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FROM THE LIBRARY OF 
 
 REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON, D. D. 
 
 BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO 
 
 THE LIBRARY OF 
 
 PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 
 
 U, /VVSS 1 
 
Be Avid an Orator, DirlneMtJaffe , 
 <The Prophet and ApoKie'if/rfar aae . 
 View hut his Porch and Temple, you /hall fee 
 The Bazty afT>izrine Philoiophy. 
 Examine well the Lines of fa dead Face , 
 "Tteranryau ma^ r dyeemWildani and Ijnue. 
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 TEMPL 
 
 Sacred Poems, 
 
 AND PRIVATE 
 
 EJACULATIONS. 
 
 By Mr. George Herbert, 
 
 Late O R A T O R of the Univerfity 
 oi CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 Together with His LIFE. 
 
 PSAL xxlx. 
 In tis Temple dotb every Man /peak of bis Honour. 
 
 The Twelfth Edition Correfled, with the 
 Addition of an Alphabetical Table. 
 
 LONDON^ 
 
 Printed by J.Barber, forjEFFERY Wa LF, at 
 thejngel in St. TuuVs Church- Yard. 1703, 
 
 
 i 
 
MEMORIAL 
 
 To the Honourable 
 
 GEORGE HERBERT 
 
 Author of the 
 
 Sacred POEMS, 
 
 Who died about Anno 1635. 
 
 REad o'er thefe Raptures with a curious 
 Eye, 
 You muft conclude this Eagle foared high : 
 Montgomery Caftie was the place, where Kg 
 Had his firft breathing, and Nativity, 
 Of that moft Noble Houfe this Hero came, 
 Who left the World this Legacy of Fame. 
 Great Saint, unto thy Memory and Shrine 
 I owe all Veneration, fave Divine, 
 For thy rare Poems , Piety and Pen 
 Speak thee no lefs than Miracle of Men-. 
 The Graces all, borh Moral and Divine, 
 In thee concenter, -and with thee combine i 
 Thefe Sacred Le-ffens, let to thy fweec Lute, 
 Was Mufick that would make Jpcilo mute ; 
 Nay, all thofe warbling Chanters of the Spring 
 Would fit half tame, to hear Arlon ling.. 
 What Province hath produced a greater Soul 
 Between the Artiaue and Antartiqu 
 
 A 3 Than 
 
Than Wskt hath ftone ? where HERBERT'S 
 
 Church fhall be 
 A lafting Pyramid for him and the?. 
 What Father of a Church eaa you rehearfe, 
 That gain'd more Souls to God, 'rwixt Profc and 
 
 Verle ? 
 What Orator had more Magnetick Strains, 
 What Poet fuch a Fancy, Fen or Brains, 
 Lu our gredt Hierarchy ? Shew me the Man, 
 That Sang more faclly than this dying Svran 9 
 This Bird ofParadife, this Glowworm bright, 
 This Philomel, this Glory of the Night. 
 Seeing the Deluge rage, the Clouds itiil dark , 
 Reftlefs below, return'd up to the Ark, 
 This Sacred Dove, before he lea Vd the Skies, 
 .Rarely fet forth, the World's great Sacrifice ; 
 A melting POEM, all the reft fo high, 
 That the dull World may learn to live and die. 
 Never did Pen humane, or earing Brain, 
 Exprefs or vent fuch a feraphick Strain, 
 You that are Poets born, contend and ftrive, 
 In fpite of Death, dead HERBERT to revive. 
 Bring Wreaths of Larick, an immortal Tree, 
 To Salem's facred Hill, for Obfequy. 
 Parnaffus Mount was never fo divine f 
 To turn the Mufis Water into Wine. 
 The Delphian Poet went from thence to Rome, 
 And there war entertain d as l&iior Dome \ 
 And though the Siftjop, and bis Clerks do bo.ift 9 
 That old jalji Prophet th^ere iotb rule the Kg.ift. 
 A lafting Spring of Blood firings near that Hill, 
 There he did bath ; there you your Vials till. 
 'Twill melt your Jiearts, to' view thole Deviations : 
 Yet from that Spring fiows higheft Infpirations. 
 Therein your Annals fuch Encomiums bring 
 To his Memorial, as the Doves in Spring. 
 
 Such 
 
Such moan as EgfP?s Vice-Roy once did make 
 
 Ar Abel-Mizrdim tor his Father's fake. 
 
 Make your thrill Trumpets ; from that thorny Hill, 
 
 Bcnbinnons Vallies with Amazement fill. 
 
 To the Sepulchre go, their Sacrifice 
 
 The Diftillations of your Hearts and Eyes. 
 
 When you depart, fall down and kifs that Land, 
 
 Where once his Mafter^ facred Feet did ftand* 
 
 No A* or Engine can you fafely truft 
 
 To polifh him, but his own facred Duft. 
 
 Nor can you Paint or Fencil him too high, 
 
 That liv'd and dy'd without an enemy ; 
 
 That left behind him this admired Tomb, 
 
 But no Elijha in Eliatfs room. 
 
 An Epitaph upon the Honourable 
 GEORGE HERBERT. 
 
 YOu weeping Marbles, Monuments we truft, 
 As-well with the Injurious, as the juft. 
 When your great truft at laft (hall be reiign'd, 
 And when his noble duft fhall be refin'd : 
 You (hail more Gold, Myrrh, Frankincenfe return,, 
 Than fhall be found in great Auguftus Urn. 
 
 He was the wonder of a better age, 
 Th' Eclipfe of this, of empty heads the rage* 
 Phsnix of Wales, of his great name the glory, 
 A theme above all verfe, beyond all ftory. 
 A plant of Paradife; which, in a word, 
 Worms ne'r fhall wither, as they did the Gourd. 
 A 4 Go 
 
Go yon imborn, heievy Dear. Hubert's Tomb ; 
 No more fuch Babes are in Dame Natures Womb. 
 No more fuch Blazing Comets fhall appear,' 
 Nor leave fo happy influences here. 
 Go thaw your hearts at his celeftial fire, 
 .And what you cannot comprehend, admire. 
 
 Go you dark Poems, dark even as the Skies, 
 Make the Ssjdei fall from our dark dazling Sft%. 
 Mirrors were made. to mend, not mar car fight, 
 Gloe-worms to glitter in thf moil gloomy Night* 
 About thofe glorious Regions he is tied, 
 Where once Saint Pxul was rapt and ravifhed. 
 
 Here sl Divine, Prophet and Poet lies, 
 
 thai U/d up Manna /or Pejh'. 
 
 p. d. Efm 
 
 . The Church Militant. 
 
 THe Church's Progrefs is a Mafter-piec?, 
 Limn'd to the life, of Egypt, Kome, and Grt 
 Wherein he gives the Conclave fuch a blow, 
 Thev ne'r received from either friend or foe. 
 England zvAfranceAo bear as-equal (hare 
 in his predictions, which time will declare ; - 
 Here's height of malice. 
 Impudent iinning, cruelty, diftruft ; ' m m 
 
 re's black ingratitude, here's pride and icorn, 
 Here's da* 
 
 find, here's oppreffion, marks of Futui 
 And here's H the Count 
 
 He 
 
Here's lore or P&'xfe *s ov; fed Root of ail, 
 And here's Religion turn'd up to the wail : 
 And couid we fee with Herbert's Eagle eyes, 
 Without Checkmate Religion weiVward U'^> 
 A moft fad Sacrifice was made of late 
 Of God's poor lambs by Pharifaick hate. 
 For Discipline with Doctrine fo to jarr, 
 Was juft like bringing Juftice to the Bar, 
 Was it the will, or judgment or command^ 
 Of the great Pilot for to pais the Sands; 
 Well may we hope, that our quick-lighted State 
 Will take God's grievance into a debate. 
 Cathedral Priefts long lince have laid about 
 Hammer and Tongs, to drive Religion our, 
 Her Grace and Majefty makes them ib fraid 
 They cry content, and fo efpoufe her Maid. 
 She's decent, lovely, chaft, divine they fay^. 
 She loves their Sons, that fing cur fins away. 
 Could we but count the Thoufands every year., 
 Thefe dreams coniume, the Mufick is too dear, . 
 When Eli'i Sons made Luxury their God y 
 Their Widows narni their Poftbumes Icabod. 
 They both were /lain, God's facte d Ar\ was loft. 
 Though the* had with it a moft mighty Hofu 
 Well may ingratitude make us all mourn ; 
 Pearls we receive, poor Peebles we return, 
 HowSein is {wallowing Tiber^M the Thames, 
 By letting in them both pollute her ftreams 
 Or if the Seers fhall connive or wink. 
 Beware the Thunderbolt ; Migremus bine* 
 O let me die, and not furvive to fee 
 Before my death Religion's Obfeqiiy> , 
 Religion and dear Truth wHl prove at length 
 The Alpha and.. Omega of cur Strength y 
 Our Boa^y our 'fa chin, our Great Britain's glory,, 
 Look'd on by Qv?h 7 as a Rouiantiek ftory," 
 
Our Clour!, that comes behind us in the day, 
 
 Nights fiery Pillar, todireft our way. 
 
 Our Chariots, Ships and Horfemen,to vvithftand 
 
 The fury of our Foes by Sea or Land. 
 
 Our eyes may fee, as hath been feen before, 
 
 Religion's Foes ly floating on the Shore: 
 
 The head of England's Church proud Babels, but 
 
 Will Faith defend, and peace will Janus fhut. 
 
 Adverfus Impia. 
 Anno 1670. 
 
 % The 
 
f The Dedication. 
 
 LOrd* my fi r ft Fruits preftnt themfelves to thee} 
 Tet not mine neither^ For from thee thiy came r 
 And muft return* Accept of them and me, 
 And make usftriye, wkofiallfwg be ft thy Name*- 
 Turn their eyes hither, who Jhall make a gain ; 
 Their s y who Jhall hurt themfelves or me, refrain. 
 
 The 
 
The TITLES 
 
 Of the Several 
 
 POEM 
 
 Contained in this BOOK. 
 
 <w /t Aran 
 
 Jhe Apovf. 
 The Altar 
 
 Anagram of 
 
 Mary 
 To all Angels 
 
 \6% 
 
 Miction 38, 53* 
 
 64, 82, 89 
 
 29 
 
 18 
 
 tfo Virgin 
 
 %t, 
 
 and Skiiits r 
 
 ibid 
 
 i<5 3 
 nthem 164 
 
 The Anfaer 
 A Dialogue A 
 Antipbom 
 Artillery 
 
 Jfjurance 
 AwUe 
 
 B 
 
 45^ -5 
 
 149 
 6 9 
 
 The Bag 
 
 The Banquet 
 H* Baptifm 
 Bittersweet 
 
 The Brittiih Church 
 The Bunch of Grapes 
 B&tefs 
 
 HI 
 
 m 
 
 165 
 
 102 
 120 
 
 105 
 
 The Call 
 
 Charms ant IQiOtf, 
 
 Chriftraxs 
 
 Church-floor 
 
 Church' Lock and 1Q) 
 
 Church Militant 
 
 Church Moraonents 
 
 Church Mufich 
 
 Church Porch 
 
 Church Events : 
 
 Church Windowj 
 
 CUfpingof Ham* 
 
 fbt CcUar 
 
 Colof.3.3, OnrLif 
 
 H. Communion 
 
 Comflai 
 
 Self-condemnation 
 
 Confejfwn 
 
 Conscience 
 
 Con ft am f 
 
 Content 
 
 The Crofs 
 
 5* 
 
 57 
 
 164 
 
 S^ 
 
 57 
 
 1 
 
 hifms 
 
 X B4 
 
 ^9 
 
 *5* 
 
 U7 
 
 77 
 
 43 
 137 
 16s 
 it 3 
 
 98 
 
 63 
 
D 
 
 JDtni tl 
 Dialogue 
 The Difebarge 
 
 DifcipVvne 
 Divinity 
 Dooms- 
 Bonze 
 Dulnejs 
 
 E 
 E.tfrer 
 
 Eajier-vi/ifs 
 The Elixir - 
 Employment 
 V invoy 
 EpheC^.30 
 
 JBven-fong 
 
 *Gri~\ 
 
 
 I H 
 
 1 >4 
 
 \ Heaven 
 
 1B0 
 
 Tl.e HoLl-j'.ijr 
 
 9 1 
 
 Home 
 
 ?i 
 
 Hope 
 
 107 
 
 Humility 
 
 158 
 
 A true J-Iymn 
 
 *73 
 
 I 
 
 127 
 
 fESV 
 
 181 
 
 The Tews 
 
 161 
 
 The Invitation 
 
 ic8 
 
 Jordan 
 
 
 Jofeph'i Con 
 
 
 judgment 
 
 34* 3-5 
 
 finite 
 
 12S 
 
 L 
 
 49,7° 
 
 Lent 
 
 192 
 
 Life 
 
 venoc, 
 
 Longing 
 
 128 
 
 love 
 
 51 
 
 Love-jo.y 
 
 ;• 
 
 0% 
 
 faith 
 
 The F 
 
 The FIot J 
 
 The Foil 
 
 The Tori-runne 
 
 Fr.iiity 
 
 G 
 Giddinefs ' 
 The Glance 
 The Glim: 
 Cooi-FriXri 
 Grace 
 
 Gratefulnsfs 
 Grief 
 
 I - 
 
 170 
 
 rbid 
 62 
 
 1.1 9 
 166 
 
 148 
 30 
 
 52 
 116 
 
 45^4-0, 
 I Love mihtiown 
 
 m 
 
 - Mhn 
 m&nVmddiey 
 
 . ;alen 
 ' Mattens 
 
 tificduon 
 
 ! N 
 
 Nature 
 
 Obedience 
 
 The Odour 
 An Offering 
 
 O 
 
 I .7 
 
 II + 
 61 
 
 162 
 
 «4i 
 
 149 
 174- 
 
 95 
 
 J 35 
 - 
 
 142 
 
 183 
 179 
 
 121 
 
 5 + 
 1 -3d 
 
 92 
 Qo 
 
 37 
 
 9^ 
 169 
 1 4.1 
 
Paradifi 
 
 A Parody 
 
 Peace 
 
 The Pearl, Nldttb. 13 
 
 Perirhanterram 
 
 The Pilgrimage 
 
 The Pofie 
 
 Praife 53,140,151 
 
 Prayer 43, 95 
 
 J& Prieflhood 
 
 Providence 
 
 The 23<*Pfalm 
 
 a 
 
 Tf?e Quiddity 
 Tt:e Quip 
 
 R 
 
 Redemption 3 1 
 
 Repentance 40 
 
 Tie J^>r//iJ 28 
 
 7fei^/e I7 2 
 
 Tie Sacrifice 
 Saints, vide ^wgf /*. 
 Schifms, v. C. w/tt. 
 j*/. Scripture 
 The Search 
 
 125 
 
 "7 
 .81. 
 
 1 
 
 177 
 
 M4 
 
 109 
 167 
 
 *53 
 
 61 
 
 103 
 
 19 
 
 50 
 156 
 
 Sepulchre 
 
 Sighs and Groans 
 
 Sin 
 
 Sins round 
 
 The Sinner 
 
 Sion 
 
 The Si^s 
 
 The Son 
 
 The Star 
 
 The Storm 
 
 SubmiJJion 
 Sunday 
 
 Superliminare 
 T 
 The Temper 
 The Thanlfgiving 
 Time 
 
 Trinity Sunday 
 V 
 Vanity 
 Virtue 
 
 Vngratefulnefs 
 Vnkindnefs 
 
 W 
 The Witter-courfe 
 Whitfunday 
 The World 
 AWreath 
 
 32 
 
 75 
 
 37>55 
 
 114 
 
 30 
 
 99 
 131 
 162 
 
 125 
 
 87 
 66 
 
 17 
 
 46,27 
 
 27 
 
 **5 
 
 59 
 
 77> IC4. 
 
 18 
 
 74 
 
 86 
 
 164 
 
 5* 
 
 76 
 
 179 
 
 THE 
 
r i-r f 
 CHURCH-PORCH. 
 
 5[ Perirrhtnterium. 
 
 THou, whole fweet youth and early hopes in- 
 hance 
 Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a trea- 
 fure; 
 Hearken unto a Verfer, who may chance 
 Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleafure, 
 A Verfe may find him, who a Sermon flies, 
 And turn Delight into a Sacrifice, 
 
 Beware of Luft, it doth pollute and foul 
 Whom God in Baptifm wafh'd with his own blood* 
 It blots the leffon written in thy Soul ; 
 The holy lines cannot be underftood. 
 How dare thofe eyes upon a Bible look, 
 Much lefs towards God,whofe luft is all their book? 
 
 Wholly abftain, or wed. Thy bounteous Lord 
 Allows thee choice of paths : take no by-ways ; 
 But gladly welcome what he doth afford \ 
 Not grudging that thy luft hath bounds and ftays. 
 Continence hath his joy : weigh both, and lb 
 If rottennefs have more, let Heaven go. 
 
 If God had laid all common, certainly 
 
 Man would have been t\\ enclofer : but fince now 
 
 God hath impafdus, on the contrary 
 
 Man breaks- the fence, and every ground will. plow. 
 
 O what were Man, might he himfelf mifplace! 
 
 Sure to be crofs, he would fhift feet and face. 
 
 Drink 
 
e The CHVRCH-PORCH. 
 
 Drinknot Che third glais, which thou carvft not tame 
 When .once it is- within thee ; bat before, 
 May'ft rule it, as thou lift : and pour the fhame, 
 Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor. 
 It is moft juft to throw that -on the ground, 
 Which would throw me there, if I keep theroancU 
 
 He that is drunken, may his Mother kill, 
 Big with his Sifter : He hath loft the reins, 
 Is out-law J d by himfelf : All kind of ill 
 Did with his liquor Aide into his veins. 
 
 The drunkard forfeits Man, and doth deveft 
 All worldly right, lave what he hath by beafL 
 
 Shall I, to pleafe anothers wine-fprung mind, 
 Lofe all mine own ? God hath giv'n me a ineafure 
 Short of his Can and Body : Muft I find 
 A pain in that, wherein he finds a plea fur e ? 
 Stay at the third Glafs : If thou lofe thy hold. 
 Then thou art .mode ft, and the wine grows bold, . 
 
 If reafon. move not Gallants, quit the room \ 
 All in a fhip wrack ililft their feveral way : 
 Let not a common ruin thee intcinb : 
 Be not a beafi in courtefy ; but itay, 
 
 Stay at the third cup, or forgo the place. 
 
 Wine above all things doth God's ftamp deface 
 
 Yet, if thou fin ia wine or wantonnefs, 
 
 Boaft not thereof, nor make thy fliame thy glory. 
 
 Frailty gets pardon by fubmiffivenefs. 
 
 But he thar boafts, (huts that out of his ftory : 
 He makes flat war with God, and doth defy, 
 With his poor clod of earth the fpatious sky* 
 
 Take 
 
The C I-IV R C H-POR C H. J 
 
 Take not his Name, who made thy mouth, in vain: 
 It gets thee nothing, and hath no excufe. 
 Luit and wine plead a pleafure, avarice gain : 
 But the cheap iwearer through his open ilucc 
 
 Lets his Soul run for nought, as little tearing ; 
 
 Were I an Epicure^ I could bate (wearing. 
 
 When thou doft tell anothers jeft, therein 
 Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need : 
 Pick-out of tales the mirth, but not the fin. 
 He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. 
 Play not away the Virtue of that Name, frame. 
 Which is the beft ftake, when griefs make thee 
 
 The cheapeft tins moft dearly punifli'd are ; 
 
 Becaufe to fhun them alio is fo cheap : 
 For we have wit to mark them, and to fpare. 
 O crumble not away thy Souls fair heap. 
 If thou wilt die, the gates of Hell are broad * 
 Pride and full iins have made the way a road. 
 
 Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, 
 Thy mouth to ir, thy actions to them both : 
 Cowardstell lies, and thofe that fear the rod ; 
 The ftormy working Soul (pits lies and froth. 
 Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lye : 
 A fault*, which needs it molt, grows two thereby. 
 
 Fly idlenels, which yet thou ifanft not fly 
 Ey'drelfing, miftreffing, and complement. 
 ofe take up rhy clay, the Sun will crv 
 Lin ft thee: For his light was only lent. I 
 God gave thy Soul brave wings; put ncr ! 
 Into a bed to ileep out all ill weathe& 
 
4 The CHVRCH-PORCH. 
 
 Art thou a Magiftrate ? then be fevere :_ 
 If ftudious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd; 
 Redeem truth from his jaws : If foldier, 
 Chafe brave employments with a naked (word 
 Throughout the world.Fool not;for all may have, 
 If they dare try, a glorious life or grave. 
 
 O England, full of fin, but rnoft of iloth ! 
 
 Spit out thy phlegm, and till thy breaft with glory ; 
 
 Thy Gentry bleats, as if thy native cloth 
 
 Transfus'd a fheepifhnefs into thy ftory : 
 Not that they all are Co ; but that the moft 
 Are gone to grafs, and in the pafture loft. 
 
 This lofs fprings chiefly from our education. 
 Some till their ground,but let weeds choke their fon, 
 Some mark a partridge, never their child's fafhion; 
 Some (hip them over, and the thing is done. 
 
 Study this art, make it thy great defign ; 
 
 And if God's Image move thee not, kt thine* 
 
 Some great eftates provide, but do not breed 
 A maftVing mind; fo both are loft thereby : 
 Or elfe they breed them tender, make them need 
 All that they leave : This is flat poverty. 
 
 For he that needs five thoufand pound to live s 
 Is full as poor as he that needs but Ave. 
 
 The way to make thy fon rich, is to fill 
 His mind with reft before his trunk with riches: 
 For wealth without contentment climbs a hill, 
 To feel thofe tempefts which fly over ditches. 
 But if thy fon can make ten pound his meafure, 
 Then all thou addeftmav be call'cl his treafure. 
 
 When 
 
The C H V R C H-P R C H. 5 
 
 When thou doft purpofe ought (within thy power* 
 Be lure to do it, though it be but final] : 
 Conftancy knits the bones, and makes us tower, 
 When wanton pleafures becken us to thrall. 
 Who breaks his own bond, forfciteth himfelf: 
 W T hat natnre made a (hip, he makes a ihelf. 
 
 Do ail things like a man, not fheakingly: 
 Think the King fees thee frill ; for his kir;g does. 
 Simp'ring is but a iay-hypocrify : 
 Give it a corner, and the clue undoes. 
 
 Who fears to do ill, fets himfelf to task; 
 
 Who fears to do well, fure (hould wear a mask, 
 
 Lock to thy mouth : Difeafes enter there. 
 
 Thou haft two fconfes, if thy ftomach call ; 
 
 Carve, or difcourfe ; do not a famine fear. 
 
 Who carves, is kind to two ; who talks, to all* * 
 Look on meat, think it dirt, then eat a bit * x 
 And fay with all, Earth to earth J commit. 
 
 Slight thofe who fay amidft their fickly healths, 
 Thou liv'ft by rule. W 7 hat doth not fo but men ? 
 Houfes are built by rule, and Common-wealths* 
 Entice the trufty fun, if that you can, 
 
 From his Ecliptick line ; becken the sky. 
 
 Who lives by rule then keeps good company* 
 
 Who keeps no guard upon himfelf, is flack. 
 And rots to nothing at the next great thaw. 
 Man is a ihop of rules, a well-trufs'd pack, 
 W f hofe every parcel under-writes a law. 
 
 Lofe not thy felf, nor give thy humours way : 
 God gave them to thee under lock and key* 
 
 By 
 
6 The C HVR C H-P ORCH. 
 
 By all means ufe fometimes to be alone. 
 Salute thy felf : See what thy foul doth wear. 
 Dare to look in thy cheft ; for 'tis thy own : 
 And tumble upanddown what thou find'ft there. 
 Who cannot reft till he good fellows find, 
 He breaks up houfe, turns out of doors his mind. 
 
 Be thrifty, but not covetous-: Therefore give 
 Thy need, thine. honour, and thy friend his due* 
 Never was fcraper brave man. Get to liver 
 Then live, and ufe it-; Elfe it is not true 
 That thou haft gotten. Surely ufe alone- 
 Makes money not a contemptible ftone. 
 
 Never exceed thy income. Youth may make 
 Ev'n with the year : But age, if it will hit, 
 Shoots a bow fhort, and leffens ftill his ftake, 
 As the day leffens, and his life with it. 
 Thy Ghildren, Kindred, Friends upon thee call| 
 Before thy journy fairly part with all. 
 
 Yet in thy thriving ftill mifdoubt fome.evil ; 
 Left gaining gain on thee, and make thee dim 
 To all things elfe. Wealth is the conjurer's devil$ 
 "Whom when he thinks he hath, the devil hath him* 
 Gold thou may ft fafely touch y but if it ftick 
 Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick, 
 
 What skills it, if a bag of ftones or gold 
 About thy n^ck do drown thee ? raiie try hc^id j 
 Take ftars for mony ; ftars not to be toid 
 By any art, yet to be purchafed. 
 None is fo. wailful as the (craping dame ; m 
 She lofeth three for one :. fcer ibul, reft, fam^ 
 
 
TheCHVRCH-PORCH. 7 
 
 By no means run in debt : Take thine own meafure. 
 Who cannot live on Twenty pound a year, 
 Cannot on forty : He's a man of pleafure, 
 A kind of thing that's for it felf too dear. 
 
 The curious unthrift makes his clothes too wide, 
 And fpares himfelf, but would his Taylor chide. 
 
 Spend not on hopes. They that by pleading clothe^ 
 Do fortunes feek, when worth and fervice fail, 
 Would have their tale believed for their oaths, 
 And are like empty veiTels under fail. 
 Old courtiers know this : Therefore fet out fo, 
 As all the day thou may'ft hold out to go. 
 
 In clothes cheap handfomnefs doth bear the belL 
 
 Wifdom's a trimmer thing than (hop e're gave. 
 
 Say not then, This with that lace will do well ; 
 
 But -this with my difcretion will be brave. 
 Much curioufnefs is a perpetual wooing, 
 Nothing with labour, folly long adoing. 
 
 Play not for gain, but fport. Who plays for more 
 Than he can lofe with pleafure, ftakes his heart: 
 Perhaps his Wife's too, and whom fhe hath bore : 
 Servants and Churches alfo play their part. 
 
 Only a'herald, who that way doth pafs, (glafs. 
 
 Finds his crackt name at length in the Church- 
 
 If yet thou love game at fo dear a rate, 
 Learn this, that hath old gamefters dearly coft : 
 Doft lofe P rife up ; Doft win ? rife in that ftate. 
 Who ftrive to fit out lofing hands are loft. 
 Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace 
 Blowing up houfes with their whole encreafe, 
 
 In 
 
S The CHVRCH-PORCH. 
 
 In Converfation boklnefs now bears fway. 
 But know that nothing can fo foolifh be, 
 As empty boldnefs : Therefore firft affay 
 To fluff thy mind with folic! bravery ; 
 
 Then march on gallant : Get fubftantial worth, 
 Boldnefs gilds finely, and will let it forth. 
 
 Be fweet to all. Is thy complexion fbw'r ? 
 Then keep fuch company; make them thy allay: 
 Get a (harp Wife, a fervantthat will low'r. 
 A ftumbler Humbles leaft in rugged way. 
 
 Command thy felf in chief. He iifes war knows, 
 Whom all his pafiions follow as he goes. 
 
 Catch not ^t quarrels. He that dares not fpeak 
 Plainly and home, is coward of the two. 
 Think not thy fame at every twitch will break : 
 By great deeds fhew, that thou canft little do ; 
 And do them not : that (hall thy wifdom be j 
 And change thy temperance into bravery. 
 
 If that thy fame with every toy be pos'd, 
 'Tisa thin web, which poyfonous fancies make ; 
 But the great Soldiers honour was compos'd 
 Of thicker ftufF, which would endure a make. 
 
 Wifdom picks friends ; civility plays the reft. 
 
 A toy fhun'd cleanly paffeth with the belt. 
 
 Laugh not too much : the witty man laughs leaft : 
 For wit is news only to ignorance. 
 Lefs at thy own things laugh ; left in the jeft 
 Thy perfon fhare, and the conceit advance. 
 
 Make not thy fport abufes : for the fly, 
 That feeds on dung, is coloured thereby. 
 
 Pick 
 
The CHVRCH-PORCH. 9 
 
 Pick out of mirth, like ftones out of thy ground, 
 
 Profanenefs, filthinefs, abufivenefs. 
 
 Thefe are the fcum,with which courfe wits abound; 
 
 The fine may fpare thefe well, yet not go lefs. 
 Ai! things are big with jeft: nothing that's plain 
 But may be witty, if thou haft the vein. 
 
 Wit's an unruly engine, wildly ftriking 
 Sometimes a friend, fometimes theengineer, 
 Haft thou the knack ? pamper it not with liking : 
 But if thou want it, buy it not too dear* 
 Many affe&ing wit beyond their power, 
 Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. 
 
 A Tad wife valour is the brave complexion, 
 That leads the van, and fwallows up the Cities. 
 The Gigler is a Miik-maid, whom infection 
 Or a fir'd beacon frigbteth from his ditties. 
 Then he's the fport : the mirth then in him refts, 
 And the lad man is cock of all his jefts. 
 
 Towards great perfons ufe refpe&ive boldnefs : 
 That temper gives them theirs, and yet doth take 
 Nothing from thine. In fervice care, or coldnefs, 
 Doth ratably thy fortunes mar or make. 
 Feed no man in his fins : for adulation 
 Doth make thee parcel-devil in damnation. 
 
 Envy not greatnefs : for thou mak'ft thereby 
 Thy felf the worfe, and lo the diftance greater. 
 Be not thine own worm : Yet fuch jealoufy, 
 As hurts not others, but may make thee better, 
 Is a good fpur. Correft thy paffions ipite ^ 
 Then may the beafts draw thee to happy light. 
 
 When 
 

 i o The C H V R C H-P ORCH. 
 
 When bafenefs is exalted, do not bate 
 
 The place its honour for the perfbn's fake. 
 
 The fhrine is that which thou doft venerate; 
 
 And not the beaft, that bears it on his back. 
 I care not though the cloth of State fhould be 
 Not of rich Arras, but mean Tapeftry. " 
 
 Thy friend put in thy bofom : Wear his eyes 
 Still in thy heart, that he may fee what's there. 
 If caufe require, thou art his facrifice ) 
 Thy drops of -blood muft pay down all his fear \ 
 But love is loft, the way of friendfhip's gon, 
 Though JDavid had his fonathanyChrift his fobn* 
 
 Yet be not furety, if thou be a Father. 
 
 Love is a pcrfonal debt. I cannot give . 
 
 My Chiidrens right, nor ought he take it : Rather 
 
 Both friends fhould die, than hinder them to live.' 
 
 Fathers firft enter bonds to natures ends ; 
 
 And are her fureties, e'er they are a friend's. 
 
 If thou befingle, all thy good and ground 
 Submit to love ; but yet not more than all. 
 Give one eftate, as one life. None is bound 
 To work for two, who brought himfelf to thrall* 
 God made me one man ; love makes me no more, 
 Till labour come and make my weaknefs fcore. 
 
 In thy difcourfe, if thou defire to pleafe, 
 All fuch is courteous, ufeful, new, or witty, 
 Ufefulnefs comes by labour, wit by eafe ; 
 Courtefy grows in Court, news in the City. 
 Get a good ftock of thefe, then draw the card 
 That fuits him beft,of whom thy fpeech is bearcU 
 
 Entice all neatly to what they know beft ; 
 For fo thou doft thy felf and him. a pleafure : 
 But a proud ignorance will lofe his reft, 
 Rather than fhew his cards;Steal from his treafures 
 
 What 
 
The CHVRCH-PORCH. n 
 
 What to ask further. Doubts well rais'd do lock 
 The fpeaker to thee, and preferve thy ftock. 
 
 If thou be mafter-gunner, fpend not all 
 That thou canft (peak at once ; but husband it : 
 And give men turns of fpeech : Do not foreftal 
 I nefs thine own and others wir, 
 f thou macfft thy w ill. A civil gueft 
 \\ ill no more talk all, than eat all the feaft. 
 
 ilmin arguing: For fiercenefs makes 
 or a fault, and truth diicourtefy. 
 Why fliould I feel another man's miftakes 
 More than his-fickneffes or poverry ? 
 In love I (hould ; But anger is not love. 
 Nor wifdom neither j therefore gently mo • 
 
 Calmness is great advantage : He that lets 
 
 Another chafe, may warm him at his fire ; 
 
 Mark all his wand'rings, and enjoy his frets ; 
 
 As cunning fencers fu'ffer heat to tire. (there 
 
 Truth dwells not in the clouds : The bow that'* 
 Doth often aim at, never hit the fphere. 
 
 Mark what another fays : For many are 
 Full of themfelves, and aniwer their own notion- 
 Take ail into thee ; then with equal care. 
 Balance each dram of reafon, like a potion. 
 
 If truth be with thy friend, be with them both; 
 
 Share in the conqueft, and confefs a troth* 
 
 Be ufefiil where thou liveft, that they may 
 Both want and wifh thy -plea ling prefence ftilL 
 
 -.efs, good parts, great places, are the way 
 To compafs this. Find out mens wants and will, 
 And meet them there. All wordiy joys go lefs 
 To the one joy of doing kindneffes. 
 
 B Pitch 
 
12 The CHVRCH-PORCH. 
 
 Pitch thy behaviour low, thy projeft high ; 
 So (halt thou humble and magnanimous be : 
 Sink not in fpirit : who aimeth at the sky, 
 Shoots higher much, than he that means a tree. 
 A grain of glory mixt with humblenefs 
 Cures both a Fever, and Lethargicknefs. 
 
 Let thy mind ftill be bent, ftill plotting where, 
 And when, and how the bufinefs may be done. 
 Slackness breeds worms .3 but the lure traveller, 
 Though he alights fometimes, ftill goeth on. 
 
 Aftive and itirring fpirits live alone. 
 
 Write on the others, Here liesfucb an one. 
 
 Slight not the fmalleft lofs, whether it be 
 In love or honour •, take account of all: 
 Shine like the fun in every corner : fee 
 Whether thy ftock of credit fwell, or fall. 
 
 Who fay, / cure not* thofe I give for loir ; 
 
 And to inftruft them, 'twill not quit the coll. 
 
 Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree ; 
 Love is a prefentfor a mighty King, 
 Much lefs make any one thine enemy, 
 As guns deftroy, fo may a little (ling 
 The cunning workman never doth refufe 
 The meaneft tool, that he may chance to ufe. 
 
 All foreign wifdom doth amount to this, 
 To take all that is given ; whether wealth, 
 Or love, or language, nothing comes amifs: 
 A good digeftion turnethall to health : 
 And then, as far as fair behaviour may, 
 Strike off all fcores ; none are fo clear as they. 
 
 Keep all thy native good, and naturalize 
 All foreign of that name ; but fcorn their ill : 
 Embrace their aftivenefs, not vanities. 
 Who follows all things, forfeited! his will. 
 
 if 
 
TbeCHVRCH-PORCH. i$ 
 
 If thou obferveft ftrangers in each fir, 
 
 In time they'll run thee out of all thy wit* 
 
 Affect in things about thee cleanlinefs, 
 That all may gladly board thee, as a flower. 
 Slovens take up their ftock of rioifbmiiefs 
 Beforehand, and anticipate their &ft hour. 
 Let thy minds fweetnefs have his operation ■ 
 Upon thy body, clothes, and habitation. 
 
 In Alms regard thy means, and others merit. 
 
 Think Heav'n a better bargain, than to give 
 
 Only thy tingle market-mony for ic. 
 
 Joyn hands with God to make a man. to live. 
 Give to all fomerhing; to a good. poor man, 
 Till thou change names, and bewnece he began, 
 
 Man is God's image ; but a poor man is 
 Chrift's ftamp to boot: both images regard. 
 God reckons for him, counts, tlvc favour his : 
 Write, So muebglyn to GcJ ; thou ihait be heard. 
 Let thy alms go before, and keep heav'ns gate 
 Open for thee; or both may come too late. 
 
 Reftore to God his due in tithe and time : 
 A tithe purloin'd cankers the \\hole eftate. 
 
 \iap obferve : think when the bells do chime, 
 'Tis Angels Mulick ; therefore come not late, 
 God then deals bleflings : If a King did fo, 
 Who would not hafte, nay give, :o fee the fhow ? 
 
 Twice on the day his dew is underftood; 
 For all the week thy food fo oft he gave thee. 
 Thy chear is mended; bate not of the fo; 
 Becaufe'tis better, and perhaps may lave thee, 
 art not th* Almighty God : O" be not crofs. 
 Faft when thou wilt, but then 'tis gain, not lofs, 
 B 2 Though 
 
14 The CHVKCH-PORCH. 
 
 Though private prayer be a brave defign, 
 Yet publick hath more promifes, more love : 
 And love's a weight to hearts, to eyes a fign. 
 We all are but cold fuiters ; let us move 
 
 Where it is warmeft. Leave thy lix and feven ; 
 
 Pray with the raoft; for where moft pray,is heav'n. 
 
 When once thy foot enters the Church, be bare. 
 God is more there than thou : For thou art there 
 Only by his permiflion. Then beware , 
 And make thy felf all reverence and fear, (ftate. 
 Kneeling ne're fpoil'd filk ftocking : Quit thy 
 All equal are within the Churches gate. 
 
 Refort to Sermons, but to prayers moft : 
 Praying's the end of preaching. O be dreft , 
 Stay not for th'other pin : Why, thou haft loft 
 A joy for it worth worlds. Thus hell doth jeft 
 Away thy bleffings, and extreamly flout thee, 
 Thy clothes being faft, but thy foul loofe about 
 
 (thee. 
 In time of fervice feal up both thine eyes, 
 And fend them to thy heart ; that fpying fin, 
 They may weep out the ftains by them did rife.: 
 Thofe doors being (hut, all by the ear comes in. 
 Who marks in Church-time others fymmetry , 
 Makes all their beauty his deformity. 
 
 Let vain or bufie thoughts have there no part : 
 
 Bring not thy plough,thy plots : thy pleafure thither. 
 
 Chrift purg'd his Temple ; fo muft thou thy heart. 
 
 AH worldly thoughts are but thieves met together 
 To cozen thee. Look to thy a&ion well, 
 For Churches either are our Heaven or Hell. 
 
 Judge not*the preacher ; for he is thy Judge : 
 If thou miflikehim, thou conceiv'ft him not. 
 God caileth preaching folly. Do not grudge 
 To pick out treafures from an earthen pot. 
 
 The 
 
The CHZ KC h I 
 
 ■ 
 
 . fit fall in I 
 He es God's abode, and to cc 
 
 • tsoa earth, (hall one day 
 
 eachers language cr e:;: 
 How know'ft thou but r. 
 
 Ther I .ts and his into coi 
 
 God fent him'whatfoe're he be : O ta 
 
 And love him for his Mafter : I . 
 
 Though it be ill, makes him no ill Phyfxian. 
 
 None {hall in Hell fuch bitter pangs endure, . 
 As thofe who mock at God's way of Salvation. 
 Whom Oil and Baifains kill, what falve can cure ?' 
 They drink with greedinefs a full Damnation. 
 
 The fews refuted thunder ; and we folly. 
 
 Though God do hedge us in, yet who is Holy ?. 
 
 Sum up at nigr: fiou hall: done by day ; 
 
 Ana -hat thou hail: to (\c. 
 
 Drefs an- irk the <k 
 
 Be 
 
 Look not o:i pleafun 
 
 e 
 Mak( j | i vo, 
 
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 U •■ • . th [ 
 
THE CHURCH PORCH 
 
CHE CHi-'RCl] 
 
18 The CHVRCH. 
 
 % The, Sacrifice. 
 
 OH all ye, vehopafs by, whofe eyes and mine! 
 To worldly things are (harp, but to me blind ; 
 To me, who took eyes that I might you find. 
 
 Was ever grief like mine ? 
 
 The Princes of my people make a head 
 Againft their Maker : They do wifh me dead, 
 Who cannot v/iih, except I give them bread : 
 
 Was ever grief, &c. 
 
 Without me each one, who doth now me brave, 
 Had to this day been an Egyptian Have. 
 They ufe that power againft me, which I gave \ 
 
 Was ever grief 7 &C+ 
 
 Mine own Apoftle, who the bag did bear, 
 Though he had all I had, did not forbear 
 To fell me alio, and to put me there. 
 
 Was ever grief, &c* 
 
 For thirty Pence lie did my death devife, 
 Who at three Hundred did the Ointment prize, 
 Not half fo fweet as my fweet Sacrifice. 
 
 Was ever griefs &c« 
 
 T he refore my foul melts,and my hearts dear treafure 
 Drops Blood (the only beads) my words to meafure. 
 let this Cuppafs, if it be thy pleafure. 
 
 Was ever grief, &c 
 
 Thefe drops being temper'd with a finners tears, 
 A Balfam are for both the Hemifpberes , 
 Curing all wounds, but mine ; all but my fears. 
 
 • Was ever grief, &c« 
 Yet 
 
The CHVRCHi. 19 
 
 Yet my Difciples fleep : I cannot gain 
 
 One hour of watching ; but their drowfie^ brain 
 
 Comforts not me, and doth my Doctrine itain ; 
 
 Was ever grief like mine I 
 
 Arife, arife, they come. Look how they r 
 Alas ! what haite they make to be undone ! 
 How with their lanthorns do they feek the Sun ! 
 
 Was ever griefs &di 
 
 With clubs and ftaves they feek me a* a Thief» 
 Who am the way of Truth, the true Relief, 
 Moft true to thofe, who are my greateft griefs 
 
 Was ever grief) &c« 
 
 .. • 
 
 Judas, dGft thou betray me with a kifs ? 
 Canft thou find hell about my lips ? and mifs 
 Of life, juft at the gates of life and bills ? 
 
 Was ever grief, &ci 
 
 See, they lay hold on me, not-wit-h the hands. 
 Of Faith, but Fury ; yet at their commands 
 I fnffer binding, who have loos'd their bands : 
 
 Was ever grief &c* 
 
 All my Difciples flee ; fear puts a bar 
 Betwixt my Friends and me. They leave thatStaiy 
 That brought the Wife'men of the Eaft from. faro 
 
 Was ever grief ckc* 
 
 Then from one Ruler to another bound 
 They lead me ; urging, that it was not found 
 What I taught, Comments would tievtext con- 
 
 ( found* . 
 . ever grief % &c« 
 
 The : 
 
20 The CHVRCK 
 
 The Priefts and Rulers all falfe witnefs feek 
 'Gainft him, whofeeks not life, but is the meek 
 Andready Palchai Lamb of this great week. 
 
 Was ever grief like nunc ? 
 
 Then- they accufe me of great blafphemy, 
 That I did thruft into the Deity, 
 Who never thought that any robbery. 
 
 Was ever grief r &C# 
 
 Some faid, that I the Temple to the floor 
 In three days raz'd, and railed as before. 
 'Why, he that built the world can do much more. 
 
 Was ever griefs tkc» 
 
 Then they condemn me all with the fame breath, 
 Which I do give them daily, unto death. 
 Thus Aim my firft breathing rendereth. 
 
 Was ever grief, &C* 
 
 They bind, and lead me unto Herod ' r He 
 Sends me to Pilate. This makes them agree ; 
 But yet their friendflup is my enmitie. 
 
 Was eve*- griefs &c* 
 
 Herod and all his bands do \^t me light, 
 Who teach all hands to wax. ringers to fight, 
 And only am the Lord of Hoft and might. 
 
 Was- ever grief\ &c»- 
 
 Herod m judgment fits, while I do ftand ; 
 Examines me with a 'cenforious hand : 
 I him obey, who all things elfe command. 
 
 Was ever grief\ &c* 
 
 The 
 
The CHVRCH. 21 
 
 The $ev>$ accufe me with defpitefulnefs; . 
 And vying maKce with my gentlenefe, 
 
 Pick quarrels with their only happinefs. 
 
 Was ever grief like mine ? 
 
 I anfwer nothing, but with patience prove 
 If ftony hearts will melt with gentle love. 
 But who does hawk at eagles with a dove? 
 
 Was ever grief, &c« 
 
 Myfilence rather doth augment their cry | 
 My dove doth back into my bofome fly, 
 Becaufe the raging waters ftillare high. 
 
 Was ever grief j &c^ 
 
 Hark how they cry aloud frill, Crucife % 
 It is not fit he live a day, they cry : 
 Who cannot live lefs than eternally.. 
 
 Was ever grief &Co.. 
 
 Pilate a ftranger, holdeth oiF \ but they, 
 Mine own dear people, cry, Away, Away, 
 With noifes confufed frighting the day. 
 
 Was ever grief, & e* 
 
 Yet ftill they fhout, and cry, and ftop- their ears* 
 Putting my life among their fins and fears, 
 And therefore wifh my blood, on them and theirs* 
 
 Was ever grit j\ &c£ 
 
 See how fpite cankers things ! Thefe words aright 
 Ufed, and wilhed, are the whole worlds delight ; 
 But honey i$ their gall, brightnefs their nighty 
 
 Was eye/ grief } &c>. 
 
 They 
 
22 The CHVRC H. 
 
 They cliufe a murderer, and all agree 
 In him to do themfelves a courtefie : 
 For it was their own caufe that killed me ; 
 
 Was ever grief like mine I 
 
 And a feditious murderer he was : 
 But I, the Prince of Peace ; peace that doth pafe 
 All underftanding, more than Heav'n doth glafs : 
 
 Was ever grief] &C*. 
 
 Why, Cafar rs their only King, not I : 
 
 He clave the ftony Rock, when they were dry ; 
 
 But furely not their Hearts, as I well try : 
 
 Was ever grief) &Ci 
 
 f Ah, how they fcourge me !. yet my tendernefs 
 Doubles each lafh ;, And yet their bitternefe 
 Winds up my grief to a myflrer ioufnefs :. 
 
 Was ever grief, &cv 
 
 They buffet me, and box me as they lift, 
 
 Who grafp the Earth and Heaven with tfiy fill,. 
 
 And never yet, whom I would punifh, mifs'd : 
 
 Was ever grief, &c.- 
 
 Behold, they fpit on me in fcornful wife ; 
 Who by my fpittle gave the blind man eyes,. 
 Leaving his blindnefs to mine enemies : 
 
 Was ever grief, &C«. 
 
 My face they cover, though it be Divine* 
 
 AsMofes face was veiled, fo is mine, 
 
 Left on. their double dark fouls either Chine. 
 
 Was ever griefi&c. 
 
 Servants- 
 
The CHVRCH. 2 j 
 
 ints andabje&s flout me ; they are witty: 
 ■jsov: Prcpbcj) vch+ftrikes thee, is their ditty* 
 So they ia me deny themfelves ail pity ; 
 
 Was ever -ricf like mine ? 
 
 And now I am delivered unto death, 
 
 Which each one calls for fo with, utmoit breath, 
 
 That he before me well-nigh fnffereth. 
 
 Was ever grief j &cv 
 
 Weep not, dear Friends, fmce I for both have wept, 
 W T hen all my tears were blood, the while you flept ; 
 Your tears for your own fortunes fhouid be kept. 
 
 Was ever griefs &c* 
 
 The Soldiers led me to the common hall ;.. 
 There they deride me, they abufe me all : 
 Yet for twelve Heav'nly Legions I could call. 
 
 Was ever grief j &C* 
 
 Then with a fcarlet Robe they me array ; 
 Which (hews my blood to be the onLy way, 
 And cordial left to repair man's decay- 
 
 Was ever grief, &c^ 
 
 Then on my head a crown of thorns I wear ; 
 For thefc are all the grapes Sim doth bear, 
 Though I my Vine planted and wat'red there,. 
 
 V/as ever grief 7 &cv 
 
 So fits the Earths great curfe in Jdarns falL 
 Upon my head ; fo I remove it all 
 From th'Earchunro my brows, and bear the thrall*. 
 
 Was ever griefs &c. 
 
 Then 
 
24 The CHVRCH. 
 
 Then with the reed they gave to me before, 
 They ftrike my Head,the rock from whence all ftore 
 Of heav'nly bleffings iflue evermore. 
 
 Was ever grief like mine ? 
 
 They bow their knees tome, and cry, Hail J^ing ; 
 W hatever feoffs or fcornfulnefs can bring, 
 I am the floor, the fink, where they it tiing. 
 
 Was ever grief &c*> 
 
 Yet fince man's fceptersare as frail as reeds,. 
 And thorny all their crowns, bloody their weeds; 
 I, who am truth, turn into truth their deeds*. 
 
 Was ever grief Scc» 
 
 The foldiersalfo fpit upon that face,.. 
 Which Angels did defire to have the grace, 
 And Prophets once to fee, but found no place. 
 
 Was ever grief j &c» 
 
 Thus trimmed forth they bring me to the rout, 
 Who Crucify him cry with one itrong iTiout. 
 God holds his peace at man, and man cries out* 
 
 Was ever grief &c* 
 
 They lead me in once more, and putting then 
 Mine own clothes on, they lead me out agen ; 
 Whom Devils fly, thus- he is toUTd of men, 
 
 JFas ever grief &LC*- 
 
 And now, weary offport, glad to engrofs 
 AH ipite in one, counting my life their lofs, 
 They carry me to my moft bitter crofs. 
 
 Was ever grief &c* 
 
 My 
 
The CHVRC H. 25 
 
 My crofs I bear my felf, until I faint : 
 Then Simon bears it for. me by conftriant, 
 The decreed burden of each mortal Saint. 
 
 Was ever grief like mine ? 
 
 ill ye vthopifs by , behold mdfie ; 
 
 Man ftole the Fruit, but I mull: climb the Tree ; 
 
 The Tree of life to all but only me. 
 
 Was ever grief &c* 
 
 Lo, here I hang, charged with a world of fin, 
 The greater world o'th' two : For that came in 
 By words j but this by forrow I muft win. 
 
 Was ever grief &c» 
 
 Such forrow, as if finfnl man did k^ 
 Or feel his part, he would not ceaie to kneel. 
 . Till all were melted, tho 5 he were ail Stee], 
 
 Was- ever grief &c» 
 
 But, my God, my God! why leav'ft thou me, 
 The Son, in whom thou doft delight to be ?. 
 
 My God, my God 
 
 Was ever grief &c* 
 
 Shame tears my Soul, my Body many a wound ; 
 Sharp nails pierce this, but {harper that confound j 
 Reproaches,- which are free, while i am bound. 
 
 Was ever grief &c* 
 
 Now heal thy felf, Phyikian ; now come down* 
 
 Alas ! I did lb, when I left my Crown 
 
 And Father's ftaite for you, to feel his frown. 
 
 Was ever grief Sec. 
 
 In 
 
a 6 The C HVRC H. 
 
 In healing not my felf, there doth confift . 
 All that faivanon, which ye now reiift • 
 Your fafety ia my iicknefs doth fubfift. 
 
 Was ever gridf like mine? 
 
 Betwixt two thieves I fpend my utmoft breath, 
 Aa he that for foine robbery fuffereth. 
 Alas ! what have I ftol'n from you ? Death. 
 
 Was ever grief , &C. 
 
 A King my title is, prefixt on high; 
 Yet. by my Subjefts I'm condemn'd to die 
 A fervile death in fervile company. 
 
 Was ever grief \ &C» 
 
 They gave me vinegar mingled with gall, 
 
 But muore with malice : Yet when they did call, 
 
 With Manna-, Angels food, I fed them ail. 
 
 Was ever grief, &c» 
 
 They part my Garments, and by lot difpofe 
 
 }*iy Coat, the type of Love,which oncecur'd thofe 
 
 Who fought for help, never malicious foes. 
 
 Was ever grief, &C. 
 
 Nay, after death their fpite fhall further go : 
 For they will pierce ray Side, I full, well know y 
 That as fin came, fo. Sacramento might flow. , 
 
 Was ever griej\ <3cc» 
 
 But now I die ; now all is fini/hed. 
 
 My wo, man's weal : and now I bow my beat 
 
 Only let others fay, when I am dead, 
 
 ,cr was grief Hie mine* 
 
 a* 
 
C HVRC K. 
 
 % The Thmkfgiving. 
 
 OH King of grief * (a title ftrange, yet ( 
 To th^e of all Kings only due; 
 Oh King of wounds ! how (hall 1 grieve for thee, 
 
 Who in all grief prevented me ? 
 Shall I weep blood r 5 why thou haft wept fuch ftore, 
 
 'That all thy body was one gore. 
 Shall I be fcour^ed. flouted, boxed, fold ? 
 
 Tis but to tell the tale is told. 
 My God, WJ God, v:hy deft thou pan from rat 1 
 
 Was fuch a grief as cannot be. 
 Shall I then fing, skipping thy doleful rtory, 
 
 And fide with thy triumphant Glory ? 
 Shall thy ftrokes be my ftroking ? thorns my flower ? 
 
 Thy rod, my pofy ? crofs, my bower ? 
 cBut how then (hall I imitate thee, and 
 
 Copy thy fair, though bloody hand? 
 Surely I will revenge me on thy love, 
 
 And try who (hall victorious prove* 
 If thou deft give me wealth, I will reftore 
 
 All back unto thee by the poor.-* 
 If thou doft give me honour, men (hall fee 
 
 The honour doth belong to thee. 
 I will not marry; or if (he be mine, 
 
 She and her Children iLall be thine* 
 m»friend, if he blafpheme thy name, 
 
 I will tear thence his love and fame. 
 One half of me being gone, the reft I give 
 
 Unto fome Chappel, die or live. 
 As for my Paffion — But of that anon. 
 
 When, with the other i have done, 
 For thy Predeftinatioa, Til contrive, 
 
 That three vears hence, if I fnrvive, 
 
 I . 
 
2 8 The C HVR C H. 
 
 I'll build a Spittle, or mend common Ways, 
 
 But mend my own without delaies. 
 Then I will ufe the works of thy creation, 
 
 As if I us'd them but for faihion. 
 The world and I will quarrel ; and the year 
 
 Shall not perceive that I am hire. 
 My Mufick (hall find thee, and ev'ry ftring 
 
 Shall have his attribute to fing, 
 That altogether may accord in thee, 
 
 And prove one God, one Harmony. 
 If thou (halt give me Wit, it fhall appear, 
 
 If thou haft giv'n it me, 'tis here. 
 Nay, I will read thy Book, and never move 
 
 'Till I have found therein thy love ; 
 Thy art of love, which I'll turn back on thee* 
 
 O my dear Saviour, Viftory ! 
 Then for my Paffion 1 will do for that — *3 
 
 Alas ! my God, I know not what. 
 
 i 
 
 % The ReprifaL 
 
 Have confiderM it, and find 
 There is no dealing with thy mighty Paffion I 
 For though I die for thee, I am behind; 
 My fins deferve the condemnation. 
 
 O make me innocent, that I 
 May give a difentangled ftate and free; 
 And yet thy Wounds'frill my attempts defy, 
 
 For by thy death I die for thee. 
 
 Ah ! was it not enough that thou 
 By thy eternal Glory didft outgo me ? 
 Cbuld'ft thou not grief's lad conqueftme allow, 
 
 But in all vkt'ries overthrow me ? 
 
 Yet 
 
The CHVRCH. 29 
 
 Yet by confeffion will I come 
 Into the conqueft. Though I can do nought 
 Againft thee, in thee I will overcome 
 
 The man, who once againft thee fought. 
 
 % The Agony* 
 
 X Hiiofophers have meafur'd Mountains, 
 Fathom'd the depths of Seas, of States and Kings, 
 Walk'd with a ftatFto Heav'n,and traced Fountains ; 
 
 But there are two vaft, fpacious things, 
 The which to meafure iMoth more" behove : 
 Yet few there are that found them; Sin and Love* 
 
 Who would know Sin, let him repair 
 Unto Mount Olivet ; there fhail he fee 
 A man fo wrung with pains, that all his hair, 
 
 His skin, his garments bloody be. 
 Sin is that Prefs andTVice, which forceth pain 
 To hunt his cruel food through every vein. 
 
 Who knows not love, let him affay, 
 And tafte that juice, which on the Crofs a pike 
 Did fet abroach; then let him fay, 
 
 If ever he did tafte the like. 
 Love is that liquor fweetand 1110ft divine, 
 Which my God feels as Blood 7 but I as Wine, 
 
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jo The C HVRC J£ 
 
 % The Sinner. 
 
 LOrd, how am I all ague, when I feek 
 What I have treafur'd in my memory T 
 Since, if my foul make even with the week,, 
 Each feventh note by riaht is due to thee* 
 
 I find three quarries of pil'd vanities, 
 
 But fhreds of holinefs, that dare not venture 
 To fhew their face, fince crofs to thy decrees: |( 
 
 There the circumference JEarth is, Heav'n the cen- 
 
 (tre. 
 
 •In To much dregs the quinteflence is fmaQ ~. 
 The fpirit and goodextrafr of my heart 
 Comes to about the many hundreth parfc 
 
 Yet Lord reftore thy Image, hear my call : (grone. 
 And though my hard heart fcarce to thee can 
 Remember that thou once didft write in ftone* 
 
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 % Good-Friday. 
 
 My chief good, 
 How (hall I meafure out thy blood ? 
 How (hall I count what thee befeh 
 And each grief teil? 
 
 Shall I thy woes 
 Number according to thy foes ? 
 Or, fince one ftar ihew'd thy firft breath* 
 
 Shall all thy death ? 
 
 Or (hall each leaf, 
 Which falls in Autumn', fcore a grief? 
 Or cannot leaves, but fruit, beiign 
 
 Of the true Vine ^ w 
 
 Then 
 
The C HVRC H. 31 
 
 Then let each hour 
 Of my whole life one grief devour ; 
 That thy diftrefe through all may run, 
 
 And be my Sun. 
 
 Or rather let 
 My fev'ral Sins their forrows get ; 
 That, as each beaft his cure doth know, 
 
 Each fin may fo. 
 
 Since blood is fit reft, Lord, to write 
 Thy forrows in, and bloody flight ; 
 My heart hath ftore ; write there, where in 
 One box doth ly both ink and fin : 
 
 That when iin fpies fo many foes, 
 Thy whips, thy nails, thy wounds thy woes, 
 All come to lodge there, tin may lay. 
 No room for me, and fiy away. 
 
 Sin being gone, oh fill the place, 
 And keep poffeflion with thy grace \ 
 Left fin take courage and return, 
 And all the writings blot or burn. 
 
 % Redemption. 
 
 HAving been tenant long to a rich Lord, 
 Not thriving, I refolved to be bold. 
 And make a fuit unto him to afford 
 A new fmall-rented Leafeand cancel th' old. 
 
 In Heavefi,a't his Manor I him fought: 
 
 They- told me there, that he was lately gone 
 About fome land, which he had dearly bought 
 
 Longfince on Barth v to take poffeflion. 
 

 32 The C HVRCH. 
 
 I ftraight return'd, and knowing his great Birth, 
 Sought him accordingly in great reforts; 
 I n Cities, Theatres, Gardens, Parks, and Courts : 
 
 At length I heard a ragged noife and mirth 
 
 Of Thieves, and Murderers : There I him efpied, 
 Who ftraight, Tourfuit is granted, (aid, and died. 
 
 ^[ Sepulchre. 
 
 OBieffed Body ! Whither art thou thrown ? 
 No lodging for thee, but a cold hard ftone ? 
 So many hearts on Earth, and yet not one 
 
 Receive thee? 
 Sure there is room within our hearts good ftore ; 
 For they can lodge tranfgreiTions by the fcore: 
 Thoufands of toys dwell there, yet out of door 
 
 The.y leave thee. 
 But that which fliews them large (hews them unfit, 
 W r hatever fin did this pure Rock commit, 
 Which holds thee now ? Who hath indited it 
 
 Of murder ? 
 W T here our hard hearts have took up ftones to brain 
 And miffing this moftfalily didarraign thee; (thee, 
 Only thefe ftones in quiet entertain thee, 
 
 And order. 
 And as of old the law by heav'nly art 
 Was writ in ftone ; Co thou, which alfo art 
 The letter of the word, find'ft no fit heart 
 
 To hold thee. 
 Yet do we ftill perfift as we began, 
 And lb fhould perifh, but that nothing can, 
 Tho 5 it be cold, hard, foul, from loving man 
 
 With-hold thee. 
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The CHVRCH. 11 
 
 E^fler. 
 
 'j- 
 
 Rife heart; thy Lordisrifen. Sing his Praife 
 Without delays, 
 Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewife 
 
 With him may'ft rife : 
 That, as his death calcined thee to duft, 
 His life may make thee gold, and much more juft. 
 
 Awake, my Lute, and ftruggle for thy part 
 
 "with all" thy art. 
 The Crofs taught all wood to refouild his name, 
 
 Who bore the fame. 
 His ftretched finews taught all firings, what Key 
 Is beft to celebrate this moft high Day. 
 
 Conforr both heart and lute, and twifta fong 
 
 Pkafant and long. 
 Or, fince all Mufick is but three parrs vied, 
 
 And multiplied; 
 O let thy bleiTed Spirit bear a part, 
 ■ And make up our defetls with his fweet art. 
 
 I Got me Flowers to ftrew thy way ; 
 I got me Boughs off many a Tree : 
 But thou waft up by break of day, 
 And brought 5 ft thy fweets along with thee. 
 
 The Sun arifmg in the Eaft, 
 
 Though he give light, and th' Eaft perfume ; 
 
 If they mould offer to conteft 
 
 With thy arifing, they prefume. 
 
 Can there be any day but this, 
 Though many Suns to lhine endeavour? 
 W r e count three hundred, but we mifs : 
 There is but one, and that one ever. 
 
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 % Holy Bapti 
 
 AS he that fees a dark and fhady grove, 
 Stays not, but looks beyond 'it on the sky ; 
 So when I view my fins, mine eyes remove 
 More backward ftill, and ro that water fly, 
 
 Which is above the Heav'ns, whofe fpring and vent 
 Is in my dear Redeemer's pierced fi 
 
 O bletiad ltreams ! either you do pre 
 And frop our fins from growing thick and wide, 
 
 Or elfe give tears to drown them, as they grow. 
 In your Redemption meafures all my time, 
 Andfpreads the plaifter equal to the crime: 
 
 Ycu taught the Book of Life e, that fo, 
 
 Whatever future fins fhonld memifcal, 
 
 Your firft acquaintance might difcredit all. 
 
 % Holy Baftifm. 
 
 ^Tnce, Lord, to thee 
 A narrow way and little gate 
 Is all the paffage, on my 
 
 Thou didttlay hold, and antedate 
 My faith in me. 
 O let me ftill 
 Write thee great Gcd, and me a child; 
 Let me be foft and fupple to thy will, 
 Small to my felf, to others mild, 
 Behither ill. 
 Although by fteaith 
 My flefh got on 5 yet let her fitter 
 My Soul bid nothing, but preferve her wealth : 
 The growth of iiefh is but a blifter ; 
 
 Childhood is health, 
 
 tfitwre. 
 
The CHVRCH. sj 
 
 Nature. 
 
 FUll of rebellion, I would die, 
 Or fight, or travel, dtdeny 
 that thou haft ought to do with me. 
 
 O tame my heart; 
 It is thy higheftart 
 captivate ftrong holds to thee. 
 
 If thou (halt let this venom lurk, 
 And in fuggeftions fume and work, 
 Mv Soul will turn to bubbles ftraight, 
 
 And thence by kind 
 Vanifh into a wind, 
 Making thy workmanfhip deceit. 
 
 O fmooth my rugged heart, and there 
 Engrave thy rey'rend law and fear, 
 Or make a new one, fince the old 
 
 Is faplefs grown, 
 And a much titter ftone 
 To hide my duft, than thee to hold. 
 
 ^J" Sin. 
 
 JOra, with what care haft thou begirt us round ! 
 j Parents firft feafon us \ then School-matters 
 
 Deliver us to laws ; they fend us bound 
 To rules of reafon, holy meflengers, 
 
 Pulpits and Sundays, forrow dogging fin, 
 
 Afflictions forted, anguilhofall fizes, 
 Fine nets and ftratagems to catch us in, 
 
 Bibles laid open, millioris.of furprizes, 
 
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?8 
 
 The CHVRCH. 
 
 Eleffings beforehand, ties of gratefulnefs, 
 The found of Glory ringing in our ears : 
 \V ithout, our fhame; within, our confciences : 
 
 Angels and Grace, eternal hopes and fears. 
 
 Yet all thefe fences and their whole array- 
 One cunning bofom-fin blows quite away. 
 
 % Affliction. 
 
 WHen firft thou didft intice to thee my heart, 
 I thought the fervice brave : 
 So many joys I writ down for my pare, 
 
 Befides what I might have 
 Out of my ftock of natural delights, 
 Augmented with thy gracious benefits. 
 
 I looked on thy furniture fo fine, 
 
 And made it fine to me ; 
 
 Thy glorious houfhold-ftuff did me entwine, 
 And 'tice me unto thee. 
 
 Such ftars I counted mine : Both Heav'n and Earth, 
 
 Paid me my wages in a world of mirth. 
 
 What pleafures could I want, whofe King I ferved, 
 \V here joys my fellows were ? 
 
 Thus argu'd into hopes, my thoughts referved 
 No place for grief or fear ; 
 
 Therefore my fudden foul caught at the place, 
 
 And made her youth and fiercenefs feek thy face, 
 
 At firft thou gav'ft me milk and fweetnefles; 
 
 I had my wifh and way : 
 My days were ftrew'd with flow'rs and happinefs ; 
 
 There was no month but May. 
 But with my years forrow did twift and grow, 
 And made a party unawares for woe. 
 
 My 
 
The CHVRCH. 59 
 
 My.fiefh began unto my foul in pain, 
 
 Sicknefs clave my bones, 
 Confuming agues dwell in ev'ry vein, 
 
 And tune my breath to grones ; 
 Sorrow was aH my foul ; I icarce believed, 
 Tjll grief did tell me roundly, that I livecL 
 
 Wiien I got health, thou tpok-ft away my life y 
 And more ; for my friends die ; 
 
 My mirth and edge was loft ; a blunted knife 
 Was of more ufe than I. 
 
 Thus thin and lean without a fence or friend, 
 
 I was blown through with ev'ry ftorm and wind. 
 
 Whereas my birth and fpirit rather took 
 
 The way that takes the town, 
 
 Thou didft bqtray me to a lingring book, 
 And wrap me in 1 gown, 
 
 I was entangled in the world of ftrife, 
 
 Before I had the power to change my life. 
 
 Yet, for I threatned oft the fiege to raife, 
 Not fimpring all mine age, 
 
 Thou often did' ft with Academick praife 
 Melt and diflblve my rage 5 
 
 I took thy fweetned pill, till I came near, 
 
 I could not go away, nor perfevere. 
 
 Yet, left perchance I fhould too happy be 
 
 In my unhappinefs, 
 ; Turning my purge to food, thou throwft me 
 
 Into more iickneffes. 
 Thus doth thy power crofs-bias me, not making 
 jthine own gift good, yet me from my ways taking* 
 
 C j Now 
 
40 The C HV RC H. 
 
 Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me 
 
 None of my books will fhow : 
 1 read and figh, and wifh I were a tree, 
 
 For fure then I fhould grow 
 To fruit or fhade : At leaft fome bird would truft 
 Her houihold to me, and I fhould be juft. 
 Yet, though thou troubleft me, I muft be meek; 
 
 In weaknefs muft be ftout. 
 Well, I will change the fervice, and go feek 
 
 Some other mafter out. 
 Ah my dear God ! though T am clean forgot, 
 Let me net love thee, if I love thee not. 
 
 ^f Repentance. 
 
 LOrd, I confefs my fin is great • 
 Great is my fin. Oh ! gently treat 
 With thy quick fkrw'r, thy momentany bloom ; 
 
 Whofe life ftill prefling 
 Is one undrefling, 
 A fteady aiming at a tomb. 
 
 Man's age is two hours work or three; 
 Each day doth round about us fee. 
 Thus are we to delights : But we are all 
 To forrows old, 
 If life be told 
 From what life feeleth, Jdms fall. 
 
 O let thy height of mercy then 
 Compaffionate fhort'-breathed men ; 
 Cut me not off for my moil foul tranfgrelfion : 
 I do confefs 
 My foolifhnefs; 
 My God accept of my confeflion. 
 ; Jweeten 
 
The C HV RC H. 4* 
 
 Sweeten at length this bitter bowl, 
 V^hich thou haft pour'd into my foul; 
 Thy wormwood turn to health, winds to feir weather : 
 For if thou ftay, 
 I and this day, 
 As we did rife, we die together. 
 
 When thou for fin rebuktft man, 
 Forthwith he waxeth woe and wan : 
 Bitternefs fills our bowels ; all our hearts 
 Pine and decay, 
 And drop away, 
 And carry with them the other parts, 
 
 But thou wilt fin and grief deftroy 7 
 That fo the broken bones may joy, 
 And tune together in a well-fet fong, 
 
 FullofhisPraifes. 
 Who dead men raifes, 
 Fraftures well cur'd make us more ftrong. 
 
 «![ Faith. 
 
 I y Ord, how couldft thou fo much appeafe 
 Thy wrath for fin, as when man's fight was dim 
 And could fee little, to regard his eafe, 
 
 And bring by faith ail things to him ? 
 
 Hungry I was, and had no meat, 
 I did conceit a moft delicious feaft; 
 I had it ftraight, and did as truly eat, 
 
 As ever did a welcome gueft. 
 
 There is a rare outlandifh root, 
 Which when \ could not get, I thought it here i 
 That apprehenfion curd fowelJ my toot, 
 
 That I can walk to Heav'n well near* 
 
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42 The CHV RC H. 
 
 I owed thoufands and much more • 
 I.did believe that I did nothing owe, 
 And liv'd accordingly ; my creditor 
 Believes fo too, and lets me go. 
 
