Flamma sine Fumo or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns] |
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Predestination
Occulta esse causa potest, injusta esse non potest.
Dispute not why some Angels stood,
And others fell, which were by nature good:
Dispute not, wherefore God doth take and chuse
Some to his grace, and others doth refuse:
The potter doth of the same lump of clay
Make vessels some more base, and some more gay;
And shall we question Gods most secret will,
Why his own creatures he doth save or kill?
Who's sav'd, or damn'd, none knows: who look
Into the Lords Predestination-book?
The signs or symptoms which Election prove,
Are lively faith, and undefiled love.
I will serve God, and shake off sinful slumber,
Who knows but I am of th' elected number?
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