Certaine Serious Thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry Occasions have stollen themselves into Verse and now into the Publike View from the Author: Together w[i]th a Chronologicall table denoeting the names of such Princes as ruled the neighbor States and were con-temporary to our English Kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned [by Christopher Wyvill] |
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FAITH.
Tvrn or'e the sacred leaves, th'Almighty hathBy sweet gradations, open'd to thy Faith
The word of promise, new-fal'n man hath got
A new-found meanes, to spoyle the serpent's plot.
For God hath said; The woman's seed shall give
A wound unto thy head, that man may live.
Thence, through sucessive generations, trace
That more explayned Covenant of Grace:
Till, (from the world's beginning slain) the Lambe
Attended by a quire of Angels came,
In his rich bosome, bringing plenteous store
Of blessings, only pointed at before;
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Thy bounteous Lord bequeath's thy soule, and dye's
To give thee life from both the Testaments,
And from the heaven-ordayned Sacraments,
Suck ever-flowing comfort: for to thee
As well, as any heretofore, agree
The still effectuall promises, which stand
Now proffer'd to thy Faiths applying hand.
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