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But be the candles down, and scatt… Some lying here, some there? What… Hold, light the candle there that… It you may find the other candles… Light that, I say, and so take up…
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…
The title page will show, if there… Who are the proper subjects of thi… They’re boys and girls of all sort… From those of age to children on t… Thus comprehensive am I in my not…
Behold, how eager this our little… Is for a butterfly, as if all joy, All profits, honours, yea, and las… Were wrapped up in her, or the ric… Found in her would be bundled up t…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There’s one rides very sagely on t… Showing that he affects the graves… Another rides tantivy, or full tro… To show much gravity he matters no… Lo, here comes one amain, he rides…
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…
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…
What, barren here! in this so good… The sight of this doth make God’s… From giving thee his blessing; bar… Bear fruit, or else thine end will… Art thou not planted by the water-…
Man’s like a candle in a candlesti… Made up of tallow and a little wic… And as the candle when it is not l… So is he who is in his sins benigh… Nor can a man his soul with grace…
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…