Hesperides Volume 2 ; the Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected ...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... in God, is known to be A substance, not a qualitie. Salutation. CHRIST, I have read, did to His chaplains say, Sending them forth, Salute no man by th' way: Not, that He taught His ministers to be Unsmooth, or sowre, to all civilitie; But to instruct them, to avoid all snares Of tardidation in the Lords affaires. Manners are good: but till his errand ends. Salute we must, nor strangers, kin, or friends. Lasciviousnesse. LASCIVIOUSNESSE is known to be The sister to saturitie. Teares. GOD from our eyes all teares hereafter wipes, And gives His children kisses then, not stripes. Gods Blessing. IN vain our labours are, whatsoe're they be, Unlesse God gives the Benedicite. God, And Lord. OD, is His name of nature; but that word Implies His power, when He's cal'd the LORD. The Judgment-day. GOD hides from man the reck'ning day, that He May feare it ever for uncertaintie: That being ignorant of that one, he may Expect the coming of it ev'ry day. Angells. ANGELLS are called gods; yet of them, none Are gods, but by participation: As just men are intitled gods, yet none Are gods, of them, but by adoption. Long Life. THE longer thred of life we spin, The more occasion still to sin. Teares. THE teares of saints more sweet by farre, Then all the songs of sinners are. Manna. THAT manna, which God on His people cast, Fitted it self to ev'ry feeders tast. Reverence. TRUE rev'rence is, as Cassiodore doth prove, The feare of God, commixt with cleanly love. Mercy. "j/TERCY, the wise Athenians held to be.... Not an affection, but a deitie. Wages. A FTER this life, the wages shall-. Not shar'd alike be unto all. Temptation. GOD tempteth no one, as S. Aug'stine saith, For any ill; but, for the proof of faith: Unto temptation God exposeth some; But none, of purpose, to be o...