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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66465	Poetical piety, or, Poetry made pious by rendering into its method observations arising from various divine subjects, useful for these prophane and enormous times : to which is added, a brief alphabetical expositor, explaining the most intricate words made use of in this book, to the conception of a mean reader, and may serve as a remembrancer to the imperfect memory / by William Williams ...	Williams, William, of Cardigan.	1677 (1677)	Wing W2785; ESTC R8078	64,141	220

that nakedness Was now my cloathing and no other dress * Adams excuse Therefore I from thy presence went to hide My self for fear thou should'st me smartly chide † God Who told thee Adam that thou naked-wast Didst eat the Fruit forbidden tell me hast The man repli'd again repli'd so large That with his sin he God himself did charge * Adam For thus unto the Lord his God said he The woman thou thy self didst give to me Gave me to tast thereof and I did eat The same in Innocence she was the cheat * God What hast thou done thus God his mind displaid Unto the woman and the woman said That Creature which the Serpent thou dost stile † Eve Gave me to eat and so did me beguile 'T was its Temptation did us both defile * None knew but God which was worst Adam Eve or the Serpent As for the Serpent God the same accurst None knew but God which of these three were worst The Serpent in beguiling or the twain By it beguil'd their maker to disdain However God did first his wrath display Upon the Serpent cause it did betray This man and woman to degenerate And thus relapse from this their happy state Gods curse upon the Serpent fell out so That on the Belly it should ever go And by the Lords appointment also must During its life each day eat of the dust Betwixt thee and the woman Enmity I 'l place sayes God for this thy Treachery * The Seed of the Woman should bruise the head of the Serpent And so betwixt your seed thus God did speak Such envy as the Serpents head may break For truth thou Serpent shalt this hatred seel To bruise thy head when thou dost bruise mans heel † The Womanmust conceive in sorrow God said unto the woman now will I Thy sorrow and conception multiply Henceforth with grief thou shalt thy children bear And of him that 's thy Husband stand in fear Though thy desire be towards him yet he Shall notwithstanding bear rule over thee Obedient to thy Husband thou shalt be Again to Adam his Creator said Because that my command was disobey'd By thee and thou dids't listen to the voice Of her that is thy wife and hast made choice To take and taste of the forbidden Tree The which even I my self commanded thee Thou shouldest not therefore the ground I make To be accurst for thy Rebellion sake In sorrow thou shalt eat thereof always And in laborious grief wear out thy days Thistles and Thorns these shall it bear to thee And th' Herb o' th field likewise thy food shall be * Adam must eat Bread in the sweat of his face till he returns to the ground For such O man is now thy wretched case Thou shalt eat Bread but with a sweaty face And thus to do by my command art bound Until thou do'st return unto the ground Earth is thy Origin thence taken wast Art dust shalt unto dust return at last Thus-wise was sinful Adam doom'd to die And in his loyns all his posterity Death to himself and his this was the all That Adam purchas'd by his wilful fall He made all Satans slaves to undergo The warth of God in misery and wo Destruction was the Portion of us all Had not the womans seed us freed from thrall He interposing did Gods wrath abate Reduc'd our cursed to a blessed state How we possess a better for a worse I leave until a following discourse And will fall back to Adams state till I First period his unhappy History Again this is observ'd in Adams life How he impos'd a name upon his wife His wife by name he did call Eve ' cause she The mother of all living was to be And unto Adam and his wife did God Make coats of skins with which they both were clad And to the Councel of his will speaks thus Behold the man 's become as one of us Both good and evil he doth understand And now least that he should put forth his hand To take from the Tree of life and taste Its fruit and live for ever God made hast To send him forth from Paradice to till The ground from whence he came for doing ill Thus-wise from Edens garden God exil'd Adam and Eve because by sin defil'd And at the East Edens pleasant land Caelestiall Cherubins he plac'd to stand Gave these a flaming Sword all times to sway The Tree of life defending every way Thus wretched Adam never could regain His Paradice but must exil'd remain SUBJECT VIII On the fall of Lucifer and the Apostate Angels Declare how Angels fell in brief I shall From Heavens bliss to Hell 's infernal thrall * on Lucifer CReated Creature what can I suppose Blew thy Ambition great as God to be Thy wise Creator thought it were to lose The orb Caelestiall which he fram'd for thee Unless thy Glory Puft thy fond conceat Greater to be though none but God so great II. In thy Creation thou did'st far excell All Creatures thy Creator did Create His goodness plac'd thee with himself to dwell In