Wittes Pilgrimage (by Poeticall Essaies): Through a VVorld of amorous Sonnets, Soule-passions, and other Passages, Diuine, Philosophicall, Morall, Poeticall, and Politicall. By Iohn Davies |
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Difficilia quæ pulchra.
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Difficilia quæ pulchra.
The Coæternall, consubstanciall WORD,Self-WISDOMS wisedome, Image of the HIGHST,
Sole KING of Kings, of Lordes the onely LORD
And, heaunly HEAD of CHRISTIANS, IESVS CHRIST,
In compleate Time, tooke FLESH, by MIRACLE,
Of a pure VIRGIN, through HIS Work that was
The Prompter of each sacred ORACLE,
That did fore-show how THIS should come to passe:
VVith his vnualued Wonder-working BLOVD,
To manumise vile Man, a Slaue to Sin,
Was borne in Beth'lem without, Liuelihood;
And, without all that State doth glory in.
His THRONE, a Manger, and, a Crach; his Cradle:
His ROBES, course Ragges, poore Reliques of meane Lynnen.
His WAITERS Beasts, his COVRT, a stinking Stable:
That worse no Begger euer borne had been in:
Where, yet, foorth-with, by Angels glorifiyng,
Sheepherds agnition, worship of the WISE,
The guiding STARRE Old Symeons Prophecying,
And Doctors wondring, ALL, HIM GREAT Agnize,
Who, in his youth, grew quickly old in grace
With GOD, and Man; for GOD, and Man was HEE:
Baptis'd by him which made and gaue Him place,
That HEE to all might Pieties Patterne bee:
Conquering his FLESH with fasting, unconstrain'd,
The World with meeknesse, and the Fiend, with Prai'r:
And when the WEEKS of DANIELL end attaind
Hee taught and sought RIGHTS Ruines to repaire:
Sometimes, with Words, that wonder-mazed men,
With mercy, still, with Iustice, seldome when)
He made (as HEE was) God and man entire.
He tought EARTH, Truth: and HELL, to know her error:
He showed the MEEDE ordain'd for Good, and Bad:
Then to confirme All [to Alls ioy, and terror)
Hee calm'd the Elements: reform'd the madd:
Heald all Diseases: brought, to life the Dead:
The quickt' obedience: secret thoughts, to light;
To Sinnes restraint, or to be banished,
And lastly to the Deuil, feare and flight!
These [Notwithstanding) and much more then these,
(For, all the World the Books would not comprise
That of his Acts should hold the working-Seas,
Which to a boundlesse Magnitude do rise!
Hee was, (alas, when he had vnder-gon
All Paines and Passions (Sin all onely saud)
Proper to Man [yet had his God-head showne)
By his owne People scorned: and depraud!
Yea, by his owne (his owne chiefe Officer
Iudas, betraying Him) He was accusd,
Arraignd, condemnd, bound, scurgd, hald here, and there,
With Thorns, Crownd, crucified, and worse abusd!
So He, (All being fulfild: the Sun obsurd,
The Earth, all, quaking, Graues self-opening,
And, NATVRES Frame dissoluing] Death, endurd:
Life, thereby, to his Enemies, to bring!
Then, being interd, loost Hell: and, rose againe
In triumph, hauing conquerd Death, and Sin:
And forty Daies, (with HIS) on Earth did raigne
A Man-GOD glorifid, without, and in!
And, of his age, the three and thirtith Yeare,
He, in the sight of his Saints, did assend
To Heaun, with glory, triumph, ioy and cheere,
And sits on his right Hand that Him did send!
From whence [being now our Spokes-man] He shal come
(When all this All shall melt in funerall fire)
On Quick, and Dead to giue his finall Doom:
When, as their Works shalbe, shalbe their Hire.
Then, Good, and Bad diuided, endlesly,
The Worle refind, and all things put in frame,
Shalbee giu'n vp, of this Great-double FRAME!
To whome Celestiall, and Terrestriall Knees,
And Knees infernall, shall for euer bow:
And, eu'ry Tongue confesse, and Eye that sees,
That HEE is All, in All, in High, and Low,
Vnto His glory that VVas, Is, and shall
(In all Æternity) bee ALL, in All!
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