Death & Dying
2 Kings: Death in the pot! 't is always there
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
Death & Dying
Death in the pot! 't is always there,
The bane of all our food.
When we partake it without fear,
Without an eye to God:
Unless He sanctify the meat.
And bless us from the sky.
Unless we to His glory eat,
Our souls by eating die.
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Wesley, Charles. “2 Kings: Death in the pot! 't is always there.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2951/.
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Wesley, Charles. “2 Kings: Death in the pot! 't is always there.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2951/.
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