SINNES DISCOVERY
BY THE EMBLEM OF A TOAD.
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POor man, why, with disdain dost look on Me?
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Thy self more vile, by Sinne, why dost not See?
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A Toade I am, yet serve God in my kind,
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Accomplishing those Ends to mee Assignd.
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My place I keep, where God appointed mee,
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From Earth that Venome, I Suck-up, which Thee
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And Beasts would hurt: and yet my poysons good
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For Medicines, were it rightly understood,
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And with this poyson though my self, I fill,
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Its that which can the body onely kill,
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And makes me loathsome unto mortal Eyes
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But, with me all my shame and sorrow dies.
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But thou rebellst against Gods majesty,
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And servst the Divel his damnd Enemy.
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With filthy Lusts (worst Poyson) fild thou art,
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Which makes Jehova loath thee with his heart
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Thy poysons worse, ten thousand times than mine
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Which onely does the body kill; but thine
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The soule, likewise; and if in sinne thou die,
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Death does not end thy shame and misery,
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It (then) begins; which (once) but felt and seen,
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A loathsome Toad, like me, thoult wish, thoudst been,
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Then thou wilt find thy state, than mine far worse,
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Since, ugly-Sinne made Christ become a Curse
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And that mans Sinne causd all that misery,
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Which Christ endurd from Cratch to Crused-Tree.
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Yea, that each wilful, unrepented Sinne,
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Does horrour here, and hell hereafter win.
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Sin, therefore, worse than Plagues, death, hell, the divel,
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Cause of all ill, hate, as the greatest evil,
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And if thou (ere) wilt enter Heavens straight Gate
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Let Sinnes not Toades, be object of thy hate.
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