines. I haue contrivd it in a mea&s;ured stile, that thou may&s;t read with le&s;&s;er wearying. Looke not for elaborat words, for not only the weighti|ne&s;&s;e of the &s;ubject made mee &s;hunne what &s;oe|ver might breed ob&s;curitie, but I ever held the whori&s;h ornamnets of affected eloquence an vn&s;utable Ornament to garni&s;h pure <HI>Truth.</HI> If it &s;eeme to Thee I haue extended the worke to more than a competent length, &s;ome few moments &s;hall &s;erue Thee to runne thorow the margents, Howrs thou may&s;t re&s;erue to what further it stall plea&s;e to make &s;earch for in the work. If my &s;tile &s;eeme any where &s;harpe again&s;t the abui&s;e and abui&s;ers of the Arti|ficiall
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<PB REF="3"> <HI>Crucifixe,</HI> weigh my rea&s;ons withou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> prejudice, and I hope, I &s;hall not neede to &s;tan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in feare of thy condemning cen&s;ure. If th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> maner of handling of this Subject &s;eeme to the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> more proper for a <HI>Preacher</HI> than a <HI>Gentle|man</HI> of my place, refu&s;e it not for this, for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> worthy <HI>Preacher,</HI> of my neere and deare ac|quaintance, out of His loue to <HI>CHRIST</HI> and thy <HI>Salvation,</HI> did not only stirre mee vp to buil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> this peece of worke, but both by <HI>Conference</HI> an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Coun&s;ell,</HI> (as my weakne&s;&s;e stood in need<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of advi&s;e) did fordwardly concurre to fur|ni&s;h helpe to the materials. Thou &s;hall doe we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> therefore to pa&s;&s;e by the in&s;ufficiencie of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>In&s;trument;</HI> that, likeing the purpo&s;e neither the better nor the wor&s;e for this respect, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> looking (chiefly) to the <HI>Truth</HI> of that whic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> is spoken, by occa&s;ion thereof Thou mayst be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> stirred vp to a further &s;tudy of the knowledge of <HI>IESUS CHRIST,</HI> and Riches of <HI>grace</HI> and <HI>truth</HI> in Him, and &s;o to a greater <HI>love</HI> of Him, and <HI>communion</HI> with Him, for which end I pray the <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>IESUS</HI> be with Thee.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>OF THE BOOKE.</HEAD>
<L>YOu that with awfull eyes, and &s;ad regards,</L>
<L>Gazing on Ma&s;ts of Ships cro&s;t with their yards;</L>
<L>Or when yee &s;ee a <HI>Microco&s;me</HI> to &s;wim,</L>
<L>At evry &s;troake the <HI>Crucifixe</HI> doe limme</L>
<L>In your Braines Table; or when &s;maller things,</L>
<L>As pyed Butter-flyes, and Birds their wings</L>
<L>Doe rai&s;e a <HI>Cro&s;&s;e;</HI> &s;treight on your knees doe fall</L>
<L>And wor&s;hip: you, that evrye painted wall</L>
<L>Grac't with &s;ome antik face, &s;ome <HI>Godling</HI> make,</L>
<L>And practi&s;e whoordome for the <HI>Cro&s;&s;es</HI> &s;ake</L>
<L>With <HI>Bread, stone, mettall;</HI> Read the&s;e &s;acred <HI>Layes</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>(Pro&s;elytes)</HI> proclaime the <HI>Authors</HI> prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Such <HI>Fame</HI> your <HI>Tran&s;formation</HI> &s;hall him giue,</L>
<L>With <HI>Homers</HI> EVER that his <HI>Name</HI> &s;hall liue.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>W. D.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Of Hawthorn-denne.</HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>IN AVREVM AVRATI EQUITIS, <HI>GVILIELMI MORI</HI> DE CRVCE <HI>POEMA.</HI></HEAD>
<L>_VEteres Po&euml;tae fabulantur, virginis</L>
<L>Permult&ugrave;m amatae c&ugrave;m nequiret Iuppiter</L>
<L>Potiri amore, &s;e liqu&acirc;&s;&s;e in aureum</L>
<L>Imbrem, puella quem tenero excepit &s;inu.</L>
<L>I&s;tic libellus, bellus, &amp; ver&egrave; aureus,</L>
<L>Sube&s;&s;e monstrat veritatem fabulae.</L>
<L>Totius orbis qui perennat arbiter</L>
<L>Novit protervum qu&agrave;m &s;it humanum genus;</L>
<L>Qu&agrave;m &s;it maligno pectore, &amp; qu&agrave;m ferreo.</L>
<L>Tam novit arctis vinculis in Tartaro</L>
<L>Clau&s;um profundo, &s;i Salus &s;alvum velit,</L>
<L>Ip&s;i vt Saluti non fores reclu&s;erit.</L>
<L>Tam novit imo pectori in&s;itum nefas,</L>
<L>&V;t nullus aditus con&s;ilio &s;ano &s;iet,</L>
<L>Quod &s;accarum, &amp; mel non &s;apit facundiae.</L>
<L>Magni Tonantis spernit alt&egrave; oracula,</L>
<L>Exculia ni &s;int, ni nite&s;cant aureo</L>
<L>Splendore, cultu &amp; gemmeo Eloquentiae.</L>
<L>In corda &s;ic &s;e&s;e in&s;inuat alt&egrave; <HI>DEUS,</HI></L>
<L>&V;inclis amoris ducat v&s;&abque; vt aureis!</L>
<L>En &V;atis hujus aurea eloquentia</L>
<L>Laeto imbre pectus perpluit divinitus:</L>
<L>Huju&s;ce penn&acirc; &s;tillat imber aureus:</L>
<L>Sinus pate&s;cant; verus huic inest <HI>DEUS.</HI></L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>IO. ADAMSONUS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="5">
<PB REF="5" MS="y">
<HEAD><HI>In Nobili&s;&s;imi, pii&s;&s;imi&abque; Iuvenis.</HI> G&V;LIELMI MORI, <HI>&agrave;</HI> Rowallan, <HI>Equitis aurati, cognati</HI> &s;ui vnice chari, piam de cruce <HI>poe&s;in, IOANNIS GELLII</HI> &agrave; Gellie&s;toun, Med. D. <HI>EPIGRAMMA.</HI></HEAD>
<L>SI facienda <HI>canens, facien&s;ve</HI> canenda meretur</L>
<L>Laudem, tu gemino dignus <HI>honore</HI> cluis.</L>
<L><HI>Carmina</HI> digna facis, <HI>vita</HI> est digni&s;&s;ima ver&s;u:</L>
<L>Illa <HI>Sophum</HI> mon&s;trant; vita, me lo&s;&abque; pium.</L>
<L>Macte jugo tali: coeunt vix nexibus v&s;quam</L>
<L>Trina vno, <HI>pietas, ingenium,</HI> at&abque; <HI>genus.</HI></L>
<L>Plurima <HI>MORE</HI> tuis debes <HI>Majoribus:</HI> olim</L>
<L><HI>Stirps</HI> tua debebit po&s;tera plura tibi.</L>
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<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Eju&s;dem ad pubem verae virtutis aemulam <HI>Protrepticon.</HI></HEAD>
<L>HEV virtutis egens, at turgens &s;temmate quivis,</L>
<L>Solo &s;e magni nomine iactat avi.</L>
<L>Sollicitat raro venturos cura nepotes,</L>
<L>Ad patru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> titulos addere laude &s;uos.</L>
<L>Mollia traducunt foedo pars otia luxu,</L>
<L>Delectat&abque; alios alea, ludus iners:</L>
<L>Pervigil infames lu&s;trat pars magna popinas,</L>
<L>Continuo&abque; alios turpe lupanar habet.</L>
<L>Sunt quibus at virtus, vitio carui&s;&s;e putatur,</L>
<L>Nil&abque; boni vt fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iant, ab&s;tinui&s;&s;e malo:</L>
<PB REF="6">
<L>Dum iuvat vmbro&s;os indagine claudere faltus,</L>
<L>Hortari&abque; citos &s;axa per alta canes.</L>
<L>Quadrupedumve placent rapidi certamina cur&s;us,</L>
<L>Aut carptus curvo gyrus in orbe levis.</L>
<L>Aut volucrum parvam captare per a&euml;ra praedam,</L>
<L>Quam praedo crudis unguibus ales agit,</L>
<L>Dum&abque; hic curat equum, accipitrem alter, &amp; ille molo&s;&s;um,</L>
<L>Sic brevis indignis fallitur hora modis.</L>
<L>Non ita nobilium <HI>Morus</HI> iubar exigit annos,</L>
<L>Non illi lepidis tempora lap&s;a iocis.</L>
<L>Impiger Aonidum &s;ed dulcia ca&s;tra &s;equutus,</L>
<L>Excoluit doctis artitus ingenium.</L>
<L>Et bifidi tremul&acirc; <HI>Parna&s;si</HI> conditus vmbr&acirc;,</L>
<L>Pleno <HI>Ca&s;talias</HI> gutture traxit aquas.</L>
<L>Cum&abque; habeat faciles quaevis in vota <HI>Camoenas,</HI></L>
<L>Materia e&s;t Mu&s;ae res &s;acra &s;ola &s;uae.</L>
<L>Impuros procul ire iubet, quos vulgus amores</L>
<L>Concelebrat vatum, ficta&abque; furta De&ucirc;m.</L>
<L>Raptus, nequitias, mimos, &s;ine pondere nugas,</L>
<L>Et quae &s;unt pa&s;&s;im ludicra trita fugit:</L>
<L>Haud vano augurio, mores nam pagina pandit,</L>
<L>Te&s;lis &amp; e&s;t animi &s;ermo, &amp; imago &s;ui.</L>
<L>Tractat enim &s;aep&egrave;, &amp; narrat qui&s;&abque; illa libenter,</L>
<L>Quorum e&s;t arcanus pectore fixus amor:</L>
<L>Miles equos, caedes, ho&s;tes, &s;polia, arma, triumphos</L>
<L>Pro&s;equitur: funes navita, vela, rates.</L>
<L>Temones, ra&s;tros, &s;tivam, dentale, iuvencos</L>
<L>Agricolae memorant, &amp; faber artis opus:</L>
<L>Sic pia, mente pii, referuntq, nefanda profani,</L>
<L>Qualis &amp; e&s;t cordis copia, voce patet:</L>
<L>Sic ergo Sophiae divinae munera <HI>Morus</HI></L>
<L>Exhibet, &egrave; &s;acris cuncta petita libris:</L>
<L>Nectare, &amp; ambro&s;iae dulci &s;tillantia &s;ucco,</L>
<L>Quae&abque; famem &s;edent, flumine quae&abque; &s;itim:</L>
<PB REF="6" MS="y">
<L>Quae &s;imul exhilarent grat&acirc; dulcedine mentem,</L>
<L>Lectoris&abque; aures arte, lepo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> beent.</L>
<L>Nil latet hic foedi, nil turpi crimine vitam</L>
<L>Imbuit, haud toto linea &s;purca metro:</L>
<L>In&s;truit at rect&acirc; Deus vt ratione colendus,</L>
<L>Et quae &s;it fidei regula vera docet.</L>
<L>Scilicet human&acirc; quae non cervice profecta e&s;t,</L>
<L>Fingitur vt <HI>Pallas</HI> vertice nata <HI>Iovis,</HI></L>
<L>Coele&s;ti &s;ed tota fluens ab origine, ne&s;cit</L>
<L>Mortalis cerebri &s;omnia vana, dolos.</L>
<L>Oraclis &s;acri compren&s;a voluminis, vltr&agrave;</L>
<L>Ire vetat, certo limite clau&s;a fides.</L>
<L>Hinc Phariis mon&s;trat tenebris, vis quanta &s;epultos</L>
<L>A bripit in&s;anos, &amp; &s;ine fine furor.</L>
<L>Dum lignum, dum &s;axa, cruces, Cereri&s;que paratae</L>
<L>Cru&s;ta colunt, fragili numina facta manu.</L>
<L>Os quorum &s;ermonis inops, &s;ine lumine ocelli,</L>
<L>Et &s;urdis affert auribus aura &s;onos.</L>
<L>Naribus &amp; patulis non e&s;t odor vtilis vllus,</L>
<L>Nullus &amp; in vacuo pectore pulmo move<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Et &s;tupidis manibus tangendi nulla facultas,</L>
<L>Nec po&s;&s;unt &s;e aliqu&ograve; ferre referre pedes.</L>
<L>Talia &s;unt PAPAE quae grex lymphatus adorat</L>
<L>Numina, quae fecit dextera, corde timens.</L>
<L>Attonitus &s;tupeas, quae &s;icve&s;ana furentem</L>
<L>Mens agit in facinus. (pr&ocirc; pudor, O lachrimae!)</L>
<L>Si &s;pectes, pronus velut vt de marmore divis,</L>
<L>Inflexis genibus, o&s;cula, dona ferat.</L>
<L>In numerum, ritu magico, crucibu&s;que frequenter</L>
<L>Se &s;ignans, tacito &amp; murmure vota premens.</L>
<L>Qualiter ac illis fument altaria, templis</L>
<L>In&s;en&s;i thur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s pinguis odore, foco.</L>
<L>Sed cre&s;cit rabies, furiis plus effera <HI>Caci,</HI></L>
<L>Dum vice <HI>Verbigenae</HI> liba, trabe&s;que colunt.</L>
<PB REF="7">
<L>Vertice, cum, ra&s;o, qui adolet nunc ignibus aras,</L>
<L>(Callidus in magicis &s;acra p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">are focis)</L>
<L>Sacrificus, <HI>Mi&s;&s;am</HI> arcano demurmurat ore,</L>
<L>(Arcan&acirc; <HI>Cereris</HI> dignus &amp; ip&s;e face)</L>
<L>Coelis deducto, cantato carmine, CHRISTO,</L>
<L>Fit &s;ubito panis mica minuta <HI>Deus.</HI></L>
<L>Inque dies &s;acer ille Dei, mactaturad aras</L>
<L>Agnus, in aeternum qui &s;emel ante luit.</L>
<L>Quemque capit va&s;ti non ingens machina mundi,</L>
<L>In panis rerum conditur orbe Parens.</L>
<L>Aere, auro, argentove Cruces, varii&s;que figuris,</L>
<L>(Materia ingenio, <HI>Daedale,</HI> digna tuo)</L>
<L>Stellantes baccis, gemmi&s;que micantibus igne,</L>
<L>Numinis ex aequo debita iura &s;ecant.</L>
<L>Taliaque appendunt demi&s;&s;a monilia collis,</L>
<L>Chri&s;tum extra portant, quem minus intus alunt.</L>
<L>Haec tam dira lupae Romanae, ac horrida mon&s;tra,</L>
<L>Crimina &amp; in cel&s;um morte pianda Deum,</L>
<L>Hicce <HI>Caledoniae</HI> vates celeberrimus orae,</L>
<L>Enthea divino flamine corda calens,</L>
<L>Exo&s;us, &s;uavi per&s;trinxit carmine, quale</L>
<L>Cantat vicino funere dulcis olor.</L>
<L>Vnde &s;uperba fluet laus duratura per aevum,</L>
<L>Et &s;emper vernans gloria flore novo.</L>
<L>Qui &s;uper ergo &s;u&acirc; molitur laude laborem,</L>
<L>Supra maiores &s;candat vt ip&s;e &s;uos;</L>
<L>Vel &s;e tollere humo, &amp; famae venientis amore,</L>
<L>Nititur eximiis fe indere nominibus.</L>
<L>Hanc capiat virtute viam, ve&s;tigia &s;ervet</L>
<L>Illius, &amp; MORI laude &s;equatur iter.</L>
<L>Cuius &s;it quamvis alta, ac affinis origo</L>
<L>Regibus, &amp; tumidum Nobilitate genus,</L>
<L>Noluit e&s;&s;e tamen fam&acirc; contentus avorum,</L>
<L>Nec fuit inde &s;ibi gloria ducta &s;atis,</L>
<PB REF="7">
<L>Ni pennis vectus propriis &s;ublimior iret,</L>
<L>Et foret ip&s;e &s;ibi fort&egrave; futurus honor.</L>
<L>Quo iam nunc potitur, magnum &amp; memorabile adeptu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Nomen, &amp; e&s;t veri verus honoris honos:</L>
<L>Inque <HI>Caledoniis</HI> celebrabitur ecce po&euml;tis,</L>
<L>Primum &amp; Mu&s;a dabit candida ca&s;ta locum.</L>
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<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>IN DIVINAM, DOCTISSIMAMQVE D. <HI>GVLIELMI MORI,</HI> de ver&acirc; crucis CHRISTI contem|platione <HI>POESIN.</HI></HEAD>
<L>_DVM tu, <HI>More,</HI> &s;acri divin&acirc; carminis arte,</L>
<L>Effigiem veram <HI>crucifixi</HI> o&s;tendis <HI>Ie&s;u.</HI></L>
<L>Non auro, argento-ve, nec aere, aut marmore &s;culpta~</L>
<L>Qualia, vana &s;uper&s;titio &s;ibi fingit <HI>idola,</HI></L>
<L>Humanae figmenta manus, inventaque mentis;</L>
<L>Sed quam divini pingunt proeconia <HI>verbi,</HI></L>
<L>Corporis haud oculis, fidei &s;ed luce videndam,</L>
<L>Non collo, manibu&s; ve, pio &s;ed corde ferendam:</L>
<L>In terris, nomen tibi, de Cruce <HI>Mu&s;a,</HI> parabit,</L>
<L>Marmoreis &s;tatuis, omni&abque; perennius aere,</L>
<L><HI>Crux</HI> ip&s;a, in coelis, vitae immortalis honorem.</L>
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<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Aliud.</HEAD>
<L>_CHri&s;ticolis, <HI>Chri&s;ti crux,</HI> e&s;t quae gloria cunctis,</L>
<L>Nomine non vno e&s;t gloria, <HI>More</HI> tibi,</L>
<L>Mente <HI>crucem Chri&s;ti</HI> dum pura amplecteris ip&s;e,</L>
<L>Dum&abque; alios quae &s;it <HI>crux</HI> quo&abque; vera doces,</L>
<L>Materies tanto ingenio, tanto&abque; <HI>Poeta,</HI></L>
<L>Tam docti calamum, digna &s;ubire metri.</L>
<L>Fru&s;tra alii, blandae afflavit quos aura <HI>Camoena,</HI></L>
<L>Ingenium nugis, eloquium&abque; terunt.</L>
<L>At tibi, divini qui carminis, alite &s;acro,</L>
<L>Altius humanis tollis in a&s;tra caput,</L>
<L>Entheuse&s;t <HI>metris</HI> vigor, &amp; caele&s;tis origo,</L>
<L>Et verus veris <HI>vatibus</HI> aptus bonos.</L>
<L>Perge altiexerere ingenii monumenta, paratu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>H&acirc;c decus, h&acirc;c fama, h&acirc;c itur ad a&s;tra via.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Haec in laudem Stauropticae &agrave; D. <HI>GVLIELMO MORO aedita</HI> MICHAEL VALESIVS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>A wi&s;h of goodwill to all the Profe&s;&s;ors of Poperie.</HEAD>
<L>_WHat clowd of <HI>Error</HI> hath your eys clo&s;d vp</L>
<L>Soule-poy&s;ned <HI>Popelings?</HI> what enchanting <HI>Cup</HI></L>
<L>Of &s;uper&s;tition haue you drunke? what Fiend</L>
<L>Hath thus illuded your infatuat <HI>Minde?</HI></L>
<L>With what fond <HI>zeale</HI> doe you the <HI>Cro&s;&s;e</HI> adore,</L>
<L>A prettie <HI>Ornament</HI> to trim your <HI>Whore,</HI></L>
<L>(Who&s;e be&s;t <HI>attyre</HI> proves in effect but <HI>tra&s;h,</HI></L>
<L>Or rather <HI>fuell</HI> for <HI>Tartarean</HI> fla&s;h)</L>
<L>As if th' <HI>Eternall's</HI> &s;acred <HI>wor&s;hip</HI> &s;tood</L>
<L>More in apparent, than in reall <HI>Good;</HI></L>
<L>You leaue the <HI>&s;ubstance</HI> and the <HI>&s;hade</HI> you loue,</L>
<L>A <HI>Crucifixe</HI> than <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> you more doth moue.</L>
<L>O that your eyes were ope! Come, come and &s;ee</L>
<L>Your <HI>Cro&s;&s;e</HI> in Cut-worke, and th' <HI>Anatomie</HI></L>
<L>Of a true <HI>Crucifixe,</HI> delineat cleare,</L>
<L>By <HI>One,</HI> the &s;acred <HI>Sisters Mineon</HI> deare,</L>
<L>In &s;weeter layes than e're <HI>Arion</HI> &s;ung;</L>
<L>Which would to God within your hearts were hung</L>
<L>For the&s;e ba&s;e forg'ries, <HI>Manufactures</HI> vaine</L>
<L>Which on your brea&s;ts you daylie entertaine.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By <HI>W. Forbes.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
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<PB N="1" REF="9">
<HEAD><HI>THE TRVE CRVCI|FIXE</HI> FOR TRVE <HI>CATHOLIQVES.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_IF &s;acred Truth<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2. The&s;. 11.12</NOTE> did not conciliate tru&s;t,</L>
<L>My doubt remoue by &s;a|tisfaction ju&s;t</L>
<L>But mu&s;e I could not, how from time to time,</L>
<L>Man, (but<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Gen. 2.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> a ma&s;&s;e of anima|ted &s;lime</L>
<L>A cloud of du&s;t, tos'd by vncer|taine breath,</L>
<L>A wormeling weake, &s;oone to &s;toupe downe to death,)</L>
<L>Dur&s;t bee &s;o bold, his pow'r as to enlarge;</L>
<L>And (proudly<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Command</HI> Levit. 26.2. P&s;al. 97.7.</NOTE> vilipending GODS di&s;charge)</L>
<L>A frantick freedome to him&s;elfe dur&s;t take</L>
<L>An Image for religious v&s;e to make.</L>
<L>And now I can not halfe enoug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> admire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">It is &s;trange that me~ &s;hould call the worke of their owne hands</NOTE></L>
<L>How fondlings (daring<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Levit. 10.1.</NOTE> offer vncouth fire)</L>
<PB N="2" REF="10">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Agnus Dei,</HI> &amp; <HI>Crucifixus,</HI> Chri&s;t his proper &s;tiles, &amp; a&s;cribe &s;uch vertues as flow from CHRIST his per&s;on to them&punc; &amp; tru&s;t and leane, and giue religious wor&s;hip to the~, and yet plead to pa&s;&s;e free of Idolatrie. <HI>Agnus Dei,</HI> is as much as the lambe of God. <HI>Crucifixus,</HI> as Chri&s;t nai|led on the cro&s;&s;e.</NOTE>The naughtie i&s;&s;ue of a noy&s;ome &s;eed,</L>
<L>Like errour yet &s;hould to lyke madne&s;&s;e lead,</L>
<L>CHRIST of his honour due in|duc't to reaue</L>
<L>Vnto their owne inventions, it to giue,</L>
<L>A peece of abject wax<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, clo&s;d in a clout,</L>
<L>For GODS <HI>lamb</HI> blu&s;hing not to beare about;</L>
<L>Nor (&s;en&s;e di&s;tracted) CHRISTS owne proper &s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>The <HI>Crucifixe,</HI> forbearing to defile,</L>
<L>It attributing to their Chri&s;ts of dro&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>(A mans faind &s;hape, fixd on a fancied cro&s;&s;e)</L>
<L>With honours, &s;tiles, and titles, not a few,</L>
<L>To crucified CHRIST IESVS, only due.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> Cor. <HI>2.2</HI> Gods &s;pirit calleth Christ Him&s;elfe the Crucifixe, and nothing el&s;e.</NOTE> <HI>Paule</HI> no <HI>Crucifixe</HI> be|&s;ids was knowne,</L>
<L>Saue CHRIST,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Math. 16.16.</NOTE> Sonne of the living GOD alone:</L>
<PB N="3" REF="10">
<L>This crucifixe of His, our<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 40.9.</NOTE> GOD, our<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Iohn. 20.<HI>28.</HI> I&s;a. 43.<HI>11.</HI></NOTE> LORD,</L>
<L>By All &s;hould bee obeyd, &s;ervd, lovd, adord.</L>
<L>Our harts for Him, who&s;e heart for vs did bleed,</L>
<L>A rowme &s;hould bee to re&s;t in, and re&s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hee &s;hould our glorie,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Gal. 6.14. 2. Cor. 10.17.</NOTE> our re|joycing bee,</L>
<L>Wee<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">2. Cor. 4.<HI>11.</HI> Ibid. 5.<HI>16.</HI></NOTE> liue to Him, who chu&s;d for vs to die.</L>
<L>His image in our lyfe we all &s;hould beare,</L>
<L>Walking as Hee, pure,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Philip.</HI> 2.15.</NOTE> innocent, &s;incere,</L>
<L>Our<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Gal. 5.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">4.</NOTE> fle&s;h, our foule affections mortifying,</L>
<L>Heere, to be His for ay,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Mat. 16.<HI>24</HI></NOTE> our &s;elues denying.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As<NOTE N="h," PLACE="marg"><HI>Gal.</HI> 6.14.</NOTE> to the world, as crucified to &s;inne,</L>
<L>Readie<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 19.<HI>27.</HI> Mark. <HI>10.28.</HI> Luk. 18.28.</NOTE> for Him, with each thing els to twinne,</L>
<L>Wee labour &s;hould, while heere wee borrow breath,</L>
<L>In bleeding hearts<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cor. 4.</HI>10.</NOTE> to beare about his death.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="4" REF="11">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">No right nor lawfull re&s;em|blance of Chri&s;t cruci|fied, but &s;uch as Him&s;elfe hath made.</NOTE>To this intent, in pure Truths &s;acred booke,</L>
<L>Our dayly task &s;hould be on Him to looke</L>
<L>To<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Iohn. 5.39. I&s;a. 8.20.</NOTE> &s;earch the Scripturs, which of Him record,</L>
<L>And crucified before our eyes afford:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We &s;hould tho&s;e holy ordinances haunt,</L>
<L>His Sacraments, means which Him&s;elfe did grant,</L>
<L>And Regi&s;tred left in his latter-will,</L>
<L>His death to keepe in fre&s;h re|membrance &s;till:</L>
<L>And with a longing &s;oule, and li&s;t|ning eare,</L>
<L>The Go&s;pells joyfull tidings bent to heare,</L>
<L>Such wee &s;hould bee,<NOTE N="b." PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 2.2.</NOTE> as know|ledge all hold vaine,</L>
<L>Saue CHRIST to know, and for our &s;innes Him &s;laine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus<NOTE N="c." PLACE="marg">Gal. 3.1.</NOTE> Paul him &s;uffering to all eyes expo&s;d,</L>
<L>Which<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">2. Cor. 4.3.4.</NOTE> misbeliefe, and igno|rance not clo&s;d,</L>
<PB N="5" REF="11">
<L>Thus may wee all Him by faiths piercing eye</L>
<L>In Gla&s;&s;e of his owne in&s;titutions &s;ee,<NOTE PLACE="marg">In Gods word &amp; ordinances CHRIST may be &s;eene, as in a mirrour.</NOTE></L>
<L>Thus bee pre&s;erud from following Chri&s;t-lings vaine,</L>
<L>Shew'd in the juggling trickes of wits prophane,</L>
<L>Which Numbers lead a&s;tray; a|mong&s;t which crew,</L>
<L>No doubt but cho&s;en &s;oules are not a few,</L>
<L>To whom cleare eyes GOD once to &s;ee will giue,</L>
<L>As others, who did in like error liue,</L>
<L>That meanes none els, CHRISTS knowledge can afford,</L>
<L>But &s;uch, him&s;elfe hath &s;tabli&s;ht in his word.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou know&s;t (&s;weete CHRIST) the pitifull re&s;pect,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e &s;imple &s;oules I beare which Thee affect,</L>
<L>And faine would find Thee, but a|&s;tray are ledde,</L>
<L>With vaine inventions in mans fancie bredde,</L>
<PB N="6" REF="12">
<L>Who &s;earching Thee, ca&s;t in a cu|rious mold</L>
<L>Of ba&s;er mettle, or of pure&s;t gold</L>
<L>Wor&s;hip to Thee, vnwarranted allow,</L>
<L>And ba&s;ely to a lying idole bow,</L>
<L>Intending thus to impetrat thy peace</L>
<L>Doe loade them&s;elues with &s;in, Thee with di&s;grace.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With pittie mov'd, with in|indignation ju&s;t</L>
<L>To &s;uch, a better pourtrate wi&s;h I mu&s;t;</L>
<L>Which to draw foorth, LORD furni&s;h mee with airt,</L>
<L>Bee thou my Patrone, who my Patterne art:</L>
<L>My hand, my pin&s;ell, let thy Spi|rit guide,</L>
<L>That (all humane re&s;pects farre laide a&s;ide)</L>
<L>Free from pre&s;umption, curiou&s;|ly to trace</L>
<L>Each &s;ubtile line of thy Immor|tall face,</L>
<PB N="7" REF="12">
<L>Thee &s;haddowing foorth, my draughts may not debord</L>
<L>From &s;acred mirror of thy &s;auing word.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Teach Thou my &s;traines to flie no other flight,</L>
<L>Still leade mee with the Lanterne of thy light,</L>
<L>That with thy loue enflam'd, I may with feare,</L>
<L>Thee, in that Glorious mirror &s;till admire;</L>
<L>Where, to our mea&s;ure, Thee a|bridg't wee haue,</L>
<L>Of Thee at lea&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ficient truth to &s;aue,</L>
<L>Yet &s;o that what thou to reueale ha&s;t dain'd,</L>
<L>A part can bee but of that part attain'd</L>
<L>Which as Mans &s;oule thy Spirit d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th en&s;pire,</L>
<L>Some more, &s;ome le&s;&s;e, none fully can acquire;</L>
<L>The &s;obere&s;t mea&s;ure, euen the lea&s;t of all,</L>
<L>If thou vouch&s;afe, LORD &s;erue my purpo&s;e &s;hall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="8" REF="13">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Mans happi|ne&s;&s;e stands in his co~munion with GOD.</NOTE>MANS prime felicitie, and &s;overaigne bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>His onely chiefe&s;t good, which Mo&s;t doe mi&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>By Combination of Eternall bands,</L>
<L>In his Communion, with his Maker &s;tands.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Vnion, fir&s;t &s;pirituall mu&s;t bee found:<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. This Commu|nion in this world, is &s;piri|tuall only.</NOTE></L>
<L>The Soule our better halfe to GOD bee bound,</L>
<L>To him conjoynd, before our Bodies loade,</L>
<L>Can bee admitted to his ble&s;t aboade.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">3. The way to make it vp, &amp; keepe it is the right know|legde of GOD.</NOTE>This band to make, of GOD the knowledge true</L>
<L>So needfull is, to man ere &s;inne hee knewe,</L>
<L>That life it was, his GOD to know aright:</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ihon, 17, <HI>3.</HI></NOTE>Now life eternall is, &s;ince put to flight</L>
<L>By di&s;obedience, truly GOD to knowe,</L>
<L>And CHRIST his Sonne, the &s;ource whence life doth flowe.</L>
<PB N="9" REF="13">
<L>GODS Rebell Sathan,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1. Pet. 5.8 Sathan there+fore hath ever labored to mar mans know|ledge of God, that he might marre mans communion with GOD.</NOTE> mans malicious foe,</L>
<L>Debard from grace, &s;ince fir&s;t by pride brought low,</L>
<L>Depriu'd of happine&s;&s;e, ^b exild from Heaven,</L>
<L>Hopele&s;&s;e to be re&s;tor'd to darke|ne&s;&s;e driven,</L>
<L>In malice &s;et,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Apoc. 12.9. Iude. 5.6.</NOTE> by &s;ubtiltie and &s;light</L>
<L>Mans happine&s;&s;e to marre, with all his might,</L>
<L>Him from his GOD, and Sove|raigne good to part</L>
<L>Striues, of his GOD the know|ledge to pervert.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In man (his<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Gen. 1.26. Man at his fir&s;t makeing had &s;ufficient knowledge of GOD, given him by meanes appointed of God, to moue him to keepe co~munion with his Maker.</NOTE> Makers image) GOD infu&s;d</L>
<L>A light, too glorious to haue beene abu&s;d,</L>
<L>A<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Rom. <HI>1.</HI>19.</NOTE> Heavenly knowledge (fore-fault by his fall).</L>
<L>Both of himfelfe, and things cre|ated all;</L>
<L>In which faire volume, Man might dayly looke,</L>
<L>And exerci&s;e his witts, as in a Booke,</L>
<PB N="10" REF="14">
<L>Which him to reade, to &s;tudie did invite,</L>
<L>GODS boundle&s;&s;e pow'r, his wi&s;|dome infinite.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Gen, <HI>3,</HI> 5. But Satan by an vnlawfull meane offering to augment his knowledge be|reft him of the benefite of that which he had.</NOTE> Serpent offring to aug|ment this light,</L>
<L>By greater knowledge to vn&s;ile His &s;ight</L>
<L>(For yet his eyes had &s;till <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">de <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>No wicked thoughts perve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"> had his will)</L>
<L>Did vnawarres thus worke his ouerth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ow,</L>
<L>Sinne making him at once commit and know.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus not alone by trea&s;on did &s;eclude</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe from grace, lo&s;t GOD, his chiefe&s;t good,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Rom, 5, 12.</NOTE>But guiltie made his offspring by his fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l,</L>
<L>Which puld in him the fruit which poy&s;ond all:</L>
<L>Thus (Errour ruling Rea&s;ons &s;a|cred raigne)</L>
<L>Fal&s;e GODS, Imaginarie Good did faine</L>
<PB N="11" REF="14">
<L>Iu&s;tly of skill, of will, of &s;trength denude,</L>
<L>To know, loue, follow, what was truely good.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But O the bountie!<NOTE PLACE="marg">GOD after the fall brake vp the light of the re&s;toring and &s;aving knowledge of CHRIST in the promi&s;e of the incarnati|on of his word and wi&s;dome</NOTE> O the boundles loue</L>
<L>Of GOD, whom mercie no de&s;ert did move,</L>
<L>Hee of his goodne&s;&s;e willing to reclaime</L>
<L>Tho&s;e Rebells, objects vile of wrath and &s;hame,</L>
<L>Did with him&s;elfe determine to bring backe,</L>
<L>And His, wretcht Man, by double title, make,</L>
<L>Re&s;toring him to more, &s;ince his offence,</L>
<L>Than he enjoyd in &s;tate of inno|cence;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 3.15.</NOTE></L>
<L>So bound him&s;elfe by promi&s;e to this end</L>
<L><HI>A Womans Sonne</HI> vnto the world to &s;end,</L>
<L><HI>A Man</HI> in wi&s;dome Maje&s;tie and might</L>
<L>Equall with GOD, to fru&s;trate Sathans &s;light:</L>
<PB N="12" REF="15">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Iob. 3.8.</NOTE>The Serpents heade to breake, his works de&s;troy,</L>
<L>Lo&s;t happyne&s;&s;e that man might re-enjoy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">But Sathan &s;troue by mi&s;|beliefe to de|barre man from &s;eeing this light. Iohn. 8.44. Gen. 4.</NOTE>The father of deceitt, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat ly|ar bold,</L>
<L>Now blinded Man in darkne&s;&s;e &s;triues to hold&punc;</L>
<L>And with his Owne prevailing did pervert,</L>
<L>And harden cur&s;ed <HI>Cains</HI> cruell heart,</L>
<L>And &s;uch as hee, his misbeliving &s;eede,</L>
<L>Gods faithfull word and promi&s;e to diffide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">God appointed &s;acrifices and oblations, as &s;pectacles to helpe mans dimme &s;ight to &s;ee Christ the Lambe &s;laine from the be|ginning of the world.</NOTE>To help Mans weakne&s;&s;e, GOD in offerings &s;hew</L>
<L><HI>His holy Lambe</HI> &s;et foorth to pub|licke viewe,</L>
<L>Him outward figures &s;hadowing beneath:</L>
<L>To manife&s;t the vertue of his death.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Devill of all their Types the trueths did hide:</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">But Sathan &s;troue to make Men</NOTE>Man made vpon the outward worke abide:</L>
<PB N="13" REF="15">
<L>To <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et all labor'd (whom his &s;ug|red hooke,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gaze on the &s;pectacles only and not looke through them to CHRIST.</NOTE></L>
<L>To &s;wallow over he cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d moue to looke,)</L>
<L>Beyond the &s;ignes to their ap|pointments end,</L>
<L>That &s;o for trueths men might on &s;hads depend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>GOD yet this my&s;terie to make more plaine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">After the flood God made it yet more mani+fe&s;t that his Sonne &s;hould be a man in|carnat by ap|paritions, and per&s;onall types.</NOTE></L>
<L>His Sonne for Mans redemption to bee &s;laine</L>
<L>More clearly in the fle&s;h to manife&s;t,</L>
<L>Good hopes to Man did giue, on which to re&s;t,</L>
<L>To<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Gen. 19. and. 32.24. Io&s;h. 5, <HI>13.</HI></NOTE> mortall eyes pre&s;enting now and than,</L>
<L>The <HI>Worlds Redeemer</HI> in the &s;hape of man.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now Sathan &s;eeing hee did moyen lacke,<NOTE PLACE="marg">But Sathan &s;troue to de|&s;troy this light by inuenti|on of images in <HI>Sems</HI> po|&s;teritie where the vi&s;ible kirk was.</NOTE></L>
<L>CHRISTS comming in mans Nature to keepe backe,</L>
<L>New &s;lights a&s;&s;ayde, and &s;o his purpo&s;e wrought,</L>
<L>That he, in <HI>Hebers</HI> hou&s;e, (<HI>Sems</HI> of&s;pring) brought</L>
<PB N="14" REF="16">
<L>Imagerie<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Compare Gen. <HI>31.30.</HI> with the 34 and 53. ver&s;es of that cap. nixt Io&s;h. <HI>24.2.</HI> and 14 15. la&s;t Ezek <HI>20.</HI> from the 5 to the 10, and cap 23.3.<HI>14.19.21.27.</HI></NOTE> of mettell, wood, and &s;tone,</L>
<L>Per&s;wading tho&s;e the &s;afe&s;t means alone</L>
<L>Gods knowledge both to haue and keepe acquird,</L>
<L>Mans ouerthrow thus craftily con&s;pird;</L>
<L>Wonne to giue way thus to in|ventions vaine,</L>
<L><HI>Abrahams</HI> &s;tocke idolatrie did &s;taine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Gen. <HI>12.</HI>4. GOD called foorth Abra|ham fro~ the &s;o+cietie of Image wor&s;hipers.</NOTE> this contagious crew which thus did fall,</L>
<L>The<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Rom. 4.<HI>11.</HI></NOTE> <HI>father of the faithfull</HI> GOD did call,</L>
<L>And (&s;eparat from their &s;ocietie,)</L>
<L>His Church did &s;tabli&s;h in his familie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 20.7.8. But Sathan &s;o farre preuai|led with the world by this be wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hing de|vice, that eve+rie age almo&s;t hee en&s;nared by imagerie the people of God, Abra|ha~s off&s;pring till the capti|uitie of baby+lon.</NOTE> Sathans arts by Egypts &s;oule infection,</L>
<L>Here yet en&s;ued anone a new defection,</L>
<L>Till ^e GOD brought foorth his people, did his law</L>
<L>By ^f his owne finger on two tables drawe,</L>
<PB N="15" REF="16">
<L>Mid&s;t flames promulgate; that no liuing &s;oule,</L>
<L>His will pre&s;ume &s;hould after to controule;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet ba&s;e imagerie, in &s;uch a &s;ort,</L>
<L>Corrupted mans conceat did &s;o tran&s;port,</L>
<L>That<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Iudg, 8, 33, ibid, 3, 7, and <HI>10.13,</HI> Deut, 32, 15, Ier, <HI>2, 13,</HI> &amp;c</NOTE> euerie age almo&s;t, afre&s;h they fell,</L>
<L>Though plagued for this &s;inne did thus rebell,</L>
<L>And on this fancie neuer cea&s;de to dotte,</L>
<L>Till GOD made even with their de&s;erts their lotte,</L>
<L>Them (after heauy &s;troakes of his di&s;daine,)</L>
<L>Delyuering to proud Tyrants to detaine</L>
<L>In fearefull bondage, &s;lauerie wor&s;e than death.</L>
<L>In<NOTE N="b," PLACE="marg"><HI>2,</HI> King, 24, 15, 2, Chron, 36, 17, Ester, 2, 6,</NOTE> Babell, mong&s;t idolaters to breath,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hence Iewes (wee reade) did neuer image make,</L>
<L>Loue, beare about, their God for &s;uch for&s;ake.</L>
<PB N="16" REF="17">
<L>But as they did of the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> heare,</L>
<L>Did to the ancient Prophecies giue eare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">When GOD had bani&s;hed images out of his Church, Sathan labo|red &s;till to make men mi&s;|conceiue the promi&s;ed Me&s;|&s;ias, &s;o to mar the true know|ledge of Him.</NOTE>Yet Sathans thoughts on evill ever fixd,</L>
<L>Not cea&s;&s;ing his intent to follow, mixd</L>
<L>With GODS pure Truth tradi|tions, not a few,</L>
<L>Which la&s;ted till our LORD did all make new;</L>
<L>And mong&s;t GODS people, and peculiar race,</L>
<L>For outward idols finding now no place,</L>
<L>Wholly his &s;light extending did neglect</L>
<L>No meanes, in minds an idole to erect:</L>
<L>Of Many, whom his &s;ubtiltie did make</L>
<L>GODS Oracles, the Prophecies mi&s;take,</L>
<L>To dreame that CHRIST &s;hould bee an earthly King,</L>
<L>To Earthlings earthly dignities to bring,</L>
<PB N="17" REF="17">
<L>Their Eyes<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Math. 13.15. I&s;a. 6.10.</NOTE> lockt vp, giuen ov'r to Vanitie&punc;</L>
<L>GODS true &s;pirituall meaning<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> Cor 4.3.4</NOTE> blynd to &s;ee,</L>
<L>That Saducees &s;ecure, who nought did care,</L>
<L>But things for pre&s;ent life, which v&s;efull were,</L>
<L>Soules Immortalitie, the generall doome,</L>
<L>The<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Acts.</HI> 23.<HI>8. Mat.</HI> 22.23.</NOTE> bodies ri&s;ing fables dur&s;t pre&s;ume</L>
<L>Of cheieffe accompt, of &s;peciall re&s;pect,</L>
<L>Became with men, tho Athei&s;ts in effect:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Act.</HI> 23.<HI>6.</HI>7.</NOTE> Super&s;titious Phary&s;ies, Prophane</L>
<L>And Godle&s;&s;e Saducees, (Religions &s;taine)</L>
<L>Did almo&s;t all the Iewi&s;h Church devide,</L>
<L>(The Blinde giuen ouer to the Blinde to guide,<NOTE PLACE="marg">At la&s;t Chri&s;t came him&s;elfe that all might gett the right knowledge of Him&s;elfe.</NOTE>)</L>
<L>Till GOD in end, Man pittying thus mi&s;led,</L>
<L>Sent in the fle&s;h his CHRIST the plea to redde,</L>
<PB N="18" REF="18">
<L>His mourning Saints to cheare the&s;e broils among,</L>
<L>Which did for <HI>I&s;raels</HI> con&s;ola|tion long.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus Man to GOD, Earth to conceale to Heaven,</L>
<L><HI>In</HI><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Eph. 1 10. Gal. 4.4.</NOTE> <HI>times full terme,</HI> by Him the SONNE was giuen.</L>
<L>Hee to the world, did to this onely end,</L>
