Epigrams and sentences spirituall in vers, of Gregori Nazanzen, an auncient & famous bishop in the Greke churche Englished by Tho. Drant.

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Epigrams and sentences spirituall in vers, of Gregori Nazanzen, an auncient & famous bishop in the Greke churche Englished by Tho. Drant.
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Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint.
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[London] :: Imprinted at London in Fletestreate, neare vnto S. Dunstones church by Thomas Marshe,
1568.
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"Epigrams and sentences spirituall in vers, of Gregori Nazanzen, an auncient & famous bishop in the Greke churche Englished by Tho. Drant." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02203.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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Conflict of fleshe and spirit

AYe me who vnto heauen and saintes So glad, and fayne would go But bide in wouen wrethed still Within this corps of woe.

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So diuerse is this daungrous life, So raging ruffles synne, I knowe of saftye harbowre none To shrowde my body in. So soden coursinge cares come on, With suche posthast they speade, My ioye, my comfort and my hart They eat vp as they feade. But lose my God, and set me frée From these my earthly bonds, And place me prest amonge thy sainctes Amide thy heauenly stronds▪
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