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GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE PREFACE by EDWARD TAYLOR

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First Line: LONG LOOKT FOR SIR! HAPPY, RIGHT HAPPY SAINT
Last Line: MY WANT OF GRACE. TEMPTATIONS TOO WITHIN.
Subject(s): PURITANS IN LITERATURE;

SOUL

Long lookt for Sir! Happy, right Happy Saint.
I long to lay before you my Complaint:
And gain your Counsill: but you're strange: and I
Through backwardness lost opportunity.

SAINT

How is't good Sir: methinks I finde there dart
Some pleasant Hopes of you within my heart.
What is your Rantery declinde, foregone?
Your looks are like the Earth you Tread upon.

SOUL

Its true: I do, and well may look so, too
For worse than mee the world did never show.
My sins are dide in grain: all Grace I lack.
This doth my Soul on tenterhooks enwrack.
Wherefore I Counsill Crave touching my sin
My Want of Grace. Temptations too within.



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