#EnglishWriters
When I do this begin to apprehend… My heart, my soul, and mind, begin… To God-ward, and sincerely for to… His son, his ways, his people, and… With brokenness of spirit after hi…
The thief, when he doth steal, thi… Yet then the greatest loss he doth… Come, thief, tell me thy gains, bu… When summ’d, what comes it to more… Perhaps, thou’lt say, The halter…
The love of Christ, poor I! may t… But ’tis unsearchable. O! there i… Its large dimensions can comprehen… Should they dilate thereon world w… When we had sinned, in his zeal he…
Thus having heard from Gerizzim,… Next come to Ebal, and you thithe… Not there to curse you, but to let… How God doth curse that soul that… An unbelieving man, a graceless wr…
Thy price one penny is in time of… In famine doubled, ’tis from one t… Yea, no man knows what price on th… When there is but one penny loaf t… Comparison.
These lines I at this time presen… To all that will them heed, Wherein I show to what intent God saith, Convert[2] with speed. For these four things come on apac…
What is the vine, more than anothe… Nay most, than it, more tall, more… What workman thence will take a be… To make ought which may be delight… Its excellency in its fruit doth l…
The bee goes out, and honey home d… And some who seek that honey find… Now would’st thou have the honey,… From stinging, in the first place… Comparison.
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…
WHEN at the first I took my pen… Thus for to write, I did not unde… That I at all should make a littl… In such a mode: nay, I had undert… To make another; which, when almos…
A comely sight indeed it is to see A world of blossoms on an apple-tr… Yet far more comely would this tre… If all its dainty blooms young app… But how much more might one upon i…
The hen, so soon as she an egg dot… (Spreads the fame of her doing wha… About the yard she cackling now do… To tell what ’twas she at her nest… Just thus it is with some professi…
God gave us Cloaths to hide our N… And we by them, do it expose to V… Our Pride, and unclean Minds, to… By our Apparel we to others shew.
Who falls into the fire shall burn… While those remote scorn from it t… Yea, while those in it, cry out,… Some farther off those cries to la… Comparison.
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…