<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539467" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Bible</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold this little volume here inrolde:<br>'Tis the Almighty's present to the world:<br>Hearken earth's earth; each sencelesse thing can heare<br>His Maker's thunder, though it want an eare:<br>God's word is senior to his works, nay rather<br>If rightly weigh'd the world may call it father;<br>God spake, 'twas done; this great foundation<br>Is the Creator's Exhalation<br>Breath'd out in speaking. The best work of man<br>Is better than his word; but if wee scanne<br>God's word aright, his works far short doe fall;<br>The word is God, the works are creatures all.<br>The sundry peeces of this generall frame<br>Are dimmer letters, all which spell the same<br>Eternal word; But these cannot expresse<br>His greatnesse with such easy readinesse,<br>And therefore yeild. The Heavens shall pass away,<br>The sun and moone and stars shall all obey<br>To light one general bonfire; but his word,<br>His builder-upp, his all-destroying sworde,<br>That still survives; no jott of that can dye,<br>Each tittle measures immortalitie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The word's owne mother, on whose breast did hang<br>The world's upholder drawne into a span,<br>Shee, shee was not so blest because she bare him<br>As cause herselfe was new-born, and did hear him.<br>Before she had brought forth she heard her Son<br>First speaking in the Annunciation:<br>And then, even then, before she brought forth child,<br>By name of Blessed shee herselfe instilde.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Once more this mighty word his people greets,<br>Thus lapt and thus swath'd upp in paper sheets:<br>Read here God's Image with a zealous eye,<br>The legible and written Deity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Strode">William Strode</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539467" data-title="On The Bible de William Strode" data-description="Behold this little volume here inrolde: 'Tis the Almighty's present to the world: Hearken earth's earth; each sencelesse thing can heare His Maker's thunder, though it want an eare: God's word is senior to his works, nay rather If rightly weigh'd ..."></div> </div> </div>

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