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 DEVOTIONAL 
 
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 MORAL. 
 
 By THOMAS SCOTT. 
 
 DEO DATE CARMINA DIGNA. 
 
 BUCHAN, 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED FOR JAMES BUCKLAND, AT THE 
 
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 MDCCLXXIII. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 TH E Author of the following pieces 
 aimed, in the choice and arrangement of 
 their feveral fubje6ls 5 to form a kind of little 
 poetical fyftem of piety and morals. The work 
 opens with natural religion. Thence it pro- 
 ceeds to the million of Jefus Chrift, his fufrer- 
 irigs, "his exaltation, and the propagation of 
 his dcftrine. Next is the call to repentance, 
 the nature and bleflednefs of a chrifxian life, 
 and the entrance into it. Theie topics are fuo 
 ceeded by the various* branches of devotion : 
 after which are ranked the moral duties per- 
 fonal and fecial, the happy end of a fincere 
 chriftian, and the coming of Jefus Chrifc to 
 fintfh his mediatorial kingdom by the general 
 judgment. The whole is clofed with a defcrip- 
 tion of the illuftrious times, when, by means 
 of the everlafting gofpel, the earth Jhall be full 
 of the knowlege of the Lord as the waters cover the 
 
 IL xi, 9. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The novelty of fuch a plan, in verfe, will, 
 perhaps, be a recommendation of it : If, how- 
 ever, verfe be thought too light and fuperficial 
 for religious inftru&ion, lee the royal pfalmift 
 ftand forth and wipe off the reproach. 
 
 That thefe poems might not pall the ear, 
 variety of metre was adopted : and that they 
 might fatisfy the underftanding, great care has 
 been employed to deduce the fentiments from 
 icripture, reafon, or experience. The fcripture 
 fentiments are marked with reference letters \ 
 and the correfponding texts appear in the bottom 
 margin. 
 
 In hope, therefore, of affifting well-difpofed 
 minds, in their nobleft pleafures and improve- 
 ments i the writer hazards the publication of 
 this fmall performance. 
 
 CON- 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 i, pOD ~ — i 
 
 ii. VJ Manifeftation of God in the Heavens 3 
 
 in. Invitation to worfhip God — 5 
 
 iv. Praife to the Creator — — 7 
 
 v. The Sanftity of God — — • 9 
 
 vi. Divine Benevolence — — 10 
 
 vii. Jefus Chrift — — 12 
 
 VIII. Jewifh and Chriftian Religion compared 14 
 
 JXr The Compaflion of Jefus Chrift — 15 
 
 x. His Agony — — 17 
 
 xi. His Apprehenfion — — 19 
 
 xii. His Condemnation and Crucifixion — 21 
 
 xiii. Glorying in the Crofs of Chrift — 23 
 
 xiv. His Refurrection and Afcenfion — 25 
 
 xv. His lowly and exalted State compared — 27 
 
 xvi. Jefus Chrift the Phyfician of Sinners — 29 
 
 xvii. Praife to God by all Mankind — 32 
 
 xviii. The Scriptures — — 33 
 
 xix. The Chriftian Church — — 35 
 
 XX. Chriftian Minifters — — 37 
 
 xxi. Wifdom's Expoftulation — — 38 
 
 xxii. Wifdom's Threatning. — — 40 
 
 xxiii. Delay — — — 42 
 
 xxiv. The Penitent — — 43 
 
 xxv. Chriftian Privileges and Obligations — 47 
 
 xxvi. Need 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 xxvi. Need of Divine Afiiftance 
 xxvii. Chrifiian Warfare — 
 
 
 ~ 49 
 
 — 50 
 
 xxvni. The fame Subjccl in a different Metre 53 
 
 xxix. Bleflednefs — — ,-, 
 
 xxx. Benefit of early Piety — _ 56 
 
 xxxr. The Vow — ~ ^3 
 
 xxxii. Prayer — — — 60 
 
 xxxiii. Confeffion — — — 6 2 
 
 xx$iv. Petition for Devotional Views — 64 
 
 xxxv. Sufpenfion of Divine Influences — 67 
 
 xxxvi. Mourning after God — — 6q 
 
 xxxvii. The Refolution — — 
 
 xxxviii. Tranfient Goodnefs — — 
 
 71 
 72 
 
 xxxix. Dejection — _ — ^. 
 
 xl. Addrefs to Jefus Chrift — — 76 
 
 xli. Complaint — •— — y% 
 
 xlii. TJiankfgiving — — — 80 
 
 xliii. Prayer of the afflicted Youth — 82 
 
 xliv. Soliloquy - — — < — -84 
 
 xlv. Thoughts on a particular Mercy — - • 86 
 
 xlvi. The Youth's Thankfgiving Ode — 88 
 
 xlvii. Pain — — — go 
 
 xlviii. Recovery — — — 92 
 
 xlix. The aged Minifter in a Swoon — 94 
 
 L. The aged Minifter laid afide — — 96 
 
 Li. Truft in the Promifc of Pardon — 98 
 
 lii. Truft in the Promife of Divine Affifvance ico 
 
 Liu. Fear of God — — — 102 
 
 liv. Truft in Divine Providence — 105 
 
 7 LV. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 LV. Self-dependance — — 107 
 
 lvi. Profperity — — — 1 09 
 
 Lvn. Worldly-mindednefs — • — 11 1 
 
 lviii. The rich Epicure — — 1 12 
 
 Lix. Adverfity — — — 114 
 
 lx. Refignation — — — 116 
 
 lxi. Viciffitude, or Joy after Sorrow — 118 
 
 lxii. Faith in God the Remedy for worldly Fear 
 
 and Grief — — 120 
 
 lxiii. Care of the Soul — — 123 
 
 lxiv. The Importance of Time — 125 
 
 lxv, The Time of Probation 127 
 
 .xvi. Temptation by the Devil — 129 
 
 lxvii. Integrity towards God — — 131 
 
 lxviii. Integrity's Appeal to Jefus Chrift — 133 
 lxix. Integrity in fearching for Divine Truth 135 
 lxx. Integrity's Improvement of the Means of 
 
 Divine Knowlege — — 136 
 
 lxxi. Equity of the Divine Difpen fattens — 138 
 lxxii. Government of the Body — 140 
 
 lxxiii. Chaftity — — — 142 
 
 lxxiv. Spiritual Appetites and Gratifications 144 
 lxxv. Government of the Mind — 14.6 
 
 lxx vi. The Conflict — — j^g 
 
 lxxvii. Keeping the Pleart — — ic;r 
 
 lxx viii. Self-kncwlege — — i-g 
 
 lxxix. The fame Subject, in a different Metre 154 
 lxx::. Divine Difcipline ncceflary to Sc!f-know- 
 
 lege -~ — — 156 
 
 lxxxi. Re- 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 lxxxi. Reproof — — — I5 8 
 
 ixxxn. Pride — — — j^ 
 
 lxxxiii. Humility, firft Part ~ ^i 
 
 lxxxi v. The fame, fecond part — 163 
 
 lxxxv. Meeknefs — — ^5 
 
 lxxx vi. Anger and Meeknefs — — 166 
 
 lxxxvii. Envy — — — » x 68 
 
 lxxx viii. Religious Contentment — 170 
 
 lxxxix. Malevolence — ~ 171 
 
 xc. Love — — — 17 ^ 
 
 xci. Uncharitable Judgment — — 176 
 
 xciii Perfecution — — — - 177 
 
 xciii. Probity; or, Integrity towards Man 180 
 
 xciv, Hypocrify towards Man — • 182 
 
 xcv. Inoffenftvenefs. — — 184 
 
 xcvi. Christian Prudence and Fortitude — 185 
 
 xcvu. Juftice — — ■— 187 
 
 xcvin. Mercy — — — 188 
 xcix. Summary of Christian Virtues, with their 
 
 Beatitudes — — — 190 
 
 c. The Conclufion of aChriftian Life — 194 
 
 ci. The Funeral — — — 196 
 
 en. The feparate Soul of a good Chriftian 198 
 
 CHI. The mediatorial Kingdom of Jefus Chrift 201 
 
 civ. The everlafting Gofpel — — 204 
 
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 DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 
 
 i. 
 GOD. 
 
 OC O U L D I fwecp the lyre, like Ifrael's King, 
 And with his voice in lofty numbers fing ; 
 No far-fam'd hero mould infpire my ftrain, 
 Nor fabled Jove the mighty verfe fuftain. 
 Thy a£fo, Jehovah, be my fong's high ftory, 
 Thy peerlefa name, and thy unbounded glory. 
 
 B Sole 
 
2 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Sole unbegotten *, independent Pow'r, 
 Years are but moments, ages but an hour 
 To thee : Ere time had ftarted from his goal, 
 Thy eflence was : When time mail ceafe to roll 
 His flaming orbs, thy elTence, ftill abiding, 
 Defies decay > in its own ftrength confiding. 
 
 Vaft fource of being, at thy potent word 
 Creation's wonders rofe, and hail'd thee Lord, 
 The changing moon and the all-foft'ring fun 
 Their functions know, and in thy circles run. 
 Earth her appointed ftation holds : While Ocean r 
 Aw'd by thy limits, curbs his wild commotion. 
 
 Great Sultan, Majefty Supreme, what awe 
 Surrounds thy throne and guards thy holy law T 
 Thy law is holy ; to the rebel, woe : 
 Thy law is good ; what peace the duteous know ! 
 Celeftial worlds obey ; in blifs abounding : 
 Thou Earth, obey ; his feat with odes Unrounding. 
 
 * By this term the ancient writers of the Chriftian church 
 cxprefled (hefelf.exiftence of the Supreme Being. See Dr. 
 Scott's edition cf Bailey's Dictionary, Article Unbecot- 
 
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 2 Father 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 3 
 
 her of men, thy love what meafures bound ? 
 Whofe fulnefs overflows this finning ground : 
 Thy clouds effufe their alms, the fountains flow, 
 The fields rejoice, the trees with fruitage glow. 
 But man, thy image in his foul fuftaining, 
 Lives on thy bounty thanklefs and complaining. 
 
 Where fhall the wicked flee ? What darknefs fhade 
 Guilt, from thofe eyes whofe beams the foul pervade ? 
 Where can the righteous weep, from iheeconceal'd, 
 Thy ear not hearing, nor thy arm reveal'd ? 
 Myfterious Prefence ! all thy works exploring: 
 Knowledge fublime ! above all finite foaring, 
 
 V 
 
 II, 
 
 MANIFESTATION OF GOD IN THE HEAVENS. 
 
 zf I *HE firmament's ftupendous frame, 
 
 *** Where worlds on worlds in order flame^ 
 In order wheel their azure rounds, 
 Thy grandeur, mighty God, refounds. 
 
 a SeePfalm xix. 
 
 B 2 Day 
 
LYRIC POEMS,. 
 
 Day rolling after day difplays 
 Thy providence, with lofty praifc 
 In fhadowy robe night rides along, 
 And ecchoes loud the lafting fon£. 
 
 Their univerfal voice demands 
 Attention, from alt reafbn's lands. 
 To every clime their fpeech is known ? 
 Let every clime thy wonders own. 
 
 All in majeftic fpiendor bright, 
 Thy pow'rful minifter of light, 
 Forth from his eaftern palace, gay, 
 Springs out ; to {hed the vital ray. 
 
 Gay as a youth, in glowing bloom, 
 Forth iflues from his fpoufal room ; 
 Strong as a champion racer's force, 
 
 With fwift career, from heav'n's extreme 
 To heav'Vo r moteft end^ Ms beam 
 Illumes, O earth, thy joyous feat; 
 And warms all nature with his heat. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 5 
 
 III. 
 INVITATION TO WORSHIP GOD. 
 
 f~* REAT Spirit, imderftanding's king, 
 
 Reafon and truth muff join to bring 
 Worfhip, which may prefume to meet 
 Acceptance at thy holy feat. 
 
 The lifted hand, the bending knee, 
 Is but vain homage, Lord, to thee : 
 In vain our lips the hymn prolong, 
 The heart a ftranger to the fong. 
 
 Can rites, and forms, and flaming zeal 
 The breaches of thy mandates heal ? 
 Or faft and penance reconcile 
 Thy juflice, and obtain thy fmile ? a 
 
 A foul devout, a confcience clean, 
 
 And goodnefs in each focial fcene, 
 
 To. thee a nobler orPring yield, 
 
 Than Sheba's * groves or Sharon's f field ^ 
 
 a Ifaiah lviii. 5, 7. 
 
 * Arabia the Happy, famous for its gold and frank- 
 inoenfe, 
 
 t A large extent of plains rou/id about Jcppa and 
 Lydda, all rich paiture land. 
 
 B 3 Than 
 
LYRIC P O E M S, 
 
 Than floods of oil, and floods of wine, 
 Ten thoufand rolling to thy fhrine : 
 Or than, if to thy altar led, 
 A firft-born (on, the vi<5tim, bled a . 
 
 Kneel, kneel, ye tribes cf human frame, 
 Kneel ; and adore the Maker's name. 
 Let every clime the fun goes round, 
 In every tongue his glory found. 
 
 The beftial clans, which round you graze, 
 With dumb devotion acl: his praifej 
 Who gave you pow'rs to them unknown ? 
 Speech is your wondrous boaft alone. 
 
 In you there lives, what ne'er fliall die, 
 A free-born, thinking energy ; 
 Faihion'd and furniih'd to fulfill 
 Reafon's high law, ypur Father's will b # 
 
 How long revolting, will ye rove 
 From hill to hill, from grove to grove ? 
 And, mad with fuperftition, fear 
 Gods which can neither fee nor hear c , 
 
 a Micah vn 6~S. *> Job xxxiu d. xxxv. 10, n, 
 c Pfalm cxv. 6—8, 
 
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 O come, and feek your father's face, 
 His anger fear, his love embrace ; 
 Who in the world beyond the grave. 
 Has pow'r to kill and pow'r to fave. 
 
 IV. 
 PRAISE TO THE CREATOR. 
 
 /\ WAKE, my glory a , awake b $ 
 ■* ^ O found his honours abroad. 
 Before the mountains were born 
 He was; eternity's God c . 
 
 d The fun he kindled ; he fow'd 
 The blue expanfion with ftars. 
 
 The earth he founded e ; he mad« 
 The fea, and prifon'd with bars f . 
 
 * The tongue. b Pfalm lvii. 8. c Pfalm xc. 2. 
 d Genef. 1. e Pfalm xxiv. 2. Job xxxvin. 4, 6, 
 
 f Job xxxvin. 8, 10. 
 
 B 4 The 
 
LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 The winds he balanc'd ; he gave 
 The cloud his ruling command, 
 
 To dart tne arrows a of heav'n, 
 With rain to fatten the land L \ 
 
 He form'd his image the lafh 
 Above all creatures beneath : 
 
 Of clay the body he wrought, 
 
 The foul infus'd with his breath c . 
 
 O man, half angel in mind d , 
 O mortal, fprung from the duft, 
 
 Thy Maker's glories adore, 
 Thy Maker's clemency trufh 
 
 Awake, my glory, awake ; 
 
 O found his honours abroad. 
 Before the mountains were born 
 
 He was ; eternity's God* 
 
 * Lightning, b Job xxvnr. 25, 26. Pfalm xvm. 14, 
 c Gen. 1. 26—30. 11. 7. d Pfalm vm. 5—8. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 
 
 THE SANCTITY OF GOD. 
 
 f\ Sanctity, v/hofe cloudlefs day 
 ^-^ Abhors pollution's fmalleft ftain a ; 
 How fhall a worm that dwells in clay, 
 One moment in thy view remain? 
 
 Ah ! fhall a wretch deform'd with fin, * 
 In all his pow'rs of foul defiTd, 
 
 Not blufh to claim his origin 
 
 From thee, and boaft himfelf thy child ? 
 
 Never, O never, thy decrees 
 This loathfom leprofy infus'd. 
 
 Myfelf let in the dire difeafe, 
 
 Myfelf my reas'ning felf abus'd b . 
 
 Paffions, in giddy youth unrein'd, 
 
 With years to headftrong habit grew : 
 
 And fin ftill frefh dominion gain'd, 
 Old crime augmenting ftill with new. 
 
 * I John ;, 5, h Ecclef. vm 29. 
 
 Self- 
 
m LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Self-ruin'd, helplefs ; Lord, with thee 
 Help lives in opulent abode. 
 
 Almighty Mercy calls €€ by me 
 
 tt Songs of falvation are beftow'd/ 3 
 
 O, as in fpme pellucid ftream 
 
 We love to view the pidlur'd fky ; 
 
 My foul might yield, tho ? faint the beam, 
 An image of thy purity ! 
 
 VI. 
 
 DIVINE BENEVOLENCE. 
 
 T N fhadow black as night, 
 "*• With fcarce one feeble ray 
 Of nature's dim expiring light, 
 The nations loft their way. . 
 
 Like foolifli fheep we ftray'd, 
 All from the Maker's fold : 
 
 Each, by his fev'ral fin betray'd, 
 His fev'ral path would hold a . 
 
 * Ifaiah mil 6. 
 
 Blind, 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. if 
 
 Blind, headlong every one 
 
 To the fame ruin ran, 
 Th' Almighty Father, from his throne, 
 
 Beheld his creature man. 
 
 His wilderd human race 
 
 The Father's pity won : 
 Forth from the bofom of his grace 
 
 He fent his firft-born fon a . 
 
 Benevolent he came, 
 
 The meffenger of love b ; 
 Debafing to a mortal frame 
 
 His godlike form above c . 
 
 With gentle voice he cries, 
 
 " Sinners my yoke receive: 
 cc Light is my yoke, and life the prize 
 
 " I to the yielding give d ." 
 
 Truth fpreads her golden wings, 
 
 With the glad news fhe flew ; 
 Salvation through the world fhe brings 
 
 To Gentile and to Jew. 
 
 a John in. 16, 17. ColoiT. /. 15. b John 1. 16, ij. 
 c John in. 1.3. vi. 62. Fhilipp. u, 6— J. 
 d Matt. xi. 28—30. 
 
 O mercy 
 
is LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 O mercy fvveet and high, 
 Above our loftieft praife : 
 
 Ye noble natives of the fky, 
 Your nobleft anthems raife. 
 
 VII. 
 JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 Q AGES of letter'd Greece and Rome, 
 Ev'n thou * by feign'd Apollo's doom 
 Announced wifefl: of mankind, 
 Withdraw your thinly-fcatter'd rays ; 
 Before the broad o'erpow'ring blaze 
 Of the fupreme eternal mind. 
 
 • Socrates, pronounced by the oracle at Delphi the 
 wifefl amon^ men. 
 
 Mercy's 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. n 
 
 Mercy's great year % in heav'n inroll'd, 
 By feers fucceeding feers foretold b , 
 
 Was now with folemn pomp unfeal'd. 
 Light of the world c Mcfliah came, 
 In his almighty Father's name, 
 
 And immortality reveal'd d . 
 
 Fill'd with his Father's ftrength he taught ; 
 The dumb in rapture fpeak their thought, 
 
 The lame man bounding like the roe : 
 The blind look up to heav'n, ftern death 
 Refigns its fpoil, and from his breath 
 
 Fierce Demons fhrink to fhades below e . 
 
 O works of pow'r, O works of love, 
 Ethereal embaflage to prove, 
 
 That ev'ry rifing doubt control ; 
 Earneft of love and pow'r more ftrong, 
 Which to the fon of God belong, 
 
 To heal the miferies of the foul. 
 
 a Ifaiah lxi. i — j. Luke iv. 16— 21 9 
 b Luke 1. 68— 70. «= John vn$. 12. 
 
 * 2 Tim. 1, 10. e r_ u k e viij. 32. 
 
 Great 
 
j 4 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Great Prophet, Saviour, worthy thou 
 That every knee in homage bow, 
 
 From every mouth thy praife fhould flow 1 
 All thy commands are mild and juft, 
 Thy promife, faithful to our trufr. 
 
 Will pardon, peace, and heav'n beftow. 
 
 VIIL 
 
 JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN RELIGION 
 COMPARED. 
 
 3 r FWAS not to bathe in Jordan's flood, 
 •*" Nor touch nor tafte precifely ^ure^ 
 
 Nor holy waile of brutal blood, 
 Nor faft fevere nor look demure, 
 
 That' could the' God of Ifrael pleafe ; 
 
 When Arnram's fon his precepts taught, 
 And by fuch myftic rites as thefe, 
 
 Labqur'd to moralize the thought. 
 
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DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, kg 
 
 At length the fon of Gcd appears, 
 Truth drops her emblematic drefs. 
 
 A nobler form religion wears, 
 Adorn'd with fimple holinefs. 
 
 No more let zeal for mode and rite 
 
 The name of fanctity affume, 
 Leave to the folemn hypocrite, 
 
 Thefe trappings of adult'rous Rome, 
 
 Sacred to God be all within ; 
 
 From guile, from bafe affections free : 
 So his high friendfhip thou (halt win, 
 
 And beatific vifion fee. 
 
 IX. 
 
 THE COMPASSION OF 
 JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 \7E Angel Forms, look down; and fee 
 
 A fcene of ftrange diftrefs below : 
 Behold divine humanity 
 
 Difiblv'd in fympathetic woe. 
 
1* LYRLC POEMS, 
 
 Lo, on high Olivet he ftands, 
 
 Salem's proud tow'rs, in profpecT: rife : 
 
 His bowels yearn, he fpreads his hands, 
 Compafiion gufhing from his eyes : 
 
 c< O Salem, my prophetic view 
 M Thy mighty miferies furveys ; 
 
 Ci Vengeance, to thy rebellions due, 
 <c Unknown in paft and future days. 
 
 u What labours have I fliunn'd, for thee? 
 
 cc Vv 7 hat pow'rs of fuafion left untry'd, 
 u Thy children to allure to me, 
 
 " And in a Saviour's ihadow hide? 
 
 €C So when the falcon fails 2bove, 
 " The parent hen, with tender cry, 
 
 " Under her guardian wing of love 
 cc Collects her infant progeny. 
 
 " But ah ! ye would not — O ye blind ! 
 
 (He faid, and heav'd a deeper figh) 
 " Your temple is to flames conflgn'd; 
 
 4C The dark predeftinM hour is nigh *. 
 
 Matt. xxni. i~jj &c. Luke xix. 41— 44, 
 
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DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. i; 
 
 Bleft Jefus, in thy feeling heart 
 For me, a finner, fpare one place. 
 
 I would be thine — O yield a part 
 To me, in thy redeeming grace. 
 
 X, 
 
 THE AGONY OF JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 BRING me, O bring me where thy mournful 
 fhade, 
 Thou fam'd Gethfemane a , fuch woe conceal'd ; 
 As Time had never in his courfe furvey'd, 
 Nor Time's old annals ever yet reveal'd. 
 
 Who there in agony of forrow lies ? 
 
 From all his pores the fanguine currents run * % 
 I hear his groans, I hear his bitter cries : 
 
 'Tis holy Jefus, God's redeeming fon. 
 
