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| SITH God is euer changlesse as hee’s good, | |
| We wormes most mutable in spight of change | |
| May euer stand in him that euer stood, | |
| By faith, and hope, and love; and neuer range | |
| But when through him we go to places strange. | 5 |
| And though by nature mutable we be, | |
| Yet may his grace from vs that state estrange, | |
| And match vs to immutability | |
| In the bride-chamber of feliecity. | |
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| Hee’s true of promise, sith he cannot change; | 10 |
| Then why should sorrowing synners feare to dye? | |
| Since earth’s familiars are to heauen strange, | |
| Then heauen we cannot haue while here we lye. | |
| And he that’s free from all vncertainty | |
| Hath in his euer neuer-failing word | 15 |
| Giu’n vs by deede, with his bloud seald, an hie | |
| And heauenly mantion, which he doth afford | |
| To all whose wills do with his will accord. | |
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| The euer-liuing God, sole Lord of life, | |
| He was and is from all eternity: | 20 |
| If he be such a husband, shall his wife, | |
| Or any member of her, fear to dye | |
| In him with whom is immortality? | |
| Hee’s life itselfe; then of himself he moues, | |
| And all his members moues immediately | 25 |
| To rest in him: the rest from him he ’moues: | |
| So all moues by him which he hates or loues. | |
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