God! to my little meal and oil Add but a bit of flesh to boil: And Thou my pipkinet shalt see, Give a wave-off'ring unto Thee. 131. FREE WELCOME. God He refuseth no man, but makes way For all that now come or hereafter may. 132. GOD'S GRACE. God's grace deserves here to be daily fed That, thus increased, it might be perfected. 133. COMING TO CHRIST. To him who longs unto his Christ to go, Celerity even itself is slow. 134. CORRECTION. God had but one Son free from sin; but none Of all His sons free from correction. 135. GOD'S BOUNTY. God, as He's potent, so He's likewise known To give us more than hope can fix upon. 136. KNOWLEDGE. Science in God is known to be A substance, not a quality. 137. SALUTATION. Christ, I have read, did to His chaplains say, Sending them forth, Salute no man by th' way: Not that He taught His ministers to be Unsmooth or sour to all civility, But to instruct them to avoid all snares Of tardidation in the Lord's affairs. Manners are good; but till His errand ends, Salute we must nor strangers, kin, or friends. _Tardidation_, sloth. 138. LASCIVIOUSNESS. Lasciviousness is known to be The sister to saturity. 139. TEARS. God from our eyes all tears hereafter wipes, And gives His children kisses then, not stripes. 140. GOD'S BLESSING. In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be, Unless God gives the benedicite. 141. GOD, AND LORD. God is His name of nature; but that word Implies His power when He's called the Lord. 142. THE JUDGMENT-DAY. God hides from man the reck'ning day, that he May fear it ever for uncertainty; That being ignorant of that one, he may Expect the coming of it every day. 143. ANGELS. Angels are called gods; yet of them, none Are gods but by participation: As just men are entitled gods, yet none Are gods of them but by adoption. 144. LONG LIFE. The longer thread of life we spin, The more occasion still to sin. 145. TEARS. The tears of saints more sweet by far Than all the songs of sinners are. 146. MANNA. That manna, which God on His people cast, Fitted itself to ev'ry feeder's taste. 147. REVERENCE. True rev'rence is, as Cassiodore doth prove, The fear of God commix'd with cleanly love. _Cassiodore_, Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus, theologian and statesman 497-575? 148. MERCY. Mercy, the wise Athenians held to be Not an affection, but a deity. 149. WAGES. After this life, the wages shall Not shared alike be unto all. 150. TEMPTATION. God tempteth no one, as St. Austin saith, For any ill, but for the proof of faith; Unto temptation God exposeth some, But none of purpose to be overcome. 151. GOD'S HANDS. God's hands are round and smooth, that gifts may fall Freely from them and hold none back at all.