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215. PREDESTINATION.

Predestination is the cause alone
Of many standing, but of fall to none.


216. ANOTHER.

Art thou not destin'd? then with haste go on
To make thy fair predestination:
If thou can'st change thy life, God then will please
To change, or call back, His past sentences.


217. SIN.

Sin never slew a soul unless there went
Along with it some tempting blandishment.


218. ANOTHER.

Sin is an act so free, that if we shall
Say 'tis not free, 'tis then no sin at all.


219. ANOTHER.
Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone
The cause of God's predestination:
And from God's prescience of man's sin doth flow
Our destination to eternal woe.


220. PRESCIENCE.

God's prescience makes none sinful; but th' offence
Of man's the chief cause of God's prescience.


221. CHRIST.

To all our wounds here, whatsoe'er they be,
Christ is the one sufficient remedy.


222. CHRIST'S INCARNATION.

Christ took our nature on Him, not that He
'Bove all things loved it for the purity:
No, but He dress'd Him with our human trim,
Because our flesh stood most in need of Him.


223. HEAVEN.

Heaven is not given for our good works here;
Yet it is given to the labourer.


224. GOD'S KEYS

God has four keys, which He reserves alone:
The first of rain; the key of hell next known;
With the third key He opes and shuts the womb;
And with the fourth key he unlocks the tomb.


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