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 and oft did turn aside

From one ill turn't another went,

from mischief could not bide:

But now by grace some are return'd

and brought to God again,

And from that time the straying humour

is always from them ta'en.

With pleasure great we sat to hear

his black but lovely face

Shew how believers should hang on

still at a throne of Grace.

Upon that text, That men should pray,

and that they should not faint;

He said, this was the character

of none but of a saint:

For carnal men may pray a while,

but they at length do weary,

But true believers do not faint

till they are brought to glory.

Because the Holy Ghost in them

doth constantly reside,

Their process they do never lift

till they at length come speed.

Of grace the mistery he preacht

upon his thirtieth year;

There he made gospel truth to shine,

and sweetly them did clear;

By a worms threshing mountains high

them quite to overturn

Thro' him whom the sweet Psalmist stiles