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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

hurried by Satan out of the Wilderness through the Air who sets him upon a Pinacle of the Temple in Jerusalem and from thence carries him to a very high Mountain where he tempts his Lord to worship him THE Spirit of Bliss i' th' Wilderness And Desert Christ doth lead Among wild Beasts where are no Feasts Full forty Days no Bread To God's Son dear there did appear In this vast Wilderness A gray old Man with Clothing mean As if some Lamb did miss To Christ he spake Sir What sad Fate Hath brought you to this Place All that come here do die for Fear Or Want in a short space I speak the more upon this score Thou seem'st to be the Man That Man most wise who was baptiz'd By new baptizing John And that good Man baptizing John Call'd thee the Son of God Which if thou be come let me see And make of Stones some Bread Then spake the King unto the Swain Do'st think I know thee not Thou art that Head didst thousands lead When first thou didst revolt Then the arch Fiend who cannot mend Confest he was that Spirit Under sad Fate unfortunate Eternal Wrath t' inherit Then on a trice he hurries Christ Out of the Wilderness All through the Air God's Hemisphere To put him in distress Mr. Milton A Pinacle of the Temple He sate his Judg upon The Temple in Jerusalem And said Come cast thee down Thou shalt not fall the Angels all Procession forth will make From Heaven high the Air and Sky Death to anticipate Thus Beelzebub Prince of the Club King of the damned Crew Does tempt God's Son to worship him As if it were his due Proud Lucifer he did allure His God to worship him These Kingdoms fine shall all be thine Bow now before my Throne This was his Scope and his great hope Man's Saviour to destroy For if the King he made to sin No Saviour could he be Satan be gone Apollyon Worship the Lord thy God And do not tempt him God hath sent To bruise thy subtil Head The Lord of Bliss was tempted thus That simpathize might he And succour those against their Foes Who are in misery Full forty Days he fasts in praise Of Power Infinite That from our Head we might have Bread Of Life of Strength of Might If he God's Son thus set upon To bow and worship him Then wonder not at Satan's Plot That tempts Man to the same He tempted Man for to liken His God to Creatures vile Made very fine in glorious Shine And thus did him defile A Creature cold they ' dorn with Gold Who pompous Worship love Religion gay tempts Men to pray To Devils as God above Full well they 'r known to Heathen Men By various Names they gave Moloc Chemos and Ashtaroth Adonis Thammus brave He sets his Seat by God's most great Satan's Altar by Jah's That Men may moan at his black Throne And then at them he laughs CHAP. XV. The ARGUMENT An Elder and Witness of Christ informs the Church of the Messiah entring upon his Prophetical Office but is opposed by Men of the same Spirit which opposed St. Paul such as Barjesus and Elimas the Sorcerer who irrationally asserted that he wrought Miracles by the Power of the Prince of Devils Lucifer but by his Divine Reply he put them all to silence CHRIST rich in Grace began to preach And Man illuminate In Napthalim and Zebulun Commands them to repent He makes new Hearts and Men translates From Darkness into Light So that his Fame and fragrant Name Were spread both Day and Night But Envy rose among the Jews Against the Prince of Light They flout and jeer they domineer Over his Sovereign Right And many said he friendship had With Beelzebub the Great And in much spite call'd Nazarite The Carpenter's Relique That Pow'r cast out the Legions stout They say 't is Satan's all And thus in spite they ' ppose the Light Of Spirit Word and Soul A Kingdom said our Lord and Head Divided cannot stand Can Satan cast out Satan judg Come answer my Demand From sinful Lust the Holy Ghost Against it now they sin Which to remit here is not meet Nor in the World to come If that Men sin against the Son And Father of all Light He may forgive but not who live The Spirit to despite Who understand the Lord's good Mind And yet in Malice call The Holy Ghost and Blood of Christ The most unjust of all These are the Men who greatly sin Against the last Relief They can't repent whose Hearts