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'Tis true that Mercy ſeem'd obscure, and here
Did Mercy follow only in the Rear,
Till Adam fell it did not much appear.
Redemption-Work doth in a Strain more high
Each Attribute extol and glorify;
Yet this much of Creation we may ſay.
That it did for Redemption-Work make way;
Man muſt be made, fall, and be guilty deem'd.
Before he need or yet could be redeem'd:
So I deſign a few Lines on that Head,
That's firſt recorded in the Chriſtian Creed;
There's in this Work of God the World's Creation,
Great Room for Words, yet more for Admiration;
God's Power and Wiſdom here ſo manifold,
Its Half by none can never well be told,
Only by Faith 'tis here we may behold
Him ſtepping forth, without either a Stone,
Or any thing to build with, or upon:
This Univerſe ſo huge he up did rear.
And out of nothing made it all appear;
Creating Power did make ſuch Operation,
In going thro' this great Work of Creation,
Yet keeped Order, Beauty and Gradation,
And did begin and end, as Scripture ſays.
It all within the Compaſs of ſix Days.
'Tis proper then we ſhould in this Eſſay,
Begin with what was done on the firſt Day,
And ſtill advance, as Scripture Light doth ſhew,
Of each Day's Work to take a ſhort Review.
But Oh! the Works on thir ſix Days were wrought,
Them to deſcry ſurpaſſeth human Thought!
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