Scriptural poems being several portions of Scripture digested into English verse /

GO to now, O ye rich Men, howl and cry, Because of your approaching misery: Your Riches are corrupted, and the Moths Have entered, and have eaten up your Clothes; Your Gold and Silver's cankered, and the rust Thereof, shall be an Evidence that's just Against you, and like fire your flesh devour: Against the last days ye have heaped up store. The hire of them that reaped down your Field, The which by you is wrongfully withheld, Cries, and the Voice thereof hath reached the Ears Even of the God of Sabbath, and he hears. Your Lives in pleasure ye on Earth have led, And as in days of slaughter nourished Your wanton Hearts, and have condemned and slain The Just, and he doth not resist again. Be patient therefore, Brethren, even unto The coming of the Lord: behold, even so The Husbandman expecteth patiently The precious increase of the Earth to see, With patience waiting, till he doth obtain The showers of early and of later Rain. So be ye patient, fixing steadfastly Your Hearts, for th' coming of the Lord draws nigh. ⟨image 49⟩Grieve not each other, Brethren, lest ye bear The condemnation; lo, the Judge stands near. The Prophets, Brethren, who all heretofore In the Name of the Lord their witness bore, Take for Examples in their Sufferings And Patience: they that endure such things, Ye know are counted blest. Have ye not read Of Job, how patiently he suffered? Have ye not seen in him what […] God's end, How he doth pity and great love extend? My Brethren, but above all things forbear By Heaven or Earth, or otherwise to swear; But let your Yea be Yea, your Nay be Nay, Lest ye become reprovable I say. Let him sing Psalms that's merry; he that's grieved, Let him by Prayer seek to be relieved. If any of you by Sickness be distressed, Let him the Elders of the Church request, That they would come and pray for him awhile, Anointing him in the Lord's Name with Oil; So shall the Prayer that is of Faith restore The Sick, and God shall raise him as before, And all th' Offences which he hath committed Shall be forgiven, and he shall be acquitted. Confess your Faults each one unto his Brother, And put up Supplications for each other, That so you may be healed; the fervency Of just Men's Prayers prevails effectually. Elijah was a Man as frail as we are. And he was earnest with the Lord in Prayer, That there might be no Rain, and or the space Of three Years and six Months no Rain there was;