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.

A CHRISTIAN SEA-CARD. Consisting of sundry Poeticall Meditations raised from the Contem∣plation of the Nature and Qua∣lities of the Sea.

THE PROLOGUE.

THis World's an ample Ʋolume, where we may Not onely Read, buta 1.1 See God Day by Day; And every Creature which it doth com∣prize, A Text to preach him to our Hearts and Eyes:

No Plant, Herbe, Grasse so small, so vile but can Teach, and demonstrate God himselfe to Man, With his eternall Wisedome, Goodnesse, Power, Which he is blind, who seeth not in each Flower. Looke we above, beneath, or round about, All that we see dothb 1.2 point, nay paint God out, Amongst the world of Creatures which present God to our Thoughts, and Eyes with sweete content Me thinkes the Sea, (oft viewed with delight,) Shewes him most cleerely to our Minds and sight. From whence a pious Heart may raise such store Of godly Thoughts, that plenty makes it poore.

Meditations of the first Kinde.

1.

ANd first, the vaste Sea, which with speede can * 1.3 drowne The greatest Island, Mountaine, Ship or Towne, As easie as the smallest, Mole-hill, Boate, Or cottage, in its all-devouring throate; Most sweetely represents to sinnefull Man The vaste, immense, and boundlessec 1.4 Ocean Of Gods free Grace and Mercy; so profound, That worlds of greatest sinnes in it are drown'd; No crimes so hainous, great, or numberlesse; But if with bleeding soules we themc 1.5 confesse And quite abandon, this large sea of Grace Shall over-whelme, wash out, and cleane deface: O sweetest solace to a broken Heart, And sinne-sicke soule, desirous to convert!

What though thy horrid sins and hainous crimes, Be greater than the world ten thousand times? Loe, her's a Sea more vast shalld 1.6 drowne them all Without exception, great, as deepe, as small. O then despaire not, but behold with joy This Ocean, which shall all thy sinnes destroy. Lord, let us ever Saile in this sweete Sea, Where Soules are sav'd, Sinnes onely Shipwrackt be.

2.

Againe, thise 1.7 great Sea's huge immensity Length, Breadth, Depth; Bulke, a vaster Deity And greater God whoe 1.8 made it, clearely prove, Then feare, yea fly his wrath, embrace his love; Before all earthly Monarches, since they be Not by ten thousand parts so great as He; Or as the Sea, that shadowes to our eyes, Hisf 1.9 greatnesse which our thoughts cannot comprise. What Creature, danger then shall once dismay Those, who this Great God make their onely stay?

3.

The Sea points forth unto us every houre, Gods infinite, Almighty, Soveraigne power; Who didg 1.10 Create it with a Word, and still Controules,h 1.11 rules, calmes, its raging waves at will, When they with boisterous Tempest, roare, and swell As high as Heav'n, sinke downe as low as Hell: Bounding its proudest flouds with smallest Sand; To shew how great a force weake things with∣stand When backt by God, sith petty Sands can stay The raging Seas fierce March, and blocke its way.

Who but ai 1.12 God of might can tame and charme Such foaming bedlam Seas, and them dis-arme. Of all their fury, strength, and them divide Yea, dry at pleasure; to abate their pride? And cannot he who bounds, rules, calmes and quels The boist'rous Ocean, when it roares and swels With greatest force and furie, bridle, swage Both men and Devills when they storme and rage? Yea* 1.13 dash them into shivers with more ease And speed, than Seas a potsheard, if He please? Why should wee then oncek 1.14 dread their threats or frownes, Their might or fury which our God still bounds? They cannot touch onel 1.15 haire, if he say nay, Much lesse our Soules harme, or our bodies slay Whilest we with upright hearts for his cause stand. O sweete! sweete comfort to Gods chosen Band! Thinke well of this, and then we shallm 1.16 defie All Tyrants rage, and neare once feare, nor flye. What ever comes, when God shall call us out To fight for him, and shew our selves most stout.

4.

Besides, the Flux, and Reflux of Seas Tyde At certaine constant houres, without a guide: Its wise disposall to each shore, Port; Creeke, Throughout the world, where men for traffique seeke: Its close* 1.17 conveyance to all Fountaines, Springs, The Earth to water, and all living things: The great and wondrous strange* 1.18 variety Of Fish and Creatures, which doe live, breede, lye Within its wombe, Men to delight and feede, As well in times of plenty as of neede.

What doe they all demonstrate to our eyes And Mindes, but that God is most skilfulln 1.19 wise In these his wondrous workes, exceeding all Mens Art, farre more than Earth a Tennis-Ball. O let us then in all we enterprize, Submit our wits to him who is so wise, Craving his ayde, and giving him the praise Of his great wisedome, which musto 1.20 guide our wayes.

5.

Yea, these shew forth to Men Gods Providence, Which doth the Sea thus order, guide, dispence Inp 1.21 wondrous manner, and feede, rule, sustaine All Fishes, creatures which it doth containe; And is as watchfull, restlesseq 1.22 night and day, As Seas, which ever move, but never stay. Thricer 1.23 happie they who firmely can relie Upon Gods care in all extremity: He who each wave doth rule, and each fish feede, Will ins 1.24 due season, send them all they neede.

6.

The Seas great depth, which few or none can sound, Points outt 1.25 Gods secret Judgements more profound: Yea, Ships, Barkes, Boates which plough the Seas bright face, Yet leave no footsteps by which them to trace; Gods hidden Counsells; wayes, and deepe decrees Past finding out, present to all degrees. Hence God isv 1.26 sayd, in Sea to have his way, His pathes in waters deepe past mans display,

O then adore his Judgements, Counsells deepe; And not* 1.27 presume into them once to peepe With prying eyes, beyond those bounds which He In sacred writ hath fixed unto thee.

7.

The Length andx 1.28 widenesse of the Sea, which spreads It selfe both farre and neere, to pious Heads. And Hearts shewes forth the vaste immensity, And Omni-presence of the Deity; Whichy 1.29 fills both Earth and Heaven, Sea, world, Hell; Yea every part of each: O strange to tell! Oh horrid Meditation! to the Rout Of gracelesse sinners; when they goe about To hide, or flye from God; who doth fore-stall, Nayz 1.30 fill all corners into which they crall. How can they then escape his venging hand, Which is so neare them both by Sea and Land? Yet matchlesse solace to Gods chosen sheepe, That his sweetea 1.31 presence shall them cheare, fence, keepe, By Sea and Land, where ere they live or goe: This makes them happie in a world of woe. What neede we then to feare a banishment From Friends, or home, or close Imprisonment: In any hole or dungeon? sinceb 1.32 no place Can barre from us Gods presence or his Grace? Which ever make an Heaven where they dwell, A royall Pallace of the darkest Cell.

8.

The raging Seas fierce waves andc 1.33 roaring Cry Which daunt all Hearts, spare neither Low nor High,

Bearing downe all before them who withstand Their furious progresse, with a potent hand. Describe Godsd 1.34 dreadfull wrath, and dismall Ire, Against obdurate sinners; who conspire To breake his Lawes, oppose his Christ, despite And grieve his Spirit, sinning with delight, Without remorse or checke, till theye 1.35 provoke Him to consume them with a fatall stroke. O let us oft consider, still feare, shunne His dreadfull wrathf 1.36 from which we cannot runne, Much lesse resist it, praying Christ to swage And quench itg 1.37 least we perish in Gods rage. The angry Floods can onely drowne or fright Us for a moment; but if Gods wrath light Upon us; Soule and Body both shall be Ʋnder its Tortures forh 1.38 Eternitie.

9.

The Sea so usefull, good, and meete for Fish And foule of all sorts that mans heart can wish: For Salt, Clounds, raine, springs, riversi 1.39 (which proceede From it) and traffique for all things we neede: Proclaimes to allk 1.40 Gods goodnesse, bounty, grace, Who all this goodnesse in the Sea did place, To make Men happie. Let this goodnesse raise Our hearts to Love, and give him alll 1.41 due praise.

10.

Once more; the Springs and Rivers whichm 1.42 ascend Out of the Sea at first, and in it end: Instruct us sweetely, how that every thing From God (the Sea of being)n 1.43 first did spring:

And therefore should by way of thankefulnesse Their course, Aymes, Ends to him alone addresse, But chiefely Man, (first made, and since thato 1.44 bought Top 1.45 serve God onely in deed, word, and thought;) Should all returne to him from whom it flowes, Sinceq 1.46 all is his that on us springs or growes. O let us study from our Hearts to give All unto him,r 1.47 in whom we are, move, live; It is hiss 1.48 due, our duty, all we have To render to him, who our soules must save: Most blessed God let us thus oft behold Thee in this Christall glasse, the Sea, our cold And frozen Hearts to warme, with these sweete Rayes Which it reflects, to thine eternall praise.

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 1.49 clensing than the purest spring or Flood) * 1.50 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 1.51 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 1.52

2.

The Sea which did they 1.53 wicked world destroy By Gods command; yet saved upright Noy. With that red Sea,z 1.54 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 1.55 Crosse shed for our good: Wherein theb 1.56 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 1.57 confound.

3.

The Sea's the way, meanes, passe tod 1.58 to transport Men to those Ports to which they would resort. Christs blood's the sea,e 1.59 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 1.60 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.

Meditations of the third Ranke.

BEsides, the Sea exhibits to our sight A lively Emblem of the State and plight Of Gods Elect, with all those sore and great Stormes of Afflictions, which doe dayly beate Upon them, whiles they passe this Sea below. Whereg 1.61 World, Flesh, Devill, seeke to overthrow.

1.

For first, the Sea is* 1.62 restlesse night and Day; Its flux and constant progresse, none can stay: Just so are Gods elect, who alwayes move; h 1.63 Tending to Heaven and the things above; No Bankes, Winde, Stormes,i 1.64 threats, death, their course can cease Till they arive at Heavens Port in Peace.

2.

The Sea is everk 1.65 tost from place to place With Winds, stormes, Tides: And is not this the Case Of Gods deare Saints? stilll 1.66 handed too and fro (By sundry Tempests which they undergoe) From Coast to Coast, from Goale to Goale, to shew They Pilgrims are, and Strangers here below. Fixt to no Certaine Clime, and that their home And resting place, is in the world to come.m 1.67

3.

The Sea is ever working, purging forth, Andn 1.68 casting out filth, weedes, trash of no worth Which falls into it, and corrupt, defile Its Christall streames, making them foule and vile. Thus Gods Elect stillo 1.69 purge out, and eject. Those Lusts, sinnes, vices, which their Soules infect With such suggestions as foule Devills cast Into their Hearts, them to pollute and Waste.

4.

The Sea'sp 1.70 exposed to all stormes and Winds; Soq 1.71 Saints to Troubles, Crosses, of all kindes, To make them humble, and translate their love From things on Earth, unto the things above.

5.

None dare to crosse the Sea without a Card Or Compasse, which they still with care regard, Stearing their course thereby, for feare they stray Or misse their Port, and so be cast away: Thus Gods Elect, whilst they doe saile and rove In this worlds Sea, by Compasse ever move; Stearing their Rudder, byr 1.72 Gods Sacred Writ For feare they misse their Harbor, or else hit Their Soules against those Rockes, Shelves, Sands which lye To Crosse their voyage to Eternity.

6.

