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Songs of Sion

Set for the ioy of gods deere ones, vvho sitt here by the brookes of this vvorlds Babel, & vveepe vvhen they thinke on Hierusalem vvhich is on highe. By W. L. [i.e. William Loe]

Loe, William

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The fift Prayer.

Rom. 7. 25.

1

I thanke thee lord that hast sett novve
In me a fight, a iarre;
My mind, my flesh, doe day by day
In-strife sett forth a vvarre.

2

My mind to thy svveete lavve giues vvay,
My flesh in thrall is brought,
My mind vvould keepe thy lavve, thy lore.
And hath thy vvill still sought

3

But my base flesh is prompt, & seekes
Thy lavve to cast me fro.
O god vvhat shall I doe in this?
With me the case is so.

4

My mind vvould doe the god full faine
That thy lawes shevve to me
But still my flesh doth frett, & fume
Gainst this thy lavve to me

5

For I doe not that vvhich I loue,
But I doe that I hate,
And all for that my mind is vext
With this my flesh my mate.

6

What shall I doe o lord my god
Ah vvretch vvho setts thee free?
Frō this fell death of sinne, & shame
That I thy grace may see.

7

I thanke my god vvho haue me fred
For his sonne Christ his sake;
To him for aye both night, & day
My hymnes, my songs I make.

O god that thou vvouldst beat dovvne the strong, & ill man that rules, & raigns in my vveake flesh that I may say to him goe farre from me. Psal. 139. 19.