Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A63029
|
Poems on several occasions being the result of idle hours, to please the desire of some friends / written by J.T. Esq.
|
J. T., Esq.
|
1700
(1700)
|
Wing T19A; ESTC R23473
|
27,576
|
114
|
spread by starry Canopy Till fair bright Days-eye doth again appear In this clear pleasant Spring time of the Year When frisking Lambs do dance and Birds do sing Praises to God their great heavenly King On the Marygold THE pleasant Marygold that shines most bright Shutteth quite close at the approach of Night The love of all those that Marry for Gold May be compared to the Marygold When Night cometh on and the Gold is done The Marygold's shut and the love is gone On his Friend J. V. WHen Ancientest Reason us had taught How to distinguish between good and naught What Demon taught our Happiness to place In her that ruin'd us and all our Race And think our Happiness in them doth dwell That are the publick Mart and Road to Hell Surely he was Post or Pisky ridden To tast of such putrid Fruit forbidden Whose rotten inside tho' her outside fair Hath led him to so great and deadly Snare Who nath brought on him so great a Slander But they must needs be Flour'd come near the Launder On Mrs. Thell FRiendship before was naught but Name and shew Which I 'de by some Poet or Painter drew Till you of all the fairest Sex the Fame Have made it to appear more than a Name Whose bright Soul like unto the Gods above Doth all Things in the way of Heroick Love But here give me leave Fortune to accuse For giving place unto my slender Muse Whe sheweth but the Emblem of my Mind And can but promise I should have been kind And grateful for your former Courtesies Your real Friendships and Civilities Which should have been done in reality Setting aside all blind formality For if e're I forget Mr. Colling's Shop May I turn School-boy'gen and scourge a Top May I not know Maiden-hair from Syrrup Neither my Gambado from my Styrrup May I be Quack and no Physician Or be put in Spanish Inquisition May I not know Cordial from Blister Neither an Emetick from a Glister May I ever in Oblivion dwell If e'er I do forget dear Mrs. Thell The Latin Sentences in Mr. Goddard's Miscelanies Paraphrased Sine Deo nec gratia nec gaudium nec Coelum WIthout the Rays of the Almighty's Face We cannot attain the least spark of Grace Nor joy nor any great or goodly Thing Nor Heaven without our Heavenly King Redemptor noster pro bonis miserecorditer incarnatus est nihil igitur hac Margarita ad porcos Canes OUR Saviour in pity to the Good Took on him our natural Flesh and Blood This precious Pearl then must not be thrown To Piggs and surly Doggs who will not own His infinite Worth and pious Merit All such his purchase shall ne'er Inherit Sine Speritu Sancto nec lux pax puritas sanctitas nec gloria WIthout the Holy Ghost we have no Light But live in endless perpetual Night No Peace nor Happiness nor Purity No heavenly Mindedness nor Sanctity Nor without belief of the blest Trinity Shall we attain to eternal Glory Peccatum lethale est venenum quod delectat et necat SIN is a deadly Poyson which doth kill All those People that take thereof their fill Altho' it goeth down with great delight With them whose Palats it hath distemper'd quite Which cannot relish Vertues bitter Pill Which giveth Life and Antidotes all ill Mundus delectat decipit destruit THE World deceives us with its gaudy Toys And gives us but painted not real Joys And all that trust it certainly destroys Per obedientiam pax prosperitas libertas Per Rebellionem infaelicitas paupertas infamia desolatio damnatio BY our obedience we obtain Peace Consusions Wars Bloodsheds then do cease Then if we have but true sincerity We shall enjoy eternal Prosperity But Rebellion is simplicity It brings on us all infelicity Poverty Infamy and Punishment It causeth Wars and Desolation And without Repentance Damnation Divitiae sine gratia nocent affligunt vexant premunt opprimunt irretant interficiunt RIehes insnare and do us greatly hurt When we consume them in our Vice and Sport They afflict and vex and they do oppress And cause us our Duty for to transgress They stir us up to Anger and to Strife And make us live a discontented Life Unless they are sanctifyed by Grace Like graceless Children they fly in Parents Face Avaritia est Aveni porta pietatis gangrena honestatis tinea mors anima COvetousness's the way and gate to Hell Where covetous Misers shall ever dwell They that do not from this base Vice abstain 'T will prove to their Piety a Gangrene This Vice is worse then idleness or sloth And will prove to Man's honesty a Moth. Nay this Vice is so mischievous and foul 'T will prove the Death of both Body and Soul Voluptas obcaecat titillat pascit placet perdit ALL fleshly Pleasures do bewitch the Mind And make the Understanding quite purblind It tickles us with painted Joys it feeds Our Fancies but doth ne'er supply our needs Tho' it pleaseth with its poysonous Pills Instead of giving ease it surely kills Salus sal Sol est humanae vitae HEalth is both salt and Sun of Humane Life Exceedeth Riches or a virtuous Wife Per fidem in Christo Corona in Coelo BY Faith in Christ we attain unto Bliss By infidelity that Crown we miss If our Faith be joyned to sincere Love We compleat our Joy in Heaven above Paenitere est vere sapere valere vivere WOuld we truly and sincerely repent We must make our whole lives a pious Lent And always appear with watry Eyes Then shall we appear most truly Wise We shall be in Health and for ever live When God our hainous Sins shall all forgive Preces poscunt obtinent praeliant vincunt triumphant PRayers do always profit and obtain And never return empty nor in vain They press and overcome Heaven's the Place And always obtain some favour or grace If they are true sincere without blind Cant They will always appear most triumphant Sinceritas est pietatis medulla anima gratiae antidotus contra desperationem WE all shall find when we do come to dye The real worth of true sincerity Which is the pitch and the heart of Piety 'T will cause our Actions appear most fair By antidoting ugly black despair 'T is the true Life and very Soul of Grace 'T will bring us to the beatifick Face Afflictio illuminat docet purgat curat AFlictions us do inlighten and teach And true Repentance to us all do Preach They do both soundly Purge and throughly Cure All that can them patiently endure Patientia tacet adjuvat exonerat PAtience doth from all Perturbation cease And is a Conservator of the Peace She helpeth us in all our ill Events And removeth all sad cross Accidents She doth unburden us when sore opprest And giveth us ease with sweet quiet rest Baptismus Janua est vitae Christianitatis ostium Sacramentum regenerationis CHristian Baptisme of Life is the Gate By which we ought