Encouragement to Trust in God

Engaging argument! here, let me rest
With humble confidence and faith intire:
What less than this can calm my troubled breast?
What more can my distrustful heart desire?

Encouraged by so full, so sweet a word,
Fain would my soul forbid intruding fears:
To thee, almighty Father, gracious Lord!
Fain would I bring my load of anxious cares.

But can a vile, a guilty creature, dare
Aspire to hope for favours so divine?
Aspire to claim an interest in thy care,
Or boldly call the glorious blessing mine?

O let my spirit's sacred influence seal
The kind assurance to my doubting soul,
Thy pard'ning love, thy tender care reveal;
The blissful view shall all my fears control.