Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
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Oppositions.
God is light, and sin is dark;God lives above, and sin beneath;
God is just, but sin's a Shark;
God is Life, and sin is Death;
God is Heaven, sin is Hell;
God is fair, and sin is foul;
God saves many that rebel;
Sin's Damnation to the Soul.
Adam in Paradise did stand,
Angels in Heaven by God's command;
But sin doth, with a gilded Dart,
Not only tempt, but wound the heart.
God doth entreat the Soul by love,
Sin with deceit the Soul doth move.
Sin laid the corner-stone in Hell;
Sin made this World a Monster swell.
In all to God 'tis flatly opposite,
It wants the good of Vertue and of Light.
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