When the world's up, and every swarm abroad, Keep well thy temper; mix not with each day: Dispatch necessities; life hath a load Which must be carried on, and safely may; Yet keep these cares without thee: let the heart Be God's alone, and choose the better part. CIX. No, I would not always live, Pardoned, still for sin I grieve, Weeping, though my heart were pure, Would I to the end endure, CX. On for a glance of heavenly day, The rocks can rend; the earth can quake; To hear the sorrows Thou hast felt, Thy judgments, too, unmoved I hear, But something yet can do the deed; And that dear something much I need : Thy Spirit can from dross refine, And move and melt this heart of mine. CXI. OH, from the world's vile slavery, Be there my thoughts, be there my love! But oft, alas! too well I know, My thoughts, my love, are fixed below; every lifeless prayer I find In The heart unmoved, the absent mind. Oh, what that frozen heart can move, That melts not at the Saviour's love; What can that sluggish spirit raise, That will not sing the Saviour's praise? Yet earthly pleasure still hath charms; Lord, draw my best affections hence, CXII "SEEK ye to sit enthroned by me? "Alas! ye know not what ye ask: "The first in shame and agony, "The cup that I in tears must steep, We can!-thine are we, dearest Lord, To do and suffer all Thy word; "Then be it so!-my cup receive, "And of my woes baptismal taste: "But for the crown, that angels weave "For those next me in glory placed, "I give it not by partial love; "But in my Father's book are writ "What names on earth shall lowliest prove, "That they in Heaven may highest sit. CXIII. THERE is a secret in the ways of God With His own children, which none others know, By which His wisdom has prepared His saints We welcome clouds which bring the former rain, CXIV. Он, seek no bliss, but to fulfil, ; |