 Matt, xxvi. 36 — 44. b Luke xxiv. 44. Kcb. v. 7. 
 C Lo, 
 
i« LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Lo, on the ground he falls : he falls again : 
 Again he falls — in vehemence of pray'r : 
 
 " Father, if pofiible, thy hand refrain, 
 
 " Far from my lip this dreadful chalice bear. 
 
 u But if the wifdom of thy good decree 
 
 cc Will'd thus to fave loft man ; if thus alone, 
 
 <c Thy injur'd name is honour'd beftj in me 
 " Thy will be finifh'd, Father, not my own" 
 
 Ye ftarry fires, which o'er his forrows blaz'd, 
 Could you in all your nightly journies find 
 
 Compaffion fo divine, devotion rais'd 
 So high, and refignation fo refign'd ? 
 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 19 
 
 XL 
 
 HIS APPREHENSION. 
 
 r T"* HE traitor comes, with ruffian crew: 
 
 w Good mafter, hail," the traitor cries, 
 Then gives the fignal kifs ; anew 
 
 The traitor calls, " hold fall your prize a ." 
 
 Whither ye rude, unhallow'd hands, 
 My Lord, my Saviour, will ye bear ? 
 
 O muft the prince of life thefe bands 
 Of vileft ignominy wear b ? 
 
 He muft; ev'n he, whofe voice could bring 
 His father's legions down to earth ; 
 
 Ten thoufand thoufand on the wing, 
 To guard his life who fang his birth. 
 
 a Matt. xxvi. 48, 49. Mark xiv. 44. 
 fc John xviii. 12. 
 
 C 2 He 
 
20 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 He muft ; all refcue he declines : 
 " Elfe oracles in vain foretell 
 
 cc Eternal wifdom's great defigns, 
 
 u To fave a guilty world from hell a ." 
 
 Behold, the willing victim goes, 
 As a meek lamb to flaughter led b : 
 
 What noble fortitude he fhews ! 
 
 His look, how calm ! erect, his head ! 
 
 O Jefus, fhould thy caufe require 
 
 My blood its heav'n-born truth to feal ; 
 
 Me, in that trying day, infpire 
 With thy divinely-glowing zeal. 
 
 Matt, xxvi, 53, 54. b IfaiahLin. 7, 
 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 21 
 
 XIL 
 HIS CONDEMNATION AND CRUCIFIXION. 
 
 T3 O U N D in a malefactor's chains a 
 ■^ Malice his innocence arraigns -> 
 Malice her venom'd fpittle throws, 
 Fierce Malice deals her fierceft blows b . 
 
 With crown of thorns his temples bleed. 
 With cruel ftripes his back is £ea*d c . 
 Behold the man d — M The crofs," they call % 
 w The crofs," and rend the judgement hall e . 
 
 What evil has he wrought ? c< Away, 
 " Barabbas fave f , this fellow g £ay." 
 Bloody and faint he bears along 
 His crofs, amidft a hooting throng. 
 
 a John xvin. 24. b Matt. xxvi. 59—61, 6j. 
 
 c Matt, xxvii. 26, 29, 30. d John xix. 4, 5, 
 e John xix. 6. Luke xxm. 21 — 23. 
 * Matt xxvii. 21-^-23. g Luke xxiu. 2, 
 
 C 3 Incon- 
 
22 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Inconftant throng ! the day before 
 Heard your wide mouths hofamms roar : 
 cc Mejfiah, king" with fhoutings loud 
 You hail'd him a . O inconftant crowd ! 
 
 Ingrates ! where fhall your lame, your blind, 
 Your fick another healer find ? 
 Whence fhall another Jefus come, 
 To guide you to his father's home b ? 
 
 Ah ! they have nail'd him to the tree, 
 Between the fons of infamy c . 
 And now the fcornful head they {hake 
 And now th' infulting jeft they break d . 
 
 But oh ! what tongue his grief can tell, 
 When on his foul that darknefs fell ? 
 " My God, my God and Father, why 
 "By thee forfaken muft I die c ?" 
 
 Flow, flow my tears, in torrents flow; - 
 My fins, dear Lord, wrought all thy woe. 
 Help my weak faith, and with thy pow'r 
 Uphold me in temptation's hour. 
 
 a Matt, xxi, 8, 9. b John xiv. 2, 3, 
 
 c Ifaiah liii. 12. Matt. xxvu. 38. 
 
 t Matt. xxvu. 39, 4o 3 e Matt. xxvu. 46. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 GLORYING IN THE CROSS 
 OF CHRIST. 
 
 npHE nail, the fpear, the fhaming tree 
 
 I make my boafted theme S 
 On Calvary's mount, O God, I fee 
 Thy pow'r and wifdom beam b . 
 
 There is my Saviour's million read 
 
 In characters of blood, 
 The Chrift the fon of God ; he bled 
 
 To make his title good c . 
 
 Illuftrious act of duty, paid 
 
 To his great Father's v/ill d 1 
 Virtue, in torments, undifmay'd 
 
 Does it's high work fulfill. 
 
 a Gal. vi. 14. b 1 Corinth. 1. 24. c Matt. xxvi. 
 
 63—67, Jchn xix. 7. 1 Tim. vi. 13, oh. xvm. 37. 
 d Philip. 11. S. 
 
 C 4 Awful 
 
24 L Y R.I C POEMS, 
 
 Awful atonement a ! now with fmiles 
 
 yufiice the pardon gives ; 
 When to himfelf God reconciles 
 
 The finner who believes. 
 
 Faith at the crofs new vigour feels 
 (There hope and peace begin) 
 
 Subdues my fears, my forrow heals^ 
 And triumphs o'er my fin b . 
 
 Let fcorners mock and die c ; while thofe 
 Who love the Saviour's name, 
 
 With firm contempt their fcorn oppofe^ 
 And his falvation claim d . 
 
 • Dan. ix. 24. Rom. in. 25, 26. 2 Cor. v. 19. 
 
 * Gal. 11. 2o r c Adls xni. 41. d 2 Tim. iv. 8» 
 
 mm 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. %$ 
 
 XIV. 
 HIS RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION*. 
 
 *TT REMBLING earth gave awful fign ; 
 
 Down from heav'n a form divine 
 Flafh'd > the lightning of his look 
 Terror in the foldiers ftrook a . 
 
 Angel, roll the rock away j 
 Death yield up thy mighty prey : 
 See ! He rifes from the tomb, 
 Glowing with immortal bloom. 
 
 *Tis the Saviour ! Angela raife 
 Fame's eternal trump of praife : 
 Let the world's remoteft bound 
 Hear the joy-infpiring found. 
 
 i ' "" ■ ■ ii i, i ■ i i ii 
 
 2 Matt, xxviix. i — 4* 
 
 hallelujah, 
 hallelujah. 
 hallelujah. 1 
 hallelujah; 
 
 Shout, 
 
z6 URIC POEMS, 
 
 Shout, ye faints, in rapt'rous fo~g, 
 Let the ftrains be fweet and ftrone : 
 
 o 
 
 Shout the fon of God, this morn 
 From his fepulchre new-t orn. 
 
 Hail, victorious Jefu, hail ; 
 On thy cloud of glory fail a 
 In long triumph through the fky, 
 Up to waiting worlds on high. 
 
 Heaven difplays her portals wide, 
 Glorious hero, through them ride ; 
 King- of glory, mount the throne, 
 Thy great father's and thy own b . 
 
 Pow'rs of heav'n, Seraphic Fires, 
 Sing, and fweep your golden lyres.: 
 Sons of men, in humbler ftrain, 
 Sing your mighty Saviour's reign. 
 
 a Afts i. 9, 10. v Revel, in. zu 
 
 Ev'ry 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 27 
 
 Ev'ry note with wonders fwell, 
 Sin overthrown and captivd bell : 
 Wliere is hell's once dreaded king P 
 Where , Deaths thy mortal /ting a ? 
 
 xv. 
 
 HIS LOWLY AND EXALTED STATE 
 COMPARED. 
 
 ^FHOU Son of God, virtue's immortal friend, 
 
 With glory crown'd in worlds on high b j 
 Ne'er fhail thy vaft dominion know its end, 
 Till time and death and nature die c . 
 
 Terreftrial thrones and empyrean d Pow'rs 
 
 Obey thy all commanding nod e : 
 Hell trembles, and with all her princes cow'rs 
 
 Beneath the terror of thy rod f . 
 
 a 1 Corinth, xv. 55—57. b Heb. xi. 9. 
 
 c Dan. vii. 13, 14. 1 Ccrinth. xv. 24 — 28. 
 
 d CeleJIzal, or heavenly. e Ephef. 1. 20, 21* 
 
 Philip. 11, 9— 11. f Revel. 1. 18. 
 
 A mortal 
 
28 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 A mortal once, 'mong finful mortals born, 
 
 A lowly virgin gave thee birth. 
 No palace did thy natal hour adorn, 
 
 No feftal welcome thee on earth. 
 
 Thy infant limbs the cradling manger knew, 
 Thy youth was in a cottage train'd : 
 
 Poor and defpis'd thy youth to manhood grew ; 
 In manhood poor, a man difdain'd. 
 
 In perils oft, in painful toils and grief % 
 Thy days were fpent — to blefs mankind ; 
 
 To give the wounded heart divine relief, 
 And freedom to the captive mind. 
 
 To call the wand'ring in the darkfome road 
 Of ignorance, and fin, and death ; 
 
 To charm them back to virtue, peace, and God, 
 Employ'd the moments of thy breath *. 
 
 a Baiah liii. 3. Luke iv. 28, 29. Matt. xn. 14. 
 Mark in. 20, zi« b Luke iv. 18, 19, 21. 
 
 At 
 
d;evotional and moral. 29 
 
 At length, to finifii great redemption's plan, 
 
 In duty to his father's will ; 
 Extended on a crofs the wondrous man 
 
 Expires — his mercy to fulfill a . 
 
 Loud anthems hail'd thee to thy father's throng 
 
 Virtue is thy imperial care. 
 Let the whole earth thy golden fcepter own, 
 
 Let the whole earth its bJeifings fhare. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 JESUS CHRIST THE PHYSICIAN 
 OF SINNERS. 
 
 DIVINE Phyfician of the morbid b mind ^ 
 Jefus ; thy pow'rful (kill, 
 For every moral ill, 
 A fovereign remedy can find. 
 
 a Luke xxiv. 25—27. i Corinth, i. 3. Ephef. 1. 7, 
 Heb, x. 5, 7, io. b Dtfeafed. c Matt. ix. 12, 13. 
 
 To 
 
30 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 To reafon, darken'd and infirm with fin, 
 Thou vifion canft reftore % 
 With ftrength unknown before ; 
 And a new world in man begin b . 
 
 *Tis thy prerogative the foul to move ; 
 The hard and ftubborn heart 
 Yields to thy foft'ning art, 
 Melts into grief, and glows with love. 
 
 The will in bondage, and to vice inur'd, 
 Redeem'd, O Lord, by thee, 
 Exults in liberty, 
 To righteoufnefs and God fecur'd c . 
 
 The moft unruly pafiions thou canft tame, 
 The fouleft thou canft clean, 
 The gloomy make ferene, 
 And change a tyger to a lamb. 
 
 a i Cor. i. 30. b Eph. lie 10. 
 
 c John viii. 34, 36. Rom, vi. 18, 22. 
 
 O beau« 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 31 
 
 O beauteous work, benevolent, and great ! 
 With dignity of thought 
 And generous paffions fraught, 
 And the fweet peace of virtue's ftate. 
 
 In virtue thy unrivall'd kingdom ftands a j 
 Vircue thy conquefls fpreads, 
 Thy hand the virtuous leads, 
 All virtue's laws are thy commands. 
 
 His praife fing aloud, ye children of day, 
 Sing aloud his high name, 
 And his glory proclaim, 
 Who cloaths you in virtue's array b . 
 
 To Calv'ry's martyr all glory be giv'n, 
 Who will wafh us from ftain c , 
 That with him we may reign d y 
 And walk in white raiment in heav'n % 
 
 a Pfalm xlv. 3, 4, 7. Rom. xiv. 17. b Rev. in. 18. 
 c Joh. xiii. 8. Ephef. v. 26, 27. Rev. 1, 5, 6. 
 d Luke xxii. 29. 2 Tim. 11. 12. Rev. in. 21, 
 c 2 Efdras 11. 39, 40. Rev. in. 4, j. iv. 4. xix. 8 # 
 
2 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XVII. 
 
 PRAISE TO GOD BY ALL MANKIND, 
 
 f~\ Come, all ye fons of Adam ; and raife 
 
 A fong unto God a . How lovely is praife h . 
 Serve him, who reigns in his glory above, 
 And fills the wide earth with tokens of love. 
 
 His breath is your life, your reafon a ray 
 Effus'd from his light to guide all your wry. 
 Your ficknefs he heals, your wants he fupplies, . 
 And wipes away tears from the penitent's eyes. 
 
 Dafh down your falfe gods of filver and gold, 
 Him worfhip who made earth and heav'n of old : 
 His fon, his falvation thankful receive, 
 Your follies confefs, obey him, and live. 
 
 a Pfalm ex vi i. i. Rom. xv. u. 
 k Pfalm cxlvii. i. 
 
 O Father 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 33 
 
 O Father of men, in mercy command 
 Thy gcfpel to fhine on all human land : 
 That far as the fun diffufes his beam, 
 Praife may afcend in Meffiah's great name * 
 
 XVIII. 
 THE SCRIPTURES K 
 
 'TT^RUTH with her golden beam 
 -*• Infcribes th' immortal line 1 
 Goodnefs and equity, fupreme, 
 Through the bleft volume fhine, 
 
 In elocution plain 
 
 Thefe heav'nly pages teach ; 
 And yet, their majefty of ftrain 
 
 What mortal pen can reach ? 
 
 a Pfalm cxiii. 3. Pfalm 11. 8. Matt. vi # 10. Rom. 
 xv. 9, 10. b See Pfalm xix. 7— 11. 
 
 D Her* 
 
34 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Here precepts, old and new, 
 By God's own fignet bind : 
 With pow'rful wifdom thefe endue 
 The weak, but humble, mind. 
 
 Here promifes are fown, 
 Which holy ftrength infufe, 
 When dangers throng; or forrow's groan 
 Pleads for fupporting views. 
 
 O laws ! whofe vigour rends 
 The felf-accufing breaft : 
 Whofe vigour to the upright fends. 
 Sweet felf-pofTeffion's reft. 
 
 O promifes, whofe force 
 Is from all changes fecure ! 
 Long as their everlafting fource, 
 Your bleffings fliall endure. 
 
 Hence warn'd, my fins I fee ; 
 Againft my fins I guard : 
 Hence aided, from perdition flee 
 To heav'n's immenfe reward. 
 
 Ye 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 35 
 
 Ye rich men, roll in gold - y 
 Ye epicures, in wine : 
 Your portion in contempt I hold ; 
 Thy word, O God, be mine c . 
 
 XIX. 
 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 
 
 JESUS with groans and blood redeem'd 
 A people, to be flyPd his own d ; 
 By virgin chaftity of mind, 
 
 And unpolluted manners known e . 
 
 Uluftrious unity of fouls f ! 
 
 All the bright offspring of the day * ; 
 Like their eternal parent pure, 
 
 Led and enliven'd by his ray h . 
 
 * Pfalm cxix. 97, 103, 127. d Afls xx. 28* 
 
 c Titus 11. 14. f John xvn. 21. 
 
 s Luke xvi. 8. Joh. xn. 36. 1 TheiT v. 5. 
 h Matt. v. 48. Rom. viii. 15, 16. 1 Pet, U 15, 23. 
 1 Joh. in, 9, io. Rom. viii. 14. 
 
 D 2 Here 
 
3 6 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Here the great Father dwells, fupreme, 
 And here his great vicegerent fon : 
 
 While life and blifs, from both deriv'd, 
 Through the rejoicing houfhold run K 
 
 Sweet fellowfhip of peace and joy, 
 'Tween man below and God above ! 
 
 Delightful tie of man to man, 
 
 By the flrong pow'r of chriftian love k ? 
 
 O bleft Community ! who hold 
 Titles divine, immortal claims ] : 
 
 Heav'n's everl ailing roll records, 
 
 In letter'd gold, your worthy names m * 
 
 The morn, the promised morn fhall beam, 
 When your exalted faviour-king 
 
 Shall purge you from all finful fpot » 9 
 And to his Father's prefence bring. 
 
 1 John xiv. 20, 21, 23. 1 John t. 3. 
 k John xm. 34, 35. John xvn. 23. Ephef. iv. 3. 
 1 1 Pet, 1. 2—4. 11* 4, 9. m L«ke x. 20. Rev, 
 
 sin. 8. n Ephef. v. 27. Jude z\, 25. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 37 
 
 CHRISTIAN MINISTERS. 
 
 TI7ELCOME, ye meflengers of peace, 
 
 Ye fervants of our mighty Lord : 
 May your juft honours ne'er decreafe, 
 Who labour to difpenfe his word °. 
 
 Ye leaders of the churches, Hand ; 
 
 PuWifli the ftory of his love : 
 With his commiffion in your hand, 
 
 Argue p, exhort, confole, reprove q . 
 
 By your own lives exalt his laws, 
 His promife by yc-ur faith commend. 
 
 The glory of a Saviour's caufe, 
 With his own gentle zeal defend r „ 
 
 a 1 Tim. v. 17. p A&sxvir. z, 3. xxiv. 25. 
 
 * 2 Tim. in. 16, 17. iv. 2. 1 ThefT. if. 11. Ifaia^ 
 xl. i. r 1 Tim. iv. 12. 
 
 D 
 
 Jefus, 
 
3$ LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Jefus, we yield a docile ear ; 
 
 Such heralds of thy will and grace 
 With due fubmiffion we revere, 
 
 With warm affection we embrace \ 
 
 Profper, in all their anxious toil, 
 
 Thefe faithful guardians of thy fheep f 
 
 And from devouring hate and broil, 
 Thy confecrated mountain keep u . 
 
 XXI. 
 
 WISDOM'S EXPOSTULATION 
 WITH SINNERS. 
 
 3 HP* I S Wifdom's earneft cry ; 
 **• Wifdom, the voice of God, 
 To young and old, the low and high, 
 Utters his will abroad '\ 
 
 8 Heb. xiii. 17. l John xxi. 1^, 16. 
 
 u Ifaiah xi. 9. lxv. 25. w Prov. 1. 20—22. 
 
 Within 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 39 
 
 Within the human breaft, 
 Her ftrong monitions plead. 
 She thunders her divine proteft, 
 Againft th' unrighteous deed. 
 
 Within the holy place 
 She calls, with open arms ; 
 cc How long ye fools will you embrace 
 " Folly's deceiving charms *. 
 
 cc The race of man I love t 9 
 " In mercy I chaftife, 
 M Severely faithful I reprove ; 
 c< Hear, mortals, and be wife z . 
 
 <c My houfe, a royal pile % 
 " Invites you through its gate, 
 " O leave the wilds of fin and guile, 
 " And enter; ere too kte. 
 
 Prov. viii. 1—5. r Prov. trail* 31. 
 
 Prov. vin. 32, 33, a Prov. ix. 1 — 5. 
 
 D 4 "My 
 
4o LYRIC FOEMSj 
 
 c f My joys, unfenfual, tafte ; 
 c < Come, drink of Wifdom's wine i 
 J* No farrow poifons my rep aft, 
 cc The banquet is divine. 
 
 " Honour and peace, with me, 
 " And life immortal dwell. 
 5 C Your ways of woe and infamy 
 €c Take hold of death and hell b . 
 
 XXII. 
 WISDOM'S THREATNING, 
 
 ^IT7ISDOM exalts her voice again, 
 
 . I tremble at her awful ftrain : 
 With look fevere, and anger's tone, 
 She makes divine refentment known : 
 *< Sinners, attend once more; aftonifh'd hear 
 f c The threatning I denounce \ its vengeance fear. 
 
 y Prov. viii. 18 — 21, 36. ix. 18. iio 18, 19. 
 
 " Oft 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 41 
 
 f c Oft I have publiuVd God's command, 
 " Oft I have wav'd my pleading hand, 
 u My eloquence I oft have try'd, 
 " And mercy's every means apply 'd. 
 H But, unregarding, from my voice you turn'd, 
 t* ScofF'd at my counfels, and my promife fpurn'd c . 
 
 " I too v<:ill fcofF, at your diftrefs 
 
 " When mazing fears your fouls opprefs : 
 
 " Scorn for your fcorn I will repay, 
 
 <c In evil's defolating day ; 
 
 iC When the black ftorm, long fwelling o'er your 
 u heads, 
 
 cc Impetuous burfts, and fwift deftruclion fpreads. 
 
 cc By ficknefs in her chain confin'd, 
 
 " Raving in agony of mind, 
 
 " While death ftands levelling his dart, 
 
 " Eager to bathe it in your heart ; 
 cc To me, for refuge, you in vain fhall fly, 
 I* Ivlc importune with unavailing cry« 
 
 c Prov. 1. 20, 24—32. 
 
 " Your 
 
4 2 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 " Your deeds of fin, and wit profane, 
 <c Then bitterly bewaiPd in vain, 
 " Inflam'd with glowing guilt fhall rife, 
 ,c And flafh my terrors in your eyes. 
 <c Wrath in full meafure by yourfelves prepar'd, 
 " Obdurate finners, fhall your crimes reward." 
 
 XXIII. 
 DELAY. 
 
 TTASTEN, finners, to be wife d ; 
 
 Stay not for the morrow's fun. 
 Longer wifdom you defpife, 
 Harder is fhe to be won e . 
 
 Haflen, mercy to implore \ 
 
 Stay not for the morrow's fun : 
 
 Left thy feafon fhould be o'er, 
 Ere this ev'ning's ftage be run. 
 
 d Pfalm cxi;-', 59, 60. • Heb. in. 13, 15. 
 
 Haften, 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 43 
 
 Haften, firmer, to return ; 
 
 Stay not for the morrow's fun : 
 Left thy lamp fhould fail to burn, 
 
 Ere falvation's work is done f . 
 
 Haften, finner, to be bleft ; 
 
 Stay not for the morrow's fun : 
 Left perdition thee arreft, 
 
 Ere the morrow is begun &. 
 
 XXIV. 
 THE PENITENT. 
 
 ^7 OUR flowing urns, ye fountains, lend h , 
 
 ** To fill thefe failing eyes ; 
 While mourning in the duft I bend, 
 Till mercy bid me rife. 
 
 f Ecclef. ix. 10. « 2 Corinth, vi, 2. 
 
 h Jer. ix % 1. 
 
 Yes, 
 
44 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Yes, I have known, from childhood known, 
 
 My God, thy holy will l : 
 Too negligent, I blufhing own, 
 
 Thy orders to fulfill. 
 
 Thy friendly voice, without, within, 
 
 In cleared warnings fpake : 
 f c There winds the way of death and fin, 
 
 5' The path of glory take." 
 
 Unheeding what thy voice advis'd, 
 
 I went perverfely wrong ; 
 The caution and the hope defpis'd, 
 
 And madly rufh'd along k . 
 
 Sometimes I paus'd, and fighing faid ; 
 
 I will thefe ways forfake. 
 Soon, by fome headftrong luft o'erfway'd, 
 
 The feeble vow I brake. 
 
 1 2 Tim. in. 15. * Prov. 1. 29, 30. 
 
 Ah! 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 4; 
 
 Ah ! whither has my folly rov'd ? 
 
 Loft on perdition's ground, 
 From thy ftill waters far remcv'd. 
 
 What pafture have I found ] ? 
 
 Wand'ring for reft, where reft is none, 
 
 By guilt and fear purfu'd ; 
 Idle, employ'd, in crowds, alone 5 
 
 Sad images I view'd n . 
 
 Was this the great and good defign 3 
 
 For which I faw the day ? 
 Was reafon giv'n, that beam divine n , 
 
 Thus to be flung away ? 
 
