Advice, To Search For The Lord Jesus Christ (Rees Prichard Poems)
If any man, or maid, or child, wou'd fainThe life to come, eternal life! attain —Christ let him seek with ...
If any man, or maid, or child, wou'd fainThe life to come, eternal life! attain —Christ let him seek with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
COME all that are laden with vice, and with sin,Come to your Redeemer, who bids you all in,Come all to ...
Let ev'ry Christian, who wou'd chuse to knowHow he shou'd to God's blessed table go,These precepts learn, and in his ...
A. Our Father, who the universe didst frame — Our Father, from whose Love all blessings flow, Hallow'd for ever be thy ...
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 ...
The mind of ev'ry man, alas!Is naturally vile and base,And thinks on nought, but what is bad,'Till it the second ...
COME, thou vile wretch, thou veteran in sin,With faith and tears, come to the Son of God!'Tis He, the Son ...
MY dearest child, to me draw near,Unto my precepts lend an ear,And, all thy life, to them attend,If thou wou'dst ...
O Let's applaud with one accord,And bless, from day to day, the Lord,Who gave for us his only Son,When we ...
HEAR my advice, Adulterer obscene!And often in thy mind these precepts roll,E'er thou dost haste with appetite unclean,And headlong passion ...
Come all fresh and gay, let us keep Holiday, With hymns let us Jesus adore;Let us him celebrate, both early and ...
Be thy demeanour of the Christian sort,Be it obliging, affable, and right,In ev'ry place to which thou may'st resort,As is ...
...Thy Sabbaths I profanely spentIn riot and vain merriment,Or, which is worse, in drunkenness,And ev'ry blameable excess.When other folks, of ...
WHEN first thou go'st to court a maid,If thou'dst succeed, implore God's aid,And take his Spirit for thy guide,Or thou'lt ...
For heaven's sake, my Sammy dear!In mind, till death, those precepts bear :Christ on thy bended knees adore,When in my ...
What sorrows in my soul, O God! arise,The vast perverseness of mankind to see?Shou'd any strive to lead them to ...
FROM the fraudulent fiend, that still without end Most mortals trepans and beguiles,Who wou'd hook us all in, to do ev'ry ...
Think, how thy life does steal away!'Tis daily shorten'd by a day ;And thou art now to death more nearBy ...
Awake, my sluggish soul! from sleep awake,And with a heart sincere attempt to sing(In the most daring flight thy thoughts ...
BEFORE thou dost attempt to pray,Of all thy vices past repent,And wash the hateful filth away,That God may to thy ...
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