<L>The <HI>expre&s;&s;e</HI><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Cal. 1.<HI>15.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Image</HI> of his Per|&s;on &s;end,</L>
<L>In whom the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Heb. 1.3.</NOTE> <HI>brightne&s;&s;e of His Glory</HI> &s;hind,</L>
<L>Immortall GOD in mortall &s;hape en&s;hrind,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">I&s;a <HI>9.</HI>6. Act. 20.28.</NOTE>True GOD<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Io.</HI> 1.14. <HI>Heb.</HI> 2, 14.</NOTE> true MAN,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1. Tim. <HI>25.</HI> Heb. 9.<HI>15.</HI></NOTE> a Media|tor meet</L>
<L>To GOD his Soueraine good, Man to vnite</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>Phil.</HI> 2.7.</NOTE> mans ba&s;e &s;hape, GOD thus made manife&s;t,</L>
<L>The<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg"><HI>Io.</HI> 1.14.</NOTE> Word made fle&s;h, to grace man repo&s;&s;e&s;t,</L>
<L>GODS wi&s;dome infinit, His<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> Io. 4.9.</NOTE> Loue &s;inceere,</L>
<L>Thus in the<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg"><HI>1</HI> Tim. 2.5.</NOTE> <HI>Man CHRIST IESVS</HI> did appeare,</L>
<PB N="19" REF="18">
<L>His Trueth vncomprehen&s;ible was than</L>
<L>In Him made &s;en&s;ible to &s;hallow man,</L>
<L>Who &s;aw in Him the Rays of Heavenly light,</L>
<L>The viue Character of His paterne bright,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which did not in His outward featurs &s;hine,</L>
<L>But in his doctrine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 1.<HI>3.</HI></NOTE> life and works divine:</L>
<L>Which did all eyes in admiration draw,</L>
<L>That <HI>who the Sonne, the Father</HI> al&s;o &s;aw.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. <HI>14,</HI> 9, But Sathan &s;troue that man &s;hould looke onely on his bodily &s;hap and not looke through the vaile to his godhead dwel|ing in the man Chri&s;t.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Gain&s;t this re&s;toring of GODS knowledge true,</L>
<L>Man to his GOD, in malice Sathan flew,</L>
<L>And boldly dares renew the aun|cient warre,</L>
<L>With envy &s;wolne this glorious worke to marre;</L>
<L>Hee &s;treight did &s;toppe Mans vn|attentiue eare,</L>
<L>That man &s;hould not His heavenly doctrine heare,</L>
<PB N="20" REF="19">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> Cor. 4.4. math. 13.55. Mark 6.3.</NOTE>With foggie mi&s;ts, with &s;innes thick clouds He blinds,</L>
<L>The mirror darke of world-di&s;|tracted minds,</L>
<L>That they no further than his out &s;ide pierce,</L>
<L>The glorious beames His God|head did di&s;per&s;e,</L>
<L>In all his actions dazling &s;o their &s;ight,</L>
<L>That with weake eyes they might no view this light;</L>
<L>But Him di&s;valuing, Them who dearely lov'd,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. <HI>10.</HI>38.</NOTE>Nor with His life, not works, nor wond<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs mov'd;</L>
<L>They onely pore vpon His out|ward frame,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Philip.</HI> 2.7.</NOTE>Who in a &s;eruants &s;hape mo&s;t meanly came,</L>
<L>Cladde with our Natures imper|fections fraile,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.3.</NOTE>Inwrapt (as &s;eemd) in &s;infull fle&s;hes vaile,</L>
<L>Whom viewing with the cloudie eyes of &s;en&s;e,</L>
<L>No wonder that the world con|ceiud offence,</L>
<PB N="21" REF="19">
<L>That Hee who came the world to &s;aue alone,</L>
<L>Thus to the world did proue a <HI>stumbling Stone.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 9.33. I&s;a. 8.14.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus did the <HI>Iews,</HI> thus <HI>Turks</HI> thus <HI>Heathens</HI> fall.</L>
<L>Thus <HI>Saracens,</HI> thus <HI>Machometans</HI> all,</L>
<L>Rejecting CHRIST cau&s;e mans ba&s;&s;e &s;hape He bare,</L>
<L>Ly taken in the craftie hunters &s;naire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But CHRIST who came, lo&s;t mankind to reclame,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t this humilitie &s;hould marre his ayme,</L>
<L>GOD in him&s;elfe invi&s;ible to &s;how,</L>
<L>And manife&s;t to Earthlings heere below,</L>
<L>That E&s;&s;ence Infinit, Omnipo|tent,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t Good, mo&s;t Glorious, mo&s;t Excellent,</L>
<L>Did wonderfully in His Heavenly bre&s;t.</L>
<L>(Tho never but in motion) ever re&s;t,</L>
<PB N="22" REF="20">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">To remed this error, Chri&s;t remoueth His bodily pre&s;ence &amp; cau&s;eth write His Na+tures Offices, wordes, workes, life, death, and all that &s;erued to &s;alvation.</NOTE>Hee, his Apo&s;tles, Me&s;&s;engers divine,</L>
<L>Pen-men, in whom pure Trueth vn&s;taind did &s;hine</L>
<L>In&s;pyrd, as Hee did by His Spreit endite,</L>
<L>His birth, lyfe, death and te&s;ta|ment to write,</L>
<L>So that (tho Athei&s;ts this wovne coate would rend,</L>
<L>GODS WORD by heavenly in&s;pira+tion pend,)</L>
<L>What The&s;e, what His Evangeli&s;ts record,</L>
<L>Sweet &s;traines, in &s;weete&s;t harmo|ny accord;</L>
<L>Which <HI>holy ditements</HI> as a mir|rour meete,</L>
<L>Ioynd with the Prophe&s;ies in Him compleet,</L>
<L>Might &s;erue His Glorious Image to pre&s;ent,</L>
<L>To &s;uch as &s;ought Him with a pure intent,</L>
<L>To make Him truely to &s;alvation knowne,</L>
<L>To all that loue Him, ev'n to all His owne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="23" REF="20">
<L>In The&s;e His Pen-men who&s;e skild penill drew,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Onely the out+ward &s;hape &amp; lineaments of His face and bodie, He will haue conceilld and not writ|ten in &s;criptur</NOTE></L>
<L>Not his adulterat, but his pour|trait true,</L>
<L>In mirror of the Scriptures He imprents</L>
<L>Vntouchd to leave His outward Lineaments,</L>
<L>His bodies frame, the featurs of his face,</L>
<L>To Him but common with fraile <HI>Adams</HI> race,</L>
<L>Giues charge his per&s;on, pro|perties to paint,</L>
<L>The world with His life, doctrine death acquaint,</L>
<L>His Natures offices, His wonders wrought,</L>
<L>His &s;uffrings, &s;ayings; not omitting ought</L>
<L>That to His prai&s;e, Mans profite might redound</L>
<L>In all whats needefull to Saluation found,</L>
<L>Which might our Faith confirme, our Loue inflame,</L>
<L>Or paterne proue to which our Life to frame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="24" REF="21">
<L>And this our LORD, did wi&s;elie: for the &s;ight,</L>
<L>Of mans ba&s;e &s;hape, in Him, but dim'd the light</L>
<L>Of GODS perfection, and did onely &s;how,</L>
<L>The fraile infirmities from fle&s;h that flow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The bodily &s;ight of the li|neaments of our Lord his face and bodie was a &s;tumb|ling block to many that &s;aw him: the rehear+&s;all whereof in Scripture hee thought not expedient.</NOTE>And what of The&s;e, could the re|cord haue wrought?</L>
<L>What good His bodies ju&s;t pro|portion brought,</L>
<L>Since, face to face injoyd, His li|ving &s;ight,</L>
<L>As heere he did pre&s;ent an earthly wight,</L>
<L>So little helpt the world in Him to view,</L>
<L>Of GOD Invi&s;ible The Image true?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At The&s;e the world did &s;tumble: The&s;e e&s;pyde</L>
<L>With natures twilight, millions made to &s;lide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e were the barke, through which (with plea&s;ing &s;trife,)</L>
<L>Illightned eyes did view the Tree of life:</L>
<PB N="25" REF="21">
<L>The&s;e were the Caske, which peirc'd, &s;weet balme did yeeld</L>
<L>That to an angrie GOD wretcht man conceild.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e were the vaile the God-heads beames did hide,</L>
<L>In Him did dwell and bodily abide,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Colo&s;&s;.</HI> 2.9.</NOTE></L>
<L>Which cloud to peirce, this Sunne which did withhold,</L>
<L>Did all behooue, who view His Godhead would.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e but the &s;uperfice, which cover did</L>
<L>The richer &s;ub&s;tance of the Trea|&s;ures hidde</L>
<L>Of knowledge deepe, of wi&s;e|dome mo&s;t profound,</L>
<L>Of vn&s;eene graces, which in Him were found.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;ts bodily &s;hape did not &s;how what a one Hee was, much le&s;se is the faind &s;haddow of that &s;hape, fit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to &s;how to vs what a one he either was on is.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus what of CHRIST was &s;et to outward &s;ight</L>
<L>(While &s;eene on Earth of Hea|ven to make vs right)</L>
<L>His bodies &s;hape, His lineaments of face,</L>
<L>The featurs choice, which Him did chieflie grace,</L>
<PB N="26" REF="22">
<L>Him to point foorth were equall in no &s;ort,</L>
<L>And what a one Hee was, to &s;how came &s;hort:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Againe, of what the Eye a-lyfe e&s;pyd, e,</L>
<L>A lifele&s;&s;e picture can no be denyed</L>
<L>Yet &s;hort to come: for Painters doe not ayme</L>
<L>The &s;oule of Him, who&s;e &s;hape the hand doth frame</L>
<L>To &s;et in &s;ight: They &s;triue a|lone to leaue</L>
<L>His Bodies figure, whom they paint or graue,</L>
<L>And that but for the pre&s;ent day or houre</L>
<L>They did the Paterne &s;ee, but having pow'r,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Scripture onely is a fitt mirror where|in we may gett a right &s;ight of Ie&s;us, and of what &s;oever is to bee knowne of him for con|fort and &s;al|vation.</NOTE>Time, wrinkled age &s;till ha&s;tning by degrees,</L>
<L>Their arte to mock, which mock mi&s;taken Eyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But the&s;e vine draughts who&s;e Heavenly lu&s;ter &s;hine,</L>
<L>By arte mo&s;t exqui&s;ite, in write divine</L>
<PB N="27" REF="22">
<L>Not &s;uperficially his &s;hape doe &s;how,</L>
<L>But &s;olidly make vs our Saviour know;</L>
<L>Not as our Image, but as GODS He bare,</L>
<L>In our fraile Nature, Man as men wee are;</L>
<L>Not in one Nature, but in both vnite,</L>
<L>God-man conjoynd, a Sauiour com+pleet,</L>
<L>Not in one act, one ca&s;e, or one e&s;tate,</L>
<L>But from his birth, even to His lifes la&s;t date,</L>
<L>From his de&s;cending to Earths lower parts,</L>
<L>The Virgins wombe, this mirror bright imparts</L>
<L>Him fully,<NOTE PLACE="marg">He mu&s;t there fore ver&s;e him &s;elfe in Scrip|ture who de|&s;ires to &s;ee Chri&s;t and not to be deluded with conceats of a fal&s;e <HI>CHRIST.</HI></NOTE> till He &s;uffering did a&s;cend,</L>
<L>At GODS right hand to raigne, world without end.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If CHRISTS true pourtrait truely then to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Thou long&s;t, the Scripture mu&s;t thy mirror bee,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="28" REF="23">
<L>The Spirit (heere) thy LORD, then yeeres more old,</L>
<L>What one He &s;hould bee, ere Hee came, foretold</L>
<L>And, ere humanitie did Him in|ve&s;t,</L>
<L>His purtrait wonderfully (heere) expre&s;t,</L>
<L>For vs not onely &s;erving on the &s;tage,</L>
<L>But all the Elect, &s;ince the worlds fir&s;t age.</L>
<L>The auncient Church did all in &s;ub&s;tance &s;ee,</L>
<L>Know, loue, beleeve, enjoy, of Him what wee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Heere, as the Spirit in this mir|ror cleare,</L>
<L>Him &s;ingled foorth, His &s;ight, by faith &s;inceere,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. 8.56.</NOTE>Did patriarchs all and Prophets &s;o enflame,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">In the old Te&s;t+ame~t you &s;hall &s;ee Christ de|&s;crbied as the Faithfull be|fore His come|ing &s;aw him.</NOTE>That in His day they joyd before Hee came.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Loe! heere the Iewi&s;h Church by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> Law</L>
<L>Conveend, His &s;uffrings in &s;ome mea&s;ure &s;aw,</L>
<PB N="29" REF="23">
<L>Him &s;laine for &s;inne, though dim|ly to their view</L>
<L>The torchlight of their Sacrifi|ces &s;hew:</L>
<L>On Him they weakly, yet with plea&s;ure deepe,</L>
<L>Through lattices of Typs, and figures, peepe,</L>
<L>And (as they may) behold, from this dark cloud,</L>
<L>The<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Mal. 4.2</NOTE> Sonne of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, Him&s;elfe vn&s;hrowd,</L>
<L>That<NOTE N="b." PLACE="marg">Ioh. <HI>1.</HI>29 Apocal. <HI>13.</HI>8</NOTE> Lambe of GOD, that taks away &s;innes &s;taine,</L>
<L>Ere world was made, who for the world was &s;laine,</L>
<L>Feeding on Him their &s;ouls, as wee, by faith</L>
<L>Thus to bee fred with vs, from endle&s;&s;e wrath;</L>
<L>Both<NOTE N="c." PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.3.</NOTE> by one cuppe, by one &s;pi|rituall foode</L>
<L>Refre&s;hd, both &s;av'd by vertue of His blood.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To &s;ee this ladder was to<NOTE N="d." PLACE="marg">Gen. 28.<HI>12.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Ia|cob</HI> given,</L>
<L>From Earths low centre, reach|ing highe&s;t Heaven,</L>
<PB N="30" REF="24">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 49.10.</NOTE>Till <HI>Shilo</HI> came who cleerly did impart,</L>
<L>The Scepter &s;hould from <HI>Iudah</HI> neuer part,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iob. 19.25.</NOTE><HI>Iob</HI> liu'd per&s;waded, while mo&s;t deeply grieu'd,</L>
<L>That for his &s;afetie his <HI>Redeemer</HI> liu'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 9.6.</NOTE>This Prince of peace, this coun|&s;eller mo&s;t wi&s;e,</L>
<L>The Father euerla&s;ting, Ble&s;&s;ed thri&s;e,</L>
<L>A Child of wounder, euen the GOD of might,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke <HI>2.</HI>32.</NOTE>I&s;raels Glorie, and the Gentiles light,</L>
<L><HI>E&s;ay</HI> foretold (a<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Zach. 3.8. I&s;a. 11.<HI>1.</HI></NOTE> branch of peere|le&s;&s;e worth,)</L>
<L>From <HI>Ie&s;&s;es</HI> &s;temme, &s;hall in the Fle&s;h &s;prout forth,</L>
<L>A King on whom the gouerne|ment &s;hall &s;tay,</L>
<L>Of all the world who &s;hall the Scepter &s;wey,</L>
<L>A pow'rfull Prophet, by the LORD anointed,</L>
<L>Good tydinges to the meeke to preach appointed,</L>
<PB N="31" REF="24">
<L>Who &s;hall bind vp, not breake the brui&s;ed reed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid. 42.3. See the 53 cap. which is full of cleare Pro|phe&s;ies of CHRIST.</NOTE></L>
<L>The weakely &s;moaking flaxe not quenche, but feed,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>I&s;ra'ls Sweete &s;inger</HI> did his &s;traines accord,</L>
<L>All to &s;et forth the Glorie of this LORD,</L>
<L>Whom Hee a <HI>Priest</HI> for euer doth detect,<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 110.4.</NOTE></L>
<L>After the order of <HI>Melchi&s;e|decke,</HI></L>
<L>Him doth point forth,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 22 7.</NOTE> now as expos'd to &s;corne,</L>
<L>His hands,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. <HI>22.</HI>16.</NOTE> and feet mo&s;t pitifully torne,</L>
<L>By lot his ve&s;tures parted,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid. 18.</NOTE> in his neede</L>
<L>Made vinegar to drinke, on gall to feede,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 69.21.</NOTE></L>
<L>Con&s;traind to crye, with &s;en&s;e of horror &s;haken,</L>
<L><HI>My GOD, My GOD, why ha&s;t thou Mee for&s;aken?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. <HI>22.</HI>1.</NOTE></L>
<L>Now as victoriou&s;ly on high a&s;cending,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 68.18.</NOTE></L>
<L>Him twentie thou&s;and thou&s;and Angels tending,</L>
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<L>A captiue making of captivitie,</L>
<L>To His proclaiming peace, and libertie,</L>
<L>The &s;welling pride of proude in|&s;ulters laid,</L>
<L>His<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2.</NOTE> foes cru&s;ht downe, His<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 110. Ier, <HI>23.</HI>5.</NOTE> foot-&s;toole being made.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of this Eternall, ever budding <HI>Braunche</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1. Chr.</HI> 11.17.</NOTE>To be rai&s;d vp to <HI>David</HI> (who to quench,</L>
<L>His burning thir&s;t with <HI>Bethlems</HI> &s;treams did long)</L>
<L>The Spirit &s;poke by <HI>Ieremias</HI> tonge,</L>
<L>Him &s;etting forth a King, who&s;e pro&s;perous raigne</L>
<L>Iu&s;tice and judgement &s;hould on Earth maintaine,</L>
<L>Who <HI>Iudath</HI> &s;ave, who <HI>I&s;rael</HI> &s;hould reclame,</L>
<L><HI>The Lord our Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI> de|&s;ignd by name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In &s;hort, no age did revelatioun lacke,</L>
<L>CHRIST the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> manife&s;t to make</L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L>From time to time, who by de|grees of light,</L>
<L>By Types or Prophecies was &s;et in &s;ight,</L>
<L>Till from the Arke, the outward covering drawne.</L>
<L>This glorious Day-&s;tarre in the fle&s;h did dawne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Looke yet a little in this mir|ror rare</L>
<L>Predictions with accompli&s;h|ments compare,<NOTE PLACE="marg">In the new Te&s;tament you &s;hall &s;ee more clearely Christ revealed, than the Prophets &s;awe Him vn|der the Law.</NOTE></L>
<L>With wonder ravi&s;ht, heere thou &s;halt behold,</L>
<L>All done, what ear&s;t was to bee done, foretold,</L>
<L>Of Typs, the clowdie My&s;teries explaind</L>
<L>Shadows &s;eque&s;tred, reall Truths attaind,</L>
<L>The legall rites, the ceremoniall lawe</L>
<L>By Him aboli&s;ht, who the vaile did draw</L>
<L>Of CHRIST affording a more liuely &s;ight,</L>
<L>A clearer knowledge, and a nea|rer light,</L>
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<L>So that the tendere&s;t &s;ight, the weake&s;t eye,</L>
<L>Him now vnmasked in this gla&s;&s;e may &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For now the Spirit (<HI>Mo&s;es</HI> face vnvaild,)</L>
<L>A<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke.</HI> 2.7.</NOTE> <HI>Babe</HI> pre&s;ents Him,<NOTE N="b." PLACE="marg">1. Cor 15.54</NOTE> death and hell who quaild,</L>
<L>The<NOTE N="c." PLACE="marg">Dan. 7.9.</NOTE> <HI>Ancient of dayes</HI> a &s;uck|ling weake,</L>
<L>Who<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Rom. 1.3.</NOTE> from His daughters bowells birth did take,</L>
<L>An Infant,<NOTE N="e." PLACE="marg">Iohn. <HI>1.</HI>1.</NOTE> coeternall with his Sire,</L>
<L>Who&s;e<NOTE N="f." PLACE="marg"><HI>1. Pet.</HI> 1.12.</NOTE> Incarnation Angels did admire,</L>
<L>Prizd by the fooli&s;h with con|tempt and &s;corne,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e a weakling of a weakling borne,</L>
<L>In humble &s;tate, layd in an homelie &s;tall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke. <HI>2.</HI>7.</NOTE></L>
<L>To narow bounds confind, who boundeth all,</L>
<L>The comfort crauing of Her Vir|gine bre&s;t</L>
<L>Who gaue Him birth (his wants by cryes expre&s;t)</L>
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<L>Borne and expo&s;d at once to Ty|rants &s;pight,</L>
<L>Con&s;traind His lyfe to &s;aue by &s;ecret flight,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 2.<HI>14. Mat.</HI> 2.16.</NOTE></L>
<L>The &s;tormie flood of bloodie <HI>Herods</HI> rage</L>
<L>Let loo&s;e on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the equals of his age,</L>
<L>Who to a&s;&s;ure Him&s;elfe of Him alone,</L>
<L>Cruell to all, prou'd pitifull to none.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Heere &s;halt thou &s;ee Him even while thus de&s;pi&s;d,</L>
<L>By Princes of the Ea&s;t, a <HI>Saviour</HI> prizd,</L>
<L>His God-head who no &s;ooner doe behold,</L>
<L>But offering gifts of Incen&s;e, Myrrhe, and gold,</L>
<L>Fall downe, adore,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. <HI>2.11.</HI> Pictures can not de&s;cribe that which the &s;criptures &s;peake of Chri&s;t his in|fancie.</NOTE> and to their LORD approue,</L>
<L>Their faith, their hope, their loy|altie and loue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since co&s;tlie&s;t Crucifixes, Picturs none,</L>
<L>Since crafts mans skill on mettall wood, nor &s;tone,</L>
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<L>This can &s;o liuely to the Eye pre&s;ent,</L>
<L>As doth His written Word and Te&s;tament,</L>
<L>Why fondly then prefer phan|ta&s;tick men</L>
<L>The Gravers toole to the <HI>Apo|stles</HI> penne?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke <HI>2.</HI>46.</NOTE>Hold on, thine eye fixe on His Youths &s;weet &s;pring,</L>
<L>Which doth faire buds of Pie|tie forth bring,</L>
<L>Inciting tymou&s;lie our tender yeeres,</L>
<L>To true devotion (&s;ince no act appeares,</L>
<L>In which he provd to vs a Pre|&s;ident,</L>
<L>The which was not for our in|&s;truction ment)</L>
<L>Heere thou &s;halt find Him in the Temple &s;ett,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke.</HI> 2.46.47</NOTE></L>
<L>And Heavenly knowledge from His child-hood gett,</L>
<L>I&s;raels doctours hearing Him de|mand,</L>
<L>Who at His doctrine all a&s;to|ni&s;hd &s;tand,</L>
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<L>Ravi&s;ht to &s;ee, yeeres &s;o vnripe, admitt</L>
<L>Such full perfection of a hoarie witt.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now, the Spirit doth in|vite thine eye</L>
<L>Thy Saviour drencht in <HI>Iordans</HI> &s;treams to &s;ee:</L>
<L>Loe,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Luke. 2.21.</NOTE> Hee who formerly was cir|cumci&s;'d,</L>
<L>By His great<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Math. 3.13 Mark. <HI>1.</HI>8.</NOTE> Harbinger mu&s;t be baptiz'd:</L>
<L>Thus &s;anctifying by tho&s;e <HI>&s;eales</HI> divine,</L>
<L>The auncient Church, the Church that was to &s;hine:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e actions His pure bodie mu&s;t endure,</L>
<L>Which &s;hould haue force to clen&s;e our &s;oules impure;</L>
<L>Tho Him,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Col. <HI>2.</HI>9.</NOTE> in whom (vn&s;eene) the Godhead raignd,</L>
<L>Nor<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Heb. 4.15</NOTE> filth, nor fore-skinne of cor|ruption &s;taind,</L>
<L>So that, except for vs, the LORD of life,</L>
<L>Did need, nor &s;treams, nor cir|cumci&s;ing knife:</L>
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<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">2, <HI>Cor,</HI> 5, 21,</NOTE>Yet &s;inne for vs him&s;elfe hee made, that wee,</L>
<L>In Him, the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of GOD might bee,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, 4, Mark, 2, <HI>12,</HI> Luk, 4, <HI>1,</HI></NOTE>Hence by the <HI>Spirit</HI> led, hold on thy pace,</L>
<L>Thy SAVIOVRS foot&s;teps to the de&s;erts trace,</L>
<L>There &s;halt thou view in &s;ingle combat foyld,</L>
<L>By proper armes, troad vnder foote and &s;poyld,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1,</HI> Pet, 5, 8, Apoc, 20.<HI>2,</HI></NOTE>That pow'rfull Aduer&s;are, the dragon old,</L>
<L>Who to a&s;&s;aile the SONNE of GOD was bold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fullne&s;&s;e of grace when thou in him do&s;t &s;ee</L>
<L>Truth, mercie, pittie, loue, humi|litie,</L>
<L>All wi&s;dome, meekne&s;&s;e, patience, prudence, peace,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Nothing can expre&s;&s;e Chri&s;t his growing age &amp; variety of vertues ex|cept the holie Scripture.</NOTE>Which in perfection but in him found place,</L>
<L>No wonder then this Mirror thee amaze,</L>
<L>Since in no corner Thou heereof can&s;t gaze</L>
<PB N="39" REF="28">
<L>Which doth no liuely &s;et before thy &s;ight</L>
<L>A lanterne to thy lyfe, the LORD of light.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Deluded &s;oule, the&s;e who for|&s;ak'&s;t to view,</L>
<L>Of <HI>living waters</HI> in the fountaine true</L>
<L>The Scripture, digging to thy &s;elfe in vaine</L>
<L>Such ci&s;ternes as no water can containe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 2.<HI>13.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>What can the Pencils mo&s;t indu|&s;trious art,</L>
<L>By pictures dumbe to Thee of the&s;e impart?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But you (poore &s;oules) beare not alone the blame,</L>
<L>In others chiefly lyes the fault, the &s;hame,</L>
<L>Dumbe Doctors cea&s;&s;ing when for ea&s;e to preach,</L>
<L>Or would not, or els could no peo|ple teach,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t men by v&s;e &s;hould loath, at length de&s;pi&s;e.</L>
<L>Their often-mumbled matins, did devi&s;e,</L>
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<L>Guy&s;es to gaze on, &s;howes mens &s;oules to feed,</L>
<L>An vncouth language for their dayly bread;</L>
<L>To charme the Eare did mixe a &s;weete concent</L>
<L>Of Melodie, by voice, by in&s;tru|ment,</L>
<L>With choi&s;e divi&s;ions of an hun|dreth kinds,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">If picturs did decipher the corruption of the doctrine and life of Church-men als clearelie as the Scrip|tures do, they &s;hould bee in le&s;&s;e reque&s;t among the Roman Cler|gie.</NOTE>About to moue, and melt the harde&s;t minds:</L>
<L>Books turnd in blocks, blind do|tards to delyte;</L>
<L>The&s;e, they were &s;ure, would neither bark nor bite,</L>
<L>For did they teach the Trueth, their faults expo&s;e,</L>
<L>As Scripturs, which their lewd|ne&s;&s;e doe di&s;clo&s;e,</L>
<L>They &s;urelie &s;hould &s;uch inter|tainment lake,</L>
<L>And (thru&s;t to doores) the Scrip|turs bonds partake,</L>
<L>Which ly in fetters of an vn|couth leid,</L>
<L>Keept vp from &s;illie &s;oules, which faine would read,</L>
<PB N="41" REF="32">
<L>Cla&s;pt by authoritie, that on this booke</L>
<L>Saue privileged per&s;ons none may looke,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e in this engrav'd, <HI>Christs</HI> portrait true</L>
<L>Is by the Spirit &s;et to publike view,</L>
<L>Plainely proclaiming, what doth them di&s;plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Crying a WOE to Scribes and Phari&s;ees</L>
<L>Faind Church-men,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Called blind guids. Mat. 23.6. Luke 11 52. Mat. 23.13. Mat. 23.<HI>2.</HI> Ibid. 4. &amp;c. Luke. 11.46</NOTE> who pretend the faint to feed,</L>
<L>By lanterne of GODS Word, weake &s;oules to lead,</L>
<L>Of knowledge key, them mean|tyme doe debarre,</L>
<L>So both their owne, and others entrie marre.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who &s;et in <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> chaire, doe over-charge</L>
<L>With grievous burdens, impo&s;i|tions large</L>
<L>The Peoples backs, denying ev'n the aide,</L>
<L>That by their little finger may be made.</L>
<PB N="42" REF="33">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke, 11.42.</NOTE>In lifele&s;&s;e ceremonies mo&s;t pre|ci&s;e</L>
<L>To &s;eeme who &s;tudie, to ob&s;eruing eyes,</L>
<L>Yet &s;oules committed to their cure neglect,</L>
<L>And truth and mercie hold in &s;mall re&s;pect.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who cloaking by Religious pretence</L>
<L>The gro&s;&s;e&s;t &s;inne, the grievou&s;|e&s;t offence,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 23.14. Mark. 12.40. Luke. 20.47.</NOTE>Devouring widowes hou&s;es, doe betray</L>
<L>The innocent, poore Orphans make their prey.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 23.27.</NOTE>Like painted Tombs who clen&s;e the vtter &s;ide,</L>
<L>Where nought within but rotten bon's abide,</L>
<L>To &s;ati&s;fie GODS Iu&s;tice daring &s;tand,</L>
<L>For works of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of Mens owne hand,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid. 28.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To doe who care no, much de|light to prat,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. <HI>23.</HI>3. Ibid. <HI>24.</HI> Ibid 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>Hudge Camels &s;wallow &s;training at a gnat,</L>
<PB N="43" REF="33">
<L>A Pro&s;elite to make who &s;pare no paine,</L>
<L>Whom, with them&s;elues they adde to Sathans traine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whom &s;o Ambition blinds, &s;o pride tran&s;ports,</L>
<L>That life and beeing them no more imports,</L>
<L>Then tumide Titles, Greetings,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Marke, 20.38 Luke, <HI>11.</HI>43.</NOTE> caps and knees,</L>
<L>Prioritie of place of all degrees,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Harke how in all &s;orts Chri&s;t doth Sinne rebuke,</L>
<L>In The&s;e but chieflie, &s;et to ouer|looke,</L>
<L>His flockes, <HI>lights</HI> in the chayre of truth to &s;hine,</L>
<L>Call'd to di&s;pen&s;e his my&s;teries divine,</L>
<L>O with what care their &s;acred charge to tend,</L>
<L>Doth hee vnto his <HI>watch-men</HI> recommend,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke, 22.24.</NOTE></L>
<L>Warning lea&s;t they &s;hould by ambition &s;lyde,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 20.25.</NOTE></L>
<L>By wordlie grandour, &s;tateline&s;&s;e or pride,</L>
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<L>LORDLY dominion, Raines of Sov'raignetie,</L>
<L>Prohibiting by them v&s;urp't &s;hould bee.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 15.23 Mark. 7.7.89</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Him thou may&s;t heare e&s;tabli|&s;hing His word,</L>
<L>A rule from which vnlawfull to to debord,</L>
<L>In matter of Religion, wor&s;hip true</L>
<L>Of GOD in doctrine to Salvati|on due;</L>
<L>Traditions all rejecting, to this &s;quare</L>
<L>(How old &s;oever) which repug|nant are.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Lo! now He comes in flames of &s;irie zeale;<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69.<HI>1</HI> 9. Mat. 21.12. I&s;a. 2.13.14.</NOTE></L>
<L>Flie, flie, O yee, who of His hou&s;e make &s;ale,</L>
<L>Ba&s;e <HI>Simonists</HI> beware, the LORD of LORDS</L>
<L>Ha&s;ts with a whip, a la&s;hing &s;courge of Cords,</L>
<L>All mercenarie mi&s;ers to ex|pell</L>
<L><HI>Buyers</HI> and <HI>&s;ellers</HI> from His hou&s;e, to Hell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="45" REF="34">
<L>With frequent warnings (now) He armes His owne,</L>
<L>By future errors lea&s;t they bee o'rethrowne.</L>
<L>Of Hypocrits doth (now) vn|maske the face,</L>
<L>How ere their out&s;ids &s;hine with &s;howes of grace,</L>
<L>Cow&s;ning the world with a pre|tence of goode,</L>
<L>(Their fruits neere comming fur|ther than the bud,)</L>
<L>Who, tho they Vice can deck in Vertues dye,</L>
<L>Yet &s;ile they can not His all|&s;eeing Eye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Such doctrins as be the&s;e, not motiues lea&s;t</L>
<L>Haue beene, to bring dumb I|dols in reque&s;t,</L>
<L>CHRISTS &s;peaking purtrait &s;uch haue put to peace,</L>
<L>(This &s;tocks and &s;tones admitted to outface,)</L>
<L>But hearken thou, to his &s;weet voice giue eare,</L>
<L>From His owne mouth, thou by the Sprit &s;halt heare</L>
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<L>The word of Trueth, Him pow|ring foorth &s;weet &s;treams</L>
<L>Of <HI>living waters,</HI> to the &s;oule that cleams</L>
<L>Refre&s;hment, feeling want, in feare to &s;terue,</L>
<L>Such (heere) &s;hall find, what may to &s;aue them &s;erve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O! view Him<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Math.</HI> 14.25.</NOTE> walking on the raging waues,</L>
<L>The<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 8.26.</NOTE> winds rebuking, &s;innes po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed &s;laues</L>
<L>From<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mark. 5.9.</NOTE> Legions of foule Spirits &s;etting free,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 9.25.</NOTE>The dead recalling to mortalitie:</L>
<L>Yea;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ihon. 5.21.25.</NOTE> rai&s;ing vp thy &s;elfe from &s;innes dark cave,</L>
<L>A<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. 11.44.</NOTE> Lazare, &s;tinking in corrupti|ons grave</L>
<L>To &s;ee the danger, the de&s;erved wrath</L>
<L>The guilt, thy trembling &s;oule lyes drencht beneath,</L>
<L>By which if humbled, Hee &s;hall comfort &s;peake,</L>
<L>Thy wounds bind vp, vnloade thy con&s;cience weake,</L>
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<L>Invite thee with thy burden to draw neere,</L>
<L>Offring for thee the <HI>Fathers</HI> wrath to beare;</L>
<L>Whom, that thou may'&s;t from filth of &s;inne bee purg'd,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt behold arraign't, condemned, &s;courg'd,</L>
<L>Sighing and groaning,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Onely the &s;crip+tures expre&s;&s;e CHRIST his miracles and pas&s;ion.</NOTE> with thy burden pre&s;t,</L>
<L>Expo&s;'d to paines which can not be expre&s;t,</L>
<L>Weeping, and bleeding, &s;uffering death for thee.</L>
<L>O Love! O Pittie, in a &s;trange degree!</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now in this combat entring Him behold</L>
<L>Of his &s;ad <HI>pa&s;&s;ion,</HI> tryed as pure&s;t gold</L>
<L>By fire di&s;&s;olv'd, in which no dro&s;&s;e is found,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 26.37.</NOTE></L>
<L>Deeplie afflicted, pro&s;trat on the ground,</L>
<L>The Garden watering with a Crim&s;on flood,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke.</HI> 22.44.</NOTE></L>
<L>From all his pores di&s;tilling &s;treams of blood,</L>
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<L>His Gloryes beames ob&s;curd, His Might allayed,</L>
<L>His Courage &s;eeming quaild, His Strength decayed;</L>
<L>Cru&s;ht downe with weight of GODS incumbing wrath,</L>
<L>His<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 26.38.</NOTE> guiltle&s;&s;e &s;oule made hea|vy to the death,</L>
<L>Thy Crimes the cau&s;e, thy &s;innes inunding &s;peate,</L>
<L>The meanes from Him which drew this bloudie &s;weate,</L>
<L>Whom (notwith&s;tanding) Hee did (&s;o) e&s;teeme,</L>
<L>That all His &s;uffrings did mo&s;t plea&s;ant &s;eeme</L>
<L>Thee, wretched wormeing, to redeeme from death.</L>
<L>Perditions heyre, &s;innes &s;laue, the child of wrath;</L>
<L>To thee, the Fathers favour to acquire,</L>
<L>Not &s;hrinking to drinke off the dregs of ire.</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Popi&s;h crucifixe doth but mocke &amp; not expre&s;&s;e the &s;ufferings of Chri&s;t.</NOTE>The&s;e bee the &s;uffrings, counter|fits which &s;corne,</L>
<L>Which lyfeleffe draughts deface, but not adorne.</L>
<PB N="49" REF="36">
<L>The&s;e be the &s;uffrings, which per|plexed &s;oules</L>
<L>Mo&s;t &s;en&s;ibly conceiue, &s;unk deep in &s;crouls</L>
<L>Of tender bleeding hearts, The only way,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t liuelie felt which make his Torments may;</L>
<L>Who (heere) the dolors of his death engro&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Be&s;t feele the fruicts and comforts of his cro&s;&s;e</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O wounderfull re&s;pect! O loue vnheard!</L>
<L>O deare affection matcht with mi&s;regard!</L>
<L>Loe, Hee who bought Man at &s;o deare a rate,</L>
<L>By Man is &s;old,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 26, 14, 15. Mark, <HI>14,</HI> 10. Luk. 22.3.</NOTE> betrayd by Man vngrate,</L>
<L>The traitors mouth, which flowd with fraud, with hate,</L>
<L>His lips dare touch where found was<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">I&s;a, 53, 9, <HI>1.</HI> Pet. <HI>2, 21,</HI> Mat. 26, 50.</NOTE> no deceit:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 22, 47,</NOTE></L>
<L>Friend whether com&s;t thou? (Chri&s;t his friend yet is:)</L>
<L><HI>The SONE of MAN</HI> betray&s;t thou with a ki&s;&s;e?</L>
<PB N="50" REF="37">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn.</HI> 18.6,</NOTE>Hee who tho&s;e armed bands did ca&s;t to ground,</L>
<L>Them, with his breath, all able to confound,</L>
<L>With this &s;oft &s;peech, this grati|ous checke alone,</L>
<L>Doth wound, not wonne, the tray|tors heart of &s;tone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 26.52.</NOTE>See how Hee doth <HI>His</HI> forward|ne&s;&s;e repre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Who prea&s;d, by arms, this offred wrong redree&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And healing in&s;tantlie the harme receav'd,</L>
<L>Yet did not mea&s;e the cau&s;ele&s;&s;e &s;pight, conceau'd</L>
<L>In hardned hearts &s;o farre from grace, from loue,</L>
<L>That miracle, nor &s;avour them can move.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O &s;ee Him in a mo&s;t opprobrious forme</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 26.56. Ibid, 27.2.</NOTE>Led hence, tran&s;ported with this raging &s;torme,</L>
<L>Left by His owne, yeelding His conqur'ing hands,</L>
<L>Thee to &s;et free, to ignominious bands,</L>
<PB N="51" REF="37">
<L>With lamps with lanterns led,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 26.47. Iohn. 18.<HI>3.</HI></NOTE> they apprehend</L>
<L>The Sonne of <HI>truth,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ihon. 18.37.</NOTE> incarnate to this end,</L>
<L>That glorious <HI>Beame</HI> of vncreated light,</L>
<L>By fle&s;h and bloode invaild, hid from their &s;ight,</L>
<L>Thus all foretold gain&s;t actors of this <HI>Ill,</HI></L>
<L>Again&s;t them&s;elves do perfitly fullfill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O Earth! O a&s;hes who thy &s;elfe turmoyl&s;t,</L>
<L>And with vindictiue flams of furie boyl&s;t,</L>
<L>Tormenting others, dar&s;t revenge, avouch,</L>
<L>Vpon thy reputations &s;lendre&s;t touch,</L>
<L>See, with what patience, with what &s;ilence deepe,</L>
<L>While <HI>Iews</HI> di&s;grace vpon di&s;grace doe heape,</L>
