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A44052	Sion and Parnassus, or, Epigrams on severall texts of the Old and New Testament to which are added [brace] A poem on the Passion, A hymn on the resurrection, ascention, and feast of Pentecost / by Iohn Hoddesdon.	Hoddesdon, John, fl. 1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2295; ESTC R35999	48,372	143

HIs cradle's made of rush he layes his head On Nile's proud backe that is his feather-bed Had he not bin so lost hee 'd nere been found If not cast out to drowning had been drown'd Blest Babel all things conspire thy good and chance Out of thy danger works deliverance 38. The burning bush ch 3. v. 3. 4. In midst of fire and unconsumed yet This doth a wonder in my minde beget A fire of zeale this was made by heavens-art Not to inflame the bush but Moses heart 39. PHARAOH ch 7. For Pharaoh's pride against the LORD of Hostes An universall darknesse shades his coastes A darknesse such as might be felt a night That long usurped baffled Phoebus right He yet continu'd obstinate wee finde The greatest darknesse then was in his minde THE TEN COMMANDEMENTS Command 1. 40. Heare O ISRAEL I am the LORD thy GOD c. Israel that GOD who gave requires thine eare He deignes to speake and shouldst not thou to heare So heare as after hearing to fulfill The holy tenour of his heav'nly will Who hopes that GOD should heare him when he praies Attend what GOD attend what justice sayes Should we so ill requitall to him make Who fore all other people did us take To take a god'fore him place him behind The fancy'd Idols of our idle minde We have created gods indeed below To whome obedience honour love we owe. Whome would we see rightly to serve O let Them fore our eyes but GOD fore them be set Command 2. 41. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Images c. Whilst to Bulls Dogs and Cats th' Egyptians bowe They an egregious Hieroglyphick showe Of vaine Idolatry but little more Of reason then those Animals they adore For why should Man into whose soule his maker Hath heavenly light infus'd and made partaker Of his own image worship things that are Inferiour to himself in worth so farre Or worship God by Proxy dare to sett Of what we never saw the counterfett If ' gainst this we a remedy would finde Conserve these precepts graven in our minde Command 3. 42. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine c. Thou hurtst God's name with vaine and idle chat But Foole thou hurt'st thy self far more then that Thy words are wind but when great God doth speak Thou 'lt find he silence can in thunder break 43. Aliud Is God thy fellow that thou still Dost take his holy name at will The word that fram'd thee thou dost mock And makest it thy laughing-stock Thou oft invokest God to heare Take heed too soon hee 'l lend an eare Command 4. 44. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day c. 'T is hard if out of seaven we can't afford One day to be kept holy to the Lord Rest then from Labour and blesse him that we In sixe dayes toyle of him may blessed be This Sabbath sanctifie an earnest 't is Of that eternall one of heav'nly blisse Bestow some hours in pious meditation Though we work not on Gods work the creation And if to that grand secret we would climbe Of our Redemption O redeeme this time What though the day be chang'd as 't was heaven's will Keep our devotion on 't unchanged still Command 5. 45. Honour they Father and thy Mother c. Honour thy parents and obey What they and what God here doth say To them observant if thou be And honour'st them others will thee Long life is promis'd a reward For those who this command regard A long life shall on earth be given A longer afterwards in heaven 46. Aliud Honour and love thy father naturall Politique and Ecclesiasticall For in so doing all may clearly know Whether thou truly honorest God or no. Nature's laws charge the first which who resists Is of the rank of rankest naturalists Thother's enjoyn'd us by civility And that imp'd with a smack of policy The third which teacheth why this should be showne T' all three's the summe of all religion Command 6. 47. Thou shalt doe no murther Murther 's so foul a crime 't may not be wrought By us indeed in deed in word or thought To boyle with anger is manslaughter nay We shall for grudgings be arraign'd one day Of murth'ring there be many peices mo Then death which comes by murth'ring piece's blow Command 7. 