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Our reason is our law.

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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

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Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

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From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

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For so I created them free and free they must remain.

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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

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What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

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Solitude is sometimes the best society.

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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

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When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

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