Month: March 2022

There is Mercy with Thee

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POEM VI. There is Mercy with Thee LORD, should’st thou weigh my righteousness,Or mark what I have done amiss,How should thy servant stand?Tho’ others might, yet surely IMust hide my face, nor dare to cry For mercy at thy hand. But thou art loth thy bolts to shoot; Backward and slow to execute The vengeance … Read more

For the Evening

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POEM V. For the Evening GOD of love, whose truth and graceReach unbounded as the skies,Hear thy creature’s feeble praise,Let my ev’ning sacrifice Mount as incense to thy throne, On the merits of thy Son. Me thy Providence has ledThrough another busy day:Over me thy wings were spread, Chasing sin and death away: Thou hast … Read more

For the Morning

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Poem IV – For the Morning JESUS, by whose grace I live, From the fear of evil kept,Thou hast lengthen’d my reprieve, Held in being while I slept. With the day my heart renew; Let me wake thy will to do. Since the last revolving dawnScatter’d the nocturnal cloud,O, how many souls have gone,Unprepar’d, to … Read more

When Service Is Ended

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POEM III. When Service is ended LORD, let me not thy courts depart,Nor quit thy mercy-seat,Before I feel thee in my heart,And there the Saviour meet. Water the seed in weakness sown, And ever more improve:Make me a garden of thine own; May ev’ry flow’r be love! O send my soul in peace away;For both … Read more