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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

Sharper are by Far Than Dragons Claws or red Hot Pincers were Thy Heart and Bowels plucking out At Once Or Rav'nous Birds thy Flesh tear from thy Bones Hot Burning Coals of Juniper shall be Thy Bed of Down and then to Cover thee A Quilt of Boyling Brimstone thou must take And Wrap thee in till thou full Payment make To Divine Justice for thy great Offence In that thou hast without due Reverence My Hallowed Name Prophan'd and tane in Vain Thou surely shall endure Eternal Pain Because thy Sufferings no Proportion have To that Infinite Offence which thou gave The Head the Hand the Nose the Ear the Eye Yea every Member shall tormented be Apart and such exquisite Tortures fill Each Joint as would great Leviathan kill Yet thy frail Body I 'le make to subsist Under such Torments while I do exist No Wine or Beer is there to quench thy Drowth Nor liquid Drop at all to cool thy Mouth But bitter Dreggs of that great Cup of Wine Of Indignation in my Hand Divine Which without Mixture every Soul shall Take And drink and Vomit in that Burning Lake My holy Sabbath see thy self thou keep And every Soul within thy Gates that Sleep Thy Parents Honour and thy Days Prolong And Kill thou not nor do thy Neighbour Wrong Form all Unchastness keep thy Body pure And do not Wealth by wrongful Means Procure Bear not False Witness Neither Covet thou Thy Neighbour's Wife his Servant Ox or Cow WHILE Israel stood and all these Words did hear Their Hearts did Fail Almost i distract'd by Fear To Moses came and trembling they Beseech Th' Almighty ONE may please no more to Preach In such a Dreadfull most Confounding way Least by his Presence Mortal Flesh should dye But rather by his Prophets speak and They His holy Laws will willingly Obey Their Sute is Granted and th' Almighty ONE Approves the Motion as they 've said 't is Done He sends them Prophets of their Bretheren Men Of such like Passions with Themselves that when They speak his Word their Presence may not Make Their Hearers tremble not their Joints to shake But such is Man's perverse Corrupted Will That out of Good he had Engendereth Still To have the Message of th' Almighty King Brought by frail Men like us in every Thing To whom with freedom we Recourse may have To solved be of Doubts and Counsel Crave To have the Bread of Life brought down from Heav'n In Earthen Pots and to Mens Children Giv'n If Right Consider'd special Mercies Are And so by Israel they esteemed Were In that dread Day when the Almighty GOD From top of Sinai Thundred Mighty Lowd No Man nor Beast the Hallowed Mount might Touch Nor to the Borders thereof durst Approach Save Moses self But now it is not so All Men may freely to the Altar go And Offerings Glad of Joy and Praise present And back Receive Heav'ns Liberal Complement And by the Prophets be instructed Still In every Thing that 's the Almighty's Will Yea all the Prophets from that very Day Do early Rise and to the People say Repent do Justice o Mercy love and see Ye with your GOD all Humble Walkers be But froward perverse Man replys I hate To Curb my Lusts or at the Narrow Gate Once strive to Enter since along I May Not take my Darling Sins in Company Tush what is said by yonder Man we 're Sure The Mickle Devil himself cannot indure What tell us live like Hermits Pray and Whin Abstain from pleasure Falsly Nick-nam'd Sin These Babling Preists may Superstitious Wives Charm by their Doctrine to reform their Lives Or make some timerous simple Fools amuz'd But gallant Sp'rits will not be so abus'd We plainly see Priest-Craft is but a Trade And don 't believe one Word of what is said Further then Interest or Self-gain doth go In every Land and Countrey is 't not so Do not all Sects and Parties stiffly plead Their way is only Right what further need Of Proof to show that all Religion 's Vain By Priests invented meerly for Self-gain The Turks the Pagans Papists and what not Of Thousands more would all be thought Devote Yet Black and White are more alike then they Therefore in short ther 's nothing Truth they Say But grant there be a GOD as they Give out He is so very good we do not doubt He 'l Spare and will not Torture nor Afflict Poor Mortal Flesh yea sure he 's not so Strict Severe and Rigid as those Bablers tell And fright the Simple with a Scarcrow-Hell If Hell there be at all 't is only This A bare exclusion from Coelestial Bless Which to speak plainly we almost wou'd Chuse And all the Toilsom joys of Saints Refuse Since constantly they must give Praise Divine A work to which we do not much incline O Wretched Athiest doth thou think indeed These Scriptures which thou frequently may Read Are forg'd by Art or Subtile Mans Ingine And are not Marked with a Stamp Divine The dreadfull Plagues made knowen on Egypt Land Redeeming Isra'l with a Mighty hand The Sea divided Jordans Streams back turn'd And Law emitted while the Mountain Burn'd Are these Romances Lies or Forged Tales Were not Divine Unquestion'd useful Seals Fixt to the Law Commencing from the Day These Acts were Done Pray there fore show what Way Could Isra'l be Impos'd on or Deceiv'd When all the Laws and Statutes they Receiv'd Enforced were from what their Eyes had Seen And to their Sense Demonstrated had Been These very words which all the Camp heard Spoke From midst the Cloud the Fire and dreadfull Smoak Ingraven are on Tables made of Stone And short time after to the People showen And Copies thereof all Requir'd to take And on their Wals and Door-Posts fast them make And both the Tables in the Ark uplaid In time to come to shew what GOD had said 'T is more then Plain had not the thing been true When Moses first expos'd unto their view These Sacred Tables and Commanded All To mind so said the GOD of Israel From top of Sinai which your selves did Hear Their Answer had been thus 't is more then Clear We never Heard such words nor Saw such things As by this Doctrine to our Ears thou brings We never heard this Law from Sinai Giv'n Nor saw the Fire which almost rached Heav'n We never saw these Plagues on Land of Ham Nor through the Sea on dry Land ever Came. We never saw proud Jordans Channel dry Nor there Stons Fix'd for furture Memory Therefore these Laws we 'll not Receive at all Nor to our Offspring e're commit them shall Since none of these wrought in our Sight have been Nor any Shadow thereof have we seen But so it was that on the self same Day The Angel did all * Egypt's first born Slay The Israelits first Solemniz'd the Feast And every Year they kill'd that hallowed Beast The