<L>Thy Sauiour,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 50.6. Mat. 26.67.</NOTE> to the <HI>Smiters</HI> giues his backe,</L>
<L>Doth from the <HI>Nippers</HI> not his cheeks keepe backe</L>
<PB N="52" REF="38">
<L>To &s;hame, to &s;pitting, doth ex|po&s;e his face,</L>
<L>The path not only pointing thou &s;hould&s;t trace,</L>
<L>But treading euerie &s;teppe, hath taught the way,</L>
<L>From which t'is &s;hame, yea dan|gerous to &s;tray.</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 53.7. Act. 8.32 If 10000. pi|ctures were forged, they &s;huld all come &s;hort in &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">wing that which the new Te&s;tament de|clares of Chri&s;t cruci|fied, yet Chri&s;ts Te&s;tament is in &s;mall e&s;tem with many in compari&s;on of a fond &amp; fals picture. The B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">BLE &s;ets not &s;o well as the crucifixe doth, where poperie pre|vailes.</NOTE>Loe in this hight of &s;corne, depth of di&s;grace,</L>
<L>With cheare vnchang'de he dares his foes outface,</L>
<L>Yet from his lips not one intem|perat word,</L>
<L>His mercile&s;&s;e tormenters doth remord.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>CHRISTS <HI>Te&s;tament</HI> which the&s;e and all contains,</L>
<L>That Hee did &s;uffer, &s;hame or outward paines,</L>
<L>Needfull for Thee to know, in one &s;mall <HI>Booke</HI></L>
<L>Is found, on this in &s;teade of pictures looke:</L>
<L>This beare, this weare, this re|verentlie reade,</L>
<L>When read, at lea&s;t attentiuelie take heede,</L>
<PB N="53" REF="38">
<L>This doth make known the Will, the legacie,</L>
<L>Which thy deare LORD a-dying left to thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With this <HI>love-token</HI> Hee re|membred hath,</L>
<L>Each loue-&s;icke &s;oule to Him be|troathd by fayth,</L>
<L>His loue thus &s;howne, to kindle loue againe,</L>
<L>That mutually love wee might intertaine;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>Christ</HI> thy loue be then what hee hath left</L>
<L>Nor let by wrong nor violence bee re&s;t,</L>
<L>But &s;triue to know what written for thy well,</L>
<L>With's owne deare blood thy louing LORD did &s;eale.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>See our true <HI>Sam&s;on</HI> yeelding now at length,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iudg. 16.<HI>16.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Spoild of the hayres of his vnmat|ched &s;trength,</L>
<L>A bloodie butchrie &s;uffering for thy &s;ake,</L>
<L>Stript naked, torne with whips, faint, pale and weake,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. <HI>27.</HI>28,</NOTE></L>
<PB N="54" REF="39">
<L>The Souldiours mocking His en|feebled might,</L>
<L>Combining, in His torment, &s;port with &s;pight,</L>
<L>His offices all branding with reproch,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luk.</HI> 25.32.37</NOTE>With bla&s;phemie Him charging, they encroch</L>
<L>Vpon his Prie&s;t-hood with a bitter blow,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke.</HI> 22.64.</NOTE>Now &s;iling vp his eyes, Hee &s;treight mu&s;t &s;how</L>
<L>Who him did mo&s;t with cau&s;le&s;&s;e &s;trips infe&s;t,</L>
<L>As Prophet this by him mu&s;t bee expre&s;t:</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 27.29.</NOTE>Then, cloathd in purple, crownd with pricking thorne,</L>
<L>As king, is made The object of their &s;corne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But ah! behold He comes: O heavie &s;ight,</L>
<L>Bright <HI>Eye</HI> of <HI>Heaven,</HI> O now &s;hut vp thy light;</L>
<L>Salt fountains all of tears be now enlarg't,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 22.6.</NOTE>Weake <HI>I&s;aaks</HI> tender &s;houlders (loe) are charg't,</L>
<PB N="55" REF="39">
<L>With wood, Him&s;elfe to &s;acrifice prepar'd;</L>
<L>Lo: neither is from &s;hame Thy Saviour &s;par'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn.</HI> 19.17.</NOTE></L>
<L>From pre&s;&s;ing loade of that di&s;|gracefull Tree,</L>
<L>The means appointed of his death to bee;</L>
<L>See, faintlie &s;taggring, how Hee grones beneath</L>
<L>The pondrous weight of GODS incumbent wrath.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O &s;ee the bloodie banner now di&s;play'd.</L>
<L>The SONNE of GOD by Souldiours di&s;arayed,</L>
<L>Cladde only with our &s;innes, In Garments red,</L>
<L>The vine-pre&s;&s;e of the Fathers Ire doth treade,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Efar.</HI> 63.<HI>2.</HI>3.</NOTE></L>
<L>Fixt to the cro&s;&s;e, his hands, his feete tran&s;pierced,</L>
<L>Expo&s;d to paine, to horrors vnrehear&s;ed,</L>
<L>His gratious armes foorth &s;treat|ching all the day,</L>
<L>To rebells walking in an evill way,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rome.</HI> 10.21. <HI>E&s;.</HI> 65.2,</NOTE></L>
<PB N="56" REF="40">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Phil.</HI> 2.6.</NOTE>Who (GOD not robde) equalitie did plead,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. <HI>21.23.</HI> Gal. 3.13,</NOTE>With robbers matcht, for thee a <HI>cur&s;e</HI> is made,</L>
<L>And even to death, endures vpon the Cro&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>In &s;oule, in bodie, pains of &s;en&s;e, of lo&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 27.46</NOTE>Heavens &s;uted to their Makers mournefull &s;tate,</L>
<L>Mask't vp with clouds, in their owne kinde regrait,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid. 51.</NOTE>Loe, Earth doth tremble, flintie Rocks doe rend,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">52. ibid. 51</NOTE>Graves backe to light their &s;leep|ing gue&s;ts doe &s;end,</L>
<L>And loe, while ev'n his lifes la&s;t &s;punke is &s;pent,</L>
<L>The Temples vaile is to the bot|tome rent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>See, now through tears, how He him&s;elfe pre&s;ents,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Col.</HI> 2.14.</NOTE>Nailling vnto his Cro&s;&s;e Thy obli&s;hments,</L>
<L>Cancelling tho&s;e Inditements which did tye</L>
<L>GODS wrath in iu&s;tice Thee to vnderly,</L>
<PB N="57" REF="40">
<L>Re&s;oluing more by &s;inning,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 6.6.</NOTE> to ab&s;taine</L>
<L>To crucifie The LORD of life againe;</L>
<L>On his owne death,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 3.23.</NOTE> who freelie of his grace,</L>
<L>Did ground thy life and euerla&s;ting peace.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>THIS,<NOTE PLACE="marg">In &s;hort their is nothing thou need&s;t to know of Chri&s;t but all is in His testament</NOTE> and what more to &s;earch for, thou a&s;pires,</L>
<L>What faith can wi&s;h or what thy &s;oule de&s;ires,</L>
<L>The <HI>Spirit</HI> in this mirrour &s;hall di&s;clo&s;e,</L>
<L>And to thy &s;ight of Him as much expo&s;e,</L>
<L>As may thy &s;oule heereafter &s;erue to &s;aue,</L>
<L>And guide thee (heere) with comfort to the graue,</L>
<L>Except His inward vertues thou neglect,</L>
<L>And but his out&s;ide carnally affect.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>This,</HI> GOD hath thought vn|nece&s;&s;are to &s;how,</L>
<L><HI>This</HI> farre vnnece&s;&s;are for thee to know,</L>
<PB N="58" REF="41">
<L>Sufficient that, which The&s;e who knew Him be&s;t,</L>
<L>And be&s;t did know to make him knowne, expre&s;t</L>
<L>Haue left, enregi&s;tred in holy write,</L>
<L>Which They did penne, GODS Spirite did endite.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus hath the Lord his will mo&s;t clearelie &s;howne,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke. 16.29. The&s;e who &s;aw Christ with their bodilie eyes knew him not to be that Chri&s;t till hee opned their eyes to behold him in the &s;criptures</NOTE>By other means refu&s;ing to bee knowne</L>
<L>Then by his word alone, where faiths bright eye,</L>
<L>His hidden graces may mo&s;t liue|lie &s;ee,</L>
<L>So that (except this way) no knowledge true,</L>
<L>Accre&s;t of Him, vnto the outward viewe</L>
<L>Of The&s;e, admitted in his humane &s;tate,</L>
<L>To touch Him, ev'n with Him to drinke, to eate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>THIS being then the cour&s;e by God pre&s;criv'd</L>
<L>To Man, of other means of grace depriv'd,</L>
<PB N="59" REF="41">
<L>To know the Sonne, and in the Sonne the Sire,</L>
<L>The Sonne, concealler of the Fathers Ire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. <HI>1.</HI>19.26</NOTE></L>
<L>O judge what <HI>Spirit</HI> this great worke to marre,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;t to make men know him hath &s;et foorth the Scriptures and hidden his bodilie &s;hape But Sathan &s;trives by mea~s of the Roman Clergie to ex|pre&s;&s;e his bodi|lie &s;hape which can not &s;how Him and &s;up+re&s;&s;e the &s;crip+tures which might make Him knowne.</NOTE></L>
<L>This cour&s;e to cro&s;&s;e, the Scrip|tures would debarre</L>
<L>And hide this Mirror, from the longing &s;ight</L>
<L>Of Soules, which faine would &s;ee this Sunne of light,</L>
<L>Enjoyning &s;uch, this knowledge to attaine,</L>
<L>By pictures fal&s;e, or &s;ome re&s;em|blance vaine</L>
<L>Of that externall &s;hape, which GOD did hide,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t any in this fruitle&s;&s;e &s;earch &s;hould &s;lide?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No <HI>Spirit</HI> doubtle&s;&s;e els, but Hee, who&s;e &s;light</L>
<L>Seeks GOD and Man, to &s;euer day and night,</L>
<L>With envy boyling, at mans good who griev'd,</L>
<L>Hath ay a lyer and a Murtherer liv'd</L>
<PB N="60" REF="42">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 3.6.</NOTE>His point for once who gayning, &s;eeks yet &s;till,</L>
<L>To di&s;conforme man to his Ma|kers will;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Even Hee, who &s;ince his fall, with wondrous art,</L>
<L>From GODS true wor&s;hip man did &s;till divert,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> King 23.5.</NOTE>By whom to &s;uch prophanene&s;&s;e mortals driv'ne,</L>
<L>Haue wor&s;hipt Sunne, Moone, Starrs, the ho&s;t of Heaven;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> King. 11. Iudg 6.25. ibid. 3. 7. 2. King. 23.5.</NOTE>For <HI>Molech, Milcom, Baal, A&s;htaroth,</HI></L>
<L>Who made the nations Gods true wor&s;hip loath;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who Images of GOD, hath oft devy&s;d,</L>
<L>And Mens deluded fanta&s;ies en|ty&s;d</L>
<L>A furtherance in GODS &s;eruice to conceat,</L>
<L>By means engendring his eternall hate;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 32.</NOTE>Thus <HI>Aaron</HI> did the <HI>golden calf</HI> erect;</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iudg. 27.</NOTE>The&s;e vaine &s;urmi&s;es <HI>Micah</HI> did infect.</L>
<PB N="61" REF="42">
<L>A hou&s;e of GODS, a <HI>Levite</HI> to his <HI>Prie&s;t</HI></L>
<L>Who having This of ble&s;&s;ings held no lea&s;t;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of the <HI>Me&s;&s;ias</HI> who po&s;&s;e&s;t Mans braine</L>
<L>With fond conceats,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The error of Christ his earthly King|dome was &s;o commonlie re|ceiued that the Apo&s;tles were po&s;se&s;&s;ed with it &amp; not delivered of it till after the Re&s;urectioun, Act. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> Imaginations vaine</L>
<L>Before Hee came, that when in humble &s;tate,</L>
<L>Not &s;econding their expectation great,</L>
<L>Hee did a &s;ervants &s;hape a&s;&s;ume, whom they</L>
<L>Conceiv'd, the &s;cepter of the world &s;hould &s;way.</L>
<L>An earthly <HI>Monarch,</HI> a trium|phing King,</L>
<L>Who by re&s;i&s;tle&s;&s;e force &s;hould freedome bring</L>
<L>To their &s;ubjected &s;tate, Him&s;elfe oppo&s;e</L>
<L>To tyranizing pride of conqu'ring foes,</L>
<L>Whom finding Other then they did &s;urmi&s;e,</L>
<L>With &s;trong delu&s;ions led,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2, 11,</NOTE> the world agrees,</L>
<PB N="62" REF="43">
<L>The true <HI>Me&s;&s;ias</HI> cruellie to kill,</L>
<L>Expecting their fore-fancied Saviour &s;till:</L>
<L>Although our LORD, inviting o&s;t there view,</L>
<L>In Scriptures to behold his paterne true,</L>
<L>Which, holy Prophets livelie had expre&s;t,</L>
<L>Ere fle&s;hes vaile His God-head did inve&s;t,</L>
<L>Yet He, this Gla&s;&s;e who hid, their eyes did &s;ile:</L>
<L>His guiltle&s;&s;e blood mu&s;t needs their hands defile.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;ame is Hee, who trauells in exce&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Yet from the world the Scriptures to &s;uppre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And from the knowledge true of CHRIST therein,</L>
<L>The world debarring keeps the world in &s;inne:</L>
<L>Cou&s;'ning poore people by deceit|full &s;light,</L>
<L>Of, paynters arte, affording fal&s;e delight,</L>
<PB N="63" REF="43">
<L>Filling their hands, robt of GODS &s;acred word,</L>
<L>With pictures, from their paterns which debord,</L>
<L>Which bold bla&s;phemers, de&s;ti|tute of &s;hame,</L>
<L>Now CHRIST, the holy <HI>Crucifixe</HI> now name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What <HI>Spirit</HI> els, except GODS auncient Foe,</L>
<L>Would &s;triue to hide what God hath meant to &s;how?</L>
<L>Or who, except alone that <HI>Spirit</HI> bold,</L>
<L>That dare raike vp, which GOD+ly buried would?</L>
<L>What <HI>Spirit</HI> els the world to looke would let</L>
<L>In that pure Mirror, whence faint &s;oules might get</L>
<L>Refre&s;hment, by the &s;ight of Him alone,</L>
<L>Who in His word is &s;eene, is rightlie knowne?</L>
<L>Who els would &s;weate the mul|titude to leade,</L>
<L>By lying Images, GODS peace to pleade,</L>
<PB N="64" REF="44">
<L>By which the world is rather led a&s;tray</L>
<L>After dumb Idols in damnations way?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Iudge then whom The&s;e, who willfull Agents bee,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Antichristian hatred &amp; the Spirit of Sa|than may bee &s;eene in the&s;e who bla&s;|pheme the Scripture, for if any man at Rome &s;hould &s;ay but the &s;ame of all the popes writ|tings and the writtings of popi&s;h doctors which they &s;ay of the holie Scripture, hee &s;hould bee streight way declared a eni+mie to the kirk of Rome, and put to death for a deuili&s;h heretick.</NOTE>Patrons prophane of this impietie</L>
<L>Doe &s;erue, who &s;uper&s;titiou&s;lie maintaine</L>
<L>This forg'rie, Man in darkne&s;&s;e to detaine,</L>
<L>The <HI>Romane</HI> Clergie, who of pow're too weake,</L>
<L>The <HI>words</HI> pure light to make the world for&s;ake,</L>
<L>By craft doe ca&s;t about another way</L>
<L>To dimme the lu&s;ter of this <HI>Lamps</HI> cleare Raye,</L>
<L>The holy Scripture branding with di&s;grace,</L>
<L>Which to traditions they but &s;e|cond place,</L>
<L>Making the world It, with a ju&s;t neglect,</L>
<L>Corrupt and poy&s;ond in the &s;ource &s;u&s;pect,</L>
<PB N="65" REF="44">
<L>Imper&s;yte, and in vulgare tongues to bee</L>
<L>Tran&s;lated, needle&s;&s;e, not from danger free.</L>
<L>Thus from foule mouths mali|ciou&s;lie they &s;pew,</L>
<L>Agin&s;t the Scriptures not a&s;|per&s;ions few,</L>
<L>Furthering the world (&s;o farre as in them lyes,)</L>
<L><HI>GODS word</HI> as hard, yea hurt|full, to de&s;py&s;e,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet, CHRISTS pretended Image on the Cro&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Their leaden braines with &s;uper|&s;tition gro&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Doth &s;o di&s;tract, that This, they madly &s;eeme,</L>
<L>To honour more than Him did them redeeme,</L>
<L>To which they teach, as CHRISTS Re&s;emblance true,</L>
<L>Religious wor&s;hip, yea divyne is due,</L>
<L>Yea that &s;ame wor&s;hip, which to CHRIST they owe,</L>
<L>If Hee Him&s;elfe did per&s;onally &s;howe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;uppre&s;|&s;ing of the com+mon reading of the Scripture makes &s;uch way to all er+rors, that the Romane cler|gie rules &s;ecur|lie and rainges over all king|doms, cou~tries, and commoun|wealths, while they get place over Kings crowns, mens con&s;ciences their &s;oules, bodies, lands, rents, and mo|vables, and all at their plea|&s;ure.</NOTE>The Scripture thus defended from the <HI>Lay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Traditions</HI> vncontrold fynd patent way,</L>
<L>Their <HI>Canons, con&s;titutions, Popes decrees,</HI></L>
<L>Fal&s;e <HI>definitions, legends</HI> &s;tuft with lyes,</L>
<L><HI>Doctrines</HI> deboarding from the <HI>written word</HI></L>
<L>With <HI>Scripture</HI> equall credite thus afford,</L>
<L>Yea of the <HI>Scripture</HI> thou may&s;t nought beleeue,</L>
<L>But in what &s;en&s;e the <HI>Pope</HI> is plea&s;d to giue:</L>
<L>Thus, to the blinded worlds a&s;toni&s;hment,</L>
<L>Their <HI>Lying wonders</HI> with be|leife they went,</L>
<L>Thus from the <HI>People</HI> they their <HI>Errors</HI> hyde,</L>
<L>Which, by the &s;harper &s;ighted if e&s;pyd,</L>
<L>The <HI>word</HI> withdrawne, their labour lighter is,</L>
<L>To make them thinke they did decerne a-mi&s;&s;e.</L>
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<L>Thus mu&s;t the <HI>People</HI> found their <HI>fayth</HI> on tru&s;t,</L>
<L>For as their <HI>Church-men,</HI> &s;o be|lieue they mu&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This fyner threed doth to their arts-men giue,</L>
<L>A net of <HI>merits,</HI> of <HI>good works</HI> to weave,</L>
<L>By which they fi&s;h, (from &s;uch as may be brought,</L>
<L>To apprehend that Heaven may thus bee bought,</L>
<L>With exce&s;&s;e to maintayne Tho&s;e who have charge,</L>
<L>Of convents, cloi&s;ters) Rents, dot|ations large,</L>
<L>And if this fully doth no worke their end,</L>
<L>A larger Net of <HI>Pennance</HI> they extend,</L>
<L>From which to bee exem'd, they waird, they watch,</L>
<L>The <HI>Rich-ones</HI> by <HI>Indulgences</HI> to catch,</L>
<L>Who by their pur&s;e chui&s;e rather to bee purgt,</L>
<L>Then fa&s;t from fle&s;h, then &s;uffer to bee &s;courgt,</L>
<GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="2 pages">
<PB N="70" REF="46">
<L>In one Church diver&s;e, to a diver&s;e end,</L>
<L>Which men enabled with new meanes mu&s;t tend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No wonder then they vrge a &s;trict re&s;traynt,</L>
<L>Of Scripture, Seene, which would the World acquynt</L>
<L>With the&s;e Impo&s;turs, damnable deceats,</L>
<L>Indang'ring vnder tru&s;t, &s;o great E&s;tates,</L>
<L>Which if they licenc't were GODS Word to view.</L>
<L>Should doubtle&s;&s;e bide tho&s;e <HI>for|g'ries</HI> all adiew.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Act.</HI> 19.24.</NOTE>For <HI>Images</HI> looke what did &s;et on fire</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Popi&s;hs cruci|fixes bring more gaines to the Popi&s;h crafte&s;men and Clargie, than the Ima|ges of <HI>Diana,</HI> or any Idoll to the Craft&s;|men of Ephe&s;|us.</NOTE>What ear&s;t did kindle the Ig|noble Ire</L>
<L>Of that EPHESIAN confu&s;ed crew,</L>
<L>All in a Mutinous concur&s;e which flew,</L>
<L>While of this <HI>Monster</HI> the &s;editi|ous <HI>Head,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Demetrius</HI> for <HI>Dianas</HI> &s;hrines did plead,</L>
<PB N="71" REF="46">
<L>What motives then did the&s;e in|cen&s;e, the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Place now for their <HI>Imagery</HI> doe clayme,</L>
<L>Them &s;tirring vp more turbulent, how much</L>
<L>Their trade doth breed them greater gayne, then &s;uch.</L>
<L>For but the mettels worth and crafts mens paynes,</L>
<L>Did breed <HI>Ephe&s;ians</HI> an&s;werable gaynes,</L>
<L>But of their Picturs what the eye e&s;pyes,</L>
<L>'Tis nought; their worth in forme nor matter lyes,</L>
<L>The&s;e valued are, on the&s;e the world doth doate,</L>
<L>As Church-men <HI>holine&s;&s;e</HI> to them alloate,</L>
<L>As &s;acred <HI>vertue Men</HI> in them conceave,</L>
<L>Which <HI>Pope</HI> or <HI>Prelate,</HI> at their plea&s;ure gave,</L>
<L>Thus by conceit, the Simple to enty&s;e,</L>
<L>The&s;e by opinion, not by worth who pri&s;e.</L>
<PB N="72" REF="47">
<L>Thus doe they farre tho&s;e <HI>Silver|&s;miths</HI> out-flee,</L>
<L>In witty traffiquing, in poli|cy,</L>
<L>Masking their avarice with grea|ter &s;light,</L>
<L>Than the&s;e who &s;old, but what they &s;et in &s;ight,</L>
<L>Their con&s;ecrated <HI>Crucifixes</HI> be</L>
<L>Mo&s;t pri&s;d for their &s;uppo&s;ed &s;anctitie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">It is &s;trange that their be|ing &s;o many pretended Crucifixes and &s;en&s;ible diffe|rences betuixt everie one of them, yet men will beare it out that every one of them ar purtraits of Chri&s;t.</NOTE>But this in mee, moves great|e&s;t admiration,</L>
<L>Tho every day bring foorth a new creation</L>
<L>Of the&s;e fal&s;e pictures, an adulterat brood,</L>
<L>So that in number, number they exclude,</L>
<L>Yet all of them, though of a di|ver&s;e frame,</L>
<L>Each diffring from another, boldy clame,</L>
<L>CHRIST vively to exhibite to the eye.</L>
<L>Stretcht foorth to death vpon an abject tree;</L>
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<L>So that, it &s;eems more CHRISTS they either make,</L>
<L>Or CHRIST doe for the damned thiefe mi&s;take,</L>
<L>Sith neither Gravers toole, nor Paynters arte,</L>
<L>Doe other difference, &s;aue in thoght impairt,</L>
<L>Yet how&s;oeuer, whether This, or that</L>
<L>They doe re&s;emble, all of them they rate,</L>
<L>And doe in as high e&s;timation hold,</L>
<L>(Though infinite in number) as of old,</L>
<L><HI>Ephe&s;ians</HI> did their One <HI>Palladium</HI> pri&s;e,</L>
<L>Which they did fancie <HI>Iove</HI> &s;ent downe from &s;kyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>CHRISTS purtrate thus in Scripture is &s;uppre&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Bible &s;erues not for Poperie as fai|ned Crucifixes doe and their|fore &s;ell the wor&s;e yea are thru&s;t out of the Market.</NOTE></L>
<L>Le&s;t their abu&s;es It &s;hould mani|fe&s;t,</L>
<L>And lying Pictures in its place are thru&s;t.</L>
<L>Yet vnder colour of a rea&s;on Iu&s;t,</L>
<PB N="74" REF="48">
<L>Since <HI>Images</HI> (&s;ay they) by &s;ilent &s;peach,</L>
<L>As bookes, the rude, the ignorant doe teach,</L>
<L>Since <HI>Scripture</HI> to the v&s;e of all, lea&s;t free,</L>
<L>Oft mi&s;conceiud doth, lead to <HI>here|&s;ie.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The preten&s;e of Images &s;er|ving for books to the Laicks, an&s;wered.</NOTE>But who but poore deluded &s;oules can tru&s;t,</L>
<L>That Images, inventions but of du&s;t,</L>
<L>In teaching <HI>truth</HI> GODS &s;acred word doe match,</L>
<L>That Scriptures &s;erue but here&s;ies to hatch?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Shall <HI>Idols</HI> dumbe, be &s;peaking Teachers pri&s;d?</L>
<L>Shall &s;peaking &s;criptures be <HI>dumbe rules</HI> de&s;pi&s;d?</L>
<L>By Craft&s;-mans arte on mettle, woode, or &s;tone,</L>
<L>Shall CHRIST more lively to the world bee &s;howne,</L>
<L>Then by Their dytments who did him behold,</L>
<L>And left His words, deeds, life, &amp; death enrold?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="75" REF="48">
<L>If holy write &s;ome Impiou&s;ly abu&s;e,</L>
<L>This to maintaine lewd here&s;ies who chu&s;e,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t guiltle&s;&s;e &s;oules, mu&s;t people Innocent,</L>
<L>Of their offence endure the pu|ni&s;hment?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus &s;hould wee &s;hunne the Sunnes conforting light,</L>
<L>Which (happily) hath hurt &s;ome &s;tairing &s;ight,</L>
<L>Thus lo&s;&s;e the comfort of GODS creatures goode,</L>
<L>Since &s;ome that poy&s;ons which is others foode.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>here&s;ies</HI> (by which are mo&s;t mi&s;led)</L>
<L>In learned, but vnhallowed brayns are bred,</L>
<L>Since hatcht, nor nur&s;t by the &s;implicitie,</L>
<L>Of vulgar braynes the&s;e deepe de|lu&s;ions bee,</L>
<L>Why then doe holy harmele&s;&s;e peo|ple &s;mart,</L>
<L>For heady <HI>Churchmens</HI> fault, without de&s;art?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="76" REF="49">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The 4 an&s;wer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Mat. <HI>21.</HI>16. &amp; 42.</NOTE>If <HI>Error</HI> (which wee &s;hould as death de&s;py&s;e)</L>
<L>Doth from not reading of the word ary&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 22.29.</NOTE>As CHRIST doth teach, why then (in Chri&s;ts de&s;pight)</L>
<L>To keepe from erring &s;mother they this light?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But all that to their minds doth di&s;agree,</L>
<L>Is repute Error, held for here&s;ie;</L>
<L>Though <HI>Peter, Paul,</HI> or <HI>Prophet</HI> did per&s;wade,</L>
<L>Though CHRIST Him&s;elf affirmd the contrare hade,</L>
<L>Their words mu&s;t either not bee hard at all,</L>
<L>Or vnder Popi&s;h di&s;pen&s;ation fall</L>
<L>To pa&s;&s;e for Scripture, &s;o a &s;en&s;e receave,</L>
<L>In other meaning than the Spirit gave</L>
<L>A glo&s;&s;e the Text confounding quyte; becau&s;e</L>
<L>For <HI>Error</HI> all they hold that hurts their <HI>cau&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="77" REF="49">
<L>The Mirror pure,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;cripture &s;uch a mirror to &s;hew Chri&s;t that it changes the &s;tudent in|to the likne&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t while there he be|holdeth him by fayth.</NOTE> in which CHRISTS face doth &s;hine</L>
<L>The Scripture is, that regi&s;ter divyne</L>
<L>Of holy write, that &s;acred &s;aving <HI>Booke,</HI></L>
<L>In which our LORD hath licenc't vs to looke,</L>
<L>Where, if wee labour earn'&s;tly for His &s;ight,</L>
<L>The skailes of darkne&s;&s;e which our eyes be-night,</L>
<L>He doth remove, and maks vs clearly &s;ee</L>
<L>With <HI>open face,</HI> the beames of Maje&s;tie,</L>
<L>And true Beholders by a manner &s;trange,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> Cor. 3.18</NOTE></L>
<L>Doth peece and peece in His owne likene&s;&s;e change,</L>
<L>And in this &s;tudy as wee pro|gre&s;&s;e make,</L>
<L>Wee of the <HI>Glory</HI> which wee &s;ee partake,</L>
<L>Changt in our &s;oules by CHRISTS renuing grace,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 34.<HI>29</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>As on the mount was changed <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> face.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="78" REF="50">
<L>Why doe they &s;yle poore moc|ked peoples &s;igh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>CHRISTS face from viewing in this <HI>mirror</HI> bright?<NOTE PLACE="marg">The impietie of &s;uppres&s;ing the &s;cripture.</NOTE></L>
<L>Why hinder they faynt &s;in-chargt &s;oules to &s;ee,</L>
<L>CHRIST whom they &s;earch for, where hee found may bee?</L>
<L>The Spirits working which doth men renew,</L>
<L>By means of this true &s;ight, this inward view,</L>
<L>The change of &s;oules from &s;inne why doe they marre,</L>
<L>Why &s;aving knowledge from the world debarre?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What helpe can all their pow'r|le&s;&s;e purtraits make,</L>
<L>From forgers fancie which doe fa&s;hion take,</L>
<L>Truely to teach CHRISTS <HI>Naturs, E&s;&s;ence, Will,,</HI></L>
<L>Or in CHRISTS Image men to change from ill?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Shall Their fal&s;e picturs, <HI>Cruci|fixes</HI> faynd,</L>
<L>CHRISTS Mirror bee (that &s;acred fountaine &s;taind,)</L>
<PB N="79" REF="50">
<L>In the&s;e or &s;hall the Spirit men make &s;ee,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Popi&s;h Cruci|fixes doe marre the true know|ledge of Chri&s;t and teach the people lies.</NOTE></L>
<L>Or what CHRIST is, or what them&s;elves &s;hould bee,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O three times impious! O bla&s;phemous &s;peach!</L>
<L>The&s;e nought to lookers on but lyes do teach,</L>
<L>And like them&s;elves, their fa|vourits they make,</L>
<L>As <HI>heads</HI> they have,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. <HI>115.</HI>8. Ibid. 5.6.7. &amp; P&s;al. 135.15</NOTE> but <HI>vnder|standing</HI> lake,</L>
<L>As <HI>mouths</HI> which &s;peike no, <HI>feete</HI> which never move,</L>
<L>As <HI>eyes</HI> that &s;ee no, yet doe &s;et on love,</L>
<L>And ju&s;tly doe of wit, of &s;en&s;e bereave,</L>
<L><HI>Di&s;ciples</HI> all, &s;uch <HI>Teachers</HI> as be|leave,</L>
<L>Suffering them&s;elues to bee debard the &s;ight,</L>
<L>Of holy write, which truely teach them might.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Great is the <HI>mi&s;erie</HI> of man by Sinne,</L>
<L>The <HI>Ignorance of GOD</HI> Man binds therin.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 4.18.</NOTE></L>
<PB N="80" REF="51">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;ts incom|parable love of mans &s;al|vation hath &s;et his wi&s;dom (Luke <HI>10, 22.</HI> Mat. <HI>11.27.</HI> Iohn. <HI>17.3.</HI>) on worke to de|vy&s;e the fitte&s;t means to make him&s;elfe knowne to the world, and what his wi&s;|dome thought fitte&s;t for that end. his love hath mad him cairefully &s;et downe in his te&s;tament, but no word of the lineaments of his face or &s;hape of his bodie or pi|ctures to ex|pre&s;&s;e it.</NOTE>The way to freedome from the&s;e heavy bands,</L>
<L>In GODS true knowledge princi|pally &s;tands;</L>
<L>GOD truely's knowne but in his Chri&s;t to none.</L>
<L>And GOD in CHRIST who know fynd life alone.</L>
<L>Now CHRIST, who onely GOD Him&s;elfe who &s;o,</L>
<L>That man may GOD, Man mu&s;t Him&s;elfe make kno.</L>
<L>The fitte&s;t meanes Him&s;elfe to manife&s;t,</L>
<L>To His owne &s;earchele&s;&s;e <HI>wi&s;dome</HI> knowne are be&s;t.</L>
<L>Hee knows what neede wee of this knowledge have,</L>
<L>And how without it nothing vs can &s;ave,</L>
<L>And how the lo&s;&s;e of Mankynd he doth beare,</L>
<L>Doth by his Death, to bring vs life appeare.</L>
<L>His loue to &s;aue vs, Him who did de&s;pi&s;e,</L>
<L>Did &s;et on worke His <HI>wi&s;dome</HI> to devi&s;e,</L>
<PB N="81" REF="51">
<L>All <HI>Meanes</HI> which of Him&s;elfe the knowledge pure</L>
<L>And &s;o of GOD, might to our &s;oules procure,</L>
<L>And &s;o in Him bee reconceild, &s;o fred</L>
<L>From wrath, &s;o to eternall life bee led:</L>
<L>And what His <HI>Wi&s;edome</HI> for our well devi&s;d,</L>
<L>His con&s;tant care, in holy write compri&s;d</L>
<L>Hath left, the <HI>Meanes</HI> thus &s;etting in our &s;ight,</L>
<L>Which of Him&s;elfe the &s;aving knowledge might</L>
<L>Sufficiently di&s;clo&s;e; <HI>Meanes</HI> onely meet</L>
<L>To make Him knowne, <HI>Meanes</HI> in them&s;elues compleet,</L>
<L>Without the forg'ry hatcht in humane braine</L>
<L>Of lying pictures, <HI>Crucifixes</HI> vaine,</L>
<L>Which for His knowledge Hee hath thought vnfit,</L>
<L>Since mong&s;t His <HI>Meanes</HI> the&s;e He doth not admit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="82" REF="52">
<L>Thus hath Hee not the <HI>Means</HI> alone pre&s;criv'd,</L>
<L>Which point Him foorth (<HI>Means</HI> in His Word contriv'd,)</L>
<L>But All doth charge, who warm'd are with His loue,</L>
<L>And <HI>Means</HI> to make Him rightly knowne would proue,</L>
<L>To &s;earch the Scriptures, if for life they looke;</L>
<L>In all mens hand CHRIST puts this &s;aving <HI>Booke:</HI></L>
<L><HI>This,</HI> Hee doth warrant, to eternitie,</L>
<L>A con&s;tant witne&s;&s;e of Him&s;elfe to bee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But <HI>Picture-mongers,</HI> mad <HI>De|metrius</HI> heires,</L>
<L>Vnlawfull gayne to make of worth|les wares,</L>
<L>By other <HI>Means</HI> then CHRIST, to lead to Heaven,</L>
<L>New bookes haue fayned, new directions given,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Therefore the skarring of pe|ople from the Scripture, and putting in their hands Images &amp; pictures vnder what&s;over pre+tence, is a chalenging of Chri&s;t, either as witle&s;&s;e or lovele&s;se or cairele&s;&s;e who did not recom+mend in his te&s;tament &s;uch a meane as they aledge the artificiall crucifixe to be.</NOTE>Poore &s;imple <HI>Laikes</HI> (they in &s;ub&s;tance &s;ay,)</L>
<L>By &s;earching of the Scriptures erre yee may,</L>
<PB N="83" REF="52">
<L>Pictures are plaine, the&s;e harmele&s;&s;e bookes doe &s;how</L>
<L>What needfull is for you of Chri&s;t to know,</L>
<L>In Scripture darke t'is dangerous to prye,</L>
<L>Such curious &s;earch concernes not you to trye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus Impudently teach the world they dare,</L>
<L>That both vnfit and vn&s;ufficient are</L>
<L>CHRISTS <HI>Means;</HI> their owne devices more import</L>
<L>The well and &s;afety of the weaker &s;ort.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus argue they of <HI>Ignorance</HI> our LORD,</L>
<L>The <HI>Means</HI> mo&s;t fitting, who could not afford,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of <HI>Envie,</HI> means who would not recommend,</L>
<L>Which choy&s;en, mo&s;t might to our &s;afetie tend</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of <HI>Carele&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> &s;ith He forgot to give</L>
<L>Charge, in his <HI>Latter-Will</HI> the&s;e meanes to leave,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="84" REF="53">
<L>For peoples <HI>Well</HI> thus will they &s;eame to be</L>
<L>More <HI>Wi&s;e,</HI> more <HI>Loving Care|fuller</HI> than Hee.</L>
<L>What el&s;e is this, by a pretence to teach</L>
<L>CHRISTS knowledge, but <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> knowledge to empeach,</L>
<L>By faining a fal&s;e <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> to barre the way</L>
<L>By which the <HI>True</HI> attayne wee only may</L>
<L>Who, not attaind, GOD neither can wee know,</L>
<L>Since GOD in Him alone Him|&s;elfe doth &s;how?</L>
<L>Thus are the bonds of Mans mo&s;t wretcht e&s;tate</L>
<L>By Nature, &s;traitned by the Devils deceate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Albeit civile Images for civile v&s;e bee lawfull, yet no religious I|mages of mans device for re|ligious v&s;e are lawfull.</NOTE>Let civile <HI>Images,</HI> for civile v&s;e</L>
<L>Haue place, we challenge only the abu&s;e.</L>
<L>That paynters Pencil plea&s;ure doe impart</L>
<L>Wee hinder no, let crafts-men v&s;e their arte:</L>
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<L>But how&s;oever humane wit de|bord,</L>
<L>GOD in <HI>Religion</HI> mu&s;t alone bee LORD.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 19.18.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>While from Mount <HI>Sinai</HI> Hee the Moral <HI>Law</HI></L>
<L>Promulgate did,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>2</HI> comma~d of the first Table, which is the law for re|ligion, expre&s;ly forbids relig|ious Images of mans de|vice.</NOTE> (where Him no mortall &s;aw)</L>
<L>Incompa&s;t all about with flames of fire,</L>
<L>As Royall Roabs which <HI>Majestie</HI> attire,</L>
<L>Hee, onely as His owne <HI>Prerogatiue,</HI></L>
<L>Did, of Religion, plead the <HI>Rule</HI> to giue,</L>
<L>And Man, (with vaine pre&s;ump|tion &s;wolne) at large</L>
<L>Madly with <HI>This</HI> to meddle doth di&s;charge,</L>
<L>Binding His hands, by words expre&s;&s;e and plaine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 4.15. Exod. 20.22. We may make a Image which re&s;embles Something, but not an Idole which re&s;em|bles Nothing, &s;ayes the Papist: no &s;ays the Lord, you &s;hall not make the likne&s;&s;e of any thing in Heaven. &amp;c. Deut. 4, 23.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of Him, no fooli&s;h <HI>Counterfit</HI> to faine,</L>
<L>No Image, for Religious v&s;e, to make,</L>
<L>Of ought, in Heaven or earth did being take;</L>
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<L>Nor made, to honour, with the lea&s;t re&s;pect,</L>
<L>Save They with Him their <HI>Co|venant</HI> would breake,</L>
<L>Kindling gain&s;t them His iealou&s;ie mo&s;t ju&s;t,</L>
<L>Rankt as <HI>Adult'rers,</HI> (from His &s;ervice thru&s;t)</L>
<L>Who, wor&s;hip with Him, or be|&s;yde Him, gave,</L>
<L>To others, due for Him alone to have.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus GOD hath bani&s;ht, from Religions bounds</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 23.24, &amp; 34.13.</NOTE>This wor&s;hip vaine, His wor&s;hip which confounds,</L>
<L>All v&s;e of Images, by Man de|vy&s;d,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. The&s;. <HI>2.</HI>3.4. Why may not the people and the Church a|point Images &s;ayes the pa|pi&s;t. I am the Lord &s;ays God, that is, It is Gods Royall prerogatiue to apoint the meanes of his owne Honour.</NOTE>To GOD Man hatefull rendring and de&s;py&s;d.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>But Hee</HI> who doth exalt Him|&s;elfe to raigne,</L>
<L>Of Princes all <HI>Monarchick So|veraigne,</HI></L>
<L>That Man of Sinne, perditions Sonne, the &s;lave</L>
<L>Of Sathan, yet pretends CHRISTS place to have,</L>
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<L>Dare gain&s;t this Law mo&s;t Impu|dently &s;tand,</L>
<L>And GODS great VETO boldly counter-mand.</L>
<L>Of GOD, of Man, hee Images dare make,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><P>Why may wee not give &s;ome Religious wor|&s;hip &amp; honour to Images &s;ay|eth the papist. I am a Ielous God &s;ayes the Lord, that is, Religious wor|&s;hip is due only to God the hu&s;+band of the Church, what+&s;oever is given to another is adulterie, that is Idolatrie &amp; provoks Gods Ielou&s;ie.</P>
<P>Our fore-fa|thers v&s;ed Ima+ges &s;ayes the papi&s;t, I will vi&s;it the &s;innes of the fathers vpon the chil|dren &s;ayes the LORD.</P></NOTE></L>
<L>Thus Mocketh CHRIST, even &s;uffring for our &s;ake;</L>
<L>To the&s;e, Religious wor&s;hip Hee allowes,</L>
<L>And <HI>This</HI> their <HI>Due</HI> mo&s;t &s;hame|le&s;sly avowes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whyle of this Rav'ry wee a rea&s;on crave,</L>
<L>O how them&s;elves they will|fully deceave!</L>
<L>The <HI>custome of their Fathers</HI> They pretend,</L>
<L><HI>The love of GOD, of CHRIST,</HI> this is the end</L>
<L>Why they Their purtraits re|verently re&s;pect</L>
