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24. The last song of Gods child is euer sweetest; and no wonder, conside∣ring that hee sees and feeles before death: and is assuredly perswaded to possesse after death for euer.
IT is writen of the swanne, ô my soule, that his last song is euer sweetest; and holy Scripture cannot but be a verie world, and cloud of worthie witnesses, teaching thee also, yt the last song of Gods children who happily (of blacke rauens by nature, hauing no white in them from top to toe because of sinne) are made white swannes, hauing washed thēselues in the bloud of the Lambe is sweetest al∣so. Thou hast considered Scripture, ô my soule, and Scripture hath acquainted thee with the liues and deathes of many nota∣ble swannes. But tell me, art thou not transported out of thy selfe, and carried as it were from earth to the heauens pre∣sently, when the sweetest tune of their last melodie is brought to thy eares? Sang euer that swanne Iacob so sweetly as vp∣pon his death-bed, as Moses maketh cleare by the 29. of Genesis? sang euer