| THE ANGELLS’ eyes, whome veyles cannot deceive, | |
| Might best disclose that best they do descerne; | |
| Men must with sounde and silent faith receive | |
| More then they can by sence or reason lerne; | |
| God’s poure our proofes, His workes our witt exceede, | 5 |
| The doer’s might is reason of His deede. | |
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| A body is endew’d with ghostly rightes; | |
| And Nature’s worke from Nature’s law is free; | |
| In heavenly sunne lye hidd eternall lightes, | |
| Lightes cleere and neere, yet them no eye can see; | 10 |
| Dedd formes a never-dyinge life do shroude; | |
| A boundlesse sea lyes in a little cloude. | |
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| The God of hoastes in slender hoste doth dwell, | |
| Yea, God and man with all to ether dewe, | |
| That God that rules the heavens and rifled hell, | 15 |
| That man whose death did us to life renewe: | |
| That God and man that is the angells’ blisse, | |
| In forme of bredd and wyne our nurture is. | |
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| Whole may His body be in smallest breadd, | |
| Whole in the whole, yea whole in every crumme; | 20 |
| With which be one or be tenn thowsand fedd, | |
| All to ech one, to all but one doth cumme; | |
| And though ech one as much as all receive, | |
| Not one too much, nor all too little have. | |
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| One soule in man is all in everye part; | 25 |
| One face at once in many mirrhors shynes; | |
| One fearefull noyse doth make a thowsand start; | |
| One eye at once of countlesse thinges defynes; | |
| If proofes of one in many, Nature frame, | |
| God may in straunger sort performe the same. | 30 |
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| God present is at once in everye place, | |
| Yett God in every place is ever one; | |
| So may there be by giftes of ghostly grace, | |
| One man in many roomes, yett filling none | |
| Sith angells may effects of bodyes shewe, | 35 |
| God angells’ giftes on bodyes may bestowe. | |