The Ebbing Sea discovers to the eye Those dangrous Rockes, Shelves, Sands, that hid∣den lye At full Sea Tides, which then oft drowne and sinke Those who approach them, when they least feare, thinke Of any danger: So the Ebbing State, The Crosses of Gods Chosens 1.73 Demonstrate And point out to them many Rockes, Shelves, Sands, To shipwracke Soules, betray them to the hands

Of Hellish Pyrats, which still hidden lye, And undiscerned in prosperity. By which they shun their danger, and commend These Ebbes, which from such perills them defend, Before those Full-Sea-Tides of wealth and joy, Whicht 1.74 Shipwrecke thousands, and their Soules de∣stroy.

7.

The lowest Ebbe, hath still the highest Flood; Saints deepest sorrowesv 1.75 end in greatest good: Their Floods of joy transcend their Ebbes of woe Beyond compare, and all their griefes out-goe.

8.

When Seas are at their lowest Ebbe, they then Forth-with begin to spring and flow. So men Belov'd of God, when as they seeme to lye At lowestw 1.76 Ebbe, in deepest misery, Past helpe, past hope in Carnall mens account, Beyond all expectation, spring and mount Above their Crosses, and enjoy a Flood Of Peace, wealth, honour; and the greast good. If old examples faile, you may now view The truth hereof in some yet fresh and new.

9.

Godsx 1.77 Will and pleasure onely is the Cause Why Seas doe Ebbe and flow; not any Lawes Of Nature, Moone, or Planets: So the will Andy 1.78 blessed pleasure of our God is still

The first chiefe cause, of all the Ebbes and Tides Which here befall his Saints, nought else besides: Yea, as Sea Stormesz 1.79 proceede from God, and tosse Men up towards Heaven: So each storme and crosse Which lite on Gods Electa 1.80 from him first springs And nearer Heaven them lifts up, and brings.

10.

The Sea isb 1.81 Salt and brackish: Crosses are The like, atc 1.82 first, to Saints who doe them beare.

11.

The Saltest Seas the sweetest Fishes breed: Saintsd 1.83 sweetest comforts from the Crosse proceede: Yea, as the best and largest Fish are found In Saltest waters: So the best, most sound, Large, strongest Christians, which wee finde, or know, Ine 1.84 harshest Floods of Sorrowes alwayes grow.

12.

The Seas salt waters clense and purifie Things that are filthy: Thus adversitie Dothf 1.85 purge and wash away from Gods Elect Those Spots, sinnes; vices, which their Soules infect.

13.

Seas brinish waters pickle and preserve Things from corruption: Sog 1.86 Afflictions serve To season Saints, who else would putrifie, And rot in those foule sinnes, which now they flye.

14.

Sea stormes drive Men toh 1.87 prayers, cryes, and teares, Augmented and intended by their Feares: Yea, make them post to Harbours, for releefe; And bid the Sea adieu with Joy, not greefe: Thus troubles cause the Saints toi 1.88 pray and cry To God for helpe with greater fervencie; Intend, increase their prayers; make themk 1.89 flye To God their Harbour, for security; Cause them to loath andl 1.90 leave this world with joy: Whose waves and Tempests them still sore annoy.

15.

And as great blustring stormes doe sooner drive Ships to the Harbours where they would arive, Then Calmes and mildest Gales: Som 1.91 Crosses mend Gods darlings speed, and oft times sooner send Them unto Heaven, thenn 1.92 prosperity, Which calmes their Sailes, and makes them still to lye.

16.

The Tempest that befell the Ship wherein The Propheto 1.93 Jonah fled, and slept in sinne, Did never slacke nor cease, till he was cast Into the Sea, which done, the storme was past: So, Saints afflictionsp 1.94 never swage nor end, Till Jonah be cast out, and they amend, Which done, their Tempests cease, and calmes succeede, Unlesse some other Jonah in them breede.

17.

In stormes at Sea, theq 1.95 waves come on so fast, That fresh succeede before the first be past: So Crosses on Gods Saints so thicke oft lite To humble,* 1.96 try, purge, wash and make them bright: That oner 1.97 treads on the others heeles, and new Come on before the old bid them adieu.

18.

Yet, as Sea-stormes, though long, stills 1.98 end at last In pleasant Calmes; thus Crosse, which so fast, So, thicke presse on Gods Saints for many Dayes, (Yea moneths and yeares oft-times)t 1.99 conclude alwayes, In Gods due time, in sweetest Calmes of peace, And Tides of Joy: Blest Tempests which so cease! O then in all thy sorrowes, Troubles, still Waite and depend on God by Faith, who will (Inv 1.100 fittest season) send such Joy and Ease As shall thine Heart cheare, and all stormes appease.

19.

The Seas great deluge did bothx 1.101 overflow The wicked old world, and it overthrow, Yet Righteous Noe did then escape its rage; And landed safely when the Flood did swage. Just thus, Afflictions waves and Delugey 1.102 wracke, And drowne all carnall wretches which doe lacke Gods grace and faith to hold them up; when they Who with true faith, their soules on God can stay

And Anchor; never sinke; but swim and beare Theirz 1.103 heads above all Seas with joyfull cheare; Ariving safely, when the Stormes are past, In Heavens Harbour, where they Anchor cast.

20.

All those who use the Sea, doe ever minde Thea 1.104 Port to which thy Sayle; and as the wind Doth bring them nearer to it day by day Their Joyes increase, the more sayles on they lay, Longing to end their voyage, and arive At that sweete Haven unto which they drive: Thus Gods Electb 1.105 have alwayes in their Eye The Port above, to which they dayly flye With all their speede and might, and as each day Doth bring them nearer to this happie Bay; Their inward Joyes and Comforts still increase, The more they long there to arive in peace: Mending their speede, imbracing with delight (That which all others doth so sore affright) Grim* 1.106 pallid Death, the Pilot to convoy Them to this Haven of Eternall Joy. Lord, teach us Heavens Port thus still to eye Whilst here we saile, that when we come to dye, We may attaine it; and there safely ride Free from all perrils of winds, stormes, and tide. Lord make us thine Elect, that we may gaine This Port, where all thy Saints in blisse shall reigne.

Meditations of the fourth Classe.

FUrther, the Sea doth fitly Charactrize Most wicked mens deportment, and their guise.

1.

For, as the Sea, so they stillc 1.107 rage, foame, roare, When crost, sicke, pained storming more and more As their afflictions grow, and multiply; So as, their Phisicke proves their Maladie; Whereas the godly ared 1.108 meeke, patient, still, And silent in the greatest stormes of ill.

2.

The Sea'se 1.109 oft troubled, and then casts out nought But mire and dirt from its dis-gorging throate: Ungodly men are restlesse in their Minde, Much troubled, vexed; leaving nought behinde Butf 1.110 dirt and filth of Oathes, lewd talke, sinnes, crimes, And noysome lusts; which they cast up oft times In such aboundance, that they sooneg 1.111 infect All places with the filth they thus eject.

3.

The Sea ah 1.112 world of ugly monsters breedes Within her wombe, the which she dayly feedes

Wholei 1.113 worlds of monstrous Sinnes and lusts are bred In wicked Hearts, and dayly nourished.

4.

The Sea isk 1.114 floating and unconstant still, Moving with Wind and Tide which way they will Direct and steare its course; so wicked men Arel 1.115 fickle and unstable, even when They seeme most firme; changing their friendship, love, Yea Faith, Oathes, Friends; as Times, Winds, Tides them move.

5.

We see, the Sea ism 1.116 never full, though all Springs, Rivers, Waters, dayly runne and fall Into it; So though this worlds streames all flow And fall into Ill men, they never grow Then 1.117 fuller by them, but still empty are, The more they have, the more they carke and care.

6.

The Sea iso 1.118 deepe, deceitefull: Ill men too Arep 1.119 so: 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 1.120 devoure, drowne all Without remorse, who in their mouthes once fall: Thus wicked men arer 1.121 cruell; mercilesse, Voyd of all pitty, ready to oppresse.

And ruine all Sorts; no worth, parts, sex, age, Can rest exempted from their Hellish rage.

8.

The Sea is full of* 1.122 Rockes, Shelves, Sands which split, Wrecke, drowne ships, boates, and men that on them hit. Ill men ares 1.123 fraught, with Rockes, Shelves, Sands of vice And 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 growes Upon those Sands and Bankes it over-flowes: Ungodly men aret 1.124 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 1.125 thrive, or sprout Where things are swayed by this wicked Rout.

10.

Thex 1.126 Sea is ever open night and day To all of all sorts, like a common way: Thus, lewd mens Hearts doe alwayes open lye To sinnes ofy 1.127 all kindes; no iniquitie So great, strange, horrid, but may freely saile Within their Hearts, and over them prevaile.

11.

The Seas salt waters farre exceede the sweete And pleasant streames; yea, drowne them when they meete, Ungodly men in number much Surmount Christs chosen flocke; soz 1.128 small in Mans account, That they oft times are hardly seene; and lye Like wheate in chaffe, hid in obscurity: From whence we learne that Papists ill conclude Their Church the truest, from her multitude.

12.

The Sea is Lawlesse, Lordlesse,a 1.129 none can tame Or rule it, but that God that made the same: Lewd men are such, nob 1.130 mortall wight but God Can 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 fire Or some good fits of zeale, doe* 1.131 soone retire Ʋnto their former coldnesse, brackishnesse, Which to their* 1.132 dying dayes doe them possesse.

14.

We see Sea waters themselves cast and mold Into each vessels shape, which doth them hold: So, ill men will themselves* 1.133 shape, and apply To every place, time, fashion, company;

And water like, will suite themselves full well To 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 rage Against our Rocke Christ, or his Heritage, Themselves (not him, nor them) toc 1.134 powder grinde And in the close, nought but confusion finde. O dash not then against these Rockes, which shall Standd 1.135 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 renue That so we may escape thate 1.136 Lake of fire Where they shall ever feele thy scalding Ire.

Meditations of the fifth Sort.

ONce more, me thinkes the Sea (which ever floates, But never rests,) presents unto my thoughts A lively Mappe of this vaine World; (which, it. In some respects resembles very fit;) Yeelding them ample Sea-roome, for to hale, And chase this Theame with a delightfull Gale,

Untill my roving Muse, quite tyred shall Take in her Sailes, and let her Anchor fall.

1.

Now to begin this pleasing chase? the Seas Are salt, harsh, brackish, and no Pallats please: This world isf 1.137 bitter, tart, and salt to all, Through sickenesse, sorrowes, crosses, which befall Them in some kinde or other, for to make Their Hearts more willing its love to forsake: But most unpleasant is it to Gods Saints Of any others; whose most sadg 1.138 Complaints Of itsh 1.139 sharpe Brine, would peirce a heart of steele, And make all salt we in it taste, or feele. How can we then this brinish world once love, Or be unwilling from it to remove Unto that other? fraught with alli 1.140 delights, All sweetest Joyes, and Soule-refreshing sights!

2.

Sea waters drunke downe, hurt, gnaw, fret, decay The Entralls, and oft times take life away: This brackish world, quaft down,k 1.141 the soule annoyes, Corrodes, consumes, and at the last destroyes. Those who sippe of it, sickely grow, but such Are past all cure, who swallow over-much. O let us never bibbe, carouse, orl 1.142 love Her poysnous cups, which doe so deadly prove.

3.

