A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
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Title
A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
Author
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
Publication
London :: Printed for N.P. and sold by the booksellers in London,
1686.
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"A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30125.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
Pages
XXXII. Of Moses and his Wife.
THis Moses was a fair and comely man;His wife a swarthy Ethiopian:Nor did his Milk-white Bosom change her Skin;She came out thence as black as she went in.Now Moses was a type of Moses Law,His Wife likewise of one that never sawAnother way unto eternal Life;There's Myst'ry then in Moses and his Wife.
The Law is very Holy, Just and good,And to it is espous'd all Flesh and Blood:But this its Goodness it cannot bestow,On any that are wedded thereunto.
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Therefore as Moses Wife came swarthy in,And went out from him without change of Skin:So he that doth the Law for Life adore,Shall yet by it be left a Black-a-more.
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