ENTLE JESUS, meek, and mild,
Look upon a Little Child,
Pity my Simplicity,
Suffer me to come to Thee:
2. Fain I would to Thee be brought,
Dearest GoD, forbid it not,
Give me, dearett GOD, a Place
In the Kingdom of Thy Grace.
3. Put Thy Hands upon my Head,
Let me in Thine Arms be stayed,
Let me lean upon Thy Breaft,
Lull me, lull me, LORD, to Reft.
Hold me faft in Thy Embrace,
Let me fee Thy Imiling Face,
Give me, LORD, Thy Bleffing give,
Pray for me, and I fhall live.
5. I fhall live the Simple Life,
Free from Sin's uneafy Strife,
Sweetly ignorant of IIl,
Innocent, and happy ftill.
6. O that I may never know
What the Wicked People do ;
Sin is contrary to Thee,
Sin is the Forbidden Tree.
7. Keep me from the great Offence,
Guard my helpless Innocence;
Hide me, from all Evil hide,
Self, and Stubbornefs, and Pride.
8. Lamb of Go D, I look to Thee,
Thou shalt my Example be;
Thou art gentle, meek, and mild,
Thou wait once a Little Child...
9. Fain I would be, as Thou art,
Give me thy obedient Heart;
Thou art pitiful and kind,
Let me have Thy loving Mind..
10. Meek, and lowly may I be,
Thou art all Humility;
Let me to my Betters bow,
Subject to Thy Parents Thou.
me above all fulfil
GOD my Heavenly Father's Will,.
Never His Good Spirit grieve,
Only to His Glory live.
12. Thou didft live to GoD alone,
Thou didst never feek Thine own;
Thou Thyfelf didft never please,
GOD was all Thy Happiness.
13. Loving JESU, gentle Lamb,
In Thy gracious Hands I am,
Make me, Saviour, what Thou art,
Live Thyfelf within my Heart.
14. I fhall then fhew forth Thy Praife,
Serve Thee all my happy Days;
Then the World fhall always fee
CHRIST, the Holy Child, in Me.
AMB of GOD, I fain would be
A meek Follower of Thee,
Gentle, tractable, and mild,
Loving as a little Child;
2. Simple, ignorant of Ill,
Guided by another' Will,
Trufting Him for Heavenly Food,
Cafting all my Care on GOD.
3. Let me in Thy Footsteps tread,
Be to all the Creatures dead,
Dead to Pleasure, Wealth, and Praife,
Poor, and humble all my Days.
4. Prepoffefs my tender Mind,
Let me caft the World behind,
All its Pomps and Pleasures vain
Help me, Saviour, to disdain.
5. Thou my Better Portion art,
Earth shall never share my Heart,
I on all its Goods look down,
I expect a Starry Crown.
6. I afpire to Things above,
LORD, I give Thee all my Love,
I will nothing know befide
JESUS and Him Crucified.
7. Let the Potfherds of the Earth
Boaft their Virtue, Beauty, Birth;
A poor, guilty Worm I am,
Ranfom'd by the Bleeding Lamb.
8. JESU, This be all my Boaft, Thou haft fav'd a Sinner loft,
Thou haft fpilt Thy Noble Blood
Me to make a Child of Go D.
9. What a Glorious Title This
(Title to Eternal Bliss)
Thou for me Thy Life haft given,
Me to make an Heir of Heaven.
10. O enlarge my fcanty Thought
To conceive what Thou haft wrought,
Raife my groveling Spirit up
To my Heavenly Calling's Hope.
11. Greaten my contracted Mind,
Saviour Thou of All Mankind;
What in Man Thy Grace could move?
O the Riches of Thy Love!
12. Let Thy Love poffefs me whole, .
Let it take up all my Soul.;
True Magnificence impart,
Purify, and fill my Heart.
13. I depife all Earthly Things
Offfpring to the King of Kings,.
GOD I for my Father claim,
JESUS is my Brother's Name.
14. Heaven is Mine Inheritance,
I fhall foon remove from hence,
As the Stars in Glory shine,
CHRIST and GoD, and All is Mine.
OME let us join the Hofts above,
Now in our earliest Days,
Remember our Creator's Love,
And lifp our Father's Praife.
2. His Majefty will not defpife
The Day of feeble Things;
Grateful the Songs of Children rife,
And please the King of Kings.
3. We all His kind Protection share,
Within His Arms we reft;
The Sucklings are His Tendereft Care,
While hanging on the Breast.
4. We praise Him with a flammering Tongue, While under His Defence,
He fmiles to hear the artless Song
Of Childish Innocence.
5. He loves to be remember'd thus,
And honour'd for His Grace,
Out of the Mouths of Babes like us
His Wisdom perfects Praise.
6. Glory to Gon, and Praife, and Power,
Honour, and Thanks be given:
Children, and Cherubim adore
The LORD of Earth and Heaven.
HAPPY State of Infancy,
Stranger to guilty Fears,
We live from Sin and Sorrow free
In these our tender Years.
2. JESUS the LORD our Shepherd is,
And did our Souls redeem,
Our present and Eternal Bliss
Are both fecur'd in Him.
3. His Mercy Every Sinner claims,
For all His Flock He cares:
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