A47500:776
A feast of fat things full of marrow containing several Scripture songs taken out…
A feast of fat things full of marrow containing several Scripture songs taken out of the Old and New Testaments, with others composed by t[he author] : together [with o]ne hundred of divine hymns, being the first century.
London: printed by B.H., 1696
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.
1 The Length of all our Life and Age, O Lord, is in thy hand; And we must go when thou dost call, and yield to thy Command.
1 THe Length of all our Life and Age, O Lord, is in thy hand; And we must go when thou dost call, and yield to thy Command.
2 Our days are few, and pass away, like as a shadow flies; Let's ready be, O Lord we pray, and shun all Vanities.
2 Our days are few, and pass away, like as a shadow flys; Let's ready be, O Lord we pray, and shun all Vanities.
3 When we go out of our own Doors, none knows what may befall, Or come on us, ere we return; Life's uncertain to all.
3 When we go out of our own Doors, none knows what may befall, Or come on us, e'er we return; Life's uncertain to all.
4 O call to Mind, remember then, our Time consumeth fast; Why hast thou made the Sons of Men, as things in vain to waste?