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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)

[dedication]

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.

ANOTHER.

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.

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

Vpon Amos 1. 11.

Feb. 8. 1642.

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.

Going to Bed.

[Thou sacred Arbitrer of life and death]

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

JUNE 8. 1645.

[Easie and undiscerned is the guile]

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JUNE 8. 1645.

Mvst then the fate of York-shire, and the North
Be try'd once more by dint of sword, step-forth
Thou God of Battle, let the people see
By the successe, which side is own'd by thee.