The Happiness of the Blessed considered as to the Particulars of their State their Recognition of Each Other in that State; and its Difference of Degrees. To which are added, Musings on the Church and her Services. By Richard Mant. Fourth Edition, with Additions |
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XIII. GOD'S SABBATH.
Call'd by the Church, before God's holy shrine,Oft as the Sabbath-morn with sacred ray
Warns me his courts to tread, I humbly pray,
That for time past forgiveness may be mine,
Whene'er I've err'd, and he will still incline
My heart no more from his command to stray;
But holy keep and unprofan'd the day,
First blest and hallow'd by the voice divine.
Are there who deem a less commanding law
Alone gives sanction to the Christian's rest?
Be theirs their fond conceit! Be mine to draw
The mind to reverence, by God's Church confest,
His own commandment: and with holy awe
Revere the day by man's Creator blest!
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