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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36289	A pick-tooth for swearers, or, A looking glass for atheists and prophane persons wherein the greatness of the party offended, the solemn giving of the law, together with the strickness and purity thereof, the unquestionable verity of the Holy Scriptures, and what fearfull sentence the wiked may expect in the great day are briefly touched.	Donaldson, James, fl. 1697-1713.	1698 (1698)	Wing D1854; ESTC R25002	12,163	24

A PICK-TOOTH FOR SWEARERS OR A LOOKING-GLASS FOR Atheists and Prophane PERSONS WHEREIN The Greatness of the Party Offended the Solemn giving of the Law Together with the Strickness and Purity thereof The Unquestionable Verity of the Holy Scriptures and what fearfull Sentence the Wicked may expect in the Great Day are briefly touched EDINBURGH Printed by JOHN REID at his Printing-House in Bells-Wynd ANNO DOM 1698. Unto the Right Honourable SIR ARCHIBALD MURE of Thorntown Lord Provost Bailies WILLIAM MEINZIES ARCHIBALD RULE JAMES NAIRN GEORGE MITCHEL PATRICK HALIBURTON Dean of Guild SAMUEL M'CLELLAN Theasurer And the Remanent Council of the Ancient and Honourable CITY EDINBURGH Right Honourable THe Great Disposer of all Things in His Providence hath committed the Oversight and Care of a great many Persons unto your Charge And GOD be thanked at present this Honourable and Ancient City the Metropolis of Scotland is provided with Magistrates and Counsellors who testifie their Dislike of Prophanity and Immorality and give a Copy to those under their Charge to study Piety and Vertue Notwithstanding of all which more of these Vices abound in this Place than can be easily Suppressed Even tho the Government hath lately Emitted a Proclamation for putting the Ancient Laws against such Transgressours more punctually in Excution I am fully convinced every one according to their Capacity's and Stations ought to contribute their Endeavours for suppressing vice and I have Essayed to Compose a few Verses whereby the reprehending thereof is in some measure aim'd at How meanly soever the Subject be handled 't is all the Mite I can throw in towards the prosecution of such a Laudable Design Your Lordship and Honours are the only Persons I judge these few Lines can most fitly be addressed unto Wherefore I with all Humility offer Them to Your Consideration and if they may Contribute any wayes towards the discouraging of Prophanity and Looseness it shall yeild great Satisfaction to Your LORDSHIP and HONOURS most Humble Servant Ja Donaldson A PICK-TOOTH for SWEARERS c. GReat Master of the Muses Mighty THOU Before whose Face all Knees shal trembling bow Thou who commands Thy Sacred Name to be With Reverence mention'd and Humility And holds him guilty of Attrocious sin That needlesly doth take 't his lips within Thou who doth make the Dumb distinctly Talk And Blind to See and Lame with eveness Walk And maketh Babes to give Thee perfect Praise Inspire my Pen and my Affections Raise Afford me Matter so Assist my Quill That I may Write according to Thy Will Then shall my joy and happiness be more Then these whose Cups with Wine and Oyl run O're The Great I AM who only IS Alone And in the Heav'ns establish'd hath-his Throne HE who spread forth the Azure Skies above And in their Spheres makes all the Planets move He that the Earth's Foundations strong did lay And made these Lights which separat Night from Day He who the Heav'ns doth Measure at one Span And of the Dust Created Mortal Man He that doth fill the Heav'ns Earth Sea and Air Without Dimensions present every where Who Fram'd the Crooked Serpent Bounds the Waves And Fashon'd all the Subterraneous Caves He who the Stares doth number all by Name At whose Command all things from Nothing Came. He who doth weigh the Mountains in a Scale And Lay'th in Balance every Hill and Dale In whose great Sight all Nations seem to be As Crawling Worms yea les than Gnat or Flee Great HE put on a Rob of Majestie And on the Wing of Subtile Air did Flie. Before his Face the Stable Heav'ns did Bow Then in a Cloud HE Visits Earth Below In Thickest Darkness Wrap'd his Hallowed Light Least Mortals had been Struck dead at the Sight The Earths Foundations mov'd Heavn's Pillers Shook All Creatures Trimbled while this Great HE Spoke The Hills did Leap like Timerous Kids or Lams The Mountains trembled as their helples Dames When Bear or Woulf Comes on their young to Prey Ev'n so the whole Creation Quak'd that Day Mount Sinai Smoak'd Lightnings Abroad did Flie By voice of Thunder than