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Cœli enarrant Gloriam Dei.
Are we asleep? or doe we see
No more than did blind Bartime?
Or are our Senses Charm'd to lie
Benumm'd into some Lethargie,
Whilst Sin makes of's a Conquest? Rise
Flesh-buryed Soul, and from the Skies
Let thy wing'd thoughts to thee relate
Who 'twas those structures did Create,
Where in Thy Hemisphere at large is pen'd,
More wonder then frail Clay can comprehend.
No more than did blind Bartime?
Or are our Senses Charm'd to lie
Benumm'd into some Lethargie,
Whilst Sin makes of's a Conquest? Rise
Flesh-buryed Soul, and from the Skies
Let thy wing'd thoughts to thee relate
Who 'twas those structures did Create,
Where in Thy Hemisphere at large is pen'd,
More wonder then frail Clay can comprehend.
Whether a Sun, a Moon, a Star,
A Comet or a Meteor,
A Various Bow, true sign of Peace,
Swoln Clouds, which cause on earth increase
When breaking they Distill; the Glum
And horrid beat of Thunders Drum
We hear or see: Why are these sent?
But t'shew He is Omnipotent,
Who thus in Characters doth write, whereby
We have a Lecture in Divinity.
A Comet or a Meteor,
A Various Bow, true sign of Peace,
Swoln Clouds, which cause on earth increase
When breaking they Distill; the Glum
And horrid beat of Thunders Drum
We hear or see: Why are these sent?
But t'shew He is Omnipotent,
Who thus in Characters doth write, whereby
We have a Lecture in Divinity.
For as those great and lesser Lights
Distinguish Time by Dayes and Nights;
So was it Day with us untell
Our Disobedient Parents fell.
Yet as the Tincell'd Night gives way
At th' opening o'th' true Golden Day;
So did the powers of Darkness fly,
The Sun of Righteousness being by:
And when we Comet-struck, int' Sin had run,
The Father did redeem us by the Son.
Distinguish Time by Dayes and Nights;
So was it Day with us untell
Our Disobedient Parents fell.
Yet as the Tincell'd Night gives way
At th' opening o'th' true Golden Day;
So did the powers of Darkness fly,
The Sun of Righteousness being by:
And when we Comet-struck, int' Sin had run,
The Father did redeem us by the Son.
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When th' Undertaker first did dain
For to restore His world again,
He us'd no other lock or sluce
I'th' Clouds, but sent a Bow of truce.
What did His Mercy less, when we
Who are the Worlds Epitome,
Delug'd in Sin, lay Breathless, Drown'd,
Untill Our Saviours Pretious Wound
Open'd a Drayn, wherewith he laid us dry,
From wickedness into fertility?
For to restore His world again,
He us'd no other lock or sluce
I'th' Clouds, but sent a Bow of truce.
What did His Mercy less, when we
Who are the Worlds Epitome,
Delug'd in Sin, lay Breathless, Drown'd,
Untill Our Saviours Pretious Wound
Open'd a Drayn, wherewith he laid us dry,
From wickedness into fertility?
The Aire imprison'd, fain would try
The virtue of more Liberty:
Yet meeting with a tougher Cloud
Is forc'd to quarrell, and speak loud.
So if we seek our freedom heer,
We must no Cloud of Fortune fear:
But like Bonargeses, proclame
What we profess, then be the same.
For whilst the Face looks one way, and the Mind
Another, 'tis like Rain brought against the Wind.
The virtue of more Liberty:
Yet meeting with a tougher Cloud
Is forc'd to quarrell, and speak loud.
So if we seek our freedom heer,
We must no Cloud of Fortune fear:
But like Bonargeses, proclame
What we profess, then be the same.
For whilst the Face looks one way, and the Mind
Another, 'tis like Rain brought against the Wind.
There shall no Thunder-crack, nor dash of wet,
Prodigious Comet, in us fear beget;
But the Suns Purple, and the Silver wings
The Moon puts on, bespeaks us Saints and Kings,
Whilst Iris Endless Peace, the numerous Lights
Adorn the Night, discypher all delights:
Which for to seek to compass and obtain,
He that quits life and all here, makes great Gain.
Prodigious Comet, in us fear beget;
But the Suns Purple, and the Silver wings
The Moon puts on, bespeaks us Saints and Kings,
Whilst Iris Endless Peace, the numerous Lights
Adorn the Night, discypher all delights:
Which for to seek to compass and obtain,
He that quits life and all here, makes great Gain.
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