are bent To Envy and Mischief CHAP. XVI The ARGUMENT A Man of God enters with an Antient Record called the Gospel which gives a Relation of Christ's sudden departure from Earth to Heaven Also of his bloody Sweat in Gethsemain and of his drinking a horrible Cup of Death in Obedience to his Father and for the Good of Man Moreover how one of his own Family betrayed him into their hands who belonged to the black Prince of the damned Crew and came with Swords and Staves to apprehend Christ whom they bound with Cords and carry him to the Judg as some grand Malefactor THE time draws on Christ must be gone From Earth to Heaven high A Lamb 's prepar'd we might regard That it did typify Pure Shilo's Fate did intimate That Lamb for us must die Who had no Spot yet takes his Lot To bleed at Calvary The Paschal Lamb's Supper be'ng done He blessed Bread did break Lest we forget Love Infinite He gave Command to eat And after supt he took the Cup Which also signified Blood must be shed for there is need Man's Soul be purified And gave Command that Act should stand Until he come again For every Church to practise much To shew his Death and Pain Then after Supper he did utter A Sign of humble Love In washing Feet Come it 's most meet We follow him above They sweetly sing a blessed Hymn Before he went to die With Heart and Tongue they sweetly sung The Praise of God most high The Lord goes out to Olive Mount And Gethsemain also Saith he my Soul is sorrowful My Griefs no Man doth know My People wait I 'll invocate My Father Lord of all If I this Cup of Death must sup Or pass this Draught of Gall. But Lord thy Will not mine fulfil I came no less to do My bloody Sweat and Sorrow great Gives Peace to Greek and Jew When he came back all were asleep What can't you watch one Hour Then said the Lord with one accord Watch pray with all your Power Yea every one no Temptat'on For you may be too high The Flesh is weak Satan's a Cheat Your Trial 's very nigh Then ushers in the most Obscene Upon the Lord of Bliss Judas that Cheat betrays in heat His Master with a Kiss With Staves and Sword they take the Lord As if a Barrabas A Guard most strong they set upon The Innocent alas Jesus did call Whom seek you

to heal Another Man a Syrenian At that time coming by Must bear the Cross most ponderous On which Christ was to die What Wit of Man can now define His Sorrow Grief and Shame Who can dilate and explicate His Misery and Pain At the same time the female Kind Compassion to him shew To see him thrust by Men unjust A base and fordid Crew Jerusalem the Lord said then Weep not for me from hence Peccavi cry your Sins are high Your Pride and Ignorance Condole be sad you were so mad As for to imprecate Innocent Blood upon your Head Will make you desolate He Calv'ry saw and Golgotha The Crosses situation Then Solltude he understood But for a sinful Nation Now being come Christ standeth bound Until the Cross be fixt With a strong Guard about the Lord A bitter Cup they mixt Now all the Crew Roman and Jew This blessed One do strip Unmantle bare and pluck'd the Hair From off his tender Lip He 's naked stript as well as whipt And all his Body bare That ours may be cover'd most free With Righteousness most fair Now all in haste they nail him fast And hang between two Thieves The Scripture's Will for to fulfil So Man from Hell he saves The Nails were great in Hands and Feet That fixt him to the Tree O who can tell what Christ did feel And there sustain'd for thee His Hands and Feet they penetrate And out the Blood did gush For they did tear him with a Spear And crown'd with thorny Bush That Christ was King the Inscription In Hebrew Latin Greek Did signify to all stood by For Pilate thought it meet Over his Head this Paper stood That all might read the same He was the King of Jewish Men Tho they did him defame Before he dies he opes the Eyes Of a most wretched Sinner Who own'd him King believ'd in him As the God-Man Redeemer Remember Lord to me be good When in thy Kingdom-State By my free Grace to Paradise This day I 'll thee translate They him exhaust and now do boast Our Grief he bore it all The weight of Sin was laid on him To save a precious Soul When he would ease his tortured Feet By hanging on his Hands They must be in prodigious pain This Reason understands And