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7 But all his wicked snares they were in vain,

I told him a just God in heaven did reign,

Whom I would serve as long as I had life,

And all such vain discourse I'd banish quite.

I told him what our Savior dear,

Had suffer'd for us sinful mortals here,

All for to save the precious souls of men,

I said you crucify him now again.

By advising me to shun Gods heavenly grace,

You'd have me run a sinful wicked race;

As other children in this world have done,

And daily do, but there at last will come.

A reckoning day, which for it they must pay,

So now this vain discourse forbear I pray;

Then I said, Sir, tho' I am but a youth,

You'll find what I have told you is a truth.

He still persisted that it was the best,

To follow worldly pleasures while on earth,

I little thinking who it was so nigh,

Till at last his cloven foot I did espy.

At which I was not daunted in the least,

But did begin to upbraid him to his face;

I said you old deceiver of mankind,

Begone from me, no prey you here will find.