 Ingrate thy bleffings I mifus'd, 
 
 O thou lon^-fuff'ring Lord. 
 Thy law contemn'd and grace abusM 
 
 Demand thy damning word. 
 
 2 Pfalm xxiii. 2. m Ifaiah lvii. 20, in 
 
 * Prov. xx. 27, Pfalm li. 6, 
 
 I hear 
 
46 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 I hear, I hear foft mercy cry 
 (Sounds which my foul revive),, 
 
 " O wherefore, finners, will ye die ? 
 <c Children, return, and live °." 
 
 Before his Father's throne I fee p 
 
 The Mediator ftand. 
 Lo, while he pleads, to Calvary 
 
 He points with fpeaking hand. 
 
 My God with a fmile his full pardon difplays, 
 Defpair fhall for ever my bofom depart. 
 
 My glory awake q , fing aloud his high praife, 
 Sweet hope has begun to enliven my heart* 
 
 Q Jer. in. 12, 14, Ezek, xvm. 30—32. 
 
 p Heb. vii. 25. ix. 24. 
 
 * Pfalm lvii, 8, 9. cvni. 1. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 47 
 
 XXV. 
 CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGES AND OBLIGATIONS, 
 
 DOST thou my worthlefs name record 
 Free of thy holy city, Lord f ? 
 Am I, a firmer, calPd to fhare 
 The precious privileges there ? 
 
 Art thou, my king my father ftyPd ? 
 And I, thy fervant and thy child s ? 
 While more than half the human race 
 Are aliens from thy Zion's grace f . 
 
 Lo, wretched millions draw their breath 
 In lands of ignorance and death u . 
 But I enjoy my line of time, 
 Within thy gofpePs favourite clime. 
 
 r Ephef 11. 19. s Ephef. 1. 5. 
 
 1 Ephef, 11. 12. u Matt, iv, i5. 
 
 Pardon 
 
4? LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Pardon affur'd and heav'n difplay'd, 
 Banifh my fears, my hope perfuade Ti 
 And precepts, plentiful and clear *, 
 Through life my dang'rous voyage fleer. 
 
 Shall I receive this grace in vain r ? 
 Shall I my great vocation ftain 2 ? 
 Away, ye works in darknefs wrought a ; 
 Away, each mean and wanton thought. 
 
 My foul, I charge thee to excel! 
 In thinking right and a£ting well. 
 Deep, deep, thy fearching pow'rs engage* 
 UnbiafsM, in the heav'n-born page. 
 
 Heighten the force of good defire, 
 To deeds of mining worth afpire ; 
 More firm in fortitude, defpife 
 The world's feducing vanities. 
 
 * Luke xxiv. 47. x ColofT. iv. 12. Ephef, v. 17. 
 Rom. X!i. 2. y 2 Corinth, vi. 1; * Ephef. iv. u 
 
 * Ephef. y. 11- 
 
 Strong 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 49 
 
 Strong and more ftrong, thy paffions rule ; 
 Advancing (till in virtue's fchool ; 
 Contending ftill, with noble ftrife, 
 To emulate thy Saviour's life b . 
 
 XXVI. 
 NEED OF DIVINE ASSISTANCE. 
 
 r J ^ O fix the thought on things above, 
 
 To give them pow'r the heart to move> 
 To hold futurity in view; 
 What can a feeble mortal do ? 
 
 To warm the foul with love to God, 
 To tremble at his lifted rod, 
 To keep the will to confcience true ; 
 What can a feeble mortal do ? 
 
 b 1 Pet. ii. 21. 
 
 E Tq 
 
5° 
 
 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 To live by faith, to combat heir, 
 The world's temptations to repel!., 
 And felf-denial's path purfue - y 
 What can a feeble mortal do c ? 
 
 Lord, this ftupendous work is thine • 
 The facrifice of praife be mine, 
 Oft as thy aids my force renew 5 
 What can a feeble mortal do ? 
 
 XXVII. 
 CHRISTIAN WARFARE, 
 
 -^T^HE captain of Jehovah's armies {lands, 
 -*- Th' imperial banner is aloft difplay'd. 
 Flow to his enfign, all his valiant bands, 
 
 And bravely fight beneath it's pow'rful fliade <*, 
 
 c Pfaim Li. 10. cxix. 18, 3^ — 37, 66. John xv, 4, 5. 
 
 xvn. i$. Philip, iv. 13. 1 Pet. 1. 5. v. 10. Jtide2|. 
 
 « Heb. 11. 10. 1 Tim. 1. 18, 19. 1 Tim. vi. i 2 « 
 
 Tim. in. 3. 
 
 Clad 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 51 
 
 Clad in celeftial arms, of nobler frame 
 
 Than thofe e renown'd in the Mseonian fong ; 
 
 Ye heroes, panting for immortal fame, 
 
 In great InimantrePs conqu'ring might be ftrong. 
 
 Her f zone Uprighinefs round your loins fhall caft> 
 The mind's un weary 'd vigour to fuftain. 
 
 In Virtue's culrafs fheath'd, meet, unaghafr, 
 The charms of pleafure and the force of pain, 
 
 SandaTd with zeal your aftive feet will tread 
 The cragged mountain, and the rocky road ; 
 
 When the bleft gofpel fummons you, to fpread 
 The healing odour of its truth abroad. 
 
 The fiery fiiafts of furious lufis defy 5 
 
 Dauntlefs oppofe faith's adamantine jhield* 
 
 Salvation s hehnci to your head apply, 
 For dangerous war in fcepticifrn's field. 
 
 e The invulnerable arms of Achilles defcribed by Homer 
 in his Jliad. f Ephef. vi. 10 — 17. 
 
 E % Th' ethereal 
 
$i LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 TV ethereal blade ne'er loofen from your fide, 
 The word of God, fo formidably keen : 
 
 This weapon your victorious chieftain try'd, 
 In bold temptation's moft audacious fcene s. 
 
 Thus dreft in panoply h divine, prepare 
 For flrenuous ftrife and perfevering toil. 
 
 Advance, with martial ftep and martial air, 
 The foes of righteoufnefs and God to foil. 
 
 An amaranthine * crown of glory k waits, 
 To dignify the faithful foldier's brows : 
 
 His labours o'er, high Salem opes her gates, 
 And bow'rs of bli-fs invite him to repofe K 
 
 ? Matt, iv, 4, 7, io. h panoply, a complete 
 
 {uit of armour. i amaranthine, unfading. 
 
 k i Pet. v. 4, 1 Heb. iv. 1, 9— 11. Rev. xiv, 
 *j t xxii, 14. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 53 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 THE SAME SUBJECT IN A 
 DIFFERENT METRE. 
 
 TESUS his banner has difplay'd, 
 ** Hell threatens formidable war. 
 All o'er in heav'nly arms array 'd, 
 Unmov'd her haughty pow'rs I dare. 
 
 Truths like a belt, fhall gird me round, 
 
 And vigour in my foul fuftain. 
 With Virtue, as a breaft-plate, bound, 
 
 Temptation's on let I difdain. 
 
 Meeknefs fhall on my march attend, 
 Meeknefs fhall rage and fpite defeat : 
 
 Not greaves of brafs can more defend, 
 From cruel fpikes the foldier's feet. 
 
 Come, Faith, and bring thy temper'd JhieU, 
 
 This to the furious foe oppofe : 
 Vanquifh'd, with fhame he quits the field, 
 
 In vain his fiery darts he throws, 
 
 E 3 Salva* 
 
54 LYRiC PO£ M S, 
 
 Salvation s hope my head {hall made, 
 A, helmet of celeftial frame: 
 
 TJ)y word) O Lord, all-conqu'ring blade * 
 With terror on the foe fn all flame. 
 
 XXIX. 
 BLESSEDNESS <\ 
 
 ^TPHRICE happy man! whofe youthful feet 
 
 Touch not the path which finners beat ; 
 Or walk not in the fatal way, 
 Where unrepenting finners fir ay 
 Till, oft alas ! their impious tongue 
 Mimics the harden'd fcojfing throng. 
 
 Thrice happy man ! whofe foul's defire 
 To honour God is all on fire : 
 
 f 1 See Pfalm i. 
 
 Who 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 5; 
 
 Who on his holy volume feeds, 
 Warm'd with the love of virtuous deeds ; 
 Revolving fweetly, on his bed, 
 The leiTons which by day he read. 
 
 Like a fair tree, with foliage green 
 Long by the garden currents feen ; 
 Whofe lovely flow'rs in feafon blow, 
 And to a generous vintage grow, 
 He fiourifhes ; in worth of mind, 
 Heav'n-blefs'd, the joy of human kind. 
 
 Not fo the wicked in their place. 
 
 4P 
 A vile unprofitable race : 
 
 Out of the living they are caft, 
 
 Like chaff before the rifing blair, 
 
 And in fome future day fhall fall 
 
 Convicts, before the judge of all. 
 
 In that high day, the righteous Band 
 Exulting at his bar fliall ftand : 
 His fentence will their way approve, 
 And lift them to his feat above. 
 His fentence on the bad will frown. 
 And drive them to perdition down, 
 
 E 4 
 
& LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XXX. 
 BENEFIT OF EARLY PIETY. 
 
 /^OME, children, learn the heav'nly art. 
 
 To make your growing years 
 All happy, and defend your heart 
 From guilt, diftrefs, and fears. 
 
 Remember him who gave you breath % 
 
 Remember him who dy'd 
 To fave you from eternal death : 
 
 His precepts be your guide °. 
 
 What ornaments a young man grace, 
 
 In piety approv'd p ! 
 How lovely virtue's blooming face ! 
 
 By God and man belov'd. 
 
 » Ecclef. xii. i t B Pfalm cxix. 9. 
 
 p Prov. iv. 7 — 9. 
 
 Virtue 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, j$ 
 
 Virtue in early youth begun 
 
 The man with eafe purfues i ; 
 And when his mortal courfe is run, 
 
 In heav'n his life renews. 
 
 O fquander not your nobleft time 
 
 In vanity and fin : 
 Left death mould pluck you in your prime, 
 
 And hell mould match you in. 
 
 Fond parents, with religious care 
 
 Your tender offspring train : 
 Warn them of every ambufh'd fnare, 
 
 Sow, fow the pious grain. 
 
 Thus the great Father gives command r , 
 
 Thus fpeaks a parent's love. 
 Know, judgment's awful day, at hand, 
 
 Your faithfulnefs will prove. 
 
 * Prov. xxii. 6. r Eph. vi. 4, 
 
LYRIC P O E M S, 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 THE VOW. 
 
 Tl /T Y heart is fix'd 3 the firm decree 
 
 Is ratify'd within my breaft. 
 I vow my foul, O Lord, to thee c , 
 In thee alone I feek my reft \ 
 
 Adieu, ye vain defires, adieu ; 
 
 Ye lufts of every name, farewell : 
 I bar all fellowfhip with you % 
 
 I mean no more to live for hell, 
 
 In diffi nation's magic ground, 
 In bufy fecnes of toil and care, 
 
 What pleafures or what gains are found,- 
 Which may with thine, O Lord, coitip. 
 
 8 Pfalm cxix. ie6. 2 Corinth, vm. 5. 
 
 * ITalm lxxiii. 25, 26. Jer. vj. 16. u Ephef, 
 
 v. 11. Titus 11. 11, 12. w Pfalm iv, 6, 7. Prov. 
 
 in. 17. Pfalm xix. 11. 
 
 5 Pleafures 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 59 
 
 Pleafures which yield no peace, I leave ; 
 
 Wealth but a fpoil for death, I fpurn : 
 Hopes I embrace which ne'er deceive Y , 
 
 For wealth which never dies r y I burn* 
 
 To faith's heroic war I rife, 
 
 Nor dread my ftrong and wily foes$ 
 
 Safe in the arms thy word fupplies- 
 Led by the wifdom it bellows. 
 
 My heart is fix'd, the firm decree 
 
 Is ratify'd within my breaft. 
 I vow my foul, O Lord, to thee, 
 
 In thee alone I feefc my reft. 
 
 x Rom* v, 5. >' Luke xii, 33. 
 
6q LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XXXII. 
 PRAYER. 
 
 /~\ U R Father, thron'd above the fides, 
 To thee my empty hands I fpread. 
 Thy child of dufl beneath thee lies, 
 Who afks thy blefling on his head. 
 
 Let mercy all my fins difpell, 
 
 As a dark cloud before the beam *. 
 
 My foul from bondage and from hell, 
 To liberty and life redeem. 
 
 With chearful hope and filial fear, 
 In that auguft and precious name 
 
 By thee ordain'd, I now draw near ; 
 
 And would the promis'd blefling claim a , 
 
 * Ifciah xliv. 22. 
 
 a Gal. n\ 6, *. Heb, x. 15— a*, 
 
 On 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 6\ 
 
 On thy good promifes I lean, 
 
 Thy truth can never never fail b ; 
 Though fledfaft earth and heavVs great fcene 
 
 Shall perifh c , like an ev'ning tale, 
 
 Will not an earthly parent feel 
 
 The cravings of his child in need ! 
 
 Will he. prefent a cake of fteel 
 
 For bread, his hungry mouth to feed ? 
 
 Our heav'nly Father, how much more 
 
 Will thy divine companions rife| 
 And open thy unbounded (lore, 
 
 To fatisfy thy childrens cries t 
 
 Yes, I will afk, and feek, and profs, 
 For gracious audience, to thy kzty 
 
 Still hoping, waiting, for fuccefs 
 Jf perfevering to intreat % 
 
 * Pfalm cxix. 90. cxlvi. 6. Heb. >:. 23, 1 Pet 
 I. 23. 2 Pet. 1. 2, 4. c Heb. i« 10— \z< z Pet, 
 
 in. 1 1 — 1 3* d Matt. vii. 7 — 11, 
 
 c Luke xviii. i. Job xxni. 3, 
 
 For 
 
[ LYRIC POE M Si 
 
 For Jefus, in his faithful wore?, 
 The patient fupplicant has blefs'cl : 
 
 And all thy faints, with fweet accord^ 
 The prevalence of pray'r atteft. 
 
 yvVYyWVVW^AAAA/'. •••*•. .-.. ••••. ••• s 
 
 XXXIII, 
 CONFESSION. 
 
 GOD the holy and thejuft, 
 Look not with anger's fiafliing eye,- 
 Echold me proftrate in the dult. 
 Hear a lamenting finner's figh. 
 
 My fins like ocean's fands abound^ 
 My fins are ftain'd with crimfon hue : 
 
 The : r burden finks me to the ground * 5 
 Toheav'n I dare not lift my view. 
 
 f Pfalm xxxviii. 4. xl. 12, 
 
 Above 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 
 
 Above the fowls that fwim in air, 
 
 Above the beafts which graze below j 
 
 Reafon, thy noble gift, I (hare ; 
 
 By reafon taught, thy laws I know ? , 
 
 How bleft ! if I to reafon's voice 
 
 Had yielded an obeying ear : 
 Bleft! if thy will had been my choice, 
 
 Thou my delight, and thou my fear h 9 
 
 But oh ! the paffions in my frame, 
 Inwrought by thee for wifeft end, 
 
 With blindfold violence o'ercame 
 
 Reafon, and confcience reafon's friend f, 
 
 In reafon's aid thy gofpel ftrove, 
 I heeded not, but onward taxi : 
 
 The ways of ruin were my love \ 
 O what a ftubborn thine- is man \ 
 
 z job xxxv. ii. xxxii, 8, h Pfalm r. I, &c, 
 
 1 James r, i j, 14. k ?rev« vin. 36. 
 
 Lor. 
 
LYfelC POEMS, 
 
 Lord, I am worthy to receive 
 
 The dreadful fentence, " Thou fnalt die r :" 
 But ere the fatal ftrokc thou give, 
 
 Turn, turn thy face to Calvary* 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 PETITION 
 FOR DEVOTIONAL VIEWS, 
 
 OW long, O Lord, and why, 
 Wilt thou thy glories {hade ? 
 How long unheeded (hall my cry 
 Thy gentle car invade ni ? 
 
 Whene'er my feeble thought 
 On heav'nly things would mufe; 
 The vifions, to thy people brought p , 
 Their charms to me refute. 
 
 1 Pfalm li. 4. Ezek. xvn. 4. m Pfalm xin. 1. 
 
 xkii. 1, 2. :: Pfalm cxix. 18, 66, 169, 171* 
 
 $]?he£. u 17 — 20. Frov. 11. 5 — 5. 
 
 Wifdom 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 65 
 
 Wifdom and works of pow'r, 
 Which in thy gofpel fhine, 
 On me in wafte their fun-beams fliow'r. 
 O this blind foul of mine ! 
 
 Thy miracles of love 
 To me no joy impart ; 
 In me no tender paffion move. 
 
 my unfeeling heart ! 
 
 If I to Jefus turn, 
 Nail'd to the cruel tree ; 
 With no feraphic love I burn, 
 Although he dy'd for me. 
 
 Whene'er my fins I call 
 Before ftern judgment's eye ; 
 Scarce a bewailing tear will fall, 
 
 1 fcarce can heave a figh, 
 
 Thy promifes I lay 
 Clofe to my aking breafl : 
 
 Fain would I hope, hope flees away- 
 
 My anguilh finds no reft. 
 
66 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 In darknefs rnuft I go, 
 An alien ftil] from thee ? 
 Ah ! never fhall my bofom know 
 The glow of piety ? 
 
 And muft I then defpair ? 
 Is there no laft refource ? 
 Though nature fails, Ah yet — elfewhere 
 Lives no aflifting force ? 
 
 Who, who, is he ; that ftands 
 Before thy gracious throne ? 
 That lifts his interceding hands, 
 When humble finners groan ° ? 
 
 To whom has thy decree 
 Wifdom for finners giv'n p ? 
 Will not his grace indulge to me. 
 Some of that beam of heav'n ? 
 
 • Heb. iv. .14—16. vii. 24, 25. 
 
 * 1 Corinth. 1. 30. 
 
 Unclofrj 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 6 7 
 
 Unclofe, unclofe thefe eyes, 
 Infufe the vifual ray : 
 Before me bid thy glories rife, 
 With foul-reviving day. 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 SUSPENSION OF DIVINE 
 INFLUENCES. 
 
 /~\ the diftra&ing fears % 
 ^^ Which rent my heart in twain; 
 The fighs, and groans, and burfting tears 
 Of forrow's fharpeft pain ; 
 
 When firft my God refrain'd 
 His mercy to purfue ; 
 And, ere his work perfection gain'd, 
 His energy withdrew. 
 
 5 Pfalm lviii. 13 — 15. 
 
 F 2 A deep 
 
63 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 A deep and deadly gloom 
 O'er mental vifion fweeps : 
 Benumbing cold, O fearful doom ! 
 O'er mental feelings creeps. 
 
 I threw me at his ket y 
 In bitternefs of heart : 
 My piercing cries aflail'd his feat; 
 Will, will my God depart ? 
 
 Is it thy way to leave 
 A turning finner fo r ? 
 Thy joy a broken heart to grieve % 
 And quench the fmoking tow l ? 
 
 Ahl no — 'tis thy delight 
 To hear confefilon's breath u : 
 To fet the ftraying footflep right w . 
 And fave a foul from death x . 
 
 ? Pfalm ix. 10. s Pfalm lu 17, 
 
 * Ifaiah xlii. 3. p Pfalm xxxn. 5. 
 v Pfalm xx in. 3. ex ix, 176. 
 
 * Ezek, zxxiil. iu 
 
 O plen- 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 69 
 
 O plentiful in love r, 
 O ready to forgive *, 
 Let fighs and tears thy bowels move a : 
 Say to a finner, " live." 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 MOURNING AFTER GOD. 
 
 TT7HA T new offence, what unknown deed 
 
 Has driv'n my God away b ? 
 Why is it that in vain I plead ? 
 Oh ! why this long delay ? 
 
 Thoughts after thoughts all day enfue, 
 
 In melancholy train. 
 Sorrow, I lay me down with you, 
 
 With you I rife again c . 
 
 v Pfalm cm. 3, 8, 9. 2 Pfalm lxxxvi. j, 
 
 a Pfalm vi. 6. xxxix. 12. xxxi, io. 
 b Job xxxiv. 32. Ifaiah lix. 2. c Pfalm xm. 1, 2. 
 
 xxxviii. 4, 6. 
 
 F 3 The 
 
^o LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 The holy leaves, I fighing faid, 
 Will eafe my preffing woe : 
 
 Their light fhall o'er my foul be fpread, 
 Their comforts in me flow d . 
 
 Eager the holy leaves I turn, 
 I ftrain attention's pow'rs. 
 
 Alas ! in darknefs ftill I mourn, 
 Still comfortlefs my hours, 
 
 fjope whifpers, " in his holy place 
 Thou (halt the bleffing find e ." 
 
 Hope bluflies, for he hides his face; 
 And gr:ef o'erwhelms my mind. 
 
 Yet I will feek him till I die ; 
 
 Who always fought in vain f ? 
 His heart is kind, his pow'r is nigh, 
 
 And pray'r his ear will gain ?. 
 
 d Pfalm cxix. 50, 130. e Pfalm lxiii. 2. 
 
 lxv. 4. f Pfalm ix. 10. xxvu. 14. Ifaiah xlv. 19% 
 
 s Pfalm lxv. 2. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 71 
 
 XXXVII. 
 THE RESOLUTION. 
 
 TTOW long ere weeping Elegy 
 *" Bid me adieu, and hafte away ? 
 
 How long, ere fweet Euphrofyne h 
 To me her fparkling charms difplay ? 
 
 Not while my God in frowns conceals ', 
 The beauties of his fmiling face ; 
 
 Not till my longing bofom feels, 
 The extafies of pard'ning grace. 
 
 Not till, in pow'r immortal ftrong, 
 
 I burfl: the iron yoke of fin - y 
 Till, number'd with the ranfom'd throng, 
 
 Their heav'n within my foul begin. 
 
 Joy. * Pfalm lxxvii. 2 — 4. 
 
 F 4 Come, 
 
7* LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Come, hour long fought ; on rapid wing 
 Bear thy fweet inmate, holy Mirth. 
 
 Then, then my founding voice fhall fing, 
 The wonders of celeftial birth. 
 
 XXXVIII. 
 TRANSIENT GOODNESS. 
 
 TT7HERE, O my foul, O where 
 Thy image fhall I view ? 
 In the light cloud which melts in air, 
 Or in the early dew k . 
 
 This hour, with flowing tears 
 My follies I bewail : 
 The next, my heart a wafte appears, 
 Where all the fountains fail. 
 
 k Hof, vi. 4. 
 
 Now, 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, 7$ 
 
 Now, as the wax in flame 
 Diflblves, and loves the feal; 
 The tend'reft touch of grief and fhame 
 Alternately I feel. 
 
 To day, her glimmering light 
 Hope kindles in my breaft : 
 The morrow, with defpair's black night, 
 Has all my foul oppreft. 
 
 O my unftedfaft mind, 
 Toft betv/een good and ill ! 
 With fteady courfe the brutal kind 
 Their Maker's law fulfill, 
 
 O miferable ftate, 
 Of hope by fear fubdu'd ! 
 On thee, O Lord, for help I wait ; 
 Fix, fix my foul in good '• 
 
 1 James 1. 8. 1 Pet. v. 10. 
 
H LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XXXIX. 
 DEJECTION. 
 
 /L H ! never, never fhall I tafte the joy 
 ■*■ Which to thy children. Lord, belongs m ? 
 Never one favour'd pray'r my tongue employ^ 
 In melody of Zion's fongs ! 
 
