Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Divine Ejaculations. [from KOSMOBREGGIA, or the infancy of the world: With an Appendix of Gods resting day, Edon Garden; Mans Happiness before, Misery after, his Fall. Whereunto is added, The Praise of Nothing; Divine Ejaculations; The four Ages of the world; The Birth of Christ; Also a Century of Historical Applications; With a Taste of Poetical fictions. Written some years since by N. B. ... And now published at the request of his Friends

London

Printed for Robert Crofts [etc.]

1658

"And in the furnace of affliction, / Their drossie souls thou dost refine"

In wisdome thou chastizest thine,
And in the furnace of affliction,
Their drossie souls thou dost refine;
And by thy Judgments, stamp conviction.
  If thy corrections thou dost lengthen,
  Accordingly be pleas'd to strengthen

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04/07/2005