But whom luft, wrath, and fear controul,
Scarce know their body from their foul,
If any fuch chance heare my verfe,
Dark numerous Nothings I rehearse
To them, measure out an idle found
In which no inward fenfe is found.
Thus fing I to cragg'd clifts and hills,
To fighing winds, to murmuring rills,
Towaftefull woods, to empty groves,
Such things as my dear mind most loves.
But they heed not my Heavenly paffion,
Faft fixt on their own operation.
On chalky rocks hard by the Sea,
Safe guided by fair Cynthia,
I ftrike my filver-founded lyre,
Firft ftruck my felf by fome strong fire;
And all the while her wavering ray
Reflected from fluid glaffe doth play
On the white banks. But all are deaf
Unto my Mufe, that is most lief
To mine own felf. So they nor blame
My pleasant notes, nor praife the fame.
Nor do thou, Reader, rafhly brand
My rhymes 'fore thou them understand.

H. M.

OR

A CHRISTIANO-
PLATONICALL display of
LIFE,

Vritten in the beginning of the year
of our LORD 1640. and now
published for all free Phifophers
and well-willers to the true
Christian Life.

Ευσέβει, ὦ τέκνον. Ὁ γὰρ ἐυσεβῶν ἄκρως
012000pe, Trifmeg.

CAMBRIDGE
Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the
Univerfitie, 1 6 4 2.

TO THE READER,
upon the first Book of

T

PSYCHOZOIA.

His firft book, as you may judge by the names therein, was intended for a mere Platonicall defcription of Univerfall life, or life that is omnipresent, though not alike omniprefent. As in Noahs Deluge, the water that overflowed the earth was present in every part thereof, but every part of the water was not in every part of the earth, or all in every part; fo the low Spirit of the Univerfe, though it go quite through the world, yet it is not totally in every part of the world; Elfe we fhould heare our Antipodes, if they did but whisper: Because our lower man is a part of the inferiour Spirit of the Universe.

Ahad, on, and Pfyche are all omnipresent in the World,after the most perfect way that humane reason can conceive of. For they are in the world all totally and at once every where.

This is the famous Platonicall Triad: which though they that flight the Chriftian Trinity do take for a figment; yet I think it is no contemptible argument, that the Platonifts, the best and divinelt of Philofophers, and the Christians, the best of all that do profeffe religion, do both concur that there is a Trinity. In what they differ,

I leave to be found out, according to the fafe direction of that infallible Rule of Faith, the holy Word.

In the mean time I fhall not be blamed by any thing but ignorance and malignity, for being invited to fing of the fecond Unity of the Platonicall Triad, in a Chriftian ftrain and Poeticall scheme, that which the holy Scripture witneffeth of the fecond Perfon of the Chriftian Trinity. As that his patrimony is the poffeffion of the whole earth. For if it be not all one with Chrift, according to his Divinity (although their attributes fute exceeding well: For that fecond Unity in the Platonicall Triad, is called Filius Boni,The Son of the Good; The Chriftian fecond Perfon, The Sonne of God : He, απαύγασμα της δόξης τα πατρός That, the 'Auronov, the first beauty or lustre : He, the Aoy that, the firft as, and fometime aóy: As in Trifmeg: 'O ou óz☺ esìv cinov xy vous To D• He,the Truth; That, the idéa or true platform according to which every thing was made and ought to be made: That on; He, Eternall life: He, the wifdome of God; That the Intellect: He å av å ĥv, xj i éρxóu that the v.) Yet the Platonifts placing him in the fame order, and giving him the like attributes, with the Perfon of the Sonne in Chriftianity, it is nothing harsh for me to take occafion from hence to fing a while the true Christian Autocalon, whose beauty fhall adorn the whole Earth in good time; if we believe the Prophets.

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