A Hymne to God the Father

• Heare mee, O God!
• A broken heart,
• Is my best part:
• Use still thy rod,
• That I may prove
• Therein, thy Love.
• If thou hadst not
• Beene stern to mee,
• But left me free,
• I had forgot
• My selfe and thee.
• For sin's so sweet,
• As minds ill bent
• Rarely repent,
• Until they meet
• Their punishment.
• Who more can crave
• Than thou hast done:
• That gav'st a Sonne,
• To free a slave?
• First made of nought;
• With All since bought.
• Sinne, Death, and Hell,
• His glorious Name
• Quite overcame,
• Yet I rebell,
• And slight the same.
• But, I'll come in,
• Before my losse,
• Me farther tosse,
• As sure to win.
• Under his Crosse.