<L>Who&s;e per&s;ons They &s;o dearely did affect.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But O weake &s;hifts! pretences worthy tears!</L>
<L>Eva&s;ions &s;erving more to mocke the eares,</L>
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<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">We make and honour Images out of loue to God, &s;ayes the papi&s;t, They hate mee that keepes not my commandeme~t &s;ayes the Lord.</NOTE>Of &s;imple Hearers, than this Er|ror vaine</L>
<L>With meane&s;t &s;how of rea&s;on to maintaine.</L>
<L><HI>Gods Law</HI> mo&s;t clearely the&s;e de|tects: the &s;ame</L>
<L>Excu&s;es for this fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e they frame</L>
<L>Which clearely are condemnd, (&s;hifts farre ami&s;&s;e,)</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">When the Church of Rome &s;craipt out the <HI>2</HI> command out of the vulgare books, &amp; made two of the <HI>10</HI> Command, they &s;aw that their Images could not abyd the as&s;i&s;e of Gods law.</NOTE>In that <HI>Command</HI> which Rankt the <HI>Second</HI> is:</L>
<L>Which, GOD of purpo&s;e, gain&s;t this Sinne did place,</L>
<L>This wickedne&s;&s;e &s;o &s;taring in the face,</L>
<L>That when heereof, they can not &s;tand in &s;ight,</L>
<L>Accu&s;d, convinc't by their owne con&s;cience light,</L>
<L>To burie It from vulgare eyes they &s;triue,</L>
<L>And this of place among&s;t the Ten depriue,</L>
<L>Braunching the Tent in twaine; to hide the thift,</L>
<L>V&s;ing a &s;hamele&s;&s;e &s;acrilegious &s;hift,</L>
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<L>Lea&s;t &s;eene the people &s;hould the&s;e <HI>&s;nares</HI> for&s;ake,</L>
<L>Layde (doubtle&s;&s;e by the devill) their &s;oules to take.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus, though our LORD,<NOTE PLACE="marg">To elude Gods Law Image lovers haue v&s;ed as (they yet v&s;e) many pretences, but notwith&s;tand|ing of them all, God reiects this invention ref<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ts, it con|demnes, and cur&s;es both it and the main+tainers of it.</NOTE> as a religious <HI>Meane,</HI></L>
<L>Condemned hath to <HI>Images</HI> to leane,</L>
<L>Yet &s;till doe <HI>Image-doatars</HI> GODS decreit</L>
<L>Striue to make Irrite, as vnju&s;t, vnmeet,</L>
<L>Thus pleading profite to the Sim|pler &s;ort,</L>
<L>Who come of knowledge by the Scripture &s;hort</L>
<L>But by the Eye Inform'd, are brought in mynd,</L>
<L>Of what by The&s;e they repre|&s;ented fynd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But harke O <HI>fondling,</HI> who thy GOD do&s;t faine,</L>
<L>GOD by his <HI>Spirit</HI> cals this cu&s;tome vaine.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ierem. 10.3.</NOTE></L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>creatures</HI> of thine owne, nor care, nor feare</L>
<L>Thou need&s;t, which Thee can neither &s;ee nor heare.</L>
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<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 10.8.</NOTE>How fooli&s;h they who doe on &s;uch depend,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">v. 5.</NOTE>Which neither <HI>Friend</HI> can help nor <HI>Foe</HI> offend?</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">v. 8.</NOTE>The <HI>Stocke</HI> which GOD they to re&s;emble frame,</L>
<L>Doth doctrines but of vanity proclame.</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">v. 11.</NOTE>The&s;e peri&s;h &s;hall from Earth, from vnder Heaven,</L>
<L>Their <HI>Founders</HI> to confu&s;ion &s;hall bee driuen,</L>
<L>Who&s;e arte but <HI>Error</HI> &s;erves to vnderproppe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">v. 14.</NOTE></L>
<L>Who&s;e worke is fal&s;hoode, forgt in Sathans &s;hoppe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This fooli&s;h Toy, this hell-de|vi&s;ed &s;light,</L>
<L>Men charming with a naturall delight,</L>
<L>Loe, GOD doth &s;corne, the work|mans fruitle&s;&s;e paynes,</L>
<L>The zeale poore people which hood-winkt detaynes,</L>
<L>Him &s;eeking who&s;e pure wor&s;hip they profe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>By &s;ome <HI>Re&s;emblance</HI> fondly to expre&s;&s;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg">If. 40.18.19.20.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L>GOD to a di&s;pute challengeth in end,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 4.20.</NOTE></L>
<L>Such as dare graven Images defend,</L>
<L>Deluded &s;oules and blinded by deceate</L>
<L>GOD proves them, who tran&s;|ported with this &s;paite</L>
<L>Of madne&s;&s;e, ba&s;ely doe crouch downe before</L>
<L>The craft&s;-mans worke; which ought to have no more</L>
<L>Re&s;pect, then as much mettell, timber, &s;tone,</L>
<L>Appointed for the ba&s;e&s;t v&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;. 44.9.<HI>10.</HI></NOTE> or none.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hee laughs to heading their con|ceats, to &s;ee,</L>
<L>What lavi&s;h chairges &s;pent in <HI>Making</HI> bee,</L>
<L>In <HI>Con&s;ecrating,</HI> what ob&s;equious care,</L>
<L>What <HI>Superstition,</HI> &s;traitning Sathans &s;naire,</L>
<L>What ba&s;e <HI>Devotion</HI> madly they bequeath</L>
<L>Vnto their <HI>Idoles,</HI> which, (tho voyde of breath,)</L>
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<L>On &s;houlders mounted they on high doe reare,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 46.5.6.7</NOTE>And in ridiculous <HI>Proce&s;&s;ion</HI> beare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let blind <HI>Idolaters</HI> with Er|rors &s;treame</L>
<L>Tran&s;ported headlong, v&s;e and pro+fite dreame,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 44.9.</NOTE>By the&s;e devices; GOD profe&s;&s;eth plaine,</L>
<L>Hee knows no profite by the&s;e <HI>Meanes</HI> profaine,</L>
<L><HI>Meanes</HI> to bee made vnworthy, <HI>Meanes</HI> to tru&s;t</L>
<L>Intolerable; teaching lyes to <HI>Du&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Whence beeing they did take. The <HI>Cur&s;e</HI> of <HI>Woe,</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>&V;engeance,</HI> thundred foorth they vndergoe,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Hab. 2.18.19.20</NOTE>Who <HI>Prayers</HI> &s;weete perfume to &s;uch pre&s;ent,</L>
<L>Whom words nor vows can with or wants acquent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Cur&s;d</HI> by the Law, is Hee, who toole doth take</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 27.15.</NOTE>Or grav'ne, or molten <HI>Image</HI> for to make,</L>
<PB N="93" REF="57">
<L>GOD this abhominably to di&s;|grace.</L>
<L><HI>Cur&s;d,</HI> for devotion, who in &s;ecret place,</L>
<L>The <HI>Craft&s;-mans</HI> worke, GODS wor&s;hip to confound</L>
<L>Set vp, the People all <HI>Amen</HI> re|&s;ound.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Harke,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 97.7.</NOTE> how the <HI>Prophet</HI> doth confu&s;ion threat,</L>
<L>A <HI>Cur&s;e</HI> denunceth both to Meane and Great,</L>
<L>That boa&s;t of Idols, Images doe &s;erue.</L>
<L>The rea&s;on why <HI>Such</HI> do this cur&s;e de&s;erue,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1.23.</NOTE></L>
<L>Saint <HI>Paule</HI> expre&s;&s;eth. For, from GOD e&s;traingt</L>
<L>His Glory Incorruptible, tran&s;|changt</L>
<L>By them into an Image, made in all,</L>
<L>Like Man corruptible, proclive to fall,</L>
<L>They even GODS Trueth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">25.</NOTE> have turned in a <HI>Lie,</HI></L>
<L>A&s;cribing wor&s;hip, in more high degrie,</L>
<PB N="94" REF="58">
<L>Vnto the <HI>Creature</HI> &s;ubject to decay,</L>
<L>Than the CREATOR, who is ble&s;t for ay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Obiection. But O &s;ayeth the papi&s;t I find my affect|ion &s;tirred &amp; my devotion helped by Ima|ges &amp; name|lie the arti|ficiall Cruci|fixe. This pretence an&s;wered,</NOTE>Yet notwith&s;tanding all, <HI>Some</HI> dare avouch,</L>
<L>That while before a <HI>Crucifixe</HI> they crouch,</L>
<L>Or on a well done <HI>Image</HI> fixe their eye,</L>
<L>Their frozen <HI>Zeale</HI> they fynd en|flamt to bee,</L>
<L>Their half-dead <HI>Faith</HI> reviv'd, their faynting <HI>Loue</HI></L>
<L>To CHRIST, incitements wonder|full to prove,</L>
<L>Pa&s;&s;ions of joy, of feare, of griefe incre&s;t,</L>
<L>Fitting to further their devotion be&s;t,</L>
<L>So, though the world, (they open|ly avow,)</L>
<L>Though all authoritie the&s;e di&s;allow,</L>
<L>Which in their bre&s;ts &s;uch &s;trange effects doe bread,</L>
<L>And whence &s;uch motions of the <HI>Sp'rit,</HI> procead,</L>
<PB N="95" REF="58">
<L>They can not bee induc't, &s;o much as doubt,</L>
<L>But GOD aproves, even to bee borne about,</L>
<L>Sollicitou&s;ly keept, devoutely ki&s;t,</L>
<L>To bee falne downe before, the&s;e <HI>Means</HI> mo&s;t ble&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>Means,</HI> of that wor&s;hip worthy held to bee</L>
<L>Even due to CHRIST; though not in like degree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But O <HI>Blind &s;oules</HI> the&s;e folyes which frequent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Affections and motions accom+panying Image wor&s;hiping, are but the who|ri&s;h allurments of the &s;pirit of idolatrie.</NOTE></L>
<L>If with GODS will yee truely were acquent,</L>
<L>In holy write reveald, and did be|lieve,</L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>Means</HI> &s;u&s;pition &s;hould not faile to give;</L>
<L>Thus narrowly yee &s;hould, that Serpents &s;light,</L>
<L>Examine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cor. 16.14.</NOTE> in an <HI>Angel</HI> changt of light,</L>
<L>GODS <HI>Spirit</HI> counterfitting, who&s;e deceat,</L>
<L>Vnder pretence of peace procuring hate</L>
<PB N="96" REF="59">
<L>By ba&s;tard <HI>Motions</HI> of the minde doth make,</L>
<L>Deluded &s;oules gro&s;&s;e <HI>Lyes</HI> for <HI>Truths</HI> mi&s;take.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis mo&s;t ab&s;urd, even in the lea&s;t degree,</L>
<L>To thinke GODS <HI>Word,</HI> and <HI>Spirit</HI> di&s;agree,</L>
<L><HI>This,</HI> &s;triving to re&s;traine and &s;top the way,</L>
<L><HI>That,</HI> grounds to this impiety to lay.</L>
<L>GODS holy <HI>Spirit</HI> by no other <HI>Meanes</HI></L>
<L>Doth worke, but &s;uch as GOD Him&s;elfe ordaines,</L>
<L>What ever &s;uper&s;titious dotards dreame,</L>
<L>Forbidden <HI>Meanes</HI> He hates; and the&s;e by name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A contrair <HI>Spirit</HI> then <HI>This</HI> hold wee mu&s;t,</L>
<L>In&s;inuating Him&s;elfe to &s;ettell tru&s;t</L>
<L>In the deluded &s;oules of &s;uch, as find</L>
<L>Such &s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing-&s;acred-<HI>Motions</HI> of the mind,</L>
<PB N="97" REF="59">
<L>Warming with woontle&s;&s;e flames their frozen hearts,</L>
<L>Enveigling mans conceit with won|drous arts.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e (doubtle&s;&s;e) mu&s;t the whoori&s;h <HI>Motions</HI> bee,</L>
<L>Even of the <HI>Spirite</HI> of Idolatrie;</L>
<L>The fire of wor&s;hip fal&s;e: enty|&s;ing traines</L>
<L>Layd by that crafty <HI>Foe,</HI> who &s;pairs no paines</L>
<L>Wretcht Man to make vnlawful|ly delite</L>
<L>In what GOD mo&s;t condemns, in <HI>&s;acred write.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Such were the <HI>Motions Iewes</HI> made <HI>daunce</HI> for joy</L>
<L>Before the <HI>Calfe,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 32.19.</NOTE> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut. 9.</HI>21. <HI>Exod.</HI> 32.2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> which <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> did de&s;troy.</L>
<L>Such, made the <HI>Prophet</HI> by tho&s;e <HI>Tribs</HI> contemnd,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> King. 13.</NOTE></L>
<L>In <HI>Dan</HI> and <HI>Bethell,</HI> who <HI>their calues</HI> condemnd.</L>
<L>Such ear&s;t (wee reade) was the deluding dreame,</L>
<L>Made <HI>Micah happy</HI> in his owne e&s;teeme.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iudg. 17.13.</NOTE></L>
<PB N="98" REF="60">
<L>Such vncouth <HI>flames</HI> made men the Temple leaue</L>
<L>Wor&s;hip to<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Deut. 7.5. &amp; 12.3.</NOTE> <HI>Images</HI> in groaues to giue.</L>
<L>Such zeale made <HI>I&s;raelits</HI> of &s;en&s;e denude,</L>
<L>Bathe<NOTE N="b." PLACE="marg">I&s;a. <HI>57.</HI>5. Deut. <HI>12.</HI>31. Levit. 20.1. Ibid. 18.21.</NOTE> <HI>Molechs</HI> Image with their childrens blood.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Devill,</HI> who Them did to this madne&s;&s;e driue</L>
<L>As &s;ubtile now as ear&s;t, is yet aliue:</L>
<L>And &s;till goth on, by all the craft hee can,</L>
<L>From &s;ervice of the <HI>Living</HI> GOD, fond man</L>
<L>To tempt, <HI>Spirituall whordome</HI> to <HI>commit</HI></L>
<L>With <HI>Idols</HI> dombe: who, de&s;ti|tute of wit</L>
<L>With the inchaunting <HI>Motions</HI> of the minde</L>
<L>Is charmd, in Scripture which no warrant finde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though <HI>Motions</HI> follow not <HI>Mean<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> v&s;d in <HI>Faith</HI></L>
<L>Which for His &s;ervice GOD ap|pointed hath</L>
<PB N="99" REF="60">
<L>As men would haue, or in their hearts project,</L>
<L>Yet &s;uch (wee find) haue ever good effect.</L>
<L>But <HI>Motions</HI> which without GODS <HI>Meanes</HI> doe worke</L>
<L>Are &s;till to be &s;u&s;pect: the <HI>Snaike</HI> doth lurk</L>
<L>Beneath the blooming flowre: the deadlie&s;t blow</L>
<L>Is to bee fear'd from a di&s;gui&s;ed foe.</L>
<L>Who &s;o, come by &s;uch <HI>Motions,</HI> can not flee</L>
<L>By Sathans &s;naires but mu&s;t en|tangled be.<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. <HI>53.2.</HI> Before Chri&s;t came, I&s;aiah prophe&s;ied that Chri&s;t &s;hould neither have forme nor com+lines for which we &s;hould loue Him. There|fore the lying re&s;emblance of our Lords form in the artifici|all <HI>Crucifixe,</HI> mu&s;t haue lo&s;|&s;er force.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By GODS <HI>Prophetick Spirit</HI> when in&s;pird</L>
<L><HI>I&s;aiah</HI> CHRIST made (long ere &s;eene) admir'd,</L>
<L>Nor <HI>Forme,</HI> nor <HI>Comeline&s;&s;e</HI> hee did foretell</L>
<L>Should make His outward feature to excell,</L>
<L>No beauty admiration to moue.</L>
<L>For which, wee &s;hould Him or de|&s;ire, or loue.</L>
<PB N="100" REF="61">
<L>And &s;o it did &s;ucceed: for, who by &s;ight</L>
<L>Of His externall &s;hape, Him knew a-right</L>
<L>To bee the CHRIST, who Man to God conceald,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 16.<HI>17.</HI></NOTE><HI>Such thing of Him, nor fle&s;h, nor blood reveald.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since CHRISTS true lineaments &s;et to the eye</L>
<L>(Which any Painter could haue wi&s;ht to &s;ee)</L>
<L>The bodily beholding of our LORD,</L>
<L>So little force, or furtherance did afforde,</L>
<L>To kindle Mens affections, or to draw</L>
<L>Whom even the <HI>Princ'pall,</HI> not the <HI>Purtrait</HI> &s;aw</L>
<L>To His obedience; O what mad|ne&s;&s;e then</L>
<L>What fury &s;trange doth fill the braines of Men,</L>
<L>With dreams deluded, fondly to conceate,</L>
<L>That <HI>lying Pictures</HI> are of powre more great?</L>
<PB N="101" REF="61">
<L>That counterfites of His exterior frame,</L>
<L><HI>Zeale</HI> can make &s;ervent, or with <HI>loue</HI> enflame?</L>
<L>As greater vertue did from <HI>Pictures</HI> flow</L>
<L>Then <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> pre&s;ence they are &s;et to &s;how?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since of a <HI>Servants &s;hape,</HI> the outward &s;ight,</L>
<L>Which in the fle&s;h did clowde CHRISTS Heavenly light</L>
<L>Did, nor with <HI>Motions</HI> nat'rall, nor divine,</L>
<L>Make men to loue, or &s;eeke to Him, incline,</L>
<L>Shall <HI>Motions</HI> by this <HI>Shaps</HI> vaine picture wrought</L>
<L>Iu&s;tly, or nat'rall, or divine be thought?</L>
<L>No certaine: el&s;e the <HI>Craft&s;-mans toole</HI> &s;hould proue</L>
<L>On wood, or &s;tone more forcible to moue</L>
<L>Then GODS owne hand, CHRISTS frame, and featurs true</L>
<L>On &s;uperfice of humane fle&s;h which drew.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="102" REF="62">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Faith in Chri&s;t is nece&s;&s;ar, the &s;eing of Chri&s;t bodily is not nece&s;&s;ar, far|le&s;&s;e is the fal&s;e counterfitting of His &s;hape nece&s;&s;ar.</NOTE>How ever Men conceate that <HI>Faith,</HI> by &s;ight</L>
<L>Is fo&s;tred; thus that <HI>loues</HI> decay|ing might</L>
<L>Is quickned, yet CHRIST doth the <HI>ble&s;&s;ing</HI> giue</L>
<L>To &s;uch as <HI>haue not &s;eene</HI> and doe <HI>beleeue.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The artificiall <HI>Crucifixe</HI> is a fle&s;hly meane to know Chri&s;t after the fle&s;h, which the <HI>A|po&s;tle</HI> doth reiect</NOTE>After the <HI>fle&s;h Paul</HI> CHRIST refu&s;d to know</L>
<L>Re&s;olv'd Him thus no more, if e|ver &s;o:</L>
<L>How &s;hould the&s;e <HI>Means</HI> of know|ledge then content</L>
<L>After the <HI>fle&s;h</HI> CHRIST made to repre&s;ent?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Naturall con|&s;iderations of the art of pain|ting, or gra|ving, may &s;how the artificiall <HI>Crucifixe</HI> to be but the mock|age of the World.</NOTE>BVT, of the&s;e <HI>Pictures,</HI> poy&s;|ning not a-few</L>
<L>With Error, yet to take a nea|rer view,</L>
<L>Each <HI>Image</HI> &s;hould bee like its Patterne made,</L>
<L>From imitating which, it name doth pleade,</L>
<L>And if heereof it no re&s;emblance leaue</L>
<L>Beholders Eyes, it &s;erues but to deceaue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="103" REF="62">
<L>The <HI>Painter</HI> then the <HI>Prototype</HI> mu&s;t &s;ee,</L>
<L>Which in his bre&s;t mu&s;t fir&s;t en|graved bee</L>
<L>Before his Pen&s;ill, with de&s;erved prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Can with its &s;emblance ravi&s;ht Eyes amaze.</L>
<L>The Shape, the Lineaments, the Features right</L>
<L>His fanta&s;ie mu&s;t apprehend by &s;ight</L>
<L>His hand directing, as hee did con|ceaue</L>
<L>A viue impre&s;&s;ion to the Eye to leaue,</L>
<L>Els both deluded is His &s;imple braine</L>
<L>And Men but mocked with an <HI>Idole</HI> vaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, of the Patterne if though Ignorance,</L>
<L>A bleare-eyed <HI>Leah</HI> hee &s;hould draw by chaunce,</L>
<L>A traytrous <HI>Iudas,</HI> being of in|tent</L>
<L><HI>Rachels,</HI> or <HI>Peters</HI> purtrait to pre|&s;ent,</L>
<PB N="104" REF="63">
<L>Needs force the picture (yet) of that mu&s;t bee</L>
<L>Which it mo&s;t liuely &s;ets before the <HI>Eye.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though Hee His work &s;hould cri&s;ten with the Name</L>
<L>Proper to that to make which was His aime,</L>
<L>Yet mu&s;t it bee that which it true|ly is,</L>
<L>Not what propo&s;d it was, though nam'd ami&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tho with <HI>Apelles</HI> skill, Men now &s;hould &s;triue</L>
<L>Pictures, procuring wonder, to contriue,</L>
<L>If from the Patterne diffring, wrought by gue&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>What &s;erue they, fruitle&s;ly but to expre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>And (valued though with vnde|&s;erved worth)</L>
<L>Conceptions but fanta&s;tick to &s;et forth?</L>
<L>Since the&s;e (how ever by opinion great)</L>
<L>Yet births abortiue of &s;ome vaine conceate,</L>
<PB N="105" REF="63">
<L>What can they els bee but re&s;em|ble though,</L>
<L>The fond <HI>Imagination</HI> them which wrought?</L>
<L>Though Popi&s;h Church &s;hould au|thorize the Dead</L>
<L>Church, Painter, picture, All to <HI>Error</HI> lead.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, as the braine the <HI>Patterne</HI> doth conceaue</L>
<L>So doth the <HI>Image-Maker</HI> paint or graue:</L>
<L>The <HI>Patterns</HI> faynd <HI>Idaea,</HI> in his braine</L>
<L>Fir&s;t mu&s;t bee forg't, next the im|pre&s;&s;ion vaine</L>
<L>Not of the <HI>Patterne,</HI> but of His conceate,</L>
<L>(A fanta&s;ie, hatcht in his head of late)</L>
<L>Finds on the <HI>Table,</HI> or the <HI>mettall,</HI> place,</L>
<L>As arte can his <HI>Imagination</HI> trace;</L>
<L>Thus, hold wee mu&s;t each <HI>Image</HI> of this kinde,</L>
<L><HI>The first Re&s;emblance of the craft&s;-mans minde.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The definition of an <HI>Image</HI> made by arte.</NOTE></L>
<PB N="106" REF="64">
<L>How fal&s;ly then doth a mis-&s;ha|pen ma&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Of mettall for our SAVIOURS <HI>Image</HI> pa&s;&s;e</L>
<L>How fondlie men perplexe them|&s;elues to mixe</L>
<L>Colours mo&s;t fit to frame a <HI>cru|cifixe?</HI></L>
<L>Which when perfited by the be&s;t of arte</L>
<L>The mo&s;t accompli&s;ht <HI>Crafts-men</HI> can imparte</L>
<L>In no re&s;pect with CHRIRT re|&s;emblance hath</L>
<L>Triumphing on the Cro&s;&s;e o're Hell, o're death,</L>
<L>No not &s;o much as in His out|ward frame</L>
<L>By lines which <HI>they</HI> to counter|fit doe clame.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The artificiall Crucifixe hath no ground but the Craft&s;-mans gue&s;se, &s;eing never one that drew Christs pur|trait &s;aw the true Paterne.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, nor the <HI>Paterne</HI> ble&s;&s;d the <HI>Craft&s;-mans</HI> Eye</L>
<L>CHRISTS living face who did no living &s;ee,</L>
<L>Nor &s;aw He Any who could &s;how by &s;peach</L>
<L>And of our LORD the features truely teach,</L>
<PB N="107" REF="64">
<L>But as conceate him ledde, hee boldly gues't,</L>
<L>And, as the <HI>Blind-man</HI> ca&s;ts his &s;taffe, expre&s;t</L>
<L>Vpon his table: meerly igno|rant</L>
<L>Whether in &s;hape, this new-cre|ated <HI>Saint</HI></L>
<L>Lookt liker CHRIST, or either of tho&s;e <HI>twaine</HI></L>
<L>Like &s;hamefull death who did with CHRIST &s;u&s;taine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But (to giue place to trueth) it lookes like neither,</L>
<L>But, as the Child re&s;emble doth the father,</L>
<L>This new-borne <HI>i&s;&s;ue</HI> of the <HI>craft&s;-mans</HI> braine,</L>
<L>Got by imagination, hatcht for gaine,</L>
<L>Like to the fancie of <HI>his</HI> fond con|ceate</L>
<L>Who brought it forth, with paine, with labour great,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t only be &s;uppo&s;d; An IDOL right</L>
<L>By Romi&s;h definition; (el&s;e but &s;light)</L>
<PB N="108" REF="65">
<L><HI>The Semblance of a thing but faind to bee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which no &s;ub&s;i&s;tance hath e&s;&s;enti|ally.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Put ca&s;e, a <HI>Painter,</HI> for a proofe of arte,</L>
<L>Three pictures did mo&s;t exqui&s;ite imparte,</L>
<L>Of Men, &s;treatchd foorth vpon the cro&s;&s;e to death,<NOTE PLACE="marg">When the Craft&s;-Man hath made the portrate of a crucified man, it is at his plea+&s;ure to appoint it for a picture of one of the thieues cruci|fied with CHRIST, or of Chri&s;t, with the change of &s;ome draughts as he thinketh meete.</NOTE></L>
<L>This <HI>Ma&s;ter-peece</HI> while he ac|compli&s;ht hath</L>
<L>Is't not to his arbitriment left free</L>
<L>By CHRIST to cri&s;ten any of the three?</L>
<L>Or, at his plea&s;ure, all three theeues to make,</L>
<L>Re&s;olving (lea&s;t they company &s;hould lake)</L>
<L>Three other <HI>Christs</HI> to forge? or, to affixe</L>
<L>The Super&s;cription of CHRISTS <HI>Crucifixe</HI></L>
<L>Aboue the purtrait of a <HI>Thiefe</HI> of late,</L>
<L>(Adjudged &s;o at lea&s;t in his conceate)</L>
<PB N="93" REF="65">
<L>It calling <HI>Christ?</HI> or, if hee rather plea&s;e</L>
<L>The &s;uper&s;cription new affixt to rai&s;e</L>
<L>So make his <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> a Thie&s;e, for &s;ome wrong draught</L>
<L>Which nearer ob&s;ervation him hath taught,</L>
<L>Can <HI>Pope, Prie&s;t, Prelate,</HI> alter his decree?</L>
<L>Which hee thinks fit, that <HI>Picture Chri&s;ts</HI> mu&s;t be.</L>
<L>His <HI>Word</HI> mu&s;t for a &s;entence &s;table &s;tand,</L>
<L>What Hee determins, none can countermand,</L>
<L>None can His worke controule.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, if the &s;ight,</L>
<L>The <HI>Iudge</HI> which onely can de|cerne aright</L>
<L>Of Picturs, never hath the <HI>Pat|terne</HI> &s;pyed</L>
<L>How can in &s;uch the gro&s;&s;e&s;t faults be tryed?</L>
<L>Sen&s;e, lacking thus a rule to cen|&s;ure by</L>
<L>In vaine, but in the <HI>Painters</HI> arte doth pry.</L>
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<PB REF="66">
<L>What greater <HI>Glory</HI> &s;et they to o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> view</L>
<L>Then to the ba&s;e&s;t <HI>Malefactor</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> due,</L>
<L>That on a gibbet, e're depriv'd <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> breath</L>
<L>Endurd like &s;hamefull execrabl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> death?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;t crucifi|ed was quick|ning, and con|verting &s;oules, &amp; conquering <HI>principalities,</HI> and <HI>powers.</HI> The artifici|all <HI>Crucifixe</HI> faines a Chri&s;t as dead as the dro&s;&s;e of which it doth &s;ub&s;i&s;t.</NOTE>True CHRIST, to death whil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> yeelding on the cro&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>(<HI>Life</HI> to giue <HI>life</HI> content ev'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>life</HI> to lo&s;&s;e)</L>
<L>Though dead for vs, at all wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> could no die,</L>
<L>Cea&s;t never living LORD of <HI>li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> to bee</L>
<L>Quickning, converting, &s;trength<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ning <HI>Soules,</HI> even then</L>
<L>When &s;eeming mo&s;t contemp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ble to Men</L>
<L>While <HI>Bodies,</HI> long agoe con|&s;umd in graue</L>
<L>Rai&s;d by His pow'r, of Him twice life receaue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How doe their <HI>Crucifixes</HI> this expre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Than a Triumphing CHRIST like nothing le&s;&s;e?</L>
<PB N="113" REF="66">
<L>Of their owne <HI>Patterns</HI> (yet) true &s;hads they are,</L>
<L>Viue <HI>Idols</HI> of a lifele&s;&s;e <HI>Corps,</HI> as farre</L>
<L>From any force in working, by their view,</L>
<L>Or bodyes to rai&s;e vp, or &s;oules renew</L>
<L>As is the ba&s;e&s;t Earth, or fonde&s;t braine,</L>
<L>Which fir&s;t gave birth to the&s;e <HI>Inventions</HI> vaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts Bodie</HI> (farre above our &s;in-to&s;t <HI>Ma&s;&s;e,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Christs bodie was ioined in per&s;onall vni|on with the Godhead. The Popi&s;h cruci|fixe faines a Chri&s;t who&s;e body is &s;epa|rate from the Godhead.</NOTE>)</L>
<L>Not of an onely <HI>Man</HI> the Body was</L>
<L>But of that peerle&s;&s;e <HI>Lord,</HI> true <HI>God,</HI> true <HI>Man,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e neare conjunction &s;under nothing can,</L>
<L>Who&s;e humane &s;oule, though from it's man&s;ion forc'd,</L>
<L>Vpon the cro&s;&s;e by painefull death divorc'd,</L>
<L>Yet in the <HI>God-head,</HI> even o'recome by death</L>
<L>The <HI>Body</HI> Being had, while robt of breath,</L>
<PB N="114" REF="67">
<L>Which, lying even in graue, His &s;oule po&s;&s;e&s;t</L>
<L>In highe&s;t Heavens, that <HI>Paradi&s;e</HI> of re&s;t,</L>
<L>Inviolable yet the <HI>&V;nion</HI> &s;toode;</L>
<L>Nor Heaven, nor Earth (one mi|nute) could &s;eclude</L>
<L>The <HI>Godhead</HI> from the <HI>Man-hood, life,</HI> nor <HI>death,</HI></L>
<L>Nor helli&s;h horror, nor the &s;en&s;e of wrath</L>
<L>Could hinder, &s;till (yet &s;o as none can tell)</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. <HI>2.</HI>9.</NOTE>The <HI>Godhead bodily</HI> in <HI>Christ</HI> to dwell:</L>
<L>Which caus'd, (though buried hee behov'd to bee)</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al 16.8.9. Act. <HI>2.</HI>27.</NOTE>GODS <HI>Holy-One, corruption</HI> not to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Pre&s;erving thus (while dead, in coffin layde,</L>
<L>By putrefaction, as all fle&s;h, to fade)</L>
<L>More pow'rfully the <HI>Body</HI> of our LORD</L>
<L>Than all the means the world could els afford</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="115" REF="67">
<L>What madne&s;&s;e then to thinke (though painters arte</L>
<L>Some &s;hadow of Mans <HI>Body</HI> can impart,</L>
<L>Which from its &s;oule may &s;ev'red bee by death,</L>
<L>And turnd in du&s;t, while bani&s;hed from breath,)</L>
<L>That by the pen&s;ill, may re&s;em|bled bee</L>
<L>The <HI>Sonne of Man,</HI> the GOD of <HI>Majestie?</HI></L>
<L>Who, having once a mortall &s;hape a&s;&s;um'd,</L>
<L>Can, (without danger) never bee pre&s;um'd,</L>
<L>That from his <HI>Manhood</HI> (not in any cace)</L>
<L>His <HI>Godhead</HI> to <HI>di&s;-vnion</HI> can give place.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If this wee &s;hould (of this as who may doubt?)</L>
<L>How madde are Men, who fond|ly goe about</L>
<L>Their Crucifixes fal&s;e, means to to appoint,</L>
<L>CHRISTS Body ble&s;t, without the <HI>Godhead</HI> joynt,</L>
<PB N="116" REF="68">
<L>To repre&s;ent; and &s;et before the Eye</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The artificiall <HI>Crucifixe</HI> teacheth a Chri&s;t who is only man, or who&s;e two na|turs are not vnite, or who hath two Per|&s;ons, as the old heritickes did.</NOTE>CHRIST-<HI>Man,</HI> cut &s;hort of divine <HI>Maje&s;tie;</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Word</HI> made fle&s;h denying, or in death</L>
<L>Loo&s;ing that <HI>Vnion,</HI> la&s;ting but with breath;</L>
<L>Or, faining &s;uch a CHRIST, a Onely <HI>Man</HI></L>
<L>Even by it &s;elfe &s;ub&s;i&s;t who&s;e <HI>Body</HI> can;</L>
<L>Or, of one <HI>Nature,</HI> or of <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> twaine,</L>
<L>A CHRIST Imaginary, therefore vaine;</L>
<L>Injuring thus tho&s;e <HI>ever-ble&s;&s;ed Three,</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>Trinall One,</HI> which was, is, ay &s;hall bee,</L>
<L>Thus venting bla&s;phemies again&s;t our <HI>Lord,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;oule abhorreth thus to be ador'd,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s; 42 8.48.11</NOTE>And whom His <HI>Glory</HI> and His <HI>Prai&s;e</HI> to giue</L>
<L>To graven <HI>Images,</HI> doth highly grieue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="117" REF="68">
<L>CHRISTS <HI>Image</HI> mockt thus by audacious hands,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;ts Imag stands in righ+teou&s;ne&s;&s;e and holine&s;&s;e, and can not be &s;een with bodilie eyes.</NOTE></L>
<L>In <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Holine&s;&s;e</HI> which &s;tands,</L>
<L>The object of the &s;oules &s;pirituall eye</L>
<L>By Carnall &s;ight can not di&s;cerned bee:</L>
<L>And,<NOTE PLACE="marg">If it be a filthy di&s;honor to li|ken the worke of mans hands to God the fa|ther. It is no les di&s;grace to liken the work of mans hands to God the Son.</NOTE> as no meane pre&s;umption 'tis in Man</L>
<L>To liken ought his weake inven|tion can</L>
<L>Produce, to GOD, <HI>Beginner, Vnbegunne,</HI></L>
<L>So to &s;et foorth his <HI>Ever-procreat Sonne,</HI></L>
<L>In nothing to his great <HI>Begetter</HI> le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>By ought or toole or pen&s;il can expre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>No le&s;&s;er madne&s;&s;e: if wee GOD e&s;teeme,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> abai&s;|ing of him&s;elfe giues not liber+tie to man to aba&s;e him more, but obli|geth rather to honour Him the more.</NOTE></L>
<L>That <HI>Holy One</HI> who did the world redeeme,</L>
<L>Who, though for vs, His <HI>Glory</HI> layde a&s;yde,</L>
<L>Did meanly in mortalitie abyde,</L>
<PB N="118" REF="69">
<L>Should wee, Him&s;elfe cau&s;e hum|bling, more neglect,</L>
<L>Or &s;hould his <HI>Man-hood,</HI> breed him le&s;&s;e re&s;pect?</L>
<L>Though painters <HI>lines</HI> might po&s;&s;i|blie pre&s;ent</L>
<L>His <HI>Counterfite</HI> as Hee with &s;hame was &s;hent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Put ca&s;e it were pos&s;ible to find out Chri&s;ts Linea|ments, and to expre&s;&s;e them by art, yet &s;till the glorie of His per&s;on di&s;|charges to doe Him &s;uch di&s;|grace as to liken Him to the worke of mans hands.</NOTE></L>
<L>And of his <HI>Servants-&s;hape</HI> &s;ome &s;hadow leaue,</L>
<L>(Or ayming &s;o, at lea&s;t the world deceaue)</L>
<L>Doth po&s;&s;ibilitie a warrant plead,</L>
<L>Or to excu&s;e or Iu&s;tifie this deed,</L>
<L>Since every Sinne hath po&s;&s;ibilitie,</L>
<L>But none for this as lawfull held may bee?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In humane Shape, if GOD the <HI>Fathers</HI> &s;aw</L>
<L>Yet no Re&s;emblance dur&s;t pre|&s;ume to draw,</L>
<L>Why rather now, &s;ince <HI>Fle&s;h</HI> the <HI>Word</HI> a&s;&s;umd,</L>
<L>May <HI>GOD</HI> by <HI>Man</HI> to bee drawne foorth pre&s;umd?</L>
<PB N="119" REF="69">
<L>Sith that the Law, this madne&s;&s;e to re&s;traine,</L>
<L>Mid&s;t flames of fire was not gi|ven foorth in vaine,</L>
<L>Nor now is made le&s;&s;e valide than before</L>
<L>A <HI>Mortall vaile</HI> the <HI>King of Glory</HI> wore.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 2.<HI>8.</HI></NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If not <HI>Apostles</HI> dur&s;t tran&s;gre&s;&s;e this law,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Apo&s;tles dur&s;t not, nor would not draw his pur|trait much le&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hould a pro|faine Craft&s;-man.</NOTE></L>
<L>Nor cau&s;e draw foorth or grave the <HI>Shape</HI> they &s;aw;</L>
<L>If none of all Our <HI>Lords</HI> ob&s;equi|ous Trayne,</L>
<L>His <HI>Will</HI> dur&s;t write, but whom Hee did ordaine</L>
<L>Beyond commi&s;&s;ion;<NOTE PLACE="marg">None may preach Chri&s;t without a calling from Chri&s;t, much le&s;&s;e make fai|ned pictures of Chri&s;t.</NOTE> ev'n if none of Tho&s;e</L>
<L>That wrote, His <HI>Shape</HI> might to the World expo&s;e;</L>
<L>If none may, by Him&s;elfe, this honour reach</L>
<L>Except by CHRIST thru&s;t foorth CHRIST yet to preach,</L>
<L>Shall it to painters only bee left free,</L>
<L>CHRISTS &s;hape and Lineament to fal&s;ifie</L>
<PB N="120" REF="70">
<L>Even though no warrant doth their worke invite,</L>
<L>Nor having &s;eene what to &s;et foorth they &s;weate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis like tho&s;e dreamers, who poore &s;oules deceaue,</L>
<L>CHRIST <HI>Crucifi'd</HI> ne're right con&s;idred haue,</L>
<L>Whyle <HI>once</HI> for <HI>all,</HI> and <HI>Once</HI> for <HI>ay</HI> our <HI>Lord,</HI></L>
<L>Ne're more to bee repeated, did afford</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe a living <HI>Sacrifice</HI> for Sinne,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;t would not bee &s;eene to &s;uffer but once, but will bee heard to have &s;uffred ever His &s;uf|frings He will have &s;et before the eye of the minde by His owne ordinances of <HI>Word</HI> and <HI>Sacrament,</HI> but not to the bodi+lie eye by mans invention.</NOTE>Vpon the Cro&s;&s;e, lo&s;t Man from hell to winne,</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe Hee did expo&s;e to &s;uffer death,</L>
<L>Shame, paine, and dolour, ev'n the <HI>Fathers</HI> wrath,</L>
<L>No more to bee the object of the <HI>Eye,</HI></L>
<L>Though by the <HI>Eare</HI> oft crucified to bee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As deaths tormenting throw's, as &s;en&s;e of payne,</L>
<L>Hee for a &s;ea&s;on was but to &s;u&s;taine,</L>
<PB N="121" REF="70">
<L>So was the <HI>Shame</HI> which <HI>Naked|ne&s;&s;e</HI> did give,</L>
<L>Not all his other &s;uffrings to to &s;ur-vive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When therefore having (mortalls to reclame,)</L>
<L>Sufficientlie now &s;uffred open &s;hame,</L>
<L>Even at mid-day Hee drew the vaile of night,</L>
<L>About His naked Bodie, &s;o the &s;ight</L>
<L>Of gazing eyes (with clowds eclip&s;d) did &s;tay,</L>
<L>Enlighning Some,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Christ dark|ned the <HI>Sunne</HI> and made it as <HI>Night</HI> at <HI>Mid-Day</HI> while He was &s;uffring, to &s;how that hee would not have men to gaze vpon his naked bodie after hee had &s;uffred &s;uffi|cient &s;hame The Popi&s;h <HI>Crucifixes</HI> doe cro&s;&s;e <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> purpo&s;e.</NOTE> who mid&s;t tho&s;e mi&s;ts did &s;tray,</L>
<L>Them making &s;ee, while weake&s;t made, His <HI>Might,</HI></L>
<L>Sinnes clowds di&s;pel'd, which did their &s;oules benight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But (loe) Their antichri&s;tian <HI>Crucifixe</HI></L>
<L>With vaine Inventions who Gods wor&s;hip mixe,</L>
<L>Serves to no other end, but as it may,</L>
<L>CHRITS <HI>Body</HI> naked to the eye to lay,</L>
<PB N="122" REF="71">
<L>And to expo&s;e His long-pa&s;t <HI>Shame</HI> to &s;ight,</L>
<L>Hiding the Glorious vaile of darkned light,</L>
<L>By which more honord was that <HI>Prince</HI> of <HI>Peace</HI></L>
<L>Than <HI>Nakedne&s;&s;e,</HI> or <HI>Iews</HI> did Him di&s;grace.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>CHRIST, of the <HI>Cover</HI> Hee drew on, they &s;triue</L>
<L>(Though all in vaine) thus bold|ly to depriue,</L>
<L>Prea&s;&s;ing pre&s;umptuou&s;ly, in CHRISTS de&s;pight,</L>
<L>To prorogate the &s;hortned &s;hame of <HI>Sight.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;uch their CHRIST, &s;uch <HI>Crucifixe</HI> they fame,</L>
<L>Such <HI>Paterne,</HI> &s;uch the <HI>Purtraite:</HI> both mo&s;t vaine.</L>
<L>The <HI>Painters</HI> fanta&s;ie the pat|terne is:</L>
<L>The <HI>Purtrait</HI> only mu&s;t re&s;emble this,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Genealo|gie</HI> or <HI>Pedegrie</HI> of the Popi&s;h <HI>Crucifixe.</HI></NOTE>That lying <HI>Spirit;</HI> Father of deceate,</L>
