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Youths divine pastime containing forty remarkable scripture histories turned into common English verse : with forty curious pictures proper to each story : very delightful for the virtuous imploying the vacant hours of young persons, and preventing vain and vicious divertisements : together with several scripture hymns upon divers occasions.
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R. B., 1632?-1725?
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Wing C7363; ESTC R36058
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be free Where nothing's heard but yells And groans and woful cries And where the Fire ne're abates The Worm there never dies That Worm which ever gnaws And tears their Bowels out The Pit upon them shuts its Jaws It 's terrible no doubt But where this Hell is plac'd My Muse must needs stop there Lord shew us what its horror is But never shew us where Scripture Hymns and Songs upon several Occasions turn'd into Common English Verse With some others The Song of Moses when Pharaoh and his Host were Drowned in the Red Sea Exodus 15. Then sang Moses and the Children of Israel this Song unto the Lord and spake saying I To the Lord will sing for he Triumpht in Glory so The Horse he and his Rider down Into the Sea did throw The Lord 's my Strength and Song and he Is my Salvation My God he is I 'll him prepare An Habitation My Fathers God he is also I will exalt his Fame The Lord he is a Man of War Jehovah is his Name He Pharaoh's Chariots and his Host Into the Sea hath cast And his choice Captains Drowned were At i th' Red Sea they past The depths them hid to th' bottom they Sunk down even as a Stone Jehovah thy Right Hand in power Most glorious is alone Lord thy Right Hand in pieces dasht Those that against thee rose And in thine Excellency Great Thou hast o'rethrown thy Foes Thou didst send forth thy wrath which as The stubble did them waste Together gathered were the waves Even with thy Nostrils blast The Floods stood upright as an heap The depths in mid-sea rose The Foe said I 'll pursue I 'll catch I will the spoil dispose My Lust on them shall filled be My Sword draw out will I My Hand shall them again possess Or spoil them utterly Thou with the wind didst on them blow The Sea them covered They in the mighty waters sunk As if they had been Lead Lord who 's like thee among the Gods Who 's like thee glorious In holiness fearful in praise In doings marvellous When thou didst forth thy Right Hand stretch The Earth them swallowed The people whom thou hast Redeem'd Thou hast in Mercy led Thou by thy strength shalt guide them to That Holy Seat of thine The Folk shall hear and fear and grieve Shall they of Palestine Then Edom's Dukes shall be amaz'd And Moab's mighty men Trembling shall seize away shall melt All Canaan's dwellers then Fear upon them and dread shall fall By thy Hands mightiness They shall lye still as doth a Stone Until the People pass Until thy People Lord shall pass Which thou hast purchased Till thou hast them brought in and in Thy Mount established The Mount of thine Inheritance O Lord the place wherein Thou hast prepar'd thy Sanctuary For thee to dwell therein Lord which thy Hands established Jehovah he shall Reign For evermore through Ages all For ever Sovereign For Pharaoh's Horse and Chariots And Horsemen down they went Into the Sea Jehovah then The Sea upon them sent The waters of the Sea on them He turned back in haste But on dry Land i' th' midst o' th' Sea The Sons of Israel past And Miriam answered them Sing to the Lord for he excels In glorious renown He hath the Horse and Rider both Into the Sea cast down Samson 's Triumph over the Philistines when he had slain a thousand with the Jaw-bone of an Ass SAmson rejoice be fill'd with mirth Let all Judea know And tell the Princes of the Earth How strong an Arm hast thou How has thy dead inricht the Land And purpl'd o're the Grais Thou hadst no weapon in thy Hand But th' Jaw-bone of an Ass How does thy strength and high renown The glory of men surpass Thine Arm hath struck a thousand down With th' Jaw-bone of an Ass Let Samson's glorious name endure Till time shall bring forth One Whose greater glory shall obscure The glory thou hast won David 's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan And David lamented with this Lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his Son 2 Sam. 1.19 THE Beauty of Israel is slain Upon the places high How are the Mighty fallen down In Gath this never cry Nor tell 't in Streets of Askelon Lest Philistines rejoice Lest Daughters of th' uncircumcis'd Make a triumphant noise Ye Mountains high of Gilboa Let there be never Dew Let neither Rain nor Fields again Of Offering be on you For there the mighty One his Shield Receiv'd disgraceful foil The Shield of Saul as he had not Anointed been with Oyl The Bow of Jonathan turned not Back from the Blood o' th' slain From fat o' th' Mighty and Saul's Sword Returned not in vain Lovely and pleasant in their Lives Were Saul and Jonathan And in their death and latest breath Was no division They swifter were