“That outward Beautie which the world commends,/ Is not the subject I will write vpon,/ Whose date expir'd, that tyrant Time soone ends/, Those gawdie colours soone are spent and gone:/ But those faire Virtues which on thee attends/ Are alwaies fresh, they never are but one:/They make thy Beautie fairer to behold.”
Peripheral prettiness is not a downright gauge of virtue. Beauty terminates at the termination of its valuable life unlike virtue which rises above the demarcations of time. The stunning colors do not last in the long term because they are impermanent dynamics. Comparatively, the magnificence of virtue is renewed at all times which means that it can be estimated to exist in the long-term.
“For he is rize from Death t'Eternall Life,/ And now those pretious oyntments he desires /Are brought vnto him, by his faithfull Wife/ The holy Church; who in those rich attires,/ Of Patience, Loue, Long suffring, Voide of strife,/ Humbly presents those oyntments he requires:/ The oyles of Mercie, Charitie, and Faith,/ Shee onely giues that which no other hath.”
These lines allude to Jesus’ extraordinary revivification which corroborates that he is more prevailing than death. The metaphoric wife renders the Church Jesus’ ultimate spouse who is anticipated to be devoted to Him. The church is projected to unreservedly countersign all the virtues which Jesus signifies.
“He that descended from celestiall glory, /To taste of our infirmities and sorrowes,/ Whose heauenly wisdom read the earthly storie/ Of fraile Humanity, which his godhead borrows[;]/ Loe here he coms all stuck with pale deaths arrows:/ In whose most pretious wounds your soule may reade/Saluation, while he (dying Lord) doth bleed.”
Jesus’s resolution for forfeit glory in exchange for the humane frailties accentuates the altruism which is rooted on mystic astuteness. An ordinary human would not embrace sorrow in lieu of blissful glory. The humans humiliated Jesus Christ because he did not display the splendor or power which is rather common among earthly rulers.
