Were half the breath thus vainly spent
To Heaven in supplication sent,
Our cheerful song would oftener be,
“Hear what the Lord hath done for me!”
And there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet—
Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.
Tune, Lowell Mason's “Rockingham.”
“MY GRACIOUS REDEEMER I LOVE.”
This is one of Benjamin Francis's lays of devotion. The Christian Welshman who bore that name was a Gospel minister full of Evangelical zeal, who preached in many places, though his pastoral home was with the Baptist church in Shortwood, Wales. Flattering calls to London could not tempt him away from his first and only parish, and he remained there till his triumphant death. He was born in 1734, and died in 1799.