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How Succoth and the Fort of Penuel
Thir great Deliverer contemn'd,280
The matchless Gideon in pursuit
Of Madian and her vanquisht Kings:
And how ingrateful Ephraim
Had dealt with Jephtha, who by argument,
Not worse then by his shield and spear
Defended Israel from the Ammonite,
Had not his prowess quell'd thir pride
In that sore battel when so many dy'd
Without Reprieve adjudg'd to death,
For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth.290
Sam.⁠Of such examples add mee to the roul,
Mee easily indeed mine may neglect,
But Gods propos'd deliverance not so.
Chor.⁠Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to Men;
Unless there be who think not God at all,
If any be, they walk obscure;