Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Cxlvii. [125]

English poem

Cxlvii. [125]

by (1631–1705)

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Christ readily makes this Reply:   “I damn you not because You are rejected, nor yet elected;   but you have broke my Laws. It is in vain your wits to strain   the end and means to sever; Men fondly seek to part or break   what God hath link’d together.