The Cure of Distractions, Poem 1 – Publishers note
HERBERT's Poem, called Giddineſs, pag. 119.
OH what a thing is Man! How far from Power,
From ſettled Peace and Reſt!
He is ſome twenty ſev'ral Men at leaſt
Each ſev'ral Hour.
One while he counts of Heaven as of his Treaſure,
But then a Thought creeps in,
And calls him Coward, who for fear of ſin,
Will loſe a Pleaſure.
Oh what a Sight were Man, if his Attires,
Did alter with his Mind!
And like a Dolphins Skin, his Cloaths combin'd,
With his Deſires.
Surely if each one ſaw another's Heart,
There would be no Commerce;
No Sale or Bargain paſs, all would diſperſe,
And live apart.
Lord mend or rather make us! One Creation
Will not ſuffice our turn;
Except thou make us daily, we ſhall ſpurn
Our own Salvation.
Another Poem of the ſame Author, called, The Method, pag. 126.
POOR Heart lament!
For ſince thy God refuſeth ſtill,
There is ſome Rub, ſome Diſcontent
Which cools his Will.
Thy Father could
Quickly effect what thou doſt move;
For he is Power, and ſure he would
For his Love.
Go ſearch this thing,
Tumble thy Breaſt, and turn thy Book;
If thou hadſt Loſt a Glove or Ring,
Wouldſt thou not laok?
What do I ſee
Written above thee? Yeſterday
I did behave me careleſly
When I did pray.
And ſhould God's Ear,
To ſuch Indifferents chained be,
Who do not their own motions hear?
In God leſs free?
But ſtay, What's there?
Late when I would have ſomething done,
I had a Motion to forbear,
Yet I went on.
And ſhould God's Ear
Which needs not Man; be ty'd to thoſe
Who hear not him, but quickly hear
His utter Foes?
Then once more pray;
Up with thy Heart, as well as Voice,
Seek Pardon firſt, and God will ſay,
Glad Heart rejoyce.
FINIS.
ERRATA.
PAge 27. line 4. for heard read Heart. p. 83. l. 6. for hoc r. haec. p. 122. l. 18. for find r. to find. p. 141. l. 20, for can r. do. p. 163. l. 6. for Man r. Men, and l. 8. for cimmandeth r. commendeth. p. 171. l. 30. after of add if. p. 173. l. 23, 24. foa Saviour r. Savour. p. 253. … 6. for unconceivable r. unconceivably.
Some BOOKS Printed for Brab. Aylmer.
THE Holy Bible, containing the Old Teſtament and the New; with Annotations and Parallel Scriptures. To which is Annex'd the Harmony of the Goſpels. As alſo the Reduction of the Jewiſh Weights, Coins and Meaſures; to our Engliſh Standard: And a Table of the Promiſes in Scripture. By Samuel Clark, Miniſter of the Goſpel. Printed in Folio of a very fair Letter. The like never before in one Volume.
The Four laſt Things, viz. Of Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell. Practically conſidered and applied in ſeveral Diſcourſes. By William Bates, D. D.
A Sermon Preached upon the much Lamented Death of our late Gracious Sovereign Queen Mary. To which is added the Addreſs of Condolance to His Majeſty by the Diſſenting Miniſters. By W. Bates, D. D.
The Bleſſedneſs of the Righteous opened▪ and further recommended from the Conſideration of the Vanity of this mortal Life.
Of Delighting in God.
The Reconcileableneſs of God's Preſcience.
Self-Dedication, Diſcourſed in the Anniverſary Thankſgiving of a Perſon of Honour for a great Deliverance.
The right uſe of that Argument in Prayer, from the Name of God, on behalf of a People that profeſs it.
A Funeral Sermon on the Deceaſe of that Worthy Gentlewoman, Mrs. Margeret Baxter (Wife of the Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter.)
A Diſourſe relating to the much lamented Death, and Solemn Funeral of our Incomparable and moſt Gracious Qveen Mary, of the moſt Bleſſed Memory.
Theſe laſt ſeven above by the Reverend Mr. John Howe.
A Diſcourſe of the great Diſingenuity and Unreaſonableneſs of Repining at Afflicting Providences: And of the Influence which they ought to have upon us, on Job. 2. 10. Publiſhed upon Occaſion of the Death of our Gracious Sovereign, Queen Mary of moſt Bleſſed Memory. With a Preface containing ſome Obſervations touching Her Excellent Endowments and Exemplary Life. By Edward Lord Biſhop of Glouceſter▪
End of the text · Nathanael Vincent, The Cure of Distractions (1695)