 Thou fulgent lamp, in whofe all-cheering beams 
 
 The living clans of earth rejoice ; 
 While fields, and hills, and woods, and fparkling 
 ilreams 
 
 Eccho to joy's exulting voice $ . 
 
 To me, alas ! the light of morning gay, 
 Like gloom of midnight is cifplay'd : 
 
 To me thy noontide and thy weftern ray, 
 Is all but melancholv fhade. 
 
 m Pfalm cvi. 4, 5. 
 
 A weight 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 75 
 
 A weight of woe lies heavy on my heart, 
 Whole days and tedious months I mourn j 
 
 Since the fad hour I felt my God depart ; 
 Ah ! never will my God return n ? 
 
 Life's fweet amufements all in vain engage, 
 
 To yield my troubled foul relief: 
 Nor friendly converfe, nor the ftory'd page, 
 
 Can charm to peace my reftlefs grief. 
 
 Lord, yield one gracious look : one fmile of thine 
 Shall caufe my ravifh'd heart to bound ; 
 
 More than the feafon of o'erflowing wine, 
 When the glad vintage-fhouts refound °. 
 
 * Pfalm lxxvii. 7 — 9. 9 Pfalm iv. 6, 7, 
 
 
76 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XL. 
 ADDRESS TO JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 TMMANUEL, Saviour, meek and mild, 
 ■*• To thee I pour my moan. 
 Behold a wretch, with fin defil'd, 
 Who looks to thee alone p. 
 
 O Prince of life, all pow'r is thine 
 
 To pardon and fubdue ^ : 
 My pardon, in thy mercy, fign, 
 
 My foul to God renew. 
 
 Give to thy holy angels joy r , 
 
 Their hallelujahs fire: 
 Let thy rich grace to me employ, 
 
 Afrefh, each golden Lyre. 
 
 p John in. 14. compared with Numb. xxi. 9. A&s 
 jv. 12. Fph. f. 12. Jude 20, 21. 
 
 <J A&s in. 1$. v. 31. Matt. ix. 6. xxvin. 19. 
 r Luke xv. 7. 
 
 Me 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 77 
 
 Me a new captive in thy train, 
 
 And in thy book s enroll'd ; 
 Me a new glory of thy reign, 
 
 Let thy great Sire behold, 
 
 O thou, who in thy mortal days 
 
 Didft v/ith the fighing figh ; 
 Shall not my tears thy pity raife* 
 
 Though now thou art fo high ? 
 
 Who ever humbly kneel'd in vain, 
 
 Before thy gracious feat ? 
 O do not my warm fuit difdain. 
 
 Nor pufh me from thy feet l I 
 
 9 Luke x. 20. Revel, xxr. 27. 
 1 Matt, xi. 28. John vx. 37. 
 
 pa. 
 
78 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XLI. 
 
 COMPLAINT. 
 
 TJ OW Arrange are his myfterious ways ! 
 What numbers can his wonders tell ? 
 My foul in vain the fearch effays, 
 
 'Tis high as heav'n, 'tis deep as hell u . 
 
 Why did his hand, unfought by me, 
 
 Stop me in folly's fatal race ? 
 Why teach my trembling foul, to flee 
 
 To Jefus for his healing grace. 
 
 Why did he melt my heart, with grief 
 My trefpafs in his ear to own ? 
 
 Then fudden check fweet hope's relief? 
 And leave me hard again as ftone ? 
 
 8 Job xi. 7—9. ix. io. 
 
 Ah? 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 79 
 
 Ah ! did he ever thus forfake 
 
 The blind, who mourn'd for faving light? 
 Why fuffer me one glance to take ? 
 
 Then fnatch the vifion from my fight ? 
 
 Was he, whofe half-enlighten'd eye 
 
 * Saw men appear as walking trees w 2 
 Left in the bitter mifery 
 
 Of a bewail'd half-cur'd difeafe? 
 
 Ceafe, mortal ceafe, in plaintive ftraln, 
 
 Thy Maker's counfels to implead. 
 Wifdom and mercy guide his reign, 
 
 In righteoufnefs his a£is proceed x . 
 
 How ftrange are his myfterious ways ! 
 
 What numbers can his wonders tell ? 
 My toil in vain the fearch efTays, 
 
 *Tis high as heav'nj 'tis deep as hell. 
 
 Mark vm. 24, * Pfalm cxlv. 17. Jer. ix. 24. 
 
 7 
 
So LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XLIL 
 
 THANKSGIVING. 
 
 t \7 ES — it was Thou, whofe gracious care 
 
 Educ 5 d me from the womb, 
 Sent me to drink thy healthful air, 
 And nurs'd my tender bloom t 9 
 
 Thy gentle hand my feet upheld, 
 
 In childhood's flippery way : 
 Ere yet my tongue thy name had fpell'd, 
 
 Thy name was all my ftay 2 . 
 
 My ripening years were flill pupfu'd 
 
 With mercies from above : 
 Thy bounty raiment gave, and food, 
 
 And loaded me with love a . 
 
 J Pfalm xxn. 9, i o. 2 Pfalm lxxi. 6. 
 
 a Job x. 12. Pfalm cm, 2—5. cxxxix. 17, jS. 
 
 When 
 
DEVOTIONAL AMD MORAL. 81 
 
 If trouble's heavy arm was near, 
 
 Thy pity felt my figh; 
 Knew all my forrow, all my kar 9 
 
 And brought falvation nigh b . 
 
 When I behold yon azure fpace 
 
 Spangled with ftars 3 and fee 
 Th' imperial moon's refulgent face ; 
 
 Wond'ring, I think on thee. 
 
 Lord, what is man, that man (hould gain 
 
 Thy condefcending view ? 
 That e'er thy majefty mould deign, 
 
 Such favour to renew c ? 
 
 And what am I, lead w T orthy I 
 
 Of all who creep below, 
 That thou wilt pafs my follies by ? 
 
 And {o much goodnefs fhow d ? 
 
 * Pfalm xxxi. 7. xxxiv. 6. c Pfaka vm, 3, 4.. 
 
 d Gen. xxxi:. 10. 
 
 G , O futnmon 
 
%z LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 O fummon thy whole ftrength, my foul, 
 
 To blefs thy God alone. 
 O memory, all his boons enroll; 
 
 I charge thee, lofe not one c . 
 
 XLIIT. 
 
 PRAYER 
 OF THE AFFLICTED YOUTH. 
 
 Yi/i Y Sovereign, to thy throne 
 With awful hope I prefs. 
 if umble thyfelf to hear the groan 
 Of indigent diftrefs. 
 
 Thy royal Prieft appears 
 Before thee with his blood f : 
 Through him I offer thefe my tears % 
 And caft my care on God h . 
 
 * Pfalm cur, /, 2. f Heb. v;r. 15-^7. 
 
 * John xvi. 23, 24. Heb. 1*. 24. h Kalm lv. ix< 
 
 4 M f 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. $3 
 
 My youth, bow'd down with pain, 
 Mourns its decaying bloom. 
 Lord, clothe thefe bones with flefh again $ 
 O fpare me from the tomb *. 
 
 Without one murm'ring word, 
 Thy chaft'ning I receive k ; 
 But afk, fubmiflive, gracious Lord, 
 A merciful reprieve. 
 
 Day following day, my pray'r 
 Has wreftled with thy grace. 
 Let not confufion be the fhare, 
 Of them who feek thy face K 
 
 Was e'er thy bounteous mind 
 Unwilling to beftow m ? 
 E'er to a finner's fighs unkind, 
 Or- in forgiving flow n ? 
 
 ! Pfalm xxxix. 13. en. 2Ji Job xxxiii. 2;. 
 
 k Pfalm xxxix. 9. Heb. xn. 5, 6. ] Pfalm xxv. 3, 
 
 f ,James -S. 5, n Pfalm lxxvi. 5. cm. 8, 9, 
 
 G 2 Needy 
 
84 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Needy and poor, as now, 
 I once thy aid implor'd : 
 Thy pity heard affliction's vow> 
 Thy pow'r my health reftor'd. 
 
 My fupplicating voice 
 
 Unweary'd I will raife : 
 Say to thy fervant's foul, " rejoice -" 
 And fill my tongue with praife n . 
 
 VVVVY\/VVVVVVVVVVVVVVv r 
 
 r\/ '•«*■* \/ \r \/ *'»./' \/* %/ S/ v \ / \S \ / % '*'./* \j 'V* \/ \.**' ''%.-'* *v>' '*% 
 
 XLIV. 
 S O L I L O Q^U Y. 
 
 TP\EEP, deep into thyfelf, my foul defcend; 
 **J God calls aloud, with rev'rent ear attend. 
 Strikes he in vain ? unmeaning was the blow ° t 
 Sudden it fell, and menac'd death and woe ; 
 Death to a life in which my life is bound, 
 Woe, woe to me, and never-healing wound : 
 
 n Pfalra xliu if j ° The fmall-pox. 
 
 She" 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. Sj 
 
 She lives ! me lives ! But Ah ! is Heav'n appeas'd ? 
 Or, next, am I the viclim to be feizM ? 
 Does old offence to his remembrance rife r», 
 And bid the tear repentant nil my eyes ? 
 My heart relents, my broken fpirit mourns, 
 To thee, O Lord, my broken fpirit turns. 
 Forgiving God, caft, caft my fins away, 
 
 Far as the rifing from the fetting day °. 
 
 Spare me, O Lord, my tender offspring fpare, 
 
 Let not the child the father's burden bear r . 
 
 Avert this direful peft s . O heal my fon ? 
 
 Bid life's warm fluid through its channels run; 
 
 With healthful vigour bid the lunes inhale r , 
 
 Eas'd of their load, thy vivifying gale. 
 
 With balmy hope erect, his drooping mind, 
 
 With patience arm, and give the will refign'd. 
 
 Keep his youth pure, to mining virtue raife, 
 
 And crown that virtue with celeftial praife. 
 
 p Pfalm xxv. 6. s Pfalm cur. 12. 
 
 r Jer. xxxi. 29. Ezek. xvm. 2— -4. 
 : The fmall-poxo l /;lthma. 
 
 G3 
 
*5 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XLV. 
 
 THOUGHTS 
 ON A PARTICULAR MERCY. 
 
 TT AIL, dear abode ; my irkfome exile f ends. 
 
 Farewel difquietude and fleeplefs care : 
 Come, Peace, with thy beatitudes : my friends, 
 Affift our triumph, and the feftal fhare. 
 
 Long has difeafe, HeavVs minifter, pofiefs'd 
 This mourning manfion with her pois'nous train* 
 
 Indulgent Pow'r, forbid that evil gueft 
 To trouble thefe deliver'd walls again. 
 
 Here may the pray'r, from undiflembling tono-ue 3 
 Sound into heav'n ; the fervid praife afcend. 
 
 Diurnal incenfej and a gracious throng - 
 Of bleflings o'er this favoured roof impend* 
 
 1 On account of the fmall-pox, 
 
 Pail 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 87 
 
 Hail fweet retirement, where the Mufe once more 
 Shall in calm filence prune her ruffled wing; 
 
 With modern Bards and ancient wifdom foar, 
 And mortal themes and themes immortal fing. 
 
 All hail ! thou nobleft gift which Kkav'n beftow'd 
 On me unworthy, worthy to have loft ; 
 
 Dear fellow pilgrim on this earthly road, 
 The vale of grief, to the celeftial eoaft. 
 
 Victorious in affliction's field, thy mind 
 
 Shines with new Iuftre, in new graces dreft; 
 
 Patience and faith thy head with garlands bind, 
 And God approves, and heavVis yi thy breaft. 
 
 *W V*f w 
 *I <i* <n 
 gr=\ r&\ **\ 
 
 C4 
 
S8 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XLVI. 
 
 THE YOUTHS 
 THANKSGIVING ODE. 
 
 u HT~*0 Jehovah, thou my foul 
 
 Give the tributary glory : 
 Mem'ry, all his love enroll, 
 Crowded is the boundlefs ftory, 
 
 All thy maladies he heals, 
 
 All thy trefpafles forgiving : 
 Death's commiflion he repeals, 
 
 He reftores thee to the living. 
 
 Healthful viands he beftows, 
 
 With new youth thy flefli recruiting $ 
 As an eagle's plumage grows, 
 
 With new vigour from their (hooting. 
 
 n SeePfalm cm* 
 
 6 With 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 39 
 
 With his love thy days are crown'd, 
 Thy requefts are always near him : 
 
 High as heav'n above the ground, 
 Is that love to them who fear him. 
 
 They who fear him daily learn, 
 For their frailties his companion ; 
 
 So a father's mercies yearn, 
 
 To his children in tranforeffion. 
 
 Well he knows their flefhly frame 
 Of weak elements compounded : 
 
 Nor is harm their fouls to blame, 
 With infirmities furrounded. 
 
 What is man ? a feeble flow'r 
 
 For a feafon fweetly blooming ; 
 Scon the rugged eaft wind's pow'r 
 
 All its tender life confuming. 
 
 In the evening tall and fair, 
 
 Gone for ever in the morning ; 
 Seen no more, forgotten where 
 
 Once it flood the field adorning. 
 
9* LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XLVII. 
 
 PAIN. 
 
 "£7 E tedious hours of pain, 
 When will ye roll away ? 
 Ah ! when fhall I enjoy, again, 
 The well man's eafy day ? 
 
 w Lives} then, the child of fin, 
 Yet breathes impatient fighs ? 
 Know, from thyfelf thy woes begin, 
 From guilt thy forrows rife. 
 
 Is not thy Maker love * ? 
 ' Is not his anger flow v ? 
 Do not our griefs his pity move? > 
 Can he enjoy our woe z I 
 
 * Lament, ifi. 39. * , j h n IV# ,g B 
 
 * Nehem. 13. 17. * Lament, in. 32, 33. 
 
 Compaf. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL- ^ x 
 
 Companionate, he fees 
 His human offspring ftray ; 
 And oft commiffions {harp difeafe 
 Our wild career to ft ay a . 
 
 Soon as contrition's eye 
 Is full, with humble tear; 
 He bids all-healing mercy fly, 
 The fainting heart to cheer b . 
 
 O the reviving grace 
 His prcmifes diftill ! 
 Almighty anodyne ! they chafe 
 The pain from every ill=, 
 
 Learn, learn, my foul, to wait 3 
 Till thy releafe is giv'n. 
 Elefs him, who made a fufPring flats 
 The pupillage for heav'n. 
 
 a Job xxxiii. 19. Keb. xiu jo. b Job mil* 
 
 2/, 28. € Pfalmcxix, cou 
 
g£ LYRIC POE M $ ? 
 
 XLVIII. 
 
 PCOVERY. 
 
 HOW lively the pleafure fucceeding to pain I 
 When difeafe fays " adieu 3" and health come$ 
 again, 
 New braces the limbs, new enlightens the eyes, 
 And the faint-beating heart with fpirits fupplies, 
 
 The mariner, when his rough voyage is o'er. 
 Talks over his perils, exulting on fhore : 
 The wind in his canvafs ftill thund'ring he hears* 
 The high foaming billows ftill clafh in his ears. 
 
 So let me revolve the long wearifome night, 
 Of forrow's lone room and forrow's fharp fight ; 
 The ftorms of fierce pain, hot fever's ftrong thirfh 
 And the bubble of life juft ready to burft. 
 
 As a bird manumis'd effays his rude wings, 
 Expatiates in air, and a loud carol fings ; 
 Enlarging my fteps, o'er the fields I will rove, 
 And join the full choir that enlivens the'grove. 
 
 Bright 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 93 
 
 Bright fun, how delightfome to feel thy warm ray ! 
 Your ftreams, ye gay meadows, how fweet to furvey ! 
 Delicious perfume floats along in the gale, 
 Frelh fpirits and force with each gufi: I inhale. 
 
 Now my friends I embrace, their converfe enjoy^ 
 My ftation's great duties my time now employ. 
 The mind its accuftom'd exertions difplays, 
 The body, recruited for labour, obeys. 
 
 All praife to my God, who in mercy repriev'd 
 A finner from death, and his anguifh reliev'd t 
 To fave me from ruin he chaften'd my faults, 
 And to care of my foul awaken'd my thoughts. 
 
 Who, unwilling to bruife a reptile of duft, 
 
 His ftroke long delays, though the ftripe would be 
 
 juft: 
 At lafl: when he fmites (for to anger he's flow) 
 With a father's foft hand he tempers the blow d . 
 
 By him I revive, with my juvenile bloom ; 
 And my pow'rs of thinking new vigour refume. 
 To him while I breathe, devout homage I'll bring, 
 My portion, my hope, and my almighty king, 
 
 f. ■ 11 ■■■ ■ i n ■■ 1 m m m m% 
 
 d Prov. in. 11, 12. 
 
9* LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XLIX. 
 THE AGED MINISTER 
 
 TAILING DOWN IN A FAINTING FIT IN THE 
 PLACE AND TIME OF PUBLIC WORSHIP* 
 
 XI7 HAT a fudden paufe is here \ 
 
 Silence ftops the pray'r afcehding— 
 Pannic fmites attention's ear, 
 Order in confufion blending. 
 
 Son of wifdom, faint, awake 
 
 From the trance of fainting nature. 
 
 Cloud on reafon's organ, break ; 
 Gracious God 3 the darknefs fcatter. 
 
 Does the king of fears advance, 
 His black hoft of pains difplaying? 
 
 Does he fhake his miird'ring lance,? 
 Empty terrors, undifmaying. 
 
 Upwards 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 95 
 
 Upwards turn thy ravifh'd eyes, 
 
 See the world of glory moving, 
 From their thrones the j 4ft arife ; 
 
 See thy God with fmiles approving. 
 
 On the verge of heav'n they ftand, 
 
 Thy expected flight beholding ; 
 See the crown in Jefus' hand, 
 
 See the gate of pearl unfolding. 
 
 From his trance the faint awakes, 
 Heav'n confenting to reftore him, 
 
 Froiii our lips the triumph breaks ; 
 Late, O late, may we deplore him. 
 
 
96 LYRIC POEMS; 
 
 L. 
 
 THE AGED MINISTER 
 
 OBLIGED BY ILL HEALTH TO LAY DOWN' 
 HIS OFFICE. 
 
 |"|OW pleafant rolFd the days ! 
 When, hanging o'er my head^ 
 Thy lamp, O Lord, its vivid rays 
 Around my footfteps fpread e : 
 
 When all my vigorous pow'rs 
 Sent all their ftrength abroad; 
 
 And fill'd up all my a£tive hours 
 With fervice of my God : 
 
 When crowds about me hung. 
 
 Impatient for the theme 
 Divine, jfweet- flowing from my tongue^ 
 
 And drank falvation's ftream. 
 
 job xxix. 3. 
 
 ■ Now 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 97 
 
 Now darknefs cafls her veil 
 
 All o'er my troubled fky. 
 Thy hand affli£b'ng I bewail ; 
 
 Thy healing hand apply. 
 
 Shall a flack'd thread of clay 
 
 Untune the reas'ning mind ? 
 Shall memory mourn her {tores, a prey 
 
 To malady refign'd ? 
 
 God of my frame, I bow 
 
 My reafon to thy will : 
 And only breathe this humble vow, 
 
 May I thy work fulfill f . 
 
 f 2 Tim. iv. 5, 
 
 K 
 
$S URIC POEMS, 
 
 LI. 
 
 TRUST IN THE PROMISE OF 
 PARDON. 
 
 T X7HEREFORE this flownefs to believe 
 * * The God who cannot lie ? 
 
 How can my feeble thoughts conceive 
 Of clemency fo high ? 
 
 Alas, my fins ! their fum fo great, 
 
 And of fo foul a die ! 
 Will he forgive th' enormous debt ? 
 
 O clemency, fo high I 
 
 His thoughts of mercy are immenfe $ 
 
 Above our thoughts they fly, 
 s Lofty as heav'n above our fenfe. 
 
 O clemency, fo high ! 
 
 g Ifaiah j«v. 8, 9. 
 2 
 
 A Mag- 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 99 
 
 A Magdalen, in tears, found grace, 
 
 Yea a Manafleh's figh. 
 From Peter did he turn his face ? 
 
 O clemency, fo high ! 
 
 h Did he not yield his dearefl: child, 
 
 For rebel men, to die ? 
 Will he not now be reconcil'd ? 
 
 O clemency, fo high ! 
 
 1 Or fails the value of that blood 
 
 For mercy ftill to cry ? 
 Has he forgotten to be good ? 
 
 O clemency, fo high ! 
 
 Ah ! if he will my much forgive *, 
 
 Whofe love fhall mine outvie ? 
 Him I will fing, to him will live. 
 
 O clemency, fo high ! 
 
 Rife, rife my foul, his goodnefs praife, 
 
 And on his truth rely : 
 Jefus th 5 eternal bond J difplays. 
 
 O clemency, fo high ! 
 
 h ' Rom. v. 6 — 10. i Heb. xu. 24. ix. 14, 
 
 k Luke vii. 47. ] Heb. xin, 20. 
 
 H 2 
 
ioo LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 LII. 
 
 TRUST IN THE PROMISE OF 
 DIVINE ASSISTANCE. 
 
 Folly, chief in folly's fliamef 
 O bafenefs, of the bafeft name ! 
 Him to refift, refitting grieve m 9 
 Who fought thy mifery to relieve 3 
 
 Show'd thee thy fins n , thy danger fhow'd, 
 Warn'd to efcape, difplay'd the road ; 
 And, with his gentle touches, ftrove 
 To win poffeffion of thy love. 
 
 Illuminating Spirit, fhine 
 
 Once more ; and make my foul thy fhrine ° : 
 
 Thy work of fanclity revive p , 
 
 Once more with me unworthy flrive *« 
 
 m A£ls vii. 51. Ephef. iv. 30. n John xvi. 8. 
 
 ,; om, vm. 9. p 2 Theff. 11. 13. 1 Pet. 1, 2. 
 
 ".* VI. 3. 
 
 i I fear 
 
DEVOTTONAL AND MORAL. 101 
 
 I fear he will not : dark, forlorn, 
 With tears IVe woo'd him to return: 
 He ftands aloof; though ftill I pray. 
 O infupportable delay ! 
 
 : Ah ! how fhall I, thus left alone, 
 O'ercome my fins now ftronger grown? 
 How gain that faith r , whofe ftrength fubdues 
 The world with all its tempting views s ? 
 
 How, ever, fhall my foul pofTefs 
 The placid joys of righteoufnefs ; 
 The cheering hopes, the pure defines, 
 And all which love to God ini 
 
 I hear, I hear a gentle voice ; 
 " Rejoice, dejected foul, rejoice. 
 " 'Tis mine the fpirit to beftow c , 
 " The glorious purchafe of my woe. 
 
 • Ephef. ii. 8. • i John v. 4. 
 
 1 John xiv. 26. xv. 26. xvi. 7. Rom. vnr. 9. 
 
 H 3 c * My 
 
102 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 <c My Father glorifies my name, 
 "' From him this high donation came H „ 
 " Afk, feek, purfue -, the noble boon 
 c< Shall crown thy ardent wifhes foon w .' 
 
 My foul, thy drooping courage raife, 
 Prepare, prepare the fong of praife; 
 And, fhaking off the mourner's dufr, 
 Fulfillment of the promife truft. 
 
 LIIL 
 FEAR OF GOD. 
 
 TREMENDOUS Author of our frame. 
 Holy end rev'rend is thy name x . 
 Where in the ranks of Being round 
 Can mighty God, thy peer be found / ? 
 
