And God will withdraw his sore plagues from us then.
Theft is but policy, perjury but a face,
Such is now the world, so far men be from grace.
But what shall I say of religion and knowledge
Of God, which hath been indifferent in each age
Before this? howbeit his faults then it had,
And in some points then was culpable and bad.
Surely this one thing I may say aright:
God hath rejected us away from him quite,
And given us up wholly unto our own thought,