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 XLVII. For a blind Person.
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To mitigate their discomforts who are deprived of Bodilie-Sight, this Hymn intimates the furtherance which that defect may be to their everlasting Felicitie; and a spirituall Illumination is implored to supply that corporall defect.
Sing this as the Lamentation.
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Fain would I view that pleasing sight,And lovelie splendor of the Skies,
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And gladdeth all Beholders eies;
But, since God pleased is, to hide
That spark of Common-grace from me;
Content I am to be denide
The Gift, which may not granted be.
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For it proceeds not still from wrath,When God of those things doth deprive,
Which he on most conferred hath;
And without which, diseas'd men live.
Sometime our Good; sometime his Praise;
And many times, ev'n both of these,
Are Cause, that he upon us layes
Discomfort, Blemish, or Disease.
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Perhaps, if I the Light had seen,The way to ruine I had gone;
Or, guiltie of offence had been,
Which me for ever had undone.
Perhaps in darknes here I bide,
Because if I had light enjoy'd,
Mine Eye had left mine Heart aside,
And made my best endeavours void.
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What e're the cause thereof hath been,Thou LORD, art pleas'd it should be so;
And with thy Justice, I have seen
Thy Mercy, hand in hand, to goe.
In thy good pleasure, I therefore,
With our repining am content;
And, will be thankfull evermore,
For whatsoever thou hast lent.
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My want of an externall-sight,With inward-light, supplie thou so,
That I may walk that path aright,
In which thy Children ought to go.
Yea, be my Watchman, and my Guide,
My Mind and Body to direct;
That nothing lead my heart aside;
Or injure me through this defect.
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