Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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On a Friend's asking how he might walk with God in the midst of Business, &c.
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On a Friend's asking how he might walk with God in the midst of Business, &c.
He that walketh uprightly, walketh surely Prov. x. 9.
This then the term, invaried as severe:
The conscience tender, as the heart sincere;
The eye as single as the hands are clean,
All care without, and vigilance within:
With step resolv'd, o'er ground untrodden tread,
Pendent on Hope, well balanc'd by its dread;
That awful sense of an incumbent God,
Whose frowns are thunder, and His wrath its rod;
From whom no depth, no darkness can conceal,
Or heav'n's high summit, or the depths of hell;
All naked lie, as on their surface spread,
Tho' hid the heart, or tho' conceal'd the head;
Who grasps creation, while his piercing ken,
Researches cherubs, as it searches men.
But what His thoughts, or what His mind unknown
What He commands, or what He wills, undone;
Let Conscience speak, whose conscious record true,
To seraphs dictates what it speaks to you:
To this adhere, her notices attend,
As swift a witness, as sincere a friend.
The conscience tender, as the heart sincere;
The eye as single as the hands are clean,
All care without, and vigilance within:
With step resolv'd, o'er ground untrodden tread,
Pendent on Hope, well balanc'd by its dread;
That awful sense of an incumbent God,
Whose frowns are thunder, and His wrath its rod;
From whom no depth, no darkness can conceal,
Or heav'n's high summit, or the depths of hell;
All naked lie, as on their surface spread,
Tho' hid the heart, or tho' conceal'd the head;
Who grasps creation, while his piercing ken,
Researches cherubs, as it searches men.
But what His thoughts, or what His mind unknown
What He commands, or what He wills, undone;
Let Conscience speak, whose conscious record true,
To seraphs dictates what it speaks to you:
To this adhere, her notices attend,
As swift a witness, as sincere a friend.
In private prayer, from public walk recluse,
Learn here its end, its privilege, and use:
There with herself, as with her God, commune,
To brace the spirits, and the mind attune;
[illeg.] for all His providence requires,
Our station asks, or better hope inspires.
Learn here its end, its privilege, and use:
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To brace the spirits, and the mind attune;
[illeg.] for all His providence requires,
Our station asks, or better hope inspires.
Deep in that volume of prophetic light,
The hand by day, the lesson'd heart by night,
From thence explor'd, as from ethereal mines,
What gold out-weighs, and glittering gems outshines;
The secret wisdom of that God-like plan,
That angels wonder, when they gaze on man.
Dread mystery all! whoe'er the mystery trace,
With mercy judgment, and with justice grace!
The hand by day, the lesson'd heart by night,
From thence explor'd, as from ethereal mines,
What gold out-weighs, and glittering gems outshines;
The secret wisdom of that God-like plan,
That angels wonder, when they gaze on man.
Dread mystery all! whoe'er the mystery trace,
With mercy judgment, and with justice grace!
Who this believe, and as obedient move,
May often tremble, but they still must love:
[illeg.] love devoted, as in worship pure,
Their path resplendent, and their footing sure.
Thus ended all their warfare and its toil,
They shout the conquest, and divide its spoil!
May often tremble, but they still must love:
[illeg.] love devoted, as in worship pure,
Their path resplendent, and their footing sure.
Thus ended all their warfare and its toil,
They shout the conquest, and divide its spoil!
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