Beware of lust ; it doth pollute and foul
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herbebt's poems. It blots the lesson written in thy soul ; The holy lines cannot be understood.How dare those eyes upon a Bible look,Much less towards God, whose lust is alltheir book ! Wholly abstain, or wed. Thy bounteous Lord Allows thee choice of paths : take no by-ways ; But gladly welcome what He doth afford ; Not grudging, that thy lust hath bounds andstays.Continence hath his joy : weigh both ; and soK rottenness have more, let heaven go. If God had laid all common, certainlyMan would have been the encloser : but since nowGod hath impaled us, on the contraryMan breaks the fence, and every ground willplough.O what were man, might he himself misplace ISure to be cross he would shift feet and face. Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,Wlien once it is within thee ; but beforeMayst rule it, as thou list : and pour the shame,Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.It is most just to throw that on the ground,Which would throw me there, if I keep theround.
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