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212. PITY AND PUNISHMENT.

God doth embrace the good with love; and gains
The good by mercy, as the bad by pains.


213. GOD'S PRICE AND MAN'S PRICE.

God bought man here with His heart's blood expense;
And man sold God here for base thirty pence.


214. CHRIST'S ACTION.

Christ never did so great a work but there
His human nature did in part appear;
Or ne'er so mean a piece but men might see
Therein some beams of His Divinity:
So that in all He did there did combine
His human nature and His part divine.


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.