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A Song manifesting The Saints eternall Happinesse
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A Song manifesting The Saints eternall Happinesse
Sound is the Minde
Which doth that Hope possesse
Whose object is Eternall joy
Or Heavens Happinesse;
Such healthfull hearts
Their spirits doe sustain,
In thinking on the Rest which for
Gods peeple doth remain,
A Treasure inaccessible,
Or Everlasting Life,
A blessed State which never shall
be cumbered with strife
Which doth that Hope possesse
Whose object is Eternall joy
Or Heavens Happinesse;
Such healthfull hearts
Their spirits doe sustain,
In thinking on the Rest which for
Gods peeple doth remain,
A Treasure inaccessible,
Or Everlasting Life,
A blessed State which never shall
be cumbered with strife
Salvacion
With endlesse Glory cleare,
And each good thing to be desir'd
Are in their Fountain there;
Flowers are here,
Together with the weeds
Exposed to all kinde of stormes,
Which much confusion breeds:
Some for weaknesse are dismaid,
And some are comfortlesse,
Because of some defect of sence,
Or want of comlinesse.
With endlesse Glory cleare,
And each good thing to be desir'd
Are in their Fountain there;
Flowers are here,
Together with the weeds
Exposed to all kinde of stormes,
Which much confusion breeds:
Some for weaknesse are dismaid,
And some are comfortlesse,
Because of some defect of sence,
Or want of comlinesse.
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Grant some may have
Proporcion so compleat,
That correspondency of parts
Declares Perfections feat
Yet doubtles such
Then but then have also
By reason of their travell which
They needs must undergo,
For in every calling is
A tedious wearinesse
Which whoso followes carefully
Is driven to confesse.
Proporcion so compleat,
That correspondency of parts
Declares Perfections feat
Yet doubtles such
Then but then have also
By reason of their travell which
They needs must undergo,
For in every calling is
A tedious wearinesse
Which whoso followes carefully
Is driven to confesse.
Further suppose
One might be freed from all
Afflictions which externall are,
Or crosses corporall
Yet if the soule
Be sencible of sin
It cannot be but such will have
Enough to do within:
For to Preserve the heart and waies
From being over grown
With fruits of that contagious seed
That's in our nature sown.
One might be freed from all
Afflictions which externall are,
Or crosses corporall
Yet if the soule
Be sencible of sin
It cannot be but such will have
Enough to do within:
For to Preserve the heart and waies
From being over grown
With fruits of that contagious seed
That's in our nature sown.
Doubting some times
The Soul with anguish tires,
Who must anon encounter with
inordinate desires:
Lust oft prevailes,
And then the consequence,
Will be a great ecclips of grace,
And losse of comfort sence,
In striving to recover peace,
The soule is oft opprest,
As he that's conscious of his sin,
Hath here but little rest.
The Soul with anguish tires,
Who must anon encounter with
inordinate desires:
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And then the consequence,
Will be a great ecclips of grace,
And losse of comfort sence,
In striving to recover peace,
The soule is oft opprest,
As he that's conscious of his sin,
Hath here but little rest.
From all those woes
And many more that bee,
The Saint that finisht hath his course
Shall be for ever free,
And likewise have
For ever to posesse
A most exquisit Diadem,
The Crown of righteousnesse,
Of that divine inheritance
Which fadeth not away,
They shall be really posest,
And ever it enjoy.
And many more that bee,
The Saint that finisht hath his course
Shall be for ever free,
And likewise have
For ever to posesse
A most exquisit Diadem,
The Crown of righteousnesse,
Of that divine inheritance
Which fadeth not away,
They shall be really posest,
And ever it enjoy.
Bodies which here
Are matter thick and grosse,
Attaining to this happinesse,
Are freed from their drosse:
And as the Sunn
Appeares in brightest Sky,
So every body glorifi'd
Shall be for clarity,
And likewise be impassible,
Uncapable of pain
Having agility to move.
VVhose vigour shall remain.
Are matter thick and grosse,
Attaining to this happinesse,
Are freed from their drosse:
And as the Sunn
Appeares in brightest Sky,
So every body glorifi'd
Shall be for clarity,
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Uncapable of pain
Having agility to move.
VVhose vigour shall remain.
Glorified Soules,
Are fild with all delight,
Because the spring of Beuty is
The object of their sight:
Also they have,
(Their joy to amplify)
Immediat sweet communion with
The blessed Trinity.
Which satisfies the appetite,
Which else were empty still,
Because no finite comfort can
Content the mind and will.
Are fild with all delight,
Because the spring of Beuty is
The object of their sight:
Also they have,
(Their joy to amplify)
Immediat sweet communion with
The blessed Trinity.
Which satisfies the appetite,
Which else were empty still,
Because no finite comfort can
Content the mind and will.
Briefly a word
O place and company
Which Saints in Glory shall enioy,
The place is heavenly
Ierusalem,
The citty of the Lord:
Discover'd by such precious things
As pleasure most afford,
The consorts, Angelis numberlesse,
The whole Assembly
Of Saints, who shall for ever dwell
With Christ Eternally.
O place and company
Which Saints in Glory shall enioy,
The place is heavenly
Ierusalem,
The citty of the Lord:
Discover'd by such precious things
As pleasure most afford,
The consorts, Angelis numberlesse,
The whole Assembly
Of Saints, who shall for ever dwell
With Christ Eternally.
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VVhy hath the Lord
For his such Ioyes prepar'd
Because their pacient sufferings
He richly will reward,
This light distresse
Which for a moment dures
An excellent eternall waight
Of Glory his procures,
But our afflictions merit not
This Glory that exceeds
But it as Gods all other gifts,
Of his free-Love proceeds.
For his such Ioyes prepar'd
Because their pacient sufferings
He richly will reward,
This light distresse
Which for a moment dures
An excellent eternall waight
Of Glory his procures,
But our afflictions merit not
This Glory that exceeds
But it as Gods all other gifts,
Of his free-Love proceeds.
Now they that have
This Hope of Heaven sure,
Shew it by striving to be cleane
As Christ our Lord is pure,
Also they take
Their croses chearfully
Because a substance they expect,
Eternall heavenly,
To which my Soule aspired still
And cannot setled be,
Till shee returns againe to him
That gave her unto me.
This Hope of Heaven sure,
Shew it by striving to be cleane
As Christ our Lord is pure,
Also they take
Their croses chearfully
Because a substance they expect,
Eternall heavenly,
To which my Soule aspired still
And cannot setled be,
Till shee returns againe to him
That gave her unto me.
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