The Christian centurians observations, advices, and resolutions containing matters divine and morall / collected according to his owne experience by Philip Skippon ...

His Verses on the Bible.

P leasure and profit, piety and peace, H ealth for the soule, all hap∣pinesse encrease; I n each estate within this gol∣den Mine, L yes couched close, yet of pe to all mens eyne; L ets then delves search and curiously pry I nto the same, and mark what we can spy: P repare good instruments, the ground is hard, P romise is made, we shall find rich reward.

S oare first in faith, with pray∣er above the Sunne, K eep constant courses, care∣lesnesse still shunne;

I oyne with your reading re∣verence, be attent, P ractice with knowledge from on high are sent; P ray more and more such gra∣ces to attaine, O n Sacred Writ to meditate take paine; N eglect not application of the same, N o doubt so striving we shall win the Game.