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| NOW when to Sina they approched neare, | |
| God calls vp Moyses to the mount aboue, | |
| And all the rest commaundeth to forbeare, | |
| Nor from the bounds assign’d them to remoue. | |
| For who those limits loosely did exceede, | 5 |
| Which were by Moyses mark’d them out beneath, | |
| The Lord had irreuocably decreed | |
| With darts or stones should surely die the death: | |
| Where as the people in a wondrous fright, | |
| (With hearts transfixed euen with frosen blood) | 10 |
| Beheld their leader openly in sight | |
| Passe to the Lord, where he in glory stood. | |
| Thunder and lightning led him down the ayre, | |
| Trumpets celestial sounding as he came, | |
| Which struck the people with astounding feare, | 15 |
| Himselfe inuested in a splendorous flame. | |
| Sina before him fearfully did shake, | |
| Couer’d all ouer in a smouldering smoake, | |
| As ready the foundation to forsake, | |
| On the dread presence of the Lord to looke. | 20 |
| Erect your spirits, and lend attentiue ear, | |
| To marke at Sina what to you is said. | |
| Weake Moyses now you shall not simply heare, | |
| The son of Amram and of Iacobed; | |
| But He that Adam did imparadise, | 25 |
| And lent him comfort in his proper blood, | |
| And saued Noah, that did the arke deuise, | |
| When the old world else perish’d in the flood; | |
| To righteous Abraham Canaan franckly lent, | |
| And brought forth Isaac so extreamly late, | 30 |
| Jacob so faire and many children sent, | |
| And rais’d chast Joseph to so high estate; | |
| He whose iust hand plagu’d Egypt for your sake, | |
| That Pharaoh’s power so scornefully did mock, | |
| Way for his people through the sea did make, | 35 |
| Gaue food from Heauen and water from the rock. | |
| Whilst Moyses now in this cloud-couered hill | |
| Full forty dayes his pure aboade did make, | |
| Whilst that great God, in his almighty will, | |
| With him of all his ordinances spake: | 40 |
| The decalogue from which religion tooke | |
| The being; sinne and righteousnesse began | |
| The different knowledge, and the certaine booke | |
| Of testimony betwixt God and man: | |
| The ceremoniall as judicious lawes, | 45 |
| From his high wisdome that receiu’d their ground, | |
| Not to be altred in the smallest clause, | |
| But, as their Maker, wondrously profound. | |
| The composition of that sacred phane, | |
| Which as a symbol curiously did shew, | 50 |
| What all his six daye’s workmanship containe, | |
| Whose perfect modell his owne finger drew. | |
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