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Thus having heard from Gerizzim I shall	A
Next come to Ebal and you thither call	B
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Not there to curse you but to let you hear	C
How God doth curse that soul that shall appear	D
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An unbelieving man a graceless wretch	E
Because he doth continue in the breach	E
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Of Moses' law and also doth neglect	F
To close with Jesus him will God reject	F
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And cast behind him for of right his due	G
Is that from whence all miseries ensue	G
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Cursed saith he are thy that do transgress	H
The least of my commandments more or less	H
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Nothing that written is must broken be	I
But always must be kept unto by thee	I
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And must fulfilled be for here no man	J
Can look God in the face or ever stand	K
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Before the judgment seat for if they be	I
Convict condemned too assuredly	I
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Now keep this law no mortal creature can	J
For they already do as guilty stand	K
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Before the God that gave it so that they	L
Obnoxious to the curse lie every day	L
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Which also they must feel for certainty	I
If unto Jesus Christ they do not fly	M
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Hence then as they for ever shall be blest	N
That do by faith upon the promise rest	N
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So peace unto the wicked there is none	O
'Tis wrath and death that they must feed upon	P
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That what I say may some impression make	Q
On carnal hearts that they in time may take	Q
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That course that best will prove when time is done	O
These lines I add to what I have begun	O
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First thou must know that God as he is love	R
So he is justice therefore cannot move	S
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Or in the least be brought to favour those	T
His holiness and justice doth oppose	T
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For though thou mayst imagine in thy heart	U
That God is this or that yet if thou art	U
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At all besides the truth of what he is	V
And so dost build thy hope for life amiss	W
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Still he the same abideth and will be	I
The same the same for ever unto thee	I
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As God is true unto his promise so	X
Unto his threat'ning he is faithful too	G
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Cease to be God he must if he should break	Q
One tittle that his blessed mouth did speak	Y
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Now then none can be saved but the men	Z
With whom the Godhead is contented when	Z
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It them beholds with the severest eye	M
Of justice holiness and yet can spy	M
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No fault nor blemish in them these be they	L
That must be saved as the Scriptures say	L
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If this be true as 'tis assuredly	I
Woe be to them that wicked live and die	M
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Those that as far from holiness have been	A2
All their life long as if no eye had seen	B2
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Their doings here or as if God did not	C2
At all regard or in the least mind what	D2
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Wherein or how they did his law transgress	H
Either by this or other wickedness	E2
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But how deceived these poor creatures are	F2
They then shall know when they their burthen bear	G2
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Alas our God is a consuming fire	H2
So is his law by which he doth require	H2
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That thou submit to him and if thou be	I
Not in that justice found that can save thee	I
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From all and every sentence which he spake	Q
Upon mount Sinai then as one that brake	Q
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It thou the flames thereof shall quickly find	I2
As scourges thee to lash while sins do bind	I2
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Thee hand and foot for ever to endure	J2
The strokes of vengeance for thy life impure	J2
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What I have said will yet evinced be	I
And manifest abundantly to thee	I
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If what I have already spoken to	G
Be joined with these lines that do ensue	G
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Justice discovers its antipathy	I
Against profaneness and malignity	G
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Not only by the law it gave to men	Z
And threatenings thereunto annexed then	Z
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But inasmuch as long before that day	G
He did prepare for such as go astray	G
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That dreadful that so much amazing place	K2
Hell with its torments for those men that grace	K2
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And holiness of life slight and disdain	L2
There to bemoan themselves with hellish pain	L2
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This place also the pains so dismal be	I
Both as to name and nature that in me	I
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It is not to express the damning wights	K2
The hellish torture and the fearful plights	K2
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Thereof for as intolerable they	G
Must needs be found by those that disobey	G
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The Lord so can no word or thought express	K2
Unto the full the height of that distress	K2
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Such miserable caitiffs that shall there	G2
Rebukes of vengeance for transgressions bear	G2
