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A66751	Divine poems (by way of paraphrase) on the Ten commandments illustrated with twelve copper plates, shewing how personal punishments has been inflicted on the transgressors of these Commandments, as is recorded in the Holy Scriptures : also a metrical paraphrase upon the Creed and Lords prayer / written by George Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1688 (1688)	Wing W3154; ESTC R25189	42,152	136

quite forgotten That thy Truth remaineth from one Generation to another or That thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness in so much that we may justly repeat unto thee this complaint of thy Prophet David Lord it is time for thee to lay to thine hand for they have destroyed thy Law. Hear my prayer O Lord and though I am small and of no reputation yet since I would not forget thy Law deliver me from mine Oppressors and so teach me thy Statutes that I may keep them unto the end yea though the proud have me in derision and almost made an end of me upon Earth yet let my heart be made so upright in thy Statutes that I may not be ashmed to remember thy promise made to thy Servant even that wherein thou hast caused me to trust Let it quicken me and be my comfort in my troubles For thou art all my portion and I have determined to keep thy word Before I was afflicted I went so much astray that it was good for me to have some troubles O let me hereafter be always exercised in thy Law Let it be a Lanthorn unto my feet and a Light unto my path Look upon me and be merciful unto me as thou usest to be unto those who love thy name Let the proud be ashamed that they have dealt falsly with me Let such as fear thee be turned unto me and comfort thou me according to the years wherein I have been afflicted that they who see it may glorifie thy name for mine eyes have almost failed with waiting for thy assurance Though I have gone astray like a Sheep yet seek thy Servant and deal with me according to thy mercy Let all these my Supplications come before thee that my Soul may live that my Lips may praise thee and that my Tongue may sing of thy Goodness and Mercy for ever and ever Amen Sir among other kindnesses vouchsafed in your Neighbourhood I received from you the Copper Plates which are now made use of in this Book The words which I have added unto those dumb Figures will make them I hope much more profitable and cause them to be a means of publishing those Caveats and Universal Duties which are pertinent as well to the General well-being of Mankind as to the Glory of God which two things were the proper ends of our Creation and ought also to be the chief care of our life To those ends therefore and that your cost might not be unprofitably bestowed I have returned the Coppies of those Figures which you gave me illustrated with such Meditations as my leisure and ability could afford And they do now as well speak as make signs what is prepared for wilful Transgressors of these Laws whereby if God may receive any honour or his Children profit I desire it may be some honour and advantage which is the desire of Your Hearty and Well-wishing Friend GEO. WITHER The Decalogue And these wordes which I Command th● this day shal be in thine heart And thou shall rehearse them Continually unto thy children and shalt talke of them when thou 〈◊〉 in thine house and as thou walkest by the way and when thou liest downe when thou risest up And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon 〈…〉 they Shal be as 〈…〉 thine eies Also thou shalt write them vpon the postes of thine house and vpon thy gate● 6 Deut 6 7-8.9 I THOV SHALT HAVE NONE OTHER GODS BVT ME II THOV SHALT NOT MAKE TO THY SELFE ANY GRAVEN YMAGE III THOV SHALT NOT TAKE Y e NAME OF Y e LORD THY GOD IN VAINE IIII REMEMBER THAT THOV KEEP HOLY Y e SABBOTH DAY V HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER VI THOV SHALT DO NO MVRDER VII THOV SHALT NOT COMMIT ADVLTERIE VIII THOV SHALT NOT STEALE IX THOV SHALT NOT BEARE FALSE WITNESSE X THOV SHALT NOT COVET Beholde I see before you this day a blessing and a Curse The blessing if ye Obey the Comaundements of the Lord your GOD which I Cōmand you this day And the Curse if ye wil not obey y ● Commandements of y e Lord your GOD but t●●ne Out of the way which I Command you this day to go after other gods which ye haue not known ●● Deut 26 27 28 Optimum ●●t aliena frui insania Happy shall that man become Who this Law departs not from Blessings will descend on him From the Mount of Gerizim But from Ebal they shall hear Curses who rebellious are Death for them attending stands Who shall break these just Commands And to those who them obey God proposeth life for aye THE Prologue Let All these following Lessons learn For all Mankind these Laws concern ALL you who Sons by Grace or Nature be Give ear to what my Muses preach to me For what I now do purpose to declare No less than Universal Statutes are Which every Child of Adam here beneath Must keep in person on the pain of Death Or by a faithful Penitence procure An able Pledge to pay his Forfeiture You who by Nature had the means to know What Duties Creatures to their Maker owe Read here what by God's Finger once was writ Within your hearts that you may practise it And having lost that Light which Nature gave Take what you may by Grace's tender have On fleshly Tables once again renew The fair impression which at first he drew For 't was your Sin which thence Gods Law did blot And Ignorance therefore excuseth not You whom the special grace of our Creator Brought by his power Almighty thro' the Water Of sound Baptism and within the Flood Of his dear Sons most pure and pretious Blood Drown'd all that Hoast of Sins which our Grand Foe Had mustred for our final overthrow Observe you also this renowned Law To keep it with a loving filial awe Lest though you scap'd enraged Pharoh's Hoast Your entrance to the promis'd Rest be crost And lest your following what your Lust deviz'd You in your lawless wandrings be surpriz'd By those yet living Tyrants who possess The passages of this Lifes Wilderness For though in Act we cannot keep entire So strict a Law we may in our desire And where Desire is not perverted quite We have a ready means to set it right If any say or think this Obligation Pertaineth only to the Jewish Nation They are deceiv'd for if they well compare These Precepts to those Laws which written are Within our hearts it will be out of doubt That these are but the same transcribed out In Stone they were engraven long ago Lest all the World should quite forgetful grow Of these their Duties To the Jews God gave them To be preserv'd from loss From them we have them Distinguish'd by two Tables to be known From Laws that were peculiars of their own And though some literal circumstance be found Appearing to oblige beyond the Bound Of Legal Ceremonies which to some A means of stumbling and offence become Yet they that meekly minded are shall

