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

When Israel's Sins the' Almighty did provoke, To make them subject to Philistine Yoke For forty Years: In Zorah dwelt a Man, His Name Manoah, of the Tribe of Dan; His Wife was barren, unto whom appeared The Angel of the Lord, and thus declared: Though thou, said he, art barren, time shall come Thou shalt enjoy the Blessing of thy Womb; Now therefore I entreat thee to refrain From Wine, strong Drink, and things that are unclean. For lo, thou shalt conceive and bear a Son, Upon whose Head there shall no Razor come, For he to God a Nazarite shall be, And shall begin to set his People free From the Philistine Yoke. The Woman came And told her Husband, she had seen a Man Of God, his dreadful look made me, said she, Think him an Angel of the Lord to be: But I enquired not from whence he came, Neither did he make known to me his Name: But thus he said, Thou shalt conceive a Son; Wherefore Strong Drink and Wine, see that thou shun, ⟨p. 19⟩And have a care that thou be not defiled With things that are unclean; for why, the Child Shall from his Separation from the Womb, Become a Nazarite, even to his Tomb. Manoah then did supplicate the Lord, And said, O Lord, be pleased to afford This Favour unto me, to send again The Man of God, more fully to explain Thy Will to us, that we may rightly know, When this Child shall be born, what we must do. And to Manoah's Prayer God gave Ear, And to his Wife the Angel did appear Again, as she did in the Field retire, At such time as her Husband was not nigh her. And she made haste, and ran, and straight declared Unto her Husband, that the Man appeared Again, whom she had seen the other Day. Manoah then arose, and went his way, And when he came, he said, Art thou the Man That spakest to my Wife? He said, I am: Manoah said, Now let thy Words be true: How shall we use the Child, what must we do? Then said the Angel of the Lord, Let her Of all that I have charged her beware: She may not taste of what comes of the Vine, Nor may she drink strong Drink, or any Wine, Nor may she eat of things that are unclean, From all that I have said, let her refrain. Manoah said unto the Angel, stay With us, till we have dressed a Kid, I pray. But he replied, though thou shalt me detain, I'll eat no Bread, but if thou dost design