Part 3

If that thou canst unfainedly repent, With hatred therunto thy sins confesse, And not because thou fearest punishment But that therby thou didst Gods Laws transgress Resolving henceforth to be circumspect, Desiring God to frame thy wayes direct.

Each member of thy body thou dost guide, Then exercise them in Gods service most Let every part be throughly sanctifide As a meet Temple for the Holy Ghost; Sin must not in our mortall bodies raign It must expelled be although with pain

Thou must not willingly one sin detain, For so thou mayst debarred be of blis, Grace with inniquity will not remain, Twixt Christ and Belial no communion is, Therefore be carefull every sin to fly, And see thou persevere in piety.

So mayst thou be perswaded certainly, The Curse shall in no wise endanger thee, Although the body suffer misery Yet from the second death thou shalt be free; They that are called here to Holinesse Are sure elected to eternall blisse.

A Taste of blessednesse here shalt thou say, Thy Conscience shall be at Tranquility, And in the Life to com thou shalt enjoy The sweet fruition of the Trinity, Society with Saints then shalt thou have, Which in this life thou didst so often crave.

Let this then stir thee up to purity, Newnesse of life, and speedy Conversion, To Holinesse and to integrity, Make conscience of impure thoughts unknown Pray in the Spirit with sweet Contemplacion Be vigilant for to avoid Temptacion.

The Preamble.

Amid the Oceon of Adversity, Neare whelmed in the Waves of sore Vexation, Tormented with the Floods of Misery, And almost in the Guise of Despairacion, Neare destitute of Comfort, full of Woes, This was her Case that did the same compose:

At length Jehovah by his power divine, This great tempestious Storm did mittigate. And cause the Son of Righteousnesse to shine Upon his Child that seemed desolate, Who was refreshed, and that immediatly, And Sings as follows with alacrity.

The Second Meditacion.

The storm of Anguish being over-blown, To praise Gods mercies now I may have space, For that I was not finally orethrown, But was supported by his speciall grace; The Firmament his glory doth declare, Psal. 19. 1 Yet over all his works, his mercies are. Psal. 145. 9

The Contemplacion of his mercies sweet, Hath ravished my Soule with such delight Who to lament erst while was onely meet, Doth now determine to put griefe to flight, Being perswaded, hereupon doth rest, Shee shall not be forsaken though distrest.

Gods Favour toward me is hereby proved, For that he hath not quite dejected me; VVhy then, though crosses be not yet removed Yet so seasoned with pacience they be, As they excite me unto godlinesse, The onely way to endlesse happinesse.

Wch earthly muckworms can in no wise know Being of the Holy Spirit destitute, They savour onely earthly things below; Who shall with them of saving Grace dispute, Shall find them capable of nothing lesse Though Christianity they do professe.

Let _Esaus_ porcion fall onto these men, The Fatnesse of the Earth let them possesse No other thing they can desire then, Having no taste of Heavens happinesse, They care not for Gods Countenance so bright, Their Corn and Wine and Oyle is their delight.

To compasse this and such like is their care, But having past the period of their dayes, Bereft of all but miseries they are, Their sweet delight with mortall life decayes, But godlinesse is certainly great gain, 1. Tim. 6. 6 Immortall blisse they have, who it retain.

They that are godly and regenerate, Endu'd with saving Knowledg, Faith, and Love, When they a future blisse premeditate, It doth all bitter passion quite remove; Though oft they feel the want of outward things Their heavenly meditacions, comfort brings.

They never can be quite disconsolate, Because they have the onely Comforter Which doth their minds alway illuminate, And make them fleshy pleasures much abhorr, For by their inward light they plainly see How vain all transitory pleasures bee.

Moreover, if they be not only voyd Of earthly pleasures and commodities, But oftentimes be greviously annoyd With sundry kinds of great Calammities, Whether it be in Body, Goods, or Name, With pacience they undergo the same.

And why? because they know and be aware That all things work together for the best, To them that love the Lord and called are, Ro. 8.28. According to his purpose; therefore blest Doubtlesse they be, his knowledg that obtain, No Losse may countervail their blessed Gain.

Which makes them neither murmor nor repine When God is pleasd with Crosses them to try, who out of darknesse caused light to shine, 2 Cor. 4.6. Can raise them Comfort out of Misery They know right well and therefore are content To beare with patience any Chastisment.

This difference is betwixt the good and bad; When as for sin the godly scourged are, And godly Sorrow moves them to be sad, These speeches or the like they will declare: O will the Lord absent himselfe for ever? Will he vouchsafe his mercy to me never?

VVhat is the cause I am afflicted so? The cause is evident I do perceive. My Sins have drawn upon me all this woe, The which I must confesse and also leave, Then shall I mercy find undoubtedly, Pro. 28.13. And otherwise no true prosperity.

Whilst sin hath rule in me, in vain I pray, Or if my Soule inniquity affects, If this be true, at tis, I boldly say, The prayer of the wicked, God rejects; Pro. 15.8. If in my heart I wickednesse regard How can I hope my prayer shall be heard. Psal. 66

If I repent, here may I Comfort gather, Though in my prayers there be weaknesse much Christ siteth at the right hand of his Father To intercede and make make request for such, Rom. 8.33 Who have attained to sincerity, Though somthing hindered by infirmity.

