The IX. Chapter.
Heer do the fovver Parsonages sit them dovvne, and eate and drink.
Lamentacion.
A
Oh
Anguish/oh ruful-state and Misery/
Oh blynde
Rom. 1.c. Ephe. 4.b. Apoc. 3.b.
Man, that art so ignorant vtterly:
Now foolishly, dost thou wander astraye!
Thou art growen corrupt, like the Lazer most filthy/
Which art from the Headd,
to the Foote-sole ; I saye;
Altogether deformed/thou canst it not denaye:
Ther is suerly in all thy Members, not any sounde part.
Moreouer, thou hast yeelded; to Unregardings Waye/
And
Esa. 3.b. Ier. 7.c. 11.a 1[illeg.] 18.b.
into Good-thinkings Path, farr entred thou art.
Oh! Playne-and-iust, lyeth vnder now in Smart:
And Good-thinking
, the-whyles; teacheth Ignorance & Tangling.
I must this Daye lament it, with Wofulnes-of-hart:
Oh!
Deut. 23. Esa. [illeg.].a.
When shall the Man, becom Understanding?
Oh, Ignorance! how canst thou ouer the Man thus raigne,
That he can nothing-els, vnderstand, learne, nor gayne/
But thatt wherto Good-thinking,
doth dayly him direct.
Self-will, doth likewyse, increase in him amayne.
He reioyceth in Self-myndednes, and wil it not reiect.
Enuyousnes and Crueltee, he doth prayse and much respect.
To persecute
innocent Blood, hee is also redy and gladd.
He is soone mooued-to-fury, and grinneth ; in effect;
At Another, like a Dogg, thats fierce and raging-madd.
Oh! Wheare is now I pray you, the
sweete Loue to be hadd?
When shall Man therby be cured, is now my Demanding?
Who ; without Gods Kingdom; is growen foolish too-too-badd,
Oh! when shall the Man, becom Understanding?
B
It seemes as if the Kingdom of God were locked quight/
And also that God, with his heauenly Hoste-of-might,
Had withdrawen his Grace, from the Man, cleane-awaye:
For He suffereth the Man,
to follow his owne Delight/
Permitting him to doo, what he lusteth to assaye.
Oh/what a number of Greefes, hath he suckt, to his decaye:
Liueing after his Pleasure, in Good-thinkings vayne Race:
And is Also vtterly
vnfaythfull, in all what he maye.
For one doth wrong another,
with Crafty-gyle, apace.
Oh/sore to be lamented, is the Mans vnrestfull Case.
Those that now seeke Peace, are counted Wicked, in Errour wandring.
And of the Loue, ther is no Mencion heard in any place.
Oh! When shall the Man, becom Understanding?
O eternall Prince, God almighty Father-on-hy!
To thee only must it be, complayned vehemently,
That the Man is thus falne, into so many Infirmityes:
And yet not once myndfull, nor wil thesame espy,
That hee, from his God,
Gen. 3. Esa. [illeg.].a. 59.
is departed in such-wyse.
Declyned from the louely Trueth, and bent to follow Lyes.
He hath take vpon him, an High-mynde to entertayne:
Quyte reiecting Playne-and-iust, in this his Enterprise.
Oh! that the Man mought now, turne to his God agayne/
That same shoulde him iustify, from Sinne that so doth raigne:
Walking playne and iust, worthy of Commending:
So mought he then liue, without all Feare or Payne.
Oh! when shall the Man, becom Understanding?
The Ende of the Refraine.
C
Oh! that he coulde rightly, reade the Scripture, for his learning/
And discerned the Euell, wherto he doth so cleaue:
And ; wherto God created him; did likewyse perceaue.
Yet speaketh Lamentacion.
And so then had a Lust ; with all his Hearts intent;
To learne ; in humble maner; to stande obedient,
Toward Gods liueing Woord, as his Cleernes doth requyre:
And euenso Gods Trueth, did knowe, and still desyer/
Then were he
set-free, from all the Deuils Bands.
And Peace should-ther bee, likewyse in all Lands.
For ; by Gods Understanding; were then all Gouernment.
O eternall Wisdom/O heauenly Gyant omnipotent/
Make knowen now vnto mee (like a Prouident discerner)
Wherfore the Man hath thus,
Deut. 32. Esa 1.a. Ier. 2.c.
reiected his Preseruer/
And also his Saluacion ; that heauenly ioyfull Crowne;
For Men may playnly see, in eury Citee and Towne/
Nothing-els byt Ignorance, to haue the Dominashon.
Also, the Man is Unregarding, in Tryumphing-fashon:
And Good-thinking hath likewyse, captiud his Heart ful-strong.
So that after Gods Trueth, he doth not rightly long.
Oh/Pinching-pangs, this Sorrow breaks my Hart.
Oh! that it mought now, chance to me for my part
That God woulde rayse-vp, the Understanding, vnto mee:
And cleerly discouer, the Trueth, that I mought see,
Wherfore the Man remayneth, thus plaged euery-waye:
For the Mans Calamitee, doth much my Heart dismaye.
And I am throwly greeued, euen inwardly, therfore.
