The complaint of a sinner, vexed with paine,
Desyring the joye, that ever shall remayne.
After W.E. moralized.
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THe God of love, that sits above,
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Doth know us, Doth know us,
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How sinfull that we bee:
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Sent his word, the two edged sword
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To shew us, To shew us,
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Our sin and iniquitie.
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That every vice may vanquished be,
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Oh Lord arise for thy mercye
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Doe this our God and bynd us,
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For ever and ever thine owne:
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The truth wyl alway fynd us,
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By the seedes that we have sowne.
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The truth wyl tel if we wold lye,
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The touchstone doth the tree wel trye.
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And as we have a soule to save,
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Uprightly, Uprightly,
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Though troubled stil with sin:
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We shuld not take, that did us make,
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So lightly, So lightly,
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This worldly wealth to win.
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But if we wyl the Lord provoke
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We may loke for his heavy stroke,
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As his word hath appointed
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The Scripture doth plainely tell:
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Yet shal not his holy anointed
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Once tast the paynes of Hell.
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Now have I told the jeoperdy,
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But Christ is our just remedy.
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With woful harts though god for-beares
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To plague us, To plague us,
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We ought for to lament:
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Thy word alway, both night & day
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Perswade us, Perswade us,
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Inwardly for to repent.
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And every one to call for grace
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Since the touchstone in every place,
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Doth florish fresh and shyne
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That the whole world may see:
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And all that wyl be thyne,
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Must come with teares to thee.
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We wyl not boast our merites Lord,
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Since thy deare son made the accord
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We reade of olde, what Prophetes tolde
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Full truly, Full truly,
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And wrote it long a go:
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A Mayden myld, shulde beare a child
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Full duely, Full duely,
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And it proved even so.
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But yet God wot, the Jewes of kynd
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Beleved it not, but were styl blynd,
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And are unto this day
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Refusyng the Triumphant truth:
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That the Prophet Esaye did say
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And wrote it to age and youth.
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But therto they wold not accord,
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But cruelly crucified the Lord.
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But let us now, both bend and bow,
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And spede us, And spede us,
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To follow the true trace:
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For he hath sent, his Testament,
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To feede us. To feede us,
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And call us unto grace.
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Unworthy now although we bee
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Yet ye see how his deare mercye,
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To us he doth still geve
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And liberall gyftes us send:
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That we might sure beleve
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And our lewde lives amend:
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Therfore let us our harts enclyne,
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That pearles be not cast unto swyne
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The flesh (I say) both night & day,
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Doth hold us, Doth hold us,
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From followyng the true trace:
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But thy deare son, doth bid us come,
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And bold us, And bold us,
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To call to thee for grace.
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Thus sayeth our saviour Jesu
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Come unto me, and I wyl ease you,
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If ye wyl cal and knocke
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That are over laden with sin:
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Then wyl I open the locke
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And be ready to let you in.
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For I am he that bought you deare,
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Therfore behold, and draw ye neare.
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