Seuen Sobs of a Sorrowful Soule for Sinne Comprehending those seuen Psalmes of the Princelie Prophet David, commonlie called Poenitentiall; framed into a forme of familiar praiers, and reduced into meeter by William Hunnis ... Whereunto are also annexed his Handful of Honisuckles; the Poore Widowes Mite; a Dialog between Christ and a sinner; diuers godlie and pithie ditties, with a Christian confession of and to the Trinitie; newly printed and augmented |
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A Conflict betweene the Spirit and the Flesh in the Soule of Man. |
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A Conflict betweene the Spirit and the Flesh in the Soule of Man.
SPIRIT.My soule giue eare to me thy spirit,
of that I say to thee;
Forsake the pleasures of thy flesh,
and ioine thy selfe with me:
Thy flesh is filthy, fraile, and fon
and nought but sinne containes;
Whose due deserts through wickednesse
is euerlasting paines.
FLESH.
My soule not so great proofe thou hast
of pleasures that I bring;
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and euery other thing:
Forsake me not but ioine with mee,
which am thy flesh and bone.
For I the receptacle am
of all thy powers echone.
SPIRIT.
If thou after thy flesh wilt go,
then surely shalt thou die;
If thou wilt walke with me thy spirit,
we will him mortifie:
For thou betweene vs both art plast,
and at thy libertie,
To whether part thou wilt incline,
to liue or else to die.
SOVLE.
Alas what great conflict is this,
I sillie soule sustaine;
Betweene the pleasures of my flesh,
my spirit threatning paine:
I greeued am my flesh should lose,
yet glad my spirit might win,
But of the twaine whose part to take,
my doubt is great therein.
SPIRIT.
Thy flesh is disobedient,
vnkind and cruell still.
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Yet I poore soule indifferent,
make neither good nor ill.
FLESH.
Remember my sweet soule,
what flesh hath doone for thee,
SPIRIT.
Thy flesh for to subdue,
sweet soule take part with mee,
FLESH.
If thou my part wilt take,
we shall the victors bee.
SPIRIT.
If thou wilt him forsake,
then heauen is due to thee.
SOVLE.
The spirit makes men religious.
obedient and kind:
The flesh makes men rebellious,
and monsters beastlie blind;
The soule through power makes them men
as maker hath assind.
Wherefore my spirit I ioine with thee,
with all the force I can:
Awaie packe hence vnsauorie flesh,
the filthest part of man.
FINIS.
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