Reliquiae juveniles : miscellaneous thoughts in prose and verse, on natural, moral and divine subjects ; written chiefly in younger years . bear away in Pnose and Verse, i03• This tottering Body to his facred Threfhold ;There iaden with his Honours, let me bowBefore his Feet ; let me pronounce his Grace,Pronounce Salvation thro his dying Scn,And teach this finful World the Saviours rife, my hymning SouJ, on holy NotesTowrd his j awake, mychoiceft SohgsRun ecchoing round the Roof, and while you payThe folemn Vows of my diftrefsful Hoiirs,A Thoufand friendly Lips fhall aid
Reliquiae juveniles : miscellaneous thoughts in prose and verse, on natural, moral and divine subjects ; written chiefly in younger years . bear away in Pnose and Verse, i03• This tottering Body to his facred Threfhold ;There iaden with his Honours, let me bowBefore his Feet ; let me pronounce his Grace,Pronounce Salvation thro his dying Scn,And teach this finful World the Saviours rife, my hymning SouJ, on holy NotesTowrd his j awake, mychoiceft SohgsRun ecchoing round the Roof, and while you payThe folemn Vows of my diftrefsful Hoiirs,A Thoufand friendly Lips fhall aid the Praife. Jesus, great Advocate, whofe pitying EyeSaw my long Anguifh, and with melting HeartAnd powerful Intercefnon fpreadft my WoesWith all my Grcans before the Father-God,Bear up my Praifes now ; thy holy IncenfeShall hallow all my Sacrifice of Joy,And bring thefe Accents grateful to his Heart and Life, my Lips and. every PowTerSnatchd from the Grafp of Death, I here devcBy thy bleft Plands an Offering to his HMelujah*. XLVIIL i cJ 4 Mifcellaneous Thoughts, xlviil The D e i s t and the Christian. yjPISTUS went into a Church one Morning,becaufe he knew not how to employ the Hour,and heard the Text read. out of Rom. xii. i. I befeechycu therefore^ Brethren,. by the Mercies of God^ that youprefent your Bodies a living Sacrifice^ holyy acccptable toGody ivhich is ycnr reafo?iableService Well, faidhe to himfelf, I like this Period ; I hope I fhall now hear a Piece of Divine Scrvice that has fon:e- thing reafonable in it \ it is my Opinion, as well as Paul\ that we. fhould employ thefe ilving Bodies of ours to the Service of that God that made us, and the Mercies of God oblige us to - The Preacher purfued his Subjecl with muchBeauty and Juftnefs of Thought and Style ; he expa-tiated on the various Engagements we lie under to thegreat God to prefent our whole Natures and all ouraitive Powers as Sacrifice to hiin. ThuiApijlus was chara&I with the
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