IDENTILIN$$ F152B14|Henry|BL Add. MS 27407|ff. 154-55|Proofed TLP 1/6/89 152.B14.0HEom 152.B14.001 Looke to mee Fayth And looke to my Fayth God [154] 152.B14.002 For both my Centers have this Period. 152.B14.003 Of waight one Center, one of Greatness is. 152.B14.004 And reason is that Center, Fayth is this 152.B14.005 For into o%5r%6 Reason flow & there doe end 152.B14.006 All y%5t%6 this naturall world doth comprehend. 152.B14.007 Quotidian thinges, & equidistant hence 152.B14.008 Shutt in for Man in one Circumference. 152.B14.009 But for the enormous Greatnesses w%5c%6h are 152.B14.010 So disproportion'd & so singular: 152.B14.011 As is God's Essence, Place, & Providence 152.B14.012 Where, how, when, what, Soules doe departed hence 152.B14.013 These thinges (Eccentrique els) on Faith doe Shike 152.B14.014 Yet neyther all nor vppon all alike. 152.B14.015 For Reason putt to her best Extension 152.B14.016 Allmost meetes Faith & make one Centures one 152.B14.017 And nothing ever came so nere as this 152.B14.018 As contemplatinge of y%5t%6 Prince wee miss 152.B14.019 For all y%5t%6 Faith might creditt Mankind could, 152.B14.020 Reason still seconded y%5t%6 this Prince would. 152.B14.021 If then least moving of the Center make 152.B14.022 (More then if whole Hell be led) the world to shake 152.B14.023 What must this doe Centers distracted so 152.B14.024 That wee see not what to beleve or know 152.B14.025 Was it** not well beleev'd till now that hee 152.B14.026 Whose Reputation was an Extasie 152.B14.027 On Neighbour states who knew >not< why to wake 152.B14.028 Till he discover'd what was he would Take 152.B14.029 For whom what Princes angled when they tryed 152.B14.030 Mett a Torpedo & were stupified. 152.B14.031 And others studyes how he would be bent 152.B14.032 Was his great Fathers greatest Instrument. 152.B14.033 And a#divest spiritt to convay & ty 152.B14.034 This Soule of Peace through Christianity. 152.B14.035 Was it not well beleev'd that he would make [154v] 152.B14.036 This generall Peace th'Eternall overtake 152.B14.037 And y%5t%6 his Times might have stretch'd out so farre 152.B14.038 As to touch those of w%5c%6h they Emblemes are 152.B14.039 And to confirme y%5t%6 iust beleefe y%5t%6 now 152.B14.040 The last Dayes came we say Heav'n did allow 152.B14.041 That but from this Aspect & exercise 152.B14.042 In peacefull Times Rumors of warres did rise 152.B14.043 But now this Fayth is Heresy. Wee must 152.B14.044 Still stay & vexe our Great Grandmother Dust 152.B14.045 Oh is God Prodigall & hath he spent his store 152.B14.046 Of Plaugues on vs & onely now when more 152.B14.047 Would ease vs much doth he Grudge Misery 152.B14.048 And will not letts enioy our Course to dye 152.B14.049 As For Earth throwen lowest downe of all 152.B14.050 T'were an Ambitio%M to desire to fall. 152.B14.051 So God in our desire to dye doth know 152.B14.052 Our Plott for ease in beeing wretched so 152.B14.053 Therefore wee live though such a life we have 152.B14.054 As but so many Mandrakes in his Grave 152.B14.055 What had his Growth & Generatio%M done 152.B14.056 When what wee are his Putrefaction 152.B14.057 Sustaines in vs Earth w%5c%6h Greefes animate. 152.B14.058 Nor hath our %YSoule%Z World now other Soule then that 152.B14.059 And could Greefe gett so high as heaven that Quire 152.B14.060 Forgetting this their new Ioy, would desire 152.B14.061 (W%5t%6h Greefe to see him) he had stayed below 152.B14.062 To re'dify our Errors they foreknow. 152.B14.063 Is the other Center Reason faster then? 152.B14.064 Where should we looke for that now w'are not men? 152.B14.065 For if our Reason bee our Connexion 152.B14.066 Of Causes Now to vs there can be none 152.B14.067 For as if all the Substances were spent [155] 152.B14.068 T'were madnes to enquire of Accident 152.B14.069 So is't to looke for Reason he being gone 152.B14.070 The only Subiect Reason wrought vppon 152.B14.071 If Fate have such a Chayne whose diverse linkes 152.B14.072 Industrious man discerneth as he thinkes 152.B14.073 When miracle dot[missing] Come & so steale in 152.B14.074 And->>A< new linke M[missing] knowes not where to begin. 152.B14.075 At a much deader fault must Reason bee 152.B14.076 Death having broke of such a linke as hee. 152.B14.077 But now for vs w%5t%6h busy proofe to come 152.B14.078 That wee have no reason would prove y%5t%6 wee had some 152.B14.079 So would iust lamentations Therefore wee 152.B14.080 May saflyer say y%5t%6 wee are dead then hee 152.B14.081 So if our grefes wee doe not well declare 152.B14.082 Wee have double excuse He is not dead & wee are 152.B14.083 Yet I would not dy yet for though I %Ydoe%Z->bee 152.B14.084 To morrow to thinke him as he is he 152.B14.085 Our selves->soulves best Bayling & midd Period 152.B14.086 In her long iourney of Considering God 152.B14.087 Yet (no dishonour) I can reach him thus 152.B14.088 As he embrac'd the Fire of Love w%5t%6h vs 152.B14.089 Oh! may I (since I live) but see or heare 152.B14.090 That shee Intelligence y%5t%6 mov'd this Spheare 152.B14.091 I pardon Fate my life who ever thou bee 152.B14.092 Who hast the Noble Conscience thou art shee 152.B14.093 I coniure by all the Charmes he spoke 152.B14.094 By th'oathes w%5c%6h only you two never broke 152.B14.095 By all the Soules you sighd That if you see 152.B14.096 These lines you wish I knew your History 152.B14.097 So much as you two mutuall heavens were here 152.B14.098 I were an Angell singing what you were 152.B14.0SSom 152.B14.0$$ Mutilations in ll. 73 and 74 affecting text.