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

BECOMING AMERICA
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH COLONIAL LITERATURE
Where they shall see as seen they be,
and whom they love, enjoy.
CCXXI
O glorious Place! where face to face
Jehovah may be seen,
By such as were sinners whilere,
and no dark vail between.
Where the Sun-shine, and Light divine,
of Gods bright Countenance
Doth rest upon them every one
with sweetest inuence.
CCXXII
O blessed state of the Renate!
O Wond’rous Happiness
To which they’r brought, beyond what thought
can reach, or words express!
Grief’s water-course, and Sorrow’s sourse
are turn’d to joyful streams.
Their old distress and heaviness
a [. . .] e vanished like dreams.
CCXXIII
For God above in arms of love
doth dearly them embrace,
And lls their sprights with such delights
and pleasures in his grace;
As shall not fail, nor yet grow stale
through frequency of use:
Nor do they fear Gods Favour there
to forfeit by abuse.
CCXXIV
For there the Saints are perfect Saints,
and holy ones indeed,
From [. . .] ll the sin, that dwelt within
their mortal bodies, freed:
Made Kings and Priests to God, through Christs
dear loves transcendency,
There to remain, and there to reign
with him Eternally.
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