Robert Wild and Katherine Sutton From English Nonconformist Poetry

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ROBERT WILD,A POEM UPON HEIMPRI SONMEN OF MR . CALAMY IN

NEWGAE(1663) AND ON HE DEAH OF MRCALAMY(1667)

Date

A Poem Upon the Imprisonment o Mr. Calamy in Newgatewas rst published in1663. Calamy was imprisoned on 6 January 1663 and a warrant or his release

was issued on 13 January. Te poem reers to this imprisonment, and it is likelythat it was composed during this period. It has been miscatalogued as rst being

published in 1662.On the Death o Mr Calamywas rst published in 1667. Calamy died on 29

October 1666, but as the poem starts with the claim that this was Not known

to the Author o a long time aer it is not possible to establish the time o itscomposition with any more precision (R. Wild,A Poem Upon the Imprisonmento Mr. Calamy in Newgate, below p. 185).

Copy ext

A Poem Upon the Imprisonment o Mr. Calamy in Newgate: W2146 RobertWild,A poem vpon the imprisonment o Mr. Calamy in Nevvgate. ([London]:s.n., [1663]). Broadside.

On the Death o Mr Calamy: W2144 Robert Wild, On the death o Mr Calamy,not known to the author o a long time aer (London: s.n., 1667). Broadside.Tis edition has also been assigned the Wing ghost number P2691.

Variants

A Poem Upon the Imprisonment o Mr. Calamy in Newgate: the variants collectedare: W2146A Robert Wild, A poem upon the imprisonment o Mr. Calamy in

Newgate ([London]: s.n., [1663]); W2136 Robert Wild,Iter Boreale, with largeadditions o several other poems being an exact collection o all hitherto extant. neverbeore published together(London: s.n., 1668); W2136A Robert Wild,Iter Bore-


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ale. With large additions o several other poems being an exact collection o all hithertoextant(London: s.n., 1668); W2137 (ESC R15239) Robert Wild,Iter Boreale,with large additions o several other poems being an exact collection o all hithertoextant(London: John Williams, 1670); W2137 (ESC R234498) Robert Wild,

Iter Boreale, with large additions o several other poems being an exact collection o allhitherto extant(London: John Williams, 1670); W2138 Robert Wild,Iter Bore-

ale. With other select poems: being an exact collection o all hitherto extant. And someadded: never printed beore this year(London: R. R. and W. C., 1671); W2139Robert Wild, Iter Boreale, with large additions o several other poems being an exactcollection o all hitherto extant(London: John Williams, 1674).

On the Death o Mr Calamy: the variants collated are: W2136 Robert Wild,Iter Boreale, with large additions o several other poems being an exact collection oall hitherto extant. never beore published together(London: s.n., 1668); W2136ARobert Wild, Iter Boreale. With large additions o several other poems being

an exact collection o all hitherto extant(London: s.n., 1668); W2137 (ESCR15239) Robert Wild, Iter Boreale, with large additions o several other poemsbeing an exact collection o all hitherto extant (London: John Williams, 1670);

W2137 (ESC R234498) Robert Wild,Iter Boreale, with large additions o sev-eral other poems being an exact collection o all hitherto extant (London: John

Williams, 1670); W2138 Robert Wild, Iter Boreale. With other select poems:being an exact collection o all hitherto extant. And some added: never printedbeore this year (London: R. R. and W. C., 1671); W2139 Robert Wild, Iter

Boreale, with large additions o several other poems being an exact collection o allhitherto extant(London: John Williams, 1674).

Context

Edmund Calamy (160066) was a leading Presbyterian. From 1639 he wasminster o St Mary Aldermanbury, London. One o those who launched theattack on the liturgy and church government, under the name Smectymnuus,in the early 1640s, Calamy sat on the Westminster Assembly and became presi-dent o the key London Presbyterian institution, Sion College, in 1650. He washorried by the regicide, but maintained his ministry through the 1650s. In1651 he preached at Christopher Loves uneral. Aer Oliver Cromwells death,Calamy did proess his support or Richard Cromwell, but as the events o 1659

unolded he came to believe in the necessity o the Restoration. In January 1660George Morley, at Edward Hydes behest, met with Calamy to obtain Presby-terian support or the Royal cause. In February the man who would eventually

play a greater role than anyone in the return o the king, General George Monck,appointed Calamy as a chaplain. On 11 May Calamy along with other leadingPresbyterians went to the Netherlands and met with Charles II, and were seem-ingly convinced by Charless claims that he wanted them to be comprehended


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within the national church. Following Charless return Calamy was appointedas one o his chaplains-in-ordinary, and in the attempts to orge a broad churchsettlement he was ofered the bishopric o Coventry and Licheld, which heturned down. He participated in the Savoy House conerence, but to no avail.He was ejected under the terms o the Act o Uniormity in 1662, preachinghis arewell sermon on 2 Samuel 24:14 on 17 August. On 28 December, seem-ingly when the minister ailed to arrive, Calamy preached once more in St MaryAldermanbury. As a result he was arrested on 6 January 1663 and imprisoned inNewgate. A warrant or his release was issued on 13 January, aer Richard Baxterhad appealed to the king. WildsA Poem Upon the Imprisonment o Mr. Calamyin Newgate ocuses on this imprisonment, and was a constituent o the outpour-ing o public support or Calamy which was evident at this time. Wilds poembred a large related literature in verse, largely comprised o hostile responses. 1Following his release, Calamy was said to have continued preaching on Sundaysin his home, and organizing asts. He also played a role in distributing monetaryaid to ejected nonconormist clergy. He was deeply shaken by the Great Fire in1666, and he died on 29 October o that year.2

Sources

In On the Death o Mr CalamyWild drew details rom contemporary issues othe bi-weekly o cial newspaper, theLondon Gazette, and satirized its contents(see R. Wild, On the Death o Mr Calamy, below p. 317, n. 4).

Notes1. See An Answer to Wild (London: s.n., 1663?); Hudibras on Calamys Imprisonment

([London: s.n., 1663]); A Hymne to the Ark in Newgate (London: s.n., 1663); On theAnswer to Dr. Wilds Poem (London: R.B., 1663);A Sovereign Remedy or the Presbyteri-ans Maladie ([London: s.n., 1663]); L. Womock,Anti-Boreale ([London?: s.n., 1663?]),sigs A2r-A4v..

