Aelohim-triune displayed by his workes Physicall and Meta-physicall, in a Poeme of diuerse forme. Adapted to the Hebrue text, the frame of Diuinitie, and Catholike exposition. Togither, With necessarie marginall notes for relieuing of the young student. The First Part. By Henoch Clapham |
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The first day of Creation his worke, according to collection from sacred Scripture.
Before that Adam breath'd or being had:
Yer Behemoth, did graze and role in earth:
Yer fish did fleet, or foules in ayre did fly:
Yer Sunne & Moone did gouerne day & night
Yer Earth and Seas had taken Limits lot:
Yer Rakiagn did seuer waters twaine:
Yer light flasht forth of hideous darksome cell:
Yer Chaos rude, yer Nature, gan to moue:
Yer golden tyme rould out his motion:
Eternity did stretch it selfe 'yond all.
Yer Behemoth, did graze and role in earth:
Yer fish did fleet, or foules in ayre did fly:
Yer Sunne & Moone did gouerne day & night
Yer Earth and Seas had taken Limits lot:
Yer Rakiagn did seuer waters twaine:
Yer light flasht forth of hideous darksome cell:
Yer Chaos rude, yer Nature, gan to moue:
Yer golden tyme rould out his motion:
Eternity did stretch it selfe 'yond all.
Aeternitie vnlimmitted of time:
A sacred nature, far beyond conceipt,
More then a nature, more then ought we know:
An onely Being, Being 'yond our pitch.
Fore whome the rudest consience trembles oft.
Him nations all with one consent call God;
And feeling haue of his most sacred presence:
A presence hating things which consience checks.
But 'fore ech creature was this creatures Cause
Nor was the thing, that was not Ælohim,
Tri-une Iehouah, onely God in all.
A sacred nature, far beyond conceipt,
More then a nature, more then ought we know:
An onely Being, Being 'yond our pitch.
Fore whome the rudest consience trembles oft.
Him nations all with one consent call God;
And feeling haue of his most sacred presence:
A presence hating things which consience checks.
But 'fore ech creature was this creatures Cause
Nor was the thing, that was not Ælohim,
Tri-une Iehouah, onely God in all.
Heare bend thy quill to muse, but shun the maze
That swallowes sence as Whale did Israels Doue:
Three are but one, that one againe is three:
Tunfold this knot, what likelihood may be?
That swallowes sence as Whale did Israels Doue:
Three are but one, that one againe is three:
Tunfold this knot, what likelihood may be?
A knot yet felt of Latines and of Greekes:
A stump in nature lest though almost dead,
Which caus'd great Virgill and inforc'd Naso
In sacrifice to circuite Alter thrise:
Thrise to pronounce (one day that Fastus hight)
Grounding hereon: Numero deus impare gaudet.
Aegiptian Thulis asking Serapis,
Who greater gouernour might be? It said:
Theos, Logos, Pneuma, not seuered
But tending vnto one: Omnipotent.
Tria sunt omnia, hence deriued was:
And natures Clarke in 3., did place perfection.
And hereon growes our terme Tres-admirable,
Three-times diuine, with that Thrise-honorable.
Nor tongue nor Art, nor facts of men I wis
But secretly (though darkly) vtter this.
But thence descend to other creatures lore.
A stump in nature lest though almost dead,
Which caus'd great Virgill and inforc'd Naso
In sacrifice to circuite Alter thrise:
Thrise to pronounce (one day that Fastus hight)
Grounding hereon: Numero deus impare gaudet.
Aegiptian Thulis asking Serapis,
Who greater gouernour might be? It said:
Theos, Logos, Pneuma, not seuered
But tending vnto one: Omnipotent.
Tria sunt omnia, hence deriued was:
And natures Clarke in 3., did place perfection.
And hereon growes our terme Tres-admirable,
Three-times diuine, with that Thrise-honorable.
Nor tongue nor Art, nor facts of men I wis
But secretly (though darkly) vtter this.
But thence descend to other creatures lore.
At mountaines foote I see a pipling Spring,
Deriued from the mountaines Spoonge vnseene:
From both proceeds a Riuer Christallyne,
Riuer and spring considered from within:
But that within considered of it selfe.
That first and thother yer of substance same:
Outward Respects yet yeeld a triple Name.
Deriued from the mountaines Spoonge vnseene:
From both proceeds a Riuer Christallyne,
Riuer and spring considered from within:
But that within considered of it selfe.
That first and thother yer of substance same:
Outward Respects yet yeeld a triple Name.
In Glorious Sunne (though One) we see a light
Begotten of the Body of the Sunne:
From both a vitall Heate proceedes amayne.
The Soule of man possessed is with minde,
With will and Action. All of selfe same time:
But Actions floes in order from the two:
The second facultie respects the first:
And minde begins the order, not the Time.