 Faith makes me any thing* or all 
 That I believe is in the facred ftory : 
 And when fin placeth me in Aiinfs fin, 
 
 Faith fets me higher in his glory. 
 
 If I go lower in the book, 
 What can be lower than the common manger? 
 F:.lth puts me there with him, who fweetly took 
 
 Our flefh and frailty, death and danger. 
 
 If blifs had lien in art or ftrength, 
 None but the wife and ftrong had gained it : 
 .Where now by faith all arms are of a length j 
 
 One fize doth all conditions fit. 
 
 A Peafant may believe as much 
 As a great Clerk, and reach the higheft ftature. 
 Thus doft thou make proud knowledge bend and 
 crouch, 
 
 While Grace fills up un-even Nature. 
 
 When creatures had no real light 
 Inherent in them, thou did'ft make the Sun 
 Impute a luftre, and allow them bright : 
 
 And in this (hew what Chrift hath done. 
 
 That which before was darkned clean 
 With bulhy groves, pricking the looker's eye, 
 Vanilht away, when faith did change the fcene; 
 
 And then appear'd a glorious ./. 
 
 What though my body run to duft ? 
 Faith cleaves unto it, counting ev'ry grain, 
 With an.exaft and molt particular truft, 
 
 Referring all for fielh again* 
 
The CHVRCH, 4 j 
 
 ^[ Prayer. 
 
 PRayer the Churches banquet, Angels age,. 
 Gods breath in man returning to his birth, 
 The foul in paraphrafe, heart in pilgrimage, 
 The Chriftian plummet founding Heav'n and Earth j 
 
 Engine againft th'Almighty, finners tow'r, 
 
 Reverfed thunder, Chrift fide-piercing. fpean 
 The fix-days world-tranfpofing.in an hour ? 
 
 A kind of Tune, which all things hear and fear j 
 
 Softnefs, and peace, and joy, and love, and blif$-. 
 Exalted Manna, gladnefs of the beft, 
 Heaven in ordinary, Man well dreir 5 . 
 
 The milky way, the bird of Paradife, 
 
 (blood,. 
 Church-bells beyond the ftars heard, the fouls 
 The land of fpices, fomething underftoocL 
 
 5[ Holy Communion. 
 
 NOt in rich furniture, or fineapv. 
 Nor in a wedge of gold, 
 Thou, who from me waft fold, 
 To me doft now thy felf convey ; 
 For fo thou fhoukTft without me ftiil hayebeejtt 
 Leaving within me fin; 
 
 But by the way of nourifhment and ffrength, 
 Thoir creep'ft into my breaft; 
 Making thy way my reft, 
 ^ And thy frnali quantities my length % 
 , Which fpread their Forces into every gart? 
 Meeting fins force and art,. 
 
 C * Xe; 
 
44 The CHVRCH. 
 
 Yet can thefe not get over to my Soul, 
 
 Leaping the wall that parts 
 
 Our fouls and flefhly hearcs ; 
 But as th 5 out- works, they may ccntroul 
 My rebel-flefh, and carrying thy name, 
 
 Affright both fin and fhame. 
 
 Only thy Grace, which with thefe elements comes, 
 
 Knoweth the ready way, 
 
 And hath the privy key, 
 Op'ning the foul's moft fubtil rooms : 
 While thofe to fpirits refin'd at door attend 
 
 Difpatches from their friend. 
 
 Give me my captive foul, or take 
 My body alfo thither. 
 Another lift like this will make 
 
 Them both to be together. 
 
 Before that fin turn'd flefh to ftone, 
 
 And all our lump to leaven ; 
 A fervent figh might well have blown 
 
 Our innocent earth to heaven- 
 
 Jr or fure when Aim did not know 
 
 To fin, or fin to fmother ; 
 He might to heav'n from paradife go, 
 
 As from one room t' another. 
 
 Thou haft reftor'd us to this eafe 
 
 By this thy heav'nly blood, 
 Which I can go to when I pleafe, 
 
 And leave th 5 earth to their food. 
 
 AntijthQiU 
 
The CHVRCH. 45 
 
 ^f Antifhon* 
 
 Ch.T Et all the world in every corner iing» 
 j My Cod Mi King* 
 
 Verf. The Heavens are not too high. 
 His Praife may thither fly ; 
 The Earth is not too low, 
 His Praifes there may grow. 
 
 Cho, Let all the world in every corner flag. 
 My Cod and Kir.g. . 
 
 Vcrf. The Church with Pfalms muft fhout. 
 No Door can keep them out ; 
 But above all, the Heart 
 Muft bear the longeft parte . 
 Cfo. Let all the world in every corner fing 3 
 My God and King. 
 
 % Love,. 
 
 IMmortal Love, Author of this great frame^ . 
 Sprung from that beauty which can never fade ; ; 
 How hath man parcel'd out thy glorious name ? . 
 And thrown it on that duft which thou haft. made. 
 
 While mortal Love doth all the title gain 
 
 Which fiding with invention, they together : 
 Bear all the fway, poffeffing heart and brainy 
 
 (Thy wgrkmanfhip) and give thee jhare in neither-. . 
 
 " Wife 
 
46 The CHVRC H. 
 
 Wit fancies beauty, beauty raifeth wit ; 
 The world is theirs ; they two play out the game r 
 Thou (landing by : And tho' thy glorious name 
 
 Wrought cur deliverance from the infernal pit, 
 
 Who fmgs thy praife? only a fcarf or glove (love. 
 Doth warm our hands, and make them write of 
 
 II. 
 
 TMmortal heat, O let thy greater flame 
 \ Attraft the leffer to it : Let thofe fires 
 
 Which fnall confume the world, firft make it tame ? 
 And kindle in our hearts fuch true defires, 
 
 As ma y confume our lufts, and make thee way. (brain 
 Then fhall our hearts pant thee ; then (hall our 
 All her inventions on thine altar lay, 
 
 And there, in Hymns fend back thy fire a^aih i 
 
 Our eyes fhall fee thee, which before law dull \ 
 Duft blown by wit, till that they both were blind l 
 Thou (halt recover all thy goods in kind, 
 ,~Who were diffeized by ufurping luft : 
 
 All knees (hall bow to thee ; all wits (hall rife, 
 And praife him who did make and mend our ey 
 
 H 
 
 ^[ The Temper. 
 
 Ow ffiouldl praife thee, Lord ! how (houldmy 
 Gladly engrave thy love in fteel, (rhymes 
 If what my foul doth feel fome times, 
 }vly foul might ever feel ! 
 
 & 'Ah 
 
The CHVRCH. 47 
 
 tough there were Tome forty Heav'ns, or more, 
 Sometimes 1 peer above them all; 
 Sometimes I hardly reach a fcore ; 
 imes to hell I fail. 
 
 O rack me not tc aft extent; 
 
 Thofe diftances belong to thee : 
 
 The world's too little for thy tent , 
 A grave too big for me. 
 
 Wilt thou meet arms with man, that thou doft fir 
 A crumb of duft from Heav'n to Hell ? 
 Will great God meafure with a wretch ? 
 [1 he thy feature [pel] I 
 
 O let me, when thy roof my foul hath hid, 
 O let me rooft and nefrle there : 
 Then of a Sinner thou art rid, 
 And: I of hope and fear, 
 
 Yet take thy way ; for fare thy way is belt : 
 Stretch or contract me thy poor debter ;. 
 This is but tuning of my breaii , 
 
 To make the Mafick better. 
 
 Whe: 
 Thy hands made both, a im :here. 
 
 Thy Power and Love, c r ruit 
 
 cec .re. 
 
 ^f The Tempe 
 
 IT cannot be. Where is that mighty 
 Which juft now rook up all my heart ? 
 Lord ! if thou niuft needs ufe thy dart, 
 Saye that, and me, or fin for both deftroy. 
 
 The 
 
4 8 
 
 The CHVRCH. 
 
 The groiTer world fcands to thy word and art; 
 But thy Diviner World of Grace 
 Thou fuddenly doit raifc and rafe, 
 
 And ev'ry day a new Creator art. 
 
 O fix thy chair of Grace, that all my powers 
 May alfo fix their reverence : 
 For when thou doft depart from hence, 
 
 They grow unruly, and fit in thy bowers. 
 
 Scatter, or bind them all to bend to thee : 
 
 Though Elements change,and Heaven move;; 
 Let not thy higher Court remove, 
 
 But keep a itanding Majefty in me. 
 
 % "Jordan. 
 
 WHo fays that fiftions only and falfe hair 
 Become a verfe ? Is there in truth no beauty 
 Is all good ftrufture in a winding ftair ? 
 May no lines pafs, except they do their duty 
 Not to a true, but painted chair ? 
 
 Is it not verfe, except enchanted groves 
 And fudden arbors lhadow courfe-fpun lines ? 
 Mult purling ftreams refrefh a lovers love ? 
 Muftail be vail'd, while he that reads, divines. 
 Catching the fenfe at two removes ? 
 
 Shepherds are honeft People ; let them Sing ; . 
 Riddle who lift, for me, and pull for Prime : 
 I envy no man's nightingale or fpring ; 
 Nor let them punifh me with lofs of Rhyme, . 
 Who plainly fay, MjGod, Mj %ing. 
 
 % Employ* 
 
The CHVRCH. 49 
 
 % Employment. 
 
 1 F as a flower doth fpread and die , 
 
 Thou would'ft extend me to fome good, 
 Before I were by frbfts extremity 
 
 Nipt in the bud, 
 
 The fweetnefs and. the praife were thine z. 
 But the extenfion and the room , 
 Which in thy garland I mould fill, were mine 
 At thy great doom. 
 
 For as thou doft impart thy grace, 
 The greater (hall our glory be. 
 The meafure of our joys is in this place. 
 The fluff with thee.. 
 
 Let me not languifh then, and fpencl. 
 A life as barren to thy praife, 
 As is the dull, to which that Life doth tend?,- 
 But with delays. 
 
 All things are bufie ; only I 
 Neither bring Koney with the Bees, 
 Nor flowers to make that, nor the husbandry 
 To water thefe. 
 
 lam no link of thy great chain, 
 But all my company is as a weed* 
 Lord place me in thy confort ; give one {train 
 To my poor reed. 
 
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^o The C HVRC Hi 
 
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 % The JrL Scriptures,. 
 
 I. 
 
 H Book ! infinite fweetnefs ! let my heart 
 
 Suck ev'ry letter, and a honey gain _ 
 Precious for any grief in any part, 
 To clear the breaft, to molllne all pain* 
 
 Thou art all health, health thriving, till it make 
 
 A full eternity : Thou art a mafs 
 
 Of ftrange delights, where we may wi (hand take. 
 Ladies, look here: this is the thankful glafe, 
 
 That mends the looker's eyes : This is the Well 
 That wa flies what it fhews : Who can endear 
 Thy praife too much ? thou art heav'ns Lieger 
 
 Working againft the ftates of death and hell, (here, 
 
 Thou art joyshandfel : Keav T n lies flat in thee^ 
 Subjeft to every mounter's bended knee. 
 
 OH that I knew how all thy lights combine, 
 Arid the configurations of their glory ! 
 Seeing not only how each verfe doth flrine, 
 But all the constellations of the ftory- 
 
 This verfe marks that, and both do make a motion 
 Unto a third, that ten leaves off doth lie. 
 Then, asdifperfed herbs do watch a potion, 
 
 Thefe three make up feme Chnftian's deftinie. 
 
 Such 
 
The CHVRCH. 51 
 
 Such are thy fecrets, which my life makes good. 
 And comments on thee : For in ev'ry thing 
 Thy words do find me out, and parallels bring, 
 
 And in another make me underftood. 
 
 Stars are poor books , arid often times do mifs : 
 This book of.ftars lights to eternal biifs. 
 
 «fl" Whiifunddj. 
 
 LIften fweet Dove unto my fong, 
 And fpread thy golden wings on me ; 
 Hatching my tender heart fo long, 
 Till it get wing, and fly away with thee* 
 
 Where is that fire which once defcended 
 On thy Apoftles ? thou didft then 
 Keep open houfe, richly attended, 
 Feafting ail comers by twelve chofen men j 
 
 Such glorious gifts thou didft beftow. 
 That th' earth did like a heav'n appear : 
 The Stars were coming down to know, 
 If they might mend their wages, and ferve here, 
 
 The Sun, which once did fliine alone, 
 
 Hung covin his head, and wifh'd for night. 
 When he beheld twelve Suns for one 
 Going about the world, and giving light. 
 
 But iince thofe pipes of gold, which brought 
 That cordial water to our ground, 
 Were cut and martyr'd by the fault (wound ; 
 Of thofe, who did themfelves through their fide 
 
 Thou 
 
52 The C HVRC H. 
 
 Thou fhutt'ft the door, and keep'ft with 
 Scarce a good joy creeps through the chink : 
 And if the braves of conquering fin 
 Did not-excite thee, we fhould wholly fink. 
 
 Lord, though we change, thou art the fame ; 
 The fame iweet God of love and light ; 
 Reftore this day, for thy great Name, 
 Unto his ancient and miraculous right. 
 
 % Grace. 
 
 MY ftock lies dead, and no increafe 
 Doth my dull husbandry improve: 
 O let thy graces without ceafe 
 
 Drop from above* 
 
 If ftill the Sun fhould hide his face, 
 Thy houfe would but a dungeon prove, 
 Thy works night's captives : O let grace 
 Drop from above. 
 
 The dew doth ev'ry morning fall ; 
 And fhall the dew out-ftrip thy Dove? 
 The dew, for which grafs cannot call, 
 Drop from above ! 
 
 Death is ftill working like a mole, 
 And digs my grave at each remove: 
 Let grace work too, and on my foul 
 
 Drop from above. 
 
 Sin is ftill hammering my heart. 
 Unto a hardnefs void of love : 
 Let fupp'ling grace to crofs his art, 
 D;ov from 
 
 O come 
 
The CHVRCH. 55 
 
 O come ! for thou cloft know the way : 
 Or if to me thou wilt not move, 
 Remove me where 1 need not fay, 
 
 Drop from above. 
 
 *tf Praife. 
 
 TO write a verfe or two is all the Praife ? 
 That I can raife : 
 Mend my eftate m any ways, 
 
 Thou (halt have more. 
 I go to Church ; help me to wings, and I 
 Will thither fly ; 
 Or if I mount unto the sky, 
 I will do more. 
 Man is all w r eaknefs, there is no fuch thing 
 As Prince or King : 
 His arm is fhort, yet with a fling 
 He may do more. 
 An herb diftill'd, and drunk, may dwell next door, 
 On the fame floor, 
 To a brave foul: Exalt the poor, 
 They can do more. 
 O raife me then ! Poor bees that work all day, 
 Sting my delay, 
 Who have a work as well as they, 
 And much, much more. 
 
 % Affliction. 
 
 IX Ill me not ev'ry day, 
 Thou Lord or Life ; fince thy own death for me 
 Is more than all my deaths can be, 
 Though I in broken pay 
 Die over each hour of Nlahufckml ftay. 
 
 If 
 
54 The C HVRCH. 
 
 If all mens tears were let 
 Into one common fewer, fea, and brine ; 
 
 What were they all, compar'd to thine ? 
 W herein if they were fet. 
 They would difcolour thy moil bloody fweat. 
 
 T ." 1Tl . Til °u art my grief alone, 
 Thou Lord conceal it not : And as thou art 
 All my delight, fo all my fmart: 
 Thy crofs took up in one, 
 By way of impreft, all my future moan. 
 
 If Matt ens, 
 
 1 Cannot ope mine eyes, 
 
 But thou art ready there to catch 
 
 My morning-foul and facrifice : 
 Then we muft needs for that day make a n»tefij 
 My God, what is a heart ? 
 
 Silver, or gold, or precious ftone, 
 t\c r ., ' or rainb °w, or a part 
 Ui all thefe things, or all of them in one ? 
 
 My God, what is a heart, 
 That thou fhouldft it fo eye and woo, 
 Pouring upon it all thy art, 
 As if that thou hadft nothing elfe to do ? 
 Indeed man's whole eftate 
 Amounts (and richly) to ferve thee : 
 He did not Heav'n and Earth create, 
 1 et ltucnes them, not him by whom they be. 
 Teach me thy Love to know : 
 
 ^ i. new Ji S ht ' which now I fee > 
 May both the work and workman 'how : 
 
 i hen by a Sun-beam I will climb to thee. 
 
 f Sin* 
 
The C HVRC H. 
 
 f Si*. 
 
 OH that I could a fin once fee ! 
 We paint the Devil foul, yet he 
 Harh fome good in him, all agree. 
 Sin is flat oppofite to th' Almighty, feeing 
 It wants the good of Virtue and of Being. 
 
 But God more care of us hath had, 
 
 If apparitions make us fad, 
 
 By fight of fin we fhould grow mad, 
 
 Vet as in deep we fee foul death, and live ; 
 
 So devils are our fins in profpeciive. 
 
 55 
 
 B> 
 
 % Even-Song. 
 
 __ Left be the God of Love, 
 Who gave me eyes, and light, and power this day, 
 Both to be bufie, and to play. 
 But much more bleft be God above, 
 
 W 7 ho gave me fight alone, 
 Which to himfelf he did deny : 
 For when he fees my ways, 1 die : 
 But I have got his Son, and he hath none. 
 
 What have, I brought thee home 
 For this thy love? have 1 difcharg'd the^debt, 
 W 7 hich this day's favour did beget ? 
 I ran ; but all I brought was fome. 
 
 Thy diet, care, and coft, 
 Do end in bubbles, balls of wind ; 
 Of wind to thee whom I have croft, 
 But balls of wild-fire to my troubled mind. 
 
 . Yet 
 
56 The CHVRC H. 
 
 Yet ft ill thou goeft on, 
 And now with darknefs clofeft weary eyes, 
 Saying to man, It dothfuffice ; 
 Henceforth repofe \ your work is done. 
 
 Thus in thy Ebony box 
 Thou doft inclofe us, till the day 
 Put our amendment in our way, 
 And give new wheels to our diforder'd clocks. 
 
 I mufe which fhews more love, 
 The day or night ; that is the gale, this th a harbour \ 
 That is the walk, and this the arbour \ 
 Or that the Garden, this the Grove. 
 
 My God, thou art all love. 
 Not one poor minute fcapes thy breait, 
 Eut brings a favour from above ; 
 And in this love, more than in bed, I reft. 
 
 % Church-Monuments. 
 
 WHile that my foul repairs to her devotion, 
 Here I intomb my ftefh, that it betimes 
 May take acquaintance of this heap of duft ; 
 To which the blaft of death's inceffant motion, 
 Fed with the exhalation of our crimes, 
 Drives all at laft. Therefore I gladly truJt 
 
 My Body to the School, that it may learn 
 To fpell his elements, and find his birth 
 Written in dufty heraldry and lines. 
 Which diffolution fure doth beft difcern, 
 Comparing duft with duft, and earth with earth. 
 Thefe laugh at Jeat, and Marble put for figns, 
 
 To 
 
The C HVRCH. 57 
 
 To fever the good fellowfhip of duft, 
 And fpoil the meeting. What (hall point out them, 
 When they fhall bow, and kneel, and fall down flat 
 To kifs thofe heaps, which now they have in truft ? 
 Dear flelli, while I do pray, learn here thy ftem 
 And true defcent : That when thou fhalt grow fat, 
 
 And wanton in thy cravings, thou mayft know, 
 That flefh is but the glafs which holds' the duft 
 That meafures all our time ; which alfo Ilia II 
 Be crumbled into duft. Mark here below, 
 How tame thefe afhes are, how free from luft, 
 That thou mayft fit thy felf againft thy fall. 
 
 % Church-Mufick. 
 
 SWeeteft of fweets, I thank you 5 when difpleafure 
 Did through my body wound my mind, 
 You took me thence, and in your houfe of pleafure 
 A dainty lodging me aflign'd. 
 
 Now I in you without a body move, 
 
 Riling and falling with your wings : 
 
 We both together fweetly live and love, 
 
 Yet fay fometimes, God help poor icings* 
 
 Comfort, I'll die ; for if you poft from me, 
 Sure I fhall do fo, and much more : 
 
 But if I travel in your companie , 
 
 You know the way to Heavens door. 
 
 ^[ Church Lock and Kjj. 
 
 I Know it is my fin, which locks thine ears, 
 And binds thy hands ! 
 Out-crying my" requefts, drowning my tears; 
 Or elfe the chilnefs of my faint demands, 
 
 But 
 
5« 
 
 7 he CHVRCH. 
 
 But as cold hands are angry with the fire, 
 
 And mend it ftill ; 
 So I do lay the want of my deiire, 
 Not on my fins, or coklnefs, but thy Will. 
 
 Yet here, OGod, only for his Bloods fake 
 Which pleads for me : 
 For though fins, plead too, yet like ftones they make 
 His Blood's fweet current much more loud to be 
 
 M 
 
 % The Church-floor. 
 
 Ark you the floor?that fquare & fpeckled ftone, 
 Which looks fo firm and ftrong 
 Is Patience, 
 
 And th' other black and grave, wherewith each one 
 Is check'red all along, 
 Humility ; 
 
 The gentle riling, which on either hand 
 Leads to the Quire above, 
 I s Confidence j 
 
 But the fweet Cement, which in one fure band 
 Ties the whole frame, is Love 
 And Charity. 
 
 Hither fometimes fin fteals, and ftains 
 The Marble's neat and curious veins : 
 
 But all is cleanfed when, the Marble weeps. 
 Sometimes Death, puffing at the door, 
 • Blows all the dull about the floor : 
 
 But while he thinks to fpoil the room, he fweeps. 
 Bleft be the tfrcbiteS, whofe art 
 Could build fo ftroag in a weak heart. 
 
 The 
 
The C HVRC H. 59 
 
 % The Windows. 
 
 LOrd, how can Man preach thy eternal Word? 
 He is a brittle crazy Glafs : 
 Yet in thy Temple thou doft him afford 
 
 This glorious and tranfcendent Place, 
 To be a Window, through thy Grace. 
 
 But when then doft anneal in Glafs thy Story, 
 Making thy Life to fhine within 
 
 The Holy Preachers ; then the Light and Glory 
 
 More rev'rend grows, and more doth win - 
 Which elfe (hews watrifh, bleak, and thin. 
 
 Doctrine and Life, Colours and Light, in one 
 When they combine and mingle, bring 
 
 A ftrong Regard and Awe : But fpeech alone 
 Doth vanifli like a flaring thing, 
 And in the Ear, not Confcience, ring. 
 
 % Trinity-Sunday. 
 
 LOrd, who haft Form'd me oiit of Mud, 
 And haft redeemed me through thy Blood. 
 And fanftify'd me to do good } 
 
 Purge all my Sins done heretofore: 
 For I confefs my heavy fcore : 
 And I will ftrive to fin no more* 
 
 Enrich my Heart, Mouth, Hands in me, 
 With Faith, with Hope, with Charity 9 
 That I may run, rife, reft with thee. n 
 
6o The C HV R C H. 
 
 5f Content. 
 
 PEace muttering thoughts, and do not grudge to 
 Within the walls of your own breaft. (keep 
 Who cannot on his own bed fwcetly deep, 
 Can on anothers hardly reft. 
 
 Gad not abroad at ev'ry queft and call 
 
 Of an untrained hope or pafTion. 
 To court each place or fortune that doth fall, 
 
 Is w^ntonneis in contemplation. 
 
 Mark how the fire in flints doth quiet lie : 
 Content and warm t° it fell' alone : 
 
 But v. hen it would appear to others eye, 
 Without a knock it never fhone. 
 
 Give me the pliant mind, whofe gentle meafure 
 Complies and fuits with all eftates ; 
 
 Which can let loofe to a Crown, and yet with plea- 
 Take up within a cloifters gates. (Pure 
 
 This foul doth fpan the world, and hang content 
 From either pole unto the centre : 
 
 Where in each room of the well-furniftul tent 
 He lies warm, and without adventure. 
 
 The brags of life are but a nine days wonder : 
 And after death the fumes that fpring 
 
 From private bodies, make as big a thunder, 
 As thofe which rife from a huge King. 
 
 Only thy Chronicle is loft: And yet 
 
 Better by worms be all once fpent, 
 'Than fo have hellifh moths ftill gnaw and fret 
 
 Thv name in books, which may not rent. 
 
 When 
 
The C HVR C H. 61 
 
 When all thy deeds, whofe brunt thou feerft alone, 
 Are chaw'd by others pens and tongues/ 
 
 And as their wit is their digeftion, 
 
 Thy nourilYd fame is weak or ftrong. 
 
 Then ceafe difcourfing foul, till thine own ground, 
 Do not thy felf or friends importune. 
 
 He that by feeking hath himfelf once found, 
 Hath ever found a happy fortune. 
 
 i ■■— — «— — — ■ ^>^ n ■ ■ i 
 
 % The Quiddity. 
 
 MY God, a Verfe is not a Crown ; 
 No point of honour, or gay fu it, 
 No hawk, or banquet, or renown, 
 Nor a good fword, nor yet a lute : 
 
 It cannot vault, or dance, or play; 
 It never was in France or Spain \ 
 Nor can it entertain the. day 
 With a great ftable or demain. 
 
 It is no Office, Art, -or News, 
 Nor the Exchange, or bufy Hall : 
 But it is that, which while i ufe, 
 I am with thee, and Moft take All. 
 
 % Humility. 
 
 ISavv the Virtues fitting hand in hand 
 In fev'ral Ranks upon an azure Throne, 
 Where all the Beafts and Fowls by their comnar 
 Prefented tokens of fubmiffion. 
 Humility, who fat the loweft there 
 
 To execute their call, 
 When by the Beafts the prefents tendred were, 
 Gave them about to all. 
 
 D 2 Tfa 
 
62 The CHVRCH* 
 
 Tke, angry Lyon did prefent his Paw, 
 Which by confent was giv'n to Manfuetude. 
 The feartal Hare her Ears, which by their Law 
 Humility did -reach to Fortitude. 
 The jealous Turky brought his Coral-Chain ; 
 
 That went to Temperance. 
 On Jufiice was beftow'd the Fox's Brain, 
 
 Kill'd in the way by chance. 
 
 At length the Crow bringing the Peacock's Plume, 
 (For he would not) as they beheld the grace 
 Of that brave Gift, each one began to fame, 
 And challenge it as proper to his place, 
 Till they fell out: Which when the Beafts efpy'd, 
 
 They leapt upon the Throne; 
 And if the Fox had liv'd to rule their fide, 
 
 They had depos'd each one. 
 
 Humility, who held the Flume, at this 
 Did weep fo fa ft, that the Tears trickling down 
 SpoiTd all the Train: Then faying, Here it is 
 for which ye wr arete, made them turn their Frown 
 Againft the Beafts : So joyntly bandying, 
 
 They drive them foon away ; 
 And then amere'd them double Gifts to bring 
 
 At the next SefTion-day. 
 
 5T Frailty. 
 
 LOrd, in my Silence how do I defpife 
 What upon truft 
 Is ftiled, Honour , Riches, or fair Eyes ; 
 But is fair Dufi! 
 I furname them gilded Clay, 
 Dear Earthy fine Grafs, or Hay ; 
 In all 9 I think my Foot doth ever tread 
 Upon their Head. 
 
 But 
 
The CHVRCH. b- 
 
 But when I view abroad both Regiments, 
 
 The World's, and Thine, 
 Thine clad with Simplenefs, and fad Events j 
 The other fine, 
 Full of Glory and gay Weeds, 
 
 Brave language, braver Deec^ : 
 That which was Duft before, doth quickly rife. 
 And prick mine Eyes. 
 
 O brook not this, left if what even now 
 
 My Foot did tread, 
 Affront thofe Joys wherewith thou did ft endow. 
 And long fince wed 
 My poor Soul, ev'n fick of Love ; 
 1 1 may a Babel prove, 
 Commodious to conquer Heav'n and thee. 
 Planted in me. 
 
 % Conftancy. 
 
 w. 
 
 Ho is the honeft Man ? 
 He that doth ftill and ftrongly good purfiie, 
 To God, his Neighbour and himfelf moft true : 
 
 Whom neither Force nor Fawning can. 
 Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due, 
 
 Whofe Honefty is not 
 So loofe or eafy, that a ruffling Wifld 
 Can blow away, or glitt 'ring look it blind: 
 
 Who rides his fure and even trot, 
 While the World now rides by, now lags behind*, 
 
 D 3 Wfc* 
 
6 4 The CHV R C H. 
 
 Who, when great trials come, 
 Nor feeks, nor fhims them •, but doth calmly Say, 
 Till he the thing and the example weigh : 
 
 All being brought into a fum, 
 What place or perfon calls for, he doth pay. 
 
 Whom none can work or woo, 
 To life in any thing a trick or Height ; 
 For above all things he abhors deceit : 
 
 His words and works and faihion too 
 All of a piece, and all are clear and ftreight. 
 
 Who never melts or thaws 
 At clofe temptations: When the day is done, 
 His goodnefs fets not, but in dark can run : 
 
 The Sun to others writeth laws, 
 And is their venue; Virtue is his Sun. 
 
 Who, when he is to treat 
 W T ith fick folks,Women, thofe whom paflions fway, 
 •Allows for that, and keeps his conSant way : ■ 
 
 Whom others faults do not defeat ; 
 But though men fail him, yet his part doth play. 
 
 W T hom nothing can procure, 
 When the wide world runs bias, from his will 
 To writhe his limbs, and fhare, not mend the ill. 
 
 This is the Mark-man, fafe and .fure> 
 Who SilUs right, and prays to be fo ftill. 
 
 M 
 
 % Affliction. 
 
 Y heart did heave^nd there came forth, God ! 
 By that I knew that thou waft in the grief, 
 To guide and govern it to my relief, 
 
 Making a fcepter of the red : 
 Hadft thou not had thy part, 
 Sure the unruly tigh had broke my heart. 
 
 But 
 
The C HV R CM. 6- 7 
 
 But fince thy breath ga^e me both lr |$g. 
 
 Thou kaow'ft my tallies 5 and when there's afi. r 
 So much breath to a figh, what's then behind ? 
 
 Or if fome years with it etcape, 
 The ngh then only is 
 A gale to bring me fooner to my hlifs. 
 
 Thy life on earth was grief, and thou art ftiil 
 Coiiftant unto it, making it to be 
 A point of honour, now to grieve in me, 
 And in thy members fuffer ill. 
 They who lament one crofs, 
 Thou dying daily, praife thee to thy lofs. 
 
 f The Star. 
 
 Right (park, dot from a brighter place, 
 Where beams furrouiid my Saviour's face, 
 Canft thou be any where 
 So well as there ? 
 
 Yet, if thou wilt from thence depart, 
 Take a bad lodging in my heart 5 
 For thou canft make a Debter, 
 And make k better. 
 
 Firft wrth thy Fire-work burn to DvSt 
 Folly, and'worfe than Folly, Lult ; 
 Then with thy Light refine, 
 And make it (bine. 
 
 So difengag 5 d from Sin and Sicknefs, 
 Touch it with thy Celeftial Qnicknefs r 
 That it may hang and move 
 After thy Love, 
 
 CU-' The* 
 
66 The CHVRC H. 
 
 Then with our Trinity of Light, 
 Motion, and Heat, let's take our Flight 
 Unto the Place where thou 
 Before didft bow. 
 
 Get me a Standing there, and place 
 
 Among the Beams, which crown the Face 
 Of him who dy'd to part 
 Sin and my Heart. 
 
 That fo among the reft I may 
 Glitter, and curl, and wind as they : 
 That winding is their fafhion 
 Of adoration. 
 
 Sure thou wilt joy by gaining me 
 To fly home like a laden Bee 
 Unto that Hive of Beams 
 And Garland-ftreams. 
 
 % Sunday* 
 
 o 
 
 Day .moft calm, moft bright, 
 The Fruit of this, the next World's Bud, 
 Th' indorfment of fupreme Delight, 
 Writ by a Friend, and with his Blood; 
 The Couch of Time, Cares balm and bay ; 
 The Week were dark, but for thy Light: 
 Thy Torch doth (hew the way. 
 
 The 
 
The CHVRCH. 6 r 
 
 The other Days and thou 
 Make up one Man - r whofe Face thou art,. 
 Knocking at Heav'n with thy Brow : 
 The worky-days are the back-part; 
 The Eurden of the Week lies there, 
 Making the whole to ftoop and bow, 
 
 'Till thy releafe appear. 
 
 Man had ftraight forward gone: 
 To endlefs Death : But thou doft pull 
 And turn us round to look on one, 
 Whom, if we were not very dull, 
 We could not choofe but look on ilill ^ 
 Since there is no place fo alone, 
 
 The which he doth not filL 
 
 Sundays the Pillars are,. 
 On which Heav Vs Palace arched lies ; 
 The other days fill up the fpare 
 And hollow room with Vanities. 
 They are the fruitful Beds and Eorders 
 In God's rich Garden ; That is bare,. 
 
 Which parts their Ranks ancLOrders ^ 
 
 The Sundays of Man's Life^ 
 Thredded together on Time's String, 
 Make Bracelets to adorn the W 7 ife 
 Of the eternal glorious King*. 
 On Suaday Heaven's Gate ftands ope ; 
 Blefiings are plentiful and rife,- 
 
 More plentiful than hope > 
 
 U 5 X&&: 
 
6% The CHVRCtf. 
 
 This clay my Saviour rofe, 
 And did indole this Light for his : 
 That, as each BeaftJiis "Manger knows, 
 Man might not of his Fodder mifs. 
 Chrift hath took in this Piece of Ground, 
 And made a Garden there for thofe . 
 
 Who want Herbs for their wound. 
 
 The reft of our Creation 
 Our great Redeemer did remove 
 With the fame Shake, which at his Paffion 
 Did th' Earth and all Things with it move. 
 As Samfon bore the Doors away, 
 Chrift's Hands, tho'nail'd, wrought our Salvation^ 
 
 And did unhinge that Day. 
 
 The brightnefs of that Day 
 We fullied by our foul Offence : 
 Wherefore fhatRobe we caft away, 
 Having a new at his Expejice, 
 Whofe drops of Blood paid the full price.. 
 That was requirMto make us gay, 
 
 And fit for Paradife. 
 
 Thou art a day of Mirth : - 
 And wher.e the week-days trail an Ground, 
 Thy Flight is higher, as thy Birth : 
 O let me take thee atthefoeuixi, 
 Leaping with thee from fev'n to fev a, 
 Till that we both, being tofs'd from Ear 
 
 Fly Hand an Hand to Heaven ! 
 
 % Avarice, 
 
ihe C HVRC H. 69 
 
 % Avarice. 
 
 MOney, thou bane of Blifs, and fourfe of Woe,.. 
 Whence com'ft thou, that thou ixi fo frefh and 
 I know thy Parentage is bafe and low ; (fine ? 
 Man found thee poor and dirty in a Mine. 
 
 Surely thou didftfo little contribute 
 
 To this great Kingdom, which thou new hair got. 
 
 That he was fain, when thou -waft deftitute,- 
 To dig thee out of thy dark-Ca.ve and Grot. 
 
 Then forcing thee, by Fire he made thee bright-; 
 Nay, thou haft got the Face of Man 5 for we 
 Have w r ith our Stamp and Seal transferd our right 
 
 Thou art the Man, and Man but clrofs to thee. 
 
 Man calleth thee his Wealth, who.made.thee rich > 
 And while he digs out thee, falls in the ditch. 
 
 H 
 
 . TMARY? 
 ^nARMYl- 
 
 grow. 
 
 Ow well her Name an Arm doth prek:. 
 In whom the lord of i^q/hdid pitch his Tent ! 
 
 ^f To all Angels and Saints. 
 
 OH glorious Spirits who, after all your Bands, 
 See the fmooth -Face of God, without a FttWfa, 
 .Oritcift Commands; * 
 Where ev'ry one.is King, and'hath his Crown, 
 If not upon his Head, yet. m fcg ;gw« • - -- 
 
 Not 
 
70 The C HVRC ft. 
 
 Not out of Envy or Malickrafnefs 
 
 Do I forbear to crave your fpecial Aid. 
 I would addrefi 
 
 My Vows to thee moft gladiv, Mefled Maid, 
 And Mother of my God, in iny diftrefs : 
 
 Thou art the holy Mine, whence came the Gold, 
 The great Reftorative for all Decay 
 
 In young and old; 
 Thou art the Cabinet where the Jewel lav ; 
 Chiefly to thee would I my Soul unfold. " 
 
 But now (alas! j I dare not; for our King, 
 Whom we do all joyntly adore and praife, 
 
 Bids no fuch thing; 
 And where his Pl'eafure no Injunction lays, 
 ('Tis your own cafe) ye never move a Wing, 
 
 All Worfhip is Prerogative, and a Flower, 
 Of his rich Crown, from whom lies no- Appeal 
 
 At the lafc Hour : 
 Therefore we dare not from his Garland fceal, 
 To make a Poly for inferior Power. 
 
 Although then others court you, if ye know 
 What's done on Earth, we fhall not fare the worfe, 
 
 Who do notfo ; 
 Since we are ever ready to disburfe, 
 if any one our Mafter's Hand can (bow. 
 
 %. Employments 
 
 HE that is weary, let him fit; 
 My Soul would ftir 
 And trade in Coartefies and Wit : 
 Quitting the Fur. 
 Tbe cold Complexions needing it 
 
 "Man 
 
 
The C HVRC H. 71 
 
 Man is no Star, but a quick Coal 
 Of mortal Fire : 
 
 Who blows it not, nor doth controll 
 A faint Defire , 
 
 Lets his own Afhes choke his Soui. 
 
 When th* Elements did for place conteil 
 With him whofe Will 
 
 Ordain'd the higheft to be beft. 
 
 The Earth fat itil), 
 
 And by the others is oppreft. 
 
 Life is a bufinefs, not good cheer ; 
 
 Ever in Wars*. 
 The Sun frill fhineth there or here. 
 
 Whereas the Stars 
 Watch an advantage to appear.. 
 
 Oh that I were an Orange-tree, 
 
 That buiie Plant ! 
 Then fhould I ever laden be, 
 
 And never want- 
 Some Fruit for him that dreffeth me* 
 
 But we are ftill too young or old ; 
 
 The Man is gone, 
 Before we do our Wares unfold : 
 
 So we freeze on, 
 Untill the Grave increafe our Cold. 
 
 ^[ Denial* 
 
 WHen my Devotions could not pierce 
 Thy filent Ears ; 
 Then was my Heart broken, as was my Verie } 
 My breaft was full of Fears 
 And Diforder* 
 
 My 
 
72 The C HV RC H. 
 
 My bent thoughts, like a brittle bow, 
 Did fly afunder ; 
 Each took his way : fome would to pleafure go, 
 Some to the wars and thunder 
 Of alarms. 
 
 As good go any where, fay they, 
 As to benuni 
 Both knees and heart, in crying night and day, 
 Come, Come, ray God, come I 
 But no hearing. 
 
 O thou that fhould'ft give dufta tongue 
 
 To cry to thee, 
 
 And then not hear it crying ! all day lon^ 
 
 My heart was in my knee, 
 
 But no hearing. 
 
 Therefore my foul lay out of fight, 
 Ilntun'd, unftrung: 
 My feeble fpirit, unable to look right, 
 Like a nipt bloffom, hung 
 Difcontented. 
 
 O chear and tune my heartlefs breaft, 
 Defer no time ; 
 That fo thy favours granting my requeft, 
 They and my mind may chime,: - 
 And mend my rhyme. 
 
 % Chrijlmas. 
 
 ALL after pleafures as I rid one day, 
 My horfe and I, both tir'd, body and mind, 
 -^ .With full cry, of affections quite aitray, 
 I took up in .the next Inn 1 '0uW find. 
 
 ' There 
 
The C H'VRC H. . 73 
 
 There when 1 came, whom found I but my clear, 
 Mydeareft Lor,!, expecting till the grief 
 Of pleafures brought me to him, ready there 
 
 To be all paffengers moft fvveec relief? 
 
 thou whole glorious, yet contracted light, 
 Wrapt in nights mantle , ftole into a Manger, 
 Since my dark Soul and brutifh is thy right, 
 
 To Man of all beafts be not thou a ftranger. 
 
 Furnilh and deck my Soul, that thou mayft have 
 A better lodging, than, a rack, or grave. 
 
 THe Shepherds hng, and (hall I ulent be ? 
 My God, no .Hymn for thee ? 
 My Soul's a Shepherd too ; a flock it feeds 
 
 Of thoughts, and words, and deeds. 
 The pafture is thy word ; the Breams, thy grace 
 
 Enriching all the place. 
 Shepherd and Flock (hall iing, and all my powers 
 
 Out-iing the day-light hours. 
 Then we will chide the Sun for letting n 
 Take up his place and right.: 
 We ling one common Lord ; wherefore he fh- . 
 . " ' Hjmfeif the -candle, ho Id, . 
 
 1 will go fearching, till I find a Sun . 
 
 Shall tray till we have cone ; 
 A willing ibmer. that fhall lhlne. as gladiw 
 
 As froit-nipt Suns. look tadly. 
 Then we will ring, and (nine all our own 
 
 And one another pay : 
 His beams fhall chear my breaft, and both fo twine* 
 'Till ev'n his beams-iing, and my munck (bine. 
 
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The C HV R C H. 
 
 % VngYatefulmfs. 
 
 LOrd, with what Bounty and rare Clemency 
 Haft thou redeem'd us from the Grave ! 
 If thou had 5 ft let us run. 
 Gladly had Man ador'd the Sun, 
 
 And thought his God m oft brave * 
 Where now we lhall be better Gods than he. 
 
 Thou haft but two rare Cabinets full of Treafure, 
 The Trinity y and Incarnation y 
 
 Thou haft unlcck'd them both, 
 And made them Jewels to betroth 
 The Work of thy Creation 
 Unto thy felf in everlafting Pleafure*. 
 
 The ftateller Cabinet is the TrirJty, 
 
 Whofe fparkling Light accefs denies ; 
 
 Therefore thou doft not (how 
 This fully to us, till Death blow 
 The Duft into our Eyes ; 
 For by that Powder thou wilt make us fee.' 
 
 But all thy Sweets are pack'd up in the other ; 
 Thy Mercies thither flock and flow ; 
 
 That, as the firft affrights, 
 This may allure us with Delights f 
 Becaufe this Box we know ; 
 For we have all of us juft fuch another* 
 
 But Man is clofe, referv'd, and dark to thee y 
 When thou demandeft but a Heart, 
 
 He cavils inftantly.. 
 la his poor Cabinet of Bone 
 Sins have their Box apart, 
 Defrauding thee,, who gaveft two for one, 
 

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 the CHVR C H. 75 
 
 % Sighs and Grows* 
 
 , Do not life me 
 After my Sins ! look not on my defert, 
 But on thy glory ! then thou wilt refoi 
 \nd not refufe me : For thou only art 
 The mighty God, but I a filly Worm ; 
 O do not brnife me i 
 
 O do not urge me! 
 For what account can thy ill Steward make ? 
 I have abus'd thy Stock, deftroy'd thy Woods ? 
 Suck'd all thy Magazins : My Head did ake> 
 Till it found out how to confume thy Goods ; 
 
 O do not fcourge me ! 
 
 O do not blind me! 
 I have deferv'd that an Egyptian Night 
 Should thicken all my Powers ; becaufe my Lull 
 Hath ftill few'd Fig-leaves to exclude thy Light 
 But I am Frailty, and already Duft-, 
 
 O do not grind me ! 
 
 O do not fill me 
 With the turn'd Vial of thy bitter Wrath f 
 For thou hafc other Veflels fall of Blood, 
 A part whereof my Saviour emptied hath, 
 Ev'n unto Death : Since he dy'd for my good ; 
 
 O do not kill me ! 
 
 But O reprieve me ! 
 For thou haft Life and D&atbii thy command ; 
 Thou art both fudge and Saviour, Feaft and F.od t 
 Cordial and Corrqfive ; Put not thy Hand 
 IntQ ch-- bitter Box ; but O my God, 
 
 My God, relieve me, 
 
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 The CHVRCH. 
 
 f The World. 
 
 LOve built a ftately houfe; where Fortune came : 
 And fpinning fancies, (he was beard to fay, 
 That her fine cobwebs did fupport the frame, 
 Whereas they were fupported by the fame; 
 But Wifiom quickly fwept them all away. 
 
 Then Pleafure came, who, liking not the fafliion* 
 Began to make Balconies, Tarraces, 
 Till fhe had weakned all by alteration : 
 But rev'rend Laws, and many a Proclamation. 
 Reformed ail at length with menaces. 
 
 Then enter'd Sin, and with that Sycomore, (dew, 
 Whofe leaves firft fheltred man from drought and 
 Wo king and winding flily evermore , 
 The inward W T alls and Sommers cleft and tcre ; 
 But Grace ihor'd thefc, and cut that as it grew. 
 
 Then Sin combined with Death in a firm band, 
 To rafe the building to the very floor : 
 Which they effected, none could them withftand ; 
 But Love and Grace tock Glory by the hand, 
 And built a braver Palace than before. 
 
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 Colof. 5. 3. 
 Our Ltfe is hid with I j God. 
 
 (notion, 
 A J Y words arid tftoiightkdo boflr-ffxprefi 
 jy| ThatX/f£ ka e motion. 
 
 The f.rft IS ftreigh:, r ad 5 
 
 The other #EP, ana doth obliquely bend : 
 One life is wrapt AYfkfh, and tends to earth : 
 The other winds towards HIL', whofe happy birth 
 Taught me to live here fo, THATfz'ill one eye 
 Should aim and fiioot at that which IS on high 5 
 Quitting with daily Labour all AJTpleamre, 
 To gain at Harveft ah eternal THJiASVKE. 
 
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 % Vanity. 
 
 ■ ■ 
 
 Ke fleet Aftrcncvner can bore,. 
 And thredthe (pheres with his qiiick- piercing nti 
 He views their ftations, -walks from door to door, 
 
 as if he had aengrv'd 
 To make a [tarchafe there : He- \ r Dances, 
 
 And knowerh long before 
 Both their full-ey d Aipectc, aoii feccel Giances. 
 
 The nimble diver with his fide 
 Cuts tlirough the working Waw - may fetch 
 
 His dearly-3W;n§ri re^rl." which God did hide 
 
 Onpuipofe from the ventrous Wretch j 
 That he might lave his Life, and aifo hers, 
 
 Who with exceflive Pride 
 Her own Deftruetion and his Danger wears, 
 
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78 
 
 The CHVRCH. 
 
 The fubtil Chymick can deveft 
 And ftrip the Creature naked, till he find 
 The callow Principles within their Neft: 
 
 There he imparts to them his Mind,. 
 Admitted to their Bed-chamber, before 
 
 They appear trim and dreft 
 To ordinary Suitors at the Door. 
 
 What hath not Man fought out and found, 
 But his dear God ? who yet his glorious Law 
 Embofoms in us, mellowing the ground 
 
 With fhowers and Fro ft, with love and aw y 
 So that we need not fay, Where's this command ? 
 
 Poor Man ! thou fearche ft round 
 To find out Death, but miffeft Life at hand. 
 
 % Lent. 
 
 T 7C ~Elcom dear Feaft of Lent ; who loves not thee ; 
 VV He loves not Temperance, or Authorise, 
 
 But is compos'd of Paffion. 
 The Scriptures bid us faft ; the Church fays, Novo 5 
 Give to thy Mother what thou would'ft allow 
 
 To every corporation. 
 
 The humble Soul composed of Love and Fear, 
 Begins at home, and lays the Burden there, 
 
 When Doctrines difagree. 
 He fays, in things which ufe hath jultly got, 
 I am a fcandal to the Church, and not 
 
 The Church is fo to me. 
 
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The CHVRCH. 79 
 
 True Chriftians fhould be glad of an occafion 
 To ufe their temperance fecking no Evafion, 
 
 When Good is feafonable ; 
 Unlefs Authority, which fhould en creafe 
 The obligation in us, make it lefs, 
 
 And Power it felf difable. 
 
 Befides the cleannefs of fweet Abftinence, 
 
 Quick Thoughts and Motions at a fmali expence, 
 
 A Face not fearing Lights : 
 Whereas in fulnefs there are iluttifh Fumes, 
 Sour Exhalations, and difhoneft Rheums, 
 
 Revenging the Delight. 
 
 Then thofefame pendent Profits, which the Spring 
 And Eafter intimate, enlarge the thing, 
 
 And Goodneis of the D&zd. 
 Neither ought other Mens abufe of Lent 
 Spoil the good ufe ; left by that Argument 
 
 We forfeit ail our Creed, 
 
 It's true, we cannot reach Chrift's fourtieth Day ; 
 Yet to go part of that religious Way, 
 
 Is better than to reft ; 
 We cannot reach our Saviour's Furity ; 
 Yet are we bid, Be holy evn as be. 
 
 In both let's do our beft. 
 
 Who goeth in the way which Chrift hath gone, 
 Is much more fure to meet with h:m, than one 
 
 That travelleth By-ways. 
 Perhaps my God, though he be far before, 
 May turn, and take me by the hand, and more 
 
 May ftrengthen my Decays, 
 
 Yet 
 
8o The C HVR.C K 
 
 Yet Lord inftruct us to improve our Baft 
 By llarving Sin, and taking fuch repaft, 
 
 As may our Faulcs controul : 
 That every Man may revel at his door, 
 Not in his Parlour ; banqueting the Poor, 
 
 And anions thole his Soul. 
 
 5T Virtue. 
 
 SWeet Day, To cool, fo calm, fo bright, 
 The Bridal of the Earth and Sky , 
 The Dew (ball weep thy Fail to night j 
 For thou muft die. 
 
 Sweet Rofe, whole hue angry and brave 
 Bids the rafh Gazer wipe his Eye, f 
 Thy Root is ever in its grave, 
 
 And thou muft die. 
 
 Sweet Spring, full of fweet Pays and Role?, 
 A Box where Sweets compacted lie, 
 My Mulick (hews ye have your clofes, 
 And all muft die. 
 
 Only a fweet and virtuous Soul, 
 Like feafo'n'd Timber, never gives; 
 But though the whole World turn to a Coal, 
 Then chieflv lives. - 
 
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The CHVRCH. 
 
 % The PearL Matth. 13. 
 
 I Know the ways of Learning ; both the Head 
 And Pipes that feed the preis, and make it run ; 
 What Reafon hath from Nature borrowed, 
 Or of it felf, like a good Houfewife, fpun 
 In Laws and Policy \ what the rears confpire; 
 What willing Nature fpeaks, what forced by tire ; 
 Both th 1 old difcoveries, and the new found Seas j 
 The Stock and Surplus, Caufe and Hiftory : 
 All thefe ftand open, or I have the Keys: 
 Yet I love thee. ' 
 
 I know the ways of Honour, what maintains 
 The quick Returns of Courteiie and Wit : 
 In vies of Favours whether Party gains, 
 When Glory fwells the Heart, and moldsth.it 
 To all expreffions both of Hand and Eye, 
 W r hich on the World a True-love Knot may tye, 
 And bear the Bundle, wherefoe'er it goes : 
 How many Drams of Spirits there mnft.be 
 To fell my Life unto my Friends or Foes ; 
 Yet I love thee. 
 
 I know the Ways of Pleafure, the fweet Strains, 
 The hillings and the relifhes of it; 
 The propositions of hot Blood and Brains ; 
 What Mirth and Mufick mean; what, Love and Wit 
 Have done thefe twenty hundred Years, and more: 
 I know the ProjeSs of unbridled Store : 
 My Stuff is Flefh, notBrafs; my Senfes live, 
 And grumble oft, that they have more in me 
 Than he that curbs them, being but one to five : 
 Yet I love thee. 
 
82 The C HVRC H. 
 
 I know all thefe, and have them in my hand; 
 Therefore not fealed, but with open* Eyes 
 I fly to thee, and fully under ftand 
 Both the main Sale, and the Commodities ; 
 And at what Rate and Price 1 have thy love ; 
 With all the Circumftances that may move : 
 Yet through the Labyrinths, not my groveling Wit, 
 But thy Silk-twift let down from Heav'n to me, 
 Did both conduct and teach me, how by it 
 To climb to thee. 
 
 % Jfflichcs/. 
 
 BRoken in pieces all afunder, 
 Lord hunt me not 
 A thing forgot, 
 Once a poor Creature, now a wonder ; 
 A Wonder tortur'd in the fpace 
 Betwixt this World and that of Grace. 
 
 My Thoughts are all a cafe of Knives, 
 W T ounding my Heart 
 With fcatter'd fmart; 
 As Wat'ring-pots give Flowers their Lives. 
 Nothing their Fury can control, 
 While they do wound and prick my Soiil. 
 
 Ml my Attendants are at ftrife, 
 Quitting their Place 
 Unto my Face : 
 Nothing performs the Task of Life : 
 The Elements are let loofe to fight, 
 And while I live, try out their right* 
 
 Oh 
 
The CHVRC H. 8; 
 
 Oh help, my God ! let not their Plot 
 Kill them and me, 
 And alio thee, 
 Who art my Life : Diffolve the Knot, 
 As the Sun fcatters by his Light 
 All the Rebellions of the Night. 
 
 Then fhall thefe Powers, which work for Grief, 
 Enter thy Pay, 
 And Day by Day 
 Labour thy Praife and ny Relief; 
 
 With Care and Courage building me, 
 'Till I reach Heav'n, and much more thee. 
 
 % Man. 
 
 JVIy God, I heard this 1 1 
 That none doth build a ftately Habitat 
 
 But he that means to dwell therein. 
 What Houfe more ftately hath there been. 
 *Or can be, than is Man ? to whole Creation 
 All things are in decay. 
 
 For Man is ev'ry thing, 
 And more : He is a Tree, yet bears no Fruit ; 
 A Beaft, yet is, or fliould be more. 
 Reafon and Speech we only bring. 
 Parrots may thank us, if they are not mute, 
 They go upon the fcore. 
 Man is all fymmetry, 
 Full of Proportions, one Limb to another, 
 And all to all the World beiides : 
 Each part may call the fartheft Brother ; 
 For Head with Foot hath private Amity, 
 And both with Moons and Tides. 
 
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84 The C HV R c H. 
 
 Nothing hath got fo far, 
 But Man hath caught and kept it, as his Prey. 
 Hi> Eyes diimount the higheft Star : 
 He is in little all the Sphere ; 
 Herbs gladly cure our Flelh, becaufe that they 
 Find their Acquaintance there. 
 
 For us the Winds do blow ; (flow. 
 
 The Earth doth reft, Heav'n move, and Fountains 
 Nothing we fee, but means our good, 
 As our Delight y or as our Treafutt ; 
 The whole is either our Cupboard of FooJ, 
 Or Cabinet of Pleafiire. 
 
 The Stars have us to Bed ; 
 Night draws the Curtain, which the Sun withdraws: 
 Mufick and Light attend our Head. 
 All things unto our Fiejh are kind 
 In their JJdfcekt and Beting ; to our Mlrd 
 In their JJJem and Cauf& 
 
 Each thing is fall of Duty : 
 Waters united are our Navigation I 
 Diftinguifhed, our Habitation •, 
 Below, our Drink ; above, our Meat : 
 .Both are our Cleanlinefs. Hath one fuch Beauty ? 
 Then how are all things neat ! 
 
 More Servants wait on Man, 
 Than he'll take notice of: In every Path 
 
 He treads dow r n that which doth befriend him, 
 When Sicknefs makes him pale and w r an. 
 Oh mighty Love ! Man is one World, and hath 
 Another to attend him, 
 
 Since 
 
The C HV R C H. 85 
 
 Since then, my God, thou haft 
 So brave a Palace built ;' O dwell in it, 
 That it may dwell with thee at laft ! 
 'Till then afford us fo much Wit, 
 That as the World ferves us, we may ferve thee, 
 And both thy Servants be. 
 
 % Antifhon. 
 
 Ckor. T)Raifed be the God of Lore, 
 J^ ffan. Here bejow, 
 
 Angels. And here above: 
 Chor. Who hath dealt his Mercies fo, 
 
 Ang. To his Friend, 
 
 Men* And to his Foe : 
 
 Cbor. That both Grace and Glory tend 
 Ang. Us of old, 
 Men. And us in th* end, 
 
 Ckor. The great Shepherd of the Fold 
 Ang. Us did make, 
 Me*u For us was fold. 
 
 Ckor. He our Foes in pieces brake : 
 Ang. Him we touch ; 
 Men. And him we take. 
 
 Cher. Wherefore fmce that he is fuch, 
 Ang. We adore, 
 Men. And we do crouch* 
 
 Cbor* Lord, thy Praifes fhafl be more. 
 Men. We have none, 
 Ang. And we no ftore, 
 
 Ckor. Praifed be the God alone, 
 
 Who hath made of two Folds one. 
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 86 The CHVRChL 
 
 % ^Cnkindnefs. 
 
 LOrd, make me tender to offend: 
 InFriendfhip, firft I think, if that agree^ 
 
 Which I intend, 
 Unto my Friends intent and end. 
 I would not ufe a Friend as I life thee. 
 
 If any touch my Friend, or his good Name, 
 It is my Honour and my Love to free 
 
 His blaftedFame 
 From the leaft Spot or Thought of Blan 
 I could not ufe a Friend, as I ufe thee. 
 
 My Friend may fpit upon my curious Floor: 
 Would he have Gold ? I lend it inftantly - 7 
 
 But let the Poor, 
 And thou within them ftarve at Door. 
 I cannot ufe a Friend, as I ufe thee. 
 
 When that my Friend pretendeth to a Place, 
 I quit my Intereft, and leave it free ; 
 
 But when thy Grace 
 Sues for my Heart, I thee difplace; 
 Nor would I ufe a Friend as I ufe thee. 
 
 Yet can a Friend what thou haft done fulfil ? 
 O write in brafs, My God upon a Tree 
 
 Bis Blood did Jpill, 
 Only to purcbafe my good WiU\ 
 :Tet ufe. I not my Foes as I ufe Thee. 
 
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The CHVRCH. c 7 
 
 f Life. 
 
 I Made a Pofy, while the Day ran | 
 Here will I fmell my Remnant out, and tye 
 Tvly Life within this Band. 
 But Time did beckon to the Flowers, and they 
 By Noon molt cunningly did fteal away, 
 
 And withered in my Hand. 
 
 My Hand was next to them, and then my Heart; 
 1 took, without more thinking, in good part 
 
 Time's gentle Admonition $ 
 Who did fo fweetly Death's fad tafte convey* 
 Making my Mind'to fmell my fatal Day, 
 
 Yet fug'ring the Sufpition, 
 
 Farewel clear Flowers ; fweetly your Time ye (pent* 
 Fit, while ye liv'd, for Smell or Ornament. 
 
 And after Death for Cures* 
 I follow ftreight without Complaints or Grief, 
 Since, if my Scent be good, I care not if 
 
 It be as fhort as yours. 
 
 ^[ Submijfion* 
 
 Btlt that thou art my Wifdoin, Lord, 
 And both mine fives are thine, 
 M] Mind would be extreamly ftirr'd 
 For miffing my Defign. 
 
 Were ic not better to beftow 
 
 Some Place and Power on me ? 
 Then fhould thy Praifes with me grow, 
 
 And (hare in my degree. 
 
 E 2 But 
 
SS The C HV RC H. 
 
 But when I thus difpute and grieve, 
 I do refume my Sight; 
 
 Anil pilf 'ring what I once did give, 
 Diffeife thee of thy right. 
 
 Kow know I, if thou fhould'ft me raife, 
 
 That I fhould then raife thee ? 
 Perhaps great Places, and thy Praife 
 
 Do not fo well agree. 
 Wherefore unto my Gift I ftand ; 
 
 I will no mote advife : 
 Only do thou lend me a Hand, 
 
 Since thou haft both mine Eyes. 
 
 % Jupce, 
 
 1 Cannot skill of thefe thy Ways. 
 Lord, thou did'ft make me, yet thou rvoundeft me; 
 Lord, thou doft wound me, yet thou doft relieve me% 
 Lordy thou relieve]}, yet I die by thee ; 
 Lord, thou doft kill me, yet thou doft reprieve me. 
 
 But when I mark my Life and Praife, 
 Thy Juftice me moft fitly pays ; 
 
 For I do fraife thee, yet I praife thee not ; 
 
 My Prayers mean thee, yet my Prayers ftray, 
 
 I would do well, yet Sin the Hand hath got ; 
 
 My Soul doth Jove thee, yet it laves delay. 
 I cannot skill of theffe my Way-. 
 
 
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 ^T Chirms and Kjiots. 
 
 Ho read a Chapter when they rife, 
 Shall ne're be troubled with ill Eves. 
 
The C HV RC H. $9 
 
 A poor Man's Rod, when thou doll ride, 
 Is both a Weapon and a Guide. 
 
 Who fhuts his Hand, hath loft his Gold : 
 W 7 ho opens it, hath it twice told. 
 
 Who goes to Bed, and doth not pray, 
 Maketh two Nights to ev'ry Day. 
 
 Who by Afperfions throw a Stone 
 At th' Head of others, hit their own. 
 Who looks on Ground with humble Eyes, 
 Finds himfelf there, and feeks to rife. 
 When th J Hair is fweet through Pride or Luft? 
 The Powder doth forget the Duft. 
 
 Take one from ten, and what remains? 
 Ten ftiil, if Sermons go for Gains. 
 
 In (hallow Waters Heav'n doth Ihow : 
 But who drinks on, to Hell may go, 
 
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 %.Afflittion. 
 
 _Y God, I read this day, 
 That planted Paradife was not fo firm, 
 As was and is thy floating Ark, whofe Stay 
 And Anchor thou art only, to confirm 
 And ftrengrhen it in ev'ry Age, 
 When Waves do rife, and Tempeft rage, 
 
 At firft we liv'd in Plea fu re ; 
 Thine own Delights thou did'ft to us impart : - 
 When we grew wanton, thou did'ft ufe Difpleafure 
 To make us thine ; yet that we might not part, 
 As we at firft did board with thee, 
 Now thou wouid'ft tafte our Mifery, 
 
 E.4. There 
 
9o The CHVRC H. 
 
 There is but Joy and Grief; 
 If either will convert us, we are thine: 
 Some Angels us'd the firft \ if our Relief 
 Take up the fecond, then the double Line 
 
 And feveral Baits in either kind 
 Furniih. thy Table to thy Mind. 
 
 Affli&ion then is ours ; 
 We are the Trees, whom fhaking fattens more, 
 While bluftring Winds deftroy the wanton Bowers, 
 And ruffle all their curious Knots and Store. 
 My God, fo temper Joy and Woe, 
 That thy bright Beams may tame thy Bow. 
 
 % Mortification. 
 
 xlOw f° on doth Man decay ! 
 *7hen Clothes are taken from a Cheft of Sweets 
 
 To (waddle Infants, whofe young Breath 
 Scarce knows the way : 
 
 Thofe Clouts are little winding-fheets, 
 Which do confign and fend them unto Death. 
 
 When Boys go firft to Bed, 
 They ftep into their voluntary Graves ; 
 
 Sleep binds them fa ft ; on ty their Breath 
 Makes them not dead : 
 
 Succeflive Nights, like rolling Waves, 
 Convey them quickly, who are bound for Death. 
 
 When Youth is frank and free, 
 And calls for Mulick, while his Veins do (well,. 
 All day exchanging Mirth and Breath 
 
 In Company ; 
 That Mu tick fummons to the knell, , 
 Which (hall befriend him at the Houie of Death. 
 
 When 
 
The CHVRCH. 91 
 
 When Man grows ftaid and wife, 
 Getting a Houfe and Home, where he may move 
 Within the Circle of his Breath, 
 
 Schooling his Eyes; 
 That dumb Inclofure maketh Love 
 
 Unto th^ Coffin, that attends his Dc- 
 
 When Age grows low and weak, 
 Marking his Grave, and thawing ev'ry Year, 
 'Till all do melt, and drown his Breath. 
 
 When he would fpeak; 
 A Chair or Litter Ihews the Bier, 
 Which (hall convey him to the Houfe of Death. 
 
 Man, e're he is aware, 
 Hath put together a Solemnity, 
 
 And dreft his Herfe, while he hath breath 
 
 As yet to fp a re- 
 Yet Lord, inftruft us fo to die, 
 That all thefe Dyings may be Life in Death. 
 
 f Decay. 
 
 SW 7 eet were the Days when thou didft lodge with 
 Struggle with $acob, fit with Gideon, ' (Lot, 
 Advife with Abraham, when thy Power could not 
 Encounter Mofes ftrong Complaints and Mone; 
 Thy words were then, Let me alone* 
 
 One might have fought, and found thee prefently 
 At fome fair Oak, or Bufh, or Cave, or Well ; 
 Is my God this way? No, they would reply- 
 He is to Sinai gone, as we heard tell : 
 
 Lift, ye may hear great Aaron's Bell. 
 
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 92 The CHVRCK 
 
 But now thou doft thy felf ifllmure and- dofe 
 In fome one Corner of a feeble Heart : 
 Where yet both Sin and Satan, thy old Foes, 
 Do pinch and ftreighten thee ? and life much Art 
 To gain thy thirds and little part. 
 
 I fee the World' grows old, when as the Heat 
 Of thy great Love once fpread, as in an Urn 
 Doth clofet up it felf, and frill retreat, 
 Cold Sin ftill forcing it> till it return, 
 
 And calling Juftice all things burn. 
 
 ^[ Mifery* 
 
 JLvOrd, let the Angels praife thy Name. 
 Manisafoolifh thing, a foolilh thing y 
 
 Folly and Sin play all his game* 
 His Houfe ftill burns ; and yet he ftill doth flag,. 
 Man is but Glafs, 
 He knows it, Jill the Glafs* 
 
 How canft thou brook his Foolifhnefs ? 
 Nay, he'll not iofe a Cup of Drink for thee ; 
 
 Bid him but temper his Excefs ; 
 •Not he ; he knows where he can better be. 
 As he will fwear, 
 Than to ferve thee in fear* 
 
 What ftrange Pollutions doth he wed, 
 And make his own, as if none knew but he ! 
 
 No Man fhall beat into his Head, 
 That th.ou within his Curtains drawn can ft fee ; 
 They are of Cloth, 
 Where never yet came Moth. 
 
 The 
 
The CHVRCH. 93 
 
 The belt of Men, turn but thy Hand 
 For one poor Minute, ftumble at a Pin : 
 
 They would nor have their Actions fcan'd, 
 Nor any Sorrow tell them that they fin, 
 Though it be (mall, 
 And meafure not their Fall. ■ 
 
 They quarrel thee, and would give over 
 The Bargain made to ferve thee : But thy Love 
 
 Holds them unto it, and doth cover 
 Their Follies with the Wing of thy mild Dove, 
 Not luff'ring thofe 
 Who would, to be thy Foes. 
 
 My God, Man cannot praife thy Name z. 
 Thou art ail Erightnefs, perfect Purity : 
 
 The Sun holds down his Head for fhame, 
 Dead with Eclipfes, when we fpeak of thee.. 
 How fhall Infection 
 Prelume on thy Perfection ? 
 
 As dirty Hands foul all they touch, 
 And thofe things molt, which are molt pure and fine ; 
 
 So our CUy-hearts, ev'n when we crouch 
 To ling thy Praifes, make them lefs divine. 
 Yet either this, 
 Or none thy Portion is* 
 
 Man cannot ferve thee; let him go 
 And ferve the Swine • there, there is. his' Delight: 
 
 He doth not like this Virtue, no * r 
 Give him his Dirt to wallow in all Night; 
 
 Thefe Preachers make ■ ' 
 
 His Head to fhoofandake. 
 
 Oh 
 
94 The CHVRCH. 
 
 Oh fooli/h Man, where are thine Eyes? 
 How haft thou loft them in a Croud of Cares? 
 
 Thou pull'ft the Rug, and wilt no: rife, 
 No, not to purchafe the whole Pack of Stars : 
 There let them fhine, 
 Thou mult go deep, or dine. 
 
 The Bird that fees a dainty Bower 
 Made in the Tree where fhe was wont to fit, 
 
 Wonders and nngs, but not his Power, 
 Who made the Arbour : This exceeds her Wit. 
 But Man doth know 
 The Spring whence all things flow : 
 
 And yet, as though he knew ft not, 
 His Knowledge winks, and lets his Humours reign ; 
 
 They make his Life a conftant Blot, 
 And all the Blood of God to rua in vain. 
 Ah wretch ! what Verfe 
 Can thy ftrange ways rehearfe ? 
 
 Indeed at firft Man was a Treafare, 
 A Box of Jewels, Shop of Rarities, 
 
 A Ring, whofe Pofy was, My Tkafwre ; 
 He was a Garden in a Paradife : 
 Glory and Grace 
 Did crown his Heart and Face, 
 
 But Sin hath fool'd hhru Now he is 
 A lump of Flefh, without a Foot or Wing 
 To raife him to the Glimpfe of Blifs: 
 
 Afick tofstt VeiTeldafhihgon each thing; 
 .- Nay, his own Shelf: 
 My God, I mean my felf* 
 
The C HVRC H. 95 
 
 5[ Jordan. 
 
 (mention, 
 
 WHen firft my Lines of Heav'nly Joys made 
 Such was their Luftre,. they did fo excel, 
 That I fought out quaint words and trim invention ; 
 My Thoughts began to burnifh, fprout,. and fweH, 
 Curling with Metaphors a plain intention, 
 Decking the Senfe, as if it were to fell. 
 
 Thoufands of Notions in my Brain did run, 
 OfPring their Service, if I were not fped : 
 I often blotted what I had begun ; 
 This was not quick enough, and that was dead, 
 Nothing could feem too rich to clothe the Sun, 
 Much lei's thofe Joys which trample on his Head. 
 
