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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Si fractus elabatur Orbis
Impavidam ferient ruinæ:
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Si fractus elabatur Orbis Impavidam ferient ruinæ:
Though all the Elements, like us, should jar
And wrap up ruin'd Nature by the war,
Though the worn Fabrick of the sphears above
Should, in disjoynted fragments, downward move,
And horrid Catarackts should headlong come
With swift descent, to make the world one tombe,
Yet should my feareless soule hope to espie,
A place of safety in my Saviour's eye.
And wrap up ruin'd Nature by the war,
Though the worn Fabrick of the sphears above
Should, in disjoynted fragments, downward move,
And horrid Catarackts should headlong come
With swift descent, to make the world one tombe,
Yet should my feareless soule hope to espie,
A place of safety in my Saviour's eye.
That skilfull chymist's never-failing art,
Can good, extracted out of ill, impart,
And ev'n by her distresses rear a frame,
That Zions re-built glory may proclaime;
Which, if my longing eyes but live to see,
'Tis Lord that one thing which I beg of thee.
Can good, extracted out of ill, impart,
And ev'n by her distresses rear a frame,
That Zions re-built glory may proclaime;
Which, if my longing eyes but live to see,
'Tis Lord that one thing which I beg of thee.
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