Salt waters still increase, not quench mens thirst, He that drinkes these, is dryer than at first:

This worlds salt streames mens drought can never swage, The more they drinke, them 1.143 more their thirst doth rage; A cup or two, still makes them long for more; And none so dry, as those who have most store Of this worlds waters, which doe onely feede Not quench the dropsie; cause, not helpe their neede. O taste not then her streames, but them defie, Which swage no thirst, but make men still more drie.

4.

The Sea is evern 1.144 floating, changing place, State, and condition, never in one Case: Sometimes it flowes a space; then ebbes againe Forth-with; and Stormes, its Calmes still en∣tertaine. If now it smiles, anon it frownes, foames, swels, Ringing the changes more than any Bells: Thiso 1.145 world is flitting, fickle, mutable; We all likep 1.146 strangers, pilgrimes in it dwell, Roving from place to place till death arrest Our wandring Corps, and lose us in Earthes brest. Sometimes the flowing Tydes of happinesse Mount us aloft; anon, some Ebbes depresse And cast us downe; farre lower than before, As happy made, to be more vile and poore. One space a Calme or pleasant Gale doth smile And breath upon us; but within a while, Tempestuous stormes and whirle-winds over-take, Tosse; teare, split, sinke us, and we shipwracke make. To day we rich are,q 1.147 ere to morrow poore; Well, in the morning,r 1.148 dead, or at deaths doore Ere night: in Honour and esteeme this houre, The next,s 1.149 cast downe, base, withered like a flower.

How many sayling in full streames of wealth, Pomp, Honour, Pleasure, Favour, Greatnesse, Health And all contentments which the world can give Unto her darlings, whilst they therein live, Have in onet 1.150 houres space, beene stript of all, And dasht in peeces with a suddaine fall? How manyv 1.151 mighty Kings, States, Monarchies, Have in a moment felt such miseries, Such fatall changes in their worldly State, As no Heart could conceive no tongue relate? Unconstant world (more full of changes then The Sea or Moone) how can the sonnes of men Oncex 1.152 love or trust thee? Goe, cheate Thy sickely friendship ever will defie.

5.

The Sea is full ofy 1.153 Rockes, which sinke and quash. Those Ships, Barkes, Boates, that doe against them dash: This world hath farre more Rockes to wracke and Split The Soules of such as doe against them hit. z 1.154 Wealth, honours, lusts, pompes, pleasures, pride of Life, With sundry other Rockes, are here at strife Which shall most soules destroy, and sinke to Hell, In Seas anda 1.155 Lakes of brimstone still to dwell. How dare we then approach these Rockes, or run Upon them, which whole Millions have undone? Or take delight this worlds ill Seas to crosse, Where most are Wreckt, none scape without some losse?

6.

The Sea a smiling, shining azure face And lovely out-side hath her selfe to grace; Wherewith she hides her savage cruelty, Rockes, Shelves, Gulfes, and those Monsters that doe lye Close couch'd in her, to wrecke and to devoure All those her beauty drawes within their power. This cheating flatring world, mens soules to traine Into her deadly Snares (where they remaine Fast hampred till they perish) still presents Her selfe to them, deckt with such Ornaments, Such out-side, beauty, pompe, State, gaudinesse, And seeming shewes of present happinesse, As ravish most mens Eyes and Heartsb 1.156 with Love Of her, and turne them from the things above. Whereas, if they once saw, or could discry Those horrid Monsters, Rockes, gulfes, snares that lye Hid under her faire surface, they would shun Her Love, and faster from, than to her run O let us view her intrals, not her skin; She's Gold without, but Poyson, Drosse, within.

7.

The Sealyes open to allc 1.157 stormes and winds, This world exposed is untod 1.158 all kinds Of Tempests, Crosses, Losses, Gustes, and Harmes: How can we then lye sleeping in her Armes? Or hope to finde peace, rest, content, or blisse In her, where we are certaine all to misse?

8.

The Clouds above much darken, and obscure The Seas bright shining face, whiles they indure: So clouds of crosses sent from God, deface This worlds bright Luster, much eclipse her grace; Making here 1.159 loathsome in these very Eyes, Which in her Sun-shine, did her over prise.

9.

Those Fogges, Cloudes, Stormes, which darke the light-some skies Ecclipse the Sun-shine, worke much harme, arise Out of thef 1.160 Sea at first: Most cloudes of woes Mists, fogges of sorrowes which doe interpose Twixt Men and Heaven, hiding Gods sweete Face And presence from them, with his Rayes of grace, g 1.161 Vexing their Hearts, Mindes, Soules, doe ever spring From this worlds Seas, which nought but mischiefe bring. O let us never fixe our mindes or Hearts On her, that is the cause of all our smarts!

10.

The lowest Ebbes Seas highest Tydes succeede: Mens greatest falls from this worlds heights pro∣ceede; Expect then when her Tydes doe highest flow, Someh 1.162 great approaching Ebbe to bring thee low. Let not then her spring Tides of happinesse Make men secure, proud, haughty, or to blesse Themselves without good cause, since none so nigh Are to a fall, as those she mounts most high.

11.

The Breaches which the Sea makes on the maine Arei 1.163 hardly made up, or repair'd againe: The Ruptures which this worlds Floods dayly make Upon those Soules they batter, enter, take, Arek 1.164 hardly cured and stopt up? Beware Their Breaches then, and them prevent with care; Their entrance is at first with Ease debarr'd But once got in, them to repulse is hard.

12.

All Riversl 1.165 run into the Sea, yet still It empty is, and never hath its fill, The streames of most mens Cares, thoughts, la∣bours, braines, Into this worlds Sea run, which yet remaines Asm 1.166 empty as before. O then bestow Nought upon that which never full will grow.

13.

Most livelesse things, as mettalls, stones, dust, sand And pondrous bodiesn 1.167 sinke downe out of hand As soone as cast into the Sea; where drown'd, They are so lost, that they cannot be found. Yet trees, which mount from Earth up to the skie Whiles they are growing; and such foules as flye Up towards heaven, safelyo 1.168 swim, and ride Ʋpon the Sea, not fearing, winds, stormes, tide: So men, deprived of the Life of Grace Made all ofp 1.169 Earth, on which they fixe and place

Their hearts and thoughts; no sooner lanch or fall Into this worlds Sea, but they sinke downe all So deepe into it, that itq 1.170 drownes them quite, And in a moment swallowes out of sight. Whereas Gods chosen Saints, whose hearts and Love Are ever centred on ther 1.171 things above, And soaring upwards, safely swim and beare Themselves above her floods, and still appeare.

14.

Sea waters quench not, but increase the flame On which men cast them. This worlds doe the same; Her streamess 1.172 augment, not quench mens raging fire, The more they have, the more they still desire. Why should we then affect her floods, or store Which never make us rich, but ever poore?

15.

The Sea stillt 1.173 moves and runs with Wind and Tide, These steare this World, and doe her Rudder guide: If Times, Winds, Tide, move with us, then will she Runnev 1.174 with us too, and friendly seeme to be; But let them once, begin on us to frowne, Shee'le joyn with them to wreck and cast us down. O falfe deceitfull world, who dost forsake All when they neede thee most, and never take Their parts but when they neede thee not, adieu: Unconstant friends are ever false, not true.

16.

The Sea the Earth doth compasse andx 1.175 surround, Some parts whereof by it are often drown'd: Just so thisy 1.176 world environs men about, Their Soules to swallow, so that 'few swim out Or scape her danger. O thrice happie he That can saile through it, and not drowned be.

17.

Sea fights of any other are most fell, Fierce, bloody, dangerous, hot and terrible. The Battles which thisz 1.177 world doth dayly make Against mens Soules them to destroy, or take, Are farre more dangerous, deadly, worse than those Wherewith the Flesh, or Devill them oppose: Her Engines, traines, assaults, theirs much exceede, And none can scape them without speciall heede.

18.

As Ships built on the Land with force, toyle, be Still lanched and dradge out into the Sea: So man whence once form'd in his Mothers womb With painefulla 1.178 Labour is enforst to come; And lanch'd by her into the worlds wide Sea, Where he from winds and stormes is seldome free. Hence he with sighes, teares, cries,b 1.179 laments in vaine, As soone as borne, what he must here sustaine: O let us then withc 1.180 songs and shouts of joy Leave this worlds Sea, which doth us sore annoy: And sith we enter it with teares, cries, paine, Its madnesse thus to part from it againe.

What we with force, griefe, sobs, first undertake; We should withd 1.181 chearefull hearts at last forsake. Like ships, which gladly runne themselves a shore; Because perforce lanch'd into Seas before. And yet the most with greatere 1.182 griefe (O Sinne!) Depart this world, than they it entred in, And must by might, with grones, teares, shreekes and cry Be puld out thence, and forc'd with woe to dye. Blessed Lord God, so steare our ships and Helme Through this worlds Sea, which would us over∣whelme, And wrecke for ever, that we may at last Gaine Heav'ns blest Port, and there sure Anchor cast.

Meditations of the sixth Sort.

IN fine, the Sea suggests to each good mind These Meditations which are yet behind.

1.

First, when we see the Sea, it readily Presents that vow andf 1.183 Baptisme to our eye, Which make us Christians, and oblige us still Theg 1.184 World, Flesh, Devill, with their Pompe, Lusts, will

Quite to renounce; and ever to obey Gods holy Lawes, who washt our sinnes away In these Baptismall waters; to theh 1.185 end That we by sinning should no more offend His Sacred goodnesse, but spend all our dayes In just, good, holy actions, to his praise. O then when ever we the waters see Let these things to our mindes recalled be, To mend our Lives, renue our vowes, and make Us World, Flesh, Devill, and their Lusts forsake.

2.

Crosse-Seas whose boisterous Tydes by turnes ore∣sway Each other, and enforce their streames to stray Quite from their proper course, and over-beare Them so, that they their motions counter-steare To that course they intend; in lively wise A Newborne Christians state unto our Eyes Present, in whom twoi 1.186 Crosse Seas, Tydes contend And meete each day, contesting without end To over-beare each other: Sometimes the Floods of their fleshly Lusts prevailers be, And over-beare the Spirits counter-tydes, Which at the last prevaile, put flesh besides Its course and channell, and through heav'ns great might Beare downe its streames, and over-comes them quite.

3.

The floating Sea when it invades the Land, And drownes the Coasts that next unto it stand;

Paints out thatk 1.187 deluge in the dayes of Noy Which did the wicked old world quite destroy. And then instructs us with all care to flye Those sinnes whichl 1.188 drowne us for eternitie, Both Soule and Body in the fiery Lake. This thought should move us, all sinnes to forsake.

4.

When we behold men, goods, lead, stones,m 1.189 sinke downe Into the Sea, which them doth quickely drowne So deepe, that they can never rise againe: It paints forth Hell unto us very plaine, That sinkes,n 1.190 drownes, tortures, for eternity Mens soules and bodies, which there chained lye, So fast, so deepe, that they can never rise, Nor swim out thence: Which should us all advise, To flye all sinnes; yea, more to feare and minde This fiery Lake, whence none redemption finde. And sith all feare in Seas for to be drown'd, How should they dread this Lake, thats more pro∣found.

5.

The Sands on Sea-shores, which doe farre surpasse Allo 1.191 number, shewes us like a Christ all glasse Those multitudes of sinnes that in us breed Which doe thep 1.192 Sands in number farre exceede, To make us humble. And each flowing Tide, Which doth the Sand both moysten, drowne and hide From time to time, instructs us every day, With Floods ofq 1.193 teares our sinnes to wash away;

And in Christsr 1.194 blood them so to drowne, and hide, Through Faith, that they may be no more espide. If thus we thinke, learne, doe, by what we see, From day to day, thrice happie shall we be.

