item: #1 of 14 id: A00737 author: Finch, Mr. title: Finch his alphabet, or, A godly direction, fit to be perused of each true Christian date: 1635 words: 1698 flesch: 74 summary: HAue mercy Lord on me I doe thee pray , And eke conduct me in thy holy way : And let thy precepts alwayes be to mee , As sweet as euer hony from the Bee. IN thee , O Lord , I onely put my trust , For thou , O Christ , art onely true and iust : There is no other God I know but thee , In whom I onely trust saued to be . BEtimes in morning when thou do'st awake , Vnto the Lord see thou thy Prayers make : And after that then goe to thy Vocation , This is a way that leadeth to saluation . keywords: english; lord; tcp; text; thou cache: A00737.xml plain text: A00737.txt item: #2 of 14 id: A07427 author: Colville, Elizabeth Melvill, Lady Colville of Culros, fl. 1603. title: A godlie dreame compiled by Elizabeth Melvill, Ladie Culros younger, at the request of a friend. date: 1620 words: 5306 flesch: 86 summary: Lift vp thine heart , thou yet must suffer paine , The last assault of force it must be sore . UUhē wilt thou come ? whē shal thy trumpet sound ? UUhen shall we sée that great and glorious Day ? O saue vs , Lord , out of that pit profound , And reaue vs from that loathsome lump of clay . keywords: haue; heart; hée; lord; mée; paine; sore; thou; thy; way; yée cache: A07427.xml plain text: A07427.txt item: #3 of 14 id: A10687 author: Rhodes, John, minister of Enborne. title: The countrie mans comfort. Or Religious recreations fitte for all well disposed persons. Which was printed in the yeere of our Lord 1588. And since corrected, amended, and enlarged by the same author. I.R. date: 1637 words: 14221 flesch: 84 summary: That he was man and that he had , a sacrifice to giue : To God for all beleeuing soules , so long as men shall liue . We find that Christ felt so much paine , As satisfied Gods Ire : And reconciled man to God , That 's all we neede require . keywords: christ; day; doe; doth; end; euery; giue; god; gods; good; hath; haue; king; life; liue; lord; man; men; place; praise; selfe; sing; thee; thou; thy; time cache: A10687.xml plain text: A10687.txt item: #4 of 14 id: A19907 author: Davies, John, 1565?-1618. title: The muses sacrifice date: 1612 words: 72723 flesch: 80 summary: Be thou to me a plague preuenting Towre , When plagues●ngirt ●ngirt my Soule with fierce assault : My forcelesse force , then strengthen with thy power , that if o'er-borne , yet not through my Wils fault . If then Thou be my Beauties beauty ; yea , The beauty of my Soules diuinest Part , ( For Thou of beauty art the bancklesse Sea ) Who then but thou should wholy haue my Heart ? O Loue , that burn'st in Heauens eternall Breast ! O Dart that woundest the whole Tr●nitie ! keywords: art; bloud; body; cause; crosse; dead; deare; death; desire; doe; dost; doth; dye; earth; end; ere; euer; eyes; faith; fall; fire; flesh; giue; glory; god; gods; good; grace; griefe; hand; hast; hath; haue; heart; heau'n; hell; help; hold; hope; ill; ioy; know; lesse; life; light; like; liue; lord; loue; man; men; minde; mortall; nature; nay; ne'er; nought; ouer; owne; past; pow'r; praise; rest; selfe; sense; shame; sinne; sith; soule; spirit; state; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thy; time; truth; vertue; vnto; vpon; way; wit; world; yea; ● ● cache: A19907.xml plain text: A19907.txt item: #5 of 14 id: A25742 author: Apsley, Allen, Sir, 1616-1683. title: Order and disorder, or, The world made and undone being meditations upon the creation and the fall : as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis. date: 1679 words: 23037 flesch: 81 summary: God for his worship kept one day of seven , The other six to man for mans use given ; Adam , although so highly dignified , Was not to spend in idle ease and pride Nor supine sleep , drunk with his sensual pleasures , Profusely wasting th' Empires sacred treasures , As now his faln sons do , that arrogate His forfeited dominion , and high state ; But God his dayly Business did ordain That Kings , hence taught , might in their Realms maintain Fair order , serving those whom they command , As guardians , not as owners of the land , Not being set there , to pluck up and destroy Those plants , whose culture should their cares employ . Here life almost to its perfection grew While God these various creatures did indue With various properties , and various sense , But little short of humane excellence , Save what we in the Brutes dispersed find , Is all collected in mans nobler mind , Who to the high perfection of his sense , Hath added a more high intelligence . keywords: