This firmly is of thee to be believ'd;

That God all this, both will effect, and can. Of all the Virgins which in Ifrael be,

God hath been pleas'd to make his Choice of thee,

To be the Mother of his only Son,
By a mysterious Operation.

Then, with a Virgin-Modefty, the Maid
Transported at that which the Angel said,
Reply'd, Behold the Handmaid of the Lord!
Be it to me according to thy Word.

I to it do confent with all my Heart.
Then did the Angel Gabriel depart :
And then immediately (as I believe)
The Virgin did within her Womb conceive
The Second Perfon in the Trinity,
The true and only Son of God, was he,
Who thus our Human Nature did affume,
And God and Man, one Perfon, did become.
And thus the Thing fo long foretold, was done,
A Virgin fhall conceive, and bear a Son.*

Whose

* Ifa. vii. 14.

No Man, nor Angel, can decla
How that was done, which is

Yet let us fee what Light the Go with Man fhould

And what is there reveal'd,
They fhew us that the Angel
Was to the Virgin Mary fen
This moft furprizing News to
The Mother of the Son of Go
And Jefus was the Name that
For, He his People from their Si

Are Months were gone,

*gh her blefed Son ;
Naart without Spot of Sin:
Bergin our Fleth begin.
And amazing My.iery

And thus the Angel did addrefor Search tooligh!

Hail, Thou that highly favour'd

~~~ Mr, with grateful Herts adore

The Glory of thy Sex! I'm f God who would reffore
Upon the most important Embendous Way,

Thou shalt conceive within thy
Who can declare his Generation?
He is th' Eternal Son of God, r
And He the Son of God fhall a'
Because the Holy Ghoft fhall over-
Whereby this Son fhall be in th
Of thee, without concurrence

Mat. i. 21. t Ifa. liii.

3. Juke mak athug too great, or

Merking what Love was

How

hou'd we be, we don't offend
To omnipotent a Friend?

I to it to cocient &

for his Honour fhould we be? ect, his Precepts to obey?

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And

The Vigud var

The Second Perin

we have dedicated been

The true and onin Stre

Who they our Human Bo

came to fave us from our Sin;

hty Love we do despise,
Christian Faith apoftatize,

inst God's only Son,

1 Heav'n for our Salvation,

his grand Enemy the Devil,
and madly chufing Evil:
can escape the Wrath to come,
ce in Hell will be their Doom.
etter Hopes I have of thee,
: do no more fo wickedly
but wilt in Chrift believe,

›ne,

lefh, to die that we might live.

azing Condefcenfion,

mility of God the Son!

ɔ infinitely for our Sake,

our Redemption undertake!

Think after this, how odious Pride will be,
And for the Dev'l, make Men fit Company.
Wherefore, let's imitate the Life of Chrift,
Our

great Meffiah; Prophet, King, and Prieft. So fhall we one Day reign with him Above, In the bright Realms of endlefs Peace and Love.

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Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft,

One God, whom we Adore,

Be Glory, as it was, is now,

And fhall be evermore.

On Christmas-Day, Dec. 25. being the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift.

TH

Λόγος αΐδιος το πατρός.

His Day the Church doth keep in Memory
Of Chrift, the Son of God's, Nativity:
Who was in Bethl'hem, in a Stable born,
(A Room which Gentlemen and Ladies fcorn;)
And in a Manger would vouchfafe to lye,
To teach us mortal Men, Humility.

This wond'rous Birth the Angels did declare
To Shepherds, as by Night they watching were:
They, by the Angel's kind Direction, went,
And found their Saviour to their Heart's con-

tent.

Then joyfully return'd they Home again, And praising God for what they'd heard and ・seen, Jo...

They spread the News fo welcome unto Men;..

So

Imeon, the Froud and Grand, and worldly. Wise, Things m low life do nat rally despise