befall Much less as other some conceited are Was that Command intended as a Snare Those to entrap whom thy eternal Hate Had fore-decreed Oh God! to reprobate Far it is from the Goodness of thy Nature To be a God so Cruel to thy Creature And far far be it from thy Creatures too To their kind Maker so great wrong to do This rather seems the cause there could not be A possibility that Thou and We Should make a perfect Unity unless Our Nature had Essential Righteousness For otherwise thy Justice would abhor That which thy Mercy did endeavour for And from uniting us become so far That thine own Attributes would be at War. When therefore Man seduced fail'd in that Which might have perfected his blest Estate And that perform'd not whereby Justice might In our Advancement take a full delight Behold thy powerful Mercy did prevent Our total ruin by a Wonderment Beyond the Worlds Creation out of nought For when by Sin we further off were brought From what thou had'st intended us then by The not obtaining of an Entity Thy all-inventing wisdom found a mean Through which our Essence made e're while unclean Should be re-purifi'd and so perfum'd That personally it might be then assum'd Unto thy self and Man thereby attain A Happiness not to be lost again If some few easy Duties he will do When Grace enables Nature thereunto And doubtless every Man shall one day know That thou on him such portions didst bestow Ev'n pers'nally that if he be undone It was not Adams but his fault alone This Mystery thy goodness brought to pass And for no other end Oh Lord it was But for our good for neither dost thou need Our Praise or Love nor is it for the deed Of Love or Praise or Worship or of ought Which by our faculties to pass is brought That thou requirest them of us but that we Should not unto our selves defective be In doing our endeavours to attain So much as lieth in our power to gain Lest it indamage us and in the way Unto our true perfections stops may lay Essential goodness hath essential peace Without all diminution or increase And therefore he who blessedness desires To that above all other thing aspires To love and give due praise is better far Than to be lov'd or to be praised are To him that hath subsistance of his own Ev'n I my self whose heart is overgrown With imperfections love without respect Of any end but meerly to affect Those whom I love and rather would have done Ten thousand kindnesses than sought for one And Lord if such a failing love as mine May reach to this how infinite is thine And Oh how far art thou from things so vain As loving meerly to be lov'd again By such poor worms as we whose best affection Is but a passion full of imperfection Indeed thou bid'st us love thee but for what Save to preserve us capable of that Which we receive and that we might not miss The comfort which in Virtue placed is And of whose hapless want he cannot chuse But feel the loss whose conscience doth accuse Yea thou commandest love that love may make Our nature of thy nature to partake Without which quality there cannot be The true Communion 'twixt us and thee Which is the very height of all our bliss Or which indeed the Essence of it is For could we be of thee Oh God! approv'd Or could we of all creatures be belov'd Tho' we no love return'd nor had in us An object for the love conferred thus Which were impossible we ne'retheless Should suffer by our own unworthiness An inward Hell and to our selves invent Occasions of continual discontent As to those envious men it may appear Who causlesly injurious often are To those their honest neighbours whom they find To them as friendly as they are unkind For outward plagues pursueth so this sin Nay also so affects him still within And till his nature be depraved quite His own Injustice will his heart affright Yea they whose Crimes are pardon'd are not free From suff'rings though they well assured be That neither God nor Man will blame them for The passed Frailties which they do abhor For then our hearts will grieve do what we can If they have injur'd either God or Man. And then more favour is vouchsaf'd to them The more themselves they censure and condemn Therefore although I can forgive my Friend Yet I would have him wary to offend Lest when he finds his error griev'd he be Within himself that he hath wronged me And in his heart a torment suffer should From which my love would keep him if I could Ev'n so oh Lord my God though in degree More infinite than can conceived be And in a manner which I am not able By any Figure to make demonstrable In meer Good-will to Man thou pleased art To preach unto his ear or to his Heart Those Dutys which to thee from him belong That he unto himself may do no wrong Because we