Dia Poemata Poetick Feet Standing Upon Holy Ground: Or, Verses on certain Texts of Scripture. With Epigrams, &c. By E. E. [i.e. Edmund Elys] |
Lavatus Æthiops.
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Lavatus Æthiops.
And he commanded the Chariot to stand still, and
they went down both into the water, both Philip,
and the Eunuch, and he baptized him.
Acts 8. 38.
Most happy Eunuch! that hath
Cur'd his Sick soule in this Bath.
By Baptism, He's Wash'd within;
Wrapt about with's old Black Skin.
His soule, Penitently sad,
Seems to be in Mourning clad.
This water Him t' Heavens Port bears,
Mixt with Pænitentiall tears:
Aqua vitæ 't proves to Him
Dead in Toespasses, and Sin.
His soule's a Diamond that's set
In a Cabinet of Jeat:
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Thus a Star shines in Dark Night.
In's Jesus is his Delight;
He shall walk with him in white
Such Candid Æthiopes are seldome seen;
Fair People oft are Æthiopes within.
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