Religion & morality > Poem on the creation of the world, or, A meditation on the wonderful operation of the divine hand

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But when he heard that Archela's did reigft
In Herod's Room, and in Judea King,
Then did he turn afide, when warn’d of God,
4ind,tn the Parts of Galilee abode;
Then to that City thither did repair,
Qa.\\'& Nazareth, and took his Dwelling there.
And thus it was fulfill’d of him, that he
Stil’d and call’d a Nazarene (hould be.
And when that he was aged twice fix Years,
Into the Temple then the Child appears,
Sitting amidft the Dodiors, and the Tribes
Of ancient learned Pharifees and Scribes’,
He both did hear their Reafoning, and then
Some Queftions he did ask at them again,
And made the People all amaz’d to hear
His Underftanding and'his Anfwers clear.
Then of his Youth we read but little more, f
’Tis almoft all in Silence parted o’er >
What.he was then employ’d about before. 3
When he arriv’d at thirty Years of Age,
He then appeared publick on the Stage:
Then he did go among the Multitude
To be baptiz’d with John at Jordan's Flood;
But when the holy undefiled One
Requerted this of his own Servant John,
The humble Servant as amazed (lands,
Afham’d t’obey his Mailer’s ftrange Demands;
I’ve Need, fays John, to be baptiz’d of thee.
How is it then thou corned unto me?
Then Jesus to him plainly fignify’d.
That in this Point he mud not be deny’d,
But that in this he mud obey his Will,
So that he might all Rightcoulnefs fulfill.