seem a great esteem to have Of Love and Praise and thereby to receive Content and profit thou dost oft propose By us to be perform'd such things as those As Dutys which are much of thee desired And at our hand for thy avail required But doubtless thou dost only seem to be Like us that thou might'st make us like to thee And that if thee we love we might be won To do as for thy sake what should be done For our own Good As Parents kind and wise Have dealt with Children in their Infancies And whereas Lord it hath been said by thee That thou wilt of thine honour Jealous be Thou only Jealous art lest our neglect Of thee our own perdition may effect Thou dost things Honourable and though none Did praise thee for them they should still be done Thine honour is essential That we give And which from us thou pleasest to receive Is but an accident which ever may Without thy loss be present or away And when thou either thanks or praise requirest To perfect us those Dutys thou desirest This we long time have so misunderstood As if we did conceive thou wert a God Affected with Self-Love or Fruitless Fame Although we mannerly express the same Yea we have dream'd that thou this world did'st make And us and all things for thy Glorys sake In such a sense and for such praises too As we effect when our best works we do I would we thought no worse or would we knew What damnable absurdities ensue Our groundless Fancies For by them thou gain'st Some fear but little hearty love obtain'st By these false thoughts of thee we do encrease Our own self Love and all vain gloriousness Within our selves hence is all we intend Our whole endeavours for a private end And that a froward peevishness is own'd In most of all our actions to be found For who can possibly be just or wise Who to his God imputes absurdities Lord now we better
see The Essence whole and so distinct to be From what is meerly Jewish that no Doubt Shall give the weaker conscience thereabout For that which is essential may be ' spide From what should only for a time abide As evidently as our bodies are Discerned from the ground which once we were It is the Abstract of the Law of Nature And that which every Reasonable Creature Which hath a Body must submit unto With Incorporials we have nought to do Nor us to search concerns it any way What Law they are obliged to obey Salvation comes not by this Law indeed Yet knowledge of our Sin and that we need A Saviour for it by this Law is taught Till which be known no safety can be wrought T is true we can keep it yet it may Keep us from running quite out of the way Or keep us humble That the works of Grace May in our hearts the better take their place It maketh no man pure Yet 't is a Glass By which the fairest of old Adams race May view themselves deform'd and also see In what defects they should repaired be It makes not streight and yet it may supply A helpful means our selves to rectify It gives not sight but they that see may find It yieldeth light to those who grow not blind By wilful faults and Stubbornly contemn Those Beams of Grace which might enlighten them It gives not strength to go we must confess But yet it shews a way to happiness And they who can but love it when they know it Shall either be vouchsafed strength to go it By mediate help or by immediate Grace Exalted be to their desired place It cannot merit Love But it may shew Whether or no our Love be false or true Though 't is not life It is the death of Sin Whereby the life of grace doth first begin To shew that living Faith wherein consists The truth of their profession who are Christ's And they are not suspected without cause False Christians who conform not to these Laws It is a needful Tutor though it stand With looks still frowning and with Rod in hand 'T is truly Good though Ill thereby we know And oft befriends us though it seem a Foe It all condemns not though it puts in fear It brings to Christ and then it leaves us there In brief this Law shall ever be in force Though from Believers God remove the Curse It shall in Essence never fail a jot Although some Accidents continue not And therefore they whose Faith shall them prefer Observe it as a good REMEMBRANCER To these for comfort and encouragement The promise which attends it we present With all the circumstances which may give Assurances of what they well believe Without those Plagues or Terrors which we find Presented to correct a slavish mind For they that love their Founder need no bands But love to keep them true to these commands Love is the Laws fulfilling 't is that end To which both Laws and all good Actions tend And he that Loves unto himself is made A Law whereto we nothing need to add Before the rest our Muse to fright