The Complaint And The Advice Of Dives, To His Five Brethren (Part 2) (Rees Prichard Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
SHOU'D Satan promise thee, or house or land,If thou wou'dst kneel and worship at his feet :Tell him, he has ...
THY mortal part shou'd sickness chance to seize,Consider, whence the fi'ry dart was sent,Consider, who inflicted the disease,And to what ...
Awake, awake, why wilt thou sleep, my God!Never before hast thou been known to nod!Thou art not Baal! — thy ...
RASH Adam to the field of old,Mankind for one dear apple sold;And none can from his fangs get free,'Till Jesus ...
PULL off thy shoes, and make thy garments white,And sanctify thyself, ere thou dost dareApproach the throne of the dread ...
O God of mercy, soft-ey'd Pity's Sire!For Jesus sake, my num'rous faults pass o'er,Which more Arithmetic, I own, requireTo count, ...
...Thy Sabbaths I profanely spentIn riot and vain merriment,Or, which is worse, in drunkenness,And ev'ry blameable excess.When other folks, of ...
THOU, that dost guard thy people, and protect!Thou castle of defence, the weak to keep!For Jesu's sake, do not my ...
TELL me, my soul, and in good earnest tell,Why dost thou seem afraid to Christ to go,With him and his ...
WHEN first thou wakest, each succeeding day,Lift up to God above thy grateful eyes,And due respect to him be sure ...
DID it not answer some benign intentTo mortify the flesh, and mend the mind,The Sire of mercies never wou'd have ...
Let ev'ry one, that hears my voice,And understands my words, rejoice;Let ev'ry one applaud with meThe undivided Trinity.O turn, and ...
My coward soul, why dost thou dreadTo thy Redeemer Christ to go,Who his heart's blood so freely shed,To save thee ...
God ne'er any good from thoseWith-holds, who fear Him here below :On them He grace and fame bestows,Nor loss, nor ...
There's nought in nature that can purge a soul,But the Lamb's blood, which for our sins was slain;It cleanses ev'ry ...
Preserve, O Lord! my precious soulFrom the deep floods that o'er me roll,And hourly compass me around,That I'm in dread ...
What sorrows in my soul, O God! arise,The vast perverseness of mankind to see?Shou'd any strive to lead them to ...
Thou God of mercy! consolation's Sire!Thou author of my health, my chief delight!Hear an afflicted sinner's warm desire,Who begs for ...
FROM the fraudulent fiend, that still without end Most mortals trepans and beguiles,Who wou'd hook us all in, to do ev'ry ...
LET all thy words a Christian import bear,Let them, with grace, at all times season'd be,That they may knowledge give ...
O Thou, that keepest hell's abyss close-barr'd,And o'er its gates hast set a constant guard,That Satan hast enchain'd, and death ...
Awake, my sluggish soul! from sleep awake,And with a heart sincere attempt to sing(In the most daring flight thy thoughts ...
Whoever a religious life wou'd live,Submissive to the will of his dread Sire,He first of all most earnestly must striveFrom ...
BEFORE thou dost attempt to pray,Of all thy vices past repent,And wash the hateful filth away,That God may to thy ...
If father, if mother, if daughter, if son,If houses, if lands, if the wife of thy love —Shou'd strive to ...
OFT have I seen a blush o'erspread the faceOf some old sinner, when he first said Grace,Though he long since ...
To get some pounds, and thy good name abuse —To get, thro' loss of fame, mere dung and dross —To ...
To cram thy body, ne'er thy soul destroy —Nor anger God, to please th' infernal crew —To purchase earth, ne'er ...
If thou canst but repent, why shou'dst thou dreadThy sins, however numberous and foul?Since Christ for them was crucify'd, 'till ...
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