History & Politics
Hymns for the Thanksgiving-Day, 1759, 6
From Hymns to be Used on the Thanksgiving-Day, November 20, 1759 · Osborn ed., vol. 6 (1870)
History & Politics
Most gracious God, what shall we say
To stop a senseless people's doom?
How can we for the rebels pray
Who court the tardy scourge to come.
Thy grace despise. Thy truth deny.
And all Thy threaten'd plagues defy!
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