Heavens bliss this glorious happy state Was thy endowment where thou might'st remain For evermore did'st thou from pride abstain III. I wonder since such glory was enjoy'd By thee thou should'st ambitious be for more Thy avarice of glory made thee void Of that too much thou did'st enjoy before Which ornament of thy Angellick name God took away cloath'd thee with thy shame IV. What Lucifer could'st thou like no degree Save that comparative with God alone Wa' st not enough superlative to be Above all Creatures when like thee not one This did afford thy loftiness the ground Of arrogance and thereby thee confound V. * On Lucifer and his confederate Angels Thou Lucifer to wo did'st find a way For thy rebellion like witchcraft sin More Angels did delude and them betray To thy confusion and thy shame wherein Both thou and they for ever must remain Wailing and Howling in uncessant pain VI. Caelestiall Spirits what Infernall Ghosts Are ye become since Heaven you forsook The habitation of the Lord of Hosts With your disorder could not justly brook Ye sin'd against a Justice could not spare For your destruction Tophet to prepare VII When God Created Heaven he design'd The best of Creatures should the same possess Which Angels were of nature more refin'd Than Earthly Man as touching holiness But having freedom some of them have fell To bondage in the horrid place of Hell VIII I question not but the supernatural Realm Was fram'd of God as large as it had need For lack of Room he did not overwhelm From thence the Angels with so swift a speed To be all Gods through Pride they did aspire For which God made them Devils in his Iro IX * Their Ambition They aim'd for Heaven either all or none As Governours therein to rule and dwell They envi'd God who

sate upon his Throne Till Lucifer their Prince he thron'd in Hell To be the Prince of Devils that 's his name The Prince of darkness does imply the same X. * The names ascribed to the Devil and the distinction of Devils Pluto old Serpent Belzebub imply No more than what by Lucifer is meant These noted names do only fignifie The Prince of Devils or their President Those that Inferior are to his degree His Devilish Angels Imps and Fiends must be XI * None called Angels in Hell but those that fell with Lucifer As I conceive his Angels are no more Than those with him at first from Heaven fell The name of Angels they enjoy'd before Confer'd by Heaven not impos'd by Hell And since that Heaven canoniz'd the name Of Angels Hell cannot Create the same XII Tho Hell cannot Create it can confound Those Angel Spirits that have fallen therein Whil'st they in their ambition did abound Foresaw not this the consequence of sin Until experience did by wo convince Them of their doom with Lucifer their Prince XIII Dismall their case that from so happy state Were Damn'd Eternal to Infernall flame Kindl'd in wrath as their deserved fate That through presumption thus accurst became Objects of hatred Captives chain'd to wo In Hells Dark Region with those flames below XIV Proud Lucifer fell to the lowest pit Of sorrow from the highest place of Joy 'T was loftiness made him descend to it Where consternation does the damn'd annoy When they conceive how endless is their grief And how remediless is their relief XV. * Lucifers Court His subterranean and sub-marine Court Is Hell's Infernall fiery liquid Lake Th'admitted Subjects there to him resort Are those that Heavens Monarch do forsake Where all do envy men on Earth and hate Angels that still keep their Caelestiall state XVI * Lucifer tempted Adam and Eve in Paradice Prince Lucifer it was that cast a rape On Adams Innocence and that of Eve This Satan did assume the Serpents shape In Paradice both parties to deceive Perswading them that they should gain the skil Of God as Gods to know both good and ill XVII I steadfastly believe he cannot err Who sayes that Adam tempted was to fall And that his Tempter was this Lucifer God demoniz'd whom we a Devil call His fraud through Envy Treachery and Spite Rob'd Adam of his Innocence and right XVIII * Since the Devil must remain in Hell he would have all be in his condition This Angel now infernall envies those Caelestiall Angels that remain in bliss He can no comfort to himself propose But misery since mercy he did miss Which adds unto his malice so that he In his condition covets all to be XIX Nor is his malice towards these alone But as unlimited it do's abound To Adams Race of mankind every one Should God permit he would then all confound For like a Roaring Lion seeking prey The world he ranges duly night and day XX. But to conclude and to encourage man The Devils chain'd by Gods Immortall might His force and power overcome none can Unless to do his will they take delight Which some attempt as if of reason void Dread no destruction till they are destroy'd A brief Appendix to the fall of Angels AS for these damned Spirits that have fell Through Sin from Heaven or from Earth to Hell They are confin'd for ever there to dwell There Lucifer can never more regain A place in Heaven him to free from pain He 's bound there Captive by Eternal chain To manifest a real truth in brief Hell shall deliver all not for relief But at the Judgement to augment their grief Pride