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.

AGaine; mee thinks a Garden Gods blest Word Doth well resemble, and therewith accord.

1.

For first asm 1.1 Gardens yeeld most fragrant smels, So Gods deare Word inn 1.2 sweetnesse farre excels: Its rich perfumes, and odours still entice His Saints too 1.3 love it, in most ardent wise.

O let ourp 1.4 houses, words, thoughts, acts, lives, smell Of it's sweete odors, which all else excell.

2.

q 1.5 Gardens yeeld store of pleasant fruits, rootes, cates, Herbes, sallads, cordials, fit for all estates, To feed, feast, please their pallats, and to cheare Their drooping hearts, opprest with paine, griefe, feare. Gods blessed word is stor'd withr 1.6 promises, Which feed, feast, cheare, the hearts of all degrees: And are more pleasant, cordiall, sweete, and deare To drooping soules, than all this worlds best cheare. O let us daily solace, fat, feast, fill, Our soules with these blest cates, & cheare them still.

3.

As Gardens so the Scriptures yeeld great store, Ofs 1.7 salves, and good receits for every sore, Wound, sicknesse, griefe, which mens soules can affect, No hope of health, for those who them neglect. O let us prise these balmes, which soules can cure, If they be heal'd the bodies safe and sure.

4.

Gardens are full of allt 1.8 variety Of flowers, herbes, fruits which delight the eye. And bring most sweete refreshment and content, To such as are to meditation bent, Yea all of all sorts: So Gods sacred word To all of all rankes, can and doth afford A copious store, and sweete variety Ofu 1.9 great and pretious promises, which lye

Dispersed in it, to refresh, joy, ease All sad dejected soules, and them appease. O with what pleasure, joy, and blest delight, May tyred drooping soules, both day and night Walke in the midst of this sweete Paradise, Where all refreshing comforts grow and rise? Let these be still ourx 1.10 study, night and day, Which all our griefes, feares, sins will chase away.

5.

Ally 1.11 Gardens sweet refreshment still afford To tyred bodies, spirits: So Gods word Toz 1.12 weary soules opprest with sinne, and spent With griefe, yeelds sweete refreshment and content: Here may they find blest rest, repose, and ease, When nought else can them comfort or appease. O let our soules for ever dwell and rest In its refreshing shade, which makes them blest.

6.

Gardensa 1.13 inclosed are, Gods word is so, Within hisb 1.14 Churches pale: there must we goe To seeke and find it; sith the Church doth keepe, And shew the Scriptures to Christs chosen sheep; But not confirme or give authority To them, who doec 1.15 her judge, surport, and try.

7.

Gardens ared 1.16 Common both to rich and poore, To all of all sorts: So the Scriptures doore Is shut to none, but open stands toe 1.17 all Degrees of men: to rich, poore, great, and small.

Yeaf 1.18 pooremen (most part) have a greater share In this rich Garden, than the great'st that are.

8.

Gardens are fruitfull, and make all thingsg 1.19 grow, That men in season in them plant, or sow: Gods word is fertile too, andh 1.20 makes men spring, Grow, thrive in grace, and much fruit forth to bring.

9.

Gardens most sweetly picture to our eyes Minds, thoughts, God, Christ, and man in lively∣wise: Thus doe thei 1.21 Scriptures too, in farre more bright And perfect colours paint them to our sight. He who would these exactly know and see, Must on the Scriptures alwaies looking be.

10.

Gardens are full of objects, whence we may Sweetk 1.22 contemplations raise from day to day, To make us better, and translate our love From earth to heaven, and thel 1.23 things above: So are the Scriptures. O thrice happy they Whom 1.24 meditate still in them night and day, To mend their lives, hearts, soules, and elevate Them from an earthly, to an heavenly state. All othern 1.25 studies,o 1.26 matcht with these, are base, And leave the soule but in a damned case. Onely the Scriptures make us truly blest, And guide our soules unto eternall rest.

11.

Lord let us daily more and more discry The sacred Scriptures worth and dignity; Our soules to cheare, feast, ravish with their love, That wee our words, thoughts acts may guide and move, As they direct, and let each Gardens sight Present them to our thoughts with sweet delight. That while we view this leafe of natures booke, We may more clearly into Gods booke looke; p 1.27 The one whereof gives to the other light: And both conjoyn'd, will yeeld more sweet delight.

Notes

• m 1.1

  Gen. 27 27. Hosea 14. 6.
• n 1.2

  Cant. 5. 16. 2 Cor. 2. 15.
• o 1.3

  Ps. 119. 97. 47. 48. 72. 111. 112 113. 127. 140. 159. 167.
• p 1.4

  Deut. 6. 6. 7. 8. 9. c. 11. 18. 19. 20. Ps. 119. 97.
• q 1.5

  Cant. 5. 1. 2. 3. 1 King. 21. 2.
• r 1.6

  2 Pet. 1. 3. 4. 2 Cor. 1. 4. 20. Rom. 15. 4. 9. 10. Ps. 19. 8. 10. Ps. 119. 72. 127. Ier. 15. 16.
• s 1.7

  Psal. 42. 4. to the end. Ps. 43. 5. Isa 1. 5. 6. to 21. Act. 3. 19. 1 Joh. 1. 7.
• t 1.8

  Gen. 2. 8. to 16. Cant. 6. 2. c. 5. 1. 2.
• u 1.9

  2 Pet. 1. 3. 4. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Heb. 6. 12.
• x 1.10

  Psal. 1. 2. Psal. 119. 97. Deut. 6. 6, 7, 8, 9. c. 17. 19. Josh. 1. 8.
• y 1.11

  Cant. 5. 1. c. 6. 2. 11.
• z 1.12

  Isa. 40. 1. 2. c. 61. 1. 2. 3. c. 26. 20. Rom. 15. 4.
• a 1.13

  Cant. 4. 12. Isa. 5. 1.
• b 1.14

  Rom. 3. 2. 1 Tim. 3. 15. Isa. 6. 16.
• c 1.15

  Rom. 2. 16. Ephes. 2. 20.
• d 1.16

  Jer. 39. 4. c. 52. 7. c. 29. 5. 18 Amos 9 14.
• e 1.17

  Mat. 28. 19. 20. Mar. 6. 15.
• f 1.18

  Luk. 4. 18. c. 7. 22. Mat. 11. 5. Jam. 2. 5. 6. 2 Cor. 9. 9.
• g 1.19

  Isa. 61. 11.
• h 1.20

  Col. 1. 6. Act. 19. 20. 1 Thes. 1. 5. to the end.
• i 1.21

  Joh. 5. 39. 2 Pet. 1. 2. 4. 19. Eph. 2. 8. to 13. c. 2. 12. 13. Ps. 39. 5. 6.
• k 1.22

  Psal. 143. 5. Ps. 104. Isa 40. 6, 7, 8. c. 61. 11.
• l 1.23

  Col. 3. 1, 2, 3.
• m 1.24

  Psal. 1. 1. 2.
• n 1.25

  Act. 19. 19. Col. 2. 8.
• o 1.26

  Joh. 17. 3. Jer. 23. 28, 29. 1 Pet. 1. 23. 25. Psal. 119. Psal. 19. 7. to 14.
• p 1.27

  Rom. 1. 19. 20. 21. Act. 14. 17. c. 17. 24. to 31.