Part 99 (2/2)

The blood of Abel was a thing Of such a rev'rend reckoning, As that the old world thought it fit Especially to swear by it.

205. A POSITION IN THE HEBREW DIVINITY.

One man repentant is of more esteem With G.o.d, than one that never sinned 'gainst Him.

206. PENITENCE.

The doctors, in the Talmud, say, That in this world one only day In true repentance spent will be More worth than heaven's eternity.

207. G.o.d'S PRESENCE.

G.o.d's present everywhere, but most of all Present by union hypostatical: G.o.d, He is there, where's nothing else, schools say, And nothing else is there where He's away.

_Hypostatical_, personal.

208. THE RESURRECTION POSSIBLE AND PROBABLE.

For each one body that i' th' earth is sown, There's an uprising but of one for one; But for each grain that in the ground is thrown, Threescore or fourscore spring up thence for one: So that the wonder is not half so great Of ours as is the rising of the wheat.

209. CHRIST'S SUFFERING.

Justly our dearest Saviour may abhor us, Who hath more suffered by us far, than for us.

210. SINNERS.

Sinners confounded are a twofold way, Either as when, the learned schoolmen say, Men's sins destroyed are when they repent, Or when, for sins, men suffer punishment.

211. TEMPTATIONS.

No man is tempted so but may o'ercome, If that he has a will to masterdom.

212. PITY AND PUNISHMENT.

G.o.d doth embrace the good with love; and gains The good by mercy, as the bad by pains.

213. G.o.d'S PRICE AND MAN'S PRICE.

G.o.d bought man here with His heart's blood expense; And man sold G.o.d here for base thirty pence.

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