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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33990	The marrow of gospel-history, or, A diversion for youth at their spare hours being a poem on the birth, life, death, and resurrection of our most blessed lord and saviour, Jesus Christ : with some thoughts on the apostate angels and fallen man ... / by Hercules Collins ...	Collins, Hercules, d. 1702.	1696 (1696)	Wing C5362; ESTC R43110	29,586	100

his Mercy 's good He sent to us his Son To save us from the Proud and Strong Yea all our Enemies In Righteousness and Holiness To serve him all our Days That good Day-spring doth Knowledg bring Of Sins remission free And blessed Light and Peace in sight To those in Darkness lay With Simeon old let 's be so bold To take the Lord of Glory In Arms of Love tho high above Heaven's Superior Story And praise him too for 't is his due And tell him we can die Peace and Rest because the best Of Objects now we see Our Eyes have seen the blessed One Hid from great Potentates The Gentiles Light he is most bright And Israel's Glory great Now triumph Saint the Lord he went Unto Mount Calvary Suffer'd the Cross and bore the Curse For Man's Felicity ●or surely by his Poverty The Poor are very rich And by his Shame they have great Fame No earthly Monarch such We were set free for bound was he Unto the Post and Cross Great Grief he had we might be glad Our Crown cannot be lost ●rom Heaven's room the Son came down We all might there ascend God Man became he might regain That Love which hath no End No House had he tho of Heaven free We may have one above Not made with Hands or Mens Commands But by God's Power and Love God in the dark seem'd to forsake His own eternal Son We might have Light splendid and bright And ever with him dwell A Wonder 's here God's Son most dear Had less ground to expect The Shines of God when that he di'd Than Saints of either Sex He 's in the Dark to purchase Light From hence forsaken too Saints may expect tho Christ did not God's Shines their Dying-day Lord we a Song will sing as long As an Eternity O King of Days 't is endless Praise Is still thy Childrens cry What tho we stand in a strange Land A Babel Wilderness Our Harps will tune to the Renown Of him who 's Lord of Hosts As travelling on to Mount Sion Our House our Place our Home As going on we 'll sing our Song To him upon the Throne Who can but sing the Lord will come Methinks he 's at the Door Faith sees him stand now just at hand My Soul be sad no more With David sing and Offerings bring Let all the Saints of God Rejoice in him that maketh them Most glorious by his Blood Upon your Bed sing to your Head Declare his noble Acts For this will be-eternally The Work of Tongue and Hearts O let us sing the Lamb's sweet Song Cry Great and marvell us Are all thy Works Lord God of Hosts Almighty true and just And with Saint John we 'l praise the Lamb The Prince and King of Earth Who loved us and washed us With his own Blood through Faith To God most wise give all due Praise Glory and Majesty Dominion great a Prince's Seat He hath above the Sky Let 's give henceforth Hallelujah Salvation Honour too With that Voice came out from the Throne Praise God his Servants do O King of Saints all Nations faint At thy just Judgment Lord Who shall not fear and thee revere And spread thy Fame abroad Thou worthy art to have the Heart Because all Things th' hast made For thine own Will and Glory still Hence 't is we give thee Laud. Let Heav'n and Earth their Praise set forth And Hallelujahs sing For our high God and mighty Lord Remains a conqu'ring King CHAP. XXI The ARGUMENT An Evangelist sheweth whence it was that so much Shame and Pain fell on an innocent Person by striking the Name of the Debtors out of the black and bloody Bond of the Law and inserting his own What a long Journey he came to redeem and marry poor Leprous Beggars And what bloody Battels he fought to gain this poor contemptible Worm and how he invested her with an Eternal Kingdom of Glory from his last Will and Testament WHO Inquest-makes Interrogates The Scribe which here indites If he can show why all this Wo Fell on the Lord of Light I 'll take from thee Prolixity In a Compendium shew That thee and I made him to die Who was Messiah true His Cheeks we smote by our proud Heart And Hair eradicate His Hands and Feet Nails penetrate He might us happy make I say again thy Sin and mine Procured all this Wo The thorny Crown