Dia Poemata Poetick Feet Standing Upon Holy Ground: Or, Verses on certain Texts of Scripture. With Epigrams, &c. By E. E. [i.e. Edmund Elys] |
BACK-SLIDING: OR, A Spirituall Relapse. |
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BACK-SLIDING: OR, A Spirituall Relapse.
A wounded spirit who can bear?
Prov. 18. 14.
My Heart bleeds: Wounded spirit! oh!
'Twas Sin gave me this deadly blow.
Sin thus Reviv'd Die: for neither
Can be content to Live together:
We fight like two fierce Combatants, that meet
To get a Trophee, or a Winding-sheet.
'Twas Sin gave me this deadly blow.
Sin thus Reviv'd Die: for neither
Can be content to Live together:
We fight like two fierce Combatants, that meet
To get a Trophee, or a Winding-sheet.
But, must I Die indeed? and can
The Sinner thus Destroy the Man?
Self-Murtherer I am: O! I
Have Slaine my selfe, yet would not Die.
Ah! I am Dead in Trespasses and Sin:
The Worme already feeds on me within.
The Sinner thus Destroy the Man?
Self-Murtherer I am: O! I
Have Slaine my selfe, yet would not Die.
Ah! I am Dead in Trespasses and Sin:
The Worme already feeds on me within.
Heale my back-slidings, Lord: O draw
Me from the Roaring Lions Paw,
That tears my Soul: O Jesu, give
Me once more Will, and Pow'r to Live.
Cure but the wounded spirit that I bear,
Ile fight th' Good Fight; be more than Conqueror.
Me from the Roaring Lions Paw,
That tears my Soul: O Jesu, give
Me once more Will, and Pow'r to Live.
Cure but the wounded spirit that I bear,
Ile fight th' Good Fight; be more than Conqueror.
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