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[22] They ne'er would hearken unto Noah, Until the flood did them destroy. Like them, the people in our days, They take ſmall tent what pastors ſays: When they declare that ſin brings death, They think it is but vain man's breath. Their time they driee off with delay, And the evil day puts far away. The rumours of war by ſea and land, Declares the last day is at hand: The teachers they ſhall be condemn’d, When ye and they are both exam'd, Where that the truth did never ſhine, Their punishinent be less than thine. The man that knows his master's will, And has no care it to fulfill, But daily does the contrary way, Full double ſtripes ſhall be his pay. Take heed all ye that are ſo vain, And ye that useth words profane, To you it will not be no bourds, When account is ſought of evil words. I would that men were ſo inclin'd, For to be of St Jerom's mind, Into his ears there ſounded ay, The trumpet of the latter day! O! if all men were of that ſtrain. Amen, ſo would I, ſaid the Wren.

BUT ſin abounds, and love is cold, Their eyes are dim, does not behold! To please the Lord, to an infidel, That is a thing impossible : I wish that all men's hearts were bent, With Christ to keep their covenant.