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A89480	The affliction and deliverance of the saints or, The whole booke of Iob composed into English heroicall verse metaphrastically. / By Thomas Manley Iun. Esq;	Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1652 (1652)	Wing M441; Thomason E1318_2; ESTC R202853	46,895	111

who know him not most wicked men Can see his daies and think to force his will To bear their crimes and luxuries fulfill verse 2 The Land-markes some remove and take away The flocks and feed upon them as their prey verse 3 The Orphans Asse they drive away unbought And take the widdowes Ox to pledge for nought verse 4 The needy they mislead and make them glad Of Caves to keep them from a life more sad verse 5 Loe as wild Asses in the desart doe So to their businesse doe these wretches go Rising for pr●y they will not be withstood The Desart yeelds them and their children food verse 6 They reap the poor mans corn while yet it grew And pull the vintage of their very crew verse 7 They make the naked without clothing lye And through extremity of cold to dye verse 8 Showrs of the mountain wet their naked skin And they embrace the rocks for covering verse 9 They pluck Orphans from their mothers brest And take the pledge from men with need opprest verse 10 From his half-naked back his clothes they pull And take their gleaning from the hungry soul verse 11 Yea those who make their oyle for their wine Tread in their presses suffer thirst and pine verse 12 Men through extortion in the City groan They weep and suffer and unpittied moan The crying blood of slain even preacheth woe Yet God unpunish't lets their folly go verse 13 These these are they that so abhor the light And in the way of truth will not delight verse 14 The murtherer arising with the day The poor and needy in his wrath doth slay Among his consorts he 's accounted chiefe And in the night he is a cunning thiefe verse 15 Th' adultrous monster with a watchfull eye Wasteth his wished twilight to espie No eye shall see me in his heart he saies And with disguises seeks to hide his face verse 16 They rob those houses in the dark of night They marked in the day they hate the light verse 17 As is grim death unto our frame of clay Such to these wretches is the dawning day For if one know them they are straight in fear As if the pangs of death did then appear verse 18 He 's swift upon the waters for he knows His portion on the earth is nought but woes His mind 's so fraught with jealousies and feares That go the publike way he never dares verse 19 As heat and drought the waters dry away So shall the grave those men that go astray verse 20 Yea they shall be forgotten and instead Of all their pleasures worms shall on them feed They shall no more on Earth remembred be The wicked shall be broken like a tree verse 21 He to the barren did no comfort give Nor poorer widdowes with his goods relieve verse 22 He drawes the mighty by his power to strife And when he riseth none is sure of life verse 23 Though he may rest secure and live in peace If they but move his eies are on their waies verse 24 They are exalted for a little while Then are brought low and have a sudden foile They are destroy'd cut off yea in their prime As are the eares of corn in summer time verse 25 If 't be not so who 'le me a liar make And from my speeches their true value take CHAP. XXV verse 1 THen Bildad said Power and strength remain verse 2 With him that Peace doth with himself retain verse 3 His Armies have no number his is might On all things living doth arise his light verse 4 How then can man be justify'd with God How can the sons of men be free from 's rod verse 5 He speaks the word the Moon deny's its light The very stars are faulty in his sight verse 6 How much lesse man who is a worm and frail Whose greatest worth doth as a shadow fail CHAP. XXVI verse 1 BUt Iob returned Hast thou the weak supply'd verse 2 Out of thy strength against the arme of pride And such as through weaknesse void of might To help or strengthen hast thou ta'ne delight verse 3 Hast thou such counsel'd as did counsell need Or hast thou shewn the thing as 't is indeed verse 4 Why or to whom dost thou these words declare What or whose spirit in them doth appear verse 5 Mines metals dead things God does wisely frame Under the waters yet he knowes the same verse 6 Naked before him is the Earths abisse Destruction is not hid Hell open is verse 7 Hee makes the Heavens turn round the Northern Pole The Earths vast body nothing doth uphold verse 8 He binds the waters in his Clouds and yet The clouds not broken are under their weight verse 9 He holdeth back his throne and in a cloud He makes the heavens their glorious beauty shroud verse 10 Unto the waters he hath set their bounds As long as day and night fulfill their rounds verse 11 The very Heavens before his face do shake At his reproofe the pillars