2. For this paragraph see S. Achinstein, Edmund Calamy, ODNB; R. L. Greaves, Saintsand Rebels: Seven Nonconormists in Stuart England(Macon, Ga: Mercer UniversityPress, 1985), ch. 1; E. Calamy, Eli rembling or Fear o the Ark (Oxord: s.n., 1663);

Master Calamies Leading Case (London: s.n., 1663). For more on the Christopher Lovecase and the events o 1659-60, see above p. 18.


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A POEMVPON THE

Imprisonment of Mr. Calamy in Newgate.a1

ByRobert WildD.D. Author o the lateIter Boreale.b

His Page I send you Sir, yourNewgate FateNot to condole, but to congratulate.I envy not our Mitred men, their Places,2

Teir rich Preerments, nor their richerFaces:o see them Steeple upon Steeple set,As i they meant that way to Heaven to get.c3

I can behold them take into their GillsA dose o Churches, as men swallow Pills,And never grieve at it: Let them swim in Wine

Whilstd others drown in tears, Ile not repine.

But my heart truly grudges (I coness)Tat you thus loaded are with happiness;For so it is: And you more blessed areInPeters Chain, than i you sete ins Chair.4

One Sermon hath preerrd you so much Honor

A man could scarce have had romBishop Bonner;5

Whilst We (your Brethren) poor Erraticks be,You are a glorious xed Star we see,Hundreds o us turn out o House and Home;6

o a sae Habitation you are come.What though it be a Gaol? Shame and DisgraceRise only rom the Crime, not rom the place.

Who thinks reproach or injurygis doneBy an Eclipse to the unspotted Sun?He only by that black upon his browAllures spectators more; and so do you.Let me nd Honey, though upon a Rod;7

And prize the Prison, where myh Keepers God:Newgate orHellwereHeaven i Christ were there;He made the Stable so, and Sepulchre.


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Indeed the place did or your presence call;Prisons do want peruming most o all.Tanks to the Bishop8 and his good Lord Mayor,9

Who turnd the Den o Tieves into a House o Prayer:And may some Tie by you converted be,Like him who suferd in Christs company.10

Now would I had sight o your Mittimus;11

Fain would I know why you are dealt with thus.Jaylor set orth your Prisoner at the Bar:Sir, you shall heara what your ofences are.

First, It is provd that you being dead in Law,(As i you car d not or that death a straw)

Did walk and haunt your Church, as i yould scareb

Away the Reader and his Common-Prayer.Nay twill be provd you did not only walk,But like aPuritan your Ghost did talk.Dead, and yet preach! TesePresbyterian slaves

Will not give over preaching in their Graves.12

Item, You playd the Tie; and i t be so,Good reason (Sir) toNewgate you shouldc go:And now youre there, some dare to swear you areTe greatest Pickpocket that ere came there:Your Wie too, little better than your sel you make,She isd the Receiver o each Purse you take.But your great Te, you act it in your Church,(I do not mean you did your Sermon lurch,

Tats crime Canonical) but you did prayAnd preach, so that you stole mens hearts away:So that good man to whom your place doth all, 13

Will nd they have no heart or him at all:Tis Felony deser vd Imprisonment;

What cant youNonconormiste be contentSermons to make, except you preach them too?Tey that your places have, this Work cant do.Tirdly, is provd, when you pray most devoutFor all good men, you leave the Bishops out:Tis makes Seer Sheldon by his powerul spellConjure and lay you sae inNewgate-hell:14

Would I were there too, I should like it well.

I would you durst swa

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punishment with me;Pain makes me tter or the companyO roaring boys, and you may lie ah bed,Now your Names up; pray do it in my stead:And i it be denyd us to change places,Let us or sympathy compare our cases;For i in sufering we both agree,


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Wild, A Poem Upon the Imprisonment o Mr. Calamy 183

Sir, I may challenge you to pity me:I am the older Gaol-bird; my hard ateHath kept me twenty years in Cripple-Gate;15

OldBishop Gout,16 that Lordly proud disease,ook my at body or his Diocess,

Where he keeps Court, there visits every Limb,And makes them (Levite-like)17 conorm to him;Severely he doth Article each joint,And makes enquiry into every point:A bitter Enemy to preaching; heHath hal a year sometimes suspended me:And i he nd me painul in my station,

Down I am sure to go next Visitation:He binds up, looseth, sets up and pulls down;Pretends he draws illa humors rom the Crown:But I am sure he maketh such ado,His humors trouble Head and Members too:He hath me now in hand, and ere he goes,I ear orHereticks hele burn my toes.O! I would give all I am worth, a ee,Tat rom his jurisdiction I were ree.18

Now Sir, you nd our suferings do agree,One Bishop clapt up you, another me:But oh! the diference too is very great,You are allowd to walk, and drink,b and eat:

I want them all, and never a penny get:And though you be debarrd your liberty,Yet all your Visitors I hope are ree,Good men, good women, and good Angels come,And make your Prison better than your home.19

Now may it be so till your oes repentTey gave you such a rich imprisonment.May or the greater comort o your lives,Your lying in be better than your Wives.May you a thousand riendly papers see,And none prove empty except this rom me.And i you stay, may I come keep your door;Ten arwel Parsonage, I shall nere be poor.

FINIS.


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ON THEDeath of Mr Calamy,1

Not known to the Author of a long time after.a

ANd must our Deaths be silencd too! I guessis some dumb Devil hath possest the Press;Calamy dead without a Publication!is great injustice to ourEnglish Nation:For had this Prophets Funeral been known,It must have had an Universal Groan; 2

A ictedLondon would then have been oundIn the same year to be both burnd3 and drownd;And those who ound no ears their ames to quench,

Would yet have wept a Showre, his Herse to drench.Methinks the Man who stufs the Weekly Sheet,

With ne New-Nothings, what hard Names did meet.

