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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.
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.
XLII. Upon the Sight of a Pound of Candles falling to the Ground.
But be the Candles down, and scattered too, Some lying here, some there? What shall we do? Hold, light the Candle there that stands on high, It you may find the other Candles by. Light that, I say, and so take up the Pound, You did let fall, and scatter on the Ground.
BUt be the Candles down, and scatt'red too, Some lying here, some there? What shall we do? Hold, light the Candle there that stands on high, It you may find the other Candles by. Light that, I say, and so take up the Pound, You did let fall, and scatter on the Ground.
Comparison. The fallen Candles to us intimate, The bulk of God's Elect in their lapsed State. Their lying scattered in the dark may be, To show by Man's lapsed State his Misery, ⟨p. 52⟩The Candle that was taken down, and lighted, Thereby to find them fallen, and benighted, Is Jesus Christ: God by his Light doth gather Who he will save, and be unto a Father.
Comparison. The fallen Candles to us intimate, The bulk of God's Elect in their lapst State. Their lying scatt'red in the dark may be, To shew by Man's lapst State his Misery, ⟨p. 52⟩The Candle that was taken down, and lighted, Thereby to find them fallen, and benighted, Is Jesus Christ: God by his Light doth gather Who he will save, and be unto a Father.