The soul's communion with her savior. Or, The history of our Lord Jesus Christ, written by the four evangelists digested into devotional meditations. The first part.

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The soul's communion with her savior. Or, The history of our Lord Jesus Christ, written by the four evangelists digested into devotional meditations. The first part.
Author
Traherne, Philip, d. ca. 1725.
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London :: printed for W. Crooke at the Green Dragon nigh Devereux-Court without Temple-Bar,
1685.
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Subject terms
Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.
Jesus Christ -- Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
Bible. -- N.T. -- Gospels -- Early works to 1800.
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"The soul's communion with her savior. Or, The history of our Lord Jesus Christ, written by the four evangelists digested into devotional meditations. The first part." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63045.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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I therefore prais and magnify thy Name,

O my God, for making the ancient Precepts of thy Law so aptly minister to the Accom∣plishment of those succeeding Prophecies which tell us, The Lord whom ye seek shal suddenly

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〈◊〉〈◊〉 to his Templ; and, I wil fil this Hous with Glory, saith the Lord of Hosts: wherin the Law and the Prophets conspire to giv the more publick Notice of the Messiah at his Manifestation to Israel. How glorious was that Templ wherin the Lord and Owner therof (who dwelleth not in Templs made with hands) made his personal and visible Ap∣pearance: This made the Glory of that latter 〈◊〉〈◊〉 greater than of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, tho far short of it in outward Riches and Gran∣deur. There Thou, O Christ, wast often Typicaly represented; but here Thou art Personaly pre∣sent, to the firm Establishment of the Christian Faith and the utter Confusion of Jewish Infi∣delity, whose incorrigibl Obsti∣nacy in Unbelief doth blasphe∣mously turn the Truth of God into a Ly, it being altogether

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impossibl that these Prophecies can ever be fulfilled after the Subversion of the Second Templ O let my Soul be the Templ of thine Eternal Residence, and evry Christian Heart be as wel hal∣lowed as dignified by thy gra∣cious Presence.

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