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Piety, and Poesy

Contracted, In a Poetick Miscellanie of Sacred Poems. By Tho: Jordan

Jordan, Thomas (1612?-1685?)

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On the Title, that was fixed upon the Cross of our Blessed Saviour: Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews.

A Dream of Dooms Day.

On Lot's Wife looking back to Sodom.

The Inscription.

On Eve' tasting the Apple.

On the Children of Israel murmurring at Manna.

On Mary Magdalen's coming to the Tomb of our Saviour.

On Peter called to be a Fisher of Men.

On Peter's Imprisonment and Release.

On the Penitent Thiefe upon the Cross.

Charity begins at home.

On holy Fasting, and on holy hunger.

On our Saviour paying Tribute.

On Paul's healing the Creeple at Lystra.

On the holy Ghost descending like a Dove.

Sapiens Dominabitur Astris.

On the Pharisees requiring of a Sign.

On our Saviour's receiving of Children.

On our Saviour's saying, he brought a Sword.

On Saul's Conversion in his Journey to Damascus.

On the words, Scriptum est.

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An Eclogue betwixt Saul, the Witch of Endor, and the Ghost of Samuel.

The Introduction.

Saul and the Witch

Samuel, Saul, and the Witch of Endor.

An Acrostick conteining the Ten COMMANDMENTS.

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Elegiack Poems.

An Elegie on the Death of Mr. John Steward.

On the Death of the most worthily honour'd Mr. John Sidney, who dyed full of the Small Pox.

An Elegie on the lamented Death of the virtuous Mis. Anne Phillips, Dedicate to her Son and Heir Mr. Edmond Philips.

Thoughts of Life and Death, written upon the occasion, ex tempore.

An Epitaph on the Death of an Organist.

An Epitaph on Himself.

An Epitaph on a Strumpet, buried at Graves-end, once at my landing there, to go to Canterbury.

An Epitaph on my worthy Friend Mr. John Kirk.

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On Saul's Conversion in his Journey to Damascus.

When Saul was call'd to be a Convertite,
God's glorious presence struck him blinde with light:
What strange Enygmaes Heaven can devise,
Saul then saw clearest, when he lost his Eyes,

The lustre struck him to the Earth, and he
At that rebound rise to Eternity;
Look here Ambition, learn this of Saul,
The onely way to rise high, is to fall.