<L>That Man true <HI>CHRIST</HI> &s;hould know, who boyles with hate,</L>
<PB N="123" REF="71">
<L>And &s;tudies &s;till to forme in mans fond braine,</L>
<L>Fal&s;e <HI>Chri&s;ts;</HI> or of the <HI>True,</HI> con|ceats prophane,</L>
<L>Doth Parent to this purtrats <HI>Patterne</HI> proue,</L>
<L>Hatcht in the <HI>Craft&s;-mans</HI> head as hee doth moue.</L>
<L>The <HI>Crucifixe, Child</HI> of the Payn|ters <HI>Thought,</HI></L>
<L><HI>O ye</HI> to this Lying <HI>Spirit,</HI> thus forth brought</L>
<L>By arte, as carefull <HI>Midwif's</HI> help|ing hand,</L>
<L>Is from the painfull wretch recei|ued; who fand,</L>
<L>And did more labour, in this <HI>Birth</HI> &s;u&s;taine,</L>
<L>As hee opinion did conceiue of gaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This new-borne <HI>Saint</HI> thus be|ing brought to light,</L>
<L>See how the wretch doth in his <HI>Worke</HI> delight,</L>
<L>Hee gazeth, wondreth, narrowly doth pry,</L>
<L>Striues if hee can the lea&s;t e&s;cape e&s;py,</L>
<PB N="124" REF="72">
<L>Proport'oning by due e&s;teeme Its worth,</L>
<L>As long&s;ome paines, and labour brought it forth,</L>
<L>Which in each feature, finding now compleat,</L>
<L>As to adorne &s;ome <HI>Temple</HI> only meet,</L>
<L>Hee to the <HI>Prei&s;t</HI> pre&s;ents't, who &s;treight doth giue</L>
<L>It <HI>Name;</HI> yea, <HI>Holine&s;&s;e,</HI> as &s;ome beleeue.</L>
<L>By <HI>Charmes,</HI> by <HI>Exorci&s;me</HI> of <HI>Magick</HI> art,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The profaine and wicked chri&s;tning of the artificiall Crucifixe.</NOTE></L>
<L>With <HI>Salt,</HI> and <HI>Water</HI> Chri&s;tned thus a part,</L>
<L>With <HI>Pardons</HI> priuiledg't, with <HI>Odors</HI> &s;weet</L>
<L>Perfumd, with <HI>Altars</HI> honord, Head and Feet</L>
<L><HI>Anoynted, Torches</HI> lighted, <HI>Gifts</HI> pre&s;ented,</L>
<L>Made fitt for <HI>Pilgrimes</HI> now to bee frequented,</L>
<L><HI>Erected</HI> la&s;t, in place mo&s;t eminent,</L>
<L>The <HI>Never-Erring-Clergie</HI> giue con&s;ent,</L>
<PB N="125" REF="72">
<L>That it &s;hall &s;tand to <HI>bee admir'd, ador'd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ki&s;&s;d, reverenc'd, crouch'd before, embrac'd, implor'd,</HI></L>
<L>The Holy <HI>Crucifixe</HI> from hence forth cald,</L>
<L>Or, <HI>On His Cro&s;&s;e the KING OF GLORIE nail'd,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Blinded peoples fooli&s;he &s;uper&s;tition,</L>
<L>The ba&s;e credulitie of their condition,</L>
<L>Approues the <HI>Error,</HI> ratifies the <HI>Deed,</HI></L>
<L>With them this <HI>Crucifixe</HI> doth cre|dit plead,</L>
<L>Which in affinity or <HI>Shape</HI> more neare</L>
<L>As they conceiue, the <HI>Holier</HI> doth appeare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Loe now the <HI>Craft&s;-man,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The devili&s;h deifying of the popi&s;h Cruci|fixe.</NOTE> <HI>Priest</HI> and vulgar <HI>Crew,</HI></L>
<L>Ioyntly fall down, and with devo|tion due,</L>
<L>As many <HI>Pater-nosters</HI> doe repeat</L>
<L>By number of their beads, as they finde meet,</L>
<PB N="126" REF="73">
<L>To this <HI>New-Chri&s;tned-CHRIST</HI> and, as acquent</L>
<L>With Tongues their &s;utes in Latin mu&s;t bee &s;ent,</L>
<L>To This not &s;paring with bla&s;phe|mous breath,</L>
<L>The Honour of <HI>Latria</HI> to bequeath,</L>
<L>Preferring it to all the Heauenly <HI>Quire,</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>Crownde</HI> aboue, or <HI>Militating</HI> heere,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Angels, Saints;</HI> euen to that <HI>Mother-Maide,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Queene of Heauen,</HI> (of Her If truth be &s;aid.)</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when for foule <HI>Idolatrie</HI> arraing'd,</L>
<L>Some <HI>&s;hift</HI> in place of <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> mu&s;t bee fain'd:</L>
<L>The&s;e &s;ubtile <HI>Sophi&s;ts,</HI> wittie in invention,</L>
<L>Doe pleade by vertue of their good <HI>intention,</HI></L>
<L>The honour to the <HI>Crucifixe</HI> a&s;criv'd,</L>
<L>The <HI>Purtrate</HI> fir&s;t, by Crafts-man hand contriu'd,</L>
<PB N="127" REF="73">
<L>Doth hit, but &s;treight &s;ent back,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The preten&s;e of good inten|tion doth no more excu&s;e the popi&s;h Ido|latrie than if a woman &s;hould abu&s;e her bodie with every one that &s;he thoght like her husband and then &s;ay &s;hee did &s;o of good intention willing to loue all that were like her hus|band.</NOTE> is vpward's driven,</L>
<L>And by <HI>Reflexe</HI> doth sklent hye way to Heauen,</L>
<L>Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing &s;uch as &s;ee with others Eyes,</L>
<L>This <HI>By-way wor&s;hip CHRIST</HI> no le&s;&s;e doth plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Than on the&s;e <HI>Tables</HI> ear&s;t by Gods owne hand</L>
<L>Engrav'd, it had beene left th'elea|venth <HI>Command.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But let tho&s;e <HI>Doctors</HI> licence me demand,</L>
<L>Who in <HI>Intention</HI> make <HI>Devotion</HI> &s;tand,</L>
<L>If &s;imple <HI>Women</HI> in their <HI>Hu&s;bands</HI> places,</L>
<L>May warrantably yeeld to &s;trange embraces,</L>
<L>And if it pa&s;&s;e may for a ju&s;t excu&s;e,</L>
<L>That their <HI>Intention Them</HI> did not abu&s;e,</L>
<L>Suppo&s;ing, they did by obedience due</L>
<L>Them&s;elues &s;ubject, vnto their <HI>Hu&s;bands</HI> true,</L>
<PB N="128" REF="74">
<L>And, If tho&s;e Husbands, wrong'd in &s;uch a &s;ort,</L>
<L>Thus to bee mockt and cou&s;ind, ought comport,</L>
<L>And over-looke this as a light offence,</L>
<L>Which <HI>Ignorance</HI> doth challenge in defence?</L>
<L>This, without &s;hame, the&s;e Clerks can not approue,</L>
<L>Except &s;ome <HI>Intre&s;t</HI> having in this <HI>Loue.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How ea&s;ily it &s;elfe doth <HI>Error</HI> roote,</L>
<L>In &s;uch as on GODS <HI>Light</HI> their eyes doe &s;hoote,</L>
<L>That on all hazard will goe on Their way,</L>
<L>With them or walke, or &s;tumble, &s;tand or &s;tray?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>NOW, this great <HI>Idole,</HI> &s;et to publick view,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The profane of&s;pring and broodie gene|ration of little <HI>Crucifixes.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Yet can not &s;erve; all of this num|brous <HI>Crew,</HI></L>
<L>For private v&s;e <HI>One</HI> mu&s;t peculiar haue,</L>
<L>To beare about Him, even vnto His graue.</L>
<PB N="129" REF="74">
<L>Enricht with gold and Iewels, <HI>The&s;e</HI> are borne</L>
<L>The brea&s;ts of <HI>Dames</HI> of <HI>Honor</HI> to adorne,</L>
<L>Which not be&s;eeming <HI>&V;ulgars</HI> (as too deare,)</L>
<L>The <HI>Poorer</HI> &s;ort doe <HI>Poorer Christ|lings</HI> weare</L>
<L>Of poli&s;ht <HI>Ivorie,</HI> of gilded <HI>Gla&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Of gli&s;tring <HI>Horne,</HI> of <HI>Copper, Tinne,</HI> or <HI>Bra&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Which by the <HI>Priest</HI> if <HI>hallow'd,</HI> &s;o much more</L>
<L>Held worthie are of <HI>Wor&s;hip,</HI> than before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If any living <HI>Saint,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">A Holy man is more like Chri&s;t than all the artificiall pictures in the earth, &amp; more worthie of ho|nour for His cau&s;e; yet if any man for holine&s;&s;e were &s;o wor&s;hiped as the popi&s;h cru|cifixe, a hone&s;t hearted papi&s;t would &s;cou~der at that Idolo|trie, and why not now, but becau&s;e he be|liveth the Ro|mi&s;h Church cannot erre.</NOTE> heere &s;uck|ing breath,</L>
<L>Who with our LORD more neare re&s;emblance hath,</L>
<L>To Him more deare, and held of greater worth,</L>
<L>Than all the <HI>Images</HI> art can bring foorth,</L>
<L>In whom this <HI>Spirit, Life,</HI> and <HI>Grace</HI> doth &s;hine,</L>
<L>Whom a mo&s;t neere <HI>conjunction</HI> doth combine,</L>
<PB N="130" REF="75">
<L>And whom CHRIST (one day) though de&s;pi&s;ed now,</L>
<L>Shall not think &s;hame <HI>His</HI><NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Heb. <HI>2.</HI>11.</NOTE> <HI>Brother</HI> to avow,</L>
<L>Yet if this <HI>Saint</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> adored were,</L>
<L>Cald on, as &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e <HI>Crucifixes</HI> are,</L>
<L>The World anone the <HI>&s;acriledge</HI> &s;hould fee,</L>
<L>Cry out again&s;t this vile <HI>Idola|trie,</HI></L>
<L>Abhorre, to any <HI>Mortall</HI> vnder <HI>Heaven</HI></L>
<L><HI>Wor&s;hip,</HI> or divine <HI>Honour</HI> &s;hould bee given,</L>
<L>But now when greater mea&s;ure they bequeath,</L>
<L>To <HI>Stockes,</HI> to <HI>Stones,</HI> to <HI>Idoles</HI> voyde of breath,</L>
<L>They neither can, nor will their <HI>Error</HI> &s;py,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> Cor 4.3.4</NOTE>So darkned hath the devill their Rea&s;ons Eye,</L>
<L>Or, to damnation poa&s;ting on amaine,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1.18.</NOTE>Dare in <HI>vnrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI> the <HI>truth</HI> detaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="131" REF="75">
<L>Since then tho&s;e <HI>Wares</HI> &s;o &s;len|der are in worth,</L>
<L>To mocked &s;ight <HI>lyes</HI> only &s;et|ting foorth</L>
<L><HI>Bookes</HI> which perv&s;d, leaue <HI>Ig|norants</HI> more rude,</L>
<L>Gulling the World but with i|magind <HI>goode,</HI></L>
<L>To CHRIST di&s;gracefull, breeding in mans braine</L>
<L><HI>Conceats</HI> of Him but carnall, and prophaine,</L>
<L>What Hee left <HI>buryed</HI> prea&s;&s;ing to proclame,</L>
<L>His <HI>Glory</HI> darkning with di&s;grace and &s;hame,</L>
<L>Loo&s;ing the&s;e <HI>bands</HI> in&s;ep'rably <HI>vnite,</HI></L>
<L>By which both <HI>Natures</HI> in one <HI>Per&s;on</HI> meete,</L>
<L>Mens <HI>Faith</HI> diverting from that &s;olide &s;tay</L>
<L>The only <HI>Rocke,</HI> the <HI>Life,</HI> the <HI>Truth, the Way,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. 14.6.</NOTE></L>
<L>Vpon a <HI>Shadow</HI> fondly to re|ly</L>
<L>Which CHRIST &s;hall (one day) to bee His deny.</L>
<PB N="132" REF="76">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">All the wor|&s;hip and re|&s;pect that is given to the artificiall Cru+cifixe is given to a filthie Idole.</NOTE>As being only the <HI>Re&s;emblance</HI> vaine</L>
<L>And <HI>Birth fanta&s;tick</HI> of the <HI>Pain|ters braine,</HI></L>
<L>Who, though hee boldly playde the cunning <HI>Ape,</HI></L>
<L>Did never &s;ee, nor could &s;et foorth His &s;hape,</L>
<L>The <HI>Honour</HI> then to This be|queath'd, mu&s;t even</L>
<L>Neids-force, bee to a filthie <HI>Idols</HI> given.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The way to get a right &s;ight of Christ &s;hi|ning in the mir+ror of the &s;crip|ture, and to be changt in the likene&s;&s;e of Christ &s;eene there.</NOTE>BVT leaving more to &s;tirre this noy&s;ome <HI>Sinke,</HI></L>
<L>Poy&s;ning pure <HI>Soules</HI> with a pe|&s;tifrous &s;tinke,</L>
<L>To bee abhor'd, and held in ju&s;t neglect,</L>
<L>Of all, true CHRIST who truly doe affect,</L>
<L>And on that <HI>Purtrate</HI> long to fixe their eye,</L>
<L>Drawne by his <HI>Spirit,</HI> which the &s;oule mu&s;t &s;ee,</L>
<L>In <HI>Holie Write,</HI> that <HI>Mirror</HI> mo&s;t divine,</L>
<L>In which His <HI>Image</HI> Gloriou&s;ly doth &s;hine,</L>
<PB N="133" REF="76">
<L>By preaching of His <HI>Word</HI> which &s;et to view</L>
<L>By <HI>Faith</HI> is &s;eene, and doth by <HI>Sight</HI> renew,</L>
<L>So working on the <HI>Soule</HI> which doth behold,</L>
<L>That thus it lookes as from another mold,</L>
<L>Both to the &s;elfe and Others &s;eeming &s;trange,</L>
<L><HI>Turnd in</HI> its <HI>likne&s;&s;e</HI> by a gracious <HI>change;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.<HI>49.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>So by the <HI>Spirit</HI> quickned is this <HI>Meane,</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>heere</HI> if CHRIST thy <HI>Faith</HI> hath truly &s;eene,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt His <HI>Shape</HI> take on, bee like <HI>Him</HI> made,</L>
<L>Adornd with <HI>Glorie</HI> which &s;hall never fade,</L>
<L>In Thee this <HI>Image,</HI> whence all <HI>Grace</HI> doth flow,</L>
<L>From <HI>Glorie</HI> &s;hall to further <HI>Glorie</HI> grow,</L>
<L>Each faithfull <HI>Looke</HI> on <HI>This,</HI> of force &s;hall bee</L>
<L>Some gracious effect to worke in <HI>Thee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="134" REF="77">
<L>Come then, draw neere, <HI>Thou</HI> who to &s;ee a&s;pires</L>
<L>Sweete IESVS CHRIST, the <HI>Crowne</HI> of thy de&s;ires;</L>
<L>Come, <HI>Thou</HI> who loues on <HI>Him</HI> to looke aright</L>
<L>(Abhorring <HI>Counterfits</HI> which mock the &s;ight)</L>
<L>Who&s;e face alone doth true con|tent afford</L>
<L>Come, heere behold thy <HI>Loue,</HI> thy <HI>Life,</HI> thy <HI>LORD.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>BVT if thou <HI>Him</HI> would'&s;t to Salvation &s;ee</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">A man mu&s;t &s;ee his owne vglines in the gla&s;&s;e of the law before hee can &s;ee Chri&s;ts beautie in the Go&s;pell.</NOTE>Thy <HI>Soule</HI> mu&s;t glas'd in this fame <HI>Mirror</HI> bee,</L>
<L>Thy brea&s;ts mo&s;t inward <HI>Cabins</HI> mu&s;t bee &s;ought,</L>
<L>Thy &s;elfe made <HI>Center</HI> of thy <HI>Circling</HI> thought:</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 16.3.4.5</NOTE>Thou mu&s;t not skarre vpon thy <HI>Soares</HI> to looke</L>
<L>To read thy <HI>dittay</HI> in that &s;acred <HI>Booke</HI></L>
<L>As thou by <HI>Nature</HI> art from <HI>Grace</HI> exild</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 5.12.14</NOTE>With <HI>Mi&s;erie</HI> &s;urchargt, with <HI>&s;inne</HI> defyld,</L>
<PB N="135" REF="77">
<L>Procliue to <HI>fall,</HI> to <HI>peri&s;h</HI> by and by</L>
<L>Without remeed, if <HI>pitty</HI> CHRIST deny;</L>
<L>As dead in <HI>Sinne,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ep.</HI> 2.1.<HI>5.</HI></NOTE> till quickned by His <HI>Grace,</HI></L>
<L>Already damn'd till Hee the <HI>doome</HI> deface</L>
<L><HI>Lost,</HI> on His &s;houlders till Hee home <HI>thee</HI> take,</L>
<L>GODS <HI>Enemie</HI> till Hee the <HI>friend|&s;hip</HI> make,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 6.17,</NOTE></L>
<L>The <HI>Devills</HI> bound <HI>&s;lave,</HI> &s;till ragging on in Ill</L>
<L>Till He redeeme thee, and <HI>renew</HI> thy <HI>Will;</HI></L>
<L>An <HI>Atheist</HI> vile, <HI>Erroneous,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 5.8.14. Ibid. 4.18.</NOTE> &s;hort of <HI>&s;ight,</HI></L>
<L>Till Hee <HI>thee</HI> teach to know thy GOD aright,</L>
<L>Thy heart a <HI>Seminary,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 6.5. Mat. 15.19.</NOTE> which doth breed</L>
<L>And nur&s;e of all kind wickedne&s;&s;e the &s;eed</L>
<L>Till by his <HI>Spirit</HI> purg'd;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. <HI>2.</HI>3.</NOTE> a <HI>Child</HI> in &s;hort</L>
<L>Of <HI>Sathan,</HI> mi&s;erable in each &s;ort</L>
<PB N="136" REF="78">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 3.5.</NOTE>Till hee <HI>Regenerate,</HI> thy &s;oule endue</L>
<L>With <HI>Grace,</HI> and make of thee a <HI>Creature</HI> new.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">If the &s;ight of thy owne &s;ins doe not humble yet the terror of an lu&s;t &amp; angrie Iudge may bring the low. Deut. 9.3. Heb. 12.29.</NOTE>BVT if this <HI>Sight</HI> doth vertue lacke to lead</L>
<L>Thee, thy e&s;tate to mourne and &s;eeke remeed,</L>
<L>Behold that <HI>Lambe</HI> a <HI>Lyon,</HI> full of Ire,</L>
<L>An angrie <HI>Iudge,</HI> a hotte con&s;u|ming <HI>Fire,</HI></L>
<L>Thee citing, whom no <HI>mi&s;ery</HI> can draw,</L>
<L>By terrifying <HI>Trumpet</HI> of His <HI>Law,</HI></L>
<L>Araign'd, before His fearfull <HI>Throne</HI> to &s;tand,</L>
<L>Condemn'd in <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> trem|bling foot, and hand,</L>
<L>His awfull <HI>Eyes,</HI> which <HI>Flames</HI> and <HI>Lightning</HI> dart,</L>
<L>The deepe&s;t <HI>Darkes</HI> of thy decea|ved heart</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. 2.24.25. 1. Cor. 4.5</NOTE>Shall &s;earch: none needs to tell Him what thy brea&s;t</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. <HI>4.</HI>13.</NOTE>Keeps buried from the World: the <HI>Mo&s;t</HI> the <HI>Least</HI></L>
<PB N="137" REF="78">
<L>Nor of thy <HI>Words,</HI> nor <HI>Deeds,</HI> can <HI>Him</HI> e&s;cape:</L>
<L>The <HI>Thoughts</HI> mo&s;t &s;ecreit, which thy <HI>Soule</HI> did &s;hape,</L>
<L>Even ere outbreaking wilfull <HI>Involution</HI></L>
<L>Thee guiltie made by <HI>Actuall</HI> pollution,</L>
<L>Before Him mu&s;ter: Hee can open lay</L>
<L>All that make vp thy dreadfull <HI>Dittay</HI> may.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thought <HI>v&s;e</HI> of <HI>Sinning</HI> Thee &s;ecure hath made,</L>
<L>Though with the <HI>foole</HI> Thou in thy <HI>Heart</HI> ha&s;t &s;aid</L>
<L>Their was no GOD thy foule <HI>Mi&s;deeds</HI> to marke,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 53.<HI>1.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Thy <HI>Words</HI> to view committed in the darke,</L>
<L>Or to avenge the wrongs thou boldly wrought,</L>
<L>As to a reckning never to bee brought;</L>
<L>Though while the LORD d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d patiently forbeare,</L>
<L>But like thy &s;elfe, Hee did to the appeare,</L>
<PB N="138" REF="79">
<L>Thou &s;halt Him comming vnto <HI>thee</HI> behold</L>
<L>The&s;e &s;innes which thou commit|ted vncontrold</L>
<L>In order ranking All before thy face,</L>
<L>No <HI>circumstance</HI> omitted; <HI>Time</HI> nor <HI>Place.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e gro&s;&s;e <HI>Offences,</HI> which (to thee but &s;light)</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Nat'rall Con&s;cience</HI> rub'd, by <HI>Natures</HI> light,</L>
<L>In their commi&s;&s;ion, beeing &s;et to view,</L>
<L>Then, &s;hall another <HI>&s;ight</HI> of <HI>&s;inne</HI> en&s;we:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy former <HI>actuall Roll</HI> Hee &s;hall enlarge</L>
<L><HI>Sinnes</HI> of <HI>Omi&s;&s;ion</HI> laying to thy charge,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 25.42.43.</NOTE>The <HI>Good</HI> vndone requiring at thy hand</L>
<L>Which to performe, or <HI>Law</HI> or <HI>duty</HI> band,</L>
<L>Thus &s;hall hee judge thee guiltie of neglect</L>
<L>Of <HI>things</HI> which thou did&s;t ne|ver wrong &s;u&s;pect;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="139" REF="79">
<L>Thy Idle <HI>Words</HI> &s;hall not vn|challengt &s;lide;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. <HI>12.</HI>36</NOTE></L>
<L>The vnadvy&s;ed <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions</HI> of thy <HI>Pride</HI></L>
<L>Which thou could&s;t never curbe, a cau&s;e thou mu&s;t</L>
<L>Acknowledge now of thy <HI>Dam|nation</HI> ju&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy <HI>heart</HI> expo&s;ing lu&s;t-intang|ling <HI>Hookes</HI></L>
<L>By wanton <HI>ge&s;tures,</HI> by la&s;civi|ous <HI>lookes,</HI></L>
<L>Thee &s;hall Hee make convince,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat 5.28.</NOTE> a <HI>Wretch</HI> mo&s;t vile</L>
<L>Whom <HI>Whoredome</HI> and <HI>Adultery</HI> did defile.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Each <HI>Word</HI> from thy deceatfull <HI>lips</HI> &s;ent foorth</L>
<L>To wound thy <HI>Brothers fame,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ibid.</HI> 22.</NOTE> or wrong his <HI>Worth</HI></L>
<L>No <HI>light</HI> or <HI>veniall &s;inne</HI> (as men now &s;peake)</L>
<L>Hee &s;hall admitt, but &s;uch as <HI>Wrath</HI> &s;hall eake</L>
<L><HI>Thee</HI> rendring worthy of eternall <HI>Ire,</HI></L>
<L>The wofull <HI>object</HI> made of quench|le&s;&s;e <HI>Fire.</HI></L>
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<PB N="142" REF="80">
<L>From His owne <HI>Deare-Ones,</HI> His &s;elected <HI>Sheepe</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn, 10.3, 4,</NOTE>His voice decerning who his wayes did keepe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thine Eares what then thy <HI>Doome</HI> &s;hall bee, may heare,</L>
<L>If thou from <HI>&s;inne</HI> doe not in time reteare;</L>
<L>Once Hee hath &s;ayd, and yet againe will &s;ay</L>
<L><HI>Depart Accur&s;ed,</HI> to be damn'd for ay,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, 25, 41.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Yee workers of Iniquitie,</HI> (and none</L>
<L>More guiltie than thy &s;elfe thou mai&s;t &s;uppone,)</L>
<L>In endle&s;&s;e <HI>Fyre,</HI> in everla&s;ting <HI>Paine</HI></L>
<L>Prepared for the <HI>Devill</HI> and all his <HI>Traine,</HI></L>
<L>Of which are all, who drencht with &s;infull &s;paite,</L>
<L>Lye buried in their <HI>Naturall</HI> e&s;tate,</L>
<L>Even thou, as long as <HI>&V;nrenew'd</HI> by grace,</L>
<L>And do&s;t <HI>vnchangt</HI> continue in this cace</L>
<PB N="143" REF="80">
<L>Deferring to that gracious <HI>Iudge</HI> to &s;ue</L>
<L>The SONNE of GOD, by <HI>ab|&s;olution</HI> true</L>
<L>Who only can thy free <HI>Remi&s;&s;ion</HI> &s;eale,</L>
<L>Cancell thy debts, thy <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> calm'd make feele</L>
<L>The fruit of his <HI>forgivene&s;&s;e;</HI> give thee <HI>Peace,</HI></L>
<L>That true <HI>Tranquillity,</HI> which finds no place</L>
<L>In <HI>Pardons</HI> given by men, for gayne procuird,</L>
<L>In <HI>All</HI> at lea&s;t, who ever haue endurd</L>
<L>The Inward tempe&s;t of a &s;in-tos'd &s;oule,</L>
<L>Looking aright vpon that feare|full <HI>Scroule</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>accu&s;ations,</HI> having layd to heart</L>
<L>The Nature of GODS <HI>Iustice, Sinnes</HI> de&s;art,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">If a man be humbled in the &s;en&s;e of his &s;in, &amp; Gods de&s;er|ved wrath, then may he get a comfortable &s;ight of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t in the Go&s;pell.</NOTE>If in thy &s;elfe, thou ha&s;t this vgly <HI>Sight,</HI></L>
<L>Perceav'd, the <HI>Vengance</HI> due to Thee by right</L>
<PB N="144" REF="81">
<L>If thence, thy &s;oule with inward <HI>Terrors</HI> &s;haken,</L>
<L>By <HI>Iu&s;tice,</HI> trembling &s;tands, to be o're-taken:</L>
<L>If feele thou do&s;t a gnawing <HI>Worme</HI> torment</L>
<L>Thy vexed con&s;cience, but with ea&s;e acquent,</L>
<L>Stinging thy heart, which with remembrance bleeds,</L>
<L>Of long-long buried, and of late <HI>Mi&s;deeds</HI></L>
<L>Kindling in thee &s;parkes of that quenchle&s;&s;e <HI>Fire,</HI></L>
<L>Sent foorth as <HI>Me&s;&s;ingers</HI> of fur|ther Ire</L>
<L>In time to warne Thee what abids for ay</L>
<L>All, that in <HI>Sinne</HI> without <HI>Re|pentance</HI> &s;tay;</L>
<L>If from <HI>Aboue</HI> &s;ome &s;harpe cor|recting <HI>Rod</HI></L>
<L>Hath made thee &s;ee an awfull angrie GOD</L>
<L>Quickning in thee &s;ome <HI>Spunke</HI> of true de&s;ire</L>
<L>His <HI>Peace</HI> to haue, gain&s;t whom thou did&s;t con&s;pire,</L>
<PB N="145" REF="81">
<L>Renouncing henceforth to bee Sa|thans &s;laue,</L>
<L>In life renew'd re&s;olv'd thy &s;innes to leaue,</L>
<L>In this pure MIRROR thou may&s;t then make bold</L>
<L>Sweet IESUS CHRIST thy SA|VIOUR to behold</L>
<L>A readie MEDIATOR full of <HI>grace,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 8.6. Idid. 9.15. and 12.24.</NOTE></L>
<L>Pleading thy <HI>Pardon</HI> and eternall <HI>Peace;</HI></L>
<L>A <HI>Fountaine</HI> open'd,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zach.</HI> 13.1.</NOTE> living &s;treams di&s;tilling</L>
<L>In <HI>Davids</HI> hou&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Apoc. <HI>22.</HI>6. Ibid. 7.17. Mat. 9.12. Luk. 10.35.43.</NOTE> with <HI>Heavenly water</HI> filling</L>
<L>Thy thir&s;ting Soule. That true <HI>Phy&s;itian</HI></L>
<L>The precious <HI>balme</HI> of <HI>grace</HI> who only can</L>
<L>Powre in thy wounds, Thee can alone make cleane</L>
<L>Though nought but <HI>leprous</HI> &s;pots in thee bee &s;eene;</L>
<L>The <HI>Angell of the Covenant,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 3.<HI>1.</HI></NOTE> who brings</L>
<L>To <HI>Sinners,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid. 4.4.</NOTE> healing vnderneath His wings</L>
<PB N="146" REF="82">
<L>A <HI>Mercie &s;eate,</HI> the<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Exod. 25.<HI>21.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Tables</HI> of the <HI>Law</HI></L>
<L>To hide, who&s;e challenge Thee in <HI>Iudgment</HI> draw.</L>
<L>An <HI>Altar,</HI> from who&s;e<NOTE N="b." PLACE="marg">1. King. 1.50</NOTE> <HI>Hornes</HI> of &s;afe <HI>protection</HI></L>
<L>GODS ju&s;tice mo&s;t &s;evere gain&s;t &s;innes infection</L>
<L>Man never bani&s;hd, for<NOTE N="c." PLACE="marg">Iohn. 6.37.</NOTE> <HI>refuge</HI> who fled,</L>
<L>Or whom to Him the <HI>Hope</HI> of <HI>Mercie</HI> led.</L>
<L>A<NOTE N="d." PLACE="marg">Numb. 35.6. Deut. 4.41. Io&s;. 20.2.</NOTE> <HI>Citie,</HI> where in &s;afety to re|&s;ide</L>
<L>And beare the <HI>Devill</HI> and all the <HI>World</HI> at fead,</L>
<L>Who&s;e<NOTE N="e." PLACE="marg">Apoc. <HI>21.</HI>25.</NOTE> <HI>Ports</HI> &s;hoote never, ever patent bee</L>
<L>To all, that from per&s;uing<NOTE N="f." PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 60.11.</NOTE> <HI>Iu|&s;tice</HI> flee.</L>
<L>A &s;aving<NOTE N="g." PLACE="marg">Gene&s; 6.</NOTE> <HI>Arke</HI> where Thou &s;e|cure may&s;t re&s;t</L>
<L>Where inward <HI>feares,</HI> nor <HI>foes</HI> can thee infe&s;t,</L>
<L>Where thou mo&s;t &s;afe may&s;t ly, though <HI>Heavens</HI> &s;hould weepe</L>
<L>Even floods of wrath man from Earths face to &s;weepe.</L>
<PB N="147" REF="82">
<L>A <HI>gratious</HI><NOTE N="h." PLACE="marg">Numb. <HI>14.</HI>46</NOTE> <HI>Aaron,</HI> reaching forth his hand</L>
<L>Who doth with <HI>Incen&s;e</HI> in his <HI>Cen&s;or</HI> &s;tand</L>
<L>To &s;tay the <HI>Plague</HI> of <HI>&s;inne,</HI> on thee begunne</L>
<L>(Without Remeed) ere thou bee over-runne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Draw neare in time, and labour to perceaue</L>
<L>How &s;uch as went before Thee furthred haue:</L>
<L>To<NOTE N="i." PLACE="marg">Math. 9.<HI>10</HI></NOTE> <HI>eate,</HI> to <HI>drink,</HI> Loe! He did not di&s;daine</L>
<L>With<NOTE N="k." PLACE="marg">Luke. 7.36</NOTE> <HI>Publicanes,</HI> with <HI>per&s;ons</HI> mo&s;t prophane</L>
<L>Curing their &s;innes: vi&s;e<NOTE N="l." PLACE="marg">Luke. 4 Ihon. 8.3. Luke. 7.38.</NOTE> <HI>Whoores,</HI> adultrous <HI>Goates</HI></L>
<L>Hee gathers in, and purgeth all their &s;pots.</L>
<L>Mo&s;t covetous<NOTE N="m." PLACE="marg">Luke. 19 5.</NOTE> <HI>Extortioners</HI> find grace,</L>
<L>None are debard who mourne to Him their <HI>cace.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> as He doth &s;tand! Doth &s;weetly call,</L>
<L><HI>Come,</HI> O yee<NOTE N="n." PLACE="marg">Math. 11.<HI>28</HI></NOTE> <HI>Weary, Come</HI> yee <HI>loaden</HI> all,</L>
<PB N="148" REF="83">
<L>Draw neare my<NOTE N="o." PLACE="marg">Math. <HI>11.</HI>29 Ierem. 6.16.</NOTE> <HI>Deare-Ones,</HI> I will giue you <HI>rest,</HI></L>
<L>Your Soules in <HI>peace</HI> &s;hall <HI>hence|foorth</HI> bee po&s;&s;e&s;t;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>"Who come to Mee faint, com|fortle&s;&s;e, and weake</L>
<L>"For &s;uccour, in no cace I can for&s;ake.</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">If thy con&s;ci|ence be not qui|eted at the fir&s;t looke on Chri&s;t, yet a continu|ing to looke v|pon Him, and His offices, and natures, and gracious wor|king with o|thers, may doe it.</NOTE>BUT YET, if &s;till thy <HI>faults</HI> thy <HI>con&s;cience</HI> vexe,</L>
<L>If &s;till the &s;ence of <HI>Wrath</HI> thy Soule perplexe,</L>
<L>If &s;till thy hope-exyling <HI>feares</HI> remaine</L>
<L>That <HI>justice</HI> &s;hall, with never|cea&s;&s;ing paine</L>
<L>For &s;inne, at la&s;t, &s;ea&s;e on thy guil|tie Soule,</L>
<L>A righteous GOD, who boldly dur&s;t controule:</L>
<L>And, if thou can&s;t not yet be brought to &s;ee</L>
<L>How GOD can pardon &s;uch a wretch as thee,</L>
<L>So vile a worthle&s;&s;e wormeling, by de&s;art</L>
<L>Who worthie of hels deepe&s;t dun|geon art,</L>
<PB N="149" REF="83">
<L>Looke on the <HI>Mirror</HI> then; <HI>See,</HI> from aboue,</L>
<L>Of GOD the FATHER the vn|bounded loue</L>
<L>Who, when He All haue damnd in <HI>justice</HI> might,</L>
<L><HI>So lov'd</HI><NOTE N="p." PLACE="marg">Iohn. <HI>3.</HI>16. <HI>1.</HI> Iohn. 4.9.</NOTE> <HI>the World,</HI> that He His chiefe delight</L>
<L>His SONNE Eternall, <HI>Second</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Three</HI></L>
<L>Which &s;till make vp a <HI>Trinall &V;nitie,</HI></L>
<L>To mortall <HI>Man</HI> did gift, in time a <HI>Child</HI></L>
<L>Heere to be borne, to <HI>Man</HI> from grace exild,</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Name</HI> and <HI>Nature</HI> there|to made agree</L>
<L>Our ble&s;t IMMANUEL,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;ay. 7.14. Math. 1.23.</NOTE> <HI>GOD with vs,</HI> &s;hould bee,</L>
<L>The Mightie<NOTE N="q." PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 9.6.</NOTE> GOD in humane fle&s;h, and feature,</L>
<L>GOD reconcealed vnto manly <HI>Na|ture,</HI></L>
<L>That Hee mans <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> might to GOD conceale</L>
<L>And that through <HI>Him</HI> GODS friend&s;hip <HI>Man</HI> might feele:</L>
<PB N="150" REF="84">
<L>Who&s;e &s;earchle&s;&s;e <HI>Wi&s;dome</HI> &s;o pro|found appeares</L>
<L>That thence the name of<NOTE N="q." PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> WON|DERFULL He beares,</L>
<L>For, wonderfully Hee found out a <HI>Way</HI></L>
<L>Man to &s;et free, and fully to de|fray</L>
<L>His debts, the <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI> Infinite con|tenting,</L>
<L>And of an angrie GOD the rage relenting;</L>
<L>A <HI>Way,</HI> to make on Thee, while <HI>even</HI><NOTE N="r." PLACE="marg"><HI>Col.</HI> 1.21.</NOTE> <HI>Gods foe</HI></L>
<L>The boundle&s;&s;e <HI>Fountaine</HI> of His <HI>Mercie</HI> flow</L>
<L>While thou (de&s;ervedly) groaning lay'&s;t beneath</L>
<L><HI>Sinnes</HI> pre&s;&s;ing load, and GODS Eternall <HI>Wrath.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> for Thee He<NOTE N="&s;." PLACE="marg">Iohn. <HI>1.</HI>14. Math. 5.17.</NOTE> MAN be|comes, GODS will</L>
<L>In ev'ry point compleetly to ful|fill,</L>
<L>Thy<NOTE N="t." PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb.</HI> 7.22.</NOTE> <HI>Cautioner,</HI> who to procure thy <HI>Peace</HI></L>
<L>(A bankrupt vnthri&s;t, prodigall of grace)</L>
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<L>That from <HI>Rebellion</HI> thou relax'd might bee</L>
<L>By<NOTE N="u." PLACE="marg">Heb. 9.14.</NOTE> <HI>&s;atisfaction</HI> full did &s;et thee free,</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe for thee a<NOTE N="x." PLACE="marg">Heb. <HI>7.</HI>27.</NOTE> <HI>Sacrifice</HI> pre|&s;enting,</L>
<L>Ere loue thou could&s;t Him, thee with<NOTE N="y." PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> Ioh. 4.19.</NOTE> <HI>loue</HI> preventing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>See</HI> how He &s;tands, as if with<NOTE N="z." PLACE="marg">Math. 3.13</NOTE> <HI>&s;inne</HI> defild,</L>
<L>Even in thy<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Mark <HI>1.</HI>8. Luke. 3.<HI>21.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Name</HI> and <HI>Roome,</HI> by <HI>&s;inne</HI> exild,</L>
<L>Wa&s;hd as a <HI>Sinner,</HI> by the clen|ging &s;treame</L>
<L>Of <HI>Bapti&s;me,</HI> &s;infull in the worlds e&s;teeme,</L>
<L>The<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Math. <HI>17.</HI>5. <HI>2.</HI> Pet. 1.17.</NOTE> <HI>Father</HI> audibly from HEA|VEN expre&s;&s;ing,</L>
<L>And fully plea&s;d in HIM, HIM|SELFE profe&s;&s;ing</L>
<L>That Hee &s;hould <HI>Suretie</HI> bee, thy <HI>burden</HI> beare,</L>
<L>And charging thee againe <HI>His voice to heare.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How can&s;t thou then, (while lying vnder ire)</L>
<L>But boile with flames of vehe|ment de&s;ire</L>
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<L>To heare Him calling, <HI>Come,</HI> O weary wight</L>
<L>If vex'd with inward <HI>feares,</HI> or outward <HI>spight,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Come</HI> mourning Soule, in <HI>con&s;cience</HI> oppre&s;t</L>
<L>Vnder my <HI>wings</HI> &s;ecurely take thee <HI>re&s;t?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If thou belieue, if thou in <HI>faith</HI> doe heare</L>
<L>And follow Him that cals, thou need&s;t not feare</L>
<L>That thou a&s;&s;aulted, &s;hall a <HI>&s;helter</HI> lake,</L>
<L>That wrath &s;hall thee per&s;ue, or overtake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why &s;till then trembling &s;tands thou? &s;till aga&s;t?</L>
<L>Twixt GOD and CHRIST (now) <HI>covenant</HI> is pa&s;t</L>
<L>In thy behalfe: and CHRIST accordingly</L>
<L>Hath <HI>&s;uffered, ab&s;olv'd</HI> and <HI>ran|&s;ond</HI> thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="c." PLACE="marg">Iohn. <HI>3.</HI>16. <HI>1.</HI> Iohn. 4.9.</NOTE>Since then of GOD the free, and endle&s;&s;e <HI>Loue</HI></L>
<L>Thou for thy ^d <HI>warrant</HI> ha&s;t, what &s;hould thee moue?</L>
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<L>Since of that<NOTE N="d." PLACE="marg">Ezek. 37.26</NOTE> <HI>Covenant</HI> new which la&s;ts for ay</L>
<L>The <HI>Truth</HI> and <HI>Strength</HI> not &s;ub|ject to decay</L>
<L>Twixt GOD and CHRIST for <HI>Man,</HI> twixt GOD and <HI>Man</HI></L>
<L>In CHRIST, which nothing change, or alter can,</L>
<L>Doe thee &s;ecure; what need'th thee doubt or feare?</L>
<L>That thou &s;hould&s;t peri&s;h, CHRIST thee bought too deare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What lack&s;t thou? what defi|cient is to &s;ound</L>
<L>And build thy <HI>faith</HI> on a mo&s;t &s;o|lide ground?</L>
<L>The MAN, who doth thy<NOTE N="e." PLACE="marg">Act. 20.28. Heb. 9.<HI>14.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Me|diator</HI> &s;tand</L>
<L>Is<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Philip. 2.<HI>10</HI></NOTE> <HI>al&s;o GOD:</HI> doth all this <HI>All</HI> command.</L>
<L>Hee, worthy Pardon is for thee to pleade:</L>
<L>When Hee maks &s;ute for what thou &s;tand&s;t in neede</L>
<L>The FATHER can not what Hee asks for&s;ake:</L>
<L>Hee Greater is than a repul&s;e to take.</L>
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<L>Hee <HI>High is as the Highe&s;t</HI> to appeare</L>
<L>And GOD for <HI>&s;inne</HI> offended, to draw neare,</L>
<L>Before who&s;e face no creature dare be found</L>
<L>When frowning Hee His anger doth vnbound.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Againe,</HI> that GOD, thy glori|ous<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> Tim. <HI>2.</HI>5 Heb. 7.24</NOTE> MEDIATOR,</L>
<L><HI>Man</HI> likewayes is, <HI>Mans Sonne,</HI> and <HI>Mans</HI> CREATOR,</L>
<L>Thy<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>GOEL.</HI> So stiled by <HI>Iob</HI> 19.25.</NOTE> <HI>Kin&s;e-Man in the fle&s;h,</HI> to thee more neare</L>
<L>Than any <HI>Saint,</HI> or was, or can bee, heere.</L>
<L>Though He that <HI>Loftie</HI><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay. 57.15</NOTE> <HI>One,</HI> that <HI>Great One</HI> bee</L>
<L>Who <HI>Ever-blest,</HI> endwelth <HI>Eternitie</HI></L>
<L>Yet daind He hath (thee to lift vp and &s;aue</L>
<L>Though even the ba&s;e&s;t and mo&s;t abject &s;laue)</L>
<L><HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> to humble, and &s;towp downe more low</L>
<L>Then any other able was to doe</L>
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<L><HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> Hee<NOTE N="i." PLACE="marg">Iohn. <HI>19.17</HI> Philip. 2.7.</NOTE> <HI>emptied,</HI> did the <HI>Cro&s;&s;e</HI> take on,</L>
<L>Was made of <HI>reputation</HI> &s;mall, or none,</L>
<L>Was <HI>peircd,</HI> was <HI>pre&s;d</HI> with paine, to clenge thy &s;core,</L>
<L>A &s;hamefull death endurd: <HI>What would&s;t thou more?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> Mans <HI>Nature</HI> wondrou&s;|ly combind</L>
<L>(By vnion &s;uch, as nature can not find)</L>
<L>Vnto the <HI>Godhead,</HI> in His <HI>Per|&s;on:</HI> &s;o</L>
<L>How ea&s;ie thing it is for GOD to doe</L>
<L>Thence &s;ee thou may&s;t, tho <HI>Sinne</HI> hath made <HI>di&s;-vnion,</HI></L>
<L>To make thy <HI>Per&s;on</HI> haue with Him <HI>Communion.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Behold,</HI> how by this <HI>vnion per&s;onall</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> not, but <HI>Natures:</HI> naturall</L>
<L>Sen&s;e all tran&s;cending, <HI>Sathan</HI> con|quered lyes,</L>
<L>Even by that <HI>Nature</HI> He did fir&s;t enty&s;e.</L>
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<L>Thy LORD on Him a&s;&s;um'd thy humane <HI>Nature</HI></L>
<L>That Hee of thee might make <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> divine <HI>creature,</HI></L>
<L>Abai&s;d <HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> the <HI>Sonne</HI> of <HI>man</HI> to bee</L>
<L>To make to GOD a cho&s;en child of thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold His Worthine&s;&s;e</HI> who pleads thy <HI>peace</HI></L>
<L>Thus &s;halt thou &s;ee how thou vn|worthy <HI>grace</HI></L>
<L>May&s;t bee receav'd, through <HI>Him</HI> may&s;t favour find</L>
<L>Who, though thou faultie, <HI>loving</HI> is and <HI>kind.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> Tim. 2.4.</NOTE> how GOD, in CHRIST, mo&s;t willing is</L>
<L>To &s;aue, to comfort, and to che|ri&s;h <HI>His;</HI></L>
<L>The Soules of trembling <HI>&s;inners</HI> doth &s;u&s;taine</L>
<L>While &s;eeming &s;wallow'd vp, with &s;en&s;e of paine,</L>
<L>With inward angui&s;h, and thou nought &s;halt &s;ee</L>
<L>In GOD from grace to let or hinder thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L><HI>Behold</HI> thy LORD, how not without <HI>delite,</HI></L>
<L>The Worke of <HI>Mans &s;alvation</HI> to perfite</L>
