DE LAPSU HOMINIS IN ADAM. PAUPER amabilis et venerabilis, est benedictus, Hic ubi mergitur, horrida cernitur omnis imago, Vir neque fœmina, nec sua semina, morte perissent, Stirps miserorum plena dolorum postea crevit, His quoque damnis pluribus annis subdita flevit. DE RESTITUTIONE HOMINIS PER CHRISTUM. SED Deus omnipotens, qui verbo cuncta creavit, OF THE FALL OF MAN IN ADAM. THE poor man belov'd, for virtue approv'd, right blessed is he, Where covetous chuff, who never hath enough, accursed shall be. Who goodness rejecteth, and evil affecteth, shall fall in the pit; No plenty of pence shall free him from thence; no power nor wit. Both unrepassable and unsatiable, that gulph will ap pear; Embogg'd he shall be, where nought he shall see, but horror and fear. Adam unstable, and Eve variable, the very first time, By falling from God, deserved this rod, Oh horrible crime! For had they adhered to God, and him feared, by keeping his reed, Then death had not come on, the man or the woman, their seed. or any But when as the man, from God's will began, basely to revolt, For his grievous sin, death came rushing in, and on him laid holt. This was the great crime, which at the first time, by craft of the devil, Did bring in the seed, of sickness and need, and all other evil: This was the sin, which first did begin, our parents to kill, And heavenly food, prepar'd for our good, did utterly spill. Unhappy the fate, which first such a state, such sorrow did bring, To him that had lost, so much to our cost, our heavenly King. The credulous Eve, 'twas she that did give, the cause of such evil, Hoping that honour, would come more upon her, deceiv'd by the devil; Believing of him, did make her to sin, to all our great loss; For mankind e'er since, received from hence, an horrible cross; For all the nations, through all generations, which after have been, With grief of their heart, have tasted the smart, of that primitive sin. OF THE RESTORING OF MAN BY CHRIST. BUT Jove omnipotent, all things by his word who created, Grieving man to be fall'n, whose love was in him so innated, Sent from above his word, for man to prepare a re turning Thence, where else had he lain through all eternity burning. So God's only begotten Son, came down to redeem us; Purchased our salvation, was our Saviour wholly : For by his willing death, he Death's self wholly defeated, And so us all from eternal death, by death rebegetted. From death again rising, he Death's prince mightily maimed, Whereby his own from death, to Eternal life he regained. THE END OF THE POETICAL RHAPSODY. |