4

Te Empress, how her Petticoat was lacd,And how her Lacquyes Liveries were acd;5

Whats her chie Womans Name;6 what Dons do bringAlmonds and Figs to Spains great little King:7

Is much concernd i the Popes oe but akes,When he breaks Wind, and when a Purge he takes;He who can gravely advertise, and tell

WhereLockierandRowland Pippin dwell;8

Where a Black-Box orb Green-Bag was lost;9

And who was Knighted, though not what it cost:10

Methinks he might have thought it worth the while,Tough not to tell us who the State beguile,Or what new ConquestEnglandhath acquired;

Nor that poor rie who the City red;Tough notc how Popery exalts its head,And Priests and Jesuits their poyson spread;11

Yet in swoln Characters he might let y,Te Presbyterians have lost an Eye.Had Crack sd Fiddle been in tune, (but heIs now a Silencd Man as well as We)12


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He had struck up loud Musick, and had playdA Jig or joy that Calamy was laid;He would have told how many Coaches went;How many Lords and Ladies did lament;

What Handkerchies were sent, and in them Goldo wipe the Widows eyes,a he would have told;All had come out, and we beholden allo him, or the oreowing o his gall.

But why do I thus Rant without a cause?Is not Concealment Policy? whose LawsMy silly peevish Muse doth ill topposeFor publick Losses no Man should disclose;

And such was this, a greater loss by ar,One Man o God then twenty Men o War;It was a King, who when a Prophet dyd.

Wept over him, and Father, Father cryd.O i thy Lie and Ministry be doneMy Chariots and Horsemen,b strength is gone.13

I must speak sober words, or well I knowI Saints in Heaven do hear us here below,A lye, though in his Praise, would make him rown,And chide me when withJesus he comes downo judge the World. Tis little little He,Tis silly, sickly, silencd Calamy,

Aldermanburys Curate, and no more,Tough he a mighty Miter might have wore,14

Could have vid Interest in God or Man,With the most pompous Metropolitan:How have we known him captivate a throng,And madec a Sermon twenty thousand strong;15

And though black-mouths his Loyalty did charge,How strong his tug was at the Royal Barge,o hale it home, great GEORGEcan well attest,16

Ten when poor Prelacy lay dead in itsd nest;For i a Collect could not etch him home,Charles must stay out, thate Interest was mum.17

Nor did Ambition o a Miter, makeHim serve the Crown, it was or Conscience sake.Unbribd Loyalty! his highest reach

Was to be Master Calamy, and preach.He blessd the King, who Bishop him did name,And I bless him who did reuse the same.O! had our Reverend Clergy been as reeo serve their Prince without Reward, as he,Tey might have had less Wealth with greater love:Envy, like Winds, endangers things above;

Worth, not Advancement, doth beget esteem.


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On the Death o Mr Calamy 187

Te highest Weathercock the least doth seem.I you would know o what disease he dyd,His grie was Chronical it is replyd.For had he opened been by Surgeons art,Tey had oundLondon burning in his heart;18

How many Messengers o death did heReceive with Christian Magnanimity!Te Stone, Gout, Dropsie, Ills, which did ariseFroma Gries and Studies, not rom Luxuries;Te Megrim19 too which still strikes at the Head,Tese He stood under, and scarce staggeredMight he but work, though loaded with these Chains,

He Prayd and Preachd, and sung away his pains;Ten by a atal Bill20 he was struck dead,And though that blow he nere recovered,(For he remained speechless to his close)Yet did he breath, and breath out Prayers or thoseFrom whom he had that wound: he livd to hearAn Hundred thousand buried in one year21

In hisb Dear City, over which he wept,And many Fasts to keep of Judgments, kept;Yet, yet he livd, stout heart he liv d, to beDeprivd, driven out,c keptd out, livd to see

Wars, Blazing-Stars,22 orches which Heaven nere burns,But to light Kings or Kingdoms to theire Urns.He lived to see the Glory o our Isle,

London consumed in its Funeral pile.He livd to see that lesser day o Doom,

London, the Priests Burnt-sacrice toRome;Tat blow he could not stand, but with that reAs with a Burning Fever did expire.23

Tus dyd this Saint, o whom it must be said,He dyd a Martyr, though he dyd ins bed.So FatherEly in the Sacred pageSat quivering with ear as much as age,Longing to know, yet loth to ask the NewsHow it ard with the Army o theJews.

Israelies, that struck his Palsie-head,Te next blow stunned him, Your Sons are dead;But when the third stroke came, Te Ark is lost,

His heart was wounded, and his lie it cost.24Tus ell this Father, and we well do know

He eard our Ark was going long ago.25


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Te EPIAPHHere a poor Minister o Christ doth lie,Who didINDEED a Bishoprick deny.When his Lord comes, then, then, the World shall seeSuch humble Ones, the rising-Men shall be:

How many Saints whom he had sent beore,Shouted to see him enter Heavens door:Tere his blest Soul beholds the ace o God,While we below groan outa ourIchabod:26

Vnder his burned-Church his Body lies,27

But shall it sel a glorious emple rise;May his kind ock when a new Church they make,

Call it St. Edmundsbury or his sake.

London, Printed in the Year 1667.b

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Despite the act that these songs were published in an autobiographical workit is di cult to adduce specic contexts or many o them. Te two songs thatmight be dated with some precision (Come home, come home and ZION is Gods

precious plant) may be read as orming part o the millenarian literature that criti-cized the Protectoral government o Oliver Cromwell.

Sources

Unsurprisingly the main source or Suttons songs is scripture. Te ourth song(AFictions are not om the dust) is shaped particularly by her reading o Job,and the h (ZION is Gods precious plant) draws heavily on Isaiah.

Notes1. See K. Sutton,A Christian Womans Experiences (Rotterdam: printed by Henry God-

daeus, 1663), p. 13. Although it is possible that this is an old-style date, and should thusbe altered to February 1656, there is reason to believe that Sutton was using new-styledating. Later in her work she claimed:

Te most large measure o the spirit o prophesy was upon mee at two particulartimes, the one in the year one thousand six hundred and y ve.

And the other in the year 1658. but at many times God was pleased to giveme much o the spirit o prayer and praise.

