Ah that my eyes were fountaines & could poar
Eternall streams from inexhausted stores
Enough but ah enough there cannot be
to drown th' innumerable ills are done by me
Not all my breath t attone ym would suffice
Tho' all were turnd to penitentiall sighs
Ive sinnd my heart & tongue are vain
Ive sinnd my eyes to vice too pronely rove
Slowly to good my limbs to ill they promptly move
Ive sinnd & all my soul's but one continu'd stain
My crimes beyond all number like my hairs are grown
I sink beneath the weight they press they bend me down
Wt Charming looks did ill in acting wear
how lovely ruin did appear
Now but ah I fear too late
Conscience unmasques the guilded cheat
stript of their borrowd rays the horrid forms I see
& ye gross daub no more deludes my eye
I see I know my wickedness & misery
fancys too exquisite & nicely paints
my horrid & deserved punishments
no comfortable glympse my eye or thought presents
All all things speak dispair to poor unhappy me
But stay what heavn'ly light
Breakes thro' this black Egyptian night
It strikes my heartstrings wth unusuall bliss
& tunes ym to delight & happiness
It tells me hope remains
& gives me hope to sooth my raging pains
Wthin my breast it plays I feel the sacred flame
I know it tis my saviours name
his suffrings onely can my troubles calm
His blood alones my balm
In him alone I must confide
In him alone who for me di'd
In him who kindly does on sinners call
Who kindly does receive & welcome all
Come come to me his sacred voice has said
Repent ye of your sinns & come to me he cryes
Tho' nere so great & nere so bad
Ile ease you of your load & calm your miseries
Come take my yoak upon you & my burthens bear
Easy my yoak & light my burthens are
Nor need you a hard master fear
Since he who is my servant is my son
a son & servant is wth me all one
Yes I will come my god to thee
I know thou wilt not turn me back
thou'lt not refuse the offering I make
Altho' so bad so late so mean a one it be
No flood can drown my sinn but one of tears
No arms can conquer sinn but prayers
Behold in tears & pray'rs & sighs I turn
See how unfeignedly I mourn
See in wt pain what grief of soul I ly
Have mercy mercy lord & hear my cry
Oh save me from this deluge of iniquity
Save me my god oh rid me from my fear
Oh save me from dispair
look on a wounded & repenting heart
Oh ease it of its smart
Wn to my soul thou'st spoken peace
When from its bonds thou wilt my soul release
all my mourning then shall cease
then all my sorrow shall be turnd to Joy
& then thy mercyes onely shall my soul employ
Oh hear my god my saviour hear
& lett thy goodness towr'ds me soon appear
arm me wth heavn'ly temperd arms my Lord
Give for my buckler faith & for a sword thy word
Girt up my loins wth truth & on my breast
lett righteousness be plac't
thus thus I safely shall oppose
& safely triumph o're my foes
thus shall I break the force of hell & flee
With a glad heart to thee
to thee who (all my dangers past)
Wilt give thy self to me thy self & heav'n at last
theres the continuall treasury of bliss
the magazine of happiness
Pleasure there does never Cease
& in æternall Joy I shall remain
Where in æternall glory thou doest reign.
