The Pilgrimes New-yeares-Gift or, Fourteene Steps to the Throne of Glory. By the 7. Corporeall and 7. Spirituall Acts of Charitie, and those made Parallels. By Ralph Crane |
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Canto 7.
How God approues those giue
the Dead a timely Graue,
This Pilgrime both, & MERCIE striue
that you may knowledge haue.
the Dead a timely Graue,
This Pilgrime both, & MERCIE striue
that you may knowledge haue.
With this fit Care did Abraham first begin,
And bought a Field to bury his dead in:
And Ioseph was the first that honour gaue
To the Dead Corps: Embalm'd it for the Graue:
Nay God himselfe (which should moue most of al)
Gaue Moses, in a Ualley, Buriall:
More; mark the glorious promise of this truth,
No blessing beares a fairer Spring, or youth
In the most beautifull word: marke it agen
Let it be grauen on the hearts of men
Where ere thou findst the dead (haue this regard)
Take 'hem, and bury 'hem; And for Reward
Ile giue thee (in this gift comes all in one)
The first place in my resurrection.
Tobit amidst his Precepts to his Sonne
Gently warnes this (as needfull to be done)
VVhen I am dead, bury me: And next of all
(As if he scarce had spoke of buriall)
Bids the same Care he of his mother haue,
Whom when she dies, Seale vp in the same graue.
And bought a Field to bury his dead in:
And Ioseph was the first that honour gaue
To the Dead Corps: Embalm'd it for the Graue:
Nay God himselfe (which should moue most of al)
Gaue Moses, in a Ualley, Buriall:
More; mark the glorious promise of this truth,
No blessing beares a fairer Spring, or youth
In the most beautifull word: marke it agen
Let it be grauen on the hearts of men
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Take 'hem, and bury 'hem; And for Reward
Ile giue thee (in this gift comes all in one)
The first place in my resurrection.
Tobit amidst his Precepts to his Sonne
Gently warnes this (as needfull to be done)
VVhen I am dead, bury me: And next of all
(As if he scarce had spoke of buriall)
Bids the same Care he of his mother haue,
Whom when she dies, Seale vp in the same graue.
Thus when thou hast perform'd the last request
To the Corporeall workes, and Interr'd in rest:
VVith a cleare Conscience, and vntroubl'd heart,
Thou maist lay claime to the Spirituall part.
To the Corporeall workes, and Interr'd in rest:
VVith a cleare Conscience, and vntroubl'd heart,
Thou maist lay claime to the Spirituall part.
FINIS.
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The 7. Corporeall and 7. Spirituall made Parallels.
- To giue Bread to the hungry
- To giue Drinke to the thirsty
- To cloath the naked
- To Ransom Prisoners
- To Harbour the harbourlesse
- To Visit the Sick
- To Bury the Dead
Corporeall
- To Correct the Sinner.
- To Instruct the Ignorant.
- To Counsel the doubtful
- To Cōfort the sorrowful
- To beare wrongs patiētly
- To forgiue all men.
- To pray for others, euen our Enemies.
Spirituall.
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