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Morall.
How oft haue I (O Lord) erred in this,Thinking thee blinde when Night approched is;
Where if I rightly did distinguish light,
I'de thinke Mans Day farre darker then thy Night:
For there's no Night with Thee; but such a Day,
As needs no Sun to chase the Night away.
Annotation vpon the precedent Morall.
It is obserued by the Learned, that Adam after his fall or defection from God, seeing his owne nakednesse which hee procured to himselfe by his owne disobedience, being borne in a Primitiue freedome of will, to haue fled for refuge, or couert rather, to a shadie Groue in the Garden, imagining to exempt himselfe from the punishment due to his Sin, by flying to the shade to couer his Sin; implying
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