(George Herbert 1593-1633 was one of the members of the Gedding Community. The Gedding community was probably the first Emergent Church.)
George Herbert Compline
*Teach me your love to know;
That this new light, which now I see,
May both the work and workman show;
Then by a sun-beam I will climb to you.
*O, let your grace, without cease drop from above
*Sine is still hammering my heart
Unto a hardness void of love:
*Let supplying grace, to Crosse his art,
O, let grace Drop from above!
MY words and thoughts do both express this notion, That LIFE has with the sun a double motion. The first IS straight, and our diurnal friend; The other HIDDEN, and doth obliquely bend. One life is wrapt IN flesh, and tends to earth; The other winds towards HIM, Whose happy birth Taught me to live here so THAT still one eye Should aim and shoot at that which IS on high; Quitting with daily labour all MY pleasure, To gain at harvest an eternal treasure.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, The love of God and The fellowship of The Holy Spirit be with us all. Amen.
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