Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Xliv. [39]

English poem

Xliv. [39]

by (1631–1705)

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“But as for those whom I have chose   Salvation’s heirs to be, I underwent their punishment,   and therefore set them free. I bore their grief, and their relief   by suffering procur’d. That they of bliss and happiness   might firmly be assur’d.