cor; day; death; doth; earth; find; gen; glory; god; gods; good; grace; heaven; heb; joh; life; light; love; man; mat; men; pet; place; psal; rev; rom; self; sense; sin; world cache: A25742.xml plain text: A25742.txt item: #6 of 14 id: A34930 author: Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649. title: Steps to the temple sacred poems, with other delights of the muses / by Richard Crashaw ... date: 1646 words: 27964 flesch: 84 summary: It was thy Day , Sweet , and did r●se , Not from the East , but from thy eyes , Thyrsis . Then , and onely then shee weares Her richest Pearles , I meane thy Tea●es . keywords: art; beames; bed; bee; birth; blood; breath; brest; cruell; day; deare; death; doe; doth; dye; e're; earth; est; eyes; face; faire; god; goe; golden; good; great; hand; hast; hath; head; heart; heaven; hell; high; himselfe; hope; joyes; king; lay; life; light; looke; lord; love; man; mee; men; morning; mother; nature; new; owne; rise; selfe; set; shee; soule; speake; sweet; teares; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; vpon; way; world cache: A34930.xml plain text: A34930.txt item: #7 of 14 id: A37242 author: Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626. title: A work for none but angels & men. That is to be able to look into, and to know our selves. Or a book shewing what the soule is, subsisting and having its operations without the body; its more th[e]n a perfection or reflection of the sense, or teperature of humours: how she exercises her powers of vegetative or quickening power of the senses. Of the imaginations or common sense, the phantasie, sensative memory, passions motion of life, local motion, and intellectual powers of the soul. Of the wit, understanding, reason, opinion, judgement, power of will, and the relations betwixt wit & wil. Of the intellectual memory, that the soule is immortall, and cannot dye, cannot be destroyed, her cause ceaseth not, violence nor time cannot destroy her; and all objections answered to the contrary. date: 1653 words: 12562 flesch: 79 summary: Bodies are fed with things of mortal kind , And so are subject to mortality ; But truth , which is eternal , feeds the mind ; The tree of life which will not let her dye . For when she sorts things present with things past , And thereby things to come doth oft foresee ; When she doth doubt at first , and choose at last , These acts her owne without the Body be . keywords: bodies; body; doth; god; good; hath; life; light; man; men; mind; nature; power; selfe; sense; soule; things; thou; wit; world cache: A37242.xml plain text: A37242.txt item: #8 of 14 id: A46242 author: Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685? title: Divine raptvres; or, Piety in poesie digested into a queint diversity of sacred fancies / composed by Tho. Iordan ... date: 1646 words: 12530 flesch: 73 summary: Lord can a Cripple go ? Or why dost thou expect that I should raise Thy glory with my voice ? the dumbe can't praise . 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 . keywords: christ; day; doe; dost; doth; earth; face; god; good; heaven; lord; love; man; meditation; pride; selfe; shee; soule; sunne; thee; thou; thy; world; yea cache: A46242.xml plain text: A46242.txt item: #9 of 14 id: A52174 author: Mason, John, 1646?-1694. title: Spiritual songs, or, Songs of praise to Almighty God upon several occasions Together with the Song of Songs which is Solomons: [F]irst turn'd, then par[ap]hrased in English verse. To which may be added, Penitential cries. date: 1699 words: 25525 flesch: 87 summary: But fallen Angels must be left , And Fallen Men must rise ; For this , the Son of God must Fall A Bloody Sacrifice : Thy Deep and Glorious Councels , Lord , With Trembling I Adore ; Blessed , thrice blessed be my God , Blessed for evermore . XV. Oh could I love as I have lov'd , Thy Watches heretofore ; As England's Glory thou hast prov'd , May'st thou be so yet more : This day must I for God appear , For , Lord , the day is thine ; O let me spend it in thy Fear ! keywords: art; christ; church; come; day; dear; death; dost; doth; earth; eyes; face; god; good; grace; hand; heart; heaven; hell; holy; life; lord; love; man; praise; sing; song; soul; thee; thine; thou; thy; word cache: A52174.xml plain text: A52174.txt item: #10 of 14 id: A56850 author: Quarles, John, 1624-1665. title: Divine meditations upon several subjects whereunto is annexed Gods love and man's unworthiness, with several divine ejaculations / written by John Quarles. date: 1671 words: 31953 flesch: 80 summary: Hadst thou but seen thy self , thou wouldst have cry'd Thy self to death , and with a blush , defy'd Thy base estate , to think that thou should'st be Natures most base and rude