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Indeed the holy Scriptures do make use	K2
Of many metaphors that do conduce	K2
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Much to the symbolizing of the place	K2
Unto our apprehension but the case	K2
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The sad the woeful case of those that lie	M
As racked there in endless misery	I
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By all similitudes no mortals may	G
Set forth in its own nature for I say	G
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Similitudes are but a shade and show	X
Of those or that they signify to you	G
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The fire that doth within thine oven burn	M2
The prison where poor people sit and mourn	N2
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Chains racks and darkness and such others be	I
As painting on the wall to let thee see	I
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By word and figures the extremity	I
Of such as shall within these burnings lie	M
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But certainly if wickedness and sin	A2
Had only foolish toys and trifles been	A2
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And if God had not greatly hated it	G
Yea could he any ways thereof admit	G
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And let it pass he would not thus have done	O
He doth not use to punish any one	O
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With any place or punishment that is	K2
Above or sharper than the sin of his	K2
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Hath merited and justice seeth due	G
Read sin then by the death that doth ensue	G
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Most men do judge of sin not by the fruits	K2
It bears and bringeth forth but as it suits	K2
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Their carnal and deluded hearts that be	I
With sensual pleasures eaten up but he	I
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That now so judgeth shortly shall perceive	O2
That God will judge thereof himself and leave	O2
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Such men no longer to their carnal lusts	K2
To judge of wickedness and of the just	G
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And righteous punishment that doth of right	G
Belong thereto and will too in despite	G
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Of all their carnal reason justify	M
Himself in their eternal misery	I
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Then hell will be no fancy neither will	P2
Men's sins be pleasant to them but so ill	P2
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And bitter yea so bitter that none can	J
Fully express the same or ever stand	G
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Under the burden it will on them lay	G
When they from life and bliss are sent away	G
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When I have thought how often God doth speak	Y
Of their destruction who HIS law do break	Q
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And when the nature of the punishment	G
I find so dreadful and that God's intent	G
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Yea resolution is it to inflict	G
On every sinner that shall stand convict	G
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I have amazed been yet to behold	G
To see poor sinners yet with sin so bold	G
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That like the horse that to the battle runs	K2
Without all fear and that no danger shuns	K2
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Till down he falls O resolute attempts	K2
O sad amazing damnable events	K2
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The end of such proceedings needs must be	I
From which O Lord save and deliver me	I
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But if thou think that God thy noble race	K2
Will more respect than into such a place	K2
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To put thee hold though thou his offspring be	I
And so art lovely yet sin hath made thee	I
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Another kind of creature than when thou	Q2
Didst from his fingers drop and therefore now	Q2
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Thy first creation stands thee in no stead	G
Thou hast transgressed and in very deed	G
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Set God against thee who is infinite	G
And that for certain never will forget	G
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Thy sins nor favour thee if thou shalt die	M
A graceless man this is thy misery	I
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When angels sinned though of higher race	K2
Than thou and also put in higher place	K2
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Yet them he spared not but cast them down	R2
From heaven to hell where also they lie bound	G
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In everlasting chains and no release	K2
Shall ever have but wrath that shall increase	K2
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Upon them to their everlasting woe	X
As for the state they were exalted to	G
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That will by no means mitigate their fear	D
But aggravate their hellish torment here	C
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For he that highest stands if he shall fall	B
His danger needs must be the great'st of all	B
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Now if God noble angels did not spare	G2
Because they did transgress will he forbear	G2
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Poor dust and ashes Will he suffer them	S2
To break his law and sin and not condemn	S2
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Them for so doing Let not man deceive	O2
Himself or others they that do bereave	O2
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Themselves by sin of happiness shall be	I
Cut off by justice and have misery	I
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Witness his great severity upon	P
The world that first was planted wherein none	O
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But only eight the deluge did escape	T2
All others of that vengeance did partake	Q
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The reason was that world ungodly stood	G
Before him therefore he did send the flood	G
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Which swept them all aw	U2