Clx. [134]

“We did not know a Christ till now,   nor how fall’n men be saved, Else would we not, right well we wot,   have so ourselves behaved. “We should have mourn’d, we should have turn’d   from sin at thy Reproof, And been more wise through thy advice,   for our own soul’s behoof.

They are answered.

CLXI.

“But Nature’s light shin’d not so bright   to teach us the right way: We might have lov’d it and well improv’d it,   and yet have gone astray.“ The Judge most High makes this Reply:   “You ignorance pretend. Dimness of sight, and want of light,   your course Heav’nward to bend.