Prison-pietie, or, Meditations divine and moral digested into poetical heads, on mixt and various subjects : whereunto is added a panegyrick to the right reverend, and most nobly descended, Henry Lord Bishop of London / by Samuel Speed ...

¶ On the Tree of Life.

HArk, O my Soul, to cane th'infernal Pit, Know it thy name i'th' book of Life be writ: And for a certainty the same to finde, Read o'r thy Conscience, and peruse thy minde. Think not of Heave•…•…s Ro•…•…l to have a view; Examine thine own Heart, 'twill tell thee true: For in the Conscience of a Saint doth lie An Holy Record of Eternitie. If in thy Conse ence th•…•… hast writ God's Word, Be sure the Book of Life doth th•…•…e record. When at the day of Judgment God shall look Into his Register, and when the Book Of Conscience lieth open, then indeed The Saint and Sinner both may trembling read. Wherefore, my Soul, so govern hand and pen; Write now, as not to fear to read it then.