Becoming America - An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution, 2018a

BECOMING AMERICA
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH COLONIAL LITERATURE
Amongst all those their souls that lose,
none can Rejection blame.
He that may chuse, or else refuse,
all men to save or spill,
May this man chuse, and that refuse,
redeeming whom he will.
XLIV
But as for those whom I have chose
Salvations heirs to be,
I u [. . .] derwent their punishment,
and therefore set them free.
I bore their grief, and their relief
by suering procur’d,
That they of bliss and happiness
[. . .] ight rmly be assur’d.
XLV
And this my g [. . .] ace they did embrace,
believing on my name;
Which Faith was true, the fruits do shew
proceeding from the same.
Their Penitence, their Patience,
their Love, their Self-den [. . .] al;
In suering losses and bearing crosses,
when put upon the trial:
XLVI
Their sin forsaking, their cheerful taking
my yoke; their chari [. . .] ee
Unto the Saints in all their wants,
and in them unto me.
These things do clear, and make appear
their Faith to be unfeigned:
And that a part in my desert
and purchase they have gained.
XLVII
Their debts are paid, their peace is made,
their sins remitted are;
Therefore at once I do pronounce
and openly declare,
That Heaven is theirs, that they be Heir [. . .]
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