makes Blood run down From Head to Feet below We him did strip and also whip The Spear ran in his Side The Travail of his Soul did make An Enemy his Bride Come Malefactor evil Actor Make one believing look What all pass by none cast an Eye On me who am forsook Of my dear God my precious Lord And purely for your sake I left my Weal inscrutable I might you happy make My Hand I struck with God who took My Covenant and Bail That I might see the Debtor free From the Infernal Jail Men ought repent they ever went To take a Surety's Place But I did long the Day were come Tho suffer'd much Disgrace Your Names struck out the legal Book That Book and bloody Bond My Name I insert with all my Heart So I stand only bound I who am just God did arrest Your Substitute for all And God accounts the Sinner just And Christ the Criminal I paid Man's Debt by bloody Sweat In Prison also lay But afterward had a Discharge On th' Resurrection Day O Men admire free Grace the higher For Love distinguishing That you might live an Object have For Faith tho Devils none No Gospel-light before their sight Men no Commission have To preach in Hell the pure Gospel He only Men will save Surely Success we should not miss That are Ambassadors If we could preach and Devils teach Their Pardon Christ procures But now we preach our Hands we stretch In vain the whole long day And call upon the Sons of Men To haste and come away To Jesus Christ the Chief and Best But Sinners will not hear So Unbelief makes them the Chief Of Sinners will appear Yea greater than the Devil's Sin Or Man 's in Paradise For neither of them did rebel Against redeeming Grace CHAP. XXII The ARGUMENT The Spouse of Christ interposeth with the admiration of his Love the Quantity and immense Treasures thereof having no Bank nor Bottom The Nature of it is free All Sinners may fill their Vessels from this Pipe which is more comfortable than the most fragrant Wine and so powerful that it draws the Heart to Christ as a Loadstone the Mass of Steel WHAT marvellous rich Love is this That such a cursed Race As we came from should sit among The Children of his Grace Our Fathers sure the Hittites were Our Mothers Amorites A cursed Race yet by free Grace In those the Lord delights None us beheld when in the Field All wallowing in our Blood None pitied us under this Curse But the Samar'tan good He casts an Eye when passed by

is like his Majesty And there doth Intercession make For all whose Sins he bare And will not cease his glorious Work Until they with him are Our Ark of Love which saves thy Dove Thou art O Lord most strong When delug'd all the World beside Th●●●●●'dst thy Church 〈◊〉 Our Jacob's Ladder by which God Doth friendly visit us And we ascend upon the same Immanuel God with us Our Isaac art who bore the Cross And felt the sharpned Sword In whom the Nations all are blest According to thy Word Our blessed Joseph who was sent From Canaan heavenly Unto the Egypt of this World For Food we might not die Our fiery cloudy Pillar art In this dark Wilderness Our Joshua doth us conduct Unto the Land of Rest Our Rock of Ages Lord thou art Smote both by God and Man The Emanation of thy Blood And Streams were seen by John Our feasting Passover also The spotless Lamb was slain The sprinkling of the Soul by Blood Prevents a sinful Reign Our brazen Serpent we behold Whenever stung with Sin From that Disease deliver'd are Which else would end in Hell Our Jubilee accepted Year Was the Year of thy Death We heard the Gospel-Trumpet sound True Joy and free from Wrath. Our Mercy-Seat and Throne of Grace The great Propitiatory From which the Father kindly speaks Poor Sinners here is Glory The Mercy-Seat above the Ark And Tables of the Law Did figure Mercy triumphing O'er Justice which we saw The Altar Priest and Sacrifice As Priest both Man and God As Altar God who sanctifies As Man the Offering's good The rich and holy Vail thou art Thy Body's Vail was rent So we into the holy Place May have a free ascent The Manna in the Wilderness Tho called Angels Food Is far unlike that feeds the Soul The Gospel-Feast is Blood Which here below we feed upon In this sad Wilderness But when once got to Canaan's Land We feed no more as thus Yet as the Jew could not forget The Manna Miracle No more can Saints forget in Bliss God's Wonders there to tell Our Shiloh and safe Maker art And Jacob's Star also The Laver where poor Lepers wash And blessed Fountain too That 's opened for Jerusalem And