Classic Poem

I. The Holy Law; or The Ten Commandments, Exod. xx. 3 17

1. No God but me thou shalt adore.
2. No image frame to bow before.
3. My holy name take not in vain.
4. My sacred Sabbath don't profane.
5. To parents render due respect.
6. All murder shun, and malice check.
7. From filth and whoredom base abstain;
8. From theft and all unlawful gain.
9. False witness flee, and slandering spite;
10. Nor covet what's thy neighbour's right.

II. The Unholy Heart the direct opposite of God's holy and
righteous Law, Rom. vii. 14 or The Knowledge of Sin by the
Law, Rom. iii. 20

1. My heart's to many gods a slave;
2. Of imagery an hideous cave.
3. An hoard of God-dishon'ring crimes:
4. A waster base of holy times;
5. A throne of pride and self-conceit;
6. A slaughterhouse of wrath and hate;
7. A cage of birds and thoughts unclean;
8. A den of thieves and frauds unseen;
9. A heap of calumnies unspent;
10. A gulph of greed and discontent.

III. The Glorious Gospel or Christ the end of the Law for
Righteousness. Rom. x. 4.; and the absolute need of this
remedy inferred from the premises.

Hence I conclude, and clearly see,
There's by the law no life for me;
Which damns each soul to endless thrall
Whose heart and life fulfil not all.
What shall I do, unless for bail
I from the law to grace appeal?
She reigns thro' Jesus' righteousness,
Which, giving Justice full redress,
On grace's door this motto grav'd,
" Let sin be damn'd, and sinners sav'd."
O wisdom's deep mysterious way!
Lo, at this door I'll waiting stay,
Till sin and hell both pass away.
But in this bliss to shew my part,
Grant, thro' thy law grav'd in my heart,
My life may shew thy graving art.

IV. The Prayer of Faith; Which may be conceived in the
following words of a certain author

Sim tuus in vita, tua sint mea funera, Christe;
Da, precor, imperii sceptra tenere tui.
Cur etenim moriens tot vulnera saeva tulisti,
Si non sum regni portio parva tui?

Cur rigido latuit tua vita inclusa sepulcho,
Si non est mea mors morte fugata tua?
Ergo mihi certam praestes, O Christe, salutem;
Meque tuo lotum sanguine, Christe, juva.