Works

Would ye have fresh cheese and cream?
Julia's breast can give you them:
And, if more, each nipple cries:
To your cream here's strawberries.

When others gain much by the present cast,
The cobblers' getting time is at the last.

That prince must govern with a gentle hand
Who will have love comply with his command.

I make no haste to have my numbers read:
Seldom comes glory till a man be dead.

God, as the learned Damascene doth write,
A sea of substance is, indefinite.

God is His name of nature; but that word
Implies His power when He's called the Lord.

How am I bound to Two! God, who doth give
The mind; the king, the means whereby I live.

God, when for sin He makes His children smart,
His own He acts not, but another's part;
But when by stripes He saves them, then 'tis known
He comes to play the part that is His own.

God, who's in heaven, will hear from thence;
If not to th' sound, yet to the sense.

God, as He is most holy known,
So He is said to be most one.

'Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
Him, as He is, is labour without end.

God can't be wrathful: but we may conclude
Wrathful He may be by similitude:
God's wrathful said to be, when He doth do
That without wrath which wrath doth force us to.

God when He's angry here with anyone,
His wrath is free from perturbation;
And when we think His looks are sour and grim,
The alteration is in us, not Him.

In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be,
Unless God gives the benedicite.

God's bounty, that ebbs less and less
As men do wane in thankfulness.

In God's commands ne'er ask the reason why;
Let thy obedience be the best reply.

God is then said for to descend, when He
Doth here on earth some thing of novity;
As when in human nature He works more
Than ever yet the like was done before.

God's said to dwell there, wheresoever He
Puts down some prints of His high Majesty;
As when to man He comes, and there doth place
His Holy Spirit, or doth plant His Grace.

God hears us when we pray, but yet defers
His gifts, to exercise petitioners;
And though a while He makes requesters stay,
With princely hand He'll recompense delay.

God's grace deserves here to be daily fed
That, thus increased, it might be perfected.