48. Thou shalt not Commit Adulterie O have a care and bridle each ill thought Which this command may violate let nought That is but unbeseeming be in thee Do thou avoyd all wanton company Let not thy love be firmly fixt upon Her that 's another mans and not thine owne Yet on Christ's spouse the Church fixe thy firme love Although her proper husband be above Command 8. 49. Thou shalt not steale We are forbid to steale and if we do In hell we shall be punisht and here too Whilst though we work in darknesse like the mole And steal another steals from us our soul Command 9. 50. Thou shalt not bear false witnesse against thy neighbout God is the Father of all truth but lies Are onely wicked Satan's properties If thou then must bear wittnesse don't through fear Speak false God will not with a liar bear Command 10. 51. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house c. This last and least of Gods commandments lies In order next which we ought not despise Howe're if ought we would contemn begin With detestation to despise this sinne Of coveting what 's not our own yet still Covet what 's not our own to have like will With our Divine Creatour that were rather To keep then break the Law of him our Father What should I covet poor babe under age But Christ my elder brother's heritage That and his love I prize all things before And covet I may covet nothing more The third book of MOSES called LEVITICUS 52. The fire shall be ever burning c. ch 6. v. 13. THe Priest lest holy fire should decay Duly each morn did on it fuell lay So lest our fire of zeal should die 't is fit Our prayers each morning give new life to it Whilst we this flame foment we need not doubt But that the fire of Gods wrath will go out This on the Altar of our hearts being kept God us and our peace-offering will accept 53. NADAB and ABIHU burnt ch 10. Your minds were kindled with a strange desire Of offering incense with as strange a fire This 't was incens'd Gods anger made you wish You had been strangers to such deeds as this Fire sent from God your death and ruine was Made heavenly martyrs though not for heav'ns cause Whilst these unsanctified flames you bring Your selves are turn'd to a burnt-offering Sinne-offering you were none since no expence Of sacred fire could expiate your offence Yet a sinne-offering too you were for in Your offering there was nothing else but sinne Had you one spark of grace then had not heaven Needed ethereall fire thus to have

4. v. 14. It is a fair broad way plain plausible But yet beware it is the way to hell Although 't be strow'd with roses altogether I 'll none on 't foh it stinks of brimstone hither 148. Yet a little sleep a little slumber ch 6. v. 10. A little slumber more the sluggard cries I 'll take t'other od nap and then I 'll rise Good 'las the weather 's very cold indeed For certain I am glew'd unto my bed Thus trifles out his time till poverty Catch him and 's belly in his face doth fly Go to the Ant consider her why so The sluggard will not take the pains to go 149. Keep my commandments and live Keep Gods commandments sure and live thereby His precepts as the apple of thine eye Observe his laws thou canst not choose but thrive Since his commandments do command to live 150. Say unto wisedome thou art my Sister ch 7. v. 4. Since thou this charge wise King on me dost lay Wisdome thou art my Sister I will say But O! I fear that so unlike we be She 'll not be such a fool t' acknowledge me 151. Doth not wisedome cry c. ch 8. v. 1. Wisedome about the streets doth crying rome To see if any one will take her home O use her gently do not with her part But lock her in the bottom of thy heart She cries and cries to think that all reject her I 'm sure there 's none but fools who will neglect her 152. I love them who love me ch 8. v. 17. I know 't is wisedome t' love them who love me To love mine enemy 't is piety 153. And those who seek c. ch 8. v. 17. Wisedome requires who would her suiters be Must seek her even from their infancy She woos us t' woo her early if we do We shall be certain to wed her not woo 154. Wisdome hath builded her house ch 9. v. 1. Wisedome hath built her house and finisht it Made all her rooms for Kings and Princes fit The arts and sciences do beautifie This Palace make it stand perpetually Needs must it last built in so wise a