The Father
Josuah Sylvester (1563–1618)
Alpha and Omega, God alone :
Eloi, My God, the Holy‐One;
Whose Power is Omnipotence:
Whose Wisedome is Omni‐science:
Whose Beeing is All Soveraigne Blisse:
Whose Worke Perfection’s Fulnesse is;
Under All things, not under‐cast;
Over All things, not over‐plac’t;
Within All things, not there included;
Without All things, not thence excluded:
Above All, over All things raigning;
Beneath All, All things aye sustayning:
Without All, All conteyning sole:
Within All, filling‐full the Whole:
Within All, no where comprehended;
Without All, no where more extended;
Under, by nothing over‐topped:
Over, by nothing under‐propped:
Unmov’d, Thou mov’st the World about;
Unplac’t, Within it, or Without:
Unchanged, time‐lesse, Time Thou changest:
Th’ unstable, Thou, still stable, rangest;
In the Nick of Time May 15, 2009
No outward Force, nor inward Fate,
Can Thy dread Essence alterate:
To‐day, To‐morrow, yester‐day,
With Thee are One, and instant aye;
Aye undivided, ended never:
To‐day, with Thee, indures for‐ever.
Thou, Father, mad’st this mighty Ball;
Of nothing thou created’st All,
After th’ Idea of thy Minde,
Conferring Forme to every kinde.
Thou wert, Thou art, Thou wilt be ever;
And Thine Elect, rejectest never.
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