than Eagles far They Lions did excel In strength O weep ye over Saul Daughters of Israel Who did in Scarlet you array With deckings manifold Who did on your Apparel lay Rich Ornaments of Gold O thou my Brother Jonathan I am distrest for thee A pleasant kind Companion Thou hast been unto me Thy love to me was wonderful Past that of Women far How are the Mighty fall'n and how Are lost the Men of War The Prayer of Jonah to the Lord his God out of the Whales Belly Jonah 2. I to the Lord in my distress Did cry and he gave ear Out of Hells Belly cryed I And he my voice did hear Into the deep i' th' midst o' th' Sea O Lord thou didst me cast The Floods me compast all thy Waves And Billows o're me past Then did I say I utterly Cast from thy sight remain Yet to thy Holy Temple I Will once more look again The waters even to the Soul Did me incompass round The depths me round inclos'd the weeds About my head were bound To th' Mountains bottoms I went down Earths Bars did me beset Yet Lord my God thou broughtest my life Up from corruptions Pit When as my Soul did faint in me The Lord remembred I Even then my Pray'r came unto thee Into thy Sanctuary They their own mercies leave that do Mind Lying Vanities But with the voice of giving thanks To thee I 'll Sacrifice The thing the which I vowed have To pay I will accord Because alone Salvation Proceedeth from the Lord. Conclusion O Holy Holy Holy Lord Th' Almighty God alone Which was and is and is to come Who sittest on the Throne Thou Glory Honour and great Pow'r Lord worthy art to take For thou mad'st all they are and were Made for thy pleasures sake A Poem upon Death and Judgment THE Day of wrath that dreadful day Shall the whole World in Ashes lay As both the Psalms and Sybils say What horror will distract your mind When the strict Judge who should be kind Shall have few venial faults to find The last loud Trumpets wondrous sound Shall through the cleaving Graves rebound And wake the Nations under-ground Nature and Death shall with surprise Behold the Conscious wretches rise And view the Judge with frighted Eyes Then shall with Universal dread The Sacred Mystick Roll be read To try the Living and the Dead The Judge ascends his awful Throne But when he makes all secrets known How will a guilty Face be shown What Intercessor shall I take To save my last important stake When the most Just hath cause to quake Thou mighty formidable King Mercy and Truths Eternal Spring Some charitable pity bring In Storms of guilty Terrors lost Forget not what my Ransom cost Nor let my dear bought Soul be lost Thou who for me hast felt such pain Whose precious Blood the Cross did stain Let not thy Death and Birth be vain Thou whom avenging Powers obey Remit my Debt too vast to pay Before the last accounting day Surrounded with amazing Fears Whose load my Soul with anguish bears I sigh I weep accept my Tears Thou who wast mov'd with Maries Grief And by absolving of a Thief Hast given me Hope Oh! give Relief Reject not my unworthy Prayers But free me from those dreadful Snares That hungry gaping Hell prepares Oh! let thy Bloud my Crimes Efface And fix me with those Heirs of Grace That thou dost on thy Right Hand place From that Portentous vast Abyss Where Flames devour and Serpents Hiss Call me to thy Eternal Bliss Prostrate my contrite Heart I rend My God my Father and my Friend Do not forsake me in my end Well may they Curse their second Breath Who rise to a severer Death Thou Great Creator of Mankind Let sinful Souls compassion find Could we divide a Moment to the Eye We should see Life the Moment that we die And Faith does fully that defect supply For though my Body Dies it is not I. 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Describes the shortness of his time And makes confession of his crime Rash Eliphaz doth aggravate The Sins of Job and his sad State Whom Job reproving justifies Himself bewails his miseries God questions him and proves that Man Cannot attain to things so high As Divine Secrets since he can Not reach to Natures Secrecy God speaks to him the second time Job yields his Sin repents his Crime God checks his Friends restores his Health Gives him new Issue double Wealth XXIX Vpon the three Children in the fiery Furnace Dan. 3 VVHen Israel was Captive led For Sin to Babylon â—â—â—e Youths the King chose and them fed With his Provision These Children were well-favoured Such whom he could discern Had Wisdom Knowledge and were apt All Sciences to Learn Now among these four Youths there were Who did the rest excel Whom the King Governours did make Which Trust they manag'd well Shadrach Meshach Abednego O're his Affairs were set But Daniel lived at the Court And ruied in the Gate The King a Golden Image made And set it in the Plain And whosoe're won't worship it Must certainly be slain Yet these three Men do this refuse At which the King is wroth And doth command that instantly Before him they be brought Into a fiery Furnace he Orders that they be thrown But they receiv'd no hurt thereby They trust in Heav'n alone One like the Son of God was there Which when the King did see He calls them forth and doth