A30125:392
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.
And more, and yet the same's the Patients Lot.
All hope of Life from Standers-by is fled,
The Party sick is counted now as dead.
Comparison. Count ye the Sick, one that's not yet converted, Impenitent, Incredulous, Hard hearted: In whom vile Sin is so predominant, And the Soul in it's Acts so conversant; That like one with Diseases over-run, This man with it at present is undone. Now let the Physic be the Holy Word, (The Blessed Doctrine of our Dearest Lord.) And let the Doses to the Patient given Be, by Directions of the God of Heaven. Convincing Sermons, sharp and sound Rebukes, Let them be Beggars, Knights, Lords, Earls or Dukes: You must not spare them, Life doth lie at Stake, And dye they will, if Physic they don't take. ⟨p. 69⟩If these do finely work, then let them have Directions unto him that can them save. Lay open then the Riches of his Grace, And Merits of his Blood before their Face. Show them likewise, how free he is to give His Justice unto them, that they may live. If they will doubt, and not your Word believe, Show them, at present they have a Reprieve; On purpose they might out their Pardon sue, And have the Glory of it in their view. Instances of this Goodness set before, Their Eyes, that they this Mercy may adore. And if this Physic taken worketh well, Fear not a Cure, you save a Soul from Hell. But if these Doses do not kindly work, If the Disease still in their Mind doth lurk: If they instead of throwing up their Vice, Do vomit up the Word, loath Paradise: Repeat the Potion, them new Doses give, Which are much stronger, perhaps they may live: But if they serve these as they served the rest, And thou perceivest it is not to them Blest: If they remain incorrigible still, And will the Number of their Sins fulfil; The Holy Text doth say that they must dye; Yea, and be damned without Remedy.