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Comfortable Cordials Against Discomfortable Fears

William Prynne (1600-1669) · 3,268 words · 15 min

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COMFORTABLE CORDIALS, AGAINST DISCOMFORTABLE Feares of Imprisonment, and other sufferings in good causes. Containing some Latin Verses, Sentences, and Texts of Scripture, written by Mr. WILLIAM PRYNNE on his Chamber walls in the Tower of London, during his Imprisonment there; since Translated by him into English VERSE.

2 CORINTHIANS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any troubles by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation, & salvation, which is effectual in enduring of the same sufferings, which we also suffered: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. And our hope of you is steadfast; knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you shall be of the consolation. For we would not, Brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure above strength, in so much that we despaired even of life. But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver; in whom we trust, that he will yet deliver us: you also helping together by Prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us, by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

Printed Anno. 1641.

TO THE RIGHT WORShipfull his very Noble and highly Honoured good Friend, SIR WILLIAM BALFORE Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower of LONDON.

         SIR, it were Ingratitude and Injury,
        
         For me in silence here to pass you by,
        
         And not present these Cordials unto you,
        
         Since they, and all my service are your due,
        
         For all your Noble Favors in the Tower,
        
         Which have engaged me to my utmost power,

To be your eternally devoted poor Friend and servant, WILLIAM PRYNNE.

COMFORTABLE CORDIALLS, OR Latin Verses and Sentences, written by Mr. William Prynne on his Chamber Walls in the Tower of London, during his Imprisonment there; Since translated into English by him.

1.

T Ranstulit in Coelum Christi praesentia Claustrum:

Quid faciet Coelo, quae Coelum jam creat Antro?

        Christ's presence hath my Prison turned into
       
        A blessed Heaven; what then will it do
       
        In Heaven hereafter, when it now creates
       
        Heaven in a
        
         Dungeon?
        
        Goales, to
        
         Courts
        
        translates?

2.

        Stigmata Christicolis, splendentia sidera; sanguis,
       
        Purpura regalis; mutilataque Membra, Decorum;
       
        Vincula, gemmatus Torques; Opprobria, plausus;
       
        Vulnera, Martyrium; M
        
         •
        
        rs; Vita; Gravamina, Lucrum.
       
        Optima cun
        
         •
        
        ba piis, Tristissima sola ministrant;
       
        V
        
         •
        
        ica Crux sanctis, Via, Ianua, summa salutis.

        Brands, unto Christians are bright Stars; Blood spent,
       
        A Royal Purple; Maym'd Limbes, Ornament;
       
        Bonds, Chaines of Pearl; Reproaches, Praise (no stain)
       
        Wounds, Martyrdom; Death, Life; Oppressions, Gaine.
       
        To godly men the saddest fates only
       
        All best things bring, and their joys multiply;
       
        The Cross alone to Saints is the high way,
       
        Gate, sum of safety, Means of endless Joy:

3.

        Christus ubique pium comitatur; Carceris Antrum
       
        Ingreditur: Turres. Densissima M
        
         •
        
        enia, Rupes,
       
        Fossas, Ferratas Portas Obstacula, Flammas
       
        Permeat intrepidus; socius solamen, Amicus,
       
        Omnia seclusis, solus; saturatque benignus
       
        Deliciis superum sitientia Corda suorum,
        
        Discipulis foribus clusis intravit amaenus,
       
        Christicolis clausis habitat conviva perennis.
       
        O fortunatus cui Con-captivus
        
         Jesus,
        
        Laetisicans radiis tristissima Claustra supernis;
       
        Vincula non illum, Tormenta gravamina moestum
       
        Efficiunt, animum retinentem utcunque sorenum.

        Christ everywhere accompanies good Men;
       
        He goes with them into the Prisons Den;
       
        The Towers, thickest Walls broad ditches, Gates,
       
        Of Iron, Barracadoes, Flames and Graces
       
        Doth boldly pass through; proves Companion,
       
        Friend, solace, all things of himself alone;
       
        Unto close Prisoners and fills plenteously
       
        The thirsty souls of his, with heavenly
       
        Delights. *
        
         He entered in the doors fast shut
        
        To his Disciples, them to comfort; but
       
        With godly prisoners he's a constant guess
       
        Resides; O happic he who doth possess
       
        Christ for his Fellow-prisoner, who doth glad
       
        With heavenly Sunbeames, Goales that are most sad,
       
        Bonds, Torments, Brisons, make not him sad; he
       
        Retaines a quiet mind how ere things be.

