Category: Poetry
Transcriber’s Note: Biblical references were originally present as side notes rather than footnotes. The references for each stanza were collected into a single footnote, as the references are mostly generic to the action of the stanza. The summaries, also present as side note...
When God’s great Power shall be brought lower, by foreign Puissance, Or be decay’d and weaker made through Time’s continuance; When drowsiness shall him oppress, and lay him fas...
1. Part 1Transcriber’s Note: Biblical references were originally present as side notes rather than footnotes. The references for each stanza were collected into a single footnote, as the...
4. Part 4“Who willfully the remedy, and means of life contemned. Cause have the same themselves to blame, if now they be condemnéd. You have yourselves, you and none else, to blame that...
3. Part 3“Lord, in thy Name, and by the same, we Devils dispossess’d; We rais’d the dead and minist’red Succor to the distressed. Our painful teaching and pow’rful preaching by thine own...
2. Part 2Let God be magnified. Whose everlasting strength Upholds me under sufferings Of more than ten years’ length; Through whose Almighty pow’r Although I am surrounded With sorrows m...
6. Part 6Go boast thyself of what thy heart enjoys, Vain Man! triumph in all thy worldly Bliss: Thy best Enjoyments are but Trash and Toys; Delight thyself in that which worthless is.