 " John xvi. ij(. A&s n. 33. in. 13. 
 w Matt. vii. 7, 8, is. Luke xi. 13, * Pfalm 
 
 CXi. 9, y Ifaiah xl, 25. 
 
 High 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 103 
 
 High Lord of life and King of death, 
 Worlds rife and vanifh at thy breath z . 
 Thou hurtrbleft thy majeftic fight, 
 To view a Seraph and a mite a . 
 
 The nations, in thy 1 )fty eye, 
 Are nothing, lefs than vanity b . 
 Who againft thee fhall lift his hand ? 
 Againft thy terrors who can ftand c ? 
 
 But, O how bleft, moO: gracious Lord, 
 The fouls that tremble at thy word ; 
 Thy anger to inflame afraid, 
 In noon-day beam and midnight fhadej 
 
 The fouls, whom rev'rence of thy will 
 Keeps from the bounding line of ilL 
 With fuch thy dwelling d is ; on thofe 
 Thy peace its filling joys beftows. 
 
 2 PfalmLxvm. 20. * Pfalm 0x111. 6. 
 
 b Ifaiah xl. 17. c Job xli. 10. 
 
 d Ifaiah lvii, 15. 
 
 H 4 Thy 
 
io 4 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Thy wifdom guides % thy pow'r defend* 
 Their life, till life its journey ends f : 
 Death fhall convey them to the land 
 Where all thy faints before thee fland ff t 
 
 O that my foul with awful fenfe 
 Of thy tranfcendent excellence, 
 May clofe the day, the day begin ; 
 Jealous of every budding fin h . 
 
 Never, O never, from my heart 
 May this great principle depart: 
 Bik acl with unrelaxing pow'r 
 Within me, to my mortal hour* 
 
 € Pfalm xxv. 12, 14. f pfalm xxxi. io, 20. 
 
 Heb xi 11. 5. z Ifaiah lvji, 1, 2. Pfalm 1. 5, 
 
 h Prov. xxin. 17. 
 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 105 
 
 LTV. 
 TRUST IN DIVINE PROVIDENCE. 
 
 \ NXIOUS cares and boding fears, 
 Vexers of my foul, away. 
 5 Tis not chance that rolls the fpheres, 
 'Tis not chance that rules the 'day. 
 
 Who to man his lot decides ? 
 
 He that man and all things made. 
 Who the good and ill divides ? 
 
 He that form'd the light and made - c 
 
 jCarTthy painful thought increafe 
 
 In thy height a fingle (pan k ? 
 Yet thy life uphold in peace? 
 
 Is all that the work of man ? 
 
 Foolifli mortals, bend your toil 
 
 Heav'nly treafure to fecure: 
 Then, upon this earthly foil. 
 
 Of all needful thing-s be fure '. 
 
 1 Ifaiah xlv. 7. k Matt. vi. 27. Luke xn. 
 
 l $> 26. ] Matt. vi. 33. 
 
 Well 
 
io6 LYRfC POEMS, 
 
 Well, your heav'nly Father knows 
 For your wants the fit fupply m : 
 
 He on you his heav'n beftows n : 
 Will he meat on earth deny ? 
 
 Dread not flander, nor difeafe °, 
 Safe beneath almighty fhade : 
 
 If your proving he decrees, 
 Truft in his fupporting aid. 
 
 Not a fparrow falls to earth p. 
 Without God's permiffive will : 
 
 Far exceeding is your worth, 
 Who his holy laws fulfill. 
 
 Child of God, in death's dark vale * 
 On thy father's goodnefs lean : 
 
 He will ne'er his children leave, 
 In their laft and trying fccne. 
 
 ra Matt, vu 32, n Luke xn. 32. 
 
 job v. 2i. Pfalm xci. 3 — 7. 
 
 » Luke xn. 7. ^ Pfalm xxiii. 4. Heb. xui.5* 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. io, 
 
 LV. 
 SELF-DEPENDENCE. 
 
 /^ OD reigns : Events in order flov/ 3 
 ^^ Man's induftry to guide r 3 
 But in a different channel go, 
 To humble human pride. 
 
 The fwift not always, in the race. 
 Shall feize the crowning prize : 
 
 Not always wealth and honour grace 
 The labour of the wife s . 
 
 Fond mortals but themfelves beguile, 
 While on themfelves they reft. 
 
 Blind is their wifdom, weak their toil, 
 By thee, O Lord, unbleft ". 
 
 f Prov. x. 4. « Ecclef. ix. II- 
 
 1 Pfalm cxxvn. 1; 
 
 Go, 
 
*c3 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Go, hufbandman, the foil prepare, 
 Caft in the precious grain. 
 
 To thee belongs the fun, and air? 
 Doft thou command the rain ? 
 
 Ye crafty, fcheme your winding way, 
 God fhall confound your fkill u : 
 
 Know, time and' accident obey 
 His all-directing will* 
 
 Evil and good before him fland, 
 
 His miffion to perform : 
 The blefling comes at his command, 
 
 At his command the ftorm. 
 
 ord, in all our ways well own 
 Thy providential pow'r x ; 
 Sntrufting to thy care alone 
 The lot of every hour, 
 
 u Job. v. 12. * Prov. in. 5, 6. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, t<*> 
 
 LVI. 
 PROSPERITY, 
 
 TTf ICHES, in copious dreams, 
 From every quarter flow : 
 Not one of all my fertile fchemes 
 Feels an abortive throe. 
 
 My freighted veffels fail 
 A length of ocean o'er ; - 
 And bring me, with a fpeeding gale, 
 New wealth from every fhore. 
 
 My foul 5 thy warm defires 
 Indulge in all delight r. 
 
 Seize whatfoe'er thy fancy fires, 
 Or raviihes thy fight. 
 
 Roll in the gilded car, 
 The rural palace rear : 
 There every gate, and opening, bar 
 To charity and fear. 
 
 J Luke xi u 19. 
 
 Bid 
 
"no LYRIC POE MS, 
 
 Bid Luxury employ 
 Her fkill, thy tafte to pleafe. 
 Call thy rich friends to fhare the joy 7 , 
 And fwim in mirth and eafe. 
 
 To-day, in jocund bowls 
 Drown, drown forecafting thought ; 
 The morrow leave to gloomy fouls, j 
 Who dread they know not what. 
 
 Thou fool, thy foul this eve* 
 Stern fummons fhall demand. 
 Whofe name fhall then thy houfe receive ? 
 For whom thy coffers ftand ? 
 
 Luke xiv. 12. a Luke xn. zo* 
 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. in 
 
 LVIL 
 WORLDLY-MINDEDNESS. 
 
 \7E flefhly lufts, ye greedy cares 
 For this frail mafs of clay ; 
 For life which every pulfe impairs, 
 For joys which pafs away; 
 
 No more my fimple heart inflave, 
 
 No more my time confume. 
 Your works are finifh'd in the grave, 
 
 Your plcafures in the tomb. 
 
 But Oh! beyond the tomb there lies 
 
 The dungeon of defpair: 
 Thither the fleihly fpirit flies, 
 
 To dwell in darknefs there. 
 
 The guilty fpirit there {hall quake, 
 
 With fouls of kindred fin : 
 Till wrath's loud voice their duft awake, 
 
 New fufPrings to begin. 
 
 Then 
 
112 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Then (hall the lake of fulphur blaze, 
 
 Fir'd by avenging breath ; 
 On them its quenchlefs fury preys-—. 
 
 Behold the fecond death b / 
 
 Awful feverity ! O fear, 
 
 Worldlings, your Maker's hate e . 
 His mercy's timely warnings hear, 
 v Left weeping come too late. 
 
 LVIII. 
 THE RICH EPICURE J. 
 
 Tg this the man, on earth fo gay ? 
 * In fplendor, there, and rich array, 
 With daily feaft and pamper'd eafe, 
 He ftudy'd every knk to pleafe. 
 
 * Rom. viii. 6. Revel, xxi. 8. 
 « Pialm v, 5. Ifaiah xxvn. 11. 
 4 Lvke xvi. 19, &c. 
 
 Alas, 
 
Devotional and moral. n 3 
 
 Alas, how chang'd ! now doom'd to dwell 
 In the devouring flames of hell. 
 All wild with pain, he lifts his eyes 
 tJp to the hills of paradife. 
 
 There he beholds at Abraham's fide 
 The lazar, who of hunger dy'd ; 
 Whofe fruitlefs cries had oft implor'd 
 The offals of his wafteful board. 
 
 O Father Abraham, he fad, 
 
 w Send, fend, in mercy, to my aid 
 
 <? Good Lazarus, to cool my tongue; 
 
 " With flame and raging thirft Fnf ftung." 
 
 The patriarch fpoke : Thy good, my fon, 
 Is paft ; on earth its courfe was run. 
 Paft are the ills, which Laz'rus bore; 
 The beggar Laz'rus weeps no more. 
 
 By equal retribution, know* 
 
 His lot is joy, but thine is woe. 
 
 Unpayable, by fix'd decree, 
 
 Is the deep gulf 'tween us and thee. 
 
ii 4 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 LIX. 
 
 ADVERSITY. 
 
 TJOW high our fanguine hopes we raifc! 
 
 How hotly our defires purfue 
 What fancy's magic glafs difplays 
 Enlarg'd, and tempting to the view ! 
 
 Thefe mortal objects of our love 
 Too clofely twine about our heart, 
 
 Seduce our fouls from things above, 
 And hardly leave to God a part. 
 
 O bitter change ! when HeavVs kind hand 
 
 Snatches the fatal joy away, 
 Our feeble reafon fcarce can ftand 
 
 Firm, in affliction's ftormy day, 
 
 We weep, we laugh, in mad extreme \ 
 Here, all delight ; all fadnefs, there ; 
 
 Now on the mount of blifs we feem, 
 Now in the quagmire of defpair. 
 
 Stoics, 
 
0EVOTIONAL AND MORAL. nj 
 
 Stoics, who on your ftrength pre fume, 
 Could all your toiling v/ifdom find 
 
 A light to cheer affliction's gloom, 
 A fralfam for the wounded mind? " 
 
 In vain you hail him good and great, 
 Whofe ftedfafl: foul no ills can move J 
 
 Boaft him impregnable to fate, 
 And equal to your mighty Jove, 
 
 Jefus, our aking hearts we bring 
 
 To learn phiiofophy from thee. 
 Thy words can make the mourner fingi 
 
 And grief become a jubilee e . 
 
 Vain world, whofe fcenes of blifs and woe 
 Are fhifting every fleeting hour ; 
 
 No longer (hall our fpirits owe 
 
 Their peace, or trouble, to thy pow'r. 
 
 Teach us, thou Comforter divine, 
 Contentment ; fhould our aH be gone : 
 
 Teach us fubmiffion meek as thine, 
 
 u Father thy will, not mine, be done> ,? 
 
 1 M#tt. xi f 28—30. John xxv. 27, 
 
Ii6 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 LX. 
 
 RESIGNATION. 
 
 "^T E W to the fea of life, with eafy fail 
 ■*• ^ (Smooth was the wave and bright the day) 
 My gilded bark before the fav'ring gale > 
 Freighted with pleafure, fkimm'd its way. 
 
 Fallacious fcene ! in fulnefs of delight 
 * The heav'ns w T ith fudden darknefs frown'd : 
 The ftorm came thundering down, in one black 
 night 
 All, all my flatt'ring hopes Were drown'd. 
 
 O why fo fwift the flroke, and fo fevere ? 
 
 Whofe forrow can compare with mine ? 
 Unwarn'd, undifciplin'd to changes here, 
 
 Muft I at once my all refign ? 
 
 Why 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, 117 
 
 Why not refign ? the bleffing was but lent, 
 
 Its ufe but for a feafon giv'n ; 
 His thefble title who the bleffing fent, 
 
 Now only rendered back to Heav'n f . 
 
 Too rich a treafure to be long pofTefsM! 
 
 'Twas happinefs, alas too great ! 
 Enjoyment high, with fond embrace carefsM 
 
 Too ardent for a mortal ftate. 
 
 O how this faithlefs world has' chang'd its face ! 
 
 How poor appears the blifs of kings ! 
 O worft of lunacy, for fouls to place 
 
 Their all in perifhable things ! 
 
 Short is the time, ere time fhall be no more 5 
 And earth and all its works fhall die : 
 
 Far fliorter, ere to me this fcene be o'er ; 
 Shifted to vaft eternity s. 
 
 f Job 1. 21. * 1 Cor. vii, jti 
 
 I 3 Why 
 
ix.8 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Why then thefefruitlefs tears, and wafting ficrhs ? 
 
 Come, faith, and mount me on thy wing : 
 Bear me, O be*ir me, far beyond the fides, 
 
 To worlds where joys immortal fpring h . 
 
 lxi. 
 
 VICISSITUDE; or, 
 JOY AFTER SORROW, 
 
 "^T OT always will the fky pour down, 
 r From fullen clouds, thefe fluicy rains $ 
 
 Which every pleafing landflrip drown, 
 And fadden and deform the plains. 
 
 Not always fhall the foreft groan 
 
 With fhatt'ring winds ; the mourning h 
 
 Ever their leaflefs arms bemoan : 
 Nor ftorm perpetual vex the feas. 
 
 h 2 Corinth, iv. 17, iS, 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 119 
 
 On rugged winter treads the fpring, 
 
 That gentle feafon of delight: 
 And darknefs flees before the wing 
 
 Of morn, infus'd in golden light. 
 
 Thus in the varying times of man, 
 Which God's eternal counfel guides j 
 
 Smiles follow weeping, in the plan ', 
 By law unerring as the tides. 
 
 Should now the Heav'n-dire&ed wheel 
 
 Aloft our adverfe moments raife; 
 Onward, behind, the profp'ring Ileal, 
 
 Promife of joy-revolving days* 
 
 Mortal, adapt thy pliant mind k 
 
 To all the changes that are giv'n ; 
 Wifely rejoicing, or refign'd, 
 
 Ne'er ftrive againft the fchemes of Heav'm 
 
 »? Ecclefiaftes in. 4, * Ecclefiaftes vn. 14. 
 
 14 
 
420 LYRIC POEM S 4 
 
 LXII, 
 FAITH IN GOD 
 
 THE REMEDY FOR WORLDLY FEAR 
 AND GRIEF, 
 
 TT7HY does my coward heart 
 V y * Yield up itfelf to fear? 
 Wliy thus at diftant danger ftart, 
 And die when danger's near ? 
 
 Shall faith let go her hold I 
 Faith makes the tim'rous brave K * 
 Is the Almighty arm grown old, 
 And impotent to fave m ? 
 
 1 Heb, xi. 34» " Ifaiah l. 2. 
 
 Why 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. izi 
 
 Why thus difquieted, my foul n , 
 
 By hopelefs grief devour'd ; 
 When waves on waves of trouble roll, 
 In ftorms around thee pour'd? 
 
 Hope thou in God ; He'll not difdain 
 
 His children in diftrefs : 
 His hand their burden will fuftain, 
 
 His grace their forrows blefs. 
 
 Ah ! could I hope, that He 
 My foul has reconcil'd 9 j 
 Courage would fpring and joy, in me 
 His much-offending child. 
 
 His powerful love, I know, 
 Is watchful o'er the juft. 
 Virtue is all he loves below p. 
 The reft is drofs and duft. 
 
 n Pfalm xlii. 5, 11. ° 2 Corinth, v. 19. 
 
 Rom. v. 10. p Pfalm xxxm. 13—18. Pfalm 
 
 xxxiv. 15, 16. Pfal. cxix. 119. 
 
 4.0 
 
tzz LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 O Thou, whofe glory is to break 
 
 Sin's miferable chain % 
 Jefus, my refcue undertake, 
 
 Me, me to virtue gain. 
 
 This defert, then, I'll travel through 
 Chearful, without difmay ; 
 
 Beholding, with the righteous few, 
 The leader of our way r . 
 
 * Luke iv. 1 3, 21. John viii. 36* 
 
 * Heb. xii. 2. 
 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 121 
 
 LXIII. 
 CARE OF THE SOUL. 
 
 1 T7HY came I here? What have I done, 
 
 ™ * Since life began its race to run ? 
 Have I been thoughtlefs of the goal, 
 Following the inconfiderate fhoal, 
 
 And ruining my foul? 
 
 Why thus for trifles will I ftrive ? 
 Is it for trifles that I live ? 
 Trifles my weak affections ftole. 
 Thefe trifles fhall I make my whole ? 
 
 For thefe exchange my foul? 
 
 In pleafure will I melt my days ? 
 
 Hate ferious thought and ferious ways ? 
 
 In mirth's perpetual circle roll, 
 
 C.rds, (hows, and dances, and the bowl ; 
 
 Till I have lojl my fail? 
 
 V\\ 
 
124 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Til fwell my bags with golden (lore : 
 I'll count my fpreading acres o'er. 
 What though they fpread from pole to pole, 
 Where is the lucre of the whole, 
 
 If purchased with my foul 3 ? 
 
 Spring up, and foar, with vigorous wings, 
 Above thefe fubl unary things : 
 To fenfual worldlings leave the whole, 
 To fools fhort-fighted as the mole. 
 
 Be mindful of thy foul. 
 
 Be ferious ere it is too late, 
 Redeem for heav'n probation's ftate, 
 Let God's commands thy life control, 
 Then nothing fear beyond the goal. 
 
 1 Save thy immortal fouL 
 
 5 Mark vnr. $6* l Ezek. xvm. 27. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 125 
 
 LXIV. 
 THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME. 
 
 '"T" V IME, Time, how few thy value weigh! 
 
 I 
 
 How few will eftimate a day 1 ! 
 
 Days, months and years keep rolling on, 
 The foul negle&ed and undone. 
 
 In painful cares, or empty joys, 
 Our life its precious hours deftroys : 
 While death ftands watching at our fide, 
 Eager to flop the living tide, 
 
 Was it for this, ye mortal race, 
 The Maker gave you here a place ? 
 Was it for this, his thought defign'd 
 The frame of your immortal mind? 
 
 Ephef. v. 16, 17, Ecckf ix. ic. 
 
 For 
 
i26 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 For lofty cares, for joys fublime, 
 He fafhion'd you the fons of time; 
 Pilgrims of time, ere long to be 
 The dwellers in eternity. 
 
 This feafon of your being, know, 
 Is portion'd you your deeds to fow. 
 Wifdom's and folly's differing grain 
 In future worlds is blifs and pain w # 
 
 Be warn'd. Each night the day review, 
 Idle, or bufy ; fearch it through : 
 And while probation's minutes laft, 
 Let every day amend the paft. 
 
 " Gal vr. 7, 8. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. ftp/ 
 
 LXV. 
 THE TIME OF PROBATION, 
 
 *< T>Y my own endlefs life I fwear x " 
 
 •"-^ (Strange language of almighty breath!) 
 tc My bowels of companion fhare 
 " No pleafure in a fmner's death. 
 
 " O that the wicked would forfake 
 
 cc The guilty tenor of his ways ! 
 M Turn, turn ye, of my grace partake ; 
 
 cc Salvation ftill it's joys difplays." 
 
 Mercy, the time appointed, waits r 
 
 The time of trial meet for all : 
 And heav'n, unfolding wide her gates, 
 
 Rejoices in the gracious call.. 
 
 * Fzek. xxx ur. 1 1 . 
 
 X Ifaiah xxx *3. 2 Pet, in. 9, 
 
 Warnings 
 
128 LYRlt POEMS, 
 
 Warnings divine forbid delay, 
 
 And confcience cries aloud ; return, 
 
 While life's warm current works its way, 
 Still gufhing from its tender urn, 
 
 Momentous feafon ! fhort, or long, 
 As God's impartial will decides ; 
 
 Who, clear of cruelty and wrong, 
 To every man its bound divides. 
 
 Sinner, thy feafon is unknown 
 
 To thee, no fubjeet of thy powV. 
 
 Rafh finner, wilt thou dare poftpone 
 Repentance to fome diftant hour ? 
 
 Should e'er that diftant hour arrive, 
 
 More yielding will thy pafiions grow z ? 
 
 And weaker thou, victorious ftrive 
 Againft thy ftrong augmented foe ? 
 
 Ingrate ! will thus thy ftubborn heart 
 Long-fuffering lenity withftand ? * 
 
 Thus God's benignant counfels thwart? 
 Thus force down his destroying hand ? 
 
 z Heb. in. 13. iv. 7. 
 
 Hi 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 129 
 
 His goodnefs if thou wilt defpife, 
 
 His aggravated vengeance dread ; 
 When he in boundlefs wrath will rife, 
 
 And pour his terrors on thy head a . 
 
 LXVI. 
 TEMPTATION 3Y THE DEVIL. 
 
 _ S he, alas ! allow'd 
 £ To range this earth at will \ 
 The prince of darknefs, with his crowd 
 Of demons bent on ill ? 
 
 Is he, whofe envious guile 
 Seduc'd incautious Eve % 
 
 Suffer'd to practice every wile 
 Her offspring to deceive ? 
 
 a Rom. 11. 4, 5. *> 2 Corinth, xr. 3, 
 
 ! Corinth, vn. 5. Eph. vi. 11. Rev. xx. 3, 7, 8. 
 
 K As 
 
* 3 o LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 As the fierce lion prowls 
 For rapine, through the wood $ 
 Does this fierce fpirit hunt our fouls c * 
 Athirft for human blood d ? 
 
 Can he prefent the charm 
 That will our paffions fire e ? 
 Our bofoms can his fury ftorm 
 With criminal defire i 
 
 Myflerious, mournful ftate 
 Of man beneath the fun ! 
 But who a claim will arrogate, 
 To blame what God has done ? 
 
 Children, your Father's name 
 In thankful fongrefound. 
 The great Redeemer fing, who came 
 Your enemy to confound f . 
 
 « i Pet. v. 8. d John viii. 44* 
 
 * Luke xxii. 3> 31* 
 f 1 John in. 8. 
 
 Truft 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 13! 
 
 Truft in his pow'r, confide 
 In his benevolent heart. 
 By the bold tempter he was try'd, 
 He baffled all his art s« 
 
 Truft in his promife; ftand, 
 Refolv'd, againft the foe : 
 The coward 5 at his dread command, 
 Shall flee to hell below h . 
 
 / v %/ S/ v ' '-'..'•' v v *'•./' v v v \/ '••./ \/ '••./ V ••./ v \/ v S 
 
 LXVII. 
 INTEGRITY TOWARDS GOD, 
 
 A H ! what avail's confeffion's tongue 3 
 * Without compunction's fmart ? 
 
 What value in thankfgiving fong, 
 Without a thankful heart ? 
 
 s Matt. iv. 1, &c. Heb. 11, 18. 
 h 1 Pet. v. 9. James iv. 7. 
 
 K 2 What 
 
1 32 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 What is the virtue, which untry'd 
 
 From vicious taint is pure ? 
 Gold will the fiery proof abide, 
 
 And truth the teft endure. 
 
 Glorious Integrity ! which loves 
 Thee, Lord, alone to pleafe * : 
 
 Which its unfeign'd devotion proves, 
 In trouble and in eafe: 
 
 Which, when temptations fwarm around, 
 
 Refills ; and looks to thee : 
 And, nobly firm, maintains its ground. 
 
 Glorious Integrity ! 
 
 Which nourishes no favourite fin % 
 
 To all obedience free ! ; 
 Zealous of fanftity within. 
 
 Glorious Integrity ! 
 