when he eas'd his tortur'd Hands By resting on his Feet His Body's weight where e're it met Must make the Patient sick God's holy Son tho God and Man Of Sorrow must be full On him did lie much Misery God's Wrath did fill his Soul The Lord at last cries out I thirst The Prophets to fulfil A Vin'gar spunge they gave his Lungs So he had not his Will Water was scant he must it want We might have plenitude Of living Streams come from his Reins O Love not understood Could Mary then of Magdalen Have had her own desire Her Tears should quench her Saviour's Thirst Whose Heart was on a fire A Flame of Love to him above To all Men did appear Where she did weep and wash his Feet And wip'd them with her Hair Now at this time the Souldiers game For Jesus seamless Coat For to fulfil the sacred Will That Will to consummate The direful Curse was ponderous The Malediction high Which made him cry Ely Ely Lama sabachthany I am content for to be empt Of all my Sacred Blood So I my Flock inoculate By Faith into their Head The Guilt of Man I 'll fasten on This cursed Cross and Tree Justice Divine shall have a Fine To set the Guilty free I 'll bury all their Guilt and Thrall Both in the Grave and deep Yea all the high Iniquity Of my free chosen Sheep Then some obscene said to the King Physician save thy self If that thou be God's Son most free Recover now thy Health The Mother stood nigh by the Wood I mean the wooden Cross On which did hang her precious Son Till all his Blood was lost What Tears of Blood could she have shed His Sorrow to prevent To see those Hands heal'd many Wounds So pierced torn and rent His glorious Head ran purple Blood His Feet and Side the same But his Free Grace that him debas'd Is his immortal Fame Those bloody Eyes they can't suffice Those Sluces are too small His Sorrow to give vent unto Hence from his Pores Blood falls He saw a Scrowl a dismal one Of Sins present and past And Sins to come he must atone For all from first to last Mr. Norris His Love most sweet and bloody Sweat Did wipe off all the Score Some moments Pain makes him to reign Eternal Ages sure And as he hung before the Sun His Virgin-Mother saw His Gore-blood Eyes and heard his Cries To God Abba Abba Into thy Hand my Spirit ascend My Work is finnished All Debts are paid Books cancelled Justice is satisfied Now Christ is dead they brake no Leg The Scripture may fulfil Yet by their Hate hangs dislocate Unjoint from Head to Heel Upon the same great Darkness came All o're the Hemisphere The Rocks did rent the Graves were empt Thus Wonders did appear The Temple-Vail was rent in twain Then soon they understood He was God's Son tho also Man From thence infer was God The Heathens all that Day condole And eloquently said Surely the God of Nature's dead Or final End hath made O this great World to Dust he 'l hurl For hanging on the Cross The Quintessence of all Goodness O Act preposterous CHAP. XIX The ARGUMENT A Friend of the Messiah 's signifies what happened after the Lord's Death A Counsellor at Law begs his Body and inters it with sweet Spices The great Council gives order for a strict Watch a Seal and Stone to be set on the Sepulchre Now Beelzebub triumphs to see Christ dead and in some hopes conquered for ever But the third Day he arose from the Grave to the Confusion of all the Devils And after forty Days upon the Earth ascends to Heaven from Mount Olivet in the view of his Apostles but first gave them his Benediction and on the Day of Pentecost sent down the Holy Ghost and from the Power of this Spirit his Disciples go on in the World conquering by preaching Jesus of Nazareth to be the Son of God OF Pilate Head Joseph did beg The Body of the Just And did inter the Lord with Myrrh As saith the Holy Ghost As Man at first did prove unjust In Eden Paradise The blessed King in a Garden Acquits the Man on wise The Watch was strong they sat upon The Grave where Christ did lie For to prevent the Lord's Intent Of rising the third Day The Sepulchre they made most sure With Watch a Stone and Seal For to prevent the Lord's Intent But they in all do fail When Christ was dead then Beelzebub Did triumph and thus speak I conquer'd have unto the Grave God's Christ of mighty State 'T is I am King and triumphing Who will my Subjects be And Christ deny whom I defy He