<p>I should not care how hard my Fortunes were,<lb/> Might still my Hopes be such, as now they are,<lb/> Of helpes divine; nor feare, how poore I bee,<lb/> If thoughts, yet, present, still may bide in mee.<lb/> For, they have left assurance of such ayd,<lb/> That, I am of no dangers, now afraid.<lb/> Yea, now I see, mee thinkes, what weake and vaine<lb/> Supporters I have sought, to helpe sustaine<lb/> My fainting heart; when some injurious hand,<lb/> Would undermine the Station where I stand.<lb/> Me thinks, I see how scurvie, and how base,<lb/> It is to scrape for favours, and for grace,<lb/> To men of earthly minds; and unto those,<lb/> Who may, perhaps, before to morrow lose<lb/> Their Wealth, (or their abus'd Authoritie)<lb/> And, stand as much in want of helpe as I.<lb/> Me thinks, in this new-rapture, I doe see<lb/> The hand of God from heaven supporting me,<lb/> Without those rotten-Ayds, for which I whinde,<lb/> When I was of my tother vulgar-minde :<lb/> And, if in some one part of me it lay,<lb/> I, now, could cut that Limbe of mine away.<lb/> Still, might I keepe this mind, there were enough<lb/> Within my selfe (beside that cumbring stuffe<lb/> Wee seeke without ) which, husbanded aright,<lb/> Would make mee Rich, in all the Worlds despight.<lb/> And, I have hopes, that, had shee quite bereft mee,<lb/> Of those few ragges and toyes, which, yet, are left me;<lb/> I should on God, alone, so much depend,<lb/> That, I should need, nor Wealth, nor other Friend.<lb/> </p>

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Moses praying with outstretched arms; hands from the clouds support his arms, almost lifting him from the mountain

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<p>Wee then have got the surest prop,<lb/> When God, alone, becomes our Hope.</p>

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