 As Flames do work and wind, when they afcend j 
 So did I weave my felf into the fenfe. 
 But while I buttled, I might hear a Friend 
 Whifper, How wide is all this long pretence ! 
 there is in love <i Srveetnefs ready ptnyii \ 
 Copy out only that } andfdve Exp^nce. 
 
 f Prayer. 
 
 V_y F what an eafie quick accefs, 
 My bleffed Lord, art thou ! how fuddenly 
 
 May our Reque.fts thine Ear invade ! 
 To (hew that State diilikes not eafinefs. 
 If I but lift mine Eyes, my Suit is made : 
 Thou canft no more not hear, than thou can'ft die* 
 
 Of 
 
t)6 
 
 The C HVRCH. 
 
 Of what fupream Almighty Power 
 Is thy great Arm, which fpaas the Eaft and Weft, 
 
 And tacks tire Centre to the Sphere ! 
 By it do all things live their meaiurxl hour; 
 We cannot ask the thing v/hich is not there, 
 Blaming the lhallownefs of our Requeft, 
 
 Of whatunmeafurable Love 
 Art thou pofleft, who when thou could ft not 
 
 Were tain to take our Fleft and Curie, 
 And for our lakes in Perfon fin reprove ; 
 
 That by deftroying that which ty'd tfrjrPurfe, 
 Thou might'ft make way for Liberality ! 
 
 Since then thefe three wait on thy Throne, 
 Eafej Power, and Love •, I value Prayer ib, 
 
 That were I to leave all but one, 
 Wealth, Fame, Endowments, Virtues allfhould go i 
 I and dear Prayer would together dwell, 
 And quickly gain, for each inch lon\ an elL 
 
 *ft Obedience, 
 
 Mi 
 
 iVlY God, if Writings may 
 Convey a Lordihip any way, 
 Whither the Buyer and the Seller pleafe ; 
 
 Let it not thee difpleafe, 
 If this poor Paper do as much as they, 
 
 On it my Heart doth bleed 
 As many Lines, as there doth need 
 To pafs it felf, and ail it hath to thee ; 
 
 To which I do agree, 
 And here prefent it as my fpecial Deed,. 
 
 If 
 
The CHVRC H. 97 
 
 If that hereafter Pleafure 
 Cavil, and claim her part and meafure, 
 As if this paiTed with a refervation, 
 
 Or fome fuch words in fafhion ; 
 I here exclude the Wrangler from thy Tieafure. 
 
 O let thy (acred Will 
 All thy Delight in me fulfil : 
 Let me not think an Aclion mine own way, 
 
 But as thy Love (hall fway, 
 Resigning up the Rudder to thy Skill. 
 
 Lord, what is \lan to thee, 
 That thou fhould'ft mind a rotten Tree ? 
 
 Yet fince thou can' ft not chufe but fee my Actions ] 
 So great are thy Perfections 
 
 Thou may'ltas well my Aclions guide, as fee r 
 
 Befides, thy Death and Blood 
 ShowM a ftrange love to all our Good:. 
 Thy Sorrows were in earneft ; no faint proffer. 
 Or fuperficial offer 
 
 Of what we might not take,- or be wkhftoocL 
 
 W 7 herefo-re I all forgo v 
 To one ward only I fey, No. 
 When in the Deed there was an intimation 
 
 Of a Gift or Donation y 
 Lord, let it mow by way of Purcbafe go. 
 
 He thatwill pa(s his Land, 
 As I have mine, may fet his Hand 
 And Heart unto this Deed, when he hath read % 
 
 And make the Purchafe fpreacl 
 To both our Goods, if he to it will ftaiuk 
 
 How 
 
9 8 
 
 The C HV R C H. 
 
 How happy were my part, 
 If fome kind Man would thruft his Heart 
 Into thefe Lines - 7 till in Heavens Court of Roils 
 
 They were by winged Souls 
 Entred for both, far above their Defert ! 
 
 %_ Confcience. 
 
 X Eace Pratler, do not lowre : 
 Not a fair Look, but thou doft call it foul : 
 Not a fweet Difh, but thou doft call it fowre : 
 Mufick to thee doth howl. 
 By lift'ning to thy chatting Fears 
 I have both loft mine Eyes and Ears, 
 
 Pratler, no more, I fay : 
 My Thoughts muft work, but like a noifelefs Sphere* 
 Harmonious Peace muft rock them all the day ; 
 No room for Pratlers there. 
 If thou perfifteft, I will tell thee, 
 That I have Phyfick to expel thee. 
 
 And the Receipt Mil be 
 My Saviour's Blood : when ever at his Eoard 
 I do but tafte it, ftraight it cieanfeth me, 
 And leaves thee not a word, 
 No not a Tooth or Nail to fcratch, 
 And at my Actions carp or catch. 
 
 Yet if thou talkeft ftill, 
 Befides my Phyfick, know there's fome for thee : 
 Some Wood or Nails to make a Staff or Bill 
 For thofe that trouble me : 
 That bloody Crofs of my dear Lord 
 ...Is both my Phyfick and my Sword, 
 
 5 Sfofo 
 
The CHVRC H. 99 
 
 % Sitfn. 
 
 LOrd, with what Glory waft thou ferv'd of ok! t 
 When Solomon's Temple ftood and flouriflied ! 
 
 Where moll things were of pu*eft Gold j 
 
 The Wood was all embellilhed 
 With Flowers and Carvings, myftical and rare :. 
 All fhew'd the Builders, crav'dthe Seer's care. 
 
 Yet all this Glory, all this Pomp and State 
 
 Did not affect thee much, was not thy aim, 
 Something there was that fow'd Debate : 
 Wherefore thou quitt'ft thy ancient Claim; 
 
 And now thy Architecture meets with Sin ; 
 
 For all thy Frame and Fabrick is within. 
 
 There thou art ftrugling with a peevifh Heart, 
 W 7 hich fome times croffeth thee, thou fometimesit : 
 
 The Fight is hard, on either part. 
 
 Great God doth fight, he doth fubmiu 
 All Solomon's Sea of Brafs and World of Stone 
 Is not fo dear to thee as one good Groan. 
 
 And truly Brafs and Stones are heavy things, 
 Tombs for the Dead, not Temples fit for thee ; ' 
 
 But Groans are quick and full of Wings, 
 
 And all their Motions upward be ; 
 And ever as they mount, like Larks they fing : 
 The note is fad, yet Mufick for a King. 
 
 % Home. 
 
 C> Ome Lord,my Head doth burn, my Heart is fick 
 j While thou dolt ever, ever ftay : 
 Thy long Deferriogs wound me to the quick, 
 ' My Spirit gafpeth night and day. 
 O (hewthyfclf to me, 
 Or take me up to thee ! 
 
 How 
 
ioo The CHVRC H. 
 
 How can 5 ft thou flay, confidering the pace 
 
 The Blood did make, which thou didft wafte ? 
 When I beheld it trickling down xy Face, 
 I never faw thing make fuch Lafte. 
 O fhew thy felfto me, 
 Or take me up to thc^ ! 
 
 When Man was loft, thy Pity lookt at 
 
 To fee what help in to" Earth or Sky : 
 But there was none ; at leaft no help without : 
 The Help did in thy Bofom lie. 
 
 O fhew thy felf, &c. 
 
 There lay thy Son : and muft he leave that Neft, 
 Thar Hive of Sweetriefe, to remove 
 
 Thraldom from thofe, who would not at a Feaft 
 Leave one poor Apple for thy Love ? 
 O fhew thy felf, &c. 
 
 He did, he came: O my Redeemer dear* 
 liter all this can 5 ft thoii be ftrange ? 
 
 So many Years baptiz'd, and not appear; 
 
 As if thy Love could fail or change ? 
 O mew thy felf, Zc 
 
 Yet if thou ftayeft ftiil, why muft I ftay ? 
 
 My God', what is this World to me ? 
 This World of wo ? hence all ye Clouds, away, 
 
 Away; I muftgettip and lee, 
 O (hew thy felf, &c. 
 
 What is this weary World, this Meat and Drink, 
 That chains us by the Teeth fo rait I 
 
 What is this Woman-kind, which I can wink 
 Into a blacknels and diftafte ? 
 O &ew thy felf, ®c< 
 
 With 
 
 
The CHVRCH. 101 
 
 With one fmall Ggh thou gav'ft me th 5 other day 
 
 I blafted all the Joys about me : 
 'And fcouling on them, as they pin'd away, 
 Now come again, laid I, and flout me, 
 O (hew tjiy kit to me, 
 Or take me up to thee ! 
 
 Nothing but drought and dearth,butbufh and brak<?, 
 
 Which way fo'ere I look, I fee. 
 Some may dream merrily, but when they wake, 
 
 They drefs themfelves, and come to thee, 
 O fhew thy felf, Efo 
 
 We.^alk of Harveft ; there are no fuch things, 
 But when we leave our Corn and Hay : 
 
 I'here is no fruitful Year, but that which brings 
 The laft and lov'd, though dreadful day* 
 O fhew thy felf, &c. 
 
 O loofe this Frame, this knot of Man untie, 
 That my free Soul may tub her Vviag* 
 
 Which now is pinion'd with mortality ; 
 As an entangled hamper'd thing. 
 O lhew thy felf, ^r, 
 
 W T hat have I left that I ihould ftay and groan ? 
 
 The mo ft of me to Heav'n is tied : 
 My Thoughts and Joys are all packt up and gone d 
 
 Ana for their old Acquaintance plead. 
 O (hew thy felf, 'oc. 
 
 Come cUareft Lord, pafs not this holy Seafbn, 
 
 My Flelh, and Bones, and joints cio pray : 
 And ev'n my Verie, when by the BLhyme and Seafoa 
 The word is Stay, fays ever, Come. 
 O lhew thy felf to me 
 Or take me up to thee I 
 
 The 
 
io2 The CHVRCH* 
 
 I 
 
 •ff The Brttijb Church. 
 
 Jow dear Mother, when I view 
 Thy perfect Lineaments, and hue 
 Both fweet and bright, 
 
 Beauty in thee takes up her place, 
 And dates her Letters from thy Face, 
 When (he doth write. 
 
 A fine Afpcfl: in fit array, 
 Neither too mean, nor yet too gay, 
 Shews who is beft. 
 
 Outlandifh Looks may not compare : 
 For all they either painted are, 
 Or elfe undreft. 
 
 She on the Hills, which wantonly 
 Allureth all in hope to be 
 
 By her preferr'd, 
 
 Hath kifs'd fo long her painted Shrines, 
 That ev'n her Face by killing mines, 
 For her Reward. 
 
 She in the Valley is fo fhie 
 Of drefling, that her Hair doth lie 
 About her Ears : 
 
 While me avoids her Neighbour's Pride, 
 She wholly goes on th' other fide 
 And nothing wears 
 
 But deareft Mother, ( what thofe mifs) 
 The mean thy Praifeand Glory is, 
 And long may be. 
 
 BleiTed be God whofe love it was 
 To double-mote thee with his Grace, 
 And none but thee. 
 
T 
 
 The CHVR C H. 105 
 
 % The Quip. 
 
 H E merry World did on a day 
 With his Train-bands and Mates agree 
 
 To meet together, where I lay, 
 And all in fport to jeer at me. 
 
 Fir fir, Beauty crept into a Rofe ; 
 Which when I pluckt not, Sir, faid fhe, 
 Tell me, I pray, whofe Hands are thofe ? 
 But thou Quit anfwer, Lord, form?. 
 
 Then Money came, and chinking ftill, 
 What Tune is this, poor Man ? laid he : 
 I heard in Mufick you had Skill. 
 But ttoujhalt anfwer, Lord, for me. 
 
 Then came brave Glory puffing by 
 In Silks that whittled, who but he ? 
 He fcarce allow'd me half an Eye. 
 But thoufhalt anfwer. Lord, for me. 
 
 Then came quick Wit and Converfation, 
 And he would needs a Comfort be, 
 And, to be fliort, make an Oration* 
 But thou JhaJt anfwer, Lord, for me* 
 
 Yet when the hour of thy defign 
 To anfwer thefe fine things (hall come ; 
 Speak not at large, fay, 1 am thine, 
 .And then they have their Anfwer home* 
 
 % Vanity* 
 
104 The CHVRCH. 
 
 '% Vanity. 
 
 POor filly Soul, whole Hope and Head lies low ; 
 Whofefiat Delights on Earth do creep and grow; 
 To whom the Stars fhine not fo fair, as Eyes i 
 Nor folid work, as falfe Embroideries; 
 Heark and beware, left what you now do meafure, 
 And write for iweet, prove a molt fowre difpleafure. 
 
 O hear betimes, left thy relenting 
 
 May come too late ! 
 To purchafe Heaven for repenting, 
 
 Is no hard rate. 
 If Souls be made of earthly Mold, 
 
 Let them love Gold; 
 
 If born on high, 
 Let them unto their Kinred fly : 
 For they can never be at reft, 
 Till they regain their ancient Neft. 
 Then filly Soul take heed ; for earthly Joy 
 Is but a Bubble, and makes thee a Boy. 
 
 % The Dawning. 
 
 A Wake fad Heart, whom Sorrow ever drowns : 
 Take up thine Eyes, which feed on Earth ; 
 Unfold thy Forehead gather'd into Frowns : 
 Thy Saviour comes, and with him Mirth ; 
 Awake, awake ; 
 Aria With a thankful Heart his Comforts take. 
 But thou doft ftill lament, and pine, and cry, 
 And feel his Death, but not his Viftory. 
 
 Arife 
 
The CHVRC H. 105 
 
 Arife fad Heart ; if thou do ft not withftand, 
 Chrift's Reilirreftion thine may bs : 
 
 Do not by hanging down break from the hand, 
 Which as it rifeth, raifeth thee : 
 
 Arife, arife ; 
 
 And with his Burial-linen dry thine Eyes. (Grief. 
 Chrift left his grave-clothes, that we mighr,when 
 Draws Tears.or Blood, not want an Handkerchief, 
 
 f JESV. 
 
 1ESU is in my Heart, his facred Name 
 Is deeply carved there : uat t\\ other week 
 A great Affliftion broke the little Frame, 
 Ev'n all to pieces ; which 1 went to feek : 
 And firft I found the corner, where was 5P, 
 After, where ES, and next where V was graved. 
 When I had got thefe Parcels, inftantly 
 I fat me down to fpell them, and perceived 
 _That to my broken Heart he was / eafejou. 
 And to my whole is 'JESV. 
 
 c 
 
 % Bufinefs. 
 
 An'ft be idle, can' ft thou play, 
 Foolifh Soul, who fin'd to day ? 
 
 Rivers run, and Springs each one 
 Know their Home, and get them gone : 
 Haft thou Tears, or haft thou none ? 
 
 If, poor Soul, thou haft no Tears, 
 Would thou hadft no Faults or Fears \ 
 Who hath thefe, thofe ills forbears. 
 
 Winds 
 
io6 The CHVRCH. 
 
 Winds ftill work : it is their plot, 
 
 Be the Seafon cold or hot : 
 
 Haft thou Sighs, or haft thou not ? 
 
 If thou haft no Sighs or Groans, 
 Would thou hadft no F-lefh and.' Bones ! 
 Lefler pains fcape greater ones. 
 
 But if yet thou idle be, 
 Foolifh Soul, who dy'd for thee ? 
 
 Who did leave his Father's Throne, 
 To affume thy Flelh and Bone ? 
 Had he Lite, or had he none ? 
 
 If he had not liv'd for thee, 
 Thou hadft dy'd moft wretchedly ; 
 And two Deaths had been thy Fee. 
 
 He fo far thy good did plot, 
 That his own lelf he forgot. 
 Did he die, or did he not ? 
 
 If he had not dy'd for thee, 
 Thou hadft liv'd in miferie •, 
 Two Lives worfe than ten Deaths be. 
 
 And hath any fpace of Breath 
 'Twixt his Sins and Saviour's Death i 
 
 He that lofeth Gold, though Drofs, 
 Tells to all he meets, his Crofs : 
 He that fins, hath he no lofs P 
 
 He that finds a filver Vein, 
 Thinks on it, and thinks again ; 
 Brings thy Saviour's Death no gain ? 
 
 Who in heart not ever kneels, 
 Neither Sin nor Saviour feels. 
 
 f Dialogue 
 
The C HVRC H. 107 
 
 % Dialogue. 
 
 SWeeteft Saviour, if my Soul 
 Were but worth the having, 
 Quickly fhould I then control 
 Any Thought of waving. 
 Put when all my Care and Pains 
 Cannot give the Name of Gains 
 To thy Wretch io full of Stains; 
 What Delight or Hope remains ? 
 
 What (Child) is the Ballance thine? 
 
 Thine the Voi\e and Meafure ? 
 Wlfaj thoufoah be mine, 
 
 Tir.ger not my Treasure* ■ 
 Whit the Gains in having thee 
 Do amount to, only he, 
 Who for Man was fold, can fee, 
 Thai transfer \{ th 3 Accounts to me* 
 
 But as I can fee no Merit, 
 
 Leading to his Favour : 
 So the way to lit me for it, - 
 
 Is beyond my Saviour. 
 As the Reaibn then is thine ; 
 So the Way is none of mine : 
 I difclaim the whole Defign ; 
 Sin difclaims, and I refign. 
 
 That is all, if that I could 
 
 Get without repining ; 
 And my Clay, my Creature would 
 
 Follow my refigning \ 
 That as J did freely fart 
 With my Glory and Defert, 
 Left all foys to feel all Smart—— — - 
 Ah! no more: Thou break'ft my Heart. 
 
 F f JDulneJi* 
 
io8 The C HV R C H. 
 
 % Dulnefs. 
 
 WHy do I languifh thus, drooping and dull, 
 As if I were all Earth? 
 O give me Quicknefs, that I may with Mirth 
 Praiie thee brim-fulL 
 
 The wanton Lover in a curious Strain 
 
 Can praife his faireft Fair ; 
 And with quaint Metaphors her curled Hair 
 
 Curl o're again: 
 
 Thou art my Lovelinefs, my Life, my Light, 
 
 Beauty alone to me : 
 Thy bloody Death and undeferv'd, makes thee 
 
 Pure red and white. 
 
 When all Perfe&ions as but one appear, 
 That thole thy Form doth (how, 
 
 The very Duft where thou doft tread and go, 
 Makes Beauties here. 
 
 Where are my Lines then ? my Approaches? Views? 
 
 Where are my window-Songs ? 
 Lovers are ftill pretending, andev'n Wrongs 
 
 Sharpen their Mufe. 
 
 But I am loft in Flefh, whofe fugered Lies 
 Still mock me, and grow bold: 
 
 Sure thou didft put a Mind there, if I could 
 Find where it lies. 
 
 Lord, clear thy Gift, that with a conftant Wit 
 I may but look towards th£e: 
 
 took onlv : For to love thee, who can be, 
 W r hat Angel fit ? 
 
 5 love* 
 
C HV RC H. ro9 
 
 % Lo'Ve-joj. 
 
 AS o:\ a Window late I caft mine Eye, 
 I faw a Vine drop Grapes, with J and C 
 Anneal'd on every Branch. One Handing by 
 Ask'd what it meant. I (who am never loth 
 To fpend my Judgment) laid, it feem'd to me 
 To be the Body and the Letters both 
 Oi'i-cy and Charity \ Sir, you have not mifs'd, 
 TheManrepiyM; It figures -}E S VS CHKJST. 
 
 % Pro-vidence. 
 
 O Sacred Providence, who from end to end 
 Strongly and fweetly moveft ! Shall I write, 
 And not ofthee, through whom my Fingers bend 
 To hold my Quill ? Shall they not do thee right ? 
 
 Of all the Creatures both in Sea and Land 
 Only to Man thou haft made known thy Ways, 
 And put the Pen alone into his Hand, 
 And made him Secretary of thy Praife, 
 
 Beafts fain would nng; Birds dirty to their Notes; 
 Trees would be tuning on their native Lute 
 To thy Renown : But all their Hands and Throats 
 Are brought to Man, while they are lame and mute. 
 
 Man is the World's High-Prieft : He doth prefent 
 
 The Sacrifice for all : While they below 
 
 Unto the Service mutter an Affent, 
 
 Such as Springs ufe that fall, and Winds that blow* 
 
 He that to praife and laud thee doth refrain, 
 Doth not refrain unto himfelf alone, 
 But robs a thoufand, who would praife thee fain ; 
 And doth commit a World of Sin in one. 
 
 F 2 The 
 
ijo The CHVRCH. 
 
 The Beafts fay, Eat me; but if Beafts muft teach, 
 The tongue is yours to eat, but mine to praife. 
 The Trees fay, Pull me ; but the Hand you ftretch, 
 Is mine to write, as it is yours to raifg, 
 
 Wherefore, moftfacred Spirit, I here prefent 
 For me and all my Fellows praife to thee : 
 And juft it is that 1 fhould pay the Rent, 
 Becaufe the benefit accrues to me, 
 
 We all acknowledge both thy Power and Love 
 Tobe exaft, tranfcendent and divine; 
 Who do ft lb ftronly and fo fweetly move, 
 Whitest!! things have their W T ill, yet none but thine. 
 
 .For either thy Command or thy Pernajfion 
 
 Lay Hands on ail ; they are thy right and left, 
 The firft puts on with fpeed an Expedition ; 
 The other curbs Sin's Sealing Pace and Theft, 
 
 Nothing efcapes them both ; all muft appear, 
 And be difpos'd, and drefs'd, and tun'd by thee, 
 AVho fweetiy temper'ft all. If we could hear 
 Thy Skill and Art, what Mufick would it be ! 
 
 Thou art in fmall things great, notfmall in any; 
 Thy even Praife can neither rife nor fall. 
 Thou art in all things one, in each thing many: 
 For thou art infinite in one, and all. 
 
 Tempefts are -calm to thee, they know thy Hand, 
 And hold it fa ft, as Children do their Fathers, 
 Which cry and follow. Thou haft made poor Sand 
 Check the proud Sea, ev'n when it fwells and gathers. 
 
 Thy Cupboard ferves the World; the Meat is fet, 
 Where all may reach ; no Beaft but knows his feed. 
 Birds teach us Hawking} Fifties have their Net: 
 The great prey oa the lefs, they on fome weed. 
 
 Nothing 
 
The CHVRCH. rri 
 
 Nothing ingendred cloth prevent 'his Meat ; 
 Flies have their Tables fpfead, e're' they'appear ; 
 Some Creatures have in Winter what to eatj 
 Others do deep, and envy not their Chear. 
 
 How finely deft thou Times and Seafons fpih, 
 And make a Twirl checker';! with Night and Day ! 
 Which as it lengthens, winds, and winds us in, 
 As Bowls go on, but turning all the way* 
 
 Each Creature liath a WiiUom for his good. 
 The Pigeons feed their tender OiF-fpring, crying, 
 When they are callow ; but withdraw their Food, 
 When they are fledg, that Need may teach 'em flying. 
 
 Bees work for Man ; and yet they never bruife 
 Their Mailer's FlowV, but leave it, having done, 
 As far as ever, and as fit to ufe : 
 So both the Flow'r doth ftay, and Honey run. . 
 
 Sheep eat the Grafs, and dung the Groundfor more • 
 Trees after bearing drop their Leaves for Soil : 
 Springs vent their Streams,and by Expence get ftore ; 
 Clouds cool by Heat, and Baths by cooling boil. 
 
 Who hath the Virtue to exprefs the rare 
 And curious Virtues both of Herbs and Stones 1 
 U there an Herb for chit ? O that thy care 
 [hew a Roo: that gives Exprefiions? 
 
 an Herb hath power, what have the Stars ! 
 s Beauty, is a Cure. 
 Doubttefs our Plagues andPlenty, Peace and War* 
 , there much farer than cur Art is fare. 
 
 ; haft hid Metal:: Man may take thera ther.ce * 
 at his Peril ; \^h^n he digs the Place, 
 
 Gravej as if the thing had Senle, 
 tan, that he (hould nil the Space* 
 
 f Ev'fl 
 
112 The C HU R C K 
 
 Ev'n Poyfons praife thee. Shouki. a thing he loft ? 
 Should Creatures want, tor want of heed, their awe :' 
 Since where are Poyfons, Antidotes are molt; 
 The Help frauds clofe, and keeps the Fear in \ u 
 
 The Sea, which feems to flop the Traveller, 
 Is by a Ship the fpeedier Tallage made. 
 The Winds, who think they rule the Mariner, 
 Are rul'd by him, and taught to ferve his Trade. 
 
 And as thy Houfe is full, fo 1 adore 
 
 Thy curious Art in marfhalling thy Goods. 
 
 The Hills with Health abound, the Vales with ftore; 
 
 The South with marble ^ North with furs and woods. 
 
 Hard things are glorious ; eafy things good cheap j 
 The common ail Men have ; that which is rare, 
 Men therefore feek to have and care to keep. 
 The healthy Frofts with Summer Fruits compare. 
 
 Light without Wind is Glafs \ Warm without Weight 
 Is Wool and Furs? Cool without Coldnefs, fhade ; 
 Speed without Pains, aHorfe; Tall without Height 
 ..A fervileHawk ; Low without Lois, a Spade. 
 
 All Countries have enoug-h to ferve their Need: 
 If they feek fine things, thou doft make them run 
 For their Offence; and then dolt turn their Speed 
 To be commerce and trade from Sun to Sun. 
 
 Nothing wears Clothes but Man ; nothing doth need 
 But he to wear them. Nothing ulerh Fire, 
 But Man alone, to (hew his heav'niy Breed: 
 And only he hath Fewel In Deiire. 
 
 When th'earth was dry , thou mad 5 ft a Tea of wet; (tains; 
 When that lay gathered, thou did'ft broach the moan* 
 When yet fome places couid no moiiture get, stains. 
 The winds grew gardoers, and the clouds good foun- 
 
 Rain 
 
The C H V R C H. 1 1 5 
 
 Rain doth not hurt my Flowers \ but gently fpeod 
 Your Honey drops ; prefs not to fmeil them here - 7 
 When they are ripe, their Odour will afcend, 
 And at your Lodging with their Thanks appear. 
 
 How harfh are Thorns to Pears ! and yet they make 
 A berter Hedge, and need Left Repararion. 
 How fmooth are Silks, compared with a Stake, 
 Or with a Stone r yet make no good Foundation. 
 
 Sometimes thou deft divide thy Gifts to Man, • 
 Sometimes unite. The lniim Nut alone 
 Is Cloathing, "Meat and Trencher, Drink and Car, 
 Boat, Cable, Sail and Needle, all in one. 
 
 Moft Herbs that grow in Brooks, are hot and dry. 
 Cold Fruits warm Kernels help againft the wind, 
 The Limon's Juice and Rind cure mutually. 
 The whey of milk dothloofe, the milk doth bind. 
 
 Thy Creatures leap not, but exprefs a Feaft, 
 Where all the Guefts fit cloie, and nothing wants* 
 Frogs marry Fifh and Fiefh ; Bats, Bird and Beaft; 
 Sponges,non-fenfe and fenfe ; mines,th'earth & plants. 
 
 To fhew thou art not bound, as if thy Lot 
 Were worfe than ours,fometimes thou fhifteft hands. 
 Moll things move th a under Jaw ; the Crocodile not. 
 Mcfc things fleep lying, th J Elephant leans or ftands. 
 
 Buc who hath praife enough ? nay, who hath anv ? 
 
 All things that are, though they have fev ? ral ways, . 
 Yet in their being ioyn with one advice 
 To honour thee ; and fo I give thee praife 
 In all my other Hymns, but in this twice, 
 
 F-4, Each 
 
ii-4 The CHVRC'H. 
 
 £ach thing that is, although in ufe and name 
 It go for one, hath many ways in ftore 
 To honour thee ; and fo each Hymn thy Fame 
 Extolleth many ways, yet this one more. 
 
 If Hope. 
 
 IGave to Hope a Watch of mine ; but he 
 An Anchor gave to me. 
 Then an old Prayer-book 1 did preterit : 
 
 And he an Optick feat. 
 With that I gave a Vial full of Tears : 
 But he a few green Ears, 
 ^h Loyterer ! I'll no more, no more I'll bring: 
 1 did expeft a Ring. 
 
 ^f Sins Round. 
 
 SOrry I am, my God, forry I am, 
 That my Offences courfe it in a Ring. 
 !My Thoughts are working like a bufy Flame ; 
 Until their Cockatrice they hatch and bring : 
 And when they once have perfected their Draughts. 
 My words take fire from my enrlamed Thoughts. 
 My words take fire from my enflamed Thoughts. 
 Which fpit it forth like theSiciUan Hill. 
 I hey vent theWaresand paH them with their t aults, 
 And bv ihelr breathing ventilate the 111, 
 But words fuffice not, where are lewd Indentions : 
 My Hands do joyn to fini;h the Inventions. 
 My Hands do joyn to fihifh the Inventions : 
 And fo my Sins afcend three Stories high, 
 As Rri^Zgtfew, before there were Diffeafions, 
 Yet ill Deeds loyter not ; ft -ply- 
 
 New Thoughts of Waning ; • ireto my fh 
 
 Sorry I am, my God, forry 1 a 
 
The CHVRCH. 115 
 
 % Time. • 
 
 MEeting with Time, Slack thing, fait! \\ 
 Thy Sitiie is dull, whet it for lhanie. 
 No Marvel, Sir, he did reply, 
 If it at length deferve Tome blame : 
 But where one Man would have me grin 
 Twenty for one too lharp do find it— 
 
 Perhaps fome fuch of old-did pafs, 
 
 Who above all things lov'd this Life j 
 
 To whom thy Sithe a Hatchet was, 
 
 Which now is but a pruning Knife. 
 
 Chriil's coming hath made Man thy Debts 
 Since by thy cutting he grows better, 
 
 And in his BlefTing thou art bleft : . 
 For where thou, only wert before 
 An Executioner at belt ; 
 Thou art a Gard'ner now" and more. 
 
 An Ufher ro convey our Souls 
 
 Beyond the utmoft Stars and Polei , 
 
 And this is that makes Life id long, 
 While it deteins us from our God. 
 EVn Pieafures here increafe the wrong : : 
 And length of Days lengthen the Rod, . 
 
 Who wants the Place where God doth dwell. 
 
 Partakes already half, of Hell, 
 
 Of what ftrange length nmft that needs be L 
 Which ev'n Eternity excludes ! 
 Thus far Time Ireard me patiently r 
 Then chafing faid, this Man deludes : 
 
 W T hat do I here before his Door ? 
 
 He. doth -not crave lefs time, but more* '. 
 
 F 5 * Gt 
 
n6 
 
 The CHVRC h: 
 
 *ft Grateful, 
 
 THou that halt given fo much to nse, 
 Give one thing more, a grateful Heart* 
 See how thy Beggar works on thee 
 
 By Alt. 
 
 He makes thy Gifts occafion mere, 
 And fays, if he in this be croft, 
 All thou haft given him heretofore 
 
 Is left. 
 
 But thou didft reckon, when at nrft 
 
 Thy word our Hearts and Han/. :ve, 
 
 What it would come to at the worft 
 
 To L\y^. 
 
 Perpetual Knockings at thy Door, 
 Tears rallying thy tranfpaient Rooms, 
 Gift upon Gift, much would have more, 
 
 And comes* 
 
 This notwithstanding, thou wentYt on, 
 And didft allow us all our Node : 
 Nay, thou haft made a Sigh and Groan 
 
 Thy Joys* 
 
 Not that thou haft not ftill above 
 .Much better Tunes than Groans can nuke ; 
 But that thefe Country-Airs thy love 
 
 Did. take. 
 
 Wherefore I cry, and cry again; 
 And in no quiet caiv ft thou be, 
 'Till I a thankful Heart obtain 
 
 Of thee : 
 
 Not 
 
The CHVRC H. 117 
 
 Not thankful, when* it pleafeth me ; 
 As if thy Bleifings had (pare Days: 
 But fuch a Heart, whofe Pulfe may be 
 
 Thy Praife. 
 
 % Peace. 
 
 SWeet Peace, where doft thou dwell ? I humbly 
 Let me once know. (crave, 
 
 I fought thee in a fecret Cave, 
 
 And ask'd if Peace were there, 
 A, hollow Wind did feem to anfwer, No : 
 Go feek eliewhere. 
 
 i did ; and going, did a Rain-bow note : - 
 Surely thought I, . :r . 
 This is the Lace of Peace's Coat : 
 
 I will fearch out the Matter. - 
 But while I look'd, the Clouds immediately 
 Did break and fcatter. 
 
 Then went I to a Garden, and did fpy 
 A gallant Flower, 
 The Crown Imperial : Sure faid I, 
 
 Peace at the Root muft dwell; - 
 But when I digg'd, 1 faw a Worm devour 
 What fhow'dfo well. 
 
 At length I met a rev'rend good old Man : 
 Whom when for Peace 
 I did demand, he thus began ; 
 
 There was a Prince of old 
 At S«km dwelt, who liv'd with good increafe 
 Of Flock and Fold. 
 
 m 
 
ii8 The C HVRC H. 
 
 He fweetly liy'd; yet Sweetnefs did not fave 
 His Life from Foes. 
 But after death out of his Grave 
 
 There fprang twelve Stalks of Wheat : 
 Which many wondring at, got fome of thofe 
 To plant and fet. 
 
 Itprofper'd ftrangely, and did foon difperfe 
 Through alP the Earth; 
 For they that tafte it do rehearfe, 
 That Virtues lie therein jr 
 A fecret Vertue^ bringing Peace and Mirtfc 
 By flight of fin. 
 
 Take of this- Grain, which in my Garden grows, 
 And grows for you ; 
 'Make Bread of it ; and that Repofe 
 
 And Peace, which every where . 
 With fo much earneftnefs you do purfue, 
 Is only there.. 
 
 % Confeffiotu 
 
 \^y What a cunning Gueft 
 |S this fame Grief! within my Heart T made 
 
 Clofets and in them many a Cheft j. 
 
 And* like a Matter in my Trade, 
 In thofe Chefts, Boxes; in each Box, a Till: 
 Yet Grief knows all, and enters when he will. 
 
 KoScrue, no Piercer can 
 Into a Piece of Timber work and wind; 
 As God's Afflictions into Man, 
 When he a. Torture hath defign'd. 
 They are too fubtil for the fubt'ieft Hearts J. 
 And fall, like Rheums upon the tendered parts, 
 
 We- 
 
The CHVRCH. 119 
 
 We arc the Earth, and tlirr, 
 Like Moles within us-, heave and caft about : 
 And till they foot and clutch .their Prey, 
 They never cool, much lefs give out* 
 No Smith can make fuch Locks, bur they have K 
 Clofetsare Hails to them; and Hearts High-way-, 
 
 Only an open Breaft 
 Doth fhut them out, fo that they cannot enter ; 
 Or if they enter, cannot reft, 
 But quickly leek ibuie new Adventure. 
 Smooth open Hearts no Faftning have ; but Ficlion 
 Doth give a hold and handle ro Afeiftion. 
 
 Wherefore my Faults and Sins, 
 Lord, I acknowledge : take thy Plagues away ; 
 For fince Comeincn Pardon wins, 
 I challenge here the brighten: Day, 
 The cUareft Diamond: let -them do their belt, 
 They mall be thick and. cloudy to my BrealK 
 
 ^[ Giddinefu 
 
 OH what a thing is Man ! how far from Power, 
 From fettled Peace and ^ti\ ! 
 Fie is fome twenty fevYal Men at Leafl? 
 
 Each lev'ral hour. 
 
 One while he counts of Heav'n.as of his Trealure ; 
 
 But then a Thought creeps in, 
 AfkL^caJte him coward, who for fear of Sin . 
 
 WilMoie a Fleafure... 
 
 N6* 
 
i2o The C HV RCH. 
 
 Now he will fight it out, and to the Wars ; - 
 
 Now eat his Bread in peace, 
 And fnudge in quiet ; now he fcorns increafe ; 
 Now all day fpares. 
 
 He builds a Houfe, which quickly down mull go, 
 
 As if a Whirlwind blew 
 And crufh'dthe Building : And it's partly true, 
 His Mind is fo, 
 
 O what a fight were Man, if his Attires 
 
 Did alter with his Mind ! 
 And like a Dolphins Skin, his Clothes combhrd 
 With his Defires ! 
 
 Surely, if each one faw another's Heart, 
 
 There would be no commerce, 
 No Sale or Bargain pafs : All would difperfe, ' 
 And live apart. 
 
 Lord, mend, or rather make us : One Creation 
 
 W 7 ill not fuffice our turn : 
 Except thou make us daily, we Qiafl fpurn 
 
 Our own Salvation. 
 
 % The Bunch of Grapes. 
 
 TOy, I did lock thee up, but feme bad Man 
 Hath let thee out again ; 
 And now, methinks, 1 am where I began 
 
 • Seven Years ago ; one Vogue and Vein, 
 One Air of Thoughts ufurpsm.y Brain. 
 I did towards Cxnaan draw ; but now I am 
 Brought back to the Red Sea, the Sea of Shame. 
 
 for 
 
The CirCRC H. Ifti 
 
 For as the Jews of old by God's command 
 Traveled, and law no Town ; 
 So now each Chriftian hath his Journy fpann'd : 
 
 Their Story pens and lets us down. 
 
 A iingle Deed is fmall Renown. 
 God's Works are wide, and let in future Times : 
 His ancient Juftice overflows our Crimes, 
 
 Then have we too our Guardian-fires and Clouds f 
 
 Our Scripture-dew drops faft : 
 We have our Sands and Serpents, Tents and Shrouds j 
 
 Alas ! our Murmurings come not laft. 
 
 But where's the clbfter ? W here's theTafte 
 Of mine Inheritance ? Lord, if I muft borrow, 
 Let me as well take up their Joy as Sorrow. , 
 
 But can he want the Grape, who hath the W T ine ? 
 I hive their Fruit and more. 
 
 BlefledbeGod* whoprofper'd KoaFs Vine, 
 
 And made it bring forth Grapes good ftore* 
 But much more him I muft adore, 
 
 Who of the Laws fowr Juice fweet Wine did make. 
 
 Ev'n God himfelf being preffed for my fake. 
 
 *f[ Love unknown. 
 
 DEar Friend, fit down, the Tale is long and fad : 
 And in my Faintings I pre fume your Love 
 Will more comply than help. A Lord, I had, 
 And have,of whom fome grounds/which may improve 
 I hold for two Lives, and both lives in me. 
 To him I brought a Difh of Fruit one day, 
 And in the middle plac'cl my Heart. But he 
 ( I figh to Jay ) 
 
 Lookt 
 
122 The C MV R CM. 
 
 Lookt on a Servant, who did know his Eve 
 Better than you knew tiie, or f which is one) 
 Than I myfelf. The Servant inftantly 
 Quitting the Fruit, feiz'd on my Heart alone, 
 And threw it in a Font, wherein did fall 
 A Stream uf Blood, which iffu'd from the Side 
 Of? great Rock : I will remember all, 
 And have good caufe : There it was dipt and dy'd, 
 And wafht, and wrung : The very wringing yet 
 Enforceth Tears, Tour Heart was foul, J fear* 
 Indeed 'tis true- I did and do commit 
 Many a Fault, mpre ; than my Leafe will bear 9 
 Yet mil ask'd Pardon, and was not deny'd. 
 But you. [hall hear. After my Heart was well, 
 And clean and fair, as I one even-tide 
 
 ( I figh to tell % 
 Walkt by my Pelf abroad, I law a large 
 And lpacious Furnace flaming, and there< 
 A boiling Caldron, round a boat whofe Verj 
 Was in great Letters Jet AFEjL 7 C Tl K. 
 Thegreatnefs fhew'd the Owner., So I w< 
 To fetch a Sacrifice out of my- Fold, 
 Thinking with that, which I did thus pre;. 
 To warm his Love, which I did fear grew colcf. 
 But as my Heart did tender ir, the Man 
 Who was to take it from me, fltpt his hand, 
 And threw my. Heart into the folding Pan ; 
 My Heart that brought it ( do you underftand 
 The Offerer's Heart. Tour Heart was b*rd,-J fex r > 
 Indeed 'tis true. I found a callous Matter 
 Began to fpread and to expatiate there : 
 But with a richer Drug than fcalding Water. 
 I bath'd it often, ev'n with holy Blood, 
 W T hich at a Board, while many drunk bare Wine, 
 A Friend did fteal into my Cup for good, 
 Ev'n. taken inwardly, and moft Divine 
 
The C HV R CM. 123 
 
 To fupple hardness. But at the length 
 Out of the Caldron getting, Toon I tied 
 Unto my Houfe, where to repair the Strength 
 Which 1 had loft, I hafted to my Bed : 
 But when I thought to deep out all thefe Faults, 
 
 ( I figh to fpeak) 
 I found that feme had ftufPd the Bed with Thoughts, 
 I would fay Thorns. Dear, could my Hear: not break, 
 When.with my Pleafures ev'n my Reft was gone ? 
 Full well I underitood who had been there ; 
 For I had giv'n the Key to none but one : 
 It muft be he. Tour Heart was dull, I far. 
 Indeed a flack and fleepy State of Mind 
 Did oft poffefs me fo, that when I pray'd, 
 Though my Lips went, my Heart did ftay behind. 
 But afl my Scores were by another paid, 
 Who took the Debt upon him. Truly, Friend t 
 For ought I bear, your Mafter flows to you 
 More Favour than you wot of. Mark the end* 
 The Font did only what was old renew ; 
 The Caldron fupple i what was grown too hard ; 
 The Thorns did quicken whst was grown too duB\ 
 All did but firive to mend what you had marr*d 9 
 Wherefore be cbear'd, and praijh him to the full 
 Each day, each hour, each moment of the Week, 
 Who fain would have you be new, tender, quick. 
 
 Maris Medly. 
 
 "Eark how the Birds do fing, 
 And Woods do ring. 
 All Creatures have their Joy, and Man hath his 
 Yet, if we rightly meafure, 
 
 Man s Joy and Fleafure 
 Rather hereafter, than in prefcnt, is. 
 
 H 1 
 
 To 
 
i2 4 The C HVRC H. 
 
 To this Life things of fenfe 
 Make their pretence : 
 In th'-other Angels have a right by Birth : 
 Man ties them both alone, 
 
 And makes them one, ( Earth 
 
 With th' one Hand touching Heav'n, with th* other 
 
 In Soul he mounts and flies, 
 In Flefh he dies : 
 He wearsa Stuff, whole Thread iscourfe ami round, 
 But trimra'd with curious Lac^, 
 And mould take place 
 After the trimming, not the fluff and ground* 
 
 Not, that he may not here 
 Tafte of the cheer: 
 But as Birds drink, and ilraight lift up their Heads J 
 So croft he fip, and think 
 Of better drink 
 He may attain to, after he is dead* 
 
 But as his Joys are double ; 
 So is his Trouble. 
 He hath two Winters, other things but one; 
 Both Frofts and Thoughts do nip, 
 And bite his Lip ; 
 And he of all things fears two Deaths alone. 
 
 Yet ev'n the greateft Griefs 
 -May be Reliefs, 
 Could he but take' them rigkt, and in their ways. 
 Happy is he, whofe Heart 
 Hath found the Art 
 To turn his double Pains to double Praife. 
 
 f The 
 
The CHVRCH. lii 
 
 ^[ T/ta Storm. 
 
 IF, as the Winds a rs here hr 
 
 Do fly and How, 
 M . Sighs and Tear* as bufie were above - y 
 Sure they would move 
 And much affecl thee, as rempeftuous Times 
 Amaze poor Mortals, aad object their Crimea 
 
 Stars have their Storms, ev'n in a high degree, 
 
 As well as we, 
 A throbbing Confcience fpurred by Remorfe 
 
 Hatha ftrange Force : 
 It quits the Earth, and mounting more and more, 
 Dares to affault thee, and befiegethy Door, 
 
 There it ftands knocking to thy Mufick's wrong, 
 And drowns the Song. 
 
 Glory and Honour are fet by, tiil it 
 An anfwer get. 
 
 Poets have wrong'd poor Storms: fuch days are belt ; 
 
 They purge the Air without, within che Bf eaft. 
 
 «?[ Paradife. 
 
 IBlefsthee, Lord, becaufe I GROW 
 Among thy Trees, which in a R O W 
 To thee both Fruit and Order O W. 
 
 What open Force, or hidden C H A R M 
 Can blaft my Fruit, or bring me HAR M, 
 
 While the Inclofure is thine A R M ? 
 
 Indole 
 
116 The C HVR CM. 
 
 I ndcfe me ftill tor fear I START. 
 Be to me rather friar p and T A R T, 
 Than let me want thy Hand and A R T. 
 
 When then doit greater Judgments SPARE, 
 And with thy Knife but prune and PARE, 
 
 Ev'n fruitful Trees more fruitful A R E. 
 
 Such Sharpnefs (hows the fweetcft FRIEND 
 Such Cuttings rather heal than REN D ; 
 And fuch Beginnings touch their END. 
 
 «|T The Method. 
 
 X Oor Heart, lament. 
 Forfincethy God refufeth ftill, 
 There is fbme rub, fome difcontent, 
 
 Which cools his WilU 
 
 Thy Father could 
 Quickly effect what thou doft move : 
 For he is Power ; and fure he rrould ; 
 
 For he is Love. 
 
 Go fearch this thing, 
 
 Tumble th 
 
 , Breaft, and 
 If thou had'ft loft a Glo\ 
 
 Wouldft thou not look ? 
 
 rn thy Boc;: ; 
 
 or Ring, 
 
 What do I fee 
 Written above there ? Tefterdaj: 
 I did. behave me carekflj 7 
 
 Whin I did fry. 
 
 And 
 
The C HVRC H. 127 
 
 And fhould God's Ear 
 To fuch indirFerents chained be, 
 Who do not their own Motions hear P 
 
 Is God lefb free ? 
 
 But ftay : What's there ? 
 tats iv fen I would have fom* thing done^ 
 I hud a motion to forbear, 
 
 Tet I rvent on. 
 
 And mould God's Ear, 
 Which needs not Man be ty'd to thofc 
 Who hear not him, bur quickly hear 
 
 His utter Foes ? 
 
 Then once more pray ; 
 Down with thy Knees, up with thy Voice : 
 Seek Pardon firft, and God will lay, 
 
 Clad Heart rejoice. 
 
 % Divinity. 
 
 AS Men for fear the Stars fhould deep and nod, 
 And trip at night, have Spheres fupply'd ; 
 'As if a Star were duller than a clod, 
 
 Which knows his way without a Guide : 
 
 juft fo the other Heav'n they alfo ferve, 
 
 Divinities tranfeendent Skie : 
 Which with the Edge of Wit they cut and carve- 
 
 Reafon triumphs, and Faith lyes by. 
 
 Could not thatWifdom,which firft broach'd the Wine, 
 Have thickn'd it with Definitions ? 
 
 And jagg'd his feamlefs Coat, had that been fine, 
 With curious Queftions and Divifions ? 
 
 But 
 
128 
 
 The C HVRC H. 
 
 But all the Doctrine which he taught and gave, 
 Was clear as Heav'n, from whence it came: 
 
 Atleaft thole Beams of Truth, which only lave, 
 Surpais in Brighrnefs any Fiame. 
 
 Lo-jc Goi, snd Jove JOur Scigl-bour. Wiuh ra&fr.xj. 
 
 Do as you nould he do?ie u?ito. 
 O dark Inftrr.ctions, ev 7 n as dark as day ! 
 
 Who can theie Gordian Knots undo? 
 
 But he doth hid us take his Blood for Wine. 
 
 Bid what he pleafe ; yet I am fure, 
 To rake and tafte what he dorh there clerign, 
 
 Is all chat ia x :e5, and not obicure. 
 
 Then burn thy Epicycles, foolifh Man ; 
 
 Break all thy Spheres, and lave thy Head. 
 Faith needs no Starf of Fiefn, but ftoutly can 
 
 To Heav 5 D alone both go and lead. 
 
 Ephef. iv. 30. 
 Grieve not the Holj Spirit, &c. 
 
 AN! art thou grieved, fweetand facred Dove, 
 When I a in ibwr, 
 
 And crofs thy Love ? 
 Grieved for me? the God of Strength and Power 
 Griev'd for a Worm, which when I tread, 
 I .pals away and leave it dead ? 
 
 Then 
 
The CHVRCH. mj 
 
 Then weep mine Eyes,thejGod of Love clotli grieve : 
 Weep foofifh Heart, 
 And weeping live; 
 For Death is dry as Duft. Yet if ye part, 
 End as the Night, whofe fable Hue 
 Your Sins exprefs : melt into Dew, 
 
 When fawcy Mirth fhall knock or call at Door, 
 Cry out, Get hence, 
 Or cry no more. 
 Almighty God doth grieve,- lie puts on Senfe : 
 *" I tin not to my Grief alone, 
 But to my God's too; he doth groan. 
 
 O take thy Lute, and tune it to a Strain, 
 Which may with<hee 
 All day complain. 
 There can no Difcord but in ceafing be* 
 
 Marbles can weep ; and furely Strings 
 More Bowels have thanfuch hard Thnm ; 
 
 Lord, 1 adjudge my felf to Tears and Grief, 
 Ev'n endlefs Tears 
 Without Relief. 
 If a clear Spring for me no time forbears, 
 But runs, although I be not dry ; 
 I am no Cryftal, what fhall 1 ?' 
 
 Yet if I wail not ftill, fince ftill to waii 
 Nature denies ; 
 And Flefh would fail, 
 If my Deferts were Matters of mine Eyes ; 
 Lord, pardon, for thy Son makes good 
 My want of Tears with ftore of Blood. 
 
 f The 
 
130 The C HVRC H. 
 
 % The Tamil]. 
 
 ( Heart, 
 T T 7 Hat doth this Noife of Thoughts within my 
 V V As if they had a part ? 
 What do thefe loud Complaints and pulling Fears, 
 As if there were no Rule or Ears ? 
 
 But, Lord, the Houfe and Family are thine, 
 
 Though fomeofthem repine, 
 Turn out thefe Wranglers, which defile thy Seat : 
 For where theu dwelkit all is neat. 
 
 Firft, Peace and Silence all difputes controui, 
 
 Then Order plays the Soul ; 
 And giving all things their fet Forms and Hours, 
 " Makes of wildWcods fweet Walks and Bowers. 
 
 Humble Obedience near the Door doth ftand, 
 
 Expecting a Command : 
 Than whom in waiting nothing feems more flow, 
 Nothing more quick, when (he doth go* 
 
 Joys oft are. there, and Griefs as oft as Joys ; 
 
 But Grief's without a noife; 
 Yetfpeak they louder, than-diftemper'd Fears; 
 What is fo Quill as filent Tears ? 
 
 This is thy Houfe, with thefe it doth abound : 
 And where thefe are not found, 
 Perhaps thou com'ft fometimes, and for a day ; 
 But not to make a conftant itay- 
 
 f The 
 
The CHVRCH. 131 
 
 % The Size, 
 
 G 
 
 _ fOntent thee, greedy Heart. 
 Modeftaiw ate Joys JKTfchofo, that ha c 
 
 Title to more hereafter when they parr, 
 
 Are pailing br< 
 Let rh : upper Springs into the low 
 Defcend and fail, and thou doit I 
 
 What though fome have a fraught 
 Of Cloves and Nutmegs, and in Cinamon fail ? 
 ion haft wherewithal to fpicea Draught, 
 When Griefs prevail, 
 And tor the future rune art Heir 
 To the Ilk of Spices, is't not fair ? 
 
 To be in both Worlds full 
 Is more than God was, who was hungry here. 
 Wouldft thou his Laws of Fafting difannul ? 
 Enact good Ghear ? 
 Lay out thy Joy, yet hope to lave it ? 
 Wouldft thou both eat thy Cake, and have . 
 
 Great Joys are all at once ; 
 Eut little do referve themfelves for more : 
 Thofe have their hopes; thefe what they have r 
 And live on fcore : ' (nouiv 
 
 Thofe are at Home 5 thefe journey frill, 
 And meet the reft on Sion's Hill. 
 
 Thy Saviour fentenc \l Joy, 
 And in the Flefn condem\l it as unfit, 
 
 leaft in Lump ; for Inch doth oft deftrov,, 
 Whereas a bit 
 Doth tice us on to hopes of more, 
 And for the prsfent Health rcftpre. 
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132 The C HV R C H. 
 
 A Christian's State and Cafe 
 Is not a corpulent, but a thin and fpare, 
 Yet aftive Strength : Whole long and bony Face 
 Content and Care 
 Do feem to equally divide, 
 Like a Pretender, not a Bride. 
 
 Wherefore fit down good Heart 
 Grafp not at much, for fear thou lofeft all : 
 If Comforts feel according to defert, 
 
 They would great Frofts and Snows deftroy ; 
 
 For we fhouid count finee the laft Joy. 
 
 Then clofe again the Seam 
 Which then haft open'd^do not fpread thy Robe 
 In hope- of great Things. Call to mind thy Dream, 
 An earth:y Globe, 
 On whofe Meridian was engraven, 
 Ttejh Seas are Tears, and Hcavn the Haven. 
 
 A, 
 
 5T Artillery. 
 
 S I one Evening fat before my Cell, 
 ^Me-thoughts a Star did fhoot into my Lap. 
 I rofe and (hook my Clothes, as knowing well, 
 That from fmall Fires comes oft no finall Mifhap : 
 When fuddenly I heard one fay, 
 Do as thou ufefty difobey, 
 Expel good Motions from thy Ere aft, 
 Which have the Face of Fire, but end in Reft* 
 
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The C HV RC H. i^ 
 
 I, who had heard of Mufick in the Spheres, 
 But not of Speech in Stars, began to mufe: 
 1 But turning to my God, whofe Minifters 
 ,Jhe Stars and all Things are ; I f I refufe, 
 Dread Lord, fa id I, fo oft my good ; 
 Then I refufe not ev'n with Blood 
 To warn away my ftubborn Thought: 
 ' For I will do 9 or fairer what I ought. 
 
 ! But I have alfo Stars and Shooters too, 
 Born where thy Servants both Artilleries ufe. 
 My Tears and Prayers Night and Day do woe. 
 And work up to thc^ ; yet thou doit refufe. 
 Not but I am ( I rnuft fay ftill ) 
 "Much more obliged to do thy Will, 
 Than thou to grant mine : But becaufe 
 Thy Promife now hath ev'n fet thee thy Laws : 
 
 Then we are Shooters both, and thou doft deign 
 To enter Combat with us and conteft 
 With thine own Clay. But I would parley fain: 
 Shun not my Arrows, and behold my Breaft. 
 
 Yet if thou fhunneft, I am thine : 
 
 I muftbe fo, if I am mine. 
 There is no articling with thee : 
 I am but finite, yet thine infinitely. 
 
 G 2 f Church, 
 
1^4 The CHVRCH. 
 
 % Church Rents and Schifms. 
 
 B Rave Rofe, (alas !) where art thou ? in the Chair, 
 Where thou dictft lately fo triumph and fhine, 
 A Worm doth lit, whofe many Feet and Hair 
 Are the more foul the more thon art divine. 
 This, this hath done it, this did bite the Root 
 And bottom of the Leaves ; which when the Wind 
 Did once perceive, it blew them und-r Foot, 
 Where rude unhailow'd Steps do crulh and grind 
 Their beauteous Glories. Only Shreds ol Jiee, 
 And thofe all bitten, in thy Chair I fee. 
 
 Why doth my Mother bluft ? Is me the Rofe, 
 
 And mows it fo P Indeed ChrifVs precious Blood 
 Gave you a Colour once ; which when your Foes 
 Thought to let out, the bleeding did you good, 
 And made you look much frefher than before, 
 Bur-when Debates and fretting Jealoufies 
 Did worm and work within you more and more, 
 You: Colour faded, and Calamities 
 
 Turned your Ruddy into Pale and Bleak ; 
 
 Your Health and Beauty both began to break. 
 
 Then did you fev'ral parts unloofe and ftart: 
 Which when your Neighbours faw, likea North-wind 
 They rufhed in, and caft them in the Dirt 
 Where Pagans tread. O Mother dear and kind, 
 
 ere (hall I get me Eyes enough to w r eep, 
 As many Eyes as Stars? Since it is Night, 
 And much of Jfia and Europe faft afleep, 
 And ev'n ail Jjrich ; would at leaft I might 
 With thefe two poor ones lick up all the Dew, 
 ."Which falls by Night, and pour it out for you. 
 
 1 fufticc. 
 
The CHVRCH. 155 
 
 If 
 
 O Dreadful Tuftit E and Terror 
 
 11 of old, 
 ten Sin and Error 
 Did (hew . 1 me, 
 
 th^ir Gl ifi difcolour thee ! 
 Ke that did but ip, wa! ; 
 
 The Difhes of thy Balance feem'd to gape ? 
 
 L .'- eatPits; 
 
 . Ekain an 1 : : cape-' 
 Did like feme tortViag Engine Qr>w ; 
 
 Thy Hand abGve did burn and glow, 
 Danting the ftouteli Hearts, the proudeft Wits* 
 
 But «ow that Chr ill's pure Vail prefents the fight, 
 I fee no Fears : 
 Thy hand is white, 
 Thy Scales like Buckets, which attend - 
 And interchangeably defcend, 
 Lifting to Heaven from this Well of Tears. 
 
 For where before thou ftill didft call on me, 
 Now 1 ftill touch 
 . harp on thee. 
 God's Promiles have made thee mine i~ 
 Why (hould I Jttftice now decline ? 
 Againft me there is none, but for me much. 
 
 ^[ The Pit primage* 
 
 ITravelon, foing the Hill, where 
 My Expectation. 
 A long it Was and weary way. 
 The gloomy Cave of Defperation 
 
 . on th 3 one the other tide 
 
 The p r 
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i.%6 
 
 The C HVRC H. 
 
 And fo I came to Phancy's Meadows ftrow'd 
 With many a Flower : 
 Fain would I here have made Abode, 
 But I wasquickn'd by my Hour. 
 So to Care's Cops I came, and there got through 
 With much ado. 
 
 That led me to ths Wild of PafTion ; which 
 Some call the World; 
 A wafted Place, but fometimes rich. 
 Here I was robb'd of all my Gold, 
 Save one good Angel, which a Friend had ty'd 
 Clcfe to my fide. 
 
 At length I got unto the giadfome Hill, 
 
 Where lay my Heart ; and climbing frill, 
 When I had gain'd the brow and top, 
 
 A Lake of brackifh Waters on the Ground 
 Was all I found. 
 
 With that abaftuiand ftruck with many a Sting, 
 Of fwarming Fears* 
 I fell, and cry'd, Alas my King ! 
 Can both the way and end be Tears ? 
 Yet taking heart, I rofe, and then perceiv*4 
 I was deceived. 
 
 >4y Hill was further : So I Piur.z away^ 
 Yet heard a Cry 
 Juft as I Went, None goes that ivaj 
 And Jives \ if that be all, laid i, 
 After fo foul a Journey Death is fair, 
 And but a. Chair. 
 
 f The 
 
* TheCHVRCH. V37 
 
 f The Hold-fajt. 
 
 IThreatned {0 obferve the fweet Decree 
 Of my dear God with all my Power and Alight: 
 But I'was told by one it could not be; 
 Yet 1 might truft in God to be my Light. 
 
 Then will I truft, laid I, in him alone. 
 
 Nay, ev'n to truft in him, was alfo his: 
 We muft confefs that nothing is our own. 
 Then I confefs that he my Succour is* . 
 
 But to have nought is ours, not to confefs 
 
 That we have nought* I ftood amaz'd at this, 
 Much troubled, 'till I heard a Friend exprefs, 
 
 That all things were more ours by being his. 
 What Adam had, and forfeited for all, 
 Ckrift keepeth now, who cannot fail or fall. 
 
 ^f Complaining. 
 
 DO not beguile my Heart, 
 Becaufe thou art 
 My Power and Wifdom. Put me not to fhame, 
 Becaufe lam 
 Thy Clay that weeps, thy Duft that calls. 
 
 Thou art the Lord of Glory ; 
 The Deed and Story 
 Are both thy clue : But I a filly Fly, 
 That live or die, 
 According as thy Weather falls. 
 
 Art thou all Juftice, Lord ? 
 
 Shows not thy Word 
 More Attributes? Am I all Throat or Eye, 
 To weep or cry ? 
 Have I no Parts but thofe of Grief ? 
 
 G 4 Lev 
 
. 3 8 
 
 The C HV R C H. 
 
 Let not thy wrathful Power 
 Affiift my Hour, 
 My Inch of Life ; or let thy gracious Tower 
 Contract my Hour, 
 That I may climb and find Relief. 
 
 % The Difckarge. 
 
 Bllfy enquiring Heart, whatwouklft thou know ; v 
 Why doit thou pry, 
 And turn, and leer, and with a licorous Eye 
 Look high and low, 
 And in thy Lookings ftretch and grow ? 
 
 Haft thou not made thy Counts* and fumm'd up all ? 
 
 Did not thy Heart 
 Give up the whole, and with the whole depart ? 
 
 Let what will fall: 
 That which is paft who can recal ? 
 
 Thy Life is God's, thy Time to come is gone, 
 
 And is his Right. 
 He is thy Night at Noon : He is at Night 
 "Thy Neon alone. 
 The Crop is his, for he hath fown. 
 And well it was for thee, when this befel, 
 
 That Gcd did make 
 Thy Buiinels his, and in thy Life partake : 
 For thou caii'it cell, 
 If it be his once, all is well. 
 
 Only the prefent is thy part and fee. 
 
 And happy thou, 
 If, though thou didir not beat thy futuce Brow, 
 Thou couldft wel; fee 
 
 What present things reqiurV: of thee. 
 
 They 
 
The C HVRCH. 139 
 
 They ask enough ; why fhouklft thou further go ? 
 
 Raife not the Mud 
 Of future Depths, bur drink the clear and good. 
 
 Dig nor for Woe, 
 In Times to come ; for it will grow. 
 
 Man and thePrefent fit: If he provide, 
 
 He breaks the Square. 
 This Hour is mine ; If for the next I care, 
 
 I grow too wide, 
 And do incroach upon Death's lute : . 
 
 For Death each Hour environs and fur rounds* 
 
 He that would know 
 And care for future Chances, cannot go 
 
 Unto thofe Grounds, 
 But through a Church-yard which them be 
 
 Things prefent fhrink and die : But they that fpend 
 
 Their Thoughts and Senfe 
 On future Grief, do not remove it thence. 
 But it extend, 
 And draw the bottom out an end. 
 
 God chains the Dog. till Night ; Wilt loofe the Chai:i. 
 
 And wake thy Sorrow ? 
 Wilt thou foreftal it, and iiow grieve to Morrow. 
 And then again 
 Grieve over frefhly all thy Pain ? 
 
 Either Grief will not come \ or if It muii 
 
 Do not forecaft : 
 And while it cometh, it is almoft pafL 
 Away diftruft: 
 My God hath promis'd ; be is jutfe 
 
 G 5 H*tf&jfc. 
 
i 4 o The CH-JRC M. 
 
 % Praife. 
 
 King of Glory, King of Peace, 
 I will love thee : 
 And that Love may never ceafe, 
 I will move thee. 
 
 Thou haft granted my Requeft, 
 
 Thou haft heard me 
 Thou didft note my working Breaft, 
 
 Thou haft fpar'd me. 
 
 Wherefore with my utmoft Art 
 
 I will fing thee. 
 And the Cream of all my Heart 
 
 I wiU bring thee. 
 
 Though my Sins againft me cryed r 
 Thou didft clear me; 
 
 And alone, when they replyed, 
 Thou didft hear me. 
 
 Sev'n whole Days, not one In feven, 
 
 I will praife thee. 
 in my Heart, though not in Heaven, 
 
 I can raife thee. 
 
 Thou grew*ft foft and moift with Tears.. 
 
 Thou reientedft : 
 And when Jirftice call'd for Fears, 
 
 Thou dilTented-ft. 
 v 
 Small it is, in this poor fort 
 
 To enrol thee : 
 Ev'n Eternity is too fhorc 
 
 To extol thee. 
 
The C HVRC H. Ut 
 
 % An Offering. 
 
 COme, bring thy Gift, If Bleflings were as flow, 
 As Mens Returns, what would become of Fools ? 
 What haft thou there ? a Heart ? but is it pure ? 
 Search well and fee; for Hearts have many holes* 
 Yet one pure Heart is nothing to beftow ; 
 In Chrift two Natures met to be thy Cure. 
 
 O that within us Hearts had Propagation, 
 Since many Gifts do challenge many Hearts ! 
 Yet one, if good, may title to a number, * 
 And tingle things grow fruitful by Deferts. 
 la publick Judgments one may be a Nation, 
 And fence a Plague,while others deep and (lumber. 
 
 But all I fear is, left thy Heart difpleafe, ' 
 As neither good, nor one: So oft Divilions 
 Thy Luffs have made, and not thy Lu its alone y 
 Thy Paifions alfo have their kt Partitions. 
 Thefe parcel out thy Heart. Recover thefe, 
 And thou may' ft offer many Gifts in one. 
 
 There is a Balfam, or indeed a Blood, (clofe 
 
 Dropping from Heavn, which doth both cleanleand 
 All forts of Wounds ; of fuch ftrange force- it is. 
 Seek out this Ail-heal, and leek no Repoie, 
 Until thou find and ufe it to thy good \ 
 Then bring thy Gift, and let thy Hymn be this;' 
 
 Since my Sadnefs 
 Into Gladnefs,, . " ' ■"' 
 Lord, thou doft convert; 
 O accept 
 . What thou haft kept, 
 As thy due Defert. - • - • , .. 
 
 Had 
 
142 The CHVRCHi- 
 
 Had I many, 
 
 Had I any, 
 (For this Heart is none) 
 
 AH were thine 
 
 And none of mine, 
 Surely thine alone. 
 
 Yet thy Favour 
 
 May give favour 
 To this poor Oblation ; 
 
 And it raife 
 
 To be thy Praife, 
 And be my Salvation. 
 
 w, 
 
 f Longing. 
 
 * Itft nek and famifh'd Eyes, 
 With doubling Knees, and weary Bones> 
 To thee my Cries r 
 To thee my Grones, 
 To thee my Sighs> my Tears afcend : 
 
 No end i 
 
 My Throat my Soul k hoarfe ; 
 My Heart is withered like a Ground 
 Which thou do ft curfe. 
 My Thoughts turn round, 
 KnA make me giddy : Lord, I fall, 
 
 Yet cal!. 
 
 From thee all Pity flows. 
 Mothers are kind, becaufe thou art, 
 And doft difpofe 
 To them a part : * 
 
 'Their Infants them, and they feek thee 
 
 More free. 
 
 Bowels 
 
The CMVRCH. 
 
 Bowels cf pity, hear ! 
 Lord of my SouJ, Love of my miad, 
 Bow down thine Ear ! 
 Let not the Wind 
 Scatter my Words, and in the fame 
 
 Thy name S 
 
 Look on ray Sorrows round ! 
 Xfark well my Furnace ! O what Flames. 
 W r hat Heats abound ! 
 What Griefs, what Shames I 
 Confider, Lord ; Lord, bow thine Ear, 
 
 And hear i^ 
 
 Lordjefu, thou tiidft bow 
 Thy dying Head upon the Tree; 
 O be not now 
 More dead to me ! 
 Lord hear ! Shall he that made the Ear 
 
 Xot bear? 
 
 Behold, thy Duft doth ftir ; 
 It moves, it creeps, ir aims a: thee :- 
 Wilr thou defer 
 To fuccour me, 
 Thy pile of Duft, wherein each Crumb 
 Says, Come? 
 
 To thee help appertains* 
 Haft thou left all things to their courfe^ 
 And laid the Reins 
 Upon the Horfe ? 
 Is. all lockt ? Hath a Sinner's Plea 
 
 No Key ? 
 
 M? 
 
 Iadee 
 
i 4 4 rhe C HVRCH. 
 
 Indeed the World's thy Book, 
 Where all things have their Leaf aflign'd : 
 Yet a meek Look 
 Hath interlin'd. 
 Thy Board is full, yet humble Guefts 
 
 Findnefts. 
 
 Thou tarrieft, while I die, 
 And fall to nothing ;^thou doft reign, 
 And rule on high, 
 While I remain. 
 In bitter Grief: Yet am I ftil'd 
 
 Thy Child. 
 
 Lord, didftthou leave thy Throne, 
 Not to relieve ? How can it be. 
 That thou art grown 
 Thus hard to me ? 
 Were Sin alive, good caufe there were 
 
 To hear* 
 
 But now both Sin is dead, 
 And all thy Promifes live and bide : 
 That wants his Head ; 
 Thefe fpeak and chide, 
 And in thy Bofom pour my TearJ, 
 
 As theirs. 
 
 Lord JESIJ, hear my heart, 
 Which hath been broken now fo. long, 
 That: ev'ry part 
 Hath got a Tongue. 
 Thy Beggers grow * ? rid them away 
 
 To day. 
 
 My 
 
The CHVRCff. 145 
 
 My Love my fweetnefs hear, hear f 
 By thefe thy Feet,' at which my Heart 
 'Lies all the year, 
 Pluck out thy Dart, 
 And heal mv troubled Breaft, which cries, 
 
 Which dies. ■ 
 
 % The Bag. 
 
 AWay defpair ; my gracious Lord doth hear, 
 Though Winds and Waves afiault my keei„ 
 He doth preferve it: he doth freer, 
 Ev n when the Boat feems moft to reel. 
 Storm_s are the triumph of his Arc : 
 Well may he clofc his Eyes, but not his Heart. 
 
 Haft thou heard that my Lord JESUS di'd ? 
 Then lee me tell thee a ftfange Story. 
 The God of Power, as he did ride 
 In his majeftick Robes of Glory, 
 
 Refoiv'd to light : and (b one day 
 He did defcend, undreffing ail the way. 
 
