Sion and Parnassus, or, Epigrams on severall texts of the Old and New Testament to which are added [brace] A poem on the Passion, A hymn on the resurrection, ascention, and feast of Pentecost / by Iohn Hoddesdon.

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Sion and Parnassus, or, Epigrams on severall texts of the Old and New Testament to which are added [brace] A poem on the Passion, A hymn on the resurrection, ascention, and feast of Pentecost / by Iohn Hoddesdon.
Author
Hoddesdon, John, fl. 1650.
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London :: Printed by R. Daniel for G. Eversden, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
MDCL [1650]
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Bible -- Paraphrases, English.
Epigrams, English.
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"Sion and Parnassus, or, Epigrams on severall texts of the Old and New Testament to which are added [brace] A poem on the Passion, A hymn on the resurrection, ascention, and feast of Pentecost / by Iohn Hoddesdon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44052.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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216. Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pru∣ning-hooks into spears. ch. 3. v. 10.
Beat up the drummes, and sound alarm, all-arm; Let numerous companies together swarm: Beat, beat, your plough-shares into swords, learn now To handle weapons, who erst held a plough: Turn pruning-hooks to spears, and what ere are The instruments of peace, let be of warre.

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Ploughs, thus employ'd, 'twill be to us I fear, An hard, to death a too too plenteous, year.
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