Spiritual Songs, or, Songs of Praise to Almighty God Upon several Occasions Together with The Song of Songs Which is Solomons. First Turn'd, then Paraphrased in English Verse. The Second Edition, Corrected, with an Addition of a Sacred Poem on Dives and Lazarus [by John Mason] |
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XXIX. A Song of Praise for Deliverance from imminent danger of Death.
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Lord of my Life, length of my Days,Thy Hand hath resen'd me.
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Among the Dead was Free.
My dearest Friends I had resign'd
Unto their Makers care;
Me thought I only time had left
For a concluding Prayer.
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Me thoughts Death laid his Hand on meAnd did his Pris'ner Bind;
And by the Sound me thought I heard
His Masters Feet behind.
Me thoughts I stood upon the Shore,
And nothing could I see,
But the Vast Ocean with my Eyes,
A Vast Eternity.
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Me thoughts I heard the Midnight Cry,Behold the Bridegroom comes.
Me thoughts I was call'd to the Bar,
Where Souls receive their Dooms.
The World was at an End to me,
As if it all did Burn.
But Lo! there came a Voice from Heav'n,
VVhich order'd my Return.
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Lord, I return'd at thy Command.VVhat wilt thou have me do?
O let me wholly live to Thee,
To whom my Life I ow.
Faine would I dedicate to Thee
The Remnant of my Days.
Lord, with my Life renew my Heart,
That both thy Name may praise.
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