4.

        Nullat o
        
         •
        
        us vinctus Christi virtute solutus;
       
        Permanet immunis, clusus vel Carcore Vinclis.
       
        Liber ubique, pius, placidus, benedictus, amoenus,
       
        Indomitus; tacitum circumfert pectore Coelum:
       
        Tristia Laetificans, Moestissima cuncta serenans;
       
        Vincula disentiens, arctissima claustra recludens.

        He is not bound whom CHRIST hath made free; he
       
        Though shut close Prisoner, chaind, remains still free,
       
        A godly Man's at large in every place,
       
        Still cheerful, well content, in blessed case,
       
        Vnconquer'd; he a secret Heaven still bears
       
        About within his breast, which sad things cheers,
       
        Dispells his blackest clouds of grief, off shakes
       
        His chains; and closest prisons open makes.

5.

        Vincula non Animam cohibent, haud carcere clusam:
       
        Sidera transvolitat, Terram, Mare, cuncta pererrat
       
        Alipes, immensi fines transcendit Olympi;
       
        Limit is impations, arctari nescia Mundi
       
        Cancellis; tantum requiescens Numine vast;
       
        Seeurus, placidusque Piis, vel turbine, Pertus;

        No bands the soul of Man can once restrain;
       
        No Prison it inclose, nor yet contain;
       
        It soars above the Stars, and swiftly flies
       
        O're Earth, Sea, all things; mounts beyond the skies,
       
        And bounds of the vast Heavens, impatient
       
        Of Limits, ignorant how to be pent
       
        Within the Rayles of this whole world; only
       
        Resting within the boundless Deity;
       
        A secure, pleasant harbor to Godly
       
        Men, even in a storm of Misery.

6.

        Vincula quid trepidas? quid tela minantia? Flammas,
       
        Vulnera? quid rabidi Tormenta, Crucesve Tyranni?
       
        Aspera pro Christo, dulcissima; qui Diadema
        
        Vincenti Statuit, Lignique cruore paravit.
       
        Scenicaturba Choros, spectacula, Tympana, Mimes,
       
        Ludicra stuprosis celebret, spectetque Theatris;
       
        Vincula Christicolae, Mutilatio, stigmata, Furcae
       
        Gaudia plura ferunt, cumulataque Praemia condunt.
       
        Histrio, Scena, Iocus, saltatio, Mascara, Cantus,
       
        Risus Sardonicos generant, fictosque Cachinuos.
       
        Cordolium verum, gemitus morsusque perennes:
       
        Dulcia post tristant, peramara salute coronant.

        Why fearst thou Bonds? why threatenings? Weapons? Fires?
       
        Wounds? why the torments, Crosses or the Ires
       
        Of raging Tyrants? since the sharpest things
       
        We undergo for
        
         Christ,
        
        most sweetness brings.
       
        who hath prepared
        
         and purchased for him
        
         Who
        
         overcomes, a glorious Diadem
        
         By the Blood of his Cross.
        
        Let then the Crue
       
        Of stage Frequenters celebrate, and view
       
        Plays, Dances, Pastimes, Players, sports in base
       
        And filthy Theaters, where grows no grace.
       
        Chaines, Mutilations, Pillories, Brandes bring,
       
        To godly Christians far more joys, heaping
       
        Most large rewards upon them. Players, Plays,
       
        Jests, Dancing, Maskes, Songs, generate always
       
        But deadly Laughters, feigned shoutes;
        
         true grief,
        
         Sighes, lasting gripes of Conscience,
        
        past relief.
       
         Sweet worldly pleasures still in
        
         sadness cease;
        
         When
        
         bitterest sufferings bring Crowns, safety, peace.

7.

        Anlicus imbellis gemmis, Dominaeque Capillis
       
        Auriculas onerat, magnoque decore venustat,
       
        Stigma, Cicatrices, mutilatio pulchrius Aures
       
        Christigenae decorant, radiisque micantibus ornant,
       
        O Decus eximium referentia Vulnera Christum:
       
        Talibus insignis superis peramatus abibis.

        Th'unmanly Courtier with his Mistress Haire,
       
        And Jewels, lades his ears, to make them fair.
       
