Free with the freedom Christ bestows; Divinely, greatly free; Redeemed from follies, sins, and woes; Redeemed, false world, from thee! Still must I linger 'mid thy slaves, Must toss on thy uncertain waves, The scoffs of pride, the snares of sense, Must still my firmness try; Till Christ returns to call me hence I know me weak, and prone to fall; And while my sojourn here I make, This, this my maxim be, To love mankind for Jesus' sake, And spurn, false world, at thee. "IS THIS THY KINDNESS TO THY FRIEND?" ALTERED FROM QUARLES. Он, THINK, how He, whom thou hast wounded, Hast scourged, and scorned, and spit upon, Hath paid thy ransom, and compounded For thy distresses with his own! How He, whose blood thy sins have spilt, And made supply where thou hast failed. He died, to save thy soul from dying; He came, and met the blow for thee; And all this dying friend requires, Oh, loose then, Lord, my tardy tears, And break this fleshly rock asunder, And on my night of doubts and fears Pour a new day of joy and wonder. This deadness from my soul remove; Melt down my icy unbelief; Let grief add feeling to my love, And love pluck out the sting from grief. Then rise, poor earthworm, from the dust; |