 The Stars his tire of Light and Rings obtain'd* 1 
 The Cloud his Bow, the Fire his Spear, 
 The Sky his azure Mantle gain'd. 
 And when they ask t what he would wear; 
 He fmii'd, and (aid as he did go, 
 
 He had new Clothes a making here below* 
 
 When he was come, as Travellers are wont, 
 He did repair unto an Inn. 
 Both then and after, many a brunt 
 He did induce to cancel Sin : 
 
 And having given the reft before, 
 Here he gave up his Life to pay our Score. 
 
 But 
 
I4<$ 
 
 The CHVRCH. 
 
 But as he was returning, there came one 
 
 That ran upon him with a Spear. 
 
 He who came hither all alone, 
 
 Bringing nor Man, nor Arms, nor fear, 
 
 Received the Blow upon his Side, 
 And ftraight he turn'd, and to his Brethren cry'd 3 L 
 
 If ye have any thing to fend or write, 
 (I have no Bag, but here is room) 
 Unto my Father's Hands and Sight 
 (Believe me) it fhall fafely come. 
 That I fhall mind what you impart ; 
 
 Look, you may put it very near my Hearu 
 
 Or if hereafter any of my Friends 
 
 Will ufe me in this kind, the Door 
 Shall ftill he open ; what he fends 
 I will prefent, and fomewhat mere, 
 Not to his hurt. Sighs will convey 
 
 Any thing to me. Heaxk Defpair, away* 
 
 p. 
 
 % The Jews. 
 
 Oor Nation, whofe fweet Sap and Juice 
 Our Cyens have purloin'd, and left you dry ; 
 Whofe Streams we got by the ApoiHes iluce, 
 And ufe in Baptifm, while ye pine and die ; 
 Who by not keeping once, became a Debtor ; 
 And now by keeping lofe the Letter ; 
 
 O that my Prayers ! mine alas ! 
 Oh that fome Angel might a Trumpet found 1 
 At which the Church falling upon her Face 
 Should cry fo loud, until the Trump were drown'd, 
 And by that cry of her dear Lord obtain, 
 
 That your fweet Sap might come again ! 
 
 1 The 
 
The C HVRC H. 147 
 
 % The Collar. 
 
 IStn:ck the Toard, and cry'd, no more; 
 I will abroad. 
 What (hall I ever Sigh and Fine ? 
 
 ; nes and Lire are free ; free as the Road r 
 Lcole as the Wind, as large as Store. 
 
 Shall I be Jtill in Suit? 
 Have I no Harveft, bat a Thorn 
 To let me Blood, and not reftore 
 What I have ioft with Cordial Ftliit ? 
 Sure there was W 7 ine, 
 Before my Sighs did dry it ; There tf&s Com r 
 
 Before my Tears did drown it. 
 Is the Year only loft to me ? 
 
 Have I no Bays to crown it ? 
 No Flowers, no Garlands gay? all blafted ? 
 All wafted? 
 Not fo ? my Heart: but there is Fruit, 
 And thou haft Hands. 
 Recover all thy figh-blown Age 
 On double Pieafufes; Leave thy cola Dlfputfc 
 Of what is fit, and not forfake thy Cage, 
 
 Thy Rope of Sands, 
 W r hich petty Thoughts have made.and made to thee 
 Good Cable, to enforce and draw, 
 And be thy Law, 
 While thou didft wink and wouldft not fee. 
 Away ; take heed ; 
 I will abroad, 
 Call in thy D^athVhead there : Ty up thy Fears,, 
 He that forbears 
 To fuic and ferve his need, 
 Deferves his load. 
 But as I rav'd and grew more fierce and wild. 
 At every word, 
 MethoughtsI heard one calling, Child y 
 And I reply'd, Mj Lord*. The 
 
148 The C HVRC H. 
 
 % The Glimpfe. 
 
 V V Hither away Delight ? 
 Thou "cam' ft but now ; wilt thou fo foon depart, ^ 
 
 And give me up to Night ? 
 For many Weeks of ling'ring pain and fmart 
 Eut one half hour of comfort for my Heart 'i 
 
 Methinks delight fhould have 
 More Skill in Mufick, and keep better Time. 
 
 Wert thou a Wind or Wave,. 
 They quickly go and come with lefTer Crime : 
 Flowers look about, and die not in their prime. 
 
 Thy Lhort abode and ftay 
 Feeds not, but adds to the defire of Meat* 
 
 Lime begg'd of old (they fay) 
 A Neighbour fpring to cool his inward heat ; 
 W 7 hich by the Springs accefs grew much more great - * 
 
 In hope of thee my Heart 
 Pickt here and there a Crumb, and would not die 5 
 
 But conftant to his part, 
 When as my Fears foretold this, did reply, 
 A (lender Thread a gentle Gueft will t-y. 
 
 Yet if the Heart that wept 
 Muft let thee go, return when it doth knock, 
 
 Although thy heap be kept 
 For future times, the droppings of the ftock 
 May oft break forth, and never break the lock* 
 
 If I have more to fpin, 
 The Wheel (hall go, fo that thy ftay be fhort. . 
 
 Thou know'ft how Grief and Sin 
 Difturb the work. O make me not their fport, 
 Who by thy coming may be made a Court 1 
 
o 
 
 The CHVRCH. 149 
 
 ^[ Jffurdnce. 
 
 Spiteful bitter Thought ! 
 Bitterly fpiteful Thought! Couldft thou invent 
 So high a Torture ? Is fuch Poyfon bought ? 
 Doubtlefs, but in the way of punifnment, 
 When W it contrives to meet with thee 7 
 No fuch rank Poyfon can there be. 
 
 Thou faid'ft but even now, 
 That all was not fo fair as I conceiv'd, 
 Betwixt my God and me ; that I allow r 
 And coin large hopes: But that I was deceircl; 
 " Either the League was broke, or near it 5 
 And that I had great caufe to fear it. 
 
 And what to this? What more 
 Could Poyfon, if it had a Tongue, exprefs ? 
 What is" thy aim ? Wouklft thou unlock the Door 
 To cold Defpairs and gnawing Penfivenefs ? 
 
 W 7 ouldft thou raife Devils ? I fee, I know, 
 
 I writ thy Purpofe long ago. 
 
 But I will to my Father, 
 Who heard thee fey i:. O moft graciotft Lord, 
 If all the Hope and Comfort that [ gather, 
 Were from my felf, I had not half a Word, 
 
 Not half a Letter to oppcfe 
 
 W ha: is objected by my Fees. 
 
 But thou art my Defert ; 
 And in this League, which now my Foes invade, 
 Thou art not only to perform thy part, 
 But alio mine ; As when the League was made, 
 Thou die! ft an once thy felf endite, 
 And hold my Hand, while 1 did write. 
 
5 o 
 
 The CHVRCtt 
 
 Wherefore if thou cinftfail, 
 Then can thy Truth and I : But while Rocks ftand,| 
 And Rivers itir, thou canft not (brink or quail : 
 Yea, when both Rocks and all Things (hall disband,! 
 
 Then (halt then be my Rock and Tower, . 
 
 And make their Ruin praile thy power. 
 
 Now fooli:h Thought go on, 
 Spin out thy Thread, and make thereof a Coat 
 To hide thy (hame: For thou haft caft a Bone, 
 Which bounds on thee^and will not down thy Throat. 
 What tor h felf Love once began, 
 Nov/ Love and Truth will end in Mafii 
 
 f The Call. 
 
 COme, my Way, my Truth, my Life : 
 Such a Way, as gives us breath ; 
 Such a Truth, as ends all ftrife ; 
 Such a Life as killeth death. 
 
 Come-, my Light, my Feaft, my Strength ; 
 Such a Light, as (hows a Feaft : 
 Such a Feaft, as mends in length : 
 Such a Strenghth, as makes his Gueft. 
 
 Come my Joy, my Love, my Heart : 
 Such a Joy, as none can move ; 
 Such a Love, as none can part: 
 Such a Heart, as joys in love* 
 
 \CUfang 
 
The CHVKCH. 151 
 
 % C/afpiffg of Hands. 
 
 LOrd, thou art mine, and I am chine, 
 If mine I am ; And thine much more, 
 Then I or ought, or can be mine. 
 Yet to be thine, doth me reftore ; 
 So that again I now am mine, 
 And with advantage mine the more : 
 Since this being mine, brings with it thine. 
 And thou with me doft thee reftore. 
 
 If I without thee would be mine, 
 
 I neither mould be mine nor thine. 
 
 Lord, I am thine, and thou art mine. 
 
 So mine thon art, that fomething more 
 
 I may prefume thee mine, than thine. 
 
 For thou did ft " differ to reftore 
 
 Not thee, but me, and to be mine: 
 
 And with advantage mine the more, 
 
 Since thou in Death waft none of thine, 
 
 Yet then as mine didft me reftore. 
 O be mine ftill ! Still make me thine f 
 Or rather make no Thine and Mine ! 
 
 IT Praife. 
 
 LOrd, I will mean and fpeak thy Praife, 
 Thy Praife alone. 
 My bufy Heart fhall fpin it ail my days: 
 And when it ftops for want of ftore,- 
 Then will I wring it with a Sigh or Groan, 
 That thou mayft yet have more. 
 
 When 
 
1 52 The CHVRCH. 
 
 When thou doft favour any Aftion, 
 It runs, it rlies ; 
 All Things concur to give it a Perfection, 
 
 That which had but two Legs before, (rife 
 When thou doft blefs, hath twelve : one Wheel doth- \[\\i 
 To twenty then, or more. 
 
 But when thou doft on Bufinefs blow, 
 It hangs, it clogs : 
 Not all the Teams of Albion in a row 
 
 Can heal or draw it out of Door. 
 Legs are but Stumps,and PbaraoFs Wheels but Logs, 
 And ftrugling hinders more. 
 
 Thoufands of Things do thee imploy 
 In ruling all 
 This fpacious Globe: Angels muft have their Joy, 
 
 Devils their Rod, the Sea his Shore, 
 The Winds their ftint ; and yet when I did call, 
 Thou heardft my Call, and more. 
 
 I have not loft one fingle Tear : 
 
 But when mine eyes 
 Did weep to Heav'n, they found a Bottle there 
 
 (As we have Boxes for the Poor) 
 Ready to take them in, yet of a fize 
 ' That would contain much more. 
 
 But after thou hadft dipt a Drop 
 
 From thy right Eye, 
 (Which there did hang like Streamers near the top ./ 
 
 Of fome fair Church, to fhow the fore 
 And bloody Battel which thou once didft try) 
 The Glafs was full and more. 
 
 ■ - Where- 
 
The C HVRC H. 155 
 
 Wherefore I fing. Yet fince my heart, 
 
 Though prefe'd, runs thin \ 
 
 O that I might fome other Hearts convert, 
 And to take up at life good itore; 
 
 That to thy Chefts there might be coming in 
 Both all my Praife, and more ! 
 
 ir y«#*'s coat. 
 
 T X TOundedl fing, tormented I endite, 
 V V Thrown down I fall into a Bed, and reft : 
 Sorrow hath chang'd its Note : fiich is his will, 
 Who changeth all things as him pleafeth heft. 
 
 For well he knows, if but one Grief and Smart 
 Among my many had his full Career, 
 Sure it would carry with it ev'n my Heart, 
 And both would run until they found a Bier 
 
 To fetch the Body y both being due to Grief. 
 But he hath fpoil'd the Race, and given to Anguifh 
 One of Joy's Coats, tiring it with Relief 
 To linger in me, and together languid]. 
 
 I live to (hew his Power, who once did bring 
 
 My $ojs to weep, and now my Griefs to fwg 7 
 
 Wi 
 
 % The Pulley. 
 
 Hen God at firft made Man, 
 Having a GlaS of Blefling ftanding by ; 
 Let us (faid he) pour on him all we can : 
 Let the World's Riches, which difperfed ly, 
 Contract into a Span. 
 
 So 
 
154 7ht C HV RC H. 
 
 So Strength firft made away : 
 Then Beauty iiow ? d,then Wifdom.Konaur/Pleafure; 
 Whenalmoit all was out, God made a ftay, 
 Perceiving that alone of all his Treafure 
 
 Reft in the Bottom lay. 
 
 For if I fhould (faid he) 
 Beftow this Jewel aifo on my Creature, 
 He would adore my Gifts inftead of me, 
 And reft in Nature, noc the God of Nature : 
 
 So both fnould Loiers be. 
 
 Yet let him keep the reft, 
 But keep them with repining Reftlefnefs : 
 Let him be Rich and Weary, that at lealx," 
 If Goodnefs lead him not, yet Wearinefs 
 
 May tofs him to my Breaft. 
 
 % The Frieftbood. 
 
 BLeft Order, which in Power doit fo exc^l, 
 That with th'one Hand thou lifteit to the Sky, 
 And with the other throweft down to Hell 
 In thy juft Cenfures ; fain would I draw nigh, 
 Fain put. thee on, exchanging my Lay-fword 
 For that of the holy Word. 
 
 But thou art Fire, lacred and hallow'd Fire ; 
 And I but Earth and Clay : Should I prefume 
 To wear thy Habit, the levere attire 
 My llender Compoiitions might con fume. 
 I "am -both Foul and brittle, much unfit 
 To deal in holy Writ. 
 
 Yet 
 
The CHVRCH. 155 
 
 Yet have I often feen, by cunning Hand 
 And force of Fire, what curious Things are made 
 Of wretched Earth. Where once I fcorn'd to ftand^ 
 That Earth is fitteft by the Fire and Trade 
 Of skilful Artifts, for the Boards of thofe 
 Who make the braveft (hows. 
 
 But fince thofe great ones, be they ne're fo great, 
 Come from theEarch,from whence thofeVeffels come. 
 So that at once both Feeder, Difh, and Meat, 
 Have one beginning and one final Sum; 
 I do not greatly wonder at the fight, 
 If Earth in Earth delight. 
 
 But th 5 Holy Men of God fach Veffeisare, 
 As ferve him up, who all the World commands ; 
 When God vouchfafeth to become our Fare, 
 Their Hands convey him, who conveys their Hands; 
 O what pure Things, moft pure muft thofe Things be, 
 Who bring my God to me ! 
 
 Wherefore I dare not, I, put forth my Hand 
 To hold the Ark, although it feem to fhake 
 Through th' old Sins and new Doftrines of our Land* 
 Only, fince God doth often Yeffels siake 
 Of lowly Matter for high Ufes meet, 
 I throw me at his Feet. 
 
 There will I lie, until my Maimer feek 
 For fome mean Stuff whereon to (how his Skill: 
 Then is my Time. The diliance of the Meek 
 Doth flatter Power. Left Good come fhort of I If 
 In praifing might, the Poor do by Submiiaon, 
 What Pride by Oppofition. 
 
 H The 
 
156 TheC HV R C HI 
 
 % The Search. 
 
 W Hither, O whither art thou fled, 
 My Lord, my Love > 
 My Searches are my daily Bread ; 
 
 Yet never prove. 
 
 My Knees pierce th' Earth, mine Eyes the Skvi 
 And yet the Sphere 
 
 And Centre both to me deny 
 
 That thou art there. 
 
 Yet can I mark how Herbs below 
 
 Grow green and say : 
 
 As if to meet thee they did know, 
 While I decay. 
 
 Yet can I mark how Stars above 
 
 Simper and fhine 5 
 
 As having Keys unto thy Love, 
 
 While poor Tpine* 
 
 I fent a Sigh to feek thee out, 
 
 Deep drawn in Pain, 
 
 Wing'd like an Arrow : But my Scout 
 Returns in vain. 
 
 I turn'd another (having ftore) 
 
 Into a Groan, 
 Becaufe the Search was dumb before : 
 
 But all was one. 
 
 Lord, do ft thou fome new Fabrick mold 
 Which Favour wins, 
 
 -And keeps thee prefeht, leaving th 5 • 
 Unto their Sins ; 
 
The CHVRC H. 157 
 
 Where is my God ? What hidden place 
 " Conceals thee ftill ? 
 What Covert dare eclipfe thy Face ? 
 Is it thy Will ? 
 
 O let not that of any thing : 
 
 Let rather Brafs, 
 Or Steel, or Mountains be thy Ring, 
 
 And I will pals* 
 
 Thy Will fuch an intrenching is-, 
 
 As paffeth Thought ; 
 
 To it all Strength, all Subtilties 
 
 Are Things of nought. 
 
 Thy Will fuch a ftrange diftance is, 
 
 As that to it 
 . Eaft and W r eft touch, the Poles do kifs, 
 
 And Parallels meet, 
 
 Since then my Grief muft be as large, 
 
 As is thy Space, 
 Thy diftance from me ; fee my charge, 
 
 Lord, fee my Cafe. 
 
 O take thefe Bars, thefe Lengths away ; 
 
 Turn and reftore mc ; 
 Be not Almighty, let me fay, 
 
 Againft hut forme* 
 
 When thou doft turn, and wilt be near; 
 
 What Edge fo keen^ 
 What Point fo piercing can appear 
 
 To come between ? 
 
 For as thy Abfence doth excel 
 
 All diftance known. 
 
 So doth my nearnefs bear the Bell; 
 Making two one 
 
 H 2 * amp 
 
15 s The C HV RC H, 
 
 ^[ Grief. 
 
 OWho will give me Tears ? Come all ye Springs, 
 Dwell in my Head and Eyes : Come Clouds and 
 IMy Grief hath need of all the watry things, (Rain ; 
 That Nature hath produc'd. Let every Vein 
 5uck up a River to fupply mine Eyes, 
 IsAy weary weeping Eyes too dry for me, 
 XInlefs they get new Conduits, new Supplies, 
 To bear them out, and with my State agree. ! 
 What are two fhallow Fords, two little Spouts 
 Of a lefs World ? The greater is but fmall, 
 A narrow Cupboard for my Griefs and Doubts, 
 Which want Provision in the inidft of all. 
 "Verfes, ye are too fine a thing, too wife 
 For my rough' Sorrows ; ceafe, be dumb and mute, 
 % Give up your Feet and running to mine Eyes, 
 * And keep your Meafures for fome Lover's Lute, 
 Whole Grief allows him Mufickand a Rhyme: 
 for mine excludes both Meafure, Tune and Time. 
 Alas, my God ! 
 
 w. 
 
 ^[ The ( 
 
 Hat is this ftra uncouth thing ! 
 
 To make me figh, and k faint and dy, 
 
 liere I might fingj 
 And fcrve the 
 JJut all nr, Wc C combine 
 
 aj>, as our Ds 
 
 
The CHVRCH. 159 
 
 And then, when after much delay, 
 Much wreftling, many a Combate, this clear end* 
 So much defir'd, is giv'n, to take away 
 
 My Power to fcrve thee ; to unbend* 
 All my Abilities, my Deiigns confound, 
 And lay my Threatnings bleeding on the Grounds 
 
 One Ague dwelleth in my Bones, 
 Another in my Soul (the Memory 
 What I would do for thee, if once my Groans 
 
 Could be allow'd for Harmony) 
 I am in all a weak difabled Thing/ 
 Save in the Sight thereof, where Strength doth fting.- 
 
 Befides, things fort not to my Will, 
 Ev'n when my Will doth ftudy thy Renown : 
 Thou turn'ft th' Edge of all things on me frilly 
 
 Taking me up to throw me down : 
 So that, ev'n when my Hopes feem to be fped 
 I am to Grief alive, to them as dead* 
 
 To have my Aim, and yet to be 
 Farther from it than when i bent my Bow : 
 To make my Hopes my Torture, and the Fee 
 
 Of all my Woes another Woe, 
 Is in the midft of Delicates to need, 
 And ev'n in Paradiie to be a Weed. 
 
 Ah my dear Father, eafe my Smart t 
 There Contrarieties cmfh me £thefe crofs Aftions- 
 I>o wind a Rope about, and cut my Heart: 
 
 And yet fince thefe thy Contradictions 
 Are properly a Crofs felt by thy Son, 
 
 . my words, Tbf will be done ? 
 
 H 3 ^ Tk* 
 
i6o The CHV RCH> 
 
 B 
 
 % The Flower. 
 
 J.O-W frefh, O Lord, how fweet and clean 
 Are thy Returns-! Ev'n as the FlowVs in Spring; 
 
 To which, befides their own Demean, 
 The late-paft Frofts, Tributes of Pleafure bring.. 
 Grief melts away 
 Like Snow in May, 
 As if there were no fuch cold thing. 
 
 Who would have thought my fliriv'ld Heart 
 Could have recovered Greennefs ? It was gone 
 Quite under Ground, as Flow'rs depart 
 To fee their Mother-root, when they have blown ; 
 Where they together 
 All the hard Weather 
 Dead to the World, keep Houfe unknown. 
 
 Thefe are thy Wonders, Lord of Power, 
 Killing and quickening, bringing down to Hell 
 
 And up to Heav'n in an Hour ; 
 Making a chiming of a Pafling-BelK 
 We fay amifs, 
 This or that is : 
 Thy word is all, if we would fpell, 
 
 O that I once paft changing were, 
 Fail in thy Paradife, where no Flow'r can wither ! 
 
 Many a Spring I (hot up fair, 
 Offring at Heav'n, growing and groaning thither ; 
 Nor doth my Flower 
 Want a Spring-fhower, 
 My Sins and I joyning together. 
 
 But 
 
The C HV RC H. 161 
 
 But while I grow in a ftraight Line : 
 St HI. upwards bent, as if Heav'n were mine own, 
 
 Thy Anger comes, and I decline: 
 What Ftoft to that ? What Pole is not the Zone 
 Where all things burn, 
 W T hen thou doft turn, 
 And the leaft Frown of thine is fliown? 
 
 And now in Age I bud again, 
 After lb many Deaths I live and write, 
 
 I once more fmell the Dew and Ram,, 
 And relilh veriingv O my only Light, 
 It cannot be 
 That I am he, 
 On whom thy Tetnpefts fell all Night* 
 
 Theie are thy wonders, Lord of Love, 
 To make us fee we are but Flow'rs that glide; 
 
 Which when we once can find and prove* 
 "Thou haft a Garden for us, where to bide. 
 Who would be more* 
 Swelling through ftore, 
 Forfeit their Paradife by their Pride* 
 
 f Dotage. 
 
 FAlfe glozing Pleafures, Casks of Happinefs, 
 Foolifh Night-fires, Womens and Chiidrens 
 t>nafes in Arras, gilded Emptinefs, 
 Shadows well mounted, Dreams i-n a Care e r, 
 Embroyder'd Lyes, nothing between two Dirties;. 
 Theie are the Pleafures here. 
 
 True earneft Sorrows, rooted Miferies, 
 Anguifh in Grain, Vexations ripe and blown, 
 
 -footed Griefs, (olid Calamities, 
 Plain Demonftratfens, evident and clear, 
 Touching their ProoFs.ev*n from the very Bone; 
 Theie are the Sorrows here* 
 
 H 4 But 
 
i6 2 The CHVRCH. 
 
 But O the Folly of diftrafted Men, 
 Who 'Griefs in earneit, Joys in jeft purfue ; 
 Preferring, like brute Beafts, a loathfome Dea 
 Before a Court, ev'n that above fo clear, 
 Where. are no Sorrows, but Delights more true 
 Than Miferies are here ! 
 
 f The Son. 
 
 T Et Foreign Nations of their Language boaft r 
 Ly What fine Variety each Tongue affords ; 
 I like our Language, as our Men and Coaft : 
 Who cannot drefs it well, want Wit, not Wards- 
 How neatly do we give the only Name 
 To Parents Iffue and the Sun's bright Star ! 
 A Son is Light and Fruit ; a fruitful Flame 
 Chafing the Father's Dimnefs, carry'd far 
 From the firft Man in th' Eaft, to frelh and new 
 Weftern Difcoveries of Pofteri'ty. 
 So in one word, our Lord's Humility 
 We turn upon him in a Senfe moft true: 
 For what Chrift once in Humbleneis began, 
 We him in glory call, The Son of Man* 
 
 % A true Hjmn. 
 
 , ^Y Joy, my Life, my Crown ! 
 My Heart was meaning all the day, 
 
 Somewhat it fain would fay: 
 And ftill it runneth muttring up and down 
 With only this, My $oy y my Life, mjt Crown! 
 
 Yet 
 
 
The CHVRCH. 163 
 
 Yet flight not thefe few words ; 
 If truly laid, they may take part 
 
 Among the belt in Art. 
 The finenefs which a Hymn or Pfalm affords,. 
 Is, when the Soul unto the Lines accords. 
 
 He who craves all the Mind, 
 And all the Soul, and Strength, and Time,, 
 
 If the words only rhyme, 
 Juftly complains, that fomewhat is behind 
 To make his Verfe, or write a Hymn in kind^ 
 
 Whereas if the Heart be mov'd, 
 Although the Verfe be fomewhat leant, 
 
 God doth fupply the Want: 
 As when th' Heart fays (fighingto be approv'd) 
 C, could Hove! and flops ; God writeth, Lov'd.* 
 
 % The Anfwer* 
 
 MY Comforts drop and melt away like Snow :. 
 I fh'ake my head, and all.the thoughts and ends ?v 
 Which my fierce Youth did bandy, fall and flow 
 Like Leaves about me, or like Summer Friends, 
 Flies of Eftates and -Sunfhine. But to all. 
 Who think me eager, hot and undertaking,. 
 But in my Profecutions flack and fmall , . 
 As a young Exhalation, newly waking, 
 Scorns his firft Bed of Dirt, and means the Sky j.; 
 Bfet cooling by the way, grows purfy and flow, 
 And fettling to a Cloud, doth live and die - 
 In that dark State of Tears: To all, that To . 
 
 Show me, and fet me, I have one reply,. 
 Which tbey that know the reft, know more than I; 
 
 H.5 %MH- 
 
1 64 rhe CHVRCIT. 
 
 % Dialogue- Anthem. 
 
 Cbriftidtu Death. 
 
 Cbr* \ Las poor Death* where is thy Glory ? 
 
 jTx Where is thy famous for ce,thy ancient fting p 
 
 Dea. Alis, poor Morula void of Story! 
 
 Gofpell and re id how I have HIT A thy King* 
 
 Chr. Poor Death ! and who was hurt thereby ? 
 
 Thy Curfe being laid on him makes thee accurft. 
 
 I>ea. Let Lofers tdJk f yet thoujhalt die ; (worfh- 
 
 Theft Arntsfoallcrufr thee* Chr. Spare not, do thy 
 I fhall be one day better than before: 
 Thoufo much worfe, that thou (halt be no more- 
 
 «[ The Warer-Courfe. 
 
 ^TT^Hou who dolt dwell and linger here below, 
 | Since the Condition of this World is frail, 
 Where of all Platfts, Affliction fooneftgrow : 
 Jff Troubles overtake thee, do not waif: 
 
 {Life? 
 Strife ? 
 
 But rather turn the Pipe and Waters-Courfe 
 To ferve thy Sins, aBiffuraifk thee with ftore 
 Or Sovereign Tears, Ipringing from true ILemc 
 That fo in Purenefs thou may "it him adore., 
 
 ^Salvation. 
 
 C Damnation. 
 
 Who gives to Mao, as he fees fu,< 
 
 ^Da.T.: 
 
 1 Sel: : 
 
The CHuRCK i*$ 
 
 % Self -Condemnation. 
 
 X Hou who condemneft Jewifh hate,. 
 For chuiing Bat&bbas a Murderer 
 
 Before the Lord of Glory ; 
 Look back upon thine own Eitate, 
 Call home thine Eye (that bufy Wanderer) 
 
 That Choice may be thy Story. 
 
 He that doth love, and love amifs, 
 This World's Delights before true Chriftian Joy* 
 Hath made a Jewifh Choice : 
 The World an ancient Murderer is \ 
 Thoufands of Souls it hath and doth deftroy 
 With her enchanting Voice. 
 
 He that hath made a forry Wedding 
 Between his Soul and Gold, and hath preferred: 
 Falfe Gain before the true, 
 Hath done what he condemns in readings 
 For he hath fold for Money his dear Lord, 
 And is a Judas-Jew. 
 
 Thus we prevent the laft great day, 
 And judge our feives. That Light which Sin and 
 Did before dim and choak, (Paflioa 
 
 When once thofe Snuffs are ta'n away, 
 Shines bright and clear, ev'nunto Condemnation* 
 Without Excufe or Cloak. 
 
 % Bitter-Smet. 
 
 AH my dear angry Lord ! 
 Since thou doll love, yetftrike;. 
 Call down, yet help afford;- 
 Sure I will do the like, 
 
1 66 The CHVKCH. 
 
 I will complain, yetpraife; 
 I. will bewail, approve : 
 And all my fowre-fweet Days 
 I will lament, and love. 
 
 Wi 
 
 % The Glance. 
 
 Hen firft thy fweet and gracious Eye 
 "VouchfaPd ev'n in the'midft of Youth and Night. 
 To look upon me, who before did lie. 
 Wehxing in Sin:. 
 I felt a fugar'd ftrange Delight, 
 Pafling all Cordials made by any Art, 
 Bedew, embalm, and over-run my Heart*. 
 And- take it in ;. 
 
 Since that time many a bitter Storm 
 My Soul hath felt, ev'n able to deftroy, 
 Had the malicious and ill-meaning Harm 
 His fwing and fway : 
 But ftill thy fweet original Joy, 
 Sprung from thine Eye,, did work within my Soul, 
 And furging Griefs, when they grew bold, controul,, 
 And, got thQ day... 
 
 s If thy.firft. Glance fo powerful be, 
 A Mirth but open'd, and feal'd up again ; 
 What Wonders fhall we feel, when we (hall. fee 
 Thy fuft-ey'd Love ! 
 When thou (halt look us out of Pain, 
 'And : one Afpeit of thine fpend in -Delight 
 $iore than a thoufand Suns disburfe in Light 
 In Heav'n above !. 
 
 % 7k. 
 
The C HVRC K. t&ji 
 
 % The 23 P£alm~ 
 
 THE God of Love my Shepherd is,.. 
 And he that doth me iced. 
 While he is mine, and I am his, 
 
 What can I want or need ?• 
 
 He leads me to the tender Grafs, 
 
 Where 1 both feed and reft ; 
 Then- to the Streams that gently pafs : 
 
 In both I have the befr. 
 
 Or if I irray, he doth convert, 
 And b r i n g m y M i n d i n fr am e ; 
 And. ail this not for my deiert, 
 But for his holy Name. 
 
 Yea, In Death's fliaclv black Abode 
 
 Well may I walk, not fear : 
 For thou art with me, and thy II 
 
 To guide, thy R'aff to bear,. 
 
 Nay, thou doft make me fit andfdine, 
 
 E v n in m y E n : mies fig] 
 "My Head with Oyl, my Cup with Wine • 
 
 Runs over Dav and Night, 
 
 Surely thy \wz~et and .vvond'rous Love 
 
 Shall meafure all my Days : 
 And as it never (hall remove, 
 
 So .neither dull my Praife. 
 

 i68 The C HVRC Hi 
 
 % Mary Magdalen. 
 
 T \ 7 Hen bleffed Mary wip'd her Saviour's Feet, 
 V V (Whofe Precepts (be had trampled on before) 
 And wore them for a Jewel on her Head : 
 Shewing his Steps fhould be the Street, 
 Wherein (he thenceforth evermore 
 Wkh penfive Humblenefs would live and tread : 
 
 She being ftain'd her felf, why did fhe ftrive 
 To make him clean, who could not be denTd ? 
 Why kept (he not her Tears for her own Faults^ 
 
 And not his Feet ? Though we could dive 
 
 In Tears like Seas, our Sins are pifd 
 Deeper than they>in words, and works,and thoughts- 
 Dear Soul, fhe knew who did vouchfafe and deign 
 To bear her filth ; and that her Sins diddafh 
 Ev'n God himfelf: Wherefore fhe was not loth, 
 
 As fhe had brought wherewith to ttain, 
 
 So to bring, in wherewith to wafh : 
 And yet in wafhing one, fhe waiheth both. 
 
 % Aaron. 
 
 JTXOfeiefi on the Head ; 
 Light and Perfections on the Breaft, 
 Harmonious Bells below, raifing the Dead, 
 To lead them unto Life and Reft \ 
 
 Thus are trae Jarons dreft. 
 
 Profanenefs in my Head, 
 Defefts and Darknefs in my Breaft, 
 A noife of PafFions ringing me for dead 
 Unto a Place where is no reft ; 
 Poor Prieftthus am I dreft. 
 
 Only 
 
The CHURCH. i6 9 
 
 Only another Head 
 I have, another Heart and Breaft, 
 Another Mulick, making live, not dead. 
 Without whom I could have no teft. 
 In him I am well dreft. 
 
 Chrift is ray only Head, 
 
 My alone only Hear: and Breaft, 
 
 My only Mufick, ftriking me e'en dead : 
 
 That' to the old Man I may reft, 
 
 And be in him new dreft. 
 
 So holy in my Head,. 
 Perfeft and light in my dear Breaft, 
 ^ly Doftrine tun'd by Chrift, (who is not dead,. 
 ' But lives In me while I do reft ) 
 Come Peopie, Aaron" % dreft. 
 
 % The Odour. 2 Cor. 2. 
 
 HOw ftreetfy doth My Mafter found, Mj M after f 
 As Ambergrice leaves a rich Scent 
 Unto the Tafter : 
 So doth thefe Words a fweet Content, 
 An oriental Fragrancy, !AjNLaftcr m 
 
 With thefe ail day I do perfume my Mind, 
 My Mind ev'n thruft into them borh j 
 
 That I might find 
 What Cordials make this curious Broth, 
 
 This Broth of fmells, that feeds and fats my Mind* 
 
 fcagffer, (hall I fpeak ? O that to thee 
 Servant were a little fo, 
 As Flefh may be : 
 That thefe two Words might creep and grow 
 To ibinc degree of Spicmefs unto thee £ 
 
 Then: 
 
17 o The CHVRCH. 
 
 Then fhould the Pomander, which was before 
 A {peaking Sv^eet, mend by Reflection, 
 
 And tell me more : 
 For pardon of my. Imperfection 
 
 Would warm and work it fweeter than before. . 
 
 For when My Mafter,. which alone is fweet, 
 And ev'n in my Unworthinefspleaiing, 
 
 Shall call and meet. 
 My Servant, as thee not difpleafing ; 
 
 That Call is but the breathing of the fweet. 
 
 This Breathing would with Gains by fweetning me 
 (As fweet Things traffick when they meet) 
 
 Return to thee, 
 And fo this new Commerce and fweet- 
 
 Shou.ld.all my Life, employ and bufy me. 
 
 f The Foil., 
 
 J_F we could fee below 
 The Sphere, of Vertue, and each.fhining Grace 
 
 As plainly as that above doth (how ; 
 This were the better Sky, the brighter Place. 
 
 God hath made Stars the foil 
 To ^et off Vermes, Griefs to fet off finning ; 
 
 Yet in this wretched World we toil, 
 As if Grief were net foul, nor Vertue winning,. 
 
 ^| The. Forerunners m .. 
 
 THE Harbingers are come. See, fee their Mark 
 White is their colour, and behold my Head. 
 But mult they have my Brain ? muft they difpark 
 Thofe fparkling Notions, which therein were bred? 
 
 Mu.fr dulnefs turn me to a Clod ? 
 Y.etJuye they left me. Thou artftillmjf-God* 
 
 Good, 
 
The C HVR C H. r 7 r 
 
 Good Men ye be, to leave me my beft Room, 
 Ev'n all my Heart, and what is lodged there ; 
 
 pafs not, I, what of the reft become, 
 ' ru >:rtftil! ray Go\, be out of fear. 
 
 He will be pteafed with that dirty ; 
 And if I pleafe him, I write fine and wirty. 
 
 Farewel fweet Phrafes, lovely Metaphors: 
 But will you leave me thus ? when ye before 
 Of Stews and Brothels only knew the Doors, 
 Then did I wafh you with my Tears, and more, 
 Brought you to Church well drefr, and clad I 
 My God mull, have my beft, ev'n ail I had. 
 
 Lovely enchanting Language, Sugar-cane, 
 Honey of Rofes, whither wilt thou fly ? 
 Hath fome fond Lover tic'd thee to thy bane ? 
 And wilt thou leave the Church, and love a Sty ?* 
 
 Fy, thou wilt foil thy broider'd Coat, 
 And hurt thy felf, and him that fings the Note, 
 
 Let foolifh Lovers, if they will love Dung, 
 With Canvas, not with Arras, cloth theire Shame ; 
 Let Folly fpeak in her own native Tongue. 
 True Beauty dwells on high : Ours is a Flame 
 
 But borrowed thence to light us thither. 
 Beauty and beauteous Words fhould go together 
 
 Yet, if you go, I pafs not ; take your way : . 
 For, thou art flillmy God, is all that ye 
 perhaps with more imbellifhment can fay. 
 
 Go Birds offering : Let Winter have his fee; 
 
 Let a bleak Palenefs chalk the Door, 
 So all within be livelier than before. 
 
172 The CHVRCH. 
 
 If The Rofe. 
 
 PRefs me not to take more Pleafure 
 In this World of fugar'd lies, 
 And to life a larger Meafure 
 
 Than my ft'rift, yet welcome Si2e* 
 
 Firft, there is no Pleafure here: 
 
 Colour 5 '! Griefs indeed there are, 
 
 Ekifhing Woes, that look as clear, 
 
 As if theyccuid Beauty fpare* 
 
 Or if fuch Deceits there be, 
 
 Such Delights I meant to fay ; 
 
 There are no fuch things to me, 
 
 Who have pafs'd my right awayi. 
 
 But I will not much oppofe 
 
 Unto what you now advife .*, 
 
 Only take this gentle Rofe, 
 
 And therein my Anfwer lies* 
 
 What is fairer than a Rofe > 
 
 What is fweeter ; yet it purgeth.. 
 Purgings enmity difclofe, 
 
 Enmity forbearance urgeth* 
 
 If then all that Wordlings prize 
 Ee contrafted to a Rofe ; 
 
 Sweetly there indeed it lies, 
 
 But it biteth in the clofe. 
 
 So this Flower doth judge and fen ten ce- 
 Wcrldly Joys to be a fcourge : 
 
 For they all produce Repentance, 
 And Repentance is a purge* 
 
 Bn^ 
 
The CHVRCH. 17$ 
 
 it I Health, not -Phyfick chufe ; 
 Only though I you op; 
 (Say that fairly I refufe, 
 For my Anfvvcr is a Rofe. 
 
 % Difciptine. 
 
 THrow away thy Rod, 
 Throw away thy Wrath* 
 
 my God, 
 Take the gentle Path. 
 
 For my Heart's deiire 
 Unto thine is bent : 
 
 1 afpire 
 To a full Confent. 
 
 Not a Word or Look 
 I affeft to ow.»v 
 
 B&t by Book, 
 And thy Book alone. 
 
 Though I fail, I weep ; 
 Though I halt In pace, 
 
 Yet I creep 
 To the Throne of Grace* 
 
 Then let Wrath remove* 
 Love will do the Deed : 
 For with Love 
 Stony Hearts will bleed. 
 
 Love is fwift of Foot ; 
 Love's a Man of W T ar, 
 
 And can fhoot t 
 And car; hit from far. 
 
 Wfco 
 
The C HVRChL 
 
 *74 
 
 Who can Tcape Iris Bow ? 
 That which wrought on thee, 
 
 Brought thee low, 
 Needs mult work on me : 
 
 Throw away thy Rod ; 
 Though Man Frailties hath, 
 
 Thou art God : 
 Throw away thy wrath. 
 
 % The Invitation* 
 
 COme ye hither, all whole taite 
 Is your wafte ; 
 Save your Coft and mend your Fare*- 
 God is here prepar'd and dreft, 
 
 And the Fea ft, 
 God, in whom ail Dainties are.. 
 
 Come ye hither all whom Wine 1 
 
 Doth define, 
 Naming you not to your good r. 
 Weep what yo have drunk amifs- ? . 
 
 And drink i\ 
 Which before you drink is Blood. 
 
 Come ye hither all whom Pain 
 
 Doth arraign, 
 Bringing all your Sins to fight : 
 Taite and fear not : God is^faere 
 
 In this Cheer, 
 And on Sin doth caft the fright.. 
 
 Come ye hither ail whom Toy 
 
 Doth deftroy, 
 While ye graze rail .. it Bounds : 
 
 Mere is Joy that dirowneth quite 
 
 Your Da 
 Flood the lower Grounds. 
 
 Cams 
 
The C HVRC H. 175 
 
 |ome ye hither all, whofe Love 
 
 Is your Dove, 
 ^nd exalts you to the Sky : 
 lere is Love, which having Breath, 
 
 Ev'n in Death, 
 \fter Death can never die. 
 
 ord, I have invited all, 
 
 And I (hall 
 >till invite, ftill call to thee : 
 or it feems but juft and right 
 
 In my tight, 
 Where is all, there all (hould be. 
 
 % The 'Banquet.. 
 
 WElcome fweet and (acred Cheer, 
 Welcome dear ; 
 With me, in me, live and dwell : 
 For thy Neatnefs paffeth fight, 
 
 Thy Delight, 
 Paffeth Tongue to tafte or tell, 
 
 O what fweetnefs from the Bowl 
 
 Fills my Soul, 
 Such as is, and makes Divine ! 
 Is fome Star ( fled from the Sphere) 
 
 Melted there, 
 As we Sugar melt in Wine I 
 
 Or hath fweetnefs in the Bread 
 
 Made a Held 
 To fubdue the fmeli cf Sin, 
 plow'rs, and Gums, and Powders giving 
 
 All their Living, 
 fceft&e Enemj ihould win ? 
 
 Doubt* 
 
tj6 
 
 The C HVRC H. 
 
 Doubtlefs neither Star nor Flower 
 Hath the Power 
 
 Such a Sweetnefs to impart; 
 
 Only God, who gives Perfumes, 
 Flefh affumes, 
 
 And with it perfumes my Heart. 
 
 But as Pomanders and Wood 
 
 Still are good, 
 Yet being bruis'dare better fcented^ 
 'God, to fhew how far his Love 
 
 Could improve, 
 Here, as broken, is prefented. 
 
 "When 1 had forgot my Birth, 
 
 And on Earth 
 In Delights of each was drown'd ; 
 God took Blood, and needs would be 
 
 Spilt with me, 
 And fo fcund me oft the-Ground. 
 
 Having rais'd me to look up, 
 
 In a Cup 
 Sweetly he doth meet my tafte ; 
 . But I full being low and Ihort, 
 
 Far from Court, 
 Wine becomes a Wing at lait. 
 
 For with it alone I flv 
 
 To the Sky : 
 Where I wipe mine Eyes, and fee 
 What I leek, for what I file ; 
 
 Him I view, 
 Who hath done fo much for me- 
 
The CHVRC H. 177 
 
 ^Let the wonder of this Pity 
 
 Be my Ditty, 
 And take up my Lines and Life : 
 Hearken under pain of Death, 
 
 Hands and Breath, 
 ^Strive in this, and love the Strife. 
 
 % The Pojj. 
 
 I > ET Witsconteft, 
 And with their Words and Poiies Windows fill: 
 
 Lefs than the Jeafi 
 *Of til thy Mercies, is my Pofy ftill : 
 
 This on my Ring, 
 This by my Pifhire in my Book I write. 
 
 Whether I fing, 
 Or fay, or dictate, this is my delight. 
 
 Invention reft, 
 Comparifons go play, Wit ufe thy will : 
 
 lefs than the haft 
 Of all Goci's Mercies, is my Pofy ftill. 
 
 f J Parody. 
 
 SOuls Joy, when thou art gone, 
 And I alone, 
 Which cannot be, 
 "Becaufe thou doft abide with me, 
 And I depend on thee-; 
 
 Yet when thou doft fupprefs 
 The Chearfalnefs 
 Of thy abode, 
 -Andin my Power not fti'r abrudi 
 But leave me to my load; 
 
 O 
 
.178 
 
 The CHVRC'H. 
 
 O what a Damp and Shade 
 Doth me invade ! 
 No ftormy Night 
 Can fo afflift, or fo affright, 
 As thy eclipfed Light. 
 
 Ah Lord ! do not withdraw, 
 
 Left want of Aw 
 
 Make Sin appear ; 
 And when thou doft but lhine left clear, 
 Say that thou art not .here. 
 
 And then what Life I have, 
 While Sin doth rave, 
 Ancl.falfly ; boaft/ 
 That I may feek, but thou art loft; • 
 Thou and alone thou know'ft 
 
 O what a deadly Cold 
 
 Doth rne infold 1 
 
 I half believe 
 That Sin fays true ; But while I grieve, 
 Thou com'ft and doft relieve. . . 
 
 % The Elixir. 
 
 TEach me, my God and King, 
 In all things thee to fee, 
 And what I do in any thing, 
 To do it as for thee : 
 
 Not rudely as a Beaft, 
 To run into an aft ion ; 
 But ftill to make thee prepoffeft} • 
 And^ive it his Perfection*. 
 
TkeCHVRCH. 179 
 
 looks on Glaft, 
 On it may ftay his Eye ; 
 he pleafeth, through it pais* 
 I ch^n the Heav'n ipy. 
 
 Ail may of thee partake ; 
 tan be lb mean, 
 his Tincture (for thy f . 
 Will not grow bright and clean. 
 
 A Servant with this Claufe 
 
 Makes Drudgery divine : 
 Wh a Room, as for thy Laws, 
 
 :es that and th 5 Aftion tine. 
 
 This is the famous Srone, 
 Thar turneth all to Gold : 
 For that which God doth touch and own, 
 Cannot for lefs be told. 
 
 «[ A IVreath. 
 
 A Wreathed Garland of deferred Praife, 
 Of Praife deferved unto thee I give, 
 I give to thee who knoweit all my Ways, 
 My crooked winding Ways wherein I live, 
 Wherein I die, not live ; for Life is ftraight, 
 Straight as a Line, and ever tends to thee, 
 To thee, who art more far above Deceit, 
 Than Deceit feems above Simplicity, 
 Give me Simplicity, that I may live, 
 So live and like, that I may know thy W r ays, 
 Know them and praftife them ; then {hall I give 
 For this poor Wreath, give thee a Crown of Praife. 
 
 I % Death. 
 
iSo The CHVRCH. 
 
 % Death. 
 
 DEATH, thou waft once an uncouth hideous 
 Nothing but Bones, (thing,' 
 
 The fad Effect of fadder Groans: 
 Thy Mouth was open, but thou could'ft not fing. 
 
 For we confider'd thee, as at fome fix 
 Or ten years hence, 
 After the lofs of Life and Senfe, 
 Flefh being turn'cl to Dull, and Bones to Sticks. - 
 
 We lookt on this fide of thee, fhooting fhort ; 
 Where we did find 
 The Shells of fledge Souls left behind, 
 Dry Dull, which fheds no Tears, but may extort. 
 
 But fince our Saviour's Death did put fome Blood 
 Into thy Face, 
 Thou art grown fair and full of Grace, 
 Much in requeit, much fought for as a good. 
 
 For we do now behold thee gay and glad, 
 As at Dooms-day ; 
 When Souls fnall wear their new Aray, 
 And ail thy Bones with Beauty (hall be clad. 
 
 Therefore we can go die as fieep, and truft 
 Half that we have 
 TInto an honeft faithful Grave ; 
 Making our Pillows either Down or Dufr. 
 
 % Dooms- 
 
CHVRCH. iS; 
 
 ^[ Dooms-day. 
 
 G 
 
 jO;ne away, 
 Make no delay. 
 Summon ail the Duft to rife, 
 'Till it ftir, and rub the Eyes; 
 While this Member jogs the other, 
 Each orie whifp'ring, Livejou, Ember? 
 
 Come away, 
 Make this the day. 
 Duft, alas, no Mufick feels 
 But thy Trumpet : Then it kneels, 
 As peculiar Notes and Strains 
 Cure Tarantulaes raging Pains. 
 
 Come away, 
 O make no ftay ! 
 Let the Graves make their Confeflion, 
 Left at length they plead PofTeilion ; 
 Flefhes ftubbornnefs may have 
 React that Leiibn to the Grave. 
 
 Come away, 
 Thy Stock doth ftray* 
 Some to Winds their Body lend, 
 And in them may drown a Friend: 
 Some in noifome Vapours grow 
 To a Plague and publick Woe. 
 
 Come away, 
 Help our decay. 
 Man is out of order hurl'd, 
 Parcell'd out to all the World. 
 Lord, thy broken confort raife, 
 And the Mufick fliall be praife. 
 
 I 2 5 3M^- 
 
182 The CHVRC tt 
 
 % Judgment. 
 
 A Lmighty Judge, how (hall poor Wretches brool 
 Jr\, Thy dreadful look, 
 Able an Heart of Iron to appall, 
 When thou (halt call 
 For every Man's peculiar Book ? 
 
 What others mean to do, I know not well \ 
 
 Yet I here tell, 
 That fome will turn thee to fome leaves therein 
 
 So void of fin, 
 That they in Merit (hall excel!. 
 
 But I refoive, when t' ou (halt call for mine, 
 
 That to decline, 
 And thruft a Teftament into thy Hand. 
 
 Let that be fcann'd : 
 There thou (halt find mv Faults are thine. 
 
 Who will (hew me thofe Delights on high ? 
 
 % Heav*??. 
 
 V_y Echo. h 
 
 Thou Echo, thou art mortal, all Men know. 
 
 Echo. Ko. 
 
 Wert thou not born among the Trees and Leaves? 
 
 Echo. Leives. 
 
 And are there any Leaves that (till abide ? 
 
 Echo. Bid*. 
 
 What Leaves are they ? Impart the Matter wholly. 
 
 Echo. ' Holy. 
 
 Are holy Leaves the Echo then of Blifs? 
 
 Echo Tes. 
 
 Then tell me, What is that fupreme Delight ? 
 
 Echo. Light. 
 
 Light to the Mind : What (hall the will enjoy ? 
 
 Echo. Joy* 
 
 But 
 
*-*- r HVR C H. T§ 5 
 
 But are there Cares and Bufinels witu tne FJeafiire ? 
 
 Echo. Lei jure. 
 
 Light Joy and Leifure; but (hall they perfevere ? 
 Echo* Ever. 
 
 % Love. 
 
 LOve bad me welcome : Yet my Soul drew back, 
 Guilty of Duft and Sin. " 
 Bur quick-ey'd Love, obferving me grow flack 
 
 From my fir ft entrance in. 
 Drew nearer to me (weedy queftioning, 
 If I lack Vi any thing. 
 
 A Gueft I anfwer'd worthy to be here: 
 
 Love fa id, you mall be he. 
 I the unkind, ungrateful ? Ah my Dear, 
 
 I cannot look on thee. 
 Love took my Hand, and fmiling did reply, 
 
 Who made the Eyes but I ? 
 
 Truth Lord ; but I have marr'd them ; let my fhame 
 
 Go where it doth deferve. 
 And know you not, fays Love, who bore the blame ? 
 
 "My Dear then I will ferve. 
 You muft fit down, fays Love, and tafte my Meat ; 
 
 So I did lit and eat. 
 
 Glory be to God on high, and on Earth 
 
 Peace, good Will towards Men. 
 
 THE 
 
&* > ■< 
 
 CHURCH MILITANT. 
 
 ALmtehty Lord, who from tby glorious Throne 
 S&tn and ruleft all things ev'n as one ; 
 The fmalleft.Ant or Atom knows thy Power, 
 Known alfo to each Minute of an Hour : 
 Much more do Common-wealths acknowledge thee, 
 And wrap their Policies in thy Decree, 
 Complying with thy Counfels, doing nought 
 Which doth not meet with an eternal Thought. . 
 But above all, thy Church and Spoufe doth prove 
 Not the Decrees of Power, but Bands of Love* 
 Early did'ft thcu ariie to plant this Vine, 
 Which might the more indear it to be thine. 
 Spices come from the Baft; fo did thy Spoufe, 
 Trim as the Light, fweet as the laden Boughs 
 OlNoahh fhady Vine, chaft as the Dove, 
 Prepar'd and fitted to receive thy Love. 
 The Coarfe was weftward, that the Sun might light 
 As well our Qnderftanding as our Sight. 
 Where th'Ark did reft, there Abraham began 
 To bring the other Ark from Civaan. 
 
 . purfu'd this: But KingSolomon 
 . and Sxt the old Religi- 
 
 i ic grew loofe, the jews did hope in vain 
 .•ailing Chrift to faften it again. 
 But to the Gentiles he bore Crof and all, 
 Rending with Earthquakes the Partition-Wall; 
 Only whereas the Ark in Glory (hoie, 
 Now with the Crofs, as with a Staff alone, 
 Reli&idn K*e a Pilgrim, weftward beat, 
 
 Knock- 
 
TheCHVRCH MILITANT. 1S5 
 
 Knocking at all Doors, ever as (he went. 
 Yet as the Sun, though forward be his Flight, 
 Lilians behind him, and allows forae Light, 
 'Till all depart : So went the Church her way, 
 Letting, while one Foot itept, the other flay 
 Among the Eaftern Nations for a time, 
 'Till both removed to the Weftern Clime, 
 To Egypt firft fhe came, where they did prove 
 Wonders of Anger once, but now of Love. 
 The tea Commandments there did fiouriih more 
 Than the ten bitter Plagues had done before. 
 Holy Macarjm and great Antkotty 
 Made Pharaoh Mofes, changing th' Hiftory. 
 Gqfhen was Darknefs, Egypt full of Lights, 
 Nilm for Monfters brought forth Ifraeiiies* 
 Such Power hath mighty Baptifm to produce 
 For things miihapen^ things of higheft ufe. 
 How dear to me 9 God, thy Counsels are ! 
 
 Who may with thee compare ? 
 Religion thence tfed into Greece, where Arts 
 Gave her the higheft Place in all Mens Hearts. 
 Learning was pos'd, Philofophy was fet, 
 Sophifters taken in a Fifhers Net, 
 Plato and Ariftotle were at a lofs, 
 And wheel'd about again to fpeil Chrift's Crop. 
 Prayers chas'd Syllogifms into their Den, 
 And Ergo was transform'd into Amen. 
 Though Greece took Horfe as foon as Egypt did, 
 And Home as both, yet. Egypt fafter rid, 
 And fpent her Period and prefixed Time 
 Before the other. Greece being paft her Prime, 
 Religion went to Ityme, fuhduing thofe, 
 Who, that they might fubdue, made all their Foes. 
 The Warriour his dear Scars no more refounds, 
 But feems to yield Chrift hath the' greater Wounds ; 
 Wounds willingly endur'd to work his Blifs, 
 Who by an Ambufh loit his Par-adife. 
 
 I 4 The 
 
1 86 The CHVRCH MIL IT J NT. 
 
 The great Heart ftoops, and taketh from the Drift 
 A lad Repentance, not the Spoils of Lull: : 
 Quitting his Spear, left it fhould pierce again 
 Him in his Members, who for him was (lain- 
 The Shepherds Hook grew to a Scepter here, 
 Giving new Names and Numbers to the Year. 
 But. th' Empire dwelt in Greece to comfort them, 
 Who were cut fhort in Alexanders Stem. 
 In both of thefe Prowefs and Arts did tame 
 And tune Mens Hearts againft the Golpel came ; 
 Which ufing, and not fearing Skill in th 5 one, 
 Or Strength in th 5 other, did ereft her Throne. 
 Many a rent and flrugling th' Empire knew, 
 As dying things are wont, until it Hew 
 At length to Germany, ftili WeAward bending, 
 And there the Churches Feftival attending: 
 That as before Empire and Arts made way, 
 For no lefs Harbingers would ferve than they : 
 So they might ftill, and point us out the place (Face. 
 Where firft the Church fhould raife her ctown-caft 
 Strength levels Grounds, Art makes a Garden there ^ 
 Then fhow'rs Religion, and makes all to bear. 
 Spain in the Empire fhar'd with Germany, 
 Xtot England in the higher Victory : 
 Giving the Church a Crown to keep her State, 
 And not go lefs than (he had done of late. 
 Conftantms Britiih Line meant this of old, 
 And did this Myftery wrap up and fold 
 Within a Sheet of Paper, which was rent 
 From Time's great Chronicle, and hither fent. 
 Thus both the Church and Sun together ran 
 Unto the fartheft old Meridian. 
 liovo dear to me, God, thy Counfeh ire ! 
 
 Who mxy with ihzt compart ? 
 Much about one and the fame Time and Place, 
 Both where and when the Church began her Race, 
 
 Sin 
 
 :! 
 
The CHVRCH MILITANT. 187 
 
 Sin did let out of Eaftern Bzbylon, 
 
 And travell'd Weftward alfo; journeying on 
 
 He chid the Church away, where e're he came, 
 
 Breaking her Peace, and tainting her good Name. 
 
 At fir ft he got to Egypt ; and did fow 
 
 Gardens of Gods, which ev'ry Year did grow, 
 
 Frefh and fine Deities. They were at great coft, 
 
 Who for a God clearly a Sallet loft. 
 
 Ah, what a thing is Man devoid of Grace, 
 
 Adoring Garlick with an humble Face, 
 
 Begging his Food of that which he may eat, 
 
 Starving the while he worfhippeth his Meat ! 
 
 Who makes a Root his God, how low is he, 
 
 If God and Man be fever'd infinitely ! 
 
 What wretchednefs can give him any room, 
 
 W 7 hofe Houfe is foul, while he adores his Broom - 
 
 None will believe this now, though Money be 
 
 In us the fame tranfplanted Foolery. 
 
 Thus Sin in Egypt, fneaked for a while ; 
 
 His higheft was an Ox or Crocodile, 
 
 A ndXuch poor Game. Thence he to Greece doth pa fs ; 
 
 And being Craftier much than Goodnefs was, 
 
 He left behind him Garriibns of Sins, 
 
 To make good that which ev'ry day he wins. 
 
 Here Sin took heart, and for a Garden-bed 
 
 Rich Shrines and Oracles he purchafed : 
 
 He grew a Gallant, and would needs foretel 
 
 As well what fhould befal, as what befel. 
 
 Nay, he became a Poet, and would ferve 
 
 His Pills of fublimate in that Conferve. 
 
 The World came both with Hands andPurfes full 
 
 To this great Lottery, and all would pull. 
 
 But all was glorious Cheating, brave Deceit, 
 
 Where fome poor Truths were (huffled for a Bait, 
 
 To credit him, and to difcredit thofe, 
 
 Who after hiin fhould braver Truths difdcfe, - 
 
 From 
 
i88 The CHVRCH MILITANT. 
 
 From G> ( o Zorr.e ; and as before 
 
 ras a God, now he's an Emperor. 
 Nero and :re, 
 
 Put him in fruit to rule the I 
 Glory was his chi< Id: 
 
 Plcafure fucceeded ftrai 
 
 hich foon was blown to ftich a mighty Flame, 
 That though our Saviour diddeftroy the Game, 
 Difparking Oracles, and all their Treafure. 
 Setiiag \ffliftion to encounter Pleafure; 
 Yet did a Rogue with hope of Carnal joy, 
 Cheat the moil fuhtil Nations. Who \o Coy, 
 So trim, as Greece and Egypt ? Yet their Hearts 
 Are given over, for their curious Arts, 
 To fuch Mahometan Stupidities, 
 As the old Heathen would deem Prodigies. 
 How dear to me, Goi, thy CouvfiJs are! 
 Who 'may with thee comjrar 
 Only the Weft and fyme do keep them free 
 From this contagious Infidelity. 
 And this is all the Rock whereof they boaft, 
 As Home will one day find unto her coft. 
 Sin being not able to extirpate quite 
 The Churches here, bravely refolv'd one Night 
 To be a Church-man too, and wear a Mitre : 
 The old debauched Ruffian would turn Writer. 
 I faw him in his Study where he fate 
 Bufy in Controversies fprung of late. 
 A Gown and Pen became him wondrous well : 
 His grave Afpeft had more of Heav n than Hell : 
 Only there was a handfome Pifture by, 
 To which he lent a Corner of his Eye. 
 As Sin in Greece a Prophet was before, 
 And in old fyrne a mighty Emperor ; 
 So now being Prieft he plainly did profefs 
 To make a Jeft of Chriit's three Offices ; 
 
 The 
 
CHVKCH MILITANT. 189 
 
 The rather fince his fcatter'd Juglings were 
 United now in one, both Time and Sphere. 
 from Egypt he took petty Deities, 
 From Greece oracular Infallibilities, 
 And from old Rome the Liberty of Pleafure, 
 By free Difpeniings of the Churches Treafure. 
 Then in Memorial of his antient Throne, 
 He did firriame his Palace Babylon* 
 Yet that he might the better" gain all Nations, 
 And make that Name good by their Tranfmigracions; 
 From all thefe Places, but at clivers times, 
 Ke rook fine Vizards to conceal his Crimes : 
 From Egypt Anchorifm and Retirecinefs : 
 Learning from Greece, from old Home Statelinefs: 
 And blending thefe he carry 'd all Mens Eyes, 
 While Truth fate by counting hi. Victories : 
 Whereby he grew apace, and icornM to ufe 
 Such Force as once did captivate the Jews ; 
 But did bewitch, and finely work each Nation 
 Into a voluntary Transmigration. 
 All poft to Rome : Princes fiibmit their Necks 
 Either t 5 his publick Foot or private Tricks, 
 It did not fit his Gravity to ftir, 
 Nor his long Journey, nor hi^ Gontand Fur* 
 Therefore he fent out able Minifters, 
 Statefmen within, without doors Cloifterers : 
 Who without Spear or Sword, or other Drum, 
 Than what was in their Tongue, did overcome ; 
 And having conquer'd did fo llrangely rule, 
 That the whole World didfeem but the Pope's Mule. 
 As new and old Home did one Empire twilt : 
 So both together are one Antichrift; 
 Yet with two Faces, as their $anm was, 
 Being in this their old crackt Looking-glafs, 
 &0J9 dear to rae^ God> thy Counfels are ! 
 Who may with thee compare I 
 
 Thus 
 
i9°TheCHVRCH MIL1TJNT. 
 
 Thus Sin triumphs in Weftern Babylon ; 
 
 Yet nor as Sin, but as Religion. 
 
 Of his two Thrones he made the latter hell, 
 
 And to defray his Journey from the Eaft. 
 
 Old. and new B.riylov are to Hell and Night, 
 
 As is the Sun and Moon to Keav'n and Light, 
 
 When th'one did ^t y the ether did take place, 
 
 Confronting equally the Law and Grace. 
 
 They are Hell's Land-marks, Satan's double Creft ; 
 
 They are Sin's Nipples, feeding th' Eaft and Weir 
 
 But as in Vice the Copy ftifl exceeds 
 
 The Pattern, but not fo in virtuous Deeds ; 
 
 So though Sin made his latter Seat the better, 
 
 The latter Church is to the firft a Debter. 
 
 The fecond Temple could not reach the firft: 
 
 And the late Reformation never durft 
 
 Compare with antient Times and purer Years ; 
 
 But in the Jews and us deferveth Tears. 
 
 Nay, it (hall ev'ry Year decreafe and fade; 
 
 Till fuch a Darknefs do the World invade 
 
 At Chrift's laft coming, as his firft did find : 
 
 Yet muft there fuch Proportions be aflignU 
 
 To thefe Diminifhings, as is between 
 
 The fpacious World and fury to be feen. 
 
 Religion ftands on tip-toe in our Land, 
 
 Ready to pafs to the American Strand. 
 
 When height of Malice, and prodigious Lufts* 
 
 Impudent finning, Witchcrafts, and Diftrufts 
 
 The Marks of future Bane, (hall fill our Cup 
 
 Unto the Brim, and make our Meafure up •, 
 
 When Sein fhaii fwallow Tiber, and- the Thames 
 
 By letting in them both, pollutes her Streams : 
 
 When Italy of us (hall have her Will, 
 
 And all her Kalender of Sins fulfil ; 
 
 Whereby one may foretel, what Sins next Year 
 
 Shall both in France zn& England domineer :■ 
 
 Then 
 
 
The CHVRCH MILITANT, iqi 
 
 Then fhall Pveiigion to America, flee: 
 
 TJuy have their Times of Gofpel,ev n as we. 
 
 \ly God, thou doft prepare for them a way, 
 
 B\ carrying firft their Gold from ay: 
 
 For Gold and Grace did never yet agree : 
 
 Religion always fid< Poverty, 
 
 He think we rob them, but we think amifs: 
 
 We are more Poor, and they more Rich by this. 
 
 Thou wilt revenge their Quarrel, making Grace 
 
 To pay our Debts, and leave our ancient Place 
 
 To go to them, wl i e that, which new their Nation 
 
 But lends to us, (hall be our Defofation. 
 
 Yet as the Church (bail thither Weftward fly, 
 
 So Sin fhall trace and dog her inftantly '. 
 
 They have their Period alfo and kt Times 
 
 Both for their vertuous Actions ana their Crimes. 
 
 And where of old the Empire and the Arts 
 
 Ufher'd the Goipel ever in Men's Hearts, 
 
 Spiin hath done one ; when Arts perform the other, 
 
 The Church fhall come,and Sin theChurch fhall fmo- 
 
 That when they have accomplished the round, (then 
 
 And met in th'Eaft their firft and ancient found, 
 
 Judgment may m ret them both & fearch them round. 
 
 Thus do both Lights, as well in Church as Sun, 
 
 Light one another, and together run. 
 
 Thus alfo Sin and Darknefs follow ftill 
 
 The Church and Sun with all their Power and "Skill, 
 
 But as the Sun ftill goes both Weft and Eaft ; 
 
 So alfo did the Church by going Weft 
 
 Still Eaft ward go ; became it drew more near 
 
 To Time and Place, where Judgment (hall appear, 
 
 How dear to me, God, xhy Counfds are ! 
 
 Who rnajt rvirk tbee compart ? 
 
 f L'£«- 
 
*f[ L? Envoy. 
 
 KIr.g ofGlory y iQng of Peace, 
 With the one make Wars to ceafe ; 
 With the other blefs thy Sheep, 
 Thee to Love, in thee to Sleep, 
 Let not Sin devour thy Fold, 
 Bragging that thy Blood is cold, 
 That thy Death is alfo dead, 
 While hisConquefts daily fpread ; 
 That thy Flefli hath loft his Food, 
 And thy Crofs is common Wood. 
 Choke him, let him fay no more, 
 But referve his Breath in ftore, 
 Till thy Conqueft and his Fall 
 Make his Sighs to ufe it all, 
 And then bargain with the Wind 
 To difcharge what is behind. 
 
 Blejfed be God alone. 
 Thrice blejfed Three in One. 
 
 
 FINIS. 
 
A 
 
 TABLE- 
 
 A AaronV Garments fivould beftill worn by Minifien 
 AX Page 1 68, Mne 19 
 
 ^ -^Abraham brought Religion with him from the Eaft 
 
 184,19 
 Abftinence, how profitable jgj 
 
 Abufe of things taketh 'not away their ufe 79,16 
 
 Abufevenefs, the fcum of Wit 8,29. 9,1 
 
 Account^ fee Rules 
 
 Aibion. The Glory of an Action is, to do it for God's Gloyt 
 
 178,21 
 
 Active Sprits only Live 1 2,1 3 . 7 1 ,3 
 
 Adoration of Saints, why unlawful 70,1 
 
 Affliction fucceedeth Prosperity 38,25, &c. ft zV ??0r to be 
 
 grieved for 164,11. or rather Grief for Affliction is to 
 
 be turned into Grief for Sin 164,17. how to carry our 
 
 felves therein 40 ,7. it is Advantage to a Cbriflian 35, 
 
 -90,7. 121,25. Afflictions Caldron helpeth to fupple the 
 
 Heart 122,17— —29. 123,1. Affliction to Chriftians, 
 
 like the pruning Xjiife, to Trees 126,2. Afflictions com. 
 
 pared to Moles 119,1. all our Afflictions nothing to 
 
 Chrift's Sufferings 53,26. Chrm hath his part in our 
 
 Afflictions 64,27. 65,7. 89,28 
 
 Alms, the moft thriving Trade 89,3. Motives thereunto 
 
 *3>9>&c. fee Rules, 
 
 jiltar a 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 Altar, fee Gods. 
 
 America V Cmutrfion calculated 190,25. Their parti-** 
 
 with their Cold prepareth them for the G off el pag. 191, 
 
 lin. 3 
 Anapram of J E S II 105 .9. of M ARY 69,1 5 
 
 Anchorifai whence 1 89,13 
 
 Angels, held with $oy\ Man recovered with Grief 90,1. 
 
 Both have great Caufe to fraife God 8^,7 ,&c. 
 
 Angry Men gfoe advantage to their Adverfaries 11,19 
 AnticbrifPs variom Policies, whereby he hath prevailed 
 
 over the World i%$,ijkc*fee Rome 
 Apparel, fee Rules 
 Arguing, fee Rules. 
 
 Ark j where the Ark flood, Religion began her %ace 1 S4 
 
 16 
 Arms and Artsufher in the G off el 186,9 — 22. 191,17. 
 
 The Power of Art i$5jI« Arts yield to the Simplicity 
 
 of the G off el 185,20 
 
 Affurance afjaulted by doubting I49?*- hm cleared 149, 
 
 19 
 yftrtmomy t m m 77,11. 127,17 
 
 Attention in time of Divine Service 15,1 
 
 B. 
 
 BAbylon, old and new, deciphered 190,5. Both Ene- 
 mies to God's Church 190,8. fee Rome. 
 Back-biter, fee Evii-fpeaker 
 Banquet none fo dainty m the holy Communion 174,175, 
 
 l 7 6 
 
 Baftifmwly adminifrred in our Infancy 36,15. Its f acred 
 
 Efficacy 36,4. 185,16. hit the Hem's looter 122,4 
 Baths 111,20 
 
 Eats 1 13,1 3 
 
 Beafts, fee Vertuc. 
 
