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Engage this roving treacherous heart, Great God! to choose the better part; To scorn the trifles of a day, For joys that none can take away. Then let the wildest storms arise, Let tempests mingle earth and skies; No fatal shipwreck shall I fear, But all my treasure with me bear. If Thou, my Jesus, still art nigh, Cheerful I live, and cheerful die; Secure, when mortal comforts flee, To find ten thousand worlds in Thee.
Engage this roving treacherous heart, Great God! to choose the better part; To scorn the trifles of a day, For joys that none can take away. Then let the wildest storms arise, Let tempests mingle earth and skies; No fatal shipwreck shall I fear, But all my treasure with me bear. If Thou, my Jesus, still art nigh, Cheerful I live, and cheerful die; Secure, when mortal comforts flee, To find ten thousand worlds in Thee.
Approximate author period: c. 1726 AD · early modern
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- Philip Doddridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1726 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 613 · printed citation: Doddridge · subject: TREASURE
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