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<HEAD>A Brief REMEMBRANCER, OR, The Right IMPROVEMENT OF CHRIST'S BIRTH-DAY.</HEAD>
<L>THe Glorious Day doth now begin to dawn;</L>
<L>Now is the Curtain of thick darkne&s;s drawn:</L>
<L>Now doth the Lord of all things conde&s;cend</L>
<L>To take up in a Stable, and be pen'd</L>
<L>Within a dirty Manger: Now thou'rt ble&s;t</L>
<L>Ignorant Inn with this mo&s;t Glorious Gue&s;t.</L>
<L>And now the Saviour of the World's reveal'd</L>
<L>From Heaven to Shepherds watching in the Field.</L>
<L>The Glory of an Angel did &s;urround them:</L>
<L>The Glory was &s;o great, it did confound them.</L>
<L>Fear not, &s;aid he, perceiving them afraid,</L>
<L>Fear not all, be not at all di&s;may'd:</L>
<L>'Tis Joyful Tydings that I come to bring,</L>
<L>This Day is born your Sav'our and your King;</L>
<L>In <HI>Bethlehem</HI> you'l find it as I &s;aid,</L>
<L>The Babe's wrapt up, and in a Manger laid.</L>
<L>And hardly had the Angel made an end,</L>
<L>But there whole Quires of Angels did attend</L>
<L>That King with <HI>Hallelujahs</HI> to adore,</L>
<L>That &s;itteth on the Throne for evermore.</L>
<L>Glory to God on High, Peace on the Earth,</L>
<L>Good will to Men they Sung with holy Mirth.</L>
<L>Then ran the Shepherds to the Town, and &s;aw</L>
<L><HI>Mary</HI> and <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> and the Babe in Straw.</L>
<L>They fill'd the Town with Fame; and their Relation</L>
<L>Fill'd all that heard the &s;ame with Admiration.</L>
<L>But <HI>Mary</HI> pondr'd all things in her Heart:</L>
<L>And they with Joy and Prai&s;e to God depart.</L>
<L>Him at the Time prefixt they circumcis'd,</L>
<L>Naming Him <HI>Je&s;us,</HI> as they were advis'd.</L>
<L>Some Five Weeks after that, his Parents went</L>
<L>Up to <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> him to pre&s;ent.</L>
<L>Now while they were i'th' Temple, came to them</L>
<L>Old upright <HI>Simeon</HI> of <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI></L>
<L>Who by the Spirit had been certifi'd</L>
<L>Of &s;eeing God's Anoynted, ere de dy'd.</L>
<L>Fill'd with the Holy Gho&s;t he came in ha&s;t,</L>
<L>And in his Arms that Holy Child embrac'd.</L>
<L>Now let thy Servant Lord (&s;aid he) decea&s;e</L>
<L>According to thy holy Word in Peace;</L>
<L>For I have &s;een the thing I waited for,</L>
<L>Now I have &s;een my LORD my Saviour.</L>
<L><HI>Anna,</HI> a Proph'te&s;s al&s;o thither came</L>
<L>To render Prai&s;e and Glory to his Name,</L>
<L>Affirming <HI>Je&s;us</HI> to be Chri&s;t, to them</L>
<L>That waited for him at <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI></L>
<L>The Wi&s;e-men from the Ea&s;t enquire for one</L>
<L>Born among&s;t them to &s;it on <HI>Judah</HI>'s Throne:</L>
<L>We've &s;een &s;aid they the Star of your Great King,</L>
<L>And came to wor&s;hip with our offering.</L>
<L><HI>Herod</HI>'s Amaz'd with this &s;trange &s;uddain News,</L>
<L>With all the Learned Rabbies of the <HI>Jews:</HI></L>
<L>And having askt the <HI>Hebrew</HI> Doctors, where</L>
<L><HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> &s;hould be Born? 'twas made appear</L>
<L>That <HI>Beth'lem</HI> was the Place: from <HI>Bethlehem</HI></L>
<L><HI>Micah</HI> &s;ends forth this Ruler over them.</L>
<L>Then <HI>Herod,</HI> after private Conference</L>
<L>About the Star's appearing, &s;ent them thence:</L>
<L>De&s;iring them to &s;earch and find him out,</L>
<L>Then to Return, and tell him where about.</L>
<L>But warn'd of God to flee the Tyrant, they</L>
<L>Returned home again another way.</L>
<L>But &s;eeing he was mockt, in cur&s;ed Fury</L>
<L>Re&s;olves the Death of every Child in <HI>Jury.</HI></L>
<L>But the all-piercing Eye this &s;ecret views,</L>
<L>And unto <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> &s;wiftly &s;ends the News.</L>
<L>Up (&s;aid the Angel) Take the Child, and's Mother;</L>
<L>This place is not &s;ecure, go &s;eek another.</L>
<L><HI>Herod</HI> hath Murd'rous thoughts, his rage is &s;tir'd,</L>
<L>Go dwell in <HI>Egypt,</HI> till I bring you word.</L>
<L><HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> obey'd, and there he &s;tay'd, till thence</L>
<L>God call'd his Son, as he had done long &s;ince.</L>
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<HEAD>Chri&s;t's four Hou&s;es.</HEAD>
