O You that in the Heavens does dwell,

Who, as it pleases best Yourself,

Sends one to Heaven and ten to Hell
All for Your glory,
And not for any good or ill
They have done before You!
I bless and praise Your mathless might,
When thousands You have left in night,
That I am here before Your sight,
!or gifts and grae
A burning and a shining light
To all this plae"
What was I, or my generation,
That I should get suh e#altation$
I, who deserved most %ust damnation
!or bro&en laws
Si# thousand years before my reation,
Through Adam's ause!
When from my mother's womb I fell,
You might have plunged me deep in hell
To gnash my gums, and weep, and wail
In burning la&es,
Where damned devils roar and yell,
(hained to their sta&es"
Yet I am here, a hosen sample,
To show Your grae is great and ample)
I am here a pillar of Your temple,
Strong as a ro&,
A guide, a bu&ler, and e#ample
To all Your flo&!
*ut yet O +ord! onfess I must)
At times I am ir&ed with fleshly lust,
And sometimes, too, in worldly trust,
-ile self gets in,
*ut You remembers we are dust,
.efiled with sin"
O +ord! last night, You &now, with /eg 0
Your pardon I sinerely beg 0
O, may it never be a living plague
To my dishonour!
And I will never lift a lawless leg
Again upon her"
*esides, I further must avow 0
With +ee1ie's girl 2daughter3, three times, I thin& 0
*ut, +ord, that !riday I was drun&,
When I ame near her,
Or else, You &now, Your servant true
Would never meddle with her"
/aybe You let this fleshly thorn
*uffet Your servant evening and morning,
+est he too proud and high should turn
That he is so gifted)
If so, Your hand must even be borne
4ntil You lift it"
+ord, bless Your hosen in this plae,
!or here You have a hosen rae!
*ut 5od onfound their stubborn fae
And blast their name,
Who bring Your elders to disgrae
And open shame!
+ord, remember 5avin Hamilton's deserts)
He drin&s, and swears, and plays at ards,
Yet has so many ta&ing arts
With great and small,
!rom 5od's own 6riest the peoples hearts
He steals away"
And when we hastened him therefore,
You &now how he bred suh a row,
And set the world in a roar
Of laughing at us)
(urse You his bas&et and his store,
(abbage and potatoes!
+ord, hear my earnest ry and prayer
Against that 6resbytery of Ayr!
Your strong right hand, +ord, ma&e it bear
4pon their heads!
+ord, visit them, and do not spare,
!or their misdeeds!
O +ord, my 5od! that glib0tongued Ai&en,2preaher3
/y very heart and flesh are 7ua&ing
To thin& how we stood sweating, sha&ing,
And pissed with dread,
While he, with hanging lip and sneering,
Held up his head"
+ord, in Your day of vengeane try him!
+ord, visit him who did employ him!
And pass not in Your mery by them,
8or hear their prayer,
*ut for Your people's sa&e destroy them,
And do not spare!
*ut, +ord, remember me and mine
With meries temporal and divine,
That I for grae and wealth may shine
9#elled by none,
And all the glory shall be Yours 0
Amen, Amen!