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death_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	13,508	5	5.1021	4	true

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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

abuse Who cried at them as at thieves they use verse 6 They dwelt in clifts of valleys and in caves In rockes in holes on hils they shelter have verse 7 They roare among the bushes there 's the scene Under the thistles they themselves convene verse 8 The sons of slaves and fooles who were more vile Then is the mud which doth as pitch defile verse 9 But now am I their mocking-stock and song Of me they talke their villanies among verse 10 They shun abhor and mocking flee my waies Maliciously they spit into my face verse 11 Because afflictions have my state o'rthrown They 've loos'd the bridle are licentious grown verse 12 The youth against me rise they pusht my feet And as destruction humbled me they greet verse 13 They spoil'd my paths tooke pleasure in my woe Nor wanted helpe to quicken them as slow verse 14 They came as waters passe their wonted place And on my trouble heape they up disgrace verse 15 Terrours are come upon me as the wind So they pursue my soule and vexe my mind My welfare which from stormes the poore did shrowd Now daily passes as a scattering cloud verse 16 My soule is powred out I am halfe dead I am from trouble into trouble lead verse 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night In rest my sinews cannot have delight verse 18 The greatnesse of my griefe doth change my dress As with a coat I 'm clad with heavinesse verse 19 I'm cast into the mire his plague hath brought Contempt upon me I as dust am nought verse 20 I cry unto thee but thou dost not heare I stand before thee but thou stopst thine eare verse 21 Thou Lord art to me cruell grown at length Thou to my weaknesse dost oppose thy strength verse 22 Upon the wind thou causest me to flye My substance thou dissolvest and I dye verse 23 I know my body thou to death wilt give And to th' appointed house for all that live verse 24 None to the grave will stretch his hand at all Though at his death they may lament his fall verse 25 Did I not weep for them whose woes grew more Was not my soule afflicted for the poore verse 26 When I expected good then evill came And in my hopes of light it was the same verse 27 For griefe my bowels boiled in my brest I am afflicted and can have no rest verse 28 For others woe I joy'd not in the Sun I stood and in the Assembly made my moane verse 29 Dragons and Owles as friends and kin I get verse 30 My skin is black my bones are burnt with heate verse 31 My harpe and mirth thou dost to wailing turne My organs to the voice of them that mourne CHAP. XXXI verse 1 I Made a covenant with mine eies that they Alluring beauties should no more survey And shall I wanton yet thinke on a maid Of such transgressions make me Lord afraid verse 2 What portion should I have from God above Or what reward could I expect his love verse 3 Doth not quick ruine on the wicked tend Do not strange judgements haste them to their end verse 4 Doth he not see my waies and count my steps Doth he not reckon all my fayles and trips verse 5 If I with vanity have been repleat Or if my foot hath hasted to deceit verse 6 Let me in even ballances be weigh'd Before the Lord be my uprightness laid verse 7 If from the way of truth I 've gone away Or if mine heart hath followed mine eye If I have any but right gotten lands If any blot have cleaved to my hands verse 8 Then let another eat what I shall sow Yea let my off spring fall before my foe verse 9 If so my heart have err'd through womens baites If at my neighbours door I have laid waite verse 10 Then let my wife be made anothers slave Let other men their will upon her have verse 11 For this is such a sin so great a crime As merits Judgement ere too high it clime verse 12 Yea this is such a fire as shall destroy And root out all encrease and hope of joy verse 13 If any servants with me did contend And both their cause and griefe I did not end verse 14 What shall I doe when God stands up on high And when he visits what shall I reply verse 15 Have we not one Creator did not he Within the wombe fashion both him and me verse 16 If I the poores desires ere laid away Or made the widdowes eies fail through delay verse 17 Or eat my bread alone and have not given A share to Orphans who to want were driven verse 18 For to me as a father he might come And I have holpen Widdows from my wombe verse 19 If I for want of clothes have any seen Perish or any poor have naked been verse 20 Did he not blesse me that my store was full Was he not warmed with my fleece of wooll verse 21 If against Orphans I my hand did heave And did not help him when I help might give verse 22 Mine arm and shoulder let no more be one Yea let mine arm be broken from the bone verse 23 For why Gods Judgements terrors are to me And from his Highnesse I could not be free verse 24 If gaining gold of Ophir were my scope If I made gold my confidence or hope verse 25 If I rejoyced that my wealth was great And thought it good enough so much to get verse 26 If I beheld the shining of the Sun Or reverenc'd the brightnesse of the Moon verse 27 And by that sight my heart hath been entic'd Or that my mouth my hand in honor kiss'd verse 28 I had deserv'd Gods Judgements for that sin For that I had deny'd God to have bin verse 29 If in the ruine of my foes I joy'd Or was well-pleas'd when mischiefes him annoi'd verse 30 Nor did I let my mouth proceed to worse By wishing to his soule the smallest curse verse 31 Yea though my servants said give us his flesh To satisfie his faults that are so fresh verse 32 No traveller ere lodged in the street My house was open for the strangers feet verse 33 If I as Adam conscious have bin Concealing in my bosome secret sin verse 34 Did I fear multitudes was I afraid Of greatnesse or contempt or height of pride That I kept silence when they did provoke And for revenge made no dissembling cloak verse 35 Oh that I might be heard 't is my desire That the Almighty would my cause enquire And giving answer on my troubles look And that my foe had written but a book verse 36 I 'de take it on me make it to be read And binde it as a crown upon my head verse 37 The number of my steps I would declare I would to him as to a Prince draw near verse 38 If that my land be not my lawfull gaine Or if the furrowes of it do complaine verse 39

