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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<HEAD>VERSES made by the Honourable Lord Arundel of Warder.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Per&s;ecution no lo&s;s.</HEAD>
<L>WHat can we lo&s;e for him, when all we have</L>
<L>Are but the Bounties which his favour gave;</L>
<L>And which when Sufferings force us to re&s;tore,</L>
<L>God only takes them but to give us more;</L>
<L>And by a happy change doth kinder prove,</L>
<L>He takes our Fortune, but he gives his Love.</L>
<L>How vainly &s;hould that Begger chide his Fate,</L>
<L>That quits his Dunghil for a Chair of State?</L>
<L>So fares it with Us, when God doth di&s;place</L>
<L>The Gifts of Fortunes for the Gifts of Grace:</L>
<L>God did on &s;ufferings &s;et &s;o high e&s;teem,</L>
<L>He that was cho&s;e the lo&s;t World to Redeem,</L>
<L>And when his Love and Nature were at &s;tri&s;e,</L>
<L>He valued more his Sufferings than his Life:</L>
<L>And &s;hall Opinion have more power to move,</L>
<L>Then his Examples, Doctrine, or his Love?</L>
<L>Love makes Afflictions ea&s;ie; to complain</L>
<L>Le&s;&s;ens our Merit, and augments our Pain.</L>
<L>Let's humbly then &s;ubmit to his De&s;ign,</L>
<L>And give that freely that we mo&s;t re&s;ign;</L>
<L>So &s;hall our Lo&s;&s;es prove the be&s;t increa&s;e,</L>
<L>Of future Glory, and of pre&s;ent Peace;</L>
<L>&mdash;Which grant for thy Pa&s;&s;ion.</L>
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<HEAD>God chasti&s;eth tho&s;e he loves.</HEAD>
<L>IF then the earne&s;t of thy Favours be</L>
<L>Afflictions, good God, let them light on me;</L>
<L>I Glory more in &s;uch a kind di&s;tre&s;s,</L>
<L>Then in all Comforts, where thy Love is le&s;s;</L>
<L>And by my Mi&s;ery I will make it known</L>
<L>In &s;pight of all the world how much I'm thy own;</L>
<L>No fruitful &s;howers &s;hall by the thrifty plant</L>
<L>Be kindlier entertain'd, then &s;corn and want,</L>
<L>Or lo&s;s of Honour, Fortune, or Delight,</L>
<L>Shall be by me, that which once did fright,</L>
<L>And fil'd my troubled mind with care and grief,</L>
<L>Shall be my future Honour and Relief:</L>
<L>I never more will court a &s;miling Fate,</L>
<L>Since he's &s;o happy that is de&s;olate;</L>
<L>Afflictions &s;hall be ea&s;ie, for they come</L>
<L>Like friendly &s;howers to drive us &s;ooner home;</L>
<L>Then by thy love &s;uch charms are in them found</L>
<L>To cure the Heart which they intend to wound;</L>
<L>Such &s;trange Effects doth Grace in us produce,</L>
<L>As change as well their Nature, as their U&s;e.</L>
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<HEAD>Con&s;iderations before the <HI>Crucifix.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHen I behold thee on that fatal Tree</L>
<L>Sweet Je&s;us, &s;uffering! and it is for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>When I con&s;ider in that purple floud,</L>
<L>My Sins rub'd out, but with thy Life and Bl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>When I reflect how dear my Soul hath co&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>I'm mov'd to wi&s;h it rather had been lo&s;t:</L>
<L>For how can that life plea&s;e, that doth de&s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>The life of him of whom we life enjoy?</L>
<L>And to wi&s;h thou had&s;t not &s;uffer'd &s;o,</L>
<L>Were to reproach thy Love and Wi&s;dom too</L>
<L>And if we joy in what thy Death hath brou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>We mu&s;t allow the Pains by which 'twas wrou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>So that our Joy and Grief united lie;</L>
<L>Nature's life is, to have her Maker die.</L>
<L>It is thy Will dear Lord mu&s;t be obey'd,</L>
<L>And in that Duty both tho&s;e Debts are paid.</L>
<L>O let my Soul in a due mea&s;ure find,</L>
<L>A Joy becoming a mourning mind;</L>
<L>A true Joy in thy Will, even whil&s;t it made</L>
<L>Sun &s;hine in Nature, by thy God-head &s;had<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>A grief to &s;ee the Torments Sin did merit;</L>
<L>A Man de&s;erv'd God &s;hould him&s;elf inherit,</L>
<L>That &s;o divided 'twixt thy Pain and Will,</L>
<L>I may Rejoyce, and Joy, and yet grieve &s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Adoring the Triumph of thy great Love,</L>
<L>That weeping here, we may rejoyce above.</L>
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<HEAD>&V;pon the Pains of Hell.</HEAD>
<L>O Re&s;tle&s;s Groans! O &s;loathful Tears!</L>
<L>O vain De&s;ires of fruitle&s;s Tears!</L>
<L>One timely Sigh had eas'd that Flame,</L>
<L>Which Millions now do &s;eek in vain;</L>
<L>Eternal Pennance now's thy Fate,</L>
<L>For having wept and &s;igh'd too late:</L>
<L>That &s;hort remor&s;e that thou did&s;t flie,</L>
<L>Is chang'd into Eternity;</L>
<L>Neglected Mercy hath no room,</L>
<L>When Ju&s;tice once hath fixt his Doom.</L>
<L>Prevent then timely by thy care,</L>
<L>That endle&s;s Pennance of De&s;pair;</L>
<L>And weep betimes, your Tears here may</L>
<L>Turn Night into Eternal Day;</L>
<L>It's only they have power to move,</L>
<L>And turn Gods Ble&s;&s;ing into Love;</L>
<L>If by the virtue of his Grace,</L>
<L>Thou &s;hewe&s;t them a proper place;</L>
<L><HI>Which grant we may for Chri&s;t's &s;ake.</HI></L>
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