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In boundless mercy the Redeemer left	A
The bosom of his Father and assumed	B
A servant's form though he had reigned a king	C
In realms of glory ere the worlds were made	D
Or the creating words 'Let there be light'	D
In heaven were uttered But though veiled in flesh	E
His Deity and his Omnipotence	F
Were manifest in miracles Disease	G
Fled at his bidding and the buried dead	D
Rose from the sepulchre reanimate	D
At his command or on the passing bier	H
Sat upright when he touched it But he came	I
Not for this only but to introduce	J
A glorious dispensation in the place	K
Of types and shadows of the Jewish code	D
Upon the mount and round Jerusalem	L
He taught a purer and a holier law	M
His everlasting Gospel which is yet	D
To fill the earth with gladness for all climes	N
Shall feel its influence and shall own its power	O
He came to suffer as a sacrifice	P
Acceptable to God The sins of all	Q
Were laid upon Him when in agony	R
He bowed upon the cross The temple's veil	S
Was rent asunder and the mighty rocks	T
Trembled as the incarnate Deity	R
By his atoning blood opened that door	U
Through which the soul can have communion with	V
Its great Creator and when purified	D
From all defilements find acceptance too	D
Where it can finally partake of all	Q
The joys of His salvation	W
But the pure Church he planted the pure Church	X
Which his apostles watered and for which	Y
The blood of countless martyrs freely flowed	D
In Roman Amphitheatres on racks	Z
And in the dungeon's gloom this blessed Church	X
Which grew in suffering when it overspread	D
Surrounding nations lost its purity	D
Its truth was hidden and its light obscured	D
By gross corruption and idolatry	D
As things of worship it had images	A2
And even painted canvas was adored	D
It had a head and bishop but this head	D
Was not the Saviour but the Pope of Rome	B2
Religion was a traffic Men defiled	D
Professed to pardon sin and even sell	C2
The joys of heaven for money and to raise	D2
Souls out of darkness to eternal light	D
For paltry silver lavished upon them	E2
And thus thick darkness overspread the Church	X
As with a mantle	F2
At length the midnight of apostacy	D2
Passed by and in the horizon appeared	D
Day dawning upon Christendom The light	D
Grew stronger as the Reformation spread	D
For Luther and Melancthon could not be	D
Silenced by papal bulls nor by decrees	D2
Of excommunication thundered forth	G2
Out of the Vatican And yet the light	D
Of Luther's reformation never reached	D
Beyond the morning's dawn The noontide blaze	D2
Of Truth's unclouded day he never saw	D2
Yet after him its rising sun displayed	D
More and more light upon the horizon	W
Though thus enlightened the professing Church	X
Was far from many of the precious truths	D2
Of the Redeemer's gospel and as yet	D
Owned not his Spirit's government therein	H2
But now the time approached when he would pour	U
A larger measure of his light below	I2
And as he chose unlearned fishermen	H2
To spread his gospel when first introduced	D
So now he passed mere human learning by	J2
And chose an instrument comparable	F2
To the small stone the youthful David used	D
To smite the champion who defied the Lord	D
Apart from human dwellings in a green	K2
Rich pasturage of England sat a youth	L2
Who seemed a shepherd for around him there	M2
A flock was feeding and the sportive lambs	D2
Gambolled amid the herbage But his face	D2
Bore evidence of sadness On his knee	D
The sacred book lay open upon which	Y
The youth looked long and earnestly and then	N2
Closing the book gazed upward in deep thought	D
This was the instrument by whom the Lord	D
Designed to spread a clearer light below	I2
And fuller reformation He appeared	D
Like ancient Samuel to be set apart	D
For the Lord's service from his very birth	O2
Even in early childhood he refrained	D
From youthful follies and his mind was turned	D
To things of highest moment He was filled	D
With awful feelings by the wickedness	D2
He saw around him As he grew in years	D2
Horror of sin grew stronger and his mind	D
Became so clothed with sadness and so full	P2
Of soul felt longings for the healing streams	D2
