Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)

Mundorum Explicatio Wherein are Couched the Mysteries of the External, Internal, and Eternal worlds: Shewing the True Progress of a Soul, from the Court of Babylon to the City of Jerusalem, from the Adamical Fallen state, to the Regenerate and Angelical: Also, The explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure: A Sacred Poem

London

Printed by T. R. for Lodowick Lloyd

1661

"This doth the understanding purge; the eye / O'th' Soul, the Mind from Motes do purifie."

But mark that next Dish, where green Leaves inclose
Fruit which in scarlet Robes out-braves the Rose:
So fulgent Rubies court, and charm the eye,
When with clear Smuragds they invelop'd lye;
The Pestum flower peeps th'row her infant Skreen,
With paler blushes, wrap'd with duller green.
The juyce of these impregnates strait the Brain,
Not with discourses Kicksie, nor with vain
Disputes: true Logic art it doth diffuse,
And teaches Syllogisms how to use
For Heav'n's own int'rest: True Dilemma's too
Can by infusion to the Taster shew.
This doth the understanding purge; the eye
O'th' Soul, the Mind from Motes do purifie:
This Reason doth illuminate, and shews
How the true Dialectic Art to use:
Reason's corruptions, spots, and fallacies
This purgeth out: and gives it purer eyes.
This giveth Armes unto Truth's Champions, and
Inables them in Dispute's Wars to stand.
This unto Paul was borne by some of us,
When He with Beasts battail'd at Ephesus:
By this at Athens, to the Schoole he flew,
And th' Epicures, and Stoicks overthrew
With solid Arguments. This means did show
His persecutors how to overthrow:
The Jewish Rabbies, Gentile Doctors, Mute
At last were made: 'gainst him was no dispute.

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Samuel Pordage, Mundorum Explicatio Wherein are Couched the Mysteries of the External, Internal, and Eternal worlds (London: T.R. for Lodowick Lloyd, 1661). <Link to EEBO>

Mind's Eye

04/17/2006