I will forthwith abandon and repent, Not onely palpable inniquities, But also all alowance or consent To sinful motions or infirmities; And when my heart and wayes reformed be, God will with-hold nothing that's good from me. Psal. 84.

So may I with the _Psalmist_ truly say, Tis good for me that I have been afflicted, Before I troubled was, I went astray, Psal. 119 But now to godlinesse I am adicted; If in Gods Lawes I had not took delight, I in my troubles should have perisht quite.

Such gracious speeches usually proceed From such a Spirit that is Sanctifide, Who strives to know his own defects and need And also seekes to have his wants supplide; But certainly the wicked do not so As do their speeches and distempers show.

At every crosse they murmor, vex and fret, And in their passion often will they say, How am I with Calamities beset! I think they will mee utterly destray, The cause hereof I can in no wise know But that the _Destinies_ will have it so.

Unfortunate am I and quite forlorn, Oh what disastrous Chance befalleth me! Vnder some hurtfull Plannet I was born That will (I think) my Confusion be, And there are many wickeder then I Who never knew the like adversity.

These words do breifly show a carnall mind Polluted and corrupt with Ignorance, Where godly Wisdom never yet hath shin'd For that they talk of _Destiny_ or _Chance_; For if Gods Power never can abate, He can dispose of that he did create.

If God alone the True Almighty be As we beleive, acknowledg, and confesse, Then supream Governor likewise is he Disposing all things, be they more or lesse; The eyes of God in every place do see The good and bad, and what their actions bee.

The thought hereof sufficeth to abate My heavinesse in great'st extremity, When Grace unto my Soul did intimate That nothing comes by _Chance_ or _Destiny_, But that my God and Saviour knowes of all That either hath or shall to me befall.

VVho can his servants from all troubles free And would I know my Crosses all prevent, But that he knowes them to be good for me Therefore I am resolv'd to be content, For though I meet with many Contradictions Yet Grace doth alwayes sweeten my Afflictions.

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1947-1948

12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.

1948-1949

13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre_ (1720). 14. Edward Moore's _The Gamester_ (1753). 15. John Oldmixon's _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_ (1712); and Arthur Mainwaring's _The British Academy_ (1712). 16. Nevil Payne's _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673). 17. Nicholas Rowe's _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare_ (1709). 18. "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill's Preface to _The Creation_ (1720).

1949-1950

19. Susanna Centlivre's _The Busie Body_ (1709). 20. Lewis Theobold's _Preface to The Works of Shakespeare_ (1734). 22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two _Rambler_ papers (1750). 23. John Dryden's _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681).

1950-1951

26. Charles Macklin's _The Man of the World_ (1792).

1951-1952

31. Thomas Gray's _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751); and _The Eton College Manuscript_.

1952-1953

41. Bernard Mandeville's _A Letter to Dion_ (1732).

1953-1954

43. John Baillie's _An Essay on the Sublime_ (1747). 44. Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski's _The Odes of Casimire_, Translated by G. Hils (1646). 45. John Robert Scott's _Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts_. 46. Selections from Seventeenth-Century Songbooks.

1954-1955

49. Two St. Cecilia's Day Sermons (1696-1697). 50. Hervey Aston's _A Sermon Before the Sons of the Clergy_ (1745). 51. Lewis Maidwell's _An Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency of Education_ (1705). 52. Pappity Stampoy's _A Collection of Scotch Proverbs_ (1663). 53. Urian Oakes' _The Soveraign Efficacy of Divine Providence_ (1682). 54. Mary Davys' _Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady_ (1725).

1955-1956

55. Samuel Say's _An Essay on the Harmony, Variety, and Power of Numbers_ (1745). 56. _Theologia Ruris, sive Schola & Scala Naturae_ (1686).

1956-1957

61. Elizabeth Elstob's _An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities_ (1715). 62. _Two Funeral Sermons_ (1635).

1958-1959

74. _Seventeenth-Century Tales of the Supernatural._ 75. John Joyne, _A Journal_ (1679). 76. André Dacier, _Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry_ (1705). 77-8. David Hartley, _Various Conjectures on the Perception, Motion, and Generation of Ideas_ (1746).

1959-1960

79. William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke's _Poems_ (1660). 80. [P. Whalley's] _An Essay on the Manner of Writing History_ (1746). 82. Henry Fuseli's _Remarks on the Writings and Conduct of J. J. Rousseau_ (1767). 83. _Sawney and Colley_ (1742) and other Pope Pamphlets. 84. Richard Savage's _An Author to be Lett_ (1729).

1960-1961

85-6. _Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals._ 87. Daniel Defoe, _Of Captain Misson and his Crew_ (1728). 88. Samuel Butler, _Poems_. 89. Henry Fielding, _Ovid's Art of Love_ (1760). 90. Henry Needler, _Works_ (1728).

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