| Richard Baxter - Christian poetry, English - 1689 - 182 pages
...not to my care, Whether I die or liv e : To love and ferve thee is my fliare: And this thy grace muft give. If life be long, I will be glad, That I may long obey : If fhort ; yet why fhould I be fad, That {hall have the fame pay. ._ _...,. . * 5. If Death fhall bruife... | |
| Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...spirit steals, Will vanish at the morning light, \Vhich God, my east, my Son, reveals. LORD it helongs not to my care, Whether I die or live ; To love and...is my share, And this thy grace must give. If life he long, I will he glad, That I may long ohey ; If short ; yet why should I he sad. That shall have... | |
| Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...on my sinking spirit steals, Will vanish at the morning light, Which God, my east, my Sun, reveals. LORD it belongs not to my care, Whether I die or live;...love and serve thee is my share, And this thy grace mast give. If life be long, I will be glad, That I may long obey ; If short; yet why should I be sad,... | |
| Henry CARPENTER (Minister of St. Michael's, Liverpool.) - Hymns, English - 1838 - 152 pages
...prove All their Father's boundless love ! HYMN 35. c. M. "Be careful for nothing." — Phil. iv. 6. 1 LORD ! it belongs not to my care, Whether I die or...serve thee is my share, And this thy grace must give. 2 If life be long, I will be glad, That I may long obey : If short, yet why should I be sad, That here... | |
| Christian life - 1840 - 248 pages
...reserve, I offer here to thee ; Thy will and honour all shall serve, That thou hestow'dst on me. Now it belongs not to my care Whether I die or live ;...may long obey ; If short — yet why should I be sad — That shall have the same pay ! If death shall bruise this springing seed Before it comes to fruit,... | |
| Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 318 pages
...smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty Immortal awakes from the tomb ! RESIGNATION. Barter. To live and serve Thee is my share, And this thy grace must...may long obey ; If short, yet why should I be sad, That shall have the same to pay ? Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than he went through before;... | |
| Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 312 pages
...Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty Immortal awakes from the tomb ! RESIGNATION. SBajrter. LORD, it belongs not to my care, Whether I die or live ; To live and serve Thee is my share, And this thy grace must give. If life be long, I will be glad, That... | |
| 1858 - 498 pages
...said, this hymn describes my state and experience : — " Lord, it belongs not to my care, Whether 1 die or live ; To love and serve thee is my share,...be glad, That I may long obey : If short ; yet why should.I be sad, That shall have the same pay ? Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than he went... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...way we take ; Till in the ocean of thy love We lose ourselves in Heaven above. KEBLE. RESIGNATION. LORD, it belongs not to my care Whether I die or live...long obey ; If short — yet why should I be sad, That shall have equal pay ? Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than he went through before ; He... | |
| 1872 - 722 pages
...predecessors in English sacred song." Eichard Baxter had twenty years before, his beautiful, — " Lord, it belongs not to my care, Whether I die or live." But the single seed-corn did not sprout into a hymnologic Watts had struck the Meribah-rock of melody,... | |
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