sort Whom sev'n so mighty columnes do support 155. Stoln waters are sweet ch 9. v. 17. Stoln things are like the book Ezekiel eat Which to his palate seem'd delicious meat But swallow'd in his belly out alas More bitter there then ever sweet it was Let thieves beware nor on stoln treasures dote Though sweet i th' mouth 't will choke them in their throat 156. It is a sport to a fool to do mischief ch 10. v. 23. When wicked men do ill as seems them best They say to mend the matter 't was in jest And not in earnest well I think not so I think it was not in good earnest though ECCLESIASTES 157. In much wisdome there is much sorrow ch 1. v. 18. IT grieves me much to heare of this can grief Be got in getting wisedome past belief And yet 't is true the more we know the more We grieve our knowledge doth no higher soar Wisdomes Arithmetick contains but one Grand head and that 's Multiplication Of sorrow She and I I see must part What profit comes from such a sorry art 158. A good name is better then pretious ointment ch 7. v. 1. Give 't others let their curious nostrills dwell On precious ointments aromatick smell Besmear them with those liquid odours me Set out with those oyl'd arts let no man see Let me a good name keep better by farre An holy good-man is then greater are The box of ointment broke sents sweet'st but this Kept whole most redolent and fragrant is 159. Truly the light is sweet ch 11. v. 7. Though Sols refulgent rayes dazle our sight Those beams are better then the shade of night For who but darknesse children fancy it A time onely for Bats and Screetch-owls fit I 'll look to th' sunne and looking may I be Exhal'd a meteor to heav'ns axle-tree 160. Remember thy Creatour ch 12. v. 1. In youthfull dayes do not forgetfull be Of God who alwayes doth remember thee And though thy years be green yet humbly bring Thy firstlings make an Autumn in thy Spring Thy spritefull bloud as yet is hot O why Should zeal amidst so great flames frozen die Think on thy Maker husband well thy time In the prime service O bestow thy prime And thou who giv'st thy youth to God wilt see That God will likewise give old age to thee 161. God shall bring every work into judgement ch 12. v. 14. God is the judge who at the last grand day Shall the just guerdon of our labours pay All works shall into light be brought though none To light eternall but good works alone SOLOMONS SONG or CANTICLES 162. I am black but comely ch 1. v. 5. SOul thou art black yet Christ loves thee Although nought lovely he can see Though nought but what is naught there grows He loves thee merely ' cause he does It pleaseth now th' eternall dove Not onely a white house to love 163. Look not upon me because I am black ch 1. v. 6. Because the sunne hath look'd upon thee why To look on thee dost thou forbid mine eye Those whom the Sunne of righteousnesse looks on Though they are black now shall be white anon 164. As the lillie among the thorns c. ch 2. v. 2. As doth the lillie ' mongst the thorns just so Doth my beloved ' midst the daughters shew More truly Lord were this appli'd to thee When hanging ' midst two thieves upon a tree Thy self 's the lillie not now white but red And these the thorns are which embrace thy head 165. He brought me to the banqueting-house ch 2. v. 4. He brought me to a summer house and there Did feast me with abundance of good chear Those dainties yet did not to love me force Untill he serv'd his coarse the second course 166. Comfort me with apples ch 2. v. 5. Art sick of what disease of love O say What cordiall to thy love-sick heart wilt lay Think'st thou an apple will give thee relief Poor soul an apple first did cause thy grief 167. Rise up my love my fair one c. ch 2. v. 10 11 12. c. Rise up my fair one come away for lo The winter's past the spring her head doth show Let not fierce winter in thy chill heart stay I am thy Sun to thaw those frosts away The chanting birds do imitate the spheres But thy voice were more musick in my ears The sparrows in loves dialect do prate The turtles bill then come to me thy mate The fig-tre puts forth her green fruits O see They load their boughs a fig for all but thee The vines about the elms do twine just so Let thou and I in love together grow Now pressing time draws near I 'll vie a floud Of purple with thee thy vine and my bloud 168. He feedeth among the lillies ch 2. v. 16. True didst thou