Page:Hesperides Vol 2.djvu/251

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

223. HEAVEN.

Heaven is not given for our good works here;
Yet it is given to the labourer.


224. GOD'S KEYS

God has four keys, which He reserves alone:
The first of rain; the key of hell next known;
With the third key He opes and shuts the womb;
And with the fourth key he unlocks the tomb.


225. SIN.

There's no constraint to do amiss,
Whereas but one enforcement is.


226. ALMS.

Give unto all, lest he, whom thou deni'st,
May chance to be no other man but Christ.


227. HELL FIRE.

One only fire has hell; but yet it shall
Not after one sort there excruciate all:
But look, how each transgressor onward went
Boldly in sin, shall feel more punishment.