III. ABRAHAM'S Intercession for SODOM.

GREAT GOD! did pious Abram pray
For Sodom's vile abandon'd Race?
And shall not all our Souls be rous'd
For Britain to implore thy Grace?

Base as we are, does not thine Eye
Its chosen Thousands here survey;
Whose Souls, deep humbled, mourn the [Crouds,
Who walk in Sin's destructive Way?

O Judge supreme, let not thy Sword
The righteous with the wicked smite:
Nor bury in promiscuous Heaps
Rebels, and Saints thy chief Delight.

For these thy Children spare the Land;
Avert the Thunders big with Death;
Nor let the Seeds of latent Fire
Be kindled by thy flaming Breath.

On! be not angry, mighty GOD,
While Dust and Ashes seek thy Face!
But gently bending from thy Throne,
Renew, and still increase the Grace.

JESUS the Intercessor hear,
And for his Sake thy Grace impart,
Which, while it stops the fiery Stream,
Dissolves the most obdurate Heart.

Sodom shall change to Zion then,
And heavenly Dews be scatter'd round,
That Plants of Paradise may spring,
Where baleful Poysons curs'd the Ground.