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A66766	A paraphrase on the ten commandments in divine poems illustrated with twelve copper plates, shewing how personal punishments has been inflicted on the transgressors of these commandment, as is recorded in the Holy Scripture, never before printed : also, a metrical paraphrase upon the creed and Lord's Prayer / written by George Wither ...	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1697 (1697)	Wing W3177; ESTC R11576	41,427	136

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 at 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 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 Vnbelief 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 of us not only Guilty stand Of being breakers of this first Command By serving Gods beside and more than him Who from Death Sin and Hell did us redeem But either we neglect him also quite Or practise works to him so opposite That into worse impieties we fall Than such as yet confess no God at all For by distrust self-love backsliding fear Inconstancy Presumption fruitless Care Impatience Grudging Frowardness or Pride With other such our God we have deny'd More oft than once and oftner fear we shall ●nto this error through our frailty fall This Law in some degree is also broke Unless we to our powers due care have took To Shun each cause of breaking it The Chief ●s Ignorance the ground of misbelief The next is to be oft and willingly Among Professors of Idolatry The Third is Servile fear which many ways The Heart unto Idolatry betrays The last not least is when the sway we give To any Lust or Sin For thus believe Such men to gain the full of their delight Will change their God or leave Religion quite Yea they who hate at first so gross a Sin Are by the Devil this way hooked in This Meditation here had found an end But that there are some others who offend Against this Law in such a high Degree As that they must not quite unmention'd be The truest God confessed is by them Their only God They serve

Law But let them know for Truth though not for news That all the Feasts and Sabbaths of the Jews Were but the Types of ours and that if they Shall for the Shades the Substance cast away They are unwise and guilty of offence Against this Precept in the moral sense Let those who for the bodies ease and pleasure Part of this time allow preserve the measure That 's justly due and in due manner too Do that which is allowable to do Not for the Soul 's well being caring less Than to prevent the Bodies weariness Let them who of the Soul most heedful seem Remember still the Body to esteem A Portion of that Manhood for whose sake Our Sabbath-maker did all Sabbaths make And give it so much liberty as may Make pleasant all the Duties of the day And since no private Spirit can impose A Rule for all let all be rul'd by those Who by a publick Spirit come to learn What may a publick body best concern Or if among us any one shall deem There is a truer way made known to him So let him walk that he himself approve To be in all his waies a Child of Love For sure I am that if the common peace He keep until humility increase True knowledge in him he then plain will see Who best expounds this Law the Church or He. Come Holy Ghost so sanctify my heart That from this Law I never may depart Amen V. Honor thy Father and thy Mother c. He that sought his Fathers death Sonless yielded up his breath He that would his Prince have slain Had his pardon sent in vain For although the King for gave Justice urg'd her due to have That Rebellious Children may Learn this precept to obey And the Subject stand in awe How he Sins against this Law Command V. On them all honours due bestow Who by the Name of Parents go WHat of Rebelling Subjects will become And graceless Children view in Absolom For whose Offence the Earth did as it were Refusal make his Bodies weight to bear And Heav'n rejects it that they might present Him hanging for a dreadful Monument Through Ages all to warn and keep in awe The sleighters and Infringers of this Law This foremost Precept of the second Table Unto the first in this is answerable They both enjoyn and Honour where 't is due Their differences are these which do ensue Here blessing follows there it went before One Parent that concern'd This many more He that shall break this Precept maketh snares Wherein to hang himself at unawares And overthrows as much as in him lies All Common-weals and all Societes Yet some affect it not but loudly cry For times which may erect a Parity And some who dream they keep it are to blame By being ignorant how far the Name Of Parent reacheth which we briefly show That they might better do and better know We from the Parents of our bodies have A natural being and they justly crave To be obey'd in all things but in those Which either may Superior powers oppose Or to some Being hurries us that shall Be worse than to have never been at all Beside these Parents we to many moe A Duty by this Obligation owe. The Fathers of our Country by this Law First claimeth of us Honour Love and Awe And from himself the same Prerogatives To his Inferiour Magistrates derives There is a Fatherhood in those that be Our Elders and our Betters in degree Our Masters also may have warrant here To challenge from us Reverence and Fear And Husbands also may infer from hence Good proof of right to their preheminence And if a witness wanted thereunto My Wife I know would say the same I do And that I give God thanks for as a blessing That is not founnd in every mans possessing Our Ghostly Fathers by whose careful pain We are anew begot and born again Ev'n to a life more excellent than that Whereto our fleshly Fathers us begat Have Honours due no less than those to whom We Sons and Daughters in the Flesh become Yea and our Fathers in some sort they be Who from Thrall Wants and Death hath set us free All these from us an Honour may command According to the place wherein they stand To some of them we do not owe alone That Honour which may outwardly be done Or that unfain'd respect which doth accord With bare Obedience But we must afford All helps whereby we also may prevent The Want the Shame the Harm or Discontent Which may befall them we should meekly bear Their words and blows ev'n when unjust they are We should not pleasure take in any thought With which dishonour may to them be brought Though they should curse us we must always bless Defend their lives and hide their nakedness We should not hear them wrong'd nor should our tongue To all men tell it when they do us wrong But pray and strive that blameless we might prove How crookedly so ' ere they please to move For he alone who thus obey them shall Hath an Obedience Evangelical Among those many who these Laws do break And pass unheeded any breach to make On this Command who greatly are to blame In being disobedient to the same The first and worst are that ill tutor'd sect Who Magistrates and Rulers contradict They who at all Superiors madly strike And fain would have us honour'd all alike Are deeply guilty and this just command They frustrate make if ought I understand The other sort doth Government forsake Of whom God pleas'd this gracious Law to make Do sometime also grievously transgress Against this Law when they by wilfulness By Pride or Cruelty provoke or stir Those to rebel who Sons or Vassals are For he that wilfully gives cause of ill Shares equal Guilt with him that acts it still By sinning he brings others to be naught Then suffers by them for the Sin he taught For they who Tyrannous Commands do lay Shall find their Servants treacherously obey The Crimes forbidden here as having bin Occasions of a more immediate Sin Against this Law are Envy Self-conceit Licentiousness which thinketh over-streight All tyes of Government Forgetfulness Of those Commodities which we possess By them who Rule us likewise we may add Ingratitude Ill habits sooner had Than lost Gross Rudeness and the Vice Whence most Sins flow insatiate Avarice I now remember that I named not Some other Parents overmuch forgot We have a Heavenly Father unto whom His Children should more dutiful become Than yet they be But what to him we owe The former Table of these Laws doth show We have a Mother too which more our Sin Hath in this Age 'ore much neglected bin Nay worse I would it were untruly said She hath dishonour'd been and disobey'd More like a cruel Step-dame than like her Within whose blessed Womb conceiv'd we were I mean the holy Church the Spouze of Christ For we her wholsome Discipline resist Her comely Ceremonies we

