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The Foole hath said in his heart, there is no God.

Psal. 14. 1.
That God IS, no Man euer made a doubt;
if doubt some did, they did it not as Men:
For, faithlesse men, by meere sense, God finde out:
what are these senselesse God-deniers then?
They are not Fiends; for, they haue humane Soules;
and Fiends confesse, with feare, there is a God:
Much lesse, not Angels, Beasts, nor Fish, nor Fowles,
for, these praise God! What then? Eu'n their owne Rod.
Who doe themselues, tormentingly, confound;
hardning their Hearts; and, so, plague Sinne by Sinne:

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Yet ioy in that which doth their Conscience wound:
is't possible such Creatures ere haue bin?
It's possible, for, such there be, God wot,
That know not God, because God knowes them not.