"2.Cor.5.19. God was in Christ Reconciling the World to Himself" Katherine Philips John O'Brien Transcription, correction, editorial commentary, and markup Staff and Research Assistants at The University of Virginia John O'Brien Sara Brunstetter Rachel Retica National Endowment for the Humanities Literature in Context
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Published by Literature in Context under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License "2.Cor.5.19. God was in Christ Reconciling the World to Himself" Katherine Philips Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda to which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, tragedies; with several other translations out of French London Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman 1667 This text is based on transcriptions created by the Early English Books Online Texts Creation Partnership, a library-based project directed by the University of Michigan and Oxford University. Their digital text was produced from the 1667 edition, published by Henry Herringman in London in 1667, three years after Philips's death, but with the collaboration of her late husband. We have also consulted The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, edited by Patrick Thomas (Essex: Stump Cross Books, 1990), which takes Philips's manuscript versions of her poems as its copytext. Annotations have been provided by faculty and students at the University of Virginia. For a full description of this object, see its ESTC entry. [36], 198, [8], 112, [2] p. : port. ; 2⁰. English print London, England Dublin, Ireland

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2.Cor.5.19. 2 Corinthians 5:19, from the King James Bible: "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." God was in Christ Reconciling the World to himself. When God, contracted to Humanity, Could sigh and suffer, could be sick and die; When all the heap of Miracles combin'd To form the greatest, which was, save Mankind: Then God took stand in Christ, studying a way How to repair the Ruin'd World's decay. His Love, Pow'r, Wisdom, must some mean procure His Mercy to advance, Justice secure: And since Man in Misery was hurl'd Possibly a reference to Adam and Eve ("Man") being hurled from the Garden of Eden into the the world., It cost him more to save then Read as "than." make the World. Oh! what a desp'rate load of sins had we, When God must plot for our Felicity? When God must beg us that he may forgive, And dye himself before Mankind could live? And what still are we, when our King in vain Begs his lost Rebels to be Friends again? What floods of Love proceed from Heaven's smile, At once to pardon and to reconcile? What God himself hath made he cannot hate, For 'tis one act to Love and to Create: And he's too perfect full of Majesty, To need additions from our Misery. He hath a Father's, not a Tyrant's, joy; Shews more his Pow'r to save, than to destroy. Did there ten thousand Worlds to ruine fall, One God could save, one Christ redeem them all. Be silent then, ye narrow Souls, take heed Lest you restrain the Mercy you will need. But, O my Soul, from these be different, Imitate thou a nobler Precedent: As God with open Arms the World does woo, Learn thou like God to be enlarged too; As he begs thy consent to pardon thee, Learn to submit unto thy Enemy; As he stands ready thee to entertain, Be thou as forward to return again; As he was Crucify'd for and by thee Crucifie thou what caus'd his Agony; And like to him be mortify'd to sin, Die to the World as he dy'd for it then.