Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed.

Meditations of the fourth Classe, sampling Rockes, and Rockie Hearts, with ungodly Men, to∣gether.

YEt more, me thinkes Rockes represent to all Mans Rockie Heart, and Nature, since the fall, In some Respects, wherein they well agree With Stony Hearts; from which God make us free.

1.

Rockes are exceedingl 1.1 Shamelesse, Impudent; Nought will them daunt, or cause for to relent. So men of Stony Hearts, havem 1.2 Browes of Steele, Faces of Rocke, which no blush, shame can feele. No shamefull Sinne, Convictions, or Disgrace Will daunt, or cause them once to hide the Face.

It is theirn 1.3 glory to be voyd of shame, And vaunt of that which doth them most defame.

2.

Rockes shew no mercy, but too 1.4 peeces mall, Breake, bruise, or hurt, all those on whom they fall. So men of Rockie hearts arep 1.5 mercilesse, And breake, bruise, teare, crush, all they doe oppresse. No Cries, Parts, Vertues, Merits can asswage Their cruell Projects, nor divert their Rage. O let me rather fall into the Pawes Ofq 1.6 Beares or Lyons, than an hard Hearts Jawes.

3.

Rocks make thoser 1.7 Milstones which doe grinde, bruise, teare The Corne we use, to make us Bread, or Beere: So men of Rockie Hearts still serve tos 1.8 grinde, Presse, bruise Gods Chosen, till they be refinde From all their Huskes of sinne, and made meete Food For Gods sweete Pallate, to their greatest Good.

4.

Some Rockes burnt in the Fornace harder grow; And nought butt 1.9 Steele, or Iron from them flow: Which serves to breake, hew, polish, fit, and square Rude Rockes and Stones, and Stately piles to reare: Gods fiery Fornace Rockie Hearts makes more v 1.10 Hard, and obdurate than they were before; Yea all its scorching Heate the which they feele, Serves but to turne them into harder Steele,

Or Iron; for to breake, hew, polish, pare The Rockes and Stones which God layes in the rare And choisest Buildings of his Church: whose walls Arex 1.11 built, not ras'd, with these hard Iron Malls. And Tooles of Steele, though they noy 1.12 Part nor share Have in the Temples which they helpe to reare.

5.

The most mischievous Instruments of war Wounds, Bloodshed, first fromz 1.13 Rockes extra∣cted ar; As Canons, Musquets, Bullets, Sword, Bills, Speares With other weapons, where with Man kills, teares, Torments, Maimes, Stabs his Brother in despite, As if he did in nought but Blood delight: So from Mens Stonya 1.14 Hearts first flow and spring All Mischiefes, Murders, Warres, Sinnes, each ill thing: These were the Artists which did first invent Each bloody, murth'ring, warlike Instrument; The Shops in which they forged were, the Armes That weild them still, & work a world of Harmes. O cursed Hearts of Rocke from whence doe flow All Evills, Mischiefes, woes we heare, see, know! Lord free and ever keepe us from such Hearts, Which are the Cause of all our Sinnes, Ills, Smarts.

6.

Rockes make those in themb 1.15 carelesse, Proud, Secure From feare of Danger: Stony Hearts are sure To make allc 1.16 Them in great Mischiefes ere they be aware.

Rockes ared 1.17 exceeding Hard; and sooner broke Than squar'd or polisht with the Axes stroke: Mens Stony Hearts so hard and flinty are, That all Gods Axes, Judgementse 1.18 cannot square Them to his Rules, nor cause them to amend, And sooner breake than rent, or make them bend. He who in hardestf 1.19 S••••••es of old imprest His Sacred Lawes, upon a Rockie Brest Cannot ingrave them: Lord what Hearts of Flint Have Men, whereon thy Lawes can make no Print! Nought but Christs blood theseg 1.20 Adamants can thaw And square them to the Models of Gods Law.

8.

No heate of Sunne or Fornace Rockes will melt, But harden rather, and their Heat's not felt: Godsh 1.21 Sun-shine Mercies, and his sweetest Grace; His fiery Fornace, and his frowning face, Mens Rockie Hearts will neither warme, relent, Affect, melt, change, nor move them to repent.

9.

Most Rocks arei 1.22 barren, yeelding nought for Back Or Belly, that Mankinde or Beasts doe lack: Mansk 1.23 Stonie Heart's as Barren: no good Thing, No Fruites of Grace, Faith, Vertue in it spring.

