The death of the Godly is a sleepe.
48
Christ calls the death of godly men,
a sleep, his owne a death, & why?
The Souldiers speare was made a Pen,
his bloud the Inke to write thereby.
49
Quietus est, for Christians all,
and then the same to vs was sealed:
A sleepe, he iustly may it call,
cause by his stripes our wounds were healed.
50
His was a death, cause death was due,
in him died all, he di'd for all:
Gods Iustice vs to death doth sue,
he pay'd it and repair'd the fall.
51
that we moight sleep, he suffer'd pains,
that we mought laugh, he oft did weepe
His was the losse, ours was the gaines,
thus did he change, Death to a sleepe.
FINIS.
