Otia Sacra Optima Fides [by Mildmay Fane] |
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My Pool of Bethesda, or the Effusion of Christs Merits to heal our Miseries.
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My Pool of Bethesda, or the Effusion of Christs Merits to heal our Miseries.
When Children would goe, or Cripples stand,Crutches and Stools are fram'd for Arm and Hand
To rest upon, lest such attempting shall
Without like Props occasion them to fall.
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Condemn'd to Lamenesse and to Infancy
Through Sin, and so disabled to Pace
The Paths of Vertue, tread the Steps of Grace;
Till God of's Mercy pleased to Confer
A standing stool, as if from th' Carpenter,
Though He himself was Artist, and did frame
This Remedy for Those were Weak and Lame:
So that without a farther Inquisition,
We All were, and are such, Christ's the Physition.
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