10.

Thornes, Thistles,l 1.24 Brambles, Weedes of Rockes oft grow; All Stony Hearts with these, stillm 1.25 over-flow:

Fruitefull in nothing, but those tares of vice, And sinne, which barre them out of Paradise.

11.

Rockes Deafe and Sencelesse are of good, and ill: Hardn 1.26 Hearts are so, and neither can, doe, will, Gods Word, Law, Workes regard, Heare, understand; Nor, feare his angry; kisse, his soothing hand.

12.

The fiercest Stormes,o 1.27 Winds, Waves, on Rookes doe dash: Godsp 1.28 Sorest Judgements Stonie Hearts doe lash: And though they seldome feele Gods stroke or Curse; This nothing Mends, butq 1.29 makes their Case farre worse.

13.

The pleasant Showres, Drops, Dewes that on Rockes light. Make them not fruitfull; nor in better plight: But glide away forthwith, not sinking downe To make them Mellow, good, or sinne to drowne: So Rockier 1.30 Hearts, though they receive the raine, And frequent showres of Gods blest Word; remaine Still Barren, Hard, and Sencelesse; nought will stay That drops upon them, but all slides away That's Good or Sacred; onely Flouds ofs 1.31 sinne Sinke downe with speede, and freely enter in.

14.

None craggiet 1.32 Rockes will Till, Plough, Plant, or Sow; Their Labours lost who doe it, nought will grow. Obdurate Hearts few use to Plough or Till With Godly Precepts, Counsells; sith they still v 1.33 Neglect, deride, contemne them; so as all The seede is lost which on the Rockes doth fall.

15.

Rockes blunt, and hurt the edge of Tooles that smite, Or square them for good uses; yea in spite Their Chips and Shivers dash against the Eyes, Face, Shins of those that hew them. Loe the guise Of Rockie Hearts, whichx 1.34 hurt and malice those Who checke their sinnes, and hate them as their Foes. Yea, let their Pastors in their Ministry But touch their Sores, into their Face they flye: So zealous are they for those Sinnes, which end In hell, when they will not Gods cause defend. O that our zeale for God were halfe so much As for our darling Crimes, when Men them touch: Then would we let themy 1.35 strike, wound, lance, yea Slay Our dearest Sinnes; and thanke, not them gaine-say.

16.

Rockes Cold and Heavie are, andz 1.36 never move Out of their Places; nor mount up above

Unlesse perforce; and then they evera 1.37 bend Downe to the Center; whence they did ascend Sob 1.38 Rockie Hearts are Cold, and lumpish still To all that good is; prone to nought but Ill: No Love, Heate, zeale to God within them flame; His Cause they'le not stir in for Love, nor Shame: Their Thoughts, Minds, Cares are fixt onc 1.39 things below, And never upwards Soare to view, mind, know The things above; unlesse somed 1.40 sodaine Feare Of Death, Hell, Danger up them scrue or reare Against their Wills: which past, to Earth they hie With greater poyse, and there still groveling lie.

17.

Rockese 1.41 Dumbe and silent are: So Hearts of Stone For good Discourse have neither Tongue, nor Tone Sitting stillf 1.42 Mute like stones without voyce, sence, When any fall to godly Conference.

18.

Rockesg 1.43 bare and naked are; whence all may spie Their Nakednesse, and grosse Deformitie. All Stony Hearts, areh 1.44 naked, poore, and bare; Their Barenesse, vilenesse, wants exposed are To all Mens view; till Christs rich Robes of Grace Cloath or Adorne them, and these wants deface.

19.

Rockes Livelesse are; and Stony Hearts arei 1.45 Dead; No life of Grace was ever in them bred:

Yea, all who now draw breath, must shortlyK 1.46 dye, (Who knowes how soone) and dead as Rockes shall lye.

20.

Rockes till by force they broken be, and slit, l 1.47 Hewd, polisht, for all Buildings are unfit: Thus Rockie Hearts till God themm 1.48 rent, hew, square; To build his House, Church, Temple, uselesse are.

21.

Rockes make Menn 1.49 fall and stumble, to their Paine And Hurt: Thato 1.50 Rockie Hearts doe thus, tis plaine; Since all our Slips, Falls, Bruises, Sinnes proceede From Stony Hearts, which make us take no heede.

22.

