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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B071013.apex.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Being the fir&s;t Chapter of Gene&s;is.</HEAD>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t Dayes Worke.</HEAD>
<L>THE fir&s;t Day (as Eternity decreed)&punc;</L>
<L>From Gods divine <HI>Idea</HI> did proceed&punc;</L>
<L>The matter of all things in Heaven and Earth,</L>
<L>From whence all other Creatures tooke their birth.</L>
<L>Nothing did yet the formele&s;&s;e Earth adorne,</L>
<L>Yet Earth, was Earth, and Water had it's forme.</L>
<L>Th' Elements were inuolued each in other,</L>
<L>Darkne&s;&s;e the Vi&s;age of the deepe did cover,</L>
<L>On which was moved Gods Almighty Spirit,</L>
<L>At who&s;e command the Ayre did light inherit.</L>
<L>Then from the Darkne&s;&s;e, he divides the Light,</L>
<L>And gives them their fir&s;t names of Day and Night.</L>
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<LG N="2">
<HEAD>The &s;econd Dayes Worke.</HEAD>
<L>THe &s;econd Day th'almighty Architect,</L>
<L>To rooffe the world did th'arched Heaven erect:</L>
<L>Commanding there &s;hould be a Firmament,</L>
<L>That might divide the Watry Element:</L>
<L>In mid&s;t of which was fram'd the fixed Sphere,</L>
<L>And Waters &s;uddainly divided were.</L>
<L>Part of the Water &s;till remain'd below,</L>
<L>And part above the Firmament did flow.</L>
<L>The Firmament the <HI>Maker</HI> called Heaven,</L>
<L><HI>Concluding with the</HI> Morning <HI>and the</HI> Even.</L>
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<LG N="3">
<HEAD>The third Dayes Worke.</HEAD>
<L>THe third Day by the word of Gods command,</L>
<L>His Will being to di&s;cover the dry Land,</L>
<L>Was turn'd with &s;peed the watry Element</L>
<L>Into the VVomb of the Earths continent.</L>
<L>He gave them then their names of Earth and Seas,</L>
<L>Which worke was good, and did the <HI>Maker</HI> plea&s;e.</L>
<L>The Earth conceiving from his quickning word,</L>
<L>The plenty of her Womb did &s;traight afford.</L>
<L>Vn&s;owne Gra&s;&s;e, un&s;et Hearbes, unplanted Trees,</L>
<L>All yeelding Seede, and Fruit, in their degrees:</L>
<L>Refre&s;ht by the yet Chaos of the Heaven,</L>
<L><HI>Concluding with the</HI> Morning <HI>and the</HI> Even.</L>
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<LG N="4">
<HEAD>The fourth Dayes Worke.</HEAD>
<L>THe fourth daies worke, becau&s;e Earths fruitfull Bed,</L>
<L>Should not with darknes be enueloped:</L>
<L>That Creatures might enioy the fo&s;tering Light,</L>
<L>And for divi&s;ion of the Day and Night:</L>
<L>That might for Sea&s;ons period ou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Yeare,</L>
<L>And Signes Phenominall to th'earth appeare.</L>
<L>Out of the &s;ub&s;tance which was late Aquatick,</L>
<L>God made the Spheres, Starres fixed and erratick.</L>
<L>The Sun with greater light to rule the Day,</L>
<L>And le&s;&s;er Moone to have the Nightly &s;way.</L>
<L>The Starres as Rulers over Day and Night,</L>
<L>To divide darkene&s;&s;e from the &s;hining Light.</L>
<L>God placed in the Firmament of Heaven,</L>
<L><HI>Concluding with the</HI> Morning <HI>and the</HI> Even.</L>
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<LG N="5">
<HEAD>The fifth Dayes Worke.</HEAD>
<L>THis Day th' Almighty in his fir&s;t Divi&s;ion,</L>
<L>Produc'd a grear part of the worlds Provi&s;ion</L>
<L>All Fle&s;h and Foule; which at his bounteous word</L>
<L>The pregnant Waters plentiou&s;ly afford.</L>
<L>And now the great&punc; <HI>Leviathan</HI> hegins,</L>
<L>To rouze him&s;elfe, and &s;hake his numerous Fines.</L>
<L>All living Creatures in abundance move,</L>
<L>Both in the Watry Mound and Ayre above.</L>
<L>Birds now begin to warble out their theames,</L>
<L>And Fi&s;h to dance <HI>Lavoltas</HI> on the &s;treames.</L>
<L>God ble&s;&s;ed them forthwith, and bad them bee,</L>
<L>All fruitfull in their kindes and Multiply:</L>
<L>To which he gave concurrence from the Heaven,</L>
<L><HI>Concluding with the</HI> Morning <HI>and the</HI> Even.</L>
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<LG N="6">
<HEAD>The &s;ixt Dayes Worke.</HEAD>
<L>THe &s;ixt Day God commanded to the Earth,</L>
<L>That living Creatures thence &s;hould i&s;&s;ue forth.</L>
<L>At which the Kingly Lyon in his force,</L>
<L>The Camell, Elephant, and the u&s;efull Hor&s;e:</L>
<L>Bea&s;ts, Cattell, all things to the creeping VVorme,</L>
<L>Came forth their Cau&s;es in their kind and forme.</L>
<L>Now let u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> make Man, &s;aid th'almigh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y Maker,</L>
<L>And let him of our likene&s;&s;e be Partaker:</L>
<L>And on him let Dominion be e&s;tated,</L>
<L>Over all Creatures that we have created.</L>
<L>Man &s;uddenly with every Creature &s;tood,</L>
<L>Before his Makers Face comp<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eat and good,</L>
<L>From the low Center to the highe&s;t Heaven,</L>
<L><HI>Concluding with the</HI> Morning <HI>and the</HI> Even.</L>
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<LG N="7">
<HEAD>The &s;eventh Day.</HEAD>
<L>THe &s;eventh Day the Lord &s;anctified and ble&s;t,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e it was the <HI>Sabbath</HI> of his Re&s;t.</L>
<L>Commanding that nothing &s;hould be done,</L>
<L>On it, neither by <HI>Father</HI> nor the <HI>Sonne,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Seruant</HI> nor <HI>Stranger</HI> ought within our Gate,</L>
<L>No not our Cattell would it violate:</L>
<L>Contemplate here (O Man) wherefore the Lord,</L>
<L>In the &s;ix-fold divi&s;ion of his Word,</L>
<L>Would limit &s;o his power omnipotent,</L>
<L>But onely to give thee a pre&s;ident:</L>
<L>That thou all idlene&s;&s;e and &s;lougth &s;hould&s;t fly,</L>
<L>And earne thy Bread by hone&s;t indu&s;try.</L>
<L>Six Daies he made the full and utmo&s;t mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>For thee to worke and dig thy worldly trea&s;ure;</L>
<L>By Land and Sea to triffick for thy &s;oode,</L>
<L>Doe this, and &s;ee that all thou do&s;t be good:</L>
<L>So neare as thou can&s;t imitare thy <HI>Maker,</HI></L>
<L>That of his <HI>Sabbath</HI> thou may&s;t be Partaker.</L>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Hammond,</HI> 1646.</P>
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