Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
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On Acts 26. 28.
Almost a Christian.
Learning well manag'd make the Graces glad;But if abus'd, the learned man grows mad,
And makes his Learning, as an Hand-maid, sit
To wait on the profa'ness of his Wit:
But Piety and Parts when they agree,
Learning then makes an heavenly harmony.
So did St. Paul's, that pious Prisoner; for
He was at once a Slave and Orator:
Witness his pithy, and his quaint responds
To King Agrippa; King, except these Bonds
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Were both almost, and wholly such as I;
Not half a Christian, but to bear those Arms
Of Faith that may repel the Devil's charms.
An altogether Christian's not deprav'd;
Almost a Christian shall almost be sav'd.
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