<L>Such <HI>Offices</HI> did daine to vndertake</L>
<L>As for thy well and &s;afety be&s;t did make.</L>
<L>Thus &s;trengthned Thou more<NOTE N="l," PLACE="marg">Heb, 4, 16.</NOTE> boldly may&s;t draw neare</L>
<L>The <HI>Throne</HI> of <HI>grace,</HI> to bee ex|eemd of feare,</L>
<L>Set free from thy rebellion, &s;o e|&s;chue</L>
<L>The <HI>&V;engance</HI> to thy <HI>di&s;obedience</HI> due.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> how <HI>Hee,</HI> as<NOTE N="m," PLACE="marg">E&s;ay, 9, 6,</NOTE> <HI>Coun&s;el|ler</HI> mo&s;t wi&s;e,</L>
<L>To the Eternall <HI>Monarch</HI> of the skies,</L>
<L>While in the <HI>Fathers</HI><NOTE N="n," PLACE="marg">Iohn, <HI>1,</HI> 18.</NOTE> bo&s;ome, GOD alone</L>
<L><HI>Mans fle&s;h</HI> as yet not having ta|ken on,</L>
<L>By <HI>Patriarchs,</HI> &amp; <HI>Prophets</HI> mouths, did breath</L>
<L>GODS <HI>Mysteries,</HI> to man de&s;er|ving death,</L>
<GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="2 pages">
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<L>From thraldome to &s;et free <HI>all</HI> that de&s;ire</L>
<L>To bee releev'd from <HI>wrath,</HI> from <HI>Sinnes</HI> Impire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> Him gifted with <HI>Domini|on</HI> free</L>
<L>MONARCH of <HI>Monarchs,</HI><NOTE N="b." PLACE="marg">1, <HI>Tim.</HI> 6.<HI>15,</HI></NOTE> KING of <HI>Kings</HI> to bee,</L>
<L>With vniuer&s;all pow're, to <HI>rule,</HI> to <HI>raigne</HI></L>
<L>GOD over <HI>all All's</HI> onely <HI>Soveraigne,</HI></L>
<L>Of all things at his plea&s;ure to di&s;po&s;e,</L>
<L>For well of <HI>His;</HI> tho&s;e<NOTE N="c." PLACE="marg">Mat. 18.6.</NOTE> <HI>Proud|lings</HI> to oppo&s;e</L>
<L>Who boldly dare pre&s;ume to vexe or wrong</L>
<L>The meane&s;t <HI>member</HI> that doth <HI>Him</HI> belong,</L>
<L>To whom Hee li&s;ts eternall<NOTE N="d." PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Sam.</HI> 2.<HI>6</HI></NOTE> <HI>life</HI> to giue,</L>
<L>To damne to <HI>death,</HI> from <HI>death</HI> or to reviue,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2.</NOTE>His <HI>foes</HI> to make his <HI>foot-&s;toole:</HI> pe&s;tring downe,</L>
<L>All godle&s;&s;e <HI>Athei&s;ts,</HI> traytors to his crowne</L>
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<L>That Him contemne, or dare His <HI>Scepter</HI> &s;light</L>
<L>Them making feele His powre, His boundle&s;&s;e might.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What fear&s;t thou then,<NOTE PLACE="marg">No inlake in thee but thou may &s;ee how it is &s;upplied in Chri&s;t.</NOTE> if thou thy <HI>Sinnes</HI> for&s;ake</L>
<L>And &s;eeke that Hee in <HI>friend&s;hip</HI> thee may take?</L>
<L>GODS <HI>loue</HI> is <HI>free,</HI> and<NOTE N="e," PLACE="marg">Ho&s;ea, 14, 4</NOTE> <HI>firme;</HI> no change admits,</L>
<L>Continues to the end, and never flits;</L>
<L>His <HI>Truth</HI> both <HI>&s;eald,</HI> and <HI>&s;worne,</HI> doth thee &s;ecure</L>
<L>By way of <HI>Cov'nant,</HI><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">E&s;a, 54, 10,</NOTE> which &s;hall ay endure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The LORD of <HI>lyfe,</HI> CHRIST IESUS &s;et to &s;ight</L>
<L>In this cleare <HI>Mirror, Thine</HI> by <HI>double</HI> right</L>
<L>Is made, to thee <HI>twice &s;ibbe</HI> who groan&s;t for grace,</L>
<L>The <HI>Sonne</HI> of GOD, the <HI>Seede</HI> of mortall race,</L>
<L>Twice <HI>Brother</HI>'s Hee become; by <HI>Incarnation</HI></L>
<L>Him&s;elfe for thee to make a fit <HI>Oblation:</HI></L>
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<L>By thy <HI>adoption;</HI> even with Him to <HI>&s;hare</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Heritage,</HI> of Heaven to bee made<NOTE N="g," PLACE="marg">Rom, 8, 17, 17,</NOTE> <HI>heyre.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>Blind</HI> thou bee, and of a <HI>guide</HI> ha&s;t neede</L>
<L>From <HI>Sinne</HI> and <HI>wrath</HI> thy &s;traying &s;oule to leade</L>
<L>Loe, Hee a <HI>Prophet</HI> is, who<NOTE N="h," PLACE="marg">Iohn, 14, 6,</NOTE> <HI>peace</HI> doth preach.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut, 18, 15, 18, Eph. 2, 17,</NOTE></L>
<L>Draw neere, Him hearken: Hee the way &s;hall teach.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Twixt GOD and <HI>Thee,</HI> if thou the <HI>feade</HI> do&s;t feare,</L>
<L>Behold, a<NOTE N="i," PLACE="marg">Heb, 7, 17,</NOTE> <HI>priest</HI> Hee doth for thee appeare,</L>
<L>Who all His <HI>friends,</HI> or <HI>friends</HI> that &s;eeke to bee,</L>
<L>Hath by one <HI>Sacrifice,</HI> for ay, &s;et free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>Lame</HI> and <HI>Impotent</HI> thou art, vnmeete</L>
<L>To runne to GOD, or flee from <HI>Sathans</HI> feete,</L>
<L>To &s;trengthen <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hee, hee is a <HI>Mightie</HI><NOTE N="k," PLACE="marg">Luke, 1, 32 33,</NOTE> KING,</L>
<L>Who can ray&s;e vp the weake&s;t <HI>vnderling.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="163" REF="89">
<L>What long agoe, as <HI>Prie&s;t,</HI> hee hath procurd</L>
<L>As <HI>Prophet</HI> Hee expones, per&s;wads; a&s;&s;urd</L>
<L>To make His owne of &s;afety: &s;hall at la&s;t</L>
<L>As <HI>King</HI> apply, conforme to <HI>Paction</HI> pa&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What Hee, as <HI>Priest</HI> hath pur|cha&s;t, foorth hee drawes</L>
<L>From GODS great <HI>Trea&s;ure,</HI> opned for his cau&s;e</L>
<L>To our behoue, who as he <HI>dayly</HI> pleads</L>
<L>For vs, by<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8, 34.</NOTE> <HI>priestly Interce&s;&s;ion</HI> &s;peeds.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What Hee as <HI>Prophet</HI> hath ex|pond, by <HI>Word</HI></L>
<L>In holy <HI>Write,</HI> as <HI>Prophet</HI> doth afford</L>
<L>Per&s;picuous, by his <HI>Spirit</HI> made mo&s;t plaine,</L>
<L>That Gratious <HI>Doctor, Teacher</HI> of His Trayne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What Hee as <HI>King</HI> hath gifted and applyed,</L>
<L>(And what in Him can bee by GOD denyed?)</L>
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<L>Hee doth as KING gain&s;t all thy foes maintaine</L>
<L>To &s;ettle Thee, in peace with Him to raigne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Now, if to Him His weaklings bee &s;o deare</HI></L>
<L><HI>Courage dejected &s;oule: thou need&s;t not feare;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ry&s;e, follow on, Thou in this Gla&s;&s;e &s;halt &s;ee</HI></L>
<L><HI>CHRISTS GLORY &s;hinning more and more to thee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">How Chri&s;t may bee loo|ked vpon for &s;trengthning of thy fayth,</NOTE>IF THou from <HI>feare</HI> bee in &s;ome mea&s;ure fred,</L>
<L><HI>If hope of mercie</HI> Thee to feele hath led</L>
<L>Some &s;punk of <HI>life,</HI> &s;ome woont|le&s;&s;e <HI>warmne&s;&s;e</HI> glow</L>
<L>Within thy bo&s;ome, making <HI>tears</HI> to flow</L>
<L>Of godly <HI>&s;orrow,</HI> mixd of <HI>Griefe</HI> and <HI>love,</HI></L>
<L>Thy frozen heart begunne to melt and moue;</L>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> how hee doth <HI>breath,</HI> as thou do&s;t <HI>Mourne</HI></L>
<L>To make thy<NOTE N="m," PLACE="marg">Mat, <HI>12,</HI> 10, E&s;a, 42, 3,</NOTE> <HI>faintly-&s;moaking flaxe</HI> to burne</L>
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<L>And tenderly, till greater &s;trength it breed,</L>
<L>Of thy weake <HI>Fayth</HI> doth touch the <HI>brui&s;ed reed.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> how<NOTE N="n," PLACE="marg">Mat, 9, <HI>2</HI> Mark, <HI>2,</HI> 3 Luke, 5, 18,</NOTE> One, brought in his bed, by force,</L>
<L>Layd at his feete, his <HI>pittie</HI> doth enforce,</L>
<L>Departs, of <HI>&s;ickene&s;&s;e</HI> and of <HI>Sinne</HI> made cleane,</L>
<L>Rejected not, becau&s;e de&s;pi&s;d and meane;</L>
<L>How much more Thee &s;hall Hee receaue in <HI>grace</HI></L>
<L>Who running com&s;t, lay&s;t out to Him thy cace,</L>
<L>With bleeding heart do&s;t His <HI>compa&s;&s;ion</HI> plead</L>
<L>Seeking to thy di&s;ea&s;ed <HI>Soule</HI> remeed?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy LORD thou may&s;t, with Thee a part who beares,</L>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> His <HI>bottle filling</HI> with thy <HI>teares,</HI></L>
<L>With that Sweete SAINT, for &s;inne, in <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI><NOTE N="b." PLACE="marg">Luke. 7.38.</NOTE> <HI>of wrath</HI></L>
<L>With luke-warme <HI>floods</HI> when Thou thy cheeks do&s;t bath.</L>
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<L>With <HI>Her</HI> &s;itts mourning, powr|ing from thine eyes</L>
<L>In heartie <HI>love,</HI> thy greeved LORD to plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Streames to be-dew and wa&s;he His &s;acred <HI>Feete,</HI></L>
<L>That Hee may clean&s;e, and for Him&s;elfe make meete</L>
<L>Thy &s;potted <HI>Soule,</HI> who nought e&s;teeme&s;t too <HI>rare</HI></L>
<L>Too <HI>pretious,</HI> on <HI>Him&s;elfe,</HI> or <HI>cau&s;e</HI> to ware.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though men doe <HI>mock,</HI> and with <HI>contempt</HI> doe pri&s;e</L>
<L>Thy <HI>mourning,</HI> thy <HI>devotion</HI> doe de&s;pi&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>Thy LORD,</HI> who (one day) &s;hall thy<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Mat. 5.4.</NOTE> <HI>paynes</HI> compen&s;e</L>
<L>Thou &s;peaking may&s;t perceave in thy defence:</L>
<L>Loe Hee, a <HI>Banner</HI><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Cant. 2.4.</NOTE> <HI>of His love doth spread</HI></L>
<L>And to his owne <HI>Wine-&s;ellers</HI> thee doth leade,</L>
<L>That by his<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Cant. 2.5.</NOTE> <HI>flagons</HI> comfort thou may&s;t fynd,</L>
<L>Hartning thy &s;orrow with his<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ih. 16.20.22.</NOTE> <HI>favours</HI> kynd,</L>
<PB N="167" REF="91">
<L>The <HI>earnst</HI> Thee giving of that gratious day</L>
<L>When from thine eyes, <HI>teares</HI><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Apoc. 7.17. Ibid. 21.4.</NOTE> <HI>Hee &s;hall wipe away.</HI></L>
<L>Hee &s;hall his <HI>Seale</HI> vpon thy<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ez. 9.<HI>4.</HI>5.6. Apoc. 7.3.</NOTE> <HI>fore-head</HI> &s;et</L>
<L>That the <HI>De&s;troyer</HI> thus may warning get</L>
<L>The wicked <HI>World</HI> whi&s;e <HI>floods</HI> of <HI>vengance</HI> bath</L>
<L>Thee to di&s;cerne, from mong&s;t the <HI>Sonnes</HI> of <HI>wrath.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hold to thy &s;houlder,<NOTE PLACE="marg">How hee who beleiueth mu&s;t looke to <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> pre&s;enting his <HI>burthen,</HI> and his <HI>yoke.</HI></NOTE> &s;turre not to take on</L>
<L>His light&s;ome<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 11.30.</NOTE> <HI>burthen,</HI> which re|penteth none</L>
<L>That ever it did beare: which all makes glad</L>
<L>On whom&s;oever Hee the &s;ame hath layd.</L>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> Hee &s;tretcheth foorth His hand, to lay</L>
<L>His <HI>Law</HI> vpon thy back, thy &s;innes to &s;lay,</L>
<L>So to pre&s;&s;e foorth thy old Im|po&s;tumd <HI>&s;oares,</HI></L>
<L>But not to harme Thee, who his <HI>Peace</HI> implores.</L>
<PB N="168" REF="92">
<L>Thy <HI>fle&s;h</HI> and vitious <HI>Nature,</HI> mu&s;t bee &s;layne:</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t not &s;hrinke at &s;en&s;e of outward <HI>Payne.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold,</HI> His<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Mat. 11.29.</NOTE> <HI>Yoke</HI> Hee brings! <HI>How loath to part?</HI></L>
<L>Stretch forth thy <HI>necke,</HI> thy <HI>hands,</HI> thy <HI>feete,</HI> thy <HI>heart,</HI></L>
<L>That Hee may bind it on: that, (hence) for ay</L>
<L>None, &s;aue thy LORD, thy <HI>&s;ervice</HI> challenge may.</L>
<L><HI>Loe!</HI> that thy <HI>yoke</HI> may <HI>light</HI> and <HI>ea&s;ie</HI> bee</L>
<L>Hee goes before <HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> and drawes with Thee,</L>
<L>Yea both thy <HI>yoke</HI> and <HI>thee</HI> Hee drawes; and beares</L>
<L><HI>Thee,</HI> wre&s;tling with thy <HI>burthen</HI> who appeares.</L>
<L>Goe on: O never never leave thy <HI>LORD</HI></L>
<L>Where ere Hee leads thee; Hee will &s;trength afford.</L>
<L>Hee no where els <HI>Thee</HI> &s;hall In|vite to goe</L>
<L>But where before, the way <HI>Him|&s;elfe</HI> did &s;how</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="169" REF="92">
<L>BVT NOW doth <HI>Sathan</HI> rage with greater &s;pight</L>
<L>Then when &s;ecure thou lay&s;t in <HI>&s;innes</HI> dark night,<NOTE PLACE="marg">How a man vnder tentati|on may looke v+pon Christ in the mirror of His word.</NOTE></L>
<L>Redoubling his a&s;&s;aults, <HI>Thee</HI> vex|ing more,</L>
<L>Pre&s;enting <HI>bayts</HI> more frequent then before?</L>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> thy LORD, whom HEA|VEN, whom <HI>Earth</HI> obeys,</L>
<L>In<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat. 4. Mark.</HI> 1.12. <HI>Luke.</HI> 4.1.</NOTE> <HI>Wildern&s;&s;e, alone,</HI> twice twentie dayes</L>
<L>With <HI>apparitions</HI> vi&s;ible frequented,</L>
<L>Not from that <HI>Ill-ones</HI> firie <HI>darts</HI> exempted.</L>
<L>If CHRIST hee dur&s;t attempt to make his <HI>Thrall</HI></L>
<L>Whom gain&s;t his <HI>dints</HI> Hee knew a <HI>brazen wall</HI></L>
<L>What wonder thee a <HI>weakling</HI> hee enty&s;e,</L>
<L>To His <HI>per&s;ute</HI> who&s;e <HI>&s;oule</HI> oft guardle&s;&s;e lyes?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;ee&s;t thou CHRIST pre|vaile? His <HI>powre</HI> confine?</L>
<L>Him &s;treight di&s;-arme? the <HI>&V;icto|rie</HI> is thine,</L>
<PB N="170" REF="93">
<L>O &s;tand! O heere <HI>behold</HI><NOTE N="m." PLACE="marg">Ex. <HI>14.</HI>13.</NOTE> <HI>the LORDS Salvation!</HI></L>
<L>This Combate to thy <HI>&s;afety</HI> hath relation,</L>
<L>Heere <HI>Sathan</HI> al&s;o made before <HI>thee</HI> flee</L>
<L>Thy &s;elfe in <HI>CHRIST</HI> victorious thou may&s;t &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Sathan is not affrayd though &s;ometimes hee faine feare for holy water or cros&s;ing.</NOTE>But <HI>holie water</HI> in the Ayre to to&s;&s;e</L>
<L>And with the finger <HI>heere and there</HI> to <HI>cro&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Scorne thou, as fruitle&s;&s;e freets, lea&s;t <HI>Sathan</HI> &s;light</L>
<L>And &s;corne &s;uch <HI>weapons</HI> &s;hould re&s;i&s;t his <HI>might.</HI></L>
<L><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">How a man vnder co~tempt of the word, or de&s;pi&s;ed of his friends may looke on Chri&s;t</NOTE><HI>Doth now</HI> the World a <HI>mock|ing-&s;tock</HI> thee make?</L>
<L>Thy<NOTE N="n." PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 38.<HI>11.</HI></NOTE> <HI>friends</HI> (before) thy <HI>fellow|&s;hip</HI> for&s;ake?</L>
<L>Now art thou hated, &s;ince by gratious<NOTE N="o." PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn.</HI> 15.19.</NOTE> <HI>change</HI></L>
<L>Thy former <HI>life</HI> become to thee is &s;trange?</L>
<L>Now pointed at? becau&s;e to &s;in thou &s;hunnes</L>
<L>And no more to thy wonted<NOTE N="p." PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> Pet. 4.4.</NOTE> <HI>ryot runnes?</HI></L>
<PB N="171" REF="93">
<L>Now doe the wicked lou&s;e their tongues to <HI>lyes</HI></L>
<L>Traducing thy <HI>profe&s;&s;ion</HI> as they plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Not &s;paring even thy <HI>per&s;on,</HI> cen|s'ring <HI>thee</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>madde,</HI> or <HI>fooli&s;h,</HI> or <HI>preci&s;e</HI> to bee?</L>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> thy LORD, expo&s;d to like de&s;pight,</L>
<L><HI>&V;exd, mockt, per&s;ued,</HI> with <HI>malice</HI> greate&s;t <HI>might,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Despy&s;d, opprest,</HI> the marke of <HI>envy</HI> made,</L>
<L>A common <HI>foe</HI> for all men to in|vade.</L>
<L><HI>See</HI><NOTE N="q." PLACE="marg">Iohn. <HI>1.</HI>11,</NOTE> how Hee comes vnto His <HI>Owne</HI> by <HI>Blood,</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>bonds</HI> of <HI>nature,</HI> even by <HI>them</HI> with&s;tood,</L>
<L>Rejected, not receiv'd, but mett in place</L>
<L>Of kindlie acceptation, with di&s;grace.</L>
<L>A Man, be&s;ide ^r <HI>Him&s;elfe,</HI> in their e&s;teeme</L>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> the SAVIOUR of the world doth &s;eeme:</L>
<PB N="172" REF="94">
<L>Him they mi&s;take, and &s;eeke to apprehend</L>
<L>As if His countries<NOTE N="&s;." PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke.</HI> 23.2.</NOTE> <HI>foe,</HI> not <HI>Cae|&s;ars</HI> friend</L>
<L>Even one who&s;e <HI>cour&s;e,</HI> (which they not rightly &s;aw)</L>
<L>Their<NOTE N="t." PLACE="marg">Iohn. 11.45,</NOTE> <HI>State</HI> might touch, <HI>them|&s;elues</HI> in danger draw.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Each day that did His <HI>lifes</HI> &s;hort terme compleet</L>
<L>Heere, with a &s;everall affront did meet</L>
<L>But while His <HI>cour&s;e</HI> Hee clo&s;d, O <HI>griefe!</HI> O <HI>teares!</HI></L>
<L>See how<NOTE N="u." PLACE="marg">I&s;. 33.3. Mat. 27.41. &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>vnmov'd,</HI> what bitter <HI>taunts</HI> Hee beares?</L>
<L>With what vnvtterable <HI>angui&s;h</HI> torne</L>
<L>While &s;uffring mid&s;t His <HI>Paines,</HI> the <HI>Hight</HI> of <HI>Scorne</HI></L>
<L>Which more than all the <HI>Stripes,</HI> His <HI>Soule</HI> did racke,</L>
<L>Which &s;courging <HI>Burrio's</HI> layd v|pon His backe?</L>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> they <HI>nod</HI><NOTE N="x." PLACE="marg">Ibid 27. 29. 30.</NOTE> <HI>the head,</HI> they <HI>bow the knee;</HI></L>
<L>Who <HI>Wi&s;dome</HI> was, to them a <HI>foole</HI> mu&s;t bee.</L>
<PB N="173" REF="94">
<L>The Honorable SONNE of GOD they floute,</L>
<L>And put a <HI>Purpure</HI><NOTE N="y." PLACE="marg">Math. 27.28</NOTE> <HI>garment</HI> Him about,</L>
<L>A <HI>Crowne</HI> of <HI>Thornes,</HI> vpon His holy head</L>
<L>And in His harmele&s;&s;e <HI>hand</HI> a brit|tle <HI>Reede</HI></L>
<L>Worthy no other <HI>Scepter,</HI> in their thought:</L>
<L>With <HI>&s;hame,</HI> with <HI>&s;corne</HI> to death He thus was brought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>"LORD Thou, that I &s;hould liue, who daind to die,</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Thy &s;ervant and di&s;ciple make of mee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Though I with Thee &s;hould &s;uffer, even while heere,</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Scorne, spight, contempt, wrong mo&s;t vnju&s;tlie beare,</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Which, to my &s;ight, thou &s;tand&s;t, by my procuring</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Before the eyes of liuelie faith enduring.</HI></L>
<L>If <HI>Povertie</HI> thee pinch,<NOTE PLACE="marg">How a man vnder Pover+tie may looke vpon Chri&s;t in the mirror of the Word.</NOTE> if <HI>want</HI> thee vexe</L>
<L>Looke on thy LORD, whom care did ne'er perplexe</L>
<PB N="174" REF="95">
<L>Of wordly <HI>Wealth;</HI> who heere did liue content</L>
<L>To &s;erue <HI>Him&s;elf</HI> with what His <HI>&s;ervants</HI> lent;</L>
<L>Tho&s;e holy<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Luke. 8, 3,</NOTE> <HI>Matrons</HI> who did Him attend</L>
<L>Vnto His death, who did permit to &s;pend</L>
<L>Their proper <HI>goods,</HI> forth for His v&s;e to lay,</L>
<L>The charges of His <HI>Iourney</HI> to defray.</L>
<L>Who being <HI>tax'd</HI> did<NOTE N="a," PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat,</HI> 17.27</NOTE> <HI>Tribute-money</HI> lake:</L>
<L>Whom<NOTE N="b," PLACE="marg">Mat, 8, 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> <HI>hou&s;e,</HI> nor <HI>hold</HI> did ever <HI>owner</HI> make:</L>
<L>In poore e&s;tate mo&s;t meanely who was<NOTE N="c," PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke,</HI> 2.7.</NOTE> <HI>borne;</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>offring,</HI> which the<NOTE N="d," PLACE="marg">Ibid, 24,</NOTE> <HI>Altar</HI> did adorne</L>
<L>In <HI>His</HI> behalfe, in &s;tead of fatned<NOTE N="e." PLACE="marg">Levit. <HI>12,</HI> 8,</NOTE> <HI>droaves,</HI></L>
<L>The poore-mans <HI>Pigeons</HI> was, the <HI>Turtle doves;</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>Io&s;ephs</HI> hou&s;e his <HI>life</HI> not <HI>Rich</HI> could bee:</L>
<L>A poorer &s;poyle the <HI>Sunne</HI> did never &s;ee</L>
<PB N="175" REF="95">
<L>Than at His <HI>death</HI> His <HI>foes</HI> did part by lote,</L>
<L>His greate&s;t wealth a<NOTE N="f." PLACE="marg">Iohn. 19.23.</NOTE> <HI>&s;ober &s;eame|le&s;&s;e coate.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If this <HI>communion</HI> with his <HI>povertie</HI></L>
<L>Griefe of all <HI>&s;traits</HI> can not a&s;&s;wage to thee</L>
<L>Looke on the <HI>riches</HI> of &s;pirituall <HI>grace</HI></L>
<L>Which hee on all be&s;towes, His &s;teps who trace.</L>
<L><HI>Loe, heyre</HI> Hee is of<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Heb. <HI>1.</HI>2.</NOTE> HEAVEN and <HI>Earth:</HI> of all</L>
<L>And with Him&s;elfe<NOTE N="h." PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.<HI>17.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Co-Heyre</HI> annexe thee &s;hall</L>
<L>Yea will not (heere) with thee &s;o &s;harply deale</L>
<L>But (as be&s;t &s;utes His <HI>Glorie,</HI> and thy <HI>well</HI>)</L>
<L>Both will, and can provide, that Thou nor lacke</L>
<L><HI>Foode</HI> for thy bellie, <HI>cloathing</HI> for thy back.</L>
<L>And, though thou &s;ee&s;t not how, yet take not <HI>care</HI></L>
<L>His providence to<NOTE N="i." PLACE="marg">Luke. 12.6.</NOTE> <HI>Sparrowes</HI> in the ayre</L>
<PB N="176" REF="96">
<L>To <HI>Lillyes</HI> of the field, to every thing</L>
<L>Which His <HI>eternall Word</HI> to life did bring</L>
<L>Extended is, and (as to him &s;eemes be&s;t)</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Portion</HI> furni&s;h &s;hall among&s;t the re&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By &s;peciall care, thy LORD, can make thee feele,</L>
<L>Enlarg't, the <HI>lytle</HI> mea&s;ure of thy<NOTE N="p." PLACE="marg"><HI>1,</HI> King, 17 14 16</NOTE> <HI>Meale,</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2,</HI> Kings, 4,</NOTE>Thy <HI>Crui&s;e</HI> of <HI>Oyle</HI> &s;ufficient, thee to feede</L>
<L>Till more Hee &s;end, to <HI>la&s;t</HI> as thou ha&s;t need.</L>
<L>Can in thy greate&s;t troubles thee vphold,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut, 84,</NOTE></L>
<L>Cau&s;e that thy <HI>Garments,</HI> nor thy <HI>&s;hoes</HI> waxe old</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan, 1,</NOTE>And if Hee but a di&s;h of <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> propine</L>
<L>Aboue thy fellows can thy <HI>face</HI> make <HI>&s;hine;</HI></L>
<L>Hee multiply thy <HI>lytle,</HI> even thy <HI>least,</HI></L>
<L>Can, though a dayes <HI>provi&s;ion</HI> thou but ha&s;t,</L>
<PB N="177" REF="96">
<L>As ea&s;ily it make to hundreths &s;treach</L>
<L>As for <HI>fine</HI><NOTE N="q," PLACE="marg">Mat, 14.19, Iohn, 6, 11,</NOTE> <HI>Thou&s;and Soules</HI> hee ear&s;t made reach</L>
<L>(With plentie fed,) tho&s;e <HI>Loaues</HI> and <HI>fi&s;hes</HI> few,</L>
<L>For <HI>Fyue</HI> alone which els were but enew.</L>
<L>If thou for Him doe <HI>thir&s;t,</HI> by manner &s;trange</L>
<L>He, for thy v&s;e, <HI>in wine</HI> can<NOTE N="r," PLACE="marg">Iohn, <HI>2,</HI> 8,</NOTE> <HI>Water</HI> change:</L>
<L>Yea <HI>living</HI><NOTE N="&s;." PLACE="marg">Iohn. <HI>4.</HI>14.</NOTE> <HI>&s;treams</HI> can give thee, if hee li&s;t,</L>
<L>Which ta&s;ted once, thou never more &s;hall thri&s;t.</L>
<L><HI>A fi&s;h,</HI> with money in its mouth,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 17.27.</NOTE> be driven</L>
<L>Shalt on thy <HI>Hooke,</HI><NOTE N="t." PLACE="marg">1. <HI>King.</HI> 17.<HI>6</HI></NOTE> <HI>Ravens</HI> feede thee <HI>Noone</HI> and <HI>Even,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Heavens</HI><NOTE N="u." PLACE="marg">Ex. 16.14. P&s;al. 78.27.</NOTE> <HI>Manna</HI> rayne, the flin|tie<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Exod. 17.6. Numb. 20.9. P&s;al. 78.15.</NOTE> <HI>Rocke</HI> &s;hall &s;erue</L>
<L>Thy thir&s;t to quench, ere thou for want doe &s;tarue.</L>
<L>"<HI>O that I may</HI> (LORD) <HI>for thy Kingdome care,</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Thee aboue all things &s;erue; &s;o &s;hall I feare</HI></L>
<PB N="178" REF="97">
<L><HI>"Adver&s;itie nor want: thus what may ayde</HI></L>
<L><HI>"My vext e&s;tate, &s;hall to my hand be layde.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>Rich</HI> thou bee, take heede <HI>vncertaine</HI><NOTE N="y." PLACE="marg">Tim. <HI>16.17</HI> How a man in wealth &amp; pro&s;|peritie may behold Christ with profite.</NOTE> <HI>wealth</HI></L>
<L>Steale not thy heart, thy &s;oule de|prive of health:</L>
<L><HI>Tru&s;t</HI> not therein; be not puft vp with pride</L>
<L>Of things, on<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Prover. 23.5.</NOTE> <HI>Eagles</HI> wings which &s;wiftly &s;lyde,</L>
<L>Fixe thou on <HI>Him</HI> alone thine <HI>heart,</HI> thine <HI>Eye,</HI></L>
<L>To make <HI>Thee Rich,</HI><NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">2. Cor. 8.9.</NOTE> who <HI>poore</HI> did chu&s;e to bee.</L>
<L>O! let thy <HI>humble</HI> Cariage, <HI>mode&s;t</HI> mynde,</L>
<L>Thy thoughts with <HI>moderation</HI> confind,</L>
<L>Beare witne&s;&s;e, that thou <HI>pure</HI> in <HI>Spirit</HI> art,</L>
<L>That thou do&s;t <HI>thirst</HI> and <HI>hunger</HI> in thy heart</L>
<L>To bee inriched with that <HI>Righ|teou&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Which CHRIST &s;till gifts, yet never is made le&s;&s;e.</L>
<PB N="179" REF="97">
<L>Bee greedie of his <HI>golde;</HI> O begge to weare</L>
<L>His <HI>Garments,</HI> that thou glorious may&s;t appeare.</L>
<L>That truly <HI>rich,</HI> thou may&s;t thy &s;elfe pre&s;ent</L>
<L>To GOD;<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Phil. 4.11.</NOTE> <HI>in wealth,</HI> in <HI>want,</HI> a|like content.</L>
<L>The&s;e earthly things, but &s;olide as a <HI>dreame,</HI></L>
<L>More worthy than they are, doe not e&s;teeme,</L>
<L>But for thy LORDS v&s;e, &s;eeke to <HI>v&s;e</HI> them, &s;o</L>
<L>That on their <HI>Owner</HI> thou may&s;t them be&s;tow:</L>
<L><HI>Whom</HI> if thou &s;ee, or in his <HI>Churches</HI> neede</L>
<L>Or <HI>Any</HI> of his <HI>Saints,</HI> thy pittie pleade,</L>
<L>O then thy <HI>&s;uperfluitie</HI> to &s;pare</L>
<L>To help the cau&s;e belonging to <HI>His care,</HI></L>
<L>His poore di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>Brethren</HI> to relieue</L>
<L>In whom His <HI>grace</HI> and <HI>Image</HI> &s;hineth viue,</L>
<PB N="180" REF="98">
<L>A horrible <HI>Ingratitude</HI> mu&s;t bee,</L>
<L>Yea even a damnable <HI>Impie|tie.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">How a man in &s;ickne&s;&s;e may get a helpfull &s;ight of Chri&s;t</NOTE>If <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI> of <HI>payne,</HI> if <HI>&s;oares</HI> of any &s;ort</L>
<L>Thee &s;o a&s;&s;aile, as hard is to com|port,</L>
<L>Looke on thy LORD, how <HI>torturd</HI> for thy &s;ake,</L>
<L><HI>Scourg'd</HI> backe and &s;ides, GODS <HI>wrath,</HI> thy <HI>paynes</HI> to &s;lake,</L>
<L><HI>See</HI> how his pretious <HI>bloode</HI> for Thee is &s;hed</L>
<L>To <HI>Calvary</HI> with &s;hame, along while led,</L>
<L>With which the &s;en&s;le&s;&s;e &s;treets all red, &s;eem'd blu&s;hing,</L>
<L>While bathd with <HI>Rivers</HI> from his <HI>woundes</HI> foorth gu&s;hing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> the <HI>Nailes,</HI> driven both through foote and hand,</L>
<L>Not in a <HI>ma&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>mettell,</HI> which doth &s;tand</L>
<L><HI>Him</HI> &s;uffring to &s;et foorth: a <HI>living Man</HI></L>
<L>Thy object is; what <HI>spight,</HI> what <HI>malice</HI> can</L>
<PB N="181" REF="98">
<L>Enduring on the <HI>Cro&s;&s;e;</HI> a pub|licke wonder</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Legs</HI> and <HI>Armes</HI> &s;treatchd foorth, neere rackt a-&s;under</L>
<L>Not &s;uffered were to &s;tand, as to His griefe</L>
<L>The lea&s;t-lea&s;t meanes afford might of reliefe,</L>
<L>But as mo&s;t obvious to the <HI>Soul|diers</HI> minde</L>
<L>They might bee found, His <HI>Bones</HI> to <HI>breake</HI> combinde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold,</HI> by burthen of His <HI>Bo|dy</HI> ble&s;t,</L>
<L>His fle&s;h doth yeeld (while being down-ward pre&s;t)</L>
<L>Gaping and growing <HI>Wounds,</HI> &s;till made more large</L>
<L>As more His <HI>Weight</HI> His tender <HI>Hands</HI> doth charge.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Harke how He cryes, I<NOTE N="i," PLACE="marg">Iohn, 19, 28,</NOTE> THIRST, complaines of <HI>drouth,</HI></L>
<L>For other <HI>Paines</HI> who <HI>opned not His mouth,</HI></L>
<L>Though pa&s;&s;ing great, mo&s;t &s;en&s;i|bly though felt,</L>
<L>With this of all mo&s;t vehement|ly delt.</L>
<PB N="182" REF="99">
<L>O &s;ee, how <HI>He His</HI> weary<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn.</HI> 17.29</NOTE> <HI>Neck</HI> extends</L>
<L>And langui&s;hing, with ready <HI>mouth</HI> attends</L>
<L>To drink the offred <HI>&V;inegar</HI> and <HI>Gall</HI></L>
<L>His burning <HI>Thirst</HI> to quench, to FINISH ALL,</L>
<L>Of which the bitter<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg"><HI>Math.</HI> 27.34</NOTE> &s;owrene&s;&s;e proving, &s;traight</L>
<L>A very <HI>Ta&s;t</HI> to <HI>Him</HI> becomes a draught.</L>
<L>This Ruefull &s;ight pre&s;ented to to thine eyes</L>
<L>Inward or outward <HI>Paynes</HI> may &s;erue to ea&s;e</L>
<L><HI>Grieues</HI> all allay, giue <HI>Patience</HI> to comport,</L>
<L>Till GOD thy <HI>Dolours</HI> &s;laken, in &s;ome &s;ort.<NOTE PLACE="marg">How a man in health may looke vpon CHRIST.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>healthy, &s;ound,</HI> and <HI>&s;trong,</HI> from trouble free,</L>
<L>Looke on the <HI>Price</HI> that purcha&s;t <HI>All</HI> to thee,</L>
<L><HI>His</HI><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.24.</NOTE> <HI>Stripes</HI> did make thee whole: thy<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 53.4.</NOTE> LORD did beare</L>
<L>Thy ^o <HI>Maladyes,</HI> that thou might&s;t &s;ound appeare.</L>
<PB N="183" REF="99">
<L><HI>Hee</HI> thy <HI>Infirmities</HI> on Him did take</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Health</HI> to thee a <HI>Ble&s;&s;ing</HI> thus to make</L>
<L>And that thy &s;icklie <HI>Soule</HI> might whole bee found</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;tat's oft wor&s;t, thy <HI>Body</HI> while mo&s;t &s;ound.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>"<HI>O that I may</HI> LORD <HI>whollie heere imploy</HI></L>
<L><HI>"My &s;elfe, while health, while &s;trength I doe enjoy</HI></L>
<L><HI>"In &s;erving Thee; and, to my dayes as length</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Thou addst, I loue Thee may with greater &s;trength,</HI></L>
<L><HI>"That &s;o, while health and &s;trength, as &s;hads &s;hall flee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Both &s;ound and &s;trong I may bee found in Thee.</HI></L>
<L>Doth long <HI>di&s;cent,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">How a Noble or ba&s;e borne per&s;on, may behold Christ for their in|struction.</NOTE> vn-di&s;continued <HI>race</HI></L>
<L>Of hon'rable <HI>Ancestors,</HI> make thee place,</L>
<L>Worldly <HI>Preheminence</HI> to thee beget</L>
<L>Aboue the <HI>Simpler &s;ort,</HI> below thee &s;et?</L>
<PB N="184" REF="100">
<L>Art Thou a <HI>Noble,</HI> or &s;ome &s;pe|ciall <HI>Peere</HI></L>
<L>So <HI>Great</HI> as thy <HI>Inferiors</HI> thee admire?</L>
<L>Or (tho <HI>Enobled</HI> not by <HI>Place</HI>) doth <HI>blood</HI></L>
<L>From the Ignoble <HI>&V;ulgar</HI> thee &s;eclude?</L>
<L>In this forbeare to <HI>glorie;</HI> but <HI>behold</HI></L>
<L>Thy LORD of <HI>Royall Linage, Race</HI> mo&s;t <HI>Old,</HI></L>
<L>A BRAUNCH who&s;e <HI>blood</HI> deriv'd from <HI>Davids</HI> &s;temme</L>
<L>Did make Him right to weare a <HI>Diademe,</HI></L>
<L>A KING, re&s;pecting even His <HI>Manhoode,</HI> borne;</L>
<L>Yet, all proud thoughts of <HI>Pede|gries</HI> to &s;corne</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe aba&s;d, in <HI>Grace</HI> to make vs <HI>Great,</HI></L>
<L>And (though a <HI>Per&s;onage</HI> of <HI>High estate</HI>)</L>
<L>Became mo&s;t <HI>low,</HI> vs <HI>Hon'rable</HI> to make</L>
<L>Even our <HI>Di&s;honour</HI> on <HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> did take.</L>
<PB N="185" REF="100">
<L><HI>"O &s;eeke Nobilitie, which ne'er &s;hall fade,</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Honour from which thee no man can degrade,</HI></L>
<L><HI>"By &s;eeking right in Him, a Child to bee</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Of GOD; true Honours most &s;upreme degree.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Art thou by birth <HI>Ignoble, Ba&s;e, Ob&s;cure?</HI></L>
<L>Behold thy <HI>Glorious</HI> KING in &s;tate as poore</L>
<L>As <HI>meane</HI> as thou, de&s;cended, <HI>thee</HI> to rai&s;e,</L>
<L>Even with <HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> thee to po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;e and <HI>&s;ea&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Not in a <HI>State,</HI> but la&s;ting for a day,</L>
<L>But of a <HI>Kingdome</HI> made &s;ecure for ay</L>
<L>Vpon a <HI>Throne</HI> thee freely to &s;et downe</L>
<L>To &s;wey a <HI>Scepter,</HI> and to weare a <HI>Crowne.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>Ba&s;e</HI> thou bee, yet &s;till to <HI>climbe</HI> a&s;&s;ayes</L>
<L>The bruckle <HI>braunches</HI> of <HI>vaine glorious</HI> wayes,</L>
<PB N="186" REF="101">
<L>If <HI>Noble,</HI> yet to &s;well with <HI>Pride</HI> do&s;t chu&s;e</L>
<L>And &s;eek&s;t <HI>ambitiou&s;lie</HI> all meanes to v&s;e</L>
<L>To proppe thy worldlie <HI>Credite,</HI> with profane</L>
<L>And worthle&s;&s;e wretches, who no <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> di&s;daine</L>
<L>May further their ba&s;e <HI>Ends,</HI> affe|cting <HI>Prai&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Men,</HI> their <HI>Names</HI> vpon <HI>Fames</HI> wings to rai&s;e,</L>
<L>Blind to behold that <HI>Glorie,</HI> to bee found</L>
<L>With GOD, which &s;eene, ad &s;uch <HI>De&s;ires</HI> doth bound;</L>
<L>O &s;tudy then more &s;teadfa&s;tly to &s;tare</L>
<L>And on thy LORD to looke with greater <HI>Care;</HI></L>
<L>Yea neede thou ha&s;t to <HI>Touch,</HI> from Him that &s;o</L>
<L><HI>&V;ertue</HI> to heale this<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Luke. 8.46.</NOTE> <HI>Vanitie</HI> may flow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">How a man may learne hu|militie looking on Chri&s;t in the Scripture.</NOTE> He &s;its as <HI>Doctor,</HI> teach|ing thee</L>
<L>(<HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> thy <HI>Patterne</HI>) true <HI>Humilitie</HI></L>
<PB N="187" REF="101">
<L>Inviting thee who to His <HI>Schoole</HI> do&s;t &s;eeke</L>
<L>To learne of<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Math. 11.29</NOTE> <HI>Him,</HI> who <HI>lowly</HI> is and <HI>meeke.</HI></L>
<L><HI>See,</HI> how to purge thy Soule of &s;tinking <HI>Pride</HI></L>
<L>The God of <HI>Glorie, Glorie</HI> layes a&s;ide</L>
<L>A<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Philip. <HI>2.</HI>7.</NOTE> <HI>Servants &s;hape</HI> a&s;&s;umes, a <HI>Man</HI> mo&s;t meane</L>
<L>Becomes;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 9.<HI>10.</HI></NOTE> mong&s;t <HI>Publicanes</HI> and <HI>Sinners</HI> &s;eene</L>
<L>To winne them home: <HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> a&s;&s;ociating</L>
<L>Even to the <HI>Ba&s;est, Good</HI> to them to bring,</L>
<L>Acce&s;&s;e and &s;peech to None when askd denying,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t homelie with <HI>His friends,</HI> on <HI>Him</HI> relying.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold,</HI> (not pampred with delicious fare)</L>
<L>With the&s;e Hee &s;its who&s;e <HI>Table</HI> turnes their &s;nare,</L>
<L>His traine attending, till He ba&s;e|lie haue</L>
<L>By &s;urfetting become his bellyes &s;lave,</L>
<PB N="188" REF="102">
<L>But<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Math. 21.28.</NOTE> <HI>hungring</HI> oft, and <HI>thir&s;ting</HI> for thy &s;ake</L>
<L>His &s;ober <HI>Trayne</HI> doth His <HI>Companions</HI> make</L>
<L>Serv'd at one <HI>Table,</HI> feeding even as <HI>Hee,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Iohn. 13.5.</NOTE> <HI>feete</HI> from <HI>filth</HI> that <HI>He</HI> might <HI>wa&s;h,</HI> O &s;ee</L>
<L>How with a <HI>Towell</HI> girt about <HI>Hee</HI> &s;tands,</L>
<L>And &s;towping downe, with <HI>Ba|&s;en</HI> twixt <HI>His</HI> hands,</L>
<L>With humble <HI>Heart</HI> performes that <HI>&s;ervice</HI> meane,</L>
<L>And wipes them with the <HI>Linnen,</HI> thus made cleane,</L>
<L>The Greate&s;t teaching who <HI>His</HI> Schollers are,</L>
<L>For <HI>Him</HI> their <HI>Pride</HI> to <HI>mortifie</HI> &s;o far</L>
<L>That to <HI>His Least-Ones,</HI> though de&s;pi&s;d they lye</L>
<L>The meane&s;t charge in <HI>loue</HI> they not deny.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>He,</HI> thy LORD and KING, became &s;o low,</L>
<L>Wilt thou, to be <HI>His Servant</HI> who makes &s;how</L>
<PB N="189" REF="102">
<L>Lodge in a haughtie heart &s;oule-poy&s;ning <HI>Pride,</HI></L>
<L>Who glory can&s;t, as thine, of nought be&s;ide</L>
<L><HI>Sinne, Mi&s;erie,</HI> and <HI>Shame?</HI> Thy <HI>Pride</HI> di&s;clame</L>
<L>Or in thy <HI>Lord</HI> no part thou need&s;t to clame.</L>
<L>Humble LORD IESUS mong&s;t <HI>His</HI> lowlie traine</L>
<L>Doth no ambitious <HI>Servants</HI> intertaine.</L>
<L>Both <HI>Paradice</HI> and <HI>Heaven</HI> &s;pewd out once haue</L>
