Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
On Darkness. |
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On Darkness.
How, Sinner! Darkness better far than LightTo be preferr'd? It is because the Night
Draws a thick Curtain over your black deeds;
But God's All-seeing eye no Curtain heeds.
If he should shew severity to men,
And you in Hell, you'd hate your Darkness then.
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