them sets The Tipes of punishments and horrid Threats If either may bring home the Soul that errs God's be the praise the Comfort of it theirs And let me share the prayers and the bliss Of those that shall pe profited by this Amen Commandment I. I Thou shalt have none other Gods but me c. Pharoh by great wonders wrought To acknowledge God was brought And had Reasons light to see Who his only God should be Had he well that Guift employ'd Special Grace had been enjoy'd But no use thereof he made And so lost the gift he had Stubborn too the Fool did grow And ran headlong to his woe Command I. Serve but one God and let him be That God who made and ransom'd thee TO such as love our God of Love makes known A Duty and a benefit bestown That they might know the object of their Creed And in the way of Righteousness proceed For by the Preface of what follows here A freedom from a Bondage doth appear And by the Substance of this great Command A Duty we may likewise understand To them whom no kind usage may perswade From sinful Paths till they afraid are made We here exhibit Pharoh as a chief Of those who suffered for an Unbelief Join with contempt of God that such from thence Might moved be to faithful penitence To them that shall with Reverence and fear Receive the holy precept which they hear We shew with love and mercy how they may Observe the Streight and Shun the crooked way There is one God alone That God is he By whom we formed and reformed be And they who serve another or deny His Attributes commit impiety This God that 's God indeed though he might say My will and pleasure is you shall obey Me only as your Lord and unto us No reason render why it should be thus Proceeds not so but hath declared why We should accept him for our Deity And peradventure this vouchsafed he To teach them knowledge who his Viccars be And shew to us by being meek and kind How from false Gods the true one we may find For to be God is to be good and so In Goodness infinite to overflow That all may tast thereof excepting none Such is my God and he is God alone The Egyptian Bondage tipified all The Race of Adam in their native Thrall And as their temporal Saviour Moses than Left not behind one hoof much less a man Inslav'd to Pharoh so the blessed Son Of this Great God hath ransom'd every one From that sad house of Bondage and of pain Where we without Redemption else had lain For which great favour he from us doth crave That we no other God but him should have And that we love him with a Reverent awe Which is the whole fulfilling of this Law This Gracious God by many is rejected And as they understand or stand affected They take or make up New ones of such things As almost to contempt the Godhead brings He of himself would make some Deity Who his own power so much doth magnify As if by that he thought to gain access To present and to future happiness He makes the World his God who thinketh fit To love to follow serve and honour it As many do and they who much incline To love this God are enemies to mine He makes his Lust a God who doth fulfil In every thing his own unbridled Will This Tyrant many serve Yea this is He Who makes them Bondslaves whom God setteth free He makes the worst men Gods who doth obey Their Pleasures in an unapproved way Or their imperious threatning so much feareth As think it from his Duty him deterreth He makes the Devil God who doth believe By evil means good blessings to receive Which very many very often doe Whose words deny him and defie him too But some
Murtherers would soon be cast If an impartial verdict should be past There is a murthering poyson in some words And Flatteries are otherwhile the Swords That Kill their hearers though when they infect They do not murther by a line direct Moreover other while unkindness may Strike dead a Gentle heart and such as play False play in Love as when they do allure And causlesly reject may soon procure Untimely Death But such like youthful Crimes Though jested at bring vengeance many times He that by lawful means doth blood require For blood unjustly Spilt with more desire To satisfy his rage than to prefer True Justice is a parcel Murtherer And so are such who practise to encrease A publick Concord or mens private peace In some degree of Murtherers are they Who to their might remove not far away All such occasionings as may begin Or help to perfect this inhumane Sin And therefore by this Law we are forbidden To keep an Enmity in secret hidden That may provoke Revenge which to prevent A Duty doth precede the Sacrament Of Christian Unity and they commit Against this Law who fail to practise it Pride Wrath Scorn Avarice Wine in excess Wrongs Jeers Neglects and Jests with bitterness With