6.

The springing Tide which by degrees doth flow To Full-Sea marke, and then by steps falls low, With ships first built, then lanch'd, next rigd, then sent And put to Sea, till they be wreckt or spent: Paint out Manss 1.195 birth, growth, age, death to our sight, With all those Floodes, Ebbes, changes that doe lite Upon him from the wombe unto his Urne, Where he meeret 1.196 dust, shall unto dust returne.

7.

Thev 1.197 Arke of old, which on the floods did floate, And saved Noah, with each Shippe and boate Which crosse the Seas, and those in safty keepe That in them saile, when others in the deepe Depriv'd of these, are drowned; sweetely shew To us Gods Churches State, which here below On this worlds Sea, dothx 1.198 safely floate and ride (Thoughy 1.199 tost and torne with Tempests, Windes, and tide) Andz 1.200 saves all such as in her saile and stay; When all without, are drown'd and cast away. Let this induce us in Christs Church to dwell, Live, dye, for feare we drowne, and sinke to Hell.

8.

The vastest Sea isa 1.201 bounded, and obeyes The Lawes and Edicts, which God on its layes, As well as smallest springs, or streames: How then Dare greatest Monarches; Princes, Kings, or Men Themselves deeme boundlesse, lawlesse and exceede The bankes andb 1.202 Lawes which God to them decreed? Let sencelesse Seas now teach them to containe Within due Bounds, and not to over-straine.

9.

When Seas through winds or stormes doec 1.203 over∣flow, Or breake their bankes, great mischiefes, losses grow From thence to men and Beasts, (which then are drown'd) And all such places which they doe surround: When Kings, or great ones out of Avarice, Pride, Lust, Ambition, or some other vice Out-swell, or breake the bounds which God hath set, Ad 1.204 Flood of woes and mischiefes they beget, Wherein they drowne themselves and many more; And then, too late, their dismall Fates deplore. Let Kings and Grandees then take speciall heede, How they their fined Bounds breake, or exceede.

10.

The Sea below doth ever flow Ebbe move, Ase 1.205 God himselfe doth steare it from above: So men on Earth, their thoughts, words, acts should frame And Guide, asf 1.206 God above directs the same.

11.

Now waters ever stinke or putrifie Whiles they within theirg 1.207 Channels move, and lie: But once remov'd out of their proper place, Or let lye still, they stinke, and lose their grace. Thus men doe seldome rot in sinnes, lusts, vice Whilst they theirh 1.208 honest calling, exercise And keepe within their Compasse. But if they Growi 1.209 idle, lazie, or begin to stray Out of their fixed Stations, in short space They rot and stinke, in Sinnes to their disgrace. O then beware of sleepe and idlenesse Whichk 1.210 rot and Slay the Soules they once possesse.

12.

When I perceive the Seas sweete flowing tyde Upon the drie Sands, shores to creepe, steale, glide By senselesse steps, untill it drowne them quite: It represents unto my thoughts, minde, sight, Howsinnes and vices byl 1.211 degrees, creepe, grow, On men, till they them drowne and overflow. O then let all, their first progresse withstand Else they will them soonem 1.212 drowne, as Seas doe Land: Nay worse; since flowing Seas still Ebbe againe, And leave the Sands dry: Sinnes still flow and gaine On Men, and drowne them each dayn 1.213 more and more They know no Ebbes, but flow and ne're give o're.

13.

The Ebbing Sea which all its filth behinde Leaves on the shore; should put all men in minde

How their Ebbes, and afflictions should still make Them all their filth of sinne quite too 1.214 forsake; Which being once cast up upon the shore, Mustp 1.215 never be resumed by them more.

14.

When I behold Our Females wash away With water, all blacke spots of Inke, Soote, Clay, Which on their faces fall by accident, I wonder much, and cannot but lament To see some spot their faces studiously With Anticke Patches of a Sable dye; Should God himselfe their visage thus bespot They would repute it an uncomely Blot A great dishonor, and use all their skill To cure, or hide such blacke spots, Moles as ill: How dare they then use Artificiall spots Which they, if native, would repute for blots And deeme a blemish to their beauty, nay A sad ill Omen? May I not then say q 1.216 These spots are not the spots of Gods Children Which make them odious to God and good Men, Who lover 1.217 no spots, since Christ his blood out-shed To clense his chosen from alls 1.218 Spots and dread, Wash off, renounce these Satan-Spots, least He Them Satans Spots adjudge, and you to be His marked Vassals, not his owne washt traine Sith such blacke spots upon your face remaine. To weare white Linnent 1.219 spotted, is disgrace, What is it then to weare a spotted Face, And that in Gods owne presence? Certainely It cannot but be sinne or infamie. A Spotlesse Soule abhorres av 1.220 spotted Face Which where all's cleane within, can have no place

By Christs owne verdict, so that all may feare Inward uncleannesse where suchy 1.221 spots appeare; Which spring no doubt from* 1.222 Pride, lust, wantonnesse, Or following great Vaine Persons antique Dresse, The Sea which hates spots, shall in judgement rise Against all who with spots their Fronts disguise.

15.

The flowing Seas, which seeme to kisse, embrace The shore in lovely sort, yet in short space Recoile againe, and leave it naked, dry, And faster from than to it use to flye, Paint out in lively sort before our Eyes Those hollow hearted friends unconstant guise Who in the flood of Mens prosperity Can hugge, embrace, protest to live and die Together with them, But as soone as they Begin to Ebbe, and their estates decay, Forthwithz 1.223 retire, and in post from them flye, Leaving them naked in their misery. This is the common friendship, now adayes, Wherein true Friends deserve both love, Crownes praise, Who still sticke closest ina 1.224 adversity And then draw nearest when all others flye.

16.

Few put to Sea, or come a shore, but when It flowes, not Ebbes, which Character, that Men Delight tob 1.225 swim still in prosperity And flowing streames, shunning adversity, With Ebbes of Fortune; though thec 1.226 Schoole of grace And vertue, which in full Seas scarce finde place:

For as the flowing Sea still runnes amaine Towards the Earth, and never turnes againe Till Ebbes recall it: So prosperities Encreasing Flood, mens hearts, minds, loves, carries Still towardsd 1.227 Earth and worldly things below Drowning all Graces, vertues that should grow Within them; till some crosse Ebbes which befall Them, their hearts, thoughts affections quite e 1.228 recall From Earth and worldly things, to things above Turning the streame of their desires, hearts love To God and grace above, the Port, But, End To which our Thoughts, Acts, motions should still tend. Of 1.229 happy Ebbes, which mount our soules on high And them translate from Earth above the skie: Were it not for these Ebbes, few would arive At heavens blest Port, to which they most men drive.

17.

When tis full Sea at one place, it is then Low Ebbe at others, Its Just so with men: Somes wealth, flood, greatnesse, others make poore, low. And these their Ebbes, cause them to spring, rise, flow. Tis never full Sea at once in all climes, Nor in all mens Estates, which have their times Tog 1.230 Ebbe and flow by turnes; we cannot all Be happie here; when some rise, some must fall. Yea, those who have the highest worldly Flood, Have oft with it the lowest Ebbes of good: Their Floods ofh 1.231 worldly wealth, Pompe, State, effect Strange Ebbes of Grace, and make them God neglect.

18.

The Sea in Calmes, and where no Rockes, Shelves lye, To crosse its course, runnes smooth without waves, cry; But crost by winds, stormes, rockes, sands, instantly It swells, roares, fumes, and rageth furiously Beyond all measure, caring not to split And breake it selfe 'gainst Rockes that hinder it: Thus many men who seeme milde, meek and sweete Of Nature, whiles they with no windes, rubbes meete Which Crosse their Wills, designes, swell fome, i 1.232 rage, fret, Storme, and all rules of reason quite forget. Oft in a moment, when crost in their will Aymes, Endes, Lusts, Causes, whether good or ill; And like some furious, Bedlams, voyd of wit, Will in their fits of cholor rather split And wrecke themselves for ever, than not have Their wills in all things, which they seeke or crave. This Bedlam fury doth too oft undoe Those it possesseth, if not lookt unto In time, and quite subdude, especially Great men, or those who would be climbing high. Let all them flye it: 'tis mens shame to be As mad, rash, raging, as the Sencelesse Sea; And to permit their stations to transport Them past the bounds of reason, in this sort.

19.

When I behold men with much toyle to row, And beate the Seas oft-times when crosse winds blow,

Or tydes against them runne till they with paine Their wished Haven at the last obtaine. It mindes me how all Christians while below In this worlds Sea,k 1.233 should dayly strive and row, Against all winds, Tydes, Stormes, which crosse or drive Them from Heavens Port, till they therein arrive In safety: which blest Harbor none can gaine Without muchl 1.234 labour, rowing; sweat, and paine.

20.

Its dangerous crossing of the Seas at night; When neither Sunne, Moone, Starres yeeld any light. Hence most ships in the night are cast away For want of light, when few are wreckt by day; This worlds Seas are most dangerous, specially In darkest Nights, when no light from on high Of saving Grace orm 1.235 knowledge doth appeare Within mens soules, whereby their course to steare. Needes must men perish then for want of light To shunne Rockes, Shelves, and guide their ships aright. We should then for this light of Grace more pray And long, than* 1.236 Seamen in a storme for Day.

21.

The deepest Seas run silent without noyse When as the shallow, roare, lift up their voyce; With horrid rage and out-cry. So we see The deepest, wisest men most silent be, Making least noyse or bragges, and* 1.237 patiently Ʋnder all stormes and Crosses quiet lye.

When shallow Pates like* 1.238 empty vessels make The greatest noyse, bragges, and most on them take; And being crost, pincht with adversity, * 1.239 Roare, rage, storme, vex like Bedlams furiously. To bragge, vaunt, rage, foame, chafe and over-prate, Is a sure Symptome of a shallow Pate.

22.

Whiles that the Sun-beames on the Sea shine bright They make her shine so, that she bleares the sight And eyes of men, with those meere borrowed Rayes Which she reflects, and so to them conveyes: But let the Sunne set, or a cloud it hide, Her shining Luster's gone, and not espide; When as the Sun-shine of prosperity Breakes out on thiso 1.240 worlds Sea, it bleares the eye Of Carnall men, and makes her shine so bright That nought to them seemes halfe so cleare, or light, Though all her Lustre be but borrowed Rayes, Whichp 1.241 passe away, and in her make no stayes: As soone as Clouds or Crosses hide this Sunne, Her glory fades, and all her splendor's gone; O dote not then upon her hired light, Which if it lasts all day, stillq 1.242 sets at Night.

23.

The Sea is liquid, and whiles men doe thinke To walkeupon it, downe they fall andr 1.243 sinke; Unfaithfull friends are like; whiles we rest, stay On them, we fall, sinke, and are cast away. Try then before you trust; andt 1.244 rest on none Who are meere flesh, but upon God alone:

Whov 1.245 never failes, when false friends from us fall And true Friends dye, or cannot helpe at all.

24.

