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.

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

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

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.

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

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