and lasting plagues are due

To every sin, you liv'd therein,

who well the danger knew.

CXLIII.

Ezek. 33:11.
Exod. 34:7,
and 14:17.

"God hath no joy to crush or 'stroy,

and ruin wretched wights;

But to display the glorious Ray

of Justice he delights.

To manifest he doth detest,