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Good Fridays Reveille, or on the Passion.
Salutis Cataplasmus.
May we call this Dayes task to minde,And prove we to each other still unkinde?
Doth Passion bear o'r Reason sway,
Making us quite neglect this Passion day?
Why are we suffer'd so to err,
As not t'remember our Great Sufferer
In Praises due? who whilst he dies,
Shews what He'd have us doe for Enemies,
Forgive them first; for thus He sues
Unto His Father for the cursed Jewes:
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To be like Sheep before the Shearers, dumb;
Or Lambs unto the Slaughter led
In Meekness, not with fury hurryed:
Then through that Conflict he endur'd,
If humbly we beleeve we shall be cur'd;
For it falls short in other art,
To frame a remedy for such a smart,
As from the sting of doing amiss,
In following Sin to death here heap'd up is;
And to apply this Plaister, lay it on,
There needs no Others hand, save Faith's alone.
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