O SWEETEST night! my mynd I nere can wayne
From thought of thee; in which the heauens; doe raine
Huge shewres of grace; the hillockes flowe with sweets
And from the mountaines, milke and honie sweates,
O sweetest night! my starued soule doth dye,
To haue a full draught of ty Ambrosie.
Tertulian grauely said: some goods there are
As well as euils, which euen oppresse, and beare
Vs to the ground. The wonders of this night
Are such; to find our God in su…… a plight;
That hardly such a bastard soule is found
Who sends not knees, and heart to kisse the ground.
Sweete thovghtes of Iesvs and Marie, or, Meditations for all the feasts of ovr B. Saviovr and his B. Mother togeither with Meditations for all the Sundayes of the yeare and our Sauiovrs Passion : for the vse of the daughters of Sion : diuided into tvvo partes / by Thomas Carre ...
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- Sweete thovghtes of Iesvs and Marie, or, Meditations for all the feasts of ovr B. Saviovr and his B. Mother togeither with Meditations for all the Sundayes of the yeare and our Sauiovrs Passion : for the vse of the daughters of Sion : diuided into tvvo partes / by Thomas Carre ...
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- Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674.
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- Printed at Paris :: By Vincent Dv Movtier,
- 1665.
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- Jesus Christ -- Meditations.
- Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Meditations.
- Jesus Christ -- Passion -- Early works to 1800.
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God threats eternall death; and yet we stand
Stiffe-neck'd, nor bowe to that his powerfull hand.
He offers endlesse life, nor are we mou'd
By hopes nor threates, our God's nor fear'd nor lou'd.
By thunder-bolts he testifies his ire
He speakes the same by earth-quakes and by fire
Yet stupide man, howere he dreade the rodde
He lookes as high, as though there were noe God.
But when the WORDS made flesh, when God's made man,
The high flowen heart, must stoope, doe what it can.
Heare your Seraphique Father teach this truth
While he, as yet, lay strugling with his youth.
While tortur'd thus I lay, quoth he, at length
I had a feeble will to gather strength
Thee to inioye, my God, nor could I find
A way squar'd out according to my mynd
Till I fell downe vpon thy infancie,
Clad in the weede of our humanitie
For then my wind-blowen heart began t'vnswell,
And prostrate on my low layd lord I fell:
Downe downe proude soule, keepe lowe, it is not meete
That wormes should swell, while God lyes at their feete.
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He biult himselfe a cotage of our clay,
To teach vs lowlinesse, and how t'obeye.