CANTICA. Certain of the Songs of HN.  
To a good Instruction and Edifying of the family of Love/ and of all those that turn them thereunto.  
Translated out of Base-almayne.  
CORONAE ASSIMILABO JUDICIUM MEUM 4 ESD 5  
יהוה   printer's or publisher's device Teach and exhort one-another of you, with Psalms and Hymns, and with spiritual Songs: and sing unto the Lord in your Hearts. Col. 3. b. jam. 5. b.  

The First Song. For to complain; with sorrowful singing; over the Sin, and to pray unto God.  

AWake now 
a Psal. 35.44.  O Lord to me/  
Vnstop thine Ears likewise:  
My Heart I turn to thee/  
hearken to 
b Psal. 54. a. 55 61.64.86.88.  my Plaint and Cries.   

2.  
The Bourdaine 
c Psal. 38.40. a 51.  of my Sins unrite/  
Maketh my Heart out of ease:  
My Heaviness must I rezite/  
If it might ⁏ O Lord; thee please.   

3.  
But 
d Psal. 69. a.  turn to me thine Eye/  
Behold my 
e Psal. 31. b.  grievous Case:  
Let not the Sin lead me awry/  
Inlardge over me thy Grace.   

4.  
O Lord/ behold my 
f Psal. 25.55.  Sorrow & Pain/  
Together with my Heaviness:  
Thy Comfort 
g Psal. 86.  let me now obtain/  
In this my great Distress.   

5.  
The Evil hath 
h Psal. 88 g.  caught my Hearts Lust/  
And brought me into Misery more:  
I long for the 
i Psal. 79. b.  deliverance just/  
O Lord/ defer it not therefore.   

6.  
Purify 
k Psal. 51. Ezec. 36.  ⁏ O Lord; my heart/  
Andrea give me thy Spirit of rest:  
The Evil bringeth 
l Psal 69. b. Esa. 54. b.  me Smart/  
And maketh in me tempest.   

7.  
Might I live in the Good which doth last/  
So had my Soul then rest present:  
Now hath the Sin cloven to me fast/  
To thee ⁏ O Lord; is my 
m Psal. 40. b.  Lust bend.   

8.  
Let me not now 
n Psal. 26.  go to decay/  
Nor perish with the wicked Man:  
Thy Love let me possess, I pray/  
That I 
o Sap. 5. a.  may still before thee stan.   

9  
Might I walk in thy 
p Psal. 25.27.  Paths free/  
O Lord/ that would I very feign:  
What should then 
q 1. Pet. 3. b.  hinder or dammaige me/  
For it were all to my great Gain.   

10.  
God ⁏ Prince; 
r Psal. 51. a.  show on me thy Mercy/  
And in thy 
s Psal. 17. b. 25 a. 27. b. 143. a  Paths me guide:  
Embrace me in thine Arms lovely/  
Or I shall never be satisfied.    

The II Song. For to pray ⁏ with singing; unto God, in the sorrowfulness over the Sin, for to be released therfrom.  

BOth Night and Day I am pensive/  
For my 
a Psal. 31. b. 38. b. 88 a.  Sins that are so rife/  
How woeful am I:  
How woeful is my Soul/  
O God/ let me obtain 
b Psal. 6.51. a. 86.  Mercy.   

2.  
O Lord 
c Psal. 51. a.  extend on me thy Grace/  
I have offended before thy Face/  
My 
d Psal. 32. a.  Fault I confess:  
In Hope 
e Psal. 25.31.  and great Longing/  
That thou wilt me yet release.   

3.  
A pure 
f Psal. 51. Ezec. 11.18. c.  Heart give us/ O Lord/  
Out of jerusalems' accord/  
Thy love of-price:  
give us also that holy Being/  
Purge 
g Psal. 51. c.  us from all our Sin and Vice.   

4.  
O Lord/ 
h Psal. 40.70.  to help us make now speed/  
The Sin bringeth me in great dread/  
Therefore I lament:  
Therefore I 
i Psal. 25. b.  lament now bitterly/  
O God hear me at this present.   

5.  
O God/ my Lord/ what are all we/  
Wilt thou set thyself 
k Psal. 130. a.  against me/  
For my Trespass:  
My Trespass for to recompense/  
So are my Works 
l Esa. 64. c.  all evil ⁏ alas;.   