Rockesp 1.51 Shipwracke those, who doe too neare them sayle; And sunken Rockes to split Ships most prevaile: Thus Rockie Hearts unlesse we from them fly Willq 1.52 wracke us all; but yet especially When neither Felt, nor Seene: for then we run With full-saile on them, and are quite undone.

23.

Rockes feele no Burthens, weights that on them lie; So Rockie Hearts doe neverr 1.53 sigh, groane, cry Ʋnder the Weights and Burthens of their Crimes, (Thoughs 1.54 heavier than the Sands a thousand times)

And why? because they never feele their poyse Till it them sinke to Hell, and quite destroyes.

24.

Not all the Men on Earth, with all their Art Can make one Rock, or Stone; much lesse an Heart; But onelyt 1.55 God himselfe: yet Men alone Are thev 1.56 Creators of all Hearts of Stone, Not God: O wonder, that Men should create Nought but Hard Rockie Hearts which God doth hate: Such Hearts can none else but Men, Fathers call, Which sinke still downewards, till to Hell they fall.

25.

O then when ever we a Rocke shall see, Let these thoughts to our Mindes recalled be: Yea, ponder what Oldx 1.57 Rockie Hearts we have By Sinne and Nature: then New, soft Hearts crave, With fervent Prayers, Grones, Sighes, Teares; so we Our Hearts of Rocke, to flesh transform'd shall see. And if we finde, feele, know by signes most sure Our hearts thus changed, and made soft, and pure; Let us for ever in Word, Deede, Life, Thought, Extoll and (y) praise Him who this Change hath wrought; Keeping a narrowz 1.58 watch both night and day, Over our cheating Hearts; for feare lest they Should by degrees freeze, or growa 1.59 hard againe, Yea turne to Rockes, and so for aye remaine.

26.

Sweete Jesusb 1.60 take our Stony Hearts away, And give us hearts of flesh, we humbly pray;

And of all other Plagues, from us avert This as the greatest, an obdurate Heart. And since of all our Parts Thou dost require, Seeke, prize ourc 1.61 Hearts most; grant us we desire Such broken, contrite tender Hearts, as may Delight Thee most; and never from Thee stray. Such Hearts Thou onely canstd 1.62 create, not we; Make our Hearts such; then happy shall we be.

Notes

• l 1.1

  Jer. 5. 3.
• m 1.2

  Jer. 3. 3. c. 5. 3. c. 8. 12. Ezech. 2. 4. c. 3. 7.
• n 1.3

  Phil. 3. 19.
• o 1.4

  Josh. 10. 10. Judg. 9. 53. 54. Zech. 12. 3. Luk. 13. 4. 2 Chron. 25. 12.
• p 1.5

  2 King. 8: 12. 13. Gen. 5. 7. Psal. 71. 4. Prov. 12. 10. Je••. 6. 23. c. 50. 42. Psal. 27. 12. Ezech. 34. 4.
• q 1.6

  Prov. 17. 12.
• r 1.7

  Isa. 47. 2.
• s 1.8

  Exod 1. 12. c. 4. Isa. 3. 15.
• t 1.9

  Deut. 8. 9. Job 28. 2.
• v 1.10

  Isa. 1. 5. 6. 2 Chro. 28. 22. 23.
• x 1.11

  Exod. 1. 12. c. 4.
• y 1.12

  Act. 8. 21.
• z 1.13

  Job 28. 2. Deut. 8. 9.
• a 1.14

  Mat: 15. 19. Gen. 6. 5. c. 8. 21. c. 27. 41.
• b 1.15

  Obad. 3. 4. Jer. 21. 13. 14. c. 49. 16.
• c 1.16

  Is. 47. 7. 8 9. 10. 11. c. 5. 19.
• d 1.17

  Job 41. 24. Jer. 23. 29. Nah. 1. 6. Jer. 5. 3.
• e 1.18

  Isa. 1. 5. 2 Chron. 28. 22. Exod. 5. to 13. Jer. 5. 3. c 2. 30. Isa. 9. 30. Amos 4. 6. to 14. Rom. 2. 4. 5.
• f 1.19

  Exo. 31. 18. c. 34. 1. 4. 29.
• g 1.20

  Ezech. 11. 19. c. 36. 26. Jer. 32. 39.
• h 1.21

  Isa. 26. 10. 11. c. 1. 5. c. 9. 30. Jer. 5. 3. 2 Chro. 36. 14. 15 16. Jer. 25. 3. to 15. c. 29. 19. c. 32. 33. Amos. 4. 6. to 13. Hos. 6. 4. 5. Rom. 2. 4. 5.
• i 1.22

