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

BECOMING AMERICA
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH COLONIAL LITERATURE
Find some regard, and good rewa [. . .] d
with thee, O Lord, this day.
And whereas we transgressors be;
of Adam’s Race were n [. . .] ne,
(No not the best) but have confes [. . .]
themselves to h [. . .] ve mis [. . .] one.
XCVI
Then answered, un [. . .] o their dread,
the Judge, True piety
God doth desire, and eke requi [. . .] e
no less then honesty.
Justice demands at all your hands
perfect Obedience:
If but in part you have come sh [. . .],
that is a just oence.
XCVII
On earth below where men did owe
a thousand pounds and more,
Could twenty pence it recompence?
could that have clear’d the score?
Think you to buy felicity
with part of what’s due debt?
O [. . .] for desert of one small part
the whole should o be set?
XCVIII
And yet that part (whose great desert
you think to reach so far
For your excuse) doth you accuse,
and will your boasting mar.
However fair, however square
your way, and work h [. . .] th bin
Before mens eyes, yet God espies
iniquity therein.
XCIX
God looks upon th’ [. . .] [. . .] ction
and temper of the heart;
Not only on the action,
and the external part.
Whatever end vain men pretend,
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