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 |
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Let these claim all your thoughts exactest care.
To these add Fasting, Alms, and fervent Pray'r.
If you desire your Fasts successful prove
Fear'd Ills t'avert, or what you feel remove,
Not like those Hypocrites distort your Face
Who make an ugly Look a mark of Grace:
Who with rough Robes and Sack-cloth raze their skin
Or cut with Whips, or lance it deeper in,
And mortifie themselves, but not their Sin.
Your Alms dispense as Stars shoot silent Light
Untrack'd and large thro' the dark Realms of Night.
In all let no vain Ostentation be.
To your good Deeds, no witness ask but me.
They shall not pass without a kind regard
But at the last Great-Day I'll them reward.
Discreet, yet warm and zealous be your Pray'r
And still and silent as the Angels are.
To these add Fasting, Alms, and fervent Pray'r.
If you desire your Fasts successful prove
Fear'd Ills t'avert, or what you feel remove,
Not like those Hypocrites distort your Face
Who make an ugly Look a mark of Grace:
Who with rough Robes and Sack-cloth raze their skin
Or cut with Whips, or lance it deeper in,
And mortifie themselves, but not their Sin.
Your Alms dispense as Stars shoot silent Light
Untrack'd and large thro' the dark Realms of Night.
In all let no vain Ostentation be.
To your good Deeds, no witness ask but me.
They shall not pass without a kind regard
But at the last Great-Day I'll them reward.
Discreet, yet warm and zealous be your Pray'r
And still and silent as the Angels are.
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