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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.

Psalm 80. 12, 13, 14.

Phil. 3. 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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Phil. 3. 13, 14.

I count not my selfe to have apprehended; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the Mark, for the prize of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus.

This ilfe is like a race,
Where every one's a Runner, and the prize
A Crown of Glory: Heavens the place
Where the Mark's set before our eyes.

I who have not as yet
Scarce run out half the way, must not sit down
And think I've done enough, but sweat
And labour hard to get the Crown.

Nor may I cast an eye
Behind, to see how many I've out run,
But with the foremost I must vie
And better end then I begun.

For if I fail at last,
When I have gone the greatest part o'th' Race,
Or give off when the worst is past,
It will be much to my disgrace.

Nor is that all, but then
Another man shall take my crown from me,
And I with the faint-hearted men,
Out of the Lists quite cast shall be.

O Lord do thou annoint
Me with thy oil of Grace from top to toe,
In every lim and every joint,
That I may never weary grow.

But persevering in
My course with vigorous and active strength,
May be so happy as to win
The Goal first, and the Crown at length.