See Sutton, A Christian Womans Experiences, p. 22. I she only started to prophesy inFebruary 1655 old style then the period o prophesying in 1655 she reerred to here

would have lasted or very little time. Nigel Smith also dates the start o Suttons proph-esying to February 1655 new style: see N. Smith,Perection Proclaimed: Language and

Literature in English Radical Religion (Oxord: Clarendon Press, 1989), p. 332.2. Sutton,A Christian Womans Experiences, p. 22. See also ODNB.3. Sutton, A Christian Womans Experiences, sigs *1v*2v. I owe much o the thinking

behind this point to my old student Hannah Smith.


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rom K. Sutton,A Christian Womans Experiences othe Glorious Working o Gods Free Grace Rotterdam:

printed by Henry Goddus, 1663.

Come home, come home, thy work is done,My glory thou shalt see;1

Let all the meek ones o the earth2

Come home along with thee.Cast o the world, it is too base

And low or thee to dwell;I have redeemd thee om the pit,And lowest place o Hell. 3

Admire, admire my love to thee,VVhich took thee om so low,

And set thee in high places ee,

VVhere thou my love mightst knowVVing thou alo, and cast thy selInto mine Arms o love;Look up, look up, and thou shalt seeMy glory is above.4

Let not the wicked know thy joy:But let my servants hearVVhat I have done or thee my love,Since thou to mee drewst near.

My servants walk in clouds and boggs,Tey do not see my light:Te day draws near, and will appear,Tat I will shine most bright.

I will appear in my glory, and be a perect light.

Admire, admire, the thing that I will do,All nations shall it hear, and knowVVhat I am doing now.

I will a habitation be5

o them that ear my name;Tey shall lie down in say,6 andGive glory to the same.

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And takes their honours low,Shall be made tremble, quake, and pine,VVhen they my Iustice know. 7

Come hide, come hide, come hide with me,Come hide thee in the Rock;Come draw thy Comorts high om mee,

I my treasures unlock.8

As I was waiting on the Lord, in that Ordinance o the Lords Supper, this ol-lowing short Hymne was immediately given in.

O Now my soul go orth with praise,For God excepteth thee alwayes;

Ty lie is bound up now in mee,My precious death hath set thee ee.

2. Tis estimony I thee give,As this bread was broaken, so was I,Tat thou in mee mightest never dye:My blood doth justiy the same,Tat thou mayest praise my holy Name. 9

3. My Covenant I have made with thee,So that thou art now whole set ee:Sin nor Sathan cannot thee charge,

Because my love hath thee inlargd,So sure as I am plast above,So sure art thou now o my love.10

Your waiting shall be upon me, till I your souls hath lled; and in the way orighteousness you shall be made to yeeld.

Another time I having been waiting on the Lord in breaking bread: And soonaer was given in this ollowing.

HE Spring is come the dead is gone,Sweet streams o love doth ow:Tere is a Rock, that you must knock,

From whence these stream do go.11

2. Te Banquets set, the King is come,o entertain his Guest:12

All that are weary o their sins,He waites to give them rest.

3. Ten come, and take your fll o love,Heres joy enough or all,o see our King so richly clad,

And give so loud a call.4.Heres Wine without money or price:

Heres milk to nurish babes:You may come to this banquet now,

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5. Ten comort you your selves in him;is sweet to see his love,hat they, that are redeemed by him,May live so ee above.

And while the a icting hand o God was upon mee in some measure, this ol-lowing was given in one evening, as a song o instruction.

AFictions are not om the dust,13

Nor are they in vain sent:But they shall work the work o him,hat is most nobly Bent.

2. hen let thine eyes look upon him,Which worketh in the dark;14

And let thine heart imbrace his love,Least thou om him shouldst start.

3.Although thou canst not see his work,Yet waite on him with joy;

For none shall hinder now his work,Nor none shall him Anoy. 15

4. Tou must be willing to take upTe cro, to ollow him,16

And waite till he will make his cup,o ow up to the brim.

5. Seeing thou art now called untoTe purpose o his will,

Let not a ictions trouble thee,Believe, and stand thou still.17

6.I that the Lord did not thee love,He would not this pains take,o let thee see his grace in thee,

And also thee awake.7.It scowers away the droe om thee,

And takes away thy tinne:18

It makes thy soul ft or to hearTe voice o thy sweet King.

8.It makes the soul arther to knowTe Sonship o his grace;

And weanes the soul om things below,Tat it may seek his ace.19

9.It puts the wise to see his work,And puts him in the way,Tat he may orthwith seek the Lord,Without urther delay.

10.It mak s him now resolve uponObedience to his grace;20

And watchul in the way he goes,Tat he may seek his ace.


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11.It makes him look or strenght om God,o heale his sliding back:21

It makes him look up to the Rock,For that vvhich he doe lack.

Tis was November the 20. in the Year 1656.

ZION is Gods precious plant,Te Lord vvill vvatter it every day:22

O!Zion is Gods holy one,It shall not vvhet her nor decay.

2. Zion is that enced vvell,

A ovver that none shall throvv dov n:23

O!Zion is that glorious hold,Tat God vvill keep both sae and sovvnd.

3. Zion is that pleasant Plant,24

Tat God vvill hedg about each hour;O!Zion is Gods heritage,

And he vvill keep it by his povver.25

4. Tereore let not thy heart novv aint,ForZions sake hold not thy peace;For our God vvill hearZions Plaint;Tereore give thy God novv no rest,ill thou vvith Zion he hath blest.26

5.LetZion knovv her time dravves near,

She may look up novv vvithout ear:LetZion knovv her God doth live,Tat hath her portion or to give.

6.LetZions Children novv rejoyce,And let them praises sing:O! let them li up pleasant voyce,

In honner to their King.27

7.LetZion knovv her God is true,Tat vvill her mercies novv renevv,28

She shall receive great things om him,Who is her glory, and her King.

