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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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with Lies ' Cause God they did not fear To them his word was like a Sword He need do nothing more Vengeance o'retakes them and they dead Are carried out of door Great fear from hence falls upon all They the Apostles dread Since God even by their word alone So soon strikes sinners dead Let this a warning be to all That they avoid a Lie But speak the truth in righteousness And in sincerity Lest such a sudden dismal Fate Do unto them befal As unto these two happened God's Justice can reach all XXXV Upon the Stoning of St. Stephen Acts 6 7. Chapters STephon was a Man of mighty Faith Who many Wonders wrought The Doctrine of Christ his Lord With Pow'r the People taught His Spirit and Wisdom was so great He his Opposers foil'd Which made them so malicious they Would not be reconcil'd False Witnesses they then set up His Life a way to take Who swear that he blasphemously ' Gainst th' Law and Temple spake He to the Councel's led by those Who ' gainst him did combine His Face when he began to plead Did like an Angels shine Having their leave he then begins And shews how God did lead Of old his people Israel And them delivered But coming close and charging them With guiltless Blood they cry Out all at once Let 's him condemn For he shall surely die Mean while he looks up stedfastly To Heaven and there sees stand The Son of Man in glory great Placed at Gods right hand Out of the City then he 's cast And stoned till he dies But Stephen ev'n to the very last Like a true Martyr cries Lord lay not to their charge this sin My Soul receive and keep He gain'd the Crown of Martyrdom And then he fell asleep XXXVI Upon St. Paul 's Shipwrack Acts 26 27. chap. SAint Paul was sailing unto Rome When lo a storm arose Which was so fierce and violent They could it not oppose The Men were much affrighted since They saw no hope at all They fear destruction on them will Inevitably fall St. Paul them comforts and assures Though they in danger are Yet all shall save their Lives for so God did to him declare The storm more furious grows and all Their labour doth confound At length the Ship in pieces breaks By being run a-ground Each Man then for himself shifts so By skilful swimming and The broken pieces of the Ship They all come safe to Land Having this danger thus escapt They are on Malta thrown And there by the Inhabitants Much kindness had them shown But when St. Paul had gathered sticks To make a Fire at Land A Viper came out of the heat And fastened on his Hand Whereat the people look on him As he a Murderer were Who though he had escap'd the Sea Yet vengeance follow'd there But when they did observe that he Receiv'd no hurt thereby They quickly change their minds and now He is a God they cry Vpon Death CAn he be counted Fair Who withers at a blast Or he be Strong one breath of wind Into the Grave can cast Can he be counted Wise Who knows not how to live Or can he be a Rich Man call'd Who nothing hath to give Can he be reckon'd Young That 's feeble weak and wan So Fair so Strong so very Wise So Rich so Young is Man So Fair is Man that Death Even with one parting blast Blasts all his fair and dainty Flow'rs And makes him Earth at last So mighty Strong is Man That with a gasping Breath He totters falls and then bequeaths His boasted strength to Death So Wise is man that if With Death he once do strive His Wisdom never can him teach How he one Hour shall live So Rich is Man that when He once his debts hath paid His Wealth 's his winding-sheet wherein Even he himself is laid So Young is Man that when He 's broke with care and sorrow He 's old enough this very day That he may die to morrow Why brag'st thou then thou Worm Who art but five Foot long For thou art neither Fair nor Strong Nor Wise nor Rich nor Young Vpon Judgment THE dreadful Trump shall blow The Dead awak'd shall rise And then unto the Clouds they all Shall turn their wandring Eyes The Heav'ns shall opened be The Bridegroom forth shall come To Judge the World and to bestow On all the World her Doom Joy it shall be to th' Just To th' Wicked endless smart To those the blessed voice bids Come To these it bids Depart Depart you must from life Yet dying live for ever For ever you will dying be And yet you will die never Depart from me like Dogs With Devils take your Lot Like Devils all depart from me Because I know you not Like Dogs like Devils go Go cry and howl and bark Depart and into Darkness fly Because your deeds were dark Let yells and roarings be Your Musick and your Food The Flesh of Vipers and of Toads Your Drink shall be their Blood Let Devils you afflict With scorn reproach and shame Depart depart away from me Into Eternal Flame If Hell the Portion then Of wretched sinners be O Lord give me my Hell on Earth Lord give me Heaven with thee Vpon Heaven WHen I do contemplate The New Jerusalem Wherein there is reserv'd for me My Crown my Diadem Oh! what a Heaven of Bliss My Soul by this enjoys All on a sudden I am wrapt Into the Heaven of Joys Where there are Troops of Powers Of Virtues Cherubims There Angels and Archangels are With Saints and Seraphims Who still are singing praise Unto their Heavenly King Their Songs and Hallelujahs they For ever to him sing Where joys are full and pure And are not mixt with mourning Where they continue without end From which there 's no returning No Theft nor Cruelty No Murder harbours there No hoary headed Care afflicts Nor yet no sudden Fear No pinching Want is there No griping fast Oppression Nor Death which is the just reward Of the first Man's transgression But dearest Friendship Love And Everlasting Pleasure Do there abide continually Without decay or measure Fulness of Riches Joy And Comfort sempiternal Excess yet without surfeiting With Light and Life Eternal Vpon Hell HEll is beyond all thought A state sad and forlorn No mortal Man can here relate The Pangs that there are born These Burnings cann't be quencht No not with tears of Blood No mournful groans nor doleful sighs Will here do any good Nay all that can be said T' express the pain of those In Hell comes short they are enwrapt In Everlasting woes For Time there finds no end And Plagues find no exemption Their cries admit no help for from That place is no redemption Where Fire lacks no Flame Therewith the Flame to heat To make their torments more severe Their miseries to compleat Where wretched Souls for ever To tortures bound shall be Where they shall serve a world of years Yet never shall
