Part V

VII.
THe heart where pleajing Error reigns^ This Objed as her (^ild maintains., By the fair Light that in her Jhines ^ (A rare Cwlejiial Gift.,) refines •,
And by degrees at lajl doth bring., ' ' To her fir ft fplendours f acred fpring : Erom this Divine Look, • bne Sun pajfes Through three refulgent Burning-gfaffes, Kindling all Beauty, which the Spirit.,
The Bo^, and the Mind inherit.
The rich fpoils, by th’ Eye firji caught. Are to the Souls next Handmaid brought. Who there refides'. She to the Breaji Sends them ; refornPd, but. not exprefs'd : The heart from Matter Beauty takes.
Of many one Conception makes ',
And what were meant by Nature’’ s Laws, DiJiinU, She in one Tiaure draws.
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VIII.
He heart fy Love allur'd to fee Within her felf 'her Progeny
This, like the Sun*s reflcSling Rays Upo/i the Waters face, furveys •,
Tet fome Divine, though Clouded Light Seems here to twinkle, and invite The Pious Soul, a Beauty, more Sublime, and perfeff to adore.
Who fees no longer his dim fhade ^
Upon the Barth's vafi Globe difplay^dlf But certain Lufire, of the true Sun's truejl Image nozv in view.
The Soul thus entr 'ing 'in the Mind,
There fucb Uncertainty doth find.
That fhe to clearer Light applies Her aims, and near the firjl Sun flies :
She by his Splendour Beauteous grows.
By Loving whom all Beauty flovos Upon the Mind, Soul, World, and AIL Included in this fpacius Ball.
IX.
BU> hold ! Love fiops the forward Courfe That me beyond my fcope would force. Great Power ! if any Soul appears Who not alone the Bloffoms wears.
But of the rich fruit is poffejf.
Lend him thy Light, deny the refl.
The Third Part-
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To treat of both Loves belongs to different Sciences ^ Vulgar Love to Natural or Moral Philofophy •, Di¬ vine^ to Theology or Metaphyficks. Solomon difcourleth excellently of the firft in Ecclefiaftes, as a Natural Philofopher in his Proverbs as a Moral : Of the fecond in his Can¬ ticles, efteemed the moft Divine of all the Songs in Scripture.
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Stanza.-'' I.' ■
The chief Order Eftablifhed by Divine Wif- dom in created things, is, that every inferiour Nature be immediatly Governed by the Supe- riour ; whom whillt it obeys, it is guarded from all ill, and led ^ without any obftruflibn to its determinate Felicity ^ but, if through too much Affeftion to its own Liberty, and defire to prefer the Licentious Life before the profita¬ ble, it Rebel from the Superiour Nature, it falls into a double inconvenience. Firft, like a Ship, given over by the Pilot, it lights fometimes on one Rock, fometimes on another, without hope of reaching the Pott. Secondly, it lof^h the Command it had over the -Natures fubj(^- ed to it, as it hath deprived its Superiour -of his. Irrational Nature is Ruled , by another, unfit for its Imperfedion to Rule any. God by his ineffable Excellence provides for every thing, himfolf • needs not the Providence of any other: Betwixt the two exueams, God
and Bruits, are Angels and Rational Souls, Go¬ verning others, and Governed by others. The firft Hierarchy of Angels immediately illumi¬ nated by God, enlighten the next under them ^ the laft ( by Platonifts termed Demons, by the Hebrews as Guardians of Men ) are
fet over us as we over Irrationals. So PfaL 8. Whilft the Angels continued lubjeH: to the Divine Power, they retained their Authority over other Creatures -, but when Lucifer and his Companions through inordinate love of his own Excellence, afpired to be equal with God, and to be conlerved, as He, hy their own ftrength, they fell from Glory to extream Mi- lery ^ and when they loft the Priviledge they had over others, feeing us freed from their Empire, envioufly every hour infidiate our Good. The fame Order is in the lefler World, oiir Soul : the mferiour Faculties are direbfed by the Superiour, whom following they err not. The imaginative correHs the miflakes of outward Senfe •, Reafon is illuminated by the IntelleH, nor do we at any time milcarry, but when the Imaginative will not give Credit , m Reafon, of Realbn confident of it felf, :^e- fifts the Intellect. In the defiderative the Ap¬ petite is Governed by the Rational, the Ratio¬ nal by the Intellebtual, which our Poet implies, faying,
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