Certaine serious thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry occasions have stollen themselves into verse and now into the publike view from the author [Wyvill coat of arms] Esquire ; together w[i]th a chronologicall table denoeting [sic] the names of such princes as ruled the neighbor states and were con-temporary to our English kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned.

Vpon PSALM. 7. 12. 13, 14.

God is a righteous Iudge, strong and patient: and God is provoked every day.

If a man will not turne, he will whet his sword: he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

He hath prepared for him the instruments of death: hee ordaineth his Arrowes against the Perse∣cutors.

HAst thou not heard O man, or canst forget This terrible Alarme, God will whet His sword, prepare his Arrows, and his bow; Doth not experience daily bid thee know That, when he will revoke thy borrowed breath A Fly or Gnat's an Instrument of death, Canst thou shake off those thoughts w^ch whisper to thee, This minut's sin for ever may undoe thee? Will not thy head-strong Will be curbed by The thought of fathomless Eternity? Or doth thy weak conceipt befoole thee so As once to think that God, though he be slow

To punish, see's not when thou goest astray, That thus thou dars't provoke him every day? If man return not dost thou say? is then The pow'r of turning in the choyse of men? My soul Lord know's it is not, yet I see By thy command, what I should beg of thee; Nor can I beg till thou my God prepare, My un-prepared heart and voyce to prayer. From my wast-field if any good proceed, Thou must be Author both of Will and Deed: Stub-up the thornes, un-pave the soyle and make The well-injected seed deep rooting take, Afford me fruitfull seasons that I may Bring some sheafs with me on my judgment day.