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cause_n	death_n	know_v	life_n	2,879	5	4.5653	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07160	[Ane godly treatis, callit the first and second cumming of Christ] [with the tone of the winters-nicht shewing brieflie our native blindness / by James Anderson].	Anderson, James, d. 1603.	1614 (1614)	STC 572.5; ESTC S90283	9,315	28

TO THE RIGHT GODLY WORSHIPFVLL AND VIGILANT PASTOR IN Christs Kirke Iohne Erskin of Dun especiall planter and builder of the Reformed within the boundes of Angus Merns Stermonth and Gowrie Iames Anderson Minister at Collace his most humble and obedient in Christ wisheth grace and peace from God the Father with increase of spirituall gifts and health of bodie through Iesus Christ our Sauiour Amen RIght ancient Professour of the Trueth Long time before it came to cōmon sight Which perilous time thou passedst not with sleuth But hardily didst hazard day and night To bring the Trueth to libertie and light Life Land and geare thou set them all apart Of that true Treasure so joyfull was thine heart Thine house was harbour to all that profest Thy geare was common to them in time of need Aboue all other thou loued thy brethren best As thy own flesh thou didst them cloath feed Not naked loue in word but loue indeed VVhich loue the Lord forget not to restore The more thou gaue hee gaue thee aye the more And whē it pleasde Christ Iesus King of grace To bring his Trueth to light and libertie And by the same proud Papistes to deface And them ouerthrow with their Idolatrie Then did hee call thee to this dignitie To plant his Kirke in Gowrie Mernes and Angus VVhich prudently thou hast planted among vs And hast the same oft watered with his word Perswading euer to perseuerance And not to faint for feare of Fire or Sword But bee enarmed with Faith and patience Builded on Christ that Rocke of sure defence Thus thou ceast not but traueilledst faithfully Till infirme age perforce constrained thee Yea though thou be now warded as it were Frō tedious trauels which thou wast wōt to tak And mayst not from thy Chamber journey farre Yet in thy cure thou art not slow nor flacke But as the Bee that doeth collect and make Her wholsome honey of many Herbes Flowers So thou thy Sermons of sundry sweet Scriptures VVhich thou doest forme into most comly writ For speciall profit to thy Posteritie Thy louable labours therein ere and late VVhen thou art dead shall liue eternally And keepe thy Name in blessed memorie That as in youth thy tong taught Christs word So in thine age thy penne did preach that Lord. I Can not dite as thou hast done deserue In Kirke Court Countrey and Commonweale Carefull the Kirke in peace for to preserue In Court thy counsell was stout true as steele Thy policie decores the Countrey well In planting Trees and building places faire VVith costly Brigs ouer waters plaine repaire THE WINTER NIGHT. THe Winter night I thinke it long Full long and teugh while it ouergang The winters night I thinke so long Both long and dreigh till day Full long thinke I the winters night While daye breake vp with beames so bright And banish darknesse out of sight And workes of darknesse Aa 2 The Winter night that I of meane Is not this naturall night I weine That lackes the light of the Sunne shine And differs from the day But darknesse of our minde it is Which hides from vs the Heauens blisse Since Adam first did make the misse In Paradise that day 3 The joyefull day is Iesus Christ The Womans séede by God promist To tread the Serpents head that Beast that did vs first betray And it did tread him on the hiele The bitter death when hee did féele In his Manhood to reconcile Vs to our God for ay 4 The filthie louer that vs illudes Is Sathan with his blinded buds Of fleshly lusts and worldly goods which cause vs goe astray Who ceaseth neuer but subtillie First gars vs doe syne gars vs die That longsome Night eternally To draw vs from our Day 5 Wée haue no Day but onely one The Sonne of God our Life alone For other dayes wée doe know none Nor yet none other way To guide vs to the Heauens glore And to that state vs to restore Which Adam lost for euermore Were not that precious Day 6 Which blessed Day must twise appeare The first to take our nature here Of his blest Mother a Virgine cleare As I say doth hée say The second time the world to judge Both quicke and dead that number hudge Where faithlesse shall finde no refuge But godly grace that Day 7 The first cumming is long fore-gane Sensyne fourescore of yeares and ninetane Beyonde sixe hundreth and a thousand Not an houre lesse or maa Then since the first cumming is past Wée should bée looking for the last When the Archangel shall the blow blast To dite vs to that Day 8 Long was the Fathers winter night Fiue thousand yeares by reckning right Twixt Adams fall and Christ did light into our flesh that Day Yet though it was so long betwéene They saw him with their spirituall eene Which was the strength did them sustéene To bide that joyfull day 9 Abrams faith was so reposed Hée saw that day and was rejoysed Though faithles Iewes their eyes closed When as come was that Day For which their proude hypocrisie And wilfull incredulitie They are and their posteritie In darknesse to this day 10 The prudent Prophet Isaie Did speake of him al 's specially As hée had séene him sensibly And béene at his birth day First saw him borne of a pure Maide Syne heard him preach the Gospel glad And last our sinnes vpon him laide To take them all away 11 The Prophet Dauid did perceiue This mysterie beyond the laue His soule should not bée left in graue Nor flesh corrupt away Of which as now I speake no mare Till proper place but will it spare And forward to our purpose fare Lest wee ouerlong delay 12 When Daniel did expone the Dreame Of the hudge Image with copper wame With lims of yron and féete of leame and haire of golde so gay Hée saw a stone without mans hand Breake first the féete when it did stand Syne brake it al 's small as the sand And brought it to decay 13 Which Image with their properties Did meane the foure great Monarchies Of Babel Perse and Griece but lies And Romanes in their ray The little stone that hée did see That brake the Image so mightilie Was Christ that matchlesse Monarchie Which neuer shall decay 14 When come was the appointed time That hée should suffer for our crime Hée lighted in the Virgine wyme And did no longer stay That blessed Virgine then him bred Without companie of mans bed The holy Ghost her ouershed As Gabriel did say 15 Elizabeth not long before Conceiued Iohn who gaue him glore And in the wombe did him adore For joye did spring and play His Mother then full feruently Calde Marie blest eternally That shée belieued assuredly To beare that birth that day 16 In Bethlehem when hée was borne The Angels timely in the morne Came to the Heards without sojourne In Fieldes whereas they lay Saying Rejoyce and make great mirth Wée bring