Holy Sonnet Xv: Wilt Thou Love God

Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest,

My Soule, this wholesome meditation,

How God the Spirit, by Angels waited on

In heaven, doth make his Temple in thy breast.

The Father having begotten a Sonne most blest,

And still begetting, (for he ne'r begonne)

Hath deign'd to chuse thee by adoption,

Coheire to his glory, and Sabbaths endlesse rest;

And as a robb'd man, which by search doth finde

His stolne stuffe sold, must lose or buy it againe;

The Sonne of glory came downe, and was slaine,

Us whom he had made, and Satan stolne, to unbinde.

'Twas much, that man was made like God before,

But, that God should be made like man, much more.