Piety, and Poesy Contracted, In a Poetick Miscellanie of Sacred Poems. By Tho: Jordan |
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Charity begins at home.
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Charity begins at home.
When Christ (to save Believers from all evils)Gave his Disciples power to cast out Devils,
Judas (who did his Master's life betray)
It is suppos'd, had no lesse power than they;
And yet we cannot read amongst the many
Great Acts they did, that ere he cast out any
The Obstacle is found, for Judas sins
In the first Rule, where Charity begins,
It was not strange, he dis-possessed none
From others, that could not first cast out': own:
To clear mens Eyes, first take your own beams out:
That then those beams of darkness being gon
Men may behold in you the Beams oth' Son.
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