Divine poems Containing The History of Ionah. Ester. Iob. Sampson. Sions Sonets. Elegies. Written and newly augmented, by Fra: Quarles |
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Medit. 18.
The Doctrine of the Schoole of Grace dissents
From Natures (more uncertaine) rudiments,
And are as much contrayr, and opposite
As Yea, and Nay, or blacke, and purest white:
For nature teaches, first to understand,
And then beleeve; but Grace doth first command
Man to beleeve, and then to comprehend;
Faith is of things unknowne, and must intend,
And soare above conceit; What we conceive,
We stand possest of, and already have:
But faith beholds such things, as yet we have not,
Which eye sees not, eare heares not, heart conceives not.
Hereon, as on her ground-worke, our salvation
Erects her pillars; From this firme foundation,
Our soules mount up the new Ierusalem,
To take possession of her Diademe;
God loves no sophistry; Who argues least
In graces Schoole, concludes, and argues best;
A womans Logicke passes there; For 'tis
Good proofe to say, 'Tis so, because it is;
Had Abraham adviz'd with flesh and blood,
Bad had his faith beene, though his reasons good:
If God bid doe, for man to urge a Why?
Is, but in better language, a deny:
The fleshly ballances of our conceits
Have neither equall poysure, nor just weights.
To weigh, without impeachment, Gods designe;
There's no proportion betwixt things Divine,
And mortall: Lively faith may not depend,
Either upon th'occasion, or the end.
From Natures (more uncertaine) rudiments,
And are as much contrayr, and opposite
As Yea, and Nay, or blacke, and purest white:
For nature teaches, first to understand,
And then beleeve; but Grace doth first command
Man to beleeve, and then to comprehend;
Faith is of things unknowne, and must intend,
And soare above conceit; What we conceive,
We stand possest of, and already have:
But faith beholds such things, as yet we have not,
Which eye sees not, eare heares not, heart conceives not.
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Erects her pillars; From this firme foundation,
Our soules mount up the new Ierusalem,
To take possession of her Diademe;
God loves no sophistry; Who argues least
In graces Schoole, concludes, and argues best;
A womans Logicke passes there; For 'tis
Good proofe to say, 'Tis so, because it is;
Had Abraham adviz'd with flesh and blood,
Bad had his faith beene, though his reasons good:
If God bid doe, for man to urge a Why?
Is, but in better language, a deny:
The fleshly ballances of our conceits
Have neither equall poysure, nor just weights.
To weigh, without impeachment, Gods designe;
There's no proportion betwixt things Divine,
And mortall: Lively faith may not depend,
Either upon th'occasion, or the end.
The glorious Suns reflected beames suffice
To lend a luster to the feeblest eyes,
But if the Eye too covetous of the light,
Boldly out-face the Sun, (whose beames so bright
And undispers'd, are too-too much refin'd
For view) is it not justly strucken blind?
I dare not taske stout Samson for his death;
Nor wandring Ionah, that bequeath'd his breath
To raging Seas, when God commanded so;
Nor thee (great Queene) whose lips did overflow
With streames of blood; nor thee (O cruell kind)
To quench the fier of a womans mind,
With flowing rivers of thy subjects blood;
From bad beginnings, God creates a good,
And happy end: What I cannot conceive,
Lord, let my soule admier, and beleeve.
To lend a luster to the feeblest eyes,
But if the Eye too covetous of the light,
Boldly out-face the Sun, (whose beames so bright
And undispers'd, are too-too much refin'd
For view) is it not justly strucken blind?
I dare not taske stout Samson for his death;
Nor wandring Ionah, that bequeath'd his breath
To raging Seas, when God commanded so;
Nor thee (great Queene) whose lips did overflow
With streames of blood; nor thee (O cruell kind)
To quench the fier of a womans mind,
With flowing rivers of thy subjects blood;
From bad beginnings, God creates a good,
And happy end: What I cannot conceive,
Lord, let my soule admier, and beleeve.
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