6.  
Prince of Heaven/ O Lord gentle/  
Release us 
m Psal. 18. a.  from the Sin/ Death/ and Hell/  
Make us now free:  
Make us now 
n Luk. 1. g. Rom. 6.8. a.  free from the Sin/  
And pluck our Spirit to thee.    

The V Song. To a Warning of the family of Love/ for the avoiding of the Destruction.  

PAsse-by and stir not 
a Esa. 56. b.  the sleeping Hound/  
Waken them not/ that is my Counsel.  
So bide then to their Mouths unsound/  
And ye defended from their Evil:  
Thus 
b Math. 7. c.  beware of their wicked Deed fell/  
So shall they then bite you no Wound.   

2.  
Fear not therefore the young Hounds barking still:  
But beware of their Elders Envy ⁏ wide;.  
Likewise also of their rebuking ill.  
For their Rebuke ⁏ on every side;  
Mendeth noman/ at any tide/  
Not 
c Psal. 59 b.  good at all prepare they william.   

3.  
All wild Bears/ & whining Swine unpure/  
All sliringe Wolves/ with their cruel Fierceness/  
And they that deride the lovely Nature/  
Andrea despise her Virtue/ with Wickedness/  
All that use no Reasonableness/  
Among those appear not/ nor their Company enure.   

4.  
Although they spoke all/ as with a 
d Math. 7. c.  lambs Tongue/  
And complained sore of their Let/  
So is it yet for themselves all sung/  
And you from the Law to pluck or fet/  
To their perverse Nature, their wicked Net/  
That is not done of the sheeps Young.   

5.  
Of the horrible 
e Dan. 9 e. 11. c Math. 24. b.  Desolation take you good heed/  
All wicked Beasts Lande-of-inheritaunce:  
And those which envy the loves Seed/  
They are planted into Offence and noyance/  
The 
f Esa. 30. b. jer. 7. c.  Good-thinkinge is their Plaisaunce/  
And Wickedness their Rejoicing indeed.   

6.  
Whoso from the loves Doctrine hath his Departing/  
And so himself doth teach with his Skill/  
Hath evermore a great Longing:  
But he 
g 2. Tim. 3.  remaineth as contrary still.  
And through his Good-thinking & perverse Will/  
He bideth captived therein everlasting.   

7.  
Of all these perils great and small/  
take-heed with all your Thought and Might/  
Have nothing common therewith at all.  
But 
h Psal. 1.2.  exercise you both Day and Night/  
In the Service of Love/ and by her Nation bright/  
Hold you alone, continually ye shall.   

8.  
Prince's/ if ye think to be above our Doctrine  
Yet exalt not your Hearts therein/ in anywise:  
But laud now the Lord/ with us in our Line.  
Make also no Variance/ hear my Devise/  
Grieve 
i Eccli. 3. b.  not your Elder with your Practice.  
Ne rob nothing from him at any time.    

The XXI. Song. Of the Manifestation or Declaring of the true Light of God and Christ in the family of Love, wherewith there are many good Instructions witnessed, which tend to the Love and to her joy and Peace.  

GOds Light will 
a Math. 5. b. Mark. 4.  hid no longer be/  
But riseth now most-cleere to see/  
And ⁏ from within; doth lighten Such/  
Whose Hearts/ Gods Love do favour much: do favour much.   

2.  
On 
b Math. 5. b. Luk. 8. 11. b.  Candlestick/ doth now God's Light/  
Stand ⁏ livingly; so firm and bright/  
In that mostblessed House of Love/  
That none can ever it ⁏ Thence; remove: it thence remove.   

3.  
Assemble ye plants ⁏ both High and Lo;/  
And to 
e Esa. 2. c 3 a. jere. 50.  the House of Love/ now go:  
For Therein may you Light comby/  
But never without the same truly: the same truly.   

4.  
Consider ⁏ in time; your great Misery/  
That ye all 
d Sap. 1. b. 16. c Apo. 3. b.  ⁏ living; are dead: for why/  
Not Life can ye get or obtain/  
But through the Love/ that is most plain: that is most plain.   

5.  
For/ without the Love/ 'tis a sure case/  
The Darkness ⁏ over-all; doth 
e 1. john. 1.  take the place:  
Also the Sects/ of Works most-fell/  
Respect the same now therefore well: now therefore well.   