 1 John x!i. 43» Gal. i. 10. i ThefT. n. 4. 
 k Pfalm xur, 12. 
 
 1 Pfalm cxix. 6. cxxxix. 23, 24. 
 
 O happy 
 
DEVOTTONAL AND MORAL, 133 
 
 O happy they ! whofe confcience clear 
 
 To thy atteft can flee m , 
 In every ftrait and every fear. 
 
 Glorious Integrity ! 
 
 To thefe, thy condefcending throne 
 
 Allows their humble plea n -: 
 Thefe, as thy treafure thou wilt own c . 
 
 Glorious Integrity ! 
 
 LXVITI. 
 
 INTEGRITY'S APPEAL TO 
 JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 Y E S U S , to whofe all -feeing eye 
 
 My foes, my fears, my wants, are known; 
 In wants, in fears, from foes I fly, 
 For refuge, to thy pow'rful throne. 
 
 m job xvi. 19. 2 Corinth. 1. 8, 12. 
 n Pfalm xxxiv. 15. Prov. XV. S. 
 ilach. in. 17. 
 
 K 5 Thy 
 
134 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Thy face, whofe beams like lightning dart 
 On open guilt and cover'd guile ; 
 
 Cheers with foft rays the upright heart, 
 And fheds a heav'n in every fmile. 
 
 To thee, O Lord, my humble breaft 
 
 Appeals for its integrity 1 ". 
 All guile, all evil I deteft, 
 
 Glowing with grateful love to thee. 
 
 Thy anger worfe than death I fear, 
 Thy favour more than life I prize, 
 
 O let my right in thee be clear, 
 I'll fpurn at all beneath the fkies. 
 
 f John ii. 25. xxi, 15. Rev. 11. 23. 
 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 135 
 
 LXIX. 
 INTEGRITY 
 
 IN SEARCHING F0R DIVINE TRUTH, 
 
 T\/T ASTER divine, with docile hearts we bring 
 
 Our reafon to receive thy light q . 
 Bright as unclouded morn thy words fhall fpring. 
 And fweetly chafe away our night. 
 
 Pure from its holy well, our fouls will draw 
 
 Salvation's everlafting dream,. 
 No mortal names our beav'nly faith {hall awe T 9 
 
 Vain their difpleafure and efteem. 
 
 But O how childhood's wrongly-tutor'd age 
 Chains for the future man prepares s ! 
 
 Our manhood from thofe fetters difengage, 
 And free from fuperftition's fears. 
 
 *> Luke xii. 56, 57. A6ls xvn. ir. 
 r Matt, xxiii. 10. John vn. 48. 2 Corinth. 
 I, 24, 1 Pet. v. 3. s John 1. 46. vn. 27. 
 
 K 4 When 
 
136 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 When human pride thy humbling truths arraigns, 
 
 May we to clear conviction bow : 
 Our flefhly lufts whene'er thy page reftrains * y 
 
 May we unfeign'd fubmiffion vow. 
 
 Come friendly Spirit, lead our fearching thought u j 
 
 All necefiary truth reveal : 
 And every truth, deep in our bofoms wrought, 
 
 Stamp with thy fanctifying feal. 
 
 LXX. 
 
 INTEGRITY'S IMPROVEMENT OF THE 
 MEANS OF DIVINE KNOWLEGE. 
 
 ^TP HE more thy gofpel is furvey'd, 
 
 Bleft Jefus, I the more approve. 
 Thy truths, thy law, thy promife weigh'd ^ 
 I fix my faith, my hope, my love. 
 
 * John 11 r. 19 — 21. 1 Corinth. n. 14. 
 
 H John vii. 17. xvii. 17. Ephef. 1. 17, &c. 
 
 w Luke xiv. 28—32. 
 
 Thus 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 137 
 
 Thus fix'd, unfhaken they remain; 
 
 Cherifh'd with thy nutritious care : 
 And fruit, from an immortal grain, 
 
 Grateful to thee, O Father, bear *. 
 
 Whether to thy creating will 
 
 Nobler or meaner gifts I owe ; 
 May I my ftewardfhip fulfill, 
 
 May I in faith and gooclnefs grow. 
 
 Water'd by nature's richeft ftreams, 
 
 And by falvation's fountain fed ; 
 On vigorous root, beneath thy beams, 
 
 Integrity exalts its head >\ 
 
 But though the toils of life opprefs 
 My days, and few thy gifts to me; 
 
 My humble rank of virtue blefs : 
 Thy love will blefs integrity z . 
 
 * Mark iv. 20. John xv. 1 — -. 
 
 y Pfalm 1. 3. 
 
 ? Pfalm cxl, 13. Prov. xi. 20. 
 
fj8 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 LXXL 
 
 EQUITY OF THE DIVINE 
 DISPENSATIONS, 
 
 *fI7HO, gracious Father, fliall complain 
 
 * * Under thy mild and equal reign a ? 
 Who does a weight of duty (hare, 
 More than his powers and aids can bear ? 
 
 With differing climes, and differing lands, 
 With fertile plains, and barren fands, 
 Thy wifdom form'd this earthy round, 
 And fet the nations in their bound b . 
 
 Varied alike, thy moral ray 
 Here fheds a full, there fainter day c 4 
 The God of all, unkind to none, 
 To all the path of life has fhown d * 
 
 a Jer. ix. 24. Pfalm xxxin. 5. b A&s >; vu, 26. 
 
 c Pfalm xxxiii. 12. cxlvji. 19, 20. Rom. 1. 20, 11. 14. 
 d Pfalm cxlv. 9. Atts xvn. 27. xiv. 17. 
 
 4 What 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. I3 9 
 
 What if a people for his praife e 
 He form, and high in virtue raife 
 For high reward ? Selected race, 
 Rejoice in this diftinguifh'd grace. 
 
 Rejoice; but O with holy fear, 
 With toil unwearied and fevere, 
 Salvation's arduous work purfue f , 
 And keep th' immortal crown in view. 
 
 Large is the bounty of his hand, 
 He will a large return demand &. 
 Numbers will wljh to enter in, 
 But few the gate of heaven will win h . 
 
 c Matt. v. 3 — ii, 14 — 16,44 — 48. Eph. 1.4 — 6. 
 I Pet. 11. 9. f Philip. 11. 12. 
 
 s Luke xii. 48. B Luke xm. 24. Matt. 
 
 xi. 12. Luke xvi. i5 # 
 
i 4 o LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 LXXIL 
 GOVERNMENT OF THE BODY. 
 
 7\/| Y body's curious frame, 
 
 Full of wonders in each part, 
 O Lord, extols thy name ; 
 Texture of thy fovereign art *, 
 
 Shall I, alas ! abufe 
 Organs of fuch noble worth? 
 
 Service to thee refufe 
 Slave to appetites of earth k ? 
 
 Did not the Son of God 
 Dignify this work of clay? 
 
 Our mortal ground he trod. 
 Mortality his array. 
 
 1 Pfalm cxxxix. 15 — 16. 
 k Rom. vi. 12,13. 
 
 That 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 141 
 
 That which he rais'd fo high, 
 I never more will difgrace : 
 
 Never to fin's employ 
 Thefe honour'd members debafe. 
 
 The bodies of the juft 
 For fhrines of glory defign'd, 
 
 Shall awake from the duft, 
 Like their glorious Lord's refin'd '. 
 
 O let my foul afpire 
 A blifs fo great to fecure: 
 
 It will my ardour fire 
 To keep my body all pure m . 
 
 ! Philip. 111. 21. m ColoJT. nit 4, 5; 
 
 8 8 8 
 
142 LYRIC POEMS ; 
 
 Lxxrn. 
 
 CHASTITY. 
 
 ir M PURE defires, flee far away n j 
 
 You that deflower the mind, 
 Ye fordid pleafures of a day 
 With lafting pain behind j 
 
 Ye fogs, which from corruption rife, 
 
 Eclipfing reafon's light : 
 Which good and evil, truth and lies, 
 
 Confound in hellifh night °. 
 
 O alien from all good, from God 
 Wide wand'ring and eftrang'd ! 
 
 In veftal fouls He makes abode, 
 With energy unchang'd. 
 
 n 2 Corinth, vir. i. James I. 21. 
 • Rom. i. 26— 28. 
 
 While 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, 143 
 
 While o'er the facred page they bend, 
 
 Truth beams from every line : 
 And wonders, opening without end, 
 
 Tranfporting profpecT: ! fhine. 
 
 Beneath the ftrong enliv'ning ray, 
 
 Immortal vigour grows. 
 Immortal hopes the growth repay, 
 
 And heav'nly fcenes difclofe. 
 
 Earth, at the voice which fhakes the fky, 
 
 Gives up her quick'ning mold : 
 The pure fhall then, with angel-eye, 
 
 The face of God behold p. 
 
 p Matt. v. 8. 
 
 ^\ 
 
144 LYRIC POEM S» 
 
 LXXIV. 
 
 SPIRITUAL APPETITES AND 
 GRATIFICATIONS. 
 
 "DOOR were the pleafures of the feaft 
 *• Perfia's high monarch held \ 
 Though all the luxury of the eafl 
 The fumptuous banquet fwell'd ?• 
 
 The lufcious dim and fiavorous bowl 
 
 A fiaih of rapture give : 
 But ftarving, dying, is the foul - s 
 
 Only the fenfes live. 
 
 Raife nobler appetites in me, 
 
 My God, exalt my tafte; 
 Thy will my meal, and hope in thee 
 
 My feftival repaft r . 
 
 <2 Efther i. 3, &c. 
 
 1 Job xxm. 12. John iv. 32, 34. 
 
 There 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. j 4 ; 
 
 There vaft unlimited defires 
 
 Untir'd fruition find. 
 Fruition ftill new thirft infpires, 
 
 For new delights defign'd s . 
 
 There lively and heart-ftrength'ning joys 
 
 From felf-infpe£Hon flow t ; 
 While life divine each hour employs ; 
 
 A paradife below ! 
 
 With meditation's Wing the foul 
 
 Springs, up th' eternal hills : 
 At length, the ftars beneath her roll* 
 And heav'n her bills fulfills* 
 
 G Pfalm xxxvi. 8, 9. xxxvn. 4. Matt, v. 6. 
 1 Prov* xiv. 1 u xv, if. 
 
146 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 LXXV. 
 
 GOVERNMENT OF THE MIND. 
 
 TMPERIAL reafon, hold thy throne, 
 
 Conference, to cenfure and approve 
 To thee belongs. Ye paffions, own 
 Subje£tion 5 and in order move. 
 
 Inchanting order ! peace how fweet ! 
 
 Delicious harmony within ! 
 Bleft felf-command, thy pow'r I greet. 
 
 Ah ! when fhall I fuch empire win ? 
 
 The hero's laurel fades, the fame 
 For boundlefs fcience is but wind, 
 
 And Sampfon's ftrength a brutal name. 
 Without dominion of the mind. 
 
 Sampfon 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 147 
 
 Sampfon behold, a harlot's flave ! 
 
 The warlike David fell by love, 
 Vaft knowledge fail'd his fon to fave u 
 
 From bowing w in Aftarte's x grove. 
 
 The beauty and the powVful arms 
 Of felf-command, in jtivenile fire, 
 
 See; when the miflrefs fpreads her charms 
 And tempts in vain her Have's defire y . 
 
 But, of all patterns moil fublime, 
 
 Jefus, on thee I love to gaze, 
 O felf-command, to wond'ring time 
 
 Unknown in old and modern days ! 
 
 Thy holy mind in reafon ftrong, 
 
 With paffions regular and pure, 
 Pity'd the mighty and the throngs 
 
 In native dignity fecure. 
 
 u 1 Kings iv. 29—34. w 2 Kings v. \$* 
 
 x Afhtoreth (the moon) the Goddefs of the Zidonians, 
 1 Kjngs xi. 2 — 8. 2 Kings xxiii. 13. 
 y Gen. xxxix. 7— 1 2, 
 
 L 2 Not 
 
I 4 8 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Not offer of imperial pow'r % 
 
 Nor flattery's praife % nor foul difgracc^ 
 Nor cruel death's advancing hour % 
 
 Alter'd' one feature in thy face. 
 
 Serene as heav'n, thy ftedfaft zeal 
 Duty with dazzling luftre crown'd v 
 
 Till thy great work, to teach and heal. 
 Had meafur'd its appointed bound d . 
 
 With trembling feet, at diftance I 
 Thy glorious footfteps would purfue. 
 
 Grant, that in me the marking eye 
 A (ketch of felf-command may view* 
 
 z Matt. iv. 8, 9, ic John vi. 15. 
 a Matt. xxn. 16. Luke ix. 43, 44. 
 b Matt. ix. 24. Luke xvi. 14. John vin 
 48, 49. 
 
 c Mark x. 32 — 34. Luke ix. 51. 
 * Luke xiii. 32. Joha ix. 4* 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 149 
 
 LXXVI. 
 
 THE CONFLICT. 
 
 T\ l\ Y judgment, guided from above, 
 
 Shows me the way of truth and reft.; 
 Urges my ling'ring feet to move, 
 
 And finites reludtance in my breaft <?. 
 
 Ah ! wherefore do I not obey 
 
 Thefe friendly warnings of my mind ? 
 
 What drives my foolifh fteps aftray ? 
 Another foul perverfe and blind ? 
 
 *Tis flefh, and lawlefs appetite ; 
 
 Thefe againft reafon's fway rebel : 
 Thefe to all ill my heart incite, 
 
 Thefe the loud voice of confcience quell r , 
 
 e Rom, vii, 1^, 16, 22. 
 f Rom. vij. 18. Gal. v, 17. 
 
 L 3 1 ftruggle, 
 
i 5 o LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 I ftruggle, but alas ! in vain, 
 
 Too oft in vain ! with furious tide 
 
 My paflions rufhing down amain 
 Too oft my bell refolves deride s. 
 
 Ah ! wretched me ! what pow'r (hall fave 
 Me from the pow'r of fin and death ? 
 
 Thou, thou alone, whofe mercy gave 
 For captive h men thy dying breath % 
 
 Come, Jefus, with forgiving grace, 
 Come, with thy fpirit and thy word; 
 
 My paft iniquities efface, 
 
 And be my faviour and my Lord. 
 
 5 Rom. vii. 19. h Rom. vn. 14, 23. 
 
 1 Rom* vn, 24, 25. viii. 1—3. Rom. v. 6 ? g v 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 151 
 
 LXXVII. 
 KEEPING THE HEART. 
 
 Q MI LING pleafures, 
 Glitt'ring treafures, 
 Spreading all their dangers round, 
 
 Warn my fleering, 
 
 Always fearing, 
 As through life my courfe I found. 
 
 Example alarms 
 
 With vice's ftrong arms ; 
 And fafhion's follies unite, 
 
 To draw me away, 
 
 From virtue's high way, 
 To fin's illufive delight. 
 
 Senfe inviting, 
 
 Pafiions fighting, 
 For indulgence of their joy •> 
 
 Whither fleeing, 
 
 Shall my Being, 
 Here, in fafety time employ ? 
 
 L 4 With 
 
S52 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 With diligent ward, 
 
 Each avenue guard 
 That opens accefs to the heart. 
 
 The fountain is there 
 
 Which, turbid or fair, 
 The ftreams to life will impart k 9 
 
 From defiring, 
 
 From admiring 
 Fruit unlawful, check thy thought. 
 
 Won by praifing, 
 
 And by gazing, 
 Eve to pluck the charm was brought ' 
 
 Warm fancy withftand ; 
 
 The work of her hand 
 To dalh, no minute delay. 
 
 Yea, ere (he begin, 
 
 Her painting of fin, 
 Quick fnatch her pencil away. 
 
 k Prov iv. 23, l Gen, in. j, 6, 
 
DEVOTIONAL AMD MORAL. 153 
 
 LXXVIII. 
 
 SELF-KNOWLEGE, 
 
 A LAS ! tco bufy to be wife, 
 * Or clfe in floth's amufements wandering. 
 We fcarce will ever turn our eves 
 Upon ourfelves, with ferious pond'ring, 
 
 On ev'ry toy abroad we gaze, 
 Ourfelves we fhun, at home are flran^ers * 
 
 And round and round in error's maze 
 We trifle on, eternal rangers. 
 
 If e'er, perchance, we look within, 
 Self-love, our fancy'd virtues pleading, 
 
 Hoodwinks the judgment • lurking fin 
 And fwarming fpecks averfe from heeding. 
 
 Vain-glory hence, and fierce difdain 
 Of wife benevolent monition ; 
 
 Hence fury, when the Good arraign 
 Qar envy , av'rice, or ambition m . 
 
 Prov. ix. 8. Matt, vn. 6. 
 
 Efta- 
 
ic* LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 EftablifhM thus 9 ill habits grow 
 Too flrong to yield to felf- correct on; 
 
 Too high for reafon (dreadful woe !) 
 To awe their frenzy to fubjection G . 
 
 LXXIX. 
 
 THE SAME SUBJECT, IN A 
 DIFFERENT METRE, 
 
 ^t7 E fools, abroad you gaze round, 
 
 But ftrangers ftfll at home ; 
 In. vain arnufernents vvand'ring > 
 From toy to toy you roam. 
 
 Or nVd with Iuft of lucre, 
 
 In bufy fcenes you toil ; 
 DevifLng, and deviling, 
 
 To dig the c olden foil. 
 
 Jer. xiii. 23. 
 
 Ah! 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. i>$ 
 
 Ah! what kind vo'ce {hall win you, 
 Yourfelves, yourfelves, to know ? 
 
 While thus you ftiun your bofoms, 
 Ho;v fail your follies grow! 
 
 Of wife advice difdainful, 
 
 Too knowing to be taught ; 
 You redden at the warning, 
 
 Which dares but hint a fault. 
 
 Self-love, alas, whenever 
 
 You glance upon your heart; 
 Connives at all your vices, 
 
 Or colours o'er with art. 
 
 Your pride is confcious merit \ 
 
 -Ambition, noble flame \ 
 And wrath, quick fenfe of honour; 
 And av'rice, forejigbt's name. 
 
 Ill habits thus advancing, 
 
 Too high for reafon's rule, 
 Too ftrong for felf-corre£lion^ 
 
 Qo live and die a fool. 
 
*$6 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 LXXX. 
 
 DIVINE DISCIPLINE NECESSARY 
 TO SELF-KNOWLEGE. 
 
 "I T| THAT a perplexing wild 
 
 ^ * Is felf-delufion's art ! 
 
 Who by himfelf is unbeguil'd ? 
 
 Who traces all his heart ° ? 
 
 To thee, O Lord, alone 
 
 The myftVy lies reveal'd. 
 Our windings all to thee are known ? 
 
 And not a thought conceal'd p . 
 
 With felf-applaufes vain, 
 
 Few of our faults we fee: 
 And for thofe few we fondly feign 
 
 Some felf-excufing plea q . 
 
 * Pfalm xix. 12. p Pfalm cxxxix. 2. 
 
 * If. v, 20, 21. James 1. 26. 
 
 SLordg 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. "157 
 
 Lord, fcarch me, prove me through. r 
 By difcipline fevere : 
 And to myfelf my fpirit (hew. 
 From all difguifes clear. 
 
 If feeds of guilt and woe 
 Are cheriuVd in my breaft * 
 Or if my feet unthinking go 
 In paths by thee unblefs'dj 
 
 Expell the latent foes, 
 My quick return befriend '. 
 O lead me in the way which knows 
 No bitternefs nor end. 
 
 fPfalm ex xxix. 23, 24. 
 8 rfalm cxix. it6» 
 
 
!5* LYRIC POEM S, 
 
 LXXXI. 
 
 REPROOF. 
 
 *TT*0 felf-admiring folly burn 
 
 The frankincenfe of lying praife', 
 Let the proud fcorner's anger fpurn 
 The friendly cenfor of his ways u . 
 
 Come parents, paftors, faithful friends ; 
 
 In merciful alliance join 
 Tofmite,me w , when my a J offends, 
 
 Or when to evil I incline. 
 
 Your wounds are fanative ; the fmart 
 I welcome, 'tis a pleafing pain. 
 
 You lance the ulcer in my heart, 
 
 Sweet health of mind by you I gain v . 
 
 x Prov. xxvi. 28. xxix. 5. 
 u Prov. ix. 7, 8. xv. 12. 
 w Pfalm cxli. 5. 
 * Prov. vi. 23. xxvii. 5, 6. 
 
 Ye 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL 159 
 
 Ye fools, why will your pride refufe 
 The warning voice, the guiding hand ? 
 
 Embrace rebuke, wife counfel chufe ; 
 Or perifh, with the froward Band r. 
 
 LXXXIL 
 
 P R I D E. 
 
 S~\ Pride, thou dropfy of the mind, 
 ^^ Of felf-delufion born; 
 Hateful to God z , by all mankind 
 In others ken with fcorn. 
 
 Shall finning man, O Lord, prefume 
 
 To glory in thy fight ? 
 Himfelf on his own virtues plume a ? 
 
 And claim thy heav'n by right ? 
 
 y Prov. jcv. 10, 32. 
 
 2 Pfalm cxxxvnr. 6. Ifaiah 11. 12. 
 
 * Luke xvni. u, 12. 
 
 Ifaoaft 
 
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 I boafc of none, in none I'll truft^ 
 
 For mercy, Lord, I fue b . 
 
 Ah! were my judge fevcrely juft, 
 
 Perdition is my due c . 
 
 Shall mortal man, fo blind and weak. 
 On his own pow'rs depend ? 
 
 In thee I hope, thy bleffing feek, 
 O guide me and defend d . 
 
 Shall man his brother man defpife, 
 Vain of excelling worth ? 
 
 And view afkance, with haughty eyes, 
 His fellow worm of earth ? 
 
 Who made my birth, or ftation 5 high ? 
 
 Another's mean and low? 
 Who made that poor man's cup fo dry, 
 
 But mine to overflow e ? 
 
 * Luke xviii. 13. c Job ix. 2, |. Pfalm cxxx« 
 
 3, 4. cxliii. 2. d Prov. in, 5, o. Jer. ix. 23, 24. 
 
 c Prov, xxi i» 2. Pf. xxni. 5. 
 
 My 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 161 
 
 My pride (hall nobler talents fweli ? 
 
 Who made yon ideots fmall ? 
 Who gave me talents to excell f ? 
 
 Who but the God of all ? , 
 
 O come^ meek-ey'd Humility, 
 
 Come, dwell within mybreaft. 
 Thus, Jefus, I would learn of thee, 
 
 And feel thy promis'd reft s. 
 
 ■ft* >fc ."V M: ?' fr »A» ^ -<' V' >V S^ «■!*. ."V ^ ^ >y >i». m* ^ <fr >fr *!». -v, >l^ ,a> .^, <i». <j» yfr m* r *fe 
 
 LXXXIII. 
 H U M I L I T Y. 
 
 First Part, 
 
 TI7AS pride, alas ! e'er made for man h ? 
 
 * " Blind, erring, guilty creature he, 
 His birth the duft, his life a fpan, 
 His wifdom -lefs than vanity. 
 
 f 1 Cor. iv. 6, 7. 5 Matt, xi. 29. 
 
 * Ecclefiafticus x. 3 3. 
 
 M 
 
162 IYRIC POEMS, 
 
 If wealth and pow'r with dazzling rays 
 And pageant ftate this nothing drefs % 
 
 On the fair idol fhall we gaze ? 
 And envy that as happinefs ? 
 
 Jefus, by thy inftruction taught, 
 Our foolifh paffions are repreft : 
 
 We blufh at our mifguided thought. 
 And fee and call the humble bleft. 
 
 To know ourfel^es, to learn of thee, 
 And bend our necks beneath thy throne. 
 
