Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A11137
|
A sacred memorie of the miracles wrought by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ. Written by Samuel Rowlands
|
Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?
|
1618
(1618)
|
STC 21405; ESTC S116249
|
16,730
|
46
|
confirmation Therefore if any take in hand to frame A miracle in Saint or angels name If any mortall creature vndertake His power that makes the earth and heauens quake If Sathan and his Ministers endeauour To worke strange wonders this beleeue that neuer Can any miracles bee truely done But by the power of God and Christ his Sonne To which eternall maiesty and power Ascribe we till the worlds last ending howre Till Sunne and Moone decay past date of dayes All honour glory Worship endlesse prayse Sa Rowlands And take of them those gifts himselfe did giue If all the Monarches that the earth containes All Kings and Princes with their noble traynes Were to a royall feast assembled all To make some wedding most maiesticall Yet were that presence very meane and base Vnto those guests that Gallile did grace As thus with men the Sonne of God did dine The bloud of grapes the sad-heart chearing wine Began to fayle which blessed Mary seeing Spake thus to him in whom all things haue being They haue no Wine knowing his power could graunt A ful supply in needes extremest want Sixe earthen vessels there were standing by As the Iewes custome was to purifie Those pots of stone our Sauiour Christ did will Vp to the brimme with water they should fill And to the Gouernour present the same Which instantly true perfect wine became He ignorant what power the same had made Vnto the Bridegroome thus in priuate sayd At the beginning men present the best And worst at last vnto the well-fed guest But contrary to vsuall custome thou Set'st forth the worst and kep'st the best till now This was the first of wonders Iesus wrought Euen by the power that formed all of nought Which miracle at marriage he began To show himselfe true God and perfect man As man to eate with men he did encline As God he turned water into wine A Leaper is clensed the Centurions seruant healed Peters wiues mother cured of a Feauer diuers dispossed of Deuils the windes calmed with rebuke two men possest of Deuils and beeing cast foorth they enter into Swine Math. 8. DEscending a most hie cloud-checking hill From painefull preaching of his Fathers will To saue those soules which hell for sin did clayme A Leaper met him and himselfe did frame In humble manner falling at Christs feet With such due worship as to God was meet Oh Lord he cryes of health the onely meane If so thou wilt t is thou canst make me cleane T is in thy power and in no power but thine Most blessed Iesus to my helpe incline The Sonne of God no sooner heard the crie Of this poore wretch plagued with leprosie But in his mercy of which none doe fayle That aske by faith Faith euer doth preuayle Replyed thus and did his sute fulfill Because thou saist I can I say I will Then toucht him with his holy hand most pure And absolute he wrought a perfect cure So to the Priest to offer being sent As Iesus into Capernaum went Came a Centurion and besought him thus O Lord my seruant lyeth grieuous Pain'd with a palsie Iesus did reply When I doe come I le cure his maladie The Captaine answeres Lord that paines forbeare I am vnworthy that thou shouldst come neere The place of my abode great Heauens King That hast thy seat where Cherubins doe sing Speake but the word I know thy onely breath Can heale my seruant and giue life in death For I my selfe that at thy fauour stand By power impos'd haue souldiers at commaund I bid one come he comes another goe A third doe this and they performe euen so When Iesus heard his faith our Sauiour sayes In peace doe thou depart and goe thy wayes And as thou hast firmely beleeu'd on me So I le extend my grace and doe for thee To Peters house then did our Sauiour goe His god-like power by myracle to show Whereas the mother of th'apostles wife Subiect as others in this mortall life To frayle diseases lay with griefe opprest Of Feauer fits most painefully possest Her Iesus with his healing hand did touch And presently her healthfull state was such That she arose praysing the King of Kings And ministred vnto them needfull things When glorious Phaebus with his shining light Was drawne to West at the approching night They brought to Iesus many wofull wights That were possest with Deuils and foule sprites Which with his powerfull word he did expell And sent them to their Habitation Hell With his Disciples then forsakes the shore Betakes himselfe where stormy tempests roare Where ship is tost with hazard vp and downe And raging waues doe ouerwhelming drowne Where great Leuiathan in deepes doe sayle And all the rest that swimme with finne and tayle Doe keepe their watry common-wealth together There in the great extreames of foulest weather The frayle Disciples all amazedly Expected nothing but to drowne and dye Those blessed eyes that watch of all things keepe Were then as God was man closde vp with sleepe Helpe master helpe the poore Disciples call Arise and saue vs or we perish all He that made wind and waue vnto them sayth Why are yee fearefull yee of little faith And then arose their frightfull thoughts asswaging And did rebuke his creatures for their raging Which instantly were calme and quiet sound As if the waters were secure like ground Causing beholders strangely to admire To reason with themselues and thus enquire Why who is this that beares such powerfull sway His very word makes wind and sea obey Being arriued on the other side Two men with Diuels met him and they cry'd Iesus that sonne of God art known to be What haue we hellish fiends to doe with thee Before the time dost thou intend preuent vs Wherefore art thou come hither to torment vs Thy power doth make vs tremble dread and doubt From our possession thou wilt cast vs out Which if thou doest thus much to vs encline Graunt we may enter yonder heard of Swine That are a feeding if we part these men Of those same hogs giue vs possession then Suffer vs as our fellow diuell sayd When he a spoyle of all Iobs substance made Then sayd our Sauiour to the Deuils goe And they into the Swine departed so Carrying them in a fury from the ground Into the sea and there they all were droun'd The Heards-men at this fight with terror runne Reporting in the City what was done How from those men that put them all in feare The fiends by Iesus dispossed were Then getting leaue of that great power diuine Into the Sea they carryed all their swine Which when they heard they all came forth to meete him And suing for his absence thus did greet him Iesus of Nazareth with one mind and heart We doe entreate that hence thou wilt depart One cured of the Palsie lying sicke in his bed the Rulers Daughter raysed a woman healed of a bloudie Issue two blind men receyue sight a dumbe man possessed