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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The Royallest exchange for vs was this,
When God chang'd his for ours: we ours for his:
When with his royall robes vs to adorne,
To take on him our rags he did not scorne.
When that man might be freed, God would be solde,
When for our drosse he gaue in change his gold.
O royall change for vs, ô blessed Burse,
Where man the blessing gets, God takes the curse!
Where Life takes Death, that Death may life attaine,
The soveraigne dies to make the rebell raigne.
Cease we not then with heavenly spirits to sing,
An holy Anthem to our heavenly King,
Glory to God on high, on earth be peace,
And let good will t'wards Christians never cease.
When God chang'd his for ours: we ours for his:
When with his royall robes vs to adorne,
To take on him our rags he did not scorne.
When that man might be freed, God would be solde,
When for our drosse he gaue in change his gold.
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Where man the blessing gets, God takes the curse!
Where Life takes Death, that Death may life attaine,
The soveraigne dies to make the rebell raigne.
Cease we not then with heavenly spirits to sing,
An holy Anthem to our heavenly King,
Glory to God on high, on earth be peace,
And let good will t'wards Christians never cease.
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