The Anticipation

Summary

1

My Contemplation Dazles in the End

Of all I comprehend.

And soars abov all Heights,

Diving into the Depths of all Delights.

Can He becom the End,

To whom all Creatures tend?

Who is the Father of all Infinites!

Then may He Benefit receiv from Things,

And be not Parent only of all Springs.

2

The End doth Want the Means, and is the Caus,

Whose Sake, by Natures Laws,

Is that for which they are.

Such Sands, such Dangerous Rocks we must beware

From all Eternitie

A Perfect Deitie

Most Great and Blessed he doth still appear.

His Essence Perfect was in all its Features

He ever Blessed in his Joys and Creatures.

3

From Everlasting he these Joys did Need,

And all these Joys proceed

From Him Eternaly.

From Everlasting His felicitie

Compleat and Perfect was:

Whose Bosom is the Glass,

Wherin we all Things Everlasting See.

His Name is NOW, his Nature is forever.

None Can his Creatures from their Maker Sever.

4

The End in Him from Everlasting is

The Fountain of all Bliss.

From Everlasting it

Efficient was, and Influence did Emit,

That caused all. Before

The World, we do Adore

This Glorious End. Becaus all Benefit

From it proceeds. Both are the very same.

The End and Fountain differ but in Name.

5

That so the End should be the very Spring,

Of evry Glorious Thing;

And that which seemeth Last,

The Fountain and the Caus; attaind so fast,

That it was first; and movd

The Efficient, who so lovd

All Worlds and made them for the sake of this

It shews the End Compleat before, and is

A Perfect Token of his Perfect Bliss.

6

The End Compleat, the Means must needs be so.

By which we plainly Know,

From all Eternitie,

The Means wherby God is, must perfect be.

God is Himself the Means,

Wherby he doth exist:

And as the Sun by shining's clothd with Beams,

So from Himself to All His Glory Streams,

Who is a Sun, yet what Himself doth list.