S. Luke

IF those Physitians honour'd be,
That doe the bodies health procure;
Then worthy double praise is He,
Who can both soule and body cure.
In life time both wayes Luke exceld,
And those Receipts hath also left,
Which many soule-sicke Patients heald,
Since from the world he was bereft.

And to his honour this beside,
A blessed Witnesse hath declar'd,
That constant he did still abide,
When others from the Truth were scar'd:
For which the glory, LORD, be thine;
For of thy grace those gifts had he,
And thou his Actions did'st encline,
Our profit, and his good to be.

By his example therefore, LORD,
Uphold vs, that we fall not from
The true profession of thy Word,
Nor by this world be ouercome;
And let his wholesome doctrine heale
That leprous sicknesse of the soule,
Which more and more would on her steale,
And make her languish and growe foule.