14. Lord, I abhor, renounce, abjure The fiery spirit unclean, The persecuting zeal impure, The sin-opposing sin. 15. Let others draw with fierce despight, Th’ eradicating sword, And with the devil’s weapons fight The battles of the Lord: 16. But Oh! my gracious God, to me A better spirit impart, The gentle mind that was in thee, The meekly loving heart: 17. The heart whose charity o’erflows To all, far off, and near, True charity to friends and foes, Impartially sincere. 18. Heathens, and Jews, and Turks, may I And Heretics embrace, Nor ev’n to _Rome_ the love deny I owe to all the race. ♦ “sprit” replaced with “spirit” A WORD to a FREEHOLDER. WHAT are you going to do? To vote for a parliament man? I hope then you have taken no money. For doubtless you know the strictness of the oath, That you have received no “Gift or reward, directly or indirectly, nor any promise of any, on account of your vote” in the ensuing election. Surely you start at _perjury_! At calm, fore-thought, deliberate, wilful perjury. If you are guilty already, stop. Go no farther. ’Tis at the peril of your soul. Will you sell your country? Will you sell your own soul? Will you sell your God, your Saviour? Nay God forbid! rather cast down just now the thirty pieces of silver or gold, and say, “Sir, I will not sell heaven. Neither you, nor all the world is able to pay the purchase.” I hope you have received nothing else, neither will receive; no entertainment, no meat, or drink. If this is _given_ you on account of your vote, you are perjured still. How can you make oath, you have received no _gift_? This was a gift, if you did not buy it. What will you sell your soul to the devil for a draught of drink, or for a morsel of bread? Oh consider what you do. Act, as if the whole election depended on your single vote: And as if the whole parliament depended (and therein the whole nation) on that single person whom you now chuse to be a member of it. But if you take nothing of any, for whom shall you vote? For the man that loves God. He must love his country, and that from a steady, invariable principle. And by his fruits you shall know him. He is careful to abstain from all appearance of evil. He is zealous of good works, as he has opportunity, doing good to all men. He uses all the ordinances of God and that both constantly and carefully. And he does this, not barely as something he _must_ do; or what he would willingly be excused from. No; he rejoices in this his reasonable service, as a blessed privilege of the children of God.