declare Their God his God shall be He also them restores unto Their former dignity And doth command all shall adore Their God as the Most High XXX Vpon Daniel in the Lions Den Dan. 6. DAniel escap'd the Fire but yet Was cast into the Den. He envied was because he rise Higher than other Men. And since they could not him insnare In matters of the Crown Of his Religion they complain Thereby to bring him down They cry O King make a Decree And Seal it with thy Ring That those be to the Lions cast Who will not do this thing All Men as God shall thee adore And unto thee shall pray And whosoever doth refuse This Edict to obey He shall into the Lions Den There cruelly to die This Daniel knew and yet did still Serve God as formerly Then to the King they do accuse Him of Disloyalty Because unto the Kings Decree He dar'd not to comply For this he 's cast into the Den Of which the King repents And for his Servant Daniel He wofully laments The Lions will not touch him but Do seem to stand in fear Daniel in safety there remains For Daniel's God was there At which the King doth much rejoice And soon does him deliver His Enemies the Lions tear God loves his Servants ever XXXI Upon the History of Jonah Jonah 1. 2. THE Word of God to Jonah came Commanded Jonah to proclaim The vengeance of his Majesty Against the Sins of Nineveh But Jonah toward Tarshish went A Tempest doth his course prevent The Mariners are sore opprest While Jonah sleeps and takes his rest The Pilot thumps on Jonah's Breast And rouzeth Jonah from his rest They all cast Lots being sore affrighted The Sacred Lot on Jonah lighted They question Jonah whence he came His Countrey and his Peoples Name He makes reply they moan their woe And ask his Counsel what to do The Prophet doth his fault discover Persuades the Men to cast him over They row and toil but do no good They pray to be excus'd from Blood They cast the Prophet over board The Storm allay'd they fear the Lord. Almighty Fish him quick devours Where he remained many Hours Within the Belly of the Whale He doth his misery bewail God hears his Pray'r at whose command The Fish out casts him on the Land The second time was Jonah sent To Nineveh now Jonah went Against their crying Sins he cry'd And their Destruction prophesied The Ninevites believe his Word Their Hearts they turn unto the Lord In him they put their only trust Since he 's both Merciful and Just XXXII Vpon the Prodigal Son St. Luke 15. TWO Sons unto a certain Man Were Born with whom they live Until they were grown up but then The youngest seems to grieve That he must always dwell at Home Therefore abroad will he Let me says he my Portion have I 'll Travel presently His Father though unwillingly Unto him doth consent Who taking all his Goods with him To a far Countrey went Where he with Riot soon doth waste All that with him he brought Women and Wine and Gluttony His Ruin quickly wrought And which did much increase his woe A Famine in that Land Then happened which caused him In want of Food to stand Yet if in this necessity On Husks he could have fed It may be he would ne're have thought Of coming Home for Bread But hunger forc'd him to recall His Fathers House to mind Then Home he goes and after all He finds his Father kind With Kisses Robe with Shoes and Ring And Musicks lofty strain With th' fatted Calf and all good things He doth him entertain And pleads that so it ought to be None should of it complain For this my Son was dead saith he And is alive again XXXIII Vpon Dives and Lazarus St. Luke 16. DIves was blest with happiness But Lazarus was poor Dives lives high but Lazarus Doth beg from door to door The very worst of Dives Slaves Far'd better far than he Whose Cloaths were Rags he nothing hath But Sores and Misery At Dives Door Lazarus begs Only some Crumbs of Bread Which from his Riotous Table fell Wherewith he might be fed At length both on their Death beds lye And both now equal seem But after death Dives is vile And Lazarus in esteem The Beggar goes to Heav'n and there In Abraham's Bosom lies The Rich Man is in Hell and there Though dying never dies From whence he Lazarus sees and doth Of Father Abraham crave He would send Lazarus back again His Brethren to save Yea being in great misery He humbly doth intreat A drop of Water for to cool His Tongue inflam'd with heat But this his cry and strange request Abraham doth now reject Upon his former Luxury He bids him to reflect Remember Son saith he that then Thou good things didst enjoy But Lazarus evil therefore now He reaps Eternal Joy XXXIV Upon the death of Ananias and Saphira Acts 5. THese two dwelt in Jerusalem And did the Faith profess Yet these two lost their Lives because They acted wickedness They come and deal deceitfully Before the Lord of Hosts Yea they presume to tell a Lie Unto the Holy Ghost For selling their Possession they Part of the price kept back It may be they were covetous And fear'd themselves should lack And then they falsly did affirm They nothing did retain Thinking St. Peter to deceive But found it was in vain He soon discovers the deceit And plainly doth declare Satan had fill'd their Hearts