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Rh  50 I deind ubjection, and thought one tep higher Would et me highet, and in a moment quit The debt immene of endles gratitude, So burthenome, till paying, till to ow; Forgetful what from him I till receivd, And undertood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but till pays, at once Indebted and dichargd; what burden then? O had his powerful Detiny ordaind Me ome inferiour Angel, I had tood 60 Then happie; no unbounded hope had rais'd Ambition. Yet why not? om other Power As great might have apir'd, and me though mean Drawn to his part; but other Powers as great Fell not, but tand unhak'n, from within Or from without, to all temptations arm'd. Hadt thou the ame free Will and Power to tand? Thou hadt : whom hat thou then or what to accue, But Heav'ns free Love dealt equally to all? Be then his Love accurt, ince love or hate, 70 To me alike, it deals eternal woe. Nay curs'd be thou; ince againt his thy will Choe freely what it now o jutly rues. Me mierable! which way hall I flie Infinite wrauth, and infinite depaire? Which way I flie is Hell; my elf am Hell; And in the lowet deep a lower deep Still threatning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I uffer eems a Heav'n. O then at lat relent: is there no place 80 Left for Repentance, none for Pardon left? None left but by ubmiion; and that word