Divine poems Containing The History of Ionah. Ester. Iob. Sampson. Sions Sonets. Elegies. Written and newly augmented, by Fra: Quarles |
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Meditat. 8.
Bvt stay; Is God like one of us? Can he
When he hath said it, alter his Decree?
Can he that is the God of Truth, dispence
With what he vow'd? or offer violence
Vpon his sacred Iustice? Can his minde
Revolt at all? or vary like the winde?
How comes this alteration then that He
Thus limiting th'effect of his Decree
Vpon the expiring date of forty daies,
He then performes it not? But still delaies
His plagues denounc't, & Iudgement stil forbeares,
And stead of forty dayes gives many yeares?
Yet forty dayes, and Niniveh shall perish?
Yet forty yeares, and Niniveh doth flourish:
A change in man's infirme, in God 'tis strange;
In God, to change his Will, and will a Change,
Are divers things: When he repents from ill,
He wils a change; he changes not his Will;
The subject's chang'd, which secret was to us,
But not the mind, that did dispose it thus;
Denounced Iudgement God doth oft prevent,
But neither changes counsell, nor intent:
The voyce of heaven doth seldome threat perdition
But with expresse, on an imply'd condition,
So that, if Niniveh returne from ill,
God turnes his hand, he doth not turne his Will.
When he hath said it, alter his Decree?
Can he that is the God of Truth, dispence
With what he vow'd? or offer violence
Vpon his sacred Iustice? Can his minde
Revolt at all? or vary like the winde?
How comes this alteration then that He
Thus limiting th'effect of his Decree
Vpon the expiring date of forty daies,
He then performes it not? But still delaies
His plagues denounc't, & Iudgement stil forbeares,
And stead of forty dayes gives many yeares?
Yet forty dayes, and Niniveh shall perish?
Yet forty yeares, and Niniveh doth flourish:
A change in man's infirme, in God 'tis strange;
In God, to change his Will, and will a Change,
Are divers things: When he repents from ill,
He wils a change; he changes not his Will;
The subject's chang'd, which secret was to us,
But not the mind, that did dispose it thus;
Denounced Iudgement God doth oft prevent,
But neither changes counsell, nor intent:
The voyce of heaven doth seldome threat perdition
But with expresse, on an imply'd condition,
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God turnes his hand, he doth not turne his Will.
The stint of Niniveh was forty dayes,
To change the Byas of her crooked wayes:
To some the time is large, To others, small;
To some 'tis many yeares; And not at all
To others; Some an houre have, and some
Have scarce a minute of their time to come:
Thy span of life (Malfido) is thy space,
To call for mercy, and to cry for grace.
To change the Byas of her crooked wayes:
To some the time is large, To others, small;
To some 'tis many yeares; And not at all
To others; Some an houre have, and some
Have scarce a minute of their time to come:
Thy span of life (Malfido) is thy space,
To call for mercy, and to cry for grace.
Lord! what is man, but like a worme that crawles
Open to danger every foote that fals?
Death creepes (unheard) and steals abroad (unseen)
Her darts are sudden, and her arrowes keene,
Vncertaine when, but certaine she will strike,
Respecting King and Begger both alike;
The stroke is deadly, come it soone, or late,
Which once being strucke, repenting's out of date;
Death is a minute, full of sudden sorrow:
“Then live to day, as thou maist die to morrow.
Open to danger every foote that fals?
Death creepes (unheard) and steals abroad (unseen)
Her darts are sudden, and her arrowes keene,
Vncertaine when, but certaine she will strike,
Respecting King and Begger both alike;
The stroke is deadly, come it soone, or late,
Which once being strucke, repenting's out of date;
Death is a minute, full of sudden sorrow:
“Then live to day, as thou maist die to morrow.
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