Terra Pacis A true Testification of the spirituall Lande of Peace; which is the spirituall Lande of Promyse, and the holy Citee of Peace or the heauenly Ierusalem; and of the Holy and spirituall People that dwell therin: as also of the Walking in the Spirit which leadeth therunto. Set-foorth by HN: and by Him newly perused and more-playnly declared. Translated out of Base-almayne [by Christopher Vitell?] |
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[Terra Pacis.]
The XXIX. Chap.
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Reioyce you all now pleasantly/For Ioye our Eares doth fill:
Cheer-vp your Hearts couragously/
Be gladd O Sions Hill.
For Lo, the new Tyme doth appeere/
That hath bin writ-of long:
And is in sight to view ful-cleere/
Wherfore reioyce with Song.
Ye Remnant? Gods Inheritance
Be ioyfull in our Citee:
And sing this dauncing Dittee.
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From North and Sowth/ye Righteous/Com, blowe the Horne apace:
From East and West/extoll euen-thus/
Your Uoyce: and make solace.
For heers Emmanuel our King/
Against that fierse Babell:
Therfore now let your Trumpets ring/
For Hee wil her expell.
Their Hearts are all dismayd now quyt/
Sounde-vp your Trumps apace:
Think now on God both Daye and Night/
And Discord from yon chase.
B
3
Now is the last Cupp fild also/Ouer Babels Kingdom hye:
To stagger and stryue, like Drunkerds/lo,
Thats now her Melodye.
Her Wisdom with her Practises,
That coms now all to shame:
And is nomore of worthynes,
Then for a Laughing-game.
In Gods Precepts most pure and right/
Reioyce you in eury Lande:
His Light doth shyne in vs ful-bright/
And vnder Him we stande.
4
Now is the Kingdom of the BeastMade darke/be gladd therfore:
The Light of Trueth euen-heere doth rest/
Tryumphing euermore.
His Kingdom eake do wee possesse/
The Trueth doth make vs free:
With God at-one are wee.
Whose Loue is vnto vs/we fynde
(That do obaye her Uoyce)
As is the Headd, tos Members kynde/
Gods Lyfe doth vs reioyce.
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His shutt Paradise, wherin we moughtNot com/is opte now fyne:
The Tree of Lyfe is sprouted-out/
Whose Fruit is Medecyne.
Drinke now the Wyne of Loue most-puer,
With Ioye and Mery-cheere/
Gods Riches that alwayes enduer,
Are neuer wanting heere.
Fore sightfully, with Waryues,
Se that you leade your Lyfe,
As do the Wyse/And seeke no-les,
To flye Dissencious-stryfe.
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Now swallowed-vp lye Death and Sinne/With their Folly great and vayne:
The Deuill and Hell, whose Bands we werin/
The Mocky appeers now playne.
The heauenly Breade, or gostly Foode/
That same our Soules doth nourish:
In Gods delytfull Essence goode/
By meanes wherof we flourish.
The Kingdom of the new man, puer.
That out of God doth ryse/
Is now with vs, heere present, suer.
In vpright heauenly wyse.
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Apeaceable Kingdom haue we now heere/As Scriptures sayd before:
Uex ye your Hearts nomore/
But now with vs assosiate/
For in the heauenly Beeing,
Is our King: Hee doth illuminate
Us all/as is agreeing
To Scripture, whear we reade thesame/
Reioyce therfore and sing
This new Laude-song/ vnto the Name
Of Him, our heauenly King.
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Ye Princes of our God most-hye“Ye People of the Lorde”
Which do agree in Unitie/
Com all with one accorde/
Your Ioye increase, and eake fulfill/
The Trueth receaue also:
Gods Spirit is on the Path, and will
Rebuke the Worlde, his Fo,
Of her self-framed Righteousness:
And tharrogant Wyseones are
With their contencious Spitfulnes:
Layd-downe in seilence theare.
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