Certaine Serious Thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry Occasions have stollen themselves into Verse and now into the Publike View from the Author: Together w[i]th a Chronologicall table denoeting the names of such Princes as ruled the neighbor States and were con-temporary to our English Kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned [by Christopher Wyvill] |
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On a particular occasion.
In thee alone my wearied thoughts can find,
Where to repose their doubts: my setled mind,
On thee secure depends, great God arise;
Thy timely goodnesse to our wondring eyes
May banish't joyes reduce, here fixed be
My deaded hopes, and fetch new life from thee.
Thy wonted mercies often shewn before,
Imbolden my weak verse thus to implore
Thy powerfull ayd, who ever more then I
By blest experience, could thy love discry?
In trouble, sorrow, sicknesse, feare and griefe,
My case, to thee commended, met reliefe.
Where to repose their doubts: my setled mind,
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Thy timely goodnesse to our wondring eyes
May banish't joyes reduce, here fixed be
My deaded hopes, and fetch new life from thee.
Thy wonted mercies often shewn before,
Imbolden my weak verse thus to implore
Thy powerfull ayd, who ever more then I
By blest experience, could thy love discry?
In trouble, sorrow, sicknesse, feare and griefe,
My case, to thee commended, met reliefe.
My sins though many, cancelled by thee
Shall neither prejudice my suit, nor me.
I will not doubt, my God I know can doe't
Shall neither prejudice my suit, nor me.
My God I know can doe't, I will not doubt.
A Domino factum eft istud
Nor was there ever any had recourse
To him by humble prayer that sped worse;
For this, my heart within me shall rejoyce,
In all distresses thou shalt heare my voyce;
And if at any time, my suite ungranted,
Return, I'le think 'tis better for me wanted.
To him by humble prayer that sped worse;
For this, my heart within me shall rejoyce,
In all distresses thou shalt heare my voyce;
And if at any time, my suite ungranted,
Return, I'le think 'tis better for me wanted.
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