        When as Brands, Scarres, and Croppings far more dight
       
        A Christians ears, and make them shine more bright.
       
        O Matchless Glory, Woundes which
        
         Christ
        
        express!
       
        Adorn'd with these,
        
         God's
        
        love thou shalt possess.

8.

Passio Coelipetis Alpha, at Solamen Omega:

Principium Lachrymis decoratur: Meta, Triumphis.

        Suffering's their
        
         Alpha
        
        who to Heaven tend;
       
        But Joy is their
        
         Omega
        
        final end;
       
        Their Entrance is adorned with tears of Woe,
       
        Their end with Triumphs, which then griefs outgo.

9.

Nil Crus sentit in Nervo, si Anima sit in Coelo.

The Legg feels nothing in the stocks, if the

Soul, mind, Affections in Heaven placed be.

10.

        Non timet in carcerem qui scit contemnere Libertatem,
       
        Vitam, voluptatem, Famam: cui Mundus Ergastulum,
       
        Terra Exilium, Dens habitaeulum, Mors Solatium.

        He fears no prison who knows to despise
       
        Freedom, Life, pleasure, Fame, which others prize:
       
        To whom this world's a prison; Earth, a place
       
        Of Exile,
        
         God,
        
        a Mansion; Death, Solace.

11.

Servus Christi etiam in vinculis, Liber.

Servus Peccati etiam in summa Libertate captivus.

Christ's Servants even in prison are still free:

Sins, in the greatest freedom, captives be.

12.

Nil corpus patitur in Ergastulo, si Animus sit in Coelo.

The body suffers naught in prison, when

The mind it self is lodged in Heaven.

13.

Quid Coelum sine Deo, nisi Barathrum?

Quid Barathum cum Deo nisi Coelum?

What's Heaven without God but a very Hell?

What's Hell but a Heaven, if God once there dwell?

14.

Nullibi inearteratur, qui ubique in Christo liberatur:

Nunquam dejicitur, qui semper à Jehovah sustentatur.

        He in no place can once imprisoned be,
       
        Who in all
        
         places is
         
         by Christ set free:
        
        He
        
         never is
         
         dejected, who always
        
         Hath great Jehovah for his prop and stay.

15.

Nusquam solus qui ubique cum Deo;

Nunquam Miser qui semper cum Christo,

         He never is alone, who everywhere
        
         Hath God himself, him company to bear,
        
        He never can be miserable, who
       
        Is always with Christ, who doth with him go.

16.

Vbi Deus adest. ibi non est Carcer, sed Paradisus; Non Ergastulum,

Sed Palatium; non Barathrum, sed Coelum.

        Where God is present, there no
        
         Prison
        
        is,
       
        But a sweet
        
         Paradise
        
        of Joy and bliss;
       
        No
        
         Bridewell,
        
        but a
        
         Palace;
        
        no dark
        
         Cell,
        
        But a bright
        
         Heaven,
        
        where all comforts dwell.

17.

        Carcer probat Amicos, detegit Inimicos;
       
        Excludit Mundum, includit Deum:
       
        Alit virtutes, extinguit Libidines,
       
        Edocet Temperantiam; cohibet Luxuriam;
       
        Mortificat earnem, sanctificat hominem;
       
        Ingenerat gratiam, the saurizat Gloriam.

        A prison tries Men's friends, detects their Foes.
       
        Shuts out the world,
        
         God
        
        to men doth inclose;
       
        Nourisheth virtues, Lusts extinguisheth;
       
        Temperance teacheth, Riot restraineth,
       
        Quite kills the flesh, but makes the Man holy;
       
        Ingenders Grace,
        
         and treasures up glory.

18

Turris Christianos fideles ficte incarcerat, vere liberat, Vnicum Dulcissimum Christi lugum, [cui subjugari est perfect manumitti] Imponendo: multiplicia gravissimaque Carnis, peccati, Mundi, Diaboli vincula [quibus ill • queari, est certissime captivari,) discutiendo.

        The Tower true faithful Christians feinedly
       
        Imprisons, but them sets free verily,
       
        By putting on them Christ's sweet yoke only,
       
        To which to be subjected, is truly
       
        To be enfranchised; by shaking off
       
        The manifold, and most heavy chains of
       
        The flesh, sin, World, Di'le; in which for to lie
       
        Insnarde, is to be captiv'd certainly.

19.