<L>The <HI>Proud,</HI> and &s;uch can never back receaue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>Honours</HI> &s;moakie vapour blind thee &s;o,<NOTE PLACE="marg">How the Am|bitious may be|hold Chri&s;t, &amp; bee humbled.</NOTE></L>
<L>Thy GOD, thy &s;elfe nor &s;uffring <HI>Thee</HI> to know;</L>
<L><HI>Thee,</HI> if <HI>High place</HI> &s;o plea&s;e, that nought be&s;ide</L>
<L>Can &s;erue to feed the <HI>fire-brand</HI> of thy <HI>Pride</HI></L>
<L>Why thus O Foole! art thy affection fir'd?</L>
<L>With what thou can&s;t nor haue, nor keepe acquird?</L>
<PB N="190" REF="103">
<L>Why doth <HI>their</HI> worldly <HI>Greatne&s;&s;e</HI> thee inty&s;e,</L>
<L>Who nothing le&s;&s;e than <HI>Vertues worth</HI> can pri&s;e?</L>
<L>Why pin'&s;t thou for <HI>Preferment?</HI> ca&s;ts thy care</L>
<L>On things which may thy inward <HI>Peace</HI> impare?</L>
<L>Is earthlie <HI>Dignitie</HI> to Thee &s;o deare</L>
<L>In it thy <HI>Happine&s;&s;e</HI> e&s;teeming heere,</L>
<L>That (with all danger) thou dar'&s;t it imbrace</L>
<L>By this prejudg't though of a better <HI>Place?</HI></L>
<L>Vaine <HI>Glorie-hunter</HI> change in time thy cour&s;e,</L>
<L>Leaue taynted <HI>Stream's,</HI> &s;eeke <HI>Honour</HI> in the <HI>Source.</HI></L>
<L>If meanes thou v&s;e, with CHRIST thou may&s;t obtaine</L>
<L>In <HI>Glory</HI> which &s;hall never end to raigne.</L>
<L>His <HI>Cro&s;&s;e</HI> to <HI>Climbe,</HI> by <HI>&s;uffring</HI> bee content,</L>
<L>The <HI>Scale</HI> by which the <HI>Saints</HI> to <HI>Heauen</HI> are &s;ent;</L>
<PB N="191" REF="103">
<L>There &s;hall thy <HI>Honour,</HI> (never to take flight)</L>
<L>By GOD bee given, in <HI>Men</HI> and <HI>Angels</HI> &s;ight,</L>
<L><HI>Where Time</HI> di&s;court, nor <HI>Envie</HI> thee can harme,</L>
<L>Nor flattring <HI>Straines</HI> of <HI>Sycophants</HI> can charme</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Princes</HI> eare, <HI>from Honour</HI> to degrade</L>
<L>Thee, <HI>Great</HI> but for <HI>thy greater</HI> ruine made,</L>
<L>Nor <HI>Life</HI> bee &s;hort, toile-conq'red <HI>Sutes</HI> to brooke</L>
<L>Some anxious <HI>Dayes,</HI> but la&s;ting as a <HI>Looke.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>Loue</HI> of <HI>Money,</HI> whence all<NOTE N="u." PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> Tim. 6.<HI>10</HI> How the ava|ritious man maybe healed by looking on CHRIST.</NOTE> <HI>Evill</HI> &s;prings,</L>
<L>Thee, <HI>(prickt with thornie cares,)</HI> in bondage brings,</L>
<L>Moue thee to <HI>&s;crape,</HI> to <HI>&s;cart,</HI> to <HI>pinch,</HI> to <HI>spare,</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>rake,</HI> to <HI>runne,</HI> to <HI>kill</HI> thy &s;elfe with <HI>care,</HI></L>
<L>Things mo&s;t &s;ecure to <HI>doubt,</HI> to <HI>waite,</HI> to <HI>watch,</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Penny,</HI> or of <HI>Penny-worth</HI> to <HI>catch</HI></L>
<PB N="192" REF="104">
<L>Some <HI>Gnat,</HI> by chaunce, in <HI>Spi|der-web</HI> arriv'd,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Bowel-wasting-wretched-wayes</HI> contriv'd,</L>
<L>Draw neere, heere learne but for the<NOTE N="x." PLACE="marg">Math. 6.34.</NOTE> <HI>Day</HI> to care,</L>
<L>Vncertaine to &s;uck vp <HI>To-morrows</HI> Ayre:</L>
<L>Come &s;ee thy LORD and <HI>His</HI> poore <HI>Traine,</HI> preparing</L>
<L>Things, for another <HI>life;</HI> no tra|vell &s;paring</L>
<L>About this <HI>Task:</HI> For worldly <HI>goods</HI> content</L>
<L>With what by GOD to &s;erue the <HI>Time</HI> was &s;ent,</L>
<L>Like <HI>Pilgrims,</HI> pa&s;&s;ing to their ble&s;t <HI>aboade</HI></L>
<L>Not over-charged with &s;uperflu|ous <HI>loade.</HI></L>
<L>Alace! what mean&s;t thou (while in &s;oule mo&s;t pore)</L>
<L>Thy &s;elfe to toile, to conque&s;&s;e cankring <HI>Ore?</HI></L>
<L>Heaps to hoarde vp of <HI>Pelfe?</HI> Who&s;e <HI>Rust</HI> at la&s;t</L>
<L>Shall <HI>Witne&s;&s;e</HI> bee, that<NOTE N="y." PLACE="marg"><HI>Iam.</HI> 1.2.<HI>3.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Sentence</HI> ju&s;t is pa&s;t</L>
<PB N="193" REF="104">
<L>Of thy <HI>damnation?</HI> O! in time forbeare</L>
<L>On <HI>dro&s;&s;e,</HI> on <HI>dunge,</HI> &s;till to bee <HI>doating</HI> heere,</L>
<L>Care for the&s;e <HI>Trea&s;ures,</HI> which in CHRIST are found</L>
<L>In which, all <HI>grace,</HI> all <HI>wi&s;dome</HI> doth abound:</L>
<L>That <HI>Pearle.</HI> Him&s;elfe, aboue all <HI>price,</HI> who is,</L>
<L>Than all the world be&s;ide, more <HI>deare</HI> to <HI>His;</HI></L>
<L>If thou enrichd would&s;t by &s;ome <HI>Good-thing</HI> bee</L>
<L><HI>Sell</HI> all thou ha&s;t; and with <HI>af|fection</HI> free</L>
<L>Prefer to <HI>part,</HI> with all things earthly twinne,</L>
<L>Lo&s;&s;e even thy <HI>lyfe,</HI> this peereles<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Mat. 13.45, 46.</NOTE> <HI>Pearle</HI> to winne:</L>
<L>And though no <HI>Coine</HI> thou do&s;t command, nor <HI>ware</HI></L>
<L>With this <HI>Equivalent</HI> thou can&s;t compare</L>
<L>Hee without<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 55.<HI>1.</HI> Apoc. 3.<HI>18.</HI></NOTE> <HI>price,</HI> or <HI>money</HI> wilt be&s;tow</L>
<L>(As thou thy <HI>wants</HI> and <HI>Indigence</HI> do&s;t &s;how)</L>
<PB N="194" REF="105">
<L>Both <HI>gold</HI> and <HI>garments,</HI><NOTE N="c." PLACE="marg"><HI>Ih.</HI> 6, <HI>33,</HI> 35.</NOTE> livelie <HI>foode,</HI> and <HI>all</HI></L>
<L>What wi&s;h thou can&s;t, yea even <HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> withall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">How the Li|centious may learn Tempe|rance, by look|ing on Chri&s;t.</NOTE>Mong&s;t tho&s;e <HI>di&s;ea&s;es,</HI> to thy &s;oule which &s;ticke,</L>
<L>If of the <HI>fever</HI> of <HI>Intemp'rance</HI> &s;icke</L>
<L>Selfe-rotting fle&s;hlie <HI>plea&s;ure</HI> it affect,</L>
<L>Thee carying headlongs to eternall wreake,</L>
<L>If with this bea&s;tlie <HI>Sen&s;ualitie</HI></L>
<L>This &s;oule-be&s;otting <HI>&s;inne,</HI> thou grieved bee,</L>
<L>That <HI>poy&s;on</HI> ca&s;ting vp, which (late) &s;eemd &s;weete</L>
<L>And with delight thy <HI>&s;en&s;es</HI> did invite</L>
<L>Even to a <HI>&s;urfet,</HI> Longing for <HI>remeed,</HI></L>
<L>Looke on thy LORD, who all <HI>His dayes</HI> was dead</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 33.3. ibid.</NOTE>To Earthlie <HI>plea&s;ures:</HI> who with <HI>grieues</HI> acquented</L>
<L><HI>A man of &s;orrowes</HI> liu'd, heere vnlamented,</L>
<PB N="195" REF="105" MS="y">
<L>Who&s;e <HI>breast</HI> did beare, bra&s;h't with <HI>di&s;plea&s;ures</HI> dart,</L>
<L>A <HI>brui&s;ed</HI><NOTE N="e." PLACE="marg"><HI>Mark.</HI> 8.12.</NOTE> <HI>Spirit,</HI> and a<NOTE N="f." PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 69.20.</NOTE> <HI>broken heart,</HI></L>
<L>On who&s;e &s;ad<NOTE N="g," PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 26, 38. <HI>Mark.</HI> 14.33. <HI>and</HI> 34.</NOTE> <HI>&s;oule did heavie &s;orrowes</HI> light</L>
<L>When <HI>wrath</HI> &s;u&s;taining (due to vs by right)</L>
<L>In Him our &s;infull <HI>plea&s;ures</HI> were per&s;ued,</L>
<L>Eternallie which wee had not e|&s;chued.</L>
<L>If GOD and <HI>vs</HI> Hee not had &s;tept betweene</L>
<L>Even with his owne <HI>Heart-blood</HI> to make vs cleane.</L>
<L>Ha&s;t, &s;en&s;uall <HI>&s;laue</HI> thy filthie <HI>&s;oule</HI> to hyde</L>
<L>Vnder his <HI>&s;hadow:</HI> lea&s;t thy da|ring <HI>pride</HI></L>
<L>With <HI>wrath</HI> bee puni&s;ht, who <HI>forbidden Tree,</HI></L>
<L>Of fal&s;e <HI>delights</HI> dur&s;t ta&s;te, de|fended Thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> Hee<NOTE N="h." PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb.</HI> 5, 7,</NOTE> <HI>mourns,</HI> for what thou mad&s;t thy <HI>sport</HI></L>
<L>While check't in <HI>Con&s;cience:</HI> O! with <HI>tears</HI> re&s;ort</L>
<PB N="196" REF="106">
<L>To Him in private, le&s;t for light|lie pri&s;ing</L>
<L>His <HI>Tears,</HI> for want of <HI>tears</HI> in thee ari&s;ing,</L>
<L><HI>Angui&s;h</HI> and <HI>&s;orrow,</HI> which &s;hall never &s;lake,</L>
<L><HI>Teares,</HI> never finding <HI>truce,</HI> thee overtake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold</HI> how <HI>Horror</HI> on his <HI>&s;oule</HI> doth &s;ea&s;e</L>
<L>Forth-wringing <HI>&s;ighs</HI> and <HI>&s;obs,</HI> for thy <HI>di&s;ea&s;e</HI></L>
<L>With <HI>wrath</HI> brunt vp for <HI>&s;inne,</HI> in which of late</L>
<L>Thy fooli&s;h <HI>&s;oule</HI> did fal&s;e <HI>content</HI> conceate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>"O change thy minde; Thoughts &s;ometime &s;eeming &s;weete</HI></L>
<L><HI>"Iudge cau&s;es now for which thy cheeks to weete.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>See,</HI> how all <HI>baithd</HI> in His owne <HI>blood</HI> Hee lyes</L>
<L>Thy lewd <HI>delights</HI> how He mo&s;t <HI>dearely</HI> buyes,</L>
<L><HI>Torne, beaten, stabt,</HI> with <HI>thorns nailes,</HI> cruell <HI>speare</HI></L>
<L><HI>Stript naked, &s;ham'd</HI> and <HI>&s;layne;</HI> yea more, doth <HI>beare</HI></L>
<PB N="197" REF="106">
<L>Per&s;uing <HI>wrath,</HI> to <HI>expiate</HI> thy <HI>Crime</HI></L>
<L>Thy <HI>bea&s;tly &s;wine-like bathing,</HI> all thy time,</L>
<L>In bruti&s;h <HI>lu&s;ts,</HI> &s;till <HI>wallowing</HI> in the <HI>myre</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>fylth,</HI> no <HI>limits</HI> &s;et to thy <HI>de&s;ire.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O! See His <HI>veynes,</HI> their pre|tious <HI>Trea&s;ures</HI> &s;pending,</L>
<L>His <HI>heart</HI> yet hot, a <HI>double &s;treame</HI> foorth &s;ending</L>
<L>Of <HI>blood</HI> and <HI>water. Quicklie, quick|lie</HI> ha&s;te</L>
<L>With mournefull <HI>&s;oule,</HI> which truely doth deta&s;te</L>
<L>Thy vile licentious <HI>life:</HI> mo&s;t humbly craue</L>
<L>Tho&s;e guiltle&s;&s;e <HI>streames</HI> in Thee no <HI>guilt</HI> may leaue,</L>
<L>That (hence) by vertue of this <HI>Ran&s;ome</HI> fred,</L>
<L><HI>Tears</HI> thou to Him, who <HI>bloode</HI> for thee, may&s;t &s;hed.</L>
<L>Soft <HI>ea&s;e</HI> exile, till by vnfaind <HI>confe&s;&s;ion</HI></L>
<L>Thy pittying LORD for thee make <HI>Interce&s;&s;ion</HI></L>
<PB N="198" REF="107">
<L>Tho&s;e pois'nable <HI>delights,</HI> di&s;|gorgd now having</L>
<L>Once greedilie drunke in, thy <HI>&s;oule</HI> deceaving;</L>
<L>Re&s;olving (hence) by <HI>action,</HI> nor <HI>con&s;ent</HI></L>
<L>More to licke vp thy <HI>&s;ins</HI> loathd <HI>excrement</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI> though &s;eeming <HI>&s;weete,</HI> which now turnd <HI>&s;owre</HI></L>
<L>A <HI>flood</HI> of <HI>bitterne&s;&s;e</HI> on thee doth powre,</L>
<L>Thee, &s;tinging with &s;oule-wring|ing &s;ad <HI>remor&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>The more repre&s;t <HI>repining</HI> with more <HI>force.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, gain&s;t this <HI>Tyrant</HI> having now prevaild,</L>
<L>By time, this <HI>hundreth-headed Monster</HI> quaild,</L>
<L>Beware, once ^i <HI>foyld,</HI> Thou never &s;et it <HI>free,</HI></L>
<L>Once <HI>damn'd,</HI> ne're after it <HI>ab|&s;olved</HI> bee,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t by that Righteous <HI>Iudge,</HI> who&s;e <HI>&s;entence</HI> &s;tands,</L>
<L>Thou bee adjudged to eternall <HI>bands,</HI></L>
<PB N="199" REF="107">
<L>Who&s;e trampled<NOTE N="k," PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb,</HI> 10, 19</NOTE> <HI>blood</HI> Hee &s;hall at rhee require,</L>
<L>A <HI>Sow</HI> turnd backe to <HI>wallow</HI> in the<NOTE N="l," PLACE="marg">2, pet, 2, 22,</NOTE> <HI>myre.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If with thy &s;elfe, for <HI>Sinne,</HI> to live at <HI>&s;trife</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>dete&s;tation</HI> of thy vitious <HI>life</HI></L>
<L>Thou truly do&s;t de&s;ire, to find true <HI>peace,</HI></L>
<L>Looke, looke vpon thy LORDS mo&s;t lovelie <HI>face,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Perpending, pondring, laying deepe to heart,</HI></L>
<L>No mid&s;t there is, but Thou with Him mu&s;t part</L>
<L>For <HI>ever</HI> &s;ev'red from His <HI>Holine&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>To pyne in <HI>Torments</HI> which no <HI>time</HI> makes le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Back</HI> in time or turning; with thy <HI>Sinne</HI></L>
<L>(As thy<NOTE N="m," PLACE="marg">Mat, 5, 29, <HI>30.</HI></NOTE> <HI>right hand</HI> or <HI>eye</HI> though deare) to twinne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis ba&s;e to thinke (if <HI>&s;oules</HI> not to betray)</L>
<L>That CHRIST and<NOTE N="n." PLACE="marg"><HI>2, Cor,</HI> 14, 15</NOTE> <HI>Belial</HI> can together &s;tay,</L>
<PB N="200" REF="108">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>A</HI> man mu&s;t either renunce his &s;infull lu&s;ts or Chri&s;t: hee can not haue both.</NOTE>Thy LORDS cha&s;t <HI>loue,</HI> and thy licentious <HI>lu&s;ts</HI></L>
<L>From thy divided <HI>&s;oule</HI> one other thru&s;ts.</L>
<L><HI>Plea&s;ure</HI> in Him, and fle&s;hlie <HI>plea&s;ure</HI> fall</L>
<L>So foull at <HI>strife,</HI> they can, nor <HI>mixe</HI> nor <HI>wall.</HI></L>
<L>To bee conform'd to Him, take <HI>plea&s;ure;</HI> &s;o</L>
<L>As thou mak&s;t <HI>progre&s;&s;e</HI> &s;hall thy <HI>plea&s;ure</HI> grow,</L>
<L><HI>Plea&s;ure</HI> without compare, which Thee &s;hall make</L>
<L><HI>Sinnes</HI> deare bought &s;eeming <HI>plea|&s;ures</HI> &s;oone for&s;ake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No <HI>Concupi&s;cence</HI> e're defild his minde,</L>
<L>Nor &s;infull <HI>Motions</HI> lea&s;t-lea&s;t place did find</L>
<L>In His <HI>affections,</HI> Him to lead a&s;tray,</L>
<L>Darkning in Him the weake&s;t &s;hining <HI>Ray</HI></L>
<L>Of perfite <HI>holine&s;&s;e,</HI> mou'd but draw neare</L>
<L>That bea&s;tly <HI>Idole,</HI> as thy <HI>life</HI> held deare,</L>
<PB N="201" REF="108">
<L>The which to <HI>&s;erue</HI> thou all thy <HI>dayes</HI> ha&s;t doted</L>
<L>To &s;infull, &s;en&s;uall <HI>delights,</HI> devoted.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O runne to Him for <HI>grace:</HI><NOTE N="o," PLACE="marg">Mat, 7, 7, <HI>8,</HI> Mark, <HI>11, 24,</HI> Luke, <HI>11, 6,</HI> Iohn, <HI>16, 24,</HI> Iames. 1, 6.</NOTE> Hee can deny</L>
<L>None, who in <HI>patient hope, knock, &s;eeke,</HI> or <HI>cry,</HI></L>
<L>If thou but <HI>mourne</HI> to Him with <HI>&s;orow</HI> true</L>
<L>Of <HI>lusts</HI> vncleane thy <HI>Devill</HI> hee will &s;ubdue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His <HI>Fathers</HI> &s;ervice, Him in &s;uch a fa&s;hion</L>
<L>Did ravi&s;h with continuall <HI>meditation</HI></L>
<L>Wholly with <HI>This</HI> tane vp, that in his <HI>minde</HI></L>
<L>No Idle <HI>Rav'ryes</HI> place be&s;ids could finde,</L>
<L>Such as thy <HI>time</HI> doe wa&s;te, <HI>doores</HI> open make</L>
<L>To <HI>Sathan</HI> and his <HI>Trayne;</HI> who cour&s;e doth take</L>
<L>On <HI>Wings</HI> of vaging <HI>thoughts,</HI> before to &s;end</L>
<L>His <HI>Me&s;&s;ingers;</HI> comes then <HI>a|pace</HI> in end</L>
<PB N="202" REF="109">
<L><HI>Him&s;elfe; The&s;e,</HI> in <HI>&s;ecuritie</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;t,</L>
<L>And having rowme prepaird for him to <HI>re&s;t.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His <HI>Calling</HI> painefully hee did per&s;ue</L>
<L>At all <HI>occa&s;ions:</HI> teaching <HI>thee</HI> thy due,</L>
<L>To <HI>watch,</HI> to <HI>fa&s;t,</HI> to <HI>pray,</HI> Hee giues the ground,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t thou by <HI>Sathan</HI> &s;hould&s;t bee <HI>Idle</HI> found.</L>
<L>Hee vs'd the <HI>meanes,</HI> of which hee had no neede</L>
<L>But by <HI>example</HI> that He thee might lead.</L>
<L>In &s;olitarie<NOTE N="p," PLACE="marg">Luke, <HI>28,</HI> 37 Mat, <HI>14, 23,</HI> Mark 6, <HI>46,</HI></NOTE> <HI>mountaines,</HI> all alone,</L>
<L>Hee oft for thee hath <HI>mournd,</HI> till <HI>night</HI> was gone</L>
<L>Hath all the <HI>day-long</HI> in the<NOTE N="q," PLACE="marg">Iohn, 8, <HI>12,</HI></NOTE> <HI>Temple</HI> &s;tood</L>
<L><HI>Feeding</HI> the <HI>fami&s;ht &s;oule</HI> with HEAVENLY food,</L>
<L>Delighted more his FATHER to obey,</L>
<L>His <HI>will</HI> to doe, to HEAVEN to teach the <HI>way</HI></L>
<PB N="203" REF="109">
<L>When<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn, 4,</HI> 31, 32, 33,,</NOTE> <HI>Thirst</HI> or <HI>hunger</HI> vrg'd, then <HI>drink</HI> or <HI>eate,</HI></L>
<L>Though length of <HI>Time</HI> and <HI>travell</HI> did invite.</L>
<L>,,Now if a <HI>Patterne</HI> this to make, thee plea&s;e,</L>
<L>,,A <HI>Scope</HI> to ayme at, &s;tanding not for <HI>ea&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>,,Bee diligent to <HI>follow,</HI> &s;pare no <HI>paine,</HI></L>
<L>,,Thus are thy <HI>lusts</HI> &s;ubdu'd thy <HI>&s;inne</HI> is &s;laine.</L>
<L><HI>O giue mee LORD, with floods of teares vnfaind</HI></L>
<L><HI>To bath my bo&s;ome, with vnclean|ne&s;&s;e staind;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Looke on a &s;orrie wight, in mourne|full &s;tate,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Lazare lying at thy mercies gate:</HI></L>
<L><HI>O pa&s;&s;e not by:</HI><NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek,</HI> 16, 8,</NOTE> <HI>let mee thy pitty proue,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cast over mee the Mantle of thy loue:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Though I bee out of mea&s;ure vile, yet LORD</HI></L>
<L><HI>I cleane &s;hall bee, if thou but speake the word.</HI></L>
<PB N="204" REF="110">
<L>Thou who ha&s;t proudly the op|pre&s;&s;or played,</L>
<L>A rav'ning vulture on the Pigeon preyd</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Tyranni|zing extortio|ner, by turning to Christ pro|cureth pardon</NOTE>The faces of the poore ha&s;t grunde, laide watch</L>
<L>The very mor&s;els from their mouths to &s;natch</L>
<L>Runne, runne, make ha&s;t, thy SAVIOUR comes along,</L>
<L>Climbe with <HI>Zacheus</HI> to e&s;chue the throng</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke,</HI> 19,</NOTE>Of <HI>&s;innes,</HI> which happily in &s;ilence lye,</L>
<L>Yet to the Heavens for wrath and vengance cry,</L>
<L>And, on thy &s;elfe if lookt thou ha&s;t aright,</L>
<L>Thou can&s;t no mi&s;&s;e a comfor|table &s;ight</L>
<L>Of Him, the lo&s;t who came to &s;eeke, and &s;aue,</L>
<L>Of whom thou &s;halt not a repul&s;e receaue.</L>
<L>,,None ask in fayth and doe vn|pardond part,</L>
<L>,,Tho&s;e &s;uts alone lack &s;ucce&s;&s;e which lack heart.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="205" REF="110">
<L><HI>Behold</HI> no readier thou art cour&s;e to take</L>
<L>Due reparation for thy wrongs to make</L>
<L>Than Hee, to bid him&s;elfe thy gue&s;t to bee,</L>
<L>Salvation offring, even vnaskt of Thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>Envy,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">How the En|vious may be helped by loo|king on Chri&s;t</NOTE> harbord but in worthles brea&s;t,</L>
<L>With <HI>plentie pind, di&s;quieted</HI> with <HI>re&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Evill</HI> with <HI>good,</HI> with &s;ounde&s;t <HI>health</HI> mo&s;t <HI>&s;icke,</HI></L>
<L>With <HI>wellfare wretched,</HI> doth thy <HI>&s;oule</HI> afflict,</L>
<L><HI>Looke</HI> on thy loving LORD, and <HI>blu&s;h</HI> to &s;ee</L>
<L>Him for his <HI>Foes,</HI> in <HI>loue,</HI> content to <HI>die,</HI></L>
<L>While cau&s;le&s;ly, thou do&s;t thy <HI>Brother</HI> hate.</L>
<L>Who harmd thee never, but in thy <HI>conceate,</HI></L>
<L>Or, as the bleard-mans <HI>eye</HI> the <HI>light</HI> offends,</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>hurt</HI> vpon his owne <HI>de|fect</HI> depends.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="206" REF="111">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Impatient pas&s;ions, healed by looking on Chri&s;t,</NOTE><HI>Thou</HI> who&s;e proude <HI>heart</HI> doth boyle with <HI>furyes</HI> flame</L>
<L>Who can&s;t not thy vndaunted <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions</HI> tame,</L>
<L>O bee a&s;hamd the <HI>Meekne&s;&s;e</HI> to <HI>behold</HI></L>
<L>Of thy provoked LORD, <HI>betrayd</HI> and <HI>&s;old,</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>words,</HI> by <HI>deeds</HI> injurd; in whom did &s;hine</L>
<L>Such <HI>patience,</HI> that even <HI>tho&s;e</HI> who did repine</L>
<L>To &s;ee Him <HI>liue</HI> He <HI>pittyed,</HI> yea <HI>procurd</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke,</HI> 23, 34, <HI>I&s;a, 53,</HI> 12,</NOTE>For <HI>them,</HI> by whom Hee cruell <HI>death</HI> endurd:</L>
<L>Learne, as thou look&s;t, thy bea&s;t|lie <HI>rage</HI> to bound,</L>
<L>To bridle <HI>Furie,</HI> lea&s;t it thee con|found,</L>
<L>Which as a <HI>fire,</HI> &s;till readie is to <HI>burne</HI></L>
<L>As to <HI>revenge,</HI> or <HI>malice</HI> thou do&s;t turne,</L>
<L>Yea to <HI>devoure,</HI> if finding once a <HI>vent,</HI></L>
<L>Though for the lea&s;t conceated <HI>di&s;content.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="207" REF="111">
<L>Ba&s;e FEARE,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Feare to doe right, in evrie estate, cured by looking on Chri&s;t.</NOTE> who dar&s;t not in thy <HI>place</HI> di&s;charge</L>
<L>Thy <HI>duetie, Ie&s;ning</HI> what thou &s;hould&s;t enlarge,</L>
<L>Looke heere, and learne wi&s;e <HI>Cou|rage,</HI> to per&s;ue</L>
<L>Thy righteous <HI>Ends,</HI> what's to thy <HI>Calling</HI> due,</L>
<L>For <HI>fead</HI> nor <HI>favour</HI> which thou can&s;t no &s;pare,</L>
<L>Thy LORDS <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> if thou not empare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hath GOD thee cald his <HI>Coun&s;els</HI> to di&s;clo&s;e,</L>
<L>His <HI>will</HI> to publi&s;h?<NOTE N="a." PLACE="marg">Ezek. 2.<HI>6</HI></NOTE> &s;tand&s;t thou who oppo&s;e</L>
<L>Thy me&s;&s;age? what<NOTE N="b." PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Sam.</HI> 1 7,</NOTE> <HI>Goliah</HI> Thee a&s;&s;aile?</L>
<L>What raging<NOTE N="c," PLACE="marg">2 <HI>King. 18.</HI>17</NOTE> <HI>Rab&s;aketh</HI> again&s;t thee raile?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fear&s;t thou <HI>distre&s;&s;e?</HI><NOTE N="d." PLACE="marg">1. <HI>King, 22,</HI> 27,</NOTE> what though con&s;traind to <HI>feed</HI></L>
<L>Thy fami&s;ht <HI>Bodie</HI> with <HI>afflictions</HI> bread</L>
<L>While heere thou breath&s;t, wilt thou to <HI>&s;peake</HI> forbeare</L>
<L>But what may <HI>plea&s;ing</HI> be to<NOTE N="e," PLACE="marg">Ibid</NOTE> <HI>Achabs</HI> eare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="208" REF="112">
<L>Art thou a<NOTE N="f." PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> Chr. 18. <HI>1.</HI> King. 13.<HI>1.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Man</HI> of GOD, a <HI>Prophet</HI> true?</L>
<L><NOTE N="g." PLACE="marg">Ez. 3.18. &amp; 33.<HI>7.</HI></NOTE>It lyes thee on thy <HI>life,</HI> what ere en&s;ue,</L>
<L><HI>Wrath</HI> to denounce gain&s;t a re|volting <HI>Land:</HI></L>
<L>Though<NOTE N="h." PLACE="marg">1. <HI>King.</HI> 13.4.</NOTE> <HI>Ieroboam</HI> &s;hould &s;treatch foorth his hand</L>
<L>Nor <HI>death</HI> nor <HI>danger</HI> thou by <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI> mu&s;t &s;can.</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t not &s;hrink to &s;ay,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.7.</NOTE> <HI>Thou art the Man.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Him, who thy hand hath charged,<NOTE N="k." PLACE="marg">Heb. 4.12.</NOTE> of his <HI>word</HI></L>
<L>With the two-edged &s;oule-divi|ding <HI>&s;word</HI></L>
<L>Thou can&s;t not but to <HI>Indignation</HI> moue</L>
<L>If thou a <HI>Coward</HI> in His <HI>cau&s;e</HI> &s;hould&s;t proue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To &s;peake doth thy <HI>commi&s;&s;ion</HI> warrant beare</L>
<L>And do&s;t thou of the <HI>Arme</HI> of <HI>fle&s;h</HI> take <HI>feare?</HI></L>
<L>Behold though to the<NOTE N="l." PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> King. <HI>19.</HI>4.5.6.7.</NOTE> <HI>de&s;arts</HI> forcd by flight</L>
<L>To &s;hield thy <HI>life</HI> from tiranizing <HI>spight</HI></L>
<PB N="209" REF="112">
<L>Thy LORD can &s;end, who be&s;t doth know thy neede</L>
<L>An <HI>Angell,</HI> in thy <HI>Famine</HI> thee to feede.</L>
<L>Can &s;trengthen thee, that<NOTE N="m," PLACE="marg">Ier, 40, 1.</NOTE> <HI>Chaines</HI> nor<NOTE N="n," PLACE="marg"><HI>Ibid,</HI> 20, 2,</NOTE> <HI>Stockes,</HI> nor<NOTE N="o," PLACE="marg">Ibid. 32.3, and 38, 6,</NOTE> <HI>Iaile</HI></L>
<L>Shall in His <HI>Service</HI> hence thy <HI>Courage</HI> quaile;</L>
<L>Even for thy cau&s;e, can make the<NOTE N="p," PLACE="marg">Act, 16.</NOTE> <HI>Earth</HI> to quake,</L>
<L>All the <HI>foundations</HI> of the <HI>pri&s;on</HI> &s;hake.</L>
<L>Thy <HI>boults</HI> of <HI>bra&s;&s;e,</HI> thy <HI>bands</HI> to bru&s;t a-&s;under,</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Keepers</HI> overcome with <HI>feare</HI> and <HI>wonder</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>stoupe</HI> before thee, and to <HI>wa&s;h</HI> with <HI>teares</HI></L>
<L>Thy <HI>&s;trips,</HI> the <HI>badges</HI> which for CHRIST thou beares.</L>
<L>If GOD bee for thee, pan&s;e no who oppo&s;e:</L>
<L>His<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2,</HI> King, 19 18.</NOTE> <HI>Hooke</HI> can <HI>haill</HI> the <HI>haughtie&s;t</HI> by the <HI>no&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What ere thou art, beware for <HI>Feare,</HI> to wrong</L>
<L>Thy LIEGE or <HI>Lord,</HI> to whom thou do&s;t belong,</L>
<PB N="210" REF="113">
<L>Lea&s;t, for a <HI>Coun&s;eller,</HI> of faith vn|faind,</L>
<L>A <HI>Servant,</HI> with no imputation &s;taind,</L>
<L><HI>Di&s;loyall</HI> and <HI>&V;nfaithfull</HI> thou be found;</L>
<L>To thy ba&s;e <HI>Ends</HI> to lay a &s;liprie <HI>ground</HI></L>
<L>While thine owne <HI>Ea&s;e,</HI> (of all true worth denude)</L>
<L>Thou &s;et&s;t before GODS glorie and their <HI>Good,</HI></L>
<L>And, from the <HI>Right</HI> made &s;la|vi&s;hlie to &s;werue,</L>
<L>Stoup&s;t downe their <HI>Will,</HI> though not their <HI>Well</HI> to &s;erue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Although (tran&s;ported with the <HI>Times</HI> di&s;ea&s;e)</L>
<L>Thy <HI>&s;elfe</HI> and <HI>Men</HI> thou for a &s;pace may&s;t plea&s;e</L>
<L>Ba&s;e <HI>Temporizer,</HI> yet when better <HI>Light</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Weakne&s;&s;e</HI> of thy <HI>wayes</HI> &s;hall &s;et in &s;ight,</L>
<L>In thine owne <HI>Colours</HI> then bee &s;eene thou mu&s;t:</L>
<L>For loyall <HI>Subject, Servant</HI> wor|thie tru&s;t</L>
<PB N="211" REF="113">
<L>To GOD, thy PRINCE and <HI>Lord</HI> thou &s;halt apeare</L>
<L>A &s;lavi&s;h <HI>Drudge</HI> alone to &s;ervile <HI>Feare.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Behold,</HI> that Nomans face &s;hould breed <HI>affright</HI></L>
<L>Or turne thee but a haire-bredth from thee <HI>right</HI></L>
<L>Thy LORD Him&s;elfe doth in the <HI>Mirror</HI> &s;how</L>
<L>As to his faythfull <HI>Servants</HI> friend|lie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, <HI>10.32, 33</HI> Mark, 8, 38,</NOTE> &s;o</L>
<L>Mo&s;t terrible to <HI>All</HI> whom <HI>Feare</HI> doth draw</L>
<L>Of <HI>Man</HI> than GOD to &s;tand in greater aw.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>THOU who&s;e leud <HI>tongue</HI> and lips to <HI>lyes</HI> did moue,<NOTE PLACE="marg">To looke on Chri&s;t for brid+ling and rule|ing of the tongue. I&s;a, <HI>53,</HI> 6,</NOTE></L>
<L>Looke heere, and learne the <HI>Truth</HI> to <HI>speake,</HI> to <HI>loue.</HI></L>
<L><HI>No Guile was in his mouth.</HI> No faire <HI>Pretence</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Complementall</HI> kindne&s;&s;e mockt the <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Any,</HI> His <HI>Societie</HI> who &s;ought;</L>
<L>His <HI>speaches</HI> never varyed from his <HI>Thought.</HI></L>
<PB N="212" REF="114">
<L>None Hee did<NOTE N="a," PLACE="marg">1, <HI>Pet,</HI> 2, 22,</NOTE> <HI>cou&s;in,</HI> none with <HI>lyes</HI> deceaue,</L>
<L>Did <HI>flatter</HI> none, of none would <HI>flattery</HI> haue.</L>
<L>While foule<NOTE N="b." PLACE="marg">Mat, <HI>11, 19,</HI> and <HI>12.24.</HI> Iohn, 8, 48,</NOTE> <HI>reproach</HI> His <HI>Patience</HI> did a&s;&s;aile,</L>
<L>His <HI>peace</HI> He keept:<NOTE N="c," PLACE="marg">1, <HI>Pet,</HI> 2.<HI>23,</HI></NOTE> <HI>raild on,</HI> He did no <HI>raile.</HI></L>
<L>Hee No-man <HI>&s;landred,</HI> but who did offend</L>
<L>In <HI>time</HI> and <HI>place</HI> mo&s;t fit did <HI>reprehend</HI></L>
<L>In All rebuking <HI>&s;inne:</HI> Hee <HI>Cur&s;ed</HI> none</L>
<L>But when of <HI>Heaven</HI> and <HI>Earth</HI> as <HI>Iudge</HI> alone</L>
<L>Gain&s;t <HI>Hypocrits, Profe&s;&s;ors</HI> but in <HI>&s;how,</HI></L>
<L>Hee thundred foorth <HI>damnation, wrath</HI> and <HI>woe.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Cha&s;t were His <HI>speeches, &s;ober</HI> were His <HI>words,</HI></L>
<L>To nought vndecent His <HI>di&s;cour&s;e</HI> debords.</L>
<L>No <HI>Time</HI> Hee did in Idle <HI>purpo&s;e</HI> &s;pend</L>
<L>But &s;uch as did to <HI>edifying</HI> tend:</L>
<PB N="213" REF="114">
<L>Hee knew, in things committed to His care,</L>
<L>The fitte&s;t <HI>&s;ea&s;on</HI> both to &s;peake and <HI>&s;pare.</HI></L>
<L>By hurtfull <HI>Silence</HI> He did <HI>Nought</HI> conceale,</L>
<L>His FATHERS <HI>Glory,</HI> or his <HI>Peoples</HI> well</L>
<L>That might prejudge; in <HI>speache,</HI> nor <HI>word</HI> at all</L>
<L>Vntimely <HI>vttred</HI> from his <HI>lips</HI> did fall.</L>
<L>"Thus to thy <HI>Good,</HI> as Hee did frame His <HI>speach</HI></L>
<L>"Him make they <HI>patterne;</HI> &s;peak as He doth <HI>teach.</HI></L>
<L>"What by <HI>exemple</HI> hee doth &s;et thee to,</L>
<L>"According to thy <HI>mea&s;ure,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Everie mala|die of &s;oule maybe helped by looking by faith on Chri&s;t in the &s;criptur and everie vertue may be+gotten this way.</NOTE> ayme to doe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>IN SHORT, cau&s;e <HI>All</HI> heere can not reckned be,</L>
<L>To reade thy <HI>lifes</HI> pa&s;t <HI>legend</HI> leaving <HI>Thee,</HI></L>
<L>So, in the <HI>Mirror,</HI> for thy help to looke,</L>
<L>To turne the <HI>volumnes</HI> of that &s;acred <HI>Booke</HI></L>
<PB N="214" REF="115">
<L>Where, CHRIST is &s;eene <HI>aliue, dead, rai&s;d againe</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>life,</HI> for <HI>&s;inne</HI> ne're after to bee <HI>&s;laine,</HI></L>
<L>That looking heere, <HI>faults</HI> of what ever kinde</L>
<L>By light of <HI>Scripture</HI> in thy <HI>&s;elfe</HI> thou find</L>
<L>CHRIST thy <HI>Con&s;ulter</HI> thou alone may&s;t make</L>
<L>What cour&s;e mo&s;t meet for thy remeed to take.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What ever <HI>Sinnes</HI> thy <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> on thee draw</L>
<L>By looking in the <HI>Mirror</HI> of the <HI>Law</HI></L>
<L>CHRIST make thy <HI>gla&s;&s;e,</HI> (tho with thy faults offended)</L>
<L>To &s;how thee how thy <HI>mi&s;&s;es</HI> may bee mended.</L>
<L>What ere <HI>deforme</HI> doth in thy <HI>&s;oule</HI> abide</L>
<L>In Him looke <HI>&s;omething</HI> that <HI>de|fect</HI> to hide,</L>
<L>No leprous <HI>spot</HI> vnpurgt in <HI>thee</HI> is &s;eene</L>
<L>The which in <HI>Him</HI> thou may&s;t not haue made cleane,</L>
<PB N="215" REF="115">
<L>How ere in thee <HI>Sinnes Plague</HI> Its <HI>poi&s;on</HI> &s;pread</L>
<L>Seeke out, in <HI>Him</HI> and thou &s;halt find <HI>remead.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To GOD, to <HI>Man,</HI> by what|&s;oever bands</L>
<L>What thou to <HI>doe,</HI> or <HI>&s;uffer</HI> obli&s;ht &s;tands,</L>
<L>How e're extended bee thy <HI>dutyes</HI> lines</L>
<L>Looke &s;till on CHRIST, as in His <HI>Word</HI> Hee <HI>&s;hines</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>light</HI> of which thy <HI>minde</HI> lift vp to &s;ee</L>
<L>HIM in the HEAVENS, di&s;pen|&s;ing vnto <HI>thee</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>vertues</HI> which hee craues; and what hee &s;howes</L>
<L>By <HI>Lifes</HI> rare <HI>Patterne,</HI> working even in <HI>tho&s;e</HI></L>
<L>In whome His <HI>loue</HI> a true <HI>de&s;ire</HI> doth bread</L>
<L>To bee <HI>conforme,</HI> made like <HI>Him|&s;elfe</HI> their <HI>Head.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>True <HI>faith,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Truth of re|ligion may bee learned of Crhi&s;t &s;eene in the &s;criptur</NOTE> not <HI>firme</HI> but for a <HI>day,</HI> or <HI>houre,</HI></L>
<L>But &s;uch as &s;tedfa&s;t &s;tands, in ev'ry &s;toure,</L>
<PB N="216" REF="116">
<L>True <HI>Loue,</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing all the <HI>&s;oule</HI> and <HI>&s;en&s;es,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>pow'rs</HI> all drawing, (free of faind <HI>pretences</HI>)</L>
<L>To GOD, in full <HI>obedience</HI> to His <HI>will</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>ab&s;olute &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion,</HI> &s;uffring &s;till</L>
<L>With patient <HI>heart</HI> as plea&s;eth Him to deale.</L>
<L>Who be&s;t doth know, what be&s;t is for thy <HI>well,</HI></L>
<L>Pure <HI>wor&s;hipping</HI> of GOD, in maner <HI>cha&s;t</HI></L>
<L>For <HI>warrant</HI> as His <HI>ordinance</HI> thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>Without all <HI>mixture</HI> of <HI>Inventions</HI> vaine,</L>
<L>The <HI>ba&s;tard broode</HI> of mans pre|&s;umptuous <HI>braine,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Him</HI> teaching thou &s;halt <HI>heare, Him</HI> &s;howing <HI>&s;ee;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> in <HI>Per&s;on</HI> even preceed|ing thee,</L>
<L>A ble&s;t <HI>exemplar,</HI> a mo&s;t graci|ous <HI>guyde,</HI></L>
<L>And if thou loue, (<HI>&s;innes</HI> luggage layde a&s;ide)</L>
<PB N="217" REF="116">
<L>To follow on, to thy eternall <HI>well</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>thee</HI> the like <HI>Him</HI> working thou &s;halt feele.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What ever bonds of <HI>neighbour|hood</HI> doe clame</L>
<L>Thy LORD will fitt,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dutie to Pa|rents and friends how to be learned at Chri&s;t.</NOTE> and by <HI>de|grees</HI> thee frame</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Duty</HI> to di&s;charge, to <HI>Great,</HI> to <HI>Small</HI></L>
<L>As <HI>equity</HI> requires to doe to <HI>All;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mercie</HI> to &s;how vnto the <HI>mi&s;e|rable</HI></L>
<L>As <HI>neede</HI> in them exacts, as thou art <HI>able:</HI></L>
<L>As <HI>Lazarus,</HI> as His <HI>Di&s;ciples</HI> deare</L>
<L>Hee did <HI>esteeme, loue</HI> to thy <HI>friends</HI> to beare,</L>
<L><HI>Kindred</HI> and <HI>bloode</HI> with due <HI>re|spect</HI> to pri&s;e,</L>
<L>But tho&s;e whom <HI>Nature</HI> thee more nearlie tyes</L>
<L><HI>Mo&s;t</HI> to regard, thy <HI>Parents,</HI> who did &s;pare</L>
<L>No <HI>paynes</HI> for thee, while for thy &s;elfe to care</L>
<PB N="218" REF="117">
<L>Thou could&s;t not, in more <HI>&s;peciall</HI> degree</L>
<L>In greater <HI>mea&s;ure,</HI> loe <HI>Hee</HI> teach|eth <HI>thee</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Io, 19, 26, 27:</NOTE>While from the CROSSE, to IOHNE, his loving <HI>friend,</HI></L>
<L>Now in <HI>His</HI> place, HER hee doth recommend</L>
<L>Who gaue Him <HI>birth, His &V;irgine-Mother blest</HI></L>
<L>By &s;peciall <HI>care</HI> HER &s;ingling from the <HI>rest.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Servants may learne their dutie by loo|king on Chri&s;t</NOTE><HI>Servants</HI> may looke, in <HI>&s;ervants &s;hape,</HI> how <HI>Hee</HI></L>
<L>Good proofe did give of his <HI>fidelitie</HI></L>
<L>And diligence to HIM did <HI>Him</HI> employ</L>
<L>So, follow on with <HI>cheerefullne&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Ioy</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph, 6, 5, 6,</NOTE>That to what ever <HI>Charge</HI> their <HI>Place</HI> them call</L>
<L>As done to <HI>CHRIST</HI> their <HI>&s;ervice</HI> may bee all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">And ma&s;ters their dutie</NOTE><HI>Maisters</HI> remarking how their LORD did lead</L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>twelue,</HI> who &s;peciall <HI>priviledge</HI> did plead</L>
<PB N="219" REF="117">
<L>To &s;erve Him as <HI>Di&s;ciples:</HI> how mo&s;t <HI>kind,</HI></L>
<L>Mo&s;t <HI>affable</HI> Him all of them did find,</L>
<L>Their <HI>faults</HI> &s;o <HI>wi&s;ely</HI> checking, that no eye</L>
<L>Did no their <HI>well</HI> &s;ought in His <HI>&s;ervice</HI> &s;ee,</L>
<L>May learne in <HI>meekne&s;&s;e,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph, 9, 6,</NOTE> <HI>lenitie</HI> and <HI>loue</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>rule</HI> aright, not <HI>Tyrannizers</HI> proue,</L>
<L>Their <HI>&s;ervants</HI> in <HI>obedience</HI> due to draw</L>
<L>By <HI>wi&s;dome</HI> more then <HI>force, loue</HI> more than <HI>awe.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Maryed</HI> may that &s;trait <HI>conjunction</HI> &s;ee,<NOTE PLACE="marg">And the mari+ed their dutie,</NOTE></L>
<L>Of matchle&s;&s;e <HI>loue</HI> that &s;acred <HI>my&s;terie</HI></L>
<L>CHRIST and his <HI>Church</HI> combining, thence to <HI>loue</HI></L>
<L>May learne as <HI>wedded</HI> to a LORD aboue</L>
<L>Who <HI>lov'd</HI> them <HI>first,</HI> &s;o from this <HI>patterne</HI> draw</L>
<L>In earthly <HI>wedlock</HI> a religious <HI>law</HI></L>
<PB N="220" REF="118">
<L>Of holy <HI>loue</HI> a <HI>le&s;&s;on,</HI> how to frame</L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>dutyes</HI> cha&s;t which <HI>mariage bands</HI> doe clame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The fitted <HI>Soule,</HI> which hath its <HI>lu&s;ts</HI> &s;ubdued,</L>
<L><HI>Singly</HI> to <HI>liue</HI> with <HI>&s;trength</HI> of <HI>grace</HI> endued,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 19, 11, 12</NOTE>A NAZARITE to GOD to which is given</L>
<L>To liue, an <HI>Eunuch</HI> con&s;ecrate for HEAVEN,</L>
