The complaint of a sinner, vexed with paine, desyring the ioye, that euer shall remayne After W.E. moralized. Birch, William, fl. 1562-1571. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A16158 of text S121713 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 3076). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A16158 STC 3076 ESTC S121713 99856882 99856882 22522 2240891814

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A16158) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 22522) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 309:1) The complaint of a sinner, vexed with paine, desyring the ioye, that euer shall remayne After W.E. moralized. Birch, William, fl. 1562-1571. Elderton, William, d. 1592? 1 sheet ([1] p.) By Alexander Lacy, for Richard Applow, dwellyng in Pater noster row, hard by the Castle Tauerne, Imprinted at London : [1563] Signed: VV. Birch. Verse - "The God of loue, that sits aboue,". A moralization of William Elderton's "God of love". Publication date from STC. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Mutilated at fold. eng eebo The complaint of a sinner, vexed with paine, desyring the ioye, that euer shall remayne. After W.E. moralized. Birch, William, 1563 1 650 5 0 0 0 0 0 76.92 D The rate of 76.92 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The complaint of a sinner , vexed with paine , Desyring the ioye , that euer shall remayne . After W. E. moralized . THe God of loue , that sits aboue , Doth know vs , Doth know vs , How sinfull that we bee : Sent his word , the two edged sword To shew vs , To shew vs , Our sin and iniquitie . That euery vice may vanquished be , Oh Lord arise for thy mercye Doe this our God and bynd vs , For euer and euer thine owne : The truth wyl alway fynd vs , By the seedes that we haue sowne . The truth wyl tel if we wold lye , The touchstone doth the tree wel trye . And as we haue a soule to saue , Vprightly , Vprightly , Though troubled stil with sin : We shuld not take , that did vs make , So lightly , So lightly , This worldly wealth to win . But if we wyl the Lord prouoke We may loke for his heauy stroke , As his word hath appointed The Scripture doth plainely tell : Yet shal not his holy anointed Once tast the paynes of Hell . Now haue I told the ●eoperdy , But Christ is our iust remedy . With woful harts though god forbeares To plague vs , To plague vs , We ought for to lament : Thy word alway , both night & day Perswade vs , Perswade vs , Inwardly for to repent . And euery one to call for grace Since the touchstone in euery place , Doth florish fresh and shyne That the whole world may see : And all that wyl be thyne , Must come with teares to thee . We wyl not boast our merites Lord , Since thy deare son made the accord We reade of olde , what Prophetes tolde full truly , Full truly , And wrote it long a●go : A Mayden myld , shulde beare a child Full duely , Full duely , And it proued euen so . But yet God wot , the Iewes of kynd Beleued it not , but were styl blynd , And are vnto this day Refusyng the Triumphant truth : That the Prophet Esaye did say And wrote it to age and youth . But therto they wold not accord , But cruelly crucified the Lord . But let vs now , both bend and bow , And spede vs , And spede vs , To follow the true trace : For he hath sent , his Testament , To feede vs . To feede vs , And call vs vnto grace . Vn worthy now although we bee Yet ye see how his deare mercye , To vs be doth ●●●ll geue Ano liberall gy●tes vs send : That we might sure beleue And our le wde liues amend . Therfore let vs our harts enclyne , That pearles be not cast vnto swyne The flesh ( I say ) both night & day , Doth hold vs , Doth hold vs , From followyng the true trace : But thy deare son , doth bid vs come , And bold vs , And bold vs , To call to thee for grace . Thus sayeth our sauiour Iesu Come vnto me , and I wyl ease you ▪ If ye wyl cal and knocke That are ouerladen with sin : Then wyl I open the locke And be ready to let you in . For I am he that bought you deare , Therfore behold , and draw ye neare . W. Birch . FINIS .

Imprinted at London by Alexander Lacy , for Richard Applow , dwellyng in Pater noster row , hard by the Castle Tauerne .