A65985:213
The day of doom
The day of doom; or A description of the great and last judgment With a short discourse about eternity
London: printed by J.G. for P.C., 1666
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CLXXIV. Would you have grieved to have received through Adam so much good, As had been your for evermore, if he at first had stood? Would you have said, We never obeyed nor did thy Laws regard; It ill befits with benefits us, Lord, so to reward?
CLXXIV. Would you have griev'd to have receiv'd through Adam so much good, As had been your for evermore, if he at first had stood? Would you have said, We ne'r obey'd nor did thy Laws regard; It ill befits with benefits us, Lord, so to reward?
CLXXV. Since then to share in his welfare you could have been content, You may with reason share in his treason, and in the punishment. Hence you were born in state forlorn, with natures so depraved: Death was your due, because that you had thus your selves behaved.
CLXXV. Since then to share in his welfare you could have been content, You may with reason share in his treason, and in the punishment. Hence you were born in state forlorn, with natures so dep•aved: Death was your due, because that you had thus your selves behaved.
CLXXVI. You think if we had been as he, whom God did so betrust, ⟨p. 54⟩We to our cost would ne'er have lost all for a paltry lust. Had you been made in Adam's stead, you would like things have wrought; And so into the self-same woe your selves and yours have brought.
CLXXVI. You think if we had been as he, whom God did so betrust,