The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor For the first time collected and edited after the author's own text: With introduction. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart [in Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library] |
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I. From “Deus Justificatus or a Vindication of the Glory of the Divine Attributes in the Question of Original Sin: in a Letter to a Person of Quality.” 1656 (12o) and 1657 (folio).
1. THE FALL.
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Him did the Serpent cheat, that to death's bands
He was subjected for his sin: for this was all:
He tasted good and evill by his Fall.
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2. GUILT AND DESTINY.
No guilt upon Mankinde can lieFor what's the fault of Destiny.
3. ORIGINAL SIN.
Nor did it please our God, when that our stateWas chang'd, to adde a crime unto our fate.
4. NO MASTERS: ONE MASTER.
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What nor himself nor others ever knew,
I leave his text, and let his schollers talke
Till they be hoarse or weary in their walke:
When wise men erre, though their fame ring like bells,
I scape a danger when I leave their spells.
5. THE SOFT ANSWER.
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To me too great a kindnesse Nature lends.
6. HINDRANCES.
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Must every bramble, every thistle weed;
And when each hindrance to the graine is gone,
A fruitfull crop shall rise of corn alone.
7. CONSCIENCE.
He that is guilty of a sinShal rue the crime that he lies in.
8. TRUE IF NEW.
Fear not to own what's said because 'tis new;Weigh well and wisely if the thing be true.
Truth and not conquest is the best reward;
'Gainst falsehood onely stand upon thy guard.
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