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A Friendly caveat to all true Christians, showing them the true way to heaven
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A friendly Caveat To all true Christians Showing them the true way to Heaven To the Tune of the Ladies fall NOw that the day star doth appear to God devoutly let us call That in the déeds of day light clear he 'd keep us from misfortunes all Let him temper our tatling tongue and bridle so our will Lest horror vile brake us among and strife that sounds full ill Let all the secrets of our hearts be clean from filthiness Let slothful sluggishness depart from us that study do profess Let mean dyet of drink and meat beat down the pride of flesh Lest raging in that filthy heat it loose of youth the flowers fresh Take not in vain Gods holy name but use it with reverence For why the Lord all such do blame as here commit offence Remember that thou holy keep the day of Rest as God doth will Six days thou shalt apply thy work but rest the seventh day still For in six days the Lord did frame the Heaven the Earth the Creatures The seventh he ceast and blest the same as time for us on him to call All these precepts the Lord did write in the first table made of stone And left for us both night and day his wayes to think upon THe second table followeth then whherein the Lord instructeth vs How to behave our selves alwayes and the same is written thus Vnto thy Parents honor give as God commandeth thee That thou long days and good may'st live in Heaven thy place shall be Murder no man by word nor deed with Sword or other thing Do nought from whence hate may procéed for murder out of heat doth spring Avoid all foul adultery and all that their belong All filthy thoughts and lusts of eye all unchast talk of tongue Take not by fraud nor yet by stealth the things that others possess For so to take what is not thine it 't is great wickedness Against no man false witness be but spake the truth alway For God thy secret thoughts no sée and will judge thée at the last day Thou shalt not in thy heart desire to have thy Neighbors wife His house nor Land do not require nor between them bréed no strife Be not desirous to reserve his oxe his horse or beast That he is not willing to leave or what he doth possest In vain take not the name of God swear not by he nor she The house with plagues is threatned where oaths much used be Think on the poor in their distress and God will send thee store The widdow and the fatherless sée you féed at your door Regard the cryes of Englands wrong turn not thy face away Bear not a proud and lofty mind for that will thee decay These be the laws that God did give to Jacobs feed in wilderness And let us follow them alway we may his Land possess But such as will his laws neglect and walk after fleshly desire The Lord at last he will them put into eternal fire From which the Lord deliver us and all that trust in thee That when we do depart this world in heaven our place may be London Printed for VV. Thackeray T. Passenger and VV. Whitwood