But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.—Hebrews, x. 39.
Should any to himself for safety fly?
The way to save himself (if any were)
Is to fly from himself. Should he rely
Upon the promise of his wife? What there,
What can he see, but that he most may fear,
A syren sweet to death? Upon his friends?
Who what he needs, or what he hath not, lends?
Or wanting aid himself, and to another sends?
His strength? ’Tis dust:—His pleasure? cause of pain: