Hvnnies Recreations Conteining foure godlie and compedious discourses, Intuitled Adams Banishment. Christ his Crib. The lost Sheepe. The complaint of old Age. Whereunto is newly adioyned these two notable and pithie Treatises: The Creation or first Weeke. The life and death of Ioseph. Compiled by William Hunnis |
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[Thus was the heauens, ye earth, ye sea]
The hallowing of the sabboth day,
The sower flouds of Paradise gay:
How in the same man had his seate,
The tree forbidden him to eate,
How Adam named Creatures al,
How Eue was made that first did fall:
And how that mariage did begin,
Betweene them twa ne yer they did sin.
The sower flouds of Paradise gay:
How in the same man had his seate,
The tree forbidden him to eate,
How Adam named Creatures al,
How Eue was made that first did fall:
And how that mariage did begin,
Betweene them twa ne yer they did sin.
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Thus was the heauens, ye earth, ye seaand creatures all therein
In six daies made, and in the seuenth
did God our God begin,
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To rest from all his labours doneand sanctified the same:
To be a day of rest to man,
therein to praise his name.
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God made ech plant in field ye gro'tbefore in earth it was,
And euery herbe before it grew,
and euery other grasse.
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And thus before that any rainevpon the earth was found,
Or any man to haue in vse
the tillage of the groūd.
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A mightie mist ascended vp,from off the earth, and so
Bewatered the face of all
the earth and ground below.
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The man that of the earth was madea liuing soule became,
By breath of life that God did breath,
in nostrils of the man.
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And from the first god planted had,a garden faire to see:
Wherein he set this man he made,
the keeper for to be.
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And frō ye earth god made to springall fruitfull trees so plac't,
As both might well the eie delight,
and please the mouth in tast.
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Two trees amid this garden grew,by power of sacred skill:
The one of life, the other was
of knowledge good & ill.
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From Eden went a riuer forth,to moist this garden than:
Which afterward deuided was,
and in foure heads became.
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And Pishon is the first of foure,which round about doth go,
The golden land of Hauilah,
where th'Onix stone doth gro.
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The second head is Gihon calde,which compasseth throughout
The land of Ethyopia,
with water round about,
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The third is named Hidekell,that passeth downe along
The east side of Assyria,
with mightie streame and strong.
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And Euphrates the fourth is cald,which fruitfulnesse doth shew,
And in the same doth many gems,
and pretious stones forth grow.
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Almighty God this Adam tookeand in this garden set:
The same to dresse, the same to keep
and of the fruit to eate.
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Of euery tree that therein was,God bade him eate his fill,
Except the tree that's in the midst,
of knowledge good and ill.
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God said, ye day thou eat'st thereofthou for the same shalt die:
Therefore see that thou touch it not
the tast thereof to try.
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It is not good (said God) that manshould be alone I see:
I will an helper make to him,
companion his to be.
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Out of ye ground did god thē makeeach beast vpon the earth,
And euery foule in th'ayre that flies
and all that draweth breath.
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And God did bring al beasts and foules,to view of Adams eie,
Which was to see what kind of name
he then would call them by.
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And Adam called euery beast,and euery fowle by name,
As we doe vse at this same day
to nominate the same.
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In slumber then was Adam cast,and God a rib did take
From forth his side, & of the same
a woman did he make:
And fild the place with flesh againe
and when he did awake:
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This is said he, bone of my bones,and flesh of mine I see:
Virago, shall she called be,
as taken out of me:
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And for this cause shal euery onehis parents deere forsake,
And cleaue vnto his wife alone,
and both one flesh shall make.
FINIS.
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