When we behold Seas constantly to flow In spite of winds & stormes which on them blow, Twice every day; It minds us how each day Wex 1.246 twice, at least, to God should duely pray, Maugre all Winds, Stormes, Sports, Workes, Com∣pany, That would us hinder from this piety. A type whereof they 1.247 double Sacrifice Of old each day, did paint forth to our eyes: And as Sea-waters alwayes joyntly flow, Twice every day together, whence they grow More strong and great: So every family Wherein thez 1.248 Practice of true Piety Or gifts of grace reside, should twice each day Morning and Evening, to God joyntly pray, As well as privately; that so their Teares, Sighes, Cryes might sound more loude, sweete, in Gods eares, Anda 1.249 more prevaile with him; O happy they Who with pure Hearts to God thus dayly pray.

25.

When we espie ships driven quite besides Their course and Compasse, with stormes, Winds, and Tydes, In darkest nights, and tempests for to crosse, Saile, passe in safety, without wrecke, bruise, losse, Amidst unknowne most dangerous, Rocks, Shelves when Allb 1.250 hopes of safty faile in thoughts of men,

Sith diverse ships have there beene cast away Though stear'd by skilfull Pilots, at mid-day In Calmes and fairest weather: we must thence Conclude, and cry, Gods secretc 1.251 Providence (The best and onely Pilot) did direct Their Helme, and them from Shipwrackes thus protect. And learne that humane skill, Art, nought avayles Unlesse God steares the Rudder, guides the Sailes. No matter then what ere the Pilot be, If God us guide, we shall from wreckes be free. O Let usd 1.252 pray to him alwayes to steare Our Helmes, then we no Rockes, wreckes, neede to feare, And shall saile safe, whiles others who relye Upon their skill, not God, wrecke, split, drowne, dye:

26.

When I behold sweete pleasant streames to fall Into salt Seas at last, which drowne them all. I thereby learne, how worldly jollity, And streames of sinfull pleasurese 1.253 end onely In Seas of brinish teares, in floods of griefe, And plunge men intof 1.254 Hell past all releefe. Fly then these pleasant streames which ever end In saltest Seas, and men post to Hell send.

27.

When Marriners or Passengers long lye Waiting for Wind, and opportunity To crosse the Seas to those Ports, Townes, Coun∣tries To which they bound are, they will in no wise

Let slip, but take the first good Gale; which lost May quite undoe, or put them to great cost. Their Wisedome should instruct all those who lye On Earth below, for passage to their high And Heav'nly Country, never to omit Oneg 1.255 Gale of Grace which blowes well towards it, But whiles Life, Time, and meanes of Grace endure And breath upon them, to make heaven sure, And post on to it, with full Sayles each day; For feare they* 1.256 lose their passage through delay. One Gale of Grace or opportunity Neglected, may lose us eternity. Godsh 1.257 Spirit, which blowes when and where it will Must not be slighted, but observed still: It will not ever waite, nori 1.258 strive with men And once departed, returnes not agen.

28.

Sea waters in their Channels, are but light; Under them all a Childe may stand upright: But taken thence, they very pondrous prove, A Pipe or two, no Gyant can remove; Whole Seas of vastest sinnes are veryk 1.259 light On carnall Hearts, who never feele their weight: Whereas to humbled Soules, the smallest Crimes Arel 1.260 heavier than the Sea ten thousand times; Wherewith their Soules, are burden'd, and opprest, More than if Mountaines lay upon their brest. The reasons plaine; in one, sinnes in its place; Butm 1.261 out of it, in Hearts renude by grace. Try then thy State hereby: if sinnes weigh light In thy Soules Seales, thy case is ill, not right.

29.

The Sea iso 1.262 full of waters, which there lye Pil'd up in Heapes, as in Gods Treasurie, Or Common store-house; who doth thence disperce Them to all Places of the Ʋniverse, Where they are needfull: Which in lively wise Paints out most sweetely to our Hearts and Eyes, Those inexhaust, vast, boundlessep 1.263 Magazines Of goodnesse, grace, with all those golden Mines Laid up in God and Christ, who day by day With open Handsq 1.264 disperse, and give away These precious stores, to every living thing Throughout the world, and to their Homes them bring. How should the thought of their vast stores, feast, cheare Our hungry Soules, and banish all their feare? Sith Seas shallr 1.265 sooner faile of streames, and dry Quite up, then these stores of the Diety Faile, or diminish, which still open stand All needfull things to yeeld us out of hand.

30.

When I consider how the Seas did stand And swim at firsts 1.266 above the highest Land, Till God confin'd them within Bankes; whence they If but permitted, would soone scape away, And in a moment drowne the world againe: Me thinkes it points out to us very plaine The patience, mercy, andt 1.267 abundant grace Of our sweete God, who keepes them in their place,

Thoughv 1.268 dayly urged by our sinnes, and Crimes, To let them loose, to drowne us, sundry times. And then instructs us, him not to offend, Who can at will whole Seas against us send, (Yea troopes ofx 1.269 Devils) which would soone de∣voure Us, if not held off by his mighty Power.

31.

When I iny 1.270 Scripture read, that God did found This world on Seas and floods, ••s on its ground; I finde the cause of this Worldsz 1.271 ficklenesse, And all the things that We therein possesse. For how can ought be stable, firme or stayd, That on unstable, floating Seas is layd? O then make nought that this world yeelds, youra 1.272 stay, Or Treasure, sith it floates and swimmes away.

32.

The Sea is Homogeniall, and each small Drop in it, hath the nature of it all, In all respects; and will notb 1.273 mixe, nor close With strange or forraigne things, but them oppose: Which should instruct all Christians, to agree, Yea in Faith, Word, and Deede butc 1.274 one to be, And not to hugge, love, like, butd 1.275 shun all those Who in Faith, Life, workes doe not with them close.

33.

The Sea retaines in every coast and place, Her Native Colours, and sweete azure face.

A checke and shame to that phantasticke crue Whiche 1.276 paint, and chop old fashions still for new: And to thosef 1.277 changlings, who to serve the time Can suite themselves to every Sect, Place, Clime; And whiles they thusg 1.278 become all things to all, In truth are nothing, and the worst of all.

34.

When angryh 1.279 Crosse Seas meete and clash together They foame, rage, roare, yea raise stormes in faire weather And tosse, wrecke, or indanger all that saile Or passe their race, and over them prevaile. When Potent Neighbour Princes, strive, war, fight One with another, with great force and might, Nought else buti 1.280 bloody Battels, tumults, cryes, Stormes, perils to their Subjects still arise, Which wrecke, consume their Fortunes, Goods, Lands, Lives. And of all worldly blessings them deprives. O Let us then be thankefull for our peace: Andk 1.281 pray that it may last, and still increase.

35.

The Sea and Skies in colour both agree, When as in most things else they different be. Its thenl 1.282 ill judging by the meere out-side: Those who thus doe, shall oft times erre and slide.

36.

All Springs andm 1.283 Rivers runne with chearefull speed Into the Ocean whence they first proceede:

And should not we, with equalln 1.284 chearefulnesse And speed, our courses to the grave addresse? Since we fromo 1.285 Dust did spring at first, and shall By Gods decree to dust and ashes fall? (How soonep 1.286 he onely knowes:) thrice happy we If for the grave we still prepared be: The onely Harbour where we rest secure, From all those Tempests, we did here endure.

36.

Nor neede we feare; since we shall not remaine Still in our Graves, but thenceq 1.287 rise up againe: For, as the Ebbing Sea when it sinkes low, And seemes quite lost, and never like to flow; Yet in short space returnes, and springs a fresh As high as ever; So our Corps, and flesh, Though turn'd to dust and rotted in the Grave, A spring, and rich returne from thence shall have With great advantage; rising up againe Free fromr 1.288 corruption, sinne, ach, sicknesse, paine And imperfection, in such glorious plight, That Sunne, Moone, Stars, shall not shine halfe so bright. Why should we then onces 1.289 dread death, or the grave, Ort 1.290 lose our Soules, our Goods, Lives, Limbes to save? Since our dead Corps,v 1.291 lost Limbes shall rise againe In such surpassing glory; and thenx 1.292 reigne (Joyn'd to our Soules, and never more to dye,) In perfect blisse, for all eternity? Instruct us Lord toy 1.293 live to Thee by grace, Whiles we here saile in this Seas dangerous race: Then are wez 1.294 certaine when we end our dayes, That thou wilt us from grave, to Heaven raise 〈1 page duplicate〉〈1 page duplicate〉

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Where we more Blisse and glory shall receive Thana 1.295 tongues can utter, or our hearts conceive. Lord, let theseb 1.296 Meditations of mine Heart, Mine owne, and others Soules to thee convert, And rap them into such sweete Extasies That theye 1.297 nought else but Thee, may Love and prise.

The Epilogue.

IF all who use, crosse, view the Sea, would raise Such Meditations from it, to the praise Of its Creator, spending day by day Some vacant time, and pious thoughts this way; What Floods and streames of grace? what tydes of Joy Anda 1.298 sweetest Raptures (able to destroy Those sinnes, lusts, vices, which now taint, defame Their very Callings, and their Personsb 1.299 shame, Would spring up in them? what blest Calmesc 1.300 of Peace Amidst all winds and stormes? what great increase Of Faith Love, knowledge, zeale, and each sweete Grace Might thee enjoy, whiles they the Ocean trace? How might their Soulesd 1.301 mount up above the skie When as their ships sinke and their bodies dye? What change of Heart and Life would it effect In those, who now God, and their Soules neglect? What holy, pious Saints mighte 1.302 Sea-Men be, If they the Sea would thus divinely see? O! as they love their Soules, let me request Them, and all others, as they would be blest, Hence-forth at vacant times to lay aside All sins, Lusts, Vices, which their Soules mis-guide;

(With wordly workes, thoughts, cares) and then addresse Their Hearts and Mindes in Sacred earnestnesse To piousf 1.303 Meditations, from the sight And Nature of the Sea, which willg 1.304 delight Their drooping Hearts, their wicked Lives amend, And lodge their soules inh 1.305 Heaven ere they end. If any want instructions to direct, Or helpe them in this kinde, let them reflect On this rude Christian-Sea-Card, which may guide Them, till some better Card thrust it aside; By which if they their course shall henceforth steare, They neede no Rockes, Shelves, Gulfes, Stormes, Wreckes to feare.

