Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
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The Cœlestial Painter. |
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The Cœlestial Painter.
O Thou most holy God of Bliss,Who paintst the Heaven's centre cleer,
In burning brightness fair address,
With goodly lights, as doth appear.
Who on the fourth day didst ordain
The fiery circle of the Sun,
And for the Moon an order set,
And Stars their wandring course to run:
That thou might'st give the Nights and days
Divided bounds to keep them in,
As an allured mark to know
How duly all the Months begin.
Illuminate the heart of man;
Wipe out the soulness of the minde;
Cast down the heaps of our misdeeds;
The bands of guilt do thou unbinde.
Grant this, O holy Father most,
And eke the Son equal to thee,
Together with the Holy Ghost,
That reigns in all Eternity.
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