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If poysonous Minerals, and if that tree 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 5 Make Sins els equall, in me more hainous? And mercy beeing easy, and glorious To God, in his sterne wrath why threatens heel But who am I that dare dispute with thee o God? 0 of thyne only worthy blood 10 And my teares make a heauenly Lethean flood And drowne in it, my Sins blacke memoree. That thou remember them, 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 our Minds to these Soules be discride 5 By Circumstances, and by Signes that bee Apparant in vs, not immediatlee How shall my Minds whight truthe to them be tride? They see Idolatrous Lovers weepe and mourne And vile blasphemous Coniurers to call 10 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. WESTMORELAND SEQUENCE IS 9ยท If poysonous Minerals, and if that tree 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 5 Make Sins els equall, in me more hainous? And mercy beeing easy, and glorious To God, in his sterne wrath why threatens heel But who am I that dare dispute with thee o God? 0 of thyne only worthy blood 10 And my teares make a heauenly Lethean flood And drowne in it, my Sins blacke memoree. That thou remember them, 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 our Minds to these Soules be discride 5 By Circumstances, and by Signes that bee Apparant in vs, not immediatlee How shall my Minds whight truthe to them be tride? They see Idolatrous Lovers weepe and mourne And vile blasphemous Coniurers to call 10 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. WESTMORELAND SEQUENCE 15 ...

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