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Eternity is like unto a Ring. Time, like to Measure, doth it se… Measure commences, is a finite thi… The Ring has no beginning, middle…
This flint, time out of mind, has… Where crystal streams make their c… Yet it abides a flint as much as ’… Before it touched the water, or ca… Its hard obdurateness is not abate…
He wants, he asks, he pleads his p… They within doors do him an alms d… He doth repeat and aggravate his g… But they repulse him, give him no… He begs, they say, Begone; he wil…
In this see thou thy beauty, hast… Or thy defects, should they be few… Thou may’st, too, here thy spots a… Hast thou but eyes, and what their… But art thou blind? There is no l…
My little bird, how canst thou sit And sing amidst so many thorns? Let me a hold upon thee get, My love with honour thee adorns. Thou art at present little worth,
This Moses was a fair and comely… His wife a swarthy Ethiopian; Nor did his milk-white bosom chang… She came out thence as black as sh… Now Moses was a type of Moses’ la…
Now, then, if holiness thou woulds… And wouldst a tender Christian ma… Keep faith in action, let that rig… That Christ fulfilled always have… And clear distinction in thy heart…
Children become, while little, our… When they grow bigger, they begin… Their sinful nature prompts them t… And to delight in paths that lead… Their parents’ love and care they…
Tis with the whip the boy sets up… The whip makes it run round upon i… The whip makes it hither and thith… ’Tis with the whip the top is made… Comparison.
This subject is unto the foulest p… Or fairest handled by the sons of… ‘Twill also show what is upon it w… Be it wisely, or nonsense for want… Each blot and blur it also will ex…
The mole’s a creature very smooth… She digs i’ th’ dirt, but 'twill n… So’s he who counts this world his… Yet nothing gets but’s labour for… Earth’s the mole’s element, she ca…
hat ails this fly thus desperately… A combat with the candle? Will sh… To clash at light? Away, thou sil… Thus doing thou wilt burn thy wing… But ’tis a folly her advice to giv…
The frog by nature is both damp an… Her mouth is large, her belly much… She sits somewhat ascending, loves… Croaking in gardens, though unplea… Comparison.
This glass, when made, was, by the… The sum of sixty minutes to fulfil… Time, more nor less, by it will ou… But just an hour, and then the gla… Man’s life we will compare unto th…
The word of faith unto me pardon b… Shows me the ground and reason whe… To wit, free grace, which moved G… His Son to die and bleed, that I… This word doth also loudly preach…