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IV. Verse-portraits of the Four Evangelists;
FROM THE “GREAT EXEMPLAR” (1657).
1 St. Matthew.
This Mathew and that angel doth implieChriste's roial ligne in His humanitie:
Mankinde Himself, deriving downe the same
To Joseph's tribe, from faithfull Abraham.
2 St. Marke.
Marke's lion—as his gospell—doth beginneA crier's voice the wilderness within,
Make straight His pathes: the same is onely Hee
Of Judah's tribe who was foretold to bee.
3. St. Luke.
This holy artist with inspirèd penThe great Messiah pourtrayes, and to men
Whose sin ore-loaded soules to death encline
Att once becomes physician and devine.
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4. St. John.
Looke how the quick-sight eagle mounts on highBeholds the sunne with her all-piercing eie:
So unto Christe's diuinitie I soare
Beyond the straine of these that are before.
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