The Blessed Birth-day celebrated in some religious meditations on the Angels Anthem. Lvc. 2. 14. Also holy transportations, in contemplating some of the most obserueable adiuncts about our Saviours Nativity. Extracted for the most part out of the Sacred Scriptures, Ancient Fathers, Christian Poets. And some moderne Approved Authors. By Charles Fitz-Geffry. The second Edition with Additions |
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Transportat. V, On the same argument.
Art thou so humble, Lord, thou dost not scorneTo be 'mong Oxen and 'mong Asses borne?
O scorne not me, who am become, alasse,
More brutish, foolish, then the Oxe or Asse,
For they, poore beasts, their owners know, we see,
But farre more brutish I, haue not knowne thee.
Thou mad'st me first a man, a noble creature,
Little inferiour to th'Angellike Nature:
But I through sinne into a state did throw
My selfe, these brutish Creatures farre below:
Be borne in me, that I being borne againe
In thee, a new borne Creature may remaine.
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