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The divine penitential meditations and vows of His late Sacred Majesty in his solitude…The divine penitential meditations and vovves of His late Sacred Majesty in his solitude…
The divine penitential meditations and vows of His late Sacred Majesty in his solitude at Holmby-House, faithfully turned into verse. By E.R. Gentleman.The divine penitential meditations and vovves of His late Sacred Majesty in his solitude at Holmby-House, faithfully turned into verse. By E.R. Gentleman.
London : John Clowes, Printed in the year, 1649
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If thou wilt, keep me from the great offence of enacting any thing against my Conscience, and especially from consenting to sacrilegious rapines & spoilings of thy Church.
If thou wilt, keep me from the great offence of enacting any thing against my Conscience, and especially from consenting to sacriligious rapines & spoilings of thy Church.
If thou wilt keep me from that great sin Of acting any thing, which I By conscience know should not have been And chief, not to consent to fly To spoil thy Church most sacrilegiously.
If thou'lt keep me from that great sinne Of acting any thing, which I By conscience know should not have been And cheif, not to consent to fly To spoile thy Church most sacreligiously.
If thou wilt, restore me to a capacity of doing good, both to the Church and State.
If that thou (Lord) wilt me restore To a capacity, that so I may endeavour more and more To praise thee in the good I'll do But to the Church, and State, which now is low.