{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/nep/nep23.htm","path":"chr/nep/nep23.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/nep/nep23.htm","text":"HOUGH I am young, a little one,\nIf I can speak, and go alone,\nThen I must learn to know the Lord,\nAnd learn to read his holy word.\n'Tis time to seek to God, and pray\nFor what I want for every day\nI have a precious soul to save,\nAnd I a mortal body have.\nThough I am young, yet I may die,\nAnd hasten to eternity.\nThere is a dreadful fiery hell,\nWhere wicked ones must always dwell.\nThere is a heaven, full of joy,\nWhere godly ones will always stay.\nTo one of these in my soul must fly,\nAs in a moment, when I die.\nWhen God, who made me, calls me home,\nI must not stay; I must be gone.\nHe gives me life, he gives me breath,\nAnd he can save my soul from death,\nBy Jesus Christ, my only Lord,\nAecordingr to his holy word.\nHe clothes my back, and keeps me warm,\nHe saves my bones and flesh from harm;\nHe gives me bread, and milk, and meat,\nAnd all I have that's good to eat.\nWhen I am sick, he, if he please,\nCan make me well, and give me ease.\nHe gives me sleep and quiet rest,\nWhereby my body is refreshed.p. 31\nThe Lord is good and kind to me,\nAnd very thankful I must be.\nI must not sin, as others do,\nLest I lie down in sorrow too;\nFor God is angry every day\nWith wicked ones who go astray.\nFrom sinful words I must refrain;\nI must not take God's name in vain\nI must not work, I must not play,\nUpon God's holy Sabbath day.\nAnd if my parents speak the word,\nI must obey them in the Lord,\nNor steal, nor lie, nor waste my days\nIn idle tales and foolish plays.\nI must obey my Lord's commands,\nDo something with my little hands.\nRemember my Creator now,\nIn youth, when time will it allow.\nYoung Samuel, that little child,\nHe served the Lord, lived undefiled:\nHim in his service God employed,\nWhile Eli's wicked children died.\nWhen wicked children, mocking, said\nTo a good man, Go up, bald head,\nGod was displeased with them, and sent\nTwo bears, which them in pieces rent\nI must not, like these children vile,\nDisplease my God, myself defile\nLike young Abijah, I must see\nThat good things may be found in me.\nYoung King Josiah, that blessed youth,\nHe sought the Lord and loved the truth,\nHe like a king did act his part,\nAnd followed God with all his heart p. 32\nThe little children, they did sing\nHosannas to their heavenly King.\nThat blessed child, young Timothy,\nDid learn God's word most heedfully.\nIt seemed to be his recreation,\nWhich made him wise unto salvation,\nBy faith in Christ which he had gained,\nBy prayers and tears with faith unfeigned,\nThese good examples were for me;\nLike these good children I must be.\nGive me true faith in Christ my Lord,\nObedience to his holy word.\nNo word is in this world like thine;\nThere's none so pure, sweet, and divine.\nFrom thence let me thy will behold,\nAnd love, thy word above fine gold.\nMahe my heart in thy statutes sound,\nAnd make my faith and love abound:\nLord, circumcise my heart to love thee,\nAnd nothing in this world above thee.\nLet me behold thy pleased face,\nAnd make my soul to grow in grace,\nAnd in the knowledge of my Lord\nAnd Savior Christ, and of his word.\n--------------\nF\nEAR thou the Lord, and prize him more\nThan shining gold and richest ore\nFor when thy worldly treasure's past,\nThe love of God will ever last.","title":"Verses for Little Children","type":"page"}