Innocents Day

THat rage whereof the Psalme doth say,
Why are the Gentiles growne so mad?
Appeard in part vpon that day,
When Herod slaine the Infants had;
Yet (as it saith they stormd in vaine;
(Though many Innocents they slew)
For, Christ they purposd to haue slaine,
Who all their Counsels ouerthrew.

Thus still vouchsafe thou to restraine
All Tyrants, LORD, pursuing Thee;
Thus, let our vast desires be slaine;
That thou maist liuing in vs be:
So, whilst we shall enioy our breath,
We of thy loue our Songs will frame;
And with those Innocents, our death
Shall also glorifie thy Name.

In Type those Many di'de for One;
That One for many moe was slaine:
And what they felt in Act alone,
He did in will, and Act sustaine.
LORD grant, that what thou hast decreed.
In Will, and Act, we may fulfill;
And, though we reach not to the Deede,
From vs, oh GOD, accept the Will.