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 next word that I would unto t… Is how thou mayst attain without d… Those blessed graces, and that hol… Thou dost with so much godly zeal… Thy love to, and thy longing to en…

Tis much to see how over nice some… About the body and household affai… While what’s of worth they slightl… Not doing, or doing it slovenly. Their house must be well furnished…

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…

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,

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-…

The egg’s no chick by falling from… Nor man a Christian, till he’s bo… The egg’s at first contained in th… Men, afore grace, in sins and dark… The egg, when laid, by warmth is m…

This watch my father did on me bes… A golden one it is, but 'twill not… Unless it be at an uncertainty: But as good none as one to tell a… When ’tis high day my hand will st…

This homely bush doth to mine eyes… A very fair, yea, comely ruddy ros… This rose doth also bow its head t… Saying, Come, pluck me, I thy ros… Yet offer I to gather rose or bud…

He that can play well on an instru… Will take the ear, and captivate t… With mirth or sadness; for that it… Thereto, as music in it place doth… But if one hears that hath therein…

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…

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…

Methinks I see a sight most excel… All sorts of birds fly in the firm… Some great, some small, all of a d… Mine eye affecting, pleasant to my… Look how they tumble in the wholes…

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.

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…