8.Althoug a ictions should hold on,And troubles should arise;

Yet God vvill ovvn his precious one,Teir prayers heell not despise.29

9. Our King shall reigne in righteousness,His glory shall shine orth;He vvill come orth in Iudgment then,For his poor saints comort.31

[ For the conrmation hereo do ye mind these two ScripturesEsai. 45: 13. andPsalm 89:19.30]


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10. Our King shall reigne in glory then,He shall himsel come up,His ennemies then shall all vvith speedAnd be made but a pu.32

11. Ten let my people quiet sit,And vvait on him vvith joy;Tere is a time dravves near at hand,

Nothing shall them Anoy.

HE poor then o the ock shall fnd a rest;And I their God, and portion, will them bless:And they shall to me or a reuge y,

And I will be their helpe continually.2. Ten shall their souls alone in mee rejoyce,Tat I have made o them my onely choyce;

I vvill fll them in that day vvith my povver,So they shall vvait on me then every hour.

3. Teir soul shall be as vvattered plants vvith devv,And I my mercy vvill to them renevv;Teir heats shall be ingaged vvith my love,

For I vvill move in them om povver above.4. Tis is the portion that I novv vvill given

Vnto all those that stries humbly to live;Tereore rejoyce in God your onely guideVVhich in this day o trouble vvill you hide.33

END.

Awake, awake, put on my strength,34

And mine owne comelyne,Look upon mee or I have

Wroght thy deliverance.2. Tou are black, but comely in

Mine eyes, that doth beholdTee swearing mine owne righteousness,

Which glory cannot becould.35

3.I waited long on thee, to see,When thou wouldst mee imbrace,

And when thou wouldst look up to mee,

o see my glorious ace.4.And now, what sayst thou unto mee?

Have I not done thee good?And have not spard to set thee ee,

Mine own Sons precious blood.36

5. Tereore let all thy lie be nowA sacrifce o praise,

And to my holyness give up


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Ty sel in all my wayes.37

6.Let not the World so sad thy heart,Nor cast thee down so low,

For i thou wait upon my grace,My secrets thou shalt know.

7.Be watchul, and keep close to meTy Garments: do not staine;

And that wilt be to thy poor soul,A certain heavenly gain.38

8. ake heed o glorying in my loveBut walk humbly and low,

For it is onely my ulness,

Tat makes thee thus to ow.39

9. Tere is by pathes to wander in,Tat Sathan would advance,

But I will keep thee by my power,And be thy deliverance.

10.Be watchul and keep close to mee, My Garments do not soyl,

For they are thine to cover thee;Be watchul then a while.40

OH! where shall I fnd nowA people quickend still,

Tat seek all times to live on God,And eck to do his will.

2.A people that deny themselves,And eck the cross uptake,41

Tat doth delight in God alone,And eck the World orsake.

3.A people that abhor themselves,And over their sins weep,

A people mourning or the Land,And doth him dayly seek.

4.A people that believes in God,By aith drawes vertue still;

Lay hold on promise which is trueContented with his will.42

5.A people that the word esteem,Keeping close there dayly,

And or a rule the same doth take,When others om it y.

6. Teir hearts are astened on the Lord,Tey or a reuge y,

Tat God vvould novv help by his povver,In their extremity.

7. Teir cries are novv unto the Lord,Ty seek in him to hide,


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o take o novv his heavy hand,And not let vvrath abide43

8. With such a people vvould I spend,My lie and dayes novv here:

Oh! think upon thy servant Lord,And to me novv dravv near.

I assure you COUREOUS READER these are not studed things,but are given in immediately.

FIN.


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314 Notes to pages 1812

Wild,A Poem upon the Imprisonment o Mr. Calamy in Newgate

1. Imprisonment o Mr. Calamy in Newgate: Edmund Calamy (16001666), arrested andimprisoned on 6 January 1663. See Headnote.

2. I envy not our Mitred men, their Places: Wilds proessed lack o envy or bishops reso-nates with Calamys reusal o the bishopric o Coventry and Licheld.

3. Teir rich Preerments to Heaven to get: a reerence to pluralism, on which see J. Spurr,Te Restoration Church o England, 16461689 (New Haven and London: Yale Univer-sity Press, 1991), pp. 17581. Wilds criticism is strengthened by the implicit comparisonbetween the episcopate and the builders o the ower o Babel : Genesis 11:4.

4. In Peters Chain: St Peter was imprisoned by Herod, and chained : see Acts 12:36.5. Bishop Bonner: Edmund Bonner (d. 1569), Bishop o London under Mary I. Bonner

was made inamous (however unairly) or his part in the burnings o Protestants byJohn Foxe: D. Loades, Foxe and Queen Mary : Stephen Gardiner: Edmund Bonner, athttp://www.johnoxe.org/index.php?realm=more&gototype=modern&type=essay&book=essay19.

6. Hundreds o us turn out o House and Home: by St Bartholomews Day 1662, 1,909 minis-ters, ellows, schoolmasters and lecturers had been ejected in England: see N. H. Keeble,Te Literary Culture o Nonconormity (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1987), p. 31.

7. Let me fnd Honey, though upon a Rod: Saul orbade the Israelites rom eating during abattle with the Philistines: see 1 Samuel 14:27: But Jonathan heard not when his athercharged the people with the oath: whereore he put orth the end o the rod that wasin his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and hiseyes were enlightened. Aer the subsequent victory over the Philistines, Jonathansinadvertent misdemeanour became known to Saul, but the Israelites reused to allowhis execution: see 1 Samuel 14:2446. G. de F. Lord comments that Wild seems to have

distorted the meaning o the episode in his application o it: seePOAS, p. 290. CertainlyWilds meaning is obscure. Perhaps the suggestion is that just as Jonathan was enlight-ened through eating that which had technically been orbidden, so the imprisonedCalamy could still provide spiritual sustenance to those who ignored his ejected status.

8. Bishop: Gilbert Sheldon (15981677) was bishop o London at this stage.9. Lord Mayor: John Robinson (161580). It was under Robinsons warrant that Calamy

was arrested. Robinson, as commissioner or corporations, had acted to purge non-conormists in 1662. See HOP 16601690; R. L. Greaves, Saints and Rebels: Seven

Nonconormists in Stuart England(Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 1985), p. 58.10. And may some Tie Christs company: one o those crucied with Christ was saved:

see Luke 23:3943.11. Mittimus: the warrant issued by the Lord Mayor, see above, n. 9.12. First, It is provd preaching in their Graves: Calamys mittimus stated that he did since the

Feast o St. Bartholomew last past, upon two several dayes, viz, on uesday the twenty sixth

day oAugust last past,and upon Sunday the twenty eighth day oDecember, 1662, in thesaid Church o St. Mary Aldermanburypresume and take upon himsel(without any lawullapprobation and licence thereunto) to preach or read two severall Sermons or Lectures: E.Calamy, Eli rembling or Fear o the Ark (Oxord: s.n., 1663), opposite title page.

