text: Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 2
  LET PETER rejoice with the MOON FISH who keeps up the life in the waters by night.
  Let Andrew rejoice with the Whale, who is array'd in beauteous blue and is a combination of bulk and activity.
  Let James rejoice with the Skuttle-Fish, who foils his foe by the effusion of his ink.
  Let John rejoice with Nautilus who spreads his sail and plies his oar, and the Lord is his pilot.
  Let Philip rejoice with Boca, which is a fish that can speak.
  Let Bartholomew rejoice with the Eel, who is pure in proportion to where he is found and how he is used.
  Let Thomas rejoice with the Sword-Fish, whose aim is perpetual and strength insuperable.
  Let Matthew rejoice with Uranoscopus, whose eyes are lifted up to God.
  Let James the less, rejoice with the Haddock, who brought the piece of money for the Lord and Peter.
  Let Jude bless with the Bream, who is of melancholy from his depth and serenity.
  Let Simon rejoice with the Sprat, who is pure and innumerable.
  Let Matthias rejoice with the Flying-Fish, who has a part with the birds, and is sublimity in his conceit.
  Let Stephen rejoice with Remora -- The Lord remove all obstacles to his glory.
  Let Paul rejoice with the Scale, who is pleasant and faithful!, like God's good ENGLISHMAN.
  Let Agrippa, which is Agricola, rejoice with Elops, who is a choice fish.
  Let Joseph rejoice with the Turbut, whose capture makes the poor fisher-man sing.
  Let Mary rejoice with the Maid -- blessed be the name of the immaculate CONCEPTION.
  Let John, the Baptist, rejoice with the Salmon -- blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus for infant Baptism.
  Let Mark rejoice with the Mullet, who is John Dore, God be gracious to him and his family.
  Let Barnabus rejoice with the Herring -- God be gracious to the Lord's fishery.
  Let Cleopas rejoice with the Mackerel, who cometh in a shoal after a leader.
  Let Abiud of the Lord's line rejoice with Murex, who is good and of a precious tincture.
  Let Eliakim rejoice with the Shad, who is contemned in his abundance.
  Let Azor rejoice with the Flounder, who is both of the sea and of the river,
  Let Sadoc rejoice with the Bleak, who playeth upon the surface in the Sun.
  Let Achim rejoice with the Miller's Thumb, who is a delicious morsel for the water fowl.
  Let Eliud rejoice with Cinaedus, who is a fish yellow all over.
  Let Eleazar rejoice with the Grampus, who is a pompous spouter.
  Let Matthan rejoice with the Shark, who is supported by multitudes of small value.
  Let Jacob rejoice with the Gold Fish, who is an eye-trap.
  Let Jairus rejoice with the Silver Fish, who is bright and lively.
  Let Lazarus rejoice with Torpedo, who chills the life of the assailant through his staff.
  Let Mary Magdalen rejoice with the Place, whose goodness and purity are of the Lord's making.
  Let Simon the leper rejoice with the Eel-pout, who is a rarity on account of his subtlety.
  Let Alpheus rejoice with the Whiting, whom God hath bless'd in multitudes, and his days are as the days of PURIM.
  Let Onesimus rejoice with the Cod -- blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus for a miraculous draught of men.
  Let Joses rejoice with the Sturgeon, who saw his maker in the body and obtained grace.
  Let Theophilus rejoice with the Folio, who hath teeth, like the teeth of a saw.
  Let Bartimeus rejoice with the Quaviver -- God be gracious to the eyes of him, who prayeth for the blind.
  Let CHRISTOPHER, who is Simon of Cyrene, rejoice with the Rough -- God be gracious to the CAM and to DAVID CAM and his seed for ever.
  Let Timeus rejoice with the Ling -- God keep the English Sailors clear of French bribery.
  Let Salome rejoice with the Mermaid, who hath the countenance and a portion of human reason.
  Let Zacharias rejoice with the Gudgeon, who improves in his growth till he is mistaken.
  Let Campanus rejoice with the Lobster -- God be gracious to all the CAMPBELLs especially John.
  Let Martha rejoice with the Skallop -- the Lord revive the exercise and excellence of the Needle.
