The teares or lamentations of a sorrowfull Soule Set foorth by Sir William Leighton |
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 | The teares or lamentations of a sorrowfull Soule |  |
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A particuler confession of a sorrowfull sinner.
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Most mightie and al-knowing Lordtrue spring of consolation:
I doe confesse with heart and word,
thou art my preseruation.
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I haue offended grieuously,by my transgression don gain'st thee,
And haue drawne down a weight on me,
of thy great Iudgements wilfully.
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Vnder which burden cannot I,but faint and fall in wofull sort:
Vnlesse thy hand and thy mercy,
through Iesus Christ doe me support.
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Thou know'st good father I am weake,and cannot beare thine heauie ire:
Not knowing what to doe or speake,
or how to saue mee from this fire.
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Vnlesse thou poynt mee out the way,with thy wise spr'it me directing:
Vnto the deuill I am made a pray,
were not thy power me protecting.
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Not euery one that heares thy word,can vnderstand thy wisdome great:
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shall enter into heauens gate.
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Who is not ledd by better line,then doth proceed from flesh & bloud
Er's from the truth, and doth decline,
from right to wrong, to ill from good.
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Whose end is death, though for a time,seemes sweet to please the outward man
That's nothing else but durt and slime,
or like a puffe, in length a spanne.
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As honor, riches, frends and health,preferment life and worlds delight:
Esteeming these true happie wealth,
but the true blisse is out of sight.
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They thinke that sicknes pouertie,imprisonment and enymies fell:
And worldlie crosses veryly,
are gates and entrance into hell.
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Soe foolish and so ignorant,are those thou guyd'st not in thy way,
Mong'st whom euen I, through wisdomes want,
haue bin misled vntill this day.
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But hauing found the truth by tryall,that earthly ioyes are transitory:
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and only seeke th'eternall glory.
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Now I disclaime all confidence,in Honor, health, in wealth or feature:
In wit or worldly sapience,
or yet in any earthly creature.
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And Lord I heere doe dedicate,all thou hast giu'n me to thine honor:
My selfe I wholie consecrate,
to march and fight vnder thy banner.
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And now I bid these ioyes adew,that only please my flesh and sences:
Because they all are most vntrue,
and still doe cause so great offences.
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Because their glorious bountie fades,and leaue nought but deformities:
Because they are nought else but shades,
and bring forth grose innormities.
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Because they are most false and fickle,because they are indeed hells fewell:
Because their rose hath many a prickle,
because their slauery is most cruell.
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Because they are not firme and stable,because they are profane not holie:
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because they are but sottish folly.
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Because my soule they call and kill,because they giue me Iudas kisse:
Because my good they spot and spill,
& draw me from mine heauenly wish.
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because lik swords, they woūd my soulbecause like serpents, they do sting me:
Because my conscience doth controule,
& saith to hell gates, they will bring me.
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Because they doe beset my sences,because they dull my spirits quicknes.
Because they cause so great expences,
because they cause my sad soules sicknes
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Bcause all vertue hindred is,by this vild worlds accused pleasure:
Because t'will mee bereaue of blisse,
and of that blessed heauenly treasure.
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And therefore earth & world farewelladue fond fancies flattering fauoures,
Your ioyes are toyes, your heauen is hell,
I hate your poysoned tast and sauours.
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And thou that art, life of my life,soule of my soule, O Iesus Christ:
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thou art that prophet, Prince, & Priest.
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That went'st vp to prepare that place,aboue Sonne, Moone, & planets seauen
Oh saue me by thy sauing grace:
and bring me to that highest heauen.
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