FINIS.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Rom. 1. 19. 20. Act. 14. 15. 16. 17. Psal. 19. 1.
• b 1.2

  Psal. 8. 1. 3. 4. 9. Psal. 104. 24. 25. &c. Psal. 19. 1.
• * 1.3

  Gen. 7. 18. to 24.
• c 1.4

  Mich. 7. 19.
• c 1.5

  ••. Joh. 1. 7. Rev. 1. 5.
• d 1.6

  1 Joh. 1. 7. Rev. 1. 5. Mich. 7. 19.
• e 1.7

  Psal. 104. 25. Psal. 107. 23. 24. Psal. 95. 3. 5. Gen. 1. 9.
• e 1.8

  Psal. 104. 25. Psal. 107. 23. 24. Psal. 95. 3. 5. Gen. 1. 9.
• f 1.9

  Psal. 145. 3. Isa. 40. 12. 15. 17. 22.
• g 1.10

  Psal. 95. 3. 5.
• h 1.11

  Job 38. 11. Psal. 104. 9. to 11. Psal. 107. 25. to 30. Pro. 8. 29. Jer. 5. 22. cap. 31. 35.
• i 1.12

  Psal. 89. 8. 9. Mat. 8. 26. 27. Isa. 51. 10. Psal. 7. 4. Psal. 106. 9. Psal. 78. 13. Psal. 93. 3. 4.
• * 1.13

  Psal. 2. 9.
• k 1.14

  Psal. 46. 2. 3.
• l 1.15

  Luk. 21. 17. 18. Mat. 10. 28. 29. 30.
• m 1.16

  Neh. 6. 11. Dan. 3. 13. to 19. Psal. 26. 1. 2. Psal. 46. 1. 2. 3. Act. 21. 13. 14. Pro. 28. 1.
• * 1.17

  Psal. 104. 8. to 15.
• * 1.18

  Psal. 104. 25.
• n 1.19

  Psal. 104. 6. to 15. 24. 25. 26. 27. Psal. 136. 5.
• o 1.20

  Psal. 31. 3. Psal. 48. 14. Isa. 58. 11.
• p 1.21

  Psal. 104. 28. 29. Ps. 145. 8. 9. 15. 16.
• q 1.22

  Psal. 121. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
• r 1.23

  Psal. 146. 5. Psal. 34. 8.
• s 1.24

  Psal. 34. 10. 17. 22. Psal. 37. 3 4. 5.
• t 1.25

  Rom 11. 33 34. Psal. 36. 6. Job 11. 7. 8. 9.
• v 1.26

  Psal. 77. 19.
• * 1.27

  Deut. 29. 29. Rom. 12. 3. 1 Sam. 6. 19. Exod. 19. 21. 22. 24.
• x 1.28

  Psal. 104. 25. Josh. 1. 4.
• y 1.29

  Ju. 23. 24. Psa. 139. 3. 7. 9.
• z 1.30

  Psal. 139. 7. 3. 9. Amos 9. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Jer. 5. 23. 24.
• a 1.31

  Psal. 65. 5. & 139. 9. 10. & 23. 4. Isa. 43. 2. Josh. 1. 5. 7. 9. Jer. 45 5.
• b 1.32

  Gen. 39. 20. 21. 23. Act. 16. 24. 25. Dan 3. 23. 24. 24. 25. 26. 28. c. 6. 20. 21. 22. 23.
• c 1.33

  Psal. 107. 25. 26. 27. 28. Isa. 50. 30. Lam. 2. 13. Jer. 31 35. Gen. 7. 18.
• d 1.34

  Nah. 1. 2. to 12. c. 2. 1.
• e 1.35

  Psal. 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. 9. Deut. 29. 19. 20. Jer. 7. 18. 19.
• f 1.36

  Psal. 139 7. 8. 9. 10. Jer. 11. 11. 2 Chron. 20. 6.
• g 1.37

  Psal. 2. 12.
• h 1.38

  Mat. 29. 41, Rev. 21. 8.
• i 1.39

  Eccles. 1. 7. Psal. 104. 9. 10.
• k 1.40

  Psal. 33. 5. 145. 9. 10.
• l 1.41

  Psal. 107. 8. 15. 2. 31. Psal. 145. 7. 4. 10.
• m 1.42

  Eccles. 1. 7. Psal. 104. 9. 10.
• n 1.43

  Rom. 11. 36. Gen. 1. 1. Pro. 16. 4.
• o 1.44

  1 Cor. 11. 31. 1 Pet. 4. 11.
• p 1.45

  Luk. 1. 74. 75. Rom. 14. 7. 8.
• q 1.46

  1 Chron. 29. 11. to 18. 1 Cor. 4 7. and 15. 10.
• r 1.47

  Act. 17. 28.
• s 1.48

  1 Chron. 29. 11. to 18. Psal. 29. 2. Psal. 56. 12. Psal. 116. 12.
• t 1.49

  Mal. 3. 2. 3.
• * 1.50

  1 Joh. 1. 7. Rev. 1. 5. Isa. 1. 16. 17.
• v 1.51

  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 1.52

  Dan. 12. 3. Mat. 13. 43. Phil. 2. 15.
• y 1.53

  Gen. 7. & 8.
• z 1.54

  Exod. 14. 15. to 31.
• a 1.55

  Col. 1. 20. Rev. 7. 14.
• b 1.56

  Mich. 7. 19. 1 Joh. 1. 7. Jer. 50. 20. c. 31. 34.
• c 1.57

  Isa. 45. 17.
• d 1.58

  Jonah. 1. 3. Isa. 8. 2.
• e 1.59

  Joh. 19. 6. Ephes. 2. 12. 13. 18. 19. Rev. 5. 9. 10. Heb. 10. 19. 20.
• f 1.60

  Psal. 80. 7. 19. & 89. 15. Cant. 2. 14. Act. 2. 28.
• g 1.61

  1 Pet. 5. 8. 1 Joh. 215. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 11.
• * 1.62

  Isa. 57. 20.
• h 1.63

  Psal. 84. 7. Phil. 3. 13. 14. 15.
• i 1.64

  Rom. 8. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 2 Cor. 1. 8. 9. 10. 11. c. 6. 4. to 11. Heb. 11. 35. 36. 37.
• k 1.65

  Jam. 1. 6. Jer. 5. 22.
• l 1.66

  Job 7. 4. Psal. 109. 23. Isa. 22. 18. c. 54. 11. Heb. 11. 8. 9. 13. 14. 27. 37. Gen. 12. 1. 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. c. 15. 13. 1 Cor. 11. 23. to 29. Ruth. 1.
• m 1.67

  Gen. 47. 9. 1 Chron. 29. 15 Psal. 39. 12. Psal. 119. 19. Heb. 11. 13. 14. 1 Pet. 2. 11. Lev. 25. 23.
• n 1.68

  Isa. 57. 20.
• o 1.69

  Isa. 1. 16. Cant. 5. 3. 1 Cor. 6. 11. 2 Cor. 7. 1. Rev. 7. 14. Heb. 9. 14. Tit. 3. 3. 5. Ephes. 4. 22. to 32.
• p 1.70

  Psal. 107. 25. to 30. Jon. 1.
• q 1.71

  Psal. 34. 19. Psal. 42. 7. Act. 14. 22. Heb. 11. 35. 36. 37. 38. 2 Cor. 11. 23. to 29. Ruth. 1. 20. 21.
• r 1.72

  Psal. 119. 9. 11. 24. 30. 98. to 106. Gal. 6. 16. 2 Pet. 1. 19.
• s 1.73

  Psal. 119. 67. 71. Ezech. 16. 62. 63. 2 Chron. 23. 11. 12. 13. Heb. 11. 24. 25. 26. 27.
• t 1.74

  Prov. 1. 32. Jer. 22. 21. 1 Joh. 2. 15. 16. 1 Tim. 6. 9. 10.
• v 1.75

  Psal. 1 26. 2. 3. 5. 6. Isa. 25. 8. 9. c. 35. 3. 4. 10. c. 61. 3. c. 9. 3. 4. c. 65. 14. Mat. 5. 4. 11. 12. Rev 6. 9. 14. 15. 16. 17.
• w 1.76

  Ephes. 3. 20. 21. Gen. 22. 10. to 20. c. 42. 9. to 50. Exod. 12. and 14. Hest. 5. 6. 7. 8. & 9. Dan. 3. 8. to 30. c. 4. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. c. 7. 15. to 28. Mat. 27. & 28. 1. 2. 1 Sam. 2. 6. 7. 8. Psal. 3. 2. 3.
• x 1.77

  Psal. 95. 4. 5. Job 38. 2. 10.
• y 1.78

  Job 1. 21. 1 Sam. 3. 18. & 2. 6. 7. 8. Deut. 32. 39. Mat. 10. 29. 30. 31.
• z 1.79

  Psal. 107. 25. 26. 27. Jon. 1. 4.
• a 1.80

  Psal. 73. 14. 25. 26. 28. Phi. 3. 26. Psal. 130. 1. 5. 6.
• b 1.81

  Numb. 34. 3. 12.
• c 1.82

  Heb. 12. 11. Psal. 71. 20. Ruth. 1. 20.
• d 1.83

  2 Cor. 1. 4. 5. 6. Heb. 12. 11. 12. Psal. 126. 5. 6.
• e 1.84

  Psal. 119. 67. 71. Isa. 48. 10. Jam. 5. 10.
• f 1.85

  Dan. 12. 35. c. 12. 10. Isa. 1. 25. 1 Pet. 1. 7. Zech. 13. 9.
• g 1.86

  Psal. 119. 61. 71. 75. 2 Tim. 4. 17. 18. •••••• 30. 20. 21.
• h 1.87

  Psal. 107. 27. 28. 29. Jon. 1. 4. to 16. Mat. 8. 24. 25.
• i 1.88

  Psal. 18. 6. 118. 15. 120. 1. Hos. 5. 15.
• k 1.89

  Psal. 143. 9. 10. 11. 12.
• l 1.90

  Phil. 1. 21. 23. Job 10. 1. 1 King. 19. 4.
• m 1.91

  Hosea 5. 15. Psal. 107. 27. 38. 30. Psal. 143. 9. 10.
• n 1.92

  Psal. 30. 6. Jer. 22. 21. Pro. 1. 27.
• o 1.93

  Jonah 1.
• p 1.94

  Josh. 7. 11. 12. Jona. 3. 10. Hos. 5. 15. Isa. 27. 9. Ezeck. 16. 61. c. 36. 21. to 38.
• q 1.95

  Jer. 51. 42. Mat. 6. 24. Psal. 107. 27. 28. 29.
• * 1.96

  Dan. 11. 35.
• r 1.97

  Job. 1. 13. to 22. Psal. 42. 7. 88. 7. & 34. 19. Isa. 54. 11.
• s 1.98

  Psal. 107. 28. 29. 30. Jon. 1. 5. Mat. 8. 24. 26. Psal. 8. 9.
• t 1.99

  Psal. 34. 19. & 37. 38. 39. 40. Job 42. 10. 11. Jam. 5. 11. Psal. 94. 13. & 116. 7. Isa. 14. 3. c. 57. 2. 1 King. 5. 4. Mic. 7. 8. 9.
• v 1.100

  1 Pet. 5. 6. Psal. 37. 34. Isa. 25. 9.
• x 1.101

  Gen. 7. & 8.
• y 1.102

  Nah. 1. 8. 9. 10. Jer. 15. 6. 7. Judg. 5. 31. Psal. 80. 16.
• z 1.103

  Psal. 46. 1. 2. 3. 4. & 27. 1. 3 Rom. 8. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. Mic. 7. 8. 9.
• a 1.104

  Psal. 107. 30.
• b 1.105

  Phil. 1. 23. c. 3. 2. 3. Rom. 8. 23. 2 Cor. 5. 1. 2. 3. 5. 8. Luk. 2. 29. 2 Tim. 4. 6. 7. 8. Rev. 22. 20.
• * 1.106

  Luk. 2. 29. Gen. 46. 30.
• c 1.107

  Isa 57. 20. 21. c. 1. 4. 5. 6. 2 King. 6. 33. 2 Chron. 28. 22. 23.
• d 1.108

  Psal. 39. 9. Lam. 3. 26. Judg. 10. 13. 1 Sam. 3. 18.
• e 1.109

  Isa. 47. 20. 21.
• f 1.110

  2 Chron. 28. 19. 22. 23. 1 Cor 15. 33.
• g 1.111

  1 Cor. 5. 6. Gal. 5. 9. 2 Kin. 13. 6. c. 14. 29. c. 17. 21.
• h 1.112

  Ps. 104. 25. Lam. 4. 3.
• i 1.113

  Rom. 1. 29. 30. 31. Act. 13. 10. Eph. 4. 19.
• k 1.114

  Isa. 57. 20. Jam. 1. 6. Gen. 49. 4.
• l 1.115

  Gen. 49. 4. Jam. 1. 8. 2. Pet. 2. 14. c. 3. 16. Isa. 1. 5. c. 31. 6. Jer. 5. 23. c. 6. 28. c. 3. 6. 8. 11. 12. Hos. 11. 7.
• m 1.116

