All-Saints day

NO Blisse can so contenting proue.
As vniuersall Loue to gaine,
Could we with full requiting Loue,
All mens affections entertaine:
But such a Loue, the heart of man,
Nor well-containe, nor merit can.

For though to all we might be deare,
(Which cannot in this life befall)
We discontented should appeare,
Because we had not hearts for all:
That we might all men loue, as we
Beloued would of all men be.

For Loue in louing ioyes as much,
As Loue for louing to obtaine;
Yea, Loue vnfaign'd is likewise such,
It cannot part it selfe in twaine:
The Riuals friendship soone is gone,
And Loue diuided loueth none.

Which causeth that with Passions pain'd,
So many men on earth we see;
And had not GOD a meanes ordain'd,
This discontent in Heau'n would be:
For all the Saints would iealous proue,
Of GODS, and of each others Loue.

But he whose, wisedome hath contriu'd
His Glory, with their full Contents,
Hath from himselfe to them deriu'd
This Fauour (which that strife preuents)
One Body all his Saints he makes,
And for his Spouse this one he takes.

So, each one of them shall obtaine
Full Loue from All, returning to
Full Loue to All of them againe,
As members of one Body doe:
None iealous, but all striuing how
Most Loue to others to allow.

For, as the Soule is All in All,
And All through euery Member to;
Loue in that Body Mysticall
Is as the Soule, and fils it so;
Uniting them to GOD as neare,
As to each other they are deare.

Yea, what they want to entertaine
Such ouerflowing Loue as his,
He will supply, and likewise daigne
What for his full Delight they misse,
That he may all his Loue employ,
And they returne his fill of Ioy.

The seed of this Content was sowne,
When GOD the spatious world did frame,
And euer since the same hath growne,
To be an honour to his Name;
And when his Saints are sealed all,
This Mysterie vnseale he shall.

Meanewhile (as we in Landskip viewe
Fields, Riuers, Cities, Woods, & Seas,
And (though but little they can shew)
Doe therewithall our fancies please;)
Let Contemplation Maps contriue,
To shew vs where we shall arriue.

And though our hearts too shallow bee,
That blest Communion to conceaue,
Of which we shall in Heau'n be free,
Let vs on Earth together cleaue:
For those, who keepe in vnion here,
Shall know by faith what will be there.

Where all those Angels we admir'd,
With euery Saint since time begun,
(Whose sight and loue we haue desir'd)
Shall be with vs conioyn'd in One;
And We and They and They and We,
To GOD himselfe espoused be.

Oh happie wedding . where the Guests,
The Bride and Bridegroome shall be one;
Where Songs, Embraces, Triumphes, Feasts,
And Ioyes of Loue are neuer done:
But thrice accurst are those that misse
Their Garment when this Wedding is.

Sweet Iesus, seal'd, and clad therefore,
For that great meeting let vs be,
(Where People, Tongues, and kinreds, more
Then can be tolde, attend on Thee)
To make those shoutes of Ioy and praise,
Which to thine honour they shall raise.