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.9.
If poysonous Minerals, & if that tree [f. 35]
Whose fruite threw death on els immortall vs,
If Lecherous gotes, if Serpents envious
Cannot be damn'd, alas why should I bee?
Why should intent, or reason, borne in me
Make Sins els equall, in me more hainous?
And mercy beeing easy, and glorious
To God in his sterne wrath why threatens hee?
But who am I yt dare dispute wt thee
O God? O of thyne only worthy blood
And my teares make a heauenly Lethean flood
And drowne in it, my Sins blacke memoree.
That thou remember thē, Some clayme as dett
I thinke it Mercy if thou wilt forgett.
.10.
If faythfull Soules be alike glorified
As Angels, then my fathers Soule doth see
And ads this even to full felicitee
That valiantly'I hells wide mouth orestride.
But if or Minds to these Soules be discride
By Circumstances, & by Signes yt bee
Apparant in vs, not immediatlee
How shall my Minds whight truthe to them be tride?
They see Idolatrous Lovers weepe & mourne
And vile blasphemous Coniurers to call
On Iesus Name, and pharasaicall
Dissemblers feigne devotion: then turne
O pensive Soule to God; for he knowes best
Thy true griefe, for he put it in my brest.