SIN'S DISCOVERY BY THE EMBLEM OF A TOAD.  

 depiction of a man 
More Loathsome▪ What can be unto mine eye▪  
Than this most ugly Toad which here I spy.   

A TOAD  
Though I be object of man's scorn and hate.  
Yet I am better than A Reprobate.    

POor man, why, with disdain dost look on Me?  
Thyself more vile, by Sin, why dost not See?  
A Toad I am, yet serve God in my kind,  
Accomplishing those Ends to me Assigned.  
My place I keep, where God appointed me,  
From Earth that Venom, I ●uck-up, which Thee  
And Beasts would hurt: and yet my poison's's good  
For Medicines, were it rightly understood,  
And with this poison though myself, I fill,  
It's that which can the body only kill,  
And makes me loathsome unto mortal Eyes  
But, with me all my shame and sorrow dies.  
But thou rebell'st against God's majesty,  
And servest the Devil his damned Enemy.  
With filthy Lusts (worst Poison) filled thou art,  
Which makes Jehova loathe thee with his heart  
Thy poisons worse, ten thousand times than mine  
Which only does the body kill; but thine  
The soul, likewise; and if in sin thou die,  
Death does not end thy shame and misery,  
It (then) gins; which (once) but felt and seen,  
A loathsome Toad, like me, thou'lt wish, thou'dst been,  
Then thou wilt find thy state, than mine far worse,  
Since, ugly-Sinne made Christ become a Curse  
And that man's Sin caused all that misery,  
Which Christ endured from Cratch to Crused-Tree.  
Yea, that each wilful, unrepented Sin,  
Does horror here, and hell hereafter win.  
Sin, therefore, worse than Plagues, death, hell, the devil,  
'Cause of all ill, hate, as the greatest; evil,  
And if thou (ere) wilt enter Heavens strait Gate  
Let Sins not Toads, be object of thy hate.   
F. P.  
FINIS   

London, Printed for John Overton, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the White-Horse without Newgate, 1673.