of it quake verse 12 His power calmes the sea whose waves did croud Themselves into a storme he smites the proud verse 13 The Heavens their garnish by his Spirit have His hand a form to crooked Serpents gave verse 14 Behold and see of 's waies this little share How little of his power do we hear If this so little be then Lord what man The thunder of thy power can understand CHAP. XXVII verse 1 VVHen having staid a little Iob proceeds And in his speech to 's friends this Lecture reads verse 2 The living God doth me afflict so sore I want my judgement madnesse makes me roar So many sorrowes daily on me break That I in anguish of my soule do speak verse 3 Yet while I live as long as that same brearh Infus'd by God into me being hath verse 4 I will my lips from wickednesse refraine Nor shall deceit my purer speeches staine verse 5 You judge me faulty can your sin be hid Shall I applaud your sin no God forbid I under undeserved torments lye Yet will not leave my justnesse till I dye verse 6 I my uprightnesse will not quit my heart Shall not accuse me while I live to start verse 7 Let all thy judgements follow such as rise Against me and my chastisement despise Oh let them as presumptuous sinners be Whom death cuts off ere half their daies they see verse 8 What 's the dissemblers hope to heap up wealth When God takes from his soule his saving health verse 9 When dreadfull terrors do his mind assaile Shall then his teares or cries with God prevaile verse 10 Will his afflictions make him call on God Or will he love him when he feeles his rod verse 11 I will through God great mysteries reveale What the Almighty does I 'le not conceale verse 12 Which you your selves have seen but do not know Why will you then so much your folly show verse 13 This lot the Lord to wicked men will

tast verse 8 I perish thence where I was seen before Thy eyes are on me and I am no more verse 9 As watry clouds obscure the clearest day Yet when disgorg'd of moysture fade away So he that goes to 'th quiet of the grave No more the pleasures of this life shall have verse 10 He shall no more come from his chosen urne Nor to the place of his abode returne verse 11 With saddest plaints therefore I 'le silence break I will in anguish of my spirit speak My catalogue of woes I will unroule In bitterness of my perplexed soule verse 12 Am I a Whale or Sea t'o'repass my bounds That thus with watches thou besetst me round verse 13 When I fore think my bed shall comfort give My couch shall ease my plaints and me relieve verse 14 Then with affrighting dreams thou dost me skare And fearfull visions all my solace are verse 15 So that my soule would strangling yea and death Rather then draw in my so hatefull breath verse 16 I loath it I 'de not live die would I faine Let me alone my daies are all but vain verse 17 What 's man that thou shouldst magnifie him yet And that upon him thou thine heart shouldst set verse 18 And that thou dost him visit every morne And moment-tryals tell him not forlorne verse 19 Why wilt not leave me nor let me alone Till I my spittle may but swallow down verse 20 Oh thou great men-preserver now I see My passed sins what shall I doe to thee Why hast thou as thy marke set me vile else So that I am a burthen to my selfe verse 21 And why my trespass dost thou not forget And take away my sin from out thy sight I shall sleep hidden then within the ground And if thou seek me I shall not be found CHAP. VIII verse 1 THen Bildad speaking did this answer make verse 2 How long of these things wilt thou love to speak And shall we still thy vainer speeches find As are the quick-gone puffes of mighty winde verse 3 Doth the Allmighty judgement turne aside Or doth perverted justice God abide verse 4 If so thy sons were not of sin afraid And he their trespass hath with death repaid verse 5 If thou wouldst early seeke to God and send Thy pray'rs up to him and his will attend verse 6 If thou wert pure and upright surely he Would now awake to help and comfort thee And with continued happiness would bless The habitation of thy righteousness verse 7 Though thy beginning were but small yet peace Should crown thy latter end with great encrease verse 8 Inquire I pray thee laying by thy rage Of our fore-Fathers search the former Age. verse 9 For of our dwelling here the surest state Drawes but from yesterday its longest date We are unskilfull nothing know alas Our daies on earth do as a shadow pass verse 10 Shall not they teach and tell thee and impart Things secret to thee from their knowing heart verse 11 Without the mire can smallest rushes grow Or flags where water doth not use to flow verse 12 While in its greenness and uncut it be It before other herbs we wither'd see verse 13 So are the paths of all that God forget And hypocrites false hope their joy shall let verse 14 Whose confidence shall be cut off and 's trust Shall be swept down as spiders web or