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 He certainly doth hit the White Who mingles Profit with Delight Of Death and Judgment Heaven and Hell Who often thinks must needs live well The Third Edition LONDON Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside 1691. LICENSED And ENTRED Dear Youth True Wisdoms Precepts learn And hearken to her Words She to all that obey her Voice A glorious Crown affords THE Epistle to Youth SWeet Children Wisdom you invites To hearken to her voice She offers to you rare Delights Most worthy of your choice Eternal Blessings in her ways You shall be sure to find O therefore in your youthful days Your Great Creator mind Upon a World vain toilsom foul A Journey now you enter The welfare of your Living Soul You dangerously adventure The Joys that other pleasure brings With Vanities abound Nay when in Streights they take their wings Vexations they are found Then humbly strive without delay Grace in God's sight to find And gladly now and all your days Your Great Creator mind R. B. I. Adam and Eve driven out of Paradice Gen. 2. ADam and Eve were form'd of dust That was their Pedigree Yet had a grant never to die Would they obedient be And to add to their happiness In uprightness were made And into Eden they were put Under God's blessed Shade They wanted nothing but had leave This Garden to possess And there to eat and recreate Themselves in Blessedness They only were prohibited The Tree of Good and Evil Lest eating it should them betray To Sin Death and the Devil But they were quickly drawn aside By Satans subtilty By whose advice they took and eat What caus'd their misery They God's Command forget and what He unto them had said The Serpent's Craft o're them prevails Whereby they are betray'd Being thus faln they next contrive Excuses how to frame To cover their Iniquity And to conceal their Shame Adam doth Eve accuse and she All on the Serpent lays But still their guilt the more appears Their Crime it more displays For which th' Almighty did them cast Out of his Paradice To make them know that Death and Woe Doth follow Sin and Vice II. Vpon Cain and Abel Gen. 4. CAin seem'd a Zealous Worshiper Yet did he come behind His Brother Abel is preferr'd ' Cause he was best inclin'd Cain saw no further than the Law But Abel walkt by Faith Which made his Offering acceptable To God as Scripture saith Abel lookt through his Sacrifice To Jesus yet to come Cain his own works o're-valued And a Curse carried home When God in Judging did receive Abel and Cain reject Cain murmurs and complains and grieves ' Cause he had no respect And being proud did much disdain The Youth should him out-do Yet finds no way repute to gain But what adds to his Woe He takes his opportunity And doth his Brother kill ' Cause he his God did glorifie And rightly do his Will This done God asks Where 's Abel Cain He says I cannot tell And yet he had poor Abel slain Oh the deceits of Hell But Cain a very dreadful sound I from the Earth do hear Thy Brother's Blood spilt on the ground Doth sadly pierce mine Ear. Thou Wretch Thou hast my Abel slain His Blood revenge I will Depart see not my Face again Upon my Holy Hill III. Vpon Noah 's Flood Gen. 6.7 WHen Men by Sin and Violence Did stain the Earth with Blood God did resolve to wash them thence By Waters of a Flood Yet did he warn before he struck Noah was sent to tell They by their Sins would God provoke To cast them down to Hell He also set an hundred years Betwixt the threat and blow If haply they by Prayers and Tears Might yet prevent their Woe He likewise caus'd Noah to make An Ark thereby to save His House while those who did forsake Him might their Judgment have Thus patience was with threatning mixt But all did them no good Their minds on mischief they had fixt And so God sent the Flood Then some unto the Mountains flee And others climb the Trees Here one cries out Ah! Woe is me He Death and Judgment sees But now alas it is too late Treasures of Wrath break out Their dismal yea Eternal Fate Doth compass them about Now Mercy doth to Judgment turn Now sinful pleasures sting The thoughts of years mis-spent return Terrors in every thing But where is Noah In the Ark Alive in health and well Though at his Building they did mock He has escap'd their Hell IV. Vpon the Burning of Sodom and Gomorrah Gen. 19. IN Canaan's Land did Sodom stand Amidst a pleasant Plain Like Eden 't was nor want nor loss They seemed to sustain They eat and drank had all things full Whate're they could require God liberally provides for them They have their Hearts desire They bought and sold Silver and Gold They in abundance had They decked were with Jewels fair And with fine Silk were clad Their Fertile Fields much Corn did yield Their Water-Springs ran clear Their Sheep and Kine Fig-trees and Vine Brought Plenty every year They wanted not a Righteous Lot To teach them how to please So good a Lord who did afford Them Riches Health and Ease But Ah behold how vile and bold These Men of Sodom were To wantonness and all excess They all addicted are The Poor they sleight in Lust delight And live in Sodomy Yea in their Pride at Lot deride And mock his Ministry For which th' Almighty with a Rod Of Brimstone set on Fire Drives from the Earth to dismal Death These objects of his Ire To Ashes turns their Cities Burns Their Fields and all the Plain Makes them a Sign of Wrath Divine By a most Fiery Rain V. Vpon Abraham 's Offering Isaac Gen. 22. OUR Father Abraham was he Whom God the Promise made That in his Seed we blest should be And thence should come our Aid Isaac his Son he did beget From whom that Seed should spring Who on the Throne of God should sit As Prophet Priest and King But now since God his Promise kept By giving him a Son And since that Abraham did avouch God for the Holy One. He tempted him and bid him go Unto his Holy Hill And there by Sacrifice undo What he meant to fulfil Without delay then Abraham went With Fire with Wood and Knife And with a resolute intent To take his Isaac's life Being come he there an Altar makes The Wood in order lay And then the bloody Knife he takes God's Counsel to obey Nor did he unadvisedly In this his bold Attempt If God will have his Isaac die Abraham won't him exempt Accounting had he slain his Son And