The Evidence

Summary

His Word confirms the Sale:

Those Sheets enfold my Bliss:

Eternity its self's the Pale

Wherin my tru Estate enclosed is:

Each ancient Miracle's a Seal:

Apostles, Prophets, Martyrs, Patriarchs are

The Witnesses; and what their Words reveal,

Their written Records do declare.

All may well wonder such a 'State to see

In such a solemn sort settled on me.

Did not his Word proclaim

My Title to th' Estate,

His Works themselvs affirm the same

By what they do; my Wish they antedate.

Before I was conceiv'd, they were

Allotted for my great Inheritance;

As soon as I among them did appear

They did surround me, to advance

My Interest and Lov. Each Creature says,

God made us Thine, that we might shew His Prais.

The Services they do,

Aloud proclaim them Mine;

In that they are adapted to

Supply my Wants; wherin they all combine

To pleas and serv me, that I may

God, Angels, Men, Fowls, Beasts, and Fish enjoy,

Both in a natural and transcendent way;

And to my Soul the Sense convey

Of Wisdom, Goodness, Power, and Lov Divine,

Which made them all, and made them to be mine.