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A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for childrenA book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children
A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for children by J.B.A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
London: printed for N.P., 1686
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A BOOK FOR Boys and Girls, &c. › Poem 12: XII. Meditations upon the Candle.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And as the Candle is when 'tis not lighted, So is he who is in his sins benighted. Nor can a man his Soul with Grace inspire, More then can Candles set themselves on fire.
Candles receive their light from what they are not; Men Grace from him, for whom at first they care not.
We manage Candles when they take the fire; God men, when he with Grace doth them inspire.
And biggest Candles give the better light, As Grace on biggest Sinners shines most bright.
The Candle shines to make another see, A Saint unto his Neighbour light should be.