  Eccles. 1. 7.
• n 1.117

  Eccles. 5. 10. 12. 17. Pro. 30. 15.
• o 1.118

  Psal. 135. 6. Gen. 1. 2. c. 7. 11.
• p 1.119

  Psal. 64. 6. Psal. 35. 20. and 43. 1. Jer. 17. 9.
• q 1.120

  Exod. 14. 28. Gen. 7. 21. 22. 23.
• r 1.121

  Prov. 12. 10. Hos. 12. 7. Act. 9. 2. Zech. 3. 3. Mat. 2. 16.
• * 1.122

  Act. 27. 29.
• s 1.123

  Prov. 5. 3. to 15. c. 1. 10. to 20. c. 7. 8. to 27.
• t 1.124

  1 Sam. 25. 10. 11. Rom. 1. 29. 30. 31. 2 Tim. 3. 2. 3. 4.
• v 1.125

  Isa. 5. 2. 7. 2. Tim. 2. 17. 1 Cor. 5. 8. Isa. 1. 5. 6. 7. 2 Chro. c. 28. & 33.
• x 1.126

  Psal. 104. 25. 26.
• y 1.127

  Rom. 1. 29. 30. 31. Ephes. 4. 19. 2 Tim. 2. 26. Rom. 6. 12. 13. 17.
• z 1.128

  Mat. 7. 13. 14. Luc. 13. 23. 24. Rom. 9. 27. c. 10. 16. 1 Pet. 3. 20. Rev. 3. 4. Isa. 17. 5. 6. 1 King. 19. 14.
• a 1.129

  Joh. 9. 8. Psal. 89. 9. Psal. 93. 4.
• b 1.130

  2 Tim. 3. 2. 3. 4. Jam. 3. 7. 8. Psal. 2. 2. 3.
• * 1.131

  Psal. 106. 13. 21. Hos 6. 4.
• * 1.132

  Joh. 8. 21. 24.
• * 1.133

  Psal. 106. 35. 36. Judg. 1. 21. 33. c. 2. 2.
• c 1.134

  Psal. 2. 2. 3. 9. Rev. 2. 27. Ps. 50. 22. Mat. 21. 44. Isa. 8. 9.
• d 1.135

  Psal. 125. 1. Prov. 10. 30. Isa. 33. 20. Mat. 7. 24. 25.
• e 1.136

  Rev. 19. 20. c. 20. 10. c. 21. 8. Mat. 25. 41.
• f 1.137

  Ruth. 1. 20. 21. Exod. 1. 19. Job. 3. 10. c. 13. 26. c. 23. 2.
• g 1.138

  Job 3. & 6. 10. Psa. 6. & 31. & 35. & 38. and 62. & 69 & 22. Lam. 1. & 2. & 3. & 4.
• h 1.139

  Job 7. 11. c. 9. 18. c. 10. 1. c. 25. 25. Isa. 38. 15. 17. Lam. 1. 4. c. 3. 15.
• i 1.140

  Psal. 16. 11. Isa. 35. 10. c. 51. 11. Rev. 22. 2. to 8.
• k 1.141

  Jam. 4. 4. 9. 10. 1 Joh. 2. 15. 16. 17..
• l 1.142

  1 Cor. 7. 30. 31. 1 Joh. 2. 15. 16.
• m 1.143

  Eccles 4. 8. c. 5. 15. Isa 56. 11.
• n 1.144

  Jam. 1. 6. Isa 57. 20.
• o 1.145

  1 Cor 7. 31.
• p 1.146

  Psal. 39. 9. 119. 19. Levit. 25. 23. 1 Chro. 29. 15. 1 Pet. 2. 11. Heb. 11. 8. 9. 13. 14. 15. 16. 37. 38. Psal. 107. 4. 5.
• q 1.147

  Job 1. 13. to 22. Prov. 23. 5.
• r 1.148

  1 Sam. 4. 17 10 22. Job 8. 9. c. 14. l. 2. Jam. 3. 14. Isa. 37. 36. Psal. 103. 14. 15. 16. Luk. 18. 26. Psa 90. 5. 6. 7.
• s 1.149

  Dan. 4. 3. to 35. c. 5. 30. 31. c 6. 23. Esth. 7.
• t 1.150

  Esther. 7. Dan. 4. 33.
• v 1.151

  Exod. 14. 27. 28. Num. 31. 7. 8. 9. Josh. 8. & 10. 11. & 12. Judg. 1. 6. 7. c. 7. & 8. 1 King 16. 22. 2 King. 9. & 11. & 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. & 19. 21. 23. 24. & 25. 2 Chron. 36. 1. to 22. Dan. 4. 30. to 35. c. 5. 30. 31. Act. 12. 21. 22. 23.
• x 1.152

  1 Joh. 2. 15. 16. 17.
• y 1.153

  Act. 27. 29.
• z 1.154

  1 Joh. 2. 15. 16. 17. c. 5. 19. Jam. 4. 4. 1 Tim. 6. 9. 10. 11.
• a 1.155

  Rev. 19. 20. c. 20. 10. Mat. 25. 41.
• b 1.156

  1 Joh. 15. 16. 17. Jam. 4. 4. Col. 3. 2.
• c 1.157

  Jonah. 1. 4. Psal. 107. 25. 26. 29.
• d 1.158

  Joh. 16. 33. 1 Pet. 5. 9. 2 Cor. 6. 4. 2 Tim. 3. 11. 12. 2 Cor. 4. 8. to 13.
• e 1.159

  Job 10. 1. 1 Joh. 2. 15. 16. 2 Cor. 5. 2. 3. 4. Rom. 8. 19. to 24.
• f 1.160

  1 King. 19. 43. 44. Job 38. 8. 9.
• g 1.161

  1 Tim. 6. 9. 10. Jam. 5. 1. to 7. Eccles. 2. 22. 23.
• h 1.162

  Esth. c. 6. to 9. Dan. 4. 30. to 34. Act. 12. 11. 12. 13. Luk. 12. 15. to 21.
• i 1.163

  Lam. 2. 13. 2 Sam. 1. 20.
• k 1.164

  Heb. 6. 5. 6. 7. 2 Tim. 4. 10. Mat. 13. 20. 1 Cor. 7. 31. 33. 34. Gal. 1. 4. 1 Tim. 6. 17. 2 Pet. 2. 17. 20. 21.
• l 1.165

  Eccles. 1. 7.
• m 1.166

  Eccles. 5. 10. Isa. 56. 11.
• n 1.167

  Exod. 15. 5. 10.
• o 1.168

  Gen. 7. 17. 18.
• p 1.169

  Psal. 10. 18. Joh. 3. 31. Phi. 3. 19. Col. 3. 2.
• q 1.170

  1 Tim. 6. 9. 10. 2 Tim. 4. 10. Eccl. 2. 22. 23. 1 Joh. 5. 19.
• r 1.171

  Phil. 2. 20. Col. 3. 1. 20. 1 Joh. 5. 4. 5. Jam. 1. 27. 1 Cor. 7. 33.
• s 1.172

  Eccles. 5. 10. Isa. 56. 11. Hab. 2. 5.
• t 1.173

  Jona. 1. 13.
• v 1.174

  2 King. 9. 30. to 35. c. 10. 1. to 12. Esth. c. 6. & 7. & 8. Pro. 14. 20. Lam. 1. 2. 8. Psa. 88. 18. Prov. 19. 20. c. 19. 14. 19. Psal. 38. 11.
• x 1.175

  Gen. 2. 11. Lam. 2. 13. Hab. 3. 9. 10. Amos 9. 5. Ezech. 27. 34.
• y 1.176

  2 Pet. 2. 20. 21. c. 1. 4. Gal. 1. 4.
• z 1.177

  2 Pet. 2. 19. 20. 21. 1 Cor. 3. 18. 19. Gal. 1. 4. Eph. 2. 2. Eph. 6. 12. Col. 2. 8. 20. 1 Tim. 6. 17. 2 Tim. 4. 10. Jam. 4. 4. 1 Joh. 2. 15. 16. 1 Joh. 5. 4. 5. 19.
• a 1.178

  Gen. 3. 16. c. 35. 16. 17. 18. Job 3. 3. 4. 5. 8.
• b 1.179

  Job 14. 1. 2. c. 3. 3. to 26.
• c 1.180

  Luk. 2. 29. 30. Gen. 46. 30. Job 3. 3. to 10. Rev. 22. 20.
• d 1.181

  Phil. 1. 20. 23. 2. Cor. 5 2. 31. 5. Rom. 8. 22. 23.
• e 1.182

  Psal. 55. 4. 116. 3.
• f 1.183

  1 Cor. 10. 2. 1 Pet. 3. 21.
• g 1.184

  1 Joh. 2. 15. 16. 17.
• h 1.185

  Rom. 6. 1. to 20. c. 14. 7. 8. Luk. 1. 74. 75. Gal. 1. 4.
• i 1.186

  Gal 5. 16. 17. 18. Rom. 7. 13. to 25.
• k 1.187

  Gen. 7. & 8. 2 Pet. 2. 5. 1. Pet. 3. 20.
• l 1.188

  1 Tim. 6. 9. 10. Rev. 20. 10. c. 21. 8. c. 19. 20.
• m 1.189

  Exod. 15. 5. 10.
• n 1.190

  Revel. 19. 20. c. 20. 10. c. 21. 8. Mat. 25. 41. 42.
• o 1.191

  Gen. 22. 15. c. 32. 12. Josh. 11. 4. 1 King. 7. 20. 29.
• p 1.192

  Job. 6. 3. Psal. 40. 10.
• q 1.193

  Psal. 6. 6. Jer. 9. 1. 18. Lam. 2. 10. 18.
• r 1.194

  1 Joh. 1. 7. Mich. 7. 19.
• s 1.195

  Job 7. & 14.
• t 1.196

  Gen. 3. 19. Eccles. 3. 20. c. 12. 7.
• v 1.197

  Gen. 7. & 8. 1 Pet. 3. 20. 21. 2 Pet. 2. 5.
• x 1.198

  Isa. 42. 2. 2 Tim. 4. 17. 18.
• y 1.199

  Psal. 109. 23. Isa. 54. 11. Job 7. 4.
• z 1.200

  1 Pet. 3. 20. 21. Joh. 15. 4. 5. 6. 7. Act. 2. 47.
• a 1.201

  Jo•• 38. 8. 10. 11. Psa. 104. 9. Jer. 5. 22. Prov. 29.
• b 1.202

  2 Sam. 23. 2. 3. 4. Deut. 17. 15. to 22. 2 Chron. 9. 8. Ps. 2. 10. 11. 12.
• c 1.203

  Gen. 7. 8. 8. Neh 1. 8. 2 Pet. 2. 6. Jer. 47. 2. Isa. 48. 2.
• d 1.204

  Exod. 14. 22. to 31. Josh. c. 3. to c. 14. Judg. c. 1. to 15.
• e 1.205

  Psal. 104. 6. to 14. c. 107. 25. 26. 29.
• f 1.206

  Psal. 119. 9. Gal. 6. 16.
• g 1.207

  Psal. 104. 6. to 14.
• h 1.208

  2 Thes. 3. 6. to 14. Rom. 12. 6. 7. 8.
• i 1.209

  Ezech. 16. 49. 1 Tim. 5. 12. 13. 2 Thes. 3. 6. to 13. Pro. 19. 15.
• k 1.210

  Ezech. 16. 45. 50.
• l 1.211

  Heb. 3. 12. 13. Jam. 1. 14. 15.
• m 1.212

  Heb. 12. 1. 2 Tim. 6. 9.
• n 1.213

  Revel. 22. 11. 2 Tim. 3. 13.
• o 1.214

  Rev. 7. 14. Dan. 11. 35. Isa. 1. 25.
• p 1.215

  Psal. 85. 8. Hos. 14 8.
• q 1.216

  Deut. 32. 5.
• r 1.217

  Job 11. 15.
• s 1.218

  Eph. 5. 27. Cant. 4. 7. Job. 11. 15. 1 Pet. 1. 19. 2. Pet. 3. 14.
• t 1.219

  Jude 23.
• v 1.220

  Job 11. 15. 1 Pet. 1. 19.
• y 1.221

  2 Pet. 2. 13. Jude 12.
• * 1.222

  Isa. 3. 16. to 25. 1 Joh. 2. 15 16. Rom. 12. 1. 2. 1 Tim. 2. 9. 10.
• z 1.223

  Nah. 3. 17. Rev. 18. 10. Ps. 35. 14. 15. Psa. 41. 9. 10. Psal. 88. 18. Pro. 14. 20. Job 16. 20. c. 19. 14. to 20. Psal. 38. 11. Prov. 19. 4. 7.
• a 1.224