 Beauty, how to be accounted of 62,25. ** ** 071d °f *& 
 World's Baits 103,5. & raifethWit^6,i. True Beauty 
 where 171,22 
 
 lcd> an Emblem of the Grave 90,19. 180,21 
 
 Bus 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 L 
 
 Blejfi;;gs how varioujly dealt 1 12,10. 1 13,5 
 
 Wfdlibig of Shr, a defying of God 2,25 : ^c. 
 
 Bodies. Our Bodies, though vilely dijkonoured and difor- 
 dered by Death l4£o,i- 181,21. ft all rife in Glory 180, 
 
 17. 181,3 
 
 Mdr.efs, when commendable 8,1. 9,19 
 
 Britim Church, fee Church 
 Broken Heart, fe Heart 
 
 Bufinefs, to be aBively followed 1 2,1 j. fee Employment* 
 What Bufinefs we have for Tears 105,19. and Sighs 
 
 ic6,i 
 C. 
 
 C^Alnmefs in arguing* a great Advantage 1 1,9 
 
 j Carekfs Vcrfonspaft cure 12,18 
 
 Care's Cops 136,5. Bujy Care for future Chances, blamed 
 
 i39,i,&c. 
 
 Charity, like the Cement in a Building 58,1s 
 
 Children, how to be educated 4,13—30. They are Paterns 
 for Men 36,20 
 
 CHRIST, HU lovetout,fiee 107,1, &c. 176,13. and 
 incomparable 29,17. 86,21. 96,7. 97,16. icc,io,&c. 
 106, 8,&c. 151,12. 175,4* We can ?iever fujficiently 
 admire it 177,1. We can nor do \ nor fuffer enough to 
 requite him 27, 3, Sec. 28,19.97,21.141,5. Bow he 
 humbled himf elf to redeem m 3i>26« -#<? fo/d */Me £# 
 fybes, to put on our j\ags 145,15. He U lodged in an 
 Inn 72,29. 145,25. Cradled in a Manger 73,6. His 
 Forty days Faft 79,19. We ought to imitate him 79,20. 
 Why Mary wajhed hit Feet 168,1. bit Vaffion and Grief 
 fet forth 19 ,c<c. hit Sale 19,17. Bloody -f we at 19,21. 
 54,5. ice, 1. Hu Vifciples drowfmefs 20,1. and fight 
 21,2?. hti Apprcherfion 20,17. Accufat ion 20,26, &c. 
 Willingnefs to dye 20,30. Condemnation 21,9.23,21. 
 Patience 21,29. Herod */d Pilate combine agJ.fi 
 him 21 ,i ;. the j^sfpite agairjfl him, fee ]^ws. Bu 
 
 rahtr.s 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 him 22,21. he is Scourged 23,1* 
 Buffeted 23,5. Spit on 23,9. 24,2*5. Hood-winked 23, 
 . Flouted 23,17. 26,1. fcorrf ally Arrayed 24,1. 
 nelly Crowned 24,5. /mitten with a%eed 24,13. /?#/- 
 fingly Saluted 24,17. fe beareth his Cro/s 25,9. k ;* 
 Crucified on it 25,13. betwixt two thieves 26,9. t/><?y 
 gfi'c? Rm Vbieg.tr and Call 26,1 7. ruvr / i /4 trments 16 , 
 21. piVrce W* Jzie 26,25.' I 4-? 1 - w ^* r * re Liquor 
 flowed tbi 26,27. 29,18. 36,4. 
 
 HjsTitle 26,13.27,1. £Vif£ 26,29. 118,1. 145,13,30. 
 £7 rffilfg £it£ deftroyed Death 164,1 10 
 
 77v unconceivablene/s of his Sufferings 25,21. 27,1- — 1 o 
 
 y4i 0#r y nothing to fm 53> 2< 5 
 
 -#*» Arithmetick to caft up his Sufferings by 30,15 
 
 Ourbenefitfiom them 25,15. 26,5. 27^13. 106,8 — 2S. 
 
 164,1 — 10 
 
 //# Sepulchre 32,7. ## Grave-clothes a Chriftiarfs Hand- 
 kerchief 105,6 
 
 7/>e K/e and fruits of his Hjfurreftion 104,19,8:0 &ow to 
 Jtare Tu/fi fcm z>z JE># Victories 29,1. <z« ^wiw 0# £/s 
 B^furreftion 33,1 
 
 i7# £/<?0i jtf Antidote to expel Sin 31,13. tk Ott/y Quieter 
 of the Confidence 98,17. rifc price of Paradife 68,19* 
 the true Panacea 141,19. it ferveth both to cleanfe 
 the Heart 122,5. 141,19. and /often it 122,32. it 
 fupplieth the defetl of our Tears 1 29,25 . 1 5 2,25 
 
 HU Crofsy a free of Life to m 25,15. what Adam loft 
 we have in him 137,13. 185,36 
 
 He is the weary Soul's heft Relief 72,26. both the Grief 
 and joy of a Chriftian 54)6. our Peace 117,26. our 
 Way j Truth j Life 15c, 13. Our Light , Feaft, Strength 
 1 50,1 7. our Joy, Love, Heart 1 50,2 1 . our Food in the- 
 Sacrament 155,14. 174.12,20,24. 175,13. ij6>i,c<c.. 
 
 He is more ours than his own 1 5 1,12. we more his than 
 our own 151,1. and then mofl our own when his 1 5 1 ,4 
 
 He is m oft lovely and beautiful 108.9. he bath changed 
 tire Jhape of ' fuftice pom terrible to amiable 135,1. he 
 
 nteth 
 
ATABLH. 
 
 \h our Suits to bii 
 7. he fup) Miniftersde .21.169.1. 
 
 64,2;. 65,7 
 i/.i for all i: 83 ICJ, 
 
 25. out V, 2 5* .^mw ofGra- 
 
 ude and Lc. 27,1 7. 40,11 
 
 ChriiiV three v I 1 S^.3 3 
 
 Jfe /j importuned to baft en bitfeconi Coming 99,25. 100, 
 
 ic 1, 1 50.13. i8i,i,&c. 
 
 tJhriftian Religion, its rife 184,25, progrefs Weft* 
 184,29. it leavetb the -Eafl by degrees 1 85,2. c: 
 into Egypt 185.8. Greece 185 j2o. Italy 185*32. 
 Germany 186,15. England 1 86, 24. when it full 
 pafs over to America 190.25. fee Religion. Arts 
 and j rive way to it 185,20 — 35. both make 
 
 way for it 186,9—22.191,17 
 
 Chrijiians fou'td not be caught with the World's Bait 103, 
 
 1 24. i72,i,&c. /£* World, their foy, fee Joy. 
 
 Their State here 132,1. ribe/r Life, a Mixture of bitter 
 and fvoeet 158,20, &c. 160,161,165,25. 166,5,13. 
 their Journy to Heaven defcribed 135,25. It is that 
 of the jews towards Canaan 121,1 
 
 A Chriftmas Anthem 73 5 i* 
 
 Church, fee God's Houfe. 
 
 The Church, how tenderly regarded by God 184,9. -^ er 
 Grace and Beauty 184,14. Her Progrefs like the Suns 
 from the Eaji Weftward 184,13,24/185,2- 186,31. 
 191,13,24. Jhe is ftill dogged and driven away by Sin 
 
 Sbe is butafmall fart of the World i34- 2 7 
 
 The reformed Church, far fort of the Primitive 190,14. 
 
 Gifts of the holy Ghoft, how plentiful in the Primitive 
 
 Cburcb 51,11. bow fcarce now 5 1 ,2 3 
 
 Churches Authority to be obeyed 78516. Innocent Cuftoms 
 
 in the Church to be obferved 78, 24 
 
 Church Scbifms, how fad and lament alle 134,1. whence 
 
 can 134,16 
 
 The 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 
 The Brififh Churcb,oflate the mofi beautiful 102,1—30. 
 the Ponrifician hi the mean time printed 102,13. ths 
 reft "undrejjed 102,19. Evils tkreatnirg ruin to our 
 Church 155,20, 190,27 
 
 Ckfmiftiy 78,1 
 
 CkanJinefs recommended 1 3 ,3 
 
 Clothes worn by Man only 1 12,25. fee Rules. 
 Clouds 111,20. 112,32 
 
 Command, God's Pjgh-hand ; Permiffm,his Left 110,13 
 Commerce and Trade 1 1 2,22 
 
 Commonwealth fleered by God's Counfels 184,5 
 
 Communion, fee Sacrament. 
 Complaint, fee Praife. 
 
 Condemn. Men oft condemn that in others, which them* 
 fe lyes are guilty of 165,1 
 
 Confeffwn afpecial Remedy againfl Grief of Heart 1 1 9,7 
 Confidence 58,15. The Confidence of the Godly i67,i,&c. 
 Corfitr.cu Its bufy Nature 98,6. How to quiet it 98, 
 17. a remorfeful Confidence, of how ftrange a force 
 
 I25,3,&c. 
 
 Conjlancy. A conftant good Man fet forth 63,17* Be con- 
 
 fiant to thy Purpofes 5,1 
 
 Conftantine the Great 1 86,27 
 
 Contented Men only Happy 60,13. 61,7. Contentment 
 
 only maheth Rich 4,25. It is likened to Eire in Flint 
 
 60,9. Motives to Contentation 87,19. Our Hopes of 
 
 fo much hereafter Jhould male us Content here with a 
 
 little 131,1 
 
 Continence* All bound to contain, or marry 1,13 
 
 Conveyance, fee Soul. 
 
 Corrections, God*s Pruning-lnife 126,1 
 
 Covetoufnefs ; bafe 6,7. 69,3. dangerous 6,19. the F K oot 
 of all Evil 69,1,14. as foolijh an Idolatry as ever Egypt 
 was guilj of 187,17. an afiking of Judas'* part over 
 again 165 ,1 3 
 
 Countries. Several Countries have fever a\ Blejfings 112, 
 u. all enough to ferve their need 112,21 
 
 Creature s^ 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 ures, all flrongly and fweetly ruled by God's Will 
 110,9— -.20. 184,1. all few his infinite Power no, 
 21. all Praife Urn, fee Praife. All ufeful eve way 
 
 or other 1 1 2,1 1 2C. 1 1 3.5. all Wife for their own 
 
 Good 111,9. None of them to be refted in 154 A 
 
 exprefsa Feafl H3> 1 7 
 
 -, bow to be regarded 1,15. 1 2, 12 
 
 wle 1 1 1 ,23. worjbipped in Egypt 1 87,20 
 
 profs, it is the Cbriftians Burden 25,11. fee Affliction. 
 
 ^uriofxty in Divinity checked 127,17. and about future 
 
 Chances 138,6. 139,1 
 
 Onflows, fee Church. 
 
 D. 
 
 DAT 'and Night x checkered Twift 1 1 1,6. Day made 
 for bu fine fs ; Night for reft 55,12. 56,6. 10. 
 Work-days and Sundays corn-pared 67,1,15. 68,23. 
 fee Sunday. The laft Day heft 101,14 
 
 Day of judgment, fee judgment. 
 
 Death's Nature, altered by Chrift 115,9 18. it wx4 
 
 once hideout iSo,i. now lovely 180,13- O Death 
 where is thy Sting ! 164,1. Death defired 99,25. 
 100,22.101,17.138,3.148,26. i68,3. 180,13. ** r °b- 
 heth ui of all but our God 170,25. 171,1. its Advan- 
 tage to a Cbriflian 164,9. * 80,16. the Gate of Heaven 
 136527. 148,3c. it openeth our Eyes to fee clearly 74, 
 16. it is a curb to Sin, if wett thought of 57,5. it de- 
 firoyetbSin 58,24. it equaUetb JQngs and private Per- 
 fons 60,21 . No Age without fometlnng to mind it of 
 Death 90,13. 91,1. Death's Harbingers 170,24. 
 Death furprifeth Procrxftinxtors 71,21. Man only 
 feareth two Deaths 1 24,24 
 
 Delight, fee Joy. 
 
 Denixl, or delay of Prayers hreekxh Difcontent 71,26. 
 
 72,1 — 25 
 
 JDeferts, fee Merit. 
 
 Jkffairifig 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 Defpairing Thoughts, how fad and bitter 149,1. 177,19, 
 178.1. a Charm for Defp air 115,7. 146,18. Defpera- 
 t ion's Cave *3 5>i8 
 
 Devil, he is not fo ugly m Sin 5 5 ,22 
 
 Difciptes, fee Chriit. 
 
 Difcontenu Arguments to lay it 87,19. 18,1 
 
 Difcourfe, fee Rules. 
 
 Diftances huge and irreconcilable 157,1 
 
 Di ving fo r Pearl* 77.18 
 
 Divinity, initfelfeafy and plain 128,1, made difficult 
 by Men's nice Cur'wfiiy i2j,ij 
 
 Doilrhie and Life inMinifters, like Colours and light in 
 Glafs 59316 
 
 Doing Good, fee Good. 
 
 Dolphiyie 120,11 
 
 Doomfiay longed for 181. how terrible it will be 1 8 2,1 . 
 fee Judgment, 
 
 Doubtings of God's Favour 149,1. how removed 149,19. 
 
 178,19. 
 
 Drwnkennefs, how abominable 2,1. aCaveat for Drunk- 
 ards 89,15. Drunkards invited to the be ft draught 
 that can be 174,1 5 
 
 Dulnefs of Heart, fee Heart. 
 
 E. 
 
 EAger Undertakers and flack Vrofecutors, likened to 
 an Exhalation 163,31 
 
 Earthen Veffels, oft curious, though of mean Stuff 155,1 
 Earthly $oys, fee Wordly. 
 Eaft, the Churches, as well m the Sun's Bjfw-place, fee 
 
 Church. 
 B after 33,34 
 
 Eafy things, fee Hard. 
 
 Egypt'* Garden-gods derided 187,5. fi e w ^ once f ^ e 
 Seat of Plagues; after of Religion 185.8. fie fiaketh 
 off Chriit 9 * Yoke 185,22. and fubmitteth to Maho- 
 met's 1 88, 1 1 
 
 Elements 
 
A T ABLE. 
 
 Elements placed according to their worth 7 1 ,6 
 
 Uleph&nt H3> 2 4 
 
 ■Eloquence where befl beftowed 171,7 — 24. the Lan- 
 guage of the Heart, the higheft Efq<[Uence 163,1 — 1 5. 
 
 Empire and Arts ufher in the Go/pel i36,9 — 22. 191,17. 
 
 jee Roman. 
 Emplcyment, fee Doing good. 
 Emulation? fee Envy. 
 England'* Character 4,7. Marks of her J{uin 190,27. 
 
 , ' l9l>7 
 
 Englifh, carelefs in breeding their Children 4,13 
 
 Englifh, a Language copious and eloquent enough 162,9 
 
 Envy,atf'orm \ Emulation, a Spur 9,25 
 
 Evil-jpeaker, fee Speaker 
 
 Evils future, for eft al not 139, !,&<:• 
 
 Expenj'es, fee Rules. 
 
 Eyes. A Good J{eceiptfor them 88,25 
 
 F. 
 
 FAitVs Care, Nature and Efficacy 4i,i9,&c. It equal- 
 leth different Conditions 42,15. fee Reafon. 
 fane. The Tame of the Dead in the Power of the Living 
 
 60,25. f ee Credit. 
 
 Faft, which beft 80,1. jee Abftinence, andLent. 
 
 Fathers. Children are nearer to them than any Friends 
 
 10,13. y et ttyy Are °f l more earful of any thing than 
 
 of their Children 4,14 
 
 Feaft. That is the beft, where the Poor are Guefti 80,4 
 
 None like that at the Lord's Table I74,&c. 
 
 Fire, ufed by no Creature but Man 1 12,26 
 
 Flatterers, parcel of Devils 9,23 
 
 Flies ni,2 
 
 Flowers an Emblem of our Life here 87,1- — 18. What 
 
 Thanh thy return for B^ain 1 1 3 . 1 . A Chriftian's Joys 
 
 apd Griefs compared to the fringing and withering of 
 
 Flowers 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 Flowers i6c,i6i. A Chriflian Flower for Parad% 
 
 161.1 
 T-o Uy , 1 j ore raft Of id J or eft al future Evils 1 3 ,9 . 1 ,& < 
 food provided for all 110,2 
 
 Fortitude prefented with the Hart's Ekrs 62. 
 
 For tii fie is the Goddefs of Fools 76, 
 
 Fountains, fee Sprin 
 
 fox's brain, given to J- it ft ice 62.; 
 
 Friends, Lofs of Friends & great Lofs 397. Some Friend 
 
 like Flies 163,19. We ufe God worfe than our Friend 
 
 36,2.&c. 108,1 — -21. yea than our Foes 86,25.7c 
 
 none Jo much our Friend; m he 86,21. 100,; 
 
 Friendship muft give place to Piety 27,25. fee Rules. 
 
 Frogs 113,15 
 
 Frofts 112,16. 160.. 
 
 Fruits 112,1,6. Cold Fruits have warm i\emels 113,1- 
 
 F urres 1 1 2,1 2,1 <: 
 
 G. 
 
 GAin, which beft 106,26 
 
 Gaming, fee Rule?. 
 Gardens of Gods in Egypt 187 
 
 Gating at Churchy unlaivj id 1 4 , 1 9 
 
 -Holy Ghoft, fee Church. 
 Glafs 112,17. fee Doctrine 
 Glory full be according to the meafure of Grace 49,1 — 12. 
 
 Worldly Glory not words a Chrijiians Regard 103,13 
 Gluttony, fee Intemperance. Gluttons bid to the beft of 
 
 Banquets *74>9 
 
 GOD. Hit Altar a broken Heart 18 
 
 Hv Anger intolerable 161,4. When he hideth his Face, 
 
 how are we troubled ! 177,19. 178,1 
 
 His Bleffingfpeedeth Man's Actions 152,1. the want of 
 
 it cloggeth them x 5 2 >7 
 
 His Bounty to Man 74,1. 84,29. His two Cabinets 74,7. 
 
 why, having heaped other Blejfwgs on Man 53,21. be 
 
 kept 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 kept reft only from him 154,3. Cod our Landlord 31, 
 21 - 1 2 1 ,24! He liketh no prefentfrom va fo well as the 
 Heart 121,27.122,4,22. He acceptetb the Will for 
 the Deed 163,1 — 15 
 
 Hi* care of our Souls 37,19. 4M9* 7^,9* 39? 2 3- 100,7* 
 122,123. &* s mo Lines to draw us to himfelf 90,1. 
 How he ftrhethwith Man 93,7. 99,13. 133,17. Hh 
 Care of his People, and their Confidence in him 16 j 9 
 i,&c. He careth moft for m when he feemeth leaft to 
 do fo 145,7* How crofs and ftrange his Dealings are 
 fometimes with his Children 158,20. I59,i,&c. 161, 
 1. and how various i6o,i ? &c. i6i,i,&c. 165,25. 
 166,5,13. How he tempereth our Griefs with $oys y anl 
 why 153,7.161,15. He is our God even to Death, anl 
 after 170,29 
 
 His Corrections^ Tokens of his Love 1 26,2. His Love- 
 worheth more on our Hearts than his Rod I73,5,&C. 
 
 His due in Tythe and Time to be given him 13,2a 
 
 His Gifts far exceed our Defer ts and Returns 132,9* 
 141,1. 177,9. ityl encourage ftill to crave more 116, 
 
 1 — 15 
 
 His Glory muft .not be given to any other 70,11. it fiiouli, 
 be our end in every thing 178,21 
 
 His Goodnefs to Angels and Men 85,10 
 
 His Grace reftraineth our impetuovA Lufts 147,1 — 36. 
 we ft and in continual need of it 120,17. I37,3,&c. 
 we can do nothing well without it 137,1.149,29. Goi 
 is wont to add his Help to Man's Endeavours 79,24 
 
 His Grief for our Sins 128,17. calleth upon m to grieve- 
 
 129,1 
 
 His Houfe to be longed for 13,18. haftedunto 13,24. 
 14,13.4,25. entred with Reverence 147,17. i,&c. 
 how we ought to behave our J elves there I4,&c much 
 Benefit by coming thither 1 4 — 3 4 
 
 His Immenfny 47 ', 6. He dwelleth not in Temples made) 
 
 with Hands 99,1,24. He is invited to dwell in 
 
 K Man 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 Man 83,13.85,1. defire of God's Preface maketh this 
 Life irkfome 115,19. be convey fed of Old familiarly 
 with the Patriarchs 91,19. novo he taketh up his Man- 
 fion in the Heart 92,1. fee Heart. 
 
 His tfuftice, fee Juftice. 
 
 His J^ingdm, A Prayer for the Advancement of C 
 and. the overthrow of Sin's Kingdom 192,1 
 
 His Love urrmeafur able 90,7 '. 110,9. 126,16. 140,5.13, 
 11. it isjbewn unto m Day and Night 56,9. yea. 
 Minute 56,14. it is our fweeteft Rgpofc 56,16. the 
 Ground of our Affurance 149,19, &c. 150,1. the file 
 Caufe of our Happinefs i83,6,&c. it keepetk ui from 
 falling from God 93,1,12. 149,2c. 150,1. God ca 
 wh People 177,21. the firft Gtanct 
 
 God's Favour on the Soul, bow permanent and powerful 
 166,5. God commended his Love to us by: 
 Son to dy for us 176,10 
 
 His Omnifcience 179,19. 184,2. fee Sinner. We foul. i 
 ftill admire and adore God's eternal Conn f els 185,18. 
 186,33. 188,17.189,35.191,32. according to n 
 all things come to pafs 184,1 — - 1 o 
 
 His Thy y tranfiendent 142,2-. Arguments to excite it 
 
 137,15. I42,i3,&c. 173.5. *&*?* \uick accefs Prayer 
 
 hath to God 95,19. he ism anwe 
 
 ;5c 54,11- rely he turne:^ me 4 d ':r xo 
 
 ■;trs 126,1 1. 127,1 
 
 His Power infinite 96,1.12-6,14. whet ftf» refifl his 
 WiU 157,5. or ft par ate from his I i<7>v« 
 
 He is to be praifed by ail, by Man er 
 His Mercy to his, above all lr . 
 Praife. 
 
 His From ifes I . 5. 1 39,30. 
 
 ?rm>iience bow Praife-wortty 
 
 11c 113. hs tv:o Hands 110,13. it 
 
 109,10. 110,9. f ce Creatures. G 
 
A T A B L E. 
 
 110,25. maleth Sand check the Sea 1 10,27. fcplstb 
 
 hn Creatures 110,29. 11 1,1. ordereth Time 111,5. 
 ciirioufly and variously divideth his Gifts ii2,io,&;c. 
 H3,5,&C. provideth better for ut than we jhould for 
 our f elves 87,9. 88,5. continually taleth care for all 
 Things 152,13. efpecially for his Church 184,9 
 
 Bis Purity 93>i4 
 
 His Robes laid afide for our Rags 14^^ 5 
 
 HisWaySy and Mans 88,13. 165,25. He oft imployeth 
 mean Inftruments about high Matters 1 5 5 ,22 
 
 His Will Jhould be ours 87,19. 97,6. 159,30. it is ths 
 Hide of his Actions 1 64,2 t 
 
 His Wordy the Rule of all Religious Worjlnp 70, 13. it 
 jhould be our Rule in every thing 173,9 16 
 
 Goldy 04 ridiculom a God at Garlick 187,17. Gold and 
 Grace agree not l 9*i3 
 
 Goody doing Good } both comfortable 12,1. and profitable 
 49,1 ,&c. 70,26. A good Man de foiled 63,17 
 
 Gofpel how ujhered hi, fee Arts, ltprevaileth over An$ 
 185, 20. And Arms 185,32. fee Chriftian Reli- 
 gion. It hath its fet Periods in every Country 185,. 
 25.191,2,15. its admirable Rife, Growth, Fruits 
 
 n8,3,&c. 
 e more glorious than the Stars 1 70,16. It fupporteth 
 the World 76,15. It fs but fin all in us in comparison of 
 Corruption 30,1, &c. it hath its ebbs and fores 46, 
 23. 47,1. 48,1. 120,21. As Grace aboundeth fa 
 fiould Duty 53,7. fee Glory. God's Grace, fee 
 God. 
 
 Gratitudey fee Thankful. 
 
 Grave y fee Bed. 
 
 Great Men not to be envied 9,25 t how to be dealt with 9, 
 
 Grecian Oracles 187,26 
 
 Grief , Sins foil 170,21. It is of a fubtle and fe arch- 
 ing Nature 118,19.119,1. wafteth the Body 41,7. 
 129,25,153,11. A Remedy againft it 119,7. Griefs 
 ft 2 fume, 
 
A'TABLE. 
 
 future, not to be foreft ailed 139, 1, &c. Grief geod ? 
 if right taken 124,25. Grief for AffliBion, fee Af- 
 fliction. The Greatnefs of Grief emphatically fet out 
 158,1. It is proportioned by God's dift ance from us 
 157,17. Grief and tfoy interchangeably fucceed each 
 other i6o,i,&c. 161, i,&c, fee Sighs and Sorrow. 
 .Groans, God's Mufick 99,17. fee Sighs. 
 
 H. 
 
 HAir. A Brnjhforpowdred Hah ^9,11 
 
 Hard-heart , fee Heart. Hard things gloriom, 
 eajy, cheap and common 112,13 
 
 .Hare's Ears given to Fortitude 62,3 
 
 Harveft, which be ft 101,12 
 
 Hawk 112,20 
 
 Hear. God heareth not thofe who hear not their own 
 Vrayers 126,24. nor his Precepts 127.6 
 
 .Heart how intricate and vending 1 18,20. its Furniture 
 30,1.31,11.32,11. it is only in God's Tower 18,5. 
 37,4. The Method of his Care about it 122, 123. 
 How earneftly God woeth it 54,11. 86,18,22. He 
 .tfteemexh it more than any Gift elfe 121,27. 122,4, 
 .22. 1.63,1,15. it is all he reqidreth of va 77.26. 86, 
 .18. 107,25.. A good Heart is God's Houfe 130,5. 
 .and his Temple 92,1. more dear to him than that of 
 Solomon 99,1,^0. How faulty our Hearts are, and 
 unworthy of God's Acceptance 141,3. How to mike 
 them good 141,19. The Heart be ft when one and 
 Tingle 141,4. Jmt it 4s oft divided and parcelled out 
 
 141,16 
 The Hearts Deed of Gift 96,24. 138, 12. 141,24. 
 Chrilt hath purchafed it 97,21. it is never at re',} 
 till it come to God 99,25. 100,101,104,15. 115, 
 jp. 1.42,13. 154,12. 156.157. A broken Heart de- 
 fer ibed 82,11. how earneftly it imretb for God's 
 
 JAercj 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 Mercy 143,13, &C. 144,25- its be ft Cordial 105,9*- 
 a purge for the linn 31,13.141,19. a dull Heart? 
 how I23,4,&c. a grateful Heart, earneftly 
 
 to be begged 116,2,25. Hardnefs of the Heart 18,5. 
 30,13. 32,9,&c. 37,17. 52,25. horv removed 122,25, 
 32. a fad Heart, horn made glad i26,io,&c. 
 
 Heavenly $oys how bed exprejfed 95,1 — iS " 
 
 Heavens Light and Glory 65,13. 66,6,15. the <foys 
 there only pure and true 162.4. 166,24. Heavens 
 Happinefs defrribed 182,16. 183,1. We have here 
 foretimes a Glitnpfe of Heave?:, and but a Glimpfe 
 i48,i,&c. 166,21. our Converfatior md Cogitations 
 foould be there 101,23. the way thit . 135,25. it is 
 the Gift of God's moft fiee and undeferved Love 183,5 
 Mr. Herbert giveth fome Account of himfeif and his 
 Life 38,7,&c. 158,21. 163,16. 166,5. 169,21. hov> 
 fearfully he enxredhno Holy Orders 154,16.155,19.- 
 his Pomander 169, 16. 170,1. his Poiy or Motto. 
 
 Herbs, full of Vertue 11 1,21. how t bey cure us 3 5, 5,26,, 
 Herbs in BroGks hot and dry 113,13. each HerbJJ)eweth 
 a Deity 1 56,9 
 
 Hills, healthy 112,11 
 
 Home, our Home above 99,25. ico,22. 101,7,32. 
 
 Honefi M.in, who 63,17 
 
 Honour, what 62,25. ^oxo befl employed 27,21. 87,25. 
 how maintained 18,11. due to bafe Perfons, when in' 
 : ic,i. fee Preferment, 
 hope of future Happ . tin Ground of Content* 
 
 here 113,1. a Cbriftian's Hope grounded on nothing 
 in himjelf 149,21. but on God's unchangeable Love 
 149,25* Hopes requital of Watching, Prayer 7 %t 
 
 Bs humble in th Behaviour, but high in thy 
 \*Bs 22,7 
 
 K 3 Humility* 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 iffltj 58,12.61,25.62,17. his ever welcome 144, 
 3. 155,27, not apt to take Offence 78,21. a Step to 
 Honour 89,9 
 
 J.&I. 
 
 IjT^ Vnridted 109,1 — 8 
 
 • \^>« Idknefs, to be fled 3,25.12,13.49,13.70, 
 
 26. 71,1 
 Idle V erf ons neither confider their Sins 105,19, »<?r tffcj> 
 Saviour 106,7 
 
 Idolatry of Egypf, ftrange and monfirom 1 87,5 
 
 Mzw pro^s- m Idolatry 74,3 
 
 $eafoujy, when good 9,28 
 
 3Pe/h w///?- £e cleanly 3,7. 9,1. not profane 9,2. 15,25 
 f£SU, &0T9 precious a Name io 5>9 
 
 jewi ill Religion, its rife, eftablifhment, ruin 1 84,1 9,26 
 jews, /! J >? Chrifiians. Their Ingratitude to Chrift 19,5, 
 eager Spite agiinft him 20,5. 21,25. 22,1 ,&c. 24,29. 
 caufe of their Re je (lion, and prefent Blindnefs 146,23. 
 Their Fall w 06 our Rife 149,19. Their Re (iitutionjh ail 
 be our Hearts JDe fire 146,25. Their Defign in cruci- 
 fying Chn% crojfed 184*23 
 Incarnation 145,15. /ee Trinity. 
 In4ian Mir, tow o/tr/k/ 1 13,1a 
 Infants Clouts, little U 7 inding-Jheets 90,14 
 
 Ingratitude. Ours to God how great 74,1 30 
 
 Intemperance. Its ejfetls 79, 10 
 
 Jofs Coat given to Anguifio 153,16. AU Creatures have 
 their Joy fingle 5 only Man his double I23,27,&c.i42, 
 i,&c. Gre.zJ Jo^, d»i J/tt/e, weighed 131,19. /ee 
 Pieafure. 0#r J^ Jhould be rnodeft and moderate 
 131,1. 172,1. Whether Joy or Grief be wholefomer for 
 m 89,23. 90,1. Earthly Joys unfit for the Soul 104, 
 
 1 18. bitter and biting in the CI of e 172,17-— 28. 
 
 Spiritual Joys drown them 174,30, Joys above only 
 pure and perfect 161,22. 162,4 
 
 JudasV 
 
ATABLE. 
 
 Judas'* Treafon 19,13- 20,15 
 
 ft tfudgmem ', wfew ^!f4 rvhere 190,20* 
 
 191,21,31. how dreadful 182,1 
 
 jj?/f\ :adful to the Sinner 135,1. ;;ow /ore/y 
 
 . /e* Fox. 
 
 ;r<?i by a Similitude 42,21 
 
 K. 
 
 1 
 
 bid* Be lind and ufeful 11,26 
 
 |S^ Jfygs, God help poor KingT 57>2o 
 
 LAnguxge. line Language ill becometb foul Matter 
 171,9.-15 
 laughter, fee Rules. 
 
 law, tfe/r U/£ a?;d Benefit jjfy 
 
 Learning fioopeth to Chun's Crofs 185,20. its Branch 
 
 81,1 
 Lent-faft, to be obferved 78,15 
 
 Lefs than the ieaft of all God's Mercies, Mr. Her- 
 berts Pofy 177)9 
 , fee Lying. 
 Lifiitmfold 77,2. Our Life liVried to a Tofy of Flowers 
 87,1. it is a Mixture of Sweet and Sowre 160,161, 
 165,25. tediom to the Godly 115,1,19. rather a. Death 
 than a Life 179,20. God's due 138,16. not to be loi- 
 tered away, bntfpent in Bufinefs 71,1. No Life with- 
 out Chrift ic6,i2. No Age of our Life without Me- 
 mentoV of Death 9o,i3,&c. 9i,i,&c. A good Life* 
 rather to be dcfired than a long 87,17 
 Light, how necejfary 52,13. Light, $oy, and Leifure for 
 ever in Heaven 182,16. 183,1 
 Lime, of bow Jirange a Nature 148,1 3 
 Limons 113,15 
 Liofh Tie Lion's Pars given to Manfuetude 62,1 
 R 4 little 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 Little things not to be defpifed 12,13,19 
 
 Longing* The Longing of a broken heart deft-rib: d 142, 
 
 i3,e<c. 156,157 
 
 Lofs of Friends j fee Friends. Lofs of Love or Honour, 
 
 though hull, not to be flighted 12,13* what Lofs the 
 
 greatejt 106,25 
 
 Love and Sin, two the vafteft Things 29,5 — 10. Love, 
 
 how powerful 173,22. it is the b:ft Rhe-torick 95, 
 
 1— -18. jbarpenetb Wit, and quicknetb induftry 108, 
 
 5,17. prevailed over Gcd and Man 174,1. Love of 
 
 the Creature 45,17. of the Creator 46^7. Wc 
 
 Love, bow vain mdfoolifb 104, 1. To Jove God, who 
 
 is fit ? 108, 26. Be is to be loved above all 8i,i,&c. 
 
 140,2. even when he afflicleth 40,11. Love of the 
 
 me an eft to be accepted 12,13 . ft e Charity. 
 
 Love-Verfes, fond and foolijl) 171,9-- 21 
 
 Luft, how filthy 1,7 its Remedy 1,13 
 
 Lying, to be avoided 3,19. who moft fubjetl to it 3,21. 
 
 it double th the Fault it would cloke 3,24 
 
 M. 
 
 MJgiftrates JhouJd be fever e 4,1 
 
 Magyianirnity and Humility do well together 12,1 
 \lahometV Jmpofture 188,11. how far it prevaileth 
 
 188,19 
 Man, a little World 83,17. the great World is his 
 Servant 84,1 — 30. 85,5. the Symmetry and Sympa- 
 thy between his Parts 85,25. and between them 
 and other Creatures^ 83,27 — 30. 84,5,^:0. his Na- 
 ture , a Medley of Angelical and fenfitive 124,4. 
 Mm, how rare a Creature at fir ft 94,19. how happy 
 before his Fall 44,17. 89,23. how miferable and 
 helplefs fince 94,25. 100,8. ftort-lived , and full of 
 Sorrow 46,14. fubjeft to Chayiges 38,7, &c. 4.7,1, 
 120,21. I30,i7» mortal 56,18. 57,5. perverfe 1,19. 
 
 Rebettiom 
 
ATABLE. 
 
 fcbeUiou 37,1. 92. 12, &< and ftrangct? 
 
 wicked and wilful 92, 1 i rod j?/ir/;v 93, 
 
 13—28. averfif . 73, 27. impatient of 
 
 Reproof and Corre&ion 93,3. having bis Keafon boodr 
 winked by Lufts 94, 13, . ftant 119* 
 
 19, i2c,i. £>'o/7y rforfwg 
 
 162,1*165,7. 170,22. :• .';i 74,1—30.- 
 
 86, 5, &c. 100,14. 49 ij -f God's Goods 75, 
 
 8. < faj^l Searcher after every thing bin God 77, 
 n,&c. 78,1 — 14. aBetft 73,7.83,21- OtTree%2 % 
 
 20. 125,19. titened to a FJowe 87,1. 160^161, What 
 is Man rh.it Godfonidfo love aniwoe him 54,11*- 
 
 Man's Fall and Hi fe 34,89,23, fc/V Standing, more firm 
 nop than in 1 :9,1s. being weak and poor 
 
 of bimfelf, all iency is of ,G0d 53,5. he bath 
 
 no Ability so the kafi Good without God 137,1-. fc- 
 bath his Being and aU from him 137,16-— 24. keif 
 more God's than bis own is 1i >2. and the more hh own' 
 by bei?:r God's 151,4. Man lovetb God, becaufe Goi 
 lovetb Manfirfl 54,11. 30. Man, when void ofGrace % 
 bow filly 187,9, 1 85,i 2. apt to fill offjrom God 
 93,7. Man is fooner wrought upon by hue than force 
 
 Lira s Services of God, bow-futtoj Failings 58,20.93. 
 15. Man only among the Creatures belpn .die to take- 
 notice of the Creator 94,7,109,13. be is the Secre- 
 tary of God's I World's high Frieji 
 109,21. how he U -wont toremite God's Love 55,19* 
 S6>5 — 25. be is unworthy to 1 ~,rme 92, 
 11, &c. Men and Angels can ife God enough 
 85,35, 11 :{. 140,9,17,25 
 
 mans Attempts wrive only- ten C ! bleffetb them 
 152,1. God Jen when good 
 
 158,20. 1 5 9,1 ,&c, 100.24.161,1. Man's Extremity 
 maketb much for God's Glory 135,8. Man's Artillery 
 againftjJeaven 133^9- H¥5- i43» I 9» *5 6 >5 
 
 & 5 M,*# 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 Man Only without F^tle 5,20. Man only ufeth Clothes, 
 
 and Fire 112,25. fearetb two Deaths 124,24. hath 
 
 double Joys and Griefs 123,29*124,19. hath Tie a fur e 
 
 both in this Life and the next 123,27, 124,1, &c. 
 
 Manfuetude, fee Lion. 
 
 Marble, where woft plentiful 112,12 
 
 Mary, fee Anagram, and Virgin. 
 Mary Magdalene, by wafring Chrift, rvafced herfelf 
 
 168,1—18 
 Mafter. My Matter, the Author's ufual Title for Chrift 
 
 169,21 
 
 Mean, the raeaneft Services done for God's fake, ceafeto 
 
 be mean *79>6 
 
 Means of Grace, how various 37,19 
 
 Mediator Chrift, our Mediator to his Father 146,7 
 
 Meditation of Death 5^> x 7 
 
 Merit (though fome brag of it 182,8*; none in us 107,1. 
 
 all in Chrift I07>i3> 2 9» 182,13 
 
 Metals, why hid 111*29 
 
 Milk **3» l 7 
 
 Mine and Thine how they ftand between Chrift and a 
 
 Chrift tan 151,1 
 
 Minerals 113,20 
 
 Miniftry, a venerable and holy Ca. i<$A,i6* 155, 
 
 13. fee Preachers and Priefis. 
 Mirth hcometh not a Sinner 129,7. fe e ]°Y' 
 Mocking facred Perfons or Things, exceeding dangerom 
 
 Money, itsrije andorigi 69,1 
 
 huments, mortal, w well ai Men* 57,3. fee Tombs. 
 
 Mothers iiiidnefs, whence 142,26 
 
 Motions. Good Motions to be cherifoei 127,6* 132,24 
 
 uficK Chur boiv ravifiing 57,13 
 
 *,c igaliorz 
 
A TABLE, 
 
 N. 
 
 NAvigation , "M 1 
 Night made for Man to reft in 56,2. 84,12, 
 
 Day. 
 
 Noah'* F/we 121,17. 128^5 
 
 O. 
 
 Oy&fa, of all Sins, may be beft /pared 3> 2 
 
 Obedience 130,13- Tfo right J^ule of it I73>9> 
 
 16 
 
 economy. The economy of a good Soul *3°>5 
 
 0fcMge 9*>7 
 
 One, J onetimes equivalent to a Number 141 ,9 
 
 0wfey, rite Devils Cheats 187,26. filenced 188,8 
 
 0nter, how beautiful 130,10 
 
 #&/y 0>-^m, #0* r*/fe/y W fo e»trerf few 154^^ 
 
 Orange-tree 7 l * l & 
 
 PAradife, not fo ft able a Manfion as the Ark 89,18* 
 how forfeited 161,19. 185, 37 
 
 Paradoxes 88,14 23* ici,i.2 
 
 Parrats 83, 23 
 
 Paffions would 136,7. Paffmis jhould follow, not lead 
 
 &,n. They are loth to be curbed by reafon 81,27. Though 
 
 fierce and wild 174,1. They are bridled by Divine 
 
 Grace 147,33. When fo corrected they are very fer- 
 
 viceable 9,29 
 
 Patience, an Emblem of it 58,9 
 
 Peace, where to be found 117,23, 11 8, 1— -1 8. Where 
 
 not *X7?7« *M3 
 
 VeacQck's Plume quarrelled for 62,9 
 
 Pearls 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 Pearls dearly earned 77,18. and dearly worn 77,22- 
 Pentecoft, how glorious 5M 1 
 
 Perfections, allinChrift 108,13 
 
 Perfume, what fweetefi 169,16. 17*5,25. 176,1 
 
 Permijfwn, fee Command. 
 
 Perfecutionnot fo hurtful to the Church <x Schifm 134, 
 
 13, &c. 
 
 Perfeverance, caufed by God's Love 93,7 
 
 Phanfies meadow 136,1 
 
 Philofophy. Two Things too great for a Philofopher to 
 
 meafure 29,5 — 10 
 
 Pigeons Lii,ro 
 
 Pity in the Creature floweth from God 142,25 
 
 Pleafure not fo good/ for us as Afflitlicn 89,23. fee "Mirth. 
 
 Pleafures immoderately followed, dangerous 175,25. 
 
 Arguments perfwading to Moderation in the ufe of 
 
 them ij2,i,ikc» The ways of Pleafure 81,21. Earthly 
 
 Pleafures wearifom 72,26, and Bitternefs in the end 
 
 104,5. Plea/we weakneth the World. 76,6. Pleafure 
 
 here, but fbort; Vain, long 148,1. Pleafures here, 
 
 vain and empty ; Sorrows real andfolid 161,22 33. 
 
 172,5. Pleafure, Mahomet 5 * main Argument 188,1 1 . 
 Mans Pleafure, where chiefly 123,30. 124,13. 131,2. 
 
 132,15. 148,23. 166,21 
 Poetry, what befi 44,13* 163,1, Sec. its efficacy \,i.fee 
 
 Verfes. 
 Poyfons commonly have their Antidotes at hand 112,3 
 pomander *7M- l 7 6 *J 
 
 Poor fooneft receive the Gofpel. 1 9 1 ,3 
 
 Pope* His Policy, Power, Pride 188,2.5. 189,1,^:0. 
 
 Powdred Hair, fee Hair. 
 
 1' ratine* In our Prdiice we oft go crofs to our judgment 
 
 62,25.63,1 
 Praife due to God from Men and Angels 85, 7, &c. 
 
 AH Creatures praife him 109, 17 28,110,1. 
 
 11 h 2 9« ^4> *• But Man n bound to do it above 
 
 all 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 all, an A for all 109, 9, &c. no, 1 9. Man u 
 
 unworthy to do it 92, 11. 93, 13. God's Praife can 
 neither rife nor fall no, 22. iife can never bepraifed 
 enough 85, 25. 113, 25. 140, 9. 17, 25. i' 
 J/iow/i fa lively and chearful 198, 1. and continual 
 117, 1. 123, 24. 151, 21. 153, 1- Pri*|(& tf#<4 C0//2- 
 f 7 .> / n x m ay j I a nd toge the r 1 6 1 , 1 
 
 Prayer, better than Preaching 14, 13. b eft when moft 
 public!: 14, 1. its Excellency 96, 14. an exquifite 
 Encomium of it 43, 1. it is the heft K^y for the 
 Evening 89, 5. Motives to Proper, from God'sre'adi- 
 nefs to Bear 95, 19. and his rower and Will to help 
 $5, 1, 7. Prayer and Tears, Man's Artillery agahifl 
 Heaven 133,9. what kindretb Prayer 57, 25. 126, 
 11. 127, 1. Venial of Prayer, how trouble fome 71, 
 
 25. 72, 1 25. A Prayer agahft Sin's Triumphs 
 
 192, 1 
 
 Treacher s likned to Cburcb-Windbws 59? 1. Do&rin 
 Life Jbould combine in them- 59, 6. whatever they 
 fboiild not be dejpijed 14, 31. nor jefied at 15,9 
 
 Preferment m ahetb fome woyfe 88,5 
 
 Trefent time- only ours 13 8,26 
 
 Pre lit motion i 35j3P 
 
 Pride, an abfurd Sin for Duft and Afbes 89,1 1 
 
 Prieftbood, how facrcd and venerable 154, 16. 155, 
 
 13* who is fuftcient for jl.ch a FunSton 154,22 
 
 Priefts how to be drefjed 168,19 
 
 Procraftinators, fee Death. 
 
 Prognofticks of England 3 * Woe 15^, 20- 190, 27... of 
 
 the GofpeVs Removal to America 190, 25. q/'Chrift'j? 
 
 feaondr Coming 190,2c. 191,21,31 
 
 Providence reachetbi d downward 156,9 — 15 
 
 tvj& to the fmallefi things 184, 3. moft of all, to 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 the Church, 184., 9. God's continual Providence about 
 other Things, hindered not his hearing of Prayers 152, 
 13. fee God 
 Purging Medii . 1 72,1 8 
 
 Furpofis fhould be purfued 5,1. what fuch are like as be 
 hot in under t Mug, but cold in prof e cut ing their Pur- 
 pofey. i^3> 21 
 
 Q 
 
 Varrels to be avoided 3,i 5 
 
 R 
 
 R. 
 Am riy.i 
 
 _ Rain-bow 117,11.- 145,20 
 
 Reafon in Divine Matters jhould give place to Faith 
 
 127,21, i28,9,&c. 
 
 Redemptions a more difficult Work than Creation 25,18 
 
 defer 1 bed ■ 31*21 
 
 Reformed Church, not comparable to the Primitive 190, 
 
 Religion's Rife and Progrefs 184,13. Jewifh 184,19. 
 Chriftian 184,25. fee Chriftian. Religion left the 
 Fa ft by degrees 185,2. her removal hence- to America 
 foretold 190,25. 191,1. 20. foe beft agreeth with 
 
 ' Poverty 191,3. pe Ubeftatf.rft, and decayeth conti- 
 ally ^90,14 24 
 
 Renovation of the Heart 122.3,10. 123,20 
 
 ,13. Repent in time 104,7 
 
 RefpeS of Perfons, -none with God H 2 ?^ 
 
 Rett, why withheld from Man in this World 154*3 1 
 
 v:?/a>/, certain 42,29. the Glory thereof maheth 
 
 grim Death welcome iSo^ckc. Chrift'^ Refurretlion 
 
 Chriftian'5 Cordial 104,19 
 
 verencs 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 nee, to fo ufed in God's Houfe 14.7- 
 
 Metori \t like Love far Spiritual Mutters 95,1 
 
 Miches, one of the World? s Snares 1 it Ejteem 
 
 vre fiould haz'e of then 62.25. they are only good 
 rv hen ufed 6,10. but if we take not good heed dange- 
 rom 6,19. fee. Wealth, How to mike thy Son rich 
 
 4,'i9,&C. 
 
 Roman Empire ft ate A in Greece 186,7. translated to 
 
 Germany 186,13 
 
 Rome's Ambition after Empire 185,33. Jbe ftoopetb to 
 
 Chrift 1S5.32. Rome's Rock 18.8,21. her Sims, 
 
 Infallibility, Indigencies, whence 189,3,. with what 
 
 e.fe jhe now Jubductb all Nations 189,9*- 
 
 how fbe tefervetb and maUetb good her name B A- 
 B Y L O N 189,7. new and old Rome, both one 
 Antichriit 1 89,31 
 
 Romifh Church, fee Church. 
 
 %ofe 80,11. 111,26. an Emblem of earthly Delights 172 
 Church likened to a Kofi 134*1 
 I but Man 5,20 
 joules 7 i:,9 2C. Apparel 7,13 ar- 
 guing 11.9. behaviour at Tabic 5,13. calling our 
 j account 6,1. 15,20. 55,19. 125,3/ 1 - 
 riage toward great Perfons 9,19. Contestation 60,1. 
 61,5. Converfaiion 8,i,&c. Difcowfe io,2^,&c. 
 .; 2,i,&c. Education of 'Children 4,1 7. Frit 
 p 10,7. 86,2,&c. Gaming 7,19. Getting 
 tng 6>7,&c. Relating tfefts and Tales 3,7. Keeping 
 the Lord's Day 13,23,16. Laughter and Mirth 8,25. 
 : 0/ 7mt 3.25. 4,1. i-5,2i,&c. .tamz- 
 |; 21. Travellers 12,21 12 
 
 - 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 s. 
 
 S Abb ath gave way to the Lord's Pay 63, 8. fie Sun- 
 day. 
 Sacramental Myjtenes, eafy to Faith 128, 9- 
 
 Sacraments flowed from ChriftV fide 26, 27. 122, 5- 
 the Sacrament an efpecial Antidote againft Sin 1 74,24, 
 175, 25. to ad^hiiftcr the Sacrament, how high and jl 
 holy an Office 155,13. fee Supper. 
 Saints their Happinefi and Glory 69, 17. rohjf we may not \ 
 ird them Adoration 71, 11 •( 
 
 Scandals in the Church, vsbi 78, 1 5—26 
 
 S chirms in the Church, bovo lamentable 134, 1 
 
 Scholar, his I. 4,2 
 
 Scorn to Man's Love 12, 19 
 
 Scriptures, their excellence and ufe 50, 1 ,&c. concent and 
 harmony 5 c, 15. necejfarj and faving Truths therein, 
 : and eafy 128, r 
 
 ,S:a bounded with S-and no, 27. it affordeth a quicker 
 Taffage than Land 112,5 
 
 Seek. The Souls fitting of Cod 156, 157 
 
 Self-examination needful 6,1. 126,11 
 
 Services^ fie Sweet. 
 
 r/\;^ 112, 1 £ 
 
 dbttp in, 17 
 
 Shepherd. The Soul is a Shepherd: 73, 13 
 
 <:efi defiribed 39, I 
 
 Sigftf *»^ Groans 75, 1 —3c. $2, 11. how weU 
 
 to God 99, 17. r/\.7 <zre M/</?d 7 to him 99, 24. 116, 
 19. how neceffary they are and advantagious to Man 
 
 106-j 1 6. 145, 17. they waft the Godly to Blifs 
 
 65, 4. Sighs and Tears are Souls Artillery 133, 9. 
 142,15. 156,17. 160, 2? } . ft or m Heaven-gate 125, 
 u wtf g<wd J7gi tetter *W <*// worldly foys 101. 1 
 
 Sinners*. 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 Shiners think not of Cod's Omnipotence 92, 23. are not 
 
 to i I 9, 23. are the grate}} lifers io6 3 
 
 25, of 'hemfelves by condemning others 165, 
 
 T .. : . 105, 19. 106, l- Mirth be- 
 
 comett 129, 7. tie penitent Sinners Inven- 
 tory 30, 1 
 
 |5/Vi />•;/ w&it 170, 2. it flill purfueth the Church, as 
 i rfe Jan 191, 14, 20, 26. « cbideth and 
 :y Religion 1S7, 3. to virions Poftures 
 
 Plots to that end 1S7 191. ^ Re:' 
 
 to btht 'Libit of Religion 1 S3, 25. 190,1. what 
 
 be Gojpel hence 190, 27. Sin*s Over- 
 
 throw prayed for 192, 5 
 
 ^/V; # ffrt-ta ie jefted with 3, 7. 9, 1. n or bo a (red of 
 2, 25. nor committed to pleafe others 2, 13 — 12 
 fow prevalent it is 38, 5. /;otp *mi irfcere 4*1 eftimate 
 may be taken of it 29, 11. *i /ir exceedeth Grace 
 hithebefi 30, 1. is greater than the World 25, j8«. 
 
 29, 5 io. weakneth, vnderminetb, ruineth the 
 
 World '/6, 6, 11, 16. caufeth Sorrow 41, 1. 55, 
 
 26. bardenethtbe He&rt 52,25. 122,11,30, mahtb 
 Prayer fucce fiefs 57,25. ftainetb all where it cometh 
 58, 21. 165, 7, 14. is fouler than the Devil 55, 2. 
 grieve th Cod 128,17. 129, 10. ChriS** Sorrow 
 for it unconceivable 25, 21. 29, 13. /t <fe/Sr 
 
 ear 7£*r* 105, 19- 26, 129, I, &c. ^>:,/ Sighs 
 
 io5, 1. afovereign Ami dote for h 31, 13. borv it u 
 cleanfed 58, 23—26. 122, 5 — 13. 123,16. bowbap* 
 py Man was before Sin 44 ? 1 7 
 
 .ta/, fcow rated by Divine Trovidence no, 13, 
 
 16* i& Circular Motion 114, 14 29. to *&re* 
 
 Stories 114, 26. cbeapeft Sins dearliefi pimijbed 3, 
 
 13 
 J7ee/>, a tin to Death 90, 19. the Elephant's To 
 when be Jleepetb 113,24. fime Creatures fieep out 
 
 iJEm 
 
A TABLE. 
 
 i 
 
 i 
 
 6lf: 
 
 fo 
 
 the Whiter m>< f 
 
 /jet the fraallefl Lofs 12,13 a 
 
 :,a>7g, unmanly 5,5 
 
 Solomons Temple, though glorious 99,1. W0t /# rfe^r *c 
 
 <7si <tf ferofcew <£&*« 99>7« 24^ 
 
 Son and Sun agree in found and Jenfe 162,11 
 
 Son of Man, our Saviour's Title 162,1 7 
 
 Sorrow mindeth us of Sin 174,21. Worldly Sorrow to be 
 
 turned into Godly Sorrow 164,14. Sorrow for fin 
 
 canfe th $oy 41,13. 125,18. Sorrow fuiteth not with 
 
 ChrijFs F K efurre[iion 104,19. Our Sorrows here true ; 
 
 our Fie afar esf-lfe 1 61 ,22 3 3 . 172,5 
 
 Soul, fubjeci to great Variety of Temper 46*23. 47,25- 
 i2c,2i. £?;d « is good for her to be fo A7* l 7* fa i*- 
 
 too highborn to love the World 104.1 18. fee U 
 
 clogged and dulled by the Flefo 101,18. 108,21. how 
 eamejflyjhe longethfor Mercy 142, 13,^0 156,157- 
 and for God's Frefe71.ce 99,25. 1 00,101 • God's Fa- 
 vour, the Lije and Light of the Soul 177,19. 178,1. 
 A Godly Soul, like a well-ordered Family 130,5. Her 
 Employment 105,19 
 
 Sowre Natures, how allayed 8,7 
 
 Spade 112,20 
 
 Speech, proper to Man 83,22 
 
 Speaker. An evil Speaker mofi Foe to himfelf 89,7 
 
 Spices, whence 184,13 
 
 Spite tumeth Honey into Gall 22,17 
 
 Sponges 113,20 
 
 Spring 18,15 
 
 Springs 111,19. 112,30 
 
 Stars 65,13. 66,10,15. 71,14. 127,17. 132,19. 145, 
 19. 156,13. 175,22. caufes of the Alterations here 
 below 111,25. Virtue's Foil 170,16 
 
 Stones 111,21. 113,8 
 
 Storms, of two forts 125,1. their ufe 125,17 
 
 Strang 
 
ATABLE. 
 
 tVP\t . to be followed 2 
 
 ■\ Sun, fee Son, Sun, thought to make toe 
 i I 19. regular in his Courfe 5,22. ; 
 
 1 tio?i 77,2. his Con Church. 
 
 } fundi?* How it beam? the Chilians 
 
 its p* I4,i9,ckc. ' 
 
 22. r days 61.17. 67,1,1s* 
 
 ,22. how it is to be cbferved 13,21. 14,1c- *5, 
 
 . 7fe Lord's I .1 Food 4 
 
 44,13. all invited thereto 17 
 
 174,11,2;, 
 
 « 22,3c. fie L*jK0r i;z rftet C 
 
 /omf, Blood to others 122,34. 174,2c. 
 
 Snretifip, to be avoided by Fathers of Children 10,13. 
 
 fee Rules. 
 Swearing, a cheap fin, but dearly punifited 3 2 ^3 
 
 Sweet. God's Acceptance of our Services, how fwee: a 
 Content 169,26. 170,1. nothing fo fweet as Gofs 
 Love 166,5. 175,13. 176,1. my Mailer, how fweet 
 words to the Author 169,16 
 
 TAble. How to behave ones felf there 5,13 
 
 Tales, bow 3,7 
 
 Tarantula s biting, bow cured 181,11 
 
 Tears, wifioed for 158,1. their Prevalence 130,19. 
 133,9. 140,21. Fruit 114,9. 12 9>3« r 'g** Channel 
 164,17. Bottle 152,19. when worft forborn 105, 
 
 19 26. *>h Mary Magdalen jffefft'fcrs onCbrift, 
 
 . 8.1. (3t/?V Wood fupplieth our want 
 of Tears ' 129,25. 152,25 
 
 Tempefis 
 
"6, if' 
 
 h i« 123, 25 V 
 
 A TABLE. 
 
 Tempefts, tradable to God no, 25. y/y&f* 0/ Tempeft% 
 that .1 limit God himfelf 125 
 
 Temple, fee Solomon. 
 
 Temptations of the World, anfaered 103, 1, &c. 
 
 ThanffuL We can never be too thankful for God's Mer- 
 cies 140, 1, 8cc. ire grow are enough 141, 1 
 thankful Heart a great BJeJfing 
 
 Thanks Jbould be continual 117 
 
 Thine and Mine, curioujly troified 15 
 
 Thorns 113, 5. Earth's Cwrfe, on Chrift'* Head 24, ^ 
 
 :/} Thoughts, likened to Thorns 123, 8, 22 
 
 6*j, /e<? Thorns. ^i??/«/ Thoughts, Words, WorU 
 
 run round in a $ing 114, 14 — 29 
 
 Thrift, I{ules for it 6, 7, &<;• 
 
 7i«ie, bono ordered by God in, 5* not to be J pent idly 
 and vainly by m 3, 25. Time prefent only ours 
 138, 26. 7/Wj Office, changed by Chrift'j coming 
 
 115,9 1 8. fcw i/ffe feemeth dull to fome, Jkarp 
 
 to others n^i« all Nations have their fit time for 
 the Gofpel 135, 25. 191, 2, 15. I^rer Times ft ill 
 rvorfe 1 90, 1 2 
 
 7/>k, fee God's due. Nothing loft by paying Tithes 
 
 Tombs, fee Monuments. JFto «j£ jo ie made of the 
 
 fight of them 56, 18 
 
 Tongue. An ill Tongue hurtetb the owner moft 89, 7 
 
 Travellers. A fafe Cwdud for them 89,1 
 
 7rew in, 18 
 
 % inity, a deep Myftery \ Incarnation, afioeet one 74, 7 
 
 Trinin-Sunday. a Prayer for it ■ 59, 16 
 
 , ever to be yielded to n, 29. threefold 3r l 9 
 
 Necejfary Truths be clear and evident 12S, 1 
 
 W Oral Cjb«sitf, give# ^ Temperance, s 62, 5 
 
 fW/gri 
 
 \ 
 
. A T A B L E. 
 v. &u. 
 
 V Alleys, fruitful 
 
 II V Valour, roho truly Valiant 9, 1 3 
 
 fdnity and Vexation, all here below ico, 23. ici. 7 
 
 Vapour. See Exhalation. 
 Verfe s fuit not with excejfive Sorrow 158, 13. the Quid- 
 dity of a Verfe 61, 9. wherein the Good?iejs of a 
 Verfe confifteth i63,i,&c. 171, 6. Pove-Verfes the 
 Abufe of Poetry 171, 7—24. .fee Poetry. 
 25/^4 Virgin, her high Eminences 7Q*4 
 
 Virtue only Immortal 80, 19. wore bright than the Stars 
 170, 16. Several Virtues receive feveral Prefentsfrom 
 the Beaft 61,21. 62, 20. igfcjf rh^ quarrel^ the Be aft s 
 leap upon the Throne * 62,13 
 
 Vniverfity Life defer ibed 3 9, 1 5 
 
 F01W of Love to Chrift 27, 17, &C. 40, 1 1 
 
 Urim and Thummim, what i6i],2o 
 
 Vfe, fee Abufe. 
 
 \V. 
 
 Atcbirg, Weeping, and Fraying, how reward- 
 ei 114, z 
 
 e c, how many ways ufeful to Man 84, 20. fow <fj- 
 verfly conveyed by God 112, 29 
 
 Wealth without contentment, dangerous 4, 7. JJ'7\r« di- 
 jiributed to the Vopr, it is reforei to God 2S. 
 
 See Riches. 
 Wells, fee Springs. 
 Weft, fee Chriitian Religion. 
 Whey. 
 White, Death's Colour ' 170,24 
 
 Will, 
 
fr 
 
 A TABLE. 
 
 WiR, with Godgoetb for the -work 163,1 — 15 
 
 God's Will, fee God. 
 m 9 fee Preachers. 
 Winds ferve the Mariner 112,7. and the Husbandman 
 
 112,32 
 in the Lord's Supper, like a Wing mounteth the Soul 
 upward 176,22 
 Winter., Man only feeleth two Winters 1 24,21 
 4-o,5- S35 1 - 55> l - 65,18. 68,25. 7 l > l 6- 85,1. _ 
 90,11. 98,1. 99,29. 108.25. 121,12. 138,1. 141, . V 
 7. 146,25. 153,3. 157,5,21. X 5 S ^« 160,22. 
 Wit j one of the World's Baits 103,17. how to be managed 
 and imployed 9,i,&c. 28,11. 46,12 
 Beauty raifeth Wit 46 5 i 
 Woods, where mo ft plentiful 112,12 
 Wool 112,18 
 Fftri, fee God's Word, Words, #// too foort to reach 
 heavenly Joys 05,1 18 
 
 Words 1 
 and > 
 
 Works J 
 
 .???i > /ee Thoughts 
 
 ;/V/i, God's Book 144,1. Man's Servant 84,1 30 
 
 whence its Original 76,1. Changes 76,6,11. Support 
 76,6,9,15. Z>e^y 92.C. %i» 76,16. 92,10. an Ar- 
 um of its growing old 92. fc<?w /m/e 0/ it # 
 Chriftian 134,^27. f/'v World the Pope's Mule 189, 
 
 30 
 
 lie World's Bravery , fow to if efieemed of 62, 
 
 25— we tfre 4!pr.to over-value it 63,1. it is m oft full 
 of Ajflidions 164,12. affordeth ?io B^fx or Content- 
 rnent to the Soul 100,22. ioi,i. Chriftians have 
 renounced its Vanities 172,11. nothing in it worth 
 
 a ChriitianV liking 103,1 24. the love of it 
 
 f 00 lift) and dangerous 104,1. wbofi loveth it, preferretb 
 a Murtherer before Chrift 165,1 — 12. hard to have 
 Fleafure in both Worlds 1 3 1 ,1 3 
 
 Worldly Joys, likened to a Rofe 172. worldly Loffes and 
 
 Gains 
 
ATABLE. 
 
 Cihn ufuxlly affect too much 106,23, worldj J 
 fee Sorrow. 
 form. Schifm in the Church, like a Worm in a 
 
 Vorjbip is God's Prerogative 70,16. vox allowable, u?:- 
 lefs comraxnki 7Q>*I > 2 4- 
 
 Y. 
 
 YEar, which mfl fruitful 101,14 
 
 T^tf, bow earvefi an 38 ? 7« 9°? 2 5- l6 l^ 
 
 F I A 7 I S. 
 

 
SYNAGOGUE; 
 
 OR, THE 
 
 SHADOW 
 
 TEMPLE- 
 
 Sacred Poems, 
 
 And Private 
 
 EJACULATIONS. 
 
 In Imitation of 
 
 Mr. George Herbert, 
 
 Plin.Sec. lib.i. Ep.5. 
 Stultijjimum credo ad imitandum non optima 
 quaque proponere. 
 
 I do efteem't a Folly not the leaft 
 To imitate Examples not the belt. 
 
 The Eighth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged* 
 
 L N D AT, 
 
 Printed By tf.Bdrber, forjEFFERY Wale, at 
 
 the jinge I in St.TauVs Church-Yard. 1703. 
 
To the Author. 
 
 HE that doth imitate muft comprehend ; 
 Verfe, Matter, Order, Title, Spirit, Wit ; 
 For thefe alfo our Church-Poet doth intend, 
 And he who hath his Imitation writ. 
 
 O Glory of the Time ! Beft Englifh Singer, 
 Happy both he the Hand and thou the Finger. 
 
 R. LANGFORD 
 
 Of Grays-Inn, Counfellor of Law. 
 
 Subter- 
 
Subterliminare. 
 
 DIC cujus Templum ? Cbriftu Ouis condidit ? Eic 
 Condidit Herbertus. Vic, qutbus auxiliis ? 
 Auxiliis muMs \ quibus, baud mihi dicere fas eft* 
 
 Tdtifa eft ex dfcHs lis oriundk meis. 
 
 Gratia i ft diem, dedit omnia ; protinus obftat 
 
 Ingenium, dicens, cuntlx fufffe fua. 
 Ars negax, S? nihil eft non noftrum dicit in illo ; 
 
 Nee facile eft litem compofuijfe mihi. 
 Divide ; Materiam det gratia, matericeq\ 
 
 bigevium cult us induxt, arfy modos. 
 Ko7i ; ne difpliceat pxriter res omnibus ifta, 
 
 Nee fort it x velint jura vocare fua. 
 Nempe pxrifibi jure petunt, cultufque, modofque, 
 
 Materixmque, ars, <$ gratia, $$ ingenium. 
 Ergo, velit ft quis dubitantem tollere eknehurn* 
 
 De Templo Herberti txlia ditla dabit. 
 In templo Herbertus condendo eft gratia totus, 
 
 Ars pxriter totus, tot us $5 ingenium. 
 Cedite i\omx?u, Graiix quoq\ cedite M#/#j 
 
 Vmim par cunftis Anglia jaftat opus. 
 
 A £ 
 
4 The STNJGOGVE. 
 
 •Aftefpvg Stone to the ThrefhoU 
 
 of Mr. Herbert^ Church-Porch. 
 
 X \7Hat Church is this? Chrift's Church. WhJ 
 V V builcted it ? 
 
 Mr. George Herbert. Who affifted it ? 
 Many alhfted : Who I may nor fay, 
 So much Contention might arife that way. 
 If I fay Grace gave all ; W 7 it ftraight doth thwart, 
 And fays, All that is there is mine: But Art 
 Denies, and fays, There's nothing there but's mine : 
 Nor can I eaiily the Right dcrine. 
 Divide ; fay, Grace the Matter gave, and Wit 
 Did polilh it : Art meafur'd, and made fit 
 Each fev'ral Piece, and fram'd it altogether. 
 Nay,by no means: this may not pleafe them neither. 
 None's well contented with a part alone, 
 When each doth challenge all to be his owr. 
 The Matter, the Expreiiions, and the Meafures, 
 Are equally Arts, Wits, and Graces treafures« 
 Then he, that would impartially difcuis 
 This doubtful Queftion, mutt anfwer thus : 
 In building of his Temple, Matter Herbert 
 Is equally all Grace, all W 7 it, all Art. 
 Hgman zn&Grcdan Mufes all give way : 
 One Englijb Poem darkens all your day. 
 
 The 
 
 I 
 

 The STNAGOGVE. 
 The Dedication. 
 
 Lj Firft-fruii vc been lent to 
 
 e Tree, ; r; 
 
 ne. 
 
 Nor fo divine, 
 
 .arc preiumeto call it thme. 
 
 Before 'twas ripe it tell unto the Ground: 
 
 And li nee I found 
 Itbraifed in the Dirt, nor clean, nor found. 
 
 Some I have pick'd, and wip'd, and bring thee now\ 
 
 Lord, thou know'it how : 
 Gladly I would, but dare not it avow. 
 
 is, 'tis here. Pardon the belt, 
 Accept the re it. 
 
 . ice maketh blefL. 
 
 A i 1 i s 
 
6 The STNJGQGVE. 
 
 The Church-yard. 
 
 THou that intendeft to the Church to diy, 1 \ 
 
 Come take a turn or two, before thou go'ft, j 
 In the Church-yard ; the Walk is in the way. 
 Who takes beft heed in going, hafteth moft' : 
 But he that unprepared rafhly ventures, 
 Haftens perhaps to tea I hit Death's indentures. 
 
 The Church-fyle. 
 
 SEeft thou that Style? Obferve then how it rifes, 
 Step after Step, and equally defcends : 
 Such is the way to win celeftial Prizes: 
 
 HumiHfv theccmrO begins and ends. 
 — j -, — --© 
 
 Wouldft thou in Grace to high Perfections grow ? 
 
 Shoot thy roots deep,ground thy foundations low. 
 
 Humble thy felf, and God will lift thee up : 
 Thofe that exalt themfelves he eaftethdown : 
 The Hungry he invites with him to Sup, 
 And clothes the Naked with his Robe and Crown. 
 Think not thou haft, what thou from him wouldft 
 His Labour's loft if thou thy felf can'ft fave. fhave: 
 
 Pride is the prodigality of Grace, 
 Which cafteth ail away by griping all : 
 Humility is thrift, both keeps his Place, 
 And gains by giving, rifeth by its fall. 
 To get by giving, and to lofe by keeping, 
 Is co De fad in mirth, and glad in weeping. 
 
 The 
 
The STXAGOGVE. 
 
 The Church-gate* 
 
 NExt to the Style,fee where the Gate doth fund, 
 Which turning upon Hooks and Hinges may 
 Eas'ly be fhut, or open'd with an Hand. 
 Yet conftant to its Centre ftill doth ftay, 
 And fetching a wide compafs roundabout, 
 Keeps the fame courle, and diftance, never out. 
 
