A Warning, Or Admonition, To Every Man, To Think On God In The Morning (Rees Prichard Poems)
WHEN first thou wakest, each succeeding day,Lift up to God above thy grateful eyes,And due respect to him be sure ...
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 ...
For heaven's sake, my Sammy dear!In mind, till death, those precepts bear :Christ on thy bended knees adore,When in my ...
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 ...
LET's to Bethlehem all advance,With song, with merriment, and dance,And see the blest Redeemer, bornTo us, on this auspicious morn.In ...
My coward soul, why dost thou dreadTo thy Redeemer Christ to go,Who his heart's blood so freely shed,To save thee ...
Q. MY lively, lovely, little child! declare, What is thy Christian name? and then in brief, With serious heart, and an assured ...
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 ...
No one e'er his Maker's matchless might withstood,He's ever stedfast, and supremely good,He will fulfil, whate'er he did propose,And none, ...
O God, by whom all good is given!Thou Sire of light! thou King of heavenBehold, and list to my request,However ...
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 ...
Thou guardian of the weak, thou poor man's friend!Hear from thy glorious throne, Almighty God!That dost thine aid to fearful ...
Think, how thy life does steal away!'Tis daily shorten'd by a day ;And thou art now to death more nearBy ...
Behold, my gracious God! with pitying eye,What dangers in my painful office lie,Who never must, at any season, ceaseTo visit ...
THOU God of mercy! Source of light and day!Giver of grace, and ev'ry useful boon!For Jesus' sake, O, hear us, ...
Author of health, who all the plants that growHast form'd! who hast the tyrant Death subdu'd!Thy blessing on this medicine ...
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 ...
Support, O God! with thy Almighty aidThy glorious church, that fair wide-spreading vine,Which thy right hand has in thy vineyard ...
O Thou! by whom the universe was made,Mankind's support, and never failing aid,Who bidd'st the earth her various products bear,Who ...
BEFORE thou dost attempt to pray,Of all thy vices past repent,And wash the hateful filth away,That God may to thy ...
From dust and dirt, where low I lay,From crowds, from mire, from clogging clay,Thou didst, O Lord, thy servant raise;Thy ...
O Lord, my God most high!Say, by what means can IThy praise at large display,And my due thanks repay?Ere th' ...
His clothes were rent by each indignant Jew,When any dar'd Jehovah's name blaspheme:But many Christians no emotion shew,When any, now, ...
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