13. So that good man to whom your place doth all: Following Calamys ejection, in December1662 John illotson (16301694) was elected as minister at St Mary Aldermanbury, buthe reused the position. Richard Martin was elected on 28 January 1663. See Greaves,Saints and Rebels, p. 57 n. 73.


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Notes to pages 1825 315

14. Tirdly, is provd Newgate-hell: While Presbyterians had been prepared to accept amodied episcopacy as the basis or the Restoration church settlement, erce antago-nism remained between them and some members o the episcopal bench: or exampleGilbert Sheldon (15981677), at this stage bishop o London (here represented asa magician). Such antagonism was o course increased by the Act o Uniormity. SeeGilbert Sheldon, ODNB.

15. Cripple-Gate: Cripplegate Within and Cripplegate Without were wards o London,here used punningly to reer to Wilds crippling by gout.

16. Bishop Gout: Wild reerenced his gout elsewhere in his poetry, see pp. 209, 235.17. (Levite-like): Wild compares the control o gout over his body to the bishops control

over a lesser clergyman (a Levite in this context).18. OldBishop Gout his jurisdiction I were ee: Wild imagines his body as being the sub-

ject o an episcopal visitation by Bishop Gout.19. Yet all your Visitors Prison better than your home : Richard Baxter records many dailyocking to visit him during Calamys imprisonment. Quoted in S. Achinstein,Literature

and Dissent in Miltons England(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 1.

Wild, On the Death o Mr Calamy

1. Death o Mr Calamy: Edmund Calamy (160066) died on 29 October 1666 in Eneld.See Headnote.

2. Calamy dead Universal Groan: Te presses, reeling rom the efects o the Great Fire,were largely silent on Calamys death. Tere was one other poem, the anonymous AnElegy in Memory o that Reverend Divine Mr. Edmond Calamy (S.l.: s.n., 1666). Mostpertinently to Wilds point no uneral sermon was published. I am grateul to Mr KojoMinta o St Hildas College, Oxord or his advice on this point.

3. burnd: a reerence to the Great Fire o London, on which see the Headnote to Upon theRebuilding the City below pp. 23940. Calamy was taken by coach through the streetso the City aer the re and seeing the desolate Condition o so ourishing a City, or

which he had so great an Afection, his tender Spirit receivd such Impressions as hecould never wear of. He went home, and never came out o his Chamber more; butdyd within a Month: E. Calamy,An Abridgment o Mr. Baxters History o His Lie andimes (London: Tomas Parkhurst, Jonathan Robinson, and John Lawrence, 1702), p.187, quoted in R.L. Greaves, Saints and Rebels: Seven Nonconormists in Stuart England(Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 1985),p. 60.

4. Methinks the Man Names did meet: Wild satirizes the contents o the bi-weekly o cialnewspaper theLondon Gazette. TeLondon Gazette was dominated by news o oreignafairs. In particular Wild highlights two individuals whose stories were reported onheavily rom 166667: the Inanta Margaret Teresa (165173) who progressed romSpain to Austria to marry her uncle and cousin the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I,

which she did on 12 December 1666 amidst elaborate celebrations (she is oen reerredto throughout simply as the Empress); and the Pope Alexander VII (15991667), whoseuctuating health was a cause o much contemporary speculation. Southcombe and ap-sell comment that Wilds point is that the press allowed by the government wallowedin the minutiae o Roman Catholic celebrity liestyles: G. Southcombe and G. apsell,

Restoration Politics, Religion and Culture: Britain and Ireland, 16601714(Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 35. Te relevant copies o the London Gazette may nowbe accessed online through British Newspapers 16001900, at: http://nd.galegroup.


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com/bncn/start.do?prodId=BNWS&userGroupName=oxord. For discussion o themarriage o Margaret and Leopold see J. P. Spielman, Leopold I o Austria (London:Tames and Hudson, 1977), pp. 456, 545.

5. Lacquyes Liveries were acd: see e.g. London Gazette, no. 102 (58 Nov. 1666): TeSpaniards and Milanois are grown very jealous o the Venetians, upon the magnickReception o the Inanta, in the City oBresse, where she was complemented by theirAmbassador Extraordinary, ollowed by a rain o 150 Coaches, 1000 Gentlemen, 2000Curi[]ssiers, 50 Pages, and 150 Lacquies in very rich Liveries. All which rain were toattend her, during all the time she continued in their erritories.

6. Whats her chie Womans Name: see London Gazette, no. 98 (2225 Oct. 1666): issaid the Empress has changed her resolution o parting romMilan the ourth, deerringher journey or some time, expecting the arrival o the Countess dErilher chie Lady o

Honor, some daies since arrived atFinale.7. Spains great little King: Charles II (16611700), king o Spain, came to the throne asan inant in 1665.

