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water_n	bread_n	lord_n	wine_n	3,679	5	7.3104	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67233	Certaine serious thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry occasions have stollen themselves into verse and now into the publike view from the author [Wyvill coat of arms] Esquire ; together w[i]th a chronologicall table denoeting [sic] the names of such princes as ruled the neighbor states and were con-temporary to our English kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned.	Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650.; Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711. Chronologicall catalogue of such persons as ruled the neighbour-states, and were contemporary to the severall kings of England, since the coming in of the Conqueror.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3784; ESTC R38784	18,436	93

will not doubt A Domino factum est istud Nor was there ever any had recourse To him by humble prayer that sped worse For this my heart within me shall rejoyce In all distresses thou shalt heare my voyce And if at any time my suite ungranted Return I 'le think 't is better for me wanted To Master WROTH School-Master at EPPING in ESSEX THose recollective Thoughts to me Most welcome SIR must ever be Which to my memory represent The time under your roofe I spent Though spent improvidently there Large fields of corne for reaping were Yet I but glean'd which make's my starved Muse Such leane ill-thriven verses now produce I might have learn't how to Decline All Vices and Forme by Divine Sweet Conjugations my Sence To due and fitting Mode and Tence You th' Pronouns mine and thine did teach To be no more but Parts of Speech From you a Generall rule I might have got To use the world as though I us'd it not But Oh how Zions plants would thrive and like If it were fenced round with such a Dike As he whose pithy Sermons double were In number to the Sabbaths in the yeare Who summon'd up to heaven back hath sent His Posthume book t' attend the Sacrament Nor is it from Ingratitude that in The middle of my non-age I begin Vnto his Care my childish yeares were given Whose Cure now poynt's us out the way Heaven Too few such men are found in any age As was the Guardian of my pupill-age He scorn'd the common roade did not discharg By some raw scarce-made Bachilor his charge Lord I admire thy providence and see How vast a summe I am in debt to thee But nothing have to pay if thou do'st call For an account behold forgive me all Is all I can produce O cross the score And make my love proportionably more Scindimur incerti CAn mans distracted fancy find the way To truth where thousand sects themselves display Supporting errour This terrestriall round hath scarce a place where Veritie is found ASIA ASIA which only glories to have ●een A spotlesse man where Canaan hath been A type of Heaven and the blest abode Of the whole world's creator Iacob's God Where all the sacred pen-men once did preach Nay where the Lord himself vouchsaf'd to teach Wallow's in darknesse now their Sun is set With bended knees they crouch to Mahomet And in the stead of Sinai's Law-Divine The Talmude is receiv'd in Palestine AFRICA THough Hippo's Sainted-Bishop Augustine Like a bright Lamp in Tunis once did shine In Aegipt by St Mark although were sown The early seeds of true Religion Though Aethiopia's Eunuch did proclaime The Lamb whom he mis-tooke till Phillip came All 's now erased and a man may say Nothing but error spreads in Africa AMERICA THis Spain-enriching new-found world a gem Once proffer'd to our Henry's Diadem With reverence to their puppet-zemes do pray Whil'st to them they themselves become a prey Those devill-spirits every where appeare Not honour'd though ador'd serv'd but for feare And yet this now in-fatuated flock Shal know the Shepherds voyce and Bridgroom's knock Their time of Gospell's next Religion may Still bending West find out America EVROPE NO harbour where my Sea-tost ship may lye At Anchor and expect felicity So many lands run o're and yet not see A path directing to Eternity What hope remain's in Europ sure he shall That fly's Charybdis into Scyll fall Opinions here as much as faces vary Some this some that some think the quite contrary Hence 't is that every Nation may discover Her armed Natives murthering one another Wa' st not from hence the King of France thought good To drench his Sisters Nuptials in bloud Hence all the present forreign jarrs and those Where T●weed her flowing streames doth interpose And as asham'd to heare warrs threats again Hastens to hide her face within the Maine Poor Soul thy wearied foot-steps may in vaine Survey the universe return again As farre from satisfaction as before Vnlesse divine direction thou implore Lord teach my wary thoughts so to decline All devious paths as to keep close to thine Vpon 1 Cor. 3. 11 12 13 14 15. For other foundation can no man lay then that which is laid Iesus Christ. And if any man build on this foundation gold silver precious stones timber hay stubble Every mans work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every mans work of what sort it is If any mans work that he hath built upon abide he shall receive wages If any mans work burn he shall lose but he shall be safe himselfe neverthelesse yet as it were by fire THe heaven-instructed Master-builder layd Zions foundation skilless men have reard Their own inventions some have wooden made And saplesse doctrines of small use when heard Others their hay-like withering Sermons vent No Scyth is sharper then their byting phrase Most bring us stubble when the corn is spent And trifles prosecute with strained praise All these are combustible send that fire Thine holy Spirit try consume refine Thy Prophets so with sacred truths inspire That they may rectifie each crooked line Vs hearers such affections affoord As fit 's a spirituall building to thee Lord. Vpon Amos 1. 11. Behold the dayes come saith the Lord God that I will send a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but of hearing the words of the Lord. IN sacred Scripture I have sometimes read A sorer famine threatned then of bread That judgments fal'n on us Where for a time I sojourn'd West-ward in a Northern Clime Two Counties for the lack of Wine unable Were to invite us to the Holy Table This question rose amongst discourse about it May not the Sacrament be given without it Some said it might some that again deni'de I dare not take upon me to decide Nor unto other doe I ayme to give A Law but for my own part thus conceive So God vouchsafe my soules repast to mak 't I care not though in Vinegar I tak 't FEB 8. 1642. T Is not base trembling cowardize and feare That mak's me in this fighting age forbeare To draw my sword but seem an uselesse thing Perhaps whil'st others by adventuring Gaine glorious titles for my Countries good My steps would fearlesse march in Seas of bloud And welcome certaine ruine yet I finde A war within my selfe and stay behind Eternall blessings fasten on the Crown To Charles his head God grant him all his own And may as long-liv'd curses fall upon Their heads who honour not his Princely Son So from my heart I wish and yet suspect Many unsound will sound that Dialect The form-obtrudors may deform and make Eneruous whilst the Church of Rome doth take Advantage and supplant Religion I l'e not thrust in my hand to help them on Whose heart can lesse then bleed whose head can be Lesse then