A Hyve Fvll of Hunnye Contayning the Firste Booke of Moses, called Genesis. Tvrned into English Meetre, by VViliam Hunnis |
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THE ARGVMENT of this Booke.
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THE ARGVMENT of this Booke.
Thus
mutch in Summe this present Woorke
of Moyses doth declare,
That God the Worlde, and Frame of thinges
which therein formed are,
Of nothinge did create and make:
and how hee placed Man,
This Tabernacle to behold,
and wondrous Workes to skanne:
Who vewinge these his gracious Giftes,
should praise his holy Name,
And Magnifie him Day and Night,
entirely for the same.
But Man forgettinge quight himselfe,
and God that Rules on hye:
Committed Sinne, displeased God,
and stumbled wittinglye.
Who through his Disobedience
enthrald himselfe in Woe,
And fell from God, from whom to him
so many Giftes did flowe.
This notwithstandinge, God our Lord
for his great Goodnesse sake,
Did him to Life restore agayne,
and vnto Mercy take.
And him confirmed in the same,
by Christ the promist Seede:
By whom, hee Sathan, vanquish shoulde,
Death, Hell, and dolefull Dreede.
of Moyses doth declare,
That God the Worlde, and Frame of thinges
which therein formed are,
Of nothinge did create and make:
and how hee placed Man,
This Tabernacle to behold,
and wondrous Workes to skanne:
Who vewinge these his gracious Giftes,
should praise his holy Name,
And Magnifie him Day and Night,
entirely for the same.
But Man forgettinge quight himselfe,
and God that Rules on hye:
Committed Sinne, displeased God,
and stumbled wittinglye.
Who through his Disobedience
enthrald himselfe in Woe,
And fell from God, from whom to him
so many Giftes did flowe.
This notwithstandinge, God our Lord
for his great Goodnesse sake,
Did him to Life restore agayne,
and vnto Mercy take.
And him confirmed in the same,
by Christ the promist Seede:
By whom, hee Sathan, vanquish shoulde,
Death, Hell, and dolefull Dreede.
The wicked sort persistinge still
in their most froward wayes,
(Forgettinge Gods great Benefites)
most lewdly spent their Dayes:
Yea, at the last so horriblie
they fell from Sinne to Sinne,
Contemninge Preachers to them sent,
their Mindes from Uice to winne,
That God, prouoked in his Ire,
(so with his will it stood)
At length did send vpon the Worlde
an Uniuersall Flood.
in their most froward wayes,
(Forgettinge Gods great Benefites)
most lewdly spent their Dayes:
Yea, at the last so horriblie
they fell from Sinne to Sinne,
Contemninge Preachers to them sent,
their Mindes from Uice to winne,
(so with his will it stood)
At length did send vpon the Worlde
an Uniuersall Flood.
Assurance also here wee haue,
by proofe before our face,
Of Abraham, of Isaac,
of Iacob, and the Race
Of other zealous Patriarches,
how that his Mercy great
Doth neuer fayle them that be his,
and for his Grace entreate.
But lendes to them his helpinge hand,
in all theyr tyme of neede:
Hee cheereth them, relieueth them,
and aydeth theim with speede.
By Esau, Cain, and Ismaell,
and others of like sorte,
Who ruffled heere in worldly Pompe,
and bare a stately port,
It well appeares, the Church of God
doth not depend, ne staye
On worldly Estimation,
nor Shewes of Tytles gaye.
And by the Fewnesse eke of those,
which haue from tyme to tyme
Him worshipped in Sprite and Truth,
(deuoyd of spotted Cryme)
Wee are to learne, that it doth not
consist in Multitude,
But in the poore despised Flocke:
and thus doth hee conclude:
That Man in Wysedome hys, might bee
confounded euermore,
And that the Name of God alone,
might praised be therefore.
by proofe before our face,
Of Abraham, of Isaac,
of Iacob, and the Race
Of other zealous Patriarches,
how that his Mercy great
Doth neuer fayle them that be his,
and for his Grace entreate.
But lendes to them his helpinge hand,
in all theyr tyme of neede:
Hee cheereth them, relieueth them,
and aydeth theim with speede.
By Esau, Cain, and Ismaell,
and others of like sorte,
Who ruffled heere in worldly Pompe,
and bare a stately port,
It well appeares, the Church of God
doth not depend, ne staye
On worldly Estimation,
nor Shewes of Tytles gaye.
And by the Fewnesse eke of those,
which haue from tyme to tyme
Him worshipped in Sprite and Truth,
(deuoyd of spotted Cryme)
Wee are to learne, that it doth not
consist in Multitude,
But in the poore despised Flocke:
and thus doth hee conclude:
That Man in Wysedome hys, might bee
confounded euermore,
And that the Name of God alone,
might praised be therefore.
FINIS.
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