  Let Mary rejoice with the Carp -- the ponds of Fairlawn and the garden bless for the master.
  Let Zebedee rejoice with the Tench -- God accept the good son for his parents also.
  Let Joseph of Arimathea rejoice with the Barbel -- a good coffin and a tomb-stone without grudging!
  Let Elizabeth rejoice with the Crab -- it is good, at times, to go back.
  Let Simeon rejoice with the Oyster, who hath the life without locomotion.
  Let Jona rejoice with the Wilk -- Wilks, Wilkie, and Wilkinson bless the name of the Lord Jesus.
  Let Nicodemus rejoice with the Muscle, for so he hath provided for the poor.
  Let Gamaliel rejoice with the Cockle -- I will rejoice in the remembrance of mercy.
  Let Agabus rejoice with the Smelt -- The Lord make me serviceable to the HOWARDS.
  Let Rhoda rejoice with the Sea-Cat, who is pleasantry and purity.
  Let Elmodam rejoice with the Chubb, who is wary of the bait and thrives in his circumspection.
  Let Jorim rejoice with the Roach -- God bless my throat and keep me from things stranggled.
  Let Addi rejoice with the Dace -- It is good to angle with meditation.
  Let Luke rejoice with the Trout -- Blessed be Jesus in Aa, in Dee and in Isis.
  Let Cosam rejoice with the Perch, who is a little tyrant, because he is not liable to that, which he inflicts.
  Let Levi rejoice with the Pike -- God be merciful to all dumb creatures in respect of pain.
  Let Melchi rejoice with the Char, who cheweth the cud.
  Let Joanna rejoice with the Anchovy -- I beheld and lo! 'a great multitude!
  Let Neri rejoice with the Keeling Fish, who is also called the Stock Fish.
  Let Janna rejoice with the Pilchard -- the Lord restore the seed of Abishai.
  Let Esli rejoice with the Soal, who is flat and spackles for the increase of motion.
  Let Nagge rejoice with the Perriwinkle -- 'for the rain it raineth every day.'
  Let Anna rejoice with the Porpus, who is a joyous fish and of good omen.
  Let Phanuel rejoice with the Shrimp, which is the childrens fishery.
  Let Chuza rejoice with the Sea-Bear, who is full of sagacity and prank.
  Let Susanna rejoice with the Lamprey, who is an eel with a title.
  Let Candace rejoice with the Craw-fish -- How hath the Christian minister renowned the Queen.
  Let The Eunuch rejoice with the Thorn-Back -- It is good to be discovered reading the BIBLE.
  Let Simon the Pharisee rejoice with the Grigg -- the Lord bring up Issachar and Dan.
  Let Simon the converted Sorcerer rejoice with the Dab quoth Daniel.
  Let Joanna, of the Lord's line, rejoice with the Minnow, who is multiplied against the oppressor.
  Let Jonas rejoice with the Sea-Devil, who hath a good name from his Maker.
  Let Alexander rejoice with the Tunny -- the worse the time the better the eternity.
  Let Rufus rejoice with the Needle-fish, who is very good in his element.
  Let Matthat rejoice with the Trumpet-fish -- God revive the blowing of the TRUMPETS.
  Let Mary, the mother of James, rejoice with the Sea-Mouse -- it is good to be at peace.
  Let Prochorus rejoice with Epodes, who is a kind of fish with Ovid who is at peace in the Lord.
  Let Timotheus rejoice with the Dolphin, who is of benevolence.
  Let Nicanor rejoice with the Skeat -- Blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus in fish and in the Shewbread, which ought to be continually on the altar, now more than ever, and the want of it is the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel.
  Let Timon rejoice with Crusion -- The Shew-Bread in the first place is gratitude to God to shew who is bread, whence it is, and that there is enough and to spare.
  Let Parmenas rejoice with the Mixon -- Secondly it is to prevent the last extremity, for it is lawful that rejected hunger may take it.
  Let Dorcas rejoice with Dracunculus -- blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus in the Grotto.
  Let Tychicus rejoice with Scolopendra, who quits himself of the hook by voiding his intrails.
  Let Trophimus rejoice with the Sea-Horse, who shoud have been to Tychicus the father of Yorkshiremen.
