The Life of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ ::

The Life of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ

An Heroic Poem: Dedicated to Her Most Sacred Majesty. In Ten Books. Attempted by Samuel Wesley ... Each Book illustrated by necessary Notes, explaining all the more difficult Matters in the whole History: Also a Prefatory Discourse concerning Heroic Poetry. With Sixty Copper-Plates

Wesley, Samuel (1662-1735)

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To Mr. Samuel Wesley on his Divine Poem of the Life of CHRIST.

To the Ingenious Mr. Samuel Wesley on his Poem of the Life of CHRIST.

To my Ingenious Friend Mr. Samuel Wesley, on his Poem the Life of CHRIST.

To his Ingenious Friend Mr. Samuel Wesley, on his Excellent Poem call'd the Life of Christ.

To his Reverend Friend Mr. Samuel Wesley, on his Poem of the Life of CHRIST.

To Mr. Samuel Wesley, on his Poem of the Life of CHRIST.

II.

Simeon's Song, or the Nunc Dimittis.

Micah's Prophesie.

III.

IV.

Our Saviour's Sermon of the Beatitudes, Matth. V.

Exod. XX. The Ten Commandments.

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VII.

VIII.

IX.

BOOK IX. The PASSION.

BOOK X. The RESURRECTION.

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Micah's Prophesie.

Let Salem boast her antient Kings,

Micah 2.

Salem, which Princely David sings;
And Shemir's vain Apostate Town,
Her Gods, her strength, her pleasure and renown!
Bethl'hem alone's my noble choice,
That claims my Lyre and claims my Voice,
In that shall Israel's Land and Gentile-Worlds rejoice;
Tho mean thou art and humble now,
Wide shall thy spreading Glories grow,
And all around, like fruitful Jordan, overflow:
For if a Kings or Heroes Seat,
Must by his Residence be great,
All others infinitely this o'erpow'rs,
Where Heav'ns high King is born, as well as ours.
Already I the Royal Infant see,
How long his Rule, how vast his Realms shall be?
Thro' boundless Space and Time he Reigns eternally!

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Micah's Prophesie.