The Improvment

Summary

1

Tis more to recollect, then make. The one

Is but an Accident without the other.

We cannot think the World to be the Throne,

Of God, unless his Wisdom shine as Brother

Unto his Power, in the Fabrick, so

That we the one may in the other know.

2

His Goodness also must in both appear,

And all the Children of his Lov be found,

In the Creation of the Starry Sphere,

And in the Forming of the fruitFull Ground;

Before we can that Happiness descrie,

Which is the Daughter of the DEITIE.

3

His Wisdom shines in Spreading forth the Skie,

His Power's Great in Ordering the Sun,

His Goodness very Marvellous and High

Appears, in evry Work his Hand hath done.

And all his Works in their varietie,

Even Scattered abroad delight the Eye.

4

But neither Goodness, Wisdom, Power, nor Love,

Nor Happiness it self in things could be,

Did not they all in one fair Order move,

And joyntly by their Service End in me.

Had he not made an Ey to be the Sphere

Of all Things, none of these would e're appear.

5

His Wisdom, Goodness, Power, as they unite

All things in one, that they may be the Treasures

Of one Enjoy'r, shine in the utmost Height

They can attain; and are most Glorious Pleasures,

When all the Univers conjoynd in one,

Exalts a Creature, as if that alone.

6

To bring the moisture of far distant Seas

Into a point, to make them present here,

In virtu, not in Bulk; one man to pleas

With all the Powers of the Highest Sphere,

From East, from West, from North and South, to bring

The pleasing Influence of evry thing;

7

Is far more Great then to Creat them there

Where now they stand; His Wisdom more doth shine

In that, his Might and Goodness more appear,

In recollecting; He is more Divine

In making evry Thing a Gift to one

Then in the Parts of all his Spacious Throne.