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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 form 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 unbridled passion A wicked Custom Slight consideration And evil Nurture 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 de 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 IIII Remember that thou keep holy y e Sabboth 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 no 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 ●avour 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 Cirumstances 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 when we despise The Fastings Feastings or Solemnities The Church appoints or if we shall deny Such daies to honour and to sanctify By rest from Common Labours whensoere We may without much damage them forbear Or if we vilify those Christian Rites Whereto the publick discipline invites Or them perform not on their proper day As often as conveniently we may This Law is broke if to our lab ring Beast Or Servant we allow not so much rest As nature shall require and may conduce To keep them able for our lawful use Or if we shun not all occasious too Whereby we may against this Law misdo And they are these A hardned heart a mind Prophane and unto Greediness inclin'd A false belief false liberty false knowledge Frequenting of the Company and Colledge Off false believers From whom self will pride And Superstition no man can divide Let no man then that lawless Freedom take Which may occasion strife or scandals make By needless Labours nor mis-censure them Who take some liberties which they condemn In things indifferent and shall not move In such ' gainst which their Governors approve And in their manners let them peaceful be Though they in their opinions disagree Let not those times the Church hath set apart To rest the body to instruct the heart And to preserve a due Commemoration Of every blessed means of our Salvation Be judged vain or that they do not draw Authority sufficient for this

above To look upon the Vassals here below Our Nature and distempers tempring so And so providing that the blessing lost Is purchas'd for us at anothers cost And may by every Soul enjoyed be Who shall accept the means ordain'd by thee Though as did once the Jews some Christians grudge As if the Childrens teeth were set on edge By what their Fathers eat and doubtful grow Although thou makest Oath it is not so That most of those which are or which have bin Since time began shall die in Adam's sin And are in him rejected without place Or means of hope of truly saving Grace Yea though this be an error whereby such As err that way have urg'd thy Justice much Yet we who fear and trust thee and to whom The knowledge of thy secrets therefore come Remember well and therefore heed have took That Thou the general Covenant being broke Which first was made in Adam pleas'd hast bin To tell us of a new one since brought in And made with all men so particularly That no man for anothers Crime can die A Covenant in Christ from whom both Will And Power we have receiv'd to fulfil So much as shall to thee be acceptable If we endeavour as thou dost enable And whereas when this knowledge we did want We dreamed that thy New made Covenant Concern'd but few we doubtless did aver A Doctrine which from Truth did widely err For that which we did ignorantly call A Covenant is no such thing at all Because we then supposed nothing done Nor ought believ'd but on one side alone A Covenant as men of Judgment know Is that which is contracted betwixt two But thou by that which some of us do say Dost all thy self and giv'st nor power nor way To Act or will what absolutely can Be said to be the Act or Will of Man We stand for nothing thou alone believ'st Thou actest all thou givest and receivest Yea if we this assertion must allow None truly worketh good or ill but thou Man's but a sufferer whatsoe're he does He doth because he can nor will nor chose Lord let us know the better and so know What powers and faculties thou doest bestow On us to fear and serve thee that we might In work and word and thought still do thee right For thou so equally hast all things done And shew'st such mercy unto every one That ev'n by those who shall thy wrath abide In every thing thou shalt be justifi'd And none shall truly say when call'd they are Before thy Throne of Judgment to appear That thou hast more exacted any way From any man than he had power to pay Till by forsaking thee he forfeit made Of that enabling Grace which once he had This Law of thine which an appearance hath Of Terror of Severity and Wrath To those dull naturalists who have not weighed How by the Law of Grace it is allay'd Even this fear'd Law when first the same was made No other end but Man's well being had Nor hath as yet except it be to those Who sleight thy kindness and believe thy foes The former Table which we weakly fain Doth only to thy glory appertain Concerneth in the points of highest nature The Welfare and the glory of thy Creature To thee what is it whether we adore Thee for our God or none or twenty more Thine Honour was at full e're we were made And would be so though we no being had 'T is our Advantage that thou let 's us know To whom in our necessities to go And leav'st us not as when we Gentiles were To wander all our life times out in fear In Darkness and in Error yet to find Nor ease of Body neither peace of mind 'T is our advantage that we may be bold To scorn those Bugbears which in times of old Men trembled at and that the power and fame Of what was nothing but an empty Name Enslav'd us not to come with vows and praise To worship it as in our Heathen daies Which benefit we by this Law obtain'd And which without this Law we have not gain'd 'T is our avail that such a God we have Who lets us know that he hath power to save And that when we our selves to him apply We need not fear a Rival Deity Will angry grow and do us in despight A greater Wrong than thou hast power to right Or that a Jealous Juno can make void The hopes which in thy Love we have enjoy'd It is our gain to honour thee alone And that we need not now go Cyprus run To worship Venus then to seek Apollo At Delphos and from thence a course to follow As far as famous Ephesus to see If great Diana in her Temple be And thence again to post in hope to meet With Jove inshrined in the Isle of Creet Our Times and Substance wasting to receive That from them which they had not power to give What were it unto thee but that our peace Thou lovest if we dayly shall increase Our vain will-worshippings till we devise As many Superstitious Fopperies As we have sensless Dreams Or if our daies We spend on Idols forging Puppet plays And false Ideas till all truth be lost And then which is effected now almost Fight brawl and preach to make up Sects and Factions To help maintain the Whimsies and Distractions Which fool us till we find some Chrotchets new Unknown to Christian Heathen Turk and Jew Moreover but that our own harm it were To know no power whereof we stood in fear And were it not a merciful prevention Of miseries of mischiefs and contention Which else would rage among us if we had No name in which with Reverence might be made Vows Oaths and Protestations Or if we Should not believe a Will and Power in thee To heed and punish it when wrong were done What benefit to thee ensu'd thereon For which thou shouldst vouchsafe to make a Law To keep the damn'd For-swearers hearts in awe What suff'rest thou when mad Blasphemers rave Against thy holy Name that thou need'st have A law to curb them Or what have they done More than those Dogs which bark against the Moon If they themselves or others of their kind No damage by those Blasphemies did find And but that sweetly provident thou art Ev'n for the meanest and least worthy part Of all thy Creatures what was that daies rest To thee which thou ordain'st for Man and Beast Their pain or ease Thy Rest augmented not Nor profit by the Sabbaths hast thou got Or by the Festivals ordain'd by thee For they not thine but mans advantage be Our Essence being of a double Nature And thou best knowing what best fits the Creature Requirest all men so their time to use That Soul and Body may receive their dues But what misfalls to thee if any spends His Times in vain or to preposterous ends Some of us peradventure fancy may That thou hast honour by the Sabbath day And that it adds to thy