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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

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.

stripes yet questionless by such Those troubles are brought on that shorten much The life of Man and thereby finish'd are His numbred years before he is aware The Souldier whom I had almost forgot Is very peaceful if he murther not To kill is his profession yet I say He murthers if his Prisner he shall slay The battel being past The Voluntary Whom an ambitious Avarice doth carry To hostle Actions when his lawful Prince Nor sends nor calls him nor the just defence Of his own person or his Countries good Engageth to become a man of blood Ev'n he may be suspected not to tread A path so noble and so warranted As he conceives yet neither praise I them Nor do I peremptorily condemn Their practice but refer what I have said In their own conscience to be rightly weigh'd Lord give us eyes our Secret sins to see While time and place to us vouchsafed be That we may leave them and that Love embrace Which will conceal them with her vail of grace For it with Joab we grow old in Sin Which hath not really repented bin Till thou growst angry vengeance will not tarry But stimes us dead ev'n in thy Sanctuary Thrice holy Trinity my Heart possess And I this Precept never shall transgress Amen VII Thou shalt not Commit advlterie c. When this Figure thou hastey'd Think how these two Wantons dy'd And what horror was therein When Death took them in their Sin Hurrying them from their delight To an Everlasting Night Mind it well and mind it so That thou still may'st careful grow From those evils to be free Which this Law forbids to thee Comman VII Comm●● thou ●o such Act unclean As 〈◊〉 Adultery doth mean BEhold this Figure you who take delight To give the Reins to wanton Appetite And say within your selves why may not we Struck suddenly in our Polutions be As well as these and others who have bin At●●●ched in the very Act of Sin Consider this and tremble For no year Wheels round but we of one or other hear Thus taken That you might forsake the snare And others be forwarn'd of coming there Permit Adultery and none shall breed Without a Mungrel and a mingled seed Allow such mixtures and none then shall know On whom the dues of birth-right to bestow Save a blest Faction And what havoke then Will Trecherys and Murthers make of Men And who will careful be to foster that Which no man owns and Brutish Lust begat So needful was this Law that here to dwell Without it were to live the life of Hell With Fiends incarnate whose licentiousness Their own and others mischiefs would increase Be therefore thankful for it and declare Your thankfulness with diligence and care In keeping of it that you may have rest From sorrows here and be hereafter blest And lest your Duties from you may be hidden Observe that by this Precept is forbidden Not only such uncleanness as polluteth A Married Bed but that it those reputeth Offenders too who simply fornicate Or in a married or unmarried state Abuse their Members in the wanton fact Of any lawless or uncomely Act Which appertaineth to that fleshly sin Which by the Law hath interdicted bin No breach of Wedlock was perchance in that Bold Zimri did with Cosbi perpetrate Yet vengeance followed on it to affright All those who in Laciviousness delight Young Onan climed not his neighbours bed Yet God for his transgression struck him dead And let the shameless wantons of our days Who boast as of a deed that merits praise How many untouch't Virgins they deflowr'd Lest by a sudden Plague they be devour'd For less than that of which these villanies boast Full Three and Twenty Thousand lives did cost In one days round and it may forfeit them Their freedom in the new Jerusalem To shun gross wantonness will not suffice Unless the wandrings of Adulterous eyes Lascivious touches intermixt among The temptings of a lust provoking tongue Bewiching smiles And Gestures which intice Both mind and body to embrace this Vice With such like Cycean Charmings be supprest Which help transform a Man into a Beast Nay if the secret longings of the Heart We labour not with all our strength to thwart When they incline to Lust we thereby shall Be guilty though in Act we never fall If therefore blameless we would still abide We must some precious Antidotes provide Against this Poyson We must careful prove Far from us all occasions to remove Which may allure And they are such as these Vain Songs and Poems which are made to please A wanton ear and movingly express The longings and the acts of Wantonness Obscaen Discourse Lascivious Company The giving of an opportunity That may be shunn'd to such as we do know Are not so bashful as to let it go These are occasions of especial note As Bounds to this Offence not so remote But that they bring it easily to pass Yea other while before it purpos'd was And for that Cause this Law commands doth lay That we remove those from us far away Nor are those all the temptings unto lust But there be otherswhich avoid we must As much as these Fantastical attires And wanton dressings kindle lustful Fires This makes them so esteemed and so sought That other while they are full dearly bought That some to play the Harlot have been fain Those various costly Dressings to maintain Oft visitings and spending of the day With such as trifle half their time away In Complements and intercourse between Each other but to see or to be seen Ev'n these things blow the Flame and many a one By such impertinencies is undone The faring delicately in excess The common sin of beastly Drunkenness Are here Attatch'd Arraign'd and Sentenced For often causing an Adulterous Bed Constrained marriages made up by Friends For Honour Wealth or such improper ends Both partys very frequently undo And cause Adulterys and Murthers too Where Touth and Age of too unequal years Together match both Jealousies and Fears Are Guests and rarely have such weddings bin Without occasions of this filthy sin If therefore of this Crime we would be clear Let us endeavour alwaies to forbear All such as these as well as to eschew A gross Adultery and so pursue Each means which may be helpful to acquire A blameless practice and a clean desire That we may Soul and Body beautify With every flower of Spotless Chastity For carnal whoredom was long since a gin By Satan forged for the bringing in Of Ghostly Fornications most impure And frequent Testimonies may assure That they who love strange flesh as many do Will change their God with small perswasions too LORD from these vanities direct our eyes Which may at unawares the Heart surprize The Law within our members we do find Doth cross the Law that 's grafted in our mind That which we hate we are intie'd unto And what we love we often fail to do Our Will thou hast renew'd but in

