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word_n	body_n	bread_n	sacramental_a	3,200	5	12.1852	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19051	Hebdomada sacra: A weekes deuotion: or, Seuen poeticall meditations vpon the second chapter of St. Matthewes gospell. Written, by Roger Cocks.	Cocks, Roger, fl. 1630-1642.	1630 (1630)	STC 5467; ESTC S118643	39,040	84

But why O Lord wert thou thus poorely borne Why didst thou make thy selfe to be a scorne To after Ages Was it to conceale Thy Deity from Satan or reueale Thy vnexampled goodnesse vnto man The like whereof since time and place began To circumscribe our actions was not knowne Nor shall vnto succeeding age be showne As Israels King did once his habite change 1. King 22. When he wagde warre ' gainst Syria and did range The field in strange disguise So Christ our King Whom an vnbounded loue from heauen did bring To fight gainst hellish Syrians and by armes To giue vs freedome from death-threatning harmes Exchang'd his habite for bright Maiestie Clothing himselfe with base infirmity If some great King put on his royall Crowne And regall ornaments he may be knowne But if his Kingly dignity he hide In vile aray he may passe vndiscried So had our kingly Sauiour cloth'd with light As with a garment come at first in sight He would haue then beene knowne vnto his foe And none haue dar'd once to exchange a blow That he might therefore come vnto the fight Vnknowne this King of Israel had him dight In strange aray A Stable was his Throne A Cratch his Cradle His attendance none With hunger thirst disgrace and pouerty Our Sauiour couered his diuinity Loe here full low he in a Cratch doth lie Who sometimes on the winged wind doth flie Esai 66. 1 And he whose throne is heau'n whose footstoole earth Hath but a sordid Stable at his Birth O had not man layne miserably defil'd In sinnes polluted Stable this faire Child Had found a better lodging but 't was fit That he which is our food the sweetest bit That euer mortall tasted should be laid In a poore Manger since it may be said Men were turn'd worse then beasts and therefore they Bernard To be refresht as beasts that feede on Hay The ancient Prophets had foretold of yore That Bethlehem was the place whereas ybore Should the Messias been the learned read The word to signifie the house of bread Whether because for fruitefulnesse and food It as a store-house to the countrey stood So ' mongst the ancient Romans Sicily Horreum Italiae Tully Was sometimes called the barne of Italy Or because Christ true heauenly bread indeed Whereon our soules and not our mouthes doe feed Was there brought forth so fathers moralize Hierom. Gregory Indeed from him all bread that doth suffice Our soules and bodies is deriu'd he giues Corporall bread by which the body liues Doctrinall bread he also doth affoord And this we call his holy heauenly Word Bread Sacramentall in which we receiue Spiritually the Giuer and conceiue A blessed vnion made in a strange fashion By Faith and not by transubstantiation In fine celestiall bread he doth dispose At his eternall Table vnto those Which are his Seruants whose delicious tasting Shall giue our bodies an immortall lasting In Iosephs time the come of Aegypt land Genes 41. Was without number like the Ocean sand Bethlem had greater plenty at Christs Birth For heere was bread to nourish all the earth And of more blest continuance those full cares In Pharaohs countrey lasted but seuen yeares Leane famine then tooke place our Bethlehems store As inexhausted lasts for euermore There the Aegyptians when they wanted Cates Were faine to buy them at excessiue rates Heere Bread like to the Prophets Milke and Wine Esai 55. 1. A man may purchase without price or coyne And therefore as all nations in their neede To Ioseph came for corne whereon to feede So let all people vnto Bethlehem haste And seeke out the true Ioseph which is plac'd By the celestiall Pharaoh o're the earth To furnish men with corne against the dearth Threatning the soules destruction who will giue If they but aske enough for them to liue Heere and heereafter where they shall be fed In an eternall house of liuing bread Thrice happy Bethlehem thou blest house of bread On whom the Sunne of glorie first did spread The comfortable beames of his man God Vnited nature and there made abode But O more happy they within whose heart Faith giues him second birth and will not part With this blest store I would our soules might be The Bethlehem of his Natiuity But ere this can be so we must put on Mystically such a condition As that place had first Bethlehem did seeme But little in extent lesse in esteeme The least of Iudahs thousands So must we If we expect a blest renascency Micah 5. 3. Of Christ within our soules or would inherit The purchase of his all-sufficient merit Be meane and little in our owne esteeme How great how good soeuer we may seeme In others iudgement euery Christian knowes That Christ a Lilly is but such as growes In the low valley of an humble minde Cant. 2. 1. Not on proud mountaine tops and as we finde Flouds run not vp steep cliffs but through low groūds Conueigh their current So his Grace surrounds With a sweet streame of goodnesse only those Which like low bottomes humbly doe dispose Themselues to that blest moisture we must then If we would haue our Christ the best of men Spiritually borne in vs all agree To be a Bethlehem in humility Againe we must be storehouses of bread To feed the hungry he that doth not spread A wing of mercy on the poore shall finde Christ will not house them there the supple minde Like pliant waxe loues gentle fire must soften Ere he imprint his seale and we must often Eccles. 11. 1. Cast our bread on the waters if we looke That he which humane nature on him tooke To saue the world while here we liue on earth Should haue within our hearts a second birth Now was the Scepter tane from Iudahs hand Nor 'twixt his feete sate he who did command The Lawes coerciue power an argument Gen. 49. 10. The promis'd Shilo was already sent Blind Iew which dazeled with abundant light Sit'st like a dull Aegyptian in the night Of soule-deluding error could record Of ancient Prophets make thee giue thy Lord No better welcome wilt thou yet denie This firme vnquestion'd truth obstinate eye Shut vp in wilfull blindnesse let the place Where Christ was borne the time when from the chase This cloud of darkenesse looke not still in vaine For thy Messias who till all againe Turne into Chaos shall no more be sent What time for want of faith thou shalt be shent And sentenc'd to destruction if in time Thy teares like Iordan wash not out thy crime But as when Moses was in Aegypt borne Exod. 2. He was of his owne mother as forlorne Cast out into the riuer and there found By Pharaohs daughter who from being dround Preseru'd the Infant and with tender care Brought vp this foundling as her wombe had bare That goodly Hebrew So was Christ bereau'd Of a glad welcome by the Iewes receiu'd By the now happier