This day Prest with our Sins, the MOST HIGH Fell.
Least he should Feed on Us, Christ Satiates Death
With his own Bloud Quenching the Flames of Hell,
Enkindled by the Fire of’s Fathers Wrath.
To make Atonement for our Sins GOD Dies
Our Jesus is GOD, Priest, and Sacrifice.
Lo, how the hasty Jews cry Crucifie!
Lo, how they judge the Holy One to Death!
Whose Attribute is Immortality!
Lo, how they murther Him who gave them Breath
The King of Glory suffers Shame; and He
That Made the World is Hang’d upon a Tree.
Lo, how they Naile unto the Cross His HANDS.
Who Spans the Heavens! how his Feet they Pierce,
Who over Hell and Death Triumphant stands
Whose boundless Presence fills the Universe!
How the ALMIGHTY ev’ry Varlet scorns;
Lo, He by whom Kings Reign, is Crown’d with Thorns,
And now the Souldier with his Cruel Spear
Dares Pierce the Side of the blest Prince of Peace
His Torments are so great as Man can bear,
The Angry God-head will not make them less
When he thought that stood off, Grief fill’d his Heart
Curst Sin! for which GOD and CHRIST seem’d to Part!
He Bow’d his head, on which so Heavy lay
The Sins of Adam, and all Adam’s Seed;
Which by his Death He did Revive this Day;
To heal our wounded Souls his Limbs did Bleed.
Lord, I believe, let m? partaker be
Of Thy Deaths Power, that I may Live to Thee.
(Edmund Elys)
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