Judah's Guilt to wash And all the Gentiles that repair To him for Righteousness The Shew-bread Table did hold forth In God's House is no want The Lord is alway with his Flock His Table is not scant Our Altar of Perfume O Lord And golden Censor art The Cloud of spiced Incense sweet Perfumes the Mercy-seat O Lord our Sin and Peace-off'ring Jonah cast in the Sea To still the Storm of Wrath Divine Man in it may not lie Our Temple Tabernacle true Which God did pitch not Man The Godhead dwelt in humane Flesh Is the Temple I mean Our Joshua and dear Saviour Who wore our Rags of Sin And we his Robes of Righteousness So brought unto the King And now the filthy Garment's gone And chang'd with Raiment new The long and spotless Robe of Christ Now what can Satan do Thou art our great Zerubbabel A spiritual Temple makes The Temple of the living God In Men Christ undertakes To build tho greatly opposed By Mountain Enemies He that laid the Foundation-stone The Top-stone he will raise And finish Grace where it 's begun In spite of all our Foes That you may all ever ascribe To him Grace Glory Praise Our Sampson art who slew by Death More than when living was The strangest way of conquering Is dying on a Cross Who took from Satan's Kingdom great The Gates thereof away And led Captivity captive In his triumphing Day Our spotless Lamb both God and Man Was foreordain'd to die To take off Sin and Death's great Sting Bring Immortality The slain and living Goat thou art As slain the Mercy-seat Is still with Blood besprinkled As living dost intreat And interceed continually This is the Incense sweet That like a Cloud in sweet Perfume Is round the Mercy-seat The Goat on which our Sins are laid Iniquities confess And carried out of Memory Lost in the Wilderness And far removed as East from West Drown'd in his bloody Sea Behind his Back they all are cast And blots them out most free He is the great Melchisedeck Without Beginning End As Man no Sire no Mother as God The Type he did transcend A King of Peace and Priest most high Who offer'd once for all Not for his own but others Sins Himself not Beasts did fall The Peoples Covenant thou art In Substance Person Name And hence art called Immanuel Two Natures Person one The Substance of the Covenant Of Grace it is in short Thy God I am thou shalt be mine And we will never part Now God and Man together dwell In Christ for evermore This is the great Foundation of Man's Happiness in store That tho by Sin Man's separate From God the chiefest Good Yet now in Christ united are Man shall live still with God And if the Union cannot cease Call'd Hypostatical No more can that 'tween God and his Because 't is Eternal Tho God and all our Adam lost Yet Christ hath it regain'd And now the Saints have God in all The want of which them pain'd But Unbelievers have not God In what they do enjoy Since Sin did break the golden Link All things do them annoy But those are Christ's all things are theirs And work still for their Good But the Profane what e're they have It 's separate from God From God in way of Covenant So that all these may say Riches and Honour I have much But God in all leaves me And when Man lost a sight of God A Vision beautiful He by his Blood hath it regain'd When all things else did fail CHAP. XXIV The ARGUMENT The undefiled Virgins of the Lamb beg her Beloved to make haste over those Mountains of Bether and Separation and put an end to the Winter Storms and hasten the break of the Eternal Summer and Day of Glory where back-part Sights and Lattice-Looks will be turned into the Beatifical Vision and all the Saints shall have their white Robes Palms in their Hands and Crowns on their Heads and sit with Christ upon his Throne to judg Men and Devils then they shall behold the Glorious Deity shining through the Blessed Glass of the Humane Nature The Virgins conclude with an Exhortation to the Noble Host of Martyrs the Glorious Apostles and Prophets Elders Seraphims Cherubims and every Creature in Heaven and Earth to cast their Crowns before the Lamb. WHAT back-part Views and Lattice Lights To those beyond the Grave There 's Banquets sweet here is none such For any Saint to have Lord make no stay come look'd-for Day What ails the Morning-Light All Shadows flee away be gone And Day of Glory break Lord Bether Mount remove it quite And leap over them all No longer Separation make Between thee and my Soul O be thou like the Roe and Hart With winged speed make haste Come o're