Of heavenly consolation that he left	D
His earthly kindred seeking quietude	D
In solitary places where he read	D
The book of inspiration and in prayer	M2
Sought heavenly counsel	F2
In this deep proving season he was told	D
Of priests whose reputation had spread wide	D
For sanctity and wisdom and from these	D2
He sought for consolation but in vain	Q2
One of these ministers became enraged	D
Because the youth had inadvertently	D
Misstepped within his garden and a priest	D
Of greater reputation counselled him	R2
To use tobacco and sing holy psalms	D2
And the inquirer found a third to be	D
But as an empty hollow cask at best	D
Finding no help in man the youthful Fox	D2
Turned to a higher and a holier source	D2
For light and knowledge In his Saviour's school	S2
He sat a scholar and was clearly shown	T2
The deep corruption that had overspread	D
Professing Christendom And one by one	W
The doctrines of the Gospel were unveiled	D
To the attentive student doctrines which	Y
Though clearly written on the sacred page	U2
Had long been hidden by the rubbish man's	D2
Perversions and inventions heaped thereon	V2
He saw that colleges could not confer	O
A saving knowledge of the way of Truth	L2
Nor qualify a minister to preach	W2
The everlasting Gospel but that Christ	D
Is the true Teacher and that he alone	T2
Has power to call anoint and qualify	J2
And send a Gospel minister to preach	W2
Glad tidings of salvation He was shown	T2
No outward building made of wood and stone	T2
Could be a holy place and that the Church	X
The only true and living Church must be	D
A holy people gathered to the Lord	D
And to his teaching He was clearly taught	D
The nature of baptism by which souls	D2
Are purified and fitted for this Church	X
That this was not by being dipped into	D
Or sprinkled with clear water but it was	D2
The one baptism of the Holy Ghost	D
He saw the Supper was no outward food	D
Made and administered by human hands	D2
But the Lord's Table was within the heart	D
Where in communion with him holy bread	D
Was blessed and broken and the heavenly wine	X2
Which cheers the fainting spirit handed forth	G2
The Saviour showed him that all outward wars	D2
Are now forbidden that the warfare here	H
Is to be waged within Its weapons too	D
Though mighty even to the pulling down	Y2
Of the strong holds of Satan are yet all	Q
The Spirit's weapons He was shown that oaths	D2
Judicial or profane are banished from	L
The Christian dispensation which commands	D2
'Swear not at all ' He saw the compliments	D2
Hat honour and lip service of the world	D
Sprang from pride's evil root and were opposed	D
To the pure spirit of Christ's holy law	D2
And by His inward Light was clearly seen	K2
The perfect purity of heart and life	Z2
For which that Saviour calls who never asked	D
Things unattainable	F2
These truths and others being thus revealed	D
Fox was prepared and qualified to preach	W2
The unveiled Gospel to the sons of men	N2
Clothed with divine authority he went	D
Abroad through Britain and proclaimed that Light	D
Which Christ's illuminating Spirit sheds	D2
In the dark heart of man Some heard of this	D2
Who seemed prepared and waiting to receive	A3
His Gospel message and were turned to Him	R2
Whose Holy Spirit sealed it on their hearts	D2
And not a few of these were called upon	B3
To take the message and themselves declare	M2
The way of Truth to others But the Priests	D2
Carnal professors and some magistrates	D2
Heard of the inward light and purity	D
With indignation and they seized upon	B3
And thrust the Preacher within prison walls	D2
Not once alone but often was he found	D
Amid the very dregs of wickedness	D2
With robbers and with blood stained criminals	D2
Locked up in loathsome jails And when abroad	D
Upon his Master's service he was still	C3
Reviled and buffeted and spit upon	B3
But none of these things moved him for within	H2
He felt that soul sustaining evidence	D2
Which bore his spirit high above the waves	D2
Of bitter persecution	W
But now the time approached for his release	D2
From suffering and from labour He had spent	D
Long years in trav	A3

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