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Scriptural poems being several portions of Scripture digested into English verse / by John Bunyan.
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Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
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thee Of this young Woman full as prosperous be As was the House of Pharez heretofore Pharez whom Tamar unto Judah bore So he took Ruth and as his Wife he knew her And God was pleased when he went in to her To grant the Blessing of Conception And she accordingly bare him a Son Then said the Women Blessed be the Lord Bless thou him Naomi who doth afford To thee this Day a Kinsman which shall be Famous in Israel and shall be to thee As the Restorer of thy Life again And in thy drooping Age shall thee sustain For that thy Daughter-in-Law who loves thee well And in thy Sight doth Seven Sons excel Hath born this Child Then Naomi took the Boy To Nurse and did him in her Bosom lay Her Neighbours too gave him a Name for why This Son say they is born to Naomi They call'd him Obed from whose Loins did spring Jesse the Sire of David Israel's King The End of the Book of RUTH THE History of Sampson Judges Chap. xiii WHen Israel's Sins th' Almighty did provoke To make them subject to Philistine Yoke For forty Years In Zorah dwelt a Man His Name Manoah of the Tribe of Dan His Wife was barren unto whom appeared The Angel of the Lord and thus declared Though thou said he art barren time shall come Thou shalt enjoy the Blessing of thy Womb Now therefore I intreat thee to refrain From Wine strong Drink and things that are unclean For lo thou shalt conceive and bear a Son Upon whose Head there shall no Razor come For he to God a Nazarite shall be And shall begin to set his People free From the Philistine Yoke The VVoman came And told her Husband she had seen a Man Of God his dreadful look made me said she Think him an Angel of the Lord to be But I enquired not from whence he came Neither did he make known to me his Name But thus he said Thou shalt conceive a Son Wherefore Strong Drink and Wine see that thou shun And have a care that thou be not defil'd With things that are unclean for why the Child Shall from his Separation from the Womb Become a Nazarite ev'n to his Tomb. Manoah then did supplicate the Lord And said O Lord be pleased to afford This Favour unto me to send again The Man of God more fully to explain Thy Will to us that we may rightly know When this Child shall be born what we must do And to Manoah's Prayer God gave Ear And to his Wife the Angel did appear Again as she did in the Field retire At such time as her Husband was not nigh her And she made haste and ran and streight declared Unto her Husband that the Man appeared Again whom she had seen the other Day Manoah then arose and went his way And when he came he said Art thou the Man That spakest to my Wife He said I am Manoah said Now let thy Words be true How shall we use the Child what must we do Then said the Angel of the Lord Let her Of all that I have charged her beware She may not taste of what comes of the Vine Nor may she drink strong Drink or any Wine Nor may she eat of things that are unclean From all that I have said let her refrain Manoah said unto the Angel stay With us till we have dress'd a Kid I pray But he reply'd though thou shalt me detain I 'll eat no Bread but if thou dost design A Sacrifice unto the Lord then offer For ne'er till now Manoah did discover It was a Man of God he spake unto Then said he to the Angel Let me know Thy Name that when these things shall be perform'd The Honour due to thee may be return'd Whereto the Man of God made this Reply Why askest thou since 't is a Mystery So he a Kid and a Meat-Off'ring took And offer'd to the Lord upon a Rock And there the Man of God did wondrously The whilst Manoah and his Wife stood by For as the Altar did send up the Flame The Man of God ascended in the same Manoah and his Wife stood looking on And on their Faces to the Ground fell down But then the Angel did appear no more Manoah then knew who he was Therefore He said unto his Wife Most surely we Shall die for we the Face of God did see But she reply'd If God would such a thing He would not now accept our Offering Or would he have to us these things made known Or told us as at this time he hath done And now according to the Angel's Word The Woman bare a Son to whom the Lord Was pleas'd his Blessing graciously to give She call'd him Sampson and the Child did thrive And lo the Spirit of the Lord began At times to move him in the Camp of Dan. CHAP. XIV NOw down to Timnah Sampson's Steps incline Where seeing the Daughter of a Philistine He came up and did of his Parents crave That he in Marriage might the Woman have Then thus his Father and his Mother said 'Mongst all thy Kin canst thou find ne'er a Maid Nor yet among my People fit to make A Wife but thou wilt this Philistine take Of Race uncircumcised He replied Get her for me for I 'm well satisfied But neither of his Parents then did know It was the Lord that moved him thereto To seek a way to accomplish his Designs Upon the then o'er-ruling Philistines Then Sampson and his Parents both went down To Timnah and as they came near the Town Among the Vineyards a young Lion roar'd Then on him came the Spirit of the Lord And though unarm'd he rent him like a Kid But he discover'd not to them the Deed And he went down and with the Woman treated And was well pleas'd to have the Match compleated And in a while as he return'd again To take his Wife behold where he had slain The Beast he there a Swarm of Bees set Eye on And Honey in the Carcase of the Lion He took thereof and eating on he wenâ— And to his Parents did a part present And they did also eat but did not know That from the Lion's Carcase it did flow So down his Father went unto the Woman And Sampson made a Feast as it was common Among young Men. The Philistines provide Thirty Companions with him to abide And Sampson said unto them now behold I have a Riddle for you to unfold Which if you do before the Seven Days Feast Be ended I will give to every Guest A Sheet and change of Garments but if ye Cannot declare it you shall give to me Full Thirty Sheets and Thirty Changes too Then said they What 's thy Riddle let us know And Sampson said The Eater sent forth Meat And from the Strong there came a thing most sweet And they could not in Three Days find it out Wherefore before the seventh came about They said unto his Wife Thou must entice Thy Husband to discover