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book_n	law_n	old_a	testament_n	3,872	5	8.3575	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20681	Apollo Christian: or Helicon reformed		1617 (1617)	STC 708; ESTC S104423	21,858	50

were of them whom blessed Paul describes To bee the choysest glories of their Tribes Cloath'd in goat-skins without perfumes or dresse Wandring on mountaines and in wildernesse For-borne by wilde beasts but by Tyrants slaine Stoned in townes whom rockes let safe remaine And poore distrest from caue to caue did passe Of whom the wretched world vnworthy was And though that Henoch and Elias were Most eminent so that our Master here Vpon mount Thabor did the Thesbite see The Baptist was as great as hee or hee Therefore of him would Christ his baptisme take And was baptized for examples sake Jordan saw this and where our Sauiour stood Came trembling forward the abashed flood Vnworthy Christs most sacred limbs to touch Nor could the opening heauens admire too much This secret most profound that Mercies Sea In narrow riuer should contained bee Before this time Christ well declared had By arguing with the Doctors what was clad In scorned semblant Natures author hee How else cold fountaine water changed bee The first of his great wonders into wine Honouring marriage mystery diuine But who hath words sufficient to expresse The testimonies of his heauenlinesse Words are too weake seeing that other Iohn The Gospels Eagle Christs beloued One A flures vs nor is his assurance vaine That the wide world could not the Tomes containe Might written bee of miracles hee did Yet let vs touch some For enthronized Although hee bee right at his fathers hand This monument will to good purpose stand §. 5. OVt of pure nothing all the world was rais'd And beeing somewhat God the Sonne it pais'd God all powre gaue to him as hee was man Who wonders at it Hee who all things can May all things gouerne well and so doth hee Euangelists fowre of you such there bee Whom great Ezechiel poet most diuine In figures fowre exprest As Matthew thine And thine ô Marck Saint Peters scholler sworne And Luke and Iohn on Eagles wings high borne Matthew presented in a wing'd mans image Marck in a Lyons Luke CHRISTS mothers linage Describing by the winged Oxe is known Their harmony a perfect Vnison That what Iustinian of the Septuagint In Romes lawes most authentick instrument What Aristaas or the Fathers write Concerning Scriptures brought in Greeke to light At Ptolomees command t' enrich the store Of Alexandria's bookes the same much more Is certaine in the Gospels rare concent Those first Translatours of th' old Testament Diuinely did accord although apart They sat in seuerall cels that so to Art Their harmony could not imputed bee By the same Spirit did these fowre agree Their concord worthiest to bee most admir'd As most vndoubted and alike inspir'd Not in one place as were those seauentie two Nor at one time and what they had to do Was not deriuatiue but originall Vpon this Quadrate Euangelicall This rockie Basis truth her towre doth build Which spite of weather still hath stronger held Himselfe writ nothing nothing did commit Or did omit which the most captious wit Could charge for sinne or could be better done Enough enough this shewes he was Gods sonne Maiesty made him others pens to vse And Deity his spirit to infuse §. 5. MOst wondrous this that he should bee so poore As not to haue or couch or homely bowr In which to rest his venerable head Propriety by him vnpractised Such as are downe in meanes doe feele this state Most difficult of all to eleuate And that a weight of wonder lies therein O whither yet from hence did he not win Nothing to haue and yet all things to sway Apostles twelue Disciples do obay Thrice two times twelue to his magistrall will These he did cloath these he with food did fill Out of his doctrines force For Lordships hee And farmes had none though his the whole earth bee With whatsoeuer creatures are therein Th' Oeconomie of Hierarchie seene They begg'd not they lackt nothing nor tooke care For morrowes a felicity most rare Hee Primate among his and worthiest was Prouiding that no day should ouerpasse To bee repented as in wants dis-spent What of the Author of the firmament Durst men hope lesse The blinde the deafe the lame The dumbe sicke dead who to their senses came Through his immediate gift were infinite Hee grew authenticke in the peoples sight Angels who had beene chang'd from white to blacke From faire to fowle from such as no blisse lacke To such as all blisse want and others make To lacke alike hee did so throughly shake That among swine they gladly harbour sought Nor could obtaiue till leaue of him was got Thus was the Diuell trampled vnder foot As God had promis'd when in natures root Man blasted was by his infernall guile §. 6. FRom hence let me conuert my mounting stile To the last act of his most wondrous life His sermons we omit in Gospell rife Rife and exact as the rein penned downe By God who spake them And in all the crowne Of auditors who did not rise admiring Or who doth read his words and more desiring And thinking more from roading doth not rise Witnesse those daily swelling Libraries Growne out of comments on his sermons made Into whose depths no mortall wit can wade Nor line can sound th'abysses of his lore We often know the lesse by knowing more Abysse begets abysse mysterie mysterie All schooles are blanckt all eloquence all hystorie Nor lies this hardnesse in th'Euangelists Who weaue their text with most transparent twists And on the precious ground-worke cause t' appeare The images of acts so perfect cleare And with proportion so exact and true As make no dainty of an open view Nor doth the Greeke with dialects vex the sense As th'Hebrew with their words equiualence To sundry vses th holy phrase is fit Aswell for loftiest as for lowest wit And as much as the largest tongue can bee To all intents of full capacitee Nor stints the maruell heere For who so dull That somewhat not conceiues and who so full Whose stores may not encrease ten thousand fold Gods wisdome in it doth the wonder hold Abstract from miracles for weake ones granted Who wholly build on them are often scanted His parables his sentences his speeches Are altogether such as no minde reaches The fulnesse of their Anagogicke sense Pole is from pole not so farre distant hence As Fathers Doctors Counsels are farre short Not of the truth but of th' entire purport Yet is it written and that writ is right That in his light wee faithfull should see light And from one cleerenesse passing to another Last times should open what the first did smother O had wee beene so happy from on high As to haue felt the force and energie And most victorious vtterance of Christs words Did Scripture as it substances affords The postures of his action shew to vs And gestures grace which th'artificious Are so much in ô had we beene so blest Rapture could onely serue to speake the rest Enough to constitute a proofe past