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A feast of fat things full of marrow containing several Scripture songs taken out…
A feast of fat things full of marrow containing several Scripture songs taken out of the Old and New Testaments, with others composed by t[he author] : together [with o]ne hundred of divine hymns, being the first century.
London: printed by B.H., 1696
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
HYMN 13. Another on God's Patience.
1 Would Man forbear to seek revenge on such a cursed Foe, Who stri•es to Murder him each Day, and work his Overthrow?
1 WOuld Man forbear to seek revenge on such a cursed Foe, Who stri•es to Murther him each Day, and work his Overthrow?
2 But God waves all advantages of wrath, and vengeance too; And, by amazing Patience, doth daring Man out-do?
3 The Creature doth disdain his God, by whom he's clothed and fed, Yet God still spares this rebel Worm, who by the Devil's led
3 The Creature doth disdain his God, by whom he's cloath'd and fed, Yet God still spares this rebel Worm, who by the Devil's led