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How long! how long! shall GOD unto this place
Make dis-respected offers of his Grace?
How often, since great failings first begun,
Hath he provoked almost ev'ry one,
Apart, or joyntly? Ceasing not to prove
By Judgements and by mercies interwove,
How difficultly, either Grace or Nature
Can work upon a self-corrupted Creature?