 Thus dictates wife Humility, 
 
 This makes the wealth of heav'n our own \ 
 
 • Matkv» 3* 
 
 bud 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, t6- : 
 
 LXXXIY. 
 
 HUMILITY. 
 Second Part, 
 
 BLEST men, of lowly mind. 
 In felf-opinion poor $ 
 For you, what honour is defign'd ! 
 For you, what princely ftore k ! 
 
 In time's fhort joys and fighs. 
 Thankful, or meekly frill ; 
 Whate'er he gives you, or denies,, 
 You love your Father's will. 
 
 The high and holy One, 
 Who all his works furveys, 
 Marks you, from his eternal throne, 
 As temples to his praife ] . 
 
 k Matt. v. 3. Prov. xv. 25. xviii. 12. xxix. 23. 
 1 Ifaiah lvii, 15. 1 Cor. vi. 19, 2 Cor. vi. 16. 
 1 Pet. ii, 5. 
 
 M 2 To 
 
164 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 To you, to you he bends 
 His condefcending ear m ; 
 To you his pow'rful arm extends, 
 In every want and fear. 
 
 From your mifgiving breaft 
 Sad diffidence remove. 
 Why, children, are your fouls depreft ? 
 Why doubt your Father's love? 
 
 With mildnefs in his face, 
 Your weaknefles he views. 
 To humble worfhippers^ his grace 
 He never will refufe "• 
 
 From the proud pharifee 
 His countenance he turns : 
 But will riot with difpleafure fee 
 A publican who mourns °„ 
 
 m Pfalm en. 17. Prov. xv. 8. 
 
 n Pfalm cxxxvm. 6. Prov# in. 34. 1 Pet. v # 5. 
 
 Luke xviii. 9 — 14. 
 
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 LXXXV. 
 
 MEEKNESS. 
 
 MEEKNESS, ally'd 
 To foft Humility, 
 The feat of Pride 
 Will never tread on thee. 
 
 Patient of wrong, 
 To wrong canft thou incline ? 
 
 Gentlenefs of tongue, 
 And manners mild are thine. 
 
 Iron is the breaft 
 Thy fweetnefs cannot charm ; 
 
 By fiends poffeit, 
 The man who works thy harm. 
 
 Obdurate fteel 
 Is liquefy'd by flame : 
 
 Malice will feel, 
 By thee, relenting fhame, 
 
 M 3 Envy 
 
i66 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Envy will chain 
 Her fnakes ; and fcandal's fpite^ 
 
 Blufhing, refrain 
 Thy harmlefs name to bite. 
 
 Cheerful thy days, 
 Jn fv/eet abode of peace ; 
 
 Crown'd with all praife, 
 Thy blifs fhall never ceafe p . 
 
 •-, /v f\ f\ /\ "\ tf\ fS /S .«"'./'''./'•. /\ /S jTS °* V'*< ''"''• '"'*• ••'*•• /\ £ 
 
 A^AAV\AAAAAAAAA/^A/v'v^A 
 
 LXXXVI. 
 
 £NGE% AND MEEKNESS. 
 
 li/t ARK, when tempeftuo.us winds arife, 
 **■* The wild confufion and uproar j 
 All ocean mixing with the fkies, 
 
 And fhipwrecks dafh'd upon the fhorc, 
 
 * Matt. v. 5« 
 
BEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 167 
 
 Not lefs confufion racks the mind, 
 
 By its own fierce ideas toft ; 
 When reafon is to rage refign'd, 
 
 And in the whirl of pafiion loft. 
 
 O felf-tormenting child of Pride q , 
 Anger, bred up in hate and ftrife r ; 
 
 Ten thoufand ills, by theefupplyM, 
 Mingle the cup of bitter life. 
 
 Happy the meek, whofe gentle breaft, ' 
 
 Serene as fummer^s evening ray, 
 Calm as the regions of the bleft, 
 
 Enjoys on earth celeftial day. 
 
 D3 
 
 No friendfhips broke s their bofoms fting. 
 
 No jars their peaceful tents invade, 
 Safe underneath Almighty wing r , 
 
 And, foes to none, of none afraid. 
 
 * Prov. xxi. 24. r Prov. xv. 18. xxvin, 25. 
 
 s Prov. xxii. 24. 
 
 f JPfalm lxxvi. 9. Ifaiah xi. 4, 
 
 Spirit 
 
i63 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Spirit of grace, all meek and mild, 
 With thy whole felf our fouls pofTefs : 
 
 Paffion and pride be hence exil'd, 
 So fhall our frame thy own exprefs. 
 
 #&$$S&&&}^ 
 
 lxxxvii. 
 
 ENVY. 
 
 li/I ALIGN ANT Envy, come not near, 
 
 Some wretch of infamy torment. 
 Come not, to trouble my repofe, 
 Thou fpawn of pride and difcontent. 
 
 Go, move the tempter to deftroy 
 Some world of innocence again a . 
 
 Go, and another Abel find, 
 To perifti by another Cain. 
 
 John viii, 44. 2 Corinth, xi. 3, Wifd. 11. 24. 
 
 Or 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. i6 9 
 
 Or fome hard-hearted brethren mould, 
 A Jofeph's favourite life to fell w . 
 
 Or fome delicious vineyard eye, 
 And in a fecond Ahab dwell *. 
 
 Yea, could the Son of God again 
 
 Appear in fervile form below ; 
 Inflame malevolence, once more 
 
 To ftrike the crucifying blower 
 
 Not blacked night and brighteft noon 
 Are with each other more at ftrife, 
 
 O Jefus, than the envious mind 
 Is with thy Gofpel and thy life. 
 
 May I too humble be for pride, 
 
 Too felf-contented to repine : 
 And too benevolent, to wilh 
 
 My neighbour's bleflings lefs than mine. 
 
 w Gen. xxxvii. 1 1, 28* 
 x 1 Kings xxi. 1 — 16. 
 y Mark xv. 10. 
 
i7o Lyme poem % 
 
 3LXXXVIII. 
 
 RELIGIOUS CONTENTMENT, 
 
 T Envy not the worldly Great, 
 
 Their coftly viands and their pride of Alow* 
 Inchantment all \ delufion's bait ; 
 Fools rufix along, and plunge in death and woe. 
 
 Give me the peafant*s clay-built cell, 
 On a coarfe pillow reft my weary head. 
 
 If there with me my God will dwell, 
 With cheerful heart I'll bieis my homely bread z . 
 
 The lofty majefty of God, 
 Who in eternity of Glory reigns, 
 
 In vifits to a mean abode, 
 Defeends to commune with adoring fwains *. 
 
 * Pfalm xx xvi y. 16. Prov. xv. 1 6. xvi 
 *5- 
 
 5 O happy 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 171 
 
 O happy fouls, In humble feat b ! 
 What tranfports from divine communion flow! 
 
 Angels will you as brethren greet, 
 And hail the type of their own heav'n below* 
 
 LXXXIX. 
 
 MALEVOLENCE. 
 
 ^\ Dreadful fcale of fin ! 
 
 To wrath fee envy fwell ; 
 Fix'd wrath is hate, and all within 
 Malevolent as helL 
 
 A fong inflam'd the jealous Saul 3 
 A Demon his dark foul pofTefs'd : 
 
 The furious javelin piere'd the wall 5 
 But meant the envy'd David's breafi% 
 
 $ 1 Tim. vi, 6. c 1 Sam. xyiii. 6 — 1 1. 
 
 The 
 
17? LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 The vi£Hm he purfu'd 
 Mountains and deferts o'er; 
 Revenging charitable food, 
 "VVith facerdotaj gore % 
 
 Good heaven ! that e'er thy human race 
 (Should thefe infernal paflions bree^l ! 
 
 Peftroy thy image, and debafe 
 Their glory into Satan's feed e ! 
 
 Ye friendly fouls, who burn 
 With love to human kind, 
 Whofe feelings, with abhorrence, turn 
 From the malignant mind ; 
 
 The yoke of Jefus why decline? 
 
 Why caft his law of love away? 
 O come, nature's weak aid refign, 
 
 And bow beneath his gentle fv/ay. 
 
 d i Sam, xxi. i, 6. xxn. 9 — 19. 
 
 * John vin. 40, 44. 1 John in. 8 — 12, 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 17} 
 
 XC. 
 LOVE. 
 
 /""\ God of love, thy glory 
 ^^ Blazes in the gofpel plan, 
 Abounding with the ftory 
 Of thy flowing love to man, 
 
 High love, beyond conceiving, 
 
 Gave thy fole-begotten fon ; 
 That the blifs of fouls believing 
 
 Should through endlefs ages run f . 
 
 Warm with divineft feeling, 
 
 Down the Filial Goodnefs came: 
 
 And, to mediate our healing, 
 Bore a vile delinquent's fhame ? . 
 
 f John in. 16, 17. 1 John iv. 9, 10. 
 s John xv. 13. Gal. n. 20. Ephef, in. 17 — i£. 
 v. 25—27. If. liii. 5, 12. 
 
 Who, 
 
174 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Who, Lord, thy name avowing 
 Shall his glorious title prove ? 
 
 Are not all of thy allowing 
 Men of univerfal love b . 
 
 Lo, my bofom is expanding 
 To receive this heav'nly guefr. ; 
 
 All of human form demanding 
 Friendly manfion in my breaft. 
 
 But where thy image beaming 
 In my fellow man I fee ; 
 
 My full affections flreaming 
 Pour their ftrongeft energy J , 
 
 O Love, of all the Graces 
 Faireft, thy fweet influence 
 
 Anger and pride effaces ; 
 Eafy to forgive offence. 
 
 b John xin. 34, 3$. Luke x. 27 — 37. 
 1 Gal. vi, 10. 1 John in. 16. 
 
 Well- 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, 175 
 
 Well-fpring of focial bleffings* 
 
 Bearing, giving, foft and kind 5 
 Sincere in thy careffings, 
 
 Candid is thy gentle mind K 
 
 How charming fs the union, 
 
 By this noble virtue wrought! 
 How pleafant the communion, 
 
 By this noble virtue taught ! 
 
 This heightens ev'ry beauty 
 
 In all other virtues found - 3 
 Endears each a£l of duty 
 
 In the focial circle's bound. 
 
 Hope ceafes, by enjoyment ; 
 
 Faith fhall fail, in vifion's Wife; 
 Love endures; beft employment 
 
 In the world of happinefs '. 
 
 k i Corinth, xrii. 4 — 7. 
 1 1 Corintk* xin. S, i*. 
 
*75 LYRIC POEM S§ 
 
 XCL 
 
 UNCHARITABLE JUDGMENT. 
 
 A LL-KNOWING God, 'tis thine to know 
 The fprings whence wrong opinions flow; 
 To judge, from principles within, 
 When frailty errs, and when we fin. 
 
 Who among men, high Lord of all r 
 Thy fervants to his bar may call ? 
 Decide of herefy, and fhake 
 A brother o'er the flaming lake m ? 
 
 Who with another's eye can read ? 
 Or worfhip by another's creed ? 
 Revering thy command alone, 
 We humbly feek and ufe our own n . 
 
 m Rom. xiv, 4. 2 Corinth. 1. 24. 
 n Matt. xxm. 8— ic. John v. 39. Aftsxvn. 11. 
 1 Theff. v. 21. 1 John iv. 1 . 
 
 If 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL 177 
 
 If wrong, forgive ; accept, if right ; 
 While faithful we obey our light, 
 And, cens'ring none, are zealous ftill 
 To follow as to learn thy will °. 
 
 When (hall our happy eyes behold 
 Thy people fafhion'd in thy mold ? 
 And charity our lineage prove 
 DerivM from thee, O God of love p ? 
 
 ####©####^#@^0^^0#### 
 
 XCIL 
 
 PERSECUTION. 
 
 A BSURD and vain attempt! to bind 
 ^ ^ With iron chains the free-born mind \ 
 To force conviction, and reclaim 
 The wand'ring by deftru£tive flame : 
 
 John xiii. 17, p 1 John iv. j. 
 
 N Bold 
 
I 7 S LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Bold arrogance ! to fnatch from Heav'n 
 Dominion not to mortals giv'n p ; 
 O'er confcience to ufurp the throne, 
 Accountable to God alone. 
 
 Mad zeal ! that with hell-fury burns, 
 The rights of God and man o'erturns^ : 
 Whofe blind prefumption fan£tifies 
 Murders, rebellions, plots, and lies. 
 
 That fills the world with blood and woe, 
 That hurls down kingdoms at a blow, 
 That butchers fouls, and peoples hell 
 With converts which its arms compell. 
 
 Thus Rome afTerts her proud decrees, 
 Inforc'd by fierce anathemas ; 
 And wakens vengeance, to devour 
 The foes of Antichriftian pow'r. 
 
 f 2 ThefT. ii. 4. 1 Pet. v. 3. 
 
 * John xvi. 2. Ails ix. 1. xxvi. 9—11, 
 
 Jefus, 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. i 79 
 
 Jefus, thy gentle law of love 
 Does no fuch cruelties approve r . 
 Mild as thyfelf, thy doctrine wields 
 No arms but what perfwafion yields s . 
 
 By proofs divine and rcafon ftrong, 
 It draws the willing foul along ; 
 And conquefts to thy church acquires, 
 By eloquence which heav'n infpires *, 
 
 O happy, who are thus compell'd 
 To the rich feaft by Jefus held u ! 
 Britain, thy bleflings know \ and prize 
 The light which liberty fupplies. 
 
 x Luke ix, 54 — 56. 
 s 2 Corinth, x. 3 — 5. 
 * 1 Corinth. 11. 4, 5, 13. 
 tt Luke xiv. 23. 
 
 N % 
 
j.So LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 XCIIL 
 
 PROBITY; or, 
 INTEGRITY TOWARDS MAN, 
 
 A S the limpid ftream, which flows 
 ^ O'er a bed of golden fand, 
 
 All its fhining treafure fhows, 
 Tempting the beholder's hand $ 
 
 So the honeft heart is feen, 
 
 In the mild expanded eye. 
 In the open generous mien 
 
 Of the man of probity* 
 
 In the honeft heart abide, 
 
 Truth with undeluding tongue w , 
 
 Faith that never warps afide, 
 
 Thoughts which never mean a wrong. 
 
 * Prov. xii. I7 # 
 
 Wh* 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. iSi 
 
 Who, fucli treafure to pofTefs, 
 
 Feels not friendihip's warm defire ? 
 
 Who the friendfhip will not blefs 
 Glowing with fo pure a fire ? 
 
 In that ever trufty breafr, 
 
 I with confidence repofe, 
 Secret as the houfe of reft, 
 
 All my triumphs, all my woes. 
 
 But alas ! what happy clime 
 
 Is for men of truth renown'd ? 
 Where, in all the walks of time, 
 
 Was the precious blefiing found ? 
 
 Falfe and felfifh, ev'ry one 
 Seeks his brother to deceive * ; 
 
 Falfe the (mile, and falfe the groan y y 
 They are cheated who believe. 
 
 * Pfalm v. 9. Ifaiah lix. 13 — 15. Jer. vii. 28. 
 
 * Pfalrn xli, 6, lv, 2\. 
 
 N 3 God 
 
182 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 God of truth, the lying phrafe, 
 Of diflembling lips, to thee 
 
 Hateful is y -> thou lov'ft the ways 
 Of the man of probity a . 
 
 XCIV. 
 
 HYPOCRISY TOWARDS MAN. 
 
 CONDITION hard of focial life, 
 ^"""^ When love and prudence are at ftrife { 
 While that the kindeft thoughts infpires b 3 
 This caution and diftrufl requires. 
 
 Falfhood alas ! too oft we meet, 
 And for a friend a Joab greet ; 
 With fmiles and glozing fpeech careft 
 We feel the poniard in our bread c . 
 
 Pfalm v. 6. lit. 2—5. Prov. vr. 16, 17. 
 Prov xii. 22. b 1 Corinth, xuu 4, 5. 
 
 2 Sam. in. 26, 27, 
 
 8 Thei* 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 183 
 
 There are, who in my happy days 
 Will eat my bread and found my pralfe : 
 But when my feftal times are o'er, 
 Shun, as they would the plague, my door. 
 
 There is, whofe heart I fondly thought 
 In the fame mould with mine was wrought ; 
 To whom my fecret I unclos'd, 
 And my whole naked foul expos'd. 
 
 Ere long his falfhood he betray'd ; 
 He publifh'd counfels of the fhade 
 On the houfe-top : Yea join'd my foe, 
 And wove the plot to lay me low d . 
 
 O for the pinions of a dove e ! 
 Far from all traitors I'd remove ; 
 And in fome lonely harmlefs wild, 
 Dwell there unknown and unbeguil'd. 
 
 O rather, Lord, thy fervant give 
 In love and wiklom here to live - y 
 Till thou indulge me a releafe 
 To thy own world of truth and peace. 
 
 2 Sam. xv, 31. Pfalm xli. 9. lv. 12 — 14* 
 Pfalni lv, 6. 
 
 #4 
 
!?4 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 xcv. 
 
 INOFFENSIVENESS, 
 
 TT7HILE in this world I dwells 
 ? y The paths of fin I'll fear f : 
 And, pond'ring all my goings well, 
 Walk inoffenfive here g . 
 
 My ev'ry ftep Til aim, 
 As warn'd by wifdom's zeal h ; 
 Left e'er, O Lord, thy holy name 
 By me a wound mould feel \ 
 
 To me let no man owe 
 His hatred of thy ways. 
 jprom me let no man's forrow flow. 
 The guilt of no man's days. 
 
 f Prov. xxvm. 14. 5 Ads xxiv. i6 i 
 
 1 Corinth, x. 32. h Prov. xiv. 16. Eph. v. 15. 
 
 i 2 Sam. xii, 14. 1 Pet. iif. 16. 
 
 Nor 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. i8j 
 
 Nor will I rafhly<lraw 
 Man's vengeance on my head, 
 By warmth untimely ; when thy law 
 Under their feet they tread k . 
 
 Thus blamelefs may I live ! , 
 Thus grace the faith I own m $ 
 Thus win ev'n infidels to give 
 Due honours to thy throng n . 
 
 XCVI. 
 
 CHRISTIAN PRUDENCE AND 
 FORTITUDE. 
 
 in AT HER of lights , my footfteps guide 
 
 Along the dang'rous path I tread. 
 Ne'er fuffer me to turn afide, 
 By error or by fin mifled. 
 
 * Matt. vu. 6. J Philipp. i. 10. 
 
 m Tit. ii. io. * Matt, v. 1 6. I Pet. in. \6. 
 
 James i. 17, 
 
 While 
 
185 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 While the mad world around me fpend, 
 Their days in folly or in crime ; 
 
 O thot my feet may always tend, 
 To wife redemption of my time p I 
 
 "With truth illuminate my mind, 
 
 Infpirc with fortitude my heart: 
 Ne'er let me wander with the bh'nd, 
 Nor waver in the Chriftian's part. 
 
 Fafhion and crowds confpire in vain, 
 To fhake the flrmnefs of my foul * : 
 
 AH your allurements I difdain, 
 God only (hall my choice control. 
 
 p Ephef. v. 15, 16. 9 Exed. xxiu, 2, 
 
 lem. xil* 2, I John ii. 15, 16. 
 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, i$r 
 
 XCVII. 
 
 JUSTICE. 
 
 •CORBID it, heav'n! that e'er I eat 
 **• The bread of crafcinefs and wrong % 
 A curfe would poifon all my meat, 
 As fatal as the viper's tongue s . 
 
 I ne'er will raife a poor man's figh, 
 His hire fliall never fwell my ftore * # 
 
 I dread the poor man's plaintive cry, 
 I fear the father of the poor u . 
 
 If I in darknefe (bafe mifdeed !) 
 AffafTmate my neighbour's fame w ; 
 
 By me if innocency bleed, 
 
 Cancel from earth my hated name *. 
 
 1 Prov. iv. i 7 . ■ Job xx. 14—16. 
 
 t Prov. xxii. 16. Mai. 111. 5. James v. 4. 
 
 ' J PfaJm lxviii. 5. Job xxxiv. 28. 
 
 "f PfaJrn l. 20. xi« 2. 
 
 1 Pfalm i,n, 2, 4. y« ci, 5, 
 
 Ah I 
 
138 LYRIC POEM S, 
 
 Ah ! no ; let me with ftrong delight 
 
 To all the tax of duty pay ; 
 Tender of every focial right, 
 
 Revering thy all-righteous fway. 
 
 Such virtue thou wilt ne'er forget, 
 In worlds where every virtue (hares 
 
 High recompence; though not of debt, 
 JBut which thy bounteous grace prepares. 
 
 XCVIII. 
 MERC Y, 
 
 "O EH OLD a wretch in woe, 
 "^ A brother mortal mourns : 
 My eyes with tears, for tears, o'erflow, 
 My heart his fighs returns *. 
 
 y Rom. xii. ij. 
 
 I hear 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. ^89 
 
 I hear the thirfty cry, 
 The famifhM beg for bread : 
 O let my fpring its ftream fuppl^ 
 My hand its bounty flied z , 
 
 Lo, the poor debtor Cues, 
 Pale at the penal threat, 
 A ftarving family he fhews j 
 I cancel all the debt \ 
 
 And fh-all not wrath relent, 
 Touch'd by that humble ftrain^ 
 My brother crying, <c I repent., 
 M Nor will offend again r" 
 
 How elfe, on fprightly wing, 
 Can hope bear high my pray'r 
 Up to thy throne, my God, my king^ 
 To plead for pardon there b I 
 
 z Job xxii. 7. If. Lvnr. 7, 10, 
 
 * Ezek. xviii. 7. Matt, vi, 12, 
 
 * Matt, vi. 14, 15, xvm. 23 — 33-, 
 
 Th* 
 
i 9 o LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 The pitiful and kind 
 Thy pity will repay. 
 With thee fhall the forgiving find 
 A fvveet forgiving day c . 
 
 But juftice lifts her fcale, 
 And fhakes her rod on high : 
 Nor pray'rs, nor fighs, nor tears avail 
 The fons of cruelty d . 
 
 XCIX. 
 
 SUMMARY OF CHRISTIAN VIRTUES, 
 WITH THEIR BEATITUDES. 
 
 XjOT all that pow'r affords, 
 
 Nor mirth that wine infpires, 
 Nor what fharp avarice hoards, 
 Or martial toil acquires ; 
 
 Not conquering arms, 
 
 Nor beauty's charms, 
 
 Can form the plan 
 
 Of blifs for man. 
 
 f 2 Sam. xxir. 26. Matt* v. 7. * James 11. 15. 
 
 Happy 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL* f£i 
 
 Happy the humble minds % 
 In felf-opinion poor: 
 There faith a dwelling finds, 
 And brings her precious ftofe* 
 
 In heav'n enroll'd, 
 
 A crown of gold 
 
 Around their head 
 
 Its blaze fhall fpread. 
 
 Happy, who tryd in woes 
 Welcome correction's pain ; 
 Whofe tears repentance fows, 
 Rich feed ne'er fown in vain. 
 
 A harveft fprings 
 
 Of joyful things, 
 
 Which God will keep 
 
 For them t© reap. 
 
 Happy the meek y whofe breaft 
 No angry pafllon fhakes ; 
 Of inward calm pofTeft, 
 When tempeft round them breaks, 
 
 * Matt. v. 3— j 2. 
 
 The 
 
I9» LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 The wing of God, 
 O'er their abode, 
 Secure repofe 
 And peace beftows* 
 
 Happy the fouls renew'd, 
 Who thirfi for wifdom's fpring. 
 And hunger for the food 
 Which virtue's banquets bring. 
 
