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| WHERE 1 righteousnes doth say, | |
| Lord, for my sinfull part, | |
| In wrath thou shouldst me pay | |
| Vengeance for my desert, | |
| I can it not deny; | 5 |
| But needs I must confesse, | |
| How that continually | |
| Thy lawes I doe transgresse. | |
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| But if it be thy will | |
| With sinners to contend, | 10 |
| Then all thy flocke shall spill, | |
| And be lost without end. | |
| For who liueth here so right, | |
| That rightly he can say, | |
| He sinneth not in thy sight | 15 |
| Full oft and euery day? | |
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| The Scripture playne telleth me | |
| The righteous man offendeth | |
| Seuen times a day to thee, | |
| Whereon thy wrath dependeth: | 20 |
| So that the righteous man | |
| Doth walke in no such path, | |
| But he falth now and then | |
| In danger of thy wrath. | |
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| Then sith the case so standes, | 25 |
| That euen the man right-wise | |
| Falth oft in sinfull bandes, | |
| Whereby thy wrath may rise; | |
| Lord, I that am vniust, | |
| And righteousnes none haue, | 30 |
| Whereto then shall I trust | |
| My sinfull soule to saue? | |
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| But truely to that prest, | |
| Whereto I cleaue and shall, | |
| Which is thy mercy most, | 35 |
| Lord, let thy mercy fal, | |
| And mitigate thy moode, | |
| Or else we perish all: | |
| The price of this thy bloud, | |
| Wherein mercy I call. | 40 |
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| The Scripture doth declare, | |
| No drop of bloud in thee | |
| But that thou didst not spare | |
| To shed ech drop for me. | |
| Now let these drops most sweete | 45 |
| So moyst my heart so dry, | |
| That I, with sinne replete, | |
| May liue, and sinne may dye: | |
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| That being mortified | |
| This sinne of mine in mee, | 50 |
| I may be sanctified | |
| By grace of thine in thee: | |
| So that I neuer fall | |
| Into such mortall sinne; | |
| That no foes infernall | 55 |
| Reioyce my death therein. | |
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| But vouchsafe me to keepe | |
| From those infernall foes, | |
| And from that lake so deepe, | |
| Where as no mercy growes. | 60 |
| And I shall sing the songs, | |
| Confirmed with the iust, | |
| That vnto thee belongs, | |
| Which art mine onely trust. | |