other such which either are or draw Occasions on to violate this Law Are breaches of it And though few suspect Because these are but breaches indirect That such enormities unpunish't be For that but seldom they inflicted see Immediate stripes yet questionless by such Those troubles are brought on that shorten much The life of Man and thereby finish'd are His numbred years before he is aware The Souldier whom I had almost forgot Is very peaceful if he murther not To kill is his profession yet I say He murthers if his Prisner he shall slay The battel being past The Voluntary Whom an ambitious Avarice doth carry To hostle Actions when his lawful Prince Nor sends nor calls him nor the just defence Of his own person or his Countries good Engageth to become a man of blood Ev'n he may be suspected not to tread A path so noble and so warranted As he conceives yet neither praise I them Nor do I peremptorily condemn Their practice but refer what I have said In their own conscience to be rightly weigh'd Lord give us eyes our Secret sins to see While time and place to us vouchsafed be That we may leave them and that Love embrace Which will conceal them with her vail of grace For if with Joab we grow old in Sin Which hath not really repented bin Till thou growst angry vengeance will not tarry But smites us dead ev'n in thy Sanctuary Thrice holy Trinity my Heart possess And I this Precept never shall transgress Amen Commandment VII VII Thou shalt not Commit advlterie c. When this Figure thou hast ey'd Think how these two Wantons dy'd And what horror was therein When Death took them in their Sin Hurrying them from their delight To an Everlasting Night Mind it well and mind it so That thou still may'st careful grow From those evils to be free Which this Law forbids to thee Comman VII Commit thou no such Act unclean As here Adultery doth mean. BEhold this Figure you who take delight To give the Reins to wanton Appetite And say within your selves why may not we Struck suddenly in our Polutions be As well as these and others who have bin Attatched in the very Act of Sin Consider this and tremble For no year Wheels round but we of one or other hear Thus taken That you might forsake the snare And others be forwarn'd of coming there Permit Adultery and none shall breed Without a Mungrel and a mingled seed Allow such mixtures and none then shall know On whom the dues of birth-right to bestow Save a blest Faction And what havoke then Will Trecherys and Murthers make of Men And who will careful be to foster that Which no man owns and Brutish Lust begat So needful was this Law that here to dwell Without it were to live the life of Hell With Fiends incarnate whose licentiousness Their own and others mischiefs would increase Be therefore thankful for it and declare Your thankfulness with diligence and care In keeping of it that you may have rest From sorrows here and be hereafter blest And lest your Duties from you may be hidden Observe that by this Precept is forbidden Not only such uncleanness as polluteth A Married Bed but that it those reputeth Offenders too who simply fornicate Or in a married or unmarried state Abuse their Members in the wanton fact Of any lawless or uncomely Act Which appertaineth to that fleshly sin Which by this Law hath interdicted bin No breach of Wedlock was perchance in that Bold Zimri did with Cosbi perpetrate Yet vengeance followed on it to affright All those who in Laciviousness delight Young Onan climed not his neighbours bed Yet God for his transgression struck him dead And let the shameless wantons of our days Who boast as of a deed that merits praise How many untouch't Virgins they deflowr'd Lest by a sudden Plague they be devour'd For less than that of which these villanies boast Full Three and Twenty Thousand lives did cost In one days round and it may forfeit them Their freedom in the new Jerusalem To shun gross wantonness will not suffice Unless the wandrings of Adulterous eyes Lascivious touches intermixt among The temptings of a lust provoking tongue Bewiching smiles And Gestures which intice Both mind and body to embrace this Vice With such like Cycean Charmings be supprest Which help transform a Man into a Beast Nay if the secret longings of the Heart We labour not with all our strength to thwart When they incline to Lust we thereby shall Be guilty though in Act we never fall If therefore blameless we would still abide We must some precious Antidotes provide Against this Poyson We must careful prove Far from us all occasions to remove Which may allure And they are such as these Vain Songs and Poems which are made to please A wanton ear and movingly express The longings and the acts of Wantonness Obscoen Discourse