Matthew 7:14: Yet every one that seeks, shall find

Yet every one that seeks, shall find
The gate display'd for all mankind,
(Who strive with unremitting strife,)
And passable the road to life,
A narrow, but an open road,
Quite open — through the wounds of God.

Who like the thoughdess many hve
In worldly cares, or pleasures vain,
May their own wretched souls deceive,
But dead in sin they still remain.
The way to life they have not known,
Nor yet their Christian course begun.

Led blindfold by the blindfold guide,
Who boldly contradicts his God,
Down a broad beaten way they glide.
An easy, fashionable road;
Too late their fatal error feel,
Fallen into the ditch of hell.

If few that find the narrow way,
Fewer that enter'd in appear;
But fewer still the souls that stay,
That walk, hold on, and persevere,
And reach their Father's house above.
And gain the life of ripest love.

The way I through Thy grace have found,
J esus, and shall herein remain:
But let Thy grace yet more abound.
And through Thy after-grief and pain
From step to step conduct me on.
To live a partner of Thy throne.