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

BECOMING AMERICA
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH COLONIAL LITERATURE
We rais’d the dead, and ministred
succour to the distrest.
Our painful preaching and pow’rful teaching,
by thine own wond’rous might,
Did throughly win from God to sin
many a wretched wight.
LXX
All this (quoth he) may granted be [. . .]
and your case little better’d,
Who still remain under a chain,
and many irons fetter’d.
You that the dead have quickened,
and rescu’d from the grave,
Your selves were dead, yet never ned
a Christ your Souls to save.
LXXI
You that could preach, and others teach
wh [. . .] t way to life doth lead;
Why were you slack to nd that track,
and in that way to tread?
How could you bear to see or hear
of others freed at last
From Satans Paws, whilst in his jaws
your selves were held more fa [. . .] t?
LXXII
Who though you kne [. . .] Repentance true
and faith in my great Name,
The only mean to quit you clean
from punishment and blame,
Yet took no pain true faith to gain,
(such as might not deceive)
Nor would repent wi [. . .] h true intent
[. . .] our evil deeds to leave.
LXXIII
[. . .] is Masters will how to full
[. . .] he servant that well knew,
[. . .] et left undone his duty known,
more plagues to him are due.
[. . .] ou against Light perverted Right;
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