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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Godly Guide of Directions for true penitent Sinners in the&s;e troubled times.</HEAD>
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<L><HI>That we call to God to be our friend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To think upon our latter end,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mans Life is &s;hort and at no &s;tay</HI></L>
<L><HI>Wee almo&s;t have a dying day,</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L><HI>That God may guide us along,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To bring us to our heavenly home,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Where our Souls may live and ever re&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>With heavenly Angels that are ble&s;t.</HI></L>
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<OPENER>Tune is, <HI>Aim not too high by</HI> Robert Tipping:</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>GOod people all, I pray you under&s;tand</L>
<L>The&s;e Ver&s;es now which I do take in hand</L>
<L>And take good notice I yray you to the end</L>
<L>It will put you in mind that God will be you friend</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Theres little Love in this World to be &s;een</L>
<L>Our Hearts doth &s;well with malice evermore</L>
<L>It is a great wonder for our grievous &s;in</L>
<L>God does not &s;trike us with &s;ome grievous &s;ore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There was never &s;o much &s;wearing in this Land,</L>
<L>And taking of gods &s;acred name in vain</L>
<L>It hurts our peace and does de&s;troy our Land.</L>
<L>And &s;ore offends our gracious God of Heaven,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It is a grievious thing if people would but mind</L>
<L>To think how &s;inful in this land we be</L>
<L>God give us grace that we may mind in time</L>
<L>And beg for pardon on our bended knee</L>
<L>What innocent blood by Villains has been &s;hed.</L>
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<LG>
<L>In u&s;e to bring Gods Iudgement on our head</L>
<L>But &s;till his mercies they are manifold.</L>
<L>Good Lord that people would but live more civil</L>
<L>And &s;erve the Lord in mo&s;t loving way</L>
<L>And for&s;ake the Sin of Pride that is &s;o evil</L>
<L>That God may be our friend both night &amp; day</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis not the pride of Cloths but the pride of Heart</L>
<L>That hurts a man or Woman I do &s;ay,</L>
<L>The Lord takes notice of the inner part</L>
<L>Therefore good people wee had need to pray.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And let love and charity be more in u&s;e</L>
<L>And &s;erve the Lord &amp; keep the Sabbath-day</L>
<L>O then there would not be &s;o much abu&s;e</L>
<L>But mend our lives I &s;ay then every way.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The holy Bible &s;hews us every ways</L>
<L>It was for &s;in the world before was drown'd</L>
<L>If we under&s;tand but what the Scripture &s;aith</L>
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<LG>
<L>Our Saviour bids us if we be rele&s;t</L>
<L>Come with penitent heart our &s;ouls &s;hall make a &s;how</L>
<L>And come to him and he will give us re&s;t</L>
<L>If they were as red as &s;carlet hee'l make them as white as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word">?</L>
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<LG>
<L>Theres many never thinks of &s;erving God</L>
<L>For many &s;udden death there is truely,</L>
<L>But runs on in &s;in untill they be &s;truckned dead,</L>
<L>And as the tree doth fall &s;o it will lye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You &s;ee what warning-pieces God hath &s;ent</L>
<L>By fire and &s;word, and &s;ickne&s;s for our &s;ins,</L>
<L>To turn our hearts that we may all repent</L>
<L>Yet to mend we're loth for to begin.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let's leave our &s;i ns &amp; pray for &s;piritual Grace</L>
<L>To trim our lamps, to fill them up with Oyl</L>
<L>Our dying day is coming on a pace</L>
<L>Then God will give A ble&s;&s;ing to our Souls.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Gods mercy it is great we may be &s;ure</L>
<L>If we with penitent hearts can but repent</L>
<L>If we with patience can our Cro&s;s indure</L>
<L>In Health or Sickne&s;s truely be content.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And lets be careful how our time we &s;pend</L>
<L>And love our Neighbour and relieve the poor</L>
<L>Whatever we do that God may be our Friend,</L>
<L>Gods mercies they will ble&s;s us and our Store,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Now all good people I &s;ay no more but this</L>
<L>Lets live in Love while this Life doth endure,</L>
<L>Let every one mend what is ami&s;s</L>
<L>Gods love is to tho&s;e people to be&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our time is &s;hort we have not long to &s;tay</L>
<L>But yet lets &s;trongly &s;tand upon our guard,</L>
<L>God give us grace to mind our latter day</L>
<L>That our &s;ouls in Heaven may have a good reward.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Concluding of the&s;e ver&s;es now in print</L>
<L>God ble&s;s us all &amp; ever to our death</L>
<L>That all may under&s;tand what here is int</L>
<L>When he is pleas'd that we &s;hall loo&s;e our Breath.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The olde&s;t man that ever lik'd oth earth</L>
<L>Had but his time he at the la&s;t did dye,</L>
<L>We mu&s;t &s;toop to death &amp; leave this life at la&s;t</L>
<L>Let us work for Heaven, and Heavenly Eternity.</L>
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<P>Printed for P. Brooksby at the golden ball in Pye-Corner.</P>
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