Halelviah or, Britans Second Remembrancer, bringing to Remembrance (in praisefull and Poenitentiall Hymns, Spirituall Songs, and Morall-Odes): Meditations, advancing the glory of God, in the practise of Pietie and Vertue; and applyed to easie Tunes, to be Sung in Families, &c. Composed in a three-fold Volume, by George Wither. The first, contains Hymns-Occasionall. The second, Hymns-Temporary. The third, Hymns-Personall. That all Persons, according to their Degrees, and Qualities, may at all Times, and upon all eminent Occasions, be remembred to praise God; and to be mindfull of their Duties |
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Hymn LXXXVIII. For our Benefactors.
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We are hereby put in mind to consider why God is otherwhile pleased to make us beholding to the charity of other men for necessary things; and God is
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Sing this as the 100. Psalme.
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VVhen we have all things of our own,Whereby our Wants may be suppli'd;
Much carelesnes is often shown,
And, far lesse thankfulnes then pride.
More humble, therefore, me to make;
(And that I more discreet may grow)
Things needfull, I somtimes do lack,
Till others them on me bestow.
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And when my temper, Lord, I heed,(Though Flesh and Blood thereat repine)
I find that I did greatly need
This loving providence of thine.
Yea, peradventure, if lesse poore,
In outward things I had been made;
I, other waies, had wanted more,
And much lesse comfort might have had.
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I thank thee, therefore, that my share,Thou hast committed to their Trust,
Who so good husbands of it are,
And, in their Stewardship so just.
Preserve them, Lord, for ever such;
And, as my Comforters they be,
So, when they need, be thou as much
To them, as they have been to me.
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Their liberality repayWith such endowments of the mind,
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That, they true Blessednes may find.
And, Lord, of thine especiall grace,
This, pleased be, likewise to grant;
That, I in Vertues, may possesse,
What, I in things-externall, want.
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