8. LockierandRowland Pippin dwell: Lionel Lockier (c. 160072) and Rowland Pippinwere both involved in the trade o medical products. Lockier sold a pill which promisedto have benecial efects or those sufering rom a wide range o medical conditions;Pippin was a truss-maker. In June 1666 the London Gazette announced that it wouldnot take any advertisements that did not pertain to matters o state, and that a separate

publication containing advertisements would be produced. In the uture this was hardlyto be adhered to, but initially the London Gazette did indeed not carry a large num-ber o advertisements. On 25 June 1666 the rst (and perhaps only) edition oPublick

Advertisements appeared, and it contained an advertisement or Lockiers universal Pill sold byR.Lownds, at the White-Lyon, near the little North-Door oSt Pauls-Church;and Robert Horne at the South Entrance o the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill. See Pub-

lick Advertisements, no. 1 (25 June 1666), sig. A2r;London Gazette, no. 62 (1418 June1666). On Lockier see also L. Lockyer,An Advertisement, Concerning those most Excel-lent Pills (London: s.n., 1664); J.K. Crellin and J.R. Scott, Lionel Lockyer and his Pills,inProceedings o the XXIII International Congress o the History o Medicine, London 29September 1972, 2 vols (London: Wellcome Institute o the History o Medicine, 1974),

vol. 2, pp. 11826; A.S. Hargreaves, Lionel Lockyer (160072) & his Pillulae RadiisSolis Extractae,Pharmaceutical Historian, 29:4 (1999), pp. 5563. For an advertisementdating rom the 1650s which points to the benets o Pippins trusses see H.C. Whit-ord, Exposd to Sale: Te Marketing o Goods and Services in Seventeenth-CenturyEngland as Revealed by Advertisements in Contemporary Newspapers and Periodicals.Part II, Concluded,Bulletin o the New York Public Library, 71:9 (1967), p. 611.

9. Where a Black-Box or Green-Bag was lost: cp. Publick Advertisements, no. 1 (25 June1666), sig. A2r: Lost upon uesday the 19. instant, betwixt Brainordand Chelsey, ablack Box, tyed with a green Ferret Ribband. Te London Gazette became notorious or

its advertisements o lost things: see e.g. J. Miller, Aer the Civil Wars: English Politicsand Government in the Reign o Charles II(Harlow: Longman, 2000), p. 57.

10. And who was Knighted, though not what it cost: theLondon Gazette contained a record oknighthoods. Wild alleges corruption in the bestowing o knighthoods, recalling earlyStuart critiques o the sale o honours.

11. Or what new poyson spread: Wild satirizes what he sees as the ailure o the LondonGazette to report key stories, including the true course o the Second Anglo-Dutch warand the Catholic culprit behind the Great Fire. In November 1666 theLondon Gazette


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did record a proclamation or the Banishment o all Popish Priests and Jesuites, and put-ting the Laws in speedy and due execution against Popish Recusants: London Gazette,no. 103 (812 Nov. 1666). No doubt, or Wild, this was not a specic enough recountingo their nearious designs. In his illegal sermon o December 1662 Calamy commentedthat England was in danger o losing the ark o God because, in part, o the abundanceo Popish Priests and Jesuits that are in the midst o us: E. Calamy,Eli rembling or Fearo the Ark (Oxord: s.n., 1663). p. 12.

12. Had Crack as well as We: Roger LEstrange (16161704) was named Crack-artby Robert Wild, see above p. 204. Wild here comments on the ending o LEstrangesedited Te Intelligencerand Te Newes on 29 January 1666. Te reerence to the Fiddlestems rom a vein o anti-LEstrange polemic which ocused on the act that he was a

viol player, and that Oliver Cromwell had once been present or a time while he played.See Roger lEstrange, ODNB. Fart is excised in what is probably a typographical jokeon censorship just as LEstrange has been silenced, so too has Wilds moniker or him.

13. It was a King strength is gone: see 2 Kings 13:14.14. Aldermanburys Curate might have wore: Calamy was perpetual curate at St Mary

Aldermanbury rom 1639 till his ejection in 1662. In the aermath o Charless return,when a broad church settlement still seemed a possible outcome, Calamy was ofered thebishopric o Coventry and Licheld in 1660, which he reused. See Headnote.

15. How have we thousand strong: Calamys preaching in the 1640s attracted large audi-ences: at times when he was speaking, over sixty coaches could be observed pulled upoutside his church. See Edmund Calamy, ODNB.

16. And though black-mouths greatGEORGE can well attest: Despite the complexity oCalamys political and religious views, his conduct during the 1640s and 1650s made hisloyalty to the Crown easy to attack aer the Restoration: see Headnote. However, Wildreminds his readers o Calamys links to George Monck: the man who, more than anyother, brought about the Restoration. Calamy was made chaplain to Monck in 1660. Inact, it seems that Calamy saw Moncks insistence on the dissolution o the returned LongParliament beore it had settled the ecclesiastical afairs o the realm as a ailure on theGenerals part. Soon aer the Restoration Calamy is reported to have said beore Monck:Some men will betray three kingdoms or lthy lucres sake as he threw his handker-chiee (as he was wont to move it up & down) towards the Generals pew. See Achinstein,Edmund Calamy. For more on Monck, and Wilds amous poem concerning him, Iter

Boreale, see above pp. 116. For more on Calamys role in the Restoration see Headnote.17. Ten when poor Prelacy that Interest was mum: Wild recalls the ine cacy o the sup-

pressed Church o England in bringing about the Restoration. He puns on collecting theKing and the Collects in the prayer book.

18. For had he in his heart: see above n. 3.19. Megrim: migraine.20. atal Bill: the Act o Uniormity o 1662.21. An Hundred thousand buried in one year: the victims o the plague in 1665. Modern esti-

mates put the gure at over 100,000. Te o cial contemporary gures or mortality inLondon in 1665 were 97,306 dead, o whom 28,710 were not said to have died o plague.See Pepys,Diary, vol. 10, pp. 32837.

22. Blazing-Stars: the belie in the portentous nature o such astrological phenomenon waswidespread. See A. Walsham, Providence in Early Modern England (Oxord: OxordUniversity Press, 1999), ch. 4.

23. He lived to see Burning Fever did expire: or Calamys reaction to the Fire see above n.3; or the accusation that Catholics started the Fire see above p. 240.


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24. So FatherEly lie it cost: see 1 Samuel 4:1318. Pertinently Calamys illegal sermono December 1662 took as its text 1 Samuel 4:13, and was published as Eli rembling.

