IDENTILIN$$  F18900D|Tilman|1649 ed.|pp. 349-50\JSC\cd(MH)\2-26-02\P:EWS\o(MH)\7-29-02\C:JSC\9-16-02\P&C:MEL\(TxAM)\1-24-07
189.00D.HE1  %X%1To M%2%5r%6 Tilman %1after he had taken Orders%2.
189.00D.001  T%+Hou, whose diviner soule hath caus'd thee now                                      
189.00D.002  To put thy hand unto the holy Plough,
189.00D.003  Making Lay-scornings of the Ministry,
189.00D.004  Not an impediment, but victory;
189.00D.005  What bringst thou home with thee? how is thy mind
189.00D.006  Affected since the vintage? Dost thou finde
189.00D.007  New thoughts and stirrings in thee? and as Steel
189.00D.008  Toucht with a Loadstone, dost new motions feel?
189.00D.009  Or, as a ship after much paine and care,
189.00D.010  For Iron and Cloth brings home rich Indian ware,
189.00D.011  Hast thou thus traffiqu'd, but with farre more gaine
189.00D.012  Of noble goods, and with lesse time and paine?
189.00D.013  Thou art the same materials, as before,
189.00D.014  Onely the stamp is changed; but no more.
189.00D.015  And as new crowned Kings alter the face,
189.00D.016  But not the monies substance; so hath grace
189.00D.017  Chang'd onely Gods old Image by Creation,
189.00D.018  To Christs new stamp, at this thy Coronation;
189.00D.019  Or, as we paint Angels with wings, because
189.00D.020  They beare Gods message and proclaime his lawes,
189.00D.021  Since thou must doe the like, and so must move,
189.00D.022  Art thou new feather'd with coe%Llestiall love?
189.00D.023  Deare, tell me where thy purchase lies, and shew
189.00D.024  What thy advantage is above, below;
189.00D.025  But if thy gainings do surmount expression,
189.00D.026  Why doth the foolish world scorne that profession, [CW:Whose]
189.00D.027  Whose joyes passe speech? Why do they think unfit [p.350]
189.00D.028  That Gentry should joyne families with it%1?%2
189.00D.029  As if their day were onely to be spent
189.00D.030  In dressing, Mistressing and complement;
189.00D.031  Alas poore joyes, but poorer men, whose trust
189.00D.032  Seemes richly placed in sublimed dust#!
189.00D.033  %1(%2For, such are cloathes and beauty, which though \(gay,
189.00D.034  Are, at the best, but of sublimed clay%1)%2
189.00D.035  Let then the world thy calling disrespect,
189.00D.036  But goe thou on, and pity their neglect.
189.00D.037  What function is so noble as to be
189.00D.038  Embassed#our[sic] to God, and destinie?
189.00D.039  To open life, to give kingdomes to more
189.00D.040  Than Kings give dignities; to keep heavens doore?
189.00D.041  %1Maries%2 prerogative was to beare Christ, so
189.00D.042  'Tis preachers to convey him; for they do
189.00D.043  As Angels out of clouds, from Pulpits speake;
189.00D.044  And blesse the poore beneath, the lame, the weake.
189.00D.045  If then th' Astronomers, whereas they spie
189.00D.046  A new-found Starre, their Opticks magnifie,
189.00D.047  How brave are those, who with their Engine, can
189.00D.048  Bring man to heaven, and heaven againe to man?
189.00D.049  These are thy titles and preheminences,
189.00D.050  In whom must meet Gods graces, mens offences,
189.00D.051  And so the heavens which beget all things here,
189.00D.052  And the earth our mother, which these things doth /%1(%2beare,
189.00D.053  Both these in thee are in thy calling knit,
189.00D.054  And make thee now a blest Hermaphrodite.
189.00D.0SS  [om]
189.00D.0$$  No ind; no sts; running HE is "%1Divine Poems%2." ("%1Poems%2." on versos); MH vol. photographed 
for cd has "%JIewett.%K" hand written near top R corner of title pg, & "Harvard College Library / Norton 
Collection / May 4, 1905." stamped on it's verso; MH vol. proofed in the orig. = *EC. D7187. 633 pd