Another. (Sin.)

Sin is an act so free, that if we shall
Say 'tis not free, 'tis then no sin at all.

Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.

Robert Herrick

Things Mortal Still Mutable

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Sin Severely Punished.

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God, And Lord.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

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Another. (Sin.)

Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone
The cause of God's predestination:
And from God's prescience of man's sin doth flow
Our destination to eternal woe.

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Sin.

Sin no existence; nature none it hath,
Or good at all, as learned Aquinas saith.

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Sin.

There's no constraint to do amiss,
Whereas but one enforcement is.

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Sinners.

Sinners confounded are a twofold way,
Either as when, the learned schoolmen say,
Men's sins destroyed are when they repent,
Or when, for sins, men suffer punishment.

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Sin.

Sin once reached up to God's eternal sphere,
And was committed, not remitted there.

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Sin.

Sin never slew a soul unless there went
Along with it some tempting blandishment.

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