He will all glory, all perfection be, What love with mercy mixed doth appear! G. ELLIS. OF this author the Editor has met with no account. The stanzas here inserted are taken from a poem by him, entitled "The Lamentation of the Lost Sheep, 1605," in which the sentiments of a returning penitent are expressed with truth and effect. G. ELLIS. THE SINNER'S CRY TO HIS SAVIOUR. By that sweet name, which name we invocate Oh, light of heaven! thou wast extinct on earth, Yet to our souls celestial life dost give, Thy death our life, thy rising our new birth ; Thou with thy heavenly blessings dost relieve, Thou, three days dead, didst make us ever live: Thou, at whose death obscur'd were earth and sky, Reduce me to the right, that run awry. Fountain of grace! from whom doth, only, run Water of life, to save our souls from death! Oh, Saviour of the world! pure Virgin's Son. That in red earth' infus'd first vital breath, Joining thy Godhead with humanity! The name, Adam, signifies red carth. |