dust verse 15 Upon his house his hope and strength shall rest But it shall fall and not endure the test Fast he shall hold it as a guard secure But it shall faile his hope and not endure verse 16 He 's green before the Sun which makes him grow And in his Garden shooteth forth his bough verse 17 About the Fountaine wrapped are his roots And in the place of stones appeares his shoots verse 18 If any shall destroy him from his place Then none shall know that ever there it was verse 19 Behold he will rejoyce for this his way And others shall grow there another day verse 20 See God the perfect man will not destroy Nor help the wicked in their sad annoy verse 21 Untill with laughing he do fill thy mouth And make thy lips rejoyce to see his truth verse 22 As for thy foes who thee pursue with hate Shame shall their cloathing be and woe their mate And who their hands with vicious folly stain Their dwelling places never shall remain CHAP. IX verse 1 THen answered Job I know that this is sure verse 2 But how should man before the Lord be pure verse 3 If he would with him strive when all is done He cannot answer of a thousand one verse 4 He is in heart all-knowing and all-wise And powerfull in strength rending the skies Who e're hath prosper'd or with wealth been blest Which hath against the Lord harden'd his brest verse 5 Which doth remove the hills and they not know And in his anger doth them overthrow verse 6 He doth the Earth remove out of her seat So that the aire its shaking pillars beat verse 7 He bids the Sun and loe it will not rise And sealeth up the Stars within the Skies verse 8 Himselfe alone the heaven abroad doth spread And on the seas impetuous billowes tread verse 8 He doth Arcturus and Orion make And Pleiades from him their being take The chambers of the South his power owne With both the torrid and the frigid Zone verse 10 Which doth great things beyond the reach of man And wonders works whose number none can scan verse 11 Behold he passeth by he goes by me Yet do I neither him perceive or see verse 12 Behold he by his power takes a prey Who shall controule him or but say him nay verse 13 If God his burning wrath will not withdraw The proudest helpes stoope under him with aw verse 14 How much lesse shall I answer him or mould My words with him an argument to hold verse 15 Whom I 'de not answer though I righteous were For 't is presumption such a thing to dare I such rash foolish courses would not take But supplication to my Judge would make verse 16 If in my torments I to him had cry'd And to my calling he had straight repli'd Yet would I not my tried faith once cheere With hopes that to me he had bent an eare verse 17 For why he with a tempest breakes my bones And multiplies without a cause my wounds verse 18 He will not let me take unwilling breath But fils my soule with bitternesse of death verse 19 If I of strength or youthfull rigour speake Lo he is strong a bow of steele hee 'l breake Or if of judgement who shall ever dare To bring me ●o a pleading at the bar verse 20 If I should think my selfe to justifie My condemnation my own words should be If I should think perfect or just to seeme He me perverse and wicked would esteeme verse 21 Though I were perfect yet in mine own eyes Would I not seeme

is sure thou wilt no more do so verse 9 Hope not to take him all their hopes shall die Shall one mot at his sight amazed lie verse 10 If he 's so fierce that none dare him provoke Who then is he can stand before my stroke verse 11 Who hath prevented me when I encline Him to repay All under heaven is mine verse 12 His parts and power I will not conceale His comely lineaments I wil reveale verse 13 What man 's so hardy to pull off his skin Who can a bridle put his jawes between verse 14 Or who the doores dare open of his face His teeth are all most fearfull in their place verse 15 His power and his pride his scales reveale All shut together close as with a seale verse 16 They are so near together so conjoyn'd That between them can come nor air nor winde verse 17 To one another fixed so they grow That they can be divided by no blow verse 18 His neezings chase the darknesse quite away His eyes are like the eyelids of the day verse 19 Out of his mouth come burning flames of fire Whose sparkles from his throat he doth expire verse 20 Out of his nostrils riseth smoke as hot As from a coldron or a boiling pot verse 21 He coales and fire kindleth with his breath Out of his mouth proceed flames bringing death verse 22 His neck is clad with strength fear no annoy Sorrow before him is soon turn'd to joy verse 23 His flesh and members are so joyn'd together They can't be mov'd by strength or valour either verse 24 His heart is firm and strong as is a stone Yea as the nether milstone hard it s grown verse 25 When he doth raise himself the mighty fear They faint through terror if he but appear verse 26 The sword that strikes