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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What higher is then God, then earth more base?
Yet so farre God vouchsafeth earth to grace,
So humbly God doth vnto Earth descend,
So largely God doth cause earth to extend;
So neerely God earth to himselfe vniteth;
So firme a league twixt him and it he plighteth,
That what God doth, that earth is said to doe,
And what earth suffers God doth suffer too.
Man, know thou art but Earth, Pride therefore hate,
Man, thou art joynd to God be not ingrate:
But sing to him, by Whom advanc't thou art
With lofty voice, but with a lowly heart:
Glory to God on high, on earth be peace,
And let goodwill t'wards Christians never cease.
Lord what is man, that only for his sake,
Th'Almighty should such strange exchanges make.
Yet so farre God vouchsafeth earth to grace,
So humbly God doth vnto Earth descend,
So largely God doth cause earth to extend;
So neerely God earth to himselfe vniteth;
So firme a league twixt him and it he plighteth,
That what God doth, that earth is said to doe,
And what earth suffers God doth suffer too.
Man, know thou art but Earth, Pride therefore hate,
Man, thou art joynd to God be not ingrate:
But sing to him, by Whom advanc't thou art
With lofty voice, but with a lowly heart:
Glory to God on high, on earth be peace,
And let goodwill t'wards Christians never cease.
Lord what is man, that only for his sake,
Th'Almighty should such strange exchanges make.
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