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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]

Wyvill, Christopher (1651?-1711)

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CERTAINE Serious thoughts: Which at severall times and upon sundry occasions have stollen themselves into Verse, and now into the publike view.

[Sometimes a well-aymd thought would point at Heaven]

On the 6. parts of Prayer.

Going to the Sacrament of the LORDS SUPPER.

On a particular Occasion.

Vpon Psalm 90. 10.

Vpon Psalm. 7. 12. 13, 14.

Vpon Matth. 10. 34.

On a particular occasion.

To Master Wroth School-Master at Epping in ESSEX.

Scindimur incerti.

Vpon 1 Cor. 3. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

Vpon Amos 1. 11.

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Si fractus elabatur Orbis Impavidam ferient ruinæ:

Some foot-steps of this Warre traced.

On the death of our Vertuous and deare friend Mistris Dorothy Warwick at Marsk, Aug. 6th 1644.

On GODS UBIQVITARY PRESENCE.

Decemb. 10. 1644.

[Thou sacred Arbitrer of life and death]

May 10. 1645. Hearing the Birds sing after the departure of our deare MOTHER.

[Easie and undiscerned is the guile]

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Scindimur incerti.

Can mans distracted fancy find the way
To truth; where thousand sects themselves display

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Supporting errour? This terrestriall round
hath scarce a place where Veritie is found.