{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Young_Christian_s_first_lesson_book_Lesson_Eight/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Young_Christian_s_first_lesson_book_Lesson_Eight","id":"wikisource_Young_Christian_s_first_lesson_book_Lesson_Eight","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Young_Christian's_first_lesson-book/Lesson_Eight","summary":null,"tags":["Main_pages_with_authority_control_data","PD-old","Subpages"],"text":"LESSON VIII.\n\nSins to be avoided in Thought, Words and Action.\n\nGUARD me, O God, from ev'ry \u017fin;\n\nLet heart and tongue and life be clean;\n\nTho' with ten thou\u017fand \u017fnares be\u017fet,\n\nI never would my Lord forget.\n\nFain would I learn to lay a\u017fide\n\nMalice, and \u017ftubborne\u017fs and pride,\n\nEnvy and ev'ry evil thought;\n\nNor be my brea\u017ft with anger hot:\n\nEach other pa\u017f\u017fion, wild and rude,\n\nI long to feel by grace \u017fubdu'd.\n\nWhen thus my heart is well prepar'd,\n\nMy tongue I ea\u017fily \u017fhall guard\n\nFrom ev'ry oath, and cur\u017fe profane,\n\nNor take God's rev'rend name in vain:\n\nNo \u017facred thing \u017fhall I deride,\n\nNor scoff, nor mail nor brawl, nor chide:\n\nMy \u017foul will ev'ry lie dete\u017ft,\n\nAnd ev'ry ba\u017fe indecent je\u017ft.\n\nThis humble watchful \u017foul of mine\n\nShall with abhorrence then decline\n\nThe drunkard's cup, the glutton's fea\u017ft,\n\nThat \u017fink the man down to the bea\u017ft:\n\nTh' injurious blow, the wanton eye,\n\nThe loss of hours that quickly fly,\n\nAnd that which lead to ev'ry crime,\n\nThe vain mi\u017fpence of \u017facred time;\n\nWhat brings di\u017fhonour on God's law,\n\nOr what on man would mi\u017fchief draw.\n\nThis work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.\n\nPublic domainPublic domainfalsefalse","title":"Young Christian's first lesson-book/Lesson Eight","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":217}