  Let Tryphena rejoice with Fluta -- Saturday is the Sabbath for the mouth of God hath spoken it.
  Let Tryphosa rejoice with Acarne -- With such preparation the Lord's Jubile is better kept.
  Let Simon the Tanner rejoice with Alausa -- Five days are sufficient for the purposes of husbandry.
  Let Simeon Niger rejoice with the Loach -- The blacks are the seed of Cain.
  Let Lucius rejoice with Corias -- Some of Cain's seed was preserved in the loins of Ham at the flood.
  Let Manaen rejoice with Donax. My DEGREE is good even here, in the Lord I have a better.
  Let Sergius Paulus rejoice with Dentex -- Blessed be the name Jesus for my teeth.
  Let Silas rejoice with the Cabot -- the philosophy of the times ev'n now is vain deceit.
  Let Barsabas rejoice with Cammarus -- Newton is ignorant for if a man consult not the WORD how should he understand the WORK? --
  Let Lydia rejoice with Attilus -- Blessed be the name of him which eat the fish and honey comb.
  Let Jason rejoice with Alopecias, who is subtlety without offence.
  Let Dionysius rejoice with Alabes who is peculiar to the Nile.
  Let Damaris rejoice with Anthias -- The fountain of the Nile is known to the Eastern people who drink it.
  Let Apollos rejoice with Astacus, but St Paul is the Agent for England.
  Let Justus rejoice with Crispus in a Salmon-Trout -- the Lord look on the soul of Richard Atwood.
  Let Crispus rejoice with Leviathan -- God be gracious to the soul of HOBBES, who was no atheist, but a servant of Christ, and died in the Lord -- I wronged him God forgive me.
  Let Aquila rejoice with Beemoth who is Enoch no fish but a stupendous creeping Thing.
  Let Priscilla rejoice with Cythera. As earth increases by Beemoth so the sea likewise enlarges.
  Let Tyrannus rejoice with Cephalus who hath a great head.
  Let Gaius rejoice with the Water-Tortoise -- Paul and Tychicus were in England with Agricola my father.
  Let Aristarchus rejoice with Cynoglossus -- The Lord was at Glastonbury in the body and blessed the thorn.
  Let Alexander rejoice with the Sea-Urchin -- The Lord was at Bristol and blessed the waters there.
  Let Sopater rejoice with Elacate -- The waters of Bath were blessed by St Matthias.
  Let Secundus rejoice with Echeneis who is the sea-lamprey.
  Let Eutychus rejoice with Cnide -- Fish and honeycomb are blessed to eat after a recovery. --
  Let Mnason rejoice with Vulvula a sort of fish -- Good words are of God, the cant from the Devil.
  Let Claudius Lysias rejoice with Coracinus who is black and peculiar to Nile.
  Let Bernice rejoice with Corophium which is a kind of crab.
  Let Phebe rejoice with Echinometra who is a beautiful shellfish red and green.
  Let Epenetus rejoice with Erythrinus who is red with a white belly.
  Let Andronicus rejoice with Esox, the Lax, a great fish of the Rhine.
  Let Junia rejoice with the Faber-Fish -- Broil'd fish and honeycomb may be taken for the sacrament.
  Let Amplias rejoice with Garus, who is a kind of Lobster.
  Let Urbane rejoice with Glanis, who is a crafty fish who bites away the bait and saves himself.
  Let Stachys rejoice with Glauciscus, who is good for Women's milk.
  Let Apelles rejoice with Glaucus -- behold the seed of the brave and ingenious how they are saved!
  Let Aristobulus rejoice with Glycymerides who is pure and sweet.
  Let Herodion rejoice with Holothuria which are prickly fishes.
  Let Narcissus rejoice with Hordeia -- I will magnify the Lord who multiplied the fish.
  Let Persis rejoice with Liparis -- I will magnify the Lord who multiplied the barley loaves.
  Let Rufus rejoice with Icthyocolla of whose skin a water-glue is made.
  Let Asyncritus rejoice with Labrus who is a voracious fish.
  Let Phlegon rejoice with the Sea-Lizard -- Bless Jesus THOMAS BOWLBY and all the seed of Reuben.
