The Sinners supplication.
Confessing his sins, and humbly craving pardon of the Lord:
he hateth the world, and desireth to inhabit [i]n the heavenly Jerusalem:
and the description thereof. To the tune of, Troy Towne.
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O Gratious God and heavenly King,
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That rules and governes every thing,
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Whose power the heavens & earth do know,
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Behold me wretch opprest with woe:
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Be thou my God in this distresse,
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And ease me of my wickednesse.
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O Lord, Lord for thy mercy now forgive
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me, come and receive me home.
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The terrors of this fea[r] full death,
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Which makes so many lose their breath,
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Doe make me feare my part therein,
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For recompence of my great sinne
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O Lord unto my voice give heed,
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And rid my life and soule from dread.
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O Lord; Lord for thy mercy, etc.
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Most gracious God now lend thine eare,
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Bow downe thy selfe my cryes to heare,
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Let not my words be spent in vaine,
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But helpe me Lord now I complaine.
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Be thou my rocke my strength and stay,
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For thou hast promist helpe alway.
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This grievous scourge which thou hast sent,
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Upon us for our chastisement:
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We must confesse we have deserved,
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For from thy lawes we all have swerved.
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Our sinnes have sore provoked thee,
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In wrath against us all to be. etc.
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The sinnes of Sodome here doe raigne,
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And in our Citie doe remaine,
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Both old and young, both rich and poore,
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Doe daily sinne and vex thee sore:
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They sweare and lye, they steale and kill,
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[a]nd for old shoes the poore they sell,
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False beames and weights are daily used,
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Whereby full many are abused,
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And covetous Usurers by excesse,
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Have brought a number to distresse,
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They purchase daily house and ground,
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And racking rents the poore they wound.
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And I O Lord amongst the rest,
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Doe yeeld that I have sore transgrest:
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But yet O Lord I thee desire,
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Not to rebuke me in thine ire.
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Beare not in mind my former ill,
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But frame me to thy holy will.
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I was conceivd and borne in sin,
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And since I have most wicked bin,
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Offending thee my gracious God,
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Whereby I have deserved thy rod,
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But now O Lord I doe repent.
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Let me not feele thy punishment.
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My sinnes are set before mine eyes,
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My gracelesse oathes I doe despise,
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My want of grace I doe lament,
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And youthfull time so vainely spent.
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Forgive me Lord for Christ his sake,
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And let thy wrath and anger slake.
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Vaine world adue, thou flatterest man,
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I loath thee now, doe what thou can:
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I yeeld my selfe most willingly
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Unto my God to live and dye.
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For under his wings I plainely see,
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There is most safety for to be.
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The second part, To the same Tune.
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Oh where said David shall I fly,
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But God will there be presently?
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There is no place to scape from God,
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If thou deserve to feele his rod.
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Thou man in thy vocation stay,
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And God will thee defend alway.
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I with my selfe am now resolved,
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And with Saint Paul to be dissolved,
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From this Body of sinne and mire,
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I doe most earnestly desire,
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And with my Saviour Christ to be,
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To live with him eternally.
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My thirsty soule desires her draught,
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My poysoned mind would faine be out,
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From chaines and fetters of the flesh,
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To live with him in happinesse:
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She longs to come into the coast,
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Which she by Sathans wiles hath lost.
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From Egypt now I will returne,
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Where cruell bondage makes me mourne,
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And eke from Babylon I would be,
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Released from captivity:
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To be in new Jerusalem,
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Amongst the Saints to sing with them.
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This is the home which I doe meane,
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That City new Jerusalem:
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Where many thousand Saints doe sing
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Praises unto their heavenly King.
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Within that Citty there is peace,
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Continue's still and never cease.
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There is an everlasting spring,
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There birds doe ever chirp and sing,
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There blustring winter never blowes,
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It never freezeth there nor snowes:
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Nor Summers parching doth no harme,
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The weather there is temperate warme.
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There pleasant Gardens ever keepe,
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All sorts of Flowers ever sweet:
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The trees do blossome bud and beare
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The fruits are mellow all the yeere
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All sorts of plants both fresh and greene,
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At all times there are to bee seene.
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The gates of equall distance be,
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Most beautifull and faire to see:
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Bedeckt with many precious stones,
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And wrought with burnisht Ivory bones,
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The walles of Jasper richly built,
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The streets and houses pav'd and guilt.
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There pleasant Wine in rivers flowes,
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Upon the bankes the Suger growes,
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Enclos'd in Reedes of Cynamon,
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More sweeter than the hony combe:
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To see these sights and many moe,
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Who would not covet there to goe?
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There is no need of Moone nor Sunne,
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For there the day and night are one:
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No heart can think nor tongue can tell,
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The glorious sightes for to excell.
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The dwellers there are crown'd with gold,
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Like Kings most glorious to behold.
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Like loving friends they live in blisse,
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Like spouses they the Bridegroome kisse,
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Their loving Lord and master deare,
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Who feasteth them with heavenly cheere,
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O God of heaven of thy good grace,
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Conduct us to that heavenly place.
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O Lord, Lord for thy mercy, now forgive
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me, come and receive me home.
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