Perhaps in Iudgement's eie it may appeare
I lou'd Him living whom I honor dead;
Whose loue , I think, to all was no lesse deare,
Sith hee was such as all men honored.
All? that is, some , or rather most of All ,
If some did not, the harme I wish to them
Is, that they may deserue loue generall ,
Or els made free of new Ierusalem .
No creature bearing God-almightie's forme,
But I desire to loue, and wish him wel;
If good desires , farre worse Affects deforme,
It comes from that for which the first Man fel:
But howsoere, I am resolv'd herein,
To wish al grace , in spight of flesh & sinne .