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

BECOMING AMERICA
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH COLONIAL LITERATURE
LXV
They multiply and magnie
mens gross iniquities;
They draw down wrath (as Scripture saith)
out of God’s treasuries [. . .]
Thu [. . .] all their ways Christ open lays
to Men and Angels view,
And, as they were, makes them appear
in their own proper hue.
LXVI
Thus he doth nd of all ma [. . .] kind
that stand at his left hand
No mothers son but hath misdone,
and broken God’s command.
All have transgrest, even the best,
and merited God’s wrath
[. . .] nto their own perdition,
and everlasting scath.
LXVII
Earth’s dwellers all both great and small,
have wrought iniquity,
And suer must (for it is just)
eternal misery.
Amongst the many there come not any
before the Judge’s face,
That able are themselves to clear,
of all this curled race.
LXVIII
Nevertheless they all express,
Christ granting liberty,
What for their way they have to say,
how they have liv’d, and why.
They all draw near, and seek to clear
themselves by making plea’s.
There hypocrites, false-hearted wights,
do make such pleas as these.
LXIX
Lord, in thy Name, and by the same
we Devils dispossest:
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