Lascivious Company The giving of an opportunity That may be shunn'd to such as we do know Are not so bashful as to let it go These are occasions of especial note â—s Bounds to this Offence not so remote But that they bring it easily to pass Yea otherwhile before it purpos'd was And for that Cause this Law commands doth lay That we remove those from us far away Nor are those all the temptings unto lust But there be others which avoid we must As much as these Fantastical attires And wanton dressings kindle lustful Fires This makes them so esteemed and so sought That otherwhile they are full dearly bought That some to play the Harlot have been fain Those various costly Dressings to maintain Oft visitings and spending of the day With such as trifle half their time away â—n Complements
is arriv'd at this contentedness And if to get this Grace our mind we set By Gods assistance we may compass it In that degree whereby attain we may To what we call perfection of the way But flesh and blood no further can aspire Until that Kingdom comes which we desire Strive what thou mayst affections to withdraw According to the straightness of this Law Thy Neighbours wife desire not then from him Though kind wise rich chast good fair she seem For most who have this way their longings gain'd Instead of Blessings Curses have obtain'd By coveting the goods to others due The beggary of many doth ensue And Servants gotten by anothers wrong Are seldom gainful to such Masters long Because by being lawlesly possest They either prove unfaithful or unblest But he that with his own remains content Shall gain much Bliss and many sins prevent That which doth give occasion to transgress Against this Law is want of watchfulness To heed the baits which our betrayer lays In every object and in all our ways The want of meditating in our thought What inconveniences are dayly brought On such as make no covenants with their eyes Nor bound these longings which in them arise For such as this way do their best endeavour May stumble but they shall not fall for ever Lord in my self I could not find the Will Much less the Power Thy statutes to fulfil But I now feel my heart to entertain A willingness Oh! be it not in vain Thy Grace alone renew'd this Will in me And I a worker now desire to be Who may if thou enable to proceed Improve my willingness unto the Deed Deny it not Oh God! but from this day Ev'n to the latest moment of my stay Vouchsafe unto me thy assisting Grace That I may run a warrantable Race And keep this Law and all thy Laws entire In work in word and also in desire Amen The Epilogue CHRIST IESVS Who is made vnto us Wisedome Rightousnesse Sanctification Redemption 1 Cor. 1. 30 the whole World lieth in Wickednesse 1. Ioh. 5. 19 Rom. 7. 24. O Wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from y e body of this death Behold the Lambe of GOD which taketh away y e sin of y e world Ioh. 1 29 Deliuer him from going down to the pit I haue found a ransome Iob. 33. 24. Rom. 6. 23. the Wages of sinne is Death ii Timo. 2. 26. That they may recouer themselues out of y e snare of the deuil who are taken captiue by him at his will Though no flesh this Law obey In it self In Christ it may Though it frighteth us for sin Yet our peace it ushers in And in us prepareth place For the saving Law of Grace When this Grace hath taught to Love Hardest works will easy prove And that sin we shall abhor Which we doted on before THE Epilogue The Law from God 's meer love proceeds Though strict it seems and Terror breeds NOW having well observ'd this glorious Law A Creature cloath'd with Majesty and awe Methinks the Body of it seems to me Compos'd of such essential parts to be That he may find who rightly from them shall All as but one each one of them as all And that who ever breaks or keepeth one Observes or breaketh all in what is done As will appear to him who well attends How ev'ry Precept on the rest depends He cannot possibly or love or fear One God aright who willfully doth err In Idol worshippings in vainly using God's holy Name In holy Times abusing Or in permitting so perverse a nature As to abuse Himself or any Creature Belonging to this God with such a mind As may Contentment in such evils find And what is of this Law averr'd we may In ev'ry other Precept boldly say Moreover I conceive it cannot be Of less impossibility that he Who gives the Creature ev'ry way his right Should in his heart his good Creator slight Or actually offend him without sense And sorrow for so hainous an offence He that right Conscience makes to keep one Law Of breaking all the other stands in awe He that his Parents honours as he ought Can never favour Murther in his thought Or thirst for Vengeance