 They now ihall tafte 
 
 The rich repaft ; 
 
 Then blifs intire 
 
 Shall fill defirc. 
 
 Happy*the men whofe hearts 
 
 Relenting mercy fways : 
 
 Mercy which God imparts, 
 
 The merciful repays : 
 
 He hears their cries, 
 Their wants fupplies, 
 Their pains relieves, 
 Their fins- forgives. 
 
 Happy 
 
Devotional and moral. 193 
 
 Happy the mind whofe eye 
 No clouds of lujl obfcure; 
 Whofe pow'rs can upward fly. 
 From vile affections pure. 
 
 Thy ravifh'd fight, 
 
 In worlds of light, 
 
 On God fhall gaze, 
 
 And drink his blaze. 
 
 Happy the foes of broil? 
 Who works of peace purfue t 
 The God of peace with fmile 
 Does his own children view. 
 
 Their godlike frame 
 
 Deferves the name 5 
 
 Divinely great 
 
 Is their eftate, 
 
 Happy, thrice happy, ye 
 Who fuffer fcorn and fliame ; 
 Whofe love to truth and me 
 Endures the teft of flame, 
 
 Q To 
 
i$£ LYRIC FOE M S, 
 
 To you is giv'n 
 To fit in heav'n 
 With me, and fhare 
 My glory there z , 
 
 c. 
 
 THE CONCLUSION OF A 
 CHRISTIAN LIFE. 
 
 Fear him not— The king of fears 
 Stands ready to difcharge his bow* 
 No terror in his look appears, 
 I bare my bofom to the blow. 
 
 Thou vanquifhM enemy, my Lord, 
 When underneath thy ftroke he felL 
 
 O'crcame thee ; and his pow'rful word 
 
 Thy pow'r againft his friends fhall quell a r 
 
 2 P.ev. in. 2i. * i Corinth, xv. 5? — 57. 
 
 Welcome 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL 
 
 Welcome the wound, which fets me free 
 From a vain world and finful clay; 
 
 ''Twill end my dark captivity, 
 And give me to immortal day. 
 
 ?vly warfare's finifhed h . Sins and grief. 
 Long has my ftruggle been with you, 
 
 come, faith's long-defir'd relief; 
 For ever, grief and fins, adieu. 
 
 1 haften to my father's home, 
 
 To meet my dear Redeemer there ; a 
 My naked fpirit fliall not roam, 
 In worlds deferted of his care k . 
 
 Nor fliall this flefh I leave behind, 
 Lie mould'ring always in the tomb I 
 
 Quicken'd by him \ ere long, refin'd, 
 It fhall celeftial life aflame r \ 
 
 ■ 2 Tim. lv. 7, * John xiv. z : 3. xvn. z\k 
 
 Heb. vi. 19, 20, k A&s vn. 59* 2 Tim. j, 12. 
 
 1 John vi. 39, m Philip, m. 20, tU 
 
 O 2 
 
I S 6 L Y R I C P O E M S, 
 
 Sweet earthly fellowfhips, farewell ; 
 
 Belov'd relations, friends belov'd, 
 With you I mufl no longer dwell : 
 
 How hard to part ! my foul is mcv'd. 
 
 But, gracious God, within thy hand 
 I truft them all ; their journey guard 
 
 Through this diitemper'd dang'rous land. 
 In heavVs eood way to heav'n's reward. 
 
 VV . VKA^VvVyVV 
 
 / v v \/\* V '•*/ w '•♦/* \s \# v V \/ v w s */ v W w v/ 't 
 
 CL 
 
 THE FUNERAL. 
 
 1 N black prcceffion, fad and flow, 
 
 About the ftreets the mourners go ; 
 Man comes to make his long abode, 
 Where darknefs dwells and worms corrode \ 
 
 * Ecclef, xu, 5» 
 
 There 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. igj 
 
 There bufy life, there pleafure ends, 
 And tie of blood, and tie of friends. 
 There ends probation's hour °, and there 
 Virtue's hard ftnfe with fin and care. 
 
 Why for vain riches do I toil, 
 Gathering for death a larger fpoil p i 
 Why for this dying flefh purvey, 
 The finful pleafures of a day^ ? 
 
 Why cling fo clofely to my heart 
 Kindred and friends ? we foon muft part ! 
 And wherefore do I wafle the fpan 
 Of mercy limited to man ? 
 
 The pious few O let me join, 
 And with their faith my breath refign ; 
 That their hereafter mine maybe, 
 Ev'n mine their bleft eternity r . 
 
 Ecdef. ix. ic. xi. 3. Heb. ix. 27. p Pf. xlix. 
 
 6 — 9, 17. 1 Rom. xiij. 14. Heb. xi. 25. 
 
 r Num. xxni. 10. Prov. x:v. 52-. Pfal. xxxvn. 37* 
 2 Corinth, iv. 17, 1 2, 
 
 03 
 
i 9 Z LYRIC POEM 3, 
 
 CH. 
 
 THE SEPARATE SOUL OF 
 A GOOD CHRISTIAN. 
 
 HAT world is this ? Where am I brought^ 
 Stript of my body, but my thought 
 More clear and vigorous than of late ? 
 Is this the intervening ftate ° ? 
 
 Eyes 
 
 s The foul of our Saviour went into Paradife^ 
 immediately after its feparation from his body. Thi- 
 ther, alfo, on the fame day went the foul of the con- 
 verted thief. But cur Lord afcended not into heaven, 
 till forty days after his refurredtion. Surely then 
 Paradife is not heaven, but fome other place in the 
 univerfe; where the feparate fpirits of good men 
 dwell together, in joyful expectation of their own 
 bleffed refurreclion and final reward. Compare Luke 
 xxin» 43. John xx. 17. Ads 1. 3 — 10. John 
 xiv. 3. Matt. xxv. 31, 34. Hades is fuppofed to 
 mean the common receptacle of departed fouls, until 
 the general refurre&ion. It is conceived to be divided 
 into two vafl regions, (0 The lower paradife, fo 
 
 called. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. 199 
 
 Eyes I have none, nor feet to fleer, 
 Nor hands to f ears to hear ; 
 
 Yet I can n as before, 
 
 And tnu 1 my paft exiftence o'er, 
 
 M weeping children, weeping wife, 
 Ye dcareit cares in former life, 
 All intercourfe with you is o'er ; 
 The home I lov'd, knows me no more, 
 
 Cannot unbody'd fouls combine, 
 And, fpeechlefs, in fweet converfe join .? 
 With mental vifion, lo, I fee 
 A vaft rejoicing company, 
 
 Thefe, furely, are the righteous band 
 Of fouls, who fojourn in this land. 
 And is not this unknown abode, 
 Bleft with the prefence of my God ? 
 
 called, to diiUnguifh it from the utter parad'fe, fry lei 
 by St. Paul the third heaven *, into which the jail are 
 to be received immediately after the general judge- 
 ment. (2) Gehenna, (hell) named Tartarus by St. 
 Peter f, the place of torment and man lion of wicked 
 fouls, SeeGrotius on Luke xxiii. ±;. 
 
 * 2 Corinth, xil, ?.. 4., f z Peter ir 4, in the Original. 
 
 O 4 En 
 
2oo LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 Encumber'd now no more with clay, 
 I've caft its weaknefles away \ 
 I feel my powers of joy more ftrong 
 Than ever did to earth belong. 
 
 With raptur'd hope, I wait the morn ■ 
 When to new life I fhall be b.orn w 
 By that almighty voice, whofe found 
 Shall wake the dead x and fplit the ground $ 
 
 When I fhall meet my Saviour-Lord 
 Coming to finifli my reward y ; 
 When I fhall join his holy train, 
 And mount to the celeftial plain z . 
 
 1 Rom. vii. 24, 25. u Pfalm xlix. 14; 
 
 v Luke >:x. 36. * John v. 28, 29. 
 
 y zTheff. 1. 10. z Matt, xxv. 46. Joha 
 xvii, 24. 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. zoi 
 
 CIII. 
 
 THE MEDIATORIAL KINGDOM 
 OF JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 /CELESTIAL Mufe, infpire my voice 3 to fing 
 
 ^~^ Jefus the mediator king a . 
 Archangels lowly in his prefence Hand, 
 In aft to fly at his command. 
 
 Great legislator, by fupreme decree, 
 
 To Adam's favoured progeny b ; 
 On Adam's favour'd offspring he beftow'd 
 
 The bleffing of his heav'nly code c . 
 
 The Spirit, Pow'r of fan&itude, receives 
 Million from him d ; receiving gives 
 
 Grace in a rich effufion, to maintain 
 In human breads a Saviour's reign. 
 
 a Pfalm ex, 1—4. Matt. xxn. 43, 44. Heb. vn. 
 20, 21. b Pfalm 11. 6. Matt. xvn. ;. Afts 
 
 "• 3^ c The go/pel, Rom. vin, 2. 
 
 d John xv, 26, xvi. 7 — n. 
 
 He 
 
toz LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 He lives, the Mediator e Jives and pleads, 
 
 For weeping rebels intercedes f : 
 Self-mov'd the Father looks with placid fac<?, 
 
 And yields to rebels his embrace ? . 
 
 His Father's pardons he conveys h , where'er 
 
 Faith offers the repenting tear : 
 The fulnefs of his Father's love he flieds, 
 
 Where faith the path of duty treads S 
 
 Over his flock a watching eye he bends, 
 His flock he feeds, his flock defends. 
 
 The weak he ftrengthens^ he confirms the flrong, 
 And gently bears the Iambs along k . 
 
 In danger's inftant, in temptation's hour, 
 
 His providence exerts its pow'r; 
 In forrow's vale, in death's tremendous fhade, 
 
 Still prefent with confoling aid. 
 
 c i Tim. ii. 5. Heb. vii, 25. 
 f John in. 16. xv j. 26, 27. Rom. v. 8, 10. 
 8 2 Corinth* v. 19, ColoiT. 1. 21, 
 h Luke xxiv. 47. A£ts v. 31. 
 1 Heb. v # 9. k lfaiah xl. ii. John x. 11. 
 
 Pf, xiii. t—4. 
 
 Mean 
 
DEVOTIONAL AN? MORAL. 203 
 
 Mean while, his matchlefs policy prepares^ 
 
 Ye nations j all your great ailairs; 
 And all thy range, O fciehce I to fulfill 
 
 The counfels of redeeming will l . 
 
 He comes, to vindicate his Father's throne ; 
 
 He comes, to glorify his own : 
 The king defcends in majefty divine, 
 
 Ten thoufand Seraphs round him fhine m . 
 
 His voice like roaring oceans founds, u Awake 
 Ye dead y' earth, fea, and Hades quake: 
 
 The dead before his judgment- feat appear, 
 Their doom the dead and living hear n . 
 
 " Depart, ye curfed, to eternal flame. 
 
 Ye bleffed, I avow your claim, 
 The kingdom by my Father's love prepar'd; 
 
 Me follow to your high reward V 
 
 1 Ephef. 1. 22. Revel, v. 1 — 7. 
 
 m Matt. xvi. 27. xxv, 31. Acls x. 42. Rom. 11. 5. 
 Jude 14. 2 ThefT. 1. 6 — 10. n 2 Tim. it. 1. 
 
 1 ThefT. lv. ir, Rev. xx, 12. 
 
 Matt. xxv. 34, 41. 
 
 The 
 
io + LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 The king precedes, the long refulgent train 
 
 Afcend to his celeftial fane n : 
 The heav'ns roll off; fun, moon, and liars expire^ 
 
 Earth melts in univerfal fire °. 
 
 CIV. 
 
 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 
 
 J" TERNAL Gofpel, my unerring guide, 
 
 The worldling's hatred p, and the fcorn of pride ^ 
 No vifionary's dream, nor fabling wile, 
 Frenzy's illufion, or impofture's guile r ; 
 Mean were thy heralds, but their million fure, 
 The do&rines humbling, and the moral pure, 
 Benevolence fublime ; ftupendous fcheme 
 God to exalt, and a loft world redeem. 
 
 B Temple, that is, heaven, the true fantluary. Heb. vui. 
 2. ix. 74. Rev. vii. 1 5. 
 
 2 Pet. in. xc— 12. Rev. xx, 11. p John &u 
 
 19, 20. - 1 Corinth. 1. 22, 23. r 2 Pet. r. 16. 
 
 In 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, 2*5 
 
 In vain the mighty ftorm'd, the learned ftrove, 
 
 Thy truth is ftrong 7 it iflu'd from above : 
 
 Scoffs, chains, and death in all the fhapes of fear 
 
 Menac'd in vain ; refiftlefs its career : 
 
 By wonder-working pow'rs and native charms-. 
 
 Its fole enticement and its only arms, 
 
 From land to land its rapid conquefts fpread, 
 
 And joy and beauty on the nations fhed, 
 
 O when fhall this divine religion run 
 In its full glory 5 with the circling fun ? 
 Come, long foretold, long wifh'd, triumphing day 3 
 Fly, intervening ages, flyaway, 
 
 ; Mong opening clouds, amidft a flood of Kghtj 
 A man majeftic ! awes the dazzled fight* 
 High on a courfer u white as virgin mow, 
 He fits j in act to bend a filver bow "•■' - 3 
 
 s Gen. xn. 3. Pfalmn.8. ex, 1. Dan. vn. 13, 14. 
 
 : jefus Chrift. See Revel, vi. 2. 
 
 * Grotius underflands the 'white borjt to be a fymbol of 
 the gofpel, in regard to its purity. 
 
 w The Icvj may reprefeat the vengeance which jefus 
 Chrift will inflift on the implacable enemies of his pure 
 religion. Compare Pfaim xlv. 5, 4. 5, 
 
 A golden 
 
.205 LYRIC POEMS, 
 
 A golden crown upon his head behold. 
 Victor, his name, in characters of Gold, 
 Flames on a filver crofs his lofty creft ; 
 And Mercy with foft luftre fparkles on his chefh 
 
 Rome trembling drops her chalice and her rod, 
 And the freed nations mock her viceroy God x . 
 Their ftartled eyes the feed of Ifrael turn 
 To him their fathers crucify 'd, and mourn X m 
 Mecca abjures her Ifhmael's fpurious fane % 
 Her prophet faithlefs, and his a Koran vain. 
 India her Viedam b burns. The polifhV land 
 Of China owns the Nazarene's commend ; 
 Ador'd c Confucius is no more divine, 
 And pagods d fall before Jehovah's fhrine. 
 
 * zThefF. ii. 4. y Zech. xu. 10. Rom. 
 
 xi. 24 — 26. 2 Cor. m. 13 — 16. 
 
 z The Caaba, or temple of Mecca, to which the 
 Mahometans make pilgrimages. 
 
 a Commonly called the Alcoran, the law of Mahom- 
 med. b The facred code of the Bramins, in the 
 
 Eaft Indies. c A famous Chinefe philofophcr. 
 
 He had a temple erecied to him after his death, 
 
 d Chinefe idols. 
 
 I fee 
 
DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, toj 
 
 In Scythian wilds % beneath the freezing bear % 
 
 I fee Immanuel his enfi^n rear, 
 
 £ O'er Lybia's burning plains he fends his name, 
 
 And all her fable fons refound his fame. 
 
 Salvation with a fwift effulgence beams, 
 
 On the vaft weftern world's remote extremes ; 
 
 Caciques h and Sachems h lay their axes down : 
 
 Barbarian fiercenefs and the favage frown 
 
 Melt into focial love, the look humane, 
 
 And the mild fpirit of Meffiah's reign, 
 
 A new creation fprings, the hallow'd earth 
 Js filled with children of celeftial birth ; 
 A race divine, to life immortal born \ 
 Whom God's own virtues with renown adorer 
 O times, O manners, innocent and bleft ! 
 Joy to the fwelling womb and milky breaft, 
 No pirate roves the flood, the trading fail 
 Securely flies before the fanning gale* 
 
 c Tartary. t The moft northern parts of the eartn. 
 
 e Lybia, i. e. the interior parts of Afric comprehending- 
 The Land of the Negroes. 
 
 h Chiefs of the American Indians* 
 
 Safe 
 
J^l LYRIC POEMS, fee. 
 
 Safe is the travell'd fhore, the pilgrim takes 
 His fearlefs journey when the morn awakes. 
 The villages rejoice; th' exulting hind 
 Eyes his fure harveft waving in the wind. 
 Nor in the hut alone contentment fings, 
 But, wond'ring, comes to ftatefmen and to kings. 
 Cities rejoice $ no fons of Belial tear 
 With bacchanalian roar the midnight air. 
 Nor lewdnefs prowls at eve, nor villains creep 
 Through windows in th' unwary hour of {Jeep*. 
 Juftice her fafces breaks, fierce war his lance, 
 Order and peace the focial blifs advance : 
 All kind affedtions through all hearts extend. 
 And every man knov/s every man a friend. 
 Mefiiah reigns, th' Almighty Father fmiles, 
 Difcord no more his holy mount defiles : : 
 One faith, one hope, the happy nations bind, 
 The world his Zion, and his fold mankind. 
 
 Fly, intervening ages, fly away ; 
 Come long foretold, long wifh'd, triumphing day. 
 
 * Ifaiah Kl, 9, 
 
 INDEX 
 
INDEX 
 
 O F 
 
 FIRST LINES. 
 
 Page 
 
 /\ BSURD and vain attempt ! to bind 177 
 
 Ah ! never, never fhall I tafte the joy 74 
 
 Ah! what avails confeffion's tongue — 13! 
 
 Alas! too bufy to be wife, — — 153 
 
 All-knowing God, 'tis thine to know — 176 
 
 Anxious cares and boding fears — 105 
 
 As the limpid fceam, which flows — 180 
 
 Awake, my glory, awake ; — — 7 
 
 B. 
 
 Behold a wretch in woe, — — 188 
 
 Bleft men, of lowly mind — — 163 
 
 Bound in a malefactor's chains — - — 21 
 
 Bring me, O bring me where thy mournful (hade, 17 
 
 " By my own endlefs life I fwear — 127 
 
 C. 
 
 Celeftial Mufe, infpire my voice ; to fing — 201 
 
 Come, children, learn the heav'nly art, — 56 
 
 Condition hard of fecial life, — - • — 182 
 
 P 
 
INDEX, 
 
 D. 
 
 Page 
 
 Deep, deep into thyfelf, my foul defcend ; — 84 
 
 Divine Phyfician of the morbid mind, — 29 
 
 Doft thou my worthlefs name record — 47 
 
 E. 
 
 Eternal Gofpel, my unerring guide, •— 204 
 
 F. 
 
 Father of lights, my footfteps guide — 185 
 
 Forbid it, heav'n! that e'er I eat — 187 
 
 G. 
 
 God reigns : Events in order flow, — 107 
 
 Great Spirit, understanding's king, — 5 
 
 H. 
 
 Hail, dear abode ; my irkfome exile ends. — 86 
 
 Haften, finners, to be wife ; -— — 42 
 
 How high our fanguine hopes we raife ! — 114 
 How lively the pleafure fucceeding to pain ! — 92 
 
 How long, ere weeping Elegy — — 71 
 
 How long, O Lord, and why, — — 64 
 
 9 How 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 How pteafant rolPd the days ! — — 96 
 
 How ftrange are his myfterious ways ! — 78 
 
 I. 
 
 I envy not the worldly Great — — 170 
 
 I fear him not — The king of fears — 194 
 
 Immanuel, Saviour, meek and mild — 76 
 
 Imperial reafon, hold thy throne. — 146 
 
 Impure defires, flee far away; ~ 142 
 
 In black proceffion, fad and flow, — 196 
 
 In (hadow black as night, — • — 10 
 
 Is he, alas ! aliow'd — — — - 129 
 
 Is this the man, on earth fo gay ? — 112 
 
 J- 
 
 Jefus his banner has difplay'd, — — 53 
 
 ' , to whofe all-feeing eye — 13 
 
 - ■■ with groans and blood redeem'd — 95 
 
 3 
 
 M. 
 
 Malignant Envy, come not near, — 168 
 
 Mark, when tempeftuous winds arife, — 166 
 
 Matter divine, with docile hearts we bring — 135 
 
 Meeknefs, ally'd — — — 165 
 
 My body's curious frame, — — 140 
 
 P 2 My 
 
INDEX, 
 
 Page 
 
 My heart is fix'd, the firm decree — 58 
 
 My judgment, guided from above, — 149 
 
 My Sovereign, to thy throne — — 82 
 
 N. 
 
 New to the fea of life, with eafy fail — - 116 
 
 Not all that pow'r affords, — — 190 
 
 Not always will the fky pour down — • 118 
 
 O. 
 
 O come, all ye fons of Adam ; and raife — 32 
 
 O could I fweep the lyre, like IfraePs king, — I 
 
 O dreadful fcale of fin ! — — 171 
 
 O folly, chief in folly's fhame! — 100 
 
 O God of love, thy glory — — 173 
 
 O God the holy and the juft, — — 62 
 
 O pride, thou dropfy of the mind, — 159 
 
 O fanclity, whofe cloudlefs day — — 9 
 
 O the diftra&ing fears — — 67 
 
 Our Father, thron'd above the fkies, — - 60 
 
 P. 
 
 Poor were the pleafures of the feaft — 144 
 
INDEX. 
 
 R. 
 
 Page 
 
 Riches j in copious ftreams, — — 109 
 
 S. 
 
 Sages of letter'd Greece and Rome, — 12 
 
 Smiling pleafures, — — — 151 
 
 T. 
 
 The captain of Jehovah's armies {lands — 50 
 
 The firmament's ftupendous frame, — g 
 
 The more thy gofpel is furvey'd, — 136 
 
 The nail, the fpear-, the foaming tree — 23 
 
 The traitor comes, with ruffian crew: — 19 
 
 Thou Son of God, virtue's immortal friend, 27 
 
 Thrice happy man ! whofe youthful feet — 54 
 
 Time, Time, how few thy value weigh ! — 125 
 
 ^Tis Wifdom's earneft cry ; — — 38 
 
 To fix the thought on things above, — - 49 
 
 To Jehovah, thou my foul — — 88 
 
 To felf-admiring folly burn — — 158 
 
 Trembling earth gave awful fign - y — 25 
 
 Tremendous Author of our frame, — 102 
 
 Truth with her golden beam — — 33 
 
 'Twas not to bathe in Jordan's flood, — 14 
 
INDEX. 
 
 W. 
 
 Page 
 
 Was pride, alas ! e'er made for man ? — i6t 
 
 Welcome, ye mefTengers of peace, — 37 
 
 What a perplexing wild — — * 156 
 
 What a fudden paufe is here ! — — 94 
 
 What new offence, what unknown deed — 69 
 
 What world is this ? Where am I brought — 198 
 
 Where, O my foul, O where — — 72 
 
 Wherefore this flownefs to believe — 98 
 
 While in this world I dwell, — — 184 
 
 Who, gracious Father, fhall complain — 138 
 
 Why came I here ? What have I done, — 123 
 
 Why does my coward heart — — 120 
 
 Wifdom exalts her voice again, — — 40 
 
 Y. 
 
 Ye Angel Forms, look down ; and fee — 15 
 
 Ye flefhly lufts, ye greedy cares — ~ 1 1 1 
 
 Ye fools, abroad you gaze round, — — 154 
 
 Ye tedious hours of pain, — — 90 
 
 Yes — it was Thou, whofe gracious care — 80 ^ 
 
 Your flowing urns, ye fountains, lend, — 43 
 
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