Philip Doddridge

“ Sickness obey'd his healing hand,
And devils fled at his command!
The lame, for joy around him leap;
The dead he wakens from their sleep!
⁠Through all his life his doctrine shines,
Drawn in the plainest, fairest lines;
And death at length he did sustain,
Our pardon, and our peace to gain;
That sinners, who condemned stood,
Might gain salvation by his blood.
All honour then ascribed be
To him who liv'd and dy'd for me!
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”

“ The Corruption of Nature and Sins of Life acknowledged.
LORD when my wretched soul surveys
The various follies of my ways
The guilt of ev'ry word and thought,
Ev'ry neglect and ev'ry fault,
Well may I tremble to appear.
Laden with horror, shame and fear.
Adam, our common head, alas!
Brought sin and death on all his race:
From him my ruin'd nature came,
Heir to his sorrow, and his shame;
My body weak, and dark my mind,
To good averse, to sin inclin'd:
And oh! too soon the deadly fruit
Ripen'd from that unhappy root. ”

“ The knowledge of God and our duty to be learned from the Bible.
HOW shall a little infant learn
This great this infinite concern,
What my Almighty Maker is.
And what the way this God to please?
Shall some bright angel spread his wing,
The welcome message down to bring?
Or must we dig beneath the ground.
Deep as where silver mines are found?
I bless his name for what I hear;
The word of life and truth is near:
His gospel sounds through all our land,
Bibles are lodg'd in every hand ”