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

BECOMING AMERICA
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH COLONIAL LITERATURE
God knows the v [. . .] ri [. . .] y [. . .]
And by the end which they intend
their words and deeds doth try.
C
Without true faith, the Scripture saith,
God cannot take delight
In any deed, that doth proceed
from any si [. . .] ful wight.
And withou [. . .] love all actions prove
but barren empty things:
Dead works they be, and vanity,
the which vexation brings.
CI
Nor from true faith, which quencheth wrath
hath your obedience own:
Nor from true love, which wont to move
believers, hath it grown.
Your argument shews your intent
in all that you have done:
You thought to [. . .] cale heavens lofty wall,
by ladders o [. . .] your own.
CII
Your blinded spirit, hoping to merit
by your own righteousness,
Needed no Saviour, but your b [. . .] haviour
and blameless ca [. . .] riages [. . .]
You trusted to what you could do,
and in no need you stood:
Your haughty pride laid me aside,
and trampled on my Bloud.
CIII
All men have gone astray, and done
that which God’s Law [. . .] condemn:
But my Purchase and oered Grace
all men did not contemn.
The Ninevites and Sodomites
had no such sin as this:
Yet as if all your sins were small,
you say, All did amiss.
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