Mark 3:1: Our weakness in this emblem we

Our weakness in this emblem we,
Our total inability
Of doing good, may find;
While strangers to restoring grace.
We here behold our helpless case,
The case of all mankind.

A wither'd hand the miser is,
So careful not to give amiss
Fie never gives at all!
A magistrate is dead and dry.
Who never doth his power apply
Where truth and justice call.

Who, of authority i)ossess'd.
Neglects to succour the oppress'd,
Nor takes the injured part,
Dead in the sight of God is he,
And by the eye of faith we see
His impotence of he art.

We see the unbelieving crowd,
Who cannot do one act of good,
Till Thou Thy love reveal,
Till Thou, almighty Lord, restore
The' effectual will, the gracious power
We lost, when Adam fell.