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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Title: 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.
Author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
Publication: London :: printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Senior, and are to be sold by Peter Inch of Chester,; 1641.
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Subject terms: Jesus Christ -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.; Christian literature -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "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 18, 2024.

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The Epilogue.
O That all Christians by this Posie, I
Have here collected would learne instantly
When as they in their pleasant Gardens walke,
Thus with their ownek 1.1 Hearts, God and Christ
to talke
By pious Meditations, from what they
Behold within their Gardens day by day.
How sweete then would their walkes and Orchards
prove?
How would their Soules be fired with Gods Love?
Each Garden then would be a Paradise,
A second Eden to the godly-wise:
Ist not a Sinnefull, Shamefull, beastly thing
For Christians to toyle, walk, talk, laugh, feast, sing,
Play, sport themselves, or meditate onely
Of worldly things, in Gardens constantly;
And in the meane time scarce to have one sweete;
Or pious thought from objects they there meete,
Of God, Christ, Heaven, Mans Mortalitie,
Presented to them in each Herbe they Eye?

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For shame then let us all this fault amendHereafter, and our Hearts, Mindes, fully bendTo godly Meditations, whiles we passeOur time in Gardens, where each flower, herbe,
grasseAnd Creature we behold, will soone suggestSome vsefull Thoughts to every pious Breast,It to amend, and with sweete ExtasiesTo elevate above the starry skies.If any want helpe in this kind, they mayTill better come, make use of this Essay.FINIS.

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k 1.1

Psal. 4. 4.

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The Epilogue.

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