Begotten of the Body of the Sunne:
From both a vitall Heate proceedes amayne.
The Soule of man possessed is with minde,
With will and Action. All of selfe same time:
But Actions floes in order from the two:
The second facultie respects the first:
And minde begins the order, not the Time.
God is but One. Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Indeede are three: Distinct not seuered.
Father begets the Son, but yond all time:
The Holy Ghost proceedes from both direct:
But yond all time is all in Trinitie,
And Trinitie affords but Essence One,
And substance same, eterne, incircumscript,
So simple as beyond Creatures conceipt,
Sonne as the Word, the Spirit as the Breath,
Distinct in Father, but not seuered:
All making God, Iehouah Elohim,
To whome Similitudes can no more retch,
Then Moses coulde behold Great Ehiehs face.
Sufficeth it, that heare we see his back,
And write him with the Hebrues Triple-iod:
For Trinity, respects One onely God.
Indeede are three: Distinct not seuered.
Father begets the Son, but yond all time:
The Holy Ghost proceedes from both direct:
And Trinitie affords but Essence One,
And substance same, eterne, incircumscript,
So simple as beyond Creatures conceipt,
Sonne as the Word, the Spirit as the Breath,
Distinct in Father, but not seuered:
All making God, Iehouah Elohim,
To whome Similitudes can no more retch,
Then Moses coulde behold Great Ehiehs face.
Sufficeth it, that heare we see his back,
And write him with the Hebrues Triple-iod:
For Trinity, respects One onely God.
This Fountaine, Light and Spirite inuisible,
Pull in himselfe, Perfection and selfe-blis,
Beyond all time Decrees Times infancie:
And with the time, Place and the placed thing.
In that decree whole creatures course was laid,
And firmely fastned by his prouidence.
Euen as we in an Horologue or clocke,
Perceiue first wheele to draw the second on:
The second puls the third: the third a fourth.
One runs this way, another opposit:
A double motion yea and contrary,
Draw as they shall they sound the Authors wil.
And though that man, in that his worke may faile,
yet Elohim vnlyable to salt:
What he decrees and wills, none can resist:
Nor deuels, nor men, nor height, nor depths be sure:
And that his will, is perfect iustice pure.
In Trinities great parliament all don:
His prouidence gins to dilate her selfe,
And produce beinges from no Being once.
Pause, stay, too fast A non Ente ad ens
peepes something out, that nothing was before?
And all somethings, weare they nothing before?
That needes must be, for nothing is eterne
That is not God Nor can that thing be God
Which giueth not a being vnto all.
Pull in himselfe, Perfection and selfe-blis,
Beyond all time Decrees Times infancie:
And with the time, Place and the placed thing.
In that decree whole creatures course was laid,
And firmely fastned by his prouidence.
Euen as we in an Horologue or clocke,
Perceiue first wheele to draw the second on:
The second puls the third: the third a fourth.
One runs this way, another opposit:
A double motion yea and contrary,
Draw as they shall they sound the Authors wil.
And though that man, in that his worke may faile,
yet Elohim vnlyable to salt:
What he decrees and wills, none can resist:
Nor deuels, nor men, nor height, nor depths be sure:
And that his will, is perfect iustice pure.
In Trinities great parliament all don:
His prouidence gins to dilate her selfe,
And produce beinges from no Being once.
Pause, stay, too fast A non Ente ad ens
peepes something out, that nothing was before?
That needes must be, for nothing is eterne
That is not God Nor can that thing be God
Which giueth not a being vnto all.
No creature euer was cause of it selfe:
Cause and effect are ay distinguished,
The rudest soule placed in Pallace braue
(Vauted with Azure, chacht with golden sparkes
With Tyssue hang'd, spread all with Tapistrie)
Vewing no soule, yet easily conceiues
Some vnseene soule to haue effected this.
Who vewing earth and her braue furniture,
The starry cannapie orespreading all,
But into minde one Elder thing must call,
Euen Natures parent (GOD) cause solely Good.
For things which now haue Being, once were not.
And if not once, of nothing then they rose:
Euen that somthing, which termed is Chaos.
Cause and effect are ay distinguished,
The rudest soule placed in Pallace braue
(Vauted with Azure, chacht with golden sparkes
With Tyssue hang'd, spread all with Tapistrie)
Vewing no soule, yet easily conceiues
Some vnseene soule to haue effected this.
Who vewing earth and her braue furniture,
The starry cannapie orespreading all,
But into minde one Elder thing must call,
Euen Natures parent (GOD) cause solely Good.
For things which now haue Being, once were not.
And if not once, of nothing then they rose:
Euen that somthing, which termed is Chaos.
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