 Such muft the courfe be that to Heaven tends, 
 He that the Gates of Righteoufnefs would enter, 
 Muft ftill continue conftant to his ends, 
 And fix himfelf in Gcd, as in his Centre, 
 Cleave clofe to him by faith,then move which way 
 Discretion leads thee, and thou lhalt not ftray. 
 
 We awr wander, till we lofe our hold 
 
 Of him that is cur Way, our Light, our Guide : 
 
 But, when we grow of our own ftrength too bold, 
 Onhook'd from him, we quickly turn aiide. 
 He holds us up, whilft in him we are found : 
 If once we rail from him, we go to Ground. 
 
 The Churclxvalis. 
 
 NOW view the Walls, the Church is compaiVd 
 As much for Safety, as for Ornament: (round, 
 ' fis an Inclofure. and no common Ground ; 
 'Tis God's Free-hold* and bu: our Tenement. 
 Tenants at Will, and yet in Tail, we be ; 
 Our Children have the fame right to ? r as we. 
 
 Remember there muft be no Gaps left ope, 
 
 ere God hath fene'd, for fear of fa lie Millions. 
 
 A 4 God- 
 
8 
 
 The STNAGOGVE. 
 
 Go-.'. - all, or r. 
 
 For Sins Incr its, or Mens own Intrufions- 
 
 Clofe binding Loc I ..er rait : 
 
 He that plucks out wr\ the laft. 
 
 Father refolve for all, or elfe for none : 
 Obedience univerfal he doth claim. 
 fier be wholly his, oral! thine ov. 
 vhat thou can'ft not reach, at leaft take aim i 
 belide the Mark, 
 s well hood-wink'd Shoot, or in thedar!: 
 
 The Church. 
 
 LAftly, connder where the Church doth ftand, 
 As near unto the middle as may be ; 
 God in his Service chiefly doth command 
 Above all other things Sincerity. 
 Lines drawn from lide to id* 
 
 \ in the Centre, fhort an 
 
 awsfrom 
 would bring, 
 rn, not the brim. 
 A facred Temple of the Holy Ghoft 
 Each par: null be, but his Heart molt. 
 
 HypocrilV in Church is Alchimy, 
 That cares a golden Tincture upon Br 
 There is no tffence in it ; 'tis a L 
 Though fairly ftamp't for truth-, it ofi 
 
 Only the Spirits Jqua regis. 
 
 Diicover it to be but paiiiu 
 
 The 
 
*The STNJCxOGZi. u 
 
 m 
 
 The Church-porch. 
 
 NOW, e'er thou paffeft further, fit thee dow<* 
 [n the Church-porch,and think what thou haft- 
 Let due Consideration either crown, ( feen \ 
 
 Orcrufh, thy former Purpofes, Between 
 Rafh Undertakings, and frrm Reiblutions, 
 Depends the ftrength,or weaknefs,of Conclufioia- 
 
 Trace thy Steps backward in thy Memory : 
 
 And firft reiblve of, what thou heardeft Laft^. 
 
 Sincerity ; it blots the Hiftory 
 
 Of ail religious Aftions, and doth blaft 
 
 The comfort of them, when in them God feess 
 Nothing but out-fides of Formalities 
 
 In earneftbe Religious, trifle not ; 
 
 And rather for God's lake, than for thine own 
 Thou haft rob'ri him, unleb that he have got, 
 By giving, if his Glory be not grown 
 
 Together with thy good ; who feeketh more- 
 Himfelfthan God,\vould make hi- Roof his Floor*. 
 
 Xext to Sincerity,, remember ftill," 
 
 Thou muft reiblve upon Integrity > 
 
 God will have all thou haft, thy Mind, thy Will-, 
 
 Thy Thoughts, thy Words, thy Works. A Nullity 
 It proves,when God,that fhould have all,doth find| 
 That there is any- one thing left behind,. 
 
 \nd having giv'n him all, thou muft receive 
 All that he gives.- Mete his Commandment : . 
 RcfoLve that thine Obedience muft not leave, , 
 Until it reach unto the.fame extent* 
 
I© The STNAGQ^GZL. 
 
 For all his Precepts are of equal ftrength, 
 And meafure thy Performance to the length : 
 
 Then call to mind that Conftancy muft knit 
 Thine Undertakings, and thine Aftions fail : 
 He that fets forth tow'rds Heaven, and doth (it 
 Down by the way, will be found fhort at Lift. 
 Be conftant to the end, and thou (halt have 
 An heavenly Gardland, though an earthly Grave 
 
 But he that would be conftant, muft not take 
 Religion up by fits and ftarts alone ; 
 But his continual praftice mull it make : 
 His courfe muft be from end to end but one. 
 
 Bones often broken, and knit up again, Cgain. 
 
 Lofe of their length,thou gh in their ftrength they 
 
 Laftly, remember that Humility 
 Muft folidate, and keep all clofe together. 
 What Pride pufs up with vain Futility, 
 Lies open, and exposed to all ill Weather. 
 
 An empty Bubble may fair Colour carry ; 
 
 But blow upon it, and it will Hot tarry. 
 
 Prize not thine own too high, nor under-rate 
 Another's worth ; but deal indifferently ; 
 View the Defeftsof thy Spiritual ftate," 
 And others Graces, with impartial Eye. 
 The more thou deemeft of thy felf, the lefs 
 Efleem of thee will all Men elfe exprefs. 
 
 Contract thy Leffon now, and this- is juft 
 The (um of all. He that deiires to fee 
 The Face of God, in his Religion muft 
 Sincere, entire, conftant, and humble be. 
 
 If thus refolved, fear not to proceed : (Tpeed. 
 
 Elfe the more hafte thou mak'ft, the worfe thou'lt 
 
 Church* 
 
 B 
 
TheSTNAGOGVE. n 
 
 Church-Vtenfils. 
 
 BEtwixt two dang'rous Rocks, Prophanenefs on 
 Th'one fide, on the other Super iiiticn, 
 
 How (hall I rail fecure? 
 Lord be my Steersman, hold my helm, 
 And then though Winds wi h V\ ayes o'erwhelm 
 My e>ails, I will endure 
 It patiently. The bottom of the Sea 
 Is fafe enough, if thou direct the way* 
 
 I'll tug my Tacklings then, 111 ply mine Oars* 
 And cry, a Fig for Fear* He that adores 
 The giddy Multitude 
 So much, as to deipife my Rhimes ; 
 Becaufe they tune not to the Times ; 
 I wiih may not intrude 
 His pretence here. But they (and that's enough) 
 Who love God's Houfe,will like his Houlhold-itufK 
 
 The Font. 
 
 THE Font, I fay. Why not ? And why not near 
 To the Church-door P Why not of Stone ? 
 Is not that blefled Fountain openM here, 
 
 From whence that Water flows alone, 
 Which from Sin and Uncleannefs wafheth clear ? 
 
 And may not Beggars well contented be 
 
 Their fir ft Alms at the Door to take ? 
 
 Though, when acquainted better they may fee 
 Others within that Bolder make. 
 
 L?w Places will ferve Gucfts of Iqw degree* 
 
 What? 
 
12 The STNAGOGVE- 
 
 What ? Is he not the Rock, out of whole Sicfe 
 Thofe Streams of Water-hlood rim forth ? 
 
 Th'eleci and previous Corner-ftone well try'd ? 
 Though th'odds be great between their worth* 
 
 Rock-water aiidStojie-veffels are ally'd. \u 
 
 But call It what, and place it where you will i 
 
 Let it be made indifferently 
 Of any Form, or Matter j yet, until 
 
 The bleffed Sacrament thereby 
 Impaired be, my Hopes you mail not kill*. 
 
 To want a Complement of comlineis 
 
 Some of my Comfort may abate, 
 .And for the prefent make my joy go lefs :: 
 
 Yet I will hug mine homely ftate, 
 And Poverty with Patience richly drefs* 
 
 Regeneration is all in all, 
 
 Warning, or fprinkling, but the Sign,, 
 The Seal, and Inftrument thereof;, real!; 
 
 The one, as well as thither mine, 
 jLnd my Poller ity's as federal*. 
 
 If temporal Eftates may be convey 'd', 
 
 By Covenants on condition, 
 To Men,, and to their Heirs; be not afrauly 
 
 My Soul, to reft upon 
 The Covenant of Grace by Mercy made.. 
 
 Do- but thy Duty, and rely upon't, 
 
 Repentance, Faith, Obedience, 
 When ever pra&isM, truly will amount 
 
 To an authentick Evidence, 
 Though th' Deed were antidated at the Font.. 
 
 m 
 
The STNJCxOGV E. 
 
 The Readi/tg Ptte* 
 
 T J Ere my new enter'd Soul doth firft break Fafh, 
 
 Ji Here feafoneth her Infant Taft, 
 
 And at her Mother-nurfe the Churches Duggs 
 
 With laboring Lipsaiid Tongue (he tuggs 
 For that lincereMilk, which alone doth tccd 
 
 Babes new born of immortal Seed :. 
 Who, that they may unto Perfection grow, 
 Mull be content to creep before they go. 
 
 They, that would Reading our of Church exclude. 
 
 Sure have a purpoft to obtrude 
 Some Dictates of their own, inftead of'GocKs 
 
 Revealed Will, his Word. 'Tis odds, 
 They do net mean to pay Men current Coin, 
 
 Who feek the Standard to purloin, 
 And would reduce all Tryals to their own, 
 BotliToach-ftones-, Balances, and Weights, alone. 
 
 What reasonable Man would not rnifdoubt 
 
 Thofe Comments, that the Text leave out ? 
 And that their main Intent & Alteration* 
 
 Who do at fo much on Variation, 
 That no fet Form at all they can €ndv.7c 
 
 To be prefcrib'd, or put in lire ? 
 Rejecting Bounds and Limits is the way, 
 If not all wafte, yet common all to lay- 
 But why fhoukl he, that thinks himfelf well grown* 
 
 Be ditconrent that fuch a one,. 
 As knows himfelf an Infant yet, mould be 
 
 Dandled upon his Mother's Knee, 
 And Babe-like fed with Milk, till he have got 
 
 More Strength and Stomach ? Why fhoukl not 
 
 NurQings 
 
I 
 
 14 The STNAGOGVE. 
 
 Nurflings in Church, as well as Weanlings, find' 5 
 Their Food fit for them in their proper kind ? 
 
 Let them that would build Caftles in the Air, 
 Vault thither, without Step or Stair ; 
 
 Inftead of Feet to Climb, take Wings to Fly, 
 And think their Turrets top the Sky, 
 
 But let me lay all my Foundations deep, 
 And learn before I run, to creep. 
 
 Who digs thro' Rocks to lay his Ground-works low, 
 
 May in good time build high, and fure, though ilow. 
 
 To take Degrees, perfaltum, though of quick 
 
 Dilpath, is but a Truant's trick. 
 Let us learn fir ft to know our Letters well, 
 
 Then Syllables, then Words to fpell \ 
 Then to read plainly, e*re we take the Pen 
 
 In Hand to write to other Men. 
 I doubt their Preaching is not always true, 
 Whofe way to th' Pulpit's not the Reading Pue* 
 
 The Book of Common-Yrtyer. 
 
 WHat Pray'r by th 5 Book ? And Common ? 
 Yes. Why not? 
 The Spirit of Grace, 
 And Supplication, 
 Is not left free alone 
 For Time and Place; 
 But manner too. To read, or fpeak by rote, 
 Is ail alike to him, that prays 
 With's Heart, that with his Mouth he fays* 
 
 They that in private by themfelves alone 
 Do pray, may take 
 What liberty they pleafe, 
 In choofing of the ways, 
 
 Wherein 
 
The STNJGOGVE. 15 
 
 Wherein to make 
 Their Souls molt intimate Affeftioris known 
 To him that fees in fecret, when 
 Th' are moft conceald from other Men, 
 
 But, he that unto others leads the way 
 Inpublick Pray'r, 
 Should choofe to do it lb, 
 As all, that hear, may know 
 They need not fear 
 To turn their Hearts unto his Tongue, and fay, 
 Amen ; nor doubt they were betray \\ 
 To blafpheme, when they fhouid have pray'd* 
 
 Devotion will add Life unto the Letter. 
 And why fhouid not 
 That which Authority 
 Prefcribes, efteemed be 
 Advantage got? 
 If th' Pray'r be good die Commoner, the better, 
 Prav'r in the Churches words, as well 
 As fenfe, of all Pray'rs bears the Bell. 
 
 The Bible. 
 
 T He Bible? That's the Book. The Book indeed, 
 The Book of Books : 
 On which who looks, 
 Ashe fhouid do, aright, (hall never need 
 Wifli for a better Light 
 To guide him in the Night : 
 
 Or, when he hungry is, for better Food 
 
 To feed upon, 
 
 Than this alone, 
 If he bring Stomach and Digeftion good: 
 
 And 
 
The ST-N4G OGV L. 
 
 And if he be amis, 
 
 This the beft Phyiick is. 
 
 The true Fanchrefton 'tis for ev'ry Sore, 
 And Sicknefe, which 
 The Poor and Rich, 
 With equal eafe may come by. Yea, 'tis mare, 
 An Antidote, as we'll 
 Ab Remedy 'gainft Hell* 
 
 'Tis Heaven inPerfneftive ; and the B 
 
 Of G Lory here, 
 
 If any where,. 
 By Saints on Earth anticipated is, 
 
 Whii'lt Faith to ev'ry word' 
 A being doth afford. 
 
 It is the Looking-glaft of Souls* wherein 
 • All Men may fee, 
 W hether they be 
 Stili, asbv Nature th' are, deform'd with fin 5 
 
 Or in a better Cafe, : 
 
 As new adorn 'd with Grace. 
 
 v Ti> the great Magazine of Spiritual Arms,. 
 Wherein doth lie 
 Th' Artillery 
 Of Heaven, reach* charg'dagainft all' Harms* 
 That might come by the Blows 
 Of our Infernal Foes. 
 God's Cabinet of reveai'd Cor.nfel 'tis 
 Where Weal and Woe 
 Are order'd ib, 
 That every Man may know which fhall be his ; 
 linlefs his own miftake 
 Falfe Application make»- 
 
 II 
 
The ST NAG GV E. 
 
 It is the Index to Eternity. 
 
 . cannot m 
 of endlefs Blifs, 
 
 That takes this Chart to 
 
 Nor can he b: mi::- 
 
 That fpeaketh by this Book. 
 
 A Book, to which no Book can be c 
 For Excellence; 
 
 opei to it, and cannot be fnard. 
 Divinity alone 
 Belongs to it, or none. 
 
 It is the Book of God. What if I flioi 
 Say, God of Books? 
 Let him that locks 
 Angry at that Expreflion, as too bold, 
 
 His Thoughts in Silence (mother. 
 Till he find fuch another. 
 
 1 he Puhit. 
 
 X Is Dinner-time: And rs w 
 For a full Meal. God fend me a good • 
 
 This is the Dreffer-board, ai 
 I wait in expectation of good Cheer. 
 
 I'm fare the Ma Iter oft) 
 Enough to entertain hi> ( 
 And not enough o\ fbme one fort alone. 
 But Choice of what beft fitteth ev'ry one. 
 
 God grant me Tafte and Stomack good : 
 My reeding will diveriify my rood ; 
 x Tis a good Appetite to ear, 
 
 And good Dige.ft.ion, that nukes good Meat- 
 
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iS The ST NAGOGVE. 
 
 The beft Food in it felt will b>e, 
 Not fed on well, Pcifon, not Food to me. 
 Let him that fpeaks look to his words ; my Ear 
 Muft careful be, both what and how I hear. 
 
 'Tis Minna, that 1 lock for here, 
 The Bread of Heaven, Angels Food. I fear 
 
 No want of Plenty, where I know 
 The Loaves by eating more, and greater., grow ; 
 
 Where nothing but Forbearance makes 
 A Famine; where he only wants, that takes 
 Not what he will ; provided that he would 
 Take nothing to himfelf, but what he fhoukU 
 
 Here the fame Fountain poureth forth 
 Water,,Wine, Milk,Oyl, Money, and the worth 
 
 Of all tranfeendent, infinite 
 In Excellence, and to each Appetite 
 
 In fitnels anfwerable ; fi>. 
 That none needs hence 'unfatisfied go, 
 Whole Stomach ferves him unto any thing, (bring* 
 That Health, Strength, Comfort, or Content can 
 
 Yea, dead Men here invited are 
 Unto the Bread of Life, and whilft they fpare 
 
 To come and take it, they muft blame 
 Themfelves, if they continue ftiil che fame. 
 
 The Body's fed by Food, which it 
 Aflimilates, and to it felf doth tit : 
 But, that the Soul may feed, it felt muft be 
 Transformed to the World, with it agree. 
 
 To Milk the ftrongeft Men muft be 
 As new born Babes, when ever they it fee, 
 Defiling, not defpifing it. 
 
 For ftron^Meat Babes muft ftay,an<Utrive to tit 
 
 Themfelves in time, until they can . 
 
 Lift 
 
The STNJGOGVE. ig 
 
 ! Get by degrees (which beft befeem a Man) 
 Experience-exercifed Senfes, able 
 Good to difcern from Evil, Truth from Fable. 
 
 Here I will wait then ; till I fee 
 The Steward reaching out a Mefs for me, 
 
 Refolve I'll take it thankfully, 
 Whate're it be, and feed on't heartily. 
 > Although no Benjamins choife Mefs, 
 Five times as much as others, but far lefs ; 
 Yea, if t be but a Basket full of Crumbs, 
 I'll blefs the Hand, from which, by which, it comes* 
 
 Like an invited Gueft, I will 
 Be bold, but mannerly withal, fit frill 
 
 And fee what the Mafter of the Feaft 
 Will carve unto me, and account that beft 3 
 
 Which he doth choofe for me, not I 
 My felf detire : Yea, though I fhould efpy 
 
 hJOUAv UIWJJ- al Hi ^.ll^iiing, Ail law Ct-i.ij.ili.ig, 01 
 
 The placing, yet I will not it abhor. 
 
 So that the Meat be wholefome, though 
 The Sauce (hall not be toothfome, i ; ii not go 
 
 Empty away and ftarve my Soul, 
 To feed my foolifh Fancy ; burcontroul 
 
 My Appetite to dainty things, 
 Which oft inftead of Strength, Difeafes Brings : 
 But, if my Pulpit-Hopes (hall all prove vain, 
 I'll back unto the Reading-Pue again. 
 
 The Communion^T able. 
 
 HEre ftands my Banquet ready, the lair Courfe, 
 And beic Proviftoii, 
 That I muft feed upon, . 
 Till Death my Soul and Body (hail divorfe, 
 
 And 
 
20 The Sl'NJGOGVE. 
 
 And that I am 
 CalFd to the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb. 
 
 Some alVt the Altar, Come the Holy Table. 
 
 The Name I ftick nor at, 
 
 Whether 5 !! be this, or that, 
 I care not much, fo that I may be able 
 
 Truly to know 
 Both why i: is, and may be called . 
 
 And for the m. fcter whereof it was made, 
 The matter is not much, 
 Although it be of Touch, 
 
 Or Wood, or Metal, what will laft, or fade; 
 So Vanity, 
 
 And Superfticion avoided be. 
 
 Nor would it trouble me to fee it found 
 
 Of any fafhion, 
 
 That can be thought upon, 
 Square, oval, many- angled, long, or round: 
 
 If clofe it be, 
 Fixt, open, movable, all one's to me. 
 
 And yet, methin.-.s, at a Communion 
 
 In Uniformity 
 
 There'' greateft Decency, 
 And that which maketh molt for Union : 
 
 But needfefly 
 To vary, tends to th' breach of Charity. 
 
 Yet, rather than I'll give, I will not take. 
 
 Offence, if it be given, 
 
 So that I be not driven 
 To thwart Authority, a Party make 
 
 For Faction, 
 Or fide, but ieemingly, in th! Aftioa.. 
 
 A- 
 
 At 
 
The S TAJ G OGVE. 21 
 
 Ac a Communion I wifl] [ might 
 
 V{,w? no caufe to fufpeft 
 
 Any, the Leaft, defeft 
 Of Unity and Peace, either in fight 
 
 Apparently 
 Or in Mens Hearts concealed fecretly. 
 
 That, which ordained is to make Men one, ' 
 
 More than before they were, 
 
 Should not it felf appear, 
 Though but appear, diftinftly divers. None 
 
 Too much can fee 
 Of what, when moft, yet but enough can be. 
 
 If others will dilTent, and vary, who 
 
 Can help it P If [ may, 
 
 As hath been done alway, 
 By th' beft, and moft, i will my felf do lb ; 
 
 Of one accord 
 The Servants fliould be of one God one Lord. 
 
 NEver was Gold, or Silver, grace,! thus 
 Before. 
 
 Communion Plate. 
 
 s Gold, or Silver, graced 
 Before. 
 To bring this Body, and this Blood, to us, 
 
 Is more 
 Than to crown Kings, 
 Or be made Rings, 
 For ftar-like Diamonds to glitter in 
 No precious Stones are meet to match this Bread 
 
 Divine. 
 Spirits of Pearls diffoived would but dead 
 
 This Wine, 
 This heav'nly Food 
 Is too too good 
 .To be compared to any earthly thing, 
 
 For 
 
2 2 The ST NAGOGVE. 
 
 For fuch ineftimable Treafure can 
 
 There be 
 Veffels too coftly made by any Man ? 
 Sure he 
 That knows the Meat 
 So good to eat, 
 Would wifh to fee it richly ferved in 
 
 Although 'tis true, that Sanftity's not ty'd 
 
 To State; 
 Yet lure Religion fhould not be envy'd 
 The Fate 
 Of meaner Worth, 
 To be let forth, 
 As beft becomes the Service of a King. 
 
 A King, unto whofe Crofs all Kings muft vail 
 
 Their Crowns, 
 And at his Beck in their full Courfe ftrike Sail : 
 Whofe Frowns, 
 And Smiles give date 
 Unto their Fate, 
 And doom them, either unto Weal, or Woe. 
 
 A King, whofe Will is Juftice ; and whofe Word 
 
 Is Pow'r, 
 And Wifdom both. A King, whom to afford 
 An Hour 
 Of Service truly 
 Perform'd, and duly, 
 Is to fpeak Eternity of Blifs. 
 
 When fuch a King offers to come to me, 
 
 As Food, 
 Shall I fuppofe his Carriages can be 
 
 Too good ? 
 
 No; 
 
The STNJGOGVE. 23 
 
 No: Stars to Gold 
 Turn'd, never could 
 Be rich enough to be employed fo. 
 
 If I might with then, I would have this Bread, 
 This Wine, 
 
 Veffel'd in what the Sun might blufli to fried 
 His fhine, 
 
 When he fhould fee : 
 
 But, till that be, 
 I'll reft contented with it, as it is* 
 
 Church-Officers. 
 
 STay. Officers in Church ? Take heed ; it is 
 A tender Matter to be touch'd. 
 If 1 chance to fay any thing amifs, 
 
 W hich is not fit to be avouch'd, 
 I muft expecl: whole Swarms of W 7 afps to fting me, 
 Few, or no Bees, Honey, or Wax, to bring me. 
 
 Some would have none in Church do any thing* 
 
 As Officers, but gifted Men ; 
 Others into the Number more would bring, 
 
 Than I fee warrant for: So then, 
 All that I fay, 'tis like, will cenfur'd be, 
 Through Prejudice, or partiality. 
 
 But 'tis no matter ; If Men cenfure me, 
 They but my Fellow-fervants are: 
 
 Our Lord allows us all like liberty. 
 
 I write, mine own Thoughts to declare, 
 
 Not to pleafc Men ; and, if I difpleafe any, 
 
 I will not care, fo they be of the Many. 
 
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24 The STNJGOGV K. 
 
 The Sexton. 
 
 T'He Churches Key-keep jr opens the Door, 
 And feats it, fweeps the Floor, 
 Rings Bells, digs Graves, and tills them up again *, 
 
 All Emblems unto Men, 
 Openly owning Chriltianity, 
 To mark and learn many good Leflbns by. 
 
 O thou that haft the Kev of David, who 
 Open'ftandfhurteftfu, 
 
 That none can fhut or open after thee, 
 
 Vouchfafe thy felf to be 
 Our Souls Door-keeper, by thy bjeflSd Spirit : 
 The Lock and Key's thy Mercy, not our Merit, 
 
 Cleanfe thou our firi-fbyTd Souls from th' Dirt and 
 Of every noyfome Luit, ' K DvAl 
 
 Brought in by the foul Feet of our Affections, 
 TheBeefom of Afflictions, 
 
 With th' Bleffmg of thy Spirit added to it, 
 
 If thou be pleas'd.to fay it fhail, will do it. 
 
 Lord, ringing Changes all our Bells hath marr'd, 
 Jangled they have andjarr'd 
 
 So long, they're out of Tune, and out of Frame, 
 They feem not now the fame. 
 
 Put them in Frame a-new, and once begin 
 
 To tune them fo f that they may Chime all in. 
 
 Let all our Sins be bury'd in the Grave, 
 
 No longer Rant and Rave, 
 
 As they have done, to our eternal Shame, 
 
 And the Scandal of thy Name. 
 
 Let's as Door-keepers in thine Houfe attend, 
 
 Rather than tli Throne of Wickednefs afcend. 
 
 The 
 
The SfNJGOGvE. 25 
 
 The C! 
 
 t'^T^He Churches Bible-Cierk attends 
 J[_ Her Utenfils, and ends 
 
 Her Prayers with Amen, 
 Tunes Pfalms, and to the Sacraments 
 Brings in the Elements, 
 And cakes them out again ; 
 Js humble minded, and induitrious handed, 
 ! Doth nothing of himfelf, but as commanded* 
 
 All that the VeiTels of the Lord 
 
 Do bear with one accord 
 
 Mil ft ltudy to be pure, 
 As they are: If his holy Eye 
 
 Do any Spot efpy, 
 
 He cannot it endure ; 
 But moft expefteth to be fanclify'd 
 In thofe come neareft him, and glofify'd. 
 
 Pfalms then are always tuned beft, 
 When there is moft expreft 
 The holy Pen-man's Heart : 
 All Miuick is but Difcord, where 
 That wants, or doth not bear 
 The firft and chiefeft part. 
 Voices, without Affeftion anfwerable, 
 When beft, to God are moft abominable. 
 
 Though in the bleffed Sacraments 
 The outward Elements 
 Are but as Husks and Shells ; 
 Yet he that knows the Kernels worth, 
 If even thofe fend forth 
 Some Aromatick Smells, 
 Will not efteem it wafte, left $uias like 
 Through 2tf,*r/s tide he Chrift himfelf fliould ftrike, 
 B Lord, 
 
£6 The STNAGOGVE. 
 
 Lord, without whom we cannot tell 
 
 How to fpeak or think well, 
 
 Lend us thy helping Hand, 
 
 That what we do may pleafing be, 
 
 Not to our felves but thee, 
 
 And anfwer thy Command : 
 
 So that not we alone, but thou may'ft fay 
 
 Amen to ail our Pray'rs, pray'd the right way. 
 
 The Overfeer of the Poor. 
 
 n^He Churches Almoner takes care, that none 
 J[ In their Neceffity 
 
 Shall unprovided be 
 
 Of Maint'nance, or Employment; thofe alone, 
 
 Whom carelefs Idlenefs, 
 
 Or riotous Excefs, 
 Condemns to needlefs Want, he leaves to be 
 Chaften'd a while by their own Poverty. 
 
 Thou gracious Lord, rich in thy felf, doft give 
 To all Men lib'rally, 
 Upbraiding none. Thine Eye 
 
 Is open upon all. In thee we live, 
 
 We move, and have our Being: 
 But there is more than feeing 
 
 For th 5 Poor with thee ; they are thy fpecial charge ^ 
 
 To them thou dolt thy Heart and Hand enlarge. 
 
 Four forts of Poor there are, with whom thou deal'ft, 
 
 Though always differently, 
 
 With fuch indiiferency, 
 That none hath reafon to complain ; thou heal'ft 
 
 All rhofe whom thou doft wound: 
 
 If there be any found 
 Hurt by themfelves, thou leav'ft them to endure 
 Tie Pain, 'till th' Pain render them fit for cure. 
 
 Some 
 
The STNJGOGVE. 27 
 
 Some in the World are poor, but rich in Faith : 
 
 Their outward Poverty 
 
 A plentiful Supply 
 Of inward Comforts and Contentments hath. 
 
 And their Eftate is bleft, 
 
 In this above the reft, 
 It was thy Choice, whil'ft thou on Earth did'ft flay, 
 And had'it not whereupon thy Head to lay. 
 
 Some poor in Spirit in the World are rich, 
 
 Although not many fuch : 
 
 And no Man needs to grutch 
 Their Happinefs; who to maintain that pitch, 
 
 Have an hard Task in Hand, 
 
 Nor eas'ly can withftand 
 The frrong Temptations that attend on Riches: 
 Mountains are more expos'd to Storms than Ditches. 
 
 Some rich in th' World are fp'ricually poor, 
 
 And deftitute of Grace, 
 
 Who may perchance have place 
 In the Church upon Earth ; but Heaven's Door 
 
 Too narrow is t' admit 
 
 Such Camels in at it, 
 Till they fell all they have, that Field to buy, 
 Wherein the true Treafure doth hidden lye. 
 
 Some fp'ritually poor, and deftitute 
 
 Of Grace in th' World are poor 
 
 Begging from Door to Door, 
 Accurfed both in God's and Man's Repute, 
 
 Till by their Miferies 
 
 Tutor'd they learn to prize 
 Hungring and thirfting after Righteoufnefs, 
 Whil'ft they're on Earth, their greateft Happinefs* 
 
 Lord, make me poor in Spirit, and relieve 
 Me how thou wilt thy felf, 
 No want of worldly Pelf 
 
 B 2 ShaH 
 
£8 The ST N AGOGV E. 
 
 Shall make me clifcon tented, fret and grieve. 
 
 I know thine Alms are beft : 
 
 But above all the reft, 
 Condemn me not unto the Hell of Riches, 
 Without thy Grace to countercharm the Witches. 
 
 The Church-warden. 
 
 THe Churches Guardian takes care to keep 
 Her Buildings always in Repair, 
 Unwilling that any Decay fhoukl creep 
 On them, before he is aware. 
 Nothing defac'd, 
 Nothing difplac'cl 
 He likes; but molt doth long and love to fee 
 The living Stones order'd as they fhould be. 
 
 Lord, thou not only Super-vifor art 
 
 Of all our Worts, but in all thofe, 
 Which we dare own, thine is the chiefeft part : 
 For there is none of us, that knows 
 How to do well: 
 Nor can we tell 
 What we fhould do, unleis by thee directed : 
 It profpers not that's by our felves proje&ed. 
 
 That which we think our felves to mend, we mar, 
 
 And often make it ten times worfe; 
 Reforming of Religion by JWar 
 
 Isth' Chymick Bleiiingofa Curfe. 
 Great odds it is, 
 That we (hail mifs 
 Of what we looked for: Thine Ends cannot 
 By any but by thine own Means be got. 
 
 *Tis ftrange we fo much doat upon out own 
 
 Deformity, and others Scorn. 
 As if our felves were beautiful alone: 
 
 When that which did us moft adorn 
 
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 We parpofely 
 
 Chufe to lay by, 
 Such Decency and Order, as did 
 In high'ft Efteem, and guard as well as grace us. 
 
 Is not thy Daughter glorious wit) 
 
 When clot-h'd in Needle-work w 
 Or is't nor. rather both their Shane and Sin, 
 That change her Robe into a Clour, 
 Too narrow, and 
 Too thin, to fraud 
 Her ne& much leis to be 
 
 An Ornament lit for her high Degree 
 
 Take pity on her, Lord, and heal her Breaches ; 
 
 Clothe all her Enemies with Shame; 
 All the Defpight that's done unto her, reaches 
 To the diihonour of thy Name. 
 Make all her Sons ' 
 Rich precious Stone?, 
 To Chine each of them in his proper place, 
 Receiving of thy Fulnefs, Grace for Grace. 
 
 '-pi 
 
 The Deacon. 
 
 'He Deacon ! That's the Minifter, 
 
 True, taken gen'raily : 
 And wi thou: :.;: 
 
 Intent, usd fpecially, 
 He's rurpofely ordaia'd to Minifrer 7 
 In iacred chirigs, : : another Officer.- 
 
 At poiotment, in whofe itead, 
 
 Ke doth what he fhouki do, 
 In fonis not in all : Is k I 
 
 By La ', and Cuftom too. 
 
 j re that doth neither bid, nor forbid, he 
 Bcient Authority ; 
 
 B 3' Love* 
 

 p The SrXJGOG'CI:. 
 
 Loves not to vary, when he fees 
 
 No great neceffity, 
 To what's commanded he agrees, 
 With all Humility •, 
 Knowing how highly God Submifllon prize?, 
 Pleas'd with Obedience more than Sacrifices. 
 
 Lord, thou did'ft of thy felf profefs 
 Thou wait as one that ferv'd, 
 And freely chufeft to go lefs, 
 
 Though none fo much deferrd. 
 With what Face can we then refufe to be 
 Enter'd thy Servants in a low degree ? 
 
 Thy way to Exaltation 
 Was by Humility : 
 But we, proud Generation, 
 No difference of degree 
 In holy Orders will allow ; nay more, 
 All holy Orders would turn out of Door* 
 
 JBut if thy Precept cannot do't, 
 To make us humbly ferve, 
 Nor thy example added to't, 
 
 If ftill from both we fwerve; 
 Let none of us proceed, till he can tell, 
 How t 5 ufe the Office of a Deacon well. 
 
 Which by the Bleffing of thy Spirit, 
 
 Whom thou haft left to be 
 Thy Vicar here, we may inherit, 
 And mini iter to thee, 
 Though not fo well as thou may'lt well expeft. 
 Yet U), as thou wilt pleafed b? t 5 accept. 
 
 The Prieft. 
 
 THe Prieft, I fay, the Presbyter I mean, 
 As now a-days he's call'd, 
 Ey 
 
The STNJGOGVE. 31 
 
 By many Men : But I chufe to retain 
 
 " The Name wherewith in ft a If d 
 He was at firft in our own Mother-Tongue : 
 And doing fo, I hope, 1 do no wrong. 
 
 The Prieft, I fay,*s a middle Officer, 
 
 Between the Bifhop and 
 The Deacon, as a middle Officer, 
 
 Which in the Church doth Hand, 
 Between God and the People, ready preft 
 In the behalf of both to do his bell. 
 
 From him to them offers the Promifes 
 
 Of Mercy which he makes; 
 For them to him doth all their Faults confefs, 
 
 Their Pray'rs and Praifes takes, 
 And offers for them at the Throne of Grace, 
 Contentedly attending his own Place, 
 
 The Word and Sacraments, the Means of Grace, 
 
 He duly doth difpence, 
 The Flourifhes of Falfhood to deface, 
 
 W ? ith Truths clear Evidence; 
 And Sins ufurped Tyranny Supprefs, 
 B' advancing Righteoufnefs, and Holinefs. 
 
 The publick Cenfures of the Church he fees 
 
 To Execution brought : 
 But nothing rafhly of himfelf decrees, 
 
 Nor covets r be thought 
 Wifer than his Superiors ; whom always 
 He actively, or paffively obeys. 
 Lord Jefus, thou the Mediator art 
 
 Of the New Teftament, 
 And fully did'ft perform thy double part 
 
 Of God and Man when feat. 
 
 B 4 To 
 
j2 The STNJGOGVE. 
 
 To reconcile the World, and to attone 
 J Twixt it and Heaven, of two making one* 
 Yea, after the Order of Melcbiftdeck, 
 
 Thou art a Prieft for ever. 
 With perfeft Righteoufnefs thy felf do' ft deck, 
 
 Such as decayeth never. 
 Like to thy felf make all thy Prieils on Earth, 
 Blefs'd Fathers to thy Sons of th' fecond Birth. 
 Thou cam'ft to do the Will of him that fent thee, 
 
 And didft his honour leek, 
 More than thine own : Well may it then repent thee, 
 
 Being thy felf fo meek, 
 To have admitted them into the place 
 Of Sons, that feek their Fathers to difgrace. 
 Lord, grant that the Abufe may be reform'd, 
 
 Before it Ruin bring 
 Upon thy poor defpifed Church, transform'd 
 
 As if 't were no fuch thing : 
 Thou that the God of Order art, and Peace, 
 Make curs'd Confufion and Contention ceafe. 
 
 The Bifoop. 
 
 THe Bifhop? Yes, why not? What doth that 
 Import that is unlawful, or unfit ? (name 
 To fay the Overfeer is the fame 
 InSubftance, and no hurt, I hope, to it: 
 But fure if Men did not defpife the thing, 
 Such Scorn upon the Name they would not fling. 
 Some Prieils, ibme Presbyters, I mean, would be 
 Each Overfeer of his fev'ral Cure, 
 But one Superior, to overfee j 
 
 Them altogether, they will not endure ; 
 This the main difference is, that I can fee, 
 Bilhops they would not have, but they would he. 
 But who can lhew of old that ever any 
 Presbyteries without their Bilhops were : 
 
 Though 
 
The STNAGOGVE. 33 
 
 Though Bifhops without Presbyteries m; 
 
 At firft muft needs be, almoft every wher 
 That Presbyters from Bifbops firft arofe, 
 T' affift them, 's probable, not thefe from thole. 
 
 However, a true Bifhop I efteem 
 The higheft Officer the Church on Earth 
 Can have, as proper to it felf, and deem 
 A Church without one an imperfect Birth— 
 If conftituted fo at firft, and maimed, 
 If whom it had, it afterwards difclaimed- 
 
 All Order firft from Unity arifech, 
 And th } EiTence of it is Subordination:- 
 Whoever this contemns, and that defpifeth r " 
 May talk of, but intends not, Reformation. 
 'Tis not of God, of Nature, or of Art, 
 T 5 afcribe to all what's proper to one part. 
 
 To rule and to be ruled are diftinft, 
 And feveral Duties, feverally belong 
 To feveral Perfons, can no more be linktv 
 Iii altogether, than amidft the Throng. 
 Of rude unruly Paflions, in tire Heart, 
 Reafon can fee to aft her Sovereign part> 
 
 But a good Bifhop, as a tender Father, 
 Doth teach and rule the Church, and is obey': 
 And rev'renc'd by it, fo much the rather. 
 By how much he delighted more to lead 
 All by his own example in the way, 
 Than punilh any when they go aftray. 
 
 Lord, thou the Bifhop, and chief Shepherd arc 
 Of all that Flock, which thou haft purchafed 
 With thine own Blood ; to them thou deft impart 
 The Benefits which thou haft merited,. 
 Teaching and ruling by thy bleiTed Spirit,- 
 Their Souls in Grace till Glory they inherit r 
 
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34 The SYNJGOGUE. 
 
 The Stars which thou do ft hold in thy right Hand, 
 
 The An'gels of the Churches, Lord, direct 
 
 Clearly thy holy Will tounderftand, 
 
 And do accordingly : Let no defect 
 Nor fault, no not in our new Politicks, 
 Provoke thee to remove our Candlefticks ; 
 
 But let thy Urim and thy Thummim be 
 Garments of Praife t 5 adorn thy holy Ones: 
 Light and Perfection let all Men fee 
 Brightly fhine forth in thofe rich precious Stones, 
 
 Of whom thou wilt make a Foundation, 
 
 To raife thy new Hierufdem upon. 
 
 And at the Brightnefs of its riling let 
 
 All Nations with thy People fhout for Joy ; 
 
 Salvation for Wails and Bulwarks fet 
 
 About it, that nothing may it annoy. 
 
 Then the whole World thy Diocefs fhall be, 
 And Bilhops all but Suffragans to Thee. 
 
 Church Fejlivals. 
 
 M Arrow of Time, Eternity in brief, 
 Compendiums Epitomized, the chief 
 Contents, the Indices, the Title-Pages 
 Of all paft, prefent, and fucceeding Ages, 
 Sublimate Graces, antidated Glories, 
 The Cream of Holinefs, 
 
 The Inventories 
 Of future Bleffednefs, 
 The Florilegia of Celeftial Stories, 
 Spirits of Joys, the Relifhes and Clofes 
 Of Angels Mufick, Pearls diffolved, Rofes 
 Perfumed, fugar'd Honey-Combs, Delights 
 Never too highly priz'd, 
 The Marriage-Rites, 
 Which duly folemniz'd 
 
 Hiher 
 
The STNAGOGVE. 35 
 
 Other efpoufed Souls to bridal Nights, 
 Gilded Sun-beams, refined Elixars, 
 And Quinteffentiai Extra&s of Stars: 
 Who loves not you, doth but in vain profefs 
 That he loves God, or Heaven, or Happinefs. 
 
 The Sabbath, Or Lortis Day. 
 
 HAil 
 Holy 
 
 King of Days, 
 The Emperor, 
 Or Univerfal 
 
 Vail 
 
 Wholly 
 To thy Fraife 
 For evermore 
 Muft the Rehearfal 
 
 Monarch of time, the weeks Of all that honour feeks, 
 
 Perpetual Dictator. 
 
 Thy 
 
 Beauty 
 
 Far exceeds 
 
 The reach of Art, 
 
 To blazon fully 
 
 And I thy Light eclipfe, 
 
 Under theworldsCreator. 
 
 My 
 
 Duty 
 
 Yet muft needs 
 
 Yield thee mine Heart, 
 
 And that not dully : 
 
 Spirits of Souls, not Lips 
 
 When I moft ftrive to raife Aloneare fit topraife thee, 
 (thee. 
 
 What 
 
 Nothing 
 
 Elfe can be 
 
 Thou only art 
 
 Th 5 extracted Spirit 
 
 Of all Eternity, 
 
 By favour antedated 
 O 
 That I 
 Could lay by 
 This Body fo, 
 That my Soul might be 
 Incorporate with thee* 
 And no more to fix davs owe 
 
 That 
 
 Slow thing 
 Time by thee 
 Hath got theftart, 
 And doth inherit 
 That Immortality 
 Which Sin anticipated. 
 
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3 6 The STNJGOGVE, 
 
 The Annunciation^ or Ladj Day, 
 
 LX^ T to the Mnfick of the Spheres 
 Let Men, and Angels, join in Confcrt theirs 
 So great a Meffenger 
 From Heaven to Earth 
 Is feldom feen, 
 Attir'd in fo much Glory, 
 A Meffage welcomer, 
 Fraught with more Mir 
 Hath never been 
 Subject of any Story: 
 This by a double Right, if any, may 
 Ee truly ftil'd the World's'Birth-.. 
 
 Tbe.making of the World ne're coft 
 So dear, by much, as to redeem it loft. 
 God faid but, Let it be, 
 And erry thing 
 Was made ftraight wavy 
 So as he faw it good : 
 But e're that he could fee 
 A courfe to bring 
 'Man gone affray 
 To the place where he ftood ; 
 His Wifdom with his Mercy for Man's fake. 
 Againft his Juftice part did take. 
 
 And the Refult was this- days News. 
 Able the Meffenger himfelf t 5 amufe, 
 As well as her, to whom 
 By him 'twas told, 
 That though fhe were 
 A Virgin pure, and knew 
 No Man ? yet in her Womb- 
 
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The STNJGOGV F- 37 
 
 A Son fhe fhoulcl 
 Conceive and bear, 
 As fure as God was true. 
 
 Such high Place in his Favour (he pofiefk 
 Being among ail Women bleiTed. 
 
 But bleft efpecially in this, 
 That (he believed, and 'for eternal Blifs 
 ReiY'd on him, whom fhe 
 Her felf ftioukt bear, 
 And her own Son 
 Took for her Saviour- 
 And if there any be, 
 That when they hear,- 
 As fhe had done 
 Sure their behavior, 
 They may be bleiTed, as fhe was, and fay, 
 'Tis their Annunciation-day. 
 
 The Nativity } r or Chrifr;was-daj 9 . 
 
 UNfbld thy Face, unmask thy Ray, 
 Shine forth bright Sun, double 'the Day, 
 Let no malignant mifty Fume, 
 Nor foggy Vapour, once prefume 
 To interpofe thy perfefl: Sight 
 This day, which makes us love thy Light 
 For ever better, that we could 
 That bieiTed Objeft once behold, 
 Which is both the Circumference,. 
 And Centre of all excellence: 
 Or rather neither, butaTreafure 
 Unconfined without meafure, 
 Whofe Centre and Circumference, 
 Including all preheminence, 
 Excluding nothing but defetf ,.- 
 
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$8 The STNJGOGVE. 
 
 And infinite in each afpecl;, 
 Is equally both here and there, 
 And now, and then, and e'v'ry where 
 And always, one, himfelf, the fame 
 A being far above a Name. 
 Draw nearer then, and freely pour 
 Forth all thy Light into that Hour, 
 Which was crowned with his Birth, 
 And made Heaven envy Earth. 
 Let not this Birth-day clouded be, 
 By whom thou ihineft, and we fee. 
 
 The Circumcision^ or New-years day. 
 
 SOrrow betide my Sins ! Muft fmart fo foon 
 Seize on my Saviour's tender Fbfh fcarce grown 
 Unto an Eight days Age ? 
 Can nothing elfeaffwage 
 The Wrath of Heaven, but his Infant-blood ? 
 Innocent Infant, infinitely Good! 
 
 Is this thy welcome to the World, great God ! 
 No fooner born, but fubjeft to the Rod 
 
 Of fm-incenfed Wrath P 
 
 Alas, what Pleafure hath 
 Thy Father's Juftice to begin thy Paflion, 
 Almoft together with thine Incarnation ? 
 
 Is it to antedate thy death ? T' indite 
 Thy Condemnation himfelf, and write 
 
 The Copy with thy Blood, 
 
 Since nothing is lo good ? 
 Or, is't by this Experiment to try, 
 Whether thou beeft born mortal/and canft dye ? 
 
 If Man muft needs draw Blood of God, yet why 
 Stays he not till thy time be come to dye ? 
 
 Didft thou thus early bleed 
 
 For us to (hew what need 
 
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 We have to haften unto thee as faftj 
 
 And learn that all the time is loli: that's paft ? 
 
 'Tis true, we (houlddo To ; Yet in this Blood 
 .There's fomethingelfe, that mull be under ftoorl; 
 
 It feais thy Covenant, 
 
 That fo we may not want 
 Witnefs enough againit thee, that thou art 
 Made fubjett to the Law, to aft our part. 
 
 The Sacrament of thy Regeneration 
 It cannot be ; It gives no imitation 
 
 Of what thou wert, but we: 
 
 Native Impurity, 
 Original Corruption, was not thine, 
 But only as thy Righteoufnefs is mine. 
 
 In holy Baptifm this is brought to me, 
 As that in Circumcifion was to thee ; 
 
 So that thy Lofs and Pain 
 
 Do prove my Joy and Gain. 
 Thy Circumcifion writ thy Death in Blood : 
 Baptifm in Water feals my Livelihood. 
 
 O bleffed Change ! Yet, rightly underftood, 
 That Blood was Water, and this Water's Blood* 
 
 W 7 hat (hall I give again, 
 
 To recom pence thy Pain ? 
 Lord take revenge upon me for this fmart : 
 To quit thy Fore-skin, circumcife my heart. 
 
 The Epiphany, or Twelfth-day. 
 
 GReat, without controverfy great, 
 They that do know it will'confefs 
 The Myftery of Godlinefs, 
 Whereof the Gofpel doth intreat. 
 
 God 
 
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 God in the Flefh is manifeft, 
 
 And that which hath for ever b: 
 
 Invifible, may now be feen, 
 Th 5 eternal Deity new dreft. 
 
 Angels to Shepherds brought the News : 
 And wife Men guided by a Star, 
 To feek the Sun are come from far : 
 
 Gentiles have got the ftart of Jews. 
 
 The Stable and the Manger hide 
 His Glory from his own ; But thefe. 
 Though Strangers, his refplendent Rays 
 
 Of Majefty Divine have fpy'd. 
 
 Gold, Frankincenle, and Myrrh, they give; 
 And worshipping him plainly fhow, 
 That unto him they all things owe, 
 
 By whofe free Gift it is they live,. 
 
 Though clouded in a Vail of Flefh, 
 The Sun ofRighteoufnefs appears, 
 Melting cold Cares and frofty Fears, 
 
 And making Joys fpring up afrefh. 
 
 O that his Light and Influence, 
 
 Would work effectually in me. 
 
 Another new Epiphany, 
 Exhale and elevate me hence :.. 
 
 That, as my Calling doth require, 
 
 Star-like I may to others fhine :. 
 
 And guide them to that Sun divine l: 
 Whofe day-light never fhall expire. 
 
 The Paffiortj. or Good-Friday* 
 
 THis Day my Saviour dy'd; And do I live? 
 What haih not Sorrow flain me yet ? 
 Diet the Immortal God vouchfafe to give 
 
 His 
 
The SrNJGOGVE. 41 
 
 His Life for nine, and do I fet 
 More by my wretched Life, than he by his, 
 So full cf'Gtory, and of BHfs ? 
 
 Did his free Mercy, and meer Love to me r 
 Make him forfake Ins glorious Throne, 
 
 And mount a Crofs, the Stage of Infamy, 
 That fo he might not die alone, 
 
 But dying iuffer more through Grief and Shame, 
 
 Than mortal Men have pow'r to name ? 
 
 And can Ingratitude fo far prevail, 
 
 To keep me Living itili ? Alas! 
 Methinks fome Thorn out of his Crown, fome Nail, 
 
 At leaft his Spear, might pierce, and pafs 
 Thorow, and thorow, till it reviv'd mine heart j 
 
 As the right Death-deferving part. 
 
 And doth he not expeft it fhould be fo ? 
 
 Would he lay down a Price fo great. 
 And not look that hisPurchafes fhould grow 
 
 Accordingly? Shall I defeat 
 His juft defire ? O no, it cannot be: 
 
 His Death muft needs be death to me. 
 
 My Life's not mine, but his : For he did dye 
 
 That I might live ; yet died fo, 
 That being dead he was alive ; and I 
 
 Thorow the Gates of Death mult go 
 Tq live with him ; yea, to live by him here 
 
 Is a part in his Death to bear. 
 
 Die then, dull Soul, and if thou canil not die, 
 
 DiiTolve thy ieif into a S^a 
 Of living Tears, whofe Streams may ne'er go dry, 
 
 Nor turned be another way, 
 Till they have drown'ti all Joys, but thofe alone,. 
 Which Sorrow claimed! for its own. 
 
 For Sorrow !mh its Joys 5 and I am glad 
 
 That 
 
42 The STNAGOGVE. 
 
 That I would grieve, ifldonot: 
 But if [ neither could, nor would, be fad, 
 
 And forrowful, this Day, my Lot 
 Would be to grieve for ever, with a Grief 
 
 Uncapable cf all relief. 
 
 No Grief was like that, which he griev'd for irre, 
 
 A greater Grief than can be told : 
 And like my Grief for him no Grief mould be, 
 
 If I could grieve fo, as I would : 
 But what I would, and cannot, he doth fee, 
 
 And will accept, that dy'd for me. 
 
 Lord, as thy Grief and Death for me are mine, 
 For thcu haft given them unto me : 
 
 So my defires to grieve and dye are thine, 
 For they are wrought only by thee. 
 
 Not for my fake then, but thine own, be pleas'd 
 With that, which thou thy felf haft rais'd. 
 
 The R-efurrectioK) or Eafter-daj. 
 
 UP, and away, 
 Thy Saviour's gone before. 
 Why doft thou ftay, 
 
 Dull Soul ? Behold the Door 
 Is open, and his Precept bids thee rife, 
 Whofe Pow'r hath vanquilh't all thine Enemies,, 
 
 Say net, I live, 
 
 WhilTT in the Grave thou ly'ft : 
 He that doth give 
 
 Thee Life, would have thee Prize' t 
 More highly than to keep it bury'd, where 
 Thcu can'ft not make the Fruits of it appear. 
 
 Is Rottennefs, 
 
 And Duft fo pleafant to thee, 
 That Happinefs, 
 
 And 
 
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 And Heaven, cannot woe thee, 
 To fhake thy Sackles otf, and leave behind : 
 Thou - ; . hich to death and hell do bind th( 
 
 In va;. 
 
 irt bury'd wit! iour, 
 
 If thoudelay'ft, 
 
 To (hew, by thy Behaviour, 
 That thou art i i him ; Till thou fhine 
 
 Like hiir, how can'ft thou lay his Light is thin 
 
 Early he role, 
 
 And with him brought the d 
 
 Which all thy Foes 
 
 Frighted out of the way : 
 And wilt thou Sluggard-lik turn in thy Bed. 
 Till Ncon-fan-beanis draw up thy drowfy Head ? 
 
 Open thine Eyes,. 
 
 Sin-feized Soul, and fee 
 What Cobweb-ties 
 
 They are, that tramel thee ; 
 Not Profits, Pleafures, Honours, as thou thinkeft ; 
 But Lofs,Pain. Shaine,at which thou vainly win-kefc 
 
 All that is rood 
 
 Thy ^aviour dearly bought 
 With his Heart's Blood ; 
 
 And it muft there be fought. 
 Where he keeps refidence, who rofe this day : 
 r no longer then ; up, and awry. 
 
 The :on, or Holy 1 hurfday. 
 
 "X A Ount, mount, my Sen, ar. 1 climb, or rarher fly 
 JLVJL With all thy force on high, 
 'jl hy Saviour role not only, but afcended : 
 And he mult be attended 
 
 Both 
 
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 Both in his Conqueft and his Triumph too. 
 
 His Glories ftrongly woe 
 His Graces to them, and will not appear 
 In their full Luftre, until both be there. 
 
 Where he now fits, not for himfelf alone, 
 
 But that upon his Throne 
 All his Redeemed may Attendants be, 
 
 Robbed, and crown'd as he. 
 Kings without Courtiers are 'lone Men, they fay ; 
 
 Anddoft thou think to flay 
 Behind on Earth,whifftthy King reigns in Heaver.' 
 Yet not be of thy Happinefs bereaven ? 
 
 Nothing that thou canft think worth having's here 
 
 Nothing is wanting there, 
 That thou can'ft wifh, to make thee truly blefh 
 
 And above all the reft, 
 Thy Life is hid with God in Jefus Chrift, 
 
 Higher than what is high'ft. 
 O grovel then no longer here on Earth, 
 Where mis'ry ev'ry moment drowns thy mirth* 
 
 But towr, my Soul, and foar above the Skies, 
 
 Where thy true Treafure lies. 
 Though with Corruption, and Mortality 
 
 Thou clogg'd and pinion'd be ; 
 Yet thy flight Thoughts, and fprightly Wifhes, may 
 
 Speedily glide away. 
 To what thou can'ft not reach, at leaft afpire, 
 Afcefld, if not In Deed, yetindefire. 
 
 Whitfunday. 
 
 NAy ftartle not to hear the rafting Wind,, 
 Wherewith this Place is fhaken : 
 Attend a while, and thou (halt quickly find 
 How much thou art miftaken, 
 
The STNAGOGVE. 45 
 
 If thou think here 
 Is any caufe to fear. 
 
 *e'ft thou not how on thofe twelve rev'rend Heads 
 
 Sit cloven Tongues of Fire ? 
 nd as the rumour of that Wonder fpreads, 
 
 The Multitude admire 
 To fee it : and 
 
 Yet more amazed ftand 
 
 o hear at once fo great variety 
 
 Of Language from them come, 
 
 •f whom they dare be bold to fay they be 
 Bred no where but at home, 
 
 And never were 
 In place fuch Words to hear. 
 
 Lock not, prophane Defpifers of the Spirit, 
 
 At what's to you unknown : 
 his earneft he hath fent, who mult inherit 
 
 All Nations as his own : 
 That they may know 
 
 How much to him they owe. 
 
 ow that he is afcended up on high 
 
 To his celeftial Throne, 
 nd hath led captive all Captivity, 
 
 He'll not receive alone, 
 But likewife give 
 
 Gifts unto all that live ; 
 
 oall that live by him, that they may be. 
 
 In his due time, each one, 
 artakers with him in his Viftory, 
 
 Nor he triumph alone, 
 But take all his 
 
 Unto him where he is. 
 
 fit them for which bleffed ftate of Glory, 
 This is his Agent here ; 
 
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 46 The STNAGOGVE. 
 
 To publilh to the World that happy Story, 
 Always, and every where, 
 
 This refident 
 Embaflador is fent. 
 
 Heavens Legier upon Earth to counter-work 
 
 The Mines that Satan made, 
 And bring to light thofe Enemies, that lurk 
 Under Sins gloomy Shade : ' 
 
 That Hell may not 
 Still boa'i: what it hath got. 
 
 Thus Label's Curie, Confufion, is retrieval, 
 
 Diveriity of Tongues 
 By this Diviiion of the Sp'rit reliev'd ; 
 
 And to prevent ail Wrongs, 
 One Faith unites 
 
 People of diff'rent Rites. 
 
 O let his Entertainment then be fuch, 
 
 As doth him beft befit: 
 What ever he requireth think not much 
 
 Freely to yield him it : 
 For who doth this, 
 
 Reaps the Firft-fruits of blifs. 
 
 Trinity -Sunday. 
 
 GRace, W T it, and Art aflift me ; for I fee 
 The Pdbjeci of this days Solemnity 
 So far excels in worth, 
 That fooner may 
 I drain the Sea, 
 Or drive the Day 
 With Light away, 
 Than fully fet it forth, 
 Except you joyn all three to take my part, 
 And chiefly Grace fill both my Head and Heart. 
 
 Stay 
 
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 Stay bufySoul, prefume not to enquire 
 ;roo much of what Angels can but admire, 
 And never comprehend: 
 
 The Trinity 
 
 In Unity, 
 
 And Unity 
 
 In Trinity, 
 All Reafon doth tranfcend. 
 God Father, Son God, and God Holy Ghoft, 
 Who moft admireth, magnifieth moft. 
 
 And who moft magnifies beft underftands, 
 And beftexpreffeth what the Heads, and Hands, 
 And Hearts, of all Men living, 
 
 When moft they try 
 
 To glorify, 
 
 And raife on high, 
 
 Fail fhort, and lye 
 Groveling below : Man's giving 
 Is but reftoring by retail with Lofs, 
 What from his God he firft receiv'd in grofs. 
 
 Faith muft perform the Office of Invention, 
 And Elocution ftruck with Apprehenfion 
 Cf Wonder, filence keep. 
 
 Not Tongues, but Eyes 
 
 Lift to the Skies 
 
 In reverend wife, 
 
 Beft folemnize 
 This Day, whereof the deep 
 Myfterious fubjeft lies out of the reach 
 Of Wit to learn, much more of Art to teach. 
 
 Then write non Ultra here ; Look not for leave 
 To fpeak of what thou never can' ft conceive 
 Worthily, as thou fhouldeft : 
 
 And it (hall be 
 
 Enough for thee, 
 
 If 
 
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 If none but he 
 
 Himfelf doth 
 Though thou can'it nor, thou wouldeft 
 Make his Praife glorious, who is alone 
 Thrice bleifed One in Three, and Three in One, 
 
 Invitation. 
 
 TUrn 'in, lny Lord, turn in to me*, 
 Mine Heart's an homely Place ; 
 But thou can'ft make Corruption flee, 
 
 And fill it with thy Grace. 
 5o furntfhed it will be brave, 
 And a rich Dwelling thou lhalt have. 
 
 It was thy Lodging once before, 
 
 It builded was by thee; 
 But I to Sin fet ope the Door, 
 
 It rendered was by me. 
 And fo thy Building was defac'd. 
 And in thy room another plac'd. 
 
 But he ufurps, the Right is thine : 
 
 O difpoffefshim Lord ! 
 Do thou but fay, this Heart is mine, 
 
 He's gone at the firft Word. 
 Thy Word's thy Will, thy Will's thy Power, 
 Thy Time is always: now's mine hour : 
 
 Now fay to Sin, depart : 
 
 And, Son give me thine heart. 
 Thou, that by faying, Let it be, diclft make it, 
 Can'ft, if thou wilt, by laying, Give't me, take it. 
 
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 Comfort in Extremity* 
 
 Las ! my Lord is gone, 
 Oh my woe ! 
 
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The STNAGOGVE. 
 
 It will be mine undoing; 
 
 If he go, 
 I'll run and overtake him : 
 
 If he ftay, 
 ■fVM cry aloud, and make him 
 Look this way. 
 O ftay, my Lord, my Love, 'tis I j 
 Comfort me quickly, or I dye. 
 
 Cheer up thy drooping Spirits, - 
 
 1 am here. 
 Mine all-fufficient Merits 
 
 Shall appear 
 Before the Throne of Glory 
 
 In thy ftead ; 
 I'll put into thy Story 
 
 What I did. 
 Lift up thine Eyes, fad Soul, and fee 
 Thy Saviour here. Lo, I am he* 
 
 Alas] (hall I prefent 
 
 My unfulnefs. 
 To thee? thou wilt refent 
 
 The loathfomnefs 
 Be not afraid, I'll take 
 
 Thy Sins on me. 
 And all my favour make 
 
 To / Vine on thee. 
 Lord, what thou'lt have me, thou muft make n.v> 
 As I have made thee, now I take thee. 
 
 Refo lut ions and Ajfurance. 
 
 IOrd, thou wilt love me. Wilt thou not ? 
 j Beftirew that not : 
 
 It was my Sin begot 
 ThatQueftionfirft; Yes, Lord, thou wilt; 
 
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 Thy Blood was fpilt 
 To wafh away ray Guilt, 
 Lord, I will love thee. Shall I not ? 
 Befhrew that not. 
 ? Twas Death's accurfed Plot 
 To put that Queftion : Yes, I will 
 Lord love thee frill, 
 In fpight of all my 111. 
 Then Life, and Love continue ftiii 
 We (hall, and will, 
 My Lord and I, until, 
 In his Celeftial Hill, 
 We love our fill, 
 When he hath purged all mine ill. 
 
 Vows broken and renewed. 
 
 SAid I not fo, that I would fin no more ? 
 Witnefs my God, I did ; 
 Yet I am run again upon the Score : 
 My Faults cannot be hid. 
 
 V^hat (hall I do ? Make Vows, and break them ftill ? 
 
 'Twill be but labour loft ; 
 My Good cannot prevail agairifi mine III: 
 
 The Bus'nefs will be croft. 
 
 O, fay not fo ! thou can' ft not tell what ftrength 
 Thy God may give thee at the length: 
 
 Renew thy Vows, and if thou keep the laft, 
 
 Thy God will pardon all that's paft, (may'ft 
 
 Vow, whilft thou canft; while thou canft vow, thou 
 
 Perhaps perform it, when thou thinkeft leaft. 
 
 Thy God hath not deny'd thee all, 
 Whilft he permits thee but to call ; 
 Call to thy God for Grace to keep 
 
 Thy 
 
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 Thy Vows, and if thou break them weep. 
 Weep for thy broken Vows, and vow again : 
 
 s made with Tears cannot be ftill in vain* 
 Then once again 
 I vow to in end my Ways, 
 Lord, lay, Amen, 
 And. thine be ail the Praife. 
 
 Confajion. 
 
 Ol How my Mind 
 Is gravell'd ! 
 
 Not a Thought, 
 That I can find, 
 
 But's ravell'd 
 All to nought. 
 Short ends of Threds, 
 
 And narrow Shreds 
 Of Lifts, 
 Knots, fnarled RutFs, 
 
 Loofe broken Tufts 
 OfTwifts, 
 Are my torn Meditations ragged Clothing, 
 Which wound, and woven Shape a Sute for nothing : 
 One while I think, and then I am in pain 
 To think how to unthink that Thought again. 
 How can my Soul 
 
 But famifh 
 
 With this Food ? 
 Pleafures full Bowl 
 
 Tafts ramifh, 
 Taints the Blood. 
 Profit picks Bones, 
 
 And chews on Stones 
 
 That choak ; * 
 
 Honour climbs Hills* 
 
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 52 The STNJGOGVE. 
 
 Fats not, but fills 
 With Smoak. 
 And whilft my Thoughts are greedy upon thefe, 
 They pais by Pearls, and ftoop to pick up Peafe. 
 Such Wafh and Draf is fit for none but Swine; 
 And fuch I am not, Lord, if I am thine. 
 Clothe me a-new, and feed me then a-frefh : 
 Elfe my Soul dies famifh'd, and ftarv'd with Flefti. 
 
 A PARADOX. 
 
 The worfe the better. 
 
 Elcome mine Health ; this Sicknefs makes me 
 Medicines adieu : (well. 
 
 When with Difeafes I have lift to dwell, 
 I'll wifh for you. 
 
 Welcome my Strength ; thisWeaknefs makes me able. 
 
 Powers adieu : 
 W 7 hen I am weary grown of ftanding liable, 
 
 I'll wifh for you. 
 
 Welcome my W T ealth ; this Lofs hath gain'd me more. 
 
 Riches adieu : 
 When I agaia grow greedy to be poor, 
 
 I'll which for you. 
 
 Welcome my Credit; this Difgrace is Glpry. 
 
 Honours adieu : 
 When for Renown, and Fame 1 fhall be forry ? 
 
 I'll wifh for you. 
 
 Welcome Content ; this Sorrow is my Joy. 
 
 Pleafures adieu : 
 When I defire fuch Griefs as may annoy, 
 
 I'll wifh for you. 
 Health, Strength, and Riches, Credit, and Content, 
 Are fpared belt, fometimes when they are fpcnt: 
 
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 Sicknefs and Weaknefs, Lofs, Difgrace, and Sorrow, 
 Lend moft fometimes,when they moft feem to borrow. 
 Bleft be the Hand, that helps by hurting, gives 
 By taking, by forfaking me relieves. 
 If in my fall my riling be thy Will, 
 Lord, I will fay, The worfe the better ft ill. 
 I'll fpeak the Paradox, maintain thou it, 
 And let thy Grace fupply my want of Wit. 
 
 Leave me no Learning that a Man may fee, 
 
 So I may be a Scholar unto thee. 
 
 Inmates. 
 
 AN Houfe I had (an Heart I mean) fo wide 
 And full of fpacious Rooms on every fide, 
 That viewing it I thought I might do well, 
 Rather than keep it void, and make no Gain, 
 Of what I could not ufe, to entertain 
 Such Guefts as came : I did ; but what befel 
 Me quickly in that courfe, I figh to tell. 
 
 A Gueft I had (alas ! I have her itill) 
 A great big-belly'd Gueft, enough to till 
 
 The vaft content of Hell, Corruption. 
 By entertaining her, I loft my Right 
 To more than all the World hath now in fight. - 
 
 Each Day, each Hour almoft, (he brought forth 
 
 Or other bafe-begot Tr»nfgreffion. (one 
 
 The Charge grew great. I, that had loft before 
 All that I had, was forced now to fcore 
 
 For all the Charges of their Maintenance 
 In Dooms-day Book : whoever knew't would fay, 
 The leaft Sum there was more than I could pay, 
 
 When firft 'twas due, betides Continuance, (hance. 
 
 Which could not chufe but much the Debt en- 
 
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54 The STNAGOGVE. 
 
 To eafe me firft I wifh'd her to remove ; 
 
 But (he would not. I fu'd her then above, 
 And begg'd the Court of Heaven, bur in vain, 
 
 To caft her our. No, I could not evade 
 
 The Bargain, which ihe pleaded I had made, 
 That, whilft both lived, I fliould entertain, 
 At mine own charge, both her and all her Train* 
 
 No help then, but or I mull: dye, or fhe; 
 
 And yet my death ef no avail would be : 
 For one death I had dy'd already then, 
 
 When firft (he liv'd in rae ; and now to dye 
 
 Another death again were but to tye 
 
 And twill them both into a third, which when 
 It once hath feiz'd on, never ioofeth Men. 
 
 Her Death might be my Life 5 but her to kill 
 1, of my felf, had neither Power nor Will. 
 
 So defp'rate was my Cafe V/hilft I dtlr/^, 
 My Gueft ftill teem'd', my Debts ftill greater grew j 
 The left I had to pay, the more was due. 
 The more I knew, the more I was afraid : 
 The more I mus'd, the more I was difmaid. 
 
 At laft 1 learn'd, there was no way but one ; 
 
 A Friend muft do it for me. He alone, 
 That is the Lord of Life, by dying can 
 
 Save Men from death, and kill Corruption : 
 
 And many Years ago the Deed was done, 
 
 His Heart was piere'd ; out of his Side there ran 
 Sin's Corroiives, Reftoratives for Man. 
 
 This precious Balm I begg'd, for pities fake, 
 
 At Mercy's Gate: Where Faith alone may take, 
 
 What Grace and Truth do offer lib'raiiy. 
 Bounty faid, Come, I beard it, and believed ; 
 None ever there complained, but was relieve. 
 
 Hops 
 
The STNAGOGVE. 55 
 
 Hope waiting upon Faith (aid inftan 
 
 That thenceforth 1 fhould live, Corruption die* 
 
 And fo (he dy'd, I live. Bn 
 
 We are not parted; She is where (he 
 
 Cleaves fa ft unto me ftill, looks thro' mine Eyes, 
 in my Tongue, and rnufeth in my Mind, 
 
 Works with mine Hands; her Body's left behic , 
 Although her Soul be gone. My Miferies 
 All flow from hence \ from hence my Woe.* ai 
 
 I loath my felf, becauie I leave her net : 
 Yet cannot leave her. t No the is my Lor, 
 
 Now being dead, that living was my Choice : 
 And ftill, though dead, (he both conceives and Bears 
 Many Faults daily, and as-many Fears : 
 All which for Vengeance call with a loud Voice, 
 And drown my Comforts with a deadly Noiie. 
 
 Dead Bodies kept unbury'd quickly funk, 
 And putrify : How can 1 then but think 
 Corruption noifome, even mortify'd ? 
 Tho 5 fuch fhe were before, yet fuch to me 
 She feemed not. Kind Fools can never fee, 
 Or will not credit, until they have try'd, 
 That friendly looks oft falfe intents do hide. 
 