Turris plurimis Spectaculum, multis habitaculum: nonnullis Refugium; aliis divers • rium; Regi Palatium; Regno Gazophylacium, Armamentarium, Propugnaculum, Monetarium: Vinctis piis, Oratorium; Papisticis, Purgatorium; Clausis, Monasterium; Innoxiis, Hospitium; Reis, Ergastulum; Literatis, Musaeum; Ebriosis, Oenopolium; proditoriis, Macellum.

        The Tower is to most, a Spectacle;
       
        To many its a house, wherein they dwell;
       
        To some a refuge; Others, a lodging;
       
        A Royal Palace, it is to the King;
       
        Unto the Kingdom it's a Treasury,
       
        Armory, Bulwark, Mint: an Oratory
       
        To Godly prisoners; but a purgatory
       
        To popish; to close ones, a Monast'ry;
       
        To guiltless ones, it's an Inn; to guilty
       
        A
        
         Bridewell;
        
        to learned ones, it's a study;
       
        To idle ones a Dormitory; to
       
        Drunkards, a tippling-house them to undo;
       
        To Traitors it's a shambles, where their head
       
        And Quarters hang, when they are but chered.

       On his Exile into Iersy Isle.
       
        Why should this
        
         Exile
        
        me grieve, discontent,
        
        Si
        
         •
        
        h this whole
        
         World's
        
        a place of
        
         Banishment?
        
        And men as truly
        
         Exiles
        
        are at
        
         home,
        
        As in the
        
         strangest Clime
        
        to which they come?
       
        Are not
        
         God, Christ, Grace,
        
        Heaven to us as nigh
       
        In foreign Parts, as in our own Country?
       
        Yea; and oft times more near: this true to be
       
        By
        
         Abraham, Jacob, Joseph,
        
        all may see,
       
        I will not then fly, fear my Banishment.
       
        But in it joy, and take most sweet content,
       
        Since
        
         God
        
        will me protect,
        
         restore again,
        
        Or else translate to Heaven, with him to reign,
       
        Mine only
        
         Proper
        
         Country,
        
        wherein I
       
        Shall live a
        
         Free-man
        
        for eternity,
       
        In spite of my
        
         Arch-fees;
        
        whom I shall see.
       
         Exild,
        
         imprisoned, and myself set free.

20. Dens Turris etiam in Turre:

Turris

Libertatis
Consolationis
Quietis,
Fa licitatis
Honoris
Splendoris
Securitatis
Salutis
Spei
Gaudii
Pacis
Protectionis
Gratiae
Vitae
Gloria

in Turre

Angustiae;
Tristitiae;
Molestiae;
Miseriae;
Dedecoris,
Obscuritatis
Perturbationis,
Perditionis,
Desperationis
Afflictionis,
Belli;
Periculi,
Peccatl;
Mortis,
Perpessionis.

       God is a
       
       Tower in the Tower.
       
        A Tower of Lberty,
       
        In the Tower of Restraint; a Tower
       
        Of Comfort, Jollity
       
        In the Tower of Sadness; a Tower
       
        Of sweetest Quietnesse
       
        In the Tower of Trouble; a Tower
       
        Of blested Happiness,
       
        In the Tower of Misery; a Tower
       
        Of Honor, Dignity
       
        In the Tower of disgrace; a Tower
       
        Of bright Excellency
       
        In the Tower of darkness; a Tower
       
        Of strong security
       
        In the Tower of danger; a Tower
       
        Of health and true safety
       
        In the Tower of Sickness; a Tower
       
        Of hope and good success
       
        In the Tower of Despair; a Tower
       
        Of joy and cheerfulness
       
        In the Tower of sorrow; a Tower
       
        Of peace and union
       
        In the Tower of fierce war: a Tower
       
        Of safe Protection
       
        In the Tower of peril; a Tower
       
        Of Grace and Piety
       
        In the Tower of vile Sin; a Tower
       
        Of Life, eternity
       
        In the Tower of grim death; a Tower
       
        Of Glory and great praise,
       
        In the Tower of suffering: such Tower
       
        God proves to his always.

