Stanza’s Concerning Some Persons And Things, That Are Mentioned In The Holy Scriptures (Rees Prichard Poems)
FROM Adam's lapse, this useful lesson learn,"As the least sin, there's nothing costs so much"Thence, too, the danger thou may'st ...
FROM Adam's lapse, this useful lesson learn,"As the least sin, there's nothing costs so much"Thence, too, the danger thou may'st ...
If truly pious thou wou'dst fain appear,And strictly Christian, whilst thou livest here,To a small church convert thy own abode,And ...
PUT off thy shoes, ere thou thy God dost greet,Thy ass, before thou sacrificest, bind —Wash, ere the altar thou ...
ALL, who wou'd ease and happiness obtain,And wish in health and wealth and peace to live,Must, whilst they in this ...
'TIS Christ, 'tis Christ himself, that's all in all;Without Him, man must to perdition fall:No thing, no person, besides Christ ...
Whoe'er, of any sex or age,To heav'n above wou'd learn the way,His guide must be the sacred Page —Or else ...
Thou Sov'reign of mercy! thou Sire of all pow'r!Who feedest the hungry, with-hold not our foodFrom us, who forgiveness repentant ...
The plaint and the advice of Dives hear,From hell's hot furnace, and outrageous flame,To his five brethren, and his kinsfolk ...
YE sons of Brute, of Trojan blood,A lively, lovely, loving brood,Attend in haste, and to my strains draw nigh,With an ...
You of each sex and age, draw near,And to my sad Complaint give ear,Who vice, unto the last obey'd,But now ...
HOW short the date of man! how soon he's gone!To-day, alive — to-morrow, in the tomb!Strong as a giant, now ...
Ye Britons of the South come forth,With all your brethren of the North,And hearken to a pastor's strains,Who'd lead you ...
Mourn Cambria, thoughtless Cambria, mourn.From all thy sins repentant turn,Lest they God's wrath, and judgements dread,Shou'd draw upon thy guilty ...
Let holiness upon thy front appear,That all the people plainly may observe,By the behaviour thou art wont to bear,That thou ...
... Begin, ere thou dost older grow,Thy Saviour and thy God to know,His Statutes keep, his Word desire;So shall thy ...
IF thou'rt a drunkard, fond of ale and wine,And smokest vile mundungus without end,Cry out with speed, unto th' Pow'r ...
Mourn Cambria, thoughtless Cambria mourn,Like Nineveh, repentent turn,Put sackcloth on — proclaim a fast —Cry out for Grace, and mend ...
WOE to the rich, and mercilessly-proud,Who stops his ears against the beggar's cry!Unheard, unpity'd, he shall cry aloudFrom Hell's abyss, ...
ALL mortals fain the time wou'd knowWhen Christ shall judge the world below ;But better 'tis they shou'd prepare,Ere they ...
As soon as thou art sick, without delay,For some good clergyman expressly send,Who may for thee to thy Creator pray,And ...
O! Martha, Martha, cease thy plaintive moan —Take comfort — check thy over frequent sighsFor thy dear babe — whom ...
My dear Relation, and the Friend I love,You've put to me a question I approve:I therefore think myself in duty ...
O Let's applaud with one accord,And bless, from day to day, the Lord,Who gave for us his only Son,When we ...
COME, hear me relate our Redeemer's vast love,When to purchase our souls he first came from above;That love bear in ...
HEAR my advice, Adulterer obscene!And often in thy mind these precepts roll,E'er thou dost haste with appetite unclean,And headlong passion ...
A Deep and bottomless abyss,My drear and dismal dungeon is,And all its walls are rais'd so high,That none can o'er ...
Thou ruler of heaven, of earth, and the main,Of wind, and of weather, of tempests, and rain,O, list to the ...
Rise with the cock, and clap each flutt'ring wing,In grateful hymns exultingly rejoice —Early to God, each Sunday morning, singWith ...
SHOU'D Satan promise thee, or house or land,If thou wou'dst kneel and worship at his feet :Tell him, he has ...
ALL honour, reverence, and due regard,My son! unto thy parents ever give:'Tis God's command! — and thou, for thy reward,Shalt, ...
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