He that from Holy Orders goeth back And by his Idleness becometh slack In Duties of his Calling or grown rich By Church promotions thinks it overmuch To execute that Function as he ought To which with wealth and honour he is brought Even he what fair excuse so ere he make Is justly said Gods name in vain to take For if he proveth guiltless he receiv'd A dispensation more than I believ'd A Prayer without Faith a formal mention Of Gods due praise without a due intention Yea vain or complemental Salutations Without Sincerity are prophanations Against this Law though many men have thought That these are signs of persons better taught Dissembling Fasts Thanksgivings mumbled out With babling Repititions and devout In nought but feigned Term or length of Time Do make men guilty likewise of this Crime Nay many Sermons of the vulgar strain Are taking of the Name of God in vain He that his Church or Chappel hath bedeckt And yet Gods living Temples doth neglect He that a love to those doth seem to carry Yet leaves defac'd his outward Sanctuary He that to bend his body is asham'd When he shall here his blessed Saviour nam'd He that without an inward Adoration Bows outwardly or with an Affectation To mimick Gestures or performs the same Unto the vocal sounding of the Name Or either practiseth or leaves undone Such Duties in Contempt of any one Even He though to be guiltless he pretends Against this Third Commandement offends But none this holy precept more have broke Than they who on themselves Christs name have took Yet live like Infidels excepting those Who guild Hypocrisy with Godly shows And under pious habits use to prey On those who being more sincere than they Are threatned and suppose all well bestown While these will take till nothing is their own God keep his Lambs from these as from the worst Of all Dissembers and the most accurst The Faults condemn'd seem nothing to have bin To this abhorred Hell begotten Sin Are Drunken Jollities vnbridled passion A wicked Custom Slight consideration And evil Narture but much blame is cast On Tutors and some Parents for the last All these must therefore shunned be by him That would not Swear For-swear Curse nor Blaspheme This must be likewise heeded that unless We still on all occasions do confess The Name of God and Sanctifie it too By such good Duties as we ought to do As in Relieving those who in his Name Shall ask without abusing of the same In swearing by it when just cause requires In suffering for it though by Sword and Fires When God may be dishonour'd by a base Forsaking of our Faith or of our Place Yea if we be not ready to our might In all Gods Attributes to do him right And honour him in Deed in Word and Thought In what we can although not as we ought We faulter in our Duty and 't is plain We do profess to bear Gods name in vain My Heart LORD GOD so settle in thy way That I this Law may never disobey Amen Commandment IV. IIII. Remember that thou keep holy y e Sabbath day c. 'T is not in the Common Creed That he gather'd Sticks for need Who for Sabbath breaking dy'd For all wants were so supply'd That it seems he did transgress By Contempt or Carelessness He commits the same offence ' Gainst this Precepts moral sence Who the Christian Sabbaths wrongs And a Plague to him belongs Command IV. To hallow do not thou forget Those times which God apart hath set YOu that our Christian Sabbath do despise Behold this Figure with regardful eyes For though on us this Precept doth not lay The Ceremonial service of the day Or to a Jewish Sabbath us confine It n'retheless a Duty doth enjoin Which no man living can be freed from Till to the general Judgment Christ shall come For Nature urges that convenient Rest Should be allowed both to Man and Beast Lest their corporeal substance should miscarry Before the time And 't is as necessary The Soul should have some leisure to attend His will on whom her being doth depend Freemen may rest their bodies when they please And Wise men know how for to take their ease But lab'ring Beasts and Men who are depraved Or they whom wants or Tyrants have enslaved Had restless lived till their life time ended Unless this holy Law had them befriended And they who to the flesh most favour show For Soul affairs but little time allow This God at first foresaw and for that cause Though in Mans heart he then ingrav'd his Laws Essential and long oblig'd him not To such additions as time since begot Yet when he found that error and transgression Had wholly rased out the first impression To stop Corruptions Growth he afterward To Rites to times and places had regard All men at first had liberty to take What daies they pleased holydaies to make Or for convenient Rest Nor did from all This freedom cease when God the Jews did call To keep their Sabbaths For to one set day No Nation were oblig'd save only they Nor had the Gentiles any other ties Save to observe it in a moral wise So far as might preserve unto the Creature The freedom and well being of its nature A Law concerning Rest and holy Dues Confin'd indeed the people of the Jews To one set day even one set day in seven To them were Ceremonies also given Concerning it which no man might transgress Save in great need without much guiltiness That Law which nature simply had received At our first being was to them derived With such like Accidents as might be best To keep them firm and bring in all the rest In Gods appointed season to embrace The Law of Nature in the Law of Grace Their Customs and their Ceremonial day With Christ was buried and so swept away When he arose from death that to renew And celebrate the Sabbath of the Jew We are no more obliged than to rear Their Temple and to build their Altar here And yet lest man's corruption and the lack Of Accidents might bring the Substance back Even to the first neglect Christ dist instate His Church with power to change or abrogate The Circumstances of this Law so far As needful seem'd Provided that it were Essentially preserved and in this She hath performed what required is For though the time be changed it retains The same proportion It for use remains The same in Essence and that being so The same obedience is now due thereto And to what Circumstance the Church thinks fit To help continue the right use of it Now therefore though that every day be free For works which truly necessary be And though those Worshipers which are sincere May worship any day or any where Yet none can without guiltiness despise The Places Rites or Times of Sacrifice Appointed by the Church while they accord What may be authorized by the word This Law is therefore broke