 But mortify'd Corruption lies unmaskt, 
 Blabs her own Secret, F ilthinefs unaskt, 
 
 To all that imderftand her. That do none, 
 In whom fhe lives embraced with Delight : 
 She firft of all deprives them of their Sight : 
 Then doat they on her, as upon their own, 
 AnAlhe to them Teems beautiful alone. 
 
 But woe is me ! One part of me is dea i : 
 
 : Li\ :-. Yet that which lives is led, 
 Or rather carry M Capcive unto Sin, 
 By the dead parr. 1 am a living Grave., 
 And a dead Body I within me have. 
 
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56 The STNJGOGVE. 
 
 The worfe part of the better oft doth win ; 
 
 And when I (hould have ended, I begin. 
 The fcent would choak me, were it not that Grace 
 Sometimes vouchfafeth to perfnme the Place 
 
 With Odours of the Spirit, which do eafe me, 
 And counterpoife Corruption. Bleffed Spirit, 
 Although eternal Torments be my Merit, 
 
 And of my felf Tranigreffions only pleafe me, 
 
 And Grace enough being reviv'd, to raife me* 
 Challenge thine own. Let not Intruders hold 
 Againft thy right, what to my wrong I fold. 
 
 Having no State my felf, but Tenancy, 
 And Tenancy at Will," what could I grant 
 That is not voided, if thou fay, avant ! 
 
 O fpeak the word, and make thefe Inmates Flee : 
 
 Or, which is one, take me to dwell with thee. 
 
 The Curb. 
 
 PEace, Rebel-Thought; doft thou not know thy 
 My God, is here? (King, 
 
 Cannot his Prefence, if no other thing, 
 
 Make thee forbear ? 
 Or were he abfent, all the Standers-by 
 
 A&e but his Spies ; 
 And well he knows, if thou fhould'ft it deny, 
 
 Thy words were lies. 
 If others will not, yet I mult and will, 
 
 My felf complain. 
 My God, ev'n now a bafe rebellious Thought 
 
 Began to move, 
 And fubt'ly twining with me would have wrought 
 
 Me from thy love : 
 Fain he would have me to believe, that Sin, 
 
 And thou might both ' 
 
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The STNAGOGVE. 57 
 
 Take up my Heart together for your \ m 
 
 And neither lothe 
 The others Company; a while fit ftill, 
 
 A I part again. 
 
 Tell" me, my God, how this may be red:. 
 
 The Fault is great, 
 And I the guilty party have confeft, 
 
 I muft be beat. 
 And I refufe not Punilhment for this, 
 
 Though to my Pain : 
 So I may learn to do no more amifs, 
 
 Nor fin again : 
 Correct me, if thou wilt; but teach me then 
 
 What I (hall do. 
 
 Lord of my Life, methinks 1 heard thee fay, 
 
 That Labour's eas ? d: 
 The Fault, that is confeft, is done away, 
 
 And thou art pleas'd. 
 How can I fin again, and wrong thee then, 
 
 That do'Tt relent, 
 And ceafe thine Anger ftraight, as ibon as Men. 
 
 De but repent ? 
 No, Rebel-Thought; for if thou move again* 
 
 I'll tell that too. 
 
 The Lofs. 
 
 THe Match is made 
 Between my Love and Me : 
 And therefore glad, 
 
 And merry now Til be> 
 Come Glory, crown 
 My Head, 
 
 And Pleafures drown 
 My Bed 
 
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58 The STNAGOGVL. 
 
 Of Thorns in Down. 
 Sorrow, be gone; 
 Delight, 
 
 And Toy alone 
 Befit 
 
 My Honey-Moon. 
 Be packing now, 
 
 You cumbrous Cares and Fears: 
 Mirth will allow 
 
 No room to Sighs and Tears. 
 Whilft thus I lay. 
 
 As ravifh'd with Delight, 
 I heard one fay, 
 
 So Fools their Friends requite. 
 I knew the Voice 
 
 My Lord's, 
 
 And at the Noife 
 His words 
 
 Did make, arofe. 
 I look'd, and fpy'd, 
 
 Each where, 
 
 And loudly cry*d. 
 My dear, 
 But none reply 'd: 
 Then to my Grief 
 
 I found my Love was gone. 
 Without Relief, 
 
 Leaving me ail alone. 
 
 The Search. 
 
 W Hither, Oh \ whither is my Lord departed ? 
 What can my Love, that is fo tender-hearted, 
 Forfake the Soul, which once he thorow darted, 
 As if it never fmarted ? 
 
 No, 
 
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 ure my Love is here, if I could 
 
 . leave no place behind j 
 But oh ! my Sehfes are too weak to wind him ; 
 Or elfe I do not mind him. 
 
 O no, I mind him not fo as I ought ; 
 
 Nor leek him lb as I by him was fought, 
 When I had left my felf ; he dearly bought 
 Me, that was fold for nought. 
 
 But I have wounded him, that made me found ; 
 Loft him again, by whom I firit was fou 
 
 H^m, that exalted me, have caft to th a Ground \ 
 My Sins his Blood have drowivd. 
 
 Tell me, oh ! tell me, (thou alone canft tell) 
 Lord of my Life, where thou art gone to dwell: 
 For in thy Abfence ev'n it felf is Heli ; 
 Without thee none is well. 
 
 Or, if thou be'ft not gone, but only hideft 
 Thy Prefence in place where thou abideir, 
 leach me the facre'd Art, which thou provideft 
 For all them whom thou guideft, 
 
 To feek and find thee by. Elfe here Lii Ue, 
 Until thou rind me. It thou let me die y 
 That only unto thee for Life do cry, 
 Thou dy'ft as well as I. 
 
 For, if thou Live in me, and I In thee, 
 Then either both alive, or dead inuft be : 
 At leaft ru lay my death on thee, and fee 
 If thou wilt not agree. 
 
 For, though thou be the Judge thy felf, I have 
 Thy Promife for it, which thou canft not wave, 
 That who Salvation at thine Hands do crave, 
 Thou wilt not fail to lave, ' 
 
 Oh ! 
 
6o The SrNJGOGVE. 
 
 Oh ! feek, and find me then; or elfe deny 
 Thy Truth, thy felf. O ! thou canft not lie, 
 Shew thy felf conftant to thy word draw nigh. 
 Find me. Lo, here I lie. 
 
 The Return. 
 
 LO, now my Love appears ; 
 My Tears 
 Have cleard mine Eyes : I fee 
 5 Tis he. 
 Thanks, bleffed Lord, thine Abfence was my Hell'; 
 And, now thou art returned, I am well. 
 By this I fee I muft 
 
 Not truft 
 My Joys unto my felf : 
 This Shelf 
 Of toofecure, and too prefumptnousPleafure 
 Had almoft funk my Ship, and drown'd my Treafure. 
 Who would have thought a Joy 
 
 So coy 
 To be offended fo^ 
 And go 
 So fuddenly away ? As if enjoying 
 JFuIl Pleafure and Contentment were anoying^ 
 Hereafter I had need 
 
 Take heed. 
 
 Joys, amongft other things, 
 
 Have Wings, 
 
 And watch their Opportunities of Flighty 
 
 Conrerting in a Moment Day to Night* 
 
 But, is't enough for me 
 
 To be 
 Inftrufted to be wife ? 
 I'll rife, 
 
 And 
 
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 And read a Lecture unto them that are 
 Willing to learn, how comfort dwcls with care* 
 
 He that his Joys would keep, 
 
 Mu it weep ; 
 And in the brine of Tears, 
 And Fears, 
 Muft pickle them. That Powder will preferve : 
 Faith with Repentance is the Soul's Conferve. 
 
 Learn to make much of Care: 
 
 A rare 
 And precious Balfam 'tis 
 ForBiifs; 
 Which oft refides, where Mirth with Sorrow meets ; 
 Heavenly Joys on Earth are Bitter-fweets. 
 
 Inundations. 
 
 WE talk ofNoatfs Flood, as of a Wonder ; 
 And well we may -> 
 
 The Scriptures fay, 
 The Water did prevail, the Hills were under y 
 And nothing could be feen but Sea. 
 
 And yet there are two other Floods furpals 
 That Flood as far, 
 As Heav'n one Star, 
 W 7 hich many Men regard as little, as 
 The ardinary'ft Things that are. 
 
 The one is Sin, the other is Salvation ; 
 
 And we muft need 
 
 Confefs indeed, 
 That either is an Inundation, 
 
 Which doth the Deluge far exceed. 
 
 In Noah's Flood he and his Houmold liv'd : 
 And there abode 
 A whole Ark-load* 
 
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6 2 The STNAGOGVE. 
 
 Of other Creatures, that were then repriev'd ; 
 All fafely on the Waters rode. 
 
 But, when Sin came, it overflowed all, 
 
 And left none free : 
 
 Nay even he, 
 That knew no Sin, could not releafe my Thrail, 
 But that he was made Sin for me ; 
 
 And, when Salvation came, my Saviour's Blood 
 
 Drown'd Sin again, 
 
 With all its train 
 Of Evils, overflowing them with good, 
 With Good that ever (hall remain. 
 
 O, let there be one other Inundation, 
 
 Let Grace o'erflow 
 
 In my Soul fo, 
 That Thankfulnefs may level with Salvation, 
 And Sorrow Sin may overgrow. 
 
 Then will I praife-my Lord and Saviour fo, 
 That Angels fhall 
 Admire Man's Fall, 
 When they fhall fee God's greateft Glory grow, 
 W T here Satan thought to root out all. 
 
 Si/i. 
 
 SIN, I would fain define thee : Eut thou art 
 An uncouth Thing: 
 All that I bring 
 To mew thee fully, fhews thee but in part. 
 
 I call thee the Tranfgreffion of the Law, 
 
 And yet I read, 
 
 That Sin is dead 
 Without the Law; and thence it ftrength doth draw. 
 
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 thou ar: tl Death- ? i 
 
 3mes behin 
 
 The Work is clone before the Pay be clue. 
 I fay thou art the Devil's Work ; ye: ta 
 
 Should much rather 
 
 Call thee Far: 
 For he had been no Devil but for thee. 
 What mall I call thee then ? If Death and Devil, 
 
 * Right underftood, 
 
 Be Names too good, " 
 ITi fay thou art the Quinteffence of Evil. 
 
 Travels it Home. 
 
 OFt have I wiflfd a Traveller to be ; 
 Mine Eyes did even itch the Sights to fee, 
 That I had heard and read of. Oft i have 
 Been greedy of occalion, as the Grave, 
 That never fays enough ; yet ftill was croft, 
 When Opportunities had promis'd moft. 
 At laft 1 faid, what meaner]: thou, wandering Elf, 
 To itraggle thus ? Go travel firft thy felf. 
 Thy little World can (hew thee Wonders great ; 
 The greater may have more, but nor more neat 
 And curious Pieces. Search, and thou (halt rind 
 Enough to talk of. If thou wilt, thy Mind 
 Europe fupplies, and Jfia thy Will, 
 And Afruk thy Affections. And ifftill 
 Thou lift to travel further, put thy Senfes 
 For both the Indies. Make no more Pretences, 
 
 Of new Discoveries, whilil yet thine own, 
 And neareft, little World is ftill unknown. 
 Away then with thy Quadrants, Compaffes, 
 Globes,. Tables, Cards, Maps, and minute Glafles. 
 Lay by thy Journals, and thy Diaries, 
 Clofe up thine Annals, and thine Hiftories, 
 
 Study 
 
<5 4 TheSTNJGOGVE. 
 
 Study thy felf, and read what thou haft writ 
 In thine own Book, thy Gonfcience. Is it fit 
 To labour after other Knowledge fo, 
 And thine own neareft, deareft, felf not know ? 
 Travels abroad both dear and dangerous are, 
 Whilft oft the Soul pays for the Body's Fare ; 
 Travels at Home are cheap, and fafe. Salvation, 
 Comes mounted on the Wings of Meditation. 
 He that doth live at Home and learns to know 
 God and Himfelf) needtth no further go. 
 
 The journey. 
 
 Life is a Journey. From our Mothers Wombs, 
 As Houfes, we fet out ; and in our Tombs, 
 As Inns, we reft, till it be time to rife. 
 'Twixt Rocks and Gulfs our narrow Foot-path lies i 
 Haughty Preemption and Hell-deep Defpair 
 Make our way dangerous, though feeming fair. 
 The W 7 orld with its Inticements fleek and ily, 
 Slabbers our Steps, and makes them 'flippery. 
 The Flefli, with its Corruptions, cloggs our Feet, 
 And burdens us with Loads of Lufts unmeet. 
 The Devil, where we tread, doth fpread his Snares, 
 And with Temptations takes us unawares. 
 Our Footfteps are our Thoughts, our Words, our 
 Thefe carry us along ; in thefe there Lurks (Works : 
 Envy, Luft, Avarice, Ambition, 
 The crooked Turnings to Perdition. 
 One while we creep among the thorny Brakes 
 Of worldly Profits ; and the Devil takes 
 Delight to fee us pierce our felves with Sorrow 
 To day, by thinking what might be to Morrow. 
 Another while we wade, and wallow in 
 Puddles of Pleafure ; and we never lin 
 Dawbing our felves with dirty damn'd Delights, 
 Till felf-begotten Pain our Pleafure frights. 
 
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 Sometime imble to get up the Ban] 
 
 Of icy Honour ; and we break our R. 
 
 To ftep bi Fellows ; thoi 
 
 ; oneft tireth, that ftill leads the way. 
 
 ovoke us, 
 
 We ftir th-it Duft our felves,that ferves to choke us; 
 
 And efts of Contention, which 
 
 Blew ; into the Ditch. 
 
 Our Minds (hould be our Guides: But they are blind, 
 
 Our Wills out-run our \\ ins, or lag behind. 
 
 Our furious Paffions, li sdjade3, 
 
 Hurry us headlong to th'mfemal Shades. 
 
 If God be not our Guide, our Guard, owr Friend, 
 Eternal Death will be our Journy's end. 
 
 _ . - ■■>* ' ■■ -..-.... - - » 
 
 Engines. 
 
 MEN often find, when Nature's at a ftand, 
 And hath in vain try'd all her utmoft ftrength, 
 That Art } hef Ape, can reach her out an Hand, 
 To pierce her Powers with to a full length. 
 And may not Grace have means enough in ftore, 
 Wherewith to do as much as that, and more ? 
 
 ay : She hath Engines of ev'ry kind, 
 To work what Art and Nature, when they view, 
 Stupendibus Miracles of wonder find, 
 And yet niUit needs acknowledge to be true ; 
 
 ending all their pow'r and might, 
 That i . ev'n amazed at the fight* 
 
 Take but ■ dances ; Faith, Hope, and Love. 
 
 Souls helpM by the perspective Glais of Faith 
 able to perceive what is above 
 •jeach ofRcafbn : \ea the Scripture faith, 
 Ev'n him that is invisible behold, 
 And future things, as if they'd been of old. 
 
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66 The STNJGOGV E. 
 
 Faith looks into the fecret Cabinet 
 Of God's eternal Counfels, and doth fee 
 Such Myiteries of Glory there, asfet 
 Believing Hearts on longing, till they be 
 Transformed to the fame image, and appear 
 So altered, as if themfelves were there. 
 
 Faith can raife Earth to Heaven, or draw down 
 
 Heaven to Earth, make both Extreams to meet 
 
 Felicity and Mifery, can crown 
 
 Reproach with Honour, feafon Sowre with Sweet. 
 Nothing's impofiible ro Faith : a Man 
 May do all things that he believes he can. 
 
 Hope founded upon Faith can raife the Heart 
 
 Above it felf in expectation 
 
 Of what the Soul defireth for its part ! 
 
 Then, when its time of tranfmigration 
 Is delay'd longeft, yet as patiently 
 To wait, as if t were anfwer'd by and by. 
 
 When Grief unwieldy grows, Hope can abate 
 
 The Bulk to what proportion it will : 
 
 So that a large Circumference of late 
 
 A little Centre (hall not reach to fill. 
 Nor that, which Giant-like before did ftrout, 
 Be able with a Pigmy's pace t'hold out. 
 
 Hope can difperfe the thickeft Clouds of Night, 
 That Fear hath overfpread the Soul withal, 
 And make the darkeit Shadows thine as bright, 
 As the Sun-beams fpread on a iilver W all. 
 
 Sin-ihaken Souls Hope anchor-like holds Ready, 
 W hen Storm and Teropefts make them more than 
 
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 i led by Faith, and fed with Hope, is able 
 To travel through the World's wide Wildernefs ; 
 And Burdens Teeming moft intolerable 
 Both to take up, and bear with Chearfulnefs. 
 To do, or fiiiFer, what appears in fight 
 Extreamly heavy, Love will make moft light- 
 
 Yea, what by Men is done, or flifFered, 
 Either for God, or elie tor one another, 
 Though in it felf it be much blemiihed 
 With many Imperfeftions, which (mother, 
 
 And drown the worth, and weight of it j yet, fall 
 What will, or can, Love makes amends for all* 
 
 Love doth unite, and knit, both make, and keep 
 Things one together, which were otherwise, 
 Or would be, both divers, and diftant. Deep, 
 High, long and broad, or whatfoever nze 
 
 Eternity is of, or Happinefs, 
 
 Love comprehends it all, be't more, or lefs. 
 
 Give me this threefold Cord of Graces then, 
 
 Faith, Hope and Love, let them poffefs mine Heart, 
 
 And gladly Til refign to other Men 
 
 All 1 can claim by Nature, or by Art. 
 
 To mount a Soul, and make it ftill ftand ftable, 
 Thefeare alone Engines incomparable. 
 
 To 
 
68 
 
 To my Reverend Friend, 
 
 THE 
 
 AUTHOR 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SYNAGOGUE. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 ILov'd you for your Synagogue, before 
 I knew your Perfon ; but now love you more ; 
 
 Becaufe I find 
 It is fo true aPifture of your mind : 
 
 Which tunes your facred Lyre 
 
 To that eternal Quire, 
 
 Where holy Herbert fits 
 
 ( O Shame to prophane Wits ! ) 
 And fings his and your Anthems, to the praife 
 Of him that is the firft and laft of days. 
 
 Thefe holy Hymns had an Ethereal Birth : 
 .For thev canraife fad Souls above the Earth, 
 
 And 
 
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 And fix them there 
 Free from the World's Anxieties and Fear. 
 
 Herbert and you have pow'r 
 
 To do this : ev'ry Hour 
 
 I read you kills a Sin, 
 
 Or let's a Vertue in 
 To fight againft it ; and the Holy Ghoft 
 Supports my Frailties, left the day be loft. 
 
 This holy War, taught by your happy Fen, 
 
 The Prince of Peace approves. When we poor Men 
 
 Negleft our Arms, 
 A T 'are circumvefted with a W r orld of harms. 
 
 But I will watch, and ward, 
 
 And ftand upon my Guard, 
 
 And frill confult with you, 
 
 And Herbert ', and renew 
 ,iy Vows, and fay, well fare his, and your heart, 
 4 he Fountains of fuch Sacred Wit and Art, 
 
 Jz. Wa. 
 
 To 
 
7° 
 
 To his Ingenious Friend, 
 
 The AUTHOR 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 SYNAGOGUE, 
 
 Upon his Additional 
 
 Church - Utenfils. 
 
 SO the cheap Touch-ftone's bold 
 To queftion the more noble Gold ; 
 As I, at your Command, 
 Put forth my blufhing Hand 
 To try thefe Raptures, fent to my poor Teft ; 
 But iince your Queftion's, Are they like the reft ? 
 
 I fay they are the belt : 
 That once conceiv'd, the other is confeft. 
 
 But, Sir, now they are here, 
 For to prevent a Female jeer, 
 
 Thus much affirm I do, 
 
 They're like the Father too ; 
 And you like him whofe fublime Paths you tread, 
 Herbert ! to be like whom, who'd not-be dead ? 
 
 Herbert! whom when I read, 
 I ftoop at Stars that fhine below my Head. 
 
 Herbert! 
 
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 Herbert! whofe every Strain 
 T wife holy Breafts with happy Brain 
 
 So that who thrives to be 
 
 As HLga.it as he, 
 Mud climb Mount Calvry for Parnajfus Hill, 
 And in his Saviour's Sides baptize his Quill; 
 
 A fqrdan fit t 5 in it ill 
 A Saint-like Style, back'd with an Angel's Skill. 
 
 He was our Solomon, 
 
 And you are our Centurion ; 
 
 Our Temple him we owe, 
 
 Our Synagogue to you : 
 Where if your Piety fo much allow 
 That Structure with thete Ornaments t'endow, 
 
 All good Men will avow, 
 Your Syn'gogne, built before, is furnifht now. 
 
 SIR, 
 
7 2 
 
 SIR, 
 
 T \ /Hile I read your Lines, methinks I fpy 
 \ V Churches, and Cliurch-men,and the old Hie- 
 
 ( rarchv. 
 What potent Charms are thefe! You have the knack 
 To make Men young again, and fetch Time back. 
 I've loft what was beftow'd on fudab's Prince, 
 And am now where I was thrice Five years fince. 
 The mid-fpace fhrunk to nothing, Manners, Men, 
 And Times, and all look juftas they did then* 
 Rubbilh and Ruin's vanifh'd, every where 
 Order and Comlinefs afrefh appear. 
 What cannot Poets do ? They change with eafe 
 The Face of Things, and lead us as they pleafe. 
 Yet here's no Fiction neither. We may fee 
 The Poet Prophet, his Yerfe Hiftory. 
 
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 A. S. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
THE 
 
 LIFE 
 
 OF 
 
 Mr. George Herbert. 
 
 Eorge Herbert was born the third Day of 
 Jprilj in the Year of our Redemption* 
 1593. The Place of his Birth was near 
 to the Town of Montgomery, and in that 
 Cjftle that did then bear the Name of that Town 
 and County; that Caftk was then a Place of State 
 and Strength, and had been fucceffively happy in 
 the Family .of the Herberts, who had long polteft it: 
 And with it, a plentiful Eftate, and Hearts as Li- 
 beral to their poor Neighbours. A Family, that 
 hath been bleft with Men of remarkable WiP 
 dom, and a Willingnefs to ferve their Country, and 
 indeed, to do good to ail Mankind, for which they 
 are Eminent : But alas ! this Family did in the late 
 Rebellion fuifer extremely in their Eftates; and 
 the Heirs of that Caftk faw it laid level with that 
 Earth that was too good to bury thofe Wretches that 
 were the caufe of it. 
 
 The Father of our George, was Rhbari Herbert the 
 Son of Edward Herbert, Knight, the Son oil(icbari 
 Herbert, Knight, the Son of the famous Sir %icbari 
 Herbert of Colebrook in the County of Monmouth, Ban- 
 neret, who was the youngeft Brother of that memo- 
 rable William Herbert Earl of Pembroke, that liv'd in 
 the Reign of our King Edward the Fourth, 
 
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 His Mother was Magdalen Newport, the youngeft 
 Daughter of Sir J^chard^nd Sifter to Sir Francis New- 
 port of High Arhall in the County of Salop Knight, and 
 Grand-father of Francis Newport, Comptroller of his 
 "Majefty's Houfholci. A Family that for their Loy- 
 alty, have fuffered much in their Eftates, and feen 
 the Ruin of that excellent Strufture, where their i 
 Anceftors have long liv'd, and been memorable for 
 their Hofpitality. 
 
 This Mother of George Herbert (of whofe Perfon 
 and Wifdom, and Vertue, I intend to give a true ac- 
 count in a feafonable place) was the happy Mother of 
 feven Sons, and three Daughters, which fhe would 
 often fay, was $ob*s Number, and *}cb\ Diftribution\ as 
 often blefs God, that they were neither -defective in 
 their Shapes, or in their Reafon; and very often re- 
 prove them that did not praife God for fo great a 
 JSleffing. I (hall give the Reader a fhort account of 
 their Names, and -.not fay much of their Fortunes. 
 
 Edward the eldeft was fir ft made Knight of the Bath, 
 at that glorious time of our late Prince Hewy\ being 
 inftalf d Knight of the Garter; and after many years 
 ufeful Travel, and the Attainment of many Langua- 
 ges, he>was by King 'fanes fent Ambaffador Reiident 
 to the then French King, Lewis XIII. There he con- 
 tinued two years.; but he could not fubjeft himfelf to 
 -a Compliance with the Humours of the Dukeie Lu> 
 ves, who was then the great and powerful Favorite 
 at Court; fo that upon a Complaint to our King, 
 lie was calf d back into England in fome Difpleafure; 
 but at his Return he gave fuch an honourable ac- 
 count of his Employment, and lb j lift Hied his Com- 
 portment to the Duke, and all the Court, that he 
 wasfuddenly fent back upon the fame Embaffy, from 
 which he return'd in the beginning of the Reign of 
 our good KingGbartes I. who mads him firft baron 
 jot CaJiJe-JjiAndi and not long after of Cbtrkrf in the 
 
 County 
 
Mr. George Herbert, '$ 
 
 County of Salop : He was a Man of great Learning and 
 Keafon, as appears by his printed Book, de Veritatej anl 
 by his Hiftory of the Keign of Kvng Henry VIII. and by 
 ■\il other Tracts. 
 
 The fecond and third Brothers were qicbard and 
 William, who ventured their Lives to pnrchafe Ho» 
 nour in the Wars of the Low Countries, and died Of- 
 ficers in that Employment. Charles was the fourth, 
 and died Fellow oi Nerv-College in Oxford. Henry was 
 the fixtb, who became a menial Servant to the Crown 
 in the days of King James, and hath continued to be 
 fo for fifty years ; during all which time he hath been 
 Matter of the Revels; a Place that requires a dili- 
 gent Wifclom, with which God hath bleft him. The 
 feventh Son was Thomas, who being made Captain of 
 a Ship in that Fleet with which Sir Robert Manfell was 
 lent againft Algiers, did there (hew a fortunate and 
 true Englijb Valour. Of the three Sifters, I need not 
 "fay more, than that they were all married to Perfons 
 of Worth, and plentiful Fortunes, and liv'd to be Ex« 
 amples of Venue, and to do good in their Generations.. 
 
 I now come to give my intended account of George ; 
 who was the fifth of thofe feven Brothers. 
 
 George Herbert fpent much of his Childhood in a 
 fweet Content under the Eye and Care of his pru» 
 dent Mother: and the Tuition of a Chaplain or Tu- 
 tor to him and two of his Brothers in her own Fa- 
 mily (for (he was then a Widow) where he continued 
 till about the Age of twelve years ; and being at that 
 time well inftrurted in the Rules of Grammar, he 
 was not long after commended to the Care of Dr» 
 Neale, who was then Dean of Weftminfler ; and by 
 him to the care of Mr. Ireland, who was then chief 
 Mafter of that School, where the Beauties of his 
 pretty Behaviour and Wit^hinM and became fo emi- 
 nent and lovely in this his innocent Age, that he 
 feem'd to be marked out for Piety, ancfto become 
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 the Care of Heaven, and of a particular Angel tc 
 " guard and guide him. And thus he continued in that 
 .School, till he came to be perfect in the learned Lan- 
 guages.; and efpecially in the Greek Tongue, in which 
 he after prov'dan excellent Critick. 
 
 About the Age of Fifteen, he being then a King's 
 Scholar, was elected out of that School for Trinity Col- 
 lege in Cambridge? to which place he was transplanted 
 about the year 1608. And his prudent Mother well 
 knowing that he might eafily lofe, or leffen that Vir- 
 tue and Innocence which her Advice and Example 
 had planted in his Mind ; did therefore procure zh<^ 
 generous and liberal Dr.iVfcw/, who was then Dean 
 of Canterbury, and Maiter of that College, to- take 
 liim into his particular Care, and provide him a Tu- 
 2or; which he did moft gladly undertake, for he 
 knew the Excellencies of his Mother, and how to 
 value fuch a Friendfhip. 
 
 This was the Method of his Education, till he was 
 ietled in Cambridge, .where we will leave him in his Stu- 
 dy, till [ have paid my promis'd account of his excel- 
 lent Mother, and I will endeavour to make i: fhort. 
 
 I have told her Birth, her Marriage, and the Num- 
 ber of Children, and have given fome fhort account 
 of them ; 1 (hall next tell the Reader, that her HoP 
 band died when our George was about the Age of 
 four years, and that fhe continued twelve years a 
 Widow ; That fhe then married happily to a noble 
 Gentleman, the Brother and Heir of the Lord Dan- 
 gers Earl of Danbjii who did highly value both her 
 Perfon and the moft excellent Endowments of her 
 Mind. 
 
 In this time of her Widowhood, (he being defirous 
 to give Edward her eldeft Son, fuch Advantages of 
 Learning and other Education as migb t 
 and Fortune, and thereby make him tiienn 
 ihe Service of his Country 3 fa fit 
 
Mr. George Herbert. £ 
 
 Age remove from Montgomery Caflle with him, and 
 
 loins oi her younger Sons to Oxford, and having en- 
 tree! I to QnzerC s-Co\\egz, and provided him a 
 
 fit 7*tt0r, (he commended him to his Care; yet fhe 
 continued there with him, and ftill kept him in a mo- 
 derate Awe of her felf, and fo much under her owit 
 Eye, as to fee znA converfe with him daily ; but fhe 
 iged this Power over him without any fuch ri- 
 gid Sournefs, as might make her Company a Tor- 
 ment to her Child, but with fuch a Sw r eetnefs and 
 Compliance with the Recreations and Pleafures of 
 Youth, as did incline him willingly to fpend much of 
 his Time in the Company of his dear and careful Mo- 
 ther ; which was to her a great Content ; for fhe would 
 often fay, That as our Bodies take a Nourijhmentfutabte 
 to the Medt on which we feed ; fo our Souls do as infenfiblj 
 XX\e in Vice by the Example and Converfation with wick- 
 - cd Company. And would therefore as often fay, That 
 Ignorance of Vice was the heftPrefervauon of Venue, anJL 
 that the very Knowledge oflVickednefs was as Tinder to in- 
 flame and kindle Sin, and to keep it burning : For thefe 
 Reafons (he indeared him to her own Company, and 
 continued with him in Oxford four years ; in which 
 time her great and/? armJefs Wit, her chearful Gravity, 
 a nd her obliging Behaviour, gain'd her an acquaintance 
 and friendfhip with moft of any eminent Worth or 
 Learning that were at that time in or near that Uni- 
 veriity : And particularly with Mr. John Dome, who 
 then came accidentally to that Place, in this time of 
 her being there : It was that $obn Donne who was af- 
 ter Voder Donne, and Dean of St. Vaulh London, and 
 he at his leaving Oxford writ and left there a Chara- 
 cter of the Beauties of her Body and Mind ; of the 
 firft, he fays, 
 
 No Spring nor Summer-Beauty has fuch G?ace f 
 Jhave feen in an Autumnal Face* 
 
 D 3 . Of 
 
6 
 
 rears the Name of 
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 rmfi ba* Tmcgmes, 
 40th year of his Age (which a re he 
 
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Mr. George Herbert. 7 
 
 the Extmpie of your St. Mary Magdalen, who roft early 
 feektbat which fie lov'dmoft, and fo did 
 md my f elf, I return fitch Thanks as arc 
 
 fat t : Them rve owe ill the good Opinion, that they 
 
 -.\imofts bgveofm by ihis Mejfenger, and 
 
 Holy Hymns 
 
 be Matter, not the Worlmanfoip, 
 
 the 'ire) to your judgment, and to your 
 
 i 1 - ink -them worthy of it ) and I have 
 
 u lofed Sonnet to ufcr them toyour happy 
 
 Your unvvorthieft Servant, 
 
 Mkbm> Unlefs your accepting him* 
 
 July 11. 
 
 have mended him, 
 
 JO, DONNE, 
 
 To the Lady* Magdalen Herbert^ of 
 St. Mary Magdalen. 
 
 HiK. °f >' our - v -^-> whofe fair Interi tancz 
 Bethina wot, and Jointure Magdalo : 
 An aclive Faith fo highly did advance, 
 
 That fh e once knew, more than the Church : 
 The Refurreftion ; fo -much Good there is 
 
 Deliver"! of her, that forme Fathers be 
 Lfth to believe one Woman could do this ; 
 
 But think thofe Magdalens were two or three, 
 Jncreafe their Number, Lady, and their Fame : 
 
 To their Devotion, add your Innocence: 
 Tale fo much of th y Example, m of the Name ; 
 latter half-, and infome Kecompence 
 -.'rty did harbour Chrift. himfelf, a Gueft, 
 
 Hvmns, to tits . e addzeft* 
 
 J..JX 
 
 D 4^ Xhfi e 
 
8 The LIFE of 
 
 Thefe Hymns are now loft to us; but doubtlefs they 
 "were fuch, as they two now fing in Heaven. 
 
 There might be more Demonftrations of the 
 Friendfhip, and the many facred Indearments be- 
 twixt thefe two excellent Perfons (for I have many 
 of their Letters in my hand) and much more might 
 be faid of her great Prudence and Piety : But my 
 Defign was not to write hers,butthe Life of her Son; 
 and therefore I fliall only tell my Reader, that about 
 that very Day twenty Years that this Letter was 
 dated, and fent her, I faw and heard this Mr. John 
 Donne (who was then Dean of St. Paul's) vtzep, and 
 preach her Funeral Sermon, in the Parifh-Church 
 of Cbelfiy near London, where (he now refts in her 
 quiet Grave, and where we mult now leave her, 
 and return to her Son George, whom we left in his 
 Study in Cambridge. 
 
 And in Cambridge we may find our George Herbert's 
 Behaviour to be fuch, that we may conclude, he con- 
 fecrated the Firft-fruits of his early Age to Vertue, 
 and a ferious ftudy of Learning. And that he did 
 fo, this following Letter and Sonnet, which were in 
 the firft Year of his going to Cambridge fent his dear 
 Mother for a New-years Gift, may appear to be 
 foine Teftimony/ 
 
 But I fear the heat of my late Ague hath dryed up 
 
 tkofe Springs, by which Scholars fay the Mufes ufe to take 
 up their Habitations. However, I need not their help to 
 reprove the Vanity of thofe many Love-Poems, that art 
 daily writ and confecrated to Venus \ nor to bewail that 
 fo f:w are writ thai look towards God and Heaven. For 
 my own pan, my Meaning ('dear Mother) is in thefe Son- 
 ne :$ o declarfmy JRefoIution to be, That my Toor Abilities 
 -be all, and ever, confecrated to God's 
 Ani-»- 
 
 My 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 9 
 
 X /! 1' God, where is that ancient Heat towards thee, 
 j\± wis of Martyrs once did bum, 
 
 les their other limes ? Doth Poetry 
 . us Livery ? only ferve her turn i 
 
 _•: Sonnets made of thee ? and Lays 
 Upon thine Altar burnt ? Cannot tly Love 
 Heighten a Spirit to found out thy Praife 
 
 Asvrellit anyjhe ? Cannot thy Dove 
 
 Out ft rip their Cupid eafily in flight ? 
 
 Orfince thy il'ays are deep, and ft ill the fame, 
 WiU not a Verfe runfmooth that bears thy Name t 
 
 Why dork that Fire, which by thy power and might, 
 
 Each Ere aft does feel, no braver Fewel chufe (fufe f 
 Than that, which' one Day, Worms may \chancz re- 
 Sure, Lord, there is enough in thee to dry 
 
 Oceans of Ink yfor, as the Deluge iii . 
 Cover the Earth, fo doth thy Majefty : 
 
 Each Cloud difiils thy Praife, and doth forbid- 
 
 Poets to turn it to another ufe. 
 
 Roles and Ltilies [peak thee ; and to male 
 A pair of Cheeks of them, is thy abufe* 
 
 Whyfouid I Womens Eyes for Cry ft a) take f\ 
 h poor Invention burns in their low Mini 
 
 U'hofe Fire is v?ild, and doth not upward go 
 To praife, and on thee, Lord, feme Ink be flow* 
 
 Open the Bones, and you ft aU 'nothing find 
 
 In the be ft Face but filth ; -when, Lord, in thee 
 Tl:e Beauty lies in the Difcovery. 
 
 G. H. 
 
 This was his Resolution at the fending this Letter 
 to his dear Mother; about which time, he was in the 
 17th Year of his Age ; and as he grew older, fo he 
 grew in Learnig,and more and more in Favour both 
 with God and "Man : Infomuch,that in this Morning 
 of that fhort day of his Life, he feenvd to be mark'd 
 out for Vertue, and to become the Care of Heaven ; 
 D 5 for 
 
io The LIFE of 
 
 for God ftill kept hrs Soul in fo holy a Frame, that 
 he may, and ought tabe a Patern of Vertue to all 
 Pofterity ; and efpecially to his Brethren of the 
 Clergy, of which the Reader may expeft a more 
 exaft Account in what will follow. 
 
 I need not declare that he was a ftrift Student,be- 
 caufe, that he was fo,there will be ma ay Teftimonies 
 in the future part of his Life : I (hall therefore only 
 tell that he was made Minor Fellow in the Year 1609. 
 Bafcbelor of An in the Year 161 1. Major Fellow of the 
 College ,March 15.1615. And that in that Year he was 
 alfo made Mafter of Arts, he being then in the 22th 
 Year r>f his Age ; during all which time, all, or the 
 grea-Left Divernon from his Study, was the praftice 
 of Mniick, in which he became a great Mafter ; and 
 of which he would fly, Tb.it it did relieve his drooping 
 Spirits •ycompofe his dijtrafted Thcughts,and raifed his weary 
 Soul fo far above Earth, that it gave him a?: e awe ft of the 
 ^■:ys of Heave y] before be poffeft the?/?. And it may be 
 v,3t£& } that from" his firft Entrance into the College,, 
 :enerous Dr.Xevil was a Cherifher of hisStu- 
 dies^nd inch a Lover of his Perfon,his Behavior,and 
 the excellent Endowments of hu Mind,that he took 
 Tnm often into his own Company ; by which he con- 
 firmed his native Gentlenefs ; and if during this time 
 heexpreftany Error, it was, that he kept himfdf 
 too much retir'd.and at too great a diftance with all 
 his Inferiors }.afid hisCloaths fee mid to prove, that 
 I y/.t too great a Value on his Parts and Parentage,. 
 This may be fbme account of hi- DHpoiition, and 
 5 Employment of his Time, till he was Mafter of 
 , which was An* 1 6 1 < . and in the year 1619. he 
 was chofen Orator for zhv Qniverfity. Kis two pre- 
 cedent Orators were Sir Egbert Xavto?:, and Sir Frari- 
 ih : 1 he Srft was not long after made Se- 
 
 cretary of Stare ; and Sir Francis^ not very long atter 
 t.i: being Orator, was .made Secretary to the Lady 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
Mr. George Herbert. n 
 
 Eli\.ib-:th Queen of Bohemia In this Place of Ora- 
 tor, our George Herbert continued Eight Years ; and 
 manag'd it with as becoming and grave a Gaiety, as 
 any had ever before, or fince his time. For Be had 
 acauifi great Learning, and was bleft with a high Fancy 9 a 
 civil andjharp Wit, and with a natural Elegance, both hi 
 his Behaviour, his Tongue and his Pen. Of all which, 
 there might be very many particular Evidences,but 
 I will limit my ielf to the mention of but Three. 
 
 And the fir'ft notable Occafion of fhewing his fit- 
 nefs for this Employment of Orator was manifefted 
 in a Letter to King fames, upon the Ocafion of his 
 fending that Univerfity his Book, called Bafilicon 
 Dor on ; and their Orator was to acknowledg this great 
 Honour, and return their Gratitude to his Majefty 
 for fuch a Condefcention ; at the clofe of which 
 Letter he writ, 
 
 Quid Vaticanum Bodleianumcfi objiciis 7 hofpes ? 
 Vnicus efl nobis Bibliotheca Liber. 
 
 This Letter was writ in fuch excellent Latin, was 
 fo full of Conceits, and all the Expreflions were f©. 
 fated to the Genius of the King,that he enquired the 
 Orator's Name, and then ask'd William Ear! of Pem- 
 broke if he knew him ? whofe Anfwer was, Tim he knew 
 him very welly and that he wm his iQnfman, but he lovi 
 him more for his Learning andVertue, than for that he was 
 of his Name and Family. At which Anfwer the Ring 
 Unil'd, and ask'd the Earl leave, that he might love him 
 too ;. for he took him to be the tfewel of that Vniverjity. 
 
 The next Occafion that he had to fhew his great 
 Abilities was with them r to (hew alfo his great Af- 
 fection to that Church in which he received his Bap~ 
 r*/m, and of which he profeft himfelf a Member; and 
 the Occafion was this : There was one Andrew Mel- 
 vhi, a Gentleman of Scotland, who was in his own 
 Country poffeft with an averfnefs, if not a hatred,of 
 Church-Government by Bijhops 5 and he feenul to have 
 
 the 
 
12 The LIFE of 
 
 the like averfnefs to our manner of Publicl-Worjkifr 
 and Church-Prayers and Ceremonies. This Geatleman 
 had travelM Frame, and refided fo long in Geneva, as 
 to have his Opinions the more confirmed in him by 
 the prafticeof that Place; from which he return'd 
 iato England fome fhort time before,or immediately 
 after Mr. Herbert was made Orator. This 'Mr. Melvin 
 was a Man of Learning,, and was the Matter of a 
 great Wit ; a Wit full of a\nots and Clenches ; a Wit 
 fliarp and fatyrical \ exceeded, I think, by none of 
 that Nation, but their Buchanan. At Mr. Melvhfs re- 
 turn hither, he writ and fcattered in Latin many 
 Pieces of his Wit againft our Altars, our Prayers, and 
 our PublickWorjhip of Godwin which ^ix. Herbert took 
 himlelf to be fo. much concern'd, that as fa ft as Mel- 
 -jjn writ and fcatter'd them, Mr.. Herbert writ and 
 fcatter'd Anfwers,and Reflections of the fame fharp- 
 n *fs upon him and them ; I think to the Satisfaction 
 of all uningaged Perfons. But this Mr. Mel-jin, was 
 not only fo bufy againft the Church, but at laft fo 
 bold with,the Kfing and State, that he raii'd and writ 
 himfelf into the Torver-, at which time, the Lady Ara- 
 bella was an innocent Prifoner there :. And he pleas'd , 
 himfelf much in fending the next day after his Com- ^ 
 initmerit thefe two Veries to the good Lady - r which 
 I will under-write, becaufe they may give the Reader 
 a tafte of his others, which were like thefe. 
 
 Caufa tibl meatrh eft communis, Carceris, An ; 
 Bella tibi caufa efi^ Araque facra mihi.. 
 I (hall not trouble my Reader with an Account of 
 his Enlargement from that Prifon, or his»Death, but 
 tell h i in Mr. Herbert's Yaks were thought fo wor- 
 thy to be prefer.vVi, that Dr. Vuport, the Learned 
 Deanof PeterborougbJ&th lately collected, and caus'd 
 them robe printed,asan honourable Memorial c-fhis 
 Friend Hx.Geor^r Herbert t aad the Caufe he under. 
 
 And 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 13 
 
 And in order to my third and laft OMervation of 
 his great Abilities, it will be needful to declare, that 
 about this time King "fames came very often to hunt 
 at New-market and Qoyfton ; and was almoft as often 
 invited to Cambridge y where his Entertainment was 
 fitted to his plea fan t Humor, (with the Comedies of 
 A\buma\er y JgnorarnmfSc.), and where }At*Gecrge Her- 
 ^n was- to welcome him with Gratulatfens, and the 
 jlpphufesofan Orator ; which he always perform'dfo 
 well, that he ftill grew more into the King's Favour; 
 infbmuch, that he had a particular Appointment to 
 attend. His Majefty at %/?6/7, where after a Dif- 
 courfe with him, His Majefty declar'd to his Kinf- 
 man the Earl of Pembroke, That be found the Orator's 
 Learning and Wifdom, much above his Age or Wit* The 
 Year following, the King appointed ro end hisPro- 
 grels at Cambridge, and to ftay there certain Days * 
 at which time he was attended by the great Secre.- 
 taryof Nature and all Learning, Sir Francis Bacon 
 ( Lord Verulam) and by the ever memorable and 
 learned Dr« Andrews Bifhopof#7ffi*fe/fer,hoth which 
 did at that time begin a deiir'd Friend (nip with our 
 Or nor. Upon whom th^ firft put fuch a Value on his 
 Judgment, that he 1 ufuaily defir'd his Approbation, 
 before he would expofe any of his Books to be prin- 
 ted j and thought him Co worthy of his Friendship, 
 that havingtranihred many of the Prophet flavid's 
 Pfalms into Engliih Verie, he made George Herbert 
 his Patron of them, by a public!: Dedication of them 
 to him, as t\\s belt judge of Divine Poetry. And for 
 the Learned Bilbop, it is obfervabie, that at that 
 time, there fell to be a modeft debate betwixt them 
 Two about Predeflination, zndSan&itj of Life \ of both 
 ttor did not long after lend the Bifhop 
 fome Ldi^cind ulefui /tpborifrns, in a long Letter writ- 
 ten in Greek; which Letter was fo remarkable for 
 the Language and.Mjtrer^that after'tbe reading of 
 
 if, 
 
i 4 The LIFE of 
 
 it,the Bifhop put into his Bofom ; and did often f&ew 
 it tomanyScholars,borh of this and foreign Nations; 
 but did always return it back to the Place where he 
 firft lodg'd it, and continued it fo near his Heart, 
 til! tbelaft Day of his Life. 
 
 To thefe I might add the long and entire Friend- 
 ftlip betwixt him and Sir I/enryWbtionjLnd Dr.Dontie, 
 but I have promised to contract my felf,and therefore 
 only add one Teitimony to what is alfo mentioned in 
 the Life of Dr. Dorms ; namely, that a little before 
 his death, he caufed many Seais to be made, and in 
 them to be engraven the Figure oiChrij} crucified on 
 an Anchor (the Emblem of Hope) and of which Dr. 
 
 Donne would often lay, Crux mihi Anchor a* Thefe 
 
 Seals he gave or fent to moit of thofe v< Friends on 
 which he put a value ; and at "Mr. Herbert's death 
 thefe Verfes were found wrapt up with that Seal 
 which was by the Doctor given to him. 
 
 Mien my dear Friend could write no. more, 
 
 lie gave tbfsSz&% and fo gave o'er* 
 
 WbepWinis and Waves rife Hgbeft, Jamfure, 
 71: is Anchor keeps ray Faith, That me fecure. 
 At this time of being Orator, he had learnt to un- 
 fierftand the Jtalidn, Spanifr, and French Tongues ve- 
 ry perfectly ^ hoping that as his Predecelfors, fo he 
 might in time attain the Place of Secretary of St ate y 
 he being at that time very high in the King's Favour; 
 and not meanly valued and lov'd by the moft emi- 
 nent and moit powerful of the Court Nobility : This 
 and the love of a Court-converiation mixt with a 
 laudable Ambition to be fomething more than be 
 then was, drew him often from Cambridge to attend 
 the King wherefoever the Court was,who then gave 
 him a Sine Cure, which fell into his Majefty's Dilpo- 
 fal, I think, by the death of the Bifhop of St. Afaph. 
 It was the fame, that Queen Eli^betb had formerly 
 
 given 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 15 
 
 given to her Favorite Sir Philip Sidney ; and valued 
 to be worth an hundred and twenty Pound per Anr* 
 With this, and his Annuity, and the advantage of 
 his College, and of his Oraiorjbifa heenjoy'd his gen- 
 tile Humour for Cloaths, and Court-like Company, 
 and feldom look'd towards Cambridge y vfti\sfe the Ring 
 were there, but then he never faiTd ; and at other 
 times, Left the mannage of his Orators Place, to his 
 learned Friend Mr, Herbert Tborndike, who is naw 
 Prebend of Weftminfter. 
 
 I may not omit to tell, that he often defign'd to 
 leave the Univerfity, and decline all Study,which he 
 thought did impair his Health ; for he had a Body 
 apt to a Gntfjwption) and to Fevers, and other Infirmi- 
 ties which he ' 
 for 
 Wit, 
 
 bis Body. But his Mother would by no means allow 
 him to leave the Univerfity, or to travel ; to winch, 
 though he inclin'd very much, yet he would by no 
 means fatisfy his own Dclires at (o dear a rate, as ro 
 prove an undutifui Son : to fo affe&ionate a Mother ;, 
 but did always fubrnit to her Vv idiom : And what I 
 have now (aid, may partly appear in a Copy of Ver- 
 fes in his printed Poems j 'tis one of thole- that bears 
 the Title of AjjUSion : And it appears ro be a j 
 Reflection on God's ProvLlence r and foine Paifag^s 
 of his Life, and in which he fays, 
 
 T ]S J&ereas my Birth and Spirit ruber took 
 \ V The fray r l :: : - \ btunz 
 
 Thou did'ft betray me to x Ihigring Book, 
 
 Ahd wrapt me fata i 
 J wis intdrglei m a World of Strife, 
 Before 1 bad the fcriott to change my Life* 
 
 ttt, for I iheitviX oft the Si*?e to ; : 
 Natfiniprhig .ill mine Aggi 
 
 ■ 
 
16 The L IF E of 
 
 71: ou often did'ft with Academick Praife 
 
 Melt and dijfolve my l[age ; 
 J took the fweetned Pill, 'til! I came where 
 I could not go away, nor per fever e. 
 7et, left perchance, I Jhuld too happy be 
 
 In my Vnhappinejs y 
 Turning my Purge to Food, thou throve? ft me 
 
 Into more Sicknejfes*. 
 Thus doth thy Power crofs-bias me, -not making 
 Jbir.e own Gifts good. ; yet me from my ways taking* 
 Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me 
 
 Nove of my Boohs will few :. 
 I read, andfigh, and wifb I were a Tree, 
 
 For the?! fare Jfbouid grow 
 To fruit or fade ; at leaft, forae Bird would truft 
 Her Hoifiold with me, and I would be juft. 
 Tet, though thou trouble ft me, J muft be meek y 
 
 J?! Weahiefs muft be ft out : 
 Well, [will change my Service, and go fe eh 
 
 Some other Mafter out : 
 Ah my dear God I though 1 am clean forgot, 
 Let me ?:ot love thee, if I love thee not* G. Hi 
 
 In this time of Mr. Herberts Attendance and Ex- 
 pectation of fome good Occafion to remove from 
 Cambridge to Court; God, in whom there is an un- 
 feen Chain of Caufes, did in a fhort time put an end 
 to. the Lives of two of his moft obliging and moft 
 powerful Friends, Lodowick Duke of F^chmond, and 
 -fames Marqpefs GtHamiltc?/ *, and not long after him 
 Ring zfamss died alio, and with them all Mr. Her- 
 bert's Court-hopes:. So that he prefently betook 
 himfelf to a Retreat from London, to a Friend in Kf.m y . 
 where he liv'd very privately, and was fuch a Lover 
 ofSolitarinefs, as was judg'd to impair his Health, 
 more than his Study had done. In this rime of Re- 
 tirement, he had many Conflicts with himfelf, whe- 
 ther 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 1 7 
 
 ther he fbould return to tbe painted Pleafures of a 
 Court-Life, or betake himfetfto a Study of Divinit) , 
 
 and enter into facred Orders?(to which his dear Mo- 
 ther had often periuaded him.)Thefe were fuch Con- 
 flicts, as they only can know, that have endur'd them j 
 for ambitious Deiires, and the outward Glory of this 
 World, are not eanly laid afide ; but at lair, God in- 
 clin'd him to put on a Refolution to ferve at his Al- 
 tar. 
 
 He did at his return to London, acquaint a Court 
 Friend with his Refolution to enter into i\\cicd Or- 
 ders, who perfaaded him tc alter ir, as too mean an 
 Employment and too much below his Birth, and the 
 excellent Abilities and Endowments of his Mind. To 
 which he replyed, It hath been formerly judged, tk.it the 
 Dome/tick Servants of tbe iQng of Heaven, fbould be of 
 tke nobleft Families on Earth \ and. though tbe Iniquity of 
 the Lite times have made Clergy-men meanly valued, and 
 the facred Xame c/Prieft contemptible ; yet J will labour 
 to make it honourable, by confe crating all my Learning, ani 
 all my poor Abilities^ to advance the Glory of that God that 
 gave them ; blowing, that I can never do too much for him, 
 that hath done Co much for me, as to make me a Chriftian* 
 And Irviu labour to be like my Saviour, by making Humi- 
 lity lovely in the Eyes of all Men, and by follqwing the mer- 
 ciful and meek Example of my dear jdus. 
 
 This was then his Resolution, and the God of Con- 
 stancy, who intended him for a great Example of 
 Yertue, continued him in it ; for within that year 
 he was made Deacon j but the day when, or by whom 
 I cannot learn; but that he was about that time 
 made Deacon, is molt certain j for 1 find by the Re- 
 cords of Lincoln, that he was mad* Prebend of Layton 
 Eeclefca, in the Diocefs of Lincoln, guly 15. 1626. and 
 that this Prebend was given him I l hen Lord 
 
 Bifhop of that See. And now he had a tit Occalion, 
 to ihew that Piety and Bounty that wasderiv'd from 
 
 his 
 
i8 The LIFE of 
 
 his gener ?r, and his other memorable An- 
 
 ceftors, and rhis. 
 
 This Ldj near to Spalden in 
 
 the Co.ijnt.-y of Hum \ I the greateft part of 
 
 the Paiilfi-Church w£3 fall n ; and that of it 
 
 which ftood, was h decayed 3 , and fo ufelefs, 
 
 thatthePariflriortets could not m tto perform their 
 Duty to God in publick Prayer and Praifes ; and 
 thus it had been for almoft twenty years, in which 
 time there had been fome faint Endeavours for a 
 publick Collection, to enable the Parilhioners to re- 
 build it; but with no fuccefs till Mr. Herbert under- 
 took it ; and he, by his own, and the Contribution 
 of many of his Kindred and other noble Friends, un- 
 dertook the Pve-edification of it; and made it fo 
 much his whole buiinefs, that he became reftlefs, till 
 he few it finifht, as it now ftands ; being, for the 
 Workman/hip, a coftly Mofaick) for the Form, an 
 ex *-:} Crofs-j and for the Decency and Beauty, I am 
 affur'd it is the molt remarkable Parifh-Church, that 
 this Nation aiforc^o He liv'd to fee it fo wainfeoted, 
 as to be exceeded Dy none ; and by his order, the. 
 Reading-Pew r and Pulpit, were a little diftant from 
 each other, and both of an equal hight ; for he 
 would often fay, Tfjry jkeuld neither hive a Precedency 
 cr Priority of xht fiber ; but that Prayer and Preaching 
 heing equal!} ufeful, might agree like Brethren, and hive 
 an equal Honour and Eftimation. 
 
 Before [ proceed farther, I mull look back to the 
 time of Mr. Herbert** being made Prebend, and tell 
 thd Reader, that not long after, his Mother being 
 inforna'd of his Intentions to re-build that Church, 
 and apprehending the great Trouble and Charge 
 that he was like to draw upon himjelf, his Relations 
 and Friends, before it could be finifht ; fent for him 
 from London to Cbelfey f where fhe then dwelt; and at 
 his coming, faid — George, J fent for jou 7 to perfuade 
 
 jou 
 
Mr. George Herbert, 1 9 
 
 you to commit Simony, by givingyour Patron as good a Gift 
 at he hath given to you] namely, that you give hi r: 
 his Prebend ; for, George, hit vox for yew v:eak Body* 
 and empty Purfe, to undertake to build Churches* Of 
 
 which, he defir'd he might have a Days rime to coi> 
 fider, and then make her an Anfwer : And at his re- 
 turn to her at the next Day, when he had firft de- 
 Bred her Bleffing, and fhe given it him, his next Re- 
 queft was, That Jbe would at the Age of thirty tbreeyearr, 
 allow him to become an undutiful Son ; for he h.id nude 
 a Vow to God, that if he were able, he would re-build that 
 Church: And then fhew'd her fuch Reafons for bis 
 Refolution, that fhe prefentiy fubferibed to be one 
 of his Benefactors; and undertook to Colicit William 
 Earl of Tembroohe to become another, who fubferibed 
 for 50/. and not long after, by a witty, and perfua- 
 five Letter from Mr. Herbert, made it 50/. more. 
 And in this Nomination of fome of his Benefactors, 
 James Duke of Lenox, and his Brother Sir Henry Her- 
 bert, ought to be remembred ; as alfo the Bounty of 
 Mr. Nicholas Farrer, and Mr, Arthur IVoodnot ; the one 
 a Gentleman in the Neighbourhood of Layton, and 
 the other a Gold-fmith in Fofier-lme, Lo::don, ought 
 not to be forgotten : For the Memory of fuch Men 
 ought to out-live their Lives. Of Mr. Farrer, I (hall 
 hereafter give account in a more feafonable place ; 
 but before I proceed farther, I will give this fhort 
 account of Mr. Arthur Woodmu 
 
 He was a Man that had comider'd, over-grown E= 
 ftates do often require more Care and Watchfulnefe 
 to preferve, than get them ; and conlkter'd that there 
 be many Difcontents, that Riches cure nor; and did 
 therefore {cv Limits to himfelf as to dehre o: \V . 
 And having attain'd fo much as to be able to (hew 
 fome Mercy to the Poor, and preferve a Competence 
 for himfelf, he dedicated the remaining part of bis 
 Life to the Service of Cod \ and being ufeful for his 
 
 Frieads; 
 
20 
 
 The LIFE of 
 
 Friends : And he proved fo to Mr. Herbert ; for be- 
 fides his own Bounty, he collefted and returned molt 
 of the Money that was paid for the Rebuilding of 
 that Church ; he kept all the Account of the Char- 
 ges,arid would often go down to irate them, and fee 
 all the Workmen paid. When I have faid, that this 
 good Man was a ufeful Friend to Mr. Herbert's Fa- 
 ther, and to his Mother, and continued to be fo to 
 him, till he clos'd his Eyes on his Death-bed - y I will 
 forbear to fay more, rill I have the next fair Occa- 
 fion to mention the holy Friendship that was betwixt 
 him and Mr. Herbert — From whom Wiv.Woodnot 
 carri-xl to his Mother this following Letter, and de- 
 livered it to her in a Sicknefs which was not long 
 before that which prov'd to be her iaft. 
 
 A Letter of Mr. George Herbert to his 
 Mother j in her Sicknefs. 
 
 Madam, 
 
 7 my I aft parting fiomyou 1 wm the better content, 
 X becaufe I was in hope J fhouli my felf carry all Sick- 
 nefs out of your Family ; but price J know J did not, and 
 that your Share continues, or rather increafeth,! wijb ear- 
 nefljy that /were again with you ; and would quickly make 
 good my IV/jb, but that my Employment does fix me here, 
 bung now but a Month to o ! ir Commencement : Where- 
 in, my Ahfence by how much it naturally augmenteth Suf- 
 picion, by fo much fb all it make my Prayers the more con- 
 jlant and the more carve fl for. you to the God of all Corfo- 
 lav.on—-In the mean time J befeech you to be chearful,and 
 comfort your felf in the Cod of all Comfort, who is not wil- 
 ling to behold a?y Sorrow but for Sin--'.Vbat hath Affliction 
 grievous in it more than for a Nloment ? or why fo aid our 
 Jffatiions here have fo much power or boldnefs as to appofs 
 the Hope of our Joys hereafter : —-Madam/ As the Eai th 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 21 
 
 * but a Point in rejpeil of the Heavens, fo a>'e earthly 
 Troubles compaTd to heavenly $oys; therefore, if either 
 Jlge or Sicknefs lead you to thofe joys, confider what Ad- 
 
 vintage you hive over Youth and Health, who are now 
 Jo near thofe true Comforts — Tour J aft Letter gave me an 
 Earthly preferment, and kept Heavenly for your felfi But 
 woiidyou divide and chafe too ? Our College Cu floras allow 
 not that, and J foul d account my f elf mo ft happy if 1 might 
 change with you ; for 1 have always ohfervd the Thred of 
 life to be like other Tbreds or Skene s of Silk, full of Snarls 
 and Incumbrances: Happy if be, whofe bottom is wound up 
 and laid ready for v:ork in the New Jerufalem — For ray 
 JeJf dear Mother, / always fear'd Sicknefs more than - 
 Death, becaufe Sicknefs hath made me unable to perform 
 thofe Offices for which I cam* into the World, and mujiyet 
 be kept in it, but you are free' \i from that Fear, who have 
 already abundantly d if charged that part* having both or- 
 dered your Family, and fo brought up your Children that 
 they have atxa'vnd to the Tears of Difcretion^an.i competent 
 Maintenance-So that now if they do not well, the Fault can- 
 not be charg\{ onyou^ whofe Example and Cat e of them will 
 pftifyyou both to the ■ qut own Confidence ; info- 
 
 much, that whether you turn your Though )ts>pn the Life paft, 
 or on the J-oys that are to come, you. have j: 'ervd- 
 
 tives againft all difiquiet — And for tempo- : m\ J 
 
 befeech you consider all tint can happen to you Are e'uher 
 JffiiTlionscf Eft cite. or Body «or Mind-— For thofe ofEftate y 
 
 ' at poor regard ought they to le.jince if we had Jtid>ci 
 v:e are commanded to g:v: them away ?fo that the heft ufe 
 of them /*, having, not to have them-— But perhaps behg 
 above the common People^ our Credit and Ejtima:ior 
 on <■:; to live m a mor <n : — - BtUt, Oh Cod ! 
 
 hov: eajlJy is that we confider that the 
 
 Bkjfirgs h ■ - never giien to the J\ich, 
 
 I . ' to :he Poor. 1 r.ever fid Blejfed be Tie I^ich, or hlefi 
 
 te the Meet, and Btef- 
 
 )c the Poor, and Bluffed be the Mouraers, for 
 
 thef 
 
22 The LIFE of 
 
 they (hall be comforted — And yet, Ok God! mofi 
 carry themfelves fo, as if they not only not defir\i, but 
 even fear'd to be Bleffed — And for Afflittions of the 
 Body, dear Madam, remember the holy Martyrs of God, 
 how they have been burnt byThoufands, and have endm i 
 fucb other Tortures, o/s the very mention of them might 
 beget Ar,ui\em,env, but their Fiery Trials have had an end: 
 And yours (which praifed be God are lefs) are not like to 
 
 continue long I be fee cb you let fucb Thoughts as theft 
 
 moderate your prefint Fear and Sorrow ; and know, that if 
 any of yours Jhould prove a Goliah-/*£c Trouble, yet you 
 may fay with David, — That God who hath delivered 
 me out of the Paws of the Lyon and Bear, will alfo 
 deliver me out of the Hands of this uncircumcifed 
 
 VhilifH'ru Laftly, for thofe Afflictions of the Soul, con- 
 
 flier that God intends that to be as a facred Temple for 
 hirnfelf to dwell in, and will not allow any room there for 
 fucb an In-mau as Grief; or allow that any Sadnefs full 
 be this Competitor. And above all, if any Care of future 
 Things mole ft you, remember thofe admirable words of the 
 Tfalmift, PfeL f 5. Caft thy care on the Lord and he 
 (hall nourifh thee. To which joyn that of St. Peter, 
 1 Pet. 5. 7. Cafring all your care on the Lord, for he 
 careth for you. — What an admirable thing U this, that 
 God puts his Shoulder to our Burthen, and entertains our 
 Care jor us, that we may the more quietly intend his Ser* 
 
 viee. To conclude, let me commend only one place more 
 
 to you, (Phil. 4.4.) St. Pzulfaitb there, Etejoyce in the 
 Lord always, and again 1 fay rejoyce. lie doubles it 
 to take away the Scruple of thofe that might fay, What full 
 we re Joyce in Afflictions ? Tes, I fay again re Joyce ; fo that 
 it U not left to us to re Joyce or not rejoyce ; but whatfoever 
 befalls us', we muff always, at all times rejoyce in the Lord, 
 who taketb care for us : And it follows in the next Verfe ; 
 Let your Moderation appear to all Men, the Lord 
 is at hand \ be careful for nothing. What can be faid 
 more, comfortably t Trouble not your feives, God it at hand 
 
 to 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 2 3 
 
 ¥0 deliver tu from all, or in all— Dear Madam, far ion 
 riyBoldnefs, ami accept the good Meaning of, 
 
 frith Col. Tour muft obedient Son, 
 
 May 29. 
 1622. George Herbert. 
 
 About the Year 1629. and the 34th of his Age, 
 IStir. Herbert was feiz'd with a fliarp Quotidian Jgue 9 
 and thought to remove it by the change of the Air ; 
 to which end, he went to Woodford in Effcx, but thi- 
 ther more chiefly to enjoy the Company of his belo- 
 ved Brother Sir Henry Herhertfmd other Friends than 
 of that Family, In his Ho ufe he remain'd abont 
 twelve Months, and there became his own Phy- 
 fitian, and cur'd himfelf of his Ague, by forbearing 
 Drink, and not eating any Meat,no not Mutton,nor 
 a Hen, or Pidgeon, unlefs they were falted ; and by 
 fuch a conftant Diet he remov'd his Ague r but with 
 Inconveniences that were worfcj for he brought up- 
 on himfelfa Difpoiition to Rheums,and other Weak- 
 neffes,and a fuppofed Confumption. And it is to be 
 noted, that in the iharpeit of his extream Fits, he 
 would often fay, Lord abate my great j4fflittion, or in- 
 creafe my Patience \ but. Lord, I repine not \ I am dumb, 
 .Lord, before thee, becaufe thoudo/i it. By which, and a 
 Sanctified Submiiiion to the VS ill of God, he lhewed 
 he was inclinable to bear thefweet Yoke of Cbrifiian 
 I?ifcipIine,bQth then,and in the latter part of his Life, 
 of which there will be many true Teftimonies. 
 
 And now his Care was to recover from bis Con- 
 fumption by a Change from Woodford into fuchan 
 Air as was molt proper to that end. And his remove 
 ■was from Woodford to J>wfej in IFiltfoire, a noble 
 Houfe which Itands in a choice Air, the Owner of it 
 then was the Lord Dancers Earl oiVanby. who lov'd 
 TbAxv-tferbcrtto very much, that he allovv'cHiim fuch 
 
 an 
 
24 The LIFE of 
 
 an Apartment in it, as might beft fate Mr. Herlert\ 
 Accommodation and Liking. And in this place,by a 
 [pare Diet, declining all perplexirg Studies, moderate 
 Exenife, and a cbearfulConverfaiion, his Health was 
 apparently improv'd to a good degree of Strength 
 and Chearfulnefs : And then he declared his Refo- 
 tion both to marry,and to enter into the Sacred Or- 
 ders of Priefthdod : Thefe had long been the deiires 
 of his Motherland his other Pvelations ; but fhe liv'd 
 not to fee either, for fhe died in the Year 1627. 
 And though he was difobedient to her about Lofton 
 Church, yet in Conformity to her Will, he kept 
 his Fellowship iri Cambridge finA his Orator's Place, 
 till after her death; and then prefentJy declined both: 
 And the laft the more willingly, that he might be 
 fucceeded by his Friend Robert Creighton, who was 
 Dr. Creigbtoi, and the worthy Bifhop QfWtUs* 
 
 I fhaif now proceed to his Marriage ; in order to 
 which.it will be convenient,that I firftgive the Rea- 
 der a fliort view of his Perfon, and then,an Account 
 of his Wife, and of fome Circumlvances concerning 
 both- — Be was for his Perfon of a Suture inclining to- 
 wards TaJnefs ; Hs Body was very ftraigbt^ndfo far from 
 be 'mg cum bred with too much Fkfh,tbat be was lew to an 
 extremity. His AfpeB was cbedrful, and Hs Speech and 
 Motion did hot): declare htm a Gentleman, for they were 
 all fo meek and obliging^ that they pur chafed love and 
 refpeEt from all that knew him. 
 
 " Thefe, and his other viable Vertues, begot him fo 
 mucMove from a Gentleman of a noble Eortnne,and 
 a near Kinfman to his Friend the Earl oiDanby\ 
 namely, from Mr. Charles Dahvers of Eainton, id the 
 County of Wilts, Efq; That Mr. Danvers having 
 known him long and familiarly, did fo much affect 
 him, that he often and publickly declar'd a Defire 
 that Mr. Herbert would marry any of his Nine Daugh- 
 ters (for he had fo many; but rather his Daughter 
 
 fane 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 2*5 
 
 fane than any other, becaufe fane vjm bis be Jove A 
 Daughter : And he had often faid the fame to Miv£fer- 
 bert himfelfj and that if he could like her for a Wife, 
 
 and fhe him tor a Husband, fane fhould have a dou- 
 ble Blefling 5 and Mr* Danvers had fo often faid the 
 like to fane, and fo much commended Mr. Herbert 
 to her, that fane became fo much a Platonick, as to 
 fall in Love with Mr. Herbert unfeen. 
 
 This was a fair Preparation for a Marriage ; but 
 alas, her Father died before Mr. Herbert's Retire- 
 ment to Damfel ; yet fome Friends to both Parries 
 procured their Meeting ; at which time a mutual 
 Affection entred into both their Hearts, as a Con- 
 queror enters into a furprized City ; and Love ha- 
 ving got fuch PolTeffion, govern'd and made there 
 fuch Laws and Refolutions,as neither Party was able 
 to refill ; infomuch that fhe chang'd her Name into 
 Herbert, the third Day after this fir ft Interview. 
 