never will his eyes Or heart or members act Adulterys No due from any Creature will he take He dares of none conceive receive or speak Untruths or slanders He will never crave Or by a secret longing wish to have What may not be desir'd Nor ought commit Which his profession may not ill befit But penitence will smite him for the deed And in his heart a faithful sorrow breed Much less will he grow wilfully to blame In Prophanation of Gods Days his Name His Worship or his Essence For in one Well doing all good Dutys will be done And this which from one Law is here exprest May really be said of all the rest The like we may as doubtlesly averr Of them who ' gainst one Law perversly err Begin at which you please they so are chain'd All sins are in the breach of one contain'd One wickedness contracts another still And that another either to fulfill Or hide the first until all guilt comes in And wheels him round the cursed Orbe of Sin. For what hath he to bar him from the rest Who but in one hath wilfully transgrest What other sin would he have left undone Which might have hindred his beloved one Or if perpetually he do not act All wickedness and ev'ry filthy Fact Why is it so unless perchance because His finite Nature cannot break all Laws At once in Act Nor his desires extend To ev'ry thing wherein he might offend For ev'ry sacred Law is in his Will Inclusively at least infringed still And Guiltiness would actually appear If power and fit occasions present were For as the Laws fair Body is compos'd Of portions qualified and dispos'd In such a manner that we plainly see The perfect Essence of the whole to be In ev'ry part so likewise hath our Sin An ugle Body and each Limb therein Containeth whether it be great or small Essentially the perfect Guilt of all And by this Body Death a means hath found To give to all Mankind a mortal wound But prais'd be God his Grace provided hath A Light a Guard an Armour and a Path By which we may be quite delivered from The Body of this Death and also come To walk the way of life which else had bin For ever barr'd against us by our sin The Lamb of God by whom we do possess Redemption Wisdom Justice Holiness With ev'ry matchless token of his Love The Guilt of that transgression doth remove Which woundeth first our Nature and from him We have a cure for ev'ry actual Crime He hath fulfilled what we could not keep He gives us power to walk who could not creep He paid the price of that which we had bought He got our Pardon e're the same we sought He bore the stripes
know thee and are shown Both by thy words and works what should be done Our selves we yet improve not as we ought By what thy Workings and thy Word have taught But both Self-love and Vanity have share Ev'n in our Actions that most pious are We Counsel we Relieve Write Preach and Pray That Honour Gain or Pleasure bring it may To our own Persons and would little care How wicked and unhappy others are Had we our aims and still might them possess Amid'st our Sins and their unhappiness Ev'n I my self who love a better mind Do in my self so much corruption find That I confess received Injuries More mov'd me to reprove Impieties Than mine own goodness and that from my sin My best performances did first begin For which let pardon Lord vouchsafed be And more sincere hereafter make thou me For this may peradventure be the cause We preach thy Gospel and pronounce thy Laws And write without effect ev'n this that our Corruption makes the means to want the power It might have had Else 't is because we hide Thy Love and have that saving Grace deny'd Which thou to all extendest and which none Shall want who striveth to lay hold thereon To help amend these faults now I have said What I believe thy Spirit hath convey'd Into my heart If I have err'd in ought Let me oh Lord by thee be better taught If truth I speak let other men from hence Partakers be of my Intelligence Make me and them thy love so fully view That we in our affections may be true And give us Grace the truth of them to show In doing well the Duties which we owe. Amen A Metrical Paraphrase Upon the CREED SInce it befits that I account should give What way unto Salvation I believe Of my profession here the sum I gather First I confess a Faith in God the Father In God who without Helper or Partaker Was of himself the Worlds Almighty Maker And first gave Time his being who gave birth To all the Creatures both of Heaven and Earth Our everlasting welfare doth consist In his great mercies and in Iesus Christ The second person of that Three in one The Father's equal and his only Son That ever-blessed and incarnate Word Which our Redeemer is our life Our Lord For when by Sathans guile we were deceived