Divine Poems Written By Thomas Washbourne |
A Soliloquy upon the Circumcision, commonly called New-yeers-day.
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A Soliloquy upon the Circumcision, commonly called New-yeers-day.
Was't not enough that God himself becameMan like to me, and in all things the same,
Excepting sin alone; but he must be
Under the Law, and circumciz'd for me?
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The Son of God the Son of man did make;
Make him, an infant, shed some drops of blood,
As the first fruits to that more liberal flood
That flow'd in a ful tyde, from every part,
His hands, his feete, his side, his head, his heart;
Whereof a soveraign balme he did compound
To heale my wounds, and make my sick soul sound.
What present, O my soul, hast thou to pay
Thy God? What New-yeers gift this New-yeers day?
Give him thy self, who gave himself for thee;
A better offering there cannot be.
Do somewhat like him too, and circumcise
The foreskin of thy heart; then sacrifice
Thy purer thoughts to him, and now begin
This day to live to grace, to dye to sin.
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