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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
Speed, Samuel
 
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An Alarm to the Drowsie.
 
To my Muse.
 
The Warning.
 
On Meditation.
 
The Soul's Soliloquy.
 
The Enquiry.
 
On Dives.
 
On Lazarus.
 
The Penitents Praise.
 
Angel and Man. A Dialogue.
 
Of Mirth and Mourning.
 
On Ambition.
 
Spiritus Sanctus.
 
The Christian and a Worldling.
 
On the Tree of Knowledge.
 
On Judas his Treason.
 
An Adieu to the World.
 
On a Usurer.
 
Of Poverty.
 
On Mortality.
 
On a Wicked man.
 
On Patience.
 
On the Book of Life.
 
On Acts 26. 28.
 
Of Presumption.
 
On Death.
 
On Conscience.
 
On Memory.
 
On a Death-bed-Repentance.
 
On the Mariner.
 
On an Israelite.
 
On Shame.
 
On the Wilful Impenitent.
 
On a Glorious Soul.
 
On Contentation.
 
On the Hypocrite.
 
On Envy.
 
On Supplication.
 
On Luxury.
 
On Enmity.
 
The Dream.
 
On Beauty.
 
On Knowledge.
 
On Magnanimity.
 
On Ingratitude.
 
On Disturb'd Devotion.
 
On Sin and Sorrow.
 
On Mortality.
 
On St. Peter's Enlargement.
 
The Soul's Search.
 
On Prosperity.
 
On Humility.
 
On Vice.
 
On God's presence.
 
On Hypocrisie.
 
On Pleasures.
 
On an Hour-Glass.
 
Salve for the Sick.
 
On Perfection.
 
On a Rose-tree.
 
The Christians Alphabet.
 
On Christ's Death.
 
An Hymn.
 
On Christ's Cross.
 
The Cross.
 
The Resurrection.
 
The Ascention.
 
An Adoration to the Lord of the Sabbath.
 
Of God.
 
Of Christ.
 
God is Love.
 
The Remembrance.
 
Of Death.
 
Of Grief.
 
A Christian and Death.
 
The Altar.
 
Death, Man, and Grave.
 
Nature's Delight.
 
Of Flesh.
 
The Grave.
 
An Infant.
 
The Candle.
 
The Ant.
 
The Thanksgiving.
 
Antiphon.
 
The Bible.
 
The Dream.
 
The Beatitudes.
 
Of Angels.
 
Of Christ's Passion.
 
On St. Paul's Conversion.
 
On Christ's Praying.
 
On Honour and Valour.
 
On Tinder.
 
The Litany.
 
On St. Michael the Archangel.
 
Oppositions.
 
On Thoughts.
 
On Repentance.
 
On the Day of Judgment.
 
On Sighs and Groans.
 
Knots.
 
On Age.
 
On Man and Wife.
 
The free Prisoner.
 
On Sunday.
 
The Petition.
 
Faith's Mystery.
 
On the Judgment.
 
On the Pharisee and the Publican.
 
To God the Father.
 
To God the Son.
 
To God the Holy Ghost.
 
On the Holy Trinity.
 
On Christ's Nativity.
 
On Christ's Triumph to Jerusalem.
 
The Shepherds Dialogue.
 
On Christ's Birth in an Inne.
 
Of Thoughts.
 
To the Creator.
 
The Godly Garden.
 
The Soul's Alarm.
 
On Greatness and Goodness.
 
The Soul's Yearnings.
 
The Divine Inquest.
 
The Sinners Tears.
 
On St. John's day.
 
Acknowledgements.
 
The Wish.
 
The Caution.
 
Of Life.
 
The Power of Prayer.
 
God and Cæsar.
 
Gabriel and Mary.
 
Judeth's Prayer.
 
Judeth and Holofernes.
 
Judeth's Song of Thanksgiving.
 
On Man's Creation.
 
The Mornings Ejaculation.
 
The Evenings Ejaculation.
 
On Tears.
 
On Humane Frailty.
 
On the worth of Wealth.
 
On Formal duty.
 
Advice to Prisoners.
 
On Vain-glory.
 
On Peace.
 
Prayer for Peace.
 
On Mercy.
 
The Swine.
 
The Penitent.
 
The Soul awaked.
 
St. Paul's Petition.
 
On the Conscience.
 
St. Austin's Prayer.
 
The Believer.
 
On Christ's Nativity expected.
 
The Call.
 
The Extasie.
 
Delights of the Minde.
 
On Death.
 
On Judgment.
 
On Heaven.
 
On Hell.
 
The Salutation of Saints.
 
On Pride.
 
Jeremiah's Lamentation For Jerusalem's Desolation.
 
On Sin.
 
The Check.
 
To the God of Heaven.
 
The Flower.
 
On Darkness.
 
On Love and Hatred.
 
On Justice and Mercy.
 
On Food.
 
Christ, All in All.
 
I would, but cannot.
 
The Voyage.
 
The Careless Christian.
 
On Life and Death.
 
The Seeker.
 
The Steward.
 
The Cœlestial Painter.
 
The Holy Innocents.
 
To the Divine Creator.
 
The New Birth.
 
Degrees of Love.
 
Bad at Best.
 
Time's Travel.
 
The Widows Mite.
 
Gabriel and Zacharias.
 
On Alexander the Great.
 
Jesus Wept.
 
Martha and Mary.
 
On Worldly Gain.
 
On St. Peter's Perjury.
 
On Pusillanimity.
 
On the Spring.
 
On Science.
 
On Drunkenness.
 
On Blasphemy.
 
The Sick man's Ease.
 
On Singing of Psalms.
 
On little Sins.
 
On Temperance.
 
On Persecution.
 
On Sleep.
 
Blessings of the Righteous, as they are recorded in Holy Writ.
 
Curses of the Wicked.
 
Praises to God.
 
Gloria in Altissimis:
 
On Fatherly Affection.
 
On the Gospel.
 
On the Lord's Prayer.
 
The Free Giver.
 
The Friendly Advice.
 
On Sloath.
 
On Desperation.
 
A PANEGYRICK

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Gloria in Altissimis:

Or, the Angelical Anthem.

Angels, Saints, and all men cry,
Glory be to God on high:
And that glory ne'er may cease,
Grant us, Lord, on earth thy peace.
When there's good will towards men,
We shall praise, and praise agen.
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