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Divine raptvres or piety in poesie

Digested Into a Queint Diversity of sacred fancies. Composed by Tho. Iordan
Jordan, Thomas (1612?-1685?)
 
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The Preface.
 
THE WORLDES METAMORPHOSIS.
 
CHRISTS BIRTH AND PASSION.
 
Cant. 8. 7.
 
Mans naturall infirmity.
 
The Melancholicke Soules comfort.
 
The Soule in love with Christ.
 
Lord why hidest thou thy face from me.
 
Christs Resurrection.
 
Sanctificat.
 
A Meditation on a Mans shadow.
 
A Meditation on Childrens rashnesse.
 
A Meditation on a good Father having a bad Sonne.
 
A Meditation on a Weathercocke.
 
A Meditation on Cockfighting.
 
A Meditation on an Echo and a Picture.
 
A Meditation on Noahs Dove.
 
A Meditation on a Shippe.
 
A Meditation on a Windmill.
 
A Meditation on Organs.
 
A Meditation on an Apes love.
 
On contempt of the World.
 
A Meditation on a meane.
 
On Sathans tempting Eve.
 
On a Spunge.
 
A Meditation on a chime of Bells.
 
A Meditation on the burning a torch at noone day.
 
A Meditation on the sound of a crackt Bell.
 
A Meditation on a silly Sheepe.
 
A Meditation on the Flowers of the Sunne.
 
A Meditation on a Loadstone, and Jet.
 
A Meditation on false looking-glasses.
 
A Meditation on hunting the Hare.
 
A Meditation on the pride of Womens apparrell.
 
A Meditation on a Wax Candle lighted.
 
A Meditation on an Elephant.
 
A Meditation on a Bird in a Cage.
 
A Meditation on the fire.
 
A meditation on boyes swimming with bladders.
 
On Cain and Abels offerings.
 
On an Apprentices Boxe.
 
On Eves Apple.
 
On a faire house having ill passage to it.

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A Meditation on a meane.

Lord in excesse I see there often lies
Great dangers, and in wants great miseries:
Send me a meane, doe thou my wayes preserve,
For I may surfet Lord, as well as starve.
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