Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
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To the Divine Creator. |
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To the Divine Creator.
O God, which diddest man create,And hast alone all things assign'd,
The Earth to bring forth savage Beasts,
And creeping things each in their kind.
Great bodied Creatures are ordain'd
By thy great Word and Will, to live,
In times and seasons man to serve,
To whom they all subjection give.
Put from thy servants far away
What to uncleanness may allude,
It self in manners to suggest,
Or in our actions to intrude.
Give us the recompence of joys,
And yield to us thy graces free;
In sunder break the bands of strife,
Confirm the bands of Unity.
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