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Prison-Pietie

or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London
 
 
 

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On Man's Creation.

We were created with a Word, a Breath;
Redeemed with no less than Blood and Death:
How much a greater labour is it then,
Sinners to cleanse, or breathe Souls into men?