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True Christian Love.
They ſay, thou chooſes ſome to Day, | |
and caſts them off the Morn: | |
They make the like vain Man to be, | Heb. 6. 1. 6. |
and do thy counſel ſcorn. | 17. 18. |
They make the pray for thine Elect, | John 17. 9. |
and not get thy requeſt: | Rom. 34. |
Yea tho' thou for them live for ay, | Heb. 7. 25. |
to interceed as Prieſt. | Rom. 8. 16. |
God's Elect to whom he gives right | |
to be his Sons and Heirs, | |
They make them want ſure right to | John 16. 28, |
the Heritage for theirs. (have, | |
The Saints till Death ſeduc'd may be | |
and Sheep pull'd from thine Hand, | |
Whom God thee charg'd to keep and ſaid | |
to ſay they do not ſtand. | |
Thy Word, thy Oath, thy Covenant, | Heb. 6. 18. |
they make no certainty: | |
Faiths anchor they make drive, they ſpeak | |
in ſubſtance, blaſphemy | |
They make the Merchant nothing wife, | |
and very ſhort of thought, | |
Who pay'd the price & was not ſure | John 10. 11. |
to have what thou had bought, | |
Yea ſo unwiſe, as for thy Sheep | |
thine own Life not to ſpare: | |
Whom thou may loſe, though ſo dear bought | |
ſuch fooliſh blocks are rare. | and 13. |
O wicked thought be far from me, | |
I know thy Love doth laſt: | Rom. 8. 10. |
And whom of purpoſe thou doſt call, | |
thy Grace doth hold them faſt. | and 5. 8. |
Who thou doſt love, for them thou dy'd | |
for whom thou dy'd they live. |