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Thursday Vespers.
HYMN XIX.
[Do I resolve an easy life]
Do I resolve an easy life,
Stor'd with plenty, free from strife?
When, dear Lord, thy days and nights
Pass'd in poverty and fights.
Stor'd with plenty, free from strife?
When, dear Lord, thy days and nights
Pass'd in poverty and fights.
Do I design a gentle death,
Singing out my aged breath?
When, my Saviour! tortures tore
Thy dear soul out, drown'd in gore?
Singing out my aged breath?
When, my Saviour! tortures tore
Thy dear soul out, drown'd in gore?
O dread dayly Sacrifice!
Acting in a sweet disguise
JESUS Passions o're again;
Such undue conceits restrain.
Acting in a sweet disguise
JESUS Passions o're again;
Such undue conceits restrain.
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Keep stil lively in my mind;
How I ought to be resign'd:
How this Pattern ought destroy
All my sensual greif or joy.
How I ought to be resign'd:
How this Pattern ought destroy
All my sensual greif or joy.
Are suffrings Ills? no; goodness chose
His and our way to blyss through those:
Are pleasures Goods? no; wisdom scorn'd
Their daliance, and us forewarn'd
His and our way to blyss through those:
Are pleasures Goods? no; wisdom scorn'd
Their daliance, and us forewarn'd
This, this make my Ditty be,
At least, whenever Thee I see;
Thee it's ground so oft repeating,
To prevent my souls forgetting.
At least, whenever Thee I see;
Thee it's ground so oft repeating,
To prevent my souls forgetting.
JESU! thus arm'd no terrors shall
Make my vertuous courage fall:
No flatterys here my blest hope; drown;
Since thy Cross led to thy Crown.
Make my vertuous courage fall:
No flatterys here my blest hope; drown;
Since thy Cross led to thy Crown.
Live for ever glorious Lord,
Live by heav'n and earth ador'd
May both their praises give
They who see, we who beleeve.
Live by heav'n and earth ador'd
May both their praises give
They who see, we who beleeve.
Amen.
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