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Poemata sacra

Latinae & Anglicae scripta [by John Saltmarsh]
  

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Chap. III. A representation of God in man.
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Chap. III. A representation of God in man.

I see the Sunne when he admiring stood
His face in the smooth mirrour of a cloud:
I lookt upon the cloud, and I did say,
There shines a Sunne, but with a watrish ray.
Then did I think mans clearer soul it was
To the Almighties count'nance as a glasse;
On which he looking, glimmering graces sent,
Till the soul faintly did his God present.
To make a compleat mirrour, there is laid
Pellucide clearnesse on an opake shade:

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So body terminated soul; and why?
To do the service of opacitie.