and ambition did the Angels sway Unto Rebellion ' gainst their God and they Gain'd condemnation vengeance was their pay Though these from Heaven unto Hell did fall Their case did caution Adam not at all He through presumption throw's himself in thrall When God made Adam Innocent and free From sin almost an Angel in degree Like Lucifer this man a God would be * The difference betwixt Lucifer and Adams ambition But here the difference lies betwixt these twain Proud Lucifer Gods power sought to gain Fond Adam aim'd Gods knowledge to obtain One did the other tempt this that bewray'd 'T was Lucifer alone his lewres display'd For Adam and his Innocence betray'd And since that both did thus alike transgress God executes on both his righteousness Both sin'd both suffer'd Justice to express SUBJECT IX A Brief narration of the Second Adam Intimated by the Womans Seed in Genesis 3.15 as in repaying the loss of the first Adam and purchasing Heaven for his posterity who in the Loins of Adam had forfeited the same by his Prevarication in Paradice The first man Adam sin'd in him men fell The Second Adam men redeem'd from Hell ADam's destroy'ds the Woman him mis-led The Serpent poyson'd Eve his Seed are dead But yet her Seed shall bruise the Serpents head Of all Gods promises this is the prime Of mans Redemption in the space of time From death and Hell incur'd by Adams crime Though death from this first Adam did derive To all his Seed and all of Life deprive The Second Adam can make all alive In case that any should of me demand Do I mean those who are already damn'd I answer no all that on Earth shall stand Believ'd I not this Doctrine then too blame I were since under Heaven found no name Save Jesus and salvation by the same * Every Soul alive may be capable of Salvation I Question not but every Soul alive Might gain Salvation that will truly strive To know his Saviour and in grace to thrive * Christ di'd for every Soul alive The Universe so great so large so wide Can in no secret place obscure or hide One single Soul for which Christ has not di'd But yet it follows not because that he Thus di'd for all that all should saved be Faith and Repentance must to this agree On this condition Christ saves all from wo He saves not whether that we will or no To save he 's all-sufficient saves none so Salvation then was render'd on this-wise Christ made himself an humble Sacrifice That humble sinners might his Saints arise When the offender has through his offence To the offended offer'd violence He shall be freed through Faith and Penitence That freely sin'd as freely should confess All his offences be they more or less If he be Righteous by Christs Righteousness A Christian man himself learns to deny That Christ is all in all for him did die Is his profession and Christianity A Christiain is a man that 's full awake His eyes do see the care that God did take To find a Saviour him should not forsake This Saviour lacks no power to save all If all repent they all be saved shall Presumption leads through Justice unto thrall Acknowledge Justice we sincerely must And of a truth confess

the Head Heart and Soul of a man to the Contemplation of Heavenly things and if so doubtless God is much Glorified by it It activates a mans memory by representing unto the mind Objects and Subjects meet for Meditation it causes much Seriousness and Evacuates the mind of Vanity and as a watchful Sentinel protects the Heart from the Stratagems of Satans Temptations These benefits in some measure I have experienced by it through the blessing of God and mayest thou in their perusal experience the same likewise so recommending it and thee to the Protection and Benediction of God in hopes these my first Fruits may not prove fruitless I shall take my leave and subscribe my self truely thine in love and service if thou art a sincere Christian whilst W. Williams The Contents of the ensuing Poems SUbject I. page 1. Of God and his Eternal Being Subj II. page 7. Of the Incomprehensible Eternity Subj III. page 15. Of Time and Death with the Certainty and Vncertainty of them both Subj IV. page 29. A Prospect of the Glorious Creation and the Creator understood by the Creatures Subj V. page 38. The model of the marvellous Creation to wit the Heaven and the Earth and all the Hosts of them with their accomplishments inthe space of six dayes Subj VI. page 54. A Reflection on the wonderful Creation with the Formation of Adam and Eve their Happiness in the state of Innocency as also the Institution of Marriage Subj VII page 60. Of the Temptation and fall of man Subj VIII page 68. On the fall of Lucifer and the Apostate Angels Page 75. An Appendix to the fall of Angels Subj IX page 77. A brief Narration of the second Adam intimated by the Womans seed in Gen. 3. v. 15. as in repairing the loss of the first Adam c. Subj X. page 95. The right Description of a true Christian and those Quallifications pertinent to this Believer in his state of Grace and Christianity Subj XI page 100. A discovery of the faithful and devout Christians Quality and Conversation Subj XII page 106. Supremacy and Subordination considered both as to the Legality of Soveraignty and the loyalty of Subjection from the impartiality of our Saviours