Certaine Serious Thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry Occasions have stollen themselves into Verse and now into the Publike View from the Author: Together w[i]th a Chronologicall table denoeting the names of such Princes as ruled the neighbor States and were con-temporary to our English Kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned [by Christopher Wyvill] |
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Vpon Matth. 10. 34.
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Vpon Matth. 10. 34.
Came then the God of peace to send the sword?Doth variance accompany his word:
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In Father, Mother, Brothers, Sisters dye;
Truth hath it selfe depos'd it, and I must
Believ't how-ever strange, yet sure 'tis just,
Nor doth Religion cancell or withstand,
Or any way abbreviate that command:
Whereby we duty-bound to Parents are,
Nor Charity and love doth it impare,
To other friends; what's theirs, to them impart
We may, we must, and yet choose Mary's part:
He, whose direction only point's-out Right
The most disjoynted soules can re-unite,
And so cement a friendship by his word
Too strong to be dissolved by the sword.
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