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Divine Poems

Written By Thomas Washbourne

Washbourne, Thomas (1606-1687)

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To the Right honourable, My ever Honoured Lady, The Lady VERE.

To His Ever honoured Mother, The University OF OXFORD

To his Learned, Pious Friend, the Authour.

On the Author.

To the READER of my Dearly Loved, because truly Pious Friend, Mr, T. W.'s Religious Poems.

APOSTROPHE To the AUTHOR.

On the Divine Poems of his friend the Author.

Exod. 3. 2.

Psalm 80. 12, 13, 14.

Upon a Snake in a Garden of Flowers, having stung one that trod upon him unawares.

Upon Divine Love.

The Eccho, or Answer of a good Conscience.

A PASTORAL DIALOGUE Concerning the JOYES of HEAVEN, And the PAINES of HELL.

Upon the peoples denying of Tythes in some places, and ejecting their Pastors.

The souls wish.

Upon Christs coming to judgment.

The Antipodes.

To a Gentlewoman that was extremely troubled with the Tooth-ach.

Upon a Passing Bel.

Upon the setting of a Clock-Larum.

Scylla and Carybdis.

Upon Lay-mens preaching.

Upon the contrary effects of Tobacco in himself and his friend.

Upon a good yeer of Corn, and a quick harvest.

Upon his walking one day abroad, when sometimes the Sun shone warm, an sometimes the winde blew cold on him.

Upon a dream, that he was writing his Sermon Notes upon his naked brest that very morning that was the Anniversary of his Baptism.

A Soliloquy upon the Circumcision, commonly called New-yeers-day.

An other upon the Resurrection, commonly called Easter day.

A Colloquy upon the Ascension, commonly called Holy Thursday.

Upon all Saints day.

To Christ.

Boet. Met. 4. l. 1. Translated.

The 5. Met. of the second book.

Upon the Right Reverend, And most Learned Dr. PRIDEAUX, late Bishop of Worcester.

To his much honoured Friend and Kinsman, Sr E. B.

To his truly honoured Lady, the Lady R.

To the noble Lady, and to him much endeered, the Lady M. T.

To the no less honoured Lady, the Lady P.

To the eminent Scholer, and Honor of our Church, Dr. Hammond.

To the truly vertuous, and his most esteemed Cousin, Mrs. M. B.

To the Right Honourable, the Lady M. C.

Upon his losing his way in a mist.

To two Parties going to Law about small matters.

To an envious and malicious person.

To the common Drunkard, falsely called a Good Fellow.

Upon an old man holding an Infant between his arms of his own begetting.

To one that married a very rich, but a very deformed woman.

His opinion concerning disputations in the Country, where the Major part of the Auditory are Illiterate persons.

Upon his late Ague, or the new Feaver, as it was call'd.

The Accident.

Upon his Recovery from his Ague.

Upon a great showre of snow that fel on May day, 1654.

The Conclusion. To my dread Soveraigne And deer Master, Christ Jesus, King of Kings.

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Exod. 3. 2.

And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold the bush burned with fire, and was not consumed.

Loe, here a sight
Presented to the eye,
A Bush on fire flaming bright,
Yet not consum'd, a wondrous mysterie.

The Bush the Church,
Affliction is the fire,
Which serves not to destroy, but search
And try her gold, raising the value higher.

It gathers dust,
And sullied is with ease,
Wherefore to rub off all the rust,
To cast it in this fire God doth please.

Whence it comes forth,
Far brighter then before,

And is advanced much in worth,
One pound being equal now unto a score.

This bush that flame
Could never long withstand,
Unlesse the Lord were in the same;
Tis he that doth uphold it with his hand.

Whiles he is there,
And doth his light dispense,
The heat we need not greatly fear,
How ere it may seeme grievous to our sense.

For though we be
I th' fiery furnace cast,
Our faith the Son of God may see,
Preserving of our very haires from waste,

Much more he will
By his almighty arme
Defend the souls of his Saints still,
That by this fire they shall sustaine no harme.

For this fire shall,
Like that which snatch'd away
The Prophet once, transport them all
From this worlds sorrows to a world of joy.