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A poetical essay towards an epitome of the gospel of the blessed Jesus
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Atwood, William, d. 1705?
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Keeping them under by 's black Legion Mark 5.9 Long had they revell'd in their harrast Land But quit their Conquest at his sole command An Herd of Swine are giv'n them for their prey Mat. 8 33. Thus doing hurt they go more pleas'd away Our Saviour further still his pity shows And hears the Widow's cries relieves her woes Luke 7.12 His Mother 's onely Son left her alone She mourn'd her loss the joy of life was gone Life to her Son the Son to her he gave Mocking the jaws of the expecting Grave Whilst he was hast'ning at the Ruler's Pray'r Mat. 9.18 His Daughter's mouldring House of Clay t' repair His Virtue t' a believing Woman flows Luke 8.46 Whose Bloody Flux Art did in vain oppose V. 43. Although amidst a pressing croud he stands V. 45. He feels her Faith more than an hundred Hands How much soever that did from him drain Enough to Cure the World did still remain They who had clos'd Jairus his Daughter's Eyes Laught when he said behold asleep she lies Mat. 9.24 But were confounded when they saw her rise She rose to meet her King and shall again At his more pompous coming to his Reign Those two Blind Men whose Eyes he did restore V. 27. The Light Eclips'd by filme had seen before But now a new-born Sun more brightly shin'd And yet perhaps to that they still were Blind His wonders the Dumb Spirit did express V. 32. And soon the silent Fishes do no less Mat. 14.17 Mat. 15.34 Thingâ— most insensate duller Man upbraid At his command ev'n Stones would have obey'd Mat. 4.3 And Bread of their reformed substance made Now he his Deputies does reinstate Mat. 10. In Empire uncontroll'd by Hell or Fate Mat. 16.18 Twelve were those Spirit'al Hero's whom he chose Mat. 10.1 Dev'ls and diseases trembling pow'rs t' oppose With large Commission he does send them out To deal his common Grace to all about Thus he his Kingdom carefully divides For all by'mself or Ministers provides He bids them offer terms to Isr'el first V. 6. Isr'el which for Heav'ns darling had been Nurs'd That they the Worthy should salute with Peace V. 13. From importuning the unworthy cease They should not trust unguarded innocence V. 16. But take to 't Wisdom for its best defence Under the covert of omnipotence Serpentine Wisdom Dove-like puritie Without th' Almighties shield will useless be He furnisheth with wards against all blows Who ev'ry thrust and diff'rent posture knows Yet doth not always Miracles engage His Saints should flee when persecut'ions rage V. 23. Though God assist not in a noted way Yet he the Plot for their escape may lay But should th' insulting Enemies prevail Their malice of the wish'd success will fail Death is the greatest mischief of their hate V. 28. Such death can't punish or annihilate But does to everlasting life translate God only can the Soul to pain confine Eternal freedom comes from their design In a good cause who would not chuse to dye The ill of death i th' circumstance does lye For God or for one's Country to expire Is the ambition of a noble Fire His Soul has little of th' orig'nal heat who 'd in a just though dangerous cause retreat Who danger seeks too much his courage boasts 'T is but a tempting of the Lord of Hoasts He to such straglers promis'd no supply They 'r but the Martyrs of their vanity Peace the first blessing of a prosp'rous Reign V. 34. In an unsetled Kingdom 's sought in vain Till Christ our Monarch is own'd absolute Each for his priviledge will hold dispute Parents and Children divers factions head V. 35. With zeal the Armies for the cause are led From Rights and Life see the malignants hurld T' attend their Soveraign in the other World Happy the suff'rers on the Loyal side For them their Royal Captain fought and dy'd Through him we more then Conquer though opprest And take the Garland in Eternal Rest There our imperfect Services sincere Immense Reward shall through his merits bear V. 42. To John the Messenger of Peace from Heav'n Mat. 11.10 An earnest of his pay by Christ is giv'n To firm assurance many ' a Man pretends The doubt of his our Saviour's plaudit ends The World for such a Vision who 'd not give And till th' expected hour in Prison live V. 2. The Soul would be enlarg'd to Heav'n its home By inchoation of the bliss to come To such a ground of hope none may pretend Yet lesser lights shall reach that glorious end For Jesus proffers to unloose those Chains Which tie us unto Sin that source of pains Lerna malorum The lab'ring with their Sins he doth invite Because his Yoak is easie burden light He shews that God doth Humane wants regard Mat. 12. ad V. 8. And that necessity's from nothing barr'd Which the Jews cavill'd when they saw and heard The wither'd Hand restor'd gave them a blow V. 10 13. Yet whence it came the faithless would not know But fancy Satan would himself or'ethrow V. 24. He shews that Sins repented pardon find But what are to Blaspheme the Holy Ghost design'd V. 31. But yet he cautions us with tender care That we of ev'ry idle word beware V. 36. Words which lose Heav'n and often here ensnare V. 37. They issue from the Heart the Fountain head V. 34. As is the Spring such streams about are spread Except Repentance all doth purifie For them at Judgment large accounts will lye V. 36. He marks the danger of relapse in Sin V. 44. Sickness and Fiends return much worse agen V. 45. T' encourage Righteousness he doth declare Who do his Fathers Will his Brethren are V. 5â— And shall paternal Blessings with him share God doth his Sacred Seed to all divide Mat. 13. a 3 ad 9. And would have the whole World in Christ ally'd The product is according to the Ground He casts his Seed to all the Furrows round But strength in few to ripen it is found Satan their nat'ral hardness or acquir'd Will disappoint the Harvest long desir'd Yet still God's ready with his proffer'd Grace Till it to obstinacy yields the place Judicial hardness then succeeds to theirs And they are wholly left the Devils shares They then are blinded ' cause they would not see V. 13 14. The greatest light to them will darkness be But oh how Blessed are those open'd Eyes V. 16. That see this Truth and Worship where it lyes From small beginnings Truth doth strangely thrive V. 32. Where they to propagate it's Seed do strive In the prepared Soyl does quickly rise Adorns the Earth and reaches to the Skies It 's way like Leaven through the whole it makes V. 33. Which thence a wholsom Savour freely takes The Son