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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89480	The affliction and deliverance of the saints or, The whole booke of Iob composed into English heroicall verse metaphrastically. / By Thomas Manley Iun. Esq;	Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1652 (1652)	Wing M441; Thomason E1318_2; ESTC R202853	46,895	111

skin and to my flesh I am consumed with this cruell lash verse 21 Have pitty on me O my friends for God Hath scourg'd me sorely with a heavy rod. verse 22 As God why do you persecute me still And are not sated with my fleshes fill verse 23 Oh that my words were written now in frame That they were printed in the book of fame verse 24 That they were graven with an iron pen And laid i' th' Rock for ever to remain verse 25 For why I know that my Redeemer lives Who just rewards to his true servants gives And at the latter day that he shall stand The wicked to condemne and judge the Land verse 26 And though my skin and body worms destroy Yet in my flesh I shall see God with joy verse 27 Whom I shall see in this same very mould And mine eies not another shall behold Although my reines consumed be with griefe Within my bosome without least reliefe verse 28 But ye should say why persecuted's he Seeing the chiefest matter 's found in me verse 29 Fear ye the sword wrath brings it as its right That ye may know a judgement 's there upright CHAP. XX. verse 1 THen Zophar said My thoughts no time will wast verse 2 But make me answer yea for this I hast verse 3 I have observ'd the check of my reproach Which makes my spirit thus an answer broach verse 4 Knowst thou not this of old since man on earth From God received a created birth verse 5 That though the wicked triumph in his joy Yet in a minute griefe will him annoy And the dissemblers mirth shall onely last A moment and then perish like a blast verse 6 Although his honour in the heaven he shroudes And though his head aspire unto the cloudes verse 7 Yet shall he perish like his dung and they Which once have seen him where is he shall say verse 8 As doth a dream so he away shall flee And none shall find where such an one could be And as a sudden motion frights a way A mighty vision so is his decay verse 9 The eye that saw him him no more shall see Nor in his dwelling shall he henceforth be verse 10 His children shall be forc'd to please the poor And his own hands their taken goods restore verse 11 His sins of youthfull daies he bears and must For they shall lie down with him in the dust verse 12 Though to his palate wickednesse be sweet And though his tongue tast it as pleasant meat verse 13 Although he spare and will not from it part But keep it still both in his mouth and heart verse 14 Yet shall his meat within his bowels turn It as the gall of Aspes shall in him burn verse 15 He fondly thinking none or knew or saw Hath swallow'd riches with a greedy maw But he shall them disgorge though ne'r so stout For from his belly God shall bring them out verse 16 The rankest poyson he shall suck of Aspes The vipers tongue him in the grave shall clasp verse 17 He doth not to the Brooks Floods Rivers go That do with honey and with butter flow verse 18 When he expects the benefit to reap Of all his passed labors and to heap Rest to himself he shall it not digest But shall restore thereof the very best As is his substance shall his payment be Yet to rejoyce therein none may him see verse 19 Because he did with violence oppresse And after leave the poor in their distresse Because by wrongfull force he took away His neighbours house his lively hood and stay verse 20 He in his belly shall diseases have That which he most desires he shall not save verse 21 There shall be of his meat a great defect None therefore shall his wicked goods expect verse 22 In all the fulnesse of his pride and height Of his possessions he shall be in streight The wicked shall oppresse him with their force And every hand shall vexe him in their course verse 23 When he expects of his now-ripe-growne fruit To taste God quickly him from th' earth shall root The fury of his wrath shall on him raine While he is eating and doth doubt no paine verse 24 While from the sword he flees the bow of steele Shall strike him thorow following his heele verse 25 'T is drawn out of the body at his fall The glistring sword doth come out of his gall verse 26 Terrours are on him nought but darkenesse sad Within his dwelling ever shall be bad A fire not blown shall him of life bereave And in his place quick ruine none shall leave verse 27 The very heavens his full-grown sin shall shew And the earth against him shall a rebell grow verse 28 The large encrease of his so stately place Shall in the day of wrath fly thence apace verse 29 This is the wickeds portion even the rod Which as a living's given them by God CHAP. XXI verse 1 BUt Job reply'd my speeches now attend verse 2 Which to your comfort all their reason bend verse 3 But let me speake and after I have spoke If ye thinke good ye may proceed to mock verse 4 Is my complaint to man if 't were yet why Should not my soule be troubled yea and cry verse 5 Marke well my terrours and amazed stand Andon your mouth so silenc'd lay your hand verse 6 When I remember I am full of feare My Flesh doth tremble and my haire doth stare verse 7 Why do the wicked live encrease in wealth And aged grow through long continu'd health verse 8 Their children prosper in their sinfull lives And in their sight their setled off-spring thrives verse 9 Their houses are secure through peace no dread Or crosse approaching once their fearelesse head verse 10 Their Bullockes breed not once receiving wrong Their Cowes bring forth no dead abortive young verse 11 Their Sons are many as a flock of sheep Who mirthfull meetings for their lusts do keep verse 12 The harp and tabret do their joies make ripe In measures tripping to the Organ-pipe verse 13 They spend their daies in luxury and have No dread till death doth throw them quick in grave verse 14 Who say to God most wise that crownes their daies Depart we have no wil to know thy waies verse 15 What 's this Al-mighty who this God what cause Have we to addict our service to his lawes Suppose we pray to this so talk't a King What profit would our vaine spent houres bring verse 16 See straight these braggers with their wealth are gone 'T was onely lent by God and not their own If so their riches are a snare O then Preserve me from the blisses of such men verse 17 How oft the wicked faile even with a puffe Their credit dying like a candles snuffe God in his wrath will them divide and raze The wicked shall not live out halfe their daies verse 18 They shall before the wind as stubble be Like chaffe by

