Bartas Iunior: or, The worlds epitome; man Set forth in his 1. generation, 2. degeneration, 3. regeneration.

BVt stay my Muse, stay, whither wilt thou fly? Lose not thy selfe in soaring up too high; * 1.1Recoile againe, and let good Vicars come, He hath a straine in this will make thee dumbe; (Lure backe I say:) for it is my request, My warbling Pen doth gag for want of rest: And I'le recall thee backe againe in time, Lest thou too high above my reach should'st clime.

* 1.2Yet know, my Muse, to you blest place I tend, For Heaven was ordain'd Mans chiefest end: Although one Adam lost it by his Fall, A second hath repurchast it withall. And made a Passage for Me unto Life, * 1.3Who was by Nature (once) so full of strife.

Those Angels which debarr'd him of the Tree, God hath appointed as an Aide to Mee, To beare my soule to that celestiall place, * 1.4Where I shall see my Maker face to face:

Not, as he is, immense or infinite. For so the Angels cannot view his sight: But as he shall Himselfe communicate, In a full measure to my blessed State.* 1.5

Now whether it shall be with corporall-eye, As we the Sunne, the Moone, and Starres descrye, I cannot tell; but certainly withall, It must be Perfect, being Spirituall.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Mr. Vicars in his pro∣spective glasse to ••ooke into ••eaven.
• * 1.2

  Aug: Civ: Dei l. 22. ••. 30.
• * 1.3

  ••ph. 2, 3
• * 1.4

  Cor. 13,
• * 1.5

  Aug. Civ. Dei l. 22, c. 29.