Exod. 32.10.
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them.
WHat a commanding power
There is in prayer? Which can tower
Divine poems written by Thomas Washbourne ...
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- Divine poems written by Thomas Washbourne ...
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- Washbourne, Thomas, 1606-1687.
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- 1654.
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As high as heaven, and tie the hands
Of God himself in bands,
That he unable is to loose the raines
To Justice, til released from these chains?
Samson could break his cords
As tow, and yet the Lord of Lords
Who gave that strength to Samson, can
Not break the cords of man;
Man makes his maker pray, Let me alone,
That on this people my wrath may be shown.
Since then such vertue lies
In prayer, as will exorcise
The almighty, and fast bind his arms
In spiritual magick charms;
O for another Moses now to pray
That the like benefit wee might enjoy.
But Gods wra••h long hath been
Against us hot, a signe our sinne
Cries lowder then our prayers to God,
Which makes him use his rod,
VVhen once our prayers grow more servent, then
We may expect they'l bind Gods hands again.