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[27]This is that God of gods, whom euerie soule should loue, 
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Whom all mens hearts should quake for feare his wrath on 
them to moue: 
That this same mightie God, aboue all others chiefe, 
Shall saue my soule from dolefull Hell, is all my whole , 
beliefe. 
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Of the omnipotencie of God, 
and debilitie of man. 
GOD thou glorious God, what god is like to thée ? 
What life, what strength is like to thine, as al the 
world may see ? 
The heauens, the earth, the seas, and all thy workes therein, 
Do shew (to who thou wouldst to know) what thou hast 
euer bin. 
But all the thoughts of man, are bent to wretched euill, 
Man doth commit idolatrie bewitched of the Deuill. 
What euill is left vndone, where man may haue his will, 
Man euer was an hypocrite, and so continues still. 
What daily watch is made, the soule of man to slea, eee 
By Lucifer, by Belzabub, Mammon, and Asmodea ? Ran 
In diuelish pride, in wrath, in coueting too much, 
In fleshly lust the time is spent, the life of man is such. 
The ioy that man hath here, is as a sparke of fier, 
His acts be like the smoldring smoke, himselfe like dirt 
and mier. 
His strength euen as a réede, his age much like a flower, 
His breth or life is but a puffe, vncertaine euerie hower. 
But for the holy Ghost, and for his giftes of grace, 
The death of Christ, thy mercie great, man were in wofull 
case. 
O graunt us therefore Lord, to amend that is amisse, 
And when from hence we do depart, to rest with thee in 
blisse. 
