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

BECOMING AMERICA
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH COLONIAL LITERATURE
of Life and of Salvation;
Nor ever shall they come at all
to death or to damnation.
XLVIII
Come, blessed ones, and sit on Thrones,
judging the world with me:
Come, and possess your happiness,
and bought [. . .] elicitee.
Henceforth no fears, no care, no tears,
no sin shal you annoy,
Nor any thing that grief doth bring;
eternal rest enjoy.
XLIX
You bore the Cross, you suered loss
of all [. . .] or my Names sake:
Receive the Crown that’s now your own;
come, and a kingdom take.
Thus spake the Judge: the wicked grudge,
and grind their teeth in vain;
They see with groans these plac’d on throne [. . .]
which addeth to their pain:
L
That those whom they did wrong and slay,
must now their judgement see!
Such whom they sleighted and once de [. . .] spighte [. . .]
must of their Judges be!
Thus ‘tis decreed, such is their meed
and guerdon glorious:
With Christ they sit, judging it t
to plague the impious.
LI
The wicked are brought to the Bar
like guilty malefactors,
That oftentimes of bloody crimes
and treasons have been actors.
Of wicked men none are so mean
as there to be neglected:
Nor none so high in dignity,
as there to be respected.
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