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THE
Great Aſſize
OR,
CHRIST's Certain and Sudden
Appearance to Judgment.
JOB xiv. 2, 3
Man that is born of a Woman is of few Days and full of Trouble: He cometh forth like a Flower, and is cut down; be flieth alſo like a shadow, and continueth not.
O That poor Earthly Mortals would attend,
With Seriouſneſs of Mind to what is penn'd,
Here is preſented clearly to the Eye,
A little World new made moſt gloriouſly.
To Day here ſtands proud Man, like flowers ſprite,
But look To-morrow, and he is wither'd quite:
How happy might poor fallen Man have liv'd
For ever, had he not his Maker griev'd;
His num'rous Off-ſpring never would eſpy,
Thro' that black curtain of Mortality.
He might diſdain Aſſaults, alſo defie
Grim Death; but now, alas! he's born to die.
Duſt muſt to Duſt, faid God upon his Fall,
Entailing of that Sentence on us all:
Polluted nat'rally with that foul Sin,
Which did in Adam and poor Eve begin.
Alas!