who know him not most wicked men Can see his daies and think to force his will To bear their crimes and luxuries fulfill verse 2 The Land-markes some remove and take away The flocks and feed upon them as their prey verse 3 The Orphans Asse they drive away unbought And take the widdowes Ox to pledge for nought verse 4 The needy they mislead and make them glad Of Caves to keep them from a life more sad verse 5 Loe as wild Asses in the desart doe So to their businesse doe these wretches go Rising for pr●y they will not be withstood The Desart yeelds them and their children food verse 6 They reap the poor mans corn while yet it grew And pull the vintage of their very crew verse 7 They make the naked without clothing lye And through extremity of cold to dye verse 8 Showrs of the mountain wet their naked skin And they embrace the rocks for covering verse 9 They pluck Orphans from their mothers brest And take the pledge from men with need opprest verse 10 From his half-naked back his clothes they pull And take their gleaning from the hungry soul verse 11 Yea those who make their oyle for their wine Tread in their presses suffer thirst and pine verse 12 Men through extortion in the City groan They weep and suffer and unpittied moan The crying blood of slain even preacheth woe Yet God unpunish't lets their folly go verse 13 These these are they that so abhor the light And in the way of truth will not delight verse 14 The murtherer arising with the day The poor and needy in his wrath doth slay Among his consorts he 's accounted chiefe And in the night he is a cunning thiefe verse 15 Th' adultrous monster with a watchfull eye Wasteth his wished twilight to espie No eye shall see me in his heart he saies And with disguises seeks to hide his face verse 16 They rob those houses in the dark of night They marked in the day they hate the light verse 17 As is grim death unto our frame of clay Such to these wretches is the dawning day For if one know them they are straight in fear As if the pangs of death did then appear verse 18 He 's swift upon the waters for he knows His portion on the earth is nought but woes His mind 's so fraught with jealousies and feares That go the publike way he never dares verse 19 As heat and drought the waters dry away So shall the grave those men that go astray verse 20 Yea they shall be forgotten and instead Of all their pleasures worms shall on them feed They shall no more on Earth remembred be The wicked shall be broken like a tree verse 21 He to the barren did no comfort give Nor poorer widdowes with his goods relieve verse 22 He drawes the mighty by his power to strife And when he riseth none is sure of life verse 23 Though he may rest secure and live in peace If they but move his eies are on their waies verse 24 They are exalted for a little while Then are brought low and have a sudden foile They are destroy'd cut off yea in their prime As are the eares of corn in summer time verse 25 If 't be not so who 'le me a liar make And from my speeches their true value take CHAP. XXV verse 1 THen Bildad said Power and strength remain verse 2 With him that Peace doth with himself retain verse 3 His Armies have no number his is might On all things living doth arise his light verse 4 How then can man be justify'd with God How can the sons of men be free from 's rod verse 5 He speaks the word the Moon deny's its light The very stars are faulty in his sight verse 6 How much lesse man who is a worm and frail Whose greatest worth doth as a shadow fail CHAP. XXVI verse 1 BUt Iob returned Hast thou the weak supply'd verse 2 Out of thy strength against the arme of pride And such as through weaknesse void of might To help or strengthen hast thou ta'ne delight verse 3 Hast thou such counsel'd as did counsell need Or hast thou shewn the thing as 't is indeed verse 4 Why or to whom dost thou these words declare What or whose spirit in them doth appear verse 5 Mines metals dead things God does wisely frame Under the waters yet he knowes the same verse 6 Naked before him is the Earths abisse Destruction is not hid Hell open is verse 7 Hee makes the Heavens turn round the Northern Pole The Earths vast body nothing doth uphold verse 8 He binds the waters in his Clouds and yet The clouds not broken are under their weight verse 9 He holdeth back his throne and in a cloud He makes the heavens their glorious beauty shroud verse 10 Unto the waters he hath set their bounds As long as day and night fulfill their rounds verse 11 The very Heavens before his face do shake At his reproofe the pillars of it quake verse 12 His power calmes the sea whose waves did croud Themselves into a storme he smites the proud verse 13 The Heavens their garnish by his Spirit have His hand a form to crooked Serpents gave verse 14 Behold and see of 's waies this little share How little of his power do we hear If this so little be then Lord what man The thunder of thy power can understand CHAP. XXVII verse 1 VVHen having staid a little Iob proceeds And in his speech to 's friends this Lecture reads verse 2 The living God doth me afflict so sore I want my judgement madnesse makes me roar So many sorrowes daily on me break That I in anguish of my soule do speak verse 3 Yet while I live as long as that same brearh Infus'd by God into me being hath verse 4 I will my lips from wickednesse refraine Nor shall deceit my purer speeches staine verse 5 You judge me faulty can your sin be hid Shall I applaud your sin no God forbid I under undeserved torments lye Yet will not leave my justnesse till I dye verse 6 I my uprightnesse will not quit my heart Shall not accuse me while I live to start verse 7 Let all thy judgements follow such as rise Against me and my chastisement despise Oh let them as presumptuous sinners be Whom death cuts off ere half their daies they see verse 8 What 's the dissemblers hope to heap up wealth When God takes from his soule his saving health verse 9 When dreadfull terrors do his mind assaile Shall then his teares or cries with God prevaile verse 10 Will his afflictions make him call on God Or will he love him when he feeles his rod verse 11 I will through God great mysteries reveale What the Almighty does I 'le not conceale verse 12 Which you your selves have seen but do not know Why will you then so much your folly show verse 13 This lot the Lord to wicked men will