Silex Scintillans sacred poems and private ejaculations. The second Edition, In two Books; By Henry Vaughan, Silurist |
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| To my most merciful, my most loving, and dearly loved Redeemer,
the ever blessed, the onely Holy and Just One, JESVS CHRIST,
The Son of the living GOD, And the sacred Virgin Mary. |
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To my most merciful, my most loving, and dearly loved Redeemer, the ever blessed, the onely Holy and Just One, JESVS CHRIST, The Son of the living GOD, And the sacred Virgin Mary.
I.
My God! thou that didst dye for me,These thy deaths fruits I offer thee;
Death that to me was life and light,
But dark and deep pangs to thy sight.
Fell on my heart; those made it bud
And put forth thus, though Lord, before
The ground was curst, and void of store.
Indeed I had some here to hire
Which long resisted thy desire,
That ston'd thy servants, and did move
To have the murthred for thy love;
But Lord, I have expell'd them, and so bent,
Beg, thou wouldst take thy Tenants Rent.
II.
Dear Lord, 'tis finished! and now he
That copyed it, presents it thee.
'Twas thine first, and to thee returns,
From thee it shin'd, though here it burns;
If the Sun rise on rocks, is't right,
To call it their inherent light?
No, nor can I say, this is mine,
For, dearest Jesus, 'tis all thine.
As thy cloaths, (when thou with cloaths wert clad)
Both light from thee and virtue had,
And now (as then within this place)
Thou to poor rags dost still give grace.
This is the earnest thy love sheds,
The Candle shining on some heads,
Till at thy charges they shall be,
Cloath'd all with immortality.
That copyed it, presents it thee.
'Twas thine first, and to thee returns,
From thee it shin'd, though here it burns;
If the Sun rise on rocks, is't right,
To call it their inherent light?
No, nor can I say, this is mine,
For, dearest Jesus, 'tis all thine.
As thy cloaths, (when thou with cloaths wert clad)
Both light from thee and virtue had,
And now (as then within this place)
Thou to poor rags dost still give grace.
This is the earnest thy love sheds,
The Candle shining on some heads,
Cloath'd all with immortality.
My dear Redeemer, the worlds light,
And life too, and my hearts delight!
For all thy mercies and thy truth
Shew'd to me in my sinful youth,
For my sad failings and my wilde
Murmurings at thee, when most milde:
For all my secret faults, and each
Frequent relapse and wilful breach,
For all designs meant against thee,
And ev'ry publish'd vanity
Which thou divinely hast forgiven,
While thy blood wash'd me white as heaven:
I nothing have to give to thee,
But this thy own gift, given to me;
Refuse it not! for now thy Token
Can tell thee where a heart is broken.
And life too, and my hearts delight!
For all thy mercies and thy truth
Shew'd to me in my sinful youth,
For my sad failings and my wilde
Murmurings at thee, when most milde:
For all my secret faults, and each
Frequent relapse and wilful breach,
For all designs meant against thee,
And ev'ry publish'd vanity
Which thou divinely hast forgiven,
While thy blood wash'd me white as heaven:
I nothing have to give to thee,
But this thy own gift, given to me;
Refuse it not! for now thy Token
Can tell thee where a heart is broken.
Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.
And hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion, for ever and ever. Amen.
Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him; and all kinreds af the earth shall wail because of him: even so. Amen.
Revel. cap. 1. ver. 5, 6, 7. | Silex Scintillans | |