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A66766	A paraphrase on the ten commandments in divine poems illustrated with twelve copper plates, shewing how personal punishments has been inflicted on the transgressors of these commandment, as is recorded in the Holy Scripture, never before printed : also, a metrical paraphrase upon the creed and Lord's Prayer / written by George Wither ...	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1697 (1697)	Wing W3177; ESTC R11576	41,427	136

he who blesledness desires To that above all other thing aspires To love and give due praise is better far Than to be lov'd or to be praised are To him that hath subsistance of his own Ev'n I my self whose heart is overgrown With imperfections love without respect Of any end but meerly to affect Those whom I love and rather would have done Ten thousand kindnesses that sought for one And Lord if such a failing love as mine May reach to this how infinite is thine And Oh how far art thou from things so vain As loving meerly to be lov'd again By such poor worms as we whose best affection Is but a passion full of imperfection Indeed thou bid'st us love thee but for what Save to preserve us capable of that Which we receive and that we might not miss The comfort which in Virtue placed is And of whose hapless want he cannot chuse But feel the loss whose conscience doth accuse Yea thou commandest love that love may make Our nature of thy nature to partake Without which quality there cannot be The true Communion 'twixt us and thee Which is the very height of all our bliss Or which indeed the Essence of it is For could we be of thee Oh God! approv'd Or could we of all creatures be belov'd Tho' we no love return'd nor had in us An object for the love conferred thus Which were impossible we ne'retheless Should suffer by our own unworthiness An inward Hell and to our selves invent Occasions of continual discontent As to those envious men it may appear Who causlesly injurious often are To those their honest neighbours whom they find To them as friendly as they are unkind For outward plagues pursueth so this sin Nay also so affects him still within And till his nature be depraved quite His own Injustice will his heart affright Yea they whose Crimes are pardon'd are not free From suff'rings though they well assured be That neither God nor Man will blame them for The passed Frailties which they do abhor For then our hearts will grieve do what we can If they have injur'd either God or Man And then more favour is vouchsaf'd to them The more themselves they censure and condemn Therefore although I can forgive my Friend Yet I would have him wary to offend Lest when he finds his error griev'd he be Within himself that he hath wronged me And in his heart a torment suffer should From which my love would keep him if I could Ev'n so oh Lord my God though in degree More infinite than can conceived be And in a manner which I am not able By any Figure to make demonstrable In meer Good-will to Man thou pleased art To preach unto his ear or to his Heart Those Dutys which to thee from him belong That he unto himself may do no wrong Because we seem a great esteem to have Of Love and Praise and thereby to receive Content and profit thou dost oft propose By us to be perform'd such things as those As Dutys which are much of thee desired And at our hand for thy avail required But doubtless thou dost only seem to be Like us that thou might'st make us like to thee And that if thee we love we might be won To do as for thy sake what should be done For our own Good As Parents kind and wise Have dealt with Children in their Infancies And whereas Lord it hath been said by thee That thou wilt of thine honour Jealous be Thou only Jealous art lest our neglect Of thee our own perdition may effect Thou dost things Honourable and though none Did praise thee for them they should still be done Thine honour is essential That we give And which from us thou pleasest to receive Is but an accident which ever may Without thy loss be present or away And when thou either thanks or praise requirest To perfect us those Dutys thou desirest This we long time have so misunderstood As if we did conceive thou wert a God Affected with Self-Love or Fruitless Fame Although we mannerly express the same Yea we have dream'd that thou this world did'st make And us and all things for thy Glorys sake In such a sense and for such praises too As we effect when our best works we do I would we thought no worse or would we knew What damnable absurdities ensue Our groundless Fancies For by them thou gain'st Some fear but little hearty love obtain'st By these false thoughts of thee we do encrease Our own self Love and all vain gloriousness Within our selves hence is all we intend Our whole endeavours for a private end And that a froward peevishness is own'd In most of all our actions to be found For who can possibly be just or wise Who to this God imputes absurdities Lord now we better know thee and are shown Both by thy words and works what should be done Our selves we yet improve not as we ought By what thy Workings and thy Word have taught But both Self-love and Vanity have share Ev'n in our Actions that most pious are We Counsel we Relieve Write Preach and Pray That Honour Gain or Pleasure bring it may To our own Persons and would little care How wicked and unhappy others are Had we our aims and still might them possess Amid'st our Sins and their unhappiness Ev'n I my self who love a better mind Do in my self so much corruption find That I confess received Injuries More mov'd me to reprove Impieties Than mine own goodness and that from my sin My best performances did first begin For which let pardon Lord vouchsafed be And more sincere hereafter make thou me For this may peradventure be the cause We preach thy Gospel and pronounce thy Laws And write without effect ev'n this that our Corruption makes the means to want the