Hymn VIII. For Saterday.
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Vpon this day, God rested from the the Works of Creation.
Vpon this Day Christ rested in the Grave
after he had finished the painfull works conducing
to the Restauration of
Man-kind. Therefore Meditations
tending to the praise of
God, in the
Commemoration of these
Mysteries, which are the effect of this
Hymn.
Sing this as the 4. Psalme.
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He that can in a moment space
Build Worlds (as he shall please)
And, needeth neither Time, nor Place,
To work, or take his ease;
This Globe, to Furnish, and to Frame,
Did sixe Daies Leisure take:
And, having finished the same,
A Resting Day, did make.
2
When, likewise, his chief-creature was
By Sathans wiles, undone;
He limited the work of Grace,
A certaine Time, to run.
And, he who did regenerate,
The self same Day, did rest,
Which he who all things did create
Had for that Reason, blest.
3
Within his Grave, upon this Day,
Our Saviour did repose;
And, took the sting of Death away
When he from thence arose.
This Day, the Rigour of the Law,
Began to be alayd,
And, that which kept in servile-Awe,
Now, makes us not afraid.
4
Vpon this Day, each Jewish-Rite,
Both Death and buriall had.
Their Sabbath, was abolish'd quite,
And uneffectuall made.
For, why should we the Tipes embrace
Or in their Shades abide,
When their true Substance comes in place,
Which they but typifide?
5
The Fathers
Rest, this meaning had
That (while Times course did last)
Here, no new-creature, should be made;
When sixe Dayes works were past.
The Resting of his Blessed Son,
Declares, that never more
Should either suffred be or done,
Offenders to restore.
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Lord, let me also now begin
A holy Rest to make.
Let me, from all the works of Sin,
My Rest, for ever, take.
Let so my Lusts be mortifide;
In Christ, so bury me;
That, I with him, who for me dide,
To life, may raised be.
7
As long as either weekes or Dayes,
To me shall be renew'd;
Let that, which may advance thy praise,
Be still, by me pursu'd.
And, when the Evening, and the Morne,
My last of dayes hath made;
Let me in Peace, to thee returne,
From whom, I Beeing had.
