Who dares deny, that all first fruits are due
To God, denies the God-head to be true:
Who doubts, those fruits God can with gain restore,
Doth, by his doubt, distrust his promise more.
He can, he will, and with large interest pay,
What (at his liking) he will take away.
Then royal Charles, and Mary, do not grutch
That the Almighty's will to you is such:
But thank his greatness, and his goodness too;
And think all still the best, that he will do.
That thought shall make, he will this loss supply
With a long, large, and blessed posterity!
For God, whose essence is so infinite,
Cannot but heap that grace, he will requite.