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 On her Hujhaiid''s Recovery from Sicknefs. 27

��For the rejloration of my dear Hufband from a biirn- ing Ag2ie, fime, 1661.

T 1[ T^HEN feares and forrowes me befett,

^ ^ Then dicFft thou rid me out; When heart did faint and fpirits quail, Thou comforts me about.*

Thou raif'ft him vp I feard to loofe,

Regau'ft me him again: Dillempers thou didfl chafe away;

With ftreno^ht didft him fuftain.

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��My thankfull heart, with Pen record The Goodnes of thy God;

Let thy obedience teftefye He taught thee by his rod.

And with his ftaffe did thee fupport. That thou by both may'ft learn;

And 'twixt the good and evill way, At laft, thou mig'ft difcern.

Praifes to him who hath not left

My Soul as deftitute; Nor turnd his ear away from me,

But graunted hath my Suit.


 * Ps. Ixxi. 21.

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