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Poemata sacra

Latinae & Anglicae scripta [by John Saltmarsh]
Saltmarsh, John
  
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POEMS UPON SOME OF the holy raptures of DAVID.
  
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL SIR THO. METHAM MY HONOURED FRIEND, and his vertuous Lady, the Lady METHAM.
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Meditation I. By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down, yea we wept, Psal. 137.
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Meditat. II. We hanged our harps upon the willows, Psal. 137.
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Meditat. III. I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, Psal. 102.
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Meditat. IV. My dayes are like a shadow that declineth, Psal. 102.
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Meditat. V. Wilt thou shew wonders on the dead? Psal. 88.
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Meditat. VI. The Emblemes of the resurrection.
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Meditat. VII. THE RESURRECTION.
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Meditat. VIII. Create in me a clean heart, Psal. 51.
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Meditat. IX. He healeth the broken hearted, and bindeth up their wounds, Psal. 146.
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Meditat. X. The Lord is nigh to all those that call upon him, Psal. 145.
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Meditat. XI. The Lord looseth the prisoners, Psal. 156.
  
A Meditation upon the Song of Songs,
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TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL George Butler Esquire, one of his Majesties Councell established in the North.
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THE PICTURE OF GOD IN MAN,
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Chap. I. Why called the Picture.
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Chap. II.
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Chap. III. A representation of God in man.
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Chap. IV. The Image of God in man.
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Chap. V. Gods Picture not in the bodie of man.
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Chap. VI. Gods Picture in the soul, and what it is.
  
A meditation upon Eternitie.
  
Upon the rest on the Lords day.

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Chap. III. A representation of God in man.

I see the Sunne when he admiring stood
His face in the smooth mirrour of a cloud:
I lookt upon the cloud, and I did say,
There shines a Sunne, but with a watrish ray.
Then did I think mans clearer soul it was
To the Almighties count'nance as a glasse;
On which he looking, glimmering graces sent,
Till the soul faintly did his God present.
To make a compleat mirrour, there is laid
Pellucide clearnesse on an opake shade:
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So body terminated soul; and why?
To do the service of opacitie.
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