  Let Hermas rejoice with Lamyrus who is of things creeping in the sea.
  Let Patrobas rejoice with Lepas, all shells are precious.
  Let Hermes rejoice with Lepus, who is a venomous fish.
  Let Philologus rejoice with Ligarius -- shells are all parries to the adversary.
  Let Julia rejoice with the Sleeve-Fish -- Blessed be Jesus for all the TAYLERS.
  Let Nereus rejoice with the Calamary -- God give success to our fleets.
  Let Olympas rejoice with the Sea-Lantern, which glows upon the waters.
  Let Sosipater rejoice with Cornuta. There are fish for the Sea-Night-Birds that glow at bottom.
  Let Lucius rejoice with the Cackrel Fish. God be gracious to JMs FLETCHER who has my tackling.
  Let Tertius rejoice with Maia which is a kind of crab.
  Let Erastus rejoice with Melandry which is the largest Tunny.
  Let Quartus rejoice with Mena. God be gracious to the immortal soul of poor Carte, who was barbarously and cowardly murder'd -- the Lord prevent the dealers in clandestine death.
  Let Sosthenes rejoice with the Winkle -- all shells like the parts of the body are good kept for those parts.
  Let Chloe rejoice with the Limpin -- There is a way to the terrestrial Paradise upon the knees.
  Let Carpus rejoice with the Frog-Fish -- A man cannot die upon his knees.
  Let Stephanas rejoice with Mormyra who is a fish of divers colours.
  Let Fortunatus rejoice with the Burret -- it is good to be born when things are crossed.
  Let Lois rejoice with the Angel-Fish -- There is a fish that swims in the fluid Empyrean.
  Let Achaicus rejoice with the Fat-Back -- The Lord invites his fishers to the WEST INDIES.
  Let Sylvanus rejoice with the Black-Fish -- Oliver Cromwell himself was the murderer in the Mask.
  Let Titus rejoice with Mys -- O Tite siquid ego adjuero curamve levasso!
  Let Euodias rejoice with Myrcus -- There is a perfumed fish I will offer him for a sweet savour to the Lord.
  Let Syntyche rejoice with Myax -- There are shells in the earth which were left by the FLOOD.
  Let Clement rejoice with Ophidion -- There are shells again in earth at sympathy with those in sea.
  Let Epaphroditus rejoice with Opthalmias -- The Lord increase the Cambridge collection of fossils.
  Let Epaphras rejoice with Orphus -- God be gracious to the immortal soul of Dr Woodward.
  Let Justus rejoice with Pagrus -- God be gracious to the immortal soul of Dr Middleton.
  Let Nymphas rejoice with Fagurus -- God bless Charles Mason and all Trinity College.
  Let Archippus rejoice with Nerita whose shell swimmeth.
  Let Eunice rejoice with Oculata who is of the Lizard kind.
  Let Onesephorus rejoice with Orca, who is a great fish.
  Let Eubulus rejoice with Ostrum the scarlet -- God be gracious to Gordon and Groat.
  Let Pudens rejoice with Polypus -- The Lord restore my virgin!
  Let Linus rejoice with Ozsena who is a kind of Polype -- God be gracious to Lyne and Anguish.
  Let Claudia rejoice with Pascer -- the purest creatures minister to wantoness by unthankfulness.
  Let Artemas rejoice with Pastinaca who is a fish with a sting.
  Let Zenas rejoice with Pecten -- The Lord obliterate the laws of man!
  Let Philemon rejoice with Pelagia -- The laws and judgement are impudence and blindness.
  Let Apphia rejoice with Pelamis -- The Lord Jesus is man's judgement.
  Let Demetrius rejoice with Peloris, who is greatest of Shell-Fishes.
  Let Antipas rejoice with Pentadactylus -- A papist hath no sentiment God bless CHURCHILL.
  FOR I pray the Lord JESUS that cured the LUNATICK to be merciful to all my brethren and sisters in these houses.
  For they work me with their harping-irons, which is a barbarous instrument, because I am more unguarded than others.
  For the blessing of God hath been on my epistles, which I have written for the benefit of others.
  For I bless God that the CHURCH of ENGLAND is one of the SEVEN ev'n the candlestick of the Lord.
