The Blessed Birth-day celebrated in some religious meditations on the Angels Anthem. Lvc. 2. 14. Also holy transportations, in contemplating some of the most obserueable adiuncts about our Saviours Nativity. Extracted for the most part out of the Sacred Scriptures, Ancient Fathers, Christian Poets. And some moderne Approved Authors. By Charles Fitz-Geffry. The second Edition with Additions |
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The womans Seed, in Eden promised
Is come to crush the cursed Serpents head:
Whose comming all the Prophets have foretold,
The complement of Prophecies of old,
The Trueth of what the Types did represent,
The fulnesse of the Figures true intent,
The Substance which the Ceremonies veild,
The Morning-starre that seem'd to be conceald,
Old Iacob's Shiloh, th' odoriferous Flowre
Of Iesse's roote, the Rod that did devoure
The Magick rods turn'd Serpents: Even hee
Whose Day old Abraham desir'd to see:
The tribe of Iudah's Lyon, who preveales
T'unclaspe the Booke and loose the seaven shut-seales:
The saluing serpent for their cure erected,
Who by th'infernall serpent were infected.
King, Captaine, Counseller, Life, Law, Light, Fountain
Loue, Peace, Rocke, Ruler, Hope, vnmoued mountain,
Nations desire, the whole worlds expectation,
Old Simeons so long looked for salvation,
All these are come to be by vs possest,
One, who all generations maketh blest.
What ever in th'old Couenant is found
Did him, whose comming now we sing, resound.
What others did expect we doe enioy
To vs that child is borne, that blessed boy
To vs is given, who promis'd was to them,
The ioy and glory of Ierusalem.
Shall we not then with blessed Angels sing,
An holy Anthem to our heavenly King?
Glory to God on high, on earth be peace,
And let good will t'wards Christians never cease.
Is come to crush the cursed Serpents head:
Whose comming all the Prophets have foretold,
The complement of Prophecies of old,
The Trueth of what the Types did represent,
The fulnesse of the Figures true intent,
The Substance which the Ceremonies veild,
The Morning-starre that seem'd to be conceald,
Old Iacob's Shiloh, th' odoriferous Flowre
Of Iesse's roote, the Rod that did devoure
The Magick rods turn'd Serpents: Even hee
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The tribe of Iudah's Lyon, who preveales
T'unclaspe the Booke and loose the seaven shut-seales:
The saluing serpent for their cure erected,
Who by th'infernall serpent were infected.
King, Captaine, Counseller, Life, Law, Light, Fountain
Loue, Peace, Rocke, Ruler, Hope, vnmoued mountain,
Nations desire, the whole worlds expectation,
Old Simeons so long looked for salvation,
All these are come to be by vs possest,
One, who all generations maketh blest.
What ever in th'old Couenant is found
Did him, whose comming now we sing, resound.
What others did expect we doe enioy
To vs that child is borne, that blessed boy
To vs is given, who promis'd was to them,
The ioy and glory of Ierusalem.
Shall we not then with blessed Angels sing,
An holy Anthem to our heavenly King?
Glory to God on high, on earth be peace,
And let good will t'wards Christians never cease.
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