25. Tus ell this Father going long ago: Calamy used his sermon o December 1662 toshow that the ark o God is in danger to be lost rom England, and to tell magistrates,ministers and people how to avoid this loss. See Calamy, Eli rembling, quotation at p.11. Wild links his death with the actual loss o the ark, and thus suggests that Calamys

words ell on dea ears.26. Ichabod: Following the loss o the ark, and Eli and her husbands deaths, Elis daughter-in-

law gave birth, and then died. Beore her death: she named the child Ichabod, saying, Teglory is departed rom Israel: because the ark o God was taken, and because o her atherin law and her husband. And she said, Te glory is departed rom Israel: or the ark oGod is taken. See 1 Samuel 4:1922, quotation at 212. For Calamys comments on this,

and thus the despair which proceeds rom a nation losing the ark, seeEli rembling, p. 16.27. Vnder his burned-Church his Body lies: Calamy was buried under the remains o St Mary

Aldermanbury, which had been burned in the Fire. See Achinstein, Edmund Calamy.

Sutton, romA Christian Womans Experiences o the GloriousWorking o Gods Free Grace

1. My glory thou shalt see: see e.g. Isaiah 66:18; Matthew 24:30; Mark 13:26; Luke 21:27.2. Let all the meek ones o the earth: see e.g. Isaiah 11:4; Psalm 76:9; Matthew 5:5.3. I have redeemd thee lowest place o Hell: see e.g. Psalm 86:13; Isaiah 38:17; Isaiah

51:1.4. Admire, admire My glory is above: cp. Song o Solomon 2. On uses o the Song see E.

Clarke,Politics, Religion and the Song o Songs in Seventeenth-Century England(Basing-

stoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).5. I will a habitation be: see e.g. Psalm 26:8; Ephesians 2:22.6. Tey shall lie down in say: see e.g. Psalm 4:8; Psalm 12:5.7. All they that in high places sit my Iustice know: Te speaker in Suttons verse is Christ,

and he is pointing to the way in which earthly majesty will be brought low. However,Sutton may also have had in mind the role to be played by the aithul in ullling boththis prophecy and Gods purposes, and thus Pauls words to the Ephesians: see Ephe-sians 6:12. It is di cult to unravel the precise nature o Suttons political views. Somein Hanserd Knollys congregation were Fih Monarchists, and her prophecies could beinterpreted in this light. As such, it is possible that this warning to those in high places

was directed at the Protectorate. She later records that she was given the oppertunityto set out the sins o the nation beore some that then were in high places in the hopeo bringing about reormation, but pour soules, or not hearkening unto councel in

departing rom sin they were soon brought down. See K. Sutton, A Christian WomansExperiences (Rotterdam: printed by Henry Goddaeus, 1663), p. 16; Hanserd Knollys,ODNB. On Fih Monarchism see B.S. Capp, Te Fih Monarchy Men: A Study in Sev-enteenth-Century Millenarianism (London: Faber & Faber, 1972).

8. All they that in high places sit treasures unlock: Tis passage may draw on Isaiah 2:1012. However, while at this point in Isaiah it is the targets o Gods wrath who are told tohide, in Suttons verse it is those whom Christ is protecting. Here she is indebted to a rao biblical imagery o Christ as rock and hiding place.


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9. Tis estimony holy Name: cp. 1 Corinthians 11:236; Matthew 26:268; Mark14:224; Luke 22:1920.

10. My Covenant o my love: Sutton here encapsulates her understanding o the Cov-enant o Grace. For more on this in a Particular Baptist context see J. W. Arnold, TeReormed Teology o Benjamin Keach (16401704) (DPhil dissertation, Universityo Oxord, 2009), ch. 5.

11. HE Spring stream do go: cp. 1 Corinthians 10:4. See also the Old estamentaccounts o Moses smiting a rock which then brought orth water see Exodus 17:6;Numbers 20:11.

12. Te Banquets set his Guest: cp. Song o Solomon 2:4.13. AFictions are not rom the dust: see Job 5:6.14. hen let thine eyes in the dark: cp. Job 5:1314.

15. Although thou canst not see him Anoy: cp. Job 9:1112.16. Tou must be willing to ollow him: see Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23.17. Believe, and stand thou still: cp. Job 37:14.18. It scowers away away thy tinne: see Isaiah 1:25.19. And weanes the soul may seek his ace: see e.g. 1 Chronicles 16:11; 2 Chronicles 7:14.20. It mak s him Obedience to his grace: cp. Romans 6:16.21. It makes him sliding back: cp. Hosea 14:4.22. ZIONis Gods precious vvill vvatter it every day: cp. Isaiah 27:23.23. Zion is that enced none shall throvv dov n : cp. Isaiah 5:12.24. Zion is that pleasant Plant: cp. Isaiah 5:7.25. Zion is that enced by his povver: Te images rom Isaiah 5 which Sutton uses here

to describe Gods protection o Zion actually come rom a chapter that describes thesinulness o his people and their just punishment or this sin. Sutton thus, while seekingto ofer comort, also implicitly ofers a warning about the righteous judgement o God

alling upon those who are sinul.26. Tereore let not thy heart he hath blest: cp. Isaiah 30:19.27. Let Zions Children honner to their King: cp. Psalm 149:23.28. Let Zion knovv mercies novv renevv: cp. Isaiah 54:7.29. Althoug a ictions not despise: cp. Isaiah 30:1920.30. For the confrmation Esai. 45: 13.andPsalm 89: 19: see Isaiah 45:13; Psalm 89:19.31. Our King shall but a pu: cp. e.g. Isaiah 42:13.32. Our King shall reigne poor saints comort: in addition to the two scriptural reerences

noted by Sutton hersel (see below n. 32) see e.g. Isaiah 1:27, 5:16, 11:4, 32:1, 33:5,46:13, 51:5.

33. Tereore rejoyce in God vvill you hide: cp. e.g. Psalm 59:16.34. AWake, awake, put on my strength: cp. Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 52:1.35. Tou are black glory cannot becould: cp. Song o Solomon 1:56.36. And have not spard Sons precious blood: cp. 1 Peter 1:1819.

37. Tereore let all my wayes: cp. Hebrews 13:15.38. Be watchul heavenly gain: cp. Revelation 3:25.39. For it is onely to ow: cp. e.g. John 7:38.40. Be watchul a while: Sutton writes o the cloak o alien righteousness thrown over the

elect by Christ. See Isaiah 61:10.41. A people that deny cross uptake: see above n. 16.42. A people that believes with his will: cp. 2 Peter 1:45.43. And not let vvrath abide: see John 3:36.

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