The best way to mend the world, and to prevent the growth of popery by perswading the rising generation to an early and serious practice of piety: with answers to the principal cavils of Satan and his agents against it, &c. By Samuel Peck, minister of the word at Poplar.

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Title: The best way to mend the world, and to prevent the growth of popery by perswading the rising generation to an early and serious practice of piety: with answers to the principal cavils of Satan and his agents against it, &c. By Samuel Peck, minister of the word at Poplar.
Author: Peck, Samuel.
Publication: London :: printed by J.A. for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside, near Mercers-Chappel,; 1680.
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Subject terms: Youth -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.; Youth -- Religious life -- Early works to 1800.
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Remember thy Creator, &c.

VERSE VI.

Or ever the Silver Cord be loosed; or the Golden bowl be broken, or the Pitcher be broken at the Fountain, or the Wheel broken at the Cistern.

BEfore the Cord of Silver lose its strength, The Bowl of Gold be broken, or at length The Pitcher from the Fountain broken go, Or Wheel be broken at the Cistern too.

PARAPHRASE.
BEfore the Pith or Marrow of thy back,
That heretofore could bend, and yet not crack,
Could burdens bear, and ne're complain or winch,
Be weak and loosed with an aged wrinch.

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Before the Pericardium of thy brain,
Being broke and shatter'd thou turn child again,
While yet the Veins and Vessels do impart
The Spirits to the Fountain of thine Heart.

VERSE VII.

Then shall the dust return to the Earth, and the Spirit shall return to God who gave it.

FOr when these cease, thy Spirit takes it's flight To God, and bids thy body now good night: So thy day's ended; now thou must return A lump of Ashes to thy lasting Urn.