<L>Hath for a <HI>Guyde,</HI> to follow who <HI>invits,</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn, 1, 45,</NOTE>IESUS of <HI>Naz'reth, prince of Nazarites.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">And Parents their dutie.</NOTE>Heere carefull <HI>Parents</HI> how to trayne may &s;ee</L>
<L>Their <HI>Children, Them</HI> how nur&s;e in pietie,</L>
<L>How in their hearts to &s;ow the <HI>&s;eeds</HI> of <HI>grace,</HI></L>
<L>How <HI>vice</HI> and inborne <HI>Error</HI> to di&s;place,</L>
<L>Hereditarie <HI>Evils, faults</HI> fore&s;eene,</L>
<L><HI>Sinnes</HI> ready to break foorth how to preveene.</L>
<PB N="221" REF="118">
<L>How keepe from leavenning with <HI>doctrins</HI> vaine,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat,</HI> 16, <HI>6,</HI> 12</NOTE></L>
<L>From <HI>cour&s;e</HI> of <HI>life</HI> corrupt how to re&s;trayne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Heere <HI>Subjects</HI> &s;tudy may <HI>&s;ubjection</HI> true</L>
<L>Submi&s;&s;iue <HI>loyalty,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">By looking on Chri&s;t as Hee &s;hines in the Mirror of the Scripture Sub|iects may learne their dutie to Ma|gi&s;trats and namelie Churchmen.</NOTE> <HI>obey&s;ance</HI> due,</L>
<L>But <HI>Church-men</HI> chiefly, by <HI>am|bition</HI> blind,</L>
<L>Whom CHRIST &s;ore-&s;eing &s;hould affect to find</L>
<L>Worldlie <HI>Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heminence, Respect,</HI> and <HI>Place</HI></L>
<L>A&s;pire the &s;teps of <HI>&s;ov'raignety</HI> to trace,</L>
<L>That ONE aboue the re&s;t, &s;hould (thus made weake)</L>
<L>The <HI>yock</HI> of <HI>Civill Iurisdiction</HI> &s;hake</L>
<L>From &s;cornefull &s;houlders, ray&s;d tho&s;e <HI>Men</HI> aboue</L>
<L>Whom GOD hath called <HI>Gods</HI> (how ere they proue</L>
<L>In this <HI>&s;ubmi&s;&s;ion</HI> le&s;&s;e then <HI>Men</HI>) to beare</L>
<L>In Princelie <HI>Pow're,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exod,</HI> 12, 13, 22.28, <HI>ibid</HI></NOTE> His Royall <HI>I|mage</HI> heere</L>
<PB N="222" REF="119">
<L>Though therefore He <HI>exemption</HI> might haue p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eaded</L>
<L>And not beene <HI>Cae&s;ars Tributary</HI> needed</L>
<L>To teach <HI>obedience</HI> yet, to <HI>Subjects</HI> true</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat,</HI> 22, 21, <HI>Rom,</HI> 13.7,</NOTE>Would giue to <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> what was <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> due.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And though hee might attaynd haue to a crowne,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn, 6, <HI>15,</HI></NOTE>Him&s;elfe made <HI>Great</HI> by throw|ing <HI>Others</HI> downe,</L>
<L>To voluntary <HI>offers</HI> giving eare</L>
<L>Of <HI>&s;uch,</HI> repining <HI>Cae&s;ars yoke</HI> to beare</L>
<L>As gladly would haue <HI>In&s;urrection</HI> made,</L>
<L>Con&s;pird by arms a bloodie <HI>cau&s;e</HI> to plead,</L>
<L>Yet did He flye; and (by <HI>exemple</HI> rare)</L>
<L>To &s;olitarie <HI>De&s;arts</HI> to repare</L>
<L>Preferring, did all loyall <HI>Subjects</HI> teach</L>
<L>To &s;hunne <HI>Seditioun,</HI> though a <HI>Crowne</HI> to reach.</L>
<PB N="223" REF="119">
<L>Yea when His <HI>life</HI> was mo&s;t vn|ju&s;tlie &s;ought,</L>
<L>A <HI>weapon</HI> to bee drawne He &s;uffred nought</L>
<L>In His <HI>defence,</HI> but chui&s;d <HI>Him|&s;elfe</HI> alone</L>
<L>To <HI>&s;uffer,</HI> rather than by <HI>armes</HI> oppone</L>
<L>The Lawfull <HI>Magi&s;trat,</HI> &s;o <HI>Authorrize</HI></L>
<L><HI>Seditious</HI> men, for private <HI>Injuries</HI></L>
<L>Per&s;u'd by <HI>Iu&s;tice,</HI> who dare &s;et their <HI>face</HI></L>
<L>Again&s;t their PRINCE or <HI>Deputs</HI> in his place.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Not of this <HI>world His Kingdome</HI> He profe&s;t</L>
<L>To conque&s;&s;e <HI>rents</HI> and <HI>Lands</HI> Him troubled lea&s;t.</L>
<L>Mens <HI>&s;oules</HI> alone He &s;ought, and <HI>the&s;e</HI> to &s;aue;</L>
<L>No <HI>Prince</HI> by Him did <HI>prejudice</HI> receaue</L>
<L>By civile <HI>challenge,</HI> by pretended <HI>right</HI></L>
<L>By open <HI>violence,</HI> or &s;ecret <HI>&s;light,</HI></L>
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<L>Let <HI>Church-men</HI> follow as <HI>Hee</HI> did preceed</L>
<L>In <HI>Imitation</HI> of their LORD and <HI>Heed,</HI></L>
<L>Or quite the fal&s;e <HI>pretence</HI> them|&s;elues to call</L>
<L>His <HI>Servants,</HI> while with Him at <HI>&s;trife</HI> they fall,</L>
<L>Proudly <HI>practizing</HI> what they con|trare find,</L>
<L>Both to His <HI>Mouths</HI> direction and His <HI>minde,</HI></L>
<L>For (bee they &s;ure,) no TITLES of re&s;pect,</L>
<L>No rev'rend <HI>Stiles</HI> which <HI>proud|lings</HI> &s;o affect,</L>
<L>No name of <HI>Fathers</HI> in his <HI>hou&s;e,</HI> no place</L>
<L>Of <HI>Honour,</HI> which &s;o eagerlie they chace,</L>
<L>No <HI>&s;cugge</HI> of PETERS chayre, no vaine <HI>pretence</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>powre,</HI> by &s;overaigne <HI>preheminence,</HI></L>
<L>No ca&s;ting out of <HI>devills</HI> &s;hall ought availe,</L>
<L><HI>Preaching</HI> nor <HI>wonders working;</HI> all &s;hall faile</L>
<PB N="225" REF="120">
<L>Proud <HI>wordlings</HI> from that dread+full <HI>doome</HI> to &s;aue</L>
<L><HI>I know you not:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> <HI>with mee no part yee haue.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As <HI>Subjects</HI> Him beholding humbled,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Kings and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">+lers may le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> their dutie <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> looking vpon Chri&s;ts pur|trate in the Scripture.</NOTE> &s;ee</L>
<L>A pearle&s;&s;e <HI>Patterne</HI> of true <HI>loyaltie,</HI></L>
<L>So <HI>Kings</HI> may looking on this KING of <HI>Kings</HI></L>
<L>Who proude&s;t <HI>Tyrants</HI> in <HI>&s;ub|jection</HI> brings</L>
<L>Learne to bee truly <HI>Royall, Rule</HI> as Hee</L>
<L>To whom all earthly <HI>Monarchs</HI> va&s;&s;els bee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As <HI>Subjects</HI> pro&s;per be&s;t, when to their <HI>King</HI></L>
<L>They <HI>Loyall</HI> proue, and to his <HI>Lawes</HI> to bring</L>
<L><HI>Obedience</HI> due, no <HI>paynes</HI> e&s;teeme too great</L>
<L>The well to &s;tabli&s;h of His <HI>royall</HI> State</L>
<L>So <HI>Princes</HI> then, when <HI>Subjects</HI> good they proue</L>
<L>To IESUS CHRIST, a KING all <HI>Kings</HI> aboue,</L>
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<L>His <HI>Kingdome</HI> &s;eeking to advance, to <HI>plant</HI></L>
<L><HI>Relligion</HI> in Their bounds, thence to <HI>&s;upplant</HI></L>
<L><HI>Contemners</HI> of His lawes, His <HI>Throne</HI> enlarge,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezra. 7, 23,</NOTE>With noble <HI>Artaxarxes</HI> giving charge</L>
<L>That what enjoynd is by the GOD of Heaven</L>
<L>His <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> concerning, <HI>Order</HI> may bee given</L>
<L>It to <HI>performe</HI> with &s;peed, <HI>wrath</HI> to keepe backe</L>
<L>Which may the <HI>Realme,</HI> the <HI>King,</HI> his <HI>Sonnes</HI> o're take.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let <HI>Kings</HI> behold this KING, how Hee who &s;tands</L>
<L>Nor by His <HI>Subiects wi&s;dome, wealth,</HI> nor <HI>hands,</HI></L>
<L>Yet &s;o doth &s;eeke the wellfare of their <HI>State</HI></L>
<L>As if, they weakned, hee could not bee <HI>Great,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Behould,</HI> how Hee All <HI>&s;uch</HI> as dare injure</L>
<L>The hurt or <HI>Prejudice</HI> of <HI>His</HI> pro|cure</L>
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<L><HI>Foes</HI> to Him&s;elfe profe&s;&s;ing: no <HI>pretence</HI></L>
<L>Of fayned <HI>friend&s;hip, &s;how</HI> of <HI>Inno|cence</HI></L>
<L>Admittance finding to abu&s;e His <HI>Eare,</HI></L>
<L>All <HI>Flatt'rers</HI> fal&s;e defended to draw neare,</L>
<L>Whom He will (one day) to their endle&s;&s;e &s;hame</L>
<L>(As if He them had never known) di&s;clame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As DAVID than, to whom GODS <HI>Coun&s;ells</HI> deepe</L>
<L>Revealed were, of this true KING the <HI>Type,</HI></L>
<L>Looking vpon the <HI>Prototype,</HI> his LORD,</L>
<L>His <HI>Kinglie Cariage</HI> did to His accord;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 101,</NOTE></L>
<L>Learnd GOD his <HI>Ioy</HI> to make; GODS <HI>Law</HI> alone</L>
<L>His <HI>Rule,</HI> in <HI>life,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>v,</HI> 1,</NOTE> and in <HI>Relligi|on:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">v, <HI>2,</HI> v, 3,</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie,</HI> and <HI>Apostats</HI> to hate,</L>
<L>And every <HI>wicked</HI> man, or <HI>Meane</HI> or <HI>Great:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">v, 4,</NOTE></L>
<PB N="228" REF="122">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">v, 6,</NOTE>All &s;uch to <HI>curbe: the Godlie</HI> in their place</L>
<L>As <HI>Favourits, Friends, Coun&s;ellers</HI> to grace</L>
<L>Ray&s;d to <HI>preferment,</HI> in his <HI>Eyes</HI> to &s;tand,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">v, 8,</NOTE>GODS <HI>foes</HI> degraded, <HI>rooted</HI> from the Land;</L>
<L>So let all <HI>Kings, anoynted</HI> from <HI>aboue,</HI></L>
<L>GOD for their <HI>Portion, Davids Lote</HI> who loue</L>
<L>Him who doth both <HI>vn&s;cepter</HI> and <HI>en&s;tall</HI></L>
<L>Beholding, learne to <HI>do the like</HI> in all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Every e&s;tate may profite by looking on Chri&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n the Scripture</NOTE>Let every <HI>Soule</HI> in end, of what <HI>condition</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>mind,</HI> or <HI>ca&s;e</HI> of pre&s;ent <HI>di&s;|po&s;ition</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Body, goods</HI> or <HI>name,</HI> of what <HI>degree</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sexe, age, e&s;tate</HI> or <HI>Ranke</HI> &s;o-ere they bee,</L>
<L>Seeke by the <HI>eye</HI> of liuelie <HI>Fayth</HI> to looke</L>
<L>On CHRIST, de&s;cribed in the &s;acred <HI>Booke</HI></L>
<PB N="229" REF="122">
<L>Of GODS two <HI>Testaments,</HI> the <HI>Mirror</HI> true</L>
<L>From whence alone reflects His perfite <HI>view,</HI></L>
<L>And All in <HI>Him</HI> (if rightlie &s;eene) &s;hall find</L>
<L>For each <HI>defect</HI> of <HI>Bodie</HI> or of <HI>minde</HI></L>
<L>Some &s;ea&s;onable <HI>good,</HI> Some &s;overaine cure</L>
<L>To doe away in them, <HI>&s;innes</HI> &s;pots impure.</L>
<L>No <HI>looke</HI> on Him &s;hall bee be|&s;tou'd in vaine,</L>
<L>For Hee in <HI>Mercie</HI> &s;hall <HI>looke</HI> backe againe,</L>
<L>And from each <HI>looke</HI> &s;hall liuelie <HI>vertue</HI> flow</L>
<L>Which <HI>difference</HI> &s;ufficient &s;hall &s;how</L>
<L>Twix CHRIST (aright) thus by His owne <HI>Means</HI> &s;ought</L>
<L>And that deceaving; &s;hamefull <HI>Idole,</HI> brought</L>
<L>In place of CHRIST, as CHRIST to bee <HI>adord,</HI></L>
<L>And (now) is by deluded <HI>&s;oules implord</HI></L>
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<L>For Chri&s;t, and <HI>cald</HI> (what <HI>bla&s;|phemie</HI> more vile?)</L>
<L>By <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> owne <HI>per&s;onall</HI> and pro|per &s;tile.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">The particu|lare v&s;es of Chri&s;ts di&s;crip+tion in the Scripture left to preachers.</NOTE><HI>Which things,</HI> as more than equall to my <HI>&s;trength&punc;</HI></L>
<L>I leave to <HI>Preachers</HI> to informe at length,</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Calling</HI> is, (not in the <HI>Bed</HI> of &s;louth</L>
<L>Repo&s;ing,) from the <HI>Chayre</HI> of &s;acred <HI>Truth</HI></L>
<L>That LAMBE of GOD, by <HI>Scrip|tures,</HI> to point foorth,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. <HI>13,</HI> 44</NOTE>That <HI>Trea&s;ure</HI> of vne&s;timable <HI>worth</HI></L>
<L>Hid in the <HI>Gospels</HI> field in <HI>&s;ight</HI> to &s;et,</L>
<L>Whence needie <HI>&s;oules</HI> may la&s;t|ing <HI>riches</HI> get,</L>
<L>CHRIST <HI>&s;acrifizde</HI> for <HI>&s;inners</HI> to pre&s;ent</L>
<L>(By <HI>preaching</HI> of His <HI>death</HI> and <HI>Testament</HI>)</L>
<L>Vnto their <HI>peoples</HI> eyes, by <HI>v&s;es</HI> due</L>
<L><HI>Quickning</HI> dead <HI>&s;oules</HI> vnto o|bedience new</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="231" REF="126">
<L>O that not <HI>Pa&s;tors</HI> may a few bee found</L>
<L><HI>Gold, pretious stones,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1, <HI>Cor, 3.</HI>12,</NOTE> who build|ing on this GROVND</L>
<L>With hearts right &s;et, their <HI>Mai&s;ters will</HI> to know</L>
<L>Him to their <HI>flocks</HI> may chieflie &s;trive to &s;how,</L>
<L><HI>His Honour,</HI> and <HI>&s;afetie</HI> of his <HI>Sheepe</HI></L>
<L>Preferring, to what els the <HI>world</HI> doth keepe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As CHRIST to All Him&s;elfe a <HI>patterne</HI> gaue,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;t, a pat|tern to preach|ers in a &s;peciall maner.</NOTE></L>
<L>To <HI>The&s;e</HI> &s;o chieflie <HI>Charge</HI> of <HI>&s;oules</HI> who haue,</L>
<L>Hee, not Him&s;elfe <HI>Intruding,</HI> &s;ent from HEAVEN,</L>
<L>As <HI>Aaron</HI> cald, vnto the <HI>Iews</HI> was given</L>
<L>To Them the <HI>Gospells</HI> joyfull <HI>news</HI> to preach:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb, 5, 4,</NOTE></L>
<L>Thus in <HI>Gods Hou&s;e</HI> no <HI>charge at all</HI> to teach</L>
<L><HI>Place</HI> ought to haue, but <HI>&s;uch</HI> (by GOD de&s;ignd)</L>
<L>As <HI>warrant</HI> doe from His <HI>apoint|ment</HI> find,</L>
<PB N="232" REF="127">
<L>And that in &s;uch None ought <HI>them|&s;elues</HI> to <HI>thrust</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn, 10, 1, 2</NOTE>But whom alone GOD daind hath to <HI>entru&s;t</HI></L>
<L>With His <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion,</HI> in His <HI>worke</HI> to <HI>&s;weate,</HI></L>
<L>Found <HI>Me&s;&s;ingers</HI> for His <HI>Em|ba&s;&s;age</HI> meet,</L>
<L>Who &s;corning <HI>Means</HI> which worthle&s;&s;e <HI>men</HI> doe make</L>
<L>By <HI>doore</HI> of lawfull calling <HI>Entrie</HI> take.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>charge</HI> to beare of GODS <HI>peculiar flock</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn, 12, 29,</NOTE>Thus when thru&s;t foorth, the <HI>Truth</HI> of God Hee &s;poke</L>
<L>Him in <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> given, and &s;till did care</L>
<L>Of all His <HI>words, Gods word</HI> to make the <HI>&s;quare.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No <HI>&s;inne</HI> Hee &s;par'd, Him No mans <HI>face</HI> did <HI>feare;</HI></L>
<L>Hee neither <HI>whipt</HI> in <HI>spleene,</HI> nor did forbeare</L>
<L>For <HI>favour;</HI> &s;o their <HI>&s;aftie</HI> might bee wrought</L>
<L>Mens <HI>well</HI> and not to plea&s;e their <HI>will</HI> Hee &s;ought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="233" REF="127">
<L><HI>Glory</HI> of men Hee <HI>gloryed</HI> not to get,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn,</HI> 7, 18,</NOTE></L>
<L>Nor <HI>Honour</HI> to Him&s;elfe Him|&s;elfe did &s;et</L>
<L>To purcha&s;e (though to Him was due by <HI>right</HI></L>
<L>All <HI>Glory, Honour, Maje&s;tie</HI> and <HI>might</HI>)</L>
<L>To &s;eeke GODS honour was his <HI>maine intent</HI></L>
<L>Him who to <HI>Labour</HI> in His <HI>Harve&s;t</HI> &s;ent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No curious <HI>Phra&s;e,</HI> applau&s;e of <HI>men to breed,</HI></L>
<L>(To <HI>Ignorants</HI> one with an vn|couth <HI>leid</HI>)</L>
<L>No <HI>Eloquence</HI> of <HI>words,</HI> no &s;wel|ling <HI>&s;tile</HI></L>
<L>Did from His mouth His <HI>flock</HI> of <HI>foode</HI> beguile;</L>
<L>In all <HI>Simplicitie,</HI> in <HI>termes</HI> mo&s;t plaine,</L>
<L>His <HI>minde</HI> Hee <HI>vttred,</HI> to the <HI>vulgar</HI> braine</L>
<L>And <HI>Iudgement</HI> weake of <HI>All</HI> Him&s;elfe applying</L>
<L><HI>Eares had to heare,</HI> vpon His <HI>charge</HI> relying.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="234" REF="128">
<L>To further mans <HI>Salvation</HI> Hee did &s;pare</L>
<L><HI>Paynes,</HI> nor by <HI>night</HI> nor <HI>day,</HI> nor <HI>late</HI> nor <HI>ayre.</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn,</HI> 4, 34,</NOTE>His <HI>meate</HI> his <HI>drink</HI> it was, <HI>&s;oules</HI> home to bring</L>
<L><HI>His Fathers will to doe</HI> in everie thing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wordlie <HI>Preferment, Honours Titles, Place,</HI></L>
<L>Hee did not with ambitious <HI>wordlings</HI> chace</L>
<L>But vtterlie refu&s;de, and lookt a|farre</L>
<L>On what &s;o ere his maine <HI>Intent</HI> might marre.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With things His <HI>Pre&s;ence</HI> which did not exact</L>
<L>Or from a better <HI>worke</HI> Him might de&s;tract</L>
<L>Hee did no meddle, would no lay a&s;ide</L>
<L>His <HI>Calling,</HI> matters civill to de|cide</L>
<L>Though in pretence twixt <HI>Bro|thers</HI> peace to make</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk, <HI>12,</HI> 13, 14.</NOTE>Vrg'd, Hee the <HI>Iudges</HI> office did for&s;ake,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="235" REF="128">
<L>His <HI>Preaching</HI> while Impugnd by <HI>&s;inners</HI> bold,</L>
<L>Hee &s;uffred patientlie to bee con|trold,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb,</HI> 12. <HI>3, Mat,</HI> 22, <HI>15, Mark,</HI> 12, 13, <HI>Luke,</HI> 20, 20,</NOTE></L>
<L>Not with the <HI>ob&s;tinate</HI> by <HI>Iang|ling</HI> vaine</L>
<L>To <HI>tempt</HI> Him &s;et, and of his <HI>words</HI> to gaine</L>
<L><HI>Advantage,</HI> Hee by <HI>dispute</HI> did contend:</L>
<L>Or <HI>peace</HI> Hee keept, or &s;ome few <HI>words</HI> did &s;pend</L>
<L>Sufficient to <HI>convince,</HI> the <HI>con&s;cience</HI> check</L>
<L>Of &s;uch as thus their <HI>Envy</HI> dur&s;t detect.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When as not <HI>loyall</HI> &s;candalizd,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke, <HI>23,</HI> 2,</NOTE> hee pleads</L>
<L><HI>Fidelitie,</HI> in <HI>&s;uffring, doctrine, deeds,</HI></L>
<L>Though KING of <HI>Kings</HI> repining not to bee</L>
<L>Heere &s;ubject to <HI>Supreme Au|thoritie.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1, <HI>Tim. 6,</HI> 13</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When to the Romane <HI>Gover|nour</HI> accu&s;d</L>
<L>As on who&s;e <HI>doctrins</HI> fal&s;e the world abu&s;d</L>
<PB N="236" REF="129">
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">1, Tim, 6, 13,</NOTE>A <HI>good Confe&s;&s;ion witne&s;&s;ing,</HI> Hee &s;toode</L>
<L>Fa&s;t for the <HI>Truth,</HI> and <HI>&s;eald</HI> it with His bloode.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To this His <HI>Patterne,</HI> perfitlie e&s;pyd,</L>
<L>If true <HI>conformitie</HI> had beene applyd,</L>
<L>His <HI>&V;icar,</HI> Him at lea&s;t who &s;teales this <HI>&s;tile</HI></L>
<L>But from His <HI>life,</HI> and <HI>doctrine</HI> doth re&s;ile,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, 4.8, 9,</NOTE>Tho&s;e Evill <HI>Offers</HI> never had enti&s;d</L>
<L>Nor bad <HI>condition,</HI> by our LORD de&s;pi&s;d.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor &s;hould <HI>ambitions</HI> Men, puft vp with pride,</L>
<L>With <HI>loue</HI> of worldlie <HI>Glory</HI> led a&s;ide,</L>
<L>Haue turnd, their Earthlie <HI>pompe</HI> to entertaine,</L>
<L>CHRISTS <HI>Heavenly Kingdome</HI> in a temp'rall <HI>Raigne.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Apoc, <HI>2,</HI> 4,</NOTE>Nor &s;hould the <HI>Dragons</HI> taile haue drawne from <HI>Heaven</HI></L>
<L>(By greed of <HI>gaine,</HI> and filthie <HI>lucre</HI> driven)</L>
<PB N="237" REF="129">
<L>So many <HI>Stars</HI> to <HI>Earth,</HI> and earth lie <HI>wayes,</HI></L>
<L>Depriving both of <HI>light</HI> and <HI>heat</HI> their <HI>Rayes.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor &s;hould <HI>vaine Men,</HI> in dam|nable <HI>pretence</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Pietie,</HI> with windie <HI>Elo|quence</HI></L>
<L>And fal&s;ely cald <HI>Philo&s;ophy,</HI> haue dard</L>
<L>Them&s;elues to <HI>Preach,</HI> of GOD the <HI>Truth</HI> haue mard.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor &s;hould &s;uch <HI>Errors,</HI> bree|ding onlie gaine</L>
<L>To blinded <HI>Guids</HI> of a deluded <HI>Traine</HI></L>
<L>Haue <HI>Scriptures</HI> made de&s;pi&s;d, &s;o farre &s;u&s;pect,</L>
<L>And <HI>Toyes</HI> and <HI>Trifles</HI> cary &s;uch <HI>respect.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Strenghen</HI> LORD IESUS <HI>and &s;tretch foorth thine hand</HI></L>
<L><HI>To ayde thy Servants, for thy cau&s;e who stand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And reddy are to &s;uffer fyre and &s;word</HI></L>
<L><HI>For</HI> Thee, <HI>thy</HI> Truth, <HI>and credite of thy</HI> Word,</L>
<PB N="238" REF="130">
<L><HI>Sufficient</HI> Workemen <HI>in thy Harv'&s;t thrust foorth,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fitted for tho&s;e pernitious Times in worth:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Come clen&s;e thy</HI> Kirk, <HI>di&s;cover by degrees</HI></L>
<L><HI>The</HI> Man <HI>of</HI> Sinne, <HI>to All who&s;e darkned eyes</HI></L>
<L><HI>Blind to di&s;cerne, yet can not</HI> trulie <HI>&s;ee</HI></L>
<L><HI>Midst &s;uch a glorious</HI> Sunne|&s;hine, <HI>who is Hee.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thine owne deare</HI> Lambs <HI>&s;et free, who captives lye,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which chains of</HI> Ignorance <HI>and</HI> Error <HI>tye;</HI></L>
<L><HI>That hence (no more in by-paths led astray)</HI></L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn</HI> 14, 6,</NOTE><HI>In &s;eeking Thee, the Truth, the Life, the way,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Their</HI> Crucifixes <HI>faind they may di&s;clame,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And of their</HI> Idols, <HI>and fal&s;e</HI> Chri&s;ts <HI>thinke &s;hame</HI></L>
<L><HI>Among&s;t their hands, their hearts lift vp to Heaven,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Where</HI> Truelie <HI>Thee to &s;ee by</HI> Faith <HI>is given</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="238" REF="130">
<L><HI>To All, that in the</HI> Means <HI>or|daind by Thee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With Souls right &s;et, &s;eeke in</HI> SINCERITIE.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="foreign">.</L>
</LG>
<Q><BIBL><HI>GAL. 6.14.</HI></BIBL>
<P><HI>GOD</HI> forbid that I &s;hould rejoyce, but in the <HI>Cro&s;&s;e</HI> of our LORD <HI>IESUS CHRIST,</HI> whereby the World is cru|cified vnto mee, and I vnto the World.</P></Q>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="1" TYPE="sonnet">
<PB REF="131">
<PB REF="131">
<HEAD><HI>SONET.</HI> 1.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_WHILE (mine owne <HI>gla&s;&s;e,</HI>) vpon my &s;elf I looke</L>
<L>Examining how (heere) my part is <HI>plaid,</HI></L>
<L>Reading in <HI>Con&s;ciences</HI> accu&s;ing <HI>Booke</HI></L>
<L>Of pretious <HI>Time</HI> how meane account <HI>I</HI> made,</L>
<L>What hideous <HI>Formes</HI> my frighted <HI>Eyes</HI> vpbrade</L>
<L>Reflecting from the <HI>Mirror</HI> of my mynd?</L>
<L>Abortiue Flowrs which in the blo&s;&s;ome fade</L>
<L>Mo&s;t of my labours pa&s;t alone I find</L>
<L><HI>Eternall</HI> IVSTICE, Thou who (vndeclynd)</L>
<L>To everie <HI>Worke</HI> Proportions the <HI>Reward,</HI></L>
<L>Pittie my folyes pa&s;t: with Sprite refynd</L>
<L>So &s;hall I prai&s;e Thee, who my paths repaird;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So from <HI>Egyptian Brick</HI> and <HI>Clay</HI> &s;et free,</L>
<L>My <HI>Songs</HI> &s;hall <HI>only only</HI> bee of THEE.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="2" TYPE="sonnet">
<HEAD><HI>SONET.</HI> 2.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>BVT while my <HI>Sprite</HI> aboue the &s;phears a&s;pyres</L>
<L>And from the <HI>World</HI> would <HI>Separation</HI> make,</L>
<L>Myne <HI>Eyes</HI> repyning at my <HI>Soules</HI> de&s;yres</L>
<L>With <HI>Lot's</HI> fond <HI>Wife,</HI> relenting looks ca&s;t backe.</L>
<L><HI>Thou</HI> who&s;e con&s;uming <HI>breath</HI> her <HI>Soyle</HI> did &s;acke</L>
<L>All <HI>Lets,</HI> my <HI>flight</HI> which doe empeach, remov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L><HI>Wing</HI> my affection, that in <HI>word,</HI> in <HI>act</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Earth</HI> &s;eque&s;tred, I may <HI>vpwards</HI> move</L>
<L>There, where around <HI>Thee, wi&s;dome, Iustice, Lou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L><HI>Truth, Mercie</HI> with extended wings, abide</L>
<L>With numbrous <HI>ho&s;tes,</HI> all number farre <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Sprits,</HI> which in <HI>eternity</HI> them hyde</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O lead mee thither, thither make mee runne</L>
<L><HI>Perfite thy worke</HI> (good LORD) <HI>in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e begunne.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="3" TYPE="sonnet">
<PB REF="132">
<HEAD><HI>SONET.</HI> 3.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>MY <HI>wayes,</HI> my <HI>wandrings</HI> all to <HI>Thee</HI> are knowne,</L>
<L>No &s;trength to &s;tand (LORD) of my &s;elfe <HI>I</HI> haue;</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> breath in <HI>bondage,</HI> &s;o am not mine owne,</L>
<L>Emancipat to <HI>Sinne,</HI> &s;o Sathans <HI>&s;lave.</HI></L>
<L>No &s;tinking <HI>carion,</HI> halfe con&s;umd in graue,</L>
<L>My leprous <HI>&s;oule,</HI> in <HI>loath&s;omene&s;se</HI> exceeds.</L>
<L>Thy glorious <HI>Image,</HI> how defacd <HI>I</HI> haue</L>
<L>While <HI>I</HI> record, my <HI>heart</HI> for horror bleeds,</L>
<L>Sweete <HI>Reconcealer,</HI> Thou who pardon pleads</L>
<L>To &s;in-chargd <HI>&s;oules,</HI> which faynting, groane for <HI>grace,</HI></L>
<L>Thy <HI>Mercie</HI> mea&s;ure not with my <HI>mi&s;deeds,</HI></L>
<L>Thy wandring <HI>chyld,</HI> turnd <HI>home</HI> at length, embrace,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>who bruti&s;hly mong&s;t <HI>bea&s;ts,</HI> (with ackorns fed)</L>
<L>Too long, a &s;hamefull, &s;wyni&s;h <HI>life</HI> haue led.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="sonnet">
<HEAD><HI>SONET.</HI> 4.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>O Three times happie, if the <HI>day</HI> of <HI>grace</HI></L>
<L>In my dark <HI>&s;oule</HI> did (though but dimly) <HI>dawne,</HI></L>
<L>If to my &s;trugling <HI>thoughts</HI> proclamd were peace</L>
<L>If from mine eyes the <HI>vaile</HI> of darkne&s;&s;e drawne.</L>
<L>If once the <HI>&s;eed</HI> of true <HI>Repentance</HI> &s;awne</L>
<L>Made gu&s;hing &s;treames leave furrowes on my face,</L>
<L>Sinnes men&s;truous rags in pure tran&s;parent laune</L>
<L>Were changt, O then how happie were my cace!</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o <HI>darkne&s;&s;e</HI> paths no more my feete &s;hould trace</L>
<L>So, ever on a quyet <HI>con&s;cience</HI> fea&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>Repent<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"></HI> planted &s;o &s;hould <HI>vice</HI> di&s;place,</L>
<L>So, clen&s;t from <HI>Sinne, &s;innes</HI> filth I &s;hould dete&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce, Light, Repentance,</HI> inward <HI>peace I</HI> crave,</L>
<L>Gra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t the&s;e good LORD, for mee thy &s;elfe who ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="sonnet">
<PB REF="132">
<HEAD><HI>SONET.</HI> 5.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>AWake mee (LORD) from <HI>fancies</HI> charmi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>My <HI>Sprit</HI> rouze vp from <HI>lethargie</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>With doubled pace, O give mee to red<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">.</L>
<L>My <HI>Time</HI> mi&s;pent, the <HI>errors</HI> of my <HI>yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th.</HI></L>
<L>Hence let my <HI>taske,</HI> bee thy eternall <HI>Truth</HI></L>
<L>Free from vaine <HI>fictions</HI> of di&s;tempred <HI>brains:</HI></L>
<L>Grant what thou add&s;t vnto my <HI>years</HI> of grouth</L>
<L>Good <HI>&s;eed</HI> may prove, ca&s;t on more fertile <HI>plains.</HI></L>
<L>Set to the key of <HI>grace,</HI> tune all my <HI>&s;traines</HI></L>
<L>From lawle&s;&s;e <HI>&s;tuffe,</HI> fred from <HI>conceits</HI> prophaine</L>
<L>Which <HI>poy&s;on</HI> doe with <HI>gall</HI> the &s;weete&s;t <HI>veines,</HI></L>
<L>And with the <HI>Sprit</HI> of lyes, mo&s;t <HI>&s;prits</HI> enchaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My <HI>Sprit</HI> with thine in&s;pire, on <HI>wings</HI> mee rai&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>Lord,</HI> henceforth let my <HI>tongue</HI> &s;ound foorth thy <HI>prai&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="sonnet">
<LG>
<L>SInce that va&s;t <HI>Orbe,</HI> which doth the re&s;t embrace</L>
<L>More &s;wift than thoght, &s;till whirl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> about <HI>times</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eele</L>
<L>Since years <HI>Serpentine</HI> cour&s;e, with &s;peedy pace</L>
<L>Doth a continuall <HI>revolution</HI> feele,</L>
<L>Since <HI>houres</HI> &s;till &s;lyde, &s;till <HI>life</HI> away doth &s;teale,</L>
<L>Why then my <HI>Soule,</HI> heere art thou h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d a&s;leepe?</L>
<L>As if on <HI>Earths</HI> low &s;tage were placd thy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>In &s;treams of &s;lyding plea&s;urs, drencht too dee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>Breake off thy <HI>dreame:</HI> from worlds ba&s;&s;e <HI>fetter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">teep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Thy Soveraine <HI>Good</HI> with eyes vn&s;yld to view</L>
<L>Ry&s;e from earths <HI>vaile</HI> to climbe that <HI>Mountain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> &s;teepe</L>
<L>The only &s;tation of <HI>contentment</HI> true,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sooth no thy &s;elfe, my <HI>Soule;</HI> &s;hake of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>Lifes <HI>Flowre</HI> both &s;preidth and fadeth in a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="sonnet">
<PB REF="133">
<HEAD>SONET. <HI>7.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>AS <HI>waue</HI> doth <HI>waue,</HI> &s;o <HI>day,</HI> doth <HI>day</HI> di&s;place,</L>
<L>Times <HI>clock</HI> goes quickly: <HI>Moments</HI> &s;wiftly &s;lyde:</L>
<L>The longe&s;t <HI>Age,</HI> &s;carce doth a <HI>minuts</HI> &s;pace</L>
<L>If with <HI>eternity</HI> compaird, abyde.</L>
<L>Yet <HI>Mortals,</HI> chargd with <HI>madne&s;&s;e,</HI> fraught with <HI>pryde</HI></L>
<L><HI>Day-livers</HI> dreame to &s;ee the worlds la&s;t <HI>date:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Guyle</HI> held no <HI>guilt, craft</HI> they with <HI>craft</HI> doe hyde,</L>
<L><HI>Sinne</HI> heape on <HI>&s;inne, deceat</HI> vpon <HI>deceat.</HI></L>
<L>No paine is &s;paird to gaine the name of GREAT,</L>
<L>Prizde with contempt, aymd at by few, is <HI>Good.</HI></L>
<L>But ah: and build&s;t thou vp a &s;lipry &s;tate</L>
<L>With pre&s;&s;ing <HI>v&s;ury,</HI> with <HI>bribes,</HI> with <HI>bloode.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Madde <HI>Man,</HI> yet do&s;t not, neither wil&s;t take heede</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Life</HI> ore <HI>hell,</HI> hings by a &s;lender <HI>threed.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="8" TYPE="sonnet">
<HEAD>SONET. <HI>8.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>IF Lines,</HI> which <HI>Sphears,</HI> in equall &s;hares divyde.</L>
<L>But once the <HI>Center,</HI> twice the <HI>Circle</HI> touch,</L>
<L>Like &s;low-pac'd <HI>'&s;nails,</HI> why then &s;till doe wee <HI>crouch</HI></L>
<L>Still <HI>craule</HI> on <HI>earth,</HI> on <HI>earth</HI> &s;till grov'ling bide?</L>
<L>Let <HI>fayth</HI> our <HI>flight</HI> aboue <HI>Heavens</HI> circuits guide</L>
<L>Where wee &s;hould <HI>dwell,</HI> redoubling our <HI>de&s;ires.</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</HI> no re&s;t heere finding &s;treight retyres,</L>
<L>But in our <HI>Pri&s;on</HI> plac'd is all our <HI>pride.</HI></L>
<L>As all the Va&s;t inferiour <HI>Orbs</HI> of <HI>Heaven</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>proper pace,</HI> vn&s;en&s;ibly are rold</L>
<L>But hurld about, with <HI>motion</HI> vncontrold,</L>
<L>Are by the <HI>Highe&s;t,</HI> violently driven,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O <HI>Mov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> fir&s;t,</HI> let mee thy <HI>motion</HI> proue</L>
<L>In <HI>grace,</HI> who rather <HI>retrograde</HI> than moue.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="9" TYPE="sonnet">
<PB REF="133">
<HEAD>SONET. <HI>9.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Con&s;tant cour&s;e, heere, LORD each <HI>Creat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> keeps</L>
<L>Not &s;warving from thine ordinance, their <HI>end<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L><HI>Earth</HI> vn&s;u&s;tained &s;tands, in &s;howrs <HI>Ayre</HI> weeps,</L>
<L><HI>Fyre</HI> vpward, <HI>water</HI> to its <HI>Center</HI> tends,</L>
<L>The <HI>Sunne,</HI> in his <HI>Ecliptick,</HI> mounts, de&s;cends</L>
<L>Oblicklie runnes, with <HI>Tropiks</HI> two confynd,</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>cour&s;e</HI> the <HI>years</HI> alternat <HI>&s;ea&s;ons</HI> &s;ends;</L>
<L><HI>Seas</HI> ne're tran&s;gre&s;&s;e the <HI>Limits</HI> thou a&s;&s;ingd.</L>
<L>But <HI>Man,</HI> in whom thy vive <HI>Character</HI> &s;hynd,</L>
<L>That <HI>Lytle World,</HI> of all thy works a <HI>Breefe,</HI></L>
<L>Made <HI>Lord</HI> of <HI>All,</HI> of <HI>all</HI> hath mo&s;t <HI>declynd</HI></L>
<L>From thy <HI>obedience.</HI> O tears! O griefe!</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Man</HI> to the <HI>Angels,</HI> whom <HI>Thou</HI> did&s;t preferre,</L>
<L>From his <HI>Creations end,</HI> doth only erre.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="10" TYPE="sonnet">
<HEAD>SONET. <HI>10.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>MY <HI>Lifs</HI> fraile <HI>Barge,</HI> with an impetuous, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">de</HI></L>
<L>Is on this <HI>worlds</HI> tempe&s;tuous <HI>Ocean</HI> to&s;t:</L>
<L>For <HI>me,</HI> as for our &s;econd <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re,</HI> provv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e</L>
<L>A &s;aving <HI>Ark,</HI> O LORD, or I am lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">,</L>
<L>Or as thy <HI>people</HI> (while proud <HI>Pharaohs</HI> hoa&s;t</L>
<L>Seas over whelmd) through <HI>floods</HI> firme <HI>pa&s;&s;age</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">and<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>A <HI>Ve&s;sell</HI> weake, <HI>Mee</HI> &s;ave, at too much <HI>co&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>Redeem't,</HI> to bee depriv'd of <HI>promis'd Land,</HI></L>
<L>As ear&s;t to <HI>Peter,</HI> LORD &s;treach foorth th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne <HI>ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI></L>
<L>On liquid <HI>floare</HI> while as his <HI>Fayth</HI> did fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>Let not betwixt <HI>mee</HI> and thy <HI>mercie</HI> &s;tand</L>
<L>That I a <HI>&s;inner</HI> vile, hee liv'd a <HI>Saint,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy <HI>Glorie</HI> greater, greater is thy <HI>Prai&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI></L>
<L><HI>Mee</HI> a dead <HI>Lazare,</HI> from <HI>&s;innes</HI> grave <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="sonnet">
<PB REF="134">
<HEAD><HI>SONET.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">O THE BLESSED TRINITIE.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="6 letters">ce vnmovd, who&s;e <HI>Word</HI> made all things move,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ths</HI> pondrous <HI>Orbe</HI> mid&s;t <HI>Ayre</HI> who ballan&s;t even,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;cords</HI> &s;weete, who tund the ten-&s;tringt <HI>Heaven,</HI></L>
<L>GO<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> rich in <HI>Mercie,</HI> infinite in <HI>Love.</HI></L>
<L>LI<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">T out of <HI>Light,</HI> O <HI>life</HI> who <HI>death</HI> did&s;t prove</L>
<L>Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arthlings</HI> to <HI>redeeme,</HI> deprivd of grace,</L>
<L><HI>Chil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> full of wonder,</HI> glorious <HI>Prince of peace,</HI></L>
<L><HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="7 letters">,</HI> from <HI>Eternitie</HI> aboue,</L>
<L>O <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> GHOST, &s;weete &s;anctifying <HI>Sp'rit</HI></L>
<L>From <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oth <HI>proceeding. All,</HI> in <HI>e&s;&s;ence One,</HI></L>
<L>Mo&s;t &s;acred <HI>Trinde: fir&s;t</HI> and <HI>la&s;t</HI> alone,</L>
<L><HI>Three,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndividuall, <HI>Trinally</HI> vnite,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Father, Sonne,</HI> holy <HI>Ghost, God, one</HI> in <HI>three</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>three</HI> in <HI>one,</HI> for ever <HI>ble&s;&s;ed</HI> bee.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER>AMEN.</CLOSER>
<PB REF="134">
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