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Jehovah, as Boëtius saith,No number of the plural hath.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.
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Observation.
Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry
Treason.
Another. (Sin.)
To Anthea.
Another. (Of God.)
God is Jehovah call'd: which name of HisImplies or Essence, or the He that Is.
God.
God, as the learned Damascene doth write,A sea of substance is, indefinite.
God, in the holy tongue, they callThe place that filleth all in all.
The Number Of Two.
God hates the dual number, being knownThe luckless number of division;And when He bless'd each sev'ral day whereonHe did His curious operation,'Tis never read there, as the fathers say,God bless'd His work done on the second day;Wherefore two prayers ought not to be said,Or by ourselves, or from the pulpit read.
Psal. VIII.
O Jehovah our Lord how wondrous greatAnd glorious is thy name through all the earth?So as above the Heavens thy praise to setOut of the tender mouths of latest bearth,Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thouHast founded strength because of all thy foesTo stint th'enemy, and slack th'avengers browThat bends his rage thy providence to oppose.When I behold thy Heavens, thy Fingers art,The Moon and Starrs which thou so bright hast set,In the pure firmament, then saith my heart,O What is man that thou remembrest yet,And think'st upon him; or of man begotThat him thou visit'st and of him art found;Scarce to be less then Gods, thou mad'st his lot,With honour and with state thou hast him crown'd.O're the works of thy hand t...
John Milton
Another. (God's Presence.)
That there's a God we all do know,But what God is we cannot show.