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Chide sinners as the father doth his child, And keep them in the awe of loving fear; Make sin most hateful, but in words be mild, That humble patience may the better hear; And wounded conscience may receive relief, When true repentance pleads the sinner’s grief. Yet flatter not the foul delight of sin, But make it loathsome in the eye of love, And seek the heart with holy thoughts to win Unto the best way to the soul’s behove: So teach, so live, that both in word and deed The world may joy thy heavenly rules to read. Heal the infect of sin with oil of grace, And wash the soul with true contrition’s tears; And when confession shows her heavy case, Deliver faith from all infernal fears, That when high justice threatens sin with death, Mercy again may give Repentance breath.
Chide sinners as the father doth his child, And keep them in the awe of loving fear; Make sin most hateful, but in words be mild, That humble patience may the better hear; And wounded conscience may receive relief, When true repentance pleads the sinner’s grief. Yet flatter not the foul delight of sin, But make it loathsome in the eye of love, And seek the heart with holy thoughts to win Unto the best way to the soul’s behove: So teach, so live, that both in word and deed The world may joy thy heavenly rules to read. Heal the infect of sin with oil of grace, And wash the soul with true contrition’s tears; And when confession shows her heavy case, Deliver faith from all infernal fears, That when high justice threatens sin with death, Mercy again may give Repentance breath.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Nicolas Breton (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 490 · printed citation: Nicolas Breton · subject: REPENTANCE
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