The teares or lamentations of a sorrowfull Soule Set foorth by Sir William Leighton |
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To the elect and faithful. |
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To the elect and faithful.
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This is the consolation great,of the that in their death-beds lie:
Their mindes fly vp to'th mercy seate,
and there for mercy loudly cry.
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By Christ which death abollished,and sinne that's clensed by his bloud:
Whose merits, pardon purchased,
for all our sinnes, and death withstood.
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To vs his goodnes is imputed,to him the sinnes that we committed:
And we for righteous are reputed,
and all our sinnes, they are remitted.
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For he alone by death hath bought vs,from power and paine of deuill & hell:
& merly he through loue hath brought vs
with him in heauen to raigne & dwell.
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That no afflictions giue vs griefe,that Sathan should vs not destroy:
And giu'th to vs eternall life,
and filth our hearts with heauenly ioy.
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He made vs free-men, heires to God,which captiue bondslaues were to hell:
Beate Sathan downe with iron Rod,
to place where dampned diuels dwell.
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Eternall death could not preuaile,gain'st him, nor ouer him haue power:
christ strēgthned those whō sin did quaile
his might, the mighty did deuoure.
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O're death o're sinne & hidious hell,he gaue vs life and victory:
T'all those that keepe his precepts well,
and them installes in endles glory.
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For as by Adam all men dy'd,for sinne and by iniquity:
In Christ shall all men be reuiu'd,
to liue with him eternally.
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