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A brief remembrancer, or, The right improvement of Christ's birth-day.
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T. C.
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1672
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Wing C128A; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[178]
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A Brief REMEMBRANCER OR The Right IMPROVEMENT OF CHRIST'S BIRTH-DAY THe Glorious Day doth now begin to dawn Now is the Curtain of thick darkness drawn Now doth the Lord of all things condescend To take up in a Stable and be pen'd Within a dirty Manger Now thou' rt blest Ignorant Inn with this most Glorious Guest And now the Saviour of the World 's reveal'd From Heaven to Shepherds watching in the Field The Glory of an Angel did surround them The Glory was so great it did confound them Fear not said he perceiving them afraid Fear not all be not at all dismay'd 'T is Joyful Tydings that I come to bring This Day is born your Sav'our and your King In Bethlehem you 'l find it as I said The Babe's wrapt up and in a Manger laid And hardly had the Angel made an end But there whole Quires of Angels did attend That King with Hallelujahs to adore That sitteth on the Throne for evermore Glory to God on High Peace on the Earth Good will to Men they Sung with holy Mirth Then ran the Shepherds to the Town and saw Mary and Joseph and the Babe in Straw They fill'd the Town with Fame and their Relation Fill'd all that heard the same with Admiration But Mary pondr'd all things in her Heart And they with Joy and Praise to God depart Him at the Time prefixt they circumcis'd Naming Him Jesus as they were advis'd Some Five Weeks after that his Parents went Up to Jerusalem him to present Now while they were i' th' Temple came to them Old upright Simeon of Jerusalem Who by the Spirit had been certifi'd Of seeing God's Anoynted ere de dy'd Fill'd with the Holy Ghost he came in hast And in his Arms that Holy Child embrac'd Now let thy Servant Lord said he decease According to thy holy Word in Peace For I have seen the thing I waited for Now I have seen my LORD my Saviour Anna a Proph'tess also thither came To render Praise and Glory to his Name Affirming Jesus to be Christ to them That waited for him at Jerusalem The Wise-men from the East enquire for one Born amongst them to sit on Judah's Throne We 've seen said they the Star of your Great King And came to worship with our offering Herod's Amaz'd with this strange suddain News With all the Learned Rabbies of the Jews And having askt the Hebrew Doctors where Messiah should be Born 't was made appear That Beth'lem was the Place from Bethlehem Micah sends forth this Ruler over them Then Herod after private Conference About the Star's appearing sent them thence Desiring them to search and find him out Then to Return and tell him where about But warn'd of God to flee the Tyrant they Returned home again another way But seeing he was mockt in cursed Fury Resolves the Death of every Child in Jury But the all-piercing Eye this secret views And unto Joseph swiftly sends the News Up said the Angel Take the Child and 's Mother This place is not secure go seek another Herod hath Murd'rous thoughts his rage is stir'd Go dwell in Egypt till I bring you word Joseph obey'd and there he stay'd till thence God call'd his Son as he had done long since Christ's four Houses His first House was the Blessed Virgin 's Womb The next a Cratch the third a Cross the fourth a Tomb. We often read our blessed Saviour wept But never laught and seldom that he slept Ah sure his heavy Eyes did wake and weep For us that sin so oft in mirth and sleep O thou that wert the King of Heav'n and Earth How mean was thy Attendance at thy Birth A Manger was thy Cradle and a Stable Thy Privy Chamber Marys Knees thy Table Thieves were thy Courtiers the Cross thy Throne Thy Dyet Gall A wreath of Thorns thy Crown All this the King of Glory endur'd and more To make us Kings that Rebels were before Faith in this Jesus is the substance of things not seen and the Evidence of things hoped for By which Faith Abel offered Enoch was Translated Noah warned and prepared an Ark to the saving of him and his condemning the World Abraham by this Faith when called obeyed and was a Sojourner in the Land of Promise Through Faith Sarah conceived when she was past Age After this Abraham being tryed offered up Isaac By Faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come By Faith Jacob when he was dying blessed the Sons of Joseph By Faith Joseph when he dyed made mention of the departure of Israel out of Egypt By Faith Moses when he was born was hid and at Age refused to be called the Son of King Pharaoh's Daughter rather chusing to suffer affliction with God's Israel in affliction For the Esteem of the reproach of Christ he forsook Egypt kept the Passeover passed through the Red Sea By Faith the Walls of Jericho fell and Rahab the Harlot by Faith escaped Faith upheld Gideon Barak Sampson Jephtha David Samuel and the Prophets who through Faith subdued Kingdoms obtained Promises stopped the mouths of Lions quenched the violence of Fire c. Women received their dead raised to life others were tortured others tryed with cruel mockings and scourgings others were stoned sawn asunder tempted slain with the sword And others wandred about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins being destitute afflicted tormented of whom the World was not worthy they wandred in Desarts and in Mountains and in Dens and Caves of the Earth and these all obtained a Good Report through Faith in this Jesus Let the perished unbelieving Israelites mind you of Infidelity and the condition of faln Angels reserved in chains awake you the suffering Sodomites in eternal fire affright you to leave off these spots of feeding without fear of drinking without measure foam not out your own shame Leave off ungodly Deedes hard Speeches rash Censures Mock not at Piety but hate the Garment spotted by the Flesh Oh all you that pretend to keep Christ's time and to observe Christ's Day be in love with Christ's Wayes and Worship which is in Spirit and Truth Collected by T. C. Reader there is Lately Extant Divine Examples of God's severe Judgments upon Sabbath-Breakers in their unlawsul Sports Collected out of several Divine Subjects viz Mr. H. B. Mr. Beard and the Practice of Piety A fit Monument for our present Times c. Licensed and Entred According to Order London Printed by E. T. and R. H. for William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in S. Pauls Church-Yard near the Little North door 167â—