  Pro. 17. 17. c. 18. 24.
• b 1.225

  Job. 29. 2. to 25. Luk. 16. 19. Jam. 5. 3. 5. 6.
• c 1.226

  Psal. 119. 71. 67. Heb. 12. 11.
• d 1.227

  Jam. 5. 1. to 8. Prov. 1. 32. Phil. 3. 19.
• e 1.228

  2 Chro. 33. 12. to 20.
• f 1.229

  Psa. 119. 71. 1 Pet. 1. 6. 7. Heb. 12. 3. to 12. Rom. 5. 3. 4. 5.
• g 1.230

  Psal. 30. 5. 6. 7. Psal. 107. 40. 41. Ps. 113. 7. 8.
• h 1.231

  2 Tim. 4. 10. Hos. 4. 7. c. 10. 1. Prov. 1. 32.
• i 1.232

  1 King. 13. 4. Dan. 3. 11. to 23.
• k 1.233

  Luk. 13. 24.
• l 1.234

  1 Cor. 9. 24 25. 26. 27.
• m 1.235

  Joh. 11. 9. 10. Hos. 4. 6. Mar. 15. 14. 1 Joh. 2. 11. Joh. 12. 35.
• * 1.236

  Act. 27. 29.
• * 1.237

  Psal. 39. 1. 2. 9.
• * 1.238

  1 Cor. 13. 1.
• * 1.239

  Isa. 59. 11. c. 57. 20. 21.
• o 1.240

  1 Joh. 15. 2. 15. 16. 17.
• p 1.241

  1 Cor. 7. 31. Eccles. 1. & 2.
• q 1.242

  Psa. 49. 16. 17. 18. Jer. 15. 9. Amos 8. 9.
• r 1.243

  Psal. 69. Mat. 14. 30. 31.
• t 1.244

  Isa. 2. 22. Psal. 146. 3. Psa. 118. 8. 9.
• v 1.245

  Psal. 61. 8. Deut. 31. 6. Josh. 1. 5. Psal. 27. 9. 10. Psal. 60. 11.
• x 1.246

  Psal. 92. 2. 55. 17. Ps. 53. & 56. 8. & 88. 13. Dan. 6. 10. 1 Thes. 5. 17. Ephes. 6. 18. Luk. 18. 1. c. 23. 36.
• y 1.247

  Exod. 29. 39. c. 30. 7. 8. Lev. 6. 12. 20. 1 Chro. 16. 40. 2 Chron. 2. 4. c. 13. 11. c. 31. 7. Ezra. 3. 3.
• z 1.248

  The pra∣ctise of Piety p. 26 1. &c. Heb. 10. 24. 25. Deut. 6. 6. 7. c. c. 11. 19. 18. 20. Psal. 95. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
• a 1.249

  Rom. 13. 30. 31. Philem. 22. 1 Thes. 5. 2••. 2. & 3. 1. Heb. 13. 18. 2 Cor. 1. 11.
• b 1.250

  Act. 27. 20. to 44. Psa. 107. 25. to 31.
• c 1.251

  Act. 20. 27. 31. to 40. Psal. 107. 24. to 31. Isa. 22. 2. Jon. 2. 6. Psal. 66. 12.
• d 1.252

  Psal. 78. 53. Psal. 3. 8. 43. 2. & 68. 20.
• e 1.253

  Luk. 16. 25. Job 21. 11. 12. 13. Pro. 14. 13. Rev. 18. 7. 8. Amos 6. 1. to 8.
• f 1.254

  Job 21. 12. 13. Isa. 5. 11. to 16. Luk. 16. 19. to 26. Eccl. 11. 9.
• g 1.255

  Heb. 3. 7. 8. 12. 13. 15. c. 4. 1. 11. 16.
• * 1.256

  Mat. 25. 9. to 12.
• h 1.257

  Luk. 19. 42 Psal. 95. 7. 8. 11. 1 Thes. 5. 19.
• i 1.258

  Joh. 3. 8. Gen. 6. 3.
• k 1.259

  1 King. 16. 30. 31. 32. Eze. 26. 37. Ephes. 4. 18. 19. Jer. 36. 23. 24.
• l 1.260

  Psa. 38. 3. 4. 6. 8. Mat. 11. 28. Job 6. 2. 3. 4. Amos 2. 13. Rom. 7. 23. 24. 25.
• m 1.261

  Hos. 14. 2. 8. Rom. 6. 2. to 22.
• o 1.262

  Gen. 1. 9. 10. Psal. 33. 7. 104. 6. to 15. Hab. 2. 14. c. 3. 15. Job 38. 16. Isa. 60. 5.
• p 1.263

  Joh 1. 16. Col. 1. 19. c. 2. 9.
• q 1.264

  Psal. 104. 21. 26. 27. 28. 145. 15. 16. Psa. 17. 14. Mat. 5. 6.
• r 1.265

  Hab. 3. 17. 18. 19. Psal. 102. 26. 27. 28. Isa. 19. 4. Jer. 31. 34. 36. 37. c 33. 20. 21. Ps. 136. & 145. 9. 15. 16. 17. 18.
• s 1.266

  Gen. 1. 9. 10. Job 38. 8. 9. 10 Psal. 104. 6. 7. 8. 9. Psal. 33. 7. Psal. 136. 6. Prov. 8. 29. Jer. 5. 22. Gen. 6. 17. c. 7. 11. to 24. c. 8. 1. to 22.
• t 1.267

  Exod. 34. 6. Psal. 103. 8. 9. 10. 11. Psal. 86. 15. 16
• v 1.268

  Psal. 7. 11. Lam. 3. 22. 23. Isa. 54. 9. 10.
• x 1.269

  Mat. 5. 9. to 15. Luk. 8. 30. to 35. Job 1. & 2.
• y 1.270

  Psa. 24. 2.
• z 1.271

  1 Cor. 7. 31. 1 Joh. 2. 15 16. 17.
• a 1.272

  Psal. 62 10. 1 Tim. 6. 17. Prov. 23. 4. 5.
• b 1.273

  Isa. 57. 20. Jam. 3. 11.
• c 1.274

  Joh. 17. 20. 21. 22. 23. Rom. 12. 16. c. 15. 5. 6. Phil. 2. 2. Act. 4. 32.
• d 1.275

  Psal. 119. 115. Psal. 101. 6. 7. 8. Psa. 139. 21. 22. 2. Joh. 5. 5. 10. 11. 1 Cor. 59. 10. 11.
• e 1.276

  2 King. 9. 10. Jer. 4. 30. c. 22. 14. Ezech. 23. 40. Isa. 3. 16. to 25. Zeph. 1. 8. 9.
• f 1.277

  Jam. 1. 6. 8. 2 Pet. 2. 14. 15. 17. 20. Jude 12. 13. Ephes. 4. 1.
• g 1.278

  1 Cor. 9. 20. 21. 22.
• h 1.279

  Act. 27. 41.
• i 1.280

  Josh. cap. 3. to 13. 2 Chron. 15. 5. 6. c. 36. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Jer. 14. 19. 1 Sam. 31. 1. to 7. 2 Sam. 2. 26.
• k 1.281

  Psal. 122. 6. 7. 8. Psal. 128. 6. Isa. 26. 3. 12.
• l 1.282

  1 Sam. 15. 6. 7. Joh. 7. 24. Mat. 23. 27. 28.
• m 1.283

  Eccles. 5. 1. 7.
• n 1.284

  Luk. 1. 29. 30. Gen. 46. 30. Rom. 8. 23. 2 Cor. 5. 2. to 8. Phil. 1. 23. Job 14. 13. 14. c. 3. 22.
• o 1.285

  Gen. 3. 19. Job 4. 19. c. 34. 15. Psa. 103. 14. 15. Eccles. 3. 20. c. 12. 7.
• p 1.286

  Gen. 27. 2. Eccles. 9. 12. Job 14. 1 Thes. 5. 2. 3.
• q 1.287

  Job 19. 25. Dan. 12. 21. Isa. 26. 19. Act. 24. 15. Rev. 20. 23. 1 Cor. 15. 12. to 57 Joh. 11. 23. 24. 1 Thes. 4. 13. to 18. Joh. 6. 39. 40. 44. 54.
• r 1.288

  1 Cor. 15. 42. 43. 44. 48. 49. 52. 53. 54. 2 Joh. 3. 2. Dan. 12. 3. Mat. 13. 43. Phil. 3. 21. 2 Thes. 1. 10.
• s 1.289

  1 Cor. 15. 14. 51. 56. 57.
• t 1.290

  Mar. 8. 36. Joh. 12. 25. Mat. 5. 29. 30.
• v 1.291

  Joh. 6. 39.
• x 1.292

  2 Tim. 2. 12. Rev. 20. 6. c. 22. 5. 1 Thes. 4 17.
• y 1.293

  Ro. 14. 7. 8.
• z 1.294

  Job 19. 25. 1 Joh. 3. ••••••.
• a 1.295

  1 Cor. 2. 9. Isa. 64. 4. Psal. 31. 19. Rev. 22. 1. to 8.
• b 1.296

  Psal. 19. 14.
• e 1.297

  Psa. 73. 25. Phil. 3. 7. 8. 9.
• a 1.298

  Psal. 104. 34.
• b 1.299

  Jude 13. Pro. 13. 5. c. 14. 34.
• c 1.300

  Isa. 26. 3. Phil. 4. 7.
• d 1.301

  Phil. 3. 20. Col. 3. 2. 3.
• e 1.302

  Psal. 107. 23. to 33. Jona. 1. 5. to 17.
• f 1.303

  Gen. 24. 63. Psal. 77. 12. Psa. 119. 97. Ps. 143. 5. Ps. 8.
• g 1.304

  Psal. 104. 34 Psal. 8.
• h 1.305

  Phil. 3. 10.