Eliza's babes, or, The virgins-offering being divine poems and meditations / written by a lady, who onely desires to advance the glory of God and not her own.

The Temple.

MY God! Is my body the Temple of the Holy Ghost? What Palace can there be in this small Fabrick, fit ••o entertaine so great a Prince; yet thou hast said, If my love thee, thy Father will love them, and thou, and ••ee, and thy holy spirit, which cannot be separated ••rom thee, will come and make thy abode with him. My Lord and King! thou knowest I love thee, for ••ong since I was willing to have left the world, and all ••he blessings that thou hast given me in it, to have gone to live with thee: but what talke I, leaving the world to come to live with thee. Thou art come into ••he world to live with mee and in me. But my great Lord, where in me, shall I finde thee; hast thou in∣••hron'd thy selfe in my heart, give me then thy assist∣ance, that no proud imagination, for my own greatnes, may arise to disinthrone thee, and make the distaste that habitation; but be thou in my heart, ever atten∣ded by sweet humility and humble obedience. Let all the members of my body be imployed in thy service; Let my hands administer to thy Saints, and not stretcht ••ut to covetousnesse. Let my feet be swift to run in the wayes of thy commandements, and not to shed in∣nocent blood: or if in my head thou hast taken up thy

seat, there let humility attend on thee too, or I sha•••• fear thou wilt goe from me; for thou resistest th•••• proud: but though thou beest high, and instabitest e∣ternity, yet thou, O great Prince will dwell with th•• humble. Then in my head, and in all that belong to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 doe thou finde humble obedience, that there I migh•• retaine thee. Let not mine eyes have any proud look nor be windows to lett in vanity, but let them be eve•• looking to the hils from whence cometh my salvation▪ Let not my tongue which thou hast given me to serv•• thee, be imployed to back-bite or defame any th•• least of thy children, or any one; for how know I who ar•• thine, or who not, but let my tongue be ever speakin•• to thy praise and glory; and let the words of mout•• be accptable in thy sight; nor let mine ears listen t•• any idle or unseemly discourse, that may displease th•• divine Majesty, and let my nostrils be ever filled wit•• the sweet savour that comes from thy heavenly gar∣ments: So if all the faculties of my body be imploye•• by my Soul, humbly to serve thee, I shall live and ex∣presse a glorying heart, because I know this body is th•• Temple of the Deity.

Then where I am a Heaven must be, For thou dost bring a Heaven with thee.