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If penitence allay not that fierce wrath,
Whereto our wickedness provok'd him hath,
There will impartial search be made, by GOD,
As well for common, as for Royal bloud;
Yea, search on both sides, both for bloud and treason,
When equal Retributions are in season:
And, as much guiltiness if he shall then
In Kings discover, as in common men,
Their Judges vindicate from guilt he shall,
Though them we murtherers and traytors call;
And, their bloud, if it guiltlesly be shed,
Will cry as loud to GOD as Abels did.
What will it profit then, if there be none
To question them on earth: for ought misdone,
When they shall know, and truly understand,
On what sad terms, they fall into GOD's hand;
Who shall the more offend, because they were
More by him priviledg'd than others are?
GOD will not then be mockt, whatever they
Shall dream, who put the thought thereof away;
Or whatso'er a Prophet in Lawn Sleeves
Of Kings and their Immunities believes:
And though their Nobles also flatter them,
As Judahs did King Joash, in his time.
Whereto our wickedness provok'd him hath,
There will impartial search be made, by GOD,
As well for common, as for Royal bloud;
Yea, search on both sides, both for bloud and treason,
When equal Retributions are in season:
And, as much guiltiness if he shall then
In Kings discover, as in common men,
Their Judges vindicate from guilt he shall,
Though them we murtherers and traytors call;
And, their bloud, if it guiltlesly be shed,
Will cry as loud to GOD as Abels did.
What will it profit then, if there be none
To question them on earth: for ought misdone,
When they shall know, and truly understand,
On what sad terms, they fall into GOD's hand;
Who shall the more offend, because they were
More by him priviledg'd than others are?
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Shall dream, who put the thought thereof away;
Or whatso'er a Prophet in Lawn Sleeves
Of Kings and their Immunities believes:
And though their Nobles also flatter them,
As Judahs did King Joash, in his time.
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