Prison-pietie, or, Meditations divine and moral digested into poetical heads, on mixt and various subjects : whereunto is added a panegyrick to the right reverend, and most nobly descended, Henry Lord Bishop of London / by Samuel Speed ...
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Prison-pietie, or, Meditations divine and moral digested into poetical heads, on mixt and various subjects : whereunto is added a panegyrick to the right reverend, and most nobly descended, Henry Lord Bishop of London / by Samuel Speed ...
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Speed, Samuel, 1631-1682.
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1677.
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¶ On Death.
O Death, the Serpents Son,Where is thy sting? once like thy Sire,With Hellish torments, ever burning fire;But those dark days are gone.Thy peevish spite buri'd thy stingIn the sacred and wideWound of a Saviour's side.Now thou'rt become a tame and harmless thing,A toy we scorn to fear:For we hearThat our triumphant God to conquer theeFor the assault thou gav'st him on the Tree,Hath took the keys of Hell out of thy hand,And forc'd thee standAs Porter to that gate of Life.O thou who art the gate, be pleas'd that he,When we shall dieAnd that way flie,May ope the Courts of Heav'n to us through thee,
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