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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London :: Printed by J. C. for S. S. ...,
1677.
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¶ The New Birth.
A Multitude of Creatures do agreeTo give their Documents to wretched man,As Emblems and Examples, whereby heMay learn to write himself a Christian.The Eagle casts her bill, the Ass his hair,The Peacoak 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is plumes, the Snake his skin;And shall not Man, a Creature far more fair,Renew himself by shaking off his fin?
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Old fins retain'd do fester as they lie;To the new man belongs felicity.He that would clear himself from worldly stain,To sin must die, to life be born again.Die to the flesh, and if you would inheritEternal life, be born then of the Spirit.This is the Birth a Christian should prefer;For being born of God, he cannot err.Lord, let thy Grace my idle thoughts subdue,That I may change the Old man for the New.
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