Then in new song to thee Who royall right preserves, O Lord, thy help extend, From hand of forrain brood; Soe then our sonnes shall grow And garnish kingly hall, Our store shall ay bee full; Yea, shall such fullness finde, Though all from thence wee pull, Yet more shall rest behinde: The millions of encrease Shall breake the wonted fold; Yea, such the sheepy prease, The streetes shall scantly hold. Our heards shall brave the best; Abroad no foes alarme; At home to breake our rest, On whom such blessings fall, ; PSALME CXLVIII. Laudate Dominum. INHABITANTS of heav'nly land, As loving subjectes praise your king: You that among them highest stand, In highest notes Jehova sing. Sing angells all, on carefull wing, You that his heralds fly, And you whom he doth soldiers bring O praise him, sunne, the sea of light; You waters banck'd with starry bay; All these, I say, advaunce that name, They place retaine, they order know, When heav'n hath prais'd, praise earth anew: You boisterous windes, whose breath fulfills You trees that hills and mountaines crown: And you that have your more renown, You beasts in woodes untam'd that range, All these, I say, advaunce that name And since, advaunced by the same, You Jacob's sonnes stand cheefly bound, So fitts them well on whom is found VII. SIR JOHN DAVIES. THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL, PROVED BY SEVERAL REASONS: 1st, The Desire of Knowledge; 2nd, The Motion of the Soul; 3rd, From Contempt of Death in the righteous; 4th, From Fear of Death in the wicked; and 5th, From the General Desire of Immortality. HER onely end is neuer-ending blisse, But in their minds ten thousand doubts arise. Their light opinions, like these Epicures; Yet though these men against their conscience striue, There are some sparkles in their flintie breasts, Which cannot be extinct, but still reuiue; That, though they would, they cannot quite be beasts. But whoso makes a mirror of his mind, And doth with patience view himselfe therein, His soule's eternity shall cleerly find, Though th' other beauties be defac't with sinne. First, in man's minde we find an appetite To learne and know the truth of euerie thing, Which is connaturall and borne with it, And from the Essence of the Soule doth spring. With this desire shee hath a natiue might Which in their passage leaue no print behind : Of which swift litle time so much we spend, While some few things we through the sense do straine, That our short race of life is at an end, Ere we the principles of skill attaine: Or God (which to vaine ends hath nothing done) In vaine this appetite and pow'r hath giuen; Or else our knowledge, which is here begon, Hereafter must bee perfected in heauen. God neuer gave a pow'r to one whole kind, But most part of that kinde did vse the same; |