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2. The second part of the second lamentation.
The repentant prayeth that God would direct him in the right path, that so he may grow from grace to grace, and from vertue to vertue, he also confesseth that his sinnes deserue very sharpe punishments and yet desireth that the Lord would spare him in his mercy.
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O let me treade in the right path,& walke frō faith to faith in loue:
Obserue thy lawes and shun thy wrath,
and forward to all vertue moue.
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And let my conscience witnes beare,of my faith and integritie:
Let all men see the christall cleare,
and pure heart of conformitie.
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Though I good father cannot liue,free from all sinne and all offence:
And some take cause, though I none giue
yet keepe thou cleare my conscience.
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Shall I deserue still I doe,mens iust reprouffes, though in discretiō
And that against my meaning too,
and suffer carnall mens oppression.
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That breake forth into bitternes,against me that am weake and lame:
And vomit out their filthines,
that thou hast don, they count my shame
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And take it as an argument,that I am in deiection:
And thinke it is thy full intent,
to keepe me from protection.
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Indeed O Lord I must confesse,my sinnes deserue sharpe punishment
Worthy of more and not of lesse,
then all the plagues on me hast sent.
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I more should tast then I can beare,or able them for to endure:
Thy mercies yet they doe me spare,
and make me cleane that am impure.
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But in my weakenes of mine hauiour,I this haue done which caus'd me fall:
And therefore trust in Christ my sauiour,
his pretious bloud hath paid for all.
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Depending on thy mighty power,to saue, keepe, and deliuer me:
Least miseries doe me deuour,
and enemies my sorrowes see.
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