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B23108 The catechism of the Church of England, poetically paraphrased. By James Fowler Fowler, James, verse-writer.; Church of England. aut 1678 (1678) Wing F1729A 21,745 62

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the self-poising Earth And Sea with all their several Guests Angels Men Fishes Birds and Beasts And when the Seventh took birth He took his rest and hallow'd one of sev'n Remember Christian that thou holy keep Thy Christian Sabbath-day In which the Lord of rest arose To give thee rest as also those On which the Church doth pa● Commemorating praise for Saints that sleep Second Table Fifth Commandment Unto thy Father and thy Mother give Honor and Reverence That in the Land which God hath given To be thy Lot be 't Earth or Heav'n Thou may'st an age commence In which thou may'st long days and happy live Art thou a Subject Learn thy lawful King To honor and obey Or if thou art a Christian Sheep A Rev'rence for thy Pastor keep Or if a Servant pay Obedience to thy Lord in every thing Art thou a Wife the Churches footsteps tread Let thy Lord govern thee If poor thou be God made thee so Disdain not to the Rich to bow If a young man thou be Rise up and Reverence the hoary head Sixth Commandment Thou shalt not any kind of murther do Avoid contentious strife All fightings quarrels and upbraidings Mookings reproaches and deridings These oft endanger life And though they be not murther tend thereto Quit all revengeful thoughts those cords are strong To draw thy hand to blood And if thou hast revenge design'd Thou art a murd'rer in thy mind Vengeance in none is good But God to whom alone it doth belong Be thou to all a friend make all men thine Love to be merciful Study ambitiously for peace Let meekness love and gentleness The edge of fury dull And make thy good thy Brother's ev'l out-shine Seventh Commandment From all adultery thou shalt abstain Let Beasts do beastly deeds When men by Grace once planted flowers And water'd with Celestial showrs Degen'rate into weeds Heav'n shall on them like Sodom vengeance rain Avoid whatever tends to lust all glances From unchast wanton eyes Intemp'rate loose and idle courses Profane immodest vain discourses In which obsceneness lies And Songs that tickle with their am'rous fancies If being single thou art apt to burn Thy God gives leave to marry If marri'd then possess in honor Thy vessel fix thy love upon her Else thou wilt sure miscarry And all thy present sweets to gall shall turn Eighth Commandment Thou shalt not steal no kind of theft commit Upon thy Neighbours right Whether thou do his goods purloyn By means on which no Sun can shine Or open force and might 'T is theft and God shall punish thee for it Deceive not Customers in way of Trade Nor take extorting use All fraud deceit and unjust dealing Is but a finer kind of stealing And every such abuse With the reward of theft shall be repaid Use all industrious diligence in thy Calling 'T were sin to wrong thy self Give Alms to whom it does belong Where ought is due do no men wrong Thus use the worldly pelf And thou art sure to be preserv'd from falling Ninth Commandment Against thy neighbour no false witness bear By any feigned tale By base or sinister suspitions By nice or curious inquisitions Nor slily on him rail Nor false reports when rais'd against him hear If thou art call'd to swear let truth take place That ne're with blush was stain'd If ask'd a question scorn a Lye 'T is all but loss that 's got thereby What commonly is gain'd Is loss of Credit with the worst disgrace Be wisely tender of thy neighbours fame 'T is that by which he lives Which he that wounds does all he can With stabs of breath to kill the man And every stroke he gives Le ts out his life-Blood through his wounded Name Tenth Commandment Thy neighbours house thou shalt in no wise covet Nor for his wife shalt wish Nor for his servant man or maid Nor ox nor ass for which he paid What e're by right is his However lovely let thy Soul not love it Shun envy which by seeing others sound Will make thy bowels bleed An envious eye seeing other men Grow fat and plump it self grows lean On thy own heart it feeds And aim'd at others gives thy self the wound Where're it comes it poysons and bewitches Makes crowded bags sit scant Get thou the Jewel of Content That will be still thy complement And while Rich misers want Shall make thy narrow'st fortunes seem great Riches Question I see young Plant thou dost not only stand In Christian ground but hast by some good hand Been water'd too but 't is not both of these Can make thee thrive unless God give th' encrease 'T is easie to have learn'd these great Commands But happy he that learns and understands 'T is not enough the Tongue can do her part Unless they be engraven on the Heart If you learn only as a nat'rl man You neither know the things of God nor can Because they must be spiritually discern'd What hast thou therefore by these Precepts learn'd Answer Two gen'ral Duties one that hath regard To God the other looks my Neighbour-ward The first the former four Commandments fix The latter is compriz'd in th' other six All in two Tables written and were reckon'd Those the first Table Duties these the Second Question But will the Lord so dwell on Earth indeed As when his Greatness cannot stand in need Of Angels Service to accept the praise And honor that poor dust and ashes pays What service is it can with glory sort And yet with man's infirmity comport And what 's the Duty thou poor sorry clod Of helpless Earth art bound in toward God Answer My Duty towards God is first to place My faith and trust and hope upon his Grace Towards his Name and Majesty to bear An awful holy reverend dread and fear And to my utmost power to reflect Some beams of love on him whose every act Whose every gift and blessing from above To me bespeaks him in the abstract Love And this to do with all my heart which still Must frame th' affections to a pious will With all my mind with all its powers to learn By faith the unseen Godhead to discern With all my soul whose every motion ought To seek his Glory in each word and thought With all my strength and pow'r in which I can Dispose the inward or the outward man To worship him in Spirit whose Truth hath said He will in Spirit and Truth be worshipped To give him thanks for all good things which he Without respect of merit heaps on me To call upon him who alone can grant A plentiful supply of all I want All reverence and honor to afford Both to his holy Name and to his Word And all my days as well in age as youth To serve him in Sincerity and Truth Question Say now What duty does thy neighbour claim And who is he thou meanest by that name Answer I mean not only him whose house and mine Stand in a Street or do