Anatomie . If then my Muse , thou canst divinely mount This sacred Stage , thou needst not fea rt ' account Thy actions prosperous , strive thou to stand Guarded with Faith , and Heav'n will lend a hand To prop thee up , his power will infuse Sufficient matter for an active Muse To work upon , his wisdome will direct Thy painful hand , his Mercies will correct Thy rambling thoughts , and teach thee to proclaim Th' unsumm'd up glories of his Royal Name ; Abandon Earth , and bid vain thoughts adieu , keywords: brest; canst; death; earth; ejaculat; faith; fear; foes; glory; god; good; grief; hand; heart; heav'n; know; lord; love; man; mercy; power; praise; sat; self; sin; soul; thee; thine; thou; thou art; thoughts; thy; tongue; wilt cache: A56850.xml plain text: A56850.txt item: #11 of 14 id: A62987 author: Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. title: Miscellanea sacra, or, Poems on divine & moral subjects collected by N. Tate ... date: 1696 words: 19635 flesch: 81 summary: 3. We see the wealthiest Oar the Earth doth hide , Is not receiv'd or pass'd for current Gold , Nor by the greedy Miser told , Till by the Cleansing Furnace try'd , It doth the seven fold Test abide : So must the Path of Grief be trod , That certain Purifying Road By all th' accepted Sons of God. Oh! for a Quill drawn from your Wing , To write the Praises of th' Eternal Love , Oh! for a Voice , like Yours , to sing That Anthem here , which once you sung Above . keywords: day; dead; death; divine; earth; eyes; find; glory; god; good; great; hand; heart; heav'n; life; lord; love; man; mind; nature; psalm; rest; shall; sin; soul; tate; tears; tell; thee; thou; thoughts; thy; world cache: A62987.xml plain text: A62987.txt item: #12 of 14 id: A66751 author: Wither, George, 1588-1667. title: Divine poems (by way of paraphrase) on the Ten commandments illustrated with twelve copper plates, shewing how personal punishments has been inflicted on the transgressors of these Commandments, as is recorded in the Holy Scriptures : also a metrical paraphrase upon the Creed and Lords prayer / written by George Wither. date: 1688 words: 22126 flesch: 69 summary: These Evils to prevent ; This Law divine The wandring humane Fancy doth confine All men in Sacred worshipings restraining As well , from Intellectual Objects faining , As from Corporeal forms : And him God threats Who due performance of this Law forgets . 5. Would God my ways were so directed that I might keep thy Statutes . keywords: day; doth; god; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; holy; honour; know; law; life; lord; love; man; means; men; nature; power; self; sin; thee; thou; thy; time; way; yea cache: A66751.xml plain text: A66751.txt item: #13 of 14 id: A74677 author: Heydon, John, b. 1629. title: Eugenius Theodidactus. The prophetical trumpeter sounding an allarum to England illustrating the fate of Great Britain, past, present, and to come. Such wonderful things to happen these seven yeers following, as have not been heard of heretofore. A celestial vision. VVith a description of heaven and heavenly things, motives to pacifie Gods threatned wrath: of a bloody, fiery way of the day of judgment, and of saints and angels. / Sung in a most heavenly hymn, to the great comfort of all good Christians, by the Muses most unworthy, John Heydon, gent. philomat. date: 1655 words: 42493 flesch: 68 summary: A subtile cheating crew ( That wil with tricks and cozenages pursue The simpler sort ) shal here encrease their breed ; And in their subtilties the Fox exceed . At first appearance , shal be urg'd to say Some word or other , ere they part away , Which wil betray their innocence to blame , And bring upon them detriment and shame : keywords: bright; bring; christ; church; day; death; delight; doth; earth; end; ev'n; ev'ry; faith; fall; glory; god; gods; good; grace; hand; hast; hath; heart; heav'ns; heaven; holy; joy; joyes; king; know; land; life; lord; love; man; men; nation; people; place; pleasure; power; saints; self; shal; sight; sin; soul; spirit; stand; state; stil; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; times; vvhich; vvith; wall; way; wel; wil; yea cache: A74677.xml plain text: A74677.txt item: #14 of 14 id: A91966 author: Rone, Elizabeth. title: The description of the singers of Israel, or, The family of love, in a song of Zion. The tune of Flora farewell, or False lover. date: 1680 words: 1507 flesch: 73 summary: A91966) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 151674) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2270:21) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: english; love; tcp; text cache: A91966.xml plain text: A91966.txt