him breakes yet don't hee start He scornes the spear habergeon and dart verse 27 He doth esteem when in his furious mood Iron as straw and brasse as rotten wood verse 28 He will not flee though him the archer strike Sling-stones and stubble hurt him both alike verse 29 He doth at darts as straw or stubble jeer And laugheth at the shaking of the spear verse 30 Upon sharp stones he lies and takes his ease As much as mud sharpe pointed things him please verse 31 He makes the sea as though it boyled seem One would the deep a pot of oyntment deem verse 32 He leaves a shining path where he doth go One would suppose the deep did hoary gorw verse 33 In all the earth none like him doth appear He is by God created without fear verse 34 He looks at and despises all high things Over the proudest beast he is a King CHAP. XLII verse 1 THen Iob with terrors of his guilt afraid Unto the Lord this humble answer made verse 2 I know thou canst do all and that from thee Our very thoughts cannot with-holden be verse 3 There 's none but I who by my words so vain Obscure that counsell that before was plain I spake I knew not what yea I did presse Things that I understood not I confesse verse 4 Oh hear me when I speak I thee beseech I will demand O Lord thy Scholar teach verse 5 I have by hear-say heard of thee before But now I see I feele I know thee more verse 6 I do abnor my faults my crimes resent In dust and ashes I my sins repent verse 7 After these speeches God to Job had made To Eliphaz the Temanite he said Against thy selfe and friends my wrath 's at height Ye have not spoke of me the thing that 's right verse 8 As did my servant Job Take now to you Seven Bullockes and seven Rams and to him go And for your selves offer a sacrifice And Job shall pray for you for him I prize Else of your glory I shall you disrobe Because you spoke not of me as did Job verse 9 So Bildad Eliphaz and Zophar went As God commanded and to Job they sent Who pray'd to heaven that they might mercy have And God heard Job and th' asked mercy gave verse 10 Then God to Jobs Captivity gave end When he petitioned for his sinfull friends And that his blessings might not want of store He doubled to him what he had before verse 11 Then all his brethren sisters former friends Who lately shunn'd him now to make amends Came and eat with him in his house each one And all his past misfortunes did bemoane And gave him comfort over all the ill God had brought on him by his secret will Yea none from giving did their hand with-hold Each gave him money and a ring of gold verse 12 So God with blessings crown'd Jobs latter daies His end more blest than his beginning was He had a flock of fourteen thousand sheep For worke six thousand Camels did he keep He own'd a thousand yoke of Oxen strong Shee-Asles too as many old and young verse 13 Three Daughters and seven Sons the place fulfill Of those whom Satan formerly did kill verse 14 Jemima first bright as the Suns bright rise Kezia the next pleasant as sweetest spice As third of these was Kerenhappuch borne The child of sweetnesse and rare beauties horne verse 15 In all the Land no women were so faire Or so renown'd as Jobs three Daughters were And that their fortunes he might more advance He gave them part of his Inheritance verse 16 And after this Job sevenscore yeares more spent And of his children saw the fourth descent verse 17 So Job replete with goodnesse as with daies His soule to God his flesh to earth repaies FINIS A MEDITATION 1. IS then the way to Heaven so sharp and must Affliction be attendants to the just Must all that goe Heaven-ward take in their way the vaile of woe Can 't Israel win Canaan unlesse he passe the wasts of Sin Can't we be pure Unless afflictions fire we first endure No he orecomes that suffers let us square Thereby our actions and our thoughts prepare 2. Bastards go free he chastens whom he loves 'T is granted silver which the Touchstone proves Though crosses may Succeed the other as the night the day Though seas of griefe Present us to the World as past reliefe Though God make bare His arm against us as in open war Yet to 's elect his mercy is most sure He will deliver and their wounds recure 3. God is both just and loving and his care Will not afflict beyond what we can bear Even when'● is sent He gives the issue as the punishment Raise then your hearts And when cast down with courage act your parts The Prophets take James And your example the Apostles make Who held this rule that many crosses bring To heaven where every Saint shall be a King Acts 4. Have ye not heard of Job saith James how he With patience waded through his misery Do you not know Have you not read the end God gave to 's woe Oh how therein Are the sure mercies of th' Almighty seen He sorely tries Yet ne're forgets his goodnesse O sweet prize When we by trouble this great good attaine Him for our help Heaven as our own we gain