A contemplation of heaven with an exercise of love, and a descant on the prayer in the garden. By a Catholick gent.
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A contemplation of heaven with an exercise of love, and a descant on the prayer in the garden. By a Catholick gent.
Author
White, Thomas, 1543-1676.
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At Paris :: [s.n.],
printed in the yeare 1654.
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Prayer -- Early works to 1800.
Heaven -- Early works to 1800.
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"A contemplation of heaven with an exercise of love, and a descant on the prayer in the garden. By a Catholick gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65777.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2025.
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Th' Addresse to English
CATHOLICKS.
BEhold that rich Comfort,
whereof in vain you court
and scramble to retrive the
least Drop below in this
your Novercall countrey; behold it
here familiarly stoop'd to woo your
lips from Supernall Jerusalem, the
true and free Mother of us all. The
greedy thirst of One (now inebria∣ted
above) obtain'd for Her self some
yeares since this Elixir; which the
choaking necessity of these hot Times
has at length dissolv'd into a charita∣ble
diffusion of it self to the wide
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world. Drink you, dear Friends, jovi∣ally
of it; (the deeper the sweeter;)
without fear of excesse, which will
surelyest render it a calm Lethe to
your sufferings here, and make wi∣der
passage and room in you for that
Torrent of Pleasure, it earnest's here∣after.
And though this cheering Cup
be proper for you alone, (the happi∣ly
enrolled Guests, already sweating
in the royal way to the future Feast;)
yet is it not grudg'd, nor wil't, I hope,
be unprofitable to those many others
(invited too) your haplesse Coun∣try-men,
who either ramble through
by-Lanes, miserably erring, or lie in
the Hedges timorously watching, or
lazily sleeping, whilst (alas) they
pretend your Errand: since, it's bo∣some
Design and choice Vertue is
contriv'd to rouse and rally the Spi∣rits,
and inveigling the Tast, to beget
and sharpen the Appetite; which
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thus, perhaps, alarm'd, might pro,
voke a sollicitude, and compell them
too to come in that our dread Kings
house may be full.
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