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    God made thee of choice his own, and of his own

    To serve him, thy reward was of his grace,

    Thy punishment then justly is at his Will.

    Be it so, for I submit, his doom is fair,

    That du.. I am, and shall to dust returne: [ 770 ]

    O wel hour whenever! why delayes

    His han<dfn></dfn>d to execute what his Decree

    Fixd on this day? why do I overlive,

    Why am I mockt with death, ahnd out

    To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet [ 775 ]

    Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth

    Insensible, how glad would la<dfn></dfn>y me down

    As in my Mothers lap! There I should rest

    And sleep secure; his dreadful voiore

    Would Thunder in my ears, no fear of worse [ 780 ]

    To mee and to my  would torment me

    With cruel expectatio one doubt

    Pursues me still, least all I ot die,

    Least that pure breath of Life, the Spirit of Man

    Which God inspird, ot together perish [ 785 ]

    With this corporeal Clod; then in the Grave,

    Or in some other dismal place who knows

    But I shall die a livih? O thought

    Horrid, if true! yet why? it was but breath

    Of Life that sinnd; what dies but what had life [ 790 ]

    And sin? the Bodie properly hath her.

    All of me then shall die: let this appease

    The doubt, since humane reao further knows.

    For though the Lord of all be infinite,

    Is his wrauth also? be it, man is not so, [ 795 ]

    But mortal doomd. How  he exercise

    Wrath without end on Man whom Death must end?

    he make deathless Death? that were to make

    Strange tradi, which to God himself

    Impossible is held, as Argument [ 800 ]

    Of weakness, not of Power. Will he, draw out,

    Fers sake, fio infinite

    In punisht man, to satisfie his rigour

    Satisfid hat were to extend

    His Sentence beyond dust and Natures Law, [ 805 ]

    By which all Causes else acc still

    To the reception of thir matter act,

    Not to th extent of thir own Spheare. But say

    That Death be not oroak, as I supposd,

    Bereaving sense, but endless miserie [ 810 ]

    From this day onward, which I feel begun

    Both in me, and without me, and so last

    To perpetuitie; Ay me, that fear

    es thundring back with dreadful revolution

    On my defensless head; both Death and I [ 81<samp></samp>5 ]

    Am fouernal, and incorporate both,

    Nor I on my part single, in mee all

    Posteritie stands curst: Fair Patrimonie

    That I must leave ye, Sons; O were I able

    To waste it all my self, and leave ye none! [ 820 ]

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