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Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when read more
What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
O wretched state? O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that struggling to be free
Art more engaged!
Woman, amends may never come to late.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best.
When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best.
I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand
drachmae.
I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand
drachmae.
Under your good correction, I have seen
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom.
Under your good correction, I have seen
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom.
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
When prodigals return great things are done.
When prodigals return great things are done.
Restore to God His due in tithe and time;
A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.
Restore to God His due in tithe and time;
A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.
