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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
Fitz-Geffry, Charles (1575?-1638)

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HOLY TRANSPORTATIONS in contemplating some of the most observable adjuncts of our Saviours Nativity.
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Transportat. I. The season of the Yeare wherein our Saviour was borne: namely in the Winter Solstice or Sun-stead .
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Transportat. II. The time of his birth. By night.
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Transportat. III. On the same subiect.
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Transportat. IV. The place of his Birth. A Stall .
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Transportat. V, On the same argument.
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Transportat. VI. The publishing of his Birth. First vnto Sheepheards.
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Transport. VII. The Publisher of his Birth. A blessed Angel .
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Transport. VIII. On the same subiect.
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Transportat. IX. The Celebration of his birth by a multitude of Angels.
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Transportat. X. The Sheepheards going to Bethlehem to see the Babe.
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Transportat. XI. The starre conducting the Wise-men.
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Transportat. XII. The Wise men bringing their presents.
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Transport. XIII. On the same.
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Transportat. XIV. The Infant sought by Herod to be destroied.
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Transportat. XV. An Apostrophe to the Wise-men.
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Transport. XVI. The Infants slaine.

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Transportat. V, On the same argument.

Art thou so humble, Lord, thou dost not scorne
To 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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