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

AND now the Second time to Jonah came God's Word, and said, Arise, go and proclaim To that great City Nineveh, what I Have heretofore commanded thee to cry. So Jonah rose up, and prepared to go To Nineveh as God had bid him do: (Now was the City Nineveh so great, That it was three days Journey long complete) And as into the City Jonah made His first days Journey, he cried out, and said, When forty days shall be expired and past, This City Nineveh shall be laid waste. Then did the Ninevites with one accord, Believe this was the Message of the Lord, ⟨p. 45⟩And did proclaim a Fast, and every one, From greatest to the least, put Sackcloth on: For to the King this News was quickly flown, And he arose, and came down from his Throne, And having laid aside his Robes of State, He put on Sackcloth, and in Ashes sate: And issuing out his Royal Proclamation, And through the City making Publication Thereof, (being by the King and Council signed) A solemn and a general Fast enjoined, And said, I will, That neither Man nor Beast, Nor Flock, nor Herd, shall their Provision taste: But let them all put Sackcloth on, and cry Unto the Lord with greatest fervency; Yea, let them all their evil Ways refrain, And from the Violence which they retain. Who knows if God will yet be pleased to spare, And turn away the Evil that we fear? And God beheld their Works, and saw that they Had turned from the Evil of their Way: And God turned from his Wrath, and did revoke The dreadful Judgment whereof he had spoke.

AND now the Second time to Jonah came God's Word, and said, Arise, go and proclaim To that great City Nineveh, what I Have heretofore commanded thee to cry. So Jonah rose up, and prepar'd to go To Nineveh as God had bid him do: (Now was the City Nineveh so great, That it was three days Journey long compleat) And as into the City Jonah made His first days Journey, he cry'd out, and said, When forty days shall be expir'd and past, This City Nineveh shall be laid waste. Then did the Ninevites with one accord, Believe this was the Message of the Lord, ⟨p. 45⟩And did proclaim a Fast, and every one, From greatest to the least, put Sackcloth on: For to the King this News was quickly flown, And he arose, and came down from his Throne, And having laid aside his Robes of State, He put on Sackcloth, and in Ashes sate: And issuing out his Royal Proclamation, And through the City making Publication Thereof, (being by the King and Council sign'd) A solemn and a general Fast enjoin'd, And said, I will, That neither Man nor Beast, Nor Flock, nor Herd, shall their Provision taste: But let them all put Sackcloth on, and cry Unto the Lord with greatest fervency; Yea, let them all their evil Ways refrain, And from the Violence which they retain. Who knows if God will yet be pleas'd to spare, And turn away the Evil that we fear? And God beheld their Works, and saw that they Had turned from the Evil of their Way: And God turn'd from his Wrath, and did revoke The dreadful Judgment whereof he had spoke.