Of the omnipotencie of God, and debilitie of man.
1
O God
thou glorious God, what god is like to thee?
What life, what strength is like to thine, as al ye world may see?
The heauens, the earth, the seas, and all thy workes therein,
Do shew (to whom thou wouldst to know) what thou hast euer bin.
2
But all the thoughts of man, are bent to wretched euill,
Man doth commit idolatrie, bewitched of the Deuill.
What euill is left vndone, where man may may haue his will?
Man euer was an hypocrite, and so continues still.
3
What daily watch is made, the soule of man to slea,
By Lucifer, by Belzabub, Mammon, and Asmodea?
What these 4. principal diuels do signifie.
In diuelish pride, in wrath, in coueting too much,
In fleshly lust the time is spent, the life of man is such.
4
The ioy that man hath here, is as a sparke of fier,
His acts be like the smoldring smoke, himselfe like dirt and mier.
His strength euen as a reede, his age much like the flower,
His breth or life is but a puffe, vncertaine euerie hower.
5
But for the holy Ghost, and for his giftes of grace,
The death of Christ thy mercie great, man were in wofull case.
O graunt vs therefore Lord, to amend that is amisse,
And when from hence we do depart, to rest with thee in blisse.
