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Remors and sorrow for sinne.
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Remors and sorrow for sinne.
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Lord lend me light, for to lament my life,And sharpe my fight, to sorrow for my sin;
Restraine the furie, and the mortall strife,
Of spreit, and flesh, that Iam entred in:
Permit me not, without recourse to rin,
Nor walk the waies, of the vnchastiz'd child,
Bot giue me grace, and grant me to begin,
For to refuse, the folies that defyld,
My sinfull soule, and all my senses syld,
With showes of wordly vanities, and welth,
And those inglorious glosis that begyld,
And did with hold, me from my heauenly health:
Lord be thy spreit, make me perceaue & spy-them,
And then renounce, and vtterly deny-them.
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God grant me grace, for to digest my greif,And for the spreit, of patience I pray:
Lord send my Soule, that long desir'd releif,
And now conuert, my Carioune to clay;
Contract the Time, Lord thraw the threid in twa,
And let me murne my miseries no moir,
Dislodge this life, and doe not long delay,
To enter me, in Thy eternall gloir,
Whair J may liue Thy louing face befoir,
Thair with thy Saincts, vncessantly to sing,
Thy perfect praise, and but all end adoir,
Thy holy name, high Prophet, Preist, and King:
Vntie my tongue, that I may sing, and say,
O holy God, all holy, holy, ay.
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