Christ was that means of help which was conceived Yea when we were in danger to be lost Conceived for us by the Holy Ghost And that we might not ever be forlorn For our eternal safety he was Born Born as a Man that Man might not miscarry Even of the substance of the Uirgin Mary And loe a greater mercy and a wonder He that can make All suffer suffered under The Jewish spite which all the world revile at And Cruel tyrannies of Pontius Pilate In him do I believe who was envied Who with extreamest hate was Crucified Who being life it self to make assured Our souls of safety was both dead and buried And that no servile fear in us might dwell To conquer He descended into Hell Where no infernal Power had power to lay Command upon him but on the third day The force of Death and Hell he did constrain And so in Triumph He arose again Yea the Almighty power advanc'd his head Aswel above all things as from the dead Then that from thence gifts might o men be given With glory He ascended into Heaven Where that supream and everlasting throne Which was prepar'd he clim'd aid sitteth on That blessed feat where he shall make abode To plead for us at the right hand of God And no where should he be enthroned rather Than there for he is God as is the Father And therefore with an equal love delight I To praise and serve them both as one Almighty Yet in their office there 's a difference And I believe that Jesus Christ from thence Shall in the great and universal doom Return and that with Angels He shall come To question such as at his Empire grudge Even those who have presumed him to judge And that black day shall be so Catholick As I believe not only that the quick To that assise shall all be summoned But he will both adjudge them and the dead Moreover in the Godhead I conceive Another Person in whom I believe For all my hope of blessedness were lost If I believ'd not it the Holy Ghost And though vain Schismaticks through pride and folly Contemn her power I do believe the holy Chast Spouse of Christ for whom so many search By marks uncertain the true Catholick Church I do believe God keep us in this union That there shall be forever the Communion Of Gods Elect and that he still acquaints His Children in the fellowship of Saints Though damned be Mans natural condition By grace in Christ I look for the remission Of all my foul misdeeds for there begins Deaths end which is the punishment of sins Moreover I the Sadduces infection Abhor and do believe the Resurrection Yea though I turn to dust yet through God I Expect a glorious rising of the body And that exempted from the cares here rife I shall enjoy perfection and the life That is not subject unto change or wasting But ever-blessed and for ever-lasting This is my Faith which that it fail not when It most should steed me let God say Amen To whom that he so much vouchsafe we may Thus as a member of his Church I pray A Metrical Paraphrase Upon the LORD'S PRAYER LOrd at thy Mercy-seat our selves we gather To do our duties unto thee Our Father To whom all praise all honour should be given For thou art that great God which art in Heaven Thou by thy wisdom rul'st the worlds whole frame For ever therefore Hallowed be thy Name Let never more delayes divide us from Thy glories view but let Thy Kingdom come Let thy commands opposed be by none But thy good pleasure and Thy will done And let our promptness to obey be even The very same in earth as 't is in heaven Then for our selves O Lord we also pray Thou wouldst be pleased to Give us this day That food of life wherewith our souls are fed Contented raiment and our daily bread With needful thing do thou relieve us And of thy mercy pitty And forgive us All our misdeeds in him whom thou didst please To take in offering for our trespasses And for as much O Lord as we believe Thou so wilt pardon us as we forgive Let that love teach us wherewith thou acquaints us To pardon all them that trespass against us And though sometime thou find'st we have forgot This Love or thee yet help And lead us not Through Soul or bodies want to desperation Nor let abundance drive into temptation Let not the soul of any true Believer Fall in the time of tryal But deliver Yea save him from the malice of the Devil And both in life and death keep us from evil Thus pray we Lord And but of thee from whom Can this be had For thine is the Kingdom The world is of thy works the graven story To thee belongs the power and the glory And this thy happiness hath ending never But shall remain for ever and for ever This we confess and will confess agen Till we shall say eternally Amen Thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and upon thy Gates Deut. 6. 9. FINIS Job 33. 14. See Pro. 30. 8 9.