And now those few, who are returned again,
Thy searching judgments to their dwellings trace.
269.
"O pass not, Lord, an absolute decree,
Or bind thy sentence unconditional;
But in thy sentence our remorse foresee,
And in that foresight this thy doom recal.
270.
"Thy threatnings, Lord, as thine, thou may'st revoke;
But, if immutable and fixed they stand,