Fixd on this day? why do I overlive,

To mee and to my ofspring would torment me

Wrath without end on Man whom Death must end?

Why am I mockt with death, and lengthnd out

That I must leave ye, Sons; O were I able

O welcom hour whenever! why delayes

The doubt, since humane reach no further knows.

Pursues me still, least all I cannot die,

And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no more

That dust I 九_九_藏_書am, and shall to dust returne: [ 770 ]

To waste it all my self, and leave ye none! [ 820 ]

With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt

His hand to execute what his Decree

Satisfid never; that were to extend

Least that pure breath of Life, the Spirit of Man

To the reception of thir matter act,

But I shall die a living Death? O thought

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Is his wrauth also? be it, man is not so, [ 795 ]

Would Thunder in my ears, no fear of worse [ 780 ]

Insensible, how glad would lay me down

Strange contradiction, which to God himself

Thy punishment then justly is at his Will.

Horrid, if true! yet why? it was but breath

Be it so, for I submit, his doom is fair,

That Death be not one stroak, as I supposd,

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Of Life that sinnd; what dies but what had life [ 790 ]

All of me then shall die: let this appease

For angers sake, finite to infinite

Both in me, and without me, and so last

For though the Lord of all be infinite,

To serve him, thy reward was of his grace,

Or in some other dismal place who knows

From this day onward, which I feel begun

Of weakness, not of Power. Will he, draw out,ｒｅad.99csｗ.ｃｏｍ

Impossible is held, as Argument [ 800 ]

In punisht man, to satisfie his rigour

Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth

Am found Eternal, and incorporate both,

His Sentence beyond dust and Natures Law, [ 805 ]

Comes thundring back with dreadful revolution

To perpetuitie; Ay me, that fear

On my defensless head; both Death and I [ 815 ]

And sin? the Bodie properly hath neither.

Not to th extent of thir ohttps://read.99csw.comwn Spheare. But say

To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet [ 775 ]

With this corporeal Clod; then in the Grave,

As in my Mothers lap! There I should rest

Nor I on my part single, in mee all

Can he make deathless Death? that were to make

But mortal doomd. How can he exercise

Bereaving sense, but endless miserie [ 810 ]

By which all Causes else according still

God made thee of choice his own, and of his own