Chapter CXXXVII: Sidenote: Luke 13:34. The day of Grace now past

"With chords of love God often strove
your stubborn hearts to tame;
Nevertheless your wickedness
did still resist the same.
If now at last Mercy be past
from you for evermore,
And Justice come in Mercy's room,
yet grudge you not therefore.

CXXXVIII.

[Sidenote: Luke 19:42, 43. Jude 4.]

"If into wrath God turnéd hath
his long, long-suffering,
And now for love you vengeance prove,
it is an equal thing.
Your waxing worse hath stopt the course
of wonted Clemency,
Mercy refus'd and Grace misus'd
call for severity.