His Majestie Expres'd his Greatness in a solemn Way The Trembling Camp thought Heav'n and Earth that Day To their first Nought should be Reduc'd anone And Instantly his Judgement Seat or Throne Erect'd should be while the great Troump did sound Some Fled and some Fell flate upon the Ground The Trumpet still sounds Louder till at last Th' Eternal HE was pleas'd to stop the Blast Than by a distinct voice to Israel said These words which after in the Ark were laid Ingraven on two Tables made of Stone Wrot by the Finger of the Great THREE-ONE And must Imprinted be on every Heart That would not in Eternal Torments Smart Thus Spoke Great HE I Am Thy Lord and King Who doth Alone from Bound Slavery bring No other Gods have thou at all but ME. And to no Image Bow or Bend thy Knee My Sacred Name take not at all in Vain Nor any of My Attributes Prophane Such as Transgress shall no ways Guiltless be But holden Guilty in a high Degree Men may esteem the Trespass small but I Will after such Offenders strictly try My Hand shall find them out I will not Spare That vile presumptuous Wratch who 's bold to darr In his vile Mouth to take My Hallowed Name Without due Reverence and a Praying Frame I 'll Smite him Through with Darts of fiercest Wrath And Sharpest Vengeance yea Eternall Death And hightned Fury on his Soul shall Seize Without the least hours Respite Sift or Ease His Tongue shall Fry in hotest Pot of Hell That thus Offends yea and his Soul shall Dwell In most exquisit Torments in that Cave Which for the Devils I Prepared have First to the Eye is represented there Most dreadfull Spectres Round them every where Hobgoblings dancing in prodigious Shapes Like Lyons Tigers Dragons Bears and Apes With Horns of Steel and Iron-Teeth like Darts And forked Claws for tearing Sinners Hearts Thou no glad Musick in that place shall hear Nor other Noise shall touch thy Cursed Ear But Ruefull Shrikes and Knocks of Ratling Chains And mutual Curses of Dire Ghosts in Pains Who One Another tempted have to Sin Plagueing the Day their ' quantance did begin No Sweet Refreshing Smell shall ther be found But noxious Savour Eevery Where abound Of all vile Filth and stinking Sulphurous Smoak Least Smell of which all Mortal Flesh would Choak Were it not now so strongly Verg'd about With thickest Earth that none thereof gets Out No softer touch is there than Scorpions Stings And Byting Asps yea all Termenting Things Do there Combine and all their Force Unite To Plague the Body and Torment the Sp'rit The Worm of Conscience Gnawing thee Within When thou Reflects upon thy By-pass-Sin Its gentlest Byts much

Pasca-lamb in memory of this Thing And other Mercies to Rememberance Bring The Law of b Circumcision they likeway With punctual strictness constantly Obey In Testimony of the Cov'nant made With Abraham and all his Numerous Seed Whereby they their Pollution did confess And to be cleang'd evince their willingness The Table Stones and Aarons budding Rod. For Monuments are keep'd to shew what GOD Had for them Done and at their hands doth Crave And several other symbols they Receive And did Retain till that Great Prophet came Who was e're Moses and is still the Same From whose Bless'd Lips vain Word did never Fall Bnt Good and Gracious were his Speaches all He Taught Explain'd Confirm'd and did Fullfill The Holly Law and Shew'd the Fathers Will. He taught with Meekness and with Power Divine In him the Fathers Image bright did Shine More Pure and Heavenly was his Doctrine far Then Speech of all that e're before Him were More sweet and pure was every VVord he Spoke Than precious Honey droping from the Rock More Fragrant than the sweetest Myrrh or Rose Spicknard pure Incense Aloes yea all those Dull Methophores are in the least to Show What Sacred Language from his Lips did Flow. He did not with the Scribes place Holiness In washing off External Filthiness Nor bare avoiding Scandelous Offence He taught the Law in a quite other Sense Thus was his Doctrine You have heard of old And doubtless by your Fathers have been told Thou shalt not Kill who ever kills shall Be To Judgement brought and he himself shall Die But now I Say not only such as Kill And Cruelly his Neighbours Blood doth Spill Shall die the Death but such as Angry are VVithout Just cause the Judgement too may Fear Yea such as shall his Brother but Nick-name VVithout all doubt's in danger of the Same But such as call him Fool Hell's fire may Dread Therefore Forgive and lay aside all fead Then to the Temple thou may freely go And Pray and look to be Forgiv'n also Adultery too you also