so I 'de my life despise verse 22 This is one thing and therefore did I say He doth the wicked and the good destroy verse 23 After the scourge if sudden death be sent Hee 'l laugh at triall of the innocent verse 24 The earth is given to the wicked they In it the Scepter and Dominion sway The faces of the Judges he doth hide They cannot justice see but go aside Or if not so where then or who is he That can a reason shew why these things be verse 25 My daies now swifter then a post do flee They all are vanish'd and no good do see verse 26 As swiftest ships they passed are away Or as an Eagle hasting to the prey verse 27 If that I say I will my plaints forsake Leave off my mournings and some comfort take verse 28 Then do I feare my woes griefes me infold Knowing thou wilt not innocent me hold verse 29 If I be wicked why then still in vaine Thus do I labour lingring in my paine verse 30 If with snow-water I my selfe do wash And make my hands most cleane from sinfull trash verse 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch most vile I shall appeare yea my cloaths me defile verse 32 For he is not a man with flesh attir'd Like me vile Creature who in sin am min'd That if in judgement we together come Should I him answer nay I should be dumb verse 33 Nor is there any Umpire us betweene On 's both to lay his hand and intervene verse 34 But let him take away his rod from me Let not his fear my soul thus terrifie verse 35 Then would I speak and not fear any ill But since it it is not so I hold me still CHAP. X. verse 1 MY soule 's cut off though painefull life I have I my complaint upon my selfe to leave My catalogue of Woes I will unroule And speake in anguish of my troubled soule verse 2 I 'le say to God Condemne me not but shew Wherefore it is with me thou strivest so verse 3 Doth it seem good to thee that thou oppress Without a cause and heighten my dirtress Or without pitty that thou shouldst despise Thine handy-work is that thy wonted guise Or wilt thou let thy shining favour crown Perverse mens counsels and yet cast me down verse 4 And hast thou eyes of flesh or dost thou see As erring mortals who unknowing be verse 5 Are thy daies fleeting as the daies of man Or are thy yeers denoted in a span verse 6 That of my faults thou dost enquiry make And of my sin a view so narrow take verse 7 Thou know'st I am not wicked that I lye Restrain'd from sinning by my misery Thou also know'st none can so mighty be Who may out of thine hand deliver me verse 8 Thou didst my formeless lump fashion and make Yet thou destroy'st me and my life dost take verse 9 Thou all-Creator call to minde I pray That thou hast made me as the brittle clay And wilt thou scourge me in thy wrath with pain And into dust convert my flesh again verse 10 Hast thou not poured out like milke my lees And into curds converted me as cheese verse 11 Thou hast with skin and flesh my frailty clad And all my joynts and bones and sinews made verse 12 Thy grace and favour too hath made me live Thy providence my spirit did relieve verse 13 And thou hast hid these things within thy heart That this is with thee know I for my part verse 14 If I offend thou markest me wherein And wilt not hold me guiltless of my sin verse 15 If I be wicked woefull is my fate If I be righteous in the worlds conceit Yet dare I will not to lift up my head Both of confusion I am full and dread See thou therefore my misery and griefe And of thy mercy send me some reliefe verse 16 For why alas my daily woes renew With the uprising Sun thou dost pursue Me as a faging Lyon and again Shew'st thy selfe wondrous to prolong my pain verse 17 Thy plagues against me Lord thou dost encrease And wilt not let thine indignation cease I am unsetled yea and full of change Sorrowes against me do an army range verse 18 Why didst thou then bring me from out the womb Would I had di'd or it had been my tomb And that no mortall ever had me seen That it might not be said I once had been verse 19 Then of not being I my wish should have And from the womb been carried to the grave verse 20 Are not my daies few let me then alone That I by comforts may asswage my moan verse 21 Before I go whence no return can be Unto a land of gloomy misery verse 22 A land of darkness like to pitchy night Or like that darkness which did Egypt fright And of the shadow of most dreadfull death Whose light is darkness and no order hath CHAP. XI verse 1 THy throngs of words said the Naamathite verse 2 Should we not answer then you justly might Tax us of folly and you upright be But words their speaker cannot justifie verse 3 Should thy deceits make our advices cease Or thy devices make men hold their peace And when thou mockest dost thou think no man Should for thy floutings make thee blush with shame verse 4 Hast thou not said my doctrine is most pure And I my cleannesse in thine eies assure verse 5 But Oh! that God would now against thee speak And now at length his long-kept silence break verse 6 That hee 'd unlock the most mysterious deep Of sacred wisdome which his treasures keep That they are double to that ford of thine From which thou boastest to be so divine Then would'st thou know thy sins did merit far More heavy plagues then laid upon thee are verse 7 Canst thou by curious searchings of thy mind Presume on such a thought as God to find Or canst thou tread the Dedalaean maze Of his perfection in thy span of daies verse 8 'T is as the heights of Heaven what canst thou do Deeper then lowest hell what canst thou know verse 9 In measure longer then the earth can be And broader then the world-surrounding sea verse 10 If he cut off shut up or gather will Who can him let his purpose to fulfill verse 11 He knowes vain men he wickednesse sees too Will not he then give it his guerdon due verse 12 Man would be wise yet is a lumpish dolt Yea he is borne like a wild Asses colt verse 13 If with repentance thou thine heart prepare And stretch out hands which purified are verse 14 If thou with sin be laden throw 't away And let it not dwell in thy house of clay verse 15 Then shall thy spotless face exalted be And thou shalt stand and no more terror see verse 16 Thou shalt forget thy woe enjoying good And it remember as a by-past Flood verse 17 Thou shalt be clearer then the day at noon