2180.
[Thy members must their trial take]
I pray not that Thou shouldest take them, &c.
—xvii. 15.
Thy members must their trial take
And suffer, Saviour, for Thy sake,
And to Thy will submit their own,
The general scorn and hate abide,
Dead to the world and crucified,
Till all their work on earth is done:
The earliest preachers of Thy love
Thou wouldst not Lord from earth remove:
Thy presence from the evil pure
Preserved, and kept them in the flame,
Till out of great distress they came,
And made their crown by sufferings sure.
