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A00970 Christes bloodie sweat, or the Sonne of God in his agonie. By I.F. Fletcher, Joseph, 1577?-1637, attributed name.; Ford, John, 1586-ca. 1640, attributed name. 1613 (1613) STC 11076; ESTC S117622 33,882 70

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children and did good To euery one yet wicked men did striue To take away his life and shed his blood Whiles yet this blessed Iesus was aliue And on a time he was so much dismaid Hee sweated blood as he his prayers said But what is worse then this hard-hearted Iewes Did hang this good goodman vpon the crosse Nayling his feet and hands and did misuse This gentle soule whom they did fiercely tosse From post to pillar and would not be still'd Vntill they had this our Redeemer kill'd Heere now may bee the prettie childe will weepe And aske his parents why they vs'd him so To which they may reply that God did keepe His soule aliue though life he did forgoe For Christ my childe so dy'd then may they tell That euery one might be redeem'd from hell Much might be added more to spend the howers In better leasure then an anticke tale Teaching the sillie hearers how the powers Aboue reseru'd vs from the Deuils sale Whom had not Christ his blood regain'd the wrath Of life all vs lost sin had sold to death Come then sad Patron of this bloodie sweat And with thine euerlasting comforts cherish Vnfenced Faith which daily is beset With treasons which intice the soule to perish In the delicious Bath of Blood and Water Cleance leporous Soules and Hels dominion batter And here my God the glorious Sonne of peace I close the musicke of my weeping song And further to inlarge thy sorrowes cease Beseeching that thy Spirit may be strong To moue my heart and gently to commit to meditations all the lines I writ Let not the frailtie of my youth misled Be once remembred in the day of grace Let not the bloodie drops which thou hast bled Condemne me guiltie let thy wounds deface The wounds of mine infection now begin Throughly to wash mee from mine odious sin The howres and daies which I haue spent in vaine In fruitlesse studies and inuentiue pleasure Redeeme O Christ and call them backe againe Doe not in Iudgement mine offences measure But in thy mercies hide my faults protect My sighes let thy loue couer my defect Heere Sauiour of the world worke that I may Begin to liue anew and in this theame Of thy sad bloodie sweat learne out the way Of life indeed and wake mee from the dreame Wherein my Soule long slept and felt the terrour Of double two Apprentiships to errour And now my God if I discharged haue This imposition of thine heauenly taske Some token of thy●being pleas'd I craue Some certaine knowledge of thy will I aske For Heauen and Angels with my soule record Ino way haue traduc'd the written word No malice to detract from ruses of State No singuler conceit to purchace fame No pointing at some person neither hate To any priuare wrongs haue made mee name The Plurisies of sin but as thy Sweat All sins hath purg'd all sins I did repeat For which as first thy Spirit did inuite In holy raptures to aduance my minde From earthly slime of holy things to write So hauing written likewise let mee finde Of thy most precious priuiledge some token To grace the trueth of all that hath bin spoken Heere in the pens●ue solace of my Soule Me thought a soft coole winde did gently breath As if my spirit were now transported whole Vnto another life from carnal death When straight a shining light perfum'd the roome Out of which light a whispring voyce did come Rest there it said and toyle thee now no more Knit vp the period of thy trembling Stile And learne to liue not as thou didst before But in a smoother course and I the while Will teach thee how thou shalt attaine the place Where quiet soules doe end their happie race For since thou hast with such a modest care Although thy verse doe want the grace of words Limn'd out my wounds and told them as they are So liuely as thy simple skill affords I le take thy meaning in the better part And for thine offring will accept thy heart May bee some wandring eye that shall suruey This wonder of my Sweat in those thy numbers Will take a truce with time and shake away Fron●●ff his Soule the lusts wherein it slumbers Then hast thou hid a multitude of sin If all thy paines one Soule from ruine win And blessedly hereafter shall succeed Thy studies and thy labours if thou shunne The path that thou hast ●rode and wilt take heed To vndoe the many follies thou hast done For if thou haue respect vnto my Lawes Before my Father I will plead thy cause But thou marke well these words A time shall be When Reason shall beate downe the force of might And Natures Sonnes shall wish for peace but see Th' effects of blood and feele the scourge of fight Now vnrespected and not felt but men Shall what they had vnprais'd remember then Happie the soule that sleepes in peace and thou Prouide against such daies watch fast and craue A dissolution and prepare thee how Thy conscience may be furnisht for thy graue Nor doe repute it for a fabling ●este Which sayes Good conscience is a daily feaste Feast on in that and henceforth be secure In strength of Faith let all thy cares be ●as'd By bathing in my Blood and fountaine pure Of this my Sweat and I in this am pleas'd Rest thou for loe the Angels in their rankes Waite my returne thy labour be thy thankes Vp flew the light and silence shew'd the voyce Retir'd to stilnesse which depriu'd my sence Of all the glory of that heauenly noyse Which with such sweet content departed thence Forthwith my Soule her wonted babit tooke And Heal'd vp my comforts in a booke FINIS Esay 53. 3. Mat. 4. 2. Luke 9. 58. Psal. 41. 9. Mat. 12. 24. Luke 22. 44 Acts. 2. 23. Iohn 1. 29. 36. Reue 5. 8. 9. 1. Zech 9. 9 Mat 2. 5. Mat. 11. 29. Mat. 12. 18. 19. 20. Mar. 6. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Luke 4. 22. to 31. Iohn 1. 41. Iohn 11. 33. 35. 38. Mar. 8. 12. Luke 19. 41 42. Lam. 1. 12 Mat. 27. 29. Esay 53. 2. Iohn 13. 1. Gal. 4. 5. Eph. 1. 10. Mat. 26. 37 Luk. 21. 37 Mat. 21. 1. et 24. 3. Iohn 18. 1. Mar. 14. 32. Luke 22. 4 Iohn 8. 59. Mat. 26. 28 Esay ●2 4. 7. Iohn 10. 18 Mat. 26. 39. Mar. 14. 36 Luke 22. 42 Phil. 2. 8. Heb. 2. 9. Luke 22. 43 Verse 44. ibid. Psal. 18. 23. 1. Pet. 2. 22. Esay 53. 9. Luke 8. 2. 3 Mat. 14. 19. Iohn 47. Mat. 11. 19. Luke 4. 21. Mar. 6. 6 .1 Iohn 3. 5. Mat. 8. 17. Heb. 9. 28. Leui. 17. 11. Heb. 19. 22 as hapned by Herod Mat 2. 8. Luke 3. 1. Acts. 12. 21 22. Iohn 18. 22. Psal. 82. 1. 6 Reu. 17. 2 Luke 23. 12. Acts. 23. 4. 5. Mat. 7. 15. Mat. 23. 2. Mat. 7. 3. Iohn 8. 44. Mat. 23. 13 Mar. 12. 40