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 it with Joab we grow old in Sin Which hath not really repented bin Till thou growst angry vengeance will not tarry But stimes us dead ev'n in thy Sanctuary Thrice holy Trinity my Heart possess And I this Precept never shall transgress Amen VII Thou shalt not Commit advlterie c. When this Figure thou hastey'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 Comm●● thou ●o such Act unclean As 〈◊〉 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 At●●●ched 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 the 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 Obscaen 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 As Bounds to this Offence not so remote But that they bring it easily to pass Yea other while 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 otherswhich avoid we must As much as these Fantastical attires And wanton dressings kindle lustful Fires This makes them so esteemed and so sought That other while 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 In Complements and intercourse between Each other but to see or to be seen Ev'n these things blow the Flame and many a one By such impertinencies is undone The faring delicately in excess The common sin of beastly Drunkenness Are here Attatch'd Arraign'd and Sentenced For often causing an Adulterous Bed Constrained marriages made up by Friends For Honour Wealth or such improper ends Both partys very frequently undo And cause Adulterys and Murthers too Where Touth and Age of too unequal years Together match both Jealousies and Fears Are Guests and rarely have such weddings bin Without occasions of this filthy sin If therefore of this Crime we would be clear Let us endeavour alwaies to forbear All such as these as well as to eschew A gross Adultery and so pursue Each means which may be helpful to acquire A blameless practice and a clean desire That we may Soul and Body beautify With every flower of Spotless Chastity For carnal whoredom was long since a gin By Satan forged for the bringing in Of Ghostly Fornications most impure And frequent Testimonies may assure That they who love strange flesh as many do Will change their God with small perswasions too LORD from these vanities direct our eyes Which may at unawares the Heart surprize The Law within our members we do find Doth cross the Law that 's grafted in our mind That which we hate we are intie'd unto And what we love we often fail to do Our Will thou hast renew'd but in