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<L>His fir&s;t Hou&s;e was the Ble&s;&s;ed Virgin's Womb;</L>
<L>The next a Cratch, the third a Cro&s;s, the fourth a Tomb.</L>
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<L>We often read our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour wept;</L>
<L>But never laught, and &s;eldom that he &s;lept:</L>
<L>Ah &s;ure his heavy Eyes did wake and weep</L>
<L>For us that &s;in, &s;o oft, in mirth and &s;leep.</L>
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<L>O thou that wert the King of Heav'n and Earth,</L>
<L>How mean was thy Attendance at thy Birth!</L>
<L>A Manger was thy Cradle, and a Stable</L>
<L>Thy Privy Chamber, <HI>Marys</HI> Knees thy Table.</L>
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<L>Thieves were thy Courtiers, &amp; the Cro&s;s thy Throne.</L>
<L>Thy Dyet Gall; A wreath of Thorns thy Crown;</L>
<L>All this the King of Glory endur'd and more,</L>
<L>To make us Kings that Rebels were before.</L>
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<P>Faith in this <HI>Je&s;us</HI> is the &s;ub&s;tance of things not &s;een, and the Evidence of things hoped for: By which Faith <HI>Abel</HI> offered, <HI>Enoch</HI> was Tran&s;lated, <HI>Noah</HI> warned and prepared an Ark, to the &s;aving of him, and his condemning the World; <HI>Abraham</HI> by this Faith, when called obeyed, and was a So|journer in the Land of Promi&s;e; Through Faith <HI>Sarah</HI> conceived when &s;he was pa&s;t Age; After this <HI>Abraham</HI> being tryed offered up <HI>I&s;aac;</HI> By Faith <HI>I&s;aac</HI> ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Jacob</HI> and <HI>E&s;au</HI> concerning things to come; By Faith <HI>Jacob</HI> when he was dying ble&s;&s;ed the Sons of <HI>Jo&s;eph;</HI> By Faith <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> when he dyed made mention of the departure of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> out of <HI>E|gypt.</HI> By Faith <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> when he was born, was hid, and at Age refu&s;ed to be called the Son of King <HI>Pharaoh</HI>'s Daughter, rather chu&s;ing to &s;uffer afflicti|on with God's <HI>I&s;rael</HI> in affliction; For the E&s;teem of the reproach of Chri&s;t, he for&s;ook <HI>Egypt,</HI> kept the Pa&s;&s;eover, pa&s;&s;ed through the Red Sea. By Faith the Walls of <HI>Jericho</HI> fell, and <HI>Rahab</HI> the Harlot by Faith e&s;caped. Faith upheld <HI>Gideon, Barak, Sam|p&s;on, Jephtha, David, Samuel,</HI> and the Prophets, who through Faith &s;ubdued Kingdoms, obtained Promi|&s;es, &s;topped the mouths of Lions, quenched the vio|lence of Fire, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Women received their dead rai&s;ed to life, others were tortured, others tryed with cruel mockings and &s;courgings, others were &s;toned, &s;awn a&s;under, tempted, &s;lain with the &s;word; And others wandred about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins being de&s;titute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the World was not worthy; they wandred in De&s;arts, and in Mountains, and in Dens and Caves of the Earth, and the&s;e all obtained a Good Report through Faith in this <HI>Je&s;us.</HI></P>
<P>Let the peri&s;hed unbelieving <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> mind you of Infidelity, and the condition of faln Angels re|&s;erved in chains awake you, the &s;uffering <HI>Sodomites</HI> in eternal fire affright you to leave off the&s;e &s;pots of feeding without fear, of drinking without mea&s;ure: foam not out your own &s;hame; Leave off ungodly Deedes, hard Speeches, ra&s;h Cen&s;ures; Mock not at Piety, but hate the Garment &s;potted by the Fle&s;h; Oh all you that pretend to keep Chri&s;t's time and to ob&s;erve Chri&s;t's Day, be in love with Chri&s;t's Wayes and Wor&s;hip, which is in Spirit and Truth.</P>
<BYLINE>Collected by <HI>T. C.</HI></BYLINE>
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<P>Reader, there is Lately Extant Divine Examples of God's &s;evere Judgments upon Sabbath-Breakers in their unlaw&s;ul Sports, Collected out of &s;everal Divine Subjects, <HI>viz,</HI> Mr. <HI>H. B.</HI> Mr. <HI>Beard,</HI> and the Practice of Piety: A fit Monument for our pre&s;ent Times, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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