 This hafte might in others be thought a Love~frenfj\ 
 or worfe : But it was not ; for they had woed fo like 
 Princes as to have felefi Proxies ; fuch as were true 
 Friends to both Parties ; fuch as well underftood 
 Mr. Herberts and her Temper of Mind ; and alfo 
 their Eftates fo well before this Interview, that the 
 Sudden nefs was juftifiable by the ftritteft Rules of 
 Prudence : And the more,becaufe it prov'd fo happy 
 to both Parties; for the eternal Lover of Mankind 
 made them happy in each others mutual and equal 
 Affeftions and Compliance ; indeed fo happy, that 
 there was never any Oppofition betwixt them, un- 
 lefs it were a Conteft which (hould mo ft incline to a 
 Compliance with the others Defires. And though 
 this begot and continued in them fuch a mutual Love 
 and foy, and Content, as was no way defeftive ; yet 
 this mutual Content and Lone, and foy, did receive a 
 daily Augmentation, by fuch daily Oblig-ingnefs to 
 each other, as ftill added fuch new Affluences to the 
 E former 
 
2 6 The LIFE of 
 
 former Fulnefs of thefe divine Son-Is, as was only im- 
 provable in Heaven, where they now enjoy it. 
 
 About three Months after his Marriage, Dr. Curie, 
 who was then Rector of Bemerton in WiJtjkrre, was 
 made Bifhop of Bxth and Wells, and net long after 
 tranflated to Winchefier, and by that means the Pre- 
 sentation of a Clerk to Bemerton did not fail to the 
 Earl of Pembroke (who was the undoubted Patron of 
 it; but to the King, by reafon of Dr .Curies Advance- 
 ment ; but Philip then Earl of Pembroke (for Willi xn 
 was lately dead; requefted the King to beftow it up- 
 on his Kinfman George Herbert \ and the King fajd, 
 Moft wittingly to Mr. Herbert, if it be worth hti Accep- 
 tance : And the Earl as willingly and fuddeniy fent 
 it him, without feeking •, but though 'Sir. Herbert had 
 formerly put on a Refolution for the Clergy; yet, at 
 receiving this Presentation, the Apprehenlion of the 
 laft great Account that he was to make for the Cure 
 of fo many Souls, made hkn faft and pray often, and 
 confider for not lefs than a Month: In which time he 
 hadfome Refolutions to decline both thePriefthood, 
 and that Living. And in this time of con fide ring, A-? 
 etidur\{ (as he would often fay) fucb Jpirituxl Gmfli&s, 
 & turns era thinks but only thofe th.it hxve endued them. 
 
 In the midft of thofe Conflicts, his old and dear 
 Friend Mr. Arthur Woodnot took a Joitrny to ialute 
 him at Bxinton (where he then was with his V> ive's 
 Friends and Relations) and was joyful to be an Eye- 
 witnefs of his Health,and happy Marriage. And after 
 they had rejoye'd together lbme few days,they took 
 -a journy to Wilton^ the famous Seat of the Earls of 
 Pembroke \ at which time the King, the Earl, and the 
 whole Court were there,or at SalUbwy which is near 
 to it. And at this time Mr. Herbert prefented his 
 Thanks to the Earl for his Prefentation to Be&erttn/, 
 but had not yet refolv'd to accept it, and told him 
 the reafon why ; but that Night xhe Earl acq i 
 
 Dr. 
 
Mr. George Herbert* 27 
 
 Dr.I^ui,the Archbifhop of Canterbury,whh his Kinf- 
 man's Irrefolution. And the Bilhop did the next Day 
 fo convince Mr. Herbert, That the Refuftl of it was i 
 5/>2,that a Taylor was fent for to come fpeedily from 
 Salisbury to Wilton, to take meafure and make him 
 Canonical Cloaths againft next Dayjwhich the Tay- 
 lor did, and Mr. Herbert being io habited, went with 
 his Prefentation to the learned Dr. Da-cenant, who 
 hen Bifhop of Salisbury, and he gave him Infti- 
 tution immediately (for Mr. Herbert had been made 
 Deacon fome Years before) and he was alfo the fame 
 Day ("which WcisJpril 26. 1630.J indufted into the 
 good, and more pleafant than healthful Parfonage 
 ofBemerton, which is a Mile from Salisbury. 
 
 1 I have now brought him to the Parfonage of £e- 
 4 raenon, and to the 36th Year of his Age, and muft 
 
 * flop here,and befpeak the Reader to prepare for an 
 1 almoft incredible Story, of the great Sanftity of the 
 c fhort remainder of his holy Life ; a Life fo full of 
 
 * Charity, Humilhy^ind all Chriftian Vertues, that it 
 1 deierves the Eloquence of St.Chry ft ft om to commend 
 1 and declare it ! A Life ! that if it were related by z 
 4 Pen like his, there would then be no need for this 
 
 * Age to look back into times paft for the Examples 
 1 of primitive Piety ; for they might be ail found in 
 
 * the Life of George Herbert. But now,alafs, who is fit 
 1 to undertake it ? I confefs I am not ; And am not 
 
 < pleas'd with my felf that I muft; and profefs my felf 
 
 * amaz'd, when I confider how few of the Clergy 
 1 liv'd like him then,and how many live fo unlike him 
 1 now: But it becomes not me to Cenfure ; my De- 
 
 * fign is rather to allure the Reader, that I have ufed 
 4 very great diligence to inform my felf, that I might 
 
 < inform him of the truth of what follows ; and 
 
 * though I cannot adorn it with Eloquence, yet I 
 4 will do it with Sincerity. 
 
 E 2 Whea 
 
28 The L I F E of 
 
 When at his Induction he was fhut into Bemerton 
 Church, being left there alone to toll the Bell, as 
 the Law requires him: He itaid To much longer than 
 an ordinary time, before he return'd to his Friends 
 that ftaid expefting him at the Church-door, that 
 "his Friend, Mr. Woodnot, looked in at the Church- 
 window, and faw him lie proftrate on the Ground 
 before the Altar : At which Time and Place (as he 
 after told Mr. Woodnot) he fet feme Rules to him- 
 Telf, for the future manage of his Life, and then and 
 there made a Vow to labour to keep them. 
 
 And the fame Night that he had his Induclion,he 
 faid to Mr. Woodnot, J now look back upon my afpir ing 
 thoughts, and think my ft If more happy than if I had at- 
 tain'd what Ifo ambitioufly thirfted for : And I can now 
 'behold the Court with an impartial Eye, and fee plainly, 
 that it U made up ofFrzud,and T\tlcs,and Flattery r o/i 
 many other fuch empty imaginary painted Pleafures : Plea* 
 fures tlyat are fo empty, m not to J at is fy when they are en- 
 joy* d \but in God, and his Service, is a Fulnefs of all ]oy 
 and Pieafure, and no Satiety : And 1 -will now life ail my 
 Endeavours to bring my Relations and Dependants to a 
 iove and reliance on him, who never fails thofe that truft 
 him* But above all, I v:illbefure to live well, becaufe the 
 vertuous Life of a Clergy-man is the mofx powerful Elo- 
 quence to perfuade all that fee it to reverence and love, and 
 at leaft to defire to live like him. And this 1 will do, be- 
 caufe 1 know we live in an Age that hath more need cj good 
 Examples than Precepts. And Ibefeech thatGodjvho hath 
 honoured vie fo much as ts call me to ferve at bit Altar\ 
 that M by his fpecial Grace he hath put bno my Heart 
 thefe good Dcfires and $efolutMis,fo he will by his ajjiji~ 
 ing Grace give me ghoftly Strength to bring the fdme \o 
 good effect : And that my humble and charitable 1 ife m.;y 
 fo win upon others, a-s to bring Glory to my J E ^ tl :>, 
 whom I have this Day taken for my Mailer and Go- 
 ^rnorj and am fo proud of his Service, that 1 will aiw.ys 
 
 Obferjcj 
 
Mr. George Herbert. sjjf 
 
 thfcrvty and obey and do his will, and always call him Je~ 
 fus my Matter : And I will always contemn my Birth, 
 or any Title or Dignity that can be conferr'd upon me, 
 when J frill compare them with my Title of being <zPrieft, 
 and [trying at the Altar of Jefus my Mafter. 
 
 And that he did fo, may appear in many parts of 
 his Book of Sacred Poems; efpecially,in that which he 
 calls the Odour. In which he feems to rejoyce in the 
 Thoughts of that word Jefus, and fay that the add- 
 ing thefe words My Mafter to it, and the often Repe- 
 ticion of them, feem'd to perfume his Mind, and leave 
 an Oriental Fragrancy in his very Breath. And for 
 his unforced Choice to ferve at God's Altar, he feems 
 in another place of his Poems (the Pearl, Mat. 13.) to 
 rejoyce and fay — He knew the ways of Learning ; knew 
 what Nature does willingly ; and what when 'tis forced By- 
 Fire ; knevj the ways of Honour, and when Glory incline* 
 the Soul to noble Expreffions ; knew the Court \ knew the 
 ways of Plcafure, of Love, of Wit, of Mufick, and upon 
 what Terms he declined all thefe for the Service of his Ma- 
 fter JESUS; and concludes faying, 
 
 Jl:at, through thefe Labyrinths, not my grovelingWit, 
 But thy Silk-twift, let down from Heaven to me \ 
 Did both conduit, and teach me, how by it, 
 To climb to thee. 
 
 The third day after he was made RecTor of-Berne*-- 
 ton, and had chang'd his Sword and (ilk Cloaths into 
 a Canonical Ccat ; he return'd fo habited with his. 
 Friend Mr. Woodnot to Sainton : And immediately af- N 
 terhe had feen and faluted his Wife, he faid to her, 
 7 on are now a Minifter's Wife, and rnuft now fo far forget 
 your Father's Fioufe, as not to claim a Precedence of any of j 
 your Parifbi oners \ for you are to know, that a Prieft's Wife 
 can challenge no Precedence or Place, but rf at which fie 
 punhafes by her obliging Humility * ? and I am five, Places 
 fo.piu chafed do b eft become thenw AncLlet; me tell yoii, t 
 - ■ . . E 3 - That 
 
go The LIFE of 
 
 That 1 am fo goo d a Herald ', as to affureyou that this u Truth. 
 And fhe was fo meek a Wiie, as to affure him it was 
 ?io vexing News to ber, and that he (Imddfee her obferve 
 it with a chearful wiliir.gnefs. And indeed her unforc'd 
 Humility, that Humility thatavas in her fo Origi- 
 nal, as to be born with her, made her fo happy as to 
 do fo \ and her doing fo, begot her an unfeign'd Love, 
 and a ferviceable Refpect from all that convtrfed 
 with her ; and this Love followed her in all Places, as 
 infeparably, as Shadows follow the Subftance in Sun- 
 ihine. 
 
 It was not many days before he return'd back to 
 Bemenon, to view the Church, and repair the Chan- 
 cel, and indeed to re-build aimoft three parts of his 
 Houfe which was fall'n down or decayed by reafon of 
 his Predeceffors living at a better Parfonage-Houfe, 
 namely at Minal, 1 6 or 20 Miles from this Place. At 
 which time of Mr. Herbert's coming alone to Bemer- 
 ton ; there came to him a poor old Woman, with an 
 intent to acquaint him with her neceffitous Conditi- 
 on, as alfo with fome Troubles of her Mind \ but af- 
 ter fhe had fpoken fome few words to him, fhe was 
 furpriz'd with a fear, and that begot a fhortnefs of 
 Breath, fo that her Spirits and Speech fa i I'd her, 
 which he perceiving, did fo companionate her, and 
 was fo humble, that he took her by the Hand, and 
 faid, Speak good Mother, be not afraid to /peak to me, for 
 J am a Man that -will hear you with Patience ; and will re- 
 lieve your Neceffities too, if I be able ; and this J do wiU 
 Vrngiy, and therefore, Mother, be not afraid to acquaint 
 me with what you defire. After which comfortable 
 Speech he again took her by the Hand, made her fit 
 down by him, and underftanding fhe was of his Pa- 
 rifh, he told her, He -would be acquainted with her and 
 take her into his care : And having with Patience heard 
 and underftood her Wants (and it is fome Relief for 
 a poor Body to be but heard with Patience) he like 
 
 a Chri- 
 
Mr. George Herbert:. jr 
 
 a Chriftian Clergy-man comforted her by his meek' 
 Behaviour and Couniel; but becaufe that coft him 
 nothing, he rcliev'd her with Money too, and fo fent 
 her home with a chearful Heart, praifing God, and 
 praying for him. Thus worthy and (like Davids blea- 
 ted Man) thus lowly? wis Mr. George Herbert in his 
 own Eyes. 
 
 At 'his return that Night to his Wife at Bainton, 
 he gave her an account of the Paflages 5 twixt him 
 and the poor Woman ; with which fhe was fo affeft- 
 ed, that (he went next day to Salisbury? and there 
 bought a pair of Blankets and fent them as a Token 
 of her Love to the poor Woman \ and with them a 
 Meffage, That fie would fee and be acquainted with her, 
 when her Houfe was built at Bemerton. 
 
 There be many fuch Paflages both of him and his 
 Wife, of which fome few will be related ; but 1 fhall 
 firft tell, that he hafted to get the Parifh-Church re- 
 pair'd; then to beautify the Chappel (which ftands 
 near his Houfe) and that at his own great Charge. 
 He then proceeded to re-build the greateit part of 
 the Parfonage-Houfe, which he did alio very com- 
 pleatly, and at his own Charge; and having done this 
 good Work, he caus'd thefe Verfes to be writ upon, 
 or ingraven in the Mantle of the Chimny in his Hall, 
 
 To my Succeflbr. 
 
 if thou chance for to find 
 A new Houfe to thy Mind, 
 And built without thy Coft ; 
 Be good to the Poor? 
 As God gives thee Store? 
 And then my Labour's not loft. 
 We will now by the Reader's Favour fuppofe him 
 nxr at Bmenon? and grant him to have feen the 
 Church repaired} and the Chappel belonging to it 
 very decently adorn'd, at his own great Charge : 
 E 4. . (which 
 
32 The L IFE of 
 
 (which is a real Truth) And having now fat him 
 there, I fhall proceed to give an account of the reft 
 of his Behaviour to hisParifhioners, and thofe many 
 others that knew and convers'd with him. 
 
 Doubtlefs Mr. Herbert had cc/xtider'd and given 
 Rules to himfelf for his Chriitian Carriage both to 
 God and Man before he enter'd into holy Orders. 
 And 'tis not unlike, but that he renewed thofe Refo- 
 'lutions at his Proilration before the Holy Altar ^ at hi-s 
 induction into the Church ol Bemerton ; but as yet he 
 was but a Deacon, and therefore long'd for the next 
 Ember-week \ that he might be ordained Friejt, and 
 made capable of adminiftring both the Sacraments. At 
 which time, the Reverend Do-ftor Humphry H in ctman , 
 Lord BiFnop of London (who never mention'd him, 
 but with fome Veneration for the Life and excellent 
 Learning of Mr. George Herbert) told me, He laid bit 
 Hand on Mr. George Herbert'* Heady and (alas !) with- 
 in lefs than three lears lent his Shoulder to carry his dear 
 friend to his Crave. 
 
 And that Mr. Herbert might the better preferve 
 thofe Holy Rules which fuch a Prieft as he intended 
 to be, ought to obferve ; and that Time might not in- 
 lenfibly blot them out of his Memory, but the next 
 year (hew him his Variations from this years Relo- 
 iutions ; he therefore did ict down his Rules ]n that 
 Order, as the World now fees them Printed in a litr 
 tie Book, call'd, The Country Far/on, in which fome of 
 his Rules are: 
 
 77;e Farfons Knowledge. ^ The Farfon arguing 
 The Farfon on Sundays. J f The Farfon condefc ending. 
 
 The Farfon praying. ( \ The Farfon in his Journey. 
 The Farfon preaching. > <( The Farfon in his Mirth. 
 
 The Farfons Charity. ( J lie Farfon with his Church- 
 The Farfon comforting the \ / wardens. (pie. 
 
 Sick, ^^The Farfon bleffmg the Feo- 
 
 And 
 
 
Mr. George Herbert. j j 
 
 And his Behaviour toward God and Man, may be- 
 laid to be a Practical Comment on thefe, and the 
 other holy Rules fet down in that ufeful Book. A 
 Book, fo full of plain, prudent and ufeful Rules, that,, 
 thztCounty Par fori, tiut can fpare 12 d. and yet wants 
 it, is fcarce excufable ; becaufe it will both dirett 
 him what he ought to do, and convince him for not 
 having done it. 
 
 At the Death of Mr. Herbert* this Book fell into- 
 the Hands of his Friend \lv.J!'oodnot; and he com- 
 mended it into the trufty Hands of T\ir. Bar. oly, who 
 publifh'd it with a moft confcientious and excellent 
 Preface; from which I have had fome of thofe Truths- 
 that are related in this Life of Mr, Herbert. The 
 Text for his firft Sermon was taken out of Solomon's 
 Proverbs, and the words were, IQep thy heart with all 
 diligence. In which firft Sermon, he gave his Pari- 
 fhioners many neceffary, holy, fafe Rules for the dis- 
 charge of a good Confcience, both to God and Man. 
 Anddeliver'd his Sermon after a more florid man- 
 ner, both with great Learning and Eloquence ; and 
 at the clofe of his Sermon, told them, That fliould not 
 be hi* confront way of Preaching, and that he would notfilt 
 their Heads with unnecejfary Notions ^ but that for their 
 fake, his Language and his- Exprejfions JhouJd be more plain 
 and practical in his future Sermons. And he then made 
 it his humble Requeft, Hut they would be con flam in the 
 Afternoons Service, and Catechifmg: And fhew'd them, 
 convincing Reaibns why he defir'd it ^and his obliging 
 Example and Perfuafions brought them to a willing 
 Conformity to his Deiires. 
 
 The Texts for all his future Sermons (which God 
 knows were not many) wereconftantly taken out of " 
 the Gofpel for the day ; and he did as conftantly de- 
 clare why the Church did appoint that Portion of 
 Scripture to be that day read ; And in what manner 
 the Co He 3 for every Sunday does refer to. the Cofpel r 
 E 5 - or 
 
H Tfo L IF E of 
 
 pr to the Epiflle then read to them ; and that they 
 might pray with underftanding, he did ufually take 
 occafion to explain^not only the Collett for every par- 
 ticular Sunday, but the Reafons of all the other Col- 
 ySs and J{efponfes in our Church-Service; and made 
 it appear to them, that the whole Service of the Churchy 
 was a reafonable,and therefore an acceptable Sacri- 
 fice to God; as namely, that we begin with Confef 
 fon ofourfelves to be vile, miferable Sbmers : And that 
 we begin fo, becaufe till we have confefs'd our felves 
 to be iuch, we are not capable of that Mercy which 
 we acknowledge we need, and pray for ; but having 
 in the Prayer of our Lord beg'd pardon for thofe Sins 
 which we have confeft : And hoping, that as the 
 Prieft hath declar'd our Abfolution, fo by our pub- 
 lick ConfefTion, a»d real Repentance, we have ob- 
 tain'd that Pardon: Then we dare proceed to beg of 
 the Lord, to open our lips, that our Mouths may jhew forth 
 his Pr -life ; for till then, we are neither able, nor wor- 
 thy to praife him ; but this being fuppos'd, we are 
 then fit to fay, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and 
 to the HoJj Gkoft ; and fit to proceed to a further Ser- 
 vice of our God, in the Collects, and Pfaims r znd lauds 
 that follow in the Service. 
 
 And as to thefe Tfahns and lauds, he proceeded ta 
 inform them, why they were fo often, and fome of 
 them daily repeated in our Chirclhfervice : Namely, 
 the Pfalms every Month, becaufe they be znNiftori- 
 cal and thankful Repetition of Mercies paft 5 and fuch 
 a Composition of Prayers and Praifes, as ought to be 
 repeated often, andpublicklv, for with fuch Sacrifices 
 God U honoured, and welUpleafcd. This for the Pfalms. 
 
 And for the Hymns and lauds, appointed te be daily 
 repeated or fung after the fir-ft and fecond Leffons 
 are read to the Congregation : He proceeded to in- 
 form them, that it was moft reafonable, after they 
 have heard the Will and Goodnefs of God declar'd 
 
 or 
 
Mr. George Herbert. } 5 
 
 or preach'd by the Frieft in his readingthe two Chap- 
 ters, that it was then a feafonable Duty to rife up 
 and exprefs their Gratitude to Almighty God for 
 thofe his Mercies to them, and to all Mankind, and 
 then to fay with the Ueffed Virgin, That their Souls 
 do magnify the lord, and th.n their Sf'trtis do alfo rejoyce 
 in God their Saviour: And that it was their Duty to 
 rejoyce with Simeon in his Song, and fay with him, 
 That their Eyes have alfo /cm their Salvation ; for they 
 have kea that Salvation which was but prophefied 
 till his time : And he then broke into thofe Expref- 
 fions of Joy that he did fee it ; but they live to fee it 
 daily, in the Hiftory of it, and therefore ought daily 
 to rejoyce, and daily to offer up their Sacrifices of 
 Praife to their God/ for that particular Mercy. A 
 Service, which is now the conftant Employment of 
 that blejfed Virgin and Simeon, and all thofe bleffed.. 
 Saints that are poffdi of Heaven ; and where they 
 are at this time interchangeably, and conftantly ring- 
 ing, Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God, Glory be to God on high> 
 And on Earth peace. And he taught them, that to do 
 this was an acceptable Service to God, becaufe the 
 Prophet David fays in his Pfalms, He that praifeth the 
 Lord, honoureth him. 
 
 He made them to underftand, how happy they be 
 that are freed from the Incumberances of that Law 
 which our Fore-fethers groan'd under j namely, from 
 the Legal Sacrifices, and from the many Ceremonies of 
 the Levitical Law ; freed from Circumcijlon, and from 
 the ftrift Obfervation of the Jevrijb Sabbath, and the 
 like. And he made them know, that having received 
 fo many and fo great Bleffings, by being born fince 
 the days of our Saviour, it mult be an acceptable Sa- - 
 crifice to Almighty God, for them to acknowledge 
 thofe Bleffings, and ftand up and worihip, and fay as 
 Zacharias did, BleJJed be the Lord Cod of ifrael, for he 
 hath (in our davs) vifhed and redeemed his People \ ani 
 
 (he 
 
1$ The LIFE of 
 
 (he hath in our days) remembred, andjhewed that Mer- 
 cy which by the Mouth of the Prophets, he promifed to. oujt 
 Fore-fathers, and this he hath done, according to hit holy* 
 Covenant made with them : And we live to fee and- er.r 
 joy the Benefit of it, rn Kis Birth, in his Life, his Pa f- 
 jion, Zefurreilion, and Afcenfion into Heaven, where he 
 now fits lenfible of all our Temptations and Infirmi- 
 ties; and where he is at this prefent time making 
 Interce/fion for us, to his and our Father ; and there- 
 fore they ought daily to exprefs their publick emu- 
 lations, and fay daily with Zacharias, Blejfed be that 
 Lord God of Ifrael that hath thus vifited, and thus re- 
 deemed his People. Thefe were fome of the Reafons 
 by which Mr. Herbert inftrufted his Congregation 
 for the ufe of the Pfalms,. and the Hymns appointed 
 to be daily fung or faidin the Church-Service. 
 
 He informal them, when the Priefl-did pray only 
 for the Congregration, and not for himfelf ; and when 
 they did only -pray for him, as namely, after the Re- 
 petition of the Creed, before he proceeds to pray the 
 Lord's Prayer, or any of the appointed Colle&s, the 
 Prieft is direfted to kneel down, and pray for thenv 
 faying-— The Lord be with you And then they pray 
 for him, faying, And with thy Spirit. And he affur'd 
 them that when there is fuch mutual Love, and fuch 
 joynt Prayers, oiFer'd for each other, then the holy. 
 Angels look down from Heaven, and are ready ta 
 carry fuch charitable DefirestoGod Almighry ;. and 
 he as ready to receive them ; and that ?. Chriftian. 
 Congregation calling thus upon God,with one Heart, 
 and one Voice, and in one reverend and humble Po~ 
 ftore, look as beautifully as Jerufalem, that is at peace 
 -with it felf. 
 
 He inftrufted them, w.hy the Prayer of our Lord 
 was.pray'd often in every full Service of the Church * r 
 namely, at theconclulion of the feveral parts of that 
 Service j. and gray'd th^n, no: only became it was 
 
 cornnosV^ 
 
Mk George Herbert. jy 
 
 compos'dj and commanded by our Jefus that made 
 it, but as a per left Pattern for our lets perfeft Forms 
 ef Prayer, and therefore fitteft to fum up and con- 
 clude all our imperfect Petitions. 
 
 He inftrufted them, that as by the fecond Com- 
 mandment we are requir'd not to bow down, or vvor- 
 fhip an Iiol. r or fatfe God] fo by the contrary Rale, 
 we are to bow clown and kneel, or Hand up and wor- 
 fhip the true God. And he intruded them, why the 
 Church required the Congregation to ftand up, an 
 the Repetition of the Creeds; namely, becaule they 
 did thereby declare both their Obedience to the 
 Church, and an AlTent to that Faith into which they 
 had been haptiz'd. And he taught them, that in that 
 fhorter Creed, or Doxology fo often repeated daily ; 
 they alfo (rood up to teftify their Belief to be, that 
 the God th.it.thg trufted in was. one God, and three Per- 
 fins, the Fdtkefj the So??, and the Holy Ghoft ; to vohom 
 the Prisftgave Glory: And becaule there had been He- 
 reticksthat denied fpme of thc^ three Perlbns ro be 
 God, therefore the Congregation ftocd up and ho- 
 noured him, by conreiTing and faying, It wasfo in t!:> 
 beginning] i< now fo, andjhall ever be faWorJd without 
 end. And all gave their Aflent to this Belief, by 
 ftanding up and faying, Amen* 
 
 He inftrufted them, what Benefit they had, by the 
 Churches appointing the Celebration of Holy-days, 
 and the excellent life of them ; namely, that they 
 were fer apart for particular Commemorations of 
 particular Mercies received from Almighty God; 
 and (as Reverend Mr. Hooker fays) to be the 
 Land-marks to cfiftiaguifb Times: For by them 
 we are taught to take notice how the years pais 
 by us; and that we ought not to let the years pafs 
 without a Celebration of Praile for thole Mer- 
 cies which thofe Days gave us occahon to re* 
 member \ aacLrherefjre the ye j .r is appointed to be* 
 
 en "1 
 
38 The LIFE of 
 
 gin the 25th Day oi March; a day in which we com- 
 memorate k the Angel's appearing to the Bleffed Virgin, 
 with the joyful Tidings, That foe fiould conceive and 
 bear a Son, that fij Quid be the Redeemer of Man hi nd ; and 
 flie did fo forty Weeks after this joyful Salvation ; 
 namely, our Chriftmas \ a day in which we commemo- 
 rate his Birth, with Joy andPraife; and that eight 
 days after this happy Birth, we celebrate his Circum* 
 cifion \ namely, in that>which we call New-y ears-day* 
 And that upon that day which we call Twelfth-day, we 
 commemorate the Manifeftation of the unlearchable 
 Riches of Jefus to the Gentiles : And that that day 
 we alfo celebrate the Memory of his, Goodnefs in 
 fending a Star to guide the three wife Men from the 
 Baft to Bethlem, that they might there worfoip, and 
 prefent him with their Oblations ofGold, Frankincenfe, 
 and Myrrh. And he ( Mr. Herbert) in ftrufted them that 
 Jefus was forty days after his Birth, prefented by his 
 bletTed Mother in the Temple ; namely, on that day 
 which we call, TJ:e Purification of the bleffed Virgin, Saint 
 Mary. And he inftr lifted them, that by the Lent-fafl, 
 we imitate and commemorate our Saviour's Humilia- 
 tion in failing forty days ; and that we ought to en- 
 deavour to be like him in Purity. And that on Good- 
 friday, we commemorate and condole his Crucifixion, 
 And he taught them, that after Jefus had manifefted 
 himfelf, to his Difciples, to be that Chrift that wm cru- 
 cified, dead and buried ; that then by his appearing and 
 converting with his Difciples for the fpace of forty 
 days after his fiefurreftion, he then, and not till then, 
 afcended into Heaven, in the fight of his Difciples ; 
 namely, on that day which we call the Afcenfion, or 
 Holy Thurfday. And that we then celebrate the per- 
 formance of the Promife which he made to his Dif- 
 ciples, at or before his Afcenfion ; namely, that though 
 fee left them, yet he would fend them the Holy Ghoft to be 
 thir Comforter •, and that he did fo on that day which 
 
 the 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 59 
 
 the Church calls Whit-furl.:) Thus the Chn 
 
 keeps an Hiftorical and circular Commemoration of 
 Times, as they pafs by us; offuch Times as ought to 
 incline us to occalional Praiies, for the particular 
 Bleffings which we do or might receive by thole holy 
 Commemorations. 
 
 He made them know, why the Church hath ap- 
 pointed Ewtber-pteeks ; and to know the reafon why 
 the Commandments, Epiftles, and GofpeJs were ro be 
 read at the Alur or Communion-Tabh ; why thePrieft 
 was ro pray the Litany kneeling ; and why to pray fome 
 Collects /landing: And he gave them many other Oh- 
 fervations, fit for his plain Congregation, but not fit 
 forme now to mention ; for I muft let Limits to my 
 Pen, and not make that a Treadle, which I entend- 
 ed to be a much (horter Account than 1 have made 
 it ; but I have done, when I have told the Reader 
 that he was conftant in Catechiling every Sunday in 
 the Afternoon, and that his Catechiling, was after 
 his fecond Leflbn, and in the Pulpit, and that lie ne- 
 ver exceeded his half Hour, and was always fo hap- 
 py as ro have an obedient, and a fall Congregation. 
 
 And to thisImuftadd,That if he were at any time 
 too zealous in his Sermons, it was in reproving the In- 
 decencies of the Peoples Behaviour, in the time of 
 Divine Service, and ot thofe Minifters that hudled 
 yp :he Church-Prayers, without a vifible Reverence 
 and Affection ; namely, fuck wfeenfd ro fay the Lord's 
 .1 CoUclI in i Breath ; but for himfelf, his Cu- 
 ftom was to ftop betwixt every Colled, and give the 
 People time to con rider what they had pray'd, and 
 to force their Deiires affectionately to God, before 
 he eqgag'd them into oew Petitions, 
 
 And by this account of his Diligence, to make bis 
 Parishioners underftand what ly they pray'd, 
 
 andprais* r a d their Creator , I hope I (hall 
 
 the more eafily obtain the Reader's Belief to the 
 
 foU 
 
4 o The LIFE of 
 
 following Accootit of Mr. Herbert y s own Practice^ 
 which was to appear conftantly with his Wife, and 
 three Neeces (the Daughters of a deceafed Sifter) 
 and his whole Family twice every day at the Church? 
 
 Prayers, in the Chappel. which does almoft joyn to 
 his Parfonage-Houfe. And for the time of his apt 
 pearing, it was ftriftly at the Canonical Hours of 
 Ten and Four, and then there he lifted up pure and 
 charitable Hands to God in the midft of the Congre- 
 gation, And he would joy to have ipent that Time 
 in that place, where the honour of his Mafier tfefus 
 dwelleth ; and there, by that inward Devotion which 
 he tefhfied conftantly by an humble Behaviour, and 
 viable Adoration, he, like David, brought not only 
 his own /-joujhoii thus to ferve the. Lord; but brought 
 mo ft of his Parishioners, andmany Gentlemen in the 
 Neighbourhood, conftantly to make a part of his 
 Congregation twice a day ; and.fome of the meaner 
 fort of his Parifh, did fo love and reverence Mr. Her..- 
 berty that rhey would l«t their Plow, reft when Mr. 
 Herbert 9 * Saints Bel! rung to Prayers, that they might 
 alio offer to God with him ; and would then return 
 back to their Plow. And his moft holy Life w : as fucbr, 
 that it begot fuch Reverence to God, and to him, 
 that they thought themfelves the happier, when 
 they carry'd Mr. Herbert** Blefling back with them 
 to their Labour. Thus powerful was his Reafon 
 and Example, to perfuade others to a practical Pie* 
 ty and Devotion. 
 
 ' And his conftant publick Prayers did never make 
 him to neglect his own private Devotions, nor thofe 
 Prayers that he thought himfelf bound to perform 
 with his Family, which always were a Set-form, and 
 not long y.and he did always conclude them with that 
 Collett which the Church hath appointed for the 
 Dav or Week— Tbm he made every d.ijs Srntlity aftep 
 Wtards that KjngAam where Impurity cmnox carer. 
 
 His 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 41 
 
 His chiefeft Recreation was Mutick, in which 
 heavenlv Art lie w,is a moft excellent Matter, and 
 did himlelf compofe many divine Hymns and Anthems^ 
 which he let and lung To his Lute or F/0/;and though 
 lie was a Lover of Retirednefs, yet his love to Mu- 
 kck was fuch.that he went uiualiy tv\ ice every 
 on certain appointed Days, to theCathedzal Church i:i 
 Salisbury ; and at his return would fay, That Lis time 
 fpefi in frayer, and Cathedral NLufick, elevated his Soul, 
 and n\x bis Heaven upon Earth* But he tore his return 
 thence to Berne rton he would uiualiy ling ana play hfo 
 part, at an appointed private Mulick-meeting ; and 
 to juirify this Practice, he would often Liy, %. 
 does r.cuv.milh Mirth, but only moderates outfits Utiles 
 to it. 
 
 And as his Denre to enjoy bis Heaven upon Eartt t 
 drew him twice every Week to Salisbury fo his Walks 
 thither were the Occafion of many happy Accidents 
 to others ; of which I will mention feme i^w. 
 
 In one of his Walks to Salisbury, he overtook a. 
 Gentleman that is frill living in that City, and in 
 their walk together,Mr.,£fcr£er* took a fair Occaiion 
 to talk with him,and humbly beg'd to be excusM, if 
 he ask'd him lome Account of his Faith, and laid, / 
 do this the rather, becaufe though you are not of my I'arijh, 
 yet J receive Tythefrom you by the band of your Tenant, and 
 Sir, I am the bolder to do it, becaufe J know there be fame 
 Sermon-hearers that be Hie thofe Fijbes that always live 
 in Salt-water, and yet are aire ays frefb* 
 
 After which Expreffion, Air. Herbert asked him 
 fome needful Queftions,and having receiv'd his an- 
 fwer, gave him fuch Rules for the trial of his Since- 
 rity, and for a practical Piety, and in fo loving and 
 meek a manner, that the Gentleman did fb tail in 
 love with him and his Difcourfe,that he would often 
 contrive to meet him in his Walk to Salisbury, or to 
 attend him back to Bemrwi j^and ftill mentions the 
 
 Name 
 
42 The LIFE of 
 
 Name of Mr. George Herbert with Veneration, and 
 frill praifeth God for the Occaiion of knowing him. 
 
 In another of his Salisbury Walks, he met with a. 
 Neighbour Minifter, and after feme friendly DK- 
 eourfe betwixt thenvand fome Condolement for the 
 Wickednefs of the Times, and Contempt of the 
 Clergy, Mr. Herbert took occafion to fay, 
 
 One Cure for tbefe Diftemfers would be for the Clergy 
 tbemfelves to keep the Ember-weeks ftriftly, and beg of 
 t % eir Parifbiwers to )oyn vcitb them in Fafting and 
 Prayers for a more F^eligious Clergy. 
 
 And another Cure would be, for tbemfelves to re- 
 ftere the great and negletted duty o/Catechiiing^w which 
 the Salvation of Jo many ofthe'poor and ignorant Lay-people 
 does depend ; but principally, that the Clergy them f elves 
 would be fure to live unblamably ; and that the dignified 
 Clergy efpecialy, whLh preach Temperance, would avoid 
 Surfeiting and tale all Occasions to exprefs a vifible Hu- 
 mility and Charity in their Lives ; for this would force a 
 love and an Imitation , and an unfeigned Reverence from 
 tBilfitkxew them : ( And for Proof of this, we need 
 no other Teftimony than the Life and Death of 
 Dr. lake, late Lord Bifhop of Bath and Wells.) This 
 { faid ^h\ Herbert) would be a Cure for the Wickednefs and 
 growing Atbeijm of cur Age. And. my dear Brother, 
 tiUtlisbe done by ia, and done in eanteft, let no Man 
 exped a Preformation of the Manners of the Laity : For 
 'tis not Learning, but this, this only, that muft do it * y 
 >;, the Faith muft lie at our Doors. 
 
 In another Walk to Salisbury* he faw a poor Man 
 with a poorer Horfe, that was fall'ii under his Load; 
 they were both in Diftrefs^nd needed prefent Help; 
 which Mr. Herbert perceiving, put off his Canonical 
 Coat, z*d help'd the poor Man to unload, and after 
 to load his Horfe : The poor Man Weft him for it; 
 :md he bleft the poor Man, and was fo like the good 
 Samaritan, that he save him Monev to refrefh both 
 
 himfelf 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 
 
 himfelf and his Korfe ; and told him, That if he I 
 himfelf hefould be merciful to bis fk tfi -— Thus he left 
 the poor Man, and at his coming to his mufical 
 Friends at Salisbury, they began to wonder that 
 Mr. George Herbert which us'd to be fo trim and 
 cleanxame into that Company lb foii'd and difcom- 
 pos'ct; but he told them the Occafion* And when one 
 of the Company had told him, He bad him- 
 
 feif by fo dirty an Employment ; his Anfwer was, That 
 the Thought of what be bad dove would prove Muftckto 
 him at midnight ; and that the Omijjion oj it would have 
 upbraided and made iiftcrd in his Confcience, mbenfin 
 he Jhouldpafs by that Place ; for if I be bound to fr ay f tr- 
 ail that be in Viftrefs, J am fire 1 am bound fo jar as it is 
 in my Power topradife what I pray for : And though 1 do 
 not wifofor the like Occafion every ~Day,yet let me tell fOU, 
 I would not willingly pafs one Day of my Life without 
 comforting a fad Soul } or jhewing Mercy 7 and I praife God 
 for this Occafion: And now let's tune *our Instruments. 
 
 Thus as our bleffed Saviour after his Refurreetion 
 did take occafion to interpret the Scripture to dec- 
 p#, and that other Difciple which he met with, and 
 accompanied in their Journy to Emmam: So Mr.Avr- 
 ben, in his path towards Heaven, did daily take any 
 fair Occaiion to inilruet the Ignorant, or comfort 
 any that were in ArRidion; and did alwavs confirm, 
 his Precepts, by fhewing Humility and Mercy, and 
 minifrring Grace to the Hearers. 
 
 And he was more happy in his Wife's unforcM 
 Compliance with his Arts of Charity, who m he n 
 his Almoner, and paid conftantly into her Hand x 
 tenth Peny of what Mony he receiv'd tor Tythe, and 
 gave her Power to difpofe that to the Poor of his 
 Pariih,and with it a Power to difpofe a tenth part of 
 the Corn that came yearly into his Ba tmft 
 
 ihe did moil faithfully perforin, and would often 
 dfer to hinuz/j Account of her Stewardship, and as often 
 
 - ' beg 
 
44 The LIFE of 
 
 beg an mlargement of his Bounty, for fhe rejoyc'd irl 
 the Employment; and this was ufually laid out by 
 i Blankets and Shoes, for fome fuch poor People, 
 as (he knew to ftand tg moft need of them. This as 
 to her Charity — And for his own, he fet no Limits 
 to it; nor did ever torn his Face from any that he 
 in Want, but would relieve them ; efpecially his 
 poor Neighbours ; to the meaneft of whofe Houfes 
 he would go and inform himfelf of their Wants, and 
 relieve them chearfullv if they were in D i fire fs; and 
 would always praife God as much for being willing, 
 as for being able to do it-— And when he was ad- 
 vis'd by a Friend to be morefrugal,becaufehe might 
 have Children; his Anfwer was, He would not fee the 
 dinger of want fo far off\ but being the Scriptures do fo 
 commend Charity^ as to tell ;u, that Charity is the tofof 
 Chrifiun Vertues, the covering of Sins, the fulfilling of 
 the Law, the life of Faith And that Charity bath a Vrv- 
 mife of the Blejftngoftbis Life,and of a j\ervard in that Life 
 which is to come \ bein^theCe, and more excellent Things 
 are in the Scripture fpokenof thee, Charity ; and that 
 being all my Tythes, and Church dues are a Deodate from 
 thee, my God! Make me, my God, fo far to truft thy 
 promife a<s to return them bach to thee ; and by thy Grace 
 J vcill do fo, in diftributingtbem to any of thy poor Mem- 
 bers that are in Diflrefs, or do but bear the Image of 
 Jefua my Mafter- Sir (laid he to his Friend) my Wife 
 bath a competent Maintenance fecur d her after my Death, 
 therefore m this is my Prayer, fo this my j{efohition 
 
 : . h) God i Grace be unalterable. 
 
 This may be fome Account of the Excellencies of 
 
 the active part of his Lire ; and thus he continued, 
 
 till a Confumption fo weakned him as to confine him 
 
 to his Houfe, or to tha Chappel, which does aim oft 
 
 to it ; in which he continued to read Prayers 
 
 • finny twice every Day, though he were very 
 
 .; in one of which rimes ot his reading, his Wife 
 
 obfcrv'd 
 
Mr, George Herbert. 45 
 
 ©bferv'd him to read in Pain, and told him fo, and 
 lharit wafted his Spirits,and weakned him : And lie 
 confefs'd it, but faid, Hi* Life could not be better /pent 
 than rn the Service of hi* Mailer Jefus,TrJS»0 had done and 
 fufferedfo much for him. But) faid he, / will not be wil- 
 ful, for though my Spirit be willing, yet my Flejh is weak ; 
 and therefore Mr.Bofiock fiall l>e appointed to read Pray- 
 ers for me to Morrow, and I will now be only a Hearer of 
 them,till this mortal Jhall put on immortality. And Mr.Bo- 
 ftock did the next Day undertake and continue this 
 happy Employment till Mr. Herbert's Death-— This 
 Mi.Boftock was a learned and vertuous Man, an old 
 Friend of Mr. Herbert's, and then his Curate to the 
 Church of Fuljlon, which is a Mile from Bemerton, to 
 which Church Bemerton is but a Chappel of Eafe—And 
 this Mr. Boftock did aifo conftantly iupply the Church- 
 Service for Mr. Herbert in that Chappel.,when the Mu- 
 fick-meeting at Salisbury caus'd his Abferice from it. * 
 About one Month before his Death, his Friend 
 Mr.Farrer (for an Account of whom I am by Promife 
 indebted to the Reader,and intend to make him Rid- 
 den Payment) hearing of Mr. Herbert's Sicinefs, lent 
 Mr. Edmund Dun con (who is now Rector cf Fryer Bar- 
 net in the County of Middleftx) from his Houfe of 
 Gidden-hall , which is near to Huntington, to fee 
 Mr. Herbert, and to allure him he wanted not his 
 daily Prayers for his Recovery; and Mr. Duncon 
 was to return back to Giiien, with an Account of 
 TAuJffartgrfs Condition. Mr. Dun con found him weak, 
 and at that time lying on his Bed> or on a Pallet ; 
 but at his feeing Mr. Duncon, he rais'd himfelf \'\- 
 gorouliy, tainted him, and with fome earneftnefs in- 
 quir\i the Health of his Brother Farrer , of which 
 Mr. Duncon fatisfisd him; and afcer fome Difcourfe 
 of }Ar.Farrer's holy Life, and the manner of his con- 
 ftant ferving God, heiaidto Mr. Duncan —Sir, J fee 
 by your Habit that you area Fr'n'ft, and 1 de fire you to pray 
 
 with 
 
46 The LIFE of 
 
 with me ; which being granted iSir.Vuncon ask'd him, 
 IVbat Prayers ? To which Mr • Herbert's Anfwer was, 
 Sir, the Prayers of my Mother the Church of England, 
 vo other Prayers are equal to them ; but at this time, I beg 
 of you to pray only the Litany, for I am rceahxnd faint ; 
 and Mr. Duncan did fo. After which,and fome other 
 Difcourie of Mr, Farrer , Mrs. Herbert provided 
 \U.Duncon a plain Supper, and a clean Lodging, and 
 he betook himfelf to reft--- This Mr. Duncon tells 
 me ; and tells me, that at his fir ft View of Tvlr. Her- 
 bert) he law Majefty and Humility fo reconcil'd in his 
 Looks and Behaviour, as begot in him an awful 
 Reverence for his Perfon ; and, fays, his Difcourfe 
 was fo pious, and his Motion fo gentile and meek, 
 that after almoft forty Years, yet they remain ftill 
 frelh in his Memory. 
 
 The next Morning Mr. Duncon left him, and be- 
 took himfelf to a Journy to Bath, but with a Promife 
 to return back to him within Five Days, and he did 
 fo; but before I (hall fay any thing of what Dif- 
 •courfe then fell betwixt them two ; I will pay my 
 promis'd Account cf Mr. Farrer. 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Farrer (who got the Reputation of 
 being call'd Saint Nicholas, at the Age of fix years) 
 was born in London ; and doubtlefs had good Educa- 
 tion in his Youth ; but certainly was at an early Age 
 made Fellow of Clare-hall in Cambridge, where he con- 
 tinued to be eminent for his Piety, Temperance, and 
 Learning. About the 26th year of his Age, he be- 
 took himfelf to travel; in which he added to his La- 
 tin and Greek, a perfect Knowledge of all the Lan- 
 guages fpoken in the Weftern Parts of our Chriftian 
 World, and underftood well the Principles of their 
 Religion, and of their Manner, and the Reafons of 
 their Worfhip - — In this his Travel, he met with 
 many Perfuaiions to come into a Communion with 
 that Church which calls it frlf Catholick : But he re- 
 
 turn'd 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 47 
 
 tnrn'd from his Travels as he went, eminent foi his 
 Obedience to his Mother the Church of England, In 
 his Ablence from England, \iv. Farrer's Father, (who 
 
 was a Merchant) allow'd him a liberal Maintenance; 
 and not long after his return into England,Mr.Farrer 
 had by the Death of his Father,or an elder Brother, 
 an Eftate left him, that enabled him to purchafe 
 Land to the value of Four or Five hundred Pound a 
 Year ; the greateft part of which Land was at Little 
 Gidden, Four or Six Miles kom Huntington ^nA about 
 Eighteen from Cambridge : Which Place he chofe for 
 the Privacy of it, and for the Hall, which had the 
 Parifh-Church or Chappel belonging,and adjoyneth 
 near to it ; for Mr. Farrer having fccn the Manners 
 and Vanities of the World, and found them to be, as 
 Mr. Herbert fays, A Nothing betwixt two Difies., did lb 
 contemn it,that he refolv'd to ipendthe Remainder 
 .of his Life in Mortifications, and in Devotion and 
 
 Charity, and to be always prepar'd ior Death 
 
 And his Life was fpent thus. 
 
 He and his Family, which were like a little Col- 
 lege, and about Thirty in number, did molt of them 
 keep I^/t:,andali Ember-weeks ftri£tly,both in Falling 
 anduiingall thofe Prayers that the Church hath ap- 
 pointed to be then uled ; and he and they did the 
 like on Fridays, and on the Vigils or Eves appointed 
 to be fa fted before the Saints-days; and this Fru- 
 gality and Abftinence turn'd to the relief of the 
 Poor; but this was but a part of his Charity, none 
 but God and he knew the reft. 
 
 The Family, which i have laid to be in number 
 about Thirty, w^re a part of them his Kindred, and 
 the reft chofen to be of a Temper fit to b^ moulded 
 into a devout Life ; and all of them were for their 
 Dllp^'anons f. r v ice' able and quiet, and humble, and fiee 
 fom Scandal. Having thus htted himleif for his Fa- 
 mily, he did about the Year 1630, betake himfelf to 
 
 a 
 
48 The LIFE of 
 
 a conftant and methodical Service of God, andit 
 was in this manner — He being accompanied with 
 moft of his Family, he did himfclf life to read the 
 Common-Prayers (for he was a DeaconJ every Day, 
 at the appointed Hours of Ten and Four, in the Pas* 
 •rifh-Church which was very near his Houfe, and 
 which he had both repair'd and adorn'd; for it was 
 falFn into a great Ruin by reaibn of a depopulation 
 of the Village before Mr. Farrer bought the Man- 
 nor : And he did alfo conftantly read the Matt ins 
 every Morning at the Hour of Six, either in the 
 Church or in an Oratory,which was within his own 
 Houfe ;and many of the Family did there continue 
 'With him after the Prayers were ended, and there 
 • they fpent fome Hours in finging of Hymns y or An- 
 thsmsfometimes in the Church, and fometimes to an 
 Organ in the Oratory. And there they fometimes 
 -betook themfelves to meditate,or to pray privately, 
 or to read a part of the New Teftament to them- 
 felves, or to continue their praying or reading the 
 Pfalms ; and in cafe the Pfalms were not alt always 
 read in the day, then Mr. Farrer, and others of the 
 Co ffgregation,did at Night, at the ring of a Watch- 
 bell repair to the Church or Oratory, and there be- 
 take themfelves to Prayers, and lauding God, and 
 reading the Pfalms that had not been read in the 
 Day: And when thefe,or any part of the Congrega- 
 tion grew weary, or faint, the Watch-bell was rung^ 
 fometimes before, and fometimes after Midnight ; 
 and then another part of the Family rofe, and main- 
 tained the Watch, fometimes by praying, or finging 
 Lauds to God,or reading the Pfalmsjand when after 
 fome Hours they alfo grew weary,or faint,then they 
 rung the Watch-bell, and were alfo reliev'd by fome 
 «0f the former, or by a new part of the Society, which 
 continued their Devotions (as hath been mentioned) 
 
 until Morning And it is to be noted, that in this 
 
 continued 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 49 
 
 continued ferving of God, the Pfalter or whole 
 Book of Pfalms was in every four and twenty Hours 
 lung or read over, from the tirft to the lait Verfe; 
 and this done as conftantly, as the Sun runs his Cir- 
 cle every day about the World, and then begins 
 again the fame inftant that it ended. 
 "Thus did Mr. Farrer 7 and his happy Family, fcrve 
 God day and night: Thus did they always behave 
 themfelves, as in his Prefence. And they did al- 
 ways eat and drink by the ftrift Rules of Temper- 
 ance; eat and drink, fo as to be ready to rife at 
 "Midnight, or at the call of a Watch-Bell, and per- 
 form their Devotions to God. And 'tis fit to tell 
 the Reader, that many of the Clergy that *ere 
 more inclined to PraSical Piety and Devotion^ than to 
 doubtful and needlefs Difputarions, did often come 
 to Gidden Hall, and make themfelves a part of that 
 happy Society, and flay a W 7 eek or more, and then 
 joyn with Mr. tarter and the Family in thefe De- 
 votions, and affift and eafe him or them in their 
 Watch by night, and thefe various Devotions had 
 never lefs than two of the Domeftick Family in the 
 night ; and the Watch was always kept in the Church 
 or Oratory, unlefs in extream W 7 inter-nights, and 
 then it was maintain'd in a Parlor, which had a Fire 
 in it; and the Parlor was fitted for that purpofe: 
 And this ccurie of Piety, and great Liberality to 
 his poor Neighbours, Mr. Farrtr maintain'd till his 
 death, which was in the year 1639. 
 
 Mir. Farrer% and Mr. Herbert's devout Lives were 
 both fo noted, that the general Report of their San- 
 ftity gave them occaiion to renew that (light Ac- 
 quaintance which was begun at their being Contem- 
 poraries 'm Cambridge^ and this new holy Friendship 
 was long maintain'd without any Interview, but on- 
 ly by loving and endearing Letters. And one Te- 
 stimony of their Friendfhip, and pious Defigns, may 
 F ap- 
 
50 The LIFE of 
 
 appear by Mr. Farrer's commending the Confidera- 
 tions of John Valdejfo fa Book which he had met with 
 in his Travels,~and tranflated out of Spanifh into Etig- 
 lifh) to be examined and cenfur'd by Mr. Herbert be- 
 fore it was made publick ; which excellent Book 
 "Mr. Herbert did read, and return back with many 
 marginal Notes, as they be now Printed with it; 
 and with them Mr. Herbert's affectionate Letter to 
 Mr. Farrer. 
 
 This John Valdejfo was a Spaniard, and was for his 
 "Learning and Vertue, much valued and lov'd by the 
 great Emperor Charles the Fifth, whom Valdejfo had 
 followed as a Cavalier all the time of his long and 
 dangerous Wars ; and when Valdejjb grew old, and 
 grew weary both of War and the Vy orld, he took his 
 fair opportunity to declare to the Emperor, that his 
 Refolution was to decline his Majefty's Service, and 
 betake himfclf to a quiet and contemplative Life, 
 becaufe there ought to be a Vacancy oj Time, betwixt fight- 
 ing and dying* The Emperor had himfeif, for the 
 fame, or other Reafons, put on the fame Refolutions : 
 But God and himfeif did, till then, only know them ; 
 and he did for thofe,or other Reafons,defire Valdejfo 
 to confider well of what he had faid, and to keep his 
 Purpofe within his own Breaft, till they two might 
 have another like opportunity of a friendly Dif- 
 courfe; which Valdejfo promised to do. 
 
 In the mean time, the Emperor appoints private- 
 ly a day for him and Valdejfo to meet again, and af- 
 ter a pious and free Difcourfe they both agreed oh 
 a certain day to receive the bleffed Sacramenl 
 lickly, and appointed an eloquent and devout Fryar, 
 to Preach a Sermon of Contempt of the World, and of 
 the Happinefs and Benefit of a quiet and-conte,. 
 live Life} which the Fryar did mofr ai'Feftionat Jy. 
 After which Sermon the Emperor took occafion to 
 declare opfenly, That tie ■ hud begot in 
 
. George Herbert. ji 
 
 ution to Jay down bis Dignities, and to firfake tie 
 
 World, and beta : . j a Moniftical Life. And he 
 
 pretended, he had perfuaded $obn ValdeJJb to do the 
 
 like ; but this is mo ft certain, that after the Emperor 
 had called his Son Philip out of England, and refign'd 
 to him all his Kingdoms, that then the Emperor and 
 $obn Valdeffo, did perform their Refolutions. 
 
 This account of fobi ValdeJJb, I received from a 
 
 Friend, that had it from the Mouthy of Mr. Farrer ; 
 
 'leader may note, that in this Retirement, 
 
 lejfo writ his Hundred and ten Confidera- 
 
 i many other Treatiies of Worth, which 
 
 a fecond Mr. Farrer to procure and tranflate 
 
 tbei , 
 
 :-r this account of MuflFarrer, and fokn Valdejjh r 
 I proceed to my account of Mr. Herbert, and Mr. 
 Vwticm, who according to his Promife, return'd 
 from the Bath the 5 th day, and then found Mr.^er- 
 bert much weaker than he left him ; and therefore 
 their Difcourfe could not be long ; but at Mr. Dun- 
 con** parting with him, Mr. Herbert fpoke to this 
 pur pole — Sir, tpray give ray brother Farrer an account 
 ■■ring Condition cf my Body, and tell hi n; I beg 
 time his daily Prayers for .: - him know 
 
 that Ibave confider'd. That God only is wlni he would 
 be ; and that I am by his Grac ' like him, 
 
 •as'd with w . ' him, that 
 
 J dot of Healthy 
 
 ' Bean is fixed on that Place where true 
 ffoy is only to be foun at 1 long to be there, and 
 
 tit for my re with Hope and Pati- 
 
 .1 this, he did v feet a Hu* 
 
 exalt him, bow &o\\ Dun- 
 
 nghtfbl and contented look fay to 
 this little Bock to my dear 
 
 itual Confiids that have paft bettvixt God 
 
52 The LIFE of 
 
 and my Soul , before I could fubjetl mine to the Will of 
 jefus my Mafter; inwhofe Service I have now found, 
 'perfect freedom \ defire him to read it: And then, if he 
 can think it may turn to the advantage of any dejeBed poor 
 Soul, ht it he made publick \ if not, let him bum it : For 
 I and it are lefs than the lea ft of God's Mercies. 
 Thus meanly did this humble Man think of this ex- 
 cellent Book, which now bears the Name of The 
 T E M PLE; Or, Sacred Poems, and Private Eja- 
 culations', of which Mr. Farrer would fay, There was 
 in it the Picture of a Divine Soul in every Page \ ar.i 
 that the whole Book wm fuch an Harmony of Holy Paf- 
 fions, as would enrich the World with Pleafure and Piety. 
 And it appears to have done fo ; for there have been 
 more than twenty Thoufand of them fold fince the 
 firft Impreffion. 
 
 And this ought to be noted, that when Mr. Far- 
 rer fent this Book to Cambridge to be licenfed for the 
 Prefs, the Vice -Chancellor would by no means allow 
 the two fo much noted Verfes, 
 
 Religion ftands a Tip-toe in our Land, 
 %eady to pafs to the American Strand. 
 
 to be printed ; and Mr. Farrer would by no means 
 allow the Book to be Printed, and want them : But 
 after fome time, and fome Arguments, for and 
 againft their being made publick, the Vice-chancellor 
 faid, I knew Mr. Herbert well, and know that he had 
 many heavenly Speculations, and was a Divine Poet \ but 
 I hope the World will not take him to be an infpired Pro- 
 phet, and therefore I Licenfe the whole Book : So that it 
 came to be printed, without the Diminution or Ad- 
 dition of a Syllable, fince it was delivered into the 
 Hands of Mr. Duncon, fave only, that Mr. Farrer 
 hath added that excellent Preface that is printed 
 before iu 
 
 At 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 5 j 
 
 At the time of Mr. Duncon's leaving Mr. Herbert^ 
 
 which was about three Weeks before his death, his 
 old and dear Friend Mr. Wcoinoi^ came from Lon- 
 don to Bemerton, and never left him, till he had feeh 
 him draw his laft Breath, and clos'd his Eyes on his 
 Death-bed. In this time of his Decay, he waso£ 
 ten vifited and pray'd for by all the Clergy than 
 liv'd near to him, especially by his Friends the JBi- 
 fhop and Prebends of the Cathedral Church in Sa- 
 li$hwry\ but by none more devoutly, than his Wife, 
 his three Neeces (then a part of his Family) and 
 T*ir. JVoodnot, who were the fad Witneffcs of his 
 daily Decay ; to whom he would often fpeak to this 
 purpofe, I now look back upo?i the Pleafures of my Life 
 paft, and fee the Content I hive taken in Beauty, in Wit y 
 in Mufick, and pie af ant Converfation, are now all paj} by 
 like a Dream, or as a Shadow that returns not, and 
 are now all become dead, to me, or I to themy and I fee 
 that as my Father and Generation hath done before me, fo 
 1 alfo full now fuddenly (with Job) make my Bed alfo 
 in the Dark ; and I praife God I am prepared for it \ 
 and I praife him, that I am not to learn Patience, now I 
 ft and infucb need of it -, and that I have pratlifed Mortir 
 f cation, and endeavoured to die daily, that I might not die 
 eternally ; and my Hope is, that Ijhall jhortly leave this 
 Valley of Tears, and be free from all Fevers and Pain \ 
 and which will be a more happy Condition, I (ball be free 
 from Sin, and all the Temptations and Anxieties that at- 
 tend it \ and this being paft, I fall dwell in the new Je- 
 rufalem , dwell there with Men made perfect , dwell 
 where thefe Eyes full fee my Mafter and Saviour Jefus \ 
 and with him fee my dear Mother, and all my Relations 
 and Friends, But I muft die, or not come to that happy 
 Place : And this. is my Content, that I am going daily to- 
 wards it, and that every day which I have livd hath taken 
 apart of my appointed Time from me y and that I jhall 
 live the lefs Time for having livd this, and the day paft. 
 
 Thele 
 
54 TJfe L I F E of 
 
 Thefe, and the like Expreflions, which he utterM 
 often may be faid to be his Enjoyment of Heaven, 
 before he enjoy'd it. The Sunday before his death, 
 he rofe fuddenly from his Bed or Couch, call'd for 
 one of his Inftruments, took it into his Hand, and 
 faid, My God, my God, 
 
 My Mufid JhaJl find Thee, 
 
 And every String 
 Shall have his Attribute to fing : 
 
 And having tun'd it, he play'd and fung : 
 
 The Sundays of Man's Life. 
 Tcredded together on Time's Strings 
 Make Bracelets, to adorn the Wife 
 Of the eternal glorious IQng ; 
 On Sundays, Heaven's Door ftands ope ; 
 Blejfings are plentiful and rife 5 
 More plentiful than Hope. 
 
 Thus he fung on Earth fuch Hymns and An- 
 thems, as the Angels and He, and Vlx.Iarrer now 
 fing in Heaven. 
 
 Thus he continued meditating and praying, and 
 rejoycing, till the day of his death ; and on that day 
 faid to Islr.Woodnot, My dear Friend, I am for ry I have no- 
 thing toprefent to my merciful God but Sin and Mifery ; but 
 thefrft is adorn' d ; and a few Hours will now put a Period 
 to the latter ; for I (hall fuddenly go hence and be no 
 more fe&n. Upon which Expreflion, Mr. Wood-not 
 took Occafion to remember him of the Re-edifying 
 Layton Church, and his many Acts of Mercy ; to 
 which he made Anfwer, faying, They be good Works, 
 iftheybefprinUed with the Blood ofChrift, and not other- 
 riiff. After this Difcourfe he became more reftlefs, 
 a.acl his Soul feem'd to be weary of her earthly Ta- 
 bernacle ; 
 
Mr. George Herbert. 5 f 
 
 bernacle ; and this Uneafinefs became fo vilible, that 
 his Wife, his Three Nieces, and Mr. Woodnot, flood 
 conftantly about his Bed, beholding him with Sor- 
 row, and an Unwillingnefs to lofe the Sight of him 
 whom they could not hope to fee much longer— As 
 they flood thus beholding him, his Wife obferv'd 
 him to breath faintly, and with much trouble, and 
 obferv'd him to fail into a Hidden Agony ; which fo 
 furpriz'd her, that fhe fell into a fudden Paffion, and 
 requir'd of hi in to know, How he did ? To which his 
 Anfwer was, That be k&d p*fl £ Con fit ft mth his I aft 
 Enemy, and had overcome him by the Merits of his Ma- 
 tter Jefus. After which Anfwer he look'd up, and 
 faw his Wife and Nieces weeping to an Extremity, 
 andcharg'd them, if they lovd him to withdraw into 
 the next J<oom, &nd there pray every one alone for him ; 
 for nothing but their Lamentations could make his Death 
 uncomfortable. To which requeft their Sighs and 
 Tears would not fufFer them to make any Reply : 
 But they yielded him a fad Obedience, leaving only 
 with him Mr.Wocdnot, and Islr. Bcftock. Immediate- 
 ly after they had left him, he faid to Islr.Boftock, Fray 
 Sir, open that Door, then look into that Cabinet, in which 
 you may eafiiy find my laft Will, and give it into mp 
 band 5 which being done, he deiiver'd it into the 
 Hand of Mr. Woodnot, and faid, My old Friend, 7 here 
 deliver you my laft Will, in which you will, find that I have 
 made you my Cole Executor for the good of my Wife and 
 Nieces ; and I defire you to fioew kindnefs to them, as 
 they Jh all need it , / do not defire you to be $uft, for I 
 know you will bt fo for your own fake : But J charge 
 you, by the J{eligion of our Frjendjbip, to be careful of 
 them. And having obtained Mr. Woodnot $> Pfomife 
 to be fo ; he faid,/ am now ready to dye : After which 
 Words he (aid, Lord for fake me not now my Strength 
 failethme: But grant rue Menyt, for the Merits of ry 
 $efia y and now Lord, Lord now receive my Soul* And 
 
 with 
 
5 6 The LIFE of, &c 
 
 thofe Words breath'd forth his Divine Soul, 
 our- any apparent Difturbance: YAt.Woodnot 
 and Mr. Bofiock attending his laft Breath , and do- 
 ling his Eyes. 
 
 Thus he liv'd, and thus hedy'd, like a Saint un- 
 fpotted of the World, full of Alms-deeds, full of 
 Humility, and all the Examples of a vertuous Life ; 
 which I cannot, conclude better than with this bor- 
 rowed Obfervation ; 
 
 . All mufi to their cold Graves ; 
 
 But the KgUgiom Jcbions of the $uft 9 
 SmeUfvoeet in Death; and UoJJbm intheDufi. 
 
 Mr* George Herbert's have done Co to this, and will 
 doubilefs do fo to fucceeding Generations. .-- -I 
 have but this to fay more of him : That if Andrew 
 MsJvin died before him, then George Herbert died- 
 without an Enemy — *- I wiffi ( if God -fhall b5 To 
 pleafed; that I n b happy as to dye like 
 
 btau 
 
 I fa at Walton*. • 
 
 There 
 
HT 
 
 '"Hoe is a Debt ]u(\ly due to the Memory ofMr.Hcr-* 
 bertV venuQm Wife \ a fart of wkkh I veiU 
 
 deavour to pay, by a very fiort Account of the \ 
 cfberLife, which full fol-ow. 
 
 She continued his difionfolate Widow about Six Tears t 
 
 bemoaning berfelf, and complaining, That (he had loft 
 the delight of her Eyes ; but more, that fhe had loir 
 the Spiritual Guide for her poor Soul ; and would 
 often fy, O that I had, like holy Mary, the Mother 
 of Jefus, treafur'd up all his Sayings in my Heart: 
 But fince I have not been able to do that, I will 
 labour to live like him, that where he now is I may 
 be a-lfo- And fie would often fay (as the Prophet Da- 
 vid/or his Son Abfolon ) O that I had dy'd for him ! 
 7te jhe continued Mourning, till Time and Convention 
 had Jo moderated her Sorrows, that Jhe became the happy 
 Wife of Sir Robert Cook of Highnam in the County 
 c/Glocefter, J^nigbt : And though he put a high Value 
 on the excellent Accomplifiment of her Mind and Body % 
 and was fo like Mr. Herbert, as vox to govern like & 
 Mafier, but as an affetlionate Husband ; yet fie wouli^ 
 even to him often take Occafion to mention the Name of 
 Mr. George Herbert, and fay, That Name mult 
 
 live in her Memory, till fhe put off Mortality > 
 
 By Sir Robert fie had one only Child, a Daughter, 
 whofe Parts and plentiful Eft ate make her happy in this 
 World, and her well ujing of them gives a fair feftimony y 
 that fie will be fo in that which is to come. 
 
 Mrs. Herbert was the Wife of Sir Robert Eight 
 Tears, and Uvd his Widow about Fifteen ; all which time 
 
 fie 
 
lending tie 
 
 r i?orge Herbert. Sbe died in the 
 Highnam ; Alr.Herbert 
 Ah tr t and covered with 
 '■•> prior. 
 
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 t ft Poften 
 
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 the Lord's Supper, With neceffary Direftions^ 
 Prayers, Praifes, and Meditations, to be ufed by 
 Perfons who come to the Holy Communion. By 
 Anthony Horned, D.D. late Chaplain in Ordinary 
 to his Majeity, and Prebend of Weftminfter. The 
 Fourth Edition. 
 
 Short Difcourfes upon the whole Common- 
 Prayer ; defigned to inform the judgment, and 
 excite the Devotion ofluch as daily ule the fame. 
 The Third Edition. ByTbo. Comber, D. D. 
 
 The Reafonabtenefs of the Augmentation of poor 
 Vicarages ; with the Propofals thereunto. 
 
 Georgii BagJivi 9 Doftoris Medici, El in Roman. 
 
 Aixhi- 
 
. Books Printed for Jeffery Wale. 
 
 Archiiyc. Anatom. Profeff. de Praxi Medica ad 
 Prifcani Obfervandi rationem revocanda. Libri 
 Duo. Accedunt Differtationes Novae, cum Indice. 
 DHTertationum Series: i. De Anatome, morfu, 
 & eitectibus Tarantula. Ubi obiter de Ovis Oltrea- 
 ruin deteitis, & examinatis. Et de natara Lapidis 
 Serpentina, Vulgo Cobra de Capelo, fpecihci in ex- 
 trahendis venenis. 2. De Ufu, & Abufu Vefican- 
 tium. 3. Experiments varia Anatomico-infuforia. 
 4. De Circulations Sanguinis in Rana. 5. Hiltoria 
 inofbi, & feftionis Cadaveris Mane Hi Malpigkii Ar- 
 chiatr. Pontihe. 6. Appendix de Apoplexiis, fere 
 Epidemicis proxirre elapfo biennio ifi Urbe, & per 
 ftalhtrh obfervati5,&c. 
 
 V.C1. Ar, ire x Tackle 1 Soc. Jefu Sacerdotis, & Ma- 
 thefess Profefforis Eiementa Gecmetrije Plana? ac 
 Solids, & Selefta ex Archimede Theoremata. Qui- 
 btts in hac nova Editione accedunt Corollaria non 
 pauca illuftranclis Elementis accommodata,& varios 
 propofitionum plurimarum Ufus continentia. Sum- 
 wa cura em^nd'ata, & XL Schematibus novis aeri 
 ificifis illuitrata. A Gnlkhio tfktfim, A. M. Ma- 
 th cie^s Profeiibre Lucafiano a pud Cantabrigienfes* 
 
 Epigraimnatum Dele&us ex omnibus turn Vete- 
 ribttSjtimi Ilecentioribus Poetis Accurate Decerptus. 
 Cum DiiTertatione de ver.iPulchritudine & Adum- 
 brati, in qua ex certis Principiis Rejectionis & Se- 
 lections Epigrammatum Caufe Redduntur.Adjefte 
 funt Elegantes Sententie ex Antiquis Poetis parce, 
 fed feveriori Judicio Selecia?. Cum brevioribus Sen- 
 tentiis feu froverbiis ex Autcribus Grsecis ck Lati- 
 nis, quibus hac fexta Editione, fubjungitur Alterius 
 "Delectus fpecim^n. Ex Nuperis maxim'e Poetis ab 
 Electcribus Pr^tenniiiis in ufam Schol* Etownfis. 
 

 

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