Sin Severely Punished.

A man's transgressions God does then remit,
When man He makes a penitent for it.

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.

God scourgeth some severely, some He spares;
But all in smart have less or greater shares.

God still rewards us more than our desert;
But when He strikes, He quarter-acts His part.

God pardons those who do through frailty sin,
But never those that persevere therein.

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