Expression to the Jews concerning the Tribute Money in Mat. 22.21 Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are Gods Subj XIII page 111. Tribute and Custome are commanded by God to be rendred the Ministers of Christ because their due as well as their lawfull Magistrates observ'd from Rom. 3. v. 6 7. For this cause pay you Tribute also for they are Gods Ministers attending continually upon this very thing Render therefore to all their dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour Sub. XIV page 114. Gods love to mankind and the Terms of Salvation considered from Joh. 3.16 God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Subj XV. page 117. A Meditation on Isa 55. v. 6. Seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near Subj XVI page 121. A Contemplation on Job 20. v. 5. The Triumphing of the wicked is short the Joy of a Hypocrite is but for a moment Subj XVII page 123. A reflection on Eccles 7 v. 4. The heart of the wise man is in the house of Mourning but the heart of Fools is in the house of Mirth Subj XVIII page 125. A reflection on Psal 49. v. 20. Man that is born in Honour and understandeth not is like the Beasts that perish Subj XIX page 128. An Observation on Prov. 22. v. 22 23. Rob not the poor because he is poor neither oppress the afflicted in the Gates for the Lord will plead their Cause and will spoil the Soul of them that have spoiled him Subj XX. page 131. An Extraction from Isa 5. v. 11. Wo be to them that rise up Early in the Morning to follow Strong Drink that continue till night until Wine enflame them Subj XXI page 134. An Observation from Mat. 5. v. 33. Thou shalt not forswear thy self but shall perform unto the Lord thine Oaths Subj XXII page 138. On Luk. 12. v. 47 48 And that Servant which knew his Lords will and prepared not himself neither did according to his Will shall be beat with many Stripes But he that knew not and did things worthy of Stripes shall be beaten with few Stripes Subj XXIII page 141. A Contemplation on Mat. 6. v. 24. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon Subj XXIV page 144. A Pause upon Prov. 12. v. 2. When Pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly is Wisdom A Table of the observable Instances in these Poems hinted by the Marginal Notes SOadmirable is God that no one can display what he is should he require so many days to study him as Simonides did page 3. * God Created some things in the space of time which shall in duration exceed some other things though from all Eternity p. 18. * Some things there are that have neither beginning nor end as God himself p. 19. * Death varies oft and is full of uncertainties p. 20. It is hard for a man to foresee what manner of Death is ordained for him p. 22. The wisdom of God created man an Epitome of the great World and made man the great Ruler of it p. 28. * God may be understood by every Creature Ibid * God is the efficient cause of all causes p. 29. Nature is a second cause p. 30. * If the Stars govern men God governs the Stars p. 34. * The opinion of the Atheist the confutation thereof Ibid * Reason allows the creation of Angels to be on the first day p. 39. * It may be supposed that Hell was Created on the first day p. 40. * Man was made the Image of God p. 50. * Adam gave names to all Creatures according to their kind p. 58. * The Serpent tempts Eve p. 60. * Eves reply to the Serpents temptation Ibid † The Serpents reply to Eve p. 61. * The woman possest with the Serpents temptation Ibid † Eve beholds the forbidden Tree through Avarice takes of its Fruit eats thereof her self gives Adam of the same and both sin alike Ibid * The Devil told truth p. 52. * Adam and Eve hide themselves from Gods presence Ibid † God calls upon Adam p. 53. † Adams excuse Ibid * None knew but God whick was worst Adam Eve or the Serpent p. 64. * The woman must conceive in sorrow p. 65. † Adam must eat bread in the sweat of his face till he returns to the ground p. 66. On Luciser and his confederate Angels p. 96. The Angels ambition p. 71. * The names ascribed to the Devil and the distinction of Devils Ibid. None called Angels in Hell but those

might scan That from this Earthly slime God formed Man Made him a perfect substance of this slime And then inspires him so became sublime When God mans substance to mans shape did frame In this he breath'd so man alive became And thus this man was made a living Soul Who once o're Gods Creation did controul When thus he was perfected God did seem To have this object Man in great esteem Whose pourtraiture he was to represent His Maker in his inward liniament God in his Image now takes great delight And plants a Garden pleasant to his sight East ward in Eden where he plac'd the man Whom he had form'd through which a River ran A glorious River that did rarely glide To water Edens banks on either side Even Euphrates thus Paradice supply'd These silver streams by their fertility This pleasant Garden made to fructifie That from the ground the Lord God caus'd to grow Even every Tree that pleasant was for show Unto mans sight and likewise that was good Not only to his sight but for his food I' th midst of this fair Garden was the Tree Of Life so stil'd a glorious sight to see And th'Tree of knowledge