John Shawcross interpreted as a sign of faith the chiasmus of two lines near the center of this poem asking "O more exceeding love or law more just?"  
Martin Larson declared this poem's presentation of the central event as "vengeful Justice bore for our excess" to be proof that the poet had "no conception of original sin" and was "untouched by the Puritan philosophy during his youth".  John Shawcross interpreted as a sign of faith the chiasmus of two lines near the center of this poem asking "O more exceeding love or law more just?"  This poem asks the reader to "Burn in your sighs, and borrow / Seas wept from our deep sorrow" because a figure who entered the world "with all Heav'ns heraldryÂ…now bleeds to give us ease".  FTP, name this John Milton poem referring to "that great Cov'nant which we still transgress" performed on Jesus during the bris.
Martin Larson declared this poem's presentation of the central event as "vengeful Justice bore for our excess" to be proof that the poet had "no conception of original sin" and was "untouched by the Puritan philosophy during his youth".  
Upon the Circumcision