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Rh  By in to foul exorbitant deires; Upheld by me, yet once more he hall tand On even ground againt his mortal foe, 180 By me upheld, that he may know how frail His fall'n condition is, and to me ow All his deliv'rance, and to none but me. Some I have choen of peculiar grace Elect above the ret; o is my will: The ret hall hear me call, and oft be warnd Thir inful tate, and to appeae betimes Th' incened Deitie, while offerd grace Invites; for I will clear their enes dark, What may uffice, and oft'n tonie hearts 190 To pray, repent, and bring obedience due. To prayer, repentance, and obedience due, Though but endevord with incere intent, Mine eare shall not be low, mine eye not hut. And I will place within them as a guide My Umpire Concience, whom if they will hear, Light after light well us’d they hall attain, And to the end periting, afe arrive. This my long ufferance and my day of grace They who neglect and scorn, hall never tate; 200 But hard be hard’nd, blind be blinded more, That they may tumble on, and deeper fall; And none but uch from mercy I exclude. But yet all is not done; Man diobeying, Diloyal breaks his feältie, and ins Againt the high Supremacie of Heav’n, Affecting God-head, and o looing all, To expiate his Treason hath naught left, But to destruction acred and devote,