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Poemata sacra

Latinae & Anglicae scripta [by John Saltmarsh]
Saltmarsh, John
  
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POEMS UPON SOME OF the holy raptures of DAVID.
  
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL SIR THO. METHAM MY HONOURED FRIEND, and his vertuous Lady, the Lady METHAM.
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Meditation I. By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down, yea we wept, Psal. 137.
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Meditat. II. We hanged our harps upon the willows, Psal. 137.
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Meditat. III. I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, Psal. 102.
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Meditat. IV. My dayes are like a shadow that declineth, Psal. 102.
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Meditat. V. Wilt thou shew wonders on the dead? Psal. 88.
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Meditat. VI. The Emblemes of the resurrection.
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Meditat. VII. THE RESURRECTION.
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Meditat. VIII. Create in me a clean heart, Psal. 51.
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Meditat. IX. He healeth the broken hearted, and bindeth up their wounds, Psal. 146.
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Meditat. X. The Lord is nigh to all those that call upon him, Psal. 145.
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Meditat. XI. The Lord looseth the prisoners, Psal. 156.
  
A Meditation upon the Song of Songs,
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TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL George Butler Esquire, one of his Majesties Councell established in the North.
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THE PICTURE OF GOD IN MAN,
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Chap. I. Why called the Picture.
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Chap. II.
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Chap. III. A representation of God in man.
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Chap. IV. The Image of God in man.
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Chap. V. Gods Picture not in the bodie of man.
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Chap. VI. Gods Picture in the soul, and what it is.
  
A meditation upon Eternitie.
  
Upon the rest on the Lords day.

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Chap. V. Gods Picture not in the bodie of man.

Think not the structure of a man that part
Which God did fashion with a meaner art:
For to the soul he did assemble all
The Senate of Divinitie, did call
A meeting of his Inf'nite self. Who can
Fancie that this same earthy part of man
Was like a God? God hath his eares, his eyes;
His back parts Moses saw them and descries.
Is there a soul yet so concrete with sense,
So stupid with a bodies influence?
To think these so, man onely doth expresse
Thus, 'cause he knows no spirits nakednesse,
Sees not their operation; so he gives
To them a conjunct state in which he lives.
When one the picture of an Angel brings,
A naked youth fann'd with two golden wings,
I know these plumes are emblemes of his speed,
Whose motion's instantanie: yet we need
Expresse it thus by wings, because we know
Most motions to the volatile are slow.
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Farre be from God a corporall essence: he
Is too incircumscriptible to be
Figur'd: no other Archetype we finde
But that eternall figure of his minde.
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