have heard tell Deserves GODS VVrath and Punishment in Hell That 's true Indeed but also tell I must Such is his Guilt that giveth way to Lust. And doth not bound the Passions of his Mind When they run loose on vile Thoughts of that kind Downright For-swearing and Blasphemie too You have heard tell procures GOD's VVrath also Such gross atrocious Sins the Scribs I know Without reprooff do not oft times let go The Law requireth more I tell thee plain Thou ought not Speak nor move thy Lips in vain Far less to Swear by Heav'n in any Case Because it is GOD's Hallow'd Dwelling-place Nor by the City of the Mighty King Nor by his Foot-Stool Earth nor any Thing That being hath No not a Hair or Threed Or least excression of thy Beard or Head But let your Common talk be Yea and Nay What e're is more proceeds of ill I say Thus he the Law taught in its Geninue sense And Heav'nly-food did to mens Sons dispense By Miracles of Mercy also he His Doctrine prov'd to be of verity The Sick are Heal'd the Blind their Sight receive Dumb Deaf and all what e're Disease they have Are straightway cur'd when he but spake the Word Yea Spirits foul must needs Confess him LORD Of Heaven and Earth and by them very Soon Against their VVills what He Commands is done He in Compassion with a little Bread Mirac'lously great Multitudes did Feed These great Things were not in a Corner wrought But openly and he no Credite sought Further than what his Adversaries might See publickly Performed in their sight Then certainly his Doctrine must be True Since what he taught was not before a Few By Miracles confirm'd But even before Great Multitudes who did him not Adore Nor Love his Person 'cause they would not See The Radient Beams of his Divinity Through his Sweet Humble Humane-Vestment shine They could not think his Person was Divine 'Cause he came not with Earthly Pompe and Power Few him Imploy'd their Sin Sick-Souls to Cure The blest Disciples who his great Acts Saw And heard him Preach and thus explain the Law Beleiv'd his Word in token thereof They Themselves give up his Statutes to Obey With Watter Clean soon then they Sprinkled are By which they their polluted State declare The Cleansing Virtue and Excelling Worth Of that Rich Blood which from his Side sprung forth And least that they that Covenant forget To which the Seal of Baptism is set Just at that Instant they their Names receive That afterward they may Remembrance have Of this blest Bargain when their Names they hear But Mentioned and to their Children Dear Transmited have this Ordinance so we It to this Minute Handed Down may see These Scriptures Atheists are of Verity As ev'n the Devils themselves dar not deny As has been prov'd how comes it then that thou Doth not unto the Great MESSIAH bow And Homage pay to the Almighty King At whose Command All Things from Nought did spring Art thou in Terms His great Pow'r to Resist The Universe who holdeth in his Fist Who in a moment can all Creatures kill And turn to Nothing if it were his Will Did he not cause one of his Angels slay And on the Ground near g tenscore thousand Lay Of Sirian Corpses in a single Night What Mortal dare with such a Champion fight Yet many Legions of such Angels stand And wait to flee at this great King's Command To execute his Will where he doth send 'Gainst such a partie how darst thou Offend How dar thou Baffle his Great Hallowed Name At whose Dread Presence in a Burning Flame The Eliments shall all disolved be Before h his Face the Heav'ns and Earth shall flee Yea from the presence of this Angry Iudge * All Isles and Lands shall seek to find Refuge In that dread Day the Sun shall lose his Light And Black as coal the Moon turn in his sight Togither he the Firmament shall Roll As when a Scrib folds up a Parchment Scrol As thick as Hail-stones Stares then drop down shall Or as the leaves in Autumn frost do fall By a strong Wind that blows down Tree and all Then shall Erected be his great white Throne In Flaming Fire the Judge shall sit thereon And distribute Pure Iustice to each one Then Stoutest Champions to Deaf Rocks shall cry To hide them from his Penitrating Eye Yet all in vain for Earth Sea Death and Hell Shall yeild up all the Guests that in them dwell To the prophain Curst Swearer Athist Wretch The Judge shall on this ways derect his Speech The ARAIGNMENT of the WICKED WHat daring VVretch have I now found thee out That at my Threatnings hitherto durst Flout And mock my Envoys that my Message bore And frequently stood knoking at thy Door With precious Offers of a Crown of Ioy And freedom from all things