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IV. Why don't you go to Meeting?
THE CHILD'S ANSWER.
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Oh no! I dare not turn away,As you would have me do;
I dare not leave God's House to-day,
To go to meeting too.
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In church God always waits, I know,To hear His people's prayer;
But in the place to which you go,
His presence is not there.
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God's Priest in church for God doth stand;And when the prayers begin,
The Lord will give me, at his hand,
Forgiveness of my sin.
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But who taught others how to pray?Who gave them power to preach?
Oh, this indeed is not the way
That God's own word doth teach!
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Do not the holy Scriptures shew—(We know the story well)
Why Korah once, and Dathan too,
Went down alive to hell?
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And did not God strike Uzzah dead,Because, through over-care,
Upon the ark his hand he laid,
Which only Priests might bear?
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And Saul's sad end might make us wise,Whom God in anger slew,
Because he offered sacrifice,
Which only Priests might do.
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In church I was baptised; I'll praiseIn church the Lord most high;
In church I'll serve Him all my days,
And in the Church I'll die.
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'Tis there I love His name to bless,And there to hear His word;
How can I do this wickedness,
And sin against the Lord?
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