A Looking-Glass for all
Impenitent Sinners.
That Man that has a Conscience clear,
When Death doth come, he needs not fear;
But let us live, and Gods Word obey,
That we may be sav'd at the Latter-Day.
To the Tune of, My bleeding heart.
By Charles Tipping.
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GOod Christian People understand,
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Let us Repent now out of hand,
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And not to live in such a way,
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As many do at this present day:
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There is no truth in many a one,
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So by that means are all undone.
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Our sinful lives breeds all this woe,
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We cannot know a Friend from our Foe:
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One Neighbour will strive to wrong another,
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We cannot trust Sister nor Brother:
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There is no truth, etc.
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There is Cheating and Cozening every day,
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So by that means we go astray;
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They taking of Gods Name in vain,
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They venture their Souls for worldly gain:
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there is no truth, etc.
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They'll Jear and Swear, and Curse and Lye,
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And act their Sins so very high,
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They think there is no God in Heaven,
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How shall such sinners be forgiven?
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there is no truth, etc.
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So much Drunkenness as now is us'd,
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And Gods good Ceature is sore abus'd;
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With hateful Pride, and Malice store,
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There is no pitty to the Poor:
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there is no truth, etc.
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To see when Love we did embrace,
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There was no want in any place;
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The Poor they need not to complain,
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Their hungery Bowels to maintain:
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there is no truth, etc.
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Therefore we need to have a care,
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To leave our sins, and go to Prayer;
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That our Saviour Christ he may be pleas'd,
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That our sinful Souls they may be eas[']d:
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there is no truth, etc.
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And not to sleep and snort in sin,
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That's not the way Heaven to win;
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But call for Grace, and beg and pray,
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That God may Guide us night and day:
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there is no truth, etc.
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But so many cursed Cains there be,
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That falls a Murdering; Villany
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That dangers Souls and Bodies, sure,
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The pains of Hell for to endure:
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there is no truth, etc.
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There's not a Sin in Sodom nam'd,
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But here in England it is fram'd,
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And us'd amongst us it is so,
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Which fills our Kingdom full of Woe:
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there is no truth, etc.
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We are told of all Sins, to be sure,
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Of Gods Ministers, that are so pure;
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They tell the Danger we are in,
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But yet we cannot leave our Sin:
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there is no truth, etc.
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Both old and young, both great and small,
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You see the Danger of us all;
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Let's mend our Lives, and call for Grace,
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Our time is going on apace:
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there is no truth, etc.
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To live in fear, and have a care,
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To free us from that wicked Snare;
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For Satan with his craftcrafty wile,
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Mens Fancies oft he does beguile:
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there is no truth, etc.
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And let us live in Love and Peace,
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That Charity it may encrease;
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And true Repentance for our Sin,
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That we a New Life may begin:
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there is no truth, etc.
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Now to conclude what we do Sing,
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Give Praise to God in every thing;
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That he may bring us unto Heaven,
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That all our Sins may be forgiven:
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There is no truth in many a one,
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So by that means are all undone.
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FINIS.
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