The Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testament, faithfully translated into English Metre ‎#XX

XX. Love and Charity

1 Let Pharisees of high Esteem
their Faith and Zeal declare,
All their Religion is a Dream,
if Love be wanting there.
Love suffers long with patient Eye,
mor is provok'd in haste,
She lets the present Injury die,
and long forgets the pass'd.

2 Malice and Rage, those Fires of Hell,
she quenches with her tongue;
Hopes, and believes, and thinks no Ill,
tho' she endure the Wrong.
She nor desires nor seeks to know
the Scandals of the Time;
Nor looks with Pride on those below,
nor envies those that climb.

3 She lays her own Advantage by
to seek her Neighbor's Good;
So God's own Son came down to die,
and bought our Lives with Blood.
Love is the Grace that keeps her Pow'r
in all the Realms above;
There Faith and Hope are known no more,
but Saints for ever love.

Text Information

• First Line: Let Pharisees of high Esteem
• Title: Love and Charity
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1773
• Notes: Public Domain.

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