wary keep me of departing from This Law that I may still in heart and hand Continue faithful unto this Command Amen IX Thou shalt not beare false witnes against c. Who can hope for Justice where Magistrates false witness bear Or secure in falshood be When great Princes scape not free She who Naboth's death contriv'd Was in Wrath of life depriv'd And her flesh by Dogs was torn Though a Queen and Princely born That all others heed may take How this Precept they do break Command IX In any case no witness bear Of things which false or doubtful are VVEre his Edict omitted who could say He should enjoy his life or Goods a day If nigh his habitation chance to dwell Such Neighbours as the wicked Jesabel And her curst Instruments whose downfall here Is typfi'd that such may stand in fear Where could we be secure from perjur'd men Unless God sent forth Vengeance now and then To find out those who secretly contrive How others of their portions to deprive Since very often this offence hath none Who can behold it but that God alone Or by what means might they be kept in awe Whose greantness makes them careless of this Law How safe seem'd Jesobel by being great And yet how boldly did the Prophet threat Succeeding Vengeance and though she were high How low upon a suddain did she lie That high and low might view her cursed plight And more in truthful honesty delight Most know that of this Law they breakers are Who bear false witness at the Judgment Bar And very many are not without fear In such ungodly actions to appear But few do seem aright to understand Their other breaches of this Ninth Command To lie accounted is a fault so small That many feel no sence thereof at all But make a Play-game of it yea and some Such Patrons of that Evil are become That they allow and justisie the same As Praises rather meriting than blame But this will prove though held a petty sin The Serpents head that brings his body in And an officious lying may in time Ingage us to commit a greater Crime However he that an untruth shall speak Or Truth if to deceive this Law doth break To praise is commendable yet thereby When we of others better testify Than they deserve true vertue we deride And sinners in their sins are justifi'd Unless it be by such a modest praise As flows from hope our Friend affects the ways Which yet he walks not that our praise may be A Gale to ripen what we blooming see For this is neither purpos'd to deceive The Hearer nor advantages to weave For him that speaks it but a wise intention To cherish buddidng Virtue by prevention But he that flatters doth pollute his mouth And is a falsifier of the Truth The Parasite who shames not to uphold Whatever by his Patron shall be told Or seeks by Jeering to discountenance A simple Truth and falshood to advance Against this holy Precept so offends That punishment his Guiltiness attends Yea they who get access to great mens Tables By coming furnished with News and Fables Are thereby often guilty of this sin Which by this Law hath countermanded bin When we dare venture to reiterate Those Rumors which the common people prate On meer surmises we are accessary To many slanders We make Truth miscarry And bear false witness to the wrong of many When we suspect not that we wronged any Nor can we satisfie for these offences Which then may follow if our Sov'raign Princes Or there affairs of state shall wrong sustain By such false tales as we receive or fain When out of levity Reports we make Of others frailties or occasions take To mention Jestingly what may disgrace The person either absent or in place Without just motives or content shall grow To hide what Love and Equity should show We in the main or in some circumstance False Testimonies may thereby advance But he that uttereth slanders in despight Or justifies the thing that is not right Or judgeth rashly in anothers Cause Or any needful witnesses withdraws Or by concealing what for truth he knows Betrayeth Innocency to her Foes Or hears another injur'd in his Fame With Silence when he may prevent the same Or unto any one occasion gives Whereby he falshood for the truth believes Ev'n every such a one false witness bears What Cloak of Honesty so'ere he wears Nor are they guiltless who avoid not that Whereby occasions rise to perpetrate Against this Law As Bribery Respect Or disrespect of persons which infect The soundest minds and bring them by degress Their innocent Integrity to leese Yea he who so loves Bribes though he were wise They will make deaf his ears hood-wink his eyes And so corrupt his heart that the shall know No Truth except some profit thence do flow Nor any falshood fear to entertain Whereby he may assured be of gain And lest by some those men be judged free From this offence if any such there be Who by False Miracles false Revelations False Dreams false Visions false Interpretations Of Holy Scripture or by such like patchings Of ●arnal wisdom and of Sathan's hatchings Affirm that thing for truth which is a Lye Know that these Juglers in degree as high As he that 's worst prove guilty of this Sin Which by this Precept hath forbidden bin For though our Doctrines be not so unsound But that some truths among them shall be found Though cloath'd in Lamb-skins we do seem to go Though for a blameless life we famous grow Though in our formal Zeal surpass we shall The Pharisees and ev'ry Priest of Baal Tho' oft we fast tho' loud we pray and long Tho' we seem'd wrong'd and patient of the wrong Tho' we affect the Crown of Martyrdome And dye as if we death had overcome Yea tho' we seem as Angels who from heav'n Had Power and Knowledge and Commissions giv'n Yet if our Zeal our outward Piety Our Knowledge our affected Constancy Our suff'rings and the Truths which we have said Were that the God of Truth might be betray'd And falshood favour'd We offenders are Against this precept we false witness bear And all our Godly shews are fruits of evil Delusions and Impostures of the Devil Lord sanctify my heart and keep my tongue That it may neither do my neighbour wrong Nor prattle those Untruths which may oppose The Verities thy Spirit shall disclose But grant that I who see how these offend May find out mine own Errors and amend Yea Lord so teach me and be so my Guide That faithful to this Law I may abide Amen X Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House c. When in us this Vice begins Crowns we pawn for crooked pins And by coveting of more Forfeit what we had before Blockish Ahab therefore mind Who by fooling in this kind Life and Kingdom to his cost For a Kitchen-garden lost And his fall is on Record That his fault might be