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Love and charity presented in a copy of verses to his worthy masters in the ward of St. Giles's Cripplegate without. / By William Briscoe, bell-man within the Freedom.
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Briscoe, William.
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1668
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Wing B4759; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[132]
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LOVE and CHARITY PRESENTED In a Copy of VERSES to his Worthy Masters in the WARD of St. Giles's Cripplegate without By William Briscoe Bell-man within the Freedom For Christmass Day Y' Are welcome Masters all to Christmass Day Of which God send you all spiritual joy And fill your hearts with deep consideration Of the great benefit of Man's Salvation So infinite the Sin of Adam was That God must come thus to redeem the loss Thus to be born and afterwards to die None but Himself Himself could satisfie God's Love to the World Such Love the Lord unto the World hath showne In giving to us from his Bosome's Throne His equal and only begotten Sonne Th' assurer of Eternal Life to come And Great Redeemer of the World from Sin That none may perish that believe in him For not to judge the World sent was Hee But that the World by him might saved bee For Saint Stephen's Day Saint Stephen to the Churche's first renown Of Martyrdome this day obtain'd the Crown By murdering hands of the incensed Jewes Who did him falsly of Blasphemy accuse With battering stones against his Angel's Face His Soul flying glorious to her mansion place But left behind the vertue of his Prayer Made for his heads-men of which Paul had share Saint Stephen's Charity for his Enemies Christ's Charity was in his Sufferings much And Stephen's was in imitation such Father saith Christ forgive them of this fact For verily they know not what they act Like Charity enflam'd the prayer of Stephen Made on his Knees to have them all forgiven That actors were and furtherers of his death So the good Saint concluded his last breath For Saint John's Day Saint John above all other term'd Divine Having set forth his Gospel most sublime In boyling Oyl confirm'd the truth he wrott Anointed Martyr but not hurt a jott Thence banisht where he writ in Patmos Isle Of the last Times in high Prophetick stile Then what became of John or how John dy'd I leave that for the Learned to decide Saint John's Love Christ who did love Saint John with love entire Enflam'd his heart with love's most holy fire A Virgin love deriv'd most pure and clean When on his Breast John's head in love did lean What time proceeding in Love's School Divine His Sacred Writings savour love each line And was in love by tryal of the fire Crown'd for his love a Martyr in desire For Childermas Day Now Herod Warrs against the God of Hoasts In Bethlehem and all throughout her Coasts Where a loud voice was heard of lamentation Rachel without regard to consolation Was weeping for her Children Cruel deed To make so many innocent Infants bleed But being for Christ the sacred act and voice Made Abram's Bosome and all Heav'n rejoyce Christ's Love to Children Christ calling still even in his Infancy Suffer the little Ones to come to me Confirms his love to little Children much That would in special first make choice of such To bleed for him and drink of his first Cup Which was in Circumcision offer'd up Thousands in rage sent by th' incestuous Ramme To be continual followers of the Lambe For New-Years Day On New-Year's Day was to the Virgin 's Sonne Th' old Sacrament of Circumcision done From whose divided Flesh did freely spring His Babes new Blood in Sacrifice for Sinne Th' unloading of whose Veins at eight dayes old Man 's promis'd full Redemption well foretold How bounteous his Good-Friday's Gift would bee That in his New-Years Offering was so free Christ's New-Years Gift in Love A bounteous New-Years Guift it was indeed Which Christ this day out of his Veins did bleed To which no Creature possible could move But only Man the object of his Love Christ nothing thought too precious nor too much T' engage for Man his Love to Man was such If Christ on Man so much enamour'd bee Base is Man's love of any less then Hee For the Epiphany The Twelfth day after the Nativity Great was in Beth'lem the Festivity Of the Three Kings who after their long station Arriv'd the birth-place of the Worlds Salvation Whom though in meanest posture they behold Their Saba's Incense and Arabian Gold Offer'd with lively Faith prostrate before him They for their liege-Liege-Lord God Man adore him The Love of the Three Kings to Christ And as their Faiths their Loves to Christ was great So far from their abode and Native seat To travel with hard labour and expence In a poor Child to seek Omnipotence To succour him that shivering was with cold Perfume his head and load his hands with Gold With many accommodations more beside When Beth'lem a poor Lodging him deny'd For Candlemas Day Th' unspotted Virgin Mary on this Tide According to the Law was purify'd A needless Remedy if we consider The Pureness of the Fruit she did deliver But Mary of her Issue stood in awe Who came in all things to fulfill the Law By which Christ teacheth us this Inference That Love is Mother of Obedience Love Christ love his Precept He that by breach of Precept doth remove Himself from Christ abides not in Christ's love Christ's Precept is That we love one another Who can love Christ that loves not then his brother Christ gave for us in love his precious Blood As we ought also for our brethren's good In this doth all Salvation consist However men divert it as they list Love and Charity the mark of a Christian The proper mark of a true Christian Is Charity and Love the Wicked man May Baptism have and Gift of Prophecy With Christian exercise he may comply Yea and receive the Body of our Lord And make the Name of Christ his usual word But Charity peculiar is alone To the true Christian wanting that he 's none Charity the Soul's Convoy Diviner comfort what to man can bring Then mutual converse betwixt God and him As when the Soul by prayer doth mounting fly To Heav'n on wings of Love and Charity And stands by contemplation in the sight Of God who is the sphear of her delight No Tongue can speak the comfort for by this She knowes God and prepares her way to bliss No vertue without Charity So gracious in Gods sight is Charity That all good Works without it do miscarry No Works perform'd of mercy at our door Should we distribute all unto the Poor Deliver up our bodies at the stake To be burn'd only for Religions sake All these do nothing profit nor avail If love we want if Charity doth fail Love God not the World Who to this World doth his heart enthrall Must into one of these two Sorrows fall Either to love the thing he cannot gain Or else to lose what he hath got with pain Wherefore all Worldly affections Man resign And place thy love on that which is Divine Where love shall surely be for love returned And Joyes possest never to be adjourned Christ's Love to the Poor As Christ into the World came poor indeed So hath he left the Poor in his own steed Of whom his Favourites pronounce did Hee What 's given to the Poor is given to mee Can any Christian then deny for shame To give the poor that ask it in Christ's name To give the Poor for Christ's sake do not grutch They are Christ's friends and will not you be such God's Love to the City What can declare the Mercies of our God More then the present sweetning of his Rod To set up LONDON in a cordial state After the Bitter Cup Shee drank of late Not giving her a Mortal Overthrow Although in Sin as much Gods mortal foe As those he left forsaken in His Ire To perish in the Torrent of the Fire London Printed Decemb. 24th 1668.