Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.

About this Item

Title: Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.
Author: Barton, William, 1598?-1678.
Publication: London :: Printed by J. Heptinstall for William Cooper ...,; 1688.
Rights/Permissions: To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Song of Solomon -- Paraphrases, English.; Hymns, English.
Link to this Item: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26725.0001.001
Cite this Item: "Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26725.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2025.

Of duty to Superiour Powers
put Christians still in mind,
Subject to be to Governours,
to all good works inclin'd.

Rom. 13.3.

For rulers are not terrible to good works but to bad: Wouldst thou not fear the power? do well, and praise shall thence be had.

But if thou dost an evil thing, then fear and fear again, Because the person governing bears not the sword in vain.

Ibidem.

For he is God's chief Minister to execute his will, With wrath upon the trespasser, whoever doeth ill.

Ibidem.

For he's God's minister to thee for thy great good and gain, But fear t' offend because that he bears not the sword in vain.

Prov. 20.8, 26.

A King that sitteth on the Throne of judgment, and is wise, Scatt'reth away (as clouds o'reblown) all evil with his eyes.