Then shall I end my sad complaints,
And weary, sinful days;
And join with the triumphant saints,
That sing Jehovah’s praise.
My knowledge of that life is small,
The eye of faith is dim;
But ’tis enough that Christ knows all,
And I shall be with Him.”
POETRY.
John Mason, who died in 1694—father of him who wrote the Treatise on Self-Knowledge—was a very superior hymnologist. Between the verses just quoted from Richard Baxter, and the following, taken from a hymn by Mason, entitled Surely I come quickly, there is a remarkable resemblance:—