  Ezech. 26. 4 Amos 6. 12.
• k 1.23

  Ezech. 11. 19. Math. 13. 5. 6. 20. 21. Mar. 4. 5. Luke 8. 6.
• l 1.24

  Judg. 8. 7. 16.
• m 1.25

  Heb. 6. 8. Rom. 1. 24. to 32. c. 2. 4. 5.
• n 1.26

  Ephes. 4. 18. 19. 1 Tim. 4. 2. Proverb. 23. 35. Deut. 29 2. 3. 4. Isa. 6. 9. 10. 2 Chron. 36. 15. 16.
• o 1.27

  Mat. 7. 25. 26.
• p 1.28

  Deut. 28. 15. to 68. 1. Sam. 5. 7. 2. Chron. 21. 19. Ezech. 14. 21. Mich: 2. 10. Heb. 10. 29.
• q 1.29

  Ephes. 4. 18. 19. Rom. 2. 5.
• r 1.30

  Heb. 6. 7. 8. c. 3. 13. 8. Mat. 13. 5. 6. Isa. 28. 10. 13. 2 Chro. 36. 15. 16. Jer. 23. 3. 4. c. 35. 15.
• s 1.31

  Job 15. 16.
• t 1.32

  Luk. 8. 6. 13. Amos. 6. 12.
• v 1.33

  2 Chron. 36. 15. 16. Jer. 23. 3. 4. Mat. 7. 6. Prov. 9. 7. 8.
• x 1.34

  Pro. 9. 7. 8. Mat. 7. 6. Prov. 15. 12. 1 King. 13. 4. c. 18. 17. 18. 2 Chron. 24. 19. 20. 21. 22. c. 36. 15. 16. Mat. 23. 37. Gal. 4. 16.
• y 1.35

  Psal 141. 5. Psal. 139. 23. 24. Prov. 8. 9. c. 29. 25.
• z 1.36

  Job. 18. 4.
• a 1.37

  Rev. 18. 21. Jer. 51. 63. 64. Neh. 9. 11. Exod. 15. 5. 10 Matth. 18. 6. Mark. 9. 42. Luk. 17. 2.
• b 1.38

  Rom. 2. 4. 5. c. 1. 23. to 32. Ephe. 4. 18. 19. 2 Pet. 2. 20. 21. 22.
• c 1.39

  Phil. 3. 18. 19.
• d 1.40

  Isa. 26. 11. 16.
• e 1.41

  Hab. 2. 19.
• f 1.42

  Isa. 56. 10. Job. 15. 3.
• g 1.43

  Ezech. 26. 4.
• h 1.44

  Ezech. 16. 3. to 15. Rev. 17. 18.
• i 1.45

  Mat. 8. 22. Joh. 5. 25. 19. Ephes. 2. 1. 5. c. 5. 14.
• K 1.46

  Heb. 9. 27. Psal. 89. 48.
• l 1.47

  2 Chron. 2. 2. 18. 1 King. 5. 17. c. 7. 9. 10. 12.
• m 1.48

  Ezech. 36. 26. Joel 2. 13. Hosea 6. 5.
• n 1.49

  Isa. 8. 14.
• o 1.50

  Rom. 2. 5. Eph. 4. 18. 19.
• p 1.51

  Act. 27. 29.
• q 1.52

  Rom. 2. 4. 5. Ephes. 4. 18. 19. 1 Tim. 6. 9.
• r 1.53

  Ephes. 4. 18. 19.
• s 1.54

  Psal. 38. 4. Matth. 11. 28. Job 6. 3.
• t 1.55

  Joh. 1. 3.
• v 1.56

  Psal. 95. 8. Exod. 8. 15.
• x 1.57

  Ezech. 11. 19. c. 36. 26. Psal. 51. 10. 17.
• z 1.58

  Act. 2. 46. 47. Eph. 3. 20. 21.
• a 1.59

  Heb. 3. 13. c. 12. 15. Prov. 4. 23.
• b 1.60

  Ezech. 11. 19. c. 36. 26.
• c 1.61

  Prov. 23. 26.
• d 1.62

  Psal. 51. 10. 17.