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2. AND MEDITACIONS DIVINE SONGS To For lightning, carnall as a flash it Foretelling of a It merth we may compare, and soon is gon. hastes Thunder also blastes the heart Makes it clap of care, lighteth on; it to goodnesse, senceless as a ston: Disabling every part, and faculty. Of soul and body unto piety. But sacred joy is like the Sunnes clear light, Which may with clouds, be sometimes overcast. Yet breaks it forth anon, and shines more bright, Whose And So lively force continually doth last; shews most Orient, when a storm true delight may bee eclips'd But quite extinguisht, can So now I Unto Gods word, is past: see, never bee.
Then from doing any work whereby far They might deserve Salvation on For God whose their part, only perfect purity. Will find in our best works no true disart, But rather matter of our endlesse smart: For in Christs Blood the Saints which are most dear Must wash their Robes before they can be Though by good works we do not Yet these good Duties that our We must perform With clear. gain Salvacion God [610] requires. in this our conversacion. our might, endevours, and desires. all Before this short uncertain time expires.
That space, the life of Grace sharp Afflictions, fruits And for Remayneth in the Root only; when the Son of Righteousnesse clear Shall make Summer with us, our spirits to chear, Warming our hearts with the sense of his favour, Yet 35 [10] DIVINE SONGS Then must And our flowers of piety savour, then the We to AND MEDITACIONS of righteousnesse fruits the glory of God must expresse. [20] And as when Night is passed, The Sun ascending our Hemisphear, 111 fumes devouers, and opes the powers Which in our bodies are, and there He drawes out the spirits of moving and sence As from the center, to the circumference; So that the exterior parts are delighted.
