HIS

NOBLE NUMBERS:

OR,

HIS PIOUS PIECES.

Wherein (amongst other things)

He fings the Birth of his CHRIST:
and fighes for his Saviours
fuffering on the
Croffe.

HESIOD.

Ἴδμεν ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγειν ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα.
Ἴδμεν δ' εὖτ ̓ ἐθέλωμεν, ἀληθέα μυθήσασθαι.

LONDON.

Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield.

His Noble Numbers: or,

His Pious Pieces.

His Confeffion.

Ook how our foule Dayes do exceed
our faire ;

And as our bad, more then our good
Works are,

Ev'n fo thofe Lines, pen'd by my wanton Wit,
Treble the number of these good I've writ.
Things precious are leaft num'rous: Men are

prone

To do ten Bad, for one Good Action.

His Prayer for Abfolution.

FWrit in my wild unhallowed Times;

Or Thofe my unbaptized Rhimes,

For every sentence, claufe, and word,
That's not inlaid with Thee, my Lord,

Forgive me, God, and blot each Line
Out of my Book, that is not Thine.
But if, 'mongst all, thou find'st here one
Worthy thy Benediction;

That One of all the reft, fhall be
The Glory of my Work, and Me.

To finde God.

WEigh me the Fire; or canft thou find
A way to measure out the Wind;

Distinguish all those Floods that are
Mixt in that watrie Theater;

And taft thou them as faltleffe there,
As in their Channell firft they were.
Tell me the People that do keep
Within the Kingdomes of the Deep;
Or fetch me back that Cloud againe,
Beshiver'd into feeds of Raine;
Tell me the motes, dust, sands, and speares
Of Corn, when Summer shakes his eares;
Shew me that world of Starres, and whence
They noiseleffe fpill their Influence:
This if thou canst; then shew me Him
That rides the glorious Cherubim.

G

What God is.

OD is above the fphere of our esteem,

And is the best known, not defining Him.

The one is Mercy, and the next is Love :
Under the first the Sinners ever trust;
And with the last he ftill directs the Juft.

Gods Anger without Affection.

GOD when He's angry here with any one,

His wrath is free from perturbation;

And when we think His looks are fowre and grim, The alteration is in us, not Him.

God not to be comprehended.

Is hard to finde God, but to comprehend
Him, as He is, is labour without end.

Gods part.

Rayers and Praises are those spotleffe two

PR

Lambs, by the Law, which God requires as

due.