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.
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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.
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Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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London :: printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Senior, and are to be sold by Peter Inch of Chester,
1641.
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Jesus Christ -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Christian literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91224.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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Meditations of the fourth Classe.
FUrther, the Sea doth fitly CharactrizeMost wicked mens deportment, and their guise.
1.
For, as the Sea, so they stillc 1.1 rage, foame, roare,When crost, sicke, pained storming more and moreAs their afflictions grow, and multiply;So as, their Phisicke proves their Maladie;Whereas the godly ared 1.2 meeke, patient, still,And silent in the greatest stormes of ill.
2.
The Sea'se 1.3 oft troubled, and then casts out noughtBut mire and dirt from its dis-gorging throate:Ungodly men are restlesse in their Minde,Much troubled, vexed; leaving nought behindeButf 1.4 dirt and filth of Oathes, lewd talke, sinnes, crimes,And noysome lusts; which they cast up oft timesIn such aboundance, that they sooneg 1.5 infectAll places with the filth they thus eject.
3.
The Sea ah 1.6 world of ugly monsters breedesWithin her wombe, the which she dayly feedes
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Wholei 1.7 worlds of monstrous Sinnes and lusts are bredIn wicked Hearts, and dayly nourished.
4.
The Sea isk 1.8 floating and unconstant still,Moving with Wind and Tide which way they willDirect and steare its course; so wicked menArel 1.9 fickle and unstable, even whenThey seeme most firme; changing their friendship, love,Yea Faith, Oathes, Friends; as Times, Winds, Tides
them move.
5.
We see, the Sea ism 1.10 never full, though allSprings, Rivers, Waters, dayly runne and fallInto it; So though this worlds streames all flowAnd fall into Ill men, they never growThen 1.11 fuller by them, but still empty are,The more they have, the more they carke and care.
6.
The Sea iso 1.12 deepe, deceitefull: Ill men tooArep 1.13so: whence both a world of men undoe:Then never make a wicked man thy Friend,For feare he cheate, undoe Thee in the end.
7.
Seas shew no mercy butq 1.14devoure, drowne allWithout remorse, who in their mouthes once fall:Thus wicked men arer 1.15 cruell; mercilesse,Voyd of all pitty, ready to oppresse.
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And ruine all Sorts; no worth, parts, sex, age,Can rest exempted from their Hellish rage.
8.
The Sea is full of* 1.16 Rockes, Shelves, Sands which split,Wrecke, drowne ships, boates, and men that on them
hit.Ill men ares 1.17 fraught, with Rockes, Shelves, Sands
of viceAnd sinne, to which they others oft entice,Amidst the which they so long saile and play,Till both their soules be split and cast away.
9.
The Sea is harsh, tart, brinish, and nought growesUpon those Sands and Bankes it over-flowes:Ungodly men aret 1.18 churlish, crabbed, rude,Ʋnkinde, at least to those who are renu'de:Barren of goodnesse, grace, truth, piety;And others make so by their company.No grace or goodnesse shall oncev 1.19 thrive, or sproutWhere things are swayed by this wicked Rout.
10.
Thex 1.20 Sea is ever open night and dayTo all of all sorts, like a common way:Thus, lewd mens Hearts doe alwayes open lyeTo sinnes ofy 1.21 all kindes; no iniquitieSo great, strange, horrid, but may freely saileWithin their Hearts, and over them prevaile.
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11.
The Seas salt waters farre exceede the sweeteAnd pleasant streames; yea, drowne them when
they meete,Ungodly men in number much SurmountChrists chosen flocke; soz 1.22small in Mans account,That they oft times are hardly seene; and lyeLike wheate in chaffe, hid in obscurity:From whence we learne that Papists ill concludeTheir Church the truest, from her multitude.
12.
The Sea is Lawlesse, Lordlesse,a 1.23none can tameOr rule it, but that God that made the same:Lewd men are such, nob 1.24 mortall wight but GodCan breake, tame, sway them, with his Iron Rod.
13.
Sea waters heated, soone grow cold againe,And alwayes after cold, harsh, salt, remaine;So wicked men heate with afflictions fireOr some good fits of zeale, doe* 1.25 soone retireƲnto their former coldnesse, brackishnesse,Which to their* 1.26 dying dayes doe them possesse.
14.
We see Sea waters themselves cast and moldInto each vessels shape, which doth them hold:So, ill men will themselves* 1.27 shape, and applyTo every place, time, fashion, company;
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And water like, will suite themselves full wellTo any Sect, Religion, where they dwell.
15.
The Sea, with rage, the Rockes doth oft assaile,To over-turne them, yet can nought prevaile,But still with losse selfe doth breake and split,Not them, whiles its fierce waves against them hit:Thus wicked men, whilst they with furie rageAgainst our Rocke Christ, or his Heritage,Themselves (not him, nor them) toc 1.28powder grindeAnd in the close, nought but confusion finde.O dash not then against these Rockes, which shallStandd 1.29 firme amidst all stormes that on them fall:Lord let us never be of this lewd crue,But with thy grace our Hearts and Lives renueThat so we may escape thate 1.30Lake of fireWhere they shall ever feele thy scalding Ire.
Notes
c 1.1
Isa 57. 20. 21. c. 1. 4. 5. 6. 2 King. 6. 33. 2 Chron. 28. 22. 23.