21. Deus Turris.

Protegendo;
A malis,
In malis,
Contra malos,
Inter malos,
Vbique,
Tutissime,
Fortissime,
Gratiosissime,

Consolando,
In Malis,
Semper,
Abundanter,
Suavissime;

Eripiendo,
A Malis
Cito
Tempestive
Potentissime

Mortalium proculdubio Beatissimus, qui Mundi Exul. Christique • aptivus, Turri isti tutissimae, jucundissimae, optimae, maximae perpetuo (dum vixerit) adjuaicatur. Salvo certe custoditur, qui non solùm à Deo, sed in Deo conservatur: arctari non potest, qui ipsa Dei infinitate (incarceratus) spatiatur. Ita eminatur Galielmas Prynne: Martij 3. 1633.

        God is a Tower by protecting all
       
        His Saints from Ills, in Ills which them befall;
       
        Against, amidst ill men in every place,
       
        Most safely, strongly out of his mere grace;
       
        By comforting them in adversity
       
        Always, most sweetly, most abundantly:
       
        By fr
        
         •
        
        eing them from evils speedily,
       
        In the best time, and that most potently:
       
        No doubt he is the happiest man alive,
       
        Who this worlds Exile, and
        
         Christ's
        
        dear Captive,
       
        Is during life adjudged perpetually
       
        In this most safe, sweet, best greatest Tower to lie.
       
        He is truly kept safely, who both by
       
        And in
        
         God
        
        is preserved continually:
       
        He cannot straitened be, who walks freely
       
        (Whiles prisoner) in
        
         God's
        
        vast Infinity.
       
        O this opinion WILLIAM PRYNNE was the
       
        Third day of
        
         March,
        
        six hundred thirty three.

Sentences of Scripture there likewise written.

PSAL. 69. 33.

The Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

PSAL. 146. 7, 8.

The Lord looseth the prisoners; the Lord raiseth those that are bowed down.

PHIL. 4. 11, 12, 13.

I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content, I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere, and in all things I am instructed, both to be full, and to be hungry; both to abound, and to suffer need: I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.

PSAL. 34. 17. 19. 22.

The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all; the Lord redeemeth the soul of his Servants, and none of them that trust in him, shall be desolate.

PSAL. 37. 23, 24. 37, 38, 39, 40.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way: Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand: Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: For the end of that man is peace. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together, the end of the wicked shall be cut off: But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord, he is their strength in the time of trouble. And the Lord shall help them and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

PSAL. 71. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

Thy righteousness also O God, is very high, who hast done great things, O God who is like to thee? Thou which hast shown me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. I will also praise thee, with the Psaltery even thy truth: O my God unto thee will I sing with the Harp, O thou holy one of Israel: My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee: and my soul which thou hast redeemed: my tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt.

MICAH: 7, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

A man's enemies are the men of his own house: Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation, my God will hear me: Rejoice not against me ô mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise: when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have finned against him, until he plead my cause and execute judgment for me, He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her, now shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets.

       On his Suffrings on the Pillory.
       
        Christ
        
         for
        
        mysake, sins, and Redemption
       
        From Hell and endless Torments; sufferedon
       
        The
        
        Cross, a shameful, cursed Death, with all
       
        Alacrity, joy, promptitude: And shall
       
        I not for his sake then most cheerfully
       
        Both stand, and suffer on the Pillory,
       
        Without all blush, or fear? since 'tis no shame,
       
        But
        
        Honor, thus to suffer for Christ's name.

Verses made by W. PRYNNE, as he returned by Water to the Tower after his last sufferings, upon his Stigmatizing.

S. L. Stigmata Laudis.

Stigmata Maxillis referens, Insignia Laudis,

Exultans remeo, victima grata Deo.

Bearing Lands Stamps on my Cheekes, I retire

Triumphing, God's sweet Sacrifice through fire.

       On his return from Exile.
       
        Foes sent me hence, but
        
         God,
        
        and his Saints cries
       
        Have brought me back, 'tis wondrous in all Eyes.
       
        No Exiles, Prisons, Chaines, powers can detain
       
        Those whom
        
         God
        
        will recall, free, raise again.

ISAY. 51. 11. 14. c. 41. 5, 6.

The redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head; they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. The CAPTIVE EXILE hasteneth, that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. Fear not, for I am with thee, I will bring thy seed from the East, and gather thee from the West, I will say to, the North, Give up; and to the South, keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the Earth.

FJNJS.

ERRATA.

IN the Epistle v. I. it were, r. towere p. 2. l. 32. The r. He p. 3. l. 8. He's, r he The verses p. 9. of his Exile into Jersy, should have come in p. 15. after Stigmata Laudis.