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TRUE
CHRISTIAN LOVE.
| I Have a Heart for Love | |
| I cannot chooſe but have: | |
| A Love that can give full content, | |
| the leaſt as I can crave. | |
| I want not Suiters, and they all | Pſal.4. 6, 7. |
| have Agents ſtill with me. | |
| Who promiſe that which I do ſeek; | 1 John 2. |
| but ſure I know they lie. | 15, 16, 17. |
| Though Honour heght to lift me up, | |
| and Mammon me to ſerve; | |
| Yet their Attendants skars me not, | 1 Tim. 6. 7. |
| nor makes my Heart to ſwerve. | |
| Pale Fear, dusk Envy, Care and Toil, | |
| with other ill-hew'd Wights. | |
| Wait for my Service if I need, | |
| their Maſters, O what ſights. | |
| The only thing like to prevail, | |
| was matcht unto my mind: | |
| When Fancy buskt my Party with | Eccleſ. 1, 2, |
| Perfections of each Kind. | |
| But now I ſee that Fancy is | |
| not real as it ſeems: | |
| No earthly Love can give content: | |
| all Loves bur Chriſt are Dreams. | |
| Then why want I contenting Love, | |
| ſince Chriſt's love may be had: | |
| In whom is all that I do ſeek, | |
| or can be thought or ſaid? |
