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II. Wilt thou loue God as hee thee, then digest My soule, this wholsome meditation, Howe God the Spirit by Angells wayted on In heauen, doth make his Temple in thy breast. The Father having begott a Sonne most blest 5 And still begetting, (for hee nere begunne) Hath daign'd to chuse thee by adoption Coheire to his Glorie, and Sabaaths endless rest; And as a robb'd man, which by search doth finde His stollen stuff sold, must loose, or buy'it againe 10 The sonne of glory came downe, and was slayne Vs, whom hee had made, and Satan stolne, to vnbind. 'Twas much that man was made like God before But that God should bee made like man, much more. 12. Father, part of his double interest Vnto thy kingdome, thy Sonne giues to mee, His Ioincture in the knotty Trinity Hee keeps, and giues mee his Deaths Conquest. This Lambe, whose Death with life the world hath blest 5 Was from the worlds beginning slayne: and hee Hath made twoe wills, which with the Legacie Of his, and thy kingdome, doth thy sonnes invest. Yet such are those lawes, that men argue yet Whether a man those statutes can fulfill; 10 None doth; but all healing grace, and spiritt Reviue againe, what lawe and letter kill. Thy Lawes Abridgment, and thy last command Is all but Loue, Oh lett that last will stand. Finis TEXTS AND ApPARATUSES II. Wilt thou loue God as hee thee, then digest My soule, this whoIsome meditation, Howe God the Spirit by Angells wayted on In heauen, doth make his Temple in thy breast. The Father having begott a Sonne most blest 5 And still begetting, (for hee nere begunne) Hath daign'd to chuse thee by adoption Coheire to his Glorie, and Sabaaths endless rest; And as a robb'd man, which by search doth finde His stollen stuff sold, must loose, or buy'it againe 10 The sonne of glory came downe, and was slayne Vs, whom hee had made, and Satan swIne, to vnbind. 'Twas much that man was made like God before But that God should bee made like man, much more. 12. Father, part of his double interest Vnto thy kingdome, thy Sonne giues to mee, His Ioincture in the knotty Trinity Hee keeps, and giues mee his Deaths Conquest. This Lambe, whose Death with life the world hath blest 5 Was from the worlds beginning slayne: and hee Hath made twoe wills, which with the Legacie Of his, and thy kingdome, doth thy sonnes invest. Yet such are those lawes, that men argue yet Whether a man those statutes can fulfill; 10 None doth; but all healing grace, and spiritt Reviue againe, what lawe and letter kill. Thy Lawes Abridgment, and thy last command Is all but Laue, Oh lett that last will stand. Finis TEXTS AND ApPARATUSES ...

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