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 17, 2024.

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On his Exile into Iersy Isle.
Why should this Exile me grieve,* 1.1 discontent,
Sith this whole World's a place of Banishment?
And men as truely Exiles are at home,
As in the strangest Clime to which they come?
Are not God, Christ, Grace, Heav'n to us as nigh
In forraigne Parts, as in our own Country?
Yea; and oft times more neare: this true to be
By* 1.2 Abraham, Iacob, Ioseph, all may see,
I will not then flye, feare my Banishment,
But in it joy, and take most sweet content,
Sith God will me protect,* 1.3 restore againe,
Or else translate to Heav'n, with him to reigne,
Mine onely Proper* 1.4 Country, wherein I
Shall live a Free-man for eternity,
In spite of my Arch-foes; whom I shall see
Exild,* 1.5 imprison'd,* 1.6 and my selfe set free.

Notes

* 1.1

Levit. 25. 23.

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* 1.2

Psal. 39. 12. psal. 119. 19 2 Chron: 29 15. Heb. 11. 13 1 pet. 2. 11.

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* 1.3

Gen. 12. 28. to 48. Act. 7. 3. to 17. Heb. 11. 8.

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* 1.4

Isay 41. 5. 6.

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* 1.5

Heb. 11. 14. 16.

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* 1.6

Prov. 11. 8. c. 21. 18. c. 12. 13.

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