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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The Creation of the World. |
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The Creation of the World.
How Heauen and earth the light and skie
The Sun, the Moone, and starres so hie:
How beasts and fowles, how Fish & Man
Created was of God, and whan.
The Sun, the Moone, and starres so hie:
How beasts and fowles, how Fish & Man
Created was of God, and whan.
The worke of the first day.
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Whē God which no beginning had,the heauen & earth gan frame,
And void and emptie it beheld,
with darkness on the same.
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And on the waters which he made,That then aloft did stand,
And ouerwhelm'd the earth so farre,
as yet appeard no land:
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When at his word there light came forthdiuided from the shade:
And so the Euening and the morne,
By him one day was made.
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The worke of the second day.
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The firmament he framd and fixtbetweene the waters so,
As part aboue the same did rest,
the other part below.
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And gaue a name therto, and saidit heauen shall called be:
The euening and the morning eke
the second day you see.
The worke of the third day.
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The third day at his holy hest,the waters vnderneath
Compelled were togither goe,
in one place of the earth.
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And then the land appeared dry,which Earth was called tho,
And bad it should bring forth great heat
ingendring seed to gro.
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And fruitful trees of sundry sorte he }made{that seed might still retaine,
And bring forth fruit ech after kinde
that on the earth remaine.
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Thus eu'ry thing came so to passe,as God before did say:
The earth brought herb & tree with fruit,
that still engender may.
The worke of the fourth day.
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And that there shuld a diff'rēce be,betweene the daies and nights,
God bad that in the firmament,
there should be placed lights.
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which shuld remain frō tim to timeappointed signes to be,
As day from day, and yeare from year
in order as we see:
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The sun he made the day to rule,the moone the night to guide,
And shining starres in heauen he set,
whose light doth aye abide.
The worke of the fift day.
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This mightie maker then gan say,let waters now forth bring,
Such creaturs as with life may moue
and fowle to fly with wing.
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Vpon the earth and in the faceof heauen or starrie skie,
Strait way both fish & foule was made
in kind to multiplie.
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God blessed both & bad them growthe fish the sea to fill:
And feathered foule vpon the earth,
their kind increasing still.
The worke of the Sixt Day.
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Now let ye earth bring forth said Godeach liuing thing by kind:
As cattel, beasts, & worm that creep
his power the same assign'd.
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Thus whē God saw his handy workwas good and pleasd him well:
Let vs make man like vs, said he,
the rest of all t'xcell:
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To haue the rule of fish and fouleof cattell and the earth:
And euery creeping thing on groūd
that liues and draweth breath.
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And in the image of himselfe,did God create him than,
Both male and female form'd he then
but first he made the man.
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And blessed them the earth to fil,their sex still to renew:
And gaue them power vpon the earth
the same for to subdue.
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And said, behold I haue you giuēof euery hearbe to eate,
And euery tree wherein is fruit,
likewise to be your meat.
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Also to euerie beast on earth,and euery bird that flies:
And creeping worme green herb shal haue
to feed vpon likewise.
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Al what he said so came to passe,and he the same did see,
Each kind of thing that he had made,
was good so for to be
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