power It might have had Else 't is because we hide Thy Love and have that saving Grace deny'd Which thou to all extendest and which none Shall want who striveth to lay hold thereon To help amend these faults now I have said What I believe thy Spirit hath convey'd Into my heart If I have err'd in ought Let me oh Lord by thee be better taught If truth I speak let other men from hence Partakers be of my Intelligence Make me and them thy love so fully view That we in our affections may be true And give us Grace the truth of them to show In doing well the Duties which we owe. Amen A Metrical Paraphrase Upon the CREED SInce it befi●● that I account should give What way unto Salvation I believe Of my profession here the sum I gather First I cofess a Faith in God the father In God who without Helper or Partaker Was of himself the Worlds Almighty Maker And first gave Time his being who gave birth To all the Creatures both of Heaven and Earth Our everlasting welfare doth consist In his great mercies and in Jesus Christ The second person of that Three in

one The Father's equal and his only Son That ever-blessed and incarnate Word Which our Redeemer is our life Our Lord For when by Sathans guile we were deceived Christ was that means of help which was conceived Yea when we were in danger to be lost Conceived for us by the Holy Ghost And that we might not ever be forlorn For our eternal safety he was Born Born as a Man that Man might not miscarry Even of the substance of the Virgin Mary And loe a greater mercy and a wonder He that can make All suffer suffered under The Jewish spite which all the world revile at And Cruel tyrannies of Pontius Pilate In him do I believe who was envied Who with extreamest hate was Crucified Who being life it self to make assured Our souls of safety was both dead and buried And that no servile fear in us might dwell To conquer He descended into Hell Where no infernal Power had power to lay Command upon him but on the third day The force of Death and Hell he did constrain And so in Triumph He arose again Yea the Almighty power advanc'd his head Aswel above all things as from the dead Then that from thence gifts might to men be given With glory He ascended into Heaven Where that supream and everlasting throne Which was prepar'd he clim'd and sittcth on That blessed feat where he shall make abode To plead for us at the right hand of God And no where should he be enthroned rather Than there for he is God as is the Father And therefore with an equal love delight I To praise and serve them both as one Almighty Yet in their office there 's a difference And I believe that Jesus Christ from thence Shall in the great and universal doom Return and that with Angels He shall come To question such as at his Empire grudge Even those who have presumed him to judge And that black day shall be so Catholick As I believe not only that that the quick To that assise shall all be summoned But he will both adjudge them and the dead Moreover in the Godhead I conceive Another Person in whom I believe For all my hope of blessedness were lost If I believ'd not in the Holy Ghost And though vain Schismaticks through pride and folly Contemn her power I do believe the holy Chast Spouse of Christ for whom so many search By marks uncertain the true Catholick Church I do believe God keep us in this union That there shall be for ever the Communion Of Gods Elect and that he still acquaints His Children in the fellowship of Saints Though damned be Mans natural condition By grace in Christ I look for the remission Of all my foul misdeeds for there begins Deaths end which is the punishment of sins Moreover I the Sadduces infection Abhor and do believe the Resurrection Yea though I turn to dust yet through God I Expect a glorious rising of the body And that exempted from the cares here rife I shall enjoy perfection and the life That is not subject unto change or wasting But ever-blessed and for ever-lasting This is my Faith which that it fail not when It most should steed me let God say Amen To whom that he so much vouchsafe we may Thus as a member of his Church I pray A Metrical Paraphrase Upon the LORD'S PRAYER LOrd at thy Mercy-seat our selves we gather To do our duties unto thee Our Father To whom all praise all honour should be given For thou art that great God which art in Heaven Thou by thy wisdom rul'st the worlds whole frame For ever therefore Hallowed be thy Name Let never more delayes divide us from Thy glories view but let Thy Kingdom come Let thy commands opposed be by none But thy good pleasure and Thy will done And let our promptness to obey be even The very same in earth as 't is in heaven Then for our selves O Lord we also pray Thou wouldst be pleased to Give us this day That food of life wherewith our souls are fed Contented raiment and our daily bread With needful thing do thou relieve us And of thy mercy pitty And forgive us All our misdeeds in him whom thou didst please To take in offering for our trespasses And for as much O Lord as we believe Thou so wilt pardon us as we forgive Let that love teach us wherewith thou acquaints us To pardon all them that trespass against us And though sometime thou find'st we have forgot This Love or thee yet help And lead us not Though Soul or bodies want to desperation Nor let abundance drive into temptation Let not the soul of any true Believer Fall in the time of tryal But deliver Yea save him from the malice of the Devil And both in life and death keep us from evil Thus pray we Lord And but of thee from whom Can this be had For thine is the Kingdom The world is of thy works the graven story To thee belongs the power and the glory And this thy happiness hath ending never But shall remain for ever and for ever This we confess and will confess agen Till we shall say eternally Amen Thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and upon thy Gates Deut. 6. 9. FINIS Job 33. 14. See Pro. 30. 8 9.