both of good evil Where man first grew acquainted with the Devil Thus-wise God pleac'd the man in happiness Even in this Eden it to keep and dress Where God informs him and thus wise said he Eat freely that thou may'st of every Tree But of the Tree whence knowledge does derive Of Good and Ill eat not if thou wilt live The day thou tasts thereof assuredly Shall fatal prove and by it thou shalt die Beware O man t' incur this destiny Now God conjectures with himself sayes he It is not good for man alone to be First God considers what course he should take And then a help meet for this man did make But from the ground the Lord God he did frame Each Beast o' th Field each Fowl and brought the same To Adam whom we find by name to be Related to his Earthly Pedegree Before whom all the Creatures great small God brought to know what Adam would them call What ever Adam every thing did Name Remain'd the appelltion of the same What kind soever whether wild or Tame * Adam gave Names to all Creatures according to their kind But though he did behold variety Of Creatures none was found for his supply Untill that God Almighty caus'd a sleep To fall on Adam and the same was deep So fast he slept he could by no means wake Till God a Rib out of his side did take And close the Flesh instead thereof e're he From so profound a sleep could waked be And of this Rib that God from man did take A woman was the help meet he did make For Adam and when she to him was brought He knew that of his Rib ' God had her wrought For when he did behold her thus said he Bone of my Bones Flesh of my Flesh is she Made of my side a Bride to comfort me To call her woman Adam now began Because that she was taken out of man As much this woman did to Adam seem Himself as was himself in his esteem * Adam gave Names to all Creatures according to their kind Thus Marriage was ordain'd by God alone In Paradice to make of twain but one Therefore this obligation must remain That nothing sever these united twain A man must now his Father leave and Mother And cleave unto his wife and not another And they for ever after must remain Both as one flesh and no more termed twain Till death from seneration to abstain Both these were naked yet they had no shame Their Innocence thus farr kept both from blame Hereto mans History of happiness Consists unhappy further to express SUBJECT VII Of the Temptation and fall of Man The Subtile Devil in a Serpents shape On Adams Innocence did cast a Rape WE now shall treat of the most subtil Creature And that 's the Serpent which defil'd mans Nature How by his wily stratagems invented Deceived man to sinfulness assented * The Serpent tempts Eve As may appear by that it's disputation With Eve by Serpentine Interrogation Who question'd thus said God ye should not eat Of every Tree that 's in the Garden set † Eves reply to the Serpents Temptation To which the Woman answered and said As at the Serpent nothing yet dismay'd Eat of the Fruit that is on every Tree Within the the Garden liberty have we But of the Tree in Edens center plac'd The Lord allows us not its Fruit to taste Ye shall not eat of it he does deny To taste it or to touch it least we die * The Serpents reply to Eve Again the Serpent to the woman said Ye shall not surely die be not affraid For God doth know that in the day when ye Do eat thereof your eyes shall open'd be And then as Gods you shall the knowledge gain Of good and evil eat do not abstain † The Woman possest with the Serpents Temptation The woman now possest with this Temptation And with this Serpentine Insinuation * Eve be holds the forbidden Tree through avarice takes of its Fruit eats thereof her self gives Adam of the same and both alike do sin Beholds the Tree and view's it where it stood Perceiving that its fruit for food was good A Tree that was most pleasant to the eyes A Tree desirable to make one wise Puffs up the woman with Ambition she Through Avarice adventures on the Tree Supposing it for every thing compleat Took of its Fruit whereof her self did eat And gave unto her Husband of the same Who far'd with her and shar'd with her in shame And now because they both did thus transgress Their eyes were ope to see their nakedness * The Devil told Truth And here we find the Father of all lies Told them the truth by opening of their eyes That both of them were naked They did know And to prevent disgrace fig-leaves did sow Together for a covering to their shame And apron-wise 't is said they sow'd the same But yet alas these aprons were too thin And farr too scant for to conceal their sin The shady Trees nor yet the Paths untrod Could not obscure their sin and shame from God Now God in Eden walks and they should hear His angry voice the which pierc'd them with fear † Adam and Eve hide themselves from Gods presence And made them conscious so that both retire To hide themselves from the Almighties Ire * Adams excuse And likewise from his presence thus they made The Trees their refuge and their shield the shade Tohide them from his wrath would both invade † God calls upon Adam But God the Lord upon the mancalls now And sayes unto him Adam where art thou And Adam startling gave God this reply Thy voice within the Garden hear did I And was afraid because