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Collected poems of Samuel Davies : 1723-1761

Davies, Samuel (1723-1761)

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, CHIEFLY ON Divine Subjects.
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UNCOLLECTED POEMS
  
[THIS UNCULTIVATED LAND]
  
[A PRAYER IN TIME OF STORMS]
  
ELEGIAC VERSES on the lamented Death of the Rev. Mr. Samuel Blair,
  
[Come, heav'nly pensive Contemplation, come]
  
The Revd. Mr. Samuel Davies, Minister of the Gospel To the Congregation of Hanover County In the Colony of Virginia.
  
[SIN THE DESPOILER]
  
[TRUST NOT BEAUTY]
  
[THE PIOUS MIND IN A TIME OF STORM]
  
[TO CHARA]
  
[“THE WAR OF THE ELEMENTS”]
  
[A STORM AT SEA]
  
The different States of Sinners and Saints in the Wreck of Nature.
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LVI. National Judgments deprecated, and National Mercies pleaded.
  
On the same.
  
[FRONTIER WARFARE]
  
The Blessing of Hope in Death; or Comfort in a dying Hour earnestly implored.
  
The universal Call of God to Repentance.
  
AN HYMN
  
Self-Examination.
  
An HYMN
  
[CHRISTIAN, PREACHER, FRIEND]
  
The Glories of God in pardoning Sinners.
  
Christ's Tenderness to the bruised Reed and smoking Flax.
  
The one Thing needful generally neglected.
  
Spiritual Want and Misery confessed, and the Communication of spiritual Blessings implored.
  
Applying for Relief to the All-Sufficiency of Christ.
  
The holy Spirit invoked, and his purifying and quickening Influences implored.
  
The Transcendent Excellency of Christ in his Person and Offices, and the Soul desirous to love Him.
  
Christ most worthy of Esteem, but ungratefully neglected in our World.
  
Pious Breathings amidst general Wickedness and Desolation.
  
Self-Dedication at the Table of the Lord.
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The different States of Sinners and Saints in the Wreck of Nature.

Isaiah xxiv. 18–20. Long Metre.

I

How great, how terrible that God,
Who shakes Creation with his Nod!
He frowns, and Earth's Foundations shake,
And all the Wheels of Nature break.

II

Crush'd under Guilt's oppressive Weight
The Globe now totters to its Fate,
Trembles beneath its guilty Sons,
And for Deliv'rance loudly groans:

III

And see the glorious dreadful Day
That takes th' enormous Load away!
See Ocean, Earth, all Nature's Frame
Sink in one universal Flame.

IV

Where now, O where shall Sinners seek
For Shelter in the gen'ral Wreck?
Shall falling Rocks be o'er them thrown?
See Rocks, like Snow, dissolving down.
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V

In vain for Mercy now they cry;
In Lakes of liquid Fire they lie;
There on the flaming Billows tost,
For ever, O for ever lost!

VI

But, Saints, undaunted and serene
Your Eyes shall view the dreadful Scene;
Your Saviour lives, tho' Worlds expire,
And Earth and Skies dissolve in Fire.

VII

Jesus, the helpless Creature's Friend,
To Thee my All I dare commend:
Thou can'st preserve my feeble Soul,
When Lightnings blaze from Pole to Pole.
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