  For the ENGLISH TONGUE shall be the language of the WEST.
  For I pray Almighty CHRIST to bless the MAGDALEN HOUSE and to forward a National purification.
  For I have the blessing of God in the three POINTS of manhood, of the pen, of the sword, and of chivalry.
  For I am inquisitive in the Lord, and defend the philosophy of the scripture against vain deceit.
  For the nets come down from the eyes of the Lord to fish up men to their salvation.
  For I have a greater compass both of mirth and melancholy than another.
  For I bless the Lord JESUS in the innumerables, and for ever and ever.
  For I am redoubted, and redoubtable in the Lord, as is THOMAS BECKET my father.
  For I have had the grace to GO BACK, which is my blessing unto prosperity.
  For I paid for my seat in St PAUL's, when I was six years old, and took possession against the evil day.
  For I am descended from the steward of the island -- blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus king of England.
  For the poor gentleman is the first object of the Lord's charity and he is the most pitied who hath lost the most.
  For I am in twelve HARDSHIPS, but he that was born of a virgin shall deliver me out of all.
  For I am safe, as to my head, from the female dancer and her admirers.
  For I pray for CHICHISTER to give the glory to God, and to keep the adversary at bay.
  For I am making to the shore day by day, the Lord Jesus take me.
  For I bless the Lord JESUS upon RAMSGATE PIER -- the Lord forward the building of harbours.
  For I bless the Lord JESUS for his very seed, which is in my body.
  For I pray for R and his family, I pray for Mr Becher, and I bean for the Lord JESUS.
  For I pray to God for Nore, for the Trinity house, for all light-houses, beacons and buoys.
  For I bless God that I am not in a dungeon, but am allowed the light of the Sun.
  For I pray God for the PYGMIES against their feathered adversaries, as a deed of charity.
  For I pray God for all those, who have defiled themselves in matters inconvenient.
  For I pray God be gracious to CORNELIUS MATTHEWS name and connection.
  For I am under the same accusation with my Saviour -- -for they said, he is besides himself.
  For I pray God for the introduction of new creatures into this island.
  For I pray God for the ostriches of Salisbury Plain, the beavers of the Medway and silver fish of Thames.
  For Charity is cold in the multitude of possessions, and the rich are covetous of their crumbs.
  For I pray to be accepted as a dog without offence, which is best of all.
  For I wish to God and desire towards the most High, which is my policy.
  For the tides are the life of God in the ocean, and he sends his angel to trouble the great DEEP.
  For he hath fixed the earth upon arches and pillars, and the flames of hell flow under it.
  For the grosser the particles the nearer to the sink, and the nearer to purity, the quicker the gravitation.
  For MATTER is the dust of the Earth, every atom of which is the life.
  For MOTION is as the quantity of life direct, and that which hath not motion, is resistance.
  For Resistance is not of GOD, but he -- hath built his works upon it.
  For the Centripetal and Centrifugal forces are GOD SUSTAINING and DIRECTING.
  For Elasticity is the temper of matter to recover its place with vehemence.
  For Attraction is the earning of parts, which have a similitude in the life.
  For the Life of God is in the Loadstone, and there is a magnet, which pointeth due EAST.
  For the Glory of God is always in the East, but cannot be seen for the cloud of the crucifixion.
  For due East is the way to Paradise, which man knoweth not by reason of his fall.
  For the Longitude is (nevertheless) attainable by steering angularly notwithstanding.
  For Eternity is a creature and is built upon Eternity ¥ê¥á¥ó¥á¥â¥ï¥ë¥ç ¥å¥g¥é ¥ó¥ç ¥ä¥é¥á¥â¥ï¥ë¥ç .
  For Fire is a mixed nature of body and spirit, and the body is fed by that which hath not life.
  For Fire is exasperated by the Adversary, who is Death, unto the detriment of man.
  For an happy Conjecture is a miraculous cast by the Lord Jesus.
  For a bad Conjecture is a draught of stud and mud.
  For there is a Fire which is blandishing, and which is of God direct.
  For Fire is a substance and distinct, and purifyeth ev'n in hell.
  For the Shears is the first of the mechanical powers, and to be used on the knees.
