Christ the 
Sonne. 
Christes 
birth. 
Christ, God 
and man. 
Christ, our 
Messias. 
Christes 
passion. 
Christes 
death. 
196 The Authors belefe. 
3) 
Io 
II 
12 
13 
14 
This is that Lord of hostes, the father of vs all, 
The maker of what ere was made, my God on whom I call: 
Which for the loue of man, sent downe his onelie sonne, 
Begot of him before the worldes were any whit begonne. 
This entred Maries wombe, as faith affirmeth sure, 
Conceiued by the holy Ghost, borne of that virgine pure ; 
This was both God and man, of Jewes the hoped king, 
And liued here, saue onely sinne, like man in euerie thing. 
This is that virgins childe, that same most holie Preist, 
The lamb of God, the prophet great, whom scripture 
calleth Christ, 
This that Messias was, of whom the Prophet spake, 
That should tread down the serpents head and our 
attonement make. 
This Judas did betray, to false dissembling Jewes, 
Which vnto Pilat being Judge, did falsely him accuse: 
Who (through that wicked Judge) and of those Jewes 
despight, 
Condemned and tormented was, with all the force they 
might. 
To liuing wight more euill, what could such wretches do ? 
More pearcing wounds, more bitter pains, than they did 
put him to? 
They crowned him with thorne, that was the king of kings, 
That sought to saue the soule of man, aboue all worldly 
things. 
This was that Pascall lambe whose loue for vs so stood, 
That on the mount of Caluerie,' for vs did shed his blood: 
Where hanging on the Crosse, no shame he did forsake, 
Till death giuen him by pearcing speare, an ende of life 
did make. 
1 Caluerine, 1577. 