6.  
In the Darkness ⁏ the Devils Lord & Head?  
They are still more-and-more/ in 
f jer. 5. c. 9 b.  Error lead/  
Which now contemn God's Love ⁏ so high;/  
Wherein they all releefles die: releefles die.   

7.  
God is therefore/ the 
g 1. john. 4.  love amorous/  
Which now ⁏ in Love; liveth so in us:  
And/ in all 
h Ephe. 4. Col. 3. b.  Concord/ to be vaunced high/  
That is ⁏ in Love; granted surely: granted surely.   

8.  
herewith in God/ joy we unlet/  
Love to enure/ is 
i Deut. 6. Math. 22. d. john. 13.15.  his Precept:  
Eke the fulfilling/ of God's Law unfeigned/  
Yea/ th'whole Scripture/ which Christ hath ordained: Christ hath ordained.   

9  
O Princes of God ⁏ both great and small;/  
Publish-fourth this Light/ now general/  
Which God ⁏ in Us; hath so expressed/  
The Livers in Love/ are surely blessed: are surely blessed.    

The XXX. Song. For to be sung with joy, of the Goodness of the Life, in the sweet New-yeare.  

THe Time is come even-now about/  
God hath his Work/ perfectly dight.  
Now 
a Esa. 25.67. Apo. 21.  taken is/ from us no-dout/  
Oppression all/ and Heartes-greefe quite.  
The 
b Agg. 1. b. Rom. 2.  Peace/ to us is given rife/  
All virtuous Love doth eke appear/  
All virtuous Love doth eke appear:  
Thereto 
c Math. 25. john. 6.17.  th'everlasting Life/  
all-in this lovely sweet New-year.   

2.  
Let each-one now behold and see/  
Gods Works/ and his Counsel good:  
Build now upon the Love/ al-free/  
Receive her holy Seed (to Food).  
Come you to 
d Rom. 12. 1. Cor. 12. c.  Christ-his Members/ so/  
Even in the House of Love/ most-cleere/  
Even in the House of Love/ most-cleere:  
Then shall ye live in Peace ⁏ from woe;/  
all-in this lovely sweet New-year.   

3.  
Keep now thy 
e Luk. 21.  Heart/ both fast and sure/  
⁏ Thou manly Generation still;  
From all Surmisinges-race/ unpure/  
Also from 
f Sapi. 1.  Cogitations ill:  
But print well in thy Mind/ this thing/  
The Life of the heavenly Company here/  
The Life of the heavenly Company here:  
And let that same/ be thy winning/  
all-in this lovely sweet New-year.   

4.  
Wheron-soever thou art bound/  
Wherein also thy Pleasure doth stand/  
Together with all thy sins/ unsound/  
Bring all that same/ in 
g Pro. 28. b. Eccl●. 4. c.  Th'elder's Band:  
So shalt thou live uncaptived best/  
In Peace/ without all peril and Fear/  
In Peace/ without all peril and Fear/  
And shalt ful-well 
h 4. Esd. 2. c. Math. 11. c  obtain the Rest/  
all-in this lovely sweet New-year.   

5.  
The worlds Variance 
i Rom. 16. b. Col. 2.  and chiding fell/  
Pluck thou that same/ in nocase on:  
The false Teacher's Drift and Counsel/  
Turn thou thine Ears/ alway therefrom:  
But ever bow you down ful-milde/  
And coupple you so to the Love/ right-deere/  
And coupple you so to the Love/ right-deere:  
Her Breasts to 
k Esa. 66. b.  suck ⁏ even as her Child;  
all-in this lovely sweet New-year.   

6.  
Ye Princes all/ wake now up ⁏ meet;/  
Laude God/ in 
l Psal. 105.  his great Acts ful-hie:  
Approach now to the Love, so sweet/  
Her 
m john. 6.  heavenly Bread/ taste presently:  
Receive her Gifts and great Goodness/  
In Thankesgeeving 
n 1. Cor. 10. Col. 3. b. / with Merie-cheere/  
In Thankesgeeving/ with Merie-cheere:  
So shall she you sustain/ doubtless/  
all-in this lovely sweet New-year.    

