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Yf poysonous Mineralls, or yf the Tree Whose fruite threwe death on (els immortall) vs, yf letcherous Goates, yf serpents envious Cannot be damn'd, alas, why should I be? Why should intent and reason borne in me, 5 Make sinnes (els equall) in me more haynous? And mercy being easy and glorious To God, in his sterne wrath why threatens he? But who am I, that dare dispute with thee? o God, 0 of thy only worthy bloud 10 And my teares make a heav'nly Lethean floud And drowne in it my sinnes blacke memory That thou remember them no more as debt, I thinke it mercy, yf thou wilt forgett. 10. Yf faithfull Soules be alike glorify'd As angells, then my Fathers soule doth see And adds this ev'n to full felicity, That valiantly I Hells wide mouth ore,stride. But yf our mindes to these soules be descry'd 5 By circumstances, and by signes that be Apparent in vs, not Immediately, Howe shall my mindes white truth to them be try'de? They see Idolatrous Lovers weepe and mourne And vile blasphemous coniurers to call 10 On Iesus name; and Pharisaicall Dissemblers faine devotion: then turne (0 pensiue soule) to God, for he knowes best Thy greife, for he put it into my brest. ORIGINAL SEQUENCE 9 9ยท yf poysonous Mineralls, or yf the Tree Whose fruite threwe death on (els immortall) vs, Yf letcherous Goates, yf serpents envious Cannot be damn'd, alas, why should I be? Why should intent and reason borne in me, 5 Make sinnes (els equall) in me more haynous? And mercy being easy and glorious To God, in his sterne wrath why threatens he? But who am I, that dare dispute with thee? o God, a of thy only worthy bloud 10 And my teares make a heav'nly Lethean floud And drowne in it my sinnes blacke memory That thou remember them no more as debt, I thinke it mercy, yf thou wilt forgett. 10. yf faithfull Soules be alike glorify'd As angells, then my Fathers soule doth see And adds this ev'n to full felicity, That valiantly I Hells wide mouth ore-stride. But yf our mindes to these soules be descry'd 5 By circumstances, and by signes that be Apparent in vs, not Immediately, Howe shall my mindes white truth to them be try'de? They see Idolatrous Lovers weepe and mourne And vile blasphemous coniurers to call 10 On Iesus name; and Pharisaicall Dissemblers faine devotion: then turne (0 pensiue soule) to God, for he knowes best Thy greife, for he put it into my brest. ORIGINAL SEQUENCE 9 ...

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