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CVI.

Our Lord taken down from the Cross and buried.

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the Lord of Rama's ancient Town,

For Wisdom and true Honour widely known;

Who in the Sanhedrim our Lord confeft,

And there, undaunted entred his Proteft
Against their murd'rous Vote, to Pilate came:
For his dead Friend his Love was ftill the fame,
As while he liv'd; and for his Body fues
To give thofe dear Remains fepulchral Dues:
The ready Tributes of his Tears to pay,
And him in his new Tomb, lamenting lay:
To his Requeft the Roman gave Consent,
And with his Friends to Calvary he went;
Down from the Crofs his lifeless Limbs they
bear,

In pureft Linen wrapt with pious Care,
And decently entomb in Jofeph's Sepulchre.

CVI.

St. LUKE Chap. XXIII. Ver. 50, to 53.

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50. Jofeph a counfeller, a good man, and a just; 51. (The fame had not confented to the counfel and deed of them) he was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews (who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.)

52. This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Fefus.

53. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a fepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

CVII.

The Refurrection declared to the Women.

SCarce had the early Dawns yet doubtful Ray
Shot upward and proclaim'd th' approach of
Day,

When the two Maries to the Tomb repair,
With spicy Gums t'embalm their Mafter there :
But he was gone, his Grave-Cloaths left behind,
And in his room two Angel-Forms they find,
Array'd in bright celeftial Robes, who faid,
Why feek ye him that lives among the Dead?
He bids his Friends difmifs their caufless Fear,
He's rais'd in Glory, he's no longer here:
Remember how he faid before he dy'd,
He muft by finful Men be crucify'd,

And the third Morn arife- They call'd to mind
His Words, and to th' Apostles left behind

Bear the glad News; their Witness nought avails, Vain Dreams they all efteem'd, and idle female Tales.

CVII.

St. LUKE Chap. XXIV. Ver. 4, 5, 6.

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4. Two men stood by them in fhining garments. 5. And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they faid unto them, Way feck ye the living among the dead?

6. He is not here, but is rifen.

CVIII.

Jefus walketh and difcourfeth with two
Difciples.

AS two Difciples fat and mournful walkt

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Ta neighb'ring Village, on the Road they
talkt

Of all that paft; when Jefus felf was there
And joyn'd, unknown, the melancholy Pair:
He asks them what their fad Difcourfes were?
They thus Art thou a Stranger, that alone,
To thee the Things that late have paft, unknown;
Of Nazarcan Jefus, David's Seed,

A wond'rous Prophet, Great in Word and Deed,
Whom our High-Priests and Rulers have deny'd,
Betray'd, accus'd, condemn'd and crucify'd?
Vain were our Hopes, our flatt'ring Dreams
were vain,

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That he defign'd to break our fervile Chain:
Yet fome report, tho' little Faith they gain,
That he again on the third Day did rife.
---O Fools, and flow of Heart, our Lord' replies:
Are not the Scriptures evident and plain,
Chrift ought to fuffer firft, and then to reign?
Then did he all those myftic Truths display,
Which in the Pfalms and Prophets clouded lay;
And e're in Weftern Waves the Sun defcends,
At once he Ends his Speech, at once their Journey
Ends.

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