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 second Sort.

AGaine the Sea's of Christ a lively Type And his deare blood, which doth our sinnes out-wipe.

1.

For, as the Sea all filth doth clense away From Bodies, Vessells, Meates, Hearbes, Fruites, Aray, That in it washed are: So Christs sweete Blood (Moret 1.1 clensing than the purest spring or Flood) * 1.2 All filth and spots of sinne, which Soules defile, And in Gods eyes present them foule and vile,

Doth quite abolish, and so purge away From all such soules, as on him fast hold lay By faith unfained, that no filth nor staine Of any sinne, upon them shall remaine To makev 1.3 them loathsome in his Fathers sight, In which they shine as starres most cleare and bright. O let us prize this Blood beyond compare, By which our Soules from sinne thus clensed are.x 1.4

2.

The Sea which did they 1.5 wicked world destroy By Gods command; yet saved upright Noy. With that red Sea,z 1.6 which the Aegyptians drown'd When Gods owne people past it on dry ground In safety, shadow that red Sea of Blood, Which Christ upon thea 1.7 Crosse shed for our good: Wherein theb 1.8 sinnes of all his chosen sheepe With Hellish Pharaoh, and his Hoast, so deepe Are sunke and drowned, that they never shall Appeare againe, their Soules once to inthrall. O let our Sinnes in this red Sea be dround, Then are we certaine nought shall usc 1.9 confound.

3.

The Sea's the way, meanes, passe tod 1.10 to transport Men to those Ports to which they would resort. Christs blood's the sea,e 1.11 way, ship which men con∣voyes From Earth to Heaven, and eternall Joyes. Sweete Jesus let the Sea of thy blest Blood Conduct and leade us safely through the Flood And Rockes of this worlds Sea, to Heavens Port, To which thy chosen Flocke with hast resort.

4.

The Seas faire, lovely, shining azure Face, It's pleasant Calmes in Halcion-daies Gods Grace, And sweete appeasedf 1.12 Loving Countenance To us in Christ, (which raps into a trance The saddest Hearts and fils them with content And matchlesse joyes) most lively represent. O then in all our griefe and misery, On Gods sweete smiling Face still fixe an Eye, Which will support our soules in all distresse, And cheare them so, that nought shall us oppresse. Sweete Jesus when the Sea we view or passe, Present thy selfe thus to us in its glasse: Then if it wrecke or drowne us, yet shall we Through thy Bloods Sea, escape and saved be.

Notes

• t 1.1

  Mal. 3. 2. 3.
• * 1.2

  1 Joh. 1. 7. Rev. 1. 5. Isa. 1. 16. 17.
• v 1.3

  1 Joh. 1. 7. Rev. 1. 5. Heb. 9. 14. Ephes. 5. 26. 27. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Act. 3. 19. Zech. 13. 1. Rev. 7. 14.
• x 1.4

  Dan. 12. 3. Mat. 13. 43. Phil. 2. 15.
• y 1.5

  Gen. 7. & 8.
• z 1.6

  Exod. 14. 15. to 31.
• a 1.7

  Col. 1. 20. Rev. 7. 14.
• b 1.8

  Mich. 7. 19. 1 Joh. 1. 7. Jer. 50. 20. c. 31. 34.
• c 1.9

  Isa. 45. 17.
• d 1.10

  Jonah. 1. 3. Isa. 8. 2.
• e 1.11

  Joh. 19. 6. Ephes. 2. 12. 13. 18. 19. Rev. 5. 9. 10. Heb. 10. 19. 20.
• f 1.12

  Psal. 80. 7. 19. & 89. 15. Cant. 2. 14. Act. 2. 28.