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Poems Divine, and Humane

By Thomas Beedome

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The Crosse.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

The Crosse.

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There is no bud, but has a good
Art finds for basest-weedes an use:
Bodies distempered with grosse blood,
Find preservation from abuse.
For did not that inforce a breach,
Who'ld use incision, sweate, or leech?


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Did not my sinne divine my fall,
And by my weakenesse show my want:
Security would never call
To God, nor for his merry part.
For where there is no sence of evill,
The soule benumm'd admits the devill.

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The heaviest Crosse had some renowne,
And sharpest thornes this balsome had:
That though they were my Saviours Crowne,
They did produce a good from bad.
The cause most vile, th' effect most good,
That was my sinne, but this his blood.

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Though bad my sinne, it saved my fall,
My weakenesse too, my want did show:
These did awake me, made me call
And to my God for mercy goe.
Happy this Larum of my evill,
My soule awakt defie the devill.

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Then happy Crosse and healing Thorne,
Light burthen, and balsamicke flower:
Eased by that, by this untorne,


My new-erected soule hath power,
To blesse you both, whose good effects
Spur'd up my stupid sinnes neglects:
And making gaine from such a losse,
Unto a Crowne transferre a Crosse.
T. B.