  For if Adam had used this instrument right, he would not have fallen.
  For the power of the Shears Is direct as the life.
  For the power of the WEDGE is direct as it's altitude by communication of Almighty God.
  For the Skrew, Axle and Wheel, Pulleys, the Lever and Inclined Plane are known in the Schools.
  For the Centre is not known but by the application of the members to matter.
  For I have shown the Vis Inerti©¡ to be false, and such is all nonsense.
  For the Centre is the hold of the Spirit upon the matter in hand.
  For FRICTION is inevitable because the Universe is FULL of God's works.
  For the PERPETUAL MOTION is in all the works of Almighty GOD.
  For it is not so in the engines of man, which are made of dead materials, neither indeed can be.
  For the Moment of bodies, as it is used, is a false term -- bless God ye Speakers on the Fifth of November.
  For Time and Weight are by their several estimates.
  For I bless GOD in the discovery of the LONGITUDE direct by the means of GLADWICK.
  For the motion of the PENDULUM is the longest in that it parries resistance.
  For the WEDDING GARMENTS of all men are prepared in the SUN against the day of acceptation.
  For the Wedding Garments of all women are prepared in the MOON against the day of their purification.
  For CHASTITY is the key of knowledge as in Esdras, Sr Isaac Newton and now, God be praised, in me.
  For Newton nevertheless is more of error than of the truth, but I am of the WORD of GOD.
  For WATER, is not of solid constituents, but is dissolved from precious stones above.
  For the life remains in its dissolvent state, and that in great power.
  For WATER is condensed by the Lord's FROST, tho' not by the FLORENTINE experiment.
  For GLADWICK is a substance growing on hills in the East, candied by the sun, and of diverse colours.
  For it is neither stone nor metal but a new creature, soft to the ax, but hard to the hammer.
  For it answers sundry uses, but particularly it supplies the place of Glass.
  For it giveth a benign light without the fragility, malignity or mischief of Glass.
  For it attracteth all the colours of the GREAT BOW which is fixed in the EAST.
  For the FOUNTAINS and SPRINGS are the life of the waters working up to God.
  For they are in SYMPATHY with the waters above the Heavens, which are solid.
  For the Fountains, springs and rivers are all of them from the sea, whose water is filtrated and purified by the earth.
  For there is Water above the visible surface in a spiritualizing state, which cannot be seen but by application of a CAPILLARY TUBE.
  For the ASCENT of VAPOURS is the return of thanksgiving from all humid bodies.
  For the RAIN WATER kept in a reservoir at any altitude, suppose of a thousand feet, will make a fountain from a spout of ten feet of the same height.
  For it will ascend in a stream two thirds of the way and afterwards prank itself into ten thousand agreeable forms.
  For the SEA is a seventh of the Earth -- the spirit of the Lord by Esdras.
  For MERCURY is affected by the AIR because it is of a similar subtlety.
  For the rising in the BAROMETER is not effected by pressure but by sympathy.
  For it cannot be seperated from the creature with which it is intimately and eternally connected.
  For where it is stinted of air there it will adhere together and stretch on the reverse.
  For it works by ballancing according to the hold of the spirit.
  For QUICK-SILVER is spiritual and so is the AIR to all intents and purposes.
  For the AIR-PUMP weakens and dispirits but cannot wholly exhaust.
  For SUCKTION is the withdrawing of the life, but life will follow as fast as it can.
  For there is infinite provision to keep up the life in all the parts of Creation.
  For the AIR is contaminated by curses and evil language.
  For poysonous creatures catch some of it and retain it or ere it goes to the adversary.
  For IRELAND was without these creatures, till of late, because of the simplicity of the people.
  For the AIR. is purified by prayer which is made aloud and with all our might.
  For loud prayer is good for weak lungs and for a vitiated throat.
  For SOUND is propagated in the spirit and in all directions.
  For the VOICE of a figure compleat in all its parts.
  For a man speaks HIMSELF from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet.
  For a LION roars HIMSELF compleat from head to tail.
  For all these things are seen in the spirit which makes the beauty of prayer.
  For all whispers and unmusical sounds in general are of the Adversary.
  For 'I will hiss saith the Lord' is God's denunciation of death.
