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Judgement

Almightie Judge, how shall poore wretches brook
                           Thy dreadfull look,
Able a heart of iron to appall,
                           When thou shalt call
     For ev’ry man’s peculiar book?
 
What others mean to do, I know not well;
                           Yet I heare tell,
That some will turn thee to some leaves therein
                           So void of sinne,
     That they in merit shall excell.
 
But I resolve, when thou shalt call for mine,
                           That to decline,
And thrust a Testament into thy hand:
                           Let that be scann’d.
     There thou shalt finde my faults are thine.
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