I have attainèd what I seek,
And what I only prize.
The second point is that in writing a rimed sermon for Christian worshipers he had a model supplied him in the popular “Bay Psalm Book,” which had appeared some twenty years before and which was familiar to all the people who were likely to be his readers. The translators of the 121st Psalm wrote, for example:
1 I to the hills lift up mine eyes,
from whence shall come mine aid
2 Mine help doth from Jehovah come,
which heav’n and earth hath made.
And Wigglesworth took up the strain with
No heart so bold, but now grows cold,
and almost dead with fear;