  For applause or the clapping of the hands is the natural action of a man on the descent of the glory of God.
  For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts.
  For ECHO is the soul of the voice exerting itself in hollow places.
  For ECHO cannot act but when she can parry the adversary.
  For ECHO is greatest in Churches and where she can assist in prayer.
  For a good voice hath its Echo with it and it is attainable by much supplication.
  For the FOICE is from the body and the spirit -- and is a a body and a spirit.
  For the prayers of good men are therefore visible to second-sighted persons.
  For HARPSICHORDS are best strung with gold wire.
  For HARPS and VIOLS are best strung with Indian weed.
  For the GERMAN FLUTE is an indirect -- the common flute good, bless the Lord Jesus BENJIMIN HALLET.
  For the feast of TRUMPETS should be kept up, that being the most direct and acceptable of all instruments.
  For the TRUMPET of God is a blessed intelligence and so are all the instruments in HEAVEN.
  For GOD the father Almighty plays upon the HARP of stupendous magnitude and melody.
  For innumerable Angels fly out at every touch and his tune is a work of creation.
  For at that time malignity ceases and the devils themselves are at peace.
  For this time is perceptible to man by a remarkable stillness and serenity of soul.
  For the ¨¡olian harp is improveable into regularity.
  For when it is so improved it will be known to be the SHAWM.
  For it woud be better if the LITURGY were musically performed.
  For the strings of the SHAWM were upon a cylinder which turned to the wind.
  For this was spiritual musick altogether, as the wind is a spirit.
  For there is nothing but it may be played upon in delight.
  For the flames of fire may lie blown thro musical pipes.
  For it is so higher up in the vast empyrean.
  For is so real as that which is spiritual.
  For an IGNIS FATUUS is either the fool's conceit or a blast from the adversary.
  For SHELL-FIRE or ELECTRICAL is the quick air when it is caught.
  For GLASS is worked in the fire till it partakes of its nature.
  For the electrical fire is easily obtain'd by the working of glass.
  For all spirits are of fire and the air is a very benign one.
  For the MAN in VACUO is a flat conceit of preposterous folly.
  For the breath of our nostrils is an electrical spirit.
  For an electrical spirit may be exasperated into a malignant fire.
  For it is good to quicken in paralytic cases being the life applied unto death,
  For the method of philosophizing is in a posture of Adoration.
  For the School-Doctrine of Thunder and Lightning is a Diabolical Hypothesis.
  For it is taking the nitre from the lower regions and directing it against the Infinite of Heights.
  For THUNDER is the voice of God direct in verse and musick.
  For LIGHTNING is a glance of the glory of God.
  For the Brimstone that is found at the times of thunder and lightning is worked up by the Adversary.
  For the voice is always for infinite good which he strives to impede.
  For the Devil can work coals into shapes to afflict the minds of those that will not pray.
  For the coffin and the cradle and the purse are all against a man.
  For the coffin is for the dead and death came by disobedience.
  For the cradle is for weakness and the child of man was originally strong from the womb.
  For the purse is for money and money is dead matter with the stamp of human vanity.
  For the adversary frequently sends these particular images out of the fire to those whom they concern.
  For the coffin is for me because I have nothing to do with it.
  For the cradle is for me because the old Dragon attacked me in it and overcame in Christ.
  For the purse is for me because I have neither money nor human friends.
  For LIGHT is propagated at all distances in an instant because it is actuated by the divine conception.
  For the Satellites of the planet prove nothing in this matter but the glory of Almighty God.
  For the SHADE is of death and from the adversary.
  For Solomon said vanity of vanities, vanity of vanities all is vanity.
  For Jesus says verity of verities, verity of verities all is verity.
  For Solomon said THOU FOOL in malice from his own vanity.
  For the Lord reviled not all in hardship and temptation unutterable.
  For Fire hath this property that it reduces a thing till finally it is not.
  For all the filth wicked of men shall be done away by fire in Eternity.
  For the furnace itself shall come up at the last according to Abraham's vision.
  For the Convex Heaven of shall work about on that great event.
  For the ANTARTICK POLE is not yet but shall answer in the Consummation.
