Halelviah or, Britans Second Remembrancer, bringing to Remembrance (in praisefull and Poenitentiall Hymns, Spirituall Songs, and Morall-Odes): Meditations, advancing the glory of God, in the practise of Pietie and Vertue; and applyed to easie Tunes, to be Sung in Families, &c. Composed in a three-fold Volume, by George Wither. The first, contains Hymns-Occasionall. The second, Hymns-Temporary. The third, Hymns-Personall. That all Persons, according to their Degrees, and Qualities, may at all Times, and upon all eminent Occasions, be remembred to praise God; and to be mindfull of their Duties |
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Hymn XIIII. For Parents who have lost their Children.
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This consolatory Hymn, may be usefull for Parents, who being deprived of all their Children, are nigh oppressed with grief; for, they are hereby remembred,
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Sing this as the Lamentation.
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Qvite lost, are now mine ayerie Joyes,Once promis'd by a fruitfull wombe:
For my Dear-issue, Death destroies;
And, full of grief, I am become.
Those eyes, whereon I lov'd to look;
The Voices, which made glad mine eare;
Are out of sight, and hearing, took:
And, shall no more delight me, here.
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I am a plant whose leaves are cropt;Whose pleasant fruit is pluck'd away;
Whose hopefull branches, down are lopt;
And left without a living-Spray.
To call me Father none is left;
My Songs, to mournfull tunes are made,
And, all the pleasures are bereft,
Which in a Childe, I might have had.
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Yet, all rejoycing is not gone;For, in my sorrows, comforts be:
Because, the Soul which I bemone,
Is found of God, though lost to me.
And as those hopes are frustrate made
Wherein I would have took delight;
Even so the Feares I should have had,
Prevented are, and put to flight.
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By want, by sicknesse, or disgrace,By folly or by wilfull sin,
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To me great sorrows might have bin.
But I (who now do hope the best
And see the worst that can succeed)
From all such fears, am now releast;
And, from ten thousand doubtings, freed.
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This, likewise, adds to my contentThat while I militant shall be,
God, his Triumphant-Church, augments,
By, thereto, making use of me:
I, therefore, with a ready Will,
And with our humble heart, resign
To him, (his pleasure to fulfill)
My Seed; my Self; and all that's mine.
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