Cxxxii. [113]

“Can God delight in such a sight   as sinners’ misery? Or what great good can this our blood   bring unto the most High? O thou that dost thy Glory most   in pard’ning sin display, Lord, might it please thee to release   and pardon us this day!

CXXXIII.

“Unto thy name more glorious fame   would not such Mercy bring? Would not it raise thine endless praise,   more than our suffering?“ “With that they cease, holding their peace,   but cease not still to weep; Grief ministers a flood of tears,   in which their words do steep.

They are answered.

CXXXIV.

But all too late; grief’s out of date,   when Life is at an end. The glorious King thus answering,   all to his voice attend: “God gracious is,” quoth he; “like his,   no mercy can be found: His Equity and Clemency   to sinners do abound,

Mercy now shines forth in the vessels of Mercy.