  For the devil hath most power in winter, because darkness prevails.
  For the Longing of Women is the operation of the Devil upon their conceptions.
  For the marking of their children is from the same cause both of which are to be parried by prayer.
  For the laws of King James the first against Witchcraft were wise, had it been of man to make laws.
  For there are witches and wizards even now who are spoken to by their familiars.
  For the visitation of their familiars is prevented by the Lord's incarnation.
  For to conceive with intense diligence against one's neighbour is a branch of witchcraft.
  For to use pollution, exact and cross things and at the same time to think against a man is the crime direct.
  For prayer with musick is good for persons so exacted upon.
  For before the NATIVITY is the dead of the winter and after it the quick.
  For the sin against the HOLY GHOST is INGRATITUDE.
  For stuff'd guts make no musick; strain them strong and you shall have sweet melody.
  For the SHADOW is of death, which is the Devil, who can make false and faint images of the works of Almighty God.
  For every man beareth death about him ever since the transgression of Adam, but in perfect light there is no shadow.
  For all Wrath is Fire, which the adversary blows upon and exasperates.
  For SHADOW is a fair Word from God, which is not returnable till the furnace comes up.
  For the ECLIPSE is of the adversary -- blessed be the name of Jesus for Whisson of Trinity.
  For the shadow is his and the penumbra is his and his the perplexity of the the phenomenon.
  For the eclipses happen at times when the light is defective.
  For the more the light is defective, the more the powers of darkness prevail.
  For deficiencies happen by the luminaries crossing one another.
  For the SUN is an intelligence and an angel of the human form.
  For the MOON is an intelligence and an angel in shape like a woman.
  For they are together in the spirit every night like man and wife.
  For Justice is infinitely beneath Mercy in nature and office.
  For the Devil himself may be just in accusation and punishment.
  For HELL is without eternity from the presence of Almighty God.
  For Volcanos and burning mountains are where the adversary hath most power.
  For the angel GRATITUDE is my wife -- God bring me to her or her to me.
  For the propagation of light is quick as the divine Conception.
  For FROST is damp and unwholsome air candied to fall to the best advantage.
  For I am the Lord's News-Writer -- the scribe-evangelist -- Widow Mitchel, Gun and Grange bless the Lord Jesus.
  For Adversity above all other is to be deserted of the grace of God.
  For in the divine Idea this Eternity is compleat and the Word is a making many more.
  For there is a forlorn hope ev'n for impenitent sinners because the furnace itself must be the crown of Eternity.
  For my hope is beyond Eternity in the bosom of God my saviour.
  For by the grace of God I am the Reviver of ADORATION amongst ENGLISH-MEN.
  For being desert-ed is to have desert in the sight of God and intitles one to the Lord's merit.
  For things that are not in the sight of men are thro' God of infinite concern.
  For envious men have exceeding subtlety quippe qui in -- videant.
  For avaricious men are exceeding subtle like the soul seperated from the body.
  For their attention is on a sinking object which perishes.
  For they can go beyond the children of light in matters of their own misery.
  For Snow is the dew candied and cherishes.
  For TIMES and SEASONS are the Lord's -- Man is no CHRONOLOGER.
  For there is a CIRCULATION of the SAP in all vegetables.
  For SOOT is the dross of Fire.
  For the CLAPPING of the hands is naught unless it be to the glory of God.
  For God will descend in visible glory when men begin to applaud him.
  For all STAGE-Playing is Hypocrisy and the Devil is the master of their revels.
  For the INNATATION of corpuscles is solved by the Gold-beater's hammer -- God be gracious to Christopher Peacock and to all my God-Children.
  For the PRECESSION of the Equinoxes is improving nature -- something being gained every where for the glory of God perpetually.
  For the souls of the departed are embodied in clouds and purged by the Sun.
  For the LONGITUDE may be discovered by attending the motions of the Sun. Way 2d.
  For you must consider the Sun as dodging, which he does to parry observation.
  For he must be taken with an Astrolabe, and considered respecting the point he left.
  For you must do this upon your knees and that will secure your point.
  For I bless God that I dwell within the sound of Success, and that it is well with ENGLAND this blessed day. NATIVITY of our LORD N.S. 1759.
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