The XXXI. Song. For to be sung with joy, of the upright Godliness, which is come ⁏ from God-his Grace; unto the family of love.  

salvation/ Health/ & all Peace good/  
Luke and joy in the Life's Sweet-mood/  
Cometh unto them with Blessing/  
Which now 
a Deut. 10. c. 30. b. Math. 22. c.  with all their Hearts Blood/  
Aretina inclined to the lovely Being.   

2.  
Whoso letteth the same now appear/  
With the Deed/ out of the loves Doctrine here/  
Shall 
b john. 25. b.  keep the Love with Heart and Mind:  
And also follow her Counsel clear/  
And 
c Math. 24. c. john. 10. b. 17. c.  congregate him to her Kind.   

3.  
The right Doctrine of the Love pure/  
Is now taught out of Love plain and sure/  
With sweet Gain/ to every Nation/  
And is ministered now alone ⁏ to dure;  
Out of the loves Congregation.   

4.  
There came to the World never greater Light/  
Then Christ's 
d Rom. 13. b. 1. Cor. 13. a.  Love/ with his clear Sight/  
Let yourselves therein be taught ⁏ freely;.  
In Christ's 
e Col. 3. b.  Peace become edified right/  
And in the same do ye multiply.   

5.  
These are ⁏ doubtless; Gods 
f Gen. 17.21. b.  Promises fine/  
Which are promised to Israel's Line/  
To our releasing now thereby/  
That we in the loves bright 
g Mal. 4. a.  Sunshine/  
Might be blessed everlastingly.   

6.  
Not sweeter Nature nor better 
h Sap. 3.5. a. Heb. 3.4. a.  Rest/  
Then is to Us now out of Love expressed/  
For to live always therein well.  
Go-fourth therein now unmolest/  
And tremble no more for the Evil.   

7.  
From this same 
i Pro. 1.2. a. 3.4. a. 1. Tim. 1. a.  Doctrine by you inlargeed/  
Wherein ye can become prepareed/  
Do not in any case 
k 2. Tim. 3. b.  parte-awaye:  
Regard not also an others Deed/  
So can noman then lead you astray.   

8.  
Become comforted in the God of Might/  
Be diligent in this Purpose right/  
With virtuous Manners good and gay:  
Work now with Us in the Harvest insight/  
But mind ˡ to hallow God's Sabbath alway.   

9  
When the six Days accomplished be/  
With your Works/ according to God's Decree/  
Then cometh with Honour truly/  
⁏ For to sanctify with all Might free;  
The great 
m Esa. 66. c.  Sabbath of the Lord most-hye.   

10.  
O Princes of God/ without Fear quite/  
Love all what God now doth bear with Might/  
Mind not to shrink from these Ways.  
For the loves 
n Psal. 118. c.  Day which pleaseth God aright/  
Will shine about Us now in all Days.    

A Rondell of HN.  
IN our Service/ with this Work present/  
We serve the Man to Love and Peace rife:  
For Love and Peace is our fundament.  
In our Service/ with this Work present/  
We have turned us to the Man ⁏ out of good Intent;  
With the Love/ 
* Tob. 4. Math. 7.  even as we would be done to ⁏ with out strife;  
In our Service/ with this Work present/  
We serve the Man to Love and Peace rife/  
And wish him then thereto/ the everlasting Life.  CHARITAS EXTORSIT PER HN.  

A GIRDELL.  
WHen Life and Truth/ in Heart are pure/  
And love al-prest/ to take their part/  
Girt-fast with Faith and justice sure/  
To work ⁏ in Man; Redress of heart:  
Whereby all Good/ in Unity/  
Might ⁏ flourishinglie; in Peace beare-swaye/  
And Sin ⁏ therethrough; away to fly/  
To God's due Praise/ in Man/ that day:  
How happy shall he then be found/  
That so girt is/ in seemlie-guyse/  
With such a girdle of Virtues sound/  
Wher-ever he cometh among the wise.  
But 

Bear it,, and wear it,, ever.  
Tear it,, ne pear it,, never.     
Now goeth the judgement over the World: Now becometh the Prince of this World cast-out. john. 12. 
 allegorical depiction of the Lamb of God destroying sin 
The Way the Truth and the Life.  
VICTORIA  
sin..   Now is the Salvation/ the Power/ and the Kingdom/ become our Gods: and the Might his Christ's. Apoca. 12.