{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Young_Christian_s_first_lesson_book_Lesson_One/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Young_Christian_s_first_lesson_book_Lesson_One","id":"wikisource_Young_Christian_s_first_lesson_book_Lesson_One","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_One","summary":null,"tags":["Main_pages_with_authority_control_data","PD-old","Subpages"],"text":"THE\n\nYOUNG CHRISTIAN's\n\nFir\u017ft Le\u017f\u017fon-Book.\n\nLESSON I.\n\nOf our own Nature and its chief glory and happine\u017fs.\n\nNOW for a while a\u017fide I'll lay\n\nMy childi\u017fh trifles and my play,\n\nAnd call my thoughts, which rove abroad,\n\nTo view my\u017felf, and view my God:\n\nI'll look within, that I may \u017fee\n\nWhat I now am, what I mu\u017ft be.\n\nI am the Creature of the Lord;\n\nHe made me by his pow'rful word:\n\nThis body in each curious part.\n\nWas wrought by his unfailing art;\n\nFrom him my nobler \u017fpirit came,\n\nMy \u017foul a \u017fpark of heavenly flame:\n\nThat \u017foul, by which my body lives,\n\nWhich thinks, and hopes and joys and grieves,\n\nAnd mu\u017ft in heaven or hell remain,\n\nWhen fle\u017fh is turn'd to du\u017ft again.\n\nWhat bu\u017fine\u017fs then \u017fhould I attend?\n\nOr what e\u017fteem my noble end?\n\nSure it con\u017fi\u017fts in this alone,\n\nThat God my Maker may be known;\n\nSo known that I may love him full,\n\nAnd form my actions by his will;\n\nThat he may bless me whil\u017ft I live,\n\nAnd when I die, my \u017foul receive,\nTo dwell for ever in his fight,\n\nIn perfect knowledge and delight.\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 One","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":221}