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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>Glad tydings from Heauen: <HI>OR</HI> Chri&s;ts glorious Inuitation to all Sinners, wherein is de&s;cribed the mi&s;ery of his Manhood, and the bitterne&s;&s;e of his Pa&s;&s;ion endured for Man: With &s;undry rea&s;ons inferred, to moue Worldlings to repentance.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the tune of the <HI>Dolefull Shephard,</HI> or <HI>Sandy Soyle.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>AWake from &s;inne, vaine man awake,</L>
<L>Vnto repentance thee betake:</L>
<L>Thy Sauiour calls, O come to me,</L>
<L>And I will ea&s;e and comfort thee.</L>
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<LG>
<L>My Father as the Scripture &s;aith,</L>
<L>Delights not in a Sinners death:</L>
<L>And therefore hath &s;ent me his Sonne,</L>
<L>That &s;inners all to me might come.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then come to me, 'tis onely I,</L>
<L>Can helpe thee in thy mi&s;ery:</L>
<L>'Tis I can wa&s;h thy fonle offence,</L>
<L>And cloath thy &s;oule with innocence.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And that thou mai&s;t a&s;&s;ured be,</L>
<L>What paines I haue &s;uff'red for thee;</L>
<L>Attend giue eare, and li&s;ten well</L>
<L>Vnto the things that I &s;hall tell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fir&s;t being God, I did become,</L>
<L>A man, nay wor&s;e, a &s;corne to &s;ome,</L>
<L>Was lou'd of &s;ome, de&s;pi&s;'d of mo&s;t,</L>
<L>Still on the &s;ea of &s;orrowes to&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No &s;ooner to this world I came,</L>
<L>But <HI>Herod</HI> would my life haue fane,</L>
<L>And where&s;oeuer I did flye,</L>
<L>I was not free from mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Cold, hunger, thir&s;t, &s;ad griefe, and paine,</L>
<L>And all that frailty doth &s;u&s;taine,</L>
<L>My humane nature brought to me&punc;</L>
<L>All this I felt, O man, for thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sad &s;ighes, deepe grones &amp; &s;weating blood,</L>
<L>I did endure to doe thee good:</L>
<L>So terrible my torment was,</L>
<L>That once I would haue had it pa&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And to conclude the Tragedy,</L>
<L>Of all my wofull mi&s;ery:</L>
<L>The Iewes at their high Prie&s;ts command</L>
<L>Did come and take me out of hand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next was I brought to <HI>Caiphas</HI> Hall,</L>
<L>There to appeare before them all:</L>
<L>And at length decreed it was,</L>
<L>That I mu&s;t &s;uffer on the Cro&s;&s;e.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But fir&s;t they did there all agree.</L>
<L>With whips to &s;courge and puni&s;h me,</L>
<L>Which being done, then pre&s;ently,</L>
<L>I was conuey'd to <HI>Caluary.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where to augment my mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>They nailed me vpon a Tree:</L>
<L>And cau&s;e I &s;hould not want di&s;grace,</L>
<L>Betweene two theeues I had my place.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And being crowned with thornes &s;harpe,</L>
<L>Each one would flouting at me carpe.</L>
<L>And he was counted there the be&s;t,</L>
<L>That could deride and mocke me mo&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This done to make an end of all,</L>
<L>They gaue mee vinegar and gall:</L>
<L>And la&s;tly they did pierce my &s;ide,</L>
<L>Whence blood and water did proceed.</L>
</LG>
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<HEAD>The &s;econd part.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame tune.</OPENER>
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<L>THe&s;e torments Man, I did endure,</L>
<L>That thou might&s;t be for euer &s;ure,</L>
<L>Of life, and come with Faith to me,</L>
<L>That I from &s;inne might &s;et thee free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then come with Faith doe not de&s;paire,</L>
<L>Although thy &s;innes as crim&s;on are,</L>
<L>Yet hath my Blood them wa&s;hed &s;o,</L>
<L>That they &s;hall be as white as &s;now.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If thou a murtherer ha&s;t beene,</L>
<L>Or giuen to adulterous &s;inne:</L>
<L>View <HI>Dauid</HI> who was both and yet</L>
<L>Repenting he did mercy get.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If &s;otti&s;h drunken thou ho&s;t beene,</L>
<L>Or &s;tained with ince&s;tuous &s;inne:</L>
<L>See <HI>Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> who fell into that lu&s;t,</L>
<L>Yet by Gods loue was counted iu&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If thou by cur&s;ed Periury,</L>
<L>Ha&s;t ca&s;t they &s;oule in leopardy:</L>
<L>With <HI>Peters</HI> teares wa&s;h off they &s;inne,</L>
<L>And thou with him &s;halt mercy winne.</L>
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<LG>
<L>If thou (of knowledge de&s;titute)</L>
<L>My Church did&s;t euer per&s;ecute:</L>
<L>Doe not de&s;paire, but looke on <HI>Paul,</HI></L>
<L>And then for mercy to me call.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Prodigall that thriftle&s;&s;e &s;onne,</L>
<L>Who headlong into vice did runne,</L>
<L>Was not ca&s;t off in mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>When once <HI>Peccaui,</HI> he did cry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Mary</HI> a long time went a&s;tray,</L>
<L>Yet did her teares wa&s;h &s;inne away:</L>
<L>She thought it not too late at la&s;t,</L>
<L>Downe at my feet her &s;elfe to ca&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Th&eacute;efe that all his life had &s;pent,</L>
<L>In &s;inne not meaning to repent,</L>
<L>Did at the length obtaine mercy,</L>
<L>Cau&s;e he with penitence did dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tis not the greatne&s;&s;e of the crime,</L>
<L>Should make thee thinke it out of time,</L>
<L>For to repent and on me call:</L>
<L>My pa&s;&s;ion can &s;uffice for all.</L>
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<L>For all that &s;orrow for their &s;inne,</L>
<L>And neuer more delight therein:</L>
<L>For tho&s;e that truly will repent,</L>
<L>For &s;uch me Father hath me &s;ent.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Then what&s;o'ere thou be that art,</L>
<L>With &s;inne polluted, clean&s;e thy heart:</L>
<L>Come with a contrite &s;oule to me,</L>
<L>And I thine Aduocate will be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Come, come, my Fathers wrath preuent,</L>
<L>Leaue off your folly and repent:</L>
<L>O come to me I call againe,</L>
<L>Let not my Pa&s;&s;ion be in vaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now tho&s;e that fondly doe pre&s;ume,</L>
<L>Till vtmo&s;t ga&s;pe, in &